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Show r TH: LEIII SUN. LEIII. UTAn News Review of Current Events the World Over Employers Rush to Support of President's Industrial Recovery Program Grain Exchanges Called to Time by Administrator Peek. By EDWARD W.'PICKARD T ESPON'SE by employers to Pre Fort Smith, Ark.; Kansas City, Col & I. Pres. Roosevelt IF; V iiUnt Roosevelt's radio anneal for adherence to the blanket Industrial Indus-trial code was Immediate and flat teringly favorable. Telegrams and letters let-ters by the thousands thou-sands have been received re-ceived at the White House and Oen. Hugh Johnson's of fice pledging eager co-operation, prom ising prompt action or asking for fur- fa e r Information. Though there may le many dissidents, carpers and selfish hideouts. It Is apparent that the people are deter mined to give the N. I. It. A. pro gram a fair trial. Industrial lead era In general are willing to shorten work hours, and Increase wages There Is, however, one section of the "Jobs agreement that arouses considerable distrust. This In ef fect provides that signers of the blanket code automatically bind themselves to the so-called union labor provisions of the recovery act Open shop employers naturally do not like this. The President In his radio ad dress declared that prompt action by employers and co-operation by workers would spell success for the recovery plan, while failure would mean another desperate winter, Signing of the universal agreement, he said, "will start the wheels turn lng now, and not six months from now, and he added that to await formation and approval of specific codes for separate Industries would not be fast enough. "We are not going through another an-other winter like the last, he said, as a grim determination set Into his voice, and he declared that If era ployers will act together now "we can put people back to work." "Unless there Is united action,' the President said, ''a few selfish men In each competitive group will pay starvation wages and Insist on long hours of work, which forces nonontme men to louow suit or close up shop. We have seen the result of action of that kind In the continuing descent Into the eco nomic hell of the past four years." While pleading for voluntary ac tton and promising the creation of "rolls of honor" of signers to be posted In their home towns, Mr. Itoosevelt warned his hearers that the law gives him power to deal with those who try "to thwart this great common purpose by seeking eelfisb advantage." orado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Arkansas. Iteglon 9 Monroe Johnson of Ma rlon, S. G; Atlanta, Mississippi, Ala bnma, Georgia, South Carolina and Florida. Iteglon 10 George L. Ratcllffe, Baltimore; Richmond, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia and North Car ollna. GOVERNORS of the states, who were holding their annual con ference In California, received from President Roosevelt an Invitation to assemble In Washington next winter "In the hope It will make further solid accomplishments by all of us In the direction of national recovery." recov-ery." Progress Is being made, the Chief Executive said, In his message to the governors. In adjusting the balance between mutual state and federal undertakings to determine the joint responsibilities of many great tasks. There are, be added, many problems that extend beyond the power of single states where federal co-operation Is required. FOLLOWING the sudden collapse of grain prices on the Chicago board of trade and all other grain exchanges, the men directing these concerns were jr, ; snarpiy called to t SECRETARY OF STATE IITJLL failed to persuade the leaders of the world economic conference In London that a time should be set for determining whether or when the parley should re-assemble; but before adjournment was taken the plenary session set up a permanent committee of twelve designed to keep life in the conference during the Indeterminate recess. James M. Cox, head of the monetary sec tion, la the American member of this committee. plI!S Is the busy season of the A vear for aviators, and some of their accomplishments are notable. Wiley Post of Oklahoma, who once flew around the world with Gatty, successfully made the circuit alone, establishing a new time record of 7 days, 18 hours, 49 minutes. He Is the first to make the solo round trip and the first to fly around the globe twice. The Molllsons of England, Captain Cap-tain Charles and his wife, Amy Johnson, John-son, flew across the North Atlantic from Wales. They were headed for New York, but weariness and the exhaustion of their fuel supply forced them down at Stratford, Conn. They landed In the dark In a marsh and were slightly injured. and their plane was wrecked. Gen. Italo Dalbo and his men of the Italian squadron, after several days of festivity In New York, left for their homeland, going by way of New Brunswick and Newfound land. As they soared away over Jamaica bay the commander sent to President Roosevelt and Mayor Kelly of Chicago by radio mes sages of gratitude for their reception recep-tion in the United States and at the World's fair. One of the army's big twin motor bombers, carrying Lieut Carl A. Murray, and six other men, lost a wing In midair at Oceanside, Calif., and fell in ruins. The seven men, unable to get free to use their par achutes, were killed. - f George N. Peek QENERAL JOHNSON, working as energetically as he did when he administered the World war draft code act was pleased with the general approval of the uniform code designed to establish a 55-hour 55-hour week and a $14 minimum wage for labor and a 40-hour week and $15 minimum wage for the "white collar" worker. Aa In the draft case, he said, numerous nu-merous questions come up in trying to apply a general rule to Industry. "We'll find undoubtedly that we've made mistakes," he Bald. "And whenever we find we've made a mistake we'll come out and say to and correct It We attempted to atrike as near a median as we could without upsetting too many applecarts. apple-carts. Rut we will deal very promptly prompt-ly with specific cases of hardship." A very Important question, cov-ering cov-ering a large class of workers, was raised as to whether existing con-tracts con-tracts are affected by the uniform code. Johnson said they were not Contracts cannot be broken, even by the government This means that the hours and wages of contract workers are not affected, unless by common consent TEN regional advisers to the pub- He works administration have been appotnted by the President to aerve as direct representatives of the administration and obtain from atate boards lists of projects for consideration. These men. their headquarters and the states In each region are: Region 1 Ralph L. Cooper of Bel fast. Maine; Boston, Maine. Vermont, Ver-mont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut Region 2 Edward J. Flynn of New York city; New York state. Region 3 Daniel J. Tobin of Indianapolis; In-dianapolis; Chicago, Illinois. Indiana. In-diana. Michigan, Ohio and Wlscon-aln. Wlscon-aln. Region 4 Frank Murphy of Wheaton. Minn.; Omaha, North Dakota. Da-kota. South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota. Min-nesota. Iowa and Wyoming. Region 5 Iwna Marshall of Portland. Port-land. Ore.; Portland, Montana, Idaho. Washington and Oregon. Region 6 Justus S. Wardell of Sao Francisco; San Francisco, California. Cali-fornia. Nevada. Utah and Arizona. Region 7 Clifford Jones of Spur. Texas; Fort Worth, Texas, Louis! na, and New Mexico. Region 8 Vincent M, Miles of time by George N. Peek, farm adjustment adjust-ment administrator. They teok temporary tempo-rary action to halt the demoralizing de clinesdue mainly to the operations of ju Edward A. Craw- ' ford, a plunger . and then hastened to Washington to confer with Mr, Peek. That gentleman told them flatly that the government would take drastic action If the exchanges did not move at once to "put their house In order." "I do not entertain the view that the present grain trade has any divine di-vine right to handle the farmer's products," Mr. Peek asserted. "We are not going to superimpose some thing on the grain trades until after they have had an opportunity to work out their problems themselves. "If this Is not done promptly, however, how-ever, I will make no promises. An attempt will be made to meet that situation. Abuses exist In the grain trades. The trades, acting as the marketing medium of the farmers, should correct these abuses. If they do not succeed, then the government gov-ernment will act" The grain men then offered these four sweeping reforms In trading practices: Establishment of dully price fluctuation fluc-tuation limits of S cents on wheat, rye and barley, 4 cents on corn, and 3 cents on oats. Restriction of the futures holdings of any one trader to a maximum volume, probably between two and five million bushels, to be determined deter-mined later. Permanent elimination of trading In indemnities. Uniform and perhaps higher mar-gin mar-gin requirements for all exchanges, the minimum requirements to be determined de-termined later. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT and his close advisers were not In the least discomposed by the slump In prices In the stock exchanges that -""S vii simultaneous V" with the crash In grain prices. Indeed, In-deed, they rather welcomed It because be-cause It was the puncturing of what they considered an unwholesome and unwarranted boom, bk . V.,,,1 tratlon gave no sign 8en.St.lwsr f Dte, 8 , tect prices of securities se-curities as It did those of grain. However, Senator Stelwer of Ore gon, Republican member of the sen ate banking committee, believes there may be legislation at the next session of congress to minimize the possibilities of such "abnormal shrinkage" of prices as occurred. He offers three propositions for consideration consid-eration by business leaders and economists before their submission to congress. They are: "Preparation of a simplified form of corporate returns to be used by all corporations reporting to the Treasury so that the reader could tell approximately the liquidating value of all classes of necuritles In any corporation at the time the return re-turn was made. "An adequate curb ou short soil lng. "A prohibition of dirwtors of any corporation Increasing, decreasing or suspending the payment of dlvl-dends dlvl-dends without first securing from the stockholders a CO-day prior authorisation." M O Intermountain News Briefly toW for Busy Readers WILL NOT REBUILD WILL JOIN THE NAVY WATER StTrLY WANES KICK OF HORSE IS FATAL EXPLAIN ACREAGE TLAN BOISE, IDA. C. C. C. work is proving sufficiently popular so that a large majority of the boys are anxious to enroll for another six months. Recent questionnaires sent to members of the various Idaho camps elicited that CO per cent desire de-sire to enroll again without qualification; quali-fication; 24 per cent are willing to enroll again If they can have the Christmas holidays at borne, and the remainder are non-committal or hostile. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Forty- two young men of the inter-moun- taln region will be enlisted in Salt Lake as apprentice seamen In the United States navy on August 18, ac cording to an announcement made at the local recruiting office. OGDEN, UT. Lee Wayne Lemon, 9, died In the hospital from Injuries received when kicked by a horse at his home in Corrinne. OGDEN, UT. nopes of rebuild lng powder magazines at the Ogden arsenal which were destroyed by a storm two years ago were dampened damp-ened by a telegram from Senator William H. King to the Ogden Chamber of Commerce, saying that reports that part of a $6,000,000 federal fed-eral building fund would be used for this purpose are unfounded. PROVO, UT. The federal wheat acreage reduction plan will be explained ex-plained and application, blanks distributed dis-tributed to Utah county farmers at a series of meetings scheduled during dur-ing August, according to County Agent Lyman H. Rich. PROVO, UT. A street carnival dance will feature the evening program pro-gram of the second day of the Utah State Firemen's association conven tion held here, August 10, 17 and 18. J3YRUM, UT. Three men were named as the local committee here to list the wheat averages for the past four years. MORAN, WYO. Due to ex treme hot weather and very little rain, use of water from the Jackson dam reservoir has been Increased to approximately three times that of last year at this time. The daily use of about 11,000 acre-feet has lowered the reservoir six and one-half feet from Its maximum ca pacity, which is four feet lower thsn last year. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Hun dreds of corporations will be barred from carrying on business unless they Immediately comply to the law. This announcement was made by Secretary of State M. II. Welling after the list of delinquent corporations corpor-ations had been compiled showing a total of 1,142 either had not paid their tax or filed a claim for ex emption for 1931. MT. PLEASANT, UT.--A con struction program entailing the ex penditure of approximately .$70,000 will be undertaken by Mt. Pleasant, If the necessary funds can be borrowed from the public works fund, ; : SALT LAKE' CITY, UT. Farm bureau officials from all parts of the west are planning to attend the regional farm bureau confer ence In Salt Lake August 9, 10 and 1L The agricultural adiusrmpnt act farm credit legislation and other phases of the national situa tion will be discussed. All Utah county and local farm bureau officials of-ficials will meet with directors of the state farm bureau In Salt Lake on August 8. BOISE, IDA. Oiling the Eagle-Meridian Eagle-Meridian highway will be among the first jobs to be let by the department de-partment of public works under the emergency highway program. BUTIL, IDA. Farmers of southwestern south-western Idaho have been warned by the assistant entomologist with the university extension division at Moscow, to be on guard against the potato beetle which first appeared ap-peared in Idaho In 1030 and some- NE of the old friends of Secre- J times does considerable damage to "JfL xfV T'!s5iL-J34 v,; S Fifteen students of the High School of Technology in Massachusetts are making a vacation trip tw Europe. The boys travel in their own motor car, which can be transformed Into a great tent This photJS from Berlin shows eleven of the group before their bedroom." Left to right they are : John M. MacBrjm Jr. ; Ellis Sittman, Samuel a Prescott, Fred O. Murphy, Wilbur M. Jones. Richard Hughes, James W. Wion Louis C. Stone, Paul P. Glrgaut Robert Webster and Edward S. Wemple. Scenes and Persons in the Current News OUEY LONG, the klngflsh sena- tor from Louisiana, has been much vexed of late concerning pa tronage and flood control matters, feeling that he was being Ignored by the administration. The other day he went to the White House in blustering mood, declaring he was going to have his rights. He had not been recognized in two ap pointments recently In Louisiana. That of controller of customs was given to a follower of Senator Har rison of Mississippi, and an avowed enemy of the Long organization; Paul B. Habans was selected to di rect the affairs of the Home Loan bank there. Well, Huey was affably received by President Roosevelt and Post' master General Farley, and what the Chief Executive and the astute politician told the rampaging gentleman gen-tleman from the South must have been plenty. The Kingftsh emerged from the conference a silent and seemingly squelched man. FOR. some weeks there have been persistent rumors in Washington that Secretary of the Treasury Woodin would soon resign. These were contradicted by officials con nected with the administration, but were heard again when It was learned that the streptococcus sore throat from which Mr. Woodin had been suffering had not been cleared up and had developed into "quinsy." He has been on vacation, and the President told him by telephone to take a good rest and return when he had regained his strength. If Mr. Woodin should step out, It is believed his portfolio will be given to Frank C Walker, treasurer of the Democratic National committee, who not long ago was made secre tary of the new "super-cabinet" Mr. Walker has long been the devoted friend of Mr. Roosevelt and could have had about any Job he wished. but heretofore he has preferred to remain in the background. rry I' 11 '"'""J imm ' 1 j I 15, Vat : r?J Cfwfeil m It n 1 lias Desta Demtu, scn-in-law of the emperor of Ethiopia (right) and Ato Paulos Manniano, EthiopisD consul general at Jerusalem, who paid a state visit to President Roosevelt 2 Wiley Post Oklahoma iriite alighting from his plane et New York after his record-breaking flight around the world. 3 Ruth GonglM! Fort Worth, who was married to Elliott ftoosevelt second son of the President, after bis divorce dm his first wife. HALF-PINT COLONEL Nearly Ready for the Supreme Court 1SSOURIANS who are ardent have given him a handsome chest nut saddle horse, born and bred In Audrian county and now named New Deal The animal was present ed to Mr. Roosevelt by Senator Clark and Representatives Cochran, Lnzler and Cannon, acting for the donors. . f 7 J J v., j ij f ..tj .- f VST.-iliH w -i-i -b' m-. k ,. a I .y.:! r1 lb' I "' 1 $ R N. ' ,t$ ' fT tJ I I I l -I i I S -V , - 1 1 "l II I f i t fd , , r X-J- nv 1 ; H ft "t m --tr i -I'M- ! lfr$ !' iH'1 'I v r iimniaiiaaii ' m u I J - -r-. f tary of State Hull has been given the agreeable post of minis ter to Finland. He Is Edward Albright Al-bright of Gallatin, Tenn., editor and publisher of the Sumner County News and a former president of the I National Editorial association. ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT, son of the President did marry Ruth Googina of Fort Worth, Texas. In Burlington, Iowa; and the couple sped down to the Lone Star state by automobile. SPAIN was thoroughly worked up by the discovery of a great clvil- the crop during the hot weather. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. An- I proximately 40 per cent of the clln of wool of the 1933 season has been delivered into the hands f Hi. manufacturers, and the entire In dustry Is voicing confidence in a return to prosperous price levels. J. A. Hooper, secretary of fhe Utah State WoolRrowers association recently re-cently announced. OGDEN, IT. Two hundred men were recruited here and rushed to Carey creek to fight a fire which broke ont In the Idaho national forest Ian plot to overthrow the existing j parowa.V, UT. rarowan city government the conspirators including in-cluding various groups from Carl-tuts Carl-tuts to Communists. The civilian uprising up-rising was to have been followed by mlltary dictatorship, according to the police, though the latter were slow In arresting any army officers. Hundreds of civilians were Jailed and seized documents Indicate that attempts on the Fives of members of the republican government bombings bomb-ings of ministries, sabotage of communication com-munication lines and general strikes were on the program. I officials are planning to ask for a ! loan of approximately $4.".000 under the national Industrial act for the making of Improvements on the municipal water and lighting sys-. terns. BOIL. IDA. The arnual grain harvest has started In the fanning Rrea around Twin Falls. Fi'er RubL Castlefwd, Hagerman, Gooding Good-ing and Wendell, with threshing outfits under way. All barley Is : ripe and whett has ripened fast Although he's but five vpnra Aid little Rafael Leonldas Trujillo, Jr., can wear a colonel's uniform with the best of them. He Is a son of tne President of the Dominican Re- p.niic and was recentlv chosen hu the men In his father's old regiment to act as their honorary colonel PROBING RACKETS Mi: .' - . This photograph shows the progress on the work of erec new building for the United States Supreme court In Wasnms handsome structure is nearing completion. Flew Across Ocean but Crashed t .t f. l-ouis R. Murphy or Iowa should not eneourase the racketeers, for he Is It L ?' th,,se ,n'fd-.als o t f t n,tentin f pUt,inS Sena,or Mni condnctinf the Investigation In I , s:-fv Capt James Molllson of England and nls wife. AmJ flew from Wales and nearly reached their destination. e .Br" bausted and short of casoline, they made a forced landin : Conn, In a marsh. Injuring themselves slightly and smasU" : |