Salt Lake Tribune, The (Newspaper) - January 17, 1929, Salt Lake City, Utah The Weather Thursday much colder south portion Friday generally air and cool Local Settlement Prices VOL 118 NO 94 SALT LAKE CITY THURSDAY MORNING JANUARY 17 1920 26 CENTS SMALL TRUCK SEEN IN PARK OFFERS GLUE Believe Solution of Nelson Murder Mys Is Now Near at Hand Parly of Young People Re port Seeing Ice Vehicle New Year Morning Investigation of the murder of June Charlotte Nelson took on a new Move to Curb Powers Of Dam Board Stirs Up Row in Arizona Senate Upper House at Phoenix Tables Resolution Chal Rights PHOENIX Ariz Jan 16 senate of the Arizona legislature was thrown into an uproar late today when a resolution was introduced by Senator Donnelly of Pima which sought to declare the Colorado river situation purely the business of the legislature and the attorney general The resolution was interpreted as an ultimatum to the Colorado river River Commission Orders Attorney General Suit to Begin v PHOENIX Ariz Jan fight in the supreme court of the United States to execution of provisions of the Boulder dam was in the making here today as the result of a course decided upon by Colorado river commission The commission yesterday author State Attorney General E Ber ry Peterson to file the suit in the highest court in behalf of Arizona REBEL CHIEF INSISTS UPON U S LEAVING Gen Refuses Discuss Peace Until Ma rines Are Gone to twist Wednesday when four persons identified a small ice truck as the car which raced through Liberty park early New Years morning sev eral hours after the abduction of thi girl Sheriff Clifford Patten and Chie Deputy L L Larsen to whom the in formation was given declare the problem of how the girls body was transported from the point on Fifth East street where she was kidnaped to the Jordan surplus canal is now With the solution of that question of transportation investigators say the murder of the Nelson girl no longer will be a mystery Small Ice Truck Seen Going Through Park The small Ice truck according to came near colliding with ah automobile in which a party of young people was riding The auto mobiles engaged in a treasure hunt stopped at the log cabin on the main drive in the park As the first car pulled away the second came up and the young people sought ths hiding instructions as to how to proceed in the hunt In backing away from the ren the second car was nearly rammed by the small truck investi gators were told Greger Segerstedt 284 M street driver of the car said he saw the ice wagon Gilbert Nobbs 146 Second also asserted he saw it and remarked this is afine time for an ice wagon to be out Mrs Nobbs did not observe the car she said Misa Segerstedt 284 M street Miss Hazel Clinger 963 Third avenue and Brick Olsen if who were in thecar the little truck of Another Car Sees Later in the presence of deputy sheriffs most of these witnesses identified a small ice truck as the car that nearly hit them at oclock New Years morning Joel Tate 634 Eighth East street driver of another car said he ob served the ice truck going south slowly through the park Witnesses declared that as the driver of the truck neared commission to keep its hands out of By this action the state takes a fin the situation The commission had stand to prevent the building of final a authorized the filing of a suit in the 1 great darn across the Colorado river supreme court of the United States near the point where three to prevent the construction of Nevada and der dam as provided in the Swing Johnson Which was signed by President Coolidge join Since the Boulder dam project be gan to take form after the signing Senator Keath St Charles of Mo of the compact at Santa Fe N M several years ago Arizona that her rights would be transgressed if the provisions of the measure were made effective Rights of State Attacked The Arizona Colorado river com mission has taken the position that the Boulder more water to California than that state should have from the stream and that Arizona would be deprived j among other things of some of her water rights I The commissions action which the position of the state gave sudden answer to hints in the past that Arizona might y decide to ratify the river pact Reports In official circles here yes erday were that some of the other tales were adjusting their respective with regard to the river measure At Salt Lake yesterday Governor George H Dern in his message to thi urged Utah to withhold of the Colorado rive until Arizona reached a cle on It Utah once ratified th but withdrew its later Advices received here have immediately gained the floor and declared that if the commission has the right to initiate a suit against the Boulder dam project it should be stripped of immediately Senator St Charles statement was greeted with cheers The resolution brought sharp de bate from Senator Favour of Yava pai who declared that it would place much responsibility upon the gov ernor After several minutes of argument President Hill of the senate ordered the resolution tabled for a day CRUISER FIGHT BEGINS Friends of Measure Meet Stiff Opposition From Western Group WASHINGTON Jan 16 senate turned toJay to the other side of the controversy when advocates of the for the construction of 16 new warships took the offensive in an attempt to win for their measure approval similar to the Kellogg treaty to re war Waiting however for the to make a determined fight against the construction of the pro posed 15 and one aircraft carrier was a formidable group of senators who hope to defeat the or at least materially reduce the number of cruisers to be authorized Equally determined to keep the measure Intact was Chairman Hale of the senate naval affairs commit tee who was given support in the opening debate by a Democrat Sen ator Swansea of Virginia who aided the log cabin he sped up and passed tne administration in its fight for i i f tf inn tAn them at a high rate of speed going south through the park and turning west on Thirteenth South street The Nelson girls body was found at Red wood road and a continuation of this street The group of young persons in the car driven by Tate declared they did not observe the ice truck Sheriff Patten and Chief Larsen believe the driver of the little car seen by the treasure seeKers probably intended to deposit his car on Pase Column One Folks To Welcome Edison FORT MYERS Fla Jan 16 Thomas A Edison is coming back to his winter home here tonight Many local friends will be on hand tonight to give Mr Edison a rousing welcome home as he steps from his train His 1914 Ford automobile will be ready for the aged inventor The car a present from Henry Ford still is by Mr EaSson Mr Edisons laboratory also has been put in readiness for his coming pnd a corps of assistants will be on hand to start as early as possible on experiments designed to find a sub for rubber TREATY SIGNING FETE ARRANGED ratification of the Kellogg pact Construction of the new ships has the active support of President Cool who repeatedly has given ex pression to a desire for the authori of additional war craft Thi president however has nation of a clause providing that thi ships shall bs laid down within fivi years This provision is known as the time clause the retention o which is insisted upon by Chairman on Paic Three Column Four Continued 01 Page Four Column Typ School Heads V Face Charges Water Tainted With Salt peter Declared One Cause of Falal Illness r ATTACKS DEBT Alfred E Smith nho asks friends to obligations TEGUCIGALPA Honduras Jan of American from Nicaragua s the con upon which General Angus no Nicaraguan rebel lead r Is willing to lay down his arms Cotters written by General Sandind this and that he will not deal the United States were made by the newspaper El Sol editors announced that the of the documents was question One letter is an answer to David Seller U S N the special service quadron in Central American wa ers and to Brigadier General Lo an U S M C commanding he marines in Nicaragua It reads Patriotism compelled me to repel orce by force and I must absolutely eject any interference by your gov in the internal affairs of ur country and demonstrate that he sovereignty of a people cannot be discussed but only defended by arms in my hand Agrees to Nicaragua Authorities Remaining It is in this sense that I say hat I could cuter into a settlement for peace only with Moncada in spite of the fact that he became a traitor to the liberal party which error he can correct by means of a compromise to be concluded with the Continued on Pase Three Column NINE YEARS OLD DRY ACT DIVIDED U S Opinions as to Success of Measure Slill Vary With Sympathies Threat of Arizonans To Sue Over Boulder Excites Utah Solons CHECKS ENTER KEYES TRIAL SMITH WANTS Happy Warrior for Funds Book of Speeches to Donors By RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Correspondent WASHINGTON Jan 1C Federal prohibition entered its tenth year today still political probem engaging attention from Presidentelect Hoover down Developments on the ninth birth day of federal prohibition included was made that Presidentelect Hoover will appoint nil expert commission to investigate prohibition soon after he is rated Secretary of Treasury Lowman asserted prohibition is more effective than ever before but that states and local authorities must un the federal government cannot become village policeman but must content itself with attack ing major of supply Scott general su of the league announced he backs Secre tory of Treasury Mellon in opposing the additional prohibition enforcement appropriation proposed by Senator Harris Georgia bone Democrat and drys in congress de I bated the merits of prohibition with l the usual Inconclusive results Sena tor Sheppard Texas Democrat and the eighteenth amendment declaring prohibition is forever an chored In the head and purpose of Almighty God REMOVED General Booth declared in capable of doing duties River Pact Becomes Topic in Legislative Cor Governor Silent Opinion to How State Should Accept Ac tion Taken at Phoenix Gif i Found Dead in Car Gas Declared Cause ALBUQUERQUE N M Jan 16 diet of bread and water water tainted by the taste of saltpeter and injections of when they objected was the punishment meted out to six inmates of the girls welfare home for escaping it testified this afternoon at an inquest into the death of Helen Haskew 18 of Por tales who died from the effects of the punishment The inquest was conducted before a jury by Dr F E Bird county physician who refused to accept the report of Dr Evelyn Frisbie ho roe thah ivas due to a heart attack induced by exposure which toe girl suffered when she escaped The jury returned a verdict that the death was due to laok of pure water and to the twilight sleep in Expense Accounts of Pay off Man Show Presents for State Attorney LOS ANGELES Jan 16 checks which Louis Berman testi fied he gave fn Ben for ex penses in with the fix ing of the Julian Petroleum case were introduced as evidence by the state in the trial of former District Attorney Asa Keyes and five others on bribery charges here today Four checks of each and one check for mads payable to B and written by Louis Berman between June and August 24 1928 upon the direction of his brother Ja cob who was a case defen dant according to Louis testimony In Crossing Crash BRENTWOOD N Y Jan 16 Five unidentified persons were killed when was struck by an cast bound Long Island railroad train near E Smith recent Democratic Five Die candidate and former gover nor of New York appealed to the rank and file of the Democratic radio tonight to help raise the deficit that stands as an aftermath of the happy war riors defeat He spoke over a hookup of thirty sta tions under the auspices of the na committee Mr Smith announced that his con would bs the Democratic committee of his cam speeches for which he had had several offers from publish ers A of the speeches illustrated with photographs taken on his campaign tours and published by the national committee with no profit the former governor will be sent to each contributor who sends in or more Refers to Logic Sounded By Franklin Roosevelt In making his appeal for funds the former governor seconded recent as of Governor Franklin D Roosevelt that the HIGH COUNCIL BOOTH Salvation Army Head Loses Position Held Since the Death of His Father THAMES En gland Jan 16 Brain Boulder held the spot light of Interest In thti Utah ture Wednesday as a ol the announcement in Ariz that the Arizona Colorado river sion had voted to bring suit in the United States supreme court to pre vent construction of the project as it did on the Governor George H Derris advice to he legislature in his biennial roes age Tuesday that action by Utah OR he question of ratifying the Swing Johuson be deferred until zonas attitude was ascertained ths decision of the Arizona commission caused a lurry of uncertainty among the Utah lawmakers No legislation bearing upon the Oam project has been introduced and nona of the legislators was willing to state publicly but in committee rooms and corridors th subject was discussions of problems faced legislature Opinions Called Some privately expressed the ion that action obviates the necessity for delay ratifies t ion of the by reentry Into the corn pact Others held that the uncer tainty aroused by suit by made delay more impera tive Governor Derh said he no statement until he complete information concerning the plan ofthe Arizona Friends project however are marshaling strength for the expected battle here It is known that Utah is looked upon Continued on Column Paso Til re e Three were presented A check for ty needs more consistent national bearing for golf clubs to publicity between campaigns A K which was made out to a Immediately following every na sporting goods house anda check for election he said Is which Louis Berman said was payment for lamps and lampshades bought by Keyes also were presented Declares Brother Told Him To Buy Golf Clubs Who told you to buy the golf clubs Robert L Stewart chief deputy district attorney asked Louis Berman My brother Jacob He gave me WASHINGTON Jan 16 White House ceremony was arranged today by President Coolidge for his formal signing at 10 oclock tomor row morning of the document of ratification of the treaty pledging the nations of the world to renounce war Members of the senate who yester day ratified the treaty by a vote of 83 to 1 were invited to attend by Mr Coolidge who also will have with him the members of the cabinet The ceremony will be held in the east room of the White House Wave Kills Cook Injures Ship Creir NEW YORK Jan 16 cook was kilted and several other members of the crew were injured by a gigantic wave that surged over bow of ths White Star liner Ma jestic on the crossing completed when th ship docked here today The wave twisted steel bulkheads mail ruined part of the car po and necessitated removal of the 239 passengers toother quarters The wave hit the vessel Monday afternoon and the engine room crew was still pumping out tons of water dumped Into the hold at thac time when the ship docked WHEELING W Va Jan 16 Tha bodies of a boy and girl each 16 years old were found in a small closed automobile along a country road here today and authorities ex pressed a belief they were victims of carbon monoxide poisoning the in tense cold or a combination of the two elements The couple Eliza beth Ayers and Edward Price both of Elm Grove a suburb were last seen alive when they went for a ride last night Deputy sheriffs who investigated said found no evidence of foul play except a small discolored spot on the car which might have been made by blood lections administered by Miss Bertha Lips superintendent and Dr Frisbie the home physician District Attor ney Eugene Lujan said he would file manslaughter charges against both women probably within the next twentyfour hours Conditions at the home de scribed at the inquest by five girls who escaped with Miss and were recaptured twenty miles from town The girts said the unbearable life in the institution caused them to attempt to escape They said that the water given them when they were brought back contained so much saltpeter that it tasted like poison They told how K en rebelled against taking the water and about thn of twilight sleep to quiet her Her death Sunday fol lowed the injection by about eighteen hours Appropriation Measure Provides Half Billion for War Veterans WASHINGTON Jan 16 most half a billion dollars will be expended by the United States next year In taking care of the problems of the world war veterans and In the administration of the various func tions of the veterans bureau An appropriation reported to the house today to provide funds for various independent government ac included an item of ready 000 for th bureau This money will be divided ill be for military and naval compensation for insurance for the ad justed compensation or fund for salaries and bureau expenses for medical and hospital services and for hospitals The total amount carried in the Uill was 314144 or more than was supplied for the cur rent year The increase was largely hi the annual allotment for military and naval Insurance and hospita facilities Ten Hospitals Will Be Finished in Year The hospital appropria tion was designed to carry to com the hospital building pro gram now authorized Ten of the hospitals will be completed and for use during were they given I took them to Asa Keyes home in Continued on Pace Three Column Three Circus Man Finds Haven From Wife In Animal West Pays Final Tribute to Last Of Says Of Pedestrians Chicago Captain Sees No Use for Traffic Lights Goes for All Cities LOS ANGELES Jan 16 Al G Barnts Stonehouse the Al G Barnes of circus fame tes in connection with a suit for separate maintenance by his second wife told the court here today that she chased him about a big tent with a horse whip and he escaped her only by taking refuge in a wild Animals cage Stonehouse said he had divorcee Sarah Jane Stonehouse his second wife in Las Vegas Nev in 1923 and that she was not en titled to an allowance now woman claims that her husband was not a lega resident of LCS Vegas anc that the decree Is void Stonehouse the grounds that his wife followed the show about from place to place and interfered with business He said she forced him to discharge a woman who was billed as the worlds greatest trainer Tennessee Table Evolution Repeal NASHVILLE Term Jan 16 The bin to repeal tion law was tabled by the house of the general assembly today ready for use during iris year in T h r eluding the followin motion was made by li Tucson Ariz recreation building i taUve Phillips Republican and quarters Walla Walla Wash Passed overwhelmingly new Infirmary building In addition fourteen other hospi tals or hospital buildings arc ex and was ff D LOS ANGELES Jan 16 Univer old west today burled its Earp last of the storied whose blazing guns brought law and order to the roaring towns of the frontier Men palsied with age who had been youths when the west too had been young men high i in prof es and business life men in som scorched by desert winds and bitten by Alaskan gath ered at the funeral chapel an hour before the simple services were to start And they stayed for one two hours afterward living again the brave old days while the rain outside furnished a melancholy accompani ment for their reminiscences Earp last of the famous gun fight ing clan that included Bat Master son Doc Holliday Wild Hic kok the four Earp brothers Uncle Ben Thompson and died peacefully at his home here Sunday of a liver complaint He was 81 Blind Newsboy Robbed by Trick Tribune SOUTH BEND Ind Jan Business was good with Henry Em blind news dealer The pacers that he sold went unusually fast During morning a man ap snd asked for a paper He offered a dollar and he gave him the paper and change Later the same voice him for another paper again there was the dollar and the paper and the change Then business wert through its usual humdrum routine That n Ing as he checked his money he discovered that he had been tricked The dol lar bills were only scraps of a news paper cut in size and shape of a dol lar CHICAGO Jan 16 Let the pedestrian alone Let him hop skip and jump with and against the traffic improve his health Tills was Captain Frank J Mat chetts advice to all village town and city traffic departments and having been head of Chicagos police traf fic department for many years his advice is sound ordinances are the bunc declared Captain Mat chett who continued And that Chicago New York and other as well as for the medium sized and smaller well of the Salvation Army was adjudicated unfit to that office by the high council pf the army here One commissioner was absent and not of eral Booth votes twice the feat the motion A general can only be removed because of by a threequarters majority of the counciL Matier For Fourteen Hours The council had sat fourteen hours today debating the momentous rues tion with adjournments only for meals No reports came from the strictly guarded premises of Sun bury court but it the argument ct times was heated General William Bramwell Booth succeeded his father General Wil liam Booth the founder of the Army on his death in 1912 He had become an of fleer and from 1880 un til he was made general he was chief of staff He became ill last spring and was ordered to rest although his condi tion did not become serious until some months later The high coun cil of the army had been in nomi nal existence for twentyfour years but had never been called On No 15 it was summoned for the present meeting The council was called not only as the scene of fight over the project The cannot become effective without at least ratification by six states Ap or Utah nieces sary and few friends of the project abna Friends of the project are seeking brine by on he ground economic ad would accrue Jo this state roth construction of thY project bc development in California would widen the market for Utah Doubt that Utahs water rights are ully protected and fear by the federal govern ment on states rights are the prin cipal weapons of opponents of the project Malt Venders Leave the lowly pedestrian alone When they dodge automobiles all day they dont need exercises Jaywalking ordinances are very well for those not tried them We hare we let the pedestrian suit his own pleasure crossing at street Intersections or In the middle of the block just so long as he doesnt Interfere with traffic And the pedestrian of his own volition Is solving the problem he moves and fast Captain Matchett outlined that in congested zones the crowds cannot rr re as rapidly as motor traffic and jaywalking rules be en forced sidewalks would be jammed for blocks as the surplus of foot traffic was caught between the changing of ENGINEERS ELECT NEW YORK Jan 16 An son Marston dean ot engineering at Iowa State college was elected pres ident of the American Society of Civil Engineers today at the seventy sixth annual meeting of the organi sation BANKER AT SEA SEATTLE Wash Jan 16 to be ready for use at various Word of the death at sea of Otto times during 1930 These Include i Tremont Barrand New York banker American Lake Wash 100 was received here today by the al beds Palo Alto Calif attendants American Mail line officials from the quarters Sheridan Wyo recreation President Cleveland on which Earrand was traveling to ths Ori on Thne Column Four cut Continued jm Ftse Three Hamilton Bust Stolen From Hall Heavily Guarded Tribune Press Service NEW YORK Jan police were asked today to find Alexande Bronze bust of th illustrious secretary of the was stolen some time Tuesday nigh from the Hall of Fame The sizable piece of metal was abr from the colonnade of the American New Tork university while four university watchmen were en duty and about prowled Commission er Whalens men os tensibly detecting wid preventing crime LEXINGTON JCy Jan 16 A drive against the sale of malt fla vored with hop syrup launched in Lexington and vicinity recently to had netted a total of in fines in federal Seventyfour grocery owners Drunken Driver in Australia Runs Risk of Getting Hanged Quake Shakes Manila Luzon MANILA Jan 16 quake Manila and the north crn part of Luzon island this after noon No damage was reported CLEVELAND Jan 16 tralia although without a tion statute has avoided the driver problem by making the penal ties so strict that motorists fear to incur them according to Charles W Lloyd of Adelaide Australia who is here to study highway and traffic questions at the annual convention of the American as sociation Killing Person Serious Offense In Antipodes A motorist is liable to be hanged if he kills a person while under the influence of liquor Lloyd said Or If the driver is convicted only of manslaughter in such cases he Is subject to eight to ten yean Knocking another person scious in traffic accidents is punish able by two to four years Imprison ment if the driver Is intoxicated while the lowest penalty for drunken driving is a fine of sis months Imprisonment and loss of license i Street Worked in With Stop and Go Signals Lloyd said he the most per fect system of traffic lights that he has yet fcen in America In Toledo where the street names and an Indi cation of the numbers ere worked in with the stop and go signs Lloyd is representing the Australian govern ment at the convention At the annual banquet tonight speakers wera Attorney General John R Sannders of Virginia Sen John G Townsend charges possession and illegal sale of malt Judge A M J Cochran yesterday Three chain stores each eighteen independent grocers paid fines and clerks and managers were fined each In rilling the sales to have been violations of the Volstead act Judge Cochran convinced from evidence that such a compound is not fit tor any other purpose than the manufacture of beer PARIS Jan 16 slight im provement in the condition of Mar shal Foch was reported by his doctors as they emerged from their early evening consultation over the stricken of the al lied army The fact that they Issued no formal communique and that none of the doctors remained over night with the patient combined to produce some feeling ot encourage ment among the marshals friends There was open joy and exuber ance at the Foch offices hi the In building where General Wey slapped Major on the back and exclaimed That is much better the great marshal will see it through East Predicts Choice of Gates Delaware and Thomas McDonald chief of the of public roads tutted States department of agri chose The Tribune WASHINGTON Jan name of Louis S Gates of Salt Late City is now being mentioned daily in j eastern papers as thz best bet for appointment in the Hoover cabinet f as secretary of the interior Some o far as to department of agri culture Officials of the association tonight were considering the of a committee to appear before con gress on matters of This l have seen ths presidentelect In be half of Mr Gates have a feeling of confidence that he will be the next head of the interior department yet tion The proposal will come up for they say that they received no as action at the final session surance from Mr
