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Show frill?" tii7TTl?TJ . Tm'RVil i that the new dirigible base at Calif., where $4,OiiO.iOO had been expended, should be shut down. News Review of Current Events the World Over is the first state MICHIGANfavor of the repeal of Wiscon- the Eighteenth amendment. sin is second with a decisive vote of 4 to 1 for repeal Town and conn try alike turned out thumping wet majorities. Milwaukee, where the breweries are humming to turn out Roosevelt Plan on Farm Loans Calls for Two Billion Week Proposed for Bond Issue Workers The Akron Disaster. 30-Ho- FOLLOWING the reading of a message on the sub- ject from the President, Senator Robinson of Arkansas Introduced the administrat- farm morrefinancing bill which, with the farm relief bill. Is designed to Uft the farmers out of the slough of depression. The bill provides for issuing by the farm loan banks of bonds to the extent of $2,000,000,000. on which the govern ion's tgage Senator Robinson ment guarantees the Interest payments. The bonds, or the money derived from their sale, are to be used by the farm loan banks for the purpose of taking over the farm mortgages on which the Interest rates cannot be more than 46 per cent The expectation Is that with money available to settle with his creditor the farmer can scale down the principal of his debt to a considerable extent Henry Morgen-thau- , Jr., governor of the new farm credit administration, believes Indebtedness may be mortgage scaled down In two ways. A mortgagee, willing to settle for cash or bonds nt 70 or 80 per cent of the principal, could exchange the mortgage on that basis for land bank bonds. The bank then would refinance the farmer at 4 per cent Or a farmer making a composition with his creditor could borrow the funds for settlement from the land bank. Opposition to the legislation revolves around two arguments. One is that It will be an Inducement to farmers to default In the payments on their present mortgages In order to persuade mortgagees to settle at less than face value. The other Is that such a vast flotation of 4 per cent bonds would tend to demoralize the bond market and react unfavorably on banks and Insurance companies with large bond portfolios. The maturity of the bonds is to he fixed by the land banks and probably will be 30 or 40 years. Stated briefly, the main provisions of the farm finance bill are as follows: Federal land banks are authorized to Issue up to $2,000,000,000 in 4 per cent bonds, Interest guaranteed by government. The same banks could purchase first mortgases on farm land or exchange bonds for them. The treasury is authorized to sur$50,000,000 to the paid-i- n plus of the banks. Interest rate on loans on mortgages shall not exceed 4 per cent. A total of $15,000,000 would be available from the treasury to compensate banks tor Interest reduction. The limit on mortgage loans would be raised from $25,000 to $50,000. Voluntary liquidation of Joint tock land banks is provided. A total of $100,000,000 of Reconstruction Finance corporation's funds is made available for loans to farmers for refinancing their debts In accordance with provisions of the new bankruptcy relief act. Finance corporaReconstruction tion is authorized to loan $50,000,-00- 0 to drainage, levee and Irrigation districts to reduce and refinance their debts. Increases the lending power of the Reconstruction Finance corporation by $300,000,000. sub-(cri- to be dropped from the pension rolls will be affected after July 1 of this year. In brief, the order makes the following provisions: Payment of pensions authorized to veterans disabled by disease or Injury Incurred or aggravated In line of duty in active service. Rates to be paid for service connected disabilities are: 10 per cent disabled, $8 a month; 25 per cent, $S0; 60 per cent, $40; 75 per cent, $60; 100 per cent, ISO. These are 20 per cent reductions under present aids. Pensions authorized to widows, children, and dependent parents of veterans who died from disease or Injuries incurred or aggravated In line of duty In active service. Rates continue as at present. Payments authorized for connected disabilities and deaths of veterans who served SO days In n war. Boxer the Insurrection, rebellion, Philippine and World war, provided disability was total and not due to personal misconduct. Latter allowance will not be made to unmarried persons with Income of more than $1,000 a year or to any married person or one with minor children whose Income exceeds $2,500. Pensions of widows and children n war veterana of cut 50 per cent. e veterans from Excludes peace-timdomiciliary care. Limits sharply emergency officers' pensions. non-servi- Spanish-America- Spanish-America- loss In the THE country'sof great the Akron Is not the loss of the navy's great dirigible, but of the 74 ollicers and men who went down v :iew It n her In the storm off the coast F of New Jersey. Hear Admiral Moffett, chief of the aeronautic bureau of the navy, who was a passenger on board, with his shipmates upheld to the end the finest traditions Of the navy. Admiral The wreck of the Moffett Akron, largest of its kind In the world, was the worst airship disaster In history. The airship crashed off the New Jersey coast twenty miles off Barnegat lightship, during a violent electric storm, accompanied by heavy winds and high seas, dense fogs and thick . ,a rain. Lieutenant Commander Wiley, second In command of the airship, and the two men who were saved owed their lives to the chance that brought the German oil tanker Phoebus close to the scene of the accident a few minutes after It happened. They were picked up Immediately by the Phoebus, whose crew saw others disappear beneath the waves before rescuers could reach The Phoebus cruised about them. the scene until dawn, hut was unable to find any more survivors or to keep track of the wreckage, which was carried swiftly away by the seas. First report of the disaster was received In radio messages from the Both coast guard and Phoebus. naval vessels were Immediately dispatched to the scene of the wreck and cruised around for hours In the hope of finding other survivors. The taking part In the navy blimp search, fell Into the sea. Five of Its crew were rescued. The search was fruitless, and. In the case of the accident to the blimp also. was J-- J-- and house are BOTH the senate a bill, of which DETERMINATION to end naval Is mountSenator Black of Alabama Is the author, that would establish a ing through a congress Intent upon Milrty-hou- r work week. As the bill finding the real cause of the Akron's is presumed to have the endorseplunge into tne At- - ? ment of the President and the spe- lantic. , In the senate King ' cial approval of Secretary of Labor, Miss Perkins, It Is expected to (Dem., Utah) prepared a resolution pass both houses. The bill would compel private In- calling for an Investigation of the dustry to adopt the thirty-hou- r Akron disaster and week and penalize Interstate movement of products made by labor the consideration of f the advisability of working longer hours. Black expressed confidence the spending more than bill would be npheld by the United the $20,000,000 that the navy already Fred Britten States Supreme court In The Alabama senator said the bill has Invested lighter-thaair ciaft Chairman would not accomplish Its purpose If it resulted In reduction of wage Trammel of the senate naval committee also was considering a study levels as well as hours and exof the accident. If belief the that. Industry pressed Chairman Vinson of the house attempted to reduce wares, would act "Labor has been naval committee has declared em phatlcally "there won't be any more underpaid and capital overpaid." be said. airships built" Borah said he was "In thorough There were some, however, not so accord with the principle of this ready to yield to beliefs founded bill and I'm not so sure that we're during many years Id congress. not going to have to come to It." Many had followed Representative His argument revolved around Britten of Illinois, who as Republicwhether congress had the power to an chairman of the naval committake action. tee for years had charge" of most of the recent legislation for airships, the number of veterans to be particularly that authorizing . n con-pres- s THE by the President's der reducing veterans' benefits or- will not be known for some time. In one way or another It will he felt by practically all of the Spanish American and World war veterans, and the widows of veterans of these wars now on the government It reduces the rolls, rates on the greater part of such pensions as wVi! continue to he These reductions and those pen-lio- n paid $S,(HK),(KK) Akron-M.-ico- n sister ship has always tie dined to support those who thought tighter than air craft should be abandoned. Many members were undecided how far tlicy wanted to go In their ban on airships. Vinson said he thought nothing should he done to prevent operation of the Macon, which Is to take the air toward tne end of the month. Nor did he think team. Mr. P.rilten to 3.2 beer, went wet by more than 10 to 1. Wisconsin's constitutional amendment convention will be held in Madison, April 25. It Is predicted that practically all the delegates will be committed to repeal. In Michigan, but one county elected a dry delegate. P. MORGAN & CO., New York bankers, are In for an Investigation by a committee of the United States senate, and a committee bucked by all the authority which that august body can give. Without debate, the upper chamber adopted the Fletcher resolution extending wide power to the banking committee to make inquiry Into private banking which President Roosevelt has sponsored. The resolution was drafted by J Ferdinand Pecora, committee counsel, with a view to obtaining all the senate's constitutional power over interstate commerce, banking and tax matters for the committee. Pecora told the committee he had submitted twenty-thre- e questions to the Morgan firm and that on advice of John W. Davis, its counsel, the banking house had refused to answer one and taken several others under consideration. government's DESPITE theof Hitler the boycott against German Jewry, the National Socialist party will keep its boycott machine Intact Disappointed at being deprived of the boycott, Nazi police raided a Jewish quarter In Berlin. Accompanied by regular police, they searched everywhere for Streets were weapons and papers. closed and pedestrians were stopped. Even worshipers leaving synagogues Persons not carrying were halted. double Identification cards were araux-llar- rested. The Nazi boycott committee headquarters at Munich announced that "ail German stores In the near future will be supplied with big placards Identifying them as such." In this way the Nazis will distinguish between German and Jewish stores. A measure forbidding Kosher slaughtering throughout the nation has been approved by the reich's cabinet for a of experts to be held In the United States to prepare for the world economic confer ence developed at a meeting In Paris between Norman II. ANEW suggestion conference Davis. President Roosevelt's and Joseph French forIn minister. this the French see their opportunity of talking over war 12k. debts. Norman Like the British, Davis the French want to a debt settlement before the wangle economic conference convenes. So fervid Is this desire that Davis expressed his displeasure that Europe, with its very existence at stake, should think of nothing else. Mr. Davis feels that the Washington administration has made It clear that there are bigger jobs to be done removal of trade barriers, for example. So with hopes of calling the economic conference at an early date abandoned, the Idea of a preliminary meeting to agree on what Is to be done and how to go about It Is making headway. When the new French ambassador to the United States, Andre Lefevre de la Boulaye, sailed for America he was accompanied, by a treasury expert to prepare the ground for what Paris hopes will be a general deht discussion. Premier Ramsay MacDonald plans to sail for the United States about April 15 for a conference with President Roosevelt regarding war debts, world economics and armaeign kJ TIFT PPT? TTTATT " Scenes and Persons in the Current News I Intermountain News MIIMIHH " "1 III Jll Briefly told for Busy Readers MEDAL FOR IDAHO CITY DEBT REDUCED INCOME TAX WITHERS VIIT SALT LAKE CITY QUIET OX BEER FRONT OGDEN, UT. In recognition of the circumstances surrounding the severe wound lie received. October 9, 1918, in the battle of the Argonne, C. B. Greenwell, of Ogden, has been awarded the military award of the purple heart, from the war department In 'Washington. tfJiS" 4r r4 t ':' - S jq Twelve hundred BOISE, IDA. men have been employed lu relief work in Boise drawing $24,550 at $2.40 a day since November C, a re " " s t I T r port of the local federal employ, i I I ; ment agency states. "y BURLEY, IDA. During the past biennium, Burley's city Indebtedness has been reduced $41,037 and the tax levy has been lowered approximately 5 mills. The principal debt reductions have been made by payment of $17,500 in city hall bond3 and .$8000 in waterworks bonds. LAS VEGAS, NEV. Assessment .. l-f fciS,ww; ii nr n -f rolls of this city will fall approxiof last year's mately $1,000,000 short iGeoree Bernard Shaw, whose outspoken remarks about movies and actors set Hollywood by the ears figures. a recent visit 2 Hitler and former crown prince seem to be on excellent terms. 3 Tornado takes during BOISE, IDA. For Its zealous obIn Mississippi. toll servance during 1932 of the bicenten- heavy nial of George Washington's birth, Idaho received a bronze medal. It was presented by the Washington bicentennial commission which inaugurated the celebration. LOGAN, UT. Cache county will have approximately 1800 acres of peas for 1933, It has been decided Canning Crops by the Utah-Idahassociation directors. BOISE, IDA. The income tax has brought $57,910 to date from payments made on full year earn7 ings of 1932, compared with navy S paid at this time last year on only half of 1931 earnings, a remwmmmmMn.mmmmwmmiwummwM port of the finance department shows. The decrease was attributed to a considerable shrinkage in -corporation incomes and the dispo..y&d' iL--.- f y&y sition of more individual taxpayers to take advantage of the provision of the law permitting payment of half of the tax now and the balance later in the year. U. S. Navy dirigible Akron, largest of Its kind In the world, wrecked TWIN FALLS, IDA. Indications off the coast of New Jersey during a violent storm. Admiral Moffett and 78 ollicers and men were aboard, of these only one officer and two men point to little activity In the beer were saved. Inset is photograph of Admiral Moffett, chief of the aerobusiness over the Nevada state line nautical bureau of the United States navy. The U. S. S. Akron ha fifty miles south of here, this sumbeen flown in virtually all sections of the United States so that the peomer. MIDWAY, UT. Wasatch county ple might get a personal glimpse of the largest airship In the world. A number of mishaps have marked the ship's career, but none which seriwill have a weekly half holiday summer ral the ously affected its service. is&'.asrsirawji beginmonths, during h je ning early in May. Friday afternoon has been selected for the holiday, and it is expected that all will take HOLDS THREE JOBS advantage of this opportunity of a half day recreation to spend as they Wish. I SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The Salt Lake City regional federal ag ricultural credit corporation has been allotted $1,4(55,000 by the R. F C. for distribution as loans to livestock men in this district. BOISE, IDA. There will be no state or federal wild horse round-u- I'y f-- va 'wk ; ' l u it .f.v.h.A.. T. -- i r Victim of Worst Airship Disaster in History o $58,-43- r f y iCy, ',, y .a-v- . "First Family" at Society Circus t5F5&rry&" Si izfc fM p in southwest Idaho this year. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Trav- $yy Ijy elers to ths west this season in a majority of Instances are specifying Salt Lake and Hoover Dam as places that must be on their schedule according to the director of news service for the Union Pacific railway system. BOISE, IDA. V. Carver, secretary to the Governor, and administrator of funds received from the Reconstruction Finance corporation has announced that the recruiting of men from Idaho for the federal relief army of 250,000 probably would be conducted by the county welfare committees of the various i annual salary of - - :yy, e WILL BOSS WORKERS .1 t A $11,500 which II. C. (Curly) Byrd receives In return for holding three Important Jobs at the University cf Maryland, is money well spent by the state, according to a committee restate senate. Byrd port made is athletic director, football coach, and vice president of the university. counties. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. A decrease in the revenue from the income and the corporation franchise taxes is noted by the cashier for the state tax commission In returns for 1932 as compared with those T y- , 5 r-CI- k,A? f The ptyyyy- y, y y -- J yWy Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt holding her granddaughter, "Sistie" Dall: President Roosevelt and CoL Harry N. Cootes as they viewed the society circus at Fort Myer, Va. for 1931. SPANISH FORK, UT. A sow attacked a 14 month old child here and inflicted serious injuries on the Infant. i SALT LAKH CITY, UT. Of I 1 the twelve thousand persons receiving relief in 1932 from the Salt ment Lake County relief agencies at least at last has four hundred were financially able MOUNT EVEREST Two air to sustain themselves. An Investigaconquered. to have made this planes have flown across the sum tion Is reported situation In apparent time first for nilt and the history PROVO, UT. The Uintah namen have looked down upon the could employ highest mountain In the world. The tional forst reserve feat was accomplished by the Brit 175 men in line with the Rooselsh expedition headed by the mar- velt forest employment program, acquis of Clydesdale. A photographer cording to estimates of the forestry succeeded In taking a number of pic- service officials. OGDEN, IT. The Utah extentures, which. It Is hoped, will provide authentic record of the con- sion service reports that five thousmountain, and small forest trees have boon set quest of the 20,002-foo- t on the sides of which numerous men out In Weber county during the last three years. have perished attempting by MaJ. R. Y. Stuart, who, as head of methods to gain the honor OGDEN, FT. Seven thousand the United States forestry service of being the first to reach the top. acres of sugar beets have lcen con- will be In charge of the unemployed Although exhaustive preparations tracted for In Weber county and It army of 2."iO,(HK) which President over had been mode for the flight Is exacted that 1500 more will be Roosevelt expects to put to work In Mount Everest, the actual carrying acres the national forests In the near fuout of the fent whs in n measure ac- signed up. Twelve thousand Cache in for been have contracted wen' ture. two the When ships cidental. up the purpose of the fivers uni county. But they Limited Uo of Mu.icul Tonei only to make a test. RiClIFIELI), TT. Ilenrimr on Piccnuse tlie musical s.'ale Is based found conditions so ideal that they n series of the complaints against on tin human voice, with Its liml turned the test Into the re.'il bust TelliiriiliV Power company will be tations In renge and intervals, mu nes. The two planes flew nt an h '.iil Icre on April TX The corpo0.0 miles sic tires only uootit 90 of the 11hh altitude Hpprox q coniniiin-illcserves ration about thirty Miusical tones that the ear Is able and the flight required three and a in t Lp southern part of the half hours. tu il'.sllngiilsn. Collier's Magazine. gl:t C- 1431. WMtero Nwn U'ur I'nlon. ' As the Trout Fishing Season Opens 'I-- ' y "C t 4 I t' A branch state. ' - pair of anglers casting at Crotnn Palls, New York, along the eni oT the Croton river, as the season was Inaugurated In New Yor'i i |