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Show PRO.VO (UTAH) DAILY .HERALP;MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, ' 1941 PAGE THREE -Vashmgtca ilerry-Go-Roiind (Continued From Page One) from there to Japan is almost as great as from Japan to Honolulu. Now, however, with the French Indo-Chinese naval bases in her possession, Japan is in a far better bet-ter position regarding Singapore and the Dutch East Indies than she would be ragarding California if she occupied Hawaii. It still will not be a walkaway for Japan to take these British and Dutch posessions, because they are well fortified. However, the job is now about 50 per cent easier. Strategy which U. S. naval experts ex-perts expect Japan to follow is to beein the attack at the moment Hitler begins his long-expected invasion in-vasion of England. ( Editor's Note Tomorrow the Merry - Go - Round will describe what steps, if any, have been taken tak-en to safeguard American tin supplies sup-plies in case the Dutch East Indies and British Malaya are conquered.) con-quered.) BRITISH BILLS Recent British statements regarding re-garding the difficulty of paying for American war supplies produced pro-duced one repercussion that wasn't aired in the papers. Reading Read-ing the news headlines, three Washington stationery dealers bust into the offices of the British Brit-ish Purchasing Mission, waving sheets of paper. "I say really what's all the excitement about?" asked a bewildered be-wildered official. The three callers confronted him with bills for stationery, ink, paper pa-per clips, etc:., amounting to $7, $10 and $15. "W" ,want to render a statement . for those supplies you bought from us," explained a spokesman for the excited trio. "We just heard Great Britain is bankrupt and we want our money." The British official left the room and returned with three checks. , "Most nny bank will honor these checks, I am sure, gentlemen," gentle-men," he said cordially. "The war hns set us back financially, but we're still able to pay for a $32 stationery bilL" ! LIQUIDATE THE HOLC? I , . : :)c A penetrating illustration of th type of men being "drafted" as advisers ad-visers on the defense commission is the confidential news letter circulated cir-culated by Morton Bodfish, of the IT. S. Savings and Loan League, now an adviser on defense housing. hous-ing. Bodfi.vh send3 out a letter regularly regu-larly to members of the mortgage and building lonn business, and last summer quoted the following from the June, 1940. issue of Sphere, entitled "Are Democracies Decadent?" 'It was a snd day for republi-rm"?rn republi-rm"?rn when it was decided to rloet the president by popular vote, pnd it' was an even sadder clnv when the Constitution was amended to require election of pTiators by the same method. There i no man of sense, who know his history, who will contend con-tend that mob government can for very long be good government. Democracy mob government. . " Note Bcxlfish is renorted to be the man behind the Dirksen bill which would liauidate the Home Owners Loan Corporation. During Dur-ing the depression, the HOLC twik over thousands of mortgages which banks and loan associations wouldn't touch, but now that the HOLC has put these mortgaees on the safe side, these groups want them back again. ! ALUMINUM CORPORATION " I DEFENDER. . Tt hadn't been noised about, but Marion B. Folsom, in charge of nluminum and magnesium production produc-tion for the defense commission, has quietly stepped out. Folsom was the center of the sizzling debate over whether the defense program was short of nluminum. and steadfastly championed cham-pioned the Aluminum Corporation of America. He not only maintained main-tained that it could supply all defense de-fense needs, but persuaded hi3 chief, Defense Commissioner Stet-tinius. Stet-tinius. to echo his views. Stettinius' statement denying a shortage got a violent kickback from the justice department, whirh had made a very thorough study of the situation, and also ;iildrens MEHTHOIATUM Gvtcky Dtrcti RUNNING SNIFFLING SNEEZING voo'll be sonny If You Do Not Visit the r.aM3IL EKSMB Comer 6th East and 8th North OPEN DAILY FOR INSPECTION 2 p. m. to 9 p. .m. FEBRUARY 5 to FEBRUARY 19 ONLY from monopoly investigator Senator Sena-tor O'Mahoney. Now Folsom has gone back to his Eastman Kadok company. Note Folsom has been succeeded suc-ceeded by his young assistant, Greenville Holden, also a defender of the Alumni Corporation. MERRY-GO-ROUND Pretty, six - year - old Janelle Johnson, daughter of Representative Representa-tive Jed Johnson of Oklahoma, was overheard discussing "boyfriends" "boy-friends" with a small playmate. "Heavens, Janelle," asked Mrs. Johnson, "I didn't know you had any boy-friends. Who are they?" Replied Janelle, "well, my best boy-fwiend is Pwesident Roosevelt." Roose-velt." . . . Able young assistant to the Attorney General Matt Mc-Guire Mc-Guire is headed for a judicial appointment, ap-pointment, probably the vacancy created by the recent retirement of Justice Peyton Gordon of he U. S. district court for the District Dis-trict of Columbia. . . . House Foreign Affairs Chairman Sol Bloom is taking no chances of his files being rifled regarding the lend-lease bill. He has detectives guarding his office day and night. (Copyright, 1941, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.) LINDON. MRS. LAWRENCE WALKE3 Reporter Miss Lorayn Walker left Thursday Thurs-day for Salt Lake where she is employed. Mesdames Clesta Beale, June Clark and Naomi Walker attended attend-ed the Modernette club social at the home of Mrs. LaPreale Oscar-son Oscar-son in Pleasant Grove Wednesday afternoon. Usual diversions were enjoyed. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Mickelson of Draper were callers at the home of Mrs. Rozella Wadley Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Warren Anderson spent Friday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Dean Cobbley at Plas-ant Plas-ant Grove. Jesse R. Walker of Delta is visiting with his mother, Mrs. Mae R. Walker. MARKETS at a Glanca Stocks irregular in dull trading. Bonds firm. Curb stocks irregular. Cotton steady. Wheat off 1 to 1 1-8 cents; com off. .Rubber firm. Silver unchanged. Ogden Livestock OGDEN, Utah, Feb. 10 (U.K) Livestock: Hogs: 820, 15 to 25c lower, practical top $7.75 on bulk choice 180 to 230 pound butchers, good to choice weights under 180 and over 230 pounds mostly $7.50. Cattle 1235, steers slow, market not established early, other classes fairly active and fully steady, medium to good slaughter heifers $8.00-9.65, good beef cows 6.50-7.50, medium to choice vealers steady to little higher $10.00 to 012.50. Sheep: 2450, nothing done early. Metal Prices NEW YORK, Feb. 10 (U.K) Today To-day s custom smelters prices for delivered metals (cents per lb.): Copper: Eilectrolytic 12-12 'i; export N. Y., f.a.s. 10.37 -10.50; casting f.o.b. refinery 12.25; lake, delivered 12. Lead: New York 5.50-.55; East St. Louis 5.35. Zinc: New York 7.64; East St. Louis 7.25. . ; . i TOO LATE FOU , ! CLASSIFICATION . L' FOB RENT FURNISHED APARTMENTS, lights, gas, heat. $10, $12. 591 North 3 East. fl6 2 ROOM apartment, ground floor. Couple or 3. 156 West 3 North. f23 FOR SALE OR RENT ALMOST new home, stoker, water heater, fireplace, garage. Phone 525. fl6 HELP WANTED MALE MARRIED man that is electrically electrical-ly inclined. Can learn to repair marble games. State, age, qualifications. quali-fications. Wrrite Herald Box 47-D. fl2 nnuTUAL Mi ESSAGES M. I. A. meetings 'will be held Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock in the L. i. S. ward chapels. Reported Report-ed programs appear below. SECOND WARD During the assembly program. Miss Marjorie Wagers will review a play. THIRD WARD Grant Rasmussen of the Provo high school faculty, will address the special interest group on the topic: "Uses and Abuses of Radio." SIXTH WARD During the assembly program, a radio skit, "An Introduction to Felix Mendelssohn Barthcldy," will be given. Don Waterlyn will announce the numbers, which include in-clude a piano duet. Norma Harris and J. E. Allen; piano solo, Or-villa Or-villa Luke; ladies' trio, Mrs. Lillian' Lil-lian' M. Young, Mrs. Anna J. Harris Har-ris and Mrs. Josephine Oldroyd, accompanied by Mrs. Fay Loveless. Love-less. In the "M" Men and Gleaner department, Dr. Wesley P. Lloyd will conduct the discussion on "Temple Marriage." A dance will immediately follow Mutual, and there will be concessions. PIONEER WARD Members of the special interest class will make a tour of the Municipal power plant during the class period. Mrs. L. L. Cull. more zi i t,,t--"'';' - ' . : i " (71 WW Wnjl. I will give the lesson in the "M." Men and Gleaner department. After Mutual, all adult members are invited to a Valentine party in the amusement hall. BONNEVILLE WARD The preliminary program will be on '-Felix Mendelssohn," with Ariel Ballif as master of ceremonies. ceremon-ies. Mendelssohn music will be furnished by Donald Rasmussen, Betty Jorgensen, Mary Day, Ber-nadme Ber-nadme Richins and Vera Jones. Dr. Eh'on Beck will talk on "Engagements "En-gagements and Marriages" in the Gleaner and "M" Men class, and in the special interest class, Oscar Ejerregaard and Mrs. Elvina Mnith will give the lesson. Connie LaRiie Baker Connie LaRue Baker, five-mont'h-old daughter of Leo William Wil-liam and Leah Irene Bailey Baker of Provo, died at 8:20 a. m. Saturday Satur-day at a local hospital. She had been ill but a few hours. She was born September 5, j 1940. Survivors besides her par ents include the following grandparents, grand-parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Baker Ba-ker and Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Bailey of Provo, and three great-grandmothers, Caroline Baker and Eva Bailey of Provo, and Annetta Bobbins of Huntington Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 3:30 p. m. in the Claudin funeral home chapel. Friends may call at the home of the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Bailey, 519 East Second South, Tuesday from 10 a. m. to 3 p. m. r-Ns ; : : ' . v or x i ; " ,y - - V. " , : ? ' ? : f ' i X.- - : f " ' .- -' , ; t - i :r ' . . y - ?. ft t . ' v . . . x :.y..:,:svvw''r -. - . ' : ,r . - Tt:-r v"': ' ; . f ' t ' - .- 5 . i ' f ( ' ' ' - ! ! ' A - 1 ' : U LJ LJ Li LlJ U 1 1 - 1 il S i i i r iUi-j.AIi.Iil (Continued from Page One) across Jugoslavia, would raise immediately im-mediately the question of Turkish participation in the war as an ally of Britain. A German-held Salonika would be a threat to Turkish control of the Dardanelles. Dardanel-les. There was no let-up today in the speed of British offensive operations in Africa. A new threat to Eritrea appeared when a British column started to push down from the north, crossing the Sudan-Eritrean border close to the Red Sea and occupying two towns. The Royal Air Force made another an-other of its big offensive sweeps over the French invasion coast today, centering its attack on Dunkirk and Boulogne. Reports circulated in Vichy the Germans have given up for the time being their attempt to force Pierre Laval back into a position of power in the government of Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, and have determined on "another solution" of the long impasse in German-French relations. The Berlin communique re ported the planes machine-gunned British pursuit ships on the ground at Iceland, which has been turned into a sturdy bastion of tsritish power since Nazi invasion of Denmark. Piime Minster Winston Churchill, Church-ill, in a broadcast address yesterday, yester-day, centered British concern on two fronts: the home front where intensified German air attacks AMERICA'S WfEF CIGARETTE THAN ORDINARY POPULAR-PRICE BRANDS! (IN UTAH) n 1 D An 3 Obituaries Mrs. Lille Humei SPRINGVILLE Mrs. Lillie Hume. 35. wife of Earl Hume, died Sunday night at a local hospital hos-pital following a major operation. She was born in Salem February Febru-ary 3, 1906, a daughter of Arthur and Elizabeth Twissell Hope. She spent her early life in Salem and moved to Springville 11 years ago. Mrs. Hume was sergeant-at-arms in the Springville American Ameri-can Legion auxiliary, and was active in L. D. S. church activities. activi-ties. Surviving are her husband, her parents, two sons. Donaki and Max, and four sisters and a brother, broth-er, Gertrude Hope of Salt Lake City, Mrs. Sadie Ainge of Spanish Span-ish Fork, Mrs. Euna Painter of Santaquin, Mrs. Ada Moody of Los Angeles, and George Hope of Provo. Funeral services will be Wednesday Wed-nesday at 2 p. m., at the Third ward chapel. Friends may call at the family residence, 196 West Second North, prior to services. Burial will be in the Evergreen cemetery under direction of the A. Y. Wheeler mortuary. are expected soon, and the Balk-I Balk-I f ns. where he expressed belief German penetration of Bulgaria has proceeded considerably further furth-er than ia generally known. A Rome communique confirmed British accounts of the bombardment bombard-ment of Genoa, reporting casualties casual-ties so far reported were 72 dead and 226 wounded. GfJJOV I2GAL PnOTZGTlOUf P n AYBE you think you don't in-lii in-lii hale maybe you know you do. In either case . When you do inhale, it's easy to see exposure to irritation increases! in-creases! So know what you smoke ! Read this vital difference-reported difference-reported by eminent doctors in authoritative medical journals. They compared five leading brands of cigarettes and found: 0 LEGISLATURE (Continued on Page Three) file of information regarding how the money has been spent. Maw asked the commission to answer four questions: 1. List the levy on real property, for roads. 2. The amount of money that levy brought in 1936 and 1937. 3. The amount the levy has realized since then. 4. Just how much has been spent for materials, equipment, and labor. The governor s new bill, which replaces a similar diversion bill that was written earlier in the legislative session, does not disturb dis-turb the state setup for fiscal 1941. It appropriates $S00,000 to cities and counties from the motor, mo-tor, vehicles registration fund. However, beginning March 1, 19i'2, and each year thereafter, the state auditor under the new bi!l would be authorized to transfer $800,000 from the motor vehicle registration fund to the executive department of the state. The sum, according to the bill, must be expanded by the department depart-ment of publicity and industrial expansion on "B" and "C road building projects and "on other projects designed to develop Utah's industries and promote inJ dustrial expansion." A provision in the law insists that in no case shall the $800,000 be spent for "any purpose which would deprive Utah of participation participa-tion in the federal government roads building program." As he has said before, 'the governor gov-ernor pointed out that after April - TODAY THEY COST mm THE OTHER FOUR LEADING BRANDS AVERAGED 235 MORE IRRITANT THAN THE STRIKINGLY CONTRASTED CONTRAST-ED PHILIP MORRIS AND, THE IRRITATION IRRI-TATION LASTS MORE THAN FIVE TIMES AS LONG! Read it again! "235 more irritant . . . lasting more than five times as long"! Change now to Philip Morris, especially if you inhale! Com plete smoking pleasure with no worry about throat irritation! V 1, 1941, the department actually would have more than $1,000,000 for Its various purposes. The governor said that the whole purpose of his industrial commission was to attract private capital to the state and develop its "many untouched resources." He pointed out that since his program was announced Utah coal operators have started work on a processing plant for smokeless fuel to eliminate a health menace. A highly controversial labor bill which would require all per-I per-I sons remaining inside an indus-I indus-I trial plant during a strike to reg ister with the state industrial commission com-mission was held up in the house. It originaliy was scheduled for d;bate today, the law was aimed at strikebreakers. A bill was .introduced in the senate which would provice that any state, county, city or federal district official called to army duty ba restored to his old positi-tion positi-tion without loss of vacation and other privileges on completion of his service. SERVICES HELD TODAY Committal services were held i todav at the Provo Citv Buiial I park for the stillborn son of " aii j. t i a r. - , iirj, . AJD.ri ii. anu oignu ja.rsun wiie. Surviving are the parents, one brother, Karl Wite, Florence, Arizona; two sisters, Mrs. Margaret Mar-garet Brooks and Gertrude Wite, Portland, Oregon, and two half-brothers, half-brothers, Albvrt and Victor W. Jones. Lehi. NO MORE j Copr. 1941. Philip Msrria A Co., Ltd., 1m. DID i C 1 0 Furnished by D.-7.-H. GO. |