Show 4 C THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING MARCH 1 1936 PARADE OF THE WEEK’S EVENTS Critic Punished — Business Improves — New Taxes — Spanish Calm — Japanese Tension — Navies In the Nation Consolidation Bureaus Birthtlay Tn Senator Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia bitter critic of the new deal was given the thankless nijiunmmm task of surVey- ing governmental bureaucracy President Franklin Delano Roosevelt broke precedent last week when he made a Washington birthday speech never once mentioning the name of the “father of his country” The speech was made in accepting a doctor of laws degree from Temple university in Philadelphia wherein he spoke against governmental interference with education Walter Johnson quondam great baseball pitcher proved something when he hurled a dollar across the Rappahannock river whereover George Washington is reputed once to have hurled a dollar But Johnson's toss was 272 feet whereas Congressman Sol Bloom of New York contends in Washington’s day the river spanned 1327 feet The Johnson hurl gave impetus to other tosses of dollars across wider rivers In other sections Day after Washington’s birthday President Roosevelt spgkg again this time 5ver the radio in celebration of Brotherhood day of the National Conference of Jews and Christians He urged religious sects to clasp hands in common cause against unbelief r Hedgn Announced by Secretary of the eiTreasury Henry Morgenthau Jr was a huge government borrowing iiprogram for March totaling more than a billion dollars Of this sum 450000000 will retire securities maturing March 15 $559000000 to retire securities maturing April 35 a bit more for current cash lieeds expected to be small The Morgenthau announcement marked a departure in treasury ytj)olicies particularly in providing for April retirements a niOJltH f“nfietd”of time Although the must pay extra month’s “'interest charges on that sum it ‘ Was pointed out that savings: in ‘“‘administrative costs through consolidating the borrowings may 'offset the Interest losses particularly since rates are so low The announcement was inter- preted both as advice to thtmoney market of what will be offered and also as a means of clearing the way for heavy t June borrowings to pay the soldiers’ bonus The treasury balance approximates $1400000000 of which retire- -' is earmarked for ment of national bank notes - -- nt $400-0000- Bethlehem Approved was the intercorporate merger of the Bethlehem Steel corporation adding evidence to a new tendency in corporate man- -' agement— an end to holding In favor of the proposal 'Were voted 692927 shares of preferred stock 2403908 shares of -- "common against 2160 shares of -preferred 450 shares of common - Bethlehem proposes to merge Bethlehem Steel of New Jer-ae- y (the old parent company) n nBethlehem Steel of Delaware Steel Bethlehem Mines noUnion Iron Works Directors announced the merger is designed to -- effect savings on income taxes nieconomies in management Fur-- n com-(-panl- Kal-vma- consolidations will be when deemed advisable Stockholders also approved cremation of a new 5 per cent $20 par preferred stock to pay off $21 in accrued dividends on the 7 per pro--pos- ed cent preferred Reported by the department of commerce was continued lmprove-‘mein foreign trade with imand the export sur- ports exports a '“favorable” called oftenplus— over Jantrade balance-gain- ing uary 1935 Last month exports rose 13 per to $198436000 imports 12 cent ’ per cent to $186915000 The export surplus therefore was $11521000 “compared with $9391000 in January 193gJ The department also reported j nthat shipments to Italy declined almost a million dollars but that ” exports of petroleum refined cop-'piron and steel scrap machinery and manufactures increased January exports fell 11 per cent 'helow those of December a normal "seasonal trend accounted for in ’’’’declines of total sljjpmentslof cot- "ton tobacco and petroleum 1m- ports were maintained largely as result of sugar purchases no nt er ’a " r c ommending elimination o f duplicating and overlapping bureaus increase in governmental efficiency Byrd will bS chairman y of the committee created by senate adoption of his resolution calling for a “c o n a tructive d plan for ganization of the His colgovernment” reor-Byr- whole leagues: Joseph Taylor Robinson Arkansas Democrat and senate leader G Jeaepk 0!Mnhmy Wyoming Charles L Democrat Republicans McNary (Ore ) John G Townsend (Del) Senator McNary said he must refuse the committee membership Would recommend his fellow Oregonian and Republican Frederick Steiwer for the post Discipline What General Malin Craig afterward described was routine army discipline blew up a political tempest in congress when congressmen learned that Major General Johnspn Hagood outspoken third raYiking army general had been relieved of his command ordered borne for speaking his mind before a congressional committee about W P A In seeking W P A funds for nrmy housing General Hagood described W P A appropriations as “stage money” said “you can pass It around but you cannot get anything out of it” complained that he found it more difficult to get a budgetary pencil than funds to teach CCC boys hobbies pleaded “for God’s sake put some of it into stone and steel” Because the blunt general bolstered his argument with new deal criticisms he lost his command of the Eighth corps area But war department action whipped congress into bitter debate gave Republican opposition and Demo- cratic anti-nedealers opportunity to vent their wrath against "dictatorship” Nor did the American Liberty league lose its opportunity That worthy body published a bulletin hailing the disciplinary action as proof of its charge “Suppression of free speech and a free press and denial of the right of citizens to petition their government are the universal weapons of dictatorship” Finally' General Craig removed the onus from Franklin D Roosevelt by assuming full responsibility for the action explained in publication of a memorandum to SecDern retary of War George-Jthat Hagood lost his command because his remarks were "flippant in tone and entirely uncalled for” General Craig added that generals Should not indulge in “political wisecracks” But at week-enthe storm had not abated Congressmen still indulged in word battles as General Hagood quietly relinquished command to Major ’General Henry W Buttner commanding officer at Ft Sill Okla But Hagood may remain in San Antonio to finish He was origprivate business inally ordered to his home in Co: Trade r L d lumbia S C Inflation Presl--de- nt Herbert Hoover a trustee of Stanford university revealed his AJear of inflation is genuine not entirely political He testified before Superior Judge William F James in support of a petition to permit trustees of Stanford university to change that endowed institution's investment portfolio to ’include cbmmon stocks real estate as a badge against threatened "Inflation For 50 years Stanford "’funds were invested only in seasoned bonds and first mortgages n Last week Judge'James granted ‘the petition cited a case establishing the right of trustees to protect trust in-- ° comes by investments in private stocks a ld Har-'”Va- Island rd Nationalist sentiment in Porto Rico Caribbean island which came to the United States as spoils of n the war fed by recent independence of the Philippines is believed responsible for the killing in San Juan last week of E Francis Riggs quondam United States army colonel insular chief of police Riggs' slayers Spanish-America- — Elias Beauchamp and Hiram Rosado each under 21 years were later killed by police who said they reached for carbines Two hours after the Riggs slaying Francisco Velez Ortiz district police chief was fatally vyounded The killings are viewed as the result of independence agitation current in the islands led by Campos nationalist leader -- Al-zi- Agriculture Crops A congressional device to advance federal funds in a vote- “catching project was thwarted when President Franklin Delano 7’Ttoosevelt vetoed a $50000000 seed “loan-bil- l The president in vetoing the measure called attention "to his budget message wherein he cautioned congress that any appropriations not contemplated in the budget should be offset by new revenues Since congress provided fpr no jiew revenues to meet the draft --the president scotched the bill He added however that he recognized a need Jfor continued seed loans said they “would be cared for out of emergency relief appropriations u Roosevelt also called attention fO his 1934 message when he a policy of tapering off the crop loan system his 1935 approval of a $60000000 seed loan 'pleasure to aid drouth sufferers ed bib ' £LjtCZv IT"" i A HV s’' ’v T ' "t " 'y £ X vw """"’ VX ' t 4 ! ? “V vn VSV s A vv ' V vs M' T's ”x ' v '' 1 ( Is's ““ ii 4 nt " ( 4 i " ’ I " A ' ' - 'T ' to : ' ' ' ” 1 I ' s' x 4 X "' i V ’'ViV frW'v sv X y congress was adof President Roosevelt’s wishes in matters of taxation Always reluctant to tax the congress will be more reluctant in this election year Nevertheless the president Informed them he expects: A tax bill providing revenues of $1137000000 including 120 millions to finance the soldiers’ bonus 500 millions to substitute for invalidated AAA taxes a temporary tax spread over several years to recover 500 millions lost this year in processing taxes The president Intimated that he would be pleased to see the recoverable taxes taken from those who gained unexpectedly through a supreme court ruling returning Impounded taxes to protestants '' "4 A Taxes week-en- sv s I Revolt At vised i 5 v J f 4 'V I "" i d 14 International four-pow- er navi-gatio- -- Dispatches reported both contestants winning the war continued to come from the front during the week Italy reported victory on the southern front with an aerial raid upon Ma-ga200 miles south of Addis Ababa and Ethiopia claimed destruction of a fascist base through a r&id into Eritrea Italy’s northern army undoubted victor in battle fortnight ago reported peaceful penetration of more enemy territory From Rome came a report that Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia had sued for peace to the League of Nations advocating a league protectorate over his semiprimitive country Informed quarters however cast doubt upon acceptance of the negus’ proposal by Benito Mussolini' duce of fascist Italy Italo-Ethio-pi- an lo Labor four-pow- Anglo-Germa- ht Victims of an automobile collision in New Mexico were Roger W Toll superintendent of Yellowstone national park George Wright chief of wild life research for the national park service The officials were en route to inspect a proposed international park on the Arizona-Mexicborder o Caleb Dilworth Brinton To advanced age succumbed Caleb Dilworth Brinton 87 Utah pioneer of 1850 explorer of south- ern Utah founder of pioneer communities thebe early leader in the L D S church Albert Cabell Ritchie To a stroke unexpectedly succumbed Albert Cabell Ritchie 59 for 15 consecutive years governor of Maryland pioneer opponent of prohibition phampion of states’ £ Looking Over Foreign Affairs War Navies ' cue residents right huge ice blocks swept by a rushing river marooned a store in Barton Ohio Left below snowplows worked overtime in Snoqualmie Pass Washipgton where an avalanche killed three Right an angry snowslidie wiped out the mill and a bunkhouse in the historic mining town of Camp Bird Colo Upper left an airplane view of fertile San Joaquin valley near Stockton inundated by the river overflow center water-covere- d land In the Chagrin river valley near Cleveland Ohio whither coast guards were summoned to res- Cal -- Obituaries ?' sy v V''?’ Jagged rocks in the road to naval amity raisCTI when Japan withdrew from the London naval Dismissal conference reared themselves Into Although removal of General veritable precipices threatening Johnson Hagood from his comto block further advances when mand drew the most public atFrance and Italy shied from BritSecre--4ary tention ish schemes The United States of Comhas added little to smoothing the merce Daniel C path by her refusal to permit Euhis had Roper ropean politics from entering the own difficulties negotiations last week exBritain has proposed a plaining the dispact between herself Amermissal of Comica France and Italy To this mander H Mc' proposal she has received French Coy Jones and consent but Italy through Dino Frederick L AdGrandi has refused to participate ams from the until League of Nations sanctions n bureau of are removed and Britain also has advanced a trin steamboat pact between Germany partite spection The Britain and the United States a two officials a proposal welcomed by Hitler but few weeks ago opposed by France who said she released a report Roper would have no objection to concriticizing sea safety requirements cluding a pact with an of the dopartment were dismissed n agreeseparate Like the for "insubordination” ment was Hagood disciplined inspectors 'Finally Britain who dominates for criticizing the administration the conference as she does the seas appears to have fallen back upon a series of bilateral agreements wherein all countries will exchange naval building plans 1 4 Suit Untisual have been the tactics of Governor Floyd L Olson of Minnesota in using national guards in labor disputes Governor Olson has called guards only to preserve peace When industrial disputes flare into violence he employs against both strikers guardsmen Succor and employers — stops picketing Snowbound for several days and closes plants until disputes are were residents of the coal mining settled That action was taken against camps of Clearcreek and Scofield but food and supplies finally were the Strutwear Knitting company last December 27 when guardsbrought in by rail men forcibly closed the plant durrights leading national Democrat ing a strike To that action the Scion of a distinguished southern Btrutwear company objected last family he held public office for 32 week in a damage suit filed in The company years suffered his first defeat in fedferalj court 1934 when he sought another' claims $101500 damages from Governor Olson Mayor Thomas E gubernatorial term Latimer Adjutant General E A Walsh has garnisheed the officials' bank accounts Henry Latrobe Roosevelt Of Intestinal influenza died Strutwear charges the officials Colonel Henry Latrobe Roosevelt failed to protect plant strikebreakdistant cousin of the president ers during the dispute deprived assistant secretary dC the mavy Ihe company of use of its property Graduate of the U S Naval acadthrough forcible closing Obviously Strutwear and Olson differ in emy Colonel Roosevelt was a marine until 1920 became assistant their interpretation of proper employment of national guards secretary of the navy in 1933 fled Into hiding Japan Fortnight ago Japanese voters went to the polls to cast ballots for members of the Shuugiin lower chamber of the Japanese parliament (Teikoku-Gikal- ) Upper chamber members are not elected The election was called because of a recent defection from the government of Kelsuke Okada of the Seiyukal party the more conservative of the major parties representing land owners and approving the current militarist aggression in Asia At the polls Japanese voters showed a distinct leftish tinge The Sieyukai party lost heavily while Minseito gained Gains also were registered by the minority Shakal Taishuto socialist party which doubled its popular vote The Minseito party advocating a conciliatory foreign policy aid to stricken peasants remained in power (although the socialist to have a balance’ of power with its 23 seats) After ballots were counted therefore' it appeared as though the majority of Japanese viewed with disfavor the aggressive and repressive policies of the military which are above party politics and independent of civil government However in Japan parliamentary disapproval of the military would serve to leash its ambitions and four patriotic Japanese officers decided upon direct action Under the cover of night one early midweek morning these four officers commanding 900 troops deployed through Tokyo struck suddenly at all military opposition Tokyo’s sleep was not interrupted bythe coup which plunged Nippon into frenzied fear but before dawn there lay dead assassinated in their own homes: Finance Minister Korekiyo venerable statesman Viscount Admiral Makato Salto General Jotaro Watanabe Assassins’ bullets failed to find o their marks in Count Mobukai and Prince Saionji the genro Japan's senior elder statesman Count Makino's bodyguard gave his life for his master who has Ma-kin- ' Prince Saionji reportedly heard a column of troops advancing to his villa at Okltsu fled to Shidzuoka where he found sanctuary in the home of the police chief With dawn came uncertainty and martial law in Japan Believed also dead were Premier Kelsuke Okada and Admiral Kan-tar- o Suzuki grand chamberlain of the imperial court Named as acting premier was Fumto Goto" But Okada had escaped the asColsassins His brother-in-laonel Denzo Matsuo who resembled the premier sacrificed his own life before a rebel firing squad to save the leader Okada’ rehowever acted cautiously mained hidden for three days Admiral Suzuki was only wounded albeit critically During the interim it was found that the four officers and 900 men had by no means the Sympathy of the army After Japanese leaders sounded sentiment Emperor Hirohito direct descendant of the acted Personally did he order the four officers besieged in public buildings to surrender They complied and the revolt collapsed Then to an astonished populace was made known the startling fact that Premier Okada lived The d revolt had failed because the assassins made a mistake in identity At weekend Okada resumed the premiership with the fate of the revolting officers still undisclosed The Japanese assassinations reflect again the hundred-year-ol- d dispute over who and what should govern Japan The military dominated by the samurai or knights are responsible only to the emperor hold that they should rule Japan But the parliamentarians under aegis of the “eldei statesmen” have sought a more democratic form of government Because parliament often balks military desires for fat slices of the budget conflicts are frequent In recent years assassins' victims have been Prince Ito “father of the constitution” and Premier Inukai killed in 1932 when he challenged the military regime w sun-godd- well-planne- News Behind the Ne ws in Europe — By Frederic Sondern By FREDERIC SONDERN ence to building the “wall against Germany” Pretty Impressive work is firmer (1) Frenoh-Eriglis- h cooperation The European diplomats held their breath Mreh details of the enthan ever before (2) The Russian-Frenc- h e n en- - K receht frontier clash came over the wires It tente is established (3) An ’ tente is under way (4) Russia supports Czccho- sounded bad In Germany “Austria and Italy the newspapers were Slovakia and Rumania against Germany (5) iftiihediately instructed to treat it as secondary news in order to The little and Balkan ententes are firmly beavoid alarming the public But the tension in the chancelleries hind France and even revisionistic Bulgaria will showed every observer how close the (6) Belgium Holland even powder bar — --probably join soon rel is to the European Denmark and Sweden frightened by the Gerand to the American man armaments are in close contact with the correspondent how close it is to the middle western farmer French military authorities for coordinated deStalin and Litvinoff wish to avoid a war if possible “Time is fense with us" said the latter to my informant Time for the United Hitler had gained a tight economic grip on States and Eritain to prepare Time to extend the Far Eastern Rumania during the past year with which he hoped to break up little entente cooperation But railway net to develop the soviet war industry But the Mongolian Flandin shattered that with one blow while King state must be defended In is puppet isolated Europe Germany Carol and his foreign minisie Titulescu were Britain and the United States can be dragged into a war against in Paris recently France Kas agreed to buy Japan without much difficulty Better now than when that conFlandin Rumania's cntireoil output for 12 years Bcr- stellation has shifted So thinks Moscow The word is with Tokyo lin can't compete with that And Carol sells to the highest bidder France Flandin has one big job ahead Danubian consolidation in an With London and Moscow busy 'rin the Japanese menace economic nnd security pact Including Austria and Hungary Even Flandin has turned every bit of his great energy andtnflu- Berlin knows that its success automatically dooms German militar ‘ A v ' ' ' Afc' 4 INS sW 7 'AC ( ' The senate complied wittingly with admlntstratlorr wtshes to exs empt bank stocks held by R F C from state and local taxation passed a measure to that effect offsetting a recent supreme court decision But the house was not pliant defeated the bill 172 to 164 Toll-Wrig- Some weeks ago former Waste to Lush American Lands Snow-La- y General's Disciplining Brings Political Repercussion Taxation to Fore TreasuryJ Loans ther Floods and Far East j sovict-Japanes- Ahglo-Russia- Tokyo-Mosco- Pre-JM- it n ism Premier Hodza who follows Benes as the biggest 'statesman of central Europe had the whole complicated problem out with Flandin and has emerged In a very optimistic frame of mind There are two stumbling blocks Jugoslavia deathly afraid of a Croatian revolt following a Hapsburg restoration refuses to guarantee Austria’s independence unlesr Vienna foreswears a forever And Hungary refuses to guarantee anything until at least part of the territory taken away at Versailles is returned On those two points depends the success of the first feasible plan for a firm central European pqace Czecho-Slovakia- Great Britain Anthony Eden has changed his mind about many things Since he became foreign secretary and his reasons are ail good Oil sanctions is one An intimate of Eden’s 'confided to" your correspondent that the effect of the American decision on the British has been much overrated The British experts see Mussolini at the end of his rope with or without oiL They don’t want him The international situation has shaped up completely destroyed so with the Japanese and German danger that they want him able to negotiate and save his face nnd country Oil sanctions would destroy every basis for negotiation break the Stresa front for once and all wreck Flandin’s central European plan and combine of desperation risk an Italian-Germa(Copyright McClure Newspaper Syndicate) n Spain Jail doors opened in Spain early in the week releasing 30000 political prisoners victims of the right coalition which clamped them behind bars after unsuccess ful leftist revolts Political am nesty decreed by the new government of Manuel Azana was forced by post - election riots throughout the peninsula was instrumental in quieting the disorder Day after the amnesty the new left government took its first leftward step ruled that some 100000 workers who had been imprisoned or lost jobs for participation in revolts orstrikes must be reemployed by private industry That Spain may be traveling the path toward a soviet republic is admitted by most observers but Premier Azana is not expected to sanction any abrupt march toward Marxism Azana however and his left republicans were enabled to defeat the rightist bloc led by Gil Robles through support of all left groups consolidated by Socialist Largo Caballero whose left radicals remain outside the cabinet The Azana platform incorporates: Banking and land reform generally interpreted as nationalization and confiscation of large estates reenactment of labor laws repealed by the right twh years ago gradual suppression of Catholic education Spanish difficulties are purely domestic since Spain plays but a minor role in International affairs revolve largely over the church question with rightists being largely clericalists and leftists anticlericalists France To fearful republican France was promised the aid of the fights ing machine of red communist Russia should nazi Hitlerian Ger- many attempt to upset the Rhine frontiers when after bitter debate the French chamber of deputies ratified the Franco-Russia- n mutual assistance pact The French army will fly to Russia’s aid should Hitler proceed eastward -- Substitute To the A A A substitute farm bill parading as a soil conservation measure was placed the final stamp of congressional approval The measure will go to the White House where presidential ap- proval awaits The bill contemplates a halfbillion dollar subsidy to farmers who comply with soil conservation policies of the national government ’by removing' certain lands from cultivation In two years the measure provides that little state A A A’s will assume administration of the program aided by federal funds Loses Hat and Job Because a gust of wind blew off her hat a woman working at snow shoveling on the Boston & Maine railroad lost her job The lost hat unloosed her long locks revealed her sea |