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Show THE LEW SUN. LEIIT, UTAH News Review of Current Events the World Over Genera! Cutler's Fantastic Story of Fascist Plot to Seize the Government Strike in the Great Steel Industry Becomes Imminent. By EDWARD W. PICKARD by Wutira Nwappw Union. OBRR minded American citizens O find It difficult to take seriously serious-ly the fantastic story that MaJ. Gen. Bmedley D. Butler told to the con gressional committee commit-tee Investigating un-American un-American activities. This retired officer of marines charges that there Is a plot, engineered by Wall Street men, to seize the government of the United States and set op a Fascist Fasc-ist dictatorship, and the chairman of Cm. Smedley the committee. Rep- D. sutler re8entatlve John W. McCormack of New York, considered the tale of enough portent to warrant war-rant the calling of witnesses to prove or disprove It. General Butter But-ter made his story public through the columns of the New York Eve ning Post, as the proceedings of the committee are conducted In private. pri-vate. If Butler Is to be believed, he was approached by Gerald P. MacGulre, Mac-Gulre, bond salesman In the stock exchange firm of Grayson M. P. Murphy and company, and urged to accept the leadership of a sol- 3ler organization of half a million men "which would assemble prob ably a year from now in Washing ton, and that within a few days it could take over the functions of the government" MacGulre. accord ing to the general, thought the overturn of the government might te accomplished peacefully and dug tested that "we might even go along news that a threatened strike of elevator operators had been averted and an agreement, drafted by Mayor La Guardla's board of arbitration, had been signed by representatives of the real estate interests and the union. The union withdrew Its demand de-mand for a closed shop ; and standards stand-ards of wages and hours In various vari-ous types of buildings will be worked out by a committee of three arbiters, with the union recognized as the bargaining agent for the employees. em-ployees. TiX ORDER of the national labor - relations board there will be held soon a great workers' election which will determine whether or ganized labor shall dominate the country's rubber Industry. The board decreed that the Firestone Fire-stone Tire and Rubber company and the 15. F. Goodrich company of Akron, Ohio, must allow their em- P RESIDENT , ROOSEVELT Is reveling In hatha and rest at Warm Springs, Ga., but he is not neglecting the nation's business, keeping In close touch with Washington Wash-ington and receiving many oftlclal visitors. At his first press conference confer-ence there he announced with glad smiles that he would again "lend his birthday." January 30. to the natlonnl committee that arranges birthday balls all over the country for the benefit of ltfantlle paralysis sufferers. COMPTROLLER GENERAL J. R. McCARL has thrown a monkeywrench into part of the machinery ma-chinery of Relief Administrator Harry L. Hopkins. Turning down a check from Hopkins to the officials of the District of Columbia which was to have started work on a housing hous-ing development, Mr. McCarl held that the federal emergency relief act, providing for . the granting of funds for various relief purposes, could not apply to the acquisition of real estate and the construction of homes. This type of activity, he said, would be of a permanent and not an emergency nature, and the act was adopted to meet emergencies. emergen-cies. . The FERA already has under way a program of "rehabilitating" 80,000 farm families in homes and on land to be sold to them by the govern ment. MORE and more it becomes evl-dent evl-dent that President Roose velt Intends to pursue a middle of ployees to ballot on the question I the road policy In his efforts for na- or whether they want a company union or an American Federation of Labor union to represent them In collective bargaining under the NRA. Twenty-one thousand workers, the ! largest number ever polled by the lubor board on an NRA question, will participate in the election. In addition another IK.OOO workers of the Goodyear Rubber company may ballot on the same question. The Goodyear angle of the case has not yet been passed upon by the board. Rut the Firestone and Goodrich companies have opposed the elections elec-tions now ordered, maintaining that W ft ft, i1 with Roosevelt and do with him conditions In their plants are aat- w hat Mussolini did with the king of Jsfactory, and that electioneering Jtnly. Butler's story continued: "He told me he believed that at least half of the American Legion and Veterns of Foreign Wars would follow me. "MacGulre explnlned to me that they had two other candidates for the position of 'Man on the White Horse.' He snld that If I did not accept an offer would be made to Gen. Douglas MacArthur, chief of staff of the United States army, and that the third choice would be Hanford MacNIder, former com mander of the American Legion. "So far as I know, neither General Gen-eral MacArthur nor MacNIder has been approached. Their names were merely mentioned as 'alternates.' 'alter-nates.' " The general said he was offered considerable sums "for expenses" which he did not accept He said MacGulre Intimated that among the backers of the plan was Mr. Murphy and Col. Robert S. Clark, a wealthy New Yorker with offices In the Stork Exchange building; and he added that later Colonel Clark offered him money to go to the In rival unions would only disturb the peace among the workers. PHILADELPHIA lawyers are traditionally tra-ditionally supposed to he able to unravel the worst of tangles, so President Roosevelt has picked one to be chairman o? the national labor relations board. He Is Francis Riddle, of the famous family of that name, and he succeeds Lloyd K. Garrison, who retired from tha I . ' f i , tlonal recovery, and that In the over whelmingly Demo-:ratlc Demo-:ratlc next congress there will be no one faction strong enough to dictate to him. The Chief Executive and the business leaders of the country are 3 P S gradually co m 1 n g tnsrptlier. and If and Silat Strawn when thpy reacn an accord on methods It will be found that a good . many of the more radical Ideas of the brain trusters will. have been discarded. The best minds in Industry and tlnnnce are no longer standing back and merely criticizing. They are taking an active part In planning for the future welfare of the na tion. Herewith are summarized some of the Important new developments devel-opments in this direction. President Henry 1. Harrlman of the United States Chamber of Com merce, In pursuance of a resolution adopted by the board of directors. hns appointed a committee of six men, headed by Silas Strawn of Chicago, to co-operate with other business and agricultural associations associa-tions In drafting plans for the re- Farm Boy Wins Battle for Fame and Success J Dy WILLIAM C UTIEY OE KENTON made good. The rooi of Chicago's palatial pala-tial Civic Opera house raised a few Inches and almost floated away on the crest of a wave of applause that would and did surprise even an opera house, on the night of Tuesday, November 13. The cheers were not for the glamorous ana tempestuous Maria Jerltza, whose voice and beauty have made her an International darling of opera. Nor were they for Pasquale Amato, veteran vet-eran baritone whose lusty notes have been sending chills or delight up and down operatic spines lo, these many years. They were for Giuseppe Dento-nelll, Dento-nelll, whom the boys back home In Say re, Ok! a-, and the brothers In the PI Kappa Alpha house at the University of Oklahoma remember as Joe Benton. But Joe or Giuseppe, Benton or Bentonelll, It was all the same to the musical world and the press who lauded his American de-hut de-hut as Mario Cavaradossi In "La Tosca." Four times at the close of the first act he had to return to the footlights foot-lights to take bows with Jerltza and Aiuato, and finally to appease the demands of the 3,000 out in front he had to take a call alone. The press was equally kind : "lie met the test . . . There was elegance ele-gance In the pensive opening aria. There was ardor In the ensuing love scene. "His Is the kind of debut that gets better as it goes along." "One felt that the future of the artist was bright Indeed." "There was In his Impersonation the kernel f " vA f f r v Giuseppe Bentonelll. of the chores and tended the live 6tock. He milked from six to eighteen eight-een cows. "What I hated most was washing the cream separator," Joe says. "We had no hot water and many a time I had to break the Ice In the barrel to get at the water. The lye was so strong that it has ruined my hands." . . The bands were not ruined to the extent that he couldn't get plenty of music out of a piano, nevertheless. neverthe-less. At three, Joe had already shown all the symptoms of becom- covery of business. The board of chairmanship to re- I the chamber endorsed the contlnu- dean of the law I nlfied that business Is still opposed school of the Dnl I to the unhalanced budget, further Francis BiddH verslty of Wlscon- I reduction of working hours as em- r Ar' , v. t , v f, - - , Bin, from which he was called. Francis Biddle has been engaged In law practice as a member of the Philadelphia firm of Barnes, Biddle, and Meyers. He served from 1922 to 102(1 as assistant district attor ney for the eastern district of Penn sylvania, In his new post his task will be the settlement of labor dis putes arising out of the recovery bodied In the movement for a 30- hour week, new and unprecedented outlays for public works continu ance of the NRA, the doctrine of majority rule In collective bargaining, bargain-ing, and unemployment Insurance. Through the National Association of Manufacturers. Invitations were sent to every manufacturer In the United States to attend a national 8- Where Bentonelll Scored His First American Triumph. new. American Legion In Chicago last actf especially those Involving "col- I Industrial conference In New York year ann mane a speecn ror retention re-tention of the gold standard, which peeeh MacGulre had previously riven Butler. Clark, at present In France, admitted ad-mitted he had asked Butler "to use Ills Influence in favor of sound money and against Inflation," but strongly denied that he had sponsored spon-sored a Fascist movement. He declared de-clared he would take action for libel li-bel against any person accusing him In such a connection. Murphy and other Wall Street men satd the story was absolutely false" ' and unutterably ridiculous, and MacGulre, after being heard by the MeCormack committee, said: It's a Joke-a publicity stunt I know nothing about It The matter mat-ter Is made out of whole cloth. I fleny the story completely." lectlve bargaining. f?RANCE Is worried by the admit ted fact that Germany has de veloped a military air fleet of con siderable size, composed of modern pursuit and bombing planes, and Gen. Victor Dennln, French minis ter of air, estimates that by Jan- nary the relch will have from 1,000 to 1,100 of these machines, swifter and better than those possessed by France. Consequently he has asked the chamber of deputies for ahoot $2.10,000.000 to finance a program for recovering the ground lost by French aviation. The task Is already under way, $a2,t00.ono having been spent out of an appropriation for modernization. SO FAR as the great steel Indus try is concerned. It appears that th Industrial truce asked by President Pres-ident Roosevelt cannot be arranged, and the prospect of a strike of the ateel workers Is growing. In bebalf of the United States H CGII R. WILSON. American laid before the disarmament confer ence In Geneva a proposal by the United States for international con trol of arms traffic and full pub licity to prevent secret arming of nations. The proposal was well re- on December 5 to draft "construc tive recommendations" for presentation pre-sentation to President Roosevelt Among those signing the call for this meeting was John J. Raskob, former chairman of the Democratic party. Included In the questions the industrialists will try to answer an-swer are: What In the future should be the relation of government to business? How Is the gigantic problem to be met to relieve distress and at the same time not plunge the nation into bankruptcy or threaten Its credit! How Is the new flow of private capital Into legitimate Investment to be stimulated t What new moves to curtail un employment are practical and feas ible? In a petiilon ftddrossed to the President and congress the Na tional Economy league has presented present-ed a definite program for balancing the federal budget In the coming fiscal year, holding that only by bal ancing the budget can sustained na tional recovery be accomplished. Steel corporation, a proposal was f celved by most of the delegates, and j The petition proposes heavy reduc- made to the American Federation of Labor that recognition of that ftranlxatlon would be granted but that no contract would be made. This proposal, it was said, would be agreed to by 65 per cent of the aiel Industry. The labor spokesmen, led by William Wil-liam Green, president of the A. F. cf U, rejected the tender on the ground that It was hedged about in aueh a way to permit collective bargaining bar-gaining with minority groups or company unions, and that the employers em-ployers were still unwilling to ac- It wltl be studied by committees In Jannary. By the American plan each gov ernment would license Its manufac turer of munitions for five year periods. No reserve stocks would be allowed and mannfactows would be required to present bona fide orders before receiving a li cense. Details of war vessels built for other nations wonld have to be reported. Reports of licenses and orders would be turned over to a central committee at Geneva and made a matter of public record. cept the principle of majority rule j A permanent commission, including as set fortn In the national labor j a member from each signatory na rrations board's decision In the j Hon, would be empowered to Inves- Moude case. J t!gate transactions. If a rupture comes the Federation f Labor may find the federal gov ernment rather unsympathetic. Mr. Green's Influence la the White i House has been waning noticeably and he has had no personal contacts with the President for some time. New Yorkers with oftieea in sky- svTapers were gladdened by the j VTOTABLE8 of the Catholic church gathered In Chicago from all parts of the world to take part In the silver Jubilee of Cardinal Card-inal M'indulein, who was consecrat ed a bishop 2S years t?o. The pop sent bis personal greetings and his blessing. tiona In government exienditures and additional taxes totaling $035, 000,000, DONALD R. RICHRF.RO, executive execu-tive director of the national emergency council and now perhaps the I'rpsldent'a ehlpf adviser, addressing ad-dressing the Associated Grocers of America, at- their convention In New York, proposed the ereatlon of a new federal body combining functions func-tions of the NUA. and the federal trade commission, to define and regulate reg-ulate concerted trade action In the "twilight sone" under the antitrust anti-trust laws. ' Discussing the pmcram for permanent per-manent NRA testation, he reiterated reit-erated bis opposition to control of prices and production. He said the fixing of minimum waes and minimum mini-mum hours had demonstrated Its soundness for eliminating the worst forms of onfair competition In treatment of employees, and thst admittedly dlshnet business practices prac-tices should' be proscribed. of a real characterization. right and convincing." Toasted by Elites. After he bad left his dressing room and the army of waiting reporters, re-porters, there was a lavish party In Rentonelll'B honor. Toasting him were the musical world, the social world, the artistic world. One of the most enthusiastic celebrants was Prof. William G. Schmidt of the University of Oklahoma. He was the link that night between Giuseppe Bentonelll and Joe Benton. Ben-ton. Perhaps he and Benton were the only ones there who knew the story, a story that Is America's story, full of red blood and fight and dogged determination. It Is the ever-challenging story of how a poor farm boy battled to fame and success. suc-cess. it starts back In 1001. Oliver Horace Hor-ace Ronton was sick. Business worries wor-ries hud precipitated a nervous breakdown. "Change of climate," the doctors said. "He must go to Arizona, where It Is high and dry. The fojjs and dampness of Kansas t'ity are more than he can stand." But the Bentous, Oliver and his wife, did not go to Arizona. They moved to western Oklahoma, which the government was just then opening open-ing to white settlers. It was wild country and they were brave to phmecr Its epaclous plains. But this was the land of hope and health and freedom and new beginning, begin-ning, i tiiver w as soon well and the IVntons began with a vigor. They were the builders of Oklahoma. When the first railroad train came into the section In the winter of IWUe Mr. Benton got possession of a box car some way and started the first church, with himself as the preacher, although he was not a clereyman. Soon It was full or the bristling youth that was growing up In Oklahoma. Joe remembers when they lived In a tent He remembers their truggles with the soil and the live stock and the loneliness. He remembers re-members their dread of the wind, the wind that blew and blew across the plains nntll at nicht his mother would cover them with the carpets to keep them Trom freezing. Worked Long Hours. Joe wns a good boy. He put tn long hard hours of heavy work, ne picked cotton, tilled the soil (many time It mas the first time anyone's Plow had dipped its nose Into the arth that he cultivated), did most Ing a musician. His mother, who was always giving up things for Joe, made some more sacrifices and bought a piano for $25. It was a funny, square thing and it came from St. Louis. It was kind of old. The date on it was 1807. When It arrived the young man found that hfs head just about reached the keyboard If he stood up straight. His mother had given hlra a drum for Christmas; he had beat lots of rhythm and both of the sides out of it but be still had the drumsticks. He used them to strike the keys. The keys were solid Ivory solid, that Is, until they met up with Joe. He split every one of them with his sticks, un knowingly, causing him plenty of grief later, for he was to play on that piano for many years to come. His music lessons came long and hard. He had to teach himself, for no one In the house knew anything anout music. He would go to Sun day school and watch the lady at tbe foot-powered organ as she played "Revive Us Again." He watched which key she struck for the "re" part of "revive." He made a mental note of the key she, hit for "vlve." He went home and struck the same keys on the piano and was rewarded by hearing the same notes. In the hymn book he saw which of these notes went with "re" and which with "vive." He reasoned that notes which went higher up on the scale were higher on the piano. Before long he found himself reading music and playing it. -Takes Up Singing. It was not until much later, however, how-ever, that young Benton began to sing. As a youngster be had very deep and husky voice; when It changed, it became a rich, full baritone. During bis last year In high school, a young woman and her husband, friends of Joe's moth er, came to Sayre, She knew music mu-sic and could Ring herself. She became Interested In Joe, and saw possibilities in his playing and In nts voice. She coached him and prepared him for competition In a state-wide musical contest He was still playing on decrepit old -st Louis IS07." with Its split ivory seys and Us uncertain tone it was m the contest that he played on bis first good piano. The thrill It gave him Is best describe! In his own language. "I felt like a lorry driver who was suddenly placed behind the wheel of a fine expensive automobile that h admired from a distance for a lonv At fl - uiue,-- joe says. "The feeling wai comparable to that of a boy In his "Bi. iir or tong pants. It gave me the confidence of a young man after bis first shave." - Playing two difficult selection and singing a familiar church hymn mecause any other music was so bard to procure in the wilds of western Oklahoma Just then), he won the contest and with it a teachers' college scholarship which he never nsed. He was just past sixteen. After that came dark days, but they were days which had more, perhaps, to do with shaping Joe's career than all of his study so far. He fell sick with typhoid fever. For forty-six days and nights he bat tled with the fever. The fever left him weak and wasted. But It was In that sickbed sick-bed that Joe Benton, the farm boy. really became Giuseppe Bentonelll, the lyric tenor of America and Continental Con-tinental opera. When he had recovered recov-ered he entered the University of Oklahoma and tried out for the glee club. It was amazedly discovered discov-ered that his baritone voice, which he had not tried since the typhoid got him, had become a fine, rich tenor. He sang as if in a dream while Professor Schmidt struck notes high, higher, higher still, -all the way np to high B flat The glamor of the war attracted Joe Benton while he was at the university and he tried to Join the army, but was too young. He Joined the ROTC, and was commis sioned a lieutenant In the Infantry just after the war closed. He was graduated with a bachelor of arts degree and won a Pb! Beta Kappa key. He made Phi Mu Alpha musical mu-sical fraternity. , Joe didn't need the army to get to Europe. On a shoestring he crossed the Atlantic to study with the masters. He didn't always eat. he said, but he studied night and day. At Nice, he studied under the distinguished Polish tenor, Jean de Reske. When his teachers pronounced him ready, young Benton made his debut as the first tenor In the title role of "Andrea Chenier" In the Teatro Realle del l'Opera at Rome. It was the beginning of a European careqr that was to take him through 411 performances In thirty-four different dif-ferent operas. He Becomes "Bentonelll." It was In his Rome debut that, upon the advice of hla teacher In Milan, he assumed the name of Bentonelll. His reason was a good one. "To the Italians my name sounds French," he explained. "They pronounce pro-nounce It 'Bon-Ton. No matter If you are better than Caruso, if you make your debut in Italy bearing a French name, you are likely to ge! grape-fruit thrown at yon. Martin became MartinelH, so I could see no reason why Benton should not be BentonellL In a Milan coqrt it cost me three hundred dollars in law fees to have the new name legalized. legal-ized. I can now use It in perfect security; it Is good even on passports." pass-ports." When he returned home this year It was the first time In five years. But you will never find a more ardent ar-dent patriot than Giuseppe Bentonelll. Benton-elll. And he is still a "regular guy"; success hasn't spoiled him. Bentonelll has been much Interested Inter-ested In a career somewhat parallel to his own. It is that of a fellow tenor of the Chicago Grand Opera company, Myron Duncan, a logger of the North woods who was discovered dis-covered singing Jo the trees up in north Wisconsin, and made his American Amer-ican debut a week later In the same role as did Bentonelll. Like the lat- ;:f' 5- ' W , i Myron Duncan, the Logger, Who Also Reached the Heights. ter, Duncan "went Italian" over there. His name became Mario Duca, but he has not retained it in the land of his birth. Bentonelll, dark, handsome and. In his own words "more than thirty and less than thirty-five," is a real American young man. He looks more like a well-dressed collegian than anything else. He likes bow neckties and smart striped shirts with long, pointed collars. He never argues politics or religion or bow t? pitch the voice, G. Weatcra NwippT L'.vlon. men doing CSS M SSSf Perspiration, but 2h ' this dlfflculL In W,Q that the, ,L,ordetH a solution 7fZ " your hands int. to Reu, nT J them drv otroul)elty Key to Heredity Ti by the Rut. c Scientists worti ,1 fS mysteries of heredity flvenakeytomanjofZ lems with the aW-l? chromosome In the mJ 3 of the yeast fly, eys $A asazme. some 70 tlma J ims over-sized model i neuclel hrin i. .. a miv loer-f clearness the gene? held UH genes in whlcbflm tlsta have the greatest b since they are the omti heredity. Arraneed In Inn? eJ on eacn enromosome, a compfei s contained in each cell and J lore tne giant chromosow s large-scale model of all Its t brothers. 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