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Show MiTMiffir The The Weather fair tomgh UTAH Generally and Wednesday; little than'- .: temperatures. Number Volume 29. 1 'Ti 10. An Independent lllittfiMi irtrf'rrfiTirfffimn vimtt-IS&- Grain Range Herald-Journ- al LOGAN, New splipe rn Wheat: Open High Low Close .79 S .81 Mav .79 H .773 .78' .78 1 .77 K July .. .. .79 Sep. UTAH, T I KSDAV, id, l o : s Aor iVoplo .SO-- ' .79 'y .7 S .78 Trice Five Cents. Thiukl HOUSE DEBATES RECOVERY MEASUR Mother Favors Babys Life SALT LUKE Frank Charges T aber Leads GOP Attack On Curb on Press KILLED 11 E HEAR PLEA FOR KILLER As Injured Many Blasts Shake English Mine CHESTERFIELD, England, rocked Id d'.lti Explosions May Markham colliery of the the Staveley Coal and Iron company today, killing 72 miners in a swirl of flames and deadly carbon monoxide gas and seriously injuring a score of others. More than 100 rescue workers t. had been struggling to reach number of men who were reportalive, ed to have been entombed but tonight the company issued a statement saying that all thosi still in the mine were dead Some of the victims were found huddled In heaps. Their clothing off by the ex had been ripped plosions which sent flames roaring through the workings. In the nearby village of virtually every home lost sons or a father. Sobbing women held back by cardans o, were miners at the pithead as the dead and injured were brought to the Duek-manto- n surface. Priests and clergymen administered last rites to those badly injured. After the first explosion,'' one of the rescued miners said, "The was awful. Many of atmosphere the men were burned and gassed and the force of the explosion was terrific, causing the shafts to fall in." oxide. Late at today 70. the death toll wav Many others were in hospitals. Relatives and friends, who rushthe scene of the disaster, ed to watched while fearfully at the pitt hul miners, stripped to the waist, went down into the shafts m relays to bring up their comrades. After the second explosion it wag decided to seal up one section of the mine. Rescue efsquads fected telephonic contact with the men below and a flow of air was maintained to those whe were still alive Left Eye Removed From Colon Child, Edmark Baby May Die Mrs. Edmark but trapped. Rescue squads ed men brought 29 injur- to the surface. A number 'e etl route 3 hospitals. as a explosion oecured in change shifts was about to be tk111 made. DEFERS ACTION ON WAGE-HOU- Mrs. CHICAGO, May 10 (lP Isabel Edmark, 22 whose baby son is a victim of ret al glioma, said today she would stand by her decision to let the child die rather than submit him to an operation which would mean a lifetime of blindness. The baby, Robert, 22 months old, is almost 'blind now. Physicians said the disease is spreading toward his brain and will bring death within three to five years, unless his eyes are removed. Mrs. Edrrjrk and her husband, Richard, 26, an insurance agent, said they believed it is for the boys good that no operation be performed. They compared his case with that of tiny Helaine Judith Colan, operated on yesterday for a similar affliction. "If you could see him falling down and bumping his head, you'd see why he could never be happy, Mrs. Edmark said. CHICAGO, May 10 (LD Helaine ludilh Colan apparently was recovering today from an oration which medica: authorities believed has halted spread of a dread cancerous eye growth and paved the way for them to save at least part of her vision. A week ago her parents' had abandoned hope, certain that she would die or be doomed to a life of blindness. Yesterday her left eye was removed during a operation which a council of ten eminent medical specialists, holding in its hands the power of life and death, had decreed was her only chance for life. Today, Dr. Robert H. Good, who performed the operation, said the baby still has the sight of her right eye. He and Dr. Cassius B. Rogers, brain specialists of the Garfield Park community hospital, agreed that there was a "good chance" that at least partial vision of the remaining eye may be saved by of radium treatments. Attorney Samuel Hoffman, family spokesman, said the baby's mother, Estelle, 23, who had been in a state of collapse, had returned to normal. The father. Dr. Herman Colan, dentist, said he and his wife were "eternally grateful" to the physicians who aided WASHINGTON, May in t'.P The war department today ordered them. "We hope our experience will defenses of San Franmove benefit others," he said. cisco strengthened in a Criticism following congressional that k'f cities of the United States virtually are without protection against air attack. H. Secretary of War Harry Woodring announced that effective June 1 a full regiment would be stationed at San Francisco to strengthen harThe Cache stake MIA "honor bor defenses. will consist of night" will begin sharply at 7:25 The regiment school regimental headquarters and a tonight in the Logan high A. G. headquarters battery, one search- gymnasium, according to light battery, one gun battery and Olofson, stake Young Men's presTho ident. It is urged that all be on one machine gun battery. authorized strength will be 17 of- time so as not to interupt the opening number. ficers and $72 enlisted men. Every department of MIA work in the stake will be featured on SAILS FOK AMOY the unique program during the HONG KONG, May 10 d'Ji A United States warship sailed for evening. the program which Following Amoy tonight to evacuate Americans endangered by a terrific will include negro spirituals, pageantry, dance numbers and inJapanese aerial and naval bombardment of the Island Port, off door activities, a free dance will be held in the gym. the east coast of China. Washington, house May 10 rules committee today deferred action until tomorrow on proposal to speed the wage-hou- r the floor next week insteao of May 23 as now is plunned. Committee members said there n discussion of the resolution of Chairman John J. O'Connor, D f ' the labor committee to i, UP the labor standards mea-su- r immediately. ?onnor had said he would not 'll for a vote "unless we have the vo,('s lo put it through. he qf.e ta. Drew Pearsoa d Robert SAlle . ORDERS DEFENSE STRENGTHENED anti-aircra- ft BILL R Motive Sought In the Murder of O. R. Meredith, Jr. Service To Young All Author of Measure Defends Plan As NecesImportant Says sary To Revive Industry and Relieve SALT LAKE CITY, May 10 (l'PI Police today sought the killer of Oliver R Meredith Jr, 52. owner of a leather goods store here, who was found dying of a gunshot wound in his automobile last night. Investigators also had yet to establish a motive for the crime, which was accomplished when Meredith left his home to put his ear in the garage. Robbery was considered the most likely reason for the killing. He had no known enemies. The only direct evidence police had to work on was a statement of Meredith himself a few minutes before he died that "someone hit me on the head." Soren R. Nielsen reported to police that he was going into SALT LAKE CITY, May In .!' - If the problems of youth ctmlii bo solved many of the problems ot state and community would be taken care of, Oscar A. Kirkham, Salt Lake City, told the annual convention of the tooth district oi Rotary International today. Kirkham President Roosevelts WASHINGTON, May 10 (lTH) bill drew sharp Republican atrecovery tacks today as the luuiso opened debate on the huge lendingspending measure. Rep. John Taber, It., N. Y led the criticism of the bill he charged would bring on a wild orgy of spending which Alt Important Kirkham, an executive of the and lead the nation "deeixT into the mire of economic deRoy Scouts of America and local pression. youth leader, said that "youth Tabor estimated that the bill which provides appropriaservice is raise "The boys and girls between the tions and authorizations totalling $3,054,425,000 might all if to fiscal the deficit 1939 for 24 the 16 $8,000,000,000 and are of year passing ages through a vital period of then the funds provided were spent. lives," he said. "We should do all Rep. Clifton Wotklrum, I)., Va., chairman of the subcom- we can to aid them." Meredith's apartment building for g some equipment he had left there when the wounded man hailed him. Meredith asked him to go for his wife and tell her that he had been struck on the head. Police believed he might not have been aware of the fact that he had been shot in the neck. Examination showed that his head was bruised paper-hangin- Cache Slake To Have Honor Night Rites anti-aircra- ft LaFollette Calls For Voters O To Unite Under New Party ro of the new party launched last RV LYI.E C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent month by his brother. Gov. Philip WASHINGTON. May 10 U'.l'i-S- en. F. La Follette of Wisconsin. He party was not ariur Cheered monopoly attack Robert M. LaFollette, Prog., said that the new aimed at 1938, 1940 or any other g Cabinet maintained icy silence, Wij, charging that reactionary uprvme Court reversed Democrats threaten now to wreck election year but was launched doctrine in Tompkins decis-!'m- : the "liberal" Roosevelt New Deal, now because the time for a realisCphcld lone dissent of Jus-''- '' called on voters today to unite for tic alignment ofnewpolitical parties new had come. The party expects Wink in reaffirming sta-political action under the P'hvci-;standard of the National Progrea to have candidates in at least 10 Latin Americans states this year. of treatment by World's gives of America. The senator denounced what he Although paying tribute to Mr. quit. as a congressional coali'' AsiilNGTON It was signifi-an- Roosevelt for good intentions and regarded of reactionary Ulilt he Presidents bristling an "incomparable ability to pre tion movement and Republicans to Democrats ''noi'opoly message was dis sent the essence of complex econ-he Deal. ANew the voters, hamstring the ,w'th his cabinet only after omic problems to the indirection of critical by sent it to Democratic lthough that had None complained Congress. een d in Mr. Roosevelt's accomplishments of anti-Neadvance. party hnd not been purgedremarked and especially caustic in referring, as nlso significant that SecDealers. He sharply patronage and aiy Wallace, "Uncle Dan" Ron- that "most business men and pol- to provisionanti-Ne-of Deal Demoeand Attorney General Cunv itical leaders ignored or monimiz-ed- " pap" for he spoke highly of the prescrats, mgs maintained 1937 business slump. silence the an ley For his politica. ''hen "On April 14." he added, The ident's objectives. finally it was disouspet') he had fainter praise. mil Jack Garner. recognized the serious- strategies president "T h e irreconcilable factional the iA11' Wire President, who had ness of the situation"-wi- th U g cleavage in the Democratic party," prothe 2, wm, not) over Roosevelt $4,51 w1 iirw "has thus far impaired he program only a few gram now coming before the house and said, now threatens to destroy the was about t,,fore' of exuberant representatives. the of the great La Follette's address, delivered effectiveness of one modern monopoly blast. A small (w-u- nt, times radio network, liberal leaders of hanker with the viewpoint over a nation-wid- e Franklin D. Roosevelt." (Continued on Page 2.) was liis first formal endorsement Refused permission to testify at the senate lobby committee's inof his magazine, vestigation Rural Progress, Dr. Glenn Frank, top, chairman of the Republican program committee, accused Chairman Minton D. Ind.l, lower right, of using his authority to harass and intimidate" .py newspaper or magazine criticizing the new deal. The controversy arose as the committee questioned M. V. Reynolds, lower left, vice president of the publication. Meredith died shortly after he was taken into his apartment. Members of his family believed he might have been attempting to prevent theft of his car or robbery of his person when he was killed. There was no likelihood that the death was a suicide, police said, because no gun was found. Only a spent shell was Merefound near the automobile. dith had about $1.50 in small change in his clothes and the family said he was not in the habit of carrying much money. Meredeith owned considerable property here and in Los Angeles. He had lived here all his life. THIRD TRIP FOR DR. WIDTSOE TO ADDRESS BANQUET , YOUNG STOWAWAY Dr. John A. Widtsoe, fomer president of the Utah State Agricultural college and of the University of Utah, and Dr. Elmer G. Peterson, present president of the agricultural college, will be the principal speakers at the annual banquet of the Utah Academy of Science to be held at the Bluebird banquet hall Friday at 6 p. m., according to Dr. W. W. Henderson, in charge of arrangements for the annual meeting of the NEW YORK, May 10 r.P Bobby Stap, 13, who wants to be a sailor, was a stowaway again today, this time on the coastal liner City of Chattanooga bound for Savannah. A radio message from the ship reported Bobby was aboard. He ran away for the third time yesterday. The boy's love for the sea is a academy. He has been keeping it The banquet, at which Director passion. well gratified. The Cunard White William Peterson of the college deStar liner Queen Mary had extension service will be toastposited him ashore only yester- master, will open the annual proan unauthorized trip gram. Harry Farr and Mrs. N. day after to Southampton, England, and his W. Christiansen will have charge mother had taken him to a clinic of musical numbers. to have him psychoanalyzed. Dean Milton Bcnnion of the She turned her back for a minute and school of education at the Unihe had vanished. versity of Utah, president, will deThe present was the third run- liver the annual president's adaway. The first time he got aboard dress at the general meeting of the French liner Normardie and the academy at the auditorium ot while police ashore were hunting the college immediately following Normandie's wireless the banquet. him, the will be elected and Officers operator reported at sea that he'd been found. That time Bobby other matters of business will be had a pleasant trip to France and carried out at the annual business back. meeting to be held Saturday at Returned home, his mother hail 9 a. m. Meetings in the various catered to his whim to the extent branches of the academy will folof furnishing his room in nautical low during the day. style, with marine books and picGeologists in the physical science tures and a bunk instead of a section will begin their activities the bed, but it satisfied him for only earlier Friday, commencing a few weeks. first annual biology field of the The next time Bobby took the academy at Brigham City. The S. S. Georgic. She was 300 miles field trip will be conducted for out when he was found and the the study of the origin of Cache word was flashed ashore. The Valley as a topographic feature. Georgic put him off at Southampton, ns cargo for the Queen JURY TO CLOSE Mary. The mother, Mrs. Yvonne Stap. was waiting for him with a policeman at the pier. His greeting was unenthusiastic. "I'm gonna run away again." he said. INVESTIGATION CALLS REHEARSALS -- ; com-IM.i- il w lending-spendin- - FOR PAGEANT CAST All members of the rhorus, east and staff of the Logan acred pageant, "Another are urged to report at the tabernacle Wednesday at 7:30 p m. for a rehearsal. The final presentations of the pageant for this year will be to a special audience of Aaronic Priesthood groups from Ogden, Trenumton. Evanston, Montpelier and Saturday evening ami to all seminaiy students of Cache Valiev Sunday evening. Director J. Karl Wood announced today that a full representation is desired for the Wednesday rehearsal. He announced also that it is definite the presentations on May 14 and 15 are not for the general public. Sh'-I-le- Unemployment t Would Let Operation Believed To Have Than Stopped Cancerous Growth In Eye near the right ear. Hoy Die Rather He Hlind - 'The force of the explosion funp, me to the ground and for some time I did not know what happened as coal dust blew around me like a storm, another said. The first blast at 5:45 a. m. was followed by another at 8 a. m. Throughout the day rescue workers sent up body after body, many of them burned. The shafts were filled with deadly carbon monfixed DpstirmJ to die within two months because of a former decision ot her parents not to permit doctors to remove her eyes, Helaine Golan, shown above at left, was believed saved from that certain death Monday night when the left eye of the baby was removed to stop growth of the tumor which physicians believe would have soon attacked the child's brain. Mrs. Herman Colun, shown at right in her hridal picture, previously joined with her husband in deciding to let nature take its course but later changed her mind. Spending Plan F J SALT LAKE CITY, May 10 dUb The Salt Like county grand jury today prepared to wind up its investigation of alleged irregularities in the business of the old state land board. Investigation into an alleged Salt tie Lake City up was expected to begin tomorrow under the direction of District Attorney Calvin W. Rawlings. Proceeding under the direction of special Prosecutor Beverly S. Clendenin. the grand jury yesterday heard testimony of Lauren W. Gibbs, investment broker. A special audit of the board's bond transactions, completed last November, showed Gibbs' firm had handled most of the business. TO lU LE ON DEMI KRER BOISE, Ida., May 10 HMD A. general demurrer to an indictment charging William H. Gess, fornu r warden of the Idaho state penitentiary, with failure to keep and pay over $lz54 in prison funds, will be ruled on tomorrow by Judge Charles Koeleh - thiee-liillion-doll- ar Kirkham said that of the persons in that age group 4,(88) were in school; 8,000,000 were employ ed; 3,(88), (8)0 were housewives, and were unemployed. 8,0(8i,i8i0 'Thus one of every four presents a problem which we must face and deal with," Kirkham said He said that 22 per cent of those in jails today were beneath 19 years of age, and added that this was not so 3 years ago. Outline!) Plan Kirkham outlined a plan for clubs to follow in attempting to be of service to youth. He pointed CALLS FOR PROJECTS out that while money was essenWASHINGTON, May 10 U.R tial in such a program, it was also PWA Administrator Harold L necessary for men to give their Ickcts in anticiMiUon of pastime and effort to make a youtn sage of the $3,054,425,(88) recovprogram successful. ery bill, today directed PWA reThe morning session opened with gional offices to notify mucommunity singing led by George nicipalities and other public bodSouth, Burley, Idaho. Arthur fci. ies that they immediately submit Peterson, Pocatello, Idaho, and applications for new projects. Charles Poole, Rexburg, addressed the body. FILE BRIEF The convention WASHINGTON, May 10 ll'.P) comprises 19 clubs in Idaho and 10 in Utah. Ap- Railroad regulatory commissions ICO Rotarians have of five states filed a brief with proximately wives as registered. Nearly many the interstate commerce commisare in attendance. sion today opposing any increase Governor Expected in Pullman fares and charging Expected to arrive to attend the that the Pullman company seek convention today are Gov. and an Increase "to enable dividends Mrs. Barzilla W. Clark of Idaho. to be paid in a time of great deHerbert K. Walton, director Ro- pression." tary International, San Rafael, Calif., addressed the meeting yesDOODLES WINDOWS terday. He called attention to the Colo, COLORADO SPRINGS, club's policy of international good May 10 d'.Pi A "doodler," a perwill, contrasted with current for- son who fills in O's and scribbles eign problems. while telephoning, left perDr. John Edward Carver, for- idly manent evidence of his "affliction" mer district governor, of Ogden, in about $500 worth of scratching speaking before the afternoon ses- on plate glass store windows, posion yesterday, called for action lice said today. They thought by club members in lowering the some one had "doodled" on the traffic toll. windows with a diamond, a glass cutter or some other abrasive instrument while window shopping. mittee which drafted the measure defended the proposal as necessary to revive industry and relieve unemployment. The bill makes direct appropriations of $2,513,425,000 for lending and spending under President Roosevelt's live billion-dollpromeasure The also carries gram. authorizations of $535,000,000. Other Agencies In addition to jobs carried by the pending bill, the committee! Conservation said, the Civilian Corps, which already has received its 1939 funds, will employ 300,000 youths, and the federal program for public roads, parks, flood control and Bimilar work, will pro- -' vide employment for another 500,-0making a grand total of 936,-0persons receiving federal jobs in the next fiscal year. The committee gave a breakdown of the employment as follows: Works progress administration, SHOULD WITHDRAW FEVER GETS 'ONLY ONE BOISE, Ida., May 10 ilP One FROM person has died and seven have been stricken seriously ill as result of Rocky Mountain spotted SALT LAKE CITY. May 10 U'.l!i fever in Idaho during the first months of 1938, Government should restrict its four and part in business to regulation and the public health service reported should withdraw from active com- today. Last year the "tick fever petition, according to Dr. Adam S. claimed seven deaths. Bennion, guest speaker before the o SETS FIGHT HATE annual conference of the SALT LAKE CITY, May 10 (f.Pi district of rotary international here today. Promoter Lou Hoffman said to"Industry needs cooperation and day that he had set May 25 as ther Dr. Bennion declared, definite date for a regulation, "but it also needs profit. fight here between Young "Business cannot progress with- Corbett III of Fresno, Cal., anu out profit. A reasonable profit is Jackie Burke, intermountain midan urge to initiative - and that is dleweight champion. what business needs. HI NT ENDS "Illegal and. unscrupulous busDENVER, May 10 U'.Pi Steve iness should, of course, be dealt with hy the government, but hon- Nash, of Denver, hunted E. H. Sulest business should be left alone. livan, 30, for two months to col"Not all the actors in the bus- lect $20 on a worthless check. He knows now where to find his man, iness world are villians." but he didn't get his money. SulDr. Bennion pointed out that K) people in the United States livan was sentenced yesterday to were on the payrolls of business, five years in the Colorado penia bogus for writing and added that wages of workers tentiary check. came from profits of business. COMPETITION one-ha- lf Utah-Iduh- out-do- ar 00 00 ..... 2,800,000. National 275,000. youth administration, Federal buildings, 60,000. Public works administration, 1, 000,000. Total, 4,135,000. The report showed that the Public Works program contemplates 7,000 to 7,500 projects at an average cost of $240,000. The PWA at present has 2,700 applications on file. New projects totaling from 4,300 to 4,800 may be started. Submits Analysis The committee submitted an analysis of persons receiving relief showing that last March an unduplicated total of 20,100,000 persons were being aided from various government sources. This total compared with peak in February, 1934, of 7,900,000 households Including 27,600,000 persons receiving relief, and a low in September, 1937, of 4,800,000 households including 14,000,000 persons. The appropriations committee reported a joint resolution carrying a supplemental appropriation, of $2,590,000 to the Social Security board for administration of state in unemployment compensation 1938. Explains Addition It explained that the additional money was made necessary "due to the expansion of state programs at a greater rate than was anticipated at the time the budget for 1938 was made up." The amount already appropriated is $38,840,678. The committee added that the for fiscal 1939 budgeted rrohably will prove insufficient by $15,000,000 or $20,000,000. PLAN CONVENTION ON BOARD SHIP KANSAS CITY, Mo-- , May 10 The Western Federatioa of Women's clubs today considered a plan to hold the 1S39 convention of the group on a steamship cruising between Seattle, Wash., and d'.Pi Visit Of Hitler To Rome Effects Strong Alliance W. BEATTIE By EDWARD United Press Staff Correspondem The vis BERLIN, May 19 d'.Pi it of Fuehrer Adolf Hitler to Rome effected a new consolidation axis tantaof the Rome-Beilimount to an unwritten miliary alliance, German correspondents re ported today. Berlin prepared an enthusiastic welcome for Hitler tonight on his return from Rome. "It is inconceivable that states standing for the reorgani ition of Europe would not recognize the community of their fate and the necessity to give each other mutual assistance- - even to the last the Fremdonblatt of extreme." Hamburg said. The Boerscn Zeitung said that the outside world should "realize that the two leaders and nations are one and they are strong. The world knows that Hitler and Mus solini are determined to throw the incomparable weight of this unity and strength into balance serving n the highest aims of peace." While the press deprecated reports of specific new agreements, especially the division of South Eastern Europe into German and Italian "zones of interest," the newspapers stressed that German-Italia- n relations could not be closer than they arc now. Leaving Italian territory, Hitler telegraphed Premier Benito Mussolini: "The community of interests of the Fascist and National Socialist (Nazi) movements is an absolute guarantee of faithful comradship uniting us and uniting our nations forever " Nazi authorities arranged to give Hitler on his arrival tonight a welcome that would not be an x to the demonstrations in his honor on his Italian visit ordered They flags flown on all buildings, special illuminating devices were installed along the route from the railroad station to his chancellery, and a national broadcast was ordered anti-clima- Skagway, Alaska. The women, meeting here in conjunction with the convention of The Federation of Womens Clubs of America, received an invitation to visit Skagway from Mrs. Roberta B. Atwood, Anchorage, president of the Alaska federation. She said that they could hold the "floating convention" immediately after the general federation ends the 1939 session in San Francisco. Miss Josephine G. Seaman, La Jolla, Calif., is the new president of the western federation. She succeeds Mrs. Keith T. Arkills, Globe, Ariz. Mrs. Albert Kulzer, Chew-ela- h, Wash., and Mrs. W. H. Bun, ney, Belfrey, Mont., are Mrs. J. L Gibson, Salt Lake City is treasurer. BOOTHS JULIET DIES NEW YORK, May 10 U.E) Louise Muldener, a former Brooklyn girl who played Juliet to Edwin Booths Romeo, died in Lenox Hill hospital today. She was 84. Booth she remembered as a melancholy man upon whose face was "written the tragedy of his brother who shot Mr. Lincoln. j- it |