OCR Text |
Show Evening Herald. So They Say I The horse will never go to war again. There will be more steel and less flesh in the armies of the future. Col. G. R. Pearkea, Canadian Department of National Defense. FIFTY-FIRST YEAR, NO. 132 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 1937 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TDim? ETVTT PENT! TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE KlOlf J 1 & BaM 1 Weather Forecast UTAH Fair tonight and Tuesday except probably unsettled west portion Tuesday ; not so cold north portion tonight. Max. temp., 18 Mln. temp., 19 below Monday's minimum .... 10 below A he AT V & LnJ 27th Session Of Utah Legislature Meets at Capitol Maw Sounds Note of Warning in Senate To "Exercise Care in What We Do;" Secretary Secre-tary of State Opens Lower House SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Jan. 11 (U.R) Utah's 22nd legislature, with Democrats overwhelmingly in power, convened con-vened today and organized swiftly for a session promising to be the must hectic in years. Ree gnf.ing rumors of impending legislative events. Dr. Herbert H. Maw , re-eiected to his 1935 post as senate president by acclamation, warned the upper chamber to "exercise care in what we do." - xhc eyes of the people of the MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs Bv DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN Brewing Mexican R e V O 1 t j Limited FDR's Neutrality ; Stand To Spain Alone; He Had Intended Asking Embargo Em-bargo On Arms To All Countries in Civil War; Fascists, Backed by Ameri can Money, Plan Coup Against Leftist. Regime; SEC Allows Mulcting of Corporation Bv Underwrit-' Jusuce u- uonau dropped tne ni t" i o. i gavel opening the session. Secre- ers Who Control Stock. tary state E. E Monson offici- ated in similar capacity in the WASHINGTON The specific senate. mention of Spin in the presi- Rev Elmer I. Goshen of the dents message to congress cov- First Congregational church de-ered de-ered up a strategic retreat of vital ljvered tne senate invocation; Jo-lmportance Jo-lmportance to U. S. neutrality. -Pnh p. Merrill of the L. D. S. At a press conference on De- rnurch delivered the prayer in the cember 29, President Roosevelt house. first revealed that immediately :iatcjr D. V. Parratt Salt upon the convening of congress the Lake, nominated Maw for 'senate administration would move f"- president. Senator Ira Huggins, the cnartm. -nff a measure broad- Weber countv, who was Maw's eiung the ne Hrality law to deal opponent for "the post at Satur-with Satur-with instances f civil conflict. He j davs Democratic caucus, moved r.7eij ,ha While the mimed- j ' (Continued on Page Five) iate object of the proposal would j .. '. halt the export 01 arms to, Spain, its terms would be .." ' ' and would not refer to any par- I ticular country. Exactlv a week later, on Janu- ' ary 5. Chairman Key Pittman of the senate foreign relations com- 1 mittee emerged from a conference ! with the president and informed! reporters that on the following! dav he would 'ntroduce the ad-i ministration's proposal to bar thej nl of war materials to Spain. " Because of certain conditions i lid in order to avoid protracted debate and delav." Pittman ex- plained, 'it has been decided to ! limit the resolution solely to j Snam." : Pittman would not discuss the ' r- conditions'' that had caused this abrupt change in the p. es. dent's plans. And in the ex.! citernent over the dramatic move to i revent the shipment of arms and planes then being loaded for ' Continued on Pagt- Four) SALT LAKE MAN KILLS HIS UNCLE I .lc. ;T7"7, . s CITi. Mo. Jin 11 Dr. Nevin M. Wetzel. :, phy- ician was stabbed to death . in his nome today. Police said his nephew W. W. Langford of Sa:t Lake City, who had been stay- at the Wetzel home several week? while taking treatment for ;t mental disorder, admitted the laying. Langforu al?o choked Mrs. Wetzel, Wet-zel, who was lying on the floor unconscious when Judge Allen C. Southern of the Jackson county cncuit court came to the Wetzel home in response to a telephone call frcm Langford. Dr. Wetzel was dead when Judge Southern his next door neighbor, arrived. I wanted to call my wife in Salt Lake City." Langford told reporteis after he was placed in jail at Independence. Mo. "I put the call through and made a connection con-nection and Dr. Wetzel and his wife tried to take the telephone away from me. I worked on him with an ice pick. I didn't hurt Mrs. Wetzel though." j state are on this legislature with ' more interest than perhaps any ; other legislature for a number of ! years past." Maw told the senate. , ' Rumors of radicalism have caus- ed many groups, particularly busi-, busi-, ness groups, to be concerned about what we will do. Others are very , hopeful that a liberal program of . legislation will be followed. . . . Must Be Mindful "As we launch our program," e continued, "we must be mind ful of the fact that the federal government is making severe tax 'mands on business. We must. inererore, exercise care in our taxation program so as to not penalize any commercial activity." Maw warned that in considering relief, the legislature should not "be influenced by an attitude that j the state should provide a living for anyone or any class" capable of caring for themselves. In the house, Supreme Court Utah County Senate Seat Still Vacant Senator Eldred M. Royle of Elberta was without a colleague :um Utah county when the senate or.vened at noon today because .:o successor has been appointed by governor Henry m wiooa io -v the seat vacated by Dr . H. M. Voi dward of Provo. The situation lemained in a ieadlcck as the Utah county Democratic committee which has weviously endorsed A. O. Ellett. Spanish Fork educator for the :ppointment. sought more infor- mation n the interpretation of the state law iequinng party com- :nittee endorsement of tne governor'.- appointee to fill state legis-; legis-; lative vacancies. ' tVoodward Explains i Dr. H. M. Woodward chairman f the county committee, stateu today that there had been several misstatements in the state press ''oncerning the disagreement over the appointment. He denied .h.u te cornmjttee had rejected lhe Rames submitted by Governor Rlfj0d and also pointed out that ?hH f,vtrnnr had not reiected Mr. K1!l,t. ithpr The letter received f the governor was discussed by the executive officer of the county committee, he said but the entire committee had not been called together, pending more information in-formation on the interpretation of the state laws relating to the appointment. The letter submitted to the governor is as follows: Honorable Henry H. Blood, Governor of Utah. Dear Governor Blood: We have received your letter let-ter of Jan. 7, which leaves the executive officers of Utah county Democratic committee very much in doubt as to how to interpret the law providing provid-ing for the filling of vacancies vacan-cies in the state legislature. The Utah county committee, (Continued on Page Five) POWER SUIT ANSWER FILED BY WHITEHEAD City Commissioner Asks Permanent Injunction To Stop Plant Charging that the Nuveen 3ond and Ulen Contracting Drdinances under which Provo :ity pi'oposes to erect a muni-?ipal muni-?ipal i)ower plant, if carried ut. will impair the credit of Yovo city and result in waste nd oss to its citizens, Com- "issioner Walter P. Whitehead Saturday asked the state supreme ourt to grant a permanent inunction in-unction against the $850,000 project. Commissioner W h i t e hea d's charges were made in the separ-ite separ-ite answer filed with the supreme court in the case brought by the Utah Power ard Light company against Mayor Mark Anderson, Commissioners J. P. McGuire and Walter P. Whitehead, and City Recorder I. G. Bench, charging the procedure adopted for the erecting of a municipal power plant was illegal. The power company's writ of prohibition was filed immediately after the special election in which the municipal power proposal carried car-ried with a small majority. He further asserted "the ordinances ordin-ances are mere subterfuges reported re-ported to for the purpose of erecting erect-ing a needless project in violation of the state laws and good business busi-ness practice." Commissioner Whitehead alleges al-leges the bond bankers refused to include provisions in the ordinance ordin-ance requested by City Attorney I. E. Brockbank protecting Provo citizens against higher rates from the proposed municipal plant than those charged in other cities of the same class in adjoining territory. terri-tory. He quoted letters from Mr. Brockbank and Stuart P. Dobbs. Osrden attorney, requesting the inclusion in-clusion of these provisions, and proceeds to request that the cor. esnondence be returned to the supreme su-preme court. Mr. Dobbs is associated asso-ciated with Mr. Brockbank and George S. Ballif of Provo in defending de-fending the city in the supreme court case. Commissioner Whitehead further fur-ther alleges: 1. That investigation investiga-tion of the project and holding special election has already resulted re-sulted in the expenditure of $7000 (Continued on Page Four) F. D. R. ASKS RELIEF FUNDS WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 r.iv President Roosevelt asked congress con-gress for $790,000,000 for relief and related projects in the next Hve months and warned business 'igain that relief costs can be reduced re-duced only by private reemployment. reemploy-ment. The President's request for a deficiency appropriation to provide pro-vide funds for the remainder of the fiscal year from Feb. 1 to Tun 30 was addressed to the speaker of the house of representatives. repre-sentatives. The problem of relief has !;minished, the president said. He -s'imated that at the beginning of this winter 6.000.000 more workers were employed in non-agricultural non-agricultural jobs than in March 1933. He said more than 1,000,000 of these re-employed persons had found jobs with private industry luring the past, year. But the president complained that recovery has been accompanied accom-panied recently by a "tendency toward a longer work week" and he charged that some employers "who are working their employes unreasonably long hours are failing fail-ing to co-operate with the government gov-ernment and their fellow citizens in putting people back to work. Mental Hygiene Society to Meet Dr. A. A. Robinson of Ogden will sneak at the Utah State Mental Men-tal Hygiene society meeting here Mondav at 7:30 p. m. in city and county building. The doctor was recently elected to his presidential office. Speaker Coming ff-i V S....v I David O. McKay, second counselor coun-selor in the first presidency of the L. D. S. church who will be 'he speaker at the opening general gen-eral assembly at the annual Leadership Week to be held at Brigham Young university Janu ary 25-29. City To Receive Allocations From County Tax Fund Provo city will be allocated ?62,768.42 as its share of $523.-46929 $523.-46929 in December county tax collections, figures released from County Treasurer Andrew Jensen's Jen-sen's office this noon show. Provo school district will receive re-ceive $4,627.97. and $1,793.38 will go to the Metropolitan Water district the report indicates. Additional funds totaling $8,-386.79 $8,-386.79 will be distributed among irrigation and drainage districts ;n the county. Percentage I navailable No percentage of tax collected 'igure is available. Frank Bennett, Ben-nett, assistant county treasurer, stated, inasmuch as all taxes for the year are not in as yet. Final igures will be available with the March report he indicated. Utah county funds will total $131,679.90 fo;- distribution. State and state schools will receive $90,-398. $90,-398. 10. Nebo school district will be given $64,501.22. and the Alpine Al-pine school division. $58,624.77. Other allocations are: Lehi. $9,-505.58. $9,-505.58. Alpine. $1,275.25; American Ameri-can Fork. $10,368.06; Pleasant Grove. $5,111.54; Lindun. $1,665.99; Orem. $5.0.0.50. Snrine-ville. $9,717.54; Maple- I ton," $1,818.53; Spanish Fork, $11.-! $11.-! 309.23: Payson. $7,323.90; Salem. $739.36; 'saiuaquin $1,495.79; Genola. $477.27: Goshen, $1,196- 99. Irrigation and drainage districts .allotments in addition include: Mapleton Irrigation district, $2,-289.83; $2,-289.83; Benjamin Drainage district, dis-trict, $2,582.65; Utah County Drainage district, No. 1, $2,053 -37; and Lake Shore and Benjamin Drainage districts. $1,460.94. Merrill To Occupy School Board Seat At Tuesday Meeting Representative of the Fifth municipal ward, Dr. Amos N. Merrill Mer-rill of B. Y. U. will take his place at the school board's first meeting meet-ing of the year, Tuesday at 7:30 p. m. Dr. Merrill, dean of the college "f education, will be sworn into office at that time. Oscar A. Spear, vice president, vill succeed Don W. Conover as president of the board, Mr. Cono-ver's Cono-ver's term having expired. Ver-nard Ver-nard Anderson will take over thf vice presidency. Other members of the board are Mrs. Algie E. BaUif and Bert Crane. Superintendent of Schools H. A. Dixon will sit wUh the board. Appointment of a school board secretary and treasurer are among the items of business for the Tuesday meeting. 20-30 Club Meets Complete reorganization of all committee chairmen under the new presidency and vice presidency presi-dency will be effected by Twenty-Thirtians Twenty-Thirtians at Hotel Roberts Tuesday Tues-day at 7 30 p. m. Full attendance is requested. PIANO RECIT AT, TONIGHT Studnts of Prof. Elmer E. Nelson Nel-son will be presented in a piano recital tonight at 8 . o'clock in College hall. The program is ! given elsewhere in this issue. COLD WAVE SUBSIDING; 10 BELOW Highway 91 Still Closed With Deep Snowdrifts Belcw Cedar City Sub -zero temperatures, which have held the Rocky Mountain region in a shivering shiver-ing embrace for almost a week, appeared to be break-ng break-ng today as the thermometer tarted to climb upward. Around Provo the record cold wave which saw the mercury plummet to a 22 below Saturday morning, the fourth coldest temperature tem-perature on record in recent years was definitely broken, with the beginning be-ginning of a slight thaw at noon today. The Sunday minimum temperature tempera-ture rose four degrees above Sat urday's record breaker to 18 above. The break continued with a minimum of 19 below recorded this morning. Frozen pipes all around the city caused four fires since the cold snap started. Garages with heated heat-ed storerooms were filled to capacity ca-pacity as frozen-up radiators nampered many motorists. The Fourth fire resulting from the thawing of frozen pipes ii Provo in 10 days, a blaze started at the Ahlander Manufacturing plant on South University avenue, early Sunday morning, did estimated esti-mated damage of $100. Following the fire, Fire Chie. Clyde Scott issued a warning to all city dwellers to exercise care in thawing pipes. Fire can seriously seri-ously be spread by the use of ,blow torches, fires, and like ignitions, throughout the house, he warns The east wall of the main shop at the Ahlander plant was burned before firemen could conquer the blaze. Major highways of Utah and Idaho, that had been blocked for art of the time, were being opened, open-ed, with the exception of the Cedar Ced-ar City-St. George stretch of U. S. 91. The death toll caused by the storm in the two states stood at four today, but thousands of head of livestock faced possible death from starvation and cold in the southeastern section of Utah. Somewhat higher temperatures and fair weather were predicted for Salt Lake and western Utah for tonight, but unsettled weather is expected Tuesday. COURT UPHOLDS SILVER PROFITS WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 Uiv The Supreme Court today kept the New Deal's seasonal record in the high tribunal clean of reverses re-verses when it unanimously upheld up-held the retroactive silver profits tax. The retroactive profits tax was imposed in 1934 along with the New Deal silver purchase act. It was intended to recover 50 per ent of the profits of silver speculators in the period immediately immedi-ately prior to passage of the act. By upholding the government, e court continued the trend of the year which has been marked by no decisions striking down New Deal laws. In previous sessions ses-sions one administration measure after another fell before the court's rulings. Spanish War Developments 15V UNITED PRESS The European situation: PARIS France warn6 Germany she will not tolerate German expansion ex-pansion in Morocco. MADRID Spanish News Agency Agen-cy reports Germans are fortifying Ceuta, Morocco, opposite Gibraltar, Gibral-tar, with long-range guns. TANGIER Ten German submarines sub-marines reported off Ceuta. LONDON British doubt reports re-ports of Japanese troops landing In Spain; admirality heads confer on naval movements in Mediterranean. Body Of Matt son Boy Found: Head Caved In Victim Of Fiendish Crime j r V Charles Mattson. 10-year-ohi been slain by kidnapers who had The body of a boy. answering his mutilated todav near Fverett. . c Snow Sports Claim Lives Of 3 Utahns SALT LAKE CITY, Utah. . :ii. 11 (U.R Winter sports in Utah claimed three deaths cday, with two others seriously seri-ously injured, in four sled- . le collisions. The dead included an army ,-Hvate, Ervan E. Boothe, 19, of Burley. Idaho, stationed at Fort Douglas: and two youngsters. Leonard Pearson, 7. Bountiful, and Cohn Bowen Smith, 10. Logan. Lo-gan. The injured were Private Boyd A. Gentillon. 21. of Firth. Idaho. Fort Douglas, who suffered a fracture frac-ture of the pelvis, and Seth Lang-ton. Lang-ton. III. 19. of Salt Lake, who was believed to have a fractured skull. The Pearson boy was killed Sun-'iv Sun-'iv when his sled collided with a skidding truck on a hill near Bountiful. Boun-tiful. Joseph Bangerter, driver of he truck, was absolved of blame m the accident by City Marshal Ersel Hepworth. A collision with a truck caused the death of the Smith lad. He succumbed Sunday to injuries suffered suf-fered when his sled skidded into a nilk truck driven by Hillary Archibald of Clarkston. The accident ac-cident wan held to be unavoidable by Cache county authorities. Langton's injuries were caused by his toboggan overturning. His condition was pronounced "fair" by physicians. Aged Provo Woman Travels To Spokane Traveling alone, Provo's oldest woman, Mrs. Harriett Leavitt, 93, left the city Saturday to make her home with her daughter. Mrs. Hattie Stiefel of Spokane. Washington. Wash-ington. Mrs. Leavitt is believed to also be the oldest woman in Utah county. Tacoma youth, believed to have abducted him for $28,000 ransom. gent-ral description, was found - Traffic Mishaps Take 36 Lives In Utah County Thirty-six deaths by accidental ! and suicidal means occurred in j Utah countv during 1936, Sheriff i Lurneu s annual repori. presented pre-sented to the city commission today, shows. During the year 531 adults were committed to the county jail together to-gether with 59 juveniles. A total of 416 investigations were conducted con-ducted during the year, with 374 arrests. Car accident investigations totaled to-taled 260 with traffic offenses reported as follow: Drunken driving, driv-ing, 15, reckless driving, 10, speeding, 2. Twenty cars were reported stolen and a like number num-ber recovered. Stolen property recovered totaled to-taled $2,814, and fines were reported re-ported at $2,019.46. Money collected col-lected as fees in the civil division Tmounted to $2.25.63. Auto accidents resulted in 16 ieaths. the greatest individual ause. Other causes were: Acci-iental Acci-iental shooting. 4: by train, 2; by falling from wagon. 2; by drowning. 2; and by train and iuto, fall from tree, gravel pit ave-in. electrocution, falling under un-der tractor -one each. Gun fire and poison gas caused two suicides and jumping from j a building resulted in a fifth. Arrests included the following: Second and third degree burglary, burg-lary, 16; assault and batten,', 10; disturbing the peace. 12; fraudu-( fraudu-( Continued on Page Five) Health Commissioner To Speak To Medics Dr. J. L. Jones, state health commissioner, will discuss the proposed legislative program for the new basic public health law at the first regular meeting of the Utah County Medical Society for the year, to be held Wednesday at 7 p. m. at the Roberts hotel. The Ladies' auxiliary members will njeet with the medics and some of them will furnish the musical entertainment of the ' evening, according to Dr. J. J. Weight, secretary. IDENTIFIED BY FRIEND OF FAMILY (Bulletin) EVERETT, Wash., Jan. 11 (U.R) The dead body of 10-year 10-year old Charles Mattson, kidnaped two weeks ago from his Tacoma home, was found in the woods six miles south here today by a boy hunting hunt-ing rabbits. The body was positively identified as that of the missing miss-ing boy by Paul H. Sceva of Tacoma, close friend of the Mattson family. EVERETT, Wash., Jan. 11 (U.R) Chief Criminal Deputy Ray Ryan of the Snohomish county sheriffs office today announced discovery of a boy's body answering the general gen-eral description of kidnaped Charles Mattson of Tacoma. The body was found by Gordon Morrow, 19, 200 feet off the Edmonds - Everett highway six miles south of Everett. The head was caved in as fhough struck by a club or ther blunt weapon, or by an xn1osive bullet. "There is absolutely no doubt about it being the Mattson Matt-son bov as far as I am concerned." con-cerned." Deputy Ryan said. The bodv was lying 200 feet off Ednicnds - Everett highway high-way six miles south of here. RT aeents in Tacoma were notified immediately, and were enroute here. Everett was about 60 miles from Tacoma. Ta-coma. Young Morrow stumbled o.-pr the body while chasing a -shbit. ' He sai'd he was sitting in his house when he saw the "abbit dash into the woods. ttp rfPd after the rabbit and vmbled over the gruesome find. Morrow rushed to the house and exclaimed to his father: "Dad. I think I've found he Mattson boy." The body was nude. There was no blood on it or on the nearby ground, indicating1 'hat the child had been slain Hsewhere and his body thrown into the brush. The scene where the body was found was on the Alex N'ickolon place at a spot no one was known to have visited visit-ed for two years. Ryan- said the body was not decomposed and he believes it was dumped where it. was found! no earlier than last night Fresh auto tracks and footprints foot-prints in the snow L?v?cated the driver had swerved suddenly from the highway and carried the body into the woods. Sheriff officers immediately photographed the find, and took molds of the tire prints. The body will be left untouched until FBI agents arrive. The murdered boy was found in a thicket of small alders on logged off land. McADOO SOX DIES NEW YORK, Jan. 11 UE Rcb-rt Rcb-rt H. McAdoo, 23, third son of Sen. William G. McAdoo, D., Calif., died last night of double oneumonia. McAdoo was a son of the senator sena-tor by his first marriage to Sarah Houston Fleming, who died in 1912, |