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Show era .dJoMmal line A With which are combined the Cache Valley Daily Herald, the Daily Herald and The Journal. Volume 22, Number 184. UTAH. LOGAN. FRIDAY. AUGUST 7. 193 Ten Page 1. Price 5 Cent Today! NO INCREASE IN TOWN LEVIE d Public Utilities Magnate Buys Paper to Aid in War Against Kansas City Star T day By Arthur Brisbane (Copyright, 1931) NEW YORK, Aug. 7 (U.R) Purchase of one half Interest in the Kansas City (Mo.) Journal Post was announced by Jlenry L. Doherty today. A statement he gave out said this was to meet the Kansas City Star on an equal footing In tlie campaign against him and the interests of Cities Grasshoppers a Burden. Oil Needs Help. Queer Advice From Lawyers. Service. Entrance thority, may some day find hint self wiped out by a combination of plagues, Insects, destroying crops, rats and ground squirrels carrying disease, ants destroying everything in hot countries, rabbits and mosquitoes. Proud man should devote to thr task of protecting himself against such enemies, some of the ingenuity that he devotes to poison gas and explosives for killing ol other men. ' Grasshoppers are not as foolish as men. . L. Pouh-ert- demanding $12,000,000 In compensatory and punitive damages. These suits are yet to he tried. The Star, one of the most influential newspapers in the middle west, has sought to force the Cities Service subsidiary operating in Kansas to lower their rates for natural gas, on the plea that the open-o- f new fields made costs of production lower. Doherty will he a special contributing editor, with the right to five published wi.nt ever he thinks proper under his signature, and with the right to buy advertising space at any time he sees fit, for the publication of any further statements he may see fit to print in addition to hi Inn Mud Firsit Firm Fnir PRIEST Aug 7 escaped Idaho, RIVER, An entire family the fire that razed U.R) their farmhouse near here by . burying themselves - tn the mud., f Their home doomed and their escape cut off, J. H. Daly, his wife and four children sought the soft river bottom, where they covered themselves with mud, leaving only their faces exposed. They lay there for a day, they said, when mudstained and with blistered faces, they staggered into Priest River, destitute but alive. 1 Fit! FOR Lt Hy-ru- Big Response Expected For Call For Tax d rvp rp rp Rp l, Herald-Journ- Meeting v medal for valor has been awardshown above left, by the Los Angeles Breakfast club for diving into the water and rescuing Dann Quentin Berquist, 7, right, whose water-wing- s slipped away from him. The boy had gone down twice before SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 7 (UR) reached him. She is wearing The huge forest fire which has Sally her medal here. been blazing through fine stands of timber in the Priest river section of northern Idaho for the past several days still was threatening that small town earl7 today. More than a thousand men were gathered at fire lines in an attempt to at least halt the blaze before It reached the . city but latest reports from the fire zone were that the blaze still was ad vancing. Thousands of acres of standing timber have been destroyed by the blaze already, in addition to Preparations are being made for numerous homes, livestock and scout officials of the Cache valcrops. to leave ley council Saturday The Red Cross was taking care morning for Ideal Beach on Bear of many destitute families who Lake to make ready for the Vancame here after, the flames forced guard scout waterfront camp them to flee from their burning which opens Sunday morning. In making this announcement homes. Thousands of head of livestock this morning, Executive Preston were reported either dead or so W. Pond said accomodations are being provided for about fifty badly burned and blistered that scouts and scout leaders who have it was necessary to shoot them. registered for the camp. of Late yesterday residents A good cuisine, with a competPriest River were packing thetr ent cook, plenty of camp parapherand belongings getting prepared nalia, and all that goes to make to abandon the city as last resorts scout waterfront are being roundto stop the flames proved futile. ed up for the camp which will be Several other fires were re- on during all of next week. Waterfront sports luch as boatported burning in other parts of diving, archery Idaho, and officials declared the ing, swimming, scout tests according to official majority were Incendiary. a host of other activiand rules, Tons of supplies were shipped from here by pack train to the ties are being provided this year stricken district, where the flames to keep scouts and scouters from the week is have razed trees and Duildings going to Bleep befo-over hundreds of acres, leaving over. Harry Parker, competent lifenothing but a burned and smoking saving and swimming expert, 111 wasteland. I det be on hand with trained Pnmnfirp cnn1 not CCjrst?!w b6 ants to police water activities each estimated, due to the great exday to safeguard against acc' panse of burned territory. dents of any sort. Ariel Hath, handicraft director, and Executive Pond, general J. L. FIRMAGE ILL director of the camp have carefully worked out every detail o' Manager A. A. Firmage of the the with camp In conjunction local J. C. Penney store is in H. Wilson, chairman and American Fork at the bedside of John other members of the Cachs Counhis brother, J. .M. Firmage, who cil camping committee and the is severely ill. Mr. Firmage has scout leaders in tne been ill for several months. About Vanguard council. Roto he a year ago was taken A 5, Blaze HP READY e , chester, Minn., for treatment at the Mayor clinic. Manager Firm-agand another brother accompanied him at that ifme. e . BANDITS FLEE An NEW YORK, Aug. 7. U.R abrupt turn in the grain market that sent wheat soaring more than 2 cents a bushel halted a decline on the stock exchange today and SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 7 (U.R) a vigorous recovery was under Revolvers barked today as two as elose the nPAred, Is way robberrg suspected fought their GO TO SALT LAKE way from the top floor of a downPalFner town with office Mr. and Mrs. Errol building to the street After the session tonight, the and escaped after commandeering their daughters, Imogene and PegMonclose will until a taxicab. gy and their son, Teddy, are pre- Logan temple morning, September 14, PresiAuthorities believe they were paring to move to Salt Lake City day 7. announc(RE) SAN R. FRANCISCO, Aug. dent Joseph Shepherd Implicated in a $2000 safe ron Saturday, where they will make ed this Wholesale Butter market: dairy morning. their home. Mr. Palmer has been yesterday. The respite from regular activi- 92 score 29; 91 score 23; 90 score bery The men were ordered to halt traveling representative for Crane 27. make to regutaken is being ty and for several John by years, Metters. night watchcompany summer renovations in the man. By way of reply, they pulled makes Wyoming and part of the lar President This year. building. Utah territory. revolvers and began to suoot. Shepherd says, the work to be Metters retaliated and, apparentldone is chiefly in the nature of y, wounded one. cleaning the building. Those in charge of various phases of the temple activity, acto President Shepherd, UTAH Mostly fair tonight and cording were kept unusually busy one day Saturday; little change in temper- last week. Representatives from ature. over 50 stakes of the L. D. S. IDAHO Fair toniglt and Sat- church were present during the day to do temple woik. urday; mild, fair Sunday. Tonights Session Last At Temple JJ f All existing advertising contracts of the Daily Herald and The Journal will be carried out at the price quoted in the contracts, and insertion will be made in thus giving every advertiser more the than fifty per cent larger circulation than he had in either paper before the merger, without added expense. The merging of the Daily Herald and the Journal into one newspaper will not increase the cost of advertising to local merchants. There will be no increase in the advertising rate to Cache valley advertisers. National advertisers will be asked to pay a rate based upon the increased circulation. The local advertising rate for the will remain as at present, thirty-twcents being the cents (for larger volume) being highest, and twenty-on- e the lowest rate. Publisher, Herald-Journa- Of Gigantic Forest to be guilty. Several New York lawyers, in their own language 'will get a laugh out of th it A man accused of crime and guilty usually, has money. Tinman accused but innocent usually hus nothing. Does the judge from Kansas want the New York criminal law him year to starve to death? remember the young corporation lawyer who said The only favor a common man can do mo is to get run over by the cars. Th-J can make something defending llyrum Mrs. Maria Jensen Anthe corporation against his dam derson, 74 wife of Andrew B. age suit. was interred in the cemetery following fittingly New Governor Roosevelt of held at the Second York, horrified by an uninterrupt- beautiful rites ed series of murders, denouncing ward chapel Wednesday The serEd(he shooting of five children, in vice was directed byM. Bishop Thompson a bootleg quarrel as a damnable win Clawson. Bertyl of the choir. outrage wants the United States was in charge The speakers, who paid tribute government to control the sale to the character of Mrs. Anderof firearms. telling Jnfortunately those that bring son, extolling her virtues, lire of In whiskey could also bring auto- of her great faith and her Men fruitful service and her, work as rods. matics and other able to smuggle in Chinese and president of the Relief society in thousands of casks of whiskey the second ward, were Andrew at one time could easily bring a A. Allen, Mrs. Maria E. Jensen now few thousand pistols. The price Hyrup, formerly of Hyrum,AnderH. might be $25 instead of $5, but of Salt Lake City, O. Andrew M. that would make little difference son, Leo C. Nielsen, Israelsen, John R. Israelsen and to the gangster. Bishop Clawson. And favorite gangster weapons Supplementing the choir musicmachine gun and sawed off shotwere selections furgun, any man may carry under al numbers W. Smith who the constitution, for they are nof nished by Mr. M.Mrs. Georgia Gill sang a solo and concealed weapons. and Martha Allgaier by whom a were Police with riot guns and teai dut was rendered. Prayers and offered by Albert J. Allen gas bombs were kept in and Alvin Allen. around the negro belt in Chi-Levi J. Anderson offered the cago. but there are no more red dedication prayer at the graveEvictions, turning eviction riots. side. Aegroes out of their houses, have stopped for the time. Some lily white gentlemen, ( not in the least "Red would be an noyed if they were turned out of their houses. r against the Kansas City Star Small Town In Path Family 5 ' ed Sally Sue Smith, age ' Federal Judge R. J. Hopkins, all the way from Kansas, tells New should York lawyers that they not defend criminals they know H-n- ry (5J Call County Meeting Saturday Taxpayers ' CHILD IS. HEROINE Nt& T Adlwirtisre foiTiiies Fires Continue To Sweep North Idaho With martial law and state troops, Governor Murray in Okla3106 oil homa City, shuts wells, to put up the price of oil and prevent waste of national re-- r sources. But Texas and other fields w'ill pour out more oil. You cannot deal with the oil problem on any but a national scale, and our favorite fetish and bugagoo, the silly antiquated Sherman act, prevents any real action. The oil industry needs help. Standard oil of California reports for the first six months of 1931, prove it. The profit was only 43 cents as against $1.53 for the first six months of 1930. of head of the billion-dolla- r Cities Service corporation into the Kansas and Missouri newspaper field heightens the battle between his companies and the Kansas City Star, which has been bitterly opposing the utility rates. Doherty, after winning court actions in which (he state of Kansas sought to bar his securities from tlie Kansas market, recently filed libel suits Larrimer, government entode mologist, says grasshoppers stroying crops in northwestern and central states, are expanding their ravages fifty miles a day by taking to their wings. There is little hope for grasshopper control this season. This reminds you that proud many dressed in a little brief au Dr. 6 6 Mendon and Providence Cut Two Mills Each al o Taxpayers of Cache county have born called together in a public meeting to he held Saturday at 2 p. m. at the Logan Junior high school. The meeting' has been called by H. A. Theurer, chairman of the Cache County Taxpayers association. The meeting Is an outgrowth of a conference last week between officers of the association and re.p of fesentative taxpayers, most them farmers. At this meeting, the general tax situation was dis cussed. A gloomy outlook with little relief in sight unless deWASHINGTON, Aug. 7. (U.R) manded, wag the general belief. President Hoover announced A petition to Governor George of today the appointment H. Dern asking in general terms Frank Evans, Salt Lake City for relief and naming some speas member of the Federal cific items where this relief may Farm Board aucceeding C. C. be obtained was drawn up. Teague, resigned. Evans will e This petition will be presented pe the western states to the taxpayers for approval at on the board. inthe meeting Saturday. It Is tended, according to Mr. Theurer, to place the petition in the hands Of the governor before the agricultural relief conference which ba .5?eik called . later iu . JUm ' ; month. the is callr Although meeting by the Cache County Taxpaye association, every taxpayer In Cache county is urged to be present, whether a member of the association or not, according to Mr. Theurer. He hopes that a repP. M. DUnn has been named as resentative group will respond to extension forester at the Utah the call. State Agricultural college to succeed Charles M. Geneaux, It was announced Wednesday. The appointment is subject to the approval of the college board of trustees which meets in two weeks. The announcement was made at Fort Duchesne by President E. G. Peterson. The college head slopped there to attend the Uin'al. Basin Industrial conference while on his way to Logan from the east. While In the west, he atf experts tended the conference on immigration problems, called by the United Staie Chamber of Professor C. T. Hirst, chair- Commerce. man of the entrance committee of Mr. Dunn is a graduate and a the Utah State Agricultural col- former istructor at the Iowa Agrilege, hag announced that students cultural college at Ames, Iowa, who contemplate entering the col- and in President Peterson's opinlege this fall should send a tran ion, is entirely familiar not only script of their high school credit with methods of presentation of to the college now. High school his work but also with plant principals will send these credit growth suitable to the great vaof climates found in Utah. transcripts in if they are instruct riety Mr. Geneaux, who he succeeds, ed to do so by the students, acresigned recently to become h ad cording to Professor Hirst. the Chairman Hirst and members of the forestry department of his committee are checking University or Idaho, Southern Branch at Herald-Journa- l. Utah Man Is On Federal Farm Board repre-eenativ- .t .4 snt tL. LUO ... pi time and they will continue to do so until the opening of the fall quarter. Students who are deficient in credits required foi entrance by the Institution will-bso informed by the committee. Students who do not receive a re committee will port from the know that their credits have been accepted and that they will be be eligible to enter regularly on the first day of registration. Students who send in credits now will find the registration prowhen cedure greatly expedited they actually come to register. Monday, September 21 has been set as registration day for new students. Junior college graduates and transfer students from othet universities are included in the group who should send in credits according to Professor Hirst and transcripts for these students should include both high school and college work. EMBEZZLER HELD SEATTLE, Aug. 7. (U.R) Wanted in North Dakota as an alleged embezzler, Petro E. Rasmussen, former cashier of the Shields State bank at Shields, N. D., was held in jail today after he had been arrested on a telegraphic warran from Sheriff Claude Lackey of Grant county, N. D. SEEK BANDITS TEXARKANA, Ark.. Aug. 7. (UR) S5firi effort to trap two youthful lo.i to s.i .mills. bandits who took $6,480 late yesThe figures for tbs satire cean-t- y are as follows: Clarkston, 10; terday in a holdup of the bank at Lockesburg, Ark., 40 miles north Hyde Park, 8; Hyrum, 18; Newof here. ton, 16; Millville, 7.6; Mendon, ; Providence, 8; Paradise, IT: Richmond,, 12; Smithfield, 14; Trenton, SHOTGUN VICTIM 4; Wellsville, 17;; Logan, IS; ROBERTS, Idaho, Aug, 7. (UR Lewiston, 4 J; Logan schools, 14; A common fatal accident cause-remoa shotgun from an auto- Cache county acheols, 8.6. mobile had tod ly claimed another victim, Glenn Frank By water, 25 Salt Lake City, an employe of the American Telephone aud Telegraph touipaii ving . BUYS CORN CHICAGO, Aug. 7. (U.PJ Thomas M. Howell, millionaire board of trade operator, reported to hare profited by almost $1,000,000 a week ago on the sudden advance in July corn, admitted today that heavy buying had given him control of 8,000,000 bushels. ACCIDENT FATkL 7 (U.R) RENO, John Aug. Henry poIe, Washington, believed to be the son of the United States c 'mptroller of currency, J. W. Tile was crlticatlv Injured and n companion, Patricia De Witt, 27, Los Angeles was killed today when their automobile plunged through a guard rail on a highway near hero and careened down a 10i fool bank. CHARGES TO BE AIRED BOISE, Aug. 7. (U.R) Charges by J. H. Anderson, Blackfoot, of mismanagement and improper treatment of patients at the state asylum for the insane, located at Blackfoot, will he aired at a public hearing at the asylum Saturday before Governor C. Ben Ross. The hearing, ordered today by Nominations tqr officers of the the governor opened today. Logan American Legion for the next year will be made at a meetSEEKS DIVORCE ing of the organization Friday at RENO, Nev. Aug. 7. (U.R) Mrs. 8 p m. at the Chamber of ComLawrence Tibbetts, wife of the merce. motion picture star, has establishE. Perce to Smith, ed a residence According at the Riverside be will held elections commander, hotel here, it was learned today. on September 11. Press from Hollywood Plans for the local delegation several dispatches weeks ago carried rumors to the American Legion stale con- of an estrangement between Mrs. vention at Price next week will Tibbetts and her famous husband. aiso be completed. Del -.'got or v ere named and announced- some time THREE KILLED ago. LITTLE FALIJ5, Minn., Aug. 7. (UR Three persons were instantly killed and two others seriously Injured when a speeding Northern Pacific train struck passenger their automobile at a grade crossing near here today. , Chivalrous Smithfield Man Gets Black Eye For Reward FOUND GUILTY a chivalrous act in behalf of a woman and the reward of a black eye. a bruised lip, and kinked neck was told to Sheriff Jeff Stowell and Deputy Neeley Peterson this morning. Shortly after 10 a. in. a A tale of young man of medium build, and giveng his home as Smith-fielappeared at the sheriffs office exhibiting the above evidence of having been in a fight He reported the fight Occurred sometime during last d night in Logan canyon. His assailant, a man who he claim- ed weighing about 200 pounds, was abusing a girl,' according to the injured mans utory, and , he intervened. The Smithfield man said following the fight, he brought the girl to Log&n and she promised to have her pugna- clou acquaintance turned over to the city police. A check at police headquarters tailed to indicate any report of the affair received there. Cities In Cache county generally held to their 1930 levies In netting the figure for 1931 although two made cuts of two mills each while two more made fractional decreases. Not a city In the county raised the levy, according to flgnrea. given out today by County Clerk C. V. Mohr. This means that every civic government will be operating under a reduced budget a all assessed valuations have fallen somewhat lower than last year and taxes will be correspondingly, smaller. Mendon and Providence were each able to alloe 2 mills from their budgets, Mendon going to 6 mills from a 1930 levy of I nllls and Providence dropping from 10 to S mills. Logan city sliced .75 mill from the 1920 levy to make the 1111 figure 10 mills while Lewiston cut .0 mills to make tbelr figure 4.5 mills. Trenton baa the lowest tag levy of any community tn the oonnty with 4 mills whtle Paradise and Wells vlUe are tbs highest with 17. mills Melt'.. The Logan city school levy ro- - Ray Barrett, Logan youth, tried jointly with Russell Darley, also of Logan, before Judge Jesse P. Rich in city court this morning, was found guilty of baiting fish on July 29 last at the second state dam in Logan canyon. Barrett was fined $25, wniie Darley was acquitted. The boys were picked up on the above date by Ted Seebolzer, deputy state fish and game warden, and were arrsivneH before Judge ' Rich. , SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 7 (UR) Major General Frank T. Hines, administrator of Veterans affairs, would like to see the United States guarantee every man a Job. I feel, he said, that every veteran would rather be employed In gainful pursuit than be dependent, In any sense, on his government. They want work more than compensation. BASEBALL , o o Todays Scores NATIONAL LEAGUE 010 000 0023 11 Cincinnati 2 710 100 OOx 9 15 1 Pittsburgh Batteries: Carroll, Wysong, Lucas and Sukeforth; Kremer and Phillips. Chicago 1. 00 42 St. Louis ', Malone and Martnett; and Wilson. Grimes 000 001 0102 10 1 Brooklyn 000 000 0033 6 0 Boston Quinn, Thurston and Lopez; Zachary and Spohrer. 6 16 2 New York .... 200 000 021 510 103 20x 13 11 1 Philadelphia Mitchell, Parmalee and Berly; Collins and Davis. 1 AMERICAN LEAGUE 000 000 0 St. Louis 101 000 0 Chicago Bleaholder and Ferrell; Faber and Tate. Only games scheduled. Just a reminder that there will be no edition of the Herald Journal Saturday. The next issue will be the Sunday edition. This policy will be followed -- at |
