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Show i The Weather Partly UTAH Sunday; Cooler tonight an cloudy 1 northwest poitum. Number Volume 28. Grain Range Wheat: Sept, er. May An ludnpundcnt 19(1. UTAH, LOGAN, Newepuiier SAT I'll DAY, All! LSI 2 1, 1 :i 7. Ir People Open High Low Close 1.05 Mi 105:4 104 1 08 107 106 109 100i 11014 109 10514 1 07 W Uo Price Five Cents. 1 hlnk! If STATE FFA Happily Confirmed for High Court Leaves USAC CONFESSES our n to SLAYING OF sepoo IDAHO PAID Opening Meeting At USAC Sunday Takes Sociology Post at University of Evening ninth annual of the Utah . Future Farmers be held at the The vention Agricultural and 24, college State Minnesota Con- Association of America Dr. Utah State August 22, to State according Mark Nichols. President Peterson of the state agricultural college and Ward Holbrook, president of the Utah Federation State Farm Bureau Will address the 500 delegates from different and participants parts of the state in the opening meeting at the state college Sunthis day evening. The convention yaer will have a record attendance will have Forty four chapters and delegates to the convention participants in the judging of livestock, dairy animals, crops The and agricultural poultry teachers and Future Farmers will in army tents on the be housed campus of the state college Judging Monday Mondays program will be devoted to judging activities in livestock, dairying, poultry and crops from all over Special features the state will take part on the in the amphiamateur hour theatre on the campus Monday Director E G. evening. The delegates from 44 chapters take part in the official convention sessions on Tuesday Sterling Taylor of Spanish Fork chapter and president of the state association will preside over the meetings of the house of delegates. J. Phelon Malouf of the Richfield chapter and vice president of the national association sivtt be present to speak In behalf of the national organization The business of the sessions will delude the raising of boys to the State Farmer degree, the formulation of the program of work for the coming year, the report of special committees, and tne elec-to- n of officers. Annua Banquet On Tuesday evening at the annual banquet a special program will of music will be provided and announcements of the winners of the several judging contests will he made. N. E. Salisbury, the chairman of the Agricultural Committee ion, will Keys to 32 State Bankers associat- award State Farmer state farmers who receive this high honor. Superintendents, principals, farm bureau officials, officers of the Utah association Poultry Producers and other agricultural organizations have been invited to attend the convention. The various Judging activities will be directed hy Dean W. E. Carroll of the Schooo of Agriculture. eft. Nelson, Lowry mi SdbertiAB O so- session of congress promany outstanding newcomers; brass ring goes to 9 in senate, 16 in house for freshman record; back-seveterans; their future books are promising; session unique for killing strain of stampedes on floor leaders. (Editors Note: The brass ring, "good for one free ride on The Washington this week goes to a Closing duced at bloc-ups- Merry-Go-Roun- Rfoup of 25 men the first-terme- rs in congress, who show p promise of attaining full in the next year or lead-ershi- two Eighty Scholarships Are Awarded By State College Lea-tfia- a, Washington The deep is- hei and great battles of this session of congress have made it historic, but it has been an exceptional session in two other re- acts as well. The first is the grief and difficulty administration floor leaders in riding herd on Jperienoed heir commands. The other is the rise of new and Promising personalities in both '"ambers. top-hea- Even under the best being a majority helms-?a- a is no sinecure. Jt means long ours of work when other mem- bers we at leisure, constant at- nance on the floor during the y sessions, and being harassed stream of J an endless details. When on top of these burdens aibled the thankless, heart- task of trying to keep ioknin ,liiou.s cohorts from slamped-- l Continued on Page Three) clrcum-tance- parlm-awrda- s, the Old Ka-na- b; long-arme- s. d round-the-wor- ld nav-gato- r, ASYLUM er Uni-versi- DU. LOWRY NELSON Rotary Seeks To Imp rove City Exhibit lliee Display at County Fair Can Be Bettered Mat-tern- 's of Fires Burning In Wrecked Shanghai With Damage Estimated at er woman and her son when the two allegedly tried to rob him hi a lonely sheep camp 25 nules west of Murphy 1 1111U Dead Hedies Sheriff Sullivan arrived here after having found the dead bodies of Mrs. Jim Stevens, 60, and a son, about 22, sprawled near a bloodstained camp table in a sheep camp on Sucker creek. Name of the womans' son could not be learned. The man was shot through the back 0. the head, and the woman had several bullet wounds across her shoulders, Sullivan said. Aresuringa was released by Sullivan for return to Murphy, Owyhee county seat. He will be booked "hold for investigation,'' Sullivan said. alks Into Station Arescurinaga walked into Nampolice station early today, ragrequesting that Logan city co- pa and gauped out ged and operate with the Rotary club in that he haddirty, shot and killed a woand the man and a man as they tried to improving revamping at the Cache rob him of $60. Police immediatecitys exhibits ly notified Sheriff Sullivan and he county fair, September 13, 14, and went to the Basques camp on 15; a committee representing the Sucker creek where he found the local Rotary club, composed of bodies, Arescurinaga told Sullivan and Oscar Wennergren, Ray Trotman, that at sundown yesand A. G. Olofson, met with the city police terday he was cooking supper, (ify commission in the regular when Mrs. Stevens and .her .son came to the camp. meeting last n'ght. He fed them, and then they Althongh there was no parti- made ready to depart for Korday cular criticism of the regular city the exhibit expressed by the club re- Valley, small community nearasked Arescurinaga said he presentatives, there was a feel- camp. woman him the If would she bring ing that the display, having been some cream on her rethe same over a period of the turn shaving told She him she would, last two or three years, could he trip he Opened his Wallet be enlarged or improved upon to said, and some her money. give Work On Plan Sprung For Him E. IT. Moser, city engineer was Then, he said, when the two appointed to work with Ray saw the money, they sprang for in him and grabbed Trotman of the Rotarians, at the wallet. formulating a plan for the pro- They struck him on the head, he posed change, this plan to be maintained, and he grabbed his presented in a subsequent meet' rifle and shot them both in self defense. ing of the city commission Sheriff Sullivan said that there Floyd Hanson, local airplane was of a struggle at the operator, appeared at the meeting sceneevidence of the shooting, .but that and asked for a lease on part of the airport grounds, asserting his both had been shot in the back. The boy was shot first, Suldesire of improving the hangar livan said, and died instantly. g facilities and Then Mrs Stevens was shot In the, air field. the back three or four times. She Interested in this prosposition lived a short time, and crawled to also, and present at the meeting where her son lay, putting her were Ross Anderson, president of face against his before she died. the Logan Chamber of Commerce, were huddled together when A. G. Olofson, and George Pres- They we found them. ton, who participated in the disDoubt Story cussion of the proposed lease and The sheriff indicated that he operating agreement of the air- doubted Arescurinagos tory port, and sJd the about was inPreston v appointed ould nature of the woulds George to draw up a proposed lease to dicate the two hr 1 been shot be presented to the city com- while runninng acay from the a missioners at forthcoming camp. After the shoori ig, Arescurinmeeting. During the course of last night's aga said he walked to another agenda the regular monthly pay- ihecp camp, left Ins gun there,to rolls were passed by the commis- and then tramped six miles sion, representing a total dis- Riddle Creek, to a mine there. bursement of $27,389 77 distributed into two departments Into the electric light fund MOVES FURTHER went $17,827 63 for the month of August, and into the general fund went $9,562 11, which amounts FROM NEW DEAL were accepted and passed on by the city dads $150,000,000 responded instantly and land. a concerted attack bv air, water BY II. R. EKINS United Press Staff Correspondent Copyright 1937 by United Press SHANGHAI, Aug. 21 (UP) Scores of Japanese airplanes late tonight launched a terrific bombardment of the Shanghai-Nankin- g railway along which Chinese reinforcements were pouring into the battle area around this flame-swecity of 3,500,000 people. Simultaneously Japanese warships in the Whagpoo river began bombarding the Chinese positions in the Yangtsepoo area of the international settlement. Strong Chinese units had beeir concentrating there all day preparatory to a midnight assault on the Japanese lines in the Ilongkew sector. The Japanese were attempting to consolidate and reinforce their front line positions extending from Ilongkew to Yangtsepoo. The battle which has raged here for a week following th shooting of two Japanese navy men by Chinese soldiers the night of Aug. 9 had reached unprecedentd proportions as midnight approached. pt Chiangs Air Chief e, WASHINGTON, the room by removing a screen. On Aug. 7 Miss Palmand routed a owski screamed negro from the same fire escape used today. Three days later o nurse saw a negro remove a screen from the window of her room and frightened him away. A police squad was posted at the hospital but withdrawn after four days. Earlier this year a negro slashed Miss Marcella Miles, 26, night superintendent of nurses, with a razor blade when she refused to give him narcotics. Descriptions of th suspect in might todays crime indicated heTom De Have been a drug addict Karl Wilhelm, and Brugane said janitors of nearby buildings, d negro they saw the near the late last night pacing man appeared The hospital. fidgety and nervous they said. De Brugane gave the best description of the suspect, whom he had chased away. He said he d was a negro with exceptionally long arms and a wore dark He nervous manner. trousers and a white shut. His cap was soiled. ed long-arme- light-colore- Aug. 21 tU P) John L. Lewis today carried his from the political divergence New Deal one step farther by warning that the Democratic party is unable to carry out campaign pledges and that we are witnessing a major test of our governmental system. The Lewis pronouncement, impelled by failure of congress to enact wages-hour- s legislation, was issued by labors a vehicle of third League, possible party political maneuvers. The next indication of the labor leader's plans is expected to be unfolded in a speech Sept. 3. Lewis, during the summer, quietly seized control of the league and turned It into a political arm of his Committee, for Industrial Organization This maneuver was accomplished through the ouster of Sen. George L Berry, D., Tenn., as president of the body and a further "purge' of American Federation of Labor influences in its set-uIt was the alleged failure of the president to see to It that such "protection was afforded participants in the CIO's unsuccessful steel strike which caused the first rupture of friendly rela turns with the White House. Lewis' mention of farmers also was deemed significant The CIO has recently begun an intensive drive to unionize agricultural and cannery workers and has made no secret of its ambitions to expand in that direction. Non-partis- p. Hundreds of fires were burning and more than 250 square blocks of the city -- chiefly in the Chapel, g Yangtsepoo, Hongkew, and areas either were In flames or were smouldering ruins. Damage was estimated at $150,000,000. Fear New Shellings Battle crews on foreign ' wt't-- r ships in the Whangpoo river wers at their stations fearing new shellings such as that which killed Seaman Frederick J. Falgout on the U. S. S. Augusta, flagship of the Asiatic squadron, yesterday, and wounded 17 of his companions. With four American citizens known to have been kuled and many wounded the naval board of Inquiry siting abouid the Augusta completed its investigation of the shelling of the ship and adjourned after sending its report to Washington where it will be made public. At 9 p. m. squadrons of big bombers roared across the city ted by fast fighting planes. The roar of bombs along the Shanghai-Nnankin- g railway wtqsj continuous. Other Japanese squadrons attacked the Chinese lines in the Japanese area of the international settlement and appeared literully to be blowing the countryPoo-tun- es-e- planc-landinn- Nurse Slain By Sex Maniac Pan-guitc- h; Hundreds Copyright 1937 By United Press NAMPA, Idaho, Aug. 21 vL R SHANGHAI, Sunday, Aug. 22 (UP) Japanese lines on Pete Aresi unntiga, 50, Basque sheephtrder, today confessed to the AVhangpoo liter were severed by desperate Chinese asSheriff t'.dude Sullivan of Owyhee sault for the first time early today. Nipponese strategists county that he shot and killed a with Chicago Student 9-Year-- trans-Pola- ) during' Twin-Murd- past year director of the experiment station of the Utah State Agricultural college, has resigned his position to become professor of rural sociology at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Nelson will assume his new position at the opening of the school year in September. Minnesota The appointment comes as a distinct honor in view of the fact that it ranks with the University of Wisconsin and Cornell university as one of the most important training centers for graduate work in the field of rural sociology. Greater Opportunity The new position of Dr. Nelson will provide for him a greater opportunity for research work along his chosen field. It is understood that he will devote all of his time to that work with the exception of about one hvir a day in the class room, in which he will direct advanced students of sociology in special research work. Dr. Nelson came to the college The thrilling secret which the wife of Senator Hugo L. Black shared in July 1936 when he succeeded P. V. Cardon as director of the with him for 12 hours before his nomination to the U. S. Supreme Court was announced was no longer a secret but a cause for unexperiment station, at the time Director Cardon joined the staff concealed happiness when this picture was made after Senator of the department of agriculture and Mrs. Blacks nomination was confirmed. The new justice-to-b- e under Secretary Henry A. Wallace. Black are shown in the capitol as friends offered congratulations. For about one year previously Dr. Nelson had been at Washington D. C., where he had been chief of the project planning section of the rural resettlement division and also assistant director of that division while in charge of rural social research. These positions followed his exceptional work as regional adviser for rural rehabili for the Eighty scholarships tation for Utah, California and school year 1937-3- 8 have been Nevada, which position again came Li awarded to outstanding high to him in recognition of his orschool and junior college students ganizing the emergency relief adin the state of Utah by the USAC for Utah while J hecC. Lester Pocock, chairman of the SUCCESSFUL FAIR ministration tor of the social service division scholarship committee announced of that administration. Saturday. Six of the scholarships Native of Ferron went to the junior college students Preston played ihost to mortf Born April 16, 1893 in Ferron, while nine scholarships than 5000 enthusiastic celebration Emery county, special Dr. Nelson were awarded to high school stu- fans during the first day of the was reared on a Utah, farm and educatdents for their exceptional talents annual Franklin county fair and ed in the grade schools of his rodeo Friday, and today crowds in the various fields. (Continued on page eight) Students winning the nine spec- larger than ever are surging thru the streets of that southern Idaho ial scholarships were: Paul South Cache high school; city, participating in the events of Forrest Richard Dick Mitchell, an interesting and vanfied pro- FUGITIVES BACK Lehi high school; Aaron Amacher, gram. The climax of yesterdays lineup, Logan high school, Karl O. George, scnoui. which consisted of parade, horseGrove Pleasant nigh IN SALT LAKE Grant Hodson, Weber county high pulling contests, band concert, and was rodeo the night school; Robert Cornaby, Spanish bicycle races, Fork high school; Henry Kuw-bar- held at the rodeo grounds. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug into The the grounds 21 school; Davis county high grand entry Einar Johansen, 26, and Paland was led Rodeo Edna Queen Ora Muir, Beaver high school; by Edwards, 24, were held in Harry mer Besides and attendants. her Millard high Raymond Kimball, jail today awaiting trial school. expert riding and vicious broncs county for the kidnap-robber- y of Dean the and Brahma students bulls, Junior college roundup William Leary of the University gaining included calf were: Lois bulldogging, Binns, program the awards of Utah and Dr. Mildred Nelson, Harold L. roping, comic antics by Tinhorn state health official, Westminster college; July 25. McBill. Brahma Hank and Devere Weber Keenan, college; Baker, The pair was returned here from d The sysLurous and Dixie lighting college Allister, tem furnished complete an adequate Grand Junction after a sensational Blake, Snow college. capture, jail break and recapture all events. for stuiTents school lighting winning were in custody of the police High in- They in are: Winners the 65 horsepulling the regular scholarships officer they are said to have Willis Berry, Park City; Della cluded: lightweight, won by team wounded in a running gun battle , Baxter, Spnngvlile, Bert Chernng-ton- owned by Kelley Draayer, Clear- when they allegedly shot their Springville, Ada Rex, South field; middleweight, John Draayer, Dave way out of a police trap. Rich, Marvin Mower, North San- Clearfield, and heavyweight, Officers also ieturned what they Idaho. Grace, Barthome, high Juab Lilliam Peterson, described as a veritable arsenal pete; This afternoon a street parade, found in the stolen automobile school at Nephi; Tom M. Hall, Juab high school at Nephi; Loa duplicating that of yesterday, which Johansen and Edwards with arched through city streets, and three other criminal suspect3 drove Cook, North Rich; Jean Hylton 2 p. m. did the judging of ex- into Grand Junction. Wasatch; Melvin Watkins, WaFinal rodeo satch; Walter Yose, West high hibits take place. Arraignment was expected to be school; Marlowe L. Wood, Hurri- events are scheduled for tonight delayed until identification of the cane; James Skidmore, Logan high at 7:30 o'clock, with a dance con- other three suspects has been Logan cluding the celebration. school; Elizabeth Price, high school; Afton Muir, American Fork; Samuel W. Hilton, Jr., Pleasant Grove; Beryl Theurer, FLIERS OF THREE 1 South Cache; Jane V. White, South Cache; Margaret Nielson, NATIONS IN HUNT jjan Juan, Merle Proctor, North Bertha McElprang, Emery; Roma Chamberlain, William Turek, East high POINT BARROW, Alaska, Aug. 21 (I ll Drums fo gasoline stood on school; Helen Blood, Ogden; ElizaCHICAGO, Aug. 21 (IIP) A Lef-le- r, a sand spit today as fliers of three beth Johnson, Piute; Ramona student nurse was ravSouth Summit; Madelyn Hob- nations set up an emergency air- ished and slain in the Chicago son North Summit; Wilmer Perry, port as a base for a search over hospital today 5th victim of sex Weber; Helen B. King, Weber; Arctic wastes for six Russian air- maniacs in two years David R. Cox, Central; Walter men missing eight days: on, a Police assigned extra squads to r d Kennison, Altamont; Eunice Niel flight from Moscow. hunt for a negro A government tractor moved the seen near the (Continued on Page 8) hospital. around and lined victim was Miss Anna searching planes The them up for take-offmember of a Kuchta, GOODING MAN TO Jimmy Mattern, southside Russian and family. She had been immigrant flier, J. S. Jones, a student John Stump,, radio operator, land- nurse nine months coast The crime was discovered only flying 200 miles north of the HEAD without sighting the missing Rus- a moment after it happened by Miss Florence Palmowski, 18, sian monoplane. Heavy fog even obscured the Rus- Miss Kuchtas' roommate. Miss BOISE, Idaho, Aug. 21 flTP from Krassin Palmowski went to awaken the sian Dr. James Cromwell young GoodThe searchers had other girl after Miss Kuchtas view. held apof the most ing physioial, newtoday two instruments hour rest Miss period medical super- to fly by pointment as nude body was near the wav. Kuchta's Blackfoot asylum intendent of MaoKenzie of Randall Bob window. Pilot Cromwell replaced Dr. Charles airwavs A dark man in a white waited for jnstruc R Lowe, who was sent to the from Edmonton before continuing dark trousers and eap had shirt, one POrr Dr. when Nampa colony his search. He made, a trial take- foot out the window. He clatter, Povnter resigned off yesterday from a Lagoon as ed quickly down the fire escape Cromwell Is a graduate of piloted by while Miss Palmowski screamed. of Idaho, and took his did a Russian plane Miss Kuchtas head had been Zsdukov. The Russians medical degree at University of Vasili the search. battered with a brick. Her body Siberia to Iowa Medical school. He interned flewInfromFairbanks, join Joe Crosson, was bruised and scratched Police in the Panama canal zone famed "mercy flier," said he be- said she had been assaulted Governor Barzilla Clark, in an- lieved The attack occurred like many the missing fliers were nearsaid nouncing the appointment, er the North Pole than the Alaskan in recent months. The criminal had been highly Cromwell climbed a fire escape and enter const. newly-installe- Oei Pec Sheepherder Claims Self Defense In side to bits. Mrs. Chiang above, director f the air fleet of her husband, China's geneialissimo, is an woman Chinese Americanized who went to Wellesley college. Kai-She- MANILA IN STATE New Fires New fires broke out 300 yards northwest of the Hongkew district police station, inside the Japanese iines, presumably set by Incendiary shells from Chinese batteries to the northwestward. One big fire waq raging north of the Hongkow branch of the big (Continued on page five) OF EMERGENCY THREE FINED MANILA, Aug. 21 l l' -- Presi dent Manuel L. Quezon declared a state of emergency in the Manila area today because of the the situation by precipitated massing of American women and in the city- Children refugees Quezon took his action particularly as a safeguard against and profiteering in foodstuffs rentals. As soon as the decree ordered issued was he city authorities to keep a close check and to prosecute sternly any decrees violators of emergency that might be issued. One big Dollar liner had landed its cargoes of women and children here to be greeted by an earthquake and more liners were on the way. Red Cros3 officials anticipated serious difficulty in handling refugees because they expected the situation at Shanghai to get progressively President worse. Jay P. Gorton of Soda Springs appeared in the city court this morning before Jurge E. M. Wright charged with speeding. Having been arrested by Deputy Sheriff Hyrum Weatherston, he plead guilty to the charge, and was fined $25 or 12 days in jail. Upon payment of the fine, he was released. of Salt William McMurdie Lake City, on a bad check charge, paid the outstanding checks and a $20 fine. From Keith Holbrook was collected $35 in fines on a charge of reckless driving McMurdie and Holbrook were approached yesterday in Satl Laae City on the above charges by Deputy Sheriff Hyrum Weatherston, and by arrangement with Judge Wright, tha adjustments and fines were ail made there. ordered commonwealth authorities to cooperate to the fullest extent with Paul V. McNutt, United States high commissioner, in relief work Quezon also sent a letter to McNutt offering immediate use of the commonwealth's extensive outlay of vacation cottages at the resort of Baguio. Quezon IN CITY COURT Manila also was busy clearing up the debris from yesterdays earthquake which greeted the women and children from the President Jefferson. It was believed that the quake had some connection with the activitiy of the last week m Mt Apo, the highest Philippine peak, four of whose volcanic craters were spouting sulphuious smoke AUTO COLLISION Clarence Rice of Brigham City drove his automobile into one driven by Loy Robinson, Providence, Friday afternoon, resulting in considerable damage to both machines, but no Injuries to oc- cupants to police According Robinson was driving First North when the struck by Rice. Officer vidson investigated the - reports. east on onto was Tom Dacollision. |