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Show THE PAGE TWO News Revie w of Current Events the World Over Uitler Takes Germany Out of League of Nations and Disarmament Conference Depositors in Closed Banks to Cet 50 Per Cent Payment. Dy EDWARD W. PICK AND posits, thus establishing a CO per feeling thnt It ta GERM ANY, treated like a second class cent maximum for payment to de- nutioii, startled the world by withdrawing from membership In the 't 'i.'lle of Nations and from the disconferarmament ence. At first flush this looked rather like a threat of war In the not dlHtnnt future, but sober consideration of the facts and conditions dissipated most of the fear that armed conflict was near. Chancellor In the first place, Hitler the German govern ment left the way open for Its return to the league and conference If properly conciliated by the other More potent yet, perhaps, nations. Is the fact that none of the nations !s financially able to support a war at this time. Nor do the people of any of the countries directly Involved wish to go to war. unless It may be the always militaristic Prussians of the relch. Chancellor Hitler, having announced withdrawal. Germany's President Von llindenburg Immediately decreed the dissolution of the relchstag and proclaimed a general parliamentary election for November 12, with a plebiscite at the same time to obtain the nation's approval of the government's deAll the state parliaments cision. were dissolved and there will be no new state elections, so the power will be centralized in Berlin. Hitler's speech of appeal to the German people to support his policy was full of ardor and yet was half conciliatory and caused hopes In Great Britain and the United States, If not elsewhere, that the relch might be brought to a reconsideration of Its action. The officials of ottier nations refuse to get excited, and some of them admitted privately that Hitler's protest was Justified, hut not his methods. The managers of the disarmament conference were naturally disconcerted and decided to Some adjourn until October 25. of them were ready to quit indefinitely, but this move was blorked by Norman II. Davis, the American representative. A little later Mr. Davis received Instructions from the White House and thereupon his position became In considerably more detached. a statement to the press he informed the European nations that America would gladly In any disarmament negotiations but was "not Interested In the political element of any purely European In other aspect of the picture." words, the United States will leave Europe to Settle Its own quarrels In Its own way. Italian officials rather hoped the disarmament negotiations could be continued with the framework of the four power pact, but France Indicated she would not consent to this. The British cabinet beard a report from Sir John Simon, foreign minister who had been In violent , controversy with Baron Von foreign minister of Germany and was said to be in a conciliatory mood, though there was no indication that it would abandon Its attiude of with France. Hopes that Germany would come back into the concert of nations by the back door were dashed by Hitler who. In a powerful address, declared: "Germany Is determined In the future to attend no conference, enter no league, agree to no convention, and sign nothing as long as she Is not treated equally." r"-- . Neu-rath- NE billion dollars will be put into circulation speedily when and If the President's program for the liquidation of closed national and state banks is carried out. The depositors will be paid about 50 per cent of their deposits, the money being loaned to the Finance corpora 4 ' tion. To administer ' t va the liquidation a special division of the RFC Is ret up Dean Acheson to make loans to the several thousands of closed banks. C B. Merriam, a director of tbe RFC Is the head of the liquidation board, and the other members are: J. H. Jones, chairman of the board of Reconstruction Finance corporation ; D. G. Acheson, undersecretary of the treasury ; Lewis W. Douglas, director of the budget ; J. F. T. O'Connor, controller of the currency, and Walter J. Cummlngs, chairman of the Deposit Insurance corjioratlon. In general, loans to closed banks will be limited to 00 per cent of de-- positors. In some cases, where assets Justify, a somewhat larger distribution may be possible, but where assets are not worth 00 per cent of deposits the dividend will be less. In some cases, the White House statement warned, no dividends beyond those already paid will he possible. The division will make loans to closed banks, taking over their assets as security to the extent of the appraised value of the assets. Thus a closed bank desiring to liquidate will not have to sell Its real estate mortgages and other frozen and assets at bankruptcy prices on the open market. Instead, these assets can be held for a market more In line with their real value, while depositors meanwhile receive as large a proportion of their t)led-udeposits as they would get If they were forced to wait for the money. The plan will be applicable only to banks closed after January 1, semi-froze- n 1933. VIOLATORS of the NRA agree- ment. thousands of whom have been reported, are facing Imprisonment and fines, for the President has Issued an executive order di- recting that force and prosecution be resorted to by the recovery adHe proclaims that ministration. those who are false to the blue eagle shall be subjected to fines up to $500 or Imprisonment up to six months or both. Senator Robert Wagner of New York, head of the national labor board, followed this up with a warning to all industrial groups that heavy tines and Jail sentences are provided In the licensing provisions of the recovery act for those who flout the decisions of the board and that these penalties will be enforced when necessary. "There will be no escape." he said, "for the misguided minority who arise to Interfere with every constructive program." To organized labor, which seems to many to be seeking solely Its own advantage, Wagner said: "The strike should he abandoned as an instrument of first resort. Industry and labor cannot by means of the strike. Such conflict may determine which of the two contestants is stronger at a given moment, but it Is merely accidental If It produces a solution which serves the best interests of both parties and of the NRAers." B. Eastman, fed WHEN trnnsporta tion, announced recently that orders might be placed soon for In rails the steel operators Joseph were greatly cheered up. But since studying the conditions" under which the orders would be placed A I some of them are not so happy. C. V. McKalg, vice president and general of sales B. J. Eastman manager for the Carnegie company. United States Steel corporation subsidiary, is one of these. He quoted Eastman as saying the order would be placed only If an "expected" reduction In the price of steel materializes. "Such a reduction Is the last thing the operators want," said McKalg. "I think the present "pegged' price of $40 a ton Is about right. One of the purposes of the NRA is to assure a reasonable return to the manufacturer. From this observation a lower price now would seem to defeat this purpose." Eastman said the order would p':t thousands of workers back In the mills. McKalg said the steel manufacturers already have contributed an estimated $100,000,000 annually to the NRA in the form of increased salaries. SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE George N. Peek, adminisagricultural adjustment trator, announced that a plan would soon be put In operation for restriction of production of corn and hogs. It involves the distribution of $350,0O 1.000 to farmers, mainly In the Middle West, and Is designed to take 12.500,000 acres of corn land out of production next year, cutting the corn crop bushels and hog production 25 per cent. The government will advance the funds necessary for immediate payment of benefits to farmers and will be reimbursed from the proceeds of processing 'axes levied on corn and pork. Secretary Wallace also disclosed that t,i? Imposition of a compensating tax on beef cattle Is contemplated for the benefit of live stock producers. The cattle benefit will be determined by the extent to which the Increased price of pork 0 witches consumption t beef. The administration arranged for the purchase of approximately l.OtiO.000 biiMheta of wheat and completed Its cotton Joan program In moves calculated to provide resistance to recent falling prices of the two commodities. Henry M or gentium. Jr., governor of the farm credit administration, announced purchase of the wheat at six markets through the Farmers' National Grain corporation for the account of the federal emergency relief administration, which will distribute It to the needy. The purchase of large quantities of butter for distribution through relief agencies also was announced. Secretary of the Interior Ickes, who Is also oil administrator, undertook the first pegging of prices under the NRA, ordering minimum levels fixed for oil and Its products, effective on December 1. TIMES-NEW- Thursday, October 26, 1933 NEPHI. UTAH S. The Sign of tlie Fighting Mann- - INDUSTRIAL control of trade Is now being tried, with cotton textiles as the ground for tlie experiment, under regulations approved Johnson. From by Administrator now on no man may start a new cotton mill without the approval of Johnson after a committee of cotton men elected to supervise operation of the Industry's code haa made recommendations. Not only that, but no mill owner may In crease his productive machinery without the same approval, recorded In a certificate hearing the Industrial administrator's signature. A IMMEDIATE embargo on medicinal liquors was ordered by President Roosevelt on evidence that such Importations had Increased sharply In anticipation of The President prohibition reiieaL also rejected a proposal to permit Importation of beverage liquors In bond pending the date of legal sale. N By ELMO SCOTT WATSON OVEMBER 11 Armistice Day I 1 day for remembering. For remembering the titanic conflict which came to an end Just 15 years ago; for remembering the hysterical Joy as a world INVESTIGATION of the federal 1 turned Its back on death and dehospital at Canton. S. D.. restruction and lifted Its face to the vealed what Secretary of the Inclear skies of the promise of peace ; terior Ickes calls "sickening and In for remembering the men and women who ofconditolerable" fered up their lives for their country those who 1 tions and the constaid "over there" as well as those who came finement of perhome. fectly sane Indians And do you remember when they came home among the Insane. and staged their "Victory marches" through the Mr. Ickes Issued a crowded, cheering streets of our principal cities statement severely how you noticed the little patches of color of diflocal condemning ferent design which they wore on their left shoulpolitical and commercial Interests ders? Perhaps you knew then what was the for preventing the meaning of those symbols but the chances are removal of the sane that you, and most other Americans as well, have forgotten by now. by obtainpatients So this Is to recall It to you the story of the Sec'y Ickes ing an injunction from a Canton court and for Insignia of the various divisions in the American Expeditionary Forces, "the sign of the fighting bringing political pressure to bear man." on officials of the Indian bureau in You may not recall, although hundreds of Washington. The bureau has sought thousands' of W'orld war veterans undoubtedly for several years to close the inwill, what an uproar was raised at one time over stitution. "Those responsible for securlr?; that little patch of color on the left shoulder of the returning soldier's khaki coat. For when the this Injunction presumably are aefi-ntetroops were ready to embark for home, the War by a desire to savu for Candepartment Issued an order prohibiting the wear ton the revenue that continued operation of the Institution there lng of divisional insignia by the doughboys upon return to America. It was "unmilitary," the means," Mr. Ickes declared. "They their said. department b appear to willing to make a prof-I- t Almost instantly a tide of protest rolled into out of the degredation of helpless Indians. They do not object Washington to engulf the department. There to locking up sane human beings were a hundred good reasons advanced why the doughboys should continue to wear their pet decIn an Insane asylum." but chief among them was the fact that oration, Conditions In the Institution were these insignia, adopted by the different divisions, revealed by Dr. Samuel A.' Silk, were highly useful In making possible their idenmedical director of St. Elizabeth's tification at a glance. In action or otherwise, and hospital. He conducted an investifor purposes either of commendation or critigation at the request of Secretary cism, as the case might be; that the decoration Ickes. His report, made public by detracted nothing from the efficiency of the men, Mr. Ickes. described the asylum as but on the other hand was an Incentive to proper "filthy, inhuman, and revolting." conduct and effort; and finally that the man wearing it, each proud of his Individual MEW MEXICO has a new United outfit, was unwilling to discard It and thus lose States senator In the person his Identity and that of his command In the meltof Carl A. Hatch, who has been ing pot of the A. E. F.'s millions. serving as district Judge In Santa So the War department decided to allow the Fe. He was appointed by the govreturning soldiers to keep their divisional Insigernor to succeed Samuel G. nia and this ruling was greeted with as much widespread approval as the forbidding order had caused loudly voiced disapproval. Florida now on the list, There were 93 divisions In the United States' WITH states have voted for re- military forces and each one had Its distinctive peal of the Eighteenth amendment, Insignia. Limitations of space In this article preand only three more states are vent the reproduction of the Insignia of all of needed to put an end to national them and an extended account of each but the Florida went wet by following represents some of the more Interestprohibition. a vote of approximately 4 to 1. ing facts about some typical ones : First division: An elongated shield. of khaki, ROBERT H. GORE seems point down, hearing the red numeral 1. (Figure GOV. have regained his prestige 1.) Since tills division was the first of the AmerIn Puerto Rico. A coalition majorican divisions to go to France, the first to go Into ity of union Republicans and Sothe trenches, the first to suffer battle losses, the cialists staged a parade and mass first to capture prisoners and the first to enter meeting in support of the governGermany after the Armistice, It Is only natural ment's program, and the governor, that It should adopt the numeral 1. Only once addressing the crowd, pledged himwas the First division last that was In returnself to work for the greater haping to the United States for demobilization. white star, havpiness and well being of the Puerto Second division: A Ricans. ing the head of an American Indian facing to the Part of the plan for the future. left, in red and blue, stamped or embroidered on Gore said, contemplates building to the white star. The star and Indian head was prepare to meet conditions twenty placed on a background of cloth of various years hence when the island, now shapes and colors to designate the several organovercrowded, would be burdened by izations In the division. Tlie black shield (Figure a population double present figures. 0) was used in the Insignia of divisional headA war-wear- y ' 1 -- d in Siam GOVERNMENT forces to have suppressed the Insurrection that was led by a member of the royal fami- to ly and for a time threatened upset the existing regime. The rebels who attacked Bangkok were In flight and the'r leader was among those captured. quarters. Third division: A square of dark blue cloth with three white stripes running diagonally downward from the upper right corner to the lower left. (Figure 3). The field of blue was symbolic of the loyalty of the "Marnemen." The three white stripes stood for the numerical designation of the division and also symbolized the three major operations In which the Third division won glory during the World war the Marne, St. Mihiel and Fourth division: Four Ivy leaves about a circle, the leaves and circle of green, placed on a khaki background. (Figure 8). This symbol was formed by taking the Roman numeral IV, which not only gave the numerical designation of the division, but also a flower, the Ivy, which means "steadfast and loyal" in the language of flowers a splendid motto for a group of fighting men. Fifth division: A plain red diamond on a back ground of khaki. (Figure 5.) It was stared by the chief of staff of the division that "no significant meaning Is attached other than that the color, red, was selected as a compliment to'the then commanding general whose branch of tlie Meuse-Argonn- persuasions of YIELDING to the and business organizations, the management of A Century of Progress in Chicago decided to keep that great exposition open until after Armistice day, so It will not come to nn end until midnight, November 12. Railroads arranged to continue their reduced rates, and nn exciting ami Interesting program for tlie final two weeks was concocted by the lair managers. . 1933. Western Newji-iapt- 1,'nlot eervlce was the artillery." Officers In the division, however, say "The Red Diamond represents a problem of bridge building; It Is made up of two adjacent Isosceles triangles which make for the greater strength." But the men of the division, proud of Its record and justly jealous of Its reputation explained this laconically: "Diamond dye It never runs!" Sixth division : A red star on a background of khaki. (Figure 2). The six points of the star represented the numerical designation of the division. The Sixth had three different Insignia. The first was a red bull's eye In a white circle surmounted by a white cross. But this had a lugubrious appearance "looks like a headstone in a cemetery," said the men. So a red equilateral triangle was the next Insignia and that was worn during all of the division's war service, while It was winning the name of "the old Sightseeing Sixth." Few divisions of the A. E. F. equaled the mileage record of this division which swept up and down various front lines, redivision here, rushing Into lieving a support there, in reserve at other points. After the Armistice another red equilateral triangle was superimposed upon the first, making the red, well-know- n hard-presse- star. Seventh division: Two black equilateral tri angles placed vertically upon a red circular disc, their apexes meeting In the center of the disc. (Figure 4). By coincidence the outline of this de numeral 7. crossed by an sign was a blocked-Iother such numeral 7, Inverted, thus forming the two triangles. The similarity of the double trithe angle to an hourglass was responsible forDivinickname of tne division, the "Hourglass sion." Eighth division :. A silver figure 8 pierced by a golden arrow pointing upwards on a blue cloth shield background. The figure 8 stood for the numerical designation of the division and the golden arrow symbolized the nickname of the di vision, the "Pathfinder Division," which was or ganized and trained at Camp Fremont, Calif. division: Blue letters YD on a Twenty-sixt- h diamond field, the letters stood for "Yankee Division," (Figure 23), made up of men of New England, which was one of the first Na tlonal guard forces to enter active service. Twenty-sevent- h division: A circle of black with a narrow border of red, on whictTwas dis played in white the constellation of Orion. (Fig ure 6). This division, made up of national army troops from New York city, adopted Its Insignia In honor of its commander. Gen. John F. O'Ryan division: A red keystone (FigTwenty-eight- h ure 15), symbolic of the "Keystone State" since this division was made up of Pennsylvania Na tional guard. dIvisio"n: Intertwined circles of Twenty-nintblue and gray (Figure 18) symbolical of the Blue and the Gray of Civil war days, since the men In this division were National guardsmen from Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia and the District of Columbia. Thirtieth division : An emblem made up of the letters O. U. (Figure 14), standing for "Old Hick ory Division," made up of National guardsmen from Tennessee, North Carolina and South Carolina, the three states which claim "Old Hickory," Andrew Jackson, for their own. In the middle of the Insignia were three Xs, the Roman numeral for 30. the number of the division. division : A triangle of white and Thirty-firs- t red, each half adorned with a white D (Figure 22), for "Dixie Division," made up of men from Dixie National guard of Alabama, Georgia and Florida. Thirty-secondivision : A red arrow on a square field of khaki. (Figure 28). The arrow worn on the sleeves of the Michigan and Wisconsin National guardsmen in this division pointed forward, indicative of a promise always to go forvvnrd. never bnck. Thirty-thirdivision: A yellow Maltese cross on a black field, the emblem of the "Prairie Division," made up of National guardsmen from Illinois and West Virginia. Thirty-fourtdivision: The outline of a Mexican olia or water flask In black on which appeared a red cow's skull and the words "Sand storm Division." (Figure 25), recalling to members of this division. National guardsmen from Iowa, Minnesota. Nebraska and North Dakota, their training camp days at Camp Cody In New n khaki-colore- d h d d h Mexico. circle of red, surrounded by a black border, (Figure 2C), the emblem of the "Sunset Division" made up of National guardsmen from the West "where the sun sets" Washington, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado, New Mexico. (Some District of Columbia guardsmen were also In this division). r Forty-secondivision: A red, white and blue In rainbow form (Figure 11), this was the emblem of the famous "Rainbow Division" composed of National guardsmen from 40 states and the District of Columbia, one of the first divisions to reach France and bring a "rainbow of allies. hope" to the Seventy-sixt- h division: The Liberty Bell, an appropriate emblem for a division bearing the numerals 76. (Figure 17). Composed of national army men, it was one of the three divisions t be raised exclusively in New England (with a quota of northern New York selected service men). Some of Its members preferred tbe name Mayflower Dlvjsion" to "Liberty Bell Division" and wore an emblem of the ship Mayflower on a blue ground. Later the Liberty Bell became the recognized emblem of the division. Seventy-seventdivision: An outlined figure of the Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World upon a light blue background (Figure 19), this was the emblem of another division the Revolutionary war Liberty and 77. nosed of New York cltv national army trocr "New York's Own" was the first of the natio. army divisions to reach France and was to haveSamong its units the famous "Lost Battalion." Seventy-nint- h division: A Lorraine cross in white on a blue field with a white border, the emblem of a division made up of national army men from northeastern Pennsylvania, Maryland and District of Columbia which distinguished Itself by the capture of Moutfaucon during the d hard-presse- h WVj- .Meuse-Argonn- h offensive. e Eightieth division: Three peaks of the' Blue Ridge mountains In blue on a red shield with a white border (Figure 27), this was the emblem of the "Blue Ridge Division," composed of mountaineers from Virginia, West Virginia and western Pennsylvania. division : A black wildcat on a Eighty-firs- t gray disc, (Figure 16), emblem of the "Wildcat Division," made up of negro soldiers of the national army from North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida and Porto Rico who proved that they could. Indeed, "fight like wildcats." Eighty-secondivision : Two yellow A's on a blue circle superimposed upon a red square (FigDiviure 12), the emblem of the sion" made up of national army men from Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee. Eighty-fourtdivision: A scarlet shield upon which, Inclosed by a blue circle, was the word "Lincoln" in white curved over an axe and below the numerals 84, (Figure 10), this emblem of the "Lincoln Division," composed of national army soldiers from Kentucky, Indiana and south- ern Illinois, recalled the youth of Lincoln In the region where he began hewing out his fame as a "Rail Splitter." Eighty-sixtdivision: A black hawk rampant on a red shield, the hawk bearing white intertwined letters B and H (Figure 21), symbolic of the "Black Hawk Division," composed of national army men of Illinois and Wisconsin In the region made famous by the Indian chief, Black - d h h Hawk. Eighty-sevent- h division : A yellow acorn with a brown cup on a field of green, this emblem of the "Acorn Division" recalled the origin of its members, national army men from the oak woods of Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. Eighty-eightdivision: Two green ngure eights crossed to form a four-lea- f clover, symbolizing the fact that Its troops, national army men, were from the four states of North Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois. Eighty-nintdivision: A dark blue circle Inclosing a W of the same color against a light blue this division was made up of national army men from Kansas, Missouri, South Dakota, Nebraska, Arizona, New Mexico and Col- orado. The W is symbolic of Its three commandersGen. Leonard Wood, who trained at Camp Funston, Kan., and Generals William M. Wright and Frank L. Winn, who commanded It in France. Ninetieth division: The letters T and O In maroon on a khaki field. (Figure 24), a "branding iron" combination for the states of Texas and Oklahoma from which the national army troops In this division came. Ninety-firs- t division: A green pine tree (Figure 7) symohlical of the pine forests of the western states whence came the men of the national army to make up this division. M,.,,..-;,- ,, Ninet v HPrnnd rilvlilnn k hlo.-K1 falo (rigure 20), the emblem of the "Westel Buffaloes Division," composed of negro troops tlie national army, mainly from Texas and Okla- division: An Indinn arrowhead Thirty-sixtwith the letter T on it, the emblem of the "Panther Division" made up mostly of Texans. Thirty-seventdivision: A white ( with a red or maroon center the O Standing for Ohio since this division was made up of National guard troops from the Buckeye state. Thirty-eightdivision: A red and blue shield with the letters CY on It, Figure 13). standing for the "Cyclone Division," composed of National guardsmen from Indiana. Kentucky and West Virginia, and typifying its manner of movement and accomplishment of desired ends. homa. Forty-firs- t division: The setting sun on a half- h M h Da-kot- a, h back-irround-, (9 br W.stem Newtpapar Unloo.) f |
