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Copper I Lead toeal SUImel ' north Lead VOL J36 NOr36 SALT LAKE CITY UTAH FRIDAY MORNING flcSfyiS: Land Officials Utah Lawmaker Hit Back at Get Position on Audit Charges Board of Tax Tax Shift Cry Mounts as Idles Appeals Congress U Old Board Members In Bond Dealings The state land board struck back at the special auditors Thursday with ttstrongly-word-e- d statement branding a? unfounded the implications of recent audit report that certain bond transactions of the land office between 1932 and July of this year had been irregular Presentation of” the statement igned by members of the old board was the feature of a lengthy meet lng of the present board in the cap Itol just two weeks after comple tion of thAudit report recommend ing a grand jury Investigation The board charged the auditors failed to give a complete pie of the bond situation and de fended its policy in the investment of state school funds by pointing to the fact that bonds now held could be disposed of at a profit of $30000 or more' General Denial It was denied categorically that the board had sanctioned deals to profit brokers that brokers had been allowed to finance themselves through land board bond transactions or that the policy of the board to longin shifting from short-terterm security issues had been to the disadvantage of the school funds The present board took no action on the recommendation for a grand that jury having already announced other things aside there would be until in no use taking a definite step the audit has been completed as to other phases of land board activity On this point the old board's state' ment asks: "If the auditor had found some' thing which should be submitted to a grand jury why did he not take it to the officers authorized to call for such Investigation? What object or purpose was sought to be served by publicly attempting to pass such responsibility back to the present land board which certainly has less to do with calling a grand jury than has the auditor himself and with out giving this board anything on which it cpuld proceed in this matm r ter?" Probe Finances discussed with W Guy under whose special audit is Carey and W A the question of financing the work Mr Guy had objected to reducing the staff or curtailing the audit after learning that current land board revenues are low and an effort would be mad to retrench The 0 authorization for the audit was and it was originally Intended to take this from surplus but the attorney general ruled the surplus must go to the school fund After a discussion with Mr Guy the board announced it would make every effort to find the necessary funds so that the audit might be continued as planned The special auditors are now investigating farm loan transactions "I cannot see my way clear to reducing the staff at this time” Mr Guy said in a letter to the board $10-00- L would upset matters consider- ably and I feel that the temporary saving of a matter of two or three hundred dollars a month is very small compared with other issues" To the end of October the audit had cost $439665 leaving a balance in the allocation of $560335 Sign Statement The statement Issued Thursday was signed by J F Tolton L R Anderson and George A Fisher members of the old board Both Mr Tolton and Mr Anderson are members of the present board and Mr Fisher is executive secretary "Admittedly the security invest ment field is a difficult and compll rated one” they said at the outset of their statement "and while bias snd inaccuracy of figures and conclusions prevail throughout the auditor's report a great deal of error may be attributed to his ignorance of the subject under consideration’’ In addition to a general refuta tion of assertions and conclusions of the report the board members’ statement contained a detailed explanation of specific bond deals attacked by the auditors The audit report declared during the period in question “$662500 par value of bonds have been sold or traded prior to their dates of maturity” leaving the implication the land office had exercised poor business judgment to say the least The board said an entirely different light would have been thrown on the matter if the auditors had Must Avoid Revenue Loss Harrison Warns S WASHINGTON Ndv 18 UP) — A seemingly inexorable demand for By HARRY J BROWN tax revision to energize business WASHINGTON Nov 18— Congressman J Will Robinson of arose Thursday from both houses the second Utah' district may be appointed to the board of tax of congress while the legislative appeals- There has been no decision and there are in the neighbor' machinery continued to idle hood of 150 applicants for the vacancy created by the resignation The plea cut into the senate’s 19 rM 1 937 VCT Tr?1"- - ?" tnttttt h of Logan Morris also of Utah' 'Congressman Robinson's name has been submitted to the president by Senator Klbert D Thomas and Representative Abe Murdock says the entire Utah congressional delegation will back his colleague for this appointment in the event Mr Robinson definitely announces his candidacy Desirable Jobs Appointments to this board are most desirable While the salary is the same as that of a congressman $10000 a year the term is 12 years the equivalent of six terms in con gress without the annoyance and the expense of biennial campaigns Mr Morris resigned last’ summer His full term would not hae expired until next June If his place should be filled during the winter It is probable that whoever is appointed to fill out the unexpired term later would be appointed for the full term Neither the president nor the treasury department under which the board functions has given consideration to any of the indorsements now on file One vacancy on the board was filled shortly after congress adjourned but the Morris Representative J Will Robinson federal He may win vacancy has been allowed to ride' job House Support 1IJ7U He the has been a staunch defender of president as evidenced by his retort the the tion to the resolutions adopted by American Mining congress at recent Salt Lake City conven- Special Detection In the event of Mr Robinson's appointment ho would Tesign from the house of representatives and it would be incumbent on Governor a has been' Its loyal Blood’ to ’call a special election to president for new deal legislative choose a hew congressman from the supporter of the program in almost every Instance Second district J L' persisting filibuster against anti' lynching legislation It produced a short sharp discussion and a warning from Chairman Harrison (D) Mississippi of the finance committee that reductions in one tax schedule must be offset by increases in another so no loss of revenue might result ‘Stop Thumb Twiddling The house whiling away another day with a series of vehement if unrelated speeches heard Republican members take up the cry One of them Eaton of New Jersey insisted congress “stop twiddling of its thumbs in idle bewilderment” and "meet the menacing conditions of the hour’’ There were signs of progress in the preparation of a farm bill first item on the Roosevelt special session program Chairman Smith (D) of South Carolina of the Senate agriculture committee announced an agreement upon an “ever-normgranary bill” fashioned after the administration pattern except more compulsory crop control may be imposed for cotton Wheat Quotas A house subcommittee decided to propose marketing quotas -for wheat subject to a referendur- of the farmers Involved and a processing tax The full committee on agriculture however remained widely divided j Leaders hope as soon as a farm bill h perfectedby either committee the present period of confusion and delay will be mitigated The senate is ready to shelve the lynching dispute and the house to abandon its rambling discussions whenever the crop control’ measure is brought in In addition the house has pend ing a petition intended to free the wage and hour bill also on the ad' from the ministration program grasp of the rules committee and bring it up for debate A total are necessary of 218 signatures SYR CUSE N Y Nov 18 UP)— SHANGHAI Nov 18 UP) — Chinese military leaders asserted Thursday Percy i Angel Face) Geary last of night their forces had thrown the the three O'Connell 'kidnap gang Japanese hack in the center -- of members who escaped early TuesChina’s “Hindenburg line” west of Shanghai but Japanese spokesmen day from the Onondaga county declared that line had been breached penitentiary at Janesville was capby smashing blows near its north- tured Thursday afternoon ern and southern extremities He was taken in a station Chinese reports told of a strong shack where he hadparking hidden since counteroffensive before' Soochow 4 p m Wednesday without a shot keystone of the Chinese defensive being fired The capture was made system in which the Japanese were by Patrolman Tom Lewis and Frank driven back toward Cheni 16 miles Dishing acting on a tip from the east of Soochow parking lot attendant Casper Mira 20 Heavy Assaults Geary was taken less than two But heavy assaults brought the blocks from the rooming house Japanese literally to the gates of where his fellow prison breakers Changshu and Hashing northern John Oley and Harold Crowley and southern strong points respec- were seized Wednesday ' tively of the Chinese defenses Geary at that time eluded capture A Japanese spokesman said Japa 15 feet to the ground by leaping nese shock troops had smashed When he was limping captured through Chinese lines north of presumably from injuries received Changshu and then turned south- in the leap ward to attack the city itself PreMira his suspicions aroused afviously Japanese had been reported ter Geary had spent more than 24 the eastern wails of Changshu hours on the lot told a customer 25 miles north of Soochow to summon police He said Geary asked him during Report Gate Taken a conversation about the jail break: Japanese reports from the south- "Would you turn in anyone?” and ern end of the battlefront that he “No" said one gate of Hashing 35 miles Severalreplied bullets were found in southeast of Soochow already had Geary's pockets Patrolman John fallen and bitter fighting was in Arbogast said progress around that city of northThe two previously recaptured ern Chekiang province Chinese were transferred from however declared there was still kidnapers Syracuse to the Albany jail under heavy fighting at Seven Star Bridge ah order issued by Federal Judge four miles northeast of ihTnsr"' Frederick H Bryant before whom Civilian ministries of the Chinese the eight kidnapers were trie last on Pace 100-mi- le (Continued Seven) (Column Five) Some-42- 5 1eg!slators had signed “ Broken and battered a corpse that once was Spencer (Penney) Malan was remove Thursday afternoon from an abandoned well in the desert wasteland of Iron county bringing to a close a three-yemystery surrounding disappearance of the southern Utah rancher from his home near Enterprise Meanwhile two men who once had been friends of the dead man were' held in jails at Salt Lake City and St George facing charges of first degree murder with identification complete due to tlothing found on Sheriff An tone of Washington county led a crew that hoisted the corpse from the well at 3:15 p m and announced the search was at an end For rumbling slides of earth and ar the-bo- dy i rock into the recesses of the underground tomb placed workers in danger of their lives at every moment of the hattle against ' nature! it was the five peace officers who were working underground were forced to excavate a cavern some’ 2ffYeet in diameter-t-o escape the intermittent slides The well is between six and eight feet across the j top Join in Task A A d 'A A v' e : A ’ ‘d A' ' d While officers of two southern Utah counties Joined in the task at the bottom of the well— which for pearly three years had — served as a tomb a throng of townsman ranchers and aheephqrd-e- rs crowded around the mouth of the pit A slaying which had been kept within the immediate ranch family had become “public prop- h 110-fo- ot Outspoken Y) describes the results obliged to turn back to the issuers when the method was used in thi for redemption or refunding treatment of 57 cases of acute in fantile paralysis during the sumCite Proper Audit mer of 1935 The patients studied The state declared "a proper audit were treated in Binghamton N report will definitely show thsit Y Louisville Ky and Syracuse every fundamental duty affecting In the paper Dr Retan acknowlthe security and income of the state edges the cooperation of DK ACentlmiM mi Pa Sevan) of Binghamton George Lape AColumn Tfaraa) nt In US Costs WASHINGTON Nov 18 UP) — Federal spending should be de creased by one billion dollars Senator Bailey (D) North Carolina said Thursday and he offered to “join with anyone” to effect such a in the next 12 months “Whenever we don’t know what else to do” Bailey shouted from the senate floor “we stick our hands in the treasury and bring out some more money’’ He also asserted the time Ijas come for the government to ease taxes an4 take other steps to encourage because0f4U reports that 10 cases statistical evaluation it Included 16 cases with recovery In each instance" enough-fo- a southern Utah desert Mr Malan said he received the message in April 1935 about a month after his brother who could neither read nor write was slain allegedly by Charles Bosshardt Enterprise sheepherder The letter was signed “by a friend” Ogden police reported Bpencer Malan was arrested there December 1923 on petty larceny charges He pleaded guilty to stealing an automobile tire an rim and was sentenced tq jserye90 days in the Weber county jail or pay a fine of Senator Bailey Calls for Cut explained he knew of no respiratory paralysis and six present plan to do either and said cases of paralysis of deglutition he hoped the budget could be balwere among those treated anced through the curtailmcntQof “Both f these groups carry a spending Borah said if revision of the tax mortality rate of around 50 per cent” the article states “and on undistributed profits would lay while this group ie scarcely large heavier levies on persons “who have of Tribune Intermountain Service OGDEN Nov 18 — Receipt of a letter ' from the grave’’ was revealed here by Robert N Malan 35 Marriott brother of Spencer Malan whose body was recovered Thursday from an abandoned well (Continued on Page Four) (Column Four)- - has-bee- severity” He Victim’s Kin Tells of Mystery Mail Eaton was outspoken in the subject of taxes 'I know what a majority of my people employes and employers alike want congress to do They want congress to repeal the undis tributed profits tax and the capital gains tax now They want congress to resume control over the value of the dollar now They want and demand that this congress enforce every possible economy in the administrative expenses of government now” In the senate Bailey (D) North MrJical Men Claim Progress ' eatment of Paralysis issues wittr’epU0narnaUses tries Syracuse University V “many —bonds' which the board was obtained Meanwhile to- business Must Help Capital “You can't ask a man to invest capital when from every side his security is being threatened” southerner said General talk of taxes and fiscal policy broke out before a filibuster against an antilynching bill which occupied most of the serrate’s time Senator got fairly under way Borah R) Idaho declared he fa vored balancing the budget but did favor doing it with increased Dr Hugh Leaved of not and of taxation Louisville He read news reports which The method described consists quoted Chairman Harrison (D) the in into essentially injection Mississippi of the senate finance the veini of hypotonic salt solucommittee as saying revision of the ’ tion This intravenous procedure tax on undistributed corporate profused by medical men in its might necessitate lowering presother inflamatory conditions ent income tax exemptions or imDr Retan says that there were a manufacturers’ sales tax no' deaths among' the 57 cases posing Reduced Spending Favors was that case treated “no and ST LOUIS Nov 18 (INS)- -A report of a new method for treatment of acute poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) which is described as evidencing “favorable influence” on the disease was published Thursday in the November issue of the Journal of Pediatrics official organ- of tbs American Academy of Pediatrics The report by George M Retan MDroffiSSOrof clintoaL'vrtflU£d-ireatmi- erty” day Eaton ho profits” it placed a new light on arguments in favor of modifying the corporation levy $90 From his cell in the Washington county jail at St George Charles Bosshardt upper contends he killed Spencer Malan right because “it was his life or mine” Lower is shown a sketch of the abandoned desert well in Iron county where the body of Malan was recovered after being entombed nearly three years It was revealed that Robert N Malan’s former wife Lillian Schaefer whom he divorced in 1926 is sister of the widow Bosshardt married following the slaying Survivors include four brothers Goldie B and Harry Malan of Farmington Martin Malan of Ogden and Robert N Malan of Marriott a sister Mrs Eva Henline of Magna and an aunt Mrs Luch Roudebush of Ogden Jumps to Dehth Cold Wave Scatters Snow Over Wide Area of U S Titled British Lawmaker Wins Nobel T?eace Prize ( the w 10-foot 5 r d al 8v) 4 'll Charles Bosshardt Washington county sheepherder who says he killed the rancher and later married his widow continued to maintain- - front his cell In- th Washington county jail at St George that “it was his life or mine” And from Iron county came ye- porta that Washington county officers Friday would come to Salt Lake City for George O Schaefer brother-in-laof both Malan ana Bosshardt who after arrest at Bacchus Wednesday night admitted he aided the slayer in disposing of ’ the body Arraignment Set Arraignment of Schaefer and Bosshardt on first degree murder charges is scheduled to take place Saturday at St George Sheriff Prince said workmen if the well uncovered the body at peril of their lives as sides of the dirt wall broke away at intervals hurling quantities of rock and sand down upon the officers Except for the head which was missing and will not be recovered unless its need as evidence is brought out at trial of the two men thi body was intact and was readily identified by the clothing Malan was wearing at the time of his mysthe early terious disappearance morning of March 18 1935 Tells Dangers In St George late Thursday night Sheriff Prince said additional search in the well would “endanger the lives of all the workers" Twice the dirt on the sides of the pit broke away during the search on one occasion hurling tons of sand and gravel down on a spot where Sheriff Prince had stood only a few minutes before Telling of discovery of the body after the men had dug 20 feet below the bottom of the caved-l- n well Sheriff Prince said: “We came upon what we first believed to bea skeleton after digging for several hours A few more shovels full of dirt were removed and wa realized that considerable flesh re- fnained on the bones It was easy to identify ax Malan's body due to his blue shirt black mackinaw coat blue serge trousers and shoes I personally removed the body from the well” VIENNA Nov 18 OP)— Richard Scheuch 33 described by police as editor of the illegal secretly circu lated- - nazi newspaper Austrian Ob- Skull Missing server jumped to his death Thurs- Sheriff Prince said no watcli ring from a fourth-stor- y day night Nov 18 (AP) — Chilling winds scattered the first dow as political police raided his purse or other personal belongings were found and reported no sign of wideilfjread snow of the season overvmost of the northern half of home undue vioience upon the body The ‘ the nation Thursday skull he said apparently had been The fall ranging from a thin twisted from the body during its trace to a midwinter depth of 7H plunge into the depths of V the desert tomb inches slowed automobile traffic “It would be foolhardy to look for streets but and city highways along the skull" Sheriff Prince said “The welcome moisture for provided last cave-i- n hurled dirt to a depth lands crop prairie 25 feet over the spot where ws be- - ' The snow measured three inches STOCKHOLM Nov held two meetings before reach- of lieve the head to be lochted Some- South Dakota four in Iowa five Tfoe 1937 Nobel peace its decision jjfze was ingThe award came as Lord Cecil one would almost be sure to' get’ Cambria county Pennsylvania Viscount was on a visit to the United States killed if we continued" six 'in Nebraska and seven and a awarded Thursday Sheriff Prince brought the body Cecil of Chelwood one of the — his first since he received the half in Dome Lake Wyo where it was taken to The storm also whitened landfounders of the League of NaWoodrow Wilson peace prize 12 to St George a mortuary scapes in Montana northern Colo- tions and a leading advocate of years ago ' — Lord rado Wisconsin northern Illinois disarmament “T- Cecil a member of the File Charges — western Missouri Minnesota and house of lords vlearned of the First degree murder charges were The former British cabinet honor in New York Just before North Dakota et 8t Gaerg Thursday against A drop ‘lru temperature brought TneffiWfwaaS?TecrerdcauSror Nicholas “Murray' Butler presi- filedtwo men adding another chap- out overcoats-anmufflers at many his wbrk in the league and his dent of Columbia university and the ter to the tragic tale Of violence in himself a winner of the peace an points for the first time this fall efforts to promote international isolated section'll the west in good will Football The prize is worth laboring squads prize presented him with an honFiling of the charges fvas brought heavy windbreakers sloshed across 158000 Swedish kroner (abqut orary degree of doctor of laws t Lord Cecil In ths United States about as the outgrowth or confes40600) slippery practice fields to attend a conference of the sions by bqyj Bosshardt and SchaeThe“name of United States SecNumerous motoring accidents were reported during the rush retary of State Cordell Hull was World Alliance for International fer following’ their arrest Bosshardt told his story after arrest at his before the Nobel committee that hours Through — Churches ranch home Friendship by Sheriff Prince TuesDome Lake of north-centrwas the' guest last week-en- d of awarded the prize - He had been Wyoand “Schaefer admitted President and MrstRoosevelt at day night ming recorded an official tempera- sponsored by several Latin AmertConttnuM on Pan i ture of 14 degrees below zero ican countries Ths committee the White House Column l -- ’ Sliding Rocks Imperil Workmen as Tliey Uncover Body of Victim Two Suspects Face Slaying Charges nt In addition to the support he would have from the Utah congressional delegation Representative Robinson could readily obtain the backing of many prominent members of the house of representatives As far as known he is the only member of the house who has considered the possibility of leaving the house to go on the board Mr Robinson’s record as congressman should commend him tp the 1103 Recover Body Of Murdered Ranchman From Depths of Desert Well al 12-ye- ar Price Copper 30 PAGES— FIVE CENTS ’ under Act of utrch 8( - liinese Stem Officers' Nab Last of Westward State Drive of Foe Kidnap Trio being Day The board Auditor John direction the made by R R “It 1 Representative’s Name Presented by Senator Thomas for Vacancy Assured Wide Support From Colleagues Deny Laxity had ture May NOVEMBER 600c - 3500 7757 4475o llOOo 5000 505o 1 d t f'- s i r - |