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Show THE HELPER JOURNAL. HELPER, UTAH on the farm relief bill by a controversy aroused over the Simpson price-fiing plan which has been written Into the administration bill. This developed nt a time when the Roosevelt program for Increasing the farmers' income and lifting the burden of mortgages was bumping on a rough road sprinkled along Commerce with demands for Big Cut Secretary Roper Offers for currency expansion as a means of restoring agriTackles LegislaDepartment Expenses; Congress culture. The mortgage section of the adfor Relief of Small Home Owners. ministration bill is almost certair to have the approval of the house. CECTtETARY of Commerce Roper agreed upon and It appears successIn anticipation of the passage o ful even before it Is fully tried out, the bill, Flenry Morgenthau. chair has laid before President Roosevelt a plan to make drastic reduc- the President expects to apply sim- man of the federal farm board, t tions Id the expeuEe of tils depart ilar projects to other river valleys getting his department fully pre ment which has of the cation. pared to speed the actual applicaTo carry out the President's tion of the relief. long been pointed to Some delays in putting Into efas an outstanding scheme Senator Norris of Nebraska Introduced in the senate a bill for fect all the credit relief facilities example of the ex travagant bureau- government operation of the huge planned by President Roosevelt and e power and nitrate plant Mr. Morgenthau will be occasioned by cracy of Washingat Muscle Shoals, which to date has reason of the fact that the consoliton. cost the American taxpayers some dation order under which the PresiMr. Roper pro: dent joined all farm credit activ poses to slash the $150,000,000. ities doesn't become effective for expenditures of the owners some six weeks yet RELIEF for small home under ment from $15,000,- But Mr. Morgenthau has reached staggering U 2 of mortgage debts is out Into the other agencies which miu in me current Secretary year to $20,000,000 asked by President Roosevelt in a soon will come under his hand, and Boper Bills as soon as the credit bill becomes In the next fiscal special message to congress. year, a reduction of $19,000,000, or with that end In view were Intro- law he expects to bring about a duced In both houses. 42 per cent prompt organization of the work of In his message the President laid Issuing 4 If the report Is approved, and per cent bonds to be ex Secretary Roper ls"successful In op- down a new national policy to pro- changed for the present farm morterating his department at such a tect owners of homes valued at not gages averaging higher than 6 saving, It Is believed he will pro- more than $10,000 from foreclosure per cent. President Roosevelt Is reported portionately far outdistance In econ- and excessive interest rates as the omy promotion any of the other de- next step In his program for eco- to be firmly of the opinion that the nomic recovery. partments. biggest help that can be given to The proposed legislation would set the farmers at this time Is a loosThe secretary plans to consolidate many activities of the department up the Home Owner's Loan cor- ening of their credit. Once the and to abandon others. The figure poration, to be organized and op- farmers' debts are erased, debts of $26,000,000, which he proposes erated by the federal home loan contracted when land values were Bpending In the 1034 fiscal year, be- bank board, for the direct and Im- high and crop prices up, It may not ginning next July 1, Is not only 42 mediate relief of small owners and be necessary, In the opinion of per cent under the 1033 figure, but holders of small home mortgages. many of the administration advisers It is nearly $11,000,000 under the The corporation would have a cap- outside the group controlled by Sec .actual appropriations made for 1934 ital of $200,000,000 subscribed by retary of Agriculture Wallace, to The approthe treasury and would be author- resort to price fixing and allotment by the last congress. priation bills carry an expenditure ized to Issue 4 per cent bonds up schemes, to help the farmer. of $33,fi05,4G5 for the Commerce de- to $200,000,000. These bonds would be exchanged for mortgages on partment in 1934. rate within postal This is the first time In the his- homes not exceeding $10,000 in A rate the cities, retaining tory of the government, according value, up to 80 per cent of the for Interdistrict postage, is recomto Secretary Roper, that an adminvalue. property in a plan for balancing the Home owners would pay 5 per mended istration has suggested it Is not office post budget submitted to wise or safe to use money which cent interest to the corporation, President Roosevelt by Postmaster congress itself has appropriated, with fifteen years to pay off the General Farley, It Is Mr. Farley's but he declares that the adminis- loan. A special provision Is made hope that by increased postal revnot exceeding tration intended to carry out faith- for a moratorium, enues and a of economy. fully its campaign pledges of three years, on Interest and princi- to balance the program which at the budget, economy. payments. pal rate Is running Into an anMr. Koper plans to establish six Direct loans, up to 80 per cent of present nual deficit of $132,000,000. to bureaus take over the work the assessed value of the property, The postmaster general said he heretofore done by ten. The six may be made by the corporation to bureaus will be the transportation, home owners, if the property is not had received opinions that If the postal rate is cut the volume of patents, census, standards, fisheries otherwise encumbered. business will he so restored as to and foreign and domestic commerce. The bureau of transportation will OECRETARY of the Treasury yield greatly Increased revenues, Woodin has laid down the law and he added that some advisers embody supervision of the governletter postal ment over all forms of transportato the New York clearing house, felt that a flat tion, land, air and water. The composed of twenty of the biggest rate over the country would bring in enough revenue to balance the Roper plan contemplates merging banks In the city, postal budget. onder one subordinate to become lie has told the The postmaster general also disthe new assistant secretary of comclearing closed a study la being made on merce for transportation, sunervl-lio- n banks, In diplomatwhether the department shall conover the Interstate Commerce ic language, that tinue the heretofore somewhat farthe and of activities commission, they must keep cical practice of giving examinathe United States shipping board; their word and tions to first and second-claspostthe Agricultural department's bu- make good the demasters. reau of weather and public roads; posits of the Harri-mathe federal radio commission, the National Bank A vote of 99 to 1 Michigan's Commerce department's bureau of and Trust c o BYconstitutional convention went now In the aeronautics, geodetic survey, lighton record as favoring the abolition houses and navigation, steamboat hands of a federal of the Eighteenth amendment, and Secretary Inspection; the War department's conservator. The Woodin so Michigan has the distinction of Inland waterways corporation; the pressure brought oaval observatory, and the national by Woodin, it Is expected, will cost being the first state to ratify the or repealer, amendndvisory committee for aeronautics. the clearing house banks in the vi- Twenty-firs- t, ment submitted by congress. cinity of $6,000,000. There were great cheers and The firm stand of the secretary ambitious scheme, conceived when the roll was hand President Roosevelt, to make was made known simultaneously called clapping on the ratification of the the Tennessee river valley the scene with the arraignment In court of Twenty-firs- t amendment. The lone of an industrial, economical and so- - Joseph W. Harriman, former chairwas cast by Eugene Davvote dry man of bank and the president tlal experiment, has bearing his name. Mr. Harriman, enport of Hastings, Barry county, laid before been 111 since Ms arrest, was brought former dean of the college of agricongress In a brief court in a wheel chair. The culture of the University of Illinois. Into message. Indictment charges that he caused Mr. Roosevelt's to be made In the entries false immense demon-itrat- e Is to Importance hope bank's books, covering the use of THE to the Washington conIn the Ten$1,713,225 of the depositors' money ference by the British is indicatnessee valley that for speculation In the bank's stock. ed In the personnel of the- party treat economic Is PreSecretary Woodin's action accompanying changes for the betbased on a pledge given to the conmier MacDonald. ter can be made by troller of the treasury at a time No more Important conserving and when the bank was in financial difof British group natural Sen. Norris ficulties, that the clearing house has everyone abroad, and It Is "Such use, if envisioned In Its en- would support the bank. evident that much tirety," said the President In his been filed with Is expected from message, "transcends mere power PETITIONS have States senate from the meeting beIt enters the wide development; citizens of Louisiana demanding tween the British Deld of flood control, soil erosion, P. Long as nrtmp minijtop anil & Ifforestation, elimination from agri- the removal of nuey from state. The petisenator that President R o o s e- use of and culture marginal lands, velt distribution and diversification of tions accuse the senator of personPremier al dishonesty and corruptness. The chief deleIndustry. MacDonald The petitioners asserted they gate after MacDon "In short, this power develop-en- t of war days leads logically to could furnish witnesses to establish ald himself is Sir Robert Vansittnrt, national planning for a complete that Long "was personally dishon- permanent undersecretary of the river watershed involving many est corrupt and immoral," and add- foreign office. Sir Robert Is the itates and the future lives and ed Long's continuance In office "is permanent chief of the foreign ofwelfare of millions. It touches and repulsive to the respectable and fice, no matter what foreign secrecitizens of Louisiana taries come and go, and all the fives life to all forms of human and to the nation." threads of British diplomacy are In concerns. among other his hands. He knows America well, They contended, "I, therefore, suggest to the conLong had "created and his first wife having been an Amergress legislation to create a Ten- things, that In Louisiana a system ican. nessee valley authority a corpora- maintained of corruption and debauchery The next member of the party Is tion clothed with the power of govIn the history of the state," Sir Frederick Leith-Ro.ernment but possessed of the flextreasury expert, who has represented Great ibility and Initiative of a private enBritain at all financial meetings for terprise. FEDERAL legislation for a week In Industry some years. The third member Is "It should be charged with the A. E. Overton, assistant secretary broadest duty of planning for the was assured when the administraproper use, conservation and deve- tion placed Itself squarely behind of the board of trade, whose spelopment of the natural resources rfte measure. The bill has already cialty Is tariffs and International of the Tennessee river drainage passed the senate, and It Is ex- trade relations. basin and Its adjoining territory for pected to be quickly approved by the general social and economic the house and signed by the Presi- PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S to Join the trade welfare of the nation. This author- dent. The bill, regarded as one of the and political conferences in Washity should also be clothed with the necessary power to carry these most radlwl labor measures to win ington has caused a complete change the administration support, provides In the attitude of Japan toward plans Into effect The President's plan Includes the In Its present form tlint for an America practically overnight. running of electric power Into emergency period of two years no Friends of America express Jublla-tion- . every farm, to control crop produc- articles may be received In Interseeing the first ray of hope for tions, to build dams and promote state shipment which have been the return of relations between the forestatlon projects in the Interest manufactured or produced by labor two nations to the friendly state ex of relieving unemployment It Is a working more than six hours in any Isting before the Mukden Incident plan which will take day, or more thnn five days In any on September 18, 1931. Union, years to work out, but If a plan Is week. !IJ, Woatera News Review of Current Events the World Over Intsraiountain x tion war-tim- I house s THE a;' a s I g . Newsi-epe- t News Briefly told for Busy Readers A GOLD STRIKE FEED MANY ELK WAR OX GOPHERS EIGHT LIONS SLAIN FOREST ARMY PLANS in Plan Scenes and Persons in the Current News ACTION A war on GUNNISON, UT. gophers has been conducted In Sanpete county. ST. GEORGE, UT. Jack Butler of Moquitich deer camp has report ed killing eight mountain lions on the Dixie preserve during the past few weeks. BOISE, IDA. During the past nine months $302,050 in gold has poured into the Boise assay office and it is thought it would exceed a half million by the end of the fiscal year, July 1. BOULDER CITY, NEV, Con struction of a cement blending plant to, cost $125,000, will be started at Hoover dam soon, It has been an nounced by government engineers. I r This Is the first time that a project of tliis type has required sueh equipment. OGDEN. UT. M. G. Pence, man ager of the Farmer's National Grain corporation, says that the wheat crop in Idaho .and Utah this year will be only CO to 70 per cent normal fl. V. Wiley and two enlisted men, only survivors of L Army day parade in New York. 2. Lleut-Cobecause of backward spring, with the Akron disaster, reporting to Secretary of the Navy Swanson. 3. Mayor Frank Murphy of Detroit named virtually no growing weather. of the Philippines. wheat, he added, has been governor general winter killed to a large extent and snow is still on the ground in many localities. JACKSON, WTO. Twelve thous and elk have been fed all winter In the Jackson Hole, Wyo., country, The extensive feeding was made necessary by the heavy snows and ex treme cold in Yellowstone park and Wyoming game preserves, which drove the animals down into the valley. The feeding will cease the 4t latter part of this month, BOISE, IDA. A vein of gold bearing ore, lost thru a fault In the rock, has been discovered in the Golden Anchor mine In the Marshall Lake district of Valley county. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. 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 re forestation. It is reported that Utah's quota of the conservation corps will probably be under training at Fort Douglas by the end of April. The state quota is believed to approximate 1000. Recruits from southern Idaho also will train at Fort Douglas before being dispatch ed to the forestation camps, where the government plans to launch large projects. Recruits from north ern Idaho will be conditioned at Fort Wright, Spokane, Wash. BOISE, IDA. Spring planting is An explosion occurred recently in a chemical factory In Surrey, England. The photograph shows the progressing rapidly in north Idaho devastated area, houses blown to pieces and everything covered with debris. but persistent cold weather has de over state. the it layed generally NEXT MEXICAN RULER OGDEN, UT. An additional 500 barrels 100,000 pounds of Red Cross flour, has been received for distribution to needy families in City and Weber county. BOISE, IDA. Plans for using 8,000 men of the Roosevelt job army have been drafted by foresters of southwestern and Central Idaho. MORGAN, UT. Farmers of Mor gan comity this year will plant 225 acres of seed pea on ground that has been used for other crops the 4 past few years, according to a re coun C. It. made Richards, by port JW' Vsj Fall-sow- V-3- &fim n What Happens When Chemical Factory Bursts Pf I if II if f fjp ft "Old Man River" Goes on Rampage r Ej- Og-de- .,;; FMIV' ft" ty agent BOISE. IDA. The first ease of spotted fever reported in Boise this season is being treated in a hospital here. Arthur Furber, 43, of Nampa, was brought in from Juntura, Ore., where he was taken ill with the disease. He was working on a road crew. The disease, spread, according to authorities, by the bite of a wood-tick- , annually costs several lives in western Idaho. Preventive serum for 900 patients has been distributed this spring by the state Gen, Lazaro Cardenas, now secdepartment of public welfare from stocks provided by the bureau of retary of war and navy, who is ex public health laboratory at Hamilpected to become the next President ton, Mont of Mexico. The state departBOISE, IDA. ment of publie welfare has profferSMALLEST CATCHER ed assistance in preserving water supplies of the state from contamination by the camps of the lob army expected soon. In a letter to Rob'l Coulter, state land commissioner, W. V, Leonard, state sanitary engineer, said ha would outline on With the Mississippi river at the highest point since the disastrous tributary streams are sending their waters over thousands of acres of farms, driving thousands of the natives from their homes. Photograph shows a typical scene at Webb, Miss., where the Tallahatchie river, a tributary of the Mississippi, has completely Inundated the town. floods of 1927, Rough Seas Off the English Coast forestry maps the drainage areas for various municipal water supplies and would advise the forest service if possible to locate the camps outside these bounds In cases "where establishment of camps would constitute an actual ot potential menace to the water sup labor ' ply" BOISE, IDA. wxur llll ! ., 3 Because he froze his feet while walking his "beat" in weather last December, Weston T. Riley, Boise city patrolman, has brought suit for compensation under the workmen's compensation net and his case was set fot hearing May 5. In the ST. GEORGE, UT.-D- cer Pine Valley district of the Dixie National fnr.-sare increasing each vear it is reported, after the third uinunl game survey, recently t com-P'.-- ilfy Kf&: - 9 sub-zer- X' - Making a strong bid for the regu lar job with the Is energetic Cleveland Indians, Frank Pytlak; "Rabbit," they call him. because he's that frisky. Frank, standing only 5 feet 0 Inches, Is the s Host catcher In th nsjors. - is.' iAS - . ' The Southern railway boat Worthing, battling Into the teeth of the gale as she headed past the breakwater at New Haven for Dieppe. This photograph taken with a camera, exemplifies the difficulties which beset shipping during rough weather. cross-chann- e long-focu- s |