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Show PROVO (UTAH) DAILY HERALD, MONDAY IULY 20, 1942 PAGE ,TWQ 3 r r- zz MS Sunday) Saturday F Haral4 Publlah4 Sand? Mernin PnblUhM by tkt Raratt Corporatlaa. If ovtfc Strat Waal Straat, Provo, Utah. Kntara aa nd . ctan matter at tha paatef flea la rrava, Utah, wdr tha set of Hares I. 1IT. CUlmaa. Nloal Rathman, National Advartto-tut Advartto-tut t-apraaaatatWaa. Naw York, San Franclaco. Datrait. ; Boston, lies Antalaa, Chicago. Maihbar Cnltad Praac N, B. A. Baprlaa, f. Cirvaiauoa. -.., aoa . I 1 '.!' a fclbartjr - throvah alt tha Jand" Tfca Libartr v- Ball , Subserlptlan tarma by aarrUr la Utah HMr,'' tt aanw ha month, ' -ft.tt 'fa '-art irfotttTia. Wadvantfa: tT.f maa.'lh'adtanel, by mall anywhara tn Unlta4 tataC a' Ita poaaaaalona It canta tha month t t aaanthai t.T( tha yaar M sdvaaaan" - ' Tha Harald will not aaauma floanolal ra-aponalblllty ra-aponalblllty far any arrora which mar appaar In advortlMman'4 publlahad In Ha aolutnna. In thoaa Inatanaaa whara tha papar la a 'fault, tt will raprlnt that fart af tha adrartlaamaat Is which ' tha typacraahical atiataka Goods -News for the Axis Justice George Sutherland Justice George Sutherland who passed away early Saturday .at his summer retreat in the Massachusetts hills' had the unique distinction of feeing dne of only four men to have been born outside the United States and to sit on its Supreme Court bench. When he was appointed in September 1922, by President Warren War-ren ? G.'Harding it r had been more than a century since any one but a native had sat on the bench. Provo1 took a great deal of pride in the fact that Justice Sutherland was a resident of this city for more than 15 ears. It was here he obtained obtain-ed his early education as one of the , first students of Dr. Karl G. Maeser at the1 Brigham Young academy; it was here he met the-girl who later became his wife, and it was here he began the practice of law, a profession pro-fession in which he was later to rise to the pinnacle of fame as a member of the Supreme Court. Justice Sutherland was one of three noted residents of Provo, all of whom were at one time students of the Brigham Young academy, and all of whom served as United States senators, the other two being Reed Smoot and William H. King, the latter being the lone survivor of the illustrious triumvirate. His talents which were later to bear fruit in a public career of higher high-er national distinction than has ever been attained by any other resident resi-dent of Utah, were recognized early by' his teachers. Dr. Maeser often referred to his essays as models of classic literature. His progress was rapid, once he set his mind on a legal career and he was admitted' to the bar before he was 21. He rose to eminence and became known as" one of the leading lead-ing attorneys of the state, specializing special-izing in mining, corporation and constitutional -law. His ability was recognized when he was named chairman of the judiciary committee of Utah's first state senate after statehood, and in this capacity, took a leading part in framing legislation legisla-tion which gave mining concerns the right of eminent domain. In 1900 be was drafted by the Republican party and elected to serve as a - representative in the 57th congress. He refused renomi-nation renomi-nation in 1903 and went back to the practice of law. In 1905 he was elected United States senator by the state legislature, re-elected for a second term in 1911, but was defeated de-feated by his former class mate and law partner, William H. King in 1916 in the Wilson land slide. In the national capital where he made his home, he gained renown in international law and served in an advisory capacity to the United States delegation to the 1922 arms conference and participated in the settlement of war claims with Norway Nor-way at the Hague. His close friendship with President Presi-dent Warren G. Harding culminated in his appointment to the Supreme Court in 1922. On the bench he soon became the recognized leader lead-er of the conservative group and wrote many of its opinions, some of which have become classics in constitutional law. He was always a watchdog for the constitution, especially in its application appli-cation to contractual relations, and always a champion of liberty. He retired after 16 years of brilliant bril-liant service on the bench on January Jan-uary 19, 1938. George Sutherland's career typified typi-fied America as a land of opportunity. oppor-tunity. Without wealth or family influence in-fluence he rose to the highest rank of distinction ever attained by a Utah resident. Kind and gentle as a friend, loyal to his companions he had a host of friends in his home state and in the nation's capital who mourn his passing. The Herald joins his many friends in paying tribute to his great attainments attain-ments and in tendering consolation to the widow, and daughters, and also his brother and sister who reside re-side in Provo. . ifllllllThe IB Washington Merry-Go-Round A Daily Picture of What's Going On In National Affairs VLJFZ a! nv.Sfo WASHINGTON "Price Asphyxiator" Leon Henderson, with a long and deserved reputation rep-utation for championing the little fellow, got in the opposite corner the other day over deliveries of gasoline. His decision, together with that of War Production Board moguls, probably means that a lot of little gas stations sta-tions will go to the wall for good. What happened was that Oil Coordinator Ickes proposed continuance of the present System of delivering only 50 per cent of gas to all stations. Thus if a filling station was buying 4,000 gallons a week normally, it would get 2,000 gallons. Ickes argued that this was the fairest system for all concerned, that it was favored by oil and gas men, that it should continue. However, the WPB and Leon Henderson said no. Under Henderson's new gas rationing plan, a filling station can buy gas only according accord-ing to the number of rationing coupons it turns in. Thus, the more rationing coupons it collects, col-lects, the more gas It can buy. ' Ickes contended that this would mean cutthroat cut-throat price wars, with one station trying" to take business away from another. The filling Station that had one of the big oil companies behind it would have a better enhance of getting the business; while the independent would be out of luck and forced to close. However, -some of the WPB moguls argued that a lot of business firms were going go-ing to close anyway and some of the filling stations would have to be among them. HOLLYWOOD FIGHTS - . . Probably there is no civilian in Washington Washing-ton whom the War Department dislikes more than -the trust-busting never-quit assistant at-' at-' torney general, Thurman Arnold. This is because be-cause Arnold Insists upon prosecuting big companies on charges of violating the Sherman Sher-man anti-trust act, and the War Department contends this interferes with these companies' manufacture of war equipment. : Now, however, though the War Department Depart-ment doesn't know it yet, Thurman seems about tow do the. Army, a .service. He is refusing to be pushed around by the big movie moguls who want ..to increase block booking, thereby increasing in-creasing the quantity of film production, thereby there-by .eating into the nation's supply of nitroglycerine. nitro-glycerine. Nitroglycerine Is. one of the War Department's Depart-ment's most necessary ingredients for high explosives, ex-plosives, and it ir also used in the manufacture of film. ' . . - ' Behind block-booking is pne of the oldest controversies con-troversies in. . the motion picture industry. It had' long been, the practice pf the big movie companies to-self their pictures in blocks, sight unseen. And the theatre owners had to take them, without seeing them In advance, or' else be boycotted ' by the big companies. THE BIG DRIVE Finally, four years ago, Thurman Arnold cracked down on this and other monopolistic movie practices. Immediately, the moguls brought their most sugary socialites and their heaviest lobbyists into play. Harry Hopkins was approached through his former aide, Willard Thorpe, retained by Hollywood. Spyrps Skouras, highest paid Greek in the world and now head of 20th Century-Pox began socialiting in Washington. Frank Walker, now Postmaster General,-then a private citizen, was retained to use his influence. Faced with this barrage of sugar and influence, in-fluence, the usually stiff-necked Thurman Arn-nold Arn-nold bent a bit. He agreed to a compromise decree de-cree whereby he suspended his move to divorce theatre-owning from motion-picture producing, and accepted a block-booking plan whereby pictures were sold in blocks of five. However, he abolished blind-booking and required the movie moguls to show the films to the theatre owners first. - Now, however, the Big-Five Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer, Paramount, Warner Brothers, RKO, 20th Century-Fox are back with a- proposal to sell blocks of 13 pictures, five to be screened in advance, eight to be bought blind. Opposing the big five are many independents including Charlie Chaplin, Walt Disney, Mary Pickford, Alexander Korda, Orson Wells. Walter Wanger and David CX Selznick. They claim there should be fewer pictures, but of better quality, instead -of a lot of mediocre pictures. The former policy, they argue, means use of less raw film. This time it looks as if Thurman Arnold, who has the whip hand, will stand pat. Note: After the motion picture suit was compromised four years ago, two of Arnold's young men, handling motion picture matters, got jobs wiU the industry. .CAPITAL CHAFF New Deal glamor girl Elvie Robert is one of Jim Farley's oldest and most devoted friends. Howevtr, in the row between Jim and FDR over who shall be the Democratic nominee for governor gov-ernor of New York, Evie is lining up with the President,' has backed her political opinion to the extent of betting $1,000 even money that Senator Jim Mead will be nominated on the Democratic ticket. . . . Tom Corcoran's youngest, young-est, Tom Jr.,: has been nicknamed "Tim o'Shenko", which the ex-Brain Truster- says is not only Russian, but also good Irish. ". ; FDR is in a tough spot between ex-Governor, Francis Fran-cis P. Murphy of New Hampshire who switched from life-long Republicanism o tha Democratic register, and Senator Styles Bridges, a Repub lican who has , fought for - Roosevelt's foreign policies. New-born Democrat Murphy is thinking think-ing of running against Bridges for Senator,. , (Copyright, 1942, by imited Feature Fea-ture Syndicate) L- : ' ' I ' 3 New Books In The library DRIVIN' WOMAN by Elizabeth Chevalier. -v Kentucky blue-glass plateaus along the Ohio, sunny meadows and steep Htte valleys cut by silvery creeks, are the principal scene of this love story of a Virginia belle and a river-boat gambler whose misfortune it was to live a Quarter of n centurv too late. THE COPPER POT by Oliver La r arge. A new novel bv the mithnr ctt "Laughing Boy." FLOODS OF SPRING by Henry xsenamann. This lS the Rtorv nt Vator tTaf. rinC'S lOncr atmp-cla tn ttnst no n make the world he had imagined. In the process he broke his family, and any one else who interfered. a w oroKe nis stubborn horses. Nearly all that he loved was destroyed de-stroyed or loot. Nothing could mold him into a social creature. He could not compromise. And irum vne least expected region of his mind and past came the transforming factor. Wright" by AustIn TaPPan "Islandia' is like no novel ever before written or publishedriter-ally publishedriter-ally the work of a KfetUne, it is a story of great adventure, far travel and true wisdom, of a deeply deep-ly felt loVe story, and above all of the growth of a man. THE CASTLE ON THE HILL by Elizabeth Goudge. In "Castle on the Hill" Miss Goudge has struck a note new but not foreign to her genius. With every skill at her command and she lacks none of them she has explained the new England that Is growing up today in terms of the people who are fashioning it their strength in the past, their eyes on the future. THE SONG OF BERNADETTE by Franz Werfel. When Franz Werfel, like so many of his fellow-artists, was escaping from Europe, he paused for a few anxious weeks in the old French city of Lourdes. There he decided that if his journey was safely completed he would write, as an offering of thanks, a novel based on the life of Bernadette Soubirous. NEW MYSTERIES: Murder in Retrospect by Agatha Christie. . The case of the Drowning Duck by Earle Stanley Gardner. Poison is a Bitter Brew by Anne Hocking. PLANNING CPERTS VISIT SPANISH FORK. R. DeBoer of Denver, Coloraoo, G. R.'Tilton of Santa Barbara, Calif., members of the National Resource Planning commission were in Spanish Fork Thursday in conference with Mayor John E. Booth. They received re-ceived data and Information about the possibility of locating auxiliary plants and factories to use steel after the war emergency and develop de-velop the natural local resources. Thev were much interested in the local sugar, canning and powder plants, Mr. Booth reported. Civilian Service Corps Deserves The Name - Edson By PETER EDSON DaUy Herald Washington ! Oorrespondent When Jonathan Danlela, editor of tha R&leirh. N. C. News and Observer, came to Washington last winter to take over what was len of the aaflly demoralized Voluntary Volun-tary Participation ; division of OCD, one of the President's passionately pas-sionately anonymous' 'assistants had occasion to call him on the telephone. When their business was ' concluded,' ' the Voice at the other end of the wire asked, "Can I talk off the record a minute?" "Surer said Mr. Daniels. "Why not?" The wire was silent a second and then the anonymous assistant let him have It. "Hello, sucker!" Thay both laughed and hung Up.' " . " ' It was that bad in the begin-! ning. but by dint of a lot of sweating sweat-ing bleeding and crying, tha Office Of-fice of Civilian Defense ' think it has an organization It doesn't have to apologize for, and no one can call Mr; Daniels "Sucker" now and get away with it, ' In tlie days when' the Civilian Mobilization was ' getting started, the civilian population generally was asking, "What can I do? I'll sweep floors, drive a truck, sit up nights, work in a hospital, or anything:" So 9 or 10 million people signed cards listing their abilities, and nothing happened except ex-cept that ' .everyone rot - sore at ocd. ' - - The emphasis haa changed since those pre-Pearl Harbor days. Today, To-day, OCD is questioning the volunteer, volun-teer, and the tenor of the questioning ques-tioning Is, "Can you do it'? There are" specific jobs to be done, and it Isn't just the ruft-of-the-mine dope who can do a lot of them. Consequently, many of the incompetents incom-petents have been weeded out, and the nine million volunteers have been reduced to a potential working work-ing organization of two1 or three million qualified defense workers known as the Civilian Service Corps. Bans Boondoggling Civilian"'"' Service Corps was created Ty OCD Jt waar really Jonathan Daniels' idea to provide a useful and not a boon-doggHnj fan-dancing, eo-ordlndated - bowl ing, or similarly silly outlet for the energies of people who wanted to do . some little something to help win the war. The old name of the Division of Voluntary Participation Par-ticipation was simply too much of a mouthful to be practical, so Civilian Service Corps was born. It stressed "service" ana It had ' . . I the semi-mlltary character or anj Army "corps." t A formal order creatng thet corps was handed down aboutf two months ago. Members of thet corps are selected from theiii zatlon card. They're hand-pickedl tnm natloula" in ha ' Thv milctf agree to take orders and theyl can oe nrea ir uiey aon i. mey must be fingerprinted and they must take cm oath to support and defend the constitution, swearing swear-ing also that they do not and have Mot. Jr!n Mir 27 1041 BtlvopatoH the overthrow of the Constitu- lonal form of government of the U. S. by force or violence. That was put there in response to a demand that there be an anti-Communist anti-Communist provision. Make Deals for Job Next. OCD made deals with 1 other civilian war organizations Office of Price Administration.! Office of Defense Transportation, i the ealvage and conservation com- J mitteest of tha War Production i Board to use Civilian Service J Corns people in their work. For instance, Schenectady wanted af rent survey. Local Civilian Ser- vice Corps people made it and it I didn't cost a cent. ODT wanted J car pooling and emergency motor; transport organized. The job was i let to Civilian Service Corps. Some J of the price ceiling educational' work was done toy - CSC women. j.na soon. -' '. . . : The plastic buttons or pins will cost about a dime: In silver plate I they'll cost about SO cents, but if - mini Wl platinum and cloisonne to sell for 1 30 bucks that will be okay. Any-! thing members of the Civilian Service Corps will be proud to1 wear is okay. Building respect 1 uiu lis w.oric the thinr most to be desired New button. Identifying members mem-bers of Civilian Service Corps of Civilian Defense volunteers, has white triangle In circular field of Mae and red letter V for Voluntary; CD for Civilian Civil-ian Defense. 3 SERIAL STORY MURDER IN FERRY COMMAND BY A. W. O'BRIEN COPYRIGHT, f 042. NEA SERVICE. INC. AUM Hbi By ROBERT QTJILLEN "Maybe Jane ain't dumb; but when she buys a bond she thinks her duty is done, ' so it's all right to cash It next week for speadin' money.'" i SIDE GLANCES By GA1LBRAITH ow. taw ay wg atavtcg. we. t. m. aea. AT orr "Clem, you're proud of your boy now, but if he'd aired his Views like that in overalls a vear ato. vou'd have sent him - home to bed r ... BREAKFAST IN HALIFAX CHAPTER XI 'T'HE motors broke into a sullen roar and the big plane started down the runway to turn into thtf flare path. Clyde Dawson and Carole Fiske watched the lights of the Montreal airport sink away below them. Up and up they rose until the plane emerged into a mystic world whose dome was painted with moonlight and whose Jloor was a sea of fluffy, rolling loapsuds. ,Did you really get the message for me from Darwin?" "I did," he answered. Dawson reach&l into his inside coat pocket and Withdrew a wallet. wal-let. From it he took a reprint of the snapshot given him by the condemned con-demned man Just before the death march. The girl took it from his hand and held it up t the moonlight entering the window. Dawson, watching her intently, suddenly felt the frustration all men feel in face of feminine tears. Silently he saw her lower the picture pic-ture and turn her glistening eyes to the window. He ktew now that this girl loved Darwin Lemoy. Shurp on schedule, the TCA plane circled the Moncton, N. B., airport at 5:10 a. m. As it landed, Dawson leaned over to the girl. "Come along," he said gently, "111 buy you a cud of coffee. Carole ' Fiske looked ' at him strangely. Then she unfastened the safety belt. ' "Thank you, I will." In the airport restaurant Dawson Daw-son waited until she had finished her beverage. "Tell me," he asked, "how did you " know my name? I didn't mention it in Chicago . . ." "John knew who you were he told me." Dawson felt his pulse quicken. ,This was a situation he hadnt bargained for. His present plan in fact, the most important aspect of his whole investigation depended de-pended on her NOT knowing his identity. Paul Dexel must have cabled from the train " that he, Dawson, was bound for Canada. He had . probably added the investigator's in-vestigator's description. . "And what did the crude lug have to say about me?" he asked, calmly sipping at his coffee. ' "That you are Clyde Dawson: an international double-crosser, a renegade of both sides in this war who-sells td the highest bidder . . ... that you have somehow secured se-cured . inside Information about ..our organization and are working a type of blackmail scheme on Darwin Lemoy the snapshot proves IV t ' ; Dawson breathed a sigh of relief. re-lief. This was a break a beauty if ever he had one. John, of course, had lied to the girl . . . unless the girl knew the truth and was deliberately lying to throw him off the track. "EXCUSING himself, Dawson found a phone, rushed through a call to the Canadian Intelligence Bureau at Halifax, and queried the agent on duty about Paul Dexel. It was as he had expected the man had simply laughed off all questions. They had nothing on him, he claimed, and he had no intention, it seemed, of altering alter-ing that condition. In fact, the agent added with a touch of sarcasm, sar-casm, the Halifax Bureau really didn't know enough about the case to quiz the prisoner intelligently. intelli-gently. For that part they really didn't have enough to hold him. "Okay, I'll attend to that part of it for you," Dawson said. "I haven't time to -go into detail but the plane should land at Dartmouth Dart-mouth about 6:15. Which means that girl and I will likely be having breakfast together in the Nova Scotian Hotel between 7 and 7:30 in the main dining room. Now listen closely and do exactly ex-actly what I tell you . . ." For the remainder of the flight, Dawson stayed clear of the one topic in which they were mutually mu-tually interested. Anyway, the girl seemed unwilling to chat. The plane was 15 minutes late landing at Dartmouth, just across the harbor from Halifax. In the airline autobus while crossing on the ferry, Dawson struck up conversation con-versation again. "Would you care to have breakfast break-fast with me?" "Very well," she said unenthusiastically. unen-thusiastically. " The hotel lobby was surprisingly surpris-ingly busy for the early hour. Dawson ushered the girl into the 'dining room opposite the main entrance, and placed her so she was facing the entrance. He selected se-lected the chair at the four-place table that allowed him a side view of the entrance. The girl's eyes were fixed on him. . "You're a strange man I find it . . ." the sentence choked off in her throat. "Dawson saw her staring wildly at the entrance and knew without turning his head that she had seen Paul Dexel. There would, of course, be agents with 'him. - Caroler Fiske turned In ' her chair,-face white as chalk: ; ; "Oh God," she cried, it can't be Paul Dexel Was murdered ; . . Darwin did . , . ' - Dawson i leaned over -quickly, slid an arm around her waist and kissed her on the cheek. In the entrance, Paul Dexel tugged madly against the restraining restrain-ing arms of the agents: "You rottec iruble-crosser," he . shrieked, "111 cot your tongue out for this!" a a a (CONSCIOUS that all in the din-ing din-ing room had ceased eating while the waiters stared in frank amazement, Dawson resumed his seat as Dexel was being escorted from the doorway. "Why did you do that?" her voice came in a low hiss. "I'm funny that way," Dawson shrugged. "Ever since I was only so high I've done that to pretty girls ..." "Shut up!" Carole Fiske cut in, "Were you deliberately doing that for the benefit of the man in the doorway ..." "Paul Dexel you mentioned his name when you saw him remember?" remem-ber?" Dawson was serious now. "All right, Paul Dexel. Answer my question!" i "To make him spill all he knows about you and your mob. And if you're wise youll do rome talking talk-ing your ..." In one quick movement the girl had picked up her cup of coffee and flipped the contents directly into the investigator's face. As he lurched back, she rose and called for th headwalter. "This man has insistently annoyed an-noyed me throughout a plane trip and now at breakfast I cannot can-not stand his insults any longer. I ..-.- . Putting her hand to her eyes and sobbing audibly, she ran for the door. t Dawson threw aside the napkin with which he had been wiping his face and started after her. "You little wildcat!" he muttered. mut-tered. - The headwaiter grabbed lilm by the arm and two army officers jumped upufrom a nearby table, planting Themselves in front of Dawson. "Out of my way, gentlemen," he latter spoke quickly.; "That girl is trying to escape . ." "Quite evidently she is," the headwaiter interrupted. "Just wait a minute for the hotel detective, please. He'll want to ask you some questions : Dont waste 'precious time," snapped Dawson, "here are my credentials . . V As he reached into his inside pocket a blank look came over his face. Suddenly he laughed..,, "v-- ' - "That's out my credentials are in my suitcase, so all I can do is admit I'm a lowdown masher and a menace to young ladies." . 1 ' (To Be Co&Uaued) t |