Show WEATHER f A UTAH: Fair Sunday and Monday And as the toes of the feet little change in temperature i Tr in Ti A TD) I" UTAH SUNDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 25 1934 OGDEN CITY PAGES THIRTY-SI- X 17 Contractors Press DEMOCRATS OF All the elm trees of America are threatened with destruction The Dutch elm disease has been imported and thousands of our trees in the east have become It is predicted that the- blight will continue until not an elm is left - Though the department of agriculture has attempted to check the ravages the disease spreads It is well that the human family is not as severely afflicted by plagues : - m CQffillTTEE TO BESTOW PLUMS Sifters Will Pass On Quali-fications Of v Samuel Insull former monarch of utilities who was acquitted by a federal jury Saturday but against whom other charges are pending DISCOVERY OF AH WRAPPED IN BLANKET bureau Denver in tests the reclamation LABORATORY water from the reservoir will percolate Distraught Woman Thinks Number of Appointees And to be placed in the Pine View dam at the materials through ' Sisters Are Her Own Their Salaries Are rate the of about of an inch a year J R Iakisch Nieces Reviewed resident engineer in charge of the project announced today This means that the seepage will progress at the rate CARLISLE Pa Nov 25— (SunWeber county Democrats Saturof about a foot in eight years or 800 years to 100 feet day)— (AP)— The bodies of three day afternoon named a sifting com— The tests are made to determine girls apparently sisters were found ge ed : A-- - ' - f ge er ace Holley George R Glen LeRoy a Junk and J M Child The seven groups into which the body is to be divided "by Mr Jugler are to consider county commission appointments and those of the treasurer recorder clerk and auditor assessor surveyor and attorney and miscellaneous and sheriff "In considering the applications for political appointments- -' ' Mr: Juglersaid "efficiency and ability (Continued on Page Three) Kent may Harbertson John have known the Ogdens whose son Peter Skene Ogden gave his name to our city " The Ogdens emigrated from New Jersey to Canada about that time They were royalists and fled to escape the odium which attached to them t Peter Skene Ogden was born near Quebec and early developed a love for adventure and the wilds He entered the employ of the Hudson Bay company In IB21 he came down from the northwest with 100 followers and with his squaw wife camped on the Site of North Ogden -- Our sun which we have thought of as the center of all creation is only one of billions of suns in our t : MEXICAN ORDER HITS MORMONS All L D S Churches In Chihuahua Closed By overnor But that is a small part of ere ation for there are other galaxies EL PASO Texas Nov 24— (AP) like the Milky Way with billions of —Mormon churches in the five colsuns onies in Chihuahua Mexico were When the big telescope ordered closed today by Governor now being built sweeps the sky it Rodrigo Quevedo Bishop A L is expected to find two' billion gal Pierce of El Paso was notified tonight by Claudius Bowman presiaxies dent of the Juarez stake is This the first time the churches How insignificant is earth in that vast field of stars and planets as- have been closed since they were teroids and comets which reach out established in 1885" Bishop Pierce President Bowman asked over the distance of hundreds of said ' Bishop Pierce to tejegraph the inmillions of light years formation to Heber Grant church in Salt Lake Cit- y- About president A light year is the distance light 1200 members of the church live will travel in a year moving at miles a second Multiply it for in the Chihuahua colonies SURPRISE EXPRESSSED yourself SALT LAKE CITY Nov 24— Three little golden-haire- d girls (AP)— Sylvester Q Cannon presidfound choked to death on a moun- ing bishop of the Latter-daSaints tain side! church said tonight he had "no idea why" branches of the church What next? Has a percentage of in Chihuahua Mexico had been or: human kind turned fiendish? dered closed 200-in- ch ? 186-0- 00 - -- y- Of late child life has been made less secured Appalling are many of the tragi edies Involving children been said there are three that of supreme agonies in 'life defeat fear and jealousy It has No agony can equal that which attends the brutal killing of a child by a monster in human form More rain more snow more storm more assurance that next year will be one of excellent harvests" Commenting on reports" from' El Paso that Governor Rodrigo Quevedo of Chlhuanua had ordered churches in five L D S colonies closed Bishop Cannon - said the church had complied with all Mexican laws narticularlv that which requires only native Mexicans to of- Ml ' iiciaie &i services A " H 200000( Need Jobs To Reach 1929 Peak er MARKED PROGRESS t Despite the storms of the week progress of contractors on the project has been pushed rapidly in order that as much of the preliminary work as possible may be accomplished before real cold weather sets in The Utah Construction company and Morrison & Knudsen company general contractors are stripping the base area 'of unsuitable material at the damsite The work is dragline being done by a two-yaoutfit with five trucks hauling from ifc to waste the material up the rd canyon- - dam and three trucks are hauling from it A compressor house has the site to been constructed at compress over 1000 cubic feet of air per minute to operate jack hammers and other equipment which will trim the area and then set to work on the spillway and the outlet tun- labor-statistic- s SLAYSJOCtCER Strange Feud Revealed By Witnesses In Seattle Case KILLED BY FUMES (AP — X-rexaminations of the bodies Charles Garfield Duke wealthy were to determine the cause made property owner walked from the of death courtroom a free man tonight achours of such investigation quitted by a superior court jury of theAfter coroner said "It looks more like the "mockery slaying" of Dr Leon monoxide carbon poisoning than W Squier six weeks ago The jury anything else" This theory corwas out two hours and a half an earlier belief that the Only three ? ballots were required roborated been killed by girls might by the jury a member disclosed to such means have in some other place free Duke who had admitted shoot- and brought to the mountain There ing the osteopath because he had were placed arms about each they been "goaded beyond human endurand carefully tucked in by a other ance" above and below them blanket For more than a year the two men Lieutenant Harry Ly McElroy of had been at odds in a strange feud the state said a detail of police oves a ryr Cumberland" county ofand troopers JURORS WEEP ficers would tour the entire mounAfter the verdict of "not guilty" tain was read several of the jurors left EXPENSIVE CLOTHES the jury box and gathered about A thicket about 20 feet deep Duke A few put their arms around separated the damp 'leaf -- matted his shoulders while two wept open- bier from a main highway Coroner ly Haegele says he believes the little The strange quarrel which ended forms were carried there They lay in the shooting began when Dr on an expensive green blanket with a Squier and Dr R' E Nelson ten- satin hems and were covered-witants of Duke's building became be- similar blanket They wore new hind in their rent and asked Duke shoes green coats with fur collars to reduce it He refused and they and silk underwear moved away He sued them and the "The girls all were vaccinated by case was settled out of court same the coroner the As witnesses testified and as the said Each physician" vaccination mark a had prosecution reviewed the case today high on her left arm He expressed however Duke then began "camp- the opinion they came from a "good of public humiliation" against aign them shouting at them in the family" Sergeant Gene Wood of the Carstreets: lisle department voiced the slaying "Why don't you pay your honest theory debts?" AS IF ASLEEP WEARS COSTUME John E Clark and Clark Jardine Squier retorted by mimicking employed on the James M Cameron Duke donning a grotesque costume estate at King's Gap nearby found and Iping the elderly man until he the children and at first thought was furious Once "before the fatal they were asleep so cozily were they shooting they clashed in a bakery tucked in beneath the blanket shop witnesses testified and on CARRIED FROM AUTO that occasion Duke was said to have The coroner says he is inclined to struck Squier with a cane while the believe the children were carried doctor retaliated by blacking Duke's through the underbrush from a maeye chine parked by the roadside during When he fell mortally wounded in the night v the street fronting Duke's home six All three girls had grey eyes They weeks ago Dr Squier was masquer- were attractive clean and ading in silk hat spectacles long black coat and broomstick cane While every effort to He had come stomping across the the children was being madeidentify Elmer street toward Duke when suddenly Hockley of Pine Grove Furnace a the latter drew a pistol and fired forest ranger for 18 years said"I —- t 44 think I have seen them but I don't remember where or when I am tryAll ing to get it straightened out in my SEATTLE Nov -- 24 ay This tunnel will have an inside diameter of 10 feet six inches and will be 600 feet long The city pipe line will be imbedded in concrete beneath the tunnel Water will flow unhampered into the tunnel a distance of 180 feet from the intake portal of this outlet tunnel where three gates will 38-in- ch be encounteredOne will lead into the pipe line for the north and south into highline canals One will leadwater deliver to line a ch pipe back into the riverbed below the dam : The third will not be used but is a gate which in case of an emergency could be connected to the city water main The Ryberg Brothers Construction company has dug the city water main trench and placed permanent - 75-in- ch 60-in- ' ' ? about 1750 sheeting a distance of feet above the dam Ar small dragline is being used Three caterpillar bulldozers are at work on the south side of the canyon making a temporary road for the diversion of traffic during dam construction activities CONCRETE POURED Ora Bundy contractor has com400 cubic yards of pleted pouring of concrete in the Wheeler Creek high-w- cj culvert and is pouring the abutments and wingwalls for the Black Rock Point highway bridge and the North Fork bridge Construction The Wheelwright is making rapid progress company on the relocated Huntsville highway and is using two power shovels ' The Utah Construction company and the Morrison & Knudsen comsubpany general contractors have comConstruction Utah to the let pany the contract for construction of the relocated highway to Eden and work has already been started Mr Iakisch announced Saturday that Charles Goetz has arrived here from the Owyhee river syphon project to serve as an inspector on the R E Le Baron project He replaces to Denver returns who — v well-nourish- Planes May Fly mind" On Kitty Hawk Date Two Youths Hurt 24— Nov WASHINGTON (UP)— All airplanes in the United States In Midniffht Ciish a m at will be in flight ten-thir- ty on December 17 under a plan announced here today for commemorating the 31st anniversary of Or ville Wright's first successful flight at Kitty Hawk N C Commerce Department Aeronautics Chief "'Eugene L Vidal said he would ask every plane owner to join in the celebration The planes would fly at the set time over their home airports and cities m Morrow Widow Flies Son Says Dad Dead To Visit 111 Child Dumped Into Ocean? PROVIDENCE R I Nov 24— ENGLEOOD N Y Nov 24— (UP) (UP)— A belief that his father is —Mrs Dwight W Morrow widow dead was expressed today by Daniel of the former ambassador to Mexico L Walsh Jr son of a former 'big-sca- le for Pasadena left by airplane today Island rum runner for Mrs whose Rhode herwhere daughter Calif release from kidnapers $40-0ransom reportedly was paid Aubrey Neil Morgan is seriously ill of pneumonia Published reports today attributShe is expected to arrive in Pasa- ed to underworld sources were that v dena Walsh was f kidnaped by Chicago : — -- — — : f who put his feet in a racketeers FORMER PRINCESS TO W7D cement took him to sea and tub of — — PARIS Nov 24 (UP) Former dumped him overboard King Alfonso of Spain will soon an00 1 - nounce the engagement of his vounsrer dauehter Infanta PRIESTS CUT TO 23 Maria Cristian to Guido Colonnaj PUEBLA Mexico Nov- 24 —(AP) an attache at the Italian emoassy — Only 23 Catholic priests will be in Washington it was reported to- permitted to officiate in the' state of Puebla beginning December 1 as a day Colonna is 26 He is a nephew of result of more stringent laws enacted" by the state legislature the Prince of Summonte 22-n- irf - : - ed " Billy Leavitt about 18 of 2527 Harrison avenue was seriously in- -: jured at midnight when the au- tomobile he was driving rolled over several times on Twenty-fift- h street between Fowler and Quincy ' ' avenues ' f Glenn Hadley 2060 Liberty was riding with Leavitt and was injured' but not so severely The Leavitt car was traveling west the police report said and hit the bumper of a car in which Ethel Baker 2942 Childs avenue was riding The Leavitt car then sideswiped a street car and flew out of control rolling over and ' - - over Young Leavitt was unconscious when taken to the hospital 4 PROSECUTOR INDICTED DENVER Nov 24— (AP)— Earl inWettengel district attorney was t a on charge-aa perjury dicted Dena of session special "surprise" ver county grand jury called to- night The indictment was presented to District Judge Charles C Sackman after the jurors had voted the true bill1 in a dramatic session ' - BOMBS WOUND SEVEN HAVANA NOV 24 — (AP)— Eight bombs exploded in downtown Havana late today wounding seven persons The explosions terrified the theatre and shopping crowds in the " business district Defendants Accused of Gigantic Mail Frauds Quickly Freed by Jury Other Charges Remain to Be Tried :' 1 V: hllZy R x'i E By ROBERT M YODER Associated Press Staff Writer — (AP)— In two hours and two minutes CHICAGO Nov 24 12 federal court jurors shattered ther today government's charges of a $100000CM30 mail fraud against Samuel Insull and his 16 business associates with a verdict of acquittal Between lunchtime and the dinner hour the voluminous e case against the ruler of a two billion dollar utility system was put into the hands of a jury and decided m his favor one-tim- Jubilant at the near breath taking speed of the verdict Insull exclaimed: : 'This tion" SEVEN HURT IN ATTACKS UPON TROLLEY CARS Violence Breaks Out In Los Angeles After Tram Strike : h LENGTHY TUNNEL : NEW YORK Nov 24— (AP) — Isador Lubin United States com declared That is why every one enjoys see- missioner of must that American today industry: the clouds ing which darkening the sky tell of a drouth period which absorb more than 2000000 workers before the employment level of 1823 (Continued on Page Three) will have been restored LANDLORD WHO in a mountain thicket yesterday and on the theory that other bodies possibly those of the parents may be in the nearby woods state police early today prepared to search the entire mountain As this hew development was disclosed authorities received the first possible clue to the Identity of the bodies Coroner A E Haegele said a distraught blond woman whom he identified as Mrs W Park Steele of near Carlisle viewed the bodies in a mortuary and said she thought they looked like her nieces1— daughters of her sister L powerilmeWisij5tripptog--th- e area for the north abutment of the nel'- JURORS ACQUIT " As 'Verdict 'Is MANY JOBS IN SIGHT 5 That early Duke of Tuimiult Ocetirs ot the efficiency of the materials to be placed hi the dam Test pits have been bored and the types of material determined for various sections of the earth and rock fill structure Samples were sent to Denver where they were moistened and compacted and subjected to the percolation test The dam itself will have a maximum thickness of some 400 feet at the base and about 50 feet at the high-watmark and it will be some 30 feet at the absolute crest It will be 500 feet long at the crest and will have a maximum height of about 75 feet im ±u GIRLS' BODIES Reclamation Bureau Tests Show Reliability of Golden Haired Children ExMaterials Going Into Great Structure pensively Dressed And Tunnel to be Bored Clean 600-Fo- are to eat turkey They will-- ' have cause to feel thankful that a great government mittee to consider distribution of is so kindly disposed as to labor patronage in connection with the to" make them happy party's clean sweep of county offices at the polls early this month They are out of homes which have The county central committee met felt the full force of the industrial in the courthouse and referred the crash but their morale is being sustained and they are being encour- patronage question to this sifting aged to believe in the future of committee which will be composed their country $ of the executive committee to which has been added seven new members-at-larCripple ereek was dead and about to be buried when the price of gold County Chairman Frank A Jugwas boosted ler who heads the central executive and sifting committee said he will Now that region of past mining divide the sifting committee into excitements is having another boom seven groups early this week Each group will meet with the newly-electOld timers are enjoying the new officials who wilj take oflife as memory takes them back to fice in January and consider the when Cripple Creek was the liveli- dozens of applications for appointest richest mining camp in all the ive positions They will report back world to the sifting committee their recommendations at a meeting to be No one who has not gone tnrougn held at one o'clock on the afterbonanza times in a mining to n noon of December 8 In the courtthen has seen the camp decay and house take on the weird aspect of a ghost COMMITTEE NAMED city can appreciate the ecstasy of executive committee is comThe such as Cripple Creek the come-bac- k of Mn Jugler Dexter Farr posed is now experiencing vice chairman 'state representative elect and representative of the It is as though one had grown Thirc political ward Mrs: Meribel old and infirm and then suddenly Stevenson vice chairwoman Neil R had youth restored Olmstead secretary F R Eckardt assistant secretary T Jeppesen That Canadians still have fond treasurer Walter Griffith First attachments for the mother country ward C C Johnson Second ward is seen in their rejoicing over the rumor that the Duke of Kent who Dr N H Savage Fourth ward and is to marry Princess Marina is to John Hancock Fifth ward and Ira be the - next : governor general of A Huggins S P Dobbs John A Hendricks Harold Ambler Milton Canada B Taylor Earl Randall D' D McHammon members-at-larg- e The Canadians point with pride Kay and to "Kent House" near Quebec which The seven persons wno have been the between 1791 and 1794 was home of the Duke of Kent the added to the group as members-at-larto make up the sifting comgreaUgreat-grandfathof the presmittee are W Maurice Hart Horent duke 240 Milky Way ATTACHES TO one-eigh- th Next Thursday the boys in the CCC camp near Huntsville who number ACQUITTED LAST EDITION ii n i DEEP MYSTERY Work At Pine View In Spite of Storm WEBER CHOOSE FOUR SECTIONS MIT and By FRANK FRANCIS - Oh! is excellent to have a ' giant's It strength but it is tyran- nous to use it like a giant— Shakespeare Year— No 169 Views so the kingdom shall be partly strongand partly broken— Daniel 2:42 normal snow temperature "News rcre part of iron and part of clay IDAHO: Unsettled Sunday Monday local rain and Sixty-fift- h THOUGHT LOS ANGELES N0V 24— (AP)— Violence broke out in the Los Angeles street car strike tonight seven persons requiring hospital treatment for Injuries after a series of attacks on cars of the Los Angeles Railway company Bricks and rocks were hurled and a shot : was fired as sporadic instances of violence were reported is the start of my vindica- The jury's decision read In a hushed courtroom by Foreman John D Lent came with a rapidity startling to defense attorneys and prosecutors alike The case was developed from nearly five tons of business records but when the jury men retired to their room they sent out for only three letters HOLDS NO RANCOR United States District Attorney Dwight H Green who had worked for nearly two years toNattain a different result took the decision without rancor" v: "The government - presented' its case fully" said the young prosecutor "we gave everything that we had to it" The case in which the Chicago utilities builder and his aides were charged with bilking hundreds of investors of the huge sum went to o'clock the jury at two twenty-on- e charge by following a Federal Judge James H Wilker-so- n '" o'clock the At four twenty-thre- e Jurors t sent out word they had agreed "Prosecutors defendants and the judge had left the building Bailiffs hurriedly set out to bring them back to court The courtroom quickly filled first with spectators who had lingered in the corridor then with relatives of the 17 defendants Insull came In puffing a cigar his cane over his arm The jury's speed had hinted they two-ho- ur - throughout the city after a quiet day which saw most of the company's cars in operation despite the walkout Six of the injured persons one a woman were passengers The seventh was a company employe The most serious attack was at the intersection' of Pico and (Continued on Page Three) Windsor boulevards where a hail f- — of missiles struck a" car on which Ed Humberger 38 was motorman Row In Flying glass cut a deep gash over the motorman's right eye Mrs Rebecca Gould 55 and Calvin Baker Is Many Offers 45 passengers were treated at a hospital for scalp lacerations The aid of President Roosevelt ROME N Y Nov 24— (AP) — in ending the "surprise" strike had Miss Ester De Lee pretty brunet been asked earlier in the evening by whe was discharged- - as teacher of an Mayor Frank L Shaw the Pompey Hollow school afterover argument with a school trustee redisplay of the American flag is ceiving letters offering encourageKHJLED ment employment and marriage from Texas Florida California Vermont and points between D Francis Searle attorney who is IN AUTO 's handling the 21 -- year-old for appeal says Miss De Lee hasn't time to Two Salt Lake Residents answer the letters Another teacher is in her place at Pompey Hollow Slightly Injured By Teacher Flag Sent HOUSES CRASH Collision Two large black horses which strayed on the Salt Lake highway were killed two Salt Lake residents were slightly injured and their automobile was badly wrecked 'Saturday night - in Roy south of Death i curve W E Steffensen 27 driver of the south-boun- d car received a laceration over his lef V eye and a dislocated finger and Lois Reber 25 his companion was shaken and bruised when their convertible coupe hit the first ' horse Deputy Sheriff Lee Clausse reported The animal apparently went over the top of the car he said and and top off wiped the windshield and broke off - the fenders Mr Clausse's investigation revealed that - - feet farther on the machine struck and killed the second horse While the deputy was investigating another motorist failed to observe the signal of two flashlights warning that the bodies of the horses still were on the highway and his machine struck the first horse and went over it without overturning or being damaged The animals strayed from a nearby pasture Clausse said He found the gate to the pasture down The deputy said horses belonging to Hyrum Gibby and David Hayden both of Roy were in the pasture but he was unable to learn which owned the two animals Mrs Steffensen and Miss Reber were taken to the Dee hospital and their injuries were treated there before they returned to the sheriff's office to complete theif report of the accident "Mr Steffensen resides at 1945 South State street and Miss Reber at No 10 Roosevelt apartments in Salt Lake City 105 school-marm- i MOFFETT PALE f Epic Plan to Come Before Legislature AFTER RUMPUS ' OVER HOUSING Dispute With Ickes So Lively That President ' Takes Hand ' By J H JENKINS WASHINGTON Nov 24— (AP)— Hurried intervention by President Roosevelt today was found necessary to smooth some ' of the outer rough edges off a bitter internal dispute between his hous' ing and public works administrations but the storm clouds tonight had not been ce long-distan- intra-administra- tion completely dispelled James 'A Moffett- housing chief and Secretary if Ickes public works administrator who had differed over a government financed housing plan were closeted at the White House for two hours They emerged "with a formal disclaimer that there was any trouble between - - them ONE GROWS PALE Neither of the conferees one of whom was noticeably pale as he departed' would- speak beyond the joint statement that "no conflict or - between their overlapping exists" two agencies It was added "we decline to furnish material for a Roman holiday for those who are try- ing to create this impression" that of opinion existed between them Moffett yesterday asserted publicly that a portion of the Ickes program if carried into effect would wreck the national housing act He said that for the government to begin building small houses and selling them would mean competition -with private business and conse- quent flight of capital : and a reduction of property values overnight Ickes the day before had suggested that private capital should take over the- housing job but that a difference -- - since it appeared-- unwilling the government should build low cost homes and sell them to the publio at three per cent interest WIDE PUBLICITY Wide publicity attended Moffetfs criticism of this - idea The former Standard Oil official is ranked as a conservative Ickes Is labeled as one of the administration's liberals Moffetfs job has been to bring private capital back into the housLOS ANGELES Nov 24— (UP)— ing field and he has been stern in Upton Sinclair's production for use defending the necessity for this Michael This morning Ickes plan will be submitted to the state PWA publicity director ana Straus legislature as an initiative measure acthe first of his Epic program Cul-beMoffett rushed to the White House rt ct Senator-eleto State statement afterward said eacli cording Their L Olson chairman of the Dem- had requested a conference with ocratic state central committee the other There were signs never- Olson announced the program theless that President Roosevelt concurrently with a plea for the Epic had communicated with them when' party to abandon its name and unite their differences became public under the banner of the Democratic When the conference broke up Ickes and Straus were the first to party leave Moffett his florid complexion almost gray left a moment lati Wife Guaty In Death Of Mate Faces Cell LOS ANGELES Nov 24— (AP)— Mrs Eleanor Hansen late today was found guilty of murder in the second degree for the fatal shooting last August 1 of her husband Hans T Hansen 47 a film studio - car- er They met again on the frons porch of the White House and rodi away in the same automobile M Auto Licenses Net $1496679 In Year BOISE Nov 24v— (AP)— Automopenter bile licenses in ten' months this The verdict 'carries a penalty of have brought $1436679 an inyear to life five years crease of $141254 over collection for all of last year a report or the? Held department of law enforcement disclosed today per cent of the Counties get-8As Alimony money for highway purposes the state the balance lor maintenance and for highNEW ORLEANS Nov 24— CAP)— of the highway patrol ' The palatia? $90000 yacht t "Mary ways year Included Jane" of George M Cox millionaire Registrations this an increase of cars 83014 passenger was under seizure shipbuilder today last of all year: UAH 6735 'over on the sheriff from order by Judge an oi increase iiua over trucks court C district civil of High Cage 3C3 an dealers and last year to satisfy $10CDO back alimony due over-las75 of crease year estranged wife $90000 Yacht Unpaid in-h- t is |