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Show The Weather Hera Herald Service If yon do not receive your BeraM promptly, call the Herald office, 495, before 7 p. m. week day, and 10 a nk Sundays, and a copy wtB be delivered to you. UTAH; Fair tonight and Tuesday, Tues-day, little change in temperature. Frost in north and east portions. Max. temp., Sunday 65 Min. temp., Sunday 20 FIFTY-THIRD YEAR, NO. 77 UTAITB ONL.T DATLT KOT1TH OF SALT LAKF) PROVQ, UTAH COUNTY, UfH, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1938 nnMw.uma TTNITED PRESS DDTPP VI VJ R P.RNT- TTnti urwa MTJRVTC1C AVLVfJUJ A A - 'I he id. Nazis Canal Trapped Photographing Zone Fortifications 1 ' V -. -"."r . X.1 "'V ; MK- A$ - I . -Sl wef Federal authorities are investigating a possible link between four Germans recently arrested in the Panama Canal Zone for photographing photo-graphing strategic fortifications and the defendants in the important German espionage case being tried in New York Federal court. Two of the four suspected spies -are pictured above. At left is Ernst, Robert Rob-ert Kuhrig, of Colon, who, in the repair shop pictured below, had mended typewriters and other machines for army posts on the Atlantic Atlan-tic side of the Canal Zone for four years. Ingeborg Wnltrant Gut-mann, Gut-mann, at rig'ht, is an employe of Hapag-Lloyd, a German steamship line with headquarters at Cristobal. . , . : MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs Dy DREW PEARSON and ROBERT & AXJLEN Roosevelt's Economists Tell Him 1939 Will Be Boom Year Llike 1937; Predict Billion Increase in Construction, Con-struction, Peak Industrial Output; Dempsey, New F. C. C. Counsel, Rise in Federal Fed-eral Service Without "Pull" WASHINGTON In a confidential confi-dential report to the president of a group of ace economists, 1939 is pictured as a very rosy business year. The president asked for the 1839 survey to assist him in preparing the new "budget. The economists are the same hard-boiled experts who predicted the 1937 slump when treasury nd other government govern-ment advisers were very bullish. Their sunny forecast is based on two key factors: 1 A $1,000,000,000 increase in construction in 1939. 2 Industrial production only slightly under the 1937 peak. Construction activity for the current year will total approximately approxi-mately $5,100,000,000. as compared com-pared to $5,800,000,000 in 1937 and $4,900,000,000 in 1936. The economists econo-mists estimate that construction next year will Tange between a "conservative" figure of $6,100,-000.000 $6,100,-000.000 and an "optimistic'' possibility possi-bility of $6,700,000,000. These calculations do not include WPA building, which was excluded because of uncertainty over the extent of next year's WPA program. pro-gram. If it is added, the total would be around 1930's soaring $8,100,000,000. The economists expect 400,000 new dwelling units to be built next year, an increase of about 30 per cent over this year's 310,000 new homes. Basis for their confidence is ( 1 ) a steady rise in individual bank deposits, which means that prospective home builders will have the money to make down payments; (2) the relatively low percentage of vacant dwellings plus the failure of rents to decline de-cline appreciably; and (3) decreases decreas-es in construction costs. . j INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION i " 1 " ' 1 " "' In non-durable, or consumer goods, the experts estimate; an output out-put in 1939 approximating the 1937 peak. In duraole goods, such, as autos, machinery; and -steef , the prediction is that production while (Continued ca page Three) POWDER PLANT IS BLOWN UP COLUMBUS, Kans., Oct 24 U.R) Eight buildings at the Hercules Powder plant north of here were destroyed by a series of explosions and fire todav. No one was hurt Hundreds of workmen and volunteers fought to save a dynamite magazine which was in the path of a prairie fire that set off the other explosions. Included in the buildings destroyed de-stroyed were several powder magazines, a corning and glaize mills. The explosions of the powder pow-der magazines four miles north of here rocked the country side and could be heard for miles. Fear Big Fire Authorities feared that a major ma-jor conflagration would result if the dynamite were exploded. The workers started back-firing in an attempt to shut off progress of the prairie fire toward the building build-ing where the dyanmite was stored. The prairie fire was from one-fourth one-fourth to one-half a milQ wide and about a mile long. Officials had not determined what started the fire, but it had swept into the area where the buildings were located lo-cated before any effective attempt at extinguishing it could be made. Workers at the plant fled when the buildings caught fire. Committee Chairmen For Christmas Fete Committee chairmen and parade plans for Provo's Christmas Christ-mas Festival opening are announced today,' following a meeting meet-ing at the chamber of commerce office. The opening will be Thursday, December 1, with the parade assembling at 6 p. m. ana- marching at 6:30 p. m. McKay Christensen is general chairman, With Clarence Harmon, parade marshal; and Jean Hoover in charge of candy distribution. Clyde Scott will direct street lighting, with plans for Christmas stars in lights a new part of the already large lighting plan. Wen-dall Wen-dall C. LaBrache will direct store front lighting and merchants' participation. Superintendent J. C. Moffitt will be in charge of musical events, including in-cluding serenading during the weeks following the opening and the advent of Christmas! H. Neal Tut tie will be in charge of transportation. trans-portation. Frank T. Gardner will direct policing and safety; publicity, pub-licity, Clyde P. Crockett;-and W. BOY, 14 ROBS 10 HOMES BY CLEVER RUSE Polite Mannered Youngster Young-ster Leaves Trail Of Robberies He'll help you home with your groceries . .. . He'll buy your old magazines maga-zines ... And incidentally, he'll relieve re-lieve you of the contents of your purse. That's the method of a 14- year-old boy who Friday and Saturday Sat-urday robbed 10 Provo housewives house-wives of a total of about $50 in cash, then left town apparently on the Orem and headed for Salt Lake City. Police were busily working on his trail today. The youth, described as very intelligent, in-telligent, courteous and talkative, maneuvered so smoothly in his purse-emptying campaign that in most cases it was hours before the fleeced realized what he had done. Photograph Furnished He was kind enough to furnish police with his photograph at the Rollo Studio. At the studio on East Center he asked to have his picture .talc-en, .talc-en, gave $1 to pay for '"itr 'and noted where the change was kept. Then he asked for water and as it was being obtained, yelled his folks were outside and dashed out and around the corner. The theft was not noted until Sunday when the small change box was found. At other homes he requested old magazines, stating his willingness willing-ness to pay for them. Aiding diligently dili-gently in the search he also appeared ap-peared to divine the presence of family purses, contents disappearing disap-pearing with him. At another home he noted a purse and as the telephone rang distracted attention by pointing to a big picture and inquiring if it contained likenesses of relatives. rela-tives. Permission granted him to use the bath room, he emptied the purse of &2.50, Police Chief Henry East said, and left. The housewife, the chief said, thought her daughter had taken the purse and her suspicions were not aroused immediately. Bright looking, the youth is of light complexion, medium build, and was wearing a blue and gray sweater. His hair is parted on the left and loops down over the forehead on the right side. His smile is ready and dimples deeply. The ears are noticeably large. Wilson To Speak M. E. Wilson, undersecretary of agriculture, will be heard at 6:15 p. m., over station K S L. He will outline the New Deal's farm prograrrif. Dean Keller will direct . home lighting events, under supervision of the Junior chamber of commerce. com-merce. Clayton Jenkins will direct schools participation. Line of march for the parade this year will be from Center and Fifth West east on Center to University, Uni-versity, thence north to Second North, thence east to First East, and south to Center, where it will disband. Plans for candy distribution to an estimated 6,000 children are being made. Lines will be met on the street west of city and county building. Utah Power and Light company will furnish free electrical energy for the street lighting. Merchants wilL of course, pay for light used in lighting their own displays. Pharoah Splendor For Her Baby r . Jr St I i i Rainment as splendid as any worn by Egypt's ancient Pharoans has been especially made for thfe eagerly awaited baby of beautiful beauti-ful 17-year-old Farida, above, of Eypt and JK3n:Farouk, whoM she martiea last royal newcomer's layette la ' of pink and blue, entirely handmade and is said to be worth $15,000. .e In the News Prim Camera, once the world's champion boxer but now with his fighting days definitely ended and a failure in a half dozen other centures to make a living, was signed today for a minor part in an Italian movie, "Dark Crossing." Cross-ing." . . : Robert Montgomery, screen ac tor, and his wife were locked up in the railroad police station at New London, Conn., last night to protect them from a crowd of 1000 men and women who sought autographs . . . John J. Glass, a representative in the Ontario legislature, "insisted" "in-sisted" today on a iederal investigation investi-gation of his charges that an active ac-tive anti-semitic campaign is be ing waged in Toronto and through out most of Canada. . . . Glass blamed Nazi government agents for the campaign ... Ruth Etting'n wounded young husband, Myrl Alderman, was recovering re-covering today at an unannounced private home. . . . He was released releas-ed from a Hollywood hospital Saturday Sat-urday eight aays after he was shot by Martin ,Snyder, Miss Et-ting's Et-ting's first husband but it was not announced until last night. . . Shirley Temple, who has won almost every honor possible for a child star, today held the -title of "Grand Marshal" ot Pasadena's 50th annual Tournament of Roses parade to be held on New Year's day. . . . IVoman Bun Over, Killed by Auto BRIGHAM, CITY, Utah, Oct. 24 (ILE) Mrs. Lucy King Wood, 78, was killed when she was struck by an automobile as she was crossing the street to go to an evening churc"h service here last night. Thomas W. Coleman, driver of the. car, was blinded momentarily by lights of approaching ap-proaching cars. Mendelssohn Chorus To Practice Tuesday Mendelssohn male chorus will meet in special practice Tuesday evening at 9:15 o'clock in Provo Community church. It is important im-portant that all members be present I 'ST!. 0 V7?7 1 s& jw.''tv V" i: jreopi . ' 1 J"' i . , i i - in . DEER SEASON TAKES TOLL OF 4 LIVES Two More Accidentally Shot To Death In Southern Utah Utah's deer season death toll stood at four today with the accidental acci-dental slayings of a 19-year-old Holden wife and mother and a 31r year-old Parowan hunter Sunlay. ; Mis. Opal Dorothy Jensen Brunson, wife of Lewis Eldon Branson, Holden, and mother of a nine-month old boy, died two hours after a stray bullet struck her as she sat reading on a rock in a clearing in Holden canyon Sunday morning. Earner Evans, Parowan, died when accidentally shot by a companion, com-panion, Elmer Gurr, Parowan, who fired 300 yards across canyon in the Little Creeks peaks region of Dixie national, forest, 15 miles from Parowan, Deputy Sheriff William Dalton said. Evans died almost instantly. Mrs. Brunson's husband was loading wood on their wagon. He started carrying her down the canyon and a motorist rushed them to a Fillmore hospital where she died. Who fired the shot was not known, but it came from the etmdftorush. Evans and Gurr were hunting up opposite sides of the canyon when Evans Jumped a deer. Gurr did not see his companion on the other slope, fired at the animal, the shot passing too high and into the brush. Cnarley Bentley of Parowan rushed to the spot, finding find-ing Evans dead with a bullet through his head. After carrying the? body for three hours, it was taken to Cedar City by car. Also in the party were Francis ' Dalton, VV. O. Dix, and Homer Howells, Salt Lake City; and Jewel Wilcox, Parowan. Evans is survived by his widow and three children. This Day . . . BORN To Marvin and Catherine Salisbury Salis-bury Meldrum, a daughter, this morning at the Crane maternity home. To Richard and Gladys Berg-strum Berg-strum Davis, a son, at the Crane maternity home Saturday. To Ross G., and Ileen Cox Gillespie of Tooele, a" daughter, Sunday night at the Crane maternity ma-ternity home. LICENSED TO MARRY - Carl Armstrong Watkins, 26, American Fork, and Elna Mae James, 20, Provo. Douglas F. Ingram, 31, Brig-ham Brig-ham City, and Wanda Penrod, 26, Provo. pected On Library Bids Plans for Provo's library remodeling re-modeling are expected to proceed Tuesday following a meeting at "9 a. m., in the city commission chambers of the library board, city commissioners, and the contractor. con-tractor. William G. Lichfield and Ray A. Menlove, Salt Lake City, contractors con-tractors who submitted the previously pre-viously low bid October 17 when all library bids were tabled, will be called into the meeting. By using salvage material fully, ful-ly, and cutting out such detail as book stacks not immediately required, cost of the building will t3 cut to come within the $30,-000 $30,-000 bond issue approved by the city, the mayor estimates. pwA has made available $23,565 for the construction. Visits Local Head (William We&sel, national Boy Scout director of Cubbing, New York City, visited with President Henry A. Gardner of Utah National Na-tional Parks scout council and committee chairman here Monr day. Action 11 Million Workers Affected; Increases Expected In South Utah Governor Among Seven Pledging Cooperation Co-operation in Enforcement; Criticism of Hasty Drafting Already Voiced By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (U.R) Governors of seven states today pledged co-operation to Wage-hour Administrator Elmer El-mer F. Andrews in enforcing the Fair Labor Standards act, which became effective at 12:01 a. m today. Four of the governors represented southern states Alabama, Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana and the others were Iowa, Utah, and Nevada in the west. Gov. Bibb Graves of Alabama announced he had authorized his state labor de- 15,000 THROWN OUT OF WORK SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Oct. 24 rib, UJ) More than 15,000 persons normally employed in San Antonio An-tonio garment factories and pecan shelling plants lost their jobs .when the wage-hour law went mlo effect -today.- . All of the 60 pecan shelling plants in the city closed, the owners own-ers contending that they could not pay the wages demanded by the law and meet expenses. The pecan spelling industry normally employs about 18,000 persons. Garment factories curtailed their operations because of the new law's provisions. Maxwell Burkett, attorney for the International Inter-national Ladies' Garment workers, said that between 2,500 and 5,000 persons in that industry were idle. Heiv Act Demands Record Keeping WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (U.E Under the fair labor standards act, which became effective today, an employer must keep the following fol-lowing records: 1. Employe's full name, address, date of birth, if under 19 years of age, hours worked each day and each week, basis of pay, and the regular rate. ' 2. The wages paid for each work week at the regular rate of pay. 3. Additional wages for each week attributable to the payment of overtime in excess of the regular regu-lar rate. 4. Additions to cash wages at cost or deductions from stipulated wages in the amount deducted at the cost of the item for which de-ducion de-ducion is made, whichever is less. Jones Trial Set For Next Monday Trial of D. Henry Jones, Edge-mont, Edge-mont, held on a charge of involuntary in-voluntary manslaughter in connection con-nection with the highway deaths of two Payson youths June 2, is set for next Monday. Darrell Morgan and Keith Davis, Da-vis, prominent Payson youths, were the young men who died when their motorcycle crashed with a car on the highway just north of Provo. Morgan died instantly in-stantly and avis, without re gaining consciousness. Major Provisions Of Act WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (U.E) Major provisions of the new wage-hour wage-hour law effective today: Twenty-five cents an hour minimum mini-mum wage. Forty-four hours maximum standard work week, in any seven consecutive days. ' Time and one-half in cash for overtime. Prohibition of all child lalbor under 14 years of age. Restricted A partment to employ additional in- spectors to aid in enforcement work. "Fine Spirit" Praised Andrews anticipated additional offers of cooperation from governors govern-ors of the other states. He addressed ad-dressed to all state executives an appeal for cooperation and asked them to send representatives to a state labor law conference here Nov. 14, 15 and 16. Andrews, in a nationally broadcast broad-cast radio address today, praised the "fine spirit" shown by the majority ofAmeri6an employers as tHeTact affecting the wages and hours of 11,000,000 workers in interstate in-terstate commerce became effective. effec-tive. There was a touch of the boisterous bois-terous confusion and turmoil of early days as the labor department's depart-ment's wage and hour division came down the stretch to the effective ef-fective date. Standard Work Week The act impasses a rigid wage-minima wage-minima and establishes a standard stand-ard work week. It undertakes to abolish "oppressive child labor.'' It was enacted last June after a political battle royal which divided and bruised the New Deal-Democratic party. President Roosevelt forced enactment. After midnight it became unlawful un-lawful to: 1- Pay less than 25 cents an hour or its eauivalent to workers m interstate industry. 2. Pay less than time and one half in cash for all work in any week in excess of 44 hours. 3. Employ children in oppressive oppres-sive labor; or employ a child under un-der 14 years in any capacity in interstate industry. The act became effective with equal force on small and large interstate business. Payment of wages greatly in excess of the 25-cents-on-hour minima ' even $3 or more an hour does not exempt the employe from the 44 hour standard work week nor exempt the employer from payment of time and one-half overtime for work above that standard. Agriculture Exempted But there have been some indications indi-cations that the wage-hour division divis-ion will be chiefly concerned wTLh so-called "sweated labor" and that diviskn inspectors may not seek opportunities to enforce time and one-half overtime benefits for workers in upper wage brackets. brack-ets. Congress skipped agriculture in imposing wage and hour provisions. provis-ions. Farm labor is the largest jxemoted class. Other major wholly exempted groups include: Seamen, the fishing fish-ing industry and airline, streetcar, street-car, motorbus and interurban railway rail-way employes; executives, administrators, admin-istrators, professional persons and persons employed in local retailing (Continued On Page Eight) B- employment of children between 14 and 16. Restricted employment of children chil-dren between 16 and 18 in non-hazardous non-hazardous industries. "Double indemnity" for workers work-ers who successfully sue because of overwork and underpayment. $10,000 fine, six months imprisonment, impris-onment, or both, for punishment of employers violating the law. Fifty-six hour maximum work week in seasonal industries, with a maximum work day of 12 hours, i U. S. LINER'S CLEARANCE CANCELLED $4,500,000 Silver Cargo Bound For New York HelrJ Up By ROBERT BELLAIRE United Press Staff Correspondent SHANGHAI, Oct. 24 U.R Japanese authorities detained de-tained the American liner President Coolidge today as it prepared to sail for the United States with a shipment of silver. sil-ver. An American marine guard was placed on the ship pending instructions in-structions from the state department depart-ment at Washington, to which consular officials here submitted the question. The silver, estimated to be worth $4,500,000, consisted largely large-ly of jewelry and tableware which Chinese patriots had contributed to the government for war purposes, pur-poses, and which was being shipped ship-ped to the United States. Clearance Suspended Shanghai customs officials yesterday yes-terday issued clearance papers to the President Coolidge, a 21,936-ton 21,936-ton Dollar liner, including the silver sil-ver which was on its way to the Chase National bank of New York. Last night, at the instigation of pro-Japanese authorities, of the Chinese municipal regime, supported sup-ported by Japanese military authorities, the ship's clearance 'authorization was. suspended. The result was that the ship was unable to sail on schedule this morning as Japanese customs officials of-ficials refused to release it. Negotiation Continue- Negotiations continued throughout through-out today, and late this afternoon the liner began unloading the silver, sil-ver, hoping-to avoid further ostrjr delay. Up the Yingtze, where the Japanese Jap-anese were striking at Hankow, and subjecting it and its whole area to terrible air raids, six heavy Japanese bombing planes bombed the British river gunboat Sandpiper, 185 tons. The superstructure super-structure was damaged severely, two cabins were wrecked, and bomb splinters tore numerous holes in the ship. There were no casualties among the ship's complement com-plement of 35 officers and men. British navel spokesmen here asserted that the bombing apparently appar-ently had been deliberate. The gunboat was patroling near Changsha, in the Slang river, which empties into Lake Tung Ting and the Yangtze above Hankow. Han-kow. Navy Day to Be Observed Soon Navy Day will be observed Thursday throughout the nation reports Chief Water Tender John Philipy, U. S. N., local recruitlhgr officer. The day was inaugurated in 1922 and October 27 selected as ft' is the anniversary of the birth of President Theodore Roosevelt, who devoted much of his life to establishing estab-lishing sound naval policy. October is also the month, in which the American Navy was founded in 1775. Navy Day observance ob-servance has proved, 'too, a valuable valu-able means of fostering a better understanding of the. navy and its work, Mr. Philipy reports. BY BOB BURNS It looks like the country has finally got fed up on crime. One by one the cities are beginnin' to turn on .the gangsters and if they'll jest keep it up, they'll either run 'em out of the country coun-try or make 'em mend their ways. Out here in Los Angeles, a policeman brought a fella the other day and when the 1ud?e nsVfM th policeman what the charges were, he says, 'Well, this fella was drivin within the speed limits he sounded his horn as he approached approach-ed the cross street he kept on the right side of the road - and responded cheerfully to my signal to stop so I naturally arrested him on suspicion!" Copyright, 1938, Esquire Features, Inc WEI I'll Tell 11 You |