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Show Hera. So They Say! The people today are Just as religious re-ligious as ever, but they don't "go to church. It cant be helped, hut it is hard on the professional clergy Very Rev. W. P. Inge, London's "gloomy dean."' - Weather UTAH Unsettled tonight and Thursday probably local thunderstorms; thunder-storms; no change in temperature. Maximum temp. Tuesday ... 9$ Minimum temp. Tuesday 57 FIFTY-FIRST YEAR, NO. 3 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, W ED NESDAY, JULY 8, 1936 COMPLETE TELEGRAPH UNITED PRESS NEWS 8ERVICB PfclCE FIVE CENTS This 'Heat9 Talk Leaves Him Cold .-..v.v .V.'.V.'.V.'A'.SV rLJUUrP U Id. l I a a PnVY m n fl m ?fl 1 ..w-itt(tiM-.--f- At a time when flushed, perspiring men are looking enviously at gossamer-clad womenfolk, and glaring menacingly at acquaintances who' explain that it's not the heat, but the humidity, this little man finds that all's right with the world. The mercury can keep on going go-ing up, but it doesn't get him down. He just greets the torrid season with a splash, bathing those pudgy feet in the waters of a swimming pool- v nearest substitute to a good old mud puddle that he could find. MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN Government Cotton Stocks, Lonr a Headache, Now in Active Demand; Improved Industry ; Backward Crop Deplete Holding To 1933 ; Level ; Agriculture Chiefs v Fear Drought Will Bring Rise in Ost of Food; No Danger of Real Shortage?; Price Increases Would Be Unjustified. Henry Wallace's Agriculture Department De-partment go around with broad grins on their faces whenever any one mentions cotton these days. Unbelievable as it may seem, there is a shortage of cotton. Textile Tex-tile manufacturers are bombarding the AAA with urgent wires pleading plead-ing for the release of Government-held stocks in order to keep their mills running. A million bales of this reserve released several weeks ago has been consumed, and the AAA will shortly unload another large supply. The demand has brought Government stocks of cotton down to approximately 3.500.000 bales about half of the maximum once held. AAA executives believe that before be-fore tbe 1936 crop reaches the market the Government reserve wilt be cut to around 2.500.000 bales. This was the amount in Government possession when the Now Deal took office in 1933. Two reasons are behind the rising demand: (1) Marked improvement im-provement in business. Principal consumers of cotton in recent months have been makers of automobiles. auto-mobiles. xre: shirts, dresses, upholstery, up-holstery, and similar consumer goods. i2 This year's crop is somewhat backward due to inclement in-clement weather conditions. COTTON DEALS When the Roosevelt administration adminis-tration took office it inherited I..V0.0K) bales of cotton from Hoover's farm board. This has been disposed of. The New Deal itself went heavily into the busi-l busi-l Continued on Page Two) TO MEET TONIGHT Members of le Provo junior chamber of corhmerce will meet in the chambe of commerce rooms tonight at 8 o'clock, it is announced by Earl Wignall, prcsi dent. Relief Funds Running Low, Says Director Limitations on State Sales Tax Law May Work Hardship Soon. SALT LAKE CITY, July 8 U.P Shackled by limitations of the state sales tax law, Darrell J. Greenwell, state welfare director, warned today thai? Utah social security and direct' relief funds may be exhausted before the end of the year. Social welfare cases, he said, are increasing at the rate of three per cent a monWi. Completion of the summer employment season, it was feared, would increase this problem additionally. Cases in .this classification are those which cannot can-not be handled either by the WPA or . under social security legislation. legisla-tion. Small Surplus Only a small surplus existed last month after all costs had been met, Greenwell explained, and officials believe that an increasing in-creasing security load may amplify ampli-fy the situation to a pointe where funds available to the welfare department will be insufficient to meet demands. Although the stnte sales tax brings in approximately $3,000.-t $3,000.-t Continued on Page Three) GROUPS JOIN IN SAFETY DRIVE With the view of driving home the lessons of traffic safety, the Provo junior chamber of commerce com-merce and the Provo Safety council are cooperating in a special safety drive fciis week. The organizations will cooperate with the Paramount theater, which is screening the show "and Sudden Sud-den Death" Friday and Saturday and are correlating this wiVh a publicity drive on safety that includes in-cludes a parade, a newspaper campaign cam-paign and possibly a special cam-: cam-: paign of the traffic courts. Bert Oakley, who is secretary of both organizations sponsoring the drive, is chairman of the cam-! cam-! paign, and has outlined a pro- gram which is designed to give I concrete examples of the dangers of traffic violations to motorists. ; Automobiles which have been ; (Continued on Page Three) City Cuts Relief Handling Costs In Half Under NewPlan DUNKIRK, N. Y., July 8 (U.R) A 50 per cent reduction in the cost of administering home relief In Dunkirk since this industrial city of 17,000 proclaimed its independence in-dependence of federal and state aid was reported today by Mayor Walter L. Roberts. The mayor began a campaign to handle relief with city funds alone because, he said, "New Deal-ERB relief, was making a racket out of welfare aid, costing taxpayers thousands of dollars and destroying destroy-ing the morale of hundreds of our citizens." "It is paradoxical," said the GREEN FACES FIRING SQUAD ON FRIDAY Reprieve Bv Governor Sole Hope Of Condemned Utah Slayer SALT LAKE CITY,S Utah, July 8 U.R) Delbert Green, 28-year-old triple slayer, who has cheated a firing squad death for six years, sat in a Utah state prison cell today, resigned to death, before legal executioner's rifles at sunrise Friday and prepared to "take it like a man." Governor Henry H. Blood, it appeared, ap-peared, held the only power to intervene and once again reprieve the moody, taciturn youth who has approached within a few hours of death four times, only to be snatched back by a new legal move. Green himself, reports from the prison said, waived a final appeal to the U. S. supreme court. A close friend of the condemned man said that "best legal advice" indicated such a plea for clemency clemen-cy would be futile. Declines Offer of Aid Prison convicts, who smuggled a petition before the state board of' pardons and paroles recently, pleading for., commutation, , of sentence, also offered to finance an appeal to the nation's highest court, it was said. But Green declined their offer. "It's no use wasting any more money on me," he said. Refusal of Green's plea for commutation com-mutation by the pardon board, it was believed, was the move which sealed his doom. Proceeding on the theory that no further stays will be forthcoming. forthcom-ing. Sheriff Joseph Holbrook of (Continued on Page Three) RECOVER BODY FROM RIVER The body of Barbara Carter, 20, daughter of Fera and Virginia Karren Carter of Vernal, formerly of Provo, who was drowned in Green river Sunday at 10 a. m., was recovered Tuesday at 5 p. m., according to word received by Mrs. Gladys C. Nielsen of Provo, aunt of the young woman. The body was found at a point five miles below the scene of the tragedy, which also claimed the life of Ben Kelly, 26, of Jensen, who was drowned with his companion. com-panion. Miss Carter and Kelly, in company with Bus Johnson and Donna Hanks, both of Vernal, were swimming in the river near the bridge at Green river when the tragedy- occurred. Miss Carter and Kelly dropped into a deep hole and were not again seen by their companions. A crew of more than a hundred men has been dragging the river since Monday morning, seeking the two bodies. The search will continue until the body of Kelly is recovered. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. B. P. Kelly. Mrs. Nielsen and her mother, Mrs. Josephine Y. Carter of Provo, grandmother of the girl, left this morning for Vernal. They expect services to be held there Friday. stocky, ruddy-faced mayor, "to declare that the free money we could get for welfare relief from the state TERA has become so expensive to the taxpayers that we can't accept it. That is why we are carrying our own relief burden." The mayor proclaimed the city's independence from outside relief on June 22. Up to that time the local ERB board had spent $20,000 each month for relief for the first five months of the. year. Roberts said that under that set-up the taxpayers were paying $12,000 a month as their share of the relief fund. UUUULl U To Pay Penalty s$c DELBERT GREEN MORTENSEN IN JAIL AT OGDEtl Confessed Slayer of Three is Sullen After His Return To Utah. OGDEN, July 8 (U.R) George Mortensen, gaunt, 38 year old Salt Lake City salesman, sat in solitary confinement at the Ogden city jail today, awaiting trial on first degree murder charges accusing him of the pick-handle slaying of three of his wife's relatives. Captured in Los Angeles after a fear and conscience-ridden flight into Mexico, Mortensen was returned re-turned here quietly at 2:30 a. m. today by Police Captain Dewey F. Hawkins and Sergeant C. K. Keeter. The officers sai dthe trip from Los Angeles with the prisoner in custody was uneventful. Tire trouble caused some delay, they said. Mortensen, who babbled an alleged al-leged confession to Los Angeles officers who picked him up when he attempted to telephone a friend, lapsed into a sullen and morose silence. He was reluctant to talk of the club slayings of a week ago, in which he killed Mr. and Mrs. Adam Snyder, his wife's mother and father, fatally injured Mrs. Emma Scott Rose, 82, her grandmother, then inflicted severe injury upon his wife, Grace, 25. Mrs. Mortensen, convalescing from her injuries in a local hospital, hos-pital, also was non-committal when informed her husband had been returned to face trail. Hawkins and Keeter said they spent little time in Los Angeles questioning the prisoner. Instead, they said, they checked details of his arrest and his confession, in which he told California officers "I done it, I don't know why I done it," and said "I'm glad you got me." Mortensen blamed difficulties which followed his wife's one-day separation from him for the crime. Ogden Favors Oil Type Road SALT LAKE CITY; July 8 (t.K Gibbons and Reed, Salt Lake City contractors, were low bidders, today when bids for oiling approx-: imately eight miles of Ogden city streets were opened at state road-. commission headquarters. The Salt Lake Firm bid on the city's share of the work, to cost' an estimated $80,000. The W. W. j Clyde company, Springville,. sub-j mitted low estimate for the state s-$36,938.16 s-$36,938.16 share of the work. The streets wil be surfaced with a plant-mix oil similar to the. project recently completed at, Springville. ; A READY FOR THRONGS AT STAMPEDE Cowboy Parade Will Ooen Three-Day Celebration Celebra-tion Thursday NEPHI - After months of arduous preparation by energetic ener-getic committee workers, Ne-phi Ne-phi is ready to welcome the throngs expected Thursday at the opening of the Ute Stampede and the mid-summer band contest, to be held here July 9, 10, and 11. Invitations to attend the huge central Utah celebration have been extended to Governor Henry H. Blood, the mayors of all Utah cities, and numerous other celebrities. celebri-ties. Parade Thursday A cowboy parade at 6:30 p. m. Thursday, in which Nephi business houses and community organizations organiza-tions wil lenter floats, will open the festivities. The parade will be in four divisions, according to Gilbert Gil-bert Bailey, chairman, and will be headed by the Queen of - the Ute Stampede and her two attendants. Rodeo contestants win occupy a prominent part in the parade. The opening performance of the big championship rodeo will start at 8:15 Thursday night. The Ute Stampede committee has spared no expense to make the rodeo one of the best ever held in the state. "One hundred and seventy-five head of the wildest livestock obtainable ob-tainable in North America, Brahma Brah-ma steers, wild bare backs, high-twisting, high-twisting, sun-fishing broncs, fleet calves, Mexican long horn steers, and world's champion cowboys will be seen in the rodeo," says Dr. P. L. Jones, general chairman of the Stampede. Famous Riders Among the many "famous riders already here, ready for tomorrow's tomor-row's opening performance are Everett Bowman of Fort Thomas, Arizona: Pete, Knight of Denver, Colo.; Hugh Bennett of Port Thomas; Leonard Wall of Wilton, (Continued on Page Three) WOODWARD MAY LEAVE BOARD The resignation of Dr. H. M. Woodward of Provo as chairman of the slsate self-help cooperative board, will probably be submitted at the meeting to be held July 18. If this is done it is expected that Dr. Joseph Geddes of the Utah State Agricultural college a member of the board will be elevated ele-vated to the board chairmanship to succeed him. The decision of Dr. Woodward to resign is the result of an attack at-tack by State Representative Sam F. Keifer (Peter SpraynozzK ) Salt Lake City, who questioned the legality of the right of the Utnh county state senator to serve both in the legislature and the sHate self-help board. John D. Rice of the attorney general's office submitted an opinion opin-ion to the effect that officials or employes of fche board could not serve in the legislature, too. Heber Bennion, Jr., Daggett county representative who is also an important officer of the self-help self-help board will probably retain his place on the board. Payson Plans Defense In 5. L. Water Suit PAYSON At the regular meeting of the Payson City council coun-cil held Monday night in the council coun-cil chambers a representative group of water users were present to discuss the summons served on citizens during the past ten days in and for Salt Lake county, plaintiffs, in a suit which concerns all users of water in Utah county from the Utah Jake water shed and Payson citizens met to discuss dis-cuss with city officials, matters pertaining to the suit. LI U VLV Compromise Of Loose Debt Argued Chaffin, Peterson Testify in Court Hearing On Bank Petition. Hearing on the petition to compromise com-promise the obligations of the Loose interests to the Provo Commercial Com-mercial and Savings bank, was still under way in the Fourth dis trict court this afternoon after a day. and a half of testimony. George H. Chaffin, chairman of the depositors' committee, and Preston G. Peterson, trustee of the Loose property, were placed on the stand Wednesday morning by attorneys representing the depositors' de-positors' committee who are resisting re-sisting the compromise petition, A. V. Watkins, M. R. Straw and I. E. Brock bank. The petition, which was sub-mittee sub-mittee by Dan B. Shields, attorney attor-ney for the state banking department, depart-ment, asks that the obligations of the Loose interests be settled for $50,000. In addition to this, however, how-ever, there is the sum of $5000, realized from the sale of part of the stock in the Iron King mine, which would go to the bank in case a compromise is made, and the possibility of from nothing to $20,000 on the Jump Up Joe mine, which is on bonded lease. Business property in Payson, which was in' the trust has already been sold. Mine Lease Discussed It was brought out in testimony Tuesday afternoon that the Jump Up Joe is being leased with the option to buy for $20,000. If any ore is taken out before the sale the bank is to get a royalty on it. Mr. Chaffin, in his testimony Wednesday, declared that in his opinion it would "absolutely" not be to the best interests of the depositors to accept the compromise compro-mise offer. He also told the court that the majority of the depositors' committee objected to the compromise com-promise offer. Mr. Straw, early in the hearing Wednesday, introduced a motion to dismiss the petition on the grounds of insufficient evidence and that no account of the trust had been submitted to the court. The motion was denied by Judge Martin M. Larson, who is hearing the matter. Testimony regarding various property in the trust was given by Mr. Peterson, who also testified that he was in debt to the bank $7000 plus a $2000 overdraft. He (Continued on Page Three) Hornibrook To Address Club W. H. Hornibrook, former minister min-ister to Persia for the United States, will be the speaker at the Provo Kiwanis club luncheon Thursday noon. Mr. Hornibrook was at one time a member of the Provo club at the taime he was publisher of the Herald. Holbrook Is Named Judge Pro-Tempore Raymond B. Holbrook, former Provo City attorney, waje appointed ap-pointed judge-pro tempore of the city court for the period of July 13 to August 1. Judge Don R. Ellertson will be on his vacation during that period. The appointment was made Wednesday morning by the city commission. A committee composed of mayor P. C. Wightman, John Uant and Labran Harding of the Irrigaton commttee and City Attorney At-torney R. W. Mc Mullin wii X A. Loveless, C. E. Gale and Merle Tanner representing the water users, was appointed as a factfinding fact-finding committee to work out ways and means to defend the suit. A mass meeting will be called in the near future. kr mm m m phh J 1 U U LTUUUI ILT-U WPA Comes to Aid Of 25,000 Drouth Stricken Farmers 55,000 To Be Put To Work Within Next 10 Days, Says WPA Administrator; Five States Sustain Brunt of Damage Bulletin CHICAGO, July 8 (U.R) Showers were promised for tomorrow to-morrow for the worst drought area of the parched middle-west middle-west in the official forecast today of the U. S. weather bureau. "Lig-ht showers will fall in the Dakotas, northwestern Minnesota, and northwestern Nebraska tomorrow and in Western and northern North Dakota tonight," Forecaster J. R. Lloyd predicted. (By UNITED PRESS) The devastating drought entered its second month of record-high temperatures with no relief in sight for thousands thou-sands of farmers facing crop failure in the spring wheat belt. Corn crops were ailing. Consumer's throughout the country were threatened with higher prices on some commodities, but officials said the cost of living would not be affected greatly. President Roosevelt, confident federal relief machinery is geared for speedy action, announced he would visit stricken strick-en areas next month. TJie agriculture department designated 97 counties in the northwest as "emergency counties" in which relief work will be concentrated. The Minnesota Farm Holiday association demanded abandonment of the New Deal crop reduction program. The Sgrlcultlirai adJfJsTment administration' decided to modify restrictions to encourage production of forage crops to be used later for livestock feed. Cattle raisers rushed thousands of head of hungry and thirsty animals into the Chicago market. Fire ravaged dry forests in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming. The Canadian wheat belt suffered along with the United States producing regions. WASHINGTON, July 8 (U.R The Works Progress Administration Ad-ministration set out today to have 25,000 drought-stricken western farmers on federal payrolls within 24 hours, and employ a total of 55,000 within the next ten days. - Announcement of the emersrencv SIDELIGHTS ON DROUTH (Copyright 1936 by United Press) ABERDEEN, S. D., July 8 l'.R W. E. Young bet he could fry an egg on the sidewalk. The egg lay on the concrete for three hours but didn't cook. Mr. Young paid off, a spectator laid a thermometer thermome-ter on the sidewalk and ite registered regist-ered 140 degrees. FORT KNOX, Ky., July 8 (U.R) Soldiers at the army post were limited to two baths a week. They have had to carry water to the post in tanks for two weeks. JOLIET, 111., July 8 (UP "At least" moaned thirsty Joliet residents resi-dents "we have something to be thankful for." Brwery drivers who went on strike in the morning morn-ing returned to work at noon and resumed beer deliveries. X X X X OAK PARK, III., July 8 iU With the temperature ranging between 90 and 100 degrees, dry pavements were ordered sanded by street superintendent William Barry. Automobiles Were skidding on Wie asphalt which became so liquid it oozed into gutters. DESMOINES, Ul., July 8 (U.R) Exclusive Desmoines country clubs reported today that many members slept last night on the grounds beneath the trees, trying to escape the Intense heat which abated but little at sunset. x x x x EVANSTON, 111.. July 8 UE Chicago motorcycle police were called off the streets on the north side when sandflies hatched by ho weather flew in clouds so dense they blinded drivers. Theaters turned off their lights to . avoid attracting bugs, and streetaweep-ers streetaweep-ers were ordered out during the night to clear the pavements. works program was made by Deputy WPA Administrator Aubrey Aub-rey W. Williams shortly after the weather bureau announced some hone of scattered rains. Employment will be concentrated concentrat-ed in North Dakota, South Dakota, Dako-ta, Montana, Wyoming and Minnesota. Min-nesota. "Fify-five thousand are to be put to work,' Williams said, "in the five states where damage is greatest, on a scehdule that calls for completion of the employment program within a week or ten days at the most. "Nearly half that number will be employed within 24 hours." Work will include digging welts, building dams, creating artificial lakes, and building secondary-roads, secondary-roads, Williams said. In North Dakota WPA will employ 20,000 farmers at the rate of 2.000 a day under direction of Thomas H. Moodie, state WPA administrator. In South Dakota 17,000 jobs at a rate of 2.828 daily will be provided pro-vided under State Administrator M. A. Kennedy. Montana will have 6,000 jobs at 400 daily under State Administrator Administra-tor Joseph E. Parker. In Wyoming 2,000 men win be (Continued on Page Three) Drought Brings Food Prices Up WASHINGTON, July 8 IP Costs of food zigzagged upwards throughout the nation today as the effects of a searing sun. on crops were translated into soaring price tags on grocers shelves. The Bureau of Labor statistics nection between the . ruination of wheat fields in the Dakotas and the cost of break in urban centers. Commissioner Isador Lubin's latest wholesale price list for the week ending June 27 showed foods had reached a high of 81 on the wholesale commodity index, figured figur-ed with the year 192$ as 100. The 81 mark ccraapared with- 79.7 oa the first of April, Indicating: the effects of - the drought wem just beginning to be felt by household ers. . |