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Show THE PAYSON CHRONICLE, PAYSON, UTAH Eternal City Celebrates Its Birthday This years celebration In Rome of the anniversary of the citys founding was the occasion for impressive ceremonies and displays. Here the dictator, Mussolini, is seen with his military staff reviewing the cadets of the Royul Italian i cadomy. IvWF v $&' WiX 1 r.ulloons starting from Pittsburgh In elimination race that was won by the navy bag No. 1. 2 Col. Walter C. Cole of Detroit elected president of the National Reserve Officers association. 3 Twenty thousand Chicago Poles celebrating Kosciusko day befoie the btatue of the hero In Humboldt park. Pollsh-Anierica- OAItllV T. SINCLAIR, oil magnate, Is In the Washington Jail serving out his sentence of 00 days for Senate Coalition Deals a Rebuff to President in Farm Legislation. r. f L By EDWARD W. PICKARD TEMOf RATIO and radical Repub-lieans In the senate combined last week to deal a rebuff to the farm relief plans of President Hoover and Ms administration. The McNary bill was under consideration In the upper house and the elements named succeeded In inserting Into thut measure the export debenture scheme to which the President hud declared hip opposition. The senate committee on agriculture already had declared Itself In favor of the plan, which the house had rejected when It passed the Haugen bill. The motion of Senator Watson of Indiana to eliminate the debenture proislon from the McNary measure was beaten by a vote of 44 to 47. In this Consideration of the line-uvote lends the unprejudiced observer to the conclusion that the supporters of the debenture plan were not necessarily sincere. Their number Included all hut two of the Democratic senators (Rnnsdoll of Louisiana and Wagner of New York) and thirteen Republicans. nearly all of whom are classed as radicals. The Democrats had de- ided to make a party Issue of the matter, and the radicals have a habit of opposing the regular Republicans. Senator Johnson of California was among those who spoke for the debenture scheme, and he could not from giving Mr. Hoover some slaps. There was no doubt that the McNary hill would be passed after consideration, of some suggested amendments, and It was equally certain that when It vvtnt to conference the house conferees would Insist on the elimination of the export debenture provision. It was understood In Washington that President Hoover would veto the farm bill rather than permit It to become law with that plan included. As npproed by the senate the benture precision authorizes the farm board to provide an export bounty on nny or all farm products. The bounty of the exwould be equal to one-haisting tariff rates on the same comDebentures equivalent to modity. these rates would be Issued by the Treasury department to exporters who could realize cash by selling them to Impoiters. The debentures would be redeemable In the payment of customs duties on all kinds of imports. p re-lra-in lf PROMISING even a sharper conflict legislation, the new tariff bill wns introduced in the house with the hacking of the Republican majority of the ways and means committee and the united opposition of the Democratic members. The formula-tor- s of the measure, seeking to conform with the Presidents wish to avoid, as far as possible, 111 feeling and retaliatory action by Canada and other countries, did not raise the tariff duties on agricultural products nearly as high as the farm organizations had desired; and, according to the Democratic spokesmen, they did Increase the duties on ninny articles which the farmer buys. Republican congressmen of the Central and Far Western states also were dissatisfied with the agricultural features of the bill. Meat duties are about doubled, end this pleases the farm groups, but their request for a tariff on hides wns rojei ted. The rates on sugar are considerably Increased, sugar Importations from the Philippines being excepted. This brought loud walls from Cuba sugar producers und Importers of Cuban sugar and from bottlers of carbonated beverages and other groups, and the fanners, as users of sugar, also objected. The bill Is more inclusive than Mr. Hoover desired. Fpnce Is lacking for even a summary r.f the hill as offered in the house. In Its entirety It pleased scarcely nny-onsome of Its clauses being dls- tasteful to administration congress-nuas will ns to the Democrats. So It was certaiD that there would be a n contempt of the senate. I.ut still his foes are not satisfied. Maj. William Peake, supeiintendent of the Jail, declared Ids noted prisoner would be given no special privileges; but Dr. Morris Hyman, the Jail physician, needed a pharmacist, and as Sinclair Is the holder of a degree In pharmacy he was assigned to the Job. This saved him from being put in the bull gang at the Occoquan workhouse brick factory. Then suddenly an order was Issued by George S. Wilson, director of the local board of public welfare, barring newspaper men from the jail while Sinclair Is a prisoner there. Naturally this created something of a rumpus and Senator Heflin of Alabama took the occasion to make a speech denouncing what he called "official truckling to a millionaire crimOther senators admitted they inal. were making Inquiries Into rumors that the oil man was receiving undue consideration, some of these rumors coming by grapevine from his fellow prisoners. ALFRED Chicago Is "not guilty" of Importing liquor Into the United States from Havana. So declared the jury which heard the case against Mlchaelson In Key West, Fla. The government proved that the congressman and his party brought six trunks labeled with his name, that one of them leaked at Jacksonville and that two of them were found to contain liquor. But Walter Gramm ot Chicago, brother-in-laof Mlchaelson, came to the rescue and swore that those two trunks were his and that the legislator didnt know what was In them, and Mlchaelson testified to the same effect. Therefore the jury brought In a verdict of acquittal. Gramm, standing on his constitutional rights, refused to tell what he had put lp the trunks. Federal officials very promptly arrested the coniplal-snbrother-in-laon nearly the same charges brought against the congressman. CONGRESSMAN M. nt for an agreement on German based on a plan offered by Owen D. Young, one of the American experts, is not abandoned but seems rather slim. The details of the plan have not been made public, but protests are made by England, France and Belgium, each of which fears It would suffer by the proposed revised schedule of payments. None of them Is willing to have Its receipts from Germany cut down, especlnlly if the United States makes no further concessions In the allied debts due it. The British government was trying to stall off any parliamentary discussion of the matter because of the pending elections, but Chancellor of the Exchequer Churchill told the house of commons that the proposals in question would be Inacceptable to the Baldwin cabinet HOPE was vouchsafed to CLEAR ofweather the scientists who went to the East Indies to observe the total eclipse of the sun, but the British party at Iatanl, Slam, saw nothing for the phenomenon was entirely obscured At Iloilo, Philippine isby clouds. lands, where several American groups were stationed, and on the Island of Cebu, where there were others from this country, the weather conditions were excellent The eclipse was seen for about five hours, though Its totality lasted only four minutes. What the astronomers and physicists learned will be made known to the world later. 'T'HOUGH the preparatory commission disarm-nme- In Geneva ad- journed until an Indefinite date later In the summer without apparently having accomplished anything definite, President Hoover expressed gratification over the "promising character" of the results obtained by the naval Paid he: All powers represented. of the principal naval powers have expressed adherence to the principles suggested by Jhe American delegation, whlth Include the conception of reduction Instead of limitation of naval strength. They have expressed their desire for fulij and frnnk discussion and the dcvehvment of the Ameiican formula into a practical step. Ihe Z . Disabled Vets Getting Poppies Ready for Sale n great battle over the measure In both the house and the senate. I'1 manner by which these discussions are to be initiated has not yet been determined, but the question will ba followed up promptly foo miles, from Traveling toabout Prince Edward Is- land, the navy balloon No. S, filoted by Lieut. Thomas Settle and Ensign Wilfred Bushnell, won the national elimination race and will represent America In the International contest The navy bag was in the air about forty-fou- r hours. For a time It was feared that the Detroit Times balloon, with E. J. Hill and Arthur G. Schlos-se- r aboard, was lost. But after hours of travel in rain and mists It came down In a desolate region of the 'T'HERE were three pieces of news last week of especial Interest to the movie fans. First, Constance In all the government hospitals the disabled veterans have been busy assembling poppies for the national poppy day sale. In almost every city and town In the country the women of the American Legion auxiliary will sell thesa po; pies on the Saturday before Memorial day, and the proceeds will he expended In direct relief to disabled veterans. f Talmadge, long one of the most popular of the screen stars, became the wife of Townsend Netcher, Chicago millionaire, and announced that sho had retired to private life. Then Ina Claire and John Gilbert, both prominent motion picture actors, were married in Las Vegas, Nev. ; but there was no Intimation that either of them would quit the screen. Thirdly, Tom Mix, hero of scores of Westerns, was Indicted by a federal grand Jury In Los Angeles on charges of withholding $100,000 In Income taxes and conspiring to defraud the government out of about $75,000 In Income taxes for the years 1925, 1920 and 1927. The conspiracy charge Is also made of against E. J. Forde, brother-in-laMix, and J. Marjorie Berger, Hollywood income tax counselor. In announcing Mixs Indictment federal officials Intimated that similar action would follow against other It was prominent film performers. said that the governments losses from Income tax frauds In the film colony have been approximately $10,000,000 In the last few years. HONORED BY U. S. France Guards Against Smallpox VIASHINGTON social circles are upset again by a revival of the Mrs. Gann controversy brought about by the action of Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth. The speakers wife declined to conform to the decision of the foreign diplomats giving the Vice Presidents sister the ranking place, and for the time being those two ladles are not to be seen at the same dinners. Mrs. Gann has plenty of friends and supporters, but the wives of most of the senators and Supreme court Justices are in the opposite camp. Of course, when Sirs. Gunn stays away from a function, Vice President Curtis also Is absent. In December President and Mrs. Hoover will entertain the cabinet members and their wives for the first time, and Mrs. noovers method of solving the troublesome problem will be viewed with greatest interest bloody May day riots, that through nearly a week, were finally ended by the vigorous efforts of the government. The IU ds threatened a general strike on the day the 2t victims of the demonstration were hurled, but the workers failed to heed the plea of the Communists and funeral ceremonies were not mailed I he by further serious disorders. government in Berlin asserts It lias proof that the riots were deliberately staged by agents from Moscow and the minister of the Interior read to the relchstag telegrams substantiating the charge. On the other hand the Com- munlst leaders accuse the Nationalists and Monarchists of provoking the battles with the police as a means of forcing the authorities to disband the Red The organization. powerful Communist lighters were dissolved throughout Prussian and Bavaria and In the free city of Hamburg and all their funds were confiscated. Because of an outbreak of smallpox In England the French authorities will permit no visitors from that country to land in France unless they have been vaccinated recently. Prospective tourists are here seen being vaccinated lu tie London offices of a tourist agency. Copt. Benjamin Mendez, Colombian ace who flew from New York to Bogota, who will be awarded tin Dibt'ngul'hed Flying Cross by th United States congress. Among th medals pinned on his breast are tho piebdited by Cuba, Guatemala, Pa anui mid Colombia. SEARCHED FOR BOOZE BERLINS University of Porto Rico sus- a severe loss In the Ruddt n death of Dr. Albert B. Hale, professor of economic geography there for the last three years. Doctor Hale In former years was commercial attache of the Btate government at Buenos Aires and later was connected with Union. He wus an the authority on Latin America. Col. Max Bauer, chief adviser to General I.udendorff during the World war and afterward the organizer of the Ch'ncse Nationalist armies, died in Shanghai of smallpox. Canceling Germanys War Debt I 4 ' THE Stn'cs rn.fsor l!i hmnnd on its in rival at Nov ) nrk with tie All oil !c it' i'. w.is wi-itft,i i'ii.t lapior by eo.ct Noi.e vv . s f und. United wliih, T! s ptmtori ph, fri m Berlin, shows an Ineiddital operation In the paying nf ( ,i" 11..11 s war (h ht. A great heap of stilps Is all that is left after the cut-i- t ; n, i bine Ins operated on the war indemnity certificates, relumed markeii Paid In I ul. |
