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PM a ftrto Hm Mltem SI 4 Utwib Wi jftl 4 ri cb 4 Ilk 1 -ZCM-Srctlfz Mfr tlbWsW vs ii An'-'iiii ill (t yf Ires tt 1 I Swtf' 14 SHsl wW ESS55iji-slaPFjis rvfeir- -BisWwC- jfmrv Local Metal Markets The Weather Partly cloudy Fair Fiiday I Partly cloudy Fair Friday Oo'd $35 00 Silver (domestic)' 71 lie Silver (foreign) 35125c Coopt electrolytic delivered Connecticut valley 10 50c Load 5 050 510c I oral ettlemenf Prirr Lead 5q Cupper (cathode) UQC Vol 139 No 119 Salt Lake Gty Utah Friday Morning August 11 1939 26 Pages Five Cents Finds Handwriting Tallies Crash Takes Life of Salt Lake Girl Chief To Boycott Tory Nominee Youth of Party Hear Threat At Convention iberatio Motorcycle Hits Horse North Of Tremonton Forster Hurls Defiance at Poles Asks Citizens of Nations Aligned Against CT dlf FREE CITY OF DANZIG Aug 10 The nazi leader in Danzig Albeit Foister at a vast outdoor protest meeting Thursday night hurled defiance at Poland and appealed to citizens of other nations aligned against Germany to prevent a war but gave no hint of the plans of Adolf Hitler the German fuehrer He said he had no startling disclosures to make The fiery spokesman who hastened back to Danzig Wednesday with full knowledge of Hitler's views gained in long interviews declared however that may rest Germany and the fuchier determined in the event of attack to stand at our Count Ciano of Italy Witt join In parley A Edward Heinrich handwriting expert denied story of changes in affidavit concerning activity f- i fe-4 aA jj 4 -xX- st Florida Police Hide Killer of Girl From Mob Slajer Confesses Attacking Film-Struck Miss MIAMI Fla Aug 10 UP)-Police increased their vigilance Thursday night to prevent mob violence to Charles Jefferson who confessed abducting two Miami high school girls killing one of them and holding the other prisoner for three days In gimrded senary the self-styled movie talent who played upon the theatrical ambitions of his was slipped from the Palm Beach county jail to an undisclosed prison presumably farther north in Florida Authorities checking reports of possible mob violence decided to delay arraignment of Jefferson on charges he shot and slabhed 17-year-old Ruth Frances Dunn and kept her companion Jean Bolton 19 prisoner from Monday until Wednesday night Mob Threaten Generally West Pnlm Beach and 1 the adjoining rountry were but officers said there were reports a mob would form if they left their prisoner within reach Officers would not say where Jefferson was taken but a car In which he was reported traveling passed through Fort Fierce up the Florida east coast Jefferson told ramblingly In a Signed confession how he took the girls from their Miami homes to pose for pictures that would win them screen or radio contracts He told In detail of assaulting and killing Miss Dunn and of the movements of himself and Miss Bolton for three days and nights Late Thursday night Jefferson suggested that Miss Bolton call relatives to bring them a car In which he could escape to California Summon Aid Appearing to fall In with his plan his captive walked almost two mile inlo Boca Raton and summoned an aunt who In turn summoned detectives Jeffeison who had followed the girl became alarmed nnd made off Into thp underbrush later slatting to walk northward on the main (Continue on Pace Live) oiumn 1 hrff ill Europe Girds to Meet ar Nations Talk Peace but Stand Ready By John Fvans Associated Press General Foreign Editor War Is on parade in Europe Gieat rmlitaiy machines are geared for swift battle on land on sea and in the skies Everything there is waiting waiting for what? The word of the German leader Adolf Hitler Upon his decision statesmen agree depends war or peac Strangely enough In all the war-like atmosphere the quiet voice of peace is beard among all peoples Even Hitler has proclaimed the annual nazi meeting at Nurnberg next month the "congress of peace" But meanwhile the fighting forces of Britain France Ger-manv Italy Russia and the smaller countries are on "maneuvers" or soon will be These Imaneuvers are regular affairs to train troops fleets and air forces but this autumn they are avowed to the other fellow to be careful Trouble Spots Trouble spots are everywhere Germany demands the return of Dunzig and a atrip across the Follsh corridor Biilam France and Foiand have pledged themselves to go to war Immediately against Germany lf she takes Danzig by force Italy wants French colonies In promised payment for Italian aid in the last war Germany and Italy long have sought to dominate southeastern Europe Hungary already has adheied to the German-ltahan-Japanese anti-eomintern pact nnd Geimnn economic Influence In the Balkan countries may foreshadow further political expansion there So far the conflict has been by war threats political maneuvering and propaganda but all agi ce the present tension is ex-p'osive Germany and Italy allied themselves because both were dissatisfied with the last war Afler Germany absorbed Austria o-S 1 a I a and Mcmel and after Italy had taken Albania Great Britain aroused herself With France sue sougnr me md of soviet tvcis-sins groat army and air force Russia hasn signed a contract hut the three general staffs are working together as a starter Germany has said repeatedly she doesn expect to take Dan- (Continued on Prrb Six) oiumn is Police Rescue Blind Widow OAKLAND Cal Aug 10 Police summoned by neighbors broke into a humble home today to find a 72-year-old blind woman sitting In a chair nnd weeping and In another room they camp upon the body of her 76-year-old husband who had been dead for perhaps two days Police who removed the body of Geoige Nethercott 76 nnd nr-tanged for the care of Mbs Florence Nethercolt said the elderly woman had not realized her husband had died unlit she felt of his hands enily today She was unable to summon aid hut neigh-bon vc ho had not seeq the couple since Friday notified police 1 seived nfter (he ceremony and the newlyweds then set off on a biief honeymoon In the $15 (KK) Italic especially construe ted to fullltate Suites travel The plans called for rrulsing about neighboring Oak Fnrk nnd re-t nr ning home to receive gue sts In the evening lhe young couple had kept their plans pi el much to themselves said the groom father commenting "I gins they re Just going for a trailer ride all right So far as I Know they haw I said anything to anyone abuut making a long trip" PITTSBURGH Aug 10 (P) Piesident Roosevelt bluntly informed the Young national convention Thursday night he would not support on lip-service in 1940 In a message read by Pitt Tyson Manor of Montgomery Ala retiring president of the Young Democratic Clubs of America the chief executive predicted his party would fail with a conservative candidate or "If it is led by people who can offer naught but fine phrases "If we nominate conservative candidates or lip-seiving candidates or a straddlebug he declared "I personally for my own self-respect and because of my long service to and belief in liberal democracy will find it Impossible to have any active part in such an unfortunate suicide of the old Democratic party Mr Roosevelt gave no hint as to how he felt on a third term but said he did not expect a conservative to be nominated "for I believe the convention (next year) will seo the political wisdom as well as the national wisdom of giving to the voters an opportunity to maintain the practice and the policy of moving forward with a liberal and humanitarian program Third Term Cheer Shortly after hearing the president message delegates interrupted Senator Pepper (D) Florida by rising and cheering his keynote speech when he reachech the part advocating "a third term for They did not wait to hear the senator complete his sentence "a third term for Roosevelts ideas in 191(1 Delegates booed as Pepper asserted the "king-makers of Wall Street" already had picked Governor John Bncker of Ohio for president and he believed Thomas Dewey New York district attorney for vice president Manor also read a message from James A Farley Democratic national committee chairman which said in approaching 1910 "we must bring home to the general public the fact that the only constructive leadership of this generation has come from the Democratic Preliminary Bickering Young Manor opened the three-dav meeting in spacious Duquesne garden after much preliminary bickering among factions over the organization presidency and following an interview by Senator Claude Pepper (D) Florida that and turncoat Democrats have deliberately sent their spies" here to "disrupt" the convention Former Representative John Connor of New York Roosevelt victim last year countered by saving the new deal had repiesentatives here of Thomas Corcoran young administration lawyer to see that everything "goes well for Roosevelt" Homer Mat Adams 28-year-old Illinois state official appeared to have the edge in the race for organization president to be named Saturday Pat Beaeom Hunting-ton Va another candidate withdrew during the day In the Interest of "harmony Mr Roosevelt struck out at "Republican and Democratic reactionaries who "want to undo what we have accomplished in these last few years and return to the unrestricted Individualism of the previous century If Republican and Dornoc ratic conservatives admit" he Raid 'that all of our recent policies are not wrong and that many of them should be 'but their eyes are on the present they give no thought for the future and thus without meaning to are failing to solve even current sorial nnd economic problems by declining to consider the needs of tomorrow" Yaluo of Radical Ho said radical of all kinds "have some use to humanity bemuse they have at hast the imagination to think up many kinds of ansvvrts to problems even though tin ir answers are wholly Impure tii able of fulfillment In the Immediate adding on the other hand are those who unlike the radii nls who want to tear up eveijthlng by the roots nnd plant new and untried serds desire to use the existing plants of civilization to select the best of them to water (him and make them not only for the pn sent use of mnnkmd hut also lor the use of gi rations to come Is why I call nivself a liberal nnd that Is why even If we go by the mmlirn contraption of polls of piddle opinion an over-vi hi lining majority of younger men and women throughout the tilted Mates are on the llhetnl ldc of things Asserting rei ent rvinl 'have di nionst rated thn necessdy of a ll onllt t-i on Four ICohnnn fc x) Reich to A ert War As for Danzig he asseited the free city was prcpaied to defend its rights Us blood (Responsible quarteis In Warsaw said the speech In no way changed fundamental questions at Issue despite Us "harsh tone and decidedly anti-Polish chaiacter" and that Us general tone indicated Hitler had not yet decided on any definite move Huge Gathering Forster spoke in a huge gathering amid the spotlights loudspeakers and color of a typical nn1 rally with the old nazi refrain people one relch one ringing in his ears Sound trucks wound through Danzig nairow streets to make sure of the huge turnout Nazis estimated 40000 persons many of them uniformed storm stood In the square before Forster and that 60000 others weie gathered under loudspeakers in other squares and communities of Free City territory But if Forster gave no hint of plans he left no doubt of nls ultimate intentions "The Danzig population" declared "believes implicitly that the hour of liberation is coming and that the free city will return to the relch A enerate Fuehrer "The Dnnziger looks with especial veneration upon their fuehrer Adolf Hitler of whom they are convinced that he will fulfill their wish and theieby again give the right of self-detennlnation that plnre which has been denied it in 1910 "My beloved Danigers in this hour we cannot do anything better than to pledge solemnly to stick together tome what may that we shall ward off every attack upon this sacred soil determinedly with the weapons at our hands and that we shall execute every command of our fuehrer unquestioningly Not Far Distant "Mav the day not be far distant when we convene here not for a protest meeting hut to celebrate the reunion of Danzig with the reich F'orster protest was a violent attack on Folish newspapers and officials for threatening to "shoot Danzig to with artillery if she persists her course of wishing incorporation Into Germany and for making other threats Loud "pfuis greeted his barbs at Poland But his mam theme was an Indirect appeal to citizens of Britain France and the United States to recognize that "Danzig is German Quote 8 Press The argument to which he returned again and again was that there was no sense In sending English and F'renc youths into battle to save Danzig for Poland when in cording to the Cermnn contention the city belongs historically and hv choice to Germany He quoted nuinv leading Flnglish-mc and nglish and American newspapers to the effect that the Dnnig cause ts just lhe nazi crowd received the thrust with gnat enthusinsm Obviously good humored It gietted with repeated outbursts of laughter Foisters sallies at and "cultural Inferioritv Horrified Crowds Sec Fliers Die HYANNTs Mass Aug 10 Thin full view of hundred of horrified bather two men perished 1 hursday In the plunge of an airplane Into Nani ui kc sound a mile off raigv llle be nc Police Identified the victim as Frank Carlson 35 Hviinms garage man who obtained a pnvate pilots license last week and IUi h-aid hlimm 22 garage mechanic a pas i ngi Wreckage of the plane containing the hodic as he ated hy small boats wlmh sped to the crash scene towed It to Squaw Island nearest point of lamb Chief of Nazi Army Boasls War Readiness Prepared lo Slaml Test of Strength He Tells Germany BERLIN Aug 10 Germany through the chief of her army Thursday declared herself ready to "stand the test even if serious days should come Colonel General Walltr von Brauchitsch laid down that theme of preparedness as the foreign ministers of Germany and Italy Joachim von Ribbentrop and Count Galeazzo Ciano prepared to meet Friday afternoon In Salzburg The City of Danzig which Reichsfuehrer Hitler demanded be returned to Germany loomed as the greatest topic of the talks although authoritative quarters said "the whole gnmut of the international situations" affecting Italy nnd Germany would be discussed (In Rome foreign circles looked to Count Ciano to urge a peaceful settlement of Germany claims to Danzig Addresses Natiorj Y'on Brauchitsch army chief of staff spoke to the entire nation In an address broadcast from Duesseklorf He stood on a tank flanked by two cannons before workmen in the gigantic munitions works of Rhein-Motall i company There he gave Germans "the sacred that "never will the fuehrer frivolously risk the lives of Germans "If he went on "the lime should come that the fuehrer will demand our last and highest snerlTUc we may no sure mac there was no other way and that this demand is an irrevocable necessity Gorjnany will not be intimidated With Ciano nnd Von Ribbentiop when they meet In castle the German statesman's Rummer haunt will be Bernardo Atto-lico Italian ambassador to Berlin Besides Jhe question of Danzig the axis attitude toward Japan was included in the problems for discussion Dure I avor Restraint The possibility that Japan might he drawn Into a military alliance with Germany and Italy at an onOt Uii on PfiB Bix rlunin Tw Young Turns Up Alive CORNING Cal Aug 10 UD-James William Lawirnre 22 for whom funeral arrangements had been made In Vincennes Ind was alive nnd well Wednrsdnv His exact whereabouts were unknown Fndny hut he was believed cn route to visit his mother In n-cennes Monday Mrs Faina Lawrence received a tele gram from Commerce Texas saying her son had been killed hy a tintn But wlnn lhe body reached uuennes she saw it was that of on older man of the same name Young Lnwrcme was In Corning Wednesday John (Talk Coining drug store proprietor said he ashed the check tie turd lee civic! for picking peaches at the Mis Find Wlgno on hard (lark iud I awn me told him he was leaving fin home at once and Ural he was going hy vwrv of Yellowstone National palk 1 aw rem had In living In an auto camp nl Kid I lull while picking pc ac hi raised to 79 Thursday night when a Salt Lake City girl was killed eight miles north of Tremonlon when the motorcycle she was riding crashed Into a horse The mishap left a Salt Lake City man in critical condition at a Tremonton hospital Another Salt Lake City youth was in serious condition at a St George hospital as a result of an automobile accident which occurred early Thursday morning about two miles east of Washington Box First 1939 Fatality TREMONTON-Frances Calder 19 of Salt Lake City was killed Instantly and her companion Edgar Stowe 19 also of Salt Lake City was injured gravely Thursday at 9 43 when their motorcycle driven by Stowe crashed into a horse eight miles north of Ire monton It was Box Elder county's first traffic fatality of 1939 Miss Calder and Stowe were members of a four-motorcycle party of seven persons who were returning from a trip to Yellowstone park Leading the group the motorcycle driven bv Stowe was first to strike the stray animal Another motor driven by Kenneth Halls 18 of Ogden and carrying Frank Brown 19 also of Ogden was following close behind and also crashed into the horse and the wreckage of the first vehicle Miss Calder's skull was crushed and officers said she died Instantly (Continued on Pace Flcht) (Column Three) Strike Averted In Denver Packing Plant ljimnV lun Aug 75 An ment on a production speed dispute Thursday averted a strike of approximately 300 CIO workers at the Armour and compnnv packing plant Under the agreement 51 men dismissed at noon when they protested production speed requirements will return to work Friday with two additional men repotted John Gibbons plant superintendent The settlement was reached soon after the Facking House Workers Organizing committee in Chicago aut homed a strike by all Denver Armour and company employes affiliated with the United Facking House Workers "Thirty-six men in the beef killing crew wore required to handle 40 head of cattle an hour the same production as demanded with three more men" said bred Ilefferly national CIO repte-sentative who negotiated the settlement with Thomas I yuan general llcffeilv cleclaied the union men weie entirely satisfied with the agreement that two more men he added to the hoof crew wilh the same production requnement the preseme of a small gathering of intimates before a fireplace clinped with whitp and decorated with flowers Suite lay full length In the hoik type linn lung In whit he has slrpt and rested most of the tmip sinte tie spring of FH6 7 lie bride stood beside him clad In knee length while chiffon die ss She nrried 01 bids lhe groom observed his twen-tv ninth Imthdav anniversary Julv 11 the bride is 5 A wedding breakfast vv a crt Gives Views in Bridges Case Sajs Witness Changed Own Affidavit SAN FRANCISCO Aug 10 UP1-A noted handwriting expert testified 1 hursday at the Harry Bridges deportation trial that an "adverse" witness who claimed his affidavit had been altered had made the changes himself 1 he witness Edward Heinrich of Berkeley Cal brought his powerful microscope and laboratory materials to the Angel Island hearing and after extensive tests took the witness stand Heinrich was subjected to a critical cross-examination by government officials John Leech a house painter of Portland Ore had testified that a communist party delegation at Los Angeles had coerced him into signing an affidavit which stated Bridges as not a communist party member but that Leech had been offered as much as $10000 to say the Australian-born CIO labor Bridges has denied he is a communist The government is attempting to deport him on the grounds he is a member and that the party teaches violent overthrow of government Heinrich contradicted Leech's chnrge that someone else had changed his affidavit Lecih had been asked to write "Now Is the time for all good men to eome to the aid of their party Ileinriih was asked whether the handwriting charai teristics were the same in all rases "It is mv opinion they were written by the same the witness replied 1 he defense asked subpenas be (Continued on Pajre Igftt) (Column Live) Japan Detains Citizens SHANGHAI Aug 10 CD-United States authorities felt fresh alarm Thursday for the safety of 30 Americans In Knlfeng ns the result of anti-American demonstrations In the Honnn province capital A irjptlc message was received hv the United Stntes embassy In Chungking saving the Americans had been detained for undisclosed reasons Reports brought by a courier who slipped through the Japanese lines late Saturday had said the Americans were rendy for flight from Kalfeng bee ause of unfriendly demonstrations In the Japnnese-controiled city Hankow consular list indicated there wire 30 American In Kalfeng Including lr Catholic nuns nnd four prlrsts 'lhe rest were believed to be missionaries nttarhed to the Southern Baptist and American tree Methodist missions TOIOO Aug 11 (Frldnyl UP) -Pri pninlmn were made Friday to speed a resumption of Anglo Japanese negotiations growing out of Japans Idockade of lientslns foreign concessions Joarhnn von Rihhentrop Germany' emissary Fire in Boise Perils 500 Million Loss BOISE Aug 10 UP) I ivc hun- Itynv mm Thursday night when a fire that caused an cstinialcd loss of $1 000-000 destrnved the Fnoview boxing arena a lumber yard and a warehouse containing $750 000 worth of civilian conservation corps equipment The i onflngtntinn hioko out In the Stone I umber company yaids immediately adjoining the arena shoitly after 10 30 nnd for marly an hour menaced huge near-by gasoline storage tanks Fire Chief Frank Pulaski who called all of the citys fire fighting apparatus and fire men into action announced at 11 30 that the hlne apparently was under control FTiemcn vcerc unable to determine Immediately the cause of the blaze Lieutenant Colonel tones commander of the western Idaho-eastern Oiegon CCC district estimated that fcdernl government equipment costing $750 OO0 was dost roved He said none of the government property was insured the st i net tire was owned hv Mrs Ilivnnt of Boise sister of Henrv Ford Detroit Mich automobile manufacturer and her son m(i 1 it igh( i oiumn 1 hr i Young F'red epitomized the days esptilencfs with the racll-nnt decimation 'lye got a new boss now and I in yery happy The hilde tall nnd slender posed graciously for photographers chatted with her new fat lr r-ln law and re plied to qm s-lions with an acknowledgment that she hnd been In love with Fled for some time nnd Ihnt 'he gave me the ring In Florida Inst Inter lire nun Huge hnd not In err Upon Impulse the senior Suite said Imt had hr il planned by the pilmipnls for some time Wealthy 'Iron Lung Marries Prelly Ohio Brunelle Starts Brief Honeymoon in $15000 Trailer CHICAGO Aug 10 martini by the Rev Monl-Snitp Jr who lias lived In "iron son In the largo living room in I I ITf I Is A ICO A 4 I aa i A 1 I 1 fc for three and yems four months mairled Thursday a pretty brunette who cheered and comforted hun during his valorous struggle to shake off the shac kies of Infnntlle pnralvsls The unheralded ceremony-It surprised some relatives nnd amazed fi lends the smiting "Boiler had made on three tem-tlnents-KMs performed in the home of Suite hnnker father In suburban River orest Young Suite and Miss 7 eressn Larkin of Dayton Ohio wer.