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Show PLEASANT. GROVE REVIEW -- it '1 News Review of Current Events the World Over. Secretary Mills Offers Treasury's Tax Bill Congress . Slashes More Supply Measures Developments in the Presidential Campaign. By EDWARD W. FICKARD Ogden L. Mills SECRETARY OGDEN I- MILL? and'hls associates In the Treus ury department have laid before the senate finance committee their revised program for raising $1,0:(3,000,-CK)0 $1,0:(3,000,-CK)0 for the purpose' of balancing the na; tlonal budget. The bill they offer rejects re-jects thos. features of the measure passed by the house which makes . extreme ex-treme raises In nor: nial income tax rates, surtax rates, corporation Income taxes . and estate taxes restoring these taxes to the level of the rates as they were In 1924. Mr. Mills proposed a compromise on taxing stock sales. The house bill provides a tax of one-fourth of 1 per cent, but not less than four cents a share. The secretary would make it a straight four cents a share tax. Most of the excise taxes In the house bill he rejects, but proposes pro-poses a tax of three-fourths of one cent a gallon on domestic gasoline, which Is not taxed In the house bill. - Air. Mills' program does not differ dif-fer much from the last recommendations recommenda-tions he submitted to the house ways and means committee." It Is . now too late, he says, to apply Income In-come taxes retroactively to 1031 Incomes, In-comes, but the loss occasioned thereby will be offset by. "tightening "tighten-ing of the law through administrative administra-tive changes." The secretary now believes that It will be possible to reduce government govern-ment expenditures $200,000,000 Instead In-stead of $120,000,000. "Articles not taxed In the house "bill on which Mr. Mills would im- posetaxfii areliobaccflchecis anil drafts, and domestic gasoline. WHAT Representative La Guar-dia Guar-dia of New York called "an epidemic of enocomy" continued Its course In congress, to the disgust of Some individual members and of certain governmenloAlcInlaDralL tic reductions In budget estimates ... were made and further slashes were In prospect. The bouse cre.ated precedent pre-cedent by accepting without conference confer-ence the entire 10 per cent made by the senate In the appropriation bill for 'the Inteflordepartment and as the budget bureau already had made 1 heavy reductions from, ihedepart ment requests and the house had - previously - knocked off some - -mil5- lions, Secretary Wilbur spoke of "the odds and ends that are left." lie called the $4,000,000 reduction In funds -for the ; Boulder canyon dam "hocus-pocus," and then took the diminished bill to president Hoover for a conference. The senate Instructed Its appropriations appro-priations ' committee to reduce the treasury-post office supply bill by 10 per cent, .and also approved a reduction re-duction of $1,000,000 In the prohibition prohibi-tion enforcement fund, the only important Item which the house left at the budget estimate. - Next came the slashing of the navy appropriation appropria-tion bill by the house. The - appropriation measure for congress Itself was put aside for one week or more to give the special spe-cial economy committee time to per-" per-" feet an amendment carrying the en- tire retrenchment- program - of pay-reductions pay-reductions and abolition and consolidation con-solidation of federal activities. The "'decision of the economy committee to put all the projected savings Into one bill to be a rider to the legislative supply measure, as President Pres-ident Hoover wished, was reached - over the protest of Chairman Mc-Duffle Mc-Duffle of Alabama. MeDulfle sad his proposal to cat" -federal wages 11 per cent after exempting the first $1,000, would go Into the bill, and that advocates of the Hoover five-day five-day work week and furlough without with-out pay plan would have to offer It as a substitute. Mr. Hoover thinks his plan would save between $225,-000,000 $225,-000,000 and $250,000,000 a year. WHEN the Republican national convention meets in Chicago It will have for Its temporary chairman chair-man and keynoter Senator L. J. Dickinson, of Iowa, whom the arrange-ments arrange-ments committee selected for ' the post with the ap proral of President Hoover. "Hell Raising Dick." as he Is known in his home state, has been one of the strongest defenders cf the Hoover ad- - minlstration and can be counted on to set forth vigorously the lsr sues - en which the Republican party will base its appeal for the favor of the electorate. He was In the lower house for sis term, - n prominent member of the farm blocjthen w as elected to the sen- of April 8, and the -names, made public after a few day's, were found to Include several prominent Americans Amer-icans and some foreigners. Among the former was Arthur Cutten. Nor-beck Nor-beck said the inquiry would be greatly extended. ate to succeed Dan Steck, Democrat. Demo-crat. Other appointments made for the convention were: Sergeant-at-arms, Everett Sanders of Indiana, former secretary to President Calvin Cool-Idge; Cool-Idge; secretary, Lafayette B. Glea-son Glea-son of New York; parliamentarian, James Francjs Burke of Pennsylvania; Pennsyl-vania; assistant, Lehr Fess, Ohio, son of Senator Fess; chief doorkeeper, door-keeper, Col. Glen Haynes of Iowa; assistant, J. N. Johnston, Kansas. FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT Is determined de-termined not to have a quarrel with A1 Smith If he can help It, and in his campaign for delegates I the New York governor Is becoming becom-ing most conciliatory and cautious. Up In St. Paul, Minn., he repljed in a way to Smith's attack In which that leader of Democracy more than Intimated that Roosevelt was a demagogue trying to set ,' class against class. This Franklin disclaimed, dis-claimed, declaring pleasantly that he favored the national policy that "seeks to help all ..simultaneously" an aim with which no one could quarrel but a pronouncement that is scarcely reason for Smith to abandon aban-don his announced Intention to take of. his coat and fight to the bitter end the nomination of the governor. On the whole,, the present situation is such that Democratic leaders fear a repetition of the convention deadlock dead-lock of 1924 and impairment of the party's chances for success at the polls in November. YEARNING that" wet planks In ' both party platforms this year would cause the prohibitionists to get together and elect a dry Presi dent was-Jssued from the woman's I national committee for law enforcement. enforce-ment. -Mrs. Leigh Celvin of New York made the statement before the women's wom-en's convention- at the same time claiming definitely that President Hoover Is a supporter of prohibition. prohibi-tion. She predicted his defeat, however, how-ever, if . the party adopts a wet plank. . ' Senate committees considered THE senate adopted and sent to the house a resolution calling upon "the secretary of agriculture to investigate the cost of maintaining the system of futures fu-tures trading In agricultural ag-ricultural products and" td '"ascertain what classes of citizens citi-zens bear the cost. Wheat and cotton futures both are covered In the terms of the resolution reso-lution which was formed by the agriculture agri-culture committee Sen. Capper by combining meas-rr meas-rr , ures sponsored, by Senators Capper Republican, Kansas) Kan-sas) and Sheppard (Democrat, Texas). . Profits and losses by various classes of traders In wheat and cotton cot-ton futures since July, 1929, togethr er with short sales volume and commission com-mission paid by traders, would be gone into. . J? r - 'Sri - '' ' J A 1VJRS. LOWELL F. HOBART, retiring president general of the Daughters of the American Rev-' olution, addressing the continental congress of the organization In Washington, asserted that alien internationalists, in-ternationalists, pacifists and criminals crim-inals are undermining the security of American institutions. Backing op her plea for a tfnlted front against these Influences, Mrs. Ho-bart- sketched a sordid picture of conditions which she said existed In Jh'is depression period. The congress was peaceful Ahls year, the only ticket In -the field being headed by Mrs. Russell William Wil-liam Magna of Uolyoke, Mass. rlous proposals relating to prohibition prohibi-tion and hear the views of many persons. Matthew Woll of the American Federation of Labor warned the lawmakers of a potential poten-tial revolution by labor unless the beer Industry Is revived; Bishop Cannon appeared before the Judiciary Judi-ciary subcommittee to advocate making the man who buys liquor as guilty as the one who sells It. the manufacturers' committee, by a vote -of -4. to 7, turned down the Bingham beier bill for ' 4 per cent beer. f Sen, Dickinson CECRETARY OF STATE STIM-son STIM-son is now in Geneva and apparently ap-parently already Is up to the neck in matters relating to disarmament, reparations, secur ity and the oriental situation. lie , Is quartered In a ne villa and Is doing a lot Of entertaining, but also he is attending at-tending to business. As one real achieve-" ment, the disarmament disarma-ment conference approved ap-proved t he - principle princi-ple of reduction ot armament "tit " the lowest point con sistent with national safety and the enforcement by common action of International obligations." Approval of the principle was opposed op-posed only by Maxim LItvinov, head of the Russian delegation, who said the action was not related to any efforts to secure genuine disarmament. disarma-ment. . 7 ". Following up " the American and Italian proposals. Sir John Simon, 'British foreign minister, proposed a resolution indorsing the principle of "qualitative" disarmament that Is, the prohibition of certain classes and type of weapons. This was supported by Germany and Italy, but opposed by France. i'i'iv t.n-iv i .aft-,! Sec'y Stimson REAT BRITAIN'S budget, al-V- most balanced, was Introduced to the house of commons by Chancellor Chan-cellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain, and the British found there would be no relief for the In-come In-come tax payers or the heer drinkers for another year. A deficit of about $7,-000,000, $7,-000,000, Mr. Chamberlain Cham-berlain estimated, would be easily made up by a new customs tax to be announced : and a. tax of eight cents Neville Chamberlain THE Interstate commerce commission. com-mission. In a report that marked the culmination of a nation wide survey of the highway-rail transportation trans-portation situation, recommended legislation regulating interstate-bus and truck carriers. "Unrestrained competition Is an Impossible solution of the present transportation problem and Is incompatible in-compatible with the aim of co-ordination under regulation," declared the com mission. A much milder form of regulation for 'the Interstate truck, carriers, common or contract, was recommended. CHAIRMAN NORRECK of the senate committee Investigating short selling of sticks and President Presi-dent Whitney of the-New York-Stock York-Stock exchange did not set along well together last week. Mr. WJiitr ney ave a Ust-of 24,000 shorts is on foreign tea with a preference offour cents on empire em-pire grown tea. The Income tax re mains at about 25 per cent. Of especial Interest to America was the fact that the budget makes no provision for $171,500,000 which will be.due the United States in the next twelve months on the war debt account. Neither does It list In the lteTBs T)t Expense revenue - the equivalent amount which will be due Britain from German I reparations repara-tions and from the European allies on their war debts to Britain. Chamberlain said he felt It would be wiser to leave all. these war debt and reparations accounts out of consideration until after the Lausanne Lau-sanne reparations conference. After a decision is reached at Lausanne and after it Is known whether the Hoover moratorium will be extended, extend-ed, there will be a supplementary British budget to meet the conditions condi-tions then existing, he said. News of tliis course by the Brit-tsh Brit-tsh government started a discussion In congress of 4he possibility re pudiation by Europe of the war debts owed the United States. Sen ator Reed of Pennsylvania said he was confident England would pay us when ihe time .cornea, and others deprecated the Idea of cancellation. Senator Borah took the opportunity opportu-nity to reply to Al Smith's recent suggestion that the war debt be forgotten for-gotten for 25 years and then curtailed cur-tailed to the extent of 25 per cent of the value of American goods purchased pur-chased by the debtors at that time-Mr. time-Mr. JSorah said this would, be In effect complete cancellation and was a scheme for the benefit of private creditors of Europe at the expense of American tax payers. Senator Lewis of Illinois alsoraTtacliect the Smith Idea, and'both be and Borah tied the question up with the disarmament dis-armament problem. ONE more attempt to get Thomas Thom-as J'. Mooney out of the California Cali-fornia penitentiary has f alleds Fol-lowlng Fol-lowlng the counsel of his legal advisers. ad-visers. Governor Rolpb denied a pardon to the man who is serving a life term for participation In the 1916 Preparedness day bombing in San Francisco. A JAPANESE foreign office spokesman spokes-man has warned Russia of the danger of war If there is any recurrence recur-rence of alleged Soviet-inspired outrages out-rages against Japan in Manchuria. He referred - specifically Totbe wrecking of a troop train near Harbin Har-bin recently. In which 14 Japanese 'soldiers were killed, responsibility for which Japan .flatly charged to Russia, ,r The spokesman pointed out that It must be remembered that while Japan Is .not sending new troops to ilfe Siberian border, the Russians are continuing to concentrate their forces. ; , Intermountain News Briefly Told for Busy Readers ALFALFA SEED 25c CLOSED BANK SOLVENT HISTORIC CHAPEL RAZED $20,009 FIRE LOSS CHANGE ROAD COST JEROME, IDA. Farmers who have alfalfa seed held over from last fall will realize at least 21 cents a pound for it, rather than 10 to 13 cents paid last fall. The seed is cleaned at lilackfoot and shipped east, where it Is to be sold for 23 cents a pound. LEHI, TJT. At a mass meeting of the; depositors of the State Bank of Lehl, the president of the board of directors fluted that the. local bank !was thoroughly solvent, but was remaining closed due to a -claim ;of $44,000 lodged against it by .the Alpine school board. LOGAN, L'T. A group of local tmslrfess men accompanied by a police escort and the senior high school band, made an excursion to Smlthheld for the Health day celebration. cel-ebration. They w ill also go to Richmond Rich-mond on Black and White day, May Bth. BRIG HAM CITY, UT. The Oregon Ore-gon Short Line railroad has made application to discontinue its sta tion agency at Willard. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. 13 car loads of cracked wheat and one car-load car-load of flour have been made avail able locally by the Red Cross Bon neville chapter. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. Bonneville Bonne-ville county commissioners compromised compro-mised on a charge of 85 cents per day per federal prisoner lodged In the county Jail, a reduction from the former rate of $1 per day. BOISE, IDA. Heavy mainten ance and repair work will be neces sary on highways in southeast and eastern Idaho because of the severe winter, the director of highways reports after a survey of the roads CEDAR CITY, UT. The agricul tural - department, of the Branch Agricultural college, the local Wool growers' association and the Utah State Agricultural college extension Bervice gave, a program for the general public at the B. A. C. recently, re-cently, Including a Bheep shearing and wool handling demonstration and two films at a local theatre." OGDEN, UT. 142 , persons in Weber county now are on the old-agepenslon old-agepenslon listran increasefrom 134 on January 1. The amount paid out on old-age pensions for April is approximately $S.0Q each. PROVO, UT. The highway in Provo canyon Jofactieallcleafed of the huge snowslldeL Of last Feb ruary which covered the road for a depth of 60 to 80 feet over a stretch of nearly one thousand feet. SPANISH FORK, UT.Bids for the construction of a gravel road between Castllla and Moark in Spanish Fodc canyon have been asked by the state road commission. The taiR-fti of tneT-otrtfts Similes." HYRU5I, UT. Money for the actual construction of the Hyrum Irrigation project will be available about July 1, according to expectations. expecta-tions. Congreso recently appropriated appropriat-ed $300,000 for the project. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Counties Coun-ties will be relieved of the necessity of sharing in the costs of survey, betterment and construction on the federal highway system In Utah. -This announcement is made by the state road conimission. So long as this policy is in effect, counties are not to pay for the expense on the 1750 miles of federal highway in the state, except that of providing rights of way. Previously, counties have furnished as their share for federal highway construction from $400,000 to in excess of $700,000 annually an-nually . in state roadT taxes, the greater part of -which was used en federal highways. POCATELLO, IDA. A young man and three girls have been arrested ar-rested here," alleged to have stolen an automobile belonging to F. Hezel-braker, Hezel-braker, lieutenant governor of Montana, Mon-tana, and driving it to Downey, Ida. BOISE, IDA. Employment conditions con-ditions Improved slightly in Idaho recently with the opening of spring worb and Increased highway construction. con-struction. There is still a surplus of labor.. The large mines continue on a three day week basis and lumber, lum-ber, operations are slack. Residential Residen-tial building and the unemployment relief program has reduced the number num-ber of unemployed. - PlaceF mining has increased In the neighborhood of Boise. CH EYEXNE," WTO. A resol i Hon favoring modification oif the 18th amendment was passed at the closing session of the annual convention con-vention of the Wyoming State Federation Fed-eration of Labor. The resolution did not suggest a definite form of modification. Persons and Scenes in the Current Newt v wife ffl - 'H .r ) - .- Ill' rJ: pS? ' Hs r EYANSTON, WTO. Plans are being made to tear down the L. D. S. chapel, built In 1896, at Almy, Wyoming. Part of the material will he salvaged for the hniidlng of a mailer church and amusement hall Almy, an all but deserted coal camp, was once one of the most flourish-lnjr flourish-lnjr In Wyoming. DUCHESNE, TJT. Lowe Ashton, r county Ui'il Cross chairman, reporti : that 500.0. 0 pounds of cracked J wheat have been shipped Into Du .Thesne county -wlth 80,000 pounds ol r Hour. 1 Ambassador Mellon "welcomed to England by the mayor of Southampton. 2 Women presenj ... - n n ttt ut irAAnli momArlnl d f AloYflnrYrln Vo - - - i petition to congress, o ueorge nasuiugtuu wucvuiv , Finland's Fine New Parliament Building ' 'M U L: i f t III 1 ! Finland, which has Just been indulging in an abortive revolution, Is proud of her new parllami Ing In Ilelslngfors, shown above. i, V Scene of the Mine Riots in Ohio 4i TP Irs i fj ' -WjW? :KK JDU. Af.-I. -V.:'. . .JWVW' :-1T;i.Ll-i.A,iaa-Tm.v... v-Bl. "This photograph shows the Somers mine In the foreground, with the mining town of Adena,0J the background, where three strikers were killed and many injured. National Guardsmen took charge situation and .the closing , of the mine averted further disorders. STRAIGHT SHOOTER Mrs. flunt T. Dickinson who captured cap-tured first honors In the women's trap shooting tournament, at Huntington, Hunt-ington, L. L - - (ft l3t, Westers Xewrpapw Caion.) Ornamental Tabltware Knives anj, forks thatVfc tike gol4 -4m- are- much morFreble. have been produced byQintish manufa4-turerT- using - arrailoyof aluminum aDd copper. Rent Strike i Pickets Are the Lat .-II , (C?y ' ' T'i" J ' rH" . " r hnr'- r ' w MMwiiLLwiH --- i f-'i Tiini wn hi i ill i i ii wrri No Strike is romnlof o n-lthnnt Its nlz-koVa " an In NeW I i rent Rtrikea nra rn,olon (,.. ... a . in keCO I pective tenants of the buildings affected. Old Vanity Caw An ancient vanity ease, dating from S00 B: C. is In the museum of Haverford college as part of the collection col-lection gathered hv the mile a logical expedi t ion during - work at Tnk01 . . -' Panama CJ Pf A vessel proceeding- J'j throagh-the Panama ( only from ten to twelv nt rt!s time tt- ia occupied In being UfteS uciu ocemesn, in Palestine. ; ered through the lo |