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Show THE LEIII HN. LEW. UTAH News Review of Current V Events the World Over Secretary Mills Offers Treasury's Tax Bill Congress V Slashes More Supply Measures Developments ) in the Presidential Campaign. '1 By EDWARD W. PICKARD j Ogden L. Mills CECRETARY OGDEN L. MILLS' J and his associates In the Treasury Treas-ury department have laid before the senate finance committee their revised program for raisins $1,033,000,-000 $1,033,000,-000 for the purpose of balancing the national na-tional budget The bill they offer rejects re-jects those features of the measure passed by the house which makes extreme ex-treme raises In normal nor-mal Income tax rates, surtax rates, corporation Income taxes ' and estate taxes, restoring these taxes to the level of the rates as they were In 1924. Mr. Mills proposed a compromise on taxing stock sales. The house bill provides a tax of one-fourth of 1 per cent, but not less than four cents a share. The secretary would make It a straight four cents a share tax. Most of the excise taxes In the bouse bill he rejects, but proposes pro-poses a tax of three-fourths of one cent a gallon on domestic gasoline, which Is not taxed In the house bill. ' Mr. Mills' program does not differ dif-fer much from the last recommendations recommenda-tions he submitted to the house ways and means committee. It is now too late, he says, to apply Income In-come taxes retroactively to 1031 in comes, but the loss occasioned thereby will be offset by "tightening "tighten-ing of the law through administrative administra-tive changes." The secretary now believes that It will be possible to reduce government govern-ment expenditures $200,000,000 Instead In-stead of $120,000,000. Articles not taxed In the house bill on which Mr. Mills would impose im-pose taxes are tobacco, checks and drafts, and domestic gasoline. WIIAT Representative La Guar-dla Guar-dla of New York called "an epidemic of enocomy" continued Us course in congress, to the disgust of some Individual members and of certain government officials. Drat-tlc Drat-tlc reductions tn budget estimates were made and further slashes were In prospect The house created precedent pre-cedent by accepting without conference confer-ence the entire 10 per cent made by the senate In the appropriation bill for the Interior department and as the budget bureau already had made heavy reductions from the department depart-ment requests and the house had previously knocked oft some mil lions. Secretary Wilbur spoke of "the odds and ends that are left' lie called the $1,000,000 reduction In funds for the Boulder canyon dam "hocus-pocus," and then took the diminished bill to President Hoover for a conference. The senate instructed its appropriations appro-priations committee to reduce the ' treasury-post office supply bill by 10 per cent, and also approved a reduction re-duction of $1,000,000 in the prohibition prohibi-tion enforcement fund, the only important Item which the house left at the budget estimate. Next came the slashing of the navy appropriation appropria-tion bill by the house. The appropriation measure for congress Itself was put aside for one week or more to give the special spe-cial economy committee time to perfect per-fect an amendment carrying the entire en-tire retrenchment program of pay reductions and abolition and consolidation con-solidation of federal activities. The decision of the economy committee to put all the projected savings Into one bill to be a rider to the legislative, supply measure, as President Pres-ident Hoover wished, was reached over the protest of Chairman Mc- Duffle of Alabama. McDuffie said his proposal to cut federal wage3 11 per cent after exempting the first $1,000, would go Into the bill, and that advocates of the Hoover five-day five-day work week and furlough without with-out pay plan would have to offer It as a substitute, Mr. noover thinks his plan would save between $225,' 000,000 and $250.000,B00 a year. ate to succeed Dan Steck, Democrat. Demo-crat. ' Other appointments made for the convention were: Sergeant-at-arms, Everett Sanders of Indiana, former secretary to President Calvin Cool ldge; secretary, Lafayette B. Glea son of New York; parliamentarian, James Francis Burke of Pennsyl vania; assistant, Lehr Fess, Ohio, son of Senator Fess; chief door keeper. Col. Glen Haynes of Iowa; assistant, J. N. Johnston, Kansas. f?RANKLIN ROOSEVELT Is de- " termined not to have a quarrel with Al Smith If he can help It, and In his campaign for delegates the New York governor is becoming becom-ing most conciliatory and cautious. Up In St Paul, Minn., be replied In a way to Smith's attack In which that leader of Democracy more than intimated that Roosevelt was a demagogue trying to set class against class. This Franklin disclaimed, dis-claimed, declaring pleasantly that be favored the national policy that "seeks to help all simultaneously an aim with which no one could quarrel but a pronouncement that Is scarcely reason for Smith to abandon aban-don bis announced Intention to take of his coat and fight to the bitter end the nomination of the governor. On the whole, the present situation Is such that Democratic leaders fear a repetition of the convention dead lock of 1024 and Impairment of the party's chances for success at the polls la November. fctf ' i ".!Ml T I THEN the Republican national V V convention meets In Chicago It will have for Its temporary chairman chair-man and keynoter Senator L. J. Dickinson of Iowa, whom the arrange-in arrange-in en ts committee selected for the post with the- approval ap-proval of Fresldent Hoover. "Hell-Raising "Hell-Raising Dick." as he Is known In bis home state, has been one of the strongest defenders of the Hoover administration ad-ministration and can he counted on to set forth vigorously sues on which the party will base Its WARNING that wet planks in hftth nnrtv nlntfnrma tha np would cause the prohibitionists to get together and elect a dry President Presi-dent was issued from the woman's national committee for law enforcement Mrs. Leigh Colvln of New York made the statement before the wom en's convention, at the same time claiming definitely that President noover Is a supporter of prohibi tion. She predicted his defeat, how ever, if the party adopts a wet plank. ... v Senate committees considered various va-rious proposals relating to prohibition prohibi-tion and beard the views of many persons. Matthew ,Woll of the American Federation of Labor warned the lawmakers of a potential poten-tial revolution by labor unless the beer Industry Is . revived. Bishop Cannon appeared before the Judiciary Judi-ciary subcommittee to advocate making the man who buys liquor ns guilty as the one who sells it The manufacturers' committee, by a vote of 4 to 7, turned down the Bingham beer bill for 4 per cent beer, C ECRETARY OF STATE STIM- nnn is nnw in cnnotro anil or parently already is up to the neck in matters relating to disarmament. reparations, security secur-ity and the oriental situation. He Is quartered In a fine villa and Is doing a lot of entertaining, but also he Is attending at-tending to business. As one real achievement, achieve-ment, the disarmament disarma-ment conference approved ap-proved the principle princi-ple of reduction ol armament "to the lowest point con sistent with national safety and the enforcement by common action of International obligations." Approval of the principle was opposed op-posed only by Maxim Litvlnov, head of the Russian delegation, who said the action was not related to any efforts to secure genuine disarmament disarma-ment Following up the American and Italian proposals. Sir John Simon, British foreign minister, proposed a resolution indorsing the principle of "qualitative disarmament that Is, the prohibition of certain classes and type of weapons. This was supported by Germany and Italy, but opposed by France. FTT"7i Sec'y Stimson Sen. Dickinson the ls- Republican appeal for the favor of the electorate. He was In the lower house for six terms, a prominent member of the farm bloc; then was elected to the sen- TIIE Interstate commerce commission, com-mission, In a report that marked the culmination of a nation-wide survey of the highway-rail transportation trans-portation situation, recommended legislation regulating Interstate bus and truck carriers. "Unrestrained competition Is an Impossible solution of the present transportation problem and Is Incompatible In-compatible with the aim of co-ordination under regulation, declared the commission. A much milder form of regulation for the interstate truck carriers, common or contract, was recommended. recom-mended. CHAIRMAN NORBECK of the senate committee investigating short selling of sticks and President Presi-dent Whitney of the New York Stock exchange did not get along well together last week. Sir. Whitney Whit-ney gave a list of 21,000 shorts as of April 8, and the tames, made public after a few days, were found to Include several prominent Amer icans and some foreigners. Among the former was Arthur Cutten. Nor-beck Nor-beck said the Inquiry would be greatly extended. TI1E senate adopted and sent to the bouse a resolution calling upon the secretary of agriculture to Investigate the cost of maintaining the system of fu tures trading In agricultural ag-ricultural products and to ascertain what classes of citizens citi-zens bear the cost Wheat and cotton futures both are covered in the terms of the resolution reso-lution which was formed by the agriculture agri-culture committee - by combining meas-Sen. meas-Sen. Capper gponsored by Senators Capper (Republican, Kansas) Kan-sas) and Sheppard (Democrat, Texas). Fronts and losses by various classes of traders in wheat and cotton cot-ton futures since July, 1929, together togeth-er with short sales volume and commission com-mission paid by traders, would be gone Into. MRS. LOWELL F. HOBART, retiring president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Rev-olution, addressing the continental congress of the organization In Washington, asserted that alien Internationalists, In-ternationalists, pacifists and criminals crim-inals are undermining the security of American Institutions. Backing op her plea for a united front against these Influences, Mrs. Ho- bart sketched a sordid picture of conditions which she said existed In this depression period. The congress was peaceful this year, the only ticket In the field being headed by Mrs. Russell 'William 'Wil-liam Magna of Uolyoke, Mass. OREAT BRITAIN'S budget, al- most balanced, was introduced to the house of commons by Chan cellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, and the British found there would be no relief for the Income In-come tax payers or the beer drinkers for another year. -A deficit of about $7,-000,000. $7,-000,000. Mr. Chamberlain Cham-berlain estimated, would be easily made up by a new customs tax to be announced and a tax of eight cents on foreign tea with a preference of four cents on empire em-pire grown tea. The Income tax re mains at about 25 per cent Of especial Interest to America was the fact that the budget makes no provision for $171,500,000 which will be due the United States in the next twelve months on the war debt account. Neither does it list in the Items of expense revenue the equivalent amount which will be due Britain from German reparations repara-tions and from the European allies on their war debts to Britain. Chamberlain said he felt it would be wiser to leave all these war debt and reparations accounts out of consideration until after the Lausanne Lau-sanne reparations conference. After a decision is reached at Lausanne and after it is known whether the Hoover moratorium will be extended, extend-ed, there will be a supplementary British budget to meet the conditions condi-tions then existing, he said. News of this course by the British Brit-ish government started a discussion In congress of the possibility of repudiation re-pudiation by Europe of the war debts owed the United States. Sen ator Reed of Pennsylvania said he was confident England would pay us when the time comes, and others deprecated the Idea of cancellation. Senator Borah took the opportunity opportu-nity to reply to Al Smith's recent suggestion that the war debt be forgotten for-gotten for 25 years and then curtailed cur-tailed to the extent of 25 per cent of the value of American goods purchased pur-chased by the debtors at that time. Mr. Borah said this would be In effect complete cancellation and was a scheme for the benefit of private creditors of Europe at the expense of American tax payers. Senator Lewis of Illinois also attacked the Smith Idea, and both he and Borah tied the question up with the disarmament dis-armament problem. ONE more attempt to get Thomas Thom-as J. Mooney out of the California Cali-fornia penitenWary has failed. Following Fol-lowing the counsel of his legal advisers. ad-visers. Governor Rolph denied a pardon to the man who Is serving a life term for participation In the 1916 Preparedness day bombing In San Francisco. Neville Chamberlain Intermountain Hews -Briefly Told for Busy Readers ALFALFA SEED 25e CLOSED BANK SOLVENT HISTORIC CHAPEL RAZED $20,000 FIRE Lss CHANGE ROAD COST A JAPANESE foreign office spokes- man has warned Russia of the danger of war If there Is any recur-rence recur-rence of alleged Soviet-Inspired outrages out-rages against Japan In Manchuria. Be referred specifically to the wrecking of a troop train near Harbin Har-bin recently. In which 14 Japanese soldiers were killed, responsibility for which Japan flatly charged to Russia. The spokesman pointed out that It must be remembered that while Japan Is not sending new troops to the Siberian border, the Russians are continuing to concentrate their forces. & l IX. Wstera Kcwtptpw felon. Persons and Scenes in the Current Ne wrtnur. IDA. Farmers who have alfalfa seed held over from last fall will realize at least 21 cents a pound for It. rather man u, to 13 cents paid last lalL The seed Is cleaned at Blackfoot ana wuw east, where it is to be sold for 23 cents a pound. LEiii, TjT.At a mass m;uue of the depositors of the State Bank of LehL the president oi me mu of directors stated tnat rne wu bank ; was thoroughly solvent, but romMninir closed flue to a claim of $44,000 lodged against it h tha Aintno school Doara. LOGAN, TJT. A group oi iuv-ui business men, accompanied by a Tollee escort and the senior high school band, made an excursion to RmithfiPid for the Health day cel ebration. They will also go to Rich mond on Black and White oay, Mat Bth. BRIGHAM CITY, UT.-The Ore- crnn Short Line railroad has made application to discontinue its sta tion aeencr at wiiiara. IDAHO FALLS, IDA.-13 carloads car-loads of cracked wheat and one car load of flour have been made avail- able locally by the Red Cross Bon neville chapter. IDAHO FALLS, IDA.-Bonne-Tllle county commissioners compromised compro-mised on a charge of 85 cents per dflT rjer federal prisoner lodged in the county Jail, a reduction from the former rate of $1 per day. - BOISE, IDA. Heavy maintenance mainten-ance and repair work will be neces sary on highways in southeast ana eastern Idaho because of the severe winter, the director of highways reports after a survey of the roads. CEDAR C1TT, UT. The agricultural agricul-tural department of the Branch Agricultural college, the local Wool-growers' Wool-growers' association and the Utah State Agricultural college extension service gave a program for the general public at the B. A. C. recently, re-cently, including a sheep shearing and wool handling demonstration and two films at a local theatre. OGDEN. UT. 142 persons In Weber county now are on the old' age pension list, an Increase from 134 on January L The amount paid out on old-age pensions for April is approximately $8.00 each. PROVO, UT. The highway In Provo canyon is practically cleared of the huge snowslide of last February Feb-ruary which covered the road for a depth of 60 to 80 feet over a stretch of nearly one thousand feet SPANISH FORK, UT. Bids for the construction of a gravel road between Castilla and Moark In Spanish Fork canyon have been asked by the state road commission. The length of the road is 5.56 miles. HYRUM, UT. Money 'for the actual construction of the Hyrum Irrigation projectwill be available about July 1, according to expectations. expecta-tions. Congress recently appropriated appropriat-ed $300,000 for the project. SALT LAKE CITY", UT. Coun ties will be relieved of the necessity of sharing In the costs of survey, betterment and construction on the federal highway system in Utah. This announcement is made by the state road commission. So long as this policy Is In effect, counties are not to pay for the expense on the 1750 miles of federal highway in the state, except that of providing rights of way. Previously, counties have furnished as their share for federal highway construction from $400,000 to In excess of $700,000 annually an-nually In state road taxes, the greater part of which was used on federal highways. f uuATEiiUU, IDA. A young man and three girls have been ar rested here, alleged to have stolen an automobile belonging to F. Hezel-braker, Hezel-braker, lieutenant governor of Mon tana, and driving it to Downey, Ida. BOISE, IDA. Employment con- ditions improved slightly In Idaho recently with the opening of spring worfe and increased highway con struction. There Is still a surplus of labor. The large mines continue on a three day week basis and lum ber operations are slack. Residen tial building and the unemployment relief program has reduced the num ber of unemployed. Placer mining has increased in the neighborhood of Boise. . CHEYENNE, WYO. A resolution resolu-tion favoring modification of the 18th amendment was passed at the closing session of the annual convention con-vention of the Wyoming State Federation Fed-eration of Labor. The resolution did tot suggest a definite form of modification. modi-fication. EVANSTOX, WTO. Plans are being made to tear down the L. D. S. chapel, built in 1896, at Almy, Wyoming. Part of the material will be salvaged for the building of a smaller church and amusement hall. AUny, an all but deserted coal camp, was once one of the most flourishing flourish-ing In Wyoming. DUCHESNE, UT. Lowe Ashton, county Red Cross chairman, reports that 500,000 pounds of cracked wheat have been shipped Into Dn chesne county with 90,000 pounds ol flour. vs if ? M At ;1 ! i I W"!VtS -' f --4 1 I Cw!;M '- f"W wwum ujuj. - juili, r I- ml 1 1 v ; ' 1 Ambassador aienon wejeomeu iu mgiauu u3 "jojut ut ooumampton. 2-wom petition to congress. 8 George Washington Masonic memorial .at Alexandria, Va. 1 Finland's Fine New Parliament Building r ' I 1 1 f j 1 ill Finland, which has Just been Indulging in an abortive revolution, Is proud of her new parted ing In Helsingfors, shown above. i cene or me mine ruois m umo This photograph shows the Somers mine In the foreground, with the mining town the background, where three strikers were killed and many injured. National Guardsmen situation and the closing of the mine averted further disorders. straight shooter i Rent Strike Pickets Are the li . . , J? V f i Jlf, 'List Iff I ? hni m " t li I III Mrs. Hunt T. Dickinson who cap-tared cap-tared first honors In the women's trap shooting tournament at Huntington, Hunt-ington, L. L Ornamental Tablrware Knives and forks that look like gold, but are much more durable, have been produced by a British manufacturer, using an alloy of aluminum and copper. iumi i ,ii iii..iiiiyiwMiwlWWWf.!l.lil 'm'"""'l'V!'li i- ft - - ." 'Z t r v I '' " if. ,fPM7"p"C''l ;i 1v.r-f- .. . it. nickets, so .r K, strike is comp ete t0 try - rent strises are .rrei. norti- tnnta of the buildings affecteo. r u Old Vanity Cae Aa ancient vanity case, dating from 800 B. G Is In the museum Haverford college as part of the collection col-lection gathered by the college arcne-ologlcal arcne-ologlcal expedition during work at Beth Shemesh, la Palestine. 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