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Show o r w' . w V - I ! The Weather UTAH: Partly cloudy tonight amT Sa! :tn iv ; slightly cooler tonight. Mavirnum ten p., Thursday . . ffl Minimum temp., Thursday .".0 FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR, NO. 94 DESK UY TBK MM IV. a Co-operation with the government gov-ernment in the building of national na-tional defense is mounting day by day. Recently you were told of how General Electric has promised to undertake un-dertake all normal risks in defense production, and in abnormal ab-normal risks asks only to be guaranteed against loss. Now Eastman Kodak steps up with a new approach to the question. It offers to refund re-fund voluntarily to the government gov-ernment "any profit it might make in excess of 10 per cent Df cost." The 10 per cent is, Df course, already subject to ncome and excess profit tax-?s. tax-?s. Evidence of the literal sincerity of the offer is in the fact that Eastman made a substantial refund to the government gov-ernment as the result of a similar pledge in 1D17. Patriotism is not confined to the men who carry a gun. It Us found in every walk of life. We know men who were killed by overwork in civilian war activities in 1918, just as surety as any man was killed by enemy bullets. It would be so again if war came, and Incrasing assurances of full co-operation in the defense drive make it clearer every day. 0O0 November 11 reminds us that of all the words of mouth or pen, we'd like best to hear "armistice" again. . . . Some parents blame children for evervthinsr excent having such parents. ... A fellow flipped a coin, caught it in his mouth and swallowed it. May-lie May-lie he thought a little change would do him good. ... A Scotchman took a girl for a taxi ride. And slie was sc beautiful he could hardly keep his eye on the meter. This business of thinking up jokes ilas got us a little bit daunted, The ones you want we can't print, And the ones we print aren't wanted. Or are they? MEnnv GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. A IX EN M ii - W A SHI NGTO N The pr es klen-tial klen-tial inauguration is nearly three months off but already white-overalled white-overalled rarpenteis are busy electing stands and peats on Capitol Cap-itol Flaza. Reason for this unusual un-usual haste is the defense program. pro-gram. "If we waited much longer," explains ex-plains David Lynn, veteran Capitol Architect, "we wouldn't be able to jret any lumber. The erection of the great camps for the selective selec-tive service trainees has caused a shortage in the lumber market. The Government is buying up all the good lumber it can for the cantonments." The lumber shortage also will affect the seating capacity. There will be room for only 12,500 spectators spec-tators 2.000 less than in 1937. Congress ar'propriated the same amount of money as four years ago, but with increased material and lumber costs the $35,000 isn't going as far. BRITISH DILEMMA Diplomats are still puzzled why the Italians invaded Greece at the time they did. In fact, rumors ru-mors are recurrent that there has been a certain cooling off between Rome and Berlin, and that llusso-( llusso-( Continued on Fage One Sec. Two) FIRST QUARTER Provo G Springville 0 OOM.PT.KTH! UNITED T K LEO RAP H NEWS i r-1 ! U i I U U LJ Li L.J LJ BRITISH E7 1 2,000 England, Canada To Get One-Half Of All U. S. Production WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 (U.R) The federal priorities pri-orities board today granted grant-ed the British government govern-ment permission to negotiate nego-tiate for the purchase of 12,000 new aircraft. WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 U.R) President Roosevelt revealed re-vealed today he has established estab-lished a rule of thumb by which the British and Canadian Canad-ian armed forces will get one half of the "flying fortresses," fortress-es," other fighting planes, arms, and ammunition rolling off American assembly lines. America, .said Mr. Roosevelt, will obtain the other 50 per cent about 5 per cent less than the 55 per cent United States armed forces received previously. At this first press conference since his re-election to a third term, Mr. Roosevelt also disclosed I that Mexican and XjniTed States I army officers have carried on con sultations for joint defense of North America. These consultations, consulta-tions, he said, are similar to the joint defense talks formerly in I progress between thia country and i Canada. Mr. Roosevelt asserted that reports re-ports attributed to New Deal and official administration circles of a shakeup in the cabinet and possible possi-ble replacement of Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson are inventions. inven-tions. Mr. Roosevelt said his "rule of thumb" on British war orders has been in effect three or four weeks. He emphasized strongly, however, how-ever, it was a rule subject to exception ex-ception on instantaneous notice. Exceptions would be made in every and any instance where its application might work to the detriment of the $15,000,000,000 rearmament program being rushed rush-ed for the defense forces of this country, he said. The rule, he said, will annlv directly to those materials of war rolmg off the assemby lines which are virtually needed by Canada, Great Britain and by this country. if r t Concerted action to establish vocational training schools in Utah county was urged by Arthur Gaeth, political science instructor at Bripham Young university and member of the Provo Youth council, coun-cil, who addressed the Trovo Ko-tnry Ko-tnry club today. Vocational training, the speaker said, would help to cut down the huge list of unemployed. He pointed point-ed out that of the high school graduates, 50 per cent go to universities, uni-versities, 25 per cent go to work, and 25 p'er cent join the army of unemployed. Only seven per cent of the high school students in the United States are vocationally trained Mr. Gaeth declared. Criticising some of the schooLs of today, he stated they prepare people socially, but not so they (Continued on Page Eight) Coming Events Community forum, tonight, 8 o'clock, Provo high library. Speaker, Speak-er, Arthur Gaeth. ADAMS TO SPEAK "The Problem of Jobs for Utah's Youth," will be discussed by Walter Wal-ter Adams, former director of personnel at Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe company, on the Kiwan-is Kiwan-is club vocational guidance program pro-gram over KOVO Saturday at 7 p. m. He will be interviewed by Howard Craven and Ben Summer-hays, Summer-hays, B. Y. U. students. PREM PROVO, f'n) L LJ I - She Rules Homecoming Fete GRACE GRAY OF PROVO, HOMECOMING DAY QUEEN Pep Rally, Bonfire : $' momecomins events With presentation of an assembly program depicting events in the leadership of Brigham Young, who founded the university which bears his name, the annual Homecoming celebration at Brigham Young university began Friday morning, morn-ing, in a Provo that had become the festive center of Central Utah. All roads led to Provo as former students poured in to participate in the two-day celebration. The peak in the at- - ( tendance is expected to be reached O .... . i , . . . , o . . . 1. r . tr TT itii i mr t n i u uiLLuii: sfiu NEW YORK, Nov. 8 r.R Wen-del Wen-del L. Willkie began woik today on a message to the more than 20,000,000 persons who voted for him on the role he believes they should play in President Roosevelt's Roose-velt's third term. He gave every indication he would be as unusual as a defeated de-feated presidential nominee as he was a candidate. He obtained 30 minutes on all three networks NBC, CBS and MBS at 10:30 p. m., Monday to tell the nation which would not elect him president, how he intends in-tends to continue a "crusade" for governmental policies which differ in many respects from those advocated ad-vocated by Mlw Roosevelt, whom the voters gave another term. Thousands of those who voted for Willkie, have written to urge him to keep up the fight against the New Deal. Many of these letters let-ters were bitter. They appealed to Willkie to devise some means of translating the policies he advocates advo-cates into action. More than 10,000 letters were received in three mails yesterday morning, and the tenor of all of them seemed the same, Willkie said. Unto BORN Girl, to Joseph and Lucile Peay Evans, thia morning. Girl to Georpe H. and Wanda Boel Forsyth, Thursday. Girl, to Howard R. and Kath-erine Kath-erine Stokes Cottam, Nov. 6, at State College, Pa. UTAH COUNTY, UTAH. n U Li L.J 'i J meets Denver university at the "X ' stadium in the Homecoming football classic. Sirens to Sound Second event on Friday's Home-corning Home-corning program is the pep rally in the evening. When fire cars of Provo fire department speed through the streets, sirens ablast, it will be the signal for the pep rally to begin. In the light of a 'huge bonfire at the University avenue-Center street intersection, a program will be presented for alumni. townspeople and students. stu-dents. The fhe department will be there not to put the fire out but to keep it going on a grand scale. Following the rally, a street dance will be held on the area from Center street and First Esst (Continued on Page Eight) LiOnS PLEDOE AID TO DLKID Members of the Provo Lions club, and guest representatives from the Lehi, American Fork, Pleasant Grove and Payson clubs heard an eloquent plea Thursday night by Murray Allen, state commissioner com-missioner for the blind, in support of a $30,000 legislative appropriation appropria-tion for the enlargement of the present center for the blind in Salt Lake City. Present quarters in which the farflug activities of, the blind are carried on, are entirely inadequate. Mr. Allen said to take care of the needs of more than 1000 blind residents resi-dents of the state. He paid high compliments to J. W. Thornton, chairman of the commute com-mute for the blind, who wag instrumental in-strumental as a state senator in (Cor.ti.nued on Page Eirht) V FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1940 ?u Lii j u Li U iiVLEll HAILS OUER mm Fuehrer Affirms Confidence Con-fidence In Triumph Over Britain BERLIN, Nov. 8 (U.R) Germany's highest military leaders are confident of victory vic-tory over Great Britain, Adolf Hitler said tonight, in a speech at Munich in which he declared a new "battje against Judaism' already had been uon "for all time in -Germany." Surrounded by highest party and military leaders in the famed Loewenbrau cellar, Hitler celebrated cele-brated the 17th anniversary of the Munich beer cellar putsch. It was just a year ago that he narrowly escaped death when a bomb exploded ex-ploded just after he had left the 16th anniversary celebration of the putsch. His speech tonight was not broadcast, and only hours after it had been delivered was it published pub-lished through the official German news agency DNB. The agency .said that Hitler "condemned the British air force tor its nocturnal attacks on . the German civil population,' and it reported that the Fuehrer was applauded ap-plauded when he mentioned "the hard and inexorable" German retaliations re-taliations against British raids. Hitler "proclaimed the German nation's will to victory, its un-shakeable un-shakeable faith and rock-bound trust in its leaders," DNB said. Hitler tpoke for more than an hour, reviewing the military events of the past year "which made the last 12 months the greate&t year for German soldiery." DNB said the Fuehrer praised the discipline and unity of German civilians and recalled the early years of the Nazi party's fight (Continued on Page Two) DUGATOR TO SPEAK HERE W. II. Killpatrick of the Colum- i Dia university faculty, eminent educator of the nation, will speak in Provo at an educational conference con-ference on December 3, it was announced today by J. C. Moffitt, superintendent of schools. ' The theme of the conference will be "The Schools and National Defense." De-fense." Dr. Killpatrick who is well known here since his teaching at at B. Y. U. summer session a few years ago, will lead in the discussion dis-cussion at the 3 o'clock session. A departmental session will follow at 4 p. m. and a public meeting is planned at 7 p. m., in the high school auditorium. The conference here Is preliminary prelim-inary to the regional conference of the American Progressive Education Edu-cation association to be held in Provo about Feb. 20. Red Cross Roll Call Drive To Be Launched Here Monday "Every American citizen a member of the Red Cross," is the slogan of the annual American Red Cross membership drive which opens Monday and continues con-tinues the remainder of the month. According to Ralph Eggertsen, roll call chairman for Utah county, coun-ty, the Red Cross must have full r , cooperation of , the citizenry in 'j ' ; view of the add-s add-s :', pH rjvsnnnsihili- i i j - I: J ties brought on '2 : by the national - r defense pro-' pro-' r O gram. r:Uc In addition to f''": - its regular ac-Ij ac-Ij V" tivities, the Red Cross has been asked by the government gov-ernment to do various other jobs such as building up a reservoir of blood plasma for transfusions, making- plans to teach first aid tr- ! ! ' 1 j U V j Li raft Registrants ! o itecewe J-Mvice un questionnaires i Turner Named Chairman of Advisory Board Embracing- Four Counties; Attorneys Assigned To Render Assistance Under the selective service set-up in Utah, Judge Abe W. Turner of Provo has been appointed chairman of the advisory ad-visory board for registrants of the district covering Utah, Wasatch, Duchesne and Uintah counties. Already in each county several hundred questionnaires have been sent out to registrants and must bo filled out and returned within five days of receipt. , , . In order to give the registrants assistance in filling out their questionnaires, all attorneys - .... - in the district, except those on the appeal board, have been ap pointed to render assistance to the registrants, according to Judge Turner. Agricultural agents and others doing public work have also been requested to assist. In Provo, the county commissioners' commis-sioners' room in the county building build-ing will be open each Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 7 to 9 p. m., where attorneys will be on hand to render assistance to registrants. . Attorney I. E. Brockbank is in cnarge of the set-up in Provo and will arrange to have sufficient suffici-ent help on hand. Attorneys Arnold Arn-old C. Roylanee and G. VV Sura-sion Sura-sion have been named to designate desig-nate a place and days and hours for this service to registrants of Sprlngville and vicinity. Attorneys assigned the same responsibility in other cities are Joseph E. Nelson for Spanish Fork and vicinity, R. W. McMul-lin McMul-lin for Payson and vicinity, Albert Al-bert Page for Pleasant Grove and vicinity, O. DeVere Wootton for American Fork and vicinity, and Max Dalton for Dehi and vicinity, including Cedar Valley. Further plans for the part of the county south of Payson will be arranged, but until details are worked out, the registrants south of Payson are instructed to seek assistance at Payson or Provo, states Judge Turner. Attorneys out of Provo have been asked by Judge Turner to arrange to give this service at least twice a week, Tuesdays and either Thursdays or Fridays, in the evenings, being recommended. recom-mended. Til rasp thf ritiq nnri TirtrMnr,t3 out of Provo do not have suffici- ent local help, the chairman of each city is urged to call upon Judge Turner for assistance of other attorneys or put-lie officers designated to render this service. Judge Turner points out that the service to the registrant's is free, and that the attorneys and others helping are donating their services. Election Canvass Slated Tuesday Utah county's election returns of November 5 will be canvassed Tuesday by the county commission, according to C. A. Grant, county clerk. to conscripts, building up the enrollment en-rollment of Red Cross nurses to be reserves In the army and navy medical corps, etc. The government is asking that large groups of women be trained in home hygiene and the care of the sick so that the civilian population pop-ulation in any emergency could be guarded against sickness and plague. Other groups being organized and trained under the Red Cross are motor units capable of evacuating evacu-ating children and sick people from congested areas and canteen can-teen service groups to feed civilians civil-ians while moving from endangered endanger-ed areas. More women are needed in the sewing, knitting, and surgical dressing units. The government is counting on the women of the country to mal-ze DO per cent of all these supplies, Red Cross officials of-ficials point out. : i V STAR'S OM,T DAfl V SOUTH OF EALT I. A KB nn uL Uclnnicors To Fill OuOio of Selective service boards of the Utah county districts are anxious' to fill the first quota for a year's training with volunteers. Utah county's quota for the first draft, to be called November 18, is six four from district 22 Which includes Provo and cities north, and two--from district- 23, which includes the south part of the county. Opportunities for advancement will be very good for those who volunteer for induction, the local boards were told by Major H. A. Rich and Captain J. W. Summer-hays Summer-hays of the state otliee, who were in Utah county this week. Volunteers Volun-teers nad men first to be draJfed will have opportunity for advancement advance-ment as commissioned and noncommissioned non-commissioned oiticers. The board will accept young applicants ap-plicants for voluntary induction between the ages of IS and 35, inclusive. in-clusive. If the men are between 18 and 21 the consent of their parents par-ents is required. To be accepted for immediate training, a volunteer, as well as a conscript, must be rated in the 1-A classification. That is, he must have no dependents and must pass the physical examination. A greater number of volunteers are needed th;m the quota, be-(Continucd be-(Continucd on Page Two) Coord L"r,ibr to Mrs. Algie E. Ballif today announced an-nounced her intention to run for reelection as a member of the board of education of Provo city schools at the election December 1 for the Fourth municipal ward. She is the first to announce candidacy for the post, according to J. Fred Fechser, clerk of the school district. Mrs. Ballif, completing a five-year five-year term, is present president of the board. I Candidates for the position must file application with ' Mr. Fechser at least 15 days prior to the election. Petitions in behalf of any candidate must contain at least five signatures of qualified voters of the ward. Missionary Group To Give Program Recently returned L. D. S. missionaries, mis-sionaries, now students of the Brigham Young university, will present the speaking and musical numbers at the meeting of Scandinavian Scan-dinavian L. D. S. organization to be held Sunday at 10:30 a. ra. m the Seminary building here. A cordial invitation to attend is extended ex-tended to the public. Steel Vorkers to Meet Here Tonight The regular semi-monthly meeting meet-ing of the Provo local No. 1577 of the S. XV. O. C. will be held in the Odd Fellows hall at 7:0 tonight, announces A. L. Seely, recording secretary. . uuT1 L V-L i ,'' r i r i t Ky patroolxlng ImaI Kivrr has ItUklaMfl tJolu!-.. PRICE FIVE CENTS iJ'JOY GF Burns;: ships s";"' UlSil J Owl At Britain Reports Heavy Raid On German Krupp Works RV JOE ALEX MORRIS Foreign News Editor Great Britain and Greece battled the Axis powers on land, in the air, and on the sea today as Hungary reported the frustration of a Nazi plot to "kidnap. Iiegent Admiral Nicholas Ilorthy and seize control of the Budapest government. gov-ernment. On the War Fronts Germany claimed the destruction destruc-tion of a British convoy of perhaps per-haps 15 or 20 ships totaling 86.-000 86.-000 tons in a mid-Atlantic attack by a nazi warship that apparently sank still another merchantman the Empire Dorado about 200 miles' off Ireland today. Great Britain reported one of the heaviest raids of the war against German bases, including the great Krupp armaments works in the Ruhr valley. Greek and Italian troops were still locked in. battle... pn ; three ironu along the Albanian frontier fron-tier zone, with the Creeks claiming claim-ing a slight gain toward the Italian Ital-ian base of Koritza but admittedly admitted-ly falling back slightly before reinforced re-inforced fascist columns encircling Janina in western Greece. A dispatch from Reynolds Packard, veteran United Press war correspondent and only American Am-erican reported with the Italian armies in Greece, indicated the Greek mountain defenses were extremely effective but said the Italian forces were starting anew and presumably bigger drive. Rome newspapers also forecast an immediate nev Italian offensive offen-sive against the British in Egypt. The nozi plot to seize control of Hungary was reported officially offici-ally by the Budapest government, which sought to arrest five nazi party deputies in parliament including in-cluding Charles Wirth, alleged leader of the plot. The attorney general's office at (Continued on Page Two) CilAuDERLAIM GRAVELY ILL LONDON. Nov. 8 dM!) Neville Chamberlain, former prime minister, min-ister, was described today as "gravely ill." The former prime minister resigned re-signed from the cabinet recently because of illness, but he denied reports he would go to California in an effort recover his health. Chamberlain is 71. Ho was prime minister throughout the critical period leading up to the war and the representative of a policy of '"appeasement" at one time. The former prime minister is in the country, where he has been iesting since he resigned the lord presidency of the council. AUNT HET By ROBERT QUILLEN "Love means jti-t as much after people have l-en married mar-ried twenty years. The trouble trou-ble is, t!i"y seldom hajjen to f(-l romantic at the hams time." MM Mi1 i l ; ii 0 20 |