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Show Your Newspaper With no private axes to grind; no selfish personal interests to serve, and no financial strings leading to any other source oX power or influence. Weather Forecast Wednesday; somewhat colder tonight. to-night. Maximum temp., Monday Minimum temp., Monday 35 PROVO, UTAH COUNT Y, UTAH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1 9 a 4 PRICE FIVE CENTS FORTY -EIGHTH YEAR, NO. 124 vemmg Herald. Ihe MERRY GO -ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and HUBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON-For gross stupidity, Wall Street's frenzied campaign against the stock market control bill surpasess anything Washington Wash-ington has witnessed in years. !f you took seriously the : huddeV-and-horror act of the :i:,v-money boys, you would never realize that The country has gone through four years of bank and stock exchange ex-change scandals. That millions of investors have been impoverished as a result. That 1934--a congressional election elec-tion year -finds no class in greater great-er popular disfavor than the broker brok-er and banker. To Wall Street, apparently, these facts have no bearing on the legislative situation. All the traditional bugaboos are being exploited. On the day Roosevelt reiterated his determination to enact stock exchange control legislation, the Wall Streeters trotted out a tale that the president had "disowned" such a plan. Simultaneous announc e m e n t from Wall Street that a "group of influential brokers" was planning to call on the president otpost-pone otpost-pone action until next session. Then the Stock Exchange announced an-nounced a list of ne wreform rules. This drew a Dig taugli on Capitol Hill. "Huh," snorted blunt-spoken Senator Fletcher, chairman of the senate banking committee, "those rules don't mean anything. any-thing. They can adopt them today, and repeal them tomorrow." tomor-row." , WOODRINO AND THE j GENERALS J The drive to oust Harry Wood-ring Wood-ring as assistant war secretary is becoming more intense. Spearhead of the drive is the general staff .vnd Its chief general, Douglas ;vIacArthur. General staff officers Iiave laid down almost an ultimatum ulti-matum that Harry Woodring goes nit. There is no accusation of graft nr dishonesty. But a charge that ,ie was too genial with some of his lobbying friends from Kansas. Also he has been so indiscreet as to shout from the houae-tops that the present recovery agencies are exactly what the Army wants for the mobilization of industry in wartime. So the high officers are aire. So also is Secretary Dern. But Woodring is fighting back (Continued on Page Four) Congress Today SENATE Takes up consideration of calendar calen-dar bills. Judiciary subcommittee begins open ' hearings on anti-lynching bill. Banking and currency committee commit-tee resumes investigation into stock market practices. Air mail committee continues hearing testimony of former P. M. G. Brown. Appropriations committee considers con-siders state, justice, commerce, and labor appropriation bills. HOUSE Continues debate on tax revision bill. Naval affairs committee inquires into plane manufacturing profits. Agriculture committee considers consid-ers sugar problem. Labor committee continues investigation in-vestigation into 30 hour week. Interstate commerce committee considers stock exchange regulation. regula-tion. Post office committee ponders bills for reorganization of the airmail air-mail service. Employment Office In New Location Utah County's Reemployment Service office wil ble moved to new location just around the corner north from the Taylor Brothel 's store on Third West, according ac-cording to plans under way. The county comlssioners voted to allow not more than $250 Monday Mon-day for the renovation of the rehouse building there to fit it up as an office. Renovation work i3 to be done by the CWA. The office has teen located on the lower floor of the city and county building for some time since it was moved from the office of-fice building on north University Avfenue. It was moved into the ''nrt i of Countv Survovnr Hugo Price, who was Crowded Into another office in the county building. MM 1 Western Dent Break WALLACE SEEN AS ENEMY OF U. S. INDUSTRY Colorado Is Alarmed Over Situation; Protests Sent To Capital Western senators and congressmen con-gressmen may face their first ipen break with the Roosevelt Roose-velt administration on the sntmr Question, it developed today when reports were received re-ceived from Washington showing the plans of Secretary Secre-tary Wallace to abandon -the beet sugar industry in the continental United States. Several congressmen remarked that they were unwilling to commit com-mit political suicide even though it means a break with the administration. admin-istration. Robinson Is Working Congressman J. W. Robinson of Provo is one of the leaders of the sugar bloc in the house, where the Costigan bill is now up for hearing before the agriculture committee. J. W. Gillman of Orem, vice president of the National Sugar rJeet Growers' association, is now in Washington to testify before the committee in regard to the importance of the sugar beet industry in-dustry to the state of Utah. Tele-crams Tele-crams have been dispatched by Salt Lake and Provo chamber of commerce officials protesting against anySattempt to curtail the beet sugar industry which only supplies 25 per cent of the present sugar consumption of the United States. DENVER, Colo., Feb. 20 (I I!) The hearing in Washington, D. C, yesterday on the Costigan sugar bill at which A. J. S. Weaver, head of the sugar division of the farm administration outlined plans for halting expansion of the beet sugar industry, occasioned alarm in Colorado today. Gov. Edwin C. Johnson or Colorado Colo-rado sent a long telegram to President Roosevelt protesting "any curtailment of the natural growth and expansion of that ( the beet sugar) industry in the continental con-tinental United States." Similar telegrams were sent to Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace, and to U. S. Senator Pat Harrison, whose committee has charge of the senate hearings. Weaver's delineation of the administration's ad-ministration's plan was widely interpreted in-terpreted here to mean that abandonment aban-donment of tne beet sugar industry in-dustry within the United States was to be encouraged if not forced. Several spokesmen for the industry, in-dustry, however, withheld comment com-ment until they received further clarification of the administration's administra-tion's attitude and the purposes of the Costigan bill. At Greeley, Colo., J. D. Pancake, secretary of the National Beet Growers association asso-ciation refused to comment on Weaver's testimony. Previously he had commented favorably on President Roosevelt's sugar recommendations recom-mendations to congress which now are embodied in the bill introduced by Senator Edward P. Costigan. Increase Sought In Appropriation For Postoffice Possibility of increasing the appropriation for a new Provo postoffice building to $225,000 is very bright according to Congressman Congress-man T. W. Robinson who has written to Mayor A. O. Smoot asking for more data in regard to the actual space used at present by federal agencies in Provo. Mr. Robinson has conferred with ! Senator King who agrees that a i larger appropriation is necessary to provide for a building adequate to take care of the needs in this district. Mayor Smoot is preparing the data and will forward it to Wash ington immediately. on LTU With Administration Boy Is Heroic - 'I i-2 iC Blake Cunningham, 12, yearned t be a Boy Sout, and in preparation prepara-tion studied liremanship. On hi way to school in San Francisco, h saw a house afire, and roused ano rescued four of the five occupants One child died- STUDENT PLAY IN READINESS Stupendous Drama of India to Be Played Three Nights At College Hall. Student dramatists step before the footlights of the College Hall stage tomorrow night to inter- pret that famous classical drama . Trii "TV.. T ifHo C o ti Cart " of India, "The Little Clay Cart. Performances will also be given Thursday ana Saturday nights, all beginning promptly at 8 p. m. A complete dress-rehearsal tonight to-night marks theend of a strenuous strenu-ous schedule that began the second week in January. All the cast will come dressed in brilliant costumes of the orient. The stage settings will be oriental too, with new elaborate scenery constructed especially es-pecially for this play. Alternate Cast A unique feature of this play is that a different cast of major characters will be seen each of the three nights. Duplicate casts of 10 of the main roles were chosen to alternate for the first two performances. Judges, whose identity will remain unknown, will select from those groups the 10 outstanding for the honor of appearing Saturday. Complete Cast The players for Wednesday night's performance follows: Lynn Broadbent; Alice Spencer; Tom Pardoe; Margaret Bird; Miles Judd; Virginia Ekinsr William Hasler, Lorna Wentz; Ray Broad-bent; Broad-bent; Lorna Poulson; William Goodman; Grace bimpson; Joseph Crane; Harold Bateman. Preston Gledhill, Allen Soren-son; Soren-son; Milton Neiaon; Evan Nelson; Norman Freestone: Floyd Mullins Merrill Wood; Smith Jacobs; Dean Vvhite; Robert Parker; Douglas Merrill; Sherman Tanner; Jack Gibb, Alton Peterson; Clifton Boyack; Roswell Willard; May Louise Mitchell and Maxine Stewart. Stew-art. Wrestling Meet Slated Tonight In Ladies' Gym The dual wrestling meet between be-tween the B. Y. U. and the Deseret gymnasium teams will be held tonight (Tuesday) in the Ladies gym, starting at 8 o'clock. The match was erroneously er-roneously announced as for Thursday in Monday night's Herald. There will be 20 fast bouts, eight minutes each, in the various weights. The entire card is expected to be a whirlwind whirl-wind affair as both teams have developed excellent mat-men. I 1 V S J M i juiLLrllliLfuljLL ocrats Threaten Two Lehi Boys Escape Death; Car Hits Pole Driver, Hurrying To Basketball Basket-ball Game, Unacquainted With Road Turn. Keith Davis, 17, and Mack Davis, 18, of Lehi, narrowly escaped death Monday night at 9 o'clock when a light truck driven by Keith at a high rate of speed on the Provo-Pleasant Grove lower road, smashed into an electric elec-tric light pole and hurtled nearly 100 feet before coming to a stop. Suffers Loss of Blood Keith lost a great deal of blood from a deep cut on his throat and Mack suffered slight concussion of the brain. They were rushed to Dr. B. C. Linebaufifh in Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove bv Reed Crane, salesman sales-man for the Telluride Motor company, com-pany, who witnessed the craah. They were later taken to the American Fork hosnital. Keith Davis is the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Davis of Lehi, and is the yellmaster of the Lehi high school. His cousin. Mack, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Mitch Davis. The boys (were late for the Provo-Lehi Provo-Lehi ball game in Provb, and were eoiner at a high rate of speed in the 1934 Ford pickup truck when they arrived at the "S" turn where the lower highway crosses the tracks. The car zoomed straight south instead of making the turn, snapped snap-ped off the utility pole, after it had hurtled through the air about 30 feet, then smashed through a ; cedar post and rolled sideways in to an adioinine field, according to Sheriff E. G. Durnell and Deputy Sheriffs J P Gourley and Re'ibrn Christiansen. Had it nnt hcrn fnr tVir. ctni bodv of the automobile cab both it.- i - ' m me occupants or me car wouid have been killed, in the opinion of the officers. As it was. it was feared that Keith would bleed to death before he received medical attention. The lights in the west end of Provo. and also in Vineyard and Lake View, were extinguished as the result of the crash, electric clocks there showing the time as 20 minutes to nine The utilitv pole was knocked across the hieh- way. with the live wires on the roafj Tabernacle Choir Practice Tomorrow . that is equal to over a foot of snow. There was a total precipita-AU precipita-AU tabernacle choir members l'on I-04 inches from Monday are invited to be present for re- evening until Tuesday, afternoon hearsal in the stake tabernacle at and about 8-100 feil Monday 7:30 p. m. Wednesday, February morning-. 21, it is announced by Dr. Frank- The storm is considered as an lin Madsen. director. The rehearsal unusually gooc one for this time is for the purpose of preparing , of year. It has proved a deep dis-music dis-music for the stake conference appointment to those who enjoy next Sunday, February 25. discussing the water shortage. 250 Sportsmen Gather At Elks Home Entertainment J r 1 CT CL More than 250 sportsmen and their families turned out to see the motion pictures of fish and game presented by Lee Kay, game department official, at the Provo Elks club Monday night. The show was sponsored by the Provo Conservation Con-servation asociation. A total of 268,200 fish were planted througa ihe cooperation of the Provo association with the federal and state fish hatcheries, it was reported by Harold B. Makin, in setting forth the activities activ-ities of the association. Further, he stated, t;ie natchery at Midway Mid-way and Kamas did their part of fish planting during 1933 and through the cooperation of other fish and game associations in Wasatch and other counties, a total of 795,000 fish were planted in Utah streams. Feed Elk Many other activities were undertaken, under-taken, such as feeding elk on Mtj Timpanogos. pheasant and duck feeding and closing of streams after certain dates when the SILVER BLOC USES 'ROBOT' AT HEARING Senators King and Wheeler Make Use Of Device To Aid Silver WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 (U.R) The house silver bloc relied on two senators and a "mechanical robot" today to prove to a banking and currency cur-rency sub-committee that the -Wheeler "silver amendment should be written into the Goldsborough monetary authority bill. The "robot" will follow Senators William H. King, Dem., Utah, and Burton K. Wheeler, Dem., Mont., at the committee hearing. The intricate machine which somewhat resembles a toy merry-go-round, will, according to its inventor, "make a mechanical analogy of the entire economic situation." By means of levers, fulcrums, weights and tags, it is supposed to show just what every proposed monetary policy will do. Most of all it is said to be able to back the Wheeler amendment under which 1,000,000,000 ounces of silver sil-ver would be purchased, with "real" silver certificates issued against the purchases. The inventor. Walter E. Trent, who has more than 10O American patents, said the device would be of great assistance to the "brain trust." "It would act as a mechanical aid in fighting out intricate currency cur-rency moves and fallacies, if any," said Trent. HEAVY STORM j VISITS PROVO I Evon the duck-s sought cover m tn stcadv rainfall that started Muonay morning, arizziea otr hou "?on , than hegan . even naruer ivionciay evening ana rain ed tnrougn tne mgnt until Tuesday Tues-day afternoon. Tnc siorm showed signs of continuing on through the afternoon ana evening. The total precipitation for the storm was 1.12 inches up until 2:30 o'clock Tuesday, a rainfall water is too low for the protection protec-tion of the fish. The necessity of every sportsman sports-man in Provo joining the association associa-tion to help put over some of the plans that are now in front of the state game department as well as local associations, was stressed. stress-ed. A bier meetine will be held in March to discuss some of the im- i portant problems, the date to be announced through the newspaper. news-paper. Fish planted through the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries, were iisted as follows: No. 2 rainbows, 19,500, No. 2Msi rainbows 255,500, large sfze, 1 to 5 pounds 1,700, No. 1 blackspotted trout 33,000, No. l1 Lock Leven 45,000, two-inch Lock Leven 4,000. Total, 138,700. Fish planted through the co operation of the State Fish Hatch- ery at Springville, were as f ol - lows: 7-inch rainbows 43,000, 8- inch rainbows 20,000, large rain bows, 1 to 5 pounds, 1,200, large Lock Leven 250, tnree-inch Lock Leven 65,000. Total 129,500. Ml FIRST ARMY MAIL PLANE 8 HOURS LATE Foy and Rain Impede Progress Pro-gress of Westbound Armv Flier SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 20 (U.R)-Lieutenant M. .1. (Iriggs, flying the first westbound west-bound army mail plane, landed land-ed today in Las Vegas, Nov., at 8:45 a. m., M.S.T., eight hours overdue, the officials at Salt Lake airport announced. an-nounced. Griggs left Salt Lake last night at 8:09 p. m., MST, 10 minutes ahead of schedule. He landed at Milford, Nev., and took off again at 11:40 p. m., MST, returning an hour later. At 1:30 a. m., PST. he continued the run. Others Are Delayed Although no definite report had been made here, officials at the airport said they believed fog and rain had detained Griggs. His plane carried six bags of mail. Seven other planes, scheduled to leave for eastern points this morning, morn-ing, were held down because of bad -weather. Major Oldfield, in charge of the army airport assignments, said it was doubtful that the scheduled 2:30 p. m. trip would be made to-lav. to-lav. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 20 hum-Capt. hum-Capt. Ira C. Eaker early today cancelled plans for his initial airmail air-mail flight to Salt Lake City because be-cause of persistently inclement weather and a "zero" ceiling. Eaker, scheduled to have left here at 6 p. m. last night, waited through the night in the hope that the weather would clear and permit per-mit an early morning takeoff. But at 6:30 a. m. he decided to cancel the flight and make a new attempt at-tempt at 3:15 p. m. JURY'S ACTION IS CRITICIZED Judge Abe W. Turner of the P'ourth district court roundly scored the language of a petition brought to court Monday in which approximately 700 citizens of Uintah county objected to the verdict ver-dict against John E. McNaughton, principal of the Vernal schools, who was found guilty of altering and defacing marks and brands on sheep belonging to John L. Sid-doway Sid-doway and William H. Siddoway. The petition was presented during dur-ing the court action that came up during a motion for a new trial for McNaughton. The judge remarked remark-ed that the language used was improper, unethical and in contempt con-tempt of orderly judicial procedure proced-ure and if the matter were then on for hearing in Uintah county that the signers of the petition would be summoned to explain their part in the transaction. He is considering further action in the matter. The charges were directed against the jurors in the long-drawn-out case, who heard, of course, all of the evidence. The judge pointed out that inasmuch as the court room will hold fewer than 100 persons the statements were signed by many people who could not have heard the evidence. Judge Turner now has the motion mo-tion for a new trial under advisement advise-ment while counsel are preparing briefs on the points of law in dispute. dis-pute. j Legion Meeting To Hear Visitors Members of the Provo post No. 13. "American Legion will hear from a group of visiting speakers-at speakers-at the meeting Wednesday. The list includes John Morley. Eureka, district commander; H. R. Lang-try, Lang-try, publicity oficer and a member mem-ber from the CWA county board. Final arrangements will be made for the reception to be 1 staged for National Commander Edward Hayes who comes to Provo, February 24. Tickets for the luncheon will be on sale, ac cording to George Vincent, post adjutant. o) 0) Provo Stores Remain Open On Thursday Provo stores and business houses will not close Thursday, Thurs-day, on account of Washington's Wash-ington's birthday. The retail merchants' committee of the Provo chamber of commerce made a careful study of the holiday holi-day closing question some time ago which resulted in the approval of a list containing con-taining seven holidays on which the stores would close. This list will be adhered ad-hered to strictly unless a deviation therefrom is authorized auth-orized bv the retail committee. commit-tee. The list of holidays on which all stores will close is as follows: Jan. Jj-N"pv Year's day. May 30 Decoration day. July 4 Independence day. July 21 Pioneer day. Sept. 3 Labor day. Nov. 29 Thanksgiving day. Dee. 25 Christmas day. C. OF C. PLANS PROJECT AID Provo Seeks One Member On Executive Committee On Deer Creek. Appointment of an additional member on the Deer Creek executive execu-tive committee to come from Provo Pro-vo will be requested of Governor ;enry H. riiwod, in compliance vith a request voiced at the Monday Mon-day night meeting of the board ot directors of the iiovo ciiamber of commerce. Alex Hedquist, president presi-dent and Clayton Jenkins, secretary secre-tary ')i the organization, were authorized au-thorized to forward the request to Governor Blood. Kobinson Absent The only member of the executive ex-ecutive committee at the present time is Congressman J. W. Hobin-snn, Hobin-snn, whose continued absence at Washington leaves Provo out of touch with the now developments on the project. Elmer Jacob, city engineer, is manager of the project, proj-ect, but does not sit in with the executive committee meetings. Dr. Lowry Nelson, chairman of the publicity committee, made the suggestion Monday night that the executive committee should appoint ap-point a paid publicity man to spread more widely information to the public. The dhectors also endorsed a move to conduct Open Forum meetings at which Attorney I. E. Brockbank and others will explain the purposes of the proposed metropolitan met-ropolitan water district legislation which will be enacted by a special session of the legislature if Governor Gov-ernor Biooo sees Lit u) issue he-call. he-call. Hospital Building Bids The committee named to in vestigate the bids for the Utah State Hospital building program reported favorable results from conferences held with the state building commission at Salt Lake City. In order to give local tradesmen a chance to bid on parts of the work, the commissioners com-missioners indicated their willingness willing-ness to ask for separate, alternate bids for the plumbing and wiring. The general bids will also include bids for wiring and plumbing:. The commission will then be in a position posi-tion to accept t::c ,-nosl advantageous advantage-ous bids. Announcement was made that Howard Patience, Denver, speaker it the recent membership banquet would be brought back to Provo to speak at a meeting of the employes em-ployes of all the business houses. A communication was read from the Pacific Coast Canneries, Inc. that the Provo plant would possibly pos-sibly be in operation next year, providing the sewer system was extended to that section of the city. The directors voted to endorse the observance of Decoration day as proposed by the Veterans of Foreign Wars here. A proposal to ask the city commission com-mission to appropriate $500 to illuminate il-luminate Bridal Veil falls at night was tabled. BEAUTY SHOPS CLOSE It is announced that the beauty shops of Provo will be closed all dav Thursday, Washington's birthday. mm 1 0 PATIENTS DIE IN FIRE AT HOSPITAL Eight Inches Of Snow In New York; Traffic Is Delayed By I NITIO!) PRFISS A cold wave rode down on the northeastern states today on the heels ot a driving blizzard, bliz-zard, causing 17 known deaths and endangering traffic traf-fic and shipping. Tftreo boats were in distress dis-tress off Massachusetts. Two of them were grounded. A fourth apparently was in distress in Long Island Sound. Five Patients Rescued Fire during last night's blizzard caused the death of ten bed-ridden women patients in the hospital hos-pital of the Memorial Home for the Aged at Brookville, Pa. Five bedfast patients were rescued. Five other deaths were attributed to the storm in east and central Pennsylvania, including a boy who fell and broke his neck during a snow battle. A man and an unidentified woman wo-man died in Brooklyn of heart disease, caused by exhaustion from struggling through snowdrifts snow-drifts to reach the subway. Only one plane broke through the snowstorm to land at Newark airport this morning. In New York an eight -inch snowfall was packed into drifts four feet deep by the wind, creating creat-ing the worst traffic tieup in years, and affecting half a million mil-lion commuters. The delay hi transportation caused the Stock Exchange and the curb exchange to postpone the opening an hour. Ixnv Temperatures Some residents of suburban communities were temporarily snowbound. The temperature fell 21 degrees to 9 above zero, tving the low record for Fen 20 In Connecticut, the snowfall reached a depth of 20 to 30 inches Western New York reported subzero sub-zero temperatures, with an unofficial unof-ficial reading of 14 below ;.t Buffalo. Buf-falo. Motorists reported drifts 10 to 15 feet high alon th. roa is BOTTLERS TO MEET WASHINGTON, D C. Feb 20 Soft drink manufacturers of Idaho, Utah and Wyoming, attending attend-ing the annual convention of the Tri-State Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages, in Newhouse Hotel. Salt Cake City, March 2 and 3. will hear a discussion of the proposed NRA code for their industry by James C. Lee of Birmingham, Ala igys: GRAND ISLAND. Neb. Feb. 19 Glad they didn't start the army fliers out on thin route till morning, for its a tough night. But talking t army pilot-all the way across today, and gee, they are just kids. I preached and pled with 'em if it got tough to turn around and go back, or set her down in an emergency field. Don't try to show how brave you are. Show how sensible you are. There is not a, letter being written that one-tenth one-tenth as valuable a,s one of you kids' lives. But they are just so keen to make good well, it kinder cares you. Mr. Roosevelt, I believe it would do great good if you'd warn 'em that you don't expect the service the level-headed old experienced regulars delivered. deliv-ered. Col. Arnold, an old friend of mine, In charge of all of 'em in the wet, told me in Salt Lake today that he had been preaching that to 'em, I know you will like the way the regular mail pilots take it (and most of them are ex-soreheads.) ex-soreheads.) They are fine men of fine judgment. Vurs, ROGERS |