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Show So They Say! The public is interested in appearance appear-ance and minor features of automobiles auto-mobiles to the detriment of safety. safe-ty. Dr. Vaanevar Bush, vice president, presi-dent, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Weather Forecast UTAH: Fair tonight and Wednesday; Wednes-day; warmer tonight. Maximum temp., Monday ... 65 Minimum temp., Monday ... 29 vemin FIFTY-FIRST YEAR, NO. 59 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 9, 1936 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS UVJ UVJ UVJ uwu QUV7U 6 5V 6 Ifae erald iJ UM .Roosevelt to Confef With Utility : : POOLING OF POWER PLAN OF PRESIDENT Cooperation Of Government With Private Firms For Lower Rates WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 (U.R) President Roosevelt will ask major utility executives tomorrow at a White House conference to support his newest new-est power plan cooperation of the government and private pri-vate utilities to provide cheaper cheap-er electricity. The secret session will be unprecedented un-precedented in this administration a temporary halt to tne new deal-utility deal-utility battles and a possible peace looking to reduced bills for power consumers. The discussion toward pooling federal and private electrical facilities facil-ities will center specifically on the Tennessee Valley. But the president presi-dent extended the conference's scope to other sections. "The public interest" he said, "demands that the power that is being- cr soon will be generated by the TV A (in the southeast) and at Bonneville dam (in the northwest) and other public works projects should be made to serve the greatest number of our people at the lowest cost and, far as Possible, without in jury to-existing ictual investment." describes Power Pool The president said he talked with New Deal officials during the past "several months" as to how electricity could be made available cheaply, and then described his power pool plan in these terms: "These discussions indicate (Continued on Page Eight) MERRY GO-ROUND AvDaily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DRBVV PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN White Calls Lanclon No "God-Sent "God-Sent Leader" But Man of "Deeds Before Words;" He's Inarticulate, But His Important Declarations Are Founded On Record; Editor I uds Stand On Academic Freedom, Labor, Utilities, Racial Issues; "Romantic" Voters Should Pick FDR. But Landon is Ordinary Man Thev Want. (EDITORS NOTE: The procession pro-cession of guest columnists who are batting for Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen during their pre-icampaign pre-icampaign vacation is resumed by William Allen White, "the Sage of Emporia," and Governor Landon's leading literal supporter. Mr. White, as editor and publisher of the famous Emporia, Kansas. Gazette, built it Into one of the nation's most influential newspapers newspa-pers despite a circulation of only 6.000. He is a noted author of novels and biographies (he wrote the "lives" of both Wood row Wilson Wil-son and Calvin Coolidge), and has been an Important voice in Republican Repub-lican politics for a generation). By WILLIAN ALLEN WHITE Famous Kansas Editor EMPORIA. KANSAS I wonder won-der if thr voters of this country, while reading in Landon's Chau-taucioua Chau-taucioua speech recently his declaration decla-ration against the teachers' oath :'pd hi.s statement that he did not believe teaching should be made a "suspect profession by having to take a special oath." realizez the background of that speech. But hefore sketching: in the background, back-ground, let us not forget that in the same speech, he spoke about academic freedom in Kansas and declared against the control of schools bv "the government or any selfish interest." obviously meaning mean-ing the utilities that tried to propagandize pro-pagandize the schools for public ownership a few years ago. Now for the background. It is interesting in this connection to know that these public declarations declara-tions were founded on a record. (Continued on Page 4, Sec. 2) King Edward Goes iff Mtef jM v j iA 1 - n my-. m W w With a double barrelled shotgun for his scepter, King Edward VIII of Great Britain ruled over the Tyrolean heath in lower Austria during a partridge hunt that interrupted his vacation cruising. His costume is even more Tyrolean than the natives', with shorts and tapered hat the main features. He bagged more than 70 birds. -S LANDON WORKS ON SPEECHES TOPEKA, Kan's.,' "Sept. 29 L'!r - Gov. Alf M. Landon, declaring himself convinced that corn belt and dairy state voters were determined deter-mined to turn out the New Deal, announced today that he would set out again next week on one of the most significant thrusts of the 1936 campaign. Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Michigan Michi-gan -the bloc of midwestern states which Landon advisers consider con-sider the decisive battleground of the election- will be visited by the Republican presidential nominee. "The people are in a fighting mood," Gov. Landon said as he returned optimistically from a week-long campaign through Missouri, Mis-souri, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin Wiscon-sin and Illinois. "There will -he no slackening in the campaign. I shall leave on miothrr trip next week with speeches in Chicago Oct. 9; in Cleveland Oct. 12 and in Detroit Oct. 14. " FRANCE BANS GOLD EXPORTS PARIS. Sept. 29 H'.l!' France today provisionally ordered that no gold may be exported or reexported, re-exported, a technical installation of a gold embargo. The decree signed by President Presi-dent Albert Lebrun appeared in the r fficial government journal. It wa.i dated September 28. PARIS. Sept. 29 A govern ment bill providing for devaluation of the franc, passed overwhelmingly overwhelming-ly by the chamber of deputies, went to the senate today and final passage was expected at a continuous con-tinuous session tomorrow. UTAH COUNTY GETS AID FROM R. F. C. The Reconstruction Finance Corporation during the period February 2. 1932 to June 30. 1936, distributed the sum of S678.278.72 in Utah county, according to information in-formation received bv Allen T. Sanford. state director for the; National Emergency Council for Utah. " I Disbursements in Utah aggre- j gated $14,880,163.92. not includ-J ing amounts that went to various government agencies, or relief grants to the State as authorized under the Federal Emergency relief re-lief act of 1P.33. The principal purposes for which the money was disbursed were as follows: Loans to banks and trust-companies, trust-companies, including receivers liquidating agents and conservators, conserva-tors, $5,477,653.58: subscriptions to preferred stock of banks and trudt companies, $1,325,000.00; and loans of $1,235,000.00 to mortgage mort-gage loan companies. Native in Tyrol ROOSEVELT TO FIRE BROADSIDE "HYDE PARK. N. Y.; Sept. 29 L'.R President Roosevelt has been aroused by the bitter campaign cam-paign attack of his opponents, it was reported today, and will fire "a full broadside" in his first campaign speech before the Democratic Demo-cratic state convention in Syracuse Syra-cuse tonight. The exact nature of his address tonight was not known, but observers ob-servers expected Mr. Roosevelt to continue controversy with publisher publish-er William Randolph Hearst by striking hard at charges that he was being supported by organizations organiza-tions and individuals inimical to the American form of government that he sought their aid. Legion Banquet Slated Saturday American Legion and auxiliary members ofthr Provo Post No. 13 are asked to make reservation? at once for the installation banquet ban-quet and party to be held Saturday, Satur-day, October 3 at the home of Mrs. Edna Mae Hedquist, 287 East First North street. Al Wright, chairman of the committee announces that tickets may be procured from himself and any of the following committee members: Ray Berrett, Fred Ha-fen, Ha-fen, Mrs. Standley Dunford, Mrs. Frank Gardner, Mrs. Leslie Mil-denhall. Mil-denhall. MARINE STRIKE HAY BE AVERTED WASHINGTON, Sept. 29 (U.R) The newly-created maritime commission com-mission acted today in an effort to prevent a maritime tieup on the west coast by asking that working contracts, which expire today, be extended for 60 days. In telegrams sent to west coast shippers and union officials, the commission asked for the extension of the working contracts in order that government departments may make an investigation in an effort to aid in reaching an amicable set-tlernent set-tlernent of the situation. The commission's eleventh hour action came as reports from the west coast indicated grave fears of a critical tie-up in shipping due to inability of maritime unions and shippers to agree upon terms of an extension of present working agreements. Destroyer Sunk TANGIER, North Africa. Sept. 29 U.R The loyalist destroyer Gravina was sunk today in a naval battle off Larache. on -the coast near Tangier. The French liner Koutoubia, responding re-sponding to the Gravina's SOS, arrived in time to rescue 20 sailors. sail-ors. The remainder of the crew perished. 4-H MEMBERS WINNERS AT STATE FAIR Manila Girls Wins Trip To Chicago Dress Wins First Place Award Erma Atwood, of Pleasant Grove, as winner of the Elec-trolux Elec-trolux contest at the state fair, will receive a free trip to Chicago. She is the daughter of County Assessor and Mrs. L. M. Atwood, and an enterprising enter-prising 4-H club member. Club members were guests last night of the Salt Lake City chamber cham-ber of commerce at a banquet in their honor. Boys and girls from all corners of the state attended. Yvonne Jones. Pleasant View, won first for the best dress exhibited ex-hibited at the fair among 4-H club entries. Other Utah county "ooys and girls winning awards were: Crop judging, second, Keith and Lamar La-mar Boyer, and Grant Brown, under un-der the direction of Selvoy Boyer, Springville: Albert Knudsen, Pro-vo, Pro-vo, Jersey heifer calf, first; Leroy Knudsen,; Provo, Jersey heifer, first; Devere Weight. Springville, Jersey heifer, fourth. Morris Rich, Provo, Jersey cow, first; Jay Thorpe, Springville, LJerseyueif?r XLrst; Lej-.oy, Knudi sen, Jersey cow, third; Morris Rich, showmanship of Jerseys, second, showmanship of all breeds, third; Jay Thorpe, showmanship of all breeds, fifth. Eldridge Warnick. Pleasant Grove, grand champion Holstein, "Maxdelle Jay Belle"; Holstein aged cow, first; Utah county Jersey Jer-sey calf club group, Morris Rich, Devere Weight, Jay Thorpe. Leroy Le-roy and Albert Knudsen, first. Lee Warnick, Manila, Holstein heifer, third; Merlin Fox. Spring ville, Holstein heifer, fifth, and Manila Holstein calf club group, fourth. DEATH CLAIMS ADMIRAL JSIT.1S WASHINGTON. Sept 29 U.ir Rear Admiral William Sowden Sims, retired. who died last night in Boston, will be buried Thursday with full military honors in Arlington National cemetery. While funeral plans have not been completed, it was understood under-stood services in a Washington church will be attended by high government officials and army and navy officers, to be followed by a funeral procession to Arlington. Sims was in command of the U. S. Naval forces in European waters during the world war. He died in his back bay home of a heart collapse which followed a minor operation. He was 77 years old. President Roosevelt has speaking engagements which will take him out of the capital Thursday Thurs-day and is not expected to attend the funeral. Informed of Sims' death last night at Hyde Park, N. Y., he said he was "deeply grieved." griev-ed." and added: "His death marks the closing of a brilliant and colorful career in the navy, the end of a remarkable remark-able period of service to his country. coun-try. Dynamic and forceful, he was admired and respected by friend and foe alike. ' The Herald to Furnish . World Series Service The World Series games at New York between the Yankees Yan-kees and the Giants will be broadcast in front of the Herald office for the benefit of the public, beginning; Wednesday. The preliminary broadcast will begin about 11:15 a. m. Wednesday, the game starting at 11 :30 a. m. Special arrangements have been made with the May cock Appliance company for the use of a Zenith radio throughout the world series play. A scoreboard will be used to show the progress of the game, by innings, and indicate the batteries, but the Playo-graph. Playo-graph. mechanical player board, will not be in operation. The radio description wlil bring the details of the game, play by play, to the fans on the street, practically as they take place on the field in the Polo grounds. beath Claims Glenn Potter Noted Artist Promising B. Y. U. Graduate Is Victim of Sudden Pneumonia Pneu-monia Attack. Glenn S. Potter, 34, graduate student of Brigham Young university, uni-versity, artist, and writer died Monday afternoon at his home 145 Cast Third North street leaving Ills wife and son, mother, brother, nd three sisters to mourn his passing. Death came unexpectedly to the young artist whose activities in Caring for, photographing, and painting the two Y mascots, Tarbo and Cleo, have made him one of the best known graduates from the university in recent years. Always Al-ways interested in art and willing will-ing to give the )aat full measure to the cause, he assisted in preparing pre-paring some of the ex'hibits for the Utah county fair last week. While at work he contracted pneumonia pneu-monia which was the immediate cause of his death. A son of George Melbourne and Rebecca Soward Potter, Glenn was born in Park City, September 26, 1902. where he resided until the family moved to Grace, Idaho, in 1909. In 1912 the region around Bancroft attracted the Potters and they went to live on a ranch north of that city. Glenn had his high school training in the Bancroft sdiool and then studied at the Utah State Agricultural college during the school year of 1919-20. .Be entered Brigham Young university uni-versity in 1925 and remained at the institution as an under-grad-uate until 1930 when he was graduated grad-uated with an A. B. degree. While at school Mr. Potter met Margaret Schow, of Lehi, daughter daugh-ter of President and Mrs. Carlos Schow, and on December 21, 1932. ( Continued on Page Eight) LIONS DISCUSS RECREATION PAYSON The matter of suitable suit-able community recreation in Payson for the winter months whs presented at the regular meeting of the Payson Lions club luncheon meeting Monday night at the Payson Hotel. Louis A. Bates principal of the high school outlined out-lined the winters calendar of ac tivities for local, church and scho the purpose being to avoid conflict. con-flict. Mr. Bates and N. Blaine Winters Win-ters of the junior high school also outlined a special entertainment entertain-ment circuit of ten evening entertainments, enter-tainments, the season ticket to be two dollars. The club endorsed this program. Three delegates, headed by George C. Chase were appointed to attend the annual meeting of ussociate civic clubs in Salt Lake City. Byron F. Ott. J. S. Reece and Rowe Groesbeck were delegated to meet with the city council in regard re-gard to erecting a signal sign on the state highway entering Pay-son. Pay-son. Byron F. Ott gave an outline of the Eureka road problem, particularly par-ticularly regard tp the south end and this was discussed at length. Wendall Erlandson gave a report re-port of the National Rifle matches at Camp Peery, Ohio, which he attended on the Utah team. President J. H. Ellsworth was in charge of the meeting. Death Ends Promising Career If 4 4 GLENN Rain Threatens Postponement of Series Opener NEW YORK, Sept. 29 dI! Rain forced cancellation of today's final practice sessions of the world series teams, the New York Giants and Yankees, and threatened threaten-ed to postpone tomorrow's opening game. A few of the Yankees had assembled as-sembled at the Polo Grounds for their workout at noon, but manager man-ager Joe McCarthy announced there would be no practice. Eddie Brannick, secretary of the Giants announced his outfit would not attempt at-tempt to practice at Yankee stadium sta-dium this afternoon. The clubs had switched stadiums for the final pract icr. The U. S. weather bureau issued a noon forecast of "cool and probably prob-ably rain,'' for tomorrow. Ruffing To Start Manager McCarthy announced Charles (Red) Ruffing, big righthander right-hander from Chicago, will be the starting pitcher who will oppos Carl Hubbel! in the opening game Ruffing, who won 20 and lost 14 during the past season, is considered con-sidered the Yanks most dependable flinger. Moreover, he is one of the most dangerous batsmen on the Yankee squad. In case of postponement, the opening game will be played at the Polo Grounds, as originally scheduled, and the entire program will be set back in its original alignment. al-ignment. NEW YORK, Sept. 29 (l'.i: The ephemeral distinction of being first man on line at the Polo Grounds bleacher window was given unofficially un-officially today to Tony Albano 38. He parked himself on an automobile auto-mobile cusion Sept. 18 and has been there ever since, awaiting start of the world series Sept. 30. Bleacher seats go on sale at 9 a. m. tomorrow. Last Friday Albano left his place for a moment to telephone his home and learn of the birth of a seventh son. He admits an ambition to father nine sons enought for a baseball team, or at least eight sons which will give him an opportunity to be player-manager. player-manager. In number two position was William McCoy, 17, who shares Albano's cushion. RETIRING P.-T. A. PRESIDENT HONORED Honoring Mrs. LaVieve Pearl; retiring district and local president, presi-dent, P. T. A. members entertained entertain-ed at a party at Central school last night. Officers of the association associa-tion and teachers and their partners part-ners were guests. Mrs. Lucille B. Slaugenhoup, president, and officers were in charge. Entertainment was under the direction of Mrs. Jena V. Holland, Hol-land, and Mrs. Edith Fuller. .fr- A , .ytv, . , Executives - s-- 4 1 f S. POTTER t. Registration Days to Come October 6-7 All voter not registered and who desire to cast their ballot in the municipal power election October 13 must register with the agent in their districts. Tuesday and Wednesday County Clerk Clarence A. Grant announced this morning. In this election every qualified and registered voter within Provo city is entitled to vote. Anyone who voted at the last general election will probably not need to register but a check should b? made with the registration agent o avoid errors and prevent misunderstandings at the polls on election day. The ;tgento and their addresses are : 1. Ev;- B Thurman. 790 East Third South. i storing the power system of the 2. MiTierv. Kftreri, oH South , city to its normal capacity. Third East. It was estimated that nearly 3. Vilate Strong. I'-l East 5.000 homes in Denver and sur-Fifth sur-Fifth South (rounding suburbs would be with- 4. Eleanor Duke. 39 East Fourth i out electric power or telephone South. 5. Inez Menlove, 255 West Sec ond South. 6. Sadie Madscn, .'502 South Fifth West. 7. Ruth Vincent, 777 West Second Sec-ond South. 8. Eva T. Nielsen, 164 South Eighth West. 9. Maggie Hundley, 1008 West Second South. 10. Mrs. Michael Strebel, 768 West First South. 11. George B. Harding, 387 North Fourth West. 12. Minnie Penrod. 255 West Second North. 13. Mrs. E. L. Aiken, 50 West Second North. 14. Eva Martin, 272 East Center. 15. Isabelle Haws, 655 North University. 16. Mary Bennett. 483 East Seventh North. 17. Marie T. Larsen, 671 aEst "Fourth North. 18. Mrs. J. H. McDonald, 343 East First North. 19. Mrs. O. Bjerrcgaard South Sixth East. 67 HOME OWNERS ASIC WATER EXTENSION Another preliminary survey of possible city water users in the southwest section of Provo was promised by the city commissioners commission-ers at their meeting last night. Led by Mr. George Groneman, a committee of six home owners from the district conferred with the administrators. Commissioner Walter P. Whitehead White-head informed the committee that several surveys had been made, but that the people had never agree to take the service. DAMAGE TO PROPERTY AT 10 MILLION Denver Is Hard Hit Plane Crash Takes Lives Of Three Persons DENVER, Colo., Sept. 29 (U.R) The eastern half of the Rocky Mountain region today counted the cost of its'most severe September snowstorm in at least 64 years, at 13 deaths and an estimated $20,-000,000 $20,-000,000 property damage. Denver alone had an estimated property damage of $7,000,000, done to trees, shrubbery, building build-ing and utility property, while the damage to crops and orchards in Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico could only be guessed at. A series of automobile, airplane and other accidents brought 13 " 1 deaths since Friday night, when the storm first struck as a dust bilzzard before turning to rain and later to sonw. Three Crash In Plane From Walsenburg, Colo., the mangled bodies of two men and a woman were being returned to San Francisco and El Paso for burial. They were taken late last night from the scattered wreckage of an airplane which crashed yes terday near Walsenburg. r -nrrfx -ar -.'jkm- "vv- a-"-" - - iiic ucau weio rnoi tt. niu-Iaw, niu-Iaw, of El Paso, Tex., and Mr. and Mrs. Ben T. Elkins, of San Francisco, Fran-cisco, Cal. Elkins was a travel and air lines company official. The crash occurred after the plane, a mail and passenger service serv-ice ship, had taken off from Trinidad Trini-dad to return to Pueblo, Colo., from which it started Sunday on a unsuccessful flight to El Paso. Snow and sleet on the wings were believed responsible for the accident. acci-dent. The city and environs of Denver had six deaths attributable to the storm over the week end. Otner deaths in the region were due to automobile accidents. Other deaths were believed indirectly in-directly caused by the storms. Seven thousand WPA workers were put to work in Denver t-day, t-day, cleaning the debris of the storm from the streets and every available man with experience was being mobilized for work re- service unin lonigm. Ninety thousand trees were believed be-lieved destroyed in Denver and in the Denver nountain parka system, at a total loss of about $5,000,000. In the city, alone. 30,000 trees were so badly dam aged it was believed necessary to remove them. Other cities of Colorado were in identical plight. Mere than 100 fires were reported re-ported in the area and the Denver fire alarm system was out of order. From Friday night until tins morning more than 26 inches of wet. heavy snow had fallen, almost entirely on the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains. FRANC VALUE DETERMINED PARIS, Sept. 29 (V.r.r The government has virtually decided on 29 per cent as the amount of the devaluation of the franc, it was learned today. This would place the franc at 21.46 francs to the dollar or 4.66 cents per franc. Friday the franc was 15.18 to the dollar or around 5.58 cents per franc. This became known today after the chamber of deputies had passed pass-ed the devaluation project by a vote of 350 to 221 and the senate finance committee had approved devaluation, with reservations on the government compensatory measures. The bill is being rewritten re-written because senate, conferres objected to the cabinet being grant-ted grant-ted full powers to make adjust ments. The finance . committee's version will go to the senate for debate tomorrow. |