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Show Y " The Weather UTAH Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and Wednesday, with showers In valleys and snow In mountains Wednesday and In north and west portions tonight; cooler Wednesday. Maximum Temp. Monday .... &) Minimum Temp. 3Ionday .... S6 By Patronizing Home Stores and Baslnes Houses, FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR, NO. 203 cth ox. PPwOVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1941 OOMPI.ETK UNITED PRESS TEI.EiiliAPIl NEWS SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS Obi Wy ! )JM 1 ill DESK CHAT BY T32S EIITCa "Look both ways before you cross!" Parents and teachers of youngsters should drill these words again and again into their consciousness until they realize the danger of crossing highways heavily traveled by motor vehicle traffic. Two recent deaths in Utah, one of a 10-y ear-old Provo girl and the other a six-year-old Davi3 county boy, illustrate illus-trate the necessity of training train-ing the children in stopping and looking both- ways, up and down the highway, before attempting a crossing. Circumstances surrounding both fatalities are similar. In both cases the youngsters stopped at the edge of the traffic lane and apparently; kept their eyes on one particular par-ticular vehicle coming towards to-wards them from one direction. direc-tion. Both youngsters failed to be aware of another vehicle bearing down on the scene from the opposite direction. In both cases the children stepped directly into the path of the oncoming cars which they had failed to look for in their hurry to get across. According to the officers' reports, re-ports, the youngsters stepped into the traffic lane so suddenly sud-denly that the drivers had no chance whatever to avcd striking them. Let's impress on their minds from the time they are old enough to walk to look both ways, always, before crossing ! oOo Sense, and Nonsense A dancing master says thai jazz is still in its infancy. It pught to be spanked. . . . "It All comes back to me now," sang the skunk as the wind changed. . . . When money goes to a man's head it touches his soft spot. . . . You'll soon be hearing about another boy wonder "How long before school is out?" MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affair Ey D&EW PEARSON and EO BERT S. ALLEN Forty Norse Ships Tied Up in French Africa as Owners Own-ers Seek U- S. Purchase; Can't Get British Cash for Them, So Democratic Lawyers Law-yers Maneuver Here; Tom Corcoran Wrangles With Sol Rosenblatt Over Citing FDR's "Orders"; Wall St. Lobbies to Bar Competitive Bidding on Utility Securities. Securi-ties. WASHINGTON Most people don't know it, but with the democratic demo-cratic world hungry for ships, about 40 Norwegian vessels are in French African ports with the Britisfh unable to put their hands on them. Around this revolves a highly interesting- story, which involves a fight between the President's famous ex-braintruster, Tom Corcoran, Cor-coran, and Sol Rosenblatt, counsel coun-sel of the Democratic national committee. Both Corcoran and Rosenblatt, now private attorneys, attor-neys, have been trying- to pry the ships loose, but got into a lawyer's row while doing so. The British haven't been able to get these vitally important ships because the Norwegians don't want to give them up. Norwegian Nor-wegian shippers point out that most of their ships already are under the Union Jack, that they aren't getting paid In ready cash, and that more Norwegian seamen now work for the British than are sailors in the British merchant mer-chant marine. Therefore, the Norwegians want to sell these vessels to the United States for operation in Western Hemisphere waters, and their attorney, at-torney, Harold Deming, has been working to this end with no success. suc-cess. DEMOCRAT VS. DEMOCRAT So Sol Rosenblatt was brought into the picture by Thomas Ol-sen Ol-sen of New York, a member of (Continued on Page Eight) 170 DEATHS RECORDED El Ogden M a n, Syracuse Boy Meet Death In Accidents SALT LAKE CITY, April 15 (U.R) Two more deaths that of an Ogden man in a Millard county accident, and of a Syracuse boy in a Davis county mishap today raised Utah's 1941 traffic tolLto 40, the same as a year ago. The Ogden victim was Warner Arthur, 53. He was killed when his car, evidently traveling fast, failed to make a curve three miles north of Cove Fort and overturned. His wife, accompanying him on a vacation trip to California, suffered suf-fered only minor bruises. Gordan Beazer, six, was fatally injured when he stepped in front of a car on the highway a mile east of Syracuse, as he was at tempting to board a school bus The driver of the car, Neil Gailey, 17, Syracuse, was exonerated. The boy was evidently keeping his eyes on a car coming along the high way, before crossing, and failed to look in the opposite direction. stepping directly in front of the Gauey car. IDAHO .FALLS. Idaho, April 15 (f.Pi Idaho's 1941 traffic fatality fa-tality toll rose to 34 today with the death of Mary Janet Neild, 6, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Neild. The child died of skull injuries suffered when struck by a truck as she ran across the highway, officers reported. Arthur L. Nelson, Nel-son, driver of the truck, was not held. VilEELER COi.lES AKE SALT LAKE CITY, April 15 LU?) Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, D., Mont., leader of congressional isolationist forces, will arrive here at noon tomorrow for a public address he will make here tomorrow to-morrow night, It was announced today by Earl C. Jeffrey, Chicago, national director of state organ izations for the America First committee. Wheeler will be guest at a luncheon, presented by the Utah committee, and will make an eve ning radio address before the public meeting, Jeffrey said. Senator Wheeler will speak at a public meeting Wednesday at 8 p. m., at Newhouse hotel. Prior to this he will deliver an address over KSL from 6:15 to 6:30 p. m. Drunken Riding Newest Offense NEW YORK, April 15 (U.R) Charged with riding a horse while intoxicated, pretty Mary Golden, 27, who aUeged-ly aUeged-ly galloped through Central park hanging half out of the 8 ad tile, today received a suspended sus-pended sentence. Court attaches could recall no other case of the kind. -- UTAH TRAFFIC TO SAL! Concert Association Membership Drive On Members who participated in the unexcelled arts course presented by the University-Community Concert association in the Provo tabernacle, ar urged to renew their membership member-ship this week, while the annual drive is on. Av large waiting list, carried sician Slated rsi i i I As Forum Speaker Dr. J. J. Weight of Provo will be speaker 'at the community forum meeting Thursday at 8 p. m., at the Provo high library. The program is being co-sponsorel by the Federated Women's Clubs of Provo. Subject for discussion is the control of cancer. Dr. Weight's special studies have made him very well qualified to speak on the topic, according to John Bown, forum secretary. The public is invited. Coming Events American Legion, Provo Post No. 13, Wednesday, 8 p. m., Women's Wo-men's clubhouse. Speaker, Don Mack Dalton, American Fork attorney, at-torney, who will speak on African experiences. You Asked for It- Herald readers have been demanding a serial that in unusual, different. Here's our answer "LOVE POWER" POW-ER" by Orem Arnold, now running. Here are thrills of modern science atomic power released re-leased in destructive fury a story that goes ahead of the headlines to give you a glimpse into the future. Here's romance) a Jealous, brilliant woman matching her scientific genius against the love of a beautiful girt. Here's excltemen t a mountain explodes a midnight mid-night train robbery a girl's parachute jump from a storm-lashed airplane. You'll find all this, and more, too. In The Herald's new serial, "Love Power." Parking ProLIom Comes Up Colore ity Commission What to do about the parking problem ? This inevitable question was before be-fore the city commission once more today, but the city dads indicated they'd postpone getting: Involved in the matter until they've completed the job of putting the garbage removal system sys-tem in operation. However, Mayor Mark Anderson Ander-son did repeat his contention that the only way to solve the parking congestion is installation of parking park-ing meters. Commissioner J. P. McGuire indicated he'd be ready to consider substituting the meters for the present two-hour parking law when the garbage matter is settled, and Commissioner Mau rice Hardingr said: "I'm in favor of giving parking meters thorough consideration." Mayor Anderson last year introduced intro-duced an ordinance advocating parking meter installation, but it was voted down at that time by Commissioner McGuire and the late Commissioner Jesse Haws. Chief of Police Guy F. Chris- tensen contends it -would take, a vastly-increased police force to properly enforce tre two-hour parking law, and since October, the department has ceased making mak-ing arrests for overtime parking violations, assertedly because of lack of co-operation of local business busi-ness interests in making the law accomplish it$ purpose. Meanwhile, continual reports are being received that motorists, especially those from out-of-town, are unable to find parking spaces when they want them, according to the mayor. Something must be done about the matter, and probably will soon, he said. 7uo Missing in Privata Plana DENVER, April 15 TJ? The Continental Air Lines announced today that C. A. L. and "five or six army planes" from the air corps technical school at Lowry Field, Denver, are searching for two men missing with a four-place four-place cabin plane between Denver and Parco, Wyo. The plane, piloted by Stanley Jammelier, 30, a C. A. L. co-pilot. with Charles Owens, 48, Denver contractor, as passenger, has been missing since 8:54 a. m., yesterday. yester-day. over since the beginning of the season, will be given memberships at the end of the week when the present membership drive closes. When the maximum number is signed up the membership list will be closed, according to Mrs. Paul D. Vincent, secretary-treasurer. The limit is approximately 700 members. A large number of members have already renewed their memberships, mem-berships, it was announced at the annual dinner-meeting held Monday Mon-day night at the Roberts hotel. The Provo concert course is regarded re-garded as one of the richest offered of-fered anywhere in the country. This season there were 28 numbers num-bers on the course, of which three are still to come, two of them this week, Sairo Biro, young Hungarian Hungar-ian woman pianist, Wednesday night, and Hilde Reggiani, coloratura colora-tura soprano, to follow Thursday night. A feature of this concert will be the appearance of Guisep-pe Guisep-pe Bamboschek, noted composer and for 17 years secretary of the Metropolitan Opera company. The announcement of next sea-l sea-l Continued on Page Three) MEXICO CITY ROCKED EARTIIQUAI Fire Breaks Out, Buildings Build-ings Topple As Quakes Come MEXICO CITY, April 15 (U.R) A severe earthquake hit Mexico City this afternoon, after-noon, toppling buildings, in terrupt ing communications and causing at least one large fire. Residents were panic-stricken panic-stricken by the earth shocks. Cornices crashed from buildings in the central part of the city. endangering the lives of hundreds who had dashed from their offices into the open streets for safety.; A building on Calle Santa Ma ria Redonda, near the Follies Bsr-gere, Bsr-gere, caught fire and a huge col umn of smoke rose over the down town section. 4 Many residents left their automobiles auto-mobiles in streets and highways and ran for open parts of the city to escape the debris from crack ing- walls and roofs. At the head of the Paseo Re-f Re-f orma, pieces of stone facing fell from a new skyscraper. Bricks and stonework of the new Panl building under construction across from the Hotel Regis crashed down into the street. As the United Press correspond ent watched from his offices in the heart of the city, he saw cornices cor-nices shaken from a 17-story fsky-scraner fsky-scraner diagonally across the plaza. Hopkins Plsoed In Command of Lend-lease Plan WASHINGTON, Apriri5 I.P President Roosevelt today formally formal-ly placed his . right-hand man, Harry L. Hopkins, in command of the lend-lease program of aid to democracies. In a letter to Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Mr. Roosevelt terminated the liaison committee established Dec. 6, 1939, to coordinate foreign military purchases with America's own defense program. Simultaneously, he designated Hopkins to supervise purchases "by all countries in the lend-lea&e area." The letter, which for the first time gave Hopkins official status in the war aid program, was not explicit in outlining the powers bestowed upon him. "Purchasing operations by all countries in the lend-lease area will be supervised by Harry Hop kins, and such operations by all ether countries which must necessarily neces-sarily involve consideration of foreign policy will be processed by the department of state," the president's letter said. Burns Fatal to Salt Lake Man SALT LAKE CITY, April 15 (U.R) Burns suffered three weeks ago when gasoline he was using to clean' his trousers ignited last night proved fatal to Fred Heck, 56-year-old nightwatchman of a Salt Lake City iron works. Today's Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis 001 200 11 Cincinnati 020 000 00 Warneke and Mancuso; Derringer Derrin-ger and Lombard!. New York 000 02 Brooklyn 011 20 Schumacher and Danning; Wyatt and Owen. Boston 000 00 Philadelphia . . . 002 03 Errickson and Berres; Blanton and Livingston. Pittsburgh 00 Chicago 00 Klinger and Lopez; Passeau and McCullough. AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit at . St. Louis, postponed, rain. Philadelphia . . . 000 00 New York 000 00 Dean and Hayes: Ruffing: and Dickey. Washington 010 20 Boston 010 20 Hudson and Ferrell; Wilson and Pytlak. Chicago 200 00 Cleveland 000 11 Deitrich and Tresh; Feller and Hemsley. BY rzr rr- n c a n yN n n Victims of Balkan i 1 Creek prisoners, most of them wounded and bandaged, shown as Germans removed them from scene of fighting "somewhere ia. the Balkans," according to caption approved by Gemma censor for this picture . radioed from Berlin to New York. Four Men Slain As Coal Strike Leads To Pitched Battle 400,000 Coal Miners Await Results of Nego- tiations by Operators and Union Leaders; ; Mediation Board Averts Walkouts . By UNITED PRESS Authorities reported four men two mine officials, a deputy sheriff and a miner were killed in a gun battle Tuesday Tues-day along the Kentucky-Tennessee border south of Middles-boro, Middles-boro, Ky., when ClO-United Mine Workers attempted to or- iganize laborers at the Fork been operating while most mines m 12 states were shut down. The Fork Ridge mine was not under union contract, Kentucky Ken-tucky officers said -Nine Killed Icon Opposed io Legislation to Ouflaiv Strikes WASHINGTON. April 15 U.n Secretary of Navy Frank Knox today opposed legislation "denying "deny-ing the right of men to strike" and declared that national unity in rearmament is necessary because be-cause "we are now in the midst of the decisive period of this present pres-ent world war." Knox appeared before a house naval affairs committee 'hearing on a ill by Chairman Carl O. Vinson, X-. Ga., for compulsory mediation of labor disputes in industries engaged in naval contracts. con-tracts. Vinson, appearing as first witness, said that mediation machinery ma-chinery set up by President Roosevelt Roose-velt was defective. WASHINGTON, April 15 (U.P) Donald M. Nelson, purchasing chief of the office of production management, today opposed anti-strike anti-strike legislation on grounds that public opinion would deal with the defense strikes effectively. Nelson testified before the house military affairs committee. Nelson reported satisfactory progress in rearmament and said that while he thought there should be an adjustment period in labor disputes, he could not say whether this should be provided for "by contract, by compulsory legislation, legisla-tion, or by what means." TJiis Day. BORN Girl, to Dil worth and Elda Draper Terry. Boy, to Leonard and Farris Swapp' Jolley, Saturday, Cottage Grove, Ore. LICENSED TO MARRY Wallace Krit Petty. 26, Delta, and Adaline Beckstead, 20, Delta. Grant Watkins Baker, 25, Magna, Mag-na, and Rachel Jackson. 20. Provo. Jack Bona, 20, Spanish Fork, and Rosie Bleggi, 22, Mapleton. P fo) P3 Blitzkrieg; Greeks Fall Captors to Nazis 3 . v - ' f, 1 1 v i Ridge, Tenn., mine, which had Today's fighting brought to nine the number of men killed in fighting, while coal operators and miners' union head negotiated a new wage contract at New York. Five were killed in Harlan county rioting April 1 and 2. The violence came while negotiators, nego-tiators, prompted by new signs of government interest, were speeding speed-ing efforts to open the mines. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins told a contract meeting of northern coal operators and the lpnited Mine Workers that the erovernment wants mines reopened to avoid a possible fuel shortage hampering the rearmament program. pro-gram. All but a handful of mines in 12 states were idle as 400.000 miners awaited results of meetings meet-ings at New York on their demands de-mands for a $l-a-day wage increase in-crease and paid vacations. Some Pittsburgh coke ovens shut down from a lack of fuel. Most major industrial areas, however, reported re-ported sufficient coal for at least a month's operations. Meanwhile, action of the de fense mediation board was de creasing the number of strikesxat plants holding defense contracts. The board announced settlement, pending union ratification, of (Continued on Page Three) -S- "The Dirt Sleuth" Begins . Inspection Tour of City By the Dirt Sleuth As I cruised around the city today, to-day, it was gratifying to note the hundreds of homes under the process pro-cess of spring cleaning. Countless sacks, buckets, tubs, barrels were filled with rubbish, garbage and other trash, setting out by the curb waiting to be hauled away. Old and young alike could be seen scratching the lawn, raking up leaves and trash. Other interested inter-ested people were stirring the plot of ground around the flower bed or vegetable garden. There were a few exceptions, however, to the rule of clean-up and paint-up. On the corner northwest near the railroad track and the millrace at Second West and Third North is a large lot that may be improved by cleaning n7 MI -r 1 t V X -- BY UNITED PRESS LONDON The admiralty reported re-ported tonight that the submarine Tigris, 1,090 tons, had sunk an armed, heavily- - laden tanker of about lO.OOO tons which was en route to a port in occupied France. :o: BERLIN The official German news agency DNB said today that during the last week four British destroyers have been' put out of action by German bombers. :o: LONDON The daring raid on a small Norwegian town Saturday by a Norwegian naval unit was carried out by one of the four America over-age destroyers Britain Brit-ain had turned, over to the Norwegian Nor-wegian government, it was learned learn-ed tonight. ' MOSCOW Russia and Japan now enter a new phase in their relations after many years of hostility "supposed and fanned" at times by various outside powers, pow-ers, Izvestia, the government newspaper organ said today in an editorial on the Russo-Japanese neutrality pact. :o: LONDON The British cruiser Bonaventure, 5,450 tons, has been torpedoed and sunk while escorting escort-ing a convoy, the admiralty said today. :o: SHANGHAI, (Wednesday) Japanese gendarmes raided a Chinese Chi-nese home in the French concession conces-sion today and seized a radio transmitter believed to be the Chung- King government's main secret station in Shanghai. The transmitter was camouflaged as a bed. BERLIN Reports of negotiations negotia-tions for a German-Turkish non- aggression or friendship pact cir culated here today but authorized German quarters refused to confirm con-firm them. It was said that authorized auth-orized quarters had no comment regarding the present state of German-Turkish relations. up the few weed3, re-arranging the uitlity poles and wire spools. Just in back of a barn and near the southeast corner of the same lot is a pile of dead tree limbs which later on in the summer may be a fire hazard. Between two well - groomed buildings and lots on University Avenue on the left side of the road near the northeast' corner of Fourth North i3 a lot which needs some attention. I don't know whether it is just the unusual, but there is another northeast corner, a vacant lot located at Fifth North and Fourth East which needs someone's interested inter-ested hand to fix it up. An hour or two would be all that would be necessary to put it in shape. I'll be looking at YOUR lot tomorrow. to-morrow. , THE DIRT SLEUTH. CASUALTIES SUSTAINED BY GERMANS Evacuation Of British From Geece Denied In London NEW YORK, April 15 (U.R) The Athens radio today reported re-ported the situation on the Greek front 1 satisfactory." German armed forces crumpled the first allied defense de-fense line in Greece today. The Nazis blasted British, and Greek troops back toward to-ward the foot of Mount Olympus and sent squadron after squadron of airplanas over the Athens area to bomb transports in the Port of Piraeus. Two of Adolf Hitler's mechanized mechan-ized columns, paced by veteran SS troops, stabbed with lightning speed into each end of the first defense line running across northern north-ern Greece, sliced through British motorized columns south of Phlorina. and north of Mcjnt Olympus, and cut a huge wedge extending 60 miles from the Jugoslav Jugo-slav border to the Aliakmon river, near Servia, in Greece. Consolidate Force?) . As the British and Greeks sought to consolidate with their second line of defense, the German Ger-man columns swiftly began cutting cut-ting -up the -area they had encircled en-circled and reported the capture of both Kozane, an important junction junc-tion which the British had used as an advance base, and Ptole-mais. Ptole-mais. Both British and Greek sources admitted the retirement of the main line forces, but they said; heavy casualties had been inflicted in-flicted on the Germans. Athens radio repeatedly reported that the situation was favorable and that contrary to Nazi charg- . es that the British were seeking to flee Greece by sea more and more British troops were moving into position. There were reports in Berlin that the Jugoslavs were asking for an armistice and soon might end their scattered mountain fighting against the Germans. To Vight On However, at Vichy, France, the Jugoslav government, in a declaration promising to fight on despite tremendous odds, charged Germany attacked it because it would not betray both Greece and Bulgaria, an Axis satellite. Its declaration, made available by the Jugoslav legation here, asserted as-serted it had been promised Salonika Sa-lonika for co-operating in a German Ger-man attack on Greece through, Bulgaria and, in addition, "the whole of Bulgaria for eventual treason against the independence of the Balkan states." "Jugoslavia, which is fighting for its honor and independence against unjustified aggression, will by her heroic resistance once again astonish the world as it did in 1914 and 1918, the declaration de-claration ended. German and Italian propaganda (Continued on i age Three) Prouo Students To Lend Mm Gleon-Op Driu Impetus will be given the Provo city clean-up campaign Wednesday Wednes-day when students of city schools will be dismissed an hour earlier than usual to participate in cleanup clean-up activities. To facilitate' the early dismissal, the students will go to school an hour earlier in the morning. , John Krier and C. E. Madsen. campaign chairmen for the junior chamber and Provo city, respectively, respec-tively, again urged that everyone cooperate to clean up the city as a means of beautification and sanitation. Mr. Madsen reported that trucks and crews working for the city continued today the task of hauling away garbage placed in containers at the curb t-y residents. resi-dents. The hauling will be complete.! com-plete.! Thursday, he said. Although the rubbish-hauling by the city stops Thursday, the Jay-cees Jay-cees plan to continue their campaign cam-paign for beautifying the city through painting, planting, fixing, up, and cleaning-up, Mr. Krier states. |