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Show o TRADE AT HOME When you spend your money with a local merchant, or employ a local tradesman, you are helping to build local payrolls and a better and happier hap-pier community. WHAT FOLKS SAY "We have learned to produce ; now let us learn to distribute." Norman Thomas. FORTY -SEVENTH YEAR, NO. 145 PRO VO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1933 PRICE FIVE CENTS r? nn s 0 l! TODAY -By-Arthur Brisbane (Copyright, 1933) V TMO o) is Co-Education A Great University NKW MEXICO, Mar. 8-r-Tra veiling: back toward the Atlantic At-lantic i through Chicago, Detroit, and other powerful, troubled cities, you. leave -many wonders and, hopes rfqr the future, on the great American Amer-ican empire that stretches along the Pacific coast. - A. ..giant ocean that nothing ,troubes is there, wealth unlimited in the soil, the groves, oil wells, gold mines, and the brilliant sun that produces them all. Greatest of all in purpose, hope lor the future, is the University of California, with its twenty-five .thousand young students, earnest devoted teachers, and brilliant corps of scientists, constantly working, in their laboratories to at-.taip. at-.taip. greater prosperity, happiness, safety and power for the human race. John Francis Neylan, distinguished distinguish-ed successful lawyer of San Francisco, Fran-cisco, also a regent of the University Uni-versity of California, a job that brings him nothing but honor and arouses his deepest interest, undertakes under-takes in two days, one on each side of the great bay of San Francisco, to show you one per cent of one per cent of what the University of California is doing. Mr. Neylan's formula for this ;otntry and the outside world is simple. ' , -The .United State is the greatest country In the world. California is the greatest state In this 6ountry. San Francisco is the greatest city In California or anywhere else on earth, and the University of California Cali-fornia is the culminating glory of this planet, the universe in which it rolls, and the distant unseen aebuia-universes also for that natter. For that plain statement- of facta, aa be cajs It .Mr. Neylan will -argue or fight, preferably 4oth. Headquarters of the university, in Berkeley on the eastern side of the bay of San Francisco, is beautifully beau-tifully 'located on the side of a great mountain. A tall white tower stands -amid innumerable buildings, schools, .administration buildings, laboratories, a multitude of fraternity fra-ternity and sorority houses, gym- A i - i j i . , nasiums, ewimmiug puvis uxu giom stadium. These include a very complete "mining building" erected by the late ;Fhoebe A. Hearst in memory of her husband. Senator George jHearsti for the training of 'mining Engineers and, for information of those in search for gold or other precious metals. They include also an admirable gymnasium. And swimming .tank built, Jhimemory of his mother, by .W. R. Hearst, who was born in this state, ;anl 'has-sent sons to California's, Cali-fornia's, state university. The whole is under the direction of Robert Gordon Sproul, B. S., UL. D. A learned man and a very able administrator ad-ministrator supervising all branches branch-es of -the university spreading far over the state, including the University Uni-versity of California at Los Angeles An-geles -with its seven thousand students. stu-dents. Concerning this university, Daniel Dan-iel Coit Gilman, who was president fifty-one years ago, made this preliminary pre-liminary and thoroughly American statement. . Thee charter -and the name declare de-clare that this is the University of California. It Is not the University of Berlin or New Haven which -we re o copy, it te not the University Univer-sity of Oakland or San Francisco which we aw to create; but it is the university of this state. It must be adapted to this people, to their pub(lc and private schools to their peculiar geographical position, to the requirements of their new society so-ciety and undeveloped resources. It Is of the people and for the people." You could not do better than send -your boy or girl to a university univer-sity that has lived up admirably to this declaration of purpose. DRAG RIVER FOR BODY IDAHO PAXILS, Ida., Mar. 10 UJl Efforts pf sheriffs to locate the body of John Hill, 64, missing Idaho Fftlla man, proved futilup td Thursday night. Grappling hooka and snag lines had been used to thoroughly comb the river. The Weather Utah Fair tonight to-night and Satur-day- little change In tempera tu re. Maximum temp. Thursday .....60 Minimum temp. Thursday 34 SSASSN SEITEICED TO DEATH Zangara to Expatiate Cermak Killing in Electric Chair . MIAMI, Fla., March 10 (U.R) Giuseppi Zangara was sentenced sen-tenced to death in the electric elec-tric chair today for the murder mur-der of Mayor Anton J. Cermak Cer-mak of Chicago, whom he shot here Feb. 15, in an at-temp at-temp to assassinate Franklin D. Roosevelt, then president-elect. Circuit Judge Uly O. Thompson ordered Zangara to stand to be sentenced shortly after he convened con-vened court at 10:15 a. m. He read the sentence of death in the electric elec-tric chair slowly. Defiantly, Zangara accepted the sentence, fairly shouting vituperation vituper-ation at the court, declaring: "You give me electric chair?" "I did," Judge Thompson replied. "I no scared of electric chair. I do what's right. Capitalists crooked. crook-ed. You is crooked man, too. You capitalist. Put me in electric chair. I no care." Zangara hurled vilification back over his shoulder at the court as he was led away by deputies after a brief time in court. Prior to passing sentence, Judge Thompson delivered a brief address ad-dress in which he appealed for congressional action to confiscate-all confiscate-all fire arms tarried without permit. per-mit. "Assassination attempts, successful success-ful and otherwise, would be eliminated," elim-inated," he said. "In the hands of good people, a pistol is harmless." Zangara was remanded back to his cell on the 21st floor of the Dade county courthouse, to await action of Governor Dade Sholtz in setting the time and place for his execution. The electrocution will occur at the Florida state prison, Raiford, five days after his admission admis-sion to that institution. PROVO CLUBS B.P. W.CUESTS An inspirational message and plea, founded on the present-day meaning mean-ing of "Work" was given 4y Miss Lethe Coleman, well known Chautauqua Chau-tauqua lecturers-guest speaker at t'.ie annual public relations banquet of the Provo Business and Profession Profes-sion I Women's club, held at the Hotel Roberts Thursday evening. Miss Coleman, in her usual charming yet forceful manner, addressed ad-dressed her audience as representatives represent-atives from the various service clubs of the city, workers, builders, build-ers, ambassadors through w'nom she might speak to those in greater great-er need of contact and encouragement encourage-ment in these days of unemployment unemploy-ment and trouble. "We are living in a day when from the lips cf men comes the crv to 'do something.' There is little we as individuals can do ki mastering the major issues of the world, but as groups, united power, we can do much," said the speaker. "No government is greater than its people, no nation can rise higher than its source, and politics can .be no better than the group which goes ,to make up the nation." The speaker touched on the-various phases of unemployment, and urged the men and women to dp their part in alleviating the sad conditions, particularly to in some way help the men to remain men, to retain their spirits in these try-( try-( Continued on Page Five) PLAN CAMP PROGRAM A camping program for the Boy Scouts of the Timpanogos council will be worked out in a meeting of the camp committee of the council, to be held in the scout executive's, office in the city and county building -next Monday at 7rS0 p. m. The meeting is called by J. William-Knight, chairman of the committee. com-mittee. Mr. Knight says it is hoped this year to double the attendance at-tendance at the camp over last, when the largest number of scouts in the council's history was jen-rolled. jen-rolled. . . Coming Home k 1 ' HI REED SMOOT EX-SOLON TO RETURN HOME Retiring Senator On His Way To Utah; Expected in Provo Saturday. Senator Reed Smoot is due to arrive ar-rive in Provo Saturday, according to a special dispatch from Washington. Wash-ington. The senator bid farewell to the capital Wednesday evening and started alone for Utah, to arrive ar-rive in Salt Lake Saturday morning. morn-ing. Mrs. Smoot, accompanied by her son, Dr. Walter T. Sheets, will leave next Tuesday, motoring to Salt Lake. - In an informal farewell to a group of friends, Senator Smoot said he had received three attractive attrac-tive offers to go into business in New York, and two in Chicago, offers of-fers that carried most alluring salaries, but he had declined all because he had decided to return to Utah to devote a large part of his time hereafter to his duties as a member of the Council of the Twelve of the L. D. S. church. Members of the senator's family and a good sprinkling of Utahns were at the station to say "goodbye" "good-bye" to the senator. lVs the Woman Who Pays Alimony DES MOINES, la., March 10 U.R Jt's a woman who pays this time in cash: In the first case of its kind on rec ord in vPolk county district dis-trict court, Mrs. Mattie Mal-pass Mal-pass has won a divorce from William tl. Malpass after 33 years of married life. She will pay him $10 h month alimony. The couple were married in Staffordshire, England. CLUBMEN HOLD JOINT SESSION More than 100 business and professional pro-fessional men of Provo united in a meeting of good-fellowship at the Roberts Hotel Friday noon, the three clubs, Rotary, Kiwanis and Lions combining in an inter-club meeting presided over by Walter Adams, master of ceremonies. The keynote of the meeting was struck by Mr. Adams in his introductory intro-ductory speech when he said: "We are looking forward into a new era, not back at the mistakes of yesterday. yester-day. The depression is pot in 1933 but was in 1929, when the nation's morals were suffering most". The clubs heard; talks from H. A. Dixon, superintendent of the Provo Pro-vo schools and from Miss Lethe Coleman, noted Chautauqua lecturer. lec-turer. A string trio composed of Ann Clayson, Edith Young and Lota Paxman played three num- (Continued on Page Five) License Office Open Saturdays Automobile "license plates may be procured at the. city and county building every Saturday. The office next to the sheriffs office will be open on Saturdays for the accommodation accom-modation of motorists until the final week in April, when arrangements arrange-ments will be made to -.keep ?the office open every day to' take care of the inevitable eleventh hour scramble. . Your Check Is GOOD With Us! The Herald wijl accept your check on any bank in Utah county to pay your subscription, past or future, for a month, a year or longer, and will hold your check until the banks re-open. You needn't wait for scrip, you may use your CHECK AS CASH with Your Newspaper. EVENING HERALD t 1 1 1 NEWS WIRES By UNITED PRESS i iww 1 w mm 1 ww 1 I JAI'AN THREATENS INVASION TOKIO, Mar. 10 (U.R) An imperial imper-ial threat that Japan may drive its war machine into China proper should Chinese troops movemens persist i the vicinity of the great wall was intimated today by Foreign For-eign Minister Yusuya Uchida. Directing the Japanese legation at Peiping to propose creation of a demilitarized zone along the great wall of China to prevent spread of . military operations! Uchida warned that future Chinese movements would make China entirely en-tirely responsible for whaever military action Japan deemed necessary. LOWER GRAZING FEES WASHINGTON, 'larch 10 U.P Secretary of Agriculture Wallace indicated today that a change might be made in national forest grazing fees to conform to market values of liveslocrL. Wallace said that the existing changes of 14' cents per head for cattle and livestock and 4V& cents per head for sheep and goats would apply for the first 1933 fee payment period. Thereafter, he said, rates will be determined from results of a study he plans to make immediately. ROOSEVELT, DERN CONFER WASHINGTON, March 10 U.R Four members of President Roosevelt's Roose-velt's cabinet called at the Wbite House today to confer with him on matters relating, it was understood, to his program for reorganization of the federal government. Those in the conference were Secretary of war Dern, Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, Secretary of Interior Ickes, and Secretary of Treasury Woodin. MAIL BOMB DISCOVERED WATERTOWN, N. Y., Mar. 10 (Ul! A bomb addressed to President Presi-dent Roosevelt was found in the post office here early this week, it was reported reliably today. Two weeks ago, before Mr. Roosevelt was inaugurated, a crude bomb addressed to him at Washington, Wash-ington, and mailed in Watertown, was found in the Washington post office. GAG RULES STILL ON WASHINGTON, March 10 U.R House Democratic leaders announced an-nounced today they would continue to employ the strictest gag rules to ensure immetlite passage of President Roosevelt's budget-balancing and unemployment relief programs. Males Outnumber Girls In B. Y. U. Enrollment Males rule supreme in numbers at least in the student body of Brig-ham Brig-ham Young university. Men students stu-dents outnumber women in theiin-; etitution by 237, according to figures fig-ures released by John E. Hayes, registrar. Numbering .only 679 ctO 916 for the men, the coeds rank 26 per cent less. Enrollment has. now reached 1595. With approximately 100 more expected to enter when the spring quarter open March 20, the total for the year should reach at0ut .1700, predicts Hayes. This would, exceed last year's total by nearly 200. The males show greatest concen-. BAHKING HOLIDAY EXTENDED Blood Proclamation Delays Opening Until Tuesday SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 10 (U.R) Delaying the issuance of scrip, Gov. Henry H. Blood today signed a proclamation pro-clamation extending Utah's banking holiday until next Tuesday. The delay was necessary, the proclamation said, in order to give Bank Commissioner John A. Malia time in which to investigate the application of the new national bank act to the Utah situation. Two million dollars worth of scrip has been printed by the Salt Lake City, Ogden, Provo and Logan Lo-gan clearing houses, but will not be circulated until Malia has investigated in-vestigated possibilities of relief through new federal regulations. Meantime, Utah banks were permitted per-mitted to make change, to hold cash for perishable foodstuffs and to provide free access to safety deposit de-posit boxes. PROVO BANKERS MARKING TIME With the Utah bank holiday extended ex-tended until Tuesday morning by Governor Blood's proclamation, Provo bankers are making quiet preparations to be ready for business busi-ness when the opening is authorized. author-ized. Arrangements for an issue of Provo clearing house scrip, if scrip is authorized by the secretary of the treasury, have already been perfected, in line with the other banks in the state. Salt Lake banks have already made arrangements for an issue of $7,400,000. Cache valley banks are planning a $130,000 issue, while the Provo banks will probably require an issue of $150,000 if present plans are carried out. In the meantime, the same restrictions re-strictions in force since the first day of the closing will be in force. State Income Tax Office Busy Place Crowds of Provo and Utah county coun-ty people continued to pour into the ag office at the city and county coun-ty building to obtain aid in filling out their state income tax returns Thursday. The temporary office is being kept open from the sixth to the fifteenth of this month to assist people in filing their returns. Elmo Peters and R. C. Chapman are in charge of the office. , Returns must be filed by everyone every-one save students and those under 18. Each return must be accompanied accom-panied by a $1 filing fee provided there is no income tax paid. The return must be made even though the individual attests through a notary public that he is indigent and unable to pay the one dollar. tration in the college of arts and sciences, 346 of the 460 students in that eollege being men. Men also hold long odds in . commerce. Among t'ne 49 juniors majoring in commerce, only one is a girl. Seek- ers for higher degrees likewise are chiefly male, 62 of the 82 registrants regist-rants in the graduate school being men. Girls predominate heavily in the colleges of fine arts and education, however, and hold a slight advantage advant-age in applied science. Freshmen of both sexes number 549. Other classes' fellow: Sophomore, 344; juniors, 245; seniors, 209; special students, 123, unmatriculated, 3a. . Asks For Immediate Legislation To End Mounting Deficit - Bank System Under Control Of G overnment Administration Investigating Banks To Determine Opening Plans. (By UNITED PRESS) The American banking system sys-tem was today under the d o m i n a n c e of President Roosevelt and the treasury department, by virtue of sweeping powers granted the administration by emergency legislation. supplementary developments growing out of the new money "dictatorship" were: 1 The federal government hurried hur-ried an investigation of all banking bank-ing institutions, to determine those which are sound enough to reopen. 2 No banks will reopen before Saturday, but hope was expressed that a majority may resume business busi-ness net Monday. 3 Extension of the benk holiday indefinitely, by presidential proclamation, procla-mation, was for two purposes: (A) To investigate the condition of the banks; and (b) to permit the sound banks to clear away the mountain of unfinished business piled up during the holiday, in order or-der to be ready for reopening. 4 The New York Clearing House has begun clearing "checks "frozen" in transit at the start of the holiday. holi-day. Gold hoarders, inspired by fear of punishment, were pouring metal back into the federal reserve banks of every district and into their own banks. In New York, $65,000,000 was returned in four days. 6 The federal government is printing new currency at the rate of $30,000,000 a day. Answers To Your Bank Questions Q. When will the banks open? A. President Roosevelt's latest pioclamation extends bank holiday indefinitely. State holidays extended extend-ed until Tuesday 10 a. mT by John A. Malia, state bank commissioner. Q What am I going to do for money? A. If you have a payqheqk, you can get it cashed, in scrip (or regular reg-ular ntbney) as soon as the banks open. Q. What fe scrip? A. It is emergency money, of similar size and appearance as regular reg-ular currency. It was used successfully success-fully everywhere in 1907 for several sev-eral months. Q. Is it good money?. A. Yes, it will be accepted. at a.U stores and at banks; you can buy anything and, pay deb,ts wit,h,lt. Q Will scrip be discounted?. A. No, it will be worth its face value. Q. What Is "back or the scrip? A. Assets of the banks who issue is-sue the scrip. Q. When can 1 get the money I had in the bank when the holiday holi-day was ordered? A. You can get part or all of your deposits, in scrip or currency, depending on federal regulations, when the banks are authorized to (Continued on Page Five) NEW STAMP ISSUE WASHINGTON, March 10 (ILE President Roosevelt has approved the afirst special stamp issue of his administration. The stamp is a threercent one bearing an engraving of Washington's Washing-ton's headquarters at Newburgh, N. Y. Postmaster General James A. Farley explained if was adopted on recommendation of Rep. Hamil- J toa Fiaht Repn., New York, For Three Years Federal Government Has Been On Road To Bankruptcy, Says President In His Budget Message. WASHINGTON, March 10 Declaring that the federal government has been on the road to bankrutpcy for three years, President Roosevelt today asked Congress for immediate immed-iate legislation to reduce government expenses. He asked that the new legislation go into effect at once without waiting wait-ing for the beginning of the next fiscal year. The president, concerned over the mounting federal deficit de-ficit which threatens to exceed $l,000,000,000.unless immediate immed-iate action is taken, recommended sweeping legislation to reduce salaries, pensions, and other veteran benefits, giving the executive department the authority to prescribe the administrative ad-ministrative details. "The nation is deeply gratified Highlights Of Late Message WASHINGTON, March 10 U.P Highlights - of , President Roosevelt's budget message to congress today: For three long years the federal government has been on the road toward bankruptcy. Too often in recent history liberal governments have been wrecked on rocks of loose fiscal policy. We must avoid thir danger. I am -asking congress today for new Legislation laying down broad principles for the granting of pensions pen-sions and other veterans benefits, and giving to the executive the authority au-thority to prescribe the administrative admin-istrative details. The details of expenditure particularly in view of the great present emergency can be more wisely and equitably administered through the executive. ex-ecutive. The very stability of our government govern-ment is concerned and when that is concerned the benefits of some must be subordinated to the needs of all . If congress choose t vest me with this responsibility it will be executed in a spirit of justice just-ice to all, of sympathy to those who are in need and of maintaining main-taining inviolate the basic welfare wel-fare of the United States. I ask that this legislation go into effect at once without even waiting for the beginning of the next fiscal year. I give you assurance that if this is done there is reasonable prospect that within a year the income in-come of the "government will be sufficient to cover the expenditures of the government. LEGISLATURE STOPS CLOCK SALT LAKE CITY, Mar. 10 (U.P) Both houses of the Utah legislature legisla-ture functioned today with clocks stopped as yesterday was the closing clos-ing day and a vast amount of work remained undone. It was indicated the last day of the session, due to the idle clock procedure, will continue for at least two and possibly three days. In the closing hours the senate passed a minimum wage bill for women and a bill requiring that the "prevailing wage" be paid on public projects. Both were sent to the governor today. The house adopted a bill authorizing author-izing the calling of a convention for ratification of the 21st amendment to the federal constitution and a bill prohibiting child labor. A bill, introduced by Senator Nelson, Nel-son, prohibiting dog races, was passed by the house and now needs only the governor's approval to become, be-come, a law. A tax of two-thirds of a cent per ton mile on motor trucks was adopted by the -house with a minor amendment with which the senate immediately, conciirre4 ; by the immediate response given yesterday by the Congress to the necessity for drastic action to restore re-store and improve our banking system," sys-tem," said the message. "A like necessity exists with respect re-spect to the finances of the government gov-ernment itself, which require? equally courageous, frank and prompt action. Deficit Growing "For three long years the federal government has been on the road toward bankruptcy. "For the fiscal year 1931 the deficit de-ficit was $462,000,000. "For the fiscal year 1932 it was $2,472,000,000. "For the fiscal year 1933 it will probably exceed $1,200,000,000. "For the fiscal year 1934, based on the appropriation bills passed by the last Congress and the estimated esti-mated revenues the deficit will probably exceed $1,000,000,000 unless un-less immediate action is taken. "Thug we shall have piled up an accumulated deficit of $5,000,000,-000. $5,000,000,-000. "With the utmost seriousness, I point out to the congress the profound pro-found effect of this fact upon, our national economy. It has contributed con-tributed to the recent collapse of our banking structures. It has accentuated the stagnation of the economic life of our people. It has added to the ranks of the unemployed. unem-ployed. Our government's house is not in order and for many reasons no effective action has been taken to restore it to order." Jobless To Sit On Relief Committee Provo's R. F. C. relief commit tee riday agreed to a reauost ofi a representation on the committee. Four members of the council met with the R .F. C. committee Friday morning and presented their 'demands 'de-mands for non-evictions, free lights, free milk and the like and asked for the representation. George D. Ramsay, chairman, was in charge of the meeting. The delegation was informed that it was beyond the power of the local committee to grant some of the demands made. SOCIAL TONIGHT The March social of the Community Com-munity church will be in the form of an old-fashioned party and will be held this evening at 8 o'clock at Meno Trope hall. A "home talent" program of readings and musical numbers win. be furnished, and by popular request, re-quest, the women will repeat the play "Just a Litte Mistake," which they presented at Ladies' Aid Tuesday Tues-day . afternoon. Refreshments will be served. There Ts no admission charge. - ;B. T. IUGGS Veteran superintendent of ; buildings build-ings and grounds at the Brigfcam Young university to whom- the Herald extends 'congratulations ou hj& Tvtb. .birthday, -ajin4yrsary THE LIVING |