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1 L4 dv Li The Weather Utah Cloudy with snow Tuesda becoming partly cloudy west portion Tuesday' night Wednesday partly cloudy with snow showers in mountains tvseak4 1114pmr es Pots VA) Local Metal 5taikets 1 Silver domestic) Silver (foreign) 3475o Copper eliketrolytic delivered Connecticot Valley Lead-5500055c Loesi SetWovionS Price LoadB60s Copper 1 Ittemott Ittlettte 401144 1 Tuesday Morning Utah Vol 142 No 85 Salt Lake City January 7 1941 18 Pages--4i4'e Cents bi Ji 4I) 4 1 Wil 'MS I loelile Court Ilead' Swears in Chief Executive It '0-0ti'''T0-' rate nau ''rro 6:: 17 its'o--: Incoming Chief Executive Pledges Administration to Economy Blood Gives Farewell Statement I Os I Making an appeal for A revival of the pioneer spirit and a rebirth of faith in Utah Dr lierbert Maw Salt take educator attorney and legislator took over the reins of government Monday as the eighth chief executive since statehood4 Congress Message Calls for Sacrifices By All to Send Democracies Increasing Ships' Planes and Guns 1 WASHINGTON Jan 8 (AP) Gravely and earnestly President Roosevelt informed congress Monday that 44a swift and driving increase in our armament production" was the immediate need of a critical period and appealed for widespread personal sacrifices in a national effort to defeat the axis powers lest they win abroad and then attack the Americas "Let us say to the democracies" he Americans are vitally concerned in your defense of free- ntis rive dom We are putting forth our energies our resources and our organizing powers to give you Deep Into strength to regain and maintain a free world We shall send you in ever-increasing numbers ships planes tanks guns This is or purpose and our pledge" Slow Delivery Reaches Climax Trtbnnq Atav Detntir British -Drive Deep Into Libya Looms Troops May Detour FozirAided Kise 1 i tys Tobruk in Push to Westward GoVernor Credits Parents Wife' Russel Tracy 11111111C11- A ILA A A 10117 I Herbert Maw receives the oath as Utah's'eighth governor since statehood from black-robed Chief Justice David Ws Moffat of the supreme court Seated in the foreground are (left to right) Mrs Henry Blood former Governor Blood and Mrs Maw wife of the new chief executive A military salute followed the ceremonies low itx 1 I At the eonclusion of his Instil-gum address Monday In the capi! tot Herbert B' Maw paid tribute to four persons qwho bave contributed much to my life" They are his parents' Mr i- and Mrs Maw his wife lion ewe Buehler Maw and Russell Salt Lake' business man who first took an interest In the chief executive when he was a nevvsboy 35 years agO The governor spoke ot his parents as "a couple who have sacrificed most of the luxuries of life Which they might have enjoyed in order that their hit- dren might be educated and have a better for success than was their lot a couple who have passed on to their posterity the heritage of healthy bodies of a good name and unblemished characters" He said he wanted to thank his wifefor her loyalty and devotion adding: "She has been deprived of much of the companionship that she would have had With her husband because of the Many (Continuo(' on Pape Two) 'Column Seven) CAIROuriggypti 4anr! pomibility that Britlah desert troops might sweep past the Italian seaport base at Tobruk and plunge on more than 250 miles across the Libyan sands to attack Bengasi arose Monday night even as the advance guard of British motorized units threatened Tobruk's outer defenses Tobruk 70 'milts acroas the desert from Birdie which the British captured 'Sunday: is the next natural objective: But it was not quite certain when the British would open a drive on Tobruk or whether they would pass it up for the time being for bigger the Cirensican capital acrwia the desert At any rare the royal air force pounded Tobruk in heavy raids: similar to those loosed upon Bardia in the 48 hours preceding the final land attack which culminated in its capture Sunday Tons of bombs were dropped on military objectives at the seaport At least one motorized spearhead was reported 20 miles from To-- tcontinuod on Page FivieV 1 (Cokuna Four 1 ii 'k- 9 r- mlenagoo The oath was administered to the new governor' and six other high Mate officials by Chief Jun i tice David Moffat of the supreme court at irnpressive cere- monies shortly after' noon in the rotunda of the capiltolj More than 2000! persons from all walks of life watched the in duction and heard the inaugural address of Governor Maw and the farewell address of Governor Henry Blood whom' he succeeds The ceremonies were in charge of Adjutant General )1' Williams of the Utah national guard As soon as Governor Maw had pronounced the last words of the oath a salute of 19 guns boomed from a national guard battery on the hillside north of i the-capitol The 1113th field artillerY band played the ''Star-Spangled Ban ner" and the chief justice admin Istered the oath to the following state officials: 1 Monson secretary of state: Eugene Pratt justice of the supreme court Reese Reese state auditor Oliver Ellis state treasurer Grover A Giles atter ney general and Charles Skidmore state superintendent of pub-he instruction Promptly at noon a procession headed by Governor I Blood followed by Governor-elect Maw and other state officials-elect each with a uniformed national guard officer as escort marched the length -of the building from the governor's office to the mezzanine in front of the supreme court chamber where the ceremonies took place Relatives Attend Rites Among 'those in place of honor were Mrs Blood Mrs Maw Mr and Mrs Maw parents of the new governor Dr and Mn Maw brother I and sister-In-law Mr and Mrs Russel Tracy: close personal friends and three of the four children of the chief executive and first LaRue Jeanne and I Warren Maw The youngest child four- year-old Ralph Maw did not attend The ceremonies were opened with invocation by George Albert Smith member of the council of the twelve aportles of the church and closed with benediction by the Most Rev Duane Hunt bishop of the Catholic diocese of Salt Lake 1 Both Mrs Blood and Mrs Maw were introduced by General Wil- harm They stepped fortard and th waved to crowd and received enthusiastic applause! Receive Oilier' Following the induction the new officers and their wives retired to the Gold room where they received for several hours It Is estimated that nearly '3000 persons passed through the receiving line Offering their congratulations and wishes for a successful adminis tration I Governor Maw told his listeners he approached his new task with a -humble spirit and assured them that no newly elected governor "has had a more sincere desire to serve all of the people of this state than I do" Ile praised the financial record of his predecessor mentioning a big reduction in the stste's indebtedness In the last eight years and turning to him said: I "The people of this state approve such policies Governor Blood and future administrations should adhere to your philosophy that Utah get out of debt and stay out of debt You will go down In the history of this state as a wise Ind careful leader" Governor Maw said his studies had led him to the conclusion that "there are two fundamental needs (eentiMled Ott rite Two) Column TlLrsft US Would Put Turkish' Rus I 'v r'i''A'i4-'4: Tide Rises Against Nazis 0 A slow-paced delivery accompanied by an ever-rising tone almost recahing the proportions of a shout made this the most emphatically spoken passage of the annual message to eorVersit delivered t'es tutus) In Person and received with repeated enthusiastic ovations After the speech was over however it became apparent that con- press was sharply divided on it For example while Senator Bark-Icy (D) Kentucky called and Senator Austin (R) Vermont likewise praised it Sen- tor Ellender (D) Louisiana said he thought the president covered too much territory in trying to "give the whole world the kind of life we lead in this country" and Representative Tinkham (R) Massachusetts exclaimed that the president had "declared war on the whole world" 1 Warns Against Appeanement The president said he would ask for "greatly increased new appro priations" for defense and for lending arms to England called for higher taxes to defray the bill in part warned against listening to those who "preach the 'ism' of appeasement" and as a means of strengthening the moral fiber of the American people in the face of "foreign peril" made four recommendations for domestic action Old age and unemployment insurance should be spread to cover a greater proportion of the popu lotion he said opportunities for adequate medical care should be Increased a better means of providing employment for those de- serving or needing it should be devised and no person should be allowed to grow wealthy out of I the defense program Under the maze of steel beams and girders erected as a temporary support for the capitol roofs the president addressed a packed house chamber Members of senate and house cabinet members and dozens of notables were on the floor The galleries were I jammed with listeners including Mrs Roosevelt Crown Prince Olav and Crown Princess Martha of Norway who drove to the rapi' tat with the chief executive The -I princess was seated directly behind one of the broad structural steel supports and peered around it to watch Mr Roosevelt deliver speech 1 1 4 Swings Into Stride After a few preliminary para graphs he swung emphatically into the main theme of his mes- sage that the "aggressors" were still on the march the "democratic way" was under attack the world over 16 months of iwar had blotted out democracy in "an appalling number of independent nations great and small" and: "Therefore I find it 'unhappily necessary to report that the future and the safety of our country and of our democracy are overwhelmingly Involved in events far beyond our borders" An axis victory he said would mean axis domination of four continents with greater population and resources than those of the United States No generosity could be expected of a "dictator's tOnstinnpd en PO Ertt Three) 'Column Ott) 'C 4 1 7: egsworot other new state officers at the capitol Hundreds more were In the'galleries out of thi camera range Part of a crowd of more than 2000 persons who Monday wit- nessed the inauguration of Governor Herbert 11 Maw and Takes Governor's Oath natigurates New Officials WASHINGTON Jan 6 President Roosevelt's proposal to turn over "billions of dollar?" worth of armaments to embattled democracies may be carried out under a plan giving the army and navy blanket authoriution to make available whatever aid they deem advisable the United Press was informed Monday night! The plan has been drawn up In memorandum form by the state and treasury departments informed quarters said but the type of legislation to put it into operation has not yet been determined It was pointed out that Mr Roosevelt as president is of the army and navy In his message on the state of the Union the chief executive asked congress for "authority and for funds sufficient to manufacture additional munitions and war supplies of many kinds to be turned over to those nations which are now in actual war with aggressor nations" United Press informants said the plan tentatively drawn up contains no provision for creation of a separate government corporation to handle the lending or leasing of war had been widely speculated Nor did Mr Roosevelt give any intimation in his message that such a corporation was under consideration The plan does provide however1 that armaments made available to Great Britain and other nations would be repaid in kind ort with other good as the chief executive suggested tn his address Be did not go into detail i SOFIA Iguigaria Jan 6 (111-- Diplomatic sources regarded joint Russian-Turkish resistance to any German push through Bulgaria as still likely Monday night despite German reports that the has agreed to let the nazis-enter and take over Bulgarian territory' The arrival here of a high official of the soviet commissariat of foreign affairs these sources said suggested that the emanating from official German only be wishful thinking Diplomatic reports also Indicated that the Turks have concentrated several hundred thousand crack troops In Thrace close to the Bulgarian frontier Reports given currency by official German quarters in Belgrade said Russia had acquiesced to a German move in Bulgaria on consideration that Germany not oppose soviet policy either in Finland or Moldavia the Rumanian area which adjoins Bessarabia former Rumanian soil already annexed by Russia (There was no confirmation of these reports however in Russian Bulgarian Rumanian or Turkish sources) The Russian official' Alekander Mihalcovitch came to 'Sofia with the official title of first counselor of the heavily staffed soviet legation here The Balkans however know him as the director of the middle turo-' peen division of the soviet foreign commissariat and es Moscow's outstanding expert on Balkan affairs Chase Clart As Idaho Inaq 3 By Bob Werner Jan 6--Inaug- i uration otedaho's new judicial executive and officials ushered in the Gem states twenty-sixth administration at high noon Monday A joint session of the two houses of the legislature furnished the background for the induction ceremonies conducted without deviation from a half century-of custom in Idaho governmental procedure Administered the bath of office by Chief Justice Alfred Budge Chase' A Clark became Idaho's eighteenth governore'r lark Nearer Va lona ATHENS Jan 6 soldiers -pushing through the Albanian coastal section toward the Important seaport of Valona burled back veteran Italian black-shirt units Monday while other Greek forces scored new gains in the AKlisura area a government spokesman said Monday night The Greeks were said to have captured more than 200 prisoners In the day's engagements 173 in the clash with the blackshirts on the coast "Our troops In the coastal sector continued their offensive and drove the enemy from positions to which they had withdrawn the day before yesterday" the spokesman said Symbolizing a new order Of Idaho democracy which has come to take charge of public affairs the ceremony combined a smart military accompaniment with solemn form and ritual as a 19-gun salute from capitol grounds cannon boomed reverberating punctuations to the pledge of constitutional support and faithful discharge of duty The ceremony was not new to the gray-thatched former mayor of Idaho Falls who as a member of the legislature had on four previous occasions taken the solemn obligation 4 Small of stature alert eager and businesslike Governor Clark stoott before packed gal- leries and legislative lobby rooms A 'to open the ceremony Presenting him was retiring Governor A Bottollsen a long time neighbor of the new executive in the Lost river area Miitnt I Horsley of Soda Springs speaker of the house of representatives at the 3ast session presided at the joint session After the governor's oath Chief Justice Budge pledged retiring Chief Justice James-F Ailshie who was presented by Justice Raymond Givens as a reelected supreme court member who took his first oath of office to that body 38 years ago The oath read: "I do solemnly swear that Twill support the constitution of the (Continnol on Pato Three) 1Coluran Ones 4 MK.

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