| Show - u TEMPERATURES Tor the past 24 hour period up to $ m today MlnMax MlnMax -- a I 47 40 24 36 31 34 14 Calgary 28 Chicago Denver 26 16 Havre 26 Helena 32 Kallspell Kansas City 22 Dos Angeles 54 lilies City 22 Ogden Boise o THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE UNITED PRESS Year— No 185 Sixty-seven- th Ini O COSTS Kills 4009 El Salvador s : I Proposed City and County Building Slashed From Program FALLS V TEGUCIGALPA Honduras Dec 21— (AP)— An official message received here today said more than 400 identified bodies had been found in the ruins of San Vincente El Salvador wrecked by an earthquake HEAVILY j0& After eliminating another 867000 FEAR PILOTS DEAD WOMAN NAMED ‘ j O recovered 70 bodies COMMUNICATION HALTED '’Communication with other stricken cities all in the area of an “extinct” volcano near San Vicente was interrupted making a definite estimate of the dead’ and injured impossible All that remained today of San Vicente oldest city of the Republic and capital of a rich indigo and tobacco growing region with a population of 25000 was a' solitary stone " ? cfock tower ' The first and most severe temblor struck Suddenly Saturday evening shaking down houses and buildings It was followed at intervals Saturday ‘night and Sunday by ' other quakes erf varying intensity which added to the panic and made rescue more difficult Freakish weather accompanied (the temblors 'The temperature ? ( Continued on Page Two) (Column Two) o SHOOTING OFAIR PILOT IN orrosED ‘‘How Could I Have Done It’ She Sobs After Flight Across Channel j CHICHESTER England i Dec -- (UP) — A French aviator-enginestaggered from a plane near Paris yesterday with a bullet wound in his back His woman companion threw a- - revolver to the ground climbed forward from the rear seat into the pilot seat and took off Today the woman was under a doctor’s care on the south coast of England watched by police while her wrecked plane lay on the beach its fuel tanks empty She had had a narrow escape from " 21 er ? death In the channel now COULD I HAVE? “It is terrible! How could I have shot him?” Mme Irene Schmeder-Caphellwas quoted as saying repeatedly - “I ' am tired and sick Let me alone I don’t understand how I could have shot Pierre” In landing the plane which she and Pierre L’Allement owned jointSchmeder-CapehellMme ly wrecked the propellor and the undercarriage “She is very reticent abdut the whole affair” said the physician called Dr George Humphrey “She is not seriously hurt She has a small cut on her head and is suffering from shocks Police will not let her leave at present as she landed without a passport As far as her health is Concerned she can leave at any time” MISSED SPINAL COLUMN In Paris physicians announced that L’Allement’s bullet missed his spinal column by half an inch and ( Continued on Page Two) (Column Five) ut ut C It Salt Lake City had a calamity causing the death of 38 people the news would be sent around the world Throughout the months of 1936 the automobiles in that city have been killing young and old one at a time until thJe total has reacned 38 Appalling is the record and something should be done to reduce the fatalities Not only In Salt Lake City but everywhere in Utah the automobile is taking a shocking toil in human - O lives In -- 1797 or 21 years after our declaration of independence an in earthquake killed 40000 persons sections and other San Salvador of Central America Then in 1854 and again in 1873 San Salvador the capital was destroyed That part of the world is con-anearthquake region but people tinue to live there -- As late ’as 1919 most of the city San Salvador was destroyed by i I I i af volcano of San Salvador which is only three miles from the city of 80000 i In the undisturbed valleys of Utah we should be thankful that nature deals more kindly with us than it does with Central America and other regions ! We are living in a strangely new world That is made impressively evident by the news of the world What an unbelievable thing it would have been if fifty years ago a paper had published a story of a love affair suddenly turned to near tragedy when a young --woman In a jealous mood in a through the air shot her ( )ight and then escaped with wings like a bird of prey That is what happened near Versailles France as an aviator and his sweetheart started on an air journey Sunday When airplanes are more widely Used as they will be news of the air will bring us even stranger stories of human behavior high above the earth in flying machines “‘-l- — to raise Long-Soug- : i -- i r High Court Promises Ruling On Farm Act old TALK CHILDREN 00 ‘ - POPETO YULE MESSAGE 7 ' V old : What's Poor Santa To Do? AU Want Bundles To Coo -- § f oA v I TO STAY IN HUNT i i V Clues Prove False As I - Search Spreads Ever Wider ht SALT LAKE CITY Dec V 21 — (AP) — Amelia Earhart Putnam sudden- - stitutionality of the act granting a three-yemoratorium on farm mortgage foreclosures was promised today by the ar supreme court j It agreed to pass on tin appeal by Robert Page Wright of Bedford county Va from a decision by the fourth circuit court of appeals helding the act unconstltu-tlOT’ - Wj — The circuit court had affirmed a decision by the western Virginia federal district court In favor of the Vinton branch of the Mountain Trust Bank of Roanoke Va NECESSITY CITED Explaining that there had been a number of conflicting decisions on the legislation by lower courts Wright said the “necessity for one uniform statement of the law Is not: only apparent but is an economic necessity” A similar five-yemoratorium measure was declared j unconstitutional by j the supreme court on the ground that it deprived creditors of property rights Another case challenging the su- (Continued on Page Two) (Column Fow) 1 — WORD HELD FROM WIFE 21 — (AP) — SEATTLE Dec Friends today kept from Mrs Arthur A Haid mother of a new baby all word that the wreckage of the airplane In which Pilot Joe Livermore and Arthur A f (Continued on Page Two) (Column Three) Co-Pil- ot - SCHOOL MERGER Snow Arrives For Opening of IS ' ADVOCATED J of Nine Urges Ketchwn Resort Committee State Unit Minimum f - KETCHUM Ida Dec? 21 — (AP) — Sponsors of Sun Valley lodge winter sports resort rejoiced today—nearly two inches of snow fell on barren grounds during the j night ‘ The official opening is set for toS night Construction of the 1 lodge and winter sports courses was started six months ago by the Union Pacific railway The Institution Is managed by Raymond F Stevens of Lake Placid N Y former American Olympics bobsled champion Many notables from Hollywood to New York are scheduled to arrive at the lodge in January i “Looks like everything’s going to be OK now” said Stevens “although there’s hardly enough snow for skiing” Old timers said they could not recall any winter in which snowfall had been so sparse in the Sawtooth mountain valley ? - ’ J AMELIA EARnART PUTNAM H Follows Her Own Cine COUNTY AGENT Program HITS BACK AT SHOW MANAGER 5 i 700 Prisoners To Receive I Without giving any explanation beyond saying she was off “on a clue of niy own” the? bobbed-haire- d air conqueror ofboth Atlantic and Pacific came here to joini the hunt today— and then headed Hints County Agents May north' Refuse FARMER REPORTS CRASir ' lier departure coincided alTo Stock Exhibit j Co-operati- on s though there was no announced ' connection with the report of a County Agent A L Christiansen farmer near Brigham City that he V d Fjeld-steback at cracked E J today a heard “crash” last Tuesday secretary manager of the OgReturning she said she had den livestock show for the latter’s flown along the' eastern shores of Criticism of William Peterson director of the Utah State AgriculREPORTS ’HEARING PLANE tural college extension service delivered Saturday As the search for the missing Fjeldsted wrote Mr Peterson Western Air Express plane shiftcalling attention to the fact that ed this afternoon to the Box Elthe director had called a conferder region Pete Nelson farmer ence of county agents and home living two miles east of Bear demonstration agents in Logan on River? iclty reported to The dates which clashed with those on Standard-Examin- er he heard ja which the stock show will be held plane over his home Tuesday aboutJ five a m The show dates are Jan 8 to 14 and the conference dates Jan 11 The plane idled then was to 16 “gunned” rapidly for a minute he said The sound faded and DEFENDS ON WASHINGTON about five minutes later he again “Fjeldsted ought to know that heard it the plane evidently those conferences are run off in south turning rotation in the same way as are The location of Mr Nelsop’s stock shows ” said Mr Christianis about eight miles from farm sen today “The dates are deterthe Brigham City " emergency mined by the availability of govfield landing ernment men from Washington At the time of the first reports who attend such meetings throughof the ? lost plane Mr: Nelsqn out the nation” he added said he attached little signifi“Mr Peterson no more has the cance to the sound he heard bepower to Set the date of the conlieving the lost' plane to be in ference at random than Mr Fjeldsouthern Utah and thinking sted has with-hishow have heard a National' “Besides the arrangement as it might Parks Airways plane sent out stands gives r county agents three ahead of schedule days Friday Saturday and Sunday The National Parks Dec 8 9 and 10 in which to view which flies over Brigham plane City the exhibits leaves Salt Lake City each morn“I consider Mr Fjeldsted’s blast ing at seven o’clock through the press entirely unnecessary If he didn’t understand why Salt Lake and out over part the conference was set as ' it was Great saw absolutely lake— of the he should have ' gone up to Logan no trace” Still“but to discuss refusing and talked with the director in- her “clue” she said she would re- stead of loosing his caustic state- main on call to aid in any way ' ment to the newspapers j ’ possible MAY NOT The plane carrying two wonjien "I don’t know what the director (Continued on Page Two) will tell him but I think I know (Column Three) ( what will happen when Fjeldsted aid of the county agents in asks putting on his- - show next year Every year one to five county agents have spent their full time working on the show and all- their expenses have been paid by the extension service “Perhaps the agents spend too By Clement Clarke Moore much of their time in trying to cooperate in this type of thing— stock shows state and county fairs and i -- s -- ! SALT LAKE CITY Dec 21— (AP) state committee of nine recommended today consolidation of school districts into one state unit and adoption of a minimum program of education The committee asserted eleven districts “measured ( by most authentic standards are considered uneconomical and inefficient as administrative units” It urged their elimination The 11 districts are Park City Piute Grand San Juan South Summit Morgan Juab North Summit Tintic Daggett and Wayne with Beaver Duchesne Kane Garfield and Rich “bordering on the uneconomical” In connection with the minimum education suggestion the committee urged that local schools officials be empowered to carry out a supplementary program in addition to the state requirements the like” — The 4 : j i Aliisft'Jfam - -- - ALLEGED KILLER Freedom As Christmas Gift era the weather and the dangers of driving over mountain roads With a gracious happy air she CHICAGO Dec 21— (AP) — Some joined in the general conversation in the beautiful gardens of Mr and 700 of “the numbers” will rot answer Christmas roll call in the na(Continued on Page Two) tion's prisons (Column Two) They’ll be gone released because they've been given the finest - - ar 'r‘ — — --— low-win- ! ? ly abandoning a brief volunteer search for the lost Western Air Express transport hurried into her g Lockheed monoplane late today and departed for Los Angeles With her was Paul Mantz the famed woman flier’s technical adviser CITY Dei 21 SALT LAKE — Led by Amelia Earhart Putnam the search for a big airliner lost with seven persons switched suddenly today to northern ytah in the vicinity of Brigham City 5 ty ? Frazier-Lemk- e ! - when we first “It was saw a dark spot on the side of Cemetery ridge” Cooper said later by a long distance telephone from the Kellogg airport NEAR TOP OF RIDGE “The wreckage is a short distance from the top of the ridge at an elevation of 4000 feet I would say We flew low over the wreckage for about 10 minutes “There is no question but that both men are dead because we sighted the wings about 200 feet down the mountainside from where the fuselage appears to be The forest in that vicinity was burned over in 1910 and the wreckage is out in a clearing I could not say whether the fuselage - ouraed or not as the weather was poor and visibility was bad as we circled over the scene” -Superintendent Mensing took off immediately by plane tor Kellogg to direct the rescue party which must reach the wreckage on foot Deep snow necessitates the- use of snowshoes Sergeant A G Rylent was with Lieutenant Cooper as observer Both are attached to the 116th observation unit of the Washington national guard i WASHINGTON Dec ?21— (AP)— A ruling on litigation involving con- 5 i ' nine-thir- Rules Arms Embargo Bill Authorized By FDR Constitutional DR ALF KANSAS CITY Dec 21— (AP)— modern couples weary of swing The old woman in the shoe would f music and hot spots now yearn Santa Claus has so many orders “for a home and babies” Edwin Solenberger secretary of cackle at this: Children’s Aid society of Pennthe kno-for babies he doesn’t what sylvania said the higher trend in to do is because “middle class From many hospitals foundling adoptions are persons feeling secure again due homes and “cradles” of the nation to the pickup in business” came word today the supply of AND COOS GURGLES adoptable infants on hand couldn’t to these Added factors is the inbegin to satisfy the demands escapable’ emphasis of thte Christ2000 ASK BABIES mas season on family life At this Typical of Santa’s predicament time of year couples content at was a report from Mrs Sam Glad- other seasons to be childless long ney superintendent of the Texas for a blue-eye- d bundle of gurgles Children’s Home Aid society at and coos? Fort Worth She has received 2000 In spite of the shortage appliapplications from would-b- e par- cants still express preferences ents without being able to fill - a Curly-heade- d blue-eye- d girls and J u brown-eye- d single one boys” are by far the Returning prosperity and the de- most popular types But that doesMexico Is breaking up the big cline of the jazz age' are among n’t go for Louisville Ky A welland holdings and dividing the the explanations given for the up- fare worker there reported several (Continued on Page TwoJ swing in adoptions husbands recently asked for “red Mrs Gladney’s theory is that haired” girls (Column Two) over - DUKE REUNION ? " - QPOKANE Wash Dec 21 — (AP) — Lieut Byron Cooper national guard pilot radioed Felts Field at ten thirty o’clock this morning that he had sighted what he believed to be wreckage of the missing Northwest Airlines transport plane oniCeme tery ridge near Calder Idaho SUCCESSFUL Senator Lynn Frazier (Rep N D) left and Representative William Lemke (Rep N D) won success at Washington D C in their fight to get ruling on litigation involving constitutionact which is now promised by the supreme ality of the Frazier-Lemk- e ' court In their hands Is the disputed bilL j WALLY DELAYS BUDAPEST Hungary Dec 21— (AP)— Frau Franz Sarga wife of the diminutive “me against nine” duel-li- st gave birth to a at St John’s hospitaldaughter today Sarga whose successive affairs of honor was the talk of Budapest for weeks was momentarily crestfallen 7 “I had hoped for another duelist” he said His blonde wife however-wm Jubilant “One duelist in the family is more than enough” she said Frau Sarga granddaughter of a wealthy banker whose objections to her marriage was one of the reasons for Sarga’s series of challenges said she would devote her life to shieldfrom such family ing her daughter ' discord : r ' : - Famous Flier Makes Fruitless Search In Box Elder -- - 'Me Against Nine' Is Dad of Girl '1 Duelist Enough’ 36 34 ' ? However both Mayor Harman W Peery and City- Commissioner Edward T Saunders have expressed themselves as opposed to increas ing the tax levy If additional revenue is sought it will therefore probably be from some other source than a levy boost One method which lias been tentatively disAND F cussed is a general increase in city business licenses The axe fell heavily in the public improvements department the commissioners deciding ' against even a $30000 appropriation for a new city and county building Y arns DisThis they asserted is justified Swap Fishing cuss Santa Claus In by the fact that $75000 in cash has set aside for this puralready been White House pose which together with a $60-0allowance for the site which By LYLE C WILSON will be furnished by the city will Press Staff Correspondent) (United bring the' city’s reserve for the Dec 21— (UP)— WASHINGTON structure to $135000 This is ex- Gov Alt M Landon came to the pected to cover fully the city’s cost White House today and traded fishof its construction during the first ing stories ' with ' FresideMT ’Roose' year or 1937 veltOther cuts included the reducIn a highly informal meeting Lantion of a $15000 request for a new don sat around and the bridge across Ogden river to $1500 a table in the president White House executo be used in purchasing property tive offices “swapped fishing storfor approaches to the bridge A $12000 request for the city’s ies” and talked about their families ‘CHRISTMAS AND KIDDIES’ share of a proposed project for The executive who called and dredging straightening Ogden at the Kansas House at the request White river channel was eliminated comman who him last defeated of the was as a $5000 for curb and pletely November 3 for the presidency (Continued on Page Two) spent more than half an hour with (Column One) Mr Roosevelt When he came out he told newspapermen “we talked about Christmas and the children The president RADIO talked about his grandchildren and I talked about my children” “Did you discuss the campaign?” he was asked: “No” he said “We just had a nice visit We swapped fishing stories just had a social call” To Give Address Thursday and “Did the president express regret over your defeat?” he was asked and “Prove We Are “He didn’t seem to have any ideas Still Alive’ like that” Governor Landon remarked with a grin VATICAN CITY Dec 21— (AP)— Pope Pius announced his intention today of broadcasting a Christmas message to the world Thursday to “prove we are still alive” The broadcast will be made at twelve-thirt- y a m p m (four-thirt- y Mountain Standard time) on a wave length of 1984 meters through a microphone set bp in the Pope’s study adjoin- Awaits Absolute Divorce ing his bedroom where he has been She Teases Group confined with circulatory congestion and fever About Drive The Holy Father will be carried to his desk and placed CANNES France Dec 21 (AP) in an armchair in front of the mi- — Wallis Warfield Simpson cleared crophone away the mystery surrounding her The Pope persisted in making ar- immediate future today with a for the "Christmas plain indication she would not see rangements broadcast despite the pleading of the man who gave up the throne of his doctor to remain quiet for her until her divorce He summoned ' Father Succors! England absolute is director of the Vatican radio staThe statement that Mrs Simption to discuss technical arrange- son was remaining at her haven in ments for the address Cannes for “several months” and His actions were contrary to med- “there Is absolutely no possibility” ical orders for absolute quiet after she will see Edward of Windsor the pontiff suffered a fainting spell until spring was made by Herman as he lay in bed yesterday Rogers her Riviera host as Mrs Simpson held a formal press conthe first time in her ference for ' life SOCIAL RECEPTION In the end it turned out to be more of a social reception than an interview Adroitly Mrs Simpson discussed the beauty of the Rivi- 38 44 56 38 45 54 54 6 30 46 30 30 LAST EDITION Heavy Timbered Area Holds Wreckage — cutting” at their next meeting which will be held tomorrow at persons nine am imately $95000 as compared with the $128000 which must’ be eliminated to balance the budget Whether the commissioners will attempt another complete review of the budget Hi an effort to eliminate the remaining $33000 excess or whether they will cast about for iadditional revenues to make up the amount was not announced 2S SO - today made homeless in the worst local earthquake disaster since Today’s session brought the to1879 At least tal which has been' eliminated from were injured the 1937 budget requests to approx- President Maximilian Hernandez Martinez took personal charge as reports from eight cities rocked by temblors over the week-en- d indi cated staggering losses of life and property Relief workers digging in the ruins of San Vincente 23 miles east of here said the death toll there would probably reach 100 They had Omaha Pocatello Portland O Aviator Sights Plane Near Calder In North Idaho refrom the city’s 1937 budget quests bringing the budget within $33000 of balance the city commissioners announced today that they would get down to some “serious ’ I 20 32 Minneapolis New York 34 y fit Louis 36 I Salt Lake' 36 San Franclscq SO j Beattie 48 10 ( Willlston Yellowstone 30 16 Pages wj Request Among Few To Gain Approval Intact ) El Salvador Dec 21 — (UP) O SAN SALVADOR forces mobilized to care for 25000 833000 SHORT OF GOAL 25000 Made Homeless 500 Known Injured AXE Total Death Toll Unknown As CommuniStreet cation IsiDestroyed Capital Rushes Aid ' ' I Amelia JEarttart §ms Airliner Near Ogden IdaEo Craft Is Found CITY DADS HEW Qbake Destroys 9 OGDEN CITY UTAH MONDAY EVENING DECEMBER 21 1936 SO j WAIVES HEARING " - Winter Arrives At 5:27 Tonight NEW YORK Dec 21— (UP)— Winter arrives officially at five twenty-seve- n p m Mountain standard time tonight when the earth enters the winter solstice in its path around the sun Today will be the shortest day of the year with nine hours and 14 minutes of daylight between sunrise at and sunset at four thirty-on- e p m seven-sevente- en Christmas presents within the power of a dozen states — pardons or paroles However in at least 20 other states the prisoners will eat the prison chicken or roast beef as usual because these commonwealths frown on the holiday parole cus? tom j most Instance of The spectacular Christmas leniency disclosed by an Associated Press survey was in Alabama Governor Bibb Graves on Dec 17 released 494 convicts including 23 women for two weeks on their “man to man” agreement : to return Jan 1 r Ohio’s governor usually pardons one prioner the day before Christ- mas Forty Inmates of the Illinois penitentiary due to be freed in Jan- " SALT LAKE CITY Dec 21— (AP) —Cyril W White army air corps attache stationed at Riverside Calif waived preliminary hearing today to a murder charge in the beer parlor shooting of Jack T Ashbum 36 Fort Douglos cook City Judge Daniel Harrlgan reduced the first degree murder charge to second degree and ordered White arraigned In district court probably Saturday Ashbum was killed and three persons wounded in a wild outburst of shooting Dec 7 : reuary were given lease with a prison made suit and $10 each Although the Minnesota pardon board' gave no holiday paroles as such it granted clemency to 31 men at its regular December meeting The department of justice at --M— Washington declared its opposition ? to holiday release of federal prisonTURKEY PROBE FRUITLESS ers Said Chairman Wilbur La Roe WASHINGTON Dec 21— (AP)— Jr ' of the District of Columbia Attorney General Cummings disboard of paroles: closed today federal agents had “Any parole board which engages ailed to uncover any evidence of in such a practice is not aware of price-fixin- g by turkey buyers in 13 states before Thanksgiving its duty to the public” pre-Christm- as - 1 ' ’ — xxv And toying Hs finger aside of his nose And giving a nod 'chimney he rose up the (Continued to Next Issue) 3 SHOPPING ONLY- - MOf? 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