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Show o o )) , The Weather UTAH : Mostly cloudy with scattered scat-tered showers tonight and Saturday; Satur-day; continued mild. Maximum temp., Thursday ... 57 Minimum temp., Thursday ... 33 Build Utah County By Patronizing Home Stores and Business House COMPLETE UNITED PRES9 TELEPUKAPH NEWS SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR, NO. 166 Z UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LA KB PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1941 ? f 7 r i fern: fin v x v Vf'VivfS - f! )SX 11111 ci tS II DEBEC CHAT EX Xt23 CrUTC-J Remember those school days when you drowsed through Dante's "Divine Comedy" and Milton's "Paradise "Par-adise Lost"; Carlyle's "Sartor "Sar-tor Resartus" or "Conspiracy of Cataline"? And how you allowed lazily lazi-ly that it was all a waste of time? Well, so it was, accord ing to a group of American literary critics recently polled poll-ed by "Books Abroad a quarterly literary magazine. These critics, men of standing, stand-ing, too, chose the "Divine Comedy" as the world's worst and most over-rated book. They gave "Paradise Lost" second place. What is a classic? Why, a classic is a work which, generations gen-erations after it is written, continues to have a vital interest in-terest and meaning for those who continue to read it. School classics may be selected se-lected by professors who, having based their careers on deep study of them, have a vested interest in their preservation. pres-ervation. But once beyond school days, every man has the right to choose his own classics. Which goes not only for books, but for all the ideas of life. - ooo ; Isn't It True? When an idle gossip meets an idle rumor they both go to work .'. . more than 300,-000,000 300,-000,000 postage stamps are printed daily so there's no excuse for not writing that letter to your folks . . . bet ter buy those tickets for the National Guard benefit show at the Paramount now. vou'll have to do it sooner or later anyway. We are gradually finding out there's a war going on around us . . . some folks doubt if miners dig iown as deep as the man who buys the coal ... GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What' Goiny On in National Affairs Hj DHEW PEARSON and ROBERT 8. ALLEN Nazis Begin 4-Front Spring Offensive ; Britain Weakest Weak-est in Supply Ships; Convoy Con-voy System Fails to Halt Mounting Loss from Submarines Sub-marines and Bombers; Russia Rus-sia Tips Balkan Balance to Hitler; Germans Driving Toward Salonika; Japan Probably Won't Risk U.S. war; Italy Ready for Conditional Con-ditional Peace. WASHINGTON Basic fact to be remembered about the increasingly increas-ingly dangerous war situation is that Hitler has to win this spring or not at all. That is why he is placing all his chips on a four-front four-front offensive, in which Britain will be the object of attacks from the sea ,the Pacific, the Balkans jnd Spain. What will be the outcome no expert can even guess, but here is the way the swiftly-changing war arena shapes up at present: THE FAR EAST j - Japan probably will not risk war with the United States. She Ls too weak from long years of fighting in China, and her navy is not what's it s cracked up to be. So when the zero hour comes Japan will probably confine herself her-self to raiding shipping around Singapore, which is of vital im portance to the British supply stream, also to American tin and rubber supplies. Japanese feints toward Australia may keep a certain number of British warships out of the Medit erranean, disastrous at a time (Continued on Page 4, Sec. 2) n 3 I LEGISLATORS ASK WELFARE BOARD PROBE Move Aims to Investigate Rumors That Cast Reflections SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 2KU.R) A thorough investigation investi-gation of the Utah state department de-partment of public welfare to "prove or disprove persistent rumors that have cast reflections" reflec-tions" on the board and its meml?rs, was demanded in the Utah legislature today. The demand came in the forrr. of a joint resolution introduced by Ren. J. I. Nichols, D., Salt Lake. It was presented along with numerous other measures as legislators legis-lators flocked to get under tonight's to-night's deadline for non-committee introduction of legislation. Another Probe Asked Another resolution would investigate in-vestigate governmental systems of Utah cities, towns and villages, while two proposed constitutional constitution-al amendments would provide for election of city judges on nonpartisan non-partisan ballots. . In his resolution, Nichols said there - has -been; "persistent rumors ru-mors that cast reflections on members mem-bers of the public welfare board, the director of public welfare, the old age assistance chief and on the methods through which they operate and spend their funds." The Salt Lake Democrat said there had also been suggestions of "illegal, irregular and unethical unethi-cal operations" and he thought the legislature should prove or disprove these accusations and if necessary take steps to correct abuses in the department. The Nichols' resolution provided the investigation should be made by a three-man committee, ap pointed by the governor, and should be completed by June 1, presumably in time for the special spe-cial legislative session that will be called in June by Gov. Herbert B. Maw. The request for appointment by the governor and the presiding officers of the senate and house of a 15-man committee to investigate inves-tigate municipal governments was made in a resolution presented by House Speaker Sheldon, R., Brewster, D., Salt Lake. Brewster proposed the investigation investi-gation take two years, have the right to enter all municipal offices, of-fices, examine all records and report re-port to the 1943 legislature. Reasons Rea-sons for the investigation were not made clear. Excitement in Senate There was excitement in the (Continued on Page Two) Attornsy Speak To Prouo Lion A striking similarity between today's critical problems which perplex the nation and the era of Washington was pointed out by A. Sherman Christenson, Provo attorney, in an interesting address at the Provo Lions luncheon meeting, meet-ing, Thursday night. Quoting from historical documents docu-ments of the times, the speaker ventured the assertion that if Washington could come back today, to-day, he would probably- favor a strong alliance with Britain and all possible aid by this country against the totalitarian menace. He read extracts from a speech by Fisher Ames, Massachusetts, congressman, which was strikingly striking-ly similar to present conditions. Dayne McQuarrie and Don Ferguson were introduced as new members following the customary initiation. Henry Heisch was introduced in-troduced as a transfer from the Sacramento Lions club. The program was in charge of Bruce Ellis with President E. C. Speakman, presiding. Elayne Brown sang two vocal solos, Emma Hales, accompanist and Hazel Palfreyman presented two accordion selections. A four-man delegation from American Fork headed by Glen Taylor were visitors. visi-tors. Clarence Manion, Lions International In-ternational field man; Aura C. Hatch, district governor and Dr. W. Woolf gave short talks. U sier' Ma E To Senate, 56 to 1, In Surprise Move Vote Came 15 Minutes Before Scheduled Time For House To Convene; Logan Legislator is Lone Dissentor By DAVE DRYDEN , . SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 12 U.R Acting with surpris- ing rapidity, the Utah house of representatives today passed and sent to the senate Gov. Herbert B. Maw's master reorganization reor-ganization bill. The vote was 5G to 1. The lone dissenting vote was cast by Rep. William C. England, D., Cache county. The vote was 56 to 1. The lone dissenting vote, as finally fin-ally recorded, was by John II. Schenk, D., Cache. William E. England, D., also Cache, changed his vote to yes. ITuo Strikes in Dafens2 Industry departed Settled BY UNITED PRESS Settlement of two strikes in na tlonal defense industries was 'ah-H nounced today, leaving 19 walkouts walk-outs still in progress. Settlements involved $15,000,-000 $15,000,-000 worth of navy contracts at the Carteret, N. J., Foster Wheeler Corp. plant and the Vanadium Steel Corp. plant at Niagara Falls, N. Y. The walkouts had been in progress about one week and had kept 1,200 workers idle. An adviser from the office of production management was . at Milwaukee, Wis., attempting to negotiate . a complete settlement of the strike of 7,800 workers at Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. plant, shut down by a United Automobile Workers' (CIO) strike since Jan. 22 and delaying production pro-duction on defense orders totaling total-ing $40,000,000. Negotiations hinged hing-ed on interpretation of a "discipline "disci-pline clause" in an agreement reached last week in conferences at Washington. The strikers are demanding an all-union shop. WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (UP) The National Labor Relations board today ordered the Ford Motor company to reinstate 142 employes at its Richmond, Calif., plant and to award them back pay for the period of their allegedly discriminatory discharges. The board also ordered the com pany to stop discouraging mem bership in the CIO's United Automobile Auto-mobile Workers union; to bargain with the union upon request; and, if an understanding is reached, to (Continued on Page Two) SLOT MACHINE BILL KILLED BOISE, Ma., Feb. 21 U.E The Idaho house of representatives today to-day killed a bill to legalize slot machines by a vote of 28 to 31. The measure was the first revenue reve-nue proposal to come before the legislature. INTERVIEW SLATED Joseph C. Glark, district manager man-ager for the Beneficial Life Insurance In-surance company, will be interviewed inter-viewed by two studenta on the question, "Careers in Life Insurance," Insur-ance," on the Provo Kiwnals club vocational guidance program over KOVO and KEUB Saturday at 7 p. m. Mr. Clark is a member of the KiwanLs club. California Students Fail to Show Enthusiasm for WPA Sculptor's Bear BERKELEY, Calif., Feb.21 UJ? Beniamino Bufano, one of the world's great contemporary sculptors, sculp-tors, who peddles papers to get even with the, WPA for firing him, stirred up another artistic cat-fight cat-fight today with his latest work. He presented to the University of California a three-foot statue of a bear, the like of wWcb stu- ill at first voted no, but then . immediately after the house ac tion, the special reorganization committee reported passage of the bill to the senate. Gov. Maw, informed of the house action, said: "That's swell now if the senate will just do likewise, we'll be all set." The bill, as passed, was exactly as the governor proposed it. It did not include the controversial amendment placing the fish and game commission under the indus- ixial development division . .no: L another section written into the bill in committee. The vote came 15 minutes before be-fore scheduled meeting of the house for it3 afternoon session. During the lunch hour, a "call of the house" was issued. The representatives trooped into the chamber, .expecting to ' resume routine consideration of the measure. meas-ure. . Within a few minutes, Rep. Milton Twitchell, R., Garfield, moved that the bill be passed. The roll call vote folowed. The first voter Rep. Burton Adams, D., Utah, expained the general idea seemed to be to dump the bill in the lap of the senate, where 40 individual reorganization measures meas-ures are pending. Other Democrats Demo-crats and Republicans except England agreed. Rep. Clifton Kerr, R., Boxelder, said he thought the house was saving a full week through the prompt passage because the bill (Continued on Page Two) STUDENTS I TO ROTARIA S Now is an opportune time for the United States to cultivate understanding, good will, support and cooperation with the South American countries, noted Miss Glenna Perkins of Salt Lake City, student of 'Brigham Young university, uni-versity, in an ovation delivered at the Provo Rotary club luncheon today. Miss Perkins was winner of the Rotary oratorical contest at B. Y. U. some time ago, and the oration given today, entitled "Opportunity Knocks," was the one she gave in winning the contest. con-test. Thornton Booth of Provo, runner-up in the contest, also delivered de-livered his oration, "Nations Too Are Created Equal," at the Rotary Ro-tary luncheon. Wyman Berg, Rotary president, presided at the meeting. Jerry Bybee was chairman. ' Guests included in-cluded W. D. Bryson and Rotari-an Rotari-an Walt Wetzel, both of Price; Roy Park and Glade Linebaugh of Orem, and Dr. T. Earl Par-continued Par-continued on Page Two) dents said, never has been seen outside an acute attack of delirium de-lirium tremens. California's symbol is the golden gold-en bear, a grizzly, and Benny thought to honor the University with his masterpiece. But the eyebrows of California students went up so high and so fast, it was hurriedly relegated to a spot behind the copy desk in the office ALU Exiled Poles' Envoy 0 V Ambassador Jan Ciechanowskl Of the Polish government in exile arrives in U. S. Proyo Official 'Outline Garbag KM : - 'Disposal System rrv Whether a. garbage and waste removal system will be established estab-lished in provo awaits the results Of a survey in which every home will be contacted to determine the sentiment of the citizenry on the proposal, speakers at the community forum meeting Thurs- aay night said. The survey will be made by the city department of utilities in connection with a survey to de termine electrical appliances now in use in the homes. If 60 per cent of the citizens tavor a waste removal depart ment, immediate steps will be taken to establish one, and the department of utilities would bill the users for the service in con nection with the water and light bill. The forum speakers included Maurice Harding, city commis sioner; J. Hamilton Calder, chair man of the board of utilities; R. C. Adams, superintendent of utilities, and Dr. Vasco M. Tan ner, member of the utilities board. An open 'discussion followed. and the sentiment of the group as a whole, present was in favor of installation of the proposed system. Moving pictures taken of garbage gar-bage disposal systems in California Califor-nia cities were shown. Grantsville Man Called by Death GRANTSVILLE, Utah, Feb. 21 (U.R) Funeral services will be conducted here Sunday for John W. Anderson, 63, irrigation company com-pany official, former state senator sena-tor from Tooele county, former Grantsville mayor and prominent L. D. S. church leader. Anderson died yesterday. He suffered a heart attack Wednesday shortly after making a speech at a banquet. ban-quet. MISSIONARIES TO SPEAK A group of returned missionaries, missionar-ies, student of the Brigham Younff university, will furnish the program at the Scandinavian L. D. S. meeting Sunday at 10:30 a. m. A. C. Andersen, president, announced today. Musical selections selec-tions will be furnished by the choir. of the Daily Californian. The bear stands on four flat feet. It has a beaver's tail, a seal's body, ears like a deer and a boatlike boat-like snout, with four jagged teeth. Bufano calls it an abstraction. Californians call it something else. Faculty members trotted over from the art department and en- thusiastically condemned it. BRITISH AID BILL OPPOSED !Y GILLETTE Iowa Senator Opposed To Power Granted The President By WILLIAM IL LAWRENCE WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (U.R) Sen. Guy M. Gillette, D., Ia., charged today passage of the British-aid bill would give President Roosevelt authority to play the United States' hand in the "inter national poker game of power "I cannot vote to pass any measure," he. said, "which will permit . . . any man under God's almighty heavens to sit in the international poker game of power pow-er politics and stake in his discretion, dis-cretion, by his judgment of the value of each play, all the re sources of the United States of America the life, the liberty, the happiness, the security, and perhaps per-haps the blood of her citizens. Fears Authority Grant "I am ready to aid even this type of action when it becomes necessary, but I am not willing to delegate the authority to commit com-mit acts of war to any man who breathes, however wise, patriotic and sincere he may be. "No good man should want such authority, and no evil man should be entrusted with it." Gillette, a veteran of the Spanish, Span-ish, Boer and World wars, opened the fifth day of senate debate on the bill. He denounced those who justify more aid to Britain on the theory Britain is fighting our war, and asserted f he believed such was the case he would vote immediately for a declaration of war. "If this is our war," he said, "we should be willing tomorrow to conscript every factory, industrial in-dustrial plant, transportation facility fa-cility and every man, hour of labor, machinery and executive ability on a 24-hour basis for war machinery and to make every sacrifice without a thin dime of profit to any man . . . "If the safety and security of -our country and its institutions is dependent on the complete defeat de-feat of Germany and her associates, associ-ates, then I am ready, God forgiving for-giving me, to cast my vote for full and complete participation in this foreign war. "I am not ready to admit that the situation exists or is in reasonable rea-sonable contemplation which would require such action." Gillette said he detested Adolf Hitler and his philosophy of government, gov-ernment, and he resented the nazi persecution of the Jewish race, adding his own "life partner" is of that race. He said if he could act as an individual he would give very dollar he possessed and "gladly offer his- life if by doing so he could aid Britain, Greece and China in their struggle against the Axis powers. But, he added, he must be guided by the fact he is a representative of the American people, with full knowledge knowl-edge that the course of American life and American happiness, "for the next 100 years' probably will be determined by congress' action within the next 90 days. Liquor-by-the Drink Bill Marked for Death SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 21 (U.R) The house revenue and taxation committee today dealt a death blow to a liquor by the drink bill introduced in the Utah legislature. The committee, headed by Rep. Sol Selvin, D., Tooele, reported the bill out favorably but moved to strike the enacting clause. The committee's report was to be offered of-fered the house later today. Whether the report would be fought had not been determined. GER5LN PLANES OVER SOUTH WALES LONDON, Feb. 21 (U.E German planes were reported over a South Wales town tonight. Jimmy Says He's Ready for Army j Film actor James Stewart has asked that he be put in classification classi-fication A-l and be called for army duty in his turn, Hollywood Holly-wood selective service omcialj announce in quelling rumor Jimmy asked deferment. Provo Pays I Al Farewell Fete Following patriotic farewell ceremonies, 73 young men of Utah county left today for Salt Lake City where they will receive assignments as-signments for a year's army training train-ing in various training centers. Twenty-one, representing the south section of the county, were given a rousing send-off at Spanish Span-ish Fork. Seventeen of the group were selectees, the other four being be-ing volunteers. The 52 young men from the north section were honored at a brief farewell at Provo. Forty-one of the group were selectees and 11 were volunteers. Speakers at Spanish Fork included in-cluded County Commissioner William Wil-liam J. Johnson, chairman of the selective service board, Mayor John E. Booth of Spanish Fork and Marcellus Nielson of Maple-ton, Maple-ton, other members of the board; Reuben Gardner of the Spanish Fork American Legion post, Mayor George C. Chase of Pay-son, Pay-son, and Henry Andrus of Spanish Span-ish Fork. County Commissioner Sylvan W. Clark, chairman of the north district selective service board, was master of ceremonies at the farewell in Provo, with Mayor . M. Jolley of Orem and George W. Worthen of Provo, government appeal ap-peal agent for tne district, as main speakers. The Provo high school band played patriotic numbers, num-bers, including "The Star Spangled Span-gled Banner." The Provo ceremony was sponsored spon-sored by the B. P. O. Elks Lodge No. 84a and the American Lt-gion Lt-gion Post 13. Provo Stores to Be Open Saturday Provo stores will remain open Saturday, Washington's birthday, although banks, city and county offices, and other government offices of-fices will be closed. No deliveries will be made by the Provo post office, either rural or city, except perishables and special delivery letters. The general gen-eral delivery window will be open from 10 to 11 a. m. for transient service only. Outgoing mail will be dispatched es usual. This Day . . . BORN Boy, to Byron F. and Garna Lloyd Barber, this morning. Boy, to Prof. LeRoy J. and Naomi Nelson Robertson, this morning. LICENSED TO MARRY Samuel H. Wanlass, 24, American Amer-ican Fork, and Leone Jensen, 19, American Fork. n n n JV. m ops sen F 0 R 'RELIEF' Litvinov Removed FrorrJ Communist Party Leadership By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Corespondent German troops marched into in-to Spain today on a mission, it was said, of peace and reconstruction, re-construction, while Europe and the Far East echoed with apparent preparations for a big spring offensive. The movement of German troops from France into Spain was said in Madrid to be small-scale small-scale and solely to aid in relief and reconstruction in Santander, stricken by a hurricane and fire. However, the units which crossed cross-ed the border included many technicians tech-nicians and a transport column which would be useful In making advance nreoarations for forces that might follow. Balkan and 'Far Eastern developments devel-opments hewed to the pattern of recent days. - Bnsv On Danube The Germans appeared to be busy with pontoon bridges along the Danube between Bulgaria and Rumania, presumably getting ready to move troops into Bulgaria. Bul-garia. Belgrade heard reports the Bulgarian populace was not too vmnathetic to the Nazi preparations, prepara-tions, and there were rumors of riots at Rustchuk. one center of pontoon bridge activity. It was likely British plans to meet Balkan, Mediteranean and African contingencies were being worked out at Cairo by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Gen. Sir John Dill, chief of staff of imperial im-perial forces. In the Far East Japanese anger wa.s r-Mnir at British and American Ameri-can defense preparations. The French mUitary and naval commands com-mands in French Indo-China went into conference on the military and political situation. Litvinov Removed In Moscow Maxim Litvinov, apostle of "collective security," was removed from the high command com-mand of the Communist party and was replaced by V. G. Dekan-ozov, Dekan-ozov, ambassador to Berlin who aided in negotiation of the Russo-German Russo-German pact. Also singled out for demotion was Pauline Semyonovna Zhem-chuzina, Zhem-chuzina, wife of Premier-Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov. She lost her alternate's post on the Communist party central committee. commit-tee. The Nazi forces went into Spain at invitation of strongly pro-Nazi Ramon Serrano Suner, Spain's foreign minister. While there was no immediate reason to doubt the official explanation ex-planation for entry of the troops, there was, at the same time, no assurance the "reconstruction" troops might not be followed later by additional forces. Madrid said only five small Nazi detachments had crossed over from occupied France. The troops (Continued on Page Two) MINT TTET By EOBEET QTJTLLEN "I praise Pa when he give me half a chance. A roan deserves pay for hi work, and you ought to pay him in the coin he appreciates roost." UAZiS GL mm |