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Show THE LEIII SUN. LE1I1. UTAH News Review Events the House Passes Bill Legalizing 3.2 Per Cent Beer-President Beer-President Hoover Plans Debt Commission and Asks Roosevelt's Co-Operation. By EDWARD W. PICKARD CHAIRMAN COLLIER'S blU ' legalizing le-galizing the manufacture and tale of beer was put through the house by a rote of 230 to 1C5 after all attempts to amend It had" been defeated. The beer Is to hare an alcoholic alco-holic content of 3.2 per cent by weight or 4 per cent by rolutne and is to be sold orer the bar or In eating places, the understanding rs f -1 being that It la not lUlUJUl'UllIJg 1U inn and therefore should not be re-excise re-excise tax placed Rep. Ralney Btricted. The n the beer Is $5 for a 31-gallon barrel. A brewers' permit tax of $1,000 was voted. The old rerenue taxes of J50 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 rlolatlons Is set at a maximum 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. Ralney of Illinois, the majority leader. To him and Chairman Collier most of the credit for the rlctory was glren by Speaker Garner. The classification of the rote was as follows : 133 Democrats, 96 Republicans and one Farmer-Laborlte roted for the bill, and 64 Democrats and 101 Republicans Republic-ans against It The Collier bill, It was evident, faces a fight in the senate, 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. ENTRAPMENT by federal officers In prohibition law violation cases was condemned by the United States Supreme court In a ruling on 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 sufficient suffi-cient 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 solicitation, so-licitation, 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 gross abuse of authority glren for the purpose of detecting and punishing crime, and not for the making of criminals, deserres the severest condemnation, but the question whether it precludes prosecution pros-ecution or affords a ground of defense, de-fense, and, if so, upon what theory, has given rise to conflicting opinions." opin-ions." ONCE more President floorer tried to obtain the co-operation of bis successor In the handling of the war debt problem, and once more he railed. The Chief Executive Execu-tive la a special message to congress con-gress said he proposed pro-posed to go ahead with his plans for ome sort of reconsideration recon-sideration of the debts owed by the nations that bare cot defaulted, and that he intended to tame a commission ' -Hi Owen D.Young which would handle han-dle that matter and also take part In the general economic conference aad the conference on disarmament, disarm-ament, holding that the three questions ques-tions were inextricably connected. The commission, be said, could discuss dis-cuss with the debtor nations trade and other concessions and reduction reduc-tion of armaments in exchange for the scaling down of the debts. Mr. Hoover said be would asS Mr. Iioosevelt to help In the selection of the members of the commission and otherwise co-operate, for he realized real-ized no settlement could possibly be concluded until long after his own term had ended. Gorernor Rooserelt called Owen D. Young Into conference, and after talking for two hours with that eminent em-inent banker and reparations ex ?' ' J! . . of Current World Over pert he answered the President by telegraph, saying that Tie "was opposed op-posed to the creation of a war debt commission and also to linking the debts with either the armament conference con-ference or the coming general economic eco-nomic conference. lie reiterated his previous statement to the effect that the government should treat separately with each debtor nation and that this could best be done through 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. Rooserelt that the latter should not take a hand in the debt matter until be 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 be Is determined de-termined to go ahead with It and do whatever he can in the short time remaining before he goes out of office. DISPATCHES from Paris said that Great Britain would informally in-formally advise Trance to drop her Idea of submitting to arbitration jbwb. the question of ' I payment of the k' , I $20,000,000 Decem ber Interest that was due the United I'fj States. The Brit- V isn, however, were represented as being be-ing In faror of the French nlan for a TV general conference V'""! :i op seneral negotiations negotia-tions on the debt M. Paul. . question. Joseph Boncour Paul-Boncour had succeeded In forming form-ing a new French government not differing widely from that of Her-riot, Her-riot, and It is his Idea that negotta tlons with America can be kept open, though he hopes for the accomplishment ac-complishment of nothing rltal until after Roosevelt Is Inaugurated. The American embassy In Paris was prompt In establishing coi.tact with the new cabinet on the debt question. ques-tion. Its counselor, Theodore Mar-riner, Mar-riner, was received by M. Cot, undersecretary un-dersecretary of state In the foreign ministry, who probably will hare considerable power on foreign questions ques-tions and Is rery close to Paul-Boncour. Both the British and the French statesmen are interested mainly In what the next American administration administra-tion and the next congress will do about the debts and they refuse to get excited orer present derel-opments derel-opments in this country. JAPAN so far has successfully bluffed the League of Nations out of taking any action In the Man churlan dispute, and if the British and French representatlres hare their way, nothing will be done to Irritate the island empire. The special spe-cial committee of 19 of the assembly has dropped all active negotiations until January 16, nominally because of the Christmas holidays, but acta ally because the Japanese have flatly rejected the proposal 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 believing be-lieving that the United States wished to participate. The Jap anese also refused to put in question ques-tion the authenticity of the new state of Manchukuo. When the league takes np the matter again it will be faced with the choice of Invoking articles 15 and 16 of the covenant Involving sanctions, or admitting thai the cov-enant cov-enant doesn't work In a case like this. The latter Is the view of Sir John Simon, British foreign secretary, secre-tary, but he has recently inroked article 15 against Persia In the dispute dis-pute between that country and the Anglo-Persian oil Interests. The Wg powers of the leajnie seem deter mined not to offend Japan, and China Is furious, charging that the Japanese hare so schemed it that they will be able to pain a complete victory In Manchuria before any conciliation negotiations can be started. GOVERNOR ROOSEVELT was dividing his time between cleaning clean-ing up his work as chief executive of New York in preparation for leaving that post on January 1. and Interviewing rarlous distinguished members of his party, presumably concerning cabinet appointments. Among his callers were Arthur Mullen, national committeeman from Nebraska, and William Green, presl dent of the American Federation of Labor. It was understood that Mr Green was promoting the selection of Daniel J. Tohln of Boston for h labor portfolio. Tohln was active on behalf of Mr. Rooserelt In the campaign. Another person men tioned 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 setllement 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 so-called Wlllard agreement under which the workers now have 10 per cent 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 Wlllard agreement expires October 31 next the basic scale Is restored. EDWARD. O'NEAL,- president of the American Farm Bureau federation, announced In Washington Washing-ton that about 150 members of congress con-gress bad formed a bi-partisan farm bloc to support demands for agricultural relief In the short session. ses-sion. Their program, he said, includes in-cludes measures for the expansion of currency, for lowering the price of the dollar, stopping farm mortgage mort-gage foreclosures and giving economic eco-nomic equality , to agriculture and labor. . . ., Vigorous opposition to the 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 representatives repre-sentatives of the packing Industry. Under the bill the 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, 111., declared such a tax would cost the packers $300,000,000. George E. Putnam, economist of Swift & Co. of Chicago, asserted that the packing Industry could not absorb such a tax, that the consumers consum-ers would not, and It, therefore, would have to be passed back to the farmer, with the result that Instead of helping agriculture the "relief plan" would work great damage. BELIEVE It or not the national government la now handing over almost one-half of Its annual revenues to the veterans' administration adminis-tration to be paid out In benefits or other disbursements to, or In behalf of, war veterans and their depend ents. William M. Bullitt, former solicitor so-licitor 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, hare reached the point where they are about one-half the cost of that war and this does not Include about $2,000,000,000, In ad-Justed ad-Justed compensation, the payment of which Is a standing obligation of the government . "The Economy league," Mr. Bullitt Bul-litt testified, "insists that the government's gov-ernment's expenses be cut $450,000,-000 $450,000,-000 a year In the veterans' administration admin-istration alone. This can be done by eliminating $109,000,000 paid to veterans of the 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 reterans of the World war." QN CHRISTMAS eve Arturo Alessandrl assumed Presidential Presiden-tial authority in Chile, and promised prom-ised his country that his government govern-ment would guide it safely through its economic and political troubles. He called to his assistance as-sistance the Conservatives, Con-servatives, Liberals and quasi-SocIal-Ists, barring only CoL Marmaduke Grove and his red associates. A 1 e s-sandri s-sandri also made every effort to secure se-cure the support of President Alessandrl Javier Figueroa, former chief Justice and premier under the outgoing government who played a leading part in the overthrow of the dictatorship. Alessandri's right-hand man will be Gustavo Ross, who spent many years In exile In France with the President-Elect Ross Is a financier and has been offered the post of finance minister. He is now on his way back from London, where he negotiated a secret pact with the Rothschild bankers. THERE seems little doubt that the crushing of the abortive attempt at-tempt 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 the police seized documents that show the city of Buenos Aires was to be turned orer to released criminals and terrorists who were to be permitted to loot and kill without hindrance. Quantities of bombs and hand grenades were found, and papers that revealed a plan to prrride 30 or 40 bombs for each participant In the uprising. Irigoyen was sent to the Island of Martin Garcia C 1S11 Westers NwtpMr Union, Intermountain News -Briefly Told for Busy Readers HORSE KICKS FACE MAY OPEN BANKS TAX CUT MADE BURNED TO DEATH CRASH INTO TRAIN BEAVER, UT. Ambrose Thompson, Thomp-son, 30, was seriously injured when a horse kicked bim 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 Wingfleld banks In Nevada Ne-vada under a plan which calls for a $2,000,000 federal loan, has been proposed here by a committee representing re-presenting California corporations with Nerada Interests. SPRINGVILLE, UT. Springrille city's tax lery will be slashed from 15.45 mills to about 12.50 mills for 1933. - ' : - ' TWIN FALLS, IDA, A tract of approximately 68 acres on the south side of Snake Rirer canyon at Shoshone Falls has been glren by F. J. Adams, Omaha business man, to the city of Twin Falls as a Christmas gift "to t forerer held for park purposes only, for the beneficial bene-ficial use and enjoyment of all the people." BEAVER, UT. More than 600 turkeys from Bearer , valley and about 700 from the Milford ralley 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 was low bidder on grading, surfacing and draining 7.9 miles of the Lewis and Clark highway between be-tween Oroflno and Greer. The Job constitutes another link In the proposed pro-posed transcontinental highway leading lead-ing through Lewlston along the course of the Old Lolo trail, terminating term-inating at the west in Portland. Considerable mileage of the proposed propos-ed highway remains incomplete. SALT LAKE CITT, UT. Cash diridends aggregating $60,000 were recently distributed to 7,500 Utah and southern Idaho members of the Utah Poultry Producers' Coopera-tire Coopera-tire association. DUCHESNE, UT. William H. Murphy, 65, homesteader on Blue Bench, burned to death In his one- room cabin fire miles north of here. OGDEN, UT. Horace Davis, 24, and Parker Olsen, 20, narrowly escaped es-caped death when an automobile which Olsen was drlring ran Into the side of a Denrer & Rio 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 caused the car to skid. HYRUM, UT. The success of the Hyrum reserroir of the Salt Lake Basin project is now up to the water wat-er users of the district as all other steps have been completed. At present 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 Wellsville to Mendon, and some water wa-ter would be available for the Sterling Sterl-ing beach section between Hyrum and Wellsville. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Sufficient Suffi-cient funds are now available thru the Utah Wool Marketing association associa-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 the average for the ten years from 1919 to 1928. The abundant snows of last winter supplied sufficient irrigation irri-gation water to overcome the accumulated accu-mulated drouth of 1931 and to afford af-ford enough for maturing crops of the current year. The production of sugar beets this year was 822,-000 822,-000 tons, compared with 505,000 last year, and the yield of all hay crops was 1,342,000 tons, compared with 900,000 tons In 1931. The potato cro aggregated 2,250,000 bushels, CHEYENNE, WYO. A wolf wag killed in the suburbs of this city after he had killed several turkeys. LOGAN, UT. Logan city's municipal muni-cipal woodpile has furnished 125 loads of wood for needy families of this city. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Loans to fanners and livestock growers In the Intermountain west made by the Salt Lake Regional Agricultural Credit corporation, now total $1,-857.837.1L $1,-857.837.1L The number of loan made since October 12 total 25L IDAHO FALLS, IDA. Severe weather has forced the closing for the winter of the Idaho-Montana Asbestos company mines, and fourteen four-teen men and women employes at the mine have left for the season. Temperatures of 50 below were encountered en-countered and It was beginning to be difficult to obtain supplies, It was reported. Half of the employes will winter In Omaha, while the remainder re-mainder will stay In Idaho Falls or vicinity until work la resumed, probably prob-ably In February. Scenes and ; UU rS-.... K-Vu ' :Kir- J "''vi 1 President Hoover laying the the trowel with which George Washington placed the cornerstone of the Capitol In vm a T j , "SH llie (iiiiivipat uuomcos ourou vv iuuic, via., uuiiug luc oaiuua UIXJU m mat P8Tt Of the Sta " """MS tlve Sam D. McReynolds of Tennessee, new chairman of the house foreign affairs committee eima: Senators m. X , " 4 A sub-committee of the senate ing with the prohibition act Left and Felix Hebert. LAST TROUBADOUR Jllson Setters, proud of the fact of his descent 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. ROLPH SIGNS PARDONS J!of!!to " Gov. James Rolph of California Jnlng pardons for 133 persons convicted con-victed under the state's now dead prohibition law. Cause of World War tn June 28, 1914, Archduke Francis Fran-cis Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Aastria-Ilungary, was visiting S-ra jevo. a town in Bosnia, when be was shot ind killed by a student named Prinep. The Austria-Hungarian government fixed the blame after a mi-nth of Investigation, on Serbian Intrigues, and demanded cf Serbia certain services which the Serbs regarded as Invading their sov erlgnty. This dispute drew In othe nations, and the war followed. if ' I Hi vr -I i J X I Vi ' - - t1 f 4 Persons in the Ci cornerstone of the new Labor department hiiiMw Consider Repeal Resolutions 7V.. . oL.' ' ' Mii..iii.ir..-;JMji ...i i. in w Judiciary committee In executive session to discuss repeal to right: Senators Thomas' J. Walsh, John J. Blaine, William Ik Bayberry Candles for Mrs. Hoove; fcf ir mwmm t M Vit : ' I St. JW - rt' ' . For use during the holiday season the National Glr 1 Sco u . Hon nrpspntpi tn Mrs. Herbert Hoover a box or nay"" , is seen above receiving the gift from Miss Suzanne boo the White House physician. . Rutledge Inn WiU Be Resto" r In the process of restoring the old to ADr3bm g d state park, this building, Rutledge inn. te wj"c i ...ofin will be repaired ana u when thf Eniancipator knew it .cut iNews IIH i.ii.JiMiirii-'f.ii'ili t .:l;.ri:i'.p Aw, y 4 i i i i i!U , "" . . -f SfllenJ. ... c |