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Show TI1E LEW SUN, LEW, UTAH News Review of Current Events the World Over President Roosevelt Addresses American Legion Convention Con-vention in Chicago Direct Federal Aid for the Needy Is Planned. By EDWARD W. P1CKARD PltESIDENT ROOSEVELT made I hurried trip to Chicago and delivered a stirring speech at the opening session of the American Le gion convention. Wildly cheered by vast throngs of cltlzena on hla arrival ar-rival in the city the president aped to ' !- 4 the Stadium and A before SO.OOO vet-A vet-A Jy erana made hla ap peal for full support sup-port of hla efforta to bring about na tional recovery, and for national unity to ensure national Mr. Roosevelt President Roosevelt safety and credit aald In Dart: "Industry cannot be restored, people peo-ple cannot be put back to work, banks cannot be kept open, human suffering cannot be cared for, If the government Itself la bankrupt We realize now that the great human values, not for you alone, but for all American citizens, rest upon the unimpaired credit of the United States, "It was because of this that we undertook to take the national treasury out of the red and put It Into the black. And In the doing of It we laid down two principles which directly affected benefits to veterans to sou. and to the veterans of other wars. "The first principle, following In-evttably In-evttably from the obligation of cltl-sens cltl-sens to bear arms, la that the gov ernment has a responsibility for and toward those who suffered Injury or contracted disease while serving In Its defense. The second principle is that no person, because he wore a uniform, must thereafter be placed in a apo dal claaa of beneficiarlea over and above all other citizens. The fact of wearing uniform doea not nieuo that he can demand from the government gov-ernment a benefit which no other citizen receives. It doea not mean that because a person served In the defense of his country, performed a basic obligation of citizenship, he should receive a pension from his government because of a disability Incurred after his service had terminated, termi-nated, and not connected with that service. "It does mean, however, that those who were Injured In or as a result of their service, are entitled to receive adequate and generous compensation for their disabilities, It does mean that generous care ahull be extended to the dependents or those who died In or as a result of service to their country. "To carry out these principles, the people of this country can and will pay In taxes the sums which It Is necessary to raise. To carry out these principles will not bankrupt bank-rupt your government nor throw Its bookkeeping Into the red." (")N HIS way to Chicago PresI- dent Roosevelt came to final decision as to direct federal aid for the Jobless during the coming winter, win-ter, assuming that - the plan would be speedily worked out In co-operation with Secretary of Agriculture w a 1-lace 1-lace and George Peek, agricultural adjustment administrator. admin-istrator. The action ac-tion to be taken will practically establish es-tablish the dole In the United States. The Immediate ob ject of course la to avert suffering. But the plan has the secondary purpose pur-pose of the utilisation of the great surpluses of food, fuel and cloth-Ing. cloth-Ing. These things will be purchased pur-chased by the government with the fund not yet allocated, and congress con-gress will be asked to appropriate more If necessary. The announcement announce-ment by Stephen Early, the Presl-dent's Presl-dent's secretary, said In part: "The President announced he has Instructed Harry L, Hopkins, federal fed-eral relief administrator, to take the leadership In prompt organization organiza-tion of a non-profit corporation, of which Mr. Hopkins Is to become chairman, for the purpose of buying buy-ing the necessities of life and distributing dis-tributing them among the needy unemployed. ... "In order to assure speed and effectiveness ef-fectiveness In the movement of huge supplies, the President has directed not only that the corpora-ton corpora-ton be equipped with adequate" funds, but also that It should be given wide powers In the purchasing purchas-ing and distribution of surplus foods and other commodities. The President believes the corporation cor-poration can be organized quickly and In such manner as to become the best agent for decisive action in the emergency. "Mr. Hopkins ha canvassed with the President the relief situation In the country as a whole. The Presl-dnt Presl-dnt la convinced that la many , ,u M t - ( s . v- t5 r t v. LI o J Harry L Hopkina states relief allowances now made by state and municipal authorities are far from adequate and must be substantially Increased as rapidly as possible. The President asserted that wnne farmers' buying power has In creased to an encouraging degree, agricultural prices still remain sub stantially below the level needed to hasten the country on the road to economic recovery. "The new effort worked out by Mr. Hopkins and Secretary Wallace to make maximum use of surpluses that have been burdening the com modlty markets, Is part of intensi fied plans to raise farm prices to economic levels. The agricultural administration's efforts to control production of surpluses too great to be' used are to be continued. , , "The corporation will have pow- era to purchase directly from farm ers, whenever desirable. In such way as to carry out the purposes of the agricultural adjustment act fl I ICAGO was In the posses- alon of the.Amer!can Legion and the veterans had a Joyous time In their convention and all Its asso elated doings and especially at the World's Fair. The Forty and Eight, fun-making organ ization of the Le gion, held Its torch light parade the opening night, and the following day the Legion staged one of the greatest parades ever seen In this country. For many hours the "boys" marched down Michigan ave nue, through Soldier field and back through Grant park to the disbanding disband-ing point In the line were about alz hundred musical organizations and drill teams. In Its serious sessions the Legion convention elected Edward A. Hayes of Decatur, 111, national commander, command-er, and adopted various resolutions that supported the policies of the Roosevelt administration. Mr. Hayes, a past commander of the Illinois Illi-nois department had a great deal to do with the formation of the "four-front" proogram designed to conciliate differences between the Legion and the national administration administra-tion concerning expenditures for veterans' relief. nVNGELRERT DOLLFUSS, chan-- celior of Austria, barely escaped death at the hands of an assassin In Vienna. One Rudolf Dertll, a re cent arrival from Styrla, fired twice at the little statesman, states-man, one bullet hitting hit-ting him In the arm and the other glnnclng from a coat button. Nat urally the authori ty. liiininillntote Aa. dared this was part $' of a Nazi plot but ' i" Chancellor Dollfuss Edward A. Hayes slogan: "Organize the onorganlB In the mass production industries," with a membership of 10,ooo,ooo as the next goal, and after that 2V 000,000. "which will bring the majority ma-jority of Americans geuuinely and actually within the trade union family." Among the Important pronounce ments of policy ana recommenua- tiona for action placed before the deleeatea by the executive council were : 1. The 30-hour week of Ave days' work, six hours a day. 2. Increase of minimum wages provided In the codes. 3. Increase of wages for skilled workers, as well as unskilled. 4. Representation of labor In every stage of code making. 6. Public works must be speeded ud to auDDiy worn mis winter io large masses of Idle. 6. Congress, upon convening, must provide adequate relief appropria tions. 7. The surplus agricultural prod nets must be made available for dis tribution to the unemployed. S. Taxation for relief must be pro vided bv fair contributions from higher Incomes and surplus profits. 0. Labor must have relief from excessively stringent federal econ omy measures. TfVSCUSSIONS of the British war debt to the United States were opened In Washington and, much to the surprise of the public, were turned over to the Treasury department depart-ment by Secretary of State null, the announcement b e- Ing that the matter was being treated as purely a finan cial problem. The administration des ignated Dean Ache-son, Ache-son, undersecretary of the treasury, to handle Its part In he was aided by Frederick Llvesey, who Is an asso ciate economic adviser of the State department For the British gov ernment appeared Sir Frederick Leith-Ross and T. K. Bewley. The question at Issue was: How much. If at all. shall the United States reduce the British war debt, fund ed In 1923 for $4,000,000? t vy? they were unable to show that Dertll was a Nazi. Any how, the attempt on hla life strengthened the chancellor's position posi-tion and made him a hero In the eyes of the public. Dollfuss plana the establishment of a state that Is a compromise between be-tween Fascism and democracy, and this does not suit many of his friends, notably Prince Starhem-berg, Starhem-berg, leader of the helmwehr. The prince wants Italian Fascism for Austria, but he was forced to postpone post-pone action until the chancellor should recover from his wound. GRIFFITH park forest preserve at Los Angeles was the scene of a terrible holocaust In which at least 27 men met death and the victims may have numbered fifty or more. The men, relief roll workers, work-ers, had been ordered to put out a small brush ftre and In their Ignorance Igno-rance of proper methods started a back Are that trap d many of them In a ravine, At least that was one explanation. Another theory was that the fatal conflagration was started by a carelessly thrown cigarette. ciga-rette. The flames swept through the woods, dried out by a long spell of hot weather, and the panic-stricken men lort all sense of direction In the dense smoke. Two hundred or more were taken t hospitals badly burned or suffering from suffocation. suf-focation. INTENT on gaining from the NRA the greatest possible advantage for organized labor, the American Federation of La! or opened Its annual convention In Washington. In a preliminary statement President Presi-dent Green said that the enactment enact-ment of the national recovery act the. federation had Increased ' Its membership by 1.G00.00Q, the total being now approximately 4,000,000. Nailed to the masthead ot the federation, Mr. Green said, U the 8 h A CA Dean Acheson the affair, and AMERICAN Intervention In Cuba was brought appreciably nearer near-er by a bloody all-day battle that took place between the BOO recal cltrant army and navy officers who bad been beleaguered In the Na tional hotel and the troops of Pres ident Grau. The hotel was bom barded until late afternoon with rifles, machine guns and cannon and the government said 18 of the officers" were killed and 17 wound ed which probably was an under estimate. The losses among the soldiers were officially stated to be 8 killed and 27 wounded. Correspondents Corre-spondents laid the total dead In the day's fighting numbered at least 44. Among the non-contestants killed was Robert Lotspelch, an American, assistant manager In Havana for Swift A Co. When the hotel, which Is owned and niannged by Americans, was practically wrecked by shell fire, the officers surrendered. As they emerged under a white flag, un armed and under guard of soldiers, they were again attacked and a number of them massacred. Apartment Apart-ment buildings near the hotel. In which many Americans resided. were frequently hit by machine gun bullets and shells from the Cuban cruiser Tatrla. TEV York la now. enjoying a three-cornered race for the mayoralty, for Joseph V. McKee de cided to be an Independent candl . V. McKee date against Mayor John Patrick O'Brien, the Democratic Demo-cratic nominee, and Florello II. La Gunrdla, the fusion fu-sion candidate. In hla announcement Mr. McKee said: "I refused to enter en-ter the Democratic primaries because I felt that to do so would mark me as a tool of the machine, and that would prevent my doing the Job that must be done to restore our city government "There Is no real fusion In this campaign. The so-called . fusion standard bearer is as objectionable to the solid element of eur Republican Repub-lican citizenry as he Is to the vast army of Democrats who are dis- rusted with machine politics. The present standard bearer of the al leged fusion Is a por compromise bv a faction of would be bosses. yiR of IRGINlA fell Into line for repeal The wets won by something like t to 1. Fifteen of the 100 counties went dry. as did the cities of Dan ville and Radford. The Old Domin ion was the thirty-second state en rolled against prohibition. nvKATH took two wl! known tig. ores tn the world of sports. W L. t"Toang") Stribling, Georgia boxer who had been a contender for the heavyweight title, war faulty faul-ty injured (a an automobile accident acci-dent fai'Ing to recover after the amputation of one leg. William U Veeck, president of he Chicago National Na-tional League Bavball dub, died of leucocythaemla. C 111!. Whim Nwipr CbJo. Inteimountain Hews Briefly told for Busy Readers MANY SEEK LOANS PIO DUES FARMER POTATO PRICE RISES KAIL RATES LOWERED WILD SHOOTING TABOO OGDEN. UT. Applications for loans totaling $I3(5.850.7D have been made by home owners of northern Utah, to the Home Owners' Loan corporation. BEAVER. UT. Orson Blackner, 72, resident of Greenville, met with a painful accident when he was attacked at-tacked and bitten by a large pig. OGDEN, UT. Pointing out that the practice of promiscuous shooting la dangerous, Sheriff Amma S. TJam- man has announced that he will prosecute in each case where ihe violation of law is noted. Sheriff Hammon says he has received numerous num-erous complaints of promiscuous shooting both in Ogden City and Weber county districts, and that in one instance an amateur marksman hot and killed a heifer in a pasture west of Ogden. Pedestrians and motorists have complained of nar row escapes from bullets. GARLAND. UT. Many carload of green tomatoes have been shipped to eastern markets this season. AMERICAN FORK, UT. A dah lia has been grown in this city to a height of nearly 12 feet MIDWAY, UT. Wasatch county Is active In getting make-work pro jects for unemployed residents. BOISE, IDA. Four highway Jobs which will employ 200 or more men have started and others will begin In the near future under the feeder road nroeram worked out by the state in cooperation with the federal government, Joseph H. Stemmer, director di-rector of highways has announced. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. In response to the request of Governer Henry H. Blood, lowered rates on livestock, and feed shipments to and from dronth-strlcken areas on the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad rail-road have been announced by A. J. Cronin, assistant traffic manager. LAS VEGAS, NEV. Because the 1933 Nevada legislature failed to en act liquor revenue laws, the state will be unable o realize any income from sale of liquor should the eighteenth amendment be repealed, it Is reported. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. With the movement of Idaho potatoes to market, about 60 per cent greater than this time last season, growers have been receiving more than twice the price of last year, it is stated in the market review made public. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Many permits have been Issued for the elk hunting season which opens on November Sth. . OGDEN, UT. Under the national recovery administration, not including includ-ing the C. C. C. employment there are 18G8 men employed in region 4, according to Information given out at the regional forest office. They will be kept on their Jobs as long as weather conditions will permit The men are engaged in various kinds of forest improvement work. SALT LAKE CITY, UT Utah ranked twenty-seventh In the national nation-al traffic safety contest sponsored by the National Safety council dur ing the first seven months this year. With 51 deaths, the death rate per 100,000 population, as the result of automobile accidents in Utah, is 19.7 per cent Mississippi ranked first with C2 deaths and a rate of 7.3 per cent Last was Nevada, with 21 deaths and a rate ot 53. per cent RENO, NEV-A decline of nearly a million pounds in wool produced in Nevada this year is estimated by the United States bureau of agricultural agricul-tural economics. This year's production pro-duction will approximate nearly six million pounds. BOISE, IDA. The 1933 potato crop will be larger than last year in Wyoming; and smaller In Utah, Colorado and Montana, according to estimates made by Fred W. Beler Jr. ef the agriculture department bureau bu-reau of economics at Denver. LOGAN, UT. Two Japanese died here from eating poison mushrooms. SALT . LAKE CITY, UT. As a means of bringing further reemployment reemploy-ment speedily, the state road commission com-mission has authorized expenditure of about $125,000 from available gasoline sales tax funds on road construction con-struction and betterment projects In various counties of Utah. Not even the conditions Imposed by the federal feder-al government need delay the application appli-cation of these funds, though as a rule the work will be done under the same conditions, especially as to labor, as are national recovery highway high-way projects, whether on the federal aid system, within municipalities, or en the secondary or feeder roads. "SALT LAKE CITY, UT.-Initlal payment for the 1933 crop of sugar beets will be determined at a meeting meet-ing of representatives of the Utah Sugar Beet Growers tssoclatlon and officials of the sugar manufacturing manufact-uring companies, November 6, it was announced at the offices of tbe Utah State farmburean. IDAno FALLS. IDA. The number num-ber of meals .served at the local Salvation Sal-vation Army kitchen in September exceeded that of any month during the IS months records have been kept Scenes and Persons in the Current News , 1 . ,J .A l Scene In La Salle street Chicago, when President Roosevelt arrived there to address the J Legion convention. 2 Float In the big parade of the 40 and 8, the fun-making organization of the As3 Legion. Robert L. Lotspelch, American, wno was Kinea aunng mooay Daiue at ine Kauonal hotel, Hi Cuba. Dollfuss Announcing Austrian Fascist State Kmtfwwifv "Sisarai vr"'p.wi9 ""awKifW" i" i id: ft rA 9 A mif imiiirio'iirm-iiiiiiiinrMiiMiii ifwmmr Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, wounded the other day by an assassin. Is here seen at the race i Vienna announcing the creation of a Fascist state for Austria on the Italian model. FOR YALE GYMNASIUM 'ft f i in. . Ww l W I f fU i rn 4 Wri t - Edward Field Sanford, Jr., putting put-ting the finishing touches on the statue -"Victory. which is to be placed over the main doorway of the new monumental Payne Whitney Whit-ney gymnasium at Tale university. The statue measures over eight feet In height and embodies the spirit of physical prowess and sobriety In victory, and typifies young American Ameri-can manhood. MINISTER TO EGYPT 4 f - - - 4 1 New Winter Garb for Forest Ar r 1 - f i fir I it 2srl lkL':aUB::a:ia:-,aaUailialtBP.IliMa)iaaISiliiaiiauilSiiSli! The United 5tates army has prepared a winter onifora i Ulan conservation corps men who will spend the coming w In woodlands throughout the country. Each uniform wnrL blue lumberjacket leather wlndbreaker and sleeveless . melton cloth. A high crowned winter cap with visor and ear under the chin, and hide mittens with woolen Inner ml" Items of the outfit while rubber soled overshoes take can ; , In the photograph the man on the left Is wearing the can. breaker and hide gloves, while on the right Is Illustrated w j jerkin. J In New York's Three-Corneredft Bert Fish of De Land, Fla, who has been appointed American minister min-ister to Egypt Pracipitatioa A rainfall" of one inch la equal to 100 tens of water to the acre. It takes a snowfall of about 12 inches to equal one loch of rain. V ' iff I 'A three candidates for the mayoralty 4 I f: Florello H. 1 Gnardia. f!lLrfl Here are the lo "gnt. tney ire; Florello H. 1 Gnardia. slim'ae(ftL Dendenf Itefnnmli th D n-T. aniitloa LVB fii Bar jpattei f Qa U i, rri ite '." - k . vi utcifc w |