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Show ittitM Weather The L'TAH Thur du , 4 r Grain Range in. tonight .noth portion Wheat I Dpi n High Sin . 111. .1 In - u 12' S( pt An Independent New si aper Volume U UTAH. LOGAN, I! D K S D A I" 'i For Im : i I T le hlnk , Who r,i 17 Iow 1 Ilf. 1 111', 12 Close 31 1 35 17' , 12'; a rice Five Cents. V? IX . Martin Johnson Is Second Victim Of Plane Wreck OF Police On Trail Of Hottest Clue In Matteson Case Workers Battle to Save Citrus CIO BOYS V': SAP iUtahn Plans iTo Introduce n Ta co m a Addict Is Sought Renowned Musical To Sing In Group Drug1 R3 MLLIs Kidnap Law vic-i.m- Lam-Snreau- ,?. j Jr, 4 : , I ti i;y konald wagon hr 1niUd Press Stuft Uonesitoiulent Section Crow Is Run Down By Backing Tabernacle Cnilcd Press Staff Con espondent Cnpvnght. 11137, llv Cmtcd Press TACOMA, Wash, lan 13 H h-- A perverted drug addle t. known to have accosted boys and girls near the residence from which Charles Mattson was kidnaped, was sought by polii e today aftc. it was revealed the lid had been criminally attai ked before he was slain Deteetnes admitted the man was the hottest" of seceral suspects sought for questioning in connection with the fiendish crime Search for the layer widened as plans for private funeral services for the boy were lomplotcd for this afternoon and approximately 10i) officials and citizens Washington joined in the manhunt for the killer, the nations public enemy No 1 since Dec 27 when the hoy w is stolen The latest suspect, who polu e said matched almost perfectly the description of the kidnaper, is a parole violator from the Washing ton state penitentiary. He was released in 193a. Police gave the suspects picture to federal agents, and they are expected to show it to William Mattbrother of the son, Jr., slain boy, and Muriel Mattson, 11, Charles sister, for possible identification The Mattson children saw the kidnapers face when a mask he was wearing dropped for a moment The hunted man has biokcn into n a number of residences in the M neighborhood and is therefore probably familiar with the kidnap hop. e, police said. semi-conscio- IP; Hf right-of-wa- super-ntende- ''TV j 1 itt-so- ad-n- DIES qii. Funeral arrangements nounced later. will be an- ANOTHER Cooper was born Jan. 21. at Sotton, Nottingham, England, a daughter of Jonathan Shooter and Sarah Ann Spencer She came to the United States in Mrs ft 1861, iW Drew Pearso and Roberts Allen 1912 and settled in Logan six months later. Surviving are the following children Francis Cooper, Providence; Mrs. Thomas Lloyd. Albert and Harry Cooper. Logan; Louis Cooper, England; Mrs. Hyrurn Pearson, Missoula, Mont, and Mrs Carry President set to intervene if auto Hansen, Los Angeles 27i granda strike is not settled soon; coxt-- t children and seven great grandmaritime war determined children. hm to halt losses to industry ; us supreme court attack 0enh rs move to curb f lateral judiciary; MAN i( hebrccs congress can reduce PROVIDENCE roiirts power under constitution. Washington, -- There win not a strike. The president is de-- " ermmed not to permit such a ostly struggle to develop in this fiajor industry. If current negotiations the union and motor executives fail, he will immediately step in, call both j 'd'1" to Washington and cr- son, dly act us arbiter. This eoorse of action has been j definitely decided upon. in keeping with his policy of t 'dcrcening in labor disputes. pri sident so far has kept j'md, off the automobile controls 'r" Hut he wants no repetition cT' the longshoremen's and sea-- i i'1'!! s strike which has crippled fl1 I71 'oast shipping for weeks, 1 a loss of millions of dollars ,r nnl' to the contestants but to r generally. ! . tie-u- p in the mot--- r mdustiy vvould have even more I'jnou, reverberations throughout 1il're country, (.id Roosevelt t, ' pc' pared to use every measure " dvirt this , disaster ; 'lls.si Pin BlT N(T MAN IS HONORED The third consecutive Logan man to be selected by the First Presidency of the LDS church to preside over the Northwestern States mission with headquarters in Portland was chosen Tuesday. Preston Nibley, a native of Logan and a son of the late President Charles VV. Nibley and Ellen Ricks Nibley, wall succeed Joseph Quin-ncJr who some years ago succeeded VV. R. Sloan, also of Logan President Quinney is expected to return in about a month or six weeks to assume the presidency of the Logan temple to which he was called shortly after the death of President W. A Noble. The new president has taken Irovi-deof Simeon Kohler, 59, an active interest in church work e died Tuesday night at a for many years. He filled a misloeal hospital of complu atinn.s resion to Germany about 30 years an from operation sulting ago. Recently he wrote a book Mr. Kohler was born at Lang-naon the life of Brigham Young, Switzerland, March b, 1X77, compiled from the journal of the a son of Simon and Marian Kohler. He is survived bv his great pioneer widow, Mrs. Rose Myers Kohler, tne following sons and daughters' Waiter, Dorrel and Reuel Kohler, Mrs. Omar Miller, Frovidence; Salt Lake City, and Mrs Tarrcl Gough, Edmonds, Wash one broBY JOE ALEX MORRIS ther, Fred Kohler, Frovidence, WASHINGTON, Jan 13 ilPi four sisters. Mis E T. Bauer and today Mrs Andy Chatterton, opposition Login, Congressional Mrs I). W Myers, Ogden, and threatened to wreck a large part of Roosevelts President Mrs J E Spiihler. Irovideme, plan for governmental reo. gin'zation and 19 grand hddren Democrats as well as Repubhi.neral aiiangemenls ire unat the der the ducrtion of the Lind- licans began hammering proposals for sweeping changes quist mortuary executive main the government Leaders freely predictchinery POULTRY MEN MEET ed a long, bitter controversy The annual meeting of the Cache Some Democrats ProUtah of the Poultry chapter privately forecast certain defeat ducers Cooperative assoc action will for important parts of the probe held at 7 3D tonight at the gram Faint praise greeted Mr. Roose-celt- s Chamber of Commerce rooms, acmessage in both houses, cording to Bishop William Worley, The hut it soon gave wav to inch presiuent of the association will be of provisions annual report presented by likely to be William Vt orley. Several other fea- shelved or rlinnged They tures will take place. : S uto irotr.uted LOGAN MISSED tHinently absent from the rr,,1P of rail union leaders who conferring with p Up oi recently on wage hour demnncls preparatory to i 'Continued On Page Eight) DIES IN LOGAN n Eh-ma- n y, . y 1 1 - ITfciU ' , s ' j k kid-nap- g LOS ANGKLKS, J;m. 1,! (UP) .Martin Johnson, the famous African explorer, died today, the second fatality in the crash of a Western Air Kxprosx transpoit that plowed into a mountain ridne with P? people aboard in a storm yesterday. Martin, it is face neaily torn away, and suffering from other injuries, died shortly before 8 a. m. (mst) in Good Engine i'.unaritan hospital whore his equally famous wife, Osa, is m a condition. She is expected to live. The famous and big game hunters were en explorers 'I r 13 LOS ANGELES, Janu mute here to lecture when the airliner crashed into a ridge Eight workmen were killed and thur mangled bodies strewn along 2o miles north of Los Angeles, killing one passenger instantly for 350 feet, and the injuring all others. James Braden, Cleveland, was the when a locomotive ran down their is neck was broken. section ear on the Union Pacific other victim. 1)1 MV Cache Valleys Civic Music association will present the Vienna choir hoys in concert Friday, Janacuary 22, m the tabernacle, W. to Professor N cording He To Asked Christiansen, president of the aspeath Penalty sociation For Utah KidVarying in age from eight to napers twelve eais, the Vienna choir 20 m numhrr, are making boys, SLT LAKE CITY, Utah, J.m their f if h concert tour of Amerthe brutality jl ill'1 Shocked by kidnap-murdeica "if the Mattson r The Vienna choir boys, or die m Washington, Utah lcgixla Vuner R.iengc rknaben as they j e mmed to set up irs swiftly today aie called in Europe, aie mem-bei- s death penalty for jfc mandatory a musical of hierarchy s iFuinapers who ahdui t their founded in tux by the imperial I Maximilian for ransom. decree of Emperor a x when the ernperor ordered State Senator Warwick C. of Salt Lake City conferrgroup of boy singers to sing a daily mass under the auspices of ed with others in the senate and the Vienna court orchestra. Traannounced ho would present to dition has sustained this organizaIhc legislature, probably late tion for more than 400 years una hill making the death pen-ilt- y til the piesent time mandatory in first degree Those who constitute the choir kidnaping cases aie chosen for their ability andc Optional Penally character from hundreds of aopli-ants to study and devote their Utah law presently provides a lives to music Training is given Tileath penalty, but execution or them in the ancient Hapsburg lj fe imprisonment is optional with stronghold, now modernized, the he trial judge. in VienCastle Wilhelminenburg The bill was expected to be pa.x.x-- i na They spend their summers in speedily owned the Tyrol in a hotel by Another bill, drafted by Senator the organization. Receipts from the E. sustain Salt .awrcnie the hotel help boys Lake Nelson, of itv, was ready for presentation choir The total membership n the the choir is 62, and of that numsenate, i onsolidaing all law enforcement agencies in ber 120 were selected to make the he state into a tour compact state powill consist of re unit The program small costumed operas, national, The bill specifies that a church, and folk songs The reof state police shall be pertoire of the Saengerknaben ine appointed by the governor with Hansel and cludes the operas or consent of the senate withiThe Gretel by Humperdinck, n 10 days after the act becomes The Haydn, by Apothecary" dfective Rehearsal" by Loiting, Opera Headquarters of the police sys-tand the Wedding by Lantern-light- " would be established at Salt by Offenback. ike City with other headquarters LOGAN WOMAN Students of the college will be end patrol stations to be scattered admitted to the concert on the through the state on the basis of student body of presentation judicial districts. AT HOME cards with special tickets to be the at secretarys office. provided (Continued on page eight) Only a limited number of seats Mrs Caroline Spencer Cooper, will be available for students due 75. widow of the late Thomas Coop-e- t, to the fact that reservations will passed away at her home, 441 first be made to accommodate West Center Street, at 7 p. m members of the Cache Valley CivTuesday of ailments incident to ic Music association. age J Injuries 22 J ;v. Well-know- Eleven Survivors Of Coast Accident Are Iu Hospitals Suffering Many f.? if. 4 ,;Wx,. smudge pots throughout Southern California In an effort to save the district's hundred million dollar citrus crop threatened by intense cold. ThiS scene was duplicated throughout the area as workers tended roaring pots to combat the frost. An army of 20,000 workers tended ARRESTS BOISE SMITHFIELD MAN STRUCK BY CAR CRIMINALS EASTERN BOISE, Ida, Jan. 13 '1 today had in rust idy two men reported wanted in Pennsylvania for two bank rohbeties at Volant, Pa, a kidnaping at Sharon, Pa, and "many other crimes Chief of Police j. Emer Harris said the men, Harold Brent, 27, and Harry Logan, 27, confessed they were wanted by the department of justice and Pennsylvania police on those and a number of "Theres enough other charges. on us to keep us behind bars the rest of our lives, Harris reported the men as saying. A gray automobile bearing an Ohio license which was in their possession when arrested contained S3000 in currency and two loaded guns. A telephone call to Sharon police brought the information that the two were wanted for kidnaping Sam Kee, an engineer, in Sharon last July. It was also reported that during one of the bank robberies of which they are suspected, two police officers were shot. Captain Jasper Oftedahl of the state police wired Pennsylvania that extradition proceedings to return the men to Pennsylvania would begin immediately Brent and Logan, who first gave the names George Brent and James Lennert, were arrested after police had watched them for two days as suspicious characters They first denied being wanted anywhere, but after fingerprints had been dispatched to the department of justice in Washington, told Harris last night of the oiic police Wayman C. Tidwell, 23, son of and Mrs. Roy Tidwell of Southfield, was recovering at a local hospital Wednesday from injuries received early Wednesday morning when he was struck by an automobile driven by Clarence Neeley of Cornish. The accident occurred P 2 a. m on the highway near the Hyde Park lane. Mr. Neeley reported to Sheriff Stowell that he was driving north through a snowstorm and that he came upon the Smithfield youth who was walking north well out in the highway He said he swerved to the right to avoid hitting Tidwell but the side of the car struck him, knocking him to the road. Had he tried to turn to tho left to miss Tidwell, Neeley said, the ear would have hit him head on. Mr. Neeley took Tidwell to hi-- , home in Smithfield and thence to a Logan hospital where it was learned he suffered a bruised leg, body bruises and a head cut. Sheriff Stowell investigated and held the accident unavoidable. He said that Tidwell was approximately six feet from the east edge of the road when he was struck. He issued a genera! warning to pedestrians to wain on the le ft side of the hen on the road highway. Mr. SCANDINAVIANS TO MEET FRIDAY The regular Scandinavian meetPennsylvania warrants against ing for the people of Cat he Valley them. will be held Friday at 7 30 p m, "If you'd found us with our according to E Jessen, piendent guns, there would have been four of the organization The speaker bodies in the morgue, because we will be Gunnar Rasmuson who had nothing to lose, Harris quot will speak on "The Driving Foirc " ed the men as remarking after of Mormonism Good muxn al xcl-e tions their arrest. wail also he pres, nted two 1 main line near the Nevada border today Only one man was immediately identified He was Vernal A Anderson, 36, section foieman, father of five children The bodies were in such condition identification was difficult, the railroad said A bai king freight locomotive struck the motor section car near Kelso a short distance west of the California-Nevad- a line, in the early morning darkness as the men were starting out to shovel snow from the tracks near Cima Foieman Anderson had brought out his crew at 3 a m, on an emergency call and their car was only 1,000 feet away from the section theds when the freight engine ran it down. Three bodies were hurled to one side, four were carried 200 feet and fung into a fill, and the eighth was 350 feet away from the point of the accident. were Union Pacific officials puzzled over cause of the accident. The freight engine bound for Cima to pick up some cars, was backing along tracks that are usually deserted during the early morning hours. Railroad men believed the see tion rrew was muffled against the cold and did not hear the sound ot the approaching locomotive above the sputter of their car's gasoline motor. A special train consisting of two work cars and caboose was sent with an undertaker to remove the bodies to Las Vegas, Nev, 75 miles to the east. COUNTY DAIRYMEN RE-ELE- OFFICERS The work of the officeri, of the Cache Valley Dairy association dur ing the past year led to their at the recent annual mcet-,n- g of the group. Accomplishments of the organization were outlined by President John H Schenk The program outlined for 1936 had been carried out, the report has Closer cooperation showed been secured from the producers and the processors The producer has received a fair share of the profits of the business The basis for price of butter fat has been pUuca on the average price of three organizations, cooperative two in Boise Valley and the Weber Central Dairy company. Formerly the price was based on the 92 score butter quotation in San Francisco The financial report of M. C Reeder of Hyde Park showed the assoi mtion to be in a healthy financial condition. The reelected officers are John H. Schenk of College, president; Orville L. I e of Paradise, vice president; H W. Ballard of Benson, and A W. Chambers of Smithfield, directors, and M. C. Reeder, secretary and treasurer. Stewardess Tells Of Air Accident htssengers Were Joking As Crash Came Unexpectedly Editor's Note: Esther Jo pretty Western Air who deExpress stewardess, spite a fractured ankle and Conner, other severe injuries, administered first aid to injured passengers of the wrecked airliner, describes the crash in the following account, dictated from her hospital bed. BY ESTHER JO CONNER Copyright, 1937, By United Press LOS ANGELES, Jan. 13 TRi What does it feel like to live through a major air crash? Well, I guess that I am lucky to be able to be here today to tell about it. Strapped In We were coming down over the mountain and had been strapped in for several minutes. I was strapped in, too, in my seat, at the right rear of the cabin. Everything was going along smoothly, except that we were breasting very heavy snow conditions, and we were having a lot of fun. The passengers were kidding me, and wanting to know why I didn't serve them ham and eggs. Outside we couldnt see a thing the snow, or fog. was so thick. There wasnt the slightest bit of warning that anything was going to happen, as we sat there joking with each other. A Sudden Blank I don't even recall hearing or feeling the crash. There simply was a sudden blank. The next thing there we were, and I was standing by a window. The crash had knocked me out of my shoes. (Continued On Page 8) IDAHO INTRODUCES KIDNAPING LAW BOISE, Idaho, Jan 13 U'i'i Compulsory life or death penalty for kidnaping for ransom in Idaho was proposed in terms of three bills placed on the senate desk for introduction today. Senator R E. Whitten. Boise county, citing the Mattson kidnaping in Tacoma resulting in the Charles Mattdeath of of the son, said about senate members had indorsed the feasures to strengthen Idaho's vague kidnaping statutes In cases of "snatching for ransom" there would be no choice of penalty other than life or death under the proposed laws. If the vicBringing agencies, bureaus tim were harmed, the jury or judge and departments more directly would determine which of the penunder the president in the inter- alties to invoke The kidnaper est of government efficiency, could not he put to death if his vicas2 Creation executive of six were tim returned unharmed. sist inis to the- - president. 3 Creation of a new cabinet post to he known as the department of soe.al welfare and another post less favorably receivto be known as the departed ment of public works. Funeral services fur Mrs Mary There wax a sharp disagreement over extension "upward, Jane Doney Lowe, 80, widow of Lowe of outward and downward" of the the late Robert G merit system, despite the fact that Franklin, will he held Thursdav most members voiced accord with at 1 p, m in the Franklin ward the theory chapel Mrs Lowe died Tuesday at her residence in Sen Wilrim H King, D, Utah morning opposed the entire civil service Franklin. Burial will be in the proposal on the grounds the merit Franklin cemetery under the of the Lindquist mortuary system had been a failure. 1. Abolition of the office of comptroller general, who passe on legality of expenditures before the money is spent, in favor of an auditor general, who woul audit transac tions after disbursements were made and report to congi ess 2 Increase in salary for cabinet officers from SlS.ncX) to $20,000 s and raises for 3 Elimination of the rivil service committee and creation in its place of a civil service adunder-xerrtarie- ministrator and a advisory board 4 Consolidation of 95 bureaus and agencies under 12 department heads without specific elimination of overlapping functions One of tho most formidable obstacles arose In tho house. Rep John J O'Connor, D, N Y, of the rules committee, oppo-.eethe li adership's plan for a new house standing committee to eh aft the necessary legislation Sen Harry F Uvr-ID, Va summoned his special renrganiza-- ' on committee to me ' tomorrow to start work on supple mer.t i! recommendations tid to "jir. mand far more economics by eliminating ovei lapping bureaus, particularly federal lending agencies Byrd criticized failuto of the committee to abolish president's on the duplicating agencies grounds that such action ' was probably a "now or m ve r proposition. Congressional reaction was favorable toward, , c struck shortly after 11 a. m. Rescuers wpre unable to bring out the last victims until nearly midnight Gould See Terminal From cabin windows of the crashed ship the Injured passen- gers could look down and see Union Air terminal and the safety they missed in the San Fernando Valley below. A snowstorm raged around the ship. The cabin remained intact, providing a fortunate shelter. They huddled, wrapped in blankets, until a tractor and a big tandem-fashiohitched truck, broke a trail for the nearest road. A buckboard drawn by mules followed. The rescue was delayed some time until oue of the ships two big motors, torn away from the wing and blocking the Way, was moved. Pilot Was Last Last of the injured Pilot Lewis, who insisted "I got them into this mess and refused to be aided until all passengers had gone was taken from the ship at approximately 11 p. m. under the glare of arc lights. He suffered a fractured leg and possible internal injuries. A. T. Loomis of Omaha, Neb., was reported in a serious, but not critical condition in a Glendale hospital. Physicians said he had a broken left arm and leg. Another examination was to be made later today t8 probe for possible other injuries. R. T. Anderson of Atlantic City, also was reported in a serious condition in the San Fernando hospital but he was conceded a good chance of recovery. He wax treated for a compound fracture of the right leg, which required major surgery, and a possible fracture of the left knee cap. An examination also disclosed serious head injuries, it was said. n, Washakie, Jan. two-thir- Roosevelt Reorganization Plans Meet Opposition ; Three of the 11 survivors, down by wagon and brought truck from the snow covered ridge after lying in the wrecked plane as long as 10 hours, are in serious condition. Others Seriously Injured Worst fears were expressed for E E. Spencer, Chicago, president of the Stromberk Electric Co who lay in the Pasadena hospital with fractures of both legs one shoulder and his skull. unconscious. Pilot W. W. Lewis and C. T. Owens also were seriously injured Physicians feared victoms might contract pneumonia from lying ir the cold for hours in the crashed ship The plane, coming from Salt Lake City and the east, 1 Rites For Franklin Woman Set Thursday 13 Dear Newspaper Not mueh news today. Snow leaked thru Mush Hank's lean-troof where winter supply of dried apples was stored. Apples swelled and broke out walls, pushed cabin over. Hank busy straightening up and shoveling applesauce. Spotted Pony, Indian Charlie's boy, i ame home with nother pet skunk. Family will be back in about a week when place airs out Johnny Moosefoot mistook axl grease for apple butter down , cook shack. Will be better in da-or two. Washakie Joe o 1EUK SEEN SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 13 L'l settlement of the lui her industry phase of the Pacil coaxt maritime strike was seen today as steam schooner owneix with tho negotiaitons reopened International Longshoremens a suciation. - Po'rxThle - |