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Show THE LEIII SUN. LEIII, UTAH News Review Events the Grand Jury Asked by Ickcs Charges Future of NRA of Suit Against Little By EDWARD W. PICKARD , Western Newpaptr Union. v ONEST HAROLD" Ickes has 1 been subjected to lots of "H abuse by congressmen and others, but be does not Intend to let any- C5i. v. Ion the Public Works administration, administra-tion, of which he Is the administrator. administra-tor. At his request a special grand Jury bas been summoned sum-moned to - meet In Washington February Febru-ary 6 to Inquire Into 4 I Jiu... 4 charges of graft in the PWA. Assistant Setfy Ickes CnIted gtate8 At. torney John W. Flhelly has the matter mat-ter In hand for the government and will present first testimony concern-lng concern-lng the $1,000,000 canal project In Texas. It was asserted that the contract for this project was withdrawn with-drawn after Mr. Ickes' Investigators tad uncovered evidence that there was a huge conspiracy to defraud the United States. Eight or ten persona, Including federal officials, are said to be Involved. Mr. Ickes himself said : "The Public Works administration Investigation division has made a long and careful study of the Texas project upon the direction of the administrator (Ickes) and present ed to the proper prosecuting offi cials of the government a full re port for such action as they deem proper to take." This Texas case may consume several weeks, and afterward the grand Jury is expected to Invest! gate some other projects and also charges of fraud in the War de partment , A LMOST unnoticed among the spectacular Issues of the day, yet of momentous Importance, the case of the United States against Belcher will be set for hearing by the Supreme court within a few days. This case opens up discus slon of the constitutionality of the heart of the entire NRA experiment the power of the federal government govern-ment to regulate wages and work Ing hours through the codes. Upon this refusal of a small Alabama Ala-bama sawmill operator to comply lth the code hangs the entire fate of the NRA, for If the government loses there will be nothing left of the NRA except an empty statement of desirable business ethics. If the government cannot control wages and hours In the production of goods intended for Interstate commerce, there Is a strong likelihood that the course of legislation to extend the NRA beyond June 18 will be strong-ly strong-ly affected. Other cases1 now pending pend-ing before the court touch upon certain portions of the vital question, ques-tion, but this case goes straight to the basic power of the recovery act. It affords a clear-cut determination of the fundamental Issues, because there Is no dispute as to facts, no technicalities of law upon which the issue can be avoided. The case comes almost as an original case, since the attorney general took advantage ad-vantage of legal machinery permitting permit-ting an appeal directly to the Supreme Su-preme court from the decision of a fedcml District court without re-eoune re-eoune to a Court of Appeals. The defendant openly violated the lumber code. Instead of adhering to code provisions requiring payment of 24 cents per hour for a 40-hour maximum week, he admitted pay ing hln men-10 to 15 cents per hour and ttat he worked them as many hours as he saw fit What the government's line of defense de-fense will be Is not known. The case Involves all the constitutional objections which might be raised against the recovery act. Decisions De-cisions of the court In the recent II cases did not touch upon the con tltutlonallty of the main body of the act, but Involved only a special ectlon. X7uEN the senate passes the v $4,000,000,0(10 work relief measure, as It certainly will after all the orators get through, there need be no fussing as to who Is to administer the huge fund. PresI dent Roosevelt himself, according to an authority high In administration adminis-tration circles, will undertake that jod ana win allocate the money to the various agencies as he sees ft There will be no new set u for this purpose, unless It may be a small group of advisers selected by Mr. Roosevelt These may be members of the cabinet or tech nical experts more likely the lat ter. This information was given the senate finance committee as It began consideration of the bill, and was deigned to quiet some of the opposition and also curb the am bition of certain gentlemen who bad hoped to handle the 14.000.000, O0O, It did not bowerer, silence those senators of both parties who till contend that too much power la glvea tV President wbea be it of Current World Over to Investigate TWA Graft Hangs Upon Outcome Sawmill Operator. handed such a vast sum to dispose of as he pleases. A strong possibility is seen that the bill may be split Into two sepa rate parts, so that the 8S0 million dollars needed for relief purposes may be passed without delay, and the senate can then take Its time In considering the extraordinary measure which gives the President such unprecedented powers In spend ing the four billion dollars. One development which was of Interest to many was that the meas ure was prepared under the super vision of Mr. Bell, the budget director, di-rector, thus making 'htm a candi date for the "physical hanging" advocated ad-vocated by Senator James Couzens of Michigan. FEARING the anger of their aroused constituents more than the administration's whip, the sen' ate kicked over the traces to defeat ratification of the World court protocols. pro-tocols. The final count was seven votes short of the necessary two- thirds. Frantic efforts to force the meas ure through were made by the administration. ad-ministration. Several revolting senators sen-ators were called to the White House, and the President even agreed to amendments to the resolution, resolu-tion, but was unable to. overcome the effects of thousand of protest ing telegrams which had been pouring pour-ing Into Washington from citizens all over the country. In private, many Democratic senators sen-ators who face re-election in 193d heaved sighs of relief as the meas ure was defeated. Administration forces accepted the verdict appar ently without rancor, although the long memory of the man In the White House Is well known. Seem lngly the Issue Is dead, for the pres ent at least Senator William Borah, who with Senator Hiram Johnson, led the at tack on ratification, was Jubilant over the outcome, declaring that It was a great victory for the Amer ican people and for this country's traditional policy of keeping aloof from foreign entanglements. Observers at the Capital refused to view the World court vote as any Indication of a spreading revolt against Roosevelt's policies, since the court controversy cut deeper than party lines. Several senators who opposed the tribunal will tin doubtedly-support the-admlnlstra tlon on other measures, although victory of the small band of lrre- concllables who led the fight has undoubtedly added to their prestige. TllAT serio-comic "civil war" in Huey Long's domain Is becoming more serious than comical and almost al-most any day may develop Into real warfare. It was centered for the present at the state capital Two bun dred armed men, directed by lenders of the Square Deal association, seized the parish court house lo East Baton Rouge and held It until assured that one of their friends Huey Long who had been ar- ed was released. They then dis persed with a warning from one John Appel to "be sure you have enough ammunition and be ready for the call at any time." The KIngfish was In New Orleans at the time, but he hastened to Baton Rouge while Governor Allen called out some troops and pro claimed partial martial law In the capital Huey Immediately ordered the recently appointed Judge J. D, Womaek to start an Investigation of what he described as a plot to murder him, In which "four sheriffs and a district attorney" were In volved. The senator declared: We picked up two men, one of them was going to drive the murder car. It was all fixed up. He was going to block my car on the high way between here and New Orleans, Or-leans, make It stop and force me In the ditch, and then 14 or 18 were going to come along In another car and kill me. "We found all the stuff In the fellow's car. There was sheriffs equipment and everything Long blamed the Standard Oil company for the armed assembly of his enemies In Baton Rouge and said that unless the company stopped the "violence" his compromise compro-mise with It over the 5-cent oil refinery re-finery tax would be called off. Despite this warning another armed group of Square Dealers gathered at the Baton Rouge air field; but som?one betrayed them and a detachment of the National Guard advanced on them In battle array. The sight of machine guns was enough for the citizenry; they surrendered, were disarmed, placed under technical arrest and permitted permit-ted to go home. , f 1 i t & 1 THOSE who view Russia1! grow-Ing grow-Ing military strength with alarm were not comforted by a statement made by the vice commissar for defense de-fense before the seventh All-Union congress of Soviets In Moscow that the Red array has grown from 600,- 000 to 940,000 men In four years. Fortifications along the eastern tnrtn JSned, and ananches of T." frontiers have been military service, particularly avla tlon, have been Increased, the vice commissar stated, and more will be spent for defense In 1035 than was spent last year. The delegates, who were meeting to review Bol shevist progress since 1931, greeted the vice commissar's speech with roars of applause. Impressive Increases In armament were cited by the speaker who said that light tanks have been increased 7C0 per cent tanks of the middle classification 790 per cent subma rines 435 per cent light torpedo craft 870 per cent and machine guns in the army 700 per cent Heavy artillery and ammunition has also been greatly Improved In quan tlty and quality, he declared. IN AN effort to build up an alibi fnr P.rnnn Richard HnuDtmann bis attorneys have called a strange collection of witnesses a minor league bootlegger, a speakeasy operator of various names, a young Swede whose stories have been somewhat vague and conflicting, and a man who has ad-m ad-m 1 1 1 e d that he served several Jail sentences a not particularly Impressive Impres-sive lot upon which 1. . - to depend when you are fighting to Bruno Hauptmann escape death In the electric chair. One of the peculiarities of the trial Is the number of persons who only saw Hauptmann for a few min utes or seconds, but who are able to Identify him more than two years later. The man accused of killing the first Lindbergh child Is not outstanding out-standing In appearance or one who would be likely to Indelibly Impress himself on a person's mind, but both the state and the defense have been able to produce persons who swear he was the man they saw the day the crime was committed. The battle of handwriting experts has also begun, with the state pro ducing experts to swear that the handwriting on the ransom notes does not resemble that on the ad mitted writing of Hauptmann. Their statements are Just as positive as were those made by the defense wit nesses, and It all proves Just a little lit-tle confusing to the Jury. Considerable comment was caused when one of the Jurors, a woman, smiled broadly at Hauptmann as he left the stand following his examination, exam-ination, and some wagers have been made that a hung jury will be the outcome of the trial. Such predic tions are hardly In order, since a single bit of testimony may yet change the entire course of the case. JAPANESE forces .continued to advance In their drive. Two towns were captured by troops op eratlng In weather 34 degrees be low zero, and the forces appear to be converging on an area of disput ed territory which lies south , of Manchuli and Hailar, where north west Manchukuo overlaps Outer Mongolia. The lndeflniteness of the border is blamed for the contention. con-tention. Intimations that the Japanese garrison In Manchukuo might be Increased In-creased were made In the Japanese diet based upon assertions that the Soviet government had continued to enlarge Its army In the Far East and Unit Soviet penetration Into Outer Mongolia has resulted In virtual vir-tual communization of that territory. terri-tory. DISTURBANCE was created A In the senate when the bill to Increase the government's borrowing borrow-ing powers by $11,000,000,000 was passed, except for the attempt of Senator Elmer Thomas, avowed ad vocate of Inflation, to hold up action. ac-tion. Senator Thomas based his argu ment on the possibility of the Su preme court holding gold clause contracts valid and that changes would be needed In this event Senator Sen-ator Burton K. Wheeler also sought to amend the bill to authorize Issuance Issu-ance of greenbacks Instead of bonds, but did not press the chnnge to a vote. The bill as passed rev few the bond authorization carried by the second liberty loan art, mV.rti bas been virtual! ethanaferi It also provides for trrjo- of baby bonds In denominations m kwr ts I2T. Details De-tails have not U-rt worked out but the Interest on tb first tone will be at the rate of 24 per cent and the bonds will run from 19 to 20 years. D ICT1ARD WASHBURN CHILD, former ambassador to Italy, at torney, and author, died of pnen monia at his home In New York. He left a post as editor of Collier's Weekly In 1921 to take that of am bassador to Italy, where he gained prominence as the chief representa tive of the united States at the Genoa and Lausanne conferences in 1922. He was the author of several works and collaborated with Premier Pre-mier Benito Mussolini on the Ital Ian leader's autobiography In 1927 Mfff IT KeI BEVERLY HILLS Well all I know is Just what I read In the papers, pa-pers, or what I see from here to hither. About ten Rogers and I were going Into New York. (By trajn as the weather bad me riding the rods about that time for several days). It was late Sunday afternoon. after-noon. We was coming from Washington D. C. I was going In to broadcast from there that Sunday evening. You see you got to kinder let em know a lit tle In advance where you will be on these broadcasting Sundays so they can sorter make arrangements. We hadent been In N. Y. in a good while. We had nothing to do but broadcast at seven thirty, and that gave us the evening to ourselvs. We got into our hotel about six thirty. Dident Intend to go and eat till after the wind Jamming. Got to the studio, which was a real theatre, with an audience of three floors of people, and a big orchestra sitting on the stage. Well I hadent any more than- walked In the place till I was booked for a benefit performance, there was some kind of a combined charity broadcast by both companies, Columbia Co-lumbia and National, for the musicians. musi-cians. It was to be around eleven, so I told em I would be glad to be there. Well then I come from my broadcasting broad-casting and I hear of another show. Its a big benefit for the Actors Fund, a fine charity ably sponsored for all these years by the beloved Daniel Frohman. Well I was tickled to death to go there. Here I ha vent been in town over 30 minutes and book myself my-self two shows. You never get so old .that somebody dont want you at a benefit and they have always got audiences too. 1 do know that N. Y. people are the most liberal and they always fill a house for a good cause. You see, Sunday nights are the benefit nights on account of the actors ac-tors being idle, and they can get the theatres for the show. First actor I met was Charles Winninger, who has become Immortal as Captain Henry of Zeigfelds "Show Boat" on stage and air. 1 was with Blanche Ring in a musical show called "The Wall Street Girl" twenty years ago when he and Blanche got married. Well then out of the theatre and met an old cowpuncher friend, Chan ley Aldrich, who used to ride bucking buck-ing horses in the stage show "The Roundup" with Macklyn Arbucklt starring. Who should we run onto but Lillian Lil-lian Shaw, the stages best character singer. Played in vaudeville with her for years, and she was a star in my first musical show, one called "The Girl Rangers" at the Auditorium in Chicago. That was in 1907. Wow, 28 years ago! Lillian looked great. John Bunny the first movie comedian, was In that show. The chorus girls were all mounted on horses. (That is 12 of them were). Reine Davis was the star. It was a beautiful show, but too expensive. Then who comes ovjer to the table but Roscoe Turner, and we had to cross and recross India, Per sia, Mesopotamia, as I had flown that route too. And who do 1 hear is there of us old timers but Miss Geraldine Far-rar. Far-rar. We worked for a year on the same movie lot for Sam Goldwyn in 1919. She was always a remarkable remark-able women, the most pleasant the most considerate, consid-erate, and the hardest working 1 ever saw in pictures. pic-tures. Now who can sing like her today? Then we went up to Bee our dear friends the Fred Stone Family. Betty says, "They will be in bed." I says, "The Stones are Bhow peo ple, they couldent sleep before mid night Fred has gone to Holly' wood on a fine movie contract, and he will make a hit for he can do anything. Where on the American stage, radio or screen Is there some one we compare with what be meant to the theatre? They dont develop peoplo like that anymore. They have no place to develop em Well as we were driving home mighty late for the Rogerses, Betty said, as we talked of each we had met that night, "Isn't It a shame that not on our whole amusement fields have any of these a successor." Everyone of them today can walk on a stage and show that when they learned heir trade it was a profession ana not an accident People who have spent a lifetime perfecting the art of entertaining people, then to have the whole stage profession snatched from nnder :hem, and ship your entertainment o you in can. Brave hearted people re ueamcai people. ww yiniii'i i' Government , J" t 4 Si- ' H 1. Chester C. Davis. 2. Harry L. By WILLIAM C. UTLEY MENU FOR TODAY Little Pig Sausage AAA Sunshine Salad NRA Plum Pudding PWA NRA tions like that may or may not look like an attrac-tltra attrac-tltra iriann f r. rim onA ma but 25,500,000 of our Inspired citizens citi-zens are eating it or something like It every day, and all of us are paying pay-ing $100,000,000 a month Just for the salaries of the chefs. We may not be paying cash, but we're at least Bigning the checks and sooner or later we'll have to make them good. , ' Bureaucracies of theNew Deal have added more than 116,000 employees to the executive department alone, that Is the amount of Increase since February 28, 1933, just before the New Deal administration came into power. It Is estimated that approximately approximate-ly 6,500,000 persons are on the lists who receive salaries and other payments from the government, from President Franklin D. Roosevelt Roose-velt down the line through the long rolls of executives and workers to the least of the millions who are dependent upon the Federal Emergency Emer-gency Relief administration. This body says that the average family of four persons has but one wage earner In It This would seem to indicate that 25,500,000 persons are either wholly or partly depending upon the national government for support That Is one out of every five in the nation. The Public Works administration under Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes employs 400,000 directly, di-rectly, itself, and Indirectly gives employment to another 2,000,000 on its various projects. Regular routine rou-tine employees of the government, which Include the White House, congress, con-gress, the departments and miscellaneous miscel-laneous commissions, and some of the Independent agencies created by the New Deal, account for 680,000. Many Are Employed. Congress Itself, which votes all the money for the administration's spending, employs less than 2,000 persons, 1,905 for the house of representatives rep-resentatives and 805 for the senate. Employees of the national labor relations re-lations board, listed as a "regular" branch of the government total 622,-77L 622,-77L Military employees are more than 210,000. Federal relief rolls account for 19,000,000, of whom there are 750,-000 750,-000 single persons and 4,500,000 families. The Civilian Conservation corps or as It Is officially named, the Emergency Conservation Work organization which ts one of the early comers of the new bureaus, created under the direction of Robert Rob-ert Fechner on April 5, 1933, era-ployed era-ployed at the last reckoning 3S3,-708. 3S3,-708. The executive department with Its alphabetical bureaus, now boasts more employees than at any other time In the country's history, save the World war years. Last October Octo-ber the payroll passed the mark of f 100.000.000 monthly, the official figure fig-ure released by the civil service commission being 101,SSS,573. At y if if Pay Roll Lists "I ' 4 A' 5 si': : m Hopkins. 3. Donald Richberg. 4. Harold Ickes. 5. Jesse H.fr more than $1,200,000,000 a year, the salaries of the executive department depart-ment civil branch now surpass one-third one-third of the total annual revenues of the United States. ' It Is in the executive branch of the government, of course, where virtually virtu-ally all of the "bureaus" and "administrations" "ad-ministrations" and "commissions" lie. Else they could not have so efficiently accomplished their pose of centralizing the authority and responsibility as they have done. What all of these bureaus are and what they are Intended to do are shown by charts and outlines In the United States government manual recently re-cently released with a cover message mes-sage from the President himself which reads: "Only through a clear understanding by every citizen of the objectives, organization and availability of the government agencies can they render truly effective effec-tive service and assure progress toward to-ward economic security." Rather Mystifying. The average citizen who learned the structure of his government in the schoolroom of the days before NRA is apt to become a bit befuddled, befud-dled, If not altogether punch-drunk, after fingering the pages of this manual, however. The manual, provided pro-vided In loose-leaf form, so that more pages can be added as more bureaus are created, Indicates that no less than 51 such additions have been made by the present administration adminis-tration as nearly as I could count them; there are so many "wheels within wheels." I am Inclined to think the average citizen might close the book, gaze thoughtfully over its green cover Into space and murmur, "My, my, how smart must be the folks at the helm to keep track of all these things." The AAA, or Agricultural Adjustment Adjust-ment administration, under the direction di-rection of Chester Q Davis, which was approved by the President, May 12 1933, "to promote national economic eco-nomic recovery by restoring the purchasing power of American farmers to the level It occup ed In the five years preceding the Worm war (1WMM4).- ployees on Its payrolL The Farm Credit administration (not a aew Deal product since it was created In 1923. but an outlet of plenty of the New Deal's y m0Dey) employs em-ploys 6.6S3 persons. Of the ,0W. 000,000 easy money let loose oy government bureaus during lOoi, " dispersed $1,827,000,000. Employed in the actual agencies of the PWA are 4,999 persons. aU striving for "the reduction , of on employment and the restoration of purchasing power tnrongh tte con struction of useful public works and the encouragement of ion? ranee planning In the field r Putmc W OOLA the Home Owners' Ug corporation, supervised by w FHLBB (Federal Home Loan board) and organized JwttJ with an ultimate view ot ms MnnoooOOOO to assist in the eroer-$3,0W,uw,ow eroer-$3,0W,uw,ow i " tiomes, gency financing of OflW nndbM spent $2,059,000,000 In stopped loaning money. " ploys 20,533 persons In its age"" 6,500,1 M 4 is if 4- ) ! i 77 1 :-34rkV.?"-. -,;V:-; Another billion nip H0LC by congress, Codes and te The NRA itself e; its agencies, not ik ever, one Gen. B.r who has called the Bi as the dodo, whidsfe-; who has written i k magazine articles i wrong with MU i NRA codes for taft keep many more pe busy, a perusal ri manual suggests. U more codes than J stick at, even If it-very it-very big stick. Tbtf- Richberg's worrj v general's. Some esting to contend Another large pa, Tennessee Valley w is spending a b -gatlon, flood pre and power develop the Tennessee rive The FERA (F Relief commis1).1-Harry commis1).1-Harry L. eoplimr 000 last year, sos, of the bifla of H. Jones, and the total of $G3Z000; 000,000, and the 0 Many of the & added only d'irl:? Among these are ... -ln fTOflli al Commnnitu'"--XPrO (National Tf mission) ;NMB(M board) ;BBBf ' board); WE O1' tabllsnment) f j. Jl AU l-auuu" r. TVAC) Tenses -1 ed Co-ope0", ' eral Aviation - t was viw- t to appoint special proWajJ, toents.-J be the very Soup industry)- . administration); Farm Mortg (Federal Ho- . curity); f What iw d; t win b V I weeks- x 1. 1- ister the $4 . d dent M about .r. ne v&f f-0 Z I i" I J |
