Salt Lake Tribune | 1934-05-26 | Page 1

WEATHER FORECAST LOCAL' METAL' PRICES UTAH WYOMING—1 Unsettled Saturday and Sunday IDAHO NEVADA — Shower Saturday clearing Sunday Detailed Report Page f ' Entered at tha Postofflee at Salt' Matter Lata Cits a Second-Cla- n SALT LAKE CITY UTAH SATURDAY MORNING MAY 26 1934 26 Today And Tomorrow '‘-- Reigns at Utah Berry Fiesta Sends NEW STATE the Church of USBai AM ISSUES AUDITHINTS has some $50600 worth of stock in Ltd Vickers England SUGAR BEET owned I 'the AT THEFTS largest QUOTA armament company in Great Britain The profits of na w Wp Paraguay Whatever may be the actual effects in this South American of that Secretary quarreland Hull and his advisers are the best ' judges — the question raised by Senor Finot is of very wide importance Suppose that there is no world-widtreaty lipiting armaments And suppose that the international sale of arma- ments were stopped What would be the effect? Broadly speaking the nations would fall into three There would be those groups like the United States and Great Britain which have a highly developed industrial organization for making munitions and have either within their own territory or through their command of the sea the necessary raw materials There would be those like- Japan Germany and France which have the industrial organization but lack the raw materials unless they can command the sea There woul-d- be those countries like Chftitf or 'sky Bolivia which lack either the industrial organization or the raw materials or both e - Intensifies Competition In a world where armaments Count so heavily it would folio would it not that the nations in which were not armaments would have to build up munitions industries make al- llenCes that had them or had raw materials denavies to the lm ' velop of munitionsprotect’ or sink under ports the domination of the nations which can arm themselves? To stop the international traffic in munitions when there Is no treaty limiting armaments and no reliable system of maintaining peace is not likely therefore' to prevent war It is almost cer- wittr-countri- es -- (Continued on Pane Wine) tCoJuipn pive The World’s News By Associated Pres DOMESTIC Toledo— Strikers- in new riots guardsmen wound one man torn: pany charges “red plot” Washington — Administration Insists on 5Q per cent tax on profits by silver speculators Indianapolis— Driver and mechanic testing racer for Memorial day auto race killed in crash Washington — Bilateral diplomatic! discussions on - debated naval issues between great pow-er- s forecast Washington— Andrew W Mel lon answers federal income tax case with demand for refund Washington— Industrial strife causes administration to press for enactment Of Wagner labor board bill FOREIGN London— Feir of naval armaments race believed reason British seeking conferences prior to 1935 Production for 1934 Held Down to 1556166 Tons FIGURES FOR UTAH 2463502 Bags Allotted to West 4423698 for East Area ecretary Welling Steel Industry Reports Great Gain in Volume NEW YORK May 25 WP— April business volume in the steel construction industry was the best reported during the past 18 months the American Institute of ' Steel Construction announced today Bookings amounted to 96010 tons against 46095 tons for April 1933- The report of the reaudit of the accounts of the office of Milton H Welling secretary of state for the first six months of 1933 completed by C P Allen certified public accountant under the direction of John A Malia state bank commissioner was filed Friday with the state board of examiners which had ordered the ' Bolivian Protests problem is opened for study by $ atatement Tjiade by the Bolivian minister to Wash-lno- n Senor Finot who objects to the embargo and points out that it is an injustice to Bolivia His argument is as follows: Bolivia has no seaport Paraguay on the other hand has access to salt water Bolivia does not possess a munitions plant Paraguay does possess one An' embargo against both countries therefore means that Paraguay ban obtain or make weapons whereas Bolivia cannot For even though the embargo against Paraguay is ' effective that country would still be able presumably to obtain the raw materials out of which arms are made and then manufacture her own weapons If these are the facts of the case then theoretically the effect Of an embargo: designed to atop the Chaco war by both belligerents discouraging would be to give the victory to ACTION ASKS Demand for $9427 May Be Made on Sureties for This is one among Wiarty signs of the moral revulsion now evident in Britain America and in a few other countries against international free trade in munitions of war During the past has shown week the president that he shares this feeling he has indorsed the senate investigation of the private armaments traffic he has urged the senate to ratify the international convention of 1925 to control the traffic he has asked for power-t- o stop the sale of munitions to Bolivia and Paraguay now at war in the Chaco The j BLOOD Rejected by Vote LIST Domestic fiMmr priating Funds to the feverish of Walter Lippmann armaments in Europe and there is now a pow- -' erfui protest among the clergy against participating in these prof-‘it- s N vj :j4 wffiSWI'” “increase 1 v T Employes Accused of Misappro- - anufacturers are rising sharply owing I Former Two the armament v CENTS PAQES-nV- E of ——supervision ( 435e WALTER LIPPMANN— By 40 NEW YORK May 25-- For years The Clergy Pensions institute anv organization under the 8 850c' 4 The Armament Business f - MWc 44c " ' Local Weekl Settlement Price 4 lie Lead Conner IISo ' 24 VOL 129 NO 42 'A ‘ Gold Silver! (domestic) Silver (foreign) Copper Lead 400c Zinc ’ ‘ reaudit Its filing was followed by a series of official acts which are expected to lead promptly to criminal' prosecu tions on eharges of misuse of- state funds and also to demand on the surety company carrying Mr bond for payment of missing funds Attqjrney General Joseph Chez to whom the matter was referred by the examiners said steps for institution of proper legal action would be taken at once For the period covered the report lists as "differences and questionable items” some 19 amounts which to tal $942784 This ostensibly might be the total of a demand to be made on Mr Welling’s bonding company for restitution to the state This total includes various items resulting from the failure of a bank at Richfield from the acceptance of worthless checks and various errors which do not necessarily carry any implication of moral turpitude on the part of anyone in Mr Welling's office Two Mentioned The report however mentions by name two former employes Clarence E Smith and Moroni C Iverson as having personally benefited by other transactions unless they can explain way better than they have as yet the implications of the record As to third employe unnamed a series of small items totaling only $21 has been found and opportunity for explanation has not yet been afforded 'In our opinion” says the report after setting' out in some detail an alleged- - manipulation of adding machine tapes placed in the record by Mr Iverson “there is sufficient evidence to justify the conclusion that these differences in totals represented deliberate manipulations for the purpose of covering comparable misappropriations of cash Mr Smith's name is mentioned in inconnection with the “capacity creases" and the report concludes this section by saying Failure "Deliberate” Charge “It is our opinion that there is sufficient evidence (o justify the conclu sion that Mr Smith deliberately failed to make receipts for truck caWell-ing’- s - jljDCW:frr v- iwimi f mu m ii ji ""I Queen Beverly of Strawberria (above) ruled with regal grace Friday at Pleasant Grove’s Thirteenth Annual UtahMrStrawberry and Mrs oi day Queen Beverly is the —daughter Harold Wootton of Pleasant Grove Strawberry Festival Attracts Thousands Visitors From All Parts of State Gather in Pleasant Grove to Celebrate By STAFF CORRESPONDENT PLEASANT GROVE May 25— With ten thousand visitors Anthronging its streets Pleasant Grove celebrated its Thirteenth and successful most of one the with nual Strawberry day today colorful affairs ever staged and extended every effort to provide Visitors from all parts of Utah and entertainment for visitors” More than' two tons of fresh lussurrounding states attracted to Pleasant Grove through the fame of its cious Marshall strawberries were disat the park The berries garannual berry fiesta witnessed a beau- tributed wit hsugar and with rish thick tiful parade in which children of nished like magic when cream the city participated feasted upon a score disappeared attendants under direcof heard at the strawberries city park tion of J M McFarlane served the band concerts by the Pleasant Grove for the treat - throng that gathered witbands school and Provo high Floats a Prepared rodeo attended nessed a thrilling bail game and ended a day of high Primary classes of L D S wards festivities by attending a bathing girl in the city assisted in the prepararevue and a strawberry ball at Ge- tion of miniature floats used in the neva on the shores of Utah lake atmost one of the parade Working with materials furThe parade was tractive events of its kind ever held nished by the Pleasant Grove chamthe Primary teachin Utah Approximately three hun- ber dred children participated and more ers evolved a number of spectacularthan a hundred beautifully designed ly beautiful creations which carryminiature float appeared in the pro- ing lovely youngsters in fluffy colorcession- ihich was well over a mile ful costumes created a striking pic- ture Little Miss Beverly Wootton 5 the daughter of Mr and Mrs Harold Wootton who was selected queen of the Strawberry day festival conducted herself with real grace Seated upon a throne on a cleverly conceived float of white satin the diminutive blond beauty smiled and nodded to her loyal subjects while her conveyance passed along the lipe in length Held Succe A West president of the chamber of commerce and general chairman of the Strawberry day committee declared the success of the event surpassed expectations of the committee “Early hot' weather and "lack of sufficient water reduced our strawberry crop by 50 per cent this year” of march Mr West said “but in spite of this ' “But toother how about my merrycondition the fruit growers were enon Pise Eight thusiastic regarding the celebration -(Continued (Column One! Junius- I Birth Ratfc Declines During 1933 To Lowest of Twentieth Century U S KANSAS pITY May 25 children were born in the United States in 1933 than in any year since the start of the twentieth century when accurate recording of births began Dr Warren S Thompson of Oxford Ohio told the National Conference of Social Work tonight Because' of the birth 'decline and “the practical cessation of immigration” the director of the Scripps Foundation for Research in population problems foresees a more stable society with “less mushroom development in new communities and fewer people moving into the large Much Instability of the population mpvement from place to place move ment from occupation to occupation movement from class to class and movement 'from job to job has made the task of the social worker both more arduous and more uncertain In "accomplishment" Miss Katharine F Lenroot assistant chief of the United States children' bureau will head the National Conference of Social Work for the next year The election to the conference presidency of the former Wisconsin woman was announced tonight at a gent eral session' of the sixty-firs- t annual cities” She is the seventh woman i meeting WilThis situation should be of aid to president of the organisation the social worker because “One of liam Hudrojj commissioner of pubthe great handicap of social workers lic welfared(or New York City is in this country has been the great the retiring president Fewer - (Continued on P (Column Twentj-one- One) ) By United Press WAlHJNfiTpN hi ay ricuitural administra adjustment tion tonight ordered this year’s domestic production of beet sugar limited to 1556166 tons Carrying out terms of the new sugar control act it divided this production among 22 processing companies Total production to be permitted this year is 26 percent less than the output but is more average than has been processed in most years f MELLON ASKS REFUND INUS TAX SQUABBLE 1932-193- 3 past HOUSE SILVER FOES HOLD UP VOTE ON BILL Opponents of Monetary Proposal to Get IIear ing Saturday Workers’ Move Next' Mediator of Labor Department Asserts Street Fights Abate Soldiers Fire Into 'Air to Force Back MoH of 2000 Sympathizers TOLEDO Saturday May 26 UP) —A national guard lieutenant and a civilian were ihot by ini pert early today In new disorders near the Electric Auto-Lit- e plant - A bullet struck Lieutenant Vem Salibaugh of Lima in the thigh while he was directing an outpost at Lagrange and Champlain streets He was taken to the national guard emer- gency hospital In the Auto-Lit- — e ' plant or treatment At the same time Payton Cass 36 was received In Saint Vin cent’s hospital with his lower jaw almost torn away by a bullet ' Output Divided j The allowance output was divided Claims Overpayment in carefully between eastern and westBy Associated Press ern producing areas and between the TOLEDO Ohio -- May 26 (Satur 7 Reply to Press Auociated Br refining companies in ratio with reat the Electric Auto May 25— Oppo- Lite cent past production Processors east WASHINGTON Demand Treasury company at whose plant here of the Mississippi were allotted 1521 nents of the new silver monetary savage riots have been In progress per cent of the total or 4423698 bags will be given an opportu- for four days rejected the first peace of refined sugar of 100 pounds each proposal Br Associated Press to air their views tomorrow be- proposal presented to them shortly WASHINGTON May 25— Andrew The western area was allotted 24663-50- nity fore the ways and means commit- before last midnight as bitter lighting bags W Mellon today answered the gov between troops and rioters at the Total beet sugar domestic produc- tee but Democratic leaders plan to plant abated ernment's $1978621" income tax case tion was fixed by the act at 1550000 speed the bill to house action next The strikers rejected the peace pro against him with a demand for”$139-04- tons on the basis of expected total U posal submitted by Charles P Taft refund S consumption this year of 6452000 week federal mediator both In Individual After a sharp tilt between Repub- sections The former secretary of the treas- tons Acting Secretary of Agricul and as a whole! was ury whom a Pittsburgh grand Jury ture Tugwell today placed expected licans and Democrats over allowing learned that a standing vote Itof the refused to indict for tax evasion stat- consumption 24000 tons in excess of Professor E W Kemmerer of Prince strikers showed of them f ed his case in a petition to the board this and 6166 tons of the excess was ton university to appear Chairman ready to end the strike if the Auto of tax appeals replying to a treasury added to the beet quota Lite two with plant other together deficiency assessment on Mellon’s Doughton (D N C) abandoned plans auto Quota Division plants in Toledo were closed 1931 income to force a vbte on the bill today while the questions Involved were This a 29087 made total of quota Mellon who served in the cabinets Kemmerer and Representative Dies submitted to the automobile labor of Presidents Harding Coolidge and 200 bags of 100 pounds which the who introduced the board at Detroit The strikers also' ( (D Texas) Hoover disclosed he paid the inter- AAA divided as follows: will appear tomorrow asked withdrawal of troops - Tha nal revenue bureau $647559 on his Amalgamated Sugar Co 1989544 measure said however he planned meeting adjourned at 12:05 a m 1931 income He listed charitable American Beet Sugar Co 2892159 Doughton vote to report the bill (E S T) contributions that year of $3821178 Central Sugar Co 187839 Franklin to call for a J Sections of Plan Mellon's appeal to the tax board Sugar Co 221402 Garden City Co after their testimohy It was understood however that Mergenthan Testifies was filed shortly after the justice de- 226958 Gunnison Sugpr Co 198751 Lakes Sugar Co 588439 Great The partment announced full payment by Great controversy pver allowing op- the proposal presented to the strikers Thomas S Lamont youthful J P Western Sugar Co 9594284 Holly ponents to testify came after Secre- provided for the resumption of work Sugar Corp 3683859 Isabella Sugar tary Morgenthau and his general coun- at the plant with all strikers re- Morgan &Co partner of government Co 289192 Lake Shore Sugar Co sel income tax claims and penalties La Herman Oliphant testified that hired without discrimination Anoth68494 Layton Sugar Co 267504 Los the administration wanted a 50 per er section of the plan It was report 7 mont was named by Attorney General Menomcerit tax levied upon profits made ed placed all disputes between the Cummings along with Mellon Thom- Alamitos Sugar Co 93436 workers and the company officials Michigan by speculators as Sidlo a Cleveland attorney and inee Sugar Co 188831 James J Walker as among several Sugar Co 1399232 Monitor Sugar Representative Treadway (R in the hands of a board composed of Co 433776 National Sugar Co Taft a representative of the national hundred against whom the governproposed that Kemmerer be Northeastern Sugar Co 193483 Mass) ment is seeking to collect additional allowed to testify that Doughton said labor board and a representative of Ohio Sugar Co 196506 Paulding he did not want the committee to the union taxes 201317 Some 2000 sympathizers who conRock County become a Mellon’s petition set forth 18 dif- Sugar Co "debating society” After ferent assignments of error on the Sugar Co 119701 St Louis Sugar the luncheon recess however an tinued to stone the troops on guard t part of the treasury including items Co 208355 Spreckels Sugar Co Co agreement was reached to hear the in the strike area at intervals gradually moved away and Superior Sugar Refining of losses sustained on the sale of professor this morning only 700 persons stock of the Pittsburgh Coal company 136206 Union Sugar Co 175000 Although the basic principles of early Sugar Co 2844031 West the bill have met the general approval remained in the district where in Western Public Service corporation and others which the former secre- Bay City Sugar Co 147972 of the committee aeveral members four days two men have been killed tary contended were sold in the ordiindicated they would propose amend- by gunfire and more than 150 others Changes Permitted nary course of business and in good The A A A left 161308 bags un- ments to limit the discretionary au- shot or injured by flying missiles Last night while the strikers pon-faith allotted to permit to thority granted the president over dered the peace plan guardsmen Mellon said revenue agents Inves- be made later “if itadjustments that the monetary system develops again tired above the rioting sympatigated his books and records in 1933 they are required to protect the inFower Delegated thizers at the plant in the face of and instead of reporting tax evasion terests of producers who otherwise The bill gives the president power another stone bombardment under said he had overpaid $7507 might be deprived of a market for to call in all silver in this country cover of smoke bombs The guardstheir crop" in addition to authorizing the secre- - men fired frequently into the air to ’ Administrator Chester Davis said jary 0f the treasury to investigate force the angry mob back planting is so far advanced that acre- regulate or prohibit the acquisition Tarn Guns on Crowd age allotments probably will not be importation exportation or transporto the peace meeting made' for individual growers tation of silver and of contracts and As a preface “Reports-frothe beet areas in- other arrangements with sil- tonight the rioters made such a sav-ag- e dealing dicate that beets grown this year ver attack on the militiamen yestor probably will not produce sugar in Under the tax provision a 50 per day afternoon that the guardsmen-finallexcess of the total allotted for sale” cent were 'forced to use their pislevy is imposed on profits on ' he added transactions after May 15 1634 Mor- tols and rifles to disorganize the Quotas for Insular and foreign areas genthau estimated it would return crowd will be announced soon Despite the fact that two were $25000000 to the treasury killed Thursday in fighting against moneUnder maintain to the plan Restrictions placed on beet sugar rioters disregarded reserves of 25 per cent sliver and the troopers the in the United States this tary of guns again Fri 75 per cent gold behind the currency the menace and accepting a lower standard of liv production In and out of the year by the agricultural adjustment said it would be necessary day and surged ing He asserted that he believed administration will not affect Utah Oliphant to purchase 1300000000 ounces' of area under patrol They took Stephen that the amount of available work sugar manufacturers because drouth Kardox 29 out of a taxi stripped could be expanded continually conditions will prevent production silver He added that with between beat him and then pursued him 7 Most of the answers were deliv150000- 000 and 200000000 ounces in to the full quota set for each coma street and beat him again until up ered i£ person others were read from up in free this and the silver country pany a survey revealed Friday night annual and guardsmen intervened ‘ manuscript production amounting to about police However all four Utah companies A man and a boy were 24000- 000 ounces the United States Lohger Life hand on stocks sufficient reported on Two) (Continued Pin Dr C H Mayo and Dr W P Mayo would be compelled to purchase a i (Column Ooc) Elchtl (Continued m of the Mayo clinic at Rochester large 'quantity abroad (Column Six) Minn Dr Raymond Pearl of Johns Hopkins university Dr Morris Fish-beiof Chicago editor of the Jour nal of the American Medical asso"' ciation predicted that the normal life BEVERLY HILLS Cal May span soon would be 70 years instead a 25— haven’t If bought poppy you of the present 60 itself an increase this morning as you read this from the 35 years of 1833 so The and do now go right The Doctors Mayo pointed out that r DALLAS Texas May 25 (IF)— An their boys in the hospitals make ' terrorization of the remarkable advances have been made not only in the diagnosis of cancer estimated 50000 spectators in endless southwest was tentatively set for ’em and it’s for a great charity :f The further we get in years but in its cure and that the years line! jafnmed into two Dallas funeral Sunday Her grave will be in Fish-traaway from the war tha less we cemetery a mile from Barrow’s would bring further progress Dr Fishbein asserted that “with homes today to see the bodies of The crowds that swarmed into the think of it But that’s not these the discovery of vitamins and the Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker be- funeral homes saw Clyde dressed in fellows fault they never thought newer knowledge of nutrition even fore the burial of the southwest’s No a new and expensive suit a pearl so much of it even at the time A mother can come nearer eay stickpin fastened in his shirt He lay better bodies will be available' in 1 bad man and his companion few generations” He predicted that A private funeral at sunset was ar- in a wood casket of battleship gray Ing the right and most Impressive satin plush in- ’ thing under any circumstances the knowledge now available for con- ranged by Barrow’s family with with a than all your great writers The trolling1 the birth of the unfit and the burial in the West Dallas cemetery terior mother of the outlaw Parker girl degenerate will be applied for the ad- close to the grave of his brother Bonnie's hair was freshly marcelled killed in Louisiana said “She “Buck" Both were killed by offi- her nails were tinted and the' family vancement of all mankind won’t be buried with 'him he Infectious disease he - predicted cers’ bullets— Buck a year ago in Iowa had provided a blue silk negligee Her when he was with Clyde and Bonnie pasket was more expensive than took her from me In life but I 7 will be eliminated will take her from him in death as they shot their way out of a Police Clyde’s and a $1000 vault awaited her On Threshold she is mine from pow on" f Dr Peal announced that biolqgists trap and Clyde Wednesday wheh he Clyde Barrow became known as a "Yours oqnie ran into an ambush in criminal eight years ago— about six are on the threshold of adyances that and yearn before he began associating Will chaage mankind's whole" outlook Lbuislsffia The burial of Bonnie Parker who with Bonnie — but the crowds at the Application to higherJifC'of the pow was almost as her bedy lay quick on the trigger as funeral ’(Continued on Psse Two) those at his was her companion in crime during were twice (£olumn Tbrett $1978621 rs of ‘ two-thir- 4- ' last-nigh- Utah-Idah- - -- Savants ‘Preview’ 2034 And See Amazing World Disease Elimination Longer Life Span and Planes Powered From Ground Forecast CHICAGO May 25 (IP)— Five hun- dred of the nation’s leaders in science and industry tonight pushed aside the curtains of the future and pictured the world as they expect it to be 100 years from now Higher standards of living were predicted rather than a division of what we now have They saw: Elimination of infectious disease A lengthening of the average life span ' Airplanes powered from stations on the ground Electric motors run by sunlight Slums eliminated by low cost prefabricated houses Multimotored air liners flying the oceans on frequent schedules Marvels Predicted These and scores of other scientific marvels were predicted not as Jules Verne phantasies but as probabilities by creative specialists who met at the Hall of Progress In the General Motors building at a Century of Progress at the invitation of Alfred P Sloan Jr president of General Motors corporation Banishing unanimously the philosophy that the world was finished and that progress was a thing of the past they gave their answers to Sloan's question “What will be the future developments in your field?" Sloan said he wanted to know whether there was any foundation for the belief of pessimi-'t- s that progress had ceased and that life must be maintained by dividing up available jobs Pe Will Rogers Says: Fifty Thousand Pack Mortuaries To See Dead Outlaw Sweetheart sol-di- er two-yea- 4 cream-colore- d : r home-wjier- V e u :