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Show I UTAH THE PAYSON CHRONICLE, PAYSON. News Review of Current Events the World 0 Tev Russian Conspirators Against Stalin Plead Guilty-Italand France Sparring Over Spain Roosevelt Primed for Drouth Area Tour. y SIXTEEN men, arraigned charges of plotting the of Dictator Josef assassination Stalin and the seizure of power in the Soviet republic, calmly pleaded " guilty. Two of them, Zinoviev Gregory and Leo Kamenev, were members with ; Stalin 13 years ago of a triumvirate that governed Russia and are well known to the outside world. The confessions did not end the trial, for the defendants contradicted and accused one another until the case was in a jumble. Some of them, like Zinoviev, proudly accepted responsibility for the plot, which was said to have been engineered by the exiled Leon Trotzky. It was believed all sixteen would face the firing squad. Twelve-mormen and one woman, the government announced, were held for examination and probable trial. Some of these were involved by the confessions of the sixteen conspirators. In the case or trial the defendants revealed the fact that not only were they plotting the assassination of Stalin and four others, but planned also to betray Trotzky and place Zinoviev and Kamenev in supreme power. Trotzky, at Hoenefoss, Norway, scoffed at the Moscow proceedings For political venas humbug, geance, he said, the trial puts the Dreyfus scandal and the reich-sta- g fire in the shadow. The coafes-sion- s were forced by the Ogpu (secret police), which gives the accused a choice between confession according to the Ggpus desires and taking lesser penalties or death. MUSSOLINI, Insisting in the Spanish war must mean absolute noninter- PREMIER vention, suddenly put Italys air force of 1,500 war planes in readiness for flight to the aid of the Spanish rebels if France would not abandon her support of the Madrid regime. News of this stirred the People's Front government of France to indignation. Officials in Paris said if Italy sent arms and munitions to the rebels in Spain or otherwise openly aided them, France would have to abandon her neutral position and help the socialists. For a day this situation alarmed the statesmen of Europe, but soon it was stated In both Rome and Paris that negotiations for the neutrality accord were going forward nicely with prospects for a satisfactory agreement that would include both Italy and Germany. Whether Germany would come in, howeVer, was still in doubt. Berlin was further provoked against the Madrid government by the stopping and search of the German steamer Kamerun by Spanish warships off Cadiz. German warships were ordered to protect German shipping by all means and the German charge daffairs at Madrid was Instructed to "protest Immediately and in the sharpest form against the action of the Spanish warships, which constituted a violation of all International law. French DISPATCHES from the rebel war- Spanish ships finally had begun the long threatened bombardment of San Sebastian and Irun. and that the loyalists were carrying f out the threatened of the execution 1,900 Fascist hos- were tages they holding there. The Espana Nf battleship fired a lot of heavy shells toward Fort Guadalupe but for a time at least was apparently not trying to hit that stronghold because many of their sympathizers were held prisoners in the fort The Guadalupe garrison was hesitant in returning the fire for fear that shells would fall on French territory. Already the French government was angered by the dropping of bombs on French border towns, though it was disputed whether they came from loyalist or rebel planer. The Fascists captured the important town of Badajoz, near the Portuguese border, at the point of the bayonet, and were reported to have executed 1,500 government adherents taken there. The rebels also reported a victory near Zaragoza after a bloody battle. General Franco met General Mola and President Virgilio Cabanellas at the northern rebel headquarters In Burgos and planned for further advances of their jouthern and northern columns on Madrid. 'MTALONIA, which for four years has been an autonomous region within the Spanish state, and which has been supporting the Madrid government against the Fascist rebels, sees in the present conditions the opportunity to establish its full independence. The generalitat or government council decreed confiscation of all private property; and then, to eliminate dual control and place all responsibility In one place," all magistrates, judges and others appointed by the Madrid government were relieved of their duties. The council also announced it would act henceforth in complete Independence in maintaining order. The Catalonian deciee promulgated plans for a single tax and speedy suppression of multiple taxation. The basis for the new tax plan, although undecided, was presumed to be income, not land, as the large agricultural properties are to be collectivized. nOPE PIUS XI, addressing mestic requirements of the season 1936-37- , according to the midsummer report of the bureau of agricultural economies, but the supply of red spring wheat and durum is short and consequer tly importation of those varieties will be continued. The amount, however, will not be large. Secretary Wallace stated. It Is probable the spring wheat season will use mills in the 1936-3a larger percentage of hard red winter and Pacific northwest wheat than last year, said the report. A larger than usual quantity of soft red winter wheat is also likely to be used in bread flour. As a result, imports of milling wheat may be less than in 1935. Wheat prices in the United States may be expected to average about as high relative iO world price levels as during the 1935-3- 6 season, when the price of No. 2 hard winter at Kansas City was 15 cents over Liverpool, the bureau said. During the last three years short crops together with other influences resulted in wheat prices in the United States being maintained unusually high relative to the world market price. Farm prices probably have been 20 cents to 30 cents higher than might have been expected with more nearly normal yields In the the report continUnited States, A return of average or greatued. er than average yields in the United States would result in an export surplus and prices would adjust toward an export basis. The acreage seeded for the 1936 crop, 74.000,000 rcres, was the second largest in history, and seedings as large for the 1937 crop would produce fully enough wheat for total domestic utilization even if yields should turn out to be below average. pil- - grims from Malta, took another whack at communism. Alluding evidently to the civil war in Spain, he The world Is upside down, said: and sick from a grievous malady which threatens to become graver and more dangerous still It is not necessary to say to you Maltese what this illness is, because you have a definite part in the tribulation. There Is only the hand of God to aid humanity and put an end to the horrible massacres which are going on and all the offenses against human fraternity, against religion, priests and God. for President through the drouth region of the Middle West were practically completed and the Chief Executive was supplied with all the facts and figures needed to give him a comprehensive understanding of tiie situation before starting. This information was furnished mainly by WPA Administrator Harry Hopkins, who was selected to accompany Mr. Roosevelt on the tour. Mr. Hopkins told the President that in the drouth area 90,000 persons already are on the WPA payrolls and that the number eventually will be 120,000 to 150,000, the relief work being continued through the winter. At this time the cost per man is about $50 a month. Additional appropriations by the next congress will be necessary, Hopkins said, to care for the load placed upon his organization by the drouth crisis. The Rmount of new money necessary has not been determined. Estimates of the amount of money deemed necessary to meet the situation in the dust bowl were given the President by Secretary of the Treasury Morgcnthau and Acting Budget Director Daniel EclL one-four- th PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT was at a radio orator when he addressed the summer camp at Chautauqua, N. PREPARATIONS nor NEITHER Fascisim be tolerated In Czech- oslovakia, which is a firm, indestructible lighthouse of democracy," said President Eduard Benes in a speech at Reichen-berg- . But he told the German minority which he was addressing particularly, that he hoped 5 that in the fall the Locarno powers will be able to work out a plan for general European and that good re1 neighborly will be established between Germany and Czechoslovakia. Leaders of the German minority in Czechoslovakia charge that unemployment In their part of the country is greater than anywhere else in Czechoslovakia 73 unemployed per 1,000 population, compared with the state average of 38 per 1,000. They charge that this is partly the result of the governments failure to place orders in German Bohemian factories and failure to give state jobs to members of the German minority. SOIL conservation compliance of is to checked by a system aerial photography, if the experiments now being carried on by the AAA are satisfactory. The plan Is still only on trial but several millions of acres have already been photographed, it was learned today. So far it is proving cheaper and more efficient than the usual way of checking farmers soil conservation compliance. The air pictures also are being extensively used by the soil conservation service to map erosion and soil depletion and to determine remedies. STARTING its 1937 building Nevy department opened bids on twelve new destroyers and sue submarines. The bids came from private shipyards and estimates were submitted by navy yards, according to law. It was found that the cost of construction has advanced approximately $1,000,000 per vessel in the last year. THE SAGA OF SAM of 7 W. PICKARD By EDWARD C Vstn Newspaper Union. in Is enough wheat m the THERE States for the usual do- rresident V., on foreign rela- tions. He expressed his deep concern about tendencies in other parts of the world and spoke bitterly about the violation of both the letter and the spirit of inter national "withagreements out regard to the simple principles of honor. Our closest Roosevelt neighbors are good neighbors. the President said. If there are remoter nations that wish us not good but ill they know that we are strong; they know that we can and will defend ourself and defend our neighborhood. Mr. Roosevelt said he had seen war on land and sea. 1 have seen blood running from the wounded, he said. I have seen men coughing out their gassed lungs. I have seen the dead in the mud. 1 have seen cities destroyed. I have seen 200 limping, exhausted men come out of line the survivors of a regiment of 1,000 who went forward forty-eigh- t hours before. I have seen children starving. I have seen the agonies of mothers and wives. I hate war! Germans felt tuat Mr. Roosevelt's speech was aimed at them and resented his criticism. A Mexico City newspaper saw m it evidence that the Monroe doctrine was to be revived. The press of Buenos Aires warmly applauded the address, one journal saying: Without the intention of making a parallel between discourses recently heard from Rome or from Berlin and which proclaimed violence and expansion as the two sole aims of the modern states, we recommend reading this dignified and sincere Roosevelt speech, ennobled by the spontaneity of human content and with which Roosevelt raised his figure above the stature of all dictators. By ELMO SCOTT WATSON N July 21, 1851 a boy m 1 was born in a farm I Jlj home in Lawrence JiMS county, Indiana. His f- f and ather mother, Daniel Bass and Elizabeth Sheeks Bass, gave him the name of Sam. On July 21, 1878 Sam Bass died in the little town of Round Rock, Texas, from wounds received in a gun fight with Texas Rangers. The date, you will notice, was his birthday and he was exactly twenty-seve- n years old. Yet in that short span of time he had achieved an enduring fame denied many a man who had lived twice or eVen three times as long and who, moreover, had lived a much more useful life. During his lifetime he was regarded as a sort of American Robin Hood, or, more specifically, a Texas counterpart of that famous English outlaw. After his death he became a figuie and the story of his career has been told and retold innumerable times, often embroidered with fanciful details that have little foundation in fact. The latest honor that has come to him is to be made the h biograsubject of a phy. It is the book Sam Bass, written by Wayne Gard, a Texas newspaper man and published by the Houghton Mifflin company. (The publication date, appropriately enough, was July 21 of thi3 year.) To winnow fact from legend in the story of Sam Bass has not been easy, especially since most of the people who knew him have died and since courthouse fires have destroyed many recy full-lengt- ords that might have thrown light on his exploits says the author in the foreword to his book. Unlike some desperadoes who lived to old age and wrote autobiographies, Bass died illiterate as well as young. Despite the efforts resulting in this book, there are still gaps in his story. To fill these gaps with fictionized details is a strong temptation, but in this instance the temptation has been resisted. The result is a story of the making of a second-rat- e bad man whose subsequent fame is all the more difficult to understand because he was second-rate- . his native home Sam Bass was born in Indiana, it was Sam began to roam. seventeen of young And at the age to be for a cowboy Sam first came out to Texas fellow you seldom ever see. A kinder-hearte- d one called the Denton mare. He made a deal in race-stoc- k and took her to the lair, races in scrub He matched her as free; Sam used to coin the money and spent it just be. he wherever might drank whiskey, good He always of May Sam left the Collins ranch in the merry month to see. for Hills Black the With a herd of Texas cattle, Sold out at Custer City, and then got on a spree see. A jollier set of cowboys you seldom ever U. P. train, On their way back to Texas, they robbed the And then split up in couples and started out again. Joe Collins and his partner were overtaken soon; With all their stolen money, they had to meet their doom. care Sam made it back to Texas all right side up with to share. Rode into the town of Denton, with all his friends did he do; robberies three in Texas was short life Sams too. He robbed all the passengers, mail and express cars Sam had four companions, each a bold and daring lad Underwood and Jackson, Joe Collins and Old Dad. Four of the boldest cowboys the ranges ever knew m blue. They whipped the Texas Rangers and ran the boys Sam had another companion, called Arkansas for short; He was shot by a Texas Ranger by the name of Thomas Floyd. r, and he thinks hes mighty sly. Tom is a big But I can tell you his racket hes a deadbeat on the sly. k FOLLOWING the recommendation Charles E. Coughlin, the National Union for Social Justice, in convention in Cleveland, In-dorsed the candidacy of Representatives Lemke and OBrien, heads ' of the Union party ticket But also on the advice of the priest the Lemke platform was not indorsed. The 25,000 members of the N. U. S. J. present enthusiastically and unanimously elected Father Cough- lin president of the organization. Lemke and OBrien both appeared before the convention, delivered speeches and were given a rousing reception. EQUITY suit attacking the constitutionality of the commodity exchange act, chiefly on the ground that it seeks to regulate intrastate rather than interstate commerce in violation to the Constitution, was filed In the federal district court in Chicago. In his petition Mr. Moore asked that the commodity exchange act be declared unconstitutional void, and unenforceable. me p 'T . j. ps times with divining been looking for f,,r05i they believed biographer listsSamj a sco where this buried been sought and then b Where the searcher next, no one can tpii 1 t Sam Bass legend Texan can be sure not awake some moj a ton of earth remov front yard by some , who has just come sion of the one aufe, ure map. All of which makes derstandable the Bass is one of heroes of Texas. outside the fact ,1 the i borde- - Jim Murphy was arrested and then released on bail; He jumped his bond at Tyler and took the train for Terrell. But Major Jones had posted Jim and that was all a stall; Twas only a plan to capture Sam before the coming fall. Sam met his fate at Round Rock, July the twenty-firsout his purse. They pierced poor Sam with rifle balls and emptied Poor Sam he is a corpse and six foot under clay; And Jacksons in the bushes, trying to get away. Jim had used Sams money and didnt want to pay; He thought his only chance was to give poor Sam away. He sold out Sam and Barnes and left their friends to mourn Oh, what a scorching Jim will get when Gabriel blows his horn! t; And so he sold out Sam and Barnes and left their friends to mourn. Oh, what a scorching Jim wffll get when Gabriel blows his horn! Perhaps hes got to heaven, theres none of us can say; But if Im right in my surmise, hes gone the other way. share in a sorrel mare named to look the situation over, the Jenny, descendant of the famous Rangers werent ready for them. Steel Dust. Deputy Sheriff Grimes attempted quarter horse, Jenny was about the fastest ani- to arrest the trio and wras shot mal in that part of the country dead. Immediately three Rangand for a time Sam coined money ers, Connor,, Harrell and Ware, joined in the battle. Ware killed by betting on her. Then the peobecame Seaborn Barnes, one of the banaround Denton ple mare-shand Sam drifted dits, and Harrell shot and seriously wounded Bass. But the south to seek new fields of conbandit leader was picked up by quest with his swift mare. Frank Jackson, the third memIn San Antonio he became acquainted with Joel Collins, a ber of the trio, who carried him about his own age safely out of town through a hail Left an orphan at the age of of bullets from the Rangers a who had repthirteen, Sam Bass went to live guns. two men a For time the utation. with an uncle who proved to be Knowing that he was mortally prospered, thanks to the fleetness of Jenny and the gullibility of wounded, Bass persuaded Jack-so- n BATTLE JYITIl SAK BASS. to leave him and make good the Mexicans along the border who bet against her. Then that his escape, which Jackson did. The Bold Brigand, nltli Barnes and game played out and Bass and The next day the Rangers found Jackson, Tarn ni at Collins drifted north into the cat- the wounded bandit leader lying Round Rod. tle country again. They borrowed under a live oak tree some dismoney to take a trail herd north, tance from where Jackson had Depnly Sheriff (Dime Shot Bead went up to Deadwood, S. D. when left him. They carried him back 7 Them fur Attempting into Round Rock and there on their arrest. the drive was over. 21 he died. In Deadwood Sam worked at Sunday, July Major Jnra and IDs Il'ngcri While his riddled body lay in freighting again and made a lit- the iej ltnsh grave at Round Rock near to the Fray. tle money at it. But it wasnt the site of his last camp, Sam enough for his needs, so he and Bass lived on in song and legend, The Robber Hornes Killed and Collins tried their hands at gamhis writes He had Deputy Sheriff Moore Boandod biographer. bling only to learn that instead la the Ensuing Fight. of fleecing the miners they were losing a large part of their cattle l!a.iS and Jackson Make Their money to Escape Hie Rangers la profesFaraait. sionals. The next step in Sams downward path was stage rob' tSprcUl 'l eleermm lo ttw Ke.l bing but that didnt pay well Hoi S! R- ck. July 10. Major Jonu either. One stage out of d arrived hero yesterday evening. None that year carried $350,000 hero know his business. but Sam and his friends missed Rim, Jackson and Barnes, the train that one entirely. In one hold-urobbers, came in to make arthey got only $11 and on another rangement to rob the bank. Deputy occasion their loot was a dozen Sheriff Grimes, not suspecting who peaches! they were, went lo arrest them In a store for carrying arm,' where they Eventually Sam and some of his were purchasing tdbacco,1 when the lit out for three drew their pistols from their sadTexas and en ronte decided to dle bsgs and shot bm. He got out of try train robbery for a change. On September 18, 1877 the store, and fill dead in the street they held with bis pistol In his band. up a Union Pacific train at Big Maurice Moore, deputy sheriff of TraSprings, Neb. and secured $60,000 vis, who camo here with Jones, came in gold $20 pieces from the safe. at up the time and fired several shots, After dividing their loot and splitono was of f .wounding them, and shot down. ting up into small parties, they Three of, Maui Jbo,'menJj.'Lkc. continued on their way. Joel Collins and another robber How the Galveston News Reported named Heffridge were shot and the Fight at Round Rock. killed while attempting to escape a detachment of cavalryan unsympathetic and stern task- from men were aiding local ofmaster. So at the age of eighteen ficers who in pursuing the U. P. ban(not seventeen, as the song has dits. Jim Berry was wounded, it) young Bass started for Texas, a cowboy for to be. He didnt captured and died of his wounds. But Sam Bass made his way Capt. June Peak of the get there at once. Instead, he Texas spent a year working in a saw- safely back to Texas where he Rangers. mill in Mississippi but in the late established himself in true outsummer of 1870 he set out for the law fashion in a deep, wild, been a likable youth who deLone Star state accompanying a over - grown ravine. Here he prived of early schooling and of family of Texans, named Mayes, gathered recruits and the Sam parental guidance fell into evil wno were returning to their home Bass gang started on its career ways to become in turn gambler, s In the little frontier town of of train and bank (few highwayman and train robber. of which were very In Denton. folklore, he soon became a profitable). After working for a while on Aroused by their depredations cowboy hero who refused to becattle ranches and discovering the Texas Rangers under Maj. tray his pals, a Robin Hood who that the life of a cowboy wasnt John B. Jones and Capt. Junius eluded his pursuers with ease and local officials, includand shared his stolen nearly so romantic as he had Peak, Sams old boss, Sheriff Egan, out stint. Of the manygold withpictured it Sam drifted back to ing desperaDenton where he got a job as set to work to wipe out the gang! does of the frontier, he was Several of them were remembered killed as the beloved hired man for Sheriff W. F. or and one of the latter, bandit. . . Egan, who did a freighting busi- captured Jim Murphy, was released on ness on the side. Dad Egan The generosity of Sam with never worried about Sam when nominal bail on condition that the r gold he was gone on a freighting trip. he would rejoin the gang and brought back from the pieces he big train He knew that Sam was as honest betray Sam and his followers robbery in Nebraska gave him Soon afterwards as could be and would account Murphy was fame as a able to send word to Major Jones he was Robin Hood even while for every penny. living; and after his thht the Bass gang was But it wasnt long before a to rob planning death the stories of his giving the bank at Round Rock and were enlarged. spending change came over the young on a certain Hoosier. Sam caught a conta- leader made hisday. The Ranger Payments of twenty dollars for to receive a dozen eggs or a pan of warm gion for the sport of kings and them but those plans plans miscarried biscuits were cowboys; he acquired a passion somewhat. So when Bass with many directions. reported from for He bought a two companions arrived in town The most persistent of all the the ily ma ta: s ebli y saloon-keep- er ow The End of the Trail of Sul Capt. James B. Gilleti Texas Rangers Standii; the Monument Over at Round Rock. e c th; ch d by none-too-savo- ry Near-Tl- - Dead-woo- p rs him-sel- hold-up- twenty-dolla- horse-racin- g. c nit well-round- fellow-robbe- of lively fighting SEVEN minutes Louis of Detroit once more on the road to the heavyweight championship. He made his come-bacby knocking out Jack Sharkey, one time title holder, in the third round at New York.' The Lithuanian sailor from Loston was plucky enough but proved no match for the much younger negro. Louis now wants an immediate return match with Max Schmeling, but the German Insists his next fight must be with Jim Braddock, the champion. Bass legends havewl ?uHed soil . . THE BALLAD OF SAM BASS s ts. Lone Star state? For of Gards biography firms the belief that Bests bad second-rat- e by co moi z man ES few, if any, of the at which have given others kind their place in the of the Wild West. Cert W cou job n, was not as picturesque as Joaquin MurietaofCi: a 0w ede He didnt have the cold-- : ferocity of Billy the Ld Mexico. As an exponent! lative skill in the art dti or t pe boi he can't h a pared with Wild Bill Except for the Big Spnr bery (at which, incident Collins was the real le wasnt much hold-u- p ej ES pol atii lace of a sue (Black Bar man. IVhi an probably have considered piker in that respect.) ured by any standard, compare with that other!J; can Robin Hood Jesse Missouri. Perhaps that last nan a clue and perhaps, swer lies in this an And he t oi J is too, s quota-Gard- book: Cowboys in their camps told and retold of the Indiana orpl the worldl thought he hoddownhill a with tail, who played fox with s until son Rangers the traitor. The Bass campfire narratives embodiment of bravery nan erosity, while the Murphy was in until, in . I5, Judas- pulp magazine termed a Both Jesce James Bass played fox wo thorities until sold six-gu- traitor. n - That fact sized in the balladsmen written about both ballads were authenuc can folk songs. his death in 1878, cow Western Plains were8 . per-bac- k biographies nw were singing about watched their herds drove them up trails, writes Gara, Charley Siringo the Sam Bass was young Texas cowboys other bad man an the about him y ;eemed; a quieting effect on thundtf horns during a That song is stiU! on phonograph-- - radio and campfires. It collec tionS in standard is P boy songs and it w f reason principal o'S.n,.BaS,ha?g.i; WMturii NeP( - - |