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

Local Melal Markets Gold $35 00 Silver (domestic) 71 lie Sliver (foreign! 3475e Copper electrolytic delivered Connecticut Valley 11125c Lead 5-505C Altlrmnt Print Lead 5 45c Copper (cathode) 11 217 Vol 110 No 123 Salt Lake City Utah Wednesday Morning February 1 1 19 10 22 Five Cents Tile WeathV Fair Wednesday Idaho Showers or snows Wyoming Snow flurries Nevada Showers or snows Declines Honor Finns Appeal to World for Aid US Votes Loan of $20000000 Record Naval Bill Reaches Floor of House Group Pares Fund for Ship Building GOP of Utah Will Greet Dewey Today Candidate for Presidency to Confer in Detrey Schedule in Utah 3:45 a Arrive Ogden- and deliver short speech from train platform 9:17 a Arrive Layton for brief platform appearance 9:55 a Arrive Union Fa-clflc station In Salt Lake City 10: Id a Pres conference Newhouse hotel 11 a Conference with party leader Newhouae hotel a Conference with representative medical profei-ftion 13:10 Organ recital tabernacle 1 ni Organlratlon liinrhcon New house hotel 2:50 Conference with young Republirana 2:50 Conference with livestock and agricultural repre-aentativea 5:10 Conferenee mining representatives 5:30 ni Conference labor leaden 5:50 Conference business representatives 4:10 Rest period 5:15 to 7:30 Public reception Newhouae hotel Senate Dicliards Lose in Fight To Kill Measure 27-49 Would Also Grant China Cash Legislation Provides for Increasing Export-Import Bank Lending Authority by Stun of $100000000 i WASHINGTON Feb 13 Voting 49 to 27 the senate Tuesday approved legislation to make possible additional loans of $20000000 each to Finland and China The bill passed over the protest of a group which heatedly contended that the action was an for later loans to Great Britain and France now goes to the house Without naming either Finland China the legislation would in- Savage Intensity Of Red Drive Stressed in Plea AH Strategic Furls Recaptured From Russians Says Helsinki Defenders Ask for Men Material By Wade Werner HELSINKI Feb 13 (AP) supreme command late Tuesday night declared that the 13-day struggle in he red-brown snows of the Mannerheim line "surpasses in intensity even the most strenuous battles of the World and proclaimed Finnish resistance still unbroken but called on the "civilized nations of the for (juick help military The statement of the Ayes and Noes Of Senate on Loan to Finns WASHINGTON Feb JS Here 1 the vote by which the senate approved a $100000000 increase in funds for the export-import hank to facilitate additional loans to inland and China: For the hill 49 Democrats for Andrews Ash-urst Bankhead Barkley Bilbo Brown Burke Byrnes Chandler Clark of Idaho Green Guffey Hatch Hayden Herring Hill Hughes Johnson of Colorado King Lee Maloney Mc-Kellar Mead Miller Minton Murray Neely Radcliffr Schwartz Schwellen-hach Sheppard Smathers Stewart Ty dings Magner Walsh S3 Republicans for Austin Bar-hour Davis Frazier Gibson Hale McNary Townsend 9 Farmer Labor for Ship-stead 1 Progressive for I a Fol-lette 1 Against the hill 27 Demorrats against Adam Bulow Chavez Connally George Gerry Gillette Harrison Holt McCarran O'Mahoney Reynolds Russell Smith Thomas of Oklahoma Van Nuys 16 Republican against Capper Danaher Gurney Johnson of California Ixlge Reed Taft Thomas of Idaho Hey 9 Independent against Norris 1 Farmer Labor against Lun-deen I Fairs were announced a follows: landenberg Republican for and Clark of Missouri Democrat against Truman Democrat for and Donahry Democrat against Byrd Democrat for and Holman Republican position unannounced Ambassador Joseph Kennedy Declines presidential bid Kennedy Puts Damper on Presidency Bid Envoy Refuses Declaring Job More Important WASHINGTON Feb 13 UP) Joseph Kennedy flatly refused Tuesday night to enter the presidential race derlaring that his job of ambassador to England in these times of strife matters so piecious to the American people" that his energies should not be diverted Only a short time before friends of the Bostonian had announced that a slate of delegates pledged to him would be entered in the Massachusetts Democratic presidential primary April 30 Nomination papers for such pledged delegates were taken out by John McCarthy Boston attorney who said Kennedy would file the authorization necessary under Massachusetts law Will Not File But Kennedy financier and business man who long has been prominently identified with the Roosevelt administration made plain that he would not file the authorization He said paramount consideration of public duly compels me to decline to permit my name to be Kennedy held a long conference with President Roosevelt during the day but said they did not discuss politics and the president at his press conference later disclaimed any knowledge of Kennedy's statement regarding the Massachusetts primary There had been a flurry of speculation during the dav as to why Kennedy's name was being entered Some political onlookers thought the aim might be to as-sure that President Roosevelt would get the Massachusetts delegation In case he sought a third term Others argued that if that was the desire the move was unneces- (ConllmiH on Pan To) 4 (Column Thief) Roosevelt Hies To Sea Today WASHINGTON Feb 13 (AV-President Roosevelt will leave Washington Wednesday on whnt he called an annual trip but his destination remained a mystery He Is going to get on a boat he said at a press conference but he did nol know definitely yet at what port he would embark The trip will last about 10 days He (iid not diloxe either what ship he would use but indicated It would he a naval vessel The cruiser Tusc aloosa which took him on a cruise last summer still Is in the Atlantic Thete was general expectation aiound the White House that Mr Roosevelt would Journey southward toward warmer weather and try to get In some fishing as he has done In midwinter In previous years WASHINGTON Feb 13 UD-A bill providing $966772878 for the a record peacetime appropriation despite a slash of $111-699699 below President Roosevelt's started through the house Tuesday amid warnings that to guard its wealth the United States must have greater naval power than any other nation While cutting deeply into estimates for ship construction ordnance and naval aircraft the appropriations committee urged that the projected battleships and new cruisers be restudied with a view to making them the most powerful in the world The committee also recommended a $1000000 start on a harbor project for the Pacific outpost of Guam near Japan The navy's proposed development of the island aroused a storm of controversy last year For Warships Of $28628021 lopped from the shipbuilding program all but $5522521 was for four 45000-loh battleships and four new cruisers First funds for two of the capital which be the navy's and two of the rruisers were provided last year The committee said plans for all eight still could be changed to make them bigger adding that under present plans they would be practically the same as to speed armor and guns as ships now being built abroad President Roosevelt told his press conference he hoped the battleship funds would be restored Meanwhile he signed a deficiency bill providing $252340776 for defense and neutrality functions of the navy army coast guard and federal bureau of Investigation In the current fiscal year To Analyse BUI Presenting the drastically curtailed bill to the house as a "byproduct of the unrest In international affairs" and not "a product of Chairman Srrug-ham (D) Nevada of the naval appropriations subcommittee de-(Continued on Pace Two) i Column Hix Press Apology Due Black Roosevelt Says WASHINGTON Feb 13 UP) President Roosevelt Bssetted Tuesday that he thought that the press should offer a modicum of apology for some of the things it had said In the last few years about Associate Justice Hugo Black of the supreme court lie was asked at a press conference whether he cared to supplement praise expressed bv the press for Black's defense of civil liberty The reference was to Black's delivery Monday of a supreme court decision setting aside a death penalty against four Florida negroes on the ground that confessions had been obtained by third degree methods Mr Roosevelt declared that some of the press had given Black praise Then he added his suggestion for an apology While he did not explain what he referred to there was celticism at the time Black was given his supreme court appointment The former Alabama senator had ad mitted that at one time he had been a member of the Ku Klux Klan Acting LCC Director Called by President WASHINGTON Feb 11 DD -James McEntee acting director was called to the White House Tuesday leading to the belief that President Roosevelt vfould announce shortly his appointment as permanent head of the agency McEntee was assistant to Robert Fochner until the latter's death recently the management of a herd of her cattle Her petition Is based on charges of desertion and misconduct She also has demanded the return of her cattle and an accounting of the management Big Sorrel Horse has asked for dismissal of the rase Both Indian are residents of the Blood reservation south of here NLRB Lobby Moves Stir Legality Probe Jackson Asked For Opinion WASHINGTON Feb 11 (2D House investigators referred testimony regarding lobbying activities of the labor relations board to Attorney General Robert Jackson Tuesday for an opinion as to whether a violation of federal law was Involved Chairman Smilh (D) Virginia of the house committee investigating the board told reporters this action was not taken with the Idea of prosecuting board members but to provide a warning to government agencies The decision to ask Jackson's opinion came after Edmund Toland its counsel had presented evidence that emploves of the board telegraphed union officials and others In 1937 and 1918 Urging them to appeal to members of congress against proposed reductions In board appropriations There was evidence also that members of the board had invited witnesses to appear before a sen ate committee considering Wagner act amendments which the board opposed and that It had Instructed its regional directors to Interview prospective witnesses and tell them how to arrange for appearances Toland called the committee's attention to a federal law forbidding use of any money appropriated by congress to pay for personal service telegrams or letters intended to Influence members of congress Violators were subject he said to fines of not more than $500 Imprisonment for not more than one year or both The request for a ruling by the attorney general shared attention with charges by committee counsel that Warren Madden chair- (Conti't'iM mi Thre) i Column Tlurr Bankers Urged To TIil NEW YORK Feb 11 UPl-Im-piovement of public relations was urged upon bankers Tuesday bv two colleagues addressing the midwinter trust conference of the American Bankers' association li Harris vice president of Central National bank Cleveland told the delegates they should de-yelnp "personal relations' with customeis lo retain trust account business Robert Hanes Winston-Salem hanker and president of the association in explaining why the A A spends $50000 an-nually to "educate! the said 1 tie time has come when hankers should no longer sit silently hv and a opt the abuse which has been heaped upon them and whlrh takes the form principally of describing us as changers Some hearers recalled that last Saturday Roosevelt in an address to the American Youth congress used the phrase "When everybody was money mad when the money changer weie In the temple" crease the lending authority of the export-import bank by $100000-000 and permit it to extend further credit grants to a maximum of $20000000 for any one country The money would be used for the purrhase of non-military supplies in this country Reject Amendments In the course of the dehate the senate rejected two one by Senator Taft (R) Ohio to rut the proposed Increase in lending authority to $50000000 and a second by Senator Danaher R) Connecticut to forbid the bank to make loans to governments Meanwhile the senate foreign relations committee received from Secretary Hull a letter opposing the application of the neutrality act to the undeclared war between China and Japan Although the letter's contents ere not made public the administration Is known to feel that invoking the act would help Japan and hurt China At the same time the senate banking committee postponed action on a proposal that the treasury abandon its program and policy of purchasing foreign silver A subcommittee had approved the proposal but many committeemen felt that the views of the state and treasury departments should be studied befoie action was taken George Takes Iead Senntor George (D) Georgia look a leading part in the opposition to the Finnish proposal (ContlniiM on Psee Five) Column ftix I VdamsDefemls Bill lo Ban Foreign Sil er WASHINGTON Frh 11 UT1-Scnator Adams (D) Colorado said a mensure to repeal the authority of the president and treasury secretary to buy foreign silver would have no effect on western mining The bill was approved Tuesday hy senate hanking subcommittee but was held up by the full committee because It Involved foreign policy "With the domestic price fixed by statute (at 7111 cents an Adam said ''there could be no effect on our domestic producers only possible thing would be a psychological reaction if the world price for silver dropped fnr below our domestic price Then there could be gome complaint thnt we were paying too high a price domestically In view of the world market but I consider thnt Adams explained thnt the original foreign purchnso authority granted with domestic purr have powers In the Pittman bill of 1911 was Intended to help the producers of la country hy helping the world price Now however with the domestic price set through an Adams amendment passed at the last session he addl'd thnt no further necessity for foreign purchase existed "Producers are assured" he said the 7111 price and If Ue foreign price rises ahove that figure they may take advantage of the world market" lAHiixinnna Sentenced MONROE Ia'Feh 11 UD-George Caldwell former lupeiin-tendrnt of construction at Louisiana State university entered a plea of guilty to using the mails to defraud and wa lentenced to four year In the federal penitentiary at Atlanta by Judge Ben Dawkins In federal coutl here today headquarters climaxed announcement of Finnish counterattacks which it was slated had resulted In the capture of all strategic forts occupied by the Russians during the furious struggle With It too came the news of new and say age attacks by Russian bombers on cities behind the lines Culture Center Hit The center of Porvoo pleasant little seat of Finnish culture near Helsinki was gutted by flames from Incendiary and explosive bombs Tuesday night 1 saw 28 buildings burning In the town's business district Up to midnight two dead wer reported In the day's bombings over southern Finland These besides Porvoo hit Laati Heinola Sortavala and Vl'purl the latter two in the war zone (Russia's nightly military communique announced that 23 more Finnish forts were captured on Tuesday for a total of 84 of these positions taken in the last five days The same communique Insisted the Finnish counter-attacks although conducted by large forces hac been thrown back with heavy loies Detailing the tremendous scope of the fighting on the Karelian Isthmus for the first time the high command said: "The series of battles may be called something like the 'Sunims comparable to the Somme and Verdun but despite the fact the soviet men are falling by the thousands and tens of thousands we need help In all men material especially of The statement told of heaps" of Russian dead before their lines and said the red army had lost from 30000 to 50000 dead and wounded and 200 tanks In three or four day On one day the statement asserted the Russians fired 300000 shells For the first time the Finns described 70-ton Russian tanks saying one of these employed In a battle at Summa had been crippled and forced to return to the soviet lines The artillery battle continued Tuesday night on Its 24-hour-a-dny schedule And over the snowy plateaus of the Mannerheim line turned dirty and red-brown from blood of the dead and wounded the slithering of Infantry and the crawling of tanks jmlrols felt out one another's lines for new attacks Wednesday Reticent on Own Dead The Finns were reticent concerning their own losses A Finnish officer questioned on this point said "We can tell you the Finnish losses are exceedingly small and you will find It hard to believe But aie losses are small Our men know how to conceal themselves" Answering assault with assault the Finns reported uccessful advances In three of the most bloodily contested Isthmus areas the Summa sector the shore of Lake Muloln and at Talpale on the western shore of Inke Ladoga No positions "of Iniportanre" remained In Russian hands It wa said 'The Mannerheim line Itself still holds" A few outlying machine gun nest are the only former Finnish positions remaining In aovtet hands Finnish command added are of no Importance" First Aclmlulon The communique wa the first admission by the Finn that they had from aoma of their teel and concrete position Lata Sunday the military irvld IConlueiM nn Ct JTlvt) Finland Battle May Decide Fate of World Reds Stake Hopes "On Cracking Mannerlicini Line By Kirke Simpson Associated Fres Staff Writer A battle on which the destiny of Europe and the world may turn has been raging nearly two weeks on the narrow front of the Karelian isthmus and its outcome Is still in doubt Conflicting Finnish and Russian ersions of hat is happening along that vital Mannerheim line make it extremely difficult to estimate Ihp Russian chance of breaking through Yet all tha accounts serve to emphasize the fact that the greatest pitched battle yet fought either of two years is neaiing a crisis In Finland Its outcome may serve to reshape the Russo-Finnish conflict and merge It into the war between Germany and the Franco-British allies The Russians are attempting at any cost to break through the front of less than 50 miles that spans the Karelian isthmus Such an attempt was predicted when the Initial Russian attack on Finland by land sea and air was stalled ail along a front of nearly a thousand miles from the Gulf of Finland to the Finnish Arctic coast Nowhere else lay as good a possibility of quirk reorganization and (Continued on Pan Tour) (Column Fouri British iVirmcn Strafe Bomber LONDON Feb 13 UPt-The air ministry announced three Spitfire fighters British planes made "effective hits" on a German Heinkel bomber at the mouth of the Thames river despite fading light Tuesday In a 14-OOO-foot dive attack "Daylight already was fading when three British fighters sighted a raider ldoo feet Hbove them" the communique said "When the raider saw them he at once began a long twisting dive tow a i a pate of i louds far behind him "The thiee Spit files followed firing In turn as they dived As fast as the raider eluded the fire of one another was ready to take Up the attack Several bursts of fire took effei in Russian Right to Jaw The lieutenant Just arrived on a brief leave from the Summer front hauled off and landed a haymaker on the major' Jaw Someone Intervened quickly explained the major' Identity and the reason for the Russian-phrased apology The lieutenant apologized profoundly The major tubbed hi chin Republican leaders Tuesday predicted an ourpouring of party members such as has not been witnessed In Utah since the rise of the new deal when Presidential Candidate Thomas Dewey of New York arrives Wednesday morning for an all-day schedule of conferences luncheons and receptions State Chairman David Wilson reported that all available space for the party organization luncheon had been reserved and that requests for additional reservations were still coming In Tuesday night The widely publicized district attorney will make his first public appearance in this state at 8:45 a In Ogden He is scheduled to make a brief and informal speech from the rear platform of the train there and young Republicans of Weber county have made arrangements for a rousing welcome demonstration Also at Layton Another platform appearance will be made at Layton He will be greeted at the Union Pacific sta-Iton in Salt Lake City by party leaders rank and file Republicans city officials and 50 attractive girls The trip from the station to the New house hotel will be made with Mayor Ab Jenkins in the letters Mormon Meteor III racing automobile In which the mayor has established numerous speed records on Bonneville gait plats Soon after his arrival at the New house Mr Dewey will hold a press conference and then plunge into a busy program of conferences and functions which will conclude with a public reception from 513 to 7:30 One of the major events of the day will he an organization luncheon at 1 at which Mr Dewey -Is expected to make a talk The scheduled speaker for this occasion Is William Murray Republican state chairman of New York and a member of the Dewey party To Attend Luncheon Chairman Wilson said that this luncheon would be attended by party workers from every county in the state The presidential aspirant will devote most of the afternoon to conferences with various such as agricultural representatives mining men business men and iabor leaders The purpose of these conferences according to advance Information from the Dewey headquarteis will he to give these Interests an oppoitumty to present their problems and views on how to solve them In other words Mr Dewey hopes to get a cross section view of Intermountain conditions and wants to listen rather than talk at these conferences The biggest event of the day fiom the standpoint of the general public will he the public re option beginning at 515 Ohnirman Wilson emphasized Tuesday that everyone- Republicans Demorrats and Indepondents-are Invited to meet Mr Dewey at the reception While no speeches are scheduled for this function It Is possible that Mr Dewey may be Induced to talk briefly and informally A delegation will hoard the (rain at Ogden and accompany Mr Dewey and his party to this city This group will be headed by Chairman Wilson and Mrs Earl A Davis slate vice chairman Finn Dcfout CJnitnod By Tribune Leased Wlte NEW YORK Feb 13 An announcement thnt Suninn a village within (he Mannerheim defenses had fallen to the Rus-lnns was picked up Tuesday night front a German short-wave broadcast by a Columbia Broadcasting system listening station The broadcast quoted a Swedish newspaper Police Rescue Negro Women Seized by Mob SNOW HILL Md Feb 14 (Wednesday) UP) Five state troopers overtook a crowd estimated officially at 1000 at near-by Stockton Md early Wednesday and In a brief melee rescued two women who had been dragged from the Worcester county lail hoie several hours earlier The women had been taken Into custody Tuesday afternoon for "Investigation" in connection with the Sunday night slaving of Harvey Pilchard Stockton farmer and the wounding of his wife Annie The rescue patty started Immediately toward Delaware about 50 miles distant and announced the women would be brought to Baltimore fnr safe-keeping Sergeant II Weber of the state police was painfully injured when the rrM lie party dashed with the crowd Governor Herbert Conor announced from Annapolis' The governor said he had received a report that Weber battered on the head with a club managed to load the women In an automobile and drive away 'I he governor said an official report to his office placed the crowd at HXH) Police said the women were not mlstiented at any time and that the crowd bought them food and dot hing "in an effort to get them to tell about Pilchard slaying '1 he crowd dispersed after the resi lie and police Indicated the situation was under control with mnfem enients ordered by the governor arriving It was repotted that one mem tier of the crowd was shot In the leg and another tuffered head Injuries Major Says II Finn Says It Willi HELSINKI Feb 13 UI1 -The Russian rant tell Major Frank llayne United States military attache heir a thing about the fury of a Finn with hi dander the major got a hand sample Tuesday night Major llayne until a few months ago assistant military attache In Moscow bumped Into a Finnish lieutenant during Ihe htpc korit and abicent mlndedly apologized in Uuscuan Lily Big Sorrel Horse Asks Divorce Spoils Record in Alberta LETHBRIDGE Alta Feb 11 For the lit at time In the history of the Alberta supreme court here an Indian has fllsd petition for divorce Lily Big Sorrel Horse seeks a divoice from Big Sorrel Horse who has denied her rlaini that Ihry were married according to blood tribal rite Lily In her petition nftld that after the mar- rings she entrusted hint with I jBlat Sink British Tanker LONDON Feb 13 (ITt The Biltlsh tanker Triumph 8501 ton sank In the North ca following an explosion It wa announced Tuesday.