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Show Wepther UTAH: Unsettled tonight and Wednesday, tittle change in temperature. Minimum temp., Monday .... 2 Maximum temp., Monday .... 29 So They Sa It doesn't matter what you print. The people love me, no matter what you say I say. George Bernard Shaw. FIFTIETH YEAR, NO. 172 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PROVO, JJTSAM COUNTY, UTAH, TJJSDAX MARCH 17, 1936 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS r UVJ 7 P IPS' v- uwuls S&L LTQ UuL iAi 5-YEAR OLD BOY KILLED ON HIGHWAY Dean S. Morgan Killed By Auto Driven By Benjamin Woman The third death . in Utah county this year in which an automobile killed a pedestrian, occurred Monday at 5:30 p. m. when Dean S. Morgan, 5, was instantly killed when struck by an automobile driven driv-en by Mrs. Taylor Parkinson of Benjamin. His scalp laid open, both legs broken, and bis body crushed, little lit-tle Dean joined the procession of auto fatalities that started when Mrs. Minnie Curtis was battered to death by an automobile on the American Fork-Pleasant Grove highway January 28, and which continued when Rae Selman, young Benjamin girl, was killed in an accident at Benjiman, March 3. All three were pedestrians. Driving West Mrs. Parkinson was driving west into Spanish Fork and Dean, with his .brother Karl, 6. were standing stand-ing at the intersection. Dean ran, Karl yelled "Wait Dean!" as the lad stepped into the center of the road, hesitated, then started again and was struck squarely in the center of the radiator.. Although she swerved her car to the left,. Mrs. Parkinson was unable to miss the child. She had been traveling at about 35 miles an hour. Three youths from the Jericho CCC camp, Dean Lewis and Ralph Hill of Logan, and Russell Rus-sell Raymond, Richfield, were in 'hf car with Mrs. Parkinson. Sheriff E, G. Durnell, County Attornev W. S. Dunford,. Deputy Walter Durrant, Marshall Eugene Gardner, and State patrolmen Charles Allred and L. A. Chns-tensen Chns-tensen investigated. There will be no inquest. "utomobile drivers must learn to be more careful when passing children on the streets," Sheriff Durnell said Tuesday. "They should use the utmost caution in (Continued on Page Eight) MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN Davis May Have To Return; AAA is Worried Over New Program; Crop Reduction Voluntary; Cotton Expected Expect-ed to Drop Below 10c; Current Cur-rent Business Census Turned Turn-ed Down Cold in Roper's Home State. WASHINGTON Chester Davis, Da-vis, diminutive AAA administrator, administrat-or, sails for Europe this week, promising that he will return to Washington if he is needed. And he probably will bo. For, behind the scenes, those in charge of the new AAA substitute substi-tute farm program arc worried. They now have the kind of farm bill they wanted, but the job of putting it into operation looks bigger than when the bill was first put on paper. Chief problem is cotton. First planting already has begun in the south and prospects arc for a bumper crop. This year, the agriculture ag-riculture department has no power to compel reduction of acreage. The program is wholly voluntary. Last year it was not. Any planter who grew a surplus of cotton cot-ton could not market it without paying a tax. The same was true of tobacco but not of wheat, corn and hogs. Private opinion among those advising Secretary of Agriculture Wallace is that the most they can expect to eliminate from cotton production the coming year is 11.-000,000 11.-000,000 acres. This is about one-fourth one-fourth of the total acreage. Total eliminated last year was 14,000,000 acres. They are not mentioning it above a whisper, but they fear that as a result, cotton will slump below ten cents a pound. . 1 GEORGE WASHINGTON'S : TEETH George Washington's false teeth were trotted out of the (Continued on Page Four) Mrs. Hauptmann Finds Solace Comforted by sight of her son, the tears that threatened the composure compo-sure of Mrs. Anna Hauptmann as she left the New Jersey penitentiary at Trenton after a Tislt to Bruno Hauptmann In the death house. Looking almost happy a few seconds later, she's shown clutching young Manfried as they drove away. Hauptmann's execution is set for week of March 29. Jafsie Won't Talk On Hauptmann Case Bronx Cabinet Maker Kidnap Ladder For Bruno , NEW YORK, March 17 tives and friends, Dr. John F. Condon returned to New York today from a two months stay in Panama, and from behind his stateroom door issued a statement saying- he would have COURT REFUSES BOYER'S PLEA FARMINGTON. Utah. March 17 U.i; Trial of Paschal L. Boy- er. 32, accused slayer of four per- i aens, was scheduled to start here at 2 p. m. today after Judge E. E. Pratt denied a defense move for a change of venue. Ft. Vern McCullough, Boyer's attorney, sought to shift the trial, on charges of first degree murder, mur-der, to some other county. McCullough declared that trying Boyer in Davis county was "like trying him before a firing squad. He asserted intense feelings prevailed, pre-vailed, making the selection of an unprejudiced jury impossible. District Attorney Wade M. Johnson, chief prosecutor, opposed oppos-ed the motion, pointing out that spectators have been orderly during dur-ing various preliminary hearings, arraignments, and other occasions when the former meat cutter appeared ap-peared in the local court. Sr C. of C. Workers Reach Quarter Mark In Drive Approximately one fourth of ihv Provo chamber of commerce membership campaign goal of $10,000 had been achieved by noon Tuesday, the second day of the campaign. Clayton Jenkins, executive secretary, sec-retary, reported this afternoon that $2,750 in cash and pledges had been brought in by the workers work-ers who started out Monday. Approximately Ap-proximately half of this was in cash. An excellent response is report- Kvr oil I . 4 n that generally it is simply a matter mat-ter of seeing the prospective members; mem-bers; enthusiasm is high. A pleasing development is the addition of many members who have never before joined. So far there are 12 of them. Captains of the drive are Walter Wal-ter Adams, in charge of the industrial, in-dustrial, wholesale and utilities; Sidney Russell, retail merchants and J. Clifton Moffitt, individual memberships. Under this year's program, the budget tos be raised includes funds for al Ithe activities of the chamber cham-ber of commerce and the retail merchants' group, eliminating the necessity of making individual collections for every separate event during the year. Rulon Van Wagenen and I. E. Brockbank are co-chairmen of the finance committee. Still Insists He Made (U.R) Closely guarded by rela nothing to say on the Lindbergh case. . , . ,. . ....... . ... The Bronx educator, who attained at-tained renown as "Jafsie," was accompanied from Panama on the steamer Santa Inez by his daugh ter, Mrs. Myra Hacker. A portion of Condon's statement state-ment was devoted to Mrs. Hacker, who is a sufferer from pernicious anemia. Then the statement concluded "I have no comment whatever to make about the case." The "case" was not identified by Condon, but it was assumed he was referring to the Lindbergh matter, as newspapermen previously prev-iously had sent into his stateroom through a friend of Condon's the Jan. 26 statement of Gov. Harold G. Hoffman of New Jersey, in which the latter propounded some doubts about Jafsie's story at the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann. Haupt-mann. NEW YORK, March 17 (U.P) Abraham Samuelson, Bronx cabinet cabi-net maker, still insists he made for Bruno Richard Hauptmann the ladder used in the Lindbergh baby kidnaping. Liberty Magazine said today in a story reporting an interview in-terview with Dr. John F. (Jafsie) Condon, ransom intermediary in the case. 5 "41 JJ 4 - ldaq PLAN ACTION TO SAFEGUARD $50,000 FUND Freight Rate Discrimination Aqainst Prpvo To Be Probed Action to retain the $50,-000 $50,-000 appropriation which is set up in a bill before congress to purchase foothill land from Provo to Springville, and add it to the Uinta National forest, for-est, will be taken by the Provo Pro-vo chamber of commerce. Part of the 17,000 acre tract of land which the chamber believes should be added to the forest in order to circumvent erosion and over-grazing, should be purchased as soon as possible. The chamber will write to the Utah congressional congres-sional delegation requesting them to resist any effort to cut the $50,-000 $50,-000 appropriation out of the agri-cutural agri-cutural bill. To Name Committee A committee will be chosen by President Jesse N. Ellertson of the chamber to investigate charges charg-es that train freight rates out of Provo are discriminatory and should be cut. Especially is this true in sending goods to Idaho, Wvnminp and Nevada, said Thom as F. Pierpont, who asked the chamber to take action on ine nrohlem. Manufacturers in Provo have a difficult time competing with Salt TjiItp fMtv. Oeden and eastern firms because of this higher rate, Mr. Pierpont explained. Dr. Vasco M. Tanner, chairman, onH PhariM De Moisv. Jr.. re ported that now is. an opportune. time to secure support iiw jxo TTfah senntnra and reDresentatives in retaining the $50,000 appro- Dr. Tanner was re-appointed chairman of the forest and flood control committee. Owens Named Director C. T. Keigley was appointed as the chamber's representative at a meeting in Salt Lake City, Monday Mon-day at 2 p. m., where a state board of trade or chamber of commerce com-merce will be organized. J. A. Owens, manager of the Herald, was appointed director to replace Heber C. Johnson, Utah Oil Refining company manager, who resigned because business takes him away from the city too much. Representative J. W. Robinson received the appointment as national na-tional counselor to attend the annual an-nual meeting of the United States chamber of commerce, April 27-30, 27-30, with Clayton Jenkins, Jr., as alternate. The Provo chamber's report on Referendum No. 70, sent out by the United States chamber, showed show-ed an overwhelming vote in favor of all 17 questions in the referendum, referen-dum, which referred to taxation and governmental expenditure. MOTORIST INJURED BY FLYING ROCK A large rock flipped thru . the windshield from under the wheel of a passing automobile crashed into the face of Vernon Jacobsen, 22, of Orem Tuesday morning, cutting him severely by glass from the windshield and barely missing his eye. The blow stunned him but he managed to "apply his brakes and get his car stopped. Sheriff E. G. Durnell, who was leaving the driveway at the county coun-ty jail saw the accident and rushed rush-ed Jacobsen to the Clark Clinic where he was given treatment by Dr. Stanley M. Clark, county physician. Fish Joins Borah In Standard Oil Charge WASHINGTON, March 17 LE Rep. Hamilton Fish, Jr., R., N. Y., supporter of Sen. William Borah, R., Idaho, for the Republican Republi-can presidential nomination, Joined Join-ed with Borah today in charges of political activity by Standard Oil Co., representatives in Oklahoma. Fish supported a charge previously pre-viously made by Borah that Standard Stand-ard Oil representatives sought to control selection of Oklahoma delegates del-egates to the Republican National convention. Fish brought Gov. Alf M. Lan-don Lan-don of Kansas into the picture. The Oklahoma delegates hare been pledged to the Landon candidacy. New AAA To Be Handled Jm 5 Areas Toley To Be Acting Adminis-( Adminis-( strator of Revamped Soil I Program. WASHINGTON, March 17 (U.R) Reorganization of the invalidated AAA into five regional sections for all 48 states to administer the new $500,000,000 soil conservation program, was announced today to-day by Secretary of Agriculture Agricul-ture Henry A. Wallace. Each of the five areas will be under a regional director, the same men Who were in charge of the commodity programs under the old AAA. Supervising the work of the directors will be Acting AAA Administrator Harold R. Tolley, Wallace said. . 1 The western division made up of North Dakota, Kansas, Colorado, Colora-do, Wyoming, Montana, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Wash-ington. Region Director George E. Farrell, director of the AAA division of grains. Wallace ordered discontinuance of the four commodity divisions which administered the old program. pro-gram. He said that the task of liquidating liqui-dating the AAA production control con-trol programs, carried on by these divisions since the supreme court invalidated AAA, will be part of the duties assigned to the new regional divisions. The order left intact, other administrative ad-ministrative units of AAA, in cluding the division of marketing and marketing agreements, the program planning division and the consumers' counsel office. In addition, ad-dition, the sugar section will con tinue to handle quotas and some other phases in connection with a Hrugar program, Wajla.ce aaid. to maintain headquarters in Wash' ington, and the Washington office's of-fice's will deal directly with individual indi-vidual states. FIRE DESTROYS PRIEST SHRINE ROYAL OAK, Mich.. March 17 ilLP Father Charles E. Coughlin's original shrine of the Little Flower Flow-er and all of its treasured possessions posses-sions were destroyed by fire here today. The 10-year-old frame structure, struc-ture, built at a cost of $30,000 undejr leadership of the militant nidio priest, still smouldered at 9 a. m.. as fire departments of Royal Oak and Birmingham concentrated con-centrated efforts on preventing the blaze from spreading to the new shrine. Father Coughlin was moved deeply by loss of the shrine in which he had stood before the microphone each Sunday afternoon after-noon and preached his sermon against "the money-changers" and exhdrted his followers to action. "Nothing can replace the original orig-inal shrine of the Little Flower," he said. "It was my home. I have eaten, slept and lived there for 10 years." STUDENT SUFFERS HURTS IN CRASH John Smith, of. Salt Lake City, student of the Brigham Young university, suffered a broken leg and some minor injuries when he was struck by a motor cycle at Eighth North and Second East near the bottom of University hill, Monday morning. He was taken to the Aird hos-s pltal. Smith has poor vision, which was partly responsible for his not seeing the motor cycle, though he says he looked for cars. The machine was ridden by George Blake of Provo, who says that Smith stepped out in front of him unexpectedly and he was unable to miss him. Traveller To Give Lecture At B. Y. U. Arthur C. Pillsbury, scientist, author and explorer, wiU lecture at Brigham Young university at 8 p. m. Tuesday-, under the auspices of the lyceum committee. He will exhibit motion pictures and slides prepared by himself to illustrate the three parti of his lecture, lec-ture, "Life in and under the South Seas," "Miracles in Native," and "Growing' Plants Without" Soil or Cultivation." WOODWARD IS WINNER IN PARTY FIGHT Opposition To Utah County Senator Flares Up At Meeting Dr. Hugh M. Woodward, state senator, survived a bitter bit-ter attack to be re-elected chairman of the Democratic county central committee by a sweeping vote of 55 to 11, in a turbulent committee meeting at the city and county coun-ty building Monday night. He defeated de-feated Thomas A. Barratt, American Ameri-can Fork. Remaining calm and apparently unruffled through the torrid session, ses-sion, the professor of philosophy of education at the Brigham Young university brought the meeting to a close by declaring that "this will be our keynote; we'll go out to win this election by appealing to the people. You have eleced us because be-cause were behind the average man of Utah." Smoot Recites Grievances A. O. Smoot, former mayor of Prow and Utah county commissioner commis-sioner for 10 years, led in the applause ap-plause that followed this statement, state-ment, although Mr. Smoot had figured in the fight against Mr. Woodward. He was joined in rapid successoin by Eldred M. Royle, state senator and Elberta merchant who worked with Dr. Woodward in the last legislative session, and by Robert L. Elliott, former county Democratic chair man and now employed by Hugh B. Brown, state liquor commission chairman. Jv ...... Re-elected alsowere Wallacff W. Brockbank,- Sprihgyille high school principal, for vice chair man, and Mrs. Frances G. Calla nan, Provo, who was elected asso ciate chairwoman by acclamation Mr. Brockbank won over Mr. Barratt Bar-ratt by a vote of 53 to 13. Coalition Brought In The fight against Dr. Woodward Wood-ward was waged from several angles. The chief contention against him was that he was ac cused of subscribing to the doc trine of the Utah coalition group which Mr. Royle declared was "un (Continued on Page Eight) WOMAN SLAIN IN ROBBERY LOS ANGELES, March 17 W.V.) Mrs. Ethel 15. Whittaker, 44, was killed today by a bandit who attempted to-rob her wealthy husband, hus-band, Samuel T. Whittaker, 60, as they entered their hotel room. The middle-aged woman died instantly in-stantly from bullet wounds. Whittaker Whit-taker fired several shots after the man as he fled and said he believed he hithim. A few minutes after the shooting, shoot-ing, police searching the district arrested Jack Lane, 23-year-old Evansville, Ind., youth, whom they found in a nearby apartment attempting to treat a wound in his arm. FREE LECTURE PLANNED SPANISH FORK Sponsored by the women's auxiliary of the Spanish Fork Firemen's association, associa-tion, Bert Fullmer of the Brigham Young university will give a free lecture on "Landscaping the Home Grounds." The meeting will commence com-mence at 8 p. m. and the public is invited. Herald To Provide Tournament Service The Herald information service will be available as usual to the public during the state high school tournament which opens in Salt Lake City, Wednesday. Greater interest prevails here this year in the annual athletic classic because of the fact that the Provo high school team is one of the 16 teams to fight it out for the coveted state championship title. The final scores will be posted in the Herald bulletin window as fast as they are received from ttie Herald's special representative at the Deseret gymnasium. . The Herald phones, 494 and 495, will be available for information throughout the tournament, which comes to a close Saturday. Complete accounts' of. the games, including box scores with special articles oh the Provo games, will be found daily in the Herad while the tournament is on. Reelected , j irTTTpTlMiM -f ,y , mi - A v - A -K k M 1 I - n ! DR. H. M. WOODWARD PHONE PROFITS AIRED IN QUIZ Company Never Attempts To Make "Unreasonable" Profit, Says Chief. WASHINGTON, March 17 UJ" President Walter S. Gifford of the American Telephone and Telegraph Tele-graph Co., snapped out a declaration declara-tion at a federal communications commission hearing today that the $6,000,000,000 concern never attempts to make an "unreasonable" "unreason-able" profit. Apparently irritated by the Questioning of counsel Samuel Becker at a hearing into telephone fates, Gifford leaned forward in sjiis chair and said explosively that the public relies for fair treatment treat-ment "on our not being stupid." Gifford, who said his salary was $206,000. was the leading witness at the New Deal's $750,000 investigation in-vestigation of the telephone monopoly mon-opoly and the reasonableness of telephone rates. Becker pounded Gifford with Question after question concerning the history of telephone regulation by governmental agencies. Gifford finally said long distance telephone tele-phone rates never have been regulated regu-lated by any federal or state body. Becker then switched the Questioning Ques-tioning to the status of the West ern Electric company, a 99.42 per cent owned subsidiary of the Bell system, engaged in the manufac ture of telephone apparatus. Becker Beck-er said Western Electric was acquired ac-quired by the telephone company some 50 years ago. He asked why "The reason was to have a source of supply for highly standard stand-ard equipment and not to have the telephone industry at the mercy of the manufacturer," Gifford Gif-ford retorted. "Wasn't it also to control the price of equipment?" "It was to see that the price was reasonable," Gifford said, smiling wryly. "I don't mean ,we want ever to boost prices or make an unreasonable profit." "You mean that the public relies on your integrity," etc?" "No, the public relies on our not being stupid." Townsend Meeting The Provo Townsend club will meet Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock at the Elks' home. Music will be furnished by the Farrer junior high school students. stu-dents. Willis Johnson of Salt Lake City, ex-legislator of the state, will be the speaker, and J. W. Howe will give a short talk on the "Value of United Effort." VIOLATION OF PACT SCORED B Y LITVINOV Vote Orv Resolution Against Germany Scheduled For Thursday LONDON, March 17 (U.R) The league council, advised by Germany that she accepts an invitation to attend the discussions, dis-cussions, began debate in a . public session late today on the Franco - Belgium resolution resolu-tion declaring Germany a violator vio-lator of the Locarno and Versailles Versail-les treaties. The council decided to vote on the resolution Thursday morning, when the German delegates will be present. Russia Is Ready Maxium Lit vino v, Soviet foreign for-eign commissar, opened the debate by declaring Russia is ready to participate in all measures the council recommends for the aid of France and Beligum, in view of Germany's re-occupation of the Rhineland. Litvinov accused Germany of "brutal infringement of international interna-tional treaties and saber rattling." He contended the council ought to give France and Belgium "the greatest possible satisfaction." Stanley Bruce of Australia announced an-nounced Dr. Leopold Von Hoesch, German ambassador, had been invited in-vited to attend as an observer. Hoesch replied that he could not do so today, as he lacked instructions instruc-tions from Berlin. Ribbentrop To Attend Acceptance of the invitation to attend the councU's session said Joachim Von Ribbentrop, ambas-mdor-at-large, would represent Germany before the council. He will be accompanied by Dr. Al-brecht Al-brecht Dieckhoff , head of the Anglo-American division of the foreign for-eign office. Bruce suggested that in view of the German government's note, discussion of the Franco-Belgian resolution be suspended temporarily. temporar-ily. Paul Va Zeeland of Belgium objected and won his point on a majority vote. LitvinOv accused Hitler of trying try-ing to dictate t"o the whole of Eurone his conditions for negotiation." negotia-tion." "We stand for an international aereement which not only would consolidate the existing iounaa-tions iounaa-tions of peace, but if possible, likewise like-wise create new foundations," Litvinov Lit-vinov said. "We stand for participation par-ticipation in such an agreement of all countries which so desire." FRANCE WINS POINT SOUGHT LONDON, March 17 U.F France won a victory for its policies poli-cies in the League of Nations council by threatening to leave London and mobilize its army, it was reported today. Piere Etienne Flandin, foreign minister, made the threat at a secret meeting of the council last night, it was said, and the result the council agreed that it could not discuss Adolf Hitler's peace plan. French delegates expressed complete com-plete satisfaction with the Rhine-land Rhine-land negotiations as they were today. to-day. They predicted the council would vote Germany guilty of treaty infringement this afternoon, after-noon, whether or not Germany accepts ac-cepts an invitation to participate in discussions. France has no intention of scrapping its eastern frontier fortifications, and is reported to be planning to strengthen them by rebuilding the old German forts around MetZ as a second line of defense. SOOVCnOFTS BUY IDAHO COr.lPAIlY OGDEN, Utah, March 17 UR Off icials "4 of the John F. Sc row-croft row-croft & Sons company, wholesalers, whole-salers, told. the. United Press today to-day It had purchased the Southern Idaho Wholesale Grocery company, com-pany, located at Twin Falls and Burley, and that it would assumes' control of the business on Monday, March 30. The sales contract was signed last Friday but announcement of the change, was . delayed pending an inventory |