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Show -7-'. - . . . 'Spmngmlle unday Exk ubifc Weather Forecast UTAH Unsettled tonight and Thursday with rain or snow Thursday and west portion tonight; to-night; warmer tonight. Maximum temp., Tuesday ... 53 Minimum temp., Tuesday ... 22 FIFTY-FIRST YEAR, NO. rfci D)f bi MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN Roosevelt, Labor Leaders Alarmed At Reaction To Sit-Down Strike; Enemies Point to Seizure of Property Proper-ty in Arguing Judiciary Issue; Is-sue; Chrysler Strike Unwanted Un-wanted By CIO ; Small Militant Mili-tant Group Forced It ; Voluntary Vol-untary Rail Arbitration Plan Urged To Keep Hot-Heads Hot-Heads in Hand. WASHINGTON Insiders, both around the president and in high Labor circles, are beinning to wonder whether the proverbial Roosevelt luck suffered its first major reverse at the precise moment mo-ment when the sit-down strike came around the corner. To say they are worried Is putting it mildly. This includes not only the president, but even such labor leaders as John L. Lewis and Sidney Hillman. This secret alarm was behind the guarded but pointed condemnation condem-nation of the sit-down strike in the senate the other day. Roosevelt's enemies have been spreading the word that the,, seizure of factories, and general disregard for private property are what can be expected when the Tiation rets a radical administration administra-tion and labor get the whip-hand. They have also sent out the rallying rally-ing cry that this is what can be expected it Kooseveit is given a free hand with the Supreme Court. All of which is getting decidedly decided-ly on Administration nerves. CHRYSLER STRIKE Inside story of the Chrysler sit-down, sit-down, was that labor leaders were much aeainst it. Walter Chrys ler long has been friendly to (Continued On Page Three ) Governor Accepts Invitations From Livestock Show SPANISH FORK Governor and Mrs. Henry H. Blood have accepted an invitation to attend the thirteenth annual Junior Livestock Live-stock show and to be the guests of honor at the banquet to be served by the Kiwanis club at the school auditorium Governor's day, May 5 t 8 p. m. it was announced by the Livestock show committee at meeting held at the city hall Monday Mon-day night. R. C. Swalberg presided. pre-sided. All committees are complete com-plete and plans are going forward satisfactorily. Fifteen hundred premium lists with entry blanks were addressed to old and prospective pros-pective exhibitors in all parts of the state Monday night. This was the main business of the meeting. meet-ing. The full roster of officials and committees are now announced announc-ed as follows: Utah county commissioners, Wm. J. . Johnson. Sylvan Clark and Theron Hall. Spanish Fork City officials who are sponsoring the show: Mayor (Continued on Page Eight) Musser to Speak on Supreme Court at Mass Meeting Attorney Burton W. Musser of Salt Lake City, speaking on "The Supreme Court and the Constitution" Constitu-tion" will address the public Forum For-um Wednesday at 8 p. m. in Provo high school auditorium. Arthur Gaeth, B. Y. U. instructor instruc-tor who has spent many years in the Lb D. S. missiou service in Europe, will be next week's speaker. speak-er. Hitlerian Germany will be discussed by Mr. Gaeth. FIRE SWEEPS COUOBADO TOWN ALMA, Cok., March 24 ap Fire whipped by a 50-mile-an-hour sale swept the main business block .of this small mining town early today, razfngr seven buildings. Damage was estimated at $100,- ooo . ' : 184 o) RESIDENTIAL WATER USERS ON FLAT RATE New Rules To Go Into Effect Ef-fect June 1, Commission Commis-sion Votes Today All residential Provo culinary culin-ary water users will be charged on a flat rate basis, effective June 1, the city commission com-mission announced Wednesday. Wednes-day. Indicated plentifulness of water supply, high cost to meter all home water users, and greater equitability to all concerned con-cerned in the light of present conditions were indicated reasons for the decision. Ultimately it is hoped that the city can all be put on a meter basis as the business section now is. At present, however, other needs are more urgent the commission com-mission pointed out. To Adjust Billing-City Billing-City Commissioner Walter P. Whitehead stated that the June 1 date will allow ample time to adjust ad-just billing details to the new all-flat all-flat rate base. Industrial and business institutions insti-tutions and apartment houses will, of course, be provided water at a metered charge. Commenting on the decision following the meeting Mayor Mark Anderson made the following follow-ing statement: "Under the new arrangement i all single home units will be on a flat rate, and all commercial users including apartment houses will be on meters. Ultimately all culinary water users will be placed on meters because be-cause this is the fairest way to sell water. Circumstances at the present time do not justify metering meter-ing the city in the opinion of the commission. Favorable Water YisW "Watershed conditions are very favorable and will probably continue con-tinue favorable for some time. Our water supply is from deep springs the flow of which does not fluctuate immediately with the amount of precipitation. 1936 was the third wettest year of record rec-ord and 1937 is above normal. "The commission believes that extensions and improvements of the system arc of greater importance import-ance than metering. "When the city is metered it will be done as one project, and no residential meters will be read until all meters are in." ':'The flat rate system will simplify the office and field work of the waterworks department. "Meter rate customers were given a 50 per cent discount dur- ( Continued on Page Eight) Utah County's Ground-Water Level Up 5 Feet An average rise of five feet in the ground-water level in Utah lake valley was reported by the geological geologi-cal survey, the highest reported re-ported following a series of measurements by G. H. Taylor Tay-lor and H. E. Thomas of the survey. In the Juab valley. Davis county, eastern part of Boxelder county and the Ogden, Cache, and Sanpete valleys, the ground-water level rise was between 3.9 and 4.6 feet. The average rise of ground-water levels in the Jordan river valley was 2 feet; in the lower part of Weber county, 1 foot; in the central Sevier valley, 0.8 foot; in the upper Sevier valiey, 0.4 foottin the Pa-vant Pa-vant valley, 3 feet; and in the Beaver vaHey, 2 feet. The rise in water levels in 12 observation wells in the Milford pumping district. Beaver county, average 0.7 foot. Only in the Cedar City valley, Iron county, did the water level in all observation observa-tion wells decline. The l a r m m PE r 5 j Art Board Members Try Out New i, . x-:-3iVv.'.'.s..': ; . t v Springville art board members, above, are shown giving a trial to the gallery picture display dis-play panel", which are constructed of wood to permit free use of nails, and covered with burlap bur-lap to provide a suitable background. Hanging Mussolini Serious II Duce, Still Smartnrgr iJnder Sanctions;-May Sanctions;-May Lead To Intervention in Spain By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press Cable Editor A crisis even greater than the Qnethreatened by the Ethiopian war in 1935 confronted Europe today. Mussolini is enraged by the turn of events. The Spanish Loyalist government is meditating an appeal to the League of Nations. That would force a meet News Flashes By UNITKD PRESS $40,000 MAIL POUCH TURNS UP MISSINCi SAN FRANCISCO. March 24 - V.V. A mail pouch containing $40,000 disappeared from a San Francisco-Oakland ferry boat on Monday, postal inspectors revealed today. Charles W. Pfaffenberger. chief postal inspector for the Pacific Coast, said the mail pouch contained con-tained $40,000 in currency and was stolen or lost from a United States mail truck Monday morning. GOVERNOR EXPOSES SPYING PLOT DENVER, Colo., March 24 :.v. Gov. Teller Ammons said today he would "blow the lid off" to find out why a dictograph was hidden in a. cold air shaft in his office and what the listeners learned. He demanded that all persons involved in the scheme immediately immediate-ly come forward to make themselves them-selves known, together with their motives and surrender all records of conversation they obtained to Attorney Oneral Byron G. Rogers. Rog-ers. NATIONALIST FORCES WITH LOYALIST ARMY MADRID FRONT. JVfarch 24 a.iri Nationalist forces, concentrating concentrat-ing near Almadrones for a new drive on Madrid suffered the "heaviest losses today, army dispatches dis-patches reported, when they were repeatedly attacked by Loyalist flyers who dropped 460 bombs and fired 15,000 machine gun bullets into their ranks. NEW CHILD LABOR AMENDMENT PROPOSED WASHINGTON, March 24 lk Sen. William E. Borah. R., Ida., today introduced a new child labor amendement dosiened to give congress con-gress power to legislate concerning concern-ing employement of children under un-der 14 years of age. The development came after Mr. Roosevelt? had been in touch with department of labor officials and senate and. house leaders discussing discus-sing the situation. PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, Ml -v.- ;voov.: - : - . I'M Provokes War Crisis ing of the council. Mussolini, still smarting under the sanctions imposed im-posed by that tribunal during the Ethiopian war, would react in a way that might prove disastrous to European relations. May Denounce Pact Into his speech yesterday in which he said the Italian people never would forget sanctions that he would not let them can be read a threat that he will take decisive action if the league and the powers back of it step into the Spanish situation. Such action presumably would be his denunciation of the non-intervention agreement and the dispatch dis-patch of thousands of more troops to Spain to insure the victory of the rebels. The reverses suffered by the Italians at Guadalajara have stung Mussolini, and the French have rubbed salt into his hurts by murmuring in an audible aside that the vaunted Italian military machine after all is not what it has been cracked up to be. Thus, the possible loss of dictatorial dicta-torial prestige is an important factor in the crisis. The seriousness of the situation is emphasized by authentic word from Paris that Mussolini has called in his ambassadors from various European capitols for a report on the trend of events. It is emphasized by Britain's open uneasiness lest a storm break, emphasized by the efforts of officials to persuade the uncen-sored uncen-sored British press to "lay off Mussolini voluntarily.. They feel that the unconcealed satisfaction expressed both in Britain and France over the Italian reserves in Spain may prove more than Mussolini can tolerate. iney also feel that the fact that French commanding officers and a newly-developed, deadly rrencn automatic rifle played a large part in the Loyalist successes success-es is no comfort to Italians. Workers' Meeting Slated Thursday Explanation of the Workers' Alliance national and state program pro-gram will feature an open meeting in city court room, city and county coun-ty building, Thursday at 8" p. m. Election of a chairman, secretary, secre-tary, grievance committee and state representative will follow in a business session. Charles Grant, temporary chairman, wHl be in charge. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1937 Display Panels -w r "is -Si-- : - :o - .v. :-::-;-: "o.". .'.-Hwt- ,f -, ' 1 the picture, left to right, are W. W. Brock-bank, Brock-bank, president of the board; J. F. Wingate, secretary-treasurer; Mae Huntington, publicity director, and Mayor George A. Anderson of Springville. - 17 Killed IVhen Overturned Bus Catches on Fire SALEM, 111., Mar. 24 tf.H Seventeen persons were killed late today when their bus overturned and burned on Highway No. 50 three miles west of here. Five others were seriously in jured and were taken to the Salem Community hospital where doubt was expressed for the re covery of three. Occupants of the bus included 20 derby skating contestants, the driver of the bus and his wife. The bus left St. Louis at 10:30 a. m., for Cincinnati where a skating derby, staged by Roller Derby, Inc., opens tomorrow. Part of the passengers had competed com-peted in a derby that just closed in St. Louis. While crossing a concrete bridge over a small creek the bus apparently blew a tire, side-swiped side-swiped into the bridge rail and overturned. It remained on the bridge but burst into flames, trapping most of the occupants. Five persons were removed and rushed to the Salem Community hospital where fear was express ed that only two would recover s pnng Out By PROFESSOR FINKELSTEIN It's like I was telling my man Bradbury this morning; so pleasant to see the Spring landscape not newly bedecked with snow. Not that I mind now, for I might say that we Finkel-steins Finkel-steins are a hardy race. Why,?. back in 1867 my older brother, 1 And here's what A. B. Simmons Hepzebiapiah X. Finklestein . . . but the editor says I can save that one. (But it is a good story). As I was saying, though, I don't mind snow, but in Spring well, it's like ordering a banana split and getting a "coke" which is pretty vague, I guess. . . . Rem timber, folks, the spring pome contest has a few more days to run. This is the time to give vent to your poetical fancy and try the results on the professor. There is room for two or three of the best to be printed every day while the contest is on. Even the school children are catching the spirit. Here's one, for instance (author's name withheld with-held for certain -reasons) : I don't want to go to schools, I don't want to learn those rules, I don't want to, I don't care, I don't want to, and so there. Don't argue, I'll get mad, Stamp my foot, I will, by gad! Lay on the floor, kick my feet, When dinner's ready I won't eat. The cause of it now don't you 'know:? . Spring ijs here, so I WON'T, go. Herald. PAINTINGS BY ARTISTS OF FAME ARRIVE New $80,000 Art Building Build-ing To Be Used For The First Time By MRS. MANILA BROWN SPRINGVILLE Featur ing a brand new $80,000 art building, Springville's annual an-nual art exhibit will open Sunday Sun-day morning, a very appropriate appro-priate time, Easter Sunday. It's the sixteenth annual opening of the renowned national na-tional high school art show which has grown far beyond the fondest expectations of its founder, who began a modest exhibit in 1921. The galleries will be open at 9 a. m. Program Set Monday A formal opening program will be conducted Monday, at 11 a. m., at the high school auditorium, with Dean Gerrit de Jong of the Brigham Young university, scheduled sched-uled to speak. A special invitation has been extended to Mayor George A. Anderson and members of the Springville city council, the art board, Superintendent Owen L. Bamett and members of Nebo school district board, the B. Y. U. faculty, local club members, and contrlbutm patrons, to attend: the exercises. Principal W. W. Brock-bank, Brock-bank, president of the art committee, com-mittee, will be in charge. While a large portion of the art building is not completed, the art committee was advised to hold this year's exhibit at the new loca tion, the display rooms offering much better hanging and lighting facilities than the high school auditorium in which previous exhibits ex-hibits have been held. The permanent high school col lection, composed of about 150 paintings and pieces of statuary, valued conservatively at $150,000, will be viewed this year in the large display rooms on the first floor of the new art building. The pictures in the national art show, comprising approximately 200 pieces of work by many of the most outstanding artists from the larger galleries throughout the country, will be hung in three spacious display rooms on the second sec-ond floor of the building. Two Hafen Paintings An interesting addition to the permanent collection this year will (Continuea on page Eight) Pome Contest Brings Effusions From Bards of Provo has to say: Spring, spring. You dirty old thing. You cover the furniture and Floor with dust, I don't like dusting, But dust I must. I'd rather use the shovel, Snowplow and broom, Than to wipe off your grit Night, morning and noon. They can say what they like About your being lovely! Spring, You are but a conglomeration Of everything, Wind, dust, mud and rain, Your unreliability sure Gives me a pain. And J. F. Wakefield, Utah bee-man, bee-man, who lives at 531 North University Uni-versity avenue, sends in following labeled as "a sample of my poetic effusion": THE MARCH WIND The March wind doth blow, And with it more snow! O, what of the honey bee, then Poor thing? She'll return to her hive And try to survive "Til the blossoms come out and it's Spring, . Sweet thing:! So They Sayf The agreement with the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Corporation represents rep-resents the greatest single stride the American labor movement has ever taken. John L. Lewis, head of C. I. O. COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS 8ERVICB EI r r Jl VJ u u u Admits Oil 'Steal' William C. Shaw, superintendent superinten-dent of the New London, Texas, school admitted before a military board of inquiry that the gas which exploded and killed 426 persons mostly school children was taken without permission from the pipelines of a private company. Shaw's youngest child died in the tragedy. Boiler Insurance Is Authorized By School Board That boiler inspection and insurance in-surance be obtained immediately in all Provo city school heating plants was decided upon at the meeting of the Provo board of education Tuesday night. Action will be taken immediately immedi-ately by Superintendent H. A. Dixon, who was authorized to contact various insurance companies. com-panies. Board members felt that inspection of the boilers which insurance companies carry out would be a safety precaution worth even more than the insurance insur-ance itself. A rigid inspection of all school heating systems would bring to light any existing exist-ing defects, they said. Real Estate Iurchase Members of the board gave a committee consisting of Super-tendent Super-tendent Dixon. Bernard Anderson, Ander-son, and Bert Crane the authority author-ity to purchase a lot just west of the Timpanogos school as a move towards expanding the present pres-ent playground. The county owns this property at present. Miss Vera Bagley of Provo. senior at B. Y. U., was named to fill a part-time position at Franklin school for the remainder of the school year. She succeeds Gussie B. Johns who resigned. re-signed. Miss Bagley will receive her Bachelor of Arts degree at B. Y. U., this spring. Compensation Granted The board agreed to award Mrs. Jesse Arrowsmith of Mae-ser Mae-ser school a weekly compensation (Continued on Page Eight) FARM PLANNING BOARD NAMED Leaders in 17 fields will present their recommendations to Utah county's new Agricultural Planning Plan-ning board April 9. Hailed by county leaders as a distinct advance in formulation of organization and collective expression ex-pression of all agricultural interests inter-ests in the county, the board Tuesday night named its executive committee and officers, then proceeded pro-ceeded with appointment of committee com-mittee heads. Lee R. Taylor of Payson is chairman, and County Agent S. R. Boswell of Pipvo, Secretary, of the executive committee which includes in addition the following: Charles DeMoisy, Jr., of Provo; Mrs. Mable Stewart of Payson and (Continued on Page EightT SECOND WARD CHOIR Joseph H. Taylor, Second ward choir chorister, is calling all members mem-bers of the choir and their partners part-ners to a social to be held Thurs day evening after rehearsal, in the Relief Society hall. ... " J PRICE FIVE CENTS BLOOD FEARS DEFICIT IF ACT PASSES Pension and Tax Exemption Exemp-tion Inconsistent Says Message SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March 24 (U.R) Utah's oldsters old-sters today were assured old age pensions as a matter of "right and not of charity," but approval of the social security se-curity program by Governor H. H. Blood was accompanied by sacrifice of the homestead exemption ex-emption bill. The one was signed, the other vetoed late on the last day allowed for consideration of measures passed by the recent regular session ses-sion of the 22nd legislature. Considered Together The governor, in a brief veto message, said he had considered the two proposals together. "One would drain the state treasury of all its reserves, while the other would dry up the wells of revenue." reve-nue." The homestead act would have exempted from property tax levies of the state, counties and school districts, a home or homestead to the amount of $2,000 assessed valuation and $300 worth of .house- . hold furnishings. $30 Per Month Under the old age assistance bill, Utah residents over 65 years of age will receive $30 a month or the amount necessary to bring their total income to that amount. "The two objectives are inconsistent," incon-sistent," Blood said. "We cannot have our cake and eat it." "Simple arithmetic will show that if both bills become law the state cannot, over a period of years, meet the expectations of those who are hoping for adequate old age assistance. "If the aged are to be assured such assistance, we must protect our present revenue, use up our existing reserves, and even then must find new sources of revenue at the end of the next biennium. "It may be that our experience in the next two years will help to point the way to a sounder program pro-gram of social security and equality equal-ity of taxation," he said, concluding conclud-ing his veto message. Along with the pension bill, S. (Continued on Page Eight) Two Utahns Die in Texas Crash AUSTIN. ,Tex.. March 24 I.n A heavy sedan, estimated to have been traveling 70 miles an hour, skidded on the road and collided with a dance orchestra's truck at the top of a hill near here, killing five persons. The dead were: E. D. Davenport, Daven-port, president of an oil company that bore his name; Earl Roberts, Rob-erts, his chauffeur; Donald Tarr. 21, Kingman, Kan., his guest, and two members of the Glenn Lee orchestra Edgar Williamson, Ogden, Og-den, Utah, and Sanford Hendry. Salt Lake City. Squaw Creek, March 24 Provo Newspaper: Indian Charlie alarmed at recent re-cent report that Indians may be allowed to vote. Charlie says White Man has taken land away from Indians, scared him to death with automobile, auto-mobile, made him sick with firewater, fire-water, killed off buffalo and deer. Not satisfied yet. Wants Indian to have to listen to political politi-cal speeches, get hand shaken by peanut politician. - get papoose kissed by candidates for governor, gover-nor, listen to big squawk every night on radio, go down to settlement set-tlement every election day and mark ballot paper. Worst blow of all, Charlie says. PIUTE JOE |