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Show The Evenki H Service If you do not receive your copy of The Herald by 6 p. m. telephone 495 and a copy will be sent you. era FORTY-EIGHTH YEAR, NO. 93 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, .UTAH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1934 MERRY GO-ROUND Ml nn ck rr?i r? r?rz nn " lu I U II II "J 9 LruL< UVJ uu A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs . : 1 . . 5 ower Cominnmftftee Named By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALL1SN Nation Is Headed For Weather Forecast UTAH Fair tonight and Thurs-UTAH Thurs-UTAH Fair tonight and Thursday; Thurs-day; little change in temperature. Maximum temp. Tuesday . . . 8 Minimum temp. Tuesday 20 Id. lit V j 5 City F EDITOR'S NOTE: The news (December 29 papers) that Senator Wagner was retiring from the National Labor Board was announced first exclusively exclusive-ly in The Merry-Go-Round in the lead story, December 21. The news (December 29 pain pa-in r) that Senator Gerald Nye had proposed an investigation liody to examine charges of price-fixing and monopolies -by industries under the NRA was announced first exclusively in The Merry-Go-Round December Decem-ber 16. WASHINGTON As the travels fali this noon in the house and senate, two factors feature the seventy - third . congress. One is the fact that it is bewildered, docile and ready to eat out of the president's hand. The other is the fact that while ; a. thousand and one changes have taken place in the policies and personalities per-sonalities of the administrative end of the government, the rows of seats on the floor of congress hold the same old faces. Clinging, for the most part, to the same old policies which the New "Dealer in the White House discarded long ago. Usually congress comes back from several months away from Washington loaded for bear and rarin' to go. It cuts out for itself " the role of chief check-rein on the president and keeps that role until the last, rap of the gavel in the soring. This is a system which under our government of checks and balances bal-ances is not so bad during times of prosperity, but at this session of congress it is going to be pretty well scrapped. The legislators may blow off occasional bursts of steam like the trial bombs which Missouri Senator Dave Reed echoed against the aluminum works of the House of Mellon last week, but on the whole they are in a 'docild frame of mind and ready to listen dutifully to the Great White Father. Look over the list of leaders of the' 73rd congress and it is easy to see why this is so. Most of them, especially the Democrats, have . only a nebulous idea of what the New Deal is all about. They are . out of place with the progressive young men around Roosevelt. While stirring and momentous hanges were taking lace in the nriministrative side of the New Deal, they have been interested in politics and petty patronage at home. x. THE . SENATE Titular boss on the Democratic side is bull-voiced, trigger-tempered, conservative Joe Robinson, of Arkansas, widely unpopular but holding fast to his command through weight of tradition. Between Be-tween Joe and the New Deal there is little in common except the Supreme Sup-reme Court. Joe is ambitious. And he is giving the president 100 per cent cooperation until the next (Continued on fage Eight) Payson Officials Take Gity Reins; Appointees Named PAYSON Payson city officials for the next two years were administered ad-ministered the 'oath of office at a short session tin Tuesday at noon, as follows: Mayor, Henry Erland-son; Erland-son; four .year councilman, Reid Persson; two year councilmen, Heber A. Curtis, Charles Gale and J. Sterling Reece; recorder, Jordan A. Law; treasurer, Mrs. Mary Jeppson. All officials are Democratic Demo-cratic except the treasurer and John T. Lant holdover councilman. The retiring officers were all Republican. Re-publican. A majority of the appointive offices were filled at the meeting including city marshal, John H. Elmer; policeman, Orrin Richardson; Richard-son; traffic officer, Henry Simmons; Sim-mons; electrician .Ralph Coombs; superintendent of water works, Harold Jones; watermaster. Wells Wignall; justice of peace, Everett Richmond; supervisor of streets, Frank Schaerrer; sexton, " R. L. Wilson, Jr. The other officers will be named at an early date. New Professor Russell Swenson is expected to arrive Friday to begin his work as assistant professor of religious education at Brigham Young uni- versity, according to President F S. Harria. His first classes at B. Y. U. beginning when the winter quarter quar-ter will open January 8, will include in-clude Christianity and Christian religions, literature of the New Testament and the history of the Christian church. COMMISSION PICKS 5 TO E PROBE M. B. Pope Heads Group To Investigate Problem Of Municipal Power Appointment of the committee com-mittee of five Provo citizens to investigate the vital power question and the feasibility of Provo's entrance into the municipal poweiy field, was made by the city commission commis-sion Wednesday. M, B. Pope, eminent Provo attorney at-torney and former district attorney, attor-ney, is chairman of the committee, commit-tee, and the other members are Frank Wentz, engineer, and Provo Pro-vo river commissioner; John C. Swenson, professor of economics and sociology at the Brigham Young university; Mark Anderson, Ander-son, manager, Roberts hotel and candidate for mayor in the last city election; Oscar A. Spear, manager of the Smoot Lumber company and a member of the board of education. Represent Both Sides Both sides of the power question ques-tion are represented on the committee. com-mittee. Mr. Anderson is a keen student of the municipal utility question, and has long been fearlessly fear-lessly outspoken in favor of municipal muni-cipal poWer investigation in Provo, which he advocated in the last city campaign. On the other side of the question ques-tion is Mr. Spear, who, as a director di-rector of the Utah Power and Light company, is clearly committed com-mitted to the policies of private operation of the power and light business. The attitude of the other three men on the power question is not known. It is surmised that they are neutral on the sunject ana will approach the matter with an open mind without making predetermined pre-determined commitments. "The city commission will be guided largely by the findings of the committee, when the recommendations recom-mendations are brought in," said Mayor A. O Smoot in making the announcement of the appointments appoint-ments today, prior to hia departure depar-ture for Salt Lake. It is not known how much time will be alloted to the committee, or what funds will be placed at its disposal in making the inves tigations. WIDEN POWER RAH HEARING Fees and charges paid by the Utah Power and Light company to its affiliates Including the Electric Elec-tric Bond and Share, Powerful holding concern, will come within the scope of the coming power rate hearing, if a petition made to the state utilities commission by the Consumers' Welfa'fe and Research league Tuesday, is granted. grant-ed. To Amend Complaint The league through its attorney, Joel Nibley, asks to amend its complaint to include - as defendants defend-ants the following affiliates in addition ad-dition to the Utah Power and Light company itself:' Electric Bond and Share company, the Electric Power and Light corporation, corpor-ation, the Phoenix Utility company, com-pany, the Idaho Power company and the Utah Light & Traction company. The Electric Bond and Share company, the controlling corporation corpor-ation of a large group of power companies including the Utah Power and Light company has been collecting approximately $150,000 a year for services alleged al-leged to have been performed for the Utah concern. Consumers Pay the Bill 'Since these foes are part of the costs which consumers of the Utah Power and Light company are asked to pay, in addition to furnishing a fair return on the (Continued on Page Eight) Legion To Meet Members of the American Legion Le-gion of Provo will conduct a meeting meet-ing tonight, Wednesday in the Provo Armory, it is announced. There will be no meeting of the auxiliary. MA Stockholders Ask Liability Against Directors of Bank Hearing: On Demurrer Brings Out Charges Against Officers of arid Savings Batik i "Whv make fish of the directors ?" This arresting statement, Hatch of Salt Lake, who represents some ot the stockhoia-ers stockhoia-ers of the closed Provo Commercial and Savings Bank, opens another chapter in the interesting liquidation history of the defunct Provo banking instituton. The "chapter" opened in the Fourth district court Wednesday morning at the hearing of arguments on demurrers de-murrers brought by the stockholders to the 100 per cent assessment imposed by State Banking Commissioner John A. Malia and ordered by the court. The hearing was held before Judge M. M. Larson. Denies Jurisdiction Mr. Hatch denied the jurisdiction jurisdic-tion of the court to make any order or-der for such an assessment in view of the facts as brought out. and maintained that Preston G. Peterson, vice president of tne bank, was not a proper person-representing person-representing the bank along with Ruel Jacobsen to whom notices should be given. Peterson and TamKopn were aoDointed by Malia to represent the bank, and Mark Anderson and Alma Van wage n en were appointed iu the depdsitbra "Mr. Peterson is noi a piuyci person for such an appointment because his interests are adverse to the interests of the bank, ' Mr. Hatch said. He pointed out points of law allegedly violated when the court granted the bank commissioner's petition to impose the stockholders' stockhold-ers' assessment. The enumerated loan after loan made by the bank which were either unsecured or having woefully insufficient security. secur-ity. Asks Pointed Question "Why weren't proceedings filed against the directors of the bank simultaneously with the stockholders?" stock-holders?" he demanded. "The directors' liability is held to be an asset of the bank under the state law, wliile the stockholders' liability is not." The attorney for the stockholders stockhold-ers went into detail of loans, safd to be within the knowledge of (Continuedon Page Six) CUBA TO HOLD ELECTION SOON HAVANA, Cuba., Jan. 3, U.K President Ramon Grau San Martin sought today to mark the end of political chaos by naming a date for election of a constituent assembly as-sembly to arrange for stable government. gov-ernment. At the same time there was a new threat to American capital. The governmental newspaper Luz reporte dthe government intended to be a bidder at the projected foreclosure sale of the Cuban Cane company's properties late this month, hoping to acquire its lands for thousands of laborers' families. The company is the largest sugar company in Cuba. Four American banks hold between $6.-000,00 $6.-000,00 and $7,000,000 of its" mortgages. mort-gages. Classes Tonight Adult education classes at the Provo high school will be held tonight to-night as usual except that Principal Prin-cipal Clifton Moffitt's class in psychology will not be held. He is in the east this week. The psychology class will be held as usual next week, however. PATROL CAPITOL WASHINGTON. Jan. 3 U.E Police and secret service men patrolled the House, wing of the capitol today as a precautionary measure to President Roosevelt's appearance at the opening session. The gallery corridors -were blocked off with gates and only holders of official passes Were permitted per-mitted inside Provo Commercial On Excess. Loans r stockholders and foul of the made by Attorney Edwin A. TURNER SETS COURT CASES Criminal and civil cases pending in the Fourth district court were set for trial in the January term of court in a session Wednesday morning in Judge Abe W. Turners court. The criminal cases, were set as follows: January 15, State vs. Ralph Draper, fourth member of the gang which were captured following the burelarv of the Margh and gons MerCantile at Al- pine; January 16 Perr Brauner: January 17 Alvin Peterson of American Fork, bound over from the city court on a sex charge; January 18 H. L. Snyder, charged with being an accomplice with Percy Double in a Lehi robbery; January 19 Glen Weeter of Provo; Pro-vo; January 22 Thomas Chad-wick Chad-wick Sr.; January 23 Randall Storey of Castle Gate, charged with an assault on a young Provo girl; January 24 Mrs. Alice Goode, of Provo, charged with battery bat-tery in an R. F. C. office case involving in-volving Mrs. Iris McArthur; January Janu-ary 25 Ivan Bissell of Springville. AID IS SOUGHT FOR PROJECTS Aid from the state road in furnishing furn-ishing material for the drain from Eighth North to Twelfth North on First East, is sought by Hilton A. Robertson, chairman of the county commission, and A. Owen Smoot, Provo mayor, in a Salt Lake visit today. The county lias been requested to furnish the material for the drain there but deferred the matter mat-ter because of the condition of the county finances. The state road is going to pave the strip of road 1 there soon and it is thought they may include the building of the drain in the program. Labor is being furnished through the CWA works. Prof. E. H. Eastmond, professor of art at the B. Y. U., is aocom- panying the county and ctiy 'officials 'of-ficials on the trip and will try, panying the county and city of-artists of-artists in Utah county. Under the proposed plan, paintings will be bought for hanging in public places. State Approves County Projects CWA projects which have been passed by the state as well as the county committees add up to a .'total Of, $48,727 in labor costs alone, it is shown in a report which has come back from the state committee to W. Lester Man-gum, Man-gum, head of the county CWA work. Work has already been under way for some time on most of the projects. As many projects as have already gone through the county and state committees, have been passed by the county committee commit-tee a.nd another batch was passed today. Call Beer Meeting Officials of all communities of Utah county will meet Friday night at 7:30 o'clock in the city and county building to discuss plans for enforcing the beer laws, it Is announced by W Dunford. Stanley :jr Project Manager! ELMER A. JACOB 80-Year Old S.F.Man Takes 12 -Mile Walk "Just to see if he could do it again" Marinus Larsen, 85, of Spanish Fork, hale and hearty despite his years, walked walk-ed from his home town 'to Provo1; Friday, a distance of 12 miles. "I was pretty tired this time," Mr. Larsen stated. "I just did it to convince my-. my-. self that, it was still possible for me. I expect this will be the last time." It took the octogenarian three hours and 20 minutes to make the trip, considerably longer thjtan the time he walked it in years ago, when he walked over frequently. He has made a practice of walking walk-ing long distances all his life, and chooses the railroad tracks for the journey. The fact that he traveled a little better than a mile in 17 minutes on the trip indicates that he can still travel with the best of them. Mr. Larsen was bishop of the Spanish Fork Third ward for many years. Los Angeles To Abandon 275 School Houses LOS ANGELES, Jan. 3 U.P) Los Angeles reached a cross-roads in its public school program today when the board of education ordered order-ed the abandonment of 275 elementary ele-mentary school buildings and the purchase of 2000 tents to house 303,000 pupils. Effects of last year's disastrous earthquake ana apprehension oi the effects of future shocks prompted the board to the drastic step. Hearing To Amend Utah Cleaners Code A public hearing on the proposed pro-posed amendments to the cleaning and dyeing industry code will be conducted by Gus P. Backman, acting administrator . in the assembly as-sembly room of the chamber of commerce, Salt Lake City, beginning begin-ning at 10 a. m. Wednesday, January Janu-ary 10. The proposals which cover working conditions and credit teVms can be obtained at the office of-fice of the administrator at the same place. Sportsmen Name Officers Thursday Officers of the Provo Conservation Conser-vation association will be elected at a meeting .Thursday night at 7:30 o'clock in the city court room, according to C. B Peterson, secretary-treasurer. Dismiss Charge Second degree burglary charges against Rollo Thornton of Pleasant Pleas-ant Qrove, were dismissed in the city eourt Tuesday for lack of evidence. evi-dence. Thornton was arrested along with Ellsworth Price who is awaiting preliminary hearing. They were charged with attempted burglary of the A. K. Thornton and Sons Mercantile . anL Drug store. In Pleasant Grove. JACOB HEADS DEER CREEK PROJECT UNIT Much Preliminary Work To Be Cleared Away To Start Work Elmer A. Jacob, Provo city engineer, was named manager mana-ger for the water users' committee com-mittee of the Deer creek-Utah creek-Utah lake diking reclamation project. He will handle the vast amount of detail work, including the organization of the water users which must be accomplished within 90 days if the project is to be assured of success. Delay may result in the withdrawal of the $2,700,000 allotment al-lotment already made to begin construction of the project. Edmund B. Feldman, assistant to R. A. Hart, engineer for the Utah P. -W. A. organization, will assist Mr. Jacobs, on at least a part-time basis. Will Iletain Position Mr. Jacob stated today that he did not contemplate resigning or asking for a leave of absence from his position as city engineer, engi-neer, at this particular time, although al-though he may do so later after he confers with the city commission. commis-sion. There is a lot of unfinished city projects for CWA work which must be completed at once by Mr. Jacob and his staff. The appointment of Mr. Jacob and Mr. Feldman was made at a meeting of the executive committee commit-tee of the officials of municipalities, municipali-ties, canal companies and counties coun-ties who are subscribers for water wa-ter under the project. They were instructed to open offices at once and to start work with the idea of getting immediate action on the project. Crews Are Working Surveying crews employed by the reclamation bureau are ready to go to work on the preliminary surveys on the lake, as well as at the Deer creek dam site in Provo canyon. A committee of W. R. Wallace, chairman of the committee; City Engineer W. D. Beers. J. A. Hale, (Continued on Page Five) COAST FEARS EPIDEMIC NOW LOS ANGELES, Jan. 3 (1T.R Authorities moved swif tly today to protect mre than 2,000,000 residents resi-dents of Los Angeles county from the danger of disease or epidemic, which, as a remote possibility, it was feared might follow a New Year's cloudburst and flood which took at least two score lives. County Health Officer J. L. Pomeroy established a field office, wherfe free immunization against disease, principally typhoid, was offered. City and county health officials broadcast instructions to boil all water used for drinking purposes. All, reiervoirti supplying the city with water were chlorinated. These precautions were taken in spite of the fact that not a single case of disease had been reported. Authorities pointed out that the vast un-off had poured into reservoirs res-ervoirs thousands of acre feet of water which hjid flowed over unguarded un-guarded and uninspected land. Sources of possible contamination, they said, were many. The known dead were counted at 39 this morning. Nine others were missing and feared almost certainly certain-ly dead. To this toll names occasionally oc-casionally were added from the list of 66 unreported. Many bodies, it was feared, never would be recovered. Transients, Trans-ients, unlikely to be reported missing, miss-ing, it was feared might have been buried in the debris. Among those known to be missing, miss-ing, the bodies of some almost certainly were washed to sea or buried beneath imponderable tons of debds, officials said. Ordinarily a drycarrqyo, the Los Angeles river at the height of the flood was a raging torrent sweeping through the coastal plain to the sea". How many bodies were carried car-ried on its crest to the ocean probably never will be known. Recovery He Says In Message To Congress Permanent Social Reform Preferred Over Recovery in Terms of Older Values; Pessimistic Over World Peace By LYLE C. WILSON Ignited Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (U.R) The nation definitely is in the process of recovery. President Roosevelt reported to congress today in a vital message on the state of the nation which he himself read from the rostrum in the crowded chamber of the house of representatives. His message was general in terms and was regarded by the president himself as an appeal for real social and economic eco-nomic reform, rather than for recovery in terms of older values. Addresses Joint Session-?- The president addressed a joint assembly of house and senate shortly after the two chambers convened separately for the first regular session of the 73rd congress. Satisfaction with the immediate past and confident hope for our country's future marked Mr. Roosevelt's message. mes-sage. Only in the field of foreign affairs did the president's optimism falter. His judgment today is that fear of aggres-son, aggres-son, expenditure of vast shums on armaments, and the constant erection of trade barriers prevent any great progress prog-ress in peace or trade agreements. Nation Cannot Go Hack Permanent readjustment of many of the nation's social and economic arrangements was the objective placed before congress by the president. The division is sharp and clear, Mr. Roosevelt said, between those who would recover by a reform of old methods. Of that latter group, Mr. Roosevelt refrm of old methods. Of that latter group, Mr. Roosevelt is the head. "Civilization cannot go back," Highlights Of Message To Congress - t make our economic and social so-cial structure capable of dealing with modern life is the joint task of the legislative, the judicial, and the executive branches of the national na-tional t;overnment. X X X X Human welfare -does progress pro-gress through integrity, unselfishness, un-selfishness, responsibility and justice. X X X -X I congratulate this congress upon the courage, the earnestness and the efficiency with which you met the crisis at the special session. ses-sion. I: venture to say that the task confronting the first congress of 1789 was no greater than your own. X X X X Nearly 600 million dollars of frozen deposits are being restored re-stored to the depositors through the assistance of the national government. X X X X -industry is organizing itself with a greater understanding that reasonable profits can be earned while at the same time protection can be assured to guarantee to labor adequate pay and proper conditions of work- X X--X X We have, I hope, made it clear to our neighbors that we seek with them future avoidance of territorial expansion ex-pansion and of interference by one nation in the internal affairs af-fairs of another. X X X X I have made it clear that the United States cannot take part in political arrangements in Europe, but that we stand ready to cooperate coop-erate at any time in practicable measures on a world basis looking to immediate reduction of armaments arma-ments and the lowering of the barriers against commerce. X X X .x We have been shocked by many notorious examples of injuries done our citizens by persons or groups who have been living off their neighbors by the use of methods either unethical or criminal. Kiwanis Speaker Elwood Backman of Salt Lake son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin of Provo, will be the speaker at the Kiwanis luncheon Thursday noon at the Roberts hotel. Backman is sales engiener for the General Electric company of Salt Lake. He will give an illustrated wt.nr on "Boulder Dam Up to Date." Anyone interested in the talk may attend the meeting for the payment of the usual luncheon charge. he said, "civilization must not stand still. It is our task to perfect, per-fect, to improve, to alter when necessary, but in all cases to go forward." Save the genuine, important things of our civilization and permit per-mit the vicious and wasteful part of society to perish, the president counselled congress. "We could not save it if w wished," he said. "They have chosen chos-en the way of self destruction." "It is an integrated program, national in scope," he earnestly told the congress as he approached the end of his momentous communication. com-munication. The fruit of mechanical invention, inven-tion, the power of machine production pro-duction to supply the people, the efficiency of industry, modern communication and the broad education edu-cation which has become the heritage heri-tage of the people, Mr. Roosevelt would conserve in the integrated plan of reform. -He would foster and encourage organization among consumers so that they may insist in-sist upon fair dealing in the places of trade. Hits Exploitation "But the unnecessary expansion of industrial plants, the waste of natural resources, the expliotation of consumers of natural monopolies, monopo-lies, the accumulation of stagnuant surpluses, child labor and the ruthless ruth-less exploitation of all labor, the en- ( Continued on Page Five) GOLD STANDS AT $34.06 WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 U.P The government held its domestic gold buying price unchanged at $34.06 per ounce today for th eleventh successive business day as secretary of treasury Morgen-thau Morgen-thau reported continued gains in commodity prices coincident with continuance of the gold program. soys. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Jan. 2 The big Columbia-Stanford Columbia-Stanford football game. Mr. Hover was there. Looked fine and got a big reception. He was the main old grad from Stanford. I was the main old grad from Columbia. I took a correspondence course from there one time in tenor singing. sing-ing. . , Just the make of the skin that eovers the ball beat Stanford. Stan-ford. If instead of pigskin the -- ban" . had been covered with porcupine hide (with the quills on), maybe Stanford could have held onto it. But the game was in keeping with everything else that happened, in sports, government and economics, the past year. The . experts were wrong again. Yours, J i ii |