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Show i J hi ! J 1 .'1 PLEASANT r.liOYE REVIEW News Review of Current Events the World Over Wisconsin Republicans Deal Blow to the La Follette Regime Farmers' Strike Takes New Turn-Germany Turn-Germany Out of Disarmament Parley. By EDWARD W. PICKARD W. J. Kohler IN ONE of the most hotly contested contest-ed primaries that Wisconsin ever hag had, the conservative Republicans Repub-licans dealt the La Follette dynasty a ierre blow. Philip La Follette, brother of the sena- - ator, was a can-' can-' dldute for renoin- lnatlon as governor, but was soundly beaten by Walter J. Kohler, former governor, gov-ernor, whom La Follette Fol-lette defeated two years ago. Many of the counties I'hllip carried then turned him down this time, and he ran behind in both agricultural agricul-tural and Industrial sections of the state. Emphasizing their change of heart,, the Republican electors also voted for the retirement of United States Senator John J. Blaine, one of the staunch est of the "progressives" "progres-sives" 1b the upper house. He was beaten by John B. Chappie, a young editor of Ashland who made a fierce campaign. Incomplete returns In-. In-. dicated the entire conservative state ticket had been carried to victory by Kohler and Chappie. Kohler, a wealthy manufacturer whose home and large factories are In a village that bears bis name, never held public office until he was elected governor In 1028. Ells supporters sup-porters this year, were known as "hatchet men,' for their slogan was "Cut Costs With Kohler," and the high cost of state government 'and high taxes .were the Issues emphasized. empha-sized. Kohler called for a $10,000.-000, $10,000.-000, reduction In taxes, and -set forth as his doctrine that factories lean Jobs, and thnt to build up prl rate incomes by keeping the taxing system from chasing Industries out of the state Is more fundamental than to Increase the Income taxes. These arguments proved especially effective with the factory voters In Milwaukee county, Racine and other Industrial regions. This was the first time thnt a La Follette ha,d been voted down since 1802. when the late Senator Robert M. t-a Fol . lette was beaten In a congressional race. An Interesting fea tore of this year's campaign wasihe presence of Burton K. Wheeler, Dcino cratlc senator from Montana, who made speeches trying to persnade the Dem ocrats of Wisconsin to go into the Republican primary pri-mary and vote for Blaine and La Follette. The state Democratic leaders hotly 'resented Wheeler's action ac-tion and evidently It had little If any effect - Kehler'a majority was In- the neighborhood of 100,000. Chappie had a smaller majority about 20.000 for the Tote for Blaine was heaTy In the Industrial centers. The Democrats at this writing appear to have nominated Mayor A. G. Schmedemao of Madison for goT-ernor goT-ernor over Leo P. Fox and William It. Rubin. For senator F. Ryan Duffy of Fond du Lac was unopposed. and in 1932 they hit a new low of $1,057,000,000. Commenting on the "soak the rich" policy noted In congress at the last session Mr. Strawn declared de-clared It "hopelessly fallacious" and that there are few rich left to "souk" and because those who still retain a part of their fortunes will Invest in tax exempt securities thereby defeating the very purpose of tax legislation aimed at the wealthy class. To the conference on government govern-ment Gordon L. Ilostetter, director of the Chicago Employers' association, associa-tion, said that the racket, originally original-ly thought of as a temporary form of graft or extortion, has grown through alliances of, business groups, union heads, politicians, and criminals until it annually costs the nation an "Incalculable sum." In Chicago alone, , said Mr. Hos-tetter, Hos-tetter, racketeering costs more than $145,000,000 a year. Add to this the amount spent by the city to deal with racketeering, he said, and the total cost of Chicago's rackets equals the annual cost of the municipal government J. B. Chappie TnOSE farmers of the Middle West have entered on a new phase' of their "holiday" strike whjtch promise to be more effective effec-tive than the movement that aimed to keep all farm produce from the cities and was marred by frequent Violent deeds. The plan now evolved by thefrMefttleta-contemplates the withholding from market of all train and other non-perishable products, bat the farmers are for bidden to picket the highways or block them in any way. Nearly two million farmers were asked to Join in this nonselllng movement. Agriculturists In Minnesota. North Dakota, Oklahoma, Nebraska aad Iowa, the "strike" leaders said, had given assurances they would participate. partici-pate. They added that, farmers In Ohio. Wisconsin. South Dakota. Kansas and nilnois had "shown in teresP In the movement- M. Herrlot WHEN the disarmament conference con-ference resumed Jts sittings In Geneva the Germans were not In official attendance because their demand for equality equal-ity of -.armament had been rejected by France. But they found they were facing also the united opposition opposi-tion of Great Britain Brit-ain and the United States, If not other of the" great powers. pow-ers. The British foreign office mem-, orandum said the German demand was at least untimely, since "attention "atten-tion and energy should be directed to economic rehabilitation of the world,'' and thai anyhow Germany was not entitled to abrogate the part of the treaty of Versailles that limits her armament even if the other nations should fall to disarm or reduce their armaments. This view of the question apparently ap-parently was pleasing to the- United Unit-ed States government, and Ambassador Ambas-sador Walter E. Edge and Senator DaviiT Ariteed of PerinsylvahlaTat a luncheon given by M. Herrlot in Paris, told the premier that was the view of the American people. Their government, they said, stands for progressive disarmament and the sanctity" of treaties. M. Herrlot laid before the foreign for-eign affairs commission of the chamber of deputies a full statement state-ment of his policy la this matter and defended it earnestly. . Ha. gave the commission certain details which Had come Into bis possession regarding the alleged Illicit manufacture manu-facture of arms In Germany and Indicated that he was ready when the opportune moment came to lay his Information before the League iV Nations and to demand an International Inter-national Inquiry Into these alleged' Infractions jofhe treatjrrof Versailles. Ver-sailles. The German press Insisted that their government mast not weaken, weak-en, asserting that Great Britain had deceived Germany and that the British note treated Germany In Intolerable fashion. Some papers pa-pers declared Germany must withdraw with-draw from the League of Nations. SEVERAL Important meetings were held in Washington during the week, among them being those f the National Municipal league aad the national conference on gov crofteat Addressing the former, Silas II. Strawn. termer-chairman' f the United States Chamber of Commerce, declared that taxes mast be reduced because the-nation has reached the end of its financial rope. In the sixteen jears from 1913 to 1028, be said, the cost ot all government govern-ment increased by 400 per cent, while at the same time the national locomo bad Increased by only 14S per cent In 1080. he said Income taxes a mounted to S2.411.nnn.0O0: In 1831 they dropped to $1,900,000,000 D EPUBLICAN National Chair- man Everett Sanders announced that President Hoover's first campaign cam-paign speech would be made In Des Moines, Iowa, on October 4. He wlU niaka no addresses on the Journey from Washington and back. In the heart of the agricultural regl in. where tbe farmers nave been on strike against low prices, Mr. Hoa-Ter Hoa-Ter intendsto expatriate on his program pro-gram for relief of the farmer In reply to the recent address by his rival. Franklin D. Roosevelt. The speech In Des Moines will be brood cast over a nationwide radio hookup. f ATI ATM A. GANDHI, after a iJ hearty meal of fruit and milk, began his protest fast, which he iwld he would keep up until be died of starvation onless the British government altered the terms of its settlement of the communal election." probleW ' The" ma-' hatnw was still In T era t d a Jail at Toona". "The' rov ernment said he was free to leave the prison, but he refused to go out of hie cell unless he were forcibly removed. So many friends and well wish ers called at the Jail that the aged leader was made II from exclte- Gandhi merit, and thereafter Tlsltors were excluded for the present He received re-ceived hundreds of telegrams and letters begging him not to undertake under-take the death fast JUST as Bolivia and Paraguay are squabbling over the Gran Chaco, so Colombia and Peru are on the verge of war over the possession pos-session of the Amazon river port of Leticia and some surrounding territory ter-ritory ceded by Colombia to Peru In 1922. The Bogota government has refused to accept a Peruvian proposal for settlement of the controversy, con-troversy, and the people of both nations are seemingly eager for war and are raising big funds for the purchase of armaments. Both Bolivia and Paraguay have been making offers to cease hostilities hostili-ties pending negotiations, but apparently ap-parently neither feels It can trust the other to act in good faith. Meanwhile the fighting between their border forces, especially at Fort Boqueron, was continued, the Paraguayans claiming tbe advantage. ft! Sen. Davia SENATOR JAMES J. DAVIS of Pennsylvania went on trial In New Tork on two federal Indictments Indict-ments charging conspiracy, the prosecution a 1 1 e g-Ing g-Ing bo was responsible respon-sible for two lotteries lot-teries totaling $3,: 000,000 conducted by the Loyal Order of Moose, of which the senator Is the director general It f was charged that I '-""V J J Dtfvls personally jr I profited from these lotteries, which were ostensibly for charitable pur poses. Assistant United States Attorney At-torney Treadwell told the Jury that checks totaling $172,300 from the proceeds of the drives went to pay off a note which was Mr. Davis' personal obligation, to his personal checking account, to a corporation controlled, by him, and to an account ac-count from which he drew the prof-Its prof-Its of the organization department of the Moose. In 1931 the lottery was more discreetly handled,- Mr. Treadwell continued, and the drawing took place on the steamship Priscilla, outside the twelve-mile limit, after which all records were thrown overboard. over-board. . ' Counsel for the defense contended contend-ed all the. transactions were Innocent THREE California citizens have undertaken to block the loan of $40,000,000 by the Reconstruction Reconstruc-tion Finance corporation for the construction of the aqueduct from Boulder Dam to Los Angeles. The loan has been authorized by the corporation, but the suit filed In the District of Columbia Supreme court seeks. to enjoin It,' attacking the legality of the decision by which the corporation proposes to purchase two $20,000,000 lots of the $220,000,000 worth of water district bonds. The corporation also heard opposition op-position to the Los Angeles application appli-cation for a loan of $32,000,000 for the construction of a power line from Boulder Dam to the coast and to the proposed loan of $10,-000.000 $10,-000.000 for a bridge across Chesapeake Chesa-peake bay on the ground that this would mean the use of federal funds to finance a project to compete com-pete with -going privately owned ferry lines. AMERICA lost one of Its most eminent physicians in the death of Dr. Frank Billings of Chicago Chi-cago at the age of seventy-eight His name is linked with the history of medicine In this country and he had headed nearly every prominent organization of his profession, lie was responsible for the founding of numerous hospital clinics and research Institutes and trained many great doctors, and himself was rated as one of the best diagnosticians diag-nosticians and physicians in th world. Speaker John N. Garner, Democratic Demo-cratic candidate for the Vice Presidency, Pres-idency, was called to his home In Detroit Texas, by the Illness of his aged mother, and a few days later she passed away. Mrs. Garner was eighty-one years old and was born and spent her entire life In northeastern north-eastern Texas. SEVERAL thousand feeble old men. remnant f r...j - 1IL UIU1IU Army of the Republic, gathered ror tneir sixty stxth annual encampment en-campment In Springfield. I1L, the city in which the organization was born. They had their usual business busi-ness sessions; but much of their time was spent in visiting the tomb of Lincoln, their adored war com mander. and-other places connected connect-ed with the life of the martyred Iresldeut. and in attending services In the old prison Camp Butler, no, a national cemetery. St Paul Minn, was 'selected foitbe 1!W5 encampment' over Grand Rapids. Mich. CHICAGO is Jubilant, for. the Cubs are bow the champion team of the National 'ensue. The opening of the world's series with the New Tork Yankees, who woo the American league pcnr.snt. was set for September 2S Id New York : the games In Chicago will begin tie following Saturday. ft 1(11 Western Nfvipn Ca'om. Intermountain News -Briefly Told for Busy Readers BELIEF CASH ARRIVES MEN ARK EMPLOYED TTNS OF I'RI NES .' SEE LARGE Tl'RKKV ( ROP $200,000 PROGRAM BEGIN Scenes and Persons in the Current News! SALT LAKE CITY.rT.-Sr.lt Lake County's first $7i,0()0 Reconstruction Recon-struction Finance corporation c.ish for direct relief has been recehed by the county treasurer. GOODING,. IDA.-Another big turkey crop is coming on. Good.-, ing-Wendell section, particularly, has flocks ranging up to 2.r.(K) birds. LOGAN, UT.Kight thousand letters let-ters containing 1032 tax notices on property in Cache county have been mailed. The smallest notice going out was for 11 cents arid the largest was for $."ii,fi0. BOISE, IDA. Increased work on highways, large farjn employment and other industries gave work to many thousands of men in Idaho during September. A million dollars worth of highway work was started during the month. GRACE, IDA.-The local Phenix-Kraft Phenix-Kraft Cheese company plant, one of .17 operated in Idaho, has a present pres-ent dally output of 1700 pounds of cheese. BUHL, IDA. The annual prune crop harvest is in progress near here. Approximately 45 tons will he harvested from the 120 acres in this district The picking crows range up to 60 or more. TOOELE, UT The Tooele county coun-ty tax levy of the schools, county and state, will show a reduction of five mills over last year, while Tooele City will he 1.1 mills lower. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Transactions Trans-actions of the state road commission commis-sion involving expenditures of $200-000 $200-000 in employment relief work to be started immediately have been accomplished at recent meetings. LOGAN, UT The city board of education at a special meeting decided de-cided to pay the city school teachers on the first of each -calendar month instead of the first of each school month. Enrollment is larger In the city schools than last year. TWIN FALLS,-IDA. The sugar beet crop in the Twin-Jerome county district is maturing ' rapidly with prospect of making one of the heaviest heav-iest yields ever obtained in this section. 75 men are now employed In the factory -with about' 2 others in th'e office and on related work. PROVO, UT. Consolidation of the Bank of American Fork and the People's State Bank of "American "Ameri-can Fork, after the latter institu tion Is reopened is one of the conditions condi-tions contained in the resolution of the Reconstruction Finance corporation corpora-tion authorizing a loan of$53,000 to aid fhe reopening plan. OGI.EN, UT. Chairman of the First ward employment committee 'reports there is more work, available avail-able in the ward than there are men to handle it. The committee has been directing several agricultural agricul-tural projects during the summer and these are now ready for harvest. har-vest. Workers are being paid in produce. ROCK SPRINGS, WYO. Deals iwrMving the sale of 100,000 spring feeder grade lambs at 4.25 cents a pound were closed recently. The aii!mnl3 are for October delivery, de-livery, with 15,000 to be shipped October 15 to central Nebraska, While S..000 will be, fed at Fort Collins and other northern Colorado feed grounds. - prAYKIt, UT.- Most f.f the x- cavaiion work of the huge storage potato cellar at Milford lias been accomplished -and a well has been drilled and the wall work liegun. Seven carloads of lumber consisting consist-ing 'ofi:a,00O7reet,on carload of cement and many hundred tons of straw are being delivered at the pit to he used in construction. SALT LAKE CITT, I T. Members Mem-bers of the Northwestern Turkey Growers' association will hold their annual fall meeting in Salt Luke City. The growers organisation organi-sation .consists of 12,000 members and represents one of the largest turkey pools in the west. Directors and delegates from Utah, Idaho, Montana. Washington, Oregon, Wy oming. Nevada and Colorado will be present. Plans will be made for the f ill marketing of turkeys and infor-niation infor-niation will be given as to the size an '. condition of the crop this year. I'l.MillAM, UT. Household" fur-nwhhigs fur-nwhhigs for 49 of tbe Go" families made homeless by the recent Highland High-land Boy fire" were shipped from Salt Lake to Bingham. The supplies hadK-n purchased in Salt Lake und'r the direction of the County Conim:.vion with the cooperation of the Highland Boy fire refugees committee!, SALT LAKE CITT, UT.-The "'-oe is making every .effort to s. e toft! a!.iles"'which have been' spray-ed spray-ed with lead arsenate are properly Lnd cleaned, of jjiray resi d"- b. fore they are shipped in in-ter-' ue commerce. K.AVr.sn. UT.A"now highway tr Kinosh to Baker's canyon is '"'t construction, which wiii rut e :t a'-turns including two sharp ti'-s in the ton of Kauosh. The r' is being done lastly lj Miliar,! Mil-iar,! rr-intr men and to. ' ' --r-w- '- r , 4 m r LrcS - Ski inr . I immm ll '' Ifllll ' 'T" - . i.n..- n..n.n.. nr I IWihB 1 Aerial view of the forest fire In the Santa Barbara national forest in California whld to destroy several towns. 2 President Hoover addressing the members of the national A welfare and relief mobilization on the White House lawn, 8 Virginia's memorial to her Richmond, which will be dedicated on ucioDer 10, wueu m uue curuion oi ee bells will the first time. Not So Bad for Unemployed Girls in Berl 1 1 Unemployed girls of Berlin, Germany, taking breakfast out of doors while lodged in camps auspices as volunteer farm hands, - : - - HIS NAME CAME OUT I JWQ Winners m Maine EU A tiny slip of paper, drawn from a hat, sent Representative H. E. Harbour of California back Into the running as Renublica tl nnminpo aft cr be tod beeff tied-with Glenn M. 4 le oi in the primary. This means' of settling the matter was according to r state law, and the lip was drawn from the hat by the blindfolded secretary of state of Califoriria. WINNER IN GEORGIA w..; ill if Got. Richard R RUSSeIL Jr, won the Democrat! omination for wn-tor wn-tor from George, defeating Rep-resentatrve Rep-resentatrve Charles R. Crisp. Watch Yonr Word." A word to the wise la sufficient i but a word to the touchy may start ; row.-Ft Wayne Xews-Sentinei :A i When the voters of Maine shifted to the De"1; i j ii . , Fcnreseni u. uiuci ua mey cnose inese two iMuiiutruui i - j Third districts In congress. They are, left to right: K. u-t and John G. Utterback. - G. W. Lays a Cornerstone Lev-"1--- -'- -Z presiow - j Wieldin? thm umt tmnlementt osed by ton 139 yMrs ag0i cfficerl ftf the Grand Lodf1 'g, t ",LU me ueorge wasningtoa Bitwiw - ttt racmoniea or me laying or tne orne"" . . fts' at Washington. A. Ernest Tate took th ro |