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Show Herald. So They Say! We are literally digging our selves back Into our natural environment en-vironment on a scale that has no precedent In history. Dr. C K. Keith, University of Wisconsin. vemiini PRICE FIVE CENTS FORTY-NINTH YEAR, NO. 233 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PROVO (UTAH) EVENING HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1935 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE C3 nn Weather Forecast UTAH Unsettled tonight and Saturday; little change in temperature. temp-erature. Maximum temp. Thursday ... & Minimum temp. Thursday ... 46 The E olfo) run UVJ mmm Ci 5 Inquiry 3 KILLED AS 24 CARS PILE UP ON TRACK Three Injured Remain At County Infirmary; Crew Unhurt A searching inquiry to fix the responsibility for the wreck of the Denver and Rio Grande Western railroad freight train on the main line at Geneva, Wednesday night, has been called in Salt Lake City, Saturday morning. morn-ing. Three persons, all transients riding rid-ing on the train were killed instantly in-stantly and seven others were injured, in-jured, three of them seriously. Track Is Cleared The wrecking crew summoned to the scene of the catastrophe immediately after the wreck, had succeeded in getting the switch cleared for trains to pass through by 2 a. m. Thursday. Work was still going on with two wrecking engines at work Friday. There was some possibility that additional bodies would be found as the 24 cars twisted into a mass of steel and splintered wood were being removed. The train was made up of 53 cars only a few of them loaded. Absolute identification had been established by the officers of all three known dead, it appeared today. Identification Complete They were George Cunningham. 50, of Denver; Jimmy De Lamar. 13-year old orphan boy of Omaha and Las Vegas and John Duchon. 20. St. Louis and Cold Springs. Nevada. Identification of Duchon was thought to have been established estab-lished by a tatooed figure on his right arm. following a telegram from relatives at St. Louis. Cun-( Cun-( Continued on Page Five) VST0M limm-so- boun TMJkDt MAK eeGtfTtsED By DREW PEA-.SON ROBERT S ALLEN WASHINGTON It is fortunate for-tunate for the administration that congress is so frazzled and weary. Were it not that the members mem-bers are desperately eager to wind up their long labors, there would almost certainly be an investigation into the mysterious mys-terious delay in starting the $4,-000,000.000 $4,-000,000.000 Work-Relief program. The extraordinary inactivity has aroused much indignation up and down Capitol Hill. It is almost six months to the day since the President first advanced ad-vanced theidea of the job-creati-ing plan. Nearly three months have passed since it has been law Yet the 3.500.000 unemployed who were to be given work are still on the dole. Furthermore, it now looks as if they will remain there for some time to come. kOnly a few days ago the Presi dent allotted $115,000,000 of Work-Relief money to take cart of FERA from the Work-Relief fund for dole purposes. The failure to get the work plan in motion has given rise to bitter charges of playing politics. Republicans are asserting that the Administration is deliberately stalling the program so its effect ef-fect will be felt in the Democratic Demo-cratic campaign next year. NO CHANCES - The Government is taking no (Continued on Page Seven) Z 1 -I T - T To Fix iGoshen Man Killed In Holiday Accident; ' Driver Faces Ch arge Involuntary Manslaughter Charges Drawn Up Against Provo Man; Eight Suffer Hurts in Head-on Collision Charges of involuntary manslaughter were drawn against C. E. Cameron, 25, of 729 North First East, Provo, as the aftermath of a headon automobile collision on the state highway south of Payson, inwhich Neldon Gardner, 29, Boy Breaks Leg; Ex-Commissioner Hurt In Crash Charles H. White of Payson Is Injured in Mishap Near Spanish Fork. The most serious noliday traffic j accident in Provo Thursday was the injury to Thomas Rogers, 14, of Orem, who suffered a broken j right leg when he stepped in front i of a light truck driven by Wil-I Wil-I liam A. Olsen. 45, of Provo, just j before noon at Fifth North and University avenpe. ' Olsen was driving south on the 1 avenue and the boy was in the I center of the street. He stepped directly in the path of the car, ; it was reported by Police Officer : O. E. Pederson. Olsen stopped j his car within four feet. Charles H. White, Payson, former for-mer Utah county commissioner suffered a deep cut on his head when the automobile he was driv- ing between Benjamin and Leland , veered off the road into the bar-I bar-I row pit, struck a pole and overturned over-turned at 12:30 a. m. Friday. Mr. White told Deputy Sheriff ; Reuben Christianson that some-' some-' thing apparently had gone wrong with the steering gear. When he recovered conscious-j conscious-j ness Mr. White found himself .standing upright in the car, with : his head and shoulders sticking out of the car window. The car was badly smashed. The former commissioner had j been on his way to Spanish Fork to get his family, who were visiting visit-ing there. Three Springville persons were hurt in a collision at Second (Continued On Page Two) WELLING OUT SAYS ATTORNEY Mliton H. Welling, secretary of state, convicted by a jury in the Third district court of defrauding de-frauding the state on a $100 claim must vacate his office as soon as he is sentenced, it was ruled by Joseph Chez, atorney-general Thursday. Mr. Welling will be sentenced Monday unless a motion for postponement post-ponement pending appeal is granted grant-ed at that time A delegation of Utah county Democrats went to Salt Lake City Friday to urge the appointment appoint-ment of J. W. Gillman of Orem when the vacancy takes place. Labor Meeting Here Tonight An open meeting to which all workers and unemployed of Provo are invited will be held at 8 o'clock tonight in the city court room under the auspices of the Civil and Relief Workers Protective Protec-tive union. Wages scales and labor la-bor regulations under the new workers progress administration will be fully discussed. A meeting of the canning committee com-mittee of the county will be held at the Lehi cannery Saturday night at 7:30 to discuss the opening of the cannery as a cooperative co-operative project, Monday morning, morn-ing, according to Leslie Ward, president of tjie organization. Blame ot Goshen, was almost instantly killed, at 4:30 p. m. July 4. Gardner was badly crushed, his wife Thelma was cut and suffered severe shock, and seven others were injured when the machines driven by Gardner and Cameron smashed together one fourth mile north of the Lakeside dance hall. Cameron was intoxicated, investigating inves-tigating officers reported, and two transients he had given a ride had been asking him to stop and let them out just prior to the accident. acci-dent. Others Injured Others injured in the collision are: Lothair Rowley, 18, and Ernest Rowley, 20, of Provo Bench: Edward Givant, 27, and his wife, Mrs. Edward Givant, 21, of Des Moines, Iowa; the Gardner's three-year old son, Neldon Junior, Jun-ior, and Mrs. Gardner's sister, Miss Bobbie Jermaine, 17, of Goshen. All were cut badly. Deep gashes on Mrs. Gardners body required more than an hour to sew. Dick Tolman of Spring Lake was the first to arrive at the scene of the acdent. An attempt was made to take the injured man to a hospital, but he died within a few minutes. Cameron was taken to the Utah county jail by investigating officers, offi-cers, Sheriff E. G. Durnell. County Attorney W. S. Dunford and Deputy Depu-ty Sheriffs George Loveless and Reuben Christianson. Mr. Dunford had involuntary manslaughter charges drawn today, to-day, and Cameron was scheduled to appear in court this afternoon. Surviving Gardner are his wife, and son: his mother, Mrs. Anna Gardner of Payson; two sisters, Mrs. Edward Frisby, Payson, and Mrs. Georgeanna Pratt; three brothers, William A. of Provo, Fred of Fairview and Ellis Gardner Gard-ner of Twin Falls, Idaho. The body is at the Deseret Mortuary Mor-tuary in Payson, the funeral to be announced after consultation with the brother enroute from Twin Falls. Mr. Gardner was born July 28. 1906, at Eureka, the son of William Wil-liam B. Gardner and Anna Anderson An-derson Gardner. The family moved to Goshen when Neldon was a young boy and he has lived there since. He married Wilma Jermaine in 1928. WALEY TRIAL IS UNDER WAY TACOMA, Wash., July 5 (lr.P A jury of 10 men and two women will hear charges against 19-year old Margaret Waley of complicity in the kidnaping and ransom of George Weyerhaeuser, 9-year-old scion of the wealthy timber family- The jury was selected in federal court today in less than an hour and a half. Judge E. E. Cushman adjourned court until Tuesday morning when the government will present its case against the buxom young wife of Harmon M. Waley, who is serving 45 years for his part in the kidnaping. Question asked by counsel did not particularly indicate the line of defense. Both the government and the defense asked each juror if he would be prejudiced because the defendant was a woman. Several Sev-eral prospective jurors were excused ex-cused because they said they had formed opinions of the case. Others Oth-ers were excused because they were not taxpayers. Mrs. Waley watched the proceedings pro-ceedings nervously but interestedly. interested-ly. She followed closely the questions ques-tions of counsel to the veniremen but her expression did not change during the session. For B. .& R0 Go Wo Freight Train SANE FOURTH CUTS DEATHS TO NEAR 200 Drownings Lead Casualties Followed .By Automobile Automo-bile Accidents ' (By United Press) America's Independence day celebration was one of the "safest, sanest Fourths so far," but almost 200 persons lost their lives in a variety of holiday accidents. Drownings took the highest high-est toll. Auto accidents ran a close second. Fireworks mishaps vere last in the number of fatalities. fatali-ties. In the middlewest several deaths were attributed to excessive exces-sive heat. Returns from 30 states showed that 85 were drowned, 73 were the victims of auto accidents, 3 were slain, and 19 were killed from miscellaneous cases, for a total of 188. Americans in Tokyo, Paris and other foreign cities joined in the celebration as the historic and crack liberty bell tolled again at Philadelphia. The four bellsf rung with a wooden mallet, were dull but they thrilled the great crowd that had assembled, outnumbering out-numbering the patriots of more than a century and a half ago who heard clearer clangings from the bell and took up the battle cry of the new nation. Drownings took the largest toll with 41 dead in the official tabulations. tabu-lations. Automobile accidents claimed 34 lives, a great decline from the 69 of a year ago. Air and train accidents killed five, the heat took five lives and five other persons died in miscellaneous mis-cellaneous accidents. Minnesota, with six drownings, led the nation in the number reported re-ported dead from that cause. Massachusetts, New Jersey and Iowa reported three each. North Carolina listed four dead in automobile accidents. with Pennsylvania and Minnesota reporting re-porting three each. Minnesota also credited three fatalities to the heat. Probably the most unusual accident ac-cident was the death of Fred Car-doni, Car-doni, 30. who plunged 200 feet to his death before a crowd of 3,000 at Detroit after he was carried up by a balloon because he held too long to a rope. A 12-year-old boy was killed at Hohokus. N. J., when struck by a wheel spun from a rac- ing car at a speedway. Chester Bullwicki. 17, died at Chicago of injuries received when a giant firecracker he had thrown in the air exploded near his chin as it came down. It was the only death directly attributed to fire- ! works. Thirty people were injured when a ferry boat crashed into a dock at New York. Approximately 50 were injured at a Kansas City suburban beach last night when a board walk gave way, throwing amusement seekers to the ground 18 feet below. Accident Victim Shows Improvement The condition of J. W "Rir-Christensen, "Rir-Christensen, local druggist, who was injured in an auto accident nearly two weeks ago, is reported to be steadily improving, although he is in a great deal of pain. Mr. Christensen is in th5 L. D. S. hospital in Salt Lake City. Young Couple Lofty YELLOWSTONE PARK, Wyo., July 5 (U.R For the first time in history one of the three moun- j tain fire lookout stations in Yel- j lowstone park is to have that "domestic- touch." Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hall, married mar-ried less than a year, this week made the difficult trek up to the summit of Mount Holmes, 10,300 feet above sea level, to take up Hitler's Double ' Face Is Trouble "V'' fir" ' ' V .v.-.'x. 4 ,sv Adolf Hitler in a new suit? No, just a man who looks too much like the German chancellor for comfort. When word spread in Nice, France, that "Hitler's in town," a mob gathered and messed up the Fuehrer's double. Now he plans "toshave off tha moustache and comb hishair differently dif-ferently so his identity vron't be mistaken again. Sharon Stake Conference To Be Held Sunday Elder Levi Edgar Young To Be Speaker At Sessions in College Hall. Quarterly conference will be conducted by the Sharon stake Sunday with meetings at 10 a. m. and 2 p. m. in College hall and a meeting at 8 p. m. in the Lin- coin high auditorium under direc- tion of the Young People's or ganization. Levi Edgar Young of the first counsel of the seventies, will be present and will likely speak at all three meetings, it is announced by President A. V. Watkins of the stake. The Lincoln high school band will give an open air concert starting at 7 p. m. prior to the evening meeting at the school. There will be no Saturday night meeting . t Testimonial Set For First Ward The testimonial for Marion Bowman, who leaves soon for a mission in the northwest, is to be held in the First ward , chapel Sunday evening, instead of the Bonneville ward, as was previously previous-ly announced. A fine program has been arranged, ar-ranged, the same to start at 6:30 o'clock. To Make Their Home On Summit In Yellowstone Park their lonely vigil for the next two j and a half months. I The nearest raneer station is ' Mammoth Hot Springs, more than f 20 miles away, from where food. water and mail will be sent by saddle trail twice a week. "There's nothing lonely about the place," the two reportel by telephone. Tve nave a shortwave short-wave radio, telephone, a regular WAGNER BILL SIGNED BY ROOSEVELT President Declares Act Will Insure Just Labor Relations WASHINGTON, July 5 (U.R) President Roosevelt today to-day signed the Wagner labor relations bill into law, and said "it should serve as an important step toward the achievement of just and peaceful labor relations in industry." in-dustry." He cautioned, however, that successful suc-cessful operation of the new law, guaranteeing labor the right to organize for collective bargaining, bargain-ing, would require "a sense of sober responsibility and of willing cooperation 'on the .part of raan-gaement, raan-gaement, labor and the public. The president warned, too, against expecting too much from the law. Emphasizing that its purpose is to protect labor in organizing or-ganizing and in bargaining, he said "it may eventually eliminate one major cause of labor disputes, but it will not stop all labor disputes." The new uasi-judicial labor. .rela.i tions board, which will enrorce the law, will not act as a mediator or conciliator. That work will remain re-main in the labor department. The scope of the law's application, applica-tion, under that broad restriction, remains uncertain. Some lawyers contend that in view of the supreme su-preme court's NRA decision it would be limited to a comparatively compara-tively few industries of clear interstate in-terstate commerce. Others contend con-tend it would embrace a wide field. Industry is expected to institute insti-tute early test cases to bring a supreme court, ruling. 28 INJURED IN 2 RAIL WRECKS WIUJISTON, N. D., July 5 (Uj Twenty-four persons were injured today in a wreck of the Empire Builder, crack transcontinental transcon-tinental flyer of the Great Northern North-ern railroad. A cloudburst struck immediate- ly ahead of the westbound train and washed out the tracks, re ports received here said. The locomotive of the 16 -car train remained upright as it plunged off the tracks and into a draw. The tender, baggage car, smoker and two coaches overturned. overturn-ed. One Pullman and one dhier were rerailed but remained upright. up-right. 4 CHICAGO, July 5 U.P Four persons were injured, one serious ly, when a local train, No. 36, of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific railroad was derailed by a washout near Baker, Mont., according to reports received by general offices of the road here today. LECTURE SUNDAY C. V. Hansen will give an illustrated il-lustrated lecture on the "Pioneers of 1847" before the Pleasant Grove Second ward M. I. A. conjoint con-joint session. Sunday night, July 7, at 7:30 o'clock. The public is cordially invited. visitor twice a week, and the grandest panoramic view in the Dark; At nierht we sit im on our perch and watch the lights in three states blink on and -off. From their vantage point they can see into Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. Other lookouts are stationed on Mount Sheridan, 10,-385 10,-385 feet high and Mt. Washburn, Wash-burn, 10,317. 20,000 Join In Fourth Of July Legion Festival Parade Featuring "America Marches On" Includes Fine Array of Floats; Goddess God-dess of Liberty Is Winner Provo awoke Friday morning with "that tired feeling," a litter of paper and trash to cleart up, but with a satisfied feeling that it had put on one of the most successful Fourth of July celebrations In local history. Thanks to the Post 13, American Legion commiteees, with cooperation from the Provo merchants, the fire department, depart-ment, police department and others, all details were handled smoothly, and although some of the events were late starting, start-ing, no one cared much because everyone was having a good time. Parade Huge Success I Throngs of out-of-town holiday Wl-KM ft S. F. ORATOR Spanish Fork Celebration Is Featured By Parade, Patriotic Event. SPANISH FORK "The ConsU-tution ConsU-tution of the United States is still the most important document in the nation and upholding it is the duty of every patriotic American. Ameri-can. The ruling of the supreme court of the United States that the National Recovery act was unconstitutional is the most im portant decision for the past fifty" years, or since the Drea-bcott decision," declared Attorney CI eon Wilkins in his talk, at the patriotic pat-riotic meeting held at the City Pavilion as part of the Independence Independ-ence day celebration at Spanish Fork, Thursday. City Attorney Joseph E. Nelson was master of ceremonies. Musical Musi-cal numbers were furnished by Miss Glodjys Williamts, Master Earl Tuckett, Gilbert Y. Johnson and the Spanish Fork band. Mayor Rees W. Jomes delivered the ad-drees ad-drees of welcome. Miss Jayne Evans with Miss Beth Krueger accompanist, gave a musical reading. read-ing. Colorful Parade At 1:30 p. m. a colorful parade featured by the Salt Lake American Ameri-can Legion band fom Post No. 2. and a float from the Forty and Eight of Salt Lake paraded down (Continued on Page Six) TOLBOE GETS NEW CHEVROLET Chris A. Tolboe, 435 South Fifth West, Provo contractor, was the owner of the Chevrolet automo- bile given away as the feature attraction in the gift festival held in connection with the Fourth of July celebration. Toiboe received the gift at the drawing conduct ed in the "Y" stadium Thursday night. To say he was happy is putting it mildly. He said it was the first thing he had ever won. Cash Awards Mrs. Velma Hoover, 802 South 1th West, got the second award of $150 cash after the judges had waited the prescribed five minutes min-utes for J. W. Halliday, manager of the Western Auto, who lost the award by not being present at the drawing. The other awards were as follows: fol-lows: Third prize, $100, Dr. H. F. Cannon, 127 West Second South; fourth, $50, Mrs. Irene Roberts, Springville road; fifth, $50, Harvey King, 356 North First East, treasurer. Pacific States Cash Iron Pipe company; sixth, $25, Niles Wright; seventh, $25, Mrs. Leo J. Knight, 260 West Fifth South. The judges were Mayor A. O. Smoot, City Commissioners Wal ter P. Whitehead and J. E. Sny der and Sol Jacobs chairman the merchants commitete charge of tickets. nf in- Wreck crowds poured into the city all day, to join the Provo residents in observing the nation's 159th anniversary. an-niversary. Fully 20,000 persons lined the streets when the parade, principal morning event, got under un-der way shortly after 9:30. The parade, built around the theme "America Marches On," was a huge success and declared by the judges to be one of the finest tbey had seen. . . First prize of $25 was awarded to the Goddess of Liberty float, simply and tastefully decorated with white satin under direction of the Women's Municipal council. Thelma Harris as the goddess and Kathryn Snvder and Helen Hoover Hoo-ver as maiaS of honor, presented a beautiful tableau. S. L. Float Distinctive The "Covered Wagon Days" float of Salt Lake City, with its white oxen gleaming in front, was awarded second prize of $15. Third prize of $7.50 went to Sharon Shar-on ward for its realistic Lewis and Clark expedition float. Every detail of this float was worked out completely. Jhe beautiful Betsy Ross float with Mrs. E. A. Pax-man Pax-man as Betsy, won fourth prize. This was built by Z. C. M. L and the Red and White stores. Honorable mention was awarded the Erie Canal float by the Ki-wanis Ki-wanis club, the Printing Press Float by the Lions club, the" Father Tf.ornlnn tr flnat hv th f!thrlir church, "Lincoln the Emancipator," Emancipa-tor," the Legion auxiliary; the pioneer wagons, and horsemen. Vineyard wardi x Washington at Valley Forge, by Tlmpanogoa ward, and the Bicycle cop, Lee Smith of the Smith Billard Parlor. Par-lor. The "Emancipator" on the auxiliary float looked a little more like Lincoln than Lincoln himself. George Latimer of the Salt Lake costume house took the part, and his bearH was real., Lions Club The Lions club augmented their float by passing out miniature (Continued On Page Two) SgGERS say. BEVERLY HILLS, CaL, July 4 Well, breakfast in' Fort Worth this morning. Did kinder want to go on and see what the boys in congress was' doing, as there was a plane standing ' there that would have put me there this afternoon; another leaving for BrownsvUle, Texas, and old Mexico. I looked longingly long-ingly at It; another leaving for Tulsa and Claremore. I did want to go on it, bat finally setled on the one for California, as that's what I should do-come on home. In here at 4 o'clock this after- , noon, 1500 miles. It dont take ' long to go a long distance and get back nowadays. Lot of hollering amonjr the rich, and near-rich. We are Irv- ing In a great time. 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