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Show CRAIN RANGE THE WEATHER ITTAH Fair tonight and Saturday; little change in temperature Vo! tune 2G. Number An 18(j. ?y 1 D Picture of What' Doing On in National Affaire A Daily By WASHINGTON - Those who are supposed to pilot the Administrations sometimes wavering pro- gram through the Senate have a neat scheme in store for the dynamile-ludeBy mean" of it, they hope to get Congress of out ashington by Labor Da It is what they .all a "gentlemen's ug: -- emect !n other wrords Democratic and Republican leaders both agree that all amendments to the bill, regardless of the cold merit, shall be given shoulder Thus the Administration comes from commeasure, as it mittee, is to be jammed through without change. Reason for hatching this strategy is first, the heat, and second, but equally important, the Progressives. The latter, headed by Bob are itching to get at the tax bill. Loaded to the gunwales with with amendments, primed red-horatory, they are all set drag-ou- t for a knock-dow- n fight to jack up tax rates from top to bottom. They have been waiting a long time for a crack at the tax laws and they propose making the most of their opportunity. If they have their way the bill will be transformed into a billion dollar purse-sockthe modest instead of revenue producer evolved by the Senate Finance Committee. The job of blocking the Progressives, therefore, is no d easy greased-skione, even for such artists as Joe Robinson and Pat --H hrnson. They have just one trump card up their sleeves. All ConThis is the weather. gress is hot, tired and frazzled, anxious to go home. Senate leaders are making the most of this, are promising that if there is a on the "gentlemen's agreement" tax bill, the session will wind up before Labor Day. Otherwise they prophesy weeks of oratory. tax-bi- U T A H, F U 1 1) A V, 5 A U G u (5y cSy 6 FIVE CENT'S. PRICE liiliikl rp 6Jy Hp p rp EVfilCKLEV DREW PEARSON and ROBERT S. ALLEN n LOGAN, Providence Girl Dies From Accident Injuries MERRY GO-ROUN- imtepemlent Newpaper ll V 30,000 Scouts Halt Plans For Big Celebration AT ' hours fter she was Twenty-fou- r injured in a treacherous accident in Logan canyon Thursday mornEva Buckley, ing, Providence giti, succumbed in a local hospital She had been moved from the home of Bishop Paul Spence of Garden city to the afterWednesday hospital late noon. Death occurred shortly after midnight. Miss Buckley was the second death victim of the car that embankplunged down an ment when the driver lost control as the car hit the conjuncture of the gravel and dirt roads of the highway seven miles west of Garden city. Graphic details can not be learned. It is not known if the loose gravel tossed the car over the incline, if a tire blew out or if Ross Peterson of Hyrum, the driver, failed to see the turn road. Each of these in the is considered theories possible and Sheriff Jeff Stowell by Deputy Sheriff N. C. Peterson, who investigated. Robert Max Baxter of Hyrum died instantly and was pinned beneath the car as it completed its keeling descent. Baxter Service Set Funeral services for the Baxter youth will be held in the Hyrum Third ward chapel Saturday at 2 p m. Funeral services for Miss Buck-le- y will be held Sunday at 2 p. m. is heard LONDON, Aug. 9 U' 1935. by United Pres' Great Britain has almost abandoned hope of peaceful settlement of the Italian Ethiopia dispate and is preparing to safeguard its interests in northeastern Africa in e ent of war, it w'as reported today. . The cabinet was reported to be to strengthen police preparing and military patrols on the frontiers of Somaliland and Kenya colony and to send a formidable of body troops probably Sikhs from India to the Sudan. A figure between 6,000 and 8.000 in addition to artillery, was mentioned as the probable force for the Sudan, near Lake Tsana, a likely objective of Italy and heart of and gentlemen. way, Step inside and see the most astounding show on Coney Island, a stellar presentation of the . . most amazing, stupendous, colossal Thats the kind of thing d found working as a Coney Ann Sibley, mjssing Antioch College island freak show barker, wants to continue doing, she announced, refusing to return to college. In addition to being barker, she is the Here she is (in white dress), extolling Girl with the Missing Head. the curious merits of her roommate, the Tatooed Lady, to passing crowds, while other members of the sideshow look on "Right this co-e- LATE Protest Wage Scales Of STRIKE Work-Relie- f Press) L.E) Italy, it was estimated today, already has concentrated KXl.OOO troops in Eritrea and 50,000 in Somaliland. The Ethiopian army, however, is far from being mobilized. Troops are collected in considerable numbers, according to reliable sources, at only four points. It was stated that at present only skeleton forces are being maintained within 100 miles of the border because of Ethiopia's determination to avoid guilt in frontier incidents. Ras Kassa of Gondar was reported to have collected 80,000 troops in the important Gondar region around Lake Tsana in the north. In event of war, they would be aimed at guarding the easiest approach to the Ethiopian plateau along the gradient leading to Lake Tsana. Another concentration was in the ilgre region, eastward of Gondar. It is controlled by Ras reputed to be the most warlike of all the rases (native - chieftains ) Tigre would be the base for defense of the Adowa plateau in the north. right JUNEAU, Alaska, Aug. 9 This is Juneau, the capital of the whole territory of Alaska. The governor is a nice fellow, a Democrat, but a gentleman. In their government there is 16 congressmen and eight senators. Fifteen of the congressmen are Democrats and all the senators. It's about the nearest to an ideal existence you can get. The chamber of commerce will shoot me for this, but I been buying raincoats since early morning. W e are going to Skagway now and see the famous Chilkoot minpass We will do it in ten utes, and It took the pioneers two and three months Yours, ffrctJL. Per'- ABABA, 1935, By United Irriga- French-mandate- Program NEW By United Press Developments today in the dis- pute of works progress administration project workers over the government's "security wage": NEW YORK Union leaders predict all 15,000 skilled workers will be out by nightfall; expect many of 85,000 unskilled workers to join strike. CLEVELAND Federation of I.a-bofficials warn WPA executives organized labor will refuse to accept security wage when projects start- - long YORK, Aug. 9 (I P) A threatened labor war against subsistence" $4,000,000,000 wage scales of the program work-reli- ef erupted today in a strike of 15,000 skilled workmen that threatened to halt work on projects employing 85,000 persons. Both union and government officials regarded the walkout as the opening gun of a national fight. Pres. William Green of the American Federation of labor, in Atlantic city, announced similar action was an imminent possibility in Chicago, Kansas City, Cleveland, San Francisco, Seattle and other major cities. Union Members The strikers, virtually ad memA. F. of L. unions, defied bers of a work or starve" edict from to prosecute their Washington fight against a wage in some cases 50 per cent below prevailing said Leaders scales. strikers would apply for home relief and see whether the threat is made O n y four PHILADELPHIA skilled workers walk out at navy yard. They picket gates. WASHINGTON Sen. Pat D., Nev., predicted New York strike will spread to other cities unless administration boosts wages. ATLANTIC CITY Joseph Ryan, head of New York City Central Labor council, forecasts complete p of WPA projects in New good." York. Works Progress Administrator in announced Harry Hopkins LEAP FATAL Washington that "there is no such 11 SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9 thing as a strike cn relief rolls wholeJoshua Rapken, and if they don't want to work sale liquor dealer, was injured they can go off relief rolls. y Leaders of the striking unions fatally today in a frantic jump to the street in front gave a last minute audience to of his blazing 43rd Ave., residence. Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, New York works administrator, projects SHOCK ICTIM SLEEPS heard his warning that the walkLAS PALMAS, Canary Islands. out would lead to "a bitter fight, and Aug. 9 U' Ri A second year of riots and maybe bloodshed, sleep started today for Carmen then voted unanimously, as they Godoy, 14, who lapsed into a coma had twice before, to take their when she saw her father kill her men out. mother with a knife. She has Wage Is Grievance been kept alive with liquid nourThe strikers had only one grievishment. ance, wages. The WPA scale that the old work-relisupplanted schedule last Monday gives a max' imuir of $93.50 monthly to a skilled workman for 120 hours labor. That is just short of 78 cents an hour, approximately the plumbers' union scale of $1.50. Under the old scale the men received OKLAHOMA CITY, Akla , maximum of $60.79 but worked only four to eight days. Jack Grigsby Aug. 9 (UK) Common laborers, who formerly picketed the picket in front drew $48 to $52 a month for 96 of his butcher and shop, hours work, now must work 24 that is whv the Grigsby hours longer for $55. shop was unpickted today. The strike had been brewing Striking employes stationed a since Monday. Several local unman in front of the shop with a placard telling of the labor ions called men off various projects on their own initiative. The troubles. Grigsby hired a nehousing projhuge Astor gro mammy, full of years and ect in the east side Manhattan ample of beam. She walked tenement district was tied up Wedalongside the picket with a nesday by a strike of bricklayers, sign reading: "Just Married. electricians and plumbers. And that was that. 1 tie-u- TYtO-STGR- Y 1 ef Butcher Strikes Back At Strikers one-ha- low-re- nt Britain were interested in any such ban, a formidable obstacle would be erected to planes flying between the colonies. They could Italy not fly westward by way of because that Italian would make them over the Sudan and all of Ethiopia. They could not fly immediately to the east d because there is d Palestine. Further on is t Permitted Syria. cross that they would have to fly over Arabia, which is reported sympathetic to Ethiopia. French Despairing French opinion, like British, is almost despairing. But Britain intends to do all it can to preserve peace. So grave is its views of n of an the possibilities war that the cabinet is reported on reliable authority to have decided that Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin himself should attend the meeting of the League council called for of Nations September 4. British-mandate- two-stor- ADDIS Sudan-Egy- If Great Opening Gan Is Sounded transport. enforcing In National Labor War Italan and job-gett- Aug. 9 (Copy- the great tion project. Conference Set August 16 A week from today was fixed for the French-Brn-is- h Italian conference, which is regarded as the last real hope for peace. If this conference fails possibly even before Great Britain may lift its provisional on embargo arms for Ethiopia. A-- . considerapoint also under tion is the flight of Italian airwhich the planes over Egypt, has perEgyptian government mitted. In event of war such permission would be a breach of neutrality and safeguards are ensuch aerial visaged to prevent 0. ETHIOPIAN By order of D Conference ot Second ward in the Providence NEPOTISM of nepotism in chapel. Mjss Buckley suffered a fracmuch about Congress, but not tured collar bone and three ribs in Government departnepotism on the right side were crushed ments. into her lungs. Resulting infection Here are a few cases: caused her hemmorhages Harry W. Blair, of Missouri, is and death. She was otherwise badly Assistant Attorney General at Emily Newell Blair, his wife, cut. The condition of the Robinson works with the NRA on a per be favordiem basis $25 a day. James girls was reportedO. to Porter, their Newell Blair, their son, is an RFC able by Dr. R. physician, this morning. attorney at $3,500. Mrs. Blair s attending of their brother-in-laP. W. Chappell Both are at the home Mr. and serves on the Conciliation Board, parents in Providence. Vada has Elijah Robinson. Department of Labor. (Mrs. Blair, Mrs. arm and Veda a National Committeewoman, is a badly lacerated is severely bruised and in an exof the family.) the condition. nervous They Marshall Coles, Chief of Public tremely to Relations with NRA at $4,000, has are out of danger, according Dr. report. Porters a brother, Harry C. Coles, in the Others Recuperate Legal Division of NRA at $2,600, Other members of the party in and had a sister, Catherine Coles, Administration the fatal car, Ross and Russell in the Petroleum Peterson and Wells McBride of at $3,200. at their Dr. Meredith Givens of NRA Hyrum are recuperating and Research and Planning at $8,000, homes today from bruises the most has a wife, known as Ruth Ayers, minor cuts. McBride, this group, Advisory seriously injured of Mattie NRA Consumers on CoopBoard at $4,000, and a sister in has a deep head cut. Research and Planning at $1,620: er of Providence suffered minor Walter G. Hooke, NRA Con- cuts and bruises. was born in Miss Buckley struction Division, gets $6,800. He the G. Providence, October 4, 1919, one Walter has two sons, of Samuel and Rose other the daughter $2,300; paid Jr., Hooke, was tn her Robert Hooke of the National Naef Buckley. She South Cache second year at the Labor Relations Board, $3,600. NOTE: Miss Catherine Coles high school. Surviving are her parents and has resigned her position as secreof the the following brothers and sisters: tary to Norman L. Meyers Board Alton Buckley, Choteau, Montana; Petroleum Administrative L Ira Buckley, Soda Springs; Mrs. Norman She is now Mrs. Velda Hale, Sprmgville; Phyllis. Meyers. Royce, Juanita and Robert Buck-le- y Providence. of COTTON TENANTS The famous Meyers report describing conditions among tenant cotton farmers in Arkansas still is suppressed by the AAA, but Harry Hopkins is ignoring Chester Davis' (Continued on page two) SOIL A lot Skeptical of Onipomo Of Next Weeks Baxter Service Set For Saturday At 2 Oclock lf Italian-Ethiopia- T I OF WASHINGTON, Aug, 9 C.fii The department of agriculture today forecast the total 1935 wheat crop at 607,698,000 bushels. The estimate compared with a July forecast of 731,000,000 bushels. Spring wheat production was forecast at 175,969,000 bushels, reflecting severe rust damage since the July estimate of a crop of 273.000.- 000 bushels. The 1934 total wheat production was 497,000,000 bushels with 91,- 400.000 bushels of the spring grain The yield per acre of the total wheat crop was estimated at 11.06 bushels, compared with a July 1 estimate- of 14 bushels. Condition of the spring wheat crop was reported as 49 4 per cent of normal, compared with 85.1 per cent July 1. The yield per acre was placed at 8 4 bushels per acre compared with 131 bushels - July 1. Winter wheat productica was estimated at 431,709,000 bushels, compared with a July 1 figure of The yield figure was bushels per acre, com14.6 on July 1. Durum wheat production was forecast at 27,034,000 bushel, with a crop 60 9 per cent of normal. On July 1 durum production of 37.300.000 bushels and a crop 88 per cent of normal was predicted. Yield of 9 9 bushels per acre was forecast, compared with 13 6 bushels, July 1. Production of other spring wheel was forecast at 175,969,000 bushels, compared with a July estimate of 238.000.- 000 bushels The crop was estimated at 49 4' per cent of normal, with yield of 8 2 bushels an acre. July 1 it was reported 84 6 per cent of normal with an indicated yield of 13 bushels an acre. 458.000.- 000. 13 8 set at pared with The precipitous slope of Half Dome, famous monolith in Yosemite National Park, California, threatened two hikers with death when hike, they became marooned. Park rangers, alter an rescued the pair. Arrow indicates the place where the hikers were trapped. ht Ninth Ward ' Senate Group Boys Treated Opens Drive To To Utah Tour Revise Tax Bill Visit Points of Interest In Salt Lake and Committee Will Strict Silence Frovo President Franklin Roosevelt the Boy Scout Jamboree to be held in Washington, D. C., August 21 to 80 has been cancelled due to an Increasing outbreak of Infantile paralysis cases in the section adjoining the national capital. The cancellation of the meet is taken solely in the interest of safeguarding the health and future of the 30,000 Boy Scouts from all parts of the world and especially from the various parts of the United States. Word of the decision to cancel the t.ieet reached the Jamboree Boy Scouts of Cache Valley Council encamped at Crimson Field in preparation for the big meet late Thursday afternoon. Reads Wire Gloom and disappointment was written in the faces of the boys and the leaders as Scout Executive Preston Pond read the telegram he had just received cancelling the jamboree. It was a severe blow to the 144 boys and 12 leaders who for several weeks have lived in anticipation of their east back when However, trip the announcement and explanations had been made the first shock was overcome and the boys became reconciled to the decision of President Roosevelt and the National Boy Scout officials. If the boys felt bad in their disappointment they certainly felt no worse than did their parents, many of whom shed tears of sorrow when they learned that the and highly anticipated trip had been cancelled. Disband Today uni- Attired in the Jamboree Keep On long-plann- ( Continued On Page 7) DENIES DEAL WITH Measure boys of the lesser the Ninth ward priesthood were treated to an outing Wedand nesday Thursday which they will relish for a long time. Accompanied by Bishop K Tom Perry and led by Delmar Miller, leader of the quorum, James Skidmore, teacher, Donald Young and Lowell Perry, deacons, the boys began their trip Wednesday morning, stopped in Salt Lake City where Joseph Peery of the Bureau of Information escorted them through the and temple tabernacle grounds, and where David O. McKay showed President them the church offices and chatted with the boys. While they were sightseeing the town, George Albert Smith of the Council of Twelve joined the party and spent much of the afternoon showing the boys the zoo at Hogel Gardens and later the Slate Penitentiary. Going on to Provo in the evening, the party pitched camp at Aspen Grove in Provo canyon. Early on Thursday morning, they took provisions and accomplished the long climb to the top of Mount Forty-seve- n of SECURITY FIRST WASHINGTON, Aug. CR The Senate finance committee today drive toward opened a probable thorough revision of the top-spe- tax administrations $250,000,000 bill, already passed by the house. With tax the controversial measure the chief obstacle to adChairman Harrison Pat journment, announced after the morning session that he hoped the committee SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9 (CK) P. Giannini, board chairman; of Bank of America, today denied as absolutely without foundation reports TransAmerica is contemplating acquisition of Idaho and Utah properties of the First Secould complete work by tomorrow curities Corporation. evening. Giannini said the deal had not He said the committee had de- been discussed and such discus- -' cided on a policy of strict silence sions are not contemplated. until a bill is ready for introducGiannini issued the denial whin tion in the senate. informed that a Los Angeles newsHe called the committee for an- paper had published a story sayother session this afternoon and ing there were indications that planned to meet again tomorrow. is "Well probably work all day negotiating withCorporation the Eccles family; he said. to "I'd like Saturday, Ogden, Utah, for control of the report this bill Monday." First Securities Corporation, controlling a chain of Utah and Idaho banks. A. Trans-Ameri- Marriner LEADER 15 DEAR S. Eccles, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, is a member of the Eccles banking family and former head of the First Securities Corporation. s. Members of the lucky quorum Walter W. Jones, 78, former were vividly recounting their ad- Cache county assessor and promventures to their parents and inent Wellsville civic and church friends today after being accom- leader, died at his home in Wells' panied home last night by Bishop ville at noon today. He had been Perry. in ill health for two years. Mr. Jones was born September II. S. BUYS SPUDS 21, 1858 at V. Great Britain, , TWIN FALLS, Idaho, Aug. 9 the son of Leon rd and Sarah Federal agencies Walters Jones. Wi.h his parents, government he came to Utah in 1868. For. a have assured the Idaho congressional delegation that they will few years he was I. freighter beof 500 Idaho tween Cornnne anu Montana. carloads purchase potatoes in the next few days. He married Sarah Maughan February 23, 1882, at the EndowTURF LORD DIES ment house in Salt Lake City and LIVINGSTON PARK, Sussex, to this union two sons and eight Hi 9 (L Lord England, Aug daughters were born. Two daughfamous sportsman and ters and a son died in infancy race horse owner, died today. His and the wife died 18 years ago. 86th birthday would have come He had served as Cache county a week from today. assessor and later was elected to the Utah legislature. He was manager of the Wellsville Creamery for 17 years and for one term was city councilman. He had also been very active in church work, He was a member of the Sunday school stake superintendency for a number of years and also a CHICAGO, member of the Hyrum stake high Aug. 9 CR A nervous little man in faded council besides holding minor posisidled and patched clothes tions in the church. up to a $2 cashiers ticket at LinAfter the death of his first wife, coln Fields race track. he married Mrs. Delilah Williams, Cash this quick, he mutwho with the following sons and tered and pushed a pink mutuel daughters of the former marriage, ticket toward the clerk. The survives him: Walter M. Jones, wrinkled ticket was worth $1, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Caroline 997 60. Brown. Mrs. Edna J. Allen, Mrs. on Turf writers gathered in Lula Isaacson, and Mrs. Afton the man and wanted to know Stephens, all of Salt Lake City: his name. Mrs. Mary P.hodes of Logan and I cant tell you. I'm on reMrs. Ruth Christensen ot Provo. lief and I want to stay there. and Twenty four grandchildren two great grandchildren also Theyd take me off if they found out about this." REES NORTH MAN IS SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 9 OLE) A. Fagerstedt, Weiser, Idaho, was elected governor of the Utah-Idah- o district of Kiwanis in- John ternational late Thursday at an election which saw only one candidate for each post Dr. G. L, Rees, Smithfield, Utah, was elected lieutenant governor for the northern Utah division, Orson M. Slack, Provo, Utah, for the southern division, and G. W. Charles-wor- th for the eastern Idaho divi- Woola-vingto- Hes Worth $2,000 Stays On Relief WILL HEAD , sion. The final business of the three-da- y convention included a resolution of appreciation to retiring officers who cooperated to make the annual convention a success and the selection of Boise, Idaho as the 1936 convention city. . Report all traffic violations that come under yojr observation to the Cache County Safety council. Be sure of the liceDS number don't make a mistake on that and describe the offending car ns accurately as possihle, and the violation and then- - be ready to help in ease you are called on to That will1 determine testify. whether or not you are In earnest about improving traffic conditions. |