The Salt Lake Tribune from Salt Lake City, Utah • 32

2 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 8 1938 IN BRIEF: FROM NEAR Shipping Para lyifd Mussolini Rattles Saber Tarkometer Hearing Roosevelt Rides Land-slide to Democrats Increase in Congress King Speaks Spanning the Bay to San Francisco Business Stocks Soar Wages Rise in Post-Election Boom IIWIVVIKMOM In the Political Arena Roosevelt Scores Smashing Triumph at Polls Borah Norris Breast Title Boom- inleashed bv the elec- unleashed by the Sllip TidlD A War British King Insolvent A picture of how the San Francisco-Oak-Iand bay bridge will look to motorists as they drive out of the Verba Buena island tunnel to- ward the bay pity The $77000000 span will be formally opened November 12 by Frank Merriam to facilitate panabay traffic International Victory States A tidal wave of votes unprece- Although the popularity of-the dented in American history president overshadowed lesser fig- the new deal back Into power on election day President Franklin Delano Roosevelt received a hearty indorsement from almost 25 millions of voters and a blank check to go ahead with hia policies With him into power went enough Democratls senators to give the triumphant party 75 of the 96 upper house seats Democratic members of a lower house membership of 435 With these unprecedented majorities the new deal is expected to espouse a vast low-cost housing program proceed upon the granary theory for fafmers whose crops will be Insured press the drive to make farm tenants farm owners yield to organized labor for minimum wages maximum hours So great was the Roosevelt victory that the fifteen and a half million voters who balloted for Governor Alf Landon of Kan-aas are virtually without voice in national affairs This substantial block of voters will be represented by but 89 Republicans in the senate 104 in the house Although Democratic National Chairman James A Farley boasted on the eve of election that only two states Maine and Vermont have the Republicans any right to feel It is doubtful that the boast was serious But the Farley prediction came true and Governor Landon garnered but eight votes in the electoral college tendered by the pair of Republican strongholds The tidal wave caught almost the entire country in its force Pennsylvania went Democratic for the first time since the Civil war traditionally Republican Michigan for the new deal normally Republican New England deserted the Franklin Delano Roosevelt received a thunderous approval from his constituents His electoral college vote was S23 of the 531 votes therein his popular plurality was ten million ballots Indications of the sweep of the president's popularity were present within a few minutes after polls closed Within two hours Republican newspapers and newspapers which supported Landon were conceding the reelection of-' Roosevelt and -shortly after midnight the Republican nominee wired from Topeka: "The nation has spoken Every American will accept the verdict nd work for the common cause of the good of the country That is the spirit of democracy You have my eincere urea in the national elections tests' In states assumed national Significance In the face of 'a Democratic landslide la Idaho the veteran 'Senator William Borah scored a resounding victory with more votes than Gem Staters cast for Roosevelt The dean of the senate rolled up more than 125500 tallies to 120100 cast for the president He swamped Governor Ben Ross who received only 71-325 votes In Nebraska the 75-year-old Veteran Senator George Norris was not allowed to retire Although he was drafted for the post as an independent made little effort to defeat his Republican and Democratic opponents the Nebraska progressive was returned to the national legislature In Kansas which Governor Landon failed to carry Senator Arthur Capper breasted the tide to win reelection and in liiew deal Massachusetts youthful Henry Cabot Lodge Jr whose grandslre once led the senate was- elected over Governor James Curley Democrat for the senate In Iowa a heavy new deal vote swamped Senator Dickinson sent Democratic Governor Clyde Herring to the senate In his atead Herring will be accompanied by Guy Gillette another Democrat in Rhode Island the Republican veteran Jesse Metcalf was defeated by Governor Theodore Francis Green and In Wyoming Senator Robert Carey bowed to Schwartz new deal Democrat Senator Daniel Hastings was defeated by James Hughes a Democrat and In New Jersey Republican Harrison Barbour lost his senate seat to William Smathers Michigan sent Democrat Prentiss Brown to the seat once held by James Couiens Among gubernatorial races In the states Governor Philip LaFol-lette of Wisconsin was reelected by a plurality of more than 393-000 votes and Governor General Frank Murphy of the Philippines will resign that post to become Democratic governor of Michigan Herbert Lehman of New York was returned for a third term counted show but 100567 Socialist votes Election returns also Indicate that fears of communism in America are almost groundless Communist Candidate Earl Browder gathered only 51855 votes and only a scant few thousand were received by Aiken of the As though election United States business boomed at week-end Stocks oared on the New York exchanges with many issues reaching five-' year highs metal prices particularly copper leaped forward and four steel companies announced wage Increases Government bonds were in demand retail sales were reported higher and freight Carloadings always an indication of business conditions showed less than a seasonable dip of 02 per cent -were 194 per cent above freight movements of a year ago The American Iron and Steel Institute reported September steel employment at an all-time high with 526700 workers In the Industry Of this humber employes of the Bethlehem Columbia Car-negie-Illinois and Inland Steel companies the latter trio subsidiaries of the giant Steel will go to work at Increased rates of pay The Columbia Steel company which holds iron mines in ytah manufactures on the Pacific coast announced that future wage policies will be based upon living costs that rising prices will increase wages falling indices decrease them Extra dividends doubtlessly influenced by the federal tax on undistributed earnings were declared by: Standard Oil of NeW Jersey Standard Oil of Indiana May Department Stores Increased earnings were shown by American Gas and Electric Purity Bakers Van Raalye Superheater company Curtis Wright Wright Aeronautical Woolworth company re- ported a retail sales gain of 143 per cent totaling $26733094 and American Telephone and Telegraph reported 109000 new stations Installed Ouster From the top of Utilities Power and Light corporation huge 400 million-dollar holding company which peaks a pyramid of power interests in North America and Great Britain stepped Harley Clarke boom-created business tycoon Clarke retired as president of the concern The business head was believed to have been chopped off by another spectacular product of American business speculation but unlike Clarke a product of the depression not the boom He is Floyd Odium head of giant Atlas corporation a mammoth holding company and investment trust That Odium through Atlas controls Utilities Power and Light is apparent since Atlas obsorbed Utilities Power voting certificates obtained them through the so called 90 million-dollar Dawes loan In addition Atlas acquired control of the Clarke concern by purchasing 18 million dollars worth of debentures The original voting certificates were placed by Clarke as collateral to the Dawes bank for a two-mlllion-dollar loan and thus when Atlas took them from RFC Clarke became an Atlas debtor Clarke remains a director In the concern he erected but his influence is believed to have been lost to a newer more brilliant financial luminary Record Made Captain James A Mollison established a transatlantic speed record by flying from Harbor Grace to London in 19 hours 59 minutes Grandfather Homesteads Minor isshes in the Utah political campaign Involved amendments to the constitution of the state of Utah basic guide to state legislative policies Voters were asked to amend the document six times refused to act on five of the proposals In the balloting electorate refused: To remove the office of state superintendent of public instruction from politics defeated proposed amendments Nos 1 2 and 3 (This proposal had ardent pedagogical support) To remove double liability from bank stocks by defeating proposed amendment No 4 (This proposal was urged by the state banking department which insisted that with deposit guarantees! double liability was no longer necessary) To double the pay of legislators But the electorate viewed with favor by a slight margin the proposed amendment to permit the state legislature to exempt Irom taxation up to $2000 Sinoe platforms of both parties pledged legislative action on this measure it may be presumed that something will be done on the matter The homestead exemption amendment carried by the scant plurality of about 3700 votes was heavily favored' in Weber Washington Utah Sevier Sanpete San I Juan-Millard and Garfield coun- ties was opposed i Salt Lake county Farmers through the for Iflind hunger Liberift is ftlonc fawneai independent )n Africa and Adolph Hitler very likely is hungrily look- a group known as educational State Policies Investment policies governing school endowment funds were rapped by the committee of nine in a recent report The policies are administered by the state land board but have been guided by legislative advice Funds are derived from the sale by the state of Utah of lands tendered by the federal government The original grant of school lands comprised seven million acres of which all but 25 million acres has been sold Money in the endowment funds total $8000-000 of which almost' 66 per cent has been Invested in farm loans and reservoirs These Investments the committee finds have been ill advised largely responsible for the drop in yield of $50928623 in 1929 to $21075111 in 1934 The committee however lodges no criticism upon the state land board for the Investment policies attacks the system under which it has been forced to operate criticises legislative direction to invest large sums in farm properties The committee motes that on irrigation projects and reservoirs have proved to be about the worst possible ones recorded in the history of The land board must conserve the principal of the funds use the interest for schools Crime Sentence Convicted of murder and sentenced to life was Frank Green Montgomery Ala shoe salesman accused of slaying Wesley Amott Salt Lake City-born resettlement administration investigator Amott was slain September 1 on a lonely Alabama road apd the government contended Green hitched a ride with the investigator later shot him through the head and stole his automobile Hunt Launched was a nationwide search for Representative John Hoeppel of California his son Charles Father and son are wanted in District of Columbia to begin serving jail terms for conspiring to sell an appointment to West Point United States military The A 4 Union Fight Strike Ends Seamen In San Pedro Cal perspiring officials of the Panama-Pacific Steamship company tugged to dock the liner California Amid the plaudits ofplckets and spectators they made the liner fast disembarked 273 passengers From San Francisco the fortnight-old shipping strike sent creeping business paralysis to Portland Seattle and Los Angeles as warehousemen refused to work for present wage scales as lumber yards closed down as railroads refused to ship to coast ports In Honolulu food prices soared and fear gripped Alaska as the etrike of sailors and longshoremen threatened to stop food shipments to the territories In Manhattan insurgent union seamen led by Joseph Curran overrode officials of the International union and launched a sympathy strike which spread quickly to Philadelphia Boston and Houston finally tied up ships in all Atlantic and gulf ports Efforts of the union to man ships with what they termed "loyalists" but with what th rank and file called were thwarted when men swamped the union hiring hall as it opened left no room for the entrance of one who wished to work On a blackboard the sympathetic strikers scrawled: wanted for the A Hardship Fink In Washington President Roosevelt hastily summoned hla cabinet to deal with the maritime situation which stopped the wheels of commerce on all ships In many ports The strike was precipitated by longshoremen and San Francisco waterfront employers at loggerheads over the hiring hall situation Sailors quickly joined on the union issue and when score of steamship companies offered to surrender to sailor demands employers found maritime workers massed into a solid front unwiljjng to yield an inch until all seveq union demands were met At week-end Pacific coast unionists retreated a bit from their a tri keg ta fere to provide-crews for ships loaded with perishables if operators would meet union leaders again In San Francisco on the job were Edward -McGTadyrassistantr secretary of" labor and Rear Admiral Harry Hamlet representing the newly formed maritime comml 1 which has control over $100000-000 worth of ship subsidies may enforce working standards on subsidized ships Earlier in the week maritime leaders walked out of a maritime commission hearing which then postponed Leaders asserted the commission sought to invade a purely union field Miners The Utah metal mine strike completed its fourth week with little effort upon the part of the miners or operators to effect a settlement At issue was the question of a 50-cent a day wage boost enforcement of the collar-to-collar shift But these issues appeared merely to be talking points for labor leaders A letter from Governor Henry Blood offering his services to mediate the strike uncovered a deeper issue union recognition The letter met prompt acceptance from strike leaders who expressed a willingness to meet operators in the presence Operators likewise accepted the but their letters of acceptance emphasized a willingness to confer with their own employes Strikers countered with a state- ment refusing the offer to the governor repeating their insistence upon collective bargaining through accredited union representatives Lcltuce Ended in Salinas CaL was the-two-month-old strike of lettuce workers by a 2 to 1 vote Strikers virtually surrendered to employ-' ers Peoplt Regrets Although the A was overthrown through the poultry suit lodged by the Schechter brothers of Brooklyn the brothers bear no animosity toward the' president Joe Schechter announced that his 16 votes went toward reelecting the Man in the White House Succumbs To a kidney-ailment succumbed Dalby presiding judge of Salt Lake City's court World war veteran local lawyer He had served on the pity bench for seven and a half years Socialist-Labor tlcket and Colvln on the Prohibition ticket But the formidable Progressive party in Wisconsin and the Farm-Labor group-in-Minnesota-re-mained strong Family Alliance Most vocal financial and ardent opponents of new deal policies of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt has been the Du Pont family of Delaware But that public policy bears little influence upon private feeling in the rich Delaware family was indicated with rumors that the engagement of Ethel du Pont and Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr soon will bs Spain For three week the rebel force General Francisco Franco have reported the Imminent fall of Madrid but at week-end the beleaguered Spanish capital was till held by the loyal government forces waging a determined defense against Moorish legionnaires assaulting the city A semicircle of rebel forces laid aiege to the city extending from suburbs seven milps distant on the southeast to battle lines 11 mile away on the northwest From these lines rebels sent planes on repeated air raids over the capital caused the death of 216 men women and children through exploding bombs As the week drew to a close loyalists had again reorganized the government giving greater representation to syndicalists and socialists and redoubled their defenses Comely women marched-with sturdy housewives beside Weary menfolk as the civil war became more fierce as Madrid launched a determined offensive to break the rebel lines A thrilling air battle between rebels flying German planes loyalists In Russian planes was watched from Madrid street and loyal ground forces claimed small advances From Hendaye France came reports that even if and when General Franco marches into Madrid the war will not end Asturian miners were reported rallying their forces in the north to wage an offensive to recapture San Sebastian England Departing from use of the royal His Majesty Edward vttt king-emperor of Great Britain employed the personal pronoun In proroguing his first parliament praised policy" to seek isolation of the lsh civil war the defense program The message was read by the Earl of Onslow acting lord chancellor included an expression of deep appreciation of the sympathy which has been extended to me and my dear mother in every part of the dominions Three days later the monarch appeared personally before the assembled houses of parliameht to open -the -legislative- discussions" Standing before the throne in a circle of soft light Edward VIII pledged his government to settlement of international noted: "My relations with foreign powers continue to be friendly The policy of the government continue to be based on membership In the The monarch expressed hop that the recent naval limitation treaty with the TJ and France would extend to all naval powers that the nonintervention agreement toward Spain would be observed that the treaty giving Egypt a more independent government would be ratified that defenses will be strengthened and that an imperial conference will be held next May Alberta The world depression produced a number of crackpot economic cherries to remove economic fetters from distressed folk nearly all based upon a misconception of the place held by money in the commercial echeme of things But most such proposals were suggested rarely attempted In Alberta Canada however Premier William Aberhart peda-gog-evangelist was elected "a social platform When elected he eschewed the difficult task of installing Major Douglas' theories of national dividends adopted Instead the Geseell plan of stamped money theory rested upon the assumption that rapid circulation of money is tantamount to prosperity therefore that if money is taxed it will be-' come so that possessors would wish to spend But stamped money -found little favor with hard-headed Albertans and last week the premier threw up his hands announced the province would default a bond issue of $1250000 The default came after the Bank of Canada refused to advance $3500-000 to pay the maturing issue retire an issue defaulted last April But Premier Aberhart expects to continue Interest payments on the bonds Austria Austria crushed in the economic blunders of the Versailles treaty experienced ahother cabinet crisia but Premier Kurt Schuschnigg remained at the head of the state recently affected by tha Italp-Ger-man Understanding Schuschnigg resumed command of the natiqn after he-replaced three ministers with others The shake-up revived reports that the Haps-burga goon would return to the throne Oblivion As the Roosevelt landslide swamped theRepublican party- so did it virtually obliterate third party movements In the country Boasts of the Coughlln-Townsend-Smlth coalition behind Representative William Lemke of North Dakota vanished Into air and instead of the vaunted nine million votes Lemke got but '629071 in 107354 of the nation's 122722 election districts Although tardy counting doubtless fails tb tally the total minor-party vote early return indicate that Socialist Norman Thomas has fared worse than have Socialists In the past decade Districts In the the public committee opposed it During the campaign the opposing group claimed that by exempting homes and farms up to $2000 valuation many counties and school districts faced a disastrous loss of revenue This contention however was not supported by the exhaustive survey of the investigating committee of Utah governmental units popularly known as the "committee of But committee did foresee a pressing demand for a general overhauling of state administrative machinery in the proposal The committee favors: Legislative exemption of homesteads up to the $2000 limit with $500 exemptions for household furnishings Such action would produce a drop of 124 per cent in present governmental revenues with cities -counties and school districts bearing the heaviest financial losses To fill depleted treasuries the committee proposes economies in government by abolishing sheriffs for a state constabulary consolidating counties and school districts a 'state road system to replace county road systems consolidation of all health activities under one state department transfer of property assessments to the state tax commission But these economies will not save enough and to raise revenue lost through exemptions on tangible property a higher sales tax is suggested for luxuries ranging from 3 10 per cent with the sales levy on necessities lowered to 1 per cent a change in methods of taxing mines and greater revenue to cities from state beer taxes and automobile registration fees Teachers The Utah Education association concluded its convention by approving federal support for education new funds for vWational training efforts to improve living standards for teachers assurance of teacher tenure free' textbooks and laboratory service in high schools stress on education for peace a school building code -t-tf Conservationists Through the winter Civilian Conservation corps popu- lation will total 7300 in 46 camps The youths will be engaged on soil conservation work in new camps at Willard and Mt Pleasant in -national park and forest service work at Montirello Zion national park and Veyo Washington county Newenrollees hail largely -from Kansas and North Dakota Popular With Voters ing toward the hapless republic as Mussolini viewed Ethiopia Rumor is rife that the League of Nations may assuage German ambition with a mandate over Liberia Iii Salt Lake Meters Conflicting views were presented to the city commission when that body met to consider the advisability of continuing the parkometer system on city business streets Mayor Erwin sponsor of meters said two public safety department polls favored the meters He was support by Gus Backman chamber of commerce secretary McGibbeny retail trades committeeman Frank Fullmer and Abe Guas business men But the mayor's position was assailed by- the Salt Lake City council of women Mrs John Wahlquist president Mrs Runzler chairman of the safety council Mrs Folland chairman of the civic committee contended their polls showed the meters in decided disfavor -Their stand waa supported by Attorney Dan Shields representing some business district merchants Said Mr Wahlquist: do 75 per cent of Jthe shopping and our survey shows that 85 per cent of the women are opposed to parking meters" Mr Shields contended continuation of meters would shunt business away from the business district r' Building Announced by Woolworth company: that business has so increased in the local area ns to warrant erection of a new building to be constructed between Second South street and Broadway on Main street to cost $225-000 with an additional $100000 for fixtures Wiring Charged by the Electrical League of Utah: that most wiring installations In the city are unsafe that the city inspection bureau is so inadequately manned as to prevent proper inspections Sculptor Dies From the effects of stroke died Lorado Taft 76 famed ican sculptor in his south side Chicago studio apartment For half a century his deft fingers had modeled works of art which stand through the world as public I ih -wv? Jr Day after his smashing victory at the polls Franklin Delano Roosevelt yielded the limelight to one of the Roosevelt family's youngest members 8-months-old -Kate Roosevelt daughter of -Son James and Betsy Cushing Roosevelt who was christened at the Hyde Park family home "wew tmwmr- Senator George Norris of Nebraska drafted as an independent candidate was reelected by a handsome margin over the two major party candidates.