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Show The Weather UTAH Fair tonight but increasing increas-ing eloudinew Wednesday with fthower in wet portion Wednesday Wednes-day afternoon or evening; warmer war-mer west portion tonight. Maximum Temp. Monday "0 Minimum Temp. Monday 37 ui7rf fcr County By Farronlxlng Home Store mJ Eoalne House FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR, NO. 213 Z UTAH'S ONLT DAILY SOUTH OF SALT LAKE PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1941 COMPI.KTE UNITED FREPS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS ESK. V7 P. nnn n UVJ UYJLuLziL u LZ3LZ3LZJ nnn n A 77 A' CD J i . CHAT EX TT3 I3J2XC3 The most caustic comment on the terrible toll from accidents acci-dents which a civilized society socie-ty permits every day in the year comes from James B. Forgan, Chicago Red Cross official. Great Britain's loss of life is actually lower today, in the very face of the German bombings, than it was m peace time, says Forgan. Doe3 that seem impossible, when thousands are being killed by bombs? Forgan says it's true. Thousands have been trained in first aid, accident prevention, nutrition, nutri-tion, hygiene, and sanitation. A large proportion of automobiles auto-mobiles have been removed from the highways. Result: More lives saved than Hitler has snuffed out in months of blitz-bombing. It shows what could be done in the peaceful United States if safety and health measures could be made as effective here as war has forced them to become in England. 300 Heard in Passing Some drivers who guess they can make it never have another guess coming. . .' . To some people there seems to be no place like away from home. . . . Fashion says men's summer clothes will be. about the same as last year's. Except Ex-cept for a cleaning and pressing. press-ing. . . . Lots of people's in comes are what they can't live without or within. . . . cannibal was walking through the jungle with a rery pretty black girl. They met a missionary who stopped stop-ped to pass the time of day. "Won't you introduce me to the lady?" asked the mis-tionary. mis-tionary. - "That's no lady," replied the cannibal, "thats m y lunch t" MERRY GO-ROUND A. Dally Picture of What'i Going On In National Affairs Ey DREW PEARSON al ROBERT 8. AIXHN Bungling British Sent Slim Army To Greece As Millions Mil-lions Idle at Home; Scrug-ham Scrug-ham Survey of Territory Bases Will Urge Independent Independ-ent Air Force; Badly Planned Plan-ned Sites Easily Bombed; Water So Scant Men Bathe in Rum; CIO Sends Unauthorized Un-authorized Lewis Men As Substitutes On Mediation Board. WASHINGTON' Biggest .question .ques-tion mark along- Wall Street these days is: "Will the British hold out?" Accustomed to selling short when disaster seems just around the corner, Wall Street views the fate of England as a cold-blooded Investment in the future. And judging by the bungling of certain cer-tain British leaders. Wall Street pessimism would appear to be justified. Inside information is that Gen-erald Gen-erald Wavell sent onlv two divisions di-visions of Australian-New Zealand Zea-land troops to Greece a total of about 20,000 men. In addition he had one English army service corps, Which is for supplies, repairs, re-pairs, hospitalization, etc., for troops in the field. Total, with RAF fliers, ground crews: - not more than 50.000 men. This force was pitted against at least 300.000 well-trained Nazis; nearer 500,000 counting reserves in Bulgaria. It is true that the British could not spare any more Anzacs from North Africa, but there were 2.-OO0.000 2.-OO0.000 men under arms in the British Isles. That the British lacked planes and tanks was not their fault, but the failure to send men from England is inexplicable; inex-plicable; for 2.000,000 men simply simp-ly fall over each other in defending defend-ing a small, area like the British Isles. These are errors which may not be cleared up until Churchill nnd General Wavell write their (Continued on Page Two) U. S. DEFENSE TO REQUIRE SACRIFICES Jones Sounds Plea National Unity In War Crisis Fori WASHINGTON, April 29 (U.R) Secretary of Commerce Jesse H. Jones warned today that the defense and British aid programs will require more sacrifice and cost than supposed, because "this is almost al-most certain to prove to be more than a battle of words and production." He predicted that the national debt would rise to more than $90,000,000,000. He told the annual meeting of the United States Chamber of commerce that one of every four man-hours of work would have to be devoted to war production. This means, he said, that production produc-tion of the normal things of life will have to be cut down and that people will have to get along with fewer of the thing3 to Which they are accustomed. jones said the $40,000,000,000 in defense expenditures already authorized by congress and "much more yet to be appropriated by congress win be spent during the next two to four years." Speaking as a government official of-ficial and business man, he called for a halt to bickering between business and government. He pleaded for national unity and called for the utmost efforts to preserve the , Democratic way of life. Jones spoke on the same program pro-gram with Arthur T. Vanderbilt of Newark N. J..- authority on administrative procedure, who told the business men that It would be fruitless to prepare for defense without at the same time preparing to cope with the economic econ-omic and social upheavals that inevitably follow war. Jones, asserting that "we do not want to get in the war, now, a year hence or 10 years hence," said we must aid ine democracies and "for our own security . . . we must build and maintain an army and navy of such strength that no power will ever dare attack at-tack ua." Former Prouoan Dies At Gbndalc William X. Peterson, retired D. & R. G. railroad employe, and a resident of Provo until four years ago, died Monday morning at Glendale, Calif., according to word received here by a son, Willard R. Peterson. Mr. Peterson was pensioned by the railroad company four years ago in March, and he left Provo at that time. He had been In poor health ever since. He was a member mem-ber of the Elks lodge. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Frances Peterson of Glendale; two sons, Nels LeRoy Peterson, of Glendale, and Willard R. Peterson of Provo; two daughters, Mrs. Florence Rigby of Provo. and Mrs. Roxie Crawford of Caliente, Nev., and six grandchildren. Funeral arrangements will be announced later. Collage Doys Disgruntlsd As Go-cds Attend Dance At Coast Artillery Gamp SAN DIEGO, Calif., April 29 (U.R) Two hundred San Diego State college co-eds early Saturday returned, as virtuous as ever, to their disgruntled dis-gruntled boy friends from a dance at Camp Callan, artillery ar-tillery replacement center at Torrey Pines. The campus men, "plenty burned" to learn the girls will visit the camp each Friday night while they sit dateless at home, were relieved to hear "It was just like a college dance." The men had opposed the trip to Camp Callan for many reasons, not including the lost company of the fair ones. In the Aztec, student publication, publica-tion, they devoted eight col Maw to Renew Fight For Re - Allocation " Of $800,000 Fund Renewal of Fight To Divert Funds Away From Cities and Towns Expected to Come Up At Special Session On May 19 SALT LAKE CITY, April-29 (U.R) Political observers predicted today proposed re-allocation of $800,000 in auto license revenue, a hotly-fought issue at the regular session of the Utah legislature, would provide the main fireworks at a special session scheduled to convene May 19. Gov. Herbert B. Maw fired what was believed the opening open-ing gun in a battle to divert the funds from cities and counties coun-ties in a "report to the people" on his reorganization program and his recent visit to Washing-- ton, D. C, in a speech at University Univer-sity of Utah last night. In Line For Plants Simultaneously, the governor disclosed Utah is in line for at least two national defense industries. indus-tries. Official Washington, he said, has given him "high "hopes" of obtaining a small arms manufacturing manu-facturing plant, employing 9,000 persons, for Salt Lake county, and a pigiron ana steel piant lor "somewhere in central Utah." -Maw linked his self-styled "lobbying" "lob-bying" visit to Washington with the coming battle to allocate the auto license revenue for his department de-partment of publicity and Industrial Indus-trial development. Previously, he has Indicated much of the money would be spent to keep one or more men constantly in Washington Washing-ton to "get some of that national defense money for Utah," and attracting at-tracting new Industries to the state. The governor Indicated four major battles are looming "if prosperity is to be restored to Utah, if farmers are to be given a living income, and if youth is to be encouraged to remain here.' The first he described as psychologicala psy-chologicala battle to eliminate the "do nothing attitude" of citizens citi-zens of the state. Iligh Freight Rates Another was high freight rates. The governor said one of the principal prin-cipal objections industry had found to locating in the state was the high cost of transporting materials ma-terials to and from the state. A fight to lower power rates was the third battle the governor said Is on his schedule. "Neither the masses nor industry should be compelled to pay high rates for electric power when In states all around they can get low rates," he asserted. The fourth obstacle, Maw nald, was uncertainty of taxation. He said a survey of the state' tax structure was now being made, and when completed. those paying too high taxes fouid rina tncir taxes trimmed, and thoae whose taxes were too low would "have to pay their share." "In other words, we will have an equitable tax program designed to restore the faith of industry and the citizens in the state," Gov. Maw said. Celebration Plans To Be Made Tonight A request that all directors and chairmen of the July Fourth celebration cele-bration be present at a meeting tonight at 7:30 in the faculty room of the Provo high school was reiterated today by Clayton Jenkins, Jen-kins, secretary-treasurer. Business of the meeting will include in-clude presentation of a tentative budget, studying suggestions for the celebration, viewing colored pictures of last year's celebration, and consideration of other mat- ters. umns to their woes. "The virtue of the girls won't be safe among 600 soldiers," sol-diers," the men argued. "The method of approaching the girls through appealing to their patriotic and civic duty was entirely unjust," they complained. The girls had an answer to that. Their virtue, they said, would be safer at Camp Callan Cal-lan than with many college boys. Men students soon will be in army camps and want nice girls to dance with, too, and so far as their patriotic duty lay, maybe the boys would appreciate them more if dates become more difficult. Lindbergh's Resignation Is Accepted WASHINGTON, April 29 (U.R The war department today to-day accepted the resignation of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh a a member of the army air corpn re nerve. WASHINGTON, 29 LT.D Stephen Step-hen TJ, Early, spokesmah for President Roosevelt, said today that Col. Charles A. Lindbergh's manner of submitting his resignation resigna-tion from the army air corps reserve "leads me to wonder if he is returning his decoration to Mr. Hitler." About four years ago, Lindbergh, Lind-bergh, visiting Berlin, was awarded award-ed the order of the German Eagle, a high Nazi decoration, by field Marshal Herman Goering. The presentation was made - to Lindbergh Lind-bergh for distinguished flying achievements. ', Without disclosing , whether Lindbergh's resignation will be accepted by Secretary of War Henry L. Stimaon, Early said the aviator's letter announcing his intention in-tention has not yet been received at the White House. Sharply critical of the fact that Lindbergh made public his letter before it reached the president. Early said this was the second case in which the flierfmade public pub-lic a communication to Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt before it was in the president's presi-dent's hands. Early said the first time was in 1934 when the president cancelled can-celled all private airmail contracts con-tracts and turned over to the ar my air corps the job of rarrytng such mail and Lindbergh rro" tested. Macser P.-T. A. Meets Wednesday A panel discussion on juvenile delinquency, led by Dr. J. O. Moffitt, superintendent of schools will feature the Maeser P.-T. A. meeting Wednesday at 7:30 p. m., according to Mrs. Mabel Kirk, program chairman. Mrs. Hulda Grover, president, will have charge. Other panel speakers will be Antone K. Romney, Irma Acord, Ariel Ballif, Catherine Morphew, Fern Ercanbrack, Frank Gardner Gard-ner and Burton Frampton. Music will be directed by Olive Reeves and J. G. Hilgendorff. ; - ! Today's Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati . 100 000 001 2 Brooklyn ...... 000 222 34x 13 Turner, Thompson (6) Logan (6) Hutchings (7) and Lombardi; Hamlin and Owen. Chicago 000 200 001 003 Boston 110 100 000 036 Passeau and McCuilough; Laman-na, Laman-na, Sullivan (4) and Berres. St. Louis 000 410 0 New York 210 000 0 McGee, Grodzick (3) and Man-cuso; Man-cuso; Bowman, Melton (5) and Danning. Pittsburgh 300 000 0 Philadelphia ... 013 001 1 Butcher, Bowman (3) and Davis; Cruoch and Livingston. AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston 000 00 Detroit 203 00 Grove and Pytlak; Grosica and Tebbetts. Philadelphia ... 000 120 0 Cleveland 020 100 4 Dean and Hayes; Smith and De-sautels. De-sautels. Washington .... 010 01 Chicago 000 12 Masterson and Ferrell; Lee and Tresh. al two WILL REOPEN ON THURSDAY Southern Operators Agree to End 28-Day Shut-Down WASHINGTON, April 29 (U.R) The United Mine Workers Work-ers announced today that production pro-duction will be resumed in the soft coal mines Thursday morning. The announcement was made by a spokesman for John L. Lewis, UMWA president, after he had conferred with dis trict presidents and informed them that the southern operators had agreed to end the 28-day shutdown. shut-down. The mine re-opening was delayed de-layed until Thursday, it was said, because that is the first of the month. If the mines opened tomorrow to-morrow it would necessitate making mak-ing out complete monthly payrolls pay-rolls for one day's work. Aoeept Formula Southern operators accepted ''without equivocation" last night President Roosevelt's formula whereby they will reopen their mines, continue their negotiations with the United Mine Workers (CIO) and make retroactive the agreements which result. Steel Production Down The reopening came none too soon, industrial authorities said. Steel production dropped from 99.2 per cent of capacit a month ago to 95 per cent last week, and will drop to 94.3 per cent this week. The latest decline will represent 88,800 net tons. John'L. Lewte, president of the union, promised Mr. Roosevelt that the miners would return to work as expeditiously as possible and almost all mines were expected to be reopened tomorrow. The southerners had broken away from the Appalachian conference con-ference to establish a separate conference, and offered an 11 per cent increase in wages, less than the northern operators had granted, grant-ed, and increasing rather than eliminating the wage differential between north and south which the union had nought. By accepting the president's formula, the southern operators agreed to the $1 a day increase, bringing their basic wage scale to $6.60 a day nnd will continue to negotiate with the union or elim ination of the differential and (Continued on Pago Three) CLOSING ART PROGRAM SET SPRING VILLE The SprLng-ville SprLng-ville high school art program marking the close of the twentieth annual exhibit, which has been open to the public eince March 30, will be held at 11 a. m., Wednesday, Wed-nesday, in the high school auditorium. audi-torium. Several hundred students and art patrons are expected, to attend. A highlight of the closing exercises ex-ercises will be the unveiling of two prize paintings which the scllool -will purchase to become a part of their premanent collection. col-lection. The unveiling will be by the high school art queens. Winners pi the senior and junior high schools essay contest on the subject, "My Favorite Picture," will be announced during dur-ing the program. Awards will be presented to the winners by Mrs. Mae Huntington and Mrs. Floss Harmer of the art committee. Music will be given by high school and alumni students under un-der direction of Carl O. Nelson and Walter Peterson. Principal W. W. Brockbank, president of the art board, has the program in charge. . CO Dewey to be Drafted to Head Service Men's Welfare Drive NEW YORK. April 29 (Special) The program calls for recreation. Six national agencies, representing represent-ing 40,000,000 Americans will draft Thomas E. Dewey tomorrow to head the United Service organizations organ-izations $10,765,000 campaign for soldiers, sailors, and other youth in national defense, it was revealed re-vealed here today. President Roosevelt, the Secretaries of War and Navy declare thi3 effort is vital to national defense morale. Armistice Signing Seals Doom of Greece At Larlsa, General Tsolahoglo of Greece's Army Epirus sins the armistice armis-tice which led to the fall of Athens, placed Greece No. 15 on Germany's conquered list. Some 300,000 Greek troops were involved in the surrender. sur-render. Radio from Berlin.- Charter Presented To Orern Lions Club Orem's Lions club, or ganized a little over a month ago, was officially welcomed into the ranks of the Lions International Interna-tional at a rousing dinner-dance held Monday night at the Lincoln high school. " . The Orem club was honored by Ihm ft?" Suit To Obtain Hcinstateniont An alternative writ of mandate directing Provo city officials to return Scott Thompson, deposed fire chief, to his former position in the classified civil service or to show cause in court May 23 why they should not be compelled to do so was issued today by District Judge Dallas H. Young, The order was signed after attorneys at-torneys for Mr, Thompson had filed a 19-pnge petition reviewing review-ing the case and asking that the former fire chief be reinstated in the fire department and raid the salary of the position accruing since January 31, the date he was taken off the city payroll. Named defendants -In the petition peti-tion arc Albert S. Curtis. 1L Val Hoyt and Mark D. Eggertsen, members of the civil service commission; com-mission; Mayor Mark Anderson and J. P. McGuire and Maurice Harding, members of the city commission; Earl Finlayson, present pres-ent fire chief; Mary F. Smith, city auditor,, and J. Walter Proth-ero, Proth-ero, city treasurer. The petition reviewed the history his-tory of the Thompson case, charging charg-ing arbitrary and unlawful action on the part of the city commisison and civil service commission in matters connected with the dismissal dis-missal of the ex-chief. It held that under the law Thompson should (Continued on Page Three) This Day... BORN Boy, to Harry M. and Ruth Woodhouse Jorgensen, this morning. morn-ing. Boy, to Byron Claude and Alta May Rose Jensen, today. LICENSED TO MARRY Virgil Henry Turner, 27, Lehi, and Margaret Wadley, 24, Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove. - nospitauiy. wt-uaic onu of more than 300 service 3W service ciuos adjacent to big camps and naval stations. The agencies include the Y. W. M. C. A., National Catholic Community Service. Salvation Army. Y. W. C. A., Jewish Welfare Wel-fare Board and National Travelers Travel-ers Aid association A nation-wide campaign is expected ex-pected to be launched in a short time to raise funds for the cause. 1 A the attendance of over 200 per sons, ""including " representatives from 12 Utah Lions clubs. Also present as special guests were six past district governors. Climax of the evening's program pro-gram was the presentation of the charter by District Governor Aura C. Hatch of Provo, and the formal acceptance of the treasured treasur-ed document by John S. Lewis, Orem Lions club president. Hugh Brown Speaks A stirring patriotic address was delivered by Hugh Brown of Salt Lake City. Mr. Brown, a major In the Canadian forces during the World war, declared that the United States could not stand aloof and see other, smaller nations na-tions crashed out and denied the liberty and Independence which the people of this country enjoy. "The very fate of the world is In our hands and we cannot Ignore the challenges which faces America Amer-ica to aid the democracies in the struggle against ruthless totalitarianism." totali-tarianism." Millions of people in Europe are looking to us to provide pro-vide the means for their liberation from tyranny and oppression. He paid tribute to Wendell Willkie as a great American who was big enough to forget prejudices preju-dices engendered in the heated political campaign and offer his services to his victorious opponent in the couse of the country's needs. Warnick Toastmaster A. P. Warnick, principal of the (Continued on Page Three) School Prepares usical Evening "The Magic of Music" an original orig-inal entertainment presented in dance, song and pantomime, will be given by the Joaquin school Thursday at 8 p. m. In the school auditorium. All the pupils of the fourth, fifth and sixth grades will participate. For the past six weeks, music, art, language, play and dance classes have been preparing to present "The Magic of Music." Various modes in music will be interpreted through dancing, pantomime, pan-tomime, vocal and instrumental music. Each group (teacher and children) chil-dren) has created its dances, written writ-ten the script, planned the costumes cos-tumes and directed the staging of the respective parts. Parents have cooperated in furnishing costumes which will add color and lend atmosphere at-mosphere to the performance. ' Miss Ida Liechty is general chaiman, assisted by Miss Lue Groesbeck, music director, and the teachers of the fourth, fifth and sixth grades. The Joaquin school has spared no effort in making the entertainment the highlight of the school year and it promises to be unusual as well as interesting. The public is extended a cordial invitation to attend. tMAL BASE VICTIM OF HITLER FURY Big Guns Drop Shells On Dover Area In Blitz Attack By JOE ALEX MORRIS Foreign News Editor Great Britain and Germany battled with big guns, airplanes, air-planes, armored units and warships today on scattered' battlefields from the English channel to Egypt-Sudden Egypt-Sudden blitz-tempo warfare war-fare blazing along the Strait of Dover and the south coast of England again attracted attention to the "invasion pattern" followed by Adolf Hitler's luf twaf f e in recent re-cent hammering of British naval bases, while reports Coming through London renewed specula tion of the possibility of a Nazi drive toward Gibraltar as well as toward the Suez canal. All-Out Battles Whether Hiiler was starting all-out battles on several fronts, as had been hinted In Berlin, or was feinting to hide a major blow at England or at British power in the Mediterranean, was uncertain. But the rumble of war shook the south coast of Britain with greater fury than at any time since last autumn. For the fourth time in a week. German airplanes pounced on tho great British naval base at Plymouth Ply-mouth with such fury that it seemed they were determined to wipe it out. The results of the raids were not fully disclosed, but it appeared to be tremendously destructive. Portsmouth, Berwick and other cities also were attacked. at-tacked. - Early this morning, German long-range guns on the French coast near Cap Gri3 Nez began dropping shells on the Dover area. The bombardment mounted in intensity in-tensity throughout the morning and, with British guns replying, the duel went on until afternoon. During- the exchange. Royal Air Force planes flashed up over the 19-miles-wide channel in bright sunlight to meet an attack by perhaps 100 German Messer-schmidt Messer-schmidt fighter planes, and drove the enemy back after a sharp air (Continued on Page Three) RY UNITED PRESS PLYMOUTH Officials tonight ordered about 10,000 children between be-tween five and 16 years old evacuated evacu-ated from this bomb-devastated town as soon as possible. :0:- WASHINGTON The war department de-partment today promoted Maj. William C. Bentley, who was declared de-clared persona non grata by Italy while serving as assistant U. S. military attache at Rome, to bo military attache at the new and important post being established at Tangier, in the international zone at Morocco. :0: BERLIN German fighter planet drowned five British tighter tight-er trart within a period of 30 minutes about noon today, firmed German quarters aid. :0: CAIRO The British middle east command reported today that 2,000 Italians and 400 colonial troops were captured in the occupation oc-cupation of Desaye, key Italian base in Ethiopia. :0: BERLIN German authorized quarters again today sharply attacked at-tacked the Swiss press and individuals indi-viduals for anti-German statements state-ments and warned that "one day our patience will come to an end " :0: MANILA Authoritative marve suggested today that German nea raiders may launch a new campaign cam-paign in Pacific and Indian ocean waters to coincide with Intensification Intensifi-cation of the axis drive In Africa. :0: SANTOS, Brazil The German freighter Natal, carrying a gener al cargo, arrived here today after a 32-day voyage from Hamburg through the British blockade. ;0: - TOKYO Japan's current diplomacy di-plomacy was described by responsible respon-sible sources today as desiring adjustment ad-justment of relations with the United States. There was little explanation in Japanese sources, however, of procedure that might be followed toward that end. |