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Show PAGE EIGHT THE UTE SENTINEL .. Midvale, Utah, Friday, April 10, 1936 • of the History- Making Events of the Word * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * A DIGEST OF POLITICAL AND OTHER CURRENT HAPP~NINGS PREPARED FOR .T HOSE WHO DO NOT HAVE THE TIME FOR- DAILY ANAUYSIS OF THE NATION'S NEWS * By EDWARD W. PICKARD © Wes.tern Newspaper Union. Flandin Calls on Germany for a Showdown p·t~HH.I-<;- I<::TIR:-:XE FLANDIN. l··rench foreign minister, speaking at Ve:zelay, demanded in the nnrne of his govet·nment that Adolf Hitler la_v his carf1s on the rable. and intimated that unless flf'rman_v gives concrete proof 1 ': no agg-rPs~i\'e intentions in eentral or west· et·n Europe, France will decline to negotiate further with the reich and will prepare for war. l"'landin made it '!"· Flandin clear that France will stand firmly with her allies. the littie entente and Russia. Said be: ''The li'uellrer says Germany does twt want to take an~'tbing from .:anybody, but be already bad saitl 'that after the Saar plebiscite. He then nlso reaffirmed the Locarno >'treat~·. which since has been repu1 tli a ted. In the name of the integral 1:'0\-ct·eignty of the German people, docs the Fuehrer intend, when he thinks. the moment favorable, to hring up the Danzig question? "When he proposes a nonaggression pact with Lithuania does he t-~ccept definitely the ~atus of Memel or is he just stallil)g for time to prepare new deeds o! force in violation of treaties? "If Germany intends to assert her right to possess and exploit colonies, what colonies is she going to claim'? "Is It not significant that at Ute moment H!t1er launches his peace appeal, Nazi propaganda ts redoubling in Austria, Danish Schleswig, Polish SUesla, among the German minority ln Czechoslovakia, and even in German Switzerland? "Yes or no, does Hitler renounce annexation and even full absorption of the populations of these terrltorles Into the reich, or does he proclaim that these are internal affairs of the German people In which be does not Intend to let other nations meddle? "If the latter case be the truth, then we understand why Germany Is rearming at a record pace." dlnarily complete, aad the Nazis celebrated it with wild rejoicings in Berlin and other cities. It was the culmination of a three years' campaign in which the leaders sought to persuade the population of the reich tJiat only Hitfer could savp the country from great danger. Accord in~': to Berlin correspondents, there was 8 difference of opinion there as to ' the lnflut>nce the triumph would have on the fuehrer. Some said it would stiffen his back and induce him to • ride roughshod over the powers which objected to his. scrapping of the Locarno pact. Others said the election would make him feel so strong he would be will,lug to make a concession to his neighbors in an ~fl"ot·t to heolr> estHhlish "the new order In F.urope" to which he referred so frequently In his election speeches. The new reichstag will be the largest in llistory, having about 740 members. ~lost of them will be officials of the Nazi party. For the first time in the history of aviation a polling booth was established in the air. It was ahoard the new dirlgihle Von HindPnburg, whose 104 passengers and crew .voted solidly fo~ Hitler. The Hlndenburg and the Graf Zeppelin crulsed over the Saar and the Rhineland all day tong. 1 Japan Expects Trouble With Soviet Russia T HOUGH Koki Hirota, the new. Japanese premier, said a few days ago that while be was ln office there would be no war, It Is evident his government really ts looking for serious trouble with Russia. This feelin is expressed b y E i j I A m a u, spokesman for the Tokyo foreign office, who said: "Japan must prepare for Soviet ~ggres sion." Recent actlvltles Elji Amau Indicate the Reds are availing themselves of the critical situation which developed after the recent military revolt ln Tokyo and a·re Increasing the strength of their troops aiong the 1\lancbukuan border.'' Italian Bombers Wreck Amau satd the ·•recent Soviet polSecond Ethiopian City Icy bas been to tire on any persons USSOLINI'S air bombers were near the horder.'' He said he rebusy again ln Ethiopia, virgards tbls as rather strange behatually ruining Harar, second city of vior on the part of a "friendly that country, with a downpour of neighbor." Be said Premier Hirota explosives. Most of the populace had protested the alleged action to bad :H.ed when scouting planes gave K. K. Yurenev, Russian ambassador a. warning of what was to come, so to .Japan. the casualties were few. An official Almost every day there are retelephone message from Harar to Addis Ababa said fifteen incendiary ports of clashes on the Mongolian bombs struck the Egyptian Red border, each side blaming the other Cross hospital and others biJ: the as aggressors. The Outer Mongolian government, reinforced by concluEthiopian Red Cross hospital. A French mission, the French con· sion of its mutual assistance pact sulate, the Ethiopian radio station witb Soviet Russia, dispatched a and prison all were reported of- I note to the Japanese-sponsored state of Manchukuo. declaring its readificially to have been ruined. The attack on Harar, coupled ness to resist any Invasion. with a heavy bombardment of Jtjiga, fifty miles east of Harar and New Pr.ocessing Taxes a center Ethiopia's southern deOut of Revenue Bill fenses, raised native fears in Addis 1 N'E of the major features of the Ababa that the capital itself might new tax program suggested by be the next target of the Italian President Roosevelt is omitted frora aerial bombs. the measure prepared by a twus£" subcommittee and on which open Germany Almost Solidly hearings were begun by the ways Supports Hitler and means committee. For polltERMANY'S men and women to ica1 reasons it was decided that the the number of 44,389,140 de- plan for new processing taxes on clared by their votes In the reich- farm and competing products should abandoned. Mr. Roosevelt's stag elections that they supported be the policies of Hitler. Only 542,898 suggestion for a "wlndfal1.. tax tv had the nerve to vote against the recapture part or the refunded or relchsfuehrer, and a still smaller unpaid AAA processing levies was fraction refused to go to the polls. accepted by the subcommittee. Among the latter were tlie former A third suggestion or the Presl· Crown Prince Ruprecht of Bavaria dent, tor graduated taxes on the and his wife. portlon11 of income wh1cll eorporaHitler's Tlctor,y was thus extraor- tlonil do not dlstrtbute In dl.,idends M of Q G to stoel,lwhlen~. wHs ct1an~eu to provide levies on total Income of corporations varied according to pe1·~otages of profits put into reserve~. The subcommittpe agreel1 that the eor-poratioo tax r·ates should be so ,drafted as to permit corporAtions. particularly small ones, to huild up reservf's fnr leH n vea rs withont beIng compelled to pay comparatively hlgh taxes for thP privile-ge of doing l'\f). The suhcommittee tigured on col!ecti ng some $25.000.000 from taxf's on dividends going to foreigners • .who own stock in American corpor_atioos and $83.000.000 from temporary continuation of the capital stock anc! excess profit taxes. Government in Business Decried by Committee to the committee on A CCOllDING government competition with ago Attacked the action of Secretary Perkins in holding up the deportations and rlenounced the pending hill as a ·'sham and a mockery" and H SUbterfuge to Shield all kinds of ra<lica Is, cri ruina Is. and dependents unlawfnll:.v In this country. SPC'retary Perkins refused to produce information respecting the 2,800 '·hardship" cases until Reynolds introduced a senate resolution. wbf'reupon she permitted him Lo examine the records. Electric Horne and Farm Authority Is Renewed W ITH only one change, the house passed the senate blll to contililue the Electric Home and Farm authority as a federal agency until February 1, 1937, or any earlier date decreed by the President. T'le authority was created to help tlnance sales of electrical appliances. private enterprises, whose report has been made to the President, that practice is wholly destructive Half Million Farmers May "except in situations where the pubGet Double Benefits lic \'\'elf. re can only thus he served." EXJ<'OllD G. TUGWELL, head •'Th~ govet·nrnent's function," the of the rural resettlement adreport said. "ls to protect economic activities of its citizens and not to ministration, announced that a special committee is considering a plan supplant them." The committee unanimously agreed under which mora that onl.v under the following con- than half a million ditions Is the government justified growers of farm ln entering into competition with products would receive double beneprivate enterprise: 1. When required to assure ade- fits from the feder,quate preparation for, and creation al government. It of. the faclllties for national de- provides that the rural families now fense. getting loans from 2. For the conservation of natural Tugwell's adminisresources. 3. 'When private enterprise falls tration to put them to conduct needed scientific research on their feet an<l R. G. Tugwell · and exploratory activities to ad- keep them off the vance Industrial development. or to relief rolls may also receive full tbe interest of ()nbl!c health and subsidy payments lo connection with the soil conservation program safety. 4. When private enterprise ralls now being put lnto operation. There to render a service necessary tor are now 450,000 recipients of tbe Tugwell roans and the number is the ~enerRI welfare. expected to increase to 525.000 by July 1. Fourteen Are Killed by The soil conservation subsidies Mexican Plane Crash • are to be paid to farmers wh~ transOURTEEN persons perished In fer land from commercial crop proMexico's worst aviation disaster. duction to soil conserving growths, A blg trlmotored plane carrying ten or who resort to other "economic" European tourist!'l A nfl four com- farm practices. Official~ sald that pa n:v employees crashed on the the rehabilitation clients already rid,!!e between the volcanoes Popo- are under obligation to treat their catapetl and Ixtaccihuatl and therP soil wisel.v. Before a family can obwere no survivors to explain why lt tain a rehabilitation loan it must fe-lL Among the tourists were agree to follow a farm management Prince Adolf of Schaumburg-Lippe plan drafted by the government. This plan stipulates that the borand hls wife. Princess: F.llsbeth. rower must conserve bls land's fertility and grow food and feed crops . Alien Deportation Bill for home consumption. It also inReported to Senate cludes a financial budget. ERPlTE vigorous opposition. Tugwell indicated that examinawhich will reappear on the ftoor tion may sbow that the farm manor the senate, the Sf'nate committee agement plan is so closely ln acon immlgrfltion and naturalization cord with the AAA's soil conservareported favorably tion alms that the rehabilitation the Kerr-C·Jolidge clients may already be qualified to a I I e n de porta tlon receive the AAA subsidies. blll. which Secretary Perkins bas Facts About New Three been trying to get through congress for Power Navy Pact N CONNEC'l'ION with the Signthree years. It will lug of the new naval treaty by give her and two the United States, Great Britain and other members · of an Interdepartment- France, It was disclosed in London al board discretion- that the two first named powers ary power to harbor have reaffirmed the 50-50 ratio for Secretary radical and even their fleets and again promised not Perkins criminal a I I e n s. to compete against each other in otherwise deportable, in this conn- naval building. The new three pow. try. The same bill recently was re- er pact limits the size of batt-I.eported favorably by the house com- ships to 35,000 tons, retains 10.000 tons as the max:imum for cruisers mittee. Pending action by congress on the and provides no cruisers of that measure, Secretary Perkins has been size sha11 be built for slx years. holding up the deportation of some In the expiring Washington treat.v 2,800 aliens mandatorily deportable there was an article regarding for· under ex:isting law, contending that tlficatlon of naval bases. Thls 1.-J they are "hardship cases." Some are oot renewed ln the new pact, and radicals. some have criminal rec· J'apan requested information as to ords, and others entered the conn- the future intentions of the powers. try lllegally. By "hardship cases" Consequently the United States. Secretary Perkins meana that the7 Great Britain and Japan were carweuld be separated from tamlly tles rying on diplomatic conversations or put to some other lnconvealence. on that toplc. Senator Robert R. Reynolds of The new treaty ~ive11 the st~rna North Carolina. Democrat. not lon& torte. certain Ubert7 ot aetlon in R F D I the event of unforeseen naval activity by powers not signatory to the treaty. Purchases of Stocks Opposed by Witnesses witnesses who appeared S EVERAL before a senate sub-committee declared that the Robinson-Pa tman anti-chain store bill, which bas administration backing. would promote rather than curb monopolies, Increase tbe cost and lower the standard of living, and decrease employment in whole industries Tbe hearing was on the BorahVan Nu.vs bill. a modification of the Robinson-Patman measure, but the witnesses particularly attacked the latter, which already has been re· ported fa\'orably. The house judi· ciary committee reported the Utterbach bill, still another modification of the Robinson·Patman measure, and a bitter fight over the proposen legislation is expected. · The Robinson-Patman bilJ would prohibit mannfacturers from making price discriminations in t'avor of large quantity purchasers. throu~b advertising allowances. service charges. brokerage t'ees. etc. The Borah-Nuys bill would prohibit such allowances only when they were refused to -purchasers of goods or ••Jike grade. quallty, and quantity." Third Party Is Favored by Farmer-Laborites FORMATION of a third uatfonal party was suggested fn a resolu· tion adopted by the Fanner-Labor party convention at St. Paul, Minn .. and the delegates noisily welcomed the hint that Gov. Floyd B. Olson of ~.linnesota might be Its Pre~iden tlar candidate in 1~40 ..Just now Mr. Olson is after a seat in the senate. The t"esolntion was adop-ted by a vote of 368% to 2501h although several leaders pleaded that the move be put off' for four years. Governor Olson said privately that ln ttis opinion the resolution could do no harm since it does not commit the liberals to putting 8 national ticket in the field this year. Nefther does it authorize formation of such a ticket unless a second convention convenes and ratifies any action a proposed ..exploratory conference•• ma.v take. British Admiral Killed in Irish Free State H ~NRY BOYLE SOMERVILLE. aged and retired vice admiral of the British navy, was murdereu by gunmen at his residence at Cas· tletownsend. County Cork, IrisH Free State. Thrown through the door of the house was a card bearing these words ; "This British agent sent 52 Irlsb boys into the British army in the last few months. He will send no more." The admiral had received previous threats because of his recruitlog activities. One Fight in A. F. of L. Ended by Compromise 0 of the big tights within the American Federation of Labor has been settled peacefully. It was t'or control of the building trades department. In the past, building projects ba ve been held up by strikes growing out of arguments over which of two unions should do a certain peace of work. The peace pact provides for appointment of an impartial refereeto settle such arguments. The pact also called tor :J. W. W1111ams of the carpenters to head the reorganized department. wlth M. J. McDonough or the plasterers as secretary-treasurer. IDach has been the leader of one ot the warring factions and each bas st7led himself as the lawful department president. NI!; |