| Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE THURSDAY MORNING JANUARY 12 1939 Western BIqc Where President Will View Navy War Games Murphy Stirs Inside Adviser Warns on To Roosevelt Battle in Lower House Dies at Capital Sugar Tariff Coster Probe Last Council Promises New Exposure V U Murdock Leads Threat to Hit Choice for Attorney General Draws - Trade Treaties' Fire of Opponents WASHINGTON Jan 11 A— The appointment of former Governor Frank Murphy of Michigan to be attorney general underwent its first baptism of fire in the house Wed- - By Tribune Washington BureaQ the WASHINGTON Jan 11- -If state department in revising the reciprocal trade agreement with Cuba consents to any further reduction in the tariff on Cuban sugar the entire house representation from the western beet sugar states will go along with other groups in congress that are Interested In repealing the reciprocal trade act Notice to this effect was served on Assistant Secretary of State Sayre by Representatives Cummings of Colorado Murdock of Utah ’and O'Connor of Montana who the committee appointed by the western states group to make ’known their views to the admin- nesday Representative Hoffman (R) arsubmitted a raignment of Murphy’s political and labor record which drew cheers from the minority and roused to the cabinetap-pointee- ’t Michigan defense Map shows fH utes by which navy ships and planes are converging on Caribbean for war games and path it is reported the president will take to view the maneuvers and to vacation Dramatically waving -- handmade bludgeon he said were taken from men in (truck plants the Michigan congressman asked Leader Rayburn (D) Majority com-"pri- istration 'Frankly Disturbed — The committee membcr'told Mr Sayre they are frankly disturbed by the statement credited to Colonel Batista upon his return to Cuba (that while in Washington he had received assurance that the United ""States would reduce the preferential tariff on Cuban sugar from 90 !to 75 cents per 100 pounds — Secretary Sayre said that he had talked with Colonel Batista but that no such assurance had been given the Cuban official However Secretary Sayre thought that a reduction In the tariff would not adversely affect the domestlc sugar industry because Cuba is limited by quota in the amount of sugar she can ship Into the United States each year Takes Issue - nt Representative Murdock took issue with Mr Sayre What the secretary contended would be correct if the secretary of agriculture in making his annual estimate of consumption of sugar in the United States was anywhere near accurate in his figure said Murdock but last year he pointed out Secretary Senators Hear The Day in Washington Hopkins Harry ministration Uphold Record senate Nominee to Cabinet Admits Errors In Asking Approval Texas: "Was Murphy when the Demands Evidence Hopkins defended his adof WPA before a commerce subcommittee hearing on his nomination to be secretary of commerce" Witnesses at a senate judiciary subcommittee hearing on Felix Frankfurter’s nomination to the supreme court asserted he was "prejudiced in favor of radicals” (Continued From Page One) and that the appointment would Thursday to present the' report of "fan a wave of the WPA’a own investigators on the In :this country which it " The senate agriculture commitwas planned that the committee tee recommended confirmation of meet In executive session for ac- James P Pope former Idaho senator as a director of the Ten- tion on the nomination nessee Valley authority ' the’ fact that Hopkins Despite on the defensive was thrown Representative Hdttfpan (R) throughout the day and that much Michigan led a eharp attack by on Frank criticism was expressed members house Republicans predicted that the committee Would Murphy former Michigan governor whose nomination as atrecommend that the senate confirm torney general is before the the nomination Favorable senate senate — e action has been generally forecast Several committee members reThe administration lost one of advisers with the minded Hopkins that he had been its death of Herman OUphant ’54 colaeveral quoted by newspaper counsel of the treasury umnists as having told a friend general Kentucky-incidents-aft- Wallace had overestimated con- sumption by nearly 800000 tons These overestimates operate to the advantage of the Cuban sugar industry and tend to depress the price that: received for domestic beet sugar “We will spend and spend tax Mr Murdock pointed out Mr Murdock also raised the point and tax and elect and elect" ' he denied having that Cuba is not entitled to any Vigorously further tariff concessions on sugar made such a statement noting that inasmuch as it has never taken In one Instance the columnist had e full advantage of the benefits it said the assertion in a might have received under the fixed moment of relaxation He added quota and the Olti-cepreferentla iihfit if all the things said “by the mo’tarifflnstead‘ of ielllng at a price people— around‘Thlr-Table1n- " just under the full duty price Mr ments of relaxation were quoted it would make Murdock produced figures shqwlng a fine record” But -— “ that Cubans “ had been marketing its again "he asserted: “I deny the whole business I sugar in the United States at prices ranging from $2 to $6 per ton under won't quibble about the word I what they might have received had deny the whole works" they taken full advantage of the differential already extended them Representative Cummings chairman of the sugar group backed up the argument made by Mr Mur dock and at the end of an hour and a half Secretary Sayre thanked the congressmen for giving him the advantage of their knowledge of the LOS ANGELES Jan 11 (UP) — sugar situation Mrs Natasha Gorin beautiful wife of a soviet Russia travel bureau official' already under Indictment PRECIOUS was indicted by the federal grand top-flig- ht Hearing Waits Frankfurter was-mad- Jan 11 UP) — WASHINGTON Felix Frankfurtciyrriident Roase- velt’s nominee to the supreme court will appear before a senate ''subcommittee Thursday and it is expected he will answer witnesses who accused him of radicalism Chairman Neely (D) West Virginia of a judiciary subcommittee considering the nomination of the Harvard professor announced Wednesday night: “The subcommittee communicated to Dr Frankfurter Us desire for him to appear before it and he has kindly agreed to appear Thursday and will be heard by the subcommittee at 10:30" Frankfurter previously had expressed a disinclination to leave his jury late Wednesday in connection classroom duties to come to the with a reputed plpt to steal con- hearing CHILDREN fidential records of the U S naval The decision to call the nominee was made at the end of a day of intelligence Yours A stunning brunette Mrs Gorin testimony in which Mrs Elizabeth i was accused of possessing Informa- Dilling author' of the "Red NetAreo’t year children too predoue to tubjeet them to Isejf tion obtained from the files of the work” bracketed Frankfurter cough eyrup which may Deserve a President Roosevelt Glenn Frank Intelligence unit at San Pedro upeet their digeetlone? They Her husband Mikhail Gorin and ahd other leaders together as dandracrvo Foleys Honey and —Ugh Syrup Tar— the dellcioui IV Hafis Salich former employe at the gerous radicals tic cough eyrup which 11 tpe SPFPIII San Pedro office were indicted sevTo the obvious distaste of Sena ticiiy uiw to dnidrn Ideal Formulated eral weeks for adults too For living rBr ago on espionage tor Borah (R) Idaho Allen Zoll of BmT tpeedy relief elleving cough charges based upon allegations that New York City another witness helping to haeteniooeening of phlegm end g sufferer from cough Hue to m cold led eo Salich stole data relating to Japa- expressed the opinion that confirmuch better Foley'e Honey end Ter Cough nese naval secrets from the files mation of Frankfurter would "fan Byrup ie euperb At your druggiet 30c— bOc and turned the information ove to a wave of in the Gorin Advrtleement United States nt Spy Suspect’s Wife Indicted 9L MOST ( inihiKik of Course ) male-tn- — Opportunity Knocks Twice a Year — v -- AND THIS TIME ANNUAL IT’S HUNTER-THOMPSON’- BIG S MfflD-WnNTnE- IR "" law — Hoffman the question" and demanded that" he submit evidence that Murphy had violated the law In favor of the broadly Greatest Nonstop Flight in Navy History Completed strikers CRISTOBAL C Z Jam 11 M’i- -A fleet of United States navy patrol the bombing planed completed greatest mass nonstop flight In U S havar history Wednesday a one day 30000-mitrip from San Diego Cal to ths Panama canaL Flying in formation all but three of ths fleet’s 48 planes mads the flight without a stop Three planes of squadron seven landed en route for refueling beside the U S- - aircraft tender Wright in the Gulf of Fonseca off the coast of Honduras Of Swindler Yield New Clues WASHINGTON Jan 11 UP)— Death deprived the new deal of one of its most powerful inside advisers when Herman Oliphant succumbed to a heart ailment in Naval hospital Wednesday at the' age PRIENDS who have been in (his week con- eider this the greatest event in the history of our business Every pair must go regardless of former price The iashion-mindeare urged to take advanand the value-givin- g d thriit-minde- d — for women — Selby Arch Preserver Shoes ong & Peacock Shoes orig 8 10 75 Styleei and Johansen Shoes orig 7 85 Tru-Pois- e g Qg g gg 495 — for men — NettUton Shota ong 1075 to 1250 Boitoman Shota orig 750 to Mansfield Shoes orig 550 to 60 6 75 7 gtj 595 495 NEW YORK Jan 11 CF) — The possibility that new' and even more shocking revelations would be made soon in the McKesson and Robbins case was held out Wednesday night as government officials examined the secret correspondence of the late F Donald Coster-Music- a and the personal ledgers he kept through the years of his $11000000 defalca- of 54 was only Officially Oliphant general counsel of the treasury but actually he was an Important White House consultant on major problems and was primarily responsible for enactments! the con- trovers-iaundistributed corporate : profits tax of 1936 Herman Oliphant Zealous New Dealer House consultant dies A former professor he was one of the most zealous of the Like “left wing” new dealers other almost legendary figures in the group auch as Thomas Corcoran Ben Cohen and Leon Henderson he stayed out of the lime- light Strangely a his death came time when his associates said he could have sat back and things easily for the first time in six years The Republican gains in the last election had bolstered of congress the and President Roosevelt had announced in his annual message that he had no new major reforms to propose — that now was the time to “machine down" the social weapons already forged Hoffman charged Murphy with responsibility for failure to evict from Flint (Mich) plant under a court order' He acof “betraycused the ing" the people of the state In answer to an assertion by Rayburn that the automobile strikes had been settled "without bloodshed" he 11sted 11 policemen and IS strikers in- Original " tions The papers and books containing numerous entries in handwriting and the names of persons not yet mentioned in the investigation of his colossal fraud were found hidden in an old shed outside the McKesson and ‘Robbins plant m Fairfield Conn Postal inspectors on the job since Coster-Musica- White Mayors View Relief Cut at With Dismay taken Coster-Musica- suicide ’s ’s following once his exposure as an Involved in a million dollar swindle turned upthe documents ’’There were two bales wrapped in brown paperand an attempt evidently had been made to destroy them Assistant U S Attorney Gregory F Noonan said Move to Take Jobs Picture Accurate From 115 1300 Conference Asserts They give a fairly accurate picture of activities Noonan said from the time he vanished in 1920 from New York where he was under indictment for subornation of perjury to a month ago Coster-MusUa’- (Continued From Page One) — spon sible for curtailed WPA spending light in to came In that at Washington In Flint Oliphant period he had Apparently jured response to this a "I understand everything' has been March 1933 in the first wave of view Chairman Taylor (D) Colo- changed his name from Philip to F Donald Coster given himpeaceful in Michigan for months" professors that the president first rado of the appropriations comenlisted to inaugurate his vast so- mittee substituted an $875000000 self two Heidelberg degrees and Rayburn observed cial programs appropriation bill for the $725000-00- 0 American nativity— actually he was Make Retort He was a native of Forest Ind measure which he introduced a native of Italy— and had become and Greek 'We’ve got rid of Murphy" re- and had taught English Tuesday president of the great drug corporaUnilaw at such schools as the tion milking it of $11000000 and torted Hoffman Committee Agree and leaving fictitious assets of $20613-00- 0 Rayburn Interrupted Hoffman to versity of Chicago He Columbia ' had written on its books If the full appropriations comask if he believed “there was any Johns Hopkins ‘Nothing" Really-- ' books on trade regulation and trade mittee agrees when it considers While Assistant State Attorney v Officers belittled their feat say- doubt that the nomination of Frank associations and inthe monopoly the matter Thursday morning the General Ambrose V McCall anMurphy would be confirmed by the ing the flight was merely routine senate" Hoffman replied: vestigation now in progress partic- substitute bill will be accompanied nounced that his hearings Into the and uneventful They said the three He was by a committee amendment which corporation’s affairs were ularly interested him “Not in the least” virtually planes which refuqled en route did Republicans hooted Representa- the treasury's official representa- would reduce it to $725000000 The completed federal officials indicateo merely as a precautionary meascommittee on tive the conducting California when vote ed tive Kramer (D) on this amendment would place their investigation still had a ureof the study the "house membership on record long way to' go The blackmail The planes left San Diego at 2:12 he pointed to Hoffman’s exhibit and asked “what pawndefinitely regarding the proposed phases reports of wholesale bootp m E S T Tuesday Squadron weapons cut and they were bought in They legging reports of wing one reached the Coco Solo shop" retorted (D) other angles still are being scnitln-ize- d Representative Woodrum naval base here shortly after 1 p m cheered when Hoffman are more familiar with pawnVirginia who will be in charge of Wednesday and the last of the 48 “you than I” the bill in the house predicted the Brothers Released including the three which had ire shops full committee would approvethe Representative Daly (D) Pennfueled had landed safely by 4:10 Hoffman with two of Meanwhile reduction charged sylvania p m and said his remarks three brothers seized on a Displeased by the Democratic Wing one will remain here for subterfuge maneuver Republican leaders and charge of violating th securities two weeks-fo- r a check in prepara- were directed at the president Reappropriations committee members act of 1934 in connection with the tion for proceeding to a destination ferring to charges that Murphy was met and agreed upon strategy of filing of false financial statements high commissioner to the somewhere in the Caribbean sea to paid asines-wh He— campaigning— ift "BOSTON JanT lriTFi— Heavily their—own engage in the next war problem Phihpp Michigan Daly said Governor-elec- t Representative Taber of New and the securities and exchange laden trucks hummed along New with the U S fleet Arthur H James of Pennsylvania England highways again Wednes- York predicted afterward that most commission were released in bail Secret Mission as a judge day night Us 5000 trtielc drivers and clock-lik- e Three squadrons of patrol wing of the superior court with heeding a plea of Governor appropriation to $310000000 which on state indictments helpers three based at Coco Solo will take regularity” though not engaged15 by Leverett Saltonstall accepted a would operate the W P A only until It was understood they would aid off next month for a secret destina- his judicial duties since April proposal and April 7 while congress was working the federal authorities seeking a compromise wage-hosolution of the mystery of how their out a new relief system ended a week-lon- g strike tion also to engage in fleet maneuolder brother regarded as the The socialite governor whose la- New Relief Law vers "brains" of the family was able to bor record was assailed In the Nineteen merchant vessels passed By April 7 Taber said congress keep his Identity hidden and carry recent election campaign was lusthrough the Panama canal southout a new relief law ’out his elaborate thefts— more than bound Wednesday and eight mertily cheered as he helped talk more could work $4000000 from the firm in 1930 than a thousand noisy truck drivers which would: chantmen and eight units of the alone “1 Get rid of the political set-u- p U S base force fleet northbound in into acceptance of the compromise The brothers were George E of W P A a" terms rush to clear the canal “2 Prohibit other abuses such assistant treasurer and before Saturday when the Amer(Continued From Page One) Driver Cheer as are involved in the writers’ proj' 4n assistant vice president and Robican fleet will take precedence Dietrlch-Music- a head of the He had hurried from the state ects and theater projects and such ert northbound proceeding to the At- eluding June 30 1939 regardless of whether it has been delivered at house to the union meeting hall as resulted In indictments in Buf- shipping department of Bridgeport lantic for war games the mint by then when It appeared acceptance might falo New York and New Mexico “3 Forbid abuses referred to in This optimistic news came in be delayed letter received by A G Mackenzie The truck drivers cheered as he the senate committee report consecretary of the Utah chapter pleaded with them to accept a com- cerning the primaries and elections American Mining congress from promise “in the interest of the entire in Georgia Kentucky Pennsylvania and many other states" Senator Key Pittman of Nevada commonwealth” chairman of the' senate’s special After he had left only about 50 scattered “no’s” were heard when silver committee SPECIAL the meeting of 1500 drivers an- Legislator Opposes NEW MADRID Mo Jan 11 UP) Summarizes Parley DOMESTIC swered their union president's “shall Silver Purchase Act —Huddled Wednesday night around The letter a copy of a message vie accept the proposition?” Delivered 1 Ton or Mors WASHINGTON Jan 11 Tb Economical Slzo flickering roadside campfires hun- from Senator Pittman to Wayne C They chanted "We’re going back Illinois Dirksen (R) shareMissouri dreds of southeast Taylor assistant secretary of the to work” as they rushed toward PETROLEUM CARBON of the — repeal Wednesday cropper families demonstrating treasury summarizes the results qf wharves and terminals choked with proposed against a low economic status— a recent conference attended by the foodstuffs and raw materials and silver purchase act amendment of AMERICAN COAL CO determinedly faced probable rain Nevada solon Mr Taylor Gloyd within 15 minutes of the meeting's the reciprocal trade agreement act 1100 South Main Hyland IKI or snow shrinking food supplies M Wiles general manager of the close the first freight car seals uniform traffic regulation on fedand the danger qf disease Park City Consolidated Mines com- were broken and goods began to eral aid roads and a federal tax commission Many of the ragged army of more pany and a Mr Bernstein a mem- move than 1000 men women afld children ber of the treasury department’s ® Per Week most of them negroes were legal staff to face the predicted IncleSenator Pittman'r letter disclosed The compromise agreement gave ment weather the conference the the drivers $39 for a week that during INSTITUTION MERCANTILE ZION’S treasury staff agreed there was no with overtime allowances It repLittle Protection flat increase legal obstacle to paying the current resented a Tents and Improvised shelters of price for all domestic silver mined for the present work-wee- k but bed clothing offered little protec- prior ta July 1 1939 and decided was below the union demand for a tion from the chill wind that ush- an interpretation week by regulation $40 ARE YOU A GOOD HOSTESS? ered in their second night in the could so interpret the president’s One death marked the strike Ii so you’ll want to stock up today on delicious appetizer open air was and violence proclamation sporadic reported ior unexpected guests The march to the highways was It pointed out that Mr Taylor from several sections Choked Wisconain Swiss Smoked Pork called as a protest against the grow- requested Mr Bernstein to prepare wharves resulted in a partlal coast' Cheese lb 35c — lb 35c Sausage ing movement in the cotton country such a regulation and asked that wise steamship embargo and for to abandon sharecropping in favor he carry out this request as soon the first time In history Boston’s Luncheon Pickle bulk Smoked Liver of the employment of day laborers as possible in order to end uncer-taint- y fish pier had at least one fullday sweet lb 35c pt 20c Sautago Leaders of the demonstration conof mining men as to how of no trading Mettwurst for cooking each 25c tended some landowners had evicted they should conduct operations their renters to avoid sharing crop 2 for 35c Red & White Peaches Word ‘Delivery' benefit payments with them 15c Red & White French Dressing The requested regulation would 7 3 ior 14c Red & White Cleaner AAA Investigates be only a question of interpreting In Washington the agricultural the meaning of the word “delivery’ Husler’s Hi Patent Tiny Sifted Peas 3 for 35c adjustment administration which Senator Pittman wrote and at the 48 lbc $125 sent an investigator to study the conference the word was defined as Black Top Salmon --Flour 'Perfection Brooms tali 83c said government pay- including the following: situationNo 2 for 27c ments might be withheld from landIb 13c 31c “A contract entered into with the felly Bean Figco lords changing the status of their treasury department by a responsi Gold Bar Do Luxe Hospital Toilet 15c 15 ior $100 Plume sharecroppers to that of day work- ble party having in possession silver Tissue ers not yet processed provided such Aunt Jemima Pancake 2 lbs 25e Brussels prout Various landowners in the “boot-hee- contract is made on or before the 13c Flour Fresh Pineapaple ea '39c area blamed thesituation on thirtieth day of June 1939 contract 10c Missouri's tremendous gain in farm ing to deliver so many ounces of No 21 3 ior 25c Tomato Frozen Green or Wax in recent years restrict-e- silver then in possession but not population Cut String Beans 3 ior 25c Bean pkg 29c cotton acreage the shift from processed when such silver should Heins Tomato Juice Sunklst Large manual labor and mule power to be processed and refined in a form z 11 ior $100 dot 35c Lemons modern motorized farming and subject to delivery in accordance losses suffered by some' operators with treasury department regulaI a 35c Cherry Pie under the sharecropper system V tions” The letter Mr Mackenzie said is the first reaction to his appeal ZCMI MEATS Meat Loal Special— Steaks sirloin January 3 to Senator Pittman and 2 lbs Frssh Ground BooL the Utah congressional delegation round swiss ground Without Unlives — end I eu Eat for action to clarify the presidential P°rk lb’ 29c Everything from Sou to Nut eub 7 50c fto ttnawtl fchould dtMt l pnuadf f M proclamation Sausage ily WJm yw Ml ls Mu-sic- - gun-runni- Trucks Move As Boston Coster-Mu-slca- 's Strike Closes Republican3wouldtry-to4imit-thefrom-federal--eustody-but-arre- sted ur Thomas Asks War Metals Elements Peril Sharecroppers COM QH c7iSQnd ur zbnvn ur SM®E CLEAlRANCE tage Fighting Planes enforcing 'the strikers had these?" Land at r retorted that Rayburn Panama --Base waeTalklng around Personal Books Herman Oliphant Succumbs to Heart Ailment -- 1 l” ’ V 'ivv fi ‘ii Suedes Patents - n ' it'- rice end Kid Leathers Assortments are Naturally Broken but All Sizes and Widths Will Be Found in this Great Midwinter Clearance Eventl 7 --v i j “V y i'' A-- " : " It1? NO ’ Fab--- Mali Order Refund or Exchanges Every sale final SPECIAL REDUCTIONS ON HAND BAGS - HOSIERY and COSTUME JEWELRY ’ brr peuy you r minoui r r rirH loorii or wbo harried ebew poorly— your Koatirh oft to wr out loo nock flui4 Your food doein I dtreet And you tu toortburn innAHi You feel tour iduma or tour ikk ood upeet til ow Doctor UiaUro for itoaarli My never tab 1 dtnreroua and foolUh It takH thoao Kiln It black Ubleu tailed for Indlftnloo to mtko the etc itomseb fluid hamltat relltro diitrtM In no time end put you beck on ymir feet Belief la eo Quick It li imailnv end one 2’e for iodlieeUaa pMkaie provee It Aik for BeLl-a(Advertliement) ' XO Slr Bi PARKING HERE - 11 cort 3lflC Brandeis Has ‘Good Day WASHINGTON Jan 11 UPt-of Associate Justice Louis D Brandeis of the supreme court said Wednesday night he' had had “a very good day” "Brandeis 82 has been ill since Saturday Aids ’ Shoulder Lamb 'Chop lb 19c Shoulder Veal Steaks lb 19c Meters or No Meters See Friday's Papers J |
