Show -- A THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING " U S Bureaus' It’s a Great Day Overtax Office Space Row Had Serious ad KNOXVILLE Tenn July ?3 UP) Director David E 'Lilienthal told a joint congressional investigating committee Saturday differences between engineers and consultants over the basis of the authority's yardstick power rates had “serious consequences” In 1033 the government paid a rental bill of only $826000 for 1191-73square feet of private office space in Washington The building program has failed to keep pace with the growth of the The apex government payroll building and the new bureau of en graving structure were completed recently but were immediately taken over by agencies that had been whiting in line' The federal trade commission moved out of a private of? fice building into the apex structure but the social security staff which has offices spread all over towp and in Baltimore promptly moved into the private building vacated by the commission- As bureau of engraving And printing office employes leave old quarters Ar thur new buUdingan overflow front the general accounting 5 office will move in Agencies Without Space Thera are still several agencies Without a single square foot of office space Among these are the newly created national aeronautics board and the wages and hours agency They must have space and a large amount of it but the frantic “space control" officials don’t know " where to find It The rapid increase in federal payrolls is not yet reflected in official personnel figures which are two The last figures months behind were for May before the present rush of expansion They showed the government had a payroll of $124951733 in- that month for 4 staff of 840742 workers not including military legislative and official personnel Of that number 114544 When were housed in Washington new figures are published they undoubtedly will show an increase of - several thousand Take Remodeled Garages Officials recently have taken to leasing remodeled garages when they can be done over successfully One old automobile storage and salesroom juSt outside the business district has been done over into attractive new quarterst providing 48000 square feet of space for the federal housing administration Old buildings on the outskirts of Washington have been leased for the stor' age of files The new national defense program is adding to the problem The war department is overcrowded rnd wants to spread out’before new acThe commodations arc completed navy department is trying to solve its own housing troubles by building two additional wirigs Against the 33i5i75 square fr(t 'Ll1'' government for its Washington family Unde Sam manages to provide about 14 501 533 square feet of apace in his own government buildings Park Tourists Swell UPi-- The national parks in Wyoming the interior department reported Saturday make money for the state The department said Yellowstone and Grand Teton parks attracted to Wyoming last summer 1206700 visitors who spent approximately $14221000 while there The two parks attracted 634242 the persona for extended visits department said and 100000 others who went through the parks but did not remain for any length of time Visitors to the parks spend thousands of dollars for Wyoming fishing and hunting licenses and their expenditures for gasoline — an average of $1000000 each summer-mea- ns that 1 $175000 of the Wyo- ming gasoline tax account is paid by tourists the department said great areas of the earth and sky and endangered more communities Saturday A deepening however the conflict now appears to have been “wholly Innocent” asserting the friction resulted from sharply varying theories com-ppse- as chairman of the agency Dr Morgan who precipitated the investigation by charges of mismanagement against Directors Lilienthal and Harcourt A Morgan previously testified Lilienthal fixed the power rates without his consent or knowledge and referred to them once as "little more than a guess” Primaries Offer Fertile Fields Texas Voters Give Lead For Presidential Booms Denies Inference Lilienthal denied the inference of To ‘Hill Billv' History Reveals Few Candidates for Ciiief Executive Came From Senate a question that possibly the (Continued from Page One) By KIRKE L SIMPSON WASHINGTON July 23 (AP)— Presidential nomination booms are sprouting in all directions out of this year’s primaries both Republican and Democratic But a glance at the political advancement routes traveled by the 32 men who have attained the presidency from Washington to Franklin D Roosevelt discloses how premature 1940 ticket speculation still is Not even Jhe Roosetalk is to be excepted velt third-terMost of the 1940 booms revolve about sitting senators or senatorial vember in any of a half score of nominations on the theory that if states from New York to California the boomee wins election or reelec- could reshuffle the political cards tion in November he will be in line for 1940 competely Until the state for party promotion two years election returns come In in New later Yet only two of the 32 pres- York in Pennsylvania in any of idents—Garfield and Harding— ac- the corn belt or border states of and in California the tually stepped from the senate to the Interior pattern of speculation as to who the White House The approach overwhelmingly may be the political headliners of favored by American political tra- 1940 remains too Incomplete for dition since Thomas Jefferson’s more than guesswork It is is some day has been previous service as of those 33 contests for governor nomination governor of a state Thirteen of that the presidential the 32 presidents used it Includ- horoscope of 1940 is more likely to In the casting than anywhere ing candidates of rival parties they be defeated a majority of the men else this year who have come within eight of the President Roosevelt is so striking White House as major party nomi- an example of the nees were state governors or for- rule of American politics that makes mer governors governors and former governors Since 33 of the 48 states elect preferred presidential Umber theqt governors this year this tendency his own political planning for 1940 of all political parties to find pres- quite likely awaits November state idential candidates showing dem- election results Unless he has deonstrated ability In cided already to try for a third their own states cannot he ignored term— which his most ardent new It is the most practical side of deal aids greMly doubt— the heir apparent for 1940 practical politics in this country It has been the controlling factor is more likely to be discernible with party nominating conventions among Democratic governors who so often since Washington's two take office in January 1939 than terms in the White among his cabinet or other memunopposed House that calculating 1940 nomi- bers of his official family Mr Roosevelt has few proved nation probabilities at this stage is less profitable than counting vote getters In the latter circle chickens even before they are From the start of his White House hatched It is trying to count 1940 career he has too carefully avoided political chickens even before the singling out any cabinet or execuparty primaries in those 33 states tive lieutenant for special distincelecting governors have put all the tion for his course not to suggest that he Intended to look elsewhere eggs in the incubator A smashing Republipqnor'Demo-crati- c for a successor in 1940 if he did gubernatorial victory in No not run himself vote-getti- Rooee-velt-favor- ed In Today’s Salt Lake Tribune west Texas attorney he narrowly defeated two years ago MacFar-lanhad 4691 to Gossett’s 4368 Grady Gentry Smith county judge was running far ahead of incumbent Representative Morgan Spnders Gentry pojled 1653 to Sanders' 867 The veteran Hatton W Sumners chairman of the house judiciary committee held a comfortable lead over Leslie Jackson ney 2761 to 959 Dallas attor- Other Incumbents holding comfortable margins were Representative Wright Patman of soldier bonus fame Representative Martin Dies opposed by H G Hendricks former Represengovernment economist tative Luther Johnson Representative Fritz Lanham Representative Marvin Jones chairman of the house agricultural committee and Representative Richard Kleberg - The total number of votes expected to be cast in state contests was between 750000 and 1000000 (Continued from Page One) - Salt Late City uly 24 -d- 1934— sys-te- ni m Steele-Hos-t- Anglo-Frenc- Europe UPl-A- lfred record-breakin- recommendation for action?” Under Pressure "I agree” replied Lilienthal "that the procedure was bad but the background of the situation at the time should bs taken Into consideration We were under pressure in getting started on our work" Senator Lynn Frazier (R) "North Dakota interjected that "this committee is still confused Mr Lilienthal that you are waiting until 1938 to make a report explaining how you fixed the rates in 1933 I think we ought to know more about that” Lilienthal said he would clarify the situation when the bearing resumes Monday In a letter to Senator Charles L Monary of Oregon last January Lilienthal said he explained the T V A's wholesale and retail power rate basis— without an allocation of costs— as "what a prudent business Storms Take Eight Lives Logan official announces wheat stor - Boy Scout and Girl Scout news Page 5 National age rulings for AAA Page 7 Recession beaten say are U S Tooele prepared for boom as Indus- Reviews and comment on current6 books Page economists Page 1 tries plan work reaumption Art muaic notes and motion picture Washington believes Russo-Japa- n news Page 7 Page 7 row will blow over Page 1 Third term boom gets under way SECTION B by Harry J Brown Page 8 Pouring rains drench wide areas in Loral I' S Mark Sullivan sees American —Page 1 rosse finds three women lost in Utah traffic toll for 193$ mounts Page 8 weakening to 107 New Mexico badlands Page 1 Two weeks left to enfer Tribune-TelegraPage 1 snapshot contest frV charges relive probe of W Explanatory article on I tah old age Page 8 A and politics 1 assistance program Pagel Page SECTION E Power yardstick dispute revealed Latest developments in Utah's poEnjoying midsummer afternoons in at T V A probe Page 2 litical situation Page 2 garden and pool full photographic Presidential booms sprout in pri- News of Page I page military amf veterans' or' Page 2 mary campaigns Page 2 6 Society news begins on ganizations Page Rail fare hike begins in east at News of women's clubs Page 3 Salt Church in activities Lake City Kathleen Norris Page 2 Page 4 midnight 'tonight and vicinity U- A W Page 6 Weddings alid engagements in the “purge” threatens to split state SECTION C Pages 4 6 union Page 3 Ogden Logan Provo and Price soof west's powExperts plan linking Sports ciety news Pages 5 8 er plants Page 10 Baseball moguls will gather at Twin Tribune column Page 5 bridge Auto industry moves to fore in reFalls Tuesday Page 1 Your Horoaeope Page 6 Page 10 Seattle fight fans await covery parade Programs current at Salt Lake thebout 'Page 1 aters Page 7 Foreign Tribune short story Page 8 SECTION D Soviet troops capture Japanese paIda Jean Kain and Dress Pattern trol after border clash Page 1 Survey reveals Senator Barkley losPage 8 ing ground Britain urges Czechs to grant libPage 1 8 MAGAZINE eral concessions tb minorities Public favors arms parley backs the tourist spends his money president's stand Page 9 Pago 1 How color Page 1 U S prepares to move China em- Real Estate home planning and page' Wanted: Some tough luck for Mar9 newe from 2 Hankow 3 bassy garden Page Pages lene color page Page 2 h Page 4 Today’s women alliance hoI(lsfate of Youth activities are true pioneers Europe Page 9 color page Page 3 Local The blessing fate brought the To Tour mother who gave her baby away Sunday marks climax of Sait Lake’s NEW YORK July 23 Pioneer celebration Page 1 Page 4 P Sloan Jr chairman of the board Science mechanics and Invention State of General Motors corporation Page 5 Ogden Pioneer Days rodeo plays to sailed for Europe Saturday aboard The hoss put love on a business g crowd Page 6 the- - Rex for aix weeks’ travel in hssis Page 6 Timpanogns hike draws young and France Italy and Germany Mrs Goin' to Town With Mark Hrllinger old to summit climb Page 6 Sloan accompanied him Page 7 r allo- cations announced recently were shaped to fit the power rates established in 1933 He asserted "virtually all the fteps” taken in computing the' rates were taken with the knowledge and approval of the board “but probably there is rtot a document that confirms this” "Wasn't it rather strange procedure" asked Representative Charles Wolverton (R) New Jersey "that a written report on the basis for adoption of the rates under which long-tercontracts were let was not submitted- - to the board with a Heavy rains in some sections and floods in the west eut down the voting In £all4s voters had trouble with the automatic voting machines and it was ‘announced the polls would remain 'open as long as necessary for citizens who reached them before 7 p m regular closing time to cast their ballots The Texas election a bureau unique organization of its kind man would pay for the Wilson dam gathers returns from correspondas a going concern for the ents stationed at each county seat property of electricity" The correspondents wire the county production Retail rates he said include "opvotes as aoon as they become availexpenses depreciation erating able taxes bond interest reserve for O'Daniel himself advocated pen- new construction and amortization sions of $30 a month for all over the capital stmeture” He added 65 industrialization of the state of that amortization was one item priand a purge of politicians at the vate utilities do not pay— "they simstate capital Several of his oppoas do the railroads" nents made issues of his mountain ply refinance music and the fact he had not paid a poll tax Maverick and Kilday campaigned on a labor issue Kilday charging Maverick with radicalism and with favoring the CIO while Maverick claimed support of all labor factions SECTION A - Wyoming Income sun-bak- added And methods determining appraisals and valuations He did not elaborate on the “serious consequences” but apparently referred to delay which resulted in preparing tho report on allocations Sought Basis In bulky prepared etatements the witness described efforts since 1933 to establish a sound basis for allocations of costs as to power flood control and navigation in the authority's system of dams Tho report was partially delayed he said by tha disagreements between advisory committeea d largely of university professors and TVA engineers under De Arthur E Morgan recently ousted bridges put an effective damper on outdoor sports and amusements and sank thousands of summer vacationists at seaside and mountain resorts Into her deepening gloom The weather bureau scoffed lightly at the readiness of some laymen to attribute the continuing cloudiness and ram to the fact that rain fell in part of the east on St Swithin's day July 15 Not given to superstition the weather bureau said there was & high pressure area off the Atlantic coast from Maine to Florida This area was an effective barrier against the natural eastward movement of the low pressure area The result: Rain At least another day of rain could be expected the forecasters said Weather in the middle and far Chiwest was normal however fans gleefully cago's baseball watched the New York Giants and the Cubs play a doubleheader under a blazing sun the horses ran at Arlington golfers thronged the private and public courses yachtsmen smiled st the blue skies and picnickers had nothing but ants and the usual picnic woes to worry about but no rain The Connecticut state highway department estimated about'$10000 damage caused by washouts but added that state highways generally were in good condition In the Connecticut valley the damage to the tobacco crop was estimated at about $1000000 due chiefly to excessive moisture which reduces the value The river which has a flood1 level of 16 feet rose to 7 3 Maine's weather was soggy and the weather bureau reported an inch and a half rainfall above normal for July d SEATTLE July 23 UP — Forest fires spreading with almost explosive force across northwest timber land blackened —T V A 0 i Forests Of Northwest Go Up in Smoke Pall Consequences Two members of the Adams family prominent in Colorado for 40 years jpeet at the Democratic assembly in Colorado Springs Left William H- - (Billy) Adams governor 1928-3- 4 with his nephew Alva B Adams who seeks reelection to the United Spates senate Racing Flames Peril New Timber Towns Sun-Bake- Lilienthal Says been completed only to be crowded to capacity immediately" 4 Study Oratory a la Russ Bare Fight On ‘Yardstick quarters The crowded conditions' exist despite a quarter billion dollar building program which was started during the Hoover administration but really got going after President Roosevelt took office in 1935 Two or three times a year since then vast new marble structures have July 23 V k By Tribune Leaded Wire WASHINGTON July 23-- The administration again is engaged in a desperate search to house a rapidly expanding bureaucracy With office buildings apartment houses and large private homes jammed full of government employes the latest de vice employed by the space'hunters is to remodel garages storage buildings and salesrooms into office WASHINGTON S JULY 24 1938 for the Colorado Adamses TVA Probers Available' Quarters Filled at Capitol Rent Outlay Soars Hite Saturation Point Large scale commercial space in Washington's larger private buildings virtually was exhausted two years ago and a special force of government men termed “space control" officials have been combing the capital since then for accommodations that can be made over into quarters for new agencies Renting space in Washington had already reached the saturation point when the last congress created a multiplicity of new agencies and expanded the activities and voted larger staffs to most of the old ones The rent bill in Washington alone has climbed to $3000000 for the past 12 months compared with $2800-00- 0 $2694-79- 2 in the'preceding year the year before that Privately owned office space rented by the government has reached a new peak —3245775 square feet against 3215-00- 0 square feet last year and 2943-00square feet in the year previous Million Less in 1933 1 “t u 2 T sL- Commtvqist headquarters advises William Foster left and Earl Browder on texts of U S speeches Reds Outline ‘Safe’ Topics For Speakers in U S smoke pall covered the entire Pacific northw’est Over Puget sound it was so dense in some places that ships were forced to use their fog horns as they ‘ moved about Through the smoke cloud the rising sun appeared as a blood-re- d disc Visibility was sharply limited further handicapping fire lookouts Wind drove British Columbia's Vancouver island fire toward a tiny mining aettlement and into one of the island's fittest commercial timber stands and in other sections "delayed control of fires covering thousands of acses ‘Model Speech’ Straight From Front Ljghtning Threatens Office Helps Foster Browder In north Idaho and western Montana where loss has been confined To Avoid Danger of Trotzkyist Label to a few hundred acres threatened lightning storms held the promise of new outbreaks in forests that By DONALD DAY RIGA LATVIA July 23 — William (Zack) Foster president have sizzled under a long heat wave The town of Bevan was reported Earl Browder general secretary and other members of the Ameri in "immediate danger” from the can branch of the communist party have received detailed instruc- Vancouver island fire The flames raced before the wind toward the tions from the I K K I (executive committee of the communist of Forbidden scenic wilderness on how to make speeches that will not lay them open plateau and the town Locomotives of the Canadian Collieries Ltd to the charge of being Trotzkyites stood by to evacuate residents and The “model speech” as outlined fighters by Zacharias Manuilski one of the Wind whipped the huge blaze out of all semblance of control durjng six secretaries of the Communist the night but had abated somewhat Internationale should begin with a by morning The fire was reported discussion of the economic crisis in to be still running wild despite the the United States which he says control efforts of more than 1000 men is preparing the way for a new Douglas Taylor assistant to Britworld war Then after elaborating ish Columbia's chief forester estiin war the and China upon Spain mated damage already had reached red orators are told to arouse enThis included destruction $500000 Cent Boost 25 Per of 67000000 feet of felled timber thusiasm of their audiences' over logging equipment and the resort Moscow’s proposal to destroy fasIn Coach Toll settlement of Forbes Landing cist dictatorships and to wind up Will Begin Monday Spreads Before Winds by bilking about world revolution The safest source of material for The 40000-acr- 4 Ryderwood-M- t red orators Manuilski- says is the — 23 fire northeast df LongWASHINGTON UP) Abernethy July Moscow Pravda Any orator he Eastern also spread before passenger coach fares will view Wash says should be able to obtain facts wfinds but the 1000 fighters believed sufficient for a lengthy speech from go up 25 per cent at midnight Sun lines they could hold nevfly-bui- lt a fortnight’s issue of this paper If day Meanwhile a report of a the Pravda is not obtainable then The carriers have estimated that new fire on logged-ove- r increase— makthe official communist newspapers the in Cowlitz county Washington mile-w- ill area new the rate 25 a ing tjents be used abroad should bring them approximately $45 sent all available W P A workers Manuilski especially instructs 000000 from Kalama to the front T S more revenue during an American and other orators to be trial period Goodyear Washington forest supercareful about predicting another In authorizing the increase the visor said fighting it was made difworld depression as a result of the interstate commerce commission re- ficult by its inacessibility It is marked present crisis in America that “there can be no doubt Damp air from the Pacific eased quite possible there will not be an20000-acr- e other degression and Dictator Sta- that the applicants are in serious the situation in Oregon The Smith river fire in Douglas lin also warns against hasty proph- need of additional revenue” Under the new schedule the rail- county was held within boundaries ecies he writes the In discussing America speakers roads will lose the privilege of co- as was the Chetco river blaze in8000-acshould obtain some striking statis- llecting a full nickel in instances Siskiyou national forest The Big creek fire in Clatsop countics and figures about the steel where the fare figures into odd was cents After must ty reported out of control durSunday they industry unemployment and fall in ing the night value of securities Manuilski says make their rates to the penny Mention should be made of the de- Some Examples Increase Vigilance pression of 1929 and its three social Alarmed by the situation the Insome in of Here are the examples and political consequences: dian service in Washington ordbred First how it produced an attack creased fares: From Washington to Cincinnati its patrol to increase their vigilance upon the workers by reactionaries Second how the ideals of social an increase from $1120 to $1398 in-- the Pacific northwest Washington to Chicago $1545 to Lee Muck chief forester Jpr the democracy were discredited Third how it produced the popu- $1927 Washington to St Louis service said the Indiana had at lar front movement now so power- $1810 to $22 61 Washington to New least $30000000 at stake in the danYork $450 to $527 Washington to ger area and that their interests ful in Spain France and China Pittsburgh $605 to $753 Washing- might easily be reduced to ashes Manuilski’s instructions are Muck many years he ton to Philadelphia $270 to $332 come to asserted the Indians had realize the need of protectheaded t)ie activities of the Com- New York to St Louis $2115 to ing their forest holdings For many munist Internationale and today he $2502 One of the interstate commerce years he said the service had to is chief assistant to George DimiClaude R Porter deal with 'tribesmen who deliberatetrov general secretary of this or- commissioners ganization Dimitrov recently was refused to join2 other members in ly started fires in order to get jobs fare fighting the flames reported under arrest in Moscow voting for the Diplomats stationed there report a Enlightening Case serious conflict between Maxim foreign commissar and the “There are some people who won internationale chief Both are de- der why the railroads are traveling termined to control the foreign pol- the highway to oblivion" Porter said “To any such this case should icy of the aovlet government be enlightening No other IndusBUCHAREST July 23 UP) The Copyright 1938 for The Tribune try "in the’ throes of a depression and in the face of vigorous competi- body of Dowager Queen Marie was tion seeks to raise the price of what brought Saturday night to the white stone royal palace in downtown Buit sells to the public" The basic Pullman fare will re- charest where her children headed main unchanged at 3 cents a mile by King Carol prepared to hold a The eastern territdry in which wake throughout the night the increased coach fare applies" is Mourners had filed through WASHINGTON July 23 UP -S- bounded on the west by Lake Michipalace continuously until 9 enator Borah (R) Idaho walked gan Peoria and Spring-fiel- d p m when the coffin was sealed Chicago few a steps Saturday for the first III St Louis and Cairo 111 ceremoniously by Minister of Justime in nearly three weeks tice Victor Jamandin the court From Cairo the southern The “lion of Idaho” follows the Ohio river to boundary of BuchaHunting-to- n marshal and the mayor has been caged in his apartment W Va then runs eastward to rest here since doctors ordered him to include the Norfolk Va During the day red roses from area bed for a long rest from overexertion The ICC issued an order Satur- President Roosevelt were placed on during the recentsession of con- day which will make y and the catafalque gress Services Sunday will begin with round-tri- p coach tickets sold prior An office assistant disclosed BoCeremonial to July 25 good for passage until mass at 7:30 a m rah had been “a very sick man” the Monexpiration dRte provided tributes to the queen who died and that doctors were pleased with that regular is prior to February 23 day wilt continue until noon with date his recuperative powers representatives of nearly all nations 1939 They said the senator had no idea participating 100000-acr- e -- Eastern Rail Lines Hike Fares Tonight re Lit-vin- Children Hold Wake for Queen - Sen Borah Gains Tries Few Steps ni one-wa- of giving up his place oif the congressional - administrative commit- River Claims Victim tee undertaking a study of monopMexican GREAT' FALLS Mont July 23 oly Mrs Borah told reporters she and (UP) — Harold Stroh employe of a the senator would “go some place bowling alley here drowned Friday where it's cool” as soon as he can night when he slid into the Sun river MEXICO CITY July 25 (UP)— travel just below Riverside inn A proposed 12 per cent export tax was reported out favorably Saturday by the tariff committee of the MexiAthlete-Hono- r can chamber A caucus of majority party members also approved the tax indicating the measure will be passed at the next meeting of the chamber Legislators Back Export Tax 1 Student Loses to" 6 Gamble With Death By Tribune Leased Wire SPRINGS N Y f death” he said He pulled the July 23— Carl Sherman' 18 fortrigger— and fell dead mer outstanding athlete and Hus two friends J J Russo honor student at Saratoga Springs of Lynbrook L I and Miss Mary high school told two friends he Ryder of Burnt Hills N Y who was “going to gamble for life in witnessed the shooting Friday the Russian manner” night in a hotel 'here told the He inserted a single cartridge story Saturday to Coroner Fred in a borrowed revolEaton They said Sherman had ver spun the cylinder and put no reason to kill himself He was the weapon to his head in good heal'h and was pi inning “I have one chance in six for to enter Geoigia Tech in the fall SARATOGA Samuel Insull Buried Beside Parents UTNEY England July 23 (UP) Samuel Insull the former Chicago millionaire who died last Saturday in Paris was buried Saturday near ‘he graves of his parents in Putney-val- e cemetery Only members of the family and a few close friends were present |