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Show So They Say ! Learn to think deliberately and usefully. Worry and hurry are twin sisters of fate. They insure a short life and anything but a merry one. Dr. Wallace M. Pearson, Kirks-ville, Kirks-ville, Mo. Weather Forecast UTAH Generally fair tonight and Saturday; warmer northwest portion por-tion tonight. Maximum temp. Thursday, . . 52 Minimum temp. Thursday .... 27 FIFTY-FIRST YEAR, NO. 77 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, FRI D -A Y, .OCTOBER 2 3, 1936 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENTS fa) Uu cm w Of 3 C3 UVJ Herald. line PROVO HOST TO ANNUAL C. E. PARLEY 275 Delegates Expected At Christian Endeavor Convention Provo will be host to more .than 275 visitors this weekend week-end as delegates to the forty-third forty-third annual convention of the I'tah State Christian Endeav-r Endeav-r society gather for a three-day three-day session, beginning this evening in the Provo Community Com-munity church. Robert K. Hansen is general chairman in charge of the conven-i conven-i ion. Register Tmia Dtlegat.s to the convention will ifgister today, tx'ginning at 5:00 j. m.. at the Provo Community church, where all indoor sessions will be held. Marvelle Jones will be in charge. The opening session of the convention con-vention will begin at 7:30 tonight, with Robert E. Hansen, general chairman, introducing Mary D. Brown, state president. to the audience. She will officially open the convention.-Lilley convention.-Lilley To Speak Main speaker of the evening will be the Rev. Mr. Theodore G. Lilley, pastor of the First Presbyterian Presby-terian church of Salt Lake City. His subject will be that of the general theme of the convention, ' Live Christ." The Rev. Mr. Aldis L. Webb, pastor of the First Christian church of Sacramento, will be introduced. in-troduced. He will be. the. principal speaker at the banquet, Saturday. The local pastor, Rev. Mr. E. F. (rwin will offer a prayer, officially official-ly closing the first session. After ;he meeting a get-acquainted par-lv par-lv is planned. Leota Robbie and Emily Hansen being in charge. Saturday's program will open at R a. m. with a quiet hour, o which Virginia Lee. state quiet hour chairman, will have charge. At S:30 a ni. Carl Peterson of Mt. Pleasant will lead a song service. From to 10 o'clock two classes j will convene in a discussion of ! (jui'-t hour ami leadership activi ties The Rev. Mr. Roy B. Dam (Continued on Page Eight) ( MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's doing On in National Affairs Bv DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN K-m Political Feuds Are lb .'daches For Roth Tour-i Tour-i n k Candidates ; Landon Ran Into Bad One By Praising Taft Above Ohio Politicians; Scored Federal K,.ipf Local COP Making It I -.-ii- Against Davey. FN ROl'TF The bane of rvf-rv presidential candidate is local politic.-" It was a local political poli-tical f.-ud m California that cot Charles Evans Hughes the presidency presi-dency in l'.Md It is local political feud.- whicM have caused Roosevelt to. do some fancy tight-rope walking walk-ing in Wisconsin and Indiana. And loc il feuds' also are giving htMtl;.:ho.. to Governor Landon. Hi- day in Ohio was a graphic illustration 'of the campaign difficulties dif-ficulties a national candidate must fire ar.d the awkward boners V." can pull if his advisers don't lip him' off in advance. The "irst episode occurred in Cincinnati. TAFT AND POLITICIANS . - This was the first stop of th da v. and Landon began his elec-t'on elec-t'on eiing by addressing a breakfast break-fast rally for local party workers. Sitting next to the governor was young Chjiries Taft. son of the late ChiarJustice and ex-president, active ii tics. N Cincinnati reform poli- Landon regards young Taft very highly, ap.d in the course of his remarks took some sharp raps at machine politics and politicians, paying glowing tribute to Taft as the type of leader opposed to machine politics, the type which the Republican party needs and wants. Landon's public praise of Taft was a generous and kindly act but it was the last thing he should (Continued on Page 2. Sec.2) Senator Dies il - - ' " .- - . - S FN A TOR JAMES COUZENS AGED LEADER Michigan Senator Had Dined Just Week Ago With Roosevelt. DETROIT, Oct. 23 LRfc Michigan Michi-gan and the nation today mourned mourn-ed the death of Senator James Couzens. 64, philanthropist, industrialist in-dustrialist and prominent public worker,- who died yesterday following fol-lowing an operation. ..Couzens, who only a week ago left his sick bed in Harper hospital to dine with President Roosevelt during the chief executive's Detroit De-troit visit, died at 4:25 p. m. yesterday. yes-terday. An emergency operation had been attempted as a last effort ef-fort to save his life. Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon, probably at the palatial Couzens suburban home, 'Wabeek." Lost to Brucker Couzens, considered one of the ablest men in the upper house of congress, died after his bid for nomination to a third term had been discarded by the Michigan electorate in favor of a younger man, former Republican Governor, Wilber M. Brucker. A nominal Republican, Couzens presaged his defeat when he pub- licly urged the re-election of President Roosevelt this year. This pre-primary effort generally was credited with having cost him the renomination, which Cbuzen3 characterized as "unimportant." Uremia Victim Couzens entered Harper hospital Oct. 14. suffering from Uremia. His condition became critical last Sunday. He rallied, however, and he seemed on the road to improvement im-provement until yesterday when his personal physician, Dr. Hugo Freund. ordered an emergency operation op-eration to relieve the Uremic condition. con-dition. In his long life Jim Couzens crowded more than the usual experience ex-perience of human life. A pipe organ pumper at $5 a year during dur-ing his boyhood, he entered industry in-dustry with a meager life savings and in 1915 severed his connection connec-tion with the. growing Ford Motor company with a fortune of $15,-000,000." $15,-000,000." PROVOANS JOIN IN BIRTHDAY FETE Two well-known Provoans are celebrating birthdays jointly today to-day Horatio Jones, advertising salesman and Alma Smoot, manager mana-ger of the Central Utah Dairy. They were born the same day, within the same hour and the same doctor officiated at both unctions. A beefsteak dinner at the cabin of Milton Jacques, "mayor Of Provonna Beach" this afternoon, with a few close frninds will be the highlight of the birthday celebration. cele-bration. GENEALOGICAL MEETING The Utah Stake Genealogical society will meet Sunday at 2 o'clock in the Fourth ward chapel, with the usual departmental meetings meet-ings following the preliminary period. Dr. William J. Snow will give an address on "The Prevention of War." All genealogical workers are requested to be present. MANY MOURN DILLMAN SAYS BLOOD RULED BY MACHINE Road, Liquor, and Banking Departments Cited For Political Abuse Ray E. Dillman last night told of what he regarded as flagrant abuses of power by ''the Blood machine" in the management - of the state road, liquor, and banking department de-partment and "intimidation" tactics employed by "the machine" ma-chine" in the present campaign. The Republican candidate for governor, addressing more than 275 persons present at the party rally in Provo high, also scored the high cost of government under Governor Blood's rule. "Per capita cost of government stoqd at $21.60 in 1926; in 1935 it had risen to $32.40," he charged. Resents Domination "T would sooner not be elected than to find myself the tool of a machine dominating me," declared the candidate, who said that the present governor was the victim of the machine's "insidious dominance." domin-ance." "Dr. Maw wished to crush it. I admired his courage . . . but he slipped. He wanted to get his front feet in the trough along with the others," charged the candidate. candi-date. Reporting figures purportedly taken from the employe's list of the state road department, the candidate charged it was also a victim fit political misuse. . - "In JulyT lOTZTThere were 3,571 employes, in August this was up 500; in September it was at 4,995; October 1 there were 7,631; just before the election there were 11,-532 11,-532 employes, but by January 1 following the election only 1,948 were on the rolls. That may not all be politics, but you can take it for what it is worth." he stated. Hits Liquor Patronage "Non-partisan" operatiori of the liquor department is non-existent, charged Mr. Dillman. In all branches abuse is evident, he declared de-clared in transportation, enforcement, enforce-ment, administration, and salary fees. "The exclusive contract for transportation is held by the secretary sec-retary of the Democratic state central committee ... he receives re-ceives twenty cents a case, flat rate, for handling the liquor . . . local companies could make deliveries deliv-eries within Salt Lake City at three cents a case . . . private carriers will transport this liquor from Salt Lake to Ogden or Provo (Continued on Page Eight) Spanish Fork To Hold Conference SPANISH FORK Quarterly conference of the falmyra stake will be conducted Saturday night and Sunday. The Saturday night meeting for the Relief society will be held at the Seminary building and will commerce at 7:30 p. m. M. I. A. workers and the general public will meet in the high school auditorium where a fine program has been prepared including a play entitled "Burnt Toast." Sunday M. I. A. workers will meet in the Senior high school during the forenoon fore-noon and the Relief society and foe general public will meet in the auditorium. In the afternoon the general conference confer-ence will be held in the auditorium auditor-ium and the Sunday evening session ses-sion will be held at the auditorium at 7:30 p. m. A fine program has been prepared for all sessions. All officers and teachers are requested re-quested to be in attendance at their departments. All priesthood members are urgently requested to be in attendance. President H. A. Gardner will preside at all sessions. Hallowe'en Party At Franklin School Patrons and friends of the Franklin school are reminded of the big Hallowe'en carnival to be sponsored by the Franklin P.-T. A. this evening at 8 'oclock at the school. A Short program, will be followed fol-lowed by an inspection tour of the new building, and the carnival and refreshment booths are in charge of the room mothers. Alaska Frightened By Severe Temblor; Worst In 24 Years Anchorage Rocks Violently, But No Lives Are Lost and Damage is Small; Tremors Continue Through Night ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 23 (U.R) The most severe earthfluake in 24 years had Anchorage's 2500 residents fearful fear-ful of further shocks today. .No lives were lost and damage was small, but people were badly frightened. Old timers said the jolt, at 8:253 - - n. m. (10:25 P. S. T.) last night , and Cordova on Prince Williams was the worst since Mt. Katmal of the Aleutian range on the Alaskan Alas-kan Peninsula, erupted June 6, 1912. The first shock last 45 seconds, reaching its maximum intensity after 30 seconds. Tremors occurred occur-red until midnight, decreasing in intensity all the time. Because Fairbanks, 400-miles inland, felt the quake, it was feared fear-ed volcanic action must have increased in-creased along the peninsula. Temblors frequently have been felt here, in Seward and Seldovia along Cook inlet, and in Valdez Landon Urges Democrats To Fight Roosevelt "Alfalfa Bill" Murray, Foe of New Deal, Introduces Nominee. - OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 23 Kyi? WASHINGTON. Oct23 VX Gov. Alt M. lanaon caiiea upon all "real" Democrats today to "fight shoulder to shoulder with us" against the New Deal. "The present administration in Washington is not a Democratic administration at all," the Republican Repub-lican presidential nominee said in praising by name such anti-New Deal Democrats as Alfred E. Smith, Ex-Gov. William H. Murray, Mur-ray, Joseph B. Ely, Lewis W. Douglas Doug-las and "a 'host of others." "The administration has forfeited for-feited all claims of allegiance from those who still believe in the principles of that great party," he said, in an address prepared for delivery here. "These leaders (who oppose the New Deal) have put loyalty to country above fealty to a party name when they go to the polls they will be rejecting a man who has attempted to change our principles prin-ciples of government without mandate man-date either from the citizens or his own party convention." Democrats Sold Out Invading Oklahoma, where Murray Mur-ray greeted him, Gov. Landon emphasized em-phasized the seriousness of issues" that has caused regular Democratic Demo-cratic leaders to break across party lines, to turn from the "political habits of a lifetime." But, he continued, the regular Democrats have been "sold out" or deceived and, in many states, they "hold the balance of power" which the nominee urged them to use to defeat the Roosevelt administration. ad-ministration. "The present administration is desperately worried," the Kansas governor declared. "As candidate he (Mr. Roosevelt) Roose-velt) looked In one direction; as president he look in another." Gov. Landon said the administration admin-istration had talked a great deal about solving the farm tenancy problem, but "it has been talk, not action. In fact, It has made the tenancy problem worse through its large payments to big-land big-land owners." Ivory-Skinned Orient al Beauty Leads Narcotics Agents Into Dope Intrigue By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (U.RI An international dope plot, involving involv-ing use of an Eurasian beauty to smuggle heroin from. China to the United States, has ended tragically tragic-ally in Shanghai with the Oriental version of the "one way ride" it was learned here today. Customs officials confirmed reports re-ports of the mysterious death of Al Stey, Alsatian adventurer, at the hands of Chinese poison assassins, assas-sins, after his plan to flood America Amer-ica with contraband drugs had been foiled by narcotics agenta. ' The story worthy of a Sax sound. Kodiak, covered by ash when Mt. Katmai blew up, often has been shaken. Subterranean explosions ex-plosions could be heard. But last night's rolling, twisting quake was something new. Matanuska colony, the government's govern-ment's resettlement project, was in line with the cities which felt the jolt, but no report had been received from there. Menana, nearly destroyed by a $100,000 fire Oct. 1, was also along the quake line, 60 miles from Fairbanks. Roosevelt Is Confident Of Vote Victory President Plans Strategy For Final Week of His Campaign. President Roosevelt planned strategy for the final week of the campaign today, confident that his reelection is assured. The president returned, early today from a whirlwind tour of New England, convinced the unprecedented un-precedented reception he received there forecast a Democratic victory vic-tory in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut. Administration strategists felt confident enough to assert that the political situation had, from their point of view, shaped up so favorably favor-ably as to permit Mr. .Roosevelt to "coast" the rest of the way if he so desired. The president, however, plans to push ahead to a driving finish. Tonight To-night he will deliver a radio address ad-dress to business men for Roosevelt Roose-velt dinners throughout the country. coun-try. Plans over the week end are indefinite, but next week he will visit New York twice for speeches. On the 28th he will speak at ceremonies cere-monies commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty. This speech is expected to be one of the major addresses of the campaign. Afterward he may tour Brooklyn, Staten Island and perhaps per-haps Manhattan. He is expected to go to his Hyde Park 'home for a brief rest before returning to New York on the 31st for what his friends describe de-scribe as the "knockout blow" of the campaign. He probably will return to Hyde Park to await election elec-tion returns. There was some indication Mr. Roosevelt might also find time for a visit to a "key" Pennsylvania city, perhaps Scranton. Story Hour Saturday Children from six to 12 years of age are invited to attend the story hour at the public library from 2 to 3 p. m. Saturday. Miss Beth Schofield will tell the story. Rohmer or an E. Phillips Oppen-heim Oppen-heim in all its hair-raising ramifications rami-fications began last summer when federal narcotics agents boarded the Hei Yo Mara, pocking pock-ing from the Orient at San Pedro, Calif. Beautiful Oriental In her stateroom they arrested Miss Maria Wendt, ivory-skinned young woman, in whose veins ran the blood of white and yellow an-cestors, an-cestors, a handsome girl who protested pro-tested her detention until one of the agents ran a sharp knife into the rounded, inside corners of her two big trunks. From these 16 hiding places RAILROAD TO MADRID MAY BE CUT OFF Capital Faces Serious Threat By Action Of Rebel Force LONDON, Oct. 23 (U.R) The Madrid government faced a grave threat today in a violent vio-lent drive against Aranjuez, the important railroad junction junc-tion connecting Madrid with the coast at Alicante The,rebels were out to cut the railroad. If they succeed, the capital will be in a bad position for the transportation of food and military supplies. The few highways high-ways remaining in Loyalists hands would not be likely to prove adequate. ade-quate. The government poured thousands thou-sands of militia reinforcements southwards towards Aranjuez in an effort to stem the rebel drive. The city was bombed by the rebels, and the cessation of wireless wire-less communication with Madrid indicated the Aranjuez radio station, sta-tion, the capital's only commercial wireless outlet, may have been hit. Planes Over Capital Another rebel drive was in progress on the highways leading to Madrid in the Navalcarnero region southwest of the capital and towards the key town of El Escorial to the northwest, commanding com-manding another important highway high-way into Madrid. The rebels demonstrated the superiority su-periority of their air force and the facility with which they can, bomb Madrid when three enemy planes appeared high over the capital today. It was the first day light "raid." The planes did not drop bombs, and were too high to be hit by the furious anti-aircraft bombardment to which they were subjected. Fighting still continued for the possession of Oviedo, just captured by the rebels after a long siege. Webb Miller and Reynolds Packard Pack-ard of the United Press visited the region and reported fierce and bloody fighting all around the city. PRESTON WOMAN DIES IN CRASH LOGAN, Utah. Oct. 23 (U.P) Mrs. Sarah Alder, 71, of Preston, Idaho, died today of injuries suffered suf-fered in a Thursday night automobile automo-bile accident. Police said L. R. Archbald, 41, of Dayton, Ida'ho,' drove the car in which Mrs. Alder was riding through a stop sign, colliding with a machine driven by Leon Michel-son, Michel-son, 23-year-old Utah State college col-lege student. Mrs. Alder was the only person seriously hurt. IMUDSEU SPEAKER AT SUNDAY MEETING Milton Knudsen of Provo, former for-mer president of the Norwegian mission, will be the speaker at the meeting of the Scandinavian L. D. S. organization of the Utah and Sharon stakes to be held in the Seminary building, Sunday at 10:30 p. m. A vocal duet will be sung by Mrs. Zenith Johnson and. Mrs. Viola Woods. flowed 54 pounds of a white powder; heroin, perhaps the most dangerous of all the narcotic drugs. Maria broke down. She said she would help the agents; that she was nothing but the underpaid un-derpaid tool of Naftali Loeffel-holz Loeffel-holz Brandstatter, a Polish smuggler, smug-gler, who had preceded her to the United States. She said she was to obtain the drugs from Shanghai, Shang-hai, trip after trip, and deliver them to Brandstatter in this country. The agents took her "to a hotel in Los Angeles. Seeks to Escape-She Escape-She escaped, boarded a plane for (Continued on Page Five) Last Stand' Line Before Madrid COLLA0O The last stand defensive Une of the Spanish loyalists before Madrid is shown in the above map the Masquelet line, built by General Masquelet, which includes broad belts of barbed wire, cement machine gun pillboxes, pill-boxes, and strong trench positions. posi-tions. It forms a half circle, stretching from mountain villages vil-lages on the north to Illescas, 20 miles south of Madrid, on the Toledo highway. " ONION HEAD SEES RAISE Mine Union Head Believes Fifty-cent Per Day In- . crease Coming. SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 23 UJ? (ILEX Glenn Gillespie, chairman of the executive board of International Interna-tional Mine, Smelter and Mill Workers r union, predicted today that Utah niine operators would concede to strikers' demands for a 50-cent pertlay pay increase and observance of the eight hour portal-to-portal shift. He did not, however, attempt to say when the strike would end. The strike areas have been free of trouble between strikers and non-union, men. Tension was increased in-creased yesterday at Lark on United States Mines property, when 11 men attempted to get through a picket line of 140 men to work in the mines, but the would-be strike breakers were stopped without violence. It was said operators of United StateB mines had recruited the men from outside sources. Two non-union men tried to go to work today, but were stopped without violence. Landon Leading In Digest Pol NEW YORK, Oct. 23 U.P The Literary Digest's semi-final tabulation tabu-lation of its presidential poll today to-day showed Gov. Alf M. Landon leading in 32 states and President RoOsevelt ahead in 16, unchanged from last week. The states in which Gov. Landon Lan-don led in the Digest count have 370 electoral votes; those for the president have 161. In the Digest's national totals, Mr. Roosevelt for the seventh consecutive con-secutive week cut slightly into the Landon plurality. The Digest's latest standing is: Landon, 1,182,307; Roosevelt, 878,-526; 878,-526; Lemke. 75,119; others. 22,-787. 22,-787. This gives Gov. Landon 54.8 per cent of the 2,158,739 straw votes so far tabulated and the president 40.7 per cent, or a nearly 11 to -8 lead for Landon. Last week it was: Landon 55.4 per cent and Roosevelt Roose-velt 40.1. Aside from the 11 states of the "solid south", the only states in which the Digest gives Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt the edge are Maryland, Kentucky, Ken-tucky, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Utah. SIMPSON DIVORCE CASE SET TODAY IPSWICH, England, Oct 23 ttIE Ipswich became the setting today to-day for a divorce suit listed plainly plain-ly as "Simpson W. vs. Simpson E. A." the result of which will be flashed throughout the world within with-in the next few days. Mrs. Wallis Simpson, the plaintiff, plain-tiff, close friend of King Edward, waa in seclusion to avoid publicity; King Edward had returned to London Lon-don from his all-male shooting party at Sandringham 60 miles from here; "Simpson E. A." husband, hus-band, was in London. l5pLE5CORIAL f I BRUNETE. oDRlDY ILLESCAS J fy? TOLEDO J'"-"-'' BREACH OF AGREEMENT IS CHARGED Germany Sent 15 Submarines Submar-ines to Aid Rebels New Charge Made LONDON, Oct. 23 (U.R) Cables and Wireless Ltd., announced an-nounced today that communication communi-cation with Madrid had been cut about 1 p. m. So far there was no explanation. By FREDERICK KUH United Prese Staff Correspondent (Copyright 1936. by United Press) LONDON, Oct. 23 (U.R) Russia informed the international interna-tional committee on non-inter-ventiori in Spain today that the nonintervention agreement agree-ment has "ceased in practice to exist." Russia demanded in a note that the leftist Madrid government govern-ment be given the right and facilities facili-ties to purchase arms outside Spain, while participants in the agreement be authorized to sell or not to sell arms to Spain, in their discretion. Proclaim Rights The note was delivered by Ivan Maiski, Soviet ambassador, to the Earl of Plymouth, chairman of the committee, just before the international inter-national body convened for a show-down on the clash between Communist Russia and the Fascist powers. Germany, Italy and Portugal. Por-tugal. Russia proclaimed its rights to extend aid to the Madrid government govern-ment to the aim, extent to -which the Fascists aid the rightist rebels. reb-els. Both sides have accused one another of furnishing such aid. The Russian note said the Soviet government can no longer "consider "con-sider itself bound by the non-intervention agreement to any greater extent than any of the remaining participants in the agreement" . Maiski's note said the agreement agree-ment had become "an empty, torn scrap of paper." "In adhering with other states to the agreement for non-intervention in Spanish affairs." Maiski wrote, "the government of the Soviet So-viet union expected that the agreement agree-ment would be fulfilled by the participants; that as a result this period of civil war in Spain would be shortened and the number of victims reduced. Agreement Violated "The time which has elapsed, however, has shown that the agreement is being systematically systematical-ly violated by a number of participants par-ticipants and that the supply of arms to the rebels goes on unpunished. un-punished. "One of the participants in the agreement, Portugal, has become the main base of supply for the rebels; whilst the legitimate gov-( gov-( Continued on Page Eight) ROTARIANSTELL OF HISTORIES Personal histories of the lives of members of the Rotary club were related at the group's luncheon lunch-eon today in Hotel Roberts. More than a dozen members took part in the program. Attention of members of the club was directed to the place and time of a meeting next week which will be directed Friday at 7:30 p. m. at the home of Mrs. Edna M. Hedqulst, corner of Third East and First North. Participants Among those who told of their lives were President Frank J. Earl; Dr. Garland Pace, vice-president; vice-president; Dwight H. Gove; T. C. Larson; Albert Kirkpa trick; W. L. Mendenhall; S. J. Jones; Leo N. Lewis; S." I. Levin; Boyce Rawlins; Carl F. Peterson, and a former member of the club now residing in Salt Lake City, W. A. Huckins. The range of birthplaces extended ex-tended from Chicago to a home within 400 feet of the hotel. Members Mem-bers of the 'club have participated in a wirip va.riev tit huiriAa with teaching, medicine, finance, photography, mining, telephony, flm and theater equipment and merchandising represented. Not all the momenta -of their lives have been rosy they disclosed and many could recall more than one occasion when being- "broke was a major concernl . V Miss Edith Harrison "sang .-two vocal selections. . --n |