Show SUNDAY MORNING DECEMBER HOOVER PLANS SO THE OGDEN STAND 1928 W RAILROAD FILES Jflaxb fimt ARE DISCUSSED 'fr jn4M7iciJ -- - art i $613-0000- I $202-00000- fr $11-0000- MxWW mini r s a 1 merce commission committee says the time is not far distant when Jr transportation will become competitive with the railroads and will have to be regulated by the federal government as the" railroads are now Senator Fess of Ohio has Just introduced a new railroad consolidation bill aiming to eliminate some of the confusion in that field Bills have been introduced during the past few sessions of congress to provide for federal regulation of commercial interstate motor trans- 1 of cargoes and that some central agency is necessary to work toward that end There is reason to think that the take more definite project may President-elecHoover t shape after has had an opportunity to set forth his views in his augural address or In his first message to congress An idea of the scope of the problem "involved may be gleaned from to the shipping a report made board by H T Lawrie economist i attach ej! to the board the of "The transportation plant United States at the beginning of 1927" Mr Lawrie says "consisted of over 3000000 miles of highways of which 500000 miles were surfaced of 22500000 motor the value of which includ--In- g the highways was over steam 250000 miles of miles of railways and nearly 50000with their electric railway? which equipment were valued at over $27000000000 and river harbor upon and canal improvements which the government alone had0 expended to June 30 1927 No estimate is available in the capital invested by portsnor of facilities terminal providing which has the amount of incapital which vessels invested been ve-hlcl- es ?1445-fiOO00- ment inline nation's transportation plant probably would not be less than $60000000000" BOISE HIGH WINS FROM POCATELLO Dec 29— (AP)— The BOISE Boise high school basket ball team continued its winning streak here the visiting tonight by defeating high fchool five in a fast pocatello 18 to 15 game! Braves The played flashy ball in half when they gained a first the 8 lead but the Pocatello team 13 to came back stronpr in the last half and threatened the Braves' lead The final gun cut down the bid of the visitors -- non-carri- er Til-gha- m carriers Senator "Watson of Indiana chairman of the interstate com- greatest facility in the Interchange 00 $18-0000- de or even their consolidation The idea 1s that the highways railroads waterways ocean ports and ulti-so mately" the air lanes should be STRIKES 00 HOOSIER - - Now he wants them back Tsui not from Mrs Reilly for they are happy ferences hich have arisen between very A pickpocket snatched his wife's government figures for the valua- handbag containing the highly tion of railroads and the figures Mr Reilly doesn't prized epistles evolved by railroad corporations wish those letters floating about he for the same properties was given told so He isn't police particular today In brief filed by the Southern Pacific company with the in- about recovering the bag terstate commerce commission The commission proceeding under its view of valuation had ten- DEATH tatively assigned a value of t the Southern Pacific system but the railroad itself NOTED claimed in the aggregate a valuation figure today of $1375000000 an amount $762000000 greater than the pommission has been will- Led Adventuresome Life ing to allow As Frontielsman Writer DIFFERENT PRINCIPLES "A substantial portion of this difOutlafv Hunter ference 1 occasioned by the applif W cation of different principles and COLORADO SPRINGS Colo methods by the commission than Dec 29— (AP) — Manymany years those for which the carriers cona Hoosier with an aching for tend" the Southern Pacific brief ago adventure adfollowed explained "The maor items in- vice and came west Greeley's He found it cluded in the $762000000 are: As a soldier frontiersman auClaims relating to going concern thor reporter theatre manager value exceeding $85000000 claims police judge and Robert for additional elements' of value at- McReynolds fed as mayor adventuresome 0 taching to land exceeding and exciting life as any pictured in claims for erroneous de- the luridly illustrated yellowbacks duction depreciation exceeding of a decade ago claims for deferred Colonel McReynolds died today $146000000 at the Myron Stratton home where construction costs exceeding he had lived for the last two years cjlaims approximating Born in Newberg Ind hetrek-ke- d representing land erronewest at a time when his first ously classified as These specified claims exceed long trousers were still a private In $462000000 The remaining differ- pride and a public exhibition ence amounting to $300000000 the early '80s he joined Billy United States marshal in between the values claimed by the Oklahoma and hunted outlaw Southern Pacific and the values bands In 1883 he was awarded 'allowed 'Ija Included in claims In- a Mexican bronze medal by l volving questions of fact as well government for expertthemarksmanas the application of correct prin- ship with a carbine ciples' A decade later ljie was a colonel Though: the Southern Pacific de- in the Nebraska national guard mand for a more than doubling of and the state awarded him a medcommission valuation figure ex- al for his valor in the Isous Inceeds tha made by the average of dian uprising Later he managed other railroads in practically every a theatre in Lincoln and on comcase important railroads have in- ing to Colorado devoted most of his sisted that their net worth is great- time to writing books and magaly in excess of the commission al- zine articles He was a police judge in Cololowance rado' City before its annexation by TO STAGE TEST The first important test of the Colorado Springs and was a mayissue which has arisen between the or of the "open town" of Ramona the office was eliminated government and the railroads will until His published books are "Thirty court be staged before the (supreme "When next weelj where the StjLouis and Tears on the Frontier" "RodBlow Winds Tide Strongest O'Fallon railroads with tie support Pov"The of Wilkes" ney Luxury of practically all the carriers In the erty"! "A Modern Jean Val Jean" United States is contesting the and Fancies valuation attributed to its property andA "jFacts Mrs George E Wether-wa- x sister comUnder jthe law after the of this city survives him mission has determined the valuation of railroads rates are to be made to enable a six per cent earnIEGIH TO DOUBT ing upon the aggregate figure and any railroad earning more than six of per cent ip liable to pay one-hasuch excess to the government as excess earnings The O'f allon since its valuation figures were long ago completed was the first railroad to be served (Continued From Page One) with peremptory demands for a to r arae him From what we have paj'ment of excess earnings to the beeu able to learn was evi government and has resisted that dently the victim ofPugh a tout who courts to the action by recourse posed as a bookmaker with the 'inside dope on the various tvgc meets around the country" TO At the request of Governor Dern W H Hadlock and P H Service of the state banking department were assigned today to assist Sher UTAH BAP BODY man " Preece chief deputy state auditor in the check of the treasurer's funds The audit it was today may extend back of Would Increase Salaries stated the present administration BANKS WILL HELP Extend Office Terms Utah banks in which state funds of Judges are on deposit are to be asked for a statement of state treasurer's balSALT LAKE Dec 29 — Members ances as of December 29 A sepof the Utah Bar association at a arate audit is expected to be made meeting here today voted unani- by bonding companies carrying inmously on the proposition that the demnity bonds on employes of the organization be incorporated in treasurer's department How long order to strengthen its powers these audits will require was said The association also voted that the to be problematical legislature be asked to extend ofAs a result of peculations fice terms of district judges to six it was indicated Pugh's at the state house years and that salaries of supreme today renewed efforts will be and district judges be raised madei at the coming session of the 'The association passed a reso legislature to obtain appropriations Tution to sponsor a bill at the com- to make possible semi-annuto of the legislature ing meeting "'for incorporating of the bar checks of state departments and aijpv association so that the members institutions oduld take matters of legal ethics into their own hands The association also agreed to sponsor 'a bill increasing the pajf GALL of supreme court judges from $4000 to $7500 a year If this bill ls successful it will raise Utah to the jlevel of Nevada and make TO them the two lowest- states in the union from the point of supreme court Judges' salaries The associCLARKSDALS Miss Dec 29 — ation also favored Increasing dis— A call for 200 additional CAP) trict court Judges' pay from $4000 men was received here late tonight to $6000 and to lengthen their term of office from four to six from posses seeking Charles Shepherd escaped negro convict Offiyears The meeting was presided over cers here were informed that a neby A E Bowen Salt Lake the gro believed to be Shepherd had president Ogden men who attend- been surrounded near Parchman ed included Charles IV Hollings-wort- h prison farrm where the negro was Joheph E Kvans and Judge alleged to have killed a guard and John A Hendricks kidnaped his daughter Return today of Miss Ruth Du-va- ll 18 abducted early POLICE ARE CALLED Friday to renewed posses spurred tonight NOT UNDERTAKER vigor in their search for Charley Shepherd who forced the young A sorrowful story of a red- woman at rifle point to leave her headed girl! home on the prison farm with pirn For a time Saturday evening it and made her walk barefooted looked like she was a candidate for throughout Friday the morgue because she appeared Miss Duvall raid today when she quite dead then she was actually reached a convict camp about six taken to the hospital and finally miles from her home that Shepended up at the city jail herd late last night pointed out a It air happened this way: She negro cabin and told her to stay told Policewoman Mrs Addle there or he would kill her She reSanders that she went for an au- mained in the cabin until this tomobile ride with some men She morning when "with the aid of a had a drink it seems and "pass- negro woman who lived nearby ed out" The occupants of the car she made her way to the camp whose names were not learned unceremoniously dumped her out on the street pavement at the corner or Harrison and Capitol avenues Along came a motorist a few minutes after 10 o'clock and found the girl IN BIG ROUNDUP Seeing the apparently dead body the autoist prepared to drive to the undertaking parlors then observing there were signs of life he NEW YORK Dec 29 — took Myrtle into the Dee hospital Fifty prisoners were seized (AP)— today only a dozen rods away There her by police In the second general stomach was pumped out by the roundup of criminals within four hospital interne doctor and the days aa a result of Police CommisDetectives W K sioner Whalen's "standing order" police called Milllgan and P J Naylin investi- to his men to rid the city of the gated They called Mrs Sanders criminal Two men caught to the scene and after Myrtle began in the element were sought in condragnet to talk she was taken to the police nection with a Brooklyn murder station and booked for being drunk The prisoners will be placed in The girl says she is 21 years old the lineup in the detective bureau and married tomorrow morning WASHINGTON Dec 29 — (AP) —An Illustration of the huge dif- ©IMS Vt NLA ftERVtCt INC PRINCE WOULD PASTOR READY SEE 'WAR' SCENE TO MEET FATE NEW YORK Dec 29— (AP) — Election of Dr Robert Andrews Millikan California physicist as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for 1929 was announced today '( Dr Millikan is director of the Norman Bridge laboratory of physics at California Institute of Tech' nology Pasadena The garden of Eden was located In Central Asia In a paper by Dr George Sullivan of the American University before the Archeologir cal Institute of America saying that in the past it has been theoretically discovered in Babylonia Europe and Africa He gave nine reasons for a belief in Central Asia They were based largely on recent discoveries in the Gobi des ert especially those of Roy Chapman Andrews OLDEST REMCAINS FOUND They included discovery in Asia of the oldest human remains dating back half a million years the oldest human teeth found near Pekin household trinkets estimated at 150000 years old and the fact that two anthropoid ape spe cles originated in Asia ' If folks were unable to oppose their thumbs which means to place them against their finger there tfps in picking up things might be less tooth troubles and diseases that enter through the But through highly demouth veloped use of hands Dr Charles A Kofoid of the University of California said to the American Society of Parasitologists the human mouth is open to more kinds of Infection than any other part of the body Dr Kofoid discussed late developments in the study of pyorrhea saying it is produced by at least two identified types of Recent dissingle cell animals covery that one of these trichomonas puccalis was widespread in some types of pyorrhet he said was a surprise SCIENCE OF LIVING Dr William Morton Wheeler dean of Bussey Institution Har vard University told of new tendencies in the theories of biology which is the science of living He 5 May Pacify Tiniest He And Girl See No Wrong In Disappearing From Independent County In Europe Church PARIS Dec 29 — (UP) — Prince Louis of Monaco who has been attempting to pacify his slightly more than 15000 subjects from northern France plans to visit his domain Sunday and take an active part In the arguments The prince will find a country without two of its three parliamentary bodies The national council which acta on national affairs and the communal council which supervises municipal affairs have resigned en masse although the latter still was functioning on current happenings RESULT OF DISCONTENT' The crisis—Prince Louis objects to the term "revolution" — was the result of discontent on the part of the people who charged that the directorate of the famous Monte Carlo casino was assuming too much power and that the country' was being impaired by its management In his apartment here Prince Louis was optimistic over his ability to smooth out difficulties and put his government back into running condition "I shall discuss the situation personally with the council Including economic interests" Prince Louis told the United "Press DEMANDS EXAGGERATED "I believe some of the demands of the people are perhaps mosl justified while other have been exagI always gerated by the press have sought to do my uttermost for the happiness of my people and visitors to the principality can testify to the happiness of its citi zens This nrinctnalitv nf Monaco is the tiniest independent country In Europe extending scarcely two miles from the palace at Monte Carlo on the coast the fartherest boundary but In tne t recent past Be it has been one of cause the government received a large share of the casino earnings the populace had to pay no taxes the-riches- FARMER FEARED CASTONIA TV X C Dec 29 ld ld -- married" KENOSHA Wla Dec 29— (AP) —Four "young persons members of prominent Kenosha families are dead and several more in hospitals here as the result of a crash of two automobiles and a Chicago and Northwestern train The dead 'are d Ferrin Alford son of W H vice president of thft Nash Motors company Lowell Smith high school student and son of A B Smith also an official of the Nash Motort company Alice Judd daughter of Clark Judd vice president of th American Brass company Mary Slater granddaughter of Municipal Judge John C Slater Al-for- UNLOAD ED' GUN INJURES FOUND IN COTTAGE The pair were found in a cottage in a secluded section of the country near here by four hunters late last night Police had been searching for them ever since they left the little church Wednesday might in Wise's automobile The evangelist was arrested on charges of embezzlement of $12 of the funds of the Sunday school of his church as well as another count preferred by the girl's father WOUNDS YOUTH — Vanderburg wealthy Gaston county farmer whose charred body was found with four other members of his family In the smoking ruins of his home near here yesterday lived in fear of his son Jacob a coroner's jury was told here today The inquest lasted only a short time this morning Officers asking that it be delayed untlbjanuary 5 so that additional evidence might be gathered In the meantime Jacob Vanderburg 17 only surviving member of the family was held in jail without bond pending the outcome of the Inquest A P Pumgardner neighbor of the Vanderburgs related to the coroner's jury a conversation he had several months ago with the elder Vanderburg "You don't know what I have to put up with" Bumgarder said Vanderburg told him "He (Jacob) is getting worse all the time We can't do anything with him — can't reason with him He has an awful temper when he gets angry I am just looking for him to kill some of us or all of us some time" XASHVILLE Ga Dec 29 — (AP) — A young woman whose love had been spurned today seriously wounded the youth who was the object of her affections and made two unsuccessful attempts to end her own life Bandall Mette 21 was in a hospital tonipht with two bullet wounds in his back and Delia May Bayfield was under arrest Sheriff N N Hughes tonight said the girl told him that young Mette had been courting her for two years and recently told her the affair was over Today she saw Mette and his father ©ass her home She took a pistol and hid in bushes beside the road until the two men had gone by then stepped out Into the road and fired two shots into the youth's back The girl's mother told the sheriff that after the shooting she returned home and attempted to end her life first with the pistol and then with a shotgun but was prevented from firing The girl was held without bond pending the outcome of the youth's injuries BOY SPRINGFIELD Mo Dec 29 — (AP) — Johnny Tindle school f boy was in a critical con ditlon tonight as a result of the old "unloaded gun" accident Tindle who was out hunting with some friends thought he had taken all the cartridges from the gun He placed the barrel against his abdomen and pulled the said that mechanism and hostor-ishad been the main foundations in the past and that the "organ-istic- " conception now coming into use would probably reconcile conflicting theories that this new conception is based on study of how beings and society are organized Dr Wheeler said "we had better preserve discreet and absolute jf telechles psychoids" which he if id not define I Professor Franz Boas of Colum bla University related the facte collected in recent years indicating that the original Indian inhabitants of both Americas migrated here from Iberia or Asia and that they all were probably from the original Mongolian race m Texas Police Seek Facts About Wreck of Automobile HOUSTON Texas Dec 29— Police questioned mn who called himself a Mormon elder and a preacher known as the "flying parson" here tonight for information about two men who wrecked an automobile loaded with electric flashlights an automatic shotgun and buckshot shells and then stole another car and fled this afternoon When motorcycle officers attempted to stop an automobile containing five men for speeding the driver speeded up and a chase ensued ending in the wrecking of the automobile Two men jumped out fled through a wood and stole another car while the officers were pursuing them and escaped The three other men In the wrecked car gave their names as Elder Leonard II Cowley of the Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints of Bryan Wyo the Rev J L Neville who ald he was known as the "flying parson and his brother William Neville an aviator The Rev Mr Neville said he was a member of the Interdenominational church The three told officer that the two other men had given them a "lift' in the automobile nearHar-linge- n and that they were onJthe way to San Antonio to purchase an airplane to be used in a contemplated aviation school there (AP)-- DO CTOR DIES IF PNEUMONIA NEW YORK Dec G Alfred Lawrence well known neurologist and descendant of a family which came to America in 1635 and later led in the settlement of the Santa Clara valley In California died today at Post Graduate hospital from pneumonia He I was in hia sixtieth year 29-(- AP) Dr For New Year's Celebrations Pa rty juresse POGH'S STORY Crisp and Dainty STRENGTHEN f A Very Special Offer Taffetas— Satins — Moires Lovely Full Metal Lace Skirts or Billowy Ruffled Shirts Offered right at the peak of the season's festivities Beautiful dresses of exquisite styles in designs and colors to suit the most fastidious miss and you would expect to pay so much more for them too Greatly Reduced - al Wise said he had been married twice and that his former wives were dead Meanwhile the Shields girl under close watch at the home of her parents at Hogestown quoted passages from scriptures to justify her actions and said she was fulfilling "a mission of the Lord" in eloping with Wise SPURNED WOMAN YOUNG SUSPECT CAP) — J DILLSBURG Pa Dec 29— (AP) — A preacher who a to take planned girl for his third wife was in the county jail at Carlisle tonight re signed to his fate "It is the Lord's will" said the Rev Peter Wise who objects to being called anything but an evangelist ' NO BADNESS SEEN He and the girl Miss Annie Shields 20 believe they did nothing wrong in disappearing together from the preacher's church the Salem Methodist at Hogestown near here Wednesday after services Each maintained they were in love with the other and would be married eventually despite the opposition of the girl's parents "There is no badness about it all" said Wise "We prayed that we might be happy together and I hoped that I would become younger in spirit after we were IS QUESTIONED IN AUTO CRASH lf Visit MORMON ELDER FOUR ARE DEAD SCIENCE CHIEF " By W O MURRAY Jr (Special Correspondent of The Standard Examiner ) "WASHINGTON Dec 2? — An effort to establish a federal agency designed to coordinate the operation of the transportation facilities of the nation is expected to be made during the presidential term pf Herbert Hoover Discussion of this gigantic project has been almost entirely tinder cover but it came to the surface at this week-en- d when political circles in the national capital were buzzing: with talk of what President Hoover's immediate plans would be here on his arrival In another week from his South American trip The transportation proposal would directly affect properties valued at approximately sixty billion dollars and would react on Other properties and businesses of Immense financial importance Until now the discission of this problem has been overshadowed by the- more spectacular issues such as farm relief with whicit incidentally the transportation question is vitally interrelated but political observers now freely predict that the Idea will shortly engage Mr Jloover's attention Senator Borah of Idaho who Is a leading advocate of an extra session of congress to enact a farm bill contends that distribution costs In which transportation is largely Involved Is one of the most important factors in any solution of the agricultural problem During the last session congress authorized an increase in the inland waterways appropriation designed to pro-Ticheaper water for the interior andtransportation passed the merchant marine bill to enhance the efficiency of ocean-goin- g water other'Mr Hoover in his' speech of acceptance on August 13 touched upon this question Discussing particularly hydroelectric power developments and irrigation projects said: the president-elec- t '"We have wasted scores of millions1 on projects undertaken not as a part of a whole but as a consequence of purely local demands "We cannot develop modernized water transportation by isolated proj-- i ects "We must develop it as a def-- i inite and positive interconnected system of transportation We must and Irrigation to adjust reclamation our needs for more land Where they lie together we must coordinate transportation- with flood con trol the development of hydro electric power and of irrigation else we shall as in the past commit errors that will take - years and millions to remedy" In his Blizabethton speech on Oc tober 7 Mr Hoover went further and declared: "The war has dislocated our transportation relations both within our country and with foreign countries Development of inland marina waterways of merchant and consolidation of railways is forced upon us" The suggestion most frequently heard is for some kind of super agency which would be designed to correlate and coordinate the functions now 'exercised by the interstate commerce commission the shipping board' the inland water ways corporation and the bureau of roads It would not mean the THAT WON WIFE CHICAGO Dec 29— CAP)— The Garden of Eden Located Southern Pacific Claims letters Walter Reilly wrote to Betty In Asia By Doctor Valuation Figure Is Anne Yale In Battle Creek must been have for she after good got In Paper Ijrluch Greater 15 of theni she married him Facilities portation The proponents of all these measures declare the time is eom-In- g when the various methods of transportation will have to be brought into harmony with each R LOSES LETTERS MILLIKAN MADE RATEJEPORT Federal Agency Is Wanted To Aid Transportation ARD-EXAMINE- NEW POSSE Children 's Dresses UK Wool Mixed and Jerseys J - GET SLAYER FIFTY SEIZED 7 to 14 Sizes Marked Down From $295 and $3j?5 The thrifty mother will huy two or three frocks at this remarkable saving In nice attractive styles and colors so serviceable ' for school wear 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