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Sunday and ilonda y mostly fair little changej in tem- life XTou perature IDAHO: Fair hut cloudy in south-- c a s !t portion at Biff — u -- i k NOT TO DELAY OULDER DAE l t SSiA -- :WV Lower States Building Up Priorities On Water ' w - ' v lis ' ' F©HC0S a -- j Holther And Smoot Urge Immediate Action On Interests v ' J Basis - pj WILL W BOWMAN A j the problems and straighten out the differences — —— — — — Natural gas interests which are 1 from Wyoning fields to Utah towns and cjtie ' claim a $"50000 building profram within the city limits of Oglen Is being Meld' up while the matter is at is- Imping gas CONSOLIDATION OF RAILROADS sii-sta- te six-sta- te BEFORE SENATE Fess Measure Written To Assist In Unifying U S Systems k 53 Via r PYi s K S ' WASHINGTON Feb — Legislation designed iniiiriiii1ffm1tlr(r1l ifMfrw six-sta- te j i i S L CUBA -- — TO OPEN NEW BANK IN IDAHO TOWN - COEUR DfALENE' Idaho Feb 23— (AP) — The Old National bank of Spokane through the Union Securities company will open a' here taking 75 per 'cent of stock It was learned today on jgood authority Coeur d'Alene business men are understootl to have taken the remaining 23 per cent and jfour of them will be directors The bank 'will be capitalized at $ 1000000 with $25000 surplus The directors of the First Ex- rhahge National bank which closed recently are understood to have made plans for liquidation 4n basis of SO per cent new-han- k j j ) ! Lindbergh On His Way By Airplane To Mexico ED WITH CANADA BYNON-STOP- ER P f BEET GROWERS have advanced specific plans in the same field to the Interstate commerce commission Senator Fess Republican Ohio acting for the majority of the senate interstate commerce committee presented a consolidation bill with a detailed explanation of its purpose and the statute modifications it contemplates MEYER PROPOSAL ' The latest and perhaps'the largT est of merger proposals were submitted to- - the interstate commerce commission only three days ago one by the Baltimore & Ohio system Which asked approval for the acquisition of nearly 8000 miles of additional line The other consolidation proposal was submitted by the Van Sweringen interests of Cleveland who asl:ed the rigljt to build out cf rail properties they now control and others theyhope to buy a new eastern trunk ljne with 14000 miles of track Though these projects affect only t"e northeastern quarter of the country there" is already awaiting the commission's final word the provisionally completed merger of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern systems In the northwest whose joint control Of the Burlingr ton system reaching southward to the Mexican gulf would put 25000 miles of road in a single merger BILL IS EXPLAINED v Senator Fess repbt explained that the bill was designed to fa cilitate such unlflcatlon7of rail systems by merger finaticial control or corporate consolidation as might be deemed In the public interest by the "Interstate commerce commission The bllt repeajts the sanction of former statutes etwh for the con solidation of "parallel and competwhich was once for ing railroads" bidden by anti-trulegislation' The measure also proposes methods of satisfying minority stockholders opposing Icohsolidations: and It also Would djrect the interstate commerce commission to make plans for a general railroacf merger Ogden Canyon Beauty Spot AND REFINERS AGREE OtJ $7 To Be Married Perhaps AX eloquent ASsupporting the George Haldeman Flies Request For HaFrom Windsor To' EAGLE PAS Tek Feb 23 (AP)— Colonel Charles A In View landed here at 7:30 o'clock' tonight en route to vana In 13 Hours of Low Price Lindbergh -- (AP) — today linked Canada and Cuba by a single unbroken airplane flight ' In taking off from the Walkersville airport near Windsor Ontario at 3:49 a til thej wheels of his airplane were deep in the snow He settbeni down' in less than 13 hours later on the tropical soil of Cuba Haldenjan by accompanied James F Hayden a mechanic on his southward flight passed over He flew Cincinnati and Atlanta over Key West at 3:35 p m His charted courses of 1404 miles was flown in 12 hours and 66 minutes There remained in his Bellanca plane enough fuel to have carried him another 125 miles n Haldeman succeeded where Leonard Fib of Ann Arbor Mich twice failed once because of fog and once because of illness Hal deman who was pilot for Ruth El der in her unsuccessful attempt to cross the Atlantic showed-nsign of fatigue from his long flight He said that he had excellent flying conditions throughout A favorable tailvvind on the last 800 miles enabled Jiim' to increase his s speed HAVANA Feb George Haldeman -- '' — 4-- 4 — FISHERMAN SAVED FIVE MATES SOUGHT PORTLAND Me Feb 23— (AP)— Five members of the crew of the fishing schooner Aberrance who have been adrift in dories since Thursday's heavy snowstorm today were the objects of a widespread search at sea whUe one fisherman rescued after 34 hotirs in an open boat received the handclasps of his mates ashore Vhile coastguard cutters maintained a search which was started early yesterday and continued throughout the night in the vicinity of Jeffries ledge 37 miles off Cape Elizabeth faint hope was held by other members of the schooner's crew that the men would be found 44— r — : ASSASSINS FEARED BY CHINESE CHIEFS '' he said O R Jones president of the refiners' association was spokesman for the manufacturers Other terms of the contract are the same as those for 1928 Growers said in a statement that the minimum of $7 was accepted because the present price of sugar did not justify a demand for a higher price Provision was made for the growers to participate in profits 0 on a basis STATEMENT MADE A statement by the beet growers' asoeiation said: "A beet contract with the manufacturers for 1929 was negotiated at a meeting in the offices of the Utah State Farm bureau on Saturday by the boajkl of directors cf the Utah Sugar&eet The balance Of association the contract will remain the same as for 1928 "The board when this matter was first gone into early In 19 28 felt that the beet growers would IN probably be justified in asking for a $750 minimum for 1329 but after extensive Investigation and study decided that the price of and the general condition of Coolidge Signs Land Grant sugar in general would not the industry For Utah Miners justify more than $70 0 at the present time The minimum price & Hospital not so important they feel due to the fact that the contract — Feb 23 (AP) for a participation in the provides v WASHINGTON Coolidge today signed by the beet growers on a profits 0 a bill authorizing additional grants basis of 50000 acres of land of the pubSUGAR PRICE DOWN lic domain each to the states of "At the present time the price Utah and Arizona for the estab- of net to thei manufacturer sugar lishment of hospitals for disabled is $440 cwt while it would take miners a 1750 per cent beet with sugar to justify a $750 'netting ' WASHINGTON Feb 23— (AP) price for$550 of If beets the price — The senate and sent sigar goes up to today and the to the president a passed bill to divide saccharine tests 1750 per cent the the eig'hth judicial circuit and to beet grower will get $750' per ton create anew the tenth circuit of the minimum regardless The eighth circuit comprises North Dakota South Dakota NeAll concede that the variation in braska Minnesota Iowa Missouri the minimum price paid durln-- j the and Arkansas while the tenth cir- last two years and being paid now cuit1 includes Wyoming Colorado is unfortunate and an (effort is beNew Mexico ' Kansjaa Oklahoma ing made onthe part of both' the 1 and Utah association and the manufacturers to this matter up as soon WASHINGTON Feb 23— (A I) as straighten ' possible — Tlje Colton bill to Indians 102S Since June'25 there has permit Mexiin Utah Colorado and' New been a decline in the price of sugco to institute proceedings in Iie ar cf $130-cwThis fact wag a court of claims for adjudication of largo factor in negotiating the' conclaims to more than a million acres tract this year As the contract is of land in the three states was based to a large extent on the base approved today by the house In- price of sugar it would be imposdian affairs committee sible to pay more for beets at the —— ——4-- — present price of sugar SEF3K TARIFF INCREASE FLAG RAISER DIES The beet association the Utah Farm bureau end other orIN VET HOSPITAL State ganizations are working to secure an Increase In the tariff on ST LOUIS 'Feb 23— (A P)-- Ed- If they succeed the price of sugar sugar ward Paul Stanton 51 Spanish-America- n will be advanced and the beet war veteran Who rower will receive for his the distinction of having been ? eets It Is felt by jmore jail concerned the first person to raise the Amer- that an increase In! 'the tariff fs ican flag over the Philippine islands esential to the welfare of the Inat Manila August 13 1898 is dead dustry j A here Stanton who served as a signal STORM COSTS' MI LLIQV NEW TORK(jreb 23— (UP) — boy on Admiral Dewey's flagship Olympla said be was selected by It will cost New i'ork City approxDewey to raise the flag over Man imately $1000000 to clear the ila when that city surrendered lie streets of snow which fell during died in the United States Veterans' the recent storm Alfred A Taylor hospital here from pneumonia and commissioner of street cleaning blood poisoning following amputa estimated today All streets will tion of his left foot bo clear bv Mondav Tavlor fsald The noted flier refused to am plify ma statement tnat ne was going to Mexico City Asked if he Intended to marry his fiancee Miss Anne Morrow at this time he a stony silence Notified that Lindbergh was G UA RD thought to be TO heading this direction more than a hundred persons were at the air field when his motor was heard He circled the One Killed and Five Others field and landed in pitch darkness After being shown to a hotel Flee From Deadly Lindbergh made arrangements to Gunfire obtain a passport to Mexico He then retired to hi3 room and PHILADELPHIA Feb 23— asked not to be disturbed until — (AP)— Six masked bandits and mcrning His Travelair monoplane was functioning perfectly' he said two guards of a bankfa armored -- 44 motor car shot it out in an outlying: section of the city tonight - j ITS LOSE pre-sei-v- AN ycar-aroim- in stcge-ccach-d- ay TAH FIGURES fashion' The bank employes won the bat tle and one of the bandits as yet unidentified died in a hospital soon after being admitted The other highwaymen two of them believed to have been wounded escaped in their automobile The stake for which the battle was fought — $2000(K the receipts of 64 chain stores— was deposited in the vaults of the North Philadelphia Trust company soon after the encounter Henry W Arnold Jr 3 1 the substitute driver of the armored car who "Helps his father on Saturday nights" was the victor in the fight The bank car drew up to one of the chain stores tonight as usual Arnold was at the wheel and behind him was E J Lyman 19 an assistant guard with a short barreled shotgun across his knees The bandits their car parked nearby in an alley pulled bfack masks over their faces and rushed the bank employes The leader smashed the glass of the windshield the only portion of the car not steel covered with the1 butt of his gun and shouted to Arnold: "Come on! I know ' you've got It! Hnd it ' over!" Instead ©f handing over the money Arnold grasped the shotgun and dropped the bandit leader in his tracks : ' 1 - : - THREE BILL - '''' -- i t 4 — : 50-5- I FOUR ILLIONS FOB BA ed 50-5- j d considered asi a recreation and bcautr spot and not merely as a summer playground The Stan:!urd-Exaini- n er publishes the recent photograph which adorns! this page See 'Ogdcn canyoni iri Its winter dress is thip advice of ail who have had that pleasure ve lf argument contention on should be :hatv jOsaea j SHANGHAI Feb 23 — (AP) — A spokesman for the foreign office of the nationalist government tonight said that a sensational report had been received from Tientsin stating that a band of assassins was en route to Shanghai to kill leaders of the nationalist government 44 The report said that the band had been "organized by leaders of TRICK IS REVEALED the revolting forces In northeastFOR PICTURE FANS ern Shantung Nationalist government official NEW YORK Feb 23 — (AP) — professed to be undisturbed "by the report Spectators by' closing —— ' one eye mayat getmovies 44 added realism in the- form of depth a joint meeting HEADSTONES BILL cf the American Physical and Op tical societies was told todav- MEETS WITH FAVOR Watching with one eye tends to give the impression that the dis WASHINGTON Feb 23— fAP) tant objects in the picture actually — The senate? and are far back of the face of the today passed sent to President Coolidge a bill screen as if the screen were mere providing for the erection of head a window through which the stones oyer the graves of confed- ly audience gazes upon actual diserate soldiers in military or private tance L G Priest of the United cemeteries States bureau of standards told of j Most of the graves in military the single eye trick during a discemeteries are already marked cussion of research into the methbut some of them in private' ceme- ods of making three dimensional teries are not nicl uros — Increase-Abandoned Mexico City He said he would spend the night here and A minimum price of $7 per ton leavs for the Mexican capital at daybreak for the 19 29 crop of sugar beets Leaving Abilene at 2:45 p m Lindbergh required four was agreed upon by representatives and one-hahours to fly the 300 air miles here A strong of the Utah Sugerbeet association at a meeting' held in headwind held fcim to 50 miles an hour much of the time Salt Lake Saturday 28 — six-sta- te ! — tTiYjrpiiitr:iiijjriUiniwiiiiiwiiiiHi'iiiiiiiiiiVi frjwitiwmrr'J-Trwwir- n ¥ CLUB? Staggering Offer Reported Made- To Giant Owners e ry oportsmen f r- NEW YORK Feb 23— (AP)— There were well authenticated" reports today that the Madison Square Garden corporation 'had inside a four million dollar offer for the New "York Giants' baseball '''' " !'( Club " The deal which apparently' has a' good chance of going through would give the Gardcm control of the I'olo Grounds and the big ball park would be turnicd into an outdoor arena for boxing bouts and other athletic exhibitions - x ' The staggering effef was made by Winiam F Carey acting head of the Garden in a conference with John McGraw manager and stockholder' cf the Giants at Miami Beach last Saturday ii was rfport-e- d 'from Florida- - 'McGraw flew to Miami Reach from Ilivana where vacationingj arjd then come to New York whero he discussed the matter with Charles A Stone-hapresident of the club Stone-haand McGraw are said to be favorably incline! toward the proposition 1 he-wa- st 44- s - I v j The city on the othjer hand refuses to allow the qompanyjto r(iake any street excavations until 4 agrees upon an occupation tax The differences betvfeen the' two factions are somewhat technical To get a clear picand involved ture of the situation ja brief hisI tory is necessary SITUATION PRESENTED Before talk of natural gas for J Qgden was heard the- city used gas served by the Utah Light and Traction company under-afranchise 'August £6 l9i5 to run granted until June 1 1965 No Occupation tax existed under this franchise but it grants the Icjity 100000 cubic feet of gas per yar I free of charge Early in 1928 Insult InteresfJJ Under the name of the Ogden Gas company purchased all the Ogden assets including thp franchise the Utah Light and Traption and began to operate J fom thereafter I B Denning and John McFadyeji announced tjiey were bringing natural gas into the city and obtained a franchise from Ogden clty toperate uiifer hlch an occupation tax was to1 ibe i t I - ar-tffic- In August 1928 the Ogden pas' company presented a $25000 bond to the city for approval requested tjne surrender of the old bond and asked the city to thereby approve tfie assignment of the Utah Light A Traction company franchise j to j the Ogden Gas company OCCLTATIOX TAX DEMANM'I) The city then demanded that an to the onn occupation imposed In the Dennlng-McFadye- u franchise be incltided In the original Utah Lfgt & Traction com-ban- y franchbwv This the city contended" would preserve uniformity aind Impose the same obligations on one gas company as on another! ' Meanwhile the Ogden Gas company had been operating in the city Then City Attorney Arthur If Pratt instructed the city commissioners to refuse to grant to the Qgden Gas company any further permits for street excavations until the company cbnsented to amend lis- - 1915 franchise to Include pay' ment vof an occupation tax j Since thaf time no expansion has customers have tken 'place no new bjeen eeryod and :no permlta have bpen granted tax-simila- r J t : DUY OGDEN GAS CO j Then De'nning and It is associates took over the Ogden Gas company f jrom the Insull Interests TJrey renewed the August request for approval of the new bonjn" release of the old and approval off the asigrt- mcnt of the Utah Light and Trac tion company franehirfe to the Og- j den Gas company The city commissioners upon advice of City Attorney Pratt re SLAVING MYSTIFIES fused to approve the ass'unment until provisions fir the occupation POLICE CLEWS FADE tav i were included Mr that Pratt althjugh the CHICAGO Feb 23 — ( A P ) — The 1J)13 franchise wis granttd to the Valentine's day gang massacre to- Utah Light and Traction company night appeared as much of a mys- lis cu"coTors and assl-neeuntil' tery as it did nine days ago unless Jline 1 19 6 a city ordinance prothe authorities have undisclof ed in- ved ins that the c'ty must first apformation as to thei identity of the prove of nnd ensent to all such gunmen who shot down seven alis-n'rie"ttilLJhe!d members of ths Moran gang" in : BASIS FOR REFUSAL their headquarters of this It is under the Half a dozen theories have been ordinance that theprovisions I refusing city built up in the Interim and as many to approve the new bond and the clews uncovered only to evaporate 4'iTrn'nt until the occupation tax Into unsupported beliefs or Incon- !s included i j sequential happenings when subMr Pratt contends that th jected to examination Police who granting of the franchise to "sucseveral time' have announced the cessors enc! assignees" of the Utah slaylngs would be cleared up in a Light and Trictlon company merefew hours and have given out new ly Imposes all obligations on whoand often ' conflicting information soever takes over th assets day by day tonight were left with j Attorneys Tnrres JI DcVIire and the odds and ends of a few beliefs Jfimei A Howell representing th" and clews to be run down— unless gas comnanr contend th?t they they have actual information con- ere entitled to operate under th cerning the slayings not yet made terms of the franchise as suc- public P-or end a's'gnees of the Ltah :— —— 44— —1 — Litht and Traction company without payment rf rn occtipaUon tax FLIER WILL SPEED They hold thrt the franchise ii contract and that the city is 2Vz MILES A MINUTE abound by it os well ns the com- panv WASHINGTON Feb 23 — ( AP) j "In the first place" paid Mr — The k flight from receives 100000 "the city the United States to the Panama artif'clal g"sof fre fpet Canal Zone cn March 10 by Captain cpblc contains three Natura' irrs year Ira C Eaker of the army air corps times ns many heat units os doe in the "Pan American"- - the first rftificial will receive grsso h cU" model of the new army 2 plane tbe enulvaloht of "1"O00 cubi' latest and fastest of the army pur- ffet of artificial gas when natural suit planes Is expected to end at sjis " arrives" France field at lpast by 7 o'clock in- declared that He gas natural p m that day dr not Intend to forfeit th The new plane Is capable of a trests n franchise n cruising speed of better than 2 'x have purchased thr fhv miles a minute with a high speed 113 franchise anil hava every of 188 miles an hour to on?rate under it For the all day flight Captain rfht n Under th? term" of the Kaker who will leave Brownsville frcncl ire Ogden iru"! Texas at 4:30 a m 'March 10 will rece've" natural ras within 15 take along only three chicken sand months aft?r the state utilities wiches and a quarf of orange ' ' juice (Continued on Page Two) s j m h-J- s 55 44- ACTRESS IS BURIED IN FAMOUS ISLAND -- JERSEY Channel islands Feb 23— (AP)— In this island famous for its lilies after which she was named the body of Lily Langtry famous English actress was laid to rest today Services were held' at St Saviour's church after which the body was interred in the fahiily grave Li'y Ixngtry whojse marriage name was Lady do Rathe died at Monte Carlo on February 12 i i HORSES ARE SOLD BY WALES PRINCE LEICH ESTER Feb England — (AP) — Twelve thoroughbred hunters owned by the Prince ol Wales brought 4017' guineas or approximately $2000(j at auction here today The prince himself who has been unabFc to devote as rhueh time to hunting as usual because of Jiis father's illness paid pis last farewell to his horses this afternoon at the auction to see appearing ! them sold' — 4 4—A — "VISION" COMKS TRUE MURPHYSBORO 111 Feb 23f— (UP) — Forty years ago Miss Mary A Crowder had aj vision she would become a bridle before she died Yesterday at the age' of 73 ahe married George j W Modglin 77 Gorham 111 Shef said she had never met a man she could trust until tie met Modglin a farmer who haA marred before -P- 23 : - P-1- t tr ' dawn-to-dus- - : tXenning-MacFndye- ! 1 al paid''' I m -- 23— (AP) to facili- tate widespread railroad consolidation was reported favorably to the senate today at the end of a week during which some of the country's most important rail interests (rhoto- - by 'tloshen) -- h iiV'MWtltf'frvi)riV'-n-- " sue -- the latter author of one ot tte two' I ! I six-stat- e: pending bills proposing ratification recommended jmme-rlifit- o notion on the ment William R Wallace Utah's Coloand Ichair- rado river commissioner "man of the state ' water storage commission who also attended the Santa Fe conference recommehd--e- d delay on the part of the! legislature! until the latter part of the session but cautioned against in- he said would ' definite delayr-wbicconstitute athreat to Utah's 'water interests "The lower basin states are already making use of most of their terms of the Boulder canyop act and are rapidly piling up priorities he told the legislature f'Utah cannot delay entering the eojmpact for any considerable length of time without running a chance of jlosing come of her just share of the wafer through lower basin prioijitlas" POINTS KMPHASIZEPr The j reports of the delegates in favpr of further delay emphasized the desirability of a severj-stat- e compact rather than a the desirability of agreement: awaiting the outcome of the jSantay Fe conference as a matter ofjCour--testo the lower basin stated and Utahs present opportunity outside the compact to ask for inclusion of the proposed Flaming Gorge and in the Boulder ean-- J Dewey projects yon act " Holther "and Representatives Smoot in their report argued that Utah has nothing to gain and is in of losings much of herishare danger water of the by remaining out of the compact any longer For Utah to Seek inclusion of the Flimln Gorge and Dewey projects in the Boulder dam act at this time they Insisted would cause unnecessary delay to the Boulder dam project and might cause its abandonment by the federal government URGES THREE DAMS j Senator Irvine on the other hand argued that mclusioA of these upper basirr projects would hasten rather than delay carrying out the Boulder' dam project since he said the three dams could be built concurrently" with the upper two used as protection fori the Boulder Canyon dam Utah would be in a better position to advance her claims for these developments he said if the bill is sent bak to congress for amendment Representative Hammond insisted that Utah should receive more revenuevthan is provided by the Boulder dam act and that uncertainties remain concerning protection of the water allotments oif the upper basin states The house adopted a motior after receiving the reports calling on the special Boulder dam committee to report out the Esplini and Smoot measures providing fotf ratification and the Ho'ther measure providing for conditional ratification The Committee held meeting immediately after th& house convened and called anothet one for Monday morning Chairs man Holther said the measures probably would be reported out at that time il TANGLE involving Ogden and natural gas company interests which the gas people say threatens tcdelay the entry f of natural gas into Ogden has arisen " are for the to confer company gas Attorneys expectedl Monday afternoon with the commissioners in an eff drt to solve SALT LAKE Feb six-sta- te f Fuel From IVyoiiiin r Company Bringing Nat ui-()()0() lmp'ovemejit Declares City liolds Hacpv Project Here By Refijsal To Issue fPennitjs: Mimicipal Officers Contend That Occupation fax 'Assurance Juist iirst Be (liven Bv Utiliiv Report DELEGATES' R ETURN 23— (AP) — Saiita Fe to the Utah's delegation Boulder dam conference todajy submitted to the legislature a cSivided report Two of the four mombers of --the house of representatives on V the delegation counseled immediate Coloratification of the rado basin compact while trie other two and the two members of the £enate advised against any hasty action The members of the senate A B Irvine and Wilson McCarthy in recommending' that action fey the legislature be deferred at leajst until the closing days of the session advised further that in ca$e the Santa 'Fe conference results fn any changes in the revenue distributing: features of the Boulder dam project or in other amendments which will send the Boulder dam act hack to congress the Utajh legislature decline to ratify th pact on a the basis during '' p present session IOLTHER FOR ACTION Two "of the house delegates Charles Redd and W D Hamjmortd in individual reports to the lowter body at a session today concurred in the report ta the senate "Louis J Holther and I A Smoot i j i evelopment rosram in TOO LONG ON 44 i:K "St OGDEN CANYON MATCHLESS IN ITS WINTER IDRESS SERENE — — flint OGDEN CITY UTAH SUNDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 24 1929 UTAH WARNED Six-Sta- te and I hey Advise how war may best up- held move by her two main ne rves iron and gold — Milton f freezing Year— No 221 h Fifty-nint- Front whence come tlars fighting among you? Come not hence even of your lusls aire m ycur members? — James Downing-MacFatlye- |