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Show Tuesday Is Provo Silver Dollar Day! Read Bargains Inside Pages! Weather Forecast I'TAH Sunday partly cloudy: little change in temperature. Maximum temp. Friday . . . 53 Minimum temp. Friday -il Herald State Band Contest I he annual I tan High School Band Contest and Music Festival will lie held in l'roo, April 18, 1H and 20. mil 0 -MttAimmn wrap. isaturaay Minimum temp. Saturday 55 19 VOL. 12, NO. 35 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 193 day Ihe i IWERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affair? By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLIEN WASHINGTON Democratic Demo-cratic house leaders have told the president that the Pat-man Pat-man bonus bill probably will be approved rather than the Vinson measure, although the Vinson bill is backed by the Iegion and was recommended b y the ways and means committee. commit-tee. Both bills call for immediate payment; but the Patman measure meas-ure would raise the money by an issue f treasury certificates, while the Vinson proposal would leave the financing up to the treasury In inner administration circles "it is suggested that if the Vins-m bill becomes law. the president presi-dent will ask congress to raise the required $2. 000 000. (XX) through taxation . . Missouri's Senator Kenn.-tt Clark is now averaging niorf than 0.000 letters a day against the holding corporation bill. He and other senators say the tl-'luge is so patently an organize or-ganize 1 propaganda campaign that 'they are not even bothering to send out a form-letter reply. . . Senate cloakrooms are buzzing with a report that the administration administra-tion is secretlv planning to use $7,000,000 of ' the $4,800,000,000 work-relief fund for seadrome experimenting. ex-perimenting. Director of Air Commerce Com-merce Eugene Vidal and Amelia Karhart. close friend of Mrs. Roosevelt, are zealous advocates of seaciromes PIRGE REVERBERATIONS Illustrative of the intensity of inter-administration bickering is the fact that A. C. Shoemaker of ; Seattle recently was ousted from ' the AAA for helping elect a Democratic senator in the state of Washington. Shoemaker wrote a pamphlet for Democratic Senator Schwellenbach on "End Poverty in Washington." Discovering this Alfred Stedman. AAA assistant administrator, called him in, made him sign an undated letter of resignation Recently Steujnan filled in the date and. accepted the resignation. A similar incident in the C johdge administration caused a congressional investigation of the tariff commission . . After the n cent purge of the AAA. -the files o thtf lawyers Alger t ( ' itmu-d P ur i DOPE ARRESTS SURPASS 2000 WASHINGTON. Mafih 10 - A 24 hou: ...estvrit !! und.-r-, world hideaways netted 2.70 pns-' pns-' oners, treasury officials reported .' today as 12. Oof) agents hammered I way at illicit liquor, narcotics. I ,mugg:ir.g .-.rid counterfeiting ,ic-t ,ic-t tivities f Early reports on n.ght raids showed the secret ser vice n.a !e five more arrests, the nare tus bureau 5o. and the a '.coh ! tax un:t. 100 r.ew arras's The latest figures .showed th-secret th-secret s'Tvio- with a total -i 55 arre.sts "i counterfeiting charges. narcotics agents 5o and the alcohol tax unit. 1.175 Treasury officials were awaiting await-ing rep- -rts from executives the , custom bureau and oust guard St. res m- f of arrests at -x- 1' P c : e ; i a i.. .j ion., i i v. c :.- that J the t !.! ! oandup Will ! i .ic:i We r e Ool( Princess To Ask Divom j( i('opyi at 1935. m ail Countries ; by Ue I'llited I'teSS' i LONI'ON. Marc h 10 v V I'rmc.;.s.s M.iiVa.m. tlie former- Barbara Bar-bara Hutton. t iv-and-ten heiress, today in.st t uc'ted her New Yor k . utt r.'a to take preliminary steps to apply 1 -r a divorce at !. ' Nevada' The New York attorney is Millard Mil-lard Tn:.pkins Princess Barbara herself reveal--ed her decision to the I'nited Press in an interview in her suite at the Dorchester Hotel "Alec and 1 kave definitely agreed to part," the heiress, poet and society beauty said "But we agreed to part only legally." she continued. ' I mean that as a result ol this decision we today are greater friends than ever and intend always to remain so." Spring Quarter Opens March 25 ; Exams On Way "When a professor forgets something, it's not news But when an entire faculty for-g'-ts, that's news. And good news too. if the thing forgotten for-gotten is examinations " Such were the thoughts of Brigham Young university univer-sity students when they heard a report that the spring quarter would open Monday. But the report was false, according to Registrar John E. Hayes. The current quarter will not end until the students have run the gauntlet gaunt-let of a week of examinations examina-tions The winter quarter wall end March 22 and the spring quarter will open March 25. New Paintings Arriving Daily At Springville Springs ille Snn To Open Its I ourteenth Annual Art Exhibitkw . SPRINGYILLE Adding much interest to the fourteenth annual national high school art exhibit, is the arrival this week of a group of pictures from a number of favorite and weH known artists art-ists throughout the country. Included In-cluded in the group are canvasses can-vasses from the brush of Elliott Dangerfield, Eliot Clark. J. Eliot Enneking and John C Costigap. New Exhibitors In addition to familiar artists, a number of new exhibitors will be represented in this year's display, dis-play, art committee members report. re-port. Among the new exhibitors from whom pictures have already arrived are Nan Sheets, artist and feature writer of Oklahoma City, Okla.. Ellsworth Woodward of New Orleans, and Gordon Giant of New York City, N. Y Gallery Represented A shipment, consisting of 12 paintings from the Gatterdam gallery of New York, is quite sufficient to make a worthwhile show in itself. There is seen m (Continued on Page Eight) HARRIS GAINS ADDED HONORS President F. S. Harris of the Brigham Young university has been honored by election to membership mem-bership m the Victoria Institute of Philosophical Society of Great Britain, it was announced Saturday. Satur-day. The same honor was conferred on Elder Joseph Fielding Smith of the Council of the Twelve, L D S. church The only other L D S. officials to gain membership member-ship have been Elders John E Talmage and John A The membership is by and is restricted to a sn Widtsoe election all num.- her Election of Elder Smith and Ur Harris to this society comes in recognition of their work in tht firlds of religion and philosophy Projects Discussed SPANISH FORK At a meef-.'g meef-.'g ' ' the Spanish V'.: Kiwanis cl'.ib held Thursday night at the h- me of Mrs Alerie Meldrum, i mm unity projects m which the members might engage during the present year were discussed No r-fmite action was taken upon any particular project. The club will not meet next Thursday night 1 it will attend the high school opera. "Gypsy Rhapsody " Presi-.i:.t Presi-.i:.t F J Faux presided at the meeting. Five new member's have i" ; added to the club. th- V are. Or R C Swalberg. Rex O Daniels. Dan-iels. Max Thomas and Wm O .! 'hnsi m Wilev Post Will Make New Attempt NEW YORK. March 10 UJ.R) Wiley Post will try and try again until he spans the continent by way of the stratosphere in seven hours, he told reporters today. His second projected flight through higher altitudes a failure because of a forced landing in Cleveland, the veteran round-the-world pliot said he would fly to Cleveland in a few days, take the Winnie Mae back to Los Angeles and prepare for another attempt. CARBON AREA TO SEND 1 0 BANDS HERE Enthusiasm Running High Among High Schools Over Contest Band contest enthusiasm is running high in Carbon coun- ', ty, as ten bands are working energetically preparing" for the music festival to be held: here April 18. 1 and 20, ac- j c rding to Mr. C. Blaine Per-j kins, music director of Hard-: ing junior high school, who visited ; Provo Saturday j Mr. Perkins, who met with , Principal J. C. Moffitt to confer ! or' contest problems, said that each of the bands was backed by local organizations who were working industriously to send them tt the Provo festival Harding junior high will send neary a hundred students to compete, com-pete, having entered a band of nearly 80. an orchestra of 40, as well as instrumental soloists in nearly every division. The school has an enrollment of less than 600. m the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grades, to compete in Class D. An "A" rating in marching was won by the band last year at the contest belli at Price. "We expect to continue that rating this year and win an "A" in our playing. too," asserts Director Perkins. Mr. Perkins last year was director direc-tor of the Wellington junior high contingent which was one of the most outstanding bands in the t estiva! es-tiva! Business Men Hear Plans For State Band Contest Detailed plans for the Utah festival were presented to Prove business men in a meeting he d Friday in the high school Over 30 of the leading business men of the city participated in the open forum held as part of the meet ing. "We are all going to hit the ball hard from now until April 18." affirmed Principal J. C. Moffitt. chairman of the executive committee commit-tee for the festival. "We are going to make this affair the biggest and best music festival ever held in this state." All committees have now been organized and have commenced active work in preparation for the event which will see over five thousand students from all parts-of parts-of the staie competing in the three-day festival and contests Strachey Banned at Yale University NEW HAVEN. Conn., March IB ;'!' The board of educaion has refused to permit Evelyn Ji hn Strachey. British author and lecturer, lec-turer, to speak in New Haven high school auditorium Monday night Strachey, facing a deportation hearing at Chicago, was invited by the Social Problems club of Yale to talk on "Menace of Fascism." Fas-cism." A Problems Club statement said arrangements would be made to hold the lecture elsewhere. Provo Faces Job Of Taking Care Of 5500 Students At State Band Event Provo residents must rise to the need oi providing beds for 4000 students and feeding ff00 who will swarm into the city on April IS, 19 and 20 to the state I music festival. ! Urgent need for more coopera-j coopera-j tion from Provo citizens in provid-! provid-! ing housing for the students, was i expressed Saturday by Albert j Kirkpatrick, chairman of the i American Legion housing com-! com-! mittee. j Members of the legion and aux-i aux-i diary have already started a can vass of the city to find out how much sleeping space can be pro- j vided. Citizens are asked to She's Queen of Daffodils, Tra La Appropriately enough. Margaret Thomas, Tacoma, Wash., displays an armload of daffodil blooms. She will rule over Puyallup Valley annual daifodil festival. March 22. 24. Hitler Defies Pact; Orders Conscription Versailles Treaty Violated As Universal Military Service Law is Passed RKRIJ.V March l; U.R". - a suddrii. lit cat'i-Takini: ann lUiici-nu-nt. today doiKniuC''d tht military clau-t' of t he Versailles treaty and proclaimed immediate im-mediate general military conscrijiticm in Germany. - Germany's denunciation of the NEW AD MAN COMES HERE Ll vd F. Anderson of Salt Iake is the new advertising man- City acer ,f the Herald beginning Monday. He succeeds George Roberts Rob-erts who has accepted a position with the Twin Kails Idaho) News Mr. Anderson comes well qualified quali-fied for the position. He has had a great deal of newspaper and salesmanship experience, having been employed for the last 10 years in a supervisory capacity in the advertising and circulation departments of Prior to that the Deseret News time he worked manager for two as circulation years in loan o hc nas aiso nau several years ot experience- m wholesale selling He has served as a missionary for the L D. S. church and has been active in M I A and Sunday school stake work. His schooling was obtained at the Kicks college and University of Utah. Mr Roberts came to Prove a year and a halt ago from the I'ocatello 'Idaho i Tribune. BKKK TAX INVALID NFAV ORLKAXS. March lo 'CP' The United States fifth court of appeals handed down a decision decis-ion late yesterday holding tht government's Hat $1,000 excise tax on beer dealers m dry states-is states-is unconstitutional The tribunal railed that the excise ex-cise liquor tax was enacted along with the lMh amendment and "fell with repeal cooperate m making as much room as possible. One loyal citizen proferred space for 12 "students "Friday. Others will house from three to ten students stu-dents for the three days. However, in some sections the auxiliary committees little response. found very Taking care of thest 5500 serious youngsters presents a problem," said Mr Kirkpatrick. "The response must be greater than it has been so far to insure adequate housing for them. It is tip to Provo to do a good job of this and protect the health of these thousands of young musi- I mmmmmmmm mmmmmm .. , rT Oil 1 Kcichfui - h!vi - Adolf Hitler, in treaty clause and institution ol universal military service rocked a Europi- already tense vsith the increasing momentum of an arms race among the big powers. France and Great Britain already had moved this week toward ii creased armed strength. Trent Ignored .Neither the Hitler proclamation nor the new law specifically said that Germany iKmounces the military mili-tary clauses of the Versailles treaty, but the conscript. on law actually was a denunciation and violation of the treaty. The Hitler decision was disclosed dis-closed in an atmosphere of drama and suspension at the propaganda ministry after the cabinet had approy ed. Th- proclamation was divided into three sections: 1 Universal military service. 2 Dividing the German peacetime peace-time aia.y limited to 100.000 men by the Versailles treaty) to 12 army corps and 36 divisions. 3 Empowering General Blom-berg Blom-berg to take measures necessary to carry out the law approved by the cabinet. The lull cabinet met today and adopted the universal conscription law. OWES LIFE TO HORN HAMILTON, Ont., March 16 - ! i i Cecil Draper owed his life ! today to his automobile horn. j Driving into his garage Drapei ; shut the doors leaving the motoi j running. As he leaned across tc ; shut i. ft the ignition switch he was overcome by carbon monox- ' ide and ft 11 against the horn : His parents, attracted by the j muse, rushed ijito the garage and j tonk hiin tn a hospital where he i was : e v i veil ' cians she It by providing adequate r " It is planned to have those students living near Provo transported trans-ported back and forth each day in order to reduce the number to be hofteed down to 4000. With the festival opened for choruses this year, the crowd will be much larger than it has been at Price, where housing even there was found to be a difficult problem. prob-lem. Mr. Kirkpatrick suggests that where double beds are available avail-able three students might be accommodated ac-commodated in one bed. Provoans are not expected to feed the contestants. RELIEF WORK BILL READY! FOR SENATE! All Minor Amendments Dis-j posed Of; Final Vote i Expected Soon I i WASHINGTON, March 16 j lU.R) The $4,880,000,000 j wor-l relief bill was thrown open to general amendments i today after the senate, in less! than two hours, disposed of i all minor changes proposed j by Democratic leaders in j charge of the measure. i The way was cleared for con- I sideration on Monday of efforts to j reduce the appropriation to $1,- J 880,000.000 or $2,880,000,000. j ' Due to small attendance- re- , : ees; until Monday was forced at I 1 30 p m. Without a record vote, the senate sen-ate approved an amendment by Senator Carter Glass, D., Va.. in charge of the bill, to continue the federal emergency relief act in operation until June 30, 193G. Another proposal by Glass to continm activities of the public w. rks administration until June 30 1937, was made the first order of business when the senate convenes con-venes on Monday. The senate approved a committer commit-ter anundment stating a policy to ta.-ie advantage of private enterprise enter-prise "wherever practicable." Another committee amendment, citing a $2,000 fine or a year's imprisonment as penalties, for fraudulent use of any part of the i appropriations, was accepted. HORSE PULLING EVENT PLANNED Piillintf Matches in Three Events To Be Held At Spanish Fork. SPANISH FORK The horse pulling contest will still be one of the big attractions of the Utah State Junior Ljvesock show ta be h'eld at Spanish Fork, April :i, 4, and 5, it is announced by manager R. C. Swalberg. There will be $180 in cash prizes distributed dis-tributed for this feature. As in previous years, the teams will be divided into three classes, light, medium and heavy. Prizes of $30 for first place, $20 for second sec-ond place and $10 for third place will be given in each class. The horses will pull on the synamo-meter, synamo-meter, and the same rules which govern the pulling at the Utah state fair will be observed. The premium book, listing all events and premiums offered will be ready for distribution dur- in' the coming week. A bier parade will be held on Main street on Thursday. April 4. One of the best sound systems in the state will be installed at the show, so that all the people will be able to hear what is being said. A new feature of :he show this year will be an auto show, which will be held at the grounds but in a large tent so that no space will be taken from the show. John K. Johnson is chairman of this division . The Governor's banquet will be put on by the Fifth ward this year. PHONE PROBE !S AUTHORIZED WASHINGTON. March 16 MJm President Roosevelt's signature opened the way today for immediate immedi-ate investigation of the $5,000,-000.000 $5,000,-000.000 American Telephone and Telegraph company and other interstate in-terstate communications firms. Member of the federal communications com-munications commission, which will make the inquiry, said they were ready to proceed with the investigation at once. It probably prob-ably will take several months to complete. The congressional resolution which appropriated $750,000 for the inquiry was signed last night by the president. The appropriation appropria-tion was the greatest initial amount ever voted by congress for investigation of an industry. I i I 1 ! i Agreement Made On Liquor Bill By Committee Saturday Night Session Necessary to Complete Com-plete Legislative Program Includ- ing Appropriation Bills SALT LAKE CITY. March 1G An agreement on the controversial liquor bill was reached by the house and senate conference committee, late Saturday night, according accord-ing to an announcement by J. Francis Fowles, D., Ogden. The report, slated for submission to the house and senate at the night session, retained the moot sales-by-drink provision pro-vision m hotels and restaurants as passed by the senate. SALT LAKE CITY. Utah. March 1G (U.R All hopes for adjournment of the Utah, legislature before Sunday morning' apparently had been discarded today. Committees from both house conferred to set a later time than noon today, as had previously been decided, for consideration of bills. The two houses will have to remain in session several hours after the final bill is considered, since all measures must be sent to the enrolling and NEWS ! j Wires ; ( By United Press i 1 MOKE TEST FLIGHTS WASHINGTON, March lt l'.i: Director Eurege L Vidal of tht department of commerce com-merce bureau of aeronautics, said today .hat experiments Avith the radio compass test plane at Oak- land, for Cal., airport will continue several days" before any flight to Hawaii is undertaken. HOPKINS DENIES REPORT WASHINGTON. March lb it 1 - Relief Administrator Harry L Hopkins today said reports that the federal emergency relief administration ad-ministration would send .5.000 World war veterans to camps in the Florida keys were "withou foundation in fact." PILOT C LAIMS RECORD NEW YORK, March 16 VV. A transcontinental flying record for regularly scheduled commercial commer-cial flights was claimed today by TWA'? "sky chief which arrived at Newark airport at 7:44 a. m. just 12 hours 44 minutes out from Los Angeles, and 2 hour's 31 minutes ahead of schedule The airplane carried 10 passengers all th? way. spent one hour If minutes on the ground en route THREE DIE IN FIRE EDINA. Mann , March 16 dM" Two women and a 15-months-old baby girl were burned to death today when :'ire destroyed the Dickinson farm home near here. The dead were: Mrs. Kate McLaughlin. Mc-Laughlin. 70; Mrs. John Enckin-son. Enckin-son. .53 and her daughter, Kath-enne, Kath-enne, 15 months. RELIEF AID CRAFT WASHINGTON, March 16. .'Y.V.. - Relief Administrator Harry L Hopkins, declaring there is "in-contr "in-contr avertable evidence of political politi-cal corruption" in Ohio, anounced today the federal government would take over unemployment aid activities :n that state. TAX RECEIPTS I P WASHINGTON. March 16 d i" -FeJeral income tax collection in the first 15 days of March were estimated by federal officials today to-day as $198,358,909 a gain of near y 30 per cent over collections of $147,794,894 in a corresponding period of last year. Four Injured In S. F. (Sanyon Crash Fcur persons were mjured. none sericusly. Friday at 11:30 a m. when a truck driven by J. J. Hill. ZD, i f 125 East Center. collided with a passenger car driven by W. C. Scott, 48, of Salt Lake : City, on the state highway at i Castella. Spanish Fork canyon. i The injured were Mr. Scott, bruised leg; Dora Scott. 42, bruises on leg and forehead; Ray Cook, 52, of West Jordan, bad cut on chin, and Lydia Cook. 48, West Jordan, bruised hip and internal injuries. The accident occurred as Hill was attempting to pass out around the Scott car. With Hill was Wesley Cooper, 22, Provo, who was also uninjured. The Hill truck was undamaged but Scott claims damage of $1G0 to his machine. engrossing committee to be prepared pre-pared for signature of the speaker of the house and president of the senate. Conference committees were still attempting to reach an agreement on the controversial state store liquor bill Saturday night. Kill Compensation Bill Meanwhile the senate killed the house industrial compensation bill, passed several other important measures while the house approved ap-proved two of the senate's public utilities regulation measures. The industrial compensation bill, one of the most important bills presented by the labor members of the htAise, stirred up a bitter fight in the senate before it was killed on second reading. Senator George M. Miller, D., Carbon county, charged the senate sen-ate sifting committee with deliberately delib-erately holding the bill back until the last minute so that proper consideration could not be given. The bill raises the compensation rates from a minimum rate of $16 per week to $18 per week and the minimum from $7 per week to $9 r er week, and includes occupational occupation-al diseases as a compensable item. Not only did the sifting committee commit-tee delay th bill, Senator Miller charged, but when they finally brought it out, it was not accompanied accom-panied by the house amendments, as is customary. He declared that was sufficient evidence to .-how that a deliberate attempt to kill the bill without consideration' was being made. A mot. on by Senator John Wal-i Wal-i Continued ui Page Seven) OREM VOTERS APPROVE BONDS Voters cf Orem town gave overwhelming approval to the proposed pro-posed waterworks bonding proposal pro-posal in the election Friday, voting vot-ing 95 to 3 in favor of the plan as worked out by the town board. The prcject, advanced as a PWA undertaking provides for the im-povement im-povement of -the system by the installation rn a throughout at a new pipe line cost of $46,000. BE TRLEY HILLS. Calif., March 15 I have often said that with all our kidding or cursing our public elected officials, of-ficials, that they are as good or better than we who elect 'em. Well, we got a fine example ex-ample of it in the papers this morning. John Stevens Mc-Groarty, Mc-Groarty, who wrote California's Califor-nia's famous mission play. A great writer, a real humani-arian. humani-arian. and a fine and beloved type of real gentleman (I expect ex-pect Los Angeles' most unl- , versally popular citizen) one of his voters wrote him an insulting letter wanting to know why he faadnt put trees on the Sierra Mad re mountains. moun-tains. McGroartys reply: "One of the drawbacks of being be-ing a congressman Is that I have to receive impertinent letters from a jackass like you. Will you please take two running run-ning jumps and go to h ." Score one for congress. Yours, |