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Show 1 HMllltK LTH clnnse Generally YVeiliiesd little ur, t temperature tonight aa in ly. IDAHO Fair tonight and little change in I Wed- nesday, Volume Numlmr 4.i. .SO. Ad ie Herald4oumal Independent sJlUht L New. 0 (; A N. U T A li, TU K S 1 ) A Y. ! K 11 U I' A li Y For Feopie Who Think! ID 2 1. Irice Five Cents. OF AI II Children Wait For Bandit Father r Dreiser Speaks KILLED te... r & w , - vv fr, i c ' ; , ' ,, .. j ytJpWw M 'lot I I " r X fcerirtftwaafA-'O'iiAlir- 1 ; I r' Critically wounded of these three tiny ploye. The children his return. Motive i V 4 fiirilfrw er Serge B. Benson, Herschel Bullen. Dr. D. C. Budge, John A. Hendrickson, Mrs. W. R. Tolman, Dr. R. L. Hill, Mrs. William Evans, Jr., G. E. McDonald, Mrs. George Ewer, Henry Otte, Hazel Everton, A. H. Palmer, Mrs. L. R. B. G. Thatcher, Alma .Sonne, Mrs. Otto Mehr, Ira N. Hayward, W. N. Lundstrom, Ben H Roberts, Charles O. Peterson and Professor Calvin Fletcher. It was agreed that soloists would be selected from Cache Valley. Hum-phery- s, Claire Laub Wins Oratorical Contest lu Miss Claire Laub, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Laub, was this morning awarded the medal offered yearly by the Sons of the American Revolution to the Logan Senior high school student presenting the best patriotic oration. Her subject was "The American Dream." Other contestants were Unita Woodland, whose speech was a discussion entitled "Massacre, of automobile hazards; Woodrow America's Evans. speaking on New God," and Desmond Anderson, with The American Interdc pendence" as his subject. Special guests were William R. Buckley, chairman of the oratorical committee of the S.A.K., who presented the medal to Miss Laub; Russell Wright and Senator Per-- y Jenkins, also of Stilt Lake City. Judges were N. D. Salisoury, Asa Bullen, and King Hendricks. Ad nan Hatch, member of the board of governors of the Utah S.A R introduced Reed Bullen, president of the Logan junior chamber of commerce, who acted as chairman. Through the cooperation of the junior chamber of commerce and the Logan radio station, the entire program was broadcast. LOSER OF KODAK lk-- 1 - Eight Training Craft , Trauped By Thick Fuff yf - MAKES APPEAL 1. JuU Grant Richards today is appealing to the finer nature of someone who took his kodak from his fathers car Sunday. "I'm not certain that the person who took the kodak will le honorable enough to return it." stated Grant, "but I'm going to ask him to, anyway. It was a gift, and I prized it very highly. It wasn't worth so very much to anyone else. I'm even willing to offer a reward for its return. The kodak was taken Sunday afternoon after it was lelt In the sedan belonging to Grant's father. 'V. W. Richards a " giound fog, last night over an area of several hundred square miles after exhausting their gasoline in vainly hunting landing places. by "pea-soup- crashed I-- v T jh Director Floyd Morgan today applied the finishing touches to You Cant Take It With You, in preparation for the initial Washington birthday presentation Wednesday at 8.30 p. m. in Utah State Agricultural college auditorium by thd little theater group. The play will also be presented Thursday and Saturday evening, and Friddy a special matinee will be given for school The caM includes children. Joseph Evans, Dorothy P. Lear, Sara Brown. Bernice Brown, Catherine Wright, Ruth Johnson, Jewell Jacobsen, Logan Mans Parents Die Tragically There is a saying that trouble never conies unaccompanied.. d Robert D. Tucker, member of the local forestry service, made that bitter discovery this afternoon about one hour after arriving in Lgan from Petaluma, California. He received a telegram stating that both his mother and father were killed instantly today in a truln accident in Ontario, California. It was February 1 that his young and talented wife, Eleanor Armstrong Tucker, died suddenly in Logan, leaving her husband and a small daughter. Mrs. Tucker was noted as a brilliant scholar, having gained her masters degree in California, and worked as assistant to Luther Burbank. After funeral services in Logan, the remains were taken to Santa Rose for burial. Mr. Tucker left the coast to return to Logan a couple of days ago. He arrived this afternoon just in time to receive word that his killed this parents were both morning He will leave for the coast immediately. highly-esteeme- Darwin Evans, Max Wadsworth, Maurice Marler and Mr. Morgan of Logan: Harold R. Weiner of Salt Lake City, T. Hoyt Palmer of Alton, Cclinda Davidson of Ogden, Boyce Hansen of Providence, Clarence lerry of Deweyville, George Stuart of Richmond, Sterling Peterson of Rnhfield and Burrell Hansen of Brigham City The technical staff is comprised of Verdin Singleton and Royal Darwin Henderson of Vernal, Evans. Mr. Morgan, Edith W. Morgan, Charles Stoddard of Logan, Rachel Hansen of Tooele, Karl Homer of Idaho Falls, Idaho, Genee Wangsgard of Ogden, Heb-e- r Greenhalgh of Nephi, George Stuart of Richmond, Burrell Hansen of Brigham. CLUB The play vvas only recently released for production by amateur groups, Director Morgan said. Moss FILM Hart and George S. Kaufman are authors of "You Cant Take it With You," which made a great hit on the screen during the past season. The Logan Cinema dub will believes the Professor Morgan mcpling Wednesday, drama will he just as entertaining have an coen February 22 for the showing of a as the screen version. .ra elogue in round and color entitled ".Skyway To the Nation's MQl'OU SU.ES RISE SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 21 iU Playgrounds." This is a feature picscnlod - The by Utah liquor control commission reported today that it the Western Air Exptess showing the inwestern lands vacation showed a net profit of $50,215 from January liquor sales, an in- cluding Zion canyon. Yellowstone Glacier Park. National Park, 'and crease of $3564 over profits of Besides the feature January, 1938. The profit was many others. will be a short club made despite a drop in sales, picture there which totaled $279,361 last month program. The public is cordially invited to compared to $294,472 in the first month of last year. The increased attend the meeting in the blue and profits were attributed to a de- gold room ot the Hotel lv clcs at 8 p. m. crease in operating expenses. Two pilots were killed. Four planes of the original flight of 12 which took off from the Pensacola training station shortly after dusk for night practice maneuvers, landed safely. Pilots of six of the eight planes which crashed parachuted safely to earth. Lieut. G. F. Presser of the Brizilian navy, a courtesy strident at the naval station, atride his plane" to tempted to earth through the fog, and was killed when the machine crashed and burned. The body of Lieut. Norman M Ostergren of Fort Peck, Mont., was found near the wreckage of his plane near McDavid, Fla, 30 miles north of here. His plane bad burned. With the earth completely and their motors sputtering as they drained the final drops of gasoline, six of the pilots went overside with parachutes. Except for minor bruises, they were uninjured. Navy men estimated the value of each of the Boeing training planes at $18,000, setting the total loss of the eight planes which crashed at about $144,000. Presser and Horta, the Brazilian students, were taking the naval, air training course as courtesy student They were admiSted under the navys policy of permitting officers of Latin American governments to use the elaborate facilities of the air base for training. The flights battle with the fog lasted for more than five hours. Lieut. P. J. Monroe, air station aide, said a naval board of inquiry would meet some time today to investigate the crashes. Osicrgren, who died in the crash, was a graduate of the naval academy at Annapolis. Ho was born in St Paul, Minn., but his most recent home adJress was Fort Peck, Mont. old-ty- WINTER REMAINS IN CACHE VALLEY CINEMA SPONSORS Girl And Abductor Returned To Home Eight-Year-O- U.S. To Answer FIGHT Dictatorships E Lirc pi ,ii tn hI ami rc.il, and w d bout the usual sugar coating, will be surveyed this evening m he Log in LDS tabernacle w lien Theodore Dieiser, noted Ameriian author speaks before Utah State Agi n ultural college students and members of the Cm he Valley Civic Music association. I mi (raid To Seuk Up A man who has seen life m the and law climbed from the ranks ol poverty to one of America's gt cutest novelists, Dreiser is not afraid to say what he thinks about life He was a man ahead of his time in revealing real life to the American people. Dreiser has a keen sense of values, knows what is good and bad and is not afraid to tell it in language which common pcojile unicipalities vs. Util- Naval Affairs Committee Head Favors Establishment of Eleven ities Battle Is New Units Waged M I PENSACOLA, Fla, Feb. 21 IT naval training planes, trapped in the air for five hours - Eight Olof Nelson College Play Leads Logan To Open Music Group Wednesday conductor. At the meeting it to hold regular rehearsals on the last Wednesday evening of each month until December when practices for the yearly oratorio presentation will then be held more often. The February rehearsal will be held February 22 at 7:30 p. m. in the Fourth ward chapel. were Other iffici?rs appointed Foster Allen as secretary-treasuiand S. L. Smith, choral secretary. Directors are John H. Anderson, kil $3 American Novelist Appears In Tabernacle At S :;it) ld PASADENA. Cal.. Feb. 21 Davis, churth organist, and Anne Louise d blonde, 8, Swcitzcr, veteran, daughter of a world war returned home today in the custody of Pasadena authorities their strange companionship ended It was the end of a flight enforcement law which every agency in the state had been called upon to halt and it came to as a bitter disappointment both Davis and the child, who left their respective homes together Sunday in Davis' ancient auto mobile without knowledge of the child s parents. Seized last night as they attempted to cross the state lir.c into Arizona at Yuma, Anne Louise staunchly defended her abductor, who said. "I wanted tr away from a bad environment git at home. You know I think I did something rash, but she said she wanted to leave home. "That's right," said the child. "I don't want to go buck." Anne Louise was missed by her parents Sunday evening after she had been playing with a schoolmate at a playground near her blue-eye- Although the calendar that spring is not far Cache Valley weather viously scoffed at such promises off, the man obpromises as he continued to send midwinter weather to the shivering citizenry. Monday night the minimum reading was 5 degrees above zero nearly a record temperature for the last part of February, while the maximum reached no higher than 29 degrees - substantially below freezing. Sunday the warmest it got was 30 degrees, while the cold point was 13. Early this morning the mercury e hovered around the n.ark as clear skies and crisp air pressaged a continued cold spell Although the snow melted a bit during the afternoon where the sun shone, the thermometer reading went no higher than 30 degrees. seven-degre- Duting February precipitation has been below normal, even though it has been a month of blizzards and vicious weather. Up to date. .57 of an inch moisture has been recorded, as compared with the month normal of 1 46 January was slightly above normal, however. home. Monday morning they reported her disappearance to police and after an 'nvcsllg.ition they sent out an alarm for Davis. Police had learned from Davis aunt, with whom he lived, that he brought the child to her homo Sunday afternoon, packed a bag and left with her in his old sedan. He had told her he was taking Anne Louise out of a bad environment, she said. State police cheeked all highways yesterday and authorities at border points watched for Lavis' green sedan. When it appeared at the crossing point at Yuma, California state patrolmen halted it and Davis readily admitted his identity. The Sweitzers-h- e was partly disabled in the war-woverjoyed. However, they would not comment on their child's statement that she did not want to return home, nor did they comment on Davis' stated motive. It was not known immediately what charges, if any, would be placed against Davis. He has worked as part time gardner for a neighbor of the Swell zers here, and on Sundays he had played the organ at various churches. ere RETAIL STORES SHOW INCREASES SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 21 0 I'' The combined reports of nearly .000 Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Nevada retail stores to the U. S. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic showed Commerce for January general increases in business compared with that of January, 1938 The bureau said that in Utah, 354 Independent retailers showed a 2 2 per cent gain in dollar volume for January, 1939, compared to Janary. 1938. In Idaho, 340 stores showed an Improvement of 3 4 per cent. Wyomings 195 reporting stores showed gains of 6 5 per cent, while l'9 Nevada stores improved their sales by 5 9 per cent. In Utah, the sales in individual cities were led by Provo, whoso stores showed a dollar volume gain of 10.3 per rent, compared with increases of 3 4 per cent in Logan and 9 per cent in Salt Lake City. Ogden stores showed a decrease of 1 1 per cent. 1 1 will understand. Gifted with an interesting and fascinating mind. Dreiser writes novels which demand concentration and meditation. He has written the most moving tragedn-- ever penned about American life. His greatest book is entitled "An W hen it apAmerican Tragedy. peared in 1925 the author was so hard up he could hardly pay his room rent, says Dale Carnegie. The book created a national sensation and four hundred thousand dollars came roaring down upon him like an avalanche. Hollywood paid him almost a fifth of a million dollars for the movie rights alone. Dreiser said he put the money in the "good as gold" stock, bonds and mortgages and lost three hundred thousand dollars. What About IJfc? Mr. Dreiser is constantly asked by interviewers, as well as private Individuals seeking Information for themselves, what he thinks of life. Long years of reading, general and technical study, travel, discussion, and, of course, meditation, have resulted in certain individual conclusions on his part as to the nature of life, its possbillties, limitaillusions - its tions, compulsions, changeable and unchangeable advantages and disadvantages and how these govern the individual who is alive now and who has only from fifty to one hundred years in which to share all this. These conclusions touch on happiness and unhappiness, good and evil, reward and punishment and the reasons, if any, in the individual. for satisfaction as opposed to dissatisfaction, gratitude as opposed to despair in connection with this "strange interlude" life. His subject is What I Think Life." About s Pittman Defends Vinson Asks INTERESTS Famous Jiti', iumtatd Wfh lMei, from a blaze of gunshots when he attempted to s'age a Seattle holdup, the father children is near death in a hospital. The father, George Williams, is a city emGeorge, 8; Marjory, 7, and Bobhy, 4 - are looking out p window of their home for for the crime, in which a meat market proprietor and his son were beaten with a lead I ipe, has not been learned. The Logan Oratorio Society was reorganized at a special directors' and membership meeting last night, with Olof Nelson being named as president, S. V. Prows, vice presproducident, N. D. Salisbury, tion manager, and A. T. Henson, in T onight v ; f Y r LAKE CITY, Fob 21 q li WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (UP) The chairman of the 'tali utility interests, apparently house natal affairs committee, Iiep. Carl O. Vinson, I)., Ga., a propised i aught n ppmg when amendment to extend and make declared today that America now finds it necessary to pcnpinent the Granger Aet of 1933 answer the dictators in their own language and urged ap ;;LT I was passed by overwhelmingly the house of representatives, were today very much baik in the battle of municipalities versus utilities. The survivor of two proposed ami ndnients to the Granger law iir.di r which cities and counties btaineil federal funds and financed public utilities was ready for its trip through the house and house leaders were predicting its reception may be a stormy one. The senate yesterday killed the d amendment and passed a more restrictive measure, introduced by Sen. Ira A. Huggins, D Weber. Befoie accepting Sen. Iluggin's measure, its opponents in the senate managed to insert severa amendments tending to liberalize house-approve- its restrictions. As originally introduced the bill would have provided for financing of public utilities only through the issuance of revenue bonds. This was changed to permti financing by other methods. re-It was also revamped to relax strictions on revenue bonds, making them more attractive to pur- chasers. Lawrence Sen. E. Nelson, D., Salt Lake, speaking in favor of the defeated amendment, charged the Huggins bill was unconstitutional and was an attempt to write into law minority opinii ns written by supreme court judges In a ser- proval of 11 net, naval air uses. Opening six hours of house debate on the jp.TI, BOO, 000 air base bill. Vinson said the world might just as well know that America is not going to submit to being destroyed with other unprepared democracies. Every meeting so far with the dictators has meant Peace on the terms unequivocal surrender, Vinson said. of the dictators in a Carthaginian peace." ( MIA BALL HAS FLOOR SHOW The Washington's birthday ball, sponsored by the Logan stake g MIA and slated for Thursday in the Dansante, will feature an attractive floor show, it was announced today by Richmond Young, Young Mens Superintendent. Included in the floor show will be a Minuet, directed by Oreta Hall, and the "Dream Fantasy, official MIA dance, directed by eve-rin- Howard Mrs. Four Meldrum. couples will participate in each presentation. The Washington birthday ball is for all families in Logan stake, and the stake dance budget tickies of cases involving Provo, Og- ets will be honored at the door. e den and other cities in which the It is the second of a Utah Light and Power company series to be sponsored by the stake Mutuals in which all wards was defeated. Sen. Nelson said the issue was of the stake participate. clearly one of municipalities versus private utilities. Senate President Huggins, who FIGHTS MARK did net speak for his measure yesterday said in explaining it earlier NAZI MEETING that restrictions were necessary to protect the taxpayer from illegal or unwise actions by city leaders. Two hot tiffs spiced the houses NEW YORK, Feb. 21 il'I'i An Americanization afternoon. meeting of the nine-danc- pro-na- zi JAPS DROP BOMBS ON BRITISH SECTOR HONG Japanese bombs KONG. Feb. 21 it 19 airplanes dropped during a raid on the g Presidents Policy USAC Dames Club To Entertain Husbands Its strategic western Puctfic To Gather Thursday - L - . in the makes it of inestimable value to the United States as a possible defense base which would act as a strong deterrent to any Asiatic power contemplating a hostile move toward Outside Madison Square Garden, the Hawaiian islands, or the Amerhad had a ican continent. Some day its securpolicemen ity may be indispensable to the) struggle with throngs of their who repeatedly charged success of United States defensive into their lines trying way fight operations. side. Vinson, an official congressional numerous were there Although for the administration individual fights, none was ser- spokesman on naval policies, asserted that arwere Thirteen injured. iously the slogan of the dictators Benito rested, including Isidore Urcen-bau- Mussolini of Italy and Adolf Hitler 23, a sanitary engineer, who of Germany is that might makes rushed the speaking platform in an attempt to attack Fritz Kuhn right. The presidents public statement national bund leader, and was seand the verely beaten by bund storm troop- reaffirming trousers were United States' foreign policy, Viners. Grecnbaum's son said, shows that the policy of torn off. imperialistic Traffic was halted completely in the nation is neither a six block area most of the niir aggressive, but on the contrary is purely a policy of defense and night and it was estimated at one time that a crowd of 190,000 was 'There is nothing in this bill in the neighborhood. Lewis J which is not in thorough accord, Police Commissioner Valentine commanded 1,700 police with this policy," he declared. men at the scene, the largest force ever detailed to one task in the city's history. The climax of the demonstration MUTUAL PLAYERS arrived when bund members, leaving the hall, were attacked on the sidewalk in a score of individual PRESENT encounters. position six-ho- anti-naz- is e. DRAMA Man Who Won $100, 000 Is Still Looking For A Job Lojran Townsendites i j bund, 1946. n attended by 18,000 persons and featured by tributes to George Washington and denunciation of Jews, ended shortly before midnight last night with salutes to Swastikas and the singing of the nazi anthem, "Horst Wessel. Kong railroad. I was reported 98 persons were killed and more than 100 wounded in Chinese territory immediately adjoining the British area. The Chinese village of Shumchun 21 (l l'i Feb. was reported In flames. WASHINGTON, Chairman Key Pittman, D., Nev, There were unconfirmed reports of the senate relations that about 20 persons, including foreign committee defended the president's policemen, were wounded inside foreign policy last night in a radio British territory and that a Britaddress, and charged that Ger- ish train was hit. many, Italy and Japan were preof Lutin paring for domination America as well as of all Europe for Asm "Americans are not afraid to die for Christianity, morality, justice Dames club members of the and liberty," he said. The intent of the dictator na- USAC arc entertaining their hustions "to dominate the world is bands at a dinner party Wednesevident to any unbiased thinking day, February 22, at 7:30 p m. in West n in iter hall on Second West wholeperson," he said, urging hearted support of Mr. Roosevelt's and Center streets. All nurried students attending program to aid the democracies the coll ge are invited to attend against the dictators. Pittman's speech was one of the and ar asked to notify Mrs. W. Rasmussen, phone most bitter attacks he has made Lowell by Wednesday. against dictatorships. He denounc- 1158-ed the policy of "appeasement and surrender adopted by Great Britain and France at Munich as not only "unsuccessful and ultimately destructive" but also as "immoral. He Baid "it is far better to die a few days earlier fin Christianity, justice and liberty than to live a little longer in cowardice and degeneracy. Editors Note: A year ago, on Pittman asserted that Americans birthday, a were not terrified by threats of Washington's clerk won the $100,000 force. military first prize in a cigarette slogan contest. The winner no longer is a clerk, but in the following interview he and his wife tell how the prize money has enriched their lives without greatThe Logan Townsend dub will ly changing their mode of living. hold a meeting in the Cache HENRY MINOTT county court house Thursday eve- UnitedBYPress Staff Correspondent ning at 7:30 for the election of Mass., Feb. 21 CAMBRIDGE, officers and the effecting of an il'Ii So he took the $100,000 and organization. paid the government $37,000 in interested in the Everyone is Invited taxes. Townsend movement to attend. State Organizer Francis Bought about $150 worth of Mortcnsen to furniture. will be present Spent about $750 on clothing assist with the organization, and to issue pertinent Information and incidentals. Invested about the balance, concerning the aims and objec$60,000, to provide an income of tives of the project. approximately $15 a week. Samuel Munroe Van Sant Jr, NOT AIUO El) 21 to d world war veteran, SALT LAKE (TTY, Feb. Salt had B. Lake Anderson. Hugo just 52 cents In his pocket City, today was the second of on Feb. 22 last when he was Gov. Henry H. Blood's interim summoned to a Boston hotel and appointees to fail to receive ap- handed a creek equivalent to 70 proval of the Utah state senate. years' salary. Canton-Hon- Gcrman-Amcrica- Although debate on the measure, winch carries a $5,000,000 author- ization for harbor and airport developments at Guam, was expected to be bitter, its passage was expected sometime tomorrow. Vinson told the house he was convinced the navy has no plans immediate fortification of for Guam in the heart of the Japanese mandated Pacific, ocean islands and 1,400 miles from the Japanese mainland. The bill authorizes $5,000,000 In improvements to the Guam harbor to provide facilities for both commercial and naval planes. If world conditions at some future time make it advisable in the interests of our national defense to establish a protected naval air and submarine base, or if events compel the development of Guam into a fortified fleet base, I would be in favor of that undertak, , ing," Vinson declared. Guam is vitally important to the United States from the standpoint of naval as well as commercial aviation. It is of great importance as a possible air and submarine base from which to protect our overseas commerce from the Dutch East Indies where essential strategic materials necessary to maintain our industries are obtained. It is cf value as the site of a possible naval station to support the Asiatic fleet when the United States withdraws from the Philippines in 25 he had bucks," Maybe shrugged when his comely blonde wife Dorothy asked him, en route to the hotel, how much he sup- - posed he had learned the true won. When he extent of his good fortune, he took two weeks off to recover. The day after Van Sant's bonanza was headlined in the newspapers, he discovered a queue of halesmen haunting the apartment house in Boston's back bay where he and his wife kitchenette occupied a and bath apartment. They offered a dazzling array of streamlined house lots, radios, automobiles, vacuum cleaners, and whatnot. But the Van Sants were adamant in their refusal to spend one penny for any of the finer things of life which they had been unable to afford o.i $39 a wcea. Eager for the seclusion that In they had cnjoyi-days, the Van .arts soon moved to a neat tut unpretentious apartment near Harvard Square in Cambridge. For (Continued on page five) high-pressu- one-rco- d two-roo- st Presenting a polished and memproduction, bers of the Logan stake M Men and Gleaner Girl organizations The SerMonday night played e vant in the House" to an audience in Niblcy Hall. The drama, one of the suggested pieces for MIA groups this depicted the difference in ye.r. who hve as their individuals ideal to love God and all their brothers, and those who profess to love God and their brothers, but who are highly hypocritical in living up to their ideals. One of the best characterizations of the evening was produced Long, playing the by Leonard part of Robert, a rough, brusque, apnre-ciativ- realist. Other characters who played perofrmances were Homer Lloyd as the vicar, Jeanne Eames as the vicar's wife, Elea Peterson as Mary, Clyde Gessel as the bishop of Lancashire, Jacob Fuhriman as the servant, and LaVern Young as Rogers. Directors of the play were Tohn K. Wool, Miss Ann Ncddo, and J. Karl Wood. It was produced under the direction of Betty Jeau Fonnesbecc and Loyal Cook, presidents of the stake Gleaner Gtrl and M M' n organizations. A large stuff of t chuiciuns assisted In the near-flawle- project. J |