Show a 6 C THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING Aur NOVEMBER 18 1934 PARADE OF THE WEEK’S EVENTS Borah Gets Probe — Eccles to Fore— DIRECTOR OF BANKING POLICIES Wo-m- an Labor Appointee — — Belgian Crisis French Situation — N Marriner Insurance Views Utah Eccles S banker who has been selected by President Roosevelt as governor of the federal reserve board is expected to bring new deal sentiments into the councils of the nation’s banking - system The new governor is at his desk R A Rapped Waste dustrial PROBE Asked by Senator Wiliam E Borah Idaho independent Republican and severe new deal critic and promised by F E R Administrator Harry L Hopkins was an Investigation into the distribution of relief funds gigantic bill of the federal government Borah charged the distribution is characterized by “shameless waste” and implied relief funds have been used for political purposes Hopkins replied that if Borah will furnish a bill of a sweeping investigaparticulars tion will result Borah agreed and the Investigation looms Hinted "A I Vrs'' rior Harold L Ickes m an article In ‘Today” the Moley magazine were plans for a huge extension of the public works program designed to absorb most of the relief rolls into productive activity Cooperating closely with Ickes on the proposal is Harry L Hopkins relief director BELGIUM The Ickes articles Intimated that P W A might veer further afield Recovery plans for the little land with a program for rural electrification and elimination of grade of Belgium have fearfully bogged an extensive housing and widespread dissension resulted crossings program a transcontinental superin the fall of the cabinet of Count highway conservation of soil and Into his water to prevent flood drouth and Charles de Broquevllle rosion shoes was sent Henri Jasper foreign minister and Indications were LEVELS seen that young That the United States may have King Leopold long road to travel to reach might ask Emile reindicated a in is recovery's goal Franqui to beport released by the national surcome financial of vey potential product capacity dictator as Aldirected by Harold Loeb a moving bert did in 1926 force in the early day of technocto save the Bel- & racy The survey started under C gian franc keep ' W A shifted to F E R A and thence it tied to gold to Langdon W Post New York A member of tenement house commissioner and the gold bloc BelJacob Baker F E R A assistant has struggium The survey stated forthrightly gled against adthat the American family must verse currency have $4700 a year to maintain a values in maindecent stahdard of living found subsistaining that 59 per cent of the nation's families subsist on less than tence at home To preserve the jaspar $2500 At present 60 per cent of the franc the Broquevllle government population is improperly housed said the survey many improperly planned to slash public salaries and fed No plan was advanced to abolpensions by 5 per cent open the ish poverty but the survey insisted frontiers to food importations to it could and should be brought to lower living costs Belgium seeks an end also to wrangle trade concessions from France as her price of remain-- ing on gold a? if r‘ A ft jlHillI I Science Since ELECTRICITY Experiments - at Johns Hopkins timversity have indicated that most apparent deaths from accidental electric shock can he prevented the victims brought back to life The experiments were described to the New York Electrical society by B Kouwenhoven Professor W were made by the medical school the electrical engineering school and the hygiene department said Professor Kouwenhoven death from electric shock has three forma The absolutely fatal one comes when the electric current flows directly through the nerves and brain destroys the nerve cells From this shock there is no escape But when a current reacts so as to prompt the nerves to set up a series of stimuli of their own causing the brain to block the regular breathsystem ing sometimes stops because of the disordered nerve signals Prompt artificial respiration usually revives the shock victim in such ( Another apparent form of shock death affects the heart Sometimes usually harmless current flowmg between hands and feet traverses through the heart upsets the rythmic beating of the ventricle which pumps blood into arteries Since the beating of the ventricle Is piloted from cells m the auricle the current disturbs the rhythm causes the muscle fibers of the heart to work at cross purposes— the technical name of which is filbnllation Filbnllation can be stopped by use of a “counter-shock- ” which stops the heart altogether momentarily allows it to resume its rythmic action IMMUNITY heport that children may be immunized against infantile paralysis was issued by Dr William H Park director of research laboratories for the New York City health department Vaccine obtained from infected monkeys he said had immunized a group of 25 youngsters Experimenters are continuing work to determine the duration of the immunity Blood tests have revealed the immunized children to be immune after six weeks IVY lu LEE DIES Of a brain tumor died Ivy Ledbetter Lee 57 press agent par excellence of the United States in New Yoik City As a young man conceived the idea gent corporations suffering from extensive “muckraking” could improve public relations with a frank attitude Upon tins theory he founded a tune as a public relations counsel was known principally for his relations with the Rockefellers became aq expert m mass psychology counsel for giant corporations and government e --foe-— 1919 has Mussolini sought Fields! FRANCE Before the chamber of deputies t strode Pierre Etiof enne Flandm France Towering above his colleagues selfassured he read a brief business-likmessage told the deputies he stood for protecting the franc balancing the budget attacking agrarian problems called for continuance of the "political truce” which kept Papa Gaston Doumergue in office for nine months and blunt- - ly asked and received a rousing vote of confidence 423 to 118 Fearlessly Flandm told the parliamentarians that he woujd not hesitate to dissolve the chamber of deputies persisted in their petty bickering threatening the stability of gov- ernment declared succmtly that "we are now making our last experiment in parliamcntlsm in France” He uttered his opposition to dictatqp ship amidst applause but declared ' a peace at any price policy at home and abroad After the deputies voted confidence with socialists a bs Saining from voting the senate perfunefo rily followed suit without a roll call and Flandm was given a carte blanche to continue where Doumergue left off to pursue the constitutional change policies of hts predecessor whereby the French system will be modeled along that of England six-inc- premier-designat- e e to save Italy from communism remodel his country's economy along lines called fascist which in reality mean a predominant central governPERSIA ment rigidly controlling the nation's life A a contrasted to socialSharply reprimanded was the Perism fascism is placed by theorists sian government by the United at the extreme right considered by States state department because of leftists as capitalism’s last stand the detention in Persia of John H During the week II Duce virtually Wright and John Polandi Americompleted the political organization can entrants m the air derby from of his fascist state when he stripped London to Melbourne The fliers made a farced landing on Persian Italy Of the last vestige of democsoil lost their passports when a Perracy consolidated his t dictatorial sian official snatched them The power by becoming president of 22 United States government consd-erethis treatment discourteous corporations president of the assemPersian oficials origbly and president of the National complained inally attributed to superstition the Council of Corporations which supdetention of the bird men who withplants parliament Italy is to be govdrew from the race erned by 22 corporations each represented in the council and each PHILIPPINES corporation will be extended the Again with hurricane force were privilege of enacting policies applyThere is to be struck the Philippine islands by ing to that industry a corporation of mining one for arts that most furious of elemental rage and professions various branches of a typhoon Slashing inland from the ocean eleven provinces were agriculture and industry A trusted cut off from communication fascist party member is vice presiwith dent of each corporation charged Manila island 23 fishermen capital with reconciling the interests of the were drowned and heavy damage corporation with those of the public visited upon banana coconut and large farms The hemp latest visitation Italian fascists see in Roosevelt's of the typhoon will accentuate reN R A an expression of the corporalief problems caused by other distive state ideal asters Association of Iron lgamated Steel and Tin Workers last spring threatened a giant strike to strap the giant Industry Rumors from Washington indicated major steel companies were prepared to recognize organizations other than "company unions” Negotiations deadlocked however on the question of recognizing the A F of L affiliate spe- cifically Employers appear willing to recognize outside unions only to the extent to which they represent employes At the recent labor convention In San Francisco the Amalgamated reported a membership of but 6500 members paid in an increase of but 1000 since 1932 whereas United Mine Workers showed a 6500 gain with a total membership of 300000 er ic pealed to League to Set Saar Plebiscite - A political ley y' V- —— — F Thousands have been rendered homeless In as the result of repeated devastations by typhoons which have struck the islands furiously The picture shows University ‘ 1 A of Philippines coeds on Taft avenue Manila after a visitation of the furious wind in the capital of the 'islands The storms have heavily damaged crops ripped out communications and caused many deaths - the Philippine islands In the Nation at Large GOVERNOR To the conservative federal reserve board was sent’ one of the newest of new dealers as chairman — Marriner Eccles S 44 year-ol- Ogden banker and industrialist The Eccles business genius is generally credited with forging the Firt Security system banks of through the intermountain west Eccles is elevated to the No 1 U S banking post from the posi- -' tion of assistant to Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr which he has filled for a year as liaison officer between the treasand ury other governmental fi- Hi sucnancing organizations ceeds Eugene R Black governor of the Atlanta federal reserve bank a more orthodox banker who in turn succeeded the definitely conservative Eugene Meyer now pub- Post unorthodox economic views were aired before the Roosevelt administration took office when in February 1933 he was summoned with other banking and industrial leaders to appear before a senate committee investigating recovery methods Eccles startled the hearing by bluntly announcing little or nothing had then been done and proceeded to shock conservatives by advocating: Direct relief grants to states by the federal government for unemployment relief a huge government public works program refinancing of farm mortgages at lower rates the domestic allotment plan for farm relief cancellation of war debts social insurance old age pensions high income and inheritance taxes national planning to coordinate private and public rigid control of security of the Washington issues Before uttering his doctrines Eccles admitted to the elder senators that his program “might frighten sent him those of our people who possess wealth ” He reached his theories after studying the effects and possible cures of the depression which delving deep into eco- nomics His platform corresponds closely to the president’s new deal and hereafter a closer cooperation between the federal reserve system and the U S treasury is seen which may dismay the more conservative members of the banking fraternity He was a Republican before the new deal PROPOSALS Manifold are the recovery plana reported in the craws of- - presidential advisers all of which have yet to meet presidential approval Some of them: Emergency use of Idle industrial plants to fashion materials required by the distressed such as shoe factories tanneries garment factories saw mills brick plants (Needless to point out such a plan would meet vigorous opposition from private try) Allotment of Certain numbers of unemployed to key industries for absorption with code authorities guiding the allotments A governmental order directing I dont know where they will got the money Take it out of increased income tax ah there is a thousand taxes that other countries have that we havent touched yet Why a match and a salt tax In many countries are the biggest things they have India almost has war with England every year over the salt tax And luxuries? Why we havent started taxing them yet But I dident write this to get started off on any economic theory I haventgot any but I sure do want to see an old age pension if we have to print the money for it I started in to tell you about my mail here Here is a awful nice letter from an Ames Agricultural college graduate that brought out old "Blue Boy” to California and Hollywood This was a great He is now at Osage Iowa working as a county agent Fine boy a lad’as ever lived Old "Boy Blue” died last year The studio had given him to me and he eat me out of house and home and 1 give him to the California Agriculture school at San Luis Obispo Here is a letter' from Rex Beach Rex lives down in Florida and in addition to being one of the most constant best authors in America he is an expert farmer got a great celery plantation does it scientifically Rex and Professor Hamilton Holt of the famous liberal college Rollins college Winter Park Florida Rex is an old old alumni — They want to give me a deftrec-l- a Now what in the world would I be doing with a age pension) A lot of guvs that earned em dont know what to do with cm much less me that wnuldent know what one was They gave Fred Stone one Well he dcsersed it I can think of a hundred reasons whv he should be knighted O 'cs licie is some Daughters of the Comcdei acy thal want to make Irvin Cobb and I a couple of honorary daughters Cobb waj j DEFENSE Chief defender of privately operated utilities — or at least principal AIDE PEACE opponent of the entrance of government mto the powA firm believer of women In in little Brenau college of Georer production field is the depression ridden U S coal industry Through gia which boasts of 332 women as politics and government is Franklin D Roosevelt who as presi was Appalachian Coals Inc marketing students a chair of peace agency for nearly 80 per cent of the founded dent has done Appointed to fill the southern bituminous mine fields the more to furchair was Jeannette Rankin forTennessee Valley Authority giant ther f e minism mer congresswoman Muscle Shoals development “yard- from Mon than any other tana militant pacifist— Immediate — stuck'’ has been branded by coal in U S chief execterests as “the vision of assinme” utive H e has ly there arose a storm of protest Water power development jeopplaced a woman from the American Legion with ardizes the coal market since elecas secretary of Commander Kenneth Murrell of tric steam plants use the fuel for ldbor upon the 1 Atlanta post No denouncing the power generation and coal interests circuit court of fear huge government projects chair and the appointment a appeals sent anplanned or under construction will other woman to so increase available supplies of elecDenmaik as U The chair and appointment said tricity that government plants will S minister and Murrell causes the Legion to fear be forced to lower rates drive others during the week added a n other the women of the south will be Out of business famed woman to which taught ideals of pacifists OFFENSE the official famadvocate drastic disarmament But — Miss Roche Laid upon the doorstep of the utilMiss Jo ily Dr Haywood Pearce college vice Colorado ities industry- was such a propasephine Roche of lately president took issue with the Ledefeated in her bid as Democratic ganda barrage that "no campaign gion said "according to the crinominee for governor it in magnitude has approaching teria attributed to Mr Murrell Miss Roche former social service ever been conducted except possibly neither Washington nor Lincoln worker heads the Rocky Mounin wartime” by the federal trade nor Wilson nor Jesus nor the tain Fuel company which has decommission which has completed a Apostle Paul would be acceptable r fied the depression by showing as Americans” probe of the giant’s activities The propaganda charges are profits the while paying workers unprecedented wages She was apcontained in the first release of a ROADS pointed assistant secretary of the lengthy report In Santa Fe New Mexico met treasury will assist Henry MorgenMoreover the commission conthau in fostering new deal projthe twentieth annual convention of cluded the public paid for the ects of which she generally apthe American Association of State ilege of'being thus informed privand proves Highway Officials to review their the campaign ’indicates very subwork consider policies Thomas stantial results both in increased H MacDonald chief of the U S public good will and in a decrease CONSERVATIVE J the number'of'l'egiiaLvT me“as“ bureau of Public roads advocated eliminations with grade crossing ures t() whlch yjg utliltjes re 0K That reorganization of the Reless expense to railroads a hike posed publican party depends upon abdiin the work-weefrom 30 to 40 A direct link with rates and propcation or the overthrowing of the hours for road workers Utah Govaganda is found by the commission incumbent leadership was made ernor Henry H Blood which reports that most propaganclear by Henry P Fletcher chair- in grade crossing elimina- - da expenses areediargcd to operarnsTt hg RspUbliCSn !!StiOSwl iiGhs sdiu in a pdpez Fcau iG txiG tions committee Fletcher announced convention the federal government himself still wedded to the conshould stand the cost Others rePHONES servative tents of his party scofiterated opposition to diverting at a re“liberal” of Singled out for investigation by fing proposals gasoline taxes from highways form in the face of two successive At the concluding session the the federal commurticktions comdefeat at the roadmen named Arthur W Brandt mission to determihe whether adunprecedented polls commissioner of highways for New ditional communications regulation is necessary is the American TeleFletcher added that the last elecYork as president to succeed O tions showed 13000000 G O P phone and Telegraph company virS Warden of Great Falls Mont votes that the new deal policies Vice presidents are: Ernest L tual monopoly in the telephone field Rates will not be subjected are doomed to failure and the ReEd MacBailey West Virginia to scrutiny but corporate history publican faction must prepare itDonald Oklahoma J T Ellison to financial structure relations with self seize the reins of governMinnesota: G D Macy New Mexment when the inevitable collapse ico G D Mack Delaware was subsidiaries and associates licenses and comes contracts will Fletcher remained adareelected treasurer mantly conservative in face of the defeats of his conservatives — Reed CRITICS ' DRY of Pennsylvania Fess of Ohio RobMade public was a submit-inson of Indiana Walcott of ConAt the national convention of the ted to the national report board' W C T U militant religious dry by Lewis L Lorwin planning necticut and senators of sim'ilar and A F views — the reelectlon of the liberMilton Conover' organization submitted last August 1 to Secals— La Eollette Johnson Cutting Yale professor urged formation of retary Harold L Ickes by Frederic a new party with a prohibition and Frazier who will join Borah A Delano board chairman and Norris and Nye 'as a progressive plank as the keystone of its platuncle of the president Board memsenate bloc form bers disclaimed responsibility for the views expressed by the reporters who envisaged a “new world” industry to expand operations PREPARATIONS with the government bearing all through national- - economic planto Plans the States give Uplted risk of loss Coupled with this the most modern severely rapped the N R A air armada in the ning and saw "extreme danger” in the plan would be a government surare world included in the air army AAA program based upon crop vey to determine the normal decorps’ budget request for 8C0 new curtailment mand for staples command pro500 annually to replace airplanes N R A the report said has left duction thereof and then guaran-induobsolete ships 300 as a net increase “the total wage structure of the tee to purchase all surplusses The war also seeks country in the same chaotic condiwhich advocates declare would be $20000000 department to mechanize and modtion as it had been before the N R A small if the plan is properly ad$11000-00ernize army equipment came into existence” Further the ministered A knotty problem in for antiaircraft material to investigators concluded “it is diffisuch a proposal would be the asequip air defenses in the United cult to find any semblance of signment of production quotas to States Hawaii Panama and the ning in the N R A In fact- planthe Individual manufacturers Philippines N R A has set up new difficulties in the path of industrial planning ” Codes were said to be too hastily devised disrupting the interrelations electro-hydrauli- c - nx-yea- k echoed-MacDonal- Hin-ric- I w r- !Y 0 - By Will Rogers of up at my house last night in a kimona arrangement He is just about ready for some “she” decoration Thig was in return for his splendid story of Judge Priest He has got a new one and its better than to that up date Talked Fmnland the other night and here is a lot of nice letters Those Finns are the most appreciative people in fact all the countries are Here is a banker J Rowland from Youngstown Ohio who wrote before this last election and says that it is Rooosevelt and not the bankers who are in the “Dog House" as I said He knows more now than he did before November 6th A note from Sam Fordyce St Louis pet politician Amon Carter of Ft Worth Texas sent me a saddle from some South American Republic on his flying trip clear around South America 1 hear the next Democratic Convention is to be held In Dallas I am glad to hear it She deserves it Its a great town Amon will perhaps go back to South America Governor Rytti of the Bank of Fmnland is in this country and wrote and thanked me Charley Wagner my old concert manager has got the itch again thinks the Country is ripe for one of those" long winded concert tour talks of mine No I am going to let the country alone Its had enough trouble without me adding to it Thanks for the offer Charley Thanks for the wire Malcolm the international polo- - player- — Here- - rv 4eUmg about the record of the American Airways from Los Angeles to Ft Worth and from there to Chicago with their first new Douglas Thev ramI also have the good news here of the terrific hit ble those babies Fied Stone made in his new show in New York Things are looking I lell you if they would just quit having those up since election things we never would hae hard times is-o- (Copyrlaht 1934 br lb McNaught Syndicate -- Inc) industries” The Tennessee Valley Authority was seen in the report as a "demonstration of economy and social service’’ which may “foreshadow a broad change from private to public operation of utilities" Obituaries ALICE HARGREAVES To advanced age succumbed Mrs Alice Hargreaves 82 in Westerham England Born Alice Pl'easance Liddell she was the original-oLewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” and Carroll was the pseudonym of the Rev Charles Litwidge Dodgson a mathematician “dry-as-dus- WALTER PERKINS In Chuquicamata Chile died terPetkioi prominent irt Utah and Nevada mining circles of a tropical disease Born in Salt Lake City Perkins at the time of death was with the Anaconda company m Chile where its copper Is were purchased from the Guggenheinm in-I- - h s- Birthday Brings Lots of Thoughts — Well all I know is just what I read in the mail Got an awful lot of Birthday Greetings couple of weeks ago I was kinder letting the thing slide by and had even forgotten about it but they wont let you They want to remind you how old you are getting and too you would be surprised at the amount of people that r was born on that very day Nov 4th ’79 Along on that date in '79 must have been quite a day for births But I was mighty glad to hear from all of em and we can console each other on reaching such a ripe old age I am going to start in demanding a little more respect You take a dignified fellow thats arrived at 55 years of age and "Hello theres Old Bill" and “Look at that old guy Rogers over there" Well thats all got to stop From now on there is going to be some "Mr Rogers” used My hair is arriving at a sort of a blend that it deserves respect if nothing else A graying head is a mark of respect m any land so you guys cut out this rough uncouth stuff You are speaking to a gentleman of the old school The school of 79 sah YOUArs k— - RTnacr propaganda to get in on this Hoi Kngcie old age pension" You know thev are going to have that Thats Its advocated by practically everygoing to be the very next thing body and it would be the grandest thing we ever hid it a great mental relief to millions and millionr of old folks would be There is nothing more terrifying than that thought of facing the future with nothing to carry on with i GENEVA — The league of commission sets Wednesday to complete arfor the Saar rangements plebiscite With Europe' atmosphere disturbed by the Saar situation the league hopes for brighter disarmament outlook after the plebiscite WASHINGTON— Much interest centers on preparation of United States Chamber of Commerce's business recovAdministraery program tion aides push ‘work on social security program WARM SPRINGS— President Roosevelt rests at Georgia retreat after inspection trip through Tennessee val- nations Backbone of the nation’s transpor-tatio- n system despite boats automobiles and airplanes still is the U S railroad system suffering direly from the inroads of depression fantastic financing and the loss of freight Worried are federal officials concerning means of boosting railroads back mto the black especially since $55000000 m R F C loans are in default RFC officials are convinced that liquidation of bonds held as collateral would more than compensate for the default but hesitate to liquidate prefer a plan to rehabilitate the roads Liquidation could bo effected either through sole of the bonds on the market or foreclosures on the properties Lines in default include Missouri Pacific $23134900 Rock Island $13410000 Chicago North Shore St Milwaukee $1150000 Chicago Sc Eastern Illinois $5760000 Central of Georgia $2894000 St Louis Ss San Francisco $5190000 Tennessee Central $147000 Western Pacific $5063000 The defaulted loons however are but a drop in the bucket which holds $423801021 in R F C advances to railroads Most lines have repaid or are meeting their obligations to the government UV Eccles’ On San Francisco docks labor strife is roiling again Last sum-mlabor difficulty there flared into an strike which spread Into a general walkout which paralyzed commerce on the Pacific port Root of the trouble are charges by both longshore- men and employers of failure to observe terms of the national longshoremen’s board arbitration award Workers said they were being driven at their tasks that employers refused to meet to discuss mutual problems Because of the strife minor riots occurred at various docks and strikes were reported at the Dollar line Los Angeles Steamship company and line piers Harry Bridges president of the San Francisco I L A described "the situation” as “extremely dangerous” and Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins has been apJava-Pacif- LOANS lisher DANGER d g I itoYf1irr“l‘— ITALY - A ! Near agreement on the vital matter of unionization were reported the nation's steel compa nles and the American Federation of Labor whose unit the Ama- Vt In the Foreign - Railroads Worry Utilities’ Propaganda Under Fire STEEL Jf Inte- Steel In- INSURANCE Standards ‘ Business Problems Labor’s attitude toward unemployment insurance an issue certain to arise when next congress meets was clarified by William Green A F of L president who made clear that his organization will seek to saddle Industry with the full cost of the insurance ' k "In the first place” said Green "Industry would not bear the cost It would be passed on to the consumer Labor cannot pass along to the consumer any portion that might be laid upon It ‘'Then too if labor should bear half the cost and industry half as a part of the consuming public labor also would have to pay its share of the part that was passed on to the public by industry This would not be fair” Green expects the president's social insurance program to produce a bill similar to the Wagner Costigan measure of last year calling for federal participation in plans operated by various states with refunds to be made to employers contributing to state plans Works EXPANSION by Secretary of the PACIFIC TYPHOON REPEATEDLY WASTES MANILA i |