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Show PAGE TWO PROVO (UTAH) ..DAILY HERALD, JRIDAY, MAY 9 194 OUT OUR WAY -by Williams O SERIAL STORY "TJbrtr fhrouirh H tha land" Tha I.tivrty Bell Every Afternoon CKx'-ppMnr Sa'ur.lav flnfl Sunday) Fupdajr Herald Published Famiay .Mirnim Poblliihed tj the Herald Corporation. S South First Weit t'trert. 1-rovo. t'tah. Fntered as second class Wisiter at 1H poEtoffic In Provo. L'tah. onrtpr -the act of Marcb . 1j7. Oilman, Nlcol Ru'hman. National Adverti"'n reprs-sntBi reprs-sntBi Ives. New Tork. tan franrlwa, Detroit. Boston. Loa Ar.Jtelea. Chicago. Memlur United FTeKs, N. E. A- Service. Editora' Eichnse, tie Pcriprt Uaiut of Niap?rs and Audit Bureau ol Circulation. Subscription terms ry carrier tn Utah county. 60 cent! tha raonm. 12 CO for six tnonttia In advance; I the year. In advance: rv mall In eoun'y. 15 00: outolda county 15. 7 tne year In advance. Tna Herald will not ummi financial responsibility for any errors which may appear In advertisements puMit-hrd in la columns. In those Instance ahem tha paper la at fault. It will reprint that part of tha advertlaement In btcb tha typographical itilvakt occurs. Tlve League's Pulse Still Faintly Beats , There is something startling-, almost, shocking-, in the news that the League of Nations, dead in the mind of the .average man, still feels a faint heartbeat. The League, experiment in international government which was to have crowned all the horror of the First World War, failed its essential task the creation of a peaceful and orderly world. When war swept once more across civilization civiliza-tion ,men cursed this agency through which they had failed to prevent their tragedy, and said in revulsion "Bah! It is dead !" It is not dead. Its heart beats feebly with a trickle of life-blood pumped into it by 48 nations which are still members. mem-bers. Throughout 1910. as in 1939, every state within the British Empire (The United Kingdom, India, Australia, Canada, Can-ada, Eire, New Zealand and the Union of South Africa) paid their contributory share in full, though nearly all of them were at war. , States now prostrate under the German heel are still trying to pay their shares to League support. Even the Vichy government in France is trying to get frozen credits in the United States released so that it can pav its balances of the 1910 contribution. For 1911, the Dutch government has already paid half of its contribution, and Norway is willing, will-ing, though not able. Those are pitiful gestures bv countries robbed of the ability to carry on as they would like to do. Failure though it was, the League still seems to have a hold on the hearts of many men in many lands. In the depths of despair and the humiliation of conquest, some have even yet tried to" cling to what is no longer more than a name and symlxl of an orderly international world. Names and symbols are not without power even todav, and the fact that the League of Nations as the post-war world knew it was a failure, is no proof that no such league may eventually succeed. The first constitution drawn up bv the American people after independence was won was a failure, but they did not cry. "See, it is hopeless!" They formed a new constitution, and this second effort framed a govern ment that has already lasted 150 years and is stronger than ever. , Whether that faint heart-beat still pulsing in the prostrate pros-trate League of Nations will ever strengthen again into life, no one knows. The prospects are not bright. Yet it is strange and wonderful to see so persistent a vitality in it; plainly the idea and the ideal are not dead. Some day Law must replace Anarchy between peoples. We Begin To Help In April, the airplane industry produced 1193 planes, 1415 of them military. Of these, about half were trainers, half fighters. Roughly 700 fighters, 700 trainers, then. Probably more than half of each class went to Britain or its far-flung dependencies and allies. Perhaps 350 or 400 fighters, a like number of trainers. It isn't "clouds of planes" yet. But it isn't hay, either. The raids which have devastated cities like Glasgow have been accomplished by what is estimated to be about two or three hundred planes each. When you realize that American plane production will have been practically doubled, that is, have reached 2500 by September 1, it is easy to see why Hitler hopes so desperately to win this year. It is time to hold steady, and play for the long pull. WHV-UH- SOME.BODY MUST OF PUT IT )M MV LUWCH BOX-THERE' WASM'T AMY PAPER. IM IT AT NOOM STEP WS1DE HERE- JUST A WERE. YOU BORM THAT OLT BOV HAS WORKED HERE TWEMTY YEARS-HE WOULDW'T HAVE AMY PLAWS OR. DEALIM'S WITH TH' EUEMY- JTS SOME JOKESTER WELL. YOU WCMOW IM PEACE TIMb TH SHOP HUMOaiSTS- GREASE YOUR. MACHiSJe HAKJDLES AM' PAlMT YOUR, SHOES BUT IM WAR. TIME THEY PUT PL-AN1S IN YOUR, LUKJCH BOX THEY NAAY PUT POWM HITLER., BUT MOT HUMORISTS V" THE DISTUCBER OF ViAK. r. n. Pta. v. s. ht. orr. COfH. 1l BV XE StBVKTt, mC. s- -- Yasliingtcn ilerry-Go-Rcmid ; (Continued From Pag. On.) ing to be more difficult than originally orig-inally supposed. There are only about 40 U. S. warships available for patrol work, allowing for those which must put into port for periodic refueling and overhauling. This means that to patrol an area 2,000 miles long and about 45 miles wide (90,000 square miles) each vessel must patrol about 2,200 square miles. This can be done very easily by airplanes, but not by surface ships. So far, however, the Navy has only enough airplane carriers to station perhaps one carrier in the North Atlantic. I HITLER WONT WAIT In time, and with the availabil ity of more airplane carriers, this type of patrolling can be most effective. But time is of the es sence. And the fate of Britain win not wait. In fact, confidential reports which the President has received from U. S. observers abroad give an increasingly gloomy picture unless the jnited States goes a lot further than the lenu-lease bill. There are even some observers observ-ers who urge. an outright declaration declar-ation of war in order to bolster British morale. Such a declaration, they emphasize, empha-size, would reverberate also upon the morale of the German peopie, who remember all too well what happened in the last war after the United States entered. The President does not go as far' as these advisers, but he has been swinging around, at last, to oui-right oui-right and open convoys. He continues to believe, more 'No, Wilbur!' -- " '. X- J7 " " decidedly than ever, that the Unit ed States must preserve the Brit ish fleet as the first line of Amer ican defense -if it does not want to have Germany as a neighbor in South America and around the Panama Canal. , . : I "IKON PANTS" JOHNSON ,j Chalk up another bonehead play to Major General "Pa " Watson most intimate White House sec retary, for refusing to renew Gen eral 'Iron Pants" Johnson's re serve commission in the Army. The move struck a sour note in the country. "Iron Pants" is mercurial, criti cal, frequently full of unadulter ated baloney. But as a soldier he is loyal, and once called into the service would have been more ioyal than certain officers in the Army today who don't seem to care how much they criticize their commander-in-chief under their breath. What General Johnson says, at least he says in black and white. Major General Watson, who apparently ap-parently took the initiative in firing fir-ing Johnson, once was bawled out by the ex-NRA chief and told that he should not have rated highc-5 tfian' a corporal. NOTE If General Johnson" had been called Into the Regular Army he would have had to fore go an annual salary of around $50,000 from his newspaper col umn, which he said he was willing to do. AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER Roosevelt probably can get more inside information from Aus tralian Prime Minister Menzies, just arrived in Washington, than from any of his own observers who have gone overseas. Menzies left Australia more than two months ago, flew to Egypt, spent some time in Libya, a week with Australian troops in the eastern Mediterranean, flew to England, and during the past six weeks has been in daily touch with Churchill and the war cab inet. He has a complete picture of the shipping losses, the effect of air raids, the chances of British survival in the Mediterranean, and an estimate of British chances for the future. Furthermore, he is likely to do more plain speaking to tne American people than an Englishman- would. - ; - Only 46 years old, Menzies has a reputation for forthright speak ing and a sharp wit. After the last election in Australia, Menzies was approached by a representative representa-tive of the opposition press, who said; "In selecting your cabinet, I suppose you will go down to Melbourne to consult the powerful power-ful interests which control you." With a flash, Menzies retorted: "Yes, of course I shall. But please keep my wife's name out 01 pub-iiq pub-iiq discussion." Once Nevo, Now History Twenty -five Years Ago Today From the Files of THE PROVO HERALD May 8, 1916 Young university tracksters thumped Utah Aggies, 87-33 in the initial dual meet of the season. sea-son. The Cougars won 10 firsts. Clint Larson of BYU, who later became world's Olympic champ, high jumped only 5 feet 9'i inches that day. He also won the hign hurdles at 17:02. Some of the marks recorded were: Pole -vault, 10 feet; discus, 109 feet 2'i inches; 100, 10.2; low hurles, :27.02; shot. 37 feet 9 inches; hammer, 129 feet 1 inches; 440, :53.4; 8S0, 2:04.2. The William T. Sherman post No. 6, G. A. R., had declined to only 11 members living in various parts of the country. As the memters were feeble from age it was decided the post would not take part in the Memorial day celebration in a body as was the custom in the past. BY OREN ARNOLD LOVE POWER COPYRIGHT 4I, taCft SERVICE INC. Officers of the Home and School association were elected as follows: fol-lows: President, Mrs. Esther Call Stewart (reelected); first vice-president, vice-president, L. E. Eggertsen, superintendent; su-perintendent; second vice president, presi-dent, Principal Reid Beck, treasurer, treas-urer, Mrs. Thomas F. Pierpont; secretary, Mrs. O. R. Thomas. Miss Alene Cluff was presented pre-sented by Prof. C. W. Reid in a piano recital at Consolidated Music Mu-sic hall in Salt Lake City. Critics present were enthusiastic in their praise of her work. Miss Marie Hedquist who assisted also was lauded for her performance. Steven I. Bunnell, an 82-year-old man, walked from Tintic to Fayson, a distance of 30 miles, between be-tween 7:30 a. m. and 4' p. m. A very spry man for his age, he often took long tramps, but his Tintic-Paysoti hike capped the climax of his long treks. j AFRICAN OUTPOST v . It hasn't been announced, but a direct radio circuit has been established by the U. S. Government Govern-ment between New York and Brazzaville, French Equatorial Africa, an area occupied by General Gen-eral Charles de Gaulle's Free i rench forces. Brazzaville is south of Dakar, nearest African point to South America and of great strategic importance. Dakar is . held by tne Vichy government, but it has long been suspected that the Nazis have a secret air base there. Purpose Pur-pose of the new Brazzaville-New York radio tie-up is to enable this government to keep a closer check on military moves in West Africa. Another significant change in radio communications occurred in Iceland, which the British occupied alter the Nazis grabbed Norw ay. 10 prevent uerman agents irom sending coded messages, the British Brit-ish took over all radio transmitters transmit-ters in Iceland and all outgoing communications are now relayed through London. Previously. Iceland Ice-land was linked directly with New York. CARD OF THANKS We wish t6 extend our thanks and appreciation for all the kind nesses shown by friends and rela tives at the passing of our be loved father, Nils Lofgreen. Those who paid . floral tributes, assisted at the services, furnished cars and in any other way assisted we wish to especially thank. Mrs. J. Elmer Jacobsen and other members of the family. Michigan leads all states of the A rod is 16 V feet. Well-cured ham usually is best when it is one year old. AUNT HET By ROBERT QUILLEN "1 don't mean Sue is pre-tiulinjr, pre-tiulinjr, but women that used to do the family wa.h and cook with a youngun on one hip didn't have any nerve." IESTERDAYi Lena . made prrparatioaa well. Daring her ride Wiik Bab and Carolyn, ahe prrtrnda friendship, and Carolra la definitely- worried. Later. Lena a cornea t ike Tyler pottage, tella Carolyn that Bon waata tn nee ker in the abaft at 6 o'clock. She-vratehea She-vratehea while Carolyn walks around the mountain, hnrrira tn er transmitter. After waiting 28 mlaatea, she prennea a snitch. WTIEN X-S99 EXPLODES CHAPTER XXIII JNOWXEDGE of her power at this moment, and of the ven geance she was about to wreak on the Tyler girl, gave Leana Sormi's face a wild look of exhilaration. She threw her transmitter switch as if the act were a definite little finale. And finale it was! Not even Leana Sormi, brilliant scientist, had known the extreme potency of X-999!.'! Simultaneously with her touch of that switch, all of hellfire itself belched over the universe. The earth shook in a staccato of doom. Tonto Mountain, it appeared, ap-peared, was lifted skyward. A great spreading bulk blacked out the light of day, extended eastward east-ward over a full five miles, then came pelting roaring crashing down in an all-consuming bombardment. bom-bardment. The top half of Mummy Ridge itself was blown square off and a minute later it and all its area there to the east were buried under countless tons of debris. The very physiography of a mountain range was being altered. And nobody no-body no living soul heard Leana Sormi give her long, hysterical scream. J-prtOM other points of view (as told countless times in the months and even years to follow) the explosion of Tonto Mountain was that of a volcano, no less. Except Ex-cept that this particular volcano spewed fire from only one side of its mouth, after first bursting out an opening. The actual eruption was not straight up, but angled. The great force of the explosion naturally took the path of least resistance. The west half of Tonto Mountain was a bulwark of granite, virtually solid, rock a mile thick at its base. A Cat whita face of that granite had showed at the peak to form a landmark for centuries. But in nature's own eruptions eons ago she had loosened and stirred the eastern half of Tonto, upending its strata and piling there loose boulders, boul-ders, smaller rocks and soils. It was this loose deposit which gave way under the force of X-999's explosion. That loose half of Tonto became shrapnel, spreading out fan-wise. The granite half stood firm, mere ly shaken by the recoil. The circumstance proved to be extremely fortunate for puny human hu-man beings who had dared ensconce en-sconce themselves in nature's bosom here. It was as if nature had kept a benign hand over them and their little huts. Not that the huts escaped damage every window in the scientists' village was broken, and every china dish, every bit of glass equipment in the laboratory. Rock chimneys were toppled over. One cabin was moved quite off its foundation. The stables, fiimsy structures at best, were flattened and three of the horses killed. A dozen major or minor avalanches were started on neighboring neigh-boring mountains, and their rolling; roll-ing; pelting rocks were still an echoing thunder 10 minutes after the actual explosion. . Most of the village people, as Leana Sormi had mentioned to Carolyn, were at dinner. When the great shock and noise came, they were stupefied. Ears were deafened, deaf-ened, muscles numbed. The story of all that was destined to make good telling for generations after. TFTIIEN" Carolyn and Leana left him at the stables shortly after 5 o'clock, Bob Hale lingered to rub down his black gelding rather than give the task to a stable boy. Currying, brushing, patting and talking is the way to get acquainted acquaint-ed with a horse, Bob knew; it can be genuine pleasure for both. About 15 minutes later, though, Bob was called to the stable telephone. tele-phone. It was Learia. "Robert, dear," she began, "ii it too much to ask that you drive in to Blair for me, at once? There is some equipment a microscope part which I simply must have in the laboratory early tomorrow morning, and I really wanted it tonight. It was due on the mail stage today and the , Blair post- office closes at 6. I I wouldn't want to trust it to one of our clumsy workmen here, so " "Surely, Leana: I can drive-right over now. Our group doesn't eat until 7. Be a pleasure." He was earnest about It. He re membered that he hadn't been suf ficiently attentive to Leana anyway, any-way, and this little before-dinner jaunt was easy. He didn't rush because there was abundant time, but he did take his car, immediately and head off down the old road from the mine. It swung south and west from Tonto Mountain, winding in picturesque way. He was still thinking of the girls. Somehow, despite his avowed desire to serve her, he hadn't exactly ex-actly lked Leana Sormi today. For no reason that he ccvld ret a finger on, he had resented her manner while on the ride. He forced that thought aside as unfair, senseless. The car on the mountain curves took all his attention. at-tention. And when he reached Blair he paused to chat a bit with the postmaster. Leana's parcel hadn't arrived, after all. She would be disappointed. Vaguely he wondered why a mere miscrascope lens, or whatever what-ever it was, could be so urgent. There were other microscopes at hand in the laboratory. But then, a person gets used to a favorite one, he knew. He switched the talk to deer hunting. "Shore thing. Dr. Hale," the postmaster was friendly, "it's deer as'll run right over you around here in autumn time! ShcnVs you're born! Big bucks with 10, 20 points all up in that Tonto Mountain country. You stick here till October, you'll see. You got a good rifle?" They went into the matter of guns, man talk. They were examining ex-amining the postmaster's own 30-30 30-30 when BROO-O-O-O-O-OM! 'T'HE earth trembled, shook them to their very teeth! Glass cracked and fell from the bursting shock of the explosion. Bob's muscles froze. The postmaster looked quickly at him in consternation. Neither spoke at first. Then both looked out. The late sun-yellowed sky back toward Tonto was blooming in a magnificent mass of Mack earth and rocks and shooting flame. . They saw it boil. Saw it grow billowing, spreading, roaring and echoing furiously now. It was greater than anything in their comprehension. It was reaching out over half the horizon, as if it meant to engulf all the universe. "I know!" Bob rasped, from the deep frenzy now within him. "It-it "It-it Carolyn's there! Carolyn's still there! . Come on! . . . Oh my God! . . . Carolyn!" The two men were running to Bob's car. (To Be Coloded) -tSV- Award Presented For 8s Marian Owens, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Owens, was awarded award-ed a medal for having the most outstanding record for scholarship scholar-ship over a six-year period at B. Y. high and junior high school at the annual "Y" high award assembly Thursday. Lloynel Harding, son of City Commissioner Maurice Harding, won the coveted medal given the senior student - most outstanding In athletics and scholarship. Other awards given were: Football Bruce Dabling, Lloynel Lloy-nel Harding, Lloyd Rasmussen, Wayne "Anderson, Dick Johnson, Lewis Clark, Bob Clark, Bob Carlson. Carl-son. Tennis Bud Harmon, Douglas Jenkins, Bob Booth, Buckley Taylor, Tay-lor, Joe Ashworth, Lee Knell, Paul Smith, Will Miller. Basketball Don Hansen, Bob Clark, Lloynel Harding, Lloyd Rasmussen, Bruce Dabling, Jim Oldroyd, Glen Godfrey, Bud Harmon, Har-mon, Don Baum. , Track Lloynel Harding, Bob .. Marshall, Wayne Andersron. Baseball Glen Godfrey, Don Baum, Dick Johnson, Bob Clark, Dick D'abling, Lloyd Rasmussen, Bruce Dabling, Vern Greenwood, Calvin Peck. Hal Mitchell, Jim Oldroyd, Richard Hales, Raymond Nusink, Dick Clark. Opera Wayne Anderson Peggy Lee WThiting. nr.d Drama Geneal Martin and Paul Smith. Debate Margaret Hales and Beth Clayson. Year book Marian Owens. School paper Maribeth- Taylor. Tay-lor. Scholarship Senior class, Beverly Bev-erly Jensen; junior class, Margaret Mar-garet Hales and Edward Free, tie; tenth grade, Wrill Miller; ninth grade, Marian Robertson; eighth grade. Marian Jeanne Merrill; Mer-rill; seventh grade, Curtis Coleman. Cole-man. School officers Bruce Dabling, president; Karma Jeanne Culli-more, Culli-more, vice president; Maribeth Taylor, secretary-treasurer. The humming bird has a tube-like tube-like tongue with which it sucks up nectar from flowers. Cranium Crackers Names of movie stars are easily eas-ily remembered, but you have to think twice to recall the names they assume when playing a part in a film. Give the names taken by movie stars in the following films and identify each character (i. e., doctor, lawyer, writer, etc.). , 1. Katherine Hepburn and James Stewart in "The Philadelphia Story." 2. Vivien Leigh and Lawrence Olivier in "That Hamilton Woman." Wom-an." 3. James Cagney and Olivia de Havilland in "Strawberry Blonde." 4. Janet Gaynor in "A Star Is Born"; Charley Grapewin in "Tobacco "To-bacco Road.' ' 5. James Stewart in "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"; Carole Lombard in "Mr. and Mrs. Smith"; Margaret Sullavan in "Back Street." Answers on Pag Kight, Sec. Two The sun radiates more heat in one second than the earth receives in 60 years. Cypress trees are Immune to insect in-sect attacks. How Nazis May Crash the Gateway to the Near East YUGOSLAVIA; RUMANIA l. Const on to Clack Sea Troop, tanks, upphev would b slowed down, vulnerable to attack, I ot Bopom bortlgnerfc j rsULGARIA f 1 V I 1 , Osj C I Dardanelles GREECE ..L'mnos? f A V I X til a m - i Sosporustr J w f modern. Ankara ot more th -asg Possible .Axis nlk ! British Eases ( " Axis Base as en her side mechanized army an muiion men, ntainous terrain If Ankara refuses passage, Nazis moy tend troops by plane and thio j to invade northern, western coasts. 4 ML. ( l j: I i Nasi subs, sneaked 'through Dardanellei or sent overland. could join planes in raiding British shipping here t 3 xnoDiiin rapia luppiv lilltl I . r- f, r . i KMV I X 'SlsVrfl ! """""1 - fALtillNt. C iAUUI 7 'pbDEfcANESE IS.'S-. Small French force here unlikely to offer opposition J Mediterranean Sea I I. I 4BasansSaaBBBWHBnaanMaannnnnaannBn I a, ;,- . " '"' 'sanaana, . To avoid slow-down clash with Turks Germony may try to capture or destroy British bases here and torce fleet into western Mediterranean, then send troops by sea to Syria for puH east (u eruin reswonce, rtara oeserr l 31 a - -' fenses of canal, should slow Gr9 lrn3 f ive fw Cairo Conolv & Gettin2 past the straits of Bosporus and Dardanelles, gateway to the Near East, is next Nazi problem. Map shows how Germany may vary her strategy to avoid costly clash here il Turkey refuses to sutnur to Nazi egression, |