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Show Herald "Evemio. Your Newspaper Weather Forecast tlTAH: Fair tonight and Wednesday; Wednes-day; little change in temperature. Maximum temp., Monday .... 50 Minimum temp., Monday .... 23 With no private axes to grinc no selfish personal Interests serve, and no financial strings leading to any other source of power or influence. FORTY-EIGHTH YEAR, NO. 120 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 193 4 PRICE: FIVE CENTS U3 WW MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs LJVJ W I he lu By nilKW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN WAS H I NGTONThe president presi-dent has been giving some iuiet consideration as to whom he will get to replace Claude Augustus Swanson as secretary of the navy. Swan-:,nii Swan-:,nii has indicated definitely i hat his health will not permit per-mit him to continue. If Colonel Harry Roosevelt were not a cousin of the president's he might be jumped from assistant soci etary to secretary. But in view of the relationship, this will not happen. The formost contender therefore is none other than Mayor James Michael Curley of Boston, ardently ardent-ly pushed for the job by young jimmy Roosevelt. Curley and Voting Jimmy have become great political pals, have been bunding up a powerful Democratic ma-enmc ma-enmc in Massachusetts. Curley came out for Roosevelt when other Massachusetts Democrats were rooting lor Al Smith, and, with i ne power of the "Crown Prince" bemud him, he may get the job. ORDERED ON VACATION The end of this month will see some forced vacations taken by two of Roosevelt's mainstays in uie cabinet Honest Harold Ickes and Silent Henry Wallace. They are the two cabineteers closest to Roosevelt; both have ueen working incessantly since Mai eh 4. Whne Homer Cummings went in for golf at Pinehurst, while Corded Hull motoreu tnrough the Shenandoah valley, while Claude Swanson cruised through the canal, these two have been at their desks night and day. Ickes is the first cabinet member mem-ber ever to install night shifts. Wallace followed with another all .ngnt shift in the AAA. So the oilier day Roosevelt commanded: T want you both to get out of the city by February 28." They will probably taKe a trip together. Meanwhile Mrs. Roosevelt is off on Feb. 19 for a flight to the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. REVIVED Wall Street foes of the "Truth in Securities" Act are secretly at it again. Tne reasons are Secretary Mor-genthau, Mor-genthau, and Herman Oliphant, nis general counsel. The two treasury treas-ury officials have been manifesting manifest-ing so friendly an attitude toward the banker-broker scheme of amending the law, that the latter think they can win administration support. that Morgenthau favored some modification of the drastic regulatory regu-latory measure has been known for some time. He was sold on the (Continued on Page Four) SPORTSMEN TO SHOW FILMS All sportsmen and their wives are invited to attend the entertainment entertain-ment and film showing to be staged at the Elks Home, Monday, February 19 under the auspices of the Provo Conservation association. associa-tion. Dee Kay of the state fish and game department will give an illustrated lecture and show films of bird life and big game in action. ac-tion. Another film of particular interest to the women is entitled, From Coal to Fertilizer." The entertainment is free to the public, members and non-members, alike. Boys, interested in fish and game activities are also urged to attend, according to C. F. Peterson, secretary of the association. as-sociation. Marries Third Time TUCSON. Ariz., Feb. 13 L'.Ri Harry Langdon, film comedian, and the former Mabel Georgena Sheldon of Los Angeles were believed be-lieved enroute to Hollywood today after their marriage at the Trinity Trin-ity Presbyterian church here. It was Langdon's third marriage. mar-riage. The former Miss Sheldon is non-professional and a native of Portsmouth, England. TONIGHT , . Crest theater, Barbara Stanwyck Stan-wyck in "Ever In My Heart." Paramount theater, "Going Hollywood," Hol-lywood," with Blng Crosby. Orpheum theater, "Conquerors" and "Kind's Vacation." College Hall, Illustrated scenic lecture, 8 p. m. Roberts Hotel, Lincoln day banquet, ban-quet, 8 P. m. Utelhi INDUSTRY IS THREATENED AT CAPITAL Gillman Urged To Come To Washington To Aid At Hearings J. W. Gillman, Orem, vice president of the National Beetgrowers' association representing rep-resenting Utah, has been urged by Senator W. H. King, Congressman J. W. Robinson and others to come to Washington Wash-ington immediately while the hearing on the Costlgan sugar bill is being held. Mr. Gillman, unable to go at this time, wired J. M. Kearney, president of the association, to represent the interests of the Utah beetgrowers until the state could send representatives to the capital. capi-tal. J. R. Rawlings of Draper, president presi-dent of the Utah Beetgrowers' association, as-sociation, has requested Mr. Gillman Gill-man to meet with the executive committee in Salt Lake Wednesday, Wednes-day, when a plan of action for Utah will be drawn up. "The proposed sugar quota advanced ad-vanced in President Roosevelt's message favors Cuba and the in-BMlar.i. in-BMlar.i. possessions over-- the. beet and cane sugar producers of continental con-tinental United States," said Mr. Gillman today. "It appears that the burden of rehabilitating Cuba is going to be laid on the shoul ders of the domestic sugar producers." pro-ducers." Palmyra Is Made Single Voting Unit Palmyra will be made a separate separ-ate voting district, it was voted Tuesday by the Utah county commissioners com-missioners after a' petition containing con-taining names of 101 of the 108 qualified voters of the district were presented asking for the change. Palmyra is now affiliated with the Spanish Fork district. New Road District The commissioners also voted to make Leland a separate road district after a delegation comprised com-prised of Roy Creer, Elmer Thomas, Mark Stark, Roger Creer and John Dans had requested the seperation for the second time. They maintained that very little road work was done in their section sec-tion and that they needed a road supervisor of their own. The commissioners directed County Attorney W. Stanley Dun-ford Dun-ford to take the proper legal steps in the action. The boundaries of the Leland road district will be worked out by the commissioners, Hilton, A. Robertson. C. H. White and J. W. Gillman in cooperation with County Surveyor Hugo Price. COURT HANDLES LIQUOR CASES Several liquor cases were handled in the Provo city court by Judge Don R. Ellertson Tuesday morn-ning. morn-ning. Harry Warner of Salt Lake forfeited a $50 bail when he failed to make his appearance in court on an intoxication charge. He was arrested by Bert Halladay. Frank jotntson of "Provo, who was arrested for possesion of in-tpxicating in-tpxicating liquor Saturday night, was giyen until February 15 to enter his plea. His bail was set at $300 by the court. Police Chief John E. Harris signed a complaint against Johnson after his arrest by Arnel Milner, police officer. "John Doe" Brown forfeited $25 on an intoxication charge. He was arrested Saturday by Police Officer J. C. Snow. BABY CLINIC SET A baby clinic for the Lake View and Vineyard district will be held Wednesday from 2:30 to 4 o'clock at the home of Mrs. J. J. Madsen in .Lake View. Dr. P. R. Bowdish will be In charge. IBeetgiroweirs FSgfint Peer Creek Project Involves Irrigation For 36,300 Acres if. if. if. if. K. O. Larson, engineer for the United States bureau of reclamation, has prepared the following synopsls of his official of-ficial report of the Deer creek project. The project plan as it would I be initially executed involves diversion of surplus water and power waters from the Weber, waters .together with surplus waters of the Provo, by means of a reservoir on the latter stream at the Deer creek site, 12 miles above Provo, and the distribution of the resulting storage supply to the higher lands, of the Utah lake and Salt Lake valleys from Provo northward. Exchange Above Reservoir "Several small areas above the reservoir would be benefited by water exchanges. Of the total area of 36,300 acres in the project, 27,200 acres are now partially irrigated, but are badly in need of additional water supply, and the remaining 9100 acres are dry farm lands used almost entirely for the growing of wheat. In addition to the storage supply - - CITY TO ASK PAYING BIDS Northeast Residents Ask For Rock Asphalt "Type of Road Paving. The city commission has agreed to advertise for bids on the northeast north-east paving project within a few days. The agreement to launch the project was made after a delegation dele-gation of property-owners had met with the commission, Monday to urge such a step. The commission commis-sion was requested to ask for bids on the. rock asphalt type of paving. Mayor A. O. Smoot is in Salt Lake today atempting to negotiate negoti-ate for a 20 percent grant on the cost of materials for the paving and a cost estimate is being worked work-ed out by City Engineer Elmer Jacob. It is hoped to get the project-out included with the CWA program which would leave the cost only of the material to the property owners. It was estimated that the rock asphalt would cost only 60 cents a front foot, the hot mix was estimated esti-mated at 40 cents a front foot and the cement type $1.20 a front foot. There are 39 blocks included in the paving project. "Provo has a chance to get paving pav-ing at the lowest cost ever laid down in the state," Rulon Van Wagenen, chairman of the delegation, dele-gation, stated today. Other members mem-bers of the delegation were George D. Ramsay, Fred G. Warnick, L. H. Holbrook, John Jackson, Elvon Jackson and Jesse N. Ellertson. As soon as the bids are in the project can be included in the CWA setup, work could begin within a short time, Mayor Smoot said. Ora Bundy of Ogden submitted the only bid last fall for the rock asphalt type when the project was advertised. Mother Of Teacher Called By Death Mrs. Neils Sina Jensen, 77, wife of the late Christen Jensen, Sr., of Salt Lake City, and mother of Dr. Christen Jensen of the B.. Yj U., died Monday morning at the home of her daughter. Miss Marie Jensen, 435 South Ninth East street, in Salt Lake. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 1:30 o'clock in the Tenth ward chapel in Salt Lake. 100 Chinese Drown SHANGHAI, Feb. 13 (U.R) One hundred Chinese were reported drowned when an overloaded steamerl foundered near Hankow, according to advices received here today. Spud Market Bad IDAHO FALLS, Idaho, Feb 13 (UP) Idaho rJotato market conditions con-ditions neared chaos today as growers were forced by warm weather to unload their Droduct rapidly at low prices. f f for irrigation through present and new canals, a supply is included for municipal and irrigation use by a proposed metropolitan water district dis-trict on the east side of Salt Lake valley, possibly two or three small cities and about 5200 acres of suburban farm lands. ( Since the report was prepared there has developed a move to include all the cities between Provo and Salt Lake, inclusive, in the proposed metropolitan water district.) Diversions From Weber The capacity of the Deer creek reservoir will be 145,000 acre-feet acre-feet and the annual yield 100,000 acre - feet, with 10,-000 10,-000 acre - feet set aside for silt and power head purposes. In obtaining the storage supply annual an-nual diversions are contemplated of an average of 59,000 acre-feet of surplus water and 20,000 acre-feet acre-feet of power water from the Weber river, and an average of 20,000 acre-feet of surplus water from the Provo river. The principal features of the plan comprise the following: (a) Enlargement of the Weber-Provo Weber-Provo diversion canal to a capac-itv capac-itv of 1000 second-feet at a cost m Congress Today SENATE Continues MacCracken contempt con-tempt trial. Black committee continues investigation in-vestigation into air mail contracts. Banking and currency committee commit-tee discusses stock market bill. Subcommittee on veterans' legislation legis-lation continues debate. Agriculture committee considers bill to make cattle basic commodity. commod-ity. HOUSE Votes on private bills. RETAILERS OF PROVO TO MEET Steps toward the organization of retailers' councils to administer the retail codes in the Provo trade area will be taken at a meeting of the retail merchants to be held in the city court room, Wednesday Wednes-day at 8 p. m. J. H. McGibbeny, of Salt Lake, deputy administrator, will be present pres-ent and Clayton Jenkins, secretary of the Provo chamber of commerce, com-merce, will open the meeting. Every retailer in Provo is urged to be present or have a representative representa-tive at the meeting. It is probable that plans will be made for the setting up of a food council, meat council, drug council coun-cil and a local general retailers' council who will have charge of hours and other details in this district. Scoutmaster Is Kiwanis Speaker SPANISH FORK "Scouting trains boys for useful citizenship and makes them self reliant and able to look after themselves," declared de-clared Grant Huff scout master of the Lake Shore troop of scouts at the meeting of the Spanish Fork Kiwanis club held Monday noon at the home of Mrs. Alene Meldrum. The program was given over to Scouting in honor of Boy Scout anniversary week. President Presi-dent Wells T. Brockbank conducted conduct-ed the meeting. B. Y. U. Faculty Defers Action On "Big Eight" Faculty of the Brigham Young university voted Monday noon to defer formal action on the proposal of its representatives to withdraw from the Rocky Mountain Facul- j ty Athletic conference. Although they saw some inconsistencies incon-sistencies in the plan of the B. Y. U. and seven other schools to form a "Big Eight" and leave the R. M. C, the faculty was at first disposed dis-posed to ratify the withdrawal. Since the conference meeting in Denver when it was voted to form if. if. if. if. of $264,000, the present capacity being 210 second-feet. Raise 175 Feet (b) Construction of Deer creek reservoir with an earth fill dam and a raise in water level of 175 feet ,at a cost of $3,504,000 which includes highway relocation and railroad revision. (c) Construction of Provo Union canal from Provo river to Jordan Narrows with a capacity of 530 second-feet at a cost of $1,188,000 (d) Construction of a siphon at Jordan Narrows with a capacity of 165 second-feet, for use of the West Valley canal, and to supplement supple-ment the present siphon, at a cost of $201,000. (e) Construction of West Valley canal, with a capacity of 100 second sec-ond feet, from Jordan Narrows northwesterly, for the irrigation of 6000 acres of dry farm lands, at a cost of $289,000. The total estimated cost of the initial development including $60,000 for preconstruction costs and $87,000 for operation and maintenance during the construction, construc-tion, and for puddling canals the first year, amounts to $5,583,000. (Continued on Page Eight) RICH BREWER KILLS1MSELF Head of St. Louis Brewing Company Shoots Self At His Home. ST LOUIS, Feb 13 H'.Pi August A Busch. Sr., 68. head of the Anheuser Busch Brewing company and one of the wealth iest men in ine state, shot himself him-self to death at his home here today. Leaves Note An unsigned note bidding goodbye good-bye to his family and written in pencil was left by Busch. It said: "Goodbye precious mama and adorable children." His chauffeur was in the room where Busch had- been confined with heart trouble and gout when the aged brewer fired the fatal shot Busch asked the chauffeur to tune the radio in and the chauffeur was turning the dials when the shot rang out. A physican who was called to his rural estate several miles from the city, pronounced him dead, a suicide. The bullet, fired from a revolver re-volver which he kept in a desk drawer, entered his chest and penetrated the heart, the physician physi-cian said. George W. Eads. public relations re-lations man for the brewing company, com-pany, said that he believed ill health was the reason for Busch's act. Eads said that Busch had been suffering from ill health for several months. Meteor Is Seen BILLINGS. Mont.. Feb. 13 n v Farmers and other searchers had been unable today to discover dis-cover where a huge meteor, which flashed over Billings last night struck the earth. Complete disappearance of the meteor was somewhat puzzling because its apparent size indicated indi-cated it must have made a great hole where it crashed into the earth. LAKE VIEW MEETING All auxiliary officers and teachers of the Lake View ward are asked to meet at the chapel Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock. the "Big Eight" some of the seceding se-ceding schools have since voted not to approve the action of their representatives . The faculty voted to authorize its representatives to continue negotiations ne-gotiations with the representatives of the other schools concerned, looking toward a fair and amicable solution of the problems involved. First action in the Denver meeting meet-ing was the formation of a "Big Six" which was later expanded to a "Big Eight." 8UT 8 KILLED IN WASHINGTON PRISON RIOT Guard Stabbed To Death; Six Convicts Die In Bad Riot WALLA WALLA, Wash.. Feb. i: (U.R) Rigid prison discipline was clamped on the tense Walla Walla state penitentiary peni-tentiary today, following an unsuccessful jail break in which eight men were killed and ten others either wounded wound-ed or stabbed. Warden J. M. McCauley believed that the trouble was over, but he took no chances. Extra guards manned the high walls of the red-bricked red-bricked prison. National Gaurds-men Gaurds-men stood by for possible emergencies. emer-gencies. Prisoners known as troublemakers were placed in solitary soli-tary confinement. Praise Prison Guards Six convicts were killed, a guard was stabbed to death, and a prisoner pris-oner described as "an innocent bystander" was wounded fatally. The desperate attempt at wholesale whole-sale jail delivery failed because of the unerring markmanship of prison guards who refused to be 'bluffed." Four of the wounded were guards, stabbed by the rioters; riot-ers; the other six were prisoners. The jailbreak attempt developed suddenly after the lunch hour yesterday yes-terday afternoon. Twenty convicts, con-victs, pushing seven prison officials offic-ials before them as hostages, marched on the main -gate and demanded de-manded to be let out. Tense Moment Facing a wall guard hastily augmented by McCauley because he had "smelied trouble brewing." they thereatened to kill their hostages hos-tages unless the gates were opened. open-ed. It was a tense moment as the lino before the gate surged forward for-ward menacingly and guards on the wall called on the rioters to disperse McCauley issued orders to "shoot to kill, but don't hit the turnkeys." Then H. L. Briggs, a turnkey seized by the prisoners, pitched forward on his face. Later it was learned that he had been stabbed (Continued on Page Eight) COUNCIL SETS MEETING HERE The Citizens' Council of Provo will meet in the district court room Wednesday at 8 p, m. J. Frank Ward will report on conditions and problems connected with the city water system. Members of the council are expected ex-pected to be present and the public is invited to attend. Since the water problem has been the center of so much discussion during the last few months every citizen and taxpayer should" come out and hear the facts discussed. Blowout Causes Death Of Utahn WOODSIDE, Utah, Feb. 13 i:.r. A blown out tire was blamed today to-day for causing another death Harold Antone Johnson, 28, Price, died of a fractured skull a few hours after his car overturned on the Woodside highway. His wife, wfoo was riding beside Johnson, told investigating officers, offi-cers, a tire blew out while the couple was enroute to visit their relatives here Sunday. She sustained sus-tained only slight injuries. v 30-Hour Week LOS ANGELES, Feb. 13 i '.!! The 30-hour maximum week, with a high standard of living, is not only a practical but necessary ideal, Edward A.Filene, noted Boston Bos-ton economist, said today. Here on a business survey tour of 20 states. Filene firmly supported sup-ported a still sharper curtailment curtail-ment of working hours in an address ad-dress before the chamber of commerce. Uara Hits Air Policy at Senate Inquiry Declaims that the "country's air defenses air in a deplorable state, " ,rn. '.en. William Mitchell Mitch-ell plac-d the blame, on profiteering profiteer-ing private interests when, as shown here, ho testified before tho House Military Affairs Com mittee iin estiva! ins profits on army aircraft. made Postmaster Job To Be Discussed By Democrats Applications For Appraiser ot Home Loan Hank To He Considered. I lenjocratic committee members ot the provo city precinct, will wrestle with patronage problems at the meeting to he held Wednesday Wed-nesday at 7:30 p m in the juvenile court loom J M Herbert, recently elected eitv chairman to succeed George A. Brown, will he in charge The com m 1 1 1 ce':; attitude to wards the endorsement of candi, dates for postmaster of Provo will probably demand the lion's share of attention at the. meeting. The endorsement of.l W Danger-field, made at a session of the city committee com-mittee several months ago, is the only one on record. Since that time, other candidates have appeared ap-peared who claim that the previ-our previ-our meeting was called without public notice and that most of the members of the committee came to the meeting without oven knowing the purpose for which they had been convened. In addition to the pastmaster-ship, pastmaster-ship, the committee will consider applications for- the position as part-time appraiser for the Home Loan corporation bank at Provo. Requirements for this position are said to be quite exacting, according accord-ing -to Robert L. FOUiott. ni'mager of the office. Kidnap Hangout May Be Found f'KS MOIN'ES, Tn , Park A. Find ley, Iowa state bureau tion. said today he Feb 13 chief of the of investigated investiga-ted located what he believed was the hideout hide-out of a gang which kidnaped Eld-ward Eld-ward G. Bremer, St. Paul. Minn., banker, and held him 22 days for $200,000 ransom. Findley said he would ask federal fed-eral authorities to bring Bremer to . farm i nine miles Southwest n. Ia. in an effort to! ,e hideout. i of Cresto identify th Happy- Congratulations are extended to W. W. Ercanbrack, clothing merchant mer-chant and woolgrower of Provo whose birthday anniversary occurs oc-curs today. F .'IPC c I - REVOLUTION RAGES AFTER STRIKE CALL Socialists Stage Stubborn Fight To Ward Off Fascist Drive VIENNA. Feb. 1:5 U.P Artillery fire crashed in Vienna Vien-na and at a dozen "provincial points today as stubbornly fought binod forces of t hi The government Socialists the coin-stale, coin-stale, issued an ultimatum that fighting must cease bv f n m. today or- "sharp er" measures would be adopted. The general strike the Socialists Social-ists declared yesterday, in antici pation f a Fascist drive meant their political death. th.it was now frankly revolutionary. Bombard Fortresses Neighbor fought neighbor, war-veteran war-veteran fought war veteran, .is the Socialists, many garbed in their forbidden revolutionary Pchutzband uniform, battled police, po-lice, soldiers, auxiliary volunteers and Heimwehr storm troopers. Government forces bombarded with light guns half a dozen Socialist So-cialist fortresses in the outer portions por-tions of the city, where the wor kers k-ers live, while the city's inner circle cir-cle was quiet, ribboned with barbed barb-ed wire entanglements, studded with machine guns. Casualties so far were estimated unofficially at between 400 and 500 dead, including 150 to 200 here 100 each at Linz and Steyr, and from 25 to 50 each at Bruck and Kapferiberg Rrisk fighting proceeded at Linz. Steyr, Poschaar, Gruuden, Graz, Bruck, Floridsdorf. near Vienna, and Kapfenberg. Socialists during the night cap tured Rruck. Soldiers drove them out They returned and recaptured the town. The soldiers began a siecre from outside. Ten soldiers were killed at Floridsdorf. where fighting began at 9 a. m. The military summoned sum-moned armored cars. Lincoln Day Fete Slated Tonight at Roberts H o t e 1 Fverything is in readiness for the Dincoln day banquet to be held at the Roberts hotel tonight beginning be-ginning at 8 o'clock The com mittee. headed by Mrs Marie Hd quist Homer is making prepara tions for 150 people from all part.-; of the county. Attorney Arnold Rich of Silt Lake City will he the speaker of the evening Jesse N' FJIertson, former mayor, will he the to;rst master-. The affair Is sponsored by the Republicans of Provo and the count v. WlLL BEVERLY HIM..S, ( alif . Feb. 12 Papers today say, "What would Lincoln do today." to-day." Well, in the first place he wouldn't chop any wood, he would trade his ax in on a Ford. Ileing a Republican he would vote the Democrat" ticket. Being in sympathy for the underdog he would be classed as a radical progress ive. Having a sense of humor he would be called eccentric. And its Alice's birthday tw. Alice Longworth has for the last 80 years, and I hope 30 more, had a reserved seat at the biggest show on earth. Vours, jf y tolZ, fla-f P. S. in this aeroplane mess, 1 don't own one cent of stock, I don't own one cent of stock in anything. (I have some lots in Beverly Hills I would like to talk to you about). I love to fly. I pay my way and do it. Now there must have been some money business higher up, or Mr. Roosevelt wouldn't do what he has. And I would like to sit on the jury and help convict 'em, for they have brought injury to a great industry. |