Show THOUGHT A For as by one man’s disobedience many were made sinners so by the obedience of one shall many bo made righteous —Eomans 5:19 We need 'Only obey There la guidance for each of us and by lowly listening! we shall hear the right word — Emerson OGDEN CITY UTAH SUNDAY MORNING DECEMBER 23 1934 PAGES THIRTY-TW- O Year— No 197 Sixty-fift- h onus Payment Of Over One Billion Under Discussion STRUGGLE WITH REMEDIES FOR ECONOMIC t evening there will be gathered on City Hall square one of the most interesting assemblages of children to be seen anywhere in all this land kjrz Year End y Outlook Considered Poor Six For Any Ultra Radical A vX i i f t ’ Measures i i V I By CECIL B DICKSON Associated Press Staff Writer will countries be Twenty foreign "ASHINGTON Dec 22— (AP)— a new soldiers’ bonus represented The children will be from the Grant school and they are proposal which would result in the payment of $1200-00000- 0 to sing Christmas carols in cash to veterans took a high place tonight on the list of compromise plans submitted to the' administration By RADER WINGER While the great majority of the Financial Informed sources who declined to be quoted by name Writer) Press (Associated student body are American-bor- n Associated 1934 The By said the scheme had been given careful study by officials there will be among the little singers (Copyright Press) from Mexico Greece and boys girls familiar with the troublesome issue who hope to avert a Major business barometers for the Italy China Japan and other forcash payment of the certificates country pointed “fair and warmer” strong move for' immediate eign countries — 4 The latest plan — should it be acweek the past during I " He Enunciated By W B RAGSDALE Last June Expected To r Associated Press Staff Writer Hold Sway 22— (AP)— A six billion dollar WASHINGTON Dec over the amount that should be spent By D HAROLD OLIVER for public works next year was reported today to exist Associated Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON Dec 22— (AP)— among presidential advisers The amounts of projected spending pressed upon the The vanguard of a congress destined to deal with many a projected president varied from three billion dollars or even less to ' 5 Principles 4" (jr ! -- - ' - -- -- V i The best Christmas shopping seaPerhaps no other school in Utah can delicate the Grant in this son in years probably since 1930 drew to a close and weekly reports amalgamation of the races of steel production movement of And ho other school has more to railway freight and production of offer in sweet voices and kindly electric power all showed exceptional gains for this season natures Some spottiness in industrial prois anticipated during the duction This is to be the most satisfying Christmas since those dark days holidays but shutdowns for Invenwhen the financial structures of tory and other purposes probably America crashed and gloom settled will not be as extensive as last year upon the land Output ofs1935 models continues to expand in the automobile industry counMANY REORDERS over all from the Reports New England noted a little lettry are of spreading cheer and down’ in cotton and woolen textiles brightening outlook during the past week but the New Dispatches from the east tell of York wholesale dry goods markets merchants observing upon the faces were active and one of the large of their customers expressions of wholesalers in Chicago reported release from extreme worry numerous reorders which usually Steel The country has been taking on declines production in the last few weeks of the confidence and is moving forward year has increased for the 9th sucat 'a greater momentum cessive week and was estimated last by the American Iron and From across the continent comes week Steel Institute at 346 per cent of this Christmas story from an capacity the best since June authon unknown which you will For the second successive week the movement of freight was reported well above 1933 giving rise ld her close to me and bid to hopes that after nearly six far-o— ff her listen 'Once in a place months of running behind the — is it far?) the shepherds (but looked above the hills at midnight previous year the trend was again and saw in the blue sky a bright definitely upward The increase wTas largely due to a sharp expansion in new star! the movement of fuel The total oi “ ‘Then they heard angels sing- 579935 cars reported was 53 per ing and they hastened down from cent over the previous week and 37 the hillsides to the little town and per cent over the like week of 1933 WESTERN REGIONj there they found a mother and her Reports from federal reserve disbaby and in the straw the sheptricts included herds bowed them down! San Francisco — smaller cities “ ‘Soon from the east three kings’ showed more vigorous retail trade — her eyelids flutter her curly head last week than metropolitain centers Is laid against my breast Outside in the twelfth federal reserve disthe window one white star Is shin- trict' with total volume generally the best in three years Reports gave ing! cent in retail gains of 5 to “What matter if she never heard trade automobile sales car loadings the rest?” electric power production manupayrolls mail and exThat is the picture of trustful facturing innocent childhood lulled to sleep press Shipping was reported irregular by a beautiful vision Best sailings were on South American lines good with orient and It portrays the sweet repose which Australia and slack with lines plycomes with the Christmas spirit Pacific the ports to Europe ing was Wholesale trade by the When Jesse James and his gang Reserve bank to be reported rate at a moving part of 20 per cent above last year a disappeared people said-west had gone never to the wild cepted — Is depended upon by its initiators to settle the question and to save the treasury a billion dollars besides WOULD AMEND LAW The proposition calls for the certificates to be paid in 1935 and the law would be amended so they would rate from Armistice day 1918 I 1 -- “I-ho- j 20-p- er 1 j 1 O j return j h That was in the day of the horse and the old six-shoo- i s ter f ACRESF0RSU8AR WASHINGTON Dec 22 — (AP) — Today is the shortest day of the year and the beginning of winter — a winter for which the weather bureau sees no indications of especially cold weather For sticklers about the seasons the official time to button up the overcoat and start shivering was seven fifty a m eastern standard time That’s when the north pole which had been leaning farther and farther away from the sun since June 2ist leaned away the farthest Today was the best day for the lighting companies — just nine hours and 25 minutes of daylight ( -- NOT TOO COLD There are no indications that the winter will be unusually cold says J B Kincer climatologist of the weather bureau though this is not an official forecast We had a warm autumn which often has been the harbinger of a warm winter Actually there are two “winters” The one starting today is the astronomical winter It will end March 22 The other is the weather bureau winter which begins Dec 1 and ends March 1 for greater convenience In keeping data The weather bureau winter three weeks old already has started mildly for the most part The eastern states have been cold but it has been warm in the western two-thirof ds the country WET DECEMBER December has been mostly wet following the trend of the autumn This wetness may be a sign of a change of climate that is expected sooner or later for the United States says Kincer For 25 years the country has been growing warmer and drier on the But those who made the forecasts were wrong They could not see the coming of the automobile and the machine gun BEETS ALLOTTED They could not look into the years and visualize a Dillinger These Subject To Change After Chicago Hearing They could not think of bandits equipped as they are today to make quick attacks and quicker By F B COLTON (Associated Press Science Writer) December 28 average culminating in last summer's drouth and severe heat Past weather records show similar cycles have occurred of about the same length followed by wetter cooler periods also of about 25 years It is reasonable to suspect says Kincer that another cool wet period may be due J - j WASHINGTON Dec 22— (AP)— The AAA today scheduled a hearing on proposed district allotments for beet sugar production in 1935 for December 28 at Chicago They could not imagine two national banks in Okemah Oklahoma Tentative allotments have been being robbed simultaneously as on Saturday and the robbers taking drafted by the administration sub$19000 in loot and escaping in full ject to changes after presentation of view of a terrorized community testimony from growers and factory operators at the hearing Thirty years ago the First NaThe proposed allotments include: tional bank in Winnemucca NeIdaho: Amalgamated Sugar Co vada was robbed but the job had Burley-Twi- n Falls 13036 acres to be planned weeks ahead Franklin County Sugar Co Preso ton $241 Sugar Co The robbers went down from the Sugar City o 10026 Twin Falls country of Idaho leav- Sugar Co Idaho Falls 11044 Utah-Idah- o ing relays of horses all along the Sugar Co Blackfoot 9145 trail o Sugar Co Shelley After the holdup they escaped by Utah Sugar1 Co riding back over the trail lashing Lewiston Amalgamated 13009 Amalgamated their mounts into swift gallop Sugar Co Ogden 7813 Gunnison to in the hide had lonely Sugar Co Centerfield 7423 Layton They Utah-Idah- o recesses in the junipers of northern Sugar Co Layton 7276 Co Garland 7326 Nevada and wait for months their Utah-Idah- o Sugar Sugar Co Brigham opportunity to steal away o City 5289 Sugar Co Utah-Idah- o West 6989 Jordan Instead of Today the gangsters drive Sugar Co Spanish Fork 10503 making lor the wildernesso some or into cars Chicago their Sugaf Co Springville other big city with an underworld 1799 and there they are concealed more securely than ever Butch Cassidy Twins Wed was in the Fate Denies Worker His “Real Christmas” ! D Utah-Idah- Utah-Idah- f Utah-Idah- 7-7- 45 Utah-Idah- Utah-Idah- Hole-in-the-W- all More banks have been robbed in all the the last six months than4nj jj frontier- history of the - What an unhappy country Russia must be with its violent upheavals No one can be quite sure of his where ground in the Soviet republic a wild whisper can bring death Within the last two weeks oyer men accused of plotting against the government have been accused accusers hastily tried before their found guilty and put to death (Continued on Page Two) 100 t- - Brothers Met On ‘Blind Date DONALD R RICHBERG Rosevelt Aide Threatens instead of 1925 as at present The Libel Suit Against certificates under existing legislation would mature in 1945 but the Magazine bonus group wants immediate pay ment 1934 By The Associated On this basis the certificates would (Copyright Press) be paid on a maturity of 17 years Dec 22— (AP) WASHINGTON instead of 20 as proposed in the — 'R Donald recovery Richberg Patman bill has written The Advocates of the plan argue that if the date of the certificates were Saturday Evening Post that it moved back to the end of the World “must accept full legal responsiwar veterans would receive all but bility” for any derogatory statements contained in a three years of interest on the certi series of articles by General ficates if they were paid in 1935 S Johnson who resigned as Hugh SITUATION OUTLINED head of the NRA after an exOne of those who is supporting tended dispute with Richberg the proposal outlined the situation In a letter to George Horace thusly: Lorimer editor of the magazine “The average certificate is around written December 14 he said he About 80 per cent of the had been “told by several persons $1000 veterans already have borrowed 50 seeming to have sources of acper cent of the total value Under curate information” that a book our proposition a veteran who had from which the articles are to be borrowed $500 on a thousand dollar excerpted “includes certain deficertificate would receive about $300 nitely described attacks upon me in cash which if made would be untrue “It is roughly figured that this maliciously libelous and designed would cost about $1200000000 and wholly for the purpose of doing me would save the government harm” “I suppose there is nothing lower in the scale of publishing than the CERTAIN TO PASS publication of character assassi- -' Figures on the actual cost hownation for the purpose either of ever are being compiled by the venting personal spleen or buildbureau at the request of certain conservative administration ing circulations” the letter confollowers on Capitol Hill who say tinued “I should not assume that The that some sort of the bonus legislaSaturday Evening Post would tion is certain to pass the new constoop to put itsAf in that class of gress publications It is possible howThe proposal already has been disever that you may have assumed cussed in general terms with Representative Patman author of that General Johnson’s statements can be relied upon and can be the bonus bill calling for full paysupported by evidence which ment of the certificates — amountbe given credence in a court would — to $2200000000 next year ing ‘Patman has said that the time to On the other hand many of the discuss compromises is in the event charges which General Johnson has loosely made in private conof a presidential veto me and my versation Thus far the administration has activities regarding discan be completely frowned on such measures as the evidence Patman bill However the report has proved by documentary numbeen widely circulated that the and the testimony of a large ber witnesses of credible president would not oppose a bill to “Under the circumstances I pay needy veterans simply desire to notify you that if you take the responsibility for publishing the statements by GenAssails eral Johnson derogatory to me and obviously designed as destructive of my personal and sional reputation you must accept WASHINGTON Dec 22— (AP)— the full legal responsibility for taking such action without any An apparent rap at the Townsend old age pension plan was delivered adequate effort to assure yourlibel” by Secretary Perkins today during self of the truth of the did write he that Beyond saying an appeal for states to enact unemtothe letter in question Richberg ployment insurance legislation and statement no would make night pension laws for the aged this winHis differences with Johnson ter which preceded the latter’s withThe secretary of labor did not didrawal from -- NRA were long a Townsend the mention prorectly posal which calls for a pension of matter of common knowledge in $200 a month to all over 60 but Washington there seemed no doubt that she had Several weeks before his actual tb' plan in mind in fact Johnson resignation “Actual study of these visionary walked out of a White House and fantastic schemes at once disconference attended also by Rich- close their complete impracticabiberg and other high officials and lity” Miss Perkins said dictated a letter of “The sincere friends of old people promptly to resignation president The should at this time direct all their chief executive the him to re- asked energies to strengthening and impso consider did and he roving?-old age pension laws”“ PITTSBURGH Dec 22— (AP)— Fate has denied Peter Galli 36 his first “real Christmas” celebration in four years Peter his wife and two children Irene' 9 and Joe 7 had planned a big time together next Tuesday because after four years of unemployment he finally seemed to have beaten the depression” by leasing and working a small mine But late today the mine roof began falling Dan Zypher Galli’s partner yelled to him to run Galli ran but couldn’t run fast enough to escape A rescue squad found his body under 12 feet of earth some 100 feet from the mine entrance f -- f4 t co-ordii- forth-comi- $1000-00000- (D-Te- s’ x) - Secretary Townsend Proposal ' 44 OKMULGEE Okla Dec 22— (AP) — General Hugh S Johnson’s trenchant phrases were fired to- Lost Mail Plane Sought In Kentucky NASHVILLE Term Dec (AP) —An American Airways Worth mail 22— Cleve-land-to-F- ort plane missing since early morning was sought over a wide area of Kentucky and middle Tennessee tonight It was last heard from about 25 miles out of Louisville en route to Nashville at a m TYLER Texas Dec 22 -(A- PI-Four which The carried missing ship home with persons returning decorations they had mail and express was flown by RusChristmas S Riggs whose home is in Fort gathered ini the woods were killed sell Worth a motor collision of in their today 44 car and a Missouri Pacific passenger train at Sinclair City an oil Four Die When Train Strikes Motor Car two-fifty-t- wo camp ST LOUIS Dec 22 — (AP) — The victims were Fontaine WeavFlorence and Grace Hopkins er 21 Mrs Levi H Grett 40 and twins were married to- her two daughters Mary Francis 2 day to Carl and Lester Hopkins and Beatrice 17 brothers 44 Carl who is 24 met the girls on UTAH RANCHER KILLED a “blind date” four years ago and for the second date brought LestGRAND JUNCTION Colo Dec er four years older along 22— (AP)— Carl Lundgren 30 Rifle The fact their names were Iden- Colo sheepman was in jail at Moab tical was a coincidence they ex- Utah tonight and cf fleers there said he admitted he was the driver of plained The brides who wore identical an auto which struck and killed Neil costumes for the ceremony have Taylor Moab rancher earlier tofurnished their homes Identically night f 21-year- -old I ng 0” vet-teran- night at Donald Richberg in swer to the recovery warning to The Saturday Evening Post In connection with forthcoming articles by Johnson “Donald is a high official ” Johnson said “If he thinks there is libel in this naration why doesn’t he stand on his legal rights in a suit for libel and not attempt to use his position to threaten the freedom of the press “Donald’s agitation is Just a symptom of the ants of conscience in his pants “When I was catching all the dead cats that anyone had to throw I never squealed or tried to Scotch them in a single case” an- Tax On Bank Check Scheduled To Vanish Third Set of Teeth Cut By Woman At 75 WASHINGTON Dec 22— (AP)— ! A happy new year in at least one sense awaits the nation’s bankers and writers of some 2250000000 checks annually —for on January 1 bank check tax autothe two-ce- ni dies matically The bank check tax was one of about two dozen nuisance taxes imposed in the revenue bill of 1932 so-cal- led depression panacea today had piled up at the capitol an array of suggestions for soothing the nation’s economic ailments With the opening of the seventy-fourt- h congress only a week and half away leaders today took stock of proposals They found not only a dozen or more different ideas for paying the soldiers’ bonus and insuring against old age and jobless poverty but complete agendas for the session from every po- dollars —nine billion was There fairly general agreement in the absence of more than a broad smile from President Roosevelt on the subject that this was one of the spaces that so far had been left blank in his message to congress and that the sum would be filled In within the next ten days Figures on the subject varied according to the individual All those in high quarters refused to discuss the matter for publication - pre-sessi- on I I AUSTIN Texas Dec 22— CAP)— At 60 years of age Mrs W O Monroe lost her second or adult set of teeth -- -- - I (O Billion Dollar Difference of Opinion Reported Among Roosevelt Advisers Business to Express Views -- PRESIDENT CONTROLS UP STEEL MARKET Smaller Cities of Far West Show Vigorous Retail - Trade IS I 4 ! Tomorrow Mew Dealers' In Doubt Over Sum ILLS For Public WorK LAWMAKERS TO Richberg Roto With Johnson Nears Climax Latest Plan Advanced as Solution of Troublesome Problem With Saving of Millions to Treasury LAST EDITION TWO SECTIONS t Today 75 years old Mrs Monroe reported she had successfully cut the first of her third set Others of her third set she said are developing nicely litical faction each running into the billions of new appropriations PRESIDENT congress "off-the-recor- TO CONTROL The administration has indicated a policy of retrenchment wherever possible however and leaders count cm the huge Democratic majorities to halt any moves for runaway inflation to help pay the cost of relief or other recovery methods not approved by the White House Republicans too are ready to demand smaller outlays for this and that project although some of their members are among those demanding large expenditures President Roosevelt has about completed his message to the new He probably will deliver It in person to a joint session January 4 SPEECH RECALLED From what leaders have been able to gather it will steer clear of most of the individual proposals thus far advanced by those in the' senate ajnd house and adhere to the prin- Satisfaction over the best shopping season since the depression was expressed Saturday night by Ogden retail merchants as they added up sales totals amounting to approximately 25 per cent more than last year Some merchants reported several individual days’ receipts equaled sales on corresponding days in the boom year 1929 A substantial pickup for December pre -- Christmas trade was announced by dealers In all major lines Heavy shopping started weeks earlier this year and was sustained throughout December while large last minute rushes were less in evidence A marked increase in layaway purchases was noted since the first of the month Demand for better quality merchandise is an outstanding feature of this year’s shopping merchants declared More gifts of solid worth were purchased People bought the better grades of clothing Many invested in diamonds watches or sil’ ciple which Mr Roosevelt enunciated in his message of last June which said: “Our task of reconstruction does not require the creation of new and strange values It is rather the finding of the way once more known but to some degree forgotten ideals and values ver goods “If the means and details are Toy sales were also In the higher in some instances new the objec- price with heavy sled brackets tives are as permanent as human sales reported nature Among our objectives I place The increase is surprisingly unithe security of men women and form in widely different lines: children of the nation first” Dry goods clothing and departNEW FARM RELIEF ment stores reported increases in One of the latest of the score -- r December sales of 22 to 25 per more individual suggestions for con- cent Jewelry sales were also about gressional consideration came to 25 per cent larger Hardware sales light today in a revised Frazier-Lem- jumped about 25 per cent farm relief plan It proposes a limit of $3000000000 of new money to help refinance the farm debt ke through the federal farm loan sysand - refinanced under a 47 year amortization plan at three per cent divided equally between principal and interest Coinciding with this was another bonus payment scheme proposed by Senator Thomas It would provide for cashing the soldiers’ adjusted service certificates with non- - interest bearing bonds as readily negotiawhich would-b- e ble as money These and other proposals just as radical will find their way into the legislative hoppers but administration captains are looking to the semi -- liberals and conservatives to have their way in the end tem Mortgages would be liquidated -- (D-Ok- la) UTAHPERSONAL TAX HELD WEAK Committee’ of Nine Urges Action To Prevent Evasion SALT LAKE CITY Dec 22— (AP) — The committee of nine recommended" to Governor Henry H Blood today that personal property tax laws be strengthened in an effort to eliminate present evasion of payments The committee urged that a defdate be set to 44 inite delinquency prevent evasion of taxes through sales of personal property after it Lad had been assessed Another recommendation advanced by the committee called for an By amendment of the present law BILLING HAM Wash Dec 22— which permits discounts for pre(AP) —Little Johnnie Bordignbn paid taxes to make it applicable gave his dad his Christmas present also to personal property A recommendation that all state this afternoon collecting state money be agencies one was of the juvenile Johnnie make daily deposits with entertainers of the Bloedel Donovan required to treasurer was contained state the lumber mills Christmas party He At counties in the present report sang several catchy little tunes depart“All I ask is you don’t laugh at and other ments make only monthly or quarme” he told his audience of some terly reports parents and children The committee criticized the wiWhen it was over President J H dows’ tax abatement and urged Bloedel Joined in the applause? tax exemptions be allowno that Johnnie came over to him and ed on homes or other real property President Bloedel asked “what do except as provided in the state conyou want for Christmas Johnnie?” stitution “I want a Job for my daddy” 44 Johnnie answered convincingly “Well we’ll certainly see that On something is done about that” the Seven a executive replied giving the lad pat on the head That’s the way Johnnie Bordignon gave his dad a Christmas present LOS ANGELES Dec 22— (AP) three days before Christmas eve — The xiissing passenger plane of 44 the Aerovias Centrales was reported here tonight to have been As sighted afloat on the Pacific off the coast of Mexico with several of the seven persons aboard safe on a wing Sighting of the giant LONGMONT Colo Dec 22— (AP) red craft was reported by Filot — Three Fort Collins Colo residents II C G oakes of the Central Airwere killed eight miles south of here lines of Mexico on his arrival here G oakes said he had discovered tonight when their car struck a trailer of a truck the lost plane by accident and The dead: had flown his land plane close to the water and exchanged sigMrs Iva McBride wife of R C McBride prominent Fort Collins nals The stranded plane’s pilot he businessman Bonnie McBride daughter of the said was Noel Bullock 33 of Mazatlan who operates a “feeder couple 25 son to the Central Airlines line” a about McBride RF Lands Job For Dad Entertaining fee-collect- ing 2-5- howSpeaking ever one authority expressed the opinion that a good guess probably would be four or (Jve billion dollars ANOTHER PREDICTION 00 Floating Plane In Pacific Auto Three Dead Strikes Truck Trailer tri-mo-- to d” From another source came a prediction that the amount would be extremely low This opinion was based the official said on the expectation that the president would hold public works expenditures as low as possible in the hope that there would be a business upturn early next summer If such a plan were followed he said the way would be left open for greatly expanding the worksp proIn gram should there be no pick-uso he doing private industry By added the president would be leaving an open door through which industry might march to tackle the unemployment problem Meanwhile a meeting was called today for the recovery committees of the Chamhet'or Commerce of the United States and the’ National Association- - of Manufacturers in New York on January 11 Either immediately before or after that meeting the conferees' will meet with leaders of agriculture and labor to discuss the recovery program “not-for-quotatio- OUTSTANDING n” PROBLEM The chamber of commerce said the White Sulphur Springs' conference had recognized that unemployment was the outstanding problem before the country and that business alone could not supply a cure It added that government had a large responsibility and that agriculture and labor would play a part in the solution In general the White Sulphur conference expressed a distaste for excessive public works expenditures There remained some dispute however over the amount of spending it would consider excessive Amounts ranging upward to nine billion dollars wer proposed some time ago by Relief Administrator Hopkins and Secretary Ickes Secretary Roper and some other members of the cabinet are known to favor a sum as low as possible The national resources board mentioned sums ranging from two and a half to five billion dollars -- 44 —: Please Omit Flowers As Wife Is Still Alive PHILADELPHIA Dec 22 — (AP) —Mrs Rose Rossi 17 isn’t dead She said so in domestic relations court “My husband Joe sent an undertaker and a fleet cf ten taxicabs to my home for my funeral” she explained ‘ To rid her neighbors of the Id: a that she is among the departed the judge granted her a warrant for her estranged mate’s arrest on charges of being in arrears on a support order Judge Turns Santa Gives Dad To Girls AUGUSTA Ga Dec 22 -(A- PI-Four little girls aU under 10 trooped into the office of Augusta’s city court Judge Their father was serv- sentence on the ing a chain gang “Judge will you please give us our father for Christmas?” “Would you rather have your father or a doU?” the judge asked “We want our daddy” they replied in unison? They got both — their father and a doll apiece three-mont- hs ‘ 4 Driver Hurt As Car Falls Four Stories CHICAGO Dec 22— (AP) — A runaway auto with Mechanic Frank Martin at the wheel plunged door tothrough a garage elevator baseto the stories fell four and day ment Martin 4was catapulted through the auto top by the impact Conscious' when firemen rescued him he was rushed to a hospital for emergency treatment l! |