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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Porto Rico Devastated by a Hurricane Gandhi's Fast Ends irrVictory De Valera Tells League of Nations What Ails It. By EDWARD W. PICKARD t 1 i """St, Gov. Beverley ONCK again' the "storm of San Euseplo" tame out of the southern Atlantic ocean on the feast day of that saint and swept across Porto Itico tpMmmam n8 it did m 192a r"'! leavlne a terrible trail of death and destruction. For hours the hurricane raged, tearing down buildings, ruining the coffee and fruit crops and killing and maiming I lie people of the unhappy un-happy Island, Gov. James It. Beverley thought the dead would number well over two hundred hun-dred and the Injured more than a thousand. The property damage has Bot been estimated, but It certainly will run Into many millions of dollars. dol-lars. Broken communication Hues and roads blocked by debris made the gathering of accurate information informa-tion slow.' Before reaching Porto Itico the storm struck the Virgin inlands, killing If) persons, sinking many vessels and wrecking buildings. build-ings. Later, It hit Haiti and Santo Domingo. Most of the fatalities In Porto Itico were In the country districts, for the authorities of San Jimn, forewarned, placed many hundreds of the residents In the solidly built "Bchools nnd churches. The property prop-erty losses In the city, however, were heavy, especially on the ocean front. Governor Beverley was prompt In starting relief machinery. He formed an emergency committee and placed ample Insular funds In Its hands. By his order the police Impressed Im-pressed Into service prisoners In all the Jails, letting them work without guards at clearing the roads anil streets and reopening communication communica-tion facilities. The governor of course reported the conditions Immediately Im-mediately to Washington and the Red Cross ordered Us chief supply officer to the Island and sent a destroyer de-stroyer with medical supplies. MA n ATM A GANDHI'S "fast unto death" won a striking victory vic-tory for the little Hindu holy man. for the caste Hindus and the untouchables, un-touchables, hurrying to save his life, agreed upon a compromise electoral plan that was fairly satisfactory to Gandhi. It was hastily accepted by Prime Minister MacDonald and the British cabinet, and thereupon the niahatma broke his fast with a few Sips of a lime concoction. For more than six days he had partaken of nothing but water with salt or so'da hi It, and the physicians at.Veravdn Jail said he could not have survived much longer. The compromise plan provides that 148 seats In provincial leglsla tures be held by the depressed classes and that a percentage of eats In the central legislature be reserved for them. It also provides system of primary elections. These special features are to end after ten years. In accepting this plan, the British Brit-ish government pointed out thnt, some details still remained" under consideration. The official stule ment said t big-did not Imply oppo sition by the government. hand Is raised against the covennnt gufliclcntly strong It can smite with Impunity." - Tills lust obvious allusion to Japanese Japa-nese controlled Manchuria was followed fol-lowed by a warning that the only way to silence criticism of the league Is "to show unmistakably that the covenant Is a solemn pact of obligations which no state will llnd it possible to Ignore." Disarmament, he also declared, was a flop ami a bluff. The Lausanne conference on reparations, he admitted, ad-mitted, was a mild success, but he made It clear It was not the fault of the league. Nicholas Politls of Greece was elected as the president of the assembly. as-sembly. What thnt body would find to do was uncertain. The reception and discussion of the league's corft-mission corft-mission on Manchuria Man-churia already had been postponed for at lenst two weeks at the behest of Japan, and the statesmen were not agreed even upon the establishment of disarmament, financial fi-nancial and eco nomic commissions. To make matters worse, the stead-of stead-of Germany to take sessions of the dis- effectually v 1 f r! Nicholas Politic fast refusal part In the armament conference stopped up that august International Internation-al body for ;t bedtime being. The steering committee In a quarrelsome quarrel-some secret meeting considered the demand of Arthur Henderson' for Immediate convocation of the general gen-eral conference and then announced an-nounced "it had adjourned until' October Oc-tober 10. TV- S trol of the United States senate, sen-ate, outnumbering the Republicans by one. This comes about through (he appointment of Walter Walker by Gov. William It. Adams of Colorado Colo-rado to All the vacancy caMsed by .the death of Senator Charles W. Waterman' So the upper house now has 48. Democrats, 47 Republicans Repub-licans and one Farmer-Laborite. There whs uncertainty as to whether wheth-er the new. man would serve In the lame duck session of congress or only until a successor to Waterman Is elected November 8. Eamon da Valera yilEN the league of Nations ' assembly opened Us thirteenth annual session In Geneva, Eamon de. Valera, lYeslilent of tha Irish Free State, was In the chair as president presi-dent of the league council, and he took tha opportunity to tell what he thought' of the league and' Its f.a II ores. He poke without restraint, re-straint, telling his gloomy hearers that the league had lost the world's confidence because It had not boldly tackled the major . problems that came before It, notably nota-bly the situation In the Far East and the question of" disarmament "People aro complaining that the league Is devoting Its activities to matters of secondary Interest while Vital International problems of the day are being shelved or Ignored." k a lit In a ed . People are spy in g that equality of states does not apply ap-ply hero In things that matter. "People are becoming Impatient at the apparently meager faceswv ferences and meetings. They are Inquiring whether these conferences ' Justify the burden of contribution to the league's budget. Finally there Is the snspicion that little more tha s lip service Is paid ti the fimda mental principles on which the league was founded. There Is a suspicion thiit action by the league la the economic sphere is paralysed tT pressure of rxrer-fm! rxrer-fm! national Interests and that If a BOTH the Republicans and the Democrats professed to have high hopes of carrying Iowa In the Presidential ' election, but their claims are unset tled " by the announcement an-nouncement of Sen-ator Sen-ator Smith W. Brookhart that he will be In the race for the senate as the nominee of the "progressive" p a r-ty, r-ty, expecting to draw support from both the major parties. par-ties. His decision came three months Sen. 8. W. after his defeat In Brookhart the Republican-primary by Henry Field. He admit tedly has ajarge following anions the Iowa Republicans, especially In the rural districts. The Democrats had expected that Brookhart would follow the example of his brother progressive Republican, Senator George W. Norrls of Nebraska, and come out flatly for Franklin D. Roosevelt for President M'SlKMliHii I ODET J tire IT sriOUSK. former execo- chalrman of the Democrat ic national .. committee, gave . the California PenMKTats a shock -by the announcement that Association Against the Prohlbitloa Amendment, Amend-ment, of which he Is president, would support Tallant Tnhhs, Republican Re-publican nominee for senator from that state, rather than William G.J McAdoo. the Democratic choice. Shouse said that McAdoo had not made his posltlotf't'lear on the prohibition pro-hibition question. He stated also that the association feared the cause of prohibition repeat might be retarded or embarrassed by the election of McAdoo. It therefore urged, he said, that California ad vocatps of prohibition repeal et for Tubhs. nnd Representative Gonzalo de An-drade An-drade and his two brothers. A fifth lender of the Conservatives, Dr. Miguel Aguilar, was fatally wounded. HOW to arrange the financing fry' the Reconstruction Finance corporation of the sale of 15,000.000 or more bushels of northwestern wheat to China has been taking the attention of President Hoover and the interested federal agencies. Negotiations Ne-gotiations have been opened with China and . though the final arrangements ar-rangements had not been made It was said In Shanghai that the deal was practically assured. It Involves about $0,000,000 In gold. The grain Involved In the proposal pro-posal would come from producers of the Northwest on whom shipping costs have borne heavily. The. relief re-lief act authorized the Reconstruction Reconstruc-tion Finance corporation to make loans for financing foreign sales of surplus agricultural products where they "cannot be fjnnnced In the normal nor-mal course of commerce" and where they will not "affect adversely the world markets of such products." 1ES of President Mactrndo of of assassination, their victim being Dr. Clemente liello. president of the senate, lender of the Liberal party and the man slated to succeed suc-ceed Machndo at the head of the govern merit. Seven men in aa an tomohile fired five volleys frim a machine eun at Bello as he was leavlne his home, and he was struck and killed by eleven bullets llis -chauffeur bIm was mortallv wounJeiL Within a few hours al leced government agents hud retal lateiL by s!.it: o fnrprml net GEORGE WASHINGTON'S famous fa-mous trowel Is being put to use oulte often these dn.vs. The latest occasion was the laying of the cornerstone of the new $10,000,000 post office building on Pennsylvania avenue. With Mrs. Hoover an interested inter-ested spectator and hundreds of others gathered nbout, Mr. Hoover wielded the' tool that the Father of his Country used In laying the cornerstone of the-Capitol In 1703. He slnpied on the mortar and the stone was swung into place, a real mason tested the block with his level and pronounced it truly laid. Postmaster General Brown told the crowd that the day was the one hundred hun-dred and forty-third anniversary bf the founding of the postal service. Senator Smoot spoke briefly, and the President then delivered an address dwelling on the function of the postal service In the making of the nation. Calvin Coblidge FIVE eminent citizens have . agreed to act as a commission which wjll "survey the transportation transporta-tion situation In this country" and report such recommendations recom-mendations for relief re-lief and betterment as may appear wise to them. The commission Is spon sored by the Na- - tional Association of Mutual Banks, and the announcement announce-ment of Its crea- kv jkv 1 tion was made by L Wtafcfl 'Walter tlonnrtf New York banker, on behalf of the ns- . soclatioa Calvin Coolldge, former President Is chair- man of IfieT commission; and the other members are RprnardiM. Baruch, financier and railway director; di-rector; Alfred E. Smith, former governor gov-ernor of New York ; Clark Howell, publisher of the Atlanta Constitution, Constitu-tion, and Alexander , Legge, president presi-dent of the International Harvester company and former chairman of the farm board. The commission Is the result of mobilization of virtually every bank. Insurance company, and major business busi-ness association In the country for a concerted effort to convince congress con-gress of the Imperative necessity of Immediate legislation to protect the financial foundations of the railroad Industry. Its survey will Include all the transportation facilities of the nation. Including trasses, trucks, pipe lines and other carriers, as well as the railways. O ErRESENTATIYER of the Rail-, way Labor Executives' association associa-tion called on President tloover, asking administration Intervention In' the matter of the -proposed rail wny wage reductions which they opposed op-posed '"at a time 'when there are some hopeful signs that the depression depres-sion may have nm Its course." Mr. Hoover also talked with railway presidents and Secretary of Labor Doak, and the latter then Issued a statement that the President felt It was desirable that the question should be deferred nntll the end of the year, since "the present wage agreement does not expire until February Feb-ruary 1. G REAT BRITAIN'S national frov-ernment. frov-ernment. formed last October to meet the financial crisis, expert enced Its first break when three of the most Important IJberal and Labor La-bor members of MacDonald's cabinet cab-inet reslened. ,TbeIr action followed a disagreement over the tariff proposals pro-posals approved at the recent empire em-pire conference In Ottawa. The mih Isters who quit, statin thee pro posnls were Incompatible with their free trade principles, were Viscount Swiwden JifJckornshawiord privy seal, former lender of the Labor party, and Sir Herbert Samnel home secretary., and Sir Archibald Sfnclalr. secrptnry "'"for Scotland - Sfr-Jnhn GHmonr was moved from minister of acrirjilriire to home secretary sec-retary and his former portfolio -was elven to Ma J Walter Elliot. Sir Ood'jjpv Collin took Sinclair's pin re. Tfre Simon Libert's In the house "fill snpport MsrDonald. ROTABLE amtin; the dafh of 1 ' the -week wa that of John Sharp Wi Ilium, fnrtiier servitor" from Mississippi. Fie wsn wvpp'j elsht vears old and -had hwn 111 for month Williams was known for Msbitin sarcswlc political orry Intermountain News -Briefly Told fo Busy Readers KEEP PARK OI'KN. . PRODUCE MOKE GOLD. CALL KAIL MEN BACK. BUILD BEEF INTEREST. PLAN INDUSTRIAL FAIR. SALT LAKE CITY, UT.-A drive for n "Eat More Beef Week," to be hel'd'October 17 to 22, is to lie Inaugurated. In-augurated. The campaign has been proposed to show the importance of the beef Industry to the state. BOISE, IDA. Idaho has refused to accept the filing of the Socialist party candidates for presidential electors. IDAHO FALLS, IDA. -Yellowstone National park, although officially of-ficially closed on Septcmlier 19th, will be open for tourist travel until un-til weather conditions become unfavorable, un-favorable, It Is announced. POCATEI.LO, IDA. -Rail movement move-ment of sugar bei'ts and oilier seasonable sea-sonable Increase of shipping has resulted re-sulted in the recall of many railroad rail-road enginemen and trainmen it is reported from the different divisions divi-sions of the western railroads. RENO. NEV. The value of gold mined In Nevada ln l!)::2, is expected expect-ed to be doulile that of last year, according ac-cording to It. L. Kidd, professor of ore dressing research at the Utah experiment station, United States bureau of mine's, located at the University Un-iversity of Utah. nOLLADAY, UT. An "aggregate of 10,776 cans of tothatoes, peaches, and pears has been prepared for distribution this winter among the needy, through the efforts of the relief re-lief organizations of Liberty stake. MANTI, UT. The forest road being be-ing constructed In Manti canyon Is progressing rapidly nnd is partially completed from the "sky line" drive at the head of South fork down to a point below Loop-the-Stump. Nearly Near-ly twenty-fire men and teams are at work on the Job. BOUNTIFUL, UT. Hunting deer In Davis county nnd the Cedar Mountain district Is forbidden during dur-ing the 1932 season, opening October Octob-er 20 and continuing until October 80. OGDEN, UT. An industrial fair wi!l be held here in October or No-Yember. No-Yember. BOISE, IDA. More time to complete com-plete a power plant for Cassia county coun-ty towns has been allowed by the public utilities commission on application appli-cation of E. E. Hampshire for the permit for the plant. It is planned to build a hydro-electrical plant to supply current to Connnt, Malta and Elba in Cassia county-atMUt 4s expected ex-pected tliat the work will-begin In thirty days. OGDEN7, UT. An ' assessment of $1.45 a share on all stock' to cover thes first payment to the United States coyernment due December 1, has been levied- by directors of the W'eher River Water Users' association. asso-ciation. The assessment is made for the building of the Echo dam and to cover maintainance'and other expenses ex-penses up to December 1, 1933. OGDEN, ; UT. Several million dollars will be distributed by the Amalgamated Sugar company during dur-ing the present campaign, to farmers farm-ers and factory employes, it is announced an-nounced by officials of the company. The first pay day will lie on Nov. 20th. The company estimntes that L750.000 bags of sugar will be manufactured man-ufactured during the season. LAS VEGAS, NEV. The first of two stfoel bulkhead gates, each weighing 1500 tons to use in the Botihler Dam building have been CompTeted - at Los" Angeles." Forty flat cars will be required to haul each of the dissembled g:Ues to the site of the dam. LOO AN', UT. Adult leaders of home economics projeats In the various va-rious counties of Utah, under the supervision of the exteasion service of the Utah State Agricultural college, col-lege, will attend a special, training school tit the college October 17 to 2S, inclusive, Mrs, Mayeock, assistant assist-ant director announces. The central th"m? of this year's training will deal with economics hi homemak-ing. homemak-ing. wi:h special emphasis nlneod on fitting the family budget to decreased de-creased incomes. Many thrift suggestions sug-gestions will be given In all .phases of the wnrk." SALT 'LAKE CITY. UT Utah's assessed valuation has decreased during the past year from SCIS.OOO-000 SCIS.OOO-000 to $.-,73,000,000. Two years a eo the nw-jssed Talnation for taxing purpose was over seven hundred mil ion dollars which makes the decrease de-crease nearly two hundred million In two years. Fourteen of the 40 school districts have cut their le,vy an ! eleven demand an increase.. IMInVo, TJT. A motion to ahanv dn the old Utah combination' (Trades snd adopt the new United Staff g-ade In conditioning ap-P'' ap-P'' s for shipment from Utah county " nt.ir imons'y passed at a nieet-lr- f n ore than 80". fruitgrowers of t: e -o-anty. NAMIW, IDA. Federal fonls to r :'-T the needy families in Xampja r ' e n promisod by ti e Gov. 15 K -i i- jg estimated thst ever ore tv :"H famlUes in Nsf.na trill r, ;r: : 'i this winter Scenes and Persons in tne Lurrent News i lA vv : . N- VII I w rjj -vrV ir 1-Capt. William P. Wright of Chicago, elected commander In chief of the Grand ArWofj lie at the encampment In Springfield, 111. 2 Some of the undesirable aliens, nearly 400 J Jl ing a train, at Jersey City en route to Ellis Island for deportation to their native landi J-P company of the Illinois .National Guard on duty near a mine in southern Illinois to protect J company strikers No More Lost Babies in These Stores ,msK. , JtuOsHm,Ati Mjm&zlt?, V,!. s --. , No more lost babies. If the Capwell department stores of Oakland, Calif- have anything ni it. When you check your baby, in the nursery you will be sure to get the same baby whenvoohM your shopping. Miss Mary Stone who Is In charge of the nursery is being assisted by Inspector 0 account of the grand rush to toe the mark. Bobby Ames Is the first to sock his dimpled foot Into tbel SLOT MACHINE MILK Church Attendance Was Too Ii F .....v.v,...,::;j: :mi?mmfvm - ; p ift i' '"T , s ''rRY M raffrif """nmminnjMn fHwnniirirT f (I ...... V'- ! B.n i-ilTTnmnail MHWaWiiiiiiii i nun iimwinrri. ' , Wlvy..'. '. .... .vmw'jIM Now London shoppers may get fresh milk at all times from this automatic slot machine which, after the money has been Inserted In Its slot, produces a pint bottle of the beverage. Twelve cents Is put in the slot, and when the emp-ty emp-ty bottle Is replaced In the machine six of the cents are returned to the shopper. 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