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Show Weather UTAH Unsettled tonight and Wednesday, cooler northwest portion por-tion Wednesday. MaTtmnm Temp. Monday 05 Minimum Temp. Monday 58 Herald. So They Say I've got enough socked away to live on, I'm not getting any younger, and I want to shave off these pesky whiskers. Man Mountain Dean, wrestler. FIFTIETH YEAR, NO. 242 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PROyO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, TUESDAY, JUNE 2 3, 1 936 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS 8ERVICB PRICE FIVE OENTS E C At CAPONE STABBED IN PRISON ROW Fellow Prisoner Stabs Former For-mer Chicago Vice Baron With Scissors SAN FRANCISCO, June 23 (U.R) Warden James A. Johnston John-ston of Alcatraz prison today said that Al Capone, one-time Chicago racket and vice baron, bar-on, had been stabbed by another an-other prisoner. "Capone was stabbed by another prisoner in the room where they were working," Warden War-den Johnston said. "Capone was stabbed in the back by a pair of scissors. He turned around and knocked his assailant as-sailant down. The guard rushed over and that 'ended the affair. Wound Not Serious "Capone was looked over by the doctors and his wound dressed. "It doesn't look serious.'' At the institutional hospital, an assistant medical officer reported that the wound appeared to oe superficial, su-perficial, the announcement said. Capone's assailant was named as James C. Lucas, a prisoner from Texas serving 30 years for bank robbery. Warden James Johnston of the Pacific Coast Devils' Island penitentiary, peni-tentiary, reported the attack occurred oc-curred between 9:30 and 9:45 a. m. (P.S.T.) "What was the cause of the trouble, Warden" Johnson ,was asked, "what was the dispute about?" r "There wasn't any dispute,' Warden Johnson replied. "Lucas (James C. Lucas, named by the department of justice in Washington as Capone assailant) just came up behind him," Warden War-den Johnston explained. "The guard was behind the counter and it took him a moment to get to where the attack took place. "It was all over very quickly." Capone has frequently been re--ported in fights with fellow convicts con-victs at Alcatraz. The last such report came via prison grapevine last June 4 and was thai? Capone had been knocked knock-ed down in a fight with Harmon D. Waley, one of the Weyerhaeuser kidnapers. MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN PHILADELPHIA Although not many good old Jeffersonians will admit its seriousness, the Democratic party this week faces a milestone more vital than the task of nominating a candidate. .It is the old, old clash over the two-thirds rule, which for exactly 104 years has made Democratic conventions more unwieldy and obstinate ob-stinate than the animal the party claims as mascot. The two-thirds rule is the mother moth-er of Dork Horses, and has made the Democratic party, at times, the laughing stock of the Republicans. Republi-cans. It has also played an important part in the international destinies of the nation. Had it not been for the two-thirds rule, it is possible that there would have been no war with Mexico, and that our course in the World war would have been different. The two-thirds rule is chiefly a hang-over from slavery days, when the south insisted on keeping it in order to have a hard-and-fast veto power against any northern candidate can-didate unfriendly to the economic system of the south. BALTIMORE BIRTH Actually, however, it was originally orig-inally introduced for the sole and insignificant purpose of preventing prevent-ing the four delegates from the District of Columbia from controlling con-trolling the balance of power in the 1832 convention. This was the first party convention at Baltimore, Balti-more, attended by delegates from nine northern states and eleven southern. They were almost even-(Continued even-(Continued on Page Four) VAN WAGEHEH SERVICES SET Funeral services for Mrs. Johanna Jo-hanna Scott Van Waganen will bo held Thursday at o'clock in the Third ward chapel. Friends may call at the Claudin Funeral home until Thursday morning at 10 o'clock, and at the home, 464 North Fourth East -prior to the services. Interment 1 will be in the Provo City Burial park. Heat Blamed For Rumors of Death of Brown Bomber May be it was t&e heat! Anyway it was one of those false, but persistent rumors that didn't stop circulating cir-culating Monday afternoon until about 'steen hundred people had called the Herald to find put if Joe Louis, negro heavyweight prize fighter, had died. In the Herald office, the staff became perplexed at the way the queries' continued. contin-ued. Many' of the inquiries came from people who said they heard the report over the radio. The United Press, one of the two greatest news gathering gath-ering agencies in the world, was queried. "Never heard anything about it," was toe reply. And still the telephone kept ringing and inquiries kept pouring in: "It is true that Joe Louis died? We heard it over the radio. He had a hemorrhage." Joe was a sick boy Friday night all right, but he's still alive and saying as Mark Twain would have said, "reports "re-ports of my death are greatly great-ly exaggerated." Kiwanians Join Inter-Club Fete AtMt.NeboCamp Delegation of 57 Represent Provo Club at Nebo Club Affair. Kiwanians of Provo ana their partners joined in a delightful inter-club outing back of Mt. Nebo Monday night, the Provo caravan including 57 person. The group left Payson and drove around Mt. Nebo loop to the Camp Dad and Son. The Nephi club was bos to 160 members and guests from Provo, Spring-ville, Spring-ville, Spanish Fork and Eureka and a delicious picnic supper was the main feature of the evening. Dr. P. L. Jones of Nephi, chairman chair-man of the inter-club relations committee, was directly in charge, and Allen Jonnson and Dr. Frank T. Reynolds of the Provo club's inter-club relations committee, were co-chairmen for the Provo delegation. LeRoy Whitehead of Nephi, past lieutenant governor for the Utah Idaho district, was master of ceremonies. Reads Address . Wal?3r Adamsv of Provo, read President Harper Gatton's address delivered at the Kiwania convention conven-tion in Washington, D. C, the same evening; Mrs. Nola Nilsson sang two numbers, accompanied by Kay Jensen, and Lieutenant Governor Orson Slack of Provo spoke. George Ballif received the "best story" prize. Telegrams of greetings were re-ceiVd re-ceiVd from Pesidentr John W. McAdam of Provo, who is attending attend-ing the club convention in Washington, Wash-ington, also from John Fagerstedt governor of the Utah-Idaho ids-trict. ids-trict. MAY BUSINESS IS BEST SINCE 1030 SAN FRANCISCO. June 23 (U.H May business in the far west was the bestfor that month since 1930, the Wells Fargo Bank outlook out-look said today. The bank's index in-dex of western business in which the 1923-1925 period represents 100 stood at 85.9 as against 70.1 a year ago. Newspaper advertising advertis-ing in four major California cities was 11 per cent above May 1935, automobile sales were the highest since 1929 and building permits in May were 70 per cent above May last year. Cashier Arrested MOSCOW, Idaho. June 23 r.l! -W. J. Carroll, for 12 years cashier of the Farmers State bank of Kendrick, Idaho, was arrested Monday and charged with the embezzlement em-bezzlement of approximately 51500 from the bank. Carroll was arraigned before Justice E. L. Kuykendall and his bond set at $30,000. Flier Leaps To Death In Sea With 3 Children NEW YORK, June 23 U.E Lieut. Lindsay M. Bawsel, army flier, took his fcfaree children with him in a death plunge Into the sea from the army transport Chateau Thierry in the early morning darkness yesterday, according ac-cording to a radio message from the ship today. The message said: "Report death on high seas of First Lieutenant Lindsay M. Bawsel, Baw-sel, ' air corps, between 3 and 4 BUDGET LOW I f! 3 PRO VO DEPARTMENTS Streets, Irrigation, Golf Course Exhaust Their Appropriations Curtailment of expenditures in at least three departments of Provo city is an immediate necessity, Mayor Mark Ander son told the city commission Monday night, after scanning the budget and the operating balance. In the streets department, the irrigation department and the golf course, some better financing methods meth-ods are needed in particular, the mayor pointed out. He said: Budget Exhausted "We have spent nearly two-thirds two-thirds of the amount of the budget for street department operations and only five months of the year nave passed. This means that it will likely be necessary to suspend operations in the street department depart-ment entirely during: the last two or three months of the year. Re gardless of our desire to improve our rough and dusty streets, we must not exceed the budget and violate the law in doing so. "Those who desire better streets should assist the city commission with a legislative program to increase in-crease the revenue for this pur pose. Civic leaders demand better bet-ter streets and oppose every move that would make it possible to finance such improvements." The mayor declared that the irrigation ir-rigation budget for the year is practically exhausted with seven months to go. "Provo city should either put this department on a self-sustaining basis or find a way to dispose of the thankless and money-losing job of distributing water to hundreds hun-dreds of waterusers who do not appreciate that they are buying water at less than it is costing Provo city to operate and maintain main-tain the system.' Golf Course Deficit He noted that onry a small amount had been collected from the golf course, with half the season sea-son gone. In addition to furnishing the ground for the course, the city has spent $28,305.44 in operating the golf course since 1928, he said. Players have paid the city during this period $9,804.95. In other words, he said, the net cost to Provo city has been $18,500.49, not mentioning the property. He continued: con-tinued: "Most golf courses pay a nice dividend to the cities that own them. Ours has been a big source of expense. The city commission should put someone in charge of the course at once who will handle the whole thing in a business-like manner. No Provo resident should be allowed to play who has not obtained a membership card from the city treasurer. The membership member-ship fee of $16, is recognized to be very lov- on such a fine course as we now have. "Another year the golf course should be set up on a self-supporting basis. "The golf course is one of the beauty spots of Provo. and our community should not be without a golf course, but there is no reason rea-son whv the present financial management man-agement should continue. With the exception of the golf course, the budget of the parks and recreation recre-ation department is in execellent condition.'' He mentioned that the police and fire departments are moving within the budget allotments. Accounts Delinquent "It should not be expected that a large accumulated delinquency like we have in the water department depart-ment can be collected at once, but within six months this situation should be corrected almost completely. com-pletely. The drive to collect back bills should continue until all departments de-partments are again on a sound business basis. A prompt payment pay-ment system is better for the citizen citi-zen and the city.'' Kin Is 42 Today LONDON, une 23 U.P King Edward VIII, breaker of many royal precedents during his five months on the throne, celebrated his 42nd birthday in accordance with tradition today. i a. m.. 22nd June, by going overboard over-board together with his three children. Widow Helen F. Bawsel is not on board transport." The Bawsels boarded the transport trans-port at Panama. The ship is due in Brooklyn June 26. Officers at the Brooklyn army base said a board of inquiry would be named to look into the tragedy. They said they had no details as to the circumstances, surrounding surround-ing the quadruple deaths. Democratic Convention Opens With dissension On Roosevelt Platform . PARTY LEADERS' SMILES SET KEYNOTE OF JOY &m -V 0pi ,ms& mz si) J?y Anticipating the usual keynote spfechifying at the Democratic National leaders sets a keynote of jubilation and merriment at an informal conference in Philadelphia while waiting wait-ing for delegates to arrive. Left to right they are: W. Forbes Morgan, secretary of the Democratic National Committee; Postmaster General James J. Farley, and Charles Michelson, party publicity director. G. O. P. Opens East Drive For Landon! NEW YORK. June 23 (U.l! Rei publican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton planned to put into motion in conferences with Republican leaders in Washington today the plan he revealed in a nationally broadcast address last night to put the "honesty" of Gov. Alf M. Landon against the "insincerity" of President Roosevelt Roose-velt as the major issue of the presidential campaign. Mocks Farley Hamilton mocked Democratic Chairman James A,. Farley and referred to him as "my old friend"; criticized with bitter sarcasm former speeches of President Roosevelt, and hailed Uie bolt of Alfred E. Smith and other Democrats Demo-crats as "high idealism." Speaking at a "unity dinner" ofabout 3,500 New York State Republicans, Hamilton opened the eastern drive to elect Gov. Landon Lan-don after conferring with eastern leaders. He said the Republican party is the country's "hope to restore the normal activities of our citizens and the American character of our government." He opened with an attack on Farley. He said he hadn't been able to take Farley seriously since the summer of 1934 when at Salt Lake City he said: "We are having hav-ing the most economical federal administration we have had for years." Outlines Campaign Then he turned to review the Republican convention and the platform adopted there,v and finally fin-ally outlined the plan of the G. O. P. campaign. Hamilton inserted into his prepared pre-pared address remarks about the Smith appeal to Democratic delegates, dele-gates, referring to Gov. Landon's remark yesterday that "the line of Demarcation between fealty of party and, loyalty to country is something for each citizen to determine de-termine for himself." "At least five distinguished and determined citizens . . . apparently nave made the choice between party par-ty and country yas millions of others will do before the general election in November," Hamilton said, "and tonight we honor them for the high ideals that prompted this action on their part." Names Minister OTTAWA, Ont., June 23 (U.E Appointment of Sir Herbert Mar-ler, Mar-ler, Canadian minister to Japan, as minister to the United States was announced today by Prime Minister Mackenzie King. BUDGET HEARING SET Public hearing on the proposal of. the Utah County commissioners commission-ers for increasing budget in bwo departments, is set for July 6 at 10 a. m., it was ordered Tuesday by the commission. It is proposed to increase the county assessor's' department by $2675 and the district agricultural inspector by $1500. LEGION PLANS BONUS JUBILEE A "bonus jubilee,'' featuring a soecial entertainment nroeram, a Dutch lunch and the answering of any questions tnat nave arisen regarding re-garding the adjusted service bonds, will be conducted by Provo Post 13 of the American Legion, Wednesday night at 8 in the Pro vo Armory, it is announced byi Commander George S. Ballif. All ex-service men in the community com-munity and all post members are invited to the meeting. George W. Worthen, department commander. com-mander. Otto Weisley, department depart-ment adjutant, and other department depart-ment officers are expected to be present. A surprise number on the program pro-gram will be announced by Frank Utecht. Music will be provided by a male quartet comprised of Charles Josie, Lynn Clark, " Kay Allred and Ted Maynard. Mr. Allred will play a piano solo and Mr. Maynard will sing a solo. The program committee is comprised com-prised of Clarence Greer, chairman; chair-man; Albert Kirkpatrick, George Vincent, Stanley Bonnett and Earl Conder. , PRESIDENT SIGNS IMPORTANT BILLS WASHINGTON, June 23 IM President Roosevelt today signed Che $800,000,000 tax bill with its levies on undivided corporation profits, which provided one of the major controversies during the closing days of congress. Kr. Roosevelt approved a measure meas-ure embodying practically all of the provisions requested by the administration. Conservative Democrats Dem-ocrats combined with Republicans in the Senate to write out of the bill the heavy taxes on earnings which corporations did not pass on Lj stockholders. Mr. Roosevelt also put his OK on the interior department appropriation appro-priation measure today. r basebalTtoday ' i NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago 000 111 500 8 Boston 010 032 000 6 Cincinnati 000 300 000 3 Brooklyn 000 000 000 0 Pittsburgh 000 000 200 2 NewVork ..... 100 110 OOx 3 St Louis V 000 000 12 Philadelphia ... 000 020 00 AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 000 3 Chicago 00 2 Washington ... 2 St. Louis 1 Boston 020 022 Detroit 401 000 Philadelphia 000 23 Cleveland 000 20 Convention, this trio of party Democrats To Conduct Rally Here Saturday A giant Democratic rally Saturday Sat-urday night, which will tie up with rallies all over the nation, is planned by Democrats of Provo in Pioneer park starting at 7 o'clock When President Franklin D. Roosevelt will speak. After Hne president's talk which will be broadcast by loud speak- ers, other speakers and an enter- tainment wil ensue. TT1 . T ; u i r the Roosevelt Nominator" clubs in Utah county, through which tickets are being sold as a means of raising campaign money. ' The ticket committee was selected se-lected in a meeting of all chairmen chair-men and chairwomen of the city last Saturday. Milton Grimes was named chairman, the other members of the committee being Mrs. Jesse StotH Mrs. Delia Loveridge, Robert McFadden and Guy Callahan. The rally committee is made up of W. H. Callahan, chairman; Mitchell Strebel and Minnie Pen-rod. Pen-rod. DEPOSITORS TO MEET TONIGHT A mass meeting of depositors of the Provo Commercial and Savings Sav-ings bank will be held tonight at 8 o'clock in the south district court room of the city and county building. The meeting has been called by George Chaffin, chairman and A. V. Watkins, secretary of the depositors' committee, to present matters of interest to the depositors deposit-ors concerning the compromise offers of-fers of settling claims in the bank, principally that of the C. E. Loose estate. SHIPPERS MEET POCATELLO, Idaho, June 23 a;.P The Western Shippers advisory ad-visory board met here today with delegates from Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, Idaho and Eastern Oregon. L. D. S. Church To Combat Disregard For Sabbath Day SALT LAKE CITY, June 23 (HE) The presiding bishopric of the L. D. S. church today laid plans to combat an alarming disregard of the sanctity and holiness of the Sabbath day." Church leaders cited the great number of Sunday diversions, popular throughout he state as "examples of an increasing disregard disre-gard for the sacrednes of the Sabbath." Fish -and game seasons open on Sunday, they "pointed out. Public parks, national monuments and other places plan special "open Convention to Hear Keynote Address of Sen. Barkley Tonight Farley Rips Into Republicans in Opening: Talk; Al Smith's "Walk" Holds Only Partial Attention of Delegates Bulletin CONVENTION HALL, Philadelphia, June 23 (U.R) The first session of the 1936 Democratic national na-tional convention recessed at 2:38 p. m., E.D.T., today to-day until 8 p. m. By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright 1936, by United Press) CONVENTION HALL, Philadelphia, June 23 (U.R) James A. Farley, national Democratic chairman, today ravelled the Democratic national convention to its official start on a week of oratorical fireworks which will culminate Saturday night with acceptance of renomination by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The convention was called to order at 1:02 p. m. Platform squabbles and rumblings over the "walk" of Al Platform Draft Starts Argument Among Delegates Tentative Draft Silent On Constitutional Change, War Profits. - PHILADELPHIA, June 23 U.P A tentative new deal platform without reference to constitutional changes and subject to revision on important pianKs was circu- ,ated rt leaderg tod at the Denfocratic National con- vention ' The n! a trfnrm nntVino rtai'rihcii l f - , v. as representing the views of the president but as yet incomplete on currency, monopoly and foreign for-eign policy, immediately stirred leaders seeking liberalization of policy to offset the Lemke third party appeal to voters. One of the outstanding complaints com-plaints of party liberals centered on the foreign affairs plank, which tentatively failed to go further than a generalized statement state-ment on taking the profits out of war and which made no mention of the important proposal for nationalization na-tionalization of key industries in time of war. Advocates of a drastic war profits prof-its plank began drafting a sub plank and it was reported that Sen. Gerald Nye, R., N. D., whose war proposals were rejected at the Republican convention, might come here -to aid in pressing the fight. Lions Discuss Celebrations PAYSON The regular meeting meet-ing of the Payson Lions club was held Monday night . for an open discussion of various matters, mat-ters, first the Fourth of July celebration being sponsored by the American Legion and then the Onion Day and Home Coming celebration cele-bration during the late summer. George Chase was named chairman chair-man of a committee to arrange for members to "attend a meeting of the Associated ' civic clubs to be held at Eureka Saturday night. President J. H. Ellsworth was in charge. ings" on Sunday, they charged. "Hiking and mountain climbing clubs conduct their activities on Sunday," a letter to stake leaders from the bishopric pointed oua "Motion pictures are exploited on Sundays as are boating, baseball and other sporting events. All these interfere with true observance observ-ance of the Sabbath." Approximately 5500 persons are expected to discuss the situation at an extraordinary assembly of the Aaronic priesthood of the stakes of Salt Lake valley Sunday in the church tabernacle. iismith and his associates held only paruai attention of rilerat am they trekked into the Kleig-lighted Philadelphia convention hall. Eager For Attack Slow in arriving at the French gray and blue hall, they were eager for the launching of Democratic reports, at the anti-New Deal blasst fired by the Republicans in their Cleveland assembly two weeks ago. Farley, himself, was ready to open the attack and Keynoter Al-ben Al-ben Barkley prepared to follow through in his address to be delivered deliv-ered at tonight's session. The convention program opened with prayer offered by the Rt. Rev. Hugh I- -lanrib; atKHIafy bishop of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia Phila-delphia followed by a welcome to Philadelphia, extended by Mayor S. Wilson Davis. He praised the decision of the party to gather amid the shrines of the nation's early history and expressed faith that political differences dif-ferences only manifested "the vigor and the strength of our people." peo-ple." Farley's address completed the program of the first convention session. Farley brought delegates out of their lethargy in the first paragraph para-graph of his address when he gazed sternly over the assembly and said: "The continuance of the New Deal is the issue- Them started a demonstartkm and delegates leaped out of their seats while the band played "Happy "Hap-py Days Are Here Again.' Farley resumed after two minutes min-utes of cheering. When he mentioned the "convention "con-vention in Cleveland," there was a derisive, unmusical snort from the organ. First mention of President Roosevelt came at 1:36 p. m. Delegates came out of their chairs shouting and waving hats. It was a brief demonstration, less than sixty seconds. "Give them hell, Jim,' and "attaboy'' "at-taboy'' greeted Farley's references to the Republican presidential plat-( plat-( Continued on Page Eight) FARLEY HITS NEW DEAL FOES CONVENTION HALL, Philadelphia. Phila-delphia. June 23 U.P James A. Farley opened the Democratic National Na-tional convention today with unqualified un-qualified acceptance of the Republican Re-publican challenge to base the presidential campaign on the issue is-sue of the new deal. The bald, emphatic postmaster-general, postmaster-general, who also Is chairman of the party's national committee, indicated clearly the chief arguments argu-ments fee new deal will advance in its campaign for confirmation in national power. "The continuance of the new deal is the Issue," he said. "The question before the American people peo-ple is clear cut and cannot be disguised. That question is: Shall we continue the new deal which has rescued our country from disaster and despair or shall the government be turned back to the old dealers who wrecked it?" Blames Republicans ye blamed the Republicans for the depressiqn charged that "huge financial intereste' had been the backbone of their recent national administrations. 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