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Show Herald Weather Forecast UTAH Occasional snow Sunday. Maximum temp. Friday 28 Minimum temp. Friday 5 Maximum Temp. Saturday . . 34 Minimum Temp. Saturday 1? So They Say! This civilization can't last because be-cause it just doesnl make sense. Better civilizations than this one have collapsed. James Norman Hall, co-author of "Mutiny on the Bounty," and resident of Tahiti. VOL. 14, NO. 29 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 1937 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS 8ERVICB PRICE FIVE CENTS The UTAH COUNTY RAISES FUND FORJELIEF Drive to Continue Until Quota of $1200 Is Raised Here Provo residents had raised $400 for the flood relief fund Saturday, Dwight Packard, local drive chairman, announced. an-nounced. The quota for the Utah county chapter is $1200. Outside of Provo, $180 had been raised, Orson Slack, in charge, said. The drive will continue until the entire amount requested is raised, said Dr. J. J. Weight, Utah county coun-ty chapter. Depositories for the receipt of voluntary subscriptions have been established at the Utah Power and Light company's office,. Telluride Motor and Thornton JDrug. Employes in shops and factories have rallied to the call for help in a fine way, Mr. Packard said. Subscription lists have been circulated circu-lated to meet unusually liberal responses in nearly every instance. President T. N. Taylor assured the Red Cross officials Saturday that ward clerks throughout the city would be asked to receive donations do-nations for flood suffering relief. MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN Stanley Baldwin Plans to Retire; Re-tire; Exits With Immense Popularity; Typical British Attitude in Abdication Crisis Cris-is Made Hero of Him; His Tory Creed Demands Ruling Rul-ing Class Make Sacrifice for Britain; Muddled Through As Expert Politician, Liked Even By Opposition. ISditor'K Note: Today it is Stanley Baldwin. 70-year-old British Prime Minister, who gets the Brass Ring, "good for one free ride on The Washington M. e r r y-Go-Round." Baldwin, who muddled mud-dled through many crisis in half a lifetime of British politics, is another who can ride the Merry - Go - Round "without losing his head or his sense of humor.") LONDON Stanley Baldwin, ; nearly 70 years old ;ind the most j completely British premier Eng- j land ever had, is planning to retire re-tire after the coronation next spring. And When he docs so, he will bo rated as the man who pulled a fast .slipping personal prestige into overwhelming popularity popu-larity chiefly through the abdication ab-dication of Edward VIII. Baldwin today is at the peak of his long career, never more respected, more revered by the British public. But he was not always so. Just a year ago his hedging over the Ethiopian crisis, his yielding to Mussolini after attempting t out-bluff out-bluff II Duce in the Mediterranean, sent his political stock to new lows. What brought it up was his (ConL'Ti-1 on page 3, section 2) HOSPITAL FUND DRIVE PLANNED Completion of the organization schedule for the Provo citv hospital hos-pital fund drive is expected early this week, officials announced Saturday. Sat-urday. Contributions totaling $45,000 will be raided by the drive, directed di-rected by the -Greater Provo Hospital Hos-pital committee under the leader-shiD leader-shiD of Dr. L. L. Cullimore. The L.D.S. church has agreed to erect and maintain a structure costing cost-ing $150,000 if the citv contribution, contribu-tion, together with $15,000 donated do-nated by Provo city is raised. Provo citv has already agreed to contribute its quota to the project. Following the organization schedule's approval active work will begin. Neqrligrence Charged CORAL GABLES, Fla., Jan. 30 UE) Alleged negligence on the part of the Tamiami Trail Tours. Inc., was blamed for the bus crash Monday which took 17 lives. The charge was made by a coroner's cor-oner's jury today. 'We Are Holding WpW.fl'.,WA,.,.)tvv.)A-.'.y.. . . If' fc, I I -. 4 .&-,, .. Wj p y 1. , .;-f A ' - E Kit . v-S- VA. Working day and night, 2000 men under the direction of Army Engineers apparently succeeded In holding back the flood waters of the Ohio River, which threatened a 60-foot seawall behind which the town of Cairo, 111., nestles. All women and children had already been evacuated from the town as a safety measure. Scenes like this were common along the seawall as workmen bolstered crumbling spots and added an earth and sandbag levee to the top of the wall. Other Ohio and Mississippi Valley towns were not so fortunate as the death toll was counted into the hundreds and an estimated million persons were left homeless by the worst flood disaster in the history of the country, w Paducah Is Abandoned PADUCAH. Ky., Jan. 30 il'.l! Four-fifths of Paducah was abandoned ab-andoned to the floods today. Everybody without an indepen dent supply of food and drinking ; water was ordered to leave the I city at once. Already. 22,000 have j been taken to higher ground. An- ; other 6,000 were waiting to be j rescued. Nineteen persons were dead. I Drinking water was exhausted, j food stores were closed swamped I and disease broke out. The river j flowed over the top of the government gov-ernment gauge and river men said it would be well beyond 61 feet when it reaches a crest today j or tomorrow. . Soldiers supervised rescue activ- ities and aided police. Boats not employed in rescue work carried armed guards and soldiers through the flooded districts dis-tricts looking for looters. C. of C. Makes Suggestions For 1938 County Fair Six requests for consideration j in planning the 1937 Utah county fair are embodied In a letter of the Provo chamber of commerce to County Commissioner William J. Johnson, fair department official. offi-cial. The reque.-t.s aie for: a three-day fair; a week-end fair including Thursday. Friday and Saturday; larger and more complete exhibits of agricultural and horticultural products; more complete live stock attractions; more entertainment designed to stimulate greater crowds, and an adequate advertising campaign started far enough in advance to acquaitn all county people with news of the fair. Below Standard "We believe that the fairs held during the last two or three years were far below the standard established es-tablished and they did not adequately ade-quately display the agricultural, livestock and industrial, products of this country. Recommendations also included provision for a full time manager employed for several months, and suggestions for a rodeo event. "If the chamber of commerce can be of service or can help in any way to accomplish this much needed improvement, please let us know a.s we are very much interested and anxious to do every thing we can to promote a bigger and better Utah county fair," the letter concluded. 375 Marooned In Heavy Nevada Snow RENO, Nev Jan. 30 r.R -Heavy snows today found 375 persons marooned in five different differ-ent localities in Nevada. Major Chester R. Hunt reported that 160 men were snowbound at Sadler's ranch and that one of the men had been stricken with appendicitis. Eighty more persons were reported stranded at Scossa, a mining camp north of Lovelock. A report from Unionville said 20 persons were snowbound there; 70 were reported marooned at Buckhorn, 30 miles south of Palisade, Pali-sade, and another group was reported re-ported isolated at Maysville. All were reported to have sufficient suf-ficient food to last several days and it was not believed they were in immediate danger. the Seawall Cairo Workers Cry -rL .W-WWW. aR')gMasK':.2L-r a?:::WK;-? . . Flood Threatens Isolate River 10,000 People Sent Breaks Through By UNITED PRESS Flood waters surrounded Cairo, 111., today as the Ohio burst through to the Mississippi river 15 miles north of the citv of 150.000 Dersons. Southward the Mississippi - PRES. TAYLOR RETURNS HOME After a vacation trip of three weeks spent in California, T. N. Taylor of the Utah stake is again back in Provo. During his trip President Taylor spent the bulk of his time with his son, Sterling, in San Francisco, and daughter ii; Los Angeles. The severe cold has done much damage, especially in southern California President Taylor states. The freezing, weather has ruined flowers, and caused much loss to the citrus crop. Smudge pots are going constantly, he stated, to save some of it Importers especially are suffering suffer-ing from the maritime strike President Taylor commented. He remarked of the number of ships tied up at docks, with no cargo aboard or else with a cargo that cannot be removed. Every Monday Mon-day a strike settlement appears possible, only to oe thwarted by other events he found. Roosevelt Gets 15,000 Messages On His Birthday WASHINGION, Jan. 30 l.H- Fifteen thousand messages of congratulations were showered on President Roosevelt from all sections sec-tions of the country Saturday as tne chief executive observed his fifty-fifth birthday at his office desk. Saturday night he addressed thousands dancing at birthday balls held in his honor to raise money for sufferers of infantile paralysis. Mr. Roosevelt spoke briefly over the radio at 11:25 p. m., EST. Before his radio appearance, the president held a small, informal in-formal dinner for his old "Cuff Links gang," men who worked with him in his unsuccessful candidacy can-didacy for vice president in 1920. Guests included his assistant secretaries, Marvin H. Mclntrye, and Stephen Early, Kirl L. Simpson. Simp-son. Washington newspaperman, and Stanley Prenosil and Thomas Lynch, both of New York. Missing from the "Cuff Links gang" so named when Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt presented each old friend with a pair of cuff links was Louis McHenry Howe, the president's late secretary and close political adviser, who died last year. UNION APPROVES WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 U.Pv The United Mine Workers union today granted permission to coal miners in Rocky Mountain States to work an extra day to alleviate a coal shortage caused by an influenza in-fluenza epidemic. States affected by this order were: New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Montana and Washington. 4. yum .v.v.v".vi.--x v To Town Out of City As Ohio To the Mississippi is rising, dikes are holding- but flood waters lapped within inches of their tops in some places and the great test is yet to come. Cairo reported itself prepared for isolation. Its walls on all sides held back the flood. About 10,000 peissons have been sent out Downstream from Cairo to Helena, Hel-ena, Ark., 100.000 men were piling higher the breakworks against destruction. The Red Cross said it might be necessary to increase its $10,000,-000 $10,000,-000 relief budget. More than $6,-400,000 $6,-400,000 has been collected so far. Throughout its lower length the Mississippi was rising. The Ohio and other feeder streams were falling. Four hundred persons were reported re-ported marooned between Helena and Marianna, Ark. Deer, quail and wild turkeys scrambled to the levee heights for refuge from the flood. Water licked seven inches from the top of Slough Landing Neck levee, near Memphis. But army engineers said the dikes were holding. Investigation of Tiptonville. Tenn., levees, jarred by an earthquake earth-quake today or a shifting of undetermined un-determined surface soil, discovered no damage but the dikes there are weakest. Forecasts of raui, snow and colder foretold more physical suffering suf-fering for ill-sheltered refugees, although precipitation was not expected ex-pected greatly to increase flood hazards. Franklin Group Meets Monday Night The Franklin school P.-T. A. study group will meet Monday at 7:30 p. m. in the Franklin school library with Mrs. William Thomsen in charge. The subject sub-ject will be "Has Every Child an Equal Chance in Life from the Standpoint of Nutrition, Home Environment and Importance of Vocational Guidance." All interested inter-ested school patrons are invited to attend. Enraged Tigers Attack Trainer Trapped In Flood LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30 (UJv Painfully clawed about the head, shoulders and abdomen by two of his trained tigers, Capt. Roman Ro-man Proske today thanked his rescuers, forgave the beasts and resolved to quit carrying raw meat into the cage he uses in his vaudeville act. The raw meat, Proske said, was what Judy and Lily, the attacking tigers, were after when they pounced upon him. Captain Proske, working in an iron barred cage on the stage, had put the five cats through part of the act and was waltzing with Lily when he tripped and fell. As he tumbled to the floor the big cat leaped upon him. Judy, too, leaped from her station at the side of the cage and both aruV mals tore at their trainer's body. COUGARS DROP 41-40 GAME TO UTAH TEAM Berrj' Foul Puts Utes Ahead; Cougars Miss Hoop in Last Minute CONFERENCE STANDING W. L. Pet. Utah S 1 .750 B. Y. U. 3 S .500 Utah State 2 2 .500 Montana 2 4 .833 Staturday's Result Utah 41, B. Y. U. 40 Utah State 42, Montana 41. SALT LAKE CITY Howard Berg's conversion of an all important im-portant foul pitch when the score was tied in the last minute of play gave University of Utah a 41-40 victory over a courageous, hard-fighting B. Y. U. team in the Deaeret gym Saturday n ght. After the slim forward's shot had put Utah ahead in that last desperate minute, Bob Detmers, Cougars guard, was fouled as he attempted a shot at the basket. The vast crowd held its breath as Detmers stepped to the foul line, taking B. Y. U.'s destiny in his own hands. Each shot rolled off the hoop lucklessly, however, and Utah's lead remained unerased. With only seconds remaining, little La Var Kump, Y" forward, for-ward, got possession of the ball in mid-court. Kump measured hi3 distance, and unleashed a high-arched high-arched long shot just as he did in winning a onepoint victory over Utah in the same gym last year. The ball hit dangerously close, but rolled off the hoop. B. Y. U. was a transformed team from the one which fell before Utah 45-30 Friday night The Cougars fought gallantly from the starting whistle until the final gun. Midway in the first half, they led 14-7, but Utah pulled up to 17-18 with 2 minutes to go. Hajsk Miller, who played magnificent ball all evening-, then fCftred a trick shot to put .the Redskins ahead for the first time. The half ended 23-19 for Utah. B. Y. U. pulled up 25-27 in the second half, at which juncture junc-ture Roberts went out on fouls. Utah went on a spree and soon had the score 34-26. The Cougars then started a desperate rally, climaxed by Bob Detmer's tying goal with a minute to go. The stage was set for the dramatic finish described above. Captain Marlow Turpin played great ball for the "Y" making a fine comback after a week's illness. ill-ness. Earl Giles returned to his scoring form, and Stan Watts played a stirring game at forward. for-ward. Miller and Mecham were Utah's standouts. BKiGHAM young G. T. F. P. 2 3 0 4 3 2 17 6 6 4 16 2 4 15 12 13 12 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 3 15 22 10 40 G. T. F. P. UTAH 0 111 4 4 3 11 10 0 2 14 3 5 4 10 8 2 5 3 7 0 0 0 0 3 2 17 15 17 11 41 Turpin, f. Watts, f. ... Giles, c Detmers, g. . Roberts, g. . . . Kump, f. ... Christensen. f. Black, g. ... Totals Berg, f Miller, f. Childs, c. Mecham, g. . Mulica. g. Ahlquist, f.-c. Totals Score by periods: Utah 23 18 41 B. Y. U 19 2140 Nielson, rferee; Green, umpire. The other three cats did not join in the attack. Unable to defend himself, FVoske rolled about trying to escape the slashing claws. The audience, thinking it was part of the act, applauded. But a moment later the applause turned to screams as front row patrons saw blood oozing through Proske's now tattered uniform. Several women fainted. Thomas Smith, negro stage hand, was first to realize that Proske was fighting for his life as he rolled about the floor of the small cage. With a pole he jabbed at the tigers and managed to drive them away long enough for Hudson Thomas, manager of the act, and other stage hands, to reach through a door and pull Proske to safety. Hitler Renounces War Guilt Clause Of Versailles Pact Der Fuehrer Observes Fifth Anniversary of His Reigi in Dramatic Reichstag Speech; Reichsbank To Be Nationalized By FREDERICK C. AECHSNER United Press Staff Correspondent BERLIN, Jan. 30 (U.R) Fuehrer Adolf Hitler began the fifthxyear of his rule over Germany today by withdrawing the country's signature to the clause of the Versailles treaty which pronounced .Germany guilty of the World war. Immediately afterward he announced the nationalization nationaliza-tion of the Reichsbank, the central banking institution of the country, and of all railroads. He annoounced his action Reichstag, in which he reviewed his first four years and asked whether he had not made good his promises. Decree Extends Rule The Reichstag had extended for four years Hitler's power to rule by decree, in contravention if necessary of the republican constitution consti-tution of Weimar. Even as he spoke, a decree was issued in his name forbidding Germans Ger-mans henceforth to accept Nobel prizes the result of Nazi rage over the award of the Nobel prize recently to Carl Von Ossietzky, German pacifist only recently released re-leased from a concentration camp. He taunted . other peoples with his statement that the Nazi revolution revo-lution was a bloodless, legal one; he talked of the slaughter in Spain and said, if the Nazis had done as did democratic Spain, tMey would have been expected on the basis of population to kill from 400,000 to 500,000 people. Then he announced his withdrawal, with-drawal, as Germany's unchallenged unchal-lenged master, of the signature forced upon the German delegation delega-tion at Versailles in June, 1919, in which Germany admitted to the world that the guilt for starting the World war was hers alone. "Herewith," he said to the members mem-bers assembled in the Kroll opera house, "I declare the Versailles treaty stipulations withdrawing equal rights from the German nation na-tion done away with." Then, in apparent promise to the- worried world that he is through with his anti-treaty campaign, cam-paign, he said: "The time of so-called surprises is now past." He explained his war guilt action ac-tion by saying: "The honor of a people cannot be the subject of negotiation." Answering the question voiced in the British house of commons recently for Foreign Secretary Anthony An-thony Eden, Hitler said that Germany Ger-many did not intend to seek isolation isola-tion in its foreign policy. BERLIN, Jan. 30 U.E Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, in his Reichstag speech today, announced plans to (Continued On Page Three) Legislators Plan Early Junket To State Hospital Utah state legislators will accept ac-cept the invitation of Utah State hospital authorities to inspect the institution here February 6 they state in a letter received by Dr. Garland H. Pace, superintendent, Saturday. Members of the house and senate sen-ate and their wives will be included in-cluded in the group. William H. Griffith, chairman of the senate arrangements committee, announced an-nounced that an approximate number of those attending win be available early this week. The hospital board of trustees will meet at 11 a. m., concluding their business meeting in time for the luncheon at 1 p. m. honoring honor-ing the officials. Business problems and a clinical program conducted by Dr. Pace win be discussed and presented, following which the visitors will be conducted on an inspection tour of the plant. An invcation to visit American Fork training school has also been accepted by the legislators. Deer Creek Fund To Be Collected Committee organization will be effected by the chamber of commerce com-merce Deer Creek committee this week in line for active solicitation solicita-tion of preliminary expense funds officials stated Saturday. A list of donors and suggested contributions is nearly complete and committeemen assisted by ad ditional workers will canvass these sources, soon. The money will be required for city election expenses, obtaining of options, survey and investigational investiga-tional work, and informational preparation. The chamber of commerce has been asked to raise $5,000 for the project for the preliminary expense. in a speech before his Nazi Defiant FUEHRER ADOLF HITLER EXCERPTS FROM HITLER SPEECH BERLIN, Jan. 30 (f.P Adolf Hitler's Reichstag speech today bristled with references to his own Dominant role in Germany's Nazification. Striking excerpts follow: "Millions of German workers know that at the peak of the German people stands no liter-atus, liter-atus, but a man of the people," "When I ascended to power I had a bitter duty to give the na tion honor after it had been a pariah among nations for 15 years." "I denounced that part of the Versailles treaty which took equality away from our people and made Germany a second rate people." Beet Growers Answer Cannon A denial that beet sugar growers grow-ers lost money by not negotiating contracts with local sugar interests inter-ests in 1936 as contained in a letter of Wiliard T. Cannon, Utah-Idaho Sugar company official of-ficial to President W. J. Chad-wick Chad-wick of the Utah Central Beet Growers association was registered regi-stered late Saturday by association associ-ation officers here. Figures given ir. the Cannon letter were misleading, the officers of-ficers stated. Actually, by not raising beets, the farmers made money they held, the loss falling fall-ing directly to the sugar companies com-panies themselves by virtue of the $130,000 1936 estimate. Cost of raising beets on a national government estimate is $72.58 per 12-ton acre they said. Cannon's letter, they pointed out, referred to a return of $72 per acre. Thus they state they would actually have grown crops at 58 cents per ton less than cost of production. State figures of production costs due to irrigation irri-gation costs are even higher $78 they state, thus occasioning even greater loss. The fact that the land not raising sugar beets was treated as a total loss by Cannon apparently appar-ently in his letter they held was misleading in conception entirely. Actualy they stressed, profit was made by raising other than sugar beets. According to 1937 schedule the sugar beet companies, the association associ-ation heads state, now offer to pay $5.56 on 16 per cent beet and $4 net selling- price per 100 pounds, 11 cents per ton above the 1936 unnegotiated figure. The national beet growers con tract calls for $6.18 on the same base, a difference of 62 cents between be-tween the two figures. No agreement agree-ment has yet been reached, the association officials point out. M 1 if 1 ' SIX MILLION UTAH BUDGET SLASH LOOMS Requests for Increased Appropriations To Meet Refusal SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Jan. 30 (U.R) A cut of at least $6,000,000 from Utah's $12,500,000 budget asked by state departments and institutions, insti-tutions, appeared probable today to-day as Gov. Henry H. Blood completed his budget message for submission to the Utah legislature legis-lature Monday. Submission of the budget wiU also release for legislative consideration consid-eration of the homestead exemption exemp-tion proposal and appropriations measures which have been pending receipt of the budget message. Revenue At Six Million Revenue estimates for the bien-nium bien-nium do not exceed $6,000,000, without consideration of the 52,-000.000 52,-000.000 reduction which would result re-sult from complete homestead exemption. ex-emption. In consideration of this, the governor's message is expected to muffle advocations of state officials of-ficials for bigger expenditures during the coming biennium. The 1933 budget law requires the governor to budget only on the basis of revenue estimates and existing revenue laws. The provisions pro-visions of this law are inflexible, and therefore the budget must be slashed. After submission of the budget message, a call for a Tuesday morning meeting of the tax commission com-mission will be issued, and it is thought that the commissioners will make further reductions in departmental appropriations. Private Agencies Refused A resolution asking a suspension suspen-sion of appropriations to semi-public semi-public agencies, such as the Og-den Og-den Livestock show, Utah Citizens Rate association, Martha Society, Neighborhood House, American Legion, and others, was passed from the senate and was sent to the house Friday. An attempt to suspend the rules and place it at third reading for final passage was averted,- and the resointftm will mandatorily come up for discussion dis-cussion Wednesday. The agencies in question received re-ceived approximately $58,000 from the state two years ago. State senators were confronted with two separate proppsals for. the relief of Utah's aged and needy one submitted by the administration ad-ministration in a group of seven new bills, and the other sponsored by Herbert Maw, senate presi-( presi-( Continued on Page Three) SLOAN REJECTS PEACE OFFER WASHINGTON, Jan. 30 L.P Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins Per-kins said today Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., president of General Motors, did not call her this morning to give his final answer to her suggestions sug-gestions for methods of settling the autfo strike. Sloan told the United Press in New York last night he would call Miss Perkins before 10 a. m. today. Sloan was reported to be ill in New York. A third attempt by Secretary Perkins to settle the strike collapsed col-lapsed today after Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.. G. M. president, withdrew with-drew again from negotations. "Really, it was not what one would expect from a man in his position, she said. "For two or three hours I talked with him in my office. I went over the whole matter with him and it looked as . though finally all parties had reached a basis for negotiations. "I called Mr. Lewis and Gov. Murphy and they agreed to the conference. Then when I received Mr. Sloan's call to say the matter mat-ter was ended so far as the (Continued on Page Four) Squaw Creek, Jan. 30. Provo Newspaper Mush Hank's uncle, Roscoe. came down from mountains last week and got big scare. Was looking for barbershop down at settlement and all he could find was tonsorial parlor. Store bad big sign outside "Groceteria' Cobbler's shop said "pedal to rium" in big letters. Was riding back here with Hank and Hank say his boy just uiwerweni a tonsil ectomy. ukb uavmg wuaua uuu ioen xiuurs car just missed jackrabblt and' - " . v r AMMO I ' " ' 1 a close call." '-r'-vX. Roscoe got out of car and ran. Tlaan't KaAfi mAAw Piute fS PIUTE JOE. . : |