| Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING MAY '20 1934 V W t NEWS IN BRIEF: FROM NEAR AND FAR Throughout the State “SOME MOTHER’S SON" HONORED BY WAR MOTHERS’ LEADER - Drouth Relief Projects Are Finally Deer Creek Strikes Snags DrpuU) — AMMUtew- t Launched i Relief Begins 4 f Reclamation I ' Hopes Fade-Wh- eat Pact Dims— Strikes Rampant — UT--T s m il aWMWW — ¥ 4 I t I Golfers Win 4 I RELIEF NIGHTMARE Bolstered with fSOOOOO in federal funds advanced by the -- federal emergency relief administration Utah proceeded to avert the ravages of drouth by applying suma wnere moat needed The dry winter threatens vast destruction of crops and actual human suffering during the expected summer aridity unless the $600000 can save $3600-00- 0 in crop value a feat which it is expected to accomplish Of tha toUl $150000 will go to-ward construction of a Utah lake pumping plant at Pelican point on the west shore where deeper water may bt tapped The plant was ad-- vanced as the ordy saviour for Utah county beets last spring failed for lack of funds may yet be finished in time to do some good Second most important project perhaps is the dredging of a gravity channel to the Strawbarry'reser-vol- r tunnel whereby an additional 19000 acra feet of irrigation water may be made tvailable for farmers la southern Utah county Weber county may benefit through a pumping project to tap water from the Mill creek underground channel leave atream water available for orchards Investigation was authorized for a Uintah basin project to build a canal to tap Sheep creek waters and another project seeks to divert water from Brush creek Into Ashley creek Other projects Motors to equip wells in the Mantua district Cache county Vernon and Harker districts Tooele county In the Rochester Improvements canal Emery county another canal near Boulder Wayne county development of springs in Davis cotin-t- y new wells for the Moroni district funds to clean an abandoned coal mine in Sanpete county whose water may be used to Increase irrigation supplies ? ANNIVERSARY Celebrated in Logan was the golden anniversary of the dedication of the L D S temple there L D S church dignitaries attended the celebration which also drew Although drouth conditions are acute throughout Utah this ear the arid climate of the state makes of water one of the most valuable commodities Water actually is worth its weight in gold in this desert climate long has been considered so In Salt Lake and Utah counties Utah lake has been fondly regarded by all farmers and Industries as a munificent source of supply Each interest therefore has grabbed as much water as possible from the lake until at present more water is appropriated than Is there Hearings af the capitol during the week revealed that water ueers claim a total of 254250 acre feet of water while an optimistic annual 225000 acre feet yieldgives-bu- t Attempts repeatedly "have been” madd to stipulate rights apportion the water available but each time certain users have insisted on their claims threatened to throw the whole matter into the courts for which long and tedious litigation J will bring no water A" solution to the difficulty has been the Deer creek reclamation project which proposes to dam the upper Provo river make available for all time sufficient water to irBut rigators and municipalities Dee creek must be built by government funds and the government will advance nothing until Utah lake rights are solved Lately there has been coupled with Deer creek a Utah lake diking project whereby several 'thousand acre feet are expected to be saved through reducing losses The whole through evaporation project would cost $10000000 and $2700000 P W A funds already have been allocated With the dream almost near reality water users continued to bicker First Utah Copper company insisted upon Its clalmi "caused a ruction which later was settled through a tentative stipulation for yields varying from 225000 to 130000 acre feet With victory In sight another obstacle which threatens to' consign the project to the ash heap waa raised when the Utah and Salt Lake Canal company refused to subscribe to 10000 acre feet ’Of water In the proposed diking project Martin Rasmussen president of the company said his stockholders would subscribe to no water unless the tentative agreement was made but the Utah Copper company pointed out that the present stipulation was based on inadequate information Salt Lake subscribed to 25000 shares each share representing an acre-foo- t on the understanding legislation would be passed perfqittlng cities to hold their rights to water unLL future needs require its use "At present the city has no use for all the 25000 acre-fee- t it would buy Then Governor Henry H Blood entered the squabble oonvlnced canal companies to subscribe to sufficient water to build dikes withdraw demands the stipulation become permanent The governor probably has saved the project folk whose hands toUed in the service of the church to erect the sacred structure 50 years ago Speakers Included President Heber J Grant A W Ivins first counselor in the fyst presidency Rudgsr Clawson president of the council of twelve apostles and Apostles Reed Smoot David O McKay Dr John A Widtsoe Malvin J Ballard and Charles A CaUis Apostle Joseph Fielding Smith offered the opening prayer and Joseph R Shepher president of the Logan temple presided at tjie ceremonies and pronounced the benediction gray-haire- Millard Hickman 45 suspected of the murder of Louise below in Golden Gate park San Francisco Jep-pes- en Disasters WRECK Out of the darkness murky with foe loomed the White Star liner off Nantucket Shoals Olympic bound to New York from Europe The Olympic was guided through d KILLED A sequel to the manacling of" Iron County Sheriff Lewis R Tlfe to a tree In the remote Iron moun- - ’ Nantucket JighUhiprand'mayhsrTt of John N (Jack) wlLn 50 the beam waixuleidal for the Nan-- counterfeiter forger and robber It tucket At any rate the huge Olympic was he said the sheriff who with Daisy Butler overpowered him struck the lightship amidships sent Mrs them on it quickly to the bottom of the ocean as he sought to arrest of wool theft with the loss of seven lives Four —charges - In the easuing' scufrr§“' Wesloh ' of the ship’s crew of H were never was wounded but succeeded with seen again three crushed in the the aid of his fair companion In wreckage died In the Olympic's hosthe aheriff and espital four were rescued by small overpowering caping 'iifhis automobile Then the boats lowered lrom the liner The Olympic was picking her way fugitives began a painful trek tb 9 through the fog along the Grand banks until she came wiihin the ’ r posit- devices- - mart- radio time development used hy the Nantucket to aid navigation Ship’s officers said the Nantucket’s the signals appeared to be fading liner poked her way through the dense fog then came In to clear as to alarm Skipper John W Bings who ordered the ship’s helm turned sharply away from the true course designated by the bf am But the maneuver was too late the Nantucket too near The lightship was crushed like a cockleshell beneath the weight of the liner sent plunging into 30 fathoms of water ion-finding - u 1 i— - DOWNED Forced down In Ireland were the transatlantic fliers Captain George Fond and Lieutenant Cesare Sabelli bound for Rome In their monoplane A broken fuel line forced the pair to land near the coast of -County Clare one of the British Isles' wildest areas The plane ran Into a sand bank damaged Its underpinning The fliers left the Floyd Bennet airfield 32 hours and 6 minutes before they were forced to land the first successful transoceanic fliers of the season They plan to resume their trip after the plane Is repaired rock-boun- d t World Decisive was the victory of American golfers over British rivals in the traditional Walker cup matches played over St Andrews' famed Scottish cotirse where the cup was retained by America tor the eighth successive year Six of the eight singles matches were won by the sub-pa- r shooting Americans with one halved and the other going to Britain’s T A Torrance against Max Marstpn 4 and 3- - The American team headed by Francis Oulmet captured three of four Scotch foursomes on the previous day tourna- ment He downed Big Lester Stoef-fe- n for the second time In the 4 lemlfinaU 64 6 2 In the finals the vet eran George Lott bowed to the brilliant placing of 6-- diminutive Georgian 6 6--4 4--6 6--1 6--3 The state col-leg- e cham-Gran- t plonship was re- tained by the University of Utah when the Ute racqueteers won three of four mitches from U A C ending the season undefeated Later Captain Ross Sutton of the Ute tesm annexed the University smgles championship and the Kerr cup when he defeated Grant Evans title defender in a hardfought match — -- one-fift- h Labor UNREST As the country ‘Jogs along the recovery path labor impatient with results grasping for privileges guaranteed under section 7a of the National Industrial Recovery act continues to hurl spikes into the spokes of Industrial wheels Industrialists have frowped upon the Wagner bill and similar measures and laborers favoring them have resorted d to their bludgeon of strikes Strikes dotted the map of the couptry east and west north and south centered at shipping ports where longshoremen and dock worker 5 insist upon union recogni-tion-'an- d higher wages On the Pacific coast and Gulf ports lence flared and shots punctured the air as strikers turned to rioters to insist upon the privilege of picketing Ports on the Great Lakes also felt the effect of the strike Gunfire also played a part In the Alabama coal fields where labor troubles have been rampant for many weeks Three men were ambushed while en route to Investigate a recent dynamittmg at -- the Acmar mine Disorders also were reported at the Efficient Tool & Die company in Cleveland In other sections striking was more peaceable conducted but toilers deserted their toil nevertheless at the Flint Mich Fisher body plant at meat plants in Des Moines and St Loulsf truck drivers In Miq- - neapolia an St Paulrtextile work-- ” era in Cowpens S C typographers in Evanston 111 But as new strikes began old ones ended as laborers won at least a modicum of their demands Service station attendants returned to pumps In Cleveland glove workers returned to lasts at GloversvlUe N Y milk workers decided not to strike in Akron and Remington-Ran- d employes were reported near agreement with employers at Middletown Conn Syracuse Illon and Norwood N Y oil workers returned to drills in Seminole Okla In Butte copper miners remained away from shafts even going to the extent of refusing to man pumps and maintain hoists during the strike Failure tb do maintenance work causes Almost Irreparable damage to mines and hitherto strikers usually have agreed to grant employers protection to this extent time-honore- - At the tomb of the unknown soldier in Washington monument to the nation’s nameless World war dead War Mothers observance of Mother’s gathered as part of the nation-widay Mrs W E Ochiltree president of the War Mothers places a wreath on the tomb of the nameless hero in Arlington ceme‘ tery de In Salt Lake MODERN Opened for s long term was ths modernization exposition in Salt Lake sponsored by the Salt Lake chamber of commerce and other civic organizations operated by a Aim of the separate corporation exposition is to display latest gad- gets end materials for building Improving and equipping homes ofThree fices and business places homes form a feature of the exhibits The exposition is designed to cooperate with the modernization and housing campaign about to be launched by the federal government Is timed to assist home owners and builders during the construction season Darrow Report Will Be Made PubHc Monday GENEVA— Munitions embargo on Bolivia and Paraguay to end warfare In the Gran Chaco Impends before league of nations With reconvening of disarmament parley a week away brighter outlook prevails foUowlng visit of Maxim Litvinoff Soviet foreign affairs commissar WASHINGTON much controverted delayed - TM Darrow jreport omthe NBA will be published Monday The senate expects to pass reciprocal - tariff bill the house will pass Industrial loans bill Congressional conferees seek agreement on stock control legislation The president will send his silver legislation to congress Agriculture rock-ribbe- d state the old G O P chine dominated by the Vares in Philadelphia the Mellons in Pittsburgh swamped the bid of liberal Governor Gifford Pinchot tor a U S senatorial seat by renominating Sen- e tor David Aiken Reed new deal crltld for the post Republicans rejoiced that the vote indicated a censure for the Roosevelt sdmlnlstra-- lion but just how a Republican vote In a Republican state could reflect popular attitude to a Democratic administration was not made quite - - dear The real new deal teat may appear In the final election when Reed laces Joseph F Guffey Roosevelt leader in If Guffey rune close Pennsylvania to Reed it may indicate Pennsylvanians view the Roosevelt administration at least with respect If he detests the Republican stalwart it will be whopping victory for the forces at Washington CALIFORNIA Since his accession to power as governor of California James Rolph Jr “Sunny Jim" has not enjoyed the favor he did when mayor of San Francisco In fact Sunny Jim’s days have frequently been marred with cloud! Some charged mistakes of Rolph Include hie use of the gubernatorial pardoning power for political purposes his condonation of the ' Sen Jose lynchlngs his veto of the pari mutuel betting law at horse fact! which subsequently passed through referendum his opposition to ths Income tax in favor of a salea - WHEAT nations Wheat-producin- g of the world have wrestled for year now with tha problem of surpluses had ' almost reached an agreement to guar- SCHOOLS ante a minimum export price 10 Thi Utah school system came In per cent above the prevailing world for considerable attention at ths an- price when Argentina - through nual meeting of the Utah Academy Thomas A Le Breton balked scuttled the proposaL Argentina faces of Sciences Arts and Letters and a heavy crop fears she would lose a paper by Dr Amos N Merrill of by a minimum price agreement couBrigham Young university urging pled with export restriction! But ths weather may have done modernization of school administras no number of International what Mertion drew the spotlight ference Fierce achieve rill correctly observes that condidrouths have vistions have changed sine the 40 ited the United stats school districts were created States Canada tax Thtse acts coupled With an administration sssertedly marked by extravagance and mismanagement have plunged Rolph into disrepute Ill health therefore gave Sunny Jim a marvelous excuse not to seek He announced he had "reached reluctantly" his decision not to run again for governor a poet to which Californians seldom are reelected anyway con-Dr- In 1905 wisely concludes modem transportation facilities enable their consolidation into seven dls- tricts at a substantial saving in administrative costs Principal J C Mofflt of Provo high school delivered another blow at the school report card system a System which long has been subject to attack He reported results of a survey showed a class evenly divided between tha d sexes revealed 44 per cent A's among girls but 06 per cent A's for boys Achievements tests revealed the two sexes were on par the principal said FRAUD Found guilty on all eight counts of fraud charges was Hal Andrews statistician self-style- charged by the government with bilking Investors on bogus mining stock The technical charge wu use of the mails in furtherance of a scheme to defraud Evidence Indicated Andrews used telephone e calls wide- ly to peddle Cedar Extension stock which he sold between 20 and 30 cents a share on the untrue promises that an eastern company bad deposited sufficient funds in local banks to purchase outstanding shares at $1 within a few months AMUCK Crazed with dope Fong Joe b2 suspected Chinese peddler rtn amuck through Salt Lake’s China-tow- n shot at three of his countrymen critically wounded one and killed himself with a bullet through the head -- and Europe to rethreatening duce the drastically xfop Spec-ulato- with " wary eyes on the weather b e gan slowly to boost i f IR U 14 WISCONSIN - In Wisconsin where the liberal La Follette! founded by tha late e doughty warrion Robert M La long have dominated the state politics has taken a peculiar turn wheat price!1 Shorts began to seU accept losses On the Chicago -- Fol-lett- The La Follette wing of the Republican party wu ousted In the last primaries and Robert M La Follette Jr able eon of an able father Is out Breton of tune with the Republican old cents above ' April’s low 8 cents above the preguard But the La Follettes are reluctant- vious week Dust clouds visited the middle west adding to damsge-ai-t- o desert old party ties to such an extent that they will enter Demo-ready caused by lack of moisture Farmers refraining from planting crstlc folds Therefore the Wiscongrain and U S department of ag- sin senator expects to emulate hi riculture officials estimated that each hie own state his father’s practice successive day of drouth and dust renationally and seek reelectlon as a duced the 1934 wheat crop two mil- - Progressive Under this banner he lion bushels should be assured a meuure of White But Secretary of Agriculture 'House support since La Henry A Wallace views with slight Follette end the president see eye favor the tendency at wheat con- to eye on many Issues ferees to trust to the Weather to solve difficulties which in no way will aid PORTLAND the bulk of farmers With the mini-Conservative Portland Ore views mum price agreement ebandoned-h- e with askance the semiloose practices threatened to dump U S sur- of dance hell girls and chorines seeks pluses on the world market enter to restrain their alleged Immoral acts the international arena in a battle-f- or-- by ordinance— Therefor! the city market! The force of the A A commissioners passed an ordiA would prove mighty in any nance “necessary for the Immediate world-wid- e competition end preservation of public health peace nations expect to agree and ufety of the city” at subsequent meetings naxt month The ordinance prescribes that “no floor sntertalner shall bs permitted to in any way come in physical conSUGAR tact with any patron” Hereafter ' Beet growers who united to opcomely entertainers who slip into the laps of tired business men permit pose encroachments on the domestic market by ineular sugar growers embraces by flattered male custombill pended er! or lounge alluringly at tables when the In congress have split into two di- will be violating a law designed to vergent groups over allocation of the forestall “a decadence in social and 1550000 domes tie beet quota The moral behavior" quota forces a reduction of 1174 per t w pit July ' wheat rose to 91 4 cents a bushel 18 V 'J wheat-producin- g -- Jonee-Costlga- n LABOR TROUBLES UPSET APPLECART IN CHICAGO ANGLERS Fishermen flocked to lakes and streams during the week which saw the 1934 season open in most parts of Utah Low clear streams awaited the rod and reelmen led to predictions that fly fishing would be favored But fish grabbed more ravenously at bait and bait fishermen reported the best luck The Provo yielded few trout on the opening day but fairer fishing was reported at other spots A rich harvest was pulled from Salt Lake county 7 — NEW YORlt cent ’ n The track team of Pay-so- n high school captured the state tournament at the University of Utah stadium up 32 points Of the team Paul McBeth won the 22Q low hurdles Boyd McKean won the discus throw Howard Bellows won the dash Bill Wilkin of Springville estab- lished a new state record in the shot put by heaving the ball 48 feet 11 inches LeMtr Fullmer of Spanish Fork broke the state reo- high v ®rl F coursing the g 1929-193- 3 100-yar- 7-- 8 120-yar- Merton Wilcox (left' clutches theleg of a hammer wielder in a north side Chicago riot over control of the teamsters’ union The blow In the affray a rendered Wilcox senseless market display was overturned and vegetables rolled upon the sidewalk before the rueful eyes of the owner and Walter Troyoo with cap was arrested - M M When Tammany Hall convicted A formula to allocate thrquota was listened to favorably by AAA Leader John F Curry of the high poofficial! much to tha irritation of litical crime of being defeated at tha western grower! who product 87 per polls broke precedent by ousting cent of the continent's sugar beets him from his post it wu rumored The formula sssertedly wu selflsh- - the Wstorio machine of corruption wu due for a new deal But the ly proposed by growers in Michigan Indiana Ohio and Wisconsin ‘Tammany old guard demonstrated 1933-3Under it the production its affectlveneu when William P chairman of the Wigwould be used u a bue of allocation Kenneally In that year eastern growers en- wam’s executive committee wu It joyed a bountiful yield Western named temporary successor to the U men insist that tha formula suggest- deposed Curry a surprise “stop gap” (4 ed if applied will permit eastern leader Curry was deles ted largely growers to Increase their aerugo while western farmers would be through the efforts 1 of Edward J Ah earn who was prominently menforced to bear the entire burden reduction tioned U the defacto it not' the de jura leader of the Gotham DemIn place of the eastern formula westerners have proposed the quota ocratic machine But the selection be allocated upon an average yield of --Kenneally may mean tha ulti wherein a more' mate defeat of Ahearn during equitable apportionment could be ‘ M ACTRESS UPHELD' reached Won by Cinemactress Mary Astor wu a suit lodged against her by LIBERTY UNTOUCHED her parent! Mr and Mrs Otto -Twenty-fou- r years ago there ea- Langhanke who charged her with tailing to support them Subsequent caped from Leavenworth penitenFrank evidence revealed the actress failed tiary a (nail robber named Grigwara He changed his nme to to Support her parents in the stylo James Lawrence Fahey settled in to which they had become accus-Edmonton Alberta Canada became tamed— maintaining them in a $200-00- 0 a substantial citizen his put apparmansion— but had been and 1 willing to contribute smaller su ently burled Royal Canadian Mountain Police to their support - N exhumed his put when Fahey wu SOCIAL LEADER DIES fingerprinted after an automobile accident The prints revealed his Td a paralytic stroke succumbed identity threatened to return him Lila Sherrard Walker wife of to jail But freedom wu guaranCharles A Walker former dry goods teed when U S Attorney General executive in Santa Maria CaU Homer S Cummings advised jus- where she had made her home tor tice department operatives to drop the put two year! Prior to that extradition proceedings permit the time she had been a Salt Lake social - leadersr fugitive to enjoy his liberty t t 4 streams FALL FATAL Of an apparent fall died Eugene B Palmer former Salt Lake Investment banker and newspaper man near Washington Nevada county Palmer was interested h California in t mine near the scene of the fatal accident wandered away from his brother LeRoy Palmer mining enHe had gineer and disappeared been sought a week before the body wu found He apparently hid tumbled from a trestle which broke under bis weight PENNSYLVANIA In Pennsylvania - five-ma- Next to the classic Kentucky derby the Pimlico Preakness marks the outstanding feature of the sailed Bartsch Von Sigsfield GerAmerican turf and at the Maryland many's largest balloon piloted by track the Brookftieade Stable entries Dr Hermann Victor Masuch and Of Mrs Isabel Dodge Sloane proved Martin Schrenk students of the up- its auperiorlty over five fleet Amerper regions As the balloon tailed ican colts 'Die reap was a duel beaway above Bitterleld It was the last tween Mrs Sloane’s High Quest and time the students were seen alive her Cavalcade winner of the derby Their bodies and the wrecked bal- - High 'Quest won the race by a nose loon were found a few miles east of in the fast time of 1:68 the Polish border and tha Reich gov- - of a second off the track record four- ernment ordered an investigation in- - fifths of a second faster than the to the tragedy A defective oxygen record Preaknesa time of Coventry supply vitally necessary to sustains In 1925 life In the stratosphere was attrib- uted as the pause ofihe fatal mishap TRAPSHOOTING- G L Becker of Ogdett won the PRIZE WINNER ELEVATED - feature prize of the Utah Pacific In- -' Named to hud socialite Williams ternational Trapshooting tournacollege u president wu Dr Tyler ment at Salt Lake's municipal traps Dennett Princeton professor and and H S Mills of Salt Lflte won Pulitzer prize winner He won thq thd handicap by breaking 97 out of 100 ejay pigeons Pulitzer award hf 1934 for his biogBecker won the raphy of John Hyv Dr Dennett singles meet with a score of 193 succeeds Dr Harry A Garfield son The doubles wu won by E L Ford of the assassinated President Garof Ogden who wu one target befield Who hu resigned hind (he yeteran Becker ! Morals TRACK HORSES 5 4 ' Georgia's tennis are Bryon “Bit-ay- ” Grant dubbed the “giant killer" continued bis phenomenal playing at Memphis in the University club’s Dixie invi- BREATHLESS Into the ’air stratospheric bound d strip ranch of George Weston The wounded man died en "route was buried by Mrs George Weston and Mrs Butler in a crude grave later uncovered by pursuing officers who have charged Mrs Butler with assault to murder the- Arizona GOLF 6--1 Aviation S TENNIS 5--7 j — - i Withdrawal st Ii) the Sporting tation Vote |
