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Show r gHE 7TN UTAH: Fair tonight and Sat urday; warmer in southwest portion tonight. f' IDAHO: Cloudy, warmer tonight. A Qi Crowd Gathers to Hear Senator sReed And Borah Debate Bodies Of Edward L. Doheny, Jr., And His Secretary Found In Young Dohenys Home Deed Attributed To Temporary Madness. Reed Makes Farewell Attack In The Senate On The Prohibition Law Borah Appears With Papers And Clip pings. t Pension Slayer Ffb. 18 (AP) A microscopic study of the luxurious guest room of the $500,000 manto determine sion Greystone. the exact manner in which E. Jr., one of the wealthiest young men fn America, was shot to death by his distracted secretary, Theodore Hugh Plunkett, was undertaken here today at the instance of Buroft Fitts, district attorney of Los Angeles county. After a preliminary investigation of the Saturday night tragedy in the pretentious home de-of the young oil magnate, Fitts clared there was no reasonable doubt that Plunkett had killed his employer in a fit of madness 'and then committed suicide after being confronted by the Doheny family physician, Dr. E. C. X.03 ' NUMBER 41, LOGAN, CACHE COUNTY, UTAH, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1929. YOLUME LIL Angeles, Fish-baug- the tragic The happenings night in the Doheny mansion as reconstructed thus far show that Plunkett, who during the day had been urged to go to a sanitarium and take treatment for a threatened nervous breakdown, entered the home while Mr. and were at a motion picture show and had gone to the guest room. Interviews with servants develwas oped that as Young Doheny sumPlunkett preparing to retire, moned him to the guest room; that shortly afterward Doheny put in an emergency call for Dr. Fishbaugh, and that Mrs. Doheny was awaiting the arrival of the doctor when the oil magnate was slain. Dr. Fishbaugh believed that Plunkett shot Doheny when he heard the physicians car in the of Mr. Minnie J. Stahl, St. Louis, war widow of veteran she killed in self defense, awarded pension by congress. Spanish-America- n Committee On The Reparations Again Are In Session Since The Adjournment Friday Delegates Have Had Time To Study Figures Paris, Feb. 1? (TP) The experts committee on reparations convened promptly at eleven oclock this morning to begin the second weeks discussion of one of the greatest economic growing out of the world war. The meeting was the first since last Friday. Since adjournment then, the delegates have had time to do some figuring with facts, and them during figures presented last week by Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Reichsbank president, as a basis. sums carying from Unofficially, thirty to a hundred billion gold were mentioned today as marks possible extremes in the totals which the various delegations will ask to have Germany pay. It was the opinion in certain quarters today that France and Belgium would ask 100.000,000,000 marks ( about $23,720,000,000 while Germans probably would offer to pay 35,000,000,000 marks Continued on Page Six Washington, Feb. 18 (API Before gallery crowds "lured by the prospect of an oratorical conflict between two renowned debaters Reed Reed and Borah Senator of Missouri resumed today his senate farewell attack In the upon the prohibition law. The senator began soon after the days session opened, aware that Senator Borah of Idaho con a reply. delivering templated Borah sat silently as Reed open ed with the same bitterness he empolyed Saturday in his criticism of the dry law. The im mediate object of his fire was the increase pending Jones bill to minimum penalties for violations oi the law. Spectators leaned far over the gallery rail to look at Senator Borah as he came In, armed with several sheafs of paper, a brief case aftd some newspaper clippings, apprently to be used in nis speech. A murmur of amusement ran through the galleries when Reed declared at the beginning of his address that a remark made Saturday in jest seems to have He caused some uneasiness." referred to his statement that he might sometime make public the names of congressmen who vote dry but nevertheless drink. I thought I had made clear that it was a joke, but I suppose I should have labelled it so," the Missourian said with a broad smile. "I am not going to make those names public. I would not violate the confidence- - ef friends. So all may be composed. I may have , made mistakes during my life but I 'have never sunk to the low level of a prohi' bition Informer. With the this preliminary, senator waded into his address with clear cut sentences and a slow measured voice. Force has been substituted for he said, the penitenreason, tiary for persuasion, cruelty for charity. We have abandoned the bible and the prayer book and have taken to the lash, the prison, the gun, the bludgeon." He told a story of a nice, well meaning lady" who ask6d what difference it made if a few hundreds died of liquor poisoned by the government if prohibiIf these tion could be enforced. utterances were "sporadic of some one half insane. he said, Continued on Page Three - weatheb New Hospital Building I For Preston, Idaho Again comes word from Preston, Idaho, wherein anpther former citizen of Logan is assisting m the v?ork of putting Idaho on the map. This time it s none other than Dr. Eugene Worley who moved to the Franklin county metropolis a lew months ago and join ed forces with Dr.- Cutler and within a short time now, Preston will, boast of a muctj needed hospital building. The - structure - is centrally and conveniently located, being one block east and a block north of the Riter Brother When Drug Company corner. completed it will cost upwards of $30,000 and will be equipt to handle many surgical cases that are now taken elsewhere. The budding y will be known as the hospital. A fleet of carpenters are busy putting in the wood work of the structure which will soon be ready for the formal s opening. Dr. Worley, like many other Logan residents who have moved to Preston, is entering Into the community life of that thriving town. He says he can see many opportunities for a young man at Preston that are not to be found here. Cutlcr-Wor-le- Leather Interests Ask Higher Tariffs Washington, .Feb, 18 (TP) A concerted drive for a tariff of 20 percent ad valorem on calf and kid leather for shoe manufacture was started today by a group of leather and shoe interests before the house ways and means committee. This leather has been on the free list since 1913 but there is a duty of 20 percent now levied against calf leather other than shoe leather. Declaring Imports from Europe and Canada, chief of the United States, competitors had increased over 500 percent since 1923, August Vogel, representing the California tanners association, said if there was any justice to be granted under the tariff, the leather industry was one you have got to watch. Asked by representative Bach-aracRepublican, New Jersey, whether the industry would object to a duty being placed on hides, also now free, Vogel said it was his individual opinion that If the cattle men think they need "we are ready to protection grant it. He added, however, that theoretically raw material should be free. Senate Committee Hears Arguments On State Prison Bill M. O. Ashton, Appointed By Governor Dern To Work On Plan For Prison Removal And Queen of Art Ball Warden. Appeared Before Senate Committee. Salt Lake City, Feb. 18 (TP) Arguments for removal of the Utah state prison to a location outside of the city of Salt Lake, where the inmate could be given outside employment and the cost of operating could be materially decreased, were presented to the senate committee on public Institutions, health and labor at a hearing today on two bills for prison removal. M. O. Ashton, a business man of Siigarhouse, Salt Lake suburb, where the penitentiary is located, who was appointed by Governor George H. Dern to work with the state . board of corrections on a plan for prison removal, and Warden R. E. Davis appeared before the committee. Mr. estimated that Ashton proper subdivision of the present penitentiary site would make it worth $250,000, and Warden Davis said the cost of operating the prison on a proper site could be cut to $50,000 a year from $90,000 and that in a few years the institution could be made The present cost of feeding a prisoner at the institution, he said, is 13 cents a day, as compared with 45 cents a day in the Salt Lake county jail. Efforts Are Made To Reach Isolated Town Durango, Colo.. Feb. 13 (AP) A swirling rotary plow, aided by a large force of workers, expected to relieve snowbound Silverton, Colo., from its isolation, within the ' next few days. Blockaded by large avalanches of snow since February 3,. the Denver and Rio Grande tracks into the town have been buried under snow to a depth ranging from six to eighty feet. The food shortage is rapidly becoming serious. it Ls reported. Working night and day on the hugh slide near Need(eton, Colo., the trackmen pounded through drifts Saturday which burled the tracks for a distance of a mile. Workers in the Animas canyon have been in a dangerous position, where the narrow high wails make escape from a - slide extremely difficult. Berause of the warm weather of the last few days railroad officials fear that other slides will occur. Several men have made attempts with pack mules to reach the isolated region but they were unable to get the animals through the canyon. Associated Press World Wide News Gathering System Ceased Functioning For A Moment Today In Honor Of Its Former Director. New York, Feb. 18 Charles Stetson Wheeler, Televlsia, stately ruler of tho Quart r1 Arts revelry held In 8a n Francisco. Mrs. Jr-- , Prospective Thaws Bring New Danger To The Europeans () the As world wide news gathering system that he had directed for more than a quarter of a century stilled Its activities momentarily In his honor, funeral services were held at two o'clock this afternoon for Melvillo E. Stone, former general manager of The Associated Press. The services were held in the Park Avenue Baptist church with the pastor, the Reverend Harry Emerson Fosdick, officiating. Burial was to have been in the Verfamily plot at Woodstock, mont but this morning the family was Invited by Bishop James Ed. ward Freeman of Washington to place the ashes In the national cathedral at Washington. Date of burial will be decided later by the family, the bishop and Frank B. Noyes, president of The Associated Press. As the hour for the services to begin struck, the chattering telegraph wires of The Associated Press network were silenced and for a minute Associated Press men all over the world stood in silent tribute. Foch Improves () Paris, Feb. 18 Marshal Foch continued his improvement today. His temperature this morning was 99.1 and his pulse 82. Nine Persons Killed ", !. i , Nine Egypt, Feb. 18 (TP) Feared that Floods Will Occur Cairo, Were killed and 20 severely persons When Packed Snow And Ice injured In a fire In a large village Seek Outlet Continued nn Page Six near Zazazig yesterday. A total of 150 houses were destroyed. London, Feb. 18 (AP) In pronew apa thaws danger spective Bessie Morehead is peared for Europe today. It. Boise Man Now feared that eventually there will Passes In Seattle; be floods, in which weeks accumulations of ice and snow in the Manager Of mountain areas will spread deWas Club struction as thfy seek outlet to Grand Theatre the sea. fierce snowstorms Meanwhile a of At the request daughter, were reported in Central Europe, Byrd Supply Ship Mrs. Dorothy Perry Budden of L. E. Brown of Boise, Idaho, ice conditions Were as bad as ever a is Sail giving Sets Seattle, The. Journal countries, has assumed the management of Scandinavian in Again the of the death more detailed account and the winter still caused Intense the Grand Theatre in this city, of Mrs. Elizabeth (Bessie) More-hea- d succeeding Mike Nielson, proprieNew Zealand, Feb. suffering in the Balkans. anWellington, Perry, having already cold sub- tor,' who has taken a road posi18 Isles the British steamer Eleanor In the The AP) nounced the death In a former talkie handling portable sides somewhat. Along the coast, tion Bolling, supply ship of the Byrd issue. Mrs. Perry was well known Mr. Brown comes to equipment. Dunethe in left high antarctic London, particularly expedition, In Logan and Cache county, havwind w as replaced with a heavy Logan well equipt for his work, din today on her third trip to the knowing the movie business from ing been county recorder here at the of where Whales, Byrd bay his three years experience as one time and prominent in educaContinued on Paee Five is located. Little America, base, tional circles. manager of the Grand theatre at The ship made full speed out of Boise. He is billing a talking picThe account of her death as It the harbor with its last load of ture program for his show house appeared in the Seattle Daily equipment in order to avoid being lor tomorrow. While the new in the ice with the Times, Jan. 23, was as follows: imprisoned manager will make no radical Mrs. O. H. Perry, prominent in approach of the Antarctic winter changes in the policy of the past, - music circles of Seattle, died at her before it should reach Commander his intentions are to install perlast Byrd and his men. home, 6550 4th Ave.,-- N. E manent talking equipment ,as . a weather was experienced . Heavy night at the age of 58. She was soon as the local trade demands in the trip which brought the member of several Seattle music it. Eleanor Bolling to Dunedin organizations, including the WMr. Brown, known to his asomans Century club, the Browning Arrested sociates as "Los," has been idenWas Noted Character Believe Office States Attorney's club and the North End Musical Attended Auto Show Actress Overcoming tified with the promotion of boxThree Years Ago On Horse Detroit Purple Gang Not O. Guy Cardon, manager of the Home Improvement and Literary club. ing shows at Boise, having been Stealing Charge Guilty Mrs. Perry is survived by her The Narcotic Habit Bluebird has returned from. Salt; the manager of Joe Cortez, Boise t attended he the Lake where big husband, O. H. Perry; three daughPark, N. J., Feb. 18 (TP) welterweight who is a ring favGo Strong Dr.Asbury Chicago, Feb. 18 (AP) The ters, Mrs. W. P. Vincent and Mrs Idaho metropolis. Los Angeles, Feb. 18 (TP) Ap- auto show being conducted there Edwin masPye Turner Osbald-sto- n orite at the from fades the gang Purple this week. He says no person! F. W. Budden, both of Seattle and sacre old veteran of the Cortez faced Frankie Darren on blue of in victorious the first and the parently picture, to the state who from here goes Mrs. H. W. Newton of Chicago, and war who became front Armistice day for ten fast rounds police uniforms again tints the stages of her fight to rid her- capital this week can well afford Women of Graritsville, St. Johns Crimean one son, A. L. Perry of Seattle. news three years ago when but lost on a close decision. page canvas. self of the narcotic habit, Alma to miss seeing this exhibit. He and Tooele are enthusiastically a While Mr. Brown has been in sheriff deputy exs office Mrs. A sister of The state's attorney Mrs. Perry, screen actress, was back says it is the greatest undertak- working on a of the local show house on a Rubens, him arrested half charge century as satisfied Hyrum Hayball of Logan, died pressed itself today week. ing of its kind he has ever seen. project under the direction of Mrs. old charge of horse stealing, was during the past home here from recovering today of Detroit Over $500,000 worth of automo- Effie S. Barrows, home manageabout a year and a half ago. Of that the purple gang and a suicide Peggy Gene, found daughter, today. an effects of the in operation. last biles are displayed In elaborate ment specialist of the Utah Agriher immediate family aside from had no important part in Logan Sunday arrived was found old The just physician At Meanwhile, Dr. L. Jesse Citron, fashion under the largest tent cultural College Extension Service those mentioned above, she is sur- Thursdays septuple slaying. lying on the floor of his two and expect to make their future vived by Mrs. C. F. Greene (Effie thesame time investigators were Beverly Hills physician, was un ever erected in Utah. A Miss Ruth Zollinger, county room shack by a patrolman. A home here.' ,and two floor has been placed in the tent,jjome demonstration agent. Morehead) of Los Angeles; Mrs. S. given further testimony that was in his hand, and to citation before der the revolver appear as were of dressed the slayers and carpets have been spread, K. Thompson (Marie Morehead) of were found state board of medical examiners over wounds bullet the floor. The decorations Mrs. - James . Hadfield police officers. Florida; Trotzky Overcome to explain why he had prescribed with through his neck and side. f meetingS y howing There was a discouraging lack medicines containing (Mary Morehead) of Canada and narcotics To the day of his death the in Tooele, Salt leaders her project By 111 Health D. C. Morehead of Los Angeles, all of definite progress reported both for the actress. Lake and Weber counties, reports doctor stoutly denied he ever brothers and sisters. by police and by the states atdeclared .that Oneida Stake Conference act The physician of an had committed wrongnine homes in St. Johns, five Feb. 18(TP) Oneida Stake Conference was thatGrantsvllle, torney. In the four days since many of the 31 prescriptions for and five in Tooele, doing, and held that a half FarConstantinople, from having been removed the seven members of the George Miss Rubens to which held at Preston yesterday, Elder in name same name his v.ho bore the brother, home the in are listed improveOf 30,000 Copies (Bugs) Moran gang were lined had been signed were forgeries. Melvin J. Ballard of the quorum ment resemblance to to Angora, Leon Trotzky lies so program with the nine homes and awasstriding - the brick wall and slain, He admitted having prescribed a of iweive, a visiting being against "'"Edwin the Turner ill In the Russian Consulate here him, Book Sold there has been no arrest or a narcotic for Miss Rubens as a speaker. The stake presidency n St. Johns entered in the kitchen who on the records as that to move him at all would be appeared other contest the and single suspect, it was pointed out but declared he had, re- was reorganized with President improvement the horse thief and jail breaker dangerous, it Is believed. m room-im- are excluded New York, Feb. 18 (AP) Sale by David Stansbury, in charge pallative servents Even In Binghamton. N. Y-- , in 1880 fused to issue others when he Taylor Nelsdfi being retained and ten homes entered or of 30.000 volume of the conthe vast the of from of the investigation for the states learned that she had become ad- hls new counselors being David jprovement projeets. wing copies H. Sheriff Foster Deputy to Smith's Alfred E. Mrs. Barrows gave advice on campaign attorney. G. Eames and George E. Burgii. dicted to Its usd. who came from Bingham sulate, where he is confinedfour Black, Condie and Hyrum Jen- - modeling, finishes, changing color ton to serve the speeches has brought $125,000 Into H. Bruce Caldwell, president of old war- his bed. Hts wife and the The state examiners also disthe Democratic National commit- the board of education, last night closed that they were Investigat- sen were released. The latter has schemes and doing over, wood-bee- n rant, died more than a year ago Soviet guards who brought the Aata. Rus, told of seeing an automobile ing the Issuance of .similar pretee treasury. chosen to take charge of work. at the age of 91. Dr. Osbaldeston two here from Alma y 16 Mr. which he former place his Over the Turkestan, sian the time was scriptions to the actress by seven the Norwegion mission. at him. Miss later between Close thought forgave publicly cooperation attend to his wants and Smith Offered a copy of the book a police squad car. The machine other physicians whose names up his resi- of exile, Zollinger, home agent and Hugh Osbaldeston took act as nurges. to each contributer of $2 or more ran through a red light a few were not given. Back From Desert 1910 In and he dence here Tooele In Is L. S. Smart who has just re Hurst, agricultural agent toward liquidating the $1,500.000 .blocks north of the garage In a favorite throughout theiHls isolation at the consulate s. - .Nf?ie deficit resulting from the last which the murders were hLsiconiPleteturned from his sheep that are countyrtS Tcpofted to friends' His rushed city. Brower Funeral seen him. al- campaign. Responses mitted. when Black appeared professes- - to have being wintered on the Nevada Club leaders in Salt Lake and defense that he have come from everv part of the though there are reports desert, hasnt much to report warrant at Caldwell .fixed tire .time of the his and with yellowed Pocatello Held United States and also, from for incident as a few minutes before other than the deep snow is! Weber counties were called into their behest Governor Moorse Is wan and haggard - from the accentuated to sign extradition pa- ravages of ill ofhealth, eign countries, party officials an - j making it hard on the flocks sessions by Mrs. Barrows where slayings, took place. Two men life in Turkestan, Pocatello,. Idaho Feb. 18 Funeral there this winter. Heavy Reding work in color combinations was declined nounced. by the rigors In the car, he said, wore police pers. aggravated further by the The largest check received is uniforms, and there also, were services for John T. Brower of Salt ls in progress. While there will 'given. It developed today that Fred- and nx were held here Saturday be some losses on the desert this one tor $ 10,000 - from three-othe- rs stormy - voyage here across the a In civilian xiothes in Lake erick yesterBatten, neighbor, aftemooiaVrthe-Thlrdwar- d L. D. winter, they .will not be as great A mechanical man has just day carried a, package and letter Black sea. Democratic organization. the machine. The consulate is heavily guardIt- has been an accepted theory S. church. The body was taken to as in Wyoming where it is said made a speech;- heretofore plenMany sending large contribufrom Osbaldeston to- - Ralph Bur- and entrance to it- - by strangLewiston, Utah, for interment. Mr. some flockmasters have lost fully ty of men have made mechani ed tions have asked for only one copy -has been made difficult. ers died cai Brower of Hocks. on here on Continued Two book. Six Contlnued their of the Thursday. speeches. 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