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Show 7Nf tFv O'fi 111 111 ' O f The Weather IT All: rartly cloudy tonight and Saturday with scattered afternoon and evening showers or thunderstorms; thunder-storms; little change In temperature. tempera-ture. Maximum temp., Thursday . . 70 Minimum temp., Thursday . . 34 ? ai County By rarronltlnj Home Stores and Eustaces Houses FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR, NO. 211 UTAH'S ONLY PAII.T HOL'TH OF SALT LAKE PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1941 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEiiRATH NEWS SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS ildEBK 7Y7n apn nnnn JWuuuULbei) n hi WW A m n in fir GHAT ! I Jr 1 i There are many phases of all-out defense beyond the purely military steps needed. Today's wars are wars against civilian as well as sol dier, and the civilian must be no less prepared. In Utah preliminary plans for home defense units have been taken over in some case3 by the American Legion. Establishments Es-tablishments of a central civilian defense agency to coordinate co-ordinate all such efforts is expected daily at Washington. Washing-ton. Such measures as it proposes will deserve cooperation, co-operation, for no country is prepared to defend itself today to-day which has only a military establishment. The United States has been studying the lessons of Europehow Eu-ropehow London, ill-prepared for defense, was the more ready to knuckle under at Munich: how Rotterdam and Belgrade paid dearly for their lack of civilian protection protec-tion measures. oOo Heard in Passing The only person we know of who finds it pavs to look down in the mouth is our dentist. . . . People who travel along on .i bluff are riding for a fall. . . . The only sensible sensi-ble time to go around blowing your- own horn is when it's on your car. . . . With catching catch-ing cold season over, it's going go-ing to be harder than ever to pronounce the names of war-torn war-torn towns. . . . With two women on the government payroll to every three men, Washington,-D. C, Is a woman's wom-an's town, or is it? . . Trouble Is, most of the men are married mar-ried and out - of circulation, while most of the women are single and looking for a date. oOo Today's Quote "The failure fail-ure of medical science to sterilize ster-ilize the wife of one Alois Schicklegruber (Adolf Hitler's Hit-ler's mother) was the greatest great-est human catastrophe of the past century." Prof. Ernest A. Hooten, Harvard university univer-sity -anthropologist, speaking to the American College of Physicians convention. MERRY GO-ROUND A. Daily Picture of What's 'Going On in National Affairs Cy DREW PIE ARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN U. S. in Same Military Hole As England With Far-flung Defense Pledges; British Strategy Was Right But They Couldn't Fulfill All Commitments; We Must Range Forces From Philippines Philip-pines To Greenland, Alaska Alas-ka to Brazil; Experts Foresee Fore-see Nazi Attack on Panama Canal if We Lose British Fleet. t t (Editor's Note This In the seVond of two article on the military Munition of the United States as affected by events In Europe.) WASHINGTON It Is no exaggeration exag-geration to say that behind the scenes in the Cabinet, also inside the national defense commission and among: the big- industrialists now advising: the government, the war picture appears gloomier than ever. This gloom not only clings to the British situation, but also to the American. Ever since the fall of Salonika, it has sunk home that British and American defenses have an amazing amaz-ing similarity. This may hot be apparent on the surface, but here is how it looks to military experts now examining every detail of British moves and reverses. In the first place, Great Britain, a peaceful nation, started very late to bolster her national defense. de-fense. The United States started even later. For years Britain sincerely sin-cerely supported the efforts of Stimson, Hughes and Coolidge to limit both armies and navies. Second, when the British arms program did get started, it tried to keep within the limits of the existing system fair wages for labor, fair dividends for capital, (Continued on Page Three) RELAY MEET OPENS TODAY inDILi;,, Girls Posture Parade Highlight Of First Day's Events With warm, sunny weather providing a picturesque setting set-ting in historic "Y" stadium, the west s most brilliant out-d out-d o o r spectacle Brigham Young university's thirty-first thirty-first annual Invitation Meet and Relay Carnival began today in impressive fashion. The carnival and fiesta spirit which was Provo's today as youthful youth-ful competitors from five states opened the two-day carnival, will reach its peak Saturday afternoon after-noon with climatic events and the staging of the stirring senior high school glrLa' posture parade, which begins at 1:30 p. m. Parade Is Highlight Awe-insprlng in its beauty, the junior high school girls' posture parade highlighted Friday's events. Trim clad, alert girl3 marched in perfect cadence before be-fore upwards of 4000 spectators this afternoon to start the pageant pag-eant with a display of youthful beauty that can be matched by no event In the intermountain country. Tennis and dancing competition began activities this morning at 9 a. m. with even more participants partici-pants than last year competing for honors in the net meet. Posture Pos-ture parade started afternoon events, which also included Junior high boys and Junior high and senior high girls' track and iield events. . Successful Opening With all its athletic splendor, color and drama, the opening day was one of the most successful ever held and presaged an even more spectacular day. Six thousand fans are expected to take over "Y" stadium Saturday Satur-day afternoon for the eye-filling posture parade and grand entry march, for thrilling track and field competition, for the exhibition exhibi-tion performances of five great (Continued on Page Four) Posture Parade Squads Gompsto For High Dating Farrer of Provo and Lincoln of Orem, won triple-A rating in me junior nign scnooi gins' posture pos-ture parade which ushered in the afternoon events of the colorful Young University Invitation Meet and Relay Carnival today. Eleven junior high schools participated par-ticipated in the spectacular event, witnessed by some 4000 awe-m-spircd fans. The weather was splendid for the parade, although heavy clouds portended a possible pos-sible storm later in the day. It was the eighth consecutive year that the Farrer parade won top rating, and the fourth straight year for Lincoln. Farrer Far-rer is coached ty Audrey Ras-mussen Ras-mussen and Lincoln by Jean Webb. Receiving double-A rating were American Fork, Lchl and Dixon of Provo. North Summit, Draper, Tintic, Bingham, Wasatch and Pleasant Grove were given a single-A rating. Judges Mrs. George S. Ballif, Clarence H. Harmon, R. H. Smith and Sergeant James W. Iverson declared that all of the participating par-ticipating squads were outstanding outstand-ing and that the squads in general gen-eral showed Improvement overi previous years. Five Brigham Young university universi-ty coeds dressed in white led the parade, carrying the American flag, posture parade banners, and BYU flags. The girls circled the Y stadium sta-dium track, marched on the greensward, then came to attention atten-tion as Old Glory was hoisted on the flagpole. The BYU band then sounded the inspiring strains of The Star Spangled Banner."' CHURCHILL TO SPEAK SUNDAY LONDON, April 25 (U.P Prime Minister Winston Churchill will broadcast a speech at 9 p. m., (3 p. m. EST) Suncfay. It was assumed that Churchill would review the war in Greece and the Mediterranean generally and possibly reply to critics of the British campaign in Greece. 8 Remember Jafsie? (NEA Telephoto) When Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, left, addressed an America Fir.-t Committee and 28,000 listeners in New York, he was congratulated ty Dr. John F. Condon, right, remembered as "Jafsie" for his part in the "Lindbergh kidnaping case. Lindbergh addressed a plea to America lo remain aloof from the coxJiict U; Europe. General Looms at . By UNITED PRESS 1 Last minute efforts to avert a General Motors strike involving in-volving 135,000 workers reached an apparent deadliek today threatening $750,000,000 worth, of defense contracts. ."' Elsewehre the nation's preparedness program faced a paralyzing fuel shortage as a work stoppage by 400,000 soft coal miners dragged into its 25th day. A general walkout loomed at Detroit after negotiators admit ted a stalemate on two paramount issues: A 10-cent wage increase and a closed shop in General Mo tors' bl plants. Expected Any Timv Charles E. Wilson, president of the corporation, told newsmen he "wouldn't be surprised if there is a blowoff anytime." Oficials of the United Automobile Workers union (CIO) said strike votes authorizing "Immediate" action had been completed last night. Federal Mediator James F, Dewey reported "a lot of progress" prog-ress" after conferences, however, and prepared to resume negotia tions today. - " Hopes for immediate settle ment of the soft coal dispute hinged on a three-way conference called by the National Defense Mediation Board at Washington. William H. Davis, acting chair man of the board, summoned northern and southen operators, and John L. Lewis, president of the (United Mine Workers union (CIO), to attend. Secretary of Labor Perkins certified the dispute dis-pute to the board early yesterday. Essentially, the issue to be solved was the southern operators refusal to give up a favorable wage differential. Without the differential, they claim, higher freight rates make it impossible for them to compete with northern north-ern operators. Reports to President Roosevelt said coal shortages already had forced eight major blast furnaces to shut down, and that five to 10 more would close tomorrow, cut- ing steel ingot production by 1,000,000 tons monthly. Twenty-four other labor disputes dis-putes clogged defense production today as the house of representatives representa-tives rules committee announced it would vote Tuesday on whether to report the Vinson compulsory mediation bill to the house floor. High Priests to See Paintings A visit to the Springville art gallery under direction of Prof. B. F. Larsen, chairman of the miscellaneous committee, will feature a cultural outing slated tonight at 7:30 by the Utah stake high priests. All high priests and their wives as well as widows of high priests are invited to meet at the gallery gal-lery for a program to be conducted con-ducted by President D. O. Wight. Music will be furnished by the B. Y. U. string quartet. Committees from the various wards are arranging transportation. Lindy Meets Him 'V .5 Walk-Oat CIO Plan t m Goal incr Return to Uork In Garbn Field SALT LAKE CITY, April 25 (U.D Fourteen hundred Utah coal miners, idle since the start of the general bituminous coal strike April 1, returned to their jobs today to-day under temporary agreements between the CIO United Mine Workers union and two producers. produc-ers. 1 . , Work was resumed in the Cas-tlegate, Cas-tlegate, Sunnyside and Clear Creek mines of the Utah Fuel company and in the Kenilworth mine of the Independent Coal and Coke company. Signing of the temporary agreements agree-ments left only about 1,500 coal miners on strike in Utah. Union officials forecast that other temporary tem-porary agreements might be reached with other operators soon to permit resumption of operation opera-tion in all shafts. It was understood the temporary tempor-ary agreements called for the operators op-erators to make retroactive to April 1 any wage increases secured secur-ed by the union in negotiations now under way in New York and Washington. This Day . . . LICENSED TO MARRY Raymond Miles Loveless, 22, Payson, and Eleanor Hamilton, 19, Spanish Fork. Howard Collins Mackay, 22, Provo, and Donctta Miller, 21, Provo. i -5- Tourist Promotion By Chamber of Commerce Group A rather vigorous program for encouraging tourist trade was mapped at a meeting of the tourist tour-ist bureau of the Provo chamber of commerce, according to Clayton Clay-ton Jenkins, chamber secretary. The bureau, chairmaned ty P. E. (Pete) Ashton, authorized publication pub-lication of a new illustrated visit- Provo folder, to contain descrip tive matter regarding scenic attractions at-tractions hereabouts and statistical statisti-cal data regarding the city and environs. W. H. Wilde and Roy Brown were appointed as a committee to investigate a roadside parking project at Bridal Veil Falls in Provo canyon. Although Bridal Veil Falls is one of Utah Valley's most famous fa-mous scenic spots, the highway is narrow at the site and state HULL, KNOX HAKE FRANK STATEMENTS America Should Insure . Delivery Of Aid To Britain Ky JOHN A. 'REICIIMANN , WASHINGTON, April 25 (U.R) The vigorously frank statements of Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Secretary Secre-tary of the Navy Frank Knox that "this is our fight" appeared ap-peared today to confirm indications indi-cations that the Unite ! States soon would extend its r. ival activities activi-ties in the Atlantic to insure delivery de-livery of war supplies to Great Britain. Neither cabinet member directly direct-ly mentioned convoys or the more favored alternatives, "short-of-convoys." But both, in speeches last night, used this theme: "We've got to deliver the goods" to Britain. Brit-ain. They implied that force would be used to do so, if force was necessary. Aid Must Get Over Knox said: "We have committed commit-ted ourselves. . . . We cannot allow al-low our goods to be sunk in the Atlantic." Hull said: "Aid must be supplied sup-plied without hesitation to Great Britain and other countries that are resisting the sweep of general conflagration. This policy means, in practical application, that such aid must reach Its destination In the shortest of time and in maximum maxi-mum quantity. So ways must be found to do this." Some .members of congress be- Llieved the Knox-Hull speeches were a prelude to a more comprehensive com-prehensive talk President Roosevelt Roose-velt will make on the subject soon. Neither Hull nor Knox specif tied how they would prevent American cargoes being torpedoed or bombed. But congressmen felt that now the subject has been opened by two of the presidit's highest ranking lieutenants, Mr. Roosevelt might outline the ways and means he has in mind. Open Campaign The speeches appeared to mark the opening of an official campaign cam-paign to enlighten the public on the gravity of the international situation. Mr. Roosevelt said Tuesday Tues-day that he did not believe the public was fully aware of the danger dan-ger to the United States. They were also believed intended intend-ed to encourage the British public, j Mose widely discussed here was not the long-debatfcd plan for direct convoys, but an unaenaK- - (Continued on Page t.ignt) School Seeks Aid To Send Students To Music Festival In order to raise funds to defray the expenses to take the Provo hleh school band, orchestra and a capella chorus to the national music festival at Ogden, early in Mav. a benefit concert will be held at the high school auditorium auditori-um Friday, May 2. at 7:30, Dallas Young, student body president, announced today. A ticket sale will be conducted ty the students to assure a full house. All three organizations will participate par-ticipate in the concert, each to play its contest numbers and other selections. Wesley Pearce is director of the band and orches tra, and Ernest Paxman is director of the chorus. Plans Made road commission signs warn people peo-ple not to park there, according to Mr. Jenkins. The tourist bureau proposes construction of a spacious auto-parking auto-parking area on the high spot Just north of the highway, where people may park as long as they wish to view the falls. The chamber cham-ber expects to enlist the support of the road commission, Utah county, and the Wasatch and Uinta national forest officials in the project. Dr. Carlton Culmsee and Reed Biddulph were named as a committee com-mittee to make recommendations on What kind of signs to erect at Fifth West and Center streets and on Third South street for the purpose of directing traffic through the Provo business dis trict instead of around it. Greenland May Already ' Be Occupied In Part By Axis Says Roosevelt Roosevelt Flatly Denies Government Has Any Idea of Instituting- Convoys; Neutrality Patrol Extended WASHINGTON, April 25 (U.R) President Roosevelt said today that Greenland now may be occupied in part by the Axis, and that this country is doing something to counteract coun-teract the Axis there. ' ' -S The president said he did not CAIRO British defense lines in Greece are still unbroken despite an orderly withdrawal to new positions after' severe casualties were inflicted v on the German forces, it was stated today in autnoritative sources. WASHINGTON President Roosevelt said today that aid has been, and will continue to be, extended ex-tended to Greece whatever the "temporary outcome'' of the war there. LONDON British bombers, making a daily search for enemy coastal s'hipping, today destroyed destroy-ed a 1,600-ton supply ship in a canal between the Hook of Holland Hol-land and Rotterdam, the air ministry min-istry Bald in a communique tonight. to-night. ATLANTA, Ga. Lord Halifax, the British ambassador said today to-day that the "battle of the Atlantic, At-lantic, is the most critical of all in this war" and expressed hope that whatever the United States can do to aid in the Atlantic struggle be done soon. WASHINGTON The house merchant marine committee today to-day approved President Roosevelt's Roose-velt's request for authority to requisition for whatever use he elects the foreign merchant vessels ves-sels tied up in American waters. noN TO BE -DISCUSSED An important meeting of all di rectors and committee chairmen of the Provo July Fourth celebra tion is slated Tuesday at 7:30 p. m. in tne racuity room oi me Provo high school, announces Clayton Jenkins, secretary-treas urer. President K. E. Weight will preside. ' The agenda will include showing pictures of last year's parade and celebration, presentation of a tentative 1941 budget and tentative tenta-tive programs for the stadium show and other entertainments, and furnishing chairmen with a detailed instruction sheet listing the' responsibilities of the respective respec-tive departments. President Weight asks that all chairmen have a tentative committee com-mittee personnel list at the meeting- . Today's Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 000 01 . Philadelphia ... 211 00 Schumacher and Danning; ton and Livingston. Blan- Boston .... 000 00 Brooklyn 000 02 Salvo and Berres; Higbe Owen. and Chicago 102 10 ' Pittsburgh . . . . S02 20 -Dean, Raffensbergcr (2) and Mc-Cullough; Mc-Cullough; Bowman and Davis. Cincinnati .... 1 St. Louis 2 Thompson and Lombardi; War-neke War-neke and W. Cooper. AMERICAN LEAGUE Washington .... 000 0 . New York 411 0 Leonard and Ferrell; Bonham and Dickey. Philadelphia ... 000 000 0 Boston 100 110 0 Knott and Hayes; ' Newsom and Pytlak. Cleveland 0 Chicago 1 , Bagby and Hemsley; Lyons and Tresh. St. Louis 241 Detroit 220 Harris and Swift; Grosica, Mc- Kain (2) and Tebbetts. GELEBRA know for certain whether axis forces were in Greenland. Asked whether anything is being be-ing done by this country, he replied re-plied that it was being done. Patrol Extended At the same time he revealed the neutrality patrol established after the outbreak of war is being extended and will be extended to all of the seven seas if necessary for the protection of the western hemisphere. Denies Convoy Plan " ' The president flatly denied that the government had any idea of instituting convoys. The preseident said U. S. naval action in the Atlantic has constituted consti-tuted a patrol for a year and a half and still is a patrol. When It was suggested at his press conference that these patrols pa-trols might be in effect convoys establishing safe lanes through which ships could travel, the president remarked that one could not turn a cow into a horse by simply calling it a horse. Asked to define the difference between patrols and "convoys, the president said that convoying involved in-volved the escorting of merchant ships in a group to protect them from attack. Patrols, he said, involve in-volve reconnaissance over certain areas of the oceans to find out if ny aggressive ships might be coming into . the western hemisphere. hemis-phere. The president went on to point out that in 1939 the areas of the patrol in the Atlantic was nearer to these shores than now, because there did .not seem to be any danger of attack on Bermuda, Greenland, Newfoundland, Trinidad Trini-dad or Brazil. New , developments, the president presi-dent continued, show that the danger dan-ger of attack is now greater. And, he continued in discussing the waters between Greenland and ; Continued on Page Eight) GERMAN PRESS NITS ROOSEVELT BERLIN, April 25 i;j! The German press today violently attacked at-tacked President Roosevelt, charging charg-ing that he has set loose "a flood of lying phrases" designed to obscure "the warning traces of the Balkan adventure." German spokesmen and newspapers news-papers ridiculed charges that Germany Ger-many constituted any menace to the United States, asserting that "only a 150 per cent lunatic could imagine that Germany really intends in-tends to "attack the - United States." . Excerpts from the address of Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Secretary of Navy Frank Knox were published prominently In the newspapers in contrast to the frequent practice of ignoring ignor-ing speeches of American offi cials. Tne press described the speeches speech-es as the product of "Roosevelt's agitation machine." Scandinavians to Meet Here Sunday M. A. Strand and Antone Sor-enson Sor-enson of Salt Lake City, the latter recently returned from a mission in Norway and Denmark, w.1I be the speakers at the Provo Scandinavian Scan-dinavian association meeting Sunday Sun-day morning at 10:30 o'clock in the seminary building. Other Salt Lake people will also appear on the program, announces an-nounces A. C. Anderson, president. presi-dent. Mr. Sorenson will talk on conditions con-ditions in Scandinavia. LOGGERS THREATEN .STRIKE PORTLAND, Ore., April 24 (CD Four thousand Columbia Basin CIO loggers and lumbermill workers work-ers today threatened to strike un less operators meet their demands or renew negotiations. The union seeks a 15-cent hourly hour-ly wage increase to make the minimum min-imum 82 Vt cents an hour, two weeks paid vacation and up to two weeks paid sick leave. AZ S HARD FOUGHT 3-DAY DATTLE Break Through British Defense Lines At Thermopylae By JOE ALEX MORRIS Axis armies were reported pushing on toward Athens in the face of bitter allied resistance resist-ance today, and Axis spokesmen spokes-men loudly denounced American Ameri-can proposals to guarantee that increasing aid from the United States would reach Great Britain. A ' Nazi hieh command statement state-ment that German armies in Greece had won their way past the British defenses at Thermopylae Thermopy-lae after a bitter three-day battle, and were driving on towards Athens was partly offset for the allies by the words of Washington Washing-ton administration"irpoke.sTnen. Convoylnn Hinted Suggestions that German forces may alreadv have occupied part of Greenland and that the United States was acting in this connection, connec-tion, came from President Roose velt soon after both Berlin and Rome hal attacked ns "war mon-geHng" mon-geHng" administration speeches railing for America to carry through full aid to Britain. There were strong hints that some form direct or indirect of convoying was contemplated in the north Atlartic, but Mr. Roosevelt denied de-nied that actual convoys were being be-ing considered at present. The Axis powers momentarily took'a "comparative moderate attl-" tude in regard to threats that United States warships would be sunk if they convoyed supplies into in-to the war zone, but in the past both Berlin and Rome had emphasized empha-sized that any such action would be met with bombs and torpedoes. Adolf Hitler, it was recalled, said in a speech that U-boats would torpedo all ships enroute to England. Eng-land. Attack On U. S. Denied The speeches of Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Secretary of Navy Frank Knox, the German Ger-man press rsald, were the result of a "flood of lying phrases" let loose by President Roosevelt to hide the failure of American aid to Jugoslavia and Greece. The Nazi3 repeated that only "a luna tic'' could believe that Germany would attack the United States. The Germans also put emphasis on the Axis succeses at .sea, although al-though Berlin admitted loss of two of her best-known U-boat commanders and their Bhips. Official Of-ficial announcements reported that the total of enemy shipping sunk in-Greek waters in the last few days had reached almost 200,-( 200,-( Continued on Page Eight) deatIcleis sarah calder Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Haeue Calder, 81, of Salt Lake City, former Orem resident, died this morning at the St. Marks' hospital hospi-tal from the effects of a stroke. She was born June 11, 1859, and attended a private school in Salt Lake City. Her father and brothers bro-thers operated a gunjmnith establishment es-tablishment In Salt Lake. She was left an orphan at the age of 11, her father and mother being drowned at sea on the way to England. She married David G. Calder in Salt Lake City in 1881. They moved to Orem in 1904. Mr. Calder Cal-der died in 1928, and she had lived In Salt Lake City since. Mrs. Calder was active in L. D. S. ' work and was a counselor to Mrs. David F. Park in the first Relief society presidency of the Sharon ward. Surviving are the following children. Mrs. Katherine Ann Mi chael of Salt Lake, Mrs. Larry J. Salisbury of Orem, E. H. Calder of Orem. Harold G. Calder of Provo, and Jack C. Calder of California; also 17 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2 p. m., in the Salt Lake Wells ward. 1990 South Fifth East street. Burial will be in the city cemetery. GERMANS CAPTURED WINNIPEG, Man., April 25 r.P The last four of 28 German war prisoners who escaped from a northern Ontario prison camp last Saturday have been captured, it was announced today. |