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Show News Review Events the Secretary Roper Offers Plan for Big Cut in Commerce Department Expenses; Congress Tackles Legislation Legisla-tion for Relief of Small Home Owners. ORCJtBTARY of Commerce Roper has laid before President Roosevelt Roose-velt a plan to make drastic reduction reduc-tion In the expense of hi depart ment which has long been pointed to aa an outstanding example of the ex- Wiv'fmA travagant bureau-ly bureau-ly ' cracy of Washing ton. Mr. toiier proposes pro-poses 40 slash the expenditures of the U ment from $45,000,- - . msi in uie current t) cretary year t $20,000,000 RPer .1 In the next fiscal year, a reduction of $19,000,000, or 42 per cent. If the report Is approved, and Secretary Iioper Is successful In operating op-erating his department at such a laving. It Is believed he will proportionately pro-portionately far outdistance In economy econ-omy promotion any of the other departments. de-partments. The secretary plans to consolidate many activities of the department and to abandon others. The figure of $20,000,000, which he proposes pending In the 1934 fiscal year, beginning be-ginning next July 1, Is not only 42 per cent under the 1933 figure, but It Is nearly $11,000,000 under the actual appropriations made for 1934 by the last congress. The appropriation appro-priation bills carry an expenditure of $3fl,(!0r,405 for the Commerce department de-partment In 1934. This la the first time In the history his-tory of the government, according to Secretary Roper, that an administration admin-istration ha suggested it Is not wise or safe to use money which congress Itself has appropriated, but he declares that the administration adminis-tration Intended to carry out faithfully faith-fully Its campaign pledges of economy. Mr. Roper plans to establish six bureaus to take over the work heretofore done by ten. The six bureaus will be the transportation, patents, census, standards, fisheries and foreign and domestic commerce. The bureau of transportation will embody supervision of the government govern-ment over all forms of transportation, transporta-tion, land, air and water. The Roper plan contemplates merging onder one subordinate to become the new assistant secretary of commerce com-merce for transportation, supervision supervi-sion over the Interstate Commerce commission, and the activities of the United States ahlpplng board; the Agricultural department's bureau bu-reau of weather and public roads; the federal radio commission, the Commerce department's bureau of aeronautics, geodetic survey, lighthouses light-houses and navigation, steamboat Inspection; the War department's inland waterways corporation; the oaval observatory, and the national advisory committee for aeronautics. TpIIK ambitious scheme, conceived by President Roosevelt, to make the Tennessee river valley the scene of an Industrial, economical and so- llal experiment, haa been laid before congress in a brief message. ' Mr. Roosevelt's hope la to demon-itrate demon-itrate In the Tennessee Ten-nessee valley that great economic thangea for the better bet-ter can be made by tonservlng and de-reloplng de-reloplng natural resources. re-sources. Sen. Morris "Such use, If envisioned In Its entirety," en-tirety," said the President In his message, "transcends mere power levelopmeut ; It entera the wide Held of flood control, soil erosion, ifforestatlon, elimination from agrl-tulture agrl-tulture use of marginal lands, and attribution and diversification of Industry. "In short, this power development develop-ment of war days leads logically to national planning for a complete river watershed Involving many itatea and the future lives and welfare of millions. It touchea and rives life to all forms of human toncerns. "I, therefore, suggest to the congress con-gress legislation to create a Ten-lessee Ten-lessee valley authority a corporation corpora-tion clothed with the power of government gov-ernment but possessed of the flexibility flexi-bility and Initiative of a private enterprise. en-terprise. "It aliould be charged with the sroadert duty ofptnnjnti)g for the proper use, conservation and flevel opment of the natural resources of the Tennessee river drainage basin and Its adjoining territory for the general social and economic welfare of the nation. This authority author-ity should also tie clothed with the necessary power to varry these plans Into effect." The President's plan Includes the running of electric now or Into every farm, to control crop productions, produc-tions, to build dams and promote forestatlon projects In the Interest ; of relieving unemployment It Is a j far-reaching plan which will take ! years to work out, but If a plau la ' of Current World Over agreed upon and It appeara successful success-ful even before It la fully tried out, the President expects to apply similar sim-ilar projects to other river valleys of the nation. To carry out the President's scheme Senator Norrla of Nebraska Introduced In the aenate a bill for government operation of the huge war-time power and nitrate plant at Muscle Shoals, which to date has cost the American taxpayers some $iro,ooo.ooo. RBLIEF for small home owners who are staggering under $20,-000,000.000 $20,-000,000.000 of mortgage debts Is asked by President Roosevelt In a special message to congress. Bills with that end In view were introduced intro-duced In both houses. In his message the President laid down a new national policy to protect pro-tect owners of homes valued at not more than $10,000 from foreclosure and excessive Interest rates as the next atep In his program for economic eco-nomic recovery. The proposed legislation would set up the Home Owner's ixian corporation, cor-poration, to be organized and operated op-erated by the federal home loan bank board, for the direct and Immediate Im-mediate relief of small owners and holders of small borne mortgages. The corporation would have a capital cap-ital of $200,000,000 subscribed by the treasury and would be authorized author-ized to Issue 4 per cent bonds up to $200,000,000. These bonds would be exchanged for mortgages on homes not exceeding $10,000 In value, up to 80 per cent of the property value. Home owners would pay B per cent Interest to the corporation, with fifteen "years to pay off the loan. A special provision Is made for a moratorium, not exceeding three years, on Interest and principal princi-pal payments. Direct loans, up to SO per cent of the assessed value of the property, may be made by the corporation to home owners, If the property Is hot otherwise encumbered. CECRETART of the Treasury Woodln has laid down the law to the New York clearing house, composed of twenty of the biggest banks In the city. lie has told the clearing house banks. In diplomatic diplomat-ic language, that they muat keep their word and make good the deposits de-posits of the llarrl-man llarrl-man National Bank anil TVuat t r m pany, now In the y J nanus or a reoerai conservator. The pressure brought Secretary Woodln by Woodln, It Is expected. JQU cost the clearing house banks In "the vicinity vi-cinity of $0,000,000. The firm stand of the secretary was made known simultaneously with the arraignment In court of Joseph W. Harrlman. former chairman chair-man and president of the bank bearing his name. Mr. Harrlman. Ill since Ms arrest, was brought Into court In a wheel chair. The Indictment charges that he caused false entries to be made In the bank's books, covering the use of $1,713,225 of the depositors' money for speculation In the bank's stock. Secretary Woodln's action Is based on a pledge given to the con-tflrdler con-tflrdler of the treasury at a time when the hank was In financial dif-Acuities, dif-Acuities, that the clearing house would support the bnnk. PETITIONS have been filed with the United States senate from citizens of Louisiana demanding the removal of Iluey P. Ixing as senator from that state. The petl tlona accuse the senator of personal person-al dishonesty and corruptness. The petitioners asserted they could furnish witnesses to establish that Long "was personally dishonest dishon-est corrupt and Immoral," and add ed Iong's continuance In office "Is repulsive to the respectable and law-abiding citizens of Louisiana and to the nation." They contended, among other things, that IOng had "created and maintained In Louisiana a system of corruption and debauchery un-paralled un-paralled In the history of the state." FEDERAL legislation for a 30 " hour working week, lu Industry was assured when the administration administra-tion placed Itself squarely behind tile measure. The bill has already passed the sentite. and It Is expected ex-pected to be quickly approveI by the house and signed by the President. Presi-dent. The bill, regarded as one of the most rudl'.til labor measures to win the administration support, provides In Its present form that for nn emergency period of two years no articles may he rcccn ed In Inter state shipment whleh have been manufactured or "produced bv labor working more t ti n n sl h..urs In any day, or more than die days In any week. pur ACTION on the farm relief bill was delayed by a controversy aroused over the Simpson prlce-flx-Ing plan which has been written Into the administration Mil. This developed at a time when the Roosevelt program for Increasing the farmers' Income and lifting the burden of mortgages was bumping along on a rough road sprinkled with demands for currency expansion expan-sion aa a meana of reatorlng agrl culture. The mortgage section of the administration ad-ministration bill Is almost certalr to have the approval of the house. In anticipation of the passage o the bill, Henry Morgenthau, chair man of the federal farm board. I getting his department fully pre pared to speed the actual application applica-tion of the relief. Some delays In putting Into effect ef-fect all the credit relief facilities planned by President Roosevelt and Mr. Morgenthau will be occasioned by reason of the fact that the consolidation consoli-dation order under which the Presl dent Joined all farm credit aetlv Itlea doesn't become effective for some six weeks yet Rut Mr. Morgenthau haa reached out Into the other agencies which soon will come under his hand, and as soon as the credit bill becomes law be expects to bring about a prompt organization of the work of Issuing 4V4 per cent bonds to be exchanged ex-changed for the present farm mortgages mort-gages averaging higher than . 0V4 per cent President Roosevelt Is reported to he firmly of the opinion that the biggest help that can be given to the farmers at this time ts a loosening loos-ening of their credit. Once the farmers' debts are erased, debts contracted when land values were high and crop prices up, It may not be necessary, In the opinion of many of the administration advisers outside the group controlled by Secretary Sec-retary of Agriculture Wallace, to resort to price fixing and allotment Schemes, to help the fanner. A 2-CENT postal rate within cities, retaining the 3-cent rate for Interdlstrlct postage, la recommended recom-mended In a plan for balancing the post office budget submitted to President Roosevelt by Postmaster General Farley. It la Mr. Farley's hope that by Increased postal revenues rev-enues and a program of economy, to balance the budget, which at the present rate Is running Into an an nual deficit of $132,000,000. The postmaster general said he had received opinions that If the postal rate Is cut the volume of business will be so restored as to yield greatly Increased revenues, and he added that some advisers felt that a flat 2-cent letter postal rate over the country would bring In enough revenue to balance the postal budget. The postmaster general also disclosed dis-closed a study Is being made on whether the department shall continue con-tinue the heretofore somewhat farcical far-cical practice of giving examina tions to first and second-class post masters. B1' A vote of 99 to 1 Michigan's constitutional convention went on record as favoring the abolition of the Eighteenth amendment, and so Michigan has the distinction of being the first state to ratify the Twenty-first, or repealer, amend ment submitted by congress. There were great cheers and hand clapping when the roll was called on the ratification of the Twenty-first amendment. The lone dry vote was cast by Eugene Davenport Dav-enport of Hastings, Barry county, former dean of the college of agriculture agri-culture of the Unlversltv of Illinois THE tach Immense Importance at- tied to the Washington con- ference by the British Is Indlcnt- ed In the personnel of the party l-V-St"" ' "1 accomimnyiiiK Pre t i No more Important i g group of British of i?s tnte tma ai-ur Dnim Ff. a anroaa. ami it Is t",S .),, 1, Vive 111 L 1 J 1 III (iV II Is exiected from the meet I tig between be-tween the British prime minister and President Roosevelt. Roose-velt. The chief delegate dele-gate after MacDon L Premier MacDonald ald himself Is Sir Robert Vanslttart. permanent undersecretary of the foreign office. Sir Robert Is the permanent chief of the foreign office, of-fice, no matter what foreign secretaries secre-taries come and go. and all the threads of British diplomacy are In 1 his hands. He knows America well, ! his first wife having been an Amer- i lean. i The next member of the party Is Sir Frederick lelth -Ro.s. treasury 1 expert, who has represented Great 1 Britain at oil financial meetings for some years. The third inember Is A. B. Overton, asslstnot .r,.t,,r,. 1 or the board of trade, whose specialty spe-cialty Is tariffs and International trade relations. pi:i:siDi:.T i;xisi:vkits invi tatlon to Japan to Join the trade anil political conferences In Wash Ington has mused a complete change In the attitude of .lapMn toward America practically overnight. Friends of America express Jubilation, Jubila-tion, seeing the first ray of ,M,H f,,r the return of relations betueen (. two nations to the friendly stnte e l.stlng before the Mukden Inciden-on Inciden-on September IS, I'.i.'ll. C 153J. Wi..t,,n N,1W,, L' nlon. AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN Intermountain News -Brfciy "toTd for Buey Reader A GOLD STRIKE FEED MANY KI.K WAR ON (iOPHKRS EIGHT I.I0NS SLAIN FOREST ARMY FLANS GUNNISON. I T. A war on gophers bos bcvii conducted in Sanpete county. ST. GEORCK, I T -Jack butler of Moqultlch deer camp hn reported report-ed killing eight mountain Hons 00 the Dixie preserve during the past few weeks. BOISE, IDA.-During the past nine months S.iUJ.o.'W in gold bat poured Into (lie Boise assay office and It is thought It would exceed a half million by the end of the fiscal fis-cal year. July 1. BOULDER 1TV. NEV. Construction Con-struction of a cement blending plant, to cost $125,000, will be stnrted at Hoover dam soon. It has been announced an-nounced by government engineers. This Is the first time that a project of thls.type has required such equipment. equip-ment. (XJDEN, IT M G. Pence, manager man-ager of the Farmer's National Grain corporation, says that the wheat crop lu Idaho and Utah this year will beftoly tio to 70 per cent normal because of backward nprliig, with virtually no growing weather. Fall sown wheat, he added, has been winter killed to a large extent and snow lg still on the ground In many localities. JACKSON, WYO Twelve thousand thous-and elk have been fed all winter In the Jackson Mole, Wyo., country. The extensive feeding was made necessary ne-cessary by the heavy snows and extreme ex-treme cold in Yellowstone park and Wyoming game preserves, which drove the animals down into the valley. The feeding will cease the latter part of this month. BOISE. IDA A vein of gold bearing ore, lost thru a fault In the rock, bns been discovered In the Golden Anchor mine In the Marshall Lake district of Valley county. SALT LAKK CITY, IT. Plans as outlined for reforestation work In Utah, under President Roosevelt's reforestation program, contemplate the expenditure of $1,548,000 on 14 different projects, aiming chiefly at erosion and flood control and reforestation. re-forestation. It Is reported that Utah's quota of the conservation corps will probably be under training train-ing at Fort Douglas by the end of April. The state quota Is believed to approximate 1000. Recruits from southern" JdTSio also will train at Fort Douglas before being dispatched dispatch-ed to the forestatlon camps, where the government plans to launch large projects. Recruits from northern north-ern Idaho will be conditioned at Fort Wrigl-t. Spokane, Wash. ROISi:, IDA. Spring planting Is progressing rapidly In north Idaho but per- i-!ent cold weather haa delayed de-layed it generally over t lie Kt:Hl (;l-i:. I T. An additional 500 barrels l'KI.OOO pounds of Red Cross f. ur, has leen received for distrihuii' n to needy families in Og-den Og-den City and Weber county. Bnisi:. IDA. Plans for using 8,000 men of the Roosevelt Job army have 1"'. n drafted by foresters of southwe-! Tn and Central Idaho. Moldi.W, UT. Farmers of Morgan Mor-gan county this year will plant 225 acres of seed peas on ground that has liecn used for other crops the past few years, according to a report re-port nude by C. R. Richards, county coun-ty ag. i.f. UoISi:, IDA. The first case of spotted fi ver reported In Boise this j season is being, treated in bos-pita I r j here. Arthur Furber, 4", of Naiiipu, j was brought In from Juntura, Ore, where he was taken ill with the dis ease. . was working on a road crew. 1 he disease, spread, accord ing to an'horitles, by the bite of a wood tick, annually costs several lives in western Idaho. Preventive serum for !t00 patients has leen (lis trlhuted this I (Jl'parlniriit of spring by the state public welfare from ocks provided by the bureau ol pshlic health laboratory at Hanill ton. Mont. IK USE, IDA. The state depart ment of public welfare has proffer ed assistance in preserving water supplies of the state from contami nation by the cnnis of the M army i expected soon. In a letter to Rob'l j Coulter, state land commissioner, j W. V. b'otiard, Mate sanitary en ' ginecr. said he would outline on ! forestry maipsnTfe drainage area- i various municipal water sup 1 lU,'s wul(l ndvisfc ti,e furcM s''rvi'', 'f possible to hx-ate the 1 liiuH "Ulide Ihewe bounds In cases 1 "w,l, r'- establishment of I a ti o r caniiw umild constitute 11 11 ni lnal or for IMitenti.il menace to the water sup ply - P.iUSi:. IDA. Because tie fn.e his f.-4-t while walking his "beat" in sub cm weather lust December. Wb n T. Riley, Itols.. ,lty patrol-man, patrol-man, I ; is brought suit fur eoinM-nsa-lion nir.br the workmen's comiK'n-s.iti comiK'n-s.iti u a,: nnd Lis :ie as t for Ip'.-i ' 1, '. iv .1. ST i lultCK. IT Deer In the I'll,- 'Vy district of I be Dixie Nn- I""- f i--t are Increasing each ear i' i, reported, after the third "in u 1 . me Miney, recently coin-,i'. coin-,i'. t. d. Scenes and I vl1.. 1. Army day parade In New fork. 2. Lieut. -Com. H. V. Wiley and two enlisted mea, the Akron disaster, reporting to Secretary of the Navy Swanson. 8, Mayor Frank Murphy governor general of the Philippines. 1 : , J What Happens When Chemical Factory Bui? 1 i 11 "1 I I l I J,l 1J 1 11 I T I FTTH 'HI II II .j H I Mill II 'II rTl I IT rTnnrl Irn rTTTrTTnn TitT I 1111' m I 'III I I I I I 1 jisj n . .1 ' " " T . 3 An explosion occurred recently devaswted area, houses blown to pieces and everything covered with debris. NEXT MEXICAN RULER Gen. Lazaro Cardenas, now secretary sec-retary of war and navy, who Is expected ex-pected to become the next President of Mexico. SMALLEST CATCHER Making a strong bid for the regi. lar bin k stopping Job with th. Cleveland Indians. Is I'rank I'yllak; "Rabbit." they call because he's that frisky. Frank I -t in,,,ng only feet 0 Inches, is th. mi a l est cnlcl.ei lu the iwajor ' kJfea pit r I o ,t:' .. .' 1 : D Persons in the Current NJ c In a chemical factory In Surrey, England. The photopf I "Old Man River" Goes on M 1 - ... . With the Mississippi river at the highest point ilKtj floods of 1927, tributary streams are sending their wateris! of acres of farms, driving thousands of the natives fr Photograph shows a typical scene at Webb, Miss., ner river, a tributary of the Mississippi, has completely tnon Rough Seas Off the English j V J I v t ice The Soutbern rallwav crosa-rhnnnAl hont Worthlnl ') th of the gale as she headed past the breakwater i 'J r xite ror nim.im Tki. ..v. 1. . 1 iik innr"' . aiiib ooiirt;i upil llkrn wu" j etnpllflea the difficulties which beset shipping during row w 1 '-zmS la m m 1 |