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The Weather UTAH Partly cloudy Sunday WYOMING Fair Sunday NEVADA Generally fair Sunday (Detailed Report Page 6-B) VOL 131 NO 112 5SB1 fiJP ffTSaCT fog SALT LAKE CITY UTAH SUNDAY MORNING AUGUST 4 1935- 72 TEN CENTS ican Chiefs Vow to Defeat Roosevelt HeaufDesevt lulls I Roys Crazes Third Share Wealth Ballot Slated Mob Lynches Death Suspect In California Prisoner Held in- Slaying of Chief Taken From Jail and Hanged Guard Kidnaped Freed Deputy Says Seventy-five Masked Men Seized Him Inmates Scream For Monday ROOSEVELT DEPARTS ON FISHING TRIP Lower Chamber Ignores Roosevelt Proposal in Action oh Measure Invalid Boy Wins Battle With Death By Tribune Leased Wire NEW YORK Aug Fourteen-year-old Harold Pfleger is going back to his home in the Bronx today having won a battle for his life with the odds 9 to 1 agqinst lilm Harold entered New York hospital on November 26 1934 suffering from a combination of osteomyelitis and staphlo-coceus septicemia Since that time he has undergone 85 blood transfusions and his left leg has been amputated to end an infection of the blood stream His struggle for life attracted widespread publicity The boy will remain at home for two weeks and then will be brought back to the hospital for a final check on his condition His physicians have told his parents Mr and Mrs Gustave Pfleger that it would be a good idea to send Harold to a convalescent home until his recovery is complete and he regains his strength Italy Ethiopia Agree to Resume Mediation Effort League Will Meet Again on Sept 4 to Consider Africa Crisis SALUDA Ya Aug (TV-President Roosevelt sailed out of this port tonight for a weekend fishing cruise to escape the intensive heat of Washington The president left the White House shortly before noon after talking with Secretaries Roper and Ickes He was accompanied by Senator Wheeler (D Mont) who Is fighting the administration battle for the abolition of public utility holding companies Rescuers Find Gruesome Panorama of Death Delirium Runaways From Camp One Lad Found Near 'Hole Scratched in Arid Sand By United Press PHOENIX Ariz Aug Searchers hunting for three boyi who fled from a city recreation camp into the parched wastes of the Cave Creek desert today rescued one and found the bodies of two others A gruesome panorama of delirium insanity and death unfolded before the rescuers as they reached the end of their quest They stumbled first upon the body of Tony Acosta 12 Beside him was Leo Coronado 12 babbling with delirium produced by thirst and heat exhaustion Use Bloodhounds Leo told his rescuers who had employed bloodhounds and an airplane In their search that the third boy Raymond Flores 11 was dead Coronado was rushed to a hospital here where he was placed in a ward with two other youngsters who fled the camp they were dissatisfied" Then the searchers found body He apparently had been driven insane by thirst before he succumbed to heat and exhaustion His body arms outstretched was found beside a sml hole he had clawed in the hot sand in a delirious attempt to obtain water Ralph Romero 13 and Edwin Arce 12 the remaining two who made the wild break for home across the furnace-like desert region were recovering from exposure today- Arce staggered into a ranch miles from where he left the other three and was brought to a Phoenix hospital He parted from the others he said because they "didn't walk fast and they- complained of the heat Near Collapse Romero near collapse from ex- Saustion and the blistering desert un reached a ranch north of Cave Creek dam He was unable to utter more than a few words and authorities said he had become separated from his companions The boys had been missing some time before their absence was reported Camp officials said they did not report the disappearance because they believed the youngsters had "wandered away and would come Seedlings Distributed WASHINGTON Aug 3 UP)-The forest service reported today 20208-106 tree seedlings for woodland and shelter belt planting were dis tributed to farmers in 38 states and two territories through federal-state cooperation last year 0ygi ion First Rumble Of Campaign Opens in East i National Headquarters of Party Prepare for Barrage Fletcher Leads Attack Chairman Accuse New Deal of Usurping Constitution By JAMES DOUTHAT Associated Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON Aug Bestirring itself after months of com-) parative quietude the Republican national committee today promised a vigorous anti-new deal offensive in an effort to oust President Roosevelt and the Democratic party from power in 1936 A resurgence of activity in recent days was described at committee headquarters as a harbinger of greater efforts to come which will spread throughout the nation In other Words the 1936 campaign is on Time for Campaign time has come for opening the a spokesman at Republican headquarters said Roosevelt is an avowed candidate for renomination' and re election He is going to make a tour as soon as congress adjourns There is less than a year before the conventions It is time to get Henry Fletcher Republican national chairman gave impetus to the movement with an address asserting that the new deal is seeking to or subvert the Other speeches are to follow their number depending on ft nances The committee has engaged a and haken-iarged its headquarters JflvSjr n-paign for contributions wHl made Newspaper Campaign In addition it has started issuing to Republican and independent newspapers a weekly collection of what is called and Opinions" consisting of special articles and newspaper editorials assailing the new deal now Chairman Fletcher said in the latest issue 'Mr Roosevelt must be adjudged as a candidate and his record as properly open for the minutest As for the Democratic reaction (Continued on Pae Eleven) i Column Oiit) Sects Must Bow Nazi Chief Says BERLIN Aug 3 Jews Catholics and Protestants must bow to the nazi regime or take the consequences Wilhelm Frick minister of the interior declared tonight in a speech at Essen in the frankest exposition yet made of nazi policy Frick accepted full party responsibility for the campaign "The Jewish he said "will be solved in accordance with the program of the national socialist party with perfect legality Therefore we would like to give warning against isolated action which is bound to damage ourselves and jeopardize our final Concerning church problems he said: "We demand from the Catholic as well as the Protestant church that they fit themselves without reservation to the framework of the nazi state and support the regime demand the elimination of con-fessionalism from public life Religions must not longer play a role in German politics" New Deal Threatens Religion GOP Says STEELE CITY Neb Aug 3 (UP) new deal's attitude toward the constitution and the supreme court menaces religious freedom in the United States Robert Simmons former Republican congressman of Nebraska told an audience at a farm celebration here today Simmons defeated for the United States senat in the last election accused lobbyists and propagandists for the administration of attempting to convince the people that the supreme power should be curbed By United Press YREKA Cal Aug Frontier Justice brushed the law aside today and exacted the extreme penalty of Johnson suspected slayer of a police officer A mob of about 75 men traveling in an automobile cavalcade swooped down on the Siskiyou county jail picked Johnson out of a group of terrorized prisoners and hanged him to a pine tree outside of Yreka It was third fynching of a white man in California in less than two years John Holmes and Thomas Thurmond confessed kidnapers and murderers of Brooke Hart were hanged at San Jose on November 27 1933 by a mob which stormed the county jail in the face of a tear gas barrage to get them At that time the late Governor Jaities Rolph Jr approved the mob's act saying he hoped lesson will serve in every state of the and he promised to pardon any of the lynchers if they were convicted Lynchers Masked Johnson was arrested Monday after the slaying of Chief of Po-lice Daw of Dunsmuir a small Siskiyou mountain town 50 miles south of here He was brought here for safe keeping Early today the lynchers appeared at the county jail They were masked with white handkerchiefs Deputy Sheriff Martin Lange came to the door He opened it and demanded to know "what all about" "You know what we one of the mob shouted It was the signal for a concerted push The lynchers burst through the partly opened door and demanded the keys to the cell blocks Lange refused He was bound and dumped into one of the automobiles Later he was driven 15 miles from Yreka stripped of his shoes and socks and released The mob finally found a way into the cellar where 15 prisoners were quartered The inmates screamed in fear of being mistaken for Johnson not the each cried as the leaders of the lynching party studied his face Finally Johnson was identified He was dragged up (Continual on Page Eleven) (Column Four) In This Issue of The Sunday Tribune SPECIAL FEATURES Parade of the Events Pages 4-C and 5-C Boy Scout news Page 6-C LOCAL AND REGIONAL Utah and Idaho Kiwanian? set for Convention opening Page 10-B Shortage looms in Utah lake irrigation supply Page 10-B More than 1000 gather for Park City reunion Page 10-B NATIONAL leaders promise vigorous Campaign against Roosevelt Page 1 Desert heat kills two boys and crazera third one Page i Mob lynches slayer suspect in ifornia Page 1 WORLD Soviet fliers forced to abandon flight over polar regions Page 1 Italy and Ethiopia agree to re' aume peace efforts Page 1 Philippine islands face uncertain future observer says Page 2 McNary Predicts Junking of Seven Major Measures Minority Leader Believes Congress Will Adjourn by August 20 By Associated Press WASHINGTON Aug A Republican leader who knows congress looked over the 17 major bills awaiting final action today and predicted at least seven would be scrapped to permit an adjournment In two weeks or August 20 at the latest the senate passes the tax said Senator McNary of Oregon minority floor leader won't be able to hold a quorum break out of that corral like a fighting Friends of Vice President Garner said the Texan also felt adjournment in the air Senator Robinson the Democratic leader was still convinced congress would be to get through by August 20 although August 17 was the goal President Roosevelt has a speaking engagement at Milwaukee August 23 and he wants to keep it The executive must be in Washington to sign last-minute bills Here are the bills McNary placed in the "scrap or column: Utility holding company abolition ship subsidy Guffey-Snyder coal regulation bus and truck regulation food drugs and cosmetics control IN A wages hour and child labor requirements for government contractors and the limitation of war profits Democratic leaders would not agree in advance which bills would be permitted to go by the board until next session They still felt there was a chance for working out a compromise on the utility measure and possibly ship subsidy Henry Fletcher chairman of the Republican national whose speech attacking the New Deal was regarded as the start of the presidential campaign for 1936 Oil Failure Foils 4 Russ Polar Flight Business Renews Attack Republican Leaders Admit Victory Looms on Present Vote Lineup (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON Aug 3 The $270000000 tax bill was pushed to the point of passage by the houso today despite warnings that President Roosevelt does not like its present form A formal roll call vote was relayed until Monday But even the Republicans who had filibustered it at the start and later gave up attempts to amend it agreed that ballot would pile up a huge majority for the bill Treadway (R Mass) had motion pending to return the bill to committee but that too was slated for defeat Boosts Taxes In brief the measure would boost the taxes on individual Incomes over $50000 replace the present flat corporation Income tax with a graduated levy subject Inheritances and gilts to new levies on top of those already imposed on estates and gifta enact new taxes or 5 to 20 per cent on excess corporlation profits Business renewed Its attack on the revamped bill today through Harper Sibley president of the United States Chamber of Commerce He said it Increase the forces of Fight Promised Writing In the Washington Review Sibley promised there would be no relaxation of efforts to defeat the bill which the hazards which all business enterprises regardless of size will run so long as public finances are not brought into an ordered He added: "Whatever the other effects of the bill and however inequitable they may be7the repercussions of businesses off every size through drawing away capital where capital is most needed and is causing disruptions upon the death of any of the principal owners would increase the forces of Differs From Plan The president had proposed new taxes to bring a distribution of In many respects the bill followed his broad recommendations but in these instances It differed: 1 He proposed the present flat 13 per cent tax on corporation income be replaced with a levy graduated according to the size of the net income from 10 to 16 per cent The house bill to include a graduation of only 1 per from 13 to 14 per cent with $15000 the dividing line 2 Mr Roosevelt had objected to letting corporations deduct from their taxable income gifts to charities The bill allowed such deductions up to 5 per cent of the income Treasury Will Spend Millions On Gold Vaults WASHINGTON Aug 3 UPl-The treasury will spend nearly $2000000 in the next few months to safeguard its mounting hoard of gold and silver Procurement officials said work will start immediately on an imposing new $1225000 mint on a rock plateau in San Francisco The contract was awarded yesterday to the Clinton Construction company of tjiat city one of seven bidders Contract Depository On August 22 the contract for the first on the military reservation at Fort Knox Ky will be let Its estimated cost is $524000 In addition the second deficiency a (By Associated Press) Italy and Ethiopia agreed through the League of Nations to resume attempts recently broken down to arbitrate their border quarrel The council of the league adopted another resolution calling a meeting September 4 for a full consideration of all aspects of the Italo-Ethioplan dispute A government spokesman although commending resumption of arbitration said in effect that a final solution was up to the two nations themselves and not the league ADDIS ABABA Emperor Halle Selassie before instructing his Geneva delegate to accept the league formula expressed willingness to meet Mussolini personally in an attempt to unravel the dispute By JOSEPH SHARKEY Associated Press Foreign Staff GENEVA Aug The League of Nations gained a victory in its uphill fight to prevent a threatened war between Italy and Ethiopia tonight when both countries agreed to resume arbitration Resolutions were rushed through the council of the league providing that a conciliation commission whose efforts to solve a border dispute recently bogged down will go to work again and calling a session of the council September 4 to discuss all angles of the quarrel Abstains From Vote The arbitration resolution was adopted by unanimous vote The Italian delegate abstained from voting on the resolution calling the council into session in September council decides to meet in any event September 4 to undertake a general examination in its various aspects of relations between Italy and stated the second resolution Hours of Parley Adoption of this course of procedure followed many hours of private negotiations by Anthony Eden of Great Britain Premier Pierre Laval of France and Baron Pompeo Aloisi the Italian delegate Discussing the September meeting Eden said Britain will devote every effort to secure a specific settlement of the dispute We realize the gravity of the issue and are mindful of our obligations as a member of the ADDIS ABABA Aug 3 Ethiopia accepted today the League of formula to settle her quarrel with Italy After hours of study Emperor Haille Selassie late this afternoon made this brief announcement: have Instructed my delegate to Geneva to accept the league's proposals as elaborated by Mr Eden and Premier Earlier Selassie had expressed willingness to sit down at a conference table with Benito Mussolini ip an effort to settle their difference Expressions of good will toward I (Continued on Pe Elevenl (Column Two) Relief Chiefs Await Hopkins Return to Attack Problems Giant Monoplane Turns Back to Leningrad to Make Repairs MOSCOW Aug 3 One of the most daring flights ever 5900 miles across the north pole from Moscow to San Francisco frustrated tonight by a simple mechanical defect in the oil-feed system The giant monoplane R-025 which started from Moscow at 6:03 a today encountered difficulties late in the afternoon while over Barents sea headed for the Arctic circle The plane under command of Sigmund Leva-nevsky chief pilot and a crew of two assistants sent a wireless message to Moscow saying that the excessive flow of oil endangered the supply and would make it difficult to complete the long flight Levanevsky therefore asked permission to turn back Permission Granted It was granted and the plane landed at the airdrome south of Leningrad at 11:30 (5:30 T) as directed The sudden end of the ambitious flight came when the aviators had covered half of the distance from Moscow to the norm pole being about 925 miles north of Moscow Failure of the oil system has always been a hazard in long distance flying soviet officials said They cited the case of the plane America in which Philip Payne New York newspaper editor disappeared with his companions on an attempted transatlantic flight nearly a decade ago Experts attributed the disaster to oil-feed trouble The soviet fliers were keenly disappointed when they landed at Len ingrad but were not discouraged It was not definitely known whether Ievanevsky would repeat the at tempt but since the trouble was due mclideOlMr WASHINGTON 3 starve because his community was 000 to strengthen other mints and Work rellef directors tonight looked unwilling to help the statement assav offices forward to the return of Harry added: While treasury officials would Hopkins on Monday for a re- $2a000 000 decrease for the not disclose just where it has stored "ewed attack on one of the $4 M0- month of August is occasioned by its $9147000000 stock of gold about O00-000 most trouble- seasonal employment and the fact $3000000000 is reported piled up some problems-getting states and that various states are now taking in the Denver mint and a similar communities to provide for their care of their unemployables amount in the New York assay of- unemployables Other States fice If announced Intention Northeastern and middle western To Melt Gold Coins to disband the relief administration states in general have always pro- Only about $18000000 is in gold on November 1 is not carried' out vided for their own unemployables coins which soon will be melted 11 was wil1 be because of Direct relief recently has been dis- into bullion Other gold is reported these 4000000 who are unable to continued In a number of other in the Philadelphia mint and in work rather than a result of dif- states including Georgia Florida various federal reserve bank strong- ficulties in attaining the 3500000 and South Carolina In addition diholds job the work relief pro- rect relief will be turned back to Much of this bullion is believed 8ram' the governments of several other to be destined eventually to the Funds for August states hext week Fort Knok stronghold which like Announcing President Roosevelt The land improvement phase ofmen the new San Francisco mint will had allotted $95000000 to continue the program meanwhile moved for-and be as impregnable as modern the dole in August an official state-1 ward on two fronts the presidentj Republican Views Science can make it ment reminded that the cost of di-1 allotting SI 2 000 000 forest service to Huffman Elaborate "electric ears" and re relief in July was $115000000 withdraw unpi mluetn 1 iml fronv this manner- to a mechanical fault which can be other protective devices will aug- Possibly in an attempt to com-'rultnatmn while Re-ford corrected easily it was believed here rnent human waUhers at the gold bat interpretations of a remark by well re ettlemuit administrator de- he might make another try strongholds Floodlights gas and President Roosevelt yesterday tided to look out for farmers in nniiHnn of defending A spokesman for the United States rdio equipment and emergent the federal government would not danger of going on relief as well Coniinufd on Pour) (Condnu-d on Pif net on (generators ar planned allow an unemployable person to as those already on the dole a Reduces Revenue Some tax experts estimated this would reduce by $20000000 the total revenue raised by the bill 3 The president had suggested new taxes on dividends paid by ona corporation to another The bill included no such levy 4 No suggestion as to a tax on excess profits had been advanced by the president The bill included them In reaching the voting stage the bill sailed through a storm of amendments Only one was adopted That concerned the reduction of corporations' charitable gifts It likewise was assailed- by Republicans Representative Fish of New York was one of their spokes- as socialism FEATURES Editorials McIntyre Senator From Sandpit and Forum letters Page 2-C Mark Sullivan Page 3-C Markets and finance Pages 8-C knd 9-C Real estate Page 7-C Garden section Page 8-D Music drama and the screen Pages 10-D and 11-D Will Rogers Page 4-C Sports Pages 2-B to 5-B Classified advertising Pages 7-B to 9-B SUPPLEMENTS Tribune Junior Twelve pages of the world's best comics i Magazine section.

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