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Show THE LEHI SUN. LTilll, UTAH News Review of Current Events the World Over General Sales Tax Killed by Roosevelt's Opposition-Other Opposition-Other Ways of Balancing the Budget Sought Samuel Insull Freed by Greek Court. By EDWARD W. PICKARD ; . : A Rep. Collier PRESIDENT-ELECT R 0 0 S E-velt E-velt boa killed the general sales tax, for this session of congress con-gress at least, and Representative James W. Collier. chairman of t n e boose ways and means committee. Is trying to devise some other method of balancing the budget In this effort ef-fort he Is being earnestly aided by Speaker Garner and the other Demo cratic leaders I n congress. They placed emphasis on economy In appropriating government govern-ment funds, examining closely the fixed expenditures, that amount to more than one billion dollars. Also they renewed their fight to bring about the legalization and taxation of beer. When Mr. Roosevelt was told In Albany that Washington reports said he was In favor of the sales tax he expressed, through a spokes man, his "horror" at the story, so Mr. Carner and the house Demo cratic leaders,' who had said they would approve such a levy If It were necessary to balance the bud get, abandoned the plan. The dls patches from Albany Indicated that Mr. Roosevelt might exert pressure on congress to defeat the scheme If It were not dropped. He considers consid-ers sales tax plans as belonging to . two categories, the general manufacturers' manu-facturers' sales tax, which he opposes, op-poses, and the tax on special com- .- modules such as the federal taxes now being collected on gasoline and tobneco, which he thinks should be continued for the present. The house ways and means committee com-mittee plunned to begin on January 8 an exhaustive study of federal financing, with Secretary Mills of the treasury appearing before It to give bis views. Both Mr. Mills and President Hoover have recommended recommend-ed a sales tax to balance the budget Senate Democratic leaders, how- ! ever, have expressed doubt that such a levy could be passed In that branch, and they have decided to make no efforts to attach financial legislation to the Collier beer bill as a rider. n EPORTS have been frequent that l'resldent Hoover would reto the Democratic beer and farm relief legislation and In this connection con-nection Senator Robinson. Demo cratic leader of the upper chnmber, said In a statement that the Repub lican administration was engaging "In a policy of partisan oolltlca! obstruction to prevent the enactment enact-ment of legislation, apparently with the Idea of forcing the Incoming President to call a special session." As a matter of fact, observers In Washington were of the opinion that a special session cannot now be avoided. SENATOR PAT HARRISON of Mississippi, ranking Democrat on the senate finance committee, announced that after the holidays be would Introduce a resolution providing that a senate committee should hold a conference with the nation's best economists, financiers and statesmen, to And the way to restore economic order. V Harrison's Idea would Include a study "of the whole economic situation, situa-tion, with a view primarily of obtaining ob-taining constructive suggestions from leading economists, financiers anJt!Uesu)en as' to methods and " to restore economic sta- Such subjects as currency stabilization. sta-bilization. Inflation and sliver would be Included In the Investigation by the Mlssisslpplan, who has discussed dis-cussed bis proposal Informally with members of the finance committee. Be believes the senate would favor prompt action. . , . tratlon "so that even our bankers could understand It" 'IVE members of the senate Judi ciary committee have been ap pointed by Chairman Norris to con sider the Black five-day work week bill, and bearings were announced to begin on January & The meas ure, which was Introduced by Sen ator Black of Alabama, would limit the hours of labor on goods pro duced for Interstate shipment to 30 week; with six hours a day for five days. Norris, Robinson, Borah, Walsh and Black are the subcom mittee, and they will take extensive testimony as to both the desirability desirabil-ity of the legislation and Us constitutionality. Intention to ask power to control the exchanges, but has not indicat ed the method of control be pro poses to" adopt The flight of capital cap-ital takes the form of export of goods, the value of which Is left abroad to cover purchases of raw materials. How this can be checked unless export trade Is controlled ts not clear. A LARMED by the flight of money from the Uulon of South Af rica, which has increased greatly of late, the government at Pretoria took emergency steps to remain on the gold' standard. The cabinet headed by Premier J. B. M. llert-zog, llert-zog, Issued a decree forbidding all exports of gold. It also withdrew sovereigns from circulation to pre vent hoarding. Premier Hertzog has waged a steady fight to hold South Africa to gold for more than a year, de claring that the country would re semble a ship in a stormy sea with out an anchor If It departed from the yellow metal. Be maintains that Inflation would depreciate gold to its pure commodity value, there by benefiting the mines, but not the rest of the country. Q KTORMAN H. DAVIS, chief Amer r i i C a LA GDARD1A. the Insur- gent Republican representative from New York, Introduced in the house a resolution to provide for the placing of capital on a five-day week basis by reducing the legal Imprest rate in the District of Columbia and the territories to 3 per cent, to reduce the Interest rate on government securl ties by 2 per cent and to cut the dls count rate of gov ernment agencies to a maximum of 2 per cent ine New York representative maintains Interest rates today are vntenanly blgh when compared with the earning power of the peo ple and that they must come down He cald be purposely drafted his resolution In simple language and had used the five-day week tllus- UICK work on the major appropriation ap-propriation bills went on in the house of representatives. The Interior department bill carrying $43,052,904 for the fiscal year 1904 was passed after $460,000 bad been added for a heating plant at Howard How-ard ' university, the federally supported sup-ported Institution for negroes in Washington. In doing this 26 northern north-ern Democrats overrode the Democratic Dem-ocratic leadership and voted with the , Republicans for the amendment. amend-ment. The bouse then went on to consider the Agricultural depart ment supply bill. The senate was in recess until Friday, but attempts were made to begin formal consideration of the Collier beer, bill by the Judiciary committee headed by Senator Norris. Nor-ris. ' While tne congressmen were struggling with . their prob lems. President Hoover and his party were sailing down the Flor ida coast trying to find good fishing, fish-ing, but with' small success. They made various stops but did not go ashore, receiving local dignitaries at the docks. At St Augustine Mayor Mickler and a lot of other officials greeted the Chief Executive at the boat's rail and Mrs. Hoover received lovely bouquets, one, sent by Gov-ernor Gov-ernor Carlton and the other presented pre-sented by Girl Scouts. : Mall and telegrams that came aboard from time to time, some of them relating relat-ing to the war debt gave the President Pres-ident occasional work and took his mind off the poor angling until the vicinity of Miami was reached, where the big fish were biting better. bet-ter. SAMUEL INSULL, the fallen utilities util-ities magnate, was set free by the Greek Court of Appenls that considered the request of the Amer- lean government that he be extradited, extra-dited, and be Is at liberty to remain In Greece or go to any other country he may prefer. After deliberating two hours the court in Athens held that no evidence had been presented that Instill In-still was guilty of the offense of grand larceny and embezzlement em-bezzlement of $172,000. for which he was Indicted by the grand Jury in Chicago.. It ruled that the money he was alleged to have taken might be considered a loan contracted for the benefit of the corporations Involved, In-volved, and that Insull obtained from It no personal profit but acted in good faith. Greek lawyers and offi clals of the American legatton said the decision was absolutely binding, bind-ing, and the latter Indicated that the United States government would make no further efforts to extradite Insull on the evidence at hand. The people of Athens rejoiced In the verdict of the Appeals court, loudly cheering Insull and "Greek Justice." They felt that the incident inci-dent was a fine example of a small nation refusing to knuckle down to one of the great powers, r in if k V.... . . . -fl N. H take,: J Davis Intermountain Hews Briefly Told for Busy Readers TAXES ARE PAID. POWER PLANT PROFIT. MANY GAIN CITIZENSHIP. HUGE LION IS CAUGHT. RIFLE SLATS OWNER. PROVO, UT. Predictions of a wholesale tax delinquency tnis year failed to materialize, according to the county treasurer, wno reports that 76.35 per cent of the tax charge was paid as compared with 78.8 per cent In 1931. SPRING VILLE, UT. The local municipally owned power plant showed a net profit of $17,500, dur ing 1932, according to the reports of the city officials. Receipts lor the year amounted to $28,500 and total expenses $11,003. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. A total of 173 residents of Utah were grant ed United States citizenship during .Ain l ...... 1 111 me itia& iisv-ui cat nunc vm- -vh ers filed declarations of Intentions, iH ( I f ntfitpa tha annual renort of the com- mlssioner of naturalization. Scenes and Persons in the Current News S l&7' C v si - sm4 Ir rtefcjL my- UWi msi -jMyt ? m.' V 8am Insull lean delegate to tbe dlsarma ment conference and himself , a Democrat was one of Mr. Roose velt's most Impor tant callers during the week. For two days the two men discussed privately and exhaustively the subjects of dls- armament war debts and world economics, In all of which Mr. Davis Is an expert In the course of the con versatlons Mr. Da vis told the Presi dent-Elect that he believed disarmament dis-armament is necessary to a restor ation of world confidence and cred it and said be thought important steps had been taken toward reduction reduc-tion of armament This, In turn. he predicted would have a favor able effect on efforts for a success ful world economic conference. The first step, be said, would be to persuade France and Italy to In dorse the terms of the London naval agreement of 1930, particularly particu-larly regarding submarine construe- tlon. Disarmament advocates, he stated, believed they could ban submarines in spite of the objec tions of France and Japan, or at least limit them to coastal defense. Then, by outlawing offensive weapons, poison gas, mobile heavy artillery and bombing airplanes and banning the manufacture of aerial bombs, the world would be ready to work toward restoration of confidence. Mr. Roosevelt expressed the view that world security would return as the deadly Instruments of war were reduced and mentioned that the late Premier Clemenceau of France had once told hlra that "the one essential for France out of the World war was security." "1 asked him for bis definition of security," Mr. Roosevelt said. "He replied that for a thousand years no French babies had been born and gone through life to three score and ' ten without knowing some kind , of trouble with Germany. Ger-many. Since that was true, he said, the guaranty of no war with Germnny would constitute security for the French. I think that belief be-lief Is still there." PROMINENT among those taken by death during the week was Brig. Gen. John J.,Carty. retired vice president and chief engineer of the American Telephone and Telegraph Tel-egraph company. He died In Baltimore Bal-timore at the age of seventy-one years. General Carty was credited with many Important developments in the fields of telephonic, telegraph ic and radio communication. During Dur-ing the war he was director of tele phone and telegraph communica tlon for the American army In France. Norman E. Mack, New York mem ber of the Democratic national com mittee for 32 years and former publisher pub-lisher of the Buffalo Times, died In Buffalo, aged seventy-four. He was one of the best loved of all Demo cratic leaders. 1 Viscount Klkujiro Isb.Il, member of the Japanese privy council who Is on his way to the KANOSII, UT. A. Ahlstrum, a States as a special envoy to discuss far eastern matters with Franklin D. Roosevelt after his lnannrati. government trapper, caught a huge President 2 Pope Plus XI Inspecting the fine new spiral staircase leading to the Vatican gallery, 4 a iew cent portrait or uen. wuuam u. Macunesney oi utucago wno was nommaiea to oe minister to Cms- President Hoover. - Fight for Home Rule in Hawaii NE ol be fo ly don! :ade, i ins of funds ade is lion In Corn Creek canyon miles from this city. OGDEN, UT. An old English copper coin, a tuppence, mmtea in the days of King George III, and bearing the date 1797, is being shown here. The coin weighs almost al-most an ounce and has been out of issue for over one hundred years, JEROME, IDA.F, W. Chote, 44, was killed by the accidental dis charge of his rifle, it was decided after an investigation of his death, MOUNTAIN HOME, IDA. The dairymen of Elmore county are be ginning to test their cows on the mail-order plan toward elminating those cows that are unprofitable, - EPHRAIM, UT. Markton oats outyielded all other varieties in a yield test conducted on the muck soils of the Sanpete Experimental farm near here. The test included six varieties that had previously been tested at the central experi mental farm at Logan and which are now being tested in twelve dif ferent counties, in the state. BEAVEIc, , UT. Pack rats have come from the mountains into town and are reported to be doing con slderable damage in various cellars and homes. Ordinary poison bait us ed for mice does not seem to barm these rats. BOISE, IDA. Ermine top the list of fur-bearing animals in the Boise national forest with an est! maieu loiai oi azw, me iorest re- uov. Lawrence M. juaa or tne Hawaiian islands pictured with the men he has se ected and wttna the I port indicates, but deer lead the Uerve with him on Hawaii's home rule commission which will come to Washington to lay before congress pis and use or au wna animals witn an es- reasons wny it would be unwise to change Hawaii's home rule status. Left to right are shown: th timated total of five thousand. James L. Coke, former chief justice of the territory and a Democrat: Wallace R. Farrinirton. eovertnl he n PRICE. UT. Renresentativps of Hawaii from 1921 to 1929, well known newspaper publisher: Governor Judd: Judge A. G. M. Robertsoifcl first S civic organizations of Price and mer cnier Jusuce OI Hawaii ana a uepuoiican, and John a. Wilson, former mayor of Honolulu and Denn Helper have voted unanimously to natlonal committeeman for Hawaii for the past 20 years. conduct an invitational intermount- Rep. F. H. La Guardia THOUGH Japan, like all other nations. Is hard up. its budget is the largest In Its history, and in a statement to the diet the army office sought to explain why the military expenditures must be Increased. In-creased. . The military system ts to be readjusted and Improved In four ways. The forces In Manchuria will be augmented, while those In Japan will be reduced as much as possible. possi-ble. Supplementary military education edu-cation will be extended and Improved. Im-proved. Army organizations are to be bettered In various ways. Supplies, Sup-plies, such as munitions and uniforms, uni-forms, must be replenished. Probably the only Important business busi-ness the diet will transact Is the adoption of the budget The disgruntled dis-gruntled Selyukal party hesitates to oust Premier Salto. though it could do so, and that gentleman Is careful to propose a minimum of legislation. Koreklyo Takahashl. finence minister, has announced his "VMS of the major mining dlsas- v-' ters of the year occurred at Moweaqua, 111., when an explosion Imprisoned 54 coal miners beyond all hope of rescue. For a week their fellow workers dug frantlcal ly to get to the doomed men, but all they found were lifeless bodies. At the time of writing the corpses of all but seven of the men had been brought to the surface. The little town was stricken by the tragedy, which left there 33 wid ows with a total of 75 children. PAUL REDFERN, an American aviator who In August, 1927, left Fort Brunswick, Ga on a non stop flight to Rio de Janeiro and disappeared. Is now said to have been discovered In the upper Ama zoo region, i nanes Master, an American engineer who recently arrived from the hinterlands at a locality on the Tapajos river near the Ford concession, said Redfern Is now In the Rio Malor xone near Humayta village on the right shore of the Maderla river and Is enjoying enjoy-ing perfect health among the" Parantin Indians. & ItJI Wwum Ntwrnmi Onlo tt s . n - i J. , -V. m r j till i I. Lu?r n toafiBA-M&iMgaia , , -ni,:.:vl,w.;lf., :,, ,v- .. !- E 4 Dianle OWN stilly ,ra loot twink ie siter lin the fen Me ySfstnut ks. I 1 am school band contest in 1933. During the past two years the tour nament nas neen conducted as a Price city project, but the next con test will be designated as beine sponsored by Carbon county. Invita tions will be sent to bands in Utah, Colorado, Idaho and other inter mountain states. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. A report from the 3305 corporations aomg Dusiness in utati in 1931, or authorized to do business in the state, have reported to the state tax commission total income of $1,808,349,068, but total deductions from that income, as allowed by law, of $1,867,570,900. As reported, the corporations show a loss of $59,221,- 298, for the year in question. RICHFIELD, UT. A slight In crease in tax: receipts this year over last was regarded as showing a more favorable condition In the county as a whole in the opinion of county officials. BURLEY, IDA. All farmers who expect that they will want seed loans from the department of agriculture should notify Perry E, Burnham, Salt Lake, manager of the seed loan office, or the county agents. This action is advisable so that congress may be advised of the amount that will be required and an adequate appropriation made. OGDEN, UT. The application of KLO of Ogden for permission to increase in-crease Its power wave has been refused re-fused by the federal radio commission. commis-sion. The application has been investigated: in-vestigated: the Increase is found Justified, but Utah, under the federal fed-eral radio act, has more than its legal allotment of power, and. for that reason the application was denied. de-nied. RENO, NEV. In the emergency relief loan funds passed by the RFC recently the sum of $1S,3C0 was included in-cluded for Nevada. The Nevada loan is to be used in three counties. The money will be for nse in January and February. BOISE, IDA. Farmers of Idaho have received $2,101,000 In loans of Reconstruction Finance Corporation money, through the Agricultural Credit corporation and it is predicted predict-ed that many more loans will be arranged. ar-ranged. Most of the money has been advanced for the feeding of livestock. live-stock. POCATEI.LO, IDA. The county treasurer has received a check from the Oregon Short Line railroad of $142,944.01 as payment for one-half of the railroad's taxes for 1932. ke thei of red iered t GETTING READY Tokyo Gets Geneva New i"'f V :a' : r f:y ; hi. -' " JJ. James Simpson, Jr., thirty-two-year-old congressman-elect from the Tenth Illinois district at North western university's school of speech where he Is taking daily Instruction Instruc-tion to be prepared for bis duties In the house of representatives. NEW POLISH ENVOY 1:' : - I Stanislaus I'atek is the new am bassador of Poland to the United States. He succeeds Tytus Fill- powlcz. For Ui er Against U As a rule, people are for us or against us, but police can be botk Government officials in Tokyo receiving direct reports from concerning the status of the Sino-Japanese Question by meam radio broadcasts subsidized by the government. Newspaper ediiol tesiea tnis oroaacastlng of news several hours before It appear regular evening editions. Camera Catches a Rescue at Se Jhin wh their o did in I made ;ere he rou k off b 3y dim leter R Man sr ana ;,ers a: jy th a Hoot 0w. an At, kne whoh welcot ;l new nu. I '7"'ppy Ji .J'er litt! lr bed: At as i knew k Fros hreak 3rd th es Ji fa evei dicing Jew Jo ver 3 s he (Could. elf y Srais'lit '- -."v f Sr th ill' '1 li7"!! "'I ill i HflWi1iiWm iflftrr-rrlftt"' J ...bA fr, This trulj remarkable picture shows members of a, fishing snuwori. clinging frantically to the broken foremast of their doomed craft the g stern of which ts already below the waves. The Suth American line- Buenos Aires Mara, Is pulling alongside. The fishermen were rescued Just a few minutes before their vessel disappeared '- k -''fry .. -TV' r |