| Show e c THE SALT' LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING MAY 27 183C Curb Arras THE WEEK’S EVENTS PARADE — Ttuemational destiny’schoice intrance? j— Fire Damage-- - Bulgarian Coupe—NR A Fight Scandal —Ford Hit — Navy Embargo Weapon Arms Treaty Hdpes Aid ARMS - 3 t Metals HARVEST who hid believed the depression end ensuing revelations had ouited the mighty from their financial thrones the newa that the powerful Morgan and Rockefel let families hitherto consideredto business rivals had ’combined strengthen their financial empires will come ss e distinct shock To those who recall that fortunes are founded in panic eras the newi will be taken as a matter of course ' Revealed during the week how ever was that the two potent financial families have been operating I To those Son-in-la- eon-lnla- Son-in-la- k lough to proponents of "redlstrlbU' " f "& ‘i F—L ? HFmps t V‘’ t The division of Interests of the two families Is Undisclosed but both financial house! are represented on the directorate Companies under the aegis: Central American Life insurance with Morgan-Roekefetl- warfare the over Besides South America war clouds appear gathering over Europe and the Far East The European muddle quieted during the week although remaining tense but the Asiatic issue became more perplexedaiter k i m M In the Foreign" Fields r i 4 r 1 f Japan's recent aggressiveness and bid for Asiatic hegemony has upset the delicate balance of power established at Washington in 1922 - t J ) when signatorlea to the naval reduction pact virtually guaranteed China’a territorial integrity maintenance of the open door Sir John denied Britain had over agreed to preserve the territorial integrity wisely pointed dut that economic sanctions are ineffective unless a war threat support! them At the sam time Sir John said his government would “respect” China’ rights The cabinet member’s statements were viewed In foreign circles as a bid for U S cooperation In preserv- ing world peace MEXICO BULGARIA n ing” policy : g Brliiah-Foreig- Secretary Sir John Simon said In a house of commons speech that Britain will take no action in the Far East without U S support The speech wai In reply to an opposition criticism of Britain’r ’‘vacillat- ‘ ship through the ballot1 ' n CLOUDS n GOLD e Leticia which formed the center of en ominous war cloud for 20 months total 1933 business of 1818000000 Yosemite Holding corporation: Chain & General Equities Inh Interstate Equities Allied General Eastern Shares United Founder the Morris Plan Inc American Colony Insurance American Merchant Marine Insurance Proudfoot Mer- ' eantile agency All companies were struck hard by depression probably will revive Colonel De La Rocque heads a column in the Joan of Arc through injection! of the golden ' i serum RockeftUer-Morgaday celebration in Paris As chief of the Croix Du Feu associ- ation of war veterans the colonel is regarded as France’s candidate tor thk laurels of Mussolini and Hitler seeks a dictatorGold mining interests convened In Denver under the banner of the Gold Mining Association of Atner lea emulated other U S industries’ by seeking federal aid N R A Codification 'The asso fiation agreed to petition the U A treasury for $ 1100000000 loan heard Vigorous objection to code from the floor sidestepped the Issue In committee Leaders Of the group erg Tasker IOddie former Nevada senator president J C Kemp Van E Jr secretary-treasurHarry Sears president of the Mining Association of California and Harry S Joseph Salt Lake mining man and chairman of the resolution committee boundary-disput- g jungle-lade- t pi ' i -- t New of one human life rushed tvo navy planes and a deenstroyer into tropical seas The dangered life was that of William A Robinson youthful American exacute plorer who was stricken with vessel appendicitis on his Svaap With him were his wife daughter of Richard Crane Chicago coumanufacturer and a sin of Mrs Robinson Mrs- - Robinson had messages radioed to Balboa in the Canalt2one whence two planes bearing Lieutenant Commander RollW Hutchinson surgeon and Lieutenant Oscar D Yarbrough naval medical officer 'took off The physicians arrived performed an emergency operation En rout was the destroyer Hale which arrived next day to carry the stricken explorer to Balboa when possible To tlie aid CONFERENCE Into conference committee went act after the the house passed the measure with a The act number of amendments was requested by the administration ’ in another attempt to grease the wheels of industry with credit The senate measure provided r $250000000 to the R F C for loans to business $280000000 to federal reserve banks for the same purpose The house boosted the R F C quota to $300000000 low- ered that of the federal reser veto— The house also per$140000000 mitted 75 millions in R F C loans to school districts with adequate security Defeated in the house was an amendment to permit the funds to be lent to municipalities for con- of publicly owned and operated electric power plants y five-yea- humanitarian Clarence Darrow (right) criminal lawyer confers with Senator Gerald P Nye concerning the report criticising NBA issued by the national recovery review board National Recovery Disasters HOLOCAUST which Darrow heads The report created a storm of controversy over the recovery administration was prompted by Nye who sponsored "the bill creating it r Chicago’s famed' Union stock-yard- s became a blazing mass of timber and animal flesh shortly after a carelessly tossed cigaret ignited a shack near the western limits of the yards A breeze from Lake Michigan fanned the burning structure into a roaring furnace as the flames leaped angrily at adjacent buildings rendered into excellent tinder by the midwest drouth Before firemen controlled Chicago’s worst fire since 1871 when the city virtually was destroyed 42 blocks were left a mass of charred ruins ten million dollars’ worth of damage had been done and 1200 were homeless 'No deaths were reported but 25 firemen and spectators were seriously injured scores suffered from the oppressive heat generated by the flames Major packing plants in the area escaped damage but in the wake of the flames’ course were left ruined: The Livestock Exchange building the stockyards amphitheater and the jialFof the Dexter pavilion Fercheron Society of America the Stockyards inn several banka scores of cottages smaller business houses apartment and rooming houses the Agar Packing company plant the Omaha Packing company’s wholesale market and the plant of the Equipment Corporation of America In fact a healthy slice of Packingtown a city within a city was destroyed Next day commission merchants stood on crates amid the smoking ruins to continue the business which made the windy city famous as plans progressed for reconstruction The holocaust caused the destruction of thousands of head of hogs sheep and cattle CONFLICT FUEL Hailed as The sivior of the age the leverip lift the country from an economic morass the national recovery administration found itself on the defensive during the week as the heralded Darrow report was Coincident with its made public publication waa an answer by Re- Immediate result of the Darrow report waa to add fuel to N R A opponents to 'prompt North Dakota’s Senator Gerald P Nye responsible for the Darrow board to repeat his charges N R A suckled monopoly “to prompt Illinois’ Representative Fred A Britten to seek a thoroughgoing investigation into the agency Although General Hugh S Johnson flayed the Darrow charges as unfounded he admitted a degree of justice in them by subsequent action HereportedaproposedNRA fetreat Was before the president a junk the small industry Cbdes and codes for service industries such as hotels cleaners and dyers restaurants covery Administrator Hugh S Johnson Charge and answer resounded through the country and N R A definitely was placed on trial in the public forum Clarence Darrow noted Chicago criminal lawyer was named by the president as chairman of an N R A board of review to hear and sift -Charges that JJ RuA wu crushing the little man The board majority ' found credence in the charges urged “a return to the antitrust laws for the purpose of restoring competition” A minority report from John F Sinclair noted the majority report was “inconclusive incomplete and rat times misleading" Other findings of the majority: “The aim (of NBA) obviously is entirely to prevent price competition throughout this (steel) indus- be-ga- ' CRIJIC Wedded to a bycfne era is Ogden 1 Mills former secretary of the treasury and now a leader of the vanquished Republican party Before the Association of New York State Republican Clubs Mills cried for 8 return to the “rugged individualism” of Hoover days recalled the G O P was “born to s!ve the union” insisted it “must now go forth to battle to save the principles upon which the union was founded” An echo of the discredited Wirt charges sounded in the speech which declared the avowed purpose of the administration is “the ultimate setting up of a system of economic planning by the government on a nationwide scale accompanied by control of industry and the regimentation of the American people” STARCH Since the inception of N R A the nation’s biggest holdout has been Henry Ford who for a time balked recovery administration efforts by employing the courts to force the government to accept his low bids on automobiles But Justice Daniel W O’Donoghue of the District of Columbia supreme court added starch to the blue eagle’s drooping wings ruled the government need not purchase Ford products if the Ford company "is thwarting the recovery act and defying the government to enforce it” The judge denied an Injunction sought by the Northwest Motor company of Chevy Chase Md to prevent the interior and agriculture departments from rejecting low bids on 1000 Ford trucks and automobiles try Before dawn one day during the Since Mexico’s revolution of 1917 “The fact is ggqerally overlooked week Bulgarians marched through to and the subsequent accession or obscured bu of Sofia took posts at the streets ' strategic places took charge of power of group of nationalistic enterprise hi tance out of dr liberals the church and state Issue public buildings At advantageous to its portion points through the small Balkan below the Rio Grende has been rife size since it is country (39814 square miles) the several times have Catholic priests often the consum military were stationed er’s sole barrier The 'government ’After dawn King Boris was kept been expelled against complete seek! to liberalize educational polibusy signing decrees which crushed grasping and ir the shell of cies of peons raise their social outmo responsible democracy® look "regards the church askance nopoly - established a milMINE3 “What is called as I reactionary itary dictatorship a ‘chiseler’ like Aid for a depressed mining induRddolfO In Sonora leaderunder the Governor wise may not al stry once proud giant of the west" ship ot Premier PEACE Ellas Calks son of Mexico's guidwas sought of the Interior departways be the pub Tarbell lie enemy he has Soviet Russia loomed as the foThey exposed all sorts of ment in a conference with Assistant ing spirit Plutarco Elias CaUes sc- The military business and political corruption been represented cal point to preserve the European Secretary T A Waltert by group coup d'etat was cuied priests ot exerting undue Inafter the century’s turn without Instances status arise The of western representatives prevent the outbreak of fluence over Mexicans seeking to war Inquo executed In tra avail where he is seen the central Europan tinder-- group seeks government purchase ditlonal fashion block the educational program The Russell thesis is seen in the to be struggling boxr Maxim Litvittoff able Soviet of surplus stocks of nonferrous w 1 1 h 0 ut blood-shaStriking at what he termed "Cathwords of the supplemental report to prevent total metals establishment of a central foreign commissar visited Geneva i olic banished Corre-fanaticism” he Min“The choice is between monopoly conferred with French Foreign Richberg bureau of mines station in Salt i p o n dents deabsorption of an priests started en exodus into No-- ( ister Louis Barthou sustained by government which is Lake reorganization of the bureau scribed the re-- industry or interest into a monopoArk gales listic organization or chain against nearly the trend in the national reObservers hinted Russia might of mines DEFENDANT'S DEFENSE con- The trouble la viewed es gime as fascists “ The mthing states’ and a enter League of Nations agree to which the public has no other proadministration covery representatives but reports failed' a tlnuatkm of the trouble which Mae Murray blond cinema actress 4 European pact to preserve her tection planned economy which demands argue the government could be to ' Indicate the when was father the governor’s western boundaries b content t o sued Tiffany Productions Inc for “The opinion therefore is forced socialized ownership and control aided surpluses reduced through president of Mexico precise nature car! for her Siberian frontier! 8300000 on the claim she was em- Upon us from what we have heard To give the sanction of government copper purchase of newly-minen$ end ot purpose to sustain profits is qot planned This concession may supply France ployed by them on a percentage so far that ’fair competition’ is merelead manganese and sine for war the new government whether With her security clear basis Was told her pictures lost ly a resounding and illusoryphrase economy but a regimented organipreparations They propose the re- Boris is to remain JAPAN head of active zation for exploitation” All competition is savage wolfthe way to smooth her difficulties money when in fact they netted organization of the bureau of mines The language of the supplemental more than a million Her suit was ish and relentless" with the militant Reich dominated so that similar service could be ren- the state or figurehead Evidences ot business corruption Internal difficulty has harassed Affixed to the majority report report appeared to fit poorly the dismissed In a New York federal dered to the Industry se Is rendered by Hitler end in United States the inland rampant concern of the majority report for country bounded court was a supplemental document to farmers by the department of Bulgaria ' by Rumania Jugoslavia Greece the France burst forth in Japan during ALTERNATE WtVfcS Bertram H‘ signed by Darrow and William O the small business man because in Upon dismissal Sericulture Black sea and "Turkey as other 'the week whisa system ot socialized control he Behind this document Because Alfred C Du Fault 27 Mayers Tiffany attorney Thompson turned Japanese Itten- countries have been harassed Comexplained to Mrs Martha DU Fault pered “Now you’ve got justice" was seen the mind and theories of would be at just aa serious a disadaftlon to from domestic foreign munism has bsen growing by leaps Miss Murray indulged in a fit of Charles Edward Riissell noted so- vantage as under one of monopoly that he worked alternate nights for and bounds particularly ini the fairs Hod threaten to upset the cabcialist one! of the tribe of “muck-rakers- ” The N R A reply to the criticism an oil company and offered the temperament made the defendant's 1 inet of Premier Salto The diet i of Everybody’s Magazine a was delivered by General Johnson province of Macedonia same explanation to Mrs Caroline attorney a defendant with a reBut behind the coup d’etat is seen in tumult iid suffering generation ago The muckrakets and his counsel Donald Rlchberg Japanese Grant DU Fault he went to San sounding whack on the jaw Plainthe subtle influence of France seek- ‘ numbered among them Upton Sin- liberal labor sympathizer In chartiff’s counsel rushed into the fray Quentin for bigamy The two Mrs under financial ir cupidseethihg S HIS BIT ing yet to maintain her iron ring clair Lincoln Steffens and Ida M acteristic language Johnson characDu Faults met compared notes prevented further blows A farthing wai tent to iht standaround Germany with Poland and terized the report thus: The scandal centers about Kideo “A more superficial Intemperate ing committed of congressional cor- the little entente Rumania Jugol finance e respondents in Washington by Mar- slavia and and Inaccurate document than the "ASHES King Kuroda vice minister career official rather than a polititin Finn patriotic Britisher in token Boris in 1930 wedded Princess In report I have never seen of Italy and Bulgaria has cal leader' Kuroda and 15 other payment of the British war debt my judgment this board has missed a great opportunity for a real pubAccompanying the half cent piece since bowed to Italian fascism's inprominent Japanese have been ? art v wa advice: fluence The new government may jailed The scandal’ periphery is lic service As Jt is now it is of no 1 “We have knocked off thousands mark the end of Italian dominance the Bank of Taiwan a semlgovern service to anybody-- it is a political of millions of pounds owing to us the beginning ot a domination by ment institution the Imperial Ray I recommend sounding board from other nations simply because France on company and the Kobe Sieei it be abolished forthwith” it was a millstone around their Works Richberg’s eounterthrust charged i I neck end it was no use bullying the report's defense Of the ’chiseler’ Charges are that government of- CHACO f iclais were bribed to sell stock in them or trying any other way to get ’ was a defense of the business law ot While nations of the world sugThe sooner you realize this the the two industries held by the Taithe jungle sweatshops and child embararms armistices and gested w better" wan bank at figures tar below marOf monopoly he t labor exploiter goes to halt the jungle war between ket valuta The sale allegedly were admitted “the N R A has been from Bolivia and Paraguay in the Gran the beginning critical of the price 1 negotiated and huge profits made GOOD CONDUCT Chaco forces ot the two countries provisions of the steel code” Of A dozen Smith coUege girls and j engaged in mighty battle in the by officer ot the two Industrie Russell and Darrow he said without ene Bernard college girl who had torpid tropical jungles over which Transaction involved 220000 Imnumber naming them: been studying at the University of ‘ the two countries have disputed al- perial Rayon ahares a like — "The explanation of the contraMadrid Spain decided to visit most for a century Sixty thousand of Kobe Steel shares — —— dictory nature of the board’s concluFrance and Paris where tradition Paraguayans were hurled against a ' sions may be found in its selection has It Americans go to misbehave smaller Bolivian force in an effort FRANCE to write a of a noted socialist But the French official failed to run to capture Fort BaUlvian Bolivia'! report for philosophic anarchists true to tradition refused to vise the major stronghold Dispatches from Since the bloody days In Paris who apparently oppose any governgirls’ passports until he had good La Paa Bolivia reported that a ot Premier Gaston ment control of anybody including early spring conduct statements from French four-daoffensive left the pest still Doumergue has headed the French criminals” consuls in the U S in Bolivian hands — — government with almost dictatorial t Next day Frenchmen sought to powers Doumergue is pledged to appease the ruffled dignities of the WEDDING MARCH VATICAN the preservation of the gold franc — In comely students explained there balance must took hi Pa Theodore R XI Plus unbalanced occasion the long Pope Reading must have been a “misunderstand--1 of canonizing Conrad of Parxham Aurand cinema organist was walkbduget To accomplish this he has r ing” but the girls replied they have doorman of a German Capuchin issued a number ot economic de ing along the street with his bride-to-b- e Woman’s i prerogative exercised when his first wife with a monastery - to whack at what he creea Restiveness under the iron may not visit French after all described aa a “pagan” movement apfisted government appeared in the couple of deputy sheriffs in Germany Attending the ceremoThe Aurand wedding chamber ot deputies was squelched proached ' ANNOYING WEAPON nies which elevated the' humble with a close confidence vote of 260 march turned into a jail trek because the bridegroom was in arj Woodbury N J high school stu-- doorman who died In 1894 to saint- - to 205 which sidetracked 47 interdent are forbidden to possess wa- - hood were 500 German pilgrims' pellationa of the decrees Thirty rears for the support of his childisastrous fire rose firms contirhed to function amid the ruins Out of the ashes of (or pistol dren by the first marriage Principal Harry M Relations between the Vatican and members of the radical-socialiTsxli admits they may be harmless reieh have been strained itince the party headed by Edouard Harriot “I hate to do this on your wedding the Chicago Union stockyards to do business as Above is a general view of a destroyed section toys but recalls he was "shot" with advent of Hitler who seeks to bend voted with the opposition 30 eb usual the next day The fire destroyed several with workmen erecting a temporary building to day” said the tearful first wife one recently tamed blocks of the famed yards but commission “but the children need support” house office forces ol the yards religions to the will ol his state er to Sufferer Deal Criticized Aid EMERGENCY H wealth" of i - jointly through NO I is David M Milton law Rockefeller yer husband of Abbey daughter of John D Rockefeller Jf No 3 is Colonel Herbert Satterlee lawyer husband of Louise Pierpont Morgan eldest daughter of J Pierpont Morgan Sr These princes of financial kingdoms have been operating through the ytar under the cloak of Equity corporation and Satterlee A Co: have bought at bargain prlcea working control of more than a billion indollara’ worth of depreasion-ilcsurance companies credit agencies and security concerns giving the tion - National mvmmmmmwm lt Codes ‘ - of the little man conker ’ Efforts to pump lifeblood into the anaemic disarmament conference whose scuttling has all but foundered the League or Nations were given a fillip during the week when President Franklin D Roose-veasked for senate ratification of the Geneva Arms convention of 1925 wherein International arms traffic would be supervised The president coupled his message with an echo of rising Indignation alsgainst munitions makers who most find themselves in the position of being charged with responsibility for all conflicts Said the president: ‘‘That ratification of that convention by this government which has been too long delayed would be s’ concrete Indication of the willingness of the- American people to make their contribution toward the suppression of abuses which may have disastrous results for the entire world If they are permitted to continue unchecked” This request was coupled with approval of the senate’s resolution authorizing an inquiry into the domestic arms traffic about which the president said “the private end uncontrolled manufacture of arms and munitions and the traffic therein have become a serious source of international discord and strife” Coincident with the message congress received from the state department a bill authorizing the shippresident to suspend arms Paraments to warring Bolivia and guay To the message and the suspension the League of Nations extended grateful hand recommended to 31 government! that arms and munitions embargoes be placed upon the two countries in hope of ending the jungle warfare The leadership of the U S presi dent may serve to revive the moribund arms conference scheduled to reconvene next rnopth at Geneva Meanwhile Colombia and Peru set an example to their auter Latin American atates by settling without Purchases' i v' ' ' "Champions PROBERS Named as counsel for the Nye committee to investigate the U S armaments industry was Stephen Raushenbush New York research expert Tq assist the investigation as expert advisers will be Harold G Moulton of Brookings institute Manley O Hudson Harvard law professor and authority on international law John P Flynn New York publicist and financial writer who aided in drafting the stock market regulation bill RESIGNATIONS Resigned from federal posts: Tam K Smith special assistant to Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgen thau Jr to return to the presidency of the Boatmen’s National bank St Louis Dr George F Zook as commissioner of education to become head of the American Council of Education Dr Zook will be succeeded by John Ward Studebaker Des Iowa Moines school superintendent Obituaries d long-soug- ’ ’ LIVESTOCK INDUSTRY FUNCTIONS 'AMONG Czecho-Slbvak- Gio-van- ' 1 it y 4 it WHITLOCK From Cannes France came news of the death of Brand Whitlock 65 of a bladder ailment Since 1922 Whitlock had been little heard from but prior to that time he loomed large in the U S political picture Twice mayor of Toledo he headed a “reform" government won note before that as a newspaper worker and author During the war the Whitlock star soared As U S ambassador to Belgium Whitlock’s humanitarian impulses were given full away and to him goes a large degree of credit for decreasing Belgian suffering during German occupation ABBOT In Brookline Mass died Willis J Abbot 71 editor of the Christian Science Monitor from 1922 to 1927 contributing editor and editorial board member of the journal iince that time During his editorship Abbot boosted circulation from to 129000 The editor began his newspaper career In 1884 on the New Orleans once interviewed Jefferson Davis He was managing editor of the Chicago Times in 1892 was once employed by the New York American Hearst sheet strangely contrasted withthe Monitor as chief editorial writer 17-5- Tlmes-Democr- ' DIXON Of year’s illness died Joseph M Dixon 66 former Montana gov ernor former U S senator assistant secretary of the interior under President Hoover at his Missoula Mont home Dixon chalrmanned the national Progressive committee which furthered the candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt on the “Bull Moose” ticket of 1912 BAWDEN Advanced age ended the active life of William Bawden 75 who for years was fondly regarded as “Un-cl- e Billy” in Salt Lake's city and county building where he once was custodian for 17 years later relief elevator operator ' |
