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Show THE LEW SUN, USUI. UTAH News Review of Current Events the World Over Credit Expansion, Reopening of Bank9 and Rehabilitation Rehabili-tation of Railways Planned Ocean Mail and Ship Deals Under Investigation. By EDWARD W. PICKARD 3 Secretary Woodin PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT, like all other persons, knows that the recovery program has been slumping slump-ing somewhat of late, because the rising prices or commodities hate not been met by Increased In-creased purchasing power and by reemployment re-employment Still averse to currency inflation and devaluation de-valuation of the dollar, the Chief Executive called In- k ' j to conference ser- of his administration administra-tion to plan for further expansion of credit and for the reopening of closed banks, there by freeing several billions of dol lars represented by the frozen assets as-sets of those Institutions. Secretary of the Treasury Woodin, not yet recovered re-covered wholly from his late Illness, was one of the conferees ; the others were Secretary of Agriculture Wal lace, Attorney General Cummings, Gov. Eugene Black of the federal reserve board, Lewis W. Douglas, director of the budget: Jesse II. Jones, chairman of the Reconstruction Reconstruc-tion Finance corporation; Walter J, Cummings, conservator of closed banks, and J. F. T. O'Connor, con troller of the currency. Following the conference the President took train for his Flyde Park home, and on the train he had a long talk with Prof. James H. Rogers, Tale economist. Rogers then returned to Washington and discussed financial matters with Douglas and others. This led to the report that some change Involving the purchasing power of the dollar was Imminent, but dispatches from ITyde Park said no announcement on monetary policy was forthcoming forthcom-ing yet . Senator Thomas of Oklahoma announced an-nounced that several groups working work-ing with him for Inflation had decided de-cided to suspend their campaign for the moment to permit trial of the credit expansion program proposed pro-posed by President Roosevelt It was stated with authority that the President hopes to get a large proportion of the 6,000 closed banks reopened before January 1, when the deposit Insurance system goes Into effect In order to qualify for deposit Insurance, banks must be liquid. Thousands of the closed banks, the President Is advised, are solvent but not sufficiently liquid to meet the requirements for reopening. reopen-ing. To make them liquid, additional addi-tional capital must be provided. To the extent such additional capital Is not furnished by the communities communi-ties In which the banks are situated It will be supplied by the R. F, C, through purchase of preferred stock In the Institutions, according to the plan approved at the White House conference. OTEEL manufacturers, under the w urging of President Roosevelt and Joseph B. Eastman, co-ordlna tor of transportation, have agreed to competitive bidding for the sale of rails to the railways, and Mr. East man announced that 700.000 tons of rails will be bought as soon as financial arrangements can be made, If the bids of the steel companies show that reductions In the price have been made, the money will be loaned to the railroads direct from public works funds. Competitive bidding and bottom prices. It was hoped by Mr. Roose-Telt Roose-Telt and Mr. Eastman, also would result in the purchase by the railroads rail-roads of quantities of rolling stock nd equipment which deals, too. would be financed by the government govern-ment Loans for buying rails, it was aid, may run to some $23,000,000. Equipment loans may surpass that mount Reports of railroad business are encouraging. The first 67 railroads reporting August business had a total to-tal net operating Income of $51,054.-000, $51,054.-000, approximately double that of the preceding August A year ago the figure for the same number of carriers was $25,810,000, the Increase In-crease amounting to 97.8 per cent The net operating Income of these carriers in July totaled $53,SO-I,000, n increase of 341 per cent over July, 1332. Gross revenues of the 67 carriers In August amounted to f247.2C0.0G0. compared with $243,-800,000 $243,-800,000 In July and $210,132,000 In August last year. were at fault "It Is now largely In the hands of the mayors of our cities to de termine whether the public works program will fully serve its purpose In aiding in the economic recovery of the country," said Secretary Ickes In his address. "Our national treasury Is waiting to be drawn upon for hundreds of millions of dollars for useful public works. "The administration In Washing ton can approve your projects and advance funds necessary to com plete them. We have moved and are moving expeditiously, If circum spectly, but there Is a point beyond which we cannot go. "We can give you money; we can help you to decide what i roject to undertake ; we can aid you lo super vising your work, but we cannot de cide for you whether you want pub lic works. We cannot force yon to move any faster than you are will ing to move." Senator Black MNY of our large cities are In desperate financial straits and nave been looking to the public works administration for salvation. There has been much criticism of the slowness with which the $1.750,. 000.000 of federal money allocated for municipal and state projects is being handed out y Secretary of the Interior Ickes, the adminlstra tor. Eut Mr. Icks met the mayors may-ors of 55 cities at the Chicago World's fair and let them know plainly that the cities themselves fCEAN mall and ship construe- tlon contracts let during the Hoover administration are under investigation by a senate committee headed by Senator Hugo Black of Ala bama, and Interesting Interest-ing deals are being revealed. On the first day Black charged that Henry Hen-ry Herberman of New York, presi dent of the Export Steamship corpora tlon, had directed one of his employ ees to pay a $510 tailor bill of T. V. O'Connor, then chairman of the United States ship ping board. This Herberman flat ly denied, but he and other wit nesses were not able to easily dispose dis-pose of testimony concerning alleged al-leged favors to various former officials. of-ficials. It was disclosed that ocean mall subsidies paid to the Export Steamship corporation annually amounted to more than the organization organiz-ation paid the shipping board for eighteen vessels. A formal statement that C. Bas-com Bas-com Slemp, of Virginia, who once was secretary to President Coolldge, had helped to engineer the ship pur chasing deal at a price lower than originally asked by the shipping board was placed before the committee com-mittee by Herberman. Id i letter to Senator Black, chairman of the committee, Ilerber-man Ilerber-man wrote that Slemp had billed hlra for $50,000 for legal fees in connection con-nection with the sale of the ships at $7.50 a ton Instead of $8.50 as asked by Admiral Palmer of the shipping board. The sale price, Herberman wrote, was a compromise, and the "ques tion Involved was the per ton to be paid for shipping board vessels," adding that "Mr. Slemp acted in connection with this matter and felt ' that his services were worth, aa I recall. $50,000. I actually paid him $15.000 $3,000 on July I. 1025, and $12,000 on July 19, 1325." Slemp resigned as secretary to Mr. Coolldge in January of 1925. Mrs. Mlna G. Irvine, who was secretary sec-retary to O'Connor for many years at the shipping board, testified she negotiated several Florida deals for Herberman. She said thRt after a Justice department agent had sought to Inspect files at her shipping ship-ping board ottlce with regard to the transactions, she had destroyed the records. TEN convicts made a sensational escape from the Indiana penitentiary peni-tentiary at Michigan City, stole automobiles, au-tomobiles, kidnaped a sheriff and scattered. Followed a great man hnnt by hundreds of police of Indiana In-diana and Illinois, which was still going on at this writing. The entire population of Pennsylvania's Pennsyl-vania's eastern penitentiary at Philadelphia, Phil-adelphia, comprising 1,492 long-term long-term felons, staged a wild revolt because they had lost their special privileges for a previous riot They beat the warden severely and set fire to their mattresses, but finally were subdued. George Kelly, a notorious desperado des-perado known as "Machine Gun," wanted for participation in the kid naplng of C F, Crschel of Oklahoma Oklaho-ma City, was captured In Memphis. Tenn- after a long hunt. His wife also was arrested and both were taken back to Oklahoma for trial Kelly Is also charged with having a part In killings and robberies in Kansas City and Chicago. OSTM ASTER GENERAL Jim Farley, practical and hard head ed, is going after some hundreds of fourth class postmasters who have been "racketeering" "rack-eteering" at the expense ex-pense of the government gov-ernment His inspectors in-spectors already have conducted an investigation of the facta, and it is like ly many of the sinners sin-ners will lose their positions and some of them may go to crlson. Postmaster Fourth class post-Gen. post-Gen. Farley masters, most of whom are In small villages, receive 100 per cent on the first $75 of postage they cancel, 85 per cent on the next $100, and 75 per cent on all In excess of $175. To this com pensation are added the rental of post office boxes and an allowance of 15 per cent for rent light fuel, and equipment They also receive a commission of 3 cents each on all the money orders. This method of compensating these rural postmasters. It appears, prompts some of them to use vari ous devices to increase cancella tions. The more stamps they can cel, the more they make. The Inspectors have reported many schemes adopted by postmas ters to swell the cancellation fees. Some of them have mailed bricks. gravel and other bulky and worth less articles. Others who conduct stores sell groceries to their relatives rela-tives and friends In other localities and by affixing sufficient postage on the bags and boxes Insure their delivery by the rural carrier In the neighborhood. They not only received re-ceived profit on the sales, but also received from the government the amount of stamps placed on the packages, plus the usual per cent Representative J. J. Cochran instigated in-stigated the investigation, and it Is expected that in the next session of congress he will lead a movement to have the present system of compensation com-pensation of fourth class postmasters postmas-ters radically changed and thousands thou-sands of the offices abolished. RING LARDXER, one of Amerl-cas1est Amerl-cas1est known humorists, died at Ms home In East Hampton. Long Island, ffter a long Illness; at the age of forty-eight. In England Mrs. A M. Williamson, an American Ameri-can who wrote many popular nov els In collaboration with her Eng lish husband. C N. Williamson, passed away at Rath. TROUBLES between organized labor and employers, predicted some time ago, are coming fast Coal miners of western Pennsyl vania to the number or nearly hundred thousand were on strike, i calling It a "holiday." In West Virginia Vir-ginia also there was labor discord. At Welrton 5,000 employees were forced Into Idleness in a dispute between be-tween company union and an Inde pendent union. The second attempt In two days to picket the Clalrton works of the Carnegie Steel company was frus trated and deputy sheriffs hurried to the plant on a tip that another Invasion was planned. Employees of the Ford plant at Chester, Pa., struck, and the Ford company promptly closed down the plant "for an Indefinite period." A federal mediator was sent there, but was told there was nothing to mediate. The Chester workers planned to go to Edgewater, N. J., and ask the Ford employees there to Join In the demand for more pay. It was expected that General Johnson, recovery administrator, would soon announce carefully drafted plans for a general reorganization reor-ganization of the NRA "from an emergency, temporary setup into a cohesive body ready to function through the two-year life of the recovery re-covery act Drawn by Thomas S. Hammond of Chicago, with the aid of the pol icy board, the plan calls for great er accent upon self-regulation by industries operating under codes, with the government to step in only when necessary. A N OUTSTANDING figure among the statesmen gathered at Geneva for the coming disarmament conference Is Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, propaganda propagan-da minister of the Hitler government of Germany. He may not be so important im-portant as Foreign Minister Van Neu-rath, Neu-rath, but for the present he Is more voluble, and It Is he who Is putting forth Germany's demands for arms equality and who is ostensibly ostensi-bly doing the "horse trading" for his country In the discussions dis-cussions that center about the French proposal for supervision of arms during a test period. The German delegates, it was said In Geneva, had been given full power by Ultler to conclude disarmament dis-armament accord, and an Indication that some agreement might be reached was seen in the fact that the French and German statesmen were brought together at a carefully care-fully arranged "private" dinner attended at-tended also by Sir John Simon of England and some Italians, Italy has been favorable to Germany's demands to a certain extent and has put forward a plan allowing partial rearmament of the reich. The Germans were willing to accept the supervision plan bnt only If the commission were authorised to supervise, su-pervise, not armaments, bnt merely effectives. In other words It would or that Germany carried out Its obligations to transform the relchs-wehr relchs-wehr Into a short term militia and disband seral-milltary organizations. C 1st i, WulM ttwspm trataa. Intermountain News Briefly told for Busy Readers CIUIN STORES FILE SOI FOUR PETITIONS FILED HIGH PRICE FOR STEERS VALUATION DROPS MORE POTATOES SHIPPED SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Six Utah towns recently submitted for mal requests for public works loans to It. A. Hart federal public works engineer for Utah and Nevada. The towns, the character and amounts set forth in their loan applications are as follows: Levan, waterworks. replacements and improvements, $34,(545.00; Spring City, new waterworks water-works system, $35,200; Bingham Canyon, sewer extension and im provements, $50,000, and water tunnel, tun-nel, $10,500; Millvllle, watrworks improvements and replacements, $32,000; Duchesne, new reservoft and waterworks pipe replacements, $3fl,73S.81 ; Perry, new reservoir and plpa line replacements, $8,000. BOISE, IDA. Constitutionality of the state chain store tax was upheld up-held by a decision of District Judge Charles F. Koelsch, In a suit brought by Safeway Stores, Inc., and J. C Penney company to escape payment of the tax. The suit alleged the tax was discriminatory and unconstitutional, unconstitu-tional, as well as on other grounds. The act provides a tax of $5 to $500 a year on each store, the rate being graduated into the higher levels so that chain stores are taxed most, the maximum falling on chain stores of 20 or more stores. SALT LAKE CITY, ITT. Four petitions sponsored by " the Utah League for Prohibition Repeal, the Crusaders, the Women's Association for Prohibition Repeal, and the Association As-sociation Against the Eighteenth Amendment, containing 2,417 names were filed by Ray Olson at the capl-tol capl-tol with Secretary of State Milton II. Welling. This brings the total on petitions filed with Mr. Welling, endorsing wet candidates for delegates dele-gates to the repeal convention to be held here in December, to a total of over 4,000. BRIGHAM CITY, UT. A car of choice steers was sent to the Ogden Union stock yard3 recently by the Utah-Idaho Sugar company from its mill, in Garland, where feeding experiments ex-periments have been carried on for several months. The price paid was $5.25 per hundred weight. According Accord-ing to information received this was the highest price paid this year on the Ogden market OGDEN, UT. Weber county com. missioners have adopted a resolution declaring a quarantine in Ogden Valley for 30 days during which time horses, mules and donkeys must not be. taken into the district. The quar antine resolution was adopted upon request of residents of Ogden Val ley, In an attempt to prevent the spread of the brain fever epidemic, which has taken a heavy toll among horses In Weber and Davis counties, 1 V A Paul Joseph Goebbels LAS VEGAS, NEV. A proposal to complete the sewer system by con struction of laterals in the south and west side districts of Las Vegas was presented to the public works administration. The city commis sion recently decided to make appli cation for the necessary loan on bonds already authorized, after a mass meeting of citizens whose prop- ery was involved urged the action. The project will cost $11,000. NEPHI, UT. The assessed valu ation of Juab county dropped from $S,944,S93 to $7,841,480, while the assessed taxes showed a relative drop from $2CS,768.05 to $240,041.11, a decrease of $28,753.94, according to the second report filed with the state auditor. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Establishment Estab-lishment of, branch offices of the federal reemployment service in three counties of Utah has been I ! announced by Thomas R. Faddis, 1 assistant state director. Ray B. ' Toung will be in charge of the Kane county office at Kannb, James M. J Sargent, of the Garfield county office of-fice at Panguitch, and a director probably will be named for the Sanpete San-pete county office at MantL CALDWELL, IDA Nearly CO ministers of Baptist churches In Idaho were present when the Baptist Bap-tist minister's conference was held here. Approximately 200 women attended at-tended the session of the Woman's Baptist Missionary Society of Idaho. Meetings of both organizations preceded pre-ceded the opening of the twenty-fifth annual state convention. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The present state prison population la 280. which is 20 Inmates fewer than year ago, Warden R. E. Davis states. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Beekeepers Bee-keepers from Utah. Montana, Wyoming, Wyo-ming, Colorado, Idaho and Nevada will meet In Salt Lake October 6. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss dis-cuss the federal agricultural adjustment adjust-ment act STRING CITY, UT. Spring City the largest municipality tn Utah without a wafer supply system has filed formal application with the federal public works advisory board for a loan of $53,200 to Install a culinary cul-inary waterworks plant. Scenes and Persons in the Current News Hk - i4 Y ill Jmj uSfeli -jtNl' llJt'lil ttsVi'kJh'.l fAv- Wrt.,i .! I hit-- a - , A" r 1W. W. McDowell, copper operator of Butte, Mont, who has been appointed minister to J - ... rrr t Jt t n O S U STA AAA 171- iai Wfl the Avenue or riags at cue Chicago wonus iair. o ouuic vi tut; uu.wv yuuus rasusw wnoparawj rreiUier AlUSSOllUlilU irUm Wl lilt Ul mj uciuiuuuu iu "wv, Unemployed Folk Run a Co-Operative Hotel v i! f if VW , j &--. ;- ; , V--vH'' imnm-TiTi irmTir nrPtflri if ftiii'if-tii-iifii sTii iitiiiTniifftifmrifiii-Tniiniiif mililnlMlfn MTiftftnrii iiTTrfrriiimyiiiiiMiiviii 1 1 iti siniini siMinnnnniifiiri m i TriiiTimT'1'fc Under the direction of the Union Methodist Episcopal church and the board ot foreign mission a co-onerative community house. The housing experiment has been started at Wallace Lodge, id atop a high hill overlooking the Hudson. The photograph shows members at the desk for their k malL PRETTIEST WAITRESS v V ' j if i 1 , -, - err"" v', Miss Marjorle Kavanagh, twenty-one years old, was chosen as America's prettiest waitress In a contest con-test sponsored by the American Restaurant association at Its annual an-nual convention at the Merchandise Mart In Chicago. Miss Kavanagh has brown hair and eyes. Is 5 feet 2 Inches tall and weighs 100 pounds. HOPE OF ILLINI L o Frank Froschauer. f the Unlversiti of niinnf. f. j Ian team, U expected to provide the punch In the back field, operating from left halfback. The chances of lbe niIBl depend largely on hla and Jack Benyonw First Yank Captured Gets a Jot , r sV E Ex-Sergt. Edgar Halyburton. first American to be .c ing the World war. whose famous "Shoot and . ter4 : , when faced by German Inquisitors made him a nation a Job. Oe was accepted as one of the 5,uuu war -i- Ford at Detroit and went to work Immeaiaieiy. Placing Keel of "New Deafjg - i - t,et I -, 4, - V - - ' h -hi ' ' . . . i t - J ft A: ii . - 1 1 Rear Admiral A. J. Bepburn, commandant n'j trtct placing the first rive In the keel laid f t J L. S. a Aylwln. one of the three destroyers tow j a i-miaaeipnia. it was tne erst see uu program allotted to the navy. |