Show Sports Loral Nrws Classified Alls Finance Radio Programs Page 111 Part Two Arranging advance the mass promotion ceremonies Friday at Wendover field are Lieutenant L Krlssey and Captain It M Kmahlser of the army Second air force headquarters Fort George Wright Wash Jse of City Jay Center Scene of Tragedy and Young Victim Reeord Total v S L Salesman’s State Collections Reflect Boqm In Retail Trade Building Into USO Clubhouse con-ren- two-mon- ee is tv for a U S O clubhouse The conference was called hur-ed!- y after Mr Tedesco was the USO with approval ’ high army officer stationed -- re is seeking the structure for new recreation center for men the armed services because the -esent USO club house at 220 ast South Temple street is too mail Appearing for the USO were orman Sims and James M Marking members of the Salt Lake ty civilian military recreation two-mon- oetion Advisability While rot actively opposing the quest that the city turn the hiding over to the USO three embers of the Salt Lake Kiwanis ub recreation committee Joined y Mrs" Joseph H Felt" for whom ne center was named questioned hether the city could afford to linquish the building since it was "signed to furnish recreation for nderprivileged children tn the owntown area where the juvenile ehnquencj’ rate is high Upshot of the conference was and 'at the Kiwanis members Fri-ay Irs Felt will meet probably with the Kiwanis executive mmittee to decide whether they -all withdraw their opposition to :ie move Mr Sims end Mr Markham fter explaining the need for more oom for a U S O center because -- the increasingly large number troops stationed here pointed the project “is not our baby” — Tat they were acting at the behest ? the army and thedJ S O “This is the only available build-'- g in Salt Lake City which is jitabie for the purpose” Mr ms said “It was selected by If the pecialists in recreation f f liwanis club objects we will with-raour request and so inform the ’ S O but we will not press the atter over the club's protest” elay Answer He asked for an immediate from the club but the Ki- anis recreation commiteemen — X E Laroboume F Y Fox and ufus A Tracy Jr — explained they ad first heard of the proposal only "hursdav and were not prepared a take a definite stand Mr Tracy said the matter would equire some study because it ould mean the club would “throw way five years of work” devoted a furnishing recreation for down-aw- n youngsters Juvenile Court Judge Ftulon V lark who attended the meeting or a short time said the city must” furnish organized recrea-o- n for children in and close to he business section or it will see a immediate rise in juvenile delin-uerc- y w an-w- er Commissidrier Tedesco said it would be his dutyto make a recommendation to the city commission a the proposal but he will wait irtii he receives further word from he Kiwaaians and Mrs Felt as to heir stand Memories May Prove Coolin" Many Salt Lake residents figuratively would give their right arm or a “cooling off spell” these warm days but it wasn't so long go that many of there persons would have given the same right arm for a few days of hot weather The nine months of winter we had in 1941-4- 2 seems to be a forgotten issue nowadays as the temperature bobs in and out of the kr And the Salt Lake weather man Thursday night indicated we will wait a while for that cooling off spell He predicted little change la temperatures Friday The mercury inched up to 96 degrees Thursday afternoon for the dav's h:gh and sank to 65 degrees WENDOVER July 30— The first mass presentation of stripes in the history of the U S army air forces gunnery schools — and one of the largest mass promotions in army history — will be conducted Friday at 11 a m at Wendover field Second air force headquarters officers announced here Thursday Captain R M Emahiser public4" relations officer of" the Fort The formal review scheduled to George Wright Wash air force start immediately after the mass headquarters and LieutenantinF L presentation of chevrons will conthe Brissey senior instructor command gunnery school said sist of a complete demonstration 144 sergeant stripes will be presented of the intensive training the ince to 144 men Friday before Major gunners have undergone General Robert Olds Second air they arrived at the gunnery school It is expected that the refojee commanding general General 01d3 will arrive by plane view will occupy most of the day The gunners will head for their frofn Spokane Wash at llj'a m with the impressive ceremonies ships upon their release as serand review scheduled to begin soon geants and their planes will take after his arrival Accompanying off individually for demonstrations him ' will be Colonel Nathan B of their skill in aerial gunnery as targets Forrest chief of staff Colonel Eu- they blast away at sleeve B Overacker gene L Eubank commandercom-of willColonel Charles present the chevrons with the Second air force bomber mand and Major Alexander Hag-ne- r General Olds participating in the the general’s aide presentations Crew Recovers S L Organizes th low-backe- 18-m- an Plans are complete for the organization meeting of the Salt Lake County War Chest to be held Friday at 11 a tn in The Tribune-Telegram auditorium Hugo B Anderson Secretary of the organizing committee announced Thursday The meeting will be called to Order by Earl J Glade chairman of the organizing committee who wiU ’review activities of the committee and report on responses of large givers and agencies to questionnaires asking their views on the proposed war chest John M Wallace will summarize reasons for a war chest Mr Anderson will present proposed articles of incorporation Stewart Cosgriff will present names of those proposed for members of the and comgeneral board officers T Harris mittees and Richmond will describe proposed plans for publicity for the war chest Rations Reflect Utah Growth ing place Is that O A Wiesley commission member who will conduct the hearing is a paHe is tient in the hospital recovering from injuries suffered in an automobile accident in Emigration canyon July 21 high figure The case is an application by Mrs Margaret C Greenhalgh ' of Eureka for benefits" claimed due as a result of the death of her husband Alvin Greenhalgh Mr Greenhalgh died last April and was an employe of the Chief Consolidated Mining company the commission reported Mr Wiesley asked that the hearing be held as scheduled and the commission subpenaed witnesses and principals in the rase instructing them to report at room 132 of the Veterans' hospital Monday at 10 a m ! hW announced in advance i Ruins of the home where a girl was burned to death Ruth Kinder 12 of 914 West First South street Is shown examining stove where fire probably originated Below Connie Rae Richins who was burpecFto death of the end of each month When final accounting is made for sales tax collections for the business period ended June 30 total collections from retail sales between July 1 1941 and June 30 will reach $5324387 This figure exceeds by $761292 tax collections on retail sales between July 1 1940r and June 30 th Air gun Shots Hit Women Break Window 1941 CAA Proposes To Simplify Airways Radio National leaders of the Elks lodge will meet here Saturday with lodge executives of 13 western states it was announced Thursday night by Dr Arthur W Olsen exalted ruler of Salt Lake lodge No 5 B P O E 132 Aliens Await U S Citizenship Douglas P Lillis examiner for the U S immigration and naturalization service reported Thursday that 132 aliens have applied for United States citizenship but a 1906 federal statute will prevent them from being admitted until after the elections this fall The law says there shall be no naturalization hearings for 60 days prior to a general election meaning the hearing must be delayed until after November 3 The law was enacted to prevent wholesale induction of new elttzen-vot-er- s around election time steel-jackete- - Taxes of all types collected by the commission during July totaled $147357347 the accountant reported Breakdown of the collections follows: Income taxes $605987 corporation taxes $1458327 sales taxes ! $90274656 cigaret and taxes $6625899 oleomargarine insurance taxes $75795 inheritance taxes $1616762 drivers’ vehicle control taxes and fees $393050 car and bus taxes $7219 gasoline taxes $36834698 motor vehicle license fees $2219718 vehicle title fees etc $465339 beer Installation of new and simpler taxes $1882297: public utilities’ communication systems to radio taxes mine taxes $4055916 $51384 and miscellaneous fees and guide pilots landing at western taxes $490255 airports is being planned to help cope with the problem of handling rapidly Increasing air traffic In four we"ste?n states R E Sturte-varegional chief of air traffic control for the civil aeronautics administration said Thursday in Elks Leaders Set S L Meet fi - Little GirJ Burns to Death As Fire Destroys Home Gasoline Taxes Drop Tire shortages and wartime transportation problems are causing decreased collections in gasoline taxes Mr Bankhead reported The official said collections during July totaled $36834698 as compared with collections during Julv 1941 of $41013538 He said gasoline taxes have been on a gradual downward trend for several months Collections during June totaled $34042519 as against collections of $38218607 in -- chair Clergyman Keeps Vigil The Rev J P Moreton had remained at Condit’s side throughout the night and left him only a few minutes before the execution Five rifles four of them loaded d bullets cracked with at 6:10 a m The doomed rnan gasped for breath his head rolled forward and his debt to society wa A girl was burned to death in her sleep early paid Somewhere outside the walls a Thursday when her home in Chesterfield caught fire probably rooster crowed A flock of pigeon which had been chirping excitedly from an overheated stove and was destroyed on the lawn around the cornr The victim was Connie Rae from the cellblock fluttered awajy Richens daughter of Mrs Jennie Thirty-fou- r witnesses — peace Richens Perkins 1501 West Sunand newspaper men — had stood nervously jumping aside set avenue (2830 South street)f uneasily as whiffs of gunpowder who perished while the mother smoke rose from the canvas dur-ta- in ' t was taking the child’s stepfather behind which stood six Iren Frank R Perkins to Redwood county deputy sheriffs five vof road where he was to catch a them serving as executioners The ride to his work sixth was an alternate Mrs Perkins took another The owner of an air rifle near Lorine Perkins tennis Annette the ' abandoned daughter Quick Death an infant with her County firecourts on University street — men said the infant otherwise Only four of the rifles 30- 30 between South Temple and caliber rifles provided by the Salt would also have been trapped in First South streets was beLake couqty sheriff’s office — conthe house ing sought for questioning Thurstained Mrs Perkins said that as she Lake cartridges police by Salt The fifth was a blank turned to return to her home after he allegedly broke day From which gun the blank wf5 she saw it was burning and fled a house window and shot fired will never be known two women after the car in which her husCondit was pronounced dead twoi band was riding overtaking it Mrs Philip D Fletcher of 262 minutes after the and one-ha- lf South street Toat Twenty-firs- t Westminster avenue t told police she was struck slugs tore through his shirt gether they rushed back to their He did not see the somewhit in the back by an air rifle but the heat from the homre flames was so intense they could eerie setting for his death Sheriff pellet while she was watchnot enter a tennis game Lamb had placed the black hoad ing Firemen summoned by a state Miss Glenna Boyes of 1232 over his head bef ore he rounded Alameda avenue was shot the east corner of the cell tJuild"-in- g highway patrolman soon quenched In the leg while watching the blaze but the little girl was He had walked 'unaided fron She dead when they entered the same game his cell He did not waver as h was burned over her entire body Mrs Ezra P Thompson took the final stepa-if- t darkness" i Fire Chief Vernal T Beckstead of 41 University street reHe had not slept Wednes'lr The chief was told that said a window at her home Warden John E Rarris-saiported night Mr Perkins had built a fire in lone-wowas broken by another shot who asserted toptha the the stove to heat some water last that he had not killed £$ and the stove apparently became Thorne intentionally refused ada overheated ministration of sedativesruntii the The house and contents valued A few minutes befinal half-hoat about $1800 were destroyed walk he submitted his fore last Besides her mother Connie Rae and was given morphine is survived by her father Arnold L Richens from whom Mrs PerDisplays No Bravado kins had been divorced and three guards described Condit Details of the public service as Prison grandparents Mr and Mrs Allen one of the "nerviest” men ever Richens and Mrs Eleanor G Kin- commission's report on the Utah to face a Utah firing squad There der all of Salt Lake City Power and Light company’s orig- was no bravado — that which most about inal cost were discussed informal- guards remember ” John W Deering exmeeta at afternoon Sets Gasoline ly Thursday Burninjr ecuted four ago for the slaying in the site capitol of the ing of Oliveryears R Meredith Jr Salt Youth’s Clothes Afire and George M Lake business man commissioners said Warden Harrijdid Glen Rowland 14 son of Mr Gadsby the company president notCondit loae his nerve during the other and and general manager and Mrs Oscar J Rowland of death watch Visits by his wife 2454 Seventh East street suf- company officials Jane Condit the fered first and second degree of Mr Gadsby pretty Betty At the woman he married and burns Thursday when his clothes the meetingrequest was a closed “session deserted only a few days before burst into flame while he poured his crime affectedw” him only the with being barred press on a at the rubbish fire gasoline followslightly'said Mr office rear of his home Gadsby’s Mrs Condit visited with him Treated first at Salt Lake gen- ing the three-hou- r that Wednesday at 11 p m and Thurswas re- the details of the meeting ter eral hospital report were day at 4 a m moved to Holy Cross "hospital Most of the night Condit picked where his condition is reported considered and that at a subseon the out the company sprightlyon melodies quent meeting good" “fairly Twenty-two- ) (Continued Page to show the original would seek cost of the leased4 property and that an effort then woulcfbe made to arrive at tha “real cost” j The report issued on Tuesday by the public service commission and the federal power commission 75 in the three countries Red the company’s original cost Cross officials said Each camp placed Most military experts predict $5255286091 as of January will house about 100 soldiers at 1 1937 while the company set that the united nations will win and each will have a manager the original cost at $8359431929 the war because the United States a man an assistant manager alone can produce more" food 'and a woman and technical recrem 1941 E Mark Sullivan of Boston Mass grand exalted ruler of the lodge is scheduled to arrive in Salt Lake City by plane Friday noon and he will be joined later in the day by J Edgar Masters Additional evidence of the sub- grand secretary John F Malley stantial increase in population in chairman of the Elks’ national and John R Coen of Utah defense areas was supplied foundation Colo past grand exalted Denver Thursday when new allocations of ruler tea and coffee showed that three The conference which will open counties Salt Lake Davis and Saturday at 10 a m at the Elks 139 East South Temple Weber received considerable in- club street will be attended by 27 creases over the nation-wid- e quoexalted deputy grand tas fixed by the war production district more than rulers representing board 75000 members of the lodge In The allocations will supply the the 13 western states counties with 55 per cent of their Establishment of an Elks war 1941 tea quotas compared to a commission the of the national quota of 50 per cent and lodge in wartime policies and the contri825 per cent of their last year butions of the organization tocoffee quotas while most areas ward the national war effort will receive only 75 per cent be the principal subjects at the conference Hospital Room Becomes Scene Of State Hearing MondavJ Hearings of the state industrial commission have been held in places — small and large ' — many throughout the state but Monday one will be held in room 132 of the Veterans’ hospital "Reason for the strange meet- The d' st Thursday represented the complete July total because tax commission books are closed one day June War Chest Mine Cave-i- n Victim’s Body Drive Today BINGHAM July 30 — After a search of more than 12 hours crewmen early Thursday recovered the body of Joseph A Watts 44 a special timberman who was trapped in a cave-i- n at the Apex mine in Highland Boy Wednesday afternoon A companion worker Henry Peter Martin 34 of Bingham was treated at the Bingham hosnarrowly espital for shock after n caping the cave-ioccurred between The cave-i- n the 1000 and 1150 foot levels Wednesday at 4 p m while the men were repairing a vent A raise caved and buried Mr Watts mine officials said crew worked in reAn lays until 5:30 a m Thursday before recovering the body Mr Martin reported he had Turned around to get some wedges and was about four feet away when the raise caved in “A pole knocked me out of the way” Mr Martin said The mine is owned by the National Tunnel and Mines company Mr "Watts was born in Para-gona- h February 18 1898 a son of Mr and Mrs William J "Watts As a child he moved to Idaho Falls Idaho with his parents ad attended public schools ther He married Ada Rae Bates Oakley Idaho in 1916 and moved to Bingham He had been employed in 1923 since by the Apex mine Surviving are his father of Tooele his widow and the following sons and daughters: Joseph Carol Ray Paul Ada Rae and Allen Watts Mrs Herbert Mack all of Bingham and Mrs Eugene Mortensen of Salt Lake City and a sister Mrs V G Kendall of Ogden Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 4 p m in the Bingham L D S ward chapel by Bishop David C Lyon tory Donald Lawton Condit murderer of a Salt Lake growas executed cery salesman Thursday at dawn within the walla of the Utah state prison The young man who confessed j the slaying of Harold A Thorne n an Iron county road 15 months ago' accepted death without emotion1 He walked the “long last mile: calmly relaxed in a chair before a huge block of wood! on the south wall of the prison and' P stolidly' awaited the rifle-bla? knew would anuff out his life k No Last Statement “I still can’t see any need for this” he commented evenly without protest when Sheriff SherirAn C Lamb of Iron county asked whether he had anything to say' He issued no last statement j j" Instead he turned to Dr Morgan S Coombs applying the stetho! scope and asked “How is it doctor! Okeh?”! The physician pinned a small round bit of black paper agaipat the white of Condit’a shirt over his heart as Sheriff Lamb and the deputies made taut the strap binding the young slayer to t f $810-1014- Wendover Aerial Gunners Get Sergeant Stripes Today j ld th s in-rm- ed nnunittee Slayer Goes To Death Calmly Sales tax collections for the period1 from May l to June 30 totaled $90274656 to break all previous records John H Bank-hea- d director of the state tax commission accounting depart ment Reported Thursday The director said collections In the period exceeded by $45304 the previous record total of $90229352 taken In taxe-- on the state’s holiday sales last November and December The May-Jun- e collections were 9 $9264507 higher than the received in sales taxes from May-Jun- e retail business in 1941 Collected Bimonthly Collection of the state’s sales taxes is made bimonthly by the commission and the July collections reflected sales for May and June The November-Decembe- r sales which previously held the record were reflected by collections made last January which until this month was the highest sales tax collection month in his- Military and civilian recreation 'eda came into conflict at a Thursday in the office of arks Commissioner Fred Tedesco billed for discussion of a request at the recreation enter at First South and Second aat streets be turned over by the Firing Volley Ends Condit’s Life Yields New Would Convert 9 Page Seventeen Salt Lake City Utah Friday Morning July 31 1912 Army Promotion Tax on Sales iriny Seeks Plan Massdr!alIsof Felt-KIwan- f ill u n c Jialt fake §£Ijf Tlie Forest Is n Friend of IWrtn! lie a Friend to the Forest— Prevent Fires! nt Salt Lake City Mr Sturtevant the explained at opening sessions of a plans three-da- y conference with chiefs of airway traffic control centers and airport control towers in this region He explained that radio range signals now come on one wave length and radio communications with airport control towers are on another wave length requiring that the pilot change his radio tuning and switch from the beam signal to listen to vocal commu-to The new program is nication utilize a filter and permit pilots to listen to oral instructions from the control tower on the same wave length as the radio range signals Formerly weather Information was broadcast on the same wave signals length as the radio range Weather broadcasts now have been discontinued The conference Is being held at Hotel Utah h Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON D C July 30 — G Ott Romney lately national director of recreation in works projects administration Thursday was appointed associate delegate to Great Britain for the American Red Cross it was announced at the Red Cross headquarters here Mr Romney’s particular responsibility will be to take charge of the administration and of American entertainment troops at rest camps which are being established in England Ireland and Scotland for service men There are now seven camps but the program contemplates -- ‘ t steel-jacket- ed f1 -- lf UP&L Heads Board Confer ur “iron-willed- j j he-la- I i Takes Red Cross Post With Troops Abroad Ex-Coac- of-fic- ers ation program directors with women assistants MryRomney will leave for England some time next month and probably will maintain headquarters in London alhipi though his duties will takeIsles to all parts of the British Mr Romney for many years was athletic director at Brigham Young university at Provo Prior to going to Provo he served ss athletic director at Montana State college Merchant Marine Carries Food Arms to Soldiers1 war materials ' than any other Single nation And when they discuss this important factor of production these men take into consideration the The state road commission will possibility of delivering both foodopen bids on two defense high- stuffs and fighting implements! to way projects Friday at 2 p m armed forces In the governor’s board room of And the reason they continue to have confidence in the war the capitol The bids will be for the con- outcome is because the United struction of 8219 miles of high- States maritime service which is State Opens Bids Today On Two Road Projects ! j way between Knolls and Wendover and for construction of curbs and gutters on an access road to the Ogden arsenal charged withthat delivery is notThe United ed for its successes States merchant marine will play its role in this war just as it |