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Show The Weather The CT AH-R- ain snow or tonight ami Wednesday. Warmer tonight. Volume 27. An Independent Number 71. Newspaper Herald-Journ- al Grain Wheat: Open May July Sept LOCI AN, UTAH, TUESDAY, MARCH 21, Txt People UKUi. Wtxo Range High low .97 A .87 .87 .87 .86 .85 Close .67 s, .87 .88 .86 .85 Price Five Cents. Think! DUST STORM WHIPS ACROSS FOUR STATES SLAYER AS HARTFORD FACED RECORD FLOOD DISASTER OF Struggles With Rescuers to Return Home in Search of Family Tall Buildings Rise Above Deluge Like Towering Islands UTAH GIRL TORNADO KILLS TWO STILL FREE Police KANSAS CITY, Mo.. March 24 SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 24 (IU Search for the slayer of Miss Ruth Shaw, 20, continued today with police placing chief reliance in a bit of underwear found not far from the snowbank in a canyon, near here, where the girls bruised and ravished body was found late Sunday. Through laundries police learned the bit of underwear probably belonged to a Fort Douglas soldier. It bore a laundry mark. Identify- said. Police did not place much credence in the girl's statement as the picture she saw was- four years old and the man had served a prison sentence since it was - The record flood that overwhelmed Hartford, Conn., disrupting its utilities and rendering thousands homeless, made islands of the big buildings of its business district. This fine airview of the downtown flood area shows how the spreading waters took possession of the usually busy streets. taken. A Tree Project D Planned For Daily Picture of Whats Going On In National Affairs . The Presifor a Conference to ensure permanent peace in the Western Hemisphere has focused attention on whut for many years has been one of the weakest links in WASHINGTON dents proposal Union, It is. the built with Carnegie millions and now used for nothing except dipthe raising of lomatic dances, crimson and blue cockatoos, and the personal peregrinations of Dr. Leo S. Rowe. Dr. Rowe, a fastidious and inoffensive person, is Director GenUnion. eral of the In his hands rests the problem of economic cementing the cultural, and political ties of the twenty-on- e American republics. These he steers to the best of his ability. But neither his ability nor his vision go further than distributing stereop-tico- n slides of the Andes to womens clubs, holding lamb-stefor visiting luncheons dignitaries, and distributing Tokay grapes to the wives of diplomats on their birthdays. What the Latin American diplomatic corps is secretly demandif anything is to come out ing idea of Roosevelts of the fossilized is a shape-u- p Union, and the appointment of an outstanding Latin American in the key position of Director General w HARVARD ALUMNI Not long ago the Washington disclosed that the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, official of the Presidents alma organ inater, was relegated to the serin the White vants sitting-roo- Merry-Go-Rou- m ijf m ' House. Subsequently, the August Alumni Bulletin gently chided the President and raised the question of to the how it- - got banished kitchen. Admitting that all magain home zines any eventually get to the furnaceman, it said: "But we read them first, or look at the pictures anyway. Is it the same in the White House? Does the President find time to read the BULLETIN before its banishment. Or happy thought! is the (Continued on page five) COLLEGE WARD BABY PASSES AWAY Golda Genevieve Bench, When separated from his family through the adversity of flood rescue work, one Hartford, Conn, father sought to return to his home in search of them although it was deep in water. He is shown struggling with rescuers while other refugees watch from the dry vantage of the school house steps where they had been brought by boats. " O MERRY By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT 8. ALLEN infant daughter of Francis Leander and Genevieve Moon Bench of College Ward, died Monday of influenza. The child was born at Brigham City. November H 1935. She is survived by her parents and her Mr. and Mrs. Edwin H Bench and Mr. and Mrs. Arch E. Moon. Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday U 1 p. m. in the College ward chapel, under grand-parent- s, the direction of the Richards Mortuary. Burial will be in the Logan Qty cemetery. Dust storms, a tornado and (UXi however, ing the soldier-owne- r, appeared an almost hopeless16 task. year Naomi Shaw, the girl's old sister who saw her leave a public dance hall with a stranger she recogearly Sunday, thought nized the man in a photograph shown her by police. It was a picture of an "That sure looks like him, she GO-ROUN- Aids Dust Bowl Farmers Been Found By : Storm Snow No Definite Clue Has -- Logan :City Salt Lake A orney . 1 1 Spring Opening Of Logan Business Houses Promises Speaks Here and Professional Committee Urjfes Citizens To Business Women ObservaConclude Cooperate In Planting tion of National Week Trees To Be light department, representing the city. It was found that the particular species outlined in the ordinance had been chosen because of their adaptability to the several sections of Logan as well as to carry out the geueral beautification program. The group recommends that Logan property owners follow this definite plan in order to get uniformity in planting arrangement. Interested grouos of citizens ,are urged to present specific tree planting projects to the city commission for consideration and approval. According to Professor Dunn, the street improvement project carried out in 1933 by the city at the request of interested property owners on Second North street is a good example of the type of cooperation desired. At that time about 250 green ash were planted on Second North street from Main to Fifth West. A recent check shows that of these trees 184 are (Continued On Page 5) LIGHTNING KILLS GUEST AT HOTEL MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 24 tl'JO One person was killed and three injured today when lightning, following tornadic winds, struck the Hotel Ambassador, causing the third floor to collapse. The winds, accompanied by sweeping rains and hail, tore off roofs, smashed store fronts and caused several cave-in- s. The victim was identified as E. B. Shelton, 35, Dallas, Tex. The two persons injured were Mrs. Rose Larkin and Rosella Larkin. Other residents were reported bruised and shaken. Shelton and the Larkins were rooms on the third occupying floor of the hotel. The lightning struck the side of the hotel, causing the third floor to collapse. No one was on the second floor at the time, the management reported. Police reported four other ca vein various sections of the in city but no one was believed Epidemic5 Is Explains New Festive Occasion - Minimized Appraisorls Stores and Auto Display Booms To Keep Open House To Connecticut Health Officials Many Taxpayers Are Guests Iroculate Thousands To Public Wednesday IAeninjj At Lions Club which arrived, according to the almanac, last STORES CLOSE MONDAY SAYS HAS FORSAKEN PLAN PROVO PROJECT APPROVES Postpone Ladies Swimming Class Postponement of Cache county road graveling project No. 227, classes T!10 ladle under the PWA was announced Lheld every Monday and Wednes- M. y J. Tueeday morning by night at the junior high slev, engineer in charge. Mr. Fal-sle- v school, will not meet this Wedsaid that work on the pro- nesday because of the Spring celebration. . has been until Opening ject postponed Classes will be resumed Morday, Wednesday, April L March 30. Fal-jda- , Ward Off Disease The Business and Professional Friday, will he off it iaily greeted by the Ixigan merchants Women's Club of Logan held its and business houses Wednesday evening at the big annuiil annual public relations dinner Opening Festival. Spring Monday evening at the Bluebird. Large throngs of people frem every section of Cache It was the culmination of all the activities that the local club had Valley are expected to witness the unveiling of the beautiplanned for observance of Na- ful display windows of the Logan merchants. The unveiling tional Business Womens Week. will be at 7 p. m. Wednesday, when spring will he anThe Public Relations Committee with Annie Peterson, Rula Wright nounced by the tinging of bells and blowing of whistles. Of outstanding interest in conand Lillie Riggs was in charge. nection, with the festive occasion Three violin selections were be the tnst public appearance will LOGAN given by Ted Roscngreen, accomof the Logan Senior high school Gilbert panied by Thorpe, RO.T.C. unit iu full dress parade Special guests were Maud Neeley under the command of Major E. state club Nellie Leaver, president; H. Stilimpn. The members of this Mauninc, Clair Haines, all of Salt unit have recently received their Lake City; of new uniforms. They have been representatives Chamber of Commerce, Rotary since school started last drilling and Lion's clubs. fall aud have progressed rapidMiss Alice Manning of Salt ly. The entire unit will march and counter-marc- h behind the R.O.T. Lake, attorney for the Union C. band from the high seb Pacific Railroad, was the speaker from of the evening. She chose as her First along Main street Sooth to Second North streets. topic Social Goals, winch irf in t lie h At of man the accord with the national program, completion by tti- - KOTO, the fire depart"Unite for Effective Dcmoctacy. ment will make an exhibition run Miss Manning ridiculed some of to the Logan river bi idge and rethe New Deal experiences. turn. Several interesting stunts "It is well to remember that no are also planned in connection very radical change can take with the opening. place in human relations in this Stores will be'open but no sales or country, either economically will be made. Patrons are cordially politically, except and unless the to visit the various stores invited desires and wishes, the seasoned and see the latest in wearing apjudgment of the people themselves parel and household furnishings. demand such change, said AttorOf special interest is the big ney Manning. "To attempt to imauto show conducted by the varpose any drastic social changes on ious auto dealers in Logan in their a free, thinking people that run respective display rooms. They will counter to their past experience, be observing open house throughtheir present knowledge and their out the evening Weunesday and future hopes and .desires is the will be glad to demonstrate the height of absurdity. The fantastic new models now on ditpiay as DOUGLAS delusion that just thqt could be done well as the many new accessories more than any other one thing which make driving more accounts for the failure of so .many of the recent government experiments. "The goals of some of our leadEDMONTON, Alta., March 24 ers are exalted, some dogmatic, UP) Minister Prime William but all are colored by the experleader of Albertas soience, habits and environment of Abcrhart, credit cial planned ICKES that person. I shall not even pre- today to go government, ahead without Maj. sume to tell you what your social C. H. economist Douglas, goals should be. Our slogan for and father of theEnglish scheme, this year is "Effective Demohas forsaken the ship WASHINGTON. March 24 (I li That may comprehend in "Douglas cracy." the face of the coming storm Secretary of Interior Harold L. many and diverse things, and it and the province is nbw faced Tckes today approved an immecertainly suggests a multitude of with the problem of finding some- diate start on the Provo River possible goals. What you shall do one with courage of his convic- Reclamation project in Utah. is for you to decide, and your to tions social make credit prinThe is being curdecision will of necessity depend a reality, Aberhart said tailed development the by elimination of circumstances of your ciples upon t after caucus secret a Duschesne which would tunne! early today. daily life, and the conditions, obThe has have cabled unused diverted from water government stacles and problems you are con- Donuglas, Aberhart said, that I the Duchesne river into the prostantly meeting. reluctantly was forced to tell him posed Deer Creek reservoir. It his demands, amounting practical- would have cost $2,100,000. Ickcs said that, under the new ly to an ultimatum, precluded any possibility of further negotiations. plan, the project will provide about 68.000 acre feet of water for irri1 gation uses. Postpone PWA Road Project Until April Tax Expert . Spring, tree planting comprehensive program for Logan has been outlined by the tree committee of the Logan Garden Club in cooperation with officials of the city, according to Paul M. Dunn, chairman of the tree committee. The Logan street- tree ordinance as amended in 1933 which stipulates the kinds of trees to be planted on each street was studied at a recent meeting at which were present. Professor Dunn, J. Whitney Floyd, extension forester, and Joseph Smith, Providence nursery man, as members of the tree committee, and Commissioner O. A. Sonne and Heber C. Maughan, superintendent of the city electric A Danger Of NOT ACTRESS NEW YORK. March 24 it li Greta Garbo and Joan Crawford couldnt hold a scene on the legitimate stage because they dont know how. Sidney Howard, scenario writer, playwright and dramatists Guild president told the American Academy of Dramatic Arts graduating class. HARTFORD, Luncheon Conn, March 24 engi- Explaining that the present reappraisal and revaluation of real estate tax commission in an effort to eliminate the old system of tax inequality in the state, C. Clarence Neslen, former mayor of Salt Lake City and now in the service of the state tax commission, addressed the Logan Lions club at the Bluebird Tuesday noon. A large group of Logan taxpayers were invited guests at the luncheon. Present were also Irwin Arno-vit- z and Howard Lcatham, chairman and member, respectively, of the stato tax commission. Mr. Neslen explained that the commission is striving diligently the peak depth Saturday. Unofficial reports said four were to bring about a uniform system drowned in the state, 13,000 per- of tax valuation of all real estate sons were driven from their homes, throughout the state. He declared and property damage was more that m most parts the effort of tho commission hua been greeted than 5,000,000. with approval by a majority of the tax payers. Dr. Clark Hoskins, vice presiLUTZ TO TALK AT dent of the Lions club, presided, and Eugene Yeates, secretary of the club, introduced the speaker SUMMER SESSION and the visiting guests. ilIi Health authorities and neers backed by National Guard rifles seemed to have saved Connecticut from epidemic disease. The guardsmen maintained a quarantine over east Hartford and several thousand homes in other regions devastated by floods. Physicians Inoculated 30,000 persons against typhoid fever yesterday and expected to protect 20,000 more before the emergency is past. Water still stood deep in Hartford river front streets, but the Connecticut had dropped more than five feet this morning from n Roi.a r " th'hM lecturers during the summer sesat the Utah State Agricultural college. He will be here during the week of June 15, Dr. J. H. Linford, director, announced Tuesday. Dr. Lutz is dean of the graduate division of Stanford and in charge of the Hoover memorial war library. He is a recognized authority on modern Europe and is a highly popular and accurate lecturer on the subject. He is a graduate of Stanford university and received his I J,R degree at the University of Washington after which he practiced law in Seattle. He received his Ph.D. degree at Heidelberg, Germany. He has been alternately on the faculties of Stanford and the University of Washington since 1911. He has written numerous books on Europe, and probably his most authoritative work is the "Fall of the German Empire. The regular morning lecture periods are scheduled for 11:30 each day. Dr. Lutz will also give two evening lectures during the week of his visit here. Dr. Linford sions said. Hyrum Mayor To Give Radio Address Mayor Louis P. Maughan of Hyrum, will give a radio address over KSL Thursday, at 1 p. m. Mayor Maughan will speak in behaif of the people of Hyrum on the program sponsored by the Logan Chamber of Commerce. LICENCED to wed Marriage licenses have been issued to Archie Glen Wright, 19, and Alavon Larsen Herzog, 18, Preston: Ralph Albert Bross. 21, Burley, Idaho, and Florence Sonne, 19, Logan. snow storms swept parts of the midwest and today left behind destruction in the wake of the first two and hopes for a wheat crop iu the snow area. Three persons lost their lives when a tornado whipped along a 50 mile path in south central Missouri late yesterday. Houses were destroyed in Niangua, in which section Miss Ruby Kessllng, Bert Sell and Mrs. Jess Elmore were killed. Worst In Years Over Kansas, western Missouri and vast prairie stretches to the west and Bouth a pall of dust was whipped up by high winds. The storm was the worst since those of last April, when highway traffic was halted and trains were stalled. The high winds, however, seem- -' ed to have served a double purpose in clearing the air after first the filling it with dust Today skies were comparatively free of the fine silt and the weather bureau prediction for possible rains held the hopes of farmers who need moisture for their wheat Moisture Needed Tho snow fell in southeastern western Colorado and Kansas, heart of the "dust howl." In this area, where a moisture deficiency has existed for years, the heaviest snow of the year started falling late yesterday. The snow was and iarmeys heavy .and-we- t, won'uTa'he sufficient'- to settle the dust and wet down their fields. The dust has been threatening since Sunday when high winds began to whip across the dry fields. It reached full force yesterday afternoon when the reddish pall settled over a wide area, shutting out the sun. Low Visibility As the clouds drifted northeastward airports took extra precautions. Visibility dropped to zero-zer- o at many points within a few minm.es. Agricultural agents refused to hazard a guess today on the damage the storm may have caused. It covered parts of Kansas, Okla--t homa, Colorado, Texas and New Mexico. They were positive that the snow, however, had dono much to insure a crop of winter wheat. The tornado was confined to Missouri. It hit first at Niangua, roaring in a few minutes after the skies had cleared from a hail storm. COAST DEBATERS COMING TO LOGAN Miss Lucilc Hepworth, accompanied by Miss Virginia Pedersen, April fourth is being marked as played a violin solo. Miss Peder- - a day on the debate " calendar at the Utah State Agricultural college, says Raymond f, student debate manager. On that date a debate team from the University of Sotuhern California will meet an Aggie" team at the college. The California team, comprised of Arthur Groman and Homer Bell, are making a debate tour of six western states and Texas. Instructions have been received This team won the Pacific Coast from the Veterans Administration debate tournament last November, at Washington that the next en- and have won 10 of their 11 derollment of the Veteran's Contin- bates this year. Mr. Groman, captain of the degent of the Civilian Conservation Corp will be from April 1 to bate squad at University of South15. ern April California, has participated in Those honorably discharged war 50 debates in his school career, veterans who are able to perform and holds the Ames trophy for manual labor and who have not proficiency in debating; also, the been discharged from a Civilian Bowen cup for extemporaneous Conservation Corp Camp since speaking. He is a member of Phi September 30, 1935, should call or II Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa, Pi Sigma Veterans Administration. Alpha, and Blackstonian, national write the 12th Avenue and E Street, Sait honorary scholastic organizations. Mr. Bell is president of the stuLake City, Utah, for application forms. dent body of the school of governIn order to be eligible for selec- ment at the University of Southern tion it is necessary that the vet- California, and has represented eran secure a certificate from the his school in 52 debates, winning local relief agency that he is at 47 during his college career. He the present time receiving relif won the national championship or that he has dependents on re- in debate in 1933, and in 1934 won lief to whom he is willing to con- the Bowen cup in extemporaneous tribute three-fourtof his pay. speaking. - PW . Formerly these certificates have been furnished by the Emergency Relief Administration, but inasmuch as these offices have been turned over to local state relief offices this certificate Bhould be furnished by the Local County Manager of Relief, Social Service Division of the State Department of Public Welfare. The state quota, for this enrollment has been placed at sixty. Veterans interested in enrolling in the Civilian Conservation Corp should make application immediately in order that their application can be handled and certified before April L red-lett- er Ma-!ou- Jacobsen Funeral Services Wednesday Funeral services for Mrs. Dris-ciil- a Hendricks Jacobsen who died Sunday evening will be held Wednesday at 2 p. m. in the Logan Sixth ward chapei. Interment will be in the Logan city cemetery under the direction of the Lindquist mortuary. Friends may call at the home of Mrs. Jaeorens daughter, Mrs. Kenneth Calder, 303 South First West, tonight and Wednesday until time of services. |