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Show The Weather UTAII: Increasing cloudiness tonight; to-night; Saturday cloudy with fehowers In west portion; little change in temperature. 3iiLx. temp., Thursday 61 Mia. temp, Thursday 2G ZtoiVcf 7ai County By Patronizing Home Stores and Bu&iness Houses FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR, NO. 171 UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF" SALT LAKH PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1941 ThLBrOHAFH NEWS SERVICE) ITlLjj X ZLi UliiNiO n nn run TUT A j, Mi in U by tiik Eurroa ( be- ,J I'.l.l fa rv7n(a JAPAN PUTS PRESSURE m J U M IJ j i lJ M l! nn n U li In horse-and-buggy days, if you wanted to hitch Nellie up to a buggy whose wheels were about to drop off, it was nobody's business but your own. If the wheels dropped off, nobody got hurt but you, or the people with you. It's different today when you sit down at the wheel of a couple of tons of automobile and start hurling them through the streets at 50 miles an hour among hundreds hun-dreds of others. There is an obligation that your auto be safe for the sake of others, if vou don't care about yourself. your-self. Many states and cities started inspecting motor vehicles ve-hicles years ago. One report which comes to the desk shows that out of a quarter of a million cars inspected in one large city, 57 per cent were found to be unsafe. Twenty-seven thousand repairs re-pairs or replacements have been ordered in the past year. How's your own car? An Orem subscriber writes in to inquire "why there has i been no traffic violation complaint com-plaint filed in the coal truck fatality on the Springville road." All we can tell him is that at the last report the police department was still looking for the driver of "a third car," whoever that might be. Our subscriber remarks re-marks that too many drivers involved in fatal street and highway crashes are absolved of all blame these 3ays. - -We are inclined to agree with him. oOo Here and There It's a curious thing that one person causes all the auto accidents. It's "the other fellow." fel-low." . . . Lots of people move when the landlord raises the rent, because they can't. . . . The man who spends most of his time flaring up, doesn't shine very long. . . . Mussolini Musso-lini says, "Italy will march with Germany to the end." Thousands of Italian soldiers have reached there already. GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT 8. ALLEN Land for Bermuda Bases Ten Times As Costly As Land Near Washington ; British Haggling Over Sites, Prices in Islands Irks U. S. Officials Offic-ials ; Frankfurter Pushed Winant for London Post on Guess Bevin Will Rule; Supreme Court Justice Also Played King - Maker For Stimson and Aides. WASHINGTON Even among Britain's best friends there is some grumbling over the hard bargaining over land for the erection erec-tion of U. S. air fields and naval bases in the west Indies. U. S. Naval officers point out that whereas our 50 destroyers were completely equipped including includ-ing paper towels, canned goods, typewriters, cigarettes laid out in officers' mess rooms all the United States got was the right to bargain with local West Indian, governments and British real estate agents. Instead of being given British crown lands, the United States has had to buy land from private owners for its new network of island bases. Thus the 125 acres purchased in Bermuda will cost $1,500,000 or $12,000 per acre. In comparison, residential property prop-erty five miles from the- District of Columbia costs only $1,200 an acre. Even aside from the high prices (Continued on Page Seven) INTERVIEW SLATED Two students will interview Lew Rich, office manager of Anderson An-derson Garage, on "Accounting As a Career," over KOVO Saturday Sat-urday at 7 p. m., on the Provo Kiwanis club vocational program. GUARD Uiil HONORED AT AGE SHOW Benefit Show Attended By Large Audience At Paramount Replete with color, drama, musical attractions and comedy, com-edy, "Plight of a Guardsman,' Guards-man,' variety show staged at; the Paramount theater Thursday Thurs-day night in honor of the Utah National Guardsmen. Battery F and the medical detachment, who leave soon for mobilization at San Luis Obispo, delighted a near-capacity audience. Produced by Dr. T. Earl Pardoe, head of the Brigham Young university uni-versity speech department, with Kathryn B. Pardoe as associate director, the show featured a cast of 150, mainly dramatic art, dance, and music students at B. Y. U. The show moved rapidly, and the tempo didn't even lag between scenes, for skits and stunts were staged at these junctures. Continuity of the show was pro vided by the unceasing pursuit by a marriage-conscious women of a bashful young man who had sworn he'd never marry. The youth was finally saved from wedlock by the National Guard. Beth Davis of Heber and Eli Tippetts of Spanish Fork played the two parts, respectively. re-spectively. The show culminated with the march of the guardsmen, who were special guests. Th-B. -Y, U..-band, directed by Robert Sauer, played several selections, selec-tions, and pleased the audience greatly. The event was sponsored by the chamber of commerce, with the service clubs co-operating. Chairman Wyman Berg extended his thanks to everyone who helped make the event a success, both financially and otherwise, including includ-ing Dr. Pardoe and the cast, the service clubs, Major T. C. Hebert-son, Hebert-son, the Paramount theater, etc. The 20-30 club handled the ushering. usher-ing. , JKt.li r mm tnt Ucferan Teacher Honored by church, school and city, pert Mrs. Jennie Wilkins, will celebrate her 80th birthday anniversary Sunday. Anyone who has been associated with Mrs. Wilkins is invited to attend her reception in the Farrer junior high school library Sunday afternoon after-noon from 2 to 5 o'clock. A short program will be presented pre-sented at 5 p. m. Provo High School Women will assist in receiving re-ceiving guests, and Farrer junior high P.-T. A. will help with refreshments. re-freshments. Fifty years of her life have been spent in school service. Forty years have been devoted to teaching teach-ing Provo children. She has taught in every school in Provo, including includ-ing the old Proctor academy and Webster school. J. W. Thornton, principal of the Farrer junior high school is chairman of arrangements. A loose leaf folio of letters from her many associates is being compiled. Anyone wishing to contribute con-tribute to the folio should use eight by eleven inch size paper allowing at least a one inch margin mar-gin and addressing the envelope to Mr. Thornton. This Day. BORN Boy, to Alma C. and Margretta Farrer Nielsen, this morning. Girl, to Dean and Dorothy Ward Spackman, Feb. 21. LICENSED TO MARRY Grant U. Givens, 22, Wallsburg, and Wilma Joy McCurdy, 18, Ash-ton, Ash-ton, Idaho. m Hildreth Cranmer Henderson,28, Wilmington, North Carolina, and Myina Black, 22, Antimony, Garfield Gar-field county, Utah. MEETING SET SPANISH FORK Mothers of the Play School children will hold their next meeting Friday, March 7 at the junior high school building build-ing instead of Friday, Feb. 28 as was previously announced. Mrs. Jena V. Holland, state play school supervisor will address the moth ers and all are urged to attend Si Scout Speaker r RULON W. DOMAN JA Announces Program for Sunday Evening An important part of the weekend week-end quarterly conference of the Provo L. D. S. stake will be the Sunday evening-. services at the tabernacle sponsored by the Mutual Mu-tual Improvement association, stake boards. The services, built around the theme, 'Love of God and of Neighbor," Neigh-bor," will start at 7:30, with the public invited. The entire program pro-gram follows: Organ prelude, Byron Jensen; congregational song, "Beautiful Words of Love,"; prayer, William Prusse; scripture reading, Gwen Johnson; song. Beehive girl3 of Provo stake; string trio, Burnell Cloward, Maida Stewart and Lucille Lu-cille Quist; vocal solo, Alma Hansen; scripture reading, Lath-air Lath-air Curtis. ' Talk, 'Thou Shalt Love the Lord Thy God," Olive Winterton; s6ng, I'll Serve the Lord While I Am Young," Boy Scouts of Provo stake; ladies chorus, "Prayer Per feet," directed by Iona Christen- sen; scripture reading, Verda Mae Fuller; talk. 'Thou Shalt Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself," Ray Hanks; congregational song, "Lord Accept our True Devotion"; prayer, Earl Williams. George Albert Smith of the council of twelve apostles and Sterling H. Nelson of the welfare committee will represent the general gen-eral church authorities at the conference. con-ference. First session of the conference confer-ence will be Saturday at 7:30 at the First ward chapel with all members of the Melchizedek and Aaronic priesthood invited. A welfare meeting wil be Sunday at 8:30 a. m. at the same place. General Gen-eral sessions will be Sunday at 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. at the tabernacle. Boys' Day to Be Held at Lehi LEHI The annual Boys' day of the Lehi high school will be held, Friday March 7. A beard growing contest will be a feature of this year's Boy's Day. The boys are permitted to shave, Sunday, Sun-day, February 23, for the last time before the final day of the contest. All boys of the school must enter or be severely punished by those in charge. Teachers of the school are exempt from this rule. Dorrald Allred will be chairman of the committee, rh Reed Nostrum, Terry Whyde, Clyde Lambert, Bob Carson, Donald Cook, Dale Ru-son Ru-son and Ray Bone as assistants. Prizes will be given for the curliest beard, the thickest beard, the longest beard and the most artistic beard. PRESIDENT SUFFERS HEAD COLD WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 ILP President Roosevelt cut his engagement en-gagement list short today and retired to his study to nurse a severe head cold. Rear Admiral Ross T. Mclntire, his physician, said the president did not have a temperature, but advised him to take things easily until the cold clears up. Scout Uor'icrs id Gather Cjiurc:; In Anne:! Event Former Oregon Bcout Executive Execu-tive To Speak At Main Session Arrangements are complete for the annual meeting of the Utah National Parks Council, Boy Scouts of America, announces an-nounces Dr. M. W. Merrill, president. Rulon W. Doman, new member of the council executive staff who formerly was a scout executive in Eugene, Ore., will be main speaker at the meeting, slated Saturday at 7:30 p. m. at College hall. ' Xn addition to the evening meeting, at which the public is invited, a scouters' traning course will be held at 2 .p. m., and a fellowship dinner at 6 p. m. One of the features of the annual an-nual meeting ,in addition to Mr. Doman's address, will be awarding award-ing of four silver beaver award3 for outstanding service to boyhood. boy-hood. More than 400 scouters of the council are expected to be present. pres-ent. Assistant Executive Merrill Christopherson asks that scouts of Provo meet in full uniform at 6:30 p. m., Saturday at College hall for the color ceremony. 7 HISSING IN DOuDER GRA ii BALBOAV "C. Z.,"Feb". 'ii ;fji'.V Army headquarters announced to day that seven men aboard the bombing plane that crashed in the sea off Bruja Point near the Canal Zone boundary last night were missing. They were Lieut. Jack L. Schock, pilot, of New Ulm, Minn; Lieut. MacBartlet Stephenson, co pilot, of Lancaster, Pa.; Lieut. Reuben Wavne. navigator, of Loma, Colo.; Sergt. Elmo Sol-berg, Sol-berg, radio operator, of Rich Lamb Vallev. Mont.: Sergt. Arthur Zence, aerial engineer, of Brooklyn, Brook-lyn, N. Y.; Corp. Frank T. Wac- lawski, of Utica, N. x ., ana -vi Norman Cohen, of Rochester, N, Y. Kew Drafi Quota ' Fixed at 20 Lleo Mayor H. Arnold Rich, state selective service director, today announced quotas for Utah's 33 local boards for the March draft calling for 410 men. Provo board No. 22, which takes in Provo and the north part of Utah county, was assessed 29 men, to be inducted March 21. Board No. 23 at Spanish Fork, which takes in the south part of the county, was given a quota of 11 men to be inducted March 25. Men from' all the 38 boards of the state will be inducted at the Ness building in Salt Lake City, the" dates ranging from March 17 to March 28. From the Ness building they will be ordered to Fort Douglas reception center for classification and assignment to army training camps', pfC-H! iS July Fourth Celebration Group to Meet Thursday Annual meeting of the Provo July Fourth Celebration non-profit corporation will be Thursday at 7 p. m., in the city courtroom, announces Clayton Jenkins, secretary-treasurer. Purpose of the meeting is to elect five directors to replace members of the 15-man board whose terms expire, and to map preliminary plans for the 1941 celebration. LeRoy J. Olsen, first vice president, pres-ident, will preside in the absence of President H. Grant Ivins, who is engaged in post-graduate study in the east. Directors whose terms expire tlfis year are John .O. Beesley, Frank J. Earl, J. C. Moffitt, Frank T. Reynolds, and Bernus M. Bills. Holdover directors are Wyman Berg, K. E. Weight, Mr. Jenkins, G. W. McLennan. S. W. Russell, A. Sherman Christen-son, Christen-son, E. L. (Ernie) Hansen, A. C. HatCh, Mr. Tvins and Mr. Olsen. Mr. Weight and Mr. Reynolds are second and third vice presidents, presi-dents, respectively, of the corporation. corpor-ation. President Ivins, in a letter re BRITISH AID DILL FLAYED BY HEELER Debate Continues On Lease-Lend Bill In Senate WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (U.R) Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, Wheel-er, D., Mont., charged today the administration's British-aid British-aid bill would "strip us of our defense, invite the chief executive to plunge the country coun-try into . war, and create a dictatorship." . Millions of Americans, he said. challenge their senators to tell them "whether the forgotten man or 1932 is destined to be the un known soldier of 1942." Full of Poison Wheeler, leader of the opposi tion who successfully led the fight against the presidents supreme court reorganization measure in 1937, described the pending bill as "a legal and constitutional monstrosity, full of deadly fatal poison for the future of our country. "r find it is a statute authorizing author-izing the president to engage in armed intervention in the war now raging in Europe," he said. "Sugar-coat it as you will, it opens the door to war. It means that congress has abdicated . its constitutional power and duty with respect to war." His speech came after Sen. Francis T. Maloney, D., Conn., urged immediate passage of the riH-. . ... . " Administration leaaers predicted predict-ed passage by a two-to-one majority ma-jority late next week, but Sen. Gerald P. Nye, R.p N.-D., an opponent, op-ponent, said a final vote would be impossible then because of plans for extended debate on amendments. Wheeler said he spoke for millions mil-lions of American citizens who oppose war millions who "do not own newspapers or radio networks net-works or moving picture plants (Continued on Page Two) Ocnnion Sn IS fit Spanish For!; SPANISH FORK The American Ameri-can way of life is far superior to other types of government, said Samuel O. Bennion, Salt Lake City newsDaoer official and member of the council of seventy or me l. D. S. church in an address at the annual banquet and meeting of the Spanish Fork chamber of commerce Thursday night. Bishop L. F. Smith was toast-master. toast-master. Mayor John E. Booth introduced in-troduced the guest speaker. Remarks Re-marks were made by President D. P. Firmage. A stunt was presented pre-sented by Elisha Warner and William Maac. Outstanding musical and dramatic dra-matic numbers rounded out the program. STORY HOUR SET Miss Ruby Hansen will tell the stories at the weekly story hour at the miblic library. Saturday ' al 2 'clock il 13 announced. ceived . by Mr. Jenkins, declared that the celebration is a worthy accomplishment, and made recommendations rec-ommendations to the board of directors. He stated that the parade, beauty beau-ty contest, and stadium show should continue to be made the central aspects of the celebration. The beauty contest sTiould be county-wide and each city should conduct an individual contest to name its representatives some time in advance of July 4'. Horse racing was termed a "worthy venture" by Mr. Ivins, who said this phase of the celebration cele-bration should be continued with careful supervision of expenditures expendi-tures In an endeavor to make it self-supporting. The corporation last year took over the management of the boat races. This was not a financial success but can be made self-supporting, self-supporting, given good weather, Mr. Ivins said. He stated that it is difficult to find justification for continued support of the golf tourney by the corporation and urged careful consideration on this matter. Lower House Threatens 'Sit-Down Strike' On All Senate Measures House Members Bitterly Criticize Senate Leaders For Shelving: Maw's Master Bill On State Reorganization By DAVID DRYDEN SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 28 (U.R) The Utah house of representatives, angered by the senate's refusal to consider Gov. Herbert B. Maw's master reorganization bill, today threatened a "sit down strike" on all other legislation sent down from the upper chamber. Members said they either would refuse to act on supplemental supple-mental bills approved by the senate, or would "rin them to pieces. lney bitterly criticized senate leaders for rvit. Provo Petition Asks. Support of uars Pro Asking passage of Governor Maw's reorganization bill, H. B. 82, "without modification," a petition peti-tion containing names of some 1000 Utah county citizens this week was presented to the Utah senate. The bill has already passed pass-ed the house of representatives. Similar petitions are reportedly reported-ly being circulated in some of the other counties. Circulated in Utah county under un-der direction of Newell H. Baum, candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination last fall, and other loyal Maw supporters, sup-porters, the petition carries name3 of both "Republicans and Democrats. Demo-crats. The petition was presented to Senator Francis Lundell of Benjamin, Ben-jamin, chairman of the senate sifting: committee. CIO CALLS OFF STEEL STRIKE LACKAWANNA, N. Y., Feb. 28 W More than 3,000 cheering CIO workers today voted unanimously unani-mously to accept a three-point strike settlement proposal and return to their jobs at the Bethlehem Bethle-hem Steel corporation's Lackawanna Lacka-wanna plant.. Their vote ended a strike which began Wednesday night. Van A. Bittner, Steel Workers Organizing Committee regional director, told the workers "You have won one of labor's greatest victories in this country." The vote was taken after Bittner Bitt-ner announced from the platform in the union hall the Bethlehem Steel management had agreed "First Every man returns to his job with full seniority. "Second The company will sit at a conference table with the union in the immediate future and begin negotiations on our various grievances. "And third within 30 days a National Labor Relations Board election will be held and if we win it the company will begin bargaining bar-gaining with the SWOC as your agent." Schools to Vie For Attendance Honors Thursday Featuring a pageant, candle-lighting candle-lighting ceremonies, singing and dancing, the Provo P.-T.A. will present a Founders' Day program March 6, at 8 p. m., in the Provo high school auditorium. "Every school in Provo will be represented on the program, and the school having the highest percentage per-centage of parents present, according ac-cording to the school's population, popula-tion, will receive a' painting from the Provo council P.-T.A.," states Mrs. O. A. Watts, president of the Parent-Teachers' association. Invitations will be delivered through the schools, March 4. All parents will be requested to present the invitations at the door so that the school reDresent- ed will receive credit, according - . tn Mrs. watts. C.I.O. STARTS WALKOUT CHICAGO, Feb. 28 (UJ? Members Mem-bers of the farm equipment workers work-ers organizing committee C.I.O., began a walkout at the McCor-mick McCor-mick plant of the International Harvester Co., today and placed pickets at the plant gates. . - ting the reorganization bill to be shelved, and there were some indi- cations a permanent deadlock might develop. No Special Session At a press conference, Gov. Maw said he saw no reason for such a deadlock, but told newsmen news-men if it occurred he would not call a special session to deal with his program. Other sources said they would urge the governor to appeal directly direct-ly to the people for pressure on the senate to act on the master plan. One informant said .he would ask the governor to "stump the state," if necessary, to win action in the upper house. Meanwhile, the senate rushed with consideration of the supplemental supple-mental bills, apparently in the belief be-lief the master plan could still be handled before the session ended. A special vote in the upper chamber decided that all bills dealing deal-ing with reorganization of th state government should " have precedence over any other pending legislation in the senate. However, all was not agreement in the senate. For one thing, senators sen-ators differed on exactly how many supplemental bills must be considered in the senate to effect the reorganization. The senate yesterday decided to shelve at least temporarily Gov. Herbert B. Maw's master, houserapproved reorganization re-organization bill in favor of the single measures dealing with individual in-dividual phases of the program. Ellett's Motion Passed The senate started consideration of the program to speed the reorganization reor-ganization work when Byron Howard, D., Huntington, moved that all bills except those dealing with reorganization be stripped from the senate calendar. "We have been accused of sitting sit-ting around doing nothing," Howard How-ard told his colleagues," and I want to clear our record." Sen. Edward Watson, D., Salt Lake, 'objected to Howard's motion on the grounds that not enough individual reorganization bills had (Continued on Page Two) Qotary emfors " Uisit Hospital An educational tour of the modern mod-ern Utah Valley hospital was iaken by the Provo Rotary club today, following their regular luncheon which also was held at the hospital. The Rotarians were shown through the institution in two groups, one directed by Miss Mildred Mil-dred F. Walker, hospital superintendent, superin-tendent, and the other by Miss Mallie Mahaffey, assistant superintendent. su-perintendent. Rotary President Wyman Berg presided at the luncheon. Guests were L. C. Townsend, John O. Bessley, Ray Coffey and Burt Mann. Short talks were given by Mr. Berg, I. E. Brockbank, S. W. Russell, Clayton Jenkins and Mr. Beesley on the advantages offered central Utah by the hospital and of the modern equipment and methods of the institution. The hospital has a, staff of 38 doctors representing all sections of the hospital area. The institution institu-tion was made possible through a grant of over $200,000 by the Commonwealth Fund of "New York. Standards cf the hospital, it was pointed, are on a very liigh standard that gives the institution institu-tion a rating with the finest in the entire country. J ORCHESTRA PLAYER I I.- T - V .-.It .'WW '"'I' nk.v,-iii WESTBORO, Mass., Feb. 28 (U.P The bass viol player was killed and two other members of Herbie Kay's orchestra were injured in-jured slightly today when their station wagon crashed into the rear of a truck. Neil Shadoin, 22, of Chicago, died of a skull fracture. do-ch a Vichy Government Pat Against Demands Of Japanese By ILARRISON SALISBURY United Press Correspondent A new rumor that Bulgaria Bul-garia will sign up with the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis at Vienna Saturday stirred the Balkans today, while the British labored to build a new front against further Axis penetration in that troubled area. Bulgarian adherence to the AxU probably would bring final rupture rup-ture of the badly strained relations between Britain and Sofia, in view of London statements that severance sever-ance of diplomatic ties is near. War Developments Other war developments included: in-cluded: Failure of Vichy to reply by a reported midnight deadline to a Japanese ultimative demand foe settlement of the Indo-Chlna-Thailand dispute on terms giving a large slice of Indo-China to Thailand. Reports from Saigon of Japanese Japan-ese naval concentration and apparent ap-parent preparations for use of force to back up the Japanese demands. de-mands. Closing of U. S. consulates in Naples, scene of heavy Royal Air Force bombardments, and Palermo. Paler-mo. Sicily, where German dive-bombTr'uits dive-bombTr'uits are believed to be based. British withdrawal from the Italian Dodecanese Island of Castelrosso, 10 miles off the Turkish Turk-ish coast. The British landed lliere Tuesday and apparently got out after wrecking a Fascist seaplane sea-plane base. Reports from Budapest that large flights of Nazi bombing planes had been observed over the capital. About two weeks ago Budapest reported large flights of Nazi troop transport planes. British report that their forces are closing in on Keren in Italian Eritrea. motions of bringing military pres motions f bringing military pressure pres-sure to bear upn French Indo-(Continued Indo-(Continued on Page Two) VICHY OFFERS PEACE TERMS VICHY, France, Feb. 28 (U.R) The French government "in the interest of peace" has decided to reply to a second Japanese proposal pro-posal of terms for ending the border bor-der conflict between French Indo-China Indo-China and Thailand, it was. said tonight. The second Japanese peace plan, which was said to have been delivered de-livered in the past 24 hours after the French government had flatly rejected an earlier proposal, reportedly re-portedly contained terms considered consid-ered little more acceptable than the first plan. v- A communique, issued after a two-and-one half hour session of the council of ministers presided over by Marshal Henry Philippe Petain, said the "council has drafted draft-ed the government's position concerning con-cerning negotiations in Tokyo for solution of the Franco-Siamese conflict." AUNT HET By ROBERT QUTLLEN r rM Yr- U j S 'i -ar'.Y.''- "Brnggin about ancestors means they're more important impor-tant than you are, nd I'd lather have my family im-provm im-provm than gettin worse," r 1 V,V wli |