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Show The Suinoay 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 Saturday; Satur-day; little change in temperature. Maximum temp., Thursday . . 40 Minimum temp., Thursday . . 22 VOL 11, NO. 21 PROVO (UTAH) SUNDAY HERALD, SUNDAY, JANUARY 19 3 4 7, AFFAIRS OF BANK AIRED AT MEETING Depositors Approve Plan To Give Committee Legal Status UTAH COUNTY CVJA PAYROLL IS $28,684 Administration To Bolster Home Loan Mortgage Program Four-Billion Dollar Increase Contemplated in National Debt Liability To Improve Status of Market For Securities BILL WOULD GIVE SILVER BETTER SPOT I Six Provo Scouts In One Troop Win Eagle Award - Stearjall Favors G i v in g Silver Prominence; Would Buv WASHINGTON, D. C. Jan. G Silver will be given a more prominent place in monetary plans, in a move advanced ad-vanced today by Chairman Slongall of the house bank ing committee, wno announced an-nounced he intended to introduce intro-duce a bill for that purpose. Rumors are also persisting that the White House plans some action ac-tion soon to increase the value of silver even past the 64 cents that comes through the recent action ac-tion of President Roosevelt. There has been no official confirmation, however. "I'm a silver man," Steagall told newspaper men, "but of course I'm not running this show." "We must recognize that anything any-thing we can do for silver will help us because it will help the countries which brought our argi-cultural argi-cultural surpluses before silver got so cheap." Steagall added that he is thinking think-ing of introducing a bill to authorize auth-orize or instruct the treasury to purchase a billion dollars worth of silver immediately. Thereafter the bill would call for monthly purchases equal to estimated domestic dom-estic production for the month. UNIFORM BEER LAWS SOUGHT Seeking a uniformity in the regulation of beer sales in Utah county, a committee selected from all parts of the county will meet Monday night at 7:30 in the city and- county- building with wholesalers whole-salers expeetiftjftd operate in the county. The committee, as selected at a meeting Friday night Of city officials, of-ficials, is comprised of the fol lowing city representatives; Stanley Stan-ley M. Taylor, Lehi; Ray T. Els-more, Els-more, American Fork; Lyean Johnson, Pleasant Grove; Raymond Ray-mond B. Holbrook, Provo; Arnold Roylance, Springville; Joseph E. Nelson, Spanish Fork, and R. W. McMullen, Payson. The meeting was -held at the instigation in-stigation of the county commis sioners after County Attorney W. Stanley Dunford and Mayor-a. o. Smoot of Provo had discussed the need of cooperative effort in the county. The committee will thresh out a number of problems concerning beer sales within the next ten days, among which will be the poser of whether a company will be forced to obtain a license in each city in which they operate or for a county license to cover the sales. , Mr. Dunford and Mayor Smoot held at the meeting Friday night that dealers should be required to pay but once license in the county otherwise the smaller communities would be discriminated against. It is hoped that a definite county agreement -will be reached by January 15, when the county ordinance goes into effect. CITY PROJECTS ARE APPROVED - Utah county's C W A executive execu-tive comittee has now approved approv-ed two projects for Provo and Utah county, among other projects pro-jects of cities here. The projects are subject now to the approval of the state committee. One- project is for the replacement replace-ment of a section of pipe in the Provo culinary water system in Provo canyon, and the other is for the drain on First East between Eighth and Twelfth North streets, a joint Provo city and county project. These projects involve the purchase of materials as well as labor. Mayor A. O. Smoot of Provo and Chairman Hilton A. Robertson Robert-son of the county commission were in Salt Lake recently concerning these projects, and received assurance that aid would probably be given through the C W A program. BIRTHDAYS TODAY' The Herald extends 'congratulations 'congratula-tions to J. K. Allen whose birthday birth-day occurs today; Mrs. A. Will Jones and Fletcher A. Jones who celebrated Saturday .-ifc'xk ) s : HJS rXfAv Ah. f Wi5- m 1 I , .mmim m Xv-jwi,, i - JteHbltilWMWiwwwwtiw yri "i rr Hw -- imrTWi-nrTHi wrowrwiimfi; J Six scouts and their scoutmaster of troop 41, Provo Second ward, scheduled to receive the coveted eagle award tonight at court of honor services: In front, left to right: Ferron Nielson, Raymond Green, Curtis Johnson, Albert Olsen. Back row, Paul J. Henrichsen, T. Will Jones, scoutmaster; Wesley Knudsen. WINTER TERM STARTS ATT With the strongest faculty in the history of the institution. Brig-ham Brig-ham Young university is prepared to welcome a record number oi students when the winter quarter opens Monday, according to President Presi-dent Franklin S. Harris. Russell Swenson, who has been completing work for his doctorate at the University of Chicago, will join the faculty as assistant pro fessor of religious education. Pro- lessor Ed. M. Rowe has returnee' from over two years of graduate studies of literature abroad. With 103 other teachers ready for work the teaching staff is at its peak. New courses in a dozen departments depart-ments make the curriculum more attractive, it is pointed out. About 350 courses, including full beginning begin-ning course for freshmen, are available. ,;""v With a record fall enrollment-exceeding enrollment-exceeding 4.6.00, the administration administra-tion expects last year's cumulative total of 1719 to Be surpassed before be-fore the end of the quarter. The brighter outlook, for business busi-ness and better prospects for work are causing many students who did. not think they could attend to resolve to enter this quarter. Complete registration machinery machin-ery will be in operation in the Maeser Memorial and Heber J. Grant Library buildings Monday with the deans and department heads in the library reading room ready to advise on courses. Committees Com-mittees that handled various phases of the problem in the fall have been reappointed by President Presi-dent Harris and will be on hand 8:30 a. m. Subscriptions To Be Tied Up For" Projects Letters asking that subscriptions subscript-ions for Deer Creek water be made legal and definite were sent out to the various interested water companies Thursday, according to Elmer E. Jacob, newly-appointed manager of the organization committee. com-mittee. Although tentative subscriptions subscript-ions for the required amount have, already -been received, it is necessary neces-sary that the companies hold stockholders' meetings and complete comp-lete the necessary arrangements. A big problem facing the pro- iect is 6btaining subscriptions from the cities involved, who have tentatively arranged to take culinary water through the big1 dam. A financial obstacle wili have to be hurdled by the cities such as Provo and Salt Lake, Mr. Jacob said. Provo Subscribes Provo has tentatively subscribed for 8000 acre feet, which means an outlay of approximately $400,-000. $400,-000. A bond issue for this amount takes Provo' over its legal limit so some other financing method is sought. Over a period of 40 years the payment would fall into somq plan of $10,000 a year.: Mr. Jacob is perfecting plans for the complete organization of the project. His temporary ap- pointment may be made permanent, perman-ent, in which case it would be come necessary for him to spend his full time at the job. D. A. V. JUBILEE Disabled American Veterans of the World War will hold a big jubilee in the Provo Armory Friday, Fri-day, January 19, It was decided in a meeting held Friday night. All eligible veterans are requested to attend. Regular business was conducted at the meeting Friday. County Tax Collection Apportioned Collections in Various Units Range From 28 To 80 Per Cent. Collection of 1933 taxes up to December 31, ranged from 27 percent to 80.84 per cent throughout through-out the Various units ,of the county, it is shown in a tabulation tabula-tion compiled Friday by John C. Taylor, county treasurer. The following tabulation gives the tax-collection picture in tht county. The first column is the total amount of collections in the units as' named; the second shows the share each unit has received, re-ceived, the amount being based on its own tax collections; the third column gives the amount each unit "wotitd; reattzgrif "It had paid 100. per cent of its ; assessment; fourth shows the percent each unit has paid. Nebo Leads Out The Nebo school district. Maple-ton Maple-ton and Springville show the highest high-est percentage of collections, with Lehi, Provo, .-Pleasant Grove and the Alpine school district coming in the next highest bracket. Among the tail-enders are Alpine, which has paid but 27.85 percent' of its 'taxes, Santaquin, Salem and rem. What Units Should Pet. of Collections Have Rec'd. Receive Collection Lehi $33,103 $12,081 $18,341 J5.87 Alpine 2,186 4J7 1,787 27.85 American Fork 37,416 11 ,,470 20,057 55.94 IMeasant Grove '21,482 6,884 1 0,938 62.93 Lindon 10,537 2,111 3,464 60.94 Orem 21,292 4,846 9,445 51.32 Alpine School 212,699 121,732 175,341 69.43 Provo city 259,436 79,387 125,424 63.30 Provo schools 118,866 Springville 42,203 15,255 20,433 74.65 Mapleton 14,263 3,714 4,968 74.76 Spanish Fork 32,659 12,229 19,289 63.40 Payson 25,458 8,406 14,461 .58.12 Salem 2,955 649 1.468 44.20 Santaquin 3,230 638 1,194 53. Goshen 4.212 1,577 2,521 62. Nebo School 408,295 142,866 176,738 80.84 State, State Schools 302,185 405,844 74.46 State Road 62,955 85,043 Utah County 270,707 365,687 74. Total $1,135,435 $1,135,435 4j STEWART LOSES CAPITOL POST Scott P. Stewart of Provo, stepped step-ped out as director of the state securities commission, Friday, a post he has held for five years A. Ezra Gull, secretary of the commission, is retained in that capacity. The commisson unanimously unani-mously adopted a resolutton of appreciation for the services of Mr. Stewart. The change was brought about partly because of the enactment of a federal blue sky law although in some quarters it was rumored that failure of Stewart to back Governor Blood in the last campaign cam-paign was responsible. HEARING POSTPONED Hearing on a petition of J. A. Malia, state banking- commissioner, commission-er, for an order approving the acts of the examiner in charge of the Bank of American Fork, was poat- 1 poned for one week by Judge Abe m I 11 n i ... . v . i inner m me , r uunn uisxrict court Saturday; " : DELAYED The Washington Merry-Go-Round, dally, feature of national na-tional affairs failed to arrive on schedule in time for the Sunday issue . 6 SCOUTS WIN EAGLE AWARDS , , An unusual event, seldom if J ever equalled in scouting will be"j witnessed tonight at the court of ( honor ceremonies in the Provo Second ward when six scouts, all j members of troop 41 and their scoutmaster, T. Will Jones, will be awarded the eagle badge or higher advancements. The scouts are Paul J. Henrichsen, Henrich-sen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest C. Henrichsen who has served in scouting for 10 years. At present he is troop committeeman, American Amer-ican Red Cross examiner for swimming and life saving and a member of the ward M. I. A. presidency. presi-dency. He gets the Eagle award. Albert Olsen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ole E. Olsen Jr. has served for six years and is a former troop officer. He is an officer in the stake "M" Men's organization. He gets the Eagle award. - Ferron Nielsen, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.. E. Nielsen, has served as scout for five years and is now junior assistant scoutmaster. He wi ns the Eagle award. Curtis Johnson, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. Asael Johnson has been a scout for six years. He is also junior assistant scoutmaster and has qualified for the Eagle award. Raymond Green, son of Mr. and (Continued on Page Eight) C. W. A . Workers To Meet Here Tuesday ' r All employes and prospective prospec-tive employes of the CWA are requested to meet in the city and county building at 8 p. m. Tuesday, January 9 for the purpose of establishing an organization or-ganization for protecting the interests of the workers. All interested persons are invited. -- Both Of Utah's Congressmen Listed In Nepotism Survey NEW YORK, Jan. 5 Utah's congressmen, J. W. Robinson of Provo and Abe 'Murdock of Beaver Beav-er are listed among 59 other representatives rep-resentatives whose relatives are found on the (federal payrolls according ac-cording to a list published by the New York Times whfeh-made a survey. At the last session of congress quite a furor was caused by the publication of congressmen's congress-men's relatives' names on government gov-ernment payrolls. The newspaper survey shows that Ray R. Murdock is listed as drawing $254.16 monthly while Junius Robinson, a son of the Provo congressman is paid $79.16 per month. : 1843 Men Employed Here Or Community Projects Pay Is Delayed Utah county workers received re-ceived a grand total of $28,-684.85 $28,-684.85 for services on C W A projects in the week beginning begin-ning Friday, December 28, and ending Thursday, January Janu-ary 4, according to figures compiled under direction of J: Harold Wilson, C W A office manager. Although Saturday is usually the payday, the checks will not be distributed until Monday or possibly pos-sibly Tuesday because of the failure fail-ure of the weekly supply of checks to arrive on, time, it was pointed out by Disbursing Agent E. R. Henrichsen. At present there are 1843 employes em-ployes working on CWA projects within Utah counly, 1571 of them being laborers receiving 50 cents to 60 cents an hour. Another group of 86 are foremen, truck-drivers and teamsters getting 60 cents to 7Q cents an h(mr and gix men get 70 cents to 80 cents an hour. There are 120 men receiving $1 and over Per hour, and 60 foremen and supervisors This makes up a total of 42,7384 man-hours of work done by the employes and 1686 man-hours by foremen and supervisors for a grand total of 44,424 v.. man-Hours of labor. In addition to the ages of the laborers and me liKe, who receive re-ceive $23,765.85, the foremen and supervisors receive $1,263, the teams are paid for at the rate of $2302 and trucks used drew $1353 for the week. Work at the administrative offices of-fices is roiling along much more smoothly now since the reorganization. reorgani-zation. Coal Dealer Convicted On Code Evasion Cutting of Prices Brings Contempt of Court Charge To Two. SALT LAKE CITY. Utah, Jan 6 rT.irv F'ound guilty of contempt of court when he failed to obey a temporary injunction against the sale of coal at less than NRA prices, P. S. Marthakis, proprietor of the New Deal Coal company, was given a suspended 30-day jail sentence Friday. The sentence, imposed by District Dis-trict Judge Herbert M. Schiller was the second imposed in Salt Lake during the last two days S. T. Bennion, also a retail coal dealer, receiving a similar sentence Thursday in an identical case. Disregarded Injunction Even more irritating than the fact that they disregarded the injunction, in-junction, Judge Schiller commented, comment-ed, is the fact that the two men displayed the Blue Eagle while advertising cut rate prices and also Marthakis named his ' comJ pany after the "New Deal." Marthakis defended himself by maintaining that he did not understand un-derstand the court's order and that he did not think it applied to all grades of coal. As a condition of suspension of sentence, Marthakis was ordered, to report to the judge weekly while the suit to make the injunction injunc-tion permanent is pending. EREKSON FUNERAL Funeral of Henry Jonas Erek-son Erek-son will be held at 1:30 Sunday in the Fourth ward, it is announced. an-nounced. The Times states that a "survey "sur-vey of the November rolls showed today that fifty nine members, including in-cluding the resident commissioners from Puerto Rico and the Phil-lipine Phil-lipine Islands, had employes on the payroll whose last names were identical with those of the members." mem-bers." That many congressmen had members of their immediate families, fam-ilies, or close relatives on. the payrolls pay-rolls was freely admitted. There are said to be a number of relatives rela-tives of members employed as committee clerks or assistants, and it is known that several minor employes about the house are sons of members. WASHINGTON, Jan. G (U.R) A $1,000,000,000 inert-use in the national debt liability is contemplated by the administration admin-istration today to bolster the mortgage refinancing programs pro-grams of the Home Owners Loan corporation and the Farm Credit administration. The former is in rather serious difficulties. Its bonds have sagged. A federal guarantee is expected to be proposed pro-posed for the Farm Credit administration and perhaps for both next week. High councils of the administration are convinced a guarantee would lift the bonds from the 80's ft to par or near it. ! Hot Market Tip II I There, if the truth be known, lUO llOmG LOdDS is tne hottest and most authentic Completed By Provo Office Local Office Makes Enviable Record ; Many Homes Saved To Owners. United States government bonds in the sum of $241,690.29 coveting covet-ing 106 completed loans to home owners of Utah county constitutes consti-tutes the work of the Provo branch of the Home Owners' Loan corporation corpor-ation during the months of October, Octo-ber, November and December, according ac-cording to a report of Robert Elliot, El-liot, branch manager. These loans have been made to home owners in all parts of the county, arid have not only protected protect-ed them against foreclosures, but in many instances have provided for improvements, paid delinquent taxes, public improvement taxes and otherwise given relief, it is explained. 56S Applications During the brief period the local branch has been functioning 563 applications for home loans had been received, to and including in-cluding December 30, Mr. Elliott announces. In consideration of the amount of work involved with each loan made, the local office has made an enviable record, according ac-cording to information disclosed from the department at Washington. Washing-ton. That distressed home owners of Utah county are participating in the benefits of the home owners' loan act to a greater extent than those of many other sections is in- (Continued on Page Seven) WOMEN PLACED ON CWA WORK Approximately the full quota of 68 women are working on C.W.A. projects in Utah county following the state commitee's granting 01 the projects approved by the county coun-ty committee, headed by Mrs Thelma Weight of Provo. With 500 women applying foi C. W. A. jobs, the committee hopes to increase the county quota to allow more to get work. In addition ad-dition to the eight projects approved ap-proved finally by the state committee com-mittee recently, two more have been reported as passed and work will be started as soon as official word arrives, Mrs. Weight stated Saturday. Seven Projects The projects include all types of workers and are approved as follows: fol-lows: 1. Social case workers for Provo, Pleasant Grove, American Fork, Lehi, Payson, Spanish Fork and other communities, to visit homes and make investigations of applicants- for positions on the C. W. A. program, among othei social wnrk $117fi 2. Nurses for general clinic in,! LUC 1IUUL 41110 LVVO more are PIan-the PIan-the various communities, for work 1 ned for ln the rear of the building: in family health, maternity care ! The Rant for the Lincoln (Continued on Page Seven) i school is approximately $20,000 a C. of C. to Name f f 1 IlfriAC OflTI VlllVVIO Election of a president vice- president, secretary and treasurer treasur-er of the Provo chamber of commerce com-merce will take place en Monday, January 16 at a directors meeting, meet-ing, asccordinjr to Clayton Jenkins, Jenk-ins, executive-secretary of the chamber. The president and vice- president presi-dent must be selected from the directors although the secretary and the treasurer, appointive positions, may come from the chamber at large. " The present officers are: W. R. Butler, president; W. A. Huck-ins, Huck-ins, vice-president; Fred G. Warn-ick, Warn-ick, treasurer, and Mr. Jenkins, secretary. market tip out ot vvasnington in many a day. Each of these credit organizations organiza-tions has a potential $2,000,000,-000 $2,000,000,-000 bond issuing authority. The , overall estimate of a $4,000,000,-000 $4,000,000,-000 increase in the national debt liability may be out of line a matter mat-ter of $100,000,000 or so. But it is substantially correct. The increase in the debt liability liabil-ity of the nation is potential rather rath-er than absolute, owing to the fact that it must be assumed that the refinanced mortgage ultimately ulti-mately will be discharged and he bonds thereby retired without a call on the treasury. But if any deficiency existed, it is the judgment judg-ment of the administration that the government would have a moral obligation to make good, even if a legal guarantee were not provided. Interest Guaranteed In creating the two organizations, organiza-tions, congress pledged the government gov-ernment to guarantee the interest but not the principal of these bonds. The nonds were to be given to note holders in an effort to lighten the mortgage load of farm and home property owners. That the congress will be asked to guarantee the principal of Farm Credit administration bonds is practically certain. On the highest authority it may be said that a guarantee of Home Owners' Own-ers' Loan corporation bonds is likely. Many mortgage and note holder.-; are refusing to accept the Home Loan bonds. That attitude has been particularly marked in the vicinity of the Capital, despite de-spite the use in some instances of personal letters from Mr. Roosevelt. Roose-velt. The government's "bond salesmen" have presented them in vain. Backed as they are only by a guarantee as to interest, the J bonds have slumped well below par. There is no formal trading in them. The government is reported, re-ported, in fact, to have rather discouraged the provision of a regular market. But Home Loan Owners' bonds were quoted yesterday yes-terday at 86',. The disinclination of a mortgage mort-gage note holder to accept securities securi-ties so far below par and at a lower interest rate than that of the original obligation, is understandable under-standable to a degree, at least. BENCH SCHOOL TO BUILD SOON Lincoln high school will have a substantial building program under un-der the grant recently allowed to the Alpine school district on nonfederal non-federal allotments, according to A. V. Watkins, who did the legal work in the application. A program of builciing which will add 10 rooms to the senior high school building will be undertaken. un-dertaken. Eight of the rooms are to be added on the southeast portion por-tion of the building, to finish out large snare or tne $5u.OOO for the district. The application went through and was granted without a auest- ! ion by the state or national au- thorities, and although it was one I of the last made it was among j the first granted. business Survey To Commence Soon A. R. Taylor, former department manager of the Taylor Brothers company, will be in charge of the census and survey of commerce" and business to be undertaken in this part of the state as part of the CWA program. . Mr. Taylor is now in Salt Lake to make final arrangements for the beginning of the survey. He stated Saturday that he has not yet selected his crew. The work wm prooamy Degm Monday Tuesday. or Depositors of the Provo Commercial a n d Savings bank, or-at least as many of them as-were able to squeeze into a crowded district court room, gave unanimous approval ap-proval Friday night to a proposed pro-posed riiove which will put the committee of 12 on an equal footing with the state banking commissioner in the management of the bank. Based On New Law Under the proposed plan, the depositors of the bank will avail themselves of a new banking law enacted by the special session of the state legislature which provides pro-vides "that whenever 65 per cent of the deposit liability and not less than 65 percent in number of the depositors of a closed bank shall have selected a committee to represent them in relation to the affairs of such bank, the bank commissioner shall advise with such committee and so far as practicable, shall be guided by the directors of such committee m he selection of counsel," deputies, depu-ties, assistants, clerks and examiners exam-iners to be employed by him in connection with the liquidation of the affairs of such closed bank." In order to carry out this plan of giving the committee legal authority it will be necessary that depositors call at the Provo Commercial Com-mercial and Savings bank, beginning begin-ning Monday morning, and sign the authorization forms to be provided pro-vided tor that purpose. Depositors who sign these authorization forms do not in any way waive their deposits or in any other way effect their rights as depositors. They merely acknowledge their consent t giving tn committee' which represents them full legal and statutory standing jointly with the state bank commissioner. Van In Charge-Alma Charge-Alma Van Wagenen, chairman of the committee, was in charge of the meeting. Following an in- ( Continued on Page Eight ) S. L HOLDUP FRUSTRATE SALT LAKE Wynn Parry, 27, service station operator at 545 South Ninth West street Salt Lake was shot through the wrist Saturday when he and his two brothers frustrated a daring attempted at-tempted daylight robbery by a man paroled two weeks out of the state prison. As the result of (he attempt Arthur Hadka. 26, is lodged in the city jail on an open chaip.e Delinquent Tax Collections Gain Collection of delinquent taxes during the last quarter of 1933 bettered by Dearly $13,000 the delinquent de-linquent tax collection's during thq same period in 1932, according to fierures compiled Friday . at tbq office of County Treasurer John C. Taylor. During the last quarter of 1933 October,! November and December there was a collection of $39,454 of delinquent taxes. In the sama period in 1932 the collection was $26,711. The compilations were made by Daryl Fowler, deputy in. the office. $QYS BEVERLY HILLS. Calif., Jan. 5 This country ruas to the figure ten. There has been many who has had to say. "Mr., can you spare a dime." But President Roosevelt is the first man In the history of the world, who looked a nation right in the face and said, Mister, can you spare ten billion bil-lion dollars?" Well congress and the American Am-erican people considered it Kuch a compliment to be asked for that much that they really liked it. Tours, V: W 0GGERS |