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Tuesday Morning- TJjc Salt £akc Tribune April 1 1939 5 Nazi Bartering! Britain Visions Linh in Hitler 9 Chain Clogs Trade Hull Maintains Counsel Clash Marks Vice Trial Opening FINAL CLEAN-UP Says German System Cripples Marts Judge Overrules Defense on Outline of Action just a Few Coats Left From Last (Continued From Page One) AM Ly vC January 1938 Mr Harris charged the defendant with a in the pay-off and Mr Pearce con-1 tended that someone who did not ike him was responsible for the charge On the same ly Mr Ilaimon told Detective Holt that Mr Lee and Mr Harris had accused Mr Tearce of pay-off participation but that he (Mr Harmon) thought the matter would Defense Objects When Distrut Attorney Rawlings sought to tell about the Fisher Harris letter sent to Mr Erwin on January 15 1938 the defense bitterly opposed the remarks charging the missive was sent after the time of the alleged conspiracy and had no bearing upon the case The defense Burlon Musscr representing Mr Fr win Mullmer representing Pearce Frederuk Loofbou- WASHINGTON April 3 WT Replying to criticism of American trade policies by Walther Funk president of the German reichs-bank Secretary of State Hull asserted Monday that system of barter "paralyzes world markets In a speeih last week Dr Funk said the world stands at a crossroads and either "will surrender to American gold or it will accept the new methods of young strong aspiring nations Hull in a statement authorized for direct quotation said bluntly that Germany's economic troubles with the United States were her own fault obstacles which German trade faces in the United States as compared with any and every other he said "are entirely the result of German policy and practices They are not the result of any special American laws dealing witlj German trade Free to Trade ijjsL A ally? Grigore Gafcncu third from left Rumanian foreign minister is expected to visit London in regard to formulating an antiaggression part with Great Britain With him left to right Jean Mctavas of Greece Sukru Saractoglu of Turkey and (extreme right) Tzintza Marcovici of Jugoslavia row representing Mr Finch and Willard Hanson representing Mr 1 hai ker also resisted rental of the details of the Alta club luncheon attended by Mayor Erwin Mr Finch Mr Hirris and newspaperj exuulivis Mavor Erwin at tbit time suggested the state charged that Chief Finch be allowed toj-csign without the real reason being publicly an-noum ed The stite also went into the relationship between Major Erwin and Btnham Hunsaker of Ogden Mr Erwin while paying off a $10 000 note in 1936 several times told Mr Hunsaker that he was benefiting from pav-off collections the prosecution charged Leftist Says Surrender Saved Lives Vrgenlina Quiz Perils Reich Gains in Trade Rumania Balks In Welcoming Help of Britain Officials Careful Not to Stir Ire of Germany Merchants Fear Anti-Nazi Wave Will Cripple Sales Under American laws and regulations Germany is free to trade willi the United States under the same set of conditions as can any other country of the world The large trade the United States is now carrying on with other countries is going smoothly and with remarkable absence of dispute Hull indicated he held little hope that Germany and the United States could come to an economic agreement although he repeated that this government has a invitation to every other nation of the World without a single exception to join its trade program The German he said "seem to be able to trade only on their own terms as they dictate them and by their own methods as they shape them In an interview prior to Hulls statement Dr Hans Thomsen charge affaires at the German embassy said Germany still would be willing to negotiate a trade agreement with the United States ideas on a trade agreement were communicated to the stale department in 1937 Thomsen said they embraced a gradual transition from controlled trade to a reciprocity trade agreement New Duties MARSFILLE France April 3 (2PI General Segismundo Casado minister of war in the defense council which ruled republican Spain in its last days before capitulation to the nationalists said upon arrival here Monday that he surrendered to save hundreds of thousands of lives I would do it all over he said comrades and I are content Our troops would have fought on but that would have meant only a more hopeless slaughter General Casado arrived with several other members of the republican defense council aboard the British hospital ship Maine With them were civilian refugees the entire group numbering about 170 including 40 women and eight children Buy by Comparison Thai ker Ahum Captain Thacker was accused by I the state with permitting lotteries in the vicinity of West South street and Rio Grande that he entered the places tickets were being sold but one arrest The former was charged with having policemen from other making gambling arrests Rawlings completed his statement 15 and after a half-hour Miss MacDonald took But before she could answer question the defense attorneys a motion for dismissal indictments contending other points that both Mr Mr Pearce had been in jeopardy (They were acquitted last October of a charge of prostitution earnings state argued that the October trial was of a felony indictment while the conspiracy trial only a misdemeanor The denied the motion A BUENOS AIRES April 8 The government inquiry into nazi ism in Argentina caused growing anxiety Monday amoiig German merchants who feared an anti-nazi wae now would halt abruptly their drive to replate the United States as the nation second largest trader One merchant said that if it was proved German officials participated in a purported nazi movement for colonization or annexation of Argentina Patagonia it likely would "retard our commercial gains here by a dozen years" The investigation developed only a week after Argentina announced a barter trade agreement with Germany under which Argentina would exchange 100 000 tons of surplus wheat and 8000 tons of wool for 900 railway cars and 60 locomotives Threat to Some observers predicted at the time that Germany soon might replete the United States as the second largest exporter to the Argentine and might even threaten the long-time leadership of Great Britain Five government agencies were conducting the inquiry Into the alleged German designs on gonia 257 058 square miles of potentially rich plateau in southern Argentina The German embassy Sunday denied Germany had any idea of annexing Argentine territory or had 'aggressive intentions' against Ar- st'Dlltc'' Upon to operate Second avenue while made only officer also resented divisions Mr at 3 recess the stand a made of the among Erwin and former receiving The 3938 invokes court Recorder's Miss Mayor the public in January was February Mirch 15 on Ei win When Brigham introduce to defense laws and poll Victors Start Trials in Spain FUR COATS From Our Better Stock Testimony MacDonald testified BUCHAREST April 3 Monday night welcomed Prime Minister Chamberlain's implied promise of aid in the event of aggression but officials cautiously refrained from saying any-thmg that might be construed as offensive to Adolf Hitler Officials acknowledged Rumania had been in contact with the British and French governments at the same time emphasizing also the country's friendly relations with Germany Informed circles said the greatest care was being taken to make no move in the current negotiations which could be employed by Germany to justify any action against Rumania The British offer to finance Rumanian rearmament was especially welcome since it should relieve Rumania of being almost entirely dependent on Germany for war materials The famed Skoda munitions works in former Czecho-Slovakia supplies virtually all Rumania arms Germany under a new five-year trade agreement with Rumania has promised to continue the flow of the supplies Two shipments have arrived here since the nazis took over Skoda Rumanians realize however that Germany has the power to cut off these shipments at any moment It was assumed here-British help would include credits to enghle Rumania to increase the efficiency of her defenses against any possible agression While Rumania now is bound to Germany through the trade accord officials pointed out that Bucharest had given Germany no monopolis-ic hold upun the nation and that it was anxious to increase the scope of its relations with other powers The countervailing duties of 25 per cent which the United States has ordered effective April 23 on German products will render difficult Thomsen said the completion of deals now under way for the exchange of German manufactured products for American farm goods Hull said that in the past few years Germany had diverted much trade from the United States and that the diversion was made 'solely to serve German The result he said 'was broad end decisive discrimination against American exports which now must face elaborate controls and compote with Germany barter arrangements with oilier nations trade" he continued "cannot satisfactorily fit Itself into the crevices of German need left by the barter agreements that Germany has already executed with other countries It docs not have to nor would its interest be served by doing so that Erwin was assigned to safety department early 1936 that Mr Finch appointed chief of police on 38 1936 to take office on 1916 and that he was dismissed January 21 1938 Mayor resigned on ebruary 7 1938 Assistant District Attorney I Roberts attempted to city ordinances pertaining gambling into the record the objected claiming the indictment covered violation of stale did not provide for city THIS IS OUR FINAL SWEEP! 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during the civil war It was stated in an official radio national broadcast todiy that 35 000 persons were to have been slain in Valencia during the war It was learned that falangist (fascists) military and civil investigators had taken 20 000 depositions from persons having knowledge of events in the republican regime who either were located and questioned or appeared in response to army advocate generals summons last week Evident in 600 cAes already has been prepared for hearing With more than 2000 prisoners in Madrid jails alone Eduardo Roz-dan director-general of security said Monday that nationalist agents still were 'effecting detentions among red elements idnd opening of court at 10 a both sides asked for the exclusion of all witnesses The court instructed the witnesses not to discuss their testimony with any unauthorized persons and ptrticukirly with others called to testify for either side Mr Musscr asked the court to the witnesses not to read newspiper accounts of the trial of what other witnesses have testified to charging that is the way these evaes are usually Check Claim Lcbr Agrees To Run Again NEW YORK April 4 (Tuesday) Charles Mitchell 31 and Sol Schwartz 29 who admitted abducting the 4-year-old son of Mitchells Michael Katz for $180 ransom were acquitted of kidnaping charges by a Kings county jury early Monday and were convicted of second degree assault entailing a possible prison term of two and a half to five years The jury deliberated about eight hours The defendants admitted taking the child from his nurse and holding him in a Manhattan tenement for several hours until the father gave an intermediary a $180 down payment on a $7000 ransom demand IUw lings Disagrees resent tint remark because 2 WEASEL CO ATS Formery 295 7 HUDSON SEALS Fomery 298 3 BEAVER COATS 2 OTTER COATS 6 SKUNK COATS 9 CARACUL COATS 5 JAP MINK COATS I JAP MINK COAT it- I i VAt I Government agents obtained additional documents from the home of Ernest Jurges presumably to check claim to authenticity of a note he sent President Roberto Ortiz march 20 as 'proof of nazi penetration The authorities also took along Jurges' typewriter The investigation began last week when the newspaper Noticia-s Graficns publnhod a facsimile of a purported report to the German government from a German embassy adviser which described Patagonia as a man's to which Aigentina 'had no right" (hat is not the wav uses are usually tried Mr Rawlings retorted honor his instructed them (jurors) not to pay any attention to any evidence lot given by witnesses I think vour honor would not go a fir to instruct the jurors not to rc id the uh I should not pnhitps go that far the ourt ommrnted I don think I should say what the witnesses or the jurors should oi should not rc id The question of whither the de fense attorneys were present on December 7 when District Jude He be rt Schiller set the curicnt esc fm (rial on January 3 1 11 came up Hg mi UNCLAIMED Mcii Find Blind Intended To Spread Naziism in PARIS April 3 (T) President AI bert Lebiuu bowing tu urgent requests made in view of the International situation agreed Monday to become a candidate for reelec-tion at Wednesdays national as scmbly French presidents are elected for seven years end Lebrun becomes only the eecond man in the history of the French republic to stand for reelection It was expected he would be returned to office He had planned not to run blit agreed to do so according to a semiofficial statement distributed through a French news service because of urgent requests from national leaders In view of the critical situation abroad Lebrun's reelection was declared essential It eould do away with the formality of the cabinet resignation and reformation which would be required under a new president A FEW OTHER OUSTANDING VALUES NOT LISTED Our new 5000-coat-capaci)y vault has just been completed and is modern in every respect Call Wasatch 1746 for our bonded messenger to pick up your coat It is fully insured from the time it leaves your house until it is brought back to your door When you're down town drop in to see these outstanding storage vaults Df POSITS OK FROM 5 TO SIS HAVE BFFN FORFEITED Iloubc Group Boosts Jobless Fund WASHINGTON April 3 The German American bund is described by the justice department Monday as intended to 1 perpetuate Germanism anroad Attorney General Murphy made public a report by the federal bureau of investigation on its 1937 inquiry Into the bund The 14-volume study merely described the organization and its affiliates It made no recommendations Chairman Dies (D) Texas of the house committee investigating un-American activities who had requested publication of the rc port and several members of hi3 committee had no immediate comment The report quoted a booklet used In dedicating the bunds Camp Nordlaml at Andover as saying It was onsec rated hs a little piece of German soil in intended principally as a place breathes of Iho spirit of the new Germany The booklet said the camp would be a pi where boys and girls 'shall be strengthened ami confirmed in national socialism so that they will be conscious of the role which has been assigned to them as the future carriers of German racial ideals in The justice department reported that such camps of which there were then seven In six states were 'conducted on a 24-hour schedule with struct discipline and considerable drilling hciling and calisthenics" but that there was no evidence of the use of firearms Only German was spoken at the camps all the report said the flag of the United States and the swastika are displayed and the nan salute with arms raised Hitli style Is used Among tie activities found bv investig ctnrs were distribution of anti Semitic literature and delivery of influmnalory against the Jews blaming them for communism and advocating a boycott of Jewish goods Dc pv Defense Was Absent The defense counsel told Judge that the settings were made in their absence while Mr Rawlings and Mr Roberta contend-e that the court minutes and shorthand notes proved they were present Mr Rawlings tailed Mrs Alice Pannier and Moulton district court reporters to the stand to transcribe the notes taken by the late Paul 11 Talmage on December 7 in Judge to billers court The state introduced the minute book which recorded all attorneys in attendance and maintained the continuity of the transcript showed the dc finding counsel was on hand Attorneys Musscr and Loofbou row hive filed counter affidavits that thiy were absint The matter is still undecided although the rourt indicated it wished to dispose of the question Immediately Du Art Furriers buy and sell more fur coats than all other exclusive furriers in the Inter-mountain States combined! 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