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Show Eve em m g HERALD PHONES business 495 Editorial 494 Society . . 496 DOLLARS SPENT in Utah County Mean? Utah County Prosperity FORTY-FIFTH YEAR, NO. 196. Who Shot Cock Robin? Who Swiped Provo's Fountain? Lost, strayed or stolen one fountain. Last seen at the intersection of University avenue and Center street, surmounted by a traffic light and surrounded by cracked paving. This morning, citizens were astonished to find a large vacant space where the fountain once was. A faint clue is reported by sundry late-working and late-playing citizens who saw several state road commission trucks and heard the musical sound of a jack-hammer about 11 o'clock Thursday night. The fact that a bottle of pre-Volstead whisky was reported to be buried beneath the relic may have tiad something to do with the large number of spectators gathered closely around it at that hour. At any rate, no one seems to know as much about the bottle as about the fountain and that isn't much. The Herald has interviewed several horses on theirfeelings in the matter. Although some of thern had a sentimental feeling for the fountain's passing, the general sentiment was that the w. k. landmark had passed its days of usefulness. Says A. J. Dobbin : "We liked it once, but with the top off, the lights taken away and the water turned off, it was an insult, to a self-respecting horse. We're sad, yes but c'est la guerre. What happened to the bottle?" Then came a horse laugh. Gone, but not forgotten! TODAY Arthur Brisbane (Copyright, 1931 Serious News From .A Great U. S. Flier. .. jNot One Drunk Mayor. NEWS of anti-Catholic agitation In Rome becomes more serious, especially in the light of events In Madrid and other parts of Spain. , The recent attack by Fascists on a mail van carrying letters let-ters for Pope Pius, was followed yesterday by other demonstration? against students of Catholic institutions insti-tutions In Rome. Rioters surrounded the Catholic students headquarters stoning the building, breaking all windows up to the fifth floor. The police had been sumoned "but the Fascist stu-: ,dcnts overwhelmed them. Windows were broken in other Catholic headquarters and the ttuation is strained between the Italian government and the Vatl- Pope Plus, since early, in March, has refused to receive Count de Vecehl, appointed by Mussolini, Italian ambassador to the holy see. An absolute diplomatic break between be-tween the Italian government and the pope's government ofVVatican city Is feared. - Additional anxiety is caused in Catholic circles by the action of . Spain's republican government ordering the public registry to make an inventory of "all property holdings of Catholic religious Ofcfers in Spain." ' It is feared in Catholic circles that this may be a prelude to confiscation, con-fiscation, the enactment of a measure meas-ure to declare all property of religious re-ligious houses state property. THIRTY-FIVE thousand Spanish women have signed a protest against the recent burning of churches and convents in Spain, (Continued on Page Two Sec. Two) Market Breaks To New Lows NEW YORK, May 29. UJ After a period of covering that seat stocks 'up fractions td Triore I than 2 points, the stock msk- broke to - new lows for the bear movement today. r Steel ' common dropped below 90 for. the firrt 'time !ri "eight years and the jail list dropped 1 to more than. 5 points to the lowest levels. In from 1 to 10 years. Sev erai otthe Van-Sweringen raHs made new record lowiJ There was a. slight 'upturn from the lows in the last few minutes pf trading 300 GRADUATES GET DIPLOMAS Packed House Attends Junior High Event; "Y ' High Commencentent Held Almost 300 graduates from two Provo educational institutions received re-ceived diplomas in closing exer-, exer-, cisea held Thursday evening. The junior mgh schools of Provo held their commencement exercises at the high school' auditorium before be-fore an audience that taxed the capacity 'Of the building. More than 250 students of the ninth year received diplomas from Superintendent Superin-tendent C. A. Smith, after they had been recommended for this honor by Prihicipals J. W. Thornton and J. F. Mower. "V Senior High ! At College hall 27 graduates of the senior high school department of the Brigham Young university (Continued or. Pago Eight) Gas Official Club Speaker Confidence in Provo's future was expressed by J; D. Roberts, vtce president of the Wasatch Gas com pany, who addressed the Provo Rotary clubi luncheon meeting at the Hotel Roberta Friday. Mr., Roberts outlined the ' gas company's program of enlargement in this territory, in which Columbia Steel Company coke oven gas will be used, . and declared that " the larger gas mains being installed will assure adequate service for a city of 40,000. , . 'hls Was done strictly because of our belief in Provo's .future growth," said MK Roberts. "Smaller mains would have been less expensive, ex-pensive, and would have been adequate ade-quate for Provo at the present time, but our company is 'looking tb the future in the belief that Provo will be far larger than it is at the present pres-ent time. 4 The meeting, was under the direction direc-tion of George Ramsey of the vocational voca-tional service committee. Musical numbers were rendered by a Brigham Young university girls'; trio. ; TlieWeathe: UTAH: Fair to-nirht to-nirht and Satiir- r day; slightly niuiiici nvrt ilr west portion tonight. to-night. ' Max. temp. I Thursda?- 74 Kan.' - I 7"" 1 Thursday .T...lo PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, Utah Stake Co 1IETII. IS SATURD General Sessions, Sunday For Public At. 10 AhI 2; No Sacrament Services To Ik He'd Sunday Evening x All officers and members of the priesthood quorums of the. Utah stake are "expected to be in attendance, at the opening open-ing session 6f the quarterly conference, Saturday evening at 7:30 p. m., according to President T. N. Taylor. Problems concerning the activities ac-tivities 6t the priesthood will be discusse'd and a representative representa-tive of the general authorities to be present at the conference will speak The public is invited to attend at-tend the general sessions ,to" be held Sunday at 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. There will be no sacrament services held Sunday evening in any of the wards of the stake, On account of the baccalaureate services of the Brigham Young university which are set for 8 o'cl&ck. Bill tfie Barber Good Bye Fountain The fountain is gone. Nine rahs for the man who had the courage to move it. Provo is to be congratulated congrat-ulated on its going. How nice it npcm3 to drive doTi an aunobr ?tructcd street. But where has it gone? That Is tho question Blood-houncu, Bocze houndsv Hawkshaws and others are hot on the trail. Junk shops, auto wreckages and antique shops arc being closely guarded. Clever slcufhs aiv questioning every driver of a car with a dented fender fend-er or a bruised bumper. Cut tires are being carefully checked for hidden ' parts of the fountain. Souvenir hunters are flocking to out of town resorts to avoid being searched. Shrewd news reporters are scanning . every hotel register in the district for suspicious names. Rut not a trace yet the fountain foun-tain has completely disappeared. Not a trace, not a clue. And what ah appropriate time. . We are moved to write ' ! v-j IN MEMORIAM The Fountain's gone. It's massive . bulk ' Will block our paths no more. The ugly heap will 'wreck no cars As-it has done1 leforev r The winter's blast will find it gon6 Ncicy sheet will forth As' menace to unwrfry feet Who brave the winter's storm. It's day is done. It's life is o'er. It's passing had to be. ' No teairs are shed, but' we -rejoice That from it's menace we are free. Blast FOUR MINERS MT. CARMEL, Pa4 May "20 U.R Four miners Were killed and six burned today In an explosion of gas in the - Richards Rich-ards tunnel of the Susquehanna Collieries company. The interior was badly wrecked and rescue workers had difficulty reaching the dead; and injured miners. Ain&ulanoes and doctors front- all - nearby mining ' cm- . panics were sent to the top of the sliaft to await arrival of the , injured and of the tattles of the deSa J5t the surface, V y KILLS UTAH, FRIDAY,, s?ir NEWS WIRES By UNITED PRESS U. S. CITIZEN EXECUTED RtJME, May 29 UJ?) Michele Schirru, naturalized citizen of the United States convicted of plotting to assassinate Premier Benito Mussolini, was executed at sunrise today. The confessed anarchist, 32 years old, died bfeore a filing squad at 4:47 a. m. He was convicted of the plot against Mussolini before the special tribunal for defense of the statex yesterday and immediately was sentenced to die'. HEAT WAVE REPORTED CHICAGO, Mayx29 tU.C A summer sum-mer like heat wave which killed at least one, caused several, prostrations, prostra-tions, made" the"" crops grow, and sent thousands scurrying" to the lakes and rivers for relief, gripped some sections of the country today as it abated in others. No relief was promised in the east from the blistering sun which yesterday sent the mercury to within a degree of the all time record. WAGE CUTTING REPORTED Wage cutting continued in April according to data compiled by the department of labor. At the same time a "slight and gTadual" increase in-crease in employment was reported for May. The department's bureau of labor statistics reported that during dur-ing April wage cuts had increased over those recorded in March, both in number of companies involved and also in number of employes. MAKES FORCED LANDING MEXICO CITY, May 29 (U.E) Leon Diaz, Mexican flier attempting attempt-ing a non-stop flight from Los Angeles An-geles to Mexico City, was reported at Los Mochis, Sinaloa state, today, where he was said to have made a forced landing. POPE, NUNCIO CONFER VATICAN CITY, May 29 U.E A lengthy conference took place today between the pope and Mon-signor Mon-signor Francesco Borgongini-Duca, apostolic Nuncio accredited to the king of Italy. It was understood the , pope instructed the Nuncio to make representations' regarding Fascist conflicts with the Azione Cattolica, Catholic laymen's organization." organi-zation." IMPEACH GOVERNOR NASHVILLE, Tennt. May 29 (U.H The first count in impeachment articles against Gov. Henry Horton, presented to the state house of representatives today charged the governor entered into a conspiracy with Rogers Caldwell, . financier and Col.. Luke Lea, newspaper, publisher, pub-lisher, whereby the chief executive "was to be perpetuated in office." IDENTIFY MURDER VICTIM NEW YORK, May 29 U.E) The body of a girl, killed by being re peatedly run over by an auto near J Westbury,. L. I., was tentatively identlfiecf today as Beatrice Phillips, of Brooklyn. RACE HORSES PERISH " "SAN FRANCISCO, May 29 Fifteen riding horses, many of them owned by prominent bay district dis-trict sportsmen, were destroyed and two more were fatally burned today in' a ffre that swept the frame stables of the California Rid ing academy' here. There were 22 horses in the stables when the fire broke out, and seven were rescued by policemen who discovered the flames. PATROL BOFUtEr NEW YORK, . May 29h (U.E)-The customs patrol boat Atlanta took fire In NewYork harbortdday and after h,c3rw "'of three -wen, had been rescued started drifting toward to-ward a scow with more than . ton of dynamite aTjoard, MAY 29, 1 9 3 1. 0) W n) ? Provo To Memorial Fit ting 9 9:30 Band concert Pioneer Park. 9:30 9:45 American Legion Drum Corps drill. 9:45 10 Service Star Legion exercises at Memorial Memo-rial tree in Pioneer Park. 10:05 Parade from park to Second South University Univer-sity avenue. 11 12 Services at city cemetery. 12 noon Salute of 21 guns. Flags hoisted to top of staff. 3 n. m. Baseball, Provo vs. Helper, Timp Park. M. I. A. SESSION 11 36th Annual Conference In Salt Lake; 4,000 Will Attend SALT LAKE CITY. Utah. May .19 l.P) The thirty-sixth annual oro'crf of the M. I. A. of the L. D. S. church will open June "1. continuing to June 11. inclusive. More than 4,000 delegates are expected ex-pected to attend. Opening program of the conference confer-ence induces a recreational institute. insti-tute. The Boy Scouts' band, led by John Held, will present a con-rt con-rt in the trtberniclf. preceding the sessions of the general conf-ence, conf-ence, June II. La:.;r in the afternoon after-noon a v pecial train will take relegates to Saltair beach, where final dancing contests will be, held. Saturdav. vangurcs will hold their athletic contests in the De3-rot De3-rot cyrrnasium. A session for Mutual officers and adult workers' is- scheduled lor the evening, follow ed by joint and separate meet-inss meet-inss of the "M" men, anO Gleanor Girls. Awards will be presented' te winners of the chorus, speaking and qUartct contests at 7:30, p. m in the tabernacle. - Sunday's sessions, beginning at 8 e. m. Is scheduled for officers of the Mutual, while at 2 p. m. and 7 p. m.. ginral conference will be concluded. Y. L. M. I. A. summer cann institute in-stitute is scheduled to be held June 15. H. S. OFFICERS ARE INDUCTED Intraduct'on of the student body officers for 1931,32 featured the finsl student assemblv at the Provo Pro-vo high school on Thursday morning. morn-ing. Everett Pulln, president; Na- dine Taylor, vice-prcstc'ien't; and Eva Christensen. secretary-historian, the officers elected in a recent election, were presented to the student body, followed by i those elected earlier in the year and th officers sel'ftec'i by the student council as follows: Milton Nelson, editor, and Sterling Sterl-ing Coe. business manager, the Provonian. Virginia Viclc. editor, and Kenneth Taylor, business manager, man-ager, th White and Green year- f book ; Hen rv Campbell, student Kmaneger; teienc ienroa, presiceni of the girls organization, The retiring officers, who turned hover the "keys- to their officers. are Dave Merrill, president; Laurel Aagard, vice-preident: Mary.Dahl-quist, Mary.Dahl-quist, aecretary-historian ; Jay Nelson, Nel-son, student manager: Jenny ;Llnd Myrup. girls' president; Fay ' MeGuh-er etfltorj' and James Mc-Gtvfre. Mc-Gtvfre. biislness manager, tKe Pro voniarrr Dele Jones, editor,: and Kenneth Martin, business mana-ieer.jthe mana-ieer.jthe Wtlte and Green; Louise Boyer, public service chairman; and Ariel ..Davis, . dramatto manager. OPENS JUNE 7 7 tis Saturday Observe Bay With Exe rc ises Led by local legionnaires and members of the auxiliary unit Provo will render fitting hofnagr tomorrow to the memory of the fallen heroes who sleep beneath the sod. The city cemetery will be the shrine to which thousands of people peo-ple will make a pilgrimage tomorrow. to-morrow. Loving hands will place the choicest flowers of the season on the grave plots of the dear loved ones who" have gone before. Entire Forenoon Memorial day exercises will be observed during the entire fore noon, beginning with a band concert con-cert at 9 o'clock in the morning and ending with the gun salute at high noon which gives the signal to hoist the flag to the top of the staff. Services will be conducted at the Memorial tree in Pioneer park under un-der the auspices of the Service Star legion. Included in the morning's program besides the band concert is a drill by the legion drum and bugle corps. The Pioneer park services will be concluded con-cluded with a parade up Center street and south to Second South where ..cars will convey ithe narchers to the cemetery for the -econd part of the morning's observance. ob-servance. Women of the legion auxiliary under the direction of Mrs. Stanley M. Clark -will place poppy wreaths on the graves of 48 ex-service men who sleep in the local cemetery. The auxiliary has completed the installation of a beautiful star-shaped star-shaped poppy plot at the parking strip near the Center and First East street intersection. The plot which is planted in red Flanders poppies is lined with rock painted in red. white and blue, in honor of the buddies who have gone "west." The plot was installed under the direction of a committee headed by Mrs. Thomas Beesley with the approval ap-proval of. the city parks department; depart-ment; The legion officials announce that automobiles will be available at Pioneer park during the forenoon fore-noon for widows of ex-service men, veterans and others. The cars will be there at 9 o'clock and those desiring de-siring transportation are urged to get in touch with the legion men at the park. The only feature scheduled for the afternoon is the baseball game at Timp park between the Provo and Helper state league teams. P. G. Prepares To Serve 30, Thirty thousand servings of berries ber-ries are being prepared for the 10th Annual Strawberry festival which will be held in Pleasant Grove, June 9, 10, 11, according X.& Clifford Tomlison, who will have charge of the young ladies who act as waitresses for a day. :- Jn other t Words according t Mr Tomlison, if the berries are served in dishes six inches in diameter and if they wtere placed end to end they would make a string of Utah's best, with cream, about four miles long The berries 'tp be served' will 000 On Sirawbe EIGHT PAGES TODAY iM) Apostle To Speak At Baccalaureate DAVID 0.McKAY T SERVICES TO BE SUNDAY Sacred Band Concert, Acad emic Procession To Precede Pre-cede Annual Services A sacred band concert which will be given by the B. Y. U. concert band on the Utah stake tabernacle grounds Sunday evening preceding the baccalaureate- services af which Elder David O. McKay will deliver the sermon to the graduates grad-uates of Brigham Young university, univer-sity, will be one of the features of the day. The concert will be followed by the academic procession of faculty and graduates from Brigham Young isr.iversUy to the tabernacle. The program in the tabernacle will begin at 7:30 p. m. The complete program, to which everybody is invited, in-vited, follows: Sacred conpert on tabernacle grounds. 7 p. m., Brigham Young university cocert band. Academic procession, 7f30 p. m., ' board of trustees, faculty and grad- ntes. from education building to tabernacle. Services at tabernacle, 8 p. m. Organ prelude. Jay Keeler: "out oi the Silence." (Galbraitle) B. Y. U. concert chorus; invocation; "O Holy Father" (Marchetti) B. Y. U. ! ladies glee club; baccalaureate sermon. Elder David O. McKay; "God is Our Refuge" (Dudley Buck). B. Y. U. mixed chorus; benediction; postlude, Jay Keeler. NO MAIL DELIVERIES No mail deliveries will be made tomorrow, on account of Memorial day being a legal holiday. The general, gen-eral, delivery window will be open for transients only from 10:30 to 11:30. The employes of the post-office post-office will attend the state postal convention at Ogden. rr weigh in the neighborhood of two tons. More than 25,000 servings were given away last tear, Mr. Tomlin-?on Tomlin-?on says, and this year even a arger crowd is expected. The berries will be served this year between State and First West ttrcets, on block east of the state highway, the committee says, as the Pleasant Grove Main street is two blocks east of the state highway. high-way. The usual carnival spirit will pre-iConlQnuecl pre-iConlQnuecl On ?age Tfareei 7 ' " ' I1 f (r yuay PRICE FIVE CENTS (9 !: 10 'mi Valuable Free Prizes To Be Given Away; Many interesting inter-esting Events Planned For Provo's Big Celebration Fourth of July is comiriff and with it comes one of the ? greatest celebrations ever stacred in Utah! run and hearty cooperation coopera-tion of the merchants has been tendered Provo Post No. 13, American Legion, the sponsor of the big event. - - Five free major prizes, to be given away on the night of the ITvifT-tVk i 1 1 Ha A i nnl a rtA mm ff- lows: a Chevrolet, flve-passengcr, two-door sednn, at Superior Motor. 490 West Center street; a General , Power and Light . company, f North University awnue; ;. an enameled refrigerator at the W . Tatch Service company, , 446 Wert Center street; a living room suite, -at Dixon-Taylor-Russell. 289 West Center street; and so Wg suver -dollars, in the window of . the Provo Commercial and Savings bank, tJniversity avenue and Center treet. ; The awarding of these prizes will be made in the B. Y. U. stadium on the night of July 4. climax of : the day's activities. . Merchants. , vr7 " 6 l i t -4.1 Arvnnaraiinrr in tVtta aft the participating stores. A big day for Provo's Fourth of July i3 assured by a mammoth pro gram pf activities, which will take place throughout the day. A parade, pa-rade, -patriotic program, kids sports, a baseball game, and the evening show in the "Y" stadium are outstanding features. Dances, midnight previews at all theaters,' and almost continuous appearance of bands in every part of the city are alsoarranged. SERVICES FOR J. R. MURDOCK Tributes appropriate to the life of a leader in church and clvie affairs were paid to Joseph It Mur hck at th services in the jirWasatch stake tabernacle at Heb r Citv Thursrtav afternoon ' with President David A. Broadbeht, presiding. pre-siding. " ' ; : Mr. Murdock dieci in a Salt'Lake hospital Tuesday following a. brief illness. The large hall was filled to capacity with citizens from an parts of the state,. many r of whom were from Provo arid other com munities of Utah county, where Mr. Murdock had made many frienrt during his activities here. Seated on "the speakers' stand were many (Continued On Page Eight) Today's Scores! u , BY UNITED PRESS ' NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston . . 101 002 00 . Philadelphia 010 010 01 , Cunningham. Haid and Spohrer; , H. Elliott and Davis. ; Chicago 010 -00Q 2001 4 9 Pittsburgh 002 000 1000 - 37 3 Malone. Root- and , JIartnctt; Kumer and Phillips. Brooklyn . . . OOft 010 10 " ' New York .. 000 200 00 . i Vance. . Shaute and Lombard!; Mitchell and O'FarrelL 1 i AMERICAN LEAGUE v" i Cleveland 411 300 TJetroit It 000 001 X wn aind Sewell; Hpyt, Budges Brown and Si |