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Show So TEey Sayl Parents should untie the apron strings gradually. Allow children to have more and more freedom, so they will feel they are having new experiences. Mrs. Mildred Wood, teacher of human relationships relation-ships in Phoenix, Arit high school Weather Forecast UTAH Fair tonight and Tuesday; Tues-day; little change in temperature. Maximum temp. Sunday .... 45 Minimum temp. Sunday 20 ine FIFTY-FIRST YEAR, NO PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19 3 6 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS PRTfm mTm r,T,XTTJ TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE rriv-'-c' X1 1 V ill Vj-CUM AO Herald. 9, i , : . , ;;. -ft . . 9) ' T I CITY ANSWER IS READY IN POWER SUIT Supreme. Court To Hear Arguments Ar-guments on Nuveen Bonds, Tuesday City Attorney I. E. Brock-bank Brock-bank will tomorrow present Provo city's answer to the writ of prohibition and certiorari cer-tiorari of the Utah Power and Light company, and seek to set aside the temporary injunction in-junction granted by the supreme su-preme court restraining proceeding proceed-ing with plans for construction of the $850,000 municipal power plant. In its petition, the utility company com-pany asks that Provo city show cause why a permanent injunction against construction of the plant should not become effective. Rushed to completion so that the answer might be in the hands of the justices on the November 10 deadline, the answer includes a complete review of the minutes and proceedings of the city commission com-mission from January 20. 1936. to October 14, 1936. the day on which the utilities company filed its suit. Extensive Document One - hundred - fifteen stencils were required to make the copies, City Recorder I. G. Bench stated this' morning. The bulk of the work was completed during last week, and final assembly completed complet-ed Sunday. Twenty-three copies of the an-cwer an-cwer have been prepared, with oopies going to each of the commissioners, com-missioners, the city engineer arid recorder, the ten justices of the :upreme court, and attorneys in the case. . It is probable. City Attorney Brockbank said this morning, that no action will be taken by the court on the case for sixty days, or until after the first of the year. Meanwhile, of course, the temporary tempor-ary injunction will continue in effect. ef-fect. The Utah Power and Light petition peti-tion is directed against Mayor Mark Anderson. Commissioners J. P. McGuire and Walter P. Whitehead, and City Recorder Bench. The power company in its petition peti-tion alleged that under the bond-( bond-( Continued on Page Eight) I MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's fioinjr On in National Affairs Hv DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN Capital Society Resumes Its Preening As Smoke of Election Elec-tion Clears; New Deal Restored Re-stored Its Dividends; This Season Will Be Gayest Ever;. Reign of Lobbyist "Cariet-Baggers" Over As Old Leaders Come Back ; All Curse Taxes. Roosevelt Dollars. But Ride Merry-Go-Round Anew. WASHINGTON With elections over, the nation's capital is getting get-ting down to the only serious business busi-ness which, year in and year out, really absorbs it. Congress may debate the problem prob-lem of peace or war. diplomats may negotiate treaties, the president presi-dent may denounce the supreme court, but all that matters to one section of Washington is the goings go-ings and comings, the cocktail parties par-ties and the amours of the petty neople who hold the social spotlight spot-light of the capital of these United States. And no matter how many tears thev may shed over high taxes, or how bitterly they may curse the president, it is incontestable that the New Deal has saved their dinner din-ner parties and their lives. The New Deal may have kept thousands from starving, put homeless youngsters in CCC. camps, preserved forests, prevented prevent-ed floods, started social security, but as the piece de resistance it has restored Washington society to all the pomposity of its pre-war preening. RUN-DOWN SOCIETY t There was a day. during the height of Mr. Hoover's administration, administra-tion, when Washington society was (Continued on Page Four) Answers Call V L f- t MYRON C. NEWELL DEATH CLAIMS MYRON NEWELL Former City Councilman Dies At Residence Here Sunday Sun-day Afternoon. Death came late Sunday afternoon after-noon to Myron C. Newell, 80, former for-mer Provo city councilman and prominent civic and L. D. S. church worker. Mr. Newell passed away at his home, 444 North Fourth East street, where he had resided for nearly 50 years. He had been in poor health for si Ui.iroi causes incident of old age He was born in Provo, Sept. 26, 1856, a son of Alfred Elliott and Louisa Roberts Newell. He attended the Provo City schools, and was married to Alice Smoot, Dec. 13, 1878, in the Endowment house in Salt Lake City. The couple moved to the old lake bottoms shortly after their marriage, mar-riage, and Mr. Newell served as bishop of Lake View ward for two years. Also, he served as counselor to the bishop for several years. He returned to Provo in 1890 and had resided here since. He served as territorial fish and game commissioner from 1891 to 1S99; Provo city marshal for two years and was elected to the Provo city council in 1907, serving two terms. He was a Provo city school board member for more than eight years. He was president of the Timp-( Timp-( Continued on Page Eight) Shopping Event Opens Thursday Provo and surrounding retail re-tail area shoppers will be piomised interesting bargains in a special shopping event to be staged in the city Thursday and Friday of this week. Headlining extra value offerings of-ferings in clothing, home furnishing, furn-ishing, and allied lines favorably favor-ably acquired in recent market purchases, leading merchants are participating in a joint sale to push the bargain pro-luct.s. pro-luct.s. Wednesday's edition of the Evening Herald will carry examples ex-amples of the vast assortment assort-ment of economical buys possible pos-sible at low costs during the duration of the sale. Buyers are requested to watch for the various merchant's ads. KIWANIS CHIEF OFF TO CHICAGO Mr. and Mrs. Jes.se N. Ellertson leave tonight for Chicago, where Mr. Ellertson will attend the district dis-trict governor's convention of Ki-wanis Ki-wanis International at the Medina club, representing the local district. dis-trict. They will be in Chicago until Saturday at which time they will leave for New York City, then go to Washington, D. C, St. Louis and return. They intend to be gone about two weeks. After his return to Provo, Mr. Ellertson will lead a school of officials of-ficials of the various Kiwanis locals lo-cals in this territory, reporting to them on his work in Chicago, 39 PERISH IN WRECK OF GERMAN SHIP 17-Year Old Cabin Boy Is Sole Survivor In Sea Tragedy BERLIN, Nov. 9 (U.R) Thirty - nine men drowned when the motorship Isis foundered 200 miles off Land's End, Eng., the commander com-mander of the S. S. Western-land, Western-land, one of the rescue ships, wirelessed today. The Weste inland's master reported re-ported he had rescued Fritz Roeth-ke, Roeth-ke, 17, the Isis' cabin boy, and that he was the only survivor. The Queen Mary and the S. S. Mirror and the Westernland gave up the search- and proceeded on their courses this morning, he reported. re-ported. From mountainous seas 200 miles off Land's End, England, early today the S. S. Westernland picked up a life boat containing one man. He apparently was the lone survivor of the 40-man crew of the German motorship Isis. Frantic SOS Calls Three times through, the raving winds and gigantic seas of the season's worst storm, crackled an SOS from the little German freighter. The German Red Star liner Westernland arrived at dusk yesterday and all night, while she plunged and rolled, all but helpless, help-less, her searchlights fingered through the wind driven rain and spray. She picked up the one man in the one boat, and, at 9:30 a. m. (4:30 a. m. E.S.T.) her commander others and ordered her put about for Southampton, her destination. Projects Bring Increases In City Operations That increases in practically every department have occurred in the Provo city general fund over the similar period last year is evidenced by the October report re-port of the city auditor Mary F. Smith, just released. Total expenditures this year of $148,565.74 are $16,450 over the first ten months of last year reports re-ports indicate. The increase is practically all in the public improvements im-provements department. Total colelctions to November 1, are $100,113.55; last year for a similar period they were $100,710.16. The department of public safety safe-ty and auditing department are the only ones showing a decrease over last year. The former has spent $33,256.67 compared with $38,016.01 during 1935. The lat-( lat-( Continued on Page Six) RED CROSS GROUP TO MEET TONIGHT Final details of the Red Cross roll call in Provo will be discussed at a meeting in the Provo public pub-lic library at 7:30 Monday evening, announces Carlton Culmsee, chairman chair-man of the membership drive. Dr. J. J. Weight, chapter president, will be in charge. J. D. Watson has been named captain at the Columbia steel plant. Earl Johnson is captain in the city and county building. The organization Is rapidly being completed com-pleted for the official dpening of the drive on Armistice day. Barrymore-Barrie Romance Culminates In Yuma Wedding LUMA, Ariz., Nov. 9 (U.R) John Barryraore married Elaine Barrie, nee Jacobs, before a justice of the peace early today. It culminated a wildly dramatic romance that might have been a strain on even a young romeo, but which the "great lover" of stage and screen took in his stride. He was debonair, if a little wan from a recent illness, when Justice Earl A. Freeman pronounced him and Miss Barrie one. He said he was 48. The bride is 21. Looking on in Freeman's parlor were Mr. and Mrs. Louis Jacobs, Where Decisive. Struggle Rages f r 71 7" f '"KL ' li 1 M . til "'St c I 1 ESCoaiAL 1 H 'SS&i :5&iSfev z: --ww... 1 rn i n ?!?yg-.iy"- '?'P7 cJsk-- o embassy ;? v 5tJjp NOGTH .tfkife, GOYAL. TELEPHONE CO. -S 1 Ki UADAI2rZAMA &Sr t ''''f? 'SmZ jJ, Madrid capital -of .JSpaJ,a9d4?Wej;Uve. ot xebfii Aixaie, -Ja, sfhown here in relation to nearby towns and the mountainous terrain ter-rain which figured in war plans of besieging rebel generals. Madrid grew from a 10th century Moorish outpost, which occupied occu-pied the site of the present royal palace. Alfonso VI captured STRIKERS WON'T HANDLE CARGO LOS ANGELES, Nov. 15 (IIP) A showdown between federal authorities auth-orities and striking maritime work over the latter's refusal to handle perishable cargo was averted temporarily today by in-t in-t tervention of Attorney General Homer S. Cummings. Assistant U. S. District Attorney Attor-ney William Fleet Palmer said Cummings instructed him to take no action for the present "on a federal court order, directing the marshal's office to supervise unloading un-loading of a Banana cargo from the strike bound liner California. Maritime workers at a mass meet-ledo meet-ledo bridgeheads at Matdrid, G. A. ly to refuse to handle the cargo, thus leaving the marshal no other alternative than to employ nonunion non-union crews. The order from Washington was said to have been the first instance in local history of a court order being disregarded by specific authority. Senator Under Knife DENVER. Colo., Nov. 9 (IT.P) Sen. Fredrick Steiwer of Oregon, underwent a major operation at St. Joseph hospital today for a gall bladder ailment. The senator has been confined in the hospital since Nov. 1 when he was suddenly stricken ill and forced to cancel a radio address from Denver to the Pacific coast. Miss Barrie's parents, Marshall Ames, III, and Aaron Shapiro, Barrymore's attorney, who had accompanied the bridal pair on an airplane dash from Hollywood. The romance had endured two year in time and in events, a trans-continental "love derby" in which Barrymore was the pursued. Miss Barrie the pursuer, numerous and sundry quarrels concerning a $10,000 ruby ring, a tempetuous cruise to Havana aboard Barrymore's Barry-more's yacht, the various depreciatory deprecia-tory public statements of each party. m t m r ' r - - mm ! m .mw.r . mmn mm ' - -mm : . ' x. - - y Tg,wTHg x m Ws&&t&&&" -J&$ iMFldl Government Starts Pension for Old Age Nation-wide Census To Enlist All Workers Eligible For Pension Benefits WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (U.R) The social security board, laying battle plans to replace thousands of "poor houses" with its old-age pension program, today announced establishment establish-ment of 56 field offices. Proceeding with the thoroughness of an army general, the board divided the nation into regions, each containing a group of field offices, to direct enlistment of 26,000,000 workers under the program. -t questions, Answers on Pension s WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 OLE) Here is a question-and-answer explanation ex-planation of the old age pension phase of the Social Security program: pro-gram: Q. Am I eligible for the plan? A. Yes. unless you are 65 years old now or fall into one of the following fol-lowing excluded groups: Persons are not eligible for benefits bene-fits if they are agricultural laborers, la-borers, in domestic service in a private home, a sailor, work for the federal or a state government, are employes of a non-profit organization or-ganization such as a community chest or educational foundation. In addition to qualify a worker must have been employed sometime some-time in five different years after Dec. 31, 1936, and earned a total of not less than $2,000. Q. When does the government start paying pensions? A. On and after Jan., 1942. Q. What most I do to get one? A. If you are eligible, the government gov-ernment will start deducting one per cent of your weekly pay next Jan. 1, 1937, and gradually increasing in-creasing the levy until it reaches three per cent in 1949. Q. Does anyone else pay on my pension? A. Yes. Your employer pays the government the same tax as you do on the money he pays you. Q. How much money do I receive re-ceive each month from the government? gov-ernment? A, That depends upon the (Continued on Page Eight) - In Spain's Appalling Civil War TELEPHONE CO. B BUIUPirHG- I ftS-VCr--1. I PUEJ2TA -Afckdridin 10S3, ndCnder . tha . Ca stil H rfn 4dngaat grey rapidly. la , 1560 it became the royal residence and, in effect, the nation's capital. The royal palace, dominant building, erected in 1738-1764 on a height overlooking the Manzanares river from the east, occupies oc-cupies the site of an older palace destroyed by fire in 1734. Other landmarks are indicated on the sketch. Naroe Recruiting Officers I More than 45,000 post office em- pioyes nave been named as "recruiting "re-cruiting officers" to supply registration regis-tration cards and information to those eligible to participate in the largest insurance program in history. his-tory. The bureau, through cooperation of the postoffice, will begin an eight-day census Nov. 16 of virtually vir-tually all farm workers, government govern-ment employes and domestic domes-tic help being the principal exceptions of the country's business busi-ness and industrial employers and their employes for cataloguing in federal files. a The task, overshadowing even the world war draft and the recent re-cent soldiers' bonus payment, is necessary before the government nuts its old age pension system in actual operation next Jan. 1. On that date, the social security board will collect two per cent of the nation's payroll billions, paid half by the employers and half by the employee. The joint levy will increase to six per cent by 1949. Payment Starts in 1942 The government will pay pensions pen-sions from the fund ranging from $10 to $85 a month, depending on a worker's income, after January 1, 1942, to all eligible employes reaching 65 ' years. If a person dies before that age, his estate will receive his benefits in a lump sum. Two other phases of the security secur-ity program unemployment com- ( Continued on Page Eight) Trucker Killed OROFINO, Idaho, Nov. 9 (HE) Glenn Martin, 20, was killed when he drove his loaded logging truck over the grade six miles southeast of here yesterday. The truck turned over twice, spilling its logs down the mountain side. Martin was badly crushed. BAJ2AJAS AlEOiODlA STATION 1 U. S. EMBASSY REFUGE CENTER (Copyright 1936, by United Press) MADRID, Nov. 9 (U.R American Ameri-can refugees huddled together in the embassy today, seeking safety from Spanish rebel guns which poured death and destruction into embattled Madrid. Large American flags waved at the four corners of the extensive embassy grounds. Others were placed on the roofs of buildings in the compound badges of protection protec-tion for frightened American men, women and children. Huge signs hung from the large iron fence said in Spanish: "Embassy "Em-bassy of the United States." Eris Wendelen, third secretary, who has been in charge during the entire duration of the Spanish civil war, ran the establishment like a military encampment. Those accepting asylum must remain within doors. The rule is: "Once in, stay in." Rigid discipline is enforced. The refugees so far total 37 United States citizens, ncluding Filipinos and Puerto Ricans, and between 50 and 60 Spanish employes, em-ployes, servants, guard and their families. More are entering. The embassy is one of the few buildings in Madrid with heat. Food supplies for a month have been stored against the present emergency. Education Week Program at "Y" The elementary grades of the Brigham Young university training train-ing school furnished the program in the Monday appreciation period here in College hall, as a feature of American Education week observance. ob-servance. Dr. Amos N. Merrill, dean of the college of education, was in charge. Reuben D. Lawt assistant professor profes-sor of elementary education, introduced intro-duced a scientific demonstration illustrating the activity method of learning. Seven training school bovs demonstrated their activity achievements in the field of electricity. elec-tricity. Telegraph sets, an electro-magnet, and a crystal radio, set were shown. Group singing by the training-school training-school pupils under the direction of Mary McGregor, of the araining school faculty, added to the program. CASUALTIES MOUNTING AS FALL f 1 EARS Rebels Bater at the Gateways Gate-ways of Madrid In Finaf Thrust BULLETIN LONDON, Nov. 9 (UJ) The exchange telegraph reported from Madrid SO persons were killed. and 60 injured today in a rebel bombing of the capital. (By UNITED PRESS) The Spanish government forces resisted desperately today to-day as the rebels battered at the gateways of Madrid. The rebel tide was temporarily tempor-arily stemmed, although the fall of the capital seemed in-3vitable. in-3vitable. Rebel airplanes bombed Madrid and dropped artillery shells into it, reportedly report-edly causing many casualties. The Loyalists replied with artillery and attacks with tanks. All advices indicated the rebels had not been able to penerate the city proper. The London Exchange Telegraph Tele-graph reported 30 dead and 0 wounded in today's bomb-p-s of the city. The Madrid government, which has moved to -Valencia, continued to issue ontimistic statements, predicing the -ebels would be turned back. LOrfrDON", Nov. (KE Spanish Lovalists at the Segovia and To-nationalists To-nationalists reach them, Ogilvie-D. Ogilvie-D. Ogilvie-Forbes, charge d' affaires af-faires of the British embassy to Spain informed the foreign office today. Both bridges, key positions on the city's western and southern sides, were barricaded and mined so they could be dynamited if th nationalists reach them, Ogilvie-Forbes Ogilvie-Forbes said. Nationalists Shift Base of Madrid Attack By LESTER ZIFFREX United Press Staff Correspondent Copyright 1936 by United Press MADRID, Nov. 9 (HE) Nationalists Na-tionalists shifted their base of attack today in a desperate bid to storm the city after two days of vain thrusts from he banks of the Manzanares river. Troops Held Back Held back at bridgeheads that would give them entrance to the city proper, the nationalists suddenly sud-denly began moving strong forces from the city's southern side to the El Escorial road which is its northwest entrance. The Loyalists high command sent reinforcements to meet the , new threat, in which it was ex-i ex-i pected the Nationalists would try to cut the Oscorial road and move along it into the city across thet Hierro bridge at the northwest" corner of the capital proper. As the fierce fight for the capital continued, a new menace confronted the government. The long boasted "fifth column" col-umn" rose in the heart of the city. This column, supposed to attack at-tack the Loyaliss in the rear as the Nationalist army entered, is composed of Fascist sympathizers sympath-izers who have been under cover all during the war. Shoot From Housetops During the intermittent air-( air-( Continued on Page Eight) Rotarians To Meet In Provo Wednesday Rotarians will meet Wednesday instead of Friday this week in order to hear John H. Cromwell order to hear John H. Cromwell, ernor for Utah and Idaho, who will make his regular official visit to the chapter .at that time. Attention of all Rotarian chair men is called to the meeting at 11 a. m. in Hotel Roberts at which time Mr. Cromwell desires to meet with all committee heads. Regular members are urged to attend the 12:13 meeting in order to hear Mx. CromwelL |