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Show The The Weather tonight and SaturWarmer tonight. UTAH-F- day. air Volume 29. Ad LOGAN, UTAH, Independent Newspaper Number 41. HeraldJwjLJLJL al F 11 1 1) A Y, FEB UAKY K Tor IS, 19 :i S. People Think! Grain Range Open High Low Close 94 94 U, 92 92 89 88 904. 88 89 88 90 88 Wheat: May July Sept Price Five Cents Who EXAS TORNADO TAKES HEAVY TOLL I Life Ends Just Bubbles! Only Bubbles! McNutt Flies to Confer With! F.Ik LIFE LOSS THREATENS ESTIMATED NEW SCANDAL Bitterness Fills Hearts of Loyal Austrian Secret Committee Investigates Utah State Group BY IX)I iS F. KF.EMLE United Pres Cable Editor Despairing any tangible help from Great Britain and France, Austrian leaders sought means today to salvage what independence and self respect they could from Adolph Hitler's Nazi invasion. Chancellor Kurt Schuschmgg, forced to bow to Hitler's present demands, hoped to preserve a large measure of internal independence, believing that if Austria allows Hitler to dictate her internal affairs they will get along without too much interference. The present occupants of the Vienna's historic Ballhausplatz, d romance of Princess Vaishma Genee, rapid-fir- e Indian princess and the granddaughter of the Maharajah of Kapur-thalIndia, ended in a Salt Lake City jail when it became known that she was a well known negro adventuress who had lived an in Oakland, Cal. interesting' and glamorous life since she was Private Willium Withrow of the U. S. army, stationed at Fort Dougromance. las, became engaged to the princess" after a two-da- y The self-style- a, bitexperienced terness and humiliation equal to that which its masters inflicted on Serbia 24 years ago by the ultimatum which started the World war. In 1914, the leader of the proud dual monarchy replied with ail inexorable "too late when King office, Peters government offered Scyss-In-quar- t, o , Merry-Go-Roun- d, 4 grand-childre- n, n. nt : four-by-fo- INSURANCE MEET SET IN CHICAGO The annual convention of the state Farm Mutuirt Insurance com-- , pany wHl be held in Chicago Feb23 and 24 at the Hotel Stevens, it was announced through the company Friday. All agents writing their quota are to be given a free trip to the convention. Among those who will receive the trip is W. G. Clark, ruary manager of the Clark Insurnace . , ; agency. He will leave Monday and expects to be gone ten days. WANTS KEtTHiNITION LONDON, Feb. 18 il.li Italy was reliably reported today to have demanded British recognition of the Italian empire in Ethiopia bc-- fore discussing the Austrian or other European problems. r, ' J $ r IN DISTRESS MANILA, P. I., Feb. 19 U Pi (Saturday) - Radio Corporation of America today intercepted a radio message reporting the Steamship Vogcssen had a collision in Moji harbor 'and was drifting, in danger of sinking, east of Shumonoseki, Japan. Maybe Izzy Is Now Telling His Latest Story Elsewhere NEW YORK, Feb. 18 UPi Izzy Einstein, the "man of a thousand disguises, who was known throughout the country as Prohibition Agent No. 1," will be buried today in Mount Zion cemetery. The former federal agent, who provided daily comic relief for prohibition enforcement from 1920 through 1928, died yesterday. He is survived by his widow and four sons. To the government, Einstein was Isadore Einstein whose salary was $3,600 a year. To the public, was Izzy, a short, fat man who had a different disguise for every day, and who counted his victims at more than 4,900 when ho retired with his partner, Moe Smith, to enter the insurance business. Izzy called his method the Einstein theory of rum " It was his cus snooping tom to enter a speakeasy, lean over the bur and whisper to the bartender: "Have you heard the latest story?" the bartender would No, Go haead." reply. Youre pinched," Izzy would whisper. Izzy posed on various occasions as an opera singer, college student in plus fours, street cleaner, street car conductor, Polish laborer, Ger- man Immigrant, fiddler, grave digger, farmer, iceman, fisherman, and football player. Once he disguised 10 fellow-agen- ts as a football team, smeared mud on their faces and led them Into a big speakeasy near a football field. "Seasons over; we can drink," Izzy shouted. Whereupon the drinks arrived and another bartender heard the latest story. , Search For Bodies of Dead Departments In Debris SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 18 til') - Mayor J. Bracken Lee of Price, conducting a private investigation of a r.ubiber of state departments and asking a grand jury investigation, said today he may have sufficient evidence by Monday to RODESSA, La., Feb. 18 UJ! Danger of explosion from a Wild gas well subsided today when a from this oil boom town which shifting wnid lew fumes away was swept by a tornado last night which killed more than a score of persons and injured more than 100 ttart impeachment proceedings Against "two high rankings state Officials." Gross negligence and failure to perform their duties as prescribed by law would be the basis for the Mayor impeachment proceedings. Lee said. Judge Lowe Dies After Long Illness others. Grimy, workers labored skies. the wreckage Occasionally the f would extract a body from the twisted metal and other debris. In funeral homes at Atlanta, Tr x., and in Shreveport, La, were 2C bodies, most of tnem identified. Estimate 30 Dead officers in National guard charge of the area estimated that the death toll would be 30, possibly as high as 50. The tornado struck with the suddenness of a lightning bolt at 9:45 p. ra. OST yesterday and with a roar like that of a crashing Withholds Identity , leaden und;r oil field In Rufusinpr for the present to the identity of the two officials, the mayor said he may announce their names Monday to a Prominent Cache Valley Jurist group of volunteers who have offered him both financial and Dies Al Ripe Age moral support in his investigation. of 86 A "secret six" commit- uation will be between President Roosevelt and Paul V. McNutt, high comtee. five from Salt Lake City and missioner of the Philippine Commonwealth, who flew to America to report Judge Thomas Galloway Lowe, one from Ogden, gave Mayor Lee after a visit to American officials In China. He is shown landing from a It demolished Supply ' 86, a prominent resident of Cache his first financial support for the Clipper at Alameda, Calif. the section of sprawling Row, this number has but investigation, resiValley for many years and a metal sheet containing buildings now been enlarged considerably oil field supplies. It skipped over dent of Logan for the past 31 years, by volunteers from throughout the street and then dipbusiness the passed awav Thursday night at his state, the mayor said. ped again, wiping out the squad homo, 426 North Main street. His Investigate Transcript and farm residential shacks Two of the mayor's special inwife, Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Purnell homes. 1937 Lowe died last summer. were legisDerricks Tumble vestigators reading Steel derricks were ripped from transcript at the Judge Lowe was born April 11, lative committeeand all "evidence their moorings and a big gas 185i, at Kirkcoldy, Scotland, a son capitol today well at the outskirts of the town of Thomas and Eliza Gtalloway they secure will be submitted to Editors Note; N. P. Hancalled the for of 5,000 roared out of control as April Lowe. He came to the United States grand jury ner, owner of the funeral was steel Its in 1859 and settled in Franklin in to investigate the Salt Lake City home at Atlanta, Tex, was superstructure blown away like a paper box. municipal scandal that entails an last night in Rodessa, the spring of 1862. visiting system between La., and left there in his autoThroughout the night it sent In 1907 Judge Lowe moved to Lo- assertedand payoff"underworld. the clouds of heavy wet gae over the police mobile, driving back to Atgan where he had resided since. - Declaring himself "satisfied for town. A spark might have Ignited five minutes before a lanta, He is survived by the following time-beiwith the grand the gas that hung In the low tornado struck. He sped back sons and daughters: Mrs. Louise tie summons, Mayor Lee pointed to the town to aid in rescue places and between the re mala log Poult er, Mrs. Fay Neeley, Mrs. jury NEW YORK, Feb. 18 the jury has the work. Today, 10 of the dead buildings. This menace disappear- Nora Hansen and Urea P. Lowe, out yesterday funeral whose vagaries have ed, however, when a stiff breeze were in Hanners power to investigate all branches Logan; Janies Lowe and Mrs. Vera of state government. home. He gave the United baffled scientists, are especially arose during the morning. Minter, Ogden, and Mathias and Toll May Increase Press the following description Scrutinize Seven Departments Moroni Lowe and Mrs. Isabell Anfrequent in the Mississippi basin, Nationali guardsmen from Comof the stricken town. Seven state departments the derson, Grace, Idaho; 38 grandchilin the spring pany B, 15th Infantry, Shrevenormally occurring and present liquor control commission, dren, 29 and early summer. BY N. P. HAN NEK port, patrolled the twon. Comthe following brothers and sisters: the state bank department, the are United Tornadoes Press As Told to the accompanied by a munication lines were down. The John A. and Joseph H. Lowe, road commission, old public serfunnel-shape- d 18 (l'.l!i mass Feb. depending dead were sent to funeral homes ATLANTA, Tex., Franklin; Mrs. Sanfh Faulkner, vice commission, board of loan above and in nearby towns and the Injured left Rodessa in my from a storm-clou- d had Ogden, and Mrs. Katherine Kigby, commission, old liquor commission Icar andjust the to outside earth. were given first aid treatment in was downward the barely tapering and the old land board have been Hooper. A tornado advances from 20 to 50 small when I saw the stoimadjacent villages. Those Funeral services will be held Sun- objects of Mayor Lees investiga- town At first I noticed heavy clouds, miles an hour, but the air in its seriously hurt were sent 35 miles tion. 2 m. in Ninth at the p. Logan day To this list today he added the lightning and strong winds. Then vortex may revolve 400 to 500 to Shreveport hospital. ward chapel with interment in the Chief Deputy Sheriff W. T. I saw the twister miles an hour, strewing its path purchasing department, in the distance Logan cemetery under the direction Prudenhomme said that the death which he declared might be in- coming down in a funnel shape with wreckage. of he Lindquist mortuary. Dead sheep have been found toll might reach 50. He believed through the black cloud. Fr.cnds may call at the Lowe res- vestigated. It was focused along a path shorn of their wool to the bare that more than 100 had been inThe mayor said he will meet idence Saturday afternoon and evewide, where skin by the force of the wind. about a quarter-mil- e jured but the exact casualty list ning and Sunday until time of ser- here Monday with his supporters it was sweeping away everything, The worst tornado in recent may never be known- to inform them of the investigavices. four-mile along a years was in March, 1925. That Attempts at identification were tions progress and at the same and on bothit sides, was causing great one swept over Illinois, Indiana, most difficult. For instance, the strip, time to discuss the possible imand Ken- decapitated body of Mrs. Alice Missouri, Tennessee peachment proceedings with them. damage. There wasn't any warning for tucky, killing more than 800 per- Clark was in a Shreveport morHe returned to Price. before the people in Roucssa, and sons and injuring almost 3,000. tuary. A womans skull, tentatively Meanwhile, Attorney-Generrealized what happened it In March, 1932, a tornado struck identified as that of Mrs. Clark they also under fire by had passed on. Chez, Alabama, Georgia, Tenness s, Ken- was at Atlanta, Tex. Mayor Lee, announced he would cloud dipped down several tucky and South Carolina, killing The Huge Damage due consideration" to the times, give An area two miles long and a hitting here and there, and approximately 275 rr.en. down came it time H. Parley Kilburn, principal of possible appointment of special it swept of a mile wide was devasevery Tornadoes struck six southern quarter inthe ground clean. the Woodruff school and first prosecutors for the grand jury states early tn April, 1936, killing tated by the storm. It extended to Along the roads, as I hurried more than 400. Gainesville, Ga., within a block of the main business president of the Logan junior vestigation. These appointments would be back to town, there were steel and Tupelo, Miss., alone counted corner and back along the rambling schamber of commerce, has been made ratifcation the with Chez, oil derricks, twisted and fallen in their dead at over 300. notified of his selection to the of thebystate board of colony of supply houses and car-to- p heaps. I saw large warehouses and shotgun tornadoes have never speakers bureau of the education composed by Governor examiners, Oddly, type shacks H. Henry made of sheet metal turned over struck the committee of the United States Blood and district of where oil field families lived. skyscraper E. E. of State Secretary on their sides. There was a large a big city. Should one do so, the Amid the ruins of these shacks, junior chamber of commerce in a Monson and the attorney general. oil truck in the highway almost letter from Marvin Hurley of toll of life and property probably men had woked all night, mostly bent in two. St. Louis, executive secretary of would be immense. Several in darkness, carrying out dead and I ran toward a wrecked house cities, including Chicago and big the national organization. St. injured, who were loaded in trucks, of name where a family by the The speakers' bureau has been RICHMOND Louis, have been visited by tor- cars and the few available ambuCrowder lived. Their heavy sedan nadoes that have providentially selected for participation in a lances and takeu to tho town of out been of blown had the garnational program of economic eduaway from their business Vivian, La., and Atlanta, Tex, each kept 70 u was and feet age away, lying cation and will work under districts. about 10 miles away, and to Shrevemass of twisted metal. That famL. Boeck, Fort Worth, Texas, port, the nearest large city, 35 miles died the home wheii collapsed. ily chairman of the national education south. wind blew a The from derrick committee. In a letter accompanyA driving rain that accompanied 62, a Caroline Lawrence Rodessa-Atlant- a Thompson, well beside the gas Mr. the tornado at 9:45 p. m. continued ing that of Mr. Hurleys, wife of Walter G. Thompson of road ran and the gas Mr. Kilburn that Boeck notified all night and increased the hardRichmond, died Thursday at 6 30 wild. Traffic had to be detoured regional conferences outlining the p. m. in the local of down a ships of the rescue work. hospital side road. muddy held be will of the bureau work Explosion Threatens complications following an operIt's impossible to say how many in the near future. Then the peril of an explosion ation performed last Friday night. dead there are in the section I arose. The well, owned by the Mrs. Thompson was a daughter think many probably were killed Standard Oil company, emitted of Elisha R. and Mary Ann Rat- and thpir bodies were covered by X. BY COPELAND W. fumes that were very noticeable liff Lawrence and was born in debris so that it may take sevPreston, Idaho May 24, 1875. She eral days to account for them United Press Staff Correspondence in all parts of town. State police BUENOS AIRES. married Mr. Thompson March 7, all. Argentina, surrounded the vicinity, turned 1900 in the Logan temple. For Feb. (UP) Five giant United States back automobiles and took every two years they made their home army planes known as "Flying precaution against an explosion in Downey, being among the early Fortresses" roared across the that they feared might destroy Andes and the Argentine pampas what was left of the town. Word has been received in Lo- settlers of that section. They then moved to Whitney, where they A tentative and unofficial list today and landed at this capital, gan of the sudden death at Hurri- lived for the for 15 years and cane of Neils Sandberg, 87, father completing a 5,300 mile flight from compiled by the United Press show22 in resided Miami, including a six hour stop ed 25 persons known dzad. Others of Mrs. Eugene F. Stewart of past years have The first of the silver squadron were missing or umeported, and Logan and well known as a Richmond. Mrs. Thompson was the mother came down at the El Palomar rescue workers had not reached tho Having been to presented worker at the Logan temple. students Thursday evening airdrome at 1:10 p. m. (11:10 a. m. more remote areas where the torMr. Sandberg spent the sum- of eight children, all of whom of the junior and senior high mer of 1937 doing ordinance work with her husband survive her. est.) This was 34 hours and 15 nado struck during a rainstorm Maid of the Mill, schools, Thq children are Mrs. Ray Aibis-tominutes after the departure from without warning. in the Logan temple. light operetta produced by the Tears Up Houses He Is survived by the followBerkeley, Calif ; Pauline Miami, including a sixhour stop music departments of the LoThe storm came while the oil at Lima, Peru. ing children: Bishop Neils Sand- Thompson, San Francisco; Walter digan Junior high under the A huge throng was at the air- town was drowsing between shifts berg, Jr., Salt Iake City; Chaun-ce- y Iver Thompson, Mrs Paul Thain, rection of Thiin C arlisle, will port, including high officials and of workers. Two hours later It Sandberg, Hurricane; Attorney Los Angeles; Mrs. Willis Billion, lie played tonight for the genE. J- Snadberg of the dapertment Fontcila Thompson, Mrs. William representatives of tho American would have caught hundreds of eral public hi the school audiD. C.; Newbold and Mrs. Don Van of justice, Washington, embassy, to greet the fliers, who men gathered around their headtorium, beginning promptly at all of Richmond. came here in connection with the quarters In supply row, where Professor Merrill Sandberg. Provo; Eight 8:15. Mrs. Mack Fitzgerald, Draper; grandchildren and the following cloud first swooped Inaugural ceremonies of President the funnel-lik- e Last uan night's performance Mrs. Eugene F. Stewart, Logan, sisters and brothers survive; Mrs. Elect Roberto M. Ortiz next Sun- down and wrecked its worst havoc. or with a William O. Thompson, greeted good deal and Miss Josephine Sandberg, Salt Downey; Then, midnight crews were to reday. enthusiasm and favorable comMrs. Alfred Ljungman, Richmond; Lake City. The sixth plane of the squadron lieve the first watch that started ment. Orson the and and .Will Lawrence Tonight Funeral services will be held general was delayed in Lima by propellor at 4 p. m. Mrs. Ruth Feltman, Richmond; public Is invited to attend, at St George. The twister hit the south end of trouble, but Major Vincent J. Me-lowith admission price having Elisha, Henry, Francis, Hartwell, commander of the ship, radi- the one paved street around which been set at fifteen cents. Uriel There and Orkr Vane, POST Lawrence, RESIGNS oed that at 10 a. m. EST he was the town is built. It tore up three arc no reserved seats. Mrs. Myrtle Bedgood and Mrs. l'i Feb. 18 WASHINGTON, about 775 miles southeast of Lima. blocks of closely set warehouses in Sha-ikDelva California. to all of P. tendered one swoop, then bounced along toKennedy Joseph Funeral services will be heid NEAR ICE CAMP President Roosevelt today his resigRIGHT TO STRIKE ward the main part of town. nation from the chairmanship of Sunday at 2 p. m. in the Benson lee MOSCOW, Fob. 18 (IJb-T- l.e Some of the warehouses had bees Feb. 18 (1U!I WASHINGTON, the federal maritime commission stake tabernacle, with the Rich- breaker Murman radioed tonight Chairman Elbert D. Thomas of the inhabited by indigents and watchin that it had reached the thick ice senate education and labor commit- men were on duty tn all of them. to become U. S. ambassador to the mond South ward bishopric on which four members of the So- tee today said he will insert a procourt of St. James and warnel at chargeLeaves Town interment will be in the Rich- viet North Pole expedition were vision the same time that labor relationin amendments to the merthe 'tornado Moving northward, ships must be stabilized if Ameri- mond cemetery under the direc- adrift off the eastern Greenland chant marine act affirming the struck next along a mile end a tion of the Hendricks mortuary. coast. can shipping is to survive. of seamen to strike. (Continued on g dis-olo- air-pla- addi- tional concessions In this case, Now its all over. Nothing but bubbles! Hitler accepted the additional concessions which Schuschnigg made through Dr. Arthur Von his new Nazi monitor, on a i hurried trip to Berlin. In contrast to 1914, violence was ' thus averted and peace between the two German nations and possibly the peace of Europe and the world was established at the cost Princess Vaishma Genee, of Austria's surrender. Indian mystery princess, The situation was summed up in Tfie who has kept Salt Lake City agog a Vienna dispatch from Ferdinand for several nays is negro girl C. M. Jahn, United Press correswith a criminal record, Salt Lake pondent in Vienna, with the expolice suid today. pression: The "princess", who first crashAustrians felt today like a ed the headlines by announcing patient who had undergone an opshe would wed a Fort Douglas eration which gave him a new Drew Pearson soldier so that her son could enter lease on life, although it someWest Point (she has no son yet), what restricted the use of his and is now at home in the Salt Lake limbs". RobertS. Allen City jail, after a career of imposing on f.rst class hotels with her claims to royalty. The name PRESTON WOMAN entered on the police books is Mrs. J- G. Davis," which police claim is just one of the names DIES AT HOME used by the dusky adventuress. Records of the womans activities forwarded to Salt Lake ofSERIFS BRASS KING Mrs. Ann Harris, 84, of Preston, ficers from Oakland reveal that died late TO ANALYZE CABINET Wednesday at her home Whit-tie- r, 1934 in at was arrested she of on North State street. Senator Bob LaFollette on two Cal., felony charges to remarked once Wisconsin She was born at Kaysville, Utah, and was sentenced to serve one December Roosevelt: 20, 1853, a daughter of 14 years in the Tehachapi pristo the have Mr. President, you Susan and Lewis Whitesides of was on in California. It adreported of any lousiest cabinet She married Mr. Harshe owed hotel bills amounting to Kaysville. ministration in history. ris May 28, 1869. They moved to around $50,000 and had something The in in 1877 where they helped Beginning shortly worked her royal gag at some Fairview to build up the community, being Washington of nution. of the best hotels the Drew Pearson and Robert S. The princess has reiterated her active in church work there. Thirtake apart the Allen will were born to the blood claims to and her teen children royal cabinet and tell Roosevelt seven of whom survive. couple, soldier Fort sweetheart, Douglass whats right or wrong about it would rather not talk about it at They are, Mrs. Susan Ann Taylor, Watch for the brass ring soon and Mrs. Esther E. Monson, both present. to be handed to Secretary of of Preston Mrs. Mary E. Jones, State Cordell Hull. and Mrs. Laura Beckstead of Ogden: Jabez M. Harris, Blackfoot, IS MAN PARADISE WASHINGTON Key Pittman of Idaho; Mrs. Ella Suttles of Los Vegas, Nev.; and Mrs. Myrtle Tel 'Nevada .may take the Senate Mrs. Harris of 'Lewiston. .floor as a matter of personal INJURED BY BULL ford, Lualso raised two privilege to deny this, but it has cille Eskclson and Edward Davis. .just leaked outhis that heandoffered Also surviving her are 66 grandbitter long to compromise Orville L. Lee, former bishop and 125 fight against the confirmationSec-of prominent resident of Paradise, is children. and 10 ,E. .K Burlew as Assistant be well on the road The following brothers and sisreported to retary of the Interior. of what to recovery at a local hospital ters of Mrs. Harris also survive: To get the full picture in received from injuries Mark Whitesides, William White-side- s, early this means, remember that the the week when he was gored by a Edward Whitesides, all of Nevada Senator has been waging one of the most vitriolic battles bull on his farm at Paradise. Layton, Utah; John Whitesides of . in recent Senate history against Bishop Lee suffered several broken Burley, Mrs. Nancy Freer of Bur ribs, a spine injury and slight ley and Mrs. Mary Wiggle of Lay-toa man who has been in govern-f'meservice for 27 years and inte'I'! injuries. Attending phyFuneral arrangements have not Who enjoys a record for strait-- - sicians report this condition to be been made yet. greatly improved. laced efficiency.. 4 According to reports, Bishop Lee Pittman, however, has objected NEW ATTACKS to rounding out Burlews career was backed up to a fence post and might easily have Feb. 18 if.l!l WASHINGTON, ; by promotion to one of the key been killed by the enraged bull Lester P. Barlow, first man to do in the Intel ior Department, . posts a firm grasp on air bombing in the world war, told , and for nearly six weeks has had he not had sat in the Public Lands Corn'- the ring in the animals nose. the house naval affairs committee He held on to the ring, warding today that a new type of "blanket s (Continued On Page 5) off the rushes of the bull as best aerial attack soon will be developed he could until assistance arrived. against warships. Princess Now Holds Court In Salt Lakes Best Jail Rescuers ' of foreign SO Al ABOUT trans-Paclf- lc Eye Witness Tells How Twister Struck Texas Town Tornadoes Are Frequent In South - ng does, - state GROUP HONORS . th PARLEY KILBURN WOMAN Al-vo- DIES IN LOGAN Flying Fortresses Reach! Argentina NEILS SANDBERG PASSES AWAY Junior High Musical Presented Tonight Or-de- y, (1 right Page I |