The Salt Lake Tribune from Salt Lake City, Utah • 6

6 A THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING DECEMBER 24 1933 PARADE OF THE EVENTS Recovery A Success Reported Snag in Utah Sfcy Plot Reich Trial Ends Mankind Nears One Race Labor Board Empowered Peace in Chaco Blue Eagle's Success The Nation at Large Tax Problems to the Front Liquor Issues Begin to Perplex Solons BANKERS TAXES Wall street Investment bafikers During depressions government ex- have been subjected to much investi- penies mount and revenues fall ne-gal on Mnce the market crash of 1929 cessitating increased taxes This have been revealed as expert sharp- dilemma was probed for solution dur-ers Into their activities in still an- ing the week by the house ways and other phase of naf onal life the senate means committee spurred to further plans a p'robe Senators plan to sif activity by revelations of financial manipulations by JLT -tycoons uncovered by the senate banking committee After public hearings the committee proposed to lighten administrative provisions of income tax laws to stop evasion- by the country's wealthy bring into the treasury an additional $270 000 000 The committee proposes to prohibit consolidated corporate income tax rates force each subsidiary of a corporation to file Its own return pav its os taxes and also to abolish redit off-ets for foreign tax payments These features were violently opposed by witnesses fur industrial and transportation firms and lobbyist for the manufacturers' association again stressed the levy which delights the souls of all big industry sales tax Church folk appeared numbers at the hearing to urge radical tax changes proposed to change tax laws from revenue 'gatherers to a meant of redistributing the national wealth The administration opposed many featuies of the committee bill and since the administration is believed to have a tight grip on congress the committee njay be expected to yield to the executive The- national capital as it appeared after the first snowfall In Wash- lngton The season's first heavy snow augured a traditional Christmas for residents of the District of Columbia copyright ibss wide World Photos In Foreign Fields PERSONALITIES LINDBERGHS Completed by America's flying couple Colonel and Mrs Charles Augustus Lindbergh was an aerial Odyssey STUDY While the ways and means committee of the house conducted tax hearings treasury officials in private offices opened an exhaustive study of the tax system engaged in intellectual machinations to repair a complicated system eliminate taxation of citizens The treasury hinted it sought to simplify state and federal levies relieve Mr Taxpayer thereby Double taxation occurs on incomes sales inheritances license fees for Corporations To eliminate this treasury expert are deep in study Whether they will devise a plan be fore congress convenes In January Is doubtful but thpt President Roosevelt will overlook overhauling the tax structure In his broad recovery program Is a foolhardy belief An id private profits cleaned from airmail companies which operated under federal subsidies The investigation will be a companion to the recent ocean mail subsidy study wherein the government was bilked of large sums by carriers Ui 4 )CZrt Ho i i- Copyrltht 1933 Wldt World Photo Inc Mrs William Fender of Meadow-brook Neb who won the oratory contest at the recent American Farm Bureau federation convention in Chicago Disasters STORMS The "cradle of off the Aleutian islands in the Bering sea hatched lusty children and sent howling winds across the sea to lash furiously at tha Pacific northwest coast which shuddered and suffered at winter's latest demonstration In the wake were left inundated homes two drowned persons Hooded farms battered shipping Seattle and vicinity bore the brunt of the wind's fury which brought tor rential rains on its crest Rivers swelled by the rains overflowed their banks brought havoc to -the towns of Aberdeen Hoqualm Raymond Meri-etta Tacoma In Aberdeen 830 inches of rain fell within four days Off tha Oregon coast three shipping vessels were foundered The Los mar lost her rudder and a deckload of lumber the Charles Wheeler was grounded near Columbia rlver and the Henry Whlton limped safely into the Columbia after losing her cargo of lumber FIRE Into flame burst the Gloucester fishing schooner Ellen T- Marshall off Cape Sable Nova Scotia and to the edge burned thg ship Three sailors perished when their dory capsized near Seal Island four others are believed to have drowned or died In an open dory which was never beached 19 were aaved including Captain Albert Hines whose dory reached Peases island safely after battling wind and rough sea Seven were rescued by the Danish steamer Lari Kruse WIND Winds screeching out of the southwest wreaked their fury on two Louisiana Caddo parish communities killed four persons injured 19 then subsided as they continued east Lying wvte in the wake of the atom was tha Grayson lumber camp miles west of Shreveport and the Soda Fountain plantation ten miles north of the town Industry Railways The Insulls LOANS Since the sharp edge of depression eut deeply Into the economic front Uncle Sam has been Santa Claus to business in an effort to stem the ebbing tide of commerce and set the wheels of Industry turning A measure of success appears to have marked the government efforts but President Roosevelt Indicated he believed still more must be done when he ordered a study of direct loans to Industry Commerce and factories ordinarily operate upon credit repay loans when trade has completed its cycle Ordi narily banka ae the medium which extends the needed credit to grease wheels but since the business stagnation banks have been wary of loans desirous of remaining liquid Several devices havebeen tried with out avail to loosen The tightened cred It structure but bankers remained probably justifiably 'aloof Proposed is the use of the Reconstruction finance corporation as an industrial bank to lend sums directly to industry Hitherto the has loaned largely to banks hoping that they in turn would direct the funds into trade channels Imminent appears another experiment in the nation's credit structure RAILROADS The Railway Labor Executives' as ociation lunched in Chicago heard George Harrison president of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks declare rail lines must scale down capital obligations if the transportation industry is to continue on a profitable basis: A Whitney president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen plump lor shorter hours higher wages warn "grave and serious dan ger still lie INSULLS Since the collapse of the Midwest Utilities empire bulided by Samifel Insult Sr thrust into bold relief sharp practices ef corporate business misfortune has dogged the footsteps of the Insull family as echoes of the crash continued to resound in financial legal and even criminal circles Recent echoes Samuel Insull Sr guided his paper-gupportad utilities empirt into receivership helped to name receiver (This was revealed in a Chicago federal court conducting a post mortem inquiry into Insull operations) Insull Sr his wife and his son Samuel Jr are defendants in income tax evasion aults illed by the government in Washington The S-claims the empire builder owes it 1189000 Mr Insull owes $21135 Samuel Jr owes $35013 all for taxes $ua in 1929 and 1930 Insull Jr and aix former colleagues Wra Indicted in Crown Point Ind for embezzling conspiracy to commit felony in connection with alleged oo ting of the Northern Indiana Public Service company Insull chain member to bolster the tottering In-gull system Amount of the asserted embezzlement 919000000 Meanwhile the continued efforts to bring the senior Insull from Graeco to stand trial on any one of a number of chargee appears to have made progress- BANKING Front Gotham to industrial Detroit switched senate banking committee investigators into the banking structure In Henry citadel the senators guided by Fearless Ferdinand Pecora committee Counsel robed the Guardian Detroit Union croup Inc whoea crash heralded the national bank holiday of laet spring There President Robert Lord was called to the stand to explain obscure financial dealings smacking of loon Ithics Described by Pecora as "window was tha bank's practice of "kiting' certificates of deposit and other assets from one chain member to another to conceal losses from bank exam Inert Also revealed was mat the group suffered lose of a million collar in the depression year of 1930 1931 1932 which was aot reported to stockholders that during these years subsidiary banks paid a total of $8000000 in dividends Crime in a SUCCESS Success of the blue flight six months after it took off from the White House was reported to the president by hisdynamic administrator General Hugh Johnson The administrator said but one in 10000 code violators are deliberate pointed significantly to consumer support of A as an effective compliance measure He referred to a New Orleans factory which lost its blue eagle found it profitable to restore $4000 in baclrwages-to-regain-the symbolic bird Consumers and cultural activities also were given more consideration as codification of United States Industry neared completion Throughout the country 3000 councils will be organized under the advisory board to hear price com- Slalnts balance the other end of the A teeter Relief Director Harry Hopklna proposed development of a nationwide recreation program as a chapter of the A favored publicly maintained Orchestras and theaters Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes plana to employ 1200 architects to preserve historic-buildings in the nation Meanwhile the president extended by proclamation his blanket reemployment agreement for four months gave a fillip to long-range economic planning by making research a fundamental feature of industrial codes furthered coordination of recovery activities under Frank Walker and stimulated a national unemployment survey CLEANERS Smoothing of difficulties among code members of the cleaning and dyeing industry was announced by Recovery Administrator Hugh Johnson who promulgated a new schedule of prices 20 per cent beldw the former minimums To cleaners who render higher quality service than and merchants will get special blue eagle insignias EXTENDED Extended by the president was the national automobile code over which recovery officials long wrestled with automotive manufacturers So hearty has been business response since in-1 vocation of the code that the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce requested it be made effective through September 4 1934 Since the code automotive payrolls have jumped from $12700000 to $14- 700000 increased employment from 125000 in July to 150' 700 in September despite a decrease of man hours in the period from 21300000 to 19- 600000 SNAG Recovery efforts in Utah struck a snag when City Judge Dalby sustained demurrers of Duncan and Pete Zaharias to complaints charging violation of the code by cutting beneath code price minimums The court ruled price fixing as attempted in the tonsorial code "contrary to sound public policy" Considered were proposals to persuade Governor Henry Blood to include minimum prices in the code itself (The schedule of prices was inserted by a code authority) The governor however once struck pricefixing clauses from the state codes along with interpretive clauses on collective bargaining Another court test on price fixing looms however with prayers for injunctions before District Judge Herbert Schiller against Coal Dealers T- Bennlon and Mike Francis suspected of selling fuel below code prices while drawing tighter the of around the Reich Mussolini's alternative to the league status quo Is the four-power pact between England France Germany and Italy in effect a restoration of the balance of power theory Into the pact Duce wishes to draw the United States SUCCESS A concrete achievement of the Pan-American conference In Montevideo Uruguay was an armistice in the Gran Chjco where Bolivian and Paraguayan armies have been struggling against each other inclement tropical weather and subequatorial jungles for 17 months Thq dispute over ownership of the territory has raged for 50 years been marked with sporadic warfare The combatants agreed to an 11-day truce precipitated by a thumping Paraguayan victory on four forts during which South American delegates will join with a league of nations committee to effect a satisfactory peace The fighting has taken a toll of 30000 dead unnumbered thousands of injured arid ill The area has been disputed by the two countries since 1559 but cause of the recent warfare was attempt to find an outlet to the sea via Chaco rivers Bolivia cast anxious eyes to the Atlantic when her nearer Pacific port was effectively blocked by Peru and Chile Scientists LIGHT toppling the revered scientific theory that apeed is the only constant thing in the Results of the famous speed of light measurements at Pasadena indicate varies in cycles ranges around of 12 miles a second tha theory of a constant speed rests many scientific dogmas those of Albert Einstein has discovered that light rays curve Into the discard or greatly altered must these theories undergo the measurements are substan- MEAT belief that raw red meat contributes to bulging muscles was rudely shattered by a couple of British who reported from London underdone meat is less nutritious the will-cooked variety It further Was said a hot oven is unnecessary for initial stages of roasting barbecue roasts are more nutritious than oven -cooked ones Inc WORLD AFFAIRS SPIES 1 With all the drama of a cinema production the French secret police moved quickly in Pans to arrest five men and five women in one of the most startling espionage scares since war times Official announcements cast a shadow of the old Ho-henzollern spy system across troubled Europe hinted also a Russian contact Asserted leader of the plot to smuggle French military secrets outside the country peddle them to interested powers was Mme Lidia Tchekaloff Stahl 48 reputed wife of a New York business man The prisoners included Robert Gordon Switz 29 American aviator and member of a prominent East Orange family and his wife Marjorie Tilley 22 Others in the plot: Benjamin Berko-witz Rumanian-born Canadian communist Mime Clara Berkowitz his wife Molse and Chana Salman Polish medical students Douchan Narandish Serbian journalist Marie Madeleine Mermet Parisian school teacher Louis Martin French government interpreter Mme Stahl allegedly had Martin under her sway persuaded him to divulge to her contents of French naval papers given him to translate First Ji llnna nf EFivia CaKl'a inenAfto intimations of Mme Stahl's suspected activities came from Finland in connection with another espionage case French operatives said When the arrests were made at the conspirators' various Parisian lodgings most of the suspects had their baggage packed prepared to flee A transmitting set of German make was found in Mile apartment Whether the espionage case is a dramatic gesture or a significant international plot remains to be verified The Americans claim they were tools and dupes of the ring ARGUE Diplomatic conversations to bridge the impasse created when Hitler ab-rutly withdrew from the Geneva disarmament conference darkening European war clouds continued during the week with little progress reported France and Germany conversed continued to disagree over the extent of Reich rearmament Eng-gland in her traditional role of peacemaker struggled valiantly to gaifS concessions from both powers But Germany wants an army of 300000 soldiers and France fears her ancient foe Itajy'a Mussolini has further complicated the delicate situation by delivering another blow at the tottering league of nations He demands dtrsatic reorganization under threat of Italian withdrawal If Italy joins Japan and Germany in leaving the league that body may as well dissolve But France her European hegemony endangered opposes Mussolini and with her allies Poland and the Little Czecho-Slovakla Rumania and determined to preserve the- shell of the league With the I I GERMANY Ended after a month-long trial which smacked of careful staging was the reichstag fire case in Berlin The historic German reichstag caught fire last February 27 and immediately gave excuse for persecution of communists in Germany Hitler'a nazis insisted the blaze was set by communists as a signal for a national uprising Awaited were the verdicts Defendants in the case were Mifri-nus Van Der Lubbe Dutch brick mason who confeased to the offense Ernst Torgler former communist whip in the reichstag and three Bulgarian communists The admitted communists have repeatedly denied any and all connection with the crime and Van Der Lubbe insisted he had no aid was alone responsible But the case has had far-flung repercussions Peculiar circumstances surrounding the fire gave rise to suspicion that it was a plant An unofficial legal commission of international lawyers who sought to spike the international news value of the trial opening by conducting a in London pursued their tactics by pronouncing a guilty verdict on the nazis as the trial ended The commission is convinced Hitler followers lighted the fire to supply an excuse of anticommunist activities GERMANY Policies pregnant with difficulty and packed with trouble were announced last week by Chancellor Hitler dictator of the German relch whose startling movements have al most sent the world spinning off its course Paramount feature of the Hitler program fraught with controversy is sterilization of German defectives and the incurably diseased Seven5 teen hundred eugenic courts are to be organized by January 1 to proceed with wholesale sterilization The policy is hailed by eugenlclsts deplored by clerics of many creeds Hitler estimates the cost of sterilizing 400000 men and women at 144)00000 marks calculates the saving to German taxpayers at 330000000 marks The next feature contemplates a wholesale shift of German population from urban to rural centers a gigantic to the movement to make German poor self-eubsiatlng First stages of the movement will be voluntary later if necessary compulsory shifts will be Invoked Hitler's anti-Semitic plank has caused turmoil in German Protestant circles and carefully laid plans to tie religion to the state 'threaten to go awry Evangelical youth leaders have refused to follow Reichbishop Ludwig Mueller's lead and anti-Semite churchmen hold the reichbishop policies to be too mild But Hitler quashed evangelical youths by dissolving them CUBA The troubles of the Ramon Grab San Martin government in Cuba ware demonstrably not -at an end in Havana where snipers returned to their posts and gunfire flashed in the city streets Attempts of the Cuban Federation of Labor to stage a general strike In protest against Grau San Martin were abortive However on day a mob sacked and fired the El Pais newspaper office in Havana in which three were killed in rioting next day riot flared at the country home of Banker Porflro Franca 15 miles from tha capital and Josefine Franca de Gomez his daughter was shot and killed Franca was a San Martin supporter when the regime wss installed El Pais Is considered unfriendly to him Subsequently Havana was the scene of violent demonstrations Sunctuated by snipers' pot-shots and re government supervised a huge display against the Platt amendment whereby Cuba is tied to apron strings SPAIN Ended wu the syndicalist revolt In the Spanish republic which went almost monarchist in the last elections the first in which women exercised their new franchise To succeed Diego Martinez Barrios Alejandro Lerroux was named premier with a republican cabinet of definite conser- vative leanings 1 REELECTED TO POST Reelected first vice president of the American Mining congress wsD Moffat vice president end general manager of extensive Utah Copper Colonel and Mr Charlet A Lindbergh leave their seaplane at Miami 1 company In New York Howard I Fla marking their return to native soli after an extensive aerial tour Young St Louis was chosen presi- of memory awakened in the Penn-1 of Europe which Included two Atlantic crossings In the sky The flying 1 dent Young is with the American aylvania hotel apartment of a friend couple have been aerial touring since July Ziac Lead Smelting company of thanks andjii)shed to a hospital to ministration measure settingup a new Lpay-obetitence to the stork which had tax structure Is considered a certainty before the end of the Roosevelt term probably before the end of 1934 Income tax features recommended for immediate adoption by the treasury include lower rates for earned Incomes of less than $25000 consolidated returns for husbands and wives single normal tax levy and a new surtax schedule LIQUOR Although prohibition was technical burled on December 5 problems connected with the sale and consumption of spirits had just begun congressmen and administration officials continued to wrack their brains over tha manifold difficulties presented Taxation offered the major problem since the government sees in liquor a healthy source of revenue The house ways and means committee proposed a $2 gallon tax on spirits in the face of a presidential request to keep the levy low enough to strike fatal blow at the prohibition-fostered bootlegger decided for the moment to retain the $5 gallon tax on liquor imports The suggestion for a single liquor levy with allocations to state wss shelved by the congressmen Commerce provided another angle to the liquor question Administration officials "turned Yankee' traders to wrest trade advantages from foreign wine producers announced wine Import quota hid been substantially upped in exchange for reciprocal tariff advantages for apples and pears salt pork and ham-Negotiations for a similar agreement were launched with Spain Liquor lmorts also were viewed by members of congress as a convenient wedge to pry war debt payments from European defaulters Prices were whet concerned the guzzling consumer Good whisky sold In most sections of the country st from $3 to $5 a pint caused considerable rumblings Objections also were lodged against the government permitted Wended liquor which drinkers averred wss little better thin the flavored of bootleg days Dr James Doran industrial alcohol Smuggling bothered 8 internal revenue official and the 8 navy was called upon to hid other agencies in erecting a wall against contraband spirits POWER When leading power interests opposed election of President Frsnklin Rooiievelt they knew what they were about The stand on the controversial power Issue his given private utilities plenty of cause for worry Latest government entrance into the utility field was Incorporation of tha Electric Home and Farm Authority a miUlon-dollar concern designed to place additional elec-trio appliances In homes at low cost Tha corporation will act first with the Tenneste Valley Authority huge government experiment in public ownership and If successful will be extended Private power firms took advantage of a proposed electric light and power code to register protest against government competition express concern over federal loan to promote municipal ownership The cod embraces only operating companies exempts holding companies described recently at a menace by federal trad commissioners CAN'T REMEMBER Unnecessarily upset was Mm Jesse Livermore wife of the Wall Street operator when her husband left their Park avenue apartment failed to return for 24 hours Police were notified kidnaping' was feared Livermore squelched further fears when he reappeared haggard and weary explained ha suffered 1 lapse In time to celebrate Christmas with their son Jon at the Dwight Morrow home In Englewood ly a 4 white woman and two negroes were killed 11 injured at the lumber camp On the plantation a negro wo- frinka within reach of pocket-man wu killed and eight negro work- £n0ks commissioner assured the populace liquor prices would tend to decline era were injured the Nation SLAIN One day last fortnight Dr Leonard Slever 44 socialite Pasadena dentist evidently wu- about to enter his parked automobile a short distance from his artistically decorated office Whither the dentist intended to go 1 a mystery for he fell dead at the side drilled through the head by a bullet The pocket were looted his watch taken but police refused to be duped by the obvioui'intention pt the murderer to leave robbery clues Police inclined from the first to a murder of the heart prompted by jealousy But the police theory was of little avail In solving the mystery rather It served to complicate it For Dt Siever patron of the arts in wealthy Pasadena was revealed in letters a Don Juan whose heart led him Into the homes and possibly the boudoirs of socially prominent Pasadena beauties Clandestine affairs with women married and single were no novelty in the life of Dr Siever' Many women or many an irate husband may have had good and sufficient motive to end the life Police took into custody Yvonne Howard 34 after she stopped a pedestrian on a suburban street to confess the killing They found her Irre-spohslbly Intoxicated They also arrested and released Thomas Bennett 33 bellhop son of the caretaker of the Scottish Rite temple near which the murder occurred LYNCHED Without fuss was lynched Cord Cheek 20-year-old negro by an orderly crowd In Columbia Tenn Cheek recently was arrested for an attempted attack upon a white girl freed When a county grand jury found insufficient evidence to indict Sheriff Claude Godwin said tha lynchers disappeared without trace but Governor Hill McAlister posted a $1000 reward for apprehension of the I slayers Further Investigation re-I veiled the young negro had been kid I piped from the home of relative in Nashville convicts Since their escape from the Indian state prison at Michigan Cty last September 28 ten convicts joined by other desperadoes have been preying about the environs pt Chicago spreading murder and terror in Indiana and Illinois Their leader is John DUlinger escaped bank robber from the Lima county laiL -Captured in Paris 111 was Edward Shouse one of the mob but at the cost of the life of Indiana State Officer Eugene Teague slain by a bullet from the gun of Police Lieutenant Chester Butler The arrest of Shouse left seven at Urge In Chicago police aurrounded an ipartment house slew three more members of the terrorist group whose unidentified bodies were riddled by msrhjiyf ym HUMANS A tendency of the human family now a composite of many races to merge again into one race was seen by Dr WD Funkhouser noted anthropologist and dean of the University of Kentucky graduate school in a recent round-the-world trip The savant believes the trend toward specialized races is disappearing gradually surrendering to -a unifying trond Dr Funkhouer believes the first rae of men resembled the Austra-fitiated lian aboriginal sees the following race mergers: Malayans into Mongolians: Polynesians into Caucasians Eskimos into Indiana certain Filipino tribes into negroes The dean believes the negroes roamed about Europe before settling in Africa thinks whites were In Africa before Europe The cradle of the race Dr Funkhouser places in southern Asia has found evidence of1 pygmies in Japan Near about universe Michelson speed a margin On of light including who may if The scientists that than that.