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Show PLEASANT GROVE REVIEW News Review of Current Events the World Over Nation Mourns Death of Former President Coolidge n Again Attacks China Democrats Push Japa Domestic Allotment Bill Through House. Jim By EDWARD W. PICKARD f-JALVItf COOLIDGE, former Pres-ident Pres-ident of the United States, has passed away, and the whole country mourns bis going. Thursday noon be was found dead by Mrs. Coolidge at their borne In Northampton, Mass. He had not been seriously se-riously III. and his demise was a ter- rlble shock to his family and friends Swiftly as the wires could carry them, messages of condolence condo-lence came from President Hoover, President - Elect Roosevelt, countless women of proml- Calvin Coolidge other men .and nence, and the governments of many foreign nations. Funeral services, simple and unostentatious, un-ostentatious, were held Saturday In Northampton, President Hoover and many other dignitaries attending, and the body was then taken by automobile au-tomobile to Plymouth, Vt., and laid In the Coolidge plot In the old cemetery, cem-etery, The .grief of the . nation was expressed ex-pressed by the- President In a proc-" proc-" tarnation . ordering thirty- days of public mourning. Mr. Coolidge, who was sixty years old last July, had been In the public service nearly all of his adult life, advancing from councilman of Northampton In 1899 to the highest position In the nation In 1923, when he succeeded to the Piesldeney after the death of President Harding. He was elected President the following follow-ing year, and declined to be a candidate candi-date for a second elective term. He first " became .nationally' prominent while serving as governor cl Mnssa-chusetts, Mnssa-chusetts, which place he held for two terms ; he was then chosen Vice President on. the Harding ticket. Though never-considered 'brilliant," Mr. Coolidge was one of the ablest and wisest of our Presidents and dlers at t'hangil under protection of three armored trains and defied the Japanese, tie advised their commander at Tientsin, General Nakamura, to. address all communications commu-nications "to Nanking, not to him, rejecting the ; Japanese contention, that the Shanhalkwan lighting was a local Incident that could be settled set-tled by local negotiations. Quo Tal-chl, Chinese minister to Great Britain, announced in London Lon-don that the Chinese delegation to the League of Nations would deliver de-liver an ultima-turn demanding a league verdict on Japan's action. If this Is Insisted .upon Japan may carry out Its threat to ' withdraw from the league. his Inauguration. This development angered the President and on bis return from Florida be told the correspondents cor-respondents that all recent reor ganization moves on the part of congress were merely make-believe and the proposals of the Democratic Democrat-ic leaders a backward step. He asserted as-serted that any real reorganization "Sensibly carried out" will sooner or later embrace the very executive orders which he Issued lately and which the Democrats In the house planned to veto. These would regroup re-group 58 separate agencies Into nine divisions. Chairman Cochran of the bouse expenditures committee was unmoved by Mr. Hoover's protest He said It would be "unjust and most unfair" to Mr. Roosevelt to make so many changes only a few weeks before be takes office. was unflagging In his devotion to his high duties. Since leaving the White House he had engaged in the Insurance business but also found time to act as head of the commission commis-sion named to study the problems or transportation, especially the railroads. AIR. ROOSEVELT, having turned the state of New York over to Governor Lehman, is devoting most of his time to preparations for assuming as-suming , the office of President Thursday evening be conferred In New York with the Democratic leaders lead-ers In congress and a program for balancing the budget was decided upon. The Treasury department figures fig-ures fixing the .1033 deficit at 4S2 millions were accepted and It was agreed -to-effect an additional saving sav-ing In the budget estimate of 100 millions, to enact a beer-hill estimated esti-mated to produce 125 millions, to continue the gasoline tax 1 cent per gallon to produce 137 millions, and to Increase the Income tax rates to produce 150 millions. JAPAN has resumed Its ruthless course against China, and; the rest of the world thinks It can da nothing about It except to express regrets. . As a matter mat-ter of fact there Is little or nothing that can be done. 'Military Intervention Interven-tion Is out of the question, and finan-Clara, finan-Clara, merchants and munition makers mak-ers would make loud and probably effective walls If an A-'- V.i : '4 I Marvin Jones if i Iff .4Mk r K t-M economic bovcott of Japan were pro- Chang Hsueh-, Hsueh-, posed. The League llano or Nations has al ready demonstrated Its comparative ' helplessness In such emergencies Resumption of hostnitles4)etween "'. ' the two T)rle.ntal nations' began at Shanhalkwan, the gateway city be tween China nd Manchuria at the end of the Great Wall Marshal Chang Hsueh-llang, former war lord of Manchuria, according to the Jap anese, was gathering there troops. arms and munitions, and transporting transport-ing them thence Info"Jehol province. v . which Japan Intends to add to Man-- Man-- - ' chukuot Furthermore the Japanese conveniently found two bombs In their gendarmerie station In Shan haJkwart This was eno..gb excuse for" them, so they first txunhed the city from airplanes and then oeco pled It after making three assaults by sea and land Chang's tmopn're-alsted tmopn're-alsted -bravely, but were forced to " retreat after losing from JVW tol.mm men. " . Larre nnmhers of civilians - also were killed or wnnnded and ; the dty was badly bartered. The Japanese losses were '. officially ,re- - ported a etehf dead and IS eerlons "ly wonnded ' Their attacks were made with -two destroyers, ten field : . gun and S.nno Infantry Marshal Tang reformed his sol- TN ILLINOIS, too. warfare long smoldering was resumed, tills conflict con-flict being between the United Mine Workers and the rebel union known as the Progressive Miners of America. Amer-ica. ; The scene of the encounter was a coal mine at Kincald, a small town near Taylorvllle. body of Progressive miners met an equal number of United Mine Workers coming from the shaft" end In Ihe resulting clash a machine gun, rifles and revolvers were. used freely. Two persons were killed, one a United miner and the other a woman, The wounded were numerous. The su- j perlntendent of the mine Insisted that operations would not be suspended, sus-pended, and the authorities were expecting ex-pecting futher trouble there and at other points In the coal belt. The new union , Is strong In that particular par-ticular locality, though It has .not made much headway In the southern south-ern Illinois coal fields. The fighting fight-ing broke out jignln the second day. twomen being wounded The sheriff. sher-iff. aJLthe xQuntyjrjliwd picketltui stopped and forbade public: meetings meet-ings of the Progressive union. Five companies pf state troops were sent to the scene. ' ; r: " - , ; . FARM-rellet-as conceived by the Democratic majority of the house was being hurried to a yote In the house. It was In the form of the domestic, allotment bill introduced by Marvin "Jones of Texas, chairman of the committee on agriculture, and In plain language It calls for 'a sales tax on necessities for the benefit of the farmer and, according ac-cording to Its sponsors, spon-sors, of the naticn nt large. Its four main provisions may be thus summarized : - 1. To levy on the four basic farm commodities of wheat, hogs, cotton and tobacco and on silk and rnyn a manufacturers sales tax which, In the case of wheut will amount to 200 per cent of the present farm price and which,rln the case of hogs, will amount to nearly 50 per cent of the current price of pork. 2. To give power to the secretary of agriculture to fix the prices of the four commodities by determining determin-ing their "fair exchange value" and to determine the "fair exchange allowance" al-lowance" necessary to restore the purchasing power of the commodities commodi-ties lo their 1909-14 level. 3. To bring about Inflation by handing to the farmer In the shape of "adjustment certificates" a negotiable nego-tiable certificate of government Indebtedness In-debtedness secured by the tax rev enues and redeemable by the government gov-ernment . ' 4. To give to the secretary of agriculture power to control the priiductifliLjof-jKhiiat, hog(- cotton, and tobacco by granting him authority au-thority to determine the percentage of production required for domestic consumption; to disburse adjustment adjust-ment certificates only to those farmers farm-ers who cut production 2U4per cent; to " decide how this curtailment or production shall be determined and to decide what use the farmer shall make of lands so taken out of production, pro-duction, Dairy products were not Included In the measure,- though a bard fight for this was made In committee. It Is provided that the measure be In effect for one year, with the President Presi-dent given authority to continue It for an additional year. - President Elect-Roosevelt as Is well, known now, la Opposed to a genets! sales tax. but tha domestic attotmpnrtrtirsults him. The man- i nfacturers affected have Insisted that f(jelr Industries cannot absorb the tax called for and that It must be passed 'on to the consumer and the farmer. IACK PICKFORD, brother of J Mary Pickford and himself film star of no mean fame, died In a Paris hospital of what the doctors called "progressive multiple neu ritis which affected the brain center." cen-ter." He had been ill for many months but would not tajce care of himself and could not stand the pace. The Democratic party of New York sustained a great loss In the death of Mrs. Belle Moskowitz who. though holding no public office, was remarkably able In statecraft" and politics. During Al Smith's ascen dancy sne was nis adviser in re gard to progressive legislation for which be Strove. She was an active worker In many welfare movements. A FTER three years of thorough i Investigation" the President's research committee on social trends has made Its report, and Americans found -Jiat- Its conclusions con-clusions are not widely different from those of technocracy tech-nocracy that have cause" such ardent debate, though the committe does not predict the t total collapse which the technocrats profess to foresee. Instead, It sees no Imminence Immi-nence of failure of civilization, but rather a gradual ' readjustment to a new scale of liv ing, Both this report and that of Tecn'nocrnyTaadvalnce'ff an alarming speed that the development develop-ment of. social and cultural- factors has been left far behind, and neither nei-ther offers any definite remedies. Many of the country's ills are at- Dr. Wesley C. r Mitchell trlbuted in the report to a "cultural lag," or the failure of changes In economic life, education, govern ment, religion, and science to move forward at the same rate. The great problem Is for the man to catch up with the machine. New Inventions, the committee believes, are at hand, that will be factors In creating employment: lite electric eye. 'the electron tube, light weight storage batteries and other devices may duplicate the trt played by the automobile, the radio and the movies a few years ago In making jobs for workmen. On the other hand, the committee declares that there Is no assurance that "violent- revolution and dark periods" can. be averted "unless there can be a more Impressive integration in-tegration of Sfcial skills and fusing of. social purposes that Is revealed by recent social trends," Dr. Wesley C Mitchell, professor of economics at . Columbia university. univer-sity. Is chairman of the committee, and Dr. W?illlam F. Ogburn, professor profes-sor of sociology at the University of Chicago, Is director of research. The committee had the aid of more than 500 Investigators. "THVENTY-NTNB of guished Spanish the -dlstin-monarchlsts who were exiled by the republican government after the August uprising upris-ing escaped from the prison colony at Villa Cfsneros, Spanish West Af-rlca. Af-rlca. In a French sailing . vessel.. Among those who got away were Capt Alfonso de Bourbon, a distant dis-tant cousin of the ex-king; Cnpt. Manuel Slivestre. Col. RIcardo Ser-rador, Ser-rador, and Jaime Arteaga, son of Duke Infantado. Intermountain News -Briefly Told for Busy Readers AMPLE WATER SITPLY. RATE CASE TO BE TRIED. TAX WAR IS PLANNED. MAKE FEWER ARRESTS, BLISTER FIGHT I RGED. PROVO, UT. Ample supply of water for the coming1 season Is forecast fore-cast on the Provo river water shed, from the recent report on precipitation. precipita-tion. ' , SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Hearing Hear-ing of the aitflicatlon of the Utah Citizens' Jiate association for a 50 cent a ton reduction in intrastate freight rates on coal has been set for January 24, at the state capi-toL capi-toL RIO&iqELD, UT. Movement for a state-wide strike .of Utah property prop-erty owners against payment of any taxes unless the present levies are reduced at least 50 per cent, was launched at a mass meeting of Se vier county citizens, called by- the county tax committee with Abe Hansen as chairman. The resolu tion flatfy demands- the reduction and calls upon property owners of other counties to join- in the de-ma de-ma nd. - PRESIDENT ALESSANDRI of Chile has fulfilled expectations by ordering the liquidation "of the Cosach nitrate combine, a $375,000,-000 $375,000,-000 concern that controlled the world's largest nitrate plant. The principal private owners of Cosai.n are the Guggenheim Interests In the United States. It la understood they agreed to the liquidation. - PRESIDENT HOOVER'S pro--gram for reorganization of the -federal, government is being abso lutely blocked' by the house Demo crats, who Intended that Mr. Roose velt shall be empowered to make such changes as he thinks fit after SEVERAL hundred angry farmers of Plymouth county, Iowa, gathered gath-ered In Le Mara and by force prevented pre-vented a farm mortgage foreclosure sale, seizing the Judge and sheriff and threatening to hang an attorney attor-ney who was bidding in the property proper-ty as representative of the New York Life Insurance company, bolder bold-er of the mortgage. The lawyer had offered only $30,000, considerably consider-ably less than the total debt of the owner of the farm, but saved bis life by obtaining from the insurance insur-ance company authority to lncreasa the bid - The Judge sent to Governor-Elect Herring a message urging that the legislature enact laws to remove foreclosure suits from Iowa court Jurisdiction untfl measures for relief re-lief can be. taken. T&H he said would operrte as a moratorium n farmers mortgage debts. 0. 1US. Wastara Wavmpar Colo . LOGAN, UT. A decided reduc tion in activities of the Logan police pol-ice department during the past year Is noted in the" annual report of the police chief. About as half as many arrests were, made as in the prev ious year. " . BOISE, IDA. Federal aid - in the prevention- of the spread of blister blis-ter rust, a disease which destroys trees, has been asked by the Amer ican Forestry Association. The blister blis-ter rust situation constitutes- an emergency of .national concern In America's inland empire Idaho, Montana, Washington and Oregon OGDEN, UT. la- the presence of ten witnesses, Detective Gale, paid off an election dare by walking in barrel froni "Washington avenue to 25th street. Because of the cold weather he was permitted to wear clothing. Gale had agreed to the stunt in the event of Senator Reed Smoot's defeat. OGDEN, UT. Two million sacks of sugar were manufactured at the 5 plants of the Amalgamated Sug ar c6mpanyliis"seaionr -being the largest production in the history of the company, it is reported. The highest previous production was one and one-half million sacks of sugar. MALAD, IDA. During the past year 350",DW dozen eggs passed thru the local candling plant. While the egg market was in a slump for a greater part of the year, eggs -delivered- here were of such high quality . that local poultrymen re ceived over $73,000 for their crop. BURLET, IDA. Sheep, chickens, and turkeys on farms of the Bur-ley Bur-ley irrigation district have shown considerable decrease in numbers since the 1931 census, the livestock report recently submitted to the ir rigation district board shows. The report shows 5781 head of sheep, 29.650 chickens and 1542 turkeys IIAILEY, IDA. The Blaine coun ty Farmers' Cooperative associa tion assisted state and federal vet erinarians in checking several epi demies during the past year. This Included testing of 400 cattle for contagious abortion, 8 per cent, be ing found Infected. LOGAN, UT. All records, for Is suance of marriage licenses were up set In 1932, according to the records of the county clerk'g office. During the past twelve months, 698 mar riage licenses were issued, as com pared with 603 in 1931. Two-thirds of the licenses Issued were to Idaho couples, the records reveal,. 414. Id aho couples' ' receiving licenses in Logan, as compared with 231 Utah couples. " - PRICE, UT. Teny Myers, 18, of Consumers, died of Internal Injuries suffered when; he crashed into a signpost while coasting on the hills near Consumers. The accident oc curred while he was traveling down the hillside at a high rate of speed. SALT LAKE CITY, UT.-rAn area of 25,197.820 acres, or about 40,000 square miles, In the public domain of Utah is unappropriated and open for filing and of this amount 13,-650,351 13,-650,351 acres have been surveyed. It is announced by the register of the U. S. land office here. In 1932 nearly 200 final certificates for homesteads were granted, compared with more than 400 In 1931. Mr. Taylor, the register, reports, ex plaining that the decrease is due largely to the extension of time granted by Congress as an economic econom-ic .relief measured SALT LAKE CITY, TJT. The Reconstruction Finance corporation has made available an additional million dollars for the use of the farmers and livestock- growers -of the west, U Is announced by the manager of the Salt Lake office of the Agricultural Credit corporation. EPHRAIif, TJT. Three hundred to four hundred men and boys of this city participated In a highly successful rabbit hnnt recently. It is estimated that more than three thousand rabbits were driven Into the wire netting "V and killed A large part of the rabbits' wer donated to the needy of Salt Lake City. ' JUNCTION, UT. According to a report of the county treasurer, tb tax payments for 1932 are onlj 59 per cent of the taxes awessed Studying the Problems of Matrimony vyh) pWj t E; .-saw-""- --"" - " " j st'V 4 11 " ' i sv, .....:.- ) if I ' ' 9E I J - '" ' W " r -. . ;--r - : '"' niiiiiini ,n Coeds at Butler university, In Indianapolis, meet for Instruction In matrimony and its probleml has been Introduced at the university as a part of the regular curriculum In an effort to solve thef problem. Recent statistics show that Marion county, In which Indianapolis Is situated, leads the a divorces witn a rate or 4u.oo ror eacn iuu marriages, nunes rw meizger, inirty-nine-year-old India ... , jt m i.t i, j i i . i t Ai x, '- r anoruey auu uivorce reieree, nuiiseu wwamnrneu, ia--ui.uusB uie course. Fine Gift of Americans to the Japanese r- t - je mm '. - - m WBBt-'-.. ,..7SMtDH.ST. . . , Tweonits of St Luke's InternationaLMadlcffLnterionstrneted largely by popular subscription! United States, now nearing completion in Tokyo, and which will be formally dedicated in the spring.) RAIL CZAR OF WEST fkJ :X ' j Colombia Sends Troops to Fro: i f j 1ST ; 1,4 ' ; it Harry G. Taylor has been made commissioner of western railroads "to secure co-operative action he- tween lines In rates and train schedules." He Is also chairman of the western division of the Railway Executives' association. HEADS THE N. C. A. A. MIMMfMrn' III - , ' J L mi Dispatches from Para, Brazil, say Colombian naval vessel! passed up the Amazon carrying munitions and 1,000 troops to the I. region over the possession-of which Colombia is disputing wita The picture shows Colombian soldiers building a pontoon bridge? war, conditions. Carrying Supplies to Gold Hunt r. mm The National Colleelate Athletic association at Its twenty-seventh annual convention In New York elected MaJ. John L. Griffith of Chicago president, to snecent n, Charles W. Kennedy of Princeton. . Pcaaati Peanuts contain 25.8 ner Mn protein. 38.6 per cent fat and 24.4 per cent -carbohydrates. The fuel ralne per pound la 2,400 calories. Pamlnn .nnlt. . t.. Innilg nn the lCe, land Lake, 400 miles north of Winnipeg, Canada, to care for tnot hit the tray with the discovery of gold In the north of Canadsj Chicago Suburb Has a New Mon EIBMA MONET , - fc.A1tTtt-fZ , . r Yr-f " I i-i- ' . DJ arm tm m. - air, m al. MtnnAw fnTented of Evanston, a suburb of Chicago, to keep the workers on a , It U sponsored by the Evanston Independent Betafl Merchants ( non, nence the name. Every time a WD to used a stamp tha money received for the stamps serves to redeem tha o-a. t t Hi f lb SE ski ar 8 thi 4 I a E |