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Show .Eve HERALD PHONES DOLLARS SPENT - In Utah County Means Utah County Prosperity. 1 rVT Business . . . Editorial .. Society .......... .... 495 ....494 . 496 FORTY-FIFTH YEAR, NO. 189. PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, ''1931. EIGHT PAGES TODAY PRICE FIVE CENTS Ik. 'L-13L -, juiEHLA ulL&l!U UiAJLlIju " m) Ms) U W UUuUmMM UVliAl U TODAY -By-Arthur Brisbane (Copyright, 1931 Don't Steal Chickens. Through Solid Iron. How to Bring Back Bees. AT a bottom of .'a newspaper column, in one inch, of printed space, you read that Judge Wyman has sentenced Cleneth Moffett of Wevertown, N. YM to from four to six years at hard lubor, in Dannemora state prison, Moffett stole twenty-five chickens chick-ens from the Gisnon farm, if he had stolen a naval oil reserve, pr a railroad, he would be on his way to Europe, with able lawyers to prevent his being annoyed. TheFe is plenty of justice, in this land of equality, for anybody foolish fool-ish enough to steal .chickens. DR. COOLID6E, brilliant scientist scien-tist of the General Electric company, has taken a photograph, with X-rays, through four inches of solid iron. Dr. Coolidge used a tube with power of 900,000 volts, constructed con-structed by him. Amilng, to our feeble minds, is the thought of rays making a photograph through solid Iron. We know, but do hot realize, that the atoms of iron are much farther apart, in the "solid iron" in proportion pro-portion to their diameters than the earth and moon. 7 Particles of energy shot from the 900,000 volt tube at a speed of 184,-000 184,-000 miles a second, almost the speed of light, travel easily through the ivfde open spaces in iron. -Ignorance asks "of .what usa is "such- a 900,000 Volt tube;" and it told that the tube is now on its way to New York hospital, where it will be .used1 to attack cancer tissue far inside the human body. "PUZZLED by our "depression" ' public men examine other countries, coun-tries, in search of good suggestions. In Russia, they find every man and woman, able to work, employed on full time with workers from the outside invited. That is puzzling; How do the Russians do it? They observe also that in Russia, trade; is , active, everybody spends what he gets, almost as soon as he gets it. Capitalism, which jme'ans saving, is hot encouragetC and -jlrages are earned to be spent. The one difficulty Is lack of commodities. commodi-ties. IN Britain, the dole works badly, because it is, in fact, a subsidy for labor unions. A man on x the dol is expected to find work if he (Continued On Page Two) Bill the Barber Discusses Sprinkling : Bill acknowledges, "with thanks, the communication of "The Wood pecker" relative to water hogs, cornir cutters, and noisy milk Wagons. These subjects will be discussed dis-cussed at an early date. "Well, how's the new . sprinkling regulations working?" asked the customer of Rill the Barber, as he settled back in the chair to listen to the latest news. "No so bad." answered Bili. "A funny thing happened the other day though. The city water department de-partment checked up on the sprinkling and what do you think they found. Two county officers, a former , county officer, a former city officer and a state official as well as "a nttmuer of other so called prominent citizens sprinkling out f their turns. Don't know what they intend to do about it just give 'em warning, I guess. "The thing' that burns me up," said the customer, "is to see some of these guys with a little two by f 6ux lawn sprinkle the whole two hours instead of the time they are supposed to Sprinkle. A lot of big lawns . are 'burning up and those little guys soak their lawns until it just "wastes the water. , Then there's the saps that take the nozzle 5off entirely. ; "Makes a fellow feel like turning turn-ing them in... - Some folks actually have the crust to' water their gardens gar-dens out of the hose. And that In the face; of a serious water shortage. short-age. I'jthink they ought, to be pinched.. A good stiff 'fine would make them hesitate a second time. : "It's a funny thing about some folks.? observed Bill. "They think that-; everybody ah'oxli obey; the. law but themselves. -:Xake, the old (ConUnued On rag rtve) , MEMORIAL City Commission Names Special Spe-cial Committee Of Five To Draw Up Program For Observance Ob-servance Of Memorial Day Provo will observe Memorial Memor-ial Day, Saturday, May 30, .with special exercises befitting befit-ting the spirit of the day, .according .ac-cording to Mayor Jesse N. El- lerlson. The mayor recommended recom-mended to tht! city commission commis-sion Wednesday morning the appointment of a ronimittw to draw, up a program in keeping with past observances of this kind. The members of the .committee who represent the military and patriotic organizations of the community com-munity are as follows: Dr. M. W. Merrill, American legion, chairman; chair-man; Captain T. C. Hebertsen, Battery C, . 145th Field Artillery; Clyde Scott chief cf Provo city fire department; D. Orlo Allen, Provo chamber of commerce, and Mrs. Leonore II. Walton, Service Star Legion. Honor Soldier Dead The exercises are expected to follow fol-low in the main the customary procedure pro-cedure in paying honor and tribute trib-ute to the soldier dead of Provo. While the public observance will partake of the military spirit thousands of citizens will pay a visit to the cemetery to place flowers on the graves of dear ones who have departed. In HI probability the Service Star legion will conduct a ritual service at the memorial tree in Pioneer park preceding the cemetery cem-etery program. - "A salute of 21 guns, customary in honor of the fallen soldiers will be tired by the national guard unit. The day will be observed by general gen-eral closing of the business houses in Provo. The postoffice and all city and county offices will be closed for the entire day. FASHION REVUE IN READINESS The annual fashion revue of the Provo high school will take place Thursday evening, May 21, at 8 o'clock in the high school auditorium. audi-torium. Over seventy-five . Provo high girls will participate, - featuring graduation dresses and all the latest lat-est spring modes and styles. All the dresses were made in school and each girl will wear her own dress. - The event is sponsored by the school's domestic art department under the direction of Mrs. Elizabeth Eliza-beth H. Gillespie. As a special feature' of the revue' the combined glees of the Provo high school will give a twenty minute program- The revue will follow the.,schoolx exhibit which will take place in the gymnasium. Both events are open to the public. There -will be no admission ad-mission charge. Stocks Still Co Downward NEW YORK, May 20 U.R Seemingly Seem-ingly endless liquidation in the highest grade of investment shares led to a resumption of the ' downward down-ward movement on the stock exchange ex-change today, the market slowly retreating re-treating in the afternoon. Losses, except In isolated cases, were n6t large butl'the persistent selling' in the better grade issues had a depressing influence on sentiment, senti-ment, "which had perked up during yesterday's late improvement. Deal-i Ings were light.. Mayor Ellertson On S. L; Committee Mayor Jesse N. Ellertson has received re-ceived .notice of his appointment as a member of the general committee com-mittee of the; "Covered .Wagon" celebration to be held in Salt Lake July 24. The letter requesting the services . of Mayor Ellertson was from Louis Marcus, general chairman chair-man of the celebration committee. l ' ' v . ' Finds Buried Charles Ashton of Berkeley, Berke-ley, Cal., claims that his "treasure witch" will point to any buried object of value, provided the-holder walks over the right spot and lets the "witch" jerk downward when it feels the impulse. The "inventor" "invent-or" of the device is shown here demonstrating it. The greater the treasure the more violent the dip, he says. C: ' 4. if New Evidence Uncovered In Mooney's Fight For Liberty P. G. FESTIVAL BATE CHANGED Annual Utah Strawberry Day Advanced One Week; June 9, 10 And 11 PHEASANT GROVE The dates for the annual strawberry festival have been advanced tine week. June 9. 1, 11, will be the days of the great' celebratlon. This is the tenth annual festival and it prom- rises lo eclipse ail others. Various committees have planned entertainment to amuse the thousands thou-sands of visitors for the three, days. One of the largest rodoes ever attempted at-tempted in the state of Utah will be a star feature for thethree days. Three parades arc beJrfg planned, spectacular fireworks, programs, dances, and numerous other sports. Right Of -Way Is Bought By County Purchase of a right of way for road purposes from C.Amicone in the Pleasant View district has been authorized, by thenfounty commissioners. commis-sioners. The purchase includes. 023 of an acre and . the price agreed on is $35. Noted Attorney To Address Kiwams "Surplus and Famine" is the subject sub-ject of an address to be delivered to the Provo Kiwanis club at the luncheon meeting Thursday noon at the Roberts Hotel, by Frank Evans, former counsel for the American Farm Bureau federation. Claude Ashworth, president of the club will give his impressions of the international, convention at Miami, Florida. Dr. J. Karl Beck , Is the chairman of the meeting. The music win be furnished by the winning double mixed quartet from' the Provo high school. . i The Weather IjTAH Unsettled tonight, Thur-4Ay Thur-4Ay taostly 'fair; continued c o I d, frost tonl g h t, freezing temper-attire temper-attire higher elevations. ele-vations. Ma.temp: Tuesday Mi n. tem p. Ttlesday . .61 .27 ; . Treasure (?) 1 OTWJIIL,'J1'W a if German Claims To Ha. V e Proof Of Innocence Of Mooney, Billings LOS ANGELES, Cal., May 20 tL'.K) The Los Angeles Record said today to-day in a copyright story that. Carl Voti Moltke, a German, claiming to be a nephew of the famous field marshal Von Moltke of the Franco- r-russian war claimed wnave aocu-. mentary pi oot mat lorn Mooney and Warren K. Billings' did not ! bomb the San Francisco Prepared ness day parade on July 22, 1916. Von Moltke yesterday was convicted con-victed of receiving stolen property and breaking into an automobile plant. He Is in jail here planning to appeal. "The newspaper said, that Von Moltke, while working in New York offices of the German intelligence intelli-gence department before the United Unit-ed States entered the World war, came into possession of coded documents docu-ments dealing with wartime bomb plots. Von Moltke's story to the newspaper news-paper said that he came to New York in 1916, '''asca-.-speeial representative repre-sentative of Zimmerman, whom he knew only as the head of operations." opera-tions." He said he was piit to work in an office at 60 Wall street coding and decoding messages. The suite, according to the story in the Record, Rec-ord, was leased by Wolf Von Ingel and by A. Paul Koenig. Von Moltke assertedly told newspapers news-papers of "conferences" attended by Von Ingel, Koenig, Mark Eisinger, Lowenstein, Ferderick Hinsch alias Grantor, and himself at which Pacific coast "sabotage" programs were discussed. According to the. Record, Von Moltke said he had documents to substantiate his statement in "a steel box" in Brooklyn. The newspaper news-paper . said Von Moltke expressed himself as willing to aid supporters of Mooney and Billings, in California Cali-fornia prisons for the bombing. Provo Exhibit Is Asked For Fair Provo city commission has been asked to make a'rfangements for placing a community exhibit at the Utah county fair this fall. M. S. Lott, chairman of the community com-munity exhibit department, and Joseph Anderson, manager, met with the city commission Monday evening and urged the appointment appoint-ment of a committee to plan the exhibit to represent Provo and also aid in boosting the county fair in general. The commissioners took no definite def-inite action but promised early consideration con-sideration of the matter of appointing appoint-ing committees. , BACKS LABOR ; WASHINGTONv May 20 ttE Secretary of Labor Doak "stands shoulder to shoulder with the American Amer-ican federation of labor in its demand de-mand that " employers keep their yromise not to indulge in wage cuts. m f -i -I MOTED N Y ARTIST IS j cnimin nrnn I uunu ulhu i Ralph Barton Kills Self 'in Lavish Apartment; Unrequited Unre-quited Love Is Relieved CaiHc; Famous Cariciturist NEW YORK, May 20. .U.R) Ralph Barton, 39, famed artist ' and caricaturist, shot himself today in his lavish I;enthouse apirtment in mid-town mid-town Manhattan apparently as a result of unrequited love. His brother, Homer Barton, ictor and traveller, and a writer r'riend of the dead man, told the United Press that Barton hf.d been deeply in love with Ruth Kresege of Detroit, heiress to the Kresege nillion.;. The girl is engaged to Rufus Clark Caulkins, said to be a mjsnber of the diplomatic service at Riga. Barton was wealthy and in good health. He was divorced last month fiotn his fourth wife, GJermaine f aiheferre, who charged him with jcsenion. ie reiurnea 10 mis country recently. Friends said he was once engaged en-gaged to Miss Kresege and' his brother said today, "R;.ph was a Sensitive hy and took his love af fairs' seriously. Once love with a girl he marry her." Found By Maid The brilliant artist's he was wanted body was discovered in his bedroom at about 10 a. in! by a maid. He was clad in pajamas and was lying on the bed with a small revolver at his side. A bullet wound in .the right temple caused his death and an official police report said he had committed commit-ted suicide. The artist would have been 40 years old next August. He had nis earlv education in Kansas City and Wfcnl to Par,3 as an art gtu. Hnt Vrnm th horinninr hi satirical work attracted attention and during the war he attained fame for his series of satirical sketches in "Puck." . In 1927 the French government made him a member of the Legion of Honor in recognition of his brilliant work. In addition to drawing for various va-rious popular magazines, including "Liberty" and the "New Yorker," Barton did illustrations for books, notably Balzac s "Droll Stories," and "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes." BROADCAST THURSDAY President Hoover will speak on a national broadcast Thursday evening eve-ning at 7:30 mountain ' standard time. The president will be introduced intro-duced by Chief Justice Hughes. The broadcast will be coming from the Golden Jubilee dinner sponsored by the Red Cross organization in commemoration com-memoration of the fiftieth anniversary anni-versary of the founding of the organization. or-ganization. Today's Scores NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago 402 010 000 7 14 1 Boston 200 000 102 & 13 3 Smith and Hartnett; Cunningham, Cunning-ham, McAffee, Frankhouse and Spohrer, Crone. Pittsburgh . . ilO 500 0 Philadelphia 000 231 1 Spencer, Kremer and Phillips; Bolen, Fallenstein, Shields, Wil-loughby Wil-loughby and Davis. Cincinnati . . . 000 000 000 0 5 3 New York .. 000 004 00x 4 7 1 Johnson, Eckfert and Sukeforth; Berly and O'Ferrell. St. Louis ... 000 000 20 Brooklyn . . 020 200 00 Stout, Lindsey, Johnson and Wilson; Wil-son; Luque and Lopez. AMERICAN LEAGUE Philadelphia Detroit .. . . . . Grove . and Hayworth. k Boston St. Louis 001 161 000 3 000 000 000 0 Cochrane; Uhle 1 3 and Gaston, Moore and Berry; Stewart Stew-art and Ferrell. " Washington 010. 000 01 Chicago 000 000 00 Jones and Spencer; Caraway and Tate, ' "I NEWS Wl RES By UNITED PftfcSS bUNLAk FOUND DEAD TOURS, France. May 20. V.P.) The body of Brig.-Gen. Robert H. Dunhip was lecovered today, buried under tons of lock and mud by a andslido at the Chateau La Far-iniere. Far-iniere. UKNO IS "CAREFUL" RENO, Nov., May 20. U'.W A laid on Las Vegas liquor establishments establish-ments by federal prohibition agents caused apprehension among Reno bootleggeis, night club, owners and speakeasy operators today, and re-;:ltf! re-;:ltf! in th- adoption ot stringent t regulations for membership cards." ! $100,000 COAST FUCK SAN- FRANCISCO, May 20. 'IM'' A h-avy heat wave blamed for scores of fires in the San Francisco Fran-cisco bay region was climaxed early tcday by a four-alarm fire that destroyed six buildings in the Potrero district with a loss exceeding ex-ceeding $100, 000. YOUTH KKCOVEKI.NG SALT LAKE CITY. May 20. l.I!) -While Stanley" Beuter, 21, so-called so-called "problem child," was recovering recov-ering from a bullet wound in the groin, police were searching for his partner wanted on a charge of holding up three service stations Monday night. CHARGE SWINDLE CHICAGO, May 20. l'.!! -John Factor, the former "Jake the Barber" Bar-ber" surrendered to federal authorities, author-ities, today just as they had about given up hope of bringing him to justice on charges of swindling ICnglish investors of around $5,000,-000 $5,000,-000 in fraudulent stock transactions. transac-tions. CONFESSES CHARLESTON, Merle Johrtson, ; station attendant. MXJKDEHS 11!., May 20. L'.1? !5-year-old filling surrendered to Mattoon, 111., police today and reported, re-ported, they said, that he had killed Mrs. Carrie Bowers, 49-year-old widow, and her two sons, 6 and 8, because ' they asked to be killed" and that "I had to get rid of them."- EXPLORER FOUND DEAD BERLIN, May 20. r.n Tfcte frofcen body of Professor Alfred Wegener, chief of the German scientific sci-entific expedition exploring central Greenland, has been found, the newspaper Acht Uhr Abendblat said today. FIRE DISCOVERED LATE SALT LAKE CTTY, May 20. (I ll) Not until frantic firemen rushed j upstairs and warned her did Mrs. I M. M. Post, quietly sitting .in a1 chair, realize that her house was literally burning over her head, last night. ' DISARMAMENT PLANS. GENEVA. May 20. dM:v The League of Nations council today decided that the proposed world disarmament conference, early next year will be held at Geneva. Civil Suit Filed Agaii inst Lee Romero A suit to obtain judgment for $483.35 with Interest has been filed by the Bonneville Lumber company against A. Le RomerG, Josie Baxter. Bax-ter. Hugh A: Baxter, J. B. Keeler, A. H. Christensen, Milan R. Straw, Andrew; Romero. According to the complaint the amount sought is due on a bill for building material purchased. Chris-tensen Chris-tensen and 'Straw were the attorneys at-torneys for Romero. Keeler has been appointed representative of the court in settling the estate. The Day's Chuckle EL PASOT Tex., May 20. (U.R) Bruce Steele, dashing plumber, lays claim to being the Finnegan of the divorce courts he has been in-agaih-out-again 14 times. .The plumber,' whose avocation is marriage, has been married and divorced three times from one woman, and twice to and from another, an-other, and he claims nine other -.divorces from other women. He is handsome, but declares it is his "way with women" that has mad . hint ttie success he is. "Find their weakness," counselled coun-selled Steele, "and you have them; Women wtio love me Keep on loving lov-ing me. The only reason they get divorces is jealousy." Snow, Heat Waves Furnish Cbntrdst In North America Floods, Sandstorms, Windstorms, Add To Wide Variance; Mercury Oyer .90 On : Pacific Coast; Conditions Settling CHICAGO. May 20. (U.R) Show, rain, wirfd "and sAnd storms were reported in some sections of North America .today .to-day at the same time that a glistering heat wave was driving ' temperatures along the Pacific coast to the highest spring.' murks in 20 years. - ' Examples ot the. contrasting extremes which yesterday' presented weather bureaus with one of the most puzzling general outlooks in years were: . - . r'nlifm-nin Tpmnprnfnioa tin HiVi LINCOLN HIGH AWARDS MADE Participation In Extra-Cur-ricular Activities Is J Given Recognition Presentation of the Webb award to Homer Uandley, outstanding student stu-dent of llie Lincoln high school fuaturcd the annual award as-! as-! sembly held at the school last i week. The following program was rendered: ren-dered: Prayer, Viola Madsen; vocal solo, Carl Andreason; presentation pres-entation o'f Webb trophy, Leo Hansen; Han-sen; response, Homer Bandley; vocal solo, Carl Andreason. After the program the following follow-ing awards were given: Student body .officers: Presented by Wesley Soulier to Homer Band-ley, Band-ley, Max Andrews, Velma Big"e-low. Big"e-low. Pauline 'Sumsion, Dorothy i Hunn. Dorn'hv Kofford, Marian Partridge, Lucille Skinner, and i jjon Collins. i'lesponse by Don j Collins. j Debaters. presented , by Alta j Clinger to Dorothy Hunn. Dorothy Kofford, Lucille Skinner, and ; Louise Allred. Response by Dor-i Dor-i othy Hunn. i Basketball, presented by Thora Clark to John Rowley, Don Collins, Reid Peterson. Mario Clayton, Harold Jones, Lynn Morgan, and Monis Wiscombe. Response by Reid Peterson. Scholarship, presented by Mau-rine Mau-rine Bigelow to Lucille Skinner, Dorothy' Hunn, Max Rawlings and San ford Bingham. Response by Lucille Skinner. Service me-'al, presented by Principal Prin-cipal Banks to Dorothy Kofford. t Triick, presented by Homer Bandley to Harold 'Jones. Stock judging, presented by Chester Oliver to Wesley Soulier, Garner Madsen and Jimmie Ree-sha. Ree-sha. Response given by Jimmie Reesha. Dramatics, presented by Louise Allred to Vilda Hawa, Lorna Wentz, Dorothy Kofford, Maurine Bigelow, Ellen Bandley, Kenneth Carter. Lisle Brown, John Rowley, Row-ley, Chester Oliver, Homer Band-!ey. Band-!ey. Response was given by Lorna Wentz. Football, presented by Velma Bigelow to Harold Jones, Reid Peterson, Don Collins John Rowley, Row-ley, Gilbert Farley. Stewart Freshwater, Fresh-water, Gilbert Gillispie, Sherman Taylor, Glenn Kerr, Burton Morgan, Mor-gan, Lowell Gorden. Fred Davis, Carl Andreason, Lisle BrownWesley BrownWes-ley Soulier. Response by Sherman Sher-man Taylor. Opera, presepted yiy Homer Bandley to Virginia Clnger, Moroni Mo-roni Jensen, Zella Harding, Fenton Farley, John Rowley, Stanley Finch, Carl Ahdreason, Sherman Taylor, Lctdise- Allred, Chester OMver, Vera Brereton, Katherine Oliver, Olea , Pulsipher, Glen Kerr, Phylis y Murdock Bernetta Burr, Lester Anderson, Murray Loveless, Carrol Farley, Leonard Peterson, Elmer Huff. Response by Carl Andreason. Mill Property Is Purchased Final payment of $7,000 on the purchase of the Hoover Brothers' mill property at Fifth North and Second West has been .. made by City Auditor Mary F. Smfth at the order of the city commisison. The property .which includes more than an acj-e of ground, water and, mill rights is located on the old Provo mill race. It will be improved and used for city pur poses. The old bridge structure across" the mill . race has been replaced re-placed with a wider bridge of concrete con-crete and steel construction. as 92. , , " Chicago 2.08 inches of rainfall. -Missomi -Floods." ' Southern California .- S un tl storms. Winnipeg Snow. Trinidad, Colo. Snow. Denver Snow, LeBanon, Ind.- Windstorms. . Return to Normal With the exception of California, i . indications today were that condi tions rapidly were returning to normal. . A storm area which for two days had hovered over the Great Lake region was traveling eastward but was believed spending itself as It moved along. " ' At Winnipeg, yesterday's snow', storm became a . blizzard. Most of the snow melted quickly. ' Denver had its second day of snow. Temperatures were low but not low enough to damage crops and the moisture was considered beneficial. In Les Angeles the heat wave was attributed partly to hot -winds which swept off the Mojave desert, bringing showers of sand that halted halt-ed traffic and damaged citrus crops. . . In the southwest, cooler weather with fair skies prevailed today after a period of excessive heat,, thundershowers, wind and hall. Temperatures dropped "precIpN tately. . Streams overflowed in Missouri from heavy rains continuing since, the week encL Contrary creek in the northwesrpart of the state lived, : tip to its name and threatened -to flood adjacent farms. . . Oklahoma had cloudbursts. ' ' In San Francisco, where the mercury reached 90 yesterday, the excessive heat was blamed for numerous fires both inside and outside out-side the city limits. ' "v - B.Y.U. Concert At Springville The'B. Y. U mixed chorus and symphony orchestra, sometimes known as the( "Y" ensemble, will present a concert - at Springville high school Thursday, May 21 a 8 p. m. , The group which recently returned re-turned from a tour of "Idaho and Northern Utah is directed by Prof. LeRoy J. Robertson .and Dr. Franklin Madsen. The 'public Is invited. A splendid program is assured. ACQUITTED OF MUKDEIt NICE, France, May 20.- U.E Mrs. Charlotte Nixon-Nirdlinger St. Louis prize beauty who shot and killed her jealous husband-during a quarrel, was , acquitted- by a French jury- today. Self-defe.nsa was claimed.. 1 Vandals bamdge Cemetery T tee" , A warning against injuring injur-ing trees or shrubbery iathe Provo city cemetery was sounded Wednesday by City Commissioner - Walter -UR. Whitehead. . It was reported that some, individual had chipped the bark around one of the most beautiful pine, trees In :th cemetery. An .f fort Is bein: made by the ' sexton to save the tree in spite of the serf- ous damage. . . .. . Attention was " called, by ? Commissioner Whitehead that it is against the city ordinance to trim trees m the cemetery without the consent of the city sefcton, who' In turn consults the commisisbher In charge. ' . |