The Daily Herald from Provo, Utah • Page 1

Maximum Wednesday .06 Attahnom Wednesday The Weather DTAH: Virfly cloudy tonight and Catl The Herald ft jop, doTwe receive four Hevatt promptly, ealr.Tb* HeraM offlafc baton'I p. m. week FIFTY-FOURTH YEAR, NO. SO UTAH'S ONLY DAILY SOUTH OF. SALT LAKB PROVQ, UTAH NOVEMBER 1039 COMPLETE UNITED PRE88 NEWS SBRVKMt PRICE FIVE CENTS HITLER MISSES AST BY TEN MINUTES MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs Bf DREW PEARSON and ROBERT 8.

AIA.EN Taft's Managers Busy Corralling Southern Delegates To GOP Convention; Pulled Bloomer in Iowa by Tying Up Campaign With Unpopular Dickinson; Allies' Mediterranean Colonies Not Barred To U. S. Ships Despite Risk; Hitler Can Buy Planes in California, Get Them Home Via Japan, Russia. all being done quietly, but Senator Bob Taft's drive for the 1940 GOP nomination really is going places. The Ohioan's managers are losing no time in corralling the key Southern leaders who are able to deliver entire blocs of delegates from the Southern States.

Already signed up and working hard for Taft are John Marshall of West Virginia, Assistant Attorney General and one of the patronage dispensers under Coolidge; also the famous Perry Howard of Mississippi, colored National Committeeman and veteran delegate wrangler. Howard was an important figure in the pre-convention Hoover campaign of 1928 and has ridden herd on Southern delegate groups at many GOP conventions. Moreover Taft, personally, is letting no grass grow under his feet. Last week, while attention was focused on the closing rounds of the neutrality battle, he had a quiet luncheon in the Capitol with Joe Pew, Pennsylvania's multimillionaire oilman Republican boss. Pew was the master mind behind the election of Governor Arthur James last year, and was grooming him as a 1940 dark- horse.

But James 1 bungling has cooled Pew's ardor and he is looking over the field for another favorite. Whether Taft will be the man remains to be seen, tout politicos consider their secret pow-wcw most significant. IOWA BLOOMER Among politicians there is genuine professional admiration for the way Taft's campaign is being (Continued on Page Four) VOTE CANVASS MONDAY NIGHT PRISON SITE SELECTED BY STATE GROUP Temporary Camp Near Point of Mountain To Be Built SALT LAKE CITY, Nov. 9 an inspection by the state advisory commission on prison removal, Chairman S. W.

Stewart of the state board of corrections announced a definite site has been selected for the proposed new state prison. The contained in the 710-acre parcel near Point of the Mountain already purchased by the state for the new penitentiary. The smaller parcel was singled out for the prison itself, Stewart said, because it is suited for heavy building activity. The remainder of the entire tract will be used for a prison farm. The 20 acres probably will be inclosed in a high wire fence when the new prison is constructed, Mr.

Stewart stated, but it contains enough land for gardens and orchards in addition to the buildings and prison yards. Governor Henry H. Blood headed the inspection delegation, which included also: Mr. Stewart, Robert Lvnch, Daniel F. Mitchell, M.

O. Ashton, Sumner G. Margetts and C. W. Love of the advisory commission on prison removal; W.

P. Halloran, chairman, and J. O. Elton, W. E.

Ryberg and Ronald Wadsworth of the state building commission; Warden Owen Nebeker, superintendent of 'construction for the building R. A on and architect. Returns ot Tuesday's municipal election will not be canvassed by the city commission until Monday night, City Recorder I. G. Bench said today.

By law, the sealed tabulations from the 19 districts of the city must be publicly opened and canvassed by the commissioners on the first regular Monday meeting following the election, Mr. Bench said. The canvass is net expected to alter the results as each candidate won by a large majority. Mayor MarK Anderson, according to the Herald's tabulation, won the mayoralty race over Alma Van Wagenen, 5293 votes to 1902; Commissioner J. P.

McGuirc won over John W. McAdam, 4882 to 2267; and City Auditor Mary F. Smith defeated Ralph Elliott, 3755 to 3289. The proposed 10-year franchise for Utah Power and Light company was defeated 4618 to 2513; repeal of the municipal power bond ordinance was defeated 4757 to 2268, and repeal of the construction ordinance to carry by about the same majority. Montrose Rejects Municipal Power Montrose, Colorado, voters rejected a municipal power amend- mend to t'neir city charter, Tuesday, by a vote of 1246 to 852, according to information received here.

The amendment, if successful, wo'uld have permitted the construction of a city-owned power plant and distributing system. The Montrose area is served by the Western Colorado Power company, a subsidiary of the Utah Power and Light company. lames A. Bullock of Provo, for- inerly of Preston, Idaho, is the division office manager. Bingham Miner Killed by Rock BINGHAM, Utah, Nov.

9 OJ.E>— lakovos Giacomis, veteran miner, was killed late yesterday when struck by falling rock after a premature explosion at the Utah Copper company mining property. Another worker, Charles D. Nichols, suffered severe injuries. Mr. Giacomis and Mr.

Nichols were working on a powder gang at the time of the accident. They were reported to have completed drilling and charging one of two holes in the rock, and yere springing the second with a small charge when the larger charge also exploded, throwing a huge rock down upon them. Mr. Giacomis died almost instantly of a fractured skull. Mr.

Nichols incurred a compound fracture of one leg and a simple fracture of the other leg, and a multiple lacerations, abrasions and contusions. He was taken to the St. Mark's hospital at Salt Lake City. Ickes Dedicates New Parti Secretary Harold Ickes, left, and Gov. Culbert Olson of California at dedication ceremonies for Friant Dam, held at the damsite near Fresno, California.

The $16,000,000 undertaking is a portion of the great $170,000,000 Central Valley project. Homecoming Parade To Have More Color This year's Homecoming parade at Brigham Young uni-; versity will have a touch of color in the persons of four "White Key" girls, who will march in some brand and white uniforms. The parade will be held Saturday November-18. In'the university colors of'rpyi TBe Carterville annexation itrpyersy between Provo Orem appeared headed legal battle today when city commissioners passed an ordinance taking into 'the. city 314 acres belonging to 45 property owners of the-Carterville area, 26 of which assertedly.

had been annexed by Orem. town as part of an addition October 10. Attorney Maurice Harding, who -prepared the ordinance, said 22 of. the 26 property owners in tfter overlapping area were in of being annexed to Provo in first place, and were included in the Orem addition against their will, being in the minority. He declared the Orem ordinance authorizing the annexation legally cannot take effect until 30 days after passage, which would be Friday, because of a "Haw" in the emergency clause.

The Provo ordinance will go into effect today, he said. The new Provo addition includes, besides the 26 property owners overlapping into the Orem addition, 19 owners living in the river bottom area, according to Mr. Harding. NELSON SPEAKS TOKIWANI4NS SLATED FRIDAY A "victory dance" for municipal power workers is planned for Friday at the Utahna, according to George S. Ballif, muncipai power committee chairman.

The committee on arrangements has worked out a program beginning.at 8 p. m. Mayor Mark Anderson, campaign managers and district chairmen will speak. Dancing will, begin 9 o'clock. Dob Orton's orchestra will furnish the music.

Members of the committee are Mrs. Marintha Pendleton, chairman; Mrs. Abbie Mrs. Luzon Christensen, Mrs. Mark Anderson, Mrs.

Alonzo J. Morley, Mrs. E. L. Ekins'and Mrs.

George S. Ballif. Music for the special program will be under the direction of Mrs. Morley. Invitations for the entertainment were mailed but today, reported Mrs.

Ballif. In case ol oversights, invitations may be had by calling Mrs. Ballif at 1112 or 408. Services Sunday For Mark Bown Funeral services for Marquis Layfayette Bown, 47, who died Tuesday evening at the family home after a long illness, will be held Sunday at 1. o'clock in the First ward chapel.

MARQUIS LAYFAYETTE BOWN Bishop W. P. Whitehead will be in charge. Friends may call at the Berg chapel Saturday evening and at the home Sunday, prior to the services. Interment will be in the Provo City Burial park, where committal services will be conducted by Provo Lodge No.

849, Elks. A. B. Fotland, chairman of the n-unicipal power committee during the pre-election campaign, today congratulated Mayor Mark Anderson and the city commission for putting oVer the' municipal power program, in a letter submitted to the Daily Herald. "My hearty congratulations and sincere thanks for the wonderful work done in the campaign are extended to the city commission," he said.

"Now is the time for our loyal citizens of Provo to come to the aid of the city commission 7n completing one ot the most wonderful power plants in the west." 3 Boys Die in Crossing Crash KALAMAZOO, Nov. 9 Three Comstock high school boys were killed today and a fourth was injured when their auto was struck by a Michigan Central passenger train at -a crossing near here. The dead: "Charles Kephart. 16: William Keeler, 20; and David Rosier, 16: This Day. BOKN Girl, to Bishop J.

Earl and Leah Henrichsen Lewis, this morning, Utah Valley hospital. LICENSED TO MARRY Loris Ivan Andreason, 25, Mercur, Utah, and LaRue Dea Jones, 18, American Fork. rived this week, according to ice Cottam of Provo, the White Key service sorority at B. Y. U.

According to the Itradl- tion of new outfits designed each year by members, the girls ordered the 1939-40. uniforms a few weeks ago so they might be on hand for the big. show of the Homecoming parade. Blue Topper The new togs consist of carni- gan-jackets and swing skirts in royal blue, with white blouses. The White Key will be shod in white saddle oxfords, and the ensemble will be-set Off by blue "topper" hats.

As in past year, the White Key sorority will form an attractive vanguard of the Homecoming parade, according to Rdy Jacobsen, chairman of the two-day celebration. They, will also aid in entertaining alumni during the Home- ing get-togethers, and will perform with the B. Y. U. band during the half-time period at the Brigham Young university Colorado university football game Saturday afternoon.

Chairman in charge of selecting the new White Key outfits was Vera Holbrook of Provo, White Key secretary. Colorful floats and spirited band music will also highlight the Homecoming parade in the second day's activities of the annual celebration at B. Y. according to Ray Jacobson of Provo, chairman. The Homecoming parade will continue the high-pitched celebration spirit which will be initiated Friday night in a student rally (Continued on Page Seven) Pheasant Hunter Dies From Wounds Accidentally shot in the back while hunting pheasants near Genola Wednesday noon, Gordon William Tinder, 31, of Eureka, died in a Payson hospital at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

Tinder was wounded fatally when a companion hunter, William Clark Roundy, also of Eureka, stumbled, causing his gun to discharge. The full load of the shot struck Tinder, who was 15 feet in front. He was rushed to the hospital, and was conscious when he arrived, but died on the operating table. Sheriff John S. Evans and Deputy Lloyd Powell, who investigated, said death was accidental.

Roundy and Tinder, both env- ployes of the'Tintic Standard Mining company, had been' life long friends. Tinder was born in Silver City to M. and Mrs. William Tinder, both He is his widow, Mrs. Vilie Newman Tinder; two children, William and Beverly Tinder, and a sister, Mrs.

Rhea Tinder Rife, all of Eureka. Annexation Courts Prove Ordinance Passed To 1 i. Accept Annexation of 45 Owners. Return to morality principles throughout the world was termed by Judge Joseph E. Nelson, of Spanish Fork, as the only means of securing continued world peace in addressing the Provo Kiwanis club at Hotel Roberts today.

Judge'; Nelson made a plea for observance of the principles of Christianity. He blamed the present European conflict onto too many "isms." and pointed out the useless and devastating effects of war. Over six million men were killed in the World war, Mr. Nelson stated. "Is this to be repeated again?" He outlined the advantages of Democracy as against the "isms" which have swept many of the European countries, and stated that the people of America are fortunate to be able 'to share the benefits offered by a great democ- racv.

Wendell C. LaBrache was chairman of the meeting. President Allan D. Johnson persided. Walter S.

Hedquist, manager of Hedquist Drug store No. 1, was named secretary, for 1940. Mr. Hedquist was president of the Kiwanis club in 1937. He succeeds LeRoy J.

Olsen, present secretary, who was elected president at the annual election held last week. John Pertle, Bourne Terre, was a visitor. Sterling Bush sang a vocal solo, accompanied by Miss Naomi Hoover. Stork Pays Call To Tourist Camp "This is the Place." So thought Mr. Stork, also a fine baby girl born to John Wesley and Etma Hamilton.

Show of Cortez, at a Provo tourist camp Wednesday night. The Shows, who have six other children, were traveling through Provo Wednesday, when the arrival of the "little" stranger" made a change 4n their plans and they were obliged to seek quickly. The mother is resting nicely, and the baby still agrees that "this is the Coming Events Business and Professional Women's club;" tonight, 1 o'clock, Hotel Roberts. Mrs. George S.

Ballif win be guest speaker. Thnpanogcs school gymnasium, tonight, 8 o'clock. 20-80 club, tonight, 8 o'clock, Riverside cafe, business meeting. Clyde Ward to be speaker. Rotary, Friday, 12:15 p.

Hotel. Roberts, speaker, George W. Worthen, Provo attorney, fAnnisttce KIDNAPED IDAHO GIRL IS RELEASED Search Goes On For Her Captor, Ex-convict and Hold-up NAMPA, Idaho, Nov. 9 (U.RJLeona "Tiny" McNicholas, 17-vear-old star high school girl, was released unharmed today by. her captor, identified as Donald W.

Harper, 35, former Idaho and Missouri convict, who allegedly held up a Nampa service station and disappeared with the girl in a stolen car earlier in the day. The girl was found walking on the Boise-Meridian road. She said Harper had brought her there, put her out of his car and continued his flight Police Chief J. L. Balderston took the girl, to Nampa immediately for questioning.

He said she had not been molested. Meanwhile, search for Harper, alias Benson, alias Duncanj, a. former Idaho and Missouri convict according to police records, was concentrated in the Meridian area, halfway between here and Boise. Harper resided in Meridian. No Ransom Noterr- The girl was identified by the chief of police as Leona "Tiny" McNicbolas, foster daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. W. E. Techanec of Star. She weighed only 98 pounds and was five feet, two inches tall.

Balderston said no ransom note had been received and he believed none would be forthcoming. The parents of the girl are not wealthy. The motive, he believed, was to use the girl as hostage. were convinced the man forced tne girl to accompany him after he allegedly stole gasoline from a Nampa service station, abducted the attendant and then released him. The police chief pieced together the story from an account given by Darrell Gross, night attendant at the R.

and B. service station in Nampa. Gross said Harper drove up to the station in a 1938 Plymouth sedan at" 2 a. forced him to (Continued on Page Seven) Ham-and-Eggers Going Out After Governor's Scalp SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 9 Leaders of California's twice- rejected ham and eggs pension plan today hurried a recall campaign against Gov.

Culbert Olson and promised to get Thursday" on the 1940 ballot for a third vote. Heartened by the plan's crushing defeat, business and industry anticipated a return to normalcy and trade expansion. The threat of heavy taxes and imposition of a state warrant system under had slowed commerce almost to a standstill. The future of penisions remained a vital issue. Governmental and legislative officials sought the answer to increased demands for more old-age aid.

California now pays $35 monthly to those over 65, highest dole in the nation, and will raise it to January. Elks Meet Tonight Exalted Ruler Roy M. Sorenson urges all members of Provo Lodge No, 849, B. P. O.

Elks to attend regular lodge tonight at 8 p. m. All officers are requested to meet at 7 p. m. to draw plans for the winter socials.

Program for Thursday, November 16, when District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler Dean R. Daynes, Salt Lake City, will be present, also will be planned. Seven Killed In Munich Explosion; British Accused More Than 60 Injured As Ceiling Caves in On Beer Cellar Crowd Celebrating Anniversary of Hitler Putsch By FREDERICK OECHSNER BERLIN, Nov. 9 (U.R)—Nazis announced with rage today that the bomb which wrecked their beer hall shrine at Munich, killing seven and wounding more than 60 persons, had missed Adolf Hitler by only 10 minutes, and had piled up 10 feet of debris on spot where he had made a 57-minute speech. They loosened their full wrath at Great Britain, charged that the British secret service had instigated the bombing.

and intimated that they would take- their revenge by intensifying the War. Arrests The Nazis announced officially the explosion occurred at the exact moment when Hitler would have been starting his speech if the program of previous years had been followed. WORKER SLAIN IN UNION RIOT GREENVILLE, Nov. 9 (U.R) today blamed an old labor feud between the United Mines Workers of America and its rival. The Progressive Miners union, for a riot, in which one man was shot to death and 10 others were injured late yesterday.

The riot occurred at a mine being opened 12 miles west of here by the Hart Coal company. Sheriff Tuck said approximately 300 men, whom he identified as members of the UMA, an affiliate of the CIO. began picketing the mine where about 30 men- The dreaded secret police, had been spurred into action and authorized sources said "some arrests" already had' been made. The government offered a reward of 300,000 reich marks ($300,000) for the capture of the perpetrators, and it was announced private individuals had added 100,000 marks, making the total reward 600,000 marks Officials said the number or nature of the arrests could not be divulged "for legal and political reasons." Gestapo were' working: He said some of the pickets broke through the mine They denied a faport broadcast and -fighting and Freneir started. Robert Brown, 45, construction superintendent at the -mine, was killed: Brent Hart, owner and operator, was shot in the leg.

W. A. Vinson, general superintendent of the mine, was shot in the head. said eight other workers at the mine were beaten with pistol butts. severely Two Charged With Drunken Driving Two motorists pleaded guilty before A.

L. Booth, city judge pro tern, to drunken driving today. Dclbcrt Atwood, 35, of Salt Lake City, arrested Wednesday by Paul Strebel, liquor control officer, was given a $100 fine, payable in $15 monthly installments beginning November 20- Clarence Ward, 22, of Provo, was sentenced to serve 60 days in the county jail, suspended on condition he break no laws or ordinances. The sentence was recommended by the city attorney's office. Engineer Killed In Train Wreck KATKA, Idaho, Nov.

9 An avalanche of rocks hurled the engine and baggage car of the Great Northern railroad's Empire Builder off the tracks last night and killed the engineer, Emerson R. Koyl, Hillyard, Wash. Passengers aboard the train, escaped injury. Westbound from Troy, to Spokane, the train was delayed 10 hours. The fireman escaped with, minor injuries.

S'reneirt'SaW station at Strasbourg that the Gestapo had planned the explosion hi order to kill off some radical of the Nazi party. It was understood several diplomats had visited the chancellory this morning, to express regrets at the bombing and convey congratulations to Hitler for' hia escape. A crowd of several hundred stood in a drizzling rain outside the chancellory, but Hitler did not appear. He had reached the chancellory at 10:30 a. after an train ride from Munich.

He had been spared the sight of the exolo- sion that brought down the ceiling on a screaming mass of men and (Continued on Page Seven) (ITAHNS KILLED IN PLANE CRASH GARLAND, Utah, Nov. 9 Civil aeronautics authorities today investigated the airplane crash which yesterday took the lives of Owen Keller, 28, and Virgil Carter, 32. They were killed when their small monoplane crashed in a field north of here. The dual-control, 55-horse power ship was piloted by Keller, who held a private pilot's license. Witnesses described stunting in the air which preceded the crash.

Both men were residents of Tremonton and were married, Carter being the father of a seven-year- old son. The CAA reported Keller had previously cracked up another ship but had escaped with serious injury. The two victims were on a pleasure jaunt over the Bear river country. HARRINGTON COMING SALT LAKE CITY. Nov.

9 Director Darrell J. Greenwell announced today Col. F. C. Harrington, national commissioner of the works projects adminis-1 tration, will arrive here Nov.

17 for a conference of WPA officials from Utah, Idaho and Montana. City Asked To Provide Parking for Bicycles That city commission take immediate steps to. provide adequate parking space on Provo streets for bicycles was asked in a petition presented the commission today by Dr. J. O.

Berry. Containing 139 signers, representing people from many occupations, the pitltlon pointed out that Provo Is a "bicycle city," and that "it is essential that bicycle have some place to park their bicycles equal to that of an auto- mobfle where the pedestrians will not' stumbling into them on sidewalks, in hallways and against plate glass windows." Dr. Berry suggested that places at downtown street corners where parking of automobiles, is prohibited be converted into "bicycle parking areas and racks provided for this use. The commission agreed to give the petition its immediate consideration. AUNTHET BY OTHXXKt fiblftk John ami Amor coofctjwre, the Ibey watdtfSe.

ntokete ami sceUtf someintagr tbey've got to have easts a hundred doiUre." i-fat.