Ogden Standard-Examiner (Newspaper) - January 10, 1927, Ogden, Utah WEATHER Mostly fair tonight and Tuesday except unsettled in north western portions change in Cloudy warmer tonight i and your lien and can only bo reformed in their youth they as they STOW Fifty-seventh 180 OGDEN CITY UTAH MONDAY EVENING JANUARY 10 1927 LAST EDITION At Guernsey on the Platte river the Utah Construction com- pany of Ogden has just completed the placing of the largest voir gate in fae United States Weighing 400 tons it is 50 by 52 feet and is exceeded in size by no other gate in the world ex- cept one in Gormany which is a Jittle larger The Guernsey dam will cost and will cover a able area of bench land part of which will be watered by ing Twelve thousand kilowatts in power is generated which is in pumping The Utah Construction company reaches out over much of the western country and has extensive undertakings us far away as the west coast of Mexico where it is putting on the finishing touches to a railroad job The company has a name of keeping to schedules Last year on the work at Weed in connection witn the Natron cutoff it had 27 steam shovels It had agreed to complete the contract by July 1 anil to do so rushed ia steam shovel after steam shovel Whun the first day of July arrived the work was done Some one iias said that since the company was organized in 1900 it has completed 000 in contracts One of the arguments against cast iron pipe in Utah has been the cost of the product as com- pared with lighter steel pipe With cast being at near Provo the price should be reduced as the long haul from Birmingham or Pueblo In the past has added a high freight charge to the cost The first Utah cast iron pipe is now being installed in ment houses It is a forecast of big things to be accomplished by the iron in- oC this No longer it necessary to call on Birmingham Alabama to supply us with cast iron pipe After a time other iron will come on the market from Ironton and Utah will be pushed forward as a manufacturing state u Ogden man said he hoped to see the California people successful in their efforts on the Boulder dam dam will develop southern he admitted and that is what this country wants More population on the coast devoted to raising citrus fruits or cotton or walnuts and raisins will help build Utah Then what does it he asked as to the direction in which primary development takes its course so long as Utah eventually profits A point of view well worth con- as it is a broad tion of Utah altitude Aime with her broadcasting has an audience of considerable Size in Ogdon Last evening the Los Angeles evangelist was on the air and her message through with re- markable clearness Radio is bringing to the homes many strange voices and within the last few it has opened the way for regular messages across the Atlantic Baptists Accuse Denver of Advocating Free Love HE DENIES Calls Pastors Tin Gods Who Make State Ridiculous Twenty years from now it will be possible to in and hear i the cry of the mob in the streets 1 of Hankow China if there are mobs in the Chinese city at that time and sec the wild disorder Pictures a-c now being trans- mitted by radio and soon i less you to see around the world When all that comes to pass will mankind be more restless or 1 will a greater degree of i mont come by the bringing of the world to man's Centuries of advancement have not made more contented Perhaps greater achievements will only add to his distractions and I make him a little more nervously susceptible Rt Rev L who will deliver a sermon in the Church of thi Good Shepherd next Sunday is from South Dakota and the bishop to whom Rev John Hyslop gave fealty before coming to Ogden Bishop Indian church members and 33 Indian clergymen in his diocese but the bishop predicts that in fifty years the American Indian will be no more as ho Is rapidly being absorbed by the white race Less than 30 per cent of Sioux Indians today are full bloods Continued on Page Two Tenn Jan I By The Associated j Baptist Ministers was considering further tion today in its effort to prevent Judge Ben B Lindsey of Denver from speaking before the Optimist club here next April In the meantime Judge Lindsey the attempt as pish tush and poppycock The ministerial association re- cently passed resolutions asking the civic club to withdraw an in- which has been extended to the jurist The ministers ed their objections on a series of articles published Red Book magazine in which they allege Judge Lindsey upholds and cates free love The Optimist club refused to revoke its invitation and ed that Judge Lindsey will speak April 7 on subject he pleases DRIFTS TO LOVE Judge Lindsey So far as my speeches in Knoxville is con- cerned the Baptist brethren will need many more reinforcements than I think they will be able to muster if they prevent my ing it I am not an advocate of free love but I do recognize the fact that modern is drifting more and more toward it every day I am seeking a ible and permanent cure for an evil that no sane man or woman will deny that is more than the brethren of have ever done Thus far they can lay claim only to haye made their state the laughing stock of the thinking men and oJt ness I must say that I do not believe all the pastors of see hold the same beliefs as the few who have befogged the vision of a glorious commonwealth with their bigotry TIX GODS Let the brethren gird on their armor for Bon Lindsey is coming back to the home of his boyhood and he is coming out a muzzle I crave an opportunity to tell the little tin gods of Tennessee that the lowly Jesus whom they are supposed to serve would be hamed of his servants if he could review their works in the state which they have dragged in the mire of ignorance and ism I for a chance to re- mind them of the time when their Jesus said to the howling mob gathered to stone to death a man who had Let him who Is without sin cast the first stone Accused of Murder in Death of Wealthy Lumber Man List of Representatives and Senators In 17th Legislature Seventy-four members of the house and senate comprise the seventeenth legislature The full ber is seventy-five but it has been decided by the officials of Utah county that no successor will be chosen to the late Leroy Dixon of Provo who died on the eve of the session Clifford E Young of American Fork will therefore be representative in the upper house With this exception the complete roster of the legislature in- new members chosen at the recent general election and holdover members from the legislature -is as SENATE Salt Alonzo B Irvine E R Callister Herbert S Auerbach Dr O F Westphal Hamilton Gardner Salt Lake City J Wilmer Booth Midvale Weber C R Hollingsworth John S Lewis Ogden Utah Clifford E Young American Fork Cache William Griffin Jr Logan Box Elder John W Peters Brigham City Uintah and Duchesne Thomas W O'Donnell Vernal Sanpete county W D Candland Mt Pleasant Summit Wasatch Morgan Rich and Daggett H Fred Egan Park City Beaver Iron and Washington Lucius N Marsden Emery Grand and San Juan Knox Patterson and Juab Joseph T Finlinson Leamington Sevier Wayne Piute Garfield and Kane D H son Junction Davis and Tooele Henry W Stahle Bountiful HOUSE Salt Lake Byron D Anderson M O Ashton Horace C Beck Mrs A J Lowe Jr Miles S Miller W J C L Spiegel Mrs H S Tanner Patrick H Goggin Ray S McCarty R Verne McCullough Mrs Julia Smart Elias S Woodruff Salt Lake City H Claude Anderson Garfield M B Andrus Draper W A Crane Weber Louis J Holther David L Stine C K ans Ogden D J Hammon Roy Utah George F Shelley American Fork John Roberts Goshen J O Stone Vineyard Mrs Achsa E Paxman Provo Cache N F Builen Richmond John H Kemp Logan Howard P Leatham Rich T J Tingey Woodruff Davis W P Epperson Kaysville Tooele county J Gillette Carbon W E Anderson W A Engle Price Summit R R Fletcher Parley's Park Wasatch James Wilson Midway Uintah James C Hacking Lapoint Juab George H Ryan Eureka Sanpete Jacob Thompson Ephraim Archie M Menor Emery J Frank Killian Orangeville Grand W D Hammond Moab Sevier S M Jorgenson Salina Beaver J F Tolton Beaver Piute LeRoy Dalton Circleville Wayne George C Brinkeroff BicKnell Garfield L C Sargent Iron John Cedar City Box Elder A W Hansen Fielding C J Dewey Deweyville Morgan H K Crouch Morgan Millard O A Tangren Delta Kane Alex Findley Kanab San Juan Charles Redd La Sal Duchesne Owen Mt Emmons Daggett county M N Larsen Manila Weber County Gets Two Places in List of Senate Attaches FORMALITIES TODAY Message Tuesday Also Appointment of LAKE CITY Jan 10 Immediately after the state senate organized shortly before noon today Senator Herbert S Auerbach Salt City introduced as an emergency measure a which If passed would rescind Utah's adherence to the state Colorado river pact and substituting therefor the en state pact approved by the 1923 legislature In introducing the Trill ator Auerbach declared that he considered the six-state pact dangerous to Utah's in- terest in the Colorado river development The six-state pact was approved by the 1925 legislature Special Dispatch SALT LAKE Jan The seventeenth session of the Utah legislature was begun this after- noon with the swearing in of of both house and ate Alonzo E of Salt Lake became president of the senate a position he held two years ago M Jorgensen of Salina ier county became speaker of the house succeeding W B McKell The house took a recess at 1 o'clock without completing its the members to semble at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning for this purpose The senate completed its first sitting at o'clock after appointing a committee of five to draw up lutions on the death of Senator LeRoy Dixon of county Coolidge Pens Special Message Giving Information Upon Which He Bases His Policy of Keeping Marines In Central American Republic COURTROOM Austin Tex Jan The Associated Press The murder trial of the HOY J Frank Norris Baptist pastor got under way in the district court here today with preliminary proceedings to test the eligibility of veniremen James R Hamilton an- he would not call the de- fendant to plead until this after- noon Dr Norris is accused of slaying Dexter E Chipps wealthy man in the study of the pastor's church at Kort Worth on July 17 Several veniremen were excused on statutory grounds Dr Norris appeared shortly after court con- vened of the Texas ex- mansion where Governor Miriam A Ferguson was preparing to pack her furniture to make way for the governor the was set for one of the state's most celebrated cases The courtroom which for 50 years has been a battleground of central Texas drew many tators from all over the state and newspaper correspondents from many sections Mrs D E Chipps former wife of the man and her son liott Chipps who is Suing Dr ris for for the death of his father were among early ar- rivals They entered the courtroom with attorneys for the prosecution and sat at table SEXTET BANK IN TULSA OKLA TULSA Okla Jan By The Associated al employes and officials at bay with pistols six men looted the pulpa State bank of and caped in an automobile today the adequats protection of all erican interests in Nicaragua whether they be endangered by in- ternal strife or by outside inter- ference in the affairs of that re- public The message reviewed relations between the United States and Nicaragua beginning in 1912 when the United a large force to put down a revolution and a legation guard maintained in Nicaragua until 1925 Reference was the of 1923 to the Central American treaties de- signed to render unconstitutional government unrecognizable by the mASHINGTON Jan The Associated W plaining his Nicaraguan to congress dent Coolidge declared in a special message that munitions ot war supplied the Sacasa revolutionists evidence of ing belonged to the Mexican He added that gun runners to the Sacasa group apparently had been fitted out- in Mexico with the encouragement of the can officials and in at least one case sailed under the captaincy of Mexican reserve officers The message continued that the United States cannot fail to view with deep concern any serious threat to stability and tional government in Nicaragua especially if such a state of affairs is contributed or brought about outside influences or by foreign power CALLS IT HIS DUTY I have deemed it my duty said the president to use the powers committed to me to insure MOVE IN Admiral Latimer More Neutral Zones There WASHINGTON Jan By The Associated Press ment of two neutral zones in Nicaragua was reported the state department today by Rear Admiral Latimer A department announcement said a report states that other republics In October the message continued Solofzano was elected president of Nicaragua with Juan B Sacasa as vice president and received American recognition When the marines were removed from in August 1025 the president said it appeared as though In Nicaragua was assured Within two months a further occurred resulting ally in an agreement between the president and General Chamorro the loader of the revolution by which President Solorzano agreed to substitute supporters of eral Chamorro for certain bers of his cabinet and to pay business along the has been paralyzed property has been seized conditions are ing serious so far as American lives and property are concerned revolutionary forces have already interfered with ment of provisions for the any companies employes The admiral also reported that he has established neutral zones at and at Pearl goon TONOPAH REPORTS RECORD DRY YEAR Continued on TONOPAH Jan year 1920 will go history as the driest year in the of the bureau station in Tonopah with a total precipitation of 2.17 inches during the entire 12 months absolute minimum for the years in which the station been operated port compiled by Mrs C J official reporter Survivors Describe How Shrieks Replace Laughs In Montreal Film Show Three Chums Go to Movie and One Lucky Enough to Find Seat Is Only One to Perish Mother With Child Fights to Get Through Exit Boy Rescued From Pile of Death and Injury MONTREAL Jan stories of the scene in the Laurier picture theatre tragedy are by some of the survivors Antoine Girouard aged 16 who was taken to the real general contusions and slight burns went to the theatre with his two brothers They satin the balcony flames shoot I noticed flames shoot up through a crack in the floor and immediately every one rushed from the said the boy I got safely down the stairway to within five steps of the bottom when I was knocked down by the rush on the stairway and people over me SURROUNDED BY DEATH Three dead boys were beneath me when the police raised me and above me five or six injured boys had to be removed before I could be reached The stairway was blocked with the rush of the and people were lying about on the steps While I was crushed and ing on the steps the firemen be- gan to play the hose over and no doubt it was due to this tion that more of us were not burned to death will recover Ernie Fitzpatrick aged 10 who two doors from the theatre was standing in the aisle of the balcony when the fire was dis- covered WERE LAUGHING Everybody was laughing he said When we saw flame and smoke coming from near the first row of the balcony in ter Some men were playing ex- on the fire and shout- ing to everyone that it was not serious 1 said a prayer and started to climb over the other people Crawling over heads and bodies In the fighting mob on the aisle and stairway Fitzpatrick made his way to the lobby whence he was carried to the street slightly by the smoke but The day was devoted in organizing for active work which wilK be taken up tomorrow appointment of committee's the reading of Gov George H message to the The senate has decided its staff of aides and assistants for the senate but the house still has task to perform It was so busy debating and discussing caucus on Saturday night that it did get around to of attaches Weber county gets two positions in the list of senate ments The selections in the senate caucus for the appointive offices were as Heber L mings Salt Lake secretary lard Done Salt Lake minute clerk Lawrence Walker Utah county docket clerk Kay P rissey Weber sergeant at arms Louise S Tanner Salt Lake mailing clerk Charles A Larsen Salt Lake chaplain Esta E ler Salt Lake Joseph L Harrir son Weber county Mrs Claudia Morris Nellie K Parsons Salt Lake committee clerics David Thompson Duchesne Alvin son Iron county messengers fred Jenson Box Elder F Haycock Piute watchmen Anderson Millard James Larsen T H Merrill Cache doorkeepers IN THE SENATE H E Crockett secretary of state called the senate to order and read the certificates of tion All senators were present The seat occupied last term by LeRoy Dixon of Provo recently deceased was draped in white and lavender silk Bishop J J Mitty of the Salt Lake diocese of- the invocation Chief tice S R Thurman administered the oaths of office Senator was nominated for president of the senate by Senator Finlinson and ly He escorted to the president's seat a tee made up of Senators C F Westphal of Salt Lake William H Griffin of Cache and Knox Patterson of Moab President Irvine announced that the committee on rules of the ate and also the senate members on the joint rules committee are Hamilton Gardner of Salt Lake John W Peters of Box Elder and Griffin of Cache IX THE HOUSE George Wilson deputy secretary state called the house into sion Woodruff offered the invocation and J i-y administered the S M of Salina was ed by Frank Killian of Emory and elected He was escorted to his position by a committee made of Representatives Builen of Cache Mrs Julia Smart of Salt Lake and John P Tolton of Beaver There seven Democrats in the this term and in the senate SIX BISHOPS MEXICO Murphy and Eddie 12 a brother Michael the only victim of the three vsec he was luckier than explained before his brother at he got a I was standing in the aisle the fire broke out I didn't see any flames but there was a lot oE I ran to the back of the balcony and I could not get out but I climbed up on a ledge and a man standing on a little roof with a handkerchief over his mouth carried me out of the window CROWDS STANDING There were only a few of us in the aisles when the fire ed but there were crowds of ple mostly children standing in- the rear of the Roger 13 escaped by jumping from the balcony to the lower floor There were several men shout- ing that everybody remain seated and there were some ushers ing to keep the people he said but there were others who stood up and hollered and told us to get out said saw terrible sights in the balcony before he made his leap to safety He was considerably unnerved main remaining with him being that of a mother attempting to fight her way out through the crowd with a baby in her arms SEEK FIFTH VICTIM OF DYNAMITE PLOT MEXICO CITY Jan By The Associated Right Rev Pascual of arid secretary of can Catholic and five other bishop's today MARION Illinois Jan By The Associated possibility that five in- of Imr lost their lives in the latest outbreak of the ern gang war was under investigation today Mrs Art Newman said those at the fortified roadhouse of Charles Birger leader shortly be- fore it was dynamited and burned Saturday night were Steve Gorge and Mrs Gorge the caretakers Jack Crews and Elmo Thompson of Weet and Jimmy of Harrisburg Only four charred bodies were found in the ruins oner George Bell returned to the scene today to search for a fifth body The identity of the victims doubt however when brother said Thompson was alive and a West Frankfort said he saw Crews day RECALL RAILROAD TELEGRAPH RHYMES Jan By The Associated ment of D Underwood from the of the Erie railroad after more than a quarter of a century of service recalls to old-time railroaders story the days was a division on the Chicago Milwaukee A locomotive engineer telegraphed from out on- the line a's F D U engine two two has bust a flue I do Back came the Plus the two seven two and her Justice of Peace Is ter Over Being Thrown Into Jug MISSOULA Mont Jan By The Associated Press Judge George from Paradise Mont is back in the city jail on bread and water when he ought to be sitting on the sack of a justice of the peace Mr Rooney was elected to the judiciary some time ago and ever since his friends have wasted persuasion and tion trying to get him inaugurated shipped last week to enable him to dry his high spirits and be sworn in but he returned and was arrested twice the lice gave him 30 days on the staff of life and Adam's ale Just said Mr Rooney stung at just wait I'll get a chance my office And they led him away ter W PERISH WHEN THEATRE FIRE Bodies Lie in Morgue in Montreal ied Young Is ical Title of Picture Tragic Show House Appeal After tence For Famous tub Party NEW YORK Jan The Associated Carroll theatrical producer lost his appeal today from a Sentence of -a year and a day in Atlanta penitentiary for perjury committed in tion grand jury investigation of a bathtub party in his theatre United States circuit court of peals today affirmed both the diet of guilty and the sentence imposed lower courts Carroll was brought spring after saying that at a Washington birthday at the Earl Carroll theatre Joyce ley a show pagne to male guests from -a bath tut on tha stage in which she Ormiston and Other De- fendants Keyes LOS ANGELES Jan The Associated of criminal conspiracy against Aimee Semple McPherson list her mother Mrs Kenneth G Ormiston and other growing out- nf the disappearance case were dis- missed here in superior court day on motion of District ney Asa Keyes TWO AS CAR BREAKS ICE PEWAUKEE Wis By The Associated Charles Morey 22 and Harold 19 of drowned early when their a sedan through the ice of lake Intending to fish the ice they drove part lake The body of was brought up with grappling hooks and er thJ automobile was dragged out of 30 feet of water but not been recovered i REJECT Associated of movie disaster more tragic thaii ever flickered oh the silver children lay dead today ed or suffocated by a fire pede Sunday in the Laurier ace a theatre in Montreal's east end This morning 63 of the ones had been identified at city morgue while eight others still awaited recognition Autopsies established that of- the children died from tion 11 were crushed and five lost their lives from a tion of asphyxiation and More seemed likely the the The tragedy was caused by as the fire which started the rush exits was comparatively trivial The LaurTer Palace Is a two- story building with a stone brick and been in several years The seating about and with number of the audience also -ed TITLE The place has at the front into which from lead at the an opening into which leads a street Sunday's performance featuring a comedy film Em- in light of that to barely under there a f and a belch smoke from projection room it was a small boy or aiv raised en- sued The the French-Canadian ariti district fled to the exits floor to have reached open out great difficulty Those terrified by the billows of smoke and the heat of the flames from ran for the two stairways they struggled succeeded restoring order to those east a panic developed it that of the tragedy curred of children flowing the street level suddenly Some one panic those the fire them surged the became ar near solid mass of j Children were borne under be Others were- and crushed the sure of surrounding Those in the the t J from the station found inextricably Jammed wit'hi.rthS: part of the steps from the to relieve by at the tangled mass tied the body of ow that it was the key jam Then as quickest they the street formed chain passing the victims the opening In the rear the mass an er Pare fought heroically in smoke and intense heat some of the pinioned nine little victims to a window over the thrust them put ia the hope that somf would Nono survived most overcome by the smoke to and wag to the street by CHOPPED had been the jam of bodies As were the they were ed to nearby stores or to from the surgeons ted injured were off in died m in- one 1 The tion reject the Senator-Elect win be called up whenever ernor Pinchot's cate of election is ator Dill Dei author said V Ohio Jan The Associated Press today iqr of ten children present daughter to i secretary
