Provo Evening Herald | 1935-06-06 | Page 1

r-i -r n 0)7 nn 0 lo) am UvU wM L 0) Weather Forecast UTAH GeneraUy fair tonight and Friday; little change in temperature. tem-perature. Maximum temp., Wednesday . . 84 Minimum temp., Wednesday . . 38 FORTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. - MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON Two months have passed since the ; work-relief program became; law but so far it is neither working nor relieving. Excepjt for expenditures for materials and p.nuinment to erect new CCC, Mmns as an expansion of Rhat service, no money has been spent to get men worning. Fur tlTe r m o r e. judging from what is going on behind the scenes it will be another six or eight weeks before the relief rolls are reduced. When congress, after three months' wrangling, finally passed the work-relief bill, the president announced his fixed determination to expend the $4,000,000,000 fund within twelve months. He asserted assert-ed that November would see' the great plan in full swing. But gauged by the present pace of administrative machinery, it will be the middle of next winter before a high-speed tempo is attained. at-tained. Some of the inner council privately pri-vately prophesy that the president, .in order to break the work-relief leg-jam, soon will authorize the Dynamic Harry Hopkins to revive the old CWA. K probably won't be called that, but basically it will be the same thing. BEDFELLOW'S Last week Mrs. Roosevelt brought the graduating young ladies of the Todhunter school. of which she is chief patroness. down for a week end at the White House as a , special graduation present. The girls occupied several guest (Continued on Patre Three) Japanese Troops D.-I-fL:-,1 1 UUI Ulg lillU VlIlllCl ; ; 320 bill, in Spokane, indicated i eI? rt Haf edK AT ,nM,, u. T 7 j ii a f , i San Miguel, reputed to be Cuba's TIENTSIN, China, June 6 .U.H. today that while federal , second Wealthiest man who was Japanese troops poufed into ! agents and police of two ; kidnaped last night from his mo-north mo-north China today, apparently in j states worked at cross pur- j tor car. preparation for carrying out the; , - i-lij San MimiPr vaw Phf. t tu. . !-.:.. i ing and Tientsin and drive Chi- j orge Weyerhaeuser had quick -nese troops out of north China. an,d qu,e,tly shPped out of the Under command of mounted through thZ rhino orfinn nf Tientsin, creating a tense situ- ajon Japanese troop replacements , arrived this week and more are 1 arhriniPH -non Rpra.,A th i "aggravated" situation, those due tn ho sent hark nn rrhpf tn i be held, so that there is an actual ! increase at 300 per cent in the nunrx r of Japanese troops north China Rotary Officers Installed At . j Special Banquet j j J. Clifton ( Moffitt. principal of j the Provo high school, was in- ducted into office as president of the Provo Rotary club at a special spe-cial installation merting at the Midway Hotpots Tuesday night. Frank J. Earl was installed as vice president and W. R. Green as secretary-treasurer. New directors of the club, installed in-stalled Tuesday, are M. Howard Graham, Dr. Garland H. Pace. W. E. Fleetwood and S. D. Packard. A plaque was presented to past President Vernard Anderson by the club and Dr. H. G. Merrill, a former president and Fifth district dis-trict governor received a book. J. Edwin Stein was chairman of the program, which included a dinner and dance. Provo Students Win New Honors STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal. June 5, Mark Knight Allen of Provo, Utah, was recently elected to the Stanford chapter of Sigma Xi, national honorary scientific society, for work in psychology here. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER i I OFFICERS AT ODDS OVER KIDNAP CASE 0rtrv, D:M r. IAO Second Ransom Bill Gives Another Clue: State Officers "Sore" SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, ! June 6 (U.R) A $10 bill, later j identified as part of the Wey erhaeuser case ransom, was passed today at Brigham City, a small town near here, members of the Utah state police reported. The officers said the note was passed at a service sta tion by a party of three men and one woman, riding in a Cadillac sedan. Floyd Anderson, An-derson, station operator, told state highway patrolmen that the men were unkempt and unshaven. The woman, he "said, was young, probably 17 or 18 years old. The car was reported to be a 1930 model and carried a Washington license plate. The number was A-X-24829. Anderson said the party washed wash-ed and rested a few minutes before be-fore continuing through Weber canyon toward Wyoming. The station operator did not notice the number of the ran- 9m, note"ntl1 later and im"led: iately a,fter noticing it notified Patrolman Baird of the state Patro1 . Baird reported t I headquarters in Salt Lake City I and officers there notified the f department of justice. ! Federal authorities here would "ol comment oil me report otner than to admit the bill had been ! nasspri i The number of the ransom note i was not disclosed. TACOMA, Wash., June 6 (U.R) Discovery of a second Wpvprhapnspr ransom note, a i i u.c. . cue Aiuua jcia vi 11 llic " TL "ulluru'u The second ransom bill to be j turned up was passed in tne money order division of the Spo- I kane post office Tuesday it was i revealed by Bert J. Canavaugh. ; cashier of the division. Description Meager Miss Vernon Beavers, clerk who accepted the bill was unable to ?.lve J1 aents aesc . r. I of the. Pf r8," ho PMused- I Sho arpcntpH fiftrn surh hilla 1 between 9 a. m. and 1 p. m.. j Tuesday. Federal agents, how- ever, were checking every money ! order which was made out during that time 112 of them in an ef- fort to secure a clue. ; The first ransom bill was passed by a man who bought a jj1 for Salt Lake Cit-y at Open dissension broke out be- cContinued on Face Three) ' Court Of Honor at Catholic Church Court of honor for the Ptovo boy scout district will be held at the Catholic church at Second North and Fifth West Sunday night, with Roy Nickerson host and Mayor A. O. Smoot in charge. Captain Alvin Sessions of the Provo C. C. C. camp will be the speaker. Mayor Smoot is to be assisted by the other members of the court and LeRoy W. Harding, Hard-ing, secretary. Lions To Elect Election of officers for the Provo Pro-vo Lions club will be completed in the meeting tonight at 7 in Keeley's Cafe. Dr. W. Woolf and Victor J. Bird are candidates for president. M. B. Pope is chairman of the meeting and will lead the discussion discus-sion on whether the Provo Lions should join the proposed association associa-tion of civic clubs of central and northern Utah. 214 lae PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, GAT What a Grand Slam They'd Make!, ft -ux , ' It's 450 feet down to the water, so there'd be a great chance for a grand slam -with these four bridge hands if they lost their footing. foot-ing. The crew is stretching the mesh flooring of the catwalk cables of the San Francisco-Oakland bridge. Approximately 71. 000 miles ol cable wire will be used to support the world's greatest great-est span. NEW! ELECTRIC STRIKE ENDS TOLEDO. O., June 6 (!.!! Toledo's electric strike, threatening threaten-ing to disrupt a tri-state industrial indust-rial district of which this city is center, ended today, just 24 hours after it began. worKers returned to power J plants and officer of the Toledo Edison company under terms of a temporary settlement. CUBAN KIDNAPED HAVANA. June 6 LR Soldiers joined police today in an island- o "" v feur also were kidnaped Six men, armed with machine guns and wearing army uniforms, perpetrated the crime. No word cf ransom requirements had been received this morning. EX-MINISTER DIES HONOLULU, T. H., June 6 l.P -William R. Castle, 86, former minister to the United States from uied at his home here last nig;ht after a long illness. Descendant of one of the mis sionary families who were the first Americans to settle permanently perman-ently in the Hawaiian islands, Castle had a long and illustrious career in Hawaiian affairs. OFFICER CONVICTED BOISE. Idaho, June 6 r.R-Upholding r.R-Upholding a lower court decision, the state supreme court today had ruled that Ira Emory, former for-mer Boise detective and ex-deputy ex-deputy sheriff of Ada county, must spend two to five years in the state prison for accepting a bribe. Nebraskans May Lynch Attacker CHAD RON. Neb., June 6 i:.P Harry Schlie of Kimball. S. D.. was taken secretly and under heavy guard to an unknown place today when infuriated western Nebraska ranchers threatened to lynch the man who confessed to Sheriff William Moody that he attacked Mrs. Nal Johnson. Mrs .Johnson was beaten and attacked by an assailant who cut a hole through the screen and entered her home through the bedroom window. She was injured seriously. She told authorities that Schlie was the intruder. The attack at-tack occurred last Thursday night. Schlie was arrested and after lengthy questioning by Sheriff Moody confessed to the crime, the officer said. Id) Hit-Run Driver Held For Death Of Two Youths '4 Arrested At Murray, Man Confesses Being Driver Death Car. SALT LAKE CITY, June 6 f.P A manslaughter charge today to-day faced Robert Rasmussen, 23, following the hit-run killing of two youths here last night. The dead were Richard White, 19, and James Warren Pickle, 20. White and Pickle were pumping UP a tlre on South Main street when they were hit by the speed ing hit-run truck, which deputy sheriff's assert was driven by Rasmussen. Ras-mussen. White sustained a fracture frac-ture of the neck, hands and both legs and died on the way to the hospital. Pickle was killed almost instantly, suffering fractures of the neck, jaw, left arm, left hand, right thighbone and skull. Witnesses assert the driver of the truck which killed the youths slowed down after the accident but then sped on his way. Arrested Arrest-ed at Murray shortly afterwards. Rasmussen is said to have admitted ad-mitted hitting the pair and was booked by deputy sheriffs on the manslaughter charge. Cuban Kidnaped; $286,000 Asked HAVANA, June 6 (CI!) -Ransom of $286,000 cash has been sent to the kidnapers of Antonio San Miguel, reputed to be Cuba's second wealthiest man, saw Miguel's Mig-uel's associates announced today. San Miguel was seized with his chauffeur, valet and guard while motoring late yesterday. Tne note demanding the $286,000 was delivered today by the valet, Simon Marti ja. wno was driven blindfolded into the suburbs and released. Frank J. Steinhart, Jr., fellow vice president with San Miguel of tne Havana Electric Co., told the United Press that in obedience to the ransom note, the money had been given to Martija to deliver. It was in 50 $1,000 bills, 1,180 $100 bills and 2.360 $50 bills. Kiwanians Visit Mental Hospital Provo Kiwanians visited the Utah State Hospital Thursday noon, looked over the new construction con-struction work installed through Public Works Administration aid and attended a brief clinic. J. M. Redd, secretarv. and in Claude S. Ashworth, architect for Chang Yuen-YIng, his wife, moth-the moth-the new building, showed the club er, brother, son, 13, and daughter members through. 7 ' r THURSDAY, JUNE IIVI CHURCH BOARD AWARDS BIDS FOR BUILDING Edifice To Be Known As George H. Brimhall Building The contract for the construction con-struction of the new three-story three-story building on the Brig-ham Brig-ham Young university upper campus was awarded Wednesday Wednes-day to Ryberg Brothers of Salt Lake City, on their low bid of $62,000. The contract for the plumbing was let to Parley Par-ley Larson of Provo. His bid was .$14,836. Work is to begin at once, to be completed in 100 days. After awarding the bids, the board of trustees decided that the new structure should be known as the George H. Brimhall building. build-ing. The new building to be erected on top of the present Mechanic Arts building, will house the following fol-lowing departments, classrooms and laboratories: Agronomy, animal ani-mal husbandry, horticulture, zoology, zoo-logy, botany, auto mechanics and mechanic arts. Some of the classes in the college of commerce will be removed from the Maeser building, which will be almost entirely en-tirely used for administration offices of-fices after this year. The new building, with added laboratory facilities, will place the university high in rating among western institutions of higher learning. Present at the meetnig were President Heber J. Grant, President Presi-dent T. N. Taylor, Reed Smoot, Lafayette Holbrook, Joseph Fielding Field-ing Smith, Don Carlos Young, Leah D. Widtsoe and Joseph A. Reece, members of the board of trustees; John A. Widtsoe, Charles A. Callis, Rudger Clawson and Stephen L. Richards, members of the general church board of education. Hinckley Heads Safety Council E. C. Hinckley, safety engineer of the Columbia Steel corporation was elected president, and Walter F. Whitehead, Provo insurance man, was elected secretary-treasurer, of the Provo City Safety council, which was made permanent perman-ent in a meeting at the city court Wednesday night. "There is every need for such a safety organization in this city" said Mr, Hinckley in outlining the purposes of the organization. "The mounting toll of traffic accident ac-cident victims is 'everybody's business" and cooperation is needed need-ed to check this toll. "Vacation time is an especially appropriate time to form such a safety organization." A. E. Terry was named chairman chair-man of the education committee; commit-tee; Clayton Jenkins, Seymour Gray, Aura C. Hatch and Dr. J. J. Weight were selected on the executive committee; S. D. Packard Pack-ard was named head of the membership mem-bership and fi)nance committee and J. R. Paulson was named as chairman of the publicity committee. com-mittee. The Provo safety organization will cooperate with the State Safety Council and also with the naWonal safety movement initiated in-itiated by President Franklin Roosevelt. After the council has had time to study traffic problems more thoroughly, a legislative committee commit-tee will be appointed with a view to securing more uniform traffic safety laws for Utah in the next legislature. Mr. Hatch reported that the chief topic at the Utah Lions club district convention at Richfield Rich-field on June 24 and 25, will be public safety. Dr. Weight, chairman of the Utah county chapter of the American Amer-ican Red Cross, offered the aid of the local Red Cross unit. FAMILY LEAPS TO DEATH SHANGHAI, June 6 (IIP) -A family of six, racing hopeless poverty, leaped to death today from the dome of the Great World amusement center. Thev were Her aid. 6, 1935 u yj F. R. Maps Plan For Redistribution Of Wealth By Taxation j Special Message Likely To Bring Program To Attention of Congress; Intends To Avoid General Tax Legislation (Copyright, 19875, by United Press) WASHINGTON, June 6 (U.R) President Roosevelt is considering a wealth redistribution program through taxation tax-ation channels, in view of the NRA breakdown, congressional congression-al leaders said today, as they labored to rush through the president's "stop gap" program for 'j salvaging New Deal agencies. I try to accept original NRA code The president may send con- gress a special message urging such a taxation program, it was reported today at the Capitol. Message Probable Administration leaders men- tioned the possibility of a presi dential message on taxes m connection con-nection with the necessity of extending ex-tending excise taxes which lapse June 30. It was said that the administration adminis-tration hoped to avoid general tax legislation but that there was a likelihood of insistence on increased increas-ed inheritance and estate taxes, considered the most effective method of bringing about a redistribution re-distribution of the nation's wealth. The spread of wealth. indirect purpose of NRA, would be carried out directly through hiked inheritance inheri-tance and gift taxes. Ways and means committee Democrats in the house said such a tax program has been considered by the admin istration. It may be provided for in a new tax bill distinct from the nuisance tax extension measure. meas-ure. Meanwhile, leaders found widespread wide-spread pressure for utilizing the federal tax powers in another direction namely to force indus McKenzie In Top Spot Of Golf Tourney OARMONT, Pa., June 6 (U.R) Roland Mackenzie, star professional profession-al of Washington, D. C, forged into the lead of the National Open golf championship today when he scored a par 72 in the first round. Mackenzie, former Walker cup captain, was the first player to equal par today on the difficult Oakmont layout. Slightly fewer than half of the field had played their first rounds when Mackenzie completed the first par performance of the day. He toqk the play away from Herman Barron, of White Plains, N. Y., who had a 78, and from Ed Dudley, of Philadelphia, with 74. Mackenzie missed par by one stroke going out, when he had a 38, but made up for it with a 34 coming home. Mackenzie needed only 30 putts for his entire 18 holes. He ran a two-footer for a birdie at the first, and an eight-footer for an other birdie at the second. Wage Reductions Increase Load Of Relief Rolls LOS ANGELES. June 6 (UR)-Wholesale (UR)-Wholesale wage reductions brought about by the collapse of the NRA were held responsible today to-day for hundreds of workers deserting de-serting their jobs in private employment em-ployment and seeking a place on relief rolls. Relief officials became alarmed over the sudden increase in relief applicants and charged that the situation was brought about by employers who, released from code wage restrictions, were cutting wages and lengthening hours of employment. Harold Pomeroy, publicity director di-rector for the Los Angeles county relief administration, said applica tions for relief in the Hollywood and Watts district offices have increased in-creased more than 50 per cent in the last five days. "As employers drop their wage scales down to the level of dole payments, there is little incentive for persons to continue working," he said. COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE p minim urns or be taxed. Chair man Robert L. Doughton of the ways and means committee said this proposal will be considered in drafting the permanent NRA substitute sub-stitute legislation later this session. ses-sion. NRA Program Moving The president's stop-gap program pro-gram was moving ahead fast. The house labor committee accepted ac-cepted amendments to the Wag-ner-Connery labor disputes bill to bring it within supreme court requirements. re-quirements. The AAA amendments, amend-ments, stripped of unconstitutional unconstitution-al license features, was about ready for congressional action. There were indications of a break up of the house military affairs committee stalemate on TV A legislation. leg-islation. In addition, the house ways and means committee was making every effort to get the temporary lv months NRA extension resolution resolu-tion ready today. After conferences confer-ences with NRA officials, the committee hoped to have a brief bill ready calling for voluntary codes and continuance of a skeleton skele-ton personnel. This would be rushed through the house tomorrow. tomor-row. -5T Brilliant Array Of Lectures To Appear In Provo Visitors Invited To Attend ! Great Summer School Lecture Program. "A veritable chautauqua will be t provided free to Provoans' this i summer by Brigham Young; uni- 6 "Ling uni M. Woodward, dean of the summer session, Thursday. "A galaxy of national even international celebrities will speak on current problems at general assemblies in College hall. "This lecture course has been especially arranged to meet the needs of the Provo public as well as the students. Visitors are cordially invited to attend the ! lectures, which will be announced through the papers." The themo of the lecture series will be Trends in American Literature as They Bear on Our Social, Economic and Religious Life. These talks will be given on Mondays, Wednesdays Wed-nesdays and Fridays at 11:30 a. m. Davison First Dr. Edward Davidson, poet and critic of England, will give the first address Friday, June i4, at 11:30 a. m. in College hall. His subject will be "The Approach to Poetry. He is a magnetic lecturer lectur-er as well as an authority on current literature, according to Dean Woodward. He will present j ten lectures in general assemblies ' at B. Y. U. this summer besides teaching two classes. Utahns had their first opportunity of hearing Dr. Davidon when the "Y" guest professor gave the address to the graduates of the University of Utah Tuesday. Other lecturers who will appear will be Dr. Henry Neumann, leader lead-er of the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture, Dr. Harl R. Douglass, author and educator from Minnesota, Dr. Lois C. Moss-man, Moss-man, author and educator from Columbia university, and many others. So They Say! There are many new opportunities opportuni-ties in this country for the youths of today, but they have no way of finding them unless we show them the way. Dr. Walter B. Pitkin, Columbia U. professor. PRICE FIVE CENTS w IIVJ - 3-STATE MEET OPENS TODAY AT ELKS HOME Delegates From Idaho, Montana and Utah At Conclave By plane, train and automobile, auto-mobile, members of the United Unit-ed Commercial Travelers' organization or-ganization of Utah, Idaho and Montana arrived in Provo Thursday morning to take part in the two-day 37th annual an-nual convention and gTand council meeting. Welcomed by M. Howard Graham, Gra-ham, senior counselor of the Provo Pro-vo Council No. 428, and by Mayor j 1 Pictures and Convention Side- I lights on Page 8. - . . jj. A. O. Smoot, the 100-odd members and partners began transaction of the grand council business at 10 o'clock today. McMillen Responds F. C. McMillen, grand counselor, counsel-or, made the response to the welcome wel-come speeches and issued his report, re-port, followed by reports from S. D. Ross, Missoula, Montana, errand secretary, and L. H. Evans, Og-den, Og-den, Utah, grand treasurer. Mr. McMillen then appointed committees. commit-tees. -Visiting women were entertained entertain-ed at a bridge luncheon at the Roberts hotel early this afternoon, before the business session which began at 2. The visitors were scheduled to leave Provo at 4:30 this afternoon on a scenic trip which will take them up through Provo canyon and around the Alpine Al-pine loop, on which can be seen some of the grandest mountain scenery in the west. All but one of the executive officers of-ficers were registered at an early hour Thursday. The officers of the grand council include: Mr. McMillen, L. E. Jones, Great Falls, Montana, grand junior counselor; Carl Nelson, Miles City, Montana, past grand counselor; coun-selor; S. D. Ross. Missoula, Montana, Mon-tana, grand secretarv: L. w. gLS.TJ.i: - - -.v giauu conductor; T. H. Heal. Provo grand page; F. C. Cook, Miles City, grand sentinel; and the executive commiteee, H. J. Kopke. Boise, Idaho; E. W. Townsend, Great Falls, Montana, and W. E. Bolev Billings, Montana. iVIr- Jones. the grand junior o""4oc'"' W1" "eiy De selected as erand csnimao nr in tv,Q meeting Friday at 2 o'clock. Committees were aDDointed hv Mr. McMillen Thursday morning as follows: (First named is chairman) chair-man) Credentials L. L. Evans, Og-den; Og-den; E. R. Penrose, Salt Lake City; auditing T. H. Heal. Provo; Carl Nelson, Miles City, Mont., and E. R. Penrose, Salt Lake City; advisory and state of order F. L. Walters, Salt Lake City; Charles Sutton, Helena, Mont.; E. XV. Townsend, Great Falls, Mont., and C. W. Thomas, Provo! Charters and dispensations O. S. Walsh, Salt Lake City; O. R. Parker, Miles City; proposed (Continued on Page Three) HOLLYWOOD, Cal, June 5 The United States finally got an even break with ail Europe today, Americans won $2,745,000 and aU the rest of the world combined only $,-966,000 $,-966,000 on the big Irish sweepstake, sweep-stake, a lottery on the great English derby. They are going to try to retain re-tain the beet features of the NRA by persuasion, hours and wages. You got to admit Roosevelt is trying to get a semblance of fairness. But they wouldn't even do it by law, so thLs scheme looks doubtful. Yours, 1936. McNaught Syndicate. In.