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Show THE DESERET I Delivered The To Your Homo For Only 18c a Week New - U DAILY THOUGHT A NEWS The most ennobling force that enter on1! eem to come in some hoar life alwaj of quiet submission to the will of God. Bonn " Ahead r ' Salt Lake City, Utah, Wechiesday, December , II, 1940. i Defense Men U ncle Sam Digs Into Mining OfllStates Seeks Work Facts Study Plans Coordination Of All Elements Sought t a COUNCILS PROPOSED It was proposed by the group that the governor of each state be requested to form a state council of defense, In case such procedure has not already been followed. Each council would be asked to encourage and guide the creation of local councils to supervise special problems. The state council would also i Discuss National Defense Plans FrankBane. director of cooperation; Attorney General Byron G. Rogers of Colorado and Attorney General Joseph Chez of Utah, standlngv map new program. i Missionaries From Tahiti Reach Coast L. D. S. Church; Office : In London Hit By Bomb V Damage Reported In Letter From Acting Mission Head f The Church office at 5 Gordon Square, London, England, received some damage when a small bomb penetrated the building through the passage connecting the main hall and the general office on the ground floor on the night of Nov. 17, it was reported today by Elder A. K. Anastasiou, acting British Mission president, in a letter received here today by Pres. Joseph J. Cannon of the Temple Square Mission. - r - The letter tells of nightly bombings by the German planes over London. At the building rented by the Church on Gordon Square the windows have been shattered and doors blown out by the explosions that did not hit the building. The bookstore Is a scene of confusion with books and records scattered, he said. No one has been injured at occupied premises by the Church, reported the president The people of London are feeling optimistic and they have no doubt of final victory. They are showing great courage, de, , termination and absolute ness in the face of .enemy to intimidate population," said President astasiou. cool- n An- Hearing To Help Form Hours Policy Coordination of national, state and local government defense activities with labor, trade, industrial, scientific, professional, dvie, religious and 1 fraternaL bodies was discussed at a conference of representatives of defense councils of the 11 western states today in Salt Lake. unMeeting at the Hotel Utah der the direction of Frank Bane of Washington. D. C director of the division of state local cooperation, Council on National representatives Defense, the were told that, Preparation for our national defense requires effort with unity of purpose throughout the country. The nation must have strong military and naval forces; it must assure the economic, physical and social fitness of the people, and It must affirm the people's loyalty to the national interest by affording opportunity for officials and citizens to give fruitful expression to their desire to serve. Mr. Bane pointed out that widespread interest is already being manifested in the defense program and that evidence of an active desire to participate in the program is, abundant. He recommended that means be provided for full utilization of the powers and administrative organ-- " izatlons of federal, state and local governments and for adjusting and coordinating programs and procedures for maximum speed and effectiveness. F rPnmT S. L. advise the governor on problems arising with respect to integration of governmental programs for. defense, adjustments or arrangements necessary for prompt assimilation f by the administrative establish, ment, . proper coordination between the activities of government and private agencies cooperating in the defense effort. The defense councils of the various states, it was decided at the concern them, meeting, would selves with- - civic protection, health, welfare and consumer interest, and human resources and skills. They would need to study resources and proindustrial duction, housing, works and utility facilities. In the rural areas, agricultural resourced and production would be of definite concern, Mr. Bane said. ' TO GUARD LIBERTIES Each state council must study the conservation and use of land and the crops and livestock it supports. They must insure the protection ef civil liberties and the maintenance ot law and order, and must undertake measures to guard against sabotage and subversive activities," Mr. Bane pointed out The defense councils of the various states must also provide for the training and rehabilitation of present and anticipated labor requirements. The industrial resources and production ,of each council should concern itself with the extraction and processing of mineral, petroleum and other raw materials: and manufacturing operations the development- and organization of power, transportation and distribution facilities. Utah was represented at the meeting by Attorney General Joseph Chez; D. D. Moffat, acting chairman of the state defense couhcil. and Gus P. Back-- ' man, executive secretary of, the Salt Lake Chamber of Commerce and secretary ef the Utah Defense Council. The meeting will be concluded this evening. ch-programs Elders Voice Regret At Having To Close Field Twelve missionaries of the Church who have been laboring in Tahiti, led by Mission Pres. Eugene M. Cannon and Mrs. Cannon, today anived in, San Francisco aboard the S. S. Lur-linaccording to an Associated Press dispatch received here. The Tahitian Mission was recently closed lA . conformance with the Church policy of confining missionary activity to the two American continents and Hawaii during the current world crisis. All of the missionaries were well on arrival and expressed regret only over the necessity for temporarily closing the mission. Elder Joseph. Fielding Smith of the Council of the Twelve is in San Francisco to meet the missionaries and arrange for their reappointment to new fields in which to finish their mission labors. Detailed report of the reappointment is expected at the Church Offices shortly. e, Quarterly Conference Plan Mailed ToS takes . Leasing Problem Set For Tomorrows Discussion The United States government ripped the lid off the nations metal mining industry in SJt Lake today to find out exactly how the industry works. , The first of two conferences on metal mining practices opened this mornijj in the House of Representatives Chamber at the Capitol. A second conference will be held later - at Birmingham, Ala. Information is being sought by Col. Philip B. Fleming, wages and hours division administrator for the Department of Labor, to guide him in the formulation, of a policy with respect to wages and hours affecting metal miners of thenatlon. The hearing, attended by more than 100 government mine operator and mine employe representatives, was being conducted by Harold Stein of Washington, D, C., assistant director of the hearings branch of the wago and hour division. fact-findin- g -- FORMS POLICIES Mr. Stein in opening the Their Prohlemt When Does Miner Go To Work Lee Pressman, laWrite; Harold Stein, representing Uncle Sam, and D. ' operator, study wages, hours data. stake conferences today had been issued by the General Authorities of the Church and was being mailed to stake presidencies throughout the Church. General conference sessions are to beTield, as always, Sunday forenoon and afternoon and are not outlined in detail. A stake Priesthood meeting of at f least one and hour's duration is also to be held, either Saturday evening or Sunday morning. It Is also planned that a meeting of stake and ward Welfare Plan workers be arranged at the most convenient time during the conference. Complete outlined programs for meetings other than the general sessions are suggested in the pamphlet one-hal- Hsfs'i the Rnotf gift of oil realty TWO gifts, at Im than llio regular retail liV price of one. It'i a buying opportunity that you may not Hare again for yecru and a gift that will bring oy and heppine 365 day iq every year. m TDiol4-756- 6 EAST BROADWAY T -- Salt LakeCity New Traffic Light )rdered By OffidaI Jnstallatlon of a new street lamp in the center of Canyon Road Park north of Third Avenue was ordered today by the City Commission upon the recommendation of Traffic Super-vise- r Max S. Banks. Property , owners headed-b- y Orson-Reg- a reCard, 151 Fourth Avenue quested the light i Yale Camp D. U. P. Will Meet Friday The Yale Camp of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers will meet at the home of Mrs, Junius Romney, 1169 Douglas Dec. 17 Rt 1'30 Street Friday. p mt All member and friends are Invited to be present . Lawyer Warns County Not To Touch His -- County Commissioner J. B. Mullins today had been served notice that If his department persists in the demolition of concertain unsightly and demned buildings in MidvaleL It will do so at Its own peril. Bn G. Bagley, Midvale lawyer, whose offiae Is located in one of the buildings which the county Is razing with the consent of admonished Midvale's mayor, the County Commission as fol- ! Quit At End Of Leave Of Absence Auto Dealers Name Leaders S. H. Blair Made Head Of Utah Association S. H. Blair, president and man- of the Blair Motor Company, was elected president of the Utah Auto Dealers7 today ager lows: You are hereby notified that I Ben G. Bagtey hold and claim undisturbed, peaceable possesion of ho herein described property in Sait Lake County, State of Utah, end you are notified fur ther that I intend to remain in possession of said property and that any entry upon my said possession by vou will be considered unlawful. Dated Dec. 10, 1940." duting the annual election meeting in the Hotel Utah. He suc- Amalgamated Sugar Officials Reelected ceeds Archie Browning, retiring president. Other officers named were Grant E. Hayes, reelected vice president; Homer C. Warner elected treasurer, and Carl L Snow, reelected secretary. The officers together with the following directors will serve for 1941. Mr. Browning, R. T. Mitchell of Ogden; Preston Ash-.to- n of Provo. Wllford Lundberg of Logan; Charles C. Freed of Salt Lake; J. H. Fronkof. and Wilson Lunt of Cedar City. The group decided to close their parts departments between the hours of 12 noop and 1pm, beginning Dec. 16. The departse ments will at 1 pm. on Saturdays. The action was taken to conform with the established hours of the wholesale distributors. n (AP) At the annual meeting today of the stockholders of the Amalgamated Sugar Co. the following were Dec. white-whiskere- d 11. elected: Stephen L Richards, rename board chairman; M, S, Eccles, reg named president, and H. A, reelected vice president The board appointed H. A I Benning general manager. Gage B. Rodman vice - president in charge of sales, R. H. Cottrell, vice president J. R. Bachman, secretary-treasureEr L. Stark, assistant assistant secretary, treasurer and auditor, Blaine Bachman, assistant secretary and general office cashier. Ben-nln- r, ly or possibly not at all If Salt Lake gift buyers do not take the necessary precautions," he said. The chief's warning followed receipt from his detective bureau of the first reported Christmas gift burglary of the current season. The home of Eric Ohlson at t74 .Ninth Avenue was broken- Into last nlght and a large box containing $25 worth of groceries, clothing and Christmas gifts taken. Apparently frightened away In the midst Of ransacking the house, the burglars left both doors open in their flight. automobiles --during - the season. Invariably at this season of the year there is an Increase in the number of car prowls and burglaries," said Chief Vetterll. explaining that the abundance and 'availability of Christmas gifts act as a powerful magnet ak to unemployed burglar eant be omnipresent and prevent evthieves. j Santa Claus will travel light ery automobile and house bur Chriat--ma-s and-sne- at-th- Announcement of the resignation of Dr. Thomas C. Adams as associate professor of civil engineering at the University of Utah, was confirmed today by L. D. Garrett, secretary of the board of regents. OffRi OGDEN, . als-cle- To Elect Officers . Officers of Branch 111, National Association of Letter Carriers, will be elected at a meeting set for 8 o'clock tonight in the Federal Building. Welfare matters also will be discussed. Salt Lakers Urged To Help Santa By Locking Doors Of Houses And Cars Police Chief Reed E. Vetterll is not the traditional picture of a helper for Santa Claus, but bo did his bit in behalf of the gentleman today by issuing a warning to Salt Lake residents to lock their doors and to avoid leaving gifts in parked M. Kelly, mine Protest Made Engineering Professor To Razing Of At Resi University ' J Old Buildings Dr. Adams To Institution I A new program of instructions for the conducting of quarterly confer- that the government simply wants to know what constitutes hours worked In mines." He said that a work week is prescribed with time and a half pay for overtime. The administrator," Mr: Stein pointed out," has no power to Issue regulations on hours, but he does havo the power to formulate a policy under which his organization will proceed and to make that policy available for the information of Interested parties." The federal official explained e Is iq ' bo confined exclusively to the matter of wages and hours, ut he said that tomorrow afterr$kn any persona Interested may express their views with relation to the mine leasing problem. Such views will be embodied In a printed document for general In- - -formation, but will not be included in his lormal report of this conference or the meeting at Birmingham. ence-explained current-eorifemic- BUTTE MAN HEARD The mine leasing arose sometime ago as problem a controversy, with mine owner contending that lessees, by operating their own businesses, were not subject to wages and hours provisions .affecting the mine owners. Lessees, on the other hand, have expressed a view that they should be subject to wage and hour provisions because, in a measure, they are answerable to the mine owners, Lee Pressman of Washington, D. C, CIO general counsel, led discussion today on the miners' side of the wages and hours question as legal representative of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, jl had called only one witness up to the noon recess Glen Zorne, Butte, Mont miner working for the Anaconda Copper Mining Mr. Zorne also ls Company, chairman of a union workers committee. The witness testified as to the time of arrival of employes on company property, the time for com-mencement of work within the mines, conditions surrounding lunch periods, the time of cessation of work within the mines and the time when employes usually leave company property. His testimony Indicated that between . about 15 mlnutes the time of arrival on company property and commencement of actual w L, with the workers The resignation will follow leave of absence for the winter and spring quarters of the present academic year and will take effect, July 1, 1941, Mr. Garrett t said. Dr. Adams, who .graduated frofn the U. of U. In 3922 with a B. S. in civil engineering, and obtained his Ph. D. from Cornell In 1927, became a member of the Civil Engineering Department faculty In the fall of 1927 as .t professor. He also has been active In civic circles n Salt Lake. At present, he Is commodore of the Salt Lake Yacht Club, an organization which he was active in organizing; the Utah Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, the Kiwanis Club, Phi Kappa Phi, honorary aoholastlc soof ciety, the American Society Utah Civil Engineers and the Society of Civil Engineers. He also was vice commodore of Region 12 Sea Scouts. collar-to-coll- Washington Stake Meets gee MINES. On Page 20 Pres. McKay Attends Sessions At Capital WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. (AP) Pres. David O, McKay of the First Presidency; Salt Lake City, was the principal speaker at the second quarterly conference of the Washington Stake of the L. D. S. Church, here Dec. 7 and 8. formerly of Ezra Benson, Boise, stake president, conducted the general sessions which were attended by 650 members; he said, from Washington, Arlington. Chevy' Chase and Falrview Wards. Pres, Benson is executive secretary" of the National glary attempted, but it can cut the number down materially Council of Farmer Cooperatives, with the cooperation of the pubwith offices In Washington. lic, Chief Vetterll said. He askThe stake was organized five months ago. ed that the following precautions 'and one-hal-f be heeded: President McKay and Mrs. Mc1. Don't leave packages, gifts," Kay left for New York City and from there will return clothing or other items of value -- In automobiles left on the street, to their- - home Check the items or see that the Attending the sessions was car is put in a safe place. Laurence Manwarmg of 2.- - Doublecheck to make sure bishop of the Arlington ( Va i Wrrd. who is a son of Dr that all doors and windows are g leav'-locked when your house Hyrum Mrnwarinp. president of or apartment. Ric s College at Re:. burp. 3. Notify Also present was Judge G. A. the polite department promptly if you see any Iverson, formerly of Salt lake -City, who now is president suspicious - character prowling Eastern States Mission with about a parked automobile, house, or apartment. headquarters la New York City. AU General Electric Range Model -o- f-the Ct 4&AI No! as Illustrated, SAVE Tbit Is yoat jmlwt is portunity buy tbs fiusst raau Mon--da- Hex-bur- WERE. 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