OCR Text |
Show Weather Forecast UTAH Fair tonight and Sunday; Sun-day; little change in temperature. Maximum temp. Friday 39 Minimum temp. Friday 14 Maximum temp. Saturday .... 40 Minimum temp. Saturday 14 Herald So They Sayl One of the first condition of success is to be able to work IS or 14 hours a day. If you're tired after eight hours' work, you will never be a success. Vicki Baum, author. VOL. 14, NO. 22 PROVO, ' UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1936 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS PRTfT? TTTn? r'THMTQ TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE Document That Made King A Commoner 'MESSIAH' TO BE SUNG IN TWO PLACES COUNTY TO FILE SUIT AGAINST CITY ! Leads In Vote I RIOT FLARES IN PARK CITY MINE STRIKE Siimdtaiy lllie 13 University Music Department Depart-ment To Produce Handel Oratorio Handel's masterpiece. The Messiah, will be presented this afternoon at 3 o'clock in Utah stake tabemable by a B. Y. U. mixed chorus and symphony orchestra or-chestra under the direction of Dr. and Mrs. Franklin Madsen. The performance will make the fifth annual presentation of the work of George Friedrich Handel, German composer, by the music department. The "Pastorale Symphony," a delicate melody depicting the shepherds at watch over their flocks near Bethlehem on Christmas Christ-mas night, will probably be under direction of Professor LeRoy J. Robertson. More than 200 voices will be m the chorus. from which group the soloists for the event have been taken. Payson High To Present 'Messiah' PAYSON -- Once again as a holiday offering to the public, the Payson high school, music department depart-ment will present Handel's oratorio ora-torio "The Messiah." It will be given in the Nebo stake tabernacle today at 7:30 p. m. at the stake M. I. A. conference. The production is being directed by Carl O. Nelson and a mixed chorus of 110 voices will render the choir numbers. Miss, Geraldine Perry is the organ accompanist and Miss Helen Nelson the piano accompanist. Louis A. Bates, high school principal will give a brief introductory talk. MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going Oh in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT 8. AULEN "L'Affaire McCann" Worse Than "L'Affaire Simpson" To Commerce Burea"li ; Miss McCann, Fired in Pans, Brought On Probe That Rocked Department; She Was Too Critical of Expense Ex-pense Accounts, Bohemian Activity of Staff; Retirement Retire-ment of Her Champion in Congress May Keep Testimony Testi-mony Suppressed. WASHINGTON For more than a year jittery commerce department de-partment moguls have been sitting on the lid of a volcano in the bureau bu-reau of foreign and domestic commerce. com-merce. Not a word of the matter h;is appeared in the press. Yet it is one of the most amazing- stories in the capital involving several U. S. representatives abroad, charges of moral and official laxity, a secret se-cret investigation including trips to Europe that has already cost $20,000 and produced several large volumes of testimony and a woman. The woman was the cause of it hU. L'AFFAIKE McCANX In the fall of 1935. Miss Beryl McCann was dismissed ' from her job as assistant disbursing officer of the Paris office of the. bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. A stickler for moral as well as official rectitude, the young lady from Alabama had got in the hair of some of the more ebullient memlers of the Paris staff. She had bluntly challenged the veracity verac-ity of their expense accounts and in other ways made herself irksome. irk-some. To get rid of this embarrassing gad-fly, the attaches ganged up on Miss McCann. Claudius Murchison, now the (Continued on Page 2, Sec. 2) Potter Exhibit On - View Here Today Jenn S. Potter's paintings will be open to the public Sunday from noon until 2:30 p. m. at Utah stake tabernacle. Performance of "The Messiah" at 3 o'clock will prevent further showing during the day. The exhibit, says Professor B. F. Larson, art department head at B. Y. U.. has attracted consider able attention. Many, he states, have declared it one of the most interesting one-man show seen in the city. The Potter exhibit will be in place in room D during all of the week for public appreciation. itismMBrr of J, EAaad flu EritAiiv TfttaiuL Mad te$ast tha Seas, King of fr4J3 0, torofcy dsajarg My Irnrvocbl iictcrsiruUca to rmmm ih ftutm for Jsalf tx fa? timid ba givn to this Imtrasafc of In totet har$of I have tercunto $3 Ity Mitd this tenth day of Jteccrtm ninatesiv hundred and thirty six, in th prtsmm of the witnesses vfhose signatures r subscribed. 81 PORT BELVEDERE IN THE PfcES8$S 0? Radioed across the Atlantic ard fflfED At ir Francisco, here is the first reproduction of the statement that shock ed the world the abdication of statement is signed by the king George VI Assumes British Monarchy New Ruler Names Brother Duke of Windsor As First Official Act; Edward Reaches Boulogne and Boards Train For Zurich ( Bulletin ) ABOARD PRINCE EDWARD'S TRAIN, in France, Dec. 12 (U.R) -Prince Edward departed at 8:.i0 p. m. tonight for Zurich, Switzerland, aboard a special car attached to the Basle, Switzerland, express, on his lonely road into voluntary exile. LONDON, Dec. 12 (U.R) King George VI was proclaimed Ruler of the British Empire today, and announced as his first official act the naming of his brother, Edward, as the Duke of Windsor. The dukedom will take precedence over Edward's natural title of prince and the man who until yesterday was England's Eng-land's king, officialy, will be known now as his Royal Highness High-ness the Duke of Windsor. If he marries, his wife will be the -Duchess of Windsor. EDWARD SEEKS ZURICH REFUGE HOCLOGNE, Franco, Dec. 12 'II' 'Prince Edward of England arrived here at 3:45 p. m. The British destroyer Fury tied up at the dock at 3:55 p. m. and French officials greeted the self-exiled former f-uler. They welcomed him to France. It was understood he will go to Zurich. Switzerland, by train tonight. to-night. fc, n w a r 1 s crossing voyase from Plymouth, England, took 14 hours 10 minutes. The voyage w a s inruugu neavy iOg. Hundreds of French police held back a throng of 6.000 persons who flocked to the Boulogne docks, tretching along the quay for half a mile. Prince Edward remained aboard the destroyer temporarily. Prince Edward walked for half an hour along the quay, in the intense cold, and returned to the destroyer Fury. Edward had tea aboard the Fury and discussed the latest (Continued on Page Two) r. mtii M a . t mmim v. m li&Ot, CKS' ihn MltA V?-i-4 s telephotoed from New York to San King Edward VIII of England. The and his three brothers. I Edward reached Boulogne on the French coast, aboard the British Brit-ish destroyer Fury, from Plymouth. Ply-mouth. Eng., and prepared to depart de-part thence for Switzerland by train tonight, presumably going to LONDON, December 12 (U.R) j 1 renins roamed London " street last night caroling ! this parody of a world beloved be-loved Christmas carol: "Hark, tbe herald angeLs sing : Mrs. Simpson sneaked our king." Zurich in self-imposed exile. He can return at will, but said in his farewell radio address last night that it may be a long time. Pomp Prevails In London, the king was proclaimed pro-claimed in public by the royal heralds her-alds with traditional pomp. Both houses of parliament took the oath of allegiance to the king simultaneously simul-taneously with the firing of a royal salute to George at Buckingham Bucking-ham palace. The houses adjourned (Continued on Page Two) Water Charges Must Be Settled Announcement was made Saturday Satur-day from the office of the city waterworks department that all delinquent accounts for water must be paid before December 15 or service would be discontinued. The service charges have been billed during the past year on a monthly basis to make it easier for all consumers to keep up their payments. i ; Suit To Be Filed To Recover Re-cover Claim On Project Cost Question of whether Provo city is liable to Utah county on certain long - standing claims will be settled in the courts, action taken Friday afternoon by the county commission com-mission indicated. Counts Attorney William Stanley Dunford was authorized by the county officials to file an action in court to recover from Provo city "any and all sums which are now due and owing Utah county from Provo city." The commissioners voted the resolution reso-lution through unanimously. Although not specified in the resolution, it is expected the suit will contemplate claims unsettled with regard to north Fifth West paving, a Provo river bridge on the city-county line, a small paving pav-ing claim south of the court house, and funds alleged unpaid by a former for-mer city employe to the county. $6000 In Claims Total claims involved in these four categories would be in excess ex-cess of $6,000. The resolution states that the action is taken because "demand has been made upon Provo city for settlement of such items, which demand has been refused by the Provo city commission." In a statement to the countv officials December 3. the city authorities denied the claim of the county relative to $3,333.33, said to be due on north Fifth West paving. pav-ing. Following that decision, other matters have not been passed pass-ed upon by the Provo heads. Mayor Favors Action Mayor Mark Anderson states that there are "legal questions in connection with the other cases referred to that very likelv could not be properly decided without a court decision," but denies responsibility respon-sibility in the north Fifth West paving case. "Utah county did not contribute one cent to the original North Fifth West paving district," he maintains. "The project was completed com-pleted in 1921 at a total cost of $75,016.57. The cost was divided three ways: abutting property owners paid $23,428.09. the city's portion was $20,305.13. and the state paid $31,283.35." Records Vague The mayor holds that in 1930 when the parking was removed and cement substituted at a reported re-ported cost, to Utah county of $6,-666.66, $6,-666.66, Provo city went to consid- ( Continued on Page Two) STREET PAVING PROGRAM SET Eventual paving of 15.2 miles of all streets east of Sixth West at present not paved or graveled in this area of the city is vis-ioned vis-ioned in a grade and graveling proposal presented Saturday by the city commission to WPA officials. of-ficials. One-hundred-sixty-seven blocks will be included for which the work will entail costs of $54,946 of which Provo city's share would be $24,700, and the federal agency, agen-cy, $30,246. If property dwellers in the section sec-tion so desire the project will be ready for bituminous surfacing, as soon as the work is completed. The paving work could not be included in the WPA project. The costs, therefore, to property owners own-ers for paving would be much less. A 24-foot wide surface with gravel of four inches bound by two heavy edgings is planned in the project. Thirty-three-thousand cubic yards of gravel are required. re-quired. DOUBLE PARKING For double parking T. W. Young forfeited bond of $2 in city court Saturday morning. Helping Santa Claas 1. I am willing to enroll as one of Santa Claus' helpers. I can be responsible for children. OR 2. I prefer to assist Santa Claus' helpers with a cash contribution of $ (Choose No. 1 or No. 2) Name . .. Address Telephone Mail or bring to the Santa Claus helpers' department, Provo Herald office. my: - iikmmii nrr- - im i m Tti "i "" JESSE N. ELLERTSON Ellertson Leads In Chamber Of Commerce Voting Sixteen Qualify For Finals in Chamber of Commerce Election. Jesse N. Ellertson, president of the Provo chamber of commerce, led the vote in the primary election elec-tion for eight directors, two-year term, which was completed Friday night. The other candidates who qualified quali-fied for the final election this week are as follows: John O. Beesleyt Al Wright. Clyde Crockett. C. T. Keigley, Walter Adams, Sol Jacobs. Ja-cobs. Alex Hedquist. J. C. Moffitt. Frank Earl, Allen D. Johnson, W. E. Fleetwood, George S. Ballif, Harold Leven, Victor J. Bird and Herald R. Clark. Balloting for the directors will be concluded Friday night, when the results will be canvassed by the election judges. Mayors To Talk City Problems At Provo Meet City . mayors of Utah county will be guests of Mayor Mark Anderson here to jointly consider con-sider legislative problems of mutual interest December 30. Prime question on the mayors' schedule will be the question of use of state gas tax funds In permanent improvement of city streets under jurisdiction Of the state road commission. Problems of the $2,000 homestead home-stead exemption plan. of state liquor control, and kindred current cur-rent interests will be taken up as well. Results of the meeting will be used to formulate legislative proposals pro-posals and to be coordinated with other city official thought as shown through similar gathering in the counties. Gerald Irvine assistant Salt Lake City attorney, is being aided by the legislative committee and directors of the Municipal league in formulating specific legislative proposals favored by the city administrations. Invitations are being extended by Mayor Anderson to city officials of-ficials of Lehi, American Fork, Pleasant Grove, Orem, Springville, Spanish Fork and Payson. Miller Services Set Here Today Funeral services for Heber C. Miller, well known Provo business and church man, will be held Sunday Sun-day at 1 o'clock in the Bonneville Bonne-ville ward chapel. Friends may call at his home in Pleasant View before the services. Cars Carrying Heber City Workers Turned Back By Picket Line PARK CITY, Dec. 12 (U.R) Rioting broke out today between be-tween pickets and miners attempting at-tempting to return to work at metal mines properties closed for two months by a strike. Meager reports from a deputy who came into the sheriff's office at Park City in the midst of rioting said 150 men from Heber City had been turned and sent home by an army of 600 union pickets. "No one was hurt seriously," he said. The men from Heber city were in automobiles, and tried to drive through the picket lines". Stubborn resistance was put up by the pickets, who converged on the cars, then turned them around bodily, officers said. Scattered fist fights broke out, but were quieted as the strikebreakers strike-breakers fled. The deputy said: "Things are oretty hot. It looks bad." Approximately 500 pickets blockaded block-aded street entrances to Park City, while members of the Park City Welfare Group which was organ-:zed organ-:zed to combat the International Union of Mine. Mill and Smelter Workers, reported 700 men had signified willingness to return to work and were waiting their opportunity op-portunity to pass picket lines. The proposal to end the strike, submitted by operators and carrying carry-ing a 25 cents per day pay increase, in-crease, was voted down by union miners last night. The Park City Welfare organization organiza-tion is composed of non-union miners and dissatisfied union members. mem-bers. One individual battle was precipitated preci-pitated when 'a member of the Heber City caravan climbed atop a truck and. addressing the pickets, pick-ets, shouted: "You're welcome to join us. Come on." The sheriff halted the fight, but others broke out and authorities had little control of the situation. The battle continued' furiously for about 15 minutes, but the strike-breakers eventually with-drew. with-drew. outnumbered and outfought. Several cars were overturned in the melee. Pickets dragged men (Continued on Page Two) NEW SERVICE STATION BUILT Installation of new lubricating equipment Friday was the final gesture of completion to Provo's newest service station. " Handy Service, located on the corner of First North and Fifth West streets. Modern in all phases, Handy Service, owned and managed by C. R. "Andy" Anderson, was constructed con-structed at the cost of $5,000. It is equipped with the latest lubricating lubricat-ing systems, including an Aro-Duplex Aro-Duplex pump with the developing capacity of 7,000 pounds of pressure pres-sure per square inch. Only one other such pump is operating in Utah. The building itself, is spacious enough to permit inside car was'h-( was'h-( Continued on Page Two) PARKING CURB STARTS MONDAY Warning signs are already in place advising motorists of the two-hour parking limit that will be effective beginning tomorrow in the shopping district. An additional patrolman will be added to police the district and check up on violators of the city ordinance which is being recalled into use. The streets which will be affected affect-ed are: University avenue from Center street to Second North; First West from Center street to First North; and Center street from First East to Fourth West. The ordinance will be in operation oper-ation on all days except Sundays and holidays from 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. Violators will be guilty of a misdemeanor mis-demeanor and liable for sentence, if convicted, by the court judge. Flier Is Safe BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Dec. 12 U.E Jean Mermoz. French air mail pilot missing since he took off on his regular flight over the South Atlantic, is safe aboard the S. S. Alcantara. The ship wirelessed today the Mermoz had been rescued and was aboard. Funds Needed to Save Deer Creek Project to Utah President of Provo River Waterusers' Association Asso-ciation Makes Urgent Appeal For Funds To Complete Necessary Preliminaries Warning that the $7,500,000 Deer Creek project may be lost to the state of Utah forever unless necessary funds are raised to complete the waterusers part of the agreement, was sounded Saturday by J. W. Gillman of Orem, president of the Provo River VVaterusers' association. The ominous note was sounded after a meeting of the board of directors with E. O. Larson, district engineer, and J. R. Alexander, attorney for the reclamation service in Salt SLake City. g m a m m nun aiii ull Y bUUUtl FIGURES FOR 1937 LISTED Total expenditures of Provo city amounting to $188,045 are contemplated con-templated in the tentative budget for 1937 as arrn'"H - -- commission and released by Maryj F. Smith, city auditor, fjauiraay, dicate costs of $181,741.04. A slight increase in revenue during dur-ing 1937 is expected with a total budget figure of $197,909 commuted. com-muted. r indicate indi-cate a balance near $198,39& A hearing on the proposed budget bud-get will be held Decern uer ZA at 10 a. m. in the city and county building. Interested parties will be heard. Revenues Revenues as expected are as follows, fol-lows, the 1937 estimate first, followed fol-lowed by the 1936 figures: 1937 taxes, based on 16.5 mills, $8,-337,223.00 $8,-337,223.00 valuation, 85 per cent collection, $116,929, $100,751; tax sale redemptions, $15,000, $51,-356; $51,-356; guaranty fund, 1 mill, $8,-730, $8,-730, $6,106; license, $11,600, $11,-200; $11,-200; street lighting energy, $2,-500, $2,-500, $3,500; departmental fees. $5,-000, $5,-000, $4100-77; fines and forfeitures city court, $5,000, $5,500 municipal muni-cipal golf course, $1,500, $1,150; irrigation taxes, $10,000, $3,500; dog tax collections, $00, $325. Franchises, 750, $728.23; meat inspection fees, $1,500, $1,300; milk inspection fees, $1,000, $700; perpetual cemetery project, new addition, $2,000, $2,000; sundry. $2,000, $4,679; Utah county lire services, $1,500, $1,500; refunding refund-ing bond revenue, $12,500, none; total estimated revenue, $197,V 909, $198,396. Budget appropriations are: Public Pub-lic affairs and finance, $67,110, $59,305; itemized as follows: (Continued on Page Two) County Tax Levy Reduction Looms As Possibility Possibility of a reduction in the county tax "levy was seen here Saturday following the completion comple-tion of the tentative budget for 1937 which calls for a total reduction re-duction of $36,090.71 as compared with this year's budget expenditures. expendi-tures. This includes a slash of more than $16,000 in the general fund alone, for which $137,415.69 is budgeted. The present general levy for county purposes is 8.74 mills. If no demands for increases in the tentative budget is made, there is a strong possibility that this year's levy can be reduced, in the opinion of the county commissioners. commis-sioners. A public hearing Friday at 10 a. m. will be conducted on the contemplated budget in the county commissioners' chambers in city and county building. Interested parties will be heard at that time. General economies will produce the lowered figure Mr. Harrison, deputy county auditor, has indicated. indi-cated. Total budget items in the general gen-eral fund indicated are $137,415.69 for the coming year. Including the general fund, expenditures contemplated con-templated by the county amount to $341,722,69, as against $377,-813.40 $377,-813.40 spent or to be spent this year. The lower figure for 1937 amounts to a reduction of $36,-090.71. $36,-090.71. Total items in the general fund with the 1936 figure first, the 1937 figure following are: County commissioners, $7,350, $7,450; county treasurer $14,195.65, $14,-882.50; $14,-882.50; county assessor. $14,285, $13,600; county clerk, $6,790, $6,945; county auditor, $6,000, $5,900; county recorder, $10,-392.75, $10,-392.75, $8,271.85; county surveyor, survey-or, $2,650, $2,650. County attorney, $4,275, $4,195; county sheriff, $20,275, $19,631.84; coutr house and grounds, $8,340, $9,679.50; county jail. $4,245. $7,-( $7,-( Continued on Page Two) , uuaiion i;ruicai Mr. Gillman pointed out that the next four months are crucial for the project. If the final steps required re-quired of the association, such as purchase of the right-of-ways- for the dam site in Provo canyon, are not disposed of soon, the entire project may face delay that may mean complete loss of the project to the state.. Officers of the association have worked diligently for years to bring the project to its present state of progress. Most of them have given freelv of their own time to this work, and have also uonaiea tne money tor their travel ing expenses in the interests of the project, Mr. Gillman said. The project has reached a stage now where some necessary finance is needed to push the project over the top and start construction in the spring. Directors Sacrifice The directors have personally guaranteed the rent for the U. S. reclamation office in the Knight block, in order to make it possible for the work to go on without interruption in-terruption on the project. The government will not advance any funds for the purchase of right-of-ways until options have been secured and subscription contracts have been signed. When this is done, the first contracts will be let. When work begins on the project, the government is definitely committed com-mitted to see it to a successful completion, Mr. Gillman explained. Untold, benefit wJlJL a.ccjue.. 9 Utah arid Salt Lake counties, an area contributing 50 per cent of the population of Utah, as soon as the project gets under way. Four years will be required to complete the project, the largest ever proposed pro-posed in the state. It is also pointed point-ed out that 50 per cent of the cost of the project will be paid out for employment, workers, men and teams and skilled labor. Reclamation Recla-mation department rules require that the labor be employed in the vicinity of the project, which means that all the subscribing lo- ( Continued on Page Kight) Many Homes Plan Christmas Lights Entries in the residential Christmas Christ-mas lighting contest will be received re-ceived until December 16, according accord-ing to junior chamber of commerce com-merce committees who are working work-ing on the project. Entry blanks are available at the chamber of commerce offices. Judging of residence lighting schemes begins on December 19, cash awards of $15, $10 and $5 will be given. More than 300 homes are expected to enter the contest and decorate the homes for Christmas. XVIII His cya hoto titcy lainl(lcJ! his dimples hotP merry! His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry! (Continued in Next Issue) 10 V ' ; i w' t i re j 5 i I-It aft :istnf! ;W i ii.iliHvj By Clement Clarke Moore , |