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Show Weather Forecast UTAH Unsettled tonight and Saturday with probable snow in the southwest portion ; wanner In the northwest portion tonight. Maximum terop. Thursday . 45 Minimum temp. Thursday ... 8 A railroad engineer or tugtKJat captain who knew no more- about his vehicle's perf ormanoe " than many motortets,vwouldn't stay on -the payroll SO minutes. Alfred P. Sloan Jr., automotive executive. FIFTIETH YEAR, NO. 140 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1936 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS nj muvi JVJ FUEL FAMINE fW THREAT LO I Dealers Report Coal Stock Rapidly Dwindling In Many States By UNITED PRESS A fuel famine extending across the midwest from Iowa to Ohio threatened thousands of families today, as coal dealers reported their .supplies almost exhausted. St. Louis, Mo., dealers were reported rationing orders or-ders and fearful the supply of railroad cars would not be sufficient suf-ficient to meet the tonnage needed. Indiana dealers said expensive grades would be exhausted within 48 hours.' and cheaper grades were gone. Ah almost unbroken line of trucks ran from Evans-ville, Evans-ville, Ind., to nearby mines in Indiana In-diana and Kentucky. Buyers were limited to 25 bushels each. Three hundred homes at Seymour, Sey-mour, Ind., reported frozen water lines. One Illinois mine was crippled by a strike, and strip mines generally gen-erally were obstructed by the severe se-vere cold. Iowa, first to feel the pinch of depleted coal supplies, presented the most serious problem. J. C. Pryor, relief administrator, said supplies in nine counties would be exhausted within three days. (Continued on Page Five) MERRY GO" A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON The administration ad-ministration is becoming increasingly in-creasingly worried over the 6,000,000. bales of cotton which it has had hung around its neck. The surplus threatens threat-ens to become a millstone which may drag down the entire cotton market. Tomorrow (Saturday) t h c twelve cent per pound loan on tv.-o-thirds of this total becomes be-comes due, and it is a safe bet that no farmer who collected the twelve cents and deposited his cotton cot-ton in a government warehouse as collateral, is now going- to the warehouse to repay his loan and haul away his bales. , Reason is that cotton is now 'idling below what he would have to repay the government. The Commodity Credit Corporation, Corpor-ation, federal agency which loaned the money, may extend the loan for another few months. But this only postpones the day of reckoning reck-oning when the administration will have to decide how to get rid of the cotton millstone. MRS. ROOSEVELT'S PRESS I ! CONFERENCE 1 jjt ' - 'T- The most exclusive press conference con-ference in Washington is the one held in the White House each Monday morning at eleven. It is with Mrs. Roosevelt and no newsmen news-men are admitted - only news-women. news-women. "Has your Christmas mail differed dif-fered from last year?" "Will you accept the invitation to go to Texas ? " "Are you buying some new Chairs for the Red Room?" "Do ycu know the King of England ?" These questions pop from a group of forty newswomen sitting before the First Lady in the West hall, second floor. It is a strictly feminine party, with no males allowed except the W'hite House dogs. Mrs. Roosevelt sits on a sofa, with her secretary, Mrs. Malvina Thompson Scheider. taking notes (Continued on Page 3. Sec. 2) ! Slayer Pays Penalty i V RALEIGH. N. C, Jan. 31 if.P) Ed Jenkins, 250-pound textile worker, died in North Carolina's lethal gas chamber today for the fatal shooting of Paul Collins, fellow fel-low mill employe, in a Fourth of 'July street fight at Bessemer caty, N. c. iim m I u vv Signing the Bill : Here's the final scene 'in the prolonged bonus battle which has plagued Congresses and presidents since the regime of Warren Q. Hardtag signing the $2,000,000,000 bill Into law after congress had overridden a presidential veto. Watching Senate Secretary Edwin A. Halsey sign the bill are. standing, left to right: Senator Joseph T. Robinson (Dem.. Ark.): Ray Murphy. American Legion commander: Senator Frederick Steiwer (Rep.. Ore.): James E. Van Zandt. Veteran of Foreign Wan commander: Senator Joseph F. Byrnes (Dem., S. C): M. A. Harlan, Disabled American Veterans commander: and Senator Pat Harrison (Dem., Miss.). The act provides payment of the bonus In $50 bonds, cashahle nfter Juno 1R. Conereas vet has to nrovlde means for ralsine the money. 3 MILLION AT BIRTHDAY BALLS Politics Forgotten in Moveu To Aid Sufferers From Disease. - WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 i:.l' Preliminary reports from over the nation indicated today that more than 3,000,000 persons attended birthday parties last night for President Roosevelt. At 7,000 or more hotels and in many clubs and private homes dancers gathered to contribute to the aid of sufferers from infantile infan-tile paralysis. Contributions were expected to total $1,500,000 or more. In Washington politics were forgotten as Republicans and Democrats joined in six huge parties attended by 10,000 persons, it was one of the gayest occasions of the year. AroiiJit of Pmvo's Birthday ! hall on Page 'I. President Roosevelt, observing his 54th birthday, gathered his old cronies of past years about him at the White House for a dinner party and reminescing afterward in the president's oen. Shortly before midnight he broadcast from the White House his birthday greeting to the nation. na-tion. He said he had been informed inform-ed that this year's celebration "will exceed our fondest hopes of success." He thanked the millions who have "resolutely aliened themselves them-selves to carry on the fight against infantile paralysis until this dread and costly disease is brought under definite and final control." Seventy per cent of the money raised will go to institutions in localities where it was contributed. The remainder will go to a national nation-al committee supporting the Warm Springs foundation and other organizations for treatment treat-ment of infantile paralysis. VETERANS SIGN FOR BONUS PAY A special committee from Provo Post 13 American Legion Thursday Thurs-day aided 50 World war veterans to make their applications for the bonus. The headquarters office, situated situ-ated in Room 216 of the Knight Block, above Schramm-Johnson Drug company store, will be open from 9 a. m. until 9 p. m. daily. All ex-service men are welcome i to come and receive assistance in filing their applications, all aid being given without charge, according ac-cording to Judge George S. Ballif, commander of Post 13. Veterans who apply for assistance assist-ance are asked to bring their army discharges and the "pink slip" they have already to the office. That Ends 'Battle of the Bonus' J, !A &v r jr5f" f-i i in - irri-r ii x- ' Report on Moisture Sh o ws Imp ro vem en t Average For Provo From 40 Percent to Summary Precipitation Totals of October, November, December and January Four months ending January 31: Station 1936 1935 1934 1933 1932 1931 1930 Salt Lake City Elev. 4327 5.01 6.54 2.83 5.73 5.21 3.75 2.91 Provo City Elev. 4517 4.60 5.27 2.51 3.30 5.19 4.18 2.60 Heber City l Elev. 5593 4.44 5.74 4.60 4.54 7.09 3.09 3.05 Park City Elev. 7100 4.90 6.60 5.14 7.83 6.06 4.81 5.19 Snake Creek (Midway) Elev. 5950 7.79 8.56 6.50 9.70 10.49 4.55 5.31 Totals 26.74 32.71 21.58 31.10 34.04 20.38 19.06 34.26 Average 5.35 6.54 4.32 6.22 6.81 4.08 3.81 r. Normal 78 95 63 91 99 59 56 -Maximum 12.33 in 1890 -Minimum 2.60 in 1891. Beneficient January storms bringing nearly three inches of precipitation pre-cipitation in the Provo area has wrought a decided change for the better in the outlook for more abundant water supplies this season, it is shown in a report compiled today by J. Frank Wentz, water ?. commissioner on the Provo river. WATER USERS CALL MEETING The inclusion on an amendment amend-ment to the repayment contract for the Deer Creek project, of which the first draft has already been approved by Secretary Ickes, will be considered at the meeting of the directors of the Provo River Waterusers' association, to be held in Provo Saturday at 2 p. m. The meeting has been called by J. W. Gillman, vice president of the association, who will preside in the absence . of Louis Marcus, former mayor of Salt Lake City, who is president. The amendment would provide that a smaller project, without the Duchesne tunnel, could be started, with the option of including: includ-ing: this latter when the metropolitan metro-politan water district board of Salt Lake City approves the project. PIONEER SONS TO GATHER SUNDAY A meeting of the Sons of Utah Pioneers will be held Sunday at 3 p. m. in the First ward church. The program will include a brief historical sketch of members mem-bers of the late Charles Twelves family. Also, the roster of the 1928 organization will be completed, com-pleted, which is to be engraved on a placque and hung in the Memorial hall at Sowiette park. h V River Stations Climbs 78 Percent NoEmul. 1930-1936. 1936 Of Nor- Normal Nor-mal mal 5.53 90 5.53 83 6.41 69 7.82 60 8.97 87 6.85 78 Instead of a 40 per cent of normal average for the five stations. sta-tions. Salt Lake City .Provo, Heber, Park City and Midway, as reported on December 31, Mr. Wentz shows a 78 per cent of normal today, a month later. The total precipitation to date Yor the five reporting stations is 5.35 inches, as compared with the mean of 6.85 inches, a deficiency defic-iency of 1.50 inches. For January alone the total for the 5 stations is 3.43, an excess of 1.36 inches over the mean of 2.07 inches. Salt Lake City has the best precipitation record with 5j.01 inches for the last four months, or 90 per cent normal. Midway has had 7,79 inches or 87 per cent (Continued on Page Five) Death Ray" Machine 14 Times More Deadly Than the X-Ray URBANA, 111., Jan. 31 UJ A "death Ray" machine, so deadly a man unfamiliar with its Tjpera- ' tion dare not approach within 50 feet of its "projector," neared completion today under the guidance guid-ance of Illinois physicist. A beam of neutrons, 14 times more deadly than the x-ray, capable cap-able of destroying white corpuscles corp-uscles of the blood stream will be fired from the machine when it is completed, Dr. P. G. Kru-ger, Kru-ger, director, said, "The machine is deadly," Mr. Kruger said, "but strangely THREE KILLED, 32 HURT IN TRAIN WRECK ;f tio One Aboard Escapes ln- jury When Flyer Leaves Track ; SUtfBURY, Pa., Jan. 31 U;R)--A speedifig passenger train leaped its rails late last night'; and plunged from an over-pass onto, a highway, killing; three and injuring 32. NS jpfereon onr tne train escaped" es-caped" injury. ; ' " Vireag was scattered along Ute May for 50 yards, and it wAfeW before rescue, crews ffofefe carried all the iffTPsi hpspitala. The acci- wan American without aflf ' thhlif e 6t rfititoasseneer. Drttaj ttothfuss, 82, Williams-yEft&ijeer Williams-yEft&ijeer William Ramp, Tama- iFireman Washington Danshaw, Tamaqua. The train wao the 'Williams-porter," 'Williams-porter," a Reading limited, en-route en-route from WilUamsport to "New York City. Its 28 passengers included in-cluded 12 students of Bucknell university, Lewisburg, . Pa., . . eti route to their homes for brief vacations. Only one passenger was badly hurt. Physicians feared Mrs. Cora Bromwell, Williamsport, would die of internal injuries-. The train was approaching the Susquehanna river bridge leading tin to Sun bury. Roundinsr a sharp mm io jli.c a.-atggwoyy: viae giyf and temper jumped from the rails and plunged down onto the highway, high-way, pulling a mail and baggage car, two passenger coaches and two refrigerator cars after it. NEW INDUSTRIES "Well Bill, I'm glad to see the Utah Power put that big steam plant here," commented the customer cus-tomer to Bill the Barber as Bill put the power clippers on high speed. "So am I," said Bill. "It's a great thing for the whole county." "Think other industries will follow?" fol-low?" asked the customer. "I sure do,' 'said Bill. ."Industry always follows where there is plenty plen-ty of power and plenty of water. He have a chance to get both. With the big power plant built, then with Deer Creek for water, boy we will be setting pretty." "You know Bijl, I think if we get together here in Utah county and all pull for new industries we can get a lot of them," said the customer. "We've got what it takes for their success if we've got what it takes to get them. That means an unselfish and united unit-ed effort on the part of every town in the county." "Well, lefs get busy. We've got a good start," said Bill. (j-, enough we expect it to be of immeasurable im-measurable aid to medicine. "Experiments show that the rays reduce the white flood count from 8,000 to 300 of 400. Normally Nor-mally this would be fatal, but we believe the opposite result will be obtained in treating victims of lukemia, the disease in which white corpuscles kill off all the life-bearing red ones." It may also be of use in killing the cells of cancer and Hodkin's disease, he said. Radioactive salts, used in the treatment of internal cancer, already al-ready had been developed with the ray. :eiv$yenaev la- perjoa or more 4iJjtaidaUd operated Governor Outlines Plans For Social Security Program Utah is Ready To Match Federal Funds As Soon As Required, Sayis Governor Blood At Social Workers' Conference "The state department of public welfare is a 'going con-cerr con-cerr ready to devote its major attentions to the Social Security Se-curity program as soon as federal funds- are made available by the government to match our state and county funds," said Governor Henry H. Blood in his address to the State Conference of Social Workers which gathered in a general session in cooperation with the Leadership week visitors, Friday, at College hall. Governor Blood traced the his- tory of social welfare in the state of Utah since March, 1933, when the lowest ebb of unemployment was reached and there were 36,-151 36,-151 households 161,500 men, women and children, who required assistance from public funds. Tells State's Part He told of the state government's govern-ment's part in aiding these persons, per-sons, and described the establishment establish-ment of the social welfare program pro-gram which will be in effect soon. "It is important that the co unites un-ites contribute as generously as their financial and legal ability permits to this social security program," pro-gram," . the . governor stated. "This state desires to develop a well-rounded program of public welfare and is desirous of placing in effect: ,fc "A plan for assisting the needy aged. A plan for aiding the needy blind. f "Aid for dependent children. "A plan for maternal and child health "Aid for crippled children. iAjatended paw health seitce fa Utah, includmga public health nursing program." "The state's contribution to this program is limited to the amount which the legislature made available avail-able from the sales tax for relief and welfare purposes, and it is necessary for the counties to con-( con-( Continued on Page Five) MINERS STAND BY ROOSEVELT WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (U.R) Hundreds of coal miners shouted and stamped in defiance of "the money bags of Wall street" today as Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward F. McGrady appeared before be-fore the international convention of United Mines Workers of America. In an address to a congregation of miners, McGrady strode red-faced red-faced to the microphone and demanded: de-manded: "Do you, as representatives of the greatest labor union of all, stand with the president of the United States?" Almost before his words were heard the miners rose from their chairs and shouted their affirmative affirma-tive answer. The brass band gave a fanfare. Delegates jumped up and down and cheered. As the demonstration subsided, McGrady shouted: "Let that be the answer to the money bags of Wall street." VAN VLACK TAKES STAND IN TRIAL TWIN FALLS, Ida., Jan. 31 (HE) Douglas Van Vlack, being tried on a charge of murdering Mildred Mil-dred Hook, his pretty ex-wife, took the stand in his own defense this morning and began telling his life story to the jury. The defendants followed on the stand Morley Bernard, the prosecution prose-cution witness who told of how Van Vlack got the murder gun. Leo Teats, defense counsel, tried to impeach the witness but failed in the face of a barrage of protest pro-test from T. W. Taylor, assistant attorney general and chief objector ob-jector for the prosecution. Joseph Hook, father of he murdered girl, Carl Van Vlack, father of the accused man and Oris Cryder,. deputy sheriff, were the other witnesses called by the defense during the morning session. ses-sion. Borah To "Stump WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (HE Sen. William E. .Borah, Republican Republi-can presidential aspirant, may make an active "stump" swing through Ohio, It become known today. He expects to make a decision within the next two days. SPEAKER HERE V- - ''iff t " xV' GOV. HENRY H. BLOOD iY Symphony Orchestra In Great Concert Ensemble, Director, Soloists Acquit Themselves With Credit. BY H. R. MERRILL As I entered the Utah stake tabernacle Thursday night, I fancy that I had the same thought that entered many another mind: What is handsomer than ninety collegians sitting in formal attire shining instruments'in hand? Then when Professor Robertson appeared appear-ed and his magic baton set the ensemble in motion al lsuch as I had the answer: "Ninety collegians colleg-ians playing those instruments." Symphony orchestras appeal to the eye as well as to the ear especially when the are as well trained as the B. Y. U. orchestra showed evidence of being Thursday Thurs-day night in a concert which pleased pleas-ed and amazed the audience at the same time. Professor Robertson exhibited his understanding of concert crowds when he used "Overture To Mignon," by Thomas, as the introductory in-troductory number. Besides being good music, that overture is packed with the sort of melody that the people love. In its introduction in-troduction Mar jorie Mensel,. youthful youth-ful harpist, was introduced to the public. Miss Mensel though young and comparatively inexperienced, plucked her strings with the grace (Continued on Page Five) DOn COMMITTEES REPORT ACTIVITY The Provo Lion's club held its regular fortnightly meeting last night in Keeleys cafe. As committee com-mittee meetings were arranged to take up the time no special outside out-side program had been arranged. After luncheon and the usual formalities the committees met at separate tables to discuss their survey of possible improvements in the city. Following this the chairmen of the committees met to report their surveys and the possibilities of their suggested improvements. im-provements. J. W. Thornton led the club in some snappy songs to conclude the meeting. BLAZE TRAPS NEGROES IN PRISON CAR Only Two of 22 Convicts In Truck Escape In Accident SCOTTSBORO, Ahu, Jan. 31 (U.R) Twenty Negro convicts con-victs burned to death today in a prison truck when g&so- line slopped from a drum onto on-to a fire they had built to keep warm. Only two of 22 convicts en- route tc a highway project escaped the flames, which trapped them inside the truck, shutting off their only exit, a rear door. Two Guards Escape-Two Escape-Two white guards on the exposed ex-posed front seat of the truck escaped. es-caped. They went to the rear of the. truck, opened the door and urged the negroes to leap through the searing flames. Only two did so. They were badly burned, and were taken to a hospital, apparently in dying conditions. Their 20 companions were burned in the interior of the truck. The drum from which the gasoline gaso-line slopped was just inside the rear door. The fire the negoes had kindled was in the front part of the truck. On a stretch of icy road the truck skidded, just enough to slop the gasoline. According to E. D. Eyester, resident highway engineer here,' the neeroes had pulled the plug from the gasoline drum to get more fuel to go on their fire. by Montgomery oinciais to iwyc the truck and its contents un-. touched by the roadside. The two guards on the truck were held incommunicado pending pend-ing the investigation. MONTGOMERY, Ala., Jan. 31 (U.R) Governor Bibb Graves today ordered two high state officials to Scottsboro to 'conduct a complete com-plete investigation" of the burning burn-ing of 20 negoe convicts. He sent Hamp Draper, head of the state convict department, and Arthur Houton, of the state highway commission. CHILD INJURED, DRIVER HELD Rayma B. Johnson, five year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Johnson of 155 East Second South street, suffered severe injuries in-juries at 6 p. m. Thursday when she was struck, and knocked down by an automobile driven by Arthur Ar-thur Simmons, 35, of 442 South Fourth East street. Charges of drunken driving were brought against Simmons after he appeared at the police station to report the accident. The girl was bruised and cut about the head and body, suffered a bad cut on the chin and was possibly injured internally. She was given treatment at the Aird hospital by Dr. A. E. Robinson and later removed to her home. Simmons was driving east on Third South street and the girl and her brother, Harold Johnson, 6, were crossing the street south on First East street. Harold stopped stop-ped but his sister continued across the street into the path of the oncoming car. Officers Bert Hatladay and O. E. Pederson investigated- ' ' A BANK HOLDUP NETS 820,000 ST. CHARLES, HI., Jan. 31 (HE) Bandits imprisoned five employes em-ployes of the St. Charles National bank today, waited for the time lock on the vault to open' the doors and escaped with approximately approxi-mately $20,000. Witnesses said there were between be-tween three and six bandits. The bandits, who entered "the bank during the night, greeted Ferd Ogborn, the janitor, when he reported. One by one they seized C. Jay Marvin, cashier;' W. J. Riordan, assistant cashier, and Carl Larson and Mrs. Ruth Johnson, tellers. .. . |