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Show s 4 .v 3 "' 4 1 4- So TVtetf Say 1 People are prone to believe anything any-thing connected with - electricity. Dr. Frank B. Clancy, American Medical Association, scoring patent medicines. Weafter Forecast UTAH: Generally fair tonight and Wednesday, little change In tero-peratnre.' tero-peratnre.' Max. temp., Monday ....61 Min. temp., Monday 25 FIFTY-FIRST YEAR, NO. 173 PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 1937 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS PRTfTF FT VP. CENTS TELEGRAPH NBWS 8SRVXCB 1 V11 r 1 v v-'-cui A in . - - m 3 it- 0J IMIiuyuwu COURT CHANGE FOES SCORED BY FARLEY Roosevelt to Speak to the Nation Tonight On Court Proposal CHAPEL HILL, N. C, Mar. 9 (U.P.) Democratic National Chairman James A. Farley .old University of North Carolina Caro-lina political students today that he is "inclined to feel sorry," for members of his party who have joined in the opposition to President Roosevelt's judicial reorganization plan. He charged that Democrats who are leading the drive to defeat the proposals have '"placed themselves them-selves in the position of aiding a Republican effort to climb back to power." "Out Of Step" If sthe question could be put to an Immediate popular vote, Farley contended. Democrats who opposed the president's plan would "find themselves as lonesome as did the others who cast their lot with the Liberty League last November." "It seems to me that the incident inci-dent or vne (Judicial reorganization reorganiza-tion plan comes dire'ctly into the class of those matters on which party loyalty schould be the guiding guid-ing principle." WASHINGTON, March 9 (U.P) President Roosevelt will take personal per-sonal command tonight of the supreme sup-reme court reorganization fight which has divided his party and may end in - compromise settlement. settle-ment. The president will speak to the nation in a fireside chat at 9:30 p. m. C. S. T. It will be the eighth chat of his white house -tenure and the second time within a week that he has broadcast an appeal ap-peal for authority to expand the nation's highest court to 15 members mem-bers if six justices now over the (Continued On Page Three) MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON The job of collecting the three billion dollars dol-lars worth of mortgages which the HOLC has advanced to home-owners has put bearded, hard-working John H. Fahey in a tough spot. Up until last June, Chairman Fahey and his board were happy and contented. No dead cats came their way. They were paying out the money, calling upon almost no one to pay it back. But now repayment day has come and the Home Owners Loan Corporation, with 15 years to collect col-lect its $3,000,000,000 of mortgages, mort-gages, has become the greatest liquidating agency in Washington. Washing-ton. Fahey got his first deluge of dead cats when he appeared before be-fore the house Appropriations committee and was accused of enforcing en-forcing a Scrooge-like foreclosure policy. "Instead of turning people out in the streets,'' Congressman criticized, criti-cized, "why not declare a one-year holiday on foreclosures? Increasing Increas-ing prosperity will enable a lot of owners to pay up their mortgage interest by that time." FIRM FORECLOSURES V . But Fahey stood by his guns, insisted that HOLC could not be lenient withput risk of losing the government's $3,000,000.0000 investment. in-vestment. Once HOLC started de laying mortgage payments, he pointed out, every homeowner would expect it. He cited figures estimating at there would be only 160,000 foreclosures by July 1, 1938. On the (Continued on Page 2, Sec. 2) Party Leaders To Be Honored At Party In honor of former Democratic County Chairman Dr. Hugh Woodward and former Vice Chairman Chair-man W. W. Brockbank, executive officers of the county will meet at the home of Mrs. Frances G. Callahan at 8 o'clock this evening. , Leather brief cases, with their names inscribed in gold, will be presented to the former leaders, (tefreshments will be served fol-kfrtg fol-kfrtg the event Road Chairman . ' kv ... 114 rV .. ED SHRIVER Munition Steamer Towed Into Port As Prize of fJ a r ARCHACHON, France, March 9 U.R The only un-captured un-captured survivor of the Spanish freighter Mar Canta-brico, Canta-brico, torpedoed, shelled and seized by the rebel cruiser Canarias, arrived here today and reported tbafr -the- ship, instead of sinking, had been towed to port as a prize of war. SAINT JEAN DE LUZ, France, March 9 U.Pi Madrid may fall because of the sinking of the steamer Mar Cantabrico with a $2,700,000 cargo of war materials from the United States, Spanish government spokesmen intimated today. One government authority said that the loss of the vessel, which was sent to the bottom of the Bay of Biscay yesterday by the nationalist cruiser Canarias "would make a big difference in the loyalists' chances." The ship, he said, carried "exactly the material on which we were rely iner for an offensive to clear Madrid-Making Madrid-Making no secret of their consternation, con-sternation, the loyalist spokesmen, said that of the varied cargo of war supplies. the government most urgently needed the American Ameri-can airplanes and machine guns on board the hip. The British destroyers Echo and Eclipse, bringing accurate details of the sinking of the Mar Cantabrico, Canta-brico, hove to off port today to await high tide to permit them to enter. Whether the rebel shells set fire to the ship or whether it was purposely set on fire by the crew before they abandoned it, was not immediately clear. Girl, 14, Married - UMATILLA. Fla.. M.rch 9 i:.!! R." F. Scates. 61-year-old orange grove worker who married a g'rl of 14. said today that it was love at first sight. The bride, blonde and blue-eyed Dollie Butler, said "yes" afte. a courLship of two months. The newlyweds were honeymooning at theji home here today. A notary public married them last noght. Death Descends Doctor, Child SHOALS, Ind.. March 9. i;.P Mrs. Pauline May Boyd, 19, lap white and shivering on the bed ot her humble three-room cottage. Dr. Charles F. Hope, 69, felt her pulse, shook his head. There was a life to be saved, another to be started. The child must be born or the mother would die. There was no hope of normal delivery. de-livery. Death threatened and Dr. Hope called for help. A new spasm of agony seized Mrs. Boyd asDr. E. E. Long rushed to the bedside. The doctors tried to use forceps. for-ceps. They were useless. Only $1 000 ASKED FOR TOURIST ADVERTISING Shriver Named Chair man Of Chamber's Road Committee Members of the chamber of commerce highway committee were named and a request for $1,000 tourist advertising; presented pre-sented at chamber of commerce com-merce proceedings Monday night. President Sidney W. Rus-Bel Rus-Bel named Ed Shriver to head the 'highway unit with John O. Bees-iey, Bees-iey, Russ Traher, Walter Adams, George S. Ballif, and others not yet selected to assist him. Immediate conference with Eureka Eu-reka authorities regarding work on the Santaquin-Eureka highway was asked of the committee. J. Edwin Stein, chairman of the tourist bureau, submitted a $1,000 budget asking the following: Twenty new highway signs similar sim-ilar to the score installed last year; one billboard sign for installation in-stallation at Kimball junction above Heber; repainting of neighborhood neigh-borhood service club signs; and 10,000 folders on the tourist attractions at-tractions of Provo and vicinity. The budget estimate was submitted sub-mitted to the finance committee for recommendation. Traffic Deaths In Utah County at 7 for 1937 With the passing of Benjamin H. Harrington. 50, of Fort Worth, who Sunday died in Lehi hospital of injuries received more than a month ago in a truck accident, Utah county's death toll from accidental ac-cidental causes roe to four for the week end ant! seven for the year. Mrs. Mell Allspach and Elmer Hardy of Payson, and Reese Phillips Phil-lips Sr. of Castle Gate wefe the other recent victims. Mr. Harrington lingered after suffering sevexe head and back injuries when struck by a truck at the Salt Lake and Utah Railroad's Rail-road's American Fork station early in February. Surviving him is his widow, Mrs. Kate Woodruff Harrington. "e was a sPecai oraneman on me railroad. The body is enroute to Texas for funeral service and burial. The other three fatalities are as follows: John Smith, 76, Provo, by a Union Pacific train on tracks just north of Provo, January 8. Marcus C. McCarter, 47, Glen-dale, Glen-dale, California, on the bridge crossing the Spanish Fork river on highway 91, January 19. Lewis Edwards, 74, Castilla, killed by a D. & R. GJ W. train near Castilla, February 13. City Formulates Airport Policy Provo city commissioners went cn record that "our municipal airport will at all times be operated oper-ated and maintained for the public pub-lic benefit, without unjust discrimination discrim-ination against or in favor of any operator, including any scheduled sched-uled airline operator," Monday night. The action was taken in line with similar proposals all throughout through-out the nation in answer to a request re-quest of the department of commerce com-merce bureau of air commerce. On Mother, at Same Time hope was in the doctor's sklh led, quick fingers. Perhaps he could change the position of the child. Anesthetics were administered. ad-ministered. Dr. Hope bent to his task. An instant of electric suspense sus-pense and Dr. Hope straightened, straight-ened, gasped, collapsed in a chair. ' Dr. Long rushed to his side. He was dead, victim of exertion exer-tion and heart attack. Dr. Long whirled to the patient, leaned over her. She was dead. He listened for, heartbeats heart-beats of the unborn child. It waa dead. Highway Pavfed Witi Gold rv A highway which Is literally "paved with gold" connects the towns of Julian and Ramona, a distance of 11 miles In San Diego County, Calif. It was constructed in 1936 and now assays $7 to the ton but the satch is that mining men say it would not pay tatear it up and sell as ore. Material for the road was obtained from a quarry now operated by Fred Koele and .Qrval Hammer, seen above, at the side of the highway. New Store Provo retail merchants Be schedule effective next Monday morning at a meeting of the chamber of commerce today. Stores will open at 9:30 a. m., closing on week days at Calendar Of Local Events VETERANS FOREIGN WARS The local post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will hold a business busi-ness meeting Wednesday at 8 p. m. in the Armory. JUNIOR C. OF C. The Provo junior chamber of commerce will meet Wednesday night at Keeleys to hear a talk by Prof. Laval Morris of the B. Y. U. on "A Country Estate On a Building Lot." The meeting starts at 8 o'clock. COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY Dr. L. L. Daines, dean of the medical school, University of Utah will speak to the Utah County Medical Society, Wednesday, 7:30 p. m. at the home of Dr. Garland H. Pace, 1079 East Center street. 20-80 CLUB The regular business meeting of the Provo 20-30 club will be held tonight at 8 p. m. at the Hotel Roberts with Clarence Vacher, president, in charge. 4 - ORDER OF DE MOLAY Members of the Al Sirat chapter, Order of De Molay will meet Wednesday Wed-nesday at 7:30 p. m. in the Masonic temple with Master Counselor Joseph Hanson in charge. I. O. O. F. LODGE The initiatory degree will be administered ad-ministered to 11 candidates at the meeting tonight at 7:30. A buffet luncheon will follow. DENTAL SOCIETY "Hobby Night" will feature the Utah County Dental Society program pro-gram Wednesday at 7 p m. in Keeleys. Speakers and their hobbies hob-bies will be: Dr. Frank Reynolds, painting; Dr. Harold Christensen, violin manufacturing; Dr. L. D. Pfouts, skiing; and Dr. L. E. Ot-teson, Ot-teson, guns. PUBLIC FORUM "Problems of the Supreme Court and the Roosevelt Plan" will be discussed by George JEL FaJHf Wednesday at 8 p. m. In the library lib-rary room, Central building, as a part of the public forum series of the . adult ; education: program. if ; ,1 Hours To In "Effect Here decided upon a new store hour 5:30 p. m. and on Saturdays at 6 p. m., W. R. Butler, who took charge of the meeting, announced. Stores observing the new hours who agreed tQ .the time are Lewis Ladies' store, Leven's, Christesj.-sen's, Christesj.-sen's, Butler's, Dixon - Taylor Russell company, Mose Lewis, Fir- mage's, Taylor Brothers, Shriver's, The Booterie, . and Sol Jacobs. Mr. Butler immediately sent a telegram to Clyde Crockett, chair man of . the chamber's retail mer chant committee and manager of the J. C. Penney store, who is vacationing va-cationing in Los Angeles, notifying notify-ing him of the action and requesting request-ing that he advise what action his store will take in closing. Commenting on the action, Clayton Clay-ton Jenkins, chamber secretary, stated that Salt Lake City and Ogden in Utah are working on the new time schedule, and that all large cities on the west coast and in the east favor it. The plan follows the trend . in working conditions to shorter hours and greater pay. In Provo merchants explained that employes em-ployes wil lbe granted the same pay as previously although -hours of work per day will be less. Five stores have agreed to the. 5:30 p. m. closing time without specifying any morning hour. Wes tern Auto Supply, Reed's Rite- waVi Bennett's, Gessford's and Cockrell and Jones are the five. Cards will be put in the windows win-dows of those firms who have already al-ready signed. Worry Seen as Efficiency Foe If you must worry, worry efficiently suggested Prof. M. Wilford Poulson, Brigham Young university, in addressing Utah county Mental Hygiene society members here Monday night "Budget your time so as to provide only one short period each day in which to worry. During: the preceding 24 hours enter on a suitable memo pad the proposed list of items about which it would be useless to worry and then worry 'with a vengeance for a sufficient time only, on the remaining items, if any. All wasteful and unmethodical, worrying worry-ing is to be discontinued," he explained. Taking a more serious vein Professor Poulson remarked that American overtension, jerkiness, breathlessness, intensity and agony of expre&siQji are bad habits bred of custom and example, born of the imitation of bad models and (Continued on Page Three) . Reorganization Public Asked By Committee -o Appropriations Committee Asks For 7V2 Million SALT LAKE CITY, Mar. 9 (U.R) The budget appropria tions committee today submitted submit-ted two measures for introduction intro-duction in the house calling for an expenditure of $7,563,-395.48, $7,563,-395.48, more than one million dollars over the governor's previously submitted table of appropriations ap-propriations and recommended budget. The governor, in his annual budget message, submitted requests re-quests for $6,341,786.10. The committee's com-mittee's report shoves up estimated esti-mated expenditures for the 1937-39 1937-39 biennium by $1,211,609.38. The committee said the budget would be balanced, but admitted that new taxes would have to be levied in order to achieve an even setup of expenditures and revenues. rev-enues. An ad valorem tax of two and four tenths mills on each dollar of taxable property in the 'state was recommended in the measures The budget committee said this tax would be necessary in order to raise the schedule of appropriations appro-priations recommended. SWtliCTED GOLF PRESIDENT J. Edwin Stein was elected by acclamation as president of the Timpanogos Golf association for 1937 at a membership meeting at Hotel Roberts today. He succeeds suc-ceeds John W. McAdam. Clyde Clark, secretary for the 1, V V- ?-2-'&rr' ' '-Vv J. EDWIN STEIN past year, was voted in as vice president by acclamation, and the following were named directors by the same method: Ray Moruson, Dr. C. O. Jensen, Dr. Vern Greenwood Green-wood and Clayton Jenkins. Election of the above officers followed Clayton Jenkins' motion to continue the Timpanogos Golf association, ratVer than turn the (Continued on Page Three) V;-. Beautification Planned On Provo - Springville Highway Further beautification of the ingville highway will begin ne3tjt week as twenty men of the; state highway commission plant honey, locust, black walnut, Russian olive and Siberian elms along the route. The project will be one of three similar projects in Salt Lake, Utah and Sevier s counties, E. A. Howe of the commission states. Slopes in Parley's canyon between be-tween the mouth and Mountain Dell reservoir; and planting of elms and shrubs on both' sides of the- highway north of Richfield are emboidied in the other plans. Service Unit State Land Bcard, Insurance Department, Purchasing Department Also Scored; Tax Commission Receives Praise SALT LAKE CITY, Mar. 9 (U.R) Stunned by a legislative investigating committee report which severely criticized the policy and operation of the State Liquor Commission, members mem-bers of the commission called an emergency meeting today. It was reported they were reading the report of the investigating in-vestigating committee headed by Senator D. W. Parratt, Salt Lake, in which the commission as a whole was held responsible respon-sible for alleged improprieties concerning enforcement and 't-Z sale of beer licenses.. HIGHLIGHTS OF STATE REPORT SALT LAKE CITY, March 9 U.E Following are highlights from the state investigating committee's com-mittee's report upon six state departments: de-partments: 1. Liquor Commission The committee com-mittee finds that at least one of the attorneys and the chief enforcement en-forcement officer regularly employed em-ployed by the liquor control commission com-mission enforcement division was actively encouraging the installation installa-tion of marble machines and their use in places where beer was being be-ing dispensed under license and with knowledge that the operator was being required to recognize a payoff in operating such machines. 2. Public Service Commission The committee finds that the waittmr -poHey thereommissktt cannot longer be,-adhered to . . there is no definite or fixed policy in the department .. .the commission commis-sion has been satfisf ied to settle . . . complaints without regard... to the subject of fair rates to the general public . . . complete reorganization reor-ganization of the personnel of the public service commission is imperative. im-perative. S. State Insurance Department Two expense accounts . v filed by the commissioner .. .wereir-regular. .wereir-regular. The committee . . . recommends recom-mends that the commissioner and heads of other departments. . .exercise, .ex-ercise, care in itemizing their (expense (ex-pense ) accounts. 4. Department of Supplies and Purchases We find that a large percentage of the purchases of the department are made without competitive com-petitive bids. Your committee feels that there is no marked irregularity ir-regularity in the conduct of the department. .. however, there does appear to be a rather larre amount of business awarded to the Printing Company . . . Further investigation investiga-tion is. . .desirable. 5. State Tax Commission The committee finds that in a general way the chairman seems to have carefully and efficiently discharged discharg-ed its duties... the administration of the commission has been one of exceptional efficiency. 6. State Land Board As an Isolated Iso-lated unit of state government. . . the board in the handling of the investment of its funds in bonds is to be commended . . . but ... in the investment, reinvestment, purchase, pur-chase, and sale of state funds, through lack of cooperation between be-tween departments, the state has sustained substantial losses, and this has invited practices which have caused various taxing units to be grossly imposed upon. Huge Copper Order WASHINGTON, March 9 (VJi) The navy department will open bids on March 10 for 3,000,000 pounds of grade A ingot copper, it was announced today. Seven hundred trees and 4,000 shrubs are to be planted. Additional projects will also get under way at Nephi, Cedar City, Fillmore and St. George. Each will require about 8,000 man hours of labor. In these projects road grade will be elevated to a standard that will accommodate a maximum maxi-mum highway width including footpaths. Trees and shrubs will then be planted. Planting of trees and shrubs alongside of highways creates an impression of a narrower road and prevents gaze of motorists from - wandering it Is stated. Of Brown To Reply Hugh B. Brown, state adminis- trator, said a formal statement would be issued by the group In reply to charges hurled in the (report. He said the statement would not be ready until a late hour today. While the liquor commission was reading the report, ironically enough furnished them by a newspaper news-paper man and not by the investl-' gating committee, other public officials on Capital Hill were stalking the corridors with glum faces. Members of the Public Service Commission, while declining a statement, could not ignore the flat recommendation that the personnel be drastically reorganized. reorgan-ized. Laxity Is Charged Charges of laxity in enforcing provisions of the .public service statutes in rate cases were made in the investigating committee's report. a JL eanwjiile, . jn embers ,ot the. legislature "planhjya"m"6re sweep-" ing investigation to continue beyond be-yond time of adjournment. No action had yet been taken concerning con-cerning vacating some of the public pub-lic service commission positions. It was intimated by Senator Warwick C. Lamoreaux, Salt Lake, that such action would soon be taken, and that the legislature legisla-ture would ask for resignation of certain of the criticized officials. of-ficials. Renewed Feud Whispered Legislative chambers echoed to whisperings of a renewed feud between the executive branch and the Herbert Maw faction. No comment was forthcoming from the governor's office. First intimation of resumption of the pre-election strife which was believed to have culminated with the apparent victory of the Maw faction in the matter of old age assistance policy was heard today when rumors of an attempted at-tempted impeachment proceeding against the senate president swept the capitoL Last night's executive session of the senate, during which interim in-terim appointments were discussed discuss-ed but not confirmed, was the source for the rumor. As far as could be ascertained! .(Continued On Page Three) BEET GROWERS' MEETINGS SET Sugar beet contracts will be explained to county farmers at Spanish Fork and Lehi this week. S. R. Boswell, county agent, announces. an-nounces. The Central Utah Sugar Beet Growers association Is Jrpon-.'. soring the meetings. "J-t Spanish Fork growers will, meet-: Thursday at 8 p. m. in the juiior high school; Lehi growers, 'Ftiday f at 8 p. m. in Lehi Memorial halL v W. J. Chadwick, association president, and other officers will attend. They will urge growers to plant as large acreages as possible pos-sible this year, with all indications being the most favoraole in many years. MMMWMMMM sSS Squaw Creek, March 9 -Provo Newspaper Joe py Somebody broke Into Jallhouse down at settlement and. stole six V -blankets while Sheriff Ben WhlT- V fletree was Qut to breakfast. .The: . sheriff say this country is, getting v- so dog-goned crooked he has a;.-v good notion to handcuff himself to -1 : his cot at night to-keep from get-' ting kidnaped. - : A- . X "A ..c '.V " v'...--1--' . |