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Show So They Say! Neither Hoover nor Borah can win the nomination ... I suggest, sug-gest, therefore, the political lightweights light-weights of the minority party shake dice or shoot craps for It. James. A.. Farley,, postmaster general. Heir FIFTIETH YEAR, NO. 126 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1936 COMPLETE TELEGRAPH UNITED PRESS NEWS SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS nj rvi fi i UVJUVI uwu Weather Forecast UTAH: Unsettled, probable rain or snow north and east portions tonight and Tuesday; colder west portion tonight. Maximum temp., Sunday 61 Minimum temp., Sunday ... 16 .Eve I he 3) q folio) mm on f WPA WORKERS AWAIT START OF PROJECTS Unemployed Men Ask City Commission To Help In Finding Work Jobless Provoans, whose meagre food supplies are rapidly dwindling, Monday filed into the city commission rooms in two meeting's, and revealed the desperate unemployment unem-ployment situation that exists irj the city. Works progress administration projects are practically at a standstill. stand-still. .Meanwhile the men who were shifted from direct relief to work relief are unable to get direct di-rect relief now. There are no funds, according to W. H. Callahan, Calla-han, county welfare manager, and furthermore, when the men received re-ceived their first WPA check, their case was closed as far as direct relief is concerned. Only Few Working At present only a small crew" of men are working on three projects proj-ects which will soon peter out, the cemetery project, the hothouse project, and a part of the waterworks water-works project. Several other jobs are pending, including the swimming swim-ming pool at North, park, the pipe line extension in Provo canyon and a street graveling project. Extension of the culinary pipeline pipe-line in Provo canyon would relieve the situation at once, according to Ben H. Beveridge, WPA manager of District 3. Approximately 100 men could be thrown onto that work. Mayor Mark Anderson redoubled his efforts to clear up a right-of-way difficulty that has held up the J canyon project. He telegraphed tele-graphed L. L. Donnan. who is now in California, to submit a right-of-way proposition in contract form. There is $12,000 left in the pipeline pipe-line project, but the city has been (Continued oi Page Eight) MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs Bv DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN' W A S H I N ( i T O N -T h e week since the momentous AAA decision de-cision has been one of sphinxlike sphinx-like silence for the New Dealers. Deal-ers. Btit thev have not been idle. Behind the scenes they have been busy charting a campaign cam-paign against tho supreme court. There i one opinion on which the New Dealers are completely unanimous, from the president down namely, that if they do not defeat the supreme court, the supreme court will defeat them. The resultant strategy they have evolved, so far, takes the following lines: 1. Sit tight until the court has aroused public opinion opin-ion by throwing out more New Deal projects. 2. - Later, move either to grant police powers to and increase the general welfare powers of congress by amending amend-ing the constitution; or, on the other hand, to abridge the power of the supreme court. So far the latter looks easier. 3. Meanwhile, stage an educational campaign on the battles between congress and the court during the entire history of the United States. Considerable work already has been done on No. 3 As a result, re-sult, the public may hear something some-thing about the proposal of James Madison to enable overruling over-ruling a veto of the court by a three-fourths vote of congress, j ABRAHAM LINCOLN Also the public may hear much of the Dred Scott decision, may enjoy the unique spectacle of a Democratic president hurling in- to the teeth of the Republican party the words of that party's j most famous president -Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln, commenting on the decision, said the supreme j court had got the doctrine of popular sovereignty down "as ! thin as homeopathic soup that ! (Continued on Page Four) 29 Sailors Are Pacific Coast Shipwreck FIERCE GALE HAMPERING RESCUE WORK Dreaded Graveyard of the Pacific Scene of One More Disaster ASTORIA, Ore., Jan. 13 (U.R) Coast guardsmen patrolled pa-trolled the sands lining the mouth of the Columbia river today, seeking the bodies of j 29 of the 34 sailors drowned when the S. S. Iowa sank on Peacock spit, dreaded "grave- j yard of ships." ! A change in the wind and the tide was expected to wash ashore most of the bodies. The guardsmen, who were pre- 1 vented by high seas and a 80-mile ; gale from reaching the Iowa as she sank slowly in the sandy spit yesterday, spread their patrol over a 28-mile front abutting the scene of 90 similar tragedies since the Columbia river was opened to ' navigation. ( Watchers on the Washington i side of the river could see a slen- ' der foremast bobbing above the waves, all that remained visible of tiie 5.724-ton States Steamship company freighter which wind and wave and sand broke to pieces in incredibly short time. Held Back By Gale Rescuers were held back by the gale which sent the Iowa to her doom. The wind knocked down the breeches buoy ropes fired by coast guard boats which approached the scene, and the waves prevented boats from coming close enough to board the wreck. The Town was a victim of a sudden sud-den storm which produced a 90-mile-an-bour wind at the mouth of the river early Sunday morning. morn-ing. The wind literally picked up the 416-feot freighter like a feather and tossed it on to the dreaded spit. Maritime authorities were investigating reports that Yates neglected to secure a pilot to take him over the river bar. But it was believed that with or without a pilot the Iowa could not have avoided the sands which pulled her to her death. ATTORNEY KILLS FOE IN COURT CHICAGO. Jan. 13 1 1 ".l!-- John W. Keogh, 70. a dignified white-haired white-haired lawyer, drew a revolver in court today and killed an oppos- ing attorney, Christopher Kenny, i He fired three shots in a vain at- tempt to wound Judge John Pry-stalski, Pry-stalski, then spun around and pressed his gun against Kenny's heart. Keogh reportedly was enraged at the denial of a motion in a civil suit. Court attendants overpowered Keogh. MENTAL HYGIENE GROUP TO MEET A meeting of the Utah County i Medical Hygiene Society will be ; held tonight at 7:30 in the city j court room with J. C. Moffitt, president in charge. ' There will be a panel discussion on certain phases of mental health. The public is invited to attend the meeting which promises j to be interesting. I KIPLING UNDER KNIFE LONDON, Jan. 13 , U.P Rud-yard Rud-yard Kipling, poet of empire, un-. derwent an urgent abdominal operation op-eration today at Middlesex hospital. hos-pital. He was taken to the hospital in an ambulance from the hotel in the west end at which he and Mrs. Kipling arrived Thursday. MUSSOLINI PEACEFUL PARIS, Jan. 13 (U.R) Premier Benito Mussolini has sent to Premier Pre-mier Laval his personal assurance that he will not quit the league and will not attack England, the United Press learned today. Polygamists :,, . ...... ...J Mm I. C. Spencer and Price Johnson, recently convicted of practicing polygamy in Arizona, leave Kingman jaft for the state penitentiary at Florence. The Short Creek polygamists were unable to raise $3000 bond for release pending apiieal and chose to serve time in the penitentiary peni-tentiary awaiting the appeal. With the convicted men is Sheriff Ernest Graham, right. AB JENKINS TO BE GUEST HERE A testimonial for Ab Jenkins, noted racing driver and former Utah county resident, will be held in Col'cge Hall Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. under the auspices of the extension division of the Brigham Young university, with the assistance as-sistance of the Provo chamber of commerce and city officials. A motion picture film, .showing some of Jenkms' activities as a driver, on the famous Utah salt beds and elsewhere, will be shown during the evening. Ab himself, will speak informally in answering answer-ing questions from the audience. Short talks will be given by Mayor Mark Anderson and Jesse N. El-lertson, El-lertson, president of the chamber of commerce. In addition to being a testimonial testimon-ial to Jenkins for the fine work he has accomplished in bringing the attention of the world to the superiority of the Utah salt beds for racing purposes. the meeting will contribute to the safe driving campaign now under way. Jenkins, although he has travelled millions of miles in a car, most of the time at great speeds, has never had an accident acci-dent of any kind. He will point out some of the main causes for our shocking automobile accident record. The public is invited to attend the meeting which is free to all. ATVOOD NAMED P. G. POSTMASTER PLEASANT GROVE Frank Atwood. one of the prominent citizens citi-zens of Pleasant Grove, recently received word from Postmaster General Farley that he had been appointed postmaster for Pleasant Grove. He will assume his new position in February, succeeding Mrs. Mary Cooper, postmistress for a number of years. Mr. Atwood has always been prominent in church and in civic affairs in the community. At the present time he is employed em-ployed by the Utah State tax commission com-mission as auditor. For the past seven years he has been bishop of the Pleasant Grove Third ward. SIBBETT NAMED U. M. A. DIRECTOR George E. Sibbett, manager of the Pacific States Cast Iron Pipe company plant at Provo, Saturday was named a three-year director of the Utah Manufacturers' association, asso-ciation, at the thirty-first annual convention held in the Hotel Utah. The future growth of Utah depends de-pends largely upon the expansion of her present mining and manufacturing manu-facturing industries, was the crux of a talk made by E. O. Howard, j president of the Walker Bank and j Trust company, at the convention. Drowned In Await Appeal DEATH GALLS PARLEY SMOQT Orson Parley Smoot, 59, 385 South Third East street, lifelong resident of Provo, passed away this morning at 1 :30 o'clock at the home of his brother, H. A. Smoot, 758 Milton avenue, from pneumonia pneu-monia and meningitis. Mr. Smoot was .stricken Wednesday Wed-nesday and was taken to his brother's broth-er's home since his own home was quarantined with scarlet fever, his youngest daughter, Helen, being be-ing ill with the disease. He was born May 15, 1876 in Provo, a son of Abraham O. and Diana Eldredge Smoot. His father was the second mayor of Salt Lake City, and for a lengthy period was mayor of Provo. Also he was president of Utah stake at one time. Surviving are his wife, Helen Condrr Smoot, and the following sons and daughters: Wendell Smoot, assistant manager of the Federal Reserve bank of Salt Lake City; Earl B. Smoot, Provo; Cleo Smoot, Provo; Douglas P. Smo.ot, Provo; Conder E. Smoot, American Fork; Helen E. Smoot, Provo. His first wife, Rena Snell Smoot also survives. The following brothers and sis ters also survive: Mrs. Nancy S. Beebe, Provo; Mrs. Olive S. Bean, Teton, Idaho; Mrs. Vilate S. Pier-pont, Pier-pont, Berkeley, Cal.; H. A. Smoot, Wilford Smoot, Mrs. Alice S. Newell, Provo; Senator Reed Smoot, Salt Lake City; Mrs. May S. Glazier, Los Angeles; Mrs. Ida ( Continued on Page Two) PINCHOT BACKS BORAH WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 U.P Sen. William E. Borah, R., Idaho today received from former Gov. Gifford Pinchot, of Pennsylvania, assurances that Borah's candidacy candi-dacy for the Republican presidential presi-dential nomination would be well received in the Keystone state. Pinchot said he had visited the western part of the state since his last conference with Borah and was "still investigating." . t, Pneumonia; Heart Disease Leading Causes of Death There were no maternal deaths in Provo during 1935, an exceptionally excep-tionally good record considering that there were 425 births, it is stated in the annual report of Dr. C. M. Smith, city physician. Deaths totalled 219 for the vear. about half the number of births. Pneumonia was the leading lead-ing cause of death during the year, with a total of 40; heart disease came second with 37; cerebral hemorrhage third with 12, and accidental death fourth, with ten. Twenty-four of the deaths were of children one year of age and SPEAKERS AT SHARON MEET GIVE COUNSEL Elder Rudger Clawson Is Visiting Member Of Gen. Authorities Members of the Sharon stake were urged by speakers at the 24th quarterly conference, confer-ence, concluded Sunday nigrht at the Lincoln high school auditorium, to lend their support sup-port to all activities along the line of community cooperation for the betterment of the people, to observe the principles of the gospel, to heed the pleas for safer driving on the highways,, and to set better examples in the matter of refraining from the use of liauor and tobacco. Elder Rudger Clawson, president presi-dent of the Quorum of the Twelve, and Bishop C. N. Christensen of the Temple Square mission, represented repre-sented the general authorities and addressed the congregation at each of the four sessions of the conference. confer-ence. Other Speakers Other speakers were President A. V. Watkins, who gave a com- jprehensive address Sunday raorn- nig:1 ims wunseiurs, rresiuents cs. H. Blake and Adelbert Bigler; Sidney Sid-ney Cluff, Ray Gammon and James B. Ferguson, members of the stake high council; Bishop August J. Johnson, Lake View ward; Bishop Joseph H. Finch, (Continued on Page Eight) TOURIST FOUND DEAD IN ROOM Utah county officers Monday pronounced as "accidental" the death of Howard L. Meeker, 44, of Greenriver, Utah, who was found asphyxiated Sunday morning morn-ing in a cabin at the Conoco auto court, Springville. Meeker, who retired in the cabin late Saturday night, evidently fumed on two gas stove burners, believing they operated the heater, which is automatic, in the opinion of Sheriff E. G. Durnell. The sheriff and Deputy Reuben Chris-tianson, Chris-tianson, and Marshall Lyman Hay-mond, Hay-mond, of Springville, investigated. Doctors estimated Meeker had been dead six hours before he was found by Charles Stone proprietor of the campt who discovered Meeker's body at 8 a. m. He smelled the gas fumes and investigated. inves-tigated. Mr. Meeker was on his way to his home in Greenriver from Salt Lake City, where he had been on a business trip. He is survived by his widow, Audrey Jones Meeker, and two sons, Herbert and Lloyd Meeker, of Greenriver. The body is held at the Claudin funeral home pending funeral arrangements. ar-rangements. ODD FELLOWS INSTALL The Provo and Lehi Odd Fellows Fel-lows will hold installation of officers offi-cers Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock at the I. O. O. F. hall. Also, they will celebrate the birthday anniversary of Thomas Wilder, founder of the lodge. A full attendance is urged. under. Dr. Smith reported. Six of these were still births and five were premature births. There was an average of one still birth for every 70 births in Provo for the year. Scarlet fever was the most prevalent contagious disease, with a total of 425 cases. Others: pneumonia, pneu-monia, 113; whooping cough, 108; measles, 86; German measles, 75; chickenpox, 63; diphtheria, 12; mumps, 4; smallpox, 4; tuberculosis, tubercul-osis, 1; mengitis, 1. Pneumonia took a heavy toll, (Continued on Page Two) LEADERSHIP PROGRAM IS ANNOUNCED Several Thousand Visitors Expected In Provo At Annual Event By CARLTON CULMSEE With the largest number of departments in its history, the fifteenth annual Leadership Leader-ship week at Brigham Young university, January 27to 31, is expected to attract several thousand persons from many parts of north America, according ac-cording to Dr. Gerrit de Jong, Jr., chairman. The variety of the demands de-mands satisfied in the departments and the interest already expressed, lead him to predict an increase over last year's registration of 3600 persons from 86 L. D. S. stakes and six missions. Thirty-three men and women, leaders ni as many fields of knowledge, knowl-edge, are preparing programs of from four to ten sessions each. Experts of state and even national prominence, will discuss current problems before each session. Daily general assemblies will bring L. D. S. church general authorities and other leaders of thought in state and nation before the crowds in College hall. AH the discussions will focus upon phases of the central theme, "Promoting Snirituality Today." Plan Entertainments Entertainments will be offered each evening. At 8 p. m. Monday evening Professor Robert Sauer will direct his band in a concert. From 8 to 9:30 Tuesday evening there will be a musical entertainment entertain-ment arranged by Professor Le-Roy Le-Roy J. Robertson. This will be followed by the annual Leadership week dance in the women's gymnasium. gym-nasium. "The Taming of the Shrew," by Shakespeare, will be performed twice on Wednesday evening, to accommodate the anticipated crowds. The first performance will begin at 8, the second at 9. Professor T. Earl Pardoe is director. direc-tor. The concluding entertainment entertain-ment will be a formal concert by the B. Y. U. Symphony orchestra, under the direction of Professor LeRoy J. Robertson. This will be held in the Utah stake tabernacle, but the three preceding productions will be staged in College hall. Relaxation is also afforded by the social hour in the women's gymnasium at 5 p. m. daily, under the direction of Professor Wilma Jeppson. There will also be demonstrations dem-onstrations of one-act plays and of (Continued on Page Two) NEW FARM PLAN WINS APPROVAL WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 U.P The administration's new crop production pro-duction control program involving a system of soil conservation, was formally approved today by the executive council of the American Farm Bureau federation. Trie federation council also adopted a resolution recommending recommend-ing the retention of the act setting aside 30 per cent of the customs collections for development of agriculture. ag-riculture. In his budget message to congress. con-gress. President Roosevelt recommended recom-mended repeal of the act. terming it "unwise" and saying it had been passed without proper thought and deliberation. The Farm Bureau Federation said money derived from the 30 per cent, estimated at approximately approxi-mately $90,000,000 annually, should be used for export bounty payments to aid in developing foreign for-eign markets for American farm products. Chairman Marvin Jones, D., Tex., of the house agriculture committee, com-mittee, predicted legislation would be enacted for a new farm program pro-gram within the limits of the supreme su-preme court's decision, but protecting pro-tecting rights of both producer and consumer. 'Our tariff system makes a farm program necessary in the interest of the entire nation," Jones said. "ComDlete and permanent recovery can be had on another basis. "After carefully considering the rights of both producer and consumer, con-sumer, legislation will be worked out to accomplish the desired end insofar as it is possible to do so within the limits set out in the decision of the supreme court.'' McNary Offers AAA Substitute s First offer of a substitute for the AAA, outlawed by the U. S. Supreme Court, was made by Charles L. McNary of Oregon, above, Republican Senate leader. lead-er. His optional measure provided pro-vided for use of the export debenture, the equalization fee, or the domestic allotment plan, and he said it would stand all constitutionality tests. COURT LANDS ANOTHER BLOW AGAINST AAA Supreme Court Rules Processing Process-ing Taxes Must Be Turned Back. WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 U.i: A ten minute session of the supreme su-preme court today cost the New Deal $200,000,000 in processing taxes, left status of $1,000,000,000 in other processing levies in doubt and avoided ruling directly on constitutionality of the TVA and Bankhead cotton acts. This resulted from two decisions: decis-ions: First, the court held that protested pro-tested processing taxes, actually paid into escrow a sum amounting amount-ing to about $200,000,000- must be returned to the processors. By failing to decide upon the validity of an AAA amendment, however, the court left in doubt the chances of any recovery of the $1,000,000,-000 $1,000,000,-000 in levies already paid to the government by processors who failed to obtain anti-tax injunctions. injunc-tions. Second, the court threw out an attempted test of the Bankhead cotton act on technical grounds. Thus it proposed until sometime after Jan. 30 a final ruling on the act's validity. The question will be raised at that time in a suit brought by Gov. Eugene Talmadge of Georgia, New Deal foe. SPORTSMEN PLAN MEETING TUESDAY Election of officers for the Provo Pro-vo Conservation society will be conducted Tuesday night at 8 p. m., in a meeting at the city court room, it is announced by Secretary C. F. Peterson. - Entertainment will be provided after the business is transacted. President Harold B. Makin will be in charge. COUNTY BOARD TO WORK FOR PLANT Proposed construction of a steam power plant at Olmstead at the mouth of Provo canyon found favor with the Utah county commissioners com-missioners J. W. Gillman, Hilton A. Robertson and William J. Johnson John-son who plan to join with the Provo chamber of commerce in requesting the Utah Power and Light company to place the plant in Utah county rather than at Jordan. Jor-dan. The county commission is unanimous una-nimous in endorsing the proposed building for construction near Provo, rather than Salt Lake City, pointing out that it will mean a great deal to this region in the way of work and a boost for industry. in-dustry. RED CROSS MEETING A check on the roll call for the American Red Cross in the Utah county chapter will be made at a meeting tonight at 7:30 in the Provo public library building. EXECUTIVE MAY DELAY EXECUTION Appeal To Federal Courts Final Hope For Doomed Man TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 13 (U.R) The hope of Bruno Richard Hauptmann to escape the electric chair next Friday all but died today. New Jersey Jer-sey law barred his way to every avenue except a forlorn appeal to federal courts. A possible reprieve had been ruled illegal. Except for the remote possibility possi-bility that a federal court might intervene, the entire burden of deciding de-ciding Hauptmann's fate descended descend-ed upon Gov. Harold G. Hoffman, and his authority was dubious. Attorney General David T. Wilentz declared that he had no power whatever to grant a reprieve. Appeal For Writ Attorneys for Hauptmann launched their last fight for his life by employing a Washington firm of constitutional lawyers to advise them in preparing an appeal ap-peal to a federal district court for a writ of habeas corpus. The application ap-plication for the writ will stipulate that an appeal is to be taken to the U. S. supreme court on new constitutional grounds. Lawyers outside Hauptmann's counsel believed almost unanimously unani-mously 'that the writ would not be granted. The supreme court already al-ready has refused to intervene. May Order Reprieve Despite opinions that a reprieve would be illegal, Gov. Hoffman indicated in-dicated that he may order one. It probably would be respected, since precedent has been established by several governors over a long period per-iod of time. He renewed his previously declared de-clared intention of ordering Dr. John F. (Jafsie) Condon returned from Panama, where he is bound on the S. S. Santa Rita. The young governor said Saturday Satur-day that he thought Condon's sudden sud-den departure Friday night was "highly significant,'' and he intended in-tended to have him returned- for questioning. Hauptmann entered his fifth day before death, unless something saves him, with much less exhibition exhibi-tion of emotion than the minor characters around him. He spent I Sunday reading and sleeping. ! There was no repetition of the momentary grief he displayed I when Fisher told him Saturday night that the court of pardons had refused him clemency. He will see hs wife today for the first time since the pardons court ruled. Because she was hysterical, hys-terical, she was refused admittance admit-tance to the death house Saturday. YOUTH INJURED IN AUTO CRASH Rex Christensen, 19, of 157 South Fourth East street was recovering re-covering Monday from a deep cut over his right eye, suffered Saturday Sat-urday night at 9:40 when an automobile auto-mobile he was driving crashed into a car driven by Milt Little-field, Little-field, 19, 554 South Third East street. After giving Christensen first aid at the police station, Traffic Sergeant O. E. Pederson removed him to the Clark clinic for further treatment. Christensen was driving west on Third South street and Little-1 field, who was traveling south on University avenue, thought Christensen Chris-tensen was going to turn north and continued across the intersection. inter-section. Christensen's car hit his broadside. Curtis Norman, Provo, and Lit-tlefield Lit-tlefield weer only slightly bruised. Congress Today BY UNITED PRESS Senate: Meets at noon. Considers bill to move army technical air school. Foreign relations committee considers neutrality bill. Munitions committee resumes world war loan inquiry. Judiciary committee meets on routine business. House: Meets at noon. Considers District of Goli legislation. Appropriations sub-committee continues hearings. |