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Show 1 Weather Forecast UTAH: Fair Sunday; colder tonight. to-night. Maximum temp., Friday 47 Minimum temp., Friday 30 Maximum temp., Saturday . . 40 Minimum temp., Saturday . . 38 Herald. Your Newspaper With no private axes to grind; no selfish personal interests to nerve, and no financial strings leading to any other source of power or Influence. VOL. 11, NO. 27 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1934 PRICE: FIVE CENTS COUGARS WIN BOTH GAMES FROM UTES To Speak Here j Democratic Meeting AIR MAIL IS TAKEN OVER BY ARMY MEN Roosevelt Will Boost Silver Price To $1.29 Soon Predicts Malone MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's doing On in National Affairs Called To Consider Postmaster Tangle Hv IMiEU PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN Smmday FTpnl WASHINCTON This is the story of Ceorge Henry Dt'rn and his war department for eleven months the sleepiest place in Washington, Washing-ton, now the liveliest. The first part of the story is not exciting. Dern didn't want to be secretary of war, much "preferred the originally proffered post of secretary of Interior. Corn-mil Corn-mil from Utah, he knew something some-thing about deserts, public lands .uid reclamation, and he would have done a first class job. But Senator Hiram Johnson of California objected. Hiram pointed out that the secretary of interior ruled upon the diversions di-versions 01 waters from Boulder Boul-der dam, a ' that California, Utah and ot. western states were in hectic agreement on this poin. i.o ex-Rovemor of Utah, he said, could be impartial. im-partial. So Dern was switched switch-ed to the war department. As a member of the New Deal cabinet he has been grand. He has worked well with the hardhitting hard-hitting Wallace and Ickes, has not said much, but always is in the right place when the time comes. As secretary of war. however, Pern has been complacent and sleepy. Not in the best of health, lie retired to a private office every afternoon for a nap. The war department was a vastly new and complicated piece of machinery machin-ery after the open spaces of Utah, and Dern didn't like to stick his fingers into it. He didn't know whether the problem of air coast defense belonged to the army or the navy, and as long as the coast was defended, what did it matter. . . "I ARTHUR AND MARTYN jc . One of the most capable men in the cabinet, one of the most potentially powerful personalities, Dern put himself on the shelf. To all intents and purpoaes two other men acted as secretary of war. One was General Douglas Mac-Arthur, Mac-Arthur, chief of Btaff, the other .lohn W. Martyn, administrative assistant. Martyn came into the war department de-partment when Harding turned out all the Democrats in 1921. For twelve years thereafter he served under Republican chiefs, became a citadel of Republicanism, Republican-ism, and the man most familiar with war department red tape. Absolutely green, Dern leaned on Martyn heavily. Martyn sat in on every conference, con-ference, answered most of the mail, signed much of It himself. him-self. In the civilian end of the war department, Martyn was all-powerful. Equally omnipotent but in the military end was MacArthur. The son of a general and himself (Continued on Page Four) Court Grants Bank Petition Tetition asking authority to sell i,o arres of land and water stock on Spanish Fork property for $500 and for a Burough's bookkeeping book-keeping and posting machine was granted to John A. Malia, state banking commissioner by Judge M M. Larson in the Fourth district dis-trict court Saturday. Mr. Malia was acting for the Provo Commercial Commer-cial and Savings bank in seeking a court ocder to sell property. The Court also ratified the actions ac-tions of the banking commissioner, who through his agents, accepted government bonds for five mortgages mort-gages which were turned over to the Home Owners' Loan Corporation. Corpora-tion. He was given authority to accept bonds for 10 more mortgages. mort-gages. Aids in Man Hunt ST. PAUL, Feb. 10 U.f: Adolf Micmer, a powerful banker and friend of President Roosevelt, today to-day added his influence and resources re-sources to the federal department of justice agents' hunt for a band of men which kidnaped his son, Edward. Bremer furnished the federal men with a complete list of serial numbers copied from the bills with which $200,000 ransom was paid for his son's release, the United Press learned. EGG SHIPMENT STOLEN Approximately 42 cases of eggs belonging to the Utah Poultry association as-sociation were stolen from a Salt Lake and Utah Railroad freight car Friday night, according to a report at the office of Police Chief John E. Harris. Millet Leads Last - Minute Rally That Nips Ute Game Chances TEAM STANDING W. L. B. Y. U 7 1 Aggies 6 2 U. of U . 5 5 Montana State 0 10 Friday's Results : B. Y. U. 45, Utah 31. .Saturday's Results: B. Y. U. 40, Utah 28. Pet. .875 .750 .500 .000 BY J. R. PAULSON Rising to frenzied heights in the last seven minutes of their second game with Utah, the Brig-ham Brig-ham Young university Cougars made it two in a row over the Utes Saturday night, winning out 40-28 after a bad scare in the second half. The victory gives the Cougars seven wins and one loss and a firm hold on the western division leadership. After leading at the end of the first half, 19 to 14, in which they had possession of the ball three-fourths three-fourths of the time, the Cougars were nearly nipped when lanky Ed Erekson and Miller staged a quick rally in the middle of the second half which brought the Utes to 25-26. Speeds Up It was at this point that the ball game was turned into a madhouse, mad-house, both teams rustling in heroic style and the ball changing hands almost too fast for the eye to follow. It was Floyd Millet, all-conference Cougar forward, who led the Cougars out of danger. Millet started a rally that out-rallied out-rallied the Utah rally; that's the thing in a nutshell. Millet snagged the ball out of Onan Mecham's hands and swished one through the net from the center of the floor, scored another from the foul line, followed by a third long shot at the side, the "Y" crowd howling with glee as the Utah menace was curbed. The game steadily became rougher and faster. Johnson Gets Pair Joe Johnson, who had gone in for Dick Grimmett, then shoveled one through and Callis halted the scoring orgy momentarily with a foul toss. Johnson flipped in his (Continued on Page Four) Too Much Cougars! The score: B. Y. U. G. T. F P .7 6 4 IS Millet, rf Grimmett, If 2 Nelson, c 2 Whitman, rg 1 0 0 5 2 1 2 Hunter, lg-c. . . 1 2 1 Johnson, f 2 2 2 Giles, f 0 0 0 0 Cannon, g 0 0 0 0 Totals 15 17 10 40 UTAH G. T. F. P. Erekson. rf 3 0 0 6 Miller, If 3 5 3 9 Kinner, c 1 2 2 4 Kramer, rg 2 4 2 6 Mecham, lg .1 0 0 2 Larsen, f 0 0 0 0 Callis, c '. 0 2 1 1 Richins, g 0 0 0 0 Totals 10 13 8 28 NEW DEMURRER IN BANK CASE An attempt to throw a legal monkey wrench into the machinery machin-ery of certain stockholders of the closed Commercial and Savings Bank was made Saturday when Dan B. Shields, attroney for the state banking department filed a demurrer and a motion to strike against the suit brought by Fred W. Taylor. J. Palmer Sharp, James P. Sharp, Lula Sharp and Ruth Hatch. The demurrer is filed in behalf of John A. Malia, E. H. Street, the Provo Commercial and Savings Sav-ings bank and Preston G. Peterson, Peter-son, director, against whom the original complaint of the stockholders stock-holders was directed. The complaint com-plaint of the stockholders was primarily to avoid payment of 100 per cent assessment on their stock because of alleged irregularities in the conduct of the bank's business. busi-ness. In the demurrer filed by Mr. Shields it is charged there is a defect in the stockholders' complaint com-plaint in that it names only one director, Mr. Peterson. Further, thev make motion to strike the entire complaint for various technical tech-nical reasons. HOWARD PATIENCE CHAMBER PLANS BANQUET HERE Denver Man To. Address Annual An-nual Membership Meeting Thursday Night. Chairman George Ramsay announces an-nounces that all preparations are made for the banquet and program pro-gram which are to be held Thursday Thurs-day evening, February 15th, at the Hotel Roberts. Howard Patience of Denvei will be the principal speaker. Besides being president of the Denver Kiwanis club, Mr. Patience is chairman of the program committee com-mittee of the Denver chamber of commerce; a trustee of the Clayton Clay-ton College for Boys and is generally gen-erally active in civic affairs in Denver. He is district manager for the Western Auto Supply company. In a letter to the chamber of commerce. Mr. Patience says he will leave Denver on the afternoon after-noon of February 14th in time to reach Provo for the meeting Thursday evening. A. Rex Johnson, assistant professor pro-fessor of economies' at the Brig-ham Brig-ham Young university, will be the toastmaster. Musical numbers and other entertainment en-tertainment are being provided by the committee. Tickets for the banquet should be secured from Vernard Anderson Ander-son at Maiben's Glass and Paint store, chamber of commerce, Mr. Ramsay or any member of the committee. JOHNSON PLANS 32-HOUR WEEK WASHINGTON, Fob III U :.H Recovery administrator Johnson expects to lay proposals for a 32-hour 32-hour work week before code authorities auth-orities of nearly 300 industries at their meeting here March f. Johnson said that by that time he will have developed his policy on reduction of hours, price provisions, pro-visions, and a "lot of things" which have troubled the code officials. of-ficials. He holds firmly the idea that labor wants an eight hour day and four day week rather than any division for more days with shorter hours. "Industry is geared gear-ed to an eight hour day and it gives days and not hours off to people who profit by the shorter week," he said. He is also certain that hours must be reduced. CWA PAYROLL TAKES RAISE Utah county's CWA payroll for the past week, which was reflected reflect-ed in the checks given out Saturday, Satur-day, was about $500 more than the previous Saturday, it is shown in reports at the office of County Disbursing Agent E. R. Henrich-sen. Henrich-sen. The payroll for the past week was $21,667; the total pay for the week . before was $21,186. This increase is partly due to the payment pay-ment of a crew from Pleasant Grove whose pay had been held up because of some irregularities. The total payroll has slumped practically $10,000 from the peak it reached a month ago of approx. imately $32,000. The payroll is distributed as follows: four federal projects $2820; administrative $183.50, local and state $18,859.30. Happy Birthday " s ... ! . V The Herald extends hearty greetings to Mm. Agnes Giles who celebrated her 70th birthday anniversary here Saturday. City Chairman Responds To Request Made In Petition By Calling Meeting of City Committee For Wednesday Democratic party leaders of Provo will attempt to settle the question of the Provo postmastership appointment at a meeting of the city committee, to be held Wednesday night. The call for the meeting was issued Saturday by J. M. Herbert, chairman, and Mrs. Algie E. Ballif, chairwoman, after a petition signed by a majority of the members of the committee, requesting such a meeting, had been presented. A strenuous fight is predicted at the meeting on the question ques-tion of reconsidering the recent action of the city committee in endorsing J. W. Dangerfield, owner of the Provo Post Publishing company. "Railroading" Charged Charges have been made that the endorsement of Mr. Danger-field Danger-field was "railroaded" through the meeting by Congressman J. W. Robinson and his friends at that time. It is also charged that no notice was given that the endorsement en-dorsement was to be considered at that meeting. Petitions have been circulated among businessmen of both political poli-tical parties in behalf of R. J. Murdock, who is a candidate for the position, also. This petition will be forwarded to Postmaster General James A. Farley. Friends and backers of Mr. Murdock claim that they already have a majority of the city committee com-mittee pledged in his behalf. One peculiar situation arises through the fact that the reorganization reorgan-ization of the committee has taken tak-en place since the meeting was held at which Mr. Dangerfield was endorsed. In this reorganization, many of those who originally voted to endorse Dangerfield have been replaced. Congressman Robinson explains his stand in the matter in a communication com-munication printed in this issue. T TO SEEK STUDENT AID j Brigham Young u ni versity j was authorized Friday by the board of trustees to take ad-I ad-I vantage of the new act providing some college students with part-j part-j time work under the federal relief re-lief administration. The excutive committee of the board met in President F. S. Harris office Friday Fri-day afternoon. New plans for the 1934 summer quarters were also approved. These included the appointment of Dr. Read Bain, professor of sociology, Miami university, and Dr. Charles C. Weidermann, professor pro-fessor of orducational adminis- ( Continued on Page Eight) Teachers Back Insurance Plan Endorsement -of the proposed insurance plan for teachers was voted at the regional conference of teachers for four Central Utah districts held Saturday at the Central school. The plan which was presented by W. L. Mitchell of Provo provides insurance to teachers at a cost of four dollars per year besides the initial fee of two dollars. The speakers were Dr. A. N. Merrill, B. Y. U.; A. I. Tippetts, Ephraim and Mr. Mitchell. W. VV. Brockbank, Spanish Fork, led in the discussion and Fred Strate, Provo was in charge. The speakers urged the teachers to assume a professional attitude and stressed the necessity of cooperation. co-operation. Commencing on the low salary trends, Dr. Merrill declared that 26 per cent of the teachers in Utah are receiving no more than $2 per day. Thousands of Shares Unloaded In Frenzied Market Selling NEW YORK, Feb. 10 d lThe public and professional traders c6mbined today in unloading thousands of shares of stock on the market fearful of consequences conse-quences of stock market legislation legis-lation and rescinding of air mail contracts by the government. Prices dropped abruptly. Specialists, Spec-ialists, their books loaded with overnight orders to sell at the market, could not arrive at prices. Board rooms in brokerage houses, ordinarily deserted on the two- Robinson Tells His Version Of Postmaster Row Congressman Points Out How Endorsement Was Made of Dangerfield. Congressman J. W. Robinson who has recommended the appointment ap-pointment of J. W. Dangerfield, Provo printer for the poastmaster-ship poastmaster-ship position at Provo, has explained ex-plained the circumstances under which the endorsement of Danger-field Danger-field was brought about in a letter to the Herald reproduced below. Mr. Robinson's letter follows: February 5, 1934. Provo Herald Provo, Utah Gentlemen: In order that the people of Provo Pro-vo might know my position with respect to the postmastership of Provo, I wish to state, briefly, that in December, 1933, I was notified by the post office department that Ht wanted me to recommend a postmaster for Provo. Upon receipt re-ceipt of this request, I asked George A. Brown, , Provo city chairman of the Democratic committee, com-mittee, to call his committee together to-gether and have it endorse the person per-son of their choice, so that I might forward the name of the one thus endorsed to the department depart-ment immediately upon my return to Washington. Mr. Brown called his committee commit-tee together. There was a very fine representative group at that meeting meet-ing every district being represented repre-sented save one. I had the privilege privi-lege of addressing the committee at this meeting, and in the course of my talk I made it very clear that if the committee could agree upon a man for the postmastership, postmaster-ship, that I would immediately send his or her name to the de partment. Following this meeting, and before be-fore returning to Washington, I received the following letter from Chairman Brown: "I take pleasure in handing herewith an approved application applica-tion of J. W. Dangerfield for the position of postmaster of Provo City. "It was gratifying to see the splendid sknrit that prevailed pre-vailed at our' meeting last evening, and I am sure that this wonderful unanimous (Continued on Page Eight) Officers Seeking Missing S. L. Girls Provo police were keeping a lookout Saturday for two 15-year-old Salt Lake girls who are said to have disappeared disap-peared from the state capital. One girl. Virginia Burning-ham Burning-ham was described as being five feet six inches tall, with brown eyes, brown hair, a dark dress with brown coat and brown slippers. The other Ardil Brady was 115 pounds in weight, had brown eyes and brown hair and wore dark clothes with a red neck scarf. hour Saturday session, were filled with traders whose holdings ranged rang-ed from a few shares to thousands. thou-sands. Brokerage employees went into their offices and the traders on to the floor of the stock exchange a little earlier today. There was unanimity that the announcement of drastic stock market legislation legisla-tion .made after close of the market mar-ket yesterday, and rescinding oi air mail contracts as result of the government investigation would lead to a heavy flood of orders. Private Air Lines Threaten! Finht When Roosevelt Cancels Contracts WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 j (U.R) Weapons of war were ; turned to the pursuits of j peace today as the army air i service was mobilized to car ry ihe country's airmail. Tele of protest artved at j the White House air mail operators whose mail carry-! ing contracts were abruptly can- I ceiled by President Roosevelt's or- , der. Hints of a "fight to the fin- ish" came to the Capital from the headquarters of several air lines. The 1,600 planes of the nation's fighting forces were detailed to take over the mail service on Feb. 19, under executive order of Presi- j dent Roosevelt. Dern To Aid In the emergency created by . cancellation of the contracts, the j president directed Secretary of I War Dern to place at the disposal of the postoffice department suf ticient planes ports and person- nel to maintain the necessary service. Abrogation of contracts with private carriers was based on suspicion of fraud during the Hoover Hoo-ver administration when the contracts con-tracts were negotiated. The president, presi-dent, Postmaster General Farley and Attorney General Cummings decided o ncencelation after reviewing re-viewing evidence of a senate investigating in-vestigating committee. The administration action led to me oenei mat uie canymg oi mt- ; fairs and nfiiped organize and act-airmail act-airmail was doomed as a private i ed as presient of the Provo Busi-industry Busi-industry and that it would be con- ; negs and Professionai club last verted into a government service. year This prompted quick inquiries ' from leaders of the vast aeronau tical business. The White House J was unprepared to answer them at once. The aviation men indi- j cated they intended to wage a protective fight for their field. Pilots Retained The air corps stood ready to throw all its resources in men and machines into the emergency task of carrying the mail. One of tho first considerations of General MacArthur, chief of staff, and General Benjamin Foulois, chief of the air corps, was that no regular regu-lar air mail pilot should lose his job. PARK SPRINGS, Calif., Feb. 10 r.l? Walter Varncy and Louis Mueller, air mail pioneers, today offered to operate the nation's air mail traffic r the stamp revenue alone, foregoing any government subsidy. The proposal transmitted to Postmaster General James Farley by the two men who held the first air mail contract could be effected within 30 days with 20 available high-speed planes at an annual saving to the government of $10,-000,000, $10,-000,000, Varney said "Provided we are allowed to revise the present air mail map, we will engage to carry all the domestic air mail for the total air mail stamp revenue, Varney said he had notified Farley. CITY EXPENSES GAIN $1217.49 Expenses of Provo city during the month of January were higher this year than in the same month of 1933, while collections in the general department were higher and were lower in the water department, de-partment, it is shown in the monthly report of Mrs. Mary F. Smith, city auditor. Total net expenditures in the general fund came to $11,097.04 in January; the expenses were $9,-879.53 $9,-879.53 last year. Expenses in the public affairs and finance department de-partment were lower this year but the biggest rise this year comes in the streets and public improvements improve-ments department. Where no money was spent in January 1933 for public improvements, there was $1,772 expended this year. The comparison of the expenses (Continued on Page Eight) Lincoln's Birthday Observed Tomorrow Lincoln's birthday will be observed ob-served Monday in the schools of Provo and at the B. Y. U. with special programs in memory of the Great Emancipator. The banks, postoffice, and city and county offices will be closed but the stores and business houses will remain re-main open. The county commissioners commis-sioners will not hold their usual meeting, Monday. Remonetization of White Metal To Be Done By Means of Presidential Proclamation To Follow Lines DENVER, Colo., Feb. 10 (U.R) President Roosevelt will remonetize silver, in effect, by an executive proclamation in the immediate future, George W. Malone, chairman of the western states silver committee predicted today. Malone, state engineer for Nevada, issued a statement predicting the presidential closely tho Wheeler silver amendment to the administration sold bill. The amendment aS defeated by two votes m a surprise showing of silver strength in the U. b. senate, Jan. 27. VanWagenen Will Manage Scout Drive Rulon Van Wagenen, proprietor of the Van's Shoe store, has been chosen as the chairman of tho Provo district boy scout drive, it w announccd Saturday by A A Anderson, scout executive, and W. A. Huckins. Details of the annual drive will be worked out in a meeting Sunday Sun-day when the plans will bo mapped. It is expected that the drive will be much shorter and more concentrated this year than in former years. It will be held some time this month, according to tentative plans. Mr. Van Wagenen has had considerable con-siderable experience in civic af- RANCHER KILLS TWO AND SELF BYKRS, Colo., Feb. 10 UM'i A ranch homo ten miles north of here on the Colorado prairie was tho scene last night of a tragedy in which a 58-year-old head of a family shot three members of his own household, two of them fatally fatal-ly and then turned his shotgun upon himself. The ranches, Emil Stepputtis, formerly considered weathy, died in Colorado general hospital at Denver todav at 5:30 a. m. from I self-inflicted wounds in the and o- men. His youngost daughter Elsa, IK and tho tnan she married only 12 days ago, Elmo Demonoy, 21, were dead. They were killed instantly, in-stantly, officers believe, in tho bedroom of the Stepputiss home which had served as their bridal suite since their marriage to which Stepputtis had strongly objected. ob-jected. Also shot but not seriously wounded when the rancher's mind apparently went suddenly blank was his son. Walter. 23. He. too. was 'in Colorado general hospital but was expected to recover from shotgun wounds in his left leg and right arm. Five other persons who were at the ranch house during the shooting shoot-ing escaped Stepputtis' sudden fury. Rules Are Given For Medical Aid In Relief Cases Persons in Utah county desiring 1 medical relief in the home and ! child health recovery program ! must present themselves at the ! weekly free clinics which will be j set up by the local advisory board of doctors and dentists. Taking! the examination as a basis the advisory committee will approve or disapprove each case on its ; own merits and refer the cases i to the family doctors according to i the findings, says W. Lester Man- j gum. county manager. i The advisory committee mem- j bers will affix their signatures to the recommendations and the family fam-ily doctor or dentist will then attach at-tach this sub-committee approval to his bill in submitting it to the county for payment. So far in the county part of the advisory boards Continued on Page Eight) Beet Quota Too Low GREELEY, Colo., Feb. 9 (U.R Although somewhat disappointed at the quota set for domestic beet sugar, J. D. Pancake, secretary of the National Beet Sugar Growers association, today expressed himself him-self as "highly pleased" that President Roosevelt had recommended recom-mended a sugar control program to congress. of Wheeler Bill proclamation would resemme Reduce Silver Content The act would be effected by reduction re-duction of the silver content of the dollar and issuance of silver certificates for all silver offered, Malone believed. "I predict that within a very short time the president will make an announcement relative to tho use of silver in our monetary system," sys-tem," said Malone, in his statement state-ment just before he left Denver for Utah and Nevada. Such an executive order would bring about a price of $1 29, tho present legal rate for silver. "If such an order is made thai would satisfy the requirements of the Wheeler amendment, it should be incorporated into law at thus session of congress," said Malone, "so that it would not be subject to another modifying order, and so that any change would have to be made by the congress alter hearings and debate." "It makes little difference what, form euch legislation takes, so that silver is made a primary money and the price relation to gold is regulated by law." Three Effects Outlined - Malone outlined three possible effects of purchase by the government govern-ment at the legal 16 to 1 ratio of all silver offered, and the issuance for it of silver certificates. Holders Hold-ers of the certificates could: "1. Return the certificates and receive the silver. "2. Buy foreign money on tho international exchange, throwing the trade balance in our favor. "3 Buy goods or services in the United States. "The embargo on gold precludes any other result." The president defeated the Wheeler amendment by sending a i Continued on Pago Eight LEGION MEET AT S.F. TODAY SPANISH FORK legionnaires of Spanish Fork will be hosts to the American Legion and auxiliary district convention at- the junior high school auditorium today, ginning at 10 a. m with a joint meeting. Luncheon will be served at noon. Among the visitors expected ex-pected are Lester A. Blackner. de-jartment de-jartment commander: Otto A Wiesley, adjutant; Darrell T Lane, national committeeman; Charles R. Mabey. past department depart-ment commander. John Morley of Eureka, department commander, will be in cfTarge of the sessions Gold Holdings High WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 r.P -Gold resources of the United States government have climbed to another record high of $7,-038,521,441.33, $7,-038,521,441.33, the daily treasury statement revealed todav. BEVERLY HILLS. Cal. Feb. 9 In England statistics show-that show-that over 50 percent nf criminals crim-inals commit suicide before being caught, knowing what, will happen to 'em when they are captured. Can you imagine imag-ine ours doing that. Look at the publicity they would miss. But are our courts and judges changing? For didn't this Sankey commit suicide in jail? Maybe this is liable to start a fad. Monday France wanted communism. com-munism. Tuesday they wanted want-ed a king. Wednesday an old man told 'em to go home and have a good drink of vin take a nap, and forget it. Just about what will satisfy any mob. Yours, Ci. UNiufct BjndltiU. Y "says: |