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Carroll, prominent Pennsylvania Republican. FIFTIETH YEAR, NO. 114 AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1935 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE PRICE FIVE CENT! Happy Christmas Season Prospect For Provo Folk Churches, Charitable Organizations To Help Spread Christmas Cheer; Firemen Praised For Helping With Toys One of the happiest Christmas seasons for many years was in prospect for Provo and Utah county folks as preparations for the anuual holiday and festival reached a climax Tuesday night. Charitable organizations have done valiant work this year, as always, to bring cheer into the homes of those who might otherwise be overlooked and forgotten. Catholic Church services commemorating the birth of the Saviour r- hdd tonight at the Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception; Community church, and Lutheran church tomorrow.

Special Christmas programs were given in the L. D. S. Sunday schools and sacrament services last Sunday. Impressive midnight mass will be celebrated at the (Jitholic church.

MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going On in National Affairs By DRKW PEAKSON and ROBERT AIXEN business and labor circles Major George L. Berry is known as head of the powerful Pressmen's Union. As a government official he holds the important post of coordinator for industrial recovery. But to several thousand children in Happy Valley, his ancestral home, Berry is "Santa Claus." year on Christmas day. he gives a party on his large model farm in Happy Valley to the youngsters of his home county.

All arc welcome, and for each there is ice cream, cake and candy in abundance and a toy gift. In preparation for playing Santa Claus this year, Berry bought a full carload of toys. Berry and his wife have been host at similar parties for many years. Childless, they find great joy in giving a day of happiness to the children of neighbors. Christmas is not the only holiday the Berrys celebrate by distributing- gifts.

On Thanksgiving they send to several hundred friends in all parts of the country large turkeys raised on their own farm. Packed in ice the birds are shipped from Happy Valley, to arrive just the day before they are to be vu i -vp LEATHER LUNGED of the country's highest(Continued on page 3, section 2) CLEAR SUSPECT INOGDENCASE OGDEN, Dec. 24 Rhodes, 44 of Ogden, was cleared today by police of all suspicion in connection with the death of his co-worker, Joseph F. Summerill, 32, whose body was found in a furnace at the Utah Ice and Storage Co. plant here last Tuesday.

Officers said that Rhodes was at home all night the night Summerill was killed. With the release of Rhodes the police admitted they were a long way from solving the gruesome murder. KEELER RITES SET THURSDAY Funeral services for Patriarch Joseph B. Keeler, revered churchman, educator and author, will be held in the Manavu ward chapel, Thursday at 1:30 o'clock with Bishop Wilbur Sowards in charge. The speakers will be a representative of the general church authorities.

President T. N. Taylor, J. Will Knight, Dr. Amos N.

Merrill, Andrew Knudsen and Bishop Sowards. Friends may call at the family home, 440 North Third East street from 10 a. m. to the time of the services. Burial will be in the Provo Burial Park under the direction of the Deseret Mortuary.

Mr. Keeler died at his home Saturday night from a sudden heart attack. the entire mass to be sung in Latin. A "Christmas tree service is scheduled at the Community church under th esponsorship of the Sunday school, Primary class and the Cub Scout pack. The Lutheran church will hold special Christmas services on Christmas day at the chapel, 150 North First Fest.

with Rev. B. Skov in charge. The public is invited to attend! Elks Party The annual Elks Christmas tree party is in readiness for Christmas morning, following out a beautiful custom of more than 30 years. The children will receive gifts from Santa Claus, candy, niits," fruits, clothing, Cliff Pierpont is chairman of the committee which has prepared the event.

Following the party at the Elks home, the children will see a free show at the Crest, the guests of the Elks and Manager S. Smart. Hundreds of homes will be made happier as a result of the loads of good toys which have been repainted and repaired by the firemen. The toys were donated by children at the recent Paramount- Herald toy matinee and the distribution has been made by the Community Welfare office. Mrs.

Emily H. Nielsen, secretary of the office, praised the work of the firemen in the highest terms today. "The toys were the prettiest and best I have ever seen and a lot of credit should be 'given to the firemen for their work," said Mrs. Nielsen. The Community Welfare office will not send out Christmas baskets, except in a few cases of needy families not on the relief rolls, recommended by the bishops of the wards and the Relief Society presidents Checks 'to WPA project workers and families on relief were distributed a few days ago throughout the county.

The Odd Fellows will give a party for the children Saturday afternoon at the I. O. O. F. hall, starting at 1:30.

More than a dozen needy families were in response to a call made by W. H. Callahan, manager of the Utah County Welfare organization. In addition, a number of persons made idrect contributions to help out families who were unable to get work or to participate in relief. LECTURE AT MAPLETON" An illustrated lecture on the L.

S. temples will be given by C. Hansen of Provo, Sunday night, December 29, at 7 o'clock All interested are cordially invited to attend PRESIDENT JOINS MERRY YULETHRONG Roosevelt Greets Crowds At Celebration On Lafayette Square WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 (U.R)—The president came at dusk today to snow-covered Lafayette Square, touched off the gay lights on the national Christmas tree and wished his countrymen a merry Christmas. "I greet you," Mr.

Roosevelt said, "with the greeting of the angels on that first Christmas at Bethlehem which, resounding through the centuries, still rings out with its eternal message: 'Glory to God in the highest, and on earth, peace and good will to men." 1 Shadows of early night dipped over the famous square the White House. The rich voices of two massed choirs faded into the wintry dusk. Merry Lights Then a myriad of colored lights twinkled in the Yuletide tree and electric candles beamed from the windows of the White House. "Once more the most joyous of all days draws near and again it is my great privilege on this blessed eve of the nativity to wish the American people everywhere a Merry Christmas," said the president. Mr Roosevelt spoke to several thousand persons crowded in the snowy park and to the whole nation- over the radio.

Before him, too, were Mrs. Roosevelt, his motherland members of his family in Washington for the president's usual jolly holiday celebration. "This is the third time that I have joined in these Christmas eve festivities." Mr. Roosevelt continued." ''We are gathered together in a typical American setting in the park here in front of the White Before me and around me is an-American and women of all and children who know nothing about the cares of jubilant with joyous expectation. Eternal Message "The spirit of Christmas breathes an eternal message of peace and good will to all men.

We pause therefore on-this holy night and laying down the burdens and the cares of life and casting aside the anxieties of the common day, rejoice that 1900 years ago, heralded by angels, there came into the world one whose message of peace, who gave to all mankind a new commandment of love. In that message of love and of peace we find the true meaning of Christmas. "And so I greet you with the greeting of the angels on that first Christmas at Bethlehem, which, resounding through centuries, still rings out with its eternal message. 'Glory to God in the Highest, and on Earth Peace, Good Will to Men Utah Stake- Presidency Extends Greetings We sincerely appreciate the splendid work that has been done by the people of the Utah Stake of Zion during the year that is now drawing to a close. You have availed yourselves of the many opportunities the church offers for development and character building, and there has been a splendid spiritual growth.

Your works have been a testimony of your increased faith in the Master, and we feel sure this spirit is reflected in peace and joy in your homes. Your work has shown a devotion and unity that brings brotherly love and true Christian neighborliness. As we pause to celebrate the birth of the Redeemer of the World, and sing the song that echoed on Judea's plains at his birth, "Glory to God in the Highest, and On Earth Peace and Good Will Toward Men," our hearts are full of gratitude that we have received his message, the spirit of giving, of not only gifts but our love in acts of kindness to each other; and as the Master gave all, we struggle to cultivate the spirit of giving that we may approach that blessed state. The past year has been one of joy and sorrow, but it has been full of encouragement of a brighter day; and may we with our eyes toward the rising sun, full of faith and courage, greet the New Year and write in its new pages a life of devotion to God our Father that peace, joy, and happiness may be ours. May peace be in your homes and joy be yours during this holiday time, is our sincere wish.

THOMAS N. TAYLOR, CHRISTEN JENSEN, W. MONROE PAXMAN. Utah Stake Presidency. Greetings From Mayor A.

O. Smoot "On behalf of the officials of Provo city, I welcome the opportunity afforded by the Herald to extend to you our very best wishes for a merry Christrtas and a happy and prosperous year." A. O. SMOOT, mayor. Incoming Mayor Voices Greeting "Christmas, is the great spiritual holiday of the Christian world.

May the people of Provo catch the fine spirit of hope and good cheer that spreads over the entire land at this season of the year." MARK ANDERSON. Crash Kills Four FREEPORT, 111., Dec. 24 (U.P.) Four persons were killed today in a collision on the highway 12 miles east of here. Two others were injured. The dead: John Gee, 32, Lockport, George Gee, about 30, Lockport, Myra Hasseit, 25, Joliet, 111., and John D.

Cook, 35, Rockford, 111. Bankers Assured Of Legislative Respite WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 Encouraged by assurances that there will be no more banking legislation soon, the American Bankers association today announced plans for a nation-wide campaign to replace government financing with private lending. Robert V. Fleming, ABA president, said he had received assurances from "persons in high quarters" that there would be no further banking legislation for "quite a while." He declined to quarters' have informed me we need not bother about further banking legislation in the near future." I Fleming added that he could "say as a general proposition" that there does not seem to be any disposition or any need for further 'banking legislation now.

Borah, Fish Confer WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 Political conditions in the south reveal the source, but said it was were discussed today at a con- "autboritative." ference between Sen. William E. "I haven't been given assurances that I can speak' of," Fleming said, "but persons in high ing tour in the southern-states. Borah and Rep.

Hamilton Fish. Fish recently completed a speak- SERVICE CLUBS TO CELEBRATE Dr. Stanley M. Clark will be the toastmaster. at the Provo Kiwanis club Christmas party which will be held Thursday night at 7:30 in the Roberts Hotel dining room, it is announced by Clyde Clark, chairman of the arrangements committee.

Plans are icompiete for the party, which is coupled.with induction ceremonies for the incoming officers. J. R. Robinson, attorney, will induct John W. McAdam, and others into office.

Brief talks will be given by Mr. McAdam and Jesse N. Ellertson, retiring president. Following the banquet and program, which will include vocal and string music selections, toasts and dancing numbers, the club members and their guests will spend the (remainder of the evening dancing. A Christmas party for the Provo Rotary club is planned for Friday and another for the Lions club will be Saturday.

More complete details of these parties will be given in later stories. Silver Goes Under 50-Cent Level Pope Prays For Peace VATICAN CITY, Dec. 24 (U.E>— Pope Pius, responding to Christmas of the College of Cardinals, spoke sadly today of the "threats of new wars." He begged God to end them. He deplored also persecution of Roman Catholics in Mexico and Germany. Receiving 30 cardinals who went to his apartments to extend Christmas greetings, the pope handed each an encyclical dated December 20, and then addressed them for half an hour.

In his address the pope said: "It is too bad that we have these festivities with painful preoccupation arid threats of new wars. Christmas arrives with dark clouds hovering above us and with signs of human blood on the road which is difficult and menacing. One might say that this road, as mountaineers speak, is 'filled with treacherous passes'." Christmas, the Pope said, found large sections of people crying "against the faith." He called such people Godless. FLIGHT OF LINDBERGHS IS DEPLORED Various Comment Heard On Latest Move By Famous Family NEW YORK, Dec. 24 (U.R)— Indignation that American law enforcement agencies could not provide sufficient assurance of security for Col.

Charles A. Lindbergh and his family to make them feel safe in their homeland, swept the country today. Here and there, mingled in the comment of prominent tpersons, the man of the street, and newspapers, was a note of criticism directed at Lindbergh himself. The predominant note in" the nation's reaction to departure of Lindbergh with his wife and baby to take up more or less permanent residence abroad, was one of dismay that he should feel such a lack of security and safety as to make the drastic action seem necessary to him. Son To See The small freight passenger liner, American Importer, ploughed through the Atlantic bearing- the aviator, his wife, Ann Morrow Lindbergh, and their 3-year-old son, Jon, to England where they hope to find a haven from constant fears and threats and publicity since Charles A.

Lindbergh, was kidnapped in March, 1932, Tonight Santa Claus will stroll into the dining salon for the bene-. fit of little Jon, whose future and was. the reason for his parents' decision to leave their native shores. Santa will appear -for his benefit alone, since the Lindberghs are the only passengers The Vortex of the Lindbergh tragedy, despite the voluntary withdrawal of its chief actors, convoluted dizzily, whirling Bruno Richard Hauptmann toward what appeared to be certain death in the electric chair, and drawing back into the whirlpool characters that had been thrown clear. Hauptmann's appeal to the New Jersey court of pardons was ready for the court's consideration.

If it fails, his one remaining hope for life will be an appeal for a new trial. This last is an even more (Continued on Page Eight) Business Halts Over Holiday Business will come to a complete standstill Wednesday as business men and professional workers close the day. All the stores, banks, city and county offices, schools, federal offices- and postoffice will be closed for the day. The employes of the Herald will join with tiie refit of the population in the holiday celebration and no Herald will be issued Wednesday for that reason. Postmaster J.

W. Danger-field announces that all gift packages will be delivered tonight or Wednesday morning. "The special delivery window will be open from 10 to 11 a. m. for transients only.

The Christmas business this year has been the heaviest in many years. NEW YORK, Dec. silver broke below the 50-cent level here today for the first time in 15 months. Handy Harman, bullion brokers, fixed the price at cents a fine ounce, a of 1 cent from yesterday. LONDON, Dec.

24 silver was fixed here today at 20 7-8 pence an at current exchange to 46.32 cents a fine American lowest' level since October, 1934. Heat Wave Bothers Christmas Shoppers CAPETOWN, South Africa, Dec. 24 (U.E)—A heat wave, with the thermometer registering above 90 degrees, handicapped record- breaking Christmas shopping today. LORAINE DIES LONDON, Dec. 24 Lpraine, distinguished actor, pioneer aviator and hero of two years, died in a hospital last night after a throat operation necessitated by a long illness.

Governor Scored For Conduct In Buttonholing the G.O. P. Elephant Now la the time for all good men to come to tho aid of their party, figures 0. national committee, whlcb distributed the aboTe campaign button (or 1936 in red. white, and blue at Its recent meeting la Washington.

Project For Hospital Lost Second Time Lack of Support Is Given As Reason For Loss of Hospital Project. TRENTON, N. Dec. 24 (U.E> the face of stinging editorial criticism, of his recent conduct in the case of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, Harold G. Hoffman remained silent today.

"What do you have to say about the Hauptmann case and the departure of the Lindberghs for Europe?" he was asked when he came to his desk at the state house. "No comment," he said. Many newspapers attributed the Lindbergh migration to the fact that Governor Hoffman had cast doubt on the guilt of Hauptmann, convicted murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr. Ellis H. Parker, Burlington county detective, said he believed the Lindbergh departure was a "private matter." Parker's conclusions that Hauptmann was not alone in tht kid- naping of the first son of the Lindberghs is known to have influenced Governor Hoffman.

Provo city will not get a new hospital through the Commonwealth Fund in 1936. That news was given to the board of directors of the Provo chamber of commerce Monday night in a letter from the Commonwealth organization, read by Clayton Jenkins, executive secretary. The award of a hospital for 4936 went to the city of "Ada, Oklahoma. Last year a city in Mississippi was granted the funds for a hospital, in preference to Provo. The letter said in part: Support "The chief determining factor in our.

conclusion was that unqualified support of the L. D. S. both local and central, appeared to be essential to the success of a community hospital project in Provo, said support did not seem assured at the time of our last visit," wrote H. J.

Southmayd, director of the division of rural hospitals, from his office in New York City. The chamber of commerce, through its hospital committee headed by Dr. Fred R. Taylor, sought a hospital which would cost approximately $300,000 and which would be run by funds raised locally. In an effort to secure more funds to complete forest and national park highways, the chamber of commerce will write to the SPRINGVILLE BOXER DIES AFTfflMUT 17-Year Old High School Student Succumbs At Provo Hospital Homer Cooms died Tuesday morning, three hours after he was knocked out in the third round of a fight with Lou Petro, Springville road.

A basal fractured skull was the direct cause of his death. Death of the 17-year-old Springville youth was the second boxing fatality in Utah county within the past year and a half. Seth Edmunds, Fountain Green, died in September, 1934, after a fight with Arcade Pierce, Springville. Rihgsiders who watched the Cooms-Petro fight' could hardly credit the news that his skull had been fractured. Petro was driving Cooms across the ring with a series of left and right hooks.

Near the south ropes Petro struck Cooms on the side of the jaw with a swinging right. Cooms slumped to the mat onto his hands and knees. At the count of eight he stirred as if to rise, then slid onto his face. Petro and' others dragged him to his corner and dashed water into his face but he remained limp. He was taken by ambulance to the Aird hospital at 1' o'clock, where Dr.

J.Karl Beck pronounced his injury as a fracture of tho base of the skull. He died at 1 o'clock without recovering consciousness. The blow which Petro struck was only a moderately hard punch and Cooms did not appear to be knocked out. For the past three weeks Homer has complained of throbbing headaches after each of his fights. He fought in a card at Springville Thursday night and complained of a headache afterward and had complained of similar headaches previously.

Possibilities that he was injured in a previous fight or hi playing football have been advanced as the indirect cause of his death. Dr. Beck examined Homer before he went into the ring Monday night and found him in good condition, although Homer said nothing about the headaches he had been having. His heart was normal. Homer Cooms was born at Springville, May 21, 1918, a son (Continued on Page Eight) (Continued on Page Eight) TEACHER SLAYS FRIEND, SELF LAS CRUCES, N.

Dec. 24 (C.R)—W. A. Stone, asso'ciate professor of mathematics at New Mexico State College here today shot and killed Prof. F.

E. Oakes, his colleague at the college, and then committed suicide. Oakes' home, not far from the college, was the scene of the slaying. Stone, apparently crazed by his belief that Oakes had been "telling lies" about him, drove his car to the Oakes home and shot his fellow-teacher. There were no witnesses to the killing.

Driver Faces Drunk Charge; Car Found In Park Shrubbery The automobile driven by Harold Smith, Provo, crashed into two parked cars in front of the city and county building Monday night at 11:30, then disappeared as if the earth had swallowed it. But the car wassoon found, in the center of a clump of shrubbery on the corner 'of' the Utah stake tabernacle lot. After striking the rear end of the cars of Denzil Brown and Roy Hughes, Smith's machine swung across University Avenue, jumped the curb, swished through the bushes and stopped, out of sight. Smith was slated to face the city court this afternoon for arraignment on a drunk driving charge, filed by Police Officer Fred Loveless, who investigated. Smith was driving the automobile of Bart Henrie, police reported.

He drove in the parking zone and apparently failed to see the parked cars, which had 'been left on the east side of University Avenue' during the city and county building employes' party. Brown's car was knocked against the curb at a 90 degree angle -but none of the machines 1 were aged badly. Lindberghs May Live On Rivera NICE, Dec. 24 (U.H)—Col. Charles A.

Lindbergh, who is en route to Europe with his wife and son to escape molestation in the United States, may establish a home on the French Riviera. Lindbergh, it was learned reliably, has been negotiating for a month for the lease on the villa chateau Gloria at Cap Ferrat. The villa includes a private yacht and a harbor suitable for the mooring' of a seaplane. Lindbergh, it was understood, has been seeking a three-year lease but negotiations have not been completed. LONDON, Dec.

24 (U.R) No special police protection is planned for Col. Charles A. Lindbergh and his family when they arrive in Liverpool aboard the liner American Importer, a spokesman for the Liverpool police department told the United Press today by telephone. Honest Finder Turns in Cash Some distracted Christmas shopper who lost some money in the postoffice lobby Monday is very fortunate that on honest person found it, according to Postmaster J. W.

Danger- fieldv in whose 1 care it was left after it was found. The loser may obtain the money by making proper identification at the office of the postmaster..