Salt Lake Tribune | 1933-12-05 | Page 1

WEATHER FORECAST LOCAL METAL PRICES Ri UTAH WYOMING — Fair Tuesday Wednesday Gold (newly mined) $3401 Silver 434c Lead 415e Copper gt)jc Zinc 450c Local Weekly Settlement 'Price IDAHO NEVADA— Fair Tuesday unsettled Wednesday (Detailed Report on Page 16) Lead Entered at the postoffice at Salt Second-Clas- s Matter VOL 128 NO 52 UTAH TUESDAY MORNING SALT LAKE CITY Lake City as 7 Meet Launches Plan to CENTS E STATE CONVENTION ACTION ending Prohibition will CEASES D S Revitalize Silver CALLED OFF PAGES--FIV- 765c TO TREASURY Pan-Ameri- ca BOND PLAN 18 Copper —a 7— vo' cm SCHOOL 5 1933 -- 'V I DECEMBER 417c BE FLASHED THROUGH LAND BOND BUYS ProMexican Envoy Presents Seven-Poigram for Stabilizing Currencies of Morgenthau Edict Ends Board Decides to Tap New World Nations Policy as Prices Maintenance Fund Strengthen for Civil Works platform tallies with the By ARCH RODGERS nt L No Drain on Budget UlllCldlS ueier itUOn on $300000 Issue Tax Raise Averted at h h Lake board Monday afternoon ended any immediate' possibility of the voters being called upon to vote on a school bond issue and provided $50000 to be used for a district civil works program The board voted that the $50000 Should be appropriated from the maintenance fund and from other supplementary revenues so that the regular budget will not be interfered ACM i With United Press Staff Correspondent MONTEVIDEO Uruguay Dec 4— The problem of the Americas— rehabilitation of silver— was! brought into lhe foreground to daY by Mexico s demand at the Pan merican conference here that the financial and economic agenda be revised to include: silver The Mexican silver recommendations were postponed until tomorrow when formal action will be taken on them by the parley However the MZS't various S!S among the delegations Reshuffling of the agenda as demanded by the Mexicans was suggested by their chief delegate Foreign Minister Manuel’ Puig Casau-ranThe move was seen as part of g carefully planned drive’ toward the revitalization of silver through the adoption of a policy known as “symmetalism” Latin-America- proval c Points Urged On the matter of the proposed bond The currency and credit points estimated ommended by Mexico include: Issue which proponents — i- - Monetaf'y"Statnllzatiorr-ttrniughrtrara- t wouWbe' frmtr $306 00) the board voted that consideration be postponed until furthe’V details of the program be worked out Dr L John NuttaU Jr superintendent announcing the board’s action said: “It was felt that with winter setting in there was no hurry about providing for new construction” Money Goes for Equipment The $50000 which the board appropriated will be used to purchase materials for fepairs and improvements in the school properties of the city Board members estimated that with this amount appropriated for material and tools between $75000 and $100000 may be obtained from C W A funds to pay labor used in the improvement program Howard Barker superintendent of buildings and grounds estimated that s the program will mean 90000 of work The maximum number of men employed pending completion of the project he said probably will be In the neighborhood of man-'hour- 250 - Deadline February IS Under the civil works setup the work must be completed by February 15 Inasmuch as the program calls for repairs in practically every school in the district with many of them of minor nature a list of the items of rork to be done was not announced Dr Nuttgll said at the close of the special meeting that board members felt that the work should “be done without disturbing the regular year’s budget Because of this feeling he said the money will come largely from the maintenance account and it will not be necessary to increase the tax levy to meet the needs of the program Mere Presence in Mob Termed Sin by Priest Dec 4 (JP) — Mo ST JOSEPH The Rev Victor Meagher pastor of St Francis Xavjer church told his Catholic parishioners yesterday that presence in the mob that last Tues day night hanged Lloyd Warner negro accused of attacking a white girl was a “sin that must be confessed” “The mere presence of any Cath clic in that mob is a matter of confession”’ Father Meagher said don’t care whether presence there was The very fact that only curiosity jrou were there and watched that murder makes it a sin that must be confessed” The World’s News By Associated Press) $3401 WASHINGTON— Dawes bank reduces $90000000 R F C loan to $62000000 nonretiewal of loan gives it status of demand 1pte BATON ROUGE La—Voting place burned Huey Long hanged in effigy in dispute over special congressional election WASHINGTON — Supreme court orders John (“Jake the Barber”) Factor returned to England for trial on’ swindling charges WASHINGTON — William Green urges liquor purchases in “open direct and commonplace way” - ’ FOREIGN BATHURST Gambia — Lindberghs await fresh winds to lift plane on flight from West Africa to South America MONTEVIDEO— Proposals for monetary and banking- system made at coriference Cuba asks recognition n A TH E N S— Premier says Greece will seek way to deport Samuel Inxuli t V V prices-adjustin- try exFinanciers said that short-terchange stability is thus insured covering at least the average commercial movement They claimed that silver under such conditions would be able to take’ its place alongside gold as a measurement for commodity value Hopes were expressed by the Mexicans and others supporting this plan that there may be a general with— of " tower "demtrninatitrns of paper currency the governments involved substituting silver coins instead since gold is no longer circulating in the Americas Proponents of the general program insisted that- - the substitution of silver would be a preliminary to the total adoption of symmetalism They added that this substitution also would tend to vitalize large blocks of “sterlized metal” at the same time releasing gold normally necessary to back paper currency Ilv r L ' Ratifying Move May Be Held Off Until Sometime in Evening All Details ' VrOicI 'Quotations ‘Wet! Delegates Ready to Cast Deciding Ballot for U S Repeal Presided Waits to Sign Proclamation Dooming Prohibition abruPl dr°P m treasury purchases of government bonds was announced today by Acting Secretary Morgenthau while other officials pointed to recent advances in federal security prices as evidence they could hold their own within Settled without support from total of $2545000 was invested in the bonds last week Morgenthau said as compared with $8748000- the A - Meanwhile all issues week before flL governments except one had plus signs before tne figure that showed their net change for the week Officials pointed out that during last week the price of domestic newly mined gold was advanced 25 cents its largest increase in the last several weeks This failed to disturb the bond market commodity prices were soft and the dollar turned By CECIL B DICKSON Associated Pres Staff Writer 4— Repeal Dec WASHINGTON eve found President Roosevelt ready to affix his signature to a proclamafrom Jj°n that will strike prohibition constitution upon ratification to- thirty-sixtstate morrow by the Hurried preparations were made for the event after the chief executive’s arrival from Georgia to survey machinery created to regulate the liquor industry until congress has time to enact legislation for permanent control Ohio Three states — Pennsylvania and Utah hold ratifying conventions s tomorrow making the full necessary for a constitutional Joseph II Choate Jr director of the federal alcohol control adminischange Governors of those states are tration (left) who will begin actively to function after repeal Tuesday to notify the state department imand Dr James M Doran commissioner of Industrial alcohol who resigns mediately after action is taken today to become director of the distillers’ code authority Changes Announced Mr Roosevelt conferred today with Secretary Wallace and Joseph H Choate-Jr- director of the federal in alcohol control administration charge of regulating liquor Industries and approved plans for poBtrepeal This was one of a series of important developments in the situation Dr James M Doran commissioner of Industrial alcohol resigned effective tomorrow to become director of the domestic distillers’ code author- Utah’s constitutional conven-uo- n if it decides to recess un- til 7 p m will delay deliveries ef whiskies and wines gins and cordials in several states said a Chicago Tribune dispatch A number of states will not authorize deliveries of liquors until the official word is received from Washington al-though- Attorney General Cura- mings has given an opirilon that the eighteenth amendment is effectively killed when Utah takes its action and that the proclamation of the secretary of state is no more than a for- — mality - h three-fourth- ' ’ National history yvlll be made Utah’s capitol Tuesday in For this state will be the thirty-sixtthe twenty-firs- t amendment which calls for repeal of the eighteenth amendment A few minutes after the Utah con strong vention will have cast its ballot GovMap December Refinancing ernor Henry H Blood will Hash the These developments with the related problems of the approaching message to the secretary of state in December financing involving the Washington D C and shortly after refunding of $727000000 of Maturing President Roosevelt and Acting Secretreasury obligations were gone over in detail in a conference between tary of Stats WililanrPh'mips will proPresident Roosevelt and Morgenthau ity claim the end of the regime of MorgenHenry Acting reSecretary shortly after the chief executive's national prohibition thau Jr of the treasury announced turn from Warm Springs ' The Utah convention called for 12 In a few days Morgenthau said Doran's action simultaneously with an (By Associated Press) later a refinancing plan will be an- announcement that the bureau of ino’clock noon in the house of repre- New issues of government dustrial alcohol would be returned nounced NEW YORK Dec 4— The same Broadway that 14years ago sentatives’ chamber is expected to the bureau of internal revenue toHarriman Asserts Larger paper will be offered in exchange tomorrow redecowhere it was in the prepro- drank a farewell toast to “Old John Barleycorn’’ was being ‘ complete its duties about 7:30 p m for that which is maturing In adto hail rated hibition repeal tonight days Use Silver Should Be dition there may be an offer of bonds The conventiori plans to recess immeand yet It is the same Broadway or certificates of indebtedness for Fight diately following the organization and and in exchange for fourth LibA effort of prohibition- a totally differenj Broadway Prohi“Seriously Considered’ cash appointment of resolutions and creerties which were called in October ists to block repeal was made in the bition and the years have obliterated dentials committees which will be The elation of adherents of the ad- District of Columbia supreme court such famous places' as Rector’s and Old timers hardly will at about 2 p is JiATHURST Gambia Dec 4 (P) — SACRAMENTO Cal Dec 4 UP) — ministration monetary policy was today and a decision was to be hand- Shanley’s ' Convention leaders ed down tomorrow by Justice F Dick- recognize the place but perhaps they said Monday Their big red monoplane held in the Henry I Harriman president of the countered by its opponents with aswill be so busy being wined and dined sertions that the improvement in inson Letts Gambia river by an almost dead calm chamber of commerce of the United bond expected to reconvene about they to the strength Counsel for Canon William Sheafe they won’t notice prices was due 7 p m Colonel and Mrs Charles A Lind States tonight urged a prompt return of the dollar which they said Chase Brooklyn N Y and George Feverish applicants for liquor sellDetermined to be the deciding state bergh waited tonight for the first to gold exchange stabilization and re- moved in a direction contrary to that S Duncan Washington D C argued ing licenses awaited some word from t The 21 dele- in the repeal victory convention leadfresh wind to lift them on a flight to moval of N R A “burdens” on small expected as a result of the increase in the conventions in the states did not the hard pressed control board are the Following have will estimate the have authority to ratify prohibition authorities they gold price businesses as part of a proposed proers are prepared to recess until after South America repeal They sought a petition re- granted 3500 licenses by the time Utah gates to Utah’s constitutional Pennsylvania gram for economic recovery and Ohio the other Currency Strengthen How long the calm will continue afternoon tomorrow sounds the the state of gong In an address before a meeting of The domestic acting secretary states to hold conventions Tuesday gold price was an- straining which convention have could only be guessed at That such the chamber's western division 5000 Tuesday from 1 applications he nounced Approximately issuing repeal proclamation have cast their ballots and reported today as $3401 unchanged conditions often last for many days rejected return to the old gold basis Chase said an attempt would be been filed to the state department at Washingwill ratify the twenty-fir- st Meanwhile the dol made fermented andthe rail tomorrow to along the west African coast is known of the dollar because of changed con- from Saturday have the By ship Pennsylton D C lar value of gold at London was to the sorrow of many mariners con- juices and the distilled spirits so long amendment court restrain the vania ditions but asserted that a dollar of thus supreme recording ounce At the opening ex- vention called Utah Holds Spotlight rati- outlawed were being poured into the state Repeatedly Colonel Lindbergh has a varying gold content would brfng $3238 an in from that to the and While both eastern sjates have inquotation of $519 tried to lift the heavy plane from the confusion and uncertainty Trucks were loaded at ware- Utah as the thirty-sixt- h The change the fying repeal city dollar later strengthened unruffled surface of the lower river policy of outright inflationists who pound dicated they will conduct their proDistrict Attorney Leo A Rover in houses for the race to restaurants with a load of fuel sufficient ter carry Would issue money with little or no to $503 broadening the difference defending the government against to- and stores that will begin when the deciding state favoring repeal ceedings without delay and give Utah them across nearly 1900 miles of open attention to a metallic base he said between the London and Washington day's action argued the constitution word comes that “possession sale or of the amendthe undisputed right of being the deeighteenth sea the craft refused to rise Sur- would lead to complete financial col- gold figures It turned weak late in put no restrictions on the states in transportation” no longer is illegal ciding commonwealth to end prohithe day however dropping to calling conventions and that ratificaface tension held the pontoons as in lapse bition western leaders say they will Extra police details will be moved men t a groove take no chances tion by the thirty-sixtstate and not into the bright light zone tomorrow “It is all wrong however” he said $511 From November to March is the sea- “to assume that the gold content of New York interests were disapwould make the night just to oversee the “welcome O Allred Price Glen 4 OP)— A sudden the proclamation Dec NEW YORK son for what is known as the Police Commissioner twenty-firs- t amendment effective that Utah planned to delay back” party our coin is the only factor in deterpointed dollars demand for today a hot desert wind which mining the price level Many factors European official voting until evening because Bolan says he does not expect any S Ballif Provo Tax Question Studied to sent American the the up currency George comes from the vast interior region including a balanced national budget of the gigantic celebration Night clubs will planned to curPresident Roosevelt conferred dur serious disorders The “Harmattan” blows intermittent- a reasonable freedom for private busi- highest level in relation 1 gold there immediately upon the casting be permitted to remain open an hour Salt November since rencies Clarence the with Acting Secretary ing day Bamberger of ballots in Salt Lake sales must cease at ly but having risen it would speed ness to move forward with hope of After the close of the banking day Morgenthau who is to draft recom later but liquor the Lindberghs on their way “We are determined no other state fair profits the maximum possible in “London and Paris however the regular closing hour of 3 a m the Lake to to for mendations submit congress overthe over The colonel spent shall take this glory away from Utah" morning Some confusion still existed reduction of taxes the removal of dollar lost much of its gain in terms a revision of the reto taxes liquor failone but said Franklin Riter president of the hauling the big monoplane after New York state's regulation's’ handicaps to foreign commerce and pound sterling and the French place more than $200000000 in special John O Beesley Provo Utah League for Prohibition ure of repeated attempts to take off a’ stabilization of our currency with of the in Repeal thing was clear — there shall be no Its levies that repeal will end dealings in New York not does last night Mrs Lindbergh helped the currencies of the other great com- franc and a convention delegate at bars This rule CorPreparing for the recommendations drinking time mercial nations are of the greatest upswing had carried it so far above him Later she slept for beer our to “I am sorry that 32 however plans may upEphraim Bergeson equivalent indicated by the the senate finance and house ways apply while additional gasoline was jetti- importance in increasing business ac- the gold set the starting time of celebrations Efforts to “beat the gun” in any R F C gold price that renewed sell- and means committee decided today nish Harsoned to lighten theioad we’re not gocenters in but eastern rearesisted in George thus tivity and making possible was prompted to meet Jointly next Monday to con- way were being Previously 40 gallons of fuel and sonable prices for the products of the ingThe French rison a New York real estate men deing to lose this honor” a touched to franc in legissider them order gold expedite considerable baggage was unloaded farm and factories and the payment of and two EphThe delegatee generally said they Sophus Bertelson for the day of 597 cents a lation when congress meets in Jan clared two bottles of whisky on the but the craft still was too heavy to good wages to our working popula- low level would “hold out” until midnight it of champagne when he arrived 1 cent since Satur17 of of is tax $110 The liquor drop present uary overcome a lack of headwind for a tion” liner Columbia They were promptly raim necessary day and indicating a dollar equal to a gallon It may be raised to $220 confiscated takeoff With the national proclamation at Harriman charged that the present 6566 by customs men cent of its 5ld parity The to $3 per Mrs John S Sheppard a member securities law had “burned the corn-cri- R F C gold A S Brown Salt Lake least sixteen states will start the sale which was uncommittee tomeans The and price ways $500000 GIFT REVEALED commentof spirits which have been banned of the state control board ih order to kill the rats” and $3401 an ounce however day began a study of proposed reITHACA N Y Dec 4 ()P— Liv- urged modification which would pre- changed at since 1920 but Utah’s action will give ing on suggestions that hundreds of Lawrence Ogden a dollar of 6077 per cent of visions of the administrative Clayton provisignified anin their doors its citizenry no legal spirits until Janingston Farrand president of Cornell serve complete publicity provisions former gold of the income tax law in air ef- places might open sions parity their on action disclosed tonight that but would relieve from punitive damuniversity uary 1 when cities and counties by ticipation of favorable Park Earl Clements FrencHUranc recovered to end fort to find more revenue It was T The of H chairman as yet ungranted license applications their own action may license the sal Westinghouse Henry ages directors who have honestly tried the a of net loss raised at cents 610 be $270000000 might day the board of the Westinghouse Air- to comply with the law said: pf 32 beer inThis of rate 04 cent a the income levy through tightening brake company who died November It will require legislative action to He also said the legislation for bank only “So far as I am concerned places City was at 6424 the dollar that The dicated president’s interdepartmental without 18 anonymously gave $500000 to the of licenses restore liquor possessing more thsn possession physical on Fase Three) of old its Fillmore cent Miah (Continued Pane parity Two) per (Continued od Day should be raided and closed” university in 1925 (Column Two) Commn Fourl (Continued on Psce Two) CHAMBERHEAD Broadway to Toast Legal Liquor Flow h to ratify Famed N Y Street of White Lights Preens for Coming of ‘John Barleycorn’ HITSINFLATION ' V of Delegate List Last-Minu- e For Ratifying Repeal Action -- 3-- 4 h “Har-mattan- ” 4 b DOMESTIC WASHINGTON — Roosevelt ready to proclaim repeal oi the amendment today eighteenth federal industry regulations plans speeded WASHINGTON — Treasury purchases of government as federal security gold purchase prices advance at rec- ‘'Marshallian plan?’ symmetallic which "Was partially adopted by the India government in 1922 Experts claimed that adoption of the plan would mean buttressing of the pur- chasing power ' of the silver standard customer '"value of countries—the China for example has been halved in recent years through the silver slump — besides reimplanting stable though flexiblej money in countries where the absolute gold standard has been abandoned Common Gold Policy Under symmetalism central banks adopt a common policy on the change! of gold the interna- tional value of currency to long-tervariations in relation to the internal price systems of each separate coun- In Nation’s Repeal Spotlight White House Ready to End U S Dry Era d 4 Savant Warns Hawaiians Spouting Volcano May Oblitejate Village HILO Hawaii Dej 4 (IP)— Volcanic experience’ he said he believed this would activity which might endanger the outbreak should it occur on the southwest slope of the little Hawaiian fishing village of cerae mountain above Hookena Hookena on the west coast of this The last such lava flow was seven island was predicted today by Dr and a half years ago Then as now Thomas A Jaggar Jr as lava erup- the activity started at MokuaweoWeo The lava apparently tions in- Mokuaweoweo crater dimin- then subsided ished 1 had found an easier outlet for it Dr Jaggar director of the Kilauea came to the surface about the 8000- Volcano observatory and internation- foot level above Puuokeokeo and ally recognized authprily said that poured down the mountainside like although only five ‘lava fountains fiery snake destroying the Hae were playing inside pit atop waiian village of- Hoopuloa as ft Mauna Loa (13675 feet) harmonic came to a boiling end in the Pacific tremors recorded on the Kilauea seis- ocean A similar flow from the t mograph continued a strong as ever end indicating there had been n cessa- level of the seaoccurred tion in the subtgrtsnean pressure ing at Alika Papa between Hoopuloa So a new flow now and that lava might burst out along and Hookena the mountainside and flow toward would establish even more definitely a seven-yethe sea cycle for Mauna Judging from appearances and past Volcano 8000-foo- j ar Action Jury-Defer-s mu Deliberations in Scottsboro Cute gin Tuesday Morning Be- Dec 4 (IP)— A Ala DECATyR Morgan county jury tonight at its own request deferred deliberations until tomorrow morning in the case of Clarence Norris second of seven negro defendants in the “Scottsboro case” to face retrial here on charges growing out of an alleged attack on Mrs Victoria Price in Jackson coun1931 ty on March-2Judge W W Callahan completed his hour and charge at 5:57 p jn but before the jury could retire Samuel S - Leibowitz chief counsel for the negro asked that twelve be noted and the special charges be made Playwright and Wife Kill Selves With Monoxide Gas in Suicide Pact ’ BEVERLY HILLS Cal Dee 4 (JP) had received a letter jointly signed the — Sidney Lazarus writer and his by the couple asking him to send to look in the garage police wife Maud held a rendezvous with A suicide pact the police reported death at their attractive home here on finding a tube leading into the Their tryst was like the scenes he closed sedan from the exhaust pipe the vehicle had written for fiction stories and of Lazarus was 43 years of age The for the screen but none had the age of his wife was not disclosed Friends said that both had been in tragic ending of this real life epiill health and despondent sode His arm embracing her and her The writer was born in Shelbyville head nestled on hi shoulder they Ky end his parents lived for many settled in the comfortable back seat years in Birmingham Ala- where he of their big car in the garage of their was educated For the stage Lazarus had written home and rode together into eterRELIEF DIRECTOR NAMED nity on the fumes of a poisonous gas a number of plays years ago includWASHINGTON Dee 4 (UP)— Ap- from the exhaust of their motionless ing “Gabette "Come Along Mandy" and "Dixie to Broadway” He was pointment of Mrs Charles Sabin as automobile the author of a number of fiction today- That is what police-foundirector of women's relief activities Police went to the gafage after re- stories for magazines and this work in New York state was announced night py Federal Relief Administra-Ito- r ceiving a telephone al) from a friend in 1927 led him to Hollywood for the and neghbor ol the Lazar uses that he J movies Hopkins - A C Ellis Jr Salt Lake Mat Gilmour Price L B Hampton Salt Lake Franklin Hansen Moroni Mrs John A Hendricks Ogden L A Hollenbeck Du- chesne Mrs L Salt Lake B McCornick Ray L Olson Ogden hlrs S Grover Rich Salt Lake Franklin Riter Salt Lake Salt Sam p Thurman Lake (Column One) Will Rogers Says: BEVERLY HILLS Calif Dec 4— Talked to the Philippine dele- gation going through here cn their way to Washington Missed seeing Manual Quezon their very able leader They will be a unique delegation in Washington and one that I believe the president will welcome for they are asking for liberty and not money A thing like that is unheal’d of Why cant we set the PhilipWe keep 'em pines free now for years Just bn account of their sugar JWJto!) they take you off you crave sugar and liquor sweets Well today we go back on a liquor diet so they can take us off sugar That automatically sets the Philippines free Yours