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Show The UTAH day Fair tonight nnd Thurs- JL .little change in temperature Volume 28. he Weather Number 58. Herald-Journa- An Independent LOGAN, UTAH, Newspaper K 1) N ES M 'i . 1 Grain Range l A Open High tow Close 137 137 138 Hi 140 1 21 4 124 4 120 122 Wheat May July Sept U C 11 10. 1 9 ;? ..1 For People Who ThtuM 7. 18 1 21 Hi 1 18 1 19 Price Five Cent3. BROWN SAY t House Kills Administration - Roosevelt Appeals For Speedy Action 10 Policies Must Be Enacted To Aert Repetition of 1929 Disaster BY LYLE C. WILSON Pres Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Mar. io (LD MeaPresident Roosevelt .aunthed conof judiciary gress on consideration with a dereorganization today mand for action now to save Bill the constitution from the court and the court from itself." The last SALT LAKE CITY, Mar 10 president appealed In a ipi The administration's welfare night for speedy action fireside chat he warned that the program went down to final of 1929 may be repeated today in the house when re- disaster a year or two if his polipresentatives loyal to the Her- within in cies are not enacted and approved bert Maw faction succeeded unending the chief executive's bill by the courts Not Dictator ji conform to senate bill 2, which Mr. Roosevelt challenged those provides for an old age assistance He who charge dictatorship pension! program Make bubstitutiong denied intent to pacit the court folto be over he with The fight policy puppets. Again presented lowed by the house concerning to the nation his desire to apold age relief came when the point six younger men to the welfare bill sponsored by Gover- supreme court, exparding its nor Henry Blood was placed at membership to 15 if naif a dozen the top of the house calendar justices beyond the i0 year reBrew- tirement age refuse to leave the Representat ve Sheldon of bench. ster, Salt Lake, chief cohort Maw in the house, took the floor Mr I will appoint justices, 2 of to delete sect'on moved and Roosevelt who will promised, bill which administrations the not undertake to override the provides aid for those 65 and over judgment of congress on legislaon a basis of need. tive policy. Brewster wished to substitute This plan will save our lor that section a provision makOn Page Four ing the $30 per month assistance contained in Maw's pension bill applicable to this class of state dependents Plea Useless A strong plea was made by Walter K. Granger for passage of the administration bill in its original form. He declared there was serious doubt as to senate bill ! qualifying under federal reWASHINGTON, Mar. 10 (UP) quirements Highlights of President Roosevelts d Gordon Wegge-lan- fireside address to the nation: Representative tried a bit of legislative Recovery is speeding up to a and moved to retam point where the dangers of 1929 technique, Motion 2 of the administration are again becommmg possible, not bill and add thereto a provision this week or month perhaps, but that if Maws pension bill becomes within a year or two. law, its provisions relating to those 65 years and over should In the last four years the the provisions of the supersede sound rule of giving statutes administration bill the benefit of all reasonable Backs Maw doubt has been cast aside. The Speaker Joe Jenson ruled the court has been acting not as notion out of order, took the a judicial body, but a policyItoor and declared the effort to making body. Warn section two in the admin 'tration bill was a plan under There is no basis for the claim hich the Maw bill could be made by some members of the ctoed the con Jenson declared if the house court that something in them resustained the motion to retain stitution has compelled will of the section 2 of the administration gretfully to thwart the bill, the same system of case people. (Continued on page two! The court in addition to the proper use of its judicial functions has improperly set itself up as a third house of the congress a as one of the justices has called it reading into the constitution words and impli cations which are not there and which were never intended to be United Administration sure Now Resembles Presidents Radio Talk Opening and Closing Hours To Be De- Highlights On Fireside Talk Editorial comment on President Roosevelts fireside chat follows: The Scripps-Howar- d newspa- the president's Through speech last night ran a stubborn, somewhat defiant, insistence that his own ingenious plan for revamping the supreme court is the only plan to carry forward the purposes of the New Deal. . . .Tie alternative of a con- pers: stitutional amendment as a method of curbing the exercise of the and judicial veto of economic social legislation was waved airily aside . . . Other possible alternatives he ignored entirely, such as . . . That the court cannot overrule legislation except by a vote or more of the suof It would be as preme justices speedy as the president's cure It would be of more lasting consequence two-thir- ... ... ... New York Post The tone and accents of the president, his earnestness, his avoidance of the rhetorical were the best answer to those who are accusing him of trying to be a dictator. Dictators seek to befuddle, not to explain. Candor is one luxury they can not afford. Mr. Roosevelt spoke as a Democratic president to a democratic people. . . The dictator scare campaign against the president, like the scare campaign in the last election, is designed not to prevent a dictatorthere. ship but to preserve a dictatorship the dictatorship of great We have, therefore, reached vested interests working through the point as a nation where we their tool, the must take action to save the conon the supreme court stitution from the court and the of majority United the States. court from the court Itself. We Rochester Democrat & Chronmust find a way to take an apicle The his peal from the supreme court to case like a president aigues lawyer .trying to sway the constitution itself. a jury, summoning every strategy, using every bit of persuasion to I want as all Americans answer and damaging serious want an independent judicicharges against him. Yet the fact framthe as by proposed ary remains that if he trusts the That ers of the constitution. people, a constitutional amendmeans a supreme court that ment is the only straightforward, will enforce the constitution the only clear cut way of effectas written that will refuse to ing the permanent reforms in amend the constitution by the mind. arbitrary exercise of judicial power amendment by judicial rfk Robert S.Alte Liberals opposing court plan on principle have persona! motives too; Hiram Johnson sore at appointments, sabotage of war loan act; Borah hews to party line; Wheeler fears Kre-niwill pick new judges; OMahoney, Nje likely to vote presidents way despite their grudges. As Roosevelt WASHINGTON turns more and more heat on the senate to obtain approval of hts supreme court reform, the position of the Liberals becomes like that of the victims of the Spanish Inquisition. They are in great pain, out religious fervor comes first. Actually, their convictions are olmost identical with Roosevelt's. They believe categoricaly that the supreme court should be curbed hey differ only in the method Mc-Ad- er f approach, Roosevelts scheme, they claim, all right when he is In power, hut not if a Warren Gamliel Harding should be elected. They don't ant to open the door for any President whether a Roosevelt or Harding to have his way with he judiciary. W hat makes the Liberals in- creasingly unhappy is to look d round and see such 'eaotionaries as Millard Tydings qf of Bailey Maryland, Josiah orth Carolina, and George of rejoicing at their stand. ;eorgia This, for them, is a crushing olow. Various reasons inspire the opAll of position of the liberals them of course, claim to be motivated by the same high and lofty purpose that of preventing (Continued on page two) hard-boile- say-s- o. Fundamentally, if in the future, Americans cannot trust the congress it elects to refrain from abuse of our constitutional usages, for democracy will have failed beyond the importance to it of any kind of precedent concerning the judiciary Our difficulty with the court today rises not from the court as an institution but from human beings within it. I propose to enforce a sound public policy by law instead of our leaving the composition of highfederal courts, including the est to be determined by chance or the personal decisions of individuals This proposal of mine will not the infringe m the slightest upon so dear Shall Logan stores open later and close in the mornings earlier in the afternoons? That is the question to be decided at a meeting of the merchants interested in the matter at the Logan Chamber of Commrce Thursday at 9 a. m. To conform to newly passed eniplojment laws by the I tah state legislature, several Salt Lake and Provo stores have decided to open at 9 a m.. and close at 5:30 p. m. with the exception of Saturdays when the closing time will be 6 p. ni. To discuss this matter and to come to some kind of a uniform agreement as to the opening and closing times the meeting has been called. It is pointed out that grocery stores may have their business period different from that of stores or the ether stores in the city, but in effort will be made to reach an agreement between stores of similar business. ar HIGH SCHOOLS TO SPONSOR DEBATES Harold Bateman, debate coach at the Logan senior high school has arranged for interested students to participate in debates with North Cache and HAVEN, li Ya'es Conn, Mar ' Roosevelt-for-- 10 ng club had a rebellion on its hands tod ty some of the bovs wore campaigning to make former Gov Alf London of Kansas a "pretend-e- i to the throne." Displaying a shield bearing a wilted sunflower on a gray backfollowers disground, Landon's rupted a meeting of the "privy council of the "Frankin' I" organization and presented credentials which they declared proved their candidates right to be crowned as "Alfred I The Roosevelt boys ignored the intrusion and announced that "coronation of President Roosebeloved Queen velt and his Eleanor" would take place immediately following tne appointment of the new (supreme court) justices, who will automatically be elevated to the order of the rubber stamp Peter H Bohr, class of 1937, announced that the eljb had received membership applications from more than 200 students He exhibited a design for a "royal shield bearing: Fifteen thornless roses on an Eleanor blue field, six rampant, nine couchant, only six of w'hich can be seen, the last nine being plowed under. The club suggested the "order of the golden fleeced" as the highest honorary society of the nation, to which the king may bestow knighthood to members recruited from Wall street CLAIMS SENATE inter-scho- South Cache high schools, according to announcement made by the school Wednesday. Two senior teams and four jun at both lor teams will debate schools Debates at North Cache will be held Thursday and at South Cache one day next week. The debate teams are composed of Betty Jean Fonnesbeck, Lor Maurine Burm raine Anderson, ham and Bill Thomas, seniors Almeda Brown, Annabella Smith, Lyle Bates, Alan Fonnesbeck, Ezra Geddes, Dorothy Gene Paterson, Marjone McCowin and Helen Lundstrom, juniors, Dorothy Barbara W Dames, ayman. May Helen Lloyd, Howell, Marjorie Hovey, Merna Glenn, Robert Don Lundahl, Wright, Guy Murray, Gordon Crockett, Don Jeffs, W Reed Hartvigsen, Waymar , Mernl Dames, George Mi Donald and Martin Edwards. Farmers To Choose Conservation Heads USES BIG WHIP SALT LAKE CITY, Mar. 10 C. W. leader 'a Spence, chief the house of representatives today charged that the senate had tried to "whip the house into line and keep representatives at their desks beyond (Ilt Representative labor midnight Thursday Spence a accusation came when the Semite moved the Little agner Bill down to the foot of the calendar. Spence said this was done in order to keep labontes in session until the senate had pass- Church Authorities To tend Pageant Presentation In Tabernacle At- Resplendi nt and Imposing as were former pageants written and produied here by J Karl Wood "The First Vision," the sacred pageant to be presented in the Logan tabernacle for 13 consecutive day s beginning March 21, will be even more wonderful, in the opinion of those who have watched the first rehearsals of the large cast. President Don B. Colton of the E&stern States mission of the LBS church and Willard Bean, manager of the church properties near Palmyra, N. Y., have announced that they will be here for at least one of the performances of the pageant. Under the direction of President Colton a sacred pageant is now under preparation to be presented in the near future et the Hill Cumotah, where the LDS church has erected a large monument commemorating the finding there of the plates from which the Book, of Mormon was translated Information has also been received that a large group of the general authorities of the church may attend this pageant. In the past few of the general authorities have had the opportunity to witness the Imposing pageants presented here. Practice nas been under way now for several days, according to Director Wood, who is assisted in coaching the participants by Howard Pond, dramatic teacher of the South Cache high school, and Preston W. Pond, scout executive of the Cache Council. The first act will be rehearsed All completely Friday evening those who appear in that act are requested to be at the tabernacle not later than 7 p. m. The singing by the choir under the direction of Frank H. Baugh, Jr, will be better than previous years also, it is reported. The choir will be seen in the final scene, an inovation from former pageants In which the choir at no time appeared publically. According to M. R. Hovey, secretary of the pageant committee (Continued on Page Two) LOST DUCHESNE GIRL IS FOUND DUCHESNE, Utah, Mar. 10 (UP) Doris Mitchell, high school librarian, who walked out ed bills sponsored by an oron a party being held in a lonely mountain cabin, was safe In her ganized group home today after the barrowing experience of being lost for nearly 84 hours In the Bnow covered mountain 18 miles from here. Miss Mitchell was located late TO yesterday by members of a rescue party, about f.ve miles from a ranch house. She was in a DETROIT, Mar. 10 (lP Chrysler corporation today sought to re- weakened condition and unable to move approximately 6 000 talk, having neither food nor strikers from nine strike plants shelter since leaving the cabin when its attorneys filed a petition early Saturday morning. for an injunction with Reportedly angered at a remark made by a member of the party, Judge Allen Campbell The petition, filed as Chrysler Miss Mitchell set out afoot More and union conferees reconvened to than 100 CCC workers augmented consider a "new formula by the by volunteers conducted an organunion for settlement of the strike, ized rescue expedition. named as defendants the InternaIronically, Miss Mitchell was tional Union, eight high officials found by Joseph Ivy, a member of including President Homer Martin, the party whicn she decided to and 25 officers and members of desert. Her shoes were worn to Chrysler local groups. tatters, her clothing ripped away by the underbrush and her feet bleeding from bruises. She had covered several miles through crusted snow drifts approximating three feet In depth. Miss Mitchell had not been questioned today because she experienced difficulty In talking. Her also Marie, sister, present at the party, said Doris decided to quit the party because she didnt like it" The men at the party had been drinking all night," Mane said. "Some of them were very drunk and Dons decided at five oclock aXc in the morning that if the others wouldn't leave shed start walks ing. OUST WORKERS All farmers of the county who have signed under the 1936 or 193 7 agricultural 'onservation program are urged to be in attendance at a meeting in the county courthouse Friday at 2 m, p. according to County Agent R L. Wrigley. The purpose of the meeting Is e for the selection of a couny for the 1937 program, Mr Wrigley stated. con-mitte- Circuit BY RUTH SCOFIELD That local talent can be used to as great an advantage in college productions as bringing trained actors to the community at a great expense was proven beyond a shadow of a doubt at the presentation of "Aida, Verdis operatic masterpiece, by the Utah State Agricultural college Monday and Tuesday nights at the Capitol. Every actor in the large cast was a product of the college, from the important leading roles to the workers. Dancing Good The chorus as a unit was much stronger in this year s opera than in any college musical performance in the past. The strength of the chorus did much to add to the greatness of the performance, an added improvement over other years. Dancers in the opera should also be given a due amount of praise with especial mention going to the two male dancers, Reginald Waines and Joe Crockett, who gave as fine a performance as many of the men in the famous (Continued on Page Two) all-nig- ht behind-the-scen- PROF, N. W. CHRISTIANSEN Entire Liquor Commission Maw Forces In State Legislature Blamed For Rejection of Personnel of State Liquor Body Persistent rumors around Logan say that in the reorganization of the state liquor commission to be effected because of the senates rejection of the present personnel of that body two Logan men may be considered in the selection of one of the three members of the commission. Those mentioned are Dr, Weston Vernon and C:ty Attorney Leon Fonnesbeck, both of whom are among the most ardent supporters of President Herbert B. Maw of the state senate. SALT I AKE CITY, March 10 (U.P) Hugh B. Brown, state liquor administrator who was rejected by the senate in executive session last night, today denounced as political the movement which led to the investigation of his department and subsequent rejection of himself and two other commissioners. Brown, G. M. Whitmore, and Adam Patterson, Jr. the entire liquor control commission were rejected when the senate refused to confirm their appointments. The action was a direct result of recommendations contained in investigators report on operations of the liquor com- Makes Move To Impound the Board Records Legislative! Invest Group Prepares To Safeguard Books igatjon SALT LAKE CITY, Mar. 10 (UJ Attorney General Joseph Chez today assisted attorneys for the legislature investigating committee m drawing up a resolution which will Impound records of six departments as evidence. The action indicated that the expects investigating committee a rebuttal on the part of at least two of the criticized commissions the liquor control group and the public service commission. Representative Gordon Wegg-lanone of the investigators, mission. We have nothing to regret, Brown said. We are glad to be judged at any time on the record we have established in office. Members of the state public service commission, apparently facing eviction tf recommendations of the investigation report are adhered to, refused comment. Their appointments, which were to have been considered last night, will probably be taken up in tonight's executive session. The public service commission was not discussed last night. There is a division in the senate over the policy to be followed In regard to the commission, and It was predicted that a prolonged argument' would probably come when their names are considered. Investigators headed by Senator D W. asked for com- d, IIS IS TACOMA, Wash., Mar. 10 (UP) A new suspect was held by the federal bureau of investigation today for questioning about the kidnaping and murder of Charles Mattson. He said he was Joe Murphy, 40, an The county jailer at Seattle, Matt Starwich, said he believed it was the same Joe S. Murphy who was reported to have threatened to kidnap the Mattson boy while he was held as a vagrant in Starwichs jail three months before the crime. Starwich said an informer told him that Murphy boasted to other oing to prisoners that he wa3 seize the boy and hold him for ransom In Tacoma's hobo jungle, then leave the country. Murphy obtained acid while m jail and burned his fingers so he would not leave fingerprints. He also talked of buying a toy typewriter with which to print ransom notes, Starwich said. The note demanding $28,000 ransom from the Mattson boy's parents was printed on such a toy typewriter. The Murphy of whom Starwich Tacoma spoke was a cook. The prisoner held here, w captured in Vancouver, Wash., on a tire theft charge. FBI agents brought him to Tacoma. They planned to have Charles Mattsons brother and sister, Billy, Jr, and Muriel, view him. The two children saw the kidnapper seize Charles from the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Whitlock Mattson, last December MOTHER OF LOGAN MERCHANT DIES Mrs. Eliza Fishburn Sheffield. pioneer of Brigham City and mother of Robert L. Sheffield, died at her Logan merchant, home In Brigham Tuesday evenof ailments to age Incident ing Mrs. Sheffield was the mother of six sons and three daughters Funeral arrangements have not been announced. 77, DRUNKEN JURIST TO FACE JUDGE HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 10 (uV) Matronly Little Mrs Mary Plettner awoke today in the county jarl, held in contempt of court for getting drunk while serving on a jury n in a murder trial. In a nearby cell was Mrs. Helen Wills Love, 31, defendant in the case, whose life was at stake in the deliberations of Mrs. Plettner and her fellow jurors. The Jury found Mrs Lovs guilty of second L0GAN1TE degree murder for killing her husband after the reeling Mrs Piet tner had been replaced by an al 27. teruate juror DIES ON It was while the jury was delibDance erating its verdict that Mrs. Plet-tnecondition became apparent. Man Funeral services will be held Millville Sunday at I p. m. In the Lind- She had stopped at a drug store A benefit program and dance will quist Mortuary parlors for Elmer on her way to court yesterday and Jensen, formerly of Logan, who bought a pint of pure gram alco- be held at Millville Thursday night died yesterday in San Francisco hol. at 7 30 in the Millville ward hall Mr. Jensen was a son of Mrs Mis. Plettner, a housewife with for Joseph Neaves, who was inJ. L. Johnson, formerly of Logan gray eyes and d hair, jured when struck by an automobut now a resident of Salt Lake was to go before Superior Judge bile three weeks ago. A good program has been preCity He was a nephew of Peter Frank M. Smith today to explain E. Anderson and the late Emil her conduct and hear her penalty pared The public is invited to be for contempt. Anderson. present FORME COAST rs Plan Benefit For mouse-colore- FRCF. HALTER WELTI Porratt, plete reorganization of the commission. Rumors of a possible grand Jury investigation continued to circusaid: late through the capitol today, apWe need these records for our parently given impetus by tbe own protection. Our Investigation fact that the investigating comreport is based on the records, mittee has records of six state and In event of further action we departments in custody pending would need them for substantiapossible further survey by the senate. tion. not Weggeland said he was sure whether the investigation would be continued beyond termination of the legislative session. The records in question will be placed in a vault as state evidence, and will be brought out only when the Impounding order is lifted, or If the Investigation is taken before a grand jury. sit-do- Lauds Local Talent In Opera Production civil or religious liberties to every Amcrk an. This plan of mine is no attack on the court; it seeks to restore the court to Its rightful and historic place in our system of constitutional goernment and to have it resume its tas of building a sysanew on the constitution tem of living law. NEW U ready-to-we- San Francisco Chronicle. All disguise is off President Roosevelt last night declared open war, not, he said, on the supreme court as an institution, but on the mental, moral and physical fitness of most of Its present members who sit on it . . . The language in which the president thus assails the competency and the integrity of the justices would be universally reof garded as a gross violation elementary propriety if used by Chief Justice Hughes against President Roosevelt Cleveland Plain Dealer: If the are so overAmerican people whelmingly in favor of attaching the New Deal label to the court as Mr. Roosevelt argues, one finds difficulty understanding his unwillingness to submit a constitutional amendment to the same electorate, speaking through legislatures or conventions on ratification. super-legislatur- e, Drew Pedfsot Student Group Would Make President King cided Upon Maw de-e- at Many To Witn ess Sacred Pageant Here DISCUSS Comments On Wel fare Bill Senate Rejects on srv $v jWw |