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Show THE LEHI SUN. LEIII. UTAH 1 " ' i News Review of Current Events the World Over Startling Victory of Democrats in the Maine Election Hoover Calls for Big Budget Cuts Von Papen Triumphs Over Reichstag. By EDWARD W. PICKARD 1 r .1 ft -SB" Louis J. Brann liREAT rejoicing among the Dem- vJ ocrats, and corresponding dis may In the Republican camps. Maine, normally a rock-ribbed Re publican state, bas -PZ"! gone Democratic, and everyone Is quoting the old ad age: As Maine goes, so goes the Nation." Whether or not that Is true, this September election elec-tion certainly gives immense encouragement encour-agement to the supporters sup-porters of Franklin Frank-lin D. Roosevelt. Nor did the Hoover forces attempt to minimize Its importance. For the first time in IS years Maine chose a Democrat for governor, gov-ernor, lie Is Louis J. Brann, mayor of Lewlston, whose plurality ever Burleigh Martin was nearly 1,400. The Democrats also elected two out of three congressmen, the victors being Edward 0. Moran, Jr Rockland Insurance agent who twice ran for governor, and John 0. Utter-back, Utter-back, an automobile dealer who was once reform mayor of Bangor. Congressman Con-gressman Carroll L Beedy, Republican, Repub-lican, was re-elected in the First district dis-trict Republican National Chairman Everett Sanders sent a reassuring telegram to President Hoover, but the Chief Executive was not to be deceived. His reply wire said : "The result of the election In Maine Imposes need for renewed and stronger effort that the people may fully understand the Issues at stake. We have known all along that, owing to the ravages of the world depression, our fight is a hard .one; but we have a strong case and a right cause. Our task is to ac-Qualnt ac-Qualnt every man and woman in the country with the facts and issues which confront the nation." "We are greatly disappointed," admitted ad-mitted Vice President Curtis. "But it will only make us work the harder, and we will carry Maine In November." Novem-ber." The Democratic Chairman Farley grinned exultantly as he said be was impatiently awaiting a Republican explanation of the Democratic victory vic-tory in Maine. "The Democrats do not concede a single state," he added. "I think it must be admitted by Mr. Hoover's supporters that la this particular commonwealth the Democratic prospects pros-pects were -no better, to put it mlld-' mlld-' ly, than in the least promising (from our point of view) of the so-called doubtful states. Maine was no harder hard-er hit by the depression than the rest of the country and had no more reason to resent the evasive policies of the administration." PRIMARIES were held In various states during the week. Is Michigan Mich-igan Gov. Wllber. M. Brucker, Republican, Re-publican, easily won renomlnatlon and Representatives Walcott and Person also were victors. The Democrats Dem-ocrats named W. A. Comstock for governor. Senators George H. Moses of New Hampshire and Porter Dale of Vermont were renominated by the Republicans, as was Senator E. D. Smith by the Democrats of South Carolina, Cole Blease being rejected. In Louisiana Representative Representa-tive John n. Overton, friend of Senator Sen-ator Huey Long, defeated Senator Broussard, who sought renomlnatlon. renomlna-tlon. Xyf R. HOOVER poked a stick Into a hornet's nest when he made public the report of Attorney General Gen-eral William D. Mitchell on the bo nus army and the regrettable incident ef its ousting from Washington. Mitchell Mitch-ell said his invest! gators found that most of the B. E. F. members were honest, earnest and law abiding, but that perhaps a quarter of them were criminals, many were radicals, radi-cals, many were ar rant fakers, and the worst were among those who were evicted by troops with tear gas and flames. The attorney general defended de-fended the manner of eviction and the condoct of the troops used, and the President said: "This report should correct the many misstatements misstate-ments of fact as to this Incident with which the country has beea Hooded." But many newspapers and Individuals, Indi-viduals, hotly discussing the report, declared It was misleading generally general-ly and absolutely false In certain rttal parts; and It Is a question whether it did not still further alienate a considerable part of the body of war veterans from support of the administration. Of course, it was one of the major topics of tall among the members ef the Atty Gen. Mitchell IS ? I t v w 1 i i l- American Legion when they assembled as-sembled In Portland, Ore., for their annual convention. Of greater Importance to the Legionnaires Le-gionnaires than this affair was the demand for Immediate cash payment pay-ment of the bonus. The resolution calling for this was adopted by a vote of 1,167 to 109 after a noisy debate. The delegates thus disregarded disre-garded the warning of President Hoover and General Dines, director of the veterans' bureau, that the payment would cost the treasury between be-tween two and two and one-half billion bil-lion dollars and Impose an intolerable intoler-able burden on taxpayers. Other resolutions adopted called for repeal of the Eighteenth amend ment and the immediate modification modifica-tion of the Volstead act, opposed cancellation of foreign war debts and favored adequate national defense. Chicago was selected for the 1933 convention, and Louis A. Johnson of Clarksburg, W. Va., was elected national na-tional commander. HOW the problem of Intergovernmental Intergov-ernmental debts may best be solved Is the puzzling question that Is now being considered by a new organization of business leaders ef the nation, seventy-six men prominent promi-nent In Industry, agriculture and labor. la-bor. Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., president presi-dent of General Motors, is the chairman, and the vice chairman .include .in-clude nenry A. A. P. Sloan, Jr. Wallace, farm pa-, pa-, per publisher of Des Moines; Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university uni-versity ; James M. Cox, former governor gov-ernor of Ohio; John W. Davis, former for-mer ambassador to Great Britain; Frank 0. Lowden, former governor of Illinois; E. A. O'Neal, president of the American Farm Bureau federation, fed-eration, and Louis Tabor, master of the National grange. Mr. Sloan's new forum, it is announced, an-nounced, will devote Itself to "mobilizing "mo-bilizing practical opinion" on the International debts question. PRESIDENT HOOVER started off the week wen by calling on the heads of departments and the executives of all other federal activities ac-tivities to cut out all non-essentials from bugget requests for the next fiscal year. The President said he had requested Director of the Budget Roop "to make every effort to secure a reduction of at least $500,000,000 In the estimates of appropriations for the next year from the appropriations made for the current year, and the co-operation of the responsible administrative administra-tive officers Is necessary to achieve this end. A part of this can be accomplished in reduction of construction, con-struction, activities which have been so greatly speeded np during the past few years as, an aid to employment" From administration sources it was learned the President hoped the total budget reduction might be $800,000,000. Just before sending his message to department heads, the President announced that the government would go ahead with that portion of the construction program which the relief act made contingent on the ability of the treasury te raise the necessary money. He said he had instructed the. various departments depart-ments to speed up the program by the amount of slightly less than $200,000,000. On Tuesday the War department, to advance the government's employment em-ployment relief efforts, approved a great construction program that calls for the expenditure of $41,-577,200 $41,-577,200 on flood control and rivers and harbors projects. The department depart-ment expects these activities will provide work for 25,000 persons now Jobless. THOUGH supported by only one-fifteenth one-fifteenth of the relchstag, the government of Chancellor Von Pa-pen Pa-pen of Germany remains In power, for it has the back-Ing back-Ing of President , - Von Hindenburg t who seems to azree r 1 3 with the chancellor chancel-lor tnnt parliamentary parliamen-tary government in the relch is a fail-are. fail-are. When the relchstag met Monday Mon-day Von . Papen tried to read the command for its dissolution given him by the presi dent, but Herman Goering. the Nazi president of the parliament, refused to recognize blm until after a vote of non-confidence in the government had beea moved by a Nazi and carried car-ried by an overwhelming majority. Ton Papen walked out leaving Von Papen ' A K. E. Voro-shilov the decree of dissolution on Goer Ing's desk. That gentleman announced an-nounced It was not valid since the relchstag had already overthrown the cabinet Later be admitted that both the dissolution and the vote of non-confidence were legal, after being rebuked by the president presi-dent for bis action. Government officials said there wuld be new elections within sixty days, according accord-ing to the constitution, but the Deutsches Zeltung, -eouthplece of the government said: There will be no new elections no decision on a date of election Is expected in the near future." AS WAS forecast a week ago, France rejected the German demand for equality of armaments, though in a conciliatory way, asserting as-serting that the other allied nations na-tions and also the United States would have to assent to the proposal pro-posal before It could be granted. Chancellor Von Papen thereupon announced that German delegates would not attend further sessions of the disarmament conference, which reassembled Wednesday. FROM Riga comes the interesting statement that Josef Stalin, dic tator of Soviet Russia, has lost his Influence and before long will be replaced as secretary secre-tary of the Communist Commu-nist party the only office he holds by M. L Kagano- vlch. This latter man, however, Is a devoted disciple of Klem E. Voroshl-lov, Voroshl-lov, commander of the Soviet armies, so it Is taken for granted that Voro-shllov Voro-shllov will thereafter there-after direct the ; policies of the Communist Com-munist party and of the nation. Stalin's reign, it is said, is being brought to a close because of failure fail-ure of the five-year plan to industrialize indus-trialize the country, coupled with the growing shortage of food, which is causing workers everywhere to desert the industrial undertakings and return to the villages. Another reason for the fall of the dictator Is said to be Moscow's hope to obtain American recognition recogni-tion by a radical change of Internal policy. Voroshllov is anxious to obtain ob-tain America as an ally against Japan, whose plans, Russians fear, threaten Siberia. MANCHODKDO, the "independent" "independ-ent" state set np by Japan in Manchuria, Is now a full-fledged nation for Japan gave It recognition recogni-tion by signing a protocol Thursday at Changchun, which city was re named Hslnchlng, meaning "New Capital" There was great rejoic ing in Tokyo and a display of Intense In-tense resentment In Chinese cities. CHILE narrowly escaped another revolution during the week. A military clique led by CoL Arturo Benltez, air force commander, served notice on Carlos Davlla, the Socialist President and former am bassador to Washington, that unless un-less he resigned the Presidential palace would be bombed or attacked by troops. The clique already" had forced the resignation of the cabinet, cab-inet, and the men and planes of the air corps gathered at Santiago ready for action. So Davlla gracefully-stepped down and out GATHERED in Sioux City for the purpose of considering the needs of the farmers, governors and other representatives of nine middle western states outlined a proposed federal program for financial finan-cial aid to farmerjj. Among other things they suggested tariff revision to protect farm products, "sound" expansion of currency. Reconstruction Reconstruc-tion Finance corporation loans to farmers, a moratorium on farm mortgage foreclosures and crop surplus control legislation. This program seemed fairly satisfactory sat-isfactory to the farmers who were en "strike,", and there was an immediate im-mediate decrease in the picketing that had kept much farm produce out of several large cities, especially especial-ly in Iowa. FOR several days It was believed the "Flying Family." made up of Mr. and Mrs. George R, Hutchinson, Hutchin-son, their two small daughters and a crew of four, had perished off the coast of Greenland on their flight by stages to Europe. Their huge amphibian plane was forced down and smashed In the ice, but all of them were found alive and unhurt in an Eskimo settlement and were taken to Angmagsallk by the British Brit-ish trawler Lord Talbot. The projected pro-jected flight of the Hutchlnsons over Greenland and Iceland,, was not approved by the Danish government, govern-ment, and the taking of the children chil-dren has been severely criticized. D ECEIVERS for the Insull -UtU-1X ity Investments, Inc., report to Federal Judge Llndley in Chicago that the concern la hopelessly Insolvent In-solvent Its assets being $27,473,361 and Its liabilities $253,984,34L Aside from the $143,000,000 which 51.673 persons invested la the stock of the corporation and lost there still recalns a deficit of $78,474,403. That appari)tlv wlrs nnt tw purchasers of $58,645,028 of debenture de-benture bonds la the company, with still a deficit of nearly $20,000,000 That Is nearly half of what the bankers loaned Ue corporation, e. 1131 Wstrm Kwppr Unloa, Intermountain News Briefly Told for Busy Readers LARGE COPrER SALE PLAN SAN JUAN KOAD NEW ORE MILL GREEN RIVER TRIP BIG CONTRACT LET ELY, NEV. A 40-day run before another lay-off will be put into effect ef-fect at the Nevada Consolidated Copper company, continuing to October 10. Recent sales of millions of pounds to Italo-French interests are said to have disposed of all the copper the company had btored in McGIlL MONTICELLO, TJT. A 15-mile federal aid projecf in San Juan county, closing the last gap in U. S. 450, between Thompson and Monti-cello, Monti-cello, is announced by the state road commission. The new project will be part of the unemployment relief program plan. It is expected to cost about $70,000. In addition the line revise work in Devil's canyon can-yon between Monticello and Bland-Ing, Bland-Ing, will fie completed, at a cost of $12,000. BEAVER, TJT. Work Is under way In Beaver for the installation of the latest type rod mill for handling hand-ling ore. The old woolen mill plant, partially destroyed by fire a few years ago, has been purchased and work has begun on remodeling. JENSEN, UT. After eight days spent in hazardous traveling through scenic canyons of the Green river from the Utah-Wyoming line, seven men arrived at Jensen, a distance dis-tance of 162 miles by river from their starting point A boat was lost while moving through Ladore canyon. It negotiated the leap over Disaster Falls, where Captain Ashley Ash-ley lost seven men by drowning in his famous expedition, but struck a huge boulder at the foot of the falls and overturned. The entire trip was made through rushing water. Several times the boats were overturned when they struck boulders, but were recovered. Often they would move in rapids running more than 30 miles an hour. The party took motion pictures of the scenery. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Bids on the contract for the largest of the state road commission's projects in Salt Lake county this fall will be opened September 27. This is the grading and graveling of the airport air-port entrance to Salt Lake from the west, between the salt worts on the shore of Great Salt Lake and the Junction with the present paved highway Just west of the Salt Lake-Tooele Lake-Tooele county line. This project will cost about $140,000. it is estimated. esti-mated. MOAB, UT. The npper bridge over Courthouse wash in Grand county, will be repaired at a cost of about $0000, and a new bridge will replace the bridge in the lower part of the wash, at a cost of $20,000, and $60C0 will be spent on the Moab-Castleton state road this year. BINGHAM, UT. 100 men have been given employment in the Bingham Bing-ham mining district to increase the mining department forces of the United States Smelting, Refining & Mining company to between 600 and "700 men. The new work made available will be rotated or "stag-gered" "stag-gered" to spread the labor needs as far as possible and assure half-time or more employment to the 100 workers. The 100 men will fce placed plac-ed on development work. HIAWATHA, UT. A $25,0 0 0 road program was arranged for Emery county, of which $10,000 goes between Hiawatha and Mohrland, $10,000 between Castle Dale and Huntington and $5000 south of Emery. FAIRFIELD, IDA. Harvesting of the biggest wheat crop ever rais ed on Camas prairie is proceeding at a fast pace, with grain pouring Into the elevators at Fairfield, Hill City, Corral, Manard and other points night and day. Trainloads are leaving these stations every day, some going east and others divert' ed southward. ABERDEEN, IDA. Reports of grain yields per acre in this section indicate a substantial increase over last year and crops that hare .sel dom been equaled In this district resides me increased yields per acre, there is a twenty per cent increase in-crease in acreage over last year. ELY, NEV. Out-of-state fruit and vegetable peddlers apparently will find an open door policy In Ely hereafter, following a decision that the ordinance heretofore requiring $100 a month for a peddler's license In the city is unconstitutional. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Report of the city auditor shows a decrease in expenditures amounting to $278,-4S8.10 $278,-4S8.10 for the first eight months of 1932. All departments of the city showed decreases. SALT LAKH CITY, UT. Four Utahns have received commissions as reserve officers in the United States army. It Is announced from Ninth: corps area headquarters at the Presidio, Saa Francisco recently. SALT LAKE CITY, UT.-Despite Scenes and Persons in the Current evs t i r J A - ,A4i jLT'iiSllr 1 ii amat. 1 t .... OTicnrnrth Vlnpu rppelvlnff from President Cnrmthpr tit th rrr.t.. ... i vmeu aiates Lawn i the championship enp after his flereat or uenn jocnet or France at Forest Rin. t . " Aeai if .1 1. .u. m.-aa.a a Otnn SMfw Tma arhllA nnnrM.... , - t I StrV!.. 1 paratunx uiruugu we euwu vi bwu j, nunc bviciuwo nuu representfiHvM """taw . . n o mniinn irv.,K- ci t- . "vca " BUM. ,.. 1 were coniemug uu a rcuei. """ xuuuo t oau rmuusco who defeated v ( mi A tnr th T?onnh1!nn BPnntnrlnl nomination. u senator Sanmd s3 llUgt. V MW v.vt.. - Liner to Be Air Station in Mid-Atlantic I :- - '-' '- 1 v- - x ,4.-.r"w', ' rV-' v. s-j v y: Ut V "i-A - i ; ,.' - , Vv .-it , VT - r irmirriiTtiiP-T-i ifin -'--r7llw-' The North German Lloyd company announced It had designated the Liner Westfalen as t toatkl station in mid-Atlantic to facilitate the establishment of regular air mall between South America ail rope. The liner will be equipped as a mother ship for transatlantic planes, with an alighting platform, s of tools and spare parts, radio equipment and weather forecasting paraphernalia. I HUGE WATER TOWER t ' i J i'h, i r 1 2 4. , -S' sy" " -y 1 I '.V This new water tower at Great Yarmouth, England, will be one of the largest of Its type In the world, being 102 feet high with a capacity of 784,000 gallons. It will supply water for an area stretching from Calster to Gorleston. NEW AIDE TO HOOVER - 1 Vs. f - w Lieut Com. Paulus P. Powell, U. S. N, of Virginia, wlo is attached to the naval reserve division, bureau. I of navigation of the Navv deDart- a plunge of 200 feet down a eliff ! MeDt' has bwa PPointed to duty and into a nils of i v- M t the White House. Com- Betty Clark, 13, 851 West Seventh j mandfr ?cweU Bas served as flag South street, escaped with a dls- aecretarj to the commander of location and a fracture of ber right ' lmea naTal forcea lB Ea" irm. I rP and in the naval inteH'jrence - j department Chosen as Premiere Danseuse ' 1 v ?$lJL -V 1 ? 4 v f ' XjV if "t i Ji if. ' Annum Patricia Bowman, who has been chosen i the new International Music hall In Rockefeller center, Is here seen In one of her latest dances. North Dakota's New State &PH This $2,000,000 state capitol now nearlng completion at Bismarck, N. D will represent the last word not only In modern architecture but also In fitting and equipment It is fireproof, to prevent any recurrence re-currence of fire which burned the old wooden capitol almost to the ground last falL mi f ' "I i !r 5 f i i h ", i i ( . I ,11 i f : 1 M ! i I ' ( I Ili'i f L-' Ivvi - hv' lit? hiaiMi h i K" - |