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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Mayor Walker Presents His Defense Progress of the Mid-West Farmers' Strike Business Conference Opened by President Hoover. By EDWARD W. PICKARD MA YOU JAMES J. WALKER, opened bis defense before Governor Gov-ernor Roosevelt, and numerous witnesses wit-nesses were called to testify to the purity of bis actions ac-tions and motives. At the beginning of the week Walker's chief counsel, John J. Curtln. closed his plea to Supreme Court Justice Staley to halt the removal proceedings, and k v i""-m w,th wnat BeemS t0 b hl8 usnal ,ack 01 laci wuuiiu uy U F. Lore with the statement : "We can onlyVo to court to avoid a physical -MjfUet that might well ensue If a rWoval order were made without Jurisdiction." Jurisdic-tion." Henry Epstein of the attorney attor-ney general's staff challenged the authority of the court to limit the governor's power. The mayor'i first witnesses were the members of the city taxi board of control, one of them Lelnjg L. F. Loree, president of the Delaware and Hudson railroad. lie and his colleagues testified that Walker did not attempt In any way to limit the number if cabs after the bond transaction with J. A. Sisto, which is the basis of one of Mr. Sea-bury's Sea-bury's most serious charges: Four IndependentxicjibperaliirsjKe TfaTTelTand swore the board of con trol had not tried to create a monopoly mo-nopoly for the larger companlea Paul Block,' the newspaper publisher, pub-lisher, was a ' Lyal and stubborn witness for' the mayor. Concerning tbelr joint stock accounts, he testified tes-tified that each took $102,000 from It In one year, and be told the governor gov-ernor that he never entertained the thought that his personal or bnsi. Hess friendship for the mayor might be used to trade for "favors." .Jtearnor Roosevelt's Questioning brought forthe Illuminating testimony testi-mony regarding $140,000 that Mr. Block had put Into a tlie manufacturing manufac-turing concern In which Senator John J, Hastings, another of the Walker group, owned a large Interest In-terest It was brought put that none of the tile ever was sold to the city. It was also shown that If the plans to manufacture the tile tad not been dropped the city would have been Interested In the product. Walker's claim has been that the entire Investigation was Inspired by the Republicans to embarrass the Democratic party In the November election. In the attempt to bolster op this claim he Summoned eight Republican state leaders, at the bead of the list being W. Klngsland Macy, state chairman. The governor, however, blocked this move by refusing to hear testimony testi-mony regarding the motives of the legislators who ordered the Investigation Investi-gation that resulted in the charges gainst the mayor. The hearing has taken much more timi than had teen expected, so the governor decided to hold night sessions, ses-sions, A LFRED E. SMITTI, whilom na- tlonal leader of the Democratic party, Is now en editor. When the Outlook, now re-named the New uutiook, resumes publication , of October Oc-tober 1 Al will be filling the editorial chair, once occupied occu-pied by Theodore Roosevelt In his announcement of the fact he said he wonld carry on the traditions of Roosevelt Roose-velt and strive to make the magazine "a platform for the free and liberal ex Br 4 A. E. Smith pression of progressive thought on the economic, "civic and spiritual probleniof the day." As to its pollt leal complexion he had nothing to say. The Outlook, which suspended publication last spring, was recently recent-ly -purchased tyFrank Tlchenor, publisher of the Spur, Aero Digest and other magazines. It was found ed by Henry Ward Beecher In 1SG9 and has Included among its editors Lyman Abbott as well as Theodore Roosevelt. Four years ago It was combined with the Independent, which was founded by II. CL Bowen a an anti-slavery organ. rARMERS of the Middle West " were meeting with considerable success In their "strike designed to force produce price to higher levels. The movement, which started start-ed In Iowa, spread to other states, and two victories were scored In Nebraska where milk producers gained higher prices. At Omaha officials of th iwa-Nebraska iwa-Nebraska Co-Operative Milk association asso-ciation consented to pay $2 per tfun-dredwelght tfun-dredwelght for milk, compared with previous figure of $1.45, whil at finceln milk dealers agreed to pay 1 1 .HI $1.80, an Increase of 40 cents over the previous figure. More than 1.000 agriculturists were assembled In camps along the main highways leading Into Omaha, but there were reports that some of the pkketers were In a dispute as to the best method of enforcing the farmers' "holiday." Despite warnings from federal officials, the farmers In Several In stances Interfered with rail shipments ship-ments of live stock In lowa and Nebraska. Ne-braska. Wisconsin and Minnesota dairymen were planning meetings to decide whether or not to Join In the strike. Tear bombs came Into use at Council Bluffs, Iowa, when sheriffs' deputies employed them to scatter a crowd of 1,000 farm "strikers" and spectators who were blocking a highway. Erich trucker en route to market was given a deputy escort and no violence resulted. SOUTH TRIMBLE, clerk of the house of representatives, made good his promise and gave to the public "a statement of thetransac-tlons thetransac-tlons of the Recon struction Finance corporation from July 21 to July 31 Inclusive. During these eleven days the directors of the Ized '437 new loans aggregating $45,-057,rf.G, $45,-057,rf.G, and In creases Of former loans totaling $1,-053,500 $1,-053,500 to banks South Trimble and other credit Institutions and to railroads. The total so loaned was $46,711,036. Later It was revealed that some of the loans authorized to banks had not been drawn upon. Chairman Steagull of the house banking committee said he believed the publicity given the loans would tend to strengthen the confidence of depositors In the banks concerned. : Mr,. Trimble was accused by Congressman Con-gressman Treadway of Massachusetts Massachu-setts of acting as he did In order to gain favor with Speaker Garner, who advocated publicity for the reports. re-ports. In reply the house clerk said this charge was ridiculous and that he acted on the legal advice of his son, who held the law gave him no discretion in the matter. - WHEN the White House conference confer-ence on business and Industry opened Friday with more than one hundred prominent men in attendance, attend-ance, President Hoover started the proceedings with a statement outlining out-lining the scope of the parley. He proposed several specific lines of action. ac-tion. One alms to bring about Increased In-creased employment and Includes the five-day week, though Mr. Hoover Hoo-ver did not recommend Its adoption universally. A second deals with easier and cheaper credit for certain cer-tain Industries that have not benefited bene-fited by -the loosening up that already al-ready has taken place. A third proposition Is to seek better credit facilities for marketing of farm productSnd live stock, both In the United States and abroad. Other speakers of the opening day were: Secretary of the Treasury Mills, Gov. Eugene Meyer of the federal reserve board. Chairman Atlee Pomerene of the Reconstruction Reconstruc-tion Finance corporation. Secretary of Commerce Ralph D. Chapin, Chairman Franklin W. Fort of the home loan bank board and Paul Bestor, farm loan commissioner. It was decided that Small committees com-mittees should handle each specific problem of economic Inertia, and that after the close of the conference confer-ence the plans It may develop shall be given effect by local subcommittees. subcommit-tees. Officials predicted that as a result of the conference a central or executive ex-ecutive committee will be formed to Include the biggest bankers and business men of the cobntryr This body, they pointed out, may unify the activities of the business and Industrial committees of the 12 fed eral reserve districts and become the spearhead of the recovery drive. NGRESSMAN SHANNON'S committee Investigating the results re-sults of federal competition with private concerns In business went to South Bend; Ind- and there heard a lot more complaints against Uncle Sam a a trader. Manufacturers, business men and representatives of various Industries declare they were being .. pushed to tbv wall throngh competition from government govern-ment boards and bureaus that are financed ty taxpayers' money. Their wall was presented by the Federation Federa-tion of American Business, and the lines of competition ran all the way from pieties and rubber stamps to department stores, wheat, coffee and cotton. The Association of Railway Ex- ecutlves presented a brief attacking attack-ing the Inland Waterways corporation, corpora-tion, the government barge line that operates on the Mississippi, Illinois and Warrior rivers.' The tall way men argued that the government should get rid of the barge line as an unfair competitor of the rails. Manufacturers In Illinois present ed a brief giving specific lines a which competition by the government govern-ment Is reducing their business, cutting cut-ting Into the normal revenues, reducing re-ducing their pay rolls and number of employees, meanwhile piling op the tax burden. One item of complaint com-plaint Is the growth of prison Industries. FTRUBEB DAVISON, assistant 'secretary of war, bus announced an-nounced that he is a candidate tor the gubernatorial nomination ut the New fork state Republican convention. The announcement followed formal notification to him that the executive committee of Nassau county Republican committee commit-tee had adopted a resolution pronouncing pro-nouncing him the candidate of the Nassau county Republicans. PERHAPS the best piece of news of the week was the announcement announce-ment by Myron C. Taylor, chairman chair-man of the board of the United States Steel corporation, that It would Immediately spend $5,000,000 for replacements and new equipment equip-ment The expenditures are to be made In the corporation's plants in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Alabama and Pennsylvania. "It would seem the buying movement move-ment cannot long be delayed," said-Mr. said-Mr. Taylor, and his further remarks re-marks indicated that the directors of the huge corporation believe It Is now safe for them to plan for better times in the Industrial world. On the other hand, a ""sour note" Is injected in the chorus of hope by a group of eminent engineers known as Technocracy who for moretha n tenyears have been analyzing the American Industrial and social system under the auspices aus-pices of Columbia j university. These men, using a yardstick called "energy production," have concluded that lndqstry has reached the point of efficiency where further fur-ther expansion Is virtually Impossible Impos-sible and where the creation of debt on an already overladen structure struc-ture has passed its period of growth. They predict 20,000,000 unemployed within two years if a downward trend of basic commodities commod-ities and services continues, and consider futile such efforts at resuscitation re-suscitation as the five-day week, the Reconstruction Finance corporation corpor-ation and low cost housing schemes. Technological efficiency, they hold, has Increased production to such an extent that employment no matter how many new Industries are initiated Will continue Its steady decrease from the peak f 1918, while the total debt claim against the physical equipment of all American Industry has risen to "the fantastic figure of $218,000,-000,000 $218,000,-000,000 a debt claim on posterity." PROSPECTS for civil war In Germany Ger-many were heightened when a court at Beuthen, Upper Silesia, sentenced five National Socialists to death In connection connec-tion with the killing kill-ing of a Communist Commu-nist Seven other Nazis were sentenced sen-tenced to prison at hard labor. Immediately Imme-diately Adolf Hit- -vis- MS. ,i ler and his follow- ijf, ers arose in mighty Vf it. j 1-. nutui, ueuouuciug the sentence. Chancellor Chan-cellor Von Pa pen and the entire government gov-ernment of the stJSi Franz von Papen relch and demanding demand-ing pardon for the five. There were riotous demonstrations in Beuthen and... ottiei- places, "with attacks on Jews and Socialists, and the police and more conservative Nazi leaders lead-ers had a hard time curbing the enraged Hitleritea Hitler Issued a statement declaring declar-ing the condemned men to -be "martyrs" "mar-tyrs" and assuring them that their freedom "from this minute Is a question of our honor." lie added : "It is our duty to battle the government gov-ernment which made this mon strous blood sentence possible. Heaven may send us torture upon i torture, but the National Socialist Bn ea rIler opening of schools In this movement will soon be able to En- ! di3trl't than Oct. 17, the date set Ish this guillotine government led b ttle board at their last meeting. by Von Papen. f SALT LAKE CITY, UT.-The To meet the storm of protest and stntP raa" commission is calling for denunciation, . the governments of ; l'-ds on $69,000 worth of road work, the relch and of Prussia issued a 'winding valous state road im-joint im-joint manifesto that made it plain ; Prorements to be let in September Von Pa pen's cabinet would not tol-j OGDEN, UT. Reports of the ln-erate ln-erate any revolt against the laws of ; dtistries In the Rocky Mountain re-the re-the reich.- It declared that the sever-, Sion show that business in this est penalties would be Invoked i district has suffered less from de-agalnst de-agalnst "every lawbreaker, regard pression this season, than manv less of person or party." and that other localities In the western rmrV the government would yield to no of the.rnitpd Ktntr. political pressure In .considering.-the .considering.-the cases of the five condemned men. ; CAPT. JAMES A. MOLLISON of Great Britain put his little Moth plane down at Roosevelt field. New York, and went on record as the first person to make the solo flight westward across the Atlantic. His start was from Ireland and hi landed first forty miles from St, John. N. B. Be planned to fly back to Ireland as soon as the. weather I was propitious. C U3t Wotcra Ktwipa; UmloA Intermountain News -Briefly Told for Busy Readers TO VISIT SCENIC UTAH PURI'LE HEART AWARD. HAY CROP VERJHNTB. NEW MARKET FOIND- STllENT WORK NEEDED P-ROYO, UT.-More than iw county officials from 29 counties of the-state are expected to particl e in the first outi.R of the ! ah State Association of County Officials to beheld in the near future at Utah s scenic parks-Bryce and Zion canyons, can-yons, according to Amnion fu tie, Utah county auditor and president of the organization. LOGAN, UT.-George D. Preston, local attorney and captain of Battery Bat-tery C, 345th field artillery, Utah, national guard, has recently had conferred him the Order of the Purple Heart of one ouk leaf cluster. The honor was bestowed on Captain Preston tor wounds received in action ac-tion July 18, 1918. and October 8,-1918, 8,-1918, at Soisson and Champagne. POCATHLIiO, ID A Hay and grain crops in Bannock county ,this season are sufficient practically to eliminate the need of government feed loans next spring, C. W. Daigh, county agent reports. WENDELL, IDA.-A new and promlsingmarket has been found for all the output of the West Point Co-operative Cheese factory west of here. The factory recently snippea one carload of American cheese to Portland at 10.5 cents a pound, and has an agreement for further ship ments at the top prevailing price, POCATELLO, IDA. Preparation Is being made at" the University of Idaho, southern branch, for a record enrollment at the coming fall term, according to Dean J. R. Dyer. To date, more than 975 prospective new "students have sent Inqulfleslo the college. The greatest problem facing college officials, Dyer said, was In finding, part-time employment for students. PRESTON, IDA. Decrease in as sessed vaine of Franklin county property was estimated at $150,972 under 1931 by F. A. Fackrell, deputy assessor. Assessment on real and personal property for 1932 totaled $4,635,805 compared with $4,017-128 $4,017-128 in 1931. POCATELLO, IDA. A statewide police net has been spread for the capture of thieves who entered the St Anthony Catholic church and escaped with sacred ordinances and vessels from the altar. OGDENY UT A protest against the removal of V. E. CarMon and Victor MeCord as state prohibition officers In Ogden has been forward ed to Governor fenr;:fr II. Dpto by the Ogden W. C. T. U. "We are fully convinced that this city needs, not fewer enforcement officers, but more officers," the union's letter to Governor Dern stated. LOGAN, UT. Bonds of the mu nicipal electric light plant amounting amount-ing to $10,000, due September 11, will be- refunded under a ten-year serial bond Issue, the Logan city commission decided recently. The $10,000 in bonds will be issued immediately, im-mediately, while another $40,000 in water-works bonds, due January 1, 1933, will be refunded between, now and the first of the year. COEUR D'ALENE, IDA.-A $30 000 fire of unknown origin completely com-pletely destroyed the Brautigan boat works at Sanders beach,, Coeur d'Alene, recently. LEWISTON, IDA.-Wheat farmers farm-ers in the famous Pnlouse country around Pullman, Colfax and Gen- ese9 have banded together to hold their 5,000,000 bushels of wheat for 60 days unless a profit can be made. They hope to get 75- cents a bushel. MOUNTAIN HOME, IDA. Serious Seri-ous spread of white top, a particularly particu-larly noxious plant, has prompted Elmore coupty commlssioiiers to ask a quarantine at their next meeting. So serious is the spread of the plant that some farms have been abandoned. aban-doned. RICHFIELD, UT. A delegation of over thirty people from the various var-ious communities of the county have appealed to the Sevier district 801,001 board in an attempt to secure OGDEN. UT.-Some generous thieves called at the DeVries fanr recently. Mr. DeVries and several of nla'tons saw two men digging Ptat.s In their field and proceeded t0 Ter the pair with a shotgun 0n of the thieves wrested the gun the farmer, and the twn the field, leaving their ,. ni two sacks of potatoes. ARCO, IDA.-P!ans are being f ' ro"Pltion of the Ida- j j M aui, uigaway from, Carey to ' I ;i"Tsune. -I , Refueling Record-Breaking "Flying Refueling the "Flying Boudoir" as It hovered over Curtiss airport, New York, vrhii, Mrs. Louise M. Thaden and Mrs. Frances H. Marsalls were establishing a new wona, w' Scenes and 1 Striking miners arriving at the coal mines- at Taylorville, prepared to try to persuaief ouit In protest against the lowered wage scale. 2 James A. Molllson, British a?!attt; after making the first solo flight westward across the Atlantic ocean, a oermans i Lilienthal, aviation pioneer, near Berlin. UP FROM THE BOTTOM r 11 i St. - ,5., . From "call boy" to executive ice president That Is the railroad ladder that has been climbed by W. M. Jeffers of Omnho i.h " , J JOL elected executive' rice president of me union racinc system, one of America's, ereatest trn if "UVU1HU1C11 tal railroad organizations. He Is fifty-six years of age and started the climb when he was fourteen. HIS DREAM-COMES TRUE Claude A. Wells of Chicago, who t one time was treasurer of Mar-shall Mar-shall Field & Co, and of Lite has hee manager of the hn . audis Mart, always wanted to w. t ueceDUy e gave Dp his position and went to Libbv Mont. Whero h 1 a: .-. precious metal. . IBliilillll f -' Persons in the Current New; House Hit by Naval Air t mmm mrnsm lili abpaaBj This man Is pointing to the 14-Inch hole ' the porch of the home of Philip Schwab In CanMW dropped by naval reserve aviators during Pw ' wentjwide of the target Mr. and Mrs. SwaM were in the house when the bomb fell, hot none f' " " "" Little Victims of Gang 'r IT f7,; Frietla F!! thrw. who WSS Shol u ) bandaged hand of her sister. Rose, w'ngT ? en-luTTets meant for onderwrtd-'0 of their Brooklyn boms wlpn the shooon 1 I |