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Show 25 : 'JJ 1TLT U J Jzzzn . 5$ 1 cp C A-' r Scores of costly projects to be undertaken under-taken by trie federal government as a means of relieving unemployment conditions are being proposed in various measures before congress. Many of the proposals savor of the "pork barrel involving huge expenditures for undertakings, ior which theie is little act- ual-neea in; rnost instances. The point has been frequently emphasized empha-sized of late that the mere spending of money will not alleviate present conditions. Many of the proposals calling for huge YOUR NEWSPAPER With no private axes to jrrind, no 's selfish personal interests to serve, and no financial strings leading to any other source of power or influence. VOL. 9, NO. 45 -By-Arthur Brisbane t Copyrlgh. 132) New Witch Broth Wales Will Remember The Terraplane Mystery The Deaf Man Shouted ! WITCH LADIES put many queer things in the eaulrdon for their terrible broths ; "Eye ! Newt, and toe of frog, "Wool of bat and tongue of frog." Also, you lemember, the baby's finger, fillet of a fenny snake, adder's ad-der's fork, and blind-worm's sting. , All that is nothing to the "Stop IJoosevelt". broth now being concocted con-cocted In Chicago. Evory baleful ingredient is mixed in that strange soup. If. -.the. ,NefW! f$U pernor escapes tlitf "uisli" prepared by the Ston Roosevelt" , crowd, he win prove himself fan able; politician. - WiliClt OF THE FOIXOWING : happenings would be called "news?" .In New York a lawyer, 65 years - old, jumped to death, , . 8 In Chile Socialistic and Com-munistic Com-munistic experimenters inaugurate a curfew that stops everything at MO p. m. Theaters close of eight- thirty. ' ' , A new comet has beer f bund near the South Pole, of tenth magnitude, visible to the naked eye. Ifit wishes to keep out of the depression it should STAY near the South Pole. VON PAPEN, GERMANY'S new chancellor, proposes privately a military alliance between France ,and Germany. . i Some Americans, veterans and others, .will exclaim "What do you , I know about that?"" 5 We do not know anything, except that it is not improbable. THE PRINCE OF WALES was thirty-eight years old yesterday and - looks back over a busy year. o In it. he took up fast motor boat-v boat-v Ing, book . .collecting,! motorcycle - driving. - ' ; v . - - Two of his barns In Canada were burned, he was. ill several days, got a new dog. to replace jthe old one, . rplayedSanta giaujf 'jvltb white whiskers on Christmas, set the ,.' fashion jf or spotted ties 'and turned -down soft collars,? even with a - "moro ing coat and toveplpe hat;- He met Amelia-Ear hart, discuss- ,' ed flying with her, installed a radio t in his airplane, Attended the Dou- . ,-mer funeral; ! ji , These things he will forget. But - tiever will he forget that in his 38th year he made a hole in one. - WHATIS'A ;jOTRJRAPIJNFi?-It ;jOTRJRAPIJNFi?-It is , a mysterious word 'that cer-; cer-; tain energetic makers of automo--' biles, :1a and Arthur" Kudner, who looks after their . publicity, have been muttering and- whisDeriner -mysteriously'. for some time." , -;. , News from Detroit, whither Mr. -Kudner has just flown in his two ! engine Sikorsky,' reports that the r mysterious t "terraplane" has to do '. with the launching Of a new auto- - mObUe. t VJ,, t-'v" 4 ) &, ' ; Newspaper publishers willgreet r the information pleasantly ejnce it means important advertising.' It takes courage to start anything fV .rtew ju.it now,; more, particularly a r new automobile. .But there is al-V al-V .ways room at the top,.; and oppor-' oppor-' tunityf or there Is' no crowdthere; to Impede your movements ri ; Girl Injured 1 J1 ; Fdll FromiSteps v - '"r 'A - . ' - A twelve-foot fail from the steps ?5 of .. tlae Provo senior;, high -r schodi building by Jean Schooney,- 8, ?Frt day - evening, resulted in a double fracture Qi. the .giro's , right . arm . above 'the wtist and: elbow,' ' a sprained right ankle and a bruised - legr. Jean is the daughter of Mr. and llrs. J. Cv Schooney of Provo. ; TO DAY GIFTS OF $1500 FESTIVAL Celebration Prizes Announced By Committee. Free prizes for those who attend the filial event of Pro-vo's Pro-vo's huge Fourth of July celebration tptal over $1500, according tb Claude Ash- hrJtjL... cbrnn-an .of .thevcel-J oration, wno.nas just completed com-pleted a final checkup of the prizes given by the merchants of Provo. Mr. Ashworth says that the merchants have responded enthusiastically enthus-iastically to contributing toward a successful celebration of Independence Independ-ence day, cirected in Provo this year by the American Legion, Provo' post 13. Every one of the gifts, he' says, is of real value. Prizes obtained to date are listed below. The first five, or major prizes, are -.sold to the committee by the firms mentioned at, wholesale whole-sale cost, all others are donated in full. v Ford sedan, V-8, Telluride Motor; General Electric refrigerator, Utah Power and Light company; Airway vacuum cleaner, Airway distributor; distrib-utor; bedroom suite, Taylor Bros. company; dining room suite, uix- on-Taylor-Russell company One Mir Allstate tires. Sears- Roebuck; $5 worth of printing. New Century Printing Co.; one pair oxfords, Leven'S;, one case Utah peas, John T. Taylor; one straw hat, Ercanbrack; one pair $4 shoes, The Booterie; one carton cigarettes, Bullock's cigar store. " "One $10 picture, Maiben's Paint arid Glass; one wash, grease and polish job, Benson and Argyle ; two 50-cent meals, Sunshine Inn; one pair $5 shoes, Van's .,Shoe) store; one-pound box' candy, Garden Gar-den City Candy storje; one, electric alarm clock, Thornton Drug; one fountain pen and,pencll set, Hed-quist Hed-quist Drug No. 2 ; . .woman's fitted hag, Butler's; woman's ilk" dres3, Needham's; typewriters Utah Oft fice Supply. '? Kodak, Van Fhoto; case toma toes, O. P. Skaggs; decorated caKe, Provo Bakery; electric V clock, J. EdwfrTtein; iwo $5 meal tickets, Sutton's Caf; silk "dress, Lewi$ Ladies store fish rod Oscar-Carlson Sporting Goods; 100 pounds best grade flour. City Feed store; (Continued on Page Eight) Sanders ' Faces Tough Job, But Friends Say He By RODNEY, DUTCHER ; . " CHICAGO Now that it seems fairly well established that most of the chest-thumping in' the 1932 cam- paign will be over prohibition and the compromise resubmission plank id the Republican platform let's have a look at the man who will have to do most of the explaining-Everett explaining-Everett Sanders of Indiana; As chairman of the Republican national committee, it will become Mr. Sanders'. Job to conduct a campaign cam-paign for a candidate who : creates tittle enthusiasm, jeven,; in his . own party, and "who has been unfortunate unfortun-ate enough to be president during the depression. ... , , i r , VvW vA - .v : War-Chest Empty ; On" top of that, Sanders must' get along without ; the t bursting chest usually open to the Republican national na-tional committee. In fact, when he took office he started from scratch. The Republican bank balance, $$000 j bond issues for some monumental structure is only a squandering of public money transferring the cost to the shoulders of future generations. There is much food for thought for our congressional leaders in thii argument. Utahns in general, and residentS-pfjSalt Lake and Utah counties irj particular, who have been looking forward to the building of the Deer creek reclamation project for years, are beginning to ask why this undertaking under-taking cannot be authorized now. The fruitgrowers and farmers of the two counties need the supplemental water sup- PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, Sweetest Smile In the Ozarks Here s tne "UzarK Smile Girl," Miss Geraldine Fitzgerald, 18, of Joplin, Mo., chosen from among 80 pretty misses from southwest Missouri and northwest Arkansas as the most winsom lass i n the Ozark Mountain regions. She'll reign as queen at all official Ozark playgrounds play-grounds association functions. KIWAN1ANS TO SET MONDAY "All Kiwanis Night" will be observed ob-served by the Provo club at Vivian park Monday, when Provo Kiwan-ians Kiwan-ians will combine a trip to fix the trail they built at Bridal Veil falls with the nati6nal convention good-fellowship good-fellowship meeting observed by each of the 1886 clubs. "All the 89,000 Kiwanians on the North American continent will meet to observe the fellowship hour on Monday night," Jacob Coleman, club, president, said today. to-day. A 15-minute period will be observed simultaneously with the convention! session, in Detroit, and during, this time there will be a moment of silent fellowship, singing, sing-ing, and a message from the inter, national president, William O. Harris, Los Angeles, by radio. Lieutenant Governor R. J, Vaughn of Price will give a short address at the Vivian meeting, and wives and lady, friends of Kiwanians Kiwan-ians will - be i guests at a dinner-dance, dinner-dance, yr-, Walter P, jklonsori, humorist, will contribute ' to the entertain ment, . - before the convention, was down to exactly serd. Despite these difficulties, Sand ers' toughest job will be to explain f to the voters just how , the Iresub- mission plan adopted here at the G. O. P. . convention really, works--; The wisecrackers are already saying say-ing that 'he'il Still ; he explaining it in November. " :XVtti Ami Drys i.And, in making his explanations, he'll . have; to; tbe r adroit ,ehough to convince Kansas and .similar dry centers -'that ,i the party.; is .neutral on prohibition without, at the same time,, alienating wet Republicans in the cast.".-" .'' .r, -" - Friends of Sanders., will tell you that he can. do this job if any man can,' and his records seems tor bear their .statement -out. ..' . : .V ' , Sanders, like Abraham Lincoln, to" whom ,the! Republicans refer, so well 'and often','-was horri in"a',log 'J - 'V I PIONEER HISTORIAN TELLS OF EARLY PROVO EPISODES By J. R. PAULSON When Charles Miller, a transient in Provo, shot the meat from the frying pan of three Lehi boy3. then shot the three of them for protesting, Provo had yet to have an execution at its $5,092.16 court house. So when Miller was sood up against the court house and shot for the deed, all the schools were let out to see the execution. Compiles. Many Volumes , This Is but one of the historical his-torical incidents that are set forth in the history of Provo, and of related happenings in the entiik) United States by Joseph Walton, ?6 of Pleasant View, who is making a historical histori-cal compilation, including more than 1000 photographs, a story of old-time Provo and other : glamorous events and penon- L,age, .connected. ,iUivriionr America Mr. Walton's history, bounfl within with-in several large volumes and enclosed en-closed in v several comprehensive scrap books from newspaper and magazine clippings and from his own writings of pioneer times, S. L MAN HELD FOR EXTORTION Blackmail Attempt on Banker Bank-er At Murray Results In Arrest. SALT LAKE CITY Howard R. Parr, 50, manager of the Grocers Supply company, is charged with sending a threatening letter to D. A. McMillan, president of the First National bank of Murray, in a complaint filed by the county attorney. at-torney. Threats Reported-Parr Reported-Parr is held in the county jail in-lieu in-lieu of a $5,000 bond. According to Deputy Sheriff George Beckstead, the complaining witness, Parr is alleged to have attempted to black-mall black-mall the Murray financier through threatening to "take him for a oneway one-way ride" and to "expose" him. Parr was arrested by deputies at Draper crossroads, where Mr. McMillan Mc-Millan had "planted" a cache at Deputy Beckstead's direction. Deputies were first advised of the blackmail attempt a month ago, when the banker reported that he had received a threatening letter on May 21, dated May 17. The letter let-ter demanded i$600 , and instructed Mr. McMillan to deposit the sum under a rock beside a certain tele- ( Continued on Page Eight) g- I b ' "nJ , V. - 'A 5s m - '-A'"', - . . , ' " X Everett Sander. . t i ply for their crops and are willing to pay for it. Salt Lake City corporation and other municipalities need the project as the nearest near-est and least costly source for the growing water needs of the future. . Hundreds of unemployed men in this section sec-tion need the, work. Factories and business houses need the orders for supplies to keep their payrolls going. The engineering plans are all complete; the reclamation bureau and the state water storage commission have all approved the Hera SUNDAY, J u N E 2 dates from his own birth in Alpine in 1855. Aside, from 14 years spent in Alpine, Mr. Walton has lived in Provo the remainder of his life. Difficult Task-To Task-To obtain his interesting arrqy of pictures, Mr. Walton has had to have newspaper photographs retaken, re-taken, has had some adapted from paintings, particularly those of the late Samuel Jepperson, and has worked hard to obtain the remainder re-mainder from various sources. The story of early Provo is perhaps, the most interesting part of the exhibit. A graph of early Provo, showing' Fort Utah and Fort Provo just outside out-side the tract of 121 blocks surveyed sur-veyed by Stewart and Snow, is numbered and catalogued in an appending volume which shows the location of every family and the division of the four at, that Jtlme Settlement? in the Provo district was first made in bid ' Fort Utah, located one and a half miles west of what is now the center of the city. In 1852 Fort Utah was slowly being abandoned for Fort Provo, (Continued on Page Eight) Hot Weather Swells River High waters, due to the recent spell of hot weather which has melted the snow at. the head of Provo canyon rapidly, caused a flood among the cabins at Wild-wood, Wild-wood, according to Lester Taylor. No serious damage was done by the flooding,, Mr. Taylor said, although al-though the footbridge at his cabin was washed downstream. Sportsmen who have been1 fishing fish-ing in the Provo river the past three days say; that the fishing is very poor, due to the high and muddy water. Engineer Visits At Prpvo Elmer Jacob who is employed with the U. S. bureau of reclamation reclama-tion in Denver is spending his furlough fur-lough of three weeks, with his family fam-ily in Provo. Mrs. Jacob who was formerly engineer for the Provo Reservoir company and the Mur-dock Mur-dock interests on Provo river and Utah Lake, is now employed in the dam design department of the Reclamation Rec-lamation bureaur drafting division. The depatrment is .handling the plans and details of the Boulder dam construction -work . now in progress. He will return to Den ver about July 11. V flfr cabin. The "place was Coalmont, Ind., where Father Sanders was a Baptist minister on Sundays and a farmer on week days. : Sanders worked his way through college, practiced law for a time in Terre Haute and, in 1916, was elected elect-ed to Congress. . Coolidge'a Secretary , 'After four . terms ' there he decided, decid-ed, to . retire to his private practice or so he announced and did not offer for almost certain re-election. But when he stepped out as, congressman; con-gressman; he merely moved tils personal per-sonal papers over . to . the White House, where he succeeded V the S&uve'-B' Bascomp Slemp as 'President; 'Presi-dent; Coolidge's private Becretary. . -Sanders had made a good party record .in. Congress and was .well liked' in Washington generaIly.He was prominently mentioned as the vice presidential candidate at- the Cleveland convention7 in 1924 bat d 6, 1932 CONGRESS Accomplishments of Present Congress Are Reviewed. WASHINGTON, June 25 (U.R)-The congress now about ready to adjourn has enacted an unparalleled program of basic economy and fiscal, legislation. leg-islation. -It- 'haar-been "accused- on many sides of muddling things and playing politics. Numerous Num-erous sharp conflicts have marked the session. However, the present congress, in its efforts to stimulate stimu-late business, help unemployment and put the government's finances in order, has passed more fundamental funda-mental economic legislation than any previous congress. On nearly every major bill it nas followed closely President's Hoover's recommendations. rec-ommendations. Accomplishments Reviewed The major accomplishments of congress are summarized as follows fol-lows : December Approved the Hoover debt moratorium. January Passed the $2,000,000,-000 $2,000,000,-000 reconstruction finance corporation corpora-tion act to extend credit to business; busi-ness; granted additional funds to federal land banks. February Enacted the Glass-Steagall Glass-Steagall bill designed to broaden the loan provisions of the federal reserve act to meet the needs of member banks; authorized the secretary of agriculture to set up the agricultural credit corporation as an aid to farm financing. March Donated 40,000,000 bushels bush-els of farm board wheat to the Red Cross for relief work; passed Norris . anti-injunction bill; approved ap-proved Norris "lame duck" amendment amend-ment to the constitution. May Enacted intermediate credit cred-it bank bill. June Passed the $1,118,500,000 tax bill after heated debate in both houses; approved numerous. departmental supply bill cut far below budget estimates. GAS PRICE TO RAISE LOS ANGELES, June 25 (ILD A Two-cent increase in the retail price of gasoline, in addition to the new one cent a gallon federal tax which went into effect thia week, ; was believed inevitable today or j Moday. Can Do It im Watson spiked his guns just as it seemed that he was the logical running mate for Coolidge. Lives Modestly During the 1924 campaign, Sanders San-ders was cioairman of the Republican Repub-lican speakers' bureau, and was given his - share of the credit for the Coolidge landslide. Since Coolidge Cool-idge left "the White House, he has been a member of a Washington law firm. " . '. Sanders Is 50, married and has no children. Since coming to Washington Wash-ington in: 1916 he has lived modestly modest-ly in a small apartment. When he 1 was named Coolidge's secretary his first automobile was a part' of ' the pay for the job. 1 Before, Be-fore, he had always! explained' that he .'was ' compelled , to live entirely on the $7500 tt yarche received 3 congressman and . that the Was trying try-ing to put some of ' it' away for a rainy 4ay.-rC . REM TO project to be the next unit in the Salt Lake basin reclamation It requires no selfish dip into the pork i i . Darrei co carry out entire cost of the the cities and irrigation companies who subscribe sub-scribe for the water over a long term period, Salt Lake CitV. alone., will subscribe for 40 per cent of the entire supply. This is the time section to lav aside unitedlv to remove Y 3 .! - r i v s v m i a ing of the Deer Creek reclamation project. WHAT FOLKS SAY Although we hear a great deal about married mar-ried women workers taking the bread out of unemployed men's mouths, nothing Is said about the bread they put in the mouths of thousands of families who otherwise would in the bread line, Sirs. Helen Z. M. Holigers, Buffalo, N. Y., attorney. Roosevelt Forces See Victory In Fight Over Moot Two-Thirds Rule Farley Predicts Nomination of N. Y. Gov ernor On Majority Vote; Al Smith Says Roosevelt Move As Good As Licked. By RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondenl (Copyright 1932 by United Press) CONVENTION HEADQUARTERS, CHICAGO, June 15 (U.R) Roosevelt forces claimed today to hold all the winning cards in the battle to kill the two-thirds rule and nominate Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Democratic national con- Thev were more confident Manager James A. Farley told the United Press of the two-thirds rule fight and the nomination: - "We have the votes. NEWS WIRES By UNITED PRESS SIAM REVOLTS WASHINGTON, June 25 (ILP) A revolt against King Prajadhipok of Siam, one or the world's few remaining absolute monarchs, broke out in Bankok today, the American legation there reported to the state department. The revolution revo-lution was led by army and navy officers BONUS BAND REVOLTS WASHINGTON, June 25 (UE An insurgent -oand of 500 veterans revolted against their leaders today and marched on the capitol in an attempt to convert senators to the Putman bonus bill. OGDEN GIRLS DROWN OGDEN, June 25 (U.R) Two sisters were drowned and a five-year five-year old girl barely missed a similar sim-ilar fate when a raft capsized in an abandoned ice pond last night. , The dead: Josephine Baker, 9. Jane-Baker, 15. Jean Timmerman, 5, was brought ashore in an unconscious condition but was revived after 15 minutes resuscitation by Ogden's inhalator UTAH DELEGATION LEAVES OGDEN, June 25 W) Ready to fight for Governor George H. Dern's vice presidential candidacy to the last ditch, Utah's delegation to the Democratic national convention conven-tion left aboard a special car for Chicago late Friday. ARIZONA BANKS CLOSE PHOENIX, Ariz June 25 (UP) Eight Arizona banks were closed Friday. The Arizona Bank of Phoenix and its six branches at Chandler, Kingman, Flaggstaff, Williams, Winslow and McNary were closed by order of the" state superintendent of banks. DENOUNCES RELIEF BILL WASHINGTON, June- 25 (U.E) The ? 2300,000,000 Wagner relief hill .Was denounced by .President Hoover Friday. as-; pork' barreU" legislation of gigantic proportions DISCUSS DISAR3IAMENT j GENEVA, .June -25 iOJElAmer-; lca$v disarmament ' delegates attempted at-tempted today . to determine ' the exact extent of the Japanese opposition oppo-sition ' to the'5 Hoover disarmament plan and to learn what reservations smaller nations would demand as their wice for support- - ; . - - '- project to be undertaken. i .i ti tnis unaenaKiner. l ne project is to be repaid by for all interests of this differences and work the minor obstacles that : 3' t 1. U v - m -w zm m PRICE FIVE CENTS than heretofore. "We are going to win. " I "The other side knows we have i j i i tt . . till 11VH.CU. Smith Group Quieter Farley's exuberant claim "was statement that the .KooseveJt move to abolish the two-thirds rule, "is as good as licked, but it's still there." "It's a b i t groggy, but still in the ring," he said. Mean while, the anti-Roosevelt group was quieter than hitherto. Their conferences confer-ences had failed fail-ed so far to' develop de-velop any "united "unit-ed front" action though they Roosevelt s promised there would be more fireworks fire-works and plenty of fight for the momentous gathering next week. The firbt blast from the anti-Roosevelt anti-Roosevelt side was the mild pre-s diction of Jouett Shouse, chairman 6f the Democratic executive committee, com-mittee, ' and opponent of Roosevelt, Roose-velt, that the Rooseveltians would "fail" in their attempt to abrogate the two-thirds rule.. By killing this rule the Roosevelt torces -would need only a majority to push their candidate to victory. , - .' "Reports of considerable opposition opposi-tion have come to me,", Shouse said, declining, however, to make public the state delegations which he said would hot support the Roosevelt attempt to secure norri-ination norri-ination by a simple majority on the first ballot. . -'A Farley; the youthful appearing six footer who has charge of ;the Roosevelt fortunes, fairly oozed confidence. He had .been counting noses with his aides overnight and was brimming with ' optimism. Senator Cordell Hull, a Roosevelt lieutenant, echoed Farley's sentiment, senti-ment, saying merely: "We will control.- HARMONICA CLUB MEET - The Provo city harmonica; club will hold its first meeting Monday at 4 p. m. at the Farrer school. Miss Rheta Kay will be the , instructor. in-structor. The Weather Utah Fair Son-day; Son-day; little change In temperature, Maximnm temp. Fridy-Si Minlmom temp. ; JFriday vv .-i .51 Maximum: temp, '; Saturday Minimum temp. , Saturday . ,:.4S |