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Show THE LEIII SUN. LEHL UTAH News Review of Current Events the World Over Sugar LoLby Gift Story Under Investigation, Senator Davis Promising Help Lame Duck Sessions Probably Will Be Abolished. By EDWARD W. PICKARD 1 IN THE closing rinra nf the ses- u. Senator J. J. Davit slon of congress the senate ran Into what gave some promise of developing devel-oping Into another iihhvlni? scandal. 1 Mr. Borah read to , J Jt an artjce jn a y New York newspa- I " J per which said, in A n effect, that a sena-. tor curing n iur-tier iur-tier occupancy of a high olllclul position, posi-tion, had received $100,000 from the president of a domestic sugar company In return for a high sugar tariff. Senator Nye of North Dakota had already alluded to the story, deploring the act that such an unsubstantiated report had been given publicity and credence. Replying to questions, ques-tions, Nye admitted that the campaign cam-paign expenditure committee, of which he Is chairman, had come upon the report of a $100,000 gift to a senator, had Incompletely Investigated In-vestigated It and had turned over a memorandum to the committee on lobbying. He said he thought the senator In question was entitled enti-tled to have an Inquiry made and the truth established by the lobby committee, which is headed by Senator Sen-ator Caraway of Arkansas. At the Instance of Senator Borah, supported by Senator Kobinson of Arkunsas, the senate instructed the lobby committee to Investigate the story. Immediately thereafter Senator James J. Davis of Pennsylvania, former secretary ot labor, announced an-nounced off the senate floor that he stood ready to appear before the lobby committee at any time and that he would assure the committee com-mittee of the presence of several witnesses whom It would desire to hear. Among the witnesses he named was Hror O. Dnhlberg of Chicago, president of the Southern Sugar company. Mr. Davis declared de-clared he would assist the committee commit-tee in Investigating the charges "to the bottom." Appearing later before the lobby committee. Senator Davis declared the charges, if directed at blni, were absolutely false. WITH little or no expectation that his veto would be sustained, sus-tained, President Hoover put the mark of his disapproval on the veterans' vet-erans' bonus loan bill. His veto message to congress Included data provided by Secretary Mellon showing show-ing how the bonus loans would aggravate ag-gravate the financing difficulties of the treasury, and also new estimates esti-mates of the number of veterans who will apply for the loans, ABOLISHMENT of the "lame duck" session of congress seemed assured when the house adopted the GIfford resolution to that effect and providing for the inauguration of the newly elected President In January Instead of March. The resolution, which proposes pro-poses an amendment to the Constitution, Consti-tution, differs somewhat from the Norrls measure passed by the senate sen-ate with the same purpose, but It was believed the differences would be Ironed out in conference. It is planned that the terms of the President and Vice President shall end on the twenty-fourth day of January and the terms ot senators and representatives at noon on the fourth day of January of the years In which such terms normally would end. Congress would assemble assem-ble on January 4, and the President Presi-dent would be sworn in on January Janu-ary 24. ONLT a veto by President Hoover Hoo-ver can keep the government from going into the power business, for the senate Joined with the house In accepting the conference report on Muscle Shoals. The senate sen-ate vote was 65 to 28. This Indicated Indi-cated that a veto would be sustained. sus-tained. Twenty Republicans voted for the measure, eleven of them being be-ing of the radical group which has the power question for Its chief Issue. Is-sue. Another rebuff for the administration adminis-tration was administered when the house passed Senator Wagner'a bill setting up federal and state employment em-ployment agencies, without a record rec-ord vote. It was believed President Presi-dent Hoover might kill the measure meas-ure by a pocket veto. ONE of Oklahoma's Okla-homa's lame dock Repobltcan congressmen, U. S. Stone of Nennan, put forth a parting wail that aroused t little if any sym- ,f pathy among tne national law makers mak-ers but considerable consider-able among the public at large. Mr. Stone had in troduced a bill bar- U. S. Stone ring relatives of members of congress and of high officials from becoming federal employees, em-ployees, and the other day he called at the White House to ask President Hoover's support for the measure and also to tell what this attack on nepotism was getting get-ting him. "I never dreamed," said Mr. Stone, "that a simple, constructive move on my part could make such a difference. 1 pass fellow boose members in the hallways of the office of-fice building and they do not speak to me. My wife Is punished for my daring. Even bureau clerks in legislative departments give me the cold shoulder and interfere with my work as a member of the bouse. "I have had members whisper that I am right, but that I would not succeed. Others have warned me that I would suffer for my rashness. rash-ness. The reaction n gainst my proposal to make it 'unlawful' for any legislative, ministerial, or Judicial Judi-cial oflicer to appoint any person related to Mm when the pay is to come out of public funds has been most extraordinary." The last annual report of the clerk of the house reveals that approximately ap-proximately 100 relatives are now on the pay rolls of members, and a survey shows that many of these have never done a lick of work in the offices for which they got their appointments. One letter to Mr. Stone points out that the daughter of a certain representative signed vouchers for $3,500 last year and spent almost the entire time abroad. Another report which he would like to investigate in-vestigate before a committee is that a southern member has paid hla father $16,000 and the man has never been In Washington. MINNESOTA. Senator T. D. Schall eiiioc rats announced, through Chairman J. J, Far-rell Far-rell of their state executive commit-tee.tbat commit-tee.tbat they would try to unseat Senator Sen-ator Thomas D. Schall. Republican, who was re-elected last November in a fivt-oornered contest. Farrel said Schull would be charged with violating the state corrupt practices act and also with violating federal regulations governing gov-erning the use of postal franking privileges, and that the state elections elec-tions committee would be asked to declare the seat vacant so that a new election may be called. When Senator Schall was told of this In Washington he said only: "That does not deserve comment." The blind senator's dispute with President Hoover and Attorney General Mitchell over the appointment appoint-ment of a new federal Judge for Minnesota continues. After rejecting reject-ing Schall's choice for the post, Ernest D. Michel of Minneapolis, the president named Gunnar B. Nordbye, now a Minneapolis district dis-trict Judge, and Schall Immediately Immediate-ly announced he would contest the nomination In the Semite. His course In this matter. It Is suld, has led some Hoover Republicans In Minnesota to support the ouster move. . ONCE again the United States Supreme court has upheld the validity of the Eighteenth amendment. amend-ment. This time the action, which Was unanimous, was in reviewing the decision of Federal Judge William Wil-liam Clark of Newark, N. J., who held that the amendment should have been ratified by state conventions conven-tions instead of by state legislatures. legisla-tures. This decision was reversed, the opinion being written by Justice Jus-tice Owen D. Roberts, the newest member of the Supreme court. In a case appealed from Michigan, Michi-gan, the Supreme court held that the severe penalties of the Jones "five and ten" law are not applicable applica-ble to conviction for possession of liquor. 5 DRY Democrats f" " '."V " in congress f "'" wore exeeeiiinclv I ' W active during the week getting ready for the meeting of the Democratic na- eheduled for I , March 6. Chairman Chair-man John J. Ras-kob Ras-kob had announced that the committee would consider future fu-ture poMe of the J. j. Raakob party, and assuming assum-ing that he would try to commit It to the wet side of the prohibition controversy, the drya were lining np to fight hira to the bitter end. Senator Morrison of North Carolina, Caro-lina, one of the most arid ones, said his group had enough votes to defeat de-feat any wet resolution. Senator George of Georgia asserted the committee had no right to form party policies, that being the function func-tion of the national convention. Other Democratic leaders were anxious to head off any discussion of the liquor Issue. Naturally the approaching committee com-mittee meeting caused a lot of talk about presidwitla. possibilities. possibil-ities. The name heard oftenest were those of Governor Roosevelt of New York. Governor Ritchie of Maryland and Senator elect James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois. In Chicago there developed quite a boom for Colonel Lewi on his re-torn re-torn borne from a sojourn in the Southwest Senator C C Dill of Washington, Washing-ton, In a speech In New York, proposed pro-posed that his party, the Democrats, Demo-crats, settle the wet and dry dispute dis-pute within their ranks by supporting support-ing a plan to resubmit .rational prohibition to the people, either by a constitutional convention or by the submission to the states by congress of resolution for repeal of the Eighteenth amendment. BECAUSE of divided opposition William Hale Thompson won the renomlnntlon by the Republicans Republic-ans for mayor of Chicago after one of the hottest primary contests that city has ever enjoyed. The attack on him was fierce and he would have been beaten by Judge John Lyle, "nemesis"' of the gunmen and gangsters, had it not been for the candidacy of Alderman Albert who was supported by Senator Deneen and his dwindling faction. The hope of those Chlcagoans who seek to eliminate Thompsonlstn now rests with Anton Cermak, who is the nominee of the Democrats. , - . ' f v WniLE the conference on Ambassador J, C. Grew narcotics was in progress in Washington, Wash-ington, word came that Joseph C Grew, American ambassador to Turkey, Tur-key, was getting results there in the fight to suppress the Illegal exportation exporta-tion of the drugs from that country. Mr. Grew made vigorous r e p r e- sentations to the government at Angora and brought about the sealing of the three big drug factories of Istanbul with their entire stocks, to be effective until the factories present documents docu-ments attesting the amounts of production and exportation. Drug exporting from Turkey to countries s:cb as the United States, which do not allow unrestricted unre-stricted entry of narcotics, is henceforth expected to be impossible, impos-sible, as a government official has been attached to each factory to control production and exportation. Factories must report to the government gov-ernment every 24 hours the amount of raw material purchased and the amount of production. The director direc-tor of the Japanese factory in Istanbul Is-tanbul says the new order is so severe that his factory probably will be forced to cease functioning. .KM Admiral Juan Aznar THOUGH King Alfonso o f Spain told Amerlr can correspondents that all was calm In his country now and that danger of a revolution had passed, Admiral Junn Aznar, the tew premier, was not finding the sailing sail-ing weather especially espe-cially One. This was mainly because be-cause the national executive commit tee of the Socialist party and tlw labor union decided to boycott the national elections and co-operate fully with the Republican revolutionary revolu-tionary committee. This determination deter-mination was so forcible that some of the moderate leaders among the Socialists resigned from the committee, their places being filled with real revolutionists. These resignations ended the government's dream of splitting the revolutionary ranks by divorcing the Socialists and their 300.000 workers with their terrible weapon of a general strike from the purely pure-ly Republican element with their backing among the bourgeoisie and friendly soldiery. The government announced that the municipal elections, the first in a series of elections that will end eventually in balloting for an assembly as-sembly to amend the constitution, would take place on April 12 instead in-stead of March 20. Educational Institutions, In-stitutions, closed by the Berenguer government a month ago, are or-deied or-deied reopened. PEHR EVIND SVINHUFVUD, who has Just been elected president pres-ident of Finland, Is going to have the prohibition question put np to him promptly. Distinguished women wom-en of the country, of all parties, are circulating a petition asking his support of a speedy repeal of the "pernicious prohibition law." The petition urges mothers to "feel deep concern In the ever increasing in-creasing Intemperance which ruins men, women and children morally and physically. It Is awful to contemplate con-template how. alcohol will affect the descendants of the preseut poisoned generation unless legislators legisla-tors abolish the prohibition system. sys-tem. The petition further points out that women are unable to restart re-start a temperance movement until un-til the demoralizing prohibition law Is repealed and replaced by reasonable legislation. rt OOCNTEIt reve- ! t VJ" V ! r .. - President Cerro lutlon broke j out in pern nnaer f the leadership of posed president, Augusto Leguia, and threatened the regime of Provisional Pro-visional President Luis M. Sanches Cerro. The uprising upris-ing was quelled In Callao hut the revolutionists rev-olutionists seized Arequlpa and set np a government under the name "Southern Junta." They were Jotned by considerable parts of the army and held control of southern Pern. To prove the sincerity of his Intentions In-tentions in leading the August revolution. rev-olution. Cerro Issued a proclamation proclama-tion declaring that he would not be a candidate for the presidncy when the lection are held. This, he and his adherents thought, would pacify the Arequlpa rtbels and lend to peace through negotiations. negotia-tions. Meanwhile loyal troops were movti g on Arequlpa and a can for volunteers was Issued. Intermountain News -Briefly Told for Busy Readers TO BUILD IDAHO ROAD LOW STREAM FLOW GREAT ROAD PROGRAM CARE FOR CHILDREN DAIRY TEST PLAN OGDEN, UT. Idaho will take immediate steps to complete Its portion por-tion of the U. S. Highway No. SO south from Burley to the Utah-Idaho line, according to a report of C Ben Ross, governor of Idaho, given to the Ogden chamber of commerce, Utah already has completed her share of U. S. 30 south and as soon as a discussion of a realignment between be-tween Burley, Declo and Cottrell is straightened out, Idaho will proceed with work on its portion of the road. MOSCOW, IDA. Roads to be constructed in this district as soon as surveys are completed are Cougar Coug-ar Gulch hill road; the highway from Setters to Mud Bay; the riummer-SL Maries highway; the road from Moctelme creek to Tensed; Ten-sed; the soad from Copeland to Eastport on the Canadian line; two miles of road through the Fourth of July canyon to eliminate dan-erovs dan-erovs curves. These ronls, together with other projects, will complete sections of an arterial highway program. pro-gram. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. A study of stream flow record completed com-pleted by the Salt Lake district office of-fice of the United States geological survey Indicates that 1930 was the lowest runoff year record for several sev-eral streams with records extending extend-ing back from 10 to 30 years. TROVO, UT. Undernourished school children of Trovo are to be furnished milk free of charge, Miss Irene Harris, school nurse, reports, fallowing the decision of several civic organizations to contribute to-. to-. ward a fund for the purchase of the necessary milk. LOGAN, UT. Following a meeting meet-ing of the dairymen of Hyde Park, It was decided to have tests taken of all dairy cattle in that vicinity for contagious abortion. A dairy chairman and two others, was authorized auth-orized to plot the districts and to organize the work. CHEYENNE, WYO. The greatest great-est highway construction program In the history of the state will get actively under way soon after March 17, when bids on more than $800,000 In road improvement work are opened here. Z. E. Sevison, high way engineer, said it will be the greatest single letting of highway contracts since the highway depart ment was established. Projects included in-cluded In the contracts, to be awarded embrace oiling, grading, gravel surfacing and bridge work in all sections of the state. LOGAN, UT. Rather than cut already low salaries of the Cache county school teaehers, it Is highly probable that the 1931-32 school year will be reduced to eight months. IDAHO FALJ-S, IDA. The southeastern section of Idaho ship ped 40 carloads of food, nearly two-thirds two-thirds of the total shipped from the state, to the drought-stricken areas, according to word recieved here from F. Lee Johnson, state commissioner commis-sioner of agriculture. Idaho Falls and Aberdeen took first place among communities contributing to the relief fund by shipping seven cars each. Pocatello shipped nine cars including those from Bancroft and Tylsee. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The 3931 wool clip in Utah can now be adequately financed, both from the standpoint of preshearing advances and commodity loans on woolfter shearing, James A. Hooper, manager mana-ger of Utah W'oolgrowers' association, associa-tion, reported on his return from a twelve-day trip to Washington, D. C OGDEN, UT.--C. I Forsling, director di-rector of the Intermountain forest range experiment station of the forest for-est service, announces the department depart-ment has been allotted approximately approxi-mately $10,000 to be expended in Utah and Idaho. The greater part of the money will be used In fencing small tracts for spring and fall ranges research purposes in the two states. About $3,000 will be expended ex-pended near the experiment station at Ephralm and about the same amount in the Boise National Forest in Idaho. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The national guard is in the best state ot organization, equipment and training In its history, Major General Gen-eral W. G. Everson, chief of the militia mi-litia bureau at Washington, said while he was In Salt Lake on a nation-wide tour of inspection. He praised the excellent condition of the Utah department PROVO, UT. The twentieth annual an-nual TImpanogoa Like, which will be known as the "china weddin; hike," will be held July 17 and IS this year, according to an announcement announce-ment made by C. J. "Chic" Hart who will have charge this summer. BOISE, IDA. Idaho's first shipment ship-ment of freight by air arrived at Oakland, California, In a huge tri-rcotored tri-rcotored Ford plane of the Western Paclfls Air Freighters. The craft carried 2S00 pounds of fresh Idaho These Firemen Do Their Christmas Work ijd Vie 4 IV ' I vV' s. jit - 'wr A 2 have P' wto do , two-relish two-relish jt. 1 work. Ltodo Unions. HFr orth,? Wed iyafW UeuP f of 27 H s pain iaches. helps : "vgth f oni) ire's ow kad Wist tn'thel met A rtloubti id 1F Wmpori town in in keif on ken as We he ! great 3 wor 3 butt Firemen of Portland, Ore., sitting on a few tons of the toys which they are repairing for dlstriJ f 6 s 1 among the poor and needy children of that city during Christmas of 1931. Every day they devote their y ttage 1 Its. Claude lrtmoot ftat "in ' , I youth jt mai fare, a IS on charg paeu u Jamune I dlarj If In t 3Vebst be l ads tt time to this work. Scenes and Persons in the Current News -r-. - h m tf. 3 . m a t j J''fl. til w. ' fh $xw i t lit i -- ra fiwiai 1 Launching the steamship President Coolidge at Newport News, Va., after U had been chrlsis f by Mrs. Calvin Coolidge. 2 Seven battleships ot the "Black" fleet in the attack on the Panaris 6s Zone during the war maneuvers. 3 Latest portrait of King Zog of Albania, who narrowly escaped i&i sinauon in Vienna. 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Carruthers. h,rnitfi new president of the States Lawn Tennis sfM Mr. Carruthers was elected v ofSce by the jubilee meeting United States Uvn Tennis s tion. The occasion was the ' birthday of lawn tennis United States. fv |