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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over St. Lawrence Seaway Treaty Ready for Investigation by Borah Dictatorship Decreed for Prussia-Great Prussia-Great Railway Merger Plan. I By EDWARD W. PICKARD UNITED STATES and Canada nave signed the treaty for construction of the great St Lawrence Law-rence seaway, whlcb la to cost In t b e neighborhood of JSOO.000.000, but the pact must be ratified by congress and the dominion parliament before becoming effective. Ratification is probable, prob-able, but by no means certain. There are various parts of the treaty to which grave objections ob-jections bare been W.D.Herridge raised, notably those relating to tiivision of power to be developed, and withdrawal of water from Lake Michigan for the Chicago sanitary canaL These and all other phases of the pact will be Investigated by a senate committee commit-tee beaded by Senator Borah of Idaho. The inquiry will not start until August. ' The treaty, which has been un-' der negotiation for eleven years, was signed by Secretary of State Stim-son Stim-son for the United States and Minister Min-ister William D. Herrldge for Canada. Can-ada. By Its terms the seaway is to be constructed under the supervision supervi-sion of a commission to be known as the St. Lawrence International rapids section commission. Five members are to be appointed by each country and the work Is to be carried on free from governmental red tape and on a business basis. The commissioners will not have the right to direct construction of the power plants to develop 2,200.000 horse power, although they can coordinate co-ordinate these with the seaway. They can order deferred any works. When their Job is done they cease to exist as a commission. POLITICAL riots and murders in Prussia resulted in the establishment estab-lishment of a dictatorship for that German state and the declaration of martial law in Berlin and the province of Brandenburg. Bran-denburg. In three weeks more than a hundred persons had been killed and 1 fNIA 'mi n ,1 nfl In pre-election campaign cam-paign encounters, which were mainly between Hitler's Nazis and the Communists. Com-munists. President Von Elindenburg : Gen. Kurt von Schleicher therefore Issued the accessary emergency decree and Chancellor Von Papen became virtual vir-tual dictator of Prussia, naming Mayor Frana Bracht of Essen as chief assistant When Prussian Minister of the Interior Severing declared de-clared he would yield only to force, the decree of martial law was issued. is-sued. Premier Braun and Severing were removed from the Prussian ministry. Open air political meetings meet-ings had already been forbidden throughout the relch. That Germany faces revolution la seen In the flat threat by Hitler that If his Nazi party does not win control con-trol of the relchstag In the coming com-ing elections it will forcibly seize control of the government and arrest ar-rest all Socialist and Communist leaders. According to an Amsterdam Amster-dam newspaper. Gen. Kurt von Schleicher, minister of defense, will co-operate with Hitler. The general. It has been recognized for some time. Is planning to make himself eventually the actual ruler of Germany. Ger-many. The Amsterdam Journal also says Former Crown Prince Friedrlch Wilhelm recently visited the ex-kaiser ex-kaiser In Doom to discuss plans for a coup d'etat after the elections. The scheme la to form a new govern ment with the ex-crown prince as leader; to bring Wilhelm back from exile In a German warship and to restore the regime of the bouse of Hohenzollern. Hitler, the puper says, will help, but will not participate In the government IN ONE of Its most Important decisions de-cisions the Interstate commerce commission approved a plan for consolidation of all eastern railroads, rail-roads, except those of New England, Eng-land, Into four great systems. The plan will probably be accepted by the lines concerned, though It does not suit them In certain respects. The four systems will be known as the New York Central, the Pennsylvania, the Baltimore & Ohio, and the Chesapeake & Ohio-Nickel Plate. The systemc thus created will embrace 57.000 miles of rail Unes 300 roads, though many of them are already operated by the large trunk lines. The commissions ruling caused an Immediate reaction approaching jubilation in railroad circles, which sailed the plan as the most helpful factor In that Industry la 12 years. a fact, as the report pointed out the leading railroads have received virtually all that they have asked for In order to work out a new plan of economies. PRESIDENT HOOVER signed the relief act but still bad to com plete his plans for reorganization of the Reconstruction Finance corpor atlon whlcb is to handle the huge fund. In doing this be bad to decide de-cide on successors to Eugene Meyer, governor of the federal reserve board, and Paul Bestor, farm' loan commissioner, whose retirement as directors of the corporation was made mandatory by the measure. The corporation Itself decided to discard red tape to expedite loans from the $300,000,000 for Btate relief re-lief of destitution and $322,000,000 for public works, the latter including includ-ing $132,000,000 which may be used to match state highway expenditures. expendi-tures. More than two-thirds of the $300,000,000 sum will be applied for Immediately. GETTING into action rather more swiftly than their rivals, the Republican campaign leaders at Chicago headquarters started the preliminary work for the election elec-tion of 12 United States senators In the centra) states. The plans are under un-der the direction of Senator L. J. Dickinson Dick-inson of Iowa, keynoter key-noter In the national nation-al convention. "We are going to concentrate con-centrate on the senatorial tights," .of Sen. Dickinson he said. "Where a senator Is stronger in his state than the President, we'll expect him to carry the whole ticket, and vice versa." Senator Dickinson said the prohibition pro-hibition question would be the principal issue in many states, the people having to decide whether the Eighteenth amendment shall be repealed outright as the Democrats Demo-crats desire, or replaced by another anoth-er amendment giving congress control con-trol of the liquor traffic, the Republican Re-publican solution. On August IV President Hoover will be officially notified of his nomination and will deliver his speech of acceptance at the White House. He has decided not to make a western trip this summer, but will send Vice President Curtis to represent him at the opening of the Olympic games. GOVERNOR ROOSEVELT, hav-V. hav-V. Ing ended his short vacation cruise, was back In Albany attend ing to business and laying out his campaign plans with National Chairman Farley. The latter gentleman announced the cumpalgn would be run through the state organizations. There will be a campaign commit tee at the Roosevelt headquarters in New York, but It will assist and co-operate with the state organlza tions rather than attempt to direct them, Farley said. There will be only one national headquarters, lo cated in new lork. The money will be raised by a special com mlttet not yet named. Nellie Tay- loe Ross of Wyoming will again be at the bead of the women's organization. organi-zation. Mrs. Roosevelt, who says she has always been "a profound dry," has publicly declared her belief that the Eighteenth amendment has not worked successfully and should be repealed. CONGRESSMAN J. B. Shannon's house committee Inquiring into the inroads of the government Into business competition with private concerns opened Its hearings in Kansas Kan-sas City, his home town, and first received briefs from many organ lzations. M. W. Borders, In presenting the date assembled by the Federation of American Business, which has branches In 34 Btates and represents repre-sents more than 1G0 Industries suffering suf-fering from competition from government gov-ernment boards and bureaus financed fi-nanced by tax-payers money, set forth that bureaucracy has grown to such proportions that It threatens threat-ens the existence of the present form of government A procession of merchants from Leavenworth testified that they were being driven to the wall by the competition from new government govern-ment stores in the two federal penitentiaries pen-itentiaries and by the activities of the post exchange and book depart ment at Fort Leavenworth. Efforts of the government to get Into the cafe and restaurant busl ness were attacked by the American Hotel association, with 6.000 mem ber hotels. Live stock producers, commission men and bankers pictured the "col lapse of live stock Industry onder withering dictatorship of the secre- tary of agriculture, the doings of the board. and attacked fitoeral farm THOUGH the members of congress con-gress during the recently ended session gave up a vast amount of time to political scheming, quarrel Ing and useless talk, they actually did enact considerable legislation of moment, often under pressure from the Chief Executive. They passed a series of measures that began with the moratorium tor inter governmental debts, that In- eluded the creation of the Recon- irtT-iipf Inn Flnnnrn rnrnnrntlnn. andltion. that ended with the passage of the $2,122,000,000 relief bill and the home loan bank bill with its cur- rency Inflation provision. They put through a new revenue measure designed to raise more than a billion dollars In additional uu.iui.ai taxes, and an economy DIU saving perhaps $1..000,000 in government expenuitures. iney passea ail me necessary department supply dims. out rem sea 10 maise most oi me promised economies in these. Two measures long advocated by Senator Norrls were passed. These were the "lame duck" resolution to change the constitutional dates for the beginning of congress and the Inauguration of the President and the anti-injunction bill relating to labor disputes. The growing national discontent with orohibition was reflected In congress by two test votes in the house and several votes on the legalization le-galization of beer In the senate. On March 14, voting to bring the Beck; LInthicum repeal resolution to the floor, the bouse cast 187 wet votes. tho larracxt tf 1 1 a Irtnil enra nin. I hlbltlon, as against 227 dry ballots. nv nccaa lam a ciuuiiui iuic uu I the O'Conner-Hull beer bill was 132 to various bills to legalize beer, and measures by Senator Hiram Bing ham and Millard B. Ty dings were offered as amendments to the tax bill, and in a final effort to gain modification and increase federal revenues as a rider to the home loan bank bill. The various at tempts met failure. President Hoover vetoed only three Important pieces of legisla tion. These were the bill extending extend-ing veterans' privileges to hitherto unthought of classes of former sol dlers, and the first Garner-Wagner relief bill with Its federal loans to Individuals, and the bill to shear the President of "his powers under the flexible provisions of the Smoot- Hawley tariff act IT HOUGH the members of the 1 bonus armv in Washington are rapidly leaving for their homes, taking advantage of the free fares offered by the government, gov-ernment, those who remained, especially especial-ly the radicals, were threatening more trouble in the form of a picketing picket-ing of the White House. A promise to do this If congress con-gress were not called in special session to pay the bonus was made by Gen. Butler Urban L e D o u x ("Mr. Zero"). Brig. Gen. Smedley D. Butler, former marine, project ed himself Into the picture by giving giv-ing the veterans a characteristical ly vigorous talk urging them to stay right there and praising their behavior. "They are trying to get you to go home," he said. "You ought to keep some one here in the front Hue trenches. You have as much right to a lobby In Washington as the United States Steel corpora tion. Don't take a step backward. Remember, as soon as you pull down the camp flag this movement will evaporate. Those of you who do go home, vote to kick h 1 out of your enemies." nREMIER MUSSOLINI of Italy i made a grand shake-UD in his cabinet five ministers resigning by compulsion. t,nier or tnese was Dino Grandi, minister of foreign af fairs. The others were Alfredo Rocco, minister of justice; Antonio MosconI, minister of finance; Prof. Balbino Glnllano, minister of education, edu-cation, and Giuseppe Bottai, minis ter of corporations. Mussolini, who already was min ister of interior as well as premier, kept for himself the portfolios of foreign affairs and corporations. rrancisci, jung ana Krcole were named to -the other vacancies. cieven unaersecretaries also were displaced. Grandi was made ambassador to Great Britain. 7 UEREVER In this country or abroad are found former students stu-dents of the University of Illinois the news of the death of Thomas Arkle Hark was read with mourn nil Interest For many years denn of men ia that Institution, he Der formed the difficult duties of his no- sltlon with extraordinary skill and lact and won for himself a high piace in ine educational world. Among other deaths of the week was tha of Jules J. Jusserand. wno for many years was French am hassador to the United States and was one of the most popular of all tne diplomats In Washington. Amer nuns ui tans joined with the French In paying a last tribute to mm nx tne runeru services, C IMX. Wetr Nwsppr Unloa.) Intermountain News -Briefly Told for Busy Readers POTATO DEAL MADE. MANY VISIT CANYONS. VALUATIONS FALLING. STEERS FIGHT AIKMIH . WATER MEN FILE CLAIM. Home Study a unique plan by means of which a person may go to college at home 4s one of the most active news in aauu euucu The University ol Utan, inrougn its Home Study Department, is KUU1UI6 - : , mon each vear who would other reaching nunoreaioj. inc.. ..u wise be unable to go on witn uieir education. In this department there is no too Tin ontranca ex- . .-. i!n.if intei. I (Alii Hit l JW1) v '' -7 - Jectual limit n0 professional limit. . students come from all waikg 0f jjf e. LOGAN, UT. Farmers who lost their crops and other property re cently in the hail and windstorm which swent Clarkston area haVe sent a delegation of Clarkton res idents to the Cache county Red Cross relief committee for assist ance. PR0V0, UT. The assessed val- nation of Utah county on property assessed oy tne county asbehsor dropped $3,202,843 In 1932 accord- lng to the final report submitted to the state tax commission, OGDEN, UT. Commissioner W. J. Rackham was recently author ized by the city commission to i nnts vHnln r.0 a!1 at I a cost 0f $400 for application to City Streets. ' I fc -c-ArrTj-TTYV tta n the the 1932 potato shipping season nas Uccii mailt; utuo uy u. in. wwauic of New York City and Frank But-ner, But-ner, local packer, requiring handling of a large portion of the south and eastern Idaho crop. Butner will ship 200 cars of select stock and later will ship 200 cars of Idaho potatoes packed in 15-pound bags. PAYSON, UT. The Strawberry Water Users' association has filed a preferred claim for its money in the closed State Bank of Payson. The action was voted unanimously after an extensive investigation. CHEYENNE, WYO. The pilot of the eastbound transcontinental air mail spent 30 minutes circling the field here recently, until hastily summoned cowboys herded 30 wild steers into other pastures. Each time the pilot tried to land, the steers charged the ship. MAGNA, UT. Breaking of a dam above the Shields addition, follow ing a heavy rainstorm, sent about a foot of water down through the bus iness section. LOGAN, UT. The clerk of the Cache national forest, has complied figures to show that 144,210 visitors were in Logan canyons in 1931. The visitors spent 94,000 days in the can yons. CALDWELL, IDA. Twenty-six uanyon county scnools nave con tracted for nine-month terms and six have contracted for eight-month terms, according to the county sup erintendent of schools. BURLEY, IDA. A "Swim Week" will be held at Rotary beach near Burley in the near future. Swimming and life-saving work will be taught by the Red Cross. BUHL, IDA. The recent Pio neer celebration held at Clear lake Included a sham battle between In dians and an Immigrant train, an old time fiddlers' contest and a program of addresses. BOISE, DA. Boise's heaviest rainfall for the month of July since July 30, 1912, was recorded recently when .71 Inches fell. MT. HOME, DA. A saving of $1300 in village expenditures for the next fiscal year was effected by the Mt. Home council when the salaries of the water superintend- enj sre? commIsfon. marshal, and clerk were cut $10 to $30 month nnder the new budget HYRUM, UT. Oiling of state highways In Cache county will be gin in the near future. A construction construc-tion company has the contract for oiling, which Includes five miles I between Hyrum and Logan, and 7 miles between Webster and Lewis ton. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Th local community warehouse has a good supply of turnips for the un employed. Eleven tons are listed as being In storage. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The beet crP3 are looking fine, It Is reported. With the rise in sugar prices, sugar beet growers adjac ent to Ogden have experienced a potential Increase of $03,000 In the value of their crops the past few weeks. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The Utah Association of Pools and Beaches is conducting a campaign lor life-saving In connection with the resorts of the state. Cooperation of other organizations will be so licited In order to make the plan as complete as possible. KANAB, UT. The deer population popula-tion in Kaibab forest has decreased decreas-ed from 30,000 to 11,000 within the last . three years through hunting ana other means. Forage Is plentl rui at present to care for the an- Neb, who Is the Republican nom-""als. nom-""als. I inee for th Fatted Lamb Ai Mix YW'KvnrT 1 t1 CMS" -4 32EEI The first national celebration held tlclpants in the uiympic games, was day with fatted lamb In accordance Scenes and .1 i swiiWM 1 Part of the great throng of ington in the vain effort to persuade liament building In Ottawa, Canada, Averill Harriman, son of the late the Union Pacific and three other FAST ITALIAN LAD Lulgl Beccall, 1,500 meter runner 0f Italy and champion of Europe, now with the Italian team in Los Angeles to take part In the Olympics. Olym-pics. He has covered the distance In 3:52 and hopes to do better during the big games. UP FOR GOVERNOR ML 'A ? Dwight P. Grlswold of Lincoln, - VI erasia. ... . ... ESSSSXS I i ...y J f x jy - fV a? ' fa " if . t i for the Argentinian 7 In Olympic Village at Los Angeles, which h a leuss tor uie Argenuna atnietes who celebrat , 1 with the old pampas custom. M fte& a Persons in the Current News pfei&MEiaaJ RMiTiiii'iririiirTniiiniiiriliiiiimiiirM i f ' war veterans who stormed the United States Capitol IraiM congress to vote the payment of the bonus before adjdinfcj where the British Imperial Economic conference is In m. Edward H. Harrlman, who has been elected chairman of tM railways, a post formerly held by his father. They Don't Like the Lausaira S r " 5 r & - xhViV civ - I , mi -"'"TiMr i iiii -w TmsViiiTiWinni i in . Some of the many thousands or Tot Lnstzarten in Berlin protesting against ta ceptance of the Lausanne treaty. Kaye Don Setting New Kaye ion 'hpA . new r Scotland, wnere ue Porcupine. Weaknei The porcupine has few natural enemies and he never has to sees for food, for he eats bark, bj has a real passion tlt will eat anything -with a salty tasta, " " AtKle r.' . . Hitler's. j Speed -a . TTtflfi"1 his speeuDoai- of cat they're |