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Show AnuiAn4Uu SjSRrasj-- j& vju THE rVSON CITKOMCT-F- PAYSON. UTAH . Ri News Review of Current Events the World Over Senate Passes Its Revenue Bill, Rejecting Sales Tax After Hearing President Hoover Von Pupen Becomes German Chancellor. By KDWAUI) Y. PICK Mil) crunur.n into action by Iresidont Hoover's warning that government credit was endangered and foreign raids on the dollar were imminent, the senate in a night session passed its tax hill designed to tiring In a total revenue of X h e $1.121.(KN).(Kio. Chief Executive unexpectedly appeared In person before t lie senate, for the first time in ills administration, and rend a statement of the serious He condition. urged the inclusion of a sales tax, and restated his position re gardlng relief measures and his opposition to the huge public works program fostered by Speaker (inrner. There was no chance for the sales tax, most of the Democratic senators having signed an agreement to defeat it It was rejected by the finance committee, 12 to 8. and Just before the hill was voted on by t lie senate It was defeated by that body by a vote of 53 to 27. Then, In the midst of great confusion due to relief from the strain, the senators adopted their measure. The vote was 72 to 11, navlng been Informed by Secretary of the Treasury Mills that their committee bill was still some $275, 000, (HM) shy of the amount needed to balance the budget, the senators provided for most of this by a gasoline tax of 1 cent a gallon, the restoration of Income tax rates to the 1022 level and a 3 per cent tax on sales of electricity by private power companies. It was believed the senate and house conferees would speedily adjust the differences between the senate and house hills and then the measure would go to the President. One amendment to the hill adopted by the senate Is worth especial mention. Proposed by Senator (lltmn of Illinois, It puts a 100 per rent tax on incomes earned through violations of state or federal laws, thus taking the government out of what has been called Its partnership with crime. balancing the economy hill providing savings of $2.'!9, 0(10,0(10 was reported favorably by the senate apAmong Us propriations committee. features is a flat 10 per cent cut in the salaries of all government workers except the enlisted personnel of the army, nuvy and marine corps, and those wdiose salaries nre specifically protected by the Constitution, such as There is also a saving of judges. in the amount given to veterans. The economy bill passed by the house carried reductions in expenditures of only $52,000 000. Roth measures authorize the President to reorganize the executive departments. NECESSARY t In himself SPEAKERns GARNER a witness before ttie house ways and means committee to advocate his $2,300, 000.000 federal relief bill, which was assailed by the President as a pork barrel raid on the treasury because It listed a nniltl tude of post offices to be built all over the country. Garner defended the measure and reminded the committee of Mr. Hoovers Indorsement of r $2, 000, 000, 000 advance public works recommended by the conference of governors In 1028. Ioth bis bill and the program favored by the President Increase the capitalization of the Reconstruction Finance corporation and empower It to make loans for construction. non-feder- chancellor Heinrich preening and his cabinet were to resign by President Von lltndenburg because the latter did not agree with their to save the coun-tr- y from further flnnn- 1 3 clnl collapse and to f . provide work for the unemployed. This was really a considerable triumph for Hitler's Nazis but they decided to permit a stopto gap government function until autumn, when It Is expected there will be a general Hepp Bpuenng election in which they will have a chance to make good their claim of controlling tfia reichstag. The aged president selected for temporary chancellor Lieut. Col. Franz von Papen, a man of whom the Fnited States has heard little since 1915 At that time he was military afahe of the German embassy In Washington and became Involved with Karl Roy-Enaval attache, In plots that violated neutrality. Both of them were dismissed by the American government Returning for Improper activities. to Germany. Von Papen became a general staff officer. lie is a Catholic Centrist, as is Bruening, and is editor end principal owner of the Catholic organ Germania. largely Von Tapen's government, cabinet by rightist. Lb called a feudal" forced pro-gra- t . I the Berlin ed by rmhlldy. pres because memlii-i- (,r tiIL. It N dominatold German 'i he new chancellor Is tx to he a stern ruler for tie has often demanded a "national dictator- peted freed ship lie of parliamentary Is known to Franco German union ng.i'nst f tr.m-mings.- famr a Rue la. l IIL'FF, head of the Farmers' Grain corporation, recently filial charges against the Chicago Board of Trade because It denied mem bershlp to the corpomtiom In a com inunicatlon to the Department of Agrl culture Huff alleged the hoard was violating the grain futures law. Secretary Iljde took uf the matter and announced that the grain futures com mission would Investigate the complaint, the hearings to begin in Washington on June 8. The commission Is composed of Secretary Hyde. Attorney General William D. Vli'chel! and Secretary of Commerce Robert p. Lament. V E- - WRITING of tin1 Republican na' tionul platform was inti listed by President Hoover to James I! Garfield of Ohio, son of Piesldcnt Garfield and of the In- secretary terior under President Roosevelt. He is to be chairman of the resolutions committee nod has been busily gathering together the various planks proposed by party lead ers and building the structure on which Mr. Hoover nnd the party vv ill stand. Some days ago he took a rough draft of the platform to the White House and it was edited by the President who deleted some portions and made several additions. So far nothing Is known to the pub lie of the maimer In which the con troversiul questions will lie handled. Mr. Garfield Is not known to have made any statements concerning an hibitlun, but he has already conferiei with Senator Borah, an Inveterate dry who hud drawn up a dank dealing with that subject. The senator had a talk with Airs. Henry W. Peabody, chairman of the woman's national committee for law enforcement, who afterward said the senator agreed with me that the voice of the people Is In congress and that other matters do not concern us deeply. Representative Bertrand H Snell of New York, minority leader In the house, told newspaper men he is certain the prohibition plank in the Republican platform will be liberal. Snell said be was expressing bis own opinion but that If anybody tells you the dank won't be liberal, dont believe them. For two days Immediately preceding the opening of the Republican convention the Crusaders, an organization favoring prohibition repeal, and the Republican citizens committee against national prohibition will stage On a big demonstration In Chicago. Sunday there will he great parades of airplanes nnd water craft and a mass meeting under the auspices of the American Federation of Labor; nnd on Monday there will he a ground parade and ntiother big public meet , NICHOLAS once JORGA, of King Carol of Rumania, bus resigned as in inner and may ha succeeded by Nicholas Tltulescu, now Lb h means minister to Imilon. that the semi dictatorship of the coun- try has been found a failure. PROF. police force bad the army of 1,500 war veterans reached the capital city to present their demand for immediate payment of the solders bonus. The men hud been conveyed most of the way from in the Far We-- t trn ks sup'iiied hy state authorities ( igi-a hitch-hikin- to get r d of them, und Senator t'nslgm of Colorado in'ro-duea bill calling for Immediate n HOOVER having a desire to he placed In nomination by a man from California, the grateful job has been given to Joseph Scott of Los Mr. Scott, Angeles. who was horn In England, is one of the states most eminent lawyers and also Is widely known In Roman Catholic circles. He was awarded the Lnetare medal by the University of Notre Dame in 1918 and was erented a Knight of St. Gregory by the tope in 1920 for work during the World war. It Is not likely the Republican convention will last more than live days, and nominations probably will be made on Friday night. The platform will be submitted on Thursday and there may he a day of open debate on prohibition nnd some other controversial questions. Democratic la. .lingers uKo arc now hopeful that their convention will be short, for they naturally wish It to have an appearance of harmony that would be ruined by a deadlock. Franklin D. Roosevelt probably will start In with more than a majority both of delegates and of states. At this writing he has 419 pledged votes from 27 states and territories. His camp olaltns he will have on the first hal tot CtkS delegates to 48ti for n others. And he believes a few ballots will bring over enough votes to give him the 770 required for nomination tin der the rule, (if mm so there will be a recurrence of the at tempts to abrogate that ancient rule two-third- s n Senator J Hamilton Lewis of In a Memorial day address at the Washington Soldiers home, declared that hy adopting a course based on threat and coercion these veterans were causing their fellow country nit n In this time of national d stress to vvi'ihr whether their served for patriotism or merely for pay. 'I warn you as your follow soldier and friend," Senator I.ewis continued, "that you risk the defeat of the relief measures you now have a right to hope for, hy placing yourselves where the charge cun he made that you have come here to terrorize the public servants and force their surrender through weakness or cowardice." Illi-no'- s JAPANS thenew coalition government premiership of Admiral Viscount Makoto Salto is naturally finding its chief problems in China, and especially Manchuria. They planned early recognition of the new Manchurian state of Manchoukuo, but surprisingly tills Is earnestly opposed by Count U c h d a, of the president South Manchuriun railroad and perhaps the most Influential Japanese on the mainland. He says recognition should he delayed until the new state proves Its ability to stand alone, nnd that Manchoukuo with Its tremendous natural resources will continue to exist even if no nation is prepared to recognize 't ns an autonomous state. Uchida, ho may yet become foreign minister n Salto's government, feels that Julian should continue to pour money Into Manchoukuo nnd that other nations should he given equal opportunity of commercial nnd financial penetration. Japanese military forces continued their drive against the rebels In Manchoukuo, forcing them toward the Siberian border. Hailun was bombarded from the air and set on fire. Isvestia, organ of the Soviet Russian government, charges certain Japanese elements with seeking an Invasion of eastern Siberia to facilitate Japan's preparations for war against the United States by making available for the Japanese military machine the rich natural resources of Asiatic Russia. In a sharp warning to Japan not to try to lay her hands on Siberia the vigorous editorlnl pronouncement called attention to recent demands in certain sections of the Japanese press for war against Soviet Russia. It Is true that Fascist newspapers of Japan have been demanding that Siberia be conquered now to preserve the future of Manchoukuo. 1 NEELY, Democratic senator West seldom Virginia, speaks In that august body, but the other day, after listening to his eol leagues, he raised his voice and for fifteen minutes told them In MM. scathing language what he thought of them and their ver bosity which, he said, was losing the government more than He $83,000 an hour. Bible ami the quoted lambasted the Con gressioual Record, and In conclusion he read into the record a inline poem on the value of terse speech. If, ns he maintains, senatorial speech costs nearly $200 per heart beat, the rhyme he recited must have set Unde hundred Sam back about twenty-fivbucks. And the whole speech, based on his estimate of $S3.tKX) per hour, cost $20, 0(H). However, the lay citizen will with Mr. Neely's Indignation, no hope that the senawith though tors cun be persuaded to talk less and e do more. members of the marine in the Middle Wed living corps a colorful regathered In Chicago for union commemorating the valiant deeds of the corps In the Battle of Bolleau Wood. In the way of entertainment the ex leatherneiks were taken on a tour of the Century of Progress exposition grounds nnd wore given theater and baseball parties, big and In the evening there was C. I, banquet with MaJ E. S M C. ns ORMER roi-;mis'- c- (J- n": Wejs'ern ; - ETNAS ISLAMn - iifi.iS fkm bep.eu Y LND 47 AITI Hi!! I.KU CITY, FT. The ussecs-mou- t providii g rcl.cf from work for hold, rs ot uripatent-e- d f Uoiiiig ( laim.s luring the pree-the been by has pt Emu 'ni.uit of a measure of lias been urged as u means bin this salt b.ll j,-.i- pa-s- i,'i, f for the mining Industry. It will prove of most benefit to the holder s of Miil'.ll (laluiS. i;l l.RTt i.N, WAD This city Is n In the unique js.sition nmopg Amer-i(.in a (dies of turning down $70,-On- of $75 non to feed and house them. - f KLFISE BO'sTOL FIFE MILK FROM ( Fits ASS N. MOTHS CM sE I OSS i WASHINGTON'S MT. Mews Briefly Told for Busy Readers The resignation of the government was the result of financial difficulties. Is broke and the treasury Rumftpt is empty. Ing. HERBERT Intermountain I'll ' federal appropriation for a promised poM office. When the Riverton I.ioi s club, representing mod of the busitess men in town, learned the appropriation was being considered by congress, a meetirg was called and a resolution adopted that congress stive the morn y. FILIMORE, IT. Idle Rohlon, c.lian Boys Pressing the Essence From Lemon four, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Robison, was instantly killed wdien tLe horse he was riding became entangl'd in wire and fell, witn the lad beneath him, CEDAR (TTY, FT. Cedar City la to have an office of the department of labor established here. It will he one of the few employment lava- - j market SALT I.AKE CITY, UT.-T- wo brothers from Mackay, Idaho, were licensed to marry two sisters living at Moore, Idaho, by the city marriage clerk. SALT LAKE CITY. FT. The Utah State Bankers' association Is to meet here June 17, 1932. I.EIII, IT. Th local farm bureau and the elty council members are cooperating on a plan to provide work for the unemployed and to assist the farmers in hiring help, tin wages to be raid In farm prodvc. by cone-shape- d tricts. OGDEN, UT. The regional forest dlrcetor has returned from fire training camps held at Cascade, Starket, and Salmon, Idaho. Forty men attended each of the camps and were given demonstrations and Instructions In the organization of fire camps and fire crews Fewer men will have to carry on the work during the coming season, due to the prospective appropriations from congress being reduced over former appropriations. 'red explosions within the mountain have preceded devastating lava flows In the past. threat recalls the The present eruption of the huge volcano In 1923 w hen a lava stream, flowing like a 2.5(H)-foribbon from one of Its craters, flooded the eastern slope, one of the islands most fertile regions. Orchards, vineyards and forests were destroyed; also the villages and towns that thrived on their products. More than a quarter million people live on the slopes of Mount Etna. The eastern slope Is the most thickly populated with one town almost adjoining another. Almost every foot of ground not used for dwellings Is cultivated, yielding abundant crops. Etna has terrorized this district many times before. Whether the traveler goes by train or automobile down the east coast of Sicily, he passes flow after flow of lava. Some of them are centuries old; others more recently deposited from some of the two hundred craters that pepper the side of the mountain. The town of Acireale perches on a 300 foot cliff formed of seven distinct layers of service bureaus of the date and directions and Instructions for carrying on the work will lie received through the federal director of employment for Utah. BURLEY', IDA. Work has begun on a new drain ditch in the section south of Dodo. This work has been authorized to relieve encroachment of ground water which Is threatening In that district. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. A revival In Interest in acquiring acreage In the public domain under the homestead laws is Indicated by the reports of the registrar of the local land office. A total of 47 applications for 25,470 acres of laud were allowed hy the office on land in Utah during the lust month and over 200 requests for Information were received from all parts of the United States. UT. The nssessor RANDOLPH, of Rich county reports to the state tax commission a total valuation of the iroierty under his jurisdiction this year at a figure that shows a decrease of twelve per cent from last year's figures. SALT LAKE (TTY, IT. The senior marketing specialist for the bureau of agricultural economics, United States department of agriculture, has announced the Installation of a testing laboratory In the office of the state chemist. The laboratory will be operated by the bureau for testing, according to accepted government standards, of the products of canning factories of Utah, Idaho and surrounding disSALT LAKE CITY, UT. The owners of household furniture In Salt Lake county will pay taxes this year on $7,713,300 valuation of such property, according to the report of the county assessor to the state tax commission. This Is an average of approximately $40 for every man, woman and child In the county. BOISE, IDA. It is announced by the director of the state bureau of animal Industry that officials In Washington, D. C., have reported that Idaho dairy herds are free from hmlne tuberculosis. Idaho is the seventh state In the union to lie declared free from bovine tnlicrcu-losi- s and Is the fir-- t state west of the Mississippi river to he accredited as free of the disease. SALT LAKE (TTY, UT. The of the Salt Lake Milk Producers association has been effected here in the Utah State Farm bureau offices. The purpose of the organization is announced ns being to form a cooperative association to improve the quality of the milk produced for the Salt Lake market. Twenty-on- e producers were present at the meeting, representing six hundred producers from Salt Lake, Utah, Davis and Summit counties. These men supply eighty ier cent of the milk used on the Salt Lake National Gtoeraphlc Society, U C.HWNU Service. back to work as the goes ML of Etna, famous SICILY of the Mediterranean island, resumes its peaceful, eternal steaming. Recent rumblings and (Tim l ' Within the Christian era, Mount Etna has boiled over its crater rims more than a hundred times. It has wiped out cities, towns nnd villages and spelled doom to thousands of homes. Almost daily Mount Etna rumbles, and Its summit constantly emits steam, but It takes more than these suggestions of action even to arouse the Sicilian's curiosity. The homes of their ancestors are sand-Idled between two of the lava flows, Rnd many of the present generation, like those of Masenli and Nunziata, chief sufferers of the last decade, have watched their homes sink beneath a new molten bed. Catania, Birthplace of Bellini. Catania, lying at the foot of the mountain, has been destroyed and rebuilt many times. Oatanians know Mount Etna so well that the famous volcano has to spit fire and boil over Its rim before they seek shelter. To the Catanian who loves his modern city, Etna has been a benefactor. To the traveler In search of antiquities It has been a despoiler, for ancient Catania of Greek, Roman, Saracen and Norman days is buried, save for a Greek theater, a Roman amplilthea- ter, some bath3 and a few unimportant monuments. Catania Is more Interested in Its wide thoroughfares, public squares and parks, and In honoring her Illustrious sons than In digging up ancient relies of a restless past. Rellinl the composer was horn there In 1S02, and (atamans are not allowed to forget It. A statue of the composer adorns villa Bellini, one of the citys finest parks where on summer evenings one can sit and listen to Italian melodies played by a fine Sicilian band. The vine-claslopes and the white head of Mount Etna form a magnificent background. Another statue of the composer adorns the Piazza Stesicoro through which runs the Via Etnae, Catanias main street from the southern part of the city to the foot of the great moun-tain. A third statue stands among those of kings and grent Italian and Sicilian patriots in the cathedral. There Is also a Bellini theater, once the finest In Italy, and the Catania guides point with pride to the tablet which marks the house tn which the composer was horn. The cathedral, and a lava elephant atop a tall marble base at Its front door, are two of the most popular monu-- ! merits of early Catania. The elephants origin Is unknown but the cathedral Is credited to the prosperous reign of the Norman King Roger. Built In 1901, it was badly damaged by successive earthquakes and eruptions of Mount Etna, hut each time It has been restored and used. Agatha, the Patron Saint. More honored than even the kings monuments tn the cathedral Is that of St. Agatha, Catanias patron saint. The head of her statue is said to contain the head of the saint who in defense of her virtue wns tortured by a Roman praetor In the Third century. Among her relics Is a veil which is said to have miraculously diverted a lava stream that menaced Catania in l(it '.9. Once a year, In February, Cutanla turns out en masse to honor her. The statue, mounted on two long poles, is Rinds. borne through the streets t to church by w Lite route of the procession l8 suffocation, old balconies the weight of humanity and has Its quota of spectators every m there are torchlight procession, WZ brilliantly light up the city. nearly every window a candle or tw. throws feeble beams. The vein ? whistling and confusion continue augmented by the boouK of colorful fireworks, the toll of charrt bells and the occasional roar of , -- 7 jZJ Z non. The St. Agatha celebration 1, oci. once a year. Before and after, d tania Is busy with its commerce and Industry. The hurbor 1, filled with commercial craft whose Sags add colorful touch to the view from the Flora della Marina, a narrow but beat tiful parkway near the water', edjt Catania Is not only the second larj. est city in Sicily but one of the lands chief gates of export through which some 000,000 ton, of merchan-dlspass annually. Sulphur, fruit end wine have made fortune, for and these and other Industrie, keep many of the city's 271,0)0 I Cataa-lan- employed. Attractive to Traveler,. Interest In Mount Etna's moods it not entirely confined to the volcano', Immediate neighborhood. All Sicily feels the blow, of lav, flows as much as all America feel, the lash of a hurricane sweeping Flondi death-dealin- Normally, however, Sicily an I- 1, sland garden spot which nature hss endowed with a warm sunny dim, a and all the charm that might p with It. Its wild mountain scenery, ancient history, and picturesque lnhabitanj make It a mecca of European winter tourists. Travel in the Interior wu formerly considered unsafe because ot brlganduge. Such conditions, howe'er, have long since been eliminated. Not tbe visitor Is safe, and In addition t native inns, comfortable pension, an conducted by French, German end resEnglish landlords of many years' idence in the country. Provincial towns of Sicily are fa mous for their situation, high up w picturesque hillsides or on rocky promontories jutting into the blue waters of the Mediterranean. Many of then towns are built on Greek foundation and contain ruins of Roman, Saracen, and Norman origin. A few Greek telmples and theaters are practically ota ct. Natives Are a Cheerful Lot Racial types among the peasantry and swarthy vary from classic Greek haughty and Norman blond to Arab mixed aSpanish. In spite of hi, today the Sicilian of In matter, is distinctly a Latin product of disposition, culture and to unite In testifying percepto-of cheerfulness, quickness and hospitality. Stable ncestry, however, l gn deU be and education are said to much to stamp out superstition secret vengeance and terrorism. movement for better conditions s by wholesale emplified gangs now taking outlaw against rest nt the old Roman bathing . P Termini Imerese. 0 In Roman times the IslanJ granary was called the ( in while no longer specialising it is one of Europe's oi. fruits. production of citrus 68 8 u fornia rivals Sicily era o( lemons. A part of the ( marketed in the form extract lime and lemon t H For thousands of yearsbeen has at the toe of Italy races. tht lng pot of many j by habitants, the Sikels, Sy island its name, Greeks, whose preat citI: - or five risin racuse dominated the we hundred years. Next pmndsf power of Rome, during over to the Sicily was given of successive govern so cruel 8 rPw pression grew tvdce S plantation slaves ce ieJ B,w ,ol . . lutlon. Succeeding acen conquests, Nrnj ' ,. freed M of Bourbon misrule. became a pa" Garibaldi, Sicily kingdom of Italy- - udn' During the last JaK trial conditions to t have not always been Zndof the the Sicilians. , the been called the Ire Many thousand to melting pot stm g some districts being b:U men of working agepresent populationto tLe 15,000 emigrants c rels-jo- S'- - I Yl - f |