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Show 3fVr newsmans Notes Utahns Observe Of By Ralph B. DESERET Women Reach Camps From Salt Lake Large Groups Jordan VJaac-lVee- k By Sgt. Glen Snarr Safe arrival of large groups of Utah and Idaho women at southForeign Legion Has Shocking Ideals ern - training centers, and pre(Htrt is the third of Mr, Pyle four interesting stories on (he For- liminary arrangements for a Waac recruiting conference here eign Legion tohilo he it guest columnist for Mr. Jordan. The latter will tomorrow and Wednesday, today have column tomorrow. The next ushered in Utahs observance of day Mr. Pyle will conclude this Waac-Weeseries Editors notej . NewTy enrolled Waacs arrived Ernie By Pyle at Monticelio, Arkansas, and ' The Foreign Legion has Rushton in Louisiana, to start Algeria of . the , iveekset aside -changed greatly from the catch-al- l that" It activities Gov. Herbert B. Maw to mark once was. BUT IT IS STILL WHOLLY A FIGHTING OUT- by the first anniversary of -- the FIT, AND EVERYTHING THAT EXISTS SOLELY"TO FIGHT founding of the Womens Army IS BOUND TO BE TOUGH the Legionnaire lives Auxiliary Corps. in a mental environment that is deadly. There is little reason ' hr Inclination for high thinking. LEGIONNAIRES ARE LONELY. There is little outside their ' military life for them. They can sit in the cafes end drink, and - thats about all. MANY OF THEM CARRY ON REGULAR CORRESPONDENCE with women all over the world whom theyve never seen, even with Americans. They say it isnt unusual to see among the want ads in the Paris papers a plea from a Foreign The loneliness and longing for other Legionnaire for a pen-padays is proved, it seems to me,.byone little ' vitaL statistic. Every year "around Christmas five or six Legionnaires commit suicide. . y A conference of army officials from throughout the Ninth Service Command In Hotel .Utah will highlight- - other activities planned during the week. ) from the with Waacs Utah area participating. Included in the group which arrived at Monticelio, Ark., Monday were Miss Mary Kayseri Miss Noble, Mrs. Tess Hall, and In ' addition to representatives Edith Miss Grismore of Salt from the Western States, Waac Lake; Dorothy Miss Logan) officials from Washington, D. C Miss Mae Elva Larsen, St. will attend to outline an increase Miss Eva McGregor, MissGeorge; Helen Tree, Provo; of recruiting activities for this Brookhart, ' Pocatello, Ida.; Miss area. Dorothy Strain, Twin Falls, Ida.; - Other events during Waao Miss Dorothy Tolleth, Meridian, Week" will be the departure of Ida4 Miss Gertrude Johnson, another ' large group of women Parma. Ida., and Miss Hazel from Salt Lake for training, Wiedeman .and Miss Cecil Klon-ingeradio programs, and special Nampa, Ida. r, l. J THE LEGION IS FULL OF CHARACTERS. - There is one Russian, a carpenter, who has been indulging in a terrible routine as long as Legionnaires can remember. On every pay day, which Is twice a month, he buys himself a large bucket of wine. He puts R on the floo'r beside his cot, gets plenty of cigarets, then lies down and starts drinking and smoking. JIELL DRINK HIMSELF INTO A STUPOR, sleep a few hours, then wake up and start drinking again. He never gets out o bed, makes any noise, or causes any trouble. His jag lasts two ' days. Its been going on so long the officers just accept it. He is a horrible example to the other men. BUT JUST LET A LEGIONNAIRE get out of control on the For- - extreme street or on duty, and the penalties are severe. drunkenness a Legionnaire can get nine months in the Disciplinary Regiment which means nine months far away on the desert, working from dawn till dusk, with poor food, no cigarets, no wine, no mail. Even for slight infractions he gets eight days in jail, with r his head shaved. They say any man who goes through a enlistment without getting his 'head shaved is either an angel or extremely lucky, ENLISTMENT the Legion AT THE END OF A FIVE-YEAgives a Good Conduct Certificate. The Legionnaires are so tough that only half of them get the certificate. Those who dont get it for. another five years, have only two choices: I. 2. Lifetime expulsion from the entire French Empire. (So the bad ' .ones sign up again.) WOMEN MARCH OFF 'TO AVAR This grbup of Utah and Idaho women, who left Salt Lake Here THE LEGION DOES DO MANY THINGS for its men. recently to become members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, observed the beat BeLAbbes the Legion has built a huge modern theater, where by beginning their basic WAAC training at Monticelio, Ark., toginning of YVaac-Weemovies are shown end band concerts given. The men even put as proclaimed by Governor Maw, will be observed in Utah May day. Waac-Weee band. on their own theatricals, and the Legion has a NEARBY IS A NEW CONCRETE SWIMMING POOL, the largest in North Africa. Ive never seen anything in Hollywood to beat it. It is surrounded by tilled terraces, with tables and chairs and Shirley Sutler, 18,' of Holladay Is To cabanas, and with green trees and riots of flowers. Officers and in a fair condition today In noncoms are provided with houses, and may have their families (Details on this important story housewife puts up In her kitchen the Budge Hospital in Logan, with them. A sergeant gets only $10 a month, but this is increased on sugar f or home canning are be- for the use of her family, anyone from injuries suffered yesterday if he has a family. A SERGEANT IN THE LEGION RATES ing worked into an interesting fea- who contributes the .ingredients, afternoon in an automobile misSALUTES THE SAME AS A COMMISSIONED OFFICER. ture, especially for the women rend- or the equipment, or part of the hap .12 miles up Canyon. Logan A ers of this newspaper, and will ap- labor required, for home canning "She suffered head injuries when consume the lorffr THE LfeClON HAS SHOPS where its men can study trades dur- pear in the womans section' tomor- operatidfi&Tnay witHout surrendering she plunged through the windproduced row Editors note.) ing spare hours after supper. Since the Americans came they have ration points. shield of a car driven by Henry Local boards throughout the Bredthauer, 19, of Salt Lake. The put in a voluntary English course. The Legionnaires here at home . Procedure by which housewives barracks much like our own. THEY will obtain sugar for home can- country will receive written ap- machine was thrown off the highbase sleep in concrete-floore- d of this seasons plications under the new pro- way and into the mountainside HAVE IRON COTS AND THEIR STUFF IS PACKED TO MOVE ning and freezing fruit crop on and after May 15 visions on and after May 15. No when a defect suddenly made the AT A MOMENTS NOTICE. was released today by the Office special form is required unless steering apparatus useless, accordof Price Administration. it is planned to sell the home ing to an EVERY BARRACKS and recreation hall has cartoons drawn officer. It is being allotted on substan- product, and application may be Cache Deputyinvestigating Sheriff Tom cartoons making jokes about Legion all over the walls tially the same basis as last year made in person or by mail. life. This is another Legion tradition. Whenever a new company that is, one pound for each four moves' in, it has the right to erase all cartoons and draw its own. quarts (or eight pounds) of the finished product, and by essentialIT HAS BEEN A MARVELOUS EXPERIENCE to visit, after ly the same procedure written all these years and in this remote part of the world, the men about application to the local board. In A top limit of 25 pounds per whom Beau Geste was written. You can't help admiring the is set in the new regulaits person fastidious its in cleanliness, is itself, discipline, Legions pride No Mexican nationals will be ment, are given physical examinwhich become effective May whole tradition. But beyond that, life in the Foreign Legion seems tions, 15. The OPA emphasizes, how- brought Into Utah to work tho ations, and those selected are alSAKE THE FIGHT'S ONLY FOR to be horrible. LIVING TO FIGHT ever, that the figure is sugar beet crop, Douglas E. Seal-le- located to various areas, accordto need, Mr. Scalley said. a maximum, to be granted only IS SOMETHING I CANNOT UNDERSTAND. vice president and general ing in the relatively few cases where They are housed either on Utah-Idahthis large amount of fruit will be manager of the Sugar farms-or'- m government camps, canned and preserved. Company, said today, because the, and are returned to Mexico about Last vear there w'as no nation-- labor situation in this state is well the middle of November. ide ceiling over the amount that in 16 In To hand. was allowed each person, but The 150 workers recently sent set individual boards local many Possible permanent settlement this question. Arizona did not limits of 10 or 15 pounds, while Into Idaho are doing very satisDavid H. Thomas today had of the question of ratify the original compact, but others Mr. Scalley report- been named to the Utah Centenfactory work, wal the recent state Legislature. au- amounts granted allocation of Colorado- River as 45 pounds. as high 25 ed. and during the month of May nial Committee to. replace the ers between Upper- and Lower thorized ratification of a compact The new limit of-pounds per Basin states is in prospect when if a satisfactory one is drawn. person assures more uniform ?,350 additional workers will be late Nephi L. Morns' Mr. Thomas, 14 men met , into Colorado, Wyoming, a former member of the House of the committee of 14 on Colorado The committee of treatment, although it is not ex- sent Montana and Nebraska.. River Problems meets in Denver last week in Phoenix, where Representatives, is president 'of will families that many pected held Associwere discussions The Mexicans are selected from the on May 26, according to Grover amount. maximum for the apnlv a was made The ation. compact volunteers A. Giles, attorney general of Utah and a rough draft of appointment representaby many Within the per person tives of the American govern by Gov, Herbert B. Maw. begun. and secretary of the committee. can for any limit, apply family is contract into This A contract Is now in course of being put sugar to pul up jams, jellies, and preparation which would include filial form for definite preserves at the rate of five - k 10-1- How To Get Canning Sugar Car Wrecks f Routine I I ' ,J j if rn M That Of Year Ago Similar s well-don- e Forego Mexican Workers i Beet Labor Situation Well " ' II River Settlement Near I" i Committee 'ill Meet Hand Here o Denver May Replaces Morris individual long-standin- g pin -- -- - and- - permanently -- settle dispute between Arizona and California, both lower basin states, over allocation of certain Colorado River water, has 60 far kept Arizona from joining other states involved in ratifying a Colorado River compact. long-standin- g Work Begins 7- T Work was begun today on the city well at Fourth Avenue and Canyon Road, according to Commissioner George D. Keyser of the City Water Supply Depar- , tments BETTER VISION Construction of the new well section Js beFEWER ACCIDENTS In thedoneCity Creek; the Roscoe Moss Accidents help the Axis. The sum total of little accidents is millions of lost and production vital man-hour- s slowed. AeuuJ cauiocr tiy faulty eyes by vision that blurs and bobbles by eyestrain fatigue that dulls the mind and slows the hand.-N- o soldier of production wants lo be a casualty from the production line. He wants to be on it swinging with all he's got ior Hitler's chin. Be sure you can swing your weight with power and precision can work Check Bafely, quickly, accurately. Up on your eyes. Vss ... -- DR. DAYHES OPTOMETRIST Convenient Credit by ing . Company. . It will supply water to the State Capitol, the Veterans HosPark and the dispital, trict Sixth above Keyser-eal- . Mr. d The i roject has been under advisement since 1934, when tho City Creek dropped to its normal supply. It is again below normal this year, with moie demand for water than in previous years, the commissioner explained. one-t)Cir- d Attention LDS UtalrWaterStudy-Begin- Federal Servicemen reading room, writing room, music and game facil-- , ities are provided fof your leisure time enjoyment at the "Home For L. D. S. Service Men" at 41 North State You are Invited to use the facilities daily from 4:30 to 11 p.qi. and Saturdays - and Sundays from 1 p.m. to 11 p.m; You and your male friends are urged to use these comfortable rooms In. your leisure time. SU-ee- Hardwood Floor Newly-Lai- d By Martin Tubbs The .University of Utah.. Field- house is now a barracks A thousand army bunks have been put onto a newly laid hard wood floor and more than half of them are occupied, by. men of the Ninth Service Command who have come to the university to take tests and courses to make their previous training fit in with college programs. The university is a Star college. one that has been selected by the army specialized training program as a specialized training assignment and relocation center. To it have already come more-tha- n 600 men, trained' in. fields of specialized work from engineering to psychoanalysis. They are being tested and examined to -- determine their college standing,-an- rl what courses they lack are being provided before the can be fitted into regular college wbrk at one of the colthe United leges throughout States where men are studying in army uniforms with army pay for special lines of duty. The Ninth Service Command contracted with the university a month ago for the establishment of such a center, a quota 500 men at a of not more thannaming and single time, making Col. Rumsev Campbell,, commandant of the ROTC, head of the program at the university. Other ROTC officers were put under him and the army provided more. The quota has since been Increased to 1,000. An oak floor was laid In the Fieldhouse, which, stretches the full length of the building and the bunks were brought in and arranged in rows on the floor and throughout the rooms, previously occupied by coaches and managers in the days of basketball in the One of the rear sections building. of the building was converted into additional bathroom facilities to those' already installed for theathletes, and store? were moved into the basement. A new ventilating system is being installed. , The problem now arises at the university of how to take care of these men, who come from every corner of the Union, who march from class to class dur-in- g the day, and line up for meals In the cafeteria in the Union Building at noon. Efforts are being made to make it possible for the date shortage among s the U to be relieved by the easing of mixing between the universitys guests and sorority girls and others, left behind. Barrier to the solution of the co-ed- WHERE SOLDIERS SLEEP Here, in the Fieldhouse of the University of Utah, hundreds of army men spend the night after- - educational work at the institution during the day. problem is the fact that most of the men do not stay more than a few weeks. Students and the faculty are combining to- provide the Field-hous- e or with a recreational room, which will be In day the body of the building -and partitioned off in which writing comfortable chairs, a desksj radio, magazines and books will be provided. The lack of such a room and the enforced confine - ment to the campus have made life boring for many of the soldier-st- udents. All the construction work In the fieldhouse Is being carried out by the buildings and grounds department of the university. W. Kent Evans, superintendent of ' the department, does not know whether the flooring or of other the structure any part al changes In the building will be permanent. Synthetic Rubber Day Near Tire Man Sees End To Natural Product Predicting that the turning point of the revolution In rubber the day when rubber rather than tree rubber will predominate in ordinary products is - close at d man-mad- e cate, build (plants), and conserve. Mr. Richardson said that It would be 1944 before we have anything like enough synthetic rubber, but that we have the know how. It was in June pf 1940 that the B. F. Goodrich Company announced the manufacture of tires in e which Ameripol, the syn- -' thetic that resulted from their" research program In va. rious synthetic rubbers, repfccsS-- , natural rubber by more' than 50 per cent- .- They were- .the first synthetic (ires ever offered for sale to American motorists. ftIn announcing that development, Mr. Richardson stated, our president, John L. Collyer, emmade It clear that barked on a deliberate measure of national defense Insurance" in rubber. He explained then thatwe were doing it to focus at- tention upon the dangerous situation the nation would face should e to the Far our rubber East be cut. Well, the life-lin-e was cut . . , and already almost every article which before was dependent upon natural rubber can be and is being made of some type of synthetic rubber. In the short space of three 'years, the synthetic - rubber program - will have provided our country with the ability to produce nearly tons annually of a synthetic material that was virtually unknown a scant few years ago.1- -. This amount, Mr, Richardson s more rubber said, is than the U. S. average annual confive sumption for the years the war. Production, of the' rubber is expected by Industry officials to be approximately 250,000 tons this year, En' gineers agree, according to Mr. Richardson, that the revolution with synthetics the rule rather than the exception is really un that- it is only, a question of months until essentials, other than military ones, and later' aret manufactured - of. the new manmade rubber.Mr. Richardson .was passing through Salt Lake from a Tour of the Western Stated, en route for Washington. D. Q. Fifty. Given Citizenship "I feel fine. I'm an American now. This was the sentiment expressed by many of the 50 aliens who took the oath of allegiance we-ha- this morning in the District Court of Judge George A. Faust. The hearing was a special one, not on the regular naturalization calendar, that was held in connection with the I Am an American Day, to be observed Sunday. The new citizens, with about 25 soldiers who will take 'their oath of allegiance tomorrow morning m Judge Fausts court, will be presented with their citizenship Ipapers at special services Sunat South High day at 8:15 p.m.-- life-lin- - School. 'For three years I study, one elderly woman said, telling of the mornings experiences. 'I learn to speak English, maybe not so good, though. I learn lo read and to write and I learn the constitution. N ow. Im - very- - proud Im not Finlander Im American. One Italian-bortold how RUBBER REVOLUTION W. S. Richardson, manager of industrial products division of B, F. Goodrich Company, says man-mad-e rubber about to sup- plant tree type. the he-ha- - n iThat two-third- before e man-mad- new American lived In hand, W. S., Richardson, manager United States since he was a bey. of the industrial division of the I Always Intend to be citizen B. F. Goodrich Company said toand now I do. This is fine counLake that there are try. I am- proud now to be Ame- day in Saltthree main- categories-- of -- things rican.""'""""" Greater numbers of aliens are still to be done to lick the rubf-be- r now taking out their citizenship problem. The three categories are alio papers than ever before, Judge n Hear Savant Dr. Walker To Speak Dr. Dilworth Walker, dean of the School of Business of the University of Utah, will speak on "Postwar Economic Problems at the regular meeting of the Salt Lake Round Table tomop row at 12:15 at the Hotel Utah. j. .j - der-wayra- Jo-el&teii- e. PEACE TIME CANT : 9xwn. UR YA Merchandise. WONT ON foffca Fugar than ETC. VILFORD - FURS -- 02 I FURS I .j BE NO BUTTER EfTHTRx ' UOEl: 50 priced from sx IS 11 May TODAY S We Pay Yau Liberally To Save With Us. for LESS BeWell-Dresse- d May SI e- - Sana 15 Canned WOOD 8RffQ IY: DAYJ-PR06AB- Item Stomp Last Day AMERICAN MINX RUSSIAN ERMINE FUR$ DROP Yfft 7ffJf SALE RationingFactr SECURliyJ DON'T MMF NO (DIFFERENCE HOW - -- FUR$ abta bow) May SI G. H. J (blue E. F, G (rad maahl now) May SI May SI (A booka) GMollna 5 ' Blur ara for eannad. stamp frosan, and drtad atyatahlaa and fruit. Had stamp ara for meats. eannad and. fresh. canned flab, butter sal ad and cooking alls and fata. Had a tain pa will ba - validated weakly in May; H May II; d, m, Ail an food through 'Vgr May SL ' Coma In and Gat Acquainted With Our Savings Plant MORRIS ROSEN f Original' FURMBILT .1ft SOUTH MAIN SfcTCOVO" , ' 1 . - 5lVU' -- tt : tire-typ- -- Buy Now Wlills You " Can Get Good A Thousand Army Bunks Cover s pounds per 'individual." ThiS'Ts a more generous allowance than last year, when sugar for preChief To Survey Resources serves was limited to one pound per person. Faust said, Tie attributed--the Although "homc canned" foods "A personal study "of the north "two or" thfee days With" the "en increase to the war. include primarily those that the ern Utah rivers and creeks, the Most of these new citizens gineers of the Salt Lake office stream gauge records and snow before a better knowledge of the to Arizona. have proceeding was reservoir water storage today To United States Constitution and of indiThe he records 6aid, here, Kasel Rudolph G. ' The Problem will discus- ofbeing made by D. our principles of government than C., chief of the cate that the water supply from Washington, be Organizations Americans have, the native-borsed by Dr, 0. Meredith Wilson, surface water division of the surface streams in northern Utah he said. I think they will make United UniStates the at of Geological Survey. history professor will be about normal for 1943. fine, useful and loyal' citizens. is While the the at of geological Utah, survey regular versity meeting of the Salt Hake Rot- purely a service to make maps ary Club tomorrow at- 12;15 p.m. and reports on land and resources, at the Hotel Utah. the evidence given by the survey SUIT VALUES engineers 13 generally the decidnothe. factor In determining FUR$ FUR$ ing of AFFORD YOU tion Congress - and adminis-- , trative bodies on reclamation matTo Turn Your Back On! ters. Just now even the contracts made by the Bureau of ReclamaTurn Your Old tion for construction of the Deer Coat in on a Style plus Comfort plus Fine Creek project in Utah and othNew One ers over the west have been susTailoring plus Handsome pended and all work halted, as must work or private any public Qolorfplus Durable Fabrics get priorities from the WPB. The work here will pot be resumed until the military authoriADDS UP TO QUALITY ties say that water here is needed more than steel. - Mr. Kasel said he would spend - May-10,194- Fieldhouse Ndv Barracks U -- five-yea- Pf Salt Lake City, Utah, Monday, -- -- ' - shows, 'A "'! 4t T. A f at -t r V |