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Show . v. . - Weather Forecast UTAH Fair tonight and Wednesday Wednes-day Colder southwest tonight. Maximum temp. Monday . . . . . .41 Minimum temp. Monday .... f .24 The sporting thing for Lindbergh to have done wouldhare been to ' remain at home and rally the youth 4 of the country "In a drive against the UwlessOapt. Frederic Fred-eric Snyder, educator- : i COMPLETE UNITED PRESS PRIgE FIVE CENTS FIFTIETH YEAR, NO. 118 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH,: tUE SU A Y- DECEMBER 31, 193 5 . . : . , . 'J. ' , 1 , ,. - PffUfXPfTPf MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON The year ending today marked a definite defin-ite turning point in the political politi-cal fortunes of Franklin Roosevelt and his New Deal. Future historians may call it something else, but the Merry-Go-Round hereby tags it 'The End of the Pedestal Era." During- the year 1935 the people peo-ple of the United States began to realize that the feet of their president presi-dent were clay. No longer could he write his own ticket. The Pedestal Era lasted from March 4. 1933, to November 7, 1934. During that period what little criticism there was of Roosevelt, Roose-velt, was undertone and apolo. getic In the mid-term elections of 1934, he was so strong that many Republican candidates ran on pledges to "support the president." presi-dent." The result was a landslide that gave the Democratic party a two-thirds two-thirds majority in both houses of congress OVER-CONFIDENCE Perhaps the end of the Pedestal Era came partly as a result of over-confidence. At any rate the barometer of New Deal popularity reached its lowest level during the summer of 1935. Certanly over-confidence was at the bottom of Roosevelt's trouble with congress. There, top-heavy Democratic majorities became as recalcitrant as the emblem of the party, and kicked donkey-like at the work-relief bill, the central bank bill, the NRA continuation act, the Guffy coal bill, the hold- - Contintted job page four) Merry -Go -Round Roll of Honor Drew Pearson Si Robert S. Allen Washington, D. C, December 31 WASHINGTON MERRY - GO -ROUND ROLL OF HONOR FOR 1935 THE MAN OF THE YEAR Emperor Haile Selassie. Because he has kept at bay one of the major powers of Europe; has conducted con-ducted his diplomacy with more skill than most statesmen in Geneva; Gen-eva; has show bravery under fire; and has welded a scattering of heterogeneous nomad tribes into a homogeneous country which has I won the sympathy of the world. THE WASHINGTON DIPLOMAT DIPLO-MAT OF THE YEAR Ambassador Ambassa-dor Augusto Rosso of Italy. Because, Be-cause, working against overwhelming overwhelm-ing obstacles, he has set a standard stand-ard of highest personal integrity and won widespread popularity, j THE CABINET MEMBER OF THE YEAR Henry A. Wallace, secretary of agriculture. Because he has given the farmer a boost up the economic ladder for the first time since the war, has done it without too much argument, and has won for his chief in the White house the support of the politically important farm belt. THE SENATOR OF THE YEAB Burton K. Wheeler of Montana. Mon-tana. Because he put through the Holding Company Act. the regulation reg-ulation of trucks and buses, the Railroad Pension Act, and the in- j vestigation of the American Telephone Tele-phone and Telegraph Company; not that this means necessarily endorsement of those acts, but they represent momentous changes in our economic life and were passed only after epochal legislative battles. THE CONGRESSMAN OF THE YEAR Maury Maverick of Texas Because of his consistent com- paign for freedom of speech, wree- ! dom of the press and to keep this country out of war. THE WOMAN OF THE YEAR Miss Dorothy Detzer, of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Because of her instigation of the Senate Munitions Mun-itions Investigation and of the Neutrality Act passed in the closing clos-ing days of the last congress. "Copyright, 1935, by United Feature Syndicate. Inc.' Youth Released NEW YORK, Dec. 31 Ky-Caleb Ky-Caleb Milne IV, was released on bail today from the federal house of detention where he had been held on a charge of mailing an extortion ex-tortion letter in a kidnaping which he confessed was false. i Copyright. 1935. NBA Service. Inc.) KARP1S HUNTED IN KANSAS CITY ' ItANSAS erTT, -Mo.; Dec: -81r (ILR Alvin Karpis, killer and kidnaper, kid-naper, was hunted in Kansas City today. Homer Fanning, ex-convict, chaptured when his companion escaped, told police the man who got away was Karpis. Fanning and Karpis served time together in the Hutchinson, Kan., reformatory about 10 years ago. Police, convinced that Karpis was in the city, sent every available avail-able officer into the east-central section to search. Machine guns, automatic rifles and revolvers were furnished the officers and they were told to shoot on sight if they found the killers. Fanning, who also has served time in the Iowa reformatory at Anamosa, was riding with Karpis when two radio car patrolmen spotted them this morning. Genola Town To Be Incorporated Genola, farming community west of Payson, will be incorporated incorpor-ated as a town. County Commissioners William J. Johnson. Hilton A. Robertson, and J. W. Gillman, Monday granted grant-ed a petition from a majority of the electors in the community 66 to complete the incorporation provided they can pass the legal requirements. Although the delegation did not state their reason for incorporating, incorporat-ing, it was learned Tuesday that the need for finances in piping culinary water from the canyon prompted the move. It is planned to pipe culinary water six miles from a spring in Pole canyon, and the citizens there will likely float bonds to do this. A tentative town board was listed as follows: Raymond Le Baron, Joseph Jewett, Bertus A. Smith, E. R. Nelson and Glen E. Davis. Cooms Benefit Bouts Planned All proceeds of the wrestling and boxing card at Park Ro-She Monday night will go to help the widowed mother of Homer Cooms, Springville, who died following a boxing bout there two weeks ago. The Provo ErKs club and the management of the park join in staging the benefit performance, in which there will be two wrestling wrestl-ing matches and 26 rounds of boxing, including a return match between Arcade Pierce, Springville, Spring-ville, and Bill Hunter, Provo. Ira Derflf, Salt Lake City faces BUI Rogers, Spokane. Wash., in the headliner. 4 At S f "a. 1 ? . , x ' i' .. -,s , 7-v jr-y 'sTra mniin. jwessi- .g-iyw tr.', 1 m ir.i - "'rrs'ji - s- j:. v 1 i- i -i i,ri 1? 1 Mxnm 2&b Lindberghs Go Into Exile In England Famous Couple With Son Jon Rushed Away To Unknown Place As Steamer Docks (Copyright 1935, by United Press) LIVERPOOL, Dec. 31 (U.R) Col and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh landed on British soil today with their son Jon, for whom they are going into voluntary exile. The United States liner American Importer, with the Lindberghs as only passengers, was warped into its dock by a tug just after noon today, ending its voyage from New York. Scotland Yardmen, local police and steamship line officials offic-ials had boarded the ship as it lay at anchor off t1 docks, awaiting the turn of the tide. Unknown Destination e 7 As the ship docked, the Scotland Yard men and the Liverpool men formed lines on each side of the Lindberghs and rushed them ashore through a lane of policemen. police-men. The Lindberghs were taken quickly through the sheds of the Gladstone docks between long lines of policemen, handed into a waiting limousine whose motor was running as they aproached, and sped away to an undisclosed destination. Before the ship was moored at the dock, the Lindberghs went below. be-low. It was half an hour before they reappeared, to run down the gangplank onto the dock. Mrs. Lindbergh was first. Then came Lindbergh, dressed in a powder blue business suit, with Jon in his arms. The baby wore a blue skiing suit. Everything was done with extraordinary ex-traordinary rapidity. It was hardly hard-ly an instant before the Lindberghs Lind-berghs were in their limousine before the great car was speeding away in the rain. Mystery Man In the car with the Lindbtrghs was a heavy set man in a brown overcoat. He was described by officials, of-ficials, in melodramatic terms appropriate ap-propriate to the strange arrival, (Continued on Page Eight) Stores, Offices To Close; No Herald Issued Wednesday All business will cease tomorrow, tomor-row, in observance or New Year's day. Stores, offices, banks and other business establishments will be closed for the day. The postoffice will be closed except ex-cept the general delivery window, which will be open from 10 to 11 a. m. for transients, only. There will be no delivery, says Postmaster Postmas-ter J. W. Dangerfield, except special spec-ial delivery mail, although outgoing outgo-ing mail will be kept moving as usual. On account of the holiday, the Herald will not be issued Wednesday, Wednes-day, the next publication date being be-ing Thursday afternoon. " vxt-4 ? 1 :.: -s.'.'. 1 DEMOCRATS TO STAGE DINNER Prominent Democrats of Utah county are expected to join in the Jackson day dinner, which will be held at the Roberts Hotel, January Janu-ary 8 at 7:30 p. m. Don W. Vincent, president of the Provo Young Democrats club, announced the dinner, which will be featured by a talk from Presi dent Franklin D. Roosevelt, who j will speak over a natfon-wide hook-up from the No. 1 dinner at Washington D. C. The dinner is sponsored by the Junior organization with the cooperation of the senior executive execu-tive county committee, with Judge George S. Ballif, chairman. All 48 states of the union will participate at the same day and hour and will listen to the broadcast. broad-cast. "It will be one of the largest Democratic socials of the year and a cordial invitation is extended ex-tended to all," said Mr. Vincent. -- NRA Passes -Out of Existence With 1,100 Looking for Jobs WASHINGTON, Dec 31 (US'. A negro janitor scraped the blue eagle off the door of room 4837 with a razor blade today, a thousand thous-and clerks lined up for a final handshake with the chief, the clock ticked noon and the national recovery administration was no more. The tumultuous organization which once controlled the wage of the lowliest waitress, the retail price of a powder puff ,and the hours of burlesque chorus girl could dance, ended at the moment by edict of the man who first envisioned en-visioned it President Roosevelt 4 4 S,1 PROVO BUDGET IS $231,208 was set at $231,208,75 by the city commission today, a $4,700 increase in-crease from the tentative budget lined up several weeks ago. One of the notable changes was an increase in the recreation department de-partment budget from $1,200 to $2,500. Another $2,000 is set up elsewhere in the budget, in the public improvement department, for aiding in' the construction of a swimming pool in North Park, a part of the recreation program. Recreation Favoed Long the "Cinderella" of the city budget, the recreation department depart-ment found its "fairy prince" this year when a large delegation representing rep-resenting schools, churches and various clubs and organizations, came to the public hearing on the budget and asked for more consideration con-sideration for the department. A technicality was the raising of the golf course budget from $1500 to $3000. The cost will be the same but it was deemed wiser wis-er to set the budget at the actual estimated cost, rather than going through the expense of making a special .appropriation during the year. The green fees brought in nearly $1600 last year. Another feature was the raising rais-ing of the power investigation budget from $3000 where it had been tentatively set, to $4000 which Mayor-elect Mark Anderson Ander-son sought. Estimated revenues for the city were placed at $171,042 by Mrs. Smith. The revenue is based on a 1935 valuation of $8,141,414, and a levy of 17 V4 mills based on a 75 per cent collection of taxes. One mill of this 17 is for the guarantee guar-antee trust fund. Other increases in the budget from the tentative setup are: city court up from $3800 to $4000; public safety departments from $37,050 to $37, 639; public improvements im-provements from $5000 to $6000. The waterworks department budget, which remains as it was set up originally, comprises $64,-933.75. $64,-933.75. The remaining 1,100 men and women of the NRA, which has been dying by inches ever since the supreme court's sick chicken decision last spring, were transferred trans-ferred to the departments of commerce com-merce and labor, where fost of them will draw salaries for only a few weeks more. The end of the greatest effort ever made by the government to raise wages, shorten, hours ' and stop cut-throat business competition competi-tion found Laurence J. Martin, its administrator, .a saddened and weary man. paving mm If! NORTHEAST IS APPROVED Protests Total Less Than 700 Front Feet On Special District Work will start immediately immediate-ly on the seven-mile northeast north-east paving district in Provo. Monday night was the deadline dead-line for protests, yet only seven property owners of the district, representing less than 700 front feet out of a total of 58.000 feet, had filed formal for-mal objections to the creation of the district. Mayor A. O. Smoot and Commissioner Com-missioner J. E. Snyder Tuesday made arrangements for the use of the Utah county rock crusher, to prepare gravel for the project. Other preliminary work that can be done in the winter, is the instal lation of the culverts to the cor rect distance, to handle a 24-foot paving strip. Two of the persons objected to the one-inch oil mat which may be used. Another said he preferred rock asphalt. Others declared they could not afford it. Work on the paving will be handled by the state road commis sion, which is handling half the cost through federal funds made available last year. Actual spread ing of the mat surface will not be possible until the weather is better. Provo city is also making nego tiations for the use of one of the county's crushers for another road job, a WPA project drawn up under un-der direction of Commissioner J, E. Snyder. This- project will be deferred for a time, however, until work is under way on the paving job, inasmuch as only one crusher ,wTOheftvatmwe'-'!,?5 - FAMILY OF 6 DIE IN BLAZE PLATTESVTLLE, Wis., Dec. 31 (HE) Six members of a family were dead today and one other is expected to die after they were trapped in the kitchen of their home when kerosene-soaked corn cobs used to start a fire exploded. . The dead are: Floyd Dent, 40, the father; Merrill, 14; Betty Jane, 12; Donna Mae, 6; Robert, 3, and Mrs. Anne Dent, the mother. Dor-ance, Dor-ance, a younger son, is not expected ex-pected to survive his burns. k COVINGTON, Va., Dec 31 OLE) Three children were burned to death and seven other persons suffered suf-fered burns and injuries today when fire destroyed a large frame house here. A, William Lacks, 12, and his brother, Lawrence, 7, and a baby sisfer, 2, were trapped in their home when an oil stove exploded. City Threatened By Lava Flows HILO, T. H., Dec. 31 (ILE) City officials and plantation owners today to-day radioed Gov. W. B. Poindex-ter Poindex-ter an appeal for federal funds to muster 1,000 men to protect the city and its water supply. The threat came from smoking lava flows creeping down the fire-scarred fire-scarred slopes of Mauna Loa volcano. vol-cano. Fifty civic officials, national guard officers and plantation operators op-erators met in emergency session and outlined the plan by which they hope to avert widespread destruction de-struction if the volcano's eruption erup-tion continues. The first step in the campaign would be an attempt to construct a crude road for hauling men and supplies to the mountainside in the event the lava flow gets worse, or for use in the event of future eruptions. Suffers Burns Aldon Carter, 21, is recovering recover-ing from bad burned hands received re-ceived larst Saturday in a fire at the residence of his father- inlaw, in-law, Harry Smith . Carter burned his hands when he attempted to move a pair of springs from a store room at the house where the fire started. The fire was put out by the local fire department with a loss of but $20 to the walls and ceiling of the room. Food and clothing destroyed was valued at approximately $50. susj -,.V V J'w - " lit 1 f - J'it " yi i Vc I I i I, EDGAR MORONI PAXMAN DEATH CLAIMS E.M. PAXMAN Resident of Provo For More Than 50 Years Passes After Illness. Edgar Moroni Paxman, 78, highly respected resident of Provo for more than 50 years, passed day following a lingering illness. Death came peacefully, surrounded surround-ed by his children and immediate members of his family. Mr. Paxman was head machinist for the Smoot Lumber company and its predecessor the Provo Lumber Manufacturing and Building Build-ing company, serving for 40 years in this capacity until his- retirement retire-ment in 1922. He helped organize the latter firm and was one of the men who assisted in bringing the timber out of the canyon to make the lumber for local building build-ing operations. He was born in Boston, Mass. August 25, 1857 while his parents, William and Ann Keys Paxman, Mormon converts from England were enroute to the Rocky Mountains. The family came to Utah in 1861, traveling in the Joseph Home oxteam com pany, and settled in Salt Lake City. The following year, they moved to American Fork. In 1881 Mr. Paxman came to Provo where he . had resided ever since. He married Clara Wrigley, December Decem-ber 28, 1882 in the Salt Lake Endowment house, President John Taylor performing the ceremony. He was always an active church worker and was a member of the high priests' quorum at the time of his death. He was one of the most valuable workers in the Sixth ward and served at various times witfi honor on the buildings and grounds committee, the missionary mis-sionary and the old folks' committees. com-mittees. Surviving are two sons, Dr. E. A. Paxman, Provo and T. Deloss Paxman, Washington D. C. ; two (Continued on Page Eight) Traffic Injuries In Provo Increase City Report Shows Traffic injuries, accidents and deaths in Provo city increased during 1935, it is shown in a report re-port at the office of Police Chief John E. Harris. In a tabulation made by Officer O. E. Pederson, deaths are revealed reveal-ed as two in 1935 as compared with one in 1934, and injuries mounted to 137 compared with a 1934 total of 98. There were a total of 169 traffic traf-fic accidents during 1935 and 191 arrests on traffic charges. Drunken driving charges also increased from four in 1934 to ten in 1935. Some of the 1934 charges were reduced to reckless driving, and the increase in this department is more apparent than reaL In the opinion of Officer Pederson, clrtnking had not caused caus-ed a great ideal more accidents this year but that carelessness was the greatest contributing cause. ' 130 killed N AIR ATTACK 3 SURGEONS Swedish Physician, Commander Com-mander Escapes With Slight Wounds ADDIS ABABA, Dec. 31 (U.R) An official Red Cross announcement said today that a Swedish Red Cross unit comprising1 nine Swedes and 23 Ethiopians had been wiped out except for the unit commander, com-mander, by an Italian aerial bombing attack. The commander. Dr. Fride Hy-lander, Hy-lander, was slightly wounded, the announcement said. An official communique which preceded the Red Cross statement said the attack was made yesterday yester-day in the Dolo area. It was planned plan-ned to dispatch an airplane to the scene as soon, as possible. Need Gas Masks Soon after announcing the bombing, the Red Cross announced receipts of .an appeal for gas masks, to be sent by airplane to Daggah Bur, the Ethiopian advance ad-vance base, on the southern front.. Red Cross officials said they believed be-lieved the town might already have been gassed, though they added that it was possible a gas attack had not occurred but was feared to be imminent. A telegram from Ras Desta Demtu, the emperor's son-in-law-who is commander in chief in the far south, said the Swedish mission mis-sion in the Dolo area was most ; clearly marked, in a camp Isolated from the Ethiopian fighting forces. Swedes accompanying Hylander in the unit were Dr. Eric Nprup, Dr. Eric Smith. Dr. Ake Holm. 1 aoauuuiui,-' raowt iuaci ovciiauii. Kurt Allander, Anders- Joelson, Gunnar Lundstrom and Manfred Lundgren. ! LONDON, Deci 31' U.E-rfie flag of the Swedish mission was put at half mast today in mourning mourn-ing for. members of a Swedish Red Cross unit killed by Italian aerial bombs, the Exchange Telegraph Addis Ababa correspondent cabled today. The Exchange correspondent quoted a communique as -saying that the bombardment occurred on the banks of the Doria river, about 20 miles northwest of Doria. This point would be near the village of Co to, and near a line of barbed wire defenses which the Italians have- built outside of Dolo to repel re-pel an expected Ethiopian attack. at-tack. The Exchange correspondent said that, according to an Ethi-opion Ethi-opion government coinmunique, surgical equipment of the unit was smashed and mules were killed. y GUFFEYACT HELD INVALID KANSAS CITY, Mo., Dec. 31 (U.R) The Guffey coal act was declared de-clared unconstitutional today by Judge Albert L. Reeves in federal district court. Judge Reeves , based his opinion chiefly upon the tax clause of the constitution, which, he said, did not authorise congress to im- , pose a 15 per .cent tax on companies com-panies that decline to submit to the act The tax, the opinion said, was s intended primarily as a measure of coercion. The opinion was issued in the application of six Missouri coal companies for an injunction to prevent Dan M. Nee, collector of of internal revenue, and other government officers, from enforcing en-forcing the act. Judge Reeves said, he would grant the injunctions x Boulder Penstock Systems Pass Test WASHINGTON, Dec 31 Reclamation Commissioner El-wood El-wood Mead announced today that the first of - four penstock systems at Boulder dam had" passed the test of a hydraulic head of 1M times the maximum required under un-der ordinary, operating- conditions. Mead also said December was "the busiest month in the-recla- mation bureau's history with , the letting of r contracts with a total value of $12,787,34& 4 7 - 1 .TV- |