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Show Friday, December 20, 1940 The Deseret News, Salt J Federal Impprt Control Considered By Officials take City, Utah' Page 3 FBI Probes 2,000 Bund Members Reported In U. S. Army And Navy fe Large Purchases Of Japanese Silk Would Be Affected Dec. 20. (AP) CHICAGO, Working in strict secrecy, agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation today stqdied records to determine whether the German-Amenca- n Bund has members in the Unitea States armed forces. The records were seized yesterday in a raid on the Chicago headquarters of the bund. Among them, an investigator for the state's attorney's office said, was book indicating that a loose-lea- f 1,500 to 2,000 members were in the Army, Navy, Air Force or WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. (AP) The possibility of Import control by the United States a hitherto unlooked for step in foreign trade regulation aroused considerable speculation today. The' first guarded hint that Construction To Start On 2 Shipyards 60 Cargo Vessels Will Be Built For British WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 (AP) Construction was ordered start-e- d today on two new shipyards ir - to turn out 60 cargo vessels for the submarine harassed British merchant marine. Following former approval of the plan by United States officials, British representatives contracted with the Todd shipbuilding interests in New York for building 30 of the freighters at Portland, Me , and the remainder at Richmond, Calif, Tentative estimates set the cost ""or the 60 ships ar approximatewith ly $100,000,000, pqssibly more to be constructed later. to was available English money pay for the work and the' plan was m no way tied in with President Hoosevelts'proposal of a mortgaged" material system t a supply Britain with the sinews of war. A year or more will be required to complete- - the vessels, each- - of 9,300 tons and with .. a. speed of 10 or 11 knots. At New York, John D. Reilly, president of the Todd Shipyards Corporation, said the new Portland and Richmond yards would be completed in four months and that keels of the first Vessels could be laid within 214 months. will be provided for or more American workmen in each year, he said. W-or- Far More Will , Enjoy Privilege , Churchill Says U' s a i over advantages and privileges which hitherto have been enjoyed only by the few shall be far more widely shared. The promise was made at Harwhere row, exclusive school Churchill spoke Wednesday. The prime minister quoted Adolf Hitler as saying' Dec. 10 that Eton College and the Hit-le- r different schools are two worlds," and declared the Fuehr- er had "overlooked the vast majority of the youth of thisthecounadnever had try who have such attending vantages of schools as Eton and Harrow but who by their skill and prowess have won the admiration of the whole 'world. When this war is won, as it deaurely will be, Churchdl clared, it must be one of our alms to establish a state of society where the advantages and privileges which hitherto have been enjoyed by only the few shall be far more widely shared naby the men and vouth of the ; tion as a whole. Dec.1 20. (AP) Bucha- Smigly-Ryd- z had been Interned along with Polish Foreign Minister Josef ,Beck and other Polish government officials who fled before the Germans. - INC. SERVICE I A " h icra jfoue itfrfcecjes to chnoto from ot tho prict yon wont to pay ctvGGo& am (togcoc-- ! Of Teacher Blames Spell OROFINO, Ida, Dec. 20. (AP) Sheriff George Pankey plannedto return today from Lewisto wn willb Robert. Kress 18, who, he said, confessed yesterday to the shooting of Mrs. Mabel Hinkley, teacher at the Sunnyside school west of Orfinot Mrs. Hinkley, recovering at the Orofino Hospital from a but Pankey said the only expla-antio- n let wound in the back, said she given by Kress was that had never met Kress. She a little spell came on me. was hit by a bullet from a .22 caliher rifle as she stood In her Court records showed, the shera iff doorway after answering added, that the boy once was knock Wednesday night. sent to the State Custodial School after he had fired three shots at an uncle. Kress threw the rifle In the Clearwater River after the shooting and spent the night In the while posses searched for ojien then returned to his home at Lewiston, the sheriff said. VICHY, France, Dec. 20. (AP) The Vichy government today created the new office of French information to centralize all French news distribution, including the Havas agency. The organization which will fill '! have as its aim to gather and disseminate news Jn prance,' the colonies and foreign countries, will take over the controlling share of Havas stock, purchased by the government. It will be administered by . a secretary of state for information who will have under him a director-genera- l heading two councils, one to advise on national and international policy and one on administration and finances. The new organization will be financed by receipts from associated foreign agencies, the sale of news to private institutions and "other annual receipts. It was announced that separata rules would be made for controlling news used by French newspapers and that sent by foreign correspondents. Total May Reach 5,000,000 In U. S. Dee. 30. WASHINGTON, (AP) Th? registration of the nations aliens started its final week today with the prospect that the tally would show 1,000,-00- 0 Vichy Creates New Office To more than originally estimated. -The total of registration forms received thus far by the Justice Department has passed 4,000,000 compared with a preliminary calculation of 3,600,000 and the flow continues at the rate of more than 50,000 a day. Some officials believe the final figure will run as high as 5,000,000 for the continental United States. One factor officials said helped swell the total above the early estimates was the Jarge registration of aliens who had entered the country illegally. No figures were available on this, however. The registration period will end at midnight, Dec. 26 Once the registration period ends an investigation force of about 75 Justice Department men. will be put into the field to check tip on aliens who have not registered. . , " , To date, New York State leads with about 1,000,000 aliens registered, or more than twice the number reported from second-plac-e non-citize- Control News -- fouf-mont- h California. , ( Production of gilding planes under a license acquired from Germany has been begun at an Argentine airplane factory. . - 'it- - fc th e- ed seized. The investigator said that the latter included data on applicants service In the German army their grade, regiment, company or battery, and the front on which they had served. A policeman stood guard at the bund offices during the night to prevent removal of the contents of a safe. Detective Stephen Led dy reported that a woman secretary in the bund office locked the safe during the raid. r K V .V fc 4 Britains Two Largest Liners Doing War Service JERSEY CITY, N. J., Dec. 20. (AP) Britains two largest passenger ships the Queen Elizabeth and the Qtggn Mary are getting good workouts in war service, according to Capt. Valde-ma- r Nielsen of the liner President Garfield. Upon his return ' last night world cruise, from a he said he saw the Queen Mary, with at least 6,000 Italian prls. pners from Egvpt crowding her9 'decks, at Bombay November and the Queen Elizabeth at Cape-towfour-mont- h Woman Engineer Graduate Will Design Jdrplanes COLUMBUS, O., Dec. 20.- n, South 27 (AP) - Mary Lee Wllkerson of Middleton, O., steps out of the ranks of Ohio State Twenty-two-vear-ol- d University's winter graduates today to design airplane superchargers. The pretty coed is the first woman in 40 years to get a mechanical engineering degree. But for a keen interest in mathemaUcs and a boundless curiosity to see what made machines operate, Mary Lee might have been a nurse or home economies teacher. Now, she knows how to test a big boiler and do 100 and one other things usally performed by begrimed men. I like aviation, though, and thats my field, she said. "Besides designing, I want to do research work. Last summer I worked In the Armco Research Laboratories at Middleton." Mary Lee, In addition to carrying a schedule of such subjects as welding, machine shop work and thermodynamics, also found time uu vv . . lit November Afriea, The Queen Mary, he said, was taking the prisoners to Australian concentration camps and planned to return with 16,000 or more Australian soldiers to reinforce the British troops In Egvpt, Capt. Nielsen's report lifted tha secrecy surrounding the whereabouts of the Queen Elizabeth, which sailed from New York .November 12 on her war mission. , Some of those aboard tha President Garfield said they also saw the French liner He Da France at Bombay, lying at anchor under the guns of the hat bor fortifications, i to learn to fly She also loves to dance and have fun and enjoys all kinds of sports. But boys, shes engaged to D H. Marquis, son of Prof. Franklin W. Marquis of Ohio States De- partment of Mechanical Engineering. Yes, young Marquis is a mechanical engineer, too. i T. the (Perfect Cjift " , f a whether shes six or sixty Average Family Now Has Fewer Than 4 Persons Rail Crossing Deaths Increase Over Last Year (AP) For the first time in history the average American family now numbers iess than Tour persons. The census bureau, analyzing the results of the 1940 census, reported today that the contemporary household has an average of 38 persons. These statistics meant a con tinuation of the steady decline which has been in progress since The first family computation was made 50 years ago, and corresponded with annual figures of a declining birth rate. In 1890, The bureau pointed out, the average family consisted of 4 9 persons. Heres the way the decline has been recorded: 1890, 4.9; 1900, ,47,. 1910, 4.5; 1920, 4.3; NEW YORK, Dec. 20 (AP) d grade crossaccidents caused 1,252 faing talities in the first nine months of 1940, says the Bureau of Statistics of the Interstate Highway-railroa- Commerce Commission.- 1930. 4.1:1940,38. The smallest families were found on the Pacific Coast, with the average 3 2 persons per famam, ily in California, Oregon Washington The largest were in in South Atlantic states wnlch averaged 4 2 for the region. North Carolina was the banner state with 4.5. - -- ' - The total, reported today by the eastern railroad presidents conference. Is an increase of 292 over the corresponding period of 1939. , In the first three quarters of this year, 3,004 persons were Injured in such accidents, ' compared with 2,633 in the period of. 1939, Japanese Mission To Study Tactics i . Dec. 20 The war office announced today that w Japanese military mission will depart soon for Germany aVid Italy on invitations from Berlin and Rome to study the war tactics of the Axis powers at first hand. Simultaneously the cabinet information bureau announced that agreement had been reached on estaolishment of technical commissions under the pact. Observers assumed that the military mission was designated in connection with this agreement ( Lleutenaht General Tomoyukl Yamashita. inspector general of the air corps, was named to head the military designation. No mention was made of the date of departure. , $1.00 1.25 1.00 1.00 TOKYO, (AP) President Uncertain On Canadian Project Dec. 20. WASHINGTON, (AP) President Roosevelt told 65 reporters today he did not know whether he might try to arrange for development of the St Lawrence waterway by a Joint agreement with Canada rather than through a treaty. In response to a question, he said he had not looked Into it. 60 Abo In laroor shot. ot ccndv counters ororywhorof rtn?n o r t s. Youth Held In Shooting Registering Of Aliens Nears End Christmas Gift Chocojatei, IV Renown Chocolates, 1 u. Aristocratic Chocolates, Ub. Miniature Chocolates, 1 ib. Mory Lou Chocolotes, ltb. Cottage Chocolates, 1 Lb. G u the-wave- connection with the bludgeon slaying Sunday of Miss Jennie Kendall, 73, and, because of the trios youth, were confronted w'ith a problem as to what action to take. State's Attorney Henry F. Black saiLtheboys confessed. that they entered the womans home with robbery as a motive and that they beat her when she discovered them. . He asserted there was a possibility they would face grand Jury action, but that he would confer with Attorney General Lawrence O. Jones because of the age factor. Sheriff E. H. Schoenfeld apprehended the boys yesterday after discovery of a poker and a stove shaker that he said ap peared to have been used as weapons. The boys were lodged in a segregated section of Windsor County jail after Black filed a against petition delinquency them and Judge A. G. Witham made them wards of the court. officials Only two days ago, had rated the case a mystery because Mrs. Kendall had no known enemies and but small sums of, money in her home. and their rank in the various branches of the armed forces. 't Four rolls of foreign scenic motion pictures, a private telephone book, a book containing the names, of mid western bund members and a hundred applications for membership also were report- V mania.' railwayAexpress I . d . Diplomatic reports from rest today sa;d Marshal Edward Smigly-Ryd- z of Poland had escaped from Rumania where he had been living in Internment since fleeing before the German invaders r his country ift the fall of 1939. y The marshal, whopt arrest by Rumanian authorities investigating espionage.-- ' and sabotage was announced.On Oct. 24, was said to have been smuggled aboard a coastwise ship headed for Turkey. He had made several previous attempts to leave Ru- 1 R which-resemble- es BUDAPEST, Express for super speed. Special pick-u- p special delivery. Phone KAIl-AI- The reply was that Imposition of an import control system would provide the United-Statwith another economic weapon which could be employed if events dictated, Tfiis raised the point whether it was not unlikely that such a be invoked sanction would against members of the British commonwealth, nations, or Dutch, colonial possessions countries which now supply the bulk of American imports. The official said that was unlikely under the present circumstances, but added that the list mentioned was not all inclusive, . for out of town go twiftly, E tions. BETHEL, Vt, Dec. 20 (AP) Police today held three boys two 11 and one 15 years old In Small boats were wrecked, an ocean walk w.is undermined, and homes and apartments threatened by huge combers, between 20 and 30 feet high, which pounded Redondo Beach, Calif., Dec. 18. There was no wind or waves, and residents were mystified as to the cause of 'the breakers, similar combers a year picture shows the Redondo board walk as it was battered by one of ' (Associated Press Photo.) migftt-beckne--- j, Polish Marshal Escapes Rumania Internment! Camp servsafely. -- with door-to-doice at no extra charge in all citie and principal towns. Use Air NATION-WID- High Waves Batter California Boardivalk WASHINGTON. Dec. 20. CHRISTMAS PACKAGES AGBMCV study - and that while action should not be considered immi-nesomething in the future. He was asked what purpose would be served by such a move, Inasmuch as the United States, unlike warring nations today, was not under pressure to conserve dollar exchange, or to discourage the purchase of luxury goods from other na- ped. LONDON. Dec. 20 (AP) A British submarine has sunk a heavily laden Italian supply ship and a large Italian tanker south of Italy during the last week, the admiralty announced today. - Slaying Woman ar British Sub Active i- Three Boys Arrested For WOULD BE WEAPON One source, however, said the matter was being given serious records indicated that among major import items - was close to worth of raw silk $106,000,000 These annually front Japan. shipments have been an Important source of foreign exchange for the Tokyo government whose financial reserves have been depleted by the long drain of the China war. Chi. Maxwell, in fiis review last night, reported that the export since administration control had prevented-th- e shipment to foreign countries of more than $112,000,000 worth of vital defense materials, v Additional articles and materials, he indicated, may be placed on the long list of exports which cannot be shipped without govw. ernment license. In its first four months, he said, the administration had Issued approximately 25,000 one-yeexport licenses for goods worth about $800,000,000. Of this amount more than $250,000,000 worth of products, representing 20 per cent of the nations total exports, already have been ship- (AP) Winston Churchprime Minister ill was disclosed today to have pledged that when the war is , i ' Marines. Federal agents were reported to be checking the names against naval and military lists to ascertain whether the men listed were now active in the armed forces.' JAPAN INVOLVED A subsequent check of trade 20. Dec. LONDON, any such idea was under consideration came from Colonel Rut-sel- l L. Maxwell, administrator of export control, during a review of the work done by his old agency in preventfrom ing vital defense materials counbeing shipped out of the try. Many students of the situation, experts in their fields, have pointed out, 'he said, that the control of Imports as well as exports, is a major problem requiring early solution. referThis bare ence to the subject occurred at the end of the 2,000 word progress report he delivered last no amplificanight There wasone tion and, with exception, available government officials on professed lack of knowledgeconany plans to Impose import trols or had completed service., William S. Devereaux, in charge of the FBI office here, answered no comment to inquiries about his findings.! The records were seized In a search for assets uf the bund and an affiliated organization, the Teutonia Publishing 'Company, which occupy joint offices. 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