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Show Grain Range I he Number 292. volume 34. Youth Study UTAH Tartly cloudy today, tonight and Friday; colder tonight; little change in temperature Friday; strong wind today, decreasing slowly tonight. LOGAN, UTAH,' THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1943 Fight Rages On Food Affairs Institute To Open Friday Subsidy Aim HamesAides L. Richards Is Named To Lead d,., B. President Public Invited To Meetings Slated In Logan Housewives, Marines, Teachers Invade Capitol Institute Group n AfSpecialist on fairs, Dr. A. S. Zimmerman, dean of the graduate school of Greeley State Teacher's College, Greeley, Colo., will direct group discussions and lecture at the three sessions of the Institute of Affairs to be held Friday and Saturday at Utah State Agricultural Inter-America- Richards, head of the debotany and plant pathology State AgricultUtah at partment ural college and prominent Logan eveeducational leader was last of the elected president ning Logan Youth L- - pr. Bi it & Inter-Americ- college. Council. citizens, reprand groups, adult youth esenting school met In Logan Junior high Initial the meeting for auditorium chairman of the council. Acting Approximately Joseph wU Dr. 125 A. Oeddes, pro-fesn- or of sociology at the college. Other officers who gained the of assembled stamp of approval are Miss Evelyn Hodges social welfare deof the USAC president; partment, first vice and Mary Nisbet, Tod I Weston students, secLog, in high school presidents, ond and third vice respectively, and May McCarrey, citizens r. secretary-treasure- i On the whole, reaction to the Youth Council idea was positive commented Dr. and favorable," Oeddes today. "Everyone seems to recognize the imminence of more serious youth problems growing out of wartime conditions, and ? i i s Cache Home Agent Gains State Honor A woman recognized as a brilliant and energetic leader, Miss Amy R. Kearsley, Cache county in home demonstration agent, was these today elected president of the I problems, Utah Association of home demonto make stration agents during annual We have attempted the council a community affair extension service meetings being a means by which activities and held this week on the Utah State objectives of all agencies concern- Agricultural college campus. ed with youth welfare may be Miss Miss Kearsley succeeds coordinated and strengthened. Maud Martin, home agent for C. D. McBride, instructor at Lo- Carbon d county. Other gan high school, read the council r, Deola Miss are officers constitution which has been drawn Weber of county, agent recent weeks, and op during which states the organization's vice president, and Miss Minette Summit and Morgan, as objectives. Various officers made Carlson, r. secretary-treasureshort responses concerning their A native of Victor, Idaho, where views and attitudes. she attended public schools. Miss Kearsley graduated from Utah State Agricultural college In 1933, Citizens nnd was class valedictorian in graduation rites. She was a member - of the campus chapter of To Phi Kappa Phi, national honorary the one doubts organizing now no to wisdom meet newly-electe- 5 Seeg-mille- 5 5 5 i i Requested Aid Project For Needy Folks es Logan homes and business houshave It within their power to Christmas happiness to needy families what is necessary is the contribution of extend several or used toys discarded Alpha Chi Omega-Junio- r to the Chamber-Loga- a Fireman annual gift project, pointed out today by officials of the three organizations. Miss Dorothy Myers of Logan, representing the sorority on Utah State Agricultural college campus, appealed for gift contributions for Christmas boxes which will to made up for needy families in the was it area. . Moat homes have discarded repaired and the firemen, she explained. If folks having such articles would phone 129, a fire department truck will call for which can be made like new by toys them. Fire Chief E. S. Laurence point'out that his men are ready for fire annual job of toy renovation, d 48 to yt few toys have arrived work upon. Tom Morton, chairman of the Jaycee committee In charge, ask'd merchants to be liberal with toy and gift contributions, and ann- i ounced that committee members 1 make a canvass of Logan fiofes in quest of contributions. No Letup Expected Dr. Zimmerman who has traveled extensively in Spain, Mexico, Chile and Peru and visited Cuba, Panama, Ecuador, Argentine, and Canada will discuss "Why Be Interested in Latin America? at the 7:30 p. m. session Friday, and conduct a group discussion of governmental and political problems of South America following the meeting. Saturday morning he will lecture on general South American problems and source material for teachers. Opening session of the conference Friday in the LDS institute will also feature Mrs. A. Elizabeth Follwell Pratt, faculty member of the University of Denver, in a program of South. American art and dance. Besides lecturing on "Music and Dances of South America" she will illustrate and discuss Brazilian street cries and dances. Other numbers of the program to begin at 3:30 p. m. will be dances by native South Americans and folk songs by members of the USAC Spanish classes. Mrs. Pratt was born in London, England, and graduated with honors in a BA from Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania. Later she attended art students league in New York City. From 1929 to 1940 she lived with her father and sister in Brazil where she spent 3 years as secretary in the American embassy, taught drawing at the American school and taught large classes of American children dancing at the country club. While in Brazil she had a private ball for dancing for children and adults 'and directed a private studio of advanced art students. During the II years she lived in Brazil she made four trips back to the United States for ,8 to 12 months periods and studied at Art Students league and taught dancing at Arthur Murrays studio in New York City. Mrs. Pratt also made a trip to Uruguay and Buenos Aires. The institute meetings are being held at the LDS Institute on college hill according to Dr. Fred F. McKenzie, chairman and representative of the Utah council of Affairs. The conference is being held in cooperation with local school and MIA authorities. scholastic fraternity, and an officer of Phi Upsilon Omicron, national home economics society. For five years she was employed as an instructor in Moreland, Idaho, and Edmonds, Idaho, high schools, and then joined the extension service as Cache home agent in January of 1940, succeeding Eleanora Tasso. of Cache She is club work, and has helped direct local club members to state and national prominence. Just recently, members of this county three were chosen from a total of nine to represent Utah at thp national congress in Chicago. Miss Kearsley also has been energetic in organizing adult groups for the study of home and community problems. An opportunity for Cache friends At the present time, she is president of the Logan Business and of the local USO club to join in Professional Women's club, and a holiday festivities will be afford-e- a Friday evening from 8 to 10 member of Delta Kappa Gamma, national educational society for o'clock when open house is conducted, according to Dr. Clark E. women. Haskins, club chairman. The general public is invited FLU The to visit the club, and to Inspect LONDON, Dec. 9 U! he declared. Duchess of Kent has been strick- our facilities, en with influenza, it was revealed "Especially are USO workers urgtoday. King George VI. also ill ed to attend the open house. There will be Yuletide decorwith influenza, was reported makations ar.d other features befiting good progreat toward ting the season. H Inter-Americ- 4-- H Public Invited To USO Open House H Dec. 9 lE) WASHINGTON, Aroused representatives of housewives, dramatically supported by two disabled marines, today invaded capitol hill in an offensive which they said was designed to protect their budgets against the farm bloc assault on food subsi- Powerful Argument In the Pacific! Both sides of the capitol echoed to charges that opponents of the a d m 1 n i s tratlon's subsidy program were playing into the hands of "blood billionaires, threatening the poor, and jeopardizing the economic welfare of millions of white collar workers. The senate banking committee, d considering the commodity Credit Corp. extension bill which would ban food subsidies. heard appeals from the two marines. Several hundred persons gathered on the house side to denounce the antisubsidy drive, which spokesmen called "the greatest lobby campaign in history." In the house gathering were representatives of housewives, school teachers, white collar workers, and other consumer groups. It was women's day before the senate committee, too. About 40 women assembled as the two marines told their story. Both service men pleaded that the price line be held; otherwise, they said, they will be unable to train themselves for a new life after the war on the limited income they receive from the government Both are On Page 8) Attacked In North Sea Warlike Maneuvers house-approve- In Turk Area Reported fighter-bom- Japs Who Took Easy Out study-(Continu- WellsviUe Airman Pilots Fortress On Amazing Air Raid . First Lieut. Heber Blaine Turko-Bulgaria- . Bank-hea- d of Wellsvllle, son of Mr. and Mrs. Heber Bankhead, was the pilot of a flying fortress that shot down seven axis planes after one engine of the fortress had been knocked out by flak and the bombardier wounded, according to a war department message today. The engagement took place over an Italian target early in September, before the allies granted Italy an armistice. Four of the attacking enemy planes were destroyed by one gunner Staff Sergeant tail Jack D. Guerard, gunner from Beaufort, S. C. As the crew were starting their bombing run, the bombardier, Second Liei t. Samuel T. Mclntire of Mount I. pe, West Virginia, was wounde.-- in the face when five cannon shells and three machine gun bullets tore through the nose of the fortress. The number 3 engine, meanwhile, had been shot out by flak, but the .Jot, Lieut Bankhead, made the remaining three do the work of four and kept the protective cover of his formation. German fighters swarmed in, pressing the attack for 40 minutes. Three of the four enemy planes which Sergeant Geurard shot down literally disintegrated in air. "It was the darndest thing I ever saw, he commented. "They just blew up before my eyes. I was dreaming or somethought I thing until the other boys told me theyd seen them too. Bear Lake Passes Away Father Drafting Eliza C. Jacobson Dunford, 73, wife of James L. Dunford of Paris, Idaho, passed away at a local hospital this morning folNEW YORK. Dec. 9 lowing, a short illness. ve Service She was born at Ovid, Idaho. Director , r'L B- Hcrshey predi April 22. 1870, a daughter of that at least om Peter and Nicholena Thompson "ation's 5,000,000 Jacobson. For a few years during n arbor fathers her early life she lived in Arizona, would be to the armed forces w but most of her life was spent in six months, Bloomington and Paris, IdHlio, and to 1,000,000 iho latter place has been her fathers i home for the past 20 years. half the men needed to April 18, 1888, she married James Dunford of Bloomington. Lehi 'n.f fighting forces t figure of 11,3 They celebrated their golden wed. Hershey disclose ding in 1938. Panel discussion Mrs. Dunford was mother of at tli nine children, six of whom surJeongress of Amct vive. They are Mrs. George E. Hulnic of Bcnn.ngton, Idaho, Mrs. II. R. Weston, Mrs. William and Mrs. J. C. Wallcntine out of Logan: Mrs. Rayford Stevens of Paris, Idaho, and Grant A. Dunford of Burley, Idaho. Also surviving are 27 grandchildren and 11 great grandchildren, one ofessor c. E. McClellan, chair-ion- ,. brother, Martin Jackson of Blythe, f Logan district court of Calif., and a sister, Mrs. David out' ?nnounced today that the R. Chugg of Modesto, Calif. She had been active in church ,or court planned for Sunrio y oight in Logan Seventh and civic functions, serving as cnapei has been postponed. teacher and president of the Taris - 8"1 Ho.-lnc- hcr hard-presse- rather than When they realized the jig was up on Tarawa, some Jap fighters committed han-ka- n Marines, are pictured above. They fight to death or surrender. Bodies of two of them, Imperial toes. One in background placed rifle muzzles against their foreheads, pushed triggers with their big Marine Corps photo.) still has toe on trigger. (U. Those Things Against Which Were Fighting ANGELES, Dec. 9 Japanese soldiers practiced LOS Mrs. Services Court of Honor Postponed se MOSCOW, Dec. 9 "P) Russian naval planes attacked three heavily escorted German convoys trying to reach Finnish Arctic porta, sank nine ships, damaged three, and shot down 28 fighters, it waa announced today. Surprise Blow Stormovlk assault planes, dive bombers, and torof the northern pedo carriers fleet's air arm pounced on the convoys bound for Petsamo and Varanger bay to Tbewes, the reports said, without giving the date of the engagement. In the first attack Stormovika and Torpedo carriers struck three transports escorted by two torpedo boats, four trawlers and six coast guard vessels. Two transports were sunk and the third ; damaged. Reports of new warlike mann euvers along the f rorttieT-tnerewe- dapeculKtforf - of an Imminent crisis In the Balkans today, as American infantrymen smashed through the main German defenses in the mountains below d Russian Rome and troops fought off an increasingly heavy German counter-offensiv- e west of Kiev. Swedish reports, unconfirmed by allied sources, said Turkey had suspended all traffic across the Bulgarian border and that a state had been ordered of alarm throughout the frontier zone. The reports came In the wake of word that the nazis were massing troops in Bulgaria and aong the Black sea coast to prevent a Budden allied thrust Into southeastern Europe, and heightened the belief that Turkey is on tha (Continued On Page 8) bers, (U.E can- nibalism, committed hideous sexual atrocities, and amused themselves with the "foulest tortures the human mind could devise," a missionary told a state assembly inveat.gating committee here. H. E. Hatch During the rapb of Nanking in woman was 1939, one In Ogden attacked 37 times in six hours, Dr. Ralph L. Phillips said. Like a attacked seven times, Funeral services for Mrs. H-- she died a short time later. era died in Ogden Hatch, who "I was forced to watch while Wednesday, wiU be held in the solLindquist and Sons Mortuary Japs disemboweled a Chinese ' saw them I said. chapel in Ogden, SMS Washingdier, Phillips ton Boulevard, Saturday at 1 roast his heart and liver and eat the m. call at Friends may p. them. mortuary Friday from 7 to 9 p. "The Japanese in Nanking took m. or Saturday from 12 noon thousands of girls between the until time for the services. Born in St. George Dec. 4, 1867, ages of nine and 15 and turned she wag the daughter of Robert them over to 58,000 Jap soldiers and Mary Ann Carr Gardner. for a week, he said. She was married in 1884 to "Those girls still alive at the Hector A. MeQuarrle. Following end of the week were put to death his death she moved to Logan in the foulest form of torture that where she was later married to the human mind could think of. H. E. Hatch. In Logan she was "Fifty thousand Chinese were an active church worker. taken from an encampment and mowed down by machine gun fire. Surviving her are the following sons and daughters: Mrs. "Many were only slightly Horace H. Walker, Mrs. H. E. wounded. The Japs poured gasoline over them and set fire to the Hemingway, and Kulon 1. of Ogden, Mrs. Hor-teuhuman mass. M. Odium, manager o( "I saw a number of the ChiBonn it Teller of New York, and nese consumed by the flames Mrs. L. Boyd Hatch of New burned alive, but a few escaped MRS. DUNFORD York. She is also survived by 11 and were treated in field hosward Relief Society, president of grandchildren, four great grand- pitals. YLMIA and was a member of the children, two sisters, Mrs. AnPhillips told the committee JapDaughters of Utah Pioneers in nie MacDonald of Kanah and anese should be barred from that community. Mrs. Maude Baker of Duchesne, American citizenship. During his The W. Loyal Hall mortuary, is and two brothers, Archie and 26 years in the orient, he said, he in charge of funeral arrangements Nathaniel Gardner of Salt Lake became convinced that all Japwhich will be announced inter. anese are loyal to the emperor. City. Prominent Woman Of Nazi Convoy dies. ld In Price Five Cents Inter-Americ-an Council 'I The Weather American Fleet Pastes Nippon Marshalls Bases BY WILLIAM F. TYREE United Press Staff Correspondent PEARL HARBOR, Dec. 9 U.R Four of Japans strong bases in the Marshalls lay in ruins today, victims along with two of her cruisers and more than 72 planes of a powerful American fleet blastd ing open the to Tokyo with avenging island-studde- sea-lan- es bombs. And Berkeley Sector SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 9 l.E Hundreds of persons were evacuated from the homes in the Oakland-Berkele- y hills today aa scores of fires, combined with high wind, inflicted heavy property damage and disrupted transportation and power facilities in many districts of the San Francisco bay area. The worst of more than a score of fires swept over a front of a hillside area east of Oakland, threatening expensive homes and blackening more than 1,000 acres of a sparsely-settle- d residential district Overlooking the city. The Oakland fire department assisted by soldiers and naval cadets, evacuated residents of Leo way and Thornhill road as the fire swept dangerously close. flame-threaten- Upwards of 300 U. S. aircraft, launched from four or more carriers, struck into the heart of the coral atolls Japanese-mandate- d Saturday three days before the second anniversary of the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor to score one of the most brilliant victories in two years of war m the Central Pacific. Official showed; Fire Sweeps Oakland reports from tho feet Laboriously built enemy destrong points on Watjc atoll and on the islets of Kwaja-lciEbeye and Rol in Kwajalem atoll largest of tho Marshalls of Wotjc were 160 miles west turned to smoking rubble. 2. Seventy-tw- o Japanese planes that fruitlessly attacked the great American fleet were shot down in air combat, and an undetermined number were destroyed on the (Continued On Page 5) 1. fensive n, Clarence Ashliman Rites Are Friday New License Plates On Sale January 3 SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 9 d.Ri Utah automobile license plates will go on sale Jan. 3 at the tax commission office in the capitol Funeral services for Clarence and in branch offices in Logan, Leon Ashliman, 40, North Logan Ogden, Provo, Price and Cedar resident who died Tuesday, will City. be conducted Friday noon at tha J. Lambert Gibson, chairman of V. Loyal Hall mortuary in Logan. the commission, said that after Friends may call at the mortuary Jan. 15 the plates also would go Friday from 10 a. m. to time of on sale at assessors offices in services. Burial will be in the counties where no tax commission family plot in the Logan cemetery. office exists. Scouting University Continues Tonight University of Scouting courses w.ll cjntinue in Logan this evening, and in Preston Friday night as the halfway mark in the Cache Valley Council's annual training course is reached. According to Rex M. IngersoU, Council public relations officer, a total of 96 scouters and 55 scouts are enrolled in Preston, while '79 scouters and 63 scouts are at tending Logan meetings. The University meets In Logan ut the Junior high school and includes Logan, Cache, Hyrum and Smithfield stakes. Preston courses draw personnel from and Benson Franklin Oneida, stakes. County Whipped By Vigorous, Cold Wind h winter weather was visited upon northern Utah last night and early today when pushed temperatures, around vigorously by a northeast gale, whipped the county from one end to another. No serious damage to person or property had been reported today, Sure-noug- however window was blown A plate-glas- s from the Sears Roebuck store on North Main street. Power was cut from the Logan-Cacairport when lines were damaged. A huge poplar tree was blown across highway 91 near the North Cache high school at 3:45 a. m., and Sergeant T. Earl Hunsaker of the state highway patrol, In clearing the road, observed that "tho wind felt coldest and hardest in years. Superintendent H. C. Maughan of the city light department declared that a tew minor troubles resulted, but nothing serious. he |