Show J 2 X rijc Salt Sunday Morning- - £akf -- ?tribunc- - Ham E£g Foes1 " Author of Ohio's Expanded Pension Plan jSEC Studies Shake-uin Charge Plot Power System To Slow Polls Stands Guard House to Gel 1 SAN FRANCISCO Nov 4 ll'P) —Charges that ham and eggs supporters— mainly elder citizens with lots of time on their hands— would attempt to slow down at the polls on Tuesday when California otes ena Jin Thursday pension plan livened the dosing davs of a hitter off- - ear election rnmivcign Saturday night The San Kiannsco chamber of commerce and the San Francisco registrar of voters took cognizanee of the charge surb a plan was in the minds of the forces fighting for the second straight sear for adoption of the pension plan The state law permits a voter to spend two minutes in the voting booth Few take that long The pension group supposedly was urged to go to the polls early and take as much time as they could on the theory they would hold up the business men the clerks the office workers and others considered likely to vote The Rev II S Bigelow shown at letter-strew- n against the plan desk Saturday predicted victory for his old Irgea Worker Leave n The chamber of commerce sent a special message to all business men urging them to advise their workers they would not have to report for work Tuesday until after they had voted Registrar of Voters Charles Collaw would lins said the be rigidly enforced California Life Retirement Payments association the organization fighting for the pension scheme Issued warnings to Its followers to wateh for “Elections have been stolen before and can be again’’ the organisation said In the midst of the drive for voters observers predicted the outcome would be close Last year a margin of only 250000 votes separated the group voting successfully to defeat the plan and those voting in favor of it i fWSOTt age pension plan The scheme provides for $50 for single persons $80 a month for couples Old Age Pension Battles Hold Spotlight In Polilieal Issues for This Week two-mlnu- ballot-stealin- Ohio Will Decide On Expanded Largesse Proposal g the WASHINGTON Nov 4 W—The question of the hour is Who’ll pay for grampaw— and how much? The issue in California is "Ham and eggs" again— and in Ohio there’s a new device “The People s Birlhday Present” Citizens of these two great states will vote this week on unusual pension plans which veer from the formula set up by rnngross for Record Registration annuities to the aged giving With 3606907 voters eligible to Their votes climaxing weeks of participate the largest registered hectic campaigning will dominate for any special election in the the scattered elections state observers forecast a 300000 And they may prove a sounding-boar- d or a sileneer for the pension majority for those fighting against the proposal volte at national convenpeople’s The betting odds were 4 to 1 tions of the two big parties in ham and eggs would be sent back 1940 to the kitchen but thebe odds Both on the west coRst and in the business Interests said were far Industrial midwest the voters have out of line They warned against been treated to the showmanship and sharp debate which have charLed by Willis and Lawrence Al- acterized such campaigns since Dr len and Roy Owens and supported Francis E Townsend launched his the atate revolving-pensioby the atate idea in 1934 communist party and individual labor groups the pension amend- New Prosperity Pump ment was similar in form to the The lines have been drawn wide: one defeated last year The pensioners have sought to warIt proposed to issue state link largesse with a new rants to circulate as money and pump their opponents have be free of slate taxes These war- tied their protest against higher rants would be financed by a taxes to forebodings of governto to affixed be each stamp ment bankruptcy and industrial weekly and to be purchased from stagnation was the contention the state It The pension plans In the twrn of the promoters the stamp re- states varv greatly in their details quirement would cause the war- The Califonia scheme Is known rants to circulate rapidly create populaly as ‘$30 Every Thursday ” new business and bring great pros- while in Ohio the campaign cenperity A minimum of 30 war- ters on the proposal of Herbert S rants would be Issued weekly Bigelow which combines pensions every Thursday to every person with a tax plan reminiscent of over 50 who is neither an em s old Henry George "single tax" ployer or an employe Idpa Bigelow Is a Cincinnati minister Dictatorship Charge Meanwhile this significant fact The plan would be administered appears: While the federal govby either Roy Owens or Will Km ernment has offered to pay one-hadig Los Angeles who under the of old age benefits up to $40 amendment would have to be a month beginning January 1 not named as administrator by the a state has qualified as vet single bi This provision governor ought to pay Its aged that much Colocharges of dictatorship horn the rado s law provides pensions of I he administrator opposition would have power to interpiet the act fix salaries fix the rate of warrant payments and name aids A state bank proposal was added for this years balloting and an' other new provision called for 3 In War Zone per cent gloss income taxes on Tage money not in warrants The state would redeem the war- England masses funds to buy U S arms lA rants at the end of a year foi 51 U4 Reich protests release of City in cash 1A of Flint I he scheme similar' to one which failed in AILierla in 19db Ambassador Grewr tells of would bankiupt the state opponAmerican stand In Tokyo ents led by President Iraukim D 1A talk Roosevelt and former President Noiwav German prorejects Herbert Hoover and uuluding lp-to- n test on seizure of City of bint lair and Dr Iranus town 1A Flint send said Business men said they Ixsl press crituise Roosevelt wouldnt accept t he wauants 1A arms embargo for Bankers said they wren t monev British lifting fliri gives ifderal security and housing ad 8A story of I boat sinking mmistiations warned iedtial as French repot t Germans sistance to the si tie would colchange tactics on western lapse undei a warrant scheme fiont jlA Hope Incieasid for auord in 1 A sov u t parley I inni-IclvCb CIO r sf § £ - ‘JX SY n pos-peri- 2 a r Yi -- f x is set-u- e -- Ham-Eggs p this: All single citizens of Ohio 60 or more years old would be guaranteed an income of $30 a month married couples would be guaranteed $80 a month Pensions would be financed by a state income tax equal to the taxpayers federal Income a tax of 2 per rent on the value of all land worth $20000 an acre or more one-four- Estimates Varied The second tax Is an echo of Henry George’s theory He proposed to tax away the difference In rent between plots of land and thus to do awav with the "unearned Increment” which he said went to land owners during pe- riods ’’trrTKpSfision and urbanization Estimates of the eost of the program range from Bigelow’s own $56000000 a year to a $380000000 figure obtained from the slate tax commission Bigelow claims the plan will pay its own way The Ohio emergency committee spearhead of the opposition argues it will push the state far up in the red-in- k column Stocky Arthur L Limbarh state chairman of the Democratic partv called on his partisans to defeat the plan Some party leaders said privately that vote this strong year might make the Cincinnati minister a potent candidate for broad-shoulder- governor In Scheme NEW YORK Nov 4 financial and utility leaders said Saturday recent inquiries made by federal officials indicated a “showdown” in the near future on the whole question of electric utility system integration under the "death sentence" clause of the 1935 public utility holding company a t Firms with lolal capital exceeding $10000000 000 are InvolvecL These sour res said they had been Informed the securities and exchange commission irked both bv delay In working out Integrate plans and by a measure of uncertainty over the precise meaning of the statute is studying a comprehensive plan covering the whole nation calling for an arbitrary reshuffling of the leading interstate utility systems California where Governor L Olsen last year won power with "ham and eggs” support the fight centers on a broadened pension plan which one proponent described as an economic measure to give more goods to these Culhert ome The project was described here as the most audacious in scope ever conceived In capitalist history A glance at the federal power commission map shows the eastern half of the United States covered with a patchwork quilt of more than 50 systems many of which have innumerable subsidiaries Jerome Frank chairman of the S E C was pictured as having studied for many months the possibility of setting up a great pool which would permit the corporate rearrangement of the Interrelated companies The legal management and finance problems Involved were said to make It easily the most Imposing industrial problem ever undertaken WASHINGTON Nov 4 (UP)— Chairman Carl Vinson (D) Georgia of the house naval affairs committee said Saturday night that he will sponsor a bill at the January session of congress for a $1300000000 naval expansion program to be carried out in the next r four years said “but we Vinson of inch soil" not covet one "We foreign We shores must have our awav to war from determined are keep an adequate fleet — now” The proposed hill would authorize Increases in all categories of naval vessels except battleships The program does not envision a "two ocean navy” Hearing In January Vinson said that his committee tr would start hearings on January 8 and that the ir U S Economic Unit to Scan blimps ” The announcement was in line with the administration’s decision to ask congress to build up both the army and navy to make this country safe from any attack President Roosevelt has authorized an increase in army enlisted strength and has put the navy to work reconditioning wartime destroyers for neutrality patrol duty Shipyards still are building war- War’s Profits Public Will Be Kept Informed On Price Moves 1937 WASHINGTON Nov 4 UP)— The Chairman O'Mahoney (D) Wyoming said the step was In line with sug- gestion that the group keep “a constant eye" on Increases in the costs A general of basic commodities hearing on prices has beert scheduled for the latter part pf this month O Mahoney said The chairman made rlear that the committees chief weapon in policing prices would be publicity Pointing out that the committee has no authority to take legal action he said the price fluctuations would be watched closely by the department of labor Check M 111 ( iit's 1 Warnin'n In Nation On Pension Scheme SAN FRANCISCO of the Interior 11 h i o Id Ickes shied away from discussing the possibilities of a thlid term fur President Roosevelt Saturday but Issued a warning agninst the $ pension plan' on whlih Californians will not vote November 7 "I like ham and eggs for breakfast but not in polling " he said referring to the pension proposal Nov 4 1 Opponents chaige ham and egg group plans to slow up 2A polls Old age pension battles hold 2A political spotlight Finnish women piepaied to MA aid troops in emergent y Wars toll on world shipping BA soais to 110 losses Customs agents prevent sailing of Amfi leans to I urope 17A Wcu Ids climate changing lo wanner accoiding to a physics symposium person or group would be given an New York WndiingtoH 1 c " ISA1 III Ox j pen Mask Shown Opinion-Roosevel- Spokesmen for these sv stems genW11E Ogden Logan soc u ly erally contend that their rates Provo and Price weddings where higher are due to higher 1!E m nts engage living and construction tests in the B Women s "'fanturc Sunday areas they serve 1SE bridge corner mu-Bl) News and comment about i Plant Obsolete 1IE sic and art The power committee report Btl V hat to see on stage and contend they said that 15E may a!o sereen some of the steam generating Ol’Itl plants of utilities in various secIn the Magazine Page tions of the country are obsolete 1C Colot ado upsets Utah The New that thrv therefore use too mudi Map of the week 1C B 3' 4 wins over Denver unneces( i eater Germanv IF coal and consequently wife— Mr Need sarily deplete the national reIII Feature Field source dramatic senes on SI" The presumed alternative they rase (rime said based on Inquiries made hv News of latest inventions in Fndix news analyst sees 51’ companies of power produced by the world of sarnie of cnntinuilion powerful 81’ hvdro-ele- c tnc plant operated h mmal at war ID cnopeiation Rial eslate buildings news governmental agencies over go(nm tn town with Mark 7$ vernment owned transmi'sion lines ID hints on gardening Hellinger 4 Roosevelt hats U S ships in Fla Nov 4 UPi- -A war zone newly developed oxvgin mask Aeronautics hoard postpone which supplies the imreit mixture hiaring on an lines merger to avlatois at any altitude up toiBaiklev memo In congiess re- 35 000 fret and girally reduce the veals peril In copper tariff cost of hospital oxvgen treatment U S bureau laution labor was shown tn aemmednal doc lot not In expect war boom in for the fust time Saturdiy wag's HOLLYW OOD 1A 1A Vet-teill- 's nai-sovl- 7 A Must Provide Defense "In the light of world conditions the American people justly demand a naval force more nearly adequate to meet any possible national defense need” he said "It is the duty of the congress to provide it” Vinson said his bill contem- plates a general increase of approximately 25 per cent above existing authorizations or about 400000 tons in combatant type vessels other than battleships and of 125000 tons in auxiliary vessels "There has been much talk about a navy” he said "If auch were necessary at this time I would not hesitate to urge Be Mada "If it develops that there has been an unusual price movement a check udll be made with the department of commerce to judge whether there is a special inventory situation which might account for the price rise" he said "If the increase Is still unexplained further checks will be made with the tariff commission to see if the condition in foreign trade may be accountable "Thereupon the situation will be discussed with the federal trade commission and the department of justice and other agencies and experts in the government which may have pertinent information "If this analysis should still fail to explain the price increase a memorandum will be presented to the committee for determination as to whether it should request lire federal trade commission or the department of justice to make a field survey Depending on the results of suih survev a public hearing would he called before the full rommlltee where the complaint would be aired and anv interested two-ocea- n Bills Still Unpaid that It be built but my considered opinion after technical advice is that the needs of national defense will best be served by properly balanced increases to our present fleet The program which I shall present to the congress will be realistic It will provide for expeditious increase of American naval power in surh classes of ships as the president demands the congress determine se- Fly cr Derails At Cadiz Ohio ut GonvicU Believed BAN MATEO Cal — apnn-tanen- rade unions and others would be present Authorities Slain Nov 4 (I PI hohovect Saturday Rav Lagornnrslno and Leo Tymn escaped convicts were murdered hv a third person despile the of their pal Ray T homp-so- n who led policp to the hiding plate ot Iwo pistols whirh he sale! Ihe two fugitives used to kill each other in pilvat duel I t fjgft ft Mr- ft 9 45 g -- rt TV? £r TCSF —I'- - ‘ Capone sentenced to 11 years will have spent seven years six months and two weeks in assorted cells if he is freed on November 19 The others and the time they sat behind the bars were Capones brother Ralph two years five months Jack Guik three years eight months Hymie Levine 18 months and Frank Nitti 14 months Program But the bills of four of them Four-Yea- r have not yet been marked "paid "A survey of the building Induin full" by the gang busters they stry" he said "indicates that the refer to generically as "Mr Whis- bulk of this work can be laid down kers” and completed within between In addition to the $350000 suit three and four years if a special against Capone the government effort is exerted to that end ’’ has a $12289 judgment against his As a step in line with this brother for Income levies and a cial effort" Vinson said the"spebill lien of $781749 against Guzik and would authorize the departanother of $170380 against Levine ment to advance up tonavy 30 per cent for income and distilled spirits of the total of any builder’s contaxes tract These civil accounts cast up to Conceding that this was a sim$1314418 ilar program lo that now practiced by the federal maritime commission in connection with construction of passenger and cargo vessels Vinson said he felt this plan would expedite the program considerably and mnke possible a wider spread of the construction work CADIZ Ohio Nov 4 (UP)-T- he Vinson said that of crack Pennsylvania railroad flyer the present naval completion building proof an Louis" St struck "Spirit gram and completion of his proautomobile at a crossing near here posed program would give Ihe enSaturday night derailing the navv the following underage ships First reports in 1914: gine and 13 ears said none of the passengers was Fifteen battleships 59 cruisers Injured as the train left the rails 11 aircraft carriers 173 destroyers and hounded along the roadbed but 87 submarines 5400 airplanes and remained upright The tram was 36 lighler-than-ai- r craft en rou(e to Pittsburgh Retention by the navy of ships Crew members and passengeis now in commission which will be attributed their escape to the fact over age by 1944 hut still useful that the cars remained standing in an emergency Vinson added after the collision would add to naval forces eight Mnnv were shaken battleships six cruisers 32 subpaengirs but none appeared seriously in- marines and 120 destroyers jured When the fiver left the rails hunched of feet of east and west- I’osl Office Methods bound trac ks w eie torn up paraly traffic on thp Fitlsburgh-Co-lumbu- s Mystify Physician mam line WAYNESBORO Va Nov 4 (2D A special train was dispatched —Dr F P Floyd Is puzzled hut from Pittsburgh to pick up the effiwilling to concede passengers ciency to the post office department An Insurance company in Incorrectly addressed a card to the doctor at Boydton Va Ihe Boydton post office readdressed It to Lyndhurt Va but in sum" way It leached the post oflice at Longhurst N C which sent it the opening of the European 4 to the doctor here war" Housewives Plan to Mobilize Against Food Price Hikes CHICAGO Nov 4 wives of Chicago and the middle west planned Saturday to moc bilize Sunday to prevent axes In food prices A meeting was called at Hull house by the I nlted Confeience on the High Cost of Living of which Mrs Alice Trehaven la (halt man She said that and unorganized activity of women here and oignmzed boycotts in other ntie had temporarily hailed ’Ihe kv roc ket rise in food costs that began with 0 Vinson leading administration spokesman in the house on naval affairs said in a formal statement that our present navv built and building "will be sufficient to insure protection against any single aggressor but Is insufficient against possible combinations” ing President Roosevelts recent in ex- $1000-00000- temporary national economic committee set up machinery Saturday to keep the public fully informed of anv unusual price movements that might indicate war profiteer- J u authorized by congress which approved a naval pansion program exceeding ships to justify the price inopportunity " crease Coincident wilh these report said they had t ooperatlon Pledged the same source Salt C'N been Informed the newlv treated told reporters he beO —Nov 5 1939— power policy committee headed by lievedMahoney speculative price advances Harold of the Interior Secretary followed the outbreak of L Ickes was preparing to make which war In Europe largely had disapSmall neutral European naIdeas for brightening up your public a report calling attention to peared He said industrial leader 4 6D home decorating news tions seek U S planes for shortpotential power production had indicated a desire to cooperate 7A Activities d feme of vouthful Salt age as a national defense problem and voiced asxuranie that there 8 7D Lakers Boy Scout news Public Ownership would be no "unwarranted critiIn Utah Book reviews notes about the cism" of business as a result of the Power men here said they MD literati Utah Academv of Arts Silof this Icommiltec s activ es members several ences and Lelteis concludes A 9D Tnbune shoit story price struiture committee have leaned toward madesurvev of the t Ogden meet public by the committee said of Institute of Public Its utilities public ownership on Creek Deer told declined about Progress first choice of work is not viewed with equa- retail food prue project phases 10D nimity in Wall Street quarters one per rent in the week ending rank file Democrats National dairy show ends at 0 tobrr 31 they asserted Special bahy section’ Advice to ot It added that while steel priees Ogden with displays 000 transmission The $600000 on rare mothers training R8 had been announced as unchanged choice animals and feeding of children grid project— w hit h ha from time for the final quarter of the year to time in the past year been conha been a general withthere a In Salt Uile the hv such sidered agenues In Social Worhl of the discount and concesdrawal the and federal commission power Tage sion had been offered in preIhnt at the I’niveispy Homecoming administratrural electrifu ntion Hnmetoming activities close of I tah IE ion— may reappear In the com- vious month at umsersitv Salt Lake social news begins mittees recommendations they an good vs on IE said Goes Home gtoup visits Utah Some utility leader have looked lreident News of militan and veterActivities of the womens bv dev a as lie this Nov 4 OH — soWASHINGTON upon lubs I niv ersity of I tah proiect ans’ orgamat ions c ME which the federal government President Rooevelt left Saturday cial notes Li't of polling plai es for city could extend control over the for Hyde Park N Y to spend MB rarent-Teache- r elec t ion association acmore week end He plan to vote the particularly Churih activities In Salt Lake 10E tivities t he rate— of the important highl- there Tuesday in a local election C'ltv and vicinity the Weddings throughout tf)E y integrated Intrastate systems state Latln-Amer- the bill measure would specifically authorize 95 combatant ships Including three aircraft carriers eight cruisers 52 destroyers and 32 submarines 2395 additional airplanes and 36 lighter-than-aVinson said that ship wull the latter "probably be Tells Senator O’Mahoney plans to watch war profits Most Audacious people without taking any thing from anyone A similar proposal was defeated last year by a margin of 250 000 In Congress’ Lap votes In a 2695000 vote election Should such a plan once worked California Proposal out not be approved by the system these sourees said The “30 Every Thursday" plan the S E C u considering dumping is this' An “administrator” wmuld set the entire problem in the lap of in January They up "the credit clearings bank of congress early the people of California” with would ask congress it was underfunds from a $20 000000 bond Is- stood either for a clear mandate sue and a $900000000 cash loan in enforcing the plan or as an alternative for a clarification of from the state treasury To all California citizens over the existing statute Section 11 of the 1935 law which 50 who are neither employes nor the hostile utility leaders then nick"comissue would he employers named the "death sentence" clause pensation retirement warrants” C as soon as worth $15 a week to begin with instructs the S E 1 1938 and eventually reaching $30 a practicable after January to require each registered holding week or more company to limit ifs actions to ’a The warrants would be single integrated public utility syscent 2 a per through tem and to such other businesses stamp tax The pensioner would as are reasonably incidental or each to fix the first stamp economically necessary or approdollar and go forth to spend to the operations of such After that whoever held the war- priate system” However the rant at week's end would affix integrated was also empowered under another stamp At the end SEC conditions to permit a holdof the year the warrant (having certain to continue to control collected $104 in stamp taxes) ing company "one or more additional integrated state would be redemmed by the utility systems" It was the latter bank for $1 — of course to the Broad powers given the adminis- portion — which hastempting caused confusystems trator to demand "equitnble” dis- sion and delay in working out intribution of goods and to forbid it was said deliberate curtailment of produc- tegration plans tion have raised cries of "dictator- Putting Pressure ship" from opponents The same electric power men Colorado is still wrestling with said uihIpi stood the S E C w as an old age svstem rooted in the now they some upon putting state s constitution by popular vote the Associated Gas &pressure Electric systhree years ago tem to complete its geographical Attac k Rig Business Integration Associated now serves three large areas In New York novV savs every state— in The constitution the north the extreme pel son over 60 shall get $45 east and the south central seetlnn To pay this the pension month Integration of its far flung holdfund gets 85 per cent of the sales In other states might involve ings tax 85 per rent of all liquor disposal of some of these New York taxes and license fees 10 per cent groups presumably to the Niagara of Inheritance taxes and incorpoHudson system worlds largest ration fees and any monev the producer of elertrlclly whirh legislature may choose to add to serve the major part of industrial more —Projected Program to Be Sponsored hy Representative Vinson Would Period Be Carried Out Over Four-Yea- r In Today's Salt Lake Tribune y 7 federal-stat- California’s old folks were getting the most under the federal law providing benefits for the needy aged Their monthly checks averaged $32 46 But federal-stat- e payments ranged down to Arkansas’ $5 95 month In general Ohioi Bigelow plan lf i California Again Will Pass on but the social security board says that as of September old folks tn the Centennial state were getting only $28 32 from $45 a month off-ye- -- -- For Reshaping Industry Hinted JP-S- 1300 Million Session Opening in January Sweeping Plans Looms on Pension Vole 1939 Naval Expansion Bill at p Bitter Fight Nov ember 3 3T-- |