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Show (qaLD J CROP CONTROL VOIDED IN 6 - 3 RULING Decision Strikes at Heart Of New Deal Farm Aid Program Weather Forecast UTAH Unsettled with probable snow Tuesday in the northwest nortion; slightly warmer in the northwest portion tonight. Maximum temp. Sunday ... 38 Minimum temp. Sunday ... 29 Coldest this morning 4 above. Evening Herald FIFTIETH YEAR, NO. 121 COMPLETE UNITED PRESS TELEGRAPH NEWS SERVICE AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PROVO, UTAH COUNTY, UTAH, MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1936 Th n v Li WS3 MERRY GO-ROUND A Daily Picture of What's Going- On in National Affairs By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN WASHINGTON Though the fundamental difference between the president's neutrality neu-trality bill and that proposed by members of the senate munitions committee centers around one word, that one word promises to cause one of the fost important battles of the session. The word in question is "may."' It gives the president discretionary discretion-ary powers to impose arms embargoes em-bargoes against belligerents. This is what the administration favors. Various senators and congressmen congress-men oppose this. They want to change "may" to "shall"; make it mandatory on the president to impose im-pose embargoes. Furthermore, they would have congress define the embargoes specifically and make them applicable against all belligerents. This, according to arguments put by the president to congressional congress-ional leaders, would tie his hands, prevent U. S. cooperation tor peace. In case war spread to Eu- I rcpe and Asia, the United States ! would have to ban shipments to ; Great Britain, despite the tacit j U. S. -British agreement regarding the Far East. This is the big undercover rea- ' son whispered by state department officials trying to win converts for discretionary neutrality powers ; 1 r the president. I NOTE Leaders of the munitions muni-tions bloc opposed to discretionary powers are: Senators Nye. Clark. Bone: and Congressmen Sisson ( N. Y.) and Maverick Texas i. DRASTIC" BILL Two itt-ms in the "senate munitions committee" neutrality bill indicate :ts drastic nature. One is a penalty of $10,000 or five years imprisonment or both for traveling in a belligerent vessel. The other is the establishment of export quotas for essential war materials, by which a belligerent country could not buy from the (Continued on Page Four) SEVEN DIE IN HOTEL BLAZE Vr:STFIELI. Mass , Jan 6 l.V. The known death toll in a fire which destroyed an apartment hotel rose to seven today when firemen recovered three additional addition-al bodies from the smoldering ruins. WESTFIELD. Mass.. Jan. G u T --Four persons were known dead, four more were missing and believed be-lieved flead and seven others were in a hospital today after fire destroyed de-stroyed Van Deusen Inn., fashionable fash-ionable downtown hotel, last night. The dead: Henry Van Dcusen. l. son of the proprietor. George F. Alexander, 72, the youth's maternal grandfather. Miss Nathalie E. Jones, matron. Mrs. Minnie C. James, widow of a Westfield physician. The mi&sirfg: Miss Bessie J. Maione, Westfield West-field Sa vinks Bank clerk Miss M. Grace Fickett, state normal school teacher. Gilo Bernardino. Mrs. Chamberlaine. Congress Today By Tinted Press SENATE Meets at noon. Clerks reads president's budget message. Midwestern airport bill first on calendar. House: Meets at noon Clerk reads president's budget message. Ways and means committee meets to consider Vinson - Mc-Cormack Mc-Cormack bonus bill. fa Vaccination Is U rged By Provo City Physician Vaccination against smallpox small-pox was advised today by Dr. C. M. Smith, city physician, physi-cian, after a case contracted in Carbon county, was reported re-ported by a local doctor. Several local residents were exposed to the malady before be-fore the smallpox diagnosis was made, said Dr. Smith who expressed the opinion that other cases would result from it. "The safest way to avoid danger of contracting the disease would to have the family physician vaccinate those who have not recently been vaccinated," he said. Minority Calls Mass Meeting of Bank Depositors Proposed Compromise Settlement Settle-ment of Loose Indebtedness Indebt-edness Is Opposed Opposition to the proposed plan of a compromise settlement of the Loose interests' liabilities in the Provo Commercial and Savings Sav-ings bank flared into the open today with thvi announcement of a call for a mass meeting of depositors, issued by the minority members of the depositors' committee, com-mittee, George H. Chaffin. A. V. Watkins, M. R. Straw and Alma Van Wagenen. The meeting hap been set for Thursday evening at 7:30 in the south district court room of the city and county building. The majority members of the committee who approved the proposal pro-posal are J. A. Owens, R. A. Moorefield. C. T. Keigley, Harvey King, S. J. Jones, and Ralph Hayward. The proposed plan of settlement was recently filed with the court for approval. The court hearing on the petition has been fixed for January 10. The minority members who oppose op-pose the compromise proposal set forth their views briefly in the official of-ficial call for the meeting as follows fol-lows : "To the Depositors of the Provo Commercial and Savings Bank: "The State Banking department has recently - filed a petition in the Fourth judicial district court asking for court approval to settle set-tle the indebtedness of the so-called so-called Loose interests to the bank on a plan which has been outlinea in the petition, but which is entirely en-tirely too lengthy and too complex com-plex to be set forth here. In brief the proposal purports to settle an indebtedness of over $154,000 (Continued on Page Eight) Hoover Derides Roosevelt Talk OGDEN, Utah. Jan. 6 'l".l Herbert Hoover believes the message mes-sage to congress of President Roosevelt might well be entitled "war on earth and ill will among men." Hoover, en route east, added salty comment today. The speech, he said, embraced "the familiar theme that before the date of creation was moved to March 4, 1933, 'the world was without form and void'." It was a good sample, he said, of the "political method of accusing evryone of being terribly ter-ribly wicked and corrupt who objects ob-jects to the many departures of the new deal." The Roosevelt phrase that the only thing to fear Is fear brought a retort from the former president, presi-dent, who said the warning has daily practical reminders "as we witness for the first time in American Am-erican history the administrative officials using fear to coerce the common man." KILOWATT TAX DECLINES BOISE. Jan. 6 (U.P) Idaho's kilowatt tax collections in 1935 amounted to $214,807.39, it was announced today by Lee Heller, auditor of the tax. This was a decline de-cline from last year although there were more kilowatt hours used in the previous year. In 1934 the collection amounted to $220,795.90. Roosevelt Submits Balanced Budget For No n - Relief Expense Work-Relief Appropriation To Be Sought In the Spring Will Be Less Than The Amount Voted Last Year BY LYLE C. WILSON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (U.R) President Roosevelt today submitted to congress a balanced budget for regular federal expenditures in the li):7 fiscal year but forecast a work relief re-lief deficit of $1,000,000,000 to $3,000,000,000 for that ieriod. Mr. Roosevelt withheld from congress estimates of the size of the work relief appropriation to be sought this spring. He said, only, that the appropriation would be "far less" than the $4,880,000,000 which congress crudgingly voted last year. The message forecast the second largest annual revenue in American history for the next fiscal year $5,654,000,000. Mr. Roosevelt said that income would give him a $5,000 000 surplus of receipts over regular expenditures in the i937 -'fiscal year still excluding the Highlights of Budget Message WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 ir.P Highlights of the 1937 budget: President Roosevelt reported a balanced budget for regular ex-1 ex-1 penditures, ou- a work relief deficit defi-cit of over $1,000,000,000. The ! 1936 deficit was $3,234,507,392. if. if. if- Estimated a surplus of receipts over regular expenditures of $5,-; $5,-; 000,000. A 3 f Forecast revenues for 1937 of $5,654,000,000, compared to $4,-! $4,-! 410.793.946 in 1936. i Requested $937,791,966 plus j other items for national defense, I. compared to $744,839,588 (plus) ; in 1936. f T" j Estimated expenditures on AAA i program for 1937 at $619,347,000 i -I .. CC1 1' ' IUl loi-t t r i J ' v v v v. Showed a total national debt of $31,000,000 in 1937, or double the 1930 figure. Forecast indirectly that new taxation would be necessary if bonus legislation enacted. 3 f. 2f. 3f. Disclosed that the AAA now facing supreme court test as to its validity the CCC and major public works program in the future fu-ture would be part of regular budget rather than emergency. 150 ETHIOPLA.NS KILLED ROME, Jan. b d.R More than 150 Ethiopians were killed or wounded when native dubat sold-k sold-k rs from Italian Somaliland "Destroyed" an Ethiopian encampment encamp-ment near Areri on the Doria River on the southern front, an official announcement said today. Five were killed and 15 wounded on the Italian side, it was added. Stalled Auto Is Discovered to Be Stolen Property Because Police Officers Bert Halladay and Fred D. Loveless were "good Samaritans" and offered of-fered to help two youths get their automobile out of the snow at Eleventh West and Center street Saturday night, they solved the first car theft of 1936 in Provo and did it before the owner knew the car was gone. Monday morning Ellis Nielson, 20, of the Big Cottonwood CCC camp and Ned Nielson, 18, of the Bridgeland CCC camp, were sentenced to spend 45 days in the Utah county jail. The two officers, en route to the jail, saw the boys attempting to get the car out of the drift and stopped to aid them. When the officers noticed the youths were drunk they questioned question-ed them closer and read on the inspection sticker that the car belonged be-longed to Jack Pullen, 792 West Center. Pullen had not noticed his car was gone until the officers called at the home about 10:15 p. m. to see if be could identify the two youths. fa prospective relief appropriation i which will be determined and re- ! vealed in March or later. National Debt Doubled . , , . . , iL , This budget showed that seven depression years will more than , double the national debt- $15,000- j Partly Repayable i 000.000 in 1930 to $31,000,000,000 The statement showed that $6,- in 1937. Mr. Roosevelt promised 539,676.708.63 of the allocated I only that the 1937 deficit would he funds had not yet been expended, j smaller than the $3,234,000,000? however, and -that an additional i estimated for 1936. i $4,063,040,233.11 was classified as He asked for $1,000,000,000 for I ultimately repayable. ! national defense. This draft on J The president broke down the ; the treasury for men and guns ! 5um into five principal categories: gave emphasis to his Jan. 3 ' 1 Agricultural aid $ 1,674,77.19 ! warning that the threat of war , 2. Relief. 5.226,078.066.95 j is upon the world. 3. Public Works 5,164,721,531.60 j Without mentioning the bonus, 4. Aid to Home I Mr. Roosevelt reiterated to ton-; Owners .... 761,903,978.30 j gress that it must impost new I 5. Miscellaneous 4,508,713.819.59 taxes to meet cash payment 'or Total $17,335,706,273.63 I any other burden imposed on the Unallocated Funds $23,832,131.74 i treasury beyond the budget items. ; Grand Total . .$17,359,558,405.37 : Agricultural Policies The greatest single source of I Tnis message committed Presi- these funds was the Recons-truc-! dent Roosevelt to permanent fed- , tion Finance corporation which al-j al-j eral efforts to control American located a total of $6,635,503,596.78 agricultural crops. If the supreme for its own activities and more court outlaws the AAA the New than a score of other recovery and ; Deal wi seek new legislation. relief aencies and projects. i tupra unnrnnriQTtnna ronAm. mended in this budget aggregate 1 j. Tj T.ij dent promised to hold his regular expenditures within the smaller sum expected in tax and other revenue. The $6,400,000,000 recommended recom-mended today is $1,254,000,000 greater than the overall appropriations appropria-tions proposed in the budget presented pre-sented one year ago. Mr. Roosevelt said conditions were improving and that his poli cies were aiding the nation to better bet-ter times. He revealed that New behind Deal spending was far schedule. Mr. Roosevelt's failure to include in-clude his prospective relief appropriation ap-propriation recommendation prevented pre-vented accurate estimate of the prospective deficit or of the probable prob-able national debt when the next fiscal year ends on June 30, 1937. One year ago Mr. Roosevelt estimated esti-mated the national debt would aggregate ag-gregate $34,238,823,656 on June 30, 1936, when this fiscal year ends. Today's message revised that estimate downward to $30,-933.375,017 $30,-933.375,017 and forecast that 18 months hence, when the 1937 fiscal fis-cal year ends, the national debt will aggregate $31,351,000,000 plus any appropriations congress may make this year for relief This messatre covers the 12 months beginning July 1. 1936 comprising the last half of this (Continued on Page Five) Heiress Files $500,000 Damage Suit Against Her Mother, Surgeons After Sterilization Operation SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 6 (l.F) -Attorney Russell P. Tyler an- nounced today that Ann Cooper Hewitt, 21, supposedly one of the nation's wealthiest heiresses, instructed in-structed h:m z-j Tile suit in San Francisco seeking $500,000 damages dam-ages against her mother and two prominent San Francisco surgeons charging them with conspiracy which assertedly subjected her to a sterilization operation which deprived de-prived her of motherhood "as part of a plot to depive ner of a fortune for-tune left by her father." the late Peter Cooper Hewit of New York, noted Inventor. "I will file the suit today," Tyler Ty-ler said. "It will be against Miss DEPRESSION COST SHOWN BY PRESIDENT Roosevelt Presents Nation With the Bill For Recovery Cost WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (U.R) President Roosevelt today presented to the nation the bill for the depression's cost up to Oct. ;u, 1935. It totalled $17,359,558,405.37. This staggering sum represented repre-sented the total funds appropriated appro-priated and allocated for recovery and relief purposes up tc that date. The cost of fighting the depres- sion, the president's statement made clear, already can be ex- j pectea to amount to a sum nearly j IOO times the price President I Thomas Jefferson paid for the ; Louisiana purchase, which was j $15,000,000. LABOR RECORDS GAINS IN 1935 WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 r.l! Secretary of Labor Frances Per- kins produced a jubilant an- nual reDort to contrress todav 1 finding the fiscal year ended last July perhaps the most fruitful for fv, n a j history. With social security, old age pension and other beneficial legislation legis-lation ""becoming the law of the land, madame secretary even found a certain satisfaction in 1935's unusual number of labor-disturbances, labor-disturbances, which she said were "due in part to the natural expectation ex-pectation of labor to share in the early fruits of business improvement." improve-ment." For the future Miss Perkins envisioned an industrial utopia for the man who works with his hands, listing a minimum wage law, a short work wkeek of per- 1 naPs 40 hours, compensation in- surance. and strict regulation of machinery to prevent industrial I accidents, as things to come. Hewitt's mother, Mrs- Maryon Brugiere - Denning-Hewitt-D'Er- langer-McCarter, and Drs. Tilton E. Tillman and Samuel Q. uoyd." Dr. Boyd told the United Press and the San Francisco News that he had sterilized Miss Hewitt, "but it was at the request of the girl's mother because the girl was feeble-minded." Boyd said Mrs. licCarter want ed the operation performed "not because she didn't want her daughter to have children, but because she was aTraid that her mental conditioi, tvourc lead her into moral difficulties." Tillman, who described himself as p. "childhood friend of Mrs. uviiyjuiiuvj Take Office MAYOR MARK ANDERSON COMMISSIONER J. P. McGUIRE NEW BISHOP IN SHARON WARD Joseph Finch, well known church worker, replaced B. M. Jolley as bishop of the Sharon ward, at services held in the chapel Sunday evening. Bir.hop Jolley has served in the capacity of bishop for the past j live years. J. Alien tsenows was ' sustained as first counselor, and i Ivan Farnsworth as second coun- : sc,or; f- A-,CaJ;!'er retained ! W'1IU '--" k selors are W Hiram Parks and Ken- neth Mc Ewan. Rees Infant Is Called By Death Deon Rees, five - month-old daughter of Francis D. and Zola Allred Rees, died from pneumonia, Sunday evening at 10:30 o'clock at the family home. 512 South Second West street. The baby is survived also by a sister, Phyliss. and her grandparents, grand-parents, Thomas Res of Spanish Fcrk, and Mr. and Mrs. John L. Allred of Talmage. The body is at the Desert Mortuary. Funeral announcement will be made later. (? - Mc Carter." said he was nresent during tht operation but took no actual part in it. "The girl is feeble-minded," Tillman said. "Mrs. McCarter came to me and said she wanted her daughter examined. I had her under observation for six or eight months. Mrs. Scally (a state psychiatrist) gave the tests and confirmed my observation as to the girl's condition. The actual operation wa.? perrormeu by Dr. Boyd. In such a case Mrs. McCarter Mc-Carter was within her legal rights in deciding on an operation." Tyler vigorously denied his client is feeble-minded. He said (Continued on Page Five) 5 s V: ' y f . , I I - f : its J t o' t I " i. t '"--."' - - " ,1 ! s r f -, A I V - f 1 I1- - LM L NEW MAYOR, COMMISSIONER TAKEJFFICE Commissioner McGuire III Takes Oath of Office At Residence In' the presence of 150 Provo Pro-vo citizens Judge Abe W. Turner administered the oath of office to Mark Anderson, who succeeded A. O. Smoot as mayor of Provo city, and to Mrs. Mary F. Smith, who succeeded herself as city auditor, audi-tor, at the south district court room Monday noon. J. P. McGuire, who supplants J. E. Snyder as city commissioner, was ill and unable to attend the services. The oath of office was administered to him at his home by Fred J. Evans, city recorder and clerk. Three huge vases of flowers added color to the proceedings as Judge Turner administered the oaths and as Mayor Anderson and Mayor Smoot spoke briefly. Outlines Progress The new mayor outlined some of the measures he favored, including an attempt to get new revenue for the city through a diversion of part of the gasoline state, liquor sale profits and others, and possibly pos-sibly through a municipally owned power plant. Mayor Smoot read a review of the accomplishments during his administration, pointing out how the financial condition of the city had improved so that a $45,000 deficit had changed to a $50,000 surplus and stressing the $473,695 worth of permanent improvements obtained through federal aid and by the decisive action of the commission. com-mission. (The full text of Mayor Smoot's talk will be printed in Tuesday's Herald. A resume of Mayor Anderson's An-derson's civic principles and program pro-gram for the city, will also be published more completely in a forthcoming issue.) Mayor Anderson declared that while he approved of the improvements improve-ments made through federal aid. that this source of aid could probably prob-ably not be counted on indefinitely, indefinite-ly, but may terminate within a year. "To minimize the number of taxing agencies, cities should not levy separately on the same sources of revenue that the county, coun-ty, the state and the federal government gov-ernment now levy on, but these larger taxing units should refund a percentage of the taxes to the cities in which such taxes are collected. col-lected. The amount refunded to each city should be in proportion to the amounts collected within the limits of each city. "Cities should seek specific legislation leg-islation that will bring a definite portion of the state collected tax revenues back to the cities in which thev are collected, not as grants or handouts from state departments de-partments but as taxes due to the city to be spent as the cities see fit. He cited five possible such surces of revenue; state gasoline tax, state motor vehicle tax, profits pro-fits from state liquor sales, state (Continued on Page Eight) STOCK MARKET GOES SOARING By UNITED PRESS Invalidation of the agricultural adjustment administration act brought wild scenes into the cotton cot-ton and other commodity markets today and sent the stock market soaring in such active trading that tickers fell far behind Stocks gained 1 to more than 3 points in issues that would benefit bene-fit by the AAA decision. Processing Pro-cessing company issues such as the foods and packers were best performers. Slight losses were noted in issues whose companies cater to farm demand, including mail order and farm implement. Cotton soared $1.50 a bale on heavy short covering and general buying. Sugar futures declined 9 to 13 points since the Jones -Costigan act which has benefitted the sugar market is directly tied up with the AAA. WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 (U.R) The supreme court today struck down the New Deal's farm recovery program provided pro-vided for in the AAA by holding hold-ing the law an unconstitutional unconstitution-al attempt to control production. produc-tion. The decision was rendered with an opinion so sweeping as to make reenactment of any similar measure seem impossible im-possible without constitutional constitution-al amendment a long and difficult task. Striking at the very heart of the law, the decision held that control of crop production produc-tion even by voluntary agreements agree-ments and the payment of bounties exceeded the limitations limita-tions placed on, the power of the federal government. A stunning blow at what the New Deal considers its outstand- WASH1NGTON, Jan. (U.P.) President Roosevelt today received re-ceived in silence the news that the Supreme court had outlawed the AAA, the backbone back-bone of the new deal's farm program. ing recovery achievement, the decision de-cision left officials at least momentarily mo-mentarily uncertain as to their immediate im-mediate course. To Affect Others The decision was in such forceful force-ful terms that t leit no doubt that the Bankhead cotton control act would also be declared invalid. It also appeared definitely to scrap the Kerr-Smith tobacco act and the potato control law. The decision served to strike down processing taxes on wheat rice, tobacco, corn, hogs, sugar beets and sugar cane, paper, jute, peanuts and rye. as well as cotton. Crop production control programs pro-grams for all those commodities fell with the decision. The decision was considered the most important in political significance signifi-cance since the Civil war. Briefs and arguments submitted during consideration of the case showed the deepest cleavage between be-tween the industrial attackers and farm defenders of AAA. Reverberations over the courts decision were expected to sound furiously through the coming political campaigns. The issue of a constitutional amendment was regarded as an almost inevitable outcome. although al-though the exact form it would take was uncertain. The court based its decision on the finding that AAA was an invasion in-vasion of the rights of the states. (Continued on Page mve) ROOSEVELT HAS NO COMMENT WASHINGTON. Jan. 6 lP President Roosevelt received news that the supreme court had invalidated in-validated his farm program while at his desk today and "just held the sheet of paper in front of him and smiled." News of the president's first reaction was given by Secrtary of War George H. Dern, who was with Mr. Roosevelt. "He just held the sheet of paper pa-per in front of him on his desk and smiled," Dern said. Earlier the White House had announced that the president had "no comment." com-ment." Word of the court's adverse decision spread rapidly through the capitol, with Republicans in congress generally indicating gratification and Democrats cautious cau-tious in their comment. Democratic leaders, refraining from commenting until they have had an opportunity to study the decision, indicated they believed it would not be difficult to remedy rem-edy the situation. TOWNSEND CLUB TO MEET HERE The Townsend club of Provo will meet Wednesday evening at 7:30 o'clock in the city court room in the city and county building. The election of officers will take place, also, matters of business are to be discussed. A full attendance at-tendance is urged,. - i! |