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Show 1 .1-. 7 t SB to " f 1 Y T r r t - - - c . ... Tonight he E r0 Herald siple copy V r UTAH: Fair tonight and Thursday. Thurs-day. Colder east portion tonight. Maximum temp.. Tuesday 3H Minimum temp., Ttwsday .... 10 FIFTIETH YEAR, NO. 183 WAR DANGER THREATENED AT 3 POINTS Mongolia, Central Europe And Lake Tana Are Three Sore Spots Danger of war emerged again today when Russia protested angrily to Japan aga;nst alleged invasion of Mongolia, Russia's ally. Japan was given the plain intimation intima-tion that Russia is ready to JgtrTif Mongolia is invaded. In Europe, Austria followed Germany's example" in flouting the post-war treaties by restoring: military conscription and preparing prepar-ing to build up an army of perhaps per-haps 150,000. Italian forces in Ethiopia occupied occu-pied the shores of British-controlled Lake Tana, which is important im-portant to irrigation of Sudan and Eypt. Premier Mussolini has intimated he will respect British rights there only if Britain Brit-ain ceases opposing his Ethiopian war while delivered to Britain Fuehrer Hitler's proposals pro-posals for European peace discussions. discus-sions. MERRY-GO-ROUND A Dailv Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs Bv DREW PEARSON and ROBERT 8. ALLEN Rough Words About Hitler Were Too Much for Lu-ther. Lu-ther. Once His Enemy; Copeland's "Proxies" .of Absent Committee Members Mem-bers Rescued His Bill; Now Absentees Say They Would Have Voted Against His Ships Subsidy. WASHINGTON Dr. Hans Lu- : M a m - I tner. rciuim, 7- ; KacaaMor of Germany. i'ine R Walton Moore, assistant Secretary of state. Mr. Moore has a delicious sense of humor, which he conceals under a very grave mien. 1 Referring to Hitler's remilitar-1 izatior. of the Rhineland. lie said to Ambassador Luther: "That j rhancellOi of yours is certainly raising hell in Europe." "Mr. Secretary," replied the German ambassador, not catching the twinkle in Moore's eye, "I am afraid I cannot listen to anything any-thing derogatory to my chancel-loi chancel-loi " "Thr hell you can't," shot back Moore "You sit right there and listen to me." "Mr. Secretary." replied Luther, Lu-ther, in almost a plaintive voice, Chancellor Hitler is a very fine man, one of the finest leaders Germany has ever had. ..If you must persist in discussing him in those terms, I must ask you to xcuse me." Not. Dr Luther, himself ''nee chancellor of Germany, also minister min-ister of finance, was heartily out 1 f .sympathy with the Nazi movement move-ment when Hitler seized control, narrowly escaped exile, instead was kicked upstairs as ambassador. ambassa-dor. CONTRASTS o o The new 1937 appropriation hills carry some interesting con trasts in expenditure: Amount spent by navy per day, $1,510,433 82 Amount spent by state department depart-ment per day. $42,051.10. Amount spent for FERA for relief, per family, per day, $0.82. HARD-BOILED j. Senator Royal S. Copeland (Continued on Page 6, Sec. 3) NO KIWANIS MEETING There will be no Kiwanls meeting meet-ing Thursday noon because of the Ladies' night function to be held Thursday night in the First ward recreytlonal hall. ft AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER ran Gil Dobie Top Salaried Pilot In His New Job BOSTON. ADril 1 Gil Dobie, the gloomy guy who resigned the head football coaching job at Cornell University Uni-versity and was picked up by Boston College, probably will be the highest-paid mentor men-tor in the game this fall. Gil will receive $12,500 from Cornell in his contract that has one year to run. and $10,000 from the local institution, bringing h i m $22,500 for the season. GERMANY ASKS TRUCE ON RHINE Truce For Four Months On German-French-Belgian Frontier Proposed. ! Copyright. 1936 by United Press j LONDON. April 1 (U.R Ger-! Ger-! many today offered the Locarno treaty powers a four month period j of military inactivity on the Rhine-I Rhine-I land frontier while negotiations j could be started for a new political I'deal for Europe. The cabinet went into session at once to consider the note and, at the same time to' arrange for general gen-eral staff talks with France and Belgium on a plan of mutual de- ! fense. ! Joachim Von Ribbentrop. Fuefr- rer Adolf Hitler's special envoy, delivered the German offer to Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden this morning. The German delegation informed inform-ed the United Press officially that the note proposes a virtual truce on the German-French-Belgian frontier for a four month interim period. PPO P.-T. A. OFFICERS NAMED Mrs. Lucille Bown Slaugen-houp Slaugen-houp was elected president of the Provo rarent-Teacvier association asso-ciation at a meeting held Tuesday Tues-day afternoon in the office of Su- rintart w a niron Sh succeeds Mrs. La Vieve H. Earl who was named first vice president. presi-dent. Superintendent Dixon was named second vice president and Mrs. Hattie Larson, third vice president. Plans for the attendance of the Piovo representatives to the state P.-T. A. convention were discussed. dis-cussed. COURT TO HEAR TWO APPEALS Only four criminal cases, including includ-ing two appeals on drunken driving driv-ing charges, are set in the Fourth district court for the May term, which starts this month. There are 43 civil cases. The two appealing from drunken driving sentences are T. R. Terry, sentenced January 9 to six months in jail with five months suspended on good behavior. The other was Henry Williamson. sentenced March 10 to 60 days in jail with 30 days suspended on payment of $100 fine. Terry's trial will be April 13 and Williamson's will be April 16. Ned and Ellis Nielson will come t a, April 14 on a charf of unlawfully taking a motor vehicle and Dee Miner will come up for trial April 15. His is a theft charge, involving four sheep pelts. The calendar was fixed Tuesday by Judges Abe W. Turner and M. M. Larson. Kiwanians To Attend SPANISH FORK At a meeting meet-ing of the Spanish Pork Kiwania club held Monday night it unanimously unani-mously voted that the members support the livestock show banquet ban-quet which is to be held Friday night, April 10. the KiwaiuV-elub is sponsoring the banquet. Fenton Reeve directed a musical program. . PROVO, UTAH STYLE SHOWS TO FEATURE SPRING EVENT Latest Fashions to be Paraded; Para-ded; High School Band To Play Tonight Nothing daunted by the passing spring snow flurry which struck the state Monday, Mon-day, Provo merchants are going go-ing right ahead with the Community Easter opening as planned for tonight. Everybody is invited to attend the "open house" announced an-nounced by the stores to be held from 7:30 to 9 p. m. "Easter time is dress-up time" is the slogan for the event, which promises to reveal to the public gaze the latest modes and fashions fash-ions in women's wear, men's apparel, ap-parel, furniture and home decorations, decor-ations, and automobiles. Plans for the affair have been worked out by the retail merchants mer-chants committee, with Sidney W. Russel, chairman. Clayton Jenkins, secretary of the chamber of commerce, reported re-ported this morning that practically practi-cally all the stores were participating, partici-pating, and many of them are platrntagr styte shows to-bring trat the attractive and amazing fashions fash-ions coming out this spring. Many of the stores are doing exceptional jobs on their window displays, with the result that some of them would be a credit to Fifth Avenue shops. Band music by the snappy Provo Pro-vo high school band, directed by Clair Johnson, will be one of the bier attractions in the business district during the evening. The open house tonighft will open the Easter style show which is slated to continue Thursday, Friday and Saturday. "The Easter opening is not a sales event," explained Mr. Russell Rus-sell todav. "It is planned to give the nublic an opportunity to view the beautiful new displays of merchandise in the stores and be- j come better acquainted with the! merchants. "AM the people of the citv and i all of Utah rountv are invited to narticinpte with us in this Easter opening " SPEECH EVENT STARTS TONIGHT The public is invited to attend the opening events of the seventeenth seven-teenth annual Speech Tournament and Drama Festival at College hall tonight at 7:30. Demonstrations in choral, speech festival and boys' and girls' declamation will be held for the junior high schools who are entering enter-ing the festival. The tourney will continue Thursday, Friday and Saturday. THREE SAVED IN FORGED LANDING ELKO, Incv., April 1 (U.RK Entirely En-tirely unscratched, three Elko men who badly damaged their airplane when forced to land on rocky Badger mountain in a blizzard, returned re-turned here today. The men, Lieut. Newton Crumley Crum-ley Jr., son of an Elko hotel owner, own-er, Harvey Elliott, manager of the Elks club, and Irvin De Long, truckline operator, were objects of a county-wide search yesterday yester-day after they were reported missing since noon Monday on a trip from Reno. The trio became lost in a blizzard bliz-zard and their radio went dead, Crumley said. When the motor began to sputter, Crumley was forced to land on the mountain, approximately 50 miles north of Elko. The right wheel was torn off and the right wing damaged as the plane ground-looped and stopped suddenly. COUNTY, UTAH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1936 Legion Chief Sounds Call For Rebirth Of American Patriotism Ray Murphy, Iowa, National Commander of American Legion! Accorded Rousing Ovation At Reception in Provo "There should be a rebirth of patriotism in America; a rededication to American principles and ideals," declared Ray Murphy, national commander of the American Legion, in a stirring address before mpre than 200 Legionnaires and auxiliary members from all parts of Utah, at the Roberts hotel Tuesday night. "When there comes a time when the people think a country is not worth living for, and not worth dying for, i- . . . . -. 1- VISITOR " f 1-0 A ,S! A -4- ' 'A .-....svw.fl'.'W.w.vi jYL 'A J. RAY MURPHY National Commander, American Logion a-' 6 3 '3k. -. 1 Provo Man Resigns Beet Grower Board Refusal of Association Officials To Release Growers Brings Resignation Heber A. Knudsen, of West Drive, Tuesday resigned from the executive board of the Central Utah Beet Growers' association, with the declaration that he is "entirely out of harmony with the views of the board." -s MANY GROWERS WANT TO SIGN Although the weather is settling set-tling and farm land will soon be at its best stage for planting beets, the unsettled condition between be-tween growers and manufacturers manufactur-ers still maintains. The situation remains deadlocked. dead-locked. Utah county farmers, through their board, have refuse the Utah Idaho Sugar company to accept the contract offered by the Utah-Idaho Sugar company and the company refuses to grant the contract asked by the growers. grow-ers. There is apparently a growing grow-ing desire on the part of growers grow-ers to accept the contract as it is, rather than not grow beets This is reflected in the vote at a meeting of Pleasant Grove, Lan-don Lan-don and Orem farmers who voted four to one to grow beets in a meeting at Lindon last week. Previously Pre-viously they had voted to stay with the board in "holding out." Today Utah county is the only one still holding out and a number of persons see a danger that the crop which annually takes up from 8,000 to 15,000 acres of land, will be switched to other crops, with inevitable bad results to markets and otherwise. However, the growers are most ly bound up by growers' con-1 tracts, through which they can I continued on Page Eight) then that country is rotting at the core," said the portly, gray-haired national commander, while the demonstrative audience listened with rapt attention. Good Representation It was a good representarton of Utah's Legion, as far flung as Beaver, Richfield and Ogden, and which included Utah Department Commander George W. VVorthen of Provo; Mrs. Eva Ashton, Vernal, Ver-nal, department auxiliary president, presi-dent, and other dignitaries, who heard the commander's speech. George S. Ballif, commander of Provo Post 13, the host organization, organiza-tion, was master of ceremonies. Ridicule Pacifists Commander Murphy led up to his pronouncement-about the need fvr & rebirth of patriotLsiu, vitL a reference to the recent organization organi-zation at Princeton and Vassar, where undergraduates set up a "Veterans of Future Wars' and "Future Gold Star Mothers." The speaker read a poem dedicated dedi-cated to these students, the first one starting out, "Hail to the Pansies of Princeton " He said he preferred to treat the students in the same "humorous vein as they treated us." "We could enjoy a little humor, even at our expense, but when at Vassar they organized the "Future "Fu-ture Gold Star Mothers' we (Continued on Page Four) His resignation is the result of the board's continued stand to refuse re-fuse the contract of the sugar company. The officers have been holding out for their "50-50" contract, con-tract, although alj, other sections of the state have accepted the manufacturers' contract. "This is still America," said Mr. Knudsen. "When the growers grow-ers voted to stand by the contract it was with the thought that the state organization would stand firm. This is no longer the case; the rest of the state has accepted the contract and the locals have been released to sign if they desire. de-sire. "I refuse to be a party to any policy that will tell the farmers they cannot grow beets." Mr. Knudsen said more than a week ago that he would never agree to sue any farmer because he violated the growers' contract, which calls for a penalty of one dollar a ton if the board chose to exact that penalty. In pointing out that it is practically prac-tically the unanimous sentiment of Provo district, Lindon, Pleasant Grove and Lehi farmers to grow beets, Mr. Knudsen said -that he certainly would not stand in their way. Hence the resignation. Gardner To Accept Utah Lake Position BOISE, Idaho, April 1 (EE) State Senator David I. Gardner, watermaater of the Mud Lake district dis-trict at Dubois, Idaho; has resigned resign-ed his position in order to accept the office of watermaater of Utah lake in Utah, it was . announced by the bureau of reclamation. rnMrTi 'BIG THREE' 0FT011SEND GROUP NAMED Clements, His Brother and Dr. Townsend Shown To Be Supreme WASHINGTON, April 1 (U.R) Robert E. Clements, resigned secretary-treasurer of the Townsend plan, today told the house old-age pensions pen-sions inquiry that three men controlled assets of Old Age Revolving Pensions, Ltd., which has received nearly $1,000,-000 $1,000,-000 in contributions. Clements named the three as himself, Dr. F. E. Townsend and Townsend's brother, Walter, a former hotel porter described by committee Council James R. Sullivan Sul-livan as a "dummy." Clements' testimony came after the committee had admitted to its records copies of indictments naming Edward J. Margett, California Cali-fornia Townsend manager, on various charges some 20 and more years ago. Clements said the incorporators only put filing and attorney's fees into the organization when it was founded. CITY TO REVISE 5 ORDINANCES City Attorney I. E. Brockbank was authorized Wednesday to revise re-vise five city ordinances that have become out-of-date because of new conditions or new state laws The city commission empowered him to create a civil service ordinance or-dinance placing the police and fire departments under this program "For 16 years Provo city has ignored the state civil service law," Mayor Mark Anderson said. "We are not certain of the practicability of this law in a city the size of Provo. but believe it will work and make an improvement." improve-ment." Other revisions will be in the traffic, liquor, license and salary sal-ary ordinances. Inequalities existing in the present license ordinance will be wiped out when the revision is made. Considerable time will be spent in re-shaping this law to make it ready for application next year. The merchants committee com-mittee of the chamber of commerce com-merce will cooperate in this job Real estate dealers, who have paid no license under the old law will be required o pay a stipu lated sum in the future, it isJ contemplated. Manufacturers have not been required to pay in the past and their case will come up for consideration. Some manufacturers manu-facturers here are also retailers and as such have paid one license Hence, there is a question as to whether an extra toll will be demanded. de-manded. The salary ordinance, established establish-ed many years ago, also requires revision. In 13 cases, the pay checks exceed the amount set ur in the ordinance due to changing salary schedules. "These employes are not overpaid," over-paid," the mayor said. "But the ordinance should be made to conform." con-form." MINER HELD FOR LIURDER PRICE, Utah, April 1 OLE) Tony Kassapis, 38, was held in the Carbon county jail here today in connection with the fatal shooting shoot-ing late Tuesday of Christo John-nikis, John-nikis, 43, a fellow coal miner. The shooting occurred in a coffee shop at Hiawatha, a small coal mine town 22 miles southwest of here. Kassapis admitted the shooting, shoot-ing, officers said. He claimed Johnnikis was advancing toward him with a chair and that he shot in self defense. r COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS 8ERVICE Grand Jury Asks Time to Examine Story of Wendel Convicted Slayer of Lindbergh Baby Clings To a Slim Hope That Grand Jury Might . Force Still Another Postponement TRENTON, N. J April 1 (U.R) Bruno Richard Haupt-mann's Haupt-mann's execution was reset today for Friday at 8 p. raM by Chief Keeper Mark Kimberling of state prison. Kimberling decided to give Hauptmann an extra 24 hjours so that the grand jury, which is considering the alleged al-leged confession of Paul Wendel, will have plenty of time to complete its investigation. Kimberling explained, however, that the Friday date for the execution might be changed if the grand jury had not acted by that time. "If the jury is still sitting Friday at 8 p. m I probably will hold up the execution until a decision is made," he said. By JOE ALEX MORRIS I'nltel Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright 1936. by United Press) TRENTON, N. J., April l (U.R) The miracle happened for Bruno Richard Hauptmann and today, rather than being a corpse in the white-washed morgue of the state prison, he was happy and alive in his cell in the death house, expecting, "better things." In another part of Trenton, 22 men and a woman the Mercer, county grand jury hotly divided among themselves, were custodians of hisi ultimate fate Telephone Call Brings Stay Hauptmann's head was shaved, his pants' leg had been split, the ministers, the guards, the executioner waited, the witnesses had been assembled. He was less than five minutes short of eternity. Then a telephone rang and two minutes later Warden Mark O. Kimberling announced that his life had been prolonged for at least 48 hours. TJie telephone tele-phone call came from the foreman of the grand jury then deliberating whether to indict Jaul Wendel, a disbarred attorney, at-torney, for the crime for which Hauptmann was about to be executed. He had asked for and obtained a stay. In the shadowy background of the strange cross currents cur-rents of personalities and melodrama and tragedy growing out of the murder of the eldest son of Col. Charles A and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, were a few important discernable forms. s wendel. the sharn-minderi for SNOIV REPORT SETS RECORD Reports of heavy snowfall on the Provo river watershed were borne out by figures presented in the monthly report of J. Frank Wentz, water commissioner of the Provo river today, showing the snow depth on April 1 to be 113 per cent of normal. The report shows there is 109.3 inches of snow at Long Lake with a Water content of 40.3 inches. This is the highest in at least five year, the nearest to it being in 1932 when 104 inches was measured with a 36-inch water content. The depth of the snow at Trial lake is 99.2 inches; Lost lake. 87.6 inches; Daniels canyon, 59.7 inches; inch-es; Soapstone, 53.6 inches. The average of the five stations is 81.9 inches with 30.1 inches of water. Every one of the five stations report more than 100 per cent of normal. Youths Win Mercy of Court On Conviction Eugene Openshaw, Nolan Green-halgh Green-halgh and Max Peterson of Santa-quin, Santa-quin, Tuesday were granted a suspended sentence on a one to 20 year term in the state prison following fol-lowing their plea of guilty to a charge of second degree burglary. burg-lary. The youths burglarized the Santaquin Drug company store, a State Liquor Store .package agency, February 13 and were later lat-er captured by the Utah county officers. Judge Martin M. Larson suspended sus-pended the sentences on condition that the boys do not violate any state laws an do not become intoxicated in-toxicated ;for one year, that they report once a month to the court for thr ' , "v-t quarter for three years. PRICE FIVE CENTS PIU1 mer attorney, had been arrested under weird circumstances, confessed con-fessed under circumstances even more strange, and, at the first opportunity, had repudiated his confession. Politics Plays Part The confession had been characterized char-acterized as worthless by Attorney Attor-ney General David T. Wilentx, Mercer County Prosecutor Everett Ever-ett Marshall, and other officials. Yet, over Marshall's strenuous objections, the grand jury began considering it yesterday afternoon after-noon with a view of returning an indictment. Evening came and the hour approached when Hauptmann Haupt-mann was scheduled to die. Foreman Fore-man Allyne Freeman telephoned Kimberling and the reprieve followed. fol-lowed. Freeman is a friend of Gov Hoffman and at least four members mem-bers of the granil jury were described de-scribed as republican followers of Hoffman. Marshall, a democrat, demo-crat, preserved a frigid silence. He slammed the door of his office. of-fice. He was furious. Hauptmann Pleased The jury continued to deliberate ?i W hile O" Attorney C Lloyd Fisher rushed back to the death house and laughingly informed his client that for 48 hours at least, his life had been spared. Hauptmann smiled, he (Continued on Page Eight) uncom STUDENTS fJOHIHATE OFFICERS Lincoln high school students nominated officers for next year thjmorniny. with the following Blue party: Wayne Bellows, president; Ora Johnson, vice president; Ruth Hansen, secretary; secre-tary; Joseph Blake, advertising manager: Frances Hunn, debating: manager; Hortense Clinger, music mu-sic manager; Richard Taylor, dramatic dra-matic manager. Gold party: Lowell Bigelow president; Esther Hansen, vice president; Donna Scott, secretary Anthony Ivins, advertising man ager; Kent Fielding, debating ' uiu, mUSlC manager; lvan Kocnernajis. dra- matfc manager. 4 ; IS'. |