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Show Weather Forecast .- UTAH Unsettled tonight and 1 Tuesday, probably showers In northwest portion; slightly cooler cool-er .Tuesday and In northwest portion por-tion tonight. Maximum temperature Sunday 84 Minimum temperature Sunday 40 ' .' ' Id. Service If you do not receive your copy of The Herald by '6 p. m. telephone 4 1)3 and a copy will be sent you. ta FORTY-EIGHTH YEAR, NO. 170 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH MONDAY, APRIL 3 0, 1 9 3 4 PRICE FIVE CENTS me : JDveLnnLiag HI HAH) smmm DM. la A Daily Picture of What's s Going On in National v , Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN ' WASHINGTON Signs of continued business upturn are everywhere. Department store sales are up. Employment Employ-ment has increased. Factory production keeps upgrade. But underneath these figures are facts which give the Brain Trust food for thought. They have brought them to the attention of the president. One is that the relief rolls for April reached 4,700,000 families, or the support of some 19,000,-000 19,000,-000 people. This is an aU-time high higher even than last March when -the depression was at its peak. " Second is that grocery store sales, while greater in dollar value, are less in unit totals. In other words, the depreciated dollar dol-lar makes purchases seem larger, though real sales have dropped. The same is true of department store sales, though the grocery index is more significant. People cat before they buy clothes. Third is that while production is 86 per cent of normal, sales are only back to 77 per cent of normal. In other words, factories are producing more than people are buying. ; - ; I LOP-SIDED BLUE EAGLE V : ; ' This is what the New Deal " sought to avoid. A spread between be-tween (production and consumption consump-tion power, if continued long, can be disastrous. To avoid this was one of the great objectives of the NRA. . Trwiav. however, this probably is the NRA's greatest failure. Income In-come taxes and corporation reports re-ports all show some people are making more money. Grocery sales snow umei pcuit - -ing Jess. The gap between the rich and the poor apparently increases. in-creases. V V The Detroit auto manufacturers, the WiertQn,. company., the iron nd "steel moguls, exact more or less their own terms from the NRA. Jacob Maged, an r immigrant tailor in Jersey City 'who pressed suits for 35c instead of the 40c code price, gets thirty days in jail and 5100 fine later remitted by a friendly judge. AU of which leads to this: When the history of NRA finally is told, the "crack down" bombast bom-bast of General Hugh "Juggernaut" "Jugger-naut" Johnson will make pitiful reading. TACTITUltN DERN Probably the most uncommunicative uncommuni-cative member of the New Deal cabinet, so far as the press is concerned, is Secretary v of War Dem. His' press conferences during dur-ing the past 8 or 10 months (Continued on Page Five) Congress Today SENATE . Begins debate on . municipal bankruptcy bill. Finance committee continues ' open hearings on tariff bill. Judiciary committee considers calendar bills. Education and labor committee continues hearing on public work3 bill. " Citizens to Meet With City Planners The city planning commission is -meeting Tuesday night with a representative group of Provo citizens in the city and county building to discuss the program the Citizens' Council were urged today by Dr. H. M. Woodward, president, to attend Tuesday night In lieu of the regular meeting meet-ing of the organization. . CRUSHER USE ASKED "- Request to furnish a county gravel crusher for .the Benjamin, palmyra, vLake Shore and Leland districts . was taken under advisement advise-ment Monday by the Utah county commission. Graveling of the 3phool bus route roads in each istrict is v desired. : Jennings Meason. supervisor of the Lake Shore "district, and Wesley Wes-ley Richardson, supervisor of the Benjamin district, met with- the commissioners to ask the use of the crusher. - FORFEITS $5 BAIL ' I. D. Clyde forfeited $5 Jut the Provo city court Monday when he failed to appear to answer to a charge of operating a -'motor vehicle without having number plates. ' He was arrested on Friday Fri-day by State, Traffic Of fleer E.D. Loveless. " r.-" : DISORDERS THREATENED ON MAY DAY Soviet to Observe Day as Communist Holiday; Strikes Feared By UNITED PRESS Riots, police raids and threats of strikes throughout the world heralded today the eve of May day. Authorities anxiously awaited demonstrations of political extremists. Police, special semii-mili-tary units and soldiers in many cities patrolled the streets heavily heav-ily armed. , France, Spain, Austria and Cuba threatened to be the chief trouble centers. Bloodshed was expected in all four countries. Serious rioting occurred , last night at Mantes, France, topamsn left wing elements threatened a 48-hour general strike to start tomorrow. In Austria and Cuba police rounded up Socialists and others. Celebrations in two countries will be official Russia and Nazi Germany. May day is the great Communist holiday, and all over Soviet Russia there will be gala observances. DEATH CLAIMS MARY H. HALL "Mrs. -Mary'Moiselle Hammond Hail, 76, died at her home in Springville late Sunday afternoon. after-noon. She was born May 18, 1857, just this side of the Utah-Nevada line, as her parents, the late Francis A. and Mary Jane Dill-worth Dill-worth Hammond, were returning from a mission to the islands. Her mother was the first school teacher in Utah. Mrs. Hall spent the early part of her life in Salt Lake City, Og-den Og-den and Huntsville, and while in Huntsville, married George Hall. In the eighties, she, her husband, her father and his family, and others from Huntsville were called call-ed to settle Jan Juan stake. She and her husband lived in Bluff for a year and then moved to Mancos, Colorado, where Mr. Hall was bishop for many years. She was a faithful church worker, work-er, was ward organist, teacher In the Primary and Sunday school, and was a Relief Society worker for many years. She was stake president of the Y L. M. I. A- Since the death of her husband several years ago, she had lived in New Mexico, Colorado and Utah. Seven years ago she moved to Provo, residing in the Fifth ward, and in September, 1929, she went to Springville. Since the couple had no chil-drcri, chil-drcri, they adopted two babies. The son and daughter, George Dillworth Hall of Hesperus, Colo., and Mrs. Leila Stephens of Provo; Pro-vo; survive, as do nine grandchil dren; one brotner, josepn Hammond Ham-mond of Moab; and two sisters, Mrs. Mabel Fielding of Ogden and Mrs. Mary Sorenson of Salt Lake City. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 2. o'clock in the Fourth ward crfipel of Springville. Interment will be in the Evergreen Ever-green cemetery. Crooked Guards Blamed For Brpak COLUMBUS, C April 30 U.l! Warden Preston E. Thomas today to-day blamed a "crooked guard" for the daring escape of three long-term prisoners Sunday afternoon after-noon from the Ohio penitentiary. Officers combed the state for the three convicts who . armed with a .45 automatic revolver, held up two guards, forced 14 other, oth-er, prisoners Into a power plant ash pit, compelled a guard to help them carry a ladder to the northwest prison wall, where they dropped to the street, commandeered command-eered an automobile and fled. Five Die In Blast v LEITH, ENGLAND, April 20 0U Five men were killed today by an explosion of Bickershaw Coal : Pit- No. 3, caused by ignition igni-tion of a gas pocket. -' Three hundred men were in the mind, ; but the . others all escaped. Victims Of San ! v ' 5 , - - 4 f P These four persons were directly hit by Stewart and Wyeth in their daring escape from San Quentin, and kidnaping of two policemen. Left to right: Officer A. M. Dewey, San Rafael policeman, kidnaped kid-naped and believed held as hostage; Mrs. Phil LeCorner, wife of kil-naped kil-naped ofifcer; Miss Jean Sapp, Officer Dewey's fiancee. Inset below is Charles T. Green, San Quentin guard- who wos overpowered and beaten by the escaping convicts. -4- Choice Rowers Uprooted, Stolen At Provo Home The theft of a quantity of choice growing flowers from the home of Mr. and Mr3. Alex HedquiSt, 32 North' Second Sec-ond East, was reported Sunday. Sun-day. Every plant of a rare variety of Iris had been pulled pull-ed up by the roots, according to the report. "If the woman who took the roots away would be kind enough to divide them with ,me, so that I can have at least part of them for my own garden, I would be pleased pleas-ed to share the flowers with her," said Mrs. Hedquist today. to-day. "I'll be glad to give away a start of any kind of flower I've got, to anyone who will call at my home and ask me for them," she declared. Mrs. Hedquist has worked diligently to beautify the vacant va-cant lot, south of her home, fronting on Center street, and vandalism of this sort tenjj to discourage efforts to im-prove im-prove home surroundings. f The woman .who pulled toe flowers out, left her foot-jSrints foot-jSrints in the flower beds. Mrs. fledquist informed the Herald today that she was willing to offer a reward to anyone who could furnish information leading to the discovery of the identity of the flower thief. Liquor Trial On In City Court After several weeks of postponement, post-ponement, the trial of Leslie E. Bush and Charles Arnold, co-proprietors co-proprietors of the Oasis Cafe at Ironton, got under way in the city court Monday morning. The men are charged with th6 possession pos-session of hard liquor. The case has attracted considerable attention, atten-tion, inasmuch as it may prove to be a precedent case since 3.2: beer became legal in this state. Choosing of ai jury consumed the morning session of court. Prosecution of the , case is in charge of County Attorney W. Stanley Dunford and his deputy, LeRoy Tuckett, with Christensen, Straw and Christensen defending the men. Wirt Says He Was "Hammered Into Silence" At "Red Plot" Hearing CHICAGO, April 30 U.E Dr.? William A. Wirt, the Hoosier schoolmaster who startled the country with his "red plot", charges, today told 400 war veterans vet-erans .that he was "hammered Into silence" and "intimidated" when he went to Washington to prove his claims. The 60-year old - Gary ' educator spoke at a puncheon sponsored by the 'American Legion, r A congres- Quentin Break m my .... ...... ........ .....v v i i-yy. :-::'-w:-:-:':-:-x:-:':-:-:-:-:-x:o:- : -x .: -i..' :.:-:.:-:.:-: :.:.:-:.:.:.x.v.:.:-v"--.!-:.:.:." v.:.:-.vv.v.... ... .-.v. -. ... ... : f " ' tc- ' :::x:.:.-:.::.:.:.::::.::-::::.w.'" 'V.v.x.S.: . :: i ' ' V V ' 1 1 SMOOT SPEAKS AT CONFERENCE SPANISH FORK Proper oh-f 4 sorvniMi of th Snhhflth dav atttfi0antre,r,at'"' SUcT&TftltrirheWT ings in worship was urged by Elder Reed Smoot of the Council of the Twelve, in his address before be-fore the Palmyra stake conference, confer-ence, Sunday moning. The speaker dwelt at length on blessings gained by obedience to God's laws and the strengthening strength-ening of faith through meeting adversity. In clqsing he appealed for more young men and women to serve the church as missionaries. mission-aries. 1 Apostle Smoot was preceeded in his talk in an address by Amos N. Merrill of the Brigham Young university faculty. Prof. Merrill spoke earnestly on the importance of a proper acceptance accept-ance of Jesus Christ as the divine leader and savior of mankind. Missionary Speaks Allen Firmage who has recently recent-ly returned from a mission in Germany spoke telling of conferences confer-ences in Germany and the growth of the L. D. S. work in that country. E. Cecil McGavui, principal prin-cipal of the L. D. S. seminary of Spanish Fork urged the people peo-ple to be provident, for there was, according to ancient prophecy, proph-ecy, danger of serious famine in this land of plenty. President Wells T. Brockbank was the first speaker, referring to ancient prophecies which are being fulfilled at the present time and urging the people to be warned warn-ed against sin and disobedience to God's word. Music was furnished by the Second ward choir led by Jesse Ludlow with Miss Lola Bradford at the piano, and Mrs. Fern (Continued on Page Six) Joseph S. Beesley Burial Tuesday Brief gravesides services will be held Tuesday morning at 10 a. m. at the Provo city cemetery for Joseph Smith Beesley, 90, Utah pioneer Black Hawk war veteran and former resident of Provo. He died Saturday at his home in Rexburg, Idaho, where funeral services were held Monday afternoon. after-noon. He has many relatives in Provo, where he lived until 1898, when the family moved to Driggs, Idaho. cently f oirad his charges -of jiom-T ment "baseless." . '.r- "As a fr American citizen I hai a right to know which way our country was headed," he said. "But all efforts were met with stubborn official, resistance, actual act-ual jslander, intimidation and other oth-er hindrances that do not rest well with free, citizens." ; His . treatment In - Washington STRAWBERRY DAY IS SET FOR MAY 23 Berrv Crop Is Two Weeks Ahead of Normal Years, Reoort PLEASANT GROVE The date for the 13th annual Strawberry day in Pleasant Grove has beem set for May 23. The executive officers of the chamber of commerce decided de-cided in their meeting Saturday Satur-day evening that it would be necessary to advance the time this year on account of the ! berries ber-ries ripening two weeks earlier than usual. Ervlng Johnson was chosen to act as chairman of the park amusements; Earl Loader, chairman chair-man of, the advertising committee; commit-tee; E. A. Beck, amusements; Dan E. Adams, decorations; J. M. MacFarlane, serving of free berries; ber-ries; Vern Cullimore, parade; Bert Cooper, concessions, and H. P. Jones, the strawberry dance. The chairmen will choose the rest of their committees, and plans will be formulated immediately immed-iately for a bigger , Strawberry lay than ever before. School Closing To Be Discussed Strawberry growers of Orem and Pleasant Grove will meet at the Windsor ward church tonight at 8 o'clock to discuss with the Alpine division school board and superintendent the possibility of arransinc the school schedule so ' straw berries The strawberry season will be on about May 10 to 15, according to members of the Orem chamber of commerce. U. S. W. V. Group Carnation Drive Scheduled May 5 The annual carnation drive of the United Spanish War Veterans' Veter-ans' auxiliary will be held Saturday, Satur-day, May 5. This is a nation-wide drive for disabled veterans in hospitals and in local camps. Girls and women will be on the streets of Provo all day Saturday selling carnations carna-tions and the support of the public pub-lic will be greatly appreciated by the local committee. The committee comprises Mrs. J. T. Brown, chairman.; Mrs. Robert Crosbie, Mrs. Herman Grimm and Mrs. C. H. Funk. Bank Depositors Meeting Tonight All depositors of the Provo Commercial and Savings bank are urged to attend the meeting tonight in the high school auditorium, which has been called by the depositors committee, George ' Chaffin, chairman. Those who attend are reminded re-minded to bring their receipts showing what their claims are against the bank. Murder Charged DILLON, MONT., April 30 U.P Samuel A. Hayden, 41,v was held in the county jail here today on a charge of killing John F. O'Connor, O'Con-nor, 22, in a revival of an ancient fued between the families. Officers Offi-cers ;sa!d O'Cononr was struck over the head with a shovel while he and Hayden's brother, Archie, were wrestling on the ground. The fight occurred late Sunday. O'Connor was brought to the hospital hos-pital here and died last night. and the efforts of the "brain trust" to hide Its real motives "bode ill for our traditional justice just-ice and liberty," he added. In his speech today he named speaker of the bouse Henry T. Rainey as having made "socialistic "social-istic utterances." He also named former Senator Smith W. Brookhart, now special advisor to the AAA, In the same category. , . Faculty Picks Valedictorian Alison Cornish, of Eugene, Oregon, senior student in the college of education at the Brigham Young university, univer-sity, was named the valedictorian valedic-torian of her class in a meeting of the faculty Monday Mon-day noon. In addition to her scholastic schol-astic attainments. Miss Cornish has been unusually active in student-body activities. activ-ities. She is president of the Associated Wmen Students Stu-dents of the school this year, won second place in the Pacific coast extemporaneous extemporan-eous speaking contest at the University of Redlands. Shp has participated in debating, de-bating, has been a member of the "Y" News staff, and is a copy reader and proof reader this season. Miss Comish formerly lived in Coveviile, Cache county. OUTLAW GANG SLOGS POLICE Dillinger Desperadoes Disarm Suburban Police Squad To Make Getaway CHICAGO, April 30 U.H Four desperadoes, identified as members mem-bers of the John Dillinger outlaw gang, disarmed a suburban police squad today and fled after slugging slug-ging Policeman Harry Wayland. The encounter took place in Bellwood, western suburb, about 3 a. m. The gangsters were later identified as John Hamilton,' Homer Hom-er Van Meter, George (Baby Face) Nelson and Joseph Fox, all known associates of John Dillinger. Dillin-ger. The fugitive killers carried two sub-machine guns. They fired two pistol shots to intimidate policemen. po-licemen. Wayland was knocked unconscious when he attempted to draw .a pistol and the other two police were forced to give up their guns and walk away from the bandit's car with their hands in the air. Drive Into Station The encounter ocurred in the gasoline filling station of Harry Nieman of Bellwood. The p61ice cruiser car had been parked near an intersection of country roads. The gunmen's automobile drove through a red light at high speed and thepolice pursued them with siren sounding. Professor-Says Advice Is Wrong CAMBRIDGE, Mass. U.R Five years ago in a speech bofore a group of college boys Prof. Robert E. Rodgers of Massachusetts Institute In-stitute of Technology advised: "Be a snob and marry the boss' daughter. The advice was headlined around the nation, making such an indelible imprint upon the public pub-lic mind that even now the professor pro-fessor asserts he can't venture into the provinces without having the advice thrown up at him. Today Professor Rogers has at .last concluded that his advice was all wrong, the result, he says, of the depression. "There probably are no snobs now," he says. "The depression has ruined many a good thing and snobs are no exception. But just let things settle down a little, and stablization set in, and, mark my words, a new crop will appear. "Who said, 'You can't change human nature'? So with the eternal eter-nal recurrence of history the remarks re-marks of 1929 once again will be as true as any remarks have to be." . ' Transient Faces Larceny Charge Preliminary hearing for Harry Forbes, who attempted to pick the pocket of H. A. Robertson, chairman of the county commission, commis-sion, last week, was set for May 9 in the city court. The charge drawn against him is for attempt to commit grand larceny. Bond for Forbes was set by Judge Don R. Ellertson at $500. Forbes was captured by Marshall Mar-shall Melvin Cherrington of Springville after Mr. Robertson had, foiled his attempt to take a purse containing $20 out of his pocket at the carnival 'grounds. - Not Revolution But Evolution" "Those who speak of revolution are wrong. What they should do is to drop the first letter of the word. We are going through evolution, not revolution." Speaking Speak-ing extemporaneously, President Rosevelt thus defended his New Deal policies when, as shown here he addressed the Subsistence Homestead show in the. Department Depart-ment of Commerce building, Washington. STROKE FATAL TO MRS. BROOKS Mrs. Clarissa Gates Brooks, 54, wife of Joseph R. "Brooks, died at the family home on the Springville Spring-ville road, Sunday afternoon following fol-lowing a paralytic stroke. She was born in Salina, April 1, 18S0, but had resided in Pfpvo for the last 24 years. She was a member of the L. D. S. church and had worked as a Relief so-cietyteacher so-cietyteacher in the Bonneville ward for a number of years. Surviving, besides her husband is one daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Jex, Spanish Fork; six grand children; chil-dren; one brother. George Thomas Thom-as Gates. Park City; seven sisters. sis-ters. Mrs. Mary Sorenson. Mrs. David Evans, Mrs. Etta Jensen, Mrs. Dclbert Peterson, Salina; Mrs. Edward Jones, Thistle; Mrs. Gladys Spaugy, Provo; Mrs. John Khyle. Bicknell. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 1:30 o'clock in the Bonneville ward chapel. Friends may call at the Berg Mortuary Tuesday, and Wednesday at the residence, Ninth South and Seventh Sev-enth East streets. Interment will be in the Spanish Fork cemetery. ceme-tery. Utah Poultry Men Get 500,000 Loan For Storage Plan BERKELEY, Calif., April 30 A commodity loan of $500,000 was made -today by the Berkeley Intermediate In-termediate Credit Bank to the Utah' Poultry Producers' association associa-tion of Salt Lake City to enable that marketing cooperative of 6,000 members to carry their eggs in storage for fall sales. The ;loan was secured by warehouse Receipts from storage "plants in Chicago. Buffalo and New York. The loan negotiations which were closed by Clyde C. Edmonds, Ed-monds, Salt Lake City manager of the cooperative, will have significance sig-nificance foi all poultry cooperatives, cooper-atives, inasmuch as it marks a new, policy on the part of the Intermediate Credit bank. With the sanction of Intermediate Credit Commissioner George M. Brennan of the Farm Credit Administration Ad-ministration at Washington, for the first time eggs have been included in-cluded in the farm commodities handled 5 by cooperative Associations Associa-tions uoon which the intermediate credit banks can make loans. The interest rate of such banks is now 2Vt per cent, which is considerably consider-ably lower than poultry producers produc-ers have had to pay in the" past for storage facilities. i !-r-w f fr i (f - ' ? : . t jr.- s Jr GRANDFATHER TAKES SECRET MEXICO TRIP Stricken Family- Prepared To Meet Demands For Girl's Release -TTJGSON, Ariz,, April 30- (U.R) The possibility that a disgruntled relative kidnaped June Robles, 6, heiress to an Arizona cattle fortune, was seen today in the prolonged absence, of her wealthy-grandfather, wealthy-grandfather, Bernable Robles, on a secret mission that carried him across the border into Mexico. Mexi-co. , This theory was advanced when the 73-year-old retired cattle baron and two companions failed to return home 12 hours after they were expected. With Robles were Henry Dalton, a local city councilman, and Al Aguirre, a friend. Trip Is Secret Although associates said tho elderlv Robles drnv tr Santa Ana in Sonora to consult a soothsayer in the hope the Mexican seer would throw some light on the whereabouts of Little June, authorities auth-orities were, inclined to question this explanation. I -The theory was that a relative mignt nave abducted June last Wednesday and smuggled her into in-to Mexico, dovetailed with previous prev-ious belief that some one familiar with the girl and her habits was responsible for her kidnaping. A tactiturn man of the old-rancher old-rancher school, Robles did not confide his plans to federal agents who took command of the investigation investi-gation several hours after he bad made an ' unannounced departure for Mexico. Robles' trip was made with utmost secrecy. Not until h and his two friends had crossed the border at Nogales was it itamcu Liitti. wicy xitiu gone, jwen then the group sought to keep their whereabouts a secret . by pledging border officers to Hl-ence, Hl-ence, but the word soon leaked put. When they failed to reappear (Continued on Page Six) n a 41. 1 n Forest Reserve Money Is Divided Receipts from the forest reserve collections will be divided among the three county school districts and the county highways fund, according to the action of the county commissioners, Monday. A total of $4,09.13 will be distributed, dis-tributed, it is shown in the computations com-putations of John C. Taylor, county treasurer. The fund will be distributed as follows: One-half One-half to the county highways fund. $2,049.56; the other half to three school districts: Alpine (5266 children. $676.76; Provo (4434 children, $569.84; Nebo (6248 children), $802.97. (SOGERS GILROY, Calif., April 20 Mrs. Rogers and I driving along from Fresno to San Francisco, seeing all the ranches, run in at Willlie Tevis' ranch (the champion endurance rider) and there- at a barbecue was the sultan of Jahore, the biggest game hunter of all the Indian royal pack, and tremendously popular popu-lar over there and a regular guy Well, I got to tell you how I talked myself out of seeing his place and stable and horses He is just out of . Singapore I come in on a ' boat from Hongkong, going to take the plane the next morning fpr London, so was going to drive to his estate : that afternoon, but I talked -at the Rotary club luncheon and did I talk! I must have blathered for hours, bored the whole of Singapore and missed miss-ed the palace of - ' Jahore. That's one case in history -, where a. long-winded speaker ; suffered in the long run more than his listeners. Yoursi OWU. UcNad&M Sjs5U.Is2 ' ' w |
