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Show 1 1 I The Weather FT All: Mostly clcwidy with showers show-ers west portion tonight, spreading; spread-ing; Into east portion Thursday; slightly warmer tonight, cooler Thursday. Max. temp., Tuesday 61 5lin. temp., Tuesday 27 mm iii7 tfctfi County By ratronizlag Home Store an J Business Iloase 11 S. kvxN Li V-T-J y.A..:.-!.-v:'r"A-.-,...v.v'.v. FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR, NO. 199 G UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LAKE PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1941 8Kvic PRICE FIVE CENTS TELEGRAPH NEWS wn n CHAT BY THE EDH03 j.) , (-! Ill J Lziu u -i V, - 4j LI L 1 t -j The tumult of the 1940 political poli-tical campaign has faded away, but little echoes keep coming to the attentive ear. For instance, the doctor who took care of Wendell Willkie's throat when that candidate's voice became husky last fall, now submits a little bill to the Republican National committee commit-tee for $13,000, which comes to $250 a "day for 52 days. I Lad Mr. Willkie won the election, we have no doubt this bill would have been paid with cheerful alacrity. But as it is, there has been some grumbling. In fact, from conversations with some of our more sternly isolationist friends, we gather that they now think one treatment of the Willkie throat would have been enough they talk as though they wish the doctor had just cut it, and let it go at that. Chairman Martin of the national committee is more sporting. He agrees that the bill should be considered a campaign expense, but Fie'd like to see it cut down a little, lit-tle, in some recognizable proportion pro-portion to the results obtained. ob-tained. Which still leaves room for considerable difference differ-ence of opinion. )Oo At Random You'll never find opportunity opportun-ity . knocking around with other knockers. . . . Every man starts life as a baby and the smart ones outgrow it. . . . Thirty feet of garden hose stolen from a lawn in Provo the other night," which, makes spring officially here. . . . Why doesn't someone sponsor an egg hunt for the youngsters' Easter fun? . . . You'll have better luck doing your best and expecting the worst, than doing your worst and expecting the best. oOo .He What are my chances witn you? She Two to one. There's you and me against my eon science. MERRY GO-ROUND & Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT 8. ALLEN Pressure To Replace Miss Perkins Grows As Result of Labor Bungling; Cabinet Meeting Panned Her, Steel-man Steel-man For Not Using Mediation Media-tion Board; LaGuardia May Again Be Asked To Take Portfolio; Biddle Alternative; Al-ternative; Pro - American Admiral Lais Followed Leader in Italian Ship Salxitage. WASHINGTON Inner circle clamor for replacement of Secretary Secre-tary of Labor Frances Perkins is an old story, but it's hotter now than ever before. Actually. Roosevelt did move last year to get a new labor secretary, sec-retary, offering the post of Mayor LaGuardia. But he declined, insisting in-sisting on the war department or nothing. Now, with labor a key problem, White House advisers are urging that the president renew the offer of-fer to LaGuardia and, appealing to 'his patriotism, refuse to take no for an answer. With his liberal record, long public experience, and dynamic ability, it is argued that LaGuardia is a natural for the labor la-bor portfolio Another high-calibered New Dealer proposed as alternative choice is Solicitor General Francis Fran-cis Biddle. Besides beir.g one of the aHest executives in the administration, ad-ministration, the ex-Philadelphia judge also has had extensive labor la-bor experience as chairman of the old national labor board. I FANNY PANNED ! There was some plain talking on the labor situation at last Friday's Fri-day's cabinet meeting, and it was Continued on Page 3, Sec. 2 REEL1EH ELAYED ill CIO To Have Important Impor-tant Statement This Afternoon ' WASHINGTON, April 8 U.R) President Philip Murray Mur-ray of the Congress of Industrial Indus-trial Organizations, after a conference with President Roosevelt, announced today that CIO United Automobile Workers in Detroit will have an important statement at "about 5 to G p. m." "Our people out there at Detroit De-troit will have something to say then," he said, without indicating whether it offered definite hope for settlement of the CIO-UAW walkout which has tied up operations opera-tions at the great Ford River Kouge plant. Bv 'UNITED PRESS Conciliators emerged from an after-midnight conference with officials of the Ford Motor company com-pany and the United Automobile Workers (CIO) without having reached an agreement. Gov. Murray D. Van Wagoner i still was optimistic about possi bility of ending the $154,000,000 strike before Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins certifies the dispute dis-pute to the defense mediation board. Federal Conciliator James F. Dewey called company and union representatives to a third joint conference. There was little real progress in negotiations for a new contract that would ' end ' a'work ' stoppage cf 418,000 United Mine Workers (CIO) in soft coal mines. Director John R. Steelman of the U. S. conciliation service said some Appalachian Ap-palachian operators had agreed to resume operations any time the federal government requested, but that he had recommended the proposal be set aside for the present pres-ent because there was no danger of a coal shortage "for a few more days." The soft coal miners stopped (Continued on Page Two) Eureka Lion Hen 610 Onion Leader SALT LAKE CITY, April 9 U.P A four-day convention of the Utah district,' International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Work-ers (CIO) union ended today with adoption of minor amendments to the union constitution and nomination nomi-nation of new officers. Nominated for district president Were Dan Edwards, Eureka, Morris Mor-ris Anderson. .Lark, and W. R. Gray, Bingham Election will be by secret ballot. Retiring president presi-dent is R. O. Bunting, who was ineligible for re-election after serving two terms. AG FORD STRIKE Provo's Oldest Resident Turns 98 Years Old Today WILLIAM RATCLIFFE Ill-Fated Pilot Pilot of the naval patrol bomber which crashed in the Atlantic ocean was Ensign G. N. Blackburn. Black-burn. Attempts were made today to raise the wreckage from the ocean off the coast of Virginia. Dedication of Oaplofoo Ghopel Slated April 27 MAPLETON The dedication of the new Mapleton ward chapel has been set to take place April 27, according to an announcement made Tuesday by Bishop Frank M. Jensen. The dedicatory exercises exer-cises will begin at 2 p. m. " "Preparations for 'the evehtwni be under the direction of a committee com-mittee composed of Bishop Jensen Jen-sen as the chairman and Dallas Holley, Freeman Bird, counselors to the bishop; Christen Sorenson, president of the Y. M. M. I. A.; Mrs. Marie Stone, president ot the Y. L. M. I. A; Mrs Sadie Whiting, president of the Relief society; Mrs Pearl Holley, president presi-dent of the Primary; Fa ye Jensen, Jen-sen, genealogy chairman; and Burton Tew, superintendent of the Sunday school. One of the presiding authorities of the L. D. S. church, will be the main speaker at the exercises, according ac-cording to Bishop Jensen. The chapel, the furnishing ot which was completed about the middle of March, was constructed construct-ed under the direction of Loren A. Nielsen, architect. . Worker Elilled in GoIIepso of Uall SALT LAKE CTTY, April 9 (C.Pt Eldon Walter Gardner, 30, Salt Lake City, was killed today when a wall collapsed on him as he was tearing down an old building build-ing to make room for an expanded expand-ed service station. Provo's oldest resident, William Ratcliffe, was receiving felicitations felicita-tions today at his home, 171 North Second East street, on the "occasion of his ninety-eighth birthday birth-day anniversary. Many of his old friends called during the day to extend congratulations and wishes for his continued good health. Mr. Ratcliffe whose age is surpassed sur-passed by very few in Utah, is in remarkable fine health, for one of such advanced years. He takes walks, aided only by a cane, about town, several times a week and is seen around the garden of the Herman Grimm residence where he makes his home, every day, usaully busy doing something towards to-wards beautifying the surround ings. Yesterday he spent some time digging dandelions .out of the lawn, which isn't bad for a 9S-year-old gentleman. M r 8. Grimm is a daughter. Contrary to usual reports In cases of persons who reach an advanced age, Mr. Ratcliffe, does not have any pet theories to explain ex-plain his years. It is true, however, how-ever, that he does not use. liquor or tobacco and maintains a regular regu-lar schedule of arising, eating exercise and sleeping. Judging from his present physical condition, condi-tion, there is no apparent reason (Continued on Page Two) BRITISH RELY Oil U. S. AID TO SURVIVE Churchill Says Battle Of Atlantic To Decide War By WALLACE CARROLL LONDON, April 9 (U.R) -Prime Minister Winston Churchill today warned that Adolf Hitler's mightiest war effort threatens to sink America's aid-to-Britain and may explode at any moment in an invasion of Britain, an attack on Turkey, and a thrust at Russian wheat granaries and Oil fields. .'-Whatever .'-Whatever the events in the Balkans, in Africa where herald that even Egypt may be threatened threat-ened by Nazi Panzer divisions or elsewhere, Churchill declared" the main theatre of war was the battle bat-tle of the Atlantic. .Must Equal 1918 Never had Churchill stated so emphatically and gravely that Britain's war effort depends upon full-scale American effort, effort he said, which in the shipping field, at least, must equal "that prodigy of output accomplished by the Americans in 1918." He expressed hope, also, that the aid of Eire'sfeea bases and airfields air-fields might ultimately be given Britain. "Everything," said Churchill, "turns on the battle of the Atlantic Atlan-tic which is proceeding with growing intensity on both sides." He said German submarines and surface raidera are ranging even further westward--- toward1 American shores, seeking to sink America's aid to Britain. He declared de-clared unless this menace is met and defeated "the life of Britain" will be threatened and "the purposes pur-poses ... to which the government govern-ment and people- of - the United States have devoted themselves, will be frustrated." -Need More Ships - ' Churchill said only the full re sources of America's shipbuilding industry would enable Britain to carry pn full acale warfare into 1942 in the face of the German (Continued on Page Two) (flUDSEf GIVES STRIKE VIEWS WASHINGTON, April 9 (U.E) The house military affairs committee com-mittee started questioning director direc-tor general William S. Knudsen of the office of production management manage-ment this afternoon regarding the defense labor situation. Knudsen told the committee that strikes over wages and hours could be handled successfully, that organizational strikes were "bad to deal with" and that jurisdictional jurisdic-tional labor disputes "were just plain stupid." "I do not think," Knudsen told the committee, "that labor wants to hinder the defense program. They just get mad sometimes. "Of course there are three kinds of strikes. Strikes for better bet-ter wages and working conditions, which I call legitimate strikes. A man who Is unsatisfied with his pay and working conditions has the right to say so. Then of course there is the organizational strike and there is the jurisdictional jurisdic-tional strike. "The first kind can be dealt with pretty successfully because almost always it is possible to get a compromise." com-promise." Forum to Hear Welfare Workers Everyone is invited to attend the community forum meeting Thursday at 8 p. m. at the Provo high school library at which Reya Thomas, case work suDervisdr. and Velma Mendenhall, child welfare worker, both of the Utah county welfare department, will be speakers, according to John Bown, forum secretary. Subject for discussion is, "Foster "Fos-ter Homes for Foster Children." At conclusion of the meeting, application ap-plication blanks will be given by the welfare department to people seeking placement of children and to people wishing to provide a foster home as a means of bringing bring-ing foster children and foster homes together, according to Mr. Bown, Army's Big Boomer t , , - -f . , . I s V Focal point of attention during Army Day activities at Ft. McArthur, Cal., was this huge 14-inch railway gun, mounted ard ready to speak in coastal defense. Sohools Mi Aid For Participation in Music Contest A request by principals of the Provo high and the Farrer and tiixon junior . hih .schoola for fin ancial assistance in sending some music students from these three schools to the national music festival fes-tival for Region 10 at Ogden May 8-10 was taken under advisement advise-ment by the board of education Tuesday night. Meantime, the number of students stu-dents likely to participate in the festival and the probable costs will be Investigated. The Region 10 festival is for bands, orchestras, choruses, and musical ensembles of qualifying schools of Idaho, Colorado, Utah, and parts of Nevada and Wyoming. Wyo-ming. The board of education decided to retain Fred L. Markham, Provo architect, to complete plans for extension of the present Provo high school shop building, provided provid-ed the project is approved by WPA. Cost of the project would be about $15,000. Purchase of the Dr. C. O. Jensen Jen-sen house on the Maeser school block for $4500, provided the owner own-er will wait until the beginning of the next fiscal year in July for his money, was voted. The case of the late Parlev Peterson, Pet-erson, custodian at the Farrer school, whose death is reported to have been indirectly caused by an I injury suiierea wnue pushing a heavy broom up the school ramps, was referred temporarily to the school board attorney, Maurice Harding. An industrial commission commis-sion hearing will be held on the matter some time in the future, it was reported. 10 Selectees to Leaue Thursday Comprising the fifth draft quota from Utah county district No. 22 with headquarters in Provo if. young men will leave Thursday at o.cso a. m. tor induction into the U. S. army, accordinsr to Mrs Zenith Johnson, clerk of the board. They are Frois Christian Ftois-land, Ftois-land, Benton William Snvder ano Louis Edward 'Franks of Provo, .Robert Boyd Baxter, William George Hoellein and Bernall Jor-gensen Jor-gensen of American Fork, Isaac Eldon Jacob of Pleasant Grove and Wayne Schow Powell, Cecil James Zimmerman and Clifto; Phillips Schow of Lehi. Coming Events Kiwanis, Thursday, 12:15 p.m., regular luncheon, Don Taylor of vocational guidance committee in charge. Inspection tour of Union Pacific plant to follow. Rotary, Friday, 12 noon, luncheon lunch-eon at Provo CCC Camp MA-1. east of golf course. Inspection tour of the Utah lake harbor and park project to follow. 20-30, Thursday, 8 p. m.. Hotel Roberts. Speaker, Dr. Garland H. Pace. Musical program slated. Ready to Boom in Pacific Coast Defense 1 v v ' " 7"". ' . . .; ' ; S- s i : ,, . i 4ur.... -r . t y f - T ILaGocG Wen' BY UNITED PRESS LONDON The first major clash between British and German land forces since Dunkirk appeared imminent im-minent tonight. - Following , Ger man occupation of Salonika, "key to two continents," it was disclosed dis-closed here that part of Britain's army of the Nile was in the hills northwest of Salonika, poised to take the shock of the next German Ger-man advance from the Aegean. LONDON The Exchange Telegraph Tele-graph agency reported today from Ankara, Turkey that a move by Soviet Russia- "of a surprising nature In connection with German aggression in the Balkans" was expected. BERLIN The German high command said today that six Brit ish generals, two general staff of ficers, and more than 12,000 men had been captured when German-Italian German-Italian forces took Mekili, Libya, south of Derna, on April 7. KOME The newsiaier La Tri-buna Tri-buna reported from Tirana today that German troops have reached Metovon, in northwest Greece only about 13 miles from the Albanian border. ROME The newspaper Gior-nale Gior-nale D'ltalia, said today that "Italian forces in Libya, aided by their German allies, yesterday arrived at Tobrunk." LONDON British counter-measures counter-measures against German submarine sub-marine activity are being increased in-creased with "correspondingly great success," the admiralty said today. New Members of General Board of Y.W.M.I.A. Named Miss Virginia Walker of Salt Lake City, a native of Pleasant Grove, is one of three new members mem-bers of the general board of the Young Women's Mutual Improvement Improve-ment association whose appointments appoint-ments were announced Tuesday by Lucy Grant Cannon, general president. presi-dent. Miss Walker is an instructor of physical education at the SouCh high school. She filled a mission in the Central States and is now active in the South Eighteenth ward M. I. A. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Walker of Lindon. Other new members are Erda Williams and Marjorie Ball, Doth of Salt Lake City. Mrs. Polly iiaray oi 3it uatce is returning to the board after an absence of several months. This Day. LICENSED TO MARRY Robert Collins Sumner. 22, Provo and, Doris Alder, 22, Provo. , , T - ' - f - ..' J British Army in Greece Ready .to Go Into fiction BY J. V. T. HL4SON United Press War Expert . ..German,-.capture. Salonika cut off Greek troops defending the Struma valley and Rupel pass, as well as those farther east, from the main Greek army in western Greece. Their hope of rescue would seem to depend on possibility the new German front from Jugoslavia Jugo-slavia through the Vardar valley val-ley to Salonika, may be broken if the British develop a successful offensive in that area. London reports that the British Brit-ish army in Greece has not yet gone into action explain the ease with which the Germans have moved into Greece. .The British line now seems to be in process of being formed west of Salonika and when it is completed the real conflict for mastery should begin. Need Unity of Command Why the British were not in prepared positions at beginning of the German declaration of war against Jugoslavia seems basically basical-ly due to lack of unity of command. com-mand. The Greek government ap parently did not want to flout Germany by direct use of British troops as long as. the Germans and Greeks were at peace. The British scarcely could override the (Continued on Page Two) nator Sheppard G? Texas Die; WASHINGTON, April 9 (arisen. (ari-sen. Morris W. Sheppard, D., Tex., the doan of congress and the "father of prohibition," died today of an intra-cranial hemorrhage hem-orrhage at Walter Reed hospital. He was G6 years old. Sheppard was stricken at his home last Friday, but the seriousness seri-ousness of his illness was not revealed re-vealed until yesterday. Sheppard was chairman of the senate military affairs committee commit-tee which has had a "neavy load of legislative work during the past year. Physicians said the senator had shown the effects of overwork and strain. Mrs. Sheppard and one of his three daughters were at the senator's sen-ator's bedside when death came. Sheppard had served continuously continu-ously in the senate for 23 years and prior to that he served 11 continuous years in the house. No other member of congress can match his 39 consecutive? years as a member either of the house or senate. Doors Appointed . .Torater.Doard SALT LAKE CITY, April 9 l'i; The Salt Lake City metropolitan metropoli-tan water district today selected W.' D. Beers, city engineer, as its representative on the board of directors of the Provo River Water Wa-ter Users' association, to succeed Leland H. Kimball, killed in an auto accident last week. -A?) SOUTH SERBIA CAPTURED BY PANZER Ut!lT Germans Enter Greece; Head-On Conflict With British By HARRISON SALISBURY United Press Correspondent German Panzer divisions today . knocked Jugoslavia half-way out of the Balkan war, captured Salonika, rammed ram-med into Greece for a head- on conflict with the British expeditionary corps and raced across Africa toward Egypt. A startling three-day blitzkrieg won the whole of south Serbia for Germany, isolating the main Jugoslav Jugo-slav armies in position where they mav be subject to piece-meal destruction. de-struction. To the south in Greece the German Ger-man success was equally sweeping but the main test between British and German forces had not yet developed. Control Macedonia The Nazi won control of Mace donia east of Salonika where they planted their warflag on the Aegean. Greek troops in Macedonia Mace-donia capitulated. Germans striking down the Vardar Var-dar valley across northern Greece and knifing to the Greek-Albanian corner rapidly were approaching the prepared positions where the British expeditionary corps was braced for full-scale encounter. Gravest danger to the British was possibility the Germans would turn the British-Greek flank by infiltrating the Greek road system sys-tem at- the- -northwest -tomer -of -the country, near Fiorina. ' Whether the British forces in Greece are in sufficient number to withstand the terrific hitting power displayed by the German army of the southeast was an unknown factor. The British continued con-tinued to display confidence and it is know that the force is liberally lib-erally equipped . with arms and mechanized trans. Threat In Africa The British were prepared for the loss of Salonika and Mace donia and had disposed their forc es wun tnat prospect in view. It was doubted, however, they expected ex-pected the Germans to smash (Continued on Page Two) England to Got Coast Guard Shin WASHINGTON. April 9 (U.rv- President Roosevelt has authorized author-ized the release of 10 coast guard cutters to the British navy. White House Secretary Stephen T. Early announced today. Early, refusing to release the names of the coast guard cutters which will be transferred, said however, that they are all gooa ships and were constructed between be-tween the years 1928 and 1932. The transfer, designed fc strengthen Britain's naval arm ir, the battle of the Atlantic ae-ains the German submarine threat, was ordered under the lend-lease law. Early said. Actual transfer of the vessels to the British. Early said he assumed, as-sumed, would follow lines similar to the transfer of 50 overage de stroycrs last year. Those destroyers destroy-ers were sailed to Halifax. Nova Scotia, by American crews, where the stars and stripes was hauled down, the British flag raised and English crews placed aboard. i AUNT HET By ROBERT QUILLEN "Emily never catches on, but a woman that likes to cross her husband Is the easiest kind to handle. Whatever Joe want done, he just pretends to want the opposite." |