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THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE THURSDAY MORNING JANUARY 28 1937 Western Bloc To Fight for Probe Clears Noted Singer In NY Death Reclamation Miss Perkins Seeks Power On Walkouts Cabinet Officer Wants Legislation to Permit Subpena of Records On The Record By Dorothy Thompson Writer Debates Motives Which Caused Defendants in Soviet Espionage Trial to Admit Parts in Plot Against Stalin The trial in Russia plainly bafflesvTrotsky revolutionary group Trot- Bureaus Promise Aid To Farm Bloc Wallace WPA Assure Cooperation in Relief Program for Farmers WASHINGTON Jan 27 Members of a house farm bloc' subcommittee said Wednesday they had received from Secretary Wallace and Works Progress Administrator Harry Hopkins of In providing relief in the drouth region Representative William Nelson'1 Democrat of Columbia Mo headed the emergency legislation groupf the prairie states committee which 'talked with thex officials members of their staffs and representatives of the resettlement administration Members said the committee was told grants have been Increased $5 a month for fuel that a works program will be opened up In the spring and that aid meanwhile will be extended to areas particularly hard hit Nelson said the group was advised that while no large number of relief -cases can bs added to the rolls under present provisions the federal agencies will investigate individual cases called to 'their attention and will see the needy do not suffer Representatives Karl Stefan Republican Norfolk Neb and Vincent Harrington Democrat Sioux City Iowa told the house that conditions among many farmers in their respective districts were and that Immediate relief was needed New Method Suggested by Wyoming Member Adopted by Committee WASHINGTON Jan 27 UPl-The house Irrigation and reclamation committee organized Wednesday to resist efforts of a bloc of eastern congressmen opposed to expansion of the vast reclamation program Called by Chairman Compton White Clarksfork Idaho Democrat committeemen in their initial meeting decided to call antireclamation ists before them next week "to state their case and clear the lines for a nonpartisan battle" I'rges Fight Representative Gearhart Fresno Cal Republican admon ished the committee to up on your hind legs and fight throughout this gentlemen in he east are temperamentally and philosophically opposed to Gearhart told the committee are systematically planning to block our western program The appropria tion committee is stacked with men inimical to any reclamation program- White said he would ask Representative Culkin New York Republican to appear before the committee next Thursday to explain the opposition viewpoint The committee has before it a Culkin bill to prohibit the government from spending any money for new irri gation or reclamation projects Eastern Support The west drew some eastern support however from Representative James Oliver Maine Republican and new member of the committee know what the attitude of my eastern constituents is" Oliver told the committee my personaPviewpoint is that we are all a nation and we in the east can not afford to ignore a disadvantageous condition in which the west finds Itself today" Representative Knute Hill Prosser Wash Democrat said drouth and flood conditions had made the need for western reclamation more acute On motion of Representative Paul Greever Cody Wyo Democrat the committee adopted an entirely new method of procedure Under this the reclamation group would taken ln hig capaclty as a stock-expedite irrigation legislation by holder of the Boston and Maine Boston Judge Again Upholds Security Law Jurist Rules in Favor of Assistance Clause in Legislation BOSTON Jan 27 For the second time ln the past few months Federal Judge George Sweeney Wednesday upheld a section of the social security act and ln so doing rebuffed again the identical stock' holder who sought to overthrow the law Wednesday Judge Sweeney de dared the old age assistance provision of tne act constitutional A short time ago ha ruled valid its unemployment Insurance tax Institutes Action In both Instances George Davis of Waltham instituted the action The case on which decision hinged reached the court on attempt as a stockholder to prevent the Edison Electric Illuminating company of Boston from paying the tax for assistance of the aged His previous failure to havei the act outlawed was unefer- Heart Failure Cause of Demise "of Basso Not JSpear Stabbin NEW YORK Jan 27 Lawrence Tibbett swashbuckling star of opera and screen was exonerated completely Wednesday of any blame in the death of Joseph Ster-zini'a choral singer whom he accidentally stabbed during a rehearsal Tuesday Autopsy Held Dr Thomas A Gonzales acting chief medical examiner said an autopsy showed Sterzini died of heart disease and not as a result of a stiletto wound inflicted on his left hand during a mock struggle on the stage of the Metropolitan opera house my opinion there Is absolutely no basis for criminal Dr Gonzales said Obviously distressed by the mishap Tibbett said it was "the most terrible thing that has ever happened to Rehearsing Opera With about 100 other members of the cast Tibbett was rehearsing for next Thursday night's American premiere of "Caponsacchi when was wounded The heavy-set bass choral singer deprecated the injury but later he went to a hospital Five hours after the accident he died The wound itself Dr Gonzales de dared "merely cut the blood ves sels of the deep palmar arch of the left After receiving the medical report and questioning several other members of the cast who witnessed the mishap including Helen Jepson prima donna Assistant District Attorney Sylvester Consentino said the case was closed as fat as his office was concerned As Scheduled Metropolitan officials said the opera a production In English' by Richard Hageman based on Robert poem Ring and the would be presented as scheduled Despite his grief at the death of the 62-year-old Sterzini whom he described as a long standing friend Tibbett went to Newark Tuesday night and filled an engagement to sing in "La THE LOW sky's opinions about Stalin are a matter of record He believes that Stalin Is destroying communism in Russia and elsewhere in the world by Russian nationalism which leads him to seek the collaboration of capitalist nations and by the popular front strategy according to Trotsky will always mean that revolution is watered down into opportunism For the world revolutionist according to Trotsky nations do not exist and Russia Ls no more holy than any other country War is not something to be avoided War is Inevitable and desirable as the most certain breeding ground for revolution Lenin and Trotsky did not admire the Germany of the kaiser with which in 1917 Russia was at war but that did not prevent them from conspiring with German military Ifeaders and getting themselves smuggled into Russia with German aid The) Germans sent them to Russia: to get Russia out of the war and they did it in order to make Russia bolshevik in which they also succeeded At Brest Lltovsk they paid the bill by leaving thW Germans and Austrians in occupation of the whole Ukraine and by handing Germany outright the Baltic provinces of Russia Trotsky who negotiated that treaty was perfectly cold blooded about it turn will come he was no doubt saying to the Germans silently as he put his signature on the treaty "What we lost by war we will rewin by Only that particular quotation is not from a communist but from a Ger man nazi! When we turn from the account of this trial to the speech of Leon Blum we again breathe an air in which we feel somehow safe Not because Blum has a social and economic theory with which we are all agreed but because Blum speaks as a western man according to criteria which we comprehend But is there any responsible power left east of the Rhine except in a few weak small nations which speaks his language at all? On that question hangs all our peace Copyright 1937 New York Tribune Inc IN IT Lawrence Tibbett Jury Indicts Bank Chiefs DENVER Jan 27 IR-A federal grand jury Indicted two officials and two salesmen of the Union Bank group in Denver on charges of mail fraud and violation of the se curities acts Wednesday Those -named in the indictment were Percival Troutman president Sidney Clark secretary-treasurer and Ralph Young and Lawrence Young brother salesmen District Attorney Thomas Morrissey said losses in the banking group will run into of Morrissey said the group sold investment trusts throughout western states Two days ago Grant McFerson Colorado bank commissioner announced he had taken over the affairs of the Union Trust company a member of the group Troutman at that time called the move "absurd" He said the company "is solvent owes nothing has no demand liabilities receives no He added clients would be fully protected PRICE field! Divorcee Weds RENO Nev Jan 27 Mrs Margaret S- Bulson formerly of New Rochelle became the bride of Gerard Foster of Pelham Manor and Utica here Wednesday shortly after she had won a divorce on grounds of nonsupport from Clarence Bulson NOW I SMOKE aPACKaDAY Acidity Goes ffy With Bell-ant in Ji Jeil-ans FOR INDIGESTION O' forcing quick reports to the house combining house with senate bills and developing immediate floor fights Slashed Fund Opposition of eastern congressmen last year succeeded in slashing in half a $60000000 appropriation for western projects and blocked many authorizations for new projects Isle Post Urged For Nebrfiskan all the correspondents who are reporting' it even those who have known intimately for years some of the defendants Mr Walter Duranty apparently believes that it is a bona fide process and that the defendants who like their predecessors several months ago admit everythin including their own abased sinfulness are telling the truth: They were participants in a prodigious and blackly treasonable plot to overthrow the Stalin government even at the cost of dividing parts of Russia with Germany and Japan Mr Duranty listening to friends whom he has known for a decade throwing away their lives on the witness stand can only refer us to Dostoevsky for an explanation It is Russian! Scales Rejected But I do not think that Dostoevsky explains the behavior at this trial I have encountered the same sorts of mind in Germany among Nordic nazis irf France among the communists and fascists and even in the United States It is not specifically Russian When men live their whole lives in an atmosphere of conspiracy it does something to their souls The scale and standard of values familiar and accepted by most of us are rejected by the revolutionary Per sonal truthfulness for instance does not exist as criterion of conduct nor does respect for life even one's own Patriotism honesty fastidiousness regarding means are all outworn bourgeoise concep tions to a revolutionary of whatever creed One of the most poignant recollections of my life was an evening that I spent in Moscow ten years ago listening to the soul-searching of a beautiful and talented American girl who was about to join the Russian communist party and enter its service ln the Orient As she described with full consciousness what the step meant I had the feeling that I was listening to a novice about to enter some religious order based on black magic She was fanatically convinced of the truth and righteousness of the communist idea But the service to the fulfillment of that idea meant that she was to put herself body soul and spirit the bidding of its leaders Its discipline was inexorable If the party said: Lie! she would lie if it said: Steal! she would steal If It saidt Murder! she would murder Cannot Understand -Let us say then that we cannot understand what is happening ln Moscow as I could not understand my lovely friend ten years ago Three of the men on the stand I have known more or less well 1 have passed many pleasant hours in their company in London and Geneva ln Moscow and ln Washington and New York I have talked with them about novels and poetry about the drama and music about politics and economics All of them are able men two exceptionally brilliant men on one level of consciousness and behavior we were citizens the- world But only on one level These men were not their own masters as no member of the communist party no member of the Trotsky group no member of the fascist party in Italy and no member of the nazi party in Germany is his own master Let those who still dwell in the sunlight of a world of reason wake up to the realization that it is this and not any economic or social theory which profoundly separates the communist or fascist revolutionary from us! He is a man who does not act like himself because he has relinquished the very foundations of his personalityV-the individual moral foundations We cannot know what this trial really means because no criterion which we can understand is governing it Build Illusions Perhaps the whole thing is a fake Perhaps these men are pretending or perhaps they actually are sacrificing their lives to build up some illusion with which to dupe the world the illusion that Stalin has abandoned the world revolution and is massacreing its Robespierres Or perhaps Stalin really is massacreing the Robespierres That is what Max Eastman would have us think Perhaps he is right Or perhaps as Mr Duranty seems convinced this plot is genuine That also is completely possible inside the revolutionary mentality The men on trial assert that they belonged to the DOES geuiy imm Make You Look Old? 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Simply be cause we refuse to negotiate with a group that holds our plants forran som without regard to law or jus tice thus depriving over 100000 of our peaceful and law-abiding em ployes of their Inherent right to work is the reason and the only DETROIT Jan 27 Nearly 40000 automotive workers antic! paling their first pay check in three weeks returned to their jobs in ten Chevrolet plants of General Motors corporation Wednesday without dis order or interference Another 5900 in Michigan Fisher Body plants follow them Thursday Picket lines of the United AutO' mobile Workers of America active outside some strike-closed plants of the nation's biggest automobile pro' ducer were absent as the Chevrolet employes returned to what Coyle general manager said proh ably would be a minimum of two days' employment a week The resumption of operations in the plants at Muncle and Indianapolis Ind and Detroit Flint Saginaw and Bay City Mich had no effect on the car production of the industry Assembly lines in a majority of General Motors plants remain idle because of lack of bodies ordinarily produced in Fisher plants where strikes have occurred FLINT Mich Jan 27 Four union organizers were hurt Wednesday night when the automobile carrying them to Flint from Saginaw after they had been threatened twice by crowds was forced from a pavement and into a tree Four shots were fired at the car also Miss Earhart Silent On Trip LOS ANGELES Cal Jan 27 UR Amelia Earhart noted woman pilot said Wednesday cannot confirm at this published reports that she would attempt a flight this spring in her $80000 "flying laboratory' have no special flying project in mind right now and nothing definite to announce" she declared "If the newspapers keep on planning for me to circumnavigate the globe- it might give me an idea she added with a smile Wins Divorce MIAMI Fla Jan 27 In a proceeding shrouded "with alt the privacy the law affords Mrs James A Moffett has obtained her divorce from the former federal housing railroad Legal observers here were quick to note however that in upholding the taxing provisions of the act title Judge Sweeney himself raised the question whether title two whloh concerns the use of the collected money might later be challenged Said Judge Sweeney: Raises Question "If we are to presume that the expenditures under title two of the act would be held in the future to be beyond the powers of The United States make' it does not necessarily follow that title eight as a tax raising measure would counsel announced he would appeal Judge decision His appeal from the Boston and Maine decision recently was argued here before the circuit-court of appeals after Davis had made an unsuccessful attempt to bring it directly before the supreme court Swedish Estate Asks Relief From Tax WASHINGTON Jan 27 The estate of the late Ivar Kreuger Swedish match magnate asked the board of tax appeals Wednesday to set aside an assessment of $277-' 536 on 1930 income James Egan New York county public administrator contended on behalf of the estate that the reputed millionaire- who died several years ago under mysterious circumstances received no taxable income from United States source? in 1930 The internal revdndef bureau listed taxable income for the year at $1113506 Automobile Deaths Show Increase in WASHINGTON Jan 27 The census bureau reported Wednesday that automobile deaths in 88 major cities totaled 956 during the four weeks ended January 16 This number was 326 per cent greater than the corresponding period a year ago JUST A MINUTE WITH COBB- BEVERLY HILLS Cal Jan In the bloody task of utterly destroying herself Spain cannot complain that she lacked for hearty cooperation on the part of some of her 'sister countries Openly or secretly half of the great- European powers are contributing to" the bloody ruination so that 'when the finish comes have spoils or dubious prestige or both and that ill-fated land will be a burying ground and a desolation A fellow gets to wondering why this or that government chooses for an emblem some noble creature when the turkey buzzard or the grave-robbing hyena would be so appropriate Fierce winters and devastating floods may be cursing us here on this side of the water but at least we have been spared the afflic- tion of having for our aeighborSgrtain nations IRVIN COBB Copyright 1937 by the North American Newspaper Alliance Inc a WASHINGTON Jan 27 The name of A Fitzsimmons of Te-cumseh Neb entered Wednesday into the growing list of those put forward for the post of -Philippine high commissioner The office of Senator Edward Burke Democrat of Nebraska said the senator had recommended appointment to President Roosevelt and Postmaster General Farley Fitzsimmons was insular treasurer at Manila during- portions of the administrations of Governors General Francis Burton Harrison and Leonard Wood Earlier he was a member of the Manila municipal board He was a presidential elector In November The high commissioner post was vacated January 1 when Frank Murphy took office as governor of Michigan San Francisco Changes Bridge Opening Date SAN FRANCISCO Jan 27 'Formal opening of the $35000000 I Golden Gate bridge was set Wednes-day by bridge district directors for Friday May 21 The opening or- lginally was planned for May 6 The directors were informed the bridge would be completed May 1 but additional time would be required to complete the Waldo approach in Marin county north of San Francisco richness is the keynote? 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