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Show PLEASANT GROVE REVIEW - -I. il SrPtiA and Persons in the CurrenfNLi eral William D. Mitchell ana seer , . U.m WJ Wf II p. - Intermountam News . .,, : -rJ HI J i News Review of Current Events the World Over Senate Passes Its Revenue Bill, Rejecting Sales Tax After. Hearing President Hoover Von Papen Becomes German Chancellor. By EDWARD W. PICKARD President Hoover SPURRED Into action by President Presi-dent Hoover's warning that government gov-ernment credit was endangered and foreign raids on the dollar were Imminent, Im-minent, the senate In a night session passed Its tax bill designed to bring In a total revenue of $1,121, 000,OOO.The Chief Executive unexpectedly un-expectedly appeared Jn- person before the senate, for the first time In his "administration, "ad-ministration, and read a statement of the serious condition., condi-tion., lie urged the Inclusion of a .sales tax and restated his position regarding re-garding relief measures and' his 6p-- 6p-- position to the huge -public works program festered by Speaker Garner. Gar-ner. There was no chance for the sales tax, most of the Democratic senators sena-tors having signed an agreement to defeat It. It was rejected by the finance committee, 12 to 8, and Just before the bill was voted on by the senate It was defeated by that body by a vote of 5,'J to 27. Then, tn the midst, of' great confusion due to relief re-lief from the strain, the Senators adopted their, measure. The vote was 72 to ll. Having been informed by Secretary of the Treasury Mills that" their committee bill was still some $275,000,000 shy of theamonnt-needed theamonnt-needed to balance the budget, the senators provided for most of this by a gasoline tax of 1 cent a gallonr "trie" restoration of Income tax rates .to the 1922 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 ad-Just ad-Just the differences between the senate sen-ate and house bills and then the measure would go to the President. Presi-dent. One amendment to the bill adopt ed by the senate Is worth especial mention. Proposed by Senator Glenn of Illinois, It puts a 100 per cent tax on Incomes earned through -violations of state or federal laws, tbue4aklngthr govef nmenf out of what has been called Its partner: ship with crime. ?7 5i "VTECESSARY In balancing the ' budget, the national economy bill providing savings of $239,000.-000 $239,000.-000 was reported favorably by the senate appropriations committee. Among Its features Is a flat 10 per cent cut In the salaries i of all government gov-ernment workers except the enlisted enlist-ed personnel of the army, navy and marine corps, and those whose sal-tries sal-tries are specifically protected,, by the Constitution, such as Judges. There Is also a saving of $48,000,-000 $48,000,-000 In the amount given to veterans. vet-erans. The economy bill passed by the house carried reductions In expenditures ex-penditures of only $52,000,000. Both measures authorise the President Presi-dent to reorganize the executive departments. de-partments. - - ;- : SPEAKER GARNER himself appeared ap-peared as a witness before the house ways and means committee to advocate his $2,300,000,000 federal fed-eral relief bill, which was assailed by the President as a pork barrel raid on the treasury because It listed list-ed a multitude of post offices to be built all lover the country- Garner defended the measure and reminded "tM committee of Mr. Hoover'gln dorsenrent of a $2,OOT,0007)60advanc pobHe works program recommended by the conference of governors In 1928. Both bis bill and the program favored by the President Increase the capitalization of the Reconstruction Reconstruc-tion Finance corporation and empower em-power it to make loans for nonfederal non-federal construction. Ity. Both of them were dismissed by the American government for "improper activities." Returning to Germany, Von Papen 'became a general gen-eral staff officer. He Is a Catholic Centrist, as Is Bruening, and Is editor ed-itor and principal owner of the Catholic organ Gerroanla. Von Papen's government, largely rightists. Is called a "feudal" cabinet by rfthe1 Berlin press because It Is dominated by members of the old German nobility. The new chancellor chan-cellor Is expected to be a stern ruler, for he has often demanded a "national dictatorship freed of parliamentary par-liamentary trimmings." He Is known to favor a Franco-German union against Russia. WRITING of the Republican national na-tional platform was Intrusted by President Hoover to James R. Garfield of Ohio, son of President Garfield and secre tary of the Interior under President Roosevelt. He Is to be chairman of the resolutions committee commit-tee and has been busily gathering together to-gether the various planks proposed 'by party leaders and building the structure struc-ture on which Mr. Hoover and the party will 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 public of the . manner in which the controversial . questions will be handled. Mr. Garfield Is not known to have made any statements concerning con-cerning prohibition, but he has already al-ready conferred "with "Senator Borah, an Inveterate dry, who has drawn up a plank dealing with that sub Ject. The senator had a talk with Mrs. 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-!!-In congress and that other matters do not concern ua deeply." Representative Bertrand O. Snell of New York, minority leader In the house, told newspaper men he Is certain cer-tain the prohibition plank In the Republican platform will be "liberal." "lib-eral." Snell said he was expressing express-ing his own opinion but that "If anybody tells you the pinhk won't be liberal, don't believe them." y M ; J. R. Garfield PROF. NICHOLAS JORGA, once tutor of King Carol of Rumania, has resigned as premier and may be succeeded by Nicholas Tltules-cu, Tltules-cu, now minister to London. Which means that the seml-dlctatorship of the country has been found a failure. The resignation of the government govern-ment was the result of financial difficulties. Rumania Is broke and the treasury Is empty. WASHINGTON'S police force had a problem when the hitchhiking hitch-hiking army of 1,500 war veterans reached the capital city to present their demand for Immediate payment of the soldiers bonus. The men had been conveyed most of the way from the Far West In trucks supplied by state authorities authori-ties eager to get rid of them, and Senator Costigan of Colorado Intro- Senator Lewlt duced a bill calling for Immediate appropriation ap-propriation of $75,000 to feed and house them. Senator j. Hamilton Lewis of Illth6Is,"ln "a Memorial day address at the Washington Soldiers' home, declared that by adopting a course based on, threat and coercion these veterans were causing their fellow countrymen In this time of national distress to wonder whether their soldiers served for patriotism or merely for pay. t "I warn you as your fellow sol-dierand sol-dierand friendSenator Lewis con tinned, "that you risk the defeat of the relief measures you now have- a right to hope for, by placing yourselves your-selves where the charge can be made that you have come here to terrorize the public servants and force 1 their surrender through weakness or cowardice." II'" irt Joseph Scott HEINRICH BRUENING, chancellor chan-cellor of Germany, and his cab - inet were forced to resign by Presl- dent von Hlndenburg because the latter did not agree with his program to save me country froru further financial finan-cial collapse and to the unemployed. gTj. I-,fl ' Thla warn real) a IVl . j considerable t r I-mph I-mph for Hitler'! Nazis, but they decided de-cided to permit a top-gap government govern-ment to function . vatil autumn, when j 1 Mt . 1 Herr Bruening It Is expected there will be a general gen-eral election In which they will have a chance to make good their claim ef controlling the relchstag. The aged president selected for temporary chancellor Lieut. Col. fram von Papen, a man of whom the United States has heard little Inee 1915. At that time he was military attache of the German em-bass? em-bass? In ..Washington and became In-. toItH with Karl Boy-Ed, naval attack, at-tack, la plots that violated nevtral- LIERBERT HOOVER having ex- pressed a desire to be placed In nomination by a man from California, Cali-fornia, the grateful Job has been given to Joseph Scott, of Los Angeles. An-geles. Mr. Scott, who was born In England, Is one of the state's most eminent lawyers and also Is widely wide-ly known In Roman Catholic circles. He was. awarded the Laetare medal by the. University of Notre Dame in 1918 and was created a Knight of St. Gregory by the pope In 1920 for work during the World war, : : . JJinotJlkely the Repuhllcan Convention will last more than five days, and nominations probably will be made on Friday night The platform plat-form will be submitted on' Thursday Thurs-day and there may be a day of open debate on prohibition and some other controversial questions. Democratic managers also are 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 claims he will have on the first ballot 60S delegates to 486 for all others. And he believes a few ballots will bring over enough votes to give him the 770 required for nomination under the two-thirds rule. Of course there will be recurrence of the attempts to abrogate ab-rogate that ancient rule. CE. HUFF, head of the Fanners' National Grain corporation, recently filed charges against the Chicago Board of Trade because It denied membership to the corporation. corpora-tion. In a communication to the Department of Agriculture Huff alleged al-leged the board was violating the grain futures law. Secretary Hyde toek op thenatter and announced that the grain futures commission .would investigate the complaint, the hearings to begin in Washington 6o June 8. The commission la composed of Secretary Hyde, Attorney Gen- JAPAN'S new coalition government govern-ment under the premiership of Admiral Viscount Makoto Saito Is naturally finding Its chief problems In China, and es pecially Manchuria. They planned early recognition of the new Mancburian state of Manchou-kuo, Manchou-kuo, but surprisingly surprising-ly this Is earnestly opposed by Count Uchlda, president of the South Man-churian Man-churian " railroad and perhaps the most Influential premer gait,, Japanese on the mainland. IJe -says recognition should be delayed until the new state proves its ability to stand alone, and that Manchoukuo with Its tremendous, natural resources will continue to exist even if no nation na-tion Js prepared to recognize It as anutonomous state. Uchldar wha may yet become foreign. minister tn Saito's government, feels that Japan Ja-pan should continue to pour money Into Manchoukuo and that other nations na-tions should be given equal oppor-tunlty oppor-tunlty of commercial and financial penetration. Japanese military forces continued con-tinued their drive against the rebels In Manchoukuo, forcing them toward to-ward the Siberian border, llailun was sbombardgd from the air and set on Are. ' Isvestia, organ of the Soviet Russian Rus-sian government, charges certain Japanese. elements with seeking -an Invasion of eastern Siberia to "facilitate "fa-cilitate Japan's preparations for war against the United States by making available for the Japanese military machine the rich iatural resources of Asiatic Russia." In a sharp warning to Japan not tflf try to lay her hands en Siberia, the vigorous editorial pronounce-menL pronounce-menL callfiiLattentloB toreeent tie--mands 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 pre-serve the future of Manchoukuo. -ST? MM. NEELT, Democratic Bena- tor from West Virginia, seldom sel-dom speaks In that august body, but -the other day, after listening to his colleagues, heralsed his voice and for fifteen minutes told them In scathing language what he thought of- them and their verbosity which, he said, was losing .the government govern-ment more than $83,000 an hour.-He hour.-He quoted the Bible and lambasted the Congressional Record, Rec-ord, and In conclu sion he read Into the record a 34-II 34-II ne poem on the value of terse speech. If, as he maintains, senatorial sena-torial speech costs nearly $200 per heart beat, the rhyme be recited lust have set Uncle Sam back about twenty-five hundred bucks. And the whole speech, based on his estimate of $S3.000 per hour, cost $20,000. - However, the lay citizen will sympathize 'with Mr. Neely's Indignation, Indig-nation, though with no hope that the senators can be persuaded to talk less and do more. (C 131 Wtntorfl SmvxMt Calaa.) M. M. Neely -Briefly Told for Busy Readers REFUSE F0ST0FFICE MILK PRODUCERS ASS'N. MOTHS CAUSE LOSS FARM BUREAU HELPS 47 APPLY FOR LAND SALT LAKE CITY, UT.-Tbe bill providing relief from assessment assess-ment work for holders of unpatented unpatent-ed mining claims during the present pres-ent year has been passed by the senate. Enactment of a measure of this kind has been urged as a means of relief for the mining industry. It will prove of most benefit to the holders of small claims. . RIVERTON, WYO.This city Js in the unique position among American Amer-ican cities of turning- down a $70,-000 $70,-000 federal appropriation for a proposed pro-posed postofflce. When the Riverton Lions club, representing most of the business men In town, learned the appropriation was being considered by congress, ' a meeting was called and a resolution adopted that congress con-gress save the money. FILLMORE, UT. Lile Roblson, four, son of Mr; and Mrs. A. RobI on, was instantly killed when the horse he was riding became entangled entang-led in wire and fell, wltn the lad beneath him. CEDAR CITY, UT. Cedar -City Is to Jiave an office of the department depart-ment of labor established here. It will be one of the few employment service bureaus of the state and directions and instructions for carrying on the work will be received receiv-ed through the federal director" of employment for Utah. BURLEY, IDA. Work has begun be-gun on a new drain ditch in the section sec-tion south of Declo. This work has been authorized to relieve encroachment encroach-ment of ground water which is threatening In that district SALT LAKE CITY, UT. A re-rival re-rival in Interest In acquiring acreage acre-age 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 applica-tions for 25,470 acres of land were allowed 'by the office on land In Utah during the last month and over ov-er 200 requests for Information were received from all parts of the United Unit-ed States. RANDOLPH, UT. The assessor of Rich county reports to the state tax commission a total valuation of the property under his Jurisdiction this year at a figure that shows a decrease of twelve per cent from last year's figures. l--Mary K. Douglass of "Wisconsin presenting the flag to Midshipman Kirn for his tvJ adjudged the best at Annapolis Naval acadetey. 2 View of Memorial day parade in iJJetn' typical of the parades held In nearly every city in the United States. 3 American Davig cup defeating the Australians at the Philadelphia Country club. . - i . i ' 1 , How They Teach Geography in Oregon ' " X r. a l -kje t 't - jiff - ? i SW-llrfNinmTlffrffftlwia r I,, jf-Att ' y ffr'T' i "BALT LAKE CITY, UT. The senior marketing specialist for the bureau of agricultural economics, United States department of agriculture, agri-culture, has announced the installation installa-tion of a testing laboratory In the office of the state chemist The laboratory lab-oratory will be operated by the bureau bu-reau for testing, according to accepted ac-cepted government-standards, rof the products of canning factories of Utah, Idaho and surrounding districts. dis-tricts. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The owners pf household furniture In Salt Lake county will pay taxes this year on $7,713,360 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,. JDA. It is announced by the director of the state bureau of animal industry that officials In Washington, D. O., have reported that Idaho dairy herds are free from bovine tuberculosis. Idaho la the seventh state in the union to be declared free from bovine tuberculosis tubercu-losis and Is the first state west of the Mississippi river to be accredited accred-ited as free of the disease.. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The organization or-ganization of the SaH Lake Milk Produeers'ssbciation has been effected ef-fected here in the Utah State Farm bureau offices. The purpose of the organization is announced as being to form a cooperative association to Improve the quality of the milk produced pro-duced for the Salt Lake market Twenty-one producers were present at the meeting, representing six hundred producers from Salt Lake, Utah, Davis and Summit counties. These men sujply eighty per cent of the milk used on the Salt Lake market OGDEN, UT. The regional forest for-est dlrcetor has returned from fire training camps held at Cascade, Starket, snd Salmon, Idaho. Forty men attended each of the camps and were given demonstrations and instructions in-structions in the organization of fire camps and fire crews. Fewer men will have to carry on the work during dur-ing the coming season, due to the prospective appropriations from congress con-gress being reduced over former appropriations. ap-propriations. SALT LAKH CITY, UT. Two brothers from Mackay, Idaho, were licenced to marry two sisters living at Moore, Idaho, by the dry marriage mar-riage clerk. . 8 ALT LA KB CITYj UT. The Utah State Bankers' association is to meet here June 17, 1932. LEHl. UT.The local farm bureau bu-reau and the city council members are cooperating on a plan to provide work for the unemployed and to assist as-sist the farmers In hiring" help, the axes to be paid in farm produce. These 51 school children of Grants Pass, Ore., are learning their geography in a highly mode as interesting manner. The picture puzzle map of the United States is 36 feet long and 19fti state is a separate block. The new method of teaching geography, it is said, not only hold tie terest, but teaches them graphically the relative sizes of the states and their locations. WINS 500-MILE RACE ' I rrViif-rtti Fred Frame, of Los Angeles, who won the 500-mlle automobile race at Indianapolis. He set a new speed record for the event, averaging 104.144 miles an-hour. CONVENTION HOST 1 ,l-v;: Edward J. Kelly, president of the Chicago south park board, has been named chairman of the committee of entertainment for delegates and visitors to Chicago during the Republican Re-publican and Democratic conventions. Machine Breaks Rocks Of English Invention is a machine ising hydraulic pressure to break masses of concrete, rocks and other iiaterials without: using dynamite. ..... U- --!) I Nation' PrUoa Populatioa Thert are .118 federal and state nstitutiens (prisons) in the Uaited States. The total population of these institutions Is about 123.000. WsH Uvtnti t' .it; iHTTECTt ii winter ibelaiDB I fiero n ob betwee kcleB, :ientiflc-b Mom ot itchens ar a large Jen spac fooin for point to Bftomb The "Burgoo King" Does His J. L. Looney of Lexington, Ky. went allthwaytoltta! known- wougnora d the "Burgoo King," mi this year's Kentuckj ner was.lriamed, offe pare a special dish off be served at the mm of the Atlanta poU and to furmshdeMte burgoo Is Infinitely any Brunswick Stew Here he Is preparitj bureoo. His recipe enough to serve 500 P pounds of potatoes, ai onions, one bushel d gallons of 'tomatoes, tomato Duree, 48 cam nam im nonnds of ex fat hens, 100 pounds oil meat ; cook for 31 to taste. .- - : .. - n i Majrbl 11 ' Self-Hying,1 Fool-Proof Airp A. 'H-r : ' ' m t. .v.- vz, . r!- , O. W. CorneUns of BurbaJuCalif, riding astral his newly -designed "free wing monoplane that nt0,l and flies Itself. Both wings of the plane work free from tM s nriltlQt thorn..,!, v ..... . J..n WliB J vj luuur up or aonin accuiuu" ,u lu"i,"ia wmie nying, thus preventing the possiov -ing into a tail-spin. 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