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Show n Herald. hie Javemiiii State Band Contest The annual Utah High School Band Contest and Music Festival will be held in Provo, April 18, 19 and 20. PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 1935 FORTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 176 Weather Forecast UTAH: Fair tonight and Friday; little change in temperature. Maximum temp., Wednesday . . 50 Minimum temp., Wednesday . . 25 mm rp cp rp rp "Dust TRAFFIC AT STANDSTILL; CROPS RUINED Many Families Flee From Their Homes; Farms Ruined By Storm KANSAS CITY, Mo,, April IKU.Rj A thick dust pall hung over eight states today. It appeared to be thinning, but with maddening slowness. Visibility from central Missouri Mis-souri to Tucumcari, N. M., was zero-zero most of the way. In the Oklahoma Panhandle the shifting silt blotted out the wheel tracks of automobiles, truclcs and wagons bearing the household goods of farmers fleeing from the dust. More than 100 families have left already. Crops Have Failed In western Kansas the dust shrouded ruined farms and blasted hopes. From Garden City southwest south-west tin wheat crop was a complete com-plete failure. Discouraged farmers farm-ers applied for federal funds with which to leave their once fertile but now barren farms. They learned there was no money for that purpose. In the Texas Panhandle the disintegrated dis-integrated topsoil moved before the wind in great slow waves, drifting over railroad tracks and (Continued on Pae Three MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's (Joing On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON Big Jim Farley seems bent on bringing bring-ing congressional ire on his shiny bald dome. .Members of both chambers are talking belligerently of demanding 1 egislation com-n com-n l!in,r lim t0 abandon a postal pos-tal business-promoting practice which i" raisinp: a storm of protest pro-test from local businessmen all over th-' country. Cans of the uproar is Jim's action ac-tion ;n -'Mowine business firms to circularize communities without addressing each piece of mail. ,A P a company had to do is desi"T:ae its advertisements for specified mail routes and the carriers car-riers stuff them in the postal boxes. The National Council of Business Busi-ness Mail Users which is defending defend-ing Jim in the controversy contends con-tends that the service' gives mail order houses no undue advantage, since it i? available to local firms. But the latter, now deluging their congressmen with irate complaints, com-plaints, assert that this "surface equality" affords them no protection protec-tion from "outside competitors." They argue that it is not the province of the postal service to act as ' nat ion-wide "handbill distributer dis-tributer " NOAH'S ARK (''ru'i-csa is a variegated assortment assort-ment in more ways than one. It contains: A Black, a White, a Rrown. a Gray am' a Green, a Church, a Parson, a Pope, a King and a Lord. Also, there is a Fish, a Ryrd. n Buck, a Martin, a Dear, an Eagle and a Maverick. To say nothing of a Bacon, a Bone, Coffee, a Bloom, a, Reed, two Cannons and two Fords, a Wood. Parks. Brooks, a North and a South, and a Long and a Short. And finally there are, a Celler, a Carpenter, a Mason, a Barbour j and three Taylors. ! TOUGH SPOT The threatening labor upheaval in the rubber industry has put President Bill Green and his fel-( fel-( Continued on Page Four) Storms Desperate Mother Kills Child; Thrown From Moving Train BERLIN, April 11 U.R Mrs. Elizabeth Freundlich, brooding over her poverty today threw her two children, chil-dren, the elder one with his baby sister clasped in his arms, from a moving train. The boy, Egon, 9, was killed. The protection of his arms saved the baby, Crista, Cris-ta, three months old, but she was gravely injured. The mother, who is 31, opened the door and thrust the children out as the train sped through Westphalia. NEW Wires WORKERS VOTE STRIKE AKRON, O., April 11 d.H Union rubber workers at Firestone Tire and Rubber company have voted to strike in protest against the company's refusal to grant union recognition, it was learned on unimpeachable, authority today. KIDNAP SUSPECTS HELD HAVANA, April 11 (U.R)- -Twenty persons were held as suspects today after the revelation that Eutimio Falla Bonet, capitalist, paid $300,000 ransom to win his freedom from a gang that kidnaped kid-naped him Wednesday. Police said they recovered $1,400 of the ransom bills, which were $100 American notes. 10 KILLED IN COLLAPSE ('ANTON, China, April 11 IM: A balcony collapsed in a crowded crowd-ed motion picture theater today, killing at least 10 persons and injuring in-juring 60 others. Many of the victims were children, jammed into the playhouse for the "cut rate" presentation of a popular , Chinese film. PILOT SETS NEW MARK PARIS, April 11 U.R ! Hugh. Buckingham, British j pilot, broke Frank Hawks' ; Lond-to-Paris speed record today by flying it in 56 minutes min-utes at an average of 198.72 miles an hour. Hawks' record was 64 minutes. i TYPHOON TOLL SWELLS MANILA, P. I.. April 11 (U.R) Seventeen bodies were washed up on a beach at Guinayangan, Gulf of Ragay, to bring the death toll of an unseasonal typhoon to 56 today. The bodies were believed those of fishermen who had been trapped in their small boats by last week's unexpected storm. The Red Cross estimated total damage in the Philippines at $500,000. DEATHDRIVER FACES CHARGES Preliminary hearing for Cordell D. Brown of Springville, who is charged with involuntary manslaughter, man-slaughter, was set for Wednesday, April 17, by Judge Don R. Ellert-son Ellert-son in the city court Thursday. Brown was charged with involuntary invol-untary manslaughter by Sheriff E. G. Durnell following the killing of Leola Thorpe, 15, of Springville, Monday night at 9:15 on the state highway, just south of the Park Ro-She resort. Brown's Chevrolet coupe is said to have smashed into Miss Thorpe, killing her instantly. In the complaint against Brown, who is in the Utah county jail. Sheriff Durneir charges him with reckless driving. He is alleged to have been driving 60 miles an hour, whle the speed limit there is 45 miles an hour. Brown's bond was set at $1000. New Instructor at Provo CCC Camp D. L. Pack, Salt Lake City, has assumed his new position as educational edu-cational advjser at the local CCC camp. He succeeds Dr. R. C. Merrill who has been transferred to Fort Douglas as educational coordinator for the whole district. Mr. Pack who comes here from Fort Douglas is well qualified for the position both by schooling and experience. Flag STRESA MEET OF HISTORIC IMPORTANCE Failure Of Deliberations WourcrTTe Ominous ' Threat To War (Copyright 1935, by United Press) STRESA, Italy, April 11 (U.R) Five plenipotentiaries who met at Isola Bella castle today were making history negative or positive If their deliberations succeed, suc-ceed, European nations will be taking a hopeful step toward to-ward the real end of the World war. Disastrous failure would mean a step toward the threatening next war. An inconclusive result would permit Stresa to take its little historic his-toric niche with forgotten conferences. confer-ences. None of these results, exactly, is expected. Mussolini Absolute Benito Mussolini is the only man at the conference who enjoys absolute ab-solute power. The others are at the mercy of their cabinets in the British case and their parties and parliaments in both the British Brit-ish and French cases. The British, particularly, have announced that they will have no binding agreements. The British, French and Italian negotiators first will talk over events since Germany's decree for compulsory army service of March ! 14, which precipitated the present 1 crisis. Then they will discuss the means ! to be taken to meet the crisis, j Geneva Next Meeting The next step is to go to Geneva for a meeting of the League of i Nations council next Monday, called to consider Germany's violation vio-lation of the military clauses of the Versailles treaty. If the Geneva meeting is a pacific pa-cific one, it will mean that plans are working well. Great Britain has asked Germany Ger-many to make suggestions for negotiation ne-gotiation to take the place of those offered by Britain and France, with Italy's support, which Adolf Hitler rejected. It seemed possible that, on the basis of the Stresa conference, : hints would be thrown to Germany Ger-many when Hitler is advised of the tenor of the talks. The final prospect was for a big European conference to arrange a treaty, or a series of treaties, under un-der the framework of the League of Nations covenant, that would make peace more secure. This brings up the rearmament not only of Germany, but of Austria, Aus-tria, Bulgaria rld Hungary, her World war allies. Hence not only the nations meeting here, but the others mentioned, men-tioned, and Russia, Poland, the Baltic nations, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Czecho-slovakia, Roumania, Jugoslavia, Turkey and Greese are brought in. Even little Switzerland, strengthening strength-ening its army despite the formidable formid-able fortress mountains in which nature placed it, and pacific Holland, Hol-land, are not disinterested. U. S. TO DROP INSULL CASES (Copyright 1935 by United Press) CHICAGO. April 11 U.E The government has abandoned its long battle to send Samuel In-sull In-sull to prison for the disastrous collapse of his three-billion-dollar utility empire, the United Press learned today. 1 Attorney-General Homer S. Cummings following the cue of the State of Illinois has instructed instruct-ed District Attorney Dwight H. Green to "forget" the remaining federal charges against Insull. Green, who waged a futile cam-aign cam-aign to convict Insull and 16 others on mail fraud charges before be-fore a jury in Federal court four months ago, is expected to make formal announcement of the decision de-cision shortly. ue Judge of State Harold Bach-man, Bach-man, Wheaton, Illinois, who is coming to Prove next week to judge the high school band contest con-test during the state music festival here, first gained recognition during dur-ing the war as leader of the 116th Engineers' Engi-neers' band, called the "million "mil-lion - dollar band," by General Gen-eral Hunter Liggett. Mr. Bachman who is director of a professional profes-sional band also bandmaster at the Wheaton college and expert ex-pert advisor for school ba n d s throughout the country. - J 4 4i If ? -- ( MASSED BAND EVENT TO BE IMPRESSIVE , The massed band concert and' program in the Brigham Young university stadium, the climax of the state music festival on April 18, 19 and 20, is expected to be the most impressive presentation of its kind ever put on in this state. Professor G.Ott Romney. head of the committee staging this spectacle, announced yesterday that the program was rapidlv taking shape. "We expect this concert and program to be the most spectacular of its kind, and yet we are endeavoring to make it fully in keeping with the artistic i and cultural nature of the music : festival," said Professor . Romney. : The program as now outlined : will begin at the "Y" stadium at J O. i 1 - . 1 i uusk, aaiuruay evening, wiin num bers from perhaps 60 massed bands, under the direction of Harold Bachman, nationally famous fa-mous bandmaster and critic of Chicago. These numbers will be followed by exhibitions in tumbling by six B. Y. U. students, and a tap dancing routine with four principals and an ensemble of forty. Effectiveness of this presentation presenta-tion will be enhanced by special lighting effects aranged by the Utah Power and Light company, in charge of the lighting of the field for the entire program, and by a new stage which is being built especially for the acts. Following Fol-lowing these the B. Y. U. concert band will present appropriate novelty numbers. A gigantic display of fireworks will punctuate the end of the program, according to the committee. com-mittee. GIRL SHOT IN GUN ACCIDENT SALT LAKE CITY, April 11 r.R Joyce Marilyn Stam. 4-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Stam, was in the hospital today suffering a dangerous abdomen wound accidentally inflicted by her brother, Robert, age 7. The mother was visiting her sister, sis-ter, Mrs. George Lindquist, and at the Lindquist home Robert found a .22 calibre target pistol. Calling to his sister outside, he displayed the weapon and a moment mo-ment later the pistol exploded. The child fell to the ground and Robert ran into the house screaming. scream-ing. Little hope for the child's recovery re-covery was entertained. Eig ht Band Contest Residents Asked To List Guests At Band Contest I Chairman of Housing Com- mittee Points Out Need of Reporting Names. Every student visitor who will be housed by Provoans during the State Music Festival on April 18, 19, and 20, should be listed with the housing committee, whether that student is a relative, friend or otherwise. Albert Kirkpatrick, chairman of the housing committee, explained today the need of having students listed with the committeee, whether wheth-er they are invited as special guests or not. A large number of people in Provo have invited some of the festival participants, who happen to be friends or relatives, to stay at their homes. When the American Ameri-can Legion auxiliary committee called around, they did not sign to take anyone, explaining that they would have special guests. Unless these special guests are listed with the committee, which can be done by calling John O. Beesley, at 357, confusion will result. re-sult. The housing committee will have assigned every participant sleeping quarters before they arrive ar-rive in Provo. If some of these go to the homes of relatives or friends who have not signed, then that will man that some of the beds will not be used. Mr. Kirkpatrick emphaticalfy urges that all special guests should be listed. Clean-Up Drive Starts Monday Hauling of rubbish in the annual Provo city clean-up drive will begin be-gin promptly Monday morning when the street department trucks will go to work north of Center street. If the work is completed on schedule the south of Center street area will be covered cov-ered on Tuesday, according to J. E. Snyder, commissioner in charge of streets and public improvements. improve-ments. Ashes will not be hauled away and should not be deposited with the other rubbish which should be left at the curb in tubs, sacks or other containers. P. G. WOMAN DIES Mrs. Emma Beers, 52, wife of Warren Beers of Pleasant Grove, died this morning at the Aird hospital. Death was due to cancer. 4 , Mid move is m FOR EROSION CAMP HERE 4 Reasons To Back Up Application Appli-cation For Local Camp Forwarded Reasons why an erosion control camp should be established estab-lished at Provo were listed in an airmail letter sent today to J. Will Robinson, United States congressman, at his request. re-quest. Information concerning the real need for erosion control work in this section, particularly on the foothills east of Provo and through the entire Utah county section, was outlined Wednesday night in a meeting of the committee on forest and flood control work of the Provo chamber of commerce. Reasons Listed Chief reasons submitted are: 1. The land here is choice farming land, supporting a population of 50,000 ; 2 There is a real danger from flood and erosion here; 3 Investigation has shown that erosion ero-sion control work is available for five years or more for a camp of 200 men. Under Ihe present setup, the C. C. C. camp at Provo is an erosion control camp in the winter and a forest camp in summer. The new setup, under which it is proposed to establish four camps in Utah, will provide for erosion camps under the erosion service department. depart-ment. In the initial C. C. C. work report re-port made by Charles DeMoisy, supervisor of the Uintah National forest, he estimated that there was 2400 man-months oT work to be done With an enlarged pro- 1 gram, Mr. DeMoisy believes that there is a great deal more than i that amount of work. Tanner In Charge Dr. Vasco M. Tanner, chairman of the committee, took charge of the meeting Wednesday evening, at which it was decided to make a strong effort to obtain the camp. Others attending were Mr. De- j Moisy, Mr. Jenkins, H. B. Makin, ! R. E. Allen, W. P. Whitehead, ! Elmer A. Jacob, Wells Brimhall and H. C. Miller. Mr. Jenkins read a letter from Reed W. Bailey, diretor of the ! forest and range experiment sta- tion, in which he states: "Floods (Continued on Page Three) PENSION BLOC IS DEFEATED (U.R) The house defeated the townsend old age pension and Lundeen unemployment insurance blocs today in a test vote. The vote was 188 to 54, and came just before adoption of the rule permitting 20 hours of general gen-eral debate. The left-wing factions sprang a surprise move in an effort to defeat the rule governing the administration's ad-ministration's social security program. pro-gram. Defeat of the rule would have meant a renewed fight over procedure and would have set the bill back some days. The paradoxical stand of the liberal groups against the rule was based on belief that the radical radi-cal anti-administration proposals could not be offered as substitutes unless made in order by a vote. The Lundeen bill would raise taxes to provide $8,000,000,000 or more annually to pay all jobless a minimum of $10 a week. The Townsend plan calls for $200 a montk to all over 60. Scandinavians To Furnish Program All members of the Provo Scandinavian choir are urged to attend the practice Friday at 8 p. m. in the Seminary building. The choir and organization will furnish the program at the Sunday Sun-day evening services in the Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove Third ward. West Mining Industry Revival Spurred By U. S. Actioa Government's Action in Advancing" Price To 71 Cents Expected To Lead To Ultimate Price of $1.29 By UNITED PRESS Silver producing states of the far west greeted with acclaim ac-claim the government's action in advancing the price of newly-mined silver to 71 cents per ounce and, generally, saw in that action the hope of complete revival for the white metal industry. Many professed to see in the steady advance in the price of silver a hope for a price of $1.29 per ounce, a mark "predicted "pre-dicted by Senator Key Pittman of Nevada after passage of his bill which authorized the government to purchase 1,300,-000,000 1,300,-000,000 ounces of silver, or until it reaches a top price of $1.29. West To Reap Benefits The intermountain district is more beneficially affected than any other section. Idaho, Utah, Arizona, Montana, Colorado, and Nevada all are great silver producers. Last year Idaho led the nation in production, wnth 7,310,-ounces, 7,310,-ounces, while Utah was close behind with 6,895,000. In all states it was predicted that properties which for many years have been closed will be reopened, mines operating operat-ing on a light basis were expected to show increased activity and a general revival of business was predicted as a result ot the president's action. 3 Although advocates of $1.29 per EEN ACTIVITY IN MINE STOCK Brisk Trading Reported Local Mining Shares With Good News. in Trading in mining stocks locally local-ly was unusually brisk today following fol-lowing the receipt of the news that silver prices were boosted from 64.64 cents to 71.11 cents. At the brokerage conducted by Wells L. Brimhall on 19 North University Avenue, stocks sold at a rapid clip starting early this morning. A sale of 600 shares of Tintic Standard, one of the biggest silver producers in this section, indicates the tenor of the market here. Park City Con, Park Utah, Walker, Walk-er, North Lily, Chief Con, Silver King and others of the higher priced stocks went up. All of the prices went up. Silver King rode on the crest of the boom to a price $1.25 higher than yesterday, Tintic Standard went up 75 cents and others were up somewhat in proportion. NEVADANS DIE IN AIR CRASH ELY, Nev., April 11 (U.R) Two youthful airmen, Ernest and Leonard Leon-ard Clays, were killed near here late yesterday when the plane they were flying from Salt Lake City to Reno crashed while coming com-ing out of a bank. The pair, former residents of McGill, near here, flew over the town, waving to their friends. The plane fell at the edge of town. Leonard was the pilot. Both were natives of Bingham, Utah, and had been visiting relatives rela-tives in Salt Lake City. B. Y. U. SETS BAND CONCERT The B. Y. U. concert band under the driection of Prof. Robert Sauer, will give' another ., of its popular concerts nextMOnday evening, April 15, in OoHehalL free to the public. The public is invited to be the guests of this splendid musical organization at this time. Besides some of the best numbers num-bers to be played by the band, Florence Woodhouse will give a vocal solo, and Kenneth Duke will play a trombone solo. tates ounce were not satisfied, thev f believed Xtte increase ail assurance that congress eventually will re- monetize silver and legalize a price in excess of $1. Put Mines In Black C. W. Henderson, supervising engineer of the United States Bureau of Mines in Denver, said the price boost would put many mines in the black for the first time in years. Where miners are getting: approximately ap-proximately 10 ounces of silver to the ton the differencebetween the new and old price will take care of milling costs in many cases. . . at least 6,000 miners are directly affected. . .and at least 24,000 people peo-ple will receive direct benefits' Henderson said. Silver advocates pointed to silver sil-ver as a safe investment. They asserted that the past six years no safer investment could be found than silver, which rose in two years from 44 4 cents per ounce to the new high of 71 cents. In Tombstone, Arizona, pandemonium pande-monium seized a crowd when the news was received. They were already celebrating: a recent strike at Toughnet, one (Continued on Page Three) Lake View To See Stage Play The comedy-drama, "The Come-Back, Come-Back, " will be staged in the Lake View ward recreational hall, Saturday Sat-urday night at 8:15 by the California Cali-fornia players. The drama is brought here by the Sunday school organization of the ward as a benefit affair for the Mothers' Moth-ers' day program to be given next month. BEVERLY HILLS, Cal., April 10 That was certainly nice of Hitler to appear at that wedding today and not be the groom. No wonder the N. Y. stock market can't ever go up to amount to anything:. The minute min-ute it starts, everybody starts selling to take a little profit. Suppose every cowman, sold his cattle the minute they startetd up. Just been chatting: oat here at the studio Just now with an awful fine man, Fielding Yost of Michigan. X think some of our great coaches like him and Stagg and Warner, Warn-er, have been a great Influence Influ-ence to thousands of their boys through life. Yours, 5 nu. |