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Show Hera Herald Service If you do not receive your Herat promptly, call the Herald office, 495 before 7 p. m week days, and 10 a, m. Sundays, and a copy will be delivered to you. FIFTY-SECOND YEAR. NO. 220 SSygft. VSS PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH.MONDAY, MAY 16, 1938 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TjTJTr'I? TTTVT? PPKTS TKLKDRAPH NVS SBRVICB rtXlKjEj V A V & LIiN ' O n rr RJ LlVJ m m & - - m - The Weather UTAH Showers tonight and Tuesday; little change In temperature. temper-ature. Maximum temp. Sunday 81 Minimum temp. Sunday 37 Id. v Mm 3 rv HA i i i MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DReWTpEARSON and ; ROBERT S.! ALLEN '. : tt , Gov. Earle Washed up for 1940 Regardless of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania Prirriary; Even if He Wins Sepate Nomination, Nomina-tion, Recent Acts Alienated Alienat-ed Friends; FHA Financing Financ-ing Arkansas "Company Houses" ; Has No Set Labor Policy; Senator George Scared off Wage Bill Filibuster Fili-buster by Pepper Victory. WASHINGTON Whatever happens in the bi-tter Pennsylvania Democratic primary election,, one thing is certain Governor George Earle is all washed up as a 1940 presidential white hope. Even if he wins the senatorial nomination he now seeks, he finished as a White tiouse aspirant aspir-ant forever. ' His role in the odloriferous horse-trading behind the scenes that led to the present Democratic Demo-cratic battle, capped by the disclosure dis-closure that he had borrowed $30,000 from Matt McCloskey, dapper multi-millionaire Philadelphia, Philadel-phia, contractor, cast a blight on Earle's prospects from which he can never recover. Potent Joe Guffey and high-placed high-placed Administrationites are sore at Earle. The CO has vowed to get him. Even McCloskey and the state politicos who ostensibly support him, r.-dicule him behind his back. ' With this set-up, Earle has no more chance of winning outside backing that Haile Selassie has of getting help from the British Empire. Em-pire. ' ' Only, a few months ago Earle was a national figure. He had a strong pull at the wnte nouse, was the -darling of labor leaders. Coming from Pennsylvania, second sec-ond most' populous state in the union, he was a very real possibility possi-bility for 1940. But all that is finished. Today, as a potential national candidate, Earle is deader than a kippered herring. f VPA AND POLITICS -The Question of whether the WPA should engage in politics (Continued on Page Six) laboTmeeting called tonight Paul M. Peterson. pnvi'NMU m the Utah siaio rrueiaii'm i Labor, has called a special mass meetihg of all organized labor to meet tonight in the Provo high school auditorium, beginning at 8 o'clock. The public is invited foutmembers of all labor unions -are-"., especially requested to be present.' Matters of- vital importance affecting every worker as well as business men here will be discussed dis-cussed and a course of action outlined. out-lined. Jn all probability the labor setup set-up on, the Deer creek project will be brought up, including charges that "90 per cent of, the labor already al-ready employed on ine project ate transient workers, not residents of Utah. HDemme& BULLETIN The Utah State Supreme I Court today denied by a tin animnns vote, the Utah Pow4hoorl celebration of the L. D- S. , t irrU 4- pnmnnnv'si u n- er and Light company s ap- plication ior a reinsuring ui the Provo city municipal power pow-er case. The original decision, three to two, held that the $85,000 bond and contract ordinances or-dinances approved by the voters, in a special election, were valid. DEMOCRATIC WOMEN SPANISH FORK Membesr of the Democratic Ladies' Study club .will meet Wednesdays afternoon. after-noon. May 18. at 2 o'clock at the Armory. The postal systemvill be discussed by Mrs. R. W. Creer. The ladies of the Leland district will serve refreshments. The public pub-lic Is invited to attend. LABOR BOARD WINS COURT TEST VICTORY Court Also Accepts New Test On TV A Constitutionality Con-stitutionality WASHINGTON, May 16 (U.R) The national labor relations rela-tions board today won supreme su-preme court victories in two issues of far-reaching' significance signifi-cance in its administration of the Wagner labor act. Thesupreme court decisions decis-ions were presented in a test challenge chal-lenge of labor board powers filed by the Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co., and in an unusual mandamus action brought by the board in connection with its case against the Republic Steel corp. In the Republic action Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes announced an-nounced that the third circuit court of appeals is directed to ' show cause" by next Monday why an injunction prohibiting further board action, in the Republic Re-public case should not be vacated. The board seeks to withdraw its Republic case from the courts for the purpose of taking additional procedural steps. fn another important action, the supreme court accepted a new test of constitutionality of the Tennessee Valley Authority, filed by 18 private utilities operating in the TV A area. Argument and decision of this test case can not be held before next fall. The Mackay decision, in which the supreme court upheld a board order compelling reinstatement of union leaders after a strike, touched touch-ed also on the vital procedural issue. The question of whether - the board's procedure complies with the requirements of the supreme court arose after the court three weeks ago vacated rate orders established es-tablished for Kansas City stockyards stock-yards commission men by the agricultural ag-ricultural department. The orders were vacated on grounds agricultural agricul-tural department procedure was faulty because it aid not include an intermediate report to which exceptions xpightToe filed before issuance of a final order. Fearing similar, attacks might be made on its procedure in the Republic and , other prominent j cases, the NLRB has sought to withdraw them from the courts to take further procedural steps. It whs for this reason that lanor board attorneys regarded the supreme su-preme court's "show cause" order to the third circuit court a major I step in their fight to correct doubtful procedure in that case. Had the order not been granted, it was noted, the board would have had no -recourse but to fight the Republic case through the courts without possibility of an opportunity to correct its procedure. pro-cedure. Supreme court attaches declared declar-ed that the supreme court's order to the lower court was virtually without precedent. Buyer Leaves For New York Mrs. Leo N. Lewis, buyer for Lewis Ladies store, is en route to Nejy York City to purchase a complete line of summer wearing apparel. She will review the second sec-ond showing of formals and graduation grad-uation dresses. Aaronic Priesthood Boys To Visit Provo Saturday Plans have been announced for the third annual Aaronic nriest- l - V. , ... . . . jstakes in Utah valley which will hek, in pr(m n.SaturdaVf May zi. utan stake, which is host for the event, is represented by-a committee consisting of Lester Les-ter R. Taylor. Antone Romney and Arthur Gaeth. A sightseeing tour of Provo and vicinity will be conducted for the boys and their supervisors Saturday Satur-day morning. Wearing badges of identification, the eight stake groups will make the tour in three sections. Beginning It 9 a. m.. Utah and Sharon stake boys will view a mental clinic at the state hospital; hos-pital; Kolob, Nebo and Palmyra stake will be conducted through the steel plant at Iron ton; and Lehl Alpine, and Timpanogos stakes will meet at Sowiette park. Fifth North and Fifth West, to hear pioneer stories by Harrison Provo Band Contest Acclaimed Success By 4,000 Visitors Provo Responds Generously to Extend Hand of Hospitality to 4000 Visitors; No Accidents Mar Pleasure of Contest BY GEORGE W. SEIDL s Part of a flute, a snare drum cover, and a music stand, left behind, were all physically that remained in Provo today of the National Regional Band contest conducted here last week end. At Provo high school which some few hours ago echoed and re-echoed to the noisy exhuberance of thousands of youths and to their musical presentations Principal Kenneth Ken-neth E. Weight and his staff or completing the general par- - Urinations summary. 1500 Delegates Attend Opening Of P.-T. A. Meet SALT LAKE CITY, May 16 tJ.R The power and the opportunity to build a new society rests with parents and teachers of America, Mrs J. K. Pettengill, national president, "said today in a keynote address before 1500 delegates to the 42nd annual congress of parents and teachers. Speaking on "The Changing Paterns of Life,Vf4heme of the congress, she urt P.T.A. members mem-bers to "Meet II i's Challenge" in a cooperative &tf.-jrt that would assure a more pervt democratic exisitence for the coming generation. gener-ation. "Follow Through in Your Responsibility Re-sponsibility as Parents," the gray-haired, gray-haired, Detroit matron said. "The power and force is ours if we know how to use it. Life is offering offer-ing us the opportunity to live with and for our children." "Therefore let us not shirk life'a challenge, buc build upward to new heights of demorcatic perfection per-fection in the ever-changing pattern pat-tern of group and family living. "In true democratic living," Mrs. PettengUl said, "the welfare of children, youths and adults stands first no matter what the cost." Mrs. Arch J. West, president of the Utah congress, officially welcomed the delegates. S. Howard Evans, assistant secretary sec-retary of the Payne fund, New York City, addressed the after-( after-( Continued on Page Eight) REORGANIZATION BILL REVIVED WASHINGTON, May 16 U.P President' Roosevelt would like to see congress enact a government reorganization bill at this session ses-sion of congress but has not placed the measure on "must' list, house majority leader Sam Ray-burn Ray-burn said today after ; a White House conference. Rayburn made, his statement after the president's weekly Monday Mon-day ' morning conference with leaders of the house and senate on the legislative program. The conference was held as the deficiency subcommittee of the senate appropriations committee went to work on the president's relief-recovery bill. Leaders hope that the measure can be passed by th senate this week. R. Merrill of Brjgham Young unif versity, and then visit the city and county building. At 10 o'clock, Utah and Sharon Shar-on stakes are to go to the steel plant; Kolob, Nebo and Palmyra to Sowtette park; and Lehl, Alpine, Al-pine, and Timpanogos to the State tal hospital. At 11 the groups will rotate a third time, with Utah bd Sharon at the park; Kolob, Nebo and Palmyra at the hospital; and Lehl, Alpine and Timpanogos at the steel plant. Boys from all the stakes will gather at noon in the "Y" stad- iui m. WhXe eating pocket luch - es which thev are to briniPWith them, they will be jenfertalned by an athletic program- undei1. direction di-rection of Neff ''Smart of B.Y.U. Followjngthe entertainment the afternoon will be spent in games and group stunts at the stadium, with all Aaronic priesthood members mem-bers participating. One thing was universally ew dent Provo was well pleased with the student thousands, and on every hand praise of their playing, play-ing, their fine actions, and their courtesy was being expressed. No Accidents Recorded- Not a single acciuent occurred in the city during the entire festival festi-val a remarkafole feat when one considered the extreme traffic problems, the fact that 4,000 eager students were of necessity using the streets for their marching, assembling, and hundreds of cars were rapidly moving about facilitating facili-tating the festival's progress. Today police and sheriff's forces both were spontaneously lauding Grand Junction, Colorado, for its thought and thoroughness. Not only sending perhaps the outstanding out-standing marching and maneuvering maneuver-ing band, the western slope school also brought a student traffic corps that did yeoman service. They handled traffic, directed crowds, parked cars and proved splendid aides. Traffic WeU Handled Throughout traffic moved swiftly swift-ly and,' safely. CCC enrolesof Rock canyon camp under Captain Alvin Sessions, city police, sheriffs sher-iffs men and Utah state patrolmen patrol-men performed excellent work. Principal Weight reported the general summary of, band, orchestra, or-chestra, sight reading and maneuvering man-euvering ratings will be mailed today to national headquarters together to-gether with a record of solo and ensemble work. Critics' judgings will be forwarded for-warded directly to the schools which participated. Sidelights continued to crop up (Continued on Page Eight) Judge Announces Complete Ratings For Orchestra Farrer junior high school won top honors Division I fcn the National Regional Band contest orchestral division, it was announced an-nounced by band officials today. Other orchestral ratings were announced Saturday afternoon, but by a failure of the adjudicator to turn in the Farrer rating it was omitted entirely in reports to the press. The complete orchestral ratings as announced by the band officials are: Class A: I Grand Junction, Colorado; Provo; Idaho Falls, Idaho. II Davis of Kaysville, Carbon of Price. Class B: I South Sevier of Monroe; II Preston, Idaho; Murray; Mur-ray; Spanish Fork; Springville; Moroni. Ill Montpelier Idaho. Class C: 1 Farrer junior; Dixon junior; North Summit of ' Coalville; Coal-ville; Midvale junior. II American Ameri-can Fork. Division I is highly superior; II, superior; III; excellent and IV, good. . . Baseball Scores NATIONAL, LEAGUE New York 3 8 2 Philadelphia 12 13 0 Schumacher, Lohrman, Vanden-berg Vanden-berg and Danning; Walters and Atwood. Boston 5 lffl Brooklyn . 6 ' 0 MacFayden and Mueller; FitZ-simmons, FitZ-simmons, Pressnejl, Morrow and Phelps. (Only jarnes scheduled). AMERICAN 8"?"011 000 00 Detroit 010 30 Chase, Kohlman and R. Farrell, Kennedy and York. Philadelphia 010 011 0 Cleveland 000 200 1 Thomas and Bruckner; Allen and Pytlak. ; (Only games scheduled). ODD FELLOWS OPEN 3 -DAY PARLEY HERE Delegates Representing 29 Lodges to Attend Session Here More than 100 Odd Fellows and Rebekahs were in Provo this noon to begin their opening open-ing sessions in the three-day conclave of the I. O. F. lodge. Tonight at 6:30 the Grand Encampment of Utah, patriarchal patri-archal branch of the order, will stage its banquet, followed by dancing, in the local hall. Sessions Ses-sions of the Grand Encampment got underway this morning and 'will continue this afternoon. Mayor To Greet Delegates of 29 lodges in the Utah district are expected to arrive ar-rive by tomorrow,- when Grand Lodge sessions open with Charles E. Hanks, Salem, grand master of Utah, presiding. Delegates are expected to. number 200 with a similar amount of others expected to bring the total present to well over 400. Mayor Mark Anderson will officially of-ficially welcome the group at the Tuesday opening session at 9:30 a. m. Special Deputy Grand Sire Edward S. Prohs of Longmont, Colorado, is attending the sessions. ses-sions. ' A special school of instruction was called by Deborah Rebekah lodge No. 6, of Provo, at 1:30 o'clock today at the I. O. O. F. hall. Mrs. Ethel Lundahl, noble grand, presided, and Mrs. Daisy H. Smiley of Helper, vice ' president presi-dent of the Rebekah assembly of Utah, was in charge. Mrs. Gladys Dula of Caliente, Nev., warden of the Nevada Rebekah Re-bekah assembly, is a special guest during the convention. The Ladies' auxiliary, Canton Coalfax No. 1, of Salt Lake City, took greetings and presented a beautiful basket of flowers to the Grand Encampment. The committee making -the visit this morning included: Mrs. Helen R. Fickey of Magna, chairman; Mrs. Daisy H. Smiley of Helper, Mrs. Leva V. Hall of Helper, a past president, and Mrs. Eliza Booth of Salt Lake City. The greeting committee from the assembly included: Miss Ethel Smith of Salt Lake City, a past president; Mrs. Gladys Dula of Calientc, Nev., and Mrs. Bessie Cleave of Ogden. Child Is Scalded To Death By Demented Mother SALT LAKE CITY. May 16 (U.R) Mrs. Clella Winn, 40, told authorities auth-orities today that murder was in her heart when she assert edly put her two-year-old daughter in a tub of boiling water and held her there until she was burned fataUy. "I didn't know it was my own child though," she was quoted as telling Deputy Sheriff Dominick Burns. Mrs. Winn is held under guard on the psychopathic ward at the county hospital while authorities investigate the case. Sheriffs officers of-ficers said she may be charged with first degree murder. Deputy Sheriff R. C. Jackson said Mrs. Winn confessed that she pldced her baby, Shirley, in the boiling water. The child died within an hour at the hospital of third degree burns from the neck down. Neigh bors who heard the child's screams summoned officers, and Mrs. Winn was found in a hyster ical condition. Deputy Jacksoji said Mrs. Winn told him that' after killing the baby she , intended to take her own life.' She gave no reason for the crime, he said. Mrs. Winn is the mother of two I other small children, but made no attempt to harm them. Robert Winn, the baby's father, arrived home soon after the tragedy trag-edy and accompanied Shirley to a hospital. He was unable to ex plain his wife's action- Jurti51Democrats To Meet Tuesday North county officers of the Junior Democrats will meet Tues day at 8 p. m. in Pleasant Grove city hall reports Dean E. Trryrf Pleasant View, county chairman. Membership drive : plans and other business will be discussed. In 'Bloody Harlan County' Trial i ji i n . 1 1 yi . i p li i 1 1 1 . i ii iw m i o iwwuiii m j f' $ -x-- x -. . v y; i f I Ik V7 News Flashes By UNITED PRESS BRIDGE ENGINEER DIES SUODENLY LOa(jANtlELES, May 16 (U.E Joseph B. Strauss. 68, one of the world's most famous bridge engineers, en-gineers, died today in his apartment apart-ment of heart disease. He had been ill since last March. Death came at 6 a. m. At his bedside were his wife and their two sons, Richard and Ralph Strauss. Funeral services will be held Wednesday. FOREIGN COPPER OUTLOOK GOOD NEW YORK, May 16 (Li!) The foreign . copper production and consumption outlook is good, Cornelius F. Kelley, president of Anaconda Copper Mining Co.. said today on his return from Europe aboard the S. S. Normandie. Kelley attended the meeting of the International Copper Cartel which promulgated rules for foreign for-eign producers outside the United States. SALTER YACHT REPORTED SUNK SANTIAGO, Chile, May 16 (IIP) The newspaper Critica quoted "private sources" today as saying that the yacht Henrtetta, owned by Frederick R. Salter of California, Cali-fornia, caught fire and sank after leaving ,Juan Fernandez island in the. Pacific, en route to Tahiti. BRITISH AIR MINISTER RESIGNS LONDON, May 16 UT.Ri A shakeup of the British cabinet occurred today when Viscount Swinton, air minister, resigned. C. I. O. FACING POLITICAL TEST PHILADELPHIA, May 16 'I D John L. Lewis and his committee commit-tee for industrial organization faced their greatest political test today as Pennsylvania's primary campaign ended amid a rousing chorus of "stop thief." Democratic voters decide in tomorrow's to-morrow's polling whether Thomas Kennedy, secretary-treasurer of Lewis' United Mine Workers ( of America and one of the CIO brain trust, is to be the party's candidate' for governor. BOISE SEEKS STORE BANDIT BOISE, Ida., May 16 (EE) Police today sought' a bandit who entered - the "Little Giant Store" an'all- night grocery and robbed the cash register of $400,- He enforced en-forced his demands with a gun. Concentrating its legal experts in London, Ky., the federal government gov-ernment is bringing court action to enforce the Nationai Labor Relations act in "bloody Harlan county" under criminal indictments indict-ments charging 69 defendants' with conspiracy. Former Sheriff Theodore R. Middleton, left, is one of those charged with intimidating in-timidating the miners. Thomai Ferguson, a United Mine Workers' Work-ers' organizer, is shown below exhibiting the bloody shirt he wore the night he was shot as he left a union meeting, according accord-ing to his testimony before the, Senate Civil Liberties committee. Trial Opens In "Bloody Harlan" Terrorism Trial LONDON. Ky.. May 16 (U.P) In an atmosphere of tension, amid special guards sworn to protect pro-tect witnesses, the federal government govern-ment began today its prosecution of 69 persons accused of terrorism in "bloody Harlan" county to keep coal miners from organizing under un-der the Wagner labor relations act. U. S. deputy marshals have been ! ordered to search spectators for ' weapons because oU persistent reports of threats against govern-1 ment witnesses. The defendants, 17 men and 22 corporations engaged in the mining min-ing of coal, were indicted under law passed in 1870 in an attempt to smash the Ku Klux Klan. They are charged with conspiring to prevent coal miners in Harlan county "bloody Harlan,'' is the nickname it has acquired in the last 10 years from organizing to bargain collectively under the Wagner act. If the government wins, it will have set a precedent of law that can reach out and affect scores of industries. The Wagner act is a civil statute and in itself canves no criminal penalties for violations. viola-tions. OGDEN WINS POWER SUIT SALT LAKE CITY, May 16 (U.R The Utah state supreme court todsy denied the Utah Power and Light company a writ of prohibition against the city of Ogden, clearing th way for the city to go ahead with its proposed municipal mu-nicipal power and light distribution distri-bution system. The decision was by a three-to-two vote. Provo Democrats To Meet Tonight Provo district Democratic chairmen, chairwomen and district committeemen will meet at 8 o'clock tonight in city court room, city and cpunty building, to elect a city chairwoman, and 11 members mem-bers of the county executive committee- Mrs. Algie E. Bailif, city chairwoman, chair-woman, has been selected county chairwoman. Her successor in the city office will be named. 20 BODIES ARE REMOVED FROM RUINS Heavier Loss Of Life Feared; Register Is Burned Up -Lfil ATLANTA, Ga., May 16' 'U.R At least 25 persons died today in an early morning fire thajt destroyed the old Terminal hotel in Atlanta's railroad district. Twenty of the 25 bodies have been identified. Fourteen Four-teen were critically injured. A score more bodies may be buried in the basement under wreckage of upper floors which broke loose from the brick walls and. crashed. Cause of the blaze was unknown. un-known. It started in the base- infill ci-iiu o r v p c un ii u luiuugu the elevator .shaft. K . Floors Collapse " Floors of the five-story structure struc-ture fell, leaving the walls intact. Debris was piled deep in the basement base-ment and smoldered for hours. Firemen cut through it and recovered re-covered bodies from the . charred, tangled wreckage. Five died from "..urns at Grady hospital, and. the other bodies were recovered from the edges of the ruins or from adjacent streets where the vic tims jumped in an effort to avoid the flames. A few occupants ran down the searing iron fire escapes and others leaped into safety nets. The fire started at 3:15 a. m; Firemen brought it under control in an hour but the heat from the blackened walls and glowing embers em-bers prevented immediate search ' From 60 to 75 persons were believed be-lieved to have been in the hotel but the register faurned and it was impossible .o determine -the ' exact number. The fire started in the basement at 3:15 a. m while patrons of the hotel were asleep A draft in the elevator shaft sucked the flames upward and the fire spread qulrkly through the budding. Floors collapsed and victims were crushed to death before they could escape. -Some were killed as they slept. It was estimated 60. to 75 persona per-sona were in the hotel when the fire started. Fire Chief O. J. Parker said he believed .it was impossible for any of the occupants to have lived through it He said that when the first fire companies ar-. rived "the building looked as (Continued On ingt Eight) PAROSCHOOL HOME COMING Former students and teachers who ever attended the Parker school are invited to trnd th Homecoming and Farewell party to be held at the school building, soon to be torn down, Wednesday, May 25, at. 2 p. m. The program which has been prepared by the teachers and the Parent-Teacher association will continue through the afternoon and evening. Dismantling of the school building build-ing became necessary when the school district accepted the PWA offer of a 45 per cent grant for the erection oi a new and modern school building at Sixth North and Sixth EastT The PWA money is appropriated for "Hhe express purpose of encouraging the-aban-donment of old, unsafe buildings Economist To Be Forum Speaker "What Are the Effects of Large Governmental Expenditures Upon Democracy" wilT be discussed by A. Smith Pond, B. Y. U. economics econom-ics instructor, before the Public Forum Thursday at 8 p. m. in Provo, high school library auditorium. audit-orium. v Open dVjcussion will follow. The J public is invited. . U. S. TO AID BRITISH IN MEXICO LONDON, May 16 HEt The United States 'mayeventally be asked to attend . British interests in Mixico during, the suspension of diplomatic relations, it was understood under-stood today, The British view is that it is uo to Mexico to take the initiative for any effort to restore full diplomatic dip-lomatic relations. |