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Show CALL 495 Tkp Weather. ' UTAH: Fair tonight and Wednea-: Wednea-: day, Uxbt frost tonight. Warmer ' west portion Wednesday. ; Maximum tempv Monday ' ... 69 Minimum temp., Monday ... 35 ... - ... . -- . . . If Yon Do Not BMdn Yosr Papee by 7 O'clock, Gall 495 and One Will Be Sent To You by Ueesesger. Phone your Want Ada to tike ad taker before 10 a. m. . - FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR, NO. 59 UTAW8 ONlT " - DAILY SOUTH Or SALT ' LAKE " PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH," TUESDAY,' SEPTEMBER 30,-1941 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS T3"DTr0 V1 fV "'TVP'PQ - i TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE lTXXVjEi flVCi XUlNlO, j BY TOR EDITOR ii'tujl I Hi. lie ji I ii ii itnninm in m i l l nu rnnrum n itn'c'clWfrrfi'j ijrinn'f'i'njtnrT n-irr-rrT-" y-vin .-.f ntl m faMiiiaiiaiiiiiiiiM iff Ctardnill 8w Ktae - ' - ; s ' ' Favorable War Picture r A final summary of the drive to collect scrap aluminum alumin-um shows that "11,835,139 pounds was turned in. While somewhat short of what was expected, this is an impressive impres-sive total, equal to the amount of aluminum in 350 lite four-motored bombers. Probably the actual scrap aluminum turned in will not bemused to build bombers, but it seems certain that this addition ad-dition to stocks will ameliorate, amelior-ate, at least to some degree, the shortage of the metal. It was worth doing, if only be- u 4.1 -- - other hidden sources of material, ma-terial, such as scrap iron and paper which can be similarly uncovered. oOo The great American hen is going to have to do her bit. Fifty billion eggs is the goal for 1942 in place of the mere 42,000,000,000 that rolled from the hen houses in 1941. Something will have to be done to pep up the poultry. poul-try. Electric lights in the hen houses might do it, but there's the power shortage to be considered. ; Just how to appeal to a hen's better nature na-ture well have to leave to the experiment station experts. But it's too bad they' can't be patiently told of the fate of the hens of Europe. They all wound up months ago in the Stew pots of the German army. Autos are up, tires are uj, gas is up- only pedestrians are down. . With the -straw hat season, over, we'll Jiave. to find something else to show us which way the wind blows. ... Insects cost the U. S. over $100,OOOCOOO yearly. This doesn't include pessimists. pessi-mists. ... Seventy-nine new Chicago policemen have college col-lege degrees and they can be expected to use diplomacy. . . . Paris folks shouldn't mind the blackouts ordered! by the Germans. They're used to being in the dark. MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs BV DREW PEARSON ROBERT 8. AIXEM Wallace Issues His Own Order Or-der in Ousting of General Maxwell; Vice President's (Action is Significant of His i New Authority; House Will Pass New Lend Lease Bill by Increased. Majority ; Senate To Pass it Too But Only After Hot Isolationist Fight. WASHINGTON Not many people noticed it, but a unique thing happened in the Capital the other day something which in the memory of veteran newsmen news-men never has happened before. The Vice President of the United States issued an extremely important im-portant statement on his own stationery, sta-tionery, ousting General Maxwell as head of the Export Control Office Of-fice and replacing him with Milo Perkins of the Agriculture Department. De-partment. This statement marks a very significant change, which, without with-out any hullabaloo, has taken . place in the - relations between the President and Vice President of the United States. Probably it is the most significant change since the days of the Founding Fathers when Vice President John Adams succeeded Washington as President, and when Vice President Presi-dent Thomas Jefferson later stepped step-ped into the shoes of Adams. Since then Vice Presidents have not usually succeeded Presidents except In case of death. - Nor nave - the relations between the - President and Vice President been particularly important, ex- cept, as in recent times, for a definite lack of cordiality between be-tween them. Vice President Marshall, Mar-shall, who served with Woodrow Wilson,- was famous .chiefly for 'his remark; "What this country needs ia a good five cent cigar." , Vice President Iawes became . famous for his rows with Coolidge i (Continued on Page Two) PROGRAM FOR CONFERENCE ANNOUNCED New Member Of First Council Of Seventy To Be Named By MURRAY M. MOLER SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 30 U.R) Authorities of the Latter-day Saints church today to-day -completed the program of daily activity for the five days of church and auxiliary meetings in connection with the 112th semi-annual Mormon Mor-mon conference. The conference activity will start early tomorrow morning with a meeting of the church architects. It will continue through Sunday night, when the general Sunday school conference will be held. General conference sessions of the main church body will start Friday. The first session is expected ex-pected to be highlighted by the announcement of the successor as a member of the first council of seventies to the late Rulon S. Wells. Welfare Meeting But probably the most important import-ant meeting of the conference week will come at 8:30 a. m. Saturday in the Salt Lake taber-n nacle. This will be the general welfare meeting at which the Mormda welfare program will be discuss& in light of changing economic eco-nomic conditions in the country. These changing conditions better bet-ter business and decreased unem ploymentrrare .particularly, noticed. able in most of the communities of the west where the church has its membership of nearly 1,000,-000 1,000,-000 persons. In Salt Lake City itself, an influx in-flux of defense workers has resulted re-sulted in a serious housing shortage short-age and prompted the church authorities to ask members here to list rooms where conference-goers conference-goers might stay while in the city. A brief summary of the conference con-ference program: Wednesday Meetings of the church architects; officers of the National Women's Relief Society, and departmental sessions on Relief Re-lief Society activities. Thursday Day-long meeting of all ward bishoprics; two more Relief Society sessions; stake mission mis-sion president's conference. Friday Meeting of stake and ward Aaronic priesthood committeemen commit-teemen and two general conference confer-ence sessions. Saturday General welfare meeting, two general conference sessions, general priesthood meeting, meet-ing, semi-annual seventies' conference, confer-ence, general primary meeting. Sunday Two general conference confer-ence sessions, stake Sunday school superintendents and secre-( secre-( Continued on Page Three) OGDEN WOMAN CRASH VICTIM OGDEN, Utah, Sept. 30 (UR Utah's traffic death toll rose another an-other notch to 145 for the year today with the death of Mrs. Mable Farnsworth Buckley, 45. She was fatally injured and her husband, John Buckley, Ogden, seriously nurt last night when their car collided at an intersection intersec-tion here with a' truck driven by C. J. Bertagnolli, 54. Wanted: Cougar to Serve As Mascot For B. Y. U. Grid Team A plaintive plea for help in locating a Cougar as Brigham Young university football mascot was sounded today by Lea Hen-rikson, Hen-rikson, student body social chairman, chair-man, who promises a stake in the - Big ' Seven championship to anyone who will provide a cougar for the institution. "We're beginning the current football season with our nickname of Cougar in all the write-ups, but horror of horrors, we dont have a cougar," said Henri kson in a letter to the editor. "How can we function as a student stu-dent body, behind our team to the last ditch, if the very symbol, sym-bol, the standard we bear, is merely - figurative ?" asks Hen-rlkBon. Hen-rlkBon. " And our team. How can Now They Will Be Tail Lights! DENVER, Sept. 30 01E Tail lights for horses were decreed de-creed today by the Colorado department or revenue. Director Farrington Carpenter Carpen-ter announced the new regulation regu-lation which applies to all horses on Colorado highways or streets after dark. "It's a safety move, he said,, "but it means that at long last tail lights come into their own. The name is a misnomer mis-nomer on automobiles, but our new regulation .will require. : that a reflector or light actually ac-tually be placed on the horse's tail." Engineer Killed As Troop Train Runs CHARLESTON, S. C, Sept. SO 0LB) An Atlantic Coast .Line train carrying more than .500 marines ran into" a freignt near Oakley, S. C, today, killing the engineer of the troop train and seriously injuring two crewmen, the railroad reported. Except for bruises and slight cuts, none of the marines were injured, according to the A. C. L. Office. . ;;. ; An empty Wooden coach t-twfeen t-twfeen the tender and the troop cLrs absorbed the shock of the rllision, the railroad said. Oakley is 25 miles north of here. The hospital at Moncks Corner, S. C. nearest sizeable town reported that only two persons had been taken there, the fireman and brakeman of the troop train. The fireman, Elmer Robbins, Florence S. C, was In serious condition from burns. . Engineer G. J. Glaus, of the northbound troop train, was the enry-4ataHtyy dying--fre- fcwncv the railroad reported. The marines were en route from the. Parris Island, S. C, marine base to New River, S. C. The troop train engine ploughed into the rear cars of the freight, which was waiting for a aiding switch to be opened. Treasury to Crack Down on "Tax Profiteers" WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 (HE) The treasury prepared today to crack down on riy" "tax profiteers" pro-fiteers" dealers who . attempt to reap larger profits by misrepresenting misrepre-senting the new federal excise taxes which go into effect tomorrow. to-morrow. The bureau of internal revenue, an official said, win seek prose-cutioajjf prose-cutioajjf yfTAny merchant, for example, who increases the price of an ar tide 20 per cent to cover a 10 per cent tax, and then advertises that the entire . increase is due to added taxation. 2. Any dealer, who by purchasing purchas-ing in large quantities, undersets smaller competitors and calls attention at-tention to his accomplishment by telling the public: "We absorb the tax." The bureau Is relying on its recently-increased staff of field agents and upon the consumer public to detect law violations. Coming Events Assistant Coaches' Club, tonight, to-night, 7:30, Keeley's. Coa.ch Eddie Kimball to discuss last, week's game and the BYU-Greeley State game slated Friday night. All club members and others wishing to join are invited. they hope to imitate the fierceness, fierce-ness, the aggressiveness, of their namesake unlesa they have . oue to study?" Henrikson asserted that "we know if the team had that cougar they'd win the Big Seven championship cham-pionship hands down yes, they would! They'd walk away from Utah, Colorado and the rest so doggone easily it wouldn't even te a race. We've got the team, we've got the "Student body, now .all, we need is that cougar. .' So, gentle reader, if you know of any cougars, or if you .have one to offer, dont write but wire the "Y social chairman. And then, don't, forget to be on hand to collect your share in the Big seven cnamptonsnip: , -y Freight NEUTRALITY ACT CHANGES TAKE SHAPE Roosevelt, Hull Draft Outline Of Admin- : ' - istration Plan WASHINGTON, SeptjO (U.R President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cor-dell Cor-dell Hull today drafted -an outline of the administration plan to modify the existing neutrality act at a conference which lasted 'an hour and 45 minutes. " . - ' ' Mr. Roosevelt and Hull met in the residential, section of the White House shortly after, the chief executive returned . . from Hyde Park, N. Y. ' While indicating, that neutrality revision was the paramount ;ub-ject ;ub-ject under discussion, Hull' Said the conference covered all other phases of the international situation. situa-tion. ' -. "We were going over all ; the different phases of the international interna-tional situation as they affect matters which we thought called for an exchange of ideas, and discussions," dis-cussions," he said. r:V Hull 'declined, however, to .give details of the proposed neutrality act revision-which Mr. Roosevelt will discuss tomorrow with .his legislative . leaders. Hull reminded reporters that he recently had advocated modification of the act and that he could say no more at this time. WASHINGTON, Sept. SO LEHj Chairman Tom Connolly, D4 Texas, of the senate foreign rela4 amendment prospects : a further boost last night in a broadcast specifically calling for authority to arm our ships and for abandonment aban-donment of combat zone policies which bar them from belligerent ports! The administration had cause for satisfaction in the v Connally broadcast in which the? powerfully powerful-ly placed foreign relations committee com-mittee chairman endorsed Mr. Roosevelt's policies in all aspects with emphatic assertion that "Hitler and his Nazi terrorism must be destroyed." He repeated warnings that Germany has plans to . "attack or conquer" the United States and western hernia phere. "Hitler has decreed the death (Continued on Page Three) Jewelry Bandits Get S50,GC0 Haul HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 30 UE) Three bandits today gained entrance en-trance to the exclusive Flato jewelry store through a ruse, blackjacked the manager, trussed truss-ed up five employees and escaped with a fortune in precious gems. . E. F. Garner, manager of the swank shop which caters by appointment ap-pointment only to socialites and members of the film colony, estimated esti-mated the trio took at least $50,-000 $50,-000 worth of jewels. The ' bandits, one masked with a white handkerchief, used a parcel messenger, George Mueller, Muel-ler, 20, to gain entrance to the store. Mueller, without knowing the part he was playing in the robbery, rob-bery, delivered a package at the rear entrance. When the doorman,' door-man,' Irving Dobry, unlocked the door, the three men sprang through the narrow entrance and overpowered him. They were busily tieing the two men when Manager Garner happened upon the scene. One of the trio mashed mash-ed him over the head with a -revolver " and trussed him along with the doorman and the messenger. mes-senger. . - Four ; other employes were bound without trouble and the men swung, open the unlocked safe and calmly scooped out the jewels, being careful to take only diamonds and -the more precious stones which were stuffed into a canvas bag carried 'for such a purpose. " . .V, HESS REPORTED ON HUNGER STRIKE ' ' , LONDON, Sept. 30 UE ' - The London Star, tonight quoted "extraordinary "ex-traordinary - stories" circulating here as . reporting that Rudolf Hesa had twice started, hunger strikes on the ground that he was a "special , envoy" and should hot be treated as a prisoner of war. ' - Hess' view, according to these stories, is that as an "envoy" he should be permitted to return to Germany, at once,' the Star sara. jLos'ses.K : In Battle Of The They're in Russia f " - " ' ' - " ' J ' - W . - ' - , ' , '',- Vr - - 1 - -"' ' -'-y ? ' - - . v- ' rt';'-- -, a i - - '--'- h-'-y -f MZr) ' y K . . . ; IWIW llllllllllimilliriMliimillllllllill.MlllllllWIIMBIllMMIIMllWIIMM l' 'TI PIVH0f 1 HI.II.HI i ji i T V (NEA Radio-Telephoto) Members of British and United States delegations shown with Soviet officials upon arrival in Moscow for conference of the three governments on war policies, etc. Left' to right: Lord seaverbrook, British supply minister; W. OverUl Harriman, U. S. delegation head; Konstantin Oumansky; Soviet ambassador to U. S.; A. Y. Vyshinsky, Soviet deputy. Council of Commissars and Foreign Affairs. . : ' HEALTH MEET WPRWO Importance of local health in the national defense program was stressed by Evelyn K. Davis, . assistant as-sistant director of the national organization for public health nursing, in an address at an institute insti-tute -on health for lay organizations organiza-tions and community councils of this area at the county building today. More than 60 persons from counties coun-ties of tthis region attended the institute .Sponsored by the state health department. iss Bessie Hansen, nursing supervisor of health district No. 4, presideKat the morning session, and Dr. E. L. Van Aelstyn, director dir-ector of district No. 3, gave a speech of welcome. Miss Vera Klingman was slated to preside at the afternoon session, addresses being as follows: . "Utah's Health Problems,, Dr. William M. McKay, state health commissioner; '.'School Health Program Pro-gram and Organization," Dr. J. C. Moffitt of Provo city schools; and "Representative Group Council and How it Functions," Lloyd B. Adamson, Lehl high school principal. prin-cipal. A summary by Miss Davis concluded the confab. Leningrad Better Than Month Ago MOSCOW, Sept 30 (IIP.) A Soviet spokesman said tonight that Russia's position around Leningrad Lenin-grad Is better now than it was a month ago and that German forces have failed to make any progress 1 1916. In 1925 he was elected treas-in treas-in day and night battling at the urer and director, and held , these approaches to the Crimea. (Continued on Page Three) : Nation V Traffic Toll Reaches All-Time Peak CHICAGO, Sept. 30 UE -The nation's motorists raced during August to a new a'J-time peak for traffic toll in human life. The National Safety Council reported re-ported today the August death total from , automobile accidents was 21 per cent greater than the same month a year ago, and 'the 13th consecutive month . of increased in-creased fatalities. The 31-day toll was 3,910 persons.' per-sons.' " On eve of a scheduled meeting of the National - Safety congress, embracing 10,000 members of 125 safety organizations, . the council brought Into sharp focus the urgency urg-ency of immediate safety precautions precau-tions of the nation's highways. : The congress will meet Oct. 6 at Chicago to formulate a ."put-on the brakes' campaign under- he guidance of President ; Roosevelt's BuMc&d; Two- to Learn What Russia William D. Sutton, " fjrtree-ofi?rovor m Dies at Hospital William D. Sutton, 79, formerly of Provo, treasurer and director of the Newhouae Realty company and former state treasurer of Utah, died Monday in a Salt Lake City hospital of a cardiac ailment after several months of illness. He resided at Newhouse hotel. Mr. Sutton for many years has been prominent in business, civic and Masonic activities of the state. He was born at Provo, Novem ber 8, 1861. He moved to Park City about 1883 and lived there for some 40 years. Mr. Sutton as a young man worked in mining camps and later engaged in the hotel and restaurant restau-rant business. He operated a meat market at Park City for many years with his brother, E. D. Sutton. Sut-ton. He later opened the first combined meat and grocery mar ket in Utah. He was a member of the state council of defense and chairman of the Summit county council of defense during the World war. He waa a member of the state house of representatives from 1907 to 1909, and was a member of the Park City council. In 1921 Mr. Sutton was elected state treasurer for four years, and later was apopinted to the Utah state ' board of equalization. He held the latter position until 1928, and shortly after that time he became purchasing agent of the Newhouse Realty company. He had first become associated with the company as a stockholder in recent proclamation emphasizing the significance of traffic safety to national defense. ' With the unprecedented increase in the traffic death rate during August, the total fatalities for the first eight months, of 1941. mounted mount-ed to 24,030 human lives. This represented an 18 per r cent . Increase In-crease over v the 20,440 persons killed in the same period of 1940. Only six states showed cumulative cumu-lative reductions in " deaths for 1941. North Dakota reduced its death list 38 per cent, in the past seven months under; the 1940 figure. fig-ure. New Hampshire went down 27 per cent for " eight " months. Other states which showed, reductions reduc-tions were: Idaho, ; 11 per cent; Wyoming, 9 per cent; Colorado, ,8 per cent, and Rhode Island, 7 per cent. " ' , . -. . f. ' Needs for Victory AID TO RUSSIA TOUESPEEDED Moscow, sept, so am Josef Stalin has conferred a second time with Lord Beav-erbrook Beav-erbrook and W. Ave re 11 Harrl-. Harrl-. man, leaders of the British and American delegations to the Russian aid conference, it was revealed tonight. BY WALLACE CARROLL MOSCOW, Sept. 30 (UR Six committees appointed by the tri-power tri-power conference on war aid to Russia were instructed today to work "day and night" on plans, for expediting shipments to the Soviet. Delegations from Britain, Russia and the United States appointed committees on military supplies,, air supplies, naval supplies, raw. materials, . transportation and . Red Cross and medical supplies. The committees were instructed to report re-port to the conference Friday. W. Averell Harriman, chief of the American delegation, pledged United States resources for "as long as the conflict lasts." Speaking Speak-ing after Foreign Commissar Via-cheslav Via-cheslav M. Molotov and Lord Beaverbrook, chief of the British delegation, Harriman said: "We come with your British ally with the same object to give you every assistance in your heroic and magnificent resistance against the violent and unprovoked at tack upon you by Hitler and his cohorts. "xour success means every' thing to the American people. I am instructed to pledge you our fullest supportktoday. tomorrow and as long as the conflict lasts until ultimate victory comes. "Now let's get down to work." Molotv, presiding, . eat at the head of a small table with Beaver brook at his right and Harriman at his left. Around the table sat nine leading , military, naval and aviation experts of the three powers. pow-ers. Beyond this, at another table sat Oonstahtine Oumansky, Russian Rus-sian ambassador to the United States, Sir Stafford Crlpps, British Ambassador, and . Laurence A. Steinhardt, American Ambassador to Russia. Advisers and other experts ex-perts were grouped around the walls. This Day 0 m BORN -V.; V Girl, to Joseph E. and Florence Jones Barker of Evanston, Wyo September 29, at the Dee hospital In Ogden. -. '. Boy, to Mortis and Angela Carter Car-ter Cameron, of Provo, Sunday, Lehl hospital. ' V - LICENSED TO MARRY William LeRoy Swell. 20, Sans taquin. and Donna Limb, 15, San-taquln.--, i v , . ' ' Thirds Atlatitic LUFTWAFFE SUFFERING SHORTAGE Hitler May Be Expected To Strike In , New Areas Bulletin: CAIRO, Sept. 30 (U.R) The Royal Air Force reported re-ported today that 64 Italian aircraft were destroyed "or damaged in a big daylight RAF attack on Palermo, Sicily. By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor Britain today reported a more favorable picture ; of war on the eastern front, in the air, on the seas and in the Nazi-occupied countries of Europe. . There were dark and dangerous dan-gerous parts of the picture," as outlined by 'Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the house . of commons.7 It waa emphasised that Hitler may be- expected to Intensify his war blows in vital field nd a pezhapa awing, .bars, -west to strike with full power, at Britain. North Africa and . the Suez canaL - ... - . - Invading Continent But on -the encouraging aide were listed: 1. A statement- by Churchill that the luftwaffe was suffering a "very serious' shortage of war-. planes for battle ' on two rlronts simultaneously, that Britain had cut losses in the battle of the At- , lantic 'by two-thirds since . July, and that the possibility of invading invad-ing the ' continent had been considered. con-sidered. - 2. A report by radio-Moscow, that Italian fleet units had bombarded bom-barded Montenegrin towns on the Adriatic coast, that thousands of Czechs had been arrested, and that unrest was growing swiftly in occupied Europe. 3. Moscow, reporting' important import-ant gains at Leningrad and halting halt-ing of Germans on other sectors,' ordered universal military trin- ing of all men from 16 to 60 years to make every citizen capable capa-ble of defending the nation. Meet Russia's Requests 4. London officially reported . that "in most cases" Britain has met the full requests of Russia (Continued on Page Three) FIRE SWEEPS FOUNDRY PLANT CLEVELAND, Sept. 30 UR -. Fire today destroyed the plant of the National Bronze and Alumni-num Alumni-num Foundry company and spread -to nearby residences .in t con--gested industrial area of the city, damaging a dozen dwellings slightly. slight-ly. - ,V- The plant employs abouV 1,000 men and had been turning out de- f ense - materials, including alumi num castings for airplane and tank parts, cause of the blaze was not determined. ' '-'"'fc-r":. 'Flames swept the whole length of the factory. The tentative estimate esti-mate of the loss was $350,000. Employes Em-ployes said many costly machine tools had been ruined by the heat 31 Sheep Killed By Cdal Trucker Thirty-one head of sheep belonging be-longing to Edwin N, Robertson of Moroni - were killed when a truck loaded with 13 tons of -coal- and driven ; by M. C Pelsley, 30, of Salt Lake City flowed-into the herd of 640 sheep on. highway 91 south of Provo Monday at 6 p. m., according to Deputy. Sheriff J. J. Mercer. :-r'i'v-';.-i' -The truck was' traveling north. " the sheep south ; toward Moroni. Peisley told officers he waa- unable, un-able, to stop in time to avoid hitting hit-ting - the aheep. He was booked for railing-to have a drivers license. li-cense. - . v . V ! |