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Show Weather Forecast UTAH Snow tonight and probably prob-ably Thursday. Little change in temperature. Maximum temp. Tuesday 45 Minimum temp. Tuesday ... 30 Herald So They Say! The people can change Cong i ecu but only God can change the supreme court. Senator George W. Norris, Nebraska. Ne-braska. FIFTIETH YEAR, NO. 153 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1 9, 1 9 3 6 ggfH?H Sf servFc! PRICE FIVE CENTS IS) 15) JVJ u Li - Evening iJlie Pom m MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN Democrats Hampered Munitions Muni-tions Probe Because Chairman Chair-man Nye Was Republican; Its Funds Doomed When Nye Made Fatal Error of Attacking Wood row Wilson. Wil-son. WASHINGTON History probably prob-ably will record the munitions investigation, in-vestigation, now nearing its last sessions, as one of the most useful use-ful in senate annals. But its untimely un-timely termination is clouded in an atmosphere of backstage politics poli-tics and petty personal bickering. Tv.-o mistakes prevented the committee from doing the kind of job it might have done, and from continuing unhampered until the job really was finished. The first was the appointment of a Republican as chairman. Senator Sen-ator Gerald Nye who introduced the munitions resolution deserved de-served to be chairman, but repeated re-peated experience has proved it inadvisable to place a minority member at the head of an important import-ant investigating body. There are invariably certain majoritv members mem-bers who. secretly opposed to the probe, will make use of partisan prejudice to attack it. This was the case with the munitions inquiry. From the very start. Democratic leaders balked at giving Nye the funds he asked for. A Democrat would have had little difficulty. But a Republican Republi-can well, that was different. The other big mistake was Nye's failure to grasp what Jim Reed, acid-tongued one-time sen-atqrfromMiSOTuronce sen-atqrfromMiSOTuronce expressed to John T. Flyrih. ""' Flynn had made Reed a lush offer to write memoirs of his various vari-ous political battles with Wood-row Wood-row Wilson. Reed refused. "There is one thing I have learned about life," he said. (Continued on Page. Four) "20-30" CLUB IS ORGANIZED A "Twenty-Thirty" civic club was inaugurated in Provo Tuesday Tues-day night when 12 young business and professional men signed a petition pe-tition asking for a charter, which can be obtained in three months. Robert Bushman, pharmacist at Hedquist Drug store No. 1. was elected president of the organization, organiza-tion, which is dedicated to civic improvement and social fraternity fratern-ity like the Rotary, Kiwanis and Lions clubs, already established here. Other officers are Mark Eg-gertsen, Eg-gertsen, vice president: Glen Vincent, Vin-cent, secretary-treasurer. and Earl Wignall, sergeant-at-arms. Other Charter Members The eight additional petitioning members include: Paul Holt. John Hughes, Mac Swenson, Harry Har-ry Dixon, Archie Jones, Clarence fClug) Vacher, Waldo Hodson and John West wood. Meetings will be held weekly, according to Mr. Bushman, the next one to be Tuesday noon. Members are admitted to the club, according to a broad classification classi-fication system, with no more, than three members possible from each classification. Only men between be-tween the ages of 20 and 30 are admitted. A number of clubs have been organized in v-he west since the inception oi the club in 1922. Members of other Provo civic clubs will be invited to address the new organization for the first few meetings. MINER KILLED, ONE INJURED IN BLAST BOULDER. Colo., Feb. 19 r.P A premature explosion of dynamite dyna-mite in the Wisconsin mine of the United American Gold Mines, eight miles west of here, resulted in the death of Henry A. Bristle 49, of Chappell, Nebr., and the serious injury of Clarence Hodson, just before midnight last night. Bristle and Hodson had set a charge of 86 sticks of dynamite in a shaft they were sinking just before going off duty at 11:30 p. m. They were being raised out ofT' the shaft in a bucket when a portion of the dynamite exploded, Knocking Brislte to the bottom of jthste-ft, and injuring Hodson's eye. Hauptmann Execution JUDGE SIGNS WARRANT FOR THIRD TIME Governor Anxious To Have Jafsie Condon Return For Questioning TRENTON, N. J., Feb. 19 (U.R Bruno Richard Haupt-mann Haupt-mann was re-sentenced today to be executed in the week -of March :() for the murder of Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. Barring further reprieves, the new date means Haupt-mann Haupt-mann probablv will die at 8 p. m. the night of March 31. as the customary cus-tomary time for executions in New Jersev is the Tuesday of the week scheduled in the death warrant. Si ens Death Warrant For the third time Justice Thomas W. Trenchard, who presided pre-sided at the Flemington trial, signed a death warrant for Hauptmann. The action was taken tak-en at the jurist's home where he has been suffering with a throat ailment. Other developments in the case included: 1---Political leaders said the Hauptmann case has "crossed the state boundaries" and was becoming becom-ing a national issue that might aifjecL.J.h.e.nex. presidential ..elecr. tion. 2 - Gov. Harold G. Hoffman, friendly to the Hauptmann case, indicated he might ask Dr. John F. (Jafsie) Condon to return from a Panama vacation and voluntarily voluntar-ily answer questions regarding his purported contradictory statements. state-ments. He was the chief state's witness against the German carpenter. car-penter. 3. Samuel Leibowitz, famous criminal attorney, was expected to visit Hauptmann in the death cell today in another attempt to get "the truth" about the Lindbergh Lind-bergh babv kidnaping and murder. Another Reprieve Possible Hautmann vas not removed from the death house for the for-maliity for-maliity of the resentencing and he had no immediate knowledge of it. Judge Trenchard's action narrowed nar-rowed Hauptmann's chances for again escaping the electric chair to two possibilities another reprieve re-prieve from Governor Hoffman, or (Continued on Page Six) SCOUT DRIVE STARTS MONDAY Preparations for the annual Boy Scout drive have been completed and Ls ready to begin Monday morning. Dr. M. V. Merrill, chairman of the finance committee of the Provo Boy Scout district committee, com-mittee, who is in charge of the drive will announce a list of 30 captains and workers to cover the business and industrial district. dis-trict. The "thrift men" in each ward and the Community church will have charge of the drive in the wards. The solocjtation for funds to support the Boy Scout work will be completed by Wednesday night, if present plans are carried out. A court of honor session Sunday Sun-day night in the stake tabernacle, with Dr. Adam S. Bennion as the speaker, will be the opening event of the drive. What They Say - About Scouting - ' - "The Boy Scout organization organiza-tion deserves our undivided support. It is doing a great work in training our boys for citizenship. One should be very proud to say, 'My son is a Boy Scout.' M OSCAR BJERREGAARD, Principal, Maeser School. TAKES APPOINTMENT 1 lSf ) ' c t ni Vim jr PRES. J. REUBEN CLARK AUTHOR HITS NATIONALISM Upton Close Says Defeated ! Nations Are Rebuilding Their Empires. ! Speaking on "The Course of Empires" and drawing a vivid picture of European and Asiatic diff4cla- JUpL Gloiie', -America's leading authority on Asiatic and Far Eastern problems, addressed ad-dressed students of Brigham Young university in the regular student assembly Wednesday. Mr. Close ( Joseph Washington Hall), is a frequent contributor to at least 12 outstanding American Amer-ican periodicals and has written six significant books on the Orient among which are "Moonlady," a romance of China and "Revolt of Asia," which depicts the end of the white man's world dominance. Decries Nationalism He decried the present degeneracy degener-acy of nationalism and stated that in its aggravated form it is nothing noth-ing but an instrument for binding men, women and children together togeth-er to throw into the fiery furnace of war. "The nations which were whipped whip-ped in the World War are now rebuilding re-building their empire," he said. "The whole story of empire is dirty. England built her own preeminence pre-eminence out of the blood, bones and fibers of her own women and children. As far as I am concerned, concern-ed, there shall be no more throwing throw-ing of holy water over the dirty work of empire." "In the present state of affairs. Britain is worried for fear she will lose Italy's colonies in Africa as well as those of Germany. She is also worried because Japan, which in every age has been one of the most powerful nations in world, is pushing her out of Asia. Al Will Be There NEW YORK, Feb. 19 l'.R Tammany Hall assured Alfred E. Smith a chance to "take a walk" at the Democratic National convention con-vention today. Tammany Chief James J. Dooling nominated him as a district convention delegate, a proceeding equivalent to election. Plucky Crane Operator Jokes With Surgeon During Unique Amputation 60 Feet in th e Air '(if' LOWELL, Mass., Feb. 19 U.P A 47-year-old crane operator, trapped in his cab 60 feet in the air, laughed and chatted today as a surgeon, working left-handed, amputated his right arm at the shoulder. The crane man, John McCoy, was taken to St. Joseph's hospital hos-pital after the impromptu aerial operation where he was given a 50-50 chance to survive the ordeal which occurred in sub-zero temperature tem-perature McCoy had reported for work at midnight. His job at the Lowell Low-ell Gas and Light company's plant was to carry coke with the crane. Cab Drops 20 Feet A half ' hour later Michael Leahey, another employe, heard a CLARK NAMED MEMBER OF LEAGUE UNIT L D. S. Church Official Tq Assist League Group On Bond Mixup President J. Reuben Clark, Jr., of Salt Lake City, has been appointed a member of a special committee of the League of Nations for studying study-ing contracts relating to international in-ternational loans, according to an announcement Tuesday from league headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The first meeting of the committee com-mittee will be held April 27 at Geneva. President Clark is already president presi-dent of the Foreign Bondholders' Protective Council, Inc., a position which he has heiu lor more than a year. He is first counselor to President Heber J. Grant of the L. D. S. church. He is a recognized recog-nized authority on international law and a former ambassador to Mexico from the United States. In accepting the appointment President Clark pointed out that the people of the United States are vitally involved in the situation situ-ation since $6,000,000,000 in for eign bonds are held in this coun try, approximately one third or which are now in default. STEEL MERGER REPORT DENIED SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 19 (L'.Pi The office of A. H. Diehl, president presi-dent of the Columbia Steel company, com-pany, today denied reports of negotiations for a merger of the Columbia Steel and the Western Pipe and Steel company. Diehl was out of town, but a spokesman said the rumors of the reported merger "had been going the rounds for several years." Columbia Steel is a unit of the United States Steel corporation's vast operations. The Western Pipe and Steel company operates in California and other western states, manufacturing manu-facturing steel pipe. The company com-pany has bought most of its steel for years from the Columbia Steel company and has bid on several Utah PWA projects. Local officials of the Columbia Steel company have not been informed in-formed of any such merger mentioned men-tioned in the press dispatch. Kiwanians To Honor George Washington Washington's birthday will be fittingly celebrated by the Provo Kiwanis club at their regular meeting Thursday. Chief Justice Elias Hansen of the state supreme court will give the address on Washington. A colonial minuet, Washington and Lincoln stories by the fun committee, and other interesting features will constitute consti-tute the program. g crash. The crane's, cab, with McCoy Mc-Coy inside, had fallen about 20 feet and was pierced by a steel girder. Muffled sounds from the cab told Leahey that McCoy had been injured Leahey and Foreman Herbert Lawson summoned police and firemen. Firemen rushed to the scene, raised a 60-foot extension ladder and one of them climbed to the cab. McCoy could be seen inside, his right arm pinned against the roof by the girder. The cab had been crushed in such a way that entrance was impossible. im-possible. John Regan, a company rigger, went up the ladder and, with an acetylene torch, cut a hole in that Set March 31 WINS CIVIC PRIZE His thorough investigation of, alleged police-underworld collusion col-lusion in St. Paul, which brought sweeping changes in the department, has "won for Howard Kahn, above, the distinguished dis-tinguished service .medal annually an-nually awarded by a leading: civic club of the Minnesota capital. Kahn, long noted for effective crusading, is editor of i the St. Paul Dally News. SLIDE BLOCKS CANYON ROAD Egg Shipment From Heber is Carried Over Snow To Waiting Truck. Transportation of hatching eggs from Heber City to Provo was a delicate and somewhat hazardous undertaking Tuesday for freighters freight-ers who were forced to carry the eggs over the half-mile snowslid on the Provo canyon highway above Upper Falls. The eggs were brought from Heber City to the upper side of the half mile slide, passenger cars being used in order to save them from any unnecessary .jolting. Other cars awaited on the west end of tlx "big slide wnic came down last Saturday morning and blocked traffic. Crude steps were cut in the snow where the freighters freight-ers carefully carried the cargo over by manpower. Snow fell all morning- Wednes day and the weather was mild, .' causing fear of new slides. Experienced Ex-perienced road workers have continued con-tinued to caution onlookers and workmen about going through the canyon, believing that more heavy slides, especially at Bridal Veil Falls, Fergusons, Slide Canyon and Wildwood. are imminent. The snowfall of late last week, which piled nearly 15 inches onto the watersheds, was wet and heavy, causing it to slip readily off the smoother surface of the previous fall. The snow appeared to be trembling on the edge of steep slopes ready to slip anytime. any-time. The gasoline power shovel for clearing the highway, has not yet arrived at the slide Wednesday. Part of the debris adjacent to the creek will be blasted into the river. -- 3ft if. if. tf. side of the cab, then descended. Dr. Norman Gillmor Long took his place at the ladder. The physician phy-sician was preceded by Fireman George Collins, who roped himself to a girder and held another rope to help support the doctor. Collins Col-lins aiso held a storage battery lamp, the only source of illumination. illumin-ation. Operates With One Hand It was necessary for Dr. Long to clutch a rope with his right hand, while performing the amputation ampu-tation with his left hand through the small aperture in the cab's side. "Is my arm gone, Doc?" asked McCoy when Dr. Long stuck his head through the hole. St - " VH wt v , "ml FIVE FIREMEN KILLED UNDER FALLING WALL Sub-zero Temperatures In Columbus Blaze Hampers Ham-pers Fire Fighters COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 19 (ULR) Five firemen lost their lives while fighting a fire that destroyed the Odd Fellows Fel-lows temple here early today when thejp were trapped beneath be-neath a falling wall. The firemen, crushed by tons of ice-coated debris, had been pouring water on the fire from a small balcony one story above the street. Those killed were Captain Otto Ignatze, Lieutenant Harry Mc-Fadden, Mc-Fadden, Captain Robert Welsh, Firemen Terbert D. Harrington and Oliver V. Metzger. Captain Ignatze and Harrington Harring-ton were removed from the ruins soon after they were killed. It was not until mid-morning, six hours later, that squads of firemen fire-men and workmen cut through the wreckage to find the frozen bodies of Captain Welsh and Metzger. Lieut. McFadden, struck by flying fly-ing timbers, died In & hospital of a skull fracture. Capt. Thomas Stringer, standing--knee- deep in water,---was frozen fast and had to be dug out. One of several other firemen injured was in a serious condition. William Donahoe, 38, was in a hospital with a jaw fracture and other injuries. Temperatures ranged between 3 and 6 degrees below zero as 17 fire companies battled the flames which rapidly ate through the old, mostly wooden building. Several fireman froze their hands and feet. Early estimates placed the loss at $250,000. POWER SURVEY FACTS ASKED Mayor Mark Anderson Tuesday wrote a follow-up letter to the Public Utilities commission requesting re-questing infprmation on the valuation val-uation of the Utah Power and Light company system in Provo. The mayor asked the commission commis-sion for information on the matter in a letter sent February 10, but so far has received no answer, he said today. "We are making a survey of the light and power situation in Provo and will appreciate getting any information that you may have relative to the value of the power company's distribution system sys-tem within the limits of Provo city," the letter set forth. "If such information is available avail-able we will have our engineer, Elmer A. Jacob, call at your office of-fice in the near future." The mayor was informed that the public service commissionwas making a comprehensive survey of the light and power situation but so far has seen no proof of this, he declared. "We'll see," the doctor replied. "Just take it easy." "It's awful cold," McCoy said. "Yes, it is cold. But you'll be out of here pretty quick," the doctor doc-tor assured him. Before Dr. Long could begin the seemingly impossible task of amputating with only- one free hand and his left hand, at that there was a cry from below. A priest had arrived to administer the last rites. So Dr. Long descended and the Rev. Edwin F. Carey of St. Peter's church took his place on the ladder lad-der and gave McCoy the final sacraments. Then Dr. Long returned to his precarious perch and performed the operation. Vast Project On Columbia River Involves 1 0 Dams Announcement of Huge Project Withheld Pending Supreme Court Decision On TVA; Cheap Power To Be Available By RICHARD L. HARKNESS United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (U.R) Supported by supreme court approval of generation and sale of federal power, the New Deal proposed today to carry forward in the Pacific northwest comprehensive development of one of the nation's great electrical energy sources. The program, envisaging eventual construction of a mighty chain of 10 hydro-electric dams to harness the power of the Columbia river, was submitted in a report requested - - by President Roosevelt from the tafllliaf npn ft WIUUW ritrUKlii DEATH THREATS Attempt On the Life of Mrs. Liggett Is Reported After Acquittal. (Copyright 1936 by United Press) MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 19 (CP) An attempt on the life of Mrs. Edith Liggett was 'made less than two weeks ago, the United Press was informed today, a few hours after Isadore Blumenfeld was acquitted ac-quitted of the machine gun assassination assass-ination of her husband, Walter Liggett. Mrs. Liggett, regarding it as gangland's answer to her continuance con-tinuance of the editorial campaign cam-paign wnich brougat death to her husband, announced she would sell the Mid-West American and flee Minnesota. Mrs. LiggeU said the attempt on her life was made soon after she testified in Blumenfeld's trial and identified him as her husband's hus-band's slayer. A speeding automobile swerved toward her as she stepped from the curb in front of her Mid-West American office, she said. "It was a deliberate attempt on my life," the frail, dark-haired widow said. "I am confident of that." Mrs. Liggett said she was threatened several times after her husband's slaying. She said she believed enemies of her husband planned to "make me an apparent-hit-and-run victim." PROVO TO WAGE WAR ON RATS Is your property infested with rats? If so, arrangements have been completed by the city authorities in cooperation with the U. S. department de-partment of agriculture for the free distribution of the recommended recom-mended red squill rat bait on February Feb-ruary 25 and 26 at the office of the county agent. Instructions in the use of the bait will be given at the office but the placing of the bait will have to be done by the owners, themselves, according to Mayor Mark Anderson. The back yards of the business district is known to be especially infested with rats. There are places also in the residential district dis-trict where rats have gained a foothold. Takes Death Plunge SALT LAKE CITY, Feb, 19 (U.R) W. F. Dansboe, 42, Omaha salesman, sales-man, met instant death Tuesday afternoon in a fall from his fifth floor room at the Hotel Utah. His actions during the day had been strange, according to hotel attaches which would indicate he was mentally deranged. Woman Speaks SPANISH FORK Mrs. Malcolm Mal-colm Green, Spanish Fork, was the guest speaker at the meeting of the Spanish Fork Kiwanis club held Monday night at the Firemen's Fire-men's hall with President C. M. Jacobsen conducting. Mrs. Green spoke on "The Value of Hobbies as a Recreational Project" r-acmc ortnwesi negxonai tian- ning commission. New Set-up Proposed To administer this huge program, pro-gram, a Pacific northwest power agency, resembling TVA but different dif-ferent from it in important particulars, par-ticulars, was recommended. The new government set-up would be a power agency pure and simple, devised to administer the creation, transmission and sale of power. It would be stripped of the multitudinous side activities activi-ties of TVA. No estimate of the eventual cost of the proposed development was submitted in the report that it was thought certain to run into the billions. Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes made public the report. His letter transmitting it to the White House was dated Jan. 6. Its details de-tails had been kept secret Dend- io rewrite tsui The report was described as strictly within scope of the decision. decis-ion. If adopted and financed, however, it would achieve the government's power objectives. Senator James P. Pope, D., Ida., said today he expected to rewrite his Columbia Valley Authority bill, introduced early last session, to conform substantially with the planning commission's report and offer it within the next few days. Pope said the gradual shifting of agricultural population westward west-ward would attract new industries indus-tries to that area if cheap power becomes available. He said he believed be-lieved the Pacific northwest "can become one of the greatest agricultural agri-cultural and industrial centers of the United States." He noted that "the trend of decisions de-cisions by the supreme court has indicated the federal government will not be permitted to regulate industry," and said the "only method of controlling trade practices prac-tices in the conduct of industry appears to "be direct competition through government corporations as is being done through the TVA." Ickes, as public works administrator, admin-istrator, already has advanced $32,500,000 for construction of (Continued on Page Eight) Congress Okehs Townsend Probe WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (U.P) The house today authorized an investigation in-vestigation of old age pension movements, after hearing Dr. Francis E. Townsend bitterly denounced de-nounced as an economic "Charlatan" "Charla-tan" advocating taxes double "the infamous excise tax of Augustus Caesar." With support of both Democratic Demo-cratic and Republican leaders, the house approved a resolution offered by Rep. C. Jasper Bell, D., Mo., to appoint an eight-man congressional con-gressional committee to inquire into all phases of old age pension plans. The standing vote was 240 to 4. Critically 111 Ralph T. Jones, barber at the Jones Barber shop, is critically ill at his home, 169 South Seventh West street, according to members of the family. Mr. Jones was stricken a week ago with a head infection developing develop-ing from an abscessed ear. Attending At-tending physicians now report the patient to be suffering from spinal meningitis. PARKER P.-T. A. TO MEET The P.-T. A. of the Parker school will meet Thursday evening at 8 o'clock at the school, it is announced. "t T |