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Show THE BULLETIN. BINGHAM. UTAH News Review of Current Events the World Over Truce Is Called in the General Motors Strike Presi-dent's Reorganization Program Criticized Kid-- THE Simpson affair has been by news that Ernest Simp-son, who was divorced by the fa-mous Wally, has filed a slander suit in London against Mrs. Joan Suth-erland, beautiful wife of Lt CoL Arthur Sutherland. The suit is based on a remark, said to have been made at a luncheon attended by Mrs. Sutherland, that Simpson was "well paid" for permitting the divorce. , naped Tacoma Boy Is Found Murdered. By EDWARD W. PICKARD (E) Western Kininw TTninn. THROUGH the efforts of of Michignn a truce in the General M 'tors strike was arranged, and the prospects for The United Press correspondent was told: "The case is not expect-ed to break Into the open for sev-eral weeks. It Is now sub Judice (before the court). It will not be open to the public until after it is set down for hearing and pleadings have been terminated. No state-ment has been delivered yet" TN ONE of its periodic analyses of the economic situation the Brook-ings Institute, n research foundation, summarizes proposals for "a consistent program of fur-ther recovery," the seven points of which are, briefly: of a balanced federal budget Continuance of the present policy of maintaining a fixed price of gold and the establishment through in-ternational of a system of stable foreign exchange. Extension of the reciprocal trade agreements "as the most practical means of reducing artificial barriers to commerce and reopening the channels of international trade." lh 111 peaceful settlement of the trouble were bright The gover-nor persuaded Ex-ecutive Vice Presi-- d e n t William S. Knudsen of the cor-poration and Presi-dent Homer Martin of the United Auto-mobile Workers un-ion to meet in his office in Lansing. The conference last-ed more than 15 Extension of the merit system to "cover practically all non-polic- y de-termining posts." replacement of the civil service commission by a civil service administrator with a "citizen board to serve as the watch dog of the merit system." and in-crease of salaries to key positions to attract superior ability to a ca-reer service. Development of the "managerial agencies of the government" par-ticularly the budget bureau and agencies engaged in efficiency re-search, persomel questions, and long range planning of the use of land, water, and other natural re-sources. Opposition to the first, third and fourth of these sections was pro-nounced and it seems certain that introduction of the bill will start a long and stubborn fight in congress. William S. Knudsen hours and at its conclusion the truce was announced. The essence of the agreement was that the union would at once With-draw th Kit-rln- strlkprs from the Preservation of the "generally favorable ratio of prices and wage rates." Maintenance of prevailing hours of labor "as the only means of meeting the production require-ments involved in restoring dur-ing the next few years the stand-ards of living of the laboring masses and promoting the economic ad-vancement of the nation as a whole." Elimination of private and public industrial practices "which tend to restrict output or to prevent the in-crease of productive efficiency." "Shifting of the emphasis in agri-cultural policy from restricted out-put and rising prices to the abun-dant furnishings of the supplies of raw materials and foodstuffs re-quired by gradually expanding mar-kets." General Motors plants in Flint, De-troit and Anderson, Ind., and that the corporation would not remove from the plant any machinery or dies and would not attempt to re-sume production in those plants for at least IS days from the date of commencement of negotiations. The joint conferences for a final settlement of the points at issue were to begin in Detroit January 18. Mr. Knudsen said "Negotiations will be conducted frankly and every effort will be made to bring about a speedy settlement." Mr. Martin asserted "The union will in good faith endeavor to ar-rive at a speedy settlement" Governor Murphy announced that National Guardsmen now in Flint, following an outbreak of rioting at a General Motors plant there, would remain temporarily "but I con't rnnslrtpr this npppssarv " 'TPEN-year-ol- d Charles Mattson, - kidnaped from his home in Ta-coma, Wash., Dec. 27 and held for ransom, was found beaten to death in snow covered woods near Ev-erett The body was nude and cru-elly battered. State and city police and department of justice agents, who had been held back to give the lad's father a chance to pay the ransom and save his son, immedi-ately began an intensive manhunt One suspect was arrested in San Francisco and others were being traced. A car in which it was be-lieved the lad's body was carried was found. President Roosevelt expressed the horror of the nation over this brutal crime and authorized a reward of $10,000 for the capture of the kidnaper and murderer. Ber-na- r McFadden added $1.00 to this amount "PHE latest general European - war scare has subsided. It was caused by France's announced de-termination to stop, by force if necessary, the al ALF M. LANDON retired from office, turning over the governorship of Kansas to Walter A. Huxman, a Democrat He let it be known that he had purchased two suburban tracts totaling 160 acres west of Topeka and will build there a house of colonial type where he and Mrs. Landon and their chil-dren will reside. Until the place is completed they will make their home with Mrs. Landon's mother, Mrs. S. E. Cobb, in Topeka. SUGAR processors are making high profits", accord-in- g to Secretary of Agriculture leged infiltration of German troops into Spanish Morocco, and Great Britain was ready to sup-port the French with its fleet But Hitler and his am-bassador to France were able to con-vince the nations that the stories The agreement on the armistice came as good news to thousands of idle automotive workers, and other thousands threatened with tem-porary loss of jobs. At least 115,-00- 0 men are now idle, and that many more faced the same situa-tion. SOME 400 representatives of the railroad brotherhoods gath-ered in Chicago to discuss plans for obtaining increases of wages. A committee recommended that form-al demands for higher pay be made, but said it had not yet decided on the procedure or the amount of in-crease to be asked. J. A. Phillips, president of the Order of Railway Conductors, said that while the committee had agreed that a wage increase should be sought there had been no con-sideration of hours of work, pen-sions or any other matter. The other four, unions represented at the meeting were the Brother-hoods of Locomotive Engineers, Railroad Trainmen, Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, and the Switchmen's Union of North Ameri-ca. The five groups, which repre-sent the train service classifications of railway employees, are acting in-dependently of the other 16 stand-ard railroad brotherhoods. PLANS for reorganizing the branch of the gov-ernment were laid before congress ty President Roosevelt, and many Henry A. Wallace, and so he pro-poses a tax of $10 to $20 a ton on all sugar processed In the United States. This, he says, will be sug-gested to congress. Mr. Wallace says the profits are from 10 to 12 percent and he estimates that the tax would yield approximately a year. Of this about would go to producers in benefit payments. The secretary believes the sugar processors have been "unjustly en-riched" under the quota system which rations imports and is sup-posed to maintain the domestic price against foreign competition. RECOMMENDATIONS for the pres-ent session of congress have been were false and that Gen Goering Germany has no in-tention of trying to grab any Span-ish territory. Paris cooled down at once, and to add to the peace atmosphere, negotiations were started for a trade treaty between France and Germany. Then, too, CoL Gen. Hermann Wilhelm Goering, resplendent first minister of the German reich, went on an official visit to Rome and was informed by Mussolini that the recently signed Italo-Britis- h Mediterranean agreement does not change Italy's friendship for Ger-many or its collaboration with the reich on the major problems of Europe. Goering and Mussolini were supposed to get together on rv 4 Democrats as well as the few Republi-can members were quick to express their disapproval of parts of the scheme. It would greatly en-hance the power of the executive, would abolish no federal agencies and would not result in any considerable econo-my of expenditures. Special committees Louis Brownlow presented to the President and con-gress by the executive committee of the American Farm Bureau fed-eration. The program involves the ever-norm- granary, commodity loans, adjustment of production to effective demand, soil conserva-tion, the strengthening of market-ing agreements, postponement of state administration o the soil con-servation and domestic allotment act until 1940, and a "permanent" revenue policy to meet the cost of these measures. UNCLE SAM has begun storing in the bomb-proo- f de-pository built at Fort Knox,' Ken-tucky. The first train, heavily guarded, carried about $200,000,-00- 0 of the precious metal from the Philadelphia mint and it was re-ceived by the motorized Seventh cavalry and put in the great vaults. Vhe gold was forwarded by the Post Office department as parcel post and the treasury will have to pay the postage. ANNOUNCEMENT is made Maritime by commission that it will dispose of four shipping lines by June 29 next They now operate 36 vessels In di-rect competition with private Amer- - the luture course oi ineir govern-ments concerning the Spanish civil war. LOSING the radio beam in foggy Pilot W. W. Lewis pan-caked his Western Air Express plane with a crash on a hill near Burbank, Calif., and two of his passengers were killed. Everyone else on the plane, eleven in num-ber, was injured. The dead are Martin Johnson, famois explorer, and James A. Braden of Cleveland. Mrs. Osa Johnson, who accompan-ied her husband on his adventurous expeditions in Africa and Borneo, was among those most seriously hurt There will be searching inquiries into this and other recent air dis-asters. Senator Copeland of New York blames the Department of Commerce. Airline operators have long complained that certain radio beam stations in the Far West are inadequate. Officials of the bureau of air navigation deny this, asserting: "Radio beams some-times play queer pranks in certain areas and In certain moun-tainous territories. Every pilot knows these peculiarities." Down in Mexico there were three airplane crashes within a week, and it was believed eleven persons of both houses were to begin draft-ing a bill to carry out the Presi-dent's desires, but it was freely pre-dicted that not all of them would gei through. Louis Brownlow, Prof. Luther Gulick and Prof. Charles Merriam constituted the committee that evolved the reorganization plan for the President The major changes they recommended are: Creation of two new departments headed by cabinet members a de-partment of social welfare and a de-partment of public works and dele-gation to the President of author-ity to "overhaul the 100 independent agencies, administrations, authori-ties, boards, and commissions and place them by executive order" in the ten existing and two proposed additional departments. Expansion of the White House staff, chiefly by the creation of six "assistants to the President," who would relieve him of --nuch of the routine executive work. Abolition of the office of controller general with his power to disallow administrative expenditures in ad-vance as violative of law, and crea-tion instead of an auditor general with power limited to reporting an-nually to congress illegal and waste-ful expenditures by the executive branch. v j naa lost ineir lives. IT IS pleasant to turn from poli-tics, strikes and war and record the fact that Charles Hayden, New York banker who died recently, left about $45,000,000 to establish a foundation for the education of needy boys and young men, "es-pecially in the advancement of their moral, mental and physical well being." Mr. Hayden, who was a bachelor, also gave $1,000,000 to Massachusetts Institute of Technol-ogy. $2,000,000 in trust to his broth-er and nearly $2,000,000 to friends and employees. ican shipping. The lines and the routes they serve are: Cosmopolitaii Shipping Company, Inc., operating the Amer-ican France line serving French ports; the SouthgateNelfin Corpo-ration operating the American Hampton Roads Yankee and Ori-ole lines serving Germany and the United Kingdom; the Roosevelt Steamship Company, Inc., operat-ing the American pioneer line serv-ing Australia, India and the far east, and C. H. Sprague & Son, Inc., operating the American Republics line serving the east coast of South America. "SEEN and HEARD around the &yy NATIONAL CAPITALA X By Carter Field SjjgWj FAMOUS WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT stated with the utmost positlveness that there will be no substantial modification of either the tax or social security legislation. But there will be minor amendments to both acts. ' . ; Some underbrush can be cleared away as to these. For instance it is probable that there will be an amendment enacted to the tax law which will help corporations deeply in debt Another may liberalize present allowances for replacing ob-solete machinery, plant or what-not But there will not be any mod-ification of the underlying princi-ple for taxing undistributed earn-ings. There will not be any lib-eralization of the rulings now gov-erning new or additional plant or productive capacity. Answer Is Simple The answer to this Is very simple. The underlying principle here is part of the warp and woof of the Roosevelt economic doctrine. It is not a new doctrine so far as he is concerned. It is not something to which he has been converted, and from which, therefore, he might be expected to be swayed. A careful reading of his acceptance speech before the Chicago convention in July, 1932, will reveal that he had the same logic then which drove him to last year's tax bill- - Washington. President Roosevelt is going to have plenty of troutjle restraining the pork and patronage-hungr- y senators and representa-Uve- s when they study the figures that will be available in his budget message, especially as many of them were thoroughly convinced last year, and year before last by the New Deal tax enthusiasts of the Frankfurter school, that taxes on corporations ought to be a great deal higher than they are now. Outside and unofficial estimates Indicate that the rise in revenue an-ticipated by the Treasury over last year's estimates will exceed a bil-lion and a half dollars may eas-ily reach two billions! This is due in part to increased taxes, in part to the policy of forc-ing out dividends by the undistribut-ed earnings tax, and even more than either of these to improved business in 1936, bearing in mind that while the government figures on a fiscal year from July 1 to June 30, the individual and corpora-tion taxes are figured on the cal-endar year. Estimates in President Roose-velt's budget message in January, 1936, showed an increase in cor-poration income taxes of $211,600,-00- 0. of which $42,000,000 was due to increased rates, and the remain-der to increased corporation in- - come. Conservative actuaries out-side the Treasury department figure the increase on top of this to be shown in the President's budget message will not be less than $350,-000,00- 0. Last January's budget message estimated individual income taxes would be $936,000,000, an increase over the preceding year's estimate of $207,000,000. Of this $62,000,000 was due to increased rates. But this year, outsiders figure, the in-crease over last year's estimates will not be less than $500,000,000. Out of Proportion In that speech accepting the nom-ination, he demanded to know what had become of the "piled up sur-pluses" of the corporations from the prosperous days. Some of it he said, had been put in additional plants, which "now stand stark and idle." So it is far from being just a bright idea about taxing the rich by forcing out dividends which would put them in higher income tax brackets. And it goes way beyond even the idea of protecting the mi-nority stockholders from the ambi-tions of their company managers, though both are felt very strongly by the President and most of the men on whose economic judgment he relies. It is much more fundamental. It goes to the idea of "planned econ-omy." It revolves around an un-derlying Idea of Mr. Roosevelt which every business man should remember, that the big business ex-ecutives of the country failed rath-er lamentably in 1929, and that di-rection of some aspects of business by government officials could not be much worse. Planes for Spain There was not the slightest fear, either at the State department or the White House, that the renovated This seems out of all proportion to the increase in corporation taxes, but there are two important rea-sons. In the first place, the im-provement in corporate earnings for 1936 over 1935 is much better than the increase 1935 showed over 1934. But dividends increased out of all proportion to earnings, due to the unprecedented in American tax history undistributed earnings tax. As a result, the boost in individual incomes from dividends was much greater than the boost in corpora-tion incomes. And as a tremendous percentage of dividend paying stocks are owned by people already paying income taxes, the result will be to force many of them into higher tax brackets than they have ever figured in before. As the more income, the higher the rates of tax, the swelling in fed-eral revenue here is greater in proportion than the rise in income. Incidentally there has been much talk about bonuses and salary and wage boosts also, but this is trifling so far as federal income tax figures are concerned, compared to the flood of dividends. Lots of the wage increases went to people who will not pay income taxes at alL Estate and gift taxes, however, do figure importantly. Even the January, 1936, estimates, showed a boost over the previous budget es-timates of $42,000,000, though the total of $293,000,000 would have airplanes for Spain about which so much excitement was raised by the administration would ever take part in hostilities across the water. That was not the purpose of the hubbub. The whole purpose of the news splash was to affect the gentlemen on Capitol Hill to convince them that no law they might possibly draft could reach every situation that might arise to embarrass this government that discretion must be vested in the President to handle any peculiar situation which might arise. So far the resulting propaganda has been most satisfactory from the standpoint of the White House and the State department Even Senator William E. Borah, chair-man of the foreign relations com-mittee, has weakened considerably in his firm attitude against granting the President discretion. To understand the true inward-ness of the situation it is necessary to go back a little. Originally, the President and the State depart-ment wanted a very definite sort of neutrality legislation. They want-ed a law which would give the Pres-de- nt complete discretion a law, for example, which would permit him to sanction shipments of arms to the nation wantonly attacked, and to prevent shipments of arms to the aggressor. The sort of law which, to use a classic example, would have permitted President Wilson to allow shipments to France and Bel-gium, particularly Belgium, but bar them to Germany. Was Rather Clumsy A bill of this sort was started through the works in congress, but very suddenly it was radically changed, before the administration, very busy with other and seemingly more important things, had time to bring pressure to bear. All dis-cretion was removed from the bill. An attempt was made to name the kind of war materials which could be barred, but it was provided that in the event of war these must be shrunk had it not been for a boost In the rates and a tightening of loopholes. But estates liquidated in 1936 benefited from much higher se-curity and real estate prices than those liquidated at any time since the stock market crash. Altogether, it looks like good hunt-ing for the pork hunters. Work for Congress Despite many learned surveys, there is no agenda for the session of congress recently opened. It will develop as it goes along, guided somewhat in its building by changes due to expediency by the gentleman in the driver's seat and molded importantly by forthcoming Su-preme court decisions. Those who look for an index in the three formal utterances by President Roosevelt in January his first message, his budget message end his inaugural address are doomed to disappointment There will be lots of messages as things develop. There will be telephone messages and privately spoken words to the leaders, some of which will be repudiated later. There oc-casionally will be indications that the President is letting congress solve its own problems, but do not be unduly deceived by these. Con-gress will not be. For these reasons it is tremen-dously difficult at the moment to make any very accurate forecast on some of the important questions. Some of the most vital depend on the Supreme court. Some will be determined, after much backing and filling, by the President, after listening to a host of disagreeing advisers. The President is in the happy position of not having to make up his mind about anything at any given noment at least not for some time to come, There are a few exceptions to this, of course. Some things are now clear. For instance, it may be barred to the warring nations. There is still controversy as to what the articles under this law really include. Machine guns and ammu-nition are simple but materials from which war supplies are made are dubious, and many supplies actual-ly necessary for the carrying on of war are clearly not specified. In short it was not only quite different in spirit from what the President and State department wanted, but it was a clumsy and poor attempt to do what the oppo-nents of discretionary power wanted to do. Bell Syndicate. WNU Servlca. UhJnkd about International Foorflusnur MONICA, CALIF. SANTA the German troops marched into the Rhineland, France was going to fight about it, but didn't. When the Italians moved against Ethiopia, Britain was going to In-voke force, but didn't When Russia poked her snoot in-to the Spanish mess, there was go-ing to be armed ac-tion by other pow-ers, but wasn't When Japan be-gan to nibble again at China, there was going to be inter-ventio- n. but all mi,. tMim f that happened was Irvln S. Cobb that the League of Nations chirped despairingly and then put its head back under its wing. Somehow, I'm thinking of the two fellows who started fighting and, when bystanders rushed in to sep-arate them, the one who was get-ting the worst of it yelled: "Five or six of you hang on to that big brute. Anybody can hold mel" w m w Curing Temperament. A JUDGE back east rules that this artistic temper-ament is not sufficient excuse for a genius to beat up his bride. I tried the stuff once Just once but the presiding judge In my case was a lady. For years I'd been trudging as steadily as a milkman's horse, whereas being a practloner Df a creative profession, I said to myself I really ought to stage some temperament just to make the fam-ily appreciate me. So I rehearsed my act and went downstairs one morning and put it on. So my wife looked at me across the breakfast table, and said: "I know what the trouble with you is. You're bilious. You'll take some calomel." Well, what are you going to do when a beautifully staged emotion-al outburst is diagnosed, not as the promptings of a tortured soul, but as liver complaint? You guessed it. I took the calo-mel, and, I pledge you my word, haven't had an attack since. The Law's Delays. ONCE a Massachusetts Supreme reversed a felony convic-tion because the prosecution, in fil-ing the record, stated that the crime was committed "on the fifteenth day of June, 1855" but failed to state whether the year was 1855 A. D. or 1855 B. C. And ever since then on quibbles almost equally foolish such as a misplaced comma or an upside down period other high courts have been defeating the ends of justice and setting at naught the de-cisions of honest juries. Science has gone ahead, medicine has taken enormous steps forward, but law still rides in a stage coach and hunts with a flintlock musket Ha3 it ever occurred to anyone that one reason for the law's delays is a lack of the thing called common sense? Dinosaur Footprints. BACK in 1858, a college professor on a sandstone ledge In Massachusetts a whole batch of imbedded tracks of the dinosaur familiarly known to geologists as dinah, just as among its scientific friends the great winged lizard is frequently referred to as big liz. At the time, the discovery created no excitement merely a slight shock of surprise to the old families upon learning there was something historic in Massachusetts antedat-ing the Mayflower. For the natur-alists figured those tracks had been left more than 150,000,000 years ago. And they were suffered to remain nearly eighty years more. But here recently it develops that parties unknown have been chisel-ing Dinah's footprints out and toting them off. This would seem to in-dicate either that America is get-ting dinosaur-consciou- s or that are operating, or both. So if a slinky gentleman should come to the side door, offering a prime specimen for the parlor whatnot don't trade with him, rea-dercall the police. Next time he may come back with a dornick off of Plymouth Rock or the corner-stone of Harvard college or the name plate from Cotton Matter's coffin. IRVIN S. COBB VVNU Service. , ! i I jry By I Pineapple Safari Place on a lettuce Utii Hawaiian pineapple; J salad dressing; over through a potato 6$ cheese place a preserve on top. i Dressing for salad--l spoonfuls of pineappe t, level tablespoonfuls of f ter size of walnut. 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You car) fthe uine, time-teste- d Doanir-- b store. - """" line These Advertise Give You Vati )) Giving Pleasoit' t There is a difference at trying to please and gfcet ure. Give pleasure. c. chance of giving pleasuniu is the ceaseless and c. t triumph of a truly lovi;ec Henry Drummond. pt n On More Mature Reflection "Don't you wish you were a child again and could play in the show?" "No," answered Miss Cayenne, "I thoroughly appreciate the advan-tages of a taxicab over a sled." The Noisy Fellows "Some men," said Uncle Eben "resembles de automobile horn dat ain' doin much to push things . along, but manages to sound like rte , whole works." |