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Show So They Say! The pig iron reduction control of the big steel companies in 1933 was in principle 1000 times as damnable as the pig reduction campaign of 1933. Secretary Wallace. Hera. Weather Forecast UTAH Fair tonight and Thursday. Thurs-day. Warmer southwest portion tonight. Maximum temp. Tuesday 54 Minimum temp. Tuesday ... 23 lDVeB.ll. FIFTIETH YEAR, NO. 91 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2 0, 1935 IH .vys ' skIIvick PRICE FIVE CENTS. AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IM1 0) 1 " 1 i ii i VI I a v UK El NIGHT PARADE TO FEATURE HOLIDAY FETE Santa Claus To Ride With School Children In Christmas Fete Christmas bells will jingle, Santa Cuius will show his ruddy cheeks, and music will fill the air in downtown Provo Pro-vo Wednesday, December 4, in the grand holiday opening planned by the Provo chamber of commerce. A variety of beautiful Yuletide floats and musical units from the various schools of the region will provide color and life in, the big opening parade, according to Ed. B. Shriver, chairman. Three bands, from the Brigham Young university, univer-sity, the Provo high, and a special German band, have been arranged in addition to other musical units. Float Themes Announced Themes of school floats, announced an-nounced today by Mr. Shriver suggest sug-gest that humor, pageantry and color will be mixed in the ensemble. ensem-ble. The Farrer junior high will have a float "Christmas in 1940;" the Dixon junior high plans a Santa Claus and Reindeer float with 60 participating; 'Joy to the World" is the theme of the Parker school,, in which a drum and bugle corps and 70 pupils will join, while the Maeser school will reach back into history to the inception in-ception of the celebration with a float, "The First Christmas,"' with Mary and Joseph typified, and a marching unit of 50 students. Under the Franklin school colors col-ors will be float "Noel" with the colorful drum and bugle corps participating, par-ticipating, while the B. Y. U. Training school will have "Santa Claus" Doll Shop" as the theme for their unit. "Thunder Cave" (Continued on Page Six) MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What'? Going On in Natiqnal Affairs By DREW TEAKSON and ROBERT S ALLEN WASHINGTON As the European ring around Italy tightens, the complete inside story of the facts behind the Roman tragedy gradually is unfolded. Even official reports, voluminous volu-minous as they have been, have left several blank spots in the Italian picture. It was known to the U. S. war department, for instance, that sometime around May the Italian general staff submitted sub-mitted to Mussolini a highly discouraging dis-couraging report regarding the time and expense of conquering Abyssinia. It was also known then that II Duce was heading into increasing domestic storms. Not only was there a growing subterranean criticism of him. but his financial structure was headed for the rocks. He had been running into debt at a rate which would have evoked cries of horror from Liberty Lib-erty League Italians, had any political party save his own Fascists Fas-cists been allowed to function. His average borrowing ran around four to five billion lire a year, and his' internal national debt this year will total close to 110 billion lire not including war expenditures ex-penditures INTERNATIONAL j DEFICIT ! Furthermore, Mussolini's system sys-tem of planned economy, higher tariffs, plus lower tourist expenditures expendi-tures and decreased emigrant remittances, re-mittances, was running Italy's international in-ternational trade balance deeper in the red every year. Mussolini was up against it both politically and economically, and as an alternative he chose the precedent followed for centuries by the Caesars before him conquest. But the unfortunate fact from Mussolini's viewpoint was that up until early summer the Italian public was anything but enthusiastic about the idea of conquest. In fact many of them we're not (Continued on Page Four) S. F. MAN INJURED Lawrence Bangerter, 32, of Spanish Span-ish Fork, is in Lne Aird hospital with a broken leg and other painful pain-ful injuries as the result of an accident ac-cident Tuesday in which he was struck by a truck. Supreme Court Holds Utah Liquor Law Constitutional THREE KILLED IN FRISCO POISON PLOT Arsenic Found In Baking Soda; Two Business Men Arrested SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 20 (U.R) Municipal Judge Alden Ames today issued warrants for the arrests of two men charged with sellings arsenic-laden arsenic-laden baking soda held responsible re-sponsible for at least three deaths among the 800 families who purchased the "packages of death." Those named in the warrants were Morris Rosenthal of the Rosenthal Ro-senthal Department store and Nick Manno. of the Manno Salvage Sal-vage Co. They were accused of violating pure food laws in selling the contaminated con-taminated soda, which was found to contain both arsenic and fluoride. fluo-ride. They also were accused of selling the soda in bulk, trade-marked trade-marked without the consent of a nationally known soda manufacturer. manufac-turer. Probe Murder Plot Ames said punishment on the charge is a fine of not less than $25 and not more than $500 or six months in the county jail or both. He set bail at $500 bond or $250 cash. A homicide squad detail, led by George Engler and Allen McGinn, meanwhile was investigating a possibility of a mass murder plot. Dr. J. C. Geiger. city health of-fifr of-fifr and chemists believed it would have been impossible for I the arsenic and fuloride to have ( been mixed with the soda acciden-1 acciden-1 tally. Geiger called attention to i the" manner in which the arsenic ' permeated the bicarbonate found in the Rosenthal store. Engler's inquiry was directed partly in the direction of determining deter-mining whether some one might have had a grudge against the Rosenthal Ro-senthal firm or Manno. from i whom the department store j bought the powder. . . BOARD STUDIES WATER TERMS Members of the Provo Metropolitan Metro-politan Water District board Tuesday Tues-day night dived into the work of working out a satisfactory contract con-tract for obtaining water from the proposed Deer Creek dam and for getting authority to execute this contract when the $7,500,000 project proj-ect goes through. In the second meeting of the new board, held in the city commission com-mission office with President Alex Hedquist in charge, the board also perused the articles of incorporation incorpora-tion and discussed the contract of the Provo River Water Users association, as-sociation, the company through which the Provo district will deal. Getting a contract that will be suitable to the people of Provo and obtaining authority to execute ex-ecute this are the two most pressing press-ing needs. Dr. Franklin S. Harris, board vice president, pointed out. As a preliminary step toward getting get-ting authority, the" board passed the motion of Dr. Harris to study methods of holding an election, if an election is deemed necessary. It was furthe. decided that the Provo board will have representa tives at the meetings of the Provo I River Water Users association, the i parent organization, in its meet- ings at Salt Lake City. The oaths 1 of office of the board will be filed with" the Utah coutny clerk. ; Tentatively, Provo city agreed i to subscribe to 8000 acre feet of water from the reservoir, from which 110,000 acre feet will be sold. Elmer Jacob, project manager, man-ager, pointed out that 8,000 acre feet is equal to 11 second feet for a year. Provo is now using 8 second sec-ond feet for culinary purposes, and nas a potentiality or tnree sec- ona ieet. ior a penoa or yu aaysueeivgd a communication from the from L,ost Lake, witn a little provo chamber of commerce cll-more cll-more than that from Broadhead ins- attention to the denlorable f meadows if they are developed. Oil for War Machines of Italy! nt i fit . Mail. vw js.s" " Secrecy surrounds loading of one million dollars in aviation gasoline aboard the steamer Oregon in Los Angeles, out it is pretty well accepted ac-cepted that destination ot the 9250 tons of "gas" is for Italian Somali-land. Somali-land. Owners of the vessel would not deny the cargo had been bought by the Italian Government for war i:se. - - - - YOUNG FLIER IS MISSING Holder of Junior Flying Records Rec-ords Unaccounted For On West Flights SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. Nov. 20 (U.R) Frank Kurtz, holder of several junior flying- records, was missing1 today to-day between here and Cheyenne, Chey-enne, VVyom. The local airport said Kurtz, enroute from the east ! to Los Angeles, took off from ' Cheyenne at 3:15 p. m., yesterday, j and hadn't been heard from since, j Kurtz took off in his small J plane, which carries no radio j equipment, after saying he expect-' expect-' ed to land at Rock Springs, Wyo., and later at Salt Lake City, en-I en-I route west to Oakland, Calif. He j was flying alone, j No Report Heard I Kurtz had not reported in at any of the airports between Cheyenne Chey-enne and Salt Lake City, this morning. It was believed certain he would not have flown west be-'' be-'' yond Salt Lake City last night, ' since darkness would have overtaken over-taken him probably east of Rock , Springs. ' At the Rock Springs airport, at tendants said they had seen no plane answering the description of Kurtz' ship last night. They said he should have reached there at about 6 p. m., after leaving Cheyenne Chey-enne at 3:30 p. m. Other Rock Springs citizens said, however, that they saw a plane fly low over the town at about 6 p. m. yesterday, with its landing lights turned on and then continue westward. , Kiwanis Speaker Prof. T. Earl Pardoe, head of the Brigham Young university speech department, will be the speaker at the Provo Kiwanis club luncheon Thursday at 12:15 in the Roberta Hotel dining room. State Legislation, Court Injunctions, Only Remedies To Protect Utah Lake Action by the legislature to prevent pre-vent the lowering of Utah lak' and other navigable bodies of water wa-ter within the state to a point where navigation is destroyed is necessary, according to an opinion opin-ion from Attorney General Joseph Chez. The opinion was submitted in response to an inquiry from W Stanley Dunford, Utah county attorney, at-torney, as to what rights, if any, Utah county had in the waters of Utah lake. Mr. Dunford was directed di-rected to ascertain the legal rights of the county by the county com missioners who had previously re- draining of the lake by water- Discharge Of Worker Brings Mass Protest Laborers Lay Down Tools To Protest Firing of Fellow Fel-low Employe. In protest against the "unjust' firing of a WPA employe, DeVon Kelsey, a gang of nearly 30 men from the Provo canyon project laid down their shovels Wednes- day morning and placed their j . . v-v &... '. grievance berore me rrovo ci.y commission and the labor management man-agement department of the WPA. The men returned to work Wednesday Wed-nesday afternoon after a plan wa. proposed for a meeting Thursday night in which the men will be represented by a committee of three to meet with Commissionei Walter P. Whitehead, in charge of waterworks; Sam Park, labor management director; William Goodwin, divisional engineer for WPA, and Don Davis, foreman on the job. The men declared that Kelsey was a good worker and that Davis fired him because of a grudge. Rulon Edwards, spokesman, spokes-man, also declared that the men would not work under Davis. Mayor A. O. Smoot, Commissioners Commis-sioners Whitehead and J. E. Snyder, Sny-der, Mr. Park and Mr. Goodwin heard the protests of the men voiced by Edwards, then proposed the plan of arbitration. ItTs the first major labor difficulty diffi-culty .here under WPA, Park said after the meeting, although several sever-al minor grievances have been ironed out. "Davis doesn't treat us like men,' 'one of the workers declared The workmen sat around the commission com-mission room in their working togs, with lunch buckets and jumpers laid on the floor nearby while the matter was threshed out. users who installed pumps at Pelican Peli-can Point last summer. "The mere fact that Utah lake is located within Utah county would not give said county the right to prevent the further lowering lower-ing of the lake," reads the opinion in another place, written by S. D Huf faker, assistant attorney general. gen-eral. "As far as ownership is concerned, con-cerned, all of the unappropriated waters of the state belong to the state and are, therefore, public property, subject to the same protection pro-tection as other public property. "Although Utah lake has been adjudged to be a navigable body of water the laws of Utah are practically silent upon the question ques-tion of navigation," states the opinion. UNANIMOUS OPINION IS E Constitutionality Of Law Upheld By Supreme Court Ruling SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Nov. 20 (U.R) Constitutionality Constitution-ality of Utah's liqquor law, un.der attack by five alleged violators, had been upheld today to-day in a unanimous opinion of state supreme court. The court held that it was "unable to perceive any constitutional constitu-tional objections to the state engaging en-gaging in the sale and distribution distribu-tion of intoxicating liquors." As a result, the state liquor commission may proceed with injunction in-junction actions against offenders. The case before the high court grewk out of a case brought by those against whom injunctions had been issued. The constitutionality constitution-ality of the act was challenged on numerous grounds. Writs Denied Permanent writs of prohibition against lower courts in granting injunctions against offenders, asked by he plaintiffs, were denied de-nied and the part of the law, giving giv-ing the commission control over beer, also was upheld. The decision further held that should one part of the law be declared de-clared unconstitutional, that such action would not cause the entire bill to lose its constitutionality. This part of the decision was considered of importance because of an action pending before the court challenging the constitutionality constitution-ality of the act on the grounds the liquor commission does not deliver its funds into the state treasury and spends state funds without . 4 Mj-t - nntiAit i auinorizauon oi me uca.uii. Hearing on this case, brought by C. P. Overfield of Salt i.ae ji.y, is scheduled for Dec. 10. Jensen, Rowe To Speak Tonight Prof. J. M. Jensen and Prof. Ed. M. Rowe of the Brigham Young university will be the speakers at the meeting of the Sons anc' Daughters of the Utah Pioneer, in the First ward chapel tonight. C. E. Rowan, former president of the Texan mission, previously scheduled, will be unable to attend, at-tend, announced Walter G. Taylor, captain, in charge of the meeting An interesting musical program will be carried out and plans foi the Pioneer Memorial building project will be discussed. ROAD SHOW COMING The two winning acts of the Nebo stake road show are to be presented in the Provo Second ward hall Thursday at 7:30 p.m it is announced by the Y. W.M.I. A. which is sponsoring the entertainment. entertain-ment. There is to be a small admission admis-sion charge and the public is invited. in-vited. Prizes will be given away during the evenxng. v - - 5 There is one possibility, pointed out. The governor is empowered by a recent law to prevent further appropriation of unappropriated waters of Utah lake, for a period not exceeding five years. "This, it appears to me, would be the best way of preventing the further lowering of Utah lake, although al-though other legislation is needed. Such bodies of water as Utah lake and Fish lake, in my opinion should not be lowered to a point where navigation is destroyed and where, tljey become unfit for public pub-lic purposes, such as boating, fishing fish-ing and other recreational activities." activ-ities." "It may be that Utah county, if its rights have been injured by the unreasonable lowering of Utah HAND DDOWN EXCAVATION BID LET FOR NEW SCHOOL Board Member's Objection To Tile Roof Halts Project Plans Peter Groneman and Son, Provo contractors, were awarded the bid for the excavation ex-cavation at the site of the new building at the Franklin school, at a special meeting of the Provo board of education, educa-tion, Tuesday night. Their bid, the lowest of three submitted, was $160. The other two bidders were John H. Collins. $287, and Cox and Christiansen, $673. Groneman will complete the excavation by December 1, and posted a bid bond as security. There are approximately 300 cubic yards to be excavated, according to the architect's plans. Conover Objects Further progress on the building build-ing plans struck a snag when Don W. Conover, board member from the Fifth ward, objected to final approval of the plans for the building as submitted by Ash-worth Ash-worth and Markham. Mr. Conover'a principal objection objec-tion seemed to be the tile roof proposed for the Spanish type school unit, complete plans for which were shown .by the architects archi-tects at the meeting. Mr. Conover also objected to taking final action in approval of the plans in the absence of Oscar A. Spear, board member from the First ward, who was in Ogden. John T. Taylor, president of the. board, and Clarence Beesley, Second Sec-ond ward member, favored immediate im-mediate approval in order to get the $40,000 PWA project safely past the December 15 deadline set by President Roosevelt. Approval Deferred Bert Crane, member from the Third ward, voted with Mr. Conover Con-over to hold up final approval, creating a deadlock. It was finally final-ly decided to meet Wednesday night if Mr. Spear could be present, pres-ent, otherwise on Thursday night. Mr. Spear is leaving for a trip to the coast Friday morning. Mr. Conover argued at length against the tile roof feature of the new building, and favored a shingle roof. At the last meeting he gave notice that his vote on the plans had been changed from yes to no because he was opposed to this kind of roof. He said other members would stand with him in favor of the shingle roof. If the change "is made in the roof, it will be necessary to redraft re-draft part of the plans, because a (Continued on Page Six) Changes Plea On Drunk Driving Case Fred Davis, 22, of Pleasant View changed his plea from not guilty to guilty Wednesday in city court when he was arraigned on a drunken driving charge. He will be sentenced Friday by Judge D. R. Ellertson. Davis was driver of the automobile auto-mobile in which Lynn Brereton, 19, of Pleasant View, was riding early Sunday morning when Davis drove his car into the rear of the machine of James. Brereton was reported as great ly improved Wednesday. lake could get injunctive or other relief through the courts. I am not advised just what rights, Utah county has to any of the lands adjacent to or forming the bed of Utah lake." The lake, one time a paradise for boating, swimming, fishing and other recreational activities has been reduced to a putrid stink-hole stink-hole since the Salt Lake county canal interests located new pumps at Pelican point. Dead fish and ducks line the waters' edge. The lake area has been reduced to a mere fraction of its former size and it is now possible pos-sible to drive across the lake in several places in an automobile Protest has been voiced on several occasions without avail. Candidate t - HEBER C. JOHNSON JOHNSON IN SCHOOL RACE Utah Oil Refining Company Manager To Run For School Board. A third candidate for the school board election to be held in the Fourth municipal ward, Wednesday. Wednes-day. December 4, was assured with entrance of Heber C. Johnson, John-son, manager of the Provo division of the Utah Oil Refining company into the race, Tuesday. The petition signed by the re-ouired re-ouired number of taxpayers was filed late. Tuesday with J. Fred Fechser, clerk of the board of education. edu-cation. The time for filing petitions peti-tions of nomination expired Tuesday Tues-day night. Mr. Johnson was urged to enter the race by a group of business and professional men, who consider con-sider him eminently qualified foi school board service, due to his untiring interest in civic and socia1 problems. He is a member of the Rotary club and a director of th Provo chamber of commerce. He has four sons in attendance in the city schools, a reason for his interest in-terest in school p. ooiems. As a business man and executive ht possesses the qualifications necessary neces-sary for participation in the moulding of the school administration adminis-tration policies of the community The other candidates are Mrs. George S. Ballif, civic club workei and Victor J. Bird, cashier of the Farmers and Merchants bank. John T. Taylor, the retiring member mem-ber from this ward, will not be a candidate for reelection. GRIMES WINS SPEECH EVENT Jesse Grimes, of Provo, was declared de-clared the winner in the annual Heber J. Grant oratorical contest at Brigham Young university Wednesday. Mr. Grimes' subject was "Christ, the Guy in the Stained Glass Window." The other contestants were Milton Beck of Payson. speaking on "Courage,'' and Woodrow Washburn. Provo, whose subject was "Am I My Brother's Keeper.' Mr. Grimes' oration emphasized the need of the spirit of the Savior Sa-vior and his teachings in everyday every-day life "Let us take Christ from the steeples of the churches and from the wooden images, and build him into our characters." was Mr. Grimes' concluding appeal. Judges of the contest were J. C. Moffitt. principal of Provo high school; Professor Alonzo J. Mor-ley Mor-ley of the B. Y. U. speech department, depart-ment, and Professor Ed. M. Rowe of the English department. The contest is sponsored annually annual-ly in honor of the birthday of President Heber J. Grant, November Novem-ber 22. Army Flier Killed BIRMINGHAM, Ala., Nov. 20 l'.R Sgt. O. M. Newson. army air pilot, San Francisco, died today from injuries received last night when a U. S. navy plane, in which he was a passenger, crashed in a heavy fog on a hilltop. Lieut. J. D. Greer, U. S. navy Coronado, Cal., pilot of the plane was not seriously injured. EDIFICE TO HOUSE ART COLLECTION Ground To Be Broken Saturday Sat-urday On Site Near High School SPRINGVILLE- Work will begin be-gin Saturday "on preliminary construction con-struction of the Springville Art building, on the property adjoining adjoin-ing the Springville high school on the west. Final arrangements were made Wednesday morning by the Springville Spring-ville high school art committee and the Nebo district school board for the purchase of the Daniel Witney property adjoining the school. The two-story art building, costing cost-ing $71,868, will be built as a works progress administration project although Springville groups had to guarantee to raise $25,000. ,The churches, civic organizations organiza-tions and individuals have cooperated coop-erated in raising the money for the enterprise. Plans and specifications for the building will be drawn by Claude S. Ashworth, Provo architect. It will be Spanish style architecture, constructed of reinforced concrete with a stucco finish. The second story of the building will be used exclusively for display dis-play of the an collection. There will be a small auditorium on the first floor and class rooms where art classes can be taught. It will house the permanent art collection of the Springville high school, valued at $150,000 and which is comprised of 200 paintings paint-ings and pieces of statuary. The annual national high school art exhibition will likewise be held there. The project was approved by the federal government several weeks ago provided the sponsors raise $25,000. Inasmuch as the city could not raise that amount the art committee of which Principal Prin-cipal W. W. Brockbank of the high school is president, obtained financial assistance from churchea and civic clubs. Mayor George A. Anderson, also a committee member, along with Mr. Brockbank and C. G. Salisbury, Salis-bury, banker, and M. R. Straw, attorney, Tuesday were promised financial assistance from the Lat-j Lat-j ter Day Saints church, in a con-J con-J ference with President Heber J. 1 Grant. The Nebo school district pur chased the property, cooperation has been promised by the Brigham Young university and officers of the Utah-Idaho Sugar company have invited the art committee to meet with them to obtain further furth-er financial assistance. Cooperation Coopera-tion from various sources has made the building possible, committee com-mittee members said Wednesday. SUGAR BEET CHECKS READY Checks to Utah county sugar beet growers who signed contracts on the AAA acreage reduction program pro-gram will be distributed throughout through-out the county beginning Saturday it was announced today by County Agent Lyman H. Rich. The checks include 75 cents per ton, final payment on the 1934 contracts con-tracts and the first payment of 80 cents per ton on the 1935 contracts. con-tracts. Checks will be distributed as follows: Saturday Provo, city and county coun-ty building, 9 to 12 noon. Monday Springville city hall. 9 to 11:30 a. m. Spanish Fork city hall, 12 noon to 3:30 p. m.; Pay-son Pay-son Legion rooms, 3:30 to 7:30 p. m. Salem library, 8 to 9 p. m. Tuesday Lehi Memorial hall, 9 to 11:30 a. m.; American Fork city hall. 12:30 to 2 p. m.; Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove city hall, 2:30 to 4:30 p. m.; Goshen. 1:30 to 3 p. m. John Alleman, secretary of the Utah Central Sugar Beet Growers Grow-ers association, will be present with the members of the county committee to adjust difficulties. The wheat growers' committee will also be on hand to sign up farmers on wheat contracts for next year. M. I. A. DANCE "M" Men and Gleaners of the Fourth ward are sponsoring a dance to be held Thursday at p. m. in the amusement hall. The Continentals will furnish the music, and the public is Invited to attend. |