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Show THE THE HERALD yea use Herald Want Ato next time yQ Try JomeUHoj U sell, trade, or rent a hf w THIRTY-EIGHT- HERALD IT VII I Willed Tuesday First in news, first in circulation, first in advertising, and first delivered in the homes. NO. 231. YEAR. H DAS LY THE VVEATDEIt L oooooooooooo W mid ret to night. PROVO, UTAH, MONDAY, APRIL 23, 1924. DO Tin) tonight hun.ew hat colder J PRICE TWO CENTS. 1 OO OOtrOOO OOO O o o o o HIGH SCHOOL BOYS GOVERN PROVO TUESDAY PROVO BOYS 180 TAKE CHARGE CITY AFFAIRS Boys' Week in Provo Inaugurated Sunday in the City's Churches. SPEAKERS ADDRESS CITY GRADE SCHOOLS ilfRHfflffiED DEMOCRATSTO Hi IT COAL MINERS Camera Study of Bobbed Bandit HOLD PRIMARY ARE BURIED BY GAS EXPLOSION Interesting Program Planned for High School Boyes Tues- Will Elect Delegates to State Convention in Ogden, day in Auditorium. June 5. Duplicate of Castle Gate Disaster in West Virginia Coal Mine. will city MRS. H. M. WOODWARD affairs Tuesday morning from 10 NEW VICE CHAIRMAN o'clock until noon, while the boys of the city take the load from their shoulders and rule the destinies of Democratic Women of Provo City officials and policemen take a rest from the strenuous the city during that period. The boys will have the entire jurisdiction of the city government during those two hours. They will curry on the city affairs as if property elected and sworn In In the various offices. Elden Dennis will preside at the meeting of the city commission, taking the place of Mayor O. K. nan-seOn his right and left, seated In the chairs of Commissioners Charles Hoiikins and George P. Billings, will lie Kay Houtss and Roy Durnell. City Recorder Fred Evans will vacate his office for Lowell Biddulph. Feiin Allen and Merrill Christo-pherso- n will.be the health officers. Donald Dixon, star basketball and tenuis player of the Provo high school, will wear the shining star that generally decorates the coat of Chief of Police Wreu Wilking and will direct the activities of the policemen, Ovaudo Beebe, Sherman Sparks, Grant Buckley, Garn Webb and Percy Anderson. in The boys will be instructed their respective duties shortly before 10 o'clock Tuesday morning when they take office and rule the city until the noon hour. The opportunities that come to boys who prepare themselves by the proper education were held before the boys of the Provo city schools Monday by the speakers appointed for Boys' Week. The speakers in the various schools were G. M. Taylor in the Maesor, Harold Dunn in Timpiiuogos, I. R. Brockbank in the Parker and Lester Taylor in the Franklin schools. All (i the speakers held out to the boys the necessity of getting a good foundation for life in the grade schools. They pointed to the fact that it is impossible to go on in life without a proper education and without the fundamentals which are taught in the grade schopls. The Boys' Week activities in trioo lielmn Sunday morning in the Community church where O. A. near and Reverend Charles Me- Cuard spoke to the boys. In may of the ward chapels special programs were Liven in the interest of the Ro-tar- y boys. I. K. Brockbank spoke in the First ward cliinief raking for his tonic. The Boy, Opportunity and Applica tion. .Miss Lilv Owens also stroke on the opportunities for the boys, especially the religious opportunities of the present day. iu ttia Second ward the program Was given llV tllf hnvs themaolvM The Franklin Bovs' chorus, which will compete in the singing contest Wednesday, gang two numbers. The speakers were youmr men of the id, Ivan Madsen, Karl Brandt, want Scott and Don Thurgood. iroussor t. Earl Pardoe addres-J'- d the congregation in the Provo fWth ward, taking for his theme, "".it Jioes a Boy Cost?' Mayor 0. K. Hansen speaker in the Bonneville the wna ward. He the SI,leluii(I work accom. l'usned among the Boy Scouts of the sPpke 011 ,tlle Irovn hiS-rlie (Oil lit II ml school Tuesday In tl.n T..o' swoi and the Boys' day in industry " A special meeting win """'"snip. he held for ail of the boys In b J.r (Continued on Page Two.) Write special essays. B- Y. T Writ t'"Men , , Ktn.l.,.,.-""..-ni- t K,H''1"1 n nit; imv ('Ksn.vs ... i,,,,,,i,i. l""o"U 23 .... 111 1. WIIIK "' ..religious ,. .. nil lue I'lINU Vf1 "( offered by Dr. James ftlnne of ,he L. D. S. Council (;f AIosllcs. The essays are to u ready by May 12. ART EXHIBITS. I'hil.i.... oi,, Kinh " ' ' ... "N correlative art wor 'k; ""rk f,'"m tins brush of Minlmll. a former B. V. U. on I 'bilip ;'"armami work ,., K.r 11 y "r" " on exhibition lit ": The puhlle will be vel- t'w the exhibits. r itu-tb- to Name Precinct man Friday. g . - chairman for the Democratic en of the Provo precinct a meeting will be held in the county courtDemocratic house Friday evening. women of the Provo precinct are in vited and urged to be in attend- ance, according CANS-M- to Mrs. Woodward. ' , ?' LJ : i Intv-es'ti- BUSfr' - oiose-u- Brooklvn M Y. !60WrL7IC'':i' CLINPAYSONi HOC-.T..- Meet in Convention at Payscn. Christian Endeavor Is Users Denied. workers the state are putting President George H. Brimhall throughout forth their efforts in preparation Talks to Students About for the second annual district con. Cans Empty and Full ventions of the Utah Chirstiiin En- deavor union. Ogden, Pnyson and II. Gunnison are the headquarters for George Brimhall of the B. T. U. talked to the trio of gatherings, which will at the Junction city Friday the students today about cans-m- etal open evening, May 2. cans and mental cans; empty The schedule as given out by calls cans and full cans. He told a story President Arthur V. Boand of two men each of whom asked for sessions at Ogden on Friday the bank cashier for a $100 loan. In evening and part of Saturday, Pay-so- n on Saturday evening nnd Sunthe one case the answer was curt, "Not in a posifion to make small day with Monday and Tuesday as loans" ; in the other, "Certainly ; all the days at Gunnison. At Payson , which will harbor right." "The first man can pay," the pres- the central district delegates, Salt reLake on the north to Payson on the ident said he had ventured to A promark after both men had gone out. south will be represented. "Yes," was the answer of the cash- gram will be followed out with Miss ier, "but I am tired of 'cau pays' Carter iu attendance through Satwho aren't 'will pays.'" urday evening and Sunday. Charles McCoard of Provo is Empty enns, according to President Brimhall, whether metal or president of the central district. The mental, are a nuisance; full cans Itev. Wildman Murphy and Miss Alice McCormick of Payson are in are desirable. "There are empty mental cans all general charge. Participants on the about us on the highway of life," program will include Miss Mary said President Brimhall, "and Muirhead, Dr. Ensign of Springville, there are full eans cans that be- Joe Halbersleben. the Bev. Arthur come cannons, knocking down every Boand, Miss Mina McArthur, the obstacle in the way. In work, wor- Bev. C. N. McCoard, the Rev. C. D. ship, and play there are well filled Gaffney, Miss Marjorie Badertscher character cans that have in them and Miss Lily King. more attractive than something FILIPINOS QUIT HAWAII "maybe." FOR JOBS ON MAINLAND BELGIUM TKOPOSES GERMAN PENALTIES International News Service. HONOLULU, April 28. Large International News Service. laborers who are of the numbers PAULS, Apirl, 28. Belgium Is to Hawaii from the Philirather brought economic penalties proposing than military sanctions if Germany ppines for work on the sugar plantafails to carry out her obligations tions se the territory merely as a under the Pnwes reparation plan, it stopping place on their way to coast was niortod in diplomatic circles (dties. this afternoon. This is shown by heavy bookings Premier Thcunls and Foreign of American linMinister Iluymans of Belgium con- in the local offices on their ferred for two hours with Premier ers that stop at Honolulu who Poincare at the foreign office. No way to the mainland. Filipinos on desire steerage accomodations coinniuniipie was issued after the outnumber boats meeting, but it was announced that there that can lielargely given passage and nrioiher session would be held later those yet it Is estimated that fully one In the day. thousand left here Iu January for Most of these The normal loss of sugar cane In work on the mainland. small to orchard men and the apply sugar caused by Louisiana, also to hotel keepers for at farmers, Is estimated moth borer, ciiire posit lou as bellboys and waiters. 5T0 iKiuuds of sugar an acre. s u. diei. i i ri i men. i eetcd 111!! ime. . en-rii- y Hi c:m;-:i- t lllilll;- i a "A:ni':.' compl.' Springville shows an increase of about $50,000, all due to new property improvements. 0.S . ARE ? iiCoii in - I'nissi.ni !i i Vi (i on id of the n.hh ween the regril, r (devalor shaft and an air jiassae , o.oih) feet back A the sMiie i .me, in the passage w ,;v the mine official stains. said. out, snperannuali d and ssmrrt way in tin fit teachers have to he dismissed Entrance to the It is ihrotigh bh eked from the uiar elevator riuhh'ssiy. shait and ros no worlcers who have 'seleciieii of the fiilest' thai hope descended down the naii'uw stair- - lei'iisirv "of education way into the air shaft have not pen- save the German school fivm ilecav." but stcadv etrated inlo the mine to ascertain where the cave in is. Aid has been given the rescue SriiY RARoKIt. Vi. SEEKS WIFE work by McKiuley and Ilitchmnu city oompnnys here and the Wheel- international News Service. 28. A COSIIOC'J'ON. Ohio, April ing company has sent other rescue users' organization have icon in workers from its .Stuebeuvillo and wife is wanted by Kemick Ctirran, Coshocton barber. Inas-- ' Washington for several weeks nego- llarniarville mines. tiating for the transfer of the conFrantic efforts to reach them much us no woman, so far, has taken advantage of her "leap year" trol of the project from the govern- were unavailing this morning. j ment to the organization. Until the rescue train from Pitts-- j prerogative, he resorted to the ad-- j or. The contract proposed by 'or 'i arrived, it was hardly possi-- vertising columns of the local news-- ! ganization is said to have been ing- trie to atiempt anything definite in ' paper. ested by the special advisory com- the way of rescue. At 1 1 clock gas That he can jump a railfence. upmittee on reclamation at its investi- was being belched from 'the mouth hill a feat which might do credit gations in Salt Lake City a few of the mine in quantities such as to one many years his junior is a months ago. made it unsafe to approach within claim made by Surran in his "ad," his desire for male. KM) feet of the opening. ' announcing stales he dusen't drink whiskey DEFEAT OF TAX Shortly after 10:30 (his morning,1 He MEASURE PREDICTED the first, effort to enter the mine to nor parade tlu s'Teets, He stipulatbe determine the fate of the entombed ed that liis would-bInternational News Service. men was made by a rescue party n goodlooker either a widow or a WASHINGTON, April 28. Presi- equipped with gas resisting nppnra-'- . maiden lady and able to cook.' dent Cooiidge has been advised by tus, but nfler penetrating 1,500 feet ' MOTHER AND SON DIE Republican leaders in the senate into the shaft, they were forced to WITH THROATS SLASHED that the Mellon income tax rates are abandon the effort because of (lie1 International ' News service. doomed to defeat and that he will blocking of (he passage way by d;-. JUTLAND. 28. The have to accept a compromise if hejbris No trace of any miners were bodies of Mrs. MayApril. U. Post, 07 and t signs the new tax reduction lull, it found along (lie way. her son, George S. Post, 35, were was learned today. in their homes here early to-- j Already rejected by the house, the! BKNWOOI). W. Va.. April 2S. day with their throats slashed. Mellon schedules with a maximum (At first refusing to give out anv deaths are believed by police rate of 25 per ecu will formation an official of the Wheel-com- to he tin l a suicide pad. to a vote in the senate this ing Steel nnd Iron corporation here week wiih enough votes lined up said first reports of the explosion in sm.rev) r.i .Mnn i IRE. against them to eliminate them (he company's mine here today had International News Service. a been and that exaggerated definitely from (he bill.. pi'l.'Tl.AMt. Die., April shows that only 111 men at Mere thiiii :. ni ai eve oai of work in the mine. GEN. MINES IN SALT LAKE, the most are entombed taenia,-uleuriv iay s pi the' ; .1. MAN BLOWN TO BITS. wash in; TON. April 28. Biapair, .vuxkuf Gen. Frank r. n: nes, dil'eclor A ,1D l);'0 daai.'ig" est imi: led the veterans hi re;; il today accept Internationa! News Service. Puahev an invitation Ike oil" .ril IT' at the principal ad, d man sahled e, MAI contention of p., re n the at S Lnk, .1 i:i a i"n! .it'-week ie ea I! eilike not Mm'. S !i the mei l'i slreaa' v. ill a! (Speci.il to the WASHINGTON, D.'c. April 2S. Secretary of tin; Interior Hubert Work today ruled that he had no authority to enter. into any coiilract with the Strawberry Wat or Users association of Utah county for the association to take over the iminaee-men- t and the coiiind of the disirih-utinof the irrigation water of 1tr project. Lee It. Taylor and Karl Keeler, both of Payson, Utah, president and engineer, respectively, of the water ) pre-Wi'- i COOD-LOOKE- I I 1 j j e help-mat- 1 1 " e re.-al- 111 i t II FOR Ex charge of Blay Do Til'" in Oiled S tilt ll e, ea ri ili b. er h:.:'l bile ed lh, ia l prai ing I s (Nj.. icif pi- njci-eiis- I Data Mtah to He Reduce Accidents. Nov. s Service. April 2s- j'hi'voigh a plan- now Pcii.-- d"V Ii.v mine y exnei h of r.' Brii ..a tiie Uji; Si: the tuo hi' i'.'ies uiU wuh. safety rt'se wr!t deal: u ; in cua mi ic la, T first step 'ward this work was ;l;r:i at n e"i;t mine i a fety eon! etn e lit M r the ! J5ure.el of .Mine Staiiea hole. 11. of I'ai'V, director- of ill" r.meiiii . l I'. C, nai in-Mines, Washii.-g'tU. V. Whaler, d: eeiur of the IVs arch (in safety iu mines the .rltisli government aid ifei.ry of V.aiker, deputy chief invpeet-imines of Great Britain, i i'eseiil: id their respective comeries. oral ether Frith h leiee exper a la attiiuie'i I he cori'i1!'. ace. Siaee the best crperimei.lal work is done here in lh" winter an the .summer is the princiin work pal time for the Kugland, Bain believed that exchange of workers diivlie; the two seasons'. i The department of state at must give approval to the plan before it s adoption nnd it was pointed out that the exchange plan may lead to similar along international lines in other in- lTlTSBrnor.', V:t ihe t i'ovfi tu-- SD.073,(Hj, eompirrfd with ys.tii. for l.;st year. The a i.'.i.'i'i ase in Provo is sn:.'.i which iii'isj he added what-lease is made in stale a! '1 of ti l.e The .1 ' ..'i ti I 'i I Wash-ingloi- dustries. he'l at he 'i.e,t;,,:, lded total, li lee 'he; l;,e...,;se in lue l':.t i of i'i" (!;s;:'iel and e'l.is y riei: and the " er Li: '.! c a,i"-agives V oi 1 1 iai:t then was iriifiii.ii. fr. ihat next year i 1 . - 'elu.'jihiii Steel al at ;'.hi n.1,000 Mil ; est', iiilpi'! i'laii 't y, the of he t a eel) ase ineiivso ..;s. .;., of eai "! $:le,,!HH). vaiuaiioii t" the i" ':' hi. Heduci ion ,.t:; vie'ia! ion. and farm-wit- h rot .r!y. tee closing of t : pi hv : lh" LWi had diss !h pre- - eiil:;e!,s 111' a ee 'i'i a sc. i. i, The asisessor's Mii-;f Sering-ipeitci::e pn. is pi. icnt at l.nU) as lared wiiti SI .VT'i.l id hist year To this must e added the stati tot 1. v.i;i h e;t year was ;?"i5,U'', ami whi;,h prob lily will be slighrlv iacieaset r this year, I di: tri.-The Alpine valua-- a tion will be ahiiut ti same as last year's total, accord ig to the as- sessor's esiimaic.-iThe total count.r valuatiou is s r. :?;i'f.!!0(l,.e compared to :'.25.T2ti la To this was added last year the state valuation of .1 T,i! ,l,7u4. It is expected that the state valuation this year will he increased from $.'. KWHXI to a million dollars, seiiding the totals for the county well above the $53.0iK),-Olimark, or about a million dollars more than that of last year. Outside l'rovo. the steel plant. laud the mining iueieases the bal ance of the county shows a iu valuation. The largest loss comes in the Strawberry disI 'i f i , y . $,'il,-yea- TURK POET CANDIDATE I'OK NEXT NOIJEL PRIZE International News Service. CONSTANTINOPLE, April 2. Abdul llak Hrtiuid, the noted Turkish poet, is the histest candidate for the Nobel prize for literary achievement. A movement has been launched in the Turkish press to obtain the prize for him. The chief drawback, the press admits, is ilial ll.imid's works have not been translated in- to foreign languages and therefore are little known abroad. Ilamid. until recent Iv, whs ul- lowed lo inhabit two rooms in the Bagtche. Caliphs palace of Dot-abin has now been alloii-- d rooms iu a hotel hv the got nimeiil which also pays him a modest sion. He is T.'S rears old and. in addition lo his liler; ry in lliei;!-- , was for veals the TurkUh d;ploinalic service. nd , peii-The- aehieve-ivoniine-n- O trict. l'rovo real estate has increased slightly in valuation, but has not kept p.lee wiiii prices asked, according to Mr, Hawkins. ' If Provo real esiate continues to main its high price level we will revise our valuation for next year," Mr. Hawkins declared. "We didn't do it this year been use we expected a drop in prices." i TWINS DOUN IN ISSAKT OF IU'SNIKs5i l? STRICT lot' rnationa N'ihvh ATLANT. " and Tick International News Service, NEW Vo;'K, April 2x Invading raiic disii':e," into which Servif e. .vpi il 2.. -- "Nip i.Tooks ar- t''i,lii.l'.t."i 1. tread, three opp ai "day i Oik w riii of thame mil enings 'lit of s V. n r tiie i uaucial ed b ll d r i he The tile . 'il uie Biuie comma trom im- he raili'us.ds, power pi''n'i'mi'iits li and teh hum coiup:inics wiihiu the city. SAFETY Vl-'h- ! i ne l'rovo valuation fiveri hv the assessor for this year is $7,(!(tt,19(, as compared to $7,201,000 for lu.st year, an increase f luore tlan ?l'io.O(i). To this is added the valuations to l.o fixed by the slate, which last year was ?l,n5a000, and which may tie i ucn. a more than ENGLAND AND i ird from nut yet i While the eliec! iMws js'i men i ,r, mine sh hei'ore the rumor leive plo.-- ion, l Li s nan it; that the number of uii'ii wlshiu may reach close Jo 2oo, 1 hi tnct. till International nduiijiisi ration Li;. chine. Kn nr en "I do not see Germ-idangered by our me; ires, hard though thiy n;. v bo to ail v. bom liuy couceii:. We have to beer in mind. !h,;t tin' i;:H,iliev of children lias i'ail.-short of attending ; million and a. iiuarler against r tie.- same p;v Wi.r I'iures. wiiiltime the in;mi-- of l ackers has increased. Hiirlaly raisiag tftp total of a Men. i.:;:oe of one ela.ss at a thii" lilal !,y making the ieachers give a week we hope S'liie more les.-or to maintain the meuia had l 11 red i'i li ,' Christian Endeavor Societies Contract of Stuiwberry Water Tresident-emeritu- n i i J''.' : EL AND MENTAL il .1 Pruss i study of Celia Coonev. the notorious teachers in elementary schools have fallen a victim to it. A storm of indignation bus been roused by the announcement of the government that the "Kultur" bud-- ; reduced get will be considerably within the next few months. It became obvious through numerous comments of the that nation press Goethe, Schiller and Kant considered it a "penny wise, pound foolish" policy to destroy the last and certainly not the least powerful instrument that had been left to Germany after the armistice. But the government remained firm ami decided Jti t'ivor of "educational disjii iiiamenr" on a large seal'.', 'ir is a lu'iti.-- of existence or for !'ie sl;,ic that our i'ijiaiices should he (is 2(1,00(1 soon i ; . 'CONVENTION OF j j 1 i. ' i ' ' ra l j I .. I than j mine were entombed. The explosion oceured at 7 :10 o'clock this morning, flumes and smoke billowing from the entrance of the mine. A call for the Ben wood firemen brought trucks to the mine. and with them a rush of t"..U'aii-$of the m'i.ihrbnmod. At j rv:it;i-niV";:'i, A "0 iiiine otnfe announced that: iinUi iind checked in and entered the mine just i.efoie the blast came. There anoiher cntruiKv to the mine, asi.ie .I'i'iu lire mill opening, mi ii,r.".g.s mu i.ud if, is Hie hope thai, will til:.! liieir way out jibe hum cut ii . which reached clowoi ililO illl ear h. At .S:.'W 11'"' l I lied from , . Under her direction knowledge," j of the Wheeling Steel corporation at Beuwood near here shortlj after the men went to work this morning. An official statement issued by the company said "the explosion was serious," and added that a full official statement would be made later. All of the men who entered the - wom- The assessed valuation of Provo increased more than a million dollars in the past year, half RETRENCHMENT Assessor according to County Charles E. Hawkins, who has just finished his annual report to the state. Provo's valuation this year exceeds $9,000,000, and Twenty Thousand Teachers in probably will go over that mark hv SR.n nnn a hUcf Elementary Grades Cut valuation record ver set by thi3 city. Off Payrolls. uian county, too, shows a remarkable increase, KULTUR BUDGET the losses sustained in the Strawberrv rlist riff. TVia despite pmiTiir GETS TRIMMING valuation will go over $5:1,000,000, according to Mr. Hawkins and Assistant Assessor Don Conover. Rescue Workers Are Equipped Attendance Average to Be The increase in Provo is due to the new properties built, Raised ; "Superannuated" With while the county increase is due in large measure to the steel Instructors Ousted. Apparatus. plant, the mining activities in the Tintic district, and improvement work done by the railroads, the Utah Power & International News Service. International News Service. BIOKLIX. April 2S. The economy Va., April 28. WHEELING, mgni company, ana tne Mountain States Telephone company. One hundred nnd eighty miners dictator's axe is lit work in GerThe Nebo school district will show an increase of nearly were entombed in a terrific explo- imany. It does not even spare the a million dollars despite the closing of two Kinks in f,at aL sion which occttred at the coal mine "trees of for no less Chair-- . the Democratic women of the comity will be organized to fully participate in the campaign activities. For the purpose of. electing a Tor Taxes Million Dollars HITBYGERMAN FRANTIC EFFORTS TO REACH MINERS MADE Democratlc primaries will be held in the various precincts of Utah county Friday, May 10, for the election of delegates to the state Democratic convention to be held in Ogden, June 5, at which time delegates to the national convention will be elected. This was decided at a meeting of the Democratic county executive committee- held in the courthouse Friday night, at which were pres ent a large number of the party members from the different communities of the county. At the same meeting were gathered a large group of the Democratic women to elect a successor to Prof. Alie L. Reynolds, who has served ns vice. .chairman of the county organization during the past two years. . .'. By unanimous vote of the women present, Mrs. H. W. Woodward was (dected vice chairman of the county organization. Boost County Valuations SCHOOL IS HARD 16 FRIDAY, MAY Provo City and Steel Plant r o. it lei v :'PoV,VI'!:' arri' e.lel.P '. m t: ii;n P","tas 2. ilNSI in l.iilay tleiiaied Tt ,yu It eh ri s nit: press. Ae.il, red on li e ('or.iov.i il cv- - A the owner h'U), (iiry op- iu'd thri'o ol) worn-c- n who sur-- I king in safes was bound and eVI'lvel'S, a wiiili re "in. Kivsney pr, dV.e! l. 'Ill' I il". Led in roiigliiy liandled by the yeggs' i ami bud lo be taken to n hospital. . |