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Show Your Newspaper With no private axes to grind; no .selfish personal interests to serve, and no financial strings leading: to any other source of power or influence. Weather Forecast VTA1I: Fair tonight and Wednesday; Wednes-day; little change in temperature. Maximum temp., Monday .... 55 Minimum temp., Monday .... l(i FORTY-EIGHTH YEAR, NO. 102 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1934 MERRY GO-ROUND FASTER PACE PLANNED FOR HOWIE LOANS - Blames Massie SHEEP MEN FAVOR BILL In Divorce Suit A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. AL.UGN iw m mm 0 N GRAZING! TEe Evening Herald. SIM AS u A) WASHINGTON O n e chapter in the air mail record of former. Postmaster Genera! Gen-era! Brown which the senate investigating committee has overlooked to date, was his championship of Pan-American Airways. The state department is supposed sup-posed to follow an inviolate rule giving equal backing to all American firms doing business n broad. But when Postmaster Brown called, the state department depart-ment obeyed. While he was in office under Hoover, an air route war raged between the Pan-American Pan-American and other American competitors. Despite this. Brown sent word to the state department tlfnt -all practical assistance be given to the Pan-American-Grace Airways in securing operating arrangements ar-rangements in preference to any other American company." The reason for this preference never has been explained. Pan-American Airways i3 backed back-ed by Andy Mellon. ' HANDS ACROSS THE SEA ( Soviet Ambassador Troyanov-skv Troyanov-skv and Acting Secretary of State William Phillips were posing for photographers. Put your hands on the table, Mr Ambassador." they called. Put your hands on the taole, too Mr.' Secretary," was the next command: They both obeyed. Ambassador Troyanovsky took one glimpse at the delicate, manicured, mani-cured, aristocratic hands of Mr. DMIIina VinStilV compared them with his own rough-looking, 1s-roVored 1s-roVored fingers, and then quickly took his hands off the table and put them in his lap. Nr could the photographers persuade him to put them back again. They're too big," he said. OTHER REASONS I --More than, the. issue, Jt,Stov: ine the federal pay "ait was involved in-volved in the gag rule on all appropriation ap-propriation bills recently jammed through the house at the president's presi-dent's behest. The pay cut was a vital consideration. con-sideration. But equally important was the blocking of scores of bills jacking up veteran and pension payments. This being a congressional congres-sional election year, such legislation legisla-tion is dynamite, particularly toward to-ward the end of a session when members are inclined to be restive res-tive and rebellious. So as a preventative measure although a pretty severe one the strategy of clamping down a gajr rule on all appropriation bills was decided upon. Under this all amendments in conflict with the president's budget recommendations recommenda-tions are barred. Of course, this does not affect lb- senate. Under its rules an unlimited un-limited number of amendments may be offered, which means that the senate becomes the sole battleground bat-tleground for the pork barrel brigade. bri-gade. . TOO MANY JOBS ! Hard-working Jim Farley is planning to divest himself of some of his numerous roles. Besides being Postmaster General. Gen-eral. Jim also is chairman of the Democratic national committee, (Continued on Page Four) Poultry men Plan Meeting Friday The Provo Poultry Producers' association will hold the annual meeting Friday at 8 p. m. in tho county agricultural rooms, with Raymond Cutler, president, in charge. Election of officers will take place. A good program has been arranged and refreshments will be served. All poujtrymen and their partners are invited to attend. at-tend. tlMF CHEEK Mo 19 OPtVl GOLF l Hirer rr iuESoS; tor (Answers on Page Six) Activities To Be Stepped Up For Benefit Of Home Owners WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 (U.R)-More than 500,000 families fami-lies whose homes are menaced men-aced by foreclosure should be made secure under their own roofs by July 31, if potentialities poten-tialities of the Home Owners' Loan corporation discussed today with the United Press are realized. The figure is unofficial in that no loan quota has beeri fixed. Chairman John H. Fahey of the corporation said "we are trying to make every safe and sound loan that it is possible to. make. We are reviewing our operations in every state finding out where screws are loose and how they can be tightened." It may be possible to extend $1,5000,000,000 of aid to distressed home owners by July 31. To Be Stepped Up-Home Up-Home Owners' Loan corporation records show that loans are being extended at the rate of about $3,500,000 daily. During this weett it is to be stepped up. To attain the $1,500,000 figure by July 31 it would be necessary to achieve an average daily business of about $3,000,000. There has been some difficulty in disposing or corporation bonds. President Roosevelt recently said that a government guarantee of the principal of the bonds would be- proposed to congress. But the. board has not yet recommended such a guarantee. Interest already al-ready is guaranteed. Last week the bonds were selling at 93 M and brokers reported that some persons per-sons were selling long term Liberty Lib-erty bonds to purchase the four per cent Corporation bonds at this comparatively low f igure. MRS DEMING TO ATTEND MEET Mrs. Frank Deming, chairman of the American Legion auxiliary, department of Utah, left today for Washington, D. C, to attend the ninth annual women's patriotic conference on national defense. The conference is to be held at the Mayflower hotel Jan. 24, 25 and 26 and will be attended by representatives of all of the women's patriotic organizations in the United States. Mrs. Deming Dem-ing is the only Utah woman representative. rep-resentative. A High-light of the conference, according to Mrs. Deming, is the banquet to be held the evening of the 25th, which is to be attended by some of the nation's most prominent men and women. Mrs. R. L. Harlan of Ogden is accompanying Mrs. Deming and she is to be a representative at the national executive committee conference of the American Legion Le-gion auxiliary to be held in Indianapolis, In-dianapolis, Ind., Jan. 21 and 22. Mrs. Deming has been invited to attend the conference with Mrs. Harlan. En route, the women will visit in Chicago, and after the conferences, confer-ences, they will go on to New York City, where they will spend considerable time vacationing. OFFICER NAMED Jositih W. Smith, 621 West First North was appointed as special officer by the Provo city commission commis-sion Wednesday. He is appointed to make dog tax collections in the city. Mr. Smith will work on the same basis as it was carried on last year. He will receive half the tax collections for handling the work. Students Point Out Needed Improvements To City Dads Projects aimed at making Provo Pro-vo into a better and more safe city were submitted to the city commissioners Tuesday by the civics class of the Dixon junior high school. They requested that the projects be included in the CWA program. They listed needed repairs as follows: The railroad track on Second West, which is dangerous because it is higher than the dirt road; bridges on Fifth West and Fifth North Fifth North and Sixth West, Sixth North and Sixth West, Second North and Seventh West, all too narrow; a bridge is needed at Ninth West and First North. A culvert 'should be placed in the water ditch of the east path leading to the Dixon school, they i IP I Divorce is being forced on her by the husband -who helped kill to avenge her wrongs, Mrs. Thalia Massie declared as she stopped in Chicago on her way to Reno. She is shown here aboard her train. She will file suit against Lieut. Thomas Massie, who was convicted In 1932, with others, of slaying a Hawaiian who attacked her, and was Imprisoned for one hour. CITY AMENDS BEER LICENSES For- the second time within the past three weeks the Provo city commission passed an ordinance for the control of beer sales here, the license passed Wednesday calling for a reduced license for wholesale dealers, among other minor changes. Where in the original ordinance a "wholesale-licenae' for the "sale? of both bottled and kegged beer was $200, it is now $150. Thd wholesale license for the sale of only bottled beer was reduced in the new ordinance from $100 a year to $75 a year. In most other respects the ordinance ord-inance is practically the same atf the one passed at the turn of the, year by the commission before A. O. Smoot replaced Jesse N. EllecL-son EllecL-son as mayor. The class "C" retail re-tail license is $100 a year. Thte allows the sale of bottle and draft beer. The Class "B" retail license will cost $50 and allows the sale of bottled beer for consumption on the premises; the Class "A" retail license allows the sale of bottled beer for consumption off tha premises. Application for a Class "C" re tail license shall be accompanied hv a bond with two sufficient ! sureties in the sum of $250, con ditioned that the retailer shall comply with the laws of the state and of the city relating to the sale of beer. Huey On Warpath NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 17 U.P Senator Huey P. Long, hoarse from last night's ranting public speech, renewed his campaign today to-day to "Save New Orleans from a ring of hoodlum politicians." His" campaign is directed at the old regular Democratic party, which controls the city administration. admin-istration. The goal is next Tuesday's Tues-day's municipal election. Convict Captured CROCKETT, Texas., Jan. 17 (U.H J. B. French, one of five convicts who escaped from the Eastham prison farm near here, yesterday, waa captured early today to-day four miles from the camp by a negro farmer in whose house he sought refuge. recommended, there being a culvert on the school ground that could be used. Stop signs should be placed at Third South and Fifth West and Third North and Fifth East as well as on streets adjacent to school grounds. Bars placed at each crossing on Fifth West ditch would add protection for small children. The road should be widened on Cox's corner, West drive, to avoid accidents there and weeds obstructing ob-structing the view onWest drive should be removed. A number of bright lights at Sowiette park and at Pioneer park would minimize crime and accidents, it was set forth. Destruction Of Range Is Menace Now Facing West Industry SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Jan. 17 (U.R)-A menace to the western livestock industry through depletion of range ands was considered here to day by delegates to the Na- lonal Wool Growers conven tion. Immediately upon conclusion of discussion on the proposed Taylor grazing bill, as brought before the assembly by Mrs. Antoinette Funk, Washington, D. C, assistant Commissioner Com-missioner of general land office, the delegates will vote the official stand of the convention. Mrs. Funk, representing Secre tary Ickes, opened her discussion yesterday, urging support of the body to the bill. Her address was loudly cheered by the Utah dele gation, but met varied opinion from other sections of the nation. Danger Pointed Out Stockmen of the west will force their industry to the middlewest if they allow overgrazing, Mrs. Funk declared. Prices of western- grown meat will be boosted to such a high ievej, because of excessive ex-cessive livestock raising costs, that middlewestern growers will assume control of the industry. President Roosevelt approves of the Taylor bill, she said, seeing it as an important step in stabilizing the meat industry of the nation "One of our greatest natural resources re-sources is in danger," she said. "Suddenly we find ourselves with a depleting range, and the con sensus among those using the lands is that they are rapidly los ing value, mainly because of im proper use." The proposed Taylor bill simply changes the matter of administra tion to the secretary of interior, Mps. Funk explainedy giving-him authority to create grazing districts, dis-tricts, to be controlled and regulated regu-lated by associations, groups or individuals. S. L. Man Found Guilty By Jury Ralph Draper of Salt Lake was found guilty of second degree burglary by a Utah county jury Wednesday afternoon and will probably be sentenced to join his three companions in the state penitentiary although Judge Abe VV. Turner, who heard the case, deferred the aentence until Thursday, Thurs-day, January 25, on motion of Draper's attorney. Draper escaped a sentence of from six months to three years in the state prison imposed on Gwen Williams, Gilbert O'Connor and Ralph Hart, his companions in the burglary of the Marsh and Sons Mercantile of Alpine in September, Sep-tember, by getting out of the Utah county jail. He was later caught in Arizona and brought back to face a second-degree burglary charge. District Attorney Dallas Young and County Attorney W. Stanley Dunford prosecuted Draper. Draper, dressed in a blue serge suit and sporting a gay moustache heard the jury verdict with a placid face. The jury was made up of the following: John D. De Graw, Axel F. Andreason, Eli Gordon, Mathew J. Grant, Beatrice Walker, George S. Pickering, John Curtis and Heber Gardner. French To Test Out Gold Price , PARIS, Jan. 17 (UP) The liner Mauretania, sailing for New York from Cherbourg today carried a small shipment of gold designed to test the price that will be paid for foreign gold" in the United States, it was learned today. The gold was sent by bankers here. The United States government price for new mined domestic gold is $34.45. Today's open market price as fixed in London is $33.35, $1.10 a fine ounce lower. Happy-f The Herald extends heartiest congratulations to Dr. D. L. Wallick, well known Provo physician physi-cian and A.' L. Booth, attorney and former bishop of the Fourth ward, who are celebrating their birthday birth-day anniversaries today. 1 0,000 DEAD ESTIMATED IN INDIA QUAKE Villages Devastated Over Wide Area; Famine Is Threatened CALCUTTA, India, Jan. 17 U.P.) Cities, villages, and hill stations over a wide area of north central India were devastated de-vastated today, their populations popula-tions scattered or seeking dead in the ruins of their homes, after an earthquake that had reached the proportions of a major disaster. Airplanes that surveyed the quake area brought a story of a country prostrated, thousands of its buildings crumbled, whole towns under water, bodies lying in streets, buried in ruins or floating float-ing down streams toward the sea. Captain Frederick Dalton, member mem-ber of an air circus, who piloted the first plane to penetrate the area, said he believed the dead must total between 8,000 and 10,000. Threat of famine and disease, age old enemies of crowned India, faced survivors who were still cut off from ordinary communication. The quake occurred at 2:39 p. m. Monday. Many buildings here were cracked. Large towns over north central India whose communications com-munications were not severed be- Ljan reporting damage and small death lists. But it was not dreamed dream-ed that the devastation was so severe as Dalton reported. SCHOOL PLANS CONCERT SOON Two hundred fifty students of Provo high school are directing their efforts toward presenting a concert January 25, in the Utah stake tabernacle. The combined chorus consists of the boys' glee, girls' glee, and all music classes in connection with special outside out-side groups. Their songs will be divided into three groups, patriotic, patriot-ic, folk and religious .songs. "We are preparing this concert in order to give the public an idea as to just what Provo high school music department is doing," declares de-clares Ernest Paxman music instructor. in-structor. "We are doing our best to make this concert as elaborate elabor-ate and entertaining as possible, and we expect an even greater-response greater-response than we received at a similar concert held last year." The concert, commencing at eight o'clock, is open to the public free of charge. OREM BUDGET TOTALS $15,217 Orem town's tentative budget for the year of 1934 was set at $15,217 in a special meeting of the town board Monday night, practically prac-tically the same as it was the past year. President I. J. Burr of the board took charge of the meeting. Following is the budget as set; according to the various departments, depart-ments, each salary listed separately separ-ately by Town Clerk Emil Hansen: Han-sen: Bonds $5000. interest $3500, extensions ex-tensions and material $2000, pow er for well $600, street lighting $225, office supplies and miscel- laneous $300. Salaries town board $300. clerk $312, bookkeeper bookkeep-er $180, watermaster $1200, mar-shall mar-shall $1500, attorney $100. Bond interest and power for the well came to slightly less in the 1934 budget, with street lighting a bit more because of several new signs. All the salaries are precisely pre-cisely the same as last year. Hedquist To Speak Alex Hedquist, president of the Farmers and Merchants bank, will speak on "Banking Insurance" Insur-ance" at the Thursday noon meet-i ing of the Provo Kiwanis club. Mayor A. O. Srrfcot is chairman of the meeting. Anyone interested is invited to attend the meeting with the pay-v tnent of the usual luncheon fee. Clark . D. Webb, . pean Henriod and Dr. M. W. Merrill will be inducted in-ducted into the club as new members. Evils Of Electric Holding Companies Related By Senator IJkih Investors Duped By Dizzy Financing Schemes of Wall Street Controlled Concerns, Says Fiery Legislator Shocking disclosures of abuses and amazing1 financial manipulations perpetrated on an unsuspecting public by the Wall Street holding company racket which dominates the Utah power industry, were unfolded to an audience of more than 200 Provo residents by State Senator Herbert B. Maw at a meeting in the district court room, Tuesday night. Quoting-at length from the official reports of the federal fed-eral trade commission hearings. Senator Maw told the audience, aud-ience, many of them local power stock investors, how these unregulated holding corporations plunder investors with one hand while overcharging consum ers with the other. Cripple Commissions j Senator Maw charged that the ! utilities are unregulated largely : because the corporation - owned ; Utah Taxpayers association has ; succeeded, through its tax-reducing propaganda, to cut the ap- MOVE ALREADY MADE TO , ; PROTECT STOCKHOLDERS , ; A move to protect the , owners of Utah Power and , Light company preferred stock , I was recently initiated in Salt j j Lake City by Clarence Bam- ; ' berger, one of the heavy in- i ; vestors. The suggestion has : been made that local investors i , will serve their own interests , i best by securing representa- tion with this group and holding hold-ing ori to their slock. ' propriations for the public utilities utili-ties commission to a point where it is unable to function in the interests in-terests of the consumers of the state for the purpose for which it was created. Utah was pictured as one of two states in the union more completely com-pletely under the heel of the "big interests" than any others. The only comparable commonwealth in this regard is Montana, Senator Sena-tor Maw stated. The characteristic methods of the holding company dynasty, with Wall Street ownership and management and soveignty over far-flung dominions in many states, but subject to the direct jurisdiction of none, were related one by one as the audience listen- ( Continued on Page Five) WOMAN DIES IN CAR CRASH SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 17 d'.Ki Miss Alice May Hedden, 19, was killed and seven others were sent to hospitals by automobile accidents acci-dents in Utah Tuesday and last night. Miss Hedden, a native of Boise, Idaho, died of injuries incurred in an automobile accident at Bingham, Bing-ham, Utah. She was riding in a car driven by Walter Holmes, 21, when it crashed into a rail guard. Holmes and two others were also injured. Joseph Felt, 62, Ogden, Utah, was perhaps the most seriously injured. He suffered a possible skull fracture, internal injuries and concussions when his automobile automo-bile struck a streetcar last night. Another man, believed to be S. W. Beda, also suffered a skull fracture frac-ture when his automobile crashed into a tree early today. Public Library People On The Provo city public library achieved its largest circulation since its beginning during 1933, according to the annual report by Mrs. Ruth W. Thomson, submitted to the library board and the city commission. The remarkable thing about it is that the achievement has been made on the lowest budget since 1927. The library had more in-, dividual borrowers with 11,241 cards in force, a new high mark. Gain 8742 Volumes "It seemed almost unbelievable that in 1932 witb our limited resources re-sources we circulated 101,859 volumes," vol-umes," says the report, "but more than ever of a surprise is the - - HOLDING FIRMS MAY BE CALLED Status of Affiliates of Utah Power and Light Co. To lie Argued. The question of whether holding) companies, furnishing service on supplies to public utilities are un-t der the jurisdiction of the public utilities commission was beforq the latter today on a hearing ask-i ed by Joel -Nibley, attorney for the Consumers' Welfare Research league. The aim of the league Is to make the Electric Bond and Share, the Phoenix Utility, the Idaho Power company and perhaps per-haps other parties defendants to the general power rate case, and the American Telephone & Telegraph Tele-graph and the Western Electric companies parlies to the telephone rate case. Both these cases aro pending before the commission. and the league has intervened in ach. I Commissions, both in this and' other states, have studied such re-j lations between affiliated companies com-panies in detail, but so far as was learned Tuesday in no instance, has a non-operating company thai is not a utility in the state concerned, con-cerned, been made a defendant in a rate rso involving a.n affiliated company "Iron Man" Dies From Effects of Slap On the Back LONDON, Jan. 17 - Gilding Gild-ing Clarke, actor known as the iron man because of his great strength, died today of the effects of a friendly slap on the back given by a fellow actor during a rehearsal at the historic old Vic theater yesterday. Clarke was a member of the chorus of the opera Orpheus. He collapsed on the stage after the slap. He was taken at once to a hospital. He weighed 250 pounds. CHURCHMAN DIES,. ST. LOUIS, Jan. 17 V.l't Bishop W. F. McMurry of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, and former president of Central college at Fayete, Mo., died in Barnes hospital here today. Death was attributed to a heart attack. Serves More Reduced Budget ,1933 circulation of 110,601, a total gain of 8742 volumes circulated in 1932. And this was done on a- budget reduced $800 from tho 1932 budget." The library spent $1050.36 on new books during the year. The Rotary club is the only civic or ganization to respond to the re quest ior new dooks. The organ- ization contributed 44 books. The library had on hand at the. end of the year 17,078 volumes of which 11,354 were adult books and 5724 children books. The budget for the year was reduced (Continued on Page Five) PRICE LEVEL OF 1932 IS OF PLAN Program Aimed To Restore Purchasing Power Of Wage Earners WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 -(U.R) A wider use of silver in the United States was foreseen fore-seen today, by Senator Thomas, Thom-as, Dem., OkJa., as one of the results of President Roosevelt's Roose-velt's monetary prog-ram. Thomas, regarded as an extremist a few years ago but now recognized as one of the loaders load-ers of monetary thought, said that although the exact status of silver is not fixed "It is safe to say that we will make a much wider use of silver in the future than in the past." More In Circulation "These new steps." Thomas continued, con-tinued, "promised definitely that we will have many new dollars m circulation, which means more plentiful dollars, thereby cheaper dollars. And such a program means ah automatic and positive increase in commodity and property proper-ty values." Thomas said that the goal of the new program, in his opinion, was to bring the return of a dollar dol-lar with the purchasing power it had in 192S. JAt that time," Jie said, "wheat sold for 51.50 per bushel, and cotton cot-ton for ,20, cents per pound. While such increases in prices arc necessary neces-sary to permit agriculture to survive sur-vive and meet its obligations, yet such increases will not materially raise the price of either bread oY clothing. "The owners - of bank deposits and of fixed investments such as bonds, notes and mortgacps will suffer only a slight loss through the decreased buying power of the dollar, yet such adjustment will, hi my opinion, result in restoring salaries sal-aries and wages to the price level in existence during 1926. CWA Extension To July Is Aim WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 '11 Pi President Roosevelt's next communication com-munication to congress will relate to the appropriation of $l,ltfi.oooi. 000 to carry forward until July thp Civil Works authority, it whs rul today at the White House. Leaves For L. A. Mrs. Leo N. Lewis of the Lewi:; Ladies store left this morning for Los Angeles, Calif., where she will spend 10 days visiting her par-, ents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Zwilling. While in the coast city, Mrs Lewis will attend a number of1 style shows and will visit "tho fashion markets in the interests of the Provo store. AIM ROGERS "says: SANTA MONICA, CaJiif., Jan. 16 Papers all excited today over the dollar be ing sixty cents. Well, it's been sixty cents .for months, hut we just love to have something some-thing new to get excited over. Worst thing about the whole mess is, we are going to have to listen to all the same old arguments all over again. It's a good argument for us dumb ones to stay out of, so sio 'em Tige, may the loudest man win. I am going., to get onto some news. Did you know that Greta Garbo in prowling around in the Arizona Ari-zona desert under the narrw of Jones, with some "furrin-er" "furrin-er" going by the name of Brown. I got to get that settled set-tled before I can take up thK gold business. Yours, 10J4. WcNa'ujcM Syndicate. ln. |