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Show THE LEIII SUN LEW, UTAH News Review of Current Events the World Over President Asks for Nationalization of Gold Supply-Not Supply-Not Yet Ready to Fix Exact Value of Dollar-Carlos Dollar-Carlos Mendieta Given Cuban Presidency. By EDWARD W. PICKARD S$t ft President Rootevelt PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT sent to congress his long-awaited message mes-sage on monetary matters, and it should be In a measure reassuring to business and finance. He asked that the gold supply sup-ply of the country be nationalized and that his powers be redefined to enable en-able periodic revaluation re-valuation of the dollar within a range of 80 to 60 per cent of the present pres-ent gold content. He already had the power to devalue the dollar down to fiO per cent, but he does not do so yet, saying that "because of world uncertainties, I do not believe it desirable in the public Interest that an exact value be now fixed.- He added that care ful study had led blm to the con clusion that any revaluation at more than 60 per cent would not be In the public Interest The President. asked full power to take over the last outstanding supplies of gold In the country, much of which belongs to the fed eral reserve banks. The legislation he requested, he explained, "places the rl!ht, title and ownership of our gold reserves In the government govern-ment Itself; It makes clear the government's gov-ernment's ownership of any added dollar value of the country's stock of gold which would result from any decrease of the gold content of the dollar which may be made In the public Interest." The profit that may result from cutting the gold content, the President Presi-dent proposed should be used to set up a two bllllon dollar fund for purchases and sales of gold, foreign for-eign exchange and government securities. se-curities. No further recommendations concerning con-cerning silver were mnde In the message, the president saying he believed "we should gain more knowledge of the results of the London agreement and of our other oth-er monetary measures." Immediately after the reading of the President's message, Senator Duncan V. Fletcher of Florida,-chairman Florida,-chairman of the senate banking and currency committee. Introduced the administration's bill to effect the monetary changes proposed. He called his committee together the next day to consider It, and Secretary Sec-retary Alorgenthau was the first to be heard In argument for the legislation legis-lation asked. Only two Democratic senators came out In the open promptly In opposition to the President's program, pro-gram, Carter Glass of Virginia and Thomas P. CJore of Oklahoma. Both declared that the appropriation of the reserve banks' gold was unlawful unlaw-ful and Immoral. Most of the Republicans Re-publicans were cautious tn their expressions of opinion. However, Attorney General Homer Hom-er Cummlngs rendered to the senate sen-ate banking and currency committee commit-tee a formal opinion upholding that section of the proposed bill. The monetary gold stock (of the federal reserve system) may betaken betak-en by the government In the exer else of Its right of eminent domain," the attorney general's opinion declared. de-clared. "Such power," he went on, "extends to every form of property required for public use." Gov. Eugene Rlack of the reserve board was heard by the committee In closed session and Senator Fletcher said Black was unchanged In his opposition to the seizure of the federal reserve gold and the loss of the profit which would accrue ac-crue from the devaluation of the dollar. Senator MeAdoo of California was veraclously reported aa sharing the jrlews of Senators Glass and Gore, but later sought to silence the rumor, ru-mor, asserting that he bad not yet made up his mind. V this morning?" asks the man la the street, and there Is reason rea-son for his uncertainty. At this writing the head of the Island republic re-public U CoL Carlos Car-los Mendieta, conservative con-servative leader of t b t Nationalists and presumably acceptable ac-ceptable to the administration ad-ministration t n Washington. Ram on Grata San Mar-tin, Mar-tin, unable to bold on any longer, resigned re-signed and some of the factions united la choosing as bis successor the youthful Carlos Ilevta,' secretary of agriculture In Grau's cabinet and a graduate of Annapolis Naval academy. Hevla actually was sworn la before the Supreme court, but he lasted only one day. Then CoL Fu!genclo Batista, powerful commander of the amy. took command of the altoatluo. There was a loud demand , . Wl v II Carlos Hevla that he resign bis military post; a strike to force this was started by Antonio Gulteras, late secretary of war and navy, and Hevla ordered that Fulgenclo get out But the army leader promptly brought 3,000 of hla troops from Santa Clara province to reinforce the 8,000 at Camp Columbia, on the outskirts of Havana, and com pelled Hevla to resign. He then declared de-clared that Mendieta was the only j man capable of continuing t the Junta's revolutionary program without with-out the extreme measures that had prevented .ecognition by the United Unit-ed States; that he, Batista, recognized the costly mistake the Junta had made In Installing Grau and would now rectify It. He ordered or-dered government employees to remain re-main at work on pain of losing their Jobs, but the strike went Into effect far enough to tie up Havana's power, pow-er, light, gas and transportation systems. sys-tems. Batista ordered the arrest of Gulteras, whom he held responsible respon-sible for this. A bomb exploded near Mendleta's residence but no one was Injured. Mendieta was assured the support sup-port of the Nationalists he leads, the political societies ABO and OCRR and the newer revolutionary organizations. Moreover, he had performed the highly difficult feat of reuniting the army and the navy. They had been split apart previously previous-ly over the breach between Gulteras Gulte-ras and Batista. "GERMANY'S great church qnar- rel goes on unabated and the Evangelical jiastors are still determined de-termined that their religion shall not be nazlfled. Relchsblshop Lud-wlg Lud-wlg Mueller, who Is a confidant of Chancellor Hitler, Issued a decree for bidding pastors to criticize the Nazi Protestant church administration from i A the pulpits under k&i JLJ l'8ln f dismissal from the church. But the rebellious ones, organized as the Pastors' Emergency league, defied de-fied Doctor Mueller and for the second sec-ond time read to their congrega tlons a manifesto demanding bis resignation. It was up to the council of the churches to enforce the relehs-bishop's relehs-bishop's decree, but several o the councils declared openly they would not do so. Bishop Mueller showed some Inclination In-clination to recede from his position, posi-tion, but the militant Nazi German Christian pastors brought great pressure to bear, telling him they would support blm only so long as he stuck by his decrees. The bishop bish-op also seeks to annul all church laws passed In 19.13 so he can proclaim pro-claim new ones. Reverend Doctor RIohter, who Is highly considered by President Von Hindenhurg, declared In the Berlin cathedral that "a storui Is brewing In Germany a fight between Christianity Chris-tianity and heathendom." In t'Ja contest, however. Hitler appears to have much more Influence than the aged president, who Is more and more becoming a figurehead. i ' ' i Dr. Ludwlg Mueller DESIGNATIONS from the Demo-cratlc Demo-cratlc national committee seem to be In order and some bave already al-ready been received. The President let It be known that he did not approve ap-prove of members of that body opening open-ing law offices In Washington and apparently trading on their supposed sup-posed Influence with the administration. adminis-tration. Robert Jackson announced bis resignation as secretary and committeeman from New Hampshire, Hamp-shire, and Frank O. Walker said he had resigned as treasurer In order to devote full time to his work as chairman of the President's national na-tional executive council. J. Bruce Kremer, practicing law tn the Capital, Cap-ital, resigned some weeks ago as member for Montana. Postmaster Genera Jim Farley, it Is said, wants to quit as national chairman, but Mr. Roosevelt may not permit this. Arthur Mulim. committeeman from Nebraska ana vice chairman of the committee, and Orman Ewlng. member mem-ber from Utah, both have established estab-lished law offices In the Capital and It would not be surprising If they resigned from the national committee. REPUBLICAN members of the bouse ways and means committee com-mittee proposed two Important ta reforms. A constitutional amendment amend-ment authorizing the taxation of federal and state government bonds was suggested by Representative Allen T. Treadwsy. with the statement state-ment that there are now some $10,-ai0.on0.000 $10,-ai0.on0.000 of such securities outstanding out-standing and free from taxation. Representative Isaac Bacharach proposed the restoration to the fed eral tax laws of a credit against earned Income, Ills plan. Mr. Halo Balbo Facharach declared, would lighten materially the tax burden of the small salaried class without seriously seri-ously cutting Into present Income tax revenues. SENATORS BORAH of Idaho, - Norrls of Nebraska and Nye of North Dakota, all Independent Republicans Re-publicans whose support has been counted on generally by the administration, admin-istration, have started a concerted attack-on the NRA, charging that Its codes foster monopolies and result re-sult In forcing the small dealers out of business. Their fight la not against the President and his policies, poli-cies, but against Gen. Hugh Johnson, John-son, NRA administrator, upon whom they place the blame for the faults they say have developed. ITALO BALBO, the bearded Italian Ital-ian air marshal who commanded the great mass flight from Italy to Chicago and back last summer and thereby became too popular to suit Premier Mussolini, has made his peace with the Duce and has assumed his new duties as the governor of Libya In north Africa. He crossed the Mediterranean In state on the new cruiser Alberto dl Giussano with an other cruiser In escort, and vhen he landed was received by all the Italian officials In the colony and a colorful gathering of the native troops. Balbo, who Is Just thirty-seven years old, replaces Marshal Pletro Badogllo as Libyan governor. While a new line of activity, It will be a Job with an opening for him, for Mussolini wants to make Africa In time an outlet for Italian emigration. emigra-tion. Balbo will keep up his Interest In aviation, even though he Is Just governor of the sandy North African Afri-can coast. PUERTO RICO ha9 a new governor gover-nor who may please the islanders island-ers better than did Robert H. Gore. He Is Gen. Blanton Wlnshlp, former form-er Judge advocate general of the army, and a man of experience In Insular affairs. He served In Cuba and the Philippines as an adviser to the highest American officials In those parts. Also he was a military mili-tary aide to President Coolidge. Ills home town Is Macon, Ga. Mr. Gore, whose administration was bitterly and constantly attacked by Island politicians, resigned, stating his reason was ill health. President Roosevelt also selected a new chief of the weather bureau In Washington In the person of Willis Wil-lis G. Gregg. He succeeds Dr. Charles F. Marvin. TWO thousand or more persons were killed and 10.000 injured by violent earthquakes that shook all parts of India. The full meas ure of the disaster will not be known" for some time, but airplane surveys revealed that many cities and towns had been virtually destroyed. de-stroyed. In some regions the devastation de-vastation was Increased by floods resulting from the temblors. Communication Com-munication systems were shattered and there was great danger of pestilence and starvation among the survivors. TJ Mm BIRTn control has been put np to both congress and the President. Pres-ident. A bill designed to promote It by repealing certain clauses of the penal code has been Introduced and hearings started; and a committee com-mittee headed by Mrs. Thomas N. Hepburn of Connecticut and Mrs. Margaret Sanger carried to the White House a resolution from the birth control and national recovery recov-ery conference In Washington asking ask-ing Mr. Roosevelt's support for the tneasure. CAMILLE CIIAUTEMPS, fighting desperately to save his French government after the great Bayonne pawnshop scandal, promised the chamber of deputies depu-ties to clean up that affair, and thereupon was given giv-en a vote of confidence, con-fidence, 300 against 229. The vote came on the government's govern-ment's opposition to the creation of a parliamentary commission to Investigate In-vestigate ' the collapse col-lapse of the Bayonne Bay-onne InstitutioD.the i - t. il J Premier Chautempa death of Its founder. Serge (Handsome (Hand-some Alex) Stavlsky, and the part several deputies have accused high officials of taking In the affair. The premier Insisted that such a commission com-mission would not get to the bottom bot-tom of the charges. The premier promised to Investigate Investi-gate the affair personalty and to spare no names. During the heated debate be admitted there had been looseness and poor functioning of various services, but denied the charges of governmental and police po-lice corruption. The opposition cieputles were furious and there tvere pen declarations that the country faced a dictatorship. Chao-temps Chao-temps replied vignroosly and mad he assertion that a coup had beec prepared several days previously to put the government la the hand of a few "energetic men to act as a directory ej 7 Wtra Nwspr Cain EEVERLY HILLS Well all 1 know la Just what I read In the paper?, or what I hear hither and thither Couple of weeks ago, had an In terestlng littlr four day stay v Riverside, CaJ. thats the home of the famou: Mission Inn. the most unique bo tel in America Its a monestary a mission, a fine hotel, a home, a boarding bouse, a museum, an art gaiiery, an aviators' shrine. It combines the best featurea of all the above. If you are ever In an part of Cal dont misa the famous Mission Mis-sion Inn at Riverside. We. were out there filming the trotting racing scenes In David Harum. They have a great old Fair Grounds. We had about 150 people from Hollywood out there, then used a couple of hundred extras from there, and It was like a picnic. We had some real old race horse authorities, au-thorities, men who had been Judges and starters on these tracks for years and years. Well sir there is nothing more interesting to talk to than an old horseman, and there Is nothing any older than a trotting horse man. I never saw a man in the trotting horse business under 80. ' Now in our scenario, or script, as those things are called after Rob Wagner'a famous script, why it bad the race being for the best two out of three beats. That means to any of you that dont know harness rac ing, that there is one race after another an-other till one horse wins two. If be wins the first two Its all over, but he must win two. So we were to have it that way, but these old fellows, knowing the time the story was laid, 1893, Informed us that in those days it was three out of five heats. One horse had to win three races in the afternoon to win the prize. Well they said they had seen as many as ten beats, before one horse was able to win three. They claimed that in most cases s pacing horse was a couple ot sec onds faster than a trotter, although that when two record holders met, the trotter beat the pacer. There are many cases where a horse has beer changed in a season from a trottei to s pacer. The pacer's power ano strength and drive come from his hind legs (like a runner) but a trot ters come from his front legs. His if by reaching, and not by pushing There are two great straint th Hamiltonians and. the Morgans They are pedigreed and are callet standard bred horses, Its a pecullai cross from a thoroughbred with s mixed cold blood. They say a trottei or pacer is more intelligent than a runner. He has to know more; he evidently must have more endur ance, for no runner could run ten heats in an afternoon. We are driving tht first make oi low wheel sulkys. They come in '92 Still they are much higher than thf low ones they usj today. I want to tell you Its quite a trick, try ing to drive one of those with pretty fast horses too, and ten drivers on the track at once. There Is always a hole big enough for horse but how about the buggy he is towing along! The only thing 1 bad to recommend me was that I looked as old as a driver. 1 used tc oe a pretty good just old common horse driver as a young fellow bark home, but I never made the tracks. My father was the best driver I ever saw, though. Well be had quite a little training In his young days. He used to haul frelgh. from St Joe, Missouri, to Dallas, Texas. Lord, his son basent got hardly enough endurance to make the same trip in a plane, but I hare seen Papa bitch em up when there was really wild and go where he wanted to with em, not where they wanted too. St if 1 show any driving ability in thit my first real effort, it Is Inherited. Its not from hard work, persever ance, and taking advantage of my opportunities, (as the American Magazine used to advise ns). By the way this depression and the tall of the big man has kinder knocked the props out of all those success sto-rys sto-rys we used to get fed up ou. This is Just an age of being a good Demo crat and holding an office. Thats all tfcere Is to success now. O I? 14. MiStkt iWirtM, . "In" and "On" the Street The explanation ot the expression "lives In a street" Instead of "live? on a street," Is that street include? not only the roadway and sidewalks, but also the bordering dwellings and business houses. Sometimes the distinction Indicate a difference In the street, the Intention being to distinguish the character, as "hi office Is In Wall Street." but "he ?Ives on Washington street." Scenes and Persons in the Current New r vis;-".- if T--A - i- Hii l ... . 4 -1 ' if . tV-V .... i W V f. ' i' ; if 1 !-"",f" Iff T 1 Alexander Troyanovsky, first Soviet ambassador to the United States, in his first conferon. t. :orrespondehts who cover the National Capital 2 View of the port of Foochow, China, where an J :an navai pariy w as miiueu wneij me guveiuuieui lun-ea outucaBiuiijr ouatntu uie ruKien province rebels j j -Mrs. rranmia u. nooseven uj mc guwu uemgucu iui uu iu wou ai iue uiruiuay Dau lor the Rj n vv asnington; u is oi ueorgia peacn crepe saun, wun uroocu ox juue ana ormianis. Pre-Historic Witness Called to Court m 1 1 1 mi i w .'."" W mwt ?AJ "3 " litS hit I ' 1 wi feSs-W iw. i - JLm i This dinosaur, summoned to participate in a court case In New York, was of course too big to enter ;hamber. It was the animal used by Earl Carroll In a show and was the subject of discussion In I wought by Messmore and Damon for Infringing on their patent PLAYS DARING ROLE 1 As P 'iff U ''n'.J s js 4 s r I. v4 , t w w, 4 iff '...KZ Mnie. Chiang Kai-shek, wife of the Nationalist dictator of China, has been risking her life during the rebellion In Fuklen province by going go-ing among the rebels and negotiating negotiat-ing for peace with their leaders. The brave woman was educated In the United States and has been of great help to her husband In conducting con-ducting the affairs of the government MINISTER TO PERSIA ; . - . i : j -xr ; Ford Has Option on McGuffey Hoi 3 i 4'f f. v, -as, -w2i sin a s - v- vr V s t til?? 0r . t Mr. and Mrs. Henry V. Blayney, the latter a second cojislofc Holmes McGuffey, author of the McGuffey Readers of PuWe"Ll disclosed a recent visit of Henry Ford to the old Holmes now i birthplace of McGuffey, In West FInley township, PeDnlrLyi which Ford placed an option on the place. The Blayneys o I on the farm. This photograph shows the house In which tne bom anil tt hl.-h la nnn nimMlnir In ruins Most of it 110 .. in. - a k ,J"v ... ti. .instructed H 10 1 ,u'u, Buu uuonrcis eaji 11 CUU1U uc eaaiij .tv" form. Melbourne's Shrine of Remembrar .X I'A William H. nornlbrook of Salt Lake City, Utah, has been appointed appoint-ed by the President to be American minister to Tersia. DiicoTtry of Enrop.' Asia discovered Europe long before be-fore Europe discovered Asia. Tfi -N LkJ if' ; 8 S1' I 'nn 1 1 XI I I I 1 I - . . - v(-: ; if)1 ' . , - . - 4 i I i - ; I ; . " ' . . .brB ' This Is the magnificent and Imposing Shrine oi ' in Melbourne, Australia, as a tribute to the war under." |