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Show 1 he m Weather Grain Range i TTaH Unsettled tonight. Snow portion. Colder East Thursday generally fair. Wheat: Open Volume 27. LOCA.N. Independent Ne w&puper I 1 A 1 U K H N K s 1) A V. .MARCH 2 r, i For People Who Thing) i;. ! Debris Fills Eastern Streets as Floods Subside FOB Other Taxes Would Yield Large Sum Red Cross Seeks More Funds For Flood WASHINGTON, March 25 1P The House Ways and Means Tax today shelved the0 presidents proposal for $221,000,-00in new processing taxes covering 33 different commodity classifications. The decided against congressional consideration because levies of the processing of belief other taxes would yield more than $792,000,000 annually, Chairman Samuel B. Hill said. Ruising of the Red Cross flood relief quota in Cache county, plus an additional 50 per cent recently Victims requested, was stimulated Tuesday Mrs. Nellie B. Langton, when chairman of the county Red Cross chapter, received a second wire from Cary T. Grayson, national chairman of disaster relief. The wire carried the request for an additional 50 per cent along Witt the quota. The additional amount was asked because of increased damage done by flood waters in eastern, southern and middle western states. The Red Cross funds will go to aid 387,000 citizens m the. flood area. With the request for additional announced funds, Mrs. Langton thut the chapter is asking that individual citizens of the county help raise the added quota. The original quota is being raised through the various city and town government of the county. The superintendents ot schools in the city and county and USAC officials have been asked to seek contributions among the students This view of Eighth-s- t, in downtown Pittsburgh, is typical of the way thoroughfares in the flood area were left when the inundation finally subsided. Swirling waters carried debris and wreckage as they spread death, suffering and property damage AAA. The decision was a reversal 'of yesterday's proposal to suggest the processing taxes of congress. Hill said the subcommittees tax report to the full committee will be made tomorrow. he said, We decided today, to eliminate entirely from consideration by the ful committee the subject of processing taxes. That means that if our report is accepted, the processing tax question will not even be discussed at the open hearings. Hill estimated the corporation surplus tax would yield $591,000,-00temporary continuance in revised form of . the excess profits and capital stock levies $83,000,-00- and instructors at the various institutions. The Red Cross most urgently asks that each one do his utmost at this time. Any amount, from pennies to dollars, will be gladly received, and may be made payable to the Cache county chapter of the Red Cross. These contributions may be sent to either J. A. Hendrickson, chairman of the disaster relief committee, or Mrs. Langton. All contributions will be immediately forwarded to relief headquarters. 0, tax $10,000,000 $25,000,000 new would be gained through withholding corporation taxable dividends from foreign stockholdrevenues ers. INTRODUCE -- Subsidence of flood waters pent to it for repair. The agri-clutu- re MERRY GO-ROUN- A , Q The National WASHINGTON Surety company of New York, one of the leading bonding companies of the country, has refused to bond the Townsend old age pension organization any longer. It has canceled its entire bond issue with the Townsendites, including, national, regional, state and local officers. Next to the investigation recently voted by the House of Representatives, is the the Town- this most severe blow send movement has had. Virtually all political parties and are bonded against loss, in the same way that corporations bond their officials. The contract between the Townsend organization and the National signed in Surety company was July, 1935, and on several occasions the company withdrew its coverage from certain individual Townsend officials, who, in turn, were dismissed by national head- organizations Now, however, the entire tract has been canceled. officers provided Salt Lake City with a "lead in their search for the murderer of Ruth Shaw, 20. of Salt Lake, whose body was found Sunday afternoon on a snowbank at the side of the lonely Emigration canyon road. According to reports given to Salt Lake police from Logan, a man answering the description of the one who escorted Miss Shaw from the Coconut Grove last Saturday night was seen in Logan early Sunday morning, a short time after the murder was supposed to have been committed. Patrolman Russell C. Knowles reported the incident, stating that a light complexioned man with round face and about five feet eight inches in height had stopped at a local garage for gasoline. He was driving a mud spattered Ford coupe of dark grfy color in an e'.ceptional and appeared hurry to secure gasoline and conhis north. The lead tinue trip along with many others is being followed by Salt Lake police. Following a post mortem examination of the girl's body Tuesday, Dr. R. J. Alexander said a heart collapse caused Miss Shaws death. He said that the heart collapse was induced by strangulation and the shock of the asLogan a con- CARRY ON I No public explanation of this has been made either by Townsend officials or by the company. However, notice of the cancelation was sent by national to the Legionnaires," a select order of Townsendites who pay $1 dues monthly, plus an initiation fee of one year's dues in advance. The notice, entitled Official Bulletin No. 77. bearing the Can We Take It? caption admits that the bonding company is perfectly within its rights from a legal standpoint,'' but ascribes the move to general persecution of the Townsendites! Bulletin 77 conWe believe, tinues, we can find a bonding which believes that company Amerira is still the 'land of the brave' although it may have dropThe battle is ped the freedom. (Continued on Page Two) DEATH PHOTOS IN TRIAL U.S., Britain Make Naval Agreement city Hours For Mail Collections Jury Excused As Wife Announced By PostAccused Man Takes Stand master Yeates of a recent change in schedulue of .Oregon Short Line trains in Logan, outgoing mail must be in mail boxes or at the postoffice sometime earlier than was previously scheduuled, according to Postmaster Eugene Yeates. The first mail to arrive in Logan is now at 6 35 a. m.. with the first outgoing mail leaving on the same train. For this train the mail is collected at 5:15 a. m., necessitating the posting of the mail before this time. The second ougoing o Cenmail is over the tral bus at 10:30 a. rn., for which all mail must be in the postoffice by 10 a. m. The final outgoing mail leaves Logan on the U. I. C, train No. 6 at 6:07 p. m. All mail for this train must be in the postoffice by Because Utah-Idah- 5 p. m. The incoming mail scheduuie includes the O. S. L. train at 6:53 a. m., the O. S. L. train at 12.30 p. m., and the U. I. C. train at 3:39 p. m. SAYS LANDON WILL GET NOMINATION sault. MARYSVILLE, Kans., March 25 The Republican presidential nomination is is the bag for 'Gov. Alfred M. Landon, according to Lyn R. Brodrick, Kansas Democratic national committeeman. Brodrick, publisher and possible gubernatorial candidate, returned from an eastern tour last night. He said Landon appears certain to get the nomination but he cannot beat President Roosevelt. "Back east, he said, it looks like Landon is sure to be the Republican presidential candidate. In Washington it seemed to be the opinion of both Republican and loaders that Landon Democratic has the nomination in the bag. However, he won't even carry let alone defeat Mr. Kansas, Roosevelt. Neither will any other hould some one of Bepubhran them defeat Landon for the MOTHER OF FAMED rr AVIATOR DIES la., March 25 (t'l'i DENNISON, Mrs. E. C. Chamberlain, mother of Clarence Chamberlain, hero of p the New pon-sto- flight shortly after Charles famous A, Lindberghs hop to Paris, died at her home here toillness. day after a two-da- v Chamberlains father requested United Press to attempt to locate the flier who is believed to be m the southwest. He was last heard from in Port Arthur, Tex., 10 days ago, when he indicated his itinerary would be Texarkana, Little and Rock, Louiswlle, Memphis Cincinnati. Utah, March 25 (L.Ri A unbalanced 'dangerous, mental condition caused Paschal L. Boyer, 32, to do things of which he was not conscious, defense attorney R. Verne CcMulloch said today in opening the defense case in the man's trial on charges of first degree murder. McCulloch, in a long opening statement, said Boyer suffered lapses of memory and had committed acts of which he was not conscious. Boyer, former meat buyer for a local packing house, is accused of killing Mrs. Blanche Nelson, a Woods Cross widow, during an 13. automobile ride last Oct. Charges that he subsequently killed three others the same night are pending against him. In outlining his claim that Boyer is unbalanced, McCulloch said the defense would prove that he had committed many irrational acts since he was struck by a fallMissouri timber in in 1918. ing In Winnemucca. Nev., McCulloih said, Boyer turned his automobile on the sidewalk after a woman. In 1934, he said, he attacked his wife, choking and biting her. McCulloch referred to Boyers "mental condition, avoiding mention of insanity. Utah law provides two trials when a defendant pleads not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity. Under the law,( the first trial proceeds with the assumption the defendant is sane. His sanity, in the event of conviction, is determined at a second trial. Consideration of Boyer's mental condition at this trial is proper, McCulloch said. Mrs. Julia Boyer, the man's wife, was the first witness but Judge Eugene E. Pratt excused the jury. Klie testified that Boyer was irrational many times with lapses of memory. Judge Pratt said he would hear her testimony and then rule on whether it should be admitted If admitted will be read to the jury from the record. The state rested its case last night after presenting routine evidence whiih it charged linked Boyer ti the deaths of Mrs. Nelson and three others. sel. closely questioned William H. Loughran, civil engineer of the district attorneys office. Loughran was called by the state to establish measurements of the rooms in Gebharts apartment. "Is it not true, Leibowitz askthat the hallway from the ed, bedroom is so narrow that one person might easily have kept another from passing in it? Loughran answered affirmatively. Leibowitzs questions indicated he will attempt to show Miss Steretz was attempting to leave when the Gebhardt s bedroom shooting occured. CONSIDERATION OF BILL CERTAIN WASHINGTON, March 25 (I'.Pl House consideration of a bill extending the life of the federal housing administration until Dec. 31 was assured today when the rules committee reported a rule limiting debate on the measure to two hours. A similar bill, proviumg FHA extension for a full year to April 1. 1937, recently was passed by the senate. The house substituted for the senate measure the bill providing the nine months extension. Extension of FHA is expected to aid in rehabilitation flood areas through continuation of modern- izing loans. Rep. Frank Hancock attacked FHA before the committee today as built or unsound financial principles. Arthur Walsh, assistant FHA administrator 'said there were in- Three of its banks. Effects of the rains were expected to be felt all down the Ohio valley, but no serious damage was anticipated. Lowlands in Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky were under water and some small towns were flooded. Reconstruction went forward with throughout Pennsylvania, 75,000 WPA workers and others on the job. Water shortages in Harrisburg and elsewhere handiwork. capped the clean-u- p Power was restored at Hartford, Conn, after 104 hours of failure. Relief work was progressing rapidly throughout New England. Rising rivers threatened serious flood damage In western Wisconsin. Three persons wre drowned there PITTSBURGH, March The rivers SE E K LAMSONS FREEDOM CACHE cut U through rose steadily P two of Pit-tsbur- today more pumpa-. The weather bureau announced that the Monongahela wouuld not L reach its unprecedented crest of last week, when it and the Allegheny river overflowed the chief business district, causing property loss of more than $20,000,000. The crest then was 46 feet 21 feet above the flood stage. Early today the stage approached 25 feet. PUNS JUNIOR PROM FRIDAY RETIRED NAVAL LEADER KILLED The South Cache Junior Prom will be held in the high school gymnasium on Friday. The general theme will be taken from Alice In Wonderland. faculty advisors for the junior class this year ore Mabel Walker and Howard Pond. The general committee is made up of the class officers: President Seth Maughan; Vice President Ramona Maughan; Secretary Celia Poppleton; Grant Larsen, executive representative and Vera Andersen, athletic manager. Special committees are as follows: Decorating, Beryl Theurer, Helen Gessel and Ruth Hammond. Publicity, Vern Andersen, John Wood, Wallace Allen and Nellie Bryson. Jane White, Celia Refreshments, Poppleton, Grace Kendrick and Edith Smith. Program, Helen Andersen, Grant Larsen, Verda Hall and Jesse Savage. Special assembly will be held on Friday preceding the promenade for the purpose of advertising. The Dansante orchestra, w'hich will furnish the music, will be featured. CORK, Ireland, March 25 (!R Civil guards throughout southern Ireland sought today a murder car in which four men escaped after killing Vice Admiral Henry Boyle Somerville retired, one of Great Britians most distinguished naval officers, Castletown abend. at his home at clues tire There were two marks In the road before the adhome and British recruitmirals ing poster which the assassins threw on the floor in the hall of DEBATES PETTENGILL BILL accuracies in Hancock's statement. presidential primary contest, it A sharp clash occurred between was learned today. Friends of the senator said he rules committee Chairman John OConnor, D, N. Y., and Rep. T. considered it inadvisable to make Alan Goldsborough, D, Md over the trip to California and his reduction of maximum insured sponsors there felt they did not loans from $50,000 to $25,000 by want to proceed with the contest the house banking and currency unless he could campaign in the state. committee. that 25 ready were under water. Many river front business houses ' SAN JOSE, Cal., March 25 (l.P While David A. Damson waited dejectedly, petitions were circulated in at least two Santa Clara county communities today demanding that the state abandon its three year-ol- d effort to convict the former Stanford press salesman of slaying his wife. The petitions appeared in San Jose and Willow Glen, a suburb. They supplemented a campaign already instituted by one of San Joses two daily newspapers for dismissing the charge filed a few SENATE hours after Allene Thorpe Lamson was found dead in her bath on Memorial Day, 1933. It was difficult to say which dewas the more disappointed fense or prosecution when Lam-son- 's WASHINGTON, March 25 (l'.R fourth trial jurors filed into The Pettengill haul the courtroom yesterday, reported bill, subject to bitter controversy themselves hopelessly deadlocked in the house before its after nearly 98 hours' deliberation there late yesterday, faced passage an unof the case and were dismissed by certain future today in the senwhite-haire- d Superior Judge J. J. ate. The house vote was 215 to 41. Trabucco. The bill would railroads Lamson took the announcement to charge less for permit a long haul of stoically, but his eyes betrayed freight than the sum total of inhim. He appeared to shudder when termediate rates subject to I. C. C. Foreman Milton Raymond inform- suDervision. ed Judge Trabucco that in each The bill next goes to the senof 10 ballots the seven men and ate Interstate commerce commitfive women had voted 9 to 3 for tee whose chairman. Sen. Burton conviction. Reports circulating the K. Wheeler, D., Mont, is regardcourthouse before this official an- ed as unfriendly to the proposal to nouncement had indicated the nullify the long and short haul majority favored acquittal and the clause of the interstate commerce contradiction was a blow to Lam- act. son, his face lined deeply with Railroads have backed the bill the tension. as a means of enabling them to meet competition from trucking and water carrier interests. Rep. Walter M. Pierce, D., Ore, charged during the house debate that the bill was an unconscionable drive by railroads to put water carriers out of business. WASHINGTON. March 25 Sen. William E. Borah is planning to withdraw from the California LICENSED TO WED Borah To Withdraw From State Contest one Monongahela, and caused new anxiety in this city of 1,000,000 recovering from the worst flood in its history. The Baltimore and Ohio railroad tracke on the north side al- rJ. SOUTH As BY UNITED PRESS Pittsburghs low sections, not from last weeks yet recovered devasting floods, faced new inundations today when heavy rains sent the Monongahela river out m De- Drowned Wisconsin Britisn-Amerlca- ington and London treaties RIVEB Waters Sweep six-ye- PETITIONS Dr. Gebharts apartment after Miss Stertz shot him four times early the morning of November 12. Samuel Leibowitz, defense coun- Be Plans for the Fourth of July celebration to be observed in Logan were made Tuesday evena at ing meeting at the Logan Chamber of Commerce with the election of W. F. Jensen, well known candy manufacturer, as general chairman of the celebraSet Example By Ajfret'injr tion committees. At the instance of Dr. O. H. To Maintain Naval Budge, who was at the meeting Equality representing the L.D.S. religious organizations, it was decided that BY FREDERICK Ki ll after this year Logan will alterUnited Press Stuff Correspondent nately celebrate Pioneer Day, July (Copyright 1936, by United Press.) 24, with the national celebration LONDON March 25 (L'.Pi The on July 4. United States and Great Britian and civic set an example to the world by The various ofreligious the city will be agreeing to maintain naval equal- organizations asked to sponsor the two celebraity. tions. This year the Fourth of The agreement was disclosed July celebration will be observed. while delegates of the United In 1937 the Pioneer day celebraStates, the British Empire and tion will be held. France signed a naval Other of the central treaty which limits ships by sizes committee members of the coming celebraand gun calibres but makes no tion to work with Mr. Jensen and restrictions on the number of the organizations they represent ships a signatory may build. Ja- are as follows: M. R. Hovey, secpan, Germany and Italy were not retary; James Norfleet, Charles parties to the treaty. O. Peterson and Harold Fornoff, Norman H. Davis, chief Amer- retail merchants committee; Frank ican delegate, and Anthony Eden, the chamber of commerce British Foreign secretary, effect- Baugh, celebrations committee: Osmond ed the equality agreement by an Jorgensen, the American Legion; exchange of letters. Walter the Veterans of Davis' letter emphasized that Foreign Raleigh, Wars; Yeates, Eugene n naval equality Logan stake; Marion Everton, remained the guiding policy of the Cache stake; Mayor A. G. Lund-stroUnited States. Eden's acknowand Heber C. Maughan, ledgement said that the principle Logan city; David Tarbet, Rotary of equality was one to which club; Lyman Gabrielsen, Lions Britian also adhered. club; H. F. Laub, Elks lodge; Rev. Davis, in a Bpeecb at the sign- William F. Koenig, Presbyterian G, L. Pocock, ing ceremony, USAC; pleaded for real church; naval limitation and expressed the Harvey Campbell, Boy Scouts; H. - Vanderhoff, hope that present- treaty - would and Coach lead to a more inclusive one. He recreation council. made an indirect plea also for The committee will meet again Japan, Italy, Germany and Russia in the near future to name the to adhere to the terms of the other committees to arrange the treaty signed today. celebration. With good will on the part of all aaval powers, Davis said, a naval race could be presented after the expiration of the Wash- cember 31. "The instrument we are about NEW YORK, March 25 U.PV Photographs of the oody of Dr. to sign," he said falls short of Fritz Gebhardt, stretched out on our best hopes in that it makes the floor of his apartme-.- t with no provision for quantative reblood from his death wounds duction and limitation. This the staining his white nightgown, were American government and deleintroduced today at the trial of gates deeply regret. Vera Stretz, blonde accused of If we bear in mind, however, his murder. the world situation when the conThe defendant kept her eyes ference opened and the critical buried behind her hands so that developments which have occured she would not see the gruesome during the course of those deliberpictures of her former sweetheart ations it becomes evident that we did not break down, however, have acocmplished far more than She Of most if not all of us anticipated. as she did yesterday. The photographs were put into evidence through testimony of Detective Daniel R. Barry, police photographer, who was called to FARMINGTON, Are To Named At Early Meeting BAINS TO OVERFLOW " Local Police Train Schedule Boyer Defense Furnish Lead Change Alters Opens Case In In Man Hunt Mail Set Up Murder Trial Answering Description of Supposed Killer Seen In Logan DREW PEARSON and ALLEN ROBERT quarters. McKeesport, Pa., revealed this garage more in need of repair than the autos livers wrought , battered into debris, is typical of Uie ravages rampaging , the vicuuty of Pittsburgh. Man Affair By at D Daily Picture of Wbata Going On in National .8714 .85 Price Five Cents. Celebration Heads HEAVY RELIEF Chosen For Logans CAUSE Fourth of July Fete INCREASED This will raise enough to meet the presidents demands, he said. None of us were keen on processing taxes, Hill said, "we felt we could gt close to what the president wanted without having them even considered. objection to the Congressional processing levies has been powerful for political reasons. The suggestion departments was to spread the levies over more than 30 different commodity classifications with basic commodities under the old AAA susceptible to reduce rates. 97 .87 85 O PROCESSING the windfall and that possibly Close .96 H NEW FLOOD THREAT PITH The other taxes are a corporate windsurplus tax and a fall tax on uncollected or returnold the ed processing taxes under .8714 .86 4 .86 Sept. An .970 .87 July Number 72. PROPOSED High Low .87 Vi May ,n south the home. The poster was believed to disclose the motive for the murder, as Somerville had been active in the campaign to obtain recruits for the British navy.' Four men drove up to the admirals home late last night. An aged maid servant answered a knock and called the admiral. He was riddled with bullets and fell on the front doorstep. Somerville was 72. His naval career was a long and distinguished one which had taken him to all the seas. He did much work for the admiralty after his retirement In 1919. He was author of dictionaries of languages in the New Bebridges and Solomon Islands, of a catalogue of 850 stars for use by seamen, and admiralty work; a work on ocean passages of the world, also published by the admiralty, and of many others including anthropological and antiquarian ones. F.D.R. VISITS OLD FISHING GROUNDS MIAMI, Fla., March 25 lT.R President Roosevelt today revisited his old fishing grounds in the British waters of the Bahamas, calling at Cat Cay and Great island in his quest for Bar-- , racuda and the gamey bone fish. From the Bahamas the president was expected to proceed slowly in the direction of the Haitian coast, approaching Cape Haitian Hourly dispatches of administration developments were being comHe municated to Mr. Roosevelt. other things, being ap Marriage licenses have been is- is, among sued to Alma John White, 21. and prised of the extent of federal Naomia Tovey Ashbv, 21, Nyssa, government work in connection with flood area rehabilitation as Oregan; Elmer J. Woodward, 26, well as reaction to his speech in end Sara W. Myers, 19. Wells-villWinter Park, Fla, calling for exLars Christian Larsen. 69, tension of his policy of the good Preston. Idaho, and Mary E. Han-ccneighbor. 67, Kemmerer, Wyoming. e: y, In-ag- ua |