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Show F7V Is -7 El nee C5 c "i'-1 e j c a At 7VNT M1 7 Tm HERALD PHONE: Buslnesa t Editorial 1 There's No Place Uko Utah County to Live! Watch U Grow! FORTY-FOURTH YEAR, NO. JhUU$)JL 11 )bmy- By-Arthur By-Arthur Brisbane Mr. Mellon Encourages Summer Is Here And Too Cheap Wheat The Erratic Atom (Copyright 1929 by Kin Features Syndicate, lna ryrr ORE trouble ' in Wall Street I J yesterday. Americana, when I W jl enthusiastic, are very en-thusiastlCi en-thusiastlCi and when fright-c fright-c ned. they are badly frightened. Some of the best stocks whose future values cannot be exaggerated, exagger-ated, were thrown away at ridiculous ridicu-lous prices, often sacrificed to hold worthies. slock certificates thai wcie dumped on th market by the tens of millions in the late gambling craze. . ' There is comfort in Secretary Mellon's statement that the new tariff will not'injure United Stat-s business or delay business recovery. recov-ery. Mr. Mellon knows business, never expresses opinions lightly. It should hex remembered, in all our history, an increase in tariff rates haa never failed to increase prosperity. pros-perity. The worst thing about this tariff is the fact that congress talked about it for fifteen months, every day of discussion damaging to business.--- - - - Harding's tariff went through in two months. , Long talk la worse than changes in rates. SUMMER began last night at . 11:54 p. m.. Eastern daylight -saving time. Today and tomorrow will be the year's longest days, each with 15 hour and 9 minutes of sunshine. ( All this means little to millions in big cities. They rarely see the sun unless they look up from street canyons about noon. And, for them summer is two weeks' vacation. "THE federal farm board and farmers " are worried by the pi ice of "wheat. It was suggested months ago here, that the winter wheat crop combined with government buying and storing, might cause trouble, about July first. - Now July and September wheat are bclo v the dollar level, prices near those of 1914. Mr. Legge of the federal faim board talks reassuringly, but prices talk more loudly. Uncle Sam has a deep pocket. It would be foolish to take the shot side against him. But it Is hard, even for the richest country in the world, to conquer "supply and d-mand. d-mand. TR. COMPTON, of Chicago un.-" un.-" versltjV "looking inside of the atom." finds a new electron arrangement." ar-rangement." The Atom Is not an infra-microscopic solar system, with negatively negative-ly eharged nucleus In fixed orbits. . Electrons group themselves Inside In-side -the atom about as they leas-, like raindrops in a cloud, sometimes some-times shooUng off Into space, producing pro-ducing radio active energy, as raindrops rain-drops fall from clouds to earth producing pro-ducing fertility. I - " Everything in the universe Is made up of erratic minute particles of negative electrictity, called electrons, elec-trons, so small that a billion of them in a corner of your eye would not be noticed. Think about that over Sunday. AVIATION advances, thanks to young people to whom flying Menu quite natural Yesterday morning Charles Cary Continued on Page 2, Sec. 2.) The Weather Utah--- Fair to night and Wednesday; Wed-nesday; little change In temperature. tem-perature. 5 SiaxLnum wrap. ' ATUvionday 5 VjJILnimum temp. yiltt. Us 3 Ion day ......AO 261. AIRPORT SITES IE INSPECTED Federal Representative Urges Acquisition of Adequate Area For Future Growth In Air Transportation Six possible airport sites in Provo were investigated by V. J. MeKenzierof the United States-bureau of commerce, the Provo city commissioners, the airport committee of the chamber of commerce, and representatives from the var lous service cluba of the city. A written report will be submitted submit-ted to the city commi3sioners and '-he Provo chamber of commerce by Mr. McKcnzie just as soon as he l!ata is compiled. Prior to investigating the airport sites, the Provo chamber of commerce com-merce entertained Mr. McKenzie at a luncheon at the Roberts hotel. Those present were City Commissioners Commis-sioners Charlea Hopkins and Walter Wal-ter P: .Whitehead; Chamber 'of Commerce President L. W. Nima and Secretary D. Orlo Allen; Commander Com-mander tr, Caj-1' Reynolds- of." tha American Legion, Larney Chris-tensen Chris-tensen of the Legion; James Bullock, Bul-lock, secretary of ' the Klwanis club, and Hugh Symes, also of' the Kiwanis club; Paul Vincent, secretary secre-tary of the Rotary club and exalted ruler of the Elk's club; City Engineer En-gineer Frank Deming, and Elmer Smith, president of the Provo Aviation club. Mr. McKenzie was the principal speaker at the luncheon and declared de-clared that Provo was behind most (Continued On Page Six) CHICAGO DROPS POLICE PROBS CHICAGO. June 24. (V.V.) Chicago's Chi-cago's aldermen today decided to dicp their proposed investigation of the police department after a stormy KCHsJon of the cltv council. A majority of the aldermanic police po-lice committee took the attitude that any Inquiry Into charges of collusion between policemen and gangsters at this time would hamper hamp-er the reorganization program of Acting Police Commissioner John Alcock. Alderman Atthur F. Albert, who has been pressing for an inquiry, reiterated his charges of collusion and said that the - sub-committee was attempting to whitewash the police department, which has been under fire since the. daylight murder mur-der two weeks ago of Alfred K Llngle, reporter for. the Chicago Tribune. Aid. Thomas Byrne, of the subcommittee, denied this charge. After r heated argument the committee com-mittee decided to drop its plan3 for an inquiry. icers Get Heavy Terms COEUR D'Alene, Idaho. June 24. (L'-H-H. J. Rossi and W. H. Her-rlck, Her-rlck, ex-mayors, W. J. Bailey, ex-chief ex-chief of police, rll of the town of Wallace, end R. E. Weniger, - ex-sheriff ex-sheriff of "Shoshone county, were sentenced to serve 15 months each in McNeil island i.ceral prison yesterday yes-terday for their parts in the Wal-i lace "rum rebellion." Sentences of four months each were given to 23 other male defendants defend-ants and four women were sentenced sen-tenced to two months each. Joseph Whalen, was sentenced to serve S3 days as by the expiration of the sentence he will have served a 10 month's term on another liquor offense. of-fense. Judge John H. McNary leviofl no fines. Weniger's term will run concurrently with i. two-year sentence sen-tence he received in the "whiskey rebellion" of Mullan, Idaho. Rossi, Weniger, Herrick and Bailey al! appealed and their bonds were set at IZOQd each. ' " w mi P R O V O, U O j I ! l i Interesting Events' Promised Visitors Cave City Ready To Entertain 15,000 Guest At Annual Celebration Tomorrow; ( N. Y. Visitors To Come. ; i -35 BAD BLAZE IS AVERTED HERE Gasoline Tanks cf Culmcr's Company Threatened In Fire. ; . " . " ... tlasdiin; storage tanks belonging to the Bcnnett-Culmeis company were threatened,. Monday afternoon after-noon when a fire destroyed barns and outbuildings belonging o Heber Duka, 221, East 'Fifth South and Martin Strebcl," 238 East Fifth South street. '" ' ' The fact that the wind was blow-awav blow-awav from the oil - company plant on Sixth Southjvas the. only chlng that, prevented a serious conflagration con-flagration in the opinion of Fir3 Chief Reed BoshardV A The total damages to the Duka and Strebel property exceeded $500 evenly divided. ; ' . " The etrong breeze blowing In a north easterly direction showered sparks on,, the. . roofs . of nearby horrucs. The , wside'hce. of Robert. Boardman' and Mat tin Strebel wero both In danger and a steady streaia of vater was kept on the roofs. The cause of the blaze Is believed to have been a cigaret tossed away in the dry grass close to the fenoe.' The firs started outside the barn and was 'first discovered by William Wil-liam Frampton. warehouseman to the oil company vho turned in the alarm. . , v Appreeiafion was voiced Tuesday by Mr. Stiebel and Mr. Duke for the valuable assistance rendeied by the firemen and willing neighbors neigh-bors during the fire. ' Pledge Aid To N.C. Hanks Dr. H. G. Merrill and Mark An- derscn,"boyi of Provd have' agreed i to head p, large committee of workers work-ers to sponsor the candidacy o N. C "Corey Hanks for the Republican Republi-can nomination to congress, according accord-ing to an announcement made Monday Mon-day by Mr. Hanks. - The noted blind lecturer and orator ora-tor is slr.ted for a number, of addresses ad-dresses during the time intervening before the Republican convention. . He speaks before the members of the Lehi Lions' club, Thursday. He will also address the B.. Y. U summer sum-mer school July 25 at Aspen Grove. "As - a candidate for the Republican Republi-can nomination as congressman, I feel that the most Important issue at the present time is economic conditions con-ditions confronting - us,' . declared Mr. Hanks Monday. - The present economic depression is not the fault of . the Democrats nor the Republicans. It is a deep-seated deep-seated . problem requiring the attention at-tention of the best statesmanship of the union." Provo Merchant Home Prom Trip W. R." Butler, manager of the Butler, Inc. of Provo, . returned home Sunday from a combined business and pleasure trip to east-ern east-ern point3. Mr. Butler epent several days visiting vis-iting with his daughter - in Philadelphia. Phila-delphia. Several days were spent in the buying centers In New York In tV) Intei est of the Provo store. Mr. Butler also Vi5ited in Boston and Washington, D. C. At the lat-tw lat-tw phceihe h?d the pleasure Ct spending an enjoyable hour with Senator Reed Smoot. At Lakehurst, New Jersey, he was one of thi spectators who witnessed the departure of the Graf Zeppelin on it famous flight to the. hosn base. LATEST IN LABELS MIAMI. (UJlThe latest label for illegal liquor shipments, discoveieU here Is "airplane motors. ' - i T A H C O UN TY, U T 1 Everything is in readiness for the fourth annual Poultry day to be -celebrated in American Fork tomorrow. Reports of the various com- mitees ' Monday evenings mdi cates that the largest crowd in. the history oi the celebration celebra-tion will visit the poultry center for the fete. : ; - Word haa been received that W. It. Moncharsh of the 'New York poultry dealers, Baunv and , Moncharsh, Mon-charsh, the owners of the Nye and Nissen that have a branch ' in American Fork, and E. F. Whit-more Whit-more of the San Francisco offices, will be In-attendance at the celebration. cele-bration. This is the first time that such national recognition has been given the ; celebration. The day's events' will commence .at 10 a. m. with a mammoth street parade, at which time twenty towns in Utah and Idaho will enter floats. Several special floats have been constructed for the parade, together with the floats of " the various business houses. At 12 o'clock free- chicken sandwiches sand-wiches wllllce45ervedr and at 2:30 Provo and American Fork will play a ball game." The rodeo will start at 3:30 p. m and will be held at the high school campus. At '6:30 the bathing beauty contest con-test will be held," followed by a band concert, v " . The night parade will commence at 8:30 p. m., and from all indications indica-tions will be one of . the main attractions at-tractions of the day. Following the illuminated pageant, dances will be held at the Apollo hall and also at Geneva. i ""-- i- - ROAD tlATTERS ARE DISCUSSED Utah cottntv will participate with Juab county in constructing a road from Dividend to the North Lily mine,; it was decided , by the Utah county commissioners, Monday. ' An appropriation of. $2,000 was voted by the commissibn for the construction of this project. C E. Huish. cf .Eureka, was the chairman of the delegation that requested that the commissioners take such action.' "- ;- '" . . Lake Shore had a delegation of taxpayers present fct the meeting who requestecTthM the county commissioners com-missioners appropriate $100 more for the improvement of the road In Lake Fork canyon. No action was taken on the n&atter until after the commmissioners visit the project. Frank Eastmond and Ed Street urged thr.t the county commissioners commission-ers oil the county road from the state highway to the Geneva resort. The matter ' was turned over - to Commissioner Gillman for investigation. investi-gation. V"., ,-' : ; : "'v ,:; George Scott of Lake JView ksked that the commission take action on the repairing and widening a road in Lake View. ' The matter was referred re-ferred to Commissioner A. O. Smoot. Mr. Bellows stiggested to the commission that the road from Lehi to Topliffebc Improved as the mining interests at Topllffe are planning to do considerable, work in that section. The matter was referred re-ferred to Commissioner Gillman. . W. H. Ray, of Provo appeared before be-fore the county commissioners in behalf of the Natural Gas company and requested that action be taken on granting a franchise to the company. com-pany. The matter was tabled by the commission; - MISSING YOUTH APPEARS RIVERSIDE,; CaU June 24 (HH Haloid Johnson, '12-year-old boy scout, missing in thfc San Jacinto mountains since last Friday walked into the state hatchery on Snow creek, near Banning today. The youth had been without food since Friday morning but he appeared ap-peared to not have suffered greatly great-ly from hunger. : , - SUSPEND CONSTITUTION LONDON, June; 24 (UI!) suspension suspen-sion of the constitution at Malta due to the- political situation on the island was announced in the houacjj of commons . today by Prime Min ister' J. Ramsay MacDonald. 3 L IU YJ v A H, T U E.S DAY, J U N SicEa Pending World War Veterans Veter-ans Rill Vigorously Scored By Hoover Following Its " Passage; .Veto Indicated. WASHINGTON, June 24 (UP) President Hoover ten day denounced the pending World war veterans bill in vigorous language which. indi cated his intention to veto the legislation. The senate passed the bill last night by a vote of 66 to 6, and the house, which 'previously passed the measure,' is expected to accept .the senate amendments today to-day and send the .bill to the White House., ' Attempt Compromise However, house leaders hoped to forestall this action and announced announc-ed " shortly after Mr. Hoover's statement that ' they would propose at a' Republican caucus " tonight In the form of a straight out pension pen-sion bill ' - . - .Mj. hoover spoke in a forceful tone while delivering his attack upon .the veterans bill. His language lan-guage and delivery Indicated he was thoroughly aroused. "Thev veterans bill,' he said, "is bad legislation. It is no more in the interests of the , veterans than it is in .the Interests of the taxpayers.", tax-payers.", Describing the bill aa wasteful and discriminatory, Mr. Hoover said it was, a very sad thing for ; ; (Continued On Page Russian Slated. To Sing At "Y" Assembly Here Isidore Blearsky, noted Russian basso, who is assisting on, the music Vacuity cf Brigham Young university univer-sity for the summer session, will sing in College hall Wednesday morning at 11:30, . He will sing two songs, an Italian composition by Verdi, rnd "The Volffa Boatman," a Russian folk sottg. Mr. . Blearsky . has been in America Amer-ica for some little time. While in New York City he" appeared in a recital in The Guild theater under the management of Arthur Judson He has also sung in several of the European capitals. Later on in the season Mr. Belar-sky, Belar-sky, expects to give anentire concert con-cert in Provo. - The solos Wednesday are to be a part cf the program on which Franklin Stewart Harris, president of the university, will appear as lecturer. lec-turer. President Harris will use as his topic Russia and the Russian people. ' - The next lecture in the series following fol-lowing thr.t of President Harris will be given by Dr. Elbert D. Thomas, of the University of Utah, who will discuss China and her religions. re-ligions. Health Is Camp Benefit Three Provo children will have the opportunity of attending the summer - health camp located in Big Cottonwood canyon, which is to be held for six weeks, commencing commenc-ing Monday;. July 7 according to Miss Irene L. Harris, nurse of Provo City.' '.,;" c The camp is conducted by the Utah Tuberculosis association, for the purpose of preventing the spread of tuberculoses, by building up the health of seriously malnourished mal-nourished and undercared for children. chil-dren. The same is financed through the sale of Christmrs seals and contributions con-tributions from organizations and club; ' The American Legion, K1-wahis K1-wahis and Rotary clubs of Provd have each contributed a generous amount and made ; it possible for these children to go. 1 r ' E 2 4, 19 3 0. Attempts Daring Ocean Hop i . f . 4 - 1 v ' ; r " c : . s o t t " ;n , - h - ' , t v t J i tr"rj s , x ' i : mJi ii i . ' 11 11 " ' 1 1 1 Captain Charles Kingsford-Smlth, distinguished Australian pilot who .took off yesterday from, "Ireland enroute to New York. If he makes the crossing successfully he will "have practically circumnavigated the earth in record-breaking hops. . ' PJavdl Exp 1 6 its Stir Am erican Imagination - 46 DEAD IN , RANGOON JAIL RANGOON,' Burma, June 24 Ulr Forty convicts ; and six sentries were killed today Vwhen severul hundred convicts attempted i to break out of the central Rangoon jail. ' Sixty convicts were' wounded 1 in the rioting in the jail. The ' prisoners 'employed" In .the workshop were enroute to the' din ing room when they attacked ;and killed six sentries. ' ; The guards rifles were seized and the convicts con-victs fought their way to an outer gate where : half a dozen f armed sentries battled them desperately. The mob continued to riot in th j jail yard until the military police arrived and sutrovfhded the jail. - The' prisoners then retreated into the : work house . where they surrendered sur-rendered after their ''ammunition was exhausted. ' Reed Smoot Coming Home WASHINGTON, June 24 (U.R) ' Senator Smoot, - Republican. Utah, co-author of the- new tariff law, called at the White House . today t say good-bye for tho Kumnier' to President Hoover. ' -..,.' Smoot is returning home and will not be- present for ;,tlie" special Mission which Prenident Hoovci' intends to caJl for con-, federation of the naval treaty. However, lie said he would arrange ar-range u pair in favor of the treaty. . it.-. SENTENCE IMPOSED Alva E. Fransdon, of Provo Bench, was sentenced to serve six months in the county jail or pay a fine of $100, by Judge Maurice Harding in the Provo city couit Tuesday morning.' Fransdon entered enter-ed a plea of guilty to a charge of indecent exposure when arraigned Monday morning, sentence was deferred de-ferred until Tuesday. He was given a 48 hour stay of execution. CLOTURE ON BOULDER DAM WASHINGTON, June 24. (HE) In the face of a. threatened filibuster against the $10,660,000 appropriation for Boulder dam In the second deficiency de-ficiency appropriation biU, Chair man Jones of the senate appropriations appropria-tions committee today obtained the necessary 16 signatures to a cloture petition which he will prasent if the filibuster develops. TEN PAGES TODAY American Legion Promises To Stage Spectacular i Naval Engagement. There are few Americans with real rich red blood in their veins but vho have read and glorified in the exploits o our naval nerocs j from the .time of Paul Jones to the present. "Dewey at Manila bay directing the furious bombardment, of the Spanish fleet and forts from the bridge of his flagship; Hobson in his desperate" attempt to bottle up the fleet of the Spanish 'admiral in "the bay of Santiago, TCuba;- the destruction de-struction of Cevera'a fleet a few days later by the ships of Admiral Sampson and" the . much more recent re-cent engagement of the British and German fleets . in the North . sea near Jutland. ' "i These events have kindled the fires of j imagination , in pur mind3 to .the extent that most of us welcome wel-come opportunities to gain further know ledge end ' conceptions of just what occurred on these historic occasions.' oc-casions.' ' . . ' , -. : " . .". And how comes Post No. 13, American '. Legion, with ' a proposi-icn proposi-icn to present a- most vivid and, pcctacular demonstration of what a real, naval battle is like.iThe event will take place at "The Beach" on Utah lake, '-.west '"Of Provo on the evening of ! the -coming ' Fourth of July. ; . " , ' . The boys promise an exhibition distinctly different from anything yet seen in Utah and one which the public will be justified , in coming miles to see. . ' . COMMISSION NAMED WASHINGTON, Juno 24. U.I! President Hoover today N signed a bill . authorizing reorganization of the federal powei commission. : The commission will consist of five full-tlme'membersinstead of the three cabinet officers who now supervise su-pervise provisions of the federal water power act.' Mr. Hoover has said he intends to appbint the new commission before the senate, adjourns ad-journs for the summer. . Today's Scores NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia Chicago'.."... New York . . Cincinnati .. 100 000 0 003 000 0 001 000 00 021 000 10 AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit Boston ... 040 000 000 4 , . 0 ; . 100 004 OOx 5 9 3 n Cleveland . . 000 0 Washington . d4 2 Soeietv ...... i . 4 PRICE FIVE CENTS rn Kingsford-Smith Leads Fa mohs Southern Cross i Daring Westward Crossin? , Never Accomplished Ilefor- DUBLIN, Ireland, June 2 (UP) Capt. Charles I Kingsl'ord - Smith's fnmou airplane Southern Cross wi flying steadily westward ovc the Atlantic ocean today, cai rying her crew of four me on a flight from Dublin t T--".. V i Near Half Way Encountering occasional fog bu apparently having fought her wa through cohtraiy west winds, th monoplane was reported speedin along at about 100 mlla on hou and far out to tea. j At 8:40 a. m., E. S. T., her po: tion was calibrated by the S. X Volenda and placed at latitiu! 51:08 north, longitude 25.49 west, position Borne 700 mllca west the noint at which she left th! Irish coast at 12:15 a. m., E. S. T. The Southern 1 Croa atlll ha' some 1,200 to 1.S00 miie.t to o bi fore making the coast of Nfvj foundland. At ; her present rut? she should reach the halfway mail shortly after noon, and might t' expected to make Newfoundland late tonight or early in the mon Ing. . . ' . Capt. Kingsford-Smith and hi companions, who left Portmarnoct -rmnd. north of Dublin nt 10:T E. S.. T., last night, were in almo; constant communication wit ships or shore stations. The messages indicated tho f llci , were. having nn uneventful tri At times they reported fog. Or. mes.jage reported, thf ocean "like ; mill, poiid" and added, "if cond tions were always like thin, ocra: flying would bo easy." J ADOARD S. S..' AMERICA, Jun' 24 (IM!)- At 8:30 p. m.-the Souther: Cross reported by ladio to th America that she expocted to t over Cape Race at midnight, (7 j m.' EST.) The Southern Cro.3 Baid thnt th wind which up to that time ho h(n blowing hard against her wa easing. i iias t;t ill foggy. Tho airnlan cape icaoc. jne i ad id. .operator r. pcrieu a terrible longing for l smoke. ' TWO DUED IN CAR CRAS! ROCKVILLE. Utah, June 24. l'.l Apparently losing control of thj . car wnne traveling fast on th highway r. mllo west of here, Johr Dennett, 42, or Rockville, and Will Ham Reglett, 27, of Grafton, wen killed sometime yesterday. Thci.j bodies were found undr their mJ chine by motorists who stopped tc investigste the wreck. Their neck had been broken. Both men were employes of th state highway department, Dennel having charge of maintenance wort on the Zion natione? park highway) Marks of the road indicated thn; the 'men had been traveling at t high rate of speed when their ,ca suddenly swerved from the roau into a gully. Transient Suffers Loss Of His Fool Falling under a moving freight train Tuesday marning, De Wit1 Stone, 19, of Sayne, Okla., sufferet a painful accident when the fron of his right foot was severed. Stone attempted to steal a riie or the Utah railway freight train, m&i Gilooley, Utah, but slipped unde the moving car cutting off the f ron; portion of his right foot. I la vanished va-nished to the Aird hcr-Hal ir Provo where Dr. Garn Clai k.pav medical attention. Reports" 'fix the hospital were to tra ffr;t tL he is resting as eay ra co ;' ' L ? c pected. TO CHONi ' ' ' " "" f |