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Show So They Bay! Before another generation, we will see the Japanese flag flying over thie Philippine Islands, unless some unforeseen circumstance intervenes. in-tervenes. 'Nicholas Roosevelt, former vice-governor vice-governor of the Islands. Weather Forecast UTAH Rain or snow and colder tonight and Wednesday. Maximum temp. Monday ... 72 Minimum temp. Monday ... 22 tier FIFTIETH YEAR, NO. 75 UNITED F'RESS NEWS SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2 9, 1935 COMPLETE TELEGRAPH ifl fo) W ill Evenki lltie TOTE MM Government to Seek Exchange of Sites With City, County Provo Architect Leaves For Washington To Supervise Design For Postoffice To Be Erected Here A proposal to exchange the present postoffice site in Provo for the northeast corner of the same block on which to erect a new federal building, will be presented soon to the city and county commissioners, according to advices reaching Provo today from Congressman J. W. Robinson, who is now in Washington working to speed the erection of the new building. If the exchange can be made, construction on the new $220,000 building will proceed immediately, the entire appropriation appro-priation to be used for the building itself, according to the congressman. Joseph Nelson, Provo architect, and designer of the city and county building, has accepted an appointment from the treasury department as designing architect of the new edifice, edi-fice, the Herald was advised today. Mr. Nelson, who is leaving Provo tonight for Washington, Washing-ton, has been employed Ho assist on the plans for the building build-ing here, as well as other western government buildings. He has been given the privilege of taking two of his own men along, although this will not be definitely decided until after Mr. Nelson's arrival in the capital. Congressman Robinson secured an appropriation of $220,000 for the building and site. Bids for probable sites were presented recently, ranging from $16,000 to $60,000. Under the plan to exchange the present site for the corner at First East and Center street, the entire amount could be used for construction, with a more imposing building possible. possi-ble. The plan to erect the new postoffice building on the east side of the city and county building block is not a new one. It was first proposed by a chamber of commerce committee several years ago, and approved by both the city and county commissions. MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What'? Going On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON State department historians, now-preparing now-preparing to publish the dip lomatic documents of the i Harding administration, recently re-cently came across a note sent to Cuba by the then secretary sec-retary of state Charles Evans Hughes. It advised Cuba, in no uncertain terms, that the best remedy for its bulging sugar crop was to plow up a considerable portion of the cane sugar fields. The note was rather emphatic advice for a secretary sec-retary of state to be sending, even to a country where the United States enjoyed special Piatt amendment privileges. Therefore, state department officials of-ficials hesitated about publishing it. Mr. Hughes, they said among themselves, now occupies the exalted ex-alted position of chief justice of the supreme court. It might be embarrassing to have his note made public. Word of this hesitation reached Charley Michelson, astute strategist strate-gist of the Democratic national committee. "What." said Michelson. "A Republican advised a foreign country to plow up its sugar crop? "That is going to be our answer to Republican critics of the AAA. There is no doubt about whether that note is going to be published, even if I have to take it up with the president." 5 . . JOHN IIOOSEVELT ! 4, l"W " John Roosevelt. Harvard sophomore, sopho-more, is adopting his father's device de-vice of press conferences to straighten out his publicity difficulties. diffi-culties. John got a couple of 'raw deals" from the Boston newspapers newspa-pers recently. 1 The Boston Herald Her-ald reported erroneously that he had turned down a bid to the Hasty Has-ty Pudding club. 2 The morning Payson Flier to Speak to Students PAYSON J. Harold Wilsort. U. S. Army flying cadet, who is home on a furlough from Langley Field, Virginia, a tactical flying unit of the second wing of the air corps, will be the speaker at a student assembly of the Payson high school Friday forenoon. He will tell of his experiences in the air school at Randolph and Kelly Field, Texas, and since flying at Langley, field. ; Mussolini puts : Italy On War Time Rations i j Latest Move Designed To Offset Effect of Sanctions By League. LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press Cable Editor Mussolini put his country on a war-time food and economy basis today, showing his determination to prosecute the war to the utmost. ut-most. While there will be no actual rationing cards, sales of essential foods, particularly meats, will be restricted. To augment the food supply, public preserves and private pri-vate estates will be opened to public pub-lic fishing and hunting. The new regulations are designed de-signed to offset the sanctions being be-ing applied by the league indicating indi-cating that Mussolini expects them to be applied and also does not expect the war in Africa to last less than six months, since that is the duration of the restrictions. French Have Plan Paris, all along the Pollyanna of the present crisis, sprouted another an-other morning glory. today, which may or may not, like the others, wilt under the heat of London and Geneva. The latest French peace effort is a plan, its contents carefully guarded, intended for submission to Geneva. It was reported to majte-xonsiderable territorial concessions con-cessions to Italy. Britain apparently appar-ently has at least agreed to consider con-sider ' it. However, Britain insists, as she has from the start, that any plan must be approved by the League of Nations and by both parties to the dispute, Italy and Ethiopia. Therein lies the difficulty. Anything Any-thing acceptable to Mussolini is not likely to be acceptable to Great Britain, and to an even less degree to Ethiopia. Conversely, the minimum British requirements would not be enough for Mussolini. Geneva Pessimistic! Geneva was not as optimistic as Paris but was fully ready for the full application of penalties which it was hoped might exert enough pressure on Mussolini to end the war soon. News from the war dne continued con-tinued unexciting. There was some minobr skirmishing in the south. The Italians in the north were within striking distance of Makale, their next objective, and apparently appar-ently can take it almost at any time now with little resistance. The main Ethiopian stand, if any, will be made south of Makale, where the Italians will be farther from their base and more at a dis advantage. Hallowe'en Magic! -VJ&VH'Si I: r-v rKr If these youns nifn appear a mt prouu oi im'Hisenc;,, uinrs pood reason On their birthday, most of tlio hoys in Iieaumont. Tex., parade throueh the streets, blowing horns. The roason? A (Anthony), I? I?ernain. (' (fail Vincent) and I) (Donaldo) rcnicone. "shown lett to rinht above, believed to be America's only boy quadruplets, were horn just six years ago on Hallowe'en. So if the four brothers, whose only resemblance is their passimi Joi- baseball, can hardly wait for their combined hiit huaj -Hallowe'en party, you cun t really blame them. STAH OFFICER ADMjTCTHEFT Former State Cashier of California Admits $21,-000 $21,-000 Steal. FORT WORTH, Texas, Oct. 29 U.R) District Attorney Otis Bar-cock Bar-cock of Sacramento, Calif., announced an-nounced today that William B. Shearer, former California state cashier, had confessed to him the theft of $24,000 in state funds "for his own uses." "Shearer made a complete confession," con-fession," Babcock said, "but maintained main-tained that there was no one else involved with him. He retracted his former statement that he might be shielding someone, and said he alone was responsible for theft of the state funds." The district attorney said , Shearer admitted that State ; Treasurer Charles Johnson made j good a loss of $680, 10 years ago, and another shortage of $5,350 in February of this year. Latest War Developments Developments today in the Italian-Ethiopian war crisis. GENEVA League leaders hope end of war may be possible by year end through diplomatic negotiations ne-gotiations or economic pressure on Italy. WITH GEN. SANTINIS FORCES IN ETHIOPIA Italians Ital-ians within striking distance of Makale; road builders ahead of army preparing way for next drive to be led by baby tanks. VIENNA Deserters from northern Italy crossing Austrian border. DJIBOUTI Ethiopia will not consent to peace until Italy-withdraws army from country, Tecla Hawariat asserts. LONDON Military experts pessimistic regarding Italy's chance of ultimate victory in Ethiopia. LONDON Italian squadron bombs Makale with telling effect Exchange Telegraph reports. PARIS French and British experts ex-perts reported to have completed complet-ed peace plan for submission to league of Nations and Mussolini. Firemen Respond To Three Alarms Three fires in Provo Monday were doused by the city fire department de-partment before ajiy"had4one major damage. A fire at 11:30 p. m. at the Ah-lander Ah-lander shop burned a pile of slabs and logs, but was under control before any buildings were damaged. dam-aged. Garbage burning near the Utah Timber at Fifth North by the mill race did approximately $5 damage dam-age to a bridge railing. This started at 3 p. m. Nearly $200 worth of damage was done at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Callahan, 45 West Second South street, Monday morning, when a fire started in a clothes closet of their home. It is believed to have been caused by overheating of the furnace register in the closet. 'Quads' Are Six ... t . i . , . - i : - . ) AAA Plan Wins By 7 to 1 In Corn-Hog Vote Affirmative Vote Returned in Every State of the Union. BY UNITED PRESS Most of the returns were in today to-day from the corn-hog referendum in which farmers approved by a majority of approximately 6 to 1 the continuation of AAA regulations. regula-tions. Indications were that some 800,000 votes were cast in the balloting last Saturday. Tentative tabulations showed 699,118 votes. Of these, 602,878 favored the federal fed-eral control of crops as pertaining to corn and hogs. The incomplete returns showed an affirmative vote in every state where the referendum was held. Majorities ranged from 3 to 1 to 10 to 1. Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace commented on the results re-sults as follows: "They realize their triple duty: to the consumer; the cause of soil conservation; and to the maintenance mainten-ance of a fair income for themselves." them-selves." Official returns will be sent to Washington and released there later. Parents To Get Reports Soon On Student progress Term letters to parents of students stu-dents in the Provo high school will be given most of the students Wednesday, it is announced by J.i Clifton Moffitt, principal. Use of term letters instead of term reports, is the system used at the Provo school to escape the evils of the old method. In the new term letter type of report, re-port, a parent can find out if his son or daughter is maintaining the scholastic standard of which he or she is capable. The old method wr3 unfair both to the student who received "A's" and to the one with a "D" Mr. Moffitt contends, as it discourages dis-courages one while giving the other a false idea of his progress The movement for such marking mark-ing is growing rapidly through-aut through-aut the country. President Sets Armistice Day WASHINGTON, Oct. 29 U.P President Roosevelt today issued a proclamation declaring Nov. 11 as Armistice day and calling on the people to observe it with appropriate appro-priate ceremonies emphasizing America's des:re for peace. "It is particularly fitting," the president observed, "on this anniversary anni-versary of the Armistice that we should express our determination to remain at peace with all nations na-tions and our conviction .that permanent per-manent peace can and must be attained at-tained throughout the world." FANS AWAIT HECOMG GRID BATTLE Color, Fanfare To Accompany Accom-pany Visit of Utes On Saturday Homecoming day! What a world of meaning those two words hold for the hundreds of Brigham Young university graduates and to thousands of persons in central cen-tral Utah who await eagerly the time Saturday afternoon pt 2 when the rhythmic cadence ca-dence of a march from the famous Y" band will signal the gathering gather-ing of a huge crowd at beautiful "Y" stadium for the annual "big game." This year homecoming has especial es-pecial significance, for it is the first time in a decade that the powerful football team from the University of Utah, for years the kingpin of the Rockies, will meet the "Y" Cougars on the home grounds of the Provoans. The game itself, between the smooth-working Utes and the youthful but courageous Cougars, who get better as the competition gets harder, promises all the thrills and dramatic spectacles that only football can produce. But there are other aspects to homecoming that are equally attractive. at-tractive. Students of the rival universities, equipped with bright-hued bright-hued shakers and flags, will stage their snake dances, parades and stirring rallies; old friends will be back to welcome former classmates, class-mates, bands will play fast-tempo marches and school songs will thunder across the turf while the thousands in the stands watch the gladiators of the gridiron. Merchants of Provo, as enthusiastic enthusi-astic about the game as any undergraduate, un-dergraduate, are closing stores from 2 until 5 Saturday in order that they and their clerks might go to the game. They will reopen re-open from 5 until 8 to accommodate accommo-date Saturday shoppers. The "Y" team, improving daily under the guidance of Coach Ott Romney, plays a brand of wide open football in which passes are seasoned with spectacular runnings run-nings plays, that keeps spectator interest at high pitch. Likewise, Ike Armstrongs Utes have a brilliant bril-liant attack this year, probably the most versatile produced since he started putting out winning teams at the state university. DRILL TEAMS AWARDED CUPS Columbia Steel corporation employes em-ployes who have trained long hours to became proficient in first aid and drilling on fire department depart-ment teams Monday night were awarded silver loving cups emblematic em-blematic of victory in contests at the Utah State Firemen's convention conven-tion at Heber City this year. The cups were presented by I. L. Pratt, state organizer with fire Chief Clyde Scott making the acceptance. The permanent silver cup presented pre-sented to the drill team of which Wells Hoover is captain, was for winning the ladder climbing con test. On the team are Billie Wilkins, Ace Johnson, Oran Walker Walk-er and Guy Walker, with Scott Thompson of the fire department as coach. thp first aid team, captained by Earl Johnson, won the first leg of the silver cup which must be won two years in succession for permanent possession. Members Mem-bers of the tear are R. J. Duffin, Lon Howe, Billy Ward, H. E Nixon, Billy Wilkins, Ace Johnson, John-son, in addition to the captain. Mayor A. O. Smoot and Commissioners Com-missioners Walter P. Whitehead and J. E. Snyder spoke briefly a tthe presentation ceremonies. The program consisted of the following numbers: song, Earl Johnson; black magic, Robert Geddes; accordion solo, Mrs. Harris; Har-ris; reading, Helen Hoover. Third Victim Dies CHICAGO, Oct. 29 (U.E) Attorney Attor-ney William L. Hawthorne died today, the third victim of the maniacal rage of Raymond Lamming, Lam-ming, former convict, who also killed former Judge William Fet-zer Fet-zer and committed suicide . Nathan Weintroob, 29, who was wounded by Lamming, la expected to recover. City to Push Ahead On 7-Mile Pro ject With Oil-Mat Type Substitution of Asphalt Type Would Require Re-quire Cutting Project Down To Five Miles.; Petitions Are Filed Progress already made by the state road commission in preparing contracts and specifications for the northeast street improvement project will not be halted to change the original decision for a bituminous macadam or "oil-mat" type of surfacing to a rock asphalt type, Mayor A. O. Smoot an-. nounced Monday night at a meeting meet-ing of the city commission. City Commissioners J. E. Snyder Sny-der and W. P. Whitehead took precisely the same stand, holding that delay which may cost the property owners the $20,000 allocation allo-cation from federal funds, will not be allowed. Petitions Presented Petitions signed by property owners asking for a rock asphalt paying, providing it could be obtained ob-tained at a cost of 40 cents per foot, were presented to the commission com-mission by representatives from the Rock Asphalt company of Utah. The petitions, according to J. El- TAXES TO BE DUEDEC. 20 County Commissioners Grant Extension of Tax Delinquent Delin-quent Date. Taxpayers of Utah county have until December 20 to pay theii taxes before any delinquent penalty pen-alty Ls exacted. The extra 20 days, from November Nov-ember 30 the original delinquent date, was granted according tc a request of 100 taxpayers whe presented a petition. It follows a custom of many years standing. Lions To Honor Past Governors Six past district governors of Utah and Idaho Lions district will be honored guests at the meeting sponsored by the Provo club, Thursday at 7 p. m. at the Hotel Roberts. The guests, all of whom will respond with a short talk are D. A. Skeen, Salt Lake City; Dr. J. M.- Godfrey, Richmond; Dr. Guy Richards, American Fork; Leo Hansen, Lehi; E. E. Anderson, Ander-son, Spanish Fork and J. W. Thornton, Provo. Cantril Nielsen, Hyrum, present district governor will also be present, and Joe Robinson, Rob-inson, Lehi, deputy district governor, gov-ernor, will give a talk. Invitations have been issued also to the following past Idaho district dis-trict governors: Harry Young, Charles Sandles, Idaho Falls; Gilbert Gil-bert Stanton, Caldwell and the present official, L. Sumner Pond, Grace. The committee in charge consists con-sists of J. W. Thornton, A. H. Christensen and H. C. Hatch, past presidents of the Provo club. CLUB SPONSORS SAFETY DRIVE PAYSON J. W. Thornton of Provo, former district governor and at present a member of the board of governors' of Lions International, In-ternational, was the guest speaker speak-er at a dinner session of the Pay-son Pay-son Lions club held Monday night at the Payson Hotel. After delivering de-livering an interesting address on matters pertaining to Lionism, Mr. Thornton presented past president pins to Dr. L. D. Pfouts and John T. Lant and a membership member-ship pin to Dr. M. L. Oldroyd. George Chase read "And Sudden Sud-den Death" ari" account of automobile auto-mobile safety. After a discussion discus-sion of the subject, the club decided de-cided to sponsor a safety campaign cam-paign and to concentrate on a plan to secure quick aid for accident ac-cident victims. President John C. Carlisle was in charge of Jthe meeting. It. S. CHORUS TO MEET All members of the Utah stake Relief Society chorus are asked to meet for rehearsal, Thursday, at 4 p. m., in the Seminary building. mer Jacobson, spokesman for the group, carry signers representing 3,345 feet, which is considerably more than 50 per cent of the property prop-erty involved in the original five-mile five-mile project. The entire street project controversy con-troversy and the relative merits of the two types of paving was mulled over at the meeting, attended at-tended by more than 50 persons. Progress Reported Mayor Smoot explained in detail de-tail the history of the project, running back a number of years, beginning during the term of office of-fice of Jesse N. Ellertson as mayor. may-or. He pointed out the obstacles which prevented the project from (Continued on Page Five) C. of C. Not In Politics Directors Say Legal Angle of Draining of Utah Lake To Be Investigated. "The Provo Chamber of Commerce Com-merce is NOT in politics," it Was emphasized Monday night at the meeting of the board of directors when the chamber "leaders decided to spike the persistent rumors that the organization was taking sides in the forthcoming Provo city election. The question of politics in the nnmin? election has never been discussed, officially or otherwise," j said Clayton JenKins, execuuvc secretary, in reporting the meeting. meet-ing. I. E. Brockbank, president, took charge of the meeting. Hamilton Calder. assistant cash ier at the Farmers and Merchants ; Bank, was appointed official ronrosontative of the chamber at a meeting to be held at Vernal November 13, where clubs situated situ-ated along highway 40 will hold a conclave to promote the paving of the highway from Denver to Salt Lake City. President Brock-bank Brock-bank and others of the chamber may also attend the meet. Mr. Calder is on the program for a short talk. The rights of the people of Utah county in maintaining Utah lake as a natural resource and protecting pro-tecting it from being drained down to a mere mudhole, will be investigated by the chamber, it was decided. The Utah county onmmissioners. through their at torney, W. S. Dunford, will be asked for an opinion as to the rights of the citizens of the county in the lake that fringes the west portion of the Utah valley. The action follows the suggestion of Billy Wilson, boating and outdoor enhusiast, who poirfted out that the lake has shrunk to about one-eighth one-eighth its normal size because of selfish interests. The chamber has been informed by the R. L. Polk and company that the Association of North American Directory Publishers are shipping a bunch of city directories director-ies for public use in the chamber of commerce office. The directories direc-tories of 42 cities, which will be available for anyone to use at the chamber offices, are in the first shipment. Others will be obtained later. Cities from Nevada, Utah Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, New (Continued on Page Five) Property Owners Ask Fire Hydrant John O. Beesley and T. H. Heal, representing property owners on Center Street between First and Sceond West, met with the city commission Monday night to request re-quest the placing of a fire plug in the alleyway in the center of the block, behind the gas company. The request will be taken into consideration, with action as soon as the city attorney reports. A request was also made that the; sidewalk and street be brought up to grade in places where its too low now. BOARD TO BE EUPOF SEVEN H Waterworks Commissioner To Be Member; To Name Six Later Seven men will constitute the board of the Metropolitan Water District of Provo. They will be appointed immediately, im-mediately, Mayor A. O. Smoot said Tuesday. An ordinance designating: the number, tenure of office and qualifications of this board was passed Tuesday morning by the city commission, and will become be-come effective upon its first publication, pub-lication, Wednesday. Mayor Smoot, Commissioner Walter P. Whitehead and Commissioner Com-missioner J. E. Snyder have been making the selection of the board for several weeks, but have withheld with-held any announcement until the men accept. The board will be listed publicly in about 10 days. Whitehead Member Mr. Whitehead, who is commissioner commis-sioner of water for Provo city, automatically becornes a member of the board, according to the provisions pro-visions of the ordinance. The other appointees will have a tenure of office in line with a staggered schedule and thereafter the appointment will be for six years. Of the first six appointed, two will hold office until February 1, 1938, two until February 1, 1940, and two until February 1, 1942. Appointments will be made by the mayor and city commissioners except, ex-cept, of course, for the water commissioner, com-missioner, who is elected. Qualifications for the office are few, but far reaching. Specifically Specifical-ly they are: '"The appointed members shall be selected without regard to political affiliation and shall be men of highest integrity and ability, residing in the Metropolitan Metro-politan Water district, and shall serve without pay." Selection of that board is one of the integral moves in the preparation for building Deer Creek reservoir, the proposed eight million dollar federal project pro-ject in Provo canyon. The Metropolitan Metro-politan water district was formed by vote and its legality upheld by the Utah supreme court. The manifold problems confronting con-fronting Deer Creek have not yet been solved to an extent that the starting of work can be predicted, except loosely. Elmer Jacob, manager of the project, believes that actual work is likely to begin in June of next year. CITY OFFICIALS ATTEND MEET Modern trends in city water systems were observed by City Commissioner Walter P. Whitehead White-head and Superintendent Clark Newell of Provo, who returned this week from San Diego, Calif., where they attended the Pacific States convention of waterworks officials. The convention was held October Octo-ber 23 to 26. Ask Storekeepers Not To Buy Empty Milk Bottles Here Provo police officers are attempting at-tempting to put a stop to the milk bottle stealing racket which is flourishing in Provo lately. Youngsters, learning their first lessons in crime, steal empty milk bottles from the porches and sell them to obliging grocers. Chief of Police John E. Harris has urged that all store keepers and grocery men cooperate with the department in the attempt to stamp out the racket by refusing to buy empty milk bottles from kids. Nine times out of ten, the bottles have been stolen. Merch- ants who buy such bottles are really real-ly encouraging the youngsters by making it profitable to steal the bottles. If store keepers refuse to buy the bottles, it is believed the racket will die out. MOTHERS CHORUS It is urged that all members of the Mothers' chorus of the Franklin Frank-lin school P.-T. A. meet Wednesday Wednes-day at 4 o'clock at the Franklin school building. All singing mothers of the district dis-trict are urged to be present. Mrs. Bernice Dastrup is conductor. MAD |