The Salt Lake Tribune from Salt Lake City, Utah • 1

The Weather1 Local Metal Prices UTAH and Mostly fair Sunday Monday little change In temperature NEVADA and Fair mild Sunday Monday (Detailed Report on Faye Twehe-B) Silver 28340 Zinc C'oper 6 85c Lead 370S 4d YOL 123 NO 1GG SALT LAKE CITY SUNDAY" MORNING SEPTEMBER 27 1931 80 PAGES TEN CENTS ANTI-JAPAN BEER RUMOR IGNORES BEER FACTS Boy at Play Dies UnderCarWheel CANAL OFFER OF REVENUE RIOTS CALL OUT TROOPS KEEPS DRYS uskies to 7-6 Mark Sullivan nationally known Washington correspondent discusses the recurrent rumors of legalizing beer in article In The Tribune Some striking facts In bis article follow: 4 BEER can be legalized by a simple act of congress but re Study Shows Panama Waterway Could Be Slade to Produce Greater Income Stories Spring Up Despite Repeated Denials Writer Cites Lack of Probability Infuriated Chinese Incite Serious Fights Torches Burn Wares Brilliant End Runs Washington Half Aggies Send Montana to 58-0 Defeat peal of the prohibition amendment would be an immense and complex business Congress has decreed that beverages containing more than one-half of one per cent alcohol are intoxicating This fixing of the standard Is merely an act of congress and not a constitutional amendment and would only require a simple act of the same body to repeal or change it Wets and some others declare that this standard fixed by congress is a lie" The one-half of one per cent standard was adopted through pressure from brewers who objected to heavy taxes on their product which soft drink manufacturers escaped SURVEY COMPARES RAIL SHIP CHARGES Ocean Gateway Earns Only Small Percentage on Huge Capital Investment By MARK SULLIVAN (Special Ths Tribune) WASHINGTON Sept The beer stQry was out again last week That made twice within ten days The number of times the story has flown through the land during the past few months must be upward of fifty The rumor al-TYnTrp It TUT ft i fljways bits Washington with a nn I I A I I A I I Scanner of excited imminence Ulllllllil UflUUUA member of congress or a government official down the SENATOR HOPES (Salt Lake Tribnne-Chlcago Tribune Service) WASHINGTON Sept 28 Government officials seeking a way to cut down a prospective billion and a half dollar deficit for the current fiscal year and to avert deficits in the future thus far have ignored one of the most promising potential revenue raising fields the Panama canal This $540000000 gateway between the Atlantic end the Pacific furnishing as it does a short route between the two oceans that cuts from twenty to forty days off the time it once took to tiansport freight by water between New York and San Francisco could be made to produce far greater returns than the 3 38 per cent eerned on its capital investment in 1930 But instead of producing the revenue that a government enterprise of its magnitude and value to shipping capable of the canal thus far has been operated by the United States largely as a public utility that afforded a subsidy to Intercoastal shipping interests and which imposed a Dazzling Off-Tackle Plays Prove Too Much for Northern Boys (Special to The Tribune) LOGAN Utah State Aggies swamped the Montana Mines team Saturday afternoon the Aggie stadium 58-0 The Aggies right from the start swept the Montana boys off their feet with dazzling off-tackle smashes and criss-crosses The game was not a minute old when in ten plays with Smith Childs and Young carrying ball Aggies took it from their own 33-yard line to a touchdown Thompson was responsible for the Aggies getting the ball when ho recovered a Montana fumble Agflra Start March After kicking off to Montana and an exchange of punts the Aggies started another march only to lose the ball when a pass from I Smith was Intercepted by Utt Montana again kicked and another march was started only to end when Bcnnlon fumbled Dui mg this quarter the Aggies were forced to substitute when Thompson and Childs werft injured Cropley and Bennlon replaced them The game was played under Ideal weather conditions In fact it wai more tike baseball weather than football A fair sized crowd attended the game more to get their first glimpse of the Aggie team and to see whether they had Improved over last year They were not disappointed as tho game brought forth a fighting hunch of youngster (Conttmifd on Thru Col Eight) Broken Wire'JoIt Kills Horse Alan -I 4 I 4 vy 4 P'S '1 4-V 1 4-- i Glen Yates mortally injured Saturday in Salt Lake county's 49th fatal traffic accident since January The photo above is a striking character Jose of the boy He uas hit by an automobile on Main street Twenty-first South street uhen he left his playmates and dashed across the street iicar SILVER PARLEY Rise of White Metal Shows Confidence in Medium Declares Solon (Special to The Tribune) POCATELLO Idaho Sept am hopeful that Great Britain will consent to participate In an international conference on the silver situation In the near United States Senator John Thomas said Saturday Senator Thomas was In southeastern Idaho looking over the Fort all-Michaud flats reclamation tracts in connection with the recent authorization of congress for Including the Michaud flats in the Black-foot river irrigation project recent rise in the price of silver indicates better than any event of recent occurrence that financial Institutions have faith in a settlement by Great Britain of its sliver troubles and the probable restoration of the monetary value of silver to the peoples of India If we can get silver restored as the monetary element for these people more than half the population of the world will have their purchasing power raised in the proportion of the change In the price of silver America needs today is a restoration of this purchasing power (Continued on Page Eight) (Column Six BAYONET CHARGE ROUTS BATTLERS Agitators Open Move to Split Manchuria Pleas Meet Rebuff HONGKONG Sept 26 MV-British troops were called out today to suppress serious anti-Japanese rioting at Kowloon and were obliged to make bayonet charges The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders were called into action Several Japanese were injured by a mob of Chinese and Japanese goods were burned In the street (By Associated Press) TOKYO Sept The tangled Manchurian situation complicated by Japanese occupation of the South Manchurian railway zones and transfer of the capital for me eastern from Mukden to Chlnchowfu was given a further twist today by activities of dlvlsionist agitators The Japanese government stated officially it found no favor In proposals for breaking Manchuria up into two or more independent states but that both Chinese and Mongolian interests had made proposals to that end Chang Hsueh-Llang son of Chang Tso-Lln that one-time bandit who became dictator of all Manchuria which he ruled with an iron hand until his death Is in Peiping where he is recovering from a recent serious illness It was by his order however that the provincial capital was moved to Chlnchowfu some half-wav nearer the great wall than Mukden He also appointed Chang Tso-Hslang one of his late father trusted lieutenants to command all Manchurian troops north of the great wall Rebel Move Starts official advices said a delegation of Chinese who aim at the establishment of a separate government at Mukden had called upon the Japanese commander-in-chief Shigeru Honjo asking his aid in so llciting Japanese suppoit In the over throwing of Chang Hsueh-Llang and the establishment of an independent government The spokesman Yuan Chin-Kal president of the peace maintenance commission said his group already had organized for tern-1 porary municipal administration of the native city of Mukden General Honjo refused explaining that It was Japan's policy not to in terfere with Manchurian internal affairs The general afterward made (Continued on Parc Eight) (Column 8 ix Five Bandits Loot Hank of Thousands WESTMONT 111 Sept 26 (A1) Five men invaded the I irst State bank of Westmont as it opened for business today menaced 10 persons with pistols and escaped in a sedan with $10-000 within three minutes Westmont is a small suburban village 18 miles west of Chicago The robbers drove to the bank in an expensive car that had been stolen a few hours before from a Chicago physician Summary of The Tribune I Child Leaves Companions Dashes Across Road Into Course of Automobile CONGRESS FREE TO APPROVE BEVERAGE Legalization Possible With out Change in Constitution Observer Points Out ranks somewhere or a private citizen hears his telephone ring with a tone that somehow implies extraordinary urgency The calls turns out to be from a friend or acquaintance in New York usually one In a bank or a brokerage house The New York voice in an excited tempo says went up this afternoon on a rumor that the government is about to legalize beer can you tell us about Or a Washington correspondent of a newspaper In St Louis or New York or Boston or Milwaukee (especially Milwaukee) gets a telegram from his home office reading: definite rumor here that government is going to legalize 3 per cent beer within next forty-eight hours stop Facts here seem (Continued on Page Ele(en) (Column One) Doukhobors Face Charge VICTORIA Sept 26 fP) British Columbia govei nment todav considered assertions of a group of legislative members that open communism exists among the 12000 Doukhobors in the south Five members of the provincial legislature from the southern region conferred yesterday with government officials demanding that adequate police protection be given farmers who live in the vicinity of the Doukhobors' settlements Members of the sect they declared hold the area in a reign of terror his automobile hlch was parked In front of his home Seizing a rifle Mr Robinson ran out on the porch and called for Coatney to stop as the latter started to run Coatnev kept In running and Mr Robinson fired As the young man fell he called to his companions to beat It as he was done Paul Dunkcl 22 The companions Glen Yates 9-year-old son of Mr and Mrs Yates 2134 South State street died in a local hospital at 605 as a result of injuries received ten hours earlier when he was struck by an automobile (Continued on Pm Six) (Column To Autoist Dies in Crossing Crash STORM LAKE Iowa Sept 26 P) -Frank ted well of Wray Colo was killed and his son Frank critically injured when an Illinois Central train struck their motor car at a crossing here today The spn In a hospital here not expected to live NAVY ARRESTS OFFICERS FERROL Spain Sept 26 MV-About 200 petty offloers in the Span Ish navy were confined to their quarters under arrest today as the after-math of their protests against what they called unfair discrimination in increasing pay of naval engineers but not that of the desk force HAMBURG Iowa Sept 26 MV-The horse Arthur Saunders 55 rode when he left home Thursday night topped on an electric wire blown down by a storm Both Saunders and the animal were killed Saunders was found pinned 'd 15 attempts for 40 yards manufactured 126 yards from scrimmage for a total of 166 yards They made eight first downs beneath the horse His hands still held the bridle reins they found difficulty in cracking tha Husky forward wall The visitors mrde 41 yards from scrimmage for a total of 230 yards and seven first downs Washington completed three passes back Haze Ute Men It CHAMPS LEAD YARDAGE Game Shows Utah Ono of Strongest Teams in Far West Section By STAFF CORRESPONDENT SEATTLE Wash Sept The whirling hips of Merle Hufford Washington sensational halfback were responsible for halting the three-year victory march of Coach Ike Utah eleven this afternoon when the Huskies eked out a 7-6 triumph over the Utes before 24000 people Flashing forth with a series of brilliant end runs and spinners 1931 offering for an all-American team position carried tha ball deep into Utah territory in tha second quarter and then while the Utes defense closed to stop his bewildering dashes Hufford shot a surprise pass to Bill Smith right end from the 25-yard line and the Husky wtngman dropped over the line for a touchdown Hufford followed with a perfect kick which spelled the margin ov er the Rocky Mountain champions Early in the fourth quarter Utah scored a touchdown when Fred Tedesco quarterback flung an accurate pass to bherman Clark right end who raced ever the line The score culminated an aerial offensive that alarted on Utah's 31-yard line Finding a weakness In Washingtons defense of the pass the Utes spurted up and down the field by means of aerial flings but they wera able to take the ball across the goal line but once The champions completed nine passes out of 21 for an aggregate of 189 yards bub (Continued on Page Three CoL One) Bank Depositors Okeh Transaction ONTARIO Ore Depositors of the defunct First National bank of Ontario have approved an offer of 70 cents on the dollar proffered them by Crawford Moore president of tho First National bank of Boise Idaho In purchasing the assets of tho bank on this basis Moore waived claim to the collectable liability A report of a committee represent- lr doposltors of the bank which closed September 14 stated there were $447561 in unsecured de- posits and $140259 in secured de pas lls Moore is also president of the Ontario National bank to which Institution the accounts of the detuned First National bank of Ontario wers expected to be Turkey Seeks to Lure Money ISTANBUL Tui key Sept 28 tP) Saracoglu Shukru Bey former finance minister has been appointed by the government to head a delegation of Turkish bankers a visit to the United Stales where they will discuss the possibilities of interesting American capital in investment in Tuikcj Flier Chalks Up Daily Hop Keeord WASHINGTON Sept 26 reioid that even a bird might envy was chalked up today by a veld armi pilot Tost Lieutenant Thad Foster who jolrnd the air corps during tha war was credited with averaging nearly thre hinu on the wing evei rl iv for a je ir ithout accident KILLED Sn City and County' Since Jan 1st i i Four Billion -Dollar Job Program Opens Beaver Man Kills Tourist Qas Thief It A Builders Picture Vast Army of Workmen in Program for Next Twelve Months Three Comrades Flee When Rifle Drops Companion Bullet Pierces Lung By MORRIS WATSON Associated Pres Staff Writer NEW YORK Sept A four billion dollar Chorus of 1 im unii workmen sweating over steel and masonry with five billion dollar effect Is the vision of building men for the twelve (Speclal to The Tribune) BEAVER Sept Shot through the right lung as he was attempting to steal gasoline from a parked automobile Isibiv that of some animal according at 4 a this morning John Coatney 22 Manzanola Colo dCshenffAjohTH lzundef' died four hours later in the office of a local physician The officials Saturday made an ln- Coatney who was accompanied by spoction of the body at the Tremon-two young men and a girl was ton mortuary where it was taken lat Madtson KtaoUheTThl fatally shot by George Robinson who riday The examination showed flflh in awoke while the four tflurlsts were lony the trunk of a body with pelvic attempting to get the gasoline out of bones resembling those of a human Liquor Raiders in a quandary as to whether it is the body of a man or a woman or pos- and was unable to avoid it Deputy Maughan reported also that his Investigation of the circumstances surrounding the accident exonerated the driver from blame Glen was born Salt Lake October 24 1921 a son of Thomas and Nettie Fairbanks Yates He was a was in the fifth grade He also was a member of the Burton ward and took part In activities of the Leave Shortage Of Bell Boys CHARRED BODY MAY BE ANIMAL OFFICERS THINK Probers Fail to Determine Whether Skeleton Is of Man Woman or Beast (Special to The Tribune) BRIGHAM CITY Sept 26-Fur-ther examination of the charred body found in a burned automobile in the lids of estern Box Elder county by a rancher places the county officials declared County Luke of that city The physician was Inclined to believe it was a human body but refused openly to declare it such Following this examination it was decided to await efforts to trace the owner of the machine through the Nevada license plates and whatever Physician big of the make found ith the body It (iiin MU I ION im CHIC GO Bcpt 6b1i Die win of John Holim retired real es- The boy suffered a skull fracture at 8 30 a ip when hit by an automobile driven south on Main street by Paul Kolovos 32 of Eureka He was hit at a point 150 yards south of the Twenty-first South street intersection His is the forty-ninth traffic death in the county since January 1 Deputy Sheris Wesley Maughan head i the county traffic squad reported that the boy as playing with a group of companions near the highway Saturday morning and suddenly ducked his head and ran east across the street His course led directly into the oncoming automobile the deputy said and he ran into its side The impact hurled him to the pavement causing a compound fracture of the skull A piece of bone pierced the brain the deputy reported An eyewitness to the accident Hamilton 849 Lognn avenue told the deputy that the driver of the automobile was not exceeding 20 miles an hour at the time of the accident Primary association Surviving are his parents and six sisters and two brothers Mrs Vera Lilc Mrs Lydia Burrows Leah Lora Lily Frma Alton and Huish Yates all of Salt Lake Announces Changes department included Green Detroit Minn Belfast Ireland assigned Swatow China hi er hi embassy RY de Bril eMgnaUd thllH Cretarv of embassy at Tokvo hlHl secrctary 01 al Japan Japan 10 Perish TOKYO Sipt 27 iUP) (Suivdavt I I an pci ons were killed and 50 000 homes inundated overnight when a tvpho'm strmk the Tokjo and Yoko-ilmma areas I Table Shows Huge Sums For Building A survey completed Saturday shows the following outlay in building activity proposed during the twelve months following October 1: tlcven western slates $180 000 000 New Ingland 135000 000 Metropolitan New ork 353 000 000 I pslate New 3 ork 62 000 000 Middle Atlantic states 1WI 000 000 Pittsburgh 135 000 000 Southeastern states 60 000 000 hlcago 154 000 000 cntral northwestern 31 000 000 Southern Michigan 40 000 000 I outs 60 000 000 Kansas City 0 00(1000 New Orleans 37 000 000 Texas 52000000 Alaska Snow Halls Fliers FAIRBANKS Alaska Sept 26 MT Ihe seasons fust snowstorm litre sweeping In from the north todav hrld to the ground etil All'll and Don Mnsle California nviatois who a planning a nonslop flight of about 1(60 mile from lure to '1 iroina asli Tiny flew hne vesieidaj fiotn Solomon B(iih at Noun a da (am of 5 0 milt in 5 houi 20 mm utis Kiln foiled tilt to land in i altliou) li they announc'd plans Jfly noiutop to Tacoma to LOCAL AND VICINITY Death of rhlld after mishap marks 4sth auto traffic fatality in halt Lake county alnre January I Faye 1 Braver man kill! tourist (at thlrf Tate 1 Official puzrlrd over charred body Ume last night found in automobile near Brigham i Police bearing 60 Indictments re- jucit overrule Kornev defending turned by a special grand Jury in ex-deputle on plea of former Jropardy 1 In ronnrrtlon case" Fagr vaded 18 downtown hotels and made 1 nation 1 44 arrests among negro bell bojs on Brer rumor krrp net end dry agog arlous charges including liquor sell-Pae 1 tng I nlted Slates Ignores Tanama canal offer of rrvrmir Pate I I The word spread and others fled four-billion dollar job program open their posts Without even paU'lng to Iakln Kan Roy Dunkel 21 and pend on developments Miss Goldie Dunkel 19 Pueblo Colo source fled In the automobile but were later County Attorney Jones said Sat-captured In Cedar City and returned urdav night that he and the sheriff to Beaver for the Inqueat by Sheriff might decide Mondnv to send the body cPrvice Nells Jensen to the University of Utah or elsewhere ttfct The lngupst will be held as soon to determine first if it is a human as the district attorney who is cn body and if 0 the sex and age of route from Salt I nke reaches here the person Mr Robinson told Investigating Officials still entertain a them that action is then taken Monday will rie-from that Diplomat WASHWGcK by the state Leonard at eonsul consul at officers that he fired to fright' the 1 it is the body of a man They say that frntbUt hRd ntentUmif l'e woman had traveled over the) of hitting him old trail espremlly from the west Coatney was the only child of Mr whuh dilution the car is mip- and Mrs Charles Coatney Mana- posed to have come residents in the nola Colo who have been notllled of outlying communities of Lucin and months beginning October 1 The five-billlon-dollar effect grow out of the increased purchasing pow er of the 1931-32 dollar as compared with the 1929 dollar Sponsors of the figures the national building pres group claim they present an accurate and reliable picture of America second greatest industry Reaches Impressive Total Fstimateg compiled by the division of statistics and research of the Dodge corporation show that $1 850-000 000 should be spent for building projects of $5000 or more eai during the six months beginning October 1 "ht he fact that active part of the con truc on year and arrives at the impresMve $4 000 000000 total for months Thirty-seven eastern states Dodge torpoiniion believes spend $1 370 000 000 during the months Total residential building for the six months captures $56(1 UO0 000 of the estimate nonresldcntlnl building gels $680 00(1000 Bnd public works and utilities $610 000 000 Includes Public Works Commercial building In the 37 states east of the Hoi ky mountains account for $143 000 000 of the six months' estimate Fa tones are fire dieted at $56 000 000 educational buildings $120 500 000 hospitals and institutions $17 900 000 public buildings $91000 000 religious Bnd memorial buildings $21 1 (M) (MH) social and iccrcalional buildings $15 5(10 000 one and two imily hous's $222 500-000 apartments and hotels $102 500-000 and public works and utilities $450 000 0OO The publli woiks and utilities in (hide tilgliwavs lirides power plants watt and si age svstems as well a public edifiux get out of uniform Walters wore pressed Into service but the news quickly reached the ne- gro section Large numbers of Prnpioj ed negroes congregated about the hotels and were used for emergency replacements Missing Witness Delays Inquest their sons death Coatney and his companions according to Information obtained by the officers were en route to ITwx nix Arlz Running low on gasoline they drove around until they saw the Robinson machine and attempted to siphon or drain a supply from the tinted by residents of the com- population to evacuate eighty vil mumties I lages and flee to the Carpathian lugh- Another supposition that the body an(q- Budges have been destroyed may be that of a torch murder vie- an(j f((is are threatening dikes that tim also will be looked Into and est- pmtc huge areas ern Box Filer rounty citizens will be queried ns to whi (her two cars weie seen going through together One be Galicians Flee Before Storms Typhoon Strikes Pair srnvlnr hope Britain will oil liver parley Tage 1 AVOHin NIVAS Anti-Japan rind bring oil fhina Fate 1 IK Iglnm lead all nvllon In prosperity rise 3 lurnpean political italu brighten Page 4 fFATlRfS AND DfPARTMFNTS Spori eetlon Pe 1-7 Beal evtate Page )3 I tutorial Here In the Weil Forum teller Page 2-C Movie drama and the tireen rages I 1 Mine oil tork and market page rage u-c Society aeellon Page I I lower of Thorn aerial Pair 9 llavalfird advertising Page I-1Z-R SI PP1 TMf NTS Tribune Junior Twelve page of the world I bet omlea Mag trine sertton wllh Mac learner rover Art and literature paiea lannte Hurst a I llleen Norris ft Mi Inlire Bober! I Blplry a 1 Hellete It or Not I asltlnit page oop in jrffcrnn RFNO Ttev Sept 26 MV-A coroners inquest will be held here next week to investigate circumstances sut rounding 1 lie death of hi Belle DcWdte of Ix Angeles and ilmio llulu last August 7 She died fol 1 low mg nn i ident in hirh nn auto- mobile drivin bv John Pole son of the comptroller of the rurrenrv plung'd over nn embankment SPRINT FIFI Mo Si pt 26 MV- Tcthired to a rope in the dilvewav of his home so be ould plav with in Ighbni mg (hildrin without getting mtothestieit Robert Hull 1(1 months old was kill'd todnv when an auto inquest hm been dilut'd by the ina- tulilv to I ix ale the only eyew Itness to Hie at' ident and hv the Him of Pole ho is i mg In Snn Fi anti eo from revensl broktn ribs and mobile driven bv a vi ir-old son of u'hborit ba kiwi out of a garage juid crushed hinw tutc nun who died was admitted In probate today dti Cotuttt ui $iu00000 14 1 i if.