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Show Jl V. A v Four Newspaper With iio private axes to grind; no selfish personal Interests to serve, and no financial -. strings leading to any other goorce of power or influence. 1 - Weather Forecast UTAH Sunday generally fair. Maximum temp. Friday 63 Minimum temp. Friday 42 Maximum temp, Saturday 65 Minimum temp.' Saturday .... 41 - 1 PRICE FIVE CENTS VOL. Xh NO. 35 K 0 V 0, UT AH COUN TX ' UTAH,; SU N D A Y,y APRIL 19 3 4 i ' . ..i T,:.-v Jllie bieiraia V A Daily Picture of What's (ioirig On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON The sud-den sud-den palpitation of the public pulse- over the spectre of Communism in the Brain Trust, as dished up by Dr. William A. Wirt, is at one and, the same time the most ludicrous and serious thing: that has hjtt the New Deal. " Its ludicrous aspects are derived from the side-splitting circumstances circum-stances under which the learned doctor accumulated his "evidence." Its serious aspect is that a large number of people seem willing to be stampeded into any phony belief be-lief that fits the fancy of Big Business. Just at present it fits the fancy of Big Business to raise the bogey of Bolshevism against the Brain Trust a tag ' applied to anyone - having the ear of the president, who whispers in his ear ideas 'on ' stock market control or business reform. v- Dr. Wirt, the Hamilton Fish of the . new red scare, has .-spent the last 27 years of his life 'in the one town in the United States con- i trolled body and soul by the U. S. Steel - corporation. He is super- Intendent of schools in Gary, Indiana. In-diana. . No man could hold, that job and not be amenable to Big Business; Busi-ness; though at one time Dr. Wirt introduced educational reforms - which,;, in the' scholastic world, were considerd as revolutionary as the machinations which he now lays at the .doorstep of the Brain Trust. ' . For Dr. Wirt is father of the "Gary" or "platoon"; "system in public schools. This is a method of alternating -classes between regular and special teachers in order to increase the capacity of the school building forty percent. So great was Dr.1 Wirt's vogue at one time, that he was engaged at $10,000 a yearto introduce the system' in New ,York City until , m Mayor, Hylan..: considered ittm. revolutionary and kicked him out. CAPITAL SLUMMING Since Dr. Wirt has stuck to his knitting at fGiuryi except for occasional oc-casional visits to Washington .when at different times he has advocated the cancellation of war debts, proposed , to Herbert Hoover Hoo-ver a plan for ending the depression, depres-sion, and urged paper money on the New Deal. " Last August the good doctor made one of .his pligrimages to the nation's capital. This time he didnot visit his usual haunts (Continued on Page Four) LOMSOCIETY PAYS $102,700 The purchasing power and circulating circu-lating currency medium of Provo will be augmented by a cash distribution dis-tribution of $102,700 to be made by the Provo Building and Loan Society So-ciety beginning' Monday. The -payment represents i027 shares of series 21 of the investment invest-ment stock of: the society which matures on that day, according to LeRoy Olsen, "secretary. Most of the stock, is held by Provo resi- I ' dents. The payment will be made I Y in cash at the par value of $100 pep share. Romney To Give f Easter Sermon George Ottinger Romney, professor pro-fessor of physical education at the Brigham Young university, will give the Easter sermon at the Provo Sixth ward tonight at 6:30, it was announced by Bishop Herald R. Clark Saturday. Prof. Romney is well known as a speaker speak-er 'of more than ordinary ability. The r Herald extends sincere . greetings to Mrs. Caroline Blumen-thaL Blumen-thaL JGrandma BiumenehaV who has a host, of friends and well- wishers is 85 years old todav. Congratulations also to Miss Alice Reynolds, professor of English lit erature at the B. Y. U.; O. R. i nomas, manager : of the Provo Greenhouse and S. IL Jones, Dixon junior high school teacher whose) birthdays ; also occur -on April Pool's day. Also greetings to James C. Snow, popular Provo '. police, captain who was 60 years old Saturday and George S. Bunk-, Bunk-, erP i Vineyard, - whose anniversary also occurred, Saturday. i SENATE TO ASK CONTROL OF TREASURY House Bill , Re-written To Require Senate Okeh On Appointments WASHINGTON, March 31 (U.R) An effort by congress to recapture some powers that have escaped in the rush of emergency legislation developed devel-oped today in a , move to bring additional treasury department de-partment appointments, particularly par-ticularly in the operation of . the $2,000,000,000 stabilization fund, under senate scrutiny. x The senate finance committee, presenting the $330,000,000 tax bill for debate beginning Monday, rewrote house provisions so that 12 important treasury posts could be filled only with the senate's approval. ap-proval. House Bill Changed The movement is related both to protests that congress has surrendered sur-rendered too many prerogatives, and to attacks which have been made in the past on the "Brain Trust" personnel and on individual individ-ual treasury appointments. As the tax bill passed the house it provided for the appointment ap-pointment by the secretary of treasury of 10 assistants to handle han-dle the $2,000,000,000 stabilization fund, which was created for a period of at least two years to operate in. foreign exchange in order to prevent violent fluctuations fluctua-tions in the American dollar. The senate finance committee changed this section in two respects. re-spects. It reduced the number of assistants from 10 to 5, and inserted a provision shifting the appointive power to the president, "with the advice and consent of the senate." MILLION VETS GAIN BENEFITS WASHINGTON, March 31 U.E More than half a million war veterans or their dependents would benefit to the extent of $83,000,-000 $83,000,-000 annually under the provisions of the independent offices appro-priatoin appro-priatoin act which passed over President Roosevelt's veto early this week, Frank T.' Hines, administrator ad-ministrator of veterans affairs said today. Beneficiaries, he said, include approximately 330,000 world war veterans, 180,600 Spanish war veterans and 34,900 dependents of Spanish war veterans. . Action is being taken, he continued, con-tinued, to restore pension or compensation com-pensation lost under the economy act of . a year ago in cases not requiring an administrative review. re-view. He sd steps were being taken to avoid delays in other cases. Garden Expert To Speak Here Secrets of successful rose culture cul-ture will be divulged by Mrs. Maud Chegwidden, noted garden expert of Salt Lake, at the meeting meet-ing of the Provo City Garden club, Monday night in the city and county building. The public is invited to attend the meeting, which begins at 8 p. m. Mrs. Alex Hedquist, president, will be in charge. Members of the club who have paid their dues are eligible to attend at-tend the .criticism class in landscaping, land-scaping, taught by Prof. Laval Morris, which convenes Wednesday Wednes-day evening at the B. Y. U. Roosevelt Enjoys Vacation With Swimming, Fisfiing MIAMI, Fla., March 31 (HE) President Rpspevelt, aboard the yacht Nourmahal, proceeded to ,Grat Abaco island in the Bahamas today for further fishing and swimming." A message' to Col. Marvin H. Mclntyre," his secretary, at the temporary white house offices here, 'said: - .. : , - "At noon and probably throughout through-out the day he will be anchored half a mile off Rocky Point, Great Abaco island, lat. 25.56 north, long. 77.23 west.?. . - ' ; The message was signed by Vincent Vin-cent Astor, owner of the yacht. -. . The presidential; party proceeded proceed-ed to Great Abaco from Andros inland, which .was reached after a visit to Nassau, seat of govern ment zor me. Ba&amas. i - 1803 Students To Compete In From jl500 jto -1800 high school musicians from Utah and Juap counties are expected ex-pected t participate in the regional music contests to be held in f rovo April 14. The doming events consist con-sist of vJcal and instrumental instrument-al contests, glee groups, iuets, solos, girls' trios, choruses, quartets and small ensemW3. The. .band and orchestra contest will be held in the afternofli, climaxed by a mammoth band parade from the nigh school building to East Center and First East where the street will be roped off for a marching and drill exhibition by the participating par-ticipating bands. 5 ForliewGarbage Collection Plan Contractor Ready To Begin Service; Receptacles Must Be At Curb. An attempt to launch the new garbage collection system by" Monday, April 9 is being made by the contractor, Vivian Harrison, the city authorities and the Women's Wo-men's Council and other club who are sponsoring the project as a worthy community undertaking. Under . the plan, home-owners and renters are asked to sign an agreement to. take the service at a charge of 50 cents per month. In order to take care of some families free, i . is necessary to get a minimum of 600 agreements signed up. A block-to-block canvass can-vass is now being made by the women's clubs cooperating in the project. ; 4roaeity commissioners are backiagf the project 100 per cent and .bate indicated a willingness to go as far as they can to insure in-sure the success of the plan. Collections will be made on a twice-a-week basis if present plans are carried out. Wet garbage gar-bage and ashes, placed in suitable receptacles at the curb, will be hauled away. The contractor intends in-tends to notify residents in var ious parts of town the day and hour when the collection will be made so that the containers can be placed at the curb for collection. collec-tion. The sponsoring clubs are ready to guarantee efficient service on the part of the contractor if the residents sign the agreements. GERIMSPLM DEBTPOTEIff WASHINGTON, March 31 ile The German government today agreed to make a token payment of approximately $1,-250,000 $1,-250,000 on its debt of approximately approxi-mately $50,000,000 due the United Unit-ed States treasury today. The agreement was announced by Secretary of State Cordell Hull. The payments due were on account of mixed claims payments pay-ments and interest, and the costs of the American army of occupation occu-pation in Germany, which were postponed by the Hoover moratorium mora-torium agreement of 1930. The exact amount being paid by Germany is 3,177,125 reichs marks. Although payments were due today, a three-day postponement was taken because March 31 and April 2 are legal bank holidays holi-days in Germany. The , state department said the sum being paid is equal to the interest due today on the installments install-ments postponed under the moratorium. mora-torium. Of the sum being paid 2,550,000 reich marks will be applied on the semi-annual Interest payments on the postponed payments due on account of mixed. claims, and 627,125 reichs marks will be applied, ap-plied, as semi-annual interest on postponed' payments on account of army of occupation costs. The total due from Germany today was 127,106,174.45 reich-marks. reich-marks. . u Rescue Plane Down NOME, Alaska, March 31 0JJ!) The Russian plane sent out to aid 91 men marrooned on Bering Sea ice floes was reported grounded by storms today on Kolyuchin Island, 320 miles, northwest of Nome.. The plane left here tThursday for a survey flight over the Arctic seas in an effort to find a 'landing 'land-ing place pn the' floes 4 where the crew of a Soviet ice breaker has been! stranded.:' since; ; early last month. . . . 4 " Music Contest Made mm 376 Students from Three Western States Vie I For Honors Brilliant individual achievements achieve-ments in typewriting, shorthand short-hand and bookkeeping events were recorded in the. tenth annual Utah state high school commercial contest which was held at the Brig-jham Brig-jham Young university Friday, Fri-day, with Professor A. Rex Johr-son Johr-son in charge. , ' ; High - school - students of three states, Utah Idaho and Wyoming, shared in the honors which were quite evenly:" distributed. .There- were . 376 students registered from 39 different high- schools. !rhe , most ' remote being Laramie Wgh school, - Laramie, Wyoming, and Jerome and Pocatello high schools Idaho , f Sweep Bookkeeping Event The Provo high school captured cap-tured the Utah Oil Refining company's com-pany's silver loving cup offered to the school winning the greatest number of points in the first and second year bookkeeping events. The Richfield high school, living, liv-ing, up to past records, captured the other" two silver trophies, the Utah Power and Light company trophy for superiority in the typing events, and the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph company cup for amassing the greatest number of points in the shorthand events. Perhaps the outstanding "all-around" "all-around" performance wasturned in by Veda Hicks of the Provo high school, daughter of N. C. Hicks. Miss Hicks captured the combination award, a scholarship scholar-ship to the B. Y. U., presented to the student making the best record in both the second-year UJ "I,XLCUl lJffCUUU,S' BWT v f rcbnthflied "tn TPa&eMEi?Bf 1 - w - a ' i McGUIRE WINS EDITOR POST Ray McGuire, junior student at the Brigham Young university, won the election for' editor of the "Y" News, campus weekly news paper,- in a poll conducted Friday. Fri-day. Mr. McGuire s the son of Postmaster and Mrs. J. P. McGuire, Mc-Guire, Provo. Otto Done, son of Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Done of Tuscon, Arizona, Ari-zona, was elected editor of the "Banyan" the school annual. His opponent was Dale Jones and Evan Nelson of Provo. Mr. Done, who has been acting editor most of this year received 492 votes, J&r. Jones 144, and Mr. Nelson 55. Opponent of Mr. McGuire for the "Y" News editorship was F. Howard How-ard Forsyth of Hill Spring, Alberta. Al-berta. Canada. Mr. Forsyth received re-ceived 246 votes to the45 polled by Mr. McGuire, who led in the preliminary vote by approximately approximate-ly 100 votes. Both Mr. Forsyth and Mr. McGuire Mc-Guire are members of the "Y" News staff this year and both have had a good deal of experience exper-ience in journalistic work. Mr. McGuire is a former editor of the Provo high school Provonian. Mr. Done was photography editor ed-itor of the Banyan last year and was associate editor this year until un-til he went to the editor's chair when Ralph Jensen left school. Communists Held PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Mar. 31 (U.E) Eighty-one persons were held today as members of a Communist Com-munist ring charged with espionage espion-age and propaganda activities, ring sought to foment unrest in It was alleged members of the the army. 'A Clean - up Week Begins erty Clean-up week in Provo begins Monday morning . and continues through until Saturday night, according ac-cording to Jacob Coleman, chairman chair-man of the-city beautification committee. The drive for a cleaner Provo is hooked -up: with, the national na-tional cleah-up and beautification .Week.A.-': I-: ;.?:; J-'fi ";: .V,. y Working with MiC Coleman are the following. " ward chairmen ; Charles Taylor, first! . Emil K. Nielson, second; William C. Carr, third; . Charles Sessions, fourth; Don Conover, fifth;.. Morris ; Gray, Sixth; -Wyman "Berg t Bonneville ; A. E. Huish .Manavu; ; Harold C. Walton, Pioneer. - Theyr in turn will : select captains to "check on Prop Owners Carries Burden Of U S. Relief y - , v , - " - n1 ' ' ' ? One ofthe heaviest jobs in Washington is that of Harry L. Hopkins, federal emergency relief re-lief director, shown above in a new picture. Hopkins, repeatedly promising that no . one shall go hungry, is strongly backing the Wagner unemployment insurance act. 2,000,000 ON CWA PAYROLLS GovernmentjGreatest Experiment Ex-periment In Mass Employment Employ-ment Is Now History. WASHINGTON, March 31 OLE) a aammtstration's-ivii worics ... . A a program which cost $1,000,000,000 and gave work to 4,000,000 people came to -an end today with about 2,000,000 persons still on the payrolls. pay-rolls. With theending of the CWA, Jthe government's greatest experiment experi-ment in mass employment relief, Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins Hop-kins announced that all those still receiving aid would be transferred automatically to new constructive projects under the re-vamped federal program. New Policy Monday The new federal relief policyxbe-comes policyxbe-comes operative MondayJItis planned to operate on a 'considerably 'consider-ably less expensive scale, and to provide the framework of a permanent per-manent policy in federal relief. Hopkins said he had approximate approxi-mate $600,000,000 remaining from the CWA appropriations with which to finance the continuing relief work. This sum was expected expect-ed to provide for work relief for about 30 to 40 weeks. Hopkins is hopeful that revising business will continue a gradual obsorption of the unemployed thus constantly reducing the load of the federal organization. In this connection con-nection great hopes are held for the drive to revive the construction construc-tion industry which is to be started start-ed shortly. The PWA program will also lighten the burden. Hopkins gave assurance that demobilization de-mobilization of the CWA did not mean the end of federal relief. "Every person in the United States who needs relief will get it," he said. He explained that for the most part work relief rather than direct relief would be given. Bankers Convicted CLEVELAND, March 31 (U.R) Alvanley Johnston and C. Stirling Smith,., chairman and president respectively re-spectively of the failed Standard Trust bank, today were sentenced to serye from one' to thirty years in Ohio penitentiary for misuse of bank funds. -s- Asked To Cooperate 9 This kind of earbae-e will be every block in their wards. Home owners will' be asked to sign pledge cards and , a follow-up check-will be made later. "Clean ; up youri back yard and front -yard to the center of the 8treet&nd ? paint up where possible,!. poss-ible,!. Is. the slogan of the workers. The City authorities will cooperate cooper-ate by ;: furnishing : teams : and trucks to fcaul away: the trash, beginning Monday morning Commissioner Com-missioner J. E. Snyder, in charge of streets,- requests That therub-bish therub-bish be ; placed in containers - at the curb. ..Ashes, rocks or wet garbage will:not . be hauled away. m RELIEF PROM TO BE STARTED FERA s Launched to TakeLj placeg Place of CWA Which Is Discontinued , The last of March was likewise like-wise the last of the CWA. activity in Utah county, the federal work being stopped in this! locality along with the entire nation. Only a few unfinished projects will be worked inApril, while the administrative and auditing de-parements de-parements catch up on the ragged rag-ged ends of their work. In the place of the CWA program pro-gram will be instituted less extensive ex-tensive program under the Federal Fed-eral Emergency Relief administration adminis-tration FERA through which fewer men will be hired and then only on the basis of absolute need. Meanwhile, all those who ex-pevt ex-pevt to get either relief or work relief must sign new application blanks. The order of registration at the Provo office on 157 North First West, is as follows: (Husband and wife must appear). All living south of Center street and west of University avenue, Monday, April 2, between the hours of 9 a. m. and 5 p. m. North of Center and west of University avenue, Tuesday. North of Center and east of University avenue, Wednesday. South of Center and east of University avenue, Thursday. Only those drawing relief in March and those from the CWA projects in March who were drawn from the relief rolls, will be permitted, in Provo, to register regis-ter as specified. It is planned to distribute April relief on April 10. As an adjunct of the FERA work projects, subsistence gar-dens gar-dens Will 5 be'raised In the various-counties various-counties of the state. They will be tilled by individuals and directed di-rected hycompetent men on the FERA. rThe county agents and the state extension division is cooperating co-operating in this plan. A great deal of constructive work has been done in Utah county through the now defunct CWA program. Every city has participated in its benefits, and Utah county and the Utah State (Continued on Page "Eight) Police Captain Looks Back on x 25-Year Service James C.vSnow, Provo police captain, looked back on 25 years of continuous service as a peace officer today as he was receiving congratulations on his 60th anniversary. Captain Snow began his career as an officer in August, 1902 under Chief Frank Tucker. He has served since that time without interruption interrup-tion with the exception of seven months as a deputy sheriff during the labor troubles under Sheriff Henry East's term. He carried a "special badge since 1902 continuously. The police captain comes from pioneer stock. He was born in Provo in 1874, the sonx of Don Carlos and Mary E. Halle t Snow. His father was a builder and adobe maker. Captain Snow's grandfather, grand-father, James C. Snow, after whom he was named, was a pioneer surveyor and laid out the first city blocks in Provo. He was also a U. S. marshal and member of the territorial legislature. Here Monday handled under tjie new garbage collection plan which will start the following week. Home owners who desire special service such as huuling ashes, plowing, furnishing soil for lawns and other $ planting" are asked to call rthe - chamber of commerce offices. r;-TTUCkera and others who can furnish such services' are also asked to register at the chamber of commerce. : c The services of Prof Laval Morris Mor-ris in landscape" designing are al?b available for a limited amount of private work. ;He f Is considered one of; the best men in this 'line of .work in the state.:. . . , - " H ouase Expects To Vote On Sugar Roof PrnHiipprsr TTtari f!nnfrressinen nre- 1 mm . A diet Hiiimmauon 01 acreage wmii WASHINGTON, March 31 Arrangements to bring the Jones-Costigan sugar bill up Monday have been completed com-pleted by Speaker Rainey after conflicting interests had finally agreed to accept the measures The bill fixes a 1,550,000, quota for domestic sugar beet producers and a 260,000-ton quota for Louisiana andFlorida sugar caneproducers. The sugar beet quota. is 100,000 tons above theaJlotment proposed by the agriculturaL-depart- ment. ; . , , , Congressmen J. W. Robinson and Abe W. Murdock (H1BIT OPENS AT SPR1GVILLE Opening Program . Scheduled For This Afternoon At 3 o'clock. SPRING VILX.E The annual Springvillo- art exhibit will open this afternoon at S o'clock in the high school auditorium. A musical program pro-gram will-be carried out by the high school orchestra, led by Clair Johnson and a talk on art given, by Miss Mable Frazer of the University of Utah. The exhibit is declared to be up to standards set in past years. Many outstanding artist art-ist swho have exhibited before only through the galleries, are sending individual entries this year. TAX ALLOTHT . : a Distribution of $70,444.28 to the taxing units of Utah county on Saturday marked the final allotment allot-ment of tax funds for the county for 1933. Checks were mailed to the various cities and taxing units from the office of County Treasurer Treas-urer John C.Taylpr. ' K Tax payments dropped in 1933 as compared with 1932 the records rec-ords at the treasurer's office: shows. In 1933 there has been paid $1,176,143.43 out of a levy of $1,585,429.56. This, is a payment pay-ment of 74.18 per cent. The year previous, in 1932, the county paid a total of $1,247,321.-74 $1,247,321.-74 from a levy of $1,609,032.93. The percentage of payment for 1932 is 77.52. Some of the cities showed a considerable drop in tax payments I in 1933. Alpine city, for instance, going down from 37.63 percent to 29.93. This means that Alpine paid less than one-third of her taxes last year. Only two taxing units ' in the county increased tax payments last year over the low year of 1932. They were Mapleton and Santaquin. Mapleton zoomed up to 79.20 per cent from the 71.08 per cent of the year before and Santaquin payments went up to 54.98 per cent after hitting a low of 49.82 per cent in 1932. Provo went down last year by 6 per cent, a sinking from 73.94 per cent to 67.01. Utah county taxing units had a total relief of $409,286.13 last year the nearly half-a-million coming through abatements, tax sales, sub. sales, war veterans exemptions, exemp-tions, double and erroneous collections, col-lections, discounts and uncollect-ibles. uncollect-ibles. Elders Invited to Attend Convention "Every Elder in the U&h stake j and his wife is invited to attend the sessions of the Elders convention con-vention to be held here Saturday and Sunday April 14 and' 15," said W. H. CallahanTchairman of the high council committee, Saturday. "Elder David O. McKay -of the Council of the twelve who will speak at the Sunday afternoon session in 'the stake tabernacle; has gone to the trouble of cancelling can-celling a stake conference, appointment, ap-pointment, in order JLo . speak, to the Utah stake Elders." The Saturday night meeting. in College .hall will be followed by a dance at the Ladies' gymnasium. '. POSTPONE MEETING The Monday night meeting of the chamber ' of commerce directors dir-ectors has been postponed to April 9, according to Clayton Jenkins, secretary. " .r-,i ; TAYLOR MAKES Moiida . Bill- QOO Quota on Sugar A J " T A ii A preaicieq mat acreage iimuawmm proposed in the bill would be ellm inated before final passage. ' King Accepts Compromise - Senator King, whUe notr-entirely satisfied, with the turn the sugar legislation was taking, never-the less accepted,1 the compromise measure. King did not want any ouota- placed on the beet sugar industry, but said, he would nqVvf oppose the measure,- as . it; will guarantee at least a portion of any increase in domestic .consumption .consump-tion to the Vugar "beet industry. Phillipine objection to the bill was withdrawn in the face of certain passage. The island in terests are trusting that Presi- dent Roosevelt will see to it that the suggested quota of 1,037,000 tons wiU go into effect. Hawaiian and Porto Rican ob- jectionj to the sugar bill continued contin-ued however, in face of almost hopeless obstacles to gaining their point, which is fixed quotas for Hawaii and Porto Rico. Apparently Apparent-ly blocked n efforts to amend the bill in the house, representatives of those interests will carry the fight to the senate. INSULL REFUSES TO GO ASHORE ISTANTUL, Turkey, March 31 (lT-R Police asked Samuel Insull to go ashore for questioning today. Insull refused bluntly,1 and, police left hia chartered , steamship, Maiotis, to V get new ; instructions from the "government at " Angora. Insujl remained under guard. He has been here since Thursday when his little . ship cast anchor off the Leander Tower at the entrance en-trance to the Bosphorus which joins the sea of Marmora and the JBIack Sea to which Insull was going. ' . .. - Police said they had no specific orders actually . to arrest Insull and take him ashore forcibly. Army Mail Pilot Crashes To Death ' In Heavy Storm i . DEWITT, la., " March 31 CP) Lieut. Thurman A. Wobd, army" flier, crashed to death List night with a heavy load of mail on a farm four miles -northeast of DeWttt.; . . Wood's death was the firstince the army resumetf.air mair service following a period of suspenikm ordered by President "Roosevelt because of 11 previous fatalities. A heavyainstorm, of which the flier had not been ; warned, was blamed for the crash. Although Wood was bound ' westward from Chicaero to Amaha the too found to be headed eajwaref wlth its nose pmngea four' feet into the ground. The 23 mail sacks, weighing weigh-ing 500 pounds, were scattered. Wood had turned off his ignition switch before the crash and there had been no fire.' "says: PASADENA, Cat, March i SO Ilere is something I think will bear .repeating. Two kid brothers, r one ; 14 ' and the other 12,' hiking in the moun- . tains out here. The young kid; got: bit by a rattlesnake. The, t 14-year-old one cut the wound al up wlth a knife, and thejf . took turns sucking the poionv , ed blood out. The yQungerone 'finally fainted. IThe other carried car-ried him on his back, and he ' has saved him. We are hot so bad off. These kids are Daniel Boones and : Davey Crocketts ! in any age, , Yours, ' :0& i 7 v |