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Show Weather Forecast UTAH Unsettled tonight and Thursday. Bain or snow north portion. por-tion. Colder tonight north and west portions. Maximum temp., Tuesday .... 44 Minimum temp., Tuesday .... SO vemiing Herald. So They Say! In the face of another general war, neutrality is not something that can be obtained just by wishful wish-ful thinking. Senator Robert M. LaFollette, Wisconsin. FIFTIETH YEAR, NO. 128 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1936 COMPLETE TELEGRAPH UNITED PRESS NEWS SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS LrDr n n n jLJIie (Win in w 2) U7UAUJ UYJ cp .Roosevelt COMPROMISE BILL UP THURSDAY President Shows No Indication Indi-cation Of Changing former Stand WASHINGTON. Jan. 15 (U.R) White House intimations intima-tions that President Roosevelt Roose-velt will veto any bonus bill culling for immediate payment, pay-ment, failed today to deter congressional bonus advocates in a pell-mell push toward enactment of a compromise that would pay veterans with demand notes. White House sources sougrht to rebuke rumors that Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt might not veto the bill because be-cause of its overwhelming: congressional con-gressional support. Friends of the president said they knew of no change in his rft-expressed opposition op-position to immediate payment. Leaders Undismayed Bonus leaders in house and senate, sen-ate, however, were confident of ability to pass the bill over the president's veto. Their confidence confi-dence was borne out by a United Press survey showing- that at least G4 senators were certain to vote to over-ride with a two-thirds two-thirds majority almost inevitable. That the house would overthrow a veto seemed a foregone conclusion. conclu-sion. The united front bonus bill fcr which the compromise measure meas-ure has since been substituted in the senate was passed bv the overwhelming majoritv of 356 to 59 in the house. I A year ago the house overrode i i bonus veto, and it was only by : i-ierht votes that the senate failed COMING to follow suit. j .-igned the oatn or ottice ana tne The compromise bill, introduced I certificate oi election, which qualify quali-fy Chairman Pat Harrison of the ; fje,i her to assume the office, senate finance committee, may j Mr. Taylor who has served as come up for a senate vote tomor- , president during the past year, row. It provides for issuance of j relinquished this position to Don baby bonds, which could be cashed w.Oinover, member from the immediately by veterans or held . Fifth ward while Oscar A. Spear, as an investment at three per cent ; representing the First ward, as- interest. MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN WA S HI X CTTO X Appoi n t -ment of Rear Admiral Arthur J. Hepburn as commander of the United States fleet, culminates cul-minates an ancient and at times virulent feud between him and Rear Admiral Joseph Reeves, who retires as commander com-mander of the fleet. It began when they were both young naval officers. It continued contin-ued when thev went as naval experts ex-perts to the Geneva naval conference confer-ence of 1927. where Reeves worked work-ed against an agreement and Hepburn Hep-burn for it. The feud reached a climax during dur-ing the Pacific maneuvers last summer the greatest peacetime maneuvers ever held. Hepburn commanded the scrutiny scrut-iny fleet in Alaskan waters which attacked the defending fleet around Hawaiian waters The defending de-fending fleet was commanded by ; Reeves. Hepburn maneuvered all i around Reeves, scored important Epic plan followers, hits, theoretically "sank" several A resolution repudiating Mc-of Mc-of his vessels. The referees de- 1 Adoo's leadership was adopted by cided that Hepburn, representing the countv central committee fol- the enemv, won the dav. could have invaded the shores of Cali- fornia. It was largely on the basis of this feat that Hepburn secured his present promotion to take Reeves' place. . ' CASUALTY REEVES w "'.clULni occurred during tion of the wreck of the freighter the Pacific maneuvers that so far ' iOWa developed momentum in jr-,? jr-,? f", a st,ncJ5. seccet- Theoreti- ; g-anized labor circles today, while caHy Admiral Reeves was "kill- j angry seas still held back search- I ers seeking to explore the ves- His flagship, the Pennsylvania, j sel's storm-razed hull for bodies clashed with Admiral Hepburn's ; of 28 of the 34 men who perished (Continued on Page Four) . m the disaster. "V A. , , . BOARD MEMBER M'RS. ALG1E E. BALLIF WOMAN TAKES SCHOOL BOARD POSITION HERE Mrs. Altfie E. Ballif Takes Mace Vacated By John T. Taylor. Members of the Provo city school board welcomed a woman to its ranks Tuesday night for the ! first time in 10 years, when Mrs. j Algie n.. tsaiiit, memoer irom the Fourth municipal ward, was j ;worn in to takt the seat vacated ; . y jonn i. layior. There were no formalities in- volved in the event Mrs. Ballif ; i sumed the vice presidency, for-J for-J merly held by Mr. Conover. The ; designation of officers is prescrib- ed by the state laws, changing once each year in rotation. Mr. Taylor expressed his appre-i appre-i ciation for the pleasant associa-': associa-': tions on the school board and the friendships he had made. He recounted some of the outstanding outstand-ing improvements brought about in the -school system during the past few years and expressed his happiness in having had a part in bringing thena about. He pledged his continued interest and support to the board in school matters. F.ach of the members of the board. Mr. Spear. Clarence Bees- ley. Bert Crane and Mr. Conover as well as Superintendent H. A. Dixon and J. Fred Fechser, clerk of the board, spoke in an appreciative appre-ciative vein of the valuable services serv-ices rendered by Mr. Taylor and tht pleasant associations thev had xnerienc ed in working with him. j (Continued on Page Five) i EPIC DEMOCRATS DEFEAT HCADOO LOS AXGELES. Jan. 15 r.P Lcs Angeles county Democrats today repudiated the political leadership of Senator William Gibbs McAdoo in a new move to prevent the junior California senator sen-ator from seizing the party's leadership from Upton Sinclair's lowing the lankv senator's at-1 tempt to have President Roose- vclt name the state's delegation to the Philadelphia convention, To Probe Wreck ASTORIA. Ore., Jan. 15 (!'! DemPinrlM fnr a fpflpral invoetitrn. ' . ' .Expected to Veto Bonus Measure CRftmfi f AGREED BY BY STOC MEN Five Cents Per Month Per Head For Grazing Season Stands SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Jan. 15 (U.R) Stockmen of the west decided, in a grazing graz-ing conference in session here today, that they should pay five cents per month per head for grazing cattle on public domain and range lands, and cne cent per month per head for sheep and goats. A resolution, introduced by Edgar Bray of Colorado, fixed the grazing fee. It will become effective as soon as Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes approves it. That he will approve it was a foregone conclusion, as the fee is the sum recommended by the interior in-terior department when the conference con-ference opened. Fifteen thousand cattlemen and sheepmen, who are users of the public domain in 10 western states, are affected. The stockmen, prior to adopting adopt-ing the fee resolution, approved a suggestion that qualified applicants appli-cants be granted range rights under un-der the Taylor grazing act. Local Boards in Charg Administration of the act, the j stockmen decided, shall rest largely with local advisory boards, provided for under terms of the Tavlor act. pee suggestions had ranged Colorado proposal of 10 cents per head per month for cat tie to Nevada's demand that no fee be charged until livestock men are in better financial condition. The rate finally approved was the government's original suggestion. According to governm e n t figures the fee schedule adopted will raise $750,000 for each five months per year the public domain do-main is used for grazing purposes. pur-poses. Only 25 per cent of the sum raised is available for administering administer-ing the act. Fifty per cent .goes to counties in which the grazing districts are located, and 15 per cent must be used for improvement improve-ment of the range. LION MEMBERS TO SPEAK AT MEETING Shcrt talks on Lionism will feature the meeting of the Provo Lions club Thursday night at 7 o'clock at Keeleys cafe, which is under direction of the education committee. Discussions will be " conducted as follows: History of Lionism. W. F. Johnson; Lions Club Objectives, Ob-jectives, A. H. Christenson; Lion Members Individual Responsibility, A. C. Hatch; Lions Code of Ethics, M. B. Pope. Music will be furnish- ed by the Public Service Bureau of the Brigham Young university. Red Army Grows MOSCOW. Jan. 15 lP The Red army now numbers 1,300,000 men. compared to 940.000 a year ago, it was revealed today at a meeting of the central executive committee of the Soviet Union. The increase was attributed to the "menace" on the eastern and western borders. 17- Year Old A fter Awakening From Six Day Religious Trance DEARBORN T O W N S H I P Mich., Jan. 15 (U.R With a calm smile for friends and a message cf peace for her family, starry-eyed starry-eyed Shirley Tapp, 17, greeted visitors today after her return from the half-world of her six-day religious trance. "She is like Joan of Arc," said Mrs. Laverne Tapp, the girl's mother; "I think that Shirley was intended, perhaps, to save her country by making it think of God and religion." The slim-waisted, brown-haired g"irl regained consciousness last Power Officials to Decide Steam Plant L o cation Thursday Return of Gadsby Fom New York Meeting Expected Thursday; Salt Lake, Ogden and Provo Make Bids For Site Representatives of both the Provo city commission and the Utah county commission will accompany the delegations from Provo which will meet with President George M. Gadsby Gads-by of the Utah Power and Light company, Thursday at 2:30, and request the construction of the company's new steam plant at Olmstead at the mouth of Provo canyon. Jesse N, Ellertson, president of the Provo chamber of commerce, will head the delegation which will meet with AIRPORT SITE TO BE PICKED HERE THURSDAY Employment For 180 Men To He Provided By New WPA Project. Decision on a site for Provo's projected $48,000 airport will likely like-ly be made Thursday morning, ac- cording to Mayor Mark Anderson, who reports progress on the pro posed job. In a meeting Tuesday night the city commission listed two sites as available, the First ward pasture in the south part of Provo near the golf course, and some accretion ground at the mouth of Provo river. The city may be able to trade the First ward pasture ground, which it owns, for the ground at the mouth of the river, which is privately owned, in case the government gov-ernment officials choose the latter lat-ter site. Money is already alloted for the construction of the airport, Ben H. Beveridge, district manager of the Works Progress administration, administra-tion, informed the commission. Beginning of construction on the airport would afford work for 180 men. That is the paramount interest the city commission has at present. One possibility for giving work on the Provo canyon culinary water wa-ter pipeline extension, was halted because of right-of-way troubles. Provo city's share in the airport air-port project would be approximately approxi-mately $13,000, but part of this could be wiped out by use of equipment, the commissioners point out. At present the airport project is the only one of major proportions propor-tions on which an allotment has been made. During the past few days vari-our vari-our interests have offered to sell a total of $67,600 worth of property. pro-perty. Mayor Anderson explained Wednesday. An airport site, the Woolen Mills block and the Up- ! per Falls property made up the largest portion of this property. Succeeds Father SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 15-l'.P 15-l'.P Lawrence Mario Gianmni, 41-year-old son of A. P. Giannini, founder of the west's biggest banking institution, today succeeded suc-ceeded his father to the presidency of the Bank of America National Trust and Savings association. Girl Recounts night about 9:30 p. m. For six days and nights, her family said, she has been "slain by the power of God'' for atovement of her sins and those of the world.. They are members of the Full Salvation Union, a religious sect. When Shirley opened her eyes last night she found herself in a bedroom of the modest automobile worker's home. She could hear j the low chant of prayers and the crooning of hymns from the parlor par-lor where members of the sect were conducting a meeting. She had been transferred from the Mr. Gadsby. Representatives of various industries and manufac turers in this section will be included in-cluded in the group, which will make a determined effort to have the $1,600,000 plant placed in Utah county. The Utah county commission ha already agreed to support the project here 100 per cent, and perhaps all three commissioners will be at the meeting. Commissioner Commis-sioner Walter P. Whitehead will be in attendance as a representative representa-tive of the Provo city commission. Final decision on the site for the plant will be made Thursday, j according to information received i by W. W. Fleetwood, manager of ! the Provo division of the corn- pany JENKINS COMES TO TESTIMONIAL Ab Jenkins, native Utahn and race driver, will be guest of honor at a program which will take place tonight at 7:30 in College hall under the sponsorship of the Extension Division, Brigham Young university, with the Provo chamber of commerce cooperating. The program will consist of two musical numDers, Drief speeches of appreciation and welcome by Mayor Mark Anderson and Jesse N. Ellertson, president of the chamber of commerce; a ten min- nnt tnllr rn thf hiatnrv nf trans- portation by Meredith Wilson, a member of the teaching staff of the history department, Brigham Young university, and a sound movie showing Ab Jenkins setting some of the world's records he now holds on the Bonneville salt flats whim ne has been instrti- mental in making famous. Mr. Jenkins will be present in person and though he refuses to make a formal speech, he has agreed to answer any questions those in the audiencex may wish to ask. Ab Jenkins, according to sporting sport-ing authorities, holds more speed records than -any other man in the world. He has driven all sorts of cars and tractors ;u uemonstra-tions uemonstra-tions and for records. He has more than a million miles of speed and test dnvlng oi all kinds to his credit and has never had an accident, he is known as America's Amer-ica's safest driver. The program this evening will partake of the nature of a testimonial testi-monial to Mr. Jenkins and a safety safe-ty meeting, according to H. R. Merrill, who will be in charge of the program, which will be carried out with dispatch as Mr. Jenkins has an appointment in Salt Lake City later. Psychic Experience parlor yesterday on the advice of doctors. Prior to that she was the center of the group that gathered gath-ered nightly to sing and pray beside be-side her bianket-draped davenport. daven-port. Mrs. Laverne saw the girl open her eyes, sue called her eldest son. Close friends gathered in the bedroom. Elmer Wood. Shirley's sweetheart, was there. Shirley's face shone as though withtkn in ner inspiration. She related her experience in a hesitating voice. "As a cloud ... I wandered in a happier world. . . There were 17 KILLED IN CRASH OF AIR LINER Worst Plane Disaster In Commercial Flying Is Recorded By VALCO LYLE United Press Staff Correspondent Copyright 1936 by United Press GOODWIN, Ark., Jan. 15 (U.R) Seventeen mangled bodies the toll of the worst plane disaster in the history of American com-merciial com-merciial aviation were taken from the twisted and bloody wreckage of a crack airliner today to-day and laid out along a swamp road. Immediate investigations began to fix responsibility. The American Amer-ican Air line's twin motored Douglas luxury ship crashed last night in a dense swamp three miles northeast of this farming hamlet, carrying all on board 14 passengers and a crew of three to a frightful death. Investigator Arrives Lake Littlejohn, department of commerce investigator, arrived from Little Rock and prohibited removal of the bodies from the roadside pending an inquest at the scene. The bodies will be taken later to Forrest City. Other investigators rounded up natives of the dismal swamp country adjacent ad-jacent to the Mississippi river hoping' to learn something that would lead to a partial explanation explana-tion of the disaster. John T. Shea, a Memphis attorney, at-torney, said that one of the plane's two motors seemed to be operating oper-ating amiss when the liner took off from Memphis. Otherwise there was no clue to the cause. Perfect Weather The plane was flying in perfect weather. Its gasoline supply was ample. Its pilot, Jerry Marshall, had years of experience and was considered by his employers as one of the best in the business. At least four emergency landing fields were available in the vicinity. vicin-ity. The plane left Memphis at 7:03 p. m. Fifteen liinutes later her co-pilot, Glenn Freeland, reported by radio that all was well. Soon afterward, natives saw the machine flying low over the main line of the Rock Island railroad. A few minutes later there was a terrific crash in the swamp. Hours later, a rescue party, after wading wad-ing through mud and swamp ooze that at times was waist deep came upon a scene of inde scribable horror, Warns Passengers Pilot Marshall apparently had warned his passengers. All had their safety belts adjusted. But so terrific was the crash, that in (Continued on Page Five) MORRIS TO SPEAK TO PIONEER UNITS Nephi L. Morris, state president presi-dent of hte Sons and Daughters of Utah Pioneers organization, will be the principal speaker at a meeting of the Provo camps Thursday night at 7 in the First ward meeting house. Anyone interested is invited to attend the meeting and hear Mr. Morris and a fine musical program pro-gram prepared under direction of Chorister Gideon Clark with the assistance of Prof. William F. Hanson of the Brigham Young university. fields ... I saw Jimmy Kilgore picking blossoms. . . . Brother Don Gottfried was there, too." So sincere and low was her voice, that Doss Kilgore wept. His child, Jimmy, had been dead for some years now. Gottfried also is dead. Dr. Martin H. Hoffman of Eloise hospital psychiatric staff, described the girl's condition as an "hysterical twilight, state." He prescribed peace and quiet. He said that her sub-conscious mind dominated her conscious mind by the power of religious suggestion. lL LB,I"G y i it ' ELVON L. JACKSON P. 0. INSPECTOR TRANSFERRED TO COLORADO Elvon L. Jackson To Move Residence To Denver On New Assignment. Elvon L. Jackson, postoffice inspector, in-spector, in the Utah district for 15 years, has been transferred to Colorado with headquarters in Denver, it was announced today. He will assume his new duties on January 16, although his family will remain in Provo until the close of school. The new appointment comes to Mr. Jackson in recognition of his splendid record in the postoffice service. He was first appointed as a clerk in the Provo post-office post-office on January 1, 1911. He took the examination for post-office post-office inspector several years later and was commissioned on January 1, 1919, assigned to duty in the San Francisco district. He is said to have been the first Utahn to win a commission as an inspector. in-spector. Three and a half years later he was transferred to work in Utah with headquarters at Provo, a position he has held ever since. "This change is considered as an advancement." said Mr. Jackson Jack-son today. "I have enjoyed my work in Utah and it is with regret re-gret that I leave the host of friends and co-workers with whom I have been associated. There will always be a warm spot in my heart for the good people of Utah and particularly the Garden City there are none better." Mr. Jackson has been actively engaged in civic and ecclesiastical work. He has been a member of the Provo chamber of commerce and until recently served on the presidency of the 15th quorum of Seventies of the L. D. S. church. He received his advanced education educa-tion in the B. Y. U. and did his postgraduate work with the Walton Wal-ton School of Commerce and Law and the Blacstone Institute. Prior to entering the postal service he taught school in Provo. LAMBERT GETS DOCTOR DEGREE Asael C. Lambert, professor of educational administration at the Brigham Young university, has been awarded the advanced degree de-gree of doctor of philosophy from the Stanford university this week, following the conclusion of the autumn quarter, according to advices ad-vices received by the Herald from the institution. Dr. Lambert has spent several years at the coast school in pursuit pur-suit of the graduate work which was completed at the end of the summer session. His thesis, worked out on the school transportation trans-portation problem, is considered to be one of the best submitted (Continued on Page Five) REPRIEVE BY GOVERNOR IS NOTCERTAIN Electric Chair Tested As Wife Visits With Condemned Man TRENTON, N. J., Jan. 16 (U.R) The electric chair in New Jersey state prison was tested and found to be working- perfectly today, while lawyers continued frantic last-minute efforts to save Bruno Richard Hauptmann frcm dying in it Friday night. The attorneys were understood to be preparing a new appeal to the United States supreme court, but there was only the remotest chance that it would be successful. success-ful. Still uncertain, however, was the attitude of Gov. Harold G. Hoffman. He said he had asked legal advice on the question of whether he had power to grant a reprieve; that he had not decided whether to grant one even if he did have the power. The electric chair was tested by prison electricians even as Mrs. Hauptmann visited her husband in his cell barely 30 feet away. Then Neil Burkina haw and Nugent Nu-gent Dodds, Washington attorneys attor-neys recently added to the defense de-fense staff, visited the condemned murderer of the Lindbergh baby. They had him sign a new application, applica-tion, reportedly seeking supreme court intervention, but did not tell him his appeal to federal circuit court Judge J. Warren Davis had been denied yesterday. Prisoner Is Calm Mrs. Hauptmann reported her husband was calm and confident, but she herself was becoming desperate. des-perate. She said she tought she might appeal personally to Gov. Hoffman. Col. Mark O. Kimberling, prin-( prin-( Continued on Page Hve) WILSON KNEW OF TREATIES WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (U.R) Chairman Gerald P. Nye, R., N. D., of the senate munitions committee, charged today President Wilson "falsified" "fal-sified" in a post-war assertion asser-tion that he was unaware when America entered the conflict of allied secret treaties for disposition of territory in Europe. Eu-rope. Hitherto unpublished docu-' ments, Nye said, showed Mr. Wilson Wil-son had knowledge of the treaties about a year before he signed the war declaration against Germiny in 1917. Study Documents Nye's assertion came after the committee had studied secret state department documents revealing difficulties of President Wilson with the British over violation of the right of neutrals to trade and with Germany over her submarine warfare. J. P. Morgan was absent from the committee session because the testimonv did not conoern his firm's affairs. BELMONT HEADS SPORTSMAN GROUP Sidney Belmont wrfa elected president of the Provo Conservation Conserva-tion society in an election meeting meet-ing conducted Tuesday night in the city and county building. He succeeds H. B. Makin. Wells Brimhall was elected vice president and George W. Fitzroy was named secretary-treasurer". Directors elected were: Mart Kimber, D. A. Perry, Byron Fisher, Fish-er, Robert A. Moorefield, Ralph Thompson, L. L. Brimhall, Charles De Moisy, Jr., H. B. Makin, BertA rand Harrison and Earl Smoot. Kiwanis Speaker Dr. Thomas L. Martin, professor profes-sor of agronomy and bacteriology at the Brigham Young university will be the speaker at the Provo Kiwanis club meetine Thursdav noon at the Roberts hotel , |