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Show THK PAGE TWO News Review of Current Events the World Over If necessary to save the constltu tlon. At the fiume time the I'resl dent signed und made public a drag tic emergency decree designed to close up what Hruening culled "the deflation period Imposed upon Ger muny." The decree reduces wage und cut scales to the level of l'.rents, food prices and uhout all other living costs. It ulso reduces Interest rates. Imposes compensatory taxes on Imports und strength-7 Congress President Opening of the Hoover and Secretary Mellon Call for Higher Taxes Germany Reduces Everythin; Seventy-Secon- d tllTII ' of tie control Democrats t house unil John Nance (lamer of Texas elected und lis sneaker, the Seventy-seconcongress begun lis work on time. Representatives of the majority party t li e I r celebrated new status In the lower chamber with wild cheering und "rebel" yell. Rut the senute was fittingly more sedate and Its first session was brief and tor-i- i in I. Next day the N. J. Speaker fireworks begun In Garner that chamber with of the prothe anticipated gressives against f.he reelection of Senator Moses of New Hampshire ns president pro te.lipore. They huve never forgiven him for calling them "sons of the wild Jackass," so they gave their seven votes to Norrls of Nebraska. The Democrats voted solidly for 1'ittman of Nevada, but fell short of the required forty-livvotes by three, so there was a deadlock that threatened to last a long lime. The most Interesting event In the senate was the swearing In of Mrs. i la t tic Caraway of Arkansas to fill the seat of her late husband. Introduced by Senator Itoblnson, she took the oath of ollice, signed the register and quietly returned to her ller assoseat, almost in tears. ciates all gathered about to congratulate her, but there was no gnyety in the affair, for the memory of her husband was ever presIn all. sixteen new senators ent. presented themselves to take the oath, nearly all of them being first term Democrats. Nearly one hundred new members of the house were installed, and so many of tlieni were Democrats that Mr. Gar'A ner won the speak . 4. folership by the lowing vote: liar T iici, 210, Shell, (t?J 207 ; Republican, Schneider of Wis- - ? 3 cousin, progressive It e p u b c a n, 5. Kvale of Minneso I ta, the lone Farm- tusxviuti In t 1 - voted for Schneider. Of course all the other Mrs. Caraway officers of the house are now Demo- crats. The first actual work in the house was the adoption of new rules, so liberalized that It will no longer be easy for bills to be pigeonholed by the committees to which they have been referred. Now 145 mem bers can procure the discharge of a committee und bring a hill to the lloor for a vote. This change was made especially for the benellt of the proponents of modification of the dry laws, and the stage was set for an early vote on some of their bills, which will put the representatives on record though there is no hope for the passage of the measure. While congress was assembling and going through the business of the first day, the Communist "hunger marchers' who had traveled to the Capital by automobile and auto truck from various parts of the country besieged the Capitol building and the White House in vain efforts to lay their demands before the legislators und the I'resident. They were rebuffed, fairly, gently, by the police and other officials, and next day started home, still discontented and defiant. temporary savings. Mr. Stevens of the American Legion also called personally ut the White House and told Mr. Hoover the legion not only Is for udequate national defense but also Is in favor of submitting to the people the matter of repeul or modification of the dry laws. HOOVER on to congress his message on the state of the Union, In which he sketched the economic PRESIDENT crisis confronting the country, related ':v4 ,n conslderuble de-j- ! 3 tall the measures 11119 liiiuuieu IV ll alleviate the business depression and unemployment and In the navy and were urged by the army President were the objects of further attacks. Early In the week I'resident W. II. Gardiner of the Navy league came out with a new assault on the administration policies In that respect, criticizing a statement by Secretary Stimson, hitting back at the Hammond committee, assailing the I'resident for slowing up cruiser construction and calling on congress for an Investigation of Mr. Hoover's financial policy toward the navy. Next, National Commander Stevens of the American Legion conveyed to the I'resident the legion's demand that he approve authorization of warship construction necessary to bring the American fleet up to the maximum tonnage limits of the London treaty. The organization also asked congress and the administration to rescind the economies for the military establishment and to renew for the army. Na tional Guard, It. O. T. C. and other military activities the same sums appropriated for the current year. Finnlly came the annual report of Rear Admiral F. B. L'pham, chief of the bureau of navigation, which termed the administration policy of reduction a severe blow to the national defense. He said that his ECONOMIES I recommended In general terms legislation creutlng instruadditional mentalities for the same purpose and President Increasing taxes to Hoover. meet a three and a half billion dollar deficit this year and next. Regular Republicans declared the message represented constructive statesmanship of a high order, while Democrats nnd progressive Republicans took it as a challenge. Generally It was accepted as the opening gun of the 1032 campaign. There was much comment on the fact that no mention was made of prohibition. On Wednesday Mr. Hoover sent In his budget message, containing the administration's program of taxation nnd other measures of government financing. At the same time the annual report of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon was made public. This called for Increased rates on personal nnd corporation Incomes, inheritances, tobacco and capital stock sales. New Levies would be Imposed on automobiles, radios, telephone, telegraph and cable messages, amusement tickets, checks and drafts and realty sales. I'ostal charges would be boosted. Exemptions from income taxes would be lowered to Innew clude 1,70),(K)0 Individuals within the scope of the federal levy. The Democrats in congress immediately began an attack on this program, saying they would soon have ready one of their own. in the list of Presidential THIRD messages came the one on foreign relations, which contained the he request that congress ratify More imporHoover moratorium. tant than that was the suggestion that the war debt commission should he reconstituted with power to reopen the debt settlements. Though Mr. Hoover reiterated his disapproval of cancellation of the war debts, such aetitn. or at least a further reduction of the debts seemed, to many congressmen, to be implicit in his proposal. So many of them object to either course that a long debate was in prospect. JAPAN andof accepted the the League of Nations council for cessation of hostilities in Manchuria, while a neutral commission Inquires into the facts, but both nations made reservations that rendered the agreement little more than a form by which the council saves Its face. Premier Wakatsukl's Japanese cabinet decided to resign because of dissensions, nnd It was thought a coalition ministry would be formed with Inuwal, leader of the Seiyukal party, as premier. IT IS China national socialists or "Nazis" i now being In control of three German states and constituting the most powerful political party In the country, Adolf Hit ler has been talking freely to corre spondents on his Intentions. Briefly, he proposes, when his party Is Invested with the govern Ing power by wn of the ballot box to set up a dictaror ship on the Italian model ; to recog nlze nnd pay to the Adolf Hitler of Ger fullest many's ability all her foreign debts contracted In business and normal transactions, but to reject "political blackmail"; to Insist upon a new war debt arrangement ; and to destroy communism in Germany. He declares there will be no Nazi march on Berlin, and denies that he seeks the presidency. Hitler's challenge to the government brought swift response from Chancellor Brucnlng In the form of a warning that President Von would Invoke martial law L of GERMANY'S and tory shows that decreases In the navy eventually result in expenditures m iniy times greater than the t Might capacity to pay Uy EDWARD W. IMCKAKD t lie ens measures against the capital. especially her ability to resume payments next summer arc being studied by the consultative committee of the Rank for International Settlements at Walter W. Switzerland. Hanoi. Stewart, American member, refusing to accept the chairmanship, that place was given to Dr. Alberto Ileneduce of Italy. Carl Joseph Mehhlor was the first person heard, the burden of Ills argument being that Germany could no longer pay This Is, Indeed, the reparations. view of millions of Germans of all parties. I frronl fnrni irrnnris. the American Farm bureau, the Na- tional Farmers' union and the Grange, In session In Chicago, unit-- 1 ed on plans to fight In congress for; surplus crop control. Their leaders said their demands would be for the export debenture and the equalization fee. and that their disagreements of the past on these matters had been adjusted. Amendments to the agricultural marketing act to permit the farm board to use those principles will be Introduced in the senate and house soon after the holiday recess. The organizations will offer no objections to the program of the farm bonrd other than the stabilization operations. Pl.-I.- ? MISS JANE ADDA MS, founder Hull House In Chicago, and Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university, were Jointly awarded the Nobel peace prize for 1031 by the Nobel Institute of The prize amounts Oslo. Norway. Roth of them have been to indefatigable workers for International peace. of Kentucky TOBACCO raisers to let their product go for what they think are ruinous prices. When the Lexington tobacco market, the largest loose leaf burley mart in the world, opened the other day the low price of $12 a hundredweight was ottered, and the growers at once started a riotthat caused ous demonstration abrupt suspension of sales with ten million pounds of leaf unsold. After fighting with warehousemen nnd the police, the planters, numbering hundreds, held a protest meeting in the city nuditorium where speakers urged them to stnnd together and not "give their tobacco away to the trust." the Belgian intimated to Archduke Otto, pretender to the Hungarian throne, this his presence in Belgium was proving so embarrassing, the young man went over to England Incognito to visit a British ducal family. Now it is rumored in London that plans ari afoot to put him on the throne through a coup that will be a reminder of the way Carol returned Archduke Otto to Rumania. The story is that a group of Hungarian in England ostensibly noblemen, for hunting, really went to accept delivery of a powerful seaplane which Is ready to carrj the archduke to Lake Balaton In the center of Hungary where he would take oath as king in a miniature chapel that has been built in the plane and dedicated to St. Stephen. Monarchists believe that if Otto returns to Hungary the peasant support of his cause will be strengthened and solidified and he can be established on the throne. Premier Mussolini Is known to approve of the Hapsburg restoration, which gives the friends of Otto lots of encouragement. NOT long ago t J NE of the Interesting depart-men- t reports of the week was that of Postmaster General Brown. It showed that the department came out JHO.OoO.lSO behind In the last fiscal year, which Is almost $48,000,-00- 0 above the deficit of the previous year. Mr. Brown repeated his recommendation that the letter rate be raised from 2 cents to a1 cents, stating that on the present volume this would bring In $"0,(XX),000 a year additional. "A 2 cent rute would, however, obviously fall far short of producing adequate revenues at the present time," the report said. "The deficit for 1931 attributable to strictly postal operations was more than $08,000,000 and If present trends are maintained the net deficit for the current year will be In the neighborhood of $150,000,000. "This raises the question whether. In view of the already overtaxed condition of the general treasury, It would not he advisable, pending the return of normal conditions, to fix a rate for letter mall. ((c). 1931. Western Newspaper Union.) Thursday, December 17, 1931 NEPIII. UTAH TIMES-NEW- News Intermountain Briefly Told for Busy Readers MEET AT SALT LAKE. LANDMARK IN ASHES. RAINFALL IS IIEAVT. TIKKKYS UV THK TON. SALT LAKE CITY. UT. COO of the members ij Arthur Brisbane Taxes, Taxes, Taxes One Depression Cure Much to Live For 3 in One Family Is News 4 DOO DKKBV 1'LANNEI). than This Week ARIZONA'S Development T - . - - Cv ' More i Inter-mounta- in Chapter Associated General Contractors will attend the tenth annual convention of the organization at the Hotel 1,'tuh, January 14, when Issues vital to the contractor and allied industries will be taken up. The unemployment situation will be given particular attention. ROCK STRINGS, WYO. Fire of mysterious origin destroyed one of Wyoming's most historic houses recently when the famous home of Territorial Judge William Carter In old Fort liridger was consumed together with thousands of historic relics and papers of the old fort, which were housed In the building by Maurice Groshon. The building was the first home built in Wyoming, built of milled lumlier, and at the time of Its construction In 1853 and for many years after was the outstanding mansion of the entire plains. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. With a mixture of snow and rain reported from St. George, snow heavy on the Sawtooth mountains of Idaho, and on the Vtah watersheds, Irrigation valleys and winter ranges are the center of plenty of water, according to weather bureau officials. There will be a good spring range, plenty of water for Salt Lake City and given normal precipitation for the period from now to April 1, irrigation water will be abundant next summer. rt Odd Formation In Monument Valley, Arizona. I Prepared by Society. the National Geoffranr.le WnnhiriKton. U C.I WNU Service) to show that, for all Its evil deserts. It had big rich spots of much value; also, now that It belonged to us, we were free to make roads across It, to tie up Texas with southern California. Yet for twenty years after the Gadsden purchase Arizona ci with the outside world largely by water. Ships ran from San Francisco to the mouth of the Colorado river, via the Mexican ports of Mazarlan, La Pas and Those for whom the words "income tax" have hitherto meant nothing, except the pleasant load ing of national expense on to the bigger pocketbooks, will take an Interest in those words hereafter if Mr. Mellou'g proposals go through. He would add one million seven hundred thousand to the number of Income tax payers, and income tax payers now "in the low brackets" will find their tax raised. The fact that it is necessary for those hitherto exempt to carry their share of the burden will not seem a good reason. One thing Is certain, the world's authorities, those that control its wealth, must do something about the inadequate supply o f real money. Our Western coast should monopolize the trade of Asia aud the Pacific Ocean, with one thousand million human beings on the far side of it, should be the earth's greatest commercial body of water, as the Mediterranean was once, and as the Atlantic is now. Rut we recognize only gold as money. Asia has no gold, only silver that we have boycotted, destroying its value. Thereiore Asia cannot buy from us, she buys from England, because, with gold discarded as the standard of value, the British pound is cheap. youthful state of the where yesterday bandits chased the bouncing stagecoaches and wildcat calls and Indian warwhoops eclioed across sagebrush studded plains and barren hills, now Is a land of modern cities with airports, golf links, western skyscrapers, fertile farms and thickly populated cattle ranches. This writer, who, at the moment, It was not admitted Although owns not a share of any mining into the Union until 1912, Arizona (J uny mas. A semimonthly mail and passenstock or an ounce of silver except has drawn from the cumulative exof other states In politics, ger stage line was started in lSf7 in forks and spoons, believes that perience SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The an- education and Industry. from San Antonio to San Diego: President Hoover and his advisers imal convention of the Utah Manucould restore prosperity quickly by Years after the Chicago fire but at times it cost the governfacturers' association will be held Apaches still scalped settlers in Ari- ment SC.") to carry each letter! A stabilizing silver value as money, at the Hotel Utah, January 13. zona. Philadelphia saw the Cen- year later the historic Butterrield at some reasonable point above the SPRINGVILLE, UT. Nearly 7 tennial close before a railway stages began running between St. cost of production ou this contithousand turkeys, three carloads, crossed the Yuma desert, and Euro- Louis and San Francisco. An early nent, say a ratio of twenty to one. averaging fifteen tons to the car, peans by millions had migrated to writer says: "This was one of the He believes further that, if this is have bt'en shipped from this sta- our shores when Arizona boasted grand achievements of the age, to not done, WiZ with its election will come and go with no decided tion to the eastern markets. barely as many whites as New Y'ork span the continent by semiweekly now has policemen. stages, under bonds to perforin, by change in business conditions. PRESTON', IDA. American Le For the world to think of transactin sole power of horseflesh, a trip of Dewey had. sunk Montojo gion post number 34 will construct a public ice skating pond on the Manila bay and old Chief Geronimo nearly 2..r00 miles within the sched- ing its business with ouly tea aud a half billion dollars of real uiouey Preston high school stadium field, was selling signed pictures of him- ule of 25 days." on earth, about 1U per cent ot the from announcement to at St. ten each tne for cents self It was the trek of people from the according to use the Legion, after permission Louis World's fair when Arizona South to the West after the Civil United States income in a good year, is preposterous. To suggest the field had been gained from the had barely emerged from her long war that began to give Ariz-msocial pandemonium of road agents, population. Previous to that the that the world can transact its high school. on that amount of go.d, IDAHO FALLS, IDA. If present gold seekers, and fugitives from white man saw little of it, except business and the United States with France the regions about Tucson, the Gila plans between the eastern Justice. rs hoarding aud monopolizing Yet Spaniards had settled here, Bend, and Yuma. Montana and Idaho state highway of is it, complete stupidity. mature, the Idaho bringing the first cattle seen on our commission) Today pasesngers on fast trains Falls-Butt- e highway will be kept continent. Introducing new plants, through Arizona complain If the Two Brooklyn business men, and teaching Pimas and Hopis to shower in Ihe club car is not cool, open throughout the winter, acbefore the depression started, rich here. to word before first the received be better farmers, cording or if the barber's razor is dull. themselves to ueain yesieruay, shot IDA. The Idaho English settlements were made In POCATELLO, But look out of the window. one sitting ut his desk, the other in was Tucson 1931-3our eastern states. had of has season potato mounds are bed. No need to add to the families' Those brush-growsome exceptional features. It has old when Daniel Boone cut his name ot The snf-- i gritf by mentioning their names. victims. graves Apache a in he where ou Tennessee of tree produced the lowest proportion from of heat. such ferings pioneers a In awe killed Cardenas bear. U. S. No. l's on record. It has had had and thirst, from Apache torThat men should end their lives abnormally low prices during the of Coronado's expedition lifted up hungerwere almost without parade! because prosperity enus seema ture, Crand cross at the season. the bad canyon It unusually harvesting favorable weather for harvesting scarcely .50 years after Columbus In the history of human enterprise. strange. Money made ouce can be Arizona really began to grow up made again. Middle age should not nnd storing. It has had reduced reached America. from neighboring reAcross Arizona Kearny led his with the development of her mines prevent it and adversay should competition s arous:; a mau's tigutmg instinct. by Americans. army to California and gions. And money is not everything. It SALT LAKE CITY, UT. The fought their hard, hot way. Kit Carfor first white Quest gold brought 18 uCLauBC lt means University of Utah's hard smashing son battled here and l.leut. E. F. men here. Legendary football team will open the season ISeale made his famous expedition temnles of Cihola lured Coronado. couuort and freedom Iroin slavery. The world, even in a depression, next fall with another severe camels as pack He didn't find a golden Cibola. But with Imported test. The Ules have, trains in the Southwest until In for generations Spain helped pay is interesting and those "not doing signed to meet the University of furiated prospectors shot the camels the huge cost of her glittering Eu- so well" should remember a comSouthern California on September because they stampeded their burros. ropean armies with gold and sil- forting statement quoted by Bruce 21th, 1932. But killer Indians, the difficulty of ver from Arizona and Sonora mines R. Baxter, dean of the school of religion in the University of SouthBOISE, IDA. The Idaho state hauling In goods, and preference for From the Tough Nut, the Glory ern California: guard boys who fought on the Boise California kept colonization down. Hole, and other claims incredible "Those that have not much to basin fire line last fall must be As late as 1S0O. all the whites In wealth was taken, before a sub- live on should remember that there less terranean river paid immediately. This is the opin- Arizona probably numbered drowned the miners is always a great ueal to live for. ' ion of the Idaho supreme court than f,000. out which was asked for a decision on Railways Brought Advancement. in copper. vast In a anan0w grave at Brielle, legality of deficiency warrants to Then Civil war. From It Arizona meet the guards' payroll. The payMore than $100,000,000 worth of N. J., police dug up a body a lastsetback further that received was when it roll dispute arose has been taken from one ligured by acid, iuentitied by them learned that the adjutant general's ed until railways finally came, haul Arizona mine. Fears that when as a gangster 25 years old named In and machinery, mining mines were worked out Arizona James P. Uranato. Other gangsters contingency fund did not contain ing locks for jail sufficient money to meet the pay- judges, law books, and might decline in wealth and popu- had killed him for reveuge, but doors. Thus, after years of neglect, lation have been allayed since the there is no news in that. roll claims. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Over 3 the nation that owned the territory World war. There are two rea However, Grauato was the third tons of fish was distributed to the gave it law and order. sons: First, the increase of farm member of his family killed in not white Arizona's population, unemployed by the relief officials settlers under new irrigation proj- gangster vengeance, his father and of the city. The fish came from Utincluding Mexicans, has Increased ects; second, discovery of ways to brotner being the other two. Three ah lake. by (TOO per cent since the Spanish mine and smelt copper at lower in one family is news and worthy BOISE, IDA. A MorelaHd firm American war and its wealth has cost ot mention in the history of our of contractors were low bidders on multiplied maybe twenty times. Where ore occopper are miles of cow to trails changed Lonely grading and surfacing five wave. curs In great masses near the top highway south from Coeiir d'Alene crowded motor lanes, and million of the ground, as at Bishee, miners for the state bureau of highways. dollar hotels Haunt their splendor blast and use steam simpThe pot, with Macbeth's witches The bid was $68,831. On grading where 'dobe huts and desert skies simply ers. More than 1,000.000 tons of dancing around it, was boning nnd draining the 11 miles from Star were long man's only shelter. rock have been broken by one miluly, compared with the political Unde- - the treaty of Guadalupe west to Desert Corners in Ada and "shot." pot in Wasuington. H,very Demowas in bid 184S. the United States Canyon counties, the Hidalgo One can grasp the size of Arl crat has his canuiuale, "tne only one Both jobs were listed by the acquired land only as far south zona's mining Industry when It is that can be elected." Slogans aud department as unemployment pro- - as the Gila river; by the Gadsden known that the state employs more catchwords are hying, mucn thickj?cts and the contractors have been purchase In 1854 It received the than 25.000 men nnd digs each year er than the leaves iu Vallombrosa. whereuse labor to local of terra that rest requested incognita later G7ri.000.000 of copper, pounds ever possible. called Arizona territory. of lead. 6.000.000 Those that want Governor I'ROVO, UT. Wanton slaughter A few studious Americans, delv ounces ofpounds and $5,000,000 in Ritchie of Maryland say: "Get rich silver, of trees with the approach of th6 lng in early Spanish chronicles, Christmas seasrn was deplored by learned that explorers like Cubeza gold. The annual mineral output with Ritchie." One Hiram Johnson enthusiast Charles DoMoisy, supervisor of the de Vaca and Coronado, and early sells for more than $100,000,000. Irrigation In this region Is old. sends a beautifully printed green Uintah national forest, in rn ad- missionaries like Father Kino had wacard, referring to tne unemploydress delivered at Provo. It is de- found here "rivers with hanks three Corn, beans and squash were clared that the sizeable stock In leagues high" and mines rich enough tered by gravity ditches cen'uries ment situation, and urging: 'elect Mormons from Utah, ago. Provo canyon was almost depleted Hiram, and let him hire 'em." to yield a silver nugget so heavy near where Phoenix now Is,settling made by Christmas tree ratters who are that two mules were lashed togetli use of prehistoric canals. All over Hiram Johnson really aud truly now cutting down the bigger trees er to carry it I From heaver trap- Salt River valley men dig up stone is no candidate, for he understands and taking the tops from them. pers, too, who had ventured down implements, relics of ancient farmand kuows tnat Prescient pontics, of tales Arlzonn's Colorado, the ers. ASIITOX, IDA. Ashton, birthHoover will be renominated. Still, and of wonders, scenic especially It seems quite natural, then, that miracles have happened. place of the American Dog derby, will again hold its annual winfer Its warlike Apaches, had been here America's modern Irrigation sport classic this year. A comfort- brought back. But to most Ameri- policy should have been first tried All Washingtou is interested In a able cash balance of the American cans practically nothing was known out on a big scale. It was here poll taken in tue Northwest which ; it was too hard of acArizona of unlimitDog Derby association nnd with the Roosevelt dam that the shows Governor Roosevelt at the ed enthusiasm Impelled the officials cess. then newly formed reclamation serv head of the list in a straw vole, This Inaccessibility, the character Ice made its first experiment, begun with tormer uuvernor Auivd E. to announce the famous race over the deep snow would be held this ot the country Itself, and Its sav in WOO. It worked. Smith numuer two among all presi- age Inhabitants kept Arizona for year as usual. there is the great Yuma ueutial candidaus. l'oday most backward of ail It was not to be expected that RICHFIELD, UT. The opening decades the project ; the big new dams at Horse our territories. of Richfield's new armory, conMesa and Mormon Flat, and Ihe the liltetu millions auu mote tuai structed for Battery E, 222nd field new multiple dome Coolldge dam voted for uuiemor siuitir last time Early Stage Lines. artillery, will be held the first of would suddenly lose interest. Buying Arizona was folly, east- on the Gila river, near San Carlos the new year. ern people said; Its arid wastes At present about 4.400 l ima Indian tl).iyi! by Kin4 tcaiuit, ,na...... int.) Yet surveys began farmers with RO.ihK) acres are the were useless. ARIZONA, three-quarte- 2 n Forty-niner- gold-roofe- er low-grad- e $30-27- " 9. |