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Show Herald. Service If you do not receive your copy of The Herald by 6 p. m. telephone 495 and a copy will be sent you. Weather Forecast UTAH: Fair tonight and Friday; colder in north portion tonight. Maximum temp., Wednesday . . 40 Minimum temp., Wednesday . 21 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 19 3 4 FORTY-EIGHTH YEAR, NO. 93 (UJGWEEFOC MERRY GO-ROUND I he run "-j ri D J Lrv LTU A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT 8. ALLEN WASHINGTON Modern youth stormed the Capital last week, clamoring; for leadership. Half a dozen student stu-dent organizations some radical, some born with silver sil-ver spoons in their mouths, some members of the Fascist 'Silver Shirts" held conferences here. All of them were interested in the New Deal, groped for leadership, leader-ship, were enthusiastic about Roosevelt. To most of them he is the first leader the United States has had in more than a decade. One night during these student conventions, Roosevelt addressed a dinner gathered to do honor to the birth of Wood row Wilson. The men and women around that dinner din-ner table were of a passing generation. gen-eration. Roosevelt was speaking to the past. In another part of the same hotel that night was a student meeting which tried to get Roosevelt Roose-velt to stop for five minutes to talk to them about the path youth should follow. He was to speak to the future. Although tremendously interested inter-ested in youth, although alive to the fact that the youth of the nation na-tion mobilized behind the New Deal would give him a strength .greater than almost any other factor, he passed up the opportunity. oppor-tunity. Simultaneously another on the opposite political party, seized the opportunity. He was Eugene Meyer, governor of the Federal Reserve Board under Hoover, now publisher of the Washington Post. Meyer once gave $15,000 to Yale university for the purpose of interesting youth in the problems of government. Meyer managed '.he fund himself, increased it to $200,000. The income from it .was about $10,000 annually. But every year Yale university officers wrote him that they were unable to use the fund, asked permission per-mission to use it for exploration in South America, or some simi-lar simi-lar project. Finally last year they asked permission to use the fund to pay the deficit of the Yale Review. Meyer wrote back that they could have the entire fund for the general expenses of the university, univer-sity, provided they would insert in the records that they had $200,000 for the purpose of interesting inter-esting youth in government and had been unable to use it. However, still an optimist about youth, Meyer showed tremendous interest in last week's student organizations, or-ganizations, indicated he would support it. , I CAUTIOUS C. T. Ellis, newly-named assistant assist-ant solicitor of the treasury, believes be-lieves in taking no chances. To him the order of Acting Sec- ( Continued on Page Three) Democrats Plan Reorganization Of County Group Reorganization of the Democratic Demo-cratic party organizations in Utah county will be undertaken this month according to Robert L. Elliotts county "chairman who is acting, under instructions from the state party organization. Every district and precinct organization or-ganization will be fully organized with active workers in charge as a preliminary move in preparation for the tall elections. After this is done, the precinct chairfnen who make up the county organization will be called together for a possible pos-sible reorganization of the county committee. D. A. V. To Meet Disabled American Veterans of Provo will hold a meeting in the Provo Armory Friday night at 8 o'clock, it is announced. BIRTHDAYS TODAY' The Herald extends birthday congratulations today to James Needham, Provo business man; William Connell, Fairer junior high teacher and Dean Glazier, First ward resident. NEBO SCHOOLS WIN $56,000 UNA PROJECT Two Utah Towns Included With Grants For Waterworks The $56,000 allotment to Utah county schools is for the Nebo district which made application ap-plication several months ago for a loan of $250,000 for building and improvement purposes. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (U.R) Nonfederal allotments totalling $16,356,465, covering cover-ing 179 projects in practically every state, were announced today by Public Works Administrator Ad-ministrator Ickes. Ickes said that allotments for non -federal projects now aggregated ag-gregated $723,044,957. He pointed out that while the $3,300,000,000' public works fund had been virtually vir-tually exhausted; all projects have not yet been announced. The projects for which funds were allocated today were estimated esti-mated to create 76,875 man-months man-months of direct employment and at least twice as many man-months man-months of indirect and industrial employment. Allotments included: Santa Clara, Utah, grant, water wa-ter mains, $2,000. Morgan, Utah, loan and grant, schools, $94,620. Shelby, Ont., loan and grant, -courthouse, $75,000. Miles City, Mont., grant, water, wa-ter, $3,900. , Idaho Falls, Idaho, grant, sewer, sew-er, $10,000. The largest single item was a loan and grant to San Francisco, California, of $12,000,095. for waterworks. wa-terworks. San Francisco also received re-ceived a loan and grant of $2,-625,000 $2,-625,000 for a sewage system. The projects approved today will create 215,170 man-months of employment and at least twice that much indirectly, officials said. Ickes expressed belief that congress con-gress will look with favor on the P W A projects and follow any recommendations for additions to its three billion 300 million dollar fund, most of which has been al-loted. al-loted. The allotments included a loan and grant to Utah county for schools, totalling $56,000; a loan and grant to Helena, Montana, for schools, $510,000; a loan and grant to Miles City Montana, for schools of $77,000. PROVO SURVEYS AIRPORT SITES Provo city's application for the approval of an airport project as part of the CWA program throughout the country will be submitted within a few days, as soon as the complete data on leases and drainage, can be gathered by the city engineer, said Mayor A. O. Smoot today. Although the application forms have been on hand for several weeks the details necessary to accompany ac-company the application have not been completed he found when he took office. Three tentative sites are under consideration near Provonna beach on the West Drive, near the Lake View beet slicer on the Vineyard -Lake View road and one above the dugway on Provo bench. To Meet Saturday The commissioners will meet Saturday afternoon with the Knudsen interests who own most of the property needed for the Utah lake site. Plans for the proposed pro-posed method of drainage which may include a dike, must be submitted sub-mitted with the applications" together to-gether .with the amount of the lease for a five-year period with an option to buy. Approximately 100 acres will be needed for an adequate landing field. Applications have already been approved by the CWA from several Utah communities. Ruling To Come Monday In Bank Case Demurrer Shields Maintains State Bank Commissioner Has Right To Make Levy. Ruling- on the special demurrer de-murrer in the liquidation proceedings pro-ceedings of the Provo Commercial Com-mercial and Savings Bank will be made next Monday morning, it was announced by Judge M. M. Larson of the Fourth district court, Wednesday, afternoon, following arguments of counsel for the stockholders and for the bank. The demurrer is being sought by stockholders of the bank among which Dr. Fred W. Tayjor of Provo figures prominently against the suit of John A. Malia, state banking commissioner, who seeks judgment of the court for the collection of 100 percent assessment as-sessment against the stockholders. stockhold-ers. This assessment is being contested con-tested by the stockholders chiefly on the grounds that directors of the bank should be assessed first for excessive and illegal loans. Following the detailed argument argu-ment of Attorney Edwin A. Hatch, attorney for the stockholders, stock-holders, Wednesday morning, Dan B. Shields, counsel for the state banking department, brought out a shorter but effective argument after which was a pungent rebuttal rebut-tal from Hatch, Wednesday afternoon. after-noon. 5 Levy Must Be Made- Shields contended that the state banking commissioner has an absolute ab-solute right to levy a one-hundred percent assessment on the bank's stockholders without a "lot of findings of fact and conclusions of law by the court," said to be necessary by Hatch. Recent legislation leg-islation has eliminated the requiring requir-ing of such useless circumlocution, circumlocu-tion, he stated. Stockholders hace a sort of contract con-tract to pay such assessment, he stated, and it should be done at once, "to pay as much as possible to those credulous people who put their earnings in the bank for safekeeping." He denied Hatch's inference that the assets of the bank should be definitely set forth and the claims all in, and proved, before the stockholders' assessment assess-ment should be made, saying the best method is to get quickly as nearly as pdksible one-hundred percent of the assets. If the stockholders pay too much they will get it back, he stated. Somebody Might Escape He cited the possibilty that stockholders might escape liability liabil-ity by becoming insolvent if too long a time intervenes before the assesment is made. Under the laws of Utah, he maintained, the banking commissioner is granted power to make the assessments without a lot of court rulings, the (Continued on Page Three) Milk Meeting Set A meeting of the milk distributors distribu-tors and producers will be held Friday at 7:30 p. m. in the juvenile court room of the city and county building, according to an announcement an-nouncement by Ray Ashworth. President Has The Last Laugh WASHINGTON. Jan. 4 Here is a hot one for the book of snappy comebacks: . A friend called on Presi-i dent Roosevelt at the White House recently. Wishing to be as lighthearted and funny as possible, this friend cracked thusly: "Mr. President, Presi-dent, can you tell me where I can get one of those ba- loney dollars I've heard so much about?" The presidential laugh boomed, and then came the snappy reply: ' "Certainly," said the president. presi-dent. "At the hot dog stand in the Empire State building." build-ing." Not to diagram the joke, but just in case the . reader doesn't happen to know Al Smith, who spouted about "baloney doiTars," has an office of-fice in the Empire State building, New Yok. Only Roof Escaped in This Burial 1 Before the torrent overwhelmed it, this was a pretty home at Glendale. Cal. Now only the roof shows the rest of the house being submerged by DRIVER FACES DRUNK CHARGE Ed Carter of Provo is facing charges of drunken driving following fol-lowing his arrest by Provo police officers Wednesday according to a report at headquarters, today. Carter was driving west on First South street when his car ran into the parked machine of Mrs. Fred R. Taylor, at 245 West First South. Police Officer Bert Halliday later arrested Carter for driving while intoxicated. Halladay reported that Carter had been driving on the wrong side of the street and was seated in his car, apparently intoxicated, in-toxicated, following the collision. The accident occurred at 6 o'clock Wednesday. In the third accident, a machine driven by Alton G. Gardner, 23, of Vineyard, ran into an automobile automo-bile driven south on Third West by Hyrum Rupper, 48, of 354 West Third South. No one was injured. Gardner declared the steam on his windshield prevented him from seeing the other car until too late, according to the report re-port brought to the office of Police Chief John E. Harris. Mrs. Ivy H. Mortenson, 45 of 145 East First North, received bruises on her hip and right arm, Maxine Mortenson, 21, her daughter suffered suf-fered briuses on her left leg and heel, and Mrs. C. A. Law of Springville road had her right arm bruised in one accident. Mrs. Law was driving east on Third North and Miss Mortenson was driving south on First East when their cars collided, according to the investigation in-vestigation made by Traffic Sergeant Ser-geant L. C. Davis. ASK EXPANSION IN PHONE CASE The Consumers' Welfare and Research league, which Tuesday filed a petition in the power rate case penchng before the public utilities commission, asking that certain corporations affiliated with the Utah Power and Light company com-pany be brought into the picture, Wednesday filed a similar petition affecting the telephone rate case, also pending before the commission. commis-sion. In this case it is asked that the American Telephone and Tele-graph Tele-graph company, parent company and owner of Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph, and the Western Electric company, which manufactures telephone equipment equip-ment and is owned by the Ameri-ican Ameri-ican Telephone company, be included in-cluded as defendants in the statewide state-wide rate case, which was initiated by the commission. Mayor Smoot To Appoint City Planning Commission Soon A planning commission for Provo Pro-vo will be named in the near future it was announced today by Mayor A0. Smoot. The commission will investigate possibilities of beautifying the city through a long-time program and will lay plans for projects which could be started here when the mud.. CITY BONDED FOR $546,500 Provo city ended the year 1933 with a total of $546,500 in outstanding out-standing bonds, it is shown in a report of Mrs. Mary F. Smith, city auditor. Of this half-million dollar debt, $221,000 comes from general bonds and $325,500 is in water bonds. The largest water bond issue is one of $90,000 dated from 1923, bearing 5 percent interest and payable in 1943. The bonds have been placed on a serial payment basis. Another for $77,000 is from 1930 on the reservoir building loan and was originally $110,000. During the past few years it has been the policy of the city to attempt to get the payment of the old bonds on a business basis, some of the bonds dating back to the time when the Provo water system was first put in. The water department has been placed as a separate unit and will finance the payment of its own bonds rather than operating through the general fund. The largest bond in the general fund is one of $100,000 entitled the '"city hall" bonds, refunded from 1920 and payable in 1947. SILVER MEN" PLAN ACTION WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 U'.R) A conference of house "silver men" was called for today by-Rep. by-Rep. Scrugham, Dem., Nev., one of the leaders of the remonetiza-tion remonetiza-tion movement. Scrugman said the meeting was of "preliminary" nature, and designed de-signed solely to sound out views of proponents of silver remonetl-zafion. remonetl-zafion. He introduced a companion compan-ion measure to the senate Wheeler Wheel-er bill in the house yesterday. Six Months For Theft of a Lamb Squire Rutherford, 25, of Salt Lake, was sentenced to six months in the county jail Wednesday when he pleaded guilty to theft of a lamb from Lars A. Johnson of Genola, his former employer. Judge Don R. Ellertson of the city court gave Rutherford the maximum sentence under the misdemeanor charge inasmuch as it had been reduced from a felony. Theft of a live animal is a felony under the law. Rutherford stole the lamb from Johnson because, he alleged, Johnson John-son owed him approximately $100 in back wages. The mutton was said to be worth $5. finances are available. Provo has needed such a commission for a long time, in the opinion of Mr. Smoot, the sudden development of the CWA program especially demonstrating dem-onstrating such a need. "Building-for the future" will b$ the index to the commission's work. 1 fQ AMHri CQ SETS FLOOD TOLL AT 42 Coast Metropolis Goes To Work Digging Out Of Debris LOS ANGELES, Jan. 4 (U.R) The gigantic task of reconstructing the flood area of metropolitan Los Angeles moved forward Unlay as an a r in y of workmen dug through debris and silt in search of additional victims of the New Year's day storm. Steam shovels plowed through i the littered streets, which Assistant As-sistant Road Engineer J. P. Fed-derson Fed-derson estimated would not be cleared for weeks. He had two crews of 600 men each engaged in the project. The known death toll mounteu to 42, with the discovery of three additional bodies. In addition, 6 persons were still missing. Auth I orities believed at least li .f j these were dead. ASK FOREST TO INCLUDE TRACT The Provo Kiwanis club Thursday Thurs-day prepared a petition to R. H. Rutledge, forester for the Ogden district of the national forest, requesting re-questing that the 15.000 acres of private land above Provo and Springville, be included in the Uintah national forest. The purpose of including the land within the forest is so that forest land can be exchanged for the land that is now private, to provide more adequately for erosion eros-ion and flood control over the area. Mark Anderson, chairman of the Kiwanis committee in charge of the project, read a report on the activities concerning the land in question, and stated that favorable action by the forest service is expected. ex-pected. An interesting illustrated lecture lec-ture on "Boulder Dam Up to Date" was given by Elwood Bachman, sales engineer of the General Electric Elec-tric cpmpany, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Bachman of Provo. At the present time there are 4100 men on the payroll at the darn", Mr. Bachman declared and one of the four diversion tunnels is carrying the entire river while concrete is being poured for the dam.3 It is the largest block of concrete con-crete ever attempted, 'he stated, and as much is poured in one month to make a block the size of the Salt Lake temple. Recently completed is an aerial tramway, the largest in the world, i which has a carrying capacity ol 186 tons and is controlled by one man. Jesse N. Ellertson, Denzil Brown, Dr. Karl Beck and Doyle Dastrup were introduced as new members and Miss Florence Maw sang tto solos. ' 150 PERISH IN MINE DISASTER PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Jan. 4 (C.H) Rescue crews groped through 3 miles of smoke-filled galleries of the Nelson III mine at Ossegg today, in imminent danger of death, in search of more than 100 entombed men. Grotesque in their gas masks, the rescue gangs, fought through debris from an explosion and fire that buried in the mine's depth yesterday perhaps 150 men. . jt TONIGHT Crest theater, Katharine Hepburn Hep-burn in "Little Women." Paramount theater, James" Cag-ney Cag-ney in "Lady Killer." Orpheum, "Stage Mother," and "Three On a Match." Armory, wrestling card, Henry Jones vs. Ernie Caddock. 10-Billion Bond Issue Planned To Finance Recovery No Increase in Income Taxes Contemplated in Roosevelt Program; One Billion Dollars Dol-lars Per Month Expenditures WASHINCCON, Jan. 4 (U.R) President Roosevelt reported re-ported to congress today in his first annual budget message an overall deficit oi $7,:i09, 0(58,21 1 for this fiscal year, and the necessity of borrowing $10,000,000,000 by July 1 to balance bal-ance the treasury books. These figures repmsent the bill for recovery to that date. They imply emergency expenditures bv the government govern-ment at a rate upwards' of $ i ,000,000,000 every -'0 days for the next six months. Continue Postal Rat IMPROVEMENT IS FORECAST President Figures Recipts At 98 Index Figure WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 tl.P. Sweeping- improvement In economic eco-nomic conditions this year and next is anticipated by the administration admin-istration in mapping recovery expenditures ex-penditures through the Reconstruction Recon-struction Finance corporation and in estimating government revenues. President rtoosevelt in his budget message to congress today estimated esti-mated tax revenues for the fiscal year 1935, beginning July 1, 1934, on the basis of anticipated industrial in-dustrial production ol' 9S per cent of the 1923-25 average. This compared com-pared with an estimate of SI per cent for the year ending June 30, J934. or about the same level that prevailed during the calendar year 1931. On the basis of federal reserve data cited by the prerjdent, the industrial in-dustrial index for the calendar year 1933 was placed at 76 and for the calendar year 1934 it was estimated at 85 per cent. In 1929 the index was 119 and in 1932 it hit a low of Gt. Instead of pouring new billions into relief activitiesNn the coming fiscal year, the Reconstruction Finance corporation is expected to return $480,436,600 in cash to the treasury from repayments on loans made since the start of the corporation's cor-poration's activities. During the current fiscal year which ends July 1, next, RFC expenditures are estimated to reach their peak of $3,969,740,300. Co-ordination of Emergency Outlay, President's Order WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 (U.R) Co-ordinated control of all emergency emerg-ency expenditures was made effective ef-fective today by President Roosevelt Roose-velt in an executive order published publish-ed simultaneously with his budget message to congress. Henceforth all expenditures of the emergency organizations such as purchase of supplies, establishment establish-ment of salaries and increases of compensation are subject to audit by the comptroller general. Services Friday For Lester Straw Funeral services for J. Lester Straw, who died in Los Angeles last Saturday, will be held in the Springville Third ward chapel at 1 o'clock Friday, it is announced. Friends and relatives may call at the family residence at North Main street Springville, prior the services on Friday. to DENIES BATTERY CHARGE Delbert Peterson of Benjamin pleaded not guilty to a charge of battery brought by a young Pay-son Pay-son girl when he was arraigned in the city court Thursday morning. morn-ing. His trial was set for January 16 by Judge D. R. Ellertson. Bail was set at $300 when Peterson was first brought in Wednesday. Peterson is said to have struck, beat and choked the woman in attempting at-tempting an assault on her. The president's tax proposals do not include increased income levies. lev-ies. Mr. Roosevelt is understood to feel that income taxes will not be increased at this session. He recommended that the three cent postal rate for non-local mail be continued in effect, and estimated that $150,000,000 annually may be gained by amendment of administrative admin-istrative sections of the income tax law in which J. P. Morgan and others have found loopholes for tax evasion. Conservative Estimates Deliberately utilizing only the lowest estimates of potential revenue and generally the higher estimates of potential expenditure, expendi-ture, the president expects the ultimate facts to be somewhat more favorable than the financial situation is pictured today in his message. His liquor income estimate esti-mate at the $2 a gallon rate now proposed, for instance, was for an increase of only $25,000,000 above income at the existing $1.10 rate. The message contains an indirect warning to the states to avoid loading liquor with burdensome gallonage taxes. Congressional leaders have told Mr. Roosevelt the liquor income would be far above his estimate. He told them, in return, that he wanted appropriated an additional addition-al $1,166,000,000 at this session of congress for immediate use to continue the CWA after Feb. 15 to aid home loan banks; and to (Continued on Page Three) BEEKEEPERS' MEETING SET The annual meeting of the Utah Beekeepers association will be held at the Hotel Ben Lomond in Ogden, Og-den, Friday and Saturday in connection con-nection with the stock show now in progress. Besides a consideration of the national, regional and state codes there will be educational talks and illustrated lectures by George H. Vansell of the federal bee culture laboratories and others. Officers will be elected for the coming year a the closing session. J. F. Wakefield of Provo, president presi-dent of the state association and vice president of the northwestern section of the national organization, organiza-tion, will be in charge of the session. ses-sion. BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Jan. 3. That Roosevelt handled that ytigress this morning just like a mother woidd a fretting baby. Just when any other mother would have told it to hush, and be a good baby, and not cry, he didn't tell 'em a single thing to do. Just slipped 'em all a piece of candy. (The little black Republican babies along with the white ones.) And he left 'em feeling that mother had confidence in 'em And they were all just, tickled to death, rolling on the floor, with their toes in their mouth, and goo-goo-ing at each other. Yours, Site. xta Rogers |