Show - The Weather UTAH— Fair Friday Sat- - warmer urday IDAHO— Light enow WYOMING— Generally fair Detailed Report on Page IS Imsd every morning JCntmO at the poetofflre at Salt Lake City as aeaood daaa matter under act ot Merck a 187ft VOL 134 NO 100 SALT Labor Bonds Bills Approved By Utah House Land Problem Vital One Utah Farmers Told Measure Would Widen Law on Compensation for Workers in State Talks at S L Meeting Place Emphasis Upon Need of Conservation Goes to Senate President New Act Would Extend Public Money The Utah house of representatives started earnestly on its legislative program Thursday giving final approval to two Important bills and sending them on to the senate for Its consideration One of the measures passed would liberalize workmen’s compensation payments and the other would give public bodies six years instead of one to commence actions against officials for malfeasance or nonfeasance In office Both were passed without a dissenting vote The first is a labor measure and if the house action on it is any indication of sentiment in that body it can be premeasdicted that ures will have an easier time in this session than in most previous legislatures Revision Measure The senate spent the day dehat ing the old age pension measure and a bill to establish a legislative reference bureau Its positive ao complishments included: (1) Amendment of the old age pension bill to delete the opening paragraph which would have com' mitted the state to a policy of n couraglng persons to retire and apply for pensions at the age of 69 (2) Passage of the pension hill to the third reading calendar with' out a dissenting vote Bureau Bill (3) —Passage of the legislative reference bureau bill to the third reading calendar by a vote of 11 to 12 (4) Receipt of six new bills in cluding one from Senate President Herbert B Maw to require that utilities use the same valuation for rate making and tax assessment Truce in Auto Strike Left to Nation’s Chief Head Declares lie Will Answer Call to Washington Parley G M C WASHINGTON Jan 21 CD-Ge- peace Alfred P Sloan Jr company president told reporters that he was leaving the capital where labor department officials had sought to induce both sides to negotiate for settlement of the strike He said however that “any time the president sends for us we’ll be there” ed quested It When asked to what General Motors particularly objected In Lewis’ statement Sloan made an answer and then withdrew it as “off the record” John Thomas Smith company counsel then said that "it was plain from Mr Lewis’ statement it was impossible to get the men out of the seized plants” (Some of the plants are occupied by strikers) Sloan said the corporation would “sit-dow- n” Maine GOP Chiefs Visit White House ' - - “ WASHINGTON 21 Jan (INS)— Republican Governor Lewis O Barrows of Maine Thursday Jed Republican Sent ators Frederick Hale and Wallace White and Republican Congressmen James C Oliver Clyde H Smith and Ralph O Brewster to the White House The visit he said upon leav- Ing Was for the purpose of "paying respects" to Democratic President Roosevelt who failed to carry Maine and Vermont White House reporters had a suspicion the Maine delegation called on the president to urge that work on Passamaquoddy be started again but those in the group shied from all questions on that subject 1 Streams Imperil Teople of Ten States Swollen CHICAGO continue its efforts to get its employes back to work Denies Charge Sloan denied that the company had violated the Wagner labor disputes act “We’re very glad that the Individual employe can join any group and we will deal with any group that's at all representative of our employes” Sloan said His last words were that one million dollars a day In wages were being lost tn “ “American - homes” because of the walkout He planned to leave a midnight for New York Lewis In talking with reporters said that labor expected administration support in its battle with “economic royalists” ton-mi- le state commissioner of agriculture who told need of building for fu ture generations by effecting soil conservation and “reforming” marketing practices William Peterson director of the state agrieultural extension service who stressed need for water conservation and told desirable features of the 1937 soil conservation program and ' D P club leader Murray state Despite many unfavorable factors which he reviewed agriculture today “still holds the greatest poss- State and national farm bureau leaders who addressed opening session Thursday of the twentieth annual convention of the Utah State Farm Bureau federation W R Ogg Chicago right secretary ofjhe American Farm Bureau federation and Joseph A Anderson president of the Utah State Farm Bureau federation t the Jan (D— Nearly 80000 persons were unofficially estimated homeless Thursday night in tfie flooded areas of the midwest Meantime rain or snow continued to fall over a Wide section resulting in predictions by meteorologists that most of the rivers already running above flood stages would reach even higher levels Bed Cross and relief agencies rushed food clothing and tents and blankets into every zone that called for assistance Ten Btates had reported heavy damage The entire population of and Aurora Ind were moving out Flood waters of the Ohio river threatened to crush newbuilt levees Calls for help were ly sent to Indianapolis A special relief train was being made up to take supplies to the stricken areas Power Goes Off Three Indiana towns and five In Kentucky were without electricity when flood waters of the Ohio river cut off the electric light and power company at Troy Ind At Portsmouth Ohio a boulder estimated to weigh six tons loosened 21 rains rolled 150 feet down a hill and crashed into an apartment house One woman was injured The lives of eight families were en- by dangered One death was reported at Tyler-tow- n Miss where a negro drowned in overflow water The mother saved an older Rebels Aim Blockade At V S Arms Cargo childA COLD WAVE Wyoming Town Reports 5(5 Below With Idaho ON WANE IN UTAH AREA Nevada Close Seconds cold lntermountain The wave will relax its grip in Idaho Wyoming and northern Utah Friday and in Nevada and southern Utah by Saturofficials day — government forecast The Official forecasts fol- low: in Midwest - neral Motors management and labor union officials directing the strike in the company’s plant Thursday virtually left up to the president the next government move for No 'Compromise A few hours earlier John L Both houses spent the morning Lewis generalissimo of the strike In a joint meeting of the commit- told reporters that there would be tee of the whole listening to ft sumno half-bakthen committee of when asked If it compromise" mary of the state for Preswas time homesteadnine program which includes Roosevelt to intervene said: -exemption and a plan to re- ident That’s up to the president — but imburse the taxing units for lost labor intervened for him” second A property tax revenues (Lewis president of the United joint committee meeting will be Mine Workers as well as advocate held Friday at 10 a m in the house of Industrial unionization Mr chamber to discuss in more detail Roosevelt both moral and gave financial bills which the committee of nine support during the presidential already have been Introduced campaign) House Committees Sloan in a press conference la were dicated that so far as he was com House standing committees fully organized Thursday and a cerned efforts by Secretary Perschedule of regular meetings was kins to bring the two sides into The house has received negotiations were off posted 45 bills and a number of these have 'Glad to Return been reported out of the rules comdon’t think at the moment "I made mittee printed and ready for further could be accomconsideration by the standing com- anything in plished Washington" he said commitmittees Senate standing added but later company officials Is tees also are functioning and it would be glad to return to Washwill expected that public hearings If Mr Roosevelt rebe announced soon on measures ington Friday (Continued on Pare Four) (Ooluaan 8ix) Thousands Homeless In Floods Speaks Suggested means of attaining “a abundance” economic planned which would rid farmers of twin specters of land tenancy and possible serfdom discussion of prowhich taxation changes posed would aid the farmer and conferring awards upon boys’ and girls’ club leaders were other features of the Thursday sessions Record cold weather cut attendance to approximately but additional hundreds were expected to attend Friday sessions which will include annual election of officers and the annual banquet to be ad' dressed by George E Farrell Wash ington D C western division di rector of agricultural conservation Governor Henry H Blood- and Mrs Charles W Sewell Chicago ad' ministratlve director of the Associated Women of the American Farm Bureau federation Annual Address Thursday speakers were Joseph A Anderson president who In the president’s annual address asked for speedy enactment of a homestead exemption law but did not specify tax details repeal of the on trucking and for setting up of a miniature A A A In Utah to control production W R Ogg Chicago secretary of the American Farm Bureau federation who asked for cooperation in fighting for economic security David F Smith ld somewhat Fair Utah: warmer Saturday and in north portion Friday Idaho: Light snow ''Friday and Saturday slowly rising temperature south portion Wyoming: Generally fair except probably light snow In extreme northwest portion rising temperature Nevada: Fair south and Increasing cloudiness in north portion Friday Saturday unsettled not so cold Saturday -- Heroic Rescue Of AilingMan ProvesFutile Auto-Wago- JACKSON Miss Jan 21 UP)— Mr and Mrs Ferney Everett Rodgers of Portland Ore were killed and their son Tommie critically injured four miles south of Pickens Miss early Thursday Their automobile crashed into the rear end of a wagon night Cold weather records half ft century old were shattered in Salt Lake City and other lntermountain cities Thursday morning as one of the harshest cold waves in recent years clamped over the entire western United The could States coldest reported mark be well authenticated which was from Freedom Wyo where the thermometer stood at 66 of-ci- al be- - — low Salt Lake 11 Below Lake City measured 11 below coldest point reached by the the official since Janu- thermometer 14 1888 On the outskirts of the city however the mlntmuma were still lower reaching 199 below ary at the The city airport record cold In Salt Lake City followed only 36 hours behind the deepest snow ever measured 204 inches Tuesday night to give the 1937 winter a double triumph over all the severest winters of the past 43 Nev ed OKANOGAN Wash Jan 21 Whiter 257”mlner died Thursday night a few hours after he was operated upon for appendicitis by the doctor who directed his removal through deep snow from the Azn rite mine 8000 feet up In the Cascade mountains Hospital attendants said White came from under the anesthetic after Dr E P Murdock operated hut the journey by dog team bob sled and automobile from the mine to the hospital here had so weakened him he could not with' UPh-Fr- below below 36 and below WInnemucca Nev Blackfoot Idaho --40 At Ogden the thermometer r reached the lowest point in four years 21 below two degrees short the of minimum established in Feb- ruary 1933 At 7 a m three hours after the low point the mercury had risen one degree After a maximum TEMPERATURES le 4-- H horse-draw- - set-up- w Gol-con- Kik-enda- ll Nv Y Executes Four Slayers ““ er - Pope Takes Turn for Worse as Pain Increases ot tye-nig- Frigid Period Follows oix’ Ileela of Deepest Snowfall in History Young Miner Succumbs 49 years Other cities which reported new a Few Hours After lows for the period since records been kept ware St George Appendicitis Operation have below Cedar City 24 below Elko man and woman both ill of pneumonia were Isolated in their homes near Kennett Mo where the shock SAINT JEAN DE LUZ Franco-Spanis- h Frontier Jan 21 (UP) the St Francis river was out of stand White’s father Eugene White —The Spanish rebel navy aided by German warships Thursday its banks Streams were on the upsurge In smelter superintendent of Tacoma night spread a blockade from the French border to Gibraltar in an ten states— Ohio Indiana West Vlr was at the hospital when the young effort to capture a $2000000 cargo of war materials from the United ginia Illinois Tennessee Missouri miner died Dog Teams Used Arkansas Pennsylvania Kentucky States Dog team mushers brought White The cargo consigned to the loyal Franco’s main fleet are guarding and North Carolina from the mine At Memphis U S engineers gath- and the doctor down ists from the Vimalert company the entrance to the Mediterranean their forces after a meteorol- Wednesday and White- was placed ered The Mar Cantabrico's decks are the hospital Wednesday night ibilities of development of anything Ltd of Jersey City is aboard the ogist said the Mississippi might reach inHard-bitten mountaineers had I know" Commissioner Smith said Spanish steamer Mar Cantabrico packed with crated airplanes too the highest level since the disaspaid tribute earlier Thursday night was halted off Sandy Hook bulky to permit transfer at sea or trous 1927 overflow The ship to the courage and atamina of White Faulty Marketing Red Cross Reports guard cutters vot-on removal to the hold They preHe blamed faulty marketing by U S 6 coast and his stalwart rescuers for their was while congress vent camouflage of the ship The midwestern office of the Red epic trek - down mountain steeps “milking”- - of Utah industry by out- January ap arms embargo Neutral naval officers said the Cross at St Louis reported 4000 per- through storm and bitter cold to side capital and lack of concerted ingThe the three' chances steamer had passed were 20 to one against the sons had been driven from homes civilization effort for low prices received for mile limit however before passage Their feat required lTmen an freighter getting through Franco’s in Missouri Illinois and Arkansas produce "When only 30 cents of of the bill in Washington Motor boat crews brought the airplane two dog teams a n the consumers’ milk dollar reaches The Mar Cantabrico which sailed net " stranded from isolated houses along To Halt All Ships an ambulance and the producer as occurs here I am from New York with bpbsled crated eight the St Francis river in southeastern 15 hours of battle against unrelentmore- than ever convinced of the Franco was said to have ordered Missouri gas masks and other war and northeastern Arkan ing elements and other overwhelmopportunities for young men in airplanes was one day overdue at every ship under his command to sas materials At Senath Mo the flood was ing odds ” he said the building up a new halt and search every freighter coast the Biscay highest in history r He said unfavorable newspaper pub' Puffing a cigaret through fevered carrying “suspicious deckloads “ re reported the ’1500 lips White grinned and said: Army engineers asked Point-NeReported at Vera Cruz licity has reduced consumption of gardless of whether the craft flew residents of the Birds "If you can find anybody who milk and felt that newspapers (The Mar Cantabrico was re- a Spanish or foreign flag He beMo area to evacuate wants to be a hero this way just should give more publicity to prose- ported to be at Vera Cruz Mexico lieved Captain Joss Santa Maria MadridWabash inched up toward the let me know and I'll be glad to cutions instituted by inspectors of where she arrived a week ago to might have painted out the Mar The level at Maunie 111 Many trade places with himr his department against merchants take on adtdtlonal arms and muni- Cantabrico’s name and substituted 1913 flood homes there and in The dog sled to which White had left their New York port authorities another found giving short weight and using tions where the Ohio river spilled been lashed overturned twice In cleared the vessel to Vera Cruz inharmful preservatives "Wt-ne- ed The efforts of the Mar Cantab-ric- o of feet on water Front street the snow as the party inched down an aggressive agriculture to obtain dicating it will be another 10 days to slip out of New --York eight Point Pleasant and Huntington the mountains justice We don’t want charity” or two weeks before it arrives in harbor quietly were defeated when W Va arranged to care for ap- Sumner Stonebraker and Ed he declared Bert Acosta American aviator reSpanish waters 4000 persons forced to dog team drivers who di"Winter wheat already In' the Rebel officials believed the steam- cently returned from” Spain ob- proximately the rected the rescue told just hqw game flee by rising Ohio ground If it produces a normal er with its rich “prize” would bead tained a writ of attachment for the doctor and patient had to be to yield will create a surplus of sev- for either Bilbao or Valencia loyal- salary against Indalecio Prieto survive the trip eral hundred million bushels In ist ports Spanish loyalist air minister Coast They and 15 other veterans of 1937” Director JPeterson said He The Bay of Biscay has beefi the snow country took part in the guardsmen were unable to find rough making blockade run- anything aboard consigned to gave this an illustration that the rescue after an Bmateur wireless ' present agricultural conservation ning easier than a dash through Prieto station at the isolated Azurlte mine program which succeeded the In- the Straits of Gibraltar and up the had summoned Dr Murdock from validated AAA nfay not control Mediterranean coast of Valencia Naval Officer Dies Okanogan and a fresh dog team by surpluses ‘This program” he conGerman Warships airplane from Cascade Idaho NEWPORT R I 'Jan 21 tinued “does not ask the farmer Several German OSSINING N Y Jan 21 CD-F- our warships were t Would Have Died William Hamilton Poto do anything he doesn’t know he said to be convicted murderers— includStonebraker said it was one of 46 of the naval war college backing up General Fran- rter ought to do— it just helps him pay cisco Franco's Basque fleet of at Jr the most trying and hazardous trips of dou- ing John Fiorenza ravisher-slayNewport died (Continued on Pai Three) of Authoress Nancy Titterton in he had made in many years of packarmed trawlers The 44 ships of ble pneumonia Thursday (Column Two) York— were executed Thurs- ing - and7rfrcighling-”MinuNew subzero weather day night in Sing Sing prison The others who died in the elec- “We had taken just about all we tric chair were three negroes —Ches- could take and it was getting coldter White 33 Fred Fowler 19 and er every minute Charles Ham 28 “We had the trip out timed for VATICAN CITY Jan 21 CD— tmano stated 300 persons in Montefphysician Dr Armlnta Milan! re- - White slew two negro women nine hours White had been given Po'pe Pius was given increased Solaro Italy offered the Lord “one maimed In the pope’s chambers and Mrs Fanny Davis and her drugs to last that long (to prevent their-liveof sedatives increased of for were doses day of prolongation sedatives quantities Thursday daughter Willie Mae In a drunk- the jolting dog sled trip from hurten bout night to fortify his weakened heart of the precious life of the supreme administered ' ing him too severely) and we had against great suffering persons pontiff’” the day spent entirely in The intercession of saints" creFowler and Ham killed rocks piled In his sled and heated close to the holy father said ated by Pope Pius himself in St Duessing a Brooklyn butcher Henry prayer when to last that long If the fresh dogs A slight fever was reported to have The pope remained in bed until Peter’s canonization ceremonies he Interrupted their ‘holdup - of a hadn't arrived just when they did developed There was a noticeable late afternoon when he was trans- was besought by the cpngregation jewelry rtore ' and relieved us it would have been "turn for the worse” during the day ferred to the new wheeled divan de- of Heralds of Christ the King A little more than two hours be- just too bad” Vatican sources said signed to keep his swollen legs Among these were StrJoan of Arc fore he died Fiorenza had said: “I Kikendall said the journey — in New pains he called “atrocious" horizontal and at the same time to St Thomas More and feel sorry I caused mother all which Dr Murdock was lashed to affected the pope’s swollen right permit' his holiness to sit erect eight North American saints in- this trouble She stoodmyby me while another sled drawn by several men added to difficulties of enough to aid his labored breath- cluding Father Isaac Jogues who I realized there was no hope for over 8400-foleg’ and Azurlte pass and 12 ' blood -- circulation waa martyred by the Indians in me I tried to make her believe miles to Horse Heaven— was the ing The newspaper Osservatoro Ro-- J Throughout the papal northern NewYork most difficult hft ever mads there that there wa£" un-usal- ly Relief Is in Sight Salt s Oregon Couple Killed n In Crash FIVE CENTS PAGES— Mercury in Salt ILake Reaches Lowest Point Since January? 1888 hotel Alfred P Sloan Jr 20 dally and lutidty Subscription rates: Utah Idaho Nevada Wyoming bmxs SO cents year $1000 eisewhere In U B dally and Sunday ma 1130 193 7 rise or fall depends upon solving problems of land conservation speakers told delegates attending opening sessions of the twentieth annual convention of the Utah State Farm Bureau' federation Thursday In ths Newhouse — having great public Interest The compensation bill was sponFrank sored by Representative Bonacci (D) Carbon and it is urn derstood that before being introduced its provisions were agreed on by employers employes and the Mr state industrial commission Bonacci told thh house that a sur- - 22 A nation’s labor-sponsor- purposes JANUARY Agriculture Still Holds Official Opportunity of State Unit Says Time for Recovering Stolen LAKE CITY UTAH FRIDAY MORNING SALT Time LAKE —6 —9 -- JL —2 AIRPORT Time" 12 M 2 A M 4AIL 4AM A M 8 10 12 2 13 —7 5 2 3 —1 2 N P P P P & 6 8 12 11 7 —7 3 —6 -- ft M A 4 —9 8 M’ AC 1A A 2 Leg —8 —11 — 13 — 15 Dtg" 12 VC M 2 A 4 A M 6 A M 8 A “ 7 10 A- - J4 12 N M 2 P 4 P M 8 P M ' 8 P M 10 P M 12 M 10 12 K M U M if It A A at 3 p m the mercury to 16 below and rose to a m at 8 p m fora jiew below of 12 dropped ll minus max-lmu- Other Minimum Other minlmums all below aero were as follows: Utah — Salt Lake power and light company Beaver 25 27 terminal Provo 11 Eureka 23 Helper 3 Logan 32 Bear lake 29 Richfield 21 Pangultch 32 Marysvale 40 Coalville 30 Modena 30 Brighton American Fork 20 22 Inkom 32 Nampa 23 Caldwell 25 Idaho Falls 30 Idaho — Pocatello Bancroft 40 Aberdeen 41 22 Twin Falls 20 Swan 35 pert RuVal- 52 Nevada— Wells 50 Halleck 63 Deeth 49 Wyoming— Evanston 21 Yellowstone park 27 to 65 Grover 52 The outlook Thursday night was on Pate Seventeen) (Continue(Column ley Five) Main Roads Through Utah Remain Open Utah road conditions at mi— dnight Thuridayt — “ AH main roads open Following minor roads temporarily closed: U-- 15 Anderson ational park to Newcastle City to Garrison Dunbar to 8 Gate Lund Cedar 9 Frisco to U-6 3 to Zion NSt George U-1- Eureka to Nutter’s ranch canyon U-5- 8 Cedar Tooele City to Modena to Grantaville temperatures and ' Very low winds in Iron and rising Washington counties Roads U-1- 12 Iriv carefully and watch snow removal equipment —Utah State Road CommisIcy for sion |