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Show THE HELPER JOURNAL, HELPER, UTAH 1 r News Review of Current Events the World Over Ilitler Takes Germany Out of League of Nations and Disarmament Conference Depositors in Closed Banks to Get 50 Per Cent Payment. By EDWARD W. PICKARD GERMANY, feeling that It Is be- Ing treated like a second-clasnation, startled the world by with drawing from membership Id the League of Nations 1 ana froln tne dis' if' VJ & ' s cuuiei- aniJfiiueiH ence. At first flush this looked rather like a threat of war In the not distant future, but sober ' consideration of the , hv'J futa nnH rnnrlitlrtna 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 n to the league and conference If properly conciliated by the other nations. More potent yet, perhaps, Is the fact that none of the nations Is 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 I. may be the always militaristic Prussians of the relcb. Chancellor Hitler, having announced Germnny's withdrawal, President Von Hlndenburg Immediately decreed the dissolution of the reichstag 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 decision. All the state parliaments 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 Icy was full of ardor and yet was half conciliatory and caused hopes In Great Britain and the United States, If not elsewhere, that the reich might be brought to a reconsideration of Its action. The officials of other nations refuse to get excited, and some of them admitted privately that Hitler's protest was Justified, but 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 blocked by Norman H. 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 In America would gladly 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 oflicials 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 heard a report from Sir John Simon, foreign minister who had been In violent , controversy with Karon Von foreign minister of Germany and was said to be In a concilia tory mood, though there was no Indication that It would abandon Its attlude of with France. Neu-rath- Hopes that Germany would come back Into the concert of nations by the back door were dashed by Hitler who, In a powerful address, de- clared: "Germany Is determined In the future to attend no conference, enter no league, agree to no conven- tion, and sign nothing as long as he Is not treated equally." dollars rNEInto billion circulation will be put 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 V corpora- tion. To. administer the liquidation a it - ' A apectal division of ' the RFC Is eet up Dean Acheson to make loans to tho several thousands of closed banks. C. B. Jlerrlam, a director of the 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 corporation. In general, loans to closed banks will be limited to 50 per cent of de- - posits, thus establishing a 50 per cent maximum for payment to depositors. In some cases, where assets justify, a somewhat larger distribution may be possible, but where assets are not worth 50 per cent" of deposits the dividend will be less. In some cases, the White House statement warned, no dividends beyond those already paid will be 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 tied-udeposits as they would get If they were forced to wait for the money. The plan will be applicable ODly to banks closed after January 1, semi-froze- n 1933. TIOLATORS of the NRA agree- ment, thousands of whom have been reported, are facing Imprisonment and fines, for the President has Issued an executive order directing 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 tines 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 tip with a warning to all Industrial groups that heavy fines 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 be 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 hut It Is merely accidental If It produces a solution which serves the best Interests of both parties and of the NRAers." switches consumption to beef. The administration arranged for the purchase of approximately 1,000.000 bushels of wheat and completed Its cotton loan program In moves calculated to provide resistance to recent falling prices of the two commodities. Henry Morgen-than- , Jr., governor of the farm credit administration, announced purchase of the wheat at six mar kets 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 """N. U IrA INDUSTRIAL control of trade Is now being tried, with cotton textiles as the ground for the experiment, under regulations approved by Administrator Johnson. From 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 has made recommendations. Not only that but no mill owner may in crease his productive machinery without the same approval, recorded In a certificate bearing the Industrial administrator's signature. A N IMMEDIATE embargo on medicinal liquors was ordered by President Roosevelt on evidence that such Importations had Increased sharply In anticipation of prohibition repeal. The President also rejected a proposal to permit Importation of beverage liquors In bond pending the date of legal sale. INVESTIGATION of the federal hospital at Canton, S. D., revealed what Secretary of the Interior Ickes calls "sickening and In conditolerable" tions and the confinement of per fectly sane Indians I among the Insane. Mr. Ickes Issued a statement severely condemning local political and commercial interests for preventing the removal of the sane patients by obtainSec'y Ickes , ing an Injunction from a Canton court and for bringing political pressure to bear on oflicials of the Indian bureau in Washington. The bureau has sought for several years to close the service was the artillery." Officers in the dl however, say "The Red Diamond repre sents 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 laconical ly: "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 designa tlon of the division. The Sixth had three differ ent 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, re division 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 star. Seventh division: Two black equilateral trl angles placed vertlcallyupon 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 tri angle to an hourglass was responsible for the nickname of the division, the "Hourglass Divi clrcle of red, surrounded by a black border, (Figure 26), the emblem of the "Sunset Division" made up of National guardsmen from the West Armistice Day! "where the sun sets" Washington, Oregon, MonA day for remembering. tana, Idaho, Wyoming, North Dakota, South DaFor remembering the titanic conflict which came to an end Just 15 kota, Colorado, New Mexico. (Some District of Columbia guardsmen were also In this division). years ago; for remembering the hys Forty-secon- d division: A red, whit terical joy as a world and blue In rainbow form (Figure 11), this was turned its back on death and de the emblem of the famous "Rainbow Division" struction and lifted its face to the clear skies of the promise of peace composed of National guardsmen from 46 states and the District of Columbia, one of the first difor remembering the men and women who of visions to reach France and bring a "rainbow of fered up their lives for their country those who staid "over there" as well as those who came allies. hope" to the home. Seventy-sixtdivision: The Liberty Bell, an And do you remember when they came home appropriate emblem for a division bearing the and staged their "Victory marches" through the numerals 76. (Figure 17). Composed of national crowded, cheering streets of our principal cities army men, It was one of the three divisions t how you noticed the little patches of color of dif. be raised exclusively in New England (with a ferent design which they wore on their left shoul quota of northern New York selected service ders? Perhaps you knew then what was the men). Some of Its members preferred the name meaning of those symbols but the chances are "Mayflower Division" to "Liberty Bell Division" that you, and most other Americans as well, have and wore an emblem of the ship Mayflower on a blue ground. Later the Liberty Bell became the forgotten by now. So this is to recall It to you the story of the recognized emblem of the division. insignia of the various divisions in the American Seventy-seventdivision : An outlined figure Expeditionary Forces, "the sign of the fighting of the Statue of Liberty Enlightening the World man." upon a light blue background (Figure 19), thfa You may not recall, although hundreds of was the emblem of another division recalling thousands of World war veterans undoubtedly the Revolutionary war Liberty and '77. Comwill, what an uproar was raised at one time over posed of New York city national army troops, that little patch of color on the left shoulder of "New York's Own" was the first of the national the returning soldier's khaki coat For when the army divisions to reach France and was to have troops were ready to embark for home, the War among Its units the famous "Lost Battalion." department issued an order prohibiting the wear Seventy-nintdivision: A Lorraine cross In ing of divisional insignia by the doughboys upon white on a blue field with a white border, the A., their return to America. It was "unmilitary," the sion." emblem of a division made up of national army Eighth division: A silver figure 8 pierced by a men from northeastern Pennsylvania, Maryland department safd. Almost instantly a tide of protest rolled Into golden arrow pointing upwards on a blue cloth and District of Columbia which distinguished itWashington to engulf the department. There shield background. The figure 8 stood for the self by the capture of Montfaucon during the division the of and the were a hundred good reasons advanced why the numerical designation e offensive. doughboys should continue to wear their pet dec golden arrow symbolized the nickname of the dl Three peaks of the Blue division: Eightieth oration, but chief among them was the fact that vision, the "Pathfinder Division," which was or Hidge mountains In blue on a red shield with a Calif. at trained Camp Fremont, these Insignia, adopted by the different divisions, ganized and white border 27), this was the emblem Twenty-sixtdivision: Blue letters YD on a of the "Blue (Figure were highly useful In making possible their lden Division," composed of mounRidge diamond field, the letters stood for taineers from tifleation at a glance, In action or otherwise, and Virginia, West Virginia and westmen made of up for purposes either of commendation or criti "Yankee Division," (Figure 23), ern Pennsylvania. cism, as the case might be; that the decoration ot New England, which was one of the first Na Eighty-firs- t division: A black wildcat on a detracted nothing from the efficiency of the men, tional guard forces to enter active service. 16), emblem of the "Wildcat gray disc, (Figure A of Twenty-seventblack circle division: but on the other hand was an incentive to proper of negro soldiers of the namade Division," up was on which dis conduct and effort ; and finally that with a narrow border of red, tional army from North Carolina, South Carothe man wearing It, each proud of his Individual played In white the constellation of Orion. (Fig lina, Florida and Porto Rico who proved that outfit, was unwilling to discard It and thus lose ure 6). This division, made up of national army they could. Indeed, "fight like wildcats." Its York city, adopted insignia his Identity and that of his command in the melt troops from New Eighty-secon- d division: Two yellow A's on a In honor of its commander, Gen. John F. O'Ryan Ing pot of the A. E. F.'s millions. blue circle superimposed upon a red square (FigA Twenty-eightred division: keystone (Fig So the War department decided to allow the ure 12), the emblem of the Divi returning soldiers to keep their divisional insig ure 15), symbolic of the "Keystone State" since sion" made up of national army men from Geor nia and this ruling was greeted with as much this division was made up of Pennsylvania Na gia, Alabama and Tennessee. widespread approval as the forbidding order had tional guard. Eighty-fourt- h division: A scarlet shield upon" of circles Intertwined division: Twenty-nintcaused loudly voiced disapproval. There were 93 divisions In the United States' blue and gray (Figure 18) symbolical of the Blue which. Inclosed by a blue circle, was the word men In "Lincoln" In white curved over an axe and bemilitary forces and each one had Its distinctive and the Gray of Civil war days, since the low numerals 84, (Figure 10), this emblem Insignia. Limitations of space In this article pre this division were National guardsmen from of the"Lincoln the Division," composed of national vent the reproduction of the Insignia of all of Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, Virginia and army soldiers from Kentucky, Indiana and souththem and an extended account of each but the the District of Columbia. Thirtieth division: An emblem. made up of the ern Illinois, recalled the youth of Lincoln In the following represents some of the more interest O. II. (Figure 14), standing for "Old Hick region where he began hewing out his fame as letters some ones: about facts typical ing "Rail Splitter." made op of National guardsmen Division," ory First division: An elongated shield of khaki, from North Carolina and South Caro Eighty-sixtTennessee, division: A black hawk rampant 1. red numeral the down, (Figure bearing point "Old which claim states on three the a red the hawk bearing white InterUna, Hickory," shield, Amer of was the first the 1.) Since this division for their own. In the middle of twined letters B and H (Figure 21), symbolic of ican divisions to go to France, the first to go Into Andrew Jackson, were three Xs, the Roman numeral the "Black Hawk Division," composed of nationthe trenches, the finit to suffer battle losses, the the Insignia al army men of Illinois and Wisconsin In the 30, the number of the division. for to enter first the and first to capture prisoners Thirty-firs- t division: A triangle of white and region made famous by the Indian chief, Black Germany after the Armistice, it is only natural with a white D (Figure Hawk. that It should adopt the numeral 1. Only once red, each half adorned made np of men from "Dixie for Division," 22), Eighty-sevent- h In returnwas division: A yellow acorn with last division that was the First of National Dixie Georgia and a brown cup on a field of green, this emblem of Alabama, guard ing to the United States for demobilization. the "Acorn Division" recalled the origin of Its white star, hav Florida. Second division: A Thirty-secondivision: A red arrow on a members, national army men from the oak woods American an Indian of head facing to the ing the left, In red and blue, stamped or embroidered on square field of khaki. (Figure 28). The arrow of Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. Eighty-eight- h division : Two green ngure the white star. The star and Indian head was worn on the sleeves of the Michigan and Wiscon In this division pointed eights crossed to form a four-lea- f clover, symplaced on a background of cloth of various sin National guardsmen a promise always to go bolizing the fact that Its troops, national army shapes and colors to designate the several organ- forward, Indicative of men, were from the four states of North Daizations In the division. The black shield (Figure forward, never back. Thirty-thirdivision: A yellow Maltese cross kota, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois. 9) was used In the Insignia of divisional headon a black field, the emblem of the "Prairie DiEighty-nintdivision: A dark blue circle In quarters. Third division: A square of dark blue cloth vision," made up of National guardsmen from closing a W of the same color against a light blue background, this division was made up of with three white stripes running diagonally Illinois and West Virginia. Thirty-fourtdivision: The outline of a Mexi national army men from Kansas, Missouri, South downward from the upper right corner to the lower left (Figure 3). The field of blue was can olla or water flask In black on which ap Dakota. Nebraska, Arizona, New Mexico and Col symbolic of the loyalty of the "Marnemen." The peared a red cow's skull and the words "Sand orado. The W Is symbolic of Its three commanthree white stripes stood for the numerical des- storm Division." (Figure 25), recalling to mem- dersGen. Leonard Wood, who trained at Camp ignation of the division and also symbolized the bers of this division, National guardsmen from Funston, han., and Generals William M. Wright three major operations In which the Third di- Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska and North Dakota. and Frank L Winn, who commanded It In vision won glory during the World war the their training camp days at Camp Cody In New France. Mexico. Ninetieth division: The letters T and O In ma Marne, St. Mihlel and Thirty-sixtdivision: An Indian arrowhead roon on a khaki field, (Figure 24), a Fourth division : Four Ivy leaves about a cir"branding cle, the leaves and circle of green, placed on a with the letter T on It the emblem of the "Pan Iron" combination for the states erf Texas and Texans. made of Division" was ther up mostly khaki background. (Figure 8). This symbol Oklahoma from which the national army troops Thirty-seventdivision: A white O with a red In this division came. formed by taking the Roman numeral IV. which not only gave the numerical designation of the or maroon center the O Standing for Ohio since Ninety-firs- t division: A green pine tree (Fig division, but also a flower, the Ivy, which means this division was made up of National guard ure 7) syniolilical of the pine forests of the west"steadfast nnd loyal" In the language of flowers troops from the Buckeye state. ern states whence came the men of the national Thirty-eightdivision: A red and blue shield ertny to make up this division. a splendid motto for a group of fighting men. Fifth division: A plain red diamond on a back with the letters CY on It (Figure 13), standing Ninety second division: A black charging buf of Nation falo ground of khaki. (Figure 5.) It was stared by for the "Cyclone Division," composed (Figure 20), the emblem of the "Western '.ufTaloes Division," Composed of negro troops of thp chief of statT of the division that "no sig- al guardsmen from Indiana, Kentucky and West nificant meaning Is attached other than that the Virginia, and typifying Its manner of movement tlie nutlonnl army, mainly from Texas and color, red, was selected as a compliment to the and accomplishment of desired ends. Forty-firs- t division: The setting sun on a hulf- ( by Wutarn Nwipper Union.) then commanding general whose branch of the By ELMO SCOTT WATSON OVEMBER 11 1 vision, well-kr.ow- n war-wear- y trl-col- hard-presse- d h hard-presse- h n 0 " r . 1. "Those responsible for securir? this Injunction presumably are actuated by a desire to gave for Canton the revenue that continued operation of the Institution there means," Mr. Ickes declared. "They appear to be willing to make a prof-I- t out of the degredation of helpless Indians. They do not object to locking up sane human beings In an Insane asylum." WHEN Joseph R. Eastman, transportatConditions In the institution were ion, announced recently that or- revealed by Dr. Samuel A. Silk, ders might be placed soon for medical director of St. Elizabeth's In rails the He conducted an investisteel operators hospital.at the request of Secretary gation were greatly Ickes. His report, made cheered up. But Mr. Ickes, described the public by asylum as since studying the "filthy, inhuman, and revolting." conditions under which the orders would be placed NEW MEXICO has a new United senator In the person some of them are not so happy. C V. of Carl A. natch, who has been as district Judge In Santa MeKatg, vice pres- serving Ml" ident and general Fe. He was appointed by the governor to succeed Samuel G. Prat-tomanager of sales J. B. Eastman for the Carnegie company. United States Steel cornow on the list, poration subsidiary. Is one of these. WITH Florida states have voted for reHe quoted Eastman as saying the order would be placed only If an peal of the Eighteenth amendment more states are "expected" reduction in the price ami only three needed to put an end to national of steel materializes. Florida went wet by "Such a reduction Is the last prohibition. a vote of approximately 4 to 1. said the operators want," thing "I think the present pegged" ROBERT H. GORE seems price of $40 a ton Is about right GOV. have regained his prestige One of the purposes of the NRA Is A coalition majorRico. In Puerto to assure a reasonable return to and Soof union Republicans ity From this obthe manufacturer. and mass servation a lower price now would cialists staged a parade meeting In support of the governseem to defeat. this purpose." ment's program, and the governor, Eastman said the order would the crowd, pledged himP'tt thousands of workers back In addressing to work for the greater hapself the mills. McKalg said the steel well being of the Puerto manufacturers already have con- piness and tributed an estimated $100,000,000 RIcans. Part of the plan for the future, annually to the NKA In the form Gore said, contemplates building to of Increased salaries. prepare to meet conditions twenty hence when the Island, now years SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE would be burdened by George N. Peek, overcrowded, a population double present figures. adminisagricultural adjustment trator, announced that a plan would In Siam soon be put in operation for restricGOVERNMENT forces to have sup tion of production of corn and the Insurrection that was hogs. It Involves the distribution pressed a member of the royal famiof $:!50.OOO,000 to farmers, mainly led by ly and for a time threatened to In the Middle West, and Is dethe regime. The signed to take 12.500,000 acres of upset who existing attacked Bangkok were corn land out of production next reikis In flight and tlietr leader was among year, cutting the corn crop bushels and hog produc- those captured. tion 25 per cent to the persuasions ot The government will advance the YIELDING and business funds necessary for Immediate paythe of management organizations, ment of benefits to farmers and A Century of Progress In Chicago will be reimbursed from the proto keep that great exposiceeds of processing 'axes levied on decided tion open until after Armistice day, corn and pork. so It will not come to an end until Secretary Wallace also disclosed midnight November 12. Railroads that tu Imposition of a compensatto continue iheir reduced arranged ing tax on beef cattle Is contemrates, and an exciting and Interplated for the benetlt of live stock esting program for tlm final two producers. 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