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Show THE LEIIJ SUN. LEIH. UTAI1 News Review" of Current Events the World Over Dawes Named Head of Reconstruction Finance Corporation Cor-poration Laval's Blow to Reparations Conference Confer-ence "Alfalfa Bill" in Washington. By EDWARD W. PICKARD 4 i v k 33 Gen. Dawe INTO the lap of Gen. Charles Gates Dawes, or rather onto bis shoulders, bus fallen another big Job, and the country seems to feel confident con-fident that this Strong Man of business, busi-ness, finance and diplomacy will be able to handle It competently. lie has been appointed by President Hooter as president of the Reconstruction Finance Fi-nance corporation which Is to go to the rescue of banks, railroads and other Interests whose as sets and operations have been "frozen by the depression. Two billion dollars supplied by the government gov-ernment will he at the disposal cf the corporation and It Is fondly hoped and tzpected that this great piece of machinery will, under the direction of General Dawes, extricate extri-cate the country from the economic morass. President Hoover In announcing the selection of Dawes added that Eugene Meyer, governor of the federal fed-eral reserve board, would be chairman chair-man of the board of the new corporation. cor-poration. In a second statement the President Presi-dent announced that Secretary of State Stlmson would replace Dawes as chairman of the American delegation dele-gation to the disarmament conference confer-ence In Geneva but would not attend at-tend the opening sessions, at which Ambassador Hugh Gibson would be acting chairman. Other members of the delegation sailed for Europe Wednesday, and the delay in the departure de-parture of Mr. Stlmson was construed con-strued In Washington as meaning that Mr. Hoover does not expect a great deal from the conference. Of course Mr. Dawes resignation as ambassador to Great Britain was pormptly offered and accepted. He said he would send to London for bis family and his trunks and would get busy on the new Job at nce. SENATOR SWANSON and Dr. Mary Emma Woolley sailed on the liner President Harding and will be Joined in Geneva by Ambassadors Gibson and Wilson, who are already al-ready In Europe, and by Norman n. Davis, who preceded them on another an-other ship. Our delegates have been Instructed not to agree to further fur-ther reduction of American land forces. As for navnl armaments, Amerlcnn officials see little chance that any other powers will be willing will-ing to make armament cuts which would materially affect this nation's na-tion's naval forces. The French government, through Tremler Laval, has plainly Indicated Indi-cated that Its stand at the confer ence In Geneva will be unchanged. It will Insist on what France considers con-siders guarantees of security before consenting to disarmament At the same time Laval, submitting submit-ting the foreign policy of his new government to the chamber of deputies, dep-uties, virtually doomed the reparations repara-tions conference at Lausanne. . He declared, In effect, that France would not give up her right to rep-apartions, rep-apartions, adding that all France could offer was to try to adopt existing ex-isting International accords to the present crisis. Great Britain thereupon there-upon announced the conference opening had been postponed from January 23 and that further conversations con-versations were In progress. It appeared evident the pnrley, if held at all, would be only a meeting of experts. it. I 1 CONGRESSMEN and other Inhabitants Inhab-itants of the National Capital beard a lot about the liquor Issue during the week rather more than usual. Senator Royal S, Copeland of New York, who Is a Democrat and a physician. Introduced Intro-duced In the senate a bill which would amend the prohibition prohibi-tion act to enable patients who need liquor for medicinal purposes to obtain It In any necessary Quantities on physi-clans physi-clans prescriptions. r It also would enable physicians to prescribe such liquor without recording re-cording in governmental offices the disease from which their patients are suffering. The senate manufactures subcommittee subcom-mittee continued Intermittently Its bearings on the Bingham 4 per cent beer bill. One of the Interesting witnesses wit-nesses was David Burnet, commissioner commis-sioner of Internal revenue, ne declined de-clined to predict whether legalization legaliza-tion of beer would Increase consumption con-sumption over prep roblblt Ion days, but said beer taxes would create a "substantial Increase" la revenues. Representative Dyer of Missouri testified that states refused to en force the dry law because the people peo-ple regarded the definition of Intoxicants In-toxicants as unscientific and dishonest. dis-honest. As a result Dyer said, federal fed-eral Judges have become real police Judges. NEWTON D. BAKER having refused re-fused to seek the Democratic Presidential nomination, ' besides having made himself almost out of the question by reiterating his advocacy ad-vocacy of American membership In the League of Nations, the party leaders of Ohio agreed to support Got. George White as Ohio's favorite favor-ite son. The state's delegates, bow-ever, bow-ever, will be "free from any sort of control," which means they can switch to any other candidate. South Dakota Democrats have declared for Franklin D. Roosevelt, and In Minnesota a movement bas been started to secure that state's delegation for-Al Smith, o4 9 J, C. Grew A LFALFA BILL" MURRAY, governor of Oklahoma, who was In Washington In behalf of a bill to remove the 10 per cent tax on state bank note f-" 1IUU'? Issues, addressed ; ' , -j j the biennial con- mention the Antl- V Saloon league and i rather staggered H W 1 n,a hea""ers by ar- f ' -1 gulng for a "zone ! $ control" system for ' v i A I i Q a o r traffic. t if" ?. - ' Though known as f a prohibitionist, the mtwmm?$mmJa governor said that prohibition "possl- Gov. Murray bly l8 not tne flnal solution of the problem of control of the liquor traffic." Dr. A. J. Barton, chairman of the league's executive committee, replied to Murray Indirectly by asserting as-serting that "the South will not be misled by the hue and cry about state's rights," and will not support any candidate for the Presidency who Is either personally wet or runs on a wet platform. The league went on record as opposing anything any-thing that might weaken' prohibitionreferenda, prohibi-tionreferenda, resubmission, state control, modification and beer proposals, pro-posals, as well as repeal attempts. ONE of the State department's best "career men," Joseph C Grew, ambassador to Turkey, has been selected by the President to succed W.Cameron Forbes as ambas- tZ, sador to Japun, and Lt ' , '- ': the choice Is said F x ' to please the ml- 1 - k ado's government Mr. Cameron Is anxious to quit Tokyo but may be persuaded to re- mam mere ivr a time because of the complications of the Manchurlan situation. Mr. Grew, who was born in Boston, Bos-ton, has spent many years In the diplomatic service. He has held several Important posts and attended attend-ed various International conferences, confer-ences, and In 1023 he negotiated a valuable treaty with Turkey. He has been ambassador at Angora since 1027. Jefferson CatTery, minister min-ister to Colombia, may succeed him there. For the London ambassadorship vacated by General Dawes, Lawrence Law-rence C Thlpps, former senator from Colorado, Is being urged by bis friends. As was predicted, James R. Beverly Bev-erly of Texas was appointed governor gov-ernor of Porto Rico to succeed Theodore Roosevelt, promoted to the governor generalship of the Philippines. Mr. Beverly is now attorney general of the Island. TWO or three weeks may elapse before Secretary of the Treasury Treas-ury Mellon knows whether the house Judiciary committee favors his Impeachment as demanded by Representative Wright Tatman of Texas. The hearings were adjourned ad-journed Tuesday until the official transcript of the testimony Is completed com-pleted and printed. Just before this Alexander Gregg, counsel for Mr. Mellon, read to the committee a cabled denial from President Olaya of Colombia that he and Mellon had ever discussed the Bar-co Bar-co oil concession. "This Is the most damaging evidence evi-dence yet Introduced," declared Representative La Guardia. "Mr. Patman has been working for days here to show us that the oil concession con-cession was discussed by Mr. Stlmson Stlm-son and President Olaya. Why did you get this cabled denial anil why was It sentT Why should President Olaya show so much solicitude for Mr. Mellon and the State department?" Mr. Cregg replied that he was certain no one In the State department depart-ment was asked for the denial Mr. Patman read to the committee commit-tee a list of stocks he declared Secretary Mellon bad put up aa collateral with a Pittsburgh bank for a $00,000,000 bond Issue made by th'j Gulf Oil corporation. CONGRESS received a thorough scolding for the way It has been squandering billions of dollars, bringing the nation to the verge of bankruptcy, In a memorial addressed ad-dressed to it by the Federation of American Business, a national organization or-ganization with headquarters In Chicago. The document was presented pre-sented to the senate by Senator James E. Watson of Indiana, and he asked that It be read from the desk Instead of being merely filed. "The very existence of the nation Is at stake and your constituents, alive to your every action In this crisis, will accept no excuses and no extenuations," was the conclusion conclu-sion of the demand voiced In the memorial for reduction of government govern-ment expenditures and reduction of taxation. "The tremendous Increase In the cost of government Is the result of three major causes," the memorial contended. "First government competition directly or Indirectly with the business activities of Its citizens, and the absorption by Increased In-creased taxation of losses thus Incurred; In-curred; second, new regulatory or social services not contemplated In our scheme of political administration, administra-tion, but taken on In Increasing volume vol-ume In recent years, and, third, Independent In-dependent boards and commissions, under direction of no established executive department and frequently frequent-ly financed with revolving funds that free them of United States treasury supervision. The whole pattern of government Is being changed without approval or even discussion by our citizenship." Next day a representative of Industry, In-dustry, James A. Emery, counsel for the National Association of Manufacturers, appeared before a house committee to warn members that a sure way to delay restoration of the opportunity to work Is to divert di-vert too great a portion of private funds to public purposes. Public expenditures national, state, and local now total some thirteen billion dollars annually, Mr. Emery reminded the congressmen congress-men who have before them the task of drawing up the new tax bill with Its Inevitably higher rates. Of that huge total, Mr. Emery pointed out, only ten billion Is met by Immediate Im-mediate taxation, the remainder being met by continuous borrowing. GENERAL HON JO, commander of the Japanese In Manchuria, thoroughly avenged the recent killing kill-ing of a number of his soldiers by Chinese troops. He sent out three well-equipped expeditions which retaliated re-taliated by slaying several hundred soldiers and "bandits" In engagements engage-ments at Yental, Tungllao and Ylngkow. Heavy artillery and bombing planes were freely used by the Japanese with terrible effect The Japanese plans for establishing establish-ing an Independent government In Manchuria that Is, Independent of all but Japan went forward with speed. There were renewed reports that Ilsuan Tung, former boy emperor, em-peror, would be set up as ruler of Manchuria, and so the Chinese government gov-ernment issued warrants for his arrest ar-rest LORD WILLINGDON, viceroy of India, is not taking half measures meas-ures In suppressing the Nationalist revolt against British rule, navlng Jailed Mahatma Gandhi and most of his chief lieutenants, lieuten-ants, he followed this up by putting In prison Mrs. Gandhi, the mahat-ma's mahat-ma's wife, and their youngest stm. Mrs. Gandhi, a little woman sixty years old, was given six weeks In Jail be cause she had un-dertaken un-dertaken to carry Mr4-Gandhi on her husband's campaign. She asked a longer sentence, promising to resume the Independence work as soon as she got out The Judge refusing, re-fusing, she picked up her Hindu Bible and her spinning wheel and entered her cell V CRING the debate in the house on the Agriculture department's depart-ment's $175,000,000 supply bill for the next fiscal year. Representative Wood of Indiana, Republican, made a demand for a reduction in salaries sal-aries of government employees. Mr. Shannon of Missouri asked whether President Hoover would approve a cut In his salary and what was the extent of Mr. Hoover's Hoo-ver's private fortune. Mr. Wood replied: "He has made a lot of money, but he has given It away. My Information, Informa-tion, from a reliable source. Is that the President today Is not worth $1,000,0001 I have faith enoujrh to believe that If the salaries of the federal employees are reduced Pres-dent Pres-dent Hoover will reduce bis own salary." DEMOCRATIC primaries In Louisiana were captured by Gov. nuey Long's hand-picked candidates can-didates headed by O. K. Allen for governor, despite the vigorous efforts ef-forts of Long's brother and other relatives on behalf of George Gulon. There were many stories about violence and Intimidation by Huey's henchmen, but that statesman, states-man, who Is also a senator-elect laughed them off and said the election elec-tion was quiet (ft till. WmUts Nrwr&per rsica.) Intermountain News -Briefly Told for Busy Readers SHEEP ARE LOST. J0BLESSP ASK WORK. LOWER RATES MADE. PI NEW INDUSTRY. WOOL SOLD IN OREGON. CALDWELL, IDA.-A new 30 thousand egg capacity hatchery Is to be opened here in February. BOISE, IDA. Recent snow falls took the life of ten per cent of the Utah and Idaho sheep being wintered in the country uth of Elko, Nevada. Forage Is buried beneath be-neath heavy snow. Approximately 10,000 sheep are wintered iu the area. SALT LAKE CITY, UT.-As the first step in transforming the east side of Great Salt Lake Into a fresh water body, the engineers are arranging for a number of tests to determine the character of the bed. OGDEN, UT. A party of Utah canners attended the national convention con-vention of the National Canners' association In Chicago. SALT LAKE CITY, UT.-Steps to open a way for an agreement among the water-users of Salt Lake county for a satisfactory method of handling the waters of Utah lake, which are used to Irrigate practically all of this county as well as part of Utah, county have been announced by the state engineer. en-gineer. NAM PA, IDA. Appropriation to build a school building at the state school and colony at Nampa will be asked at the next session of the Idaho legislature. IDAno FALLS, IDA. Two hundred Jobless men paraded thru the streets here recently demanding demand-ing work and not charity. Their leader voiced their demand to the city council. OGDEN, UT Initial steps were taken at a meeting of the Weber county Medical society to purchase a site and erect a medical and dental arts building for physicians and dentists of the city. PROVO, UT. Because he mistook mis-took a bottle of poison tablets for one containing headache tablets, James McBride, 32, died here a few days ago. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. A new schedule of lower freight rates on livestock in six western states, Including In-cluding Utah, and portions of the five other states In the western area, went Into effect recently, according ac-cording to local traffic officials. CALDWELL, I D A. Possibility that teachers' salaries In Canyon county school districts win be re duced: ana other reductions in ex pense made was Indicated in a call for a meeting of school trustees. BURLEY, IDA. Last pool of turkeys of the Idaho-Oregon Tur Key Alarming association were shipped a few days ago, the birds bringing $975. BOISE, IDA. A total of 340,000 pounds of Idaho wool held by the First National bank of Idaho, of Boise, was sold in Portland. The largest sale was 470 bags, which sold at sixteen and one-eighth cents per pound. PRICE, UT. By order of the state board of health, all dogs in Helper and vicinity are under the strictest quarantine for rabies and all peace officers of the county have been Instructed to enforce the quarantine. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Resources Re-sources and liabilities of the 65 commercial banks, three trust com panies and three savings banks operating op-erating as state Institutions, were $112,G47,0G2.6O as of last December SI, while the corresponding figure for the close of business of 1930 was $130,173,031.00. LEWISTON, IDA. Because the laws are considered unnecessary in view of the federal statutes against liquor and are a burden to the taxpayers, tax-payers, a petition to the Idaho leg. islature asking repeal of the Idaho liquor law will be circulated thru out the state in the near future It Is reported here. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Every department of the Utah Poultry Producers' Co-oparative association showed an earning last year, ac cording to the general manager. It Is estimated that earnings will Increase In-crease in 1932. BOISE, IDA. During 1931, Id-ahoans Id-ahoans purchased 5320 new cars and 1G2S new trucks, according to Information on file with the state department of law enforcement SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Approval Ap-proval of the erection of 12 monuments monu-ments during the coming summer bas been voted by the Utah Pioneer Pio-neer Trails and Landmarks association. associ-ation. Two landmarks will be added ad-ded in cooperation with Idaho, one at the old Fort Hall, and one at Snake river" crossing at Idaho Falls. A monument will be placed at Pipe Springs in northern Ari sona and one at Hcnefer, on the old Mormon trait BOISE, IDA. Luscious Idaho potatoes, filled with Idaho butter, biscuits made from Idaho flour covered with Idaho honey, Idahi apples, is th3 menu which featured featur-ed the Tasadcna, California, Ki-wanis Ki-wanis club's annual Idaho potato day luncheon this monih. POCATELLO. IDA. Pres. Gray of the Union Pacific railway, has announced the cooperation of that road In a campaign to develop the resources of Idaho. Markets for pester Idaho crops are to be enlarged. Scenes and Persons in the Current fye wi - w a ' -. a, i 4S Cr. mm A r jemmar-a Lrl li the 1 f if 1 Members of the senate finance committee hearing testimony concerning the sau In the United States, which Involved the State department 2 View In Lausanne, Switieri 81 3 conference on reparations, ft MaJ. Gen. Ewlng B. Booth who has been asslmed' t T. l department 01 tne miiippines, nucceeuiug . ueuerui j-uuco. a On Their Way to Troubled City of Honolulu P'roBT8t 111"" 0$ bThen the t rat"':.. r WRIT iir hMsirl m, r. m .MM&mtimmMi&tx-ll --Fff. ; i would buy i lourisn, an hosaction w l. i. ha 1 have k the be back to y ME These United States army soldiers, carrying heavy duMe bags thrown over their shoulders, are the army transport Grant at Brooklyn, bound for Honolulu. UNVEILED IN RICHMOND iM " : I 't 11 WJ 1 4" It : ' If : H t it ; , , , j , , SI "tit ' ' i Full-length bronze statue, by Rudolph Ru-dolph R. Evans, of Robert E. Lee, Confederate leader, which was unveiled un-veiled In Richmond on January 19, the one hundredth and twenty-fifth anniversary of the birth of Lee. The heroic figure stands on the exact spot where Lee stood when he took command of the Confederate forces NEW HEAD OF DRYS y. T 1 "-lkl"iardson.head ta PhnMiSt Ep!scopal in Philadelphia, who was elected present of the AnU-Sa.oon hSS toMn HDUal conventin Wash-tostoiu Wash-tostoiu He succeeds Bishop Thomas N.chrlson cf Detroit First Air View of the New Arte Mwuuwwi ii.i .wm mat V 1 jA J IncV 1 irtiA pidelity Vdity is s sueeesa. ANSPRI iaseof eldest an Httoi. Pi ficcess to 1 )ri for i 4 T - 5 ... I Every! J- This first air view of the amphitheater at Arlington at J tery since the recent improvements was made while Father 'Cox sp arniy of Jobless was holding services at the tomb of the v Soldier. Randi Finally Reaches Salt Water 5 ft f 4: X f A A, -----".--..- t - r r - H k '" n 'X i I 4 1 On her wbt tn c cntt -ntPr like my ancestors aiu, LerohL .forty-eight, of Superior, Wis, is shown as fe E Orleans on the towboat Louisiana of the Mississippi bt. began her Journey In a leaky 20-foot rowboat ana ep , jj b It drifting from her home to Cairo, EL, where she was v the towboat She declared upon arrival tiat she wowa to the Gulf of Mexico to see salt water. |