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Show S3 TTh HERALD PHONES - - ' V ; ' BusLrtesi ...................... -435 Editorial 9 ' DOLLARS SPENT In Utah County Mean "Utah County , Prosperity fWIerr .' EIGHT PAGES TODAY FORTY-FIFTH YEAR, NO. 67. PROVO, UTAH, COUNT Y, -UTAH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1930. PRICE4 FIVE CENTS Gangsters Seek To Kidnap Rich Publisher 3 Cn r3 I 1,1 I IVJl r. I TOD AY : -By-Arthur Brisbane -Copyright. 1930)- The Boy Today Salvation Hounds Worried Europe The World A Riddle FLEMING H. REVEL- company of 158 Fifth Avenue, New York, published yesterday a book that millions of father and Brother bhould read. The title of the book 13 "The Boy Today." The author. Dr. Mather A. Abbott, Is head of the Lawrence-ville Lawrence-ville school, one of the biggest, most Important preparatory schools in Amei iea. . - With more than 500 boys under his direct observation. Dr. Abbott know the boy of today and. especially espe-cially the parents of that' boy, the example that they set before their children and the problems that face voung Americana brought tip unde-prohibiUon, unde-prohibiUon, in the knowledge that their elders treat the law with contempt. ' ; - Dr. Abbott's book, deang with the chances- of a boy In a Godless, selfish, bootleg, law-breaking world, should be read by fathers and mothers that retain a feeling of responsibilty. It will be discussed more fully here, at another time, - . AN interesting old book, "Cory-att's "Cory-att's Crudities," written long ago. by an Englishman, doing -the grand tour," described an Italian nobleman's estate. F1tt. the Italian showed Cory-att Cory-att hU horse?, hawks, and hounds with which he hunted the deer, wolf, and wild bear. ' : Tn taklr.e the Englishman to the court, back of his kitchen he eased, aeiormeu, iiinuh.uj-v- food thrown to them by man's servants. the noble- "These," said, the nob'icman, These be I hunt sai- pointing to the oeggars my hounds with wfclch vation. ' " ' . lie expected the be p gars with their prayers, to bring down divine favors, as his other hounds brought down the deer and wild boar. Mr. Al Capone, sometimes called "Scarfaee," also has his hounds w ith which he hunts salvation, and perhaps forgiveness. Every day in Chicago, he feeds 3, COO hungry men three Umes a day, soup, coffee, bread, all they can cat, Sunday included. " " , The cost Is 52,000 a week and (Continued on Page Eight) Celery Week Is" Observed Send your friends cast and west Utah celery! This Is the slogan adopted by Provo during this week, observed as - Celery week throughout the state of Utah. The chamber of commerce Is actively ac-tively aiding in this campaign to broadcast the worth of Utah celery throughout the land. Citizensjsf Provo are urged to send"small packages of Utah celery to their friends in distant cities. Thele can be sent by express or mall for a email cost, and the sending or this famous celery has done much to advertise the famous Utah product. Grocers will pack the celery for shipping on request . All dining cart, both east and west, will feature Utah celery on their menus this week, as part of this widespread campaign. The following letters, received by Albert KIrkpatrick from friends to whom he sent packages of the ,,Continued On Page Seven) Utah Boy Wins ' Honors At K. C. Robert Jones of Hooper, "Utah, a itudent of the V'cber county high school at Ogden. won third place and a prize of $200 in the national r.ratcrical contest, sponsored by the Future Farmers of America held at Kansas City, Monday in connection with the International Stock show. Jones won the esten championship champion-ship last May at Phoenix. Arizona. Harlow Adams, of Provo, "Y" grad-vat grad-vat and hed t the English department de-partment of th school wa3 thj ti'tor cf Jonea.- He was accompanied accompan-ied to Kansas City hv the aericul-tuxe aericul-tuxe teacher, Vern Oberhanslei ' 3 " 1 , -- - .... 1 j. 1 SGHOOLS iS r CONSIDERED i . ' - i Board of Education Deliber- . atcs on Equipment Program V- for New Junior High School Buildings Soon Td Open.', The board of elucation held a special meeting",' Monday evening- to consider data prepared pre-pared by Superintendent C. A. Smith pertaining- to types and " cost of f urniture and equipment for the two junior high school buildings to be oc- cunied soon after 'the Christmas holidays. '' ' . ' ' ' . Tei.'nve Figuref The tentative schedule prepared by the superintendent providing for 'present mirimum needs of "the schools, shows a cost for the two buildings of $25,388.11. This figure Is still subject to revision. Almost exactly a year ago, under the leadership of Ole K. Olsen. the p'reFident of the board, a movement was initiated which haa resulted in the erection of two much-needed modern junior high school plants. "These buildings offer all that is possible in conveniences and aids to good teaching, which the money available could buy.1 Just as the square family kitchen,' of a half century ago. is no longer being built, so the square class room with its dearth f teaching nJd3 i3 r.ct! being built today," said Superintendent Super-intendent Smith. Tuesday. Convenient Buildings "Not alone are the school houses themselves convenient, attractive, and substantial, but the sites on which they are placed are convenient, conven-ient, beautiful, and -placed where they will be mosV accessible to the children of the next hundred years which the schools will serve. This was made possible because of the (Contlnuebn Page 8) COUNTY TAXES POURING IW Taxes of Utah county are coming in faster this year than during 1920, despite talk of a depression F.nd lack of funds, according to a report ' of John C. Taylor, Utah county treasurer. Last year at the end of October a total of $58,237.48 had be. n paid into the treasury for taxes, while this year $70,242.nS has alrcwdy been received up to the end of October, Octo-ber, an increase of $12,00i.32. M Taylor explained, the fact that much of this increase especially especial-ly during the sun..ner months, was collected by t tii? ?3sescrs. while making their rounds. Thi3 morey was taken in on personal property such as automobiles. The amount of taxes collected each' month, during the years 192V-19C0 192V-19C0 from April to October, are a3 fellows. ' " ' ! 1929 1930 Apt il . . . . May June July August . . September $10,000.00 $11,529.05 ........ 10.000 00 5,000.0) 1,250.39 10,234ilG 32,157.75 7.8007 S.509.SS October 31,927.21 Totals .$58,237.46 $70,242.0S Coolin Calvidge Says By COOLIN CALVIDGE IfORTHAMPrON. Mass., Nov. IS The Christmas numbers of the magazines are now on the new3 stand. This proves that our mag-czine mag-czine publishers are upon thsii toes. In a few years, no doubt , we shall be reading 6f Fourth of July issues on Thanksgiving day. Th5, is Progress. Of course, it doesn't make any difference when they print. Christmas Christ-mas stories. Everybody knows them by heart, anyway. There is the cne about the long-lost . eon staggering thru the snowdrifts, to 11 rt the mortgage on the old homestead home-stead cn Christmas eve. Very heart- j throbby. Directs Band In Concert JOHN, A. OMANSON E SONCERT ; PLEASING Benefit Performance Fo r Hand Uniforms Is Well u- 1 Supported Here.- " Playing tc' a small but highly appreciative ap-preciative audience, the Frovo high school band prosc-ntcd its first conceit con-ceit of the" season Monday evening, 'November. 17 xit ths high rchou'l tuditorium. ' " ' ' ' " Proi. John A. Omanson. director. v:03 congratulated after the . pro-,f grnm by a number or listeners wni vere' profuse in their complimcnU of the presentation. The consensus of opinion st?emcd to be that the conceit should be repeated for th-3 benefit cf thos(? who failed to take advantage of the opportunity afforded af-forded them I-ton'lay ovming Vroccci3 For Unironns-T-" - The prcceed3 -of the. entertainment entertain-ment were applied, to a fund being r,, ' equip Land members with uniforms. - v ' ivn excellent selection of numbers, plaved with pioper interoretatioti and finish, interspersed with vocal selections, Instrumental soJos, dtieia and trios provided pleasant entertainment enter-tainment for patrons and friends of the Provo high school. . , JThe program In full was as follows: fol-lows: " March, national emblem,. "Apple Plossoms." band; "I Know a Lovely Curden, "Rose of My Heart." ladies' double quartet; Trees, Harold Tuft: French Patrol, band; Al and Pal, it oris Duke and Joseph Seethaler; Lustpsiel Overture, band; selected, Dean Lewis, Elbert Startup Drag on Fly, March, De-Molay Conv mandcr, '"Star Spangled Banner,' band. " Pcpulation Gains ; In Nebo District SPANISH FORK. According to the school, census of the Nebo district dis-trict schools which ha3 just been completed, there is an increase of 200 pupils between the ages of- 6 and 15 inclusive over last year. The total school population at the present pres-ent time is shown as G.211 as compared com-pared with G,002 in 1929. There are 3,145 boys and 3,063 girls, according to the figt'.res just compiled. In 1C29 the divisions as between the sexes last year wa3 3,035 beys and 2.P67 girls. : The report filed with the statf? school office shows ,5sil-6ludenta attending full time. 2932 being boys and 2879 girls. There are 344 not in school and thirty attending private pri-vate schools. ... And the one about the burglar who is surprised at his.vork by a golden-haired tot, in her Vhite nightgown, who thir. h is St nta Claus. The burglar immediately reforms, and gives up burglary forever. for-ever. Here, peihaps, i3 a solution of nvr crime problem. Have all our gangsters surprised oh Chriatma3 eve by golden-hcired kiddies,-who mistake them" for jolly oldiKris Kringlc. No doubt., however, Mr. Hoover's ciime commission has already hit vrcn this solution, and will "recommend "recom-mend It tf con,7rc?s next month. ifave faith in our party leaders! gram r ot liHAHGER IS i mi of IDfOi Exhaustion Overtakes Chief Forest Ranger fWho Dtefies f . Blizzard; Dies In Arms of Arriving Rescuers. MEDFORD; Ore., Nov. 18 (UP) After battling his way.-through a raging blizzard which laid 44 inches of snow on the mountains,, for 24 hours, Chief Forest Ranger William C. Godfrey was rescued res-cued last night just --too late. He died in tnt arms of his rescuers. - According to-word which reached here early today, Goufrey was nearly near-ly frozen and in a state of utter exhaustion when he was found by a party of rangers headed by Rudie Lueck, and died before they could get him to shelter. . Walks 8 Ules . Godfrey, defying which has raged in mountains for three out Sunday evening the blizzard the Cascade days, started v trom Fort Klamath, declaring he would reach Anna Springs where a force of hi3 men were at work with snow l-lows. .He'tanae within tyvh .; aad,.a half miles of his goil before exhausticu overtook him. . ' . . . " Oodfrev ha l. walked eicrht miles through the snow, after, his ma chine stalled at t. park entrance. . befors Lueck found him.- - . He had spent Sunday night in the car, hanging hi3 coat over the radiator ra-diator to conserva the engine heat.-, When lie ; was unreported late Monday afternoon Lueck . set cut from government camp) between Crater Lake and Anna Spring3. and another group including Gus Page. Oscar Bunch, Miller Briscoe and Tony Castel, left Fort Klamath. , Lueck came wpon the ; fallen rra-.ger first. Godfrey ws lying In the snow and was near death. Ha made a desperate attempt to speak Leuck's name but only a ;! whisper Came from the frozen, lips, and the exhausted forester - looked into the eyes of his reseuer and died. The rangers went back to Fort Klamath and today were brealtin open the road am Anna Spring so the body may be taken out, 1 This is the first death claimed by the elements in Crater Lake National Na-tional forest for years. The rangers have always kept account of all who travel those hazardous mountains moun-tains in winter and often have spent days xand nights in swirling blizzards searching, for someone who was missing. Godfrey's knowledge of the rvin- tryand its danrrs, made them less anxious when he became overdue, and the search was started later than it" would .have been had the lost person' been a "civilian." GiH Arrives At Henrichsen Home ..Cigars for the men and chocolate bars for the won.rn " were being passed "around today., by Clifton Henrichsen, whose broad smile informed in-formed everyone e met' that he Is now a proud papa. '"' "It's a girl, and she's a' wow," remarked re-marked "Clif" in answer to the inquiries in-quiries made by his many friends. The little lady arrived Monday night st the Henrichsen home, 30 West First North street. Mother and baby are doing nicely. Mrs. Henrichsen was formerly Mabel Peay of Provo. Movie Star Goes To Visit Old Home HOLLYWOOD, Nov. 18. aT.P.) Anna Q. Nilsscn, who hasn't seen her family since she was 13 years of age-- she won't tfU how long ago that was is sroing back to Sweden to spend the holidays with her parent par-ent In Ystad. . ' The' Swedish film star was in high .snirit- today ps she. sailed from San Pero cn the 5. S. Ann!.'' Johnon for Stockholm. - "I know four months in th old country will aid mo gTeatlv in re-rnvcrin? re-rnvcrin? mv health," she declared. "But I'll be back next spring to reenter re-enter motion pictures," New Schools Is Siudied World Traveller Tells Story Of Real "Thieves Of Bagdad I Charles Tuika Relates Thrilling Experiences In Mystic City Of Orient;-Fight With Arabs Over 10-Cent Meal Is "Narrow Escape; Plenty Of Thieves BY CIIAKLr.S TVIASA Do you remember Douglas Fairbanks' Fair-banks' motion picture "Thief of Baghdad," a story of which wa taken from the Oriental "Thousand arid One Night"' tales? If the picture had been made in the real Baghdad I do not supposa you would have likod it. r Quite different is the veal Baghdad Bagh-dad and the one which was made by "Doug.". , The banks of Tigris river,, shaded by the dark greenness of palms, covered by the soft dust blown upo n thc-m, by toe hot winds from Baghdad's surrounding sur-rounding deserts.. des-erts.. The murky, yellcv and muddy waters of th-3 Tigris ; River serve to the natives for all p' u r p ,o s e s. Starting b y wa s h i n g: ol clothes, con-t con-t i n u I n g b y Charles Tulka bathing and ending by the drinking! drink-ing! All this you can plainly sea when you stop for several minutes on the Maud Bridge which was built and named after English General Gen-eral W. Maud, who with his army entered Baghdad - after the end of the ."Great .War.',! - , . . . The 'tall minarets of Mohammedan Mohamme-dan . mosques rising . toward the '- 'J. Montana State Student Body Defies President's Orders ' ' :" Two To Make School Race Victor J. Bird, secretary and treasurer of the Knight Coal and Ice company will be a candidate for the board of education from the fourth district at: the .election' to be held Wednesday, December 3. Mr. Bird's name ; with the required re-quired number of signatures was filed Monday afternoon at the office of-fice of J, Fred Fechser, clerk of the board of education. The name of John T. Taylor, present president of the board has already -een filed, assuring at least two names for the school election NARCOTICS TO BE USED BUTTE, Mont., Nov. 18. (U.E) Narcotics taken in raids by the county attorpey's office and valued at nearly $100,000 In the dope traffic, traf-fic, have been turned over to the government for use in war veteran hospitals. . - ,- She Is Star Of Deseirt Plav When the! celebrated Desert Play gets its tenth annual presentation at Palm Springs, California, this month, Miss Dolores Brown, shown here, will be thestar of the cast. She has the leading role of Suena in the open-air drama "Tahquitt ' .I-';- .,.. . . j) .. , .. .. v lark blue skies without a single cloud, over the native houses, mostly most-ly built from mud and mud bricks. Queer and Varied Garbs , Main thoroughfares and. narrow streets, overcrowded by Arabs, wearing native dresses covering their bodies to ; the ankles, some also "half-dressed" or wearing only a dirty shirt not even covering the knees. This very often is the only property of countless beggars. On their heads white or ' differently colored turbans or the red "Fez." ; Arabian women, with their faces carefully covered; by the blak veils, keeping theni from the anxious anxi-ous tights of strangers, especially white men. .. Groups of vild dogs running and crawling under the feet of the, crowds in the search of the food to. satisfy their everlasting hungriness. Donkeys' caravans, tired and covered cov-ered by the gray dust from nearby outside places, and camels' caravans cara-vans from the burning deserts of far away Syria and Arabia are coming here. Gracefully, slowly, but with long steps walk thes, heavily loaded "ships of the desert" des-ert" through the dusty streets of Baghdad. Bells hanging on their long necks sound with their long sterjs." m ' " This is a fabled Baghdad, cut and Isolated from the entire world just the same as it was. centuriei ago. The shortest way from Damask cus in Syria requires 26 hours by the huge busses,l fare being ' $150 per single seat for a-one way jour-" (Continued on page five) Student Mass Meeting To Take Vote On Ending of School Strike. BOZKMAN, Mont., Nov. 18. U.R--Students of Montana Stato college tljis afternoon voted to return to '.v.-' school tomorrow" morning, aftci a" strike of five idays duration. Tho vote on the petition to return to school stood about COO to 200. BOZEMAN, Mont, Nov. 18. C.I! Students at Montana State college defied President Alfred Atkinson's order that they . "must resume classes" this morning as the strike entered its fifth day. . ? Many students, however, put In their appearance at the college, despite de-spite picketing and other mild demonstration dem-onstration aimed by strike leaders to keep the revolt spirit active. Sends Message Although college authorities felt the collapse -cf the strike was near, they said It had not been broken as yet, and. awaited the result of a student mass meeting scheduled for this afternoon. . A vote will be taken tire ; student r body to whether" Dr. Atkinson's be' compiled with. by the en-determine en-determine order will Dr. Atkinson, in Washington. D. C. to attend the president's welfare conference, broke his silence on the situation which developed a week ago. only" last night when he addressed, ad-dressed, a terse telegram to the Associated As-sociated Students. . The message read: - "Your telegram demanding approval ap-proval of proposal received. Always Al-ways glad ta confer and cooperate with students but college regulations regula-tions not built under threat of students. stu-dents. Refuse to approve any proposals pro-posals until conference upon my return. re-turn. College supported by public at substantial expense each day and (Continued On Page Seven) Miller To Speak At Legion Meeting J. . Rex Miller, manager of the Provo office of the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph company will be the speaker at the bi-weekly meeting of the Provo Post No. 13 American Legion to be held, Wednesday-evening at the Provo armory. arm-ory. . Following the meeting the past members will be the guests of Mr. Miller at the local plant of the telephone company. 'LUST SEE! li wot ATTHlStLE Relatives Expressing Anxiety v Concerning Whereabouts of Allen Larseri; Brothers Aid Officers In Hunt For.Him. Allan Larsen, 25; of Fair-view, Fair-view, is believed to be lost somewhere in Spanish Fork canyon, according to a report received at ; the Utah county' sheriff's office Monday. Larsen." was last seen Friday Fri-day afternoon when he left Thistle junction after ho had warmed warm-ed himself at the home of soma friends at that town. " It is not definitely known in which direction Larson left Thistle, as he ' was seen headed toward Springville and then returned going go-ing the opposite direction. t He again retraced his steps and It could not be determined if he continued con-tinued down the canyon or towards Provo. i Braves Storm - Reports- received at the sherif V office from Lar3en's father were to the effect that he'had been cutthv timber in the mountains east of Fairview and first went to Scofield, where he cashed n small check. From there he had been traced to Thistle Junction. Two brothers of Larsen called at the sheriff's office Monday and declared de-clared that he had not been found and stated that "just as soon as any definite information could be obtained ob-tained they would nqtlfy tjhe . Utah ;' (Continued On Page Seven) NEWS Wl Iiy UNITED PRE9S WOOLMJ3X NAMlfi OFFICEHS WASIHNGTON, Nov. 18. iV.V. Roger Gillls, Del Rio, Tex., was elected president of the National Wool Marketers 'at their annual convention here. Other officers named were: Vice president, J. A. Hooper, Salt Lake City, and secretary-treasurer and geTTeral manager, man-ager, J. B. Wilson, "McKinlcy, Wyo. COrPEK SHOWS WEAKNESS NEW YORK, Nov. 18. fllC) Copper Cop-per prices. in both the local and foreign' market are showing sign3 of weakness. At least one producer in the local market is offeriig first hand copper' at 11 Hvcents a pound delivered to the end. of 1930, whil-3 second hand metal is being offered at ll?i cents a pound in large tonnages. ton-nages. " - ' MJNSIJVUG1ITEU CIIAKGED ; SALT LAKI2 CITY, Nov. 18. OlV --George Luker, 21, must face trial in which he is charged. willt manslaugliter. The youthful motorist motor-ist is held responsible for the fatal crash In which Mrs. Ellen II. Cameron Cam-eron was killed October 8. Speclflc-ically, Speclflc-ically, Luker. is accused of passing the woman's car the wrong side and side-swiping' it as he cut over in front of the cm ROBBED, THROWN IN RIVER PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 18. OTD Henry Nyberg, 40, was given a touch of eastern banditry when two thugs knocked him unconscious, uncon-scious, robbed him, of $65 and tossed himover Ihe guard rails of the Broadway bridge in to the Wil-llamette Wil-llamette river here last night. Ma was rescued by Clare Barnhart, 24, who swam 75" feet with his clothe3 on.' .... LOVER SHOOTS ffTXP BUTTE, Mont., Nov. 23. UJ?) Police today believed that a lovers' quarrel last night caused Harry Epstein, 23-year-old Denver salesman, sales-man, to shoot himself through the temple. The shooting followed a long distance telephone conversation conversa-tion with his sweetheart, In which she said she was returning their engagement en-gagement ring, police. were told. , RES . : i ' S. X 4 Harry, Chandler, above, rich publisher pub-lisher of tho Los Angeles Times, Is being closely guarded as the result re-sult of .the discovery of a plotlto kidnap him District . Attorney Buron Fitts of Los Angeles say three other Los Angeles men have been kidnaped by gangsters In t- cent months. ERROR IN BID MAYDELAY SCHOOL PLANS " : ,., , i ; AMERICAN FOUI, Pi ogren-i on the conatructi'.m of the ntfltfl training school will temporarily halted until a legal tangle caused by a cleilcniu-rtor In the bid submitted sub-mitted by Ryberg and Sorenson, low bidders. Is straightened out. The contractors "have askod per-Kiirsion per-Kiirsion to withdraw their bKI be-cr.uso be-cr.uso Iho item of brickwork wa i left out end the bid totaled without it. The total bid was $15,000 lower than the next highest bidder. The question ha3 been submitted to George P. Parker, attorney Ken-ri Ken-ri al, for solution. The contracting firm -has 'posted-Its forfeit checls for $12,000 which they now ask per. mlpfion to withdraw. ' There are lseeral alternatives provided by the commission in ca.- its whole program ot eight buildings build-ings for an Initial plant were fount to te too expensive. It was found that by omitting one of the dormitories, dormi-tories, .calculated to houuc about 88 inmates, the bid total would be about $192,000. . The r commission ' proposed to award the contract on that basis. Utah Stake Road Shows Are Ready There will bo no M. I. A. meetings meet-ings In tha vawous wards cf U'h stake this evening, but Instead, thi twelfth annual M. L A. road shov? performances will be presented. Commencing at 7:30 o'clock in each of tho vard halls, there will appear three . 20-minute acts and throe7 10-mlnute nctsi. There are three circuits and each act ia exceptional ex-ceptional In originality and entfi-talnment, entfi-talnment, . according to hos l: charge. Artistic settings have been ar-ranged ar-ranged and the costumes ate unusually un-usually pretty and attractive, import im-port the vailoua directors, und everything possible has been done by each cost to make their part on the program one of tpeclal Interest and delight. , The winning acts will be announced an-nounced at the compliment-try "n"e tn b given by the atakn M. I. A. in the First ward recren-uonal recren-uonal nad i.'.is evening immediately following the road show. The finals will be presented in the Paramount" theater Thurfuay evening. Burned Out . Bearing Causes Train Delay Late delivery of the Evening Herald in towns south of Provo, Monday evening was caused by the burning-out of a bearing on Orem train No. 7 which is due in Provo at 3:45. . k The train finally left with the aid of a freight engine at 5 o'clock. The Weather Utah-Fair noHli, unvtUel south, mow in rxtremrt southeast iortlon tonight, rrmch colder south por tln; WcnLoetMlay fair. Maximum temp. Monday il Minimum tmip. Holiday t 23 : |