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Show ,1 The W father i Call The ticrald 1 If you do not receive your Herald promptly, call The Herald -office, 493, before 7 p.m. week days, and 10 a. m. Sundays, and a copy will be delivered to you . . v - V UTAH Partly cloudy tonight '; t-2'; ; X V-W: i "' . ,T1 'i temperature. Maximum Tomb. Moiiilav Ji i ; 83 Minimum Temp. Mondfy .; . . . 65' V FITY-FOURTH YEAR,rNO 20 . TUESDAY, AUGUST -M, 1939 'A ... . . .7. ... .... . ; ZJ' . -. , i ' : :" -- . : - ' ' " 7 T r: : ' 1 n UTAirS ONLY DAILY SSOUTH OF SALT LAKE PKiCE FIVE CENri .1 i- Guards Precious Water .yirxt -v- ,. 1 iWimMMil i 1 1 t nn fm f mW 1 R Q n qAnQrp,r, -n y-y vJ )) "f y J ' J w, " j ii ''T '" "-'-'-' ' ' .ii H . mm 1 ! in. it i mU- i 11 1 11 1 n" - i j 1 .' j hi T ,. . j. : ,i i ", i i .''ii . ..i i- iii" ...I i ii. " '- -i '',. " - i fSt' - . 'i. - . ' l -i ' . : i - i-.. .. - -m - fr. vsjv.- jt .t.:: kit bc t - ... . - . . ! -. ........ , ,' '1''AVVWWWA'M',.'.'.'X'.' ' ' I 0 ' ' l - ' ' y s y V " - - - J ! '7 . "-'j ."iU, V '.'..-,5 . .WW UO "X'A - . ii i , - ii Drops of water become precious jewels in the drought-ridden northeastern states. Here a farmer pear Ellenville. N. Y., holds a shotgun in his lap as he mounts guard-over his well after night i raids by less fortunate neighbors Spanish Fork "For Legion . SPANISH FORK Plans for the American Legion convention con-vention for the Department of U$ah, are going forward rapidly rapid-ly and satisfactorily, it is announced by General Chairman Reuben D. Gardner, at a meeting of the American Legion Ay &:?ti .. :M..-. 7-poat -No. 68,'rheid Thursdayhight MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What'a Going On in National . Affairs By DREW rEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN No Wage-Hour Legislation Tills Year in Senate; Next Year Unlikely; All That Recent Turmoil Taking Place in House Merely Sham Battle ; Original Resolution Defending Garner Gar-ner Lauded Him Labor's Champion ; BUT All in Texas Tex-as Group eren't Sure So it Ended in Scoring Lewis. WASHINGTON The stormy churning in the house over amending amend-ing the wage-hour act actually was a sham battle. There will be no wage-hourjegislation this year, f The reason is simple: There isn't; a chance in the world of the Issue reaching the floor of the ? senate. In fact. ' it is unlikely whether it will get there even next year. The senate labor committee, which has jurisidictiori over wage- hour bills, is onetjf the most liber-J at bodies on Capitol Hill. Among its members are Elbert Thomas of Utah, chairman: Murray of Montana, Mon-tana, Pepper of Florida, Lee of Oklahoma, Hill of Alabama, Borah and LaFollette, vail strolig labor partisans. : The committee so far has given Ino consideration to the wage-hour issue and has no intention of doing so. v As the senate has no rules : A A. A. M i .: AX - ' ' committee io lorce action on legislation leg-islation or block.it as it sees fit, 'i there Is no way of bringing up wage-hour amendments except in the form of a rider to some other bill ; or by -discharging the labor committee. - There is no likelihood of either strategy succeeding, since jthe senate sen-ate I frowns on discharging com- . mlttces and the threat of a filibuster fili-buster would be enough to put an end to a rider. v Note The powerful fake 'farm s lobby that was behind the emasculating emas-culating amendments in the house. (Contmuedvon. Page Three) APPROPRIATION MADE FOR NLRB PROBE 'WASHINGTON,, Aug. 1 (UP) The house, today appropriated $50,-000 $50,-000 for its forthcoming special In-vestigation-tjfthe National Labor Relations Jward ; by a five-man committee. ' : : Speaker William' B. Bahkhead, D Ala.; indicated lie would name the members of the committee late this week. ' ' - f la Convention at the Leion hail. The dates for the convention are Aug. 17, 18 and 19. Plana call for business meet ings, a gigantic parade, horse races, a banquet for men and worn en delegates, dance for all and many other amusements besides the business part of the conven tion. Horse racing will be a big feature of the celebration, and some of the fastest horses will be entered. Chairman Gardner announces that all his committees are work ing efficiently. The advertising committee sent a float to Ameri can Fork Saturday to advertise the convention in the big Poultry Day parade, and car pennants and other advertising mediums are be ing distributed. At the meeting Thursday night delegates to attend the convention were elected as follows: S. Hughes, John E. Booth, W. H. Buf- ton, L. F. Smith, Lawrence Johnson, John-son, Merrin Davis, George E. Lar son. Fred S. Dart, Jr. Alternates are: Ernest Anderson, Ander-son, John Barnes. Martin Merritt, Bryan G. Stewart, D. E. Williams, Reese James, Ezra Warner, and Bill Money. New Officers for the Post No. 68, who were recently elected, are: Lawrence Johnson, commander; John Barnes, first vice commander; command-er; Frank Sco'tt, second, vice commander; com-mander; Hiram Jones, adjutant; John E. Booth, finance officer; Charles Cnristensen, chaplain; F. J. Thomas, service officer; Ezra Warner, historian; Orville Tiffany, WnvJ. Money, Fred S. Dart, Jr., andXReuben G. Gardner, executive committee. Rifle club officers are: E. A. Wignall, president; Bryan G. Stewart, range officer; and Ezra Warner, secretary. IX)VER ADMISSION FOR WORLD'S FAIR NEW YORK, Aug. 1 (U.F) A reduction from 75 to 50 centa in Saturday and Sunday admission prices to the world's fair brought only renewed complaints today from exhibitors and concession-, airies who had demanded a straight 50-cent rate all week. rjtiUM Wli .rnimrimtii'.'i.f Provo Independent Stores Lead State in June Business Dollar sales of independent re- j 14 percent over June, 1939 and lau stores in tTovo, Dasea on re-1 pons irom zi rirms, were zo.3j per cent higher in June this year,1 than in June, 1938, according to-an to-an announcement by the bureau .of ' the census. Sales of these stores were up 9.6. per cent from the previous month. The, Provo- figures topped Che entire i state, the report , shows. In .comparison; 155 Stalt Lake City Independent stores . were s up only 4.4 per:-. cent over V1 same month last yearvand off 12.2. per, cent from May, v 1939; Ogden, up U. S. FLYING FORTRESS' SETS RECORD 22 - Ton, Four - Motored ' Fortess Breaks Speed Record FLOYD BENNETT FIELD, N. Aug. l (U.R) A new four - motored "flying fortress," for-tress," one of 39 ordered'from the Boeing Aircraft company for the U. S. army, landed here todav after a non-stop flight fromiUnion Air ter minal, Burbank, Calii. The 22-ton all-metal Monoplane .completed the flight in 0 hours, 14 minutes and 30 seconds. Aboard ifche fortress were Major Stanley ijmste&d, pilot; Capt. S. F. Harmon, co-pilot, and Mark UKoogler, flight- mechanic, and L. H. vSlbusky, flight engineer, attaches at-taches of Wright field, Dayton, O. Travels 254 M. P. II. The distance from Burbank to Floyd Bennett field ia approximately approxi-mately 2,500 miles, and the plane's average speed was unofficially computed at about 254 miles an hour. The air corps in Washington said the previous army record from "Burbank to New, York was set April 30, 1935, by a Douglas DC-1, which averaged 221.4 miles an hour. BALLARD RITES SET THURSDAY AiikBciTY,urd,i Prograra- of funeral services for Melvin J. Ballard, member-of the council of Twelve Apostles of the Li D. S. church who died Sunday, were complete today according to Apostle George Albert Smith who is in charge of the rites.. . Heber j. Grant, church president, presi-dent, will 1 conduct the meeting which will begin at 1:15 Thursday Thurs-day in the p. D. S. tabernacle. Speakers will be President Grant; J. Reuben plark and David O. McKay, counselors in the first presidency, "and Apostles George Albert Smith and Richard R. Lyman, who were associated with Elder Ballard in Y. M. M. I. A. work. President Rudger Clawson of the Apostles quorum will .offer the invocation and benediction will b3 pronounced, by George F. Richards, member of the council. Members of the Salt Lake council coun-cil of Boy Scouts will honor the memory of one of their national leaders at the funeral. Selections will be rendered by the tabernacle choir wdth which Apostle Ballard was associated as chairman of the church music committee. Pallbearers will be members of the Ballard family, with members of the Council of Twelve as honorary hon-orary pall bearers. Sections in the Tabernacle will be' reserved for members of general gen-eral boards of church auxiliary organizations andv for friends of the deceased fom Logan, where he formerly resided. IN SEVIER RIVER NEPHI Alphonso Anderson, 24, of Centerfield, was drowned Monday afternoon after he had gone swimming in the Sevier river south of here. He was believed Um of a heart' attack. - A searching party, led by Dep ty R. E. .Wmh. fpundf the body near Cacier ranch, about six- miles south of Mills, 4 off 2.7 per cent rrom last monwi; Loeali. 8 per cent hiffher com pared-with the same , month last year, Ljt 15, per . cent - off from May . . .. , The average - for 386 stores in the .entire state , was , a 9.1 per cent gain over June 1938 and off ,7.4' per cent from May. Provo was the : only city to ." report a gain over May. The statements are based ; on confidential j: reports ; made - by Independent retailers ; apd repre- I sent 38 kinds, of - business, .A DROWNS City WmstaunA in , 100 INJURED I M tihipipa I Power; Injunction Action City's Demurrer Upheld By Court; Plaintiff Plain-tiff s Given Five Days To Pile New ' " rrovQ city officials won a round in their municipal power fight when District Judcre Dallas H. Youncr at noon today sustained the city's demurrer the officials by a group of citizens seeking to prohibit expert? diture of funds designated for construction of a municipal power plant and distributingfsystem. At "the same time the jud&e granted the plaintiff citizens five days in which to amend ''their complaint, indicatingit Controversial Ordinance Is Repealed Undoing a piece of municipal, power procedure which had been, challenged by the Citizens committee, com-mittee, opponents of municipal power, the city commission Mvn-: day night repealed the "non-cpm peting" ordinance passed June 29,. The ordmance provided tnat when Provo acquires a municipaTttiffs, declared that the June 29 power plant the city commission will not grant or renew a franchise fran-chise to any competing system. Repeal of the measure, to be come effective upon publication of the repeal ordinance enacted Monday night, followed as a result re-sult -of action of the Citizens' committee in seeking a referendum referen-dum election on the matter, Mayor May-or Mark Anderson indicated. - With, an election on- granting! or a r newvrrancmse to man row er and Light company coming up this ' fall, the ' city commission doesn't want the voters to be confused with too many questions ques-tions on the ballot, he said.-False said.-False Report Scored. The. commission took no action on the June 29 resolution which provided the city will sell, future fu-ture municipal power bonds to the John Nuveen and company concern, although Mayor Anderson Ander-son said this measure, which also has met opposition from the municipal power opponents, may be amended or repealed after more discussion. Mayor Anderson today correct-jjContinutd correct-jjContinutd on Pee Eight) CITY TO OPEN BIDS Bids for electrical machinery for the municipal power plant wereconsidered Tuesday afternoon after-noon by the city commission. According to Mayor Mark Anderson An-derson several firms had sub-mittted sub-mittted bids. While no complete analysis had been made at 2:30, he said the bids generally were much lower than--expeeted. , Ulen Contracting corporation officials and City Engineer E. A. Jacob must give their approval before the contract is let. Bids on construction of the power plant will be opened In the city commission room Thursday. MACHINE ; S . ir- Senior Scouts of Local Council t ? V . 4 K' t : '' V ' Chief A,. A. Anderson. of the Utah National Parks council Is shown, giving final Instruction, to senior scouts of '.the council who embarked embark-ed Monday on .a Calif ornia expedition; Prof essor C..J. Hart, third from the left on the back row, chairman of the -council's senior scouting," and Assistant Chief MerriU.Cliristpphersdn; "eighth. from" rrr . - N in the suit brought against vjmav rn noastmfi rnr mem io incor porate new elements which would Jxentitle them to an injunction. Ulgally Issued y Judge Young said for the sake of the demurrer he assumed the bonds through which the city obtained ob-tained the "$850,000 f or construction construc-tion of a cower nlant and dis- i tributipn system to have been il- However, the alleged point that the credit of the city and its peo-pfe peo-pfe would be impaired if expenditure expendi-ture of the fund goes forward, had not been proved to the court's sate Lsfaction, the judge indicated. In clarifying his position prior to the judge's decision, George W. vvortxieii, counsel ipr uie piaui- ordinance was illegal, and that through acts that may be made under this ordinance, a multiplicity of suits may be brought against the city. Under the ordinance, he claimed, City Auditor Mary F. Smith and Almo B. Simmons, city treasurer, are authorized to spend thepower funds for any and all purposes, even at their own personal de mands. ' .,, : -.--; He8aid.heuul that, eitherMrs Smith -or Mr. Simmons would take advantage of such powers, but that there was nothing : to prevent , it. Then.-'ih the event that the power funds be spent for a purpose other than to build a power plant, the bond holders hold-ers would sue the city, and this in tuni would Impair the credit of the city and itk people. I. " E. Brockbank, representing the city officials, declared that a court has no right to assume a public official wiU not perform his duty. Mr. Worthen inferred that even though the city oficers spent the though the city officers spent" the power .plant . Construction, they would not be violating their duty under the June 29 ordinance. He held that the very:' fact that the city commission acted under an il legal or premature ordinance was sufficient to indicate that further illegal acts might - be committed by persons in charge.of the fund3. This Day. . . born . Boy, to Charles Robert and Madge Butler McKell, Monday night. Crane Maternity. LICENSED TO MARRY Lloyd Eugene Perigo, 21, Price, and Alyce Louise Zupan, 22, Delta. DIED Miss Edna Johnson, 46, Spring-ville. Spring-ville. Eddie Young (Roylance) 39, Veterans hospital, San Francisco. ".v. S v V Via v CVw-OX.' . ' IR RIOT AT AUTO PtAWT 450 Policemen Battle 3000 Strikers In Labor Riot r -BULLETIN ' Detroit, Aug. 1 UJ Police clashed with . pickets at , the strike-bound Fisher body plant No. 37 today; Tear gas was hurled hurl-ed by police as fighting broke out. ' . - CLEVELAND, Aug. 1 (U.R) V The Fisher Body com pany xplaht became- a "not zone" today after, fights between be-tween 3,000 strikers and 450 Dolicemen in which almost 100 were injured. Safety Director Eliot Ness ordered policemen to keep an area 500 yards about the factory Clear ed of all . demonstrators, and to limit, pickets to five at each gate each group to be accompanied bv two policemen. Strikers and organizers, however, were permit ted to gather at union headquar ters, which isjnot within the re- j stricted zone. The orders were effective at 4 a. m. Crowd Dwindles ' At that time a single picket was on duty near the plant and the crowd of sympathizers and spectators specta-tors had dwindled to a few hundred. hun-dred. At ' times yesterday it had numbered more than 5,000. A small force of workmen defy- in? the strike called bv the Con gress , of Industrial Organizations' United "Automobile Workers uriion, wait permitted to remain in the plantr overnight o 'as -not - to be exposed to the picket line, but a Lcbmpany- official -said ,200 of the -workers slipped outr and went nome aixer most or tne pickets Had left. At 5 a. m., 25 mounted and 40 foot policemen began-patroling the (Continued to Page Eight) VALUES REDUCED SALT LAKE CITY. Aug. 1 0J.R) The state tax commission ; Monday Mon-day ordered a. 10 per cent cut in the assessed valuation of irrigation farm lands In 23 counties, and a similar reduction in grazing lands I milve counties. . Leatham gave a steady-drop in prices for farm products over a period, of years as the reason for the cut which will save farmers approximately 2,600,000 In taxes. The commission explained that in counties , where ho farmland tax reduction was made Garfield, Salt Lake, Sevier, Utah, Wasatch and Washingon county assessors have made reductions during the last few years. The commission action reduced valuation. of range lands in Cache, Rich, Carbon, Summit and Weber counties. Leatham; explained that smilar. reductions were made this year by. county assessors in Morgan, Mor-gan, Wasatch, Utah, Sevier, oar-field oar-field and Kane, - and last year in Sanpete, FARMING LAND - . - : Set For Trek to Pacific Coast the left pA .the back "row, "are supervising' the-trip. - . - News- By UNITED PRESS COMBINES BEGIN : .,' WIBSAT HARVEST MOSCOW, Ida., Aug; 1 OLE) Combines beean operating over the rolliner fields of the great Pa- louse wheat country 5 today. A two million bushel crop in Latah county coun-ty alone was expected to be taken to storage elevators ana iiour mills before end of the harvest. BOARD ORDERS LABOR ELECTION v WASHINGTON, Au. 1 UE) The national labor relations board today ordered, collective bargaining bargain-ing elections to settle a dispute between -two4 factions of the United Unit-ed Automobile Workers "union among approximately 78,000 employes em-ployes of the Chrysler corporation, corpora-tion, the Briggs Manufacturing Co., and the Motor Products Co. All the companies have headquarters head-quarters in Detroit. - FRONTIER CLASH WITH RUMANIANS BUDAPEST, Hungary, Aug. 1 (EH) The government today-announced a third frontier clash with Rumanians on the Theiss river, where machine guns and rifles were used in fighting. The announcement said Rumanians Ruman-ians this morning placed an artillery ar-tillery battery in position along the river bank, but it had not yet gone into action. MINNEAPOLIS PAPER IN CONSOLIDATION MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Aug. 1 1E Purchase -of the Minneapolis Journal by the Minneapolis Star, the immediate, consolidation of the-two papers under the name of t'The Minneapolis Star-Journal" Was announced today." ; . The announcement was made by Johri'Cowlesr president of rlhe Minneapolis Star company, and Carl - W. , Jones, president of the Journal Printing company. Consideration Con-sideration of the. sale was not disclosed. dis-closed. Baseball Today AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland 100 200 002 5 Boston .'a.Y 100 041 Olx 7 Feller and Herosley; Grove and Desautels. Detroit ... 301 001 000 5 New York ..... 010 000 010 2 Trout and Tebbetts; Ruffing and Dickey. Chicago ... Philadelphia Knott and Hayes. 000 202 000 4 . . . 000 000 001 1 fresh; Potter and St. Louis 001 000 Washington .... 100 031 Kennedy and Glenn; Chase Giuliani. and NATIONAL LEAGUE Brooklyn ...... 100 031 000- 5 Pittsburgh 200 001 000 3 Fitzsimmons and Phelps; M. Brown, Klinger (6) and Berres. New York . 000 004 00 Cincinnati ..... 001 201 00 Salvo and Danning; Derringer and Lombardi. Philadelphia ... 010 001 O Chicago . . . ... . . 110 310 0 Higbe and &$llies; J. Dean, French and Mancuso. ROOSEVELT BliBEMEN BY 193-166 r-:wiww- . Democratic Conserva-tives, Conserva-tives, Republicans Join Forces WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 U.R-The house today killed President Roosevelt's lending-spending lending-spending program. -It did so by refusing to consider a measure carrying loan authorizations auth-orizations totaling -$1,950,- 000,000. ; ' . The house delivered the fatal blow by a vote announced as 103 to 166 against : adoption of a rule to'm'ake the bill in order. . . Defeat of the rule, for the bUl's consideration means that' it cannot be considered again1 by that method meth-od in this congress: Theoretically, other .methods of consideration are available but practical obstacles ' would be evn greater. : Bloc Scores Win r ' - . Defeat-was accomplished by an almost - solid Republican minority aided by Democratic conservatives. conserva-tives. f The house broke into an uproar when ; Speaker y Bankhead - announced. an-nounced. the result of the vote. He gaveled furiously for. order. ; No immediate effort was made fo' reconsider the vote. When he had obtained - order, Bankhead directed di-rected the clerk to read some messages mes-sages i from the president vetoing minor bills. . ' The sudden action c-f the house " put adjournment plana in confusion. confu-sion. ' -4 :' ;y . - Senate DemocraUc LeaUe Alben W. Barkley had said this morning he did , not believe that conpress ccnUd-,adJcmra-imtilaweek from tomorrow. At that time, however; he said this estimate was "subject to revision.",, and he - indicated when Informed, of the house action on the lending' bfll that the entire remaining , legislative . . progra m would have to be surveyed again.-Heavily again.-Heavily Trimmed-- - The house action came after Mr. Roosevelt's lending program had been battered by a rebellious senate sen-ate which trimmed it almost in half and limited Its benefits chiefly chief-ly to agriculture. , When Mr. Roosevelt submitted the program, he asked for loan authorizations, of $3,060,000,000. The senate banking- committee trimmed $310,000,000 from the measure and further attacks on the senate floor reduced the total . (Continued on Page Eight) F. R. DEPLORES DEATH OF BILL v " - WASHINGTON. Aug. 1 (CJ!) President Roosevelt said ' today that the death of his lending bill will cost the taxpayers agood many hundred million dollars and will retard industry. He said the house action against the bill also will be ' reflected in the relief situation i, . i . Speaking at a press conference, Mr. Roosevelt, said -that If the house also pigeonholes his $800,-000,000 $800,-000,000 housingrblUV a great many people will ,be deprived of job3 which they otherwise might have obtained. . . ; . , ; For nearly half an hour, ' Mr. Roosevelt defended his ' lending program and the fiscal policies of the administration in j strong terms.';, . j ;. - AUNT HET DT BOBEBT. jmLEN JL i "I'm glad "I never worked for iry own money before I married. - Amy did, and it hurt her i)rldet not to be able to spend a dollar foolish without hurtln her conscience. v |