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Show t HERALD PHONES Editorial ... ,.494 Society I m 496 Business .494 Hlera IF IT HELPS CENTRAL UTAH The Herald Is For It FORTY-FIFTH YEAR, NO. 330 P R O V O, UTAH COUNTY. UTAH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1931 SIX PAGES TODAY PRICE FIVE CENTS m , 4 ... . s 1 fc- - lH -1--, CSDL TODAY -By- Arthur Brisbane (Copyright, 1931) Nervously Teetering We All Love Gold Cold Moon, Hot Sun Marconi's Birthday APAN yesterday -was teetering , on the edge of the gold standard, stand-ard, ready for the leap Into the unknown. The new Jap anese govermnent.will lorbid exportation ex-portation of gold, which la one way of leaving the gold standard. Tokip's stock exchange .was cloned, those gentlemen knowing well What is coming. Passing from the gold to the no-gold standard is painful. It would NOT hurt the feeling-of feeling-of some in the United States if our stock exchange should imita' that of Japan, and also close to get its breath. - Every - respectability loves the gold standard, passionately, think . we should grapple It to pur bosom. with hooks of steel, and loathe? inflation. "But what is inflation V We have in circulation now niac hundred million dollars currency than we had a year ago, and fed eral reserve credits outstanding are .mere than nine hundred millions mil-lions above last year's figures. ; Hoarding is said to explain coi.-? of this. Men put money into saf deposit boxes, thinking the world is coming to an end. and more money must be issued to let btu nesa go pn. . :It s a matter of cpqf idence. V- are on the gold standard, and e have less than five, thpusand mil lfon dollars in cold. If all the sav -ings bank depositors were to draw their money,. to change it intp gc-11 irt the some time, there wouldn't be enough gold to pay naif, or bne quarter of them; We are on a goli basis only theoretically, but that, satisfies us. CCTENTISTS of Carnegie Intl tute say the "moon's surface "& covered with pumice stone and lava from volcanoes that died long ago. A trip to the moon would be dull, and travelers would be glad to get back. r The institute has prepared diagrams dia-grams showing our little corner ot space. In that corner our sun, & million times as big as this earth, and al) the planets whirling around it. are merely a dot, smaller than a pin-head. The local group of which we are part is made up of thirty or forty thousand million stars, and tie whole thing is shaped UkeTTcart-wheel UkeTTcart-wheel or the glass on a watch. Some hot, ' bright ' stars in pur island universe, one among millions of others, are so big that it woull take light, traveling 1&6.000 miles a second, two thousand years to go from one side of the star to the other. Multiply 2,000 by 186,000, the result by the number of seconds in one year, and you will have, in miles, the diameter of such a sun. Thirty years ago yesterday, a young Italian, MarconiTTcpnquered the Atlantic ocean in a new- way, as his fellow Italian, Columbus, had done, in the old fashioned way, more than four hundred years earlier. Thousands of telegrams and wire less . messages : congratulated Mar conl on the thirtieth birthday of "wireless. Standing in a heavy storm on the shore of St John's, Newfoundland.- B0 years ago, Mai - cpnl received, through a kitet which he sent into the air, the first signal across the ocean, the letter S. ? ' Those.: that should, have known better doubted the truth of his ex periment. 5 - Once again the world honors the genius of the Italian race. 8. F. BUDGET HEARING SPANISH FORK A public hearing hear-ing of the proposed budget for Spanish Fork city will be held at the city hall council chamber, Wednesday evening, December 16, 1931. The public is Invited to be present and to discuss the various items on the budget. I The W-eather I Utah Fair to night and . Tue-day Tue-day ; little change In tempetare. Blaximum temp. Saturday .. ... 31 Minimum tempw Pnturday jSTaximmn temp. -1 Sunday y . . .. .23 Btlnfujum tempt Sunday, 10 below tmsf, fXonday, 1 i below J T. rfntmTiTn DrastielJiLit In County Budget Is Demanded - $1,400 Items For Reappraisal of Property Is Opposed; Reduced Pay For Deputies Demanded By Delegation. More than 60 members of the Utah county farm bureau and other county taxpayers by unanimous vote Monday mornjngregistered their dis approval of Utah county cooperating co-operating with the state tax commission in its plan to make a survey of this county with a vlewpfesablishing new appraisals apprais-als on the real property for taxation taxa-tion purposes. This action was takenx before the board of cpunty commissioners at the public hearing on the 1932 budgets, bud-gets, when it was discovered that the county board had set up an item of $100 with which to cooperate coop-erate with the state commission in making the. survey. ' Creer Defends Proposal The "motion was made by N. C. Christensen of Salem, former state representative,' wh6 'declared that he is opposed to any program that calls for additional expenditure of public funds.. ' Speaking in opposition to Mr. Christensen's motion, A. R. Creer of Spanish Fork declared the proposed pro-posed plan to be the best yet devised de-vised ' by tax experts of the country, coun-try, and told the group that 23 states have adopted it. He referred refer-red particularly to Indiana, which state he reclared had reduced taxes each year during the seven years that the new method of appraisals had been in operation there. He also stated that the plan had been adopted by the national tax commission com-mission as the most practical and feasible one devised for the equalization equal-ization of taxes. In the final vote, however, Mr. Creer did oppose Mr. Christensen's motion. Want 25 Percent Cut Jesse Hall, president of the Utah county farm bureau, told the commissioners com-missioners that the group had de (Continued Qn Page Six) WORKERS FACE FUEL FAMINE GALLUP, N. M Dec. 14. WE) A caterpillar snowpiow battered its way through frozen drifts today pulling four tons of coal, relieving for a day a ' fuel famine at the snowbound Presbyterian Navajo misslpn at Ganado, Ariz., where 300 mission workers and Indian children chil-dren faced freezing. The caterpillar's arrival effected only temporary relief as all wood and other' fuel at the marooned mission was 'exhausted and norma) requirements are nine tons of coal a day. Two truckloads of coal ch-route ch-route from Gallup stalled midway to the mission, and two were stalled 15 miles from the mission on the road to a -coal mine in Steamboat canyon. .' Zero weather made the task of reUef workers harrowing. Chicago Wants -J- . . ----- i " - G.O.P. Meeting WASHINGTON. Dec. 14. (TIE) Chicago probably Will be given tho Republican national convention for 1932. Cleveland, until recently the fa vorite, has been virtually eliminat ed. It has been unable to raise the $150,000 minimum guarantee asked by the Republican naUonal com mittee for expenses. ; Officials of the national commit tee indicated today they expected Chicago would x be selected when the committee takes its formal vpte tomorrow., V, Petrpit Is planning-an aggressive effort jp land the convention and. Is now regarded as runnerup "to .Cbr cago , although laboripg under heavy odds., ' ; .i . VP O V: V r 'SMOpPING A ' NIBLEV RITES Impressive Services Attended By Over 6,500; Grant, Ivins Speak. - . LOGAN, Dec. 14. U.E Charles Wilson Nibley, 82, second counselor of the first presidency of "the L. D. S. church, came" back 'home today for home, to the late noted Mormon church leader, has ever meant Cache valley where he spent a great part of his life. Funeral services . for President Nibley, who died Friday after a three weeks' illness, were held, at the Salt Lake tabernacle yesterday. They were attended by approximately approxi-mately 6500. After the services, the funeral cortetre proceeded northward to Logan, Utah, where the body was interred after brief graveside services. ser-vices. ; ' At the Salt Lake services, President Presi-dent Heber J. Grant, Anthony W. Ivins. first counselor of the first presidency, and Arthur Wintei, secretary-treasurer of the L. D. . board of education, spoke of Mr. Nibley's spiritual and civic accomplishments. accom-plishments. Telegrams of sympathy continued to arrive Sunday, included among them were many from noted persons: per-sons: T. M. Schumache?rcTairman Of the board of the Western Pacific; Pa-cific; Louis S. Cates, president of the PhelpsDodge corporation; J. P. O'Brien, Vice president and general manager of the O. W. R. & N." rail road; .Heber M. Wells, first gov ernor of Utab; F. W. Robinson, vice president of the Union Pacific ; Dr. John A. Wldtsoe, president I D. S. European mission; D. C. Green, former vice president of the Utah PowetA Light company, and Senator Reed Smoot. President Nibley became ill over three weeks ago with bronchius He -was-unabhs to throw off the serious cold and soon a kidney complication developed. Finally, pneumonia set. in. and Jt was this last complication that brought death at 12:50 p. m. Friday. ReUefSoqOf Four Wards Join Relief 'society members of the Manavu, Third' and Pioneer wards wjii 30m wun me wuw wx, Tuesday rafterncon when a literature litera-ture pro&ram on Russia , will be ATrpeciaT feature of the program is the vocal eolos to be mxog by Isidor Belarsky, badso, , formerly With the Lemhgraa Opera conrtfaxry. I . Mrs. Christen ; Jensen will give . the literature : lesson,, outlined for .Jan-' uary. ? Mr. Belarsky vwm sing, one 'of $ .Jhtoi .numbers In the Busslan language.! ,v v' : k -An; invitation is. extended to the public to attend the meeting by Mrs. ' Edith ry.;oothi president of the Fourth ward; Relief society. AT TABERNACLE HIT. RUN CAR HURTS VGKAN lone Kump 'Knocked ' Unconscious Uncon-scious By Unknown Driver On West Drive. Provo peace officers were conducting con-ducting an investigation, Monday looking into the identity of an alleged al-leged hit and' run driver whose car struck and injured severely Miss lone Kump, 18, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Kump, 142 North Twentieth West at 12:30 Sunday morning. Miss Kump was walking home from a dance when she was hit by the car near the Walter Cox corner. She suffered severe cuts and bruises about the legs from which she is slowly recovering at her home. She was rendered unconscious and evi dently lay in the snow at the side of the road for some time before rgainlng consciousness. According to Deputy Sheriffs J. P.' Gourley and Reuben Christensen, Christen-sen, the young woman was either thrown or carried 30 feet because her purse was "found in the snow, about that distance from the last imprint of her shoe. The tracks of a car were seen to have travelled on the wrong side of the road for 200 feet before striking the woman. Two Injured In Car Crash Bernice Penrod, 19, and her brother Garn. 5, daughter and son of Mr. and Mrs. Wllford Penrod, of Pleasant View, suffered painful pain-ful cuts about the head Sunday night, , when a car driven by another an-other son, Keller, ran into a car parked on the side of the highway near the state fish and game farm at Springville. . , . The crash threw Mis3 Penrod through the windshield inflicting a aeep cut m her bead which re-J quired twelve stitches to closet. The little boy, who was sittings in the back seat With his mother, was cut on a heater. "The injured children were taken nnh1i won A voaon KA than fn their; hoihw. Mrs. Penrod, Keller and Van Snow escaped injury. The driver of . the parked car, whose name was not ascertained by members of the sheriffs office,' and other occupants of that car were ! not injured. - - . .WQOGN INVITED - ' ' .Wives a)d grown daughters of Provo residents who are unem ployed and anV other Vomen who need work are Invited to meet with the : iemploym?nt 'committee k , to night according jta. L - A Ifttcfcgll, chairman., , The-meeting Is at 7 :30 in. Lp. yjy v.wuf i. iryyiu. i REVENUES OF GIT! DROP OFF Bulk of Taxes Still To Come; Receipts For Licenses, Fees Below Estimate; Items Arc Held Over For 1932 Budget. With thelotal revenues of Provo city $43,636.32 less than those estimated for the year, and only one month's receipts to go on, the financial finan-cial situation of the city calls for rigid economy, according to the monthly report of Mary F. Smith, city auditor, which covers the financial transactions trans-actions of tho city for the month of N'jvcuiiiJi. The total estimated revenues for tho present year were fixed at $260,700, while there has been. received re-ceived during the 11 months, $217,-063.68. $217,-063.68. The lai revenues from taxes were estimated at $150,000 while the actual amount received to Dejmber 1, was $57,830.21. Of course, the bulk of the revenues from this source will come during the present month, it is explained. ex-plained. Hetow Estimates 'Other revenues -estimated - and the amounts received, respectively, respective-ly, are Water rate assessments, $504)00, $53,719.51; licenses, $10,000, $580; departmental fees, $10,000, $5,081.03; fines and ' forfeitures, $6,500, $5,650.90; accounts receivable, receiv-able, $600, $872.07; street lighting, LA and 2-A, $5500, $4147.59; sundry sun-dry revenue, $2500, $2307.01; Utah county fire services, $1600, $1478; municipal golf , course, $2500, $1712 (of which $1000 is membership fees); franchises, $1500, 535.09; irrigation ir-rigation taxes, $500, $3950; total, $260,700, $217,063.32. Among the expenditures over those set up in the 1931 budget in items not anticipated, which are characterized as emergency items, and which will be included in the 1932 budget, was one for water supply. This amounted to $3865, of which $2000 was paid to Utah Power Pow-er and Light company for service connection. However, $500 was refunded re-funded to the city, making a net service charge of $1500. The balance bal-ance of $2365 was for water used. Another item of $700 to be budgeted budget-ed in 1932 is for the purchase of the Hoover property. There is due the special Improve ment fund $14,000 used on public improvement work for street paving pav-ing intersections. This was used in the'rgeneral fund public improvements im-provements in 1929-30, and was transferred back to the special improvement im-provement or trust funds in 1931, and must be included in the 1932 budget. Unexpended Amount The total of the unexpended appropriation ap-propriation is $21,253.56, the report shows. This is divided as follows: Public affairs and finance, $13,-966.48; $13,-966.48; public ' safety, $3615.90; waterworks and sewera, $818.76; streets, public improvements, irri gations, $2459.20; parks, public property and recreation, $393.22 A number of bills will be held for the 1C32 budget in the fire, po lice, waterworks and parks depart-ment3, depart-ment3, the auditor states. Many Volijnteer To Aid Firemen The appeal of Fire Chief Clyde Scott for fifty women to dress more than 100 dolls as made in the Herald Her-ald Friday evening met with such wholehearted- response that Chief Scott declared Monday - that the only regret he had was that he did hot have another 100 dolls for these sympathetic girls and women. ' In this connection he desires to extend his appreciation for" the fine response, wntcn win go zar in max- Ihg the Recipients' of these 3611s nappy, on ennstmas morning. . SENATE DEADLOCKED WASHINGTON, Pec. 14. (HE) Senators today , were unable to rlach decision on the twelfth hallot for .president pro tern. The 'results' were: ; Pittman,; Deinv, 42: .rvWienberg Repiw w; 'Moses, Bepn., 31; Norrls, Repn. l. . NEWS WIRES By UNITED PRESS j ELXXJTTtOClJTKD IN BATHTUB , SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 14. (U.P) Mrs. Wittie Knapus, 40, was found dead yesterday by her daughter, Grace, 14, apparently a victim of accidental electrocution. Mrs. Knapus was found leaning over a bathtub. She apparently took hold of a heater and fell, contacting pipes on the tub. She was badly burned on the right side of her back, and side. 30 PASSENGERS DROWN SHANGHAI, Dec. 14. IT.R) At least 30 passengers lost their Uvea today when the Chinese steamer Tatch caught fire on the Yangtze river and burned to the water's edge. Most of the known dead were victims of the fire but it was feared many others had drowned. There were 250 passengers on board. CHURCHILL IS ILL NEW YORK, Dec. 14. (UJ?) Winston Win-ston Churchill, noted British statesman states-man and former cancellor of th exchequer, is in danprer of deve1 -ing a plural hemorrhage, it was learned today, at Lenox Hill hospital, hos-pital, where he was taken las' night after being struck by a taxi-cab. taxi-cab. TRAFFIC COP ON TRIAL POCATELLO, Idaho, Dec. 14. (U.RK-Trial of A. E. Volkmeier, former for-mer state ' traffic officer, on a charge of attempting to murder George Cacavas last summer opened today in district court before be-fore Judge D. H. Sutphen. Volkmeier, Volk-meier, the state will attempt to prove, drove up behind Cacavas' truck and opened fire on the grocer with a shot gun. Cacavas returned the fire but fell, a few seconds later, seriously wounded. CHRYSLER FAVORS REPEAL SALT LAKE CITY. Dec. 14. U.K Repeal of the prohibition law and substitution therefor of federal control and manufacture and distribution dis-tribution of liquor, would be a "Godsend to the country," in the belief of Walter P. Chrysler, famous fa-mous automobile manufacturer. DISCOVER NEW OIL FIELD FRESNO. Calif., Dec. 14. U.E Discovery of a vast new field in the famous Kettleman Hills oil district was claimed today on the strength of a new gusher brought in from 9,332 feet with an estimated gas flow of 25.000,000 cubic feet dail. The well, Burbank No. 1 of the Petroleum Securities company, was discovered in the section known as Kettleman middle dome. ALCOHOL SALE DROPS WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. (U.P) Industrial Alcohol Commissioner Doran reported tod ay - that manu facture and use of "completely and specially denatured" alcohol had substantially decreased in the fis cal year 1931. This drop nearly 26,000,000 gallons he attributed to the business depression and to better bet-ter supervision. DISMISS TAX APPEAL WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. (U.E) The supreme court today dismissed the state of Montana's appeal In a suit to collect an extra penny of tax on each gallon or gasoline in me hands of dealers at the beginning of 1927 when the tax was raised from two to three cents. The rul- I ing was made in a suit brought by tne senate againsi me xaie kjui corporation. FRANCE WONT NEED TO PAY PARIS, Dec: li. (UP) The gov ernment announced today that, in accord with Washington, France will not pay her debt annuity of $19,261,000 due tomorrow. I STOCKS NEW YORK. Dec. 14 (CJ!V-A pan nuns over me stuv. luuay cm prices suujsui new iw levels for the bear market, wear the close a half hearted rally brought prices up some and a few made small net gains. Early In the day short Interests suddenly took fright and covered in a brief stampede that sent prices sky-rocketing and caused tickers to run behind i the market. The recovery gave way almost as auicklv as it came. After the rally was v broken an almost unmter W . - runted stream of UauldaUons set in. Smoot's Proposal Preliminary Step In Reconstruction Governor Dern Urges 10 Western Governors To Forget Partisanship In Support of Measure To Aid White Metal. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec. 14 (U.R) Governors of ten western states today considered telegraphic plea made by Governor George H. Dern urging concerted support of Senator Sena-tor Reed Smoot's bill proposing that the United States accept payment of international war debts in silver, Question Fundamentally Economic Governor Dern's telegram read in part: "In my judgment it is imperative that partisanship on . . the important silver question be SAILORS RIOT IN HONOLULU Accused Attacker of Woman Is Kidnaped By Irate U. S. Tarheels. HONOLULU, Hawaii. Dec. 14-(UK) 14-(UK) Military officials today maintained main-tained peace in this city torn by rioting which started Saturday, when U. S. sailors kidnapped a" Japanese accused in an assault on a white woman, and all but hurled him off a 100foot cliff. ' Eight riot calls had been turned in before order finally was restored by the combined efforts of naval, marine and local police officers. Leaves Cancelled All leave was cancelled at the navy station, one of the largest owned by the United States. Naval patrols were doubled in the city. I The trouble started late Saturday. ! American sailors demanded punishment pun-ishment for five men charged with criminal assault on the wife of a naval officer. They kidnaped one of the defendants, Horace Ida, a Japanese. They threatened to hurl him over the historic Pali, a precipice preci-pice 1,000 feet high. According to the police, Ida was stripped, beaten, beat-en, and left unconscious by the roadside. The police were unable to handle the situation when rioting developed and called for aid from the naval station. Marines arrived from Pearl harbor and aided the regular detail de-tail of military police in rounding up several hundred sailors. Fighting Fight-ing continued throughout Saturday night and early Sunday. Three of the co-defendants with Ida, all freed when their trial end ed with a hung jury, were taken into custody for protection after the Japanese was kidnaped. Mutiny Starts In U.S. Prison LEAVENWORTH, Hans., Dec. 14. (U.R) Earl Thayer, 65-year-old mall . robber who escaped from the federal prison here Friday, was captured here today. LEAVENWORTH, Kans., Dec. 14. (U.R) A mutiny of 20 convicts in the boiler plant at Leavenwortn federal tenitentiarv was suppressed Dy prison officials during the hours t preceding dawn today. The mutiny apparently was the firgt step jn a pi0t to throw the nrinnn Into eomnlete darkness in which guards would have been han- dicapped In putting down a riot Twenty convicts threw down their shovels and refused to tend the furnace fires. Bates said. Other prisoners were rushed to the power plant and put to the task of keeping the fires going while "proper disciplinary measures" meas-ures" were taken against those who mutinied, Bates said. It was the general belief among prison officials that the mutiny in the power plant was Intended to nliincA th nrisnn into darkness " hioT, woM hav b,,n the signal for other convicts to Join in an out- i break NEW SUPERINTENDENT Victor J. Bird was set apart. I Sunday as superintendent of the I Fourth ward Sunday . scnooi sue I ceeding G. E. Sandgren .who has 1 been granted an honorable release. I Mr. Bird was formerly stake super- intendent of the Utah stake Sunday I scnoois. xne assistant in tne su I A 9 . ' . A. - . - 1 penmenaency nave not yei oeen i cUosen, entirely eliminated, as it is fundamentally funda-mentally economic in its nature. "Our friends who are leaders in the western silver movement do not think the proposed war debt settlement plan is the ultimate solution, solu-tion, but urge that it be supported as a preliminary step, to be followed fol-lowed by other constructive legislation." legis-lation." Telegrams were also sent to Senators ftmoot and King of Utah and Senator Key Pittman of Nevada. Ne-vada. - WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 (U.E) A bill .designed to relieve Europe and bolster the silver market at one operation, was introduced in the senate today by Chairman Smoot of the senate finance committee. Market Price Governs The bill would authorize the secretary sec-retary of treasury to accept silver from foreign governments in payment pay-ment of debts to the United States. The value of the silver would be the average market . price in the United States in the second calendar calen-dar month preceding payment. "It ought to relieve the pressure on European nations owing us without further concession in the debt," he ajd. "If there is any way this can be done, it surely should be taken. "If conditions do not right themselves them-selves before long, it may be very difficult for them to pay. "It would make no difiference In the value to be received by this government. If the prevailing price of silver here was 25 to 35 cents, we would get that fixed value on the payments." JAPAN LEAVES GOLD STANDARD TOKIO, Dec. 14 (Ui The stock exchange was closed today until Thursday ajter the new government of Premier Tsuyoshi Inukae announce? an-nounce? abandonment of the gold . standard. Suspension of the prold standard j was virtually completed by the 4 rnhinpt'fj decision to Rusnend con- version of notes for gold. The Yokohama Specie bank, which ordinarily makes exchange rates, did not quote the yen during today's business. Unofficial rates ranged between 38 and 40 cents with actual settlements on New York at around 10 cents., It was understood the government had decided to let the yen find its own level, which experts predicted would be near today'3 settlement figure. Huge Bond Issue For Public Works j Sought By Wagner WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 (HE - Senator Wagner, Dem., N. Y. father ' of last session's unemployment leg islation, today offered a resolution in the senate proposing a $2,000,- 000,000 public works bond issue. The resolution would request President Hoover, the federal em ployment stabilization board ; - and the budget director to start the f machinery for a vast new public works program: - ; "There is no more grevious extravagance ex-travagance that the United . States is today guilty of, than! thac it permits per-mits the valuable time and labor of its 6,050,000 unemployed - to go ' irretrievably ir-retrievably to waste," said Wagner in an accompanying statement. "The policy Is daily sapping morale mor-ale and wrecking character and undermining un-dermining the healthiof the coming generation. -These factors must be admitted to the . national balance-sheet balance-sheet and given 'full weight in con-sldering con-sldering the proposal that the government gov-ernment embark upon a two. billion dollar ( bonded' constrticUoa " pro |