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Show THE SAUNA SUN. SAUNA. UTAH News Review of Current Events the World Over Presidents Way of Ending Virgin Islands Row Arouses Criticism Senator Black Probes for Truth About Utilities Cigar Box. ' By EDWARD W. PICKARD C Westers Newspaper Union. M 'IIAT row over the administration of the Virgin Islands was so unpleasant that President Itoosevelt felt Impelled to settle It himself. So he removed from oflice the two chief battlers, Gov. Paul M. Pearson and Judge T. Webber Wilson, had other ohs found for them, and nominated as Pearsons successor Lawrence W. Cramer, who was serving as lieutenant governor of St. Croli Island. Confirmation of this appointment was not Immediate. The senate committee Investigating the Islands affairs was slow In making up Its mind about Cramer, and from St Thomas came the news that the foes of the Pearson administration there, together with a delegation from St Croix, were protesting vigorously against the Presidents selection of a new governor. The Emanclpatoc, opposition paper, aid editorially: The Islanders would about as soon have Pearson, for under Cramer no change of policy can he expected, Poor and unknown as the humble people of the Virgin Islands may he. they are entitled to an example of honor and courage from the President of .the American Republic. The disposal of Pearson and Wilson also aroused criticism In Washington, The former had been attacked steadily by Pat Harrison of Mississippi and other Democratic senators, but Secretary of the Interior Ickes had defended him warmly, so he was given a Job under Ickes, being made assistant director of housing In the PWA at $S,)00 a year, a place not previously filled. In order to provide a job for Judge Wilson, a former congressman from Mississippi and a protege of Senator Harrison, a woman was forced off the federal parole board. Attorney General Cummings requested and obtained the resignation of Dr. Amy A. Stannard. a psychiatrist who 1ms been In the gov. eminent service 12 years with a civil service status and had been a member of the parole board since 1930. Wilson was sworn In as Her successor. Since Wilsons qualifications for the place appeared to be chiefly political, observers in Washington noted sadly that the parole board was getting back into political hands. WI1AT was In the cigar box in a newspaper? That Is what Senator Hugo Black, chairman of the senate lobby committee, wanted to know. Before the committee for qyestlonkig was John W. Carpenter of Dallas, president of the Texas Power and Light company. He admitted freely that he and other utility men hkd hotel conferences, dinners and a trip down Chesapeake bay with congressmen dur-th- e .fight over the Wheeler-Rayburhill, himself had centered Texas congressmen. But of the mysterious box he could or would tell nothing. Black probed and probe'd, and finally asked: Do you still say that In the morning (of the day before the vote on the utilities bill death seutence) you didnt give a congressman a box wrapped up In a newspaper? Carpenter replied quietly: I dont think I did, unless it was a few cigars. Senate and house conferees met to consider the utility control bill, but there were small signs that they could get together, and one session ended abruptly In a real row. Two administration lobbyists, Benjamin Cohen and Dozier A. I)e Vane, were brought Into the executive session by Senators Wheeler and Barkley and though Rep- resentatlve George Huddleston protested, their continued presence was Insisted upon. Whereupon the fiery Alabama congressman and his fellows from the house walked out and broke Cohen Is generally up the meeting. given credit for writing the measure. . After leuviDg the committee room, Huddleston said flatly that the house conferees woud not recede from the death sentence" .position that, the must be eliminated. n OPPONENTS of the AAA to strengthen the powers of Secretary of Agriculture Wallace decided to let the basic act go up to the Supreme court, so the administration bill was passed by the enate with only 15 adverse votes. Both Republican and conservative Democratic foes of the AAA are confident that the Supreme court will hold the basic act unconstitutional and an early test Is assured by a senate amendment permitting suits to recover processing taxes that have not been passed on to producers or consumers. One of the major purposes of the amendments was to close the courts, but the senate rejected this scheme by a vote of 41 to 23. As a result, the Hoosack Mills case, In which the Bos ton Circuit Courts of Appeals held the will not he unconstitutional, thrown out and the highest tribunal will have a chance to pass upon It. Amid go much adverse criticism, the action of the Midwest farm leaders gathered In Chicago must have been soothing to Mr. Wallace. Resolutions were passed praising the secretary and congressional leaders for their efforts In behalf of agricultural equality. The farm leaders urged senate approval for the commodity exchange bill, passed by the house, and asked of the Pacific Northwest Wheat Export corporation under the AAA to prevent wheat surpluses In that area from competing with Midwest wheat and other grains. The meeting voiced opposition to the plans for transportation suggesting farmers would profit more by competition among carriers. AAA piiRMANENT federal control of the liquor business is provided for In a bill which was jmssed by the house and sent to the senate with prospects of early adoption by that body. The measure, which creates within the treasury a new agency to be known as the federal alcohol administration, was asked, by the President to replace the FACA killed by the Supreme courts NltA decision, Mr. Roosevelt wanted the new agency to be an Independent ollice, but the house decided otherwise. C. DAVIS, AAA admlnls tils fellow officials were grevlously shocked when they were shown this classified real estate advertisement in the Globe of Joplin, Mo.: CHESTER Housewife's Idea Box Dandy way to make money: Buy 13 acres for hog raising. Sign up with the government to not raise, say, 500 hogs. It will pay you $l,0o0. That will pay for the acres and have some left. Its preposterous! exploded Mr. Davis. Its at least preliminary to fraud. Its deliberate misrepresentation and not In any way possible. I shall begin an Investigation at once. this rVETERMINATION of the Nazis to put an end to political Catholicism In Germany and their consequent drive against Catholic youth organizations may bring on results more serious even than ha9 the Nazi n the-Sta't- e e, p f able-bodie- d Sometimes you may have to keep butter for a long time. A good way to keep it from turning rancid Is to place the butter In a small dish. Wring out a rag that has been soaked In very cold water. Cover the dish witl) this cloth. You 'wilt be surprised to find how long the butter will keep;. antl-semltls- General Goerlng, head of the secret police, gave out a warning to Catholic priests to be careful In their com ments from the pulpit, and Franz Guertner. minister of Justice, is sued a decree threatening prosecution for any priest violating Goerlngs Injunction. Throughout the country generally the Catholic clergy was cautious,' but In Freiburg, Baden., where the Goerlng order had not been published before Sunday, the priests read In their pulpits a letter from the episcopate calling the Nazi action a violation of the concordat with the Vatican. To this charge the Nazis reply that the Catholics were the. first to violate the concordat by making attacks on the Hitler youth movement in their parish papers. This new. purge by the Nazis Includes a renewed crusade against the Jews and dissolution of the Steel Hel mets, veterans organization, In' various provinces. The Jews are helpless and, if Julius Strelcher has his way, will be all driven out of Berlin or segregated In ghettos. But the Steel Helmets, whose chief Is Minister of Labor Franz Seldte, are likely to cause the Hitler government a lot of trouble. The organizations weekly paper Is using language that Is not often heard In Germany, these days, and Seldte Is demanding the reason for suppression of. the local divisions. IMMEDIATE convocation of the League of Nations council to deal with the question was demanded by Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia. On his behalf the demand was telegraphed to the league secretariat at Geneva by Taela Hawarlat, Ethiopian f A YOU LA pUARDIA of New' York to France minister has. created an International Inand delegate to the cident all by himself. lie backed up lie insisted License Commissioner Paul Moss in his league. that the council proref.usal to license one Mr. K to work ceed to the examina- 'in the metropolis as a massage opertion of the situation ator because he. Is a"Tlerman. The under article . XV of German 'diplomatic officials were preEmperor Haile the league covenant, Selassie paring to complain to the State deEthiopia Invoking this partment that the city was violating article because of the threat to her the German-Americacommercial . Independence from Italy. of 1925. But Mr. La Guardia treaty British dispatches said Prime Minisdeclared the treaty Is null and void ter Stanley Baldwin and leading membecause Germany has discriminated bers of his cabinet were believed .to American citizens of Jewish favor full league action, If other na- against origin. tions agreed, as a last resort to avert He indicated that not even the threatened conflict. Diplomatic can force him to back department quarters .In London heard that the down. British government probably would alThis order shall be carried oiit unter Its policy and permit the export til such time as we are directed to do of arms to Ethiopia. The emperors otherwise he said. by the courts, new minister there, W. C. Martin, had The German question, also threatened a conference at the foreign ollice and to come up In the senate, for Senator came out smiling happily but saving King of Utah said he would ask an innothing. vestigation to determine whether the Previously Mr. Martin had admitted United States would be warranted in that Ethiopia was short not only of severing diplomatic relations with arms but also of money. . Germany. At the moment we have very little 1 am money, he said. doing all that '"THAT wholly Is possible to raise loans In London, proce-durthe general'strike, was tried but thus far I have not met with a out by organized labor lu Indiana and great measure of success. the 67,000 Inhabitants of Terre Haute ARTIAL Investigation of the milk were 'deprived of all food supplies. The local authorities of Vigo county industry by the federal trade commission was said to have revealed de-- . called on the governor for help and 14 complorable conditions and the admlnls- - Mr. McNuttth&promptly ordered. Natfonal to the of Guard panies tration asked for $200,000 to continue the Inquiry. The senate committee In scene. Brig. Gen. Wray De Prez, In command, promised the merchants who considering the deficiency appropriation bill cut out that Item altogether, had been bullied Into shutting their but when the measure came before the shops would be given protection, and senate Duffy of Wisconsin moved an said his first endeavor would be to amendment adding the sum asked. Aft- restore the milk and ice sgrvlce. This er a hot debate this was approved by a had been cut off ewn from hospitals. The general strike was. called by 4S vote of 51 to 18 and the bill was then without yarning, because labor unions The amendsiumerous senate passed. had beqn unable to reach an leaders ments had added a total of more than with the Columbian En$80,000,000 to the house measure, so agreement and Stamping company. Some ameling the $300,000,000 bill was sent to conGOO of that concerns employees went ference. on strike in March and the plant was closed down, but the union leaders CHARMERS In the Middle West, ready to harvest their crops, found they thought It was about to be reopened . strikebreakers. couldn't get hands to do the work. by - Conciliators from the of Department The Idle men ordinarily counted on for this were on the relief rolls and Labor arrived and within 48 hoursthe declined offers of farm labor for two geueral strikecollapsed and was called off by the union officials In charge. The reasons :s The wages paid by the farm&t the stamping company, howers were less than the sums received strike in effect and. several 'continued ever, from the relief, organization .or. for the troops wbre forced to use times government works, and if the men once went off the dole they feared they tear gas bombs to disperse riotous mobs." . would have trouble getting back there Terre .Haute' merchants estimated when the harvest was over. The situation was desperate and emergency that the two days strike cost them at relief commissions were urged to take least half a million dollars. The state action. This they did In the states af- spent probably $50,000 In maintaining fected and It was announced the re- order by use of the troops. The state federation of labor asserted the sym volt" was under control. The Illinois commission stopped all pa thy walkout was unauthorized. relief works In the rural areas until after harvest. In Kansas persons re- DROPPING all their rebellious In the Democrats of the fusing any temporary employment were removed from the relief rolls. In Ne- house did everything the admlnlstra. braska 26 counties were cut oft from tlon wished In considering the socia1 federal relief allotments and In 15 oth- security bill as altered by the senate The conferees had settled all dif ers the allotments were cut in half. In nearly a score of Iowa counties ferences after two weeks of hard work officials denied relief and but one of the amendments they ac men on relief rolls were admonished cepted was that permitting private to accept employment In the harvest pension systems to function under the fields. measure. The majority members oi In North Dakota all but specialized the house were Informed that Presl projects were halted and the state ad- dent Roosevelt was opposed to this, so ministrator announced that as soon as they refused' to accept It. The senate the harvest was over the new works would not permit the elimination ot progress administration would take the amendment, so back to coufereuce care of unemployables. went the bill. Italo-Ethlopia- n Keeping Butter Fresh . THE HOUSEWIFE. Copyright by Public Ledger, Inc. WNU Service. Lt .Fruit Thoie Word." There used to be a silly fad of at-- , tributing to every notable man od Stall' in Quetta, Baluchistan. Kalat farmers occupy the valleys. While some fruits, cotton and dates are exported, the farmers are scarcely lost Its most Important city able to produce enough food for domesthe recent earthquake that tic consumption. Normal rainfall Is destroyed Quetta. scanty and the soil Is poor. In the Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan northern part of the state, which is and the only municipality in the pro- one of hottest areas in India, the the vince, existed primarily for military sun Is relentless In Its destruction of subpurposes, but the Pax Britannica, Famine visited the state in crops. stitute for the lawlessness and bandit: 1S30 and lasted for ten years. ry of former days, had made an ImporFarming and Fishing. tant civil community and trading cenHere and thertf farmers have built ter of It as well. Baluchistan Is Indias fortress tp the crude Irrigation works' that are fed by east, and Quetta was Its donjon keep. springs and small streams, but more Thq British have been in control, of often the native cultivators depend upthe place since 1877, and since 1883 on floods to water and fertilize their have held it under perpetual lease from soil. Its old ruler, the picturesquely named Along the coast hundreds of small, Wall of Kalat clumsy- - fishing boats operate in the When the British went In Quetta was Arabian sea fisheries. The fish are . only a little group of mud huts sur- salted and form one of the leading rounded by unhealthy plains that were articles of Kalat commerce. virtually swamps. Drainage and saniThere are no organized Industries tation made the place over. The pop- In .the state. Every native woman Is ulation increased to GO, 000, and once an expert with the" needle and she swampy lowlands furnished a setting makes all the family clothing. Wool for villas and farm houses surrounded and goat" hair from domestic animals by orchards and planted groves. are her working materials and what The outstanding feature of Quetta s'he does not use finds Its way to where six or Pasni, the was the cantonment leading Kalat port, destined and Indian to of British regiments eight foreign markets. A peep through troops were quartered. This extensive the door of a native hut may also repost was to the north on relatively high veal a pottery factory, but. only a small ground, while the civil town was to quantity of the homemade product is the south on a lower level. Mud, In sold beyond the Kalat borders. brick was an imthe form of Just across the Baluchistan border, portant building material In the town, In .the province of Sind, is the seaport was-twnot to it extent the that though bf Karachi which has been crowded domes decades ago. Thenr mud-bric- k formed many of the roofs, and were with refugees from the earthquake disconsidered safe because of Quettas tricts. Like Marseilles, near the mouth of the Rhone, near the scant rainfall (about 10 Inches annualmouth of the Nile, Karachi is of a ly). But there came an unusuajly wet but' not on it. It is just most of the buildings rnelt- - great river, . spring, and off the delta of the Indus; but Its Imed away. Since then many Iron roofs a gift from that less picturesque, but better Insurance portance is largely whose alluvium has stream, shifting against weather vagaries surmounted swallowed rivals. its up the mud walls of the town. Tatta, an old capital of Sind, as Western Influence had permeated r Quetta and the standard of living had karachl Is today, was on a risen accordingly. Tea, a little while branch of the Indus a short distance ago a marked luxury, was becoming above its mouth. It flourished until a common beverage. Leather footwear the river left It. high and dry. a more famous Sind port on had displaced sandals to a noticeable another Indus' branch, could, like New degree. Orleans, be reached by Hot Days, Cold Nights. But about 1725 Shahban-da- r also became silted up and is now Quetta is In the same latitude as Cairo, Jacksonville, Fla., and Shangh'al, only an inland village. Common sense but because of Its 6,000 feet of altitude dictated the choice of a port outside and the physical aspect of the sur- the shifting delta, and Karachi, in a rounding country, Its climate Is very sheltered bay a short distance to the different Each day the mercury bobs west, bpgan to grow In impprtance. up and down through a wide range. Karachi Once a Slaving Center. The difference between daily maximum Karachis chief product of import and minimum has been known to reach and been Abyssinian stoves had export 80 degrees; but such excessive changes are confined to certain short ..Reasons. brought by Arab boatmen from Masqat. Since British control came to northThe hills and even the valleys of Bawestern India, Karachi's hinterland has luchistan are largely treeless, and when been greatly developed through imthe sun Is down heat radiates away proved Irrigation methods, and a swellAs a the nights' consequence rapidly. stream of agricultural and other ing are always cool, even when the sun flowed to the port After has products one blisters by day. a railway was built to tap the Punjabs The area devastated by the earthwheat fields, Karachi became Indias quake extends south of Quetta into greatest grain port In population the the state of Kalat, a vast mountain-streake- d town has jumped from less than 20,000 region "of Baluchistan, where before the British came, to about 263,-00- 0 modern progress has hardly penetrated. today. . There are no road maps In Kalat, Karachi has a huge and rich Though recent-yearare In roads scarce. for good to land draw from, Its Immediate surtowns of the coastal region and are rather discouraging. roundings been extreme north linked of the have out to shelter Its with telegraph lines. The railroad Rocky peninsulas jut A harbor. dry plain surto eastern Persia runs from Karachi A few miles to the across the states northern extremity, rounds the town. baked-clabut even In the shadaws of the tele- northwest lie the seamed, hills as of Baluchistan, strange a graph poles and along the railroad as any In Asia. country y to the natives cling their Off. along' the coast and Into Baluchicamels and horses. A network of anstan strikes the amphibian telegraph imal paths forms the major communication system. Few people of the in- line that gives Karachi Its most direct terior have seen an automobile, and to connection with the West. A land line many coins are curiosities, for their .until It gets well Into Baluchistan, It then dives Into the sea to come up wants are satisfied by barter. on. the Tersian coast and strike Kalat is sparsely settled. The state again overland through Persia and Turkey to is nearly as large as Nebraska but it Europe. nas only twice as many Inhabitants as the city of Omaha. Small villages Gateway for Central Asia. are sprinkled on the plains and in the Karachi Is not only a door for India, valleys and there are perhaps a dozen It Is the gateway besides for much of fair sized towns, but no large cities in central Asia. Numerous products that the American sense. Kalat, the capiare felghted Into Karachi harbor find tal, wns a cluster of mud houses and their way up through the famous Khy-be- r matting huts climbing a hill topped Pass and over Himalayan trails fortresslike ci- to Afghanistan, Turkistan and Tibet with the tadel of the Khan, Much of It was deMany millions of dollars have been stroyed by the earthquake. spent on the harbor of Karachi In the The Inhabitants of Kalat are divided construction of moles. Jetties and othInto tribes, each with a chief. Many er port works. Keeping Its waters tribes graze sheep and herd goats, fol- deep enough is a never ending fight lowing their animals wherever there Is A strong ocean current sweeps to the fresh pasturage. Some of them live entrance part of the tremendous load the year round In matting or of slit brought down by the Indus, and huts; others refuse to be bur- this must be continually dredged away dened with cargo when on the move that Karachi may not suffer a fate like and build new brushwood huts at each that which overtook Tatts and Shah bandar. atop. Prepared by the National Geographic Society, Washington, D. C. WNU Service. Indian province of THE . his deathbed some phrase which was supposed to epitomize his career. The stone cutters chisel on the entablature of the public building Is. a bit by way of being a similar sentimentality the attempt to provide an age with last, words.. So conceived, how would this age of ours come off? . A bevy of reporters were holding what Is technically known as a death watch on a famous man who was thought to be dying. What are his last words going to asked be? one. 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