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Show - 4:'- FORTIETH YEAR, NO. 134 j FT . I" 'T mTITATTTTyT ' rAJSEWSPAPElt Dedkttl to a policy ef tiirusB ta all sections of PROVO. UTAH, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 17. 1925. J a .,,1 rrovo '"" J KTT 1T s - i , ... n ln -- 5: - .... PRICE TWO CENTS i... .,, wmi-u- HP . IT 1 hbimii THE SILENT PARTNER II PURCHASE BEE R PW.il DEMANDS HIS commies: TAKETUMB LEI s. Proposed Echo Dam Project Could Supply 10,000 Acre Feet to Prove River X 1 DISMISSAL I- senate 1n-u.- Wets Authorize Directors to Contract for Necessary Water v.:. ' ' association' at ording-to' Elmer Jacob, engineer of the company. Lehl Tuesday, FE, X. M., Dec. 17. l'P)iyA8 the twelve Jurlsta today net Ibemselves to the task of to define the exact status of New Mexico law regarding prohi bition, federal agents were outlinto combat, smuggling ing plan across the border and drawing battle lines against moonshiners. ' The Increased .activity of the Sveta" has resulted front the state prohibi tion law, being declared . wus to-th- i P ' 1 ',s'. j meetlnr'-wer- e President BOY BANDIT WHOCOMES HNlLVEDIN GRAVE CASE dock, Richard R. Lyman, of Salt Lake, James H. Gardner and A. J. Evans of Lchi, Elmer Jacob, ot Elmer Cole Arrested Here Provo, 3."W.' Glllmari of Provo Sought by Salt Lake Federal : Officers Bench, AT'. A. Crane of Herri man of South and A.fO,S McMullln " " ' Elmer Cole, 14, arrested here WedDirectors --of the Provo Bench' nesday by Sheriff J. D. Boyfi, Canal and' Irrigation company, Up- charged with shooting Walter Snow, per East Union canal company and aonlofJSIfand Mrs. . Timpaaogos Irrigation company, Hnrrlium Sniiw of Prnvo Rpnch. is all .of which concerns use water wanted by Salt Lake federal offT-from the Provo river, dincufsed the cets. "according to reports reaching purchasing of water from the Weber Sheriff Bosd last night ; t a meeting held In 'Provo Wed- ; Toung Cole, who is fald to have nesday afternoon. '. tieeome a confirmed automobile thief It was exprained at the meeting despite the fact that be is but, 14 that the' contract now offered to years of age, had" been made a ward the Provi. river waterusers is much of Jadge Tillman D.- - Johnson's court more favorable to them than the hIx months ago. Judge Johnw)rfHJ original eobtrart It is now pro- pressed the desire to give the boy posed t build a diversion canal of another opportunity to make good 300' second ;feet eapacitj across the before sending him to the state InKanms bench, which canal 'would dustrial school, have a prior right ovet the proposed At that time young Cole had ap- Echo reeerVoir waters of the Weber propriated a car in Salt Lake, drivn at Oakley-whethe natural flow of ing it to California Tin violation of the Pto river at Vivian park falls the Dyer act. Shortly afterward he below 510 second feet and when the Is said to. have stolen a machine in , Wasateh' and Summil county catials California, which, he drove to Salt , which draw water from the Provfn Lake. river have less than is necessary to Cpon. conviction. Judge Johnson maintain a duty Of one second foot told the lad that if he would agree to go to school regularly and would per 60 acres of land. . After discussing the matter and report to Marshal Ward once a hearing the explanations of the month,, he would suspend the y present .proposals . It was decidec youthful ..... prisoner : , The, by the directors to take the matter agreed to tbia and for a time atup 'with the individual canal: com- tended elnftw regurarl. ' bik iii panies and get. the opinion of all jniry recently - evealed that- - In i' wateruners as to the amount of three weeks; he ouly attended school tonal water to subscribe for. , five dajs.. Ag S result he was f It Is nnderstood that quick action haled before the court lust Saturday, lis necessary otherwise the three and when the. Judge gave him a severe a half million dollar appropriation scolding. He promised to do. betfor the first unit of the proposed ter and was given another hance. Salt Lake basin project will revert After attending his class MondayT back Into the' government treasury. however, he disappeared, and the The money mast be expended before federal officers were on the lookv ' , ' out for him until Wednesday evenJune 30, 1926, ing when Sheriff J. D. Boyd MarshalWard that the young recreant had been picked up here and was involved in a shooting af, fray. ole will be In all proliablllty handled by, the court of this city on a felony charge and sent to the state Industrial school. SANTA ROSA, Calif., Dec. 17. The signatures of Ernie'Xev-ers- , . (TP) The deacons of the Trovo First Stauford University football ward will meet thydeacons of the captaIn71oflayH graced a contract.to Second ward in a basketball game In the First ward social hall Friplay professional football for a - ; promoter, r Int 10 day night Admission will $!.-00' of Never advance payment cents. ,. . with which he planned to lift In a ganie played lietween the "two the mortjrnge on the home of "his teams last week the 'First warder 'haa but not arrived here, parents' were the victors, the score leinfi.4I: the coiract is in the bank, in es-- to 35, "crow, awaiting the money. . soir-tene- . ad-d- MATRON DIES OF THISMAIDEN .MERS SIGNS f ' y , V autho'ritiea have , -' Ins-ste- . , ; STOLENCAR IS LOCATED wed-weddi- Miss Wilma Jeipson... Instrnrfor of physical education and social leadership at the Brlgham Young nlversity, wishes the citizens or Provo city and the surrounding cities to know that the advertising of dances put out by a certain musical organization of this city; wherein Miss Jeppson advertised as having her stodeuts denionutrate the "Charleston" at' public is untrue'apd unauthorized. Acording; to Miss Jeppson neither she. nor any of her students has everT offered to demonstrate this modem pyblid hall dance at any social dance gatherings. The popular. B. Y.lU. Instructor Is very pronounced lu her denuivclntlon of the "Charleston"- - as it Is. Iie-ing danced In the halls of Utah county, and she does not desire to be advertised as one of the dances' advocates. some nteis 'ninnected "While with the" "Charleston are acceptable and ought probably to be le mltted in the public". dances, most of the are 'freakish," aud some of them ,are positively suggestive and indecent." We wish It .nnderstood 'that the Brlgham Young university is not fostering This comment was iiiade to a Jlenild reporter by Miss ' Jeinsou this moruiug. Interin-etatlon- s SHAKES ALASKA! . :.,.' ' remedy the present unsavory condition.'-- ' ' , rntly has-bee- ' MEETING POSTPONED" Municipal Council snnmnices' the postponement rf the lecture and. program planned for Friday" afternnou, December 18, on account of the close proximity of the already crowded Christmas season. The Women's DUTCH fURBO.Il, Alaska. Dee. (UP) Shaken'', out of their winter lethargy, residents of Island today were talking alMmt the severe earthquake which shook them during the "fight. The tremor was severe but. did not Inst long and-dino damage. The only other Mayor O. K. Hansen was in at topic tendance at the organization meet of interest, the Sliish'aUlin volcano ing at the Hotel Utah " Wednesday on Unlmiik Island, has ceased. to evening of the Mental Hygiene asso attract, having qtjieted down after ciation for Utah. -- The purpose or several days of activity. the care of delinquents, insane and BIG MERGER ANNOUNCED. and to support legisla SYRACUSE, N. Dec., tion for these unfortunates. oi Officlan; annouiiceinent Mayor Hansen was the only er son outside .of Salt Lake present at the merger of the Corona t.vpe-th- e initial meeting of the organiza writer, company, Inc.. of Syracuse, was made today bv Frank K. Ford. tion.. and Davis.' Inc., ot Dr. W, R. jTalderwood of the Unl- - of versify of Utah Warf named presl New York 'which will control the The deal Kasilis as consolidated cotnpaiAes. dent with involves Jf1it,tKi,(KK). sentary. RIAYOR JOINS . 1 7. WELFARECLUB mid-wint- er , d Ford-Baco- Miss-Cor- a - ' WASHINGTON, Dec. IT. (UP) Coloned Wl'.liam Mitchell in an address to 'the eourt of generals trying him for misconduct today closed his case without, argument. "Dismissal fwmTeruo!!w"w a s the prosecution in its asked closing argument as the penalty to le imposed on Mitchell, "My trial," Mitchell said, "is the culmination !of the efforts of the general staff of the army and the "to. degeneral hpa4d jtffHfr,-niftprecate the value of, our power ah: keep tt In anxjlllnry position which absolutely . compromises our whole system of national defense. 'To proceed further With fhe casr won'd serve no useful purpose. "It h'is lieu phowu that we have one standard plaue In the service,'' Mitchell said. "Secretary Weeks and Indirectly the president were wrongly and informed as to the com!: tion Of otif aviation and our na atiohal defense by the persons the data ou which letter (to President Coolldge exjlaiuing Mir- cheH's demotion. a assistant chief of the army air service.' was based.' ' "Ttje efforts to keep down our air power," said Mitchell. "wen ' (Continued on Tage Si ' -- Uno-hisk- a feeble-minde- ' funi-ishiu- EARTHQUAKE ' automobile (dealer by M. R, lant, upon which there, waa $1000 still due, has been located in the Ohio , city fi'ant, who formerly was, an organized of" the Ku Klux Klan In was arrested in this city, Florida and convicted ,of a felony, and is now doing time in the Utah state prison. At the lime he took his sudden departure from Provo he took with him (he automobile and sold it in the east. Since that time the surety company holding the notes trying to locate the car. by Colonel Allen Gultloii if the Mitchell trial prose' utlon iir ' final arguments today. Bnrr Was favoeed over Mitchell by Gullion for a "decided' differences in poise and mental ',' powers." Mitchell, he said, was "a good flyer, a ,falr rider, a good sb.pt, ' flamlwyant, destructive wildly imaginative, never constructive ' except, in scheme. wild and never overly careful' as to the ethics of his methods." i "Is this man it Moses fitted to lead the people out of a wilderness which is his! own creaflon only?" Gullion demanded. CHARLESTON fm-Fo- "The Smoke nuisance in Provo is Incoming so' pronounced that means eullst the consideration for the relief of the present situation of every one," is the the opinion of Frank Demlng, city engineer. "Provo is nudeextremely depressing by the great volumes of dense, black smoke that befouls the air, especially in the morning. Few firemen, it. would seem, know how to fire to get the best results In ,' ., elimination of smoke. "Each year new tyies of furnaces are put on fhe market; most .of 'Which are designed to" consume the fuel that la .wasted In smoke. Provo. lMwVver, It wwnM appear, haa bntjfew qf these as, yet. smoke situation. "The type of fuel, too, has much to breeze highly satisfactory. coke coke aud are users fuel finding big Many wbile otners are rapiuiy wwiuuiii nunrum m nan. xm.u no reason why coal canjiot be usid to ftood. advantage If properly firejj. r.eive the attention of "The siupki situation, 'however, shouhl officials aiur'tritrtrtSplrlted cltlsiens, and" something' should be douc to wns compared to .Alcibiadce, TAKES RAP AT - SPARKS FROM LIVE WIREsl GuUlon Scathes Mitchell WASHINGTON, Dec., 17 (UP) Colonel (William Mitch-el- l t'ulaline and 'An rmC Burr, acttonhadbeejpprovdbyhe s ; f Y INSTRUCTOR "- she-wa- Y ! - legjal v pe. Hi WASHINGTON, " (UP) The Jury of generals trying CoL William SCtrheU today found bun guilty of his official misconduct as charged. The otrt revealed Ita'er--dir- t when after 32 minutes it fled btto the court room to aak the proseeutioo If there was a record for a previous' conviction of the reused air officer. Col Shermaa More-lan-d judge advocate, said there was none, and the court dosed again to make the formal decision and fix the. penalty. Court mart'al rules prescribe thai If a defendant Is found guilty, the court will first inquire if he has been previously eonvicted before passing sentence. In the advent of acquittal, tiie court is required to an- -, nounee the fact on Its rst into the eourt room. - two-thir- .; recognized been able . v 77 lnn -A- PPENDICITIS d GRID CONTRACT aav thev By PACL R. MALLON. United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Dec., 17. The permanent, court of international justice at the Hague was heralded today as the greatest existing agency for adjudication of world disputes by Senator Claude Swanson, VJr- glnia, Democrat in opening debate In the senate on" thP ' for United States adherence to that tribnnnL The" senate Jook up Rwansou'k resolution embdying this plan, to which more than the necessary majority is rprted sympathetic as a special order of business made last spring Prospects are ' that debate will be long and perIt.;s Hi! tiie rage now for custumera haps bitter as the famous League of to forecast next year's styles. Here's with Senators Nations debate what designers think will be Borah, Republican. Idaho, and Reed. worn Seattle In 1026. .. Democrat Missouri, leading the op, , . position. Participation In thia world court by the .United) States, the, Virginia ,' . to agree. president, and two thirds, of jbe "A ' Under the constitutional amend- - United States senate. SOFTENER . men! of 1916 the manufacture andi The court has demonstrated that sale of liquor was declared Illegal It is able, independent painstaking and provides penalties, "until other- - and la governed toy-- wisdom aud bie provided by laW." conscieutiqusnesSi he said. In 1919 a law was passed which Any eontention that that court Is Sue-Brown Muhlestein Pearl provides a fine and imprisonment under domination of the League-o- f cumbs to Operation; Deceived and disappointed by her or both, upon conviction for import Nations la false, Swanson said, beActive in Church ing or manufacturing intoxicants cause it operates as a separate enlatest matrimonial ventures. Bertha "for sale or barter" under the law tity,, under ita own statutes, comChristina Sinith of Spanish Fork, sale" and manufacture '.'of pletely out of the Jurisdiction of the Pearl Brown Muhlestein, wife of of 1023was is In Provo today making arrange' ' outlawed but Tuesday league. liquor . S44 East ments to have her marriage to Lou of A. M. Siuhlestein. on the decelared unconstitutional is this court for us, or none," "It Elmer Smith set aside on the Fourth North street, this city, died ground that no specific penalty was national which he fwa rued grounds' that she had "unwittingly at 7. o'clock Wednesday evening fol- provided other than a mere refer. benefits are pleased with its Tnjy married a rogue, according to authenA to the lowing an operation for appendi- Volsteadthe j)enaltiea provided by' ' if beyond measure and contemplate entic information. . act making no amendments, no modifica Mrs. Smith was accompanied to citis. Mrs. Muhlestein was born in ' 'Dry" advocates maintain that tions." M. Provo by Charles Roberts, her Provo, February 5, 1877, 'and had outlaw ofv,the 1923 statute auto Swanson'sl speech required nearly second husband to whom she was here all her ,Jife. She was ac- matically places in force the con four hours to deliver. " married some months ago, which, ljved the L..D. 8. t church, having stitutional law of 1916 or that of Oiiening his remarks Swanson in tive 1919 which was termed to be "with marriage was .annulled only a few pointed to the universal desire for minutes befiore lier marriage to( been a teacher in the Primary asso- out teeth." ' He warned that war in Smith last Saturday" afternoon. The ciation. ' "The weta" declared that the 1923 peace. the future would be more numerannullment decree was granted on' law to husin her all addition prev- ous automatically, places Surviving and frightful Jnniess ways are the, grounds that when sDe married are three sons and two daugh- ious laws in 'the discard and that devised to settle- International dif band, Roberts still, the lawful New Mexico Is today without a means ferences by peaceful wife of a man t)y the name of ters as follows : Bertran, Dane, state prohibition law. of by force, and asked: Anderson. Bruce, Pearl and Ardis, all of the Reed Holloman ; of Judge ' Upon her appearance in Provo Provo ; also one sister, Thehna Santa' Fe' judicial district was the ""Who among us: would have this morning it was learned that Brown- - and "three brohters, Albert only .jurist to express himself as America retire, surrender her prethe bridegroom. had" been oierating to wnat ne would do tr warrants eminence and fail to discharge fully on thin air for several days prior tol Henry T. and Lester, of this city. were npplied for by state officers. the duty and rwponslbiiity.,.whi(h posthe marriage.- He bad been lavish) Funeral services will lie held in "I may Issue, a number jcif them conies from .JUer lu his expenditures, it is stated, the Provo Fifth ward chapel Sunday just to see what the result woiUd ition?' Are we to be timid,' vacillat' ing and frightened by our own pro- having purchased his betrothed a at 12 :15 o'clock. Friends may view be, ' he said. dlgious shadow as it projects itself magnificent diamond ring, a beauti residence prior to athwart the world?'' ful coat, a huge kitchen range, and the liody 'at the services. Swanson praised the League of the useful other and many appropriate Nations s "the most potential facHems with which enter, upon tor in the world working for world their Journey of connubial bliss. In but added: addit!onto: all of these things the cWks written .on an out of town peace and "betterment "The. United States has! deter generosity of the groom had reach bank began to .return; mined not to unite with the League ed its topmost pinnacle when he had. The lieautlful ' coat was flrt and there is no proposition pendln? promised that on her wedding day .called for, then the lovely diamond, Mrs. Smith was to receive a $5000 the stove. Hiitil finally all the Iiefore the senate for this purpose, Chief' of Police Wren Wilkins is , hence any discussion of that matter presentding gifts had.to'rterretiirned. F. R. in receipt of a telegram from ' would be Following their return Hr fTetHlom uAw is of utmost after the 'wedding all was ' portance to the bride so she wishes Wurstner, chief .of police of Day Nash the that ton, Ohio, advising well until Mr. Smith left the home to have her la 4, marriage annulled sedan-car purchased from a local and failed to return. Then : the and set aside. THAN , It hBEOVED PROVO U.S. Army iM f -- senator' a'sBeiTedwiil '6fveniniNr How the stnto officials shall pro this government In European afceed Us t uestlon to be heard on all fairs because no "important" quessides and one uion which no two tions would he submitted until such state. Jo-da- i here Federal-office- rs cannot hope to stem the rising moon shine tide or. prevent smuggling ex- ttpt In a.: meagre way. There are at aresent 10 f tderaUaseuU In the ,' three-fourth- for a dollar a quart, today being retailed for a pal try Quarter. d as-yet- s- unconsti- tutional last Tuesday. , In the liist 24 hours Honor nrlras popped 100 per cent according to reports emanating from' the ranks of the imbiders. - High powered Ueer,. which the thirsty say former acc- The stockholders, also decided at-- . most unanimously to refer' e board of directors, with authority to act, the' matter- - of subscribing for whatever, quantity' of "water may be 'deemed necessary from the Weber river. It has Wen suggest-"""efhaT the organisation subst-ri- l 1iit half of the 10,000 awe feet avaiU able, but fio definite decision has been 'taken There were .present at .the meet- Jug mare than 0 waterusersepre-- 4 s of entlng more than the stock of the company. Among7 those who addressed the ' - SAN'TA V " .: Gullion Declares Mitchell Has of Endangered Discipline " COURT GOVERNED BIG WISDOM, HE SAYS Of Nations Domineer World Court Without Prohibition ' -- Law . 4 TO AIR POWER BEGAN IN 1918 ANTAGONISM " take advantage OF COURT RULING Ad- dress Before Couj-t- Martial Trial Board ; Antis Claim New Mexico Now Refutes Charges That Leaeue are that the various water organisations on the Provo river will snbec'ribe for the 10,000 ere feet'of water available for Weber' river to transfer' from,-th- e the' Prove river- - wltljthe completion of jne Echo dam and the Kamas canal of the Bait Lake basin .. project . In anticipation of the constrnc-tlo-n of the project the stockholders Reservoir Water-- ; of, the Provo users'' association have voted to amend the' articles of incorporation of the company so ai to be abla to contract with the reclamation ser vice for water and power. Tbia action waa taken at a meeting of the Indleations 4 r: k Wateruer '. Mitchell Gives Concluding , Federal Arent Busy Planning: Democratic Senator Lauds ReTo Combat Smuggling: and publican Plan for Nation's Moonshiners Part in World Tribunal PROVO BENCH CANAL COMPANIES INVESTIGATE . PROSECUTION '"-:.- ' : Provo5 Reservoir Supply Next Year I -- " r PRICE SlBITTER RGHT - WEBERVATER -- iiease Wond Court Heralded as Greatest Peace Power EFFORTS MADE Kil.ld iucnlj Business Cffke A Editorial Rooaus . . 107 ' MOPE SWOPPING |