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Show Kr-v.. . ; - ;--,----.::' : v"-v-: -7:: - - - X;- - " ' ' 1 HERALD PHONES Business . , . . ... .. ... A. .. . A495 Editorial .494 Society . . ... . . . . .y..-. . .496 DOLLARS SPENT In Utah County Means Utah County Prosperity 0 FORTY-FIFTH YEAR, NO. 130. PROVO, UTAH, COUNTY, UTAH. yM O N D A YF E B R U A R Y 2a, 1931. SIX PAGES TODAY PRICE FIVE CENTS G9rca ; 71 . . . ; rfi v t".'- Z-... . 7 ' 1-XX "-7; ,11 tun ' ' 4t4 II I I w . AW - 1 I I I I I 1 I I I I I' vW . - J jL7 V vJI 11 li ii ii OS -roin'iAn ' . By . " Arthur Brisbane . (Copyright, j.931) .Chief Cajeme..-. Vallev Farmers M'-araaiae One Powerful Swede Great) Land, Fine Men m .-r name Of SS-l Valley city is Ciudad Obregon. honoring tM .mejj here' Bt all the natives call the ?itv bv it old name, Cajeme, and fiat nlme wilUast. It is that of a r?. type of the hSi intellikence and powerful will. :;g& having arranged to marry a beautiful Indiari girl of the Yaqul - v nnrth on a short trip. stole the girl's affections t. her. ' v' -; - ' Cajeme on his return rdld what Waa necessary, according to the Yaqi code. He hunted up the of f i-cer i-cer and killed him, found the irl and killed Jier. fought as long as he could; then they haned him. Ail kmds of nationalities live in this vX? United States Talnike Germans, Spanish, and they all like 1 Cajeme. . , Ti LXJONS that will see this are IV1 interested In "boom towns.' -This is a real one, Twelve years ago this spot held only a railroad aiding and one .mall buildtag. It baa-twelve thousand inhabitants now and one hundred and twenty thousand 7 acres under intensive cultivation are irrigated from the Yaqul river. Storage for enmigh water to irrigate nine hundred thou - and acres more, could be bdUt . t a 'cost of only-five million dollar. The 'Mexican government doubtless will do it. . - : ; - V -t av n -7nomrwhere on earth a farming country as good as Ki- hnt there is none better. They ' harvest Ithe rice crop In December, - ni.nt wheat on the same , land in January and harvest that in June They ship hundreds of carloads o-tmih o-tmih and thousands! of tons of green peas at a season when the United States d,oes not - proaucc Keither. You drive through eight Athousand-acres of green peas, ine full grown, hard, round - peas are shipped north because' commercial economy demands it. "Of the delicate deli-cate small, green peas fifty tons a week are pac&ed 4n the Yaqui JFruit company packing shed. Two' hundred hun-dred tons a week in the fields are thrown: aside, fed to pigs, horses, cows and donkeys. You. will see a contented burro standing in front of -amairbarrelful of fresh peas. The rice fields and all other crops - are' worked W machinery, and there is none of the hardship of the old rice fielti days, dreaded by slaves. The peas are picked ty hand, a thousand men and women picking one great field this morning. ; Arthur xHofmahn and E. J. Saal tun the rice mlllf for TRosenberg 'Brothers and company, San Fran cisco. Three thousand tons p polished rice are piled up in bags in the warehouse. Seventeen thousand thou-sand tons have been shipped, abroad. Europe gits all of this high grade, (Continued On Pege Two) Die In Still Oil Blast PORT ARTHUR, ; Tex.; Feb. 23 (URK Four persons lost their lives and nearly a acore were injured in an" explosion at. the Gulf , refinery ahortly 'before midnight last night. 7' .The .explosion occurred in a. hijgh pressure gasoline stiU. 'The shock was felt as far as Beaumont, 20 ... miles way. ' . - J. ,,.;A' Fire, from the blazing jstUl was . thrown over more , than a block of . around, : showering other : tanks " nearby. The fire was put out after several . hours N of fighting, and, . no other tanks ignited. . . .. The Weather Utah Generally fair Sunday ; lifc- ti chanjsre in temperature. Maxtmnm temp. Friday ... .f; - SSnlainm temp. m SILT If Girl Dies When Auto Plunges - ' Into Jordan River; Two American Fork Boys Saved; Boy Meets Death In Fall. SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 23 (UP) Two accidents one a fall and the other an auto crash-claimpd the lives of sa youth and girl late yesterdays Miss Martha Pepper, ; 19, drowned y when the car in which"she was riding plung;ed from a city street into Jordan rier. Carl Andreason, 19, and Orvtlle Despain, drinver, 20, both of Ameri can Fork, were slightly injured. Two EBcape Death Harold Tarbett, 14, slipped on the roof of his father's store and fell to an alley below. A fractured skull and broken heck caused his death an hour later. Despain drove the car straight off the street into the river. He explained that he thought there was a bridge there. Later, it appeared, ap-peared, he was misguided vby the railing of a foot bridge. X The two. youths managed to ex tricate themselves: from the im mersed car, but by the time they freed Miss Pepper, she was dead. Despain said he was traveling between SO and 35 miles an hour The Tarbett boy was Jellied when he swung on a wire from the roof A A. .'" A a , - mienaing io angnt on a fire es cape below. He missed his aim and fell to the ground below. . The youth had been collecting bottles which had accumulated on the roof. Woman And Partner Are Executed WESTERN PENITENTI A R Y, ROCKVIEW, Pa, Feb. 23 (UJJ) The brief , criminal careers of Irene Schroeder and Glenn Dague ended in a bare, stark room today, where they were electrocuted in the half light of dawn. The. state of Pennsylvania claim ed their lives for the. murder of Corporal Brady Paul of the state highway patrol. Promptly at 7 a. m., Mrs. Schroeder Schroe-der was led down the corridor from the death cell, passed through the green door to the execution room and was electrocuted at 7:05 a. m. Dague was executed eight minutes min-utes later. . . ? It was the ' first time a woman ever had; been - electrocuted . In Pennsylvania. Forty-two years ago a -woman was hanged. . The calm courage that carried Mrs. y Schroeder and her lover. Dague, through - the crimes they committed because they were daz-tled daz-tled with visions of wealth stayed with her In the last speeding mom meats ox ner jjie. Melba, Famous Soprano Dies MELBOURNE. Australia. 'Feb 23 k UE Dame Nellie Melba; who in 1902 persuaded the London opera house to give Caruso a trial, dittd here today after an Illness of sev- Death came to the opera .star. one oi we world's greatest sopranos in her sixty-eixth year after an illness ; which befell her while in, Cairo, Egypt, and for which she consulted specialists In Germany, Australia, France and England without success. , Homeward bound to her native Australia, she became seriously ill aboard the Uner. Cathay Nov. 4, befprethe ship docked, at Free mantle and doctors would not permit per-mit her to land. When the Cathay touched Melbourne she -was taken, ashore to a hospital, and since that time has hovered between life and death. . - t '- - : FECSZJAL CONTTiOX. , .LIMA, Pent, Feb. 13 JJ!) The government' military - movement against a rebel gartrson at Arequi pa continued satisfactorily today. tne ministry ox interior announced y MBMfJi -to:-: A l ' v ' -2- DRIMWHL MOT BE Officers Investigate Accident At Orem in Which Man Was Killed. Thorough investigation into fhe accident on theystate highway at Orem Friday evening which, caused the death of William Benson Brad-ney, Brad-ney, 74, retired dairyman of Long-mont, Long-mont, Colo., .Jsvas-made Saturday by County Attorney I. E. Brockbank and Sheriff E, G. DurneU. Details of the accident as given to the officers. by JLeo Peacock of Sterling, Utah, driver ofjthe -ear iwhich struck Bradney, - indicated that Peacock was not to blame, ac In colnsr Into details of the acci dent Peacock stated that hewas traveling north at a speed not to ex ceed 30 miles per hour. As he approached ap-proached Bradney stopped. Steps In Front of Car The driver supposed the pedes trian intended to Temain standing hmtil his car had passed, but to his surprise Bradney stepped forward fight in the path of the car and was Knocked torne pavemem w.n such force asto euffer a ibroleen ieg and Internal v injuries, from which he died -a short time after. Peacock declared .that Bradney'a sudden v appearance in front or the car confused him which accounted forThls failure to stop hefore running run-ning off the highway and through a nearby yard. y - Mr. Bradney, with his wife, had been visiting at the home of his daughter, Mrs. J, B. Sumner, during winter. He- was born in x-eon, Iowa, March 23, 1867. He served as sheriff of ; Franklin -county,. . Ne hraska, from 1901 to 1904, Two other daughters and a son survive. They are x w. copiey .ana Aars. . . Davis, Wheatland, ; Wyo and Wil liam Searle ; Braaney, . worland. Wyoming. .,;-.. Funeral services for William Benson Ben-son Bradne 7 of Longmont, ..Colorado, ..Colo-rado, who was killed' Friday vhen he struck by an automobile on the state highway at Orem, will be held in the Sharon ward chapel Tuesday at 1 o'clock. Bishop O. H. Ander son will preside. -7 . ' r ' The body may be viewed at the X B. Sumner residence . in Orem prior to the services. Interment will be in the Provo city cemetery, . Bpsketball i Lindon . . . . . . .16 , . ' ' -V7 - -" Vernal vv. . .v.'lX IX. Vineyard; i f v .25 Suxmydd: HELD Hie Surveyor Charts the I Kl FA f Wires By UNITED PRESS i , - .. .. . .. .. - f 4000 BETURN TO WORK 7 CAMDEN, N. J., ' Feb. 23 (CJi) Some 4,000 men will be returned to work at the shipyards of the New York Shipbuilding company here tomorrow to-morrow when work will be resumed on two new 30,000 ton liners for the United States Line. . ' GIRL KILLS FATHER CHICAGO. Feb. 23 OLE) An 18- year-old girl killed her father today to save her mother from a beating. The girl, Harriet Schneider, was arresieu ana iieiu iur vl uuiuuci o investigation. . She told authoritiea that the father, Albert Schneider, 49, had been drinking heavily since he lost his team job six or seven months ago. HOLDS LOOP RECORD GLENDALE, Cal., Feb. 23 OXE) Dorothy Hester, 19, Portland Ore, girl flier, held the world record for women of five outside loops, set at Grand Centrail Air terminal yester day. Her. achievement was official ly supervised and the record will stand, it was announced. OUTBREAK AVERTED MEXICALI. Baja, GaMeac. Feb. r23 Cj;-A threatened outbreak of hungry unemployed men which has been scheduled for Sunday, failed to materialize, and officials declar ed today that they , believed danger of food raids had passed, tempor arily at least. 7 - - ' - , . . ' ,'- '- HEED DISTRESS CALLS . EUREKA, Califs Feb. 23 (HE) The Standard 7 Oil tanker ' El Segundo messaged shortly before noon today that it was standing by the Muneleon, : lumber , schooner which sent out distress calls after it lost its propellor and was being buffeted by high seas.: , X STEASD2R SINKING , ROME, Feb 23 ttlE) At least a dosen ships . have 7 wirelessed; or otherwise signalled their distress in the death dealing storm of increasing increas-ing violence gripping Mediterranean countries. yOf these, the most important im-portant so far reported was the British 2500 ton steamer. Baron Sempill, reported sinking 112 miles south of Marseilles. , CANNERS MEET . . .OGDEN, Utah, Feb. 23 . (ILEX Utah Canners' . association opened their r two-day convention today with a meeting at the Hotel, Bige-; low. President JosephxF. Barker presided and Mayor Ora Bundy of Ogden, welcomed the members to the city. XL K Herrinflrton of the . f Utali Canning company, Ogden, ' "If represented the association inac-' inac-' - I cepting the' welcome. ; HONOR MEMORY OF WASHINGTON President Hoover Pays Ho- mage To First President At Ghurch. WASHINGTON. Feb. 23 U.E) - President Hoover led the nation . in paying, homage to George Washing ton yesterday, journeying to near by Alexandria, Vbl., .on the 199th anniversary of the birth of the first president to attend services at the church where Washington worshipped.: Occupying the same pew former ly used by. Washington at the historic his-toric 'Christ church, Mr.' Hoover heard a sermon on "The Religious Life of WashingtonJ' and then sent ms military aide to piace a wreatn upon Washington's tomb at Mt. Vernon. The text of the sermon 1 was read by Be v. .William Jackson Morton from the old- Washington family bible,' presented to the church in 1804 by George Washing ton Parke Curtis, the first presi dent's adopted son.,. The president was accompanied at the Alexandria services by Mrs, Hoover .; and their 7 five-year-old granddaughter, Peggy Ann. Memorial services also were held yesterday at the Phlck church, in Fairfax county, Va. Washington assisted in plans for this structure while serving as vestryman of the original Phlck church. , BILL, the BARBER ) Talks About Taxation j : "Well, I guess the folks that voted for the tax amendments are going to get all they asked lor," said Bill the Barber, as he trimmed the other hair on the dome of the bald headed customer. .nt looks ' like the Jegislature, i goin' to inoreaae. the taxes all right. But .the eruy that expected to. get a cut on the taxes on his iiome or his farm is sure in for a bump. -"You know, I thought the inten tion of the tax commission was to equalize, the tax burden - and let the fellow who could afford to pay more do It. t And you remember they talked about gettin the fel lows that don't pay anything and sUII have their kids educated free and : havin' them help - . bear v tha burden. . " "Well," said the bald headed customer, cus-tomer, 1 guess it's a case of getting all they can.; It looks like some of the legislators are competing with each other to see who can find the most ways to increase the taxes.' "For my part;" jBaid BiU the Barber, To always glad when the legislature adjourns: It a private business was run like those guys run the lawmakinv it would soon go -under. Looks like every one figures he has to Introduce as many bills, as possible for the benefit of the folks back home. " TVhat iid you ay? No, tonic Yeah, I thinly some of the legist- tors are .all wet too. Thanks, come X 7 Special Session Finds Little Support Among Legisla- y. - " tors; Flood of Bills Are Ready For Consideration. SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 23 (UP) Utah's legislators assembled as-sembled today with the realization real-ization that tax revision wijl actually be ) debated on the floor of each house. Special order of business will bring the personal income in-come tax measure sure onto the senate floor late today while the same means will bring the same bill onto the house floor' Wednes- day. . . With virtually every legislator against, the idea of a special session, ses-sion, the remainder of the session will witness some fast and furious law making. . Hard Work Ahead- There must be intensive and concentrated work to dispose of important bills. All the tax revis ion measures have yet to be dis posed of, which, in y itself, could well occupy the remaining time of the legislature1. In addition, there are such important measures as the proposed $1,510,000 bond issue. the removal of the state prison, ap propriation bills, flood control, uni form motor .vehicle laws, reforming the Ttate" highway eystemY the natural gas and tobacco, taxes, unemployment relief and many outers. - . 7 " une zavoraoie angle is tne cooperative co-operative spirit between the two houses. The house has yet to kill a senate bill, whileUhe senate has killed only two house bills and one resolution. Such a condition makes tor expeditious legislation. Despite the fact that Washing ton's birthday is being celebrated today, the legislature convened as usual and hoped to transact consld erable business. fKIENDSPAY TRIBUTE TO CP.WARNIffi Final tributes of honor and respect re-spect were paid to the memory of Charles Peter Warnick, former bishop of the Manila ward, at .impressive .im-pressive funeral service held Sun day afternoon , at ;the Timpanogos staKe tabernacle here. The services which were carried out in accordance 'with the wishes Of the' deceased' were in charge of Bishop I M. Atwood of theManila ward, a spn-ln-laW of the late bishop. . The opening number, "It Was For Thee, ' was -sung by Mrs. Velma L. Rasmuson,, accompanied by Mrs. Anna Hinckley, both of Provo. Patriarch . W. Swenson-of the Timpanogop stake offered the open ing prayer. , , ; Reminiscences of early days '' in Pleasant Grove when C. P. Warnick was an orphan emigrant boy were related by Andrew Jemwm, assist ant church historian. He told : qf the , intimate bond of -, f riexdhip formed ; between the ; two) men 05 years ago. . - A male quartet under the' direc tion of George Monson sang, "Come, Come Ye, Saints."' y ' '- Abel John Evans or jehl, former member of the Alpine stake presi dency told of a mutual agreement (Continued On Page Six? Police Qiief Goes " After Stolen Car Chief of Police-Otto Birlc, aecom-panied aecom-panied by one of the youths whp is alleged to have stolen a oar from Grant Penrod, went" to Carbon county Sunday to assist in recover ing the car, which was found on an isolated road between Price and Cleveland, Chief Birk states. -v When lound, the car 'was "in very dilapidated condiUon, XThlef Birk states.- The. front Cghts liad been kicked out by the juvenile who is jstfcl at large, the boy-with the chief told him. The car was towed to Price, where it-was put in tharge of Sheriff S. N. Buss. Bridge Slayer Faces Trial 5 v. '. w. v. -. .v.". :.....'..: v.. v.'. ...-. mi Mrs. Dorothy Bennett, of Kansas City, shown here, is due to go on trial Feb. 25, charged with , the f urder of her husband, John G. ennett, whom e is accused of shooting to death in the fall, of 1929 following an argument in a game of bridge. Mrs. . Bennett is to be defended by former Senator James A. Reed. Quarrel Over Bids at Bridge Game Leads To Killing of Husband.' KANSAS CITY, Feb. 23 (HE) Mrs. Myrtle Bennett 36, faced trial today on first degree muraer, charges growirig out of the fatal shooting of her husband after they quarreled over a bridge game. . " John G. Bennett, wealthy per fume salesman, was killed in his luxurious apartment Sept. 29, 1929 Guests said he went set on his wife's four spade raise after he opened the bid. Mrs. Bennett was quoted as call- Ine him a "bum bridge player-for which he reputedly slapped her. , "Only a cur would slap ftia wife in front' of guests," witnesses said she cried. . y . Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hoffman, who lived in the same apartment and were playing with the Bennetts, said announced he would spend the night at a hotel, and turned to leave the room. Mrs. Bennett allegedly seized n revolver and fired four shots at her husband, two of which took effect. He died instantly. Lucy Gates To Sing In Provo Lucy Gates, "Utah's; own" inter- ftationallv known ycoloratura so- tirano. will armear in a concert k w r - , - - here, Thursdayat 8 p. m., in 3ol- lege hall under the auspices of the Brigham , Young university arts course, y She wiU be assisted by Miss Becky Almond, accompanist. ThLrwiULbe the first appearance of the famous singer In Provo since 1929. , 7 She has been ' hailed by critics everywhere as 'a great Artist, pos sessed with a marvelous voice and a radiant personality . Her program ' includes . some ' of the favorite . numbers form the great operas and other classical se lections that have brought her the acclaim of two continents. Prize .Winners In ' Contest Announced The' following winners "were . an- nouneed ; in the Progress of Provo sale today by D.'Orlo Allen, secre tary of the Provo chamber of com merce : .First prize, living room aet. M. H. Graham, 285 South First Bast street; ; second - prize, dining ; room" set, Loy Forschee, 115 West Fifth South: third. prize, radio. Jack Rup- per, 470 East Center; fourth prize chair, Clyde Holdaway, Vineyard fifth prize, William Lewis Miller, 70 West. First. North. Sixth prize has not yet .been -claimed. ... ' - EMBARGO BILLS FAIL WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (OLE) AU embargo bills before the house ways -and- means committee were voted down for this session by the committee today. , , -f V MeMb. ' "jftii.foiinm i WOMAN FACES MURDER TRIAL DESERT IS SEARCHED Escaping Meni Climb 20-Foot 'WaJI Four. f the Men Seen yt' Pool. Hall Several Hoars , Later.; One Is Captured. , ; PLORENCE Ariz.; Feb, 23 (UPtA pack of bloodhounds nd six prison guards searched search-ed the desert regions near here today for 15 of the 16 convicts who ; escaped from the penitentiary Sunday af-v ternooh during a .baseball game. N y' The, men climbed the 20-foot wall, one after another, and disappeared. The last convict to go ver, a Mexi-cart Mexi-cart ; serving a life rerm for mur-der, mur-der, was captured a-few minutes after the escape" was discovered.. Warden William Delbrldge said he had no idea of the whereabouts of the others. . ' 7N. "Four of the convicts were seen at a pool hall at Coolldge several hours after the escape," he said, "but efforts ; to '.hold them ; were futile. The convicts are not -armed.? ,;- " r. 7- - A steel girder, on the ground for" the erection of a new cell house. was the means of escape. It was ' leaned against- the . wall and the men climbed it to the top of the waJ?-.,:-7 -J - The escape, Delbrldge ; believed,-was believed,-was not premeditated. -When a guard turned his back the gang scaled the wall. The , guard, whose , name was withheld, was discharged. One of the escaped convicts was believed tp have stolen a horse from the prison farm. The others were said to be fleeing on foot. -- OriginaUy only 15 were thought' to; have escaped, but prison authorities admitted, today that 15 were still at large. -7 , Utah County Jail Break Frustrated Hole In Outer Wall Discov ered, By Sheriff's Men; v Tools Are Found." An attemnted fail brenk was foiled by members of' the sheriff's 1 forcex here Sunday wnen & hole j six' or eight inches deep and several inches in diameter was discovered under a prisoner's bed in the outer wall of. the' hospital wad, according to Sheriff -E. G.. DurnelL' ' ;; . FUe is Found . V'-; A XUe . with which the hole had been dug and an, improvised sing were found under the mattress where.- the prisoner had slept ' on the foor, the sheriff states. ' Had the efforts of the prisoners digging their way out been success ful, they might have made It os.7 .sible 'for ten or twelve of the 28 A prisoners to Vhave . escaped, it is v stated.' --X7.--77-. ..... ' 7 . The sheriff expresses the belief, however, that' only' four or five would nave gone even if the op portunity had been afforded all to make their- get-away. ' s ; The" sheriff believes the-file and slug had been smuggled into the jail by some of the prisoners wfco assisted the custodian in some outside out-side work: ' Veterans Need : Is; Subject Of : 7 Hoover Survey WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (EE) -' President Hoover, in connection with his study of the veterans loan bill, is conducUng a survey to determine de-termine the amount of - distress among "world war veterans, it was announced. today at ; the VVhte House, 'v' -7;i; w- 7777'i-;'V ; -; - Mr, Hoover expects to have the results of this investigation In" time to send his message on the bill to congress by the middle of the week. It Is believed certain he will .veto the MIL- ' " 7. ' - x |