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Show The .tie Weather UTAH day Fair tonight and SaturLittle change in temperature Herald-Toum- a Grain Flange Wheat: Open ! u'y Sept Volume 27. Number 62. An Independent Nep&per LOGAN, F UTAH, K I I) A Y, M A R (' 11 1 1 High SOU 89 101 Low Close .99 .91 ,89-- .894 .88 01 1 . .90 .89 For people Who : Think) PRICE FIVE CENTS BRITIAN ACTS TO MAINTAIN PEACE Workers Face Starvation ROTARY CLUB'; Migratory OFFICERS Election To Be Great Salt Lake Surrenders Long Missing Plane REPORTER REFUSES TO NEVITABLE Con- lilacs ducted Thursday, U. S. To Wants No Economic Sanctions Against Germany Stay Out of Bloody April 2 ' Moss BY FREDERICK KUH United Press Staff Correspondence Copyright 1936 by United Press LONDON, March 13 U'.RI Great -- Asa Bullen, junior member the prominent Logan law firm of Young and Bullen and Dr. Oscar Wennergren, well known Logan of veterinarian, are the candidates for president of the Logan Rotary club. The nominations were made by the present and the past presidents of the club. The election will take place at the first meeting in The new officers will be installed at the first meeting in April. July. Other officers nominated by the nominating committee are for vice president James M. Norfleet of the Woolworth company, and John H. Wilson of the Thatcher Clothing company; for secretary, William Lohman, Logan insurance man, and Norman D. Salisbury, banker; for prominent Logan treasurer, Frank Jackson of the Cache Sheet Metal Works, and Ray Trotman, of Trotman & Trot-mafor directors. sign painters; Dr. S. M. Budge of the Budge clinic; Olof Nelson, well known contractor; Dr. E. G. Peterson, president of the Utah State Agand B. G. ricultural college, Thatcher, manager of the Capitol Theater. An interesting meeting was conducted Thursday by the international service committee under the chairmanship of Bryan Wright. Following an interesting address on the European situation, especially relating to Hitler and his present actions, by Professor Mil-to- n Merrill of the USAC, members of the club Bpeaking foreign languages presented an effusion of tongues. n, MERRY GO-ROUN- A D Dally Picture of What Going On In National Affairs By DREW ROBERT PEARSON and a ALLEN a - C. Bascom WASHINGTON Slemp, secretary to the late Presione of the dent Coolidge and canniest strategists in the Republican Party, got. the surprise of his life recently. He was summoned to the White House by President Roosevelt for advice. No word of the secret conversation has leaked from Slemp, but White House attaches have been less circumspect. Roosevelt welcomed him warmly and then floored him with this question: Bascom, whats wrong with my Administration? Do you want it Mr. President?" asked Italo-Ethiopi- Approximately 1000 field workers and their families drove to Nipomo, Cal., in their rattletrap autos, set up lean-t- o dwellings, and prepared to harvest the pea crop. Rains set in. The pea crop was destroyed by blight. The migrants worked only two days in six weeks. They were near starvation when relief workers found them, and rushed in food. Photo shows one of the workers' wives with her two children. Aged Logan S e eholser Resident Is Given Heavy Called Away Court Fine Services For 'Anders Olofson Jury Trial Increases Earlier Fine of 25 To In Third Ward $100 Sunday Anders Olofson, 78, a resident of Logan for more than 50 years, died Thursday evening in a Logan hospital. Complications from dropsy are said to have been the cause of death. His youngest son is A. G. Olofson, Logan manager of the Utah Oil Refinery company. Born in Sweden, Mr. Olofson came to the United States about 53 years ago. For three years he lived in Springfield, 111, when he married Hilda Munson. They moved to Logan about 50 years ago, where he had since been enFor several gaged in farming. years he was also assistant street supervisor of Logan. His wife died about 22 years ago. He is survived by three sons and a daughter, Oscar P. Olofson of Salt Lake City, A. Leonard Olofson of Palo Alto, Calif, A. G. Olofson and Mrs. William McDonald of Logan. Funeral services will be held in the Logan Third ward chapel Sunday at 2 p. m. Friends may call Saturday evening and Sunday until time for the services at the home of his son, A. G. Olofson, 105 West Third North street. Interment will be in the Logan city cemtery under the direction of the Lindquist mortuary. Ted Seehclscr, former Cache game warden, Isnt likely to ask for a jury trial if he is ever The brought into court again. probably suffice. Judges word will was Mr. Seeholser his given choice of paying a. $100 fine or spending 50 days in jail when City Judge Jesse P. Rich Friday passed sentence on him. He was found guilty Thursday of possession of a muskrat hide. A jury consisting of John Leishman, Clarence Rose. Henry. Monson and Edgar Call returned the verdict after listening to the case throughout the morning and early after- noon. The jury recommended leniency. Sometime ago Mr. Seeholser appeared before Judge Rich under a charge of trapping muskrats. He was fined $25 but refused to pay and asked for a jury trial, claiming that he did not trap a muskrat he had in his possession. The charge was then changed to possession of a muskrat hide. He was arrested several weeks ago by Tom Argyle and Lew Abbot in the fields west of VAN VLACK FILES APPEAL NOTICE HAUPTMANN AIDES Slemp.-That- why I sent for you, Bascom. Don't pull your punches. . Slemp didnt. For over an hour ha told Roosevelt in detail what TRENTON, N. J.. March 13 C.fii he thought was wrong. Frankly The Bruno Richard Hauptmann and bluntly he criticized policies and individuals and gave his reas- - defense was reported today to be planning some new move in an The President listened intently effort to save the condemned slayand sympathetically. When Slemp er of the Lindbergh baby offrom the chair the week March finished he thanked him warmly, electric 30. asked him as a personal favor nature of the supposed acThe to send him a written tion could not be determined. dum listing the points he had Hauptmann already has exhausted made. j his court appeals on the basis of Slemp agreed, and spent several evidence already adduced. Only days preparing it. The document new facts warranting a second is now in the locked personal file trial would permit him ' to enter of the President. , court again. NOTE Slemp is not the . It was assumed, tentatively that only Republican or New Deal defense counsel might be preparcritic the President has secreting to ask the New Jersey court ly consulted of late. Several of pardons for a second hearleading congressional foes have ing. had candid talks with him at C. Lloyd Fisher, chief of the bis invitation. defense, informed newspapermen that he had evidence indicating Reasoq for the Presidents strategy is not clear, and he that Dr. John F. (Jafsie) Condon, has not seen fit to elucidate. had identified a Miami prisoner as the man to whom he gave But it is supposed that he wants to figure out 'ways to the 350,000 ransom. The identifimeet Republican arguments. cation allegedly was made efter PALS Hauptmann's arrest. ' .Representative of Meanwhile Gov. Harold G. HoffMaverick : Mr. Speaker, I ask unani- man indicated no change in his Texas determination to permit the exemous consent of cution unless new evidence is deZioncheck Representative veloped. Washington: I object, The Speaker: To what? To Representative Zioncheck: whatever the gentleman from Texas 'wants. You cant do The Speaker: that The gentleman from Texas JERSEY CTTY, N. J, March has not slated his request. 13 (llEi The condition of Mrs. Representative Maverick: I ask Maryon Cooper Hewitt, wanted in PLAN NEW MOVE -- Mrs. Hewitt Reported In Grave Condition unanimous consent to address the California on mayhem charges, became grave today, : I according extremely to physicians at the i medical center here. She was RELIEF RABBIT taken to the hospital two weeks President Roosevelt may pull ago suffering from an overdose of On Page 6) a sleeping powder. House for three minutes. Zioncheck Representative object. March 13 li War in Europe is inevitable und Americas best cue is to ignore even what would normally be con.sideied humiliating circumstances" to avoid being dragged Webb into it, Miller, noted war correspondent, said. Addressing members of the Sigma Delta Chi at the Writers Club, the United Press European news manager who recently returned from the northern front of the war, emphasized that the gravest European crisis since the World War has arisen as result of Adolph Hitlers of the Rhineland. . Time Uncertain "2 am convinced that war between major European nations is inevitable, sooner or It may later," Miller said. come within a few years or HOLLYWOOD, TWIN FALLS, Idaho, March 13 Attorneys for Douglas Van Vlack, 31, convicted murderer of Mildred Hook, 21, his filed notice of appeal late yesterday which automatically stays execution by hanging, set for next ITR e, April 3. Leo Teats, Tacoma, and E. V. Larson, Twin Falls, filed the notice of appeal with the Supreme court. Van Vlack was convicted in Twin Falls on a charge of shooting Miss Hook to death last Nov. 26. The five months mvstery concerning disappearance of the luxuriously fitted Standard Oil Co. plane moved nearer solution when the wreckage of the plane was lifted from the waters of Great Salt Lake, after weeks of work. It was towed under water 23 miles from the point where it was located by dragline and divers, and was being raised at a railroad cutoff for dismantling when this photo was taken. The cable broke in two places dropping the plane again into the lake. Bodies of the three crew members were recovered earlier from the lake. Jonah Day ? Not For. Kidnap Case Chief Ruler of 13 Club Is Arrested Encourages Everybody Suspect In sor.c spar may detonate the highly explosive situation at any time. Nobody knows and this is one of the most dangerous factors. The violation of the Locarno pact which was heretofore considered the strongest bulwark of peace in western Europe. will hasten the day when r- Believed Implicated In the the workl will awaken one J Weyerhaeuser Kidnaping-- . morning to find gwmjdrlw4r ' of Last Year , already started. The mo3t serious consequence NEW YORK, March 13 (I'.E) of the treaty violation, in his opinion, is that it "shatters confi- Edward Bents, wanted in connecdence iu the sanctity and efficacy tion with the kidnaping of George of all treaties designed to prevent Weyerhaeuser, young heir to a lumber fortune, last year was war. taken into custody today by fedStrongest Treaty Gone It brings crashing down the eral agents who bombarded his whole structure of post-wtreat- flat wiUi tear gas bombs. Bentz, also sought as a particiies of friendship and which was alreaJy gravely pant In several bank robberies, weakened by previous violations was found hiding in a dumbwaiter, he said. clad only in his underwear. The by various countries, flat yielded two machine guns, d "The Locarno Treaty was a pistols, and hundreds treaty entered into aof rifle, three rounds of ammunition. without duress or force, which Ten surrounded a four-stor- y makes violation much more critibrick tenement in Brooklyn cal than violation of the Versailles treaty which was imposed upon and concentrated on the five room in which Louis Phillips, Germany by force and duress. Of apartment wife and three young children course, maintains the his Germany had lived since Feb. 20, with a Franco-SoviTreaty, aimed at her, nullified the Locarno Treaty. "boarder. The door of the flat was locked "I cannot believe .that Hitthere was no response to lers offer of a treaty and knocks. One of the agents opened of to France a rear window and tossed in sevand other neighboring nations eral tear gas bombs. Phillips, tears will mean anything because in running down his face, opened the face of previous violations the door and ran into the hallway none will have confidence in with his wife and children. written scraps of paper. They were held for questioning No More Trust investigation. They will now, more than ever, and of the apartment failput their entire trust in military edA tosearch disclose any trace of Bentz force and alliances for war and his weapons were Yound. frantically prepare for the war although When the dumbwaiter was opened their leaders fear is inevitable. an agent saw the fugitive, clingThe hands of none of the to the ropes between the secmajor nations are clean in the ing matter of treaty violations and ond and third floors and apparthe whole system of interlocking, ently trying to reach the roof. Come down or I'll shoot," the treaties has been so weakened that I dont believe agent shouted. Bentz slipped to the ground any European nations will now continue to trust their security to floor level where he was arrested. The captured suspects age was written instruments but only to given os 40. Agents said they had instruments of slaughter. reason to believe he was involved After watching the European mess for 19 years, I think the in the robbery of the Caledonia United States should go to any bank at Danville, Vt., the First National Bank at Milford, Pa., length necessary, even ignoring and the Mooreville, N. C., National what would normally be reasons for war, even what would nor- Bank, among others. Radio cars were summoned to mally be considered humiliating hold back the throng that gathercircumstances, to keep completely ed in the congested section wnen and permanently out of the whole word of the raid spread. Many bloody mess." residents of the raided building were forced from their apartments by tear gas fumes. ar freely-negotiate- et WOULD TD FORBID FIGHT U. S. ABROAD Mich., March 13 Although Gen. Smedley ADRIAN, (UR) D. Butler, former commander of the United States Marine corps. Is bound by a soldier's oath to support the United States in war, he will not leave this country to fight again. "I'm a professional soldier, but I won't leave the United States again to fight anybody, Gen. Butler declared in addressing a delegation at Adrian college. As a neutrality policy, Gen. Butler urged tnat a declaration be written into the constitution forbidding an American bearing arms to leave this country to fight anyone. ar Previously two Idaho officers, attempting to arrest Van Vlack on a charge of abducting Miss Hook from her Tacoma home, were shot and killed. Miss Hook QUICK SENTENCE was killed, the state charged, while Van Vlack was fleeing from a FOR MURDERER posse seeking him for shooting the officers. In the trial Van Vlack admitted shooting the officers but denied SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Calif., killing his former wife. Charge in March 13 r.P Jerome Von Braun connection with th deaths of the officers are pending against him. Selz, "laughing slayer Woodside of Glen, began a life term in San Quentin prison today the for Mrs. murder Ada French of POCATELLO AIR AVERAGE EARNING SHOWS DECREASE NEW YORK, March 13 (U.E) Average weekly and hourly earnings, working hours, employment and payrolls in 25 manufacturing industries were lower in January than December, the national industrial conference board reported Rice, 58. He was sentenced in Redwood City last night in one of the swift- today. Man-houest criminal court proceedings in worked fell 1.9 per California legal history. cent, employment 0.7 per cent, 2.4 two hours had after he Barely per cent, while hourly payrolls pleaded guilty at a surprise ar- and weekly earnings averaged .05 WASHINGTON. March 13 (UP) The Bureau of Air Commerce an- raignment before Superior Judge and 40 cents lower respectively. nounced today that it had ap- Aylett Cotton, waiving preliminary However, some industries made proved an airport project at Poca- hearing and all legal delays, he gains. In 11 of the 25 industries Holo-hastood before Warden J. B. weekly earnings were higher, in tello, Idaho, for which $61,756 is head of the nation's most 9, hourly earnings and in 8, emsough?. It also approved an Idaho prison. ployment figures. request for $16,079 for statewide populous "So you're the fellow, Warden An improvement over January air marking. 1935 is noted. Average The bureau's approval means Holohan greeted him. hourly Pretty W'ages rose 1.0 per cent, hours that the project is satisfactory lucky you didn't hang 5. A deal Per cent and with San Mateo county worked per week from a technical viewpoint, insofar as aeronautics is concerned. authorities spared Selz from facing average weekly earnings 6.8 per cent. to for increased the due the But murder he said This approval is required by the hanging WPA before any projects can be he committed by accident in Mrs. cost of living, real weekly earnings Rice's woodside Gien home one were only 2.7 per cent above those listed as eligible for a federal of January 1935. night last June. PROJECT OKEHED rs n, YACHTING MOTIF FOR JUNIOR PROM yachting motif will be carout in the decorations for annual Utah the thirty-sevent- h State Agricultural college junior promenade at the Ambassador Ballroom, March 20, Ernest Hill, Logan, general chairman, announced Friday. The ball will feature Walt Browns orchestra. Special favors for the ladies are expected to add to the festivity of the affair. Returning to original prom tradition, the ball will honor the graduation class of 1936. The prom committee will also present a junior class student body assembly Wednesday, March A ried . -- rsaww - - J. ARTHUR LEHMAN Former Chief Ruler of the 13 Club of New York BY Written for the United Press NEW YORK, March THIRTEEN U!.R My ad-- 1 vice to anyone that wants real luck and happiness and health is to break every possible known superstition today. I intend to open an umbrella in the house, light three on a match and walk under any ladders I can find. Our 13 Club was founded and chartered in 1882. It started out as an organization devoted only to breaking down superstitions. All the members of the club that I can remember had good luck. I Joined the club in 1884. Im the only living former chief ruler of the organization. Im 73 now and I defy you to find anyone happier or healthier than I am. I look only 50 and I feel a lot younger than that. The club operated chiefly as a social organization but the members, nevertheless, didnt believe in superstitions. We used to hold our dinners on the 13th, sitting 13 at a table. If it was Friday the 13th that was all to the good. Every member sat down under an open umbrella. Each spilled salt. 'Ihere were 13 candles at each table. Anyone who had a black cat cross his path on the way to the dinner was considered especially p. m., Mr. Hill Baid 18, committee chairmen include: Dale Steed, Clearfield, advertising; Ted Karren, Druroond, Mont., and Viola Hammond, Logan, assembly: Reese Bullen, Richmond, and Arthur Holt, Ogden, decorations; Dorothy Pond, Logan, floor show; at To Go Against Superstition 1 Faye Preston, Weston, Idaho, invitations. Three hundred tickets have been issued for the promenade. KAYSV1LLE YOUTH WINS CHESS TITLE James Barnes, Kaysville, sophomore at the Utah State Agricultural college, carried off the honors at the finals of the college tournament Wednesday chess first evening when he won the three two games of a scheduled HanLeonard game contest from sen, freshman at the college. Mr. Barnes did not lose a game in the series. He played five opponents and in no case was it necessary to play a third game to determine the winner. The chess tournament was made possible by the efforts of Carl Eriksson, senior at the college, who got competition started about a month ago According to Mr. Eriksson a challenge for a contest be sent to the University of Utah if enough players from the college are interested in making I the trip. FRIDAY, Britain has rejected Frances proposal to apply economic and financial sanctions to Germany, reliable diplomatic sources revealed todaj. The Locarno powers Britain, France, Belgium and Italy thus were deadlocked in their efforts to find a solution of the crisis before tho league council Is asked' tomorrow to vote penalties. France assured of the support of Soviet Russia, even If it comes to military action, refused to consider any proposal which would permit Fuehrer Adolf Hitlor to retain the troops he now has in the Rhine- land. May Lead to War The French proposal of sanctions were reported to have been met by the British objection that sanctions easily could lead to war with Germany and Britain is un- -. willing to incur that risk. The French persisted in thir demand that the league council, meeting at 11 a. m. tomorrow, should first strongly condemn Germany for violating the Lovarno and Versailles treaties, and then' should consider punitive measures. According to the same sources,, the French attempted to gain .In prlne4)la. Brkaina, support sanctions without proposing specific measures, but informed quarters told the United Press France envisages an embargo on certain exports and a credit blockade.. Rush in Ready Maxim Litvinov, Soviet foreign comnligsar, conferred for an hour Pierre today with Foreign Minister Etienne Flandin of France. He Soviet promrenewed the not only ise of full support in any action the council make take. Including financial, economic or political, military penalties, buttowas underto have stood urge sancagreed tions at the council meeting. conLitvinov said Russia would tinue to oppose, with the French, any negotiations with Germany so long as the troops remain in the Rhineland. The whole future of the league, he said, depends on severe action against Germany. Britain Disappoints Nicholas Titulescu, Roumanian, foreign minister, visitedat Litvinov noon. It at the Soviet embassy was believed they discussed participation of the little entente and Balkan entente In the movement for sanctions. The two ententes comprise Roumanla, Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Greece and Tur- blessed. my luck holds. CE bloc was disThe Franco-Sovisatisfied with what they regarded as Britains policy. Neville Chamberlain, the chancellor of the Exchequer, said to be urging the British cabinet to pursue efforts for a compromise with Germany and his meeting presence at the Locarno today disquited the French The French and Russians were even more indignant over the attitude of the Labor party, which being they privatelytocharge with ReferGermany. ence was made to the laborite of Heralds agitation for conciliation with Hitler, o et middle-of-the-ro- ad bitter-- The ice cream was served in coffin-shape- d containers. The skull and crossbones decorated our menus and we tried to find dishes that had 13 letters in their name. The only unlucky thing that ever happened to us was that the club folded up in 1914 because of the war. It has been out of existence since but Im figuring on reviving it. Just think, wed been 54 years old now if wed kept going right through. The late Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, were honorary members of our club. They were lucky weren't they? And me, well, all the good looking blonds in my office building rush up to me and throw their arms around me. All you men should go out and break a few mirrors right now. Im going to do it just to be sure EX-SERVI- key. MEN enders. over-friend- ly WOMANSUICIDE IS IDENTIFIED The young woman suicide who registered at a Springvilleas tourist Heap cabin Wednesday night Lindsay of Logan has been identified as Lena Jensen, . Provo girL She plugged un keyholeson and the turned cracks in the cabin, gas jet and went to bed. She was found dead Thursday morning. It the was exactly two months to comdav since a Green River man same the mitted suicide in exactly manner in the same room. TO HEAR MERRILL Pneumonia Is Fatal To Lewiston Child The present serious European situation will be explained tonight men by Professor to the Milton Merrill of the USAC. He will address the meeting of the Logan post of the American Le gion at the canyon home of the organization at 8 o'clock tonight. men regardless of All their affiliation with the American to attend the are invited Legion meeting. Professor Merrill la recognized as one of the foremost authorities in this section on contemporary history. held Funeral services will beLewisthe Saturday at 2 p. m. infor O. ton First ward chapel son Dean of Wiser, 13 month old Wiser and Sara Poppleton is-Moi- ne of Lewiston. Dean died Wednesday night following An illness of pneumonia. v He was born at Lewiston Febra-ar4. 1935. Besides his parents. Dean is survived bv an older brother, GerMr. and ald, and his grandparents, Lew.sto Mrs. Harmon Wiser of and John Poppleton of Wi V1,le- - |