Show c 10 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING JUNE 7 1936 PARADE OF THE WEEK’S EVENTS Ilouse Speaker Dies— Court Scotches Minimum Wage Efforts Speaker Delano Franklin Roosevelt told ijewsmen last week that he was perplexed that the supreme court decision outlawing the New York minimum wage law for women had created a legal no Third Party man’s land Coalition r Representative Hamilton Fish of district said he the president’s planned to insert a G O P platform plank calling for an amendment to the constitution Democratic congressmen pointed to the supreme court’s latest dictum as proof of the need for constitutional change But none has proposed a constitutional operation The supreme court in an opinion written by Justice Pierce Butler ruled the New York wage law unconstitutional because it violates the individual right of contract A few weeks ago a court majority ruled the Guffey coal law unconstitutional by holding the federal government had no right to inter-- 4 fere with wage scales and hours of labor— a purely local problem Perhaps one reason that constitutional changes have not been more vigorously pressed lies in the fact that august justices of the supreme court are by no means agreed upon what the constitution Republicans The eve of the national Republican convention in Cleveland finds G O P stalwarts not so much concerned about the candidate as about the party organization The Landon bandwagon is filled to overflowing and party leaders all but concede that the next banner-bearIs to be Alf M Landon Landon is governor of Kansas expected to be nominated on the first or second ballot when the convention opens this week Of more concern to party lead-er- s Is the threat to the old leadership That rhreat comes from two sources — Senator William E Borah of Idaho who sees the ominous shadow of Standard Oil behind the old guard and John er France Deficiency Perplexed President Hamilton original Landonite Hamilton appears by far the greater threat to the leadership of J does hold Henry Roraback of Connecticut Justices Charles D Hilles of New York Sutherland Butler Vandevanter McReynolds and their associates Robconerts and Hughes agreed the GufRoraback ind Hilles are tent with Landon as titular party fey act was unconstitutional Jusleader but said to be adamantly tices Stone Cardozo and Brandeis opposed to Hamilton as party agreed it was constitutional Justices Sutherland chairman As Landon’s campaign Butler and McReynolds manager the chairmanship of the Vandevanter Roberts agreed the New York party’s national committee Is logiminimum wage law was unconstically his but Hamilton has treated faction with tutional Justices Hughes Stone the Brandeis and Cardozo agreed the rebellion and contempt and the New York law was all right "old guard" is demanding his scalp Preconvention rumors point to an "old guard’’ surrender to LanIntervention don in exchange for naming the vice president and the national National guardsmen of NicaWhether committee chairman ragua revolted against- - the reLandon to gain an early nominagime of President Juan B Sacasa tion will sacrifice Hamilton apbegiegedin the pears doubtful his From the New York Herald president a palace atop Tribune came a strategical suggeshill in tion that the Grand Old Party deal Managua Elsemake a bid to anti-neDemocrats by naming a conserva- where the reappeared tive Bourbon as Landon’s running-mat- e volt This suggestion has drawn successful ’aldenunciation from though at weekscorching Kansas’ Editor William Allen end Sacasa still the White who pointed to the ab- occupied presidency surdity of a liberal Republican In former platform and such Democrats as years the United Alfred S Smith or Ely of MassaStates was wont chusetts standing thereupon to dispatch marines to Insurgents Conscription has submitted to congress a national emergency program to be invoked in time of war Included therein is universal conscription of man power as well as proposals for price control taxation and procurement to mobilize industry To the war department’s program the senate munitions committee last week took exception doubted the wisdom of the univer- sal draft "in view of the growth of dictatorships using labor under military control” The committee suggested a national referendum to “weigh the grave dangers to our democracy involved in the draft of man power and labor under conditions proposed" Speaker Death removed from the national scene one of the country’s outstanding figures when in his JoMayflower hotel apartment seph Wellington Byrns congressman from Tennessee and speaker of the U S house of representatives succumbed to an heart attack and cerebral hemorrhage His sudden passing left in doubt the closing date of congress for Speaker Byrns was charged with managing the administration legislative program Byrns born on & Tennessee farm was a Nashville lawyer represented the "Hermitage district” Sacasa trouble spots to home of Andrew Jackson in conbeetle-brow"safeguard American lives and gress since 1909 Tall property" but the policy of interrangy he was known as an able parliamentarian master vening was abrogated by Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s administration of political strategy was intenseat Montevideo convention in 1933 ly loyal to White House leadership S U the Fear that might again In his stead the house elected resort to intervention were William B Bankhead of Alabama scotched by the U S state departDemocratic floor leader The ment who announced a “hands election of Bankhead marked an off” policy In Nicaragua unless reunusual procedure for never bequested to intervene in concert fore had the house of representa with other American powers tives lost a speaker while congress was in session Abolition of monopoly public ownership of natural resources social security financed by inheritance and income taxes labor week union wages on public works refinancing of the farm debt at 1 per cent interest no crop reduction legislation "to curb the power of the supreme court" opposition to war ur Distributists A coalition of Dr Francis E Townsend’s old age pension groups ed Dismissal Dropped from the service was Colonel Joseph I McMullen who capped 40 years in the army by being convicted of accepting lobbying fees from a private firm to oppose a tariff bill pending in congress McMullin was fined sen- fenced to jail after his conviction The conviction also made dismissal mandatory - Having abandoned police emergency ambulance service Mayor E B Erwin and his advisers are cent emplating abandonment of the emergency hospital in the the late Huey '? Long’s "share the wealtljefs” was announced from Philadelphia by Dr Townsend aqd the Rev Gerald K public safety Smith lately of theLong campjniilding The The leaiders of fantasia plan to city ambulance present “a common front against got in a wreck jtbe dictatorship at Washington” and thereafter The coalition however proved the city has emanother wedge in the rift in ployed a private Townsend ranks already split by ambulance upon a congressional investigation a trip basis which hinted that Townsend The mayor is leaders were in the business for wondering the money to be gleaned Townswhether or not end chiefs appeared before a house the city could mmmmmm committee to assail the movement get hospital ser- Erwin as having fallen into the hands of vice in emergen- cies cheaper by contracting with "racketeers” Meanwhile the house continued private institutions for care of pato press contempt charges against tients up to 24 hours of service the Long Beach doctor for quitting the hearing in defiance with -- Discovery Singer’s Life Ends In Tutzing Germany village between Bayreuth and Munich died Harold Eldredge Salt Lake City-bor- n grand opera star He went to Germany on an L D S church mission remained to continue musical studies achieve fame as a baritone Engineer Dies To pneumonia succumbed Ray Benedict West 53 dean of U S A G's school of engineering and mechanic arts in Logan He also was a member of the state planning board bishop of the Logan L D & Fifth ward Queeir In Manhattan docked the Queen Mary Great Britain’s contribution to luxury liners of the sea She failed hy a fraction of an hour to bet' the record established by Ffance’s Normandie for a transatlantic crossing sailed the distance in 4 days 12 hours 24 minutes 42 minutes beyond the Normandie’s time lit Salt Lake City Emergency Located in Lost creek canyon 15 miles from Devil's Slide was the lost plane of Major Howard Stark department of commerce flier Searchers continued to hunt for the aviator’s body The plane dis- appeared January 16 Shot Slain while trying to escape was Private James O’Donnell soldier sentenced to four years of hard labor and dishonorable discharge for embezzlement by Private Forrest N Mower his guard at Fort Douglas t is the situation in Arabian d Labor Split Truce Made Power Fight Rift Early In the week came rumors that the American Federation of Labor wedded to craft union doconly strikers would avoid distrines was preparing to throw orders try to obtain their dethe gauntlet to John L Lewis and mands through lawful means At his commutes on industrial ordesame the time the premier ganization perhaps precipitate plored “the stubborn tactics of civil war in the ranks of organthe employers” which appeared ized labor The federation’s execu“to coincide with the arrival in tive council was reported prepared power of this government” to oust Lewis and the nine unions Italy Strikes spread rapidly through supporting him the country in a week began From Rome was proclaimed by If the federation intends to with a walkout of 55000 muniBenito Mussolini duce of fascists the Issue to a head it threattions workers 'No sooner had a new Roman empire embracing bring ens to lose its most numerous and the government settled this strike and a healthy slice of northwealthy affiliates for following when industrial strife spread to Italy ern Africa including Lewisand his United Mine Workweek-end other industries Last Eritrea and ItalEthiopia federation Paris was threatened with a food ian Somaliland This declaration ers is a third of the in: membership embraced shortage as bakers and slaughtertendered ovation a preceded public Amalgamated Clothing Workers house workers joined the rising Marshal Pietro Badoglio conquerGarment Ladies’ International tide which embraces industries or of Haile Selassie’s kingdom Workers oil workers typographin coal iron steel chemistry auIn Addis Ababa will center the ers flat glass workers hat cap A general new colonial tomobiles printers government of Rome strike hovered ominously over which will stretch out Into five and millinery workers mine mill and smelter workers textile workthe new government as metalprovinces threei ers cried lurgical industry employers carved from If labor’s civil war conies Lewis futilely: The Ethiopia and his Industrial unionists will "The strike has created an unwill be colony have the support of the Amalgaprecedented situation of a revolugoverned by mated Association of Iron Steel tionary character It is a flagrant viceroy assisted and Tin Workers which is organof and violation property” rights B elected of Bankhead Alabama William Representative by a council izing the gigantic steel industry composed of six speaker of the house of representatives upon the death of That body after hesitating for Austria Italians repreJoseph W Byrns Former Democratic floor leader he also is eight months between Lewis and the father of Actress Tallulah Bankhead The ouster of Prince Ernst senting farmers William Green A F of L chiefInmerchants von from Starhemberg Rudiger tain decided to cast its lot with dustrialists six of Austria by the government industrial unions chiefChancellor Kurt Schuschnigg by native When asked what Green would couna tains by no means lessened tension in that do Lewis replied: t of cil govern-central European land the cross“I can think of nothing so unroads of Europe which many fear ment composed k interesting tonight as Mr Green's of high Italian will furnish the spark fpr an platitudes and generalities” officials other world conflagration Badoglio has Thus when Chancellor Sehusch-nig- g Thus Mussolini answered the League of left suddenly for Venice preGunplay sumably for a "rest” rumors Nations and France and Britain In Birmingham's iron mine area who opposed his conquest with the Tennessee flooded the capitals of Europe Coal Iron and RailThus has the In Rome the fascist press said futile sanctions road company subsidiary of big delianother been tossed conleague Schuschnigg" would not even S Steel substituted a tonnage cate problem one which Argen- U fer with Italian officials basis for the hourly wage scale he tina has asked that league IA Vienna reports were current Iron mines paid in Alabama’s that Schuschnigg seeks a means assembly solve The league coun- Twenty - one hundred miners 'of pacifying Mussolini friend of cil is scheduled to meet June 16 struck upon orders of the Inter-natio-n Starhemberg and protector of may not convene until the powers Union of Mine Mill and MeanAustria while at the same time become better oriented while Scandinavian countries are Smelter Workers and through the moving closer to Adolph Hitler week bullets rang in Alabama hills bad man reported to favor scrapping the Five men were Germany's international wounded assurunless definite more ruIn London and Paris were league mors that France and Britain ances of peace and security can soon would compose differences emanate from Geneva Peace with Italy because Italian troops in Manhattan was a temSigned were considered vital to the mainChina porary truce which ended strife on tenance of Austrian Independence strike-tor- n New York waterfronts is Hitler which supposed upon Press dispatches quoting Japawhere disaffected members of the to be casting a hungry eye nese authorities carried reports International Seamen’s union were conducting an unauthorized strike of South China’s imminent declaEpgland ration of war upon Japan for a full Terms of the truce provided: these Equitable treatment of strikers Responsibility for the budget week Finally at week-en- d leak from the British cabinet was reports were confirmed when the with of reinstatedefinitely laid at the feet of James Canton government issued an in- ment in local unions a joint board Henry Thomas laborite and redependent declaration of war or- of mediation to weigh differences signed colonial secretary by a dered troops north to resist "Jap- between shipowners and seamen who work for lower wages than anese aggression” high tribunal The tribunal basare given Pacific coast workers Canton’s decision perhaps reing its decision upon circumstantial evidence found that Thomas sults from a sincere policy to reJoseph Curran strike-leaddisclosed budget secrets to Sir sist Japan’s evidently slow but de- -t warned the truce was just tempoAlfred Butt wealthy M P and to e r m i n e d atrary boasted that the strike won Alfred Bates advertising agency tempts to crush recognition for his followers from executive who profited by insurestabthe department of commerce China ing agents against higher income lish a Japanese taxes Exonerated was Thomas' protectorate on Attack son Leslie a stockbroker mainland the Constitutionality of the TennesPerhaps it was see Valley Authority was attacked prompted by rein nineteen complaints filed in inforcements by Kfloxville federal court by as many of thousands operating utility companies The Japanese troops WfflCPHOTO seek to enjoin power companies in the north Transit William Webster Theile descendant o f Daniel' Webster T V A from further operation conThen again of Ambitions Mayor Ogden's scion of a millionaire New York family with his parents Mr and tending it exercises an unwarrantHarman W Peery to supplant the perhaps the reMrs William Theile upon his return home The lad ed interference with private enteris Japasistance in Transit Utah company Rapid hitch-hike- d to Chicago lived for three weeks on earnings of $20 nese r inspired are primarily prise Companies ‘the junction city with a municipalsubsidiaries of Commonwealth and Perhaps Japan ly operated bus system were Southern Cities Service Associatthwarted by a unanimous decision profitingAfri-byed Gas and Electric Electric Bond Chiang of the supreme court wherein it Mussolini's was held that in the absence of a can adventure feels the time pro- and Share to promulgate her city charter buses cannot be operi pitious policy to establish hegeated by the city government The Victory court noted that the state constitu-io- n mony in Asia rout occidental powSustained by Chief Justice Alallows cities to operate street ers from the east fred A Wheat of the District of Reports from Shanghai howrailways systems held that the ever Columbia Indicated that at long-lasupreme court was clause meant railway systems W A’s 200 million dollar power P with Canton may join Nanking nothing more Generalissimo program who held loans by The court also took notice of to resist Japan k semidictator of P W A to municipalities for public Chiang Ogden’s reliancS upon the home the nationalist government at power plants were constitutional rule amendment to the state conNanking whose checkered career He dismissed an injunction suit stitution ruled that under a charter form of government mayhap serves to cloud his purposes was brought 10 by four utility firms said to be drilling troops to have against municipal electric projOgden could operate a bus system ects in four states but that a charter first must be an army of half a million and equipped to face obtained Nippon The case came before the su' at Ancient China at week-en- d preme court after the Rapid Tranany rate was preparing for war sit company sought a writ of prohibition against Ogden to prohibit whether defiantly or suppliantly Mayor Peery’s threat to install his ‘Overworked Solon own buses because he was dissatSpain Zioncheck Marion madcap isfied with the type Of buses operThe united front of Spanish Washington representative capped ated by the private company a week of leftists appeared on the verge of capital escapades by splitting as syndicalists defied charging Vice President Garner Protest orders of the government to end with hiding his bride found himVast are operations of ' the strikes proceeded to extend them self in the mental ward of the United States Smelting Refining until 250000 Spanish workers are Gallinger municipal hospital Phyand Mining company The corpoout Socialists were said to be sicians said he suffered from ration's activities in Utah include considering a breach with the "overwork" lack of rest too much both mining and smelting and syndicalists and Premier Santiago liquor company ores are treated In comCasares might resign Literacy Unwanted pany smelters For taxation purposes U S S Because he learned to write In Poor Rich Boy R and M credits company mines the last 20 years Richard Jones with ore values brought to smel-ternegro miner of Williamson W Va Wearying of chauffeur-drive- n limousines breakfast in bed Wilalmost lost his bonus When he eompany smelters with profits resulting from reduction of liam Webster Theile enlisted in 1918 he signed “X” to ores The ytah state tax commiscion of the millionaire Theile his name When he apptled for ssion prefers to treat the process family of Shadow Island New a bonus he affixed his signature as one operation York left home a month ago was told “signatures don’t correThese counter views result in a hitch-hike- d to Chicago where he spond” Obllgingljhe signed "X” conflict in assessing mine values earned 20 in two weeks lent 6 to a nedr application for taxation Mines are taxed upon of it to a roommate a basis of thrice net proceeds Cinema King Broke A distraught family set private which under company accounting detectives upon his trail induced William Fox quondam movie amounts to 2652259 this year unhim to return home when his faproducer filed a voluntary bankThrough the week workers were busy refurbishing the conder tax commission methods to ther William Theile told ftlm his ruptcy petition In federal court At a vention hall for the Cleveland conclave of Republicans The company has conmother was seriously ill The lad in Camden N J He listed assets As will be noted cost of $300000 the building was repaired tested the tax commission valuaIs a direct descendant of Daniel at two millions liabilities at more tion Webster than nine millions by the sign WPA funds were used for G O P comfort newly-conquer- Latin-Americ- Plans for a third party ticket In the approaching elections collapsed In Chicago when leaders ef Minnesota's Farmer-Labo- r party advised liberal conferees that a third party would be premature However If Minnesota’s Governor Floyd B Olson and an advisory council of 25 change their minds a third party convention can be called Roots of a third party pre found In Minnesota (Farmer-Labor- ) Wisconsin (Progressive) the Dakotas (Nonpartisan league) Iowa a few other (Farm Holiday) scattered minorities These leftists are expected to work for the election of senators and congressmen in respective states launch a third party in 1940 with this platform: — Relief lands in the near east and Africa Rumors are rife that the wily hand of Mussolini is behind agitation to stir Arabs into open revolt that Italian1 broadcasts in Arabic are urging Moslem hoards to rise against European masters Fighting Continued in Palestine through the week despite wholesale arrests by British troops as Arabs apparently bolstered determination to rid the Holy Land Meanwhile of Jewish colonizers placards urging a Moslem revolt were found in Damascus Syria a French possession and in Cairo and Alexandria in Egypt ur Tis-cap- w European-dominate- "sit-dow- The war department “ Explosive Strikes— Landon Bandwagon Palestine France was made aware of the might of her toiling masses as Leon Blum assumed office as the first socialist premier Blum’s accession was made amidst the worst industrial crisis of the Third Republic for more than half a million workers were protesting against employers by a strike They entered factories in many industries but refused to lift a hand What the workers want is: week vacations with A pay collective bargaining agreements These Blum promised them if Adopted by the senate 62 to 14 was the deficiency appropriation bill for 2369000000 including 1425000000 for relief Amendments thereto included all irrigation items attached by the senate to the interior department supply bill erased by house defiance led by Texas’ James P Buchanan Another amendment to the Vneasure authorized a new survey for the disputed Florida ship canal but turned down a proposal for a new survey of the Passama-quodd- y tide harnessing project in Maine sponsored by Maine's Republican Senator Hale who consistently opposes other new deal expenditures The senate bill also threw a sop to Secretary of the Interior Harold L Ickes permitting him to use a 300000000 revolving fund for loans and grants on PWA projects The house bill leaves relief expenditures to the sole direction of the president who will delegate his authority to Harry L Hopkins The relief appropriation was adopted after the senate refused an amendment by Michigan’s Arthur H Vandenberg to substitute state administered relief for Hopkins’ W P A and after Senator Daniel O Hastings Delaware Republican attacked the relief measure as "silly” Hilles-Roraba- —French Strikes Grip France China Prepares to Resk Japan Duce’s Empire Byrns Dies Band Wagon Foreign Affairs’ New Speaker of House National Affairs Nicaraguan Revolt — Emergency Hospital —Roman Empire-D- ock Truce Labor Rift Widens— China Declares War Rich Boy Samples Poverty es er In the State Sportsmanship Largesse or Fear? Disaster HI timed was the attempt of Miss Hazel Cunningham to swim from Antelope Island to Black Rock The- day was stormy iyrjny waves high Accompanying her were three boats one of which contained Tribune Sports Writer Marlowe Branagah Adrian Smith Lynn Madsen University of Utah students and Helen Woodhead who started to pace the swimmer That boat was capsized by a wave righted by another held into the wind by Branagan until rescuers came four hours later Cooperation Concluded at Salt Lake City was a regional conference on social re- construction Conferees stressed p the necessity of cooperatives between producers and consumers to rehabilitate a large portion of the national population critically wounded by the economic crisis Cooperative work through the' west was discussed and recommended by Howard G Costigan of Seattle was an organization patterned after the Washington Commonwealth federation self-hel- long-appare- nt w st Kai-she- well-train- People sr Finance Whatever financing the newly formed metropolitan water district does It must do it itself said the city commission when it advised the district it would make no payments for operations of the district The city’s decision leaves the district two alternatives: The district may levy a tax upon municipal property: it may purchase water resell it to municipalities or irrigators at enough profit to obtain operating expenses - A |