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Show THE LEHI gltX. LEIII. UTAH News Review of Current Events the World Over Premier Laval in Washington Conferring With PresU dent Iloover Status of Manchurian Embroglio Blanket Freight Rate Increase Denied. By EDWARD W. PICKARD . ,,,, n,,m V. j Pierre Laval PIERRE LAVAL, premier of France, arrived In the United ' t States Thursday for his conversations conversa-tions with Tresident Hoover. Hurrying Hur-rying at once to Washington, h e was received there with all due formality for-mality and cordiality cor-diality and was housed, .with his entourage. In the mansion of Ambassador Am-bassador Walter Edge, There was the stated round of rails, receptions and dinners, all arranged In ad vance by Warren Delano Robhina, the "chef de protocol," and both 11. Laval and his daughter, Mile. Josette, seemed to enjoy themselves. them-selves. However, the chief Interest In the premier's visit centered In his talks with Mr. Iloover. What they discussed and what conclusions they reached. If any. were not to be given out to the public until the affair was all over. Hut It was known that the French mission was concerned especially with questions ques-tions of finance and disarmament and would try to reach an agreement agree-ment In which these two matters would be linked up with the security se-curity which France eontlnnnlly demands. de-mands. M. Laval was troubled by the American belief that France Is militaristic and did his best to dispel dis-pel that Idea. On the way over he Intimated that about the limit he expected from America in the way of security guarantees was a consultative con-sultative pact to define the aggressor aggres-sor In war, but he thought the Instrument In-strument might be so worded as to Imply certain assurances of the attitude at-titude of the United States towards a power that deliberately forces war. As to finance, the premier expected ex-pected to reach an agreement with Mr. Hoover concerning prolongation of the moratorium on war debts and reparations. He also hoped plans might be laid for an International conference to examine the gold and ciedlt questions. COU one minute Wednesday night the people of the United States turned out their electric lights In tribute to the memory of Thomas Alva Edison an Impressive demonstration demon-stration that was requested by President Hoover. That dsty the funeral of the greatest Inventor of ii tuna whs new in vesi urange and his body was laid In the tomb. The services were simple but many thousands of mourning men and women were there. Mr. Hoover was kept In Washington by official duties, du-ties, but he was represented by Mrs. Hoover. Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone, closest friends of Edison, were prominent In the throng. They had said goodhy to him two weeks before when all knew his death was not far off. JAPAN removed the Manchurian embrog!!o from the front page temporarily when It withdrew Its objections to American participation In the discussion of that matter by the League of Nations. Na-tions. This, however, how-ever, was a mere formality for Prentiss Gilbert, American consul tt Geneva, already was sitting in with the league council, i The committee of five of the council suggested that the powers signatory te the Kellogg an ti-war pact call to the attention of Japan and China their obligations under that treaty, and Identical notes on that line were sent to Tokyo and Nanking by Great Britain, the United States. France, Italy, Germany, Spain and other nations. na-tions. Then the council committee con-tinned con-tinned Its discussions of the Manchurian Man-churian question and it was reported re-ported that Its attitude was being reversed owing to alleged suggest tlons from Washington. Japan, It appeared, was about to win a complete com-plete diplomatic victory, and the Chinese delegates were dumbfounded, dumbfound-ed, la other words. It was rumored ru-mored the council would decide that Japan's occupation of Manchuria might continue Indefinitely until Tokyo was satisfied that the security secur-ity of Japanese In the province was amply jrosranteed. and that negotiations negotia-tions between Japan and China honld begin at once. There was very reason to believe that these conclusions would be Indignantly rejected by China. Diplomats In Geneva feared the rcsn't of the council's rumored cbai.ee of view, prophesying that the Nai.stng government would fall. ' that tkere would again be chaos In Prentiss Gilbert China and that the Influence of the league and of white nations generally gener-ally In the East would greatly decline. de-cline. Iiriand, as" a kind of mediator, asked Japan to abandon the fifth of Its five points, which demands "a new arrangement between the South Manchurian and the Chinese railways in Manchuria to obtain cooperation, co-operation, and It was Intimated In Tokyo that this might be done. Japan's other points are: L A mutual pledge by both nations na-tions not to resort to aggression. 2. Chinese abandonment of anti-Japanese anti-Japanese movements, including boycotts boy-cotts and anti-Japanese propaganda in school textbooks. 8. Mutual respect for territorial Integrity. ' 4. Chinese recognition of the validity of the existing treaties guar auteelng protection of Japanese life and property and the right to reside and engage In peaceful occupations on leased land in Manchuria. These are not final terms, but are considered by Jnpan essential preceding withdrawal of troops to the railway gone. In reply to the nations that Invoked In-voked the Kellogg pact. Foreign Minister Shidehara declares that Jupan recognizes fully Its responsibility responsi-bility under the pact and holds that Its army's action In Manchuria has been activated solely by reasons of self-defense and also to protect Japanese lives and property against wanton attacks by Chinese troops and bandits. The Japanese government, according accord-ing to the reply, does not Intend to take recourse to war to obtain a solution so-lution of Its differences with Chinn The government's aim Is to compose the differences pacifically. piREAT BRITAIN'S parliament- Is ary campaign developed Into a r"" ""- .v,L I - A Sir Oswald Mosley good deal of rough house perform ance, with many fist fights and the slinging of much mud. Prime Minister Minis-ter MacDonald held his own quite well In the debates, but some others did not fare so well. Sir Oswald Mosley, leader of the New party, was the center cen-ter of disturbance whenever he appeared ap-peared with his bodyguard of prize fighters and football foot-ball players. He wa s Jeered and booed and physically assaulted several times and a Birmingham court Issued Is-sued summons for his arrest after a stormy meeting In that city. Wins-ton Wins-ton Churchill was nearly mobbed while addressing a meeting In support sup-port of Viscount Borodnle, son of Countess Beatty, but was saved from the howling crowd by the police. One novelty of the campaign was the use of airplanes in aid of the National government candidates. The machines were all privately owned and were under the direction direc-tion of a woman, Mrs. R. R. Bentley. rECLARINQ that a blanket 15 - per cent Increase In freight rates would be contrary to the best Interests of the railways and would be unjustified by the economic conditions con-ditions prevailing, the interstate commerce commission denied the application of the carriers for the boost. The commission suggested instead a temporary Increase of rates on numerous specified commodities for a period ending March St. 1933. with the understanding thnt the additional addi-tional revenue produced by such Increases In-creases shall be pooled by the railroads rail-roads to meet deficiencies In Interest Inter-est payments on their bonds and ot'uer obligations. This Increase. It was estimated, might produce as much as $125,000,000. whereas the roads hoped to get $."00,000,000 from the blanket raise asked. In some quarters it was Intimated Inti-mated that the railroads might now resort to cutting the wages of their 1.300.000 workers, which they are loath to do since they realize this would decrease buying power and In turn decrease the quantity of freight carried. 17 II EN the President returned v to Washington from the York-town York-town celebration, one of the first delegations he received as from Philadelphia, bearing a strong protest pro-test against parts of the navy economy program, especially the postponement of the construction of the $.1,000,000 naval hospital In that city. Four congressmen told Mr. Hoover they thought work on the hospital should go ahead. Another delegation, which In eluded Senators Nye and Frazler of - North Dakota, asked White House aid In relieving the farm land credit situation In the west ern and northwestern farm regions. Later the two senators said that the President had promised to aid federal farm banks ty recommending recommend-ing an Increase in capitalization. They said they told the President Presi-dent that the present capital of the 12 land banks Is tied up Id farm land that cannot be sold, snd hence the farmers la this time of stress are not able to avail themselves of the credit facilities which congress Intended when It created this particular par-ticular branch of the treasury system. sys-tem. Fears that the economy program for the Navy department would be disastrous for the navy band and the maintenance of Old Ironsides, otherwise the frigate Constitution, were dispelled by an announcement announce-ment by Theodore G. Joslyn, secretary sec-retary to the President. lie said that whatever else Is eliminated from the budget, the band and the historic his-toric frigate would be provided for. The President, he said. Is opposed to diminishing "the Inspirational value" of the old Constitution by laying her up and to taking the "Joy out of life" by scrapping the band. E,7-4fc. ' ITS ' CATHOLIC discontent and home rule for provinces threatened so much trouble for the regime of Manuel Azana, the new provisional president of the Spanish republic, that the cortes took quick action, passing a law "for the defense of the republic" that gave Azana real dictatorial dicta-torial powers. He Is now In a position posi-tion to deal with the monarchist-clerical and syndleal- groups, and also Ma""'A" with the rebellious members of the government. Acts of aggression against the re-puhiic re-puhiic are defined elaborately. The government can deal with labor, political po-litical and religious disorders with extraordinary powers. It is privileged privi-leged to dissolve any organization considered a menace to public order, or-der, suppress a hostile press and fire any public official whom It finds lax In enforcing the law. The government Is also empowered empow-ered with the right of search and seizure of arms. Anyone convicted of possessing Creams, or even of eulogizing the ousted monarchy Is liable to Imprisonment. Strikes will be illegal unless preceded by an eight-day notice. REPRESENTATIVES ERNEST R. Ackerman of New Jersey and Fletcher Hale of New Hampshire, Hamp-shire, both Republicans, died during the week. The Democrats thus for the time being had a majority of one in the new house. , the count being: Democrats. 214; Republicans, 213; Farmer-Laborlte, 1; vacancies, 7. Five of the vacancies, two normally nor-mally Democratic, are to be filled at special elections November 3. Governor Gov-ernor Larson of New Jersey was expected ex-pected to call a special election to fill the vacancy in the normally Republican Re-publican Fifth district before the new congress convenes December 7. Attorney General Stevens of New Jersey believed, however, there was not sufficient time. -::- : i i ft -tiuwaqfr I' .... A Harry E. Rowbottom FORMER Representative Harry B, Rowbottom of Indiana, who was sentenced to a year and a day imprisonment in Leavenworth penitentiary peni-tentiary for accept ing, bribes for patronage pat-ronage Jobs in the First Indiana district. dis-trict. Is to be' released re-leased on parole on November 9, though his term normally would not end until February Feb-ruary 9. 1932. , It was learned at the Department of Justice Jus-tice that among those who recommended recom-mended the numla were Senators James E. Watson and Arthur R. Robinson of Indiana, Indi-ana, both Republicans. Other recommendations In favor of releasing Rowbottom before the expiration of his full term were made by Circuit Judge Charles E. Woodward, who sentenced the tor-mer tor-mer representative, and by Judge Vanderburgh of the Probate court of Evansville, District Attorney George L Jeffery, who prosecuted Rowbottom, was opposed to the parole, pa-role, the Justice department said. A L CAPONE, boss gangster of Chicago, facing sentence to the penitentiary after his conviction on charges of Income tax fraud, was dealt yet another blow by the government gov-ernment last week. Collectors of Internal revenue at Chicago and Jacksonville. Fla were directed by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon to place Hens on all property owned by the racketeer as a preliminary move toward the collection of taxes ranging from $200,000 to $1.000,KI0. f REEK people resident on the Island of Cypres revolted against British rule, demanding that the Island be turned over to Greece. Mobs stormed and burned the government house In Nicosia and fought the police. Four British warships were sent from Crete snd airplanes carried British soldiers from Egypt a tU. Wteti Kewpapr cta ntermoiintain Hews -Briefly Told for Busy Readers POOL IS HELD OVER. WORK LET IN IIAU0. U. S. TO BUM) SOON. DROUTH MEET PLANNED. IIEAVX StfiAR V riirs. inA.-Sl.2CO.000 was paid by the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company to growers of tM tpper Snake valley for beets delivered this season with an additional lab-or lab-or payroll of $100,000. BOISE, IDA.-A conference of western states Irrigation tlistrictg mfrtaA h flip drouth, will be held In Boise soon to drnw up plans to request from congress a moraior ium on payments of interest and principal for reclamation works. TWIN FALLS, IDA. Construction Construc-tion on the municipal swimming pool, located In Harmon field on the .sr flf town, was originally planned to start this fall, but has been postponed until next Bini5 because of lack of funds. Ttfvrsrc. IDA. Construction of public buildings Is going on steadily In Idaho to assist in relieving itonrMslnn. Building operations ag gregate more than $750,000, accord ing to a report issued ny me governor's gov-ernor's office. PROVO, UTAH The 40th annl versarv banauet of the Provo Con gregational Community church was held here recently, with the Rev. J F. Walker of Pocatello, Idaho, sup erintendent of the Intermountain Congregational churches, as the principal speaker. TWIN FALLS, IDA. A total of 225 carloads of apples have been shipped from the local O. S. L. de pot this season. OGDEN, UT. Construction of a chapel for the new Twenty-first ward In Ogden stake will begin in the BDrlne if sufficient funds can be raised in a campaign which has been inaugurated. The chapel Is to be built on Jefferson avenue near Twelfth street. TWIN FALLS, IDA. Death of Thomas A. Edison has recalled the fact that the street cars operated in early days by a company headed by I. B. Perrine, eminent promot er, were the first to use the Edison Btorage battery for that purpose. OGDEN, UT. Announcement has been made by I S. Hodgson and Merle MoClanahan, Ogden archi tects, that orders to proceed with the work of drafting plans for the United States department of agri culture building, to be erected oa property formerly owned by the Kie-sel Kie-sel estate, Twenty-fifth street and Adams avenue, have been received from Washington, D. C. TOOELE, UT. Edson Bevan Is the possessor of a large bobcat, which he recently caught in a trap on Soldier pass at the head of Set tlement canyon. Mr. Bevan states he is keeping it until he finds a way to take it to the zoo in Salt Lake, should the officials there de sire the specimen. PROVO, UT. A gift of 15,000 specimens of Insects and Bidders. collected by E. Elden Beck and Ara Call, former students of Brigham Young university, has been received by the zoological and entomoloei cal departments. The specimens were collected last summer In Iowa Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, Ariz ona, New Mexico, and old Mexico. OGDEN, UT. The city commis sion announced recently that, in co operation with Scott Zimmerman of the TJ. S. biological survey, a rat poisoning campaign would be put on m ogden about November 5th MIDVALE, UT. Berl and Austin Cook, who reside on the Bingham highway five miles west of here drove a flaming automobile school bus from their home to the Mid-vale Mid-vale fire station, where firemen applied ap-plied extinguishers to a blaze burn ing beneath the hood of the vehicle Damages to the bus were nominal LOGAN, UT. The Cache nation al forest insect infestation ronnrt has been submitted to the regional office in Ogden, and shows that during the spring of 1931, there were 9,15a infested lodgepole pine trees treated by burning at a cost of $D,497, or $1.04 per tree. This Is a material improvement over conditions In 1930, when 17,000 trees were burned. OGDEN, UT.-Fifty.one representatives repre-sentatives of water users of the lower Ogden river recently held a meeting to Initiate a movement looking to the. settlement of their conflicting water claims out of court in order to prevent extensive hearings and Utigation in connection connec-tion with the pending adjudication t the entire Weber river system and to create an amicable situation situa-tion to continne until storage ! created stf the Huntsville or Mag"-pie Mag"-pie sites, or both. MILL CREEK, UT.-At a meet-In? meet-In? of stockholders of the Miller pitch company, which supplies culinary cul-inary water to over 100 families in this vicinity, It was decided to form a township as the only possible pos-sible means of installing t new pipe line. GUXXisoN, UT.-Final pay. Kent by the city of Gunnison on a waver bond Issue created 20 years j e recently by paying $t.700. ac-j ac-j wrding t. B. A. Madsen. city audi- SeneTand Persons in the CurrenTjH 1 y- . -i. a sua n i x i . A ) V i'i 1 I U i OA If' i?!n. 1 ' i ; V I ! - t 3iT4 Wj' 1 'ifMfn &&h$vt 4 i phki TAfihiwfl. Jnnan'B rGDresentatlve in the council of the Leafirue at Vnnn. ... New palace of the government of the Vatican City, Rome, which has Just been officially o nvnin n Tinnsevelt of New York dedicating the Colonial Nnrinnni c uue. o wui. i- - uiuuumcnl k .J town, Va in the presence of the governors of the thirteen original states. Cornwallis Surrender at Yorktown Re-Ena ictei r " 0h " In the pageant at the celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of lorfcl the surrender scene was faithfully reproduced. The picture shows Colonel O'Hare turning over Lorifes wallis' sword to Colonel Lincoln, representing General Washington who is seen In the center. j I AERIAL FIREMAN W . .-romuai The nation's premier aerial fireman fire-man is Lewis Gravis. This twenty-four-year-old pilot, flying the Chi-cago-DasIas route, has discovered five burning homes In less than two years, and In each case aroused the occupants by flying low with his Hornet motor wide open. Gravis has Just beeu complimented by the Post Office department for his fifth discovery, a burning dwelling near Libertyville, Mo. JOHNNY BAYLES t 1 y Johnnv Rori. -m tt- . . wi iiinsuaie, l'a., P'ays halfback on the Cnlversity of Tennessee eleven. la Co-eat Numbers Go to , picnic, thoa sluggard, and sSinet8 ,nt--F0rt WayDe W Ohio City Courteous to Visitors THIS SPACE RESEPVtU rr AllT-nCTfl'i'N .VlCtTOD? N CjhP IT; I - y. m s i '4 - .....fr vji- s . Imnortant M-1- -. icuHiiu, vino, HiLuaieu uii uiie vi m . mnfltTJ' the United States, has set about showing the rest of tne i - true hospitaUty really Is. A staff of more than fifty cf stationed at Intersections of main highway routes in rjs tourists, and special sections on the business streets have d for the exclusive parking of out-of-town visitors. - ; TJ Tragedy Survivors Unveil Men $im$t y Mm cm r j . - Iff r.s-f HiU The fifteen youngsters (in front rows) who gn&ei trairedv timf Polo- last warcu. the monument that has been erected at Holly. 0i- viS tflTT five children who froze to death while their school dh . the snow. Eryan Untiedt, the hero of the disaster, 3 u t row at right, holding his cap. Clara Smith, the g' in the second row at left THE I itt to! i so II! i la 1 hoi tt t Hie us t :i i 0 |