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Show TtieWeatHen UTAH: - Fair and aonttaued cool today, tonight and -Tuesday, but slowly- rising temperature Tuesday; Tues-day; light frosts lit high valleys . of north portion, n Max. temp Sunday ......... -?6 Ann. temps Sunday ......... .45 GALL 495 - It Tea Do Not Receive Tour Papej by 7 O'clock. O&n 495 and Ono m Bo Seat To Too by He eager. Thon ytmr Want Ada to the a4 taker before It a, m. . ; FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR, NQ. 44 UTAH'8 ONL.T DAILY PRO VP, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1941 COMPLETE UNITBD PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS 8ERVICH PRICE FIVE CENTS SOUTH OF SALT folfol MSI jvJImJ uv CHAT JU , ? , . 1 Ha) It's always the open sea-C sea-C son for souvenir hunters. But that greatest of Amer-can Amer-can indoor and outdoor sports, - stalking the elusive souvenir, is on the decline. So, at least, suggests a regional reg-ional director of the National Park Service. Americans are becoming - less souvenir-crazy and more interested sightseers, sight-seers, he says. Hallelujah!. No longer will the stolen hotel towel, the chip surreptitiously knocked off the monument, the purloined pur-loined ash tray be the testimonial, testi-monial, of a successful vacation.- Travel ought to broaden broad-en the mind and spirit of the traveler, not merely his shelf of . d u s t - catching knick- knacks. oOo A survey of accidents by Chief of Police Claud Hawkins Haw-kins shows the great majority major-ity of local mishaps occur at intersections.; This should be a warning, to every motorist to slow down and watch carefully care-fully when approaching a corner. cor-ner. I : oOo Yords of Wisdom There's a bright side even for school children only nine months 'till vacation. . . Your peace of mind often is destroyed by a piece of somebody else's. . . . Peach preserves keep much better when placed on a top shelf if there are children in the house. . .-.-After his wife won the rolling pin throwing contest con-test at a Salina, Kansas, fair, a manTOpped the 100 - yard dash. Practice makes perfect per-fect . Today's Quote The tolerant are completely complete-ly enslaVed toy- their own destructive behavior. Dr. David M. D. Levy, N. Y. psychiatrist. MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of Whafs Going On in National Affairs a DREW ASABSON aad 1 ROBERT S. ALLEN Secret Document in U. S. Hands Shows Nazis Bleeding Bleed-ing France White; Food, Manufactures Seized or Paid For With Berlin-Issued Francs; New OPM Production Head Bigger's Toughness Wins Over Steel Men ; Strike-Voting Rail-road Rail-road Workers To Stay 'Till President Gets Facts. WASHINGTON The systematic systema-tic looting of their victims is an old Nazi story, but the extent to which they are denuding France of its food and industries is graphically revealed in a secret document that has Just come into the possession of U. S. authorities authori-ties It consists of financial reports made by branch managers of - the Bank of France In German occupied zones to M. De Boisanger, Vichy-appointed head, of the -bank. How the document got into U. S. hands Is an intelligence secret, - One interesting fact reported by the branch managers is that Berlin agents appear well supplied sup-plied with. foreign currency, apparently ap-parently , appropriated from other conquered countries. What the Nazis can't buy with paper francs in their "New Order 'of things, thv nav for with "valuta" stolen from their victims. By this and tther methods, according to the bank managers, - M. A. 1, - the Nazis are systematically ue-' ue-' nuding occupied France -of all cereals, eggs, milk, butter, cheese, fodder and livestock. Every known wine cellar has been drained dry and already over 20,000,000 bottles of champagne have been ' shipped to Germany. Also, the 1941 grape crop has been taken over in toto at prices fixed by the Nazis. . In the Parts area, according to the secret report, all heavy-goods heavy-goods Industries have been seized by the Nazis, either through eut-. eut-. (Continued on Page Five) Farm Program For 1 942 To Encourage Heavier Production Wickar d Reverses New Deal in All-Out All-Out Progrram By FRED BAILEY WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 U.R) -Secretary of Agriculture Agricul-ture Claude R. Wickard today to-day announced a 1942 farm program calling for all-time record production to "improve "im-prove nutrition in. this country coun-try and meet the needs of nations that still stand between this country and Hitler." Wickard sharply reversed the New Deal farm program that has sought reduced production of most crops.. He called now for "a complete mobilization of American Ameri-can agriculture to adjust production produc-tion to domestic needs for national nation-al defense and to the needs of nations resisting aggression." Largest Production "The goals for 1942 call for the largest production in the history of American agriculture, but we are not going to have to plow up the hills and the plains to get it," Wickard said. "We have adequate reserves of. feed - grains for increased in-creased production of livestock products and it will not be necessary neces-sary materially to increase total crop acreage next year.." The program emphasizes increased in-creased production of hogs, eggs, evaporated milk, dry skim milk, cheese and chickens products most vitally needed by the British, Brit-ish, as Well'&S "American consum ers engaged in all-out defense production. The program calls for unlimited sugar production, nearly double peanut production, slightly increased in-creased acreage of corn and other feed crops, more soy beans and potatoes, and 1,329,000 more home gardens. Reduce Wheat Crop Wheat production would be reduced re-duced 15 to 20 per cent below this year's, in view of the large surplus sur-plus on . hand and lack of export demand for American wheat. Cotton Cot-ton acreage would be about the same as this year. "For the first time in the his-( his-( Continued tin Page Three) j Youth Dies When Thrown From Gar ST.. GEORGE, Sept. - 8 UR The death of an 11-year-old Veyo, Utah, boy today boosted Utah's 1941 traffic fatality toll and increased in-creased the Washington county toll to 10. The victim was Edwin Dale Cheney, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ber-tran Ber-tran Cheney. He was killed when thrown from the running board of his father's car, while the Elder El-der Cheney was trying to assist a tourist whose machine had stall ed on a hill near Veyo. Motorists Warned Of School Zones A warning-' to motorists to drive carefully around school grounds and to children to obey rules of caution, was sounded today by Chief of Police Claud Hawkins as 4000 Provo school children returned re-turned to classes. In .a survey of school grounds this morning, police reported that motorists do not, as a rule, heed signs to proceed slowly through school zones. Speeders in these zones will be ticketed in the fu ture, Chief Hawkins said. -- Communistic Affiliations Charged By Dies Against Henderson, Aides WASHINGTON, Sept 8 (HE) Price Control Administrator Leon Henderson submitted to the civil service commission today charges by Chairman Martin Dies, D., Texas, of the house committee on un-American activities, that Henderson and five defense aides have Communistic affiliations. Asks Dismissal Dies, in a letter to Presdent Roosevelt, asked for the "immedL ate severance from the government's govern-ment's payroll" of Henderson, Robert A. Brady, head consultant of OPACS (now split into two divisions in the new defense setup) set-up) ; Tom Tippett, assistance chief. Provo Merchant Heads Committee On Fall Opening Clyde P. Crockett today was named chairman of Provo's fall opening, which will be held September Sep-tember 15-20 as a feature of the local observance of national Re- tailers-For-Defense week, according accord-ing to Evan Thomas, general chairman. Committee to assist Crockett includes Sidney W. Russell, Paul Huish, Rex Taylor, Elmo Storrs, Homer R. Bandley, and Clifford Armstrong. Inaugurate Sale The national Retailers-For-De-fense week, in which Provo is cooperating, co-operating, will institute the sale by retail merchants throughout the nation of Defense Savings stamps. " . More than a million stores from coast to coast are participating in the national event. Plans for the sale of defense stamps will be discussed at a meeting Tuesday in Salt Lake, with representatives from the Provo chamber of commerce expected ex-pected to meet with the Salt Lake chamber. Display of latest autumn fashions fash-ions and new trends in style will feature the fall opening here. The committee in charge of the opening open-ing will ntet Wednesday,, mprft-ing mprft-ing to formulate plans for the event, Thomas said. Chairman of the drive to sell defense stamps is LeRoy J. Olsen. The Provo retail merchants committee com-mittee of the chamber of commerce com-merce is directing the affair in Provo. TWO KILLED IN ACCIDENTS SALT LAKE CIT7, Sept. 8 UP Utah counted no -jiew traffic deaths over the weekend, but two accidents in the vicinity of the capital brought death to their victims. Angus Keith .the 2 year old son of Mr. and xMrs. George Wilson Wil-son of Minneapolis, was drowned when he slipped into a shallow stream running through a trailer camp. The child was missed after 10 minutes, but efforts to revive re-vive him failed. A Granite farmer, Joseph Bar-zen, Bar-zen, 78, died In a Salt Lake City hospital of injuries suffered Fri day when he fell Into a potato pit he was digging at his home. This Day . . . BORN Girl, to W. A. and Mildred Stewart Call of r Fayetteville, Arkansas. Ar-kansas. To be named Ton! Kay. LICENSED TO MARRY Lugene Odell Peterson, 20, Lehi, and Ora Anderson, 19, Cedar Fort. Homer F. Stephens, 22, New York, and Beth Bird, 21, Provo. EXCHANGE CLUB Provo Exchange club, tonight at 8 o'clock, Hotel Roberts. Regular Reg-ular business ' session.' Plans for coming season and projects will be outlined by President George S. Young. of rent section of OPACS; Dewey H. Palmer, consultant of OPACS; E. J. Lever, principal field representative repre-sentative of OPM's labor division. Henderson denied he is or ever was "a member of any Communist Commun-ist dominated or controlled organ ization." He promised to "eat on the treasury steps any Communist organization to which I belong." He said the defense employes referred to by Dies were being in. vestlgiated "like all other govern, ment employes." MIf-investigators determine they are not fit, I'U fire them quickly," he said,; "but we don't take funny (Continued on Page Three) " COFFEY QUITS Rinderhagen Appointed Temporary Chief By Utilities Board Resignation of Ray J. Cof' fey as superintendent of thef Provo department of utilities and appointment of Ray Rinderhagen as temporarjj? super intendent - was an nounced today by J.1 Hamilton Calder, chairman of the board - The resignation was accepted and the appointment made at a meeting of the board this morn tag. !, Coffey, who began duties as superintendent of the department March 1 of this year following the resignation of R. C. Adams,' is moving to Salt Lake City to accept ac-cept an engineering position, hie said. J The utilities board made no statement regarding the resignation resigna-tion other than that it was accepted. ac-cepted. , Much Experience Rinderhagen has served as cost accountant of the Provo utilities department since its inauguration and has had many years of expert, ence in municipal power work, according to Mr. Calder. . Coffey's resignation and Rinder-hagen's Rinder-hagen's appointment were effec tive as of this morning. A permanent superintendent will be appointed at a later date by the utilities board, it was stated. Rinderhagen began his career in-l 1931 at Freemont, Nebraska, where he established several improved im-proved systems in his department. He worked in various phases of the Freemont plant until he began work in Provo, January 1, 1940. He "has studied at Midland and Creighton universities. "I'm very glad to serve the people of Provo in this new posL tion, and I promise my full cooperation co-operation in continuing the fine work of the department," Hinder, hagen said. Mr. Coffey said: "I have enjoyed en-joyed being in Provo and have enjoyed my position and the friends I've made. For this reason rea-son it is with regret that I resign." re-sign." All other positions in the department de-partment will remain the same, Mr. Calder said. Members of the board, besides Mr. Calder, include Dr. Vasco M. Tanner and ex-Mayor Mark Anderson. An-derson. Roosevelt Talk Postponed N To Thursday Night HYDE PARK, N. Y., Sept. 8 UR Because of the death of his mother. President Roosevelt's "important" address to the American Ameri-can public and world on foreign policy has been postponed until Thursday night. In announcing the postponement, postpone-ment, the temporary White House offices gave no hint of the subject matter, but reiterated it would be of "major importance," directed not at the United States alone but at the whole world. Mr. Roosevelt will speak from the White House in Washington at 10 p. m. (EDT.) over the three major networks. His speech will be translated into 14 languages, Including German, for rebroadcast to all parts of the world. He is expected to speak for about 15 minutes. Food Stamp Of f ice Announces Schedule Beginning September 8, 9, and 10, the Provo Food Stamp issuing office will be kept open Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of every other week, W. Evan Fullmer, supervisor, announced today. The office will be open from 11 a. m. to 6:30 p. m. each of these days to accommodate workers outside of Provo city who are unable to make stamp purchases during regular office hours. ' NAZIS SEEK TRADE AGREEMENT WITH TURKEY ANKARA. Turkey, Sept. 8 OLE) Karl ClocUua, Germany's chief economic negotiator, arrived today to-day with 12 aides to seek a Turkish-German trade agreement v POSITIONS' UTILITY HEAD Death Mourned -T iu iL SARA DELANO ROOSEVELT America Mourns Passing of Sara Delano Roosevelt BY SAN DOR S. KLEIN HYDE PARK, N. Y., Sept. 8 (IIP) An American flag fluttering at half mast from the Franklin X)j . Roosevelt- library, .-symbolized today the gref of the president and his family over death of his mother, Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt. Roose-velt. Mrs. Roosevelt, 86 years old, one of three women who have lived long enough to see their sons become president of the United "states, died yesterday following a collapse of her circulatory circu-latory system brought about by old age. Death came in a bedroom bed-room of the ancestral Roosevelt estate here with her son and her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, at her bedside. Services Tuesday Funeral services, which will be private, will be held tomorrow from the home and she will be buried on the left side of her husband, James Roosevelt, who died in 1900, in the family plot in the yard of St. James Episcopal Episco-pal church here. Only members of the family and intimates will attend and friends and the public were specifically requested not to send flowers. Thousands of messages of condolences con-dolences were arriving at the temporary tem-porary White House offices in Poughkeepsie and the White House in Washington. They came from the world's great who, since 1932, when her son became president, pres-ident, have known "the grand old lady of Hyde Park" as both an impeccable aristocrat and a proud mother, and from simple folk to whom she symbolized the maternal mater-nal virtues. The home in which she died (Continued on Page Three) Senate Adjourns To Honor Mother Of Nation's Head ste WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 UE The Senate adjourned today unt& Thursday out of respect for the president's .mother. Sen. Lister Hill, D., Ala., spoke briefly, describing Mrs. Sarah Roosevelt as a "noble woman and a wonderful mother." "- ,.r,.'--:"'.':'.',; 1 Q f -V German Authorities Hold Hundred Jews As Hostages VICHY Sept. 8 (HE) German authorities in Paris today arrested arrest-ed 100 prominent Jews and held them aa hostages for maintain-ance maintain-ance of order in the city. The drastic action by the nazi occupation officials came as execution ex-ecution of another French citizen for alleged antl-nazis acts was revealed. ' - Tension over acts- of terrorism against the nazl military and occupation oc-cupation officials has been mounting mount-ing steadily. , The Germans already, hold be tween 10.000 and 12,000 persons, many of whom are' regarded as hostages for good behavior of the populace. . ' HEARING ON PIPE PLANT STRIKE OPENS Company, Union Officials Appear Before U. S. Mediation Board WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 (U.R) The defense mediation board today began hearings on the dispute over a con tract agreement between the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (CIO) and the Pacific States Cast IronPipe Co., Provo, Utah. A strike!-was called over union status and wage increases asked by the union, but 438 union members returned to work Aug. 19 pending board ac tion. The hearing began under the direction of a three-man panel composed of waiter . lasner, representing the public; George Mead, representing employers; and Hugh Lyons for labor.. Company officials at the hear ing were William McWane, . Bir mingham, Ala.; Dean F. Bray ton, Salt Lake City, and O. H. King, Provo. Union representatives were Varro C. Jones, director of - the Utah SWOC-CIO, Salt Lake City; Ralph H. Peters, vice president of the Utah State Industrial Union Council, Provo; and Clifford Clif-ford R. Taylor, local union president, presi-dent, Springvllle, Utah. Senators Oppose Tariff uts nn Cuban Products WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 ttLE Proposed reductions in the tariff rates on Cuban sugar, beef and veal in negotiations for a supplemental supple-mental U. S. Cuban trade treaty were opposed today by Sens. Edwin Ed-win C. Johnson, D., Colo., and Arthur Capper, R., Kansas. L They appeared before the tariff commission's committee on recip rocity information at the first in a series of hearings on proposed changes in the duty on a list of articles to be covered by the agree ment under negotiation. Johnson said that while the good neighbor policy" of Secre tary of State Cordell Hull called for sacrifices on" the" part of this country, they should "fall upon all of our people with equal force" and not "place the whole burden . . .upon the stock grower and the beet grower alone." Asserting that Cuba's cattle industry in-dustry is expanding rapidly and that Cuban growers have an advantage ad-vantage over domestic producers because of a' low tariff and a lower standard of living, Johnson said: "The cattle population .of the United States has reached an all-time all-time high ... however, the cost of producing beef in this country, because of high taxes and high wages, has gone skyward. "The industry at the present (Continued on Page Three) SEEK TO SETTLE NEWSPAPER STRIKE BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Sept 8 OLE) State Labor Commissioner William H. Ivey returned to Montgomery Mont-gomery today after a conference between a committee of the American Amer-ican Newspaper. Guild and . the management of the Birmingham Post failed to settle a strike which resulted Saturday in suspension of publication of the afternoon newspaper. news-paper. . , The move against the 100 prominent prom-inent Paris Jews was taken - despite de-spite previous Indications that communists were to be blamed for the terroristic campaign' and that, reprisals would, be taken against alleged 'communist hostages hos-tages rather than Jews. ' , t ' The latest execution was ' revealed re-vealed by the newspaper La Phare De La Loire, published in the occupied oc-cupied zone.' ' ' - It said Marin Pirier. a resident of Nantes, has been executed by the Germans on a charge of aiding; aid-ing; French, war - prisoners to escape into unoccupied France. HundredsTlAiv; Planes In Raids on ftaids Held Greatest Determined Russian Defenses Hold Firm At Leningrad, Kiev, Odessa Fronts By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign. News Editor A great fleet of British heavy bombers smashed at heart of Berlin today as Russian defenses held before the bastions of Leningrad, Kiev and Odessa. Start Great Fires-Hundreds Fires-Hundreds of Royal Air Force planes bombed a railroad station and started many fires in mid-Berlin in a new offensive offen-sive that extended from Oslo to Sicily over the week-end and was described officially as the greatest aerial attack of the war against the Reich capital. ; . The RAF attack, which included in-cluded Kiel and other Nazi tar gets, indicated that the British were putting increased power, into in-to their attempt to establish 'a great western aerial front in sup port of the Red army on the east. ern front, and thus force the Nazis to wage real war both in western Europe and Russia. In the east, it was emphasized in dispatches from Berlin and Moscow, there was no abatement of the struggle, with German bombers hammering constantly at thedef enses ' of Leningrad and the Russians reporting they, were turning back every thrust. Circle Completed The Nazi high command claim ed late today, however, that the encirclement of Leningrad had Tne text of - the German com munique: Rapid divisions of the German army, superbly supported by bomber formations . of the luft- waffe, have reached the Neva east of Leningrad on a broad front and have taken the town of Schlisselburg on Lake Ladoga by storm. "Thus, the German - Finnish ring, has been closed around Len ingrad and Leningrad is now cut off from all communication bv land." . A wall of steel, backed bv the Red army, home euard fiehters from the factories and civilians laboring in arms plants, has broken brok-en the "best Fascist divisions" outside the birthplace of the Bol- snevik revolution, a Russian 1 broadcast said. . From Odessa came a similar J (Continued on Page Three) GERMAN PRESS VOWS REVENGE BERLIN, Sept. 8 The German press today, quoted civilian civil-ian descriptions of the "fearful crash" of British bombs in a Royal Alr; Force raid on Berlin during ine nignt and denounced the attack at-tack as a "lout's trick" and a "crime." In angry outbursts, German newspapers, for the first time since the heavy British air raids on Berlin last fall, promised vengeance veng-eance as the official news agency reported that 27 civilians had been killed. Describing the damage in the capital, the newspaper Nachtaus-gabe Nachtaus-gabe said that in a northern section sec-tion of the city virtually the entire en-tire roof and iron balconies of a four-story apartment house were torn off by the concussion of a heavy explosive bomb. Dust and heavy tiles lay on the sidewalk while the entire front of the house shows hundreds of pock-marks, the account said. "Smashed tables and chairs in the front yard of a small public house are piled in wild disorder." Berliners bombed out of their homes, the newspapers reported, were given temporary refuge in schools and other-public buildings where coffee and sandwiches were distributed. The .Nachtausgabe, concluding its account, said: "These shameful acts will be revenged re-venged and the German sword will strike with fearful sharpness until un-til the British world incendiaries finally are : brought to their knees." . - - It termed the raid "one of the rottenest, most disgusting" yet against Berlin. . -i Official sources claimed that 24 British planes, 19 of them bombers, bomb-ers, had been shot down over reich territory Including - Berlin in the past 24 hours. 4 Fierce Germans of War Against Berlin; Nazis Form Soviet City BERLIN, Sept. 8 UR The Nazi high command reported late today that the encirclement of Leningrad has been completed.' ' The high command's, statement-was statement-was contained in a special communique, com-munique, from Adolf Hitler's field headquarters . on - the eastern front. --, The high command reported the river Neva which flows ; through Leningrad from the southeast had been reached "oni'TSFoad TronL" Capture City-: Mobile units of the German ar- my, it reported, smashed through the strong line of Russian 'defenses to the Neva, capturing the town of Schlisselburg, railroad center through which pass the lines Unk ing" Leningrad with the vest of Russia. - .v Thus, said the high command. the ring around Leningrad has been closed and the city is cut off from all communication by imiu. . .. . . - f Hundreds of bombs were psar- ed on the Russian positions before Leningrad as the German mechanized mechan-ized forces gradually ' tightened the siege, according to official statements. The main force of the German attack' was against railroads. highways, railroad stations and trenches south of Leningrad and In the Schluesselburg rail June- tion area, about 22 miles east, i The "Luftwaffe, however, was reported active- all along, the eas- tern front, bombing the' Russian air bases at Harkov and Bryansk and carrying out a - big raid on Odessa. The Island of Osel, off Estonia, . and areas around Lake Ladoga, north of Leningrad, ', where the 'Finns were reported to have advanced to the River Svir, also were bombed. Greer Incident Version - -' . In the meantime, Nazi spokes-( spokes-( Continued on Page .Three) WAR IN BRIEF BY UNITED PRESS ' LONDON Greatest Air raid of war on Berlin reported starting big fires "in heart of. city" and damaging important railroad station sta-tion as hundreds of RAF bombers drop biggest explosives. Kiel also attacked on anniversary of mass' raids on London during battle of Britain. . " - -: BERLIN Luftwaffe pounding furiously at Leningrad defenses . but Germans admit greatest. difficulties diffi-culties to be overcome due ; to strong fortifications .thousands of land. : mines and fanatical resistance. resis-tance. Finns claim advances of . Arctic front. . " MOSCOW Leningrad. Odessa and Kiev fight on strongly, radio broadcasts report, with "wall of steel'. bloclng path of Nazis into the second city of Russia. - Men, women and children . work furiously, fur-iously, over weekend to strengthen defenses and increase war1 factory output. About 400,000 of German origin ordered moved from Volga area to, Siberia to block fifth col umn ! maneuvers. - ' ' JAPAN MUST CONSIDER -FAR EAST MOVES - ; -MANILA, P. L Sept 8 JB- Alfred Duff Cooper, en route to represent the British cabinet at Singapore, arrived today by Clip- ' per and said he believed'' Japan would be forced to "consider care fully" any future moves in the fr east because of t firm 'British, stand. - ..... . 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