Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNINO 0 JANUARY 14 1934 5 NEWS IN BRIEF FROM NEAR AND FAR In the State Crime Three Gangsters Slain Wynekoop Trial Opens Officeholder Is Rertioved i Cited A Bullets spitting from weapons both gangsters and police rid' the United States of threa acknowledged public enemies during the week In McAlester Okia Wilbur Underhill escaped convict Kansas City massacre suspect succumbed to a dozen wounds Inflicted when he sought to escape federal officers in Shawnee ’ In Chicago “Handsome Jack" Klutas suspected leader of a midwest kidnap gang walked into a police trap in a suburban apartment State's attorney's police a hd the apartment under surveillance for ten days closed in when Klutas entered The gang leader attempted to flee fell before the officers’ Of j - barrage Five Klutas gangsters were Mil-to- In New York Frank Schaeffer who escaped from the Atlanta federal prison In 2923 with the notorious Gerald Chapman crumpled on sidewalk in the theatrical district bullet through his head Rival gangsters fired from a passing taxicab wounded Dave Backrack shot through a near-b- y cafe window (Mooney - “two-time- The presidential boost In silver prices has revived activity In forgotten camps and the old Comstock of Nevada Is again being mined by seekers after the wealth which enriched many of the nation's figures Picture shows an assayer with his iron and small pieces of sil- ver thereon taken from or samples WYNEKOOP In Business Fields Opened in Chicago was the mur- der trial of Dr Alice L Wynekoop charged with slaying her beautiful daughter-in-laRheta Wynekoop whose unclad body was found on an operating table in the Wynekoop home shot through the heart As the trial opened 2000 prospective spectators rioted in the court corridors unable to find eeats The defendant visibly Weakened by illness was carried into the courtroom Signs of Improvement in U S railroads were seen by the Interstate cofnmerce commission in its annual report showed which a first quarter deficit of reduced to $6809385 in the second Emquarter International WORKERS Noted by the international labor in Geneva Switzerland is a worldwide increase in employment possibly heralding economic recovery The labor communique reported the United States leads the world in reemploying jobless United States employment indices jumped from 59 6 In October De1932 to 735 in October 1933 clines In unemployment were reported from Canada- Chile Germany Great 'Britain Hungary Australia Belgium Finland Jugoslavia Rumania Denmark and the Irish Free State United States unemployed are numbered at Offce IMPASSE Still at loggerheads were European statesmen vainly endeavoring to reconstruct the Geneva disarmament conference abruptly ended last fall when Germany abConceded was ruptly wthdrew the necessity for a accord before negotistions may resume but such an accord seemed as far distant as ever since Germany insists on rearming France opposes such moves Italy and England appeared on the horizon as peacemakers and a victory for British Sir John Simon Is seen in Mussolini’s consent to consider disarmament before his suggested reorganization of the league of nations But war clouds appeared no less dim over Europe Moaned Arthur Henderson British chairman of the world disarmament conference: "Persons ready to despair of the league and the arms conference are ready to admit if they are honest that the only alternative is to revert to a prewar condition of armed anarchy in which eveiy country is the judge of its own rights and is prepared to back its views by war” n Idaho ployment dices were ing and c in- ris- Indicted by Idaho’s state grand Jury were Boise Detective tain H H Murray and Joe CapNich- on ols former police officer charges of conspiracy to ask and receive a bribe The bribe came from Mrs Rae Lang Boise rooming house operator and several women residents of the place The nature of the alleged bribe is not hard to guess Testimony which served as basis-fo- r the indictments came from Nichols who was dismissed by Mayor J J McCue for the good of the service Mrs Lang other The offense alpeace officers legedly occurred last November 12 FIRST Into first place in silver production vaulted Idaho according to estimates of officials of the United States bureau of mnes Utah hitherto had topped all sUver producing states in metal mined Gold silver copper lead and zinc mined in Idaho in 1933 was estimated at $11211718 an increase of $3334114 over last yeaj Silver production aggregated ounces- - compared with ounces the previous yea1caused chefly by production from the Sunshine mine m the Coeur d’Alene region - - Laclede Gas and Light company of St Louis after the federal trade comnussion took its first action unde J the "truth la securities act” The issue was approved by Missouri authorities scanned skeptically by the federal commission when the company failed to mention a rate and valuation ease pending before the Missouri public service commission Utility officials attributed the dispute to a NEW DEAL heavy tenance main take Whitney expenditures Book investment in railroads and equipments totaled $26000-00compared with less than $20- 000009 in 1916 The commission report departed from its usual custom of recommending legislation leaving that to Rail Coordinator Joseph B Eastman However optimistic the Interstate commerce commission President A F Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen seems government ownership and operation as the only solution to the heavily capitalized industry Whitney urges the government to undertake rail financing thereby removing from lines’ backs the heavy load of Wall Street President Roosevelt also sees in the room for improvement He frowned country’s railroads upon the past financing policy of refunding maturing bond Issues thereby pyramiding debts to coThe president lossal proportions urged sinking funds to retire bdnds Indicated the same method could be profitably employed by 0 utilities BANKS the nation’s Still delving a banking structure Ferdinand counsel for the senate banking committee renewed his scrutiny of Detroit’s Guardian group of banks whose condition led to the Michigan bank holiday presaged the national closing of banks SenInto ators learned that the Reconstruc- tion corporation refused a loan to the group because it saw no reason to "ball out" Henry Ford Henry’s son Edsel Ford was on the stand at week-enIn the record also went reports of Alfred P Leyburn then benk examiner of the Seventh federal reserve district criticising practices of the Guardian banks In refusing to write off losses Insisting on dividends although earnings failed to yield them Leyburn also revealed J W Pole Hoover comptroller of the currency urged examiners to exercise leniency toward banks during the trying depression days The Pole order was predicated upon a belief of an early return to normal conditions MOTORS In New York opened the thirty-fourt- h annual automobile show wherein are displayed motor manufacturers’ latest brain children for the peripatetic public New cars stress the airplane in dehoods shaped like sign include Boat tips fenders with bustles designs to Insure less wnd resistance greater speed General Motors features “knee action” front wheels to permit the wheel instead of the car to take road Chrysler features jolts “7-- ’ stream-lineconstruction point” ventilation Reo has a machine without a gear shift lever gears being shifted automatically by acceleration “tear-drop- HONESTY Withdrawn 'was the three million dollar bond issue offer of the “misunderstanding” pre- lines dicted soon would be able to under- d INDICTED Dictators Destination Lawsuit NEW YORK Efforts of Mayor Fiorello IL to revamp Gotham’s anti ' quated municipal government rid the city of graft and Inefficency struck a Snag when’Governor Her bert H Lehman announced opposition to the dynamic mayor’s request for dictatorial powers from the legislature Said th governor: “It Is my strong belief that w cannot afford to set up in this counIn try a host of dictators effect the proposed bill would permit you to nullify and destroy th present charter (of New York City) and to rewrite It In such a way Ss might suit your individual point of view” Governor Lehman’s stand drew praise from the Individualistic bombastic Idahoan Senator William E Borah elicited a reply from LaGuardia that Borah was making political capital of the incident using Lehman words to scorch President Roosevelt The Gotham mayor announced he would await a counter proposal from the governor to repair New York’s badly shattered finances CONTEMPT REFUSED Again refusedtiy California state board of pardons and paroles was parole to Warren K Billings Folsom lifer Billings and Tom in San Quentin are serving life terms for a San Francisco preparedness day bombing in 1916 have investigations Subsequent re --mm2 the pair were not fairly tried give strong evidence of their innocence ” Billings Is In Folsom as a loser broke with his fellow prisoner when Mooney said he would refuse a parole Strenuous fights for their release have been waged since incarceration REMOVED Gently relieved from oflice was Scott P Stewart director of the Utah Securities commission for the past five years Quietly Stewart was ousted his offices transferred n to those of Secretary of State H Welling who will temporarily supervise the work Reasons for the dismissal are obscure probably political Enactment of a federal blue sky law was advanced as one reason for the discharge since the federal - law may render the state office useless Another fact was re- vealed: the securities commission earns money now although once It sent $6000 annuallylnto the state general fund threatens to exceed its biennial budget Moreover the (J W A and P W A ad ’ "ministrations in the capitol need more office space In removing the securities commissioner Welling expressed satisfaction over his work hinted he may be reemployed Retained was A Ezra Gull ss secretary of the commission ar- covery Law Upheld— Airmail Contracts Sifted— Ecclds Into Treasury Alexander A Troya-novsk- y first ambassador to the Unijted States from the Soviet union it his desk in temporary embassy quarters where he is awaiting renovation of the old czarist embassy in Washington Ex-Bank- er a rested Franco-Germa- Sugar to the For©— Scandal In Frenc!) volves Cabinet — Re- ” d k Elevated to the presidency of Manhattan’s reformed Chase National bank was H Donald Campbell former vice president to succeed Winthrop W Aldrich Rockefeller who will succeed Charles S McCain as chairman of the board McCain one of the which soiled the triumvirate bank's reputation under Retired Albert H Wiggin will become president of United Light' and Power utility holding company Peopl SEPARATED Separated by a process server from Los Angeles were Princess Barbara5' Hutton Mdivani heiress and her husband Prince Alexis Mdvanl one of the trio of “marrying Mdivanis” The prince was wanted to testify at his brothers’ grand theft trial evaded the server by staying out of California The bridal couple planhed a transpacific voyage left separately on different vessels intend to reunite in Yokohama Japan Wool-wort- h SUED Sued for separate maintenance was Crooner Rudy Vallee by his wife Fay Webb Vallee in Los Mrs Vallee’s charges Angeles “amazed" her singing husband as she alleged misconduct with three women deceit The crooner plans to contest the action Cited for contempt of court by Second District Judge L A-- Wade was one time Ogden tycoon A P Bigelow who will appear this week for heating The contempt order was issued after1 Bigelow failed to deposit $4900 in Liberty bonds with Weber County Shenlf Amasa Hammon The court ordered the bonds surrendered to satisfy in part a stockholders' liability in the defunct Ogden State bank which Bigelow once headed During a suit over the matter Bigelow testified hs was broke had no bonds Monetary Issues and Policies SCHOOLS That education may be suffer lng from the depression at least is indicated in a report from the state school office which reveals 1933 expenditures for Utah schools as $839000 less than the year before $1 682000 less than three years ago $865000 less than six years ego The reductions were effected despite a mounting school population The state’s 40 school districts opcost of $7350-36erated at a 15 compared with $8190000 in 1932 $9032000 in 1930 the peak year $8125000 in 1927 often v 0 d “average” BANK Dissatisfaction with the current manner in which the defunct Provo Commercial and Savings bank is being liquidated under supervision of Bank Commissioner John A Ma-li- a was expressed by 200 depositors who plan to invoke the 1933 banking law which gives them a voice in the liquidating process Alma Van Wagenen heads the depositors’ committee which believes liquidation could be more thorough more cheap The law provides if 75 per cent of the deposit liability approves a depositors’ committee pan liquidate the bank Itself or reorganize if that is possible Immediately was launched a move to get depositors' consent but returns were filtering in slowly PAROLES The state board of pardons came in for criticism from Public Safety Commissioner John M Knight was defended by Warden R E Davis after Arthur J Hadka 26 on parole from the state penitentiary was arrested for carrying concealed weapons He pleaded not guilty to the charge Hadka assertedly was foiled in an attempted service station holdup at Fifth South and Ninth West streets when he was overpowered by Mostyn and Delbert Perry after he had wounded Wynn Perry Previously he is said to have kid-- ’ naped a taxi driver forced him to drive him to Woods Cross where he planned to rob a bank but changed his mind LAWYERS Urged by Pennsylvania Secretary of State Richard J Beamish was a cleaning of the legal profession of lawyers The official who was assistant district attorney at 21 said “we lawyers know that the richest rewards and honors in our profession are given not to men who zealously strive to defend the law and to safeguard the public but to those who are adept In steering bankers and Industrialists through loopholes in the law and around the edges of state and federal constitutions win1" GOLD As Wall street and other But the president's Inter- ests continued to wish for a definite monetary announcement from President Roosevelt the president’s conference with advisers to consider commandeering gold held by the federal reserve system gave rise to rumors that another step in the money program is imminent Members of congress’ inflationary group often have advocated commandeering federal gold as a preliminary step-tdollar devaluation which appears as a definite element m the Roosevelt program Gold remained -- at $34 06 an Ounce on R F C bids was $3244 on the London world market and the British pound stood at $510’l Science STARS' A source of wonderment to scientists is the reason why stars shine Scientists still are baffled over "the phenomenon but Alfred H Joy of the Carnegie Institution’s Mount Wilson laboratory reports progress is being made It is generally believed that plahets shine because of the reflection of sunlight but what makes stars like the sun shine is a puzzle Scientists now lean to the belief Joy said that the twinkling stars twinkle because of their heat and added that means to measure hekt are being sought Instruments devised indicate stars' heat ranges from 3200 degrees Fahrenheit to 90000 degrees whereas the hottest temperature produced by man With an electric arc is 6300 degrees BEES The Royal Canadian Institute was told by Dr Frank E Lutz of the American Museum of Natural History that bees probably think transmit their thoughts to colleagues Lutz said he placed sugar-wateon a bees’ cage blocked the entrance with a sloping trap door through which bees could exit but notenter The wily buzzers however sometirties watched their confreres leave the cage entered it while the trap door was open This demonstration led Dr Lutz to believe bees may have mental processes 'vVm5LfW'iWi A-V- - 7 'V-- electioins DIVORCE In Nevada arrived Thalia For tescue Massie principal in an Hawaiian attack and murder case a year ago to sue her husband Lieutenant Thomas Massie lor divorce on grounds of mental cruelty BABIES To Mrs Renaldo Piereni old grandmother of Creighton Mine Ontario was born a "baby — her twentieth sulce marriage 22 years ago Her daughter Mrs Mar-gaiBelliol of Timmins Ont was married at 15 has borhe1 three children - o ' - i Copyrisht 1(34 World Wide Photoe national veteran racing driver and speed king crossed the continent behind an automobile wheel for the annual automobile show in 102nd time to attend the thirty-fourt- h New York After visiting th show the motorist recorded his impressions Barney Oldfield SILVER Rumors persisted in the house of representatives that a silver bloc was being formed may demand of the president more than his first sop to the white metal which boosted the price of newly mined silver to 64t4 cents an ounce More must be done silver advocates are insisting but first silver interests must agree upon a program Nevada's George W Malone appeared in Washington as representative of 11 western states to have Something more don for sil- ver but the Malone pronouncement is as nebulous as other silver DRINK Fired r on-ti- southern California through the words of Los Angeles Police Chief James E Davis placed the finger of blame for recent California strikes on communists a buggaboo Davis said “our labor troubles are directly traceable to Moscow" announced another red drive to deport radicals The Bear state has experienced strikes in cotton and fruit fields up north factories In the south have been marked by much vio lance often precipitated by authorities Strikers have claimed wages are insufficient to live on proponents who Insist their interest in the metal is not motivated by mining profita but world recovery However silver men seem unable to agree on a silver plan Montana's Senator Burton K Wheeler wants the time honored 16 to 1 ratio reestablished Ohio’s Representative William L Fei- -' silver singer wants a billion-dolU- r purchase1 Professor George F Warren Roosevelt monetary ad vlser plumps for symmetallsm which eschews fixed ratios lumps both gold and silver as a metallic money base Over these issues and even others silver men squabble united only In that they would like something done time-wor- - COLORADO PROSPECTS Anent silver Handy n Sher-ut- y were Deputies Sheriffs J A Faust and C M Fernstrom by Sheriff S Grant Young for conduct unbecoming officers The deputies allegedly returned from Kemmerer Wyo with a prisoner Imbibed too freely in that town were intoxicated upon their return Their defections were discovered when the deputies’ car ran out of gas after Faust assertedly attempted to break into a foundry to telephone for aid was discovered there by police The prisoner was left alone in the car since Fern-strohad previously been driven home by Faust and U L Thorpe Patrolmen Owen Poulsen reported the affair to Public Safety Commissioner John M Knight who pocketed the report released it only after the iffs J A Faust and C M gas after Faust assertedly attempt sheriff suspended his men pendwhich the investigation ing caused their discharge Skilled politicians know that it Is in parly organization where there is strength pay close atelections let tention to intra-partcampaigns take care of themSalt Lake county Demoselves crats went to party polls to elect the county committee which will be chosen this week Outstanding candidates for the post of chairman recently vacated by District Attorney Calvin W Rawlings are Grant Macfarlane assistant city attorney Leonard J incumbent committee Brennan secretary The chairman will be elected by the district chairmen chosen during the week Macfarlane is a member of the faction which dominated the last county convention placed iri office city judges the district attorney district judges But the faction is reported to have weakened Brennan has not been so strongly identified with this group may expect support from opponents thereof and from Rawclaim Both candidates lings Victory but the possibilities of a dark horse succeeding the district attorney are strongly rumored especially since County Commissioner E E Howe powerful in his party i£ said to favor this move - — --- A picture of desperate destitution was painted to Governor Ed C Johnson by J M Powers chairman of th Swink Colo relief committee when he asked for aid for 100 families residing near the city The Powers telegram contained no evidegc of recovery warned “One hundred familiea mostly farm laborera in this vicinity without food and proper ahelter due to lack of funds These people are in a desperate mood and our little town is in danger of attack by them They must have some relief Harman New York bullion brokers find it “inconceivable" to hope for view as “improbable" any heavy silver purchases from world supplies by th federal government contend the hope of silver lies in Importations by China tnd India which is contingent upon Improved oriental economic conditions But from Shanghai have emanated reports thatChinese are content with depressed silver prices are experiencing a minor boom because their currency is so low in foreign exchange maria forcea Chinamen to build up their Sc soon- ”- ' cwn-countr- j OHIO Treasury Secretary Morgenthau Militarism In U S school kfog reported the first week's operation-- of - has been a touchy matter for paci— the silver purchase plan netted fists preparedness advocates In United States mints 1157 ounces Ohio the Issue of compulsory military training has vexed educators for 60 years continued to vex them when the question marched into the open on Ohio State university's EXAMPLES campus Five students announced themSalt Lake school teachers were conscientious objectors reselves addressed by Dr L John Nuttall to drill were told by Unifused to efJ their superintendent the George W Right-mir- e President versity teachfect that unless they complied that ers are expectwith college rules there is “only ed to set s' morone other probable course— disal standard for missal" The presidential edict led pupils to an effort to organize sentiment abide by laws against military training Induced of the city state university authorities to admit no and nation Said action would be taken for a short the superinteperiod of tune ndent: "The school system stands without GEORGIA qualification for observance law In the south laborers worthy of and loyalty” their hire have not been considUnmentioned ered worth much To Uncle Sam was the fact however they appear to be enS P that titled to better desserts fer the Americivil works program has granted canization and them pay above their accustomed m a t h e m atics amount This policy has caused disteacher at the sension among negro farm workWest high ers used to receiving a dollar for school recently Dr NntUlI employment pleased was found in contempt of court for at 40 cents an hour for a violation A N code R and Superweek The C W A has caused disintendent Nuttall’s bulletin said factory tress among however that “a series of recent employers incidents calls for a declaration of Georgia’s Governor Talmage policy which is to be presented to flew to the defense of the “interthe teachers the by principals” ests” flayed the relief administraSchool teachers are employed prition of Harry L Hopkins said the workmarily to teach the bulletin pointhigh wages are demoralizing ed out and outside Interests must ers inducing them to leave the be sacrificed for the profession fields The Georgia governor’s attack drew prompt action from Hopkins REVENUE Ousted was the Talmage state Consternation struck the city C W A board of five installed was Miss Gay B Shopper-so- n middle-agegovernment when it was found the welfare worker as C social a to enforce city had no power W A administrator who will addrivers' license law recently enminister the Georgia projects un- acted collect fines for violations der directions from Washington thereof For a while it appeared Said Hopkins of Talmage: "That as though violators must be proseis just a headline hunter"- guy cuted in county courts necessitating the sharing of fines with the OKLAHOMA city Citv Attorney Fisher Harris Threatened by Governor Wildrafted an ordinance which was liam H “Alfalfa Bill” Murray was passed by the city commission a hundred million dollar suit by A empowering the city to enforce the Oklahoma against the U S govlaw despite a doubt that the city ernment The Oklahoma governor has no legal right to the enforce' ment The state law makes no progiven frequently to startling moves bases the suit on the Joss vision for municipalities to draft of tax revenue to the state through their own enforcement laws exemption of Indian lands The city attorney warned the Murray admits the legality of commissioners his ordinance may iiie-S act to exempt Indian be invalid but the revenue-seekinlands from taxation Insists howcommission adopted it notwithever thaCthe federal government A future couit test to standing should bear the losses which h determine the city's authority may estimates at $100000000 be expected In Salt Lake POLITICS tAVLfctf TRIAL Ordered to stand trial was Bishop James Cannon Jr militant Methodist-Episcopa- l on charges of violating election laws by the U S supreme court The charges arose from the bishop's opposition to A1 Smith in the 1928 presiden- tial silence concerning monetary plans has caused flutters among business men some1 of whom have said downright currency inflation definitely committed Is preferable to the reigning uncertainty over the future But despite writhings over presidential silence- the Whited House remained 'noncommittal Roosevelt said In his congressional message that dollar stabilization was many months distant because of troubled conditions in foreign countries has repeatedly indicated he seeks a dollar of stable purchasing power Meanwhile from labor came support to capital's tears of wild Inflation The American Federation of Labor in its review of the year' noted progress toward recovery voiced fear of flat money Inflation which it said is clouding the business future CALIFORNIA their Mar-thak- is dawn-to-dar- k farm-owner- s d - U A |