| Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Public Utility Chieftain Dies on Train Alarmed ees“S tat Ri g JiU As Usurped an Found by Porter ’ I 2tf JS38 King Attacks'" U S Rule Over Waters United Light Head By Tribune Leased Wlra CHICAGO Jun 25— Burt J Denman vie president and general manager of tha United Light 'and Power company was found dead Saturday morning in his compartment aboard t$e’ Commodore Vanderbilt of the Hew York Central as the Limited neared Chicago It was believed a hearty attack paused “buTdeathT Denman whose position made him the opera ting chief of gas electric railway and bus properties in IS states was returning from a directors' meeting in Hew York Friday o’clock night be left a call for Alarmed at getting no response the porter forced the door and found his passenger dead Associates said Denman had suffered heart attacks for a year He was 62 years old and active In church work Quits la Anger Along with his prominence in utilities Denman was one of the leading laymen of the Methodist church until three years ago serving as vice chairman of the Garrett Bible InsUtute and playing an active part In the laymen’s conference He resigned all church offices pnd dropped his membership in the First Methodist church at Evanston in August of 1939 angered by an editorial in a church publication wlalch with charged utility companies methods to using "diabolical thwart adverse legislation Ho objected that church journals were continually raising the suspicion that “all utilities men are dishon- SUNDAY MORNING JUNE Court Test Looms ! By HARRY J BROWN Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON June 25— If the United States supreme court when the issue is raised sustains the constitutionality of the Barkley amendment to the'flood control act of 1936 states’ control of the waters within their borders will come to an end and a new era of federal control of streams both nonnav-lgab- le will set in That this new legislation Is to be subject to court test goes withbut question In view of the fact that a core of governors including Governor Blood of Utah alarmed at the threat endeavored through their senators to accomplish the defeat of this amendment In this they failed This legislation revolutionary In character was forced through congress under heavy pressure and with only nominal defense on the part of those leaders who assumed responsibility for writing the new theory into the flood control law King Blasts Move PULLMAN Wash June 25 CSV-T- he No stronger argument against ths effect of government policies Barkley amendment was made than on agriculture and farm coopera- that by Senator King of Utah who tives will be one of the focal points stood shoulder to shoulder with of the annual American Institute Senator O’Mahoney of Wyoming of Cooperation which will be held and Senator Walsh of Massachujointly at Washington State college setts In a joint effort to kill a rider and the University of Idaho" July which had never been submitted to a committee for study or opinion lrtoas Three of the nine special sessions but which was dumped into the lap listed in the institute program deal of the senaU by the Democratic specifically with the new farm bill leader in almost the closing hour the federal trade agreement pro- of tho session and was adopted by gram and commodity programs of the votes of scores of senators who ths Agricultural Adjustment admin- were not aufficiently Interested est even to hear the objections of those istration " The problem of present and pros- who strove vigorously to preserve University Trustee A native of Toledo Denman pective outlets for Pacific north- the rights of the states which this Joined the United system after a west wheat will be discussed by amendment In large measure determ with ths Detroit Edison com- William Clohegsy in charge of the stroys In view of the importance of thla pany After assuming direction of Portland office of the marketing the key company he moved head section of the AAA R C Bent- Issue td the west and the clarity assistant marketing professor and force of the argument made by quarters here from Davenport ley at Iowa State college will discuss Senator King the following extracts Iowa In 1927 With his wife Louise Denman possibilities of regional cooperation are taken from his speech in opposition lived in Wilmette He was a trus- in marketing northwest wheat Ervin King Pullman wheat grow- Water tee of Northwestern university Belongs to States Two daughters and a son survive er and master of the Washington R Shumway A and State Said Senator King: Grange was Mra Denman visiting in of the North Pacific ‘The waters within the various when she received president Minneapolis Grain Growers Inc will speak from states belonged to and were owned news of her husband’s death the viewpoint of the wheat pro- by them and their inhabitants Unducer der their sovereign authority the Analysis of the new farm bill streama could be utilized for irriRetired Merchant Dies and discussion of' practical appli- gation power and Indeed for all HOLLYWOOD CaL June 25 CP)— cation of tbs wheat program will proper and legitimate purposes Henry Steers Lake 62 wealthy re be presented by Alfred D Stodman which find expression Is democratic merof tired Hew York manufacturer the AAA communities assistant administrator chant and sportsman died at the and George E Farrell western di"The provisions of the bill under vision AAA director Hollywood hoepltal here Friday consideration aro not hidden or subtle They are open and brazen attacks upon the etatea and are In harmony with the growing demands of federal bureau and bureaucratie agencies In the federal government that states be reduced! to unimportant factors with their responsibilities and duties transferred to the national government — Assume Too Much "Under the interstate commerce clause which has limited Implications many of the bureaus and federal agencies assume that they “ i and the federal government have complete Jurisdiction and plenary power over matters that belong exclusively to the states They would rob the states of their control over their streams and the utilization of the same end deny to the inhabitants of the respective states the right to appropriate waters for beneficial purposes "They would nullify the laws governing water rights which particularly apply In the western states where development has resulted from the diversion of streams and the utilization of the aame for agricultural Industrial and power pur- Cooperatives To Examine US Policies EflOKIfl 4 Ml Amwsbtf New dpccc1 Ut poses Dangerous Proposals “Ths minority report submitted with the bill under consideration states that section 2 which repeals section 3 of the act of June 22 1936 is a dangerous proposal Continuing the report states: "‘We believe It threatents every vestige of etate control and state's rights It changes a It has not policy of cooperation been studied and no hearings have been held It alms at the destruction of the balance of power between the statee and the national government a proposal which in our opinion Is contrary to the federal principle As we see It It is not a good thing for America All local or regional problems should bs handled by the states directly concerned In cooperation with the federal government Tha amendment we regard as meaning the surrender to the government of title to our national resources It eliminates state participation In flood well-defin- ed 3& FTOZEN STORAGE controL’ Foods keep fresher last longer and taste better in this new advanced APEX Upper compartment la Lower compartment ia hold 30 pound of meat and perishables Larger quantity buying enables bigger savings greater variety fewer shopping trips As Little as S' tub-freezi- Come in and see the many other amazing advantages offered only ia this latest advanced refrigerator 50 Priced as Low as 513995 jm -- 217 ?)AfPUAHCE ((I? WASHINGTON BOULEVARD OGDEN ISt EAST BROADWAY-SAL- LAKE CRYSTAL FURNITURE— LOGAN No Overstatement Tn my opinion ths minority report does not overstate the situation but upon the contrary does not sufficiently indicate the dangerous assault being mads upon the states and ths evil consequences which will Inevitably ensue The bill undei consideration dentes the soverelgi power of the states and their authority to control their own domestk affairs It Is In harmony with thi powerful movement to destroy stati lines and to subject ths states t ths unrestrained authority of tin federal government "Under Its provisions the federa government may enter any state and taka possession of Its water resources Its streams and rlyulets deprive the states of their control over the same and likewise deprive owners of vested property rights therein Under the guise of flood control it may seize property In one state hot for the benefit of such state but ostensibly to benefit another state y (£ t Ri to i 0 i Or |
