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Show PLEASANT CttOVE gEVIEVV - . ' News Review of Current Events the World Over House Passes Bill Legalizing 3.2 Per Cent Beer President Hoover Plans Debt ConimigsioR arid Asks Roosevelt's Co-Operation . By EDWARD W. PICKARD Rep. Rainey Strlcted. The CHAIRMAN COLLIER'S bill legalizing le-galizing the manufacture and sale of beer was put through the housatry a vote of 230 to 105 after all attempts to amend it had been defeated.. The beer Is to have an alco holic content of 3.2 per cent by weight or 4 per, cent by volume and is to be .sold over the bar or ineatlng pfaceSr the understanding being that it is not Intoxicating In fact and -therefore should not be re- excise tax plueed on the beer is $5 for a 3l-gallori barrel. A brewers' permit tax of $1,000 was voted. The old revenue taxes of $50 for wholesalers in beer and $25 for retailers were-re-enacted. . The bill prohibits the shipment of beer, ale, or porter from wet states into dry states whose laws forbid such shipments and sales. The penalty for such violations Is set at a jmaximuhi of $1,000 or six months in Jail. . During a day of strenuous debate the wets fought off all attempts of the drys to defeat or nullify the measure and were themselves held in line by the able management of Representative Henry T. Rainey of Illinois, the majority leader. To him and Chairman Collier most of the credit for the victory was given by Speaker Garner. The classification of the vote was as follows: 133 Democrats, 98. Republicans and one Farmer-Laborite voted for the bll. and 64 Democrats and 101 Republicans Republic-ans against it The Collier bill. It was evident, faces a fight in the sennte, but lead ers of the upper house were confident confi-dent some sort of beer bill would be passed .by that, body, probably within 30 days. - pert he answered the President by telegraph, saying that he was opposed op-posed to the creation of a war debt commission arid also to linking the debts with either the armament conference con-ference or the coming' general economic eco-nomic conference. He reiterated his previous statement to the effect that the government should - treat separately with each debtor nation and that this could best be done thrpugh diplomatic channels. " Democrats as well as Republicans In congress praised the President's message, some declaring it was the best state paper he had written. But the Democrats seemed to agree with Mr. Roosevelt that the latter should not take a hand In the debt matter until he became President. Mr. Hoover evidently is not to receive any active support from the Democrats Dem-ocrats In congress In carrying out his three-fold plan, but he. is determined de-termined to go ahead with it and do .whatever he can in the short time remaining before he goes bvut of office . tloned for this position Is Miss Frances' Perkins, the able Industrial commissioner of New York during the Roosevelt regime. . NEGOTIATIONS that had lasted ten days and appeared hopeless hope-less ended suddenly In Chicago in , a sefllement! of the wage controversy between the railroads and their union employees. , A compromise proposal of the railroad managers to renew for nine months the so- called Willard agreement, under which the workers now have 10 per eeht deducted-from their pay checks, was accepted with alacrity by the 1,250 delegates representing the 21 standard railroad unions in the negotiations. When the Willard agreement expires October 31 next the .basic scale Is restored. ENTRAPMENT by federal officers In prohibition law violation cases was condemned by the United States Supreme court In a .ruling oh a case brought up from North Carolina. The majority opinion", read by the chief Justice, reversed the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, Ap-peals, which had upheld the trial Judge In refusing to allow the de fense of entrapment to go to the Jury. The case was remanded for retrial. . "It is clear," 'the majority opinion opin-ion said, "that the evidence was'suffl-clent was'suffl-clent to warrant a finding that the act for which the defendant was prosecuted was Instigated by the prohibition agent, that It was the creature of his purpose, that defendant de-fendant had no previous disposition disposi-tion to commit It, but was an industrious, in-dustrious, law abiding citizen, and that the agent lured the defendant, otherwise innocent, to Its commission commis-sion by repeated and persistent so llcltatlon, In which he succeeded by taking advantage of the sentiment aroused by the reminiscences of their experiences as companions In "arms in the World war. 'Such a grosalahumjif authority given for the purpose of detecting and punishing crime'; and not for the making of criminals, deserves the severest condemnation, but the question whether It .precludes prosecution pros-ecution or affords a ground of de fense, ana, U so, upon wiiui uitwy, has given rise to conflicting opinions." Kim' " "i S : M Owen D.Young ONCE more President- Hoover tried to obtain the co-operation of his successor In the handling of the war debt problem, and once - d O Fg " he " faMrrd.- - The Chief Execu- P tlve in a special f message to con- gress said he proposed pro-posed to go ahead with his plans for eoroe sort of recon-. recon-. alderation of the debts owed by the, nations that have not defaulted, and that he Intended to name a commission which would han- - die that matter and also take part In the general economic conference add the conference on disarni- , anient. Holding that tile three questions ques-tions were inextricably connected. The commission, he said, could discuss dis-cuss with the debtor nations trade nd other concessions and reduction reduc-tion of-armaments In exchange for. the scaling down of the debts. Mr. Hoover .said hewould ask Mr. '""Roosevelt ToTieTp in the ectloiToT . the members of the commission and otherwise co-operate, for be- real Ized no settlement could possibly be concluded until long after his own tens had ended. T , . Governor Roosevelt called Owen p. Young Into conference, and after - talking for two hours with that eminent em-inent banker and reparations ex- ' " V M. Paul-Boncour DISPATCHES from Paris said that Great Britain would informally in-formally advise Prance to drop her idea" of submitting . to arbitration the q u ea t I o n of payment-of the $20,000,000 December Decem-ber Interest that was due the United States: The British, Brit-ish, however, were represented as being be-ing in favor of the French plan .for a general conference or general negotia: tions on the debt question. Joseph Paul-Boncour had i succeeded in form ing a new French government, not differing widely from that of Her-riot, Her-riot, and it is his Idea that negotla tions with America can be kept open, though he hopes for the accomplishment ac-complishment of nothing vital until after Roosevelt Is Inaugurated. The American embassy in Paris was prompt In establishing contact with the new cabinet on the debt question. ques-tion. Its counselor, Theodore Mar-rlner, Mar-rlner, was received by M. Cot, , undersecretary un-dersecretary of state In the foreign ministry, who probably will have considerable power on foreign questions ques-tions and is very close to Paul-Bon-cour. ' ' - Both the British and the French statesmen are Interested mainly In what the next American administra tion and the next congress , will do about the debts and they refuse to get excited over present developments devel-opments In this country. r DWARD O'NEAL, president of - the American Farm Bureau federation, announced in Washing' ton that about 150 members of congress con-gress had formed a bi-partisan farm bloc to support demands for agricultural relief In the short ses sion. Their program, he said, In eludes- measures for theexpansion of currency, for lowering the price of the dollar, stopping farm mort gage foreclosures and giving economic eco-nomic equality to agriculture and labor. Vigorous opposition to tae farm organizations' relief bill, with its proposal for a tax on the process Ing of wheat, cotton, tobacco and hogs, was voiced before the house agricultural committee by repre sentatives of the packing Industry. Under the bill Jthe receipts' from such a tax would be distributed by commodities to farmers who had cut production. Frank A. Hunter, head of the Hunter' Packing company of East St. Louis, lit., declared such a tax ..would cost the packers $300,000,000. George E. Putnam, economist of Swift & Co. of .Chicago, asserted that the packing IndustryJcould not absorb such a tax, that the consum ers would not, and It, therefore, would have to be passed back to tlie farmer, with the result that Instead of helping agriculture the "relief plan", would work great damage. JAPAN so far has successfuHy bluffed the League of Nations out of taking any action In the Man churian dispute, and If the British and French representatives have their way, nothing will be done to irritate the Island empire. The special spe-cial committee of 19 of the assembly hna dropped all active negotiations until January 13, nominally because of the Christmas holidays, but .nctu ally because the Japanese have flatly rejected, the pnyiosal for con dilation of the quarrel by a committee com-mittee on which the United States and Russia would be represented. This was Insisted upon by China and the small nations of the league, though there Is no reason for be- -IteTtTrg thsrTheUmred"Sfn res wished to participate. The Jnp Bnese also refused to put In question ques-tion the authenticity of the .new state of Manch'ukno. When the lengne takes -up the matter again ft will be faced with the choice of invoking arttcles 15 and 10 of -the -covenant, involving sanctions, or admitting that the covenant cov-enant doesn't ' work In a case like this. The latter Is the view of Sir John Simon, British foreign secretary, secre-tary, hut he has recently Invoked article 15 agnlnsj Persia In the dis pute between that country and the AngloPerslan oil Interests. The big powers of the league seem determined deter-mined not to offend Japan, and China Is furlong, charging thSt the Japanese have so schemed It that they will be a We to eain a complete victory in atanctuiria nerore any conciliation negotiation? can be started. BELIEVE it or not, the national government Is now; handing over almost one-half of Its annual revenues to the veterans' administration adminis-tration to be paid out In beneBts or other disbursements to, or in belijalt of, war veterans and their depend ents. William M. Bullitt, former so llcitor general of the United States, so told the Joint committee of congress con-gress that is Investigating veterans legislation, and he added that the peak of the huge expenditures was not yet reached. Payments to Spanish war veterans veter-ans now exceed the total cost of that war, while payments to or on behalf of World war veterans, Mr. Bullitt said,, have reached the point where they are about one-haff the cost of that war and this does no) Include about .$2,000,0X),000, In ad Justed compensation, the payment of which is a standing obligation of the governments "The Economy league," Mr. Bullitt Bul-litt testified, "insists that the government's gov-ernment's expenses be cut $450,000, 000 a year in the veterans' admin istration alone. This can be done by - eliminating $109,000,000- paid to veterans of tbe Spanish-American war who have never suffered any injury or disability as a result of such service. Secondly, we ask the elimination of $340,000,000 paid on account of veterans of the World war." CI OVER NOR ROOSEVELT was ' dividing his time between cleaning clean-ing dp his work as chief executive of New York In preparation for leaving that post on January 1. and Interviewing various distinguished members of hi. party, presumably concerning- cabinet apnolntmentSL XmfrnghTscaTIwi - were Arthur Mullen, national committeeman fmm Nebraska, and William Green, presi dent of the American Federation of Labor, If was rinderst nod" that Mr- Green was promoting the selectl-n of Daniel J Tohin of Boston for he labor portfolio. Tohin was active on behalf of ir Roowvplt In the campaljm. "Another person tnen- QN CHRISTMAS eve Arturo , Alessandri assumed Preside tlal authority In Chile, and prunr ised his country that his . government govern-ment would guide if safely through its economic and political troubles. He called to his assist as-sist a nceJth eCpni servatives, Liberals and quasl-Social-Ists, barring only Col. Marmftduke rove nd his red associates. "A 1 e-s-sandrl also made President every effort to se- lessandri rtire the support of Javier Figueroa, former chief Justice and premier under the outgoing government, who played a leading part in , the verthrow of the dictatorship. 1 IntMiiili'a vtnhl Knn.l . .. til nuiwuuuii o igiiL-tJtliiVl UIU1I 111 be Gustavo Ross, who spent many years In exile In France with the .President-Elect , Ross is a financier and has-been fered the post of finance minister. He Is now on his way back, from London, where he negotiated a secret pact with the Rothschild bankers. i 1 ,. It i Intermountain News -Briefly Told for Busy Readers HORSE KICKS FACE MAY 'OPEN BANKS TAX CIT MADE BURNED TO DEATH CRASH INTO TRAIN BEAVER, UT. Ambrose Thompson, Thomp-son, 30, was seriously injured when a-horse-kirked him- in the face, causing a compound fracture of the lower Jaw, cutting a deep gash thru the .lower lip which extended down Into the neck, and loosening nearly all his teeth. RENO, NEV. Reorganization of the closed Wlngfleld banks in Nevada Ne-vada nnder a plan which calls for a $2,000,000 federal loan, has been proposed here by a committee representing re-presenting California corporations with Nevada interests. SPRINGV1IXE, UT. Sprtngville city's tax levy will be slashed from 15.45 mills to about 12.50 mills for 1933. TWIN FALLS, IDA. A tract of approximately 08 acres on the south side of' Snake River canyon at Shoshone Falls' has been given by P. J., Adams, Omaha business man, to the city of Twin Falls as a Christmas gift, "to be forever held for park purposes only, for the beneficial, bene-ficial, nse and enjoyment of all the. people." BEAVER, UT. More , than 500 turkeys -from Beaver valley and about 700 from the Milford valley were shipped to Los Angeles for the Christmas market. These birds were in : an excellent condition and promised to bring top prices to the, growers. BOISE, IDA. James Crick of Spokane wits low bidder on grading, surfacing and draining 7.9 miles of the Lewis and Clark highway between be-tween Orofirio and Greer. The job Constitutes another link In the proposed pro-posed transcontinental highway leading lead-ing through Lewiston along the course of the Old Lolo trail, term inating at the west in Portland. Considerable mileage of the proposed propos-ed highway remains Incomplete. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Cash dividends aggregating $60,000 were recently distributed to , 7,500. Utah and southern Idaho members of the Utah Poultry Producers'- Cooperative Coopera-tive association. ; DUCHESNE, UT. William H. Murphy, 65, homesteader on Blue Bench, burned to death in his one- room cabin five miles north of here. OGDEN, UT. Horace Davis, 24, and Parker Olseri,- 20, narrowly escaped es-caped death when an automobile which Olsen was driving ran Into the side of a Denver & Rib Grande Western freight train. Police ' re ports, show the autoists attempted to stop when they saw the train, but the' slippery condition of the street caiised the car to skid. HYRUM, UT. The success "of the Hyrum reservoir of the Salt Lake Basin project is now up to the wat er ugers of the district as all other steps have been completed. At pres ent estimates are reservoir and main canals would cost about $931,000. The reservoir would impound 18,000 acre-feet of water, of which 14,000 will be available for use on the land, and this would be used as a supplementary supply for the irrigation ir-rigation of approximately 10,000 acres of land in the southern end of Cache county. The area would extend from south of Hyrum thru Wellsvijle to Mendon, and some wa ter would be available for the Sterling Sterl-ing beach section between Hyrum and Wellsville. " SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Suffi cient funds are' now available thru the Utah Wool Marketing, assoda-tion assoda-tion so that Utah Wool growers can get preshearing advances on the 1933 clip, James A. Hooper, secretary, secre-tary, has announced. . SALT LAKE CITY, - UT. The yield per acre of 1932 crops taken together to-gether was 1.5 per cent above tbe average for the ten years from 1919 to 1$8. The abundant snows of last, winter supplied sufficient irrigation irri-gation water to overcome the accu mulated drouth of 1931 and to afford af-ford enough for maturing crops of the current year. The production ipf-sugar beetsthls year was 822,-000 822,-000 tons, compared with 505,000 -last year, and the yield of all hay crops was 1,312,000 tons, compared with WO.uu) tons in 1931. The potato crap aggregated 2,250,000 bushels, CHEYENNE, WYO. A wolf was killed in the suburbs of this city after he bad killed several turkeys. liOGAN, XT. Logan city's muni-eipaf muni-eipaf woodpile has furnished 125 loads of wood for needy families of this city. SALT LAKE CITY, UT.-Loans to farmers and livestock growers In the intermountain west, made by the Salt Lake Regional Agricultural Credit corporation, now total $1,. 837.937.11. The number of loans made since October 12 total 251. Scenes and Persons in the Current News 'j r W '4Nih - tv Sty V I-Jt&- y. . :::-x::-:-::::i.:.:.x-::::' f ...... '.. '-V.'Vs. j 1 President Hoover laying the cornerstone-of the new Labor depa the trowel with which George Washington placed the cornerstone of the rtment building in WaaWJ e Capitol in 1793. 2-ScenJ the principal business streets of Rome, Ga., during the serious flood Jn that part of the state. 3-Eer) tive Sarr Dj McReynolds of Tennessee, new chairman of the Bouse foreign affairs committee I Senators Consider Repeal Resolutions i z ti TyT' A sub-committee of the senate Judiciary committee in executive session to discuss repeal resolution ing with the prohibition act Left to right: Senators Thomas J. Walsh, John J. Blaine, William E.i and Felix Hebert. LAST TROUBADOUR Jllson Setters, proud of the fact of hisdeseent-from the pure Anglo-Saxon Anglo-Saxon stock of the Kentucky mountains, moun-tains, has, gone to England to sing the folk songs of his people, survivals surviv-als of Elizabethan days. Bayberry Candles for Mrs. Hoof If s Mli'Y '"W'h V cXi if pyTV m ' f ' l " ' 4 )' f V, ..'V...i :. " - -?Ai ROLPH SIGNS PARDONS IDAHO FALLS, IDA. Severe weather has forced the closing for the winter of the Idaho-Montana THERE seems little doubt that the crushing of the abortive at ,Ienipt of the radicals of Argentina to overthrow the government saved that country from a veritable reign of terror. When former President Irigoyen and his associates were arrested ar-rested tbe nnllce Rlrpil diwnmontu that show the city of Buenos Aires j AsiK?st" wmpany mines, and four-was four-was to be turned over to releatted ) tee m"?n and women employes at criminals and terrorTstswho were- themTne r nave left for the ' season. loot and kill iemteratnres of 60 below were en-Quantities en-Quantities of """nntered and It was beginning to bombs and jiai greriadei were j i'S'lcnlt to obtain supplies, 11 found, and papers that revealed a ( W2s reported. Half cf tbe employes phtnMwrvide 30 or -4Qbotnbs-fnr H-winter in Omaha, whilethe re- to be permitted to without hindrance. 1 . h-f ii&i s ' ''' , f , ' Gov. James Rolph -of California tning pardons for 133 persons convicted, con-victed, under the state-s now dead prohibition law. each participant In the uprising Irigoyen was sent to the island of Martin Garcia . ItJt Wertern NwjpMr Calaa. tnam ler will stay in Idaho Falls or vicinity until work is pesnmed, probably prob-ably ia February. C?ue of World War An June 2& ten r. cis 1-erdinand. heir to the throne-of Austria Hungary, was visiting vo7 a lown in Bosnia, when he was shot nd killed by studert named Prmp. The Austria Hungarian franjenlJsiUii,Mae- after - -..... i HiTesugation. on Serbian intrigues, and demanded cf Serbia cert.i,, services which the Sert,8 regarded as . invading their w engnty. This dispute drew othe nations, and tbe war followed ! j I' ' " (A Y1! ts ' For usg during the holiday season the National GIrtSc0" Is seen above receiving the gift from Miss Suzanne Boot 4 the White Hduse physician. , RuUedge Inn Will Be Restore 1 IF-.pj I1L Jn the process of restoring the old town .a fj tate park, this building, Rutledge Inn, In which ADrana i many hours of relaxation, will be repaired and n-aM j ben the Enianrinatnr knpw It. i 1 c |