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Show --V - - - . Tlie Weather . trrAU-kteucrally fair Sunday. Little cban ge ' in .temperature. Maximum temp. Friday . . '. .. 93 , Minimum .temp. Friday .' ..... 50 Herald Service t-5 s. i -.4. If yon do not receJve.your Herald promptly, call the Herald frit, 495, before 7 p. m. week- day, and 10 .a. m; Sunday, and a cop j - win be delivered to yon. . - - VOL. 16, NO. 3 S dtah-s Only daily south of salt lake ' .4 . 1 ' - PROVO, COUNTY, U'EAH; SUNDAY, - JULY; 17, 1938 UU1IIGT13 UNITKE) PRESS rrT-lT iHIM fXTTHl TiqLSQRAPH NEWS SERVICE iVlVEi f 1YU . VU-X U- Herald V , it ROOSEVELT SPEAKS WELL OF MCADOO President Leaves Far San Diego J To Board Cruiser By FREDERICK AV STORM United Press Staff Correspondent LOS ANGELES, Julf 16 to President Roosevelt bestowed his official blessing, on Senator William Wil-liam Gibbs McAdoo.- fanning for re-election, in a brief & talk from the rear of his special train h'ere today. ' ' The executive recaBed to the group of xlBOO persphsp' surrounding surround-ing the rear platfornf his train that he had written a' letter last March to Senator McAdoo -. "There was some question at that time about his running again . for the senate," Mr.. Roosevelt eaid. "I hoped he'd run again, and I might add, I hope he'll be elected." Crowd' Cheers . With these few words, the President disposed- of the . perplex- " ing 3 question of which of "three -three democratic candidates :for .the senate, all classed . as "new dealers" Would get his "pat on the back' . Sen. McAdoo stood beside the president, beaming. A short cheer came f rojn the crowd. For an hour. President Roosevelt Roose-velt received intimate friends and official greeters in. his private car, before entering a motor car which will carry him; to Long Beach and San Diego. Among those who called -upon, him was state senator Culbert Olson, who is running for governor on the democratic ttcket. Mr. Roosevelt, however, failed Once more to take sides in the turbulent gubernatorial race. J. F. T. O'Connor, former comptroller of the currency, and Congressman John F- Dockweiler, who also are democratic candidates candi-dates for governor, likewise were igiven a few brief moments" of the president's time in- exchanging . personal greetings ' . Mr. Roosevelt, did not refer, to Senator McAdoo by name, but called him "a certain genUejman "6h" old colleague of War "das'lrT President Wilson's cabinet," but there was no mistaking his meaning. The beam on the senator.. sen-ator.. face spoke louder than the preis." ntJs words.- Pm glad to be back ton Los Angeles,' her said. "I was here three years ago starting on another an-other fishing trip." He grinned broadly as he referred to his campaign of 1935. "And! I hope to be back again in 1939." At that time, he plana to visit the - (Continued on Page Five) MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National ! Affairs i ' By DREW PEARSON an ROBERT S. ALLEN Roosevelt is Let -Strictly Alone During Cruise Aboard lj. S. S. Houston; Never .Interrupted .Inter-rupted in His Quarters Ex cept By Message From. Capital-, rQ u i e t Routine Starts Erlv, Ends Early; Stamps Use Up F. D. R.'s Time ; Follow Formal ;Pro- tocol When Captain, President Presi-dent Each Gives Dinner. ' EN ROUTE WITH THE'PRESI-7 THE'PRESI-7 DENT The aim of all members mem-bers of the president's party at sea is "to let him alone." He occupies " the admiral's quarters on the - ;', cruiser Houston and no one enters except on call-from. him-. The only exception is the mar-.: mar-.: ine orderly who, stands guard Qut-side Qut-side the door and brings in wire-- wire-- less messages frotn Washington 'He goes into Ihe president's room, places the. Message on the "President's boarii' (a file of T messages) and goes out again. Otherwise Roosevelt is not in- - terrupted. Neither; tle ship's, cap- tain nor the navaJa'de nor Sec- - retary Steve Early goes to the -r president unless ' summoned. ' This does not mean he leads a Tiermit's life. Two meals out of three are eaten with members of his staff, and the daily fishing -t-plus motion picture programs t bring him into contact with ajl V members of . the floating White ; House, down to the humblest man. . But it does mean 'essentially that r J the president sees, no ope he does - not want to see, does nothing L he does not want to ;do. .if ' This is a routine . daily schedule on" board which is followed with y little variation whie it the ship is at sea. It consists of: breakfast, fishing, rest, .lunch, fishing, sies- r. ta, dinner, movies, bed. tA As on shipboard everywhere. . the practice is tov go to bed early. On the USS Hooston there is no one m deck "after 10:30 save (Continued onPage Three) A Pair or Old cy f -J: yjjm .y -: 1 ,v r cy?y, - -yr . ' Smitng broadly like.Xwo old friends naander-in-chief of the United States 4 when the President paused, at Mare Island on bis presidential r.laude B. Jacob Seeks nomination As State Senator A group of friends and admirers off Mrs. Maud B. Jacob are filing wjth the secretary of state a designation des-ignation of nomination for state senator from Utah county. Mrs. Jacob served as representative represent-ative from Utah county at the 1,937 session of the Utah State legislature. Her record shows her to be progressive in her ideals and a fearless crusader for the welfare of the people. She served on the following import-, ant committees: rules, education, elections, public health, taxation, state prison, which handled much of the important legtedatioa --otl w 4 4 the session, she- rendered valuable service because of her training and experience. Of particular note was her activity in the interest of legislation concerning the schools, public and social welfare, tax ation and municipal affaivs. The sponsors of Mrs. Jacob de clare that she is well fitted for the particular service the senator ial positions calLs for as a social service aaminiyuaror, euueatur, lecturer nd author, she ha3 filled positions of service to the county, schools, and women's or ganizations of the State With outstanding dignity -and merit. Utah, Idaho Reach License Agreement SALT LAKE CITY, July 10 (UP) Utah and IdaHo officials today to-day reached a 'tentative agreement agree-ment on a new pact for granting reciprocal privileges to motor vehicle ve-hicle operators of the two states. Following a two-day conference here, R. E. Hammond of the Utah tax commission, and J. L. Balder-strom, Balder-strom, Idaho law enforcement commissioner, said that the new agreement embraces four points. 1. Properly registered Utah passenger pas-senger cars will be allowed free passage into Idaho. . 2. .Occasional Utah truck operators oper-ators will be . allbwed four three-day three-day permits a year to operate in Idaho. 3. Utah operators may obtain a 30-day registration certificate toy paying one-fifth of the regular Idaho annual fee. 4. A current provision requiring requir-ing regular, operators-' between Utah and. Idaho .to register in both states will be continued. ' : 44 ?yy I IX 1 P&"Z MAUDE B. JACQBS Friends united after a long separation, President Roosevelt, who also is cam-f Navy and Rear A dm. David Bagley, Three Jreted In Land Begird Pro 6ef Charges of Misuse of Funds and Bribery Preferred in Grand Jury Indictments ' . .. ' - $ . SALT LAKE CITY, July 16 OJ.R) Three men, including the former executive secretary and the present cashier of the Utah State Land Board, were under indictment today by the Salt Lake county grand jury. 7, The jurors climaieci their Jong investigation of alleged irregularities in the state board by returning "the indictments kite yesterday. . .'-aS- J' Named in the true bill were: rs BY UNITED PRESS . Orders for new letterheads were anticipated by Vienna stationers in the vicinity of what used to be Kaiser Maximilian square. The square was re-named Freedom Square after the world war. Tlhen it became Dollfuss Square- and today it was renamed againr- It is now' Hermann Goering Square. Political infighting for the favor of President Roosevelt,, who is making a "look-see" tour of the country, continues. In Los Angetes. Senator WiUiam Gibbs McAdoo appointed ap-pointed an "official" receptidn committee to great the presfdent; Mayor Frank Shaw also named an "official" group. McAdoo named 11 men and women; Shaw appointed appoint-ed 1,000. . Richart Arlen and Jobyna Ralston, Ral-ston, "'ideal couple" of Hollywood's film colony, are attempting a "trial separation." They have been-married for 12 years. "I hope we can patch things up," Miss Ralston said . . . The "kissless" bride-of Ellsworth M. Statler of the hotel family, has agreed to accept a $30,000 settlement. She received $5,000 in cash, and securities immediately, im-mediately, a guarantee of $400 a month for four years, then $5,000 more in casn.- Early trial of two wealthy society so-ciety members on racketeering charges is planned by DLstrietAt- -torncy Thomas E. Dewey in New, York. John G. Livingston, clubman,, club-man,, retired army captain and head of a large electrical firm, and Frank. W. Cooper, stockholder in the firm, are charged with having hav-ing failed to make material entries en-tries on the company's books. They pleaded not guilty at arraignment arraign-ment and we're - released on bond. tn Moab Country MOAB, Utah, July 16 (U.P Rescue parties led by grizzled "desert rats' left here at sunrise today to search for. a 33-year-old recluse who has been missing for more than a week in the barren wastelands of Southern Utah. The- missing recluse, Howard Gillpatrick, was last seen last week when boatmen brougHtfood to his isolated shack on the Colorado river, 12 miles south of here. ' Yesterdav. when rivermen visited visit-ed the cabin again on their weekly week-ly trip down the Colorado, Gillpatrick Gill-patrick was not around. Sheriff J. B. Skewes was notified and volunteers , to search . the desert near. siuipttuKna tauui. tl1 4.I . ..LI. In the News 1 : '' : Missing At Mare .lslatid y f i mi: commandant of the yard, clasp nandsf tour of California. Geore-e A. Fisher, of Keetlev. former executive secretary of the board, who resigned on Jan. 7 olf this year, ..the resignation taking etxect on irep. j. of the iand board, charged with two counts of appropriating state moneys to his own use. Lauran W. Gibbs, Salt. Lake City broker, charged with bribery. brib-ery. The nature of the charge against Fisher will not be learned until Monday, because he gained temporary tem-porary release last night after he was served with a bench warrant by appearing before a Heber justice jus-tice of the peace. He was ordered to appear . before . District' Judge Herbert M. Schiller at ,10 a. m. Monday, when the indictment agains him will be read. " Fisher was a member of the hind- board from 1932' to 1937. when he resigned his membership and .-became executive secretary when the board was reorganized. Ipson has been employed by the board since 1919, serving as cashier, cash-ier, since 1923, when the former cashier, S. V. Ross, was convicted of misappropriating $11,000 in land board funds and sentenced to prison. COLOMBIA TO QUIT LEAGUE OF NATIONS BOGOTA, Colombia, July 16 UR Colombia intends to resign from the League of Natidns, it was disclosed dis-closed today. A newspaper statement state-ment by, Foreign Minister Antonia Rocha explained that Colombia felt the league's geographical position po-sition made it more European than universal. County Attorney Files Renomination At Nonftnation papers were filed with the county clerk Friday in behalf of Arnold C. Roylance who is seeking renomination on the Democratic ticket for county attorney. - Mr.- Roylance who is from Springville, was elected to office inM936. He has practiced j law since, his graduation from 1 the University of Utah law school. He studied before that time' at the BrI'gham Young university. He has been city attorney, for Springville and Mapleton ; for many years. t . . Deprived of his eyesight through two accidents as a boy, Mr.ltoy-lance Mr.ltoy-lance has demonstrated an admirable admir-able tenacity and wilK power ia pushing ahead with a "law career in the face of obstacles. At the present time , he is recovering at a San Francisco hospital from a difficult ' cornea grafting pper- ation. the success of which 1$ not I.... ..11.. HMHI. I -ci uujr uctciuuucu, 01EBW OBSERVANCE IS PLANNED Sbii And Daughters Organizations, To " ? . Sponsor Fete ... I Plana for a big program on Sunday, July 24. are rapidly neariner completion by the Soria and Daughters of IJtah ' I Pioneers of Provo. Preceded 4 by a band concert at 5:30 p. Irt., a . program honoring the pioneers will be held at :30 inf . the Utah stake tabernacle. . The SOns and Daughters met Thursday evening in the city and county ' buildiner to appoint com mittees, and make . arrangements for the big day. '. ..Mrs. Sarah Passey and .Walter Taylor, the officers of the Sons and Daughters organizations; were in charge of the Thursday meet ing . .: ; ' Committees Nanaed-- Committees appointed were: General, President- Sarah H. Pas oey, President Walter Taylor and Professor J. M. Jensen; ' prograin, Erxtma G. Jones, Nellie J. Olseh, I vie H. Mortensen and "Minnie R. Farrer; decorations, Dwight Billings,. Bill-ings,. Annie .T. FoUand, Kate V. Brown ' and T- M- AUman; , publicity, pub-licity, Ed. M, Rowe. , " All sacrament meetings in the wards of the Utah stake will be suspended "on the evening of the 24th, and citizens of Provo and church corps will assemble at the tabernacle, where the program will be rendered. Pioneers! will be honored hon-ored at this meeting.. Special Guests . Al pioneers who. reside in Provo who entered Utah prior ,to 1869, and who are 8ft years of age, will occupy honored seats on the stand. This event has the endorsement of the Utah stake persidency and of the Sons and Daughters of Utah Pioneers. Captains of the local camps of Daughters .will be held responsible over 80 years of age residing with in the limits of their respective camps: Announcement of the evening's entire program will be given at a later date. PRISON UNDER FLORENCE, Ariz., July 16 UP National guardsmen took command com-mand of the state prison today to halt an unparalleled series of escapes es-capes resulting from crowded conditions and .a lack of funds with which to employ .an adequate number of guards. ' A company , of infantry, "equipped "equip-ped with rncWne guns, rifles, and gas bombs, arrived. It was Indicated Indi-cated that it would immediately build a stockade near the prison in which to herd convicts who had been permitted to sleep outside the wals because there wasn't enough room for them inside. Twenty convicts had escaped in the last six weeks; five escaped Thursday. In placing . the prison under matrial law, Gov. R. C. Stanford said that "e'scape" was not the word with which to describe de-scribe the method of departing of the 'missing convicts. They had simply, walked away. - - . i For Primaries v; ARNOLD ; C. RbYICB MARTIAL LAW ... Ci -yy Sec fck 'Bo A Meet Lreek Provo Canyon Mudslides Still Blockade Highway Vivian Park Remains Under Water; Run-off Insufficient To Reduce Flood State road crews attacked the mudslide barrier near Bridal Bri-dal Veil falls, Saturday, in an attempt to move as soon as possible pos-sible to the slide above Upper Falls which has formed a huge lake extending far above Vfvian park. - : ; ; s A channel -was opened Friday News Hashes By UNITED PRESS SPANISH LOYALISTS .HOLD THEIR GROUND HENDAYE, French - Spanish Frontier, July 16 UJ2 Spanish Loyalists held stubbornly despite attacks by Nationalist . shock troops. 'and massed airplanes on the Mediterranean front today as the Spanish civil war ended its second year of slaughter. Three Nationalist armies, under three crack generals, were driving southward and southeastward - to take Valencia. LIGHTNING STARTS 96 FOREST FIRES SANDPOINT, Idaho, July 16 OLE) A severe electrical storm start ed 96 fires in the Kaniksu forest last night, Supervisor J. E. Ryan said today. Ten men were called from the Couer D'Alene forest because more fires are expected to start as a AMERICAN JEWS FIGHT OFF BRIGANDS JERUSALEM, July 17 ttJJ American- Jews, defending their homes in the village of Ainhas- "hophet, fought off a band of 90 Arab brigands and emerged victorious vic-torious without casualties, a dispatch dis-patch from Haifa said today. The village is south of Haifa, chief center of new outbreaks between be-tween Moslems and Jews. It is peopled largely by American Jews who have immigrated to the land of their forefathers. IDAHO TO HARVEST BIG POTATO CROP BOISE, Idaho, July 16 01 R) Idaho potato growers will harvest the second largest crop on record this yeai :U. S. Agricultural Statistician Richard C. Rross predicted pre-dicted today. Ross forecast production, based on preliminary estimates of acreage acre-age and yield per acre, at 28,290,-000 28,290,-000 bushels, about four per cent less than the 1937 crop and 25 per cent larger than the 10-year average production. MOTHER LOSES IN RACE WITH DEATH HOLLYWOOD, July 16 U1E Mrs. Marguerite Pughe of England arrived in Hollywood today, loser by 12 hours in a 4000-mile race against time to reach the deathbed death-bed of her son, Jack Dunn, young ice skating champion and fledgling fledg-ling screen star. The 21-year-old actor died in Hollywood hospital last night, of tularemia, at about the same time that his mother was landing in New York. Mrs. Pughe caught the first plane west and arrived at 7:30 a. m. Singing Students Must Meet Monday All singin gstudents at North Park are invited to be present for a special , practice Monday, July 18, at 2:45xp. m. according to John Bown; music instructor. All singing studetitg from Pioneer Pio-neer park are to meet at the Little Lit-tle theater, Provo high school at 4 p. m. for a special practice conducted by Mr. and Mrs. Bown. Hankow. Attacked By German Bombers HANKOW, Crhina, July 16 (TIE) Twenty-seven Japanese air-, planes dropped 60 bombs, on Hankow Han-kow today from ah altitude of 10,-000 10,-000 feet . and later nine planes dropped 40 bombs. Some bombs were believed to have struck the airdromet . . -r The planes were reported toJse new German bombers and highspeed high-speed pursuit snips. They were subjected, to heavy anti-aircraft nre ana it was peuevea one ww Is eg S head' - through the slide below Wick's service station, lower in the "canyon, "can-yon, to take care of the water which will be pouring through in Increasing volume as more water is being released above. Level Maintained Word came from Vivian park Saturday afternoon that the water level had receded less than an inch from the high mark set Friday afternoon. The water is only inches below the main floor of, the new Vivian park Chalet. The store -is submerged above the eaves, as is the Fisherman's Home below Vivian park. The bridge across the river at Vivian park has been pulled from its foundation and is afloat a. few inches above its moorings, it was reported also. The structure was probably severely damaged, with extensive repairs probably necessary neces-sary before traffic can "be resumed after the water recedes. Offer Declined It was reported Saturday that Rohl and Connolly. Deer Creek contractors, had offered the use" of some of their equipment the morning after the flood, before the water had begun to back up very far, but the offer was declined. de-clined. The flood area was inspected Friday and Saturday by Preston r to4.ma. - a vi.aA4 1 state- -read- commi-akerar - CitWtfe Commissioner Jesse Haws and hw nd Clark Newell, superintendent of city waterworks system. Sheriff E. G. Dumell and Deputy Sheriff Walter Durrant went as far as Vivian park to assist in transporting marooned campers across the flooded area from South Fork. Some of the summer homes In the lower part, below the South Fork bridge are completely com-pletely inundated, and furniture and other household effects are floating in the water. State road officials hestitated to say when the canyon would be cleared for traffic, because of the tremendous volume of debris to be moved. It may be necessary and cheaper to re-route the highway in some instances rather . than to clear away all the material. It was hoped that traffic could be partly restored by the middle of this week, but even this was uncertain. Tracks Cleared The railroad company was operating op-erating with a large crew and a shovel dragline to clear the tracks of debris in order that traffic (Continued on Page Five) Owens Receives Jew Appointment E. W. Scripps, chairman of the board of the Scripps League of Newspapers has announced the appointment of J. A. Owens as general manager of the Provo Herald, The Lcan Herald-Journal and the San Luis Obispo, Calif., Telegram-Tribune. . Mr. Owens succeeds M. H. Voorhees to whom he had been assistant. N. Gunnar Rasmuson, manager of the Logan Herald-Journal was appointed assistant general man ager of the three papers. Butler Announces Store Promotion Announcement was made Sat urday by W. R. Butler of the appointment of Ike John as assist ant manager of Butler's Inc. store. He was formerly connected with the shoe department at the store. Mr. John has had a wide experience ex-perience in department store merchandising mer-chandising and management. His promotion is1 a well deserved rec ognition of his ability and training. train-ing. He assumed his new duties Saturday. Mr. Butler who pointed to the announcement as .an important added service to the store an nounced . that Mr. John will - be glad to meet his many friends, in his new executive .position and will assure them as .well as all nls newly made friends, his desire to give them the best possible service. - - ; W B B ' -' - Pro jeci Contractors Are To Employ More Men . Monday mi l . m ine ioncr awaited sra ahead" order for the Deer Creek project " finally 'came througli yesterday when "a telegram was received by the local bureau of reclamation from the Denver office. The wire received from Commissioner John C. Page at Washington, D. C, said: "Secretary of Interior today; apDroved the form of power and water contracts, and authorises author-ises giving notice to proceed under un-der Rohl-Connollv contracts on Deer 'Creek dam." Written Notice Coming The word received here also said that the Denver office of the bureau bu-reau of reclamation would issue, the, formal notice, but verbal noK tice was given immediately to the contractors at the dam. No changes of any significance were made in the contracts, reclamation recla-mation officials said. Althouerh traffic, through Pmm ': canyon will be tied up for at least another week, the resumption of work at the dam-site will get under un-der way Monday, Rohl-Connolly officials said Saturday, after verbal ver-bal 'announcement, of the approval of the power and water contract ;; had been received from the! Denver ;t office of the bureau of rclama-tion. rclama-tion. Mre Men Needed The contractors have . 110 men. ' on the payroll at the present time. The force will be gradually . increased in-creased from day to day, toJ meet' demands as they arise. The .men will be obtained through the state . employment offices 'In .' Pnw where applications are already onV 11 M AAA . - men wno are swKmr .worn. wcx? PPJ wwn more thana week ago, there were 168 men otr. the payroll. v-More v-More material .must be snipped in by the government, such aji steel, concrete pipe and cement, before large scope operations can! get under way. Until the. mud-" slides in the lower part of the canyon are cleared away, such shipments will probably be routed I continued on Page Five) vs SAMUEL INSULL DIES IN PARIS PARIS, July 16 (HE) Samuel. " Insull.v former head of- the great v Mid-Western Utilities empire which collapsed and ruined thousands thous-ands of investors died in a hos- - -pital here today after a heart at tack in a subway station. Insull, one-time associate of Thomas A. Edison, was stricken while riding in the subway. He arrived at the Paul Marmotan ivos-pital ivos-pital in ' a coma, by a- taxic&b. -' The former magnate reached -the hospital at 1:10 p, m. (6a a.0 m. CST) and died shortly after nis admittance. Emergency treatment failed to , revive him and he was dead when, ? Dr. Edmund L. Gros, chief of staff - of the American hospital arrrived. . Mrs. Insull said the body 'would. be sent to England for burial and .' that her niece is arriving here' tomorrow to-morrow from England to make the arrangements. Franchise Uote Circulation of the petitions" -callings for an election to sub- mlt the proposed Utah Power and people, will . probably start tomor- row or Tuesday, Jacob Coleman. chairman of the "committee j of nine" said yesterday. 'V . I. G. Bench, , city recorder, noti fied Mr. Coleman that the petition copies "would be ready Monday. Rumors that the petitioners' would.be enjoined from - calling another election were .heard "yes- ' terday, but - Mr. Coleman an4 his group were positive that they are ' groundless. City authorities seem- ' ed.to be in no way hampering the - petition. - Word from Lebanon. " Tndfana indicates that the TJnlen ' conv " . pany, contractors for " the ,pn pdsed municipal plant, are' going -ahead with their plana. Mr. Yarl- ing, here recently , for a survey" ' of the distribution- systemv hsi re- turnedXto direct activities in : the ; preiimlnarjr-plans in tbe ofte, .t t Petitions Heady i |