Show iil ' "'jTi‘ilgttfi' 5hfJitiU iakc JTriimnt: Wednesday Morning- - Scenarist With Legal Pen U S Acquires Utilities : fwm Purchases Private Holdings In Whole of Tennessee Warns Factions NEW YORK Aug 13 (AP)— Governmental authorities Tuesday paid $78423095 for electric power properties in Tennessee in the greatest transfer of utilities from private to public ownership in the history of the United States Wendell L Wiltkie president of Commonwealth immediately commented: “This transaction ' has demonstrated that no- - business however well run can endure against the competition of the fedHe In their shirtsleeves When the morning’s work bedeclared gan Wlllkie’s hair was neatly his company had been “forced” to combed Long before noon it wa sell because it could not compete ruffled over his forehead with “subsidized government com- Personalities Flare The operations in general ran smoothly barring a brief flare-u- p between Willkie and Governor Prentice Cooper of Tennessee who had commented: “The people of Tcnnersee will he relieved from what we have regarded as excessive electric charges amounting to seven or eight million dollars annually” Willkie at onre tonk Issue with (he governor pointing out that under public ownership Ihe which electricity consumers annually pnid to' the Tennessee Electric Power company would be cut by about 23 per cent (T V A officials estimated “annual savings of $4113000 to 146000 cus- petition" 'Kept Faith — Made Good’ David E Lilienthal director of Tennessee valthe federal-owne- d ley authority which contributed $44728300 to the purchase funds asserted: “T V A has kept faith has kept with the investors its word to consumers has made good on its assurances to congress and the federal taxpayers that the project is The purchase of the properties ended five years of political economic and propaganda battling between proponents of public and private ownership in the valley of the Tennessee river Said Lilienthal: “This would seem to be a good time for the Utilities and the T V A both to devote all of their energies to the considerable work we each have to do The T V A will now be able to concentrate on its main purof the pose: The development great Tennessee vallev region” as I Said Willkie: “I ask have asked many times before that the government discontinue its competition with private business outside the Tennessee vallev -' iSl-AIT JASC VIC SAMUEL GOLI "THEY SHALL HA To be shown locally Mm HHW Wage Scale For Workers Keeps Mum" In U S Probe National Average Will Be Baised 5250 Monthly (Continued From Page One) would he $5720 as against the present schedule of either $55 or Prior to revision $60 a month under the new law the base security wage for unskilled workers in these cities in the north was with discretionary $33 a month power given to increase this by 10 per cent In a number of cities Harrington said including New York Cleveland and Detroit this increase had been granted resulting in an unskilled wage of $6050 a month whereas other cities including Chicago Los Angeles and San Francisco' had continued at the $55 base level The new wage schedule he said would give all such cities a W P A unskilled rate of $5720 a month In a statement issued in connection with the new wage schedule Colonel Harrington said it was the obvious intent of congress ns evidenced by statements made in debate on the relief act and again after Its passage that no ment The P dismissed strikers ahsent from their johs five days or more however and the V A requirement remained 130-ho- effect LOS ANGELES Aug 15 CP)— First steps toward an official peek behind the movie scenes wdth some high financial phases of the industry to be given a special ogling were taken Tuesday but there was absolutely no comment from the Hollywood sector That income tax records will play an important part in this' federal inquiry was indicated by Charles H Carr special assistant to Attorney General Frank Murphy Among other records Carr is inspecting those of the internal revenue department “It A selection of PROOFS j?n txJ J CCb In artistic things you want the best whether it be a Melody— or a Portrait to send home or to presenr a loved one The best however is not always the most expensive you will agree w hen you see these fine portraits that are oflered at the startling low price of 50c each - (No appointment necessary) X Lislin Slucli 41 T I AKIC CITY 12 South Main M Phone Hatafch 2111 lHr Hour: 8 30 a m to ft iin p m Open (tun day i il to 8 Kaohiniton Bird Phone 8W rudlv Ilnurs: f am In I pm ftunrtayt and Holiday by Appointment Trlb ftt morning Fitl Luke HjkntrfirnrMr fit art WEDNESDAY SAFES PEMBROKE' af 94 FAST BROADWAY OFFICE EQUIPMENT AND THURSDAY ONLY CLEARANCE MEN’S SPECIALS SPECIALS 51 I’uir W l Women'! ViU rtft and Kir! S II O'NfUl ! Prlrrd 75 VAURKST 10 912 75 and RICK ONHIX HIIOFS Hern All Ha Reduced and Repnred lor final ClraiAUte at nt'Rronpfdi and Repriced for final Clearance 798 Pairs M KVS and NOMIYS Wl O ES RfKrouprd V hftX! W Women's of Pumps Censlutm Ties and 8trw— in Brown Black White comblm-- t nd Iilue ionHigh or low hreis lion's 217 Pair Men's W Oxfords Regrouped and Repriced for Final Clesrsnes at ft H m ' M hr to h'oi rv hat If fM at any alar)! vif tif-i- i is t oi tm I'ora (Alv) Marx & §40 Values Values J) $ 75 $50 Values Values Sl S(fl75 IibwmhI You'll enjoy the drastic savings too — savings hy which we turn August from a normally dull month into one of the busiest of the year BACK TO SCHOOL STUDENT SUITS Values 5 $T1 C)?5 iLj Aj If 'it h Tuo Trousers Dixie Weaves Values to $30 SIG75 Dixie Weaves Values to $10 82373 82373 83175 Suits Values to $10 Suits Values to $50 Save Now on Furnishings $200 Sliirts Formerly Priced IL50 10 $10 DO Spooial In Hlfick Brown (Ira While And spoil 1 $155 for $6 $250 Shirts 1 PAJAMAS $135 for $7 WALK-OVER’- S "QUALITY SHOES AND HOSE” No I’i ftittilx Exchnnj:rs or Approvals Elmse $200 Values $250 Values $350 Values $500 Values Sport Shirts Summer lies HALF PIUCF Summer Slacks HALF PRICK Me n’s Robes STOMACH rid howIn tma-rHrvr 'ir tlMirnl Jtr 0 fkUul'lr M M MANN HA TAMI F i I'aiii tfr ur itn to ia boatiBj or mhu rtistre i giS'ii SHIRTS VI rn'iM 1 Summer Suit Clearance WOMEN'S ft Itelirvcd or No Cost 1 uu $30-$3- ITnttred at Citv M ftrrftiil (JM TRIP The weather may he Mann outside hut it's cool in our store — cool enough to make trying on fall suits enjoyable A L L SIZES I’lali idalM rnnttlh vomit: dul'v irilay H "5: Year hi ftiUn’ $12: (!iawir In U 8 dalle and ftuniiav- ninn'h SI 2N To 1 W GASSY ROUND kMawS SALE! fcfan-- n Tickets! Hold Uloh lobby Telephone Woiolch 9400 Or your Trovd Agnl THRU PLANTS 0 AllYi 05 AM tM'fM 5 52 AM S A I’ K S Pc Salt £akc eribunctht Jwned nffle S 34 hours Hart Schaffner SAVES s a i i: s FINAL TWO DAYS in Wages of W B A workers In Utah will be incteased under the new scale except for unskilled laborers of class B Darrell J Greenwell state administrator said Tuesday In Sail Lake county the comparison of old and new wages month is ns follows: per Unskilled class B $52 under new scale against unskilled $5160 class A $5720 against $5460 intermediate $6890 ngninst $65 skilled $89 70 against $8450 and professional and technical $9190 against $9360 The class B laborers are those whose work is Indoors class A workers are employed outdoors or under other circumstances where the jobs are subject to weather conditions The w age rates In oilier counties are lower in both old and new scales to population according brackets but increases are expected to obtain in all classifications except class B W I A officials contacted nfter the office was closed could not recall Tuesday night the rates in counties outside Salt Lake Vftflft OODFN' 2174 nesday FLY TO LOS ANGELES is To Air ‘Bribe’ Charge 130-ho- PORTRAIT Popular 6x8 SIZE that adding Great Britain and France want ter UPt-Pn- oific Workers Gain In New Program £ eauUiui £ Mnye said by Repre- -' Pay You a Bonus to Get Fall Business in August significant" said Green "that we read in the papers of soviet Russia of proposals made hy the ruler of the O I O before thev were circulated in America” Threefold Probe "The division in our family” he "We have a lot of preliminary asserted at another point “is di”1 do not work to do” he said rectly traceable to the consuming expect to talk to any of the per- ambition of one man who wants sons involved for some time We to control labor in America” first must see whom we want to question and arrange for their ap-- i Asks Air Permit pearance" Carr disclosed his probe is threeWASHINGTON Aug 15 fold Coast Air Lines Inc apIn addition to investigating the plied to the civil aeronautics aureorganization of the Fox Film thority Tuesday for permission to corporation and ils merger with establish new airlines between Twentieth Century Films to deter- Sncramento and Los Angeles with mine whether there was between Stockton Modesto Merced Fresno $4000000 and $6000000 in income and Bakersfield as intermediate tax liability the inquiry will also concern itself with the personal in- points come (ax liability of Joseph M Schenck chairman of the board of the Twentieth Century-Fo- x Films Carr said I tali PORTRAIT OFFER FOR A LIMITED TIME Dies members We WAIJi-OYEir- S - war” committee srntative Voorhis (D) California protesting Dies’ decision to start committee hearings Wed- This Week The third point in the investigasubstantial reductions in present W P A wages in the north should tion will be the alleged $100 ono be made payment hy film producers to WilThe new schedule of monthly liam Bioff representative of the earnings does not affect the re- International Alliance of Theatricently instituted requirement that cal Stage Employes A minority group W P A employes must work 130 within the hours for the monthly wage That I A T S E charged in court prorequirement incorporated in the ceedings involving an interunion new relief act caused widespread jurisdiet ional fight that Bioff had strikes hv V P A workers protest- been paid the SI 00000 by Schenck ing against abandonment of the to place workers "under studio policy of paying them the snme dominance” hourly wage rates as those which prevail in similar private employ- if 15 UP) — Aug ident Roosevelt who brought the The department of agriculture has leadership of the A F L and CIO three proposals in mind for imtogether last winter in a series proving the prices of fats and oil Inconferences of unsuccessful Secretary Wallace said Tuesday tended to make peace between Under consideration are: 1 Diversion of some fats and them appealed again Tuesday for oils from table use to the manua settlement of their differences “ I venture to express the facture of soap 2 Purchase of lard and other hope” Mr Roosevelt said in a anpork products for distribution to message to the seventy-sixt- h nual convention of the New York the needy 3 of Labor Increasing exports by finanState Federation (A F L "that the convention will cing of "sound credit transactions” bank leave open every possible door of through the export-impoWallace rejected a subsidy idea access to peace and progress in the affairs of organized labor in urged upon him by some members of congress and certain agriculthe United States "If th? leaders of organized la- tural representatives after agriculbor earvhiake and keep the peace ture department economists had Inbetween various opinions and fac- formed him that stocks of fats and e high and tions within the labor group itself oil were at an it will vastly increase the pres- prices ihe lowest in more than five years tige of labor with the country The secretary said In a stateand prevent the reaction which otherwise Is bound to injure the ment summarizing the findings of the economists that he “did not w'orkers themselves” In another passage the presi- feel that an export subsidy program on lard and other fats and dent remarked: "I hope you will give attention oils is warranted” to the matter which I am alWASHINGTON Aug’ 15 ways concerned about namely Wheeler (D) Montana finding ways for steady employment of labor and increasing the Tuesday left the naval hospital where he underwent a tonsillec-tqpi- y annual purchasing power August 7 “IL i? what a worker earns for himself and his family in the course of a year which is impor- tant not only for his own economic plan for his life but for the economic life of the nation In many sections and in many occupations which fail under the of labor general classification there are millions of Americans’ who suffer from inadequate pay or overlong hours or both” In a speech to the convention William Green the A F L president repeatedly denounced John L Lewis not referring to him by name but identifying him as “the ruler of the C I O” He accused Lewis of holding ambition” and "an of having vetoed a settlement projected at the meeting last win- tral Representative Thomas (PD New Jersey made the accusation that the administration was ‘attempting to balk committee acHe said he had heard tivities reports that certain committee members whom he did not name recently had "discussed discontinuing the committee's hearing” Thomas described as an effort to "hit Dies below the belt” a telegram which he said had been sent to the chairman and other CP-Se- nator W P A Boosts Film Capital Governor Cooper explained that he had included In his statement estimates of rate cuts resulting STUDIOS WORLD FAMED -- Charles II Carr assistant V S attorney general Launches probe into alleged movicland combine tomers”) from previous utilities transfers notably at Knoxville and Memphis With the checks all in Willkie entertained many of the public representatives— including Governor Cooper— at luncheon He said he intended to start soon on a full month's vacation "I need a real rest” he said cl WASHINGTON charge that the administration was seeking to "sabotage" the house committee Investigating came activities from a committee member Tuesday after Chairman Dies (D) Texas" had announced that the group would inquire into “foreign propaganda designed to Involve this country in an Eui ropean war” Dies said committee hearings starting Wednesday would develop testimony "on fascist and nazi activities" in the United States and that the war propaganda study would be made later "Foreign countries are trying to involve us in an European rt church Although the windows were open to the hot August air a haze of tobacco smoke filled the room Half its occupants worked poration eral government" NEW YORK Aug 15 CP)— Pres- It now has its yardstick arra It should be content with that so that in the other areas of this nation the utility industry may make its vital contribution to American business recovery” The ceremony of exchanging checks and deeds occupied three hours The men taking part sat at tables in a large sixth floor at Broadway ' and Wall room street directly across from Trinity j ChiUcil-Mark- country's active support while Germany and Italy w anted the United States to remain neued this Aug 15 CPt — WASHINGTON A Rejects Subsidy Idea to Clear To Beware Of Boomerang Willi 37812509) Check 161919 'August Congressman Charges Plot To 'Sabotage’ Red Probe 'Nation’s Chief Wallace Tells Renews Plea Plan to Raise In Labor War Fat Oil Prices In Historic Ceremony The money payment in a cere mony participated in by more than 200 representatives of the federal municipalities government power companies banks and private utilities made Tennessee the first “public power" stale in the nation The properties purchased were those of the Tennessee Electric Power company a subsidiary of Commonwealth and Southern cor- -- $155 $185 $265 $3B5 HALF PRICK o rf OFF jo Arthur Frank 203-21- 0 South Main Street |