veiafaig Herald. Weather Forecast UTAH Occasional snow tonight and Friday; colder north portion. Max. temp., Wednesday S9 Min. temp., Wednesday 15 So They Say! The new conception of neutrality neutral-ity may be tough on oar cash registers. But it will be far easier on our sons. TJ. S. Senator Arthur EL Vandenberg 4 Rep. Mich.) 'FIFTY-FIRST YEAR, NO. 135 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1937 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS nn n ID) IM IS ira IK line SWEEPS Iwt mi BLOOD URGED TO APPOINT t SENATOR Utah County Senatorial v Vacancy Remains Unfilled SALT LAKE CITY. Utah, Jan. 14 (U.R) Revolt brewed today among Progressive elements ele-ments of Utah's overwhelmingly overwhelm-ingly Democratic 22nd legislature legis-lature as lawmakers of both house and senate halted operations for the first junket of the session which began Monday. Mon-day. The point at issue the same point which has caused widespread wide-spread discussion since before the session began was a senate vacancy va-cancy created by resignation of Dr. Hugh M. Woodward of Provo. Delegates Incensed Utah county's legislative delegation, dele-gation, incensed at Governor Henry H. Blood's continued refusal' re-fusal' to fill the past by appointing appoint-ing A. O. Ellett. Progressive Spanish Span-ish Fork school principal, threatened threat-ened yesterday to confer with the governor and demand a showdown. show-down. Although Ellett's name was submitted to Blood with the recommendation rec-ommendation of the county Democratic Demo-cratic committee, in accordance . with procedure prescribed by law, the governor has failed to act. Instead, reliable sources said, he returned to the Utah county group the names of three men whom he preferred to place in the empty seai. While Utah county legislators prepared to lay their demands before the governor, Calvin W. Rawlings. Democratic state chairman; chair-man; A. S. Brown, Democratic national committeeman, and Dr. Woodward, who remains as chairman chair-man of the Utah County Democratic Demo-cratic committee, met with the governor in secret session. Raw-lings Raw-lings and Brown conferred with Blood earlier during the day. All four remained closeted for several sev-eral hours yesterday. but the session concluded last night with out announcement of any decision. de-cision. Representative Francis E. Lun-dell Lun-dell of Utah county led the group demanding that Blood act toward filling the vacancy. Although Lundell insisted recommendation of Ellett constituted a mandate upon the governor from the people peo-ple of Utah county, the attorney-general attorney-general has held that the law requiring re-quiring the governor to appoint the nominee nf the party group in the county where a vacancy occurs probably would be held unconstitutional if challenged in court. MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going- On in National Affairs By DKKW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON The Towr.hend organization is going "respectable." "respect-able." That is the inside reason behind Di . Francis Townsend's ;. r. nouncemer.t ' f a sweeping change in the administrative and financial set-up of nis movement. Henceforth there will be no more state managers, fancy commissions com-missions and big-figure expense accounts. Practically all the old wheel-horses wheel-horses and one-time big guns m the movement either have been ousted or stripped of their power. Stan- organizations and managers have been abolished. Instead, a system of organization based on congressional districts has been subst ltuted. In each district the clubs, char t red directly by the national ol- ti'.e, and unit will form a unit for political propaganda action. Each will be headed bv an "em ployer!" district manager, hired by the clubs To pay the salary of these managers man-agers the national headquarters relinquishes the assessments and donations it has required of the clubs in the past. . The national office will be supported by the Townsend National Weekly, which has also undergone a thorough house-cleaning. Under the new set-up $1.50 of the subscription price goes to the national office and the other 50 cents to the local club. Also, the clubs will pay 50 cents a year as (Continued on Page 2, Sec. 2) Sharon Stake Conference To Open Saturday Quarterly conference of the Sharon stake will convene con-vene Saturday night, the opening session to be held Saturday evening at 7:30 in the Timpanogos ward chapel for the priesthood. General sessions Sunday at 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. will be held in the Lincoln high school auditorium. audi-torium. Sunday school and Primary Pri-mary officers and teachers will hold their conventions in connection with the conference, con-ference, the first meeting to be held Saturday at 1:30 p. m. for the Primary in the Seminary building. Sunday school officers and teachers will meet at the Seminary building Sunday at 9 a. m. There will be no ward meetings Sunday night in the Sharon stake. Liquor Sale By the Drink Is Proposed Organization of vState Police Proposed in One of 19 Bills. SALT LAKE CITY. Utah, Jan. 14 iI .H' -Utah legislators took their first day's respite from duty since beginning their 22nd biennial bien-nial session today with 18 senate bills, a proposal for drastic amendment of the state liquor, law and the first squabble of the session to consider before reconvening re-convening at 2 p. m., tomorrow. Representative William D. Wood, D., Weber county, advanced the liquor proposal, indicating bills liberalizing the present liquor control con-trol act would be submitted in both house and senate shortly. Seek Liquor Sale Wood flatly advocates sales of liquor by the drink in all established estab-lished hotels, restaurants and cafes and transfer of beer, licensing li-censing and revenues completely from the state liquor commission to municipalities. For establishments dispensing liquor by the drink, he proposes a heavy bond, which would be forfeited on law violation, and threat of criminal prosecution. To accommodate citizens who conduct con-duct late parties, he advocates establishment of a number of all night liquor stores in the state's larger cities. Despite Utah's policy of strict supervision of liquor sales, the state is second in the nation to (Continued on Page Four) Adults Urged to Attend School An urgent appeal to the people peo-ple of Provo who have leisure time to take advantage of the opportunity to enroll in the midwinter mid-winter courses still open. was issued today by the teachers of the school. Classes are being held regularly regular-ly at the Provo high school on Monday and Wednesday evenings of each week. beginning at 7 o'clock. Some thirty odd courses are being given covering practical, every-day problems including a number of classes each in the following fields: English and literature, lit-erature, music and art; labor, economic and social (public affairs) af-fairs) problems; commercial and business arithmetic: typing and shorthand; bookkeeping, commercial commer-cial law; foreign language: parent par-ent education and child guidance; landscape gardening, applied art and handicraft; leather work, etc. A staff of experienced and efficient teachers ;s employed to conduct these classes. Those desiring the advantage of any of these courses are invited in-vited to enroll as soon as convenient. conveni-ent. Employment Director To Address Rotary The speaker at Friday's Rotary club meeting will be Thomas R. Faddis, state director of the National Na-tional Re-Employment Service. Les Mildenhall, manager of the Provo office, will be the chairman chair-man of the meeting which convenes con-venes at 12:15 p. m. at the Hotel Roberts dining room. Blood-Stained Auto Held As Kidnap Clue 2 SUSPECTS QUESTIONED BY OFFICERS Trail To Kidnap Slayer Leads Officers To Everett EVERETT, Wash., Jan. 14 'U.R) Two suspects, a bloodstained blood-stained automobile, and a rusty hammer were held by authorities today as the search for the degenerate kidnaper-slayer of 10-year-old Charles Mattson moved forward for-ward relentlessly. The search centered in Everett, near where the naked body of the little victim was found Monday in a snow bank. The automobile was virtually established to be the machine used by the criminal in disposing of the body. There was a possibility that the hammer was the weapon that smashed the child's skull after he had been knifed and subjected to an unnatural un-natural assault. Two Suspects Held The two suspects were held at Olympia. One was a known degenerate. de-generate. The other was an ex-convict ex-convict and had been partly connected con-nected with the burglary of a home near that of the Mattsons in Tacoma - f rime that, before the body was found, had been connected con-nected by some authorities with the kidnaping itself. Another man was arrested here last night, but released after being be-ing questioned. G-men impounded the 1936 black Chevrolet sedan picked up on an Everett street. Hammer Found The hammer was found imbedded imbed-ded in mud at the side of the Edmonds-Beverly Park highway, two miles south of tjhe.snow-covered field where the boy's frozen body was discovered. . Another report from Everett police headquarters, where the 1.000 manhunters now have established estab-lished their working base, said that searchers had found a house where the body had been held cap- ' tive prior to his death. Meanwhile, at Tacoma. C. C. Spears, federal bureau of investigation investi-gation aide to J. Edgar Hoover, signed a John Doe warrant for the (Continuec on Page Seven) FOUR NEVADANS AWAIT RESCUE LAS VEGAS, Nev., Jan. 14 T.I? , An expected new cold wave j with accompanying heavy snow : increased fears today for the j safety of four persons marooned in a deserted mining shack far up in the Yucca pass 90 miles northwest of here. Rescuers with tractors already have penetrated mountainous snowdrifts for 28 miles northwest north-west of Indian Springs, where the party left the main highway. Sheriff Gene Ward said rescuersJ still had probably 40 miles to go. They are pushing toward the lonely shack where an aerial .TV CI I VI 1 Wl JJCW L J 1 CpUl irU OV V A 1 1 a sign painted on an outspread bedsheet. "Prettyman party. One dead, three seriously ill. Bring medical aid." The missing are Mrs. Dee Prettyman. Pret-tyman. wife of a mine operator in the Groom Mining district. Doris Dunn, her negro cook; Mr. and Mrs. James Poe and Fred Miller. Ward took Dr. R. W. Martin and medical supplies to the rescue res-cue party yesterday Forecasts of additional snow brought new fears however, that the marooned group may perish of starvation or of their illness before aid arrives. Story Lodge Meeting Has Been Postponed The special meeting of Story Lodge No. 4, F. & A. M., which had been called for Thursday I evening, January 14, has been postponed indefinitely. Find Ended Search I MKf&&J?i&fr . 4h3Z" i-s? v - A i - Jfif g rrs - f i jam ifi dpi; rff - - 'W . . . Gordon Marrow, 19, Everett, Wash., youth, points to the spot where he found the body of Charles Mattson, 10 kidnaped Tacoma youth, who had been beaten to death bynis abchictor. His tragic find ended end-ed a wide search for the youth, missing since he was kidnaped from te home of his wealthy parents, December 27. LEGISLATORS VISIT OGDEM SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 14 (U.R) - The house and senate of the Utah legislature were in recess today for their first junket of the current session to Ogden. The schedule: 7:45 a. m.- Leave Salt Lake City. 9 a. m. Visit departments of Weber college. 10 a. m. General assembly. 10:45 a. m.-- Leave Weber college. col-lege. 11 a. m. Visit State School for Deaf and Blind. 12:30 p. m. -One half of group lunch at Deaf and Blind School, second half lunch at State Industrial In-dustrial school. 1:30 p. m.- Inspect Industrial school; group meeting. 3 p. m,--Leave industrial school. 3:30 p. m. Arrive Ogden Stock Show. 5 p. m. -Leave stock show for Salt Lake City. Steel Mill Swept Bv Oil-Fed Fire MIDLAND. Pa.. Jan 14 r.I'' The Crucible Steel company's new $1,250,000 strip mills was swept by an oil-fed fire and firemen to-dav to-dav estimated damage in excess of $200,000. The huge mill, nearly a quarter-mile quarter-mile long, burned to within several sev-eral hundred feet of each end. Spring Fashion Review To Be Held Friday Afternoon One of the highlights of interest inter-est to the ladies of Provo this week, is the spring fashion review re-view of Bucilla hand knits, sponsored spon-sored by Butler's. The fashion show will be held at 3:15 p. m. Friday, in the Womens' club house, Third North and University Ave. Twenty-four beautiful new models will be shown on living manequins, with Mrs. Blanch Rorer. Bucilla's New York stylist to describe the garments gar-ments and the different new yarns. Bucilla really has a fashion "scoop" this spring with the latest lat-est in Tyroleon fashions designed by that master designer, "Lanz of Salsburg." for Mattson Boy First Bird of Spring Appears f Spring, in the form of a solitary robin, made a feeble attack upon winter on the upper campus of Brigham Young university Thursday. The bird was seen among the branches of an American Ameri-can elm near the BrLmhall building by Karl Miller, assistant as-sistant superintendent of buildings and campus. Although a few snow flakes were falling, the bird was chirping cheerfully, he said. Snow drifts lie deep over most of the university nill at this time. Old Age Pension Bill Introduced SALT LAKE CITY. Jan. 14 '1.1' - An old age pension measure introduced as senate Bill No. 1 by Senate President Herbert B. Maw, Salt Lake, will bring forth several proposed amendments former Senator Will R. Holmes, D., Box Elder, when it reaches the floor. Holmes. one of the upper chamber's leading old age pension advocates, said today he does not regard the measure as entirely satisfactory in its present form. Long a student of old age pension legislation. Holmes believes be-lieves this issue to be one of the most important before the legislature. leg-islature. Interest in these peasant type costumes is sweeping the country and women of fashion are wearing wear-ing them not only on snowy 1 mountains in winter but every-j every-j where the year around. I A cordial invitation is extended j to the women of Provo who knit and who are interested, to visit the fashion show and become acquainted ac-quainted with rhese new and stunning stun-ning styles. The Provo show is the second to be held in the west, the first having been held in Salt Lake City where large and enthusiastic crowds attended each of the two days. CONFERENCE SPLIT AIRED BY SENATORS Colorado Legislature May Take Action To Stop "Big Seven" DENVER, Colo., Jan. 14 (U.R) The controversy over splitting of the present setup of the Rocky Mountain conference con-ference into ihe "Big Seven," effective in 1938, threatens to spring back into the picture stronger than ever with reports re-ports that legislative action may be taken by the state general assembly, as-sembly, now in session, on the matter. It is understood that Senator John Nolon, Jr.. of Manitou. will introduce a bill into the upper house which would provide a non-political and non-salaried commission com-mission to supervise athletic competition com-petition between state schools. Small Schools Angry The anticipated action has arisen from the split of the conference, which leaves Colorado University and Colorado State College in the "Big Seven." while the smaller state-controlled schools - Greeley State, Colorado Mines and Western West-ern State- are shunted out of the circuit and forced to arrange schedules independent of the present pres-ent conference circles. Nolon stated that his plan had received further emphasis from the numerous conflicts between state schools over athletics. The organization of a committee to supervise all athletic competition between state-supported schools, Nolon believes, would go far toward to-ward curbing any "bickering" or ill feeling which might and has arisen in the past between the Colorado institutions. Nolon also stated that the committee was needed to bring the state institutions insti-tutions in accord on athletic measures. Time To Act "I believe it is time for the state to act on the evils which may jeopardize the future of our institutions. It is with this pur pose I am preparing such bills for submission to the senate. From conversations -ith my colleagues, (Continued on Page Seven) NEBO STAKE TO FILL VACANCIES PAYSON Members of the new Nebo stake presidency who were sustained at the regular stake quarterly conference in December, will complete the organization of the stake this week. A number of vacancies were created and the high council was not completed at conference. Four additional high councilmen will be sustained at the monthly priesthood" meeting meet-ing Sunday afternoon. They are George Q. Spencer of Spring Lake formerly in the state presidency; George Staheli of the Payson first ward; Vernal Twede of the See-on See-on dward and Heber A. Curtis of the fourth ward. The new Fourth ward bishopric will be presented Sunday night. Aiza C. Page has already been sustained as a counselor in the second ward bishopric, replacing Wayland R. Wightman, the new stake president. Ballif Reviews Lawmaking Work Organization and procedure in the state legislature were reviewed re-viewed for Kiwanians today by George S. Ballif. local attorney, at their meeting in Hotel Roberts. Rob-erts. The powerful.; position of the president of the senate and the speaker of the house in committee commit-tee appointments and rules procedure pro-cedure was outlined to the club members. Guests of the club were Far-rell Far-rell Collett, Mr. Sorenson, and Wesley Knudsen. Children Die in Fire SYRACUSE, N. Y.. Jan. 14 (U.P) Two children were burned to death today when fire destroyed an apartment house. The victims were Margaret, 12, and William, 9, children of William Spillane, Eleven other persons in the build ing fled to safety. M ercantile Store, Library Is Wiped Out By Flames Explosion of Furnace At Heber Mercantile Threatens Entire Business Block; Most Disastrous Fire in Valley's History Gaunt, blackened ruins alone remained of over half of Heber City's finest business block this noon after flames, sweeping the Heber Mercantile store, did an estimated damage dam-age of $150,000 during the early morning hours Thursday. It was the greatest fire in the history of Heber City, stated City Marshal Leonard Giles. But the heroic efforts of Ray Murri and Ferris Duke, both 21, and the splendid work of Heber Valley, Park City, and Provo firemen, the damage would have been far greater. Explosion Starts Blaze Nothing could be saved of the store or its contents; the Heber city library ; the Wasatch Forest service, WPA, and the state road commission offices housed in the block. Within three minutes after the explosion that ignited the fire occurred, plate glass windows blew within five minutes the building was an inferno no man could enter and live. The fire started when Murri, former prominent Wasatch high student and store employe, began to fire the furnace at 6:30 a. m. As he opened the furnace hatch and shoveled the coal into the mouth, tne mixture exploded, nearly stunning him with the force of the blast, burning him severely on the hands and shoulder, and scorching his face. " ? "I'm on fire," yelled Murri as Heber Fire Hero Tells Vivid Story BY GEORGE V. SEIDL Bandaged-swathed Ray Murri, 21-year-old hero of the Heber city fire, yet managed a smile when I entered his room at Heber hospital hos-pital this noon. It was he who, blinded and burnt by an explosion that burst into ravenous flames yet managed man-aged to stumble up the stairs and sound the alarm which promptly brought the firemen and perhaps f more than any other one thing, kept the principal loss to the two bhiildings Furnace Exploded In his own words this was his story of the blaze. "I opened up the furnace door and as the cold air hit the warm it exploded. I ran for the stairs 'shouting to Ferris (fellow employe Ferris Duke). 'I m on fire. "Ferris said my hair was still on fire when he saw me. I tried to beat it out with my hands. He came running down to me, helped me up the stairs, and I put through tne alarm. "I guess it burned me pretty badly on the shoulder and arm and my face was scorched." "I Was only in my underclothes but ran over here to the hospital where the doctor took care of me." Asked if his hurts pained him, Murri replied that they did at first but the doctor had stopped that. Of his face only the eyes, mouth and a little of the nose were visible through the bandages; his right arm was covered to the shoulder and his left hand swath ed in still more gauze The hospital is more than two blocks from the scene of the fire. ed at 8 a. m. Work of the three Murri, a former prominent Was- j units .combined to bring the blaze atch high student, graduated from j under control before 10 o'clock, the school in 1934. He is the son j "I'm the luckiest man in of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Murri. ' Heber," remarked Dr. F. C. Mont-who Mont-who are in Salt Lake iCty, and; (Continued on Page Four) has lived all his life in Heber. He , is not married. i Ferris Duke, friend, classmate. ; and fellow employe of Murri, is a graduate of the Wasatch high j class of 1933. He is a member ment, having been elected just a week ago. Murri has worked in the store since March. Levin Improving S. I. Levin, manager of the Paramount theater, is confined to his bed with a severe case of infection developing from a fractured frac-tured arm. He is reported to be on the road to recovery. fwo Convicts Escape LANSING. Kan., Jan. 14 (U.R) Two convicts who were working at the entrance of the state prison mine here commandeered a prison truck today and escaped, driving the car through barred double gates blocking their way to the highway. he stumbled, clad only in his 1 underclothes, half-blinded by the flames, up the stairs to where his ' friend and fellow employe. Duke, j came running to "his aid. Swatting out the flames that still burned in his hair and with no thought of himself Murri would not allow Duke to aid him, but hastily sounded the alarm. Call Sent Out Duke then grabbed his friend I and with him ran to the HeWr o o Quick thinking on the part ! ' of City Marshal Thomas I Tadd of Heber City may have prevented loss of life when ' ' the Heber Mercantile block T was gutted by, fire today. Flames soon sundered the T city electric White Way line overhead. Seeing the danger, ' City Marshal Tadd had al- ready rushed to the station j and cut the supply of cur- rent. j Firemen working in the I 1 dense smoke might easily have stumbled in the sodden j lines and been electrocuted. ! o o hospital two blocks distant where Dr. T. A. Dennenburg cared for the young man's painful burns. Even as Fire Chief Lee Hold-away Hold-away and the Heber Valley fire department sought to keep the mounting flames from the Heber Drug and Commercial Bank of Heber adjoining, the Park City firemen were battling their way through seventeen miles of snow-clogged snow-clogged 'highway to aid in the battle. Fire Chief W. J. Berry his men and equipment bogged down twice in the drifting snows but arrived in time to save the bank building from the grasping flames. High tribute was paid the fine work of his crew by Heber firemen and citv officials. Provo Men Arrive Up snow-filled Provo canyon Fire Chief Cl3'de Scott took local I equipment when he was summon- i Sauaw Creek Jan. 12 a Dear Newspaper: Cousin from over Vernal way sent Mush Hank electric razor for Christmas. He's been trying to get a shave ever since. First he tried plugging it in over at the sawmill, but standing stand-ing there with the big log saw going next to his chin made him nervous. Snowshoed over to Porcupine Por-cupine Flat where the power line goes, tried it out in back of general gen-eral store where they got a electricity elec-tricity plug. But everybody on Flat crowded around to watch it go. Hank got to laughing and couldn't keep his whiskers still long enough to catch 'um in the mowing apparatus. Hank back at cabin now. Says he don't want to shave till spring, anyways PIUTE JOE.. iPiutej