Show nr — : Local Metal Market The Weather Gold Silver (newly mined) Silver (foreign) Copper ! 1 Lead UTAH— Snow and colder Sunday ' (air Monday IDAHO — Unsettled WYOMING -- NEVADA-Sn- ow Detailed Report on Pace 5 B u Lml le4 600 7757o 44750 13o Settlement Min Copper i 69603O lllSe ' i VOL leaned everr monrtnf Entered at the paetofdee at Belt Lake CUr a a eeoooO elaea matter under aat cl Kerch S 1079 134NOlt 8 SALT LAKE CITY UTAH SUNDAY MORNING FEBRUARY WteiT'oiotTOa’Tr'Sd 7 1937 ' 92 PAGES— TEN CENTS t nn - I 1: Torrents Peril Several Cities In California Union’s Status Proves Snag in Motors Parley Roll Up' Sleeves for Battle " X V ‘ ' if 'A Thirty Hours Spent in Qiscussion of Major 'A v f y: problem Facing Group Terrific Storms Sweep ' Causing Rivers to Menace Lowlands State Beacli Long ri DETROIT Feb 6 UP)—Governor Frank Murphy in a formal statement Saturday night confirmed reports that the chief obstacle ih settlement of the automotive strike is whether or not the General Motors corporation would recognize the Workers of Automobile United America as the exclusive bargaining agency in 20 plants now on strike that The governor disclosed “nearly all” of the other questions “have been ironed out and adjusted harmoniously” during the more than 30 hours spent in conference by opposing leaders during the past four days “The real issue” he said “is ties Saturday night and menaced stretch from lowlands in a Colusa to Bakersfield as well as areas in the southern part of the state High water marooned 800 persons at Woodlake and flooded the town of Cutler as the St Johns and Kaweah rivers rolled over their banks south of Fresno The excess flow from Bear creek crept dangerously near Bradley addition a suburb of Merced and overflowed the Golden state highway near there Two families fled from tneir San Jose homes when backwater from Storm drains flooded them Merced Floods The Merced flood covered 6000 acres north and south of ths town to a depth of 12 Inches Residents of Ragsdale addition prepared to evaculate their homes Visalia residents worried because the town 1 slightly lower than the bed of the St Johns river onlyi three miles away The Crest was expected Saturday night Water for a time covered Santa Fe railroad tracks at Galivln between Los Angeles and San Diego a time Interrupting train service for An earth slide blocked Southern Pacific service at Guadalupe and passengers were transferred around the danger point by bus for a flow Bakersfield prepared of 10000 cubic feet of water per second In the Kern river Saturday said the system night but engineers of canals and levees would take cue of twice that volume FTlmltes Stranded A motion picture company of 35 Gene Autry Including Judith Allen was held in and Smiley Burnette KernvtUe as high waters swept over a bridge High waters Impeded traffic in the Los Angeles le ) !V ik - (Column Eiichtt b v I a !'' ' ' NX jf — deliberationson discussionsr-an- d Monday In the fervent hope there will j)e a solution satisfactory to both ‘sides and in the public Interest The public will appreciate that these men are working very J v Steam was up in vessels along the Pacific coast Saturday as stokehold crews fired boilers and the 98-dmarine strike was but a memory Below longshoremen Alex Telegin wipes his brow of some work but it’s good to be back on the payroll once more ay Merchant Ships of Pacific Race to Get Under Steam SAN FRANCISCO Feb 6 (AP)— West coast merchant ships put out to sbt with a flourish Saturday Shipping began regaining its momentum all over tjie Pacific although a few small and somewhat distant relatives of "the recent maritime strike threatened to make waterfront trouble The liner President Hoover out 18 men each and that A “peak” of new honors as the first Ameri- 175 gangs could be expected by NEW YORK Feb 7 (Sunday) UP) Root America’s eldest statesman and former member of two presidential cabinets died early Sunday of bronchial pneumonia at his home here after two weeks’ u: lll-ne-ss " statesman The world-famowould have been 92 year old on February 15 During a half century of public service he held many high offices achievements and his greatest were in furthering arbitration of international disputes He was an organizer of the World court and served on the permanent court of arbitration at The Hague He was secretary of war under McKinley secretary of state under Theodora Roosevelt United States senator from 1909 to 1915 head of President Wilson’s mission to the In Russia - and Kerensky regime delegate to ' the Washington arms conference of 1921 us )' can ship to clear the Pacific coast for Hawaii and the Orient ’finally sailed through the GoldenGate at 2:20 p m’ Saturday after making one false start and being forced to ' turn back There “were Several explanations for the turnaround Dollar Lina offices said the ship returned for “a couple Of passengers who missed the boat” The marine department of the chamber of commerce laid It was understood signals had been misinterpreted A newspaper source said a news cameraman had not been dropped at the customary point making the turnaround necessary Six other ships were about ready to sail jpnd still others called for more and more longshoremen for loading and unloading The Dollar earnestly in an effort to solve the problem and bring the conference to a successful conclusion” The governor’s statement was formal announcement of what went on inside the conference rooms He called the parley into session last Wednesday morning “at the wish of the president” and has been In frequent telephonic com- munication with him since then Between conference sessions the governor has kept a wary eye on Flint Mich potential danger spot of the strikes where more than 38000 General Motors employes are Idle Twice there have been violent outbursts there and about 10 persons were injured Governor Murphy informally commented military and stata police for the manner in which they have handled the Flint situation “It is the best handled job” he said "in the industrial history of Michigan9 — v‘ Holds Warrant Sheriff Thomas Wolcott at Flint holds a court order for the arrest of "stay-in- ” strikers now' in' their fourth day of violating an injunction for evacuation and of union leaders He has delayed action pending word from the governor who Wolcott said had "Indicated very strongly” that any violence the-flre- t Death Takes Elilm Root for '' V ‘ ber of question before it Nearly all of them have been Ironed out and adjusted harmoniously I am confident the others can be solved The chief difficulty relates to the question of whether U A W A shall be the exclusive bargaining agency for all employes "On this question both sides have offered suggestions The Union representatives asked that the U A W A as the bargaining agency In this conference be recognized as the collective bargaining agency for the employes of the 20 plants closed by the existing strike "General Motors corporation has offered to recognize the U A W A as the bargaining agency for its members only reserving the right to deal with any other employe The real issue is whether group bargaining is to be exclusively with the U A W A’ or on the basis of representation Continue Parley "The conference will continue its Fresno battled against potential T: BILL TO BE OFFERED MONDAY House and Senate Committees Divided on Proposal With Party Lines Split Justices May Air Own Views on Plan Senator Burke Nebraska left and Senator Van Nuys Indiana who will ask the judiciary committee to Invito the supreme court justices to appear at a hearing The senate comittee has set Tuesday for the initial hearing on the measure which is expected to be presented in the senate Monday Monday Ceremonies Including speeches by Mayor J Angelo Rossi and City Healtlr Officer J C Geiger marked the Hoover's sailing Rossi conunions and shipown-ers-o- n gratulated the e accord and' ex" pressed the wish that xtheir peace would be a lasting one The ship carried 750 passengers including Mr and JMrs Joseph C son - In - law and Higginbotham daughter of R Stanley Dollar president of the steamship line on a strike-delayhoneymoon tour to the Orient There was 12000 tons ' of cargo in the holds v ' Bars and restaurants along the waterfront opened again after more than three months of Inactivity Patronized mainly by seafaring and waterfront men these places closed the strike liner- PresidentHayea -- left- Hono- during Negotiators and federal concilialulu Friday night for the coast reported progress toward set- Employes said 60 of the 77 ships tors tlement of collateral strikes one of were in hera port being remaining (Continued on Pan Eight) worked by” 136 longshore gangs of (Column light) - i— ’ : GenUnttrt tnr Fag Eight) (Column B(x) their-peac- ed 98-d- :r - Overwhelming Approval by Pleasant Grove-Lidon American Fork and Lehi Gears Way to Participate in Water Project Special to The Tribune AMERICAN FORK Feb 8— Clearing the way for participation in the $7600000 Deer Creek project residents of north Utah county cities by an' overwhelming vote authorized the creation of three metropolitan water districts Saturday 4 The votes were: n Pleasant district — Pleasant 128 for 46 Grove against Lindon 73 for 10 against American Fork 303 for 60 against Lehi 203 for 53 against ' Proponents of the reclamation (project which will conserve flood waters of the Duchesnaand Weber rivers and provide a dependable AVILA Sunday Feb 7 and Spain adequate late summer supply (UP) — Insurgents have cut the for Irrigated "lands and culinary Madrld-Valenchighway — water systems were jubilant over "lifeline” upon which besieged Ma- the outcome drid Ls dependent for food and supLeader Pleased Lamaronoza and plies — between General Gonzalo J W Gillman president of the Ciempozualos Queipo de Llano said In X radio an- Provo Water Users' association said: nouncement early Sunday “As president of the association 7 GIBRALTAR Feb Sunday I am gratified with the splendid ap — (UP) General Gonzalo Queipo de proval given the proposals in these Llaiio driving his southern rebel communities It is an indication armies along the Andalusian coast that all are In favor of the Deer announced early Sunday that he Creek project” expects jto seize the loyalist strongBalloting In the four towns rehold of Malaga before nightfall corded less than of the “The nightmare of Malaga la number ordinarily voting In city ended” the stocky rebel com- elections mander shouted into a radio miThe next move rests with the city crophone set up on the Malaga councils and town boards of ' the hear Fuengirola communities concerned City ofInsurgent headquarters at Alge- - ficials Indicated- that action would otrks across-th- e bay of Gibraltar probably be taken before the end announced that Fuengirola—the of the month key” to Malaga 20 miles away-h- ad The metropolitan water district been captured law provides that the water district Queipo de Liana said however boards shall be composed of at least that his troops were a little more three ‘directors or as many more than a mile from the strategic fish- as the cities see fit In the case of ing port that had been the biggest Pleasant Grove and Lindon which barrier in the path of his Malaga are combined in one district repredriv sentation probably will be In a two He added that many loyalist to one ratio " The Provo River bodies were scattered over the sun- Water Users" association has baked highway leading along the that one member of the Mediterranean coast from Marbella board be also a 'city official and to Malaga which were Iden- that otherwise it should be separate tified as loyalist officers in personnel from the city council In Saturday's fighting he said or town board '— a rebel column froia Zaferrajs ocDelay Seen cupied Almendral and camped for Pleasant 'Glove probably will be the night outside Vales Malaga which they plan to enter Sunday the first to appoint directors Another column from Lojar halt- Mayor Lyean Johnson stated that the appointments probably would ed at Alsarante after seizing taken' up at the regular meeting £olemnar and Puente bs de Leon— the latter about 10 miles of the city council Monday night However delay in Lindon’s 'apfrom Malaga to the north Puente de Leon ls perched on a pointment of a representative in may hold up the mountainside 1000 feet above the thesame district ° (Continued on Pag Thirteen) ' i eeaport (Column Six) Rebel Forces Sever Madrid Supply Route ia CARSON CITY Ney Feb 6 d and suffering from exposure after spending nine or more days in a automobile with only oatmeal mush mustard water for food and drink Mrs Maud La Neaf and her daughter Donna were recovering in a hospital Saturday night while searchers sought her missing husband lost for a week In the snow-sweSierra Nevada ' mountains snow-strande- - and-'sno- two-year-- pt A - Grove-Lindo- ‘ 185-mi- le one-four- th - -- Mother Baby Survive —Half-starve- WASHINGTON Feb 6 (AP)— The nation "faced the prospect Saturday night of a terrific struggle between leaders eager to mar shal public opinion for or against President Roosevelt’s plan to reorganize the federal courts Mr Roosevelt gave no sign that Justices Slum Comment Bar News Seekers Three Towns Authorize Deer Creek Districts Men n flood conditions when Dry creek an old water course went on-- a sound-©- d rampage and warnings were val-le- y Several other San Joaquin points were subject to high water Charles L Kaupke Kings river watermaster warned that all lowlands In the area should be evacuated This stream flows from the between high Sierra westward Fresno and Visalia —to the San Joaquin The Chowchilla and Fresno rivers approached flood volume Stockton at the confluence of the San Joaquin and Calaveras rivers ard families made-- preparation-i- o whose homes might be flooded The Sacramento river which flows southward more than 600 miles through northern California to San Francisco bay atood within six feet of flood stage at Colusa north of Sacramento With more rain and snow predicted for Saturday night E H Fletcher Sacramento weather forecaster said all streams pouring Into (ConUnued on Pee Bight) Struggle Presaged as Factions Prepare to Souild People’s Opinion on Issue President Urged to Wage Radio Fight 4 Other Difficulties Settled According to Report of Sessions SAN FRANCISCO Feb 6 UP)— Flood waters accumulating from terrific rainstorms lapped at the feet of several California communU i vvssw All Homes Near liy Where Rainfall Sets Record ' - IV Continue Effort Hit Hundreds Driven From i J ' Rivals Outline Plans to Enlist Public Support Feb 6 ID—The WASHINGTON supreme court not only maintained silence Saturday on President Roosevelt's proposal to revamp it Into deeper seclusion than but went ever Key Green the court marissued orders barring newspaper men and others from the jus tices’ section of the building except by special appointment He gave the Instructions to au preme court police after newspaper men had called on Justices Sutherland and Roberts in the former’s office to ask if they cared to comment on the presldentlalrec ommendations They affably replied that they had nothing to eay Bronze Doors Deadline The part of thb marble structure occupied by the justices ls guarded by bronze doors Green said no one could pass through them except by way of his office and then only by prearrangement with the justices Chief justice Hughes also gave word through his secretary that he did not care to comment on the chief executive's message to con- Frank shal gress The court is preparing to hear five days of argument next week on constitutionality of major new deal legislation guaranteeing collective bargaining to workers Labor Act at Issue ‘ ' ' baby “haven’t eaten for three dayi” “I had half a package of mush and a can of mustard I got water from enow and one day It rained and I managed to catch some rain water “I mixed the water with the mush for the baby We must get her jome food quickly" — Mrs La Near formerly of Nevada' Mo and La Near formerly of Joplin Mo: set out from Leadvllle to visit his aunt Mrs of power Justices May Speak arose that supreme court justices themselves might have a word to say before congress acts about the president's plan to name six new men to the high tribunal and reform the federal judicial system all down the line — '' Senators Van Nuys (D) Indiana and Burke (D) Nebraska said they would aek the senate judiciary com mittee to Invite supreme court jus- - : tices to testify before it The committee will meet Monday But the president’s proposal cannot come before It officially then because the plan has not yet been In! troduced In the senate Committee Chairman Ashurst (D)( j Arizona after some previous heel-- " tatlon announced Saturday hs would Introduce the president’s bid A possibility ’ Monday See Although n Victory administration leaders In congress predicted an eventual hard-wo- n victory a sharp division -of opinion was evident among members of both house and senate com-- T mlttees which first must pass upon the plan Five members of the senate groti( have spoken for the reorganization five have expressed outright opposition or criticism and another— Van Nuys— discussed the program guard- edly Saturday While he agreed with many of the president’s statements of objectives Van Nuys said “we may all differ as to the means of ac- - — complishing those objectives” Four other members of the group have declined comment and three were not in the capital The house judiciary committei set Tuesday for initial consideration of the president’s message “We’ll take their baby and look at it” said Chairman Sumners (D) Hard-Wo- On Monday four and a half hours of debate will begin on the railway labor act Afterward there will be extended argument on the Wagner labor relations act Five cases pertaining to the latter act are before the court The litigation in the order to be argued involves the Associated Press the Washington Virginia and Maryland Coach company Jones and Texas Expressions by soms members of Laughlin Steel corporation of Pitts(Continued on Fax Six) burgh Fruehauf Trailer company (Column One) Marks Detroit and Frledman-Harr- y Clothing company of Richmond Former Two Nations Vote Confidence in Dollar 4 VIENNA Feb 6 yn— The American dollar Saturday received a vote of confidence from the Austrian and Albanian governments The post office departments of the two countries agreed that after February 15 postal money orders for exchange between them shall be in dollars instead of Swiss francs a previously ' "We have more confidence In dollars than in francs now” an Austrian postal official explained ' Vigil in Snowbound Auto Nine-Da- y Brought to Carson City by a ski party early Saturday Mrs La Near reported her husband Lead-vil- le Earl Let Near Colo carpenter had started out on foot a week ago to bring help to the car—stalled in a deep drift on the Clear Creek grade ten miles southwest of here ‘I don’t know' where he went” she told the rescue party So weakened she was able to speak but a few sentehces the young mother said she and the of Press Barred From Chambers of High Court Judges but aids he had received a number of urgent requests to carry the fight to the people by radio Opposition leaders moved immediately to the attack John D M national Hamilton Republican chairman declared in an address that the president’s program would destroy every vestige of hope for an 'impenetrable bulwark” against leg- islative and executive assumptions he would participate ' C E Walston of Alameda Cal a few weeks ago Searchers organized by the Ne- vada highway department held scant hopes ths young carpenter will ever be found alive Dr E E Hamer of Carson City who was caring for the mother and daughter described their condition as ' “good” late Saturday “But I don’t want anyone to talk to Mrs Saturday” he said “We’ll knoW better in a or not Whether couple of days they are entirely out of danger” La-Ne- ar US Attorney Hits j ' j ‘Age Formula? - NEW YORK Feb 6 UP)— William Mitchell chairman of a committee appointed by Chief Justice Hughes in 1925 to recommend federal judicial procedure reforms said Saturday President Roosevelt’s “age formula for Inand' creasing judges ls absurd — unsound” “The ’effect of Its application to lower courts seems to have' been ‘missed so far by the critics” said Mitchell former attorney general ‘because the formula obviously is created to camouflage the real object— packing the supreme court" He said judges should ba appointed directly to districts with congested calendars and not be transferred there after being appointed to districts “where a judge happens to be 70” ‘ PrS |