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Show THE LEHI SUN. LEHI. UTAH News Review of Current Events the World Over Uecovery Act Blue Eagle Becomes the National Bird-Code Bird-Code Making Continues President Plans War on Kidnaping and Racketeering. By EDWARD W. PICKARD - i n . - i H. 8. Johnson BLUE engles of NBA by the hun-1 dred thousand are flying all over the United States; Innumerable Innumer-able men and women. Jobless for long, are going back to work ; shorter hours and higher pay are being Installed In-stalled In factories, shops and offices. American commerce and Industry Is fast being regimented. President Roosevelt and his whole administration ad-ministration are pushing forward In the recovery cam paign determinedly. Following out the President's program. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, national recovery ad ministrator, has "drafted" citizens In all the states to lead the great drive. Nine members were appointed ap-pointed on each of 43 state "re covery bourds," and seven members were named for service on 20 dis trict "recovery boards' for the re cently made codes. The telegraphic notice sent each of the former by General Johnson was: "President Roosevelt has drafted you as one of the nine members of the state recovery board for the state of , . . as explained In bulletin bul-letin No. 8 of July 20. He has requested re-quested you to volunteer your services serv-ices without compensation In this great drive for national rehabilitation. rehabilita-tion. As a member of this board your duties will be to get every patriotic pa-triotic American citizen, employer and consumer to co-operate In this program. Please wire .acceptance immediately, and you will receive further Instructions." The advisory board for public works Is doing its part In the reemployment re-employment campaign by dealing out further large sums from the public works fund. Its head, Secretary Sec-retary of Interior Ickes, announced allotments totaling $118,282,000 for one state and five federal projects. Added to allotments already made, brought the total thus far earmarked ear-marked out of the three billion three hundred million dollar fund to $1,058,100,201. The state project to be financed by the government was beneficiary of the largest allotment. Sixty-three million dollars. Secretary Ickes announced, an-nounced, la allotted for construction of the Grand Coulee dam In the Co lumbia river basin. The upier Mississippi 9-foot chan-,nel chan-,nel project, already approved by President Roosevelt, was allotted $11,500,000. This Is a federal project proj-ect to be undertaken under the government's gov-ernment's rivers and harbors program. pro-gram. Another $22,700,000 of the public works fund was earmarked for the Caspar-Alcova reclamation project In Wyoming, for many years the pet scheme of Senator John B, Kendrlck of Wyoming. The federal forest service was allotted al-lotted $15,282,745; the coast and geodetic ge-odetic survey, $2,000,000, and the geologic survey $2,500,000. n EPRESENTATIVES of the oil, x coal, steel and many other Industries In-dustries were busy trying to agree on their codes In Washington. In each there were factions with conflicting con-flicting Ideas, and It was not easy to reconcile them. This was especially espe-cially true of the oil men. Among thera were many advocates of federal fed-eral regulation of petroleum prices, but they were told by Administrator Administrat-or Johnson that he would not recommend rec-ommend to the President any price fixing until the effect of production control has been determined. . Formation of the coal code was complicated by the riotous strike In the mining sone of southwestern southwest-ern Pennsylvania, Thirty thousand miners were out and Governor Pln-chot Pln-chot called out state troops to control con-trol the situation after a quarrel with a sheriff. The National Coal association, controlled by nonunion-ixed nonunion-ixed operators, asked Administrator Johnson to look Into the trouble in the strike region, and he designated Edward F. MeGrady, labor adviser to N. R. A, to Investigate the situation. TN BOTH the coal and steel code discussions there was controversy contro-versy over the open shop versus anions. The steel men took the open shop clause , . out or their pro-posed pro-posed code to facilitate fa-cilitate settlement, but they declared plainly that they would stand for the ptesent systems of employees' councils la the Industry to carry on collecOv bargaining. Mr. Johnson said be would not ap prove any code that does not pro-tide pro-tide for advlgory councils. On the old Issue of bow collective bargainings bargain-ings should be carried out. the ad-roinUtrator ad-roinUtrator reiterated that N. R. A. provides for collective bargaining through employees chosen by the workers. Robert P. Lamont, former secre tary of commerce and now president presi-dent of the American Iron and Steel Institute, which represents 08 per cent of the country's producers of pig iron and steel Ingots, was the chief spokesman for the Iron and steel Industry at the bearing. William Green, president of the A. F. L., challenged various sections of tho offered code, especially the minimum wage and maximum hours provision Secretary of Labor Per kins, who bad been making a tour of the Pennsylvania steel mills, wanted the wage rates altered, especially es-pecially criticizing the 25 and 27 cents minimum hourly rate set up for the southern, and Birmingham districts. Shortly afterwards Mr. Lamont announced the Industry had agreed to raise the minimum pay In those two districts to 30 cents an hour. Both Green and Miss Perkins urged that the 40 hour week would not bring about sufficient re-employ-nient In the Industry. Defending the proposed code, Mr. Lnmont said ; "It Is estimated that on the basis of a 60 per cent rate of operations and a 40 hour week, substantially all the 49.738 employees who were not receiving work July 1, 1933, would be given employment On less than a 40 hour week the Industry Indus-try positively could not operate the mills and meet any demands on them in excess of present production. produc-tion. "The code establishes a minimum rate of 40 cents an hour for common com-mon labor In the Pittsburgh, Youngstown, north Ohio, Canton, Massillon, Cleveland, Detroit-Toledo, Chicago and Colorado districts. This rate Is only 9 per cent less than the highest base rate paid dur ing the Inst 11 years, where living costs were above the present level.' continue the experiment for another six months. Orders are to be sent j out for the re-enllstment of all those who desire to go on with the work. Enlistment la on a six months' basis. The first "bitch" expires In November. There are at present 310,575 men in the corps, Including 25,000 former service men. The forestry army Is located In 1,438 camps In all parts of the country. The cost to the government is approximately ap-proximately $20,000,000 a month. SENATOR HUEY P. LONG'S arbitrary ar-bitrary rule In Louisiana was seriously threatened when District Judge A. C O'Donnell began an open court investigation Into the election of last fall In which Long's gang is alleged to have resorted to fraud In order to win. The Judge ordered fifteen election commissioners, commission-ers, arrested on charges of certifying certify-ing to false returns, brought before him; and he granted permission to District Attorney Stanley to examine exam-ine ballot boxes In open court Governor Gov-ernor O. K. Allen, a Long henchman. hench-man. In trying to halt the investigation, investiga-tion, had declared New Orleans under un-der martial law, . but revoked the order after eight soldiers had been detailed to guard the grand Jury. The latter body appeared to be dominated by the Long crowd. The United States senate commit tee announced It planned to resume Its Investigation of Louisiana elections elec-tions within two months. The Times- Plcayune called upon President Roosevelt to take note of "political racketeering" In Louisiana and not to overlook it in his "war on gang sters." OLITICS and sugar are making the Cuban situation very difficult for the administration in Washington, Washing-ton, and for Ambassador Sumner 4 i Raymond Moley R. P. Lamont PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, con- tinulng his vacation at his home in Hyde Park, N. $, called into con ference there Assistant Secretary of State Raymond Moley and discussed with him a plan to put all the force of the federal govern nient, into a cam pafgn to wipe out the two great evils of kidnaping and racketeering. Pro- ressor Moley was then relieved tem porarlly from his departmental duties and placed at the head of a special survey to deter mine where and how the federal power can best be used as a wea pon against the criminal He Is well fitted for this work, for he Is an expert criminologist, was an adviser to the New York crime commission er and Is the author of numerous surveys of crime, notably in Ohio and Missouri. As for racketeering, both the President and Moley see In the new recovery act the authority, which the federal government has heretofore lacked, to intervene In criminal cases Involving business conduct Until now, unless a crlr Inal act infringed upon some speci fic federal statute, such as one of the postal laws or the Internal rev enue act or a law based on Inter state commerce, the federal govern ment had no means of Jurisdiction. In the past the anti-trust laws have prevented the smaller indus tries and business units from band ing together. Such a condition provided pro-vided a fertile field for the racke teers, for Illegal combinations, and for violence. The national recovery act bow ever, provides directly for the abro gation of the anti-trust laws In cases where they Interfere with the working of the recovery program Industry and business are forced into trade agreements. The federal government sanctions and Imposes those agreements and any act In violation of such agreements or tending to destroy the effect of the recovery act is made a crime. Against kidnaping, the President la counting on a super police force modeled In a general way on England's Eng-land's Scotland Yard, the postal regulations, the Income tax law, and the recently enacted kidnaping statute. Recent Instances of kidnaping are familiar to all newspaper readers. The "snatchers" have received large sums for the release of their victims vic-tims tn several cases. The relatives of John OConnell, Jr.. of Albany. N. Y paid $10.00( for his freedom, and the ransom of Charles UrscbeL millionaire oil operator of Oklahoma City, ts said to have two $200,000. RESULTS shown by the civilian conservation cons are deemed so satisfactory by the administration administra-tion that plaus are being made to t. .oft X Sumner Welles Welles. Though It was announced that the political situa tion on the Island was clearing up. and though Presid e n t Machado Issued an amnesty proclama tlon, the troubles there are continu ing. The Cuban peo ple are In distress. the school teachers in Havana have been demonstrating because they are not paid, and the veterans of the war of independence undertook to hold a parade to call attention to their Inability to collect their pensions. The old soldiers were at tacked by police and severely beat en, right under the eyes of Mr. Welles, and It was reported the am bassndor would demand that Ma chado revamp his cabinet and dis miss Gen. Alberto Herrera, the cause of much of the recent dis turbance. The Cuban ambassador In Wash ington Is persistently demanding a larger Import quota for Cuban sug ar. This and this alone would make the Island fairly prosperous and would lead to the subsidence of the political disorders. At present the sugar conference has tentatively set Cuba's sugar ex ports to the United States at 1,700,-000 1,700,-000 short tons of raw and only 110,' 000 tons of refined. Ordinarily United States Importation of Cuban refined sugar is about half a mil lion tons. , "pIIR apprehension of war be- tween the United States and Ja pan, entertained by not a few Amer icans, Is apparently felt tn Japan also, despite official denials. The army and navy heads of the island empire have Just submitted to the finance ministry estimates for the 1934-35 defense expenditures larger than any In previous history and 45 per cent greater than the appropriation appro-priation for the current year. These estimates Included 180.000.000 yen ($50,400,000 at current exchange rates) for new naval construction and 75,000.000 yen ($21,000,000) for modernization of capital ships. The navy ministry asked for the fiscal year beginning next April 1 the sum of 680.000.000 yen ($190,-400.000), ($190,-400.000), which Is 30 per cent more than the estimates of 1921-22. the largest previous estimates for the sea forces. , The combined Japanese fleet began be-gan preparations for maneuvers several hundred miles southeast of Toklo, In which the major problem will be a battle with a hypothetical enemy. This wtll be preceded by a four-Jay defense of the Toklo district dis-trict against a sham aerial attack from the sea. HESTER S. LORD, who as man- glng editor of the New York Sun for nearly a quarter of a cen tury was admired and loved by two generations of newspaper men. died at the age of eighty-three years. In his home In Garden City, N. Y. The "Boss," as one of his reporters once wrote, "was never known In all the years of bis managing editorship to utter an unkind word to any man on the paper, no matter bow bum ble his station." ANDORRA, the little old republic In the Pyrenees, underwent a bloodless revolution, and the young people won the right of franchise, hitherto confined to the heads of families. The revolters were sup ported by the state council and the authority of Andorra's two co-princes co-princes was defied. These co-princes are the bishop of Urge! In Spain and the bead of the French state as represented by the prefect of Perplgnan. Intermountain Hews Briefly told for Busy Readers FARMERS PROTECTED REPEAL FIGHT LOOMS OUTLINE L. D. S. PLAN TURKEYS SLAY INSECTS GROW SUGAR BEET SEED ST. GEORGE, UT. Growing of sugar beet seed in Washington county coun-ty is declared to be an outstanding success. It is claimed that the seed produced is drouth resisting . and can also resist the white fly. NEPHI, UT. Ten thousand turkeys have been imported to fight the grasshopper plague. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Annual two-day conference conventions of the Relief society and Young Men's and Young Ladles Mutual Improve ment associations will begin in Au gust and extend until November 25 and 26, Mrs. Louise Y. Roblson, president of the Relief society, has announced. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. In pre paration for an educational cam paign against repeal of state and national prohibition amendments, chairmen are being appointed for every precinct of the state, It is an nounced by Louise Y. Robison, Utah state chairman for the Woman's National Committee for Law Enforcement. BEAVER, UT.30,000 fish from the fish hatchery at Springvllle have been planted In local waters. RICHFIELD, UT. The road be tween Sevier and Junction, a distance dis-tance of 23.30 miles, is to be oiled. BOISE, IDA. The public utilities commission has denied the application applica-tion of five north-central Idaho warehouse operators to increase handling and storage rates on grain with a warning that it did not approve ap-prove of alleged attempts of public utilities to "absorb the increase in price of the farmer's produce." GOODING, IDA. The newly formed Lincoln and Gooding County Wheat Control associations have adopted resolutions asking that Julius Juli-us Jacobsen of Boise, crops statistician statis-tician for the U. S. department of agriculture in Idaho, raise the amount of wheat acreage allowed to those two counties under the government's govern-ment's new farm relief act. ST. ANTHONY, IDA. The pea-sorting pea-sorting factory here is being rebuilt and equipped with modern machinery. machin-ery. MALAD, IDA. Oneida county's wheat ' production average, upon which the county allotment, will be based under the government's stabilization sta-bilization program, is 1,258,883 bushels, according to word received from Washington. PROVO, UT. A Utah county reemployment re-employment board is being organized organiz-ed and will include representatives of labor, civic organizations, industry, in-dustry, ex-service men, relief committee, com-mittee, local churches, and the county coun-ty engineer. GREEN RIVER, UT. A loan to be used in changing the river bed is being sought by citizens of this district. OGDEN, UT. An epidemic of brain fever hns proven fatal to over 130 horses In Davis and Weber counties. MANTI, UT. Several new make-work make-work projects are to be launched in Sanpete county. OGDEN, UT. Information given out at the local railway freight of flees Indicates car-load freight ship ments handled in Ogden during July showed a 24 per cent increase in tonnage over July, 1932. PRICE, UT. Dedication of Price city's new airport, one mile south of here, will assume the form of a two-day two-day celebration on Sunday and Mon day, September 2 and 3, Earl Robertson, sponsor of the field, announced. an-nounced. LEHI, UT. Extensive plans are under way for Mil's annual Utah Boet Sugar Day Rodeo celebration, Aug. 17, 18 and 19. Outstanding features of the celebration will be the three day rodeo performances and the parade. The choosing of three queens. Miss Utah, Miss Lehl and Miss Saratoga, to reign during the celebration and for parade features fea-tures will be an important event. EPHRAIM, UT. About C25 acres of weevil-infested alfalfa land treated treat-ed to a dusting of arsenic powder, is responding to the treatment in a manner that proves beyond doubt the effectiveness of this kind of application. ap-plication. OGDEN, UT. Retail prices of lump coal have been increased recently re-cently by 50 cents to $1.00 a ton. BOISE, IDA. Shorter workine hours, more wages and a vast program pro-gram of public works appears In prospect for Idaboans during the next year or more under the NRA program now rapidly taking shape. SALT LAKE CITY, XT. Ar rangemeutj have already been made for 40 conventions to be held In Salt Lake in 1034. It is announced by Mrs. Winifred P. Ralls, manajrer of the chamber of commerce. It is ex ported that the meetings will draw more than 20.000 Tisitors to Salt l.ake, mostly from the western pan if the country. FILLMORE. UT The Millar.! rounty school board has launch' pnn a building and repair program ndcr the public works program. Scenes and Persons in the Current News AN n. mi j ThTf 1 nN TOV At 1 'V'A jMl tr, .... . - l t iio.htna run nnit nf tha J'pnnsvivnnifi (trnrA iroons canea out to ntipn mina at.-.i.. i uiavuiue guu ... v. v emu; QWu Grindstone. 2 President Roosevelt Issuing to William E. Morris of Texas the first check of the biff lars to be distributed among cotton growers. 3 MaJ. Gen. John F. O'Ryan, selected by fasloiiJ81 .u- . rr M.4M.t. nr nf Nun Vnrfr Uitt nun- x aujuiauj uuuiunw v - " - " English Women Join Mosley Blackshirt Ranks rj k- fey M rfy! Vyjtet )t Jfc aTwjrf.l faring Tljf 1 J ! S - km w J! a? i f xi S iS.fe. attBMBamiHII.lMlfcJM Sir Oswald Mosley, Britain's titled Fascist founder and leader, staged a large parade through tit of London's west end section and surprised street spectators when a detachment of women In Ml shirt uniform made their appearance in the parade. GETS TREASURY POST 3P" a' ' . V it - . x3F Mrs. Marlon Glass Banister of Lynchburg, Va, sister of Senator Carter Glass, who was appointed by President Roosevelt to the nosi- tlon of assistant secretary of the united States treasury. It Is the first time that one of her sex has held such a high office In the Treasury Treas-ury department ACCUSED MAYOR : .a...-. ,; .. ...... . . y k VjJ ; . - , i t- Gov. Pollard Weds His Secretary f""" .;'V-p.n X I J ft Gov. John Garland Pollard of Virginia and his secretary, 1 beth McDougall who were married In Winnipeg. Manitoba. l j nor's first wife died more than a year ago. J Henry Ford on Seventieth Birth p "111 run this city from a police cell If necessary" said Mayor William Wil-liam J. Swoboda, Jaunty chief executive ex-ecutive of Racine. Wis, who was arrested and charged with accepting accept-ing a bribe to give a gambling syndicate syn-dicate control of the city He Is also .lieged to have attempted to bribe the chief of police. M Flower ing PUnta ft U estimated that there are earl, 12W00 kinds of flower i iMiu.iuiuiJiwvi. m-m t. t . ft l"JX. -"i'-F' -: ' -A. ' . rn ! Henry Ford photographed In Detroit In con,P"Dfk.0d.f'wf' engineers on his seventieth birthday. He celebrateu . aaswiaies pnotograpns or themselves in " .... Orfl Cerm.ny "ii Germany is t"! the Imported dye-stu Cepi UtTfnu predominate. Th school landscape, white n to match the the fields and nw Gypty Pupils Mutt Ue Somp Use of soap and water Is one of the things taught at the only school for Gypsy children In Hungary. At the Institution. In Dios Gyor. Inspection Inspec-tion Is held every morning, and those who are not up to the standard stand-ard of cleanliness are forcibly given snap and-water treatment How to talk without swearing Is also Jaight In addition reading, writing writ-ing and arithmetic are In the cur rlculum. |