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Show aaSii The THE WEATl JER UTAH Uun'irtllv fm and Sundaj inti,. ui lot, ,,r ; perature. Volume 26, t, Number dt ,. ;j,j An , , i t TODAYS 1;, antes, Neatli may play no but in puldus tlii-iare ditferent rule. Iast winter wealthy Warren Delano Robbins, minister to Canada and close uni-oof the President died in a New York hospital after a brief ilWithin a few lness. through a ready well In bill A pi il, weeks congiess had d $10,000 t, , his widow, 19.11, U nt LOG AN, r S. Leopold di UTAH, AUGUST SATURDAY, 17, 1 hr i) I) 7. Tl, ;. iiK W PRICE FIVK CENTS ,,i ! Ull LOGAN HIGH GETS RQTC Logan Buys Life Saving Equipment al- N, (. He mail in his offieial ear when an ambuscade of prohibition agents on the trail of rum-- i miners opened liie and killed him. A bill was introduced to Rice his family K7,."W), but that was the last heard of it. delivering A year later another bill was introduced. Again it gathered dust. Finally .beiali iiailey, .etnor senator Item North (aiolma, managed to Imre tin measure through the senate. I he other day, four years after the murder of tha postal employe, the house took action. It passed the lull after slashing it to $,.()00. GO-ROUN- i ! I) Daily Picture of What', Going On In Natiunal Affairs A By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT & AUDEN WASHINGTON Few know of another sensational Senate investigation is quietly in the maka ing sweeping probe of commercial air lines. Power to conduct such a nmquiry was contained in the resolution sponsored by Senator Bob Wagner for an investigation of the crash that caused the death of Senator Bronson Cutting. Inside whisper is that agents of the Senate Commerce committee which was entrusted with the investigation, have uncovered some d dynamite-loadeinformation and that in the fall plenty of aviation will be washed in publinen dirty lic. Dr. Charles E. Clark, dean of the Yale law school, is being ur- -' gently sought by the administra-.fio- n as chairman of the National Labor board, which has been lolling in idleness for almost two ynonths due to lack of executive The new personnel stainless steel electric stove installed in the remodeled White House kitchen cost $5,000. It was made to order and is the only The U. S. one of its kind Board of Tax Appeals finding that Charles E. Mitchell was guilty of tax dodging has done as much to appease congressional critics of the agency. Last winter there was talk on Capitol Hill of moving to abolish the board on the ground that a majority of its rulings were against the government . . . . C. F. Risk, newly elected Republican congressman from Rhode Island, will be no stronger in Washington. After his service in the war he obtained a job as clerk in the treasury, studied law at night. POLTCS Huey Long is out to give the president a fight for the Florida delegation to next year's Democratic convention. Word has reached administration leaders that the Kingfish is secretly trying to organize a stop Roosevelt" slate in that statq. One, Long henchman is reported to have approached prosnective gubernatorial aspirant and offered him generous financial barking if he would tie Friends of up with Huey Walter E. Edge are whispering that the former New Jersey Senator and Hoover Ambassador to France plans to open an office in Washington this fall, in order to wage a vigorous drive to unseat Henry Fletcher, Republican NaHe wants the tional chairman. Democratic post for himself politics in Oklahoma is shaping up for a test of the New Deal within the family. Governor E. W. Marland, enthusiastic supporter of the president, has thrown to Senator down the gauntlet Thomas Gore, comes Democrat who up for next year. Gore has the defl and a hot battle Word in the is in prospect Mississippi congressional delegation is that Governor Mike Sennett Conner plans to enter the lists against Senator Pat Harrison. He will have the undercover, if not public, support of Huey Long and following in his Congressional Mississippi offering bonus bill backers are cloakrooms that the J wagers in the statute on the be legislation will books by March 1. Their dope" is that congress will pass an act next shortly after reconvening veto January; the president will overit; and his rejection will be ridden. Next years election, the boys hold, makes enactment of the bonus a certainty IN DR VDOCK Secreted in the files of the moribund NRA are comprehensive surprofits veys of labor conditions, 35 imand business practices of among them portant industries, Aluminum d the corporation of America, they were the work of the Blue Eagle Research and Planning Division, under the able direction of dDr. Leon its recently-resigneHenderson, chief, and cost the government tens of thousands of dollars. Notimwithstanding the value asandpublic portance of the reports documents. Dr. Leon Marshall, new .head of the division, is keeping . . . Lhem under lock nad key use or ore trained in the by firearms and markmanship marine sharpshooters at Quantico, So confident are House Va. Bank it, but .... .... .... .... .... "share-the-wealt- .... Mellon-controlle- '.t en .... Continued On JrttgS St lU I ! ? Conferees Agree On Will Bill Be of Great Aid To Banks Glass Says WASHINGTON, Aus; 17 rii banking bill which one important administration official said would cause every bank in the easier this country to "breathe morning" was reported today by house and senate conferees. Agreement on the bill was another aid to an early adjournment of congress. Leaders definitely are committeed to an effort to quit the eight months old session by Tuesday or Wednesday. It was predicted the banking bill would be approved speedily by both houses. Jesse Jones, chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, was present when the conferees, after debating for a month, finally reported agreement. Sen. Carter Glass, D., Va., good notured and in a jovial mood, was explaining the conference agreeA ment. "Tell us who won, the house or senate?" he was asked. Well, responded Glass, you see how Im smiling." Jones interrupted, serious in the face of Glass levity. Every bank in the United States wins under this bill," he said, all of them will breath easier in the morning." The bill brought out of conference was largely a victory for Glass. The senate adopted the Glass version without changing a period or comma. The conference report was a reflection of the bill which Glass advocated. G-M- lis6J Roberts, a rural mail carrier, was shot to death near Wilmington. was MERRY s GRAIN RANGE Herald-jouma- l m.-he- granting tared-fo- r. p. " f Two Men (T BOM nii p. N. ' ifr aslaffi rniiar-- IS KILLED IN GUN BATTLE CINCINNATI, O.. Aug. 17 U..Ki Nelson B. Klein, Cincinnati, agent for the department of justice, was shot and killed in a gun battle last night and his slayer was wounded seriously. , The battle occurred at College Association Conducts Very Successful Beet Tour May Be Installed Shortly After Sugar beet growers and representatives from all parts of Cache of the Logan city Approval board of education application for a Junior R.OT.C. unit at the Logan senior high school was given Friday by the U. S, War department, according to a wire received at the board office from Major General Paul B. Malone, commanding officer of the Ninth Corps area, located at San Francisco. Major General Malone wired no particulars or plans for the installation of the unit, leaving the school board with no definite arrangements on the matter. At a meeting of the board Friday night the unit was unanimously accepted by the members. SuE. Allen Bateman perintendent stated that nothing definite on the until will learned be unit army officials are designated to install School county were conducted over one of the most successful sugar beet touis and programs ever attempted by the Cache County Sugar Beet Browers' association Friday The annual affair was under the direction of the association president, Frank Wood of Trenton, who declared the program unusually successful. Visits were made to the sugar beet fields of A. J. Harper and B. I Read in Trenton, where excellent commercial seed crops were Mr. Harper explained inspected his methods of production and pointed out the importance of deep plowing, fall plowing, and early preparation of the seed bed to conserve moisture. He stated that when the time comes to plant his ground is harrowed once or twice, leveled and drilled the beets immediately. He recommends a will planned system of rotation to control nematode, diseases and weeds in aiding the maintenance of production. Several other fields were visited in which the difference was clearly shown between the U. S. No. 1 fly resistent seed and the common commercial variety. The new de600-of the veloped variety, Amalgamated Sugar company showed up well compared with other varieties. At the end of the tour lunch was served at the USAC campus, followed by a meeting in the Little Theater. J. B. Rawlins, president of the Utah State Sugar Beet Growers was the principal association, speaker and urged the farmers to lend every support possible to the AAA program. He stated that in his opinion the program is vital to the success of the sugar industry in the west. Other speakers were Elmer Lewiston; J. VV, Randall, general manager of the Amalgamated Sugar company; Thomas Heath, manager of the Franklin County Sugar company, and R. L. Wrigley, county agent. All speakers emphasized the importance of crop rotation and those phases of culture that will bring about higher acre returns. Special numbers on the program included several comic readings by Mrs. Ruby Amussen, vocal selections from the Trenton quartet and Ronald and Royal Buttars of Clarkston, and an entertainment feature by Oscar Anderson of Hyrum. Bo-ma- Corners when government agents attempted to capture a suspected automobile thief. The alleged thief, who was to he charged with the slaying, is George W. Barrett, 45. of Lockland. He The first carload .of Cache was in Ft. Hamilton hospital, county tomatoes will be shipped Hamilton, O., with bullet wounds under contract with the Brezoff in each leg. company, produce dealers, was shipped from the packing plant at Lewisteu Friday afternoon, it was announced Saturday by VicAMERICANS tor P Itasmussen, deputy agricultural inspector. The tomatoes distributed by the Sterlare H. Nelson Co., of Salt Lake WIGHTMAN CUP ing being City. he produce dealers have contracted 300 acres of tomatoes in FOREST HILLS. N. Y Aug. li Trenton, Lewiston. Cornish, Amal-g- a HI!' The and Benson, with the tomatoes Wightman of womens tennis supre- to be individually wrapped and macy between the United Stales shipped in lug boxes. Mr. Rasmussen stated that an and England was wen by America for the fifth straight year today exceptional crop is expected withIn a series of surprising tri- in the next two or three weeks. umphs. Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Faby-a- He reported that 82 per cent of the Miss Helen Jacobs and Mrs. tomatoes shipped are U. S. No. I s. Ethel Burkhardt Arnold eliminated At peak production the growers their British opponents to give vic- will ship two and three carloads per day, he said. tory to the United States. From 40 to 60 workers are emThe greatest surprise came in the final singles match when Pret- ployed in the packing plant to sort e ty Kay Stammers of Great Bri- and pack the fruit and apprixl-mat- to 500 or more are employed tain, who eliminated Helen Jacobs yesterday, was defeated by pick tomatoes in the fields. Cache Valley has been declared Mrs. Arnold by the Brezoff comany to be one secof the finest tomato-growin- g tions in Utah. WIN one-ha- lf 6--2, GROUP 8-- Pays Insurance To Idaho Widow Files Divorce Suit In District Court Mr. and Mrs. P. P. Black have returned to Logan from a visit Divorce proceedings were opento their old family home in Arco. Idaho. While away they visited ed in the First District court several interesting scenic attrac- Saturday morning by Venna Merfor tions including the Craters of the rill Beckstead who filed suitBeck-steadivorce from Wesley Ray Moon. They also attended the funeral Tne couple was married Decemservices of Bishop Erin Beal of Beck-stia- d Lost River ward. Mr. Black, who ber 29, 1922, in Logan Mrs. asks custody of a minor is agent for the Beneficial Life Insurance company, paid to Mrs. daughter, household furniture and Beal and her family a substantial alimony, suggested in the suit at check covering the insurance $15 per month. She charges neglect and failure Bishop Beal carried m the Bene- to provide. d. . First air equipment recently purchased by Logan city and stationed at the fire station under the supervision of Fire Chief C. W. Rapp. The equipment includes diving suit, breathing apparatus, grappling hooks, ropes and boat. Those in the picture are from left to right: John Hawkins, Red Cross first aid instructor; William Goldbrandsen, Carl Mohr, and William Jensen, first aid crew of the Logan fire department - First Aid Airplane Carries Bodies Fairbanks OfBeloved Duo From A retie Mournful Conducted To Mourning Civilization In Greeting Classes Hvrum Dam Is Scene of Safety Training School Life saving equipment, owned e and operated by the Logan County fire department and available for all parts . Gf the county, contributes to making the Hyrum dam reservoir as probably the safest as well as the largest fresh water swimming pool m the west, according to John Hawkins. Red Cross examiner and director of swimming classes at the dam. Mir. Hawkins is directing classes made possible in a project sponsored by the Ladies Literary club of Hyrum and supported by the Hyrum Lions club and the county emergency education program under Superintendent J. W. Kirk-bnd- e. The immediate availability of the safety equipment, offered for special service by Chief C. W. Rapp and his staff at the fire does department, away greatly with the possibility of a serious accident or drowning casualy at the pool during the classes. The equipment includes a full set of grappling hooks, a lungmotor of the most efficient type, a diving suit, rowboat, lifelines and other necessities for water safety. Mrs. Nellie B. Langton, chairman of Cache county chapter of the American Red Cross, commended the sponsors of the swim program for their efforts to increase water safety and stated that the chapter would support the program to the limit. Mr. Hawkins, the director of the swim classes, completed a course in leadership at Gilweil Park. England, and conducted life saving campaigns in Stockton and Sacramento, California and at the USAC. He passed over 200 students at the college in junior and senior life saving tests last year. The classes at the Hyrum dam are run each Monday, Wednesday and Saturday under the following schedule; 1:30 to 2:30, 4 to 8 years of age; 1:30 to 3:30, 8 to 14 years of age; 3:30 to 4:30, 14 to 20 years of age; 4:30 to 6:30, over 20 and a class in life PRETTY GARBAGE CAN The CHICAGO. Aug. 17 HI) Chicago park district today offer ed a $100 prize to the designer of the most beautiful rubbish can. The city wants a receptacle so attractive that park visitors will go out of their way to drop waste paper in it. Flier On Sad Fridays Joy Turns Into Gloom and Sadness Errand for Aviation A c cumulated Comedian Approximately Six Million Dollars HOLLYWOOD, Aug. 17 (L.nt Wealth of Will Rogers, a shrewd business man, was estimated at between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000 here today. His assets were understood of real to consist chiefly estate, government bonds and $1,000,000 or more in life insurance and annuity policies. The depression had meant little to Rogers, his friends his income said. Currently from motion pictures, radio and syndicate writing was estimated $500,000 per year. In 1928 when his wealth was figured at come was $4,000,000, $380,000. his reported'y in- only Most of the cowboy come- worth of insurance was said to be divided into straight life, health and accident insurance, with his dians $1,000,000 Wheth- widow as beneficiary. policies contained disclaimer clauses in event of death or accident resulting from air travel could not be learned. er the Rich County People To Have Reunion A reunion of past and present residents of Rich county will be held at Lagoon, Monday, August 26, it was announced today through Mrs. O. P. gatterthwaite. A special meeting will be held at 4 o'clock and other entertainment Each family is is planned. quested to furnish its own CLAIMS Todav Heroes To Family -- re- PASSED July claims against Logan city for a total of $14,131.28 were passed by the city commission Friday BY FRANK J. DAl'GHERTY United Press Staff Correspondent (Copyright, 1935, By United Press) POINT BARROW, Alaska, Aug. 17 tt.io Joe' Cron son. famed Alaskan mercy flier," roured south out of Point Barrow today in a powerful Pan American Airways plane, bearing the bodies of two friends, Will Rogers and Wiley Post. Crosson took off in the foggy darkness from the bleak Arctic seaport landing field at 1 a. m. Barrow time (5 a. m. MST). p He expected to make a flight across the Arctic circle to Fairbanks, over 550 miles of mountain ranges and swampy tundras. He believed, with fair flying conditions, he could reach Fairbanks by 7 a. m. (11 a. m. MST). non-sto- killed instantly. Throughout the world, saddened minds turned to this remote outpost, 200 miles inside the Arctic circle, where Post and Rogers died Thursday evening in the wreckage of Posts new airplane. Post for his spectacular aerial exploits, Rogers for his ready, homespun wit, their untimely deaths caused thousands to feel an acute sense of loss. Braves log Acting on wirelesseu instructions from J. T. Trippe, president of Pan American Airways, and Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, Crosson flew nere yesterday for the bodies. Pacific-Alask- a is a subsidiary. Only a few days ago, Crosson, considered the most expert of Arctic fliers, bade Post and Rogers goodbye in Fairbanks, where they took off on the flight that ended with their deaths. He braved fog to fly here for their bodies. Post's body will be taken to the farm home of his parents near Maysville, Okia., where it will be buried beneath the trees" in a nearby country cemetery. His fun- Continued On Pape 8) World-famou- s, Will Rogers Says: PROMINENT MAR OY MY TIME BUT I SEVER MET MAM X DIDN'T DIKE. A Postmaster (pest to you, Yeates), raced up the steps, hoping to find government protection. But he ran into a trap and right there in the new vestibule of the postoffice he met his post-offi- post-offic- death. I am proud of that I can hardly wait to die so it can be carved. And when you come around my grave, youll find me sitting there, proudly reading it. Yours, WILL ROGERS. In Boston, 1930. , mail, postal employees, even the forestry boys on the top floor, reek with the penetrating odor. Fellow skunks in the spirit worid may well point with pride to their newly arrived pal and say with all He did his part. sincerity, Attired in gas mask, a city away Mr. employee hauled Skunk Saturday morning in a city garbage wagon. twin-motor- at Providence Youth Breaks Arm, Hand Mathews, about Arctic coast. That night their plane crashed on the edge of a river, only 15 mi 63 short of their goal. A handful of silent Alaskan airmen stood with bared heads as Crosson's ship roared out of the mists, circled the airport and glided down onto the field. An automobile hearse fum a Fairbanks undertaking firm sped out across the runways to the side of the Fairchiid-Redwinplane. Attendants removed bodies of flier and the huthe round-worl- d morist from the cabin. They were blanketed, strapped to tiny cots. Fairbanks undertakers will comthe primitive embalming plete started by Dr. Henry W. Greist at Point Barow hospital. tired and Crosson appeared shaken from his 500 mile flight out of the Arctic from Point Bar-ro- 1:30 p. m. The board set the junior high 20, of Providence suffered a compound fracture of his right arm and a broken bone in his hand when working with a pressure pump in Providence Friday afternoon. He had been spraying weeds. Details of the cause of the accident were not reported. BOYS FINED FOR GIVING d Oklahoman only laughed. Time of Crosson's departure was uncertain. It was raining hard and he wanted weather conditions favorable as possible. It is a three hour trip of 450 miles to White Horse, with another hour necessary for the 150 miles between White Horse and Juneau. Charles Brower whaling king of the Arctic" whom Rogers came north to see, was So few come here," he said. "It seems that the spell of the Arctic will lure men who little realize the danger. grief-strieke- a, After pleading guilty to charges in a false alarm to the e fire department Wednesday night were fined et Wednesday night, Wallace Cooper, 19, and Wilford Strotelt, 18, of Logan were fined $10 each and sentenced to 20 days in the city jail by City Judge Jesse P. Rich in the City court Friday afternoon. The jail sentence was suspended upon payment of the fine. The two boys were arrested Friday morning by Patrolman Russell C. Knowles and soon afterward confessed to the act. The alarm was given from the o Central Railroad station at the corner of First South and Main street about 10 minutes before the big fir at the Farmers Union Mills in Smith-fiel- d. The boys sent the fire department to the home of R. A. White, 60 South Third West, with the false alarm. Logan-Cach- He said weather was bad for flying throughout, with most of the journey through the night. He flew his plane over passes and Koqqkuk of the Endicott mountain ranges, seeking safety rather than speed. He stopped twice to refuel, at Wi'j River Lake and at Stevens. Crosson expected to take eff for Juneau by way of White Horse, Y. T later in the day. The bodies of the famed fiying pair will be placed in an eleotra airliner for remainder of the trip to the United States. The wreck was an unpleasant sight. Crosson said, indisposed to discuss his trip. It is unexplainable how it could have happened." Crosson showed deep grief at death of Post, whom he once rescued from the Alaska wilderness, and whom he regarded as one of his best friends. He warned Post against flying into the Arctic 'when the pair left one-eye- ALARM of turning g Fairbanks Thursday, but the But, not until he had fought a valiant fight with his favorite weapou. The building, NEW YORK, Aug. 17 (U.R Crosson, Alaskan pilot, will remain at Fairbanks, Alaska tonight with the bodies of Will Rogers and Wfle,y Post, Pan American Airways announced late today. Tomorrow Crosson will take off for Juneau, Alaska, where eleotra a fast plane is waiting for him at -- he for the American Pan hanger Right to Seattle. The route to Seattle will be by way of White Horse, Telegraph Creek, and Prince George with two stops being made, the office announced. Joe school registration tee at $1.25, in BY t'Al.MN 8. WHITE comparison to the $1.00 fee of last Y arned Filer Alaska. Aug. year. Ninth grade students will be FAIRBANKS, Will Rogers required to pay a $1 laboratory fee Only Thursday Crosson warned tl.Hi Wiley Post and in in addition to the registration fee, Post, two-tim- e globe girdler, of came back to Fairbanks today, by the $1 to be returned at the close the dangers of flying into the a big flying hearse" pilotedmerof the year if warranted. The new ace only Joe Crosson, Alaska, famed Arctic, but the one-eye- d registration fee will include a stulaughed. Early that evening Posts cy flier." dent body fee of 25 cents. The new red and silver monoplane It was only day before yester- board pointed out that although 25 crashed on a river bank, 15 miles day they left, with all the city cents is added, no locker fee will from Point Barrow. He and Rog- wishing them well, on a leisurely be charged. on the ers, cowboy author and actor, were flight to Point Barow night. Of the total amount $9470.07 is charged to the general fund, while $4561.21 is charged to the When I die my epitaph, or electric light fund. whatever you call those signs on gravestones, is going to read: I JOICED ABOUT EVERY Phew! Who Did That? Skunk! Skunk! Skunk! Such were the anguished cries of Logan stamp collectors and dunner bearers as e they rushed from the building Saturday morning with their nose squeezed between thumb and tightly finger. And there at the side of the postoffice lay the reason. Mr. Skunk, dead but his memory lingered. Nor will he for be forgotten several weeks. Certainly not by the postal employees. Mr. Skunk wandered aimlessly into the Logan business district Friday night and at once became the target of anything an angry Logan citizen could lay his hands to. Seeking helter from the mis- the unwelcome guest. eiles, He pointed out that operation of the unit would not likely be ready for the opening of school on Tuesday, September 3, but that it would go into operation as soon as it could be installed. The board set the opening date for the city schools for September 3 instead of September 2 as originally planned as the later date is a legal holiday, Liibor day. A meeticy of principals of the city schools was set for Thursday, August 29, at 2:30 p. m., while senior high school registration will be held Friday, August 30. Registration for ninth grade students will be held at the - junior high school Thursday, August 29, between 9 a. m. and 2 p. m. Seventh and eighth grade students will register when they start school Tuesday. On Saturday, August 31, the annual teachers institute will be held at the senior high school. The program will include a departmental meeting e.t 9 a. m., a general session at 10:30 a. m., lunch at noon and departmental sessions Mercy Rogers Left Huge Estate City-Cach- it. Utah-Idah- CANNING CENTER OPEN UNTIL 5 P.M. Four canning centers in Logan and two in Hyrum will feature the weekly schedule of centers presented by the U. S. A. C. extension service and the Cache county ERA, next week, according to Dr. Ethclyn O. Greaves, county home demonstration agent and director of the centers. Dr. Greaves stated that the move was being made because of the crowds attending the centers. Friday's canning center at the Lrtgaa senior high school was riot closed until 5 o'clock Saturday morning, she said. lagan canning centers will bo held at the Logaa high school and the Hyrum center, are scheduled for the Sowth. Cache high school. Centers will be held at Logan and Hyrum Monday, Clarkston and Newton on Tuesday, Logan"5 and Lewistoe on Wednesday, Logan and Paradise, Hyrum and Millvibe on Thursday and at Logan fUJay, " |