The Ogden Standard-Examiner from Ogden, Utah • 1

Sixty-eighth No 271 THIS ASSOCIATED PRESS THE UNITED PRESS OGDEN CITY UTAH WEDNESDAY EVENING MARCH 23 1938 LAST EDITION Few 5 Draw Blame Italy Threatens Wa On Fran If HOUSE GROUP ASKS RECORD ARMY OUTLAY Requests Nearly One-Half Billion For Second Defense Arm Do For She Enters Spat President Backs Up Ouster Of TVA Chairman Too Little Sympathy For Lower Third Georgians Told Organ Sounds Blunt Warning To Paris NEAR WAR FIGURE INQUIRY LOOMING Air Corps Would Receive One-Fourth of Huge Allowance HITS FEUDALISM ROME HAS FETE TWO MORE FACE PLOT CHARGES IN LEVINE CASE High School Youth Native German Nabbed For Extortion Note Jackson Says Has Power Of Removal Sounds Warning Note To Recalcitrant Congress Anniversary Of First Blackshirt Move Celebrated Mil WASHINGTON March 23 (AP) The house appropriations committee asked congress today to provide more money for the army than it has in 18 years The sum $447808555 for the fiscal year beginning July 1 was $32545000 more than the current year and only $30754000 short of the figure for 1920-21 when the army of occupation still was in Germany The recommendation was below the budget bu estimates but included al most all the money President Roosevelt asked Approximately one-fourth the total appropriation $124000 000 would go to the air corps The committee increased the national guard appropriation $1 355737 to provide an expansion in enrollment from 200000 to 205000 on April 1 1939 The committee also recom mended that the mili tary training camp appropriation remain at $2275000 i n-Mr NEW ROCHELLE March 23 (UP) Two young men were arrested here today and accused of extortion in connection with the kidnaping of 12-year-old Peter Levine The youths handcuffed to each other were taken to police headquarters in the custody of Conroy former Ogden Utah man and federal bureau of investigation agent in charge of the kidnaping investigation ONE SCHOOL STUDENT They were identified by po-ice as Edward John Penn 18 on North Pelham a senior in the Pelham high school and Werner Fred Luck 23 unemployed a native of Germany married and the father of one child Both were booked on charges of attempted extortion at JNew Rochelle police headquarters The arrests brought to three the number of arrests since the Not Viewed As Hopeful CITIZEN SAFETY ASKED BY POPE FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT AND CROWD is akin to ROME March The Fascist party newspaper Tevere today warned France not to intervene openly on the side of the Spanish loyalists unless she was ready to face a big war Coincident with this warning Premier Benito Mussolini told a cheering crowd of Fascist black-fjphirts that the country was for peace but would fight if necessary and would win 'HOLDS GOOD France decides to play game all the way she will find someone who holds good cards to play a good said the Tevere article France seizes this occasion for a coup let her be ready to face other coups If France moves a finger over the frontier there will be a general movement If France loses her head nobody can say where and when Vhe will find it As this warning appeared Mussolini was addressing his blackshirts from a balcony of his Palazzo Venezia THE is one of rejoicing and glory for blackshirts and the Italian he said years ago the first Italian fasces of combat were created The Continued on Page 2 Col 1) Gun Toter Gets Ride In Lieu Of Jail Term Harry Mebus Nabbed After Alleged Threats On Life To Texas CONGRESS TENSE OVER TVA MOVE Reorganization Debate Lags As Witnesse Spurns Subpena But Powers Continue War Preparations MADRID March (UP) The central and northwestern areas of Madrid suffered the most severe shelling in seven weeks today The ex tent of casualties was hotde- termined immediately Batter ies on the Loyalist front re plied vigorously HARRY MEBUS 49 of 2446 Grant a switchman will leave town tonight with an official of police who have instructions that he board a late train for El Paso Texas He was given a 180-day siis- Levine boy son of Murray Le vine New York Cty attorney was kidnaped Feb 24 and held for $30000 ransom Stanley Thomas Jasosky 19 was arrested on an extortion charge in Newark Saturday HELD IN NEW YORK Reifenberger said the youths were brought here from New York where they had been held since Saturday The detective said the young men wrote a letter to Levine March 5 demanding $30000 The letter he said was on the front lawn of a party whom the detective did name Because the letter was not sent through the mails police said the youths could not be prose cuted under federal law The detective said there was nothing which appeared to link the prisoners to the actual kidnaping not By Frederick A Storm United Press Staff Gainesville Ga March 23 (UP) President Roosevelt in his first major address in nearly three months blamed the of a few citizens today for retarding national progress and prosperity Asserting that there still was too little consideraion for that third of the population which is ill-clad and he said that those who believed that such feudalism was the were leaning toward fascism you come down to he said Is little difference between the feudal system and the fascist system If you believe ln the one you lean toward the Mr Roosevelt called for higher wages in the south to provide adequate purchasing power abolition of and in prosperity by the people at the bottom of the To a Congress that has been slow about pissing his legislative program there was a warning that he had not given up the fight for social and economic reforms He denounced legislators who vote against legislation for better social and economic conditions and then utterly offer a better method of their FLAYS FEW national progress and national prosperity are being held back chiefly because of selfishness on the part of a he said This nation will never permanently get on the road to recovery if -we leave the methods and the processes of recovery to those who owned the government of the United States from 1921 to 1933 The occasion of Mr address was the dedication of Roosevelt square and the celebration of Gainesville's rehabilitation following a disastrous tornado two years ago He stopped to participate in the exercises while en route to Warm Springs Ga for a 10-day vaca-tion He said that the of selfishness to which I did not apply to the of the American people Most of them he said gladly would lay aside selfishness to support the public good SOUTHERN PAY LOW The purchasing power of the entire lower south Is too low he said warning that the present scale of wages south cannot and will not succeed in Continued on Page 2 Col 2) BAMBERGER ON BLOCK JULY 28 Judge Orders Transaction After Hearing Petition of Receivers WASHINGTON March 23 (AP) Senator Bridges (R-NH) proposed in the senate today that congress remove the two remaining directors of the Tennessee valley authority By John Beal United Press fetaff WASHINGTON March 23 (UP) President Roosevelt today transmitted to congress a report on his removal of Arthur Morgan as a director of the Ten-nesee valley authority and emphasized he had no objec tion to a congressional in quiry into the situation The message was accompanied by an advisory opinion written by Solicitor Gen eral Robert Jackson acting attorney-general upholding the right to remove Morgan from office INQUIRY LOOMS Senate and house leaders now are expected to start a congres sional inquiry Morgan himself was expected to file a court ac tion challenging legality of his removal Is clearly the right of con gress to undertake at any time any fair inquiry into the administration of the Tennessee valley authority or its policies which the congress may deem in the public said Mr Roose velt I cannot in the mean while abdicate ray constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully Citing his reasons for removal of his charges against fellow TVA directors refusal to present substantiating evidence and refusal to answer countercharges of the other TVA direc tors Mr Roosevelt said: Morgan has re peated the assertion that he will answer questions only to a committee of the congress Obviously there can be no objection to hearings before such a commit tee the congress will I am sure realize that if any member of the executive branch of the government of high degree or low degree is given the right by precedent to refuse to substantiate general charges against other members of the executive branch of government and to in- Continued on Page 2 Col SJ Plane Falls Into Swamp Three Die BENTON HARBOR Mich March 23 (AP) Two South Bend Ind men and an unidentified young woman were killed shortly before midnight Tuesday when their four-seat plane crashed into a swamp and burst nto flames two miles north of here The men were Fred" Wharton 25 the pilot and George Hepler Jr 19 By The Associated Press Disclosing that Pope Pius had appealed to Generalissimo Fran cisco Franco for moderation in air atacks on civilian centers I injected a more hopeful note in world picture of war anc threats of war But the Spanish Insurgents continued their drive toward the Mediterranean and a a armies struggled desperately to smash Chinese resistance anc end the bitter deadlock in the Oriental conflict Pope appeal was disclos Continued on Page 2 Col 1) Omaha is recalling that twen-ty-five years ago the worst tor nado in the history of the United Dd States ripped Omaha through middle killing 117 persons $5 The property damage was 000000 BLIND ATTORNEY SEEKSJEW EYEh0NEYM0ONERS HURT IN CRASH Arnold Roylance Utahn Would Accept Cornea pended jail term ln city court today after his ex-wife Mrs Winifred Matthews testified Me bus threatened to kill her with a 25 automatic pistol during a quarrel Tuesday night CAUGHT IN APARTMENT Mebus was arrested at the home of Mr and Mrs John Barry in the Capitol apartments 239 Capitol by Sergeant William Milligan and Detective Shaw and booked on a drunk charge Mrs Matthews who said she divorced Mebus in September 1936 in El Paso asked the court for protection against her for mer husband She said she was visiting at the Barry apartment when Mebus came in drunk and said: kill you if the last thing I She testified that during a scuffle she ran behind Barry and Mrs Barry wrested the small black weapon from Me bus Mebus she said annoyed her constantly since her divorce and caused a separation from Matthews wih shorn she lived three months Mebus testified he might have had too but that his mission was merely to say goodby to their five-year-old boy Edgar and leave the gun with Mrs" Matthews protect her from He said Matthews had several times taken away from her and the boy money which Mebus had given them The pistol had a loaded clip Detective Shaw told the court WASHINGTON March 23 (UP) Tension in congress was intensified today by the message from President Roosevelt laying before the legislature body the explosive Tennessee valley authority controversy and the refusal of an alleged lobby ist to comply with a new sub pena by the senate lobby committee Meanwhile the house appropriations committee reported fav orably to the house the largest 1921 and the senate finance subcommittee recommended that Sen Tom bill to levy high taxes on war profits be at tached to the new tax bill as Re Clifton A Wood run (D-Va) introduced a joint resolution to provide an additional $50000000 for the civilian conservation corps and continue 300 camps scheduled to be closed SCORNS SUBPENA Senate debate on the administration reorganization bill was resumed after a flurry caused when Dr Edward A Rumely executive secretary of the na-tionalcommittee to uphold the constitutional government refused to comply with a new sub-ena by the senate lobby committee The new subpena asked for records of to control directly or indirectly the sources of mediums of Chairman Minton (D-Ind) of the committee charged that the constitutional committee headed by Publisher Fran kE Gan-net to be seeking to thwart the senate inquiry by the old age of delay through legal process which he and his lawyers well know would collapse in the Minton said that he considered (Continued on Page 2 Col 2) Two thousand homes were de stroyed and 6000 persons were made homeless From Dead Man Rain followed and then snow and Omaha was in mourning armington Smashup Sends Four To Hospital At Salt Lake City SALT LAKE CITY March 23 -(AP) Sale of the Bamberger Electric Railroad company July 20 under a corporate reorganiza? tion plan was authorized today by Third District court judge Herbert Schiller BARS REDEMPTION Following lengthy testimony after a hearing on petitions of the receivers Julian Bam jerger and Lathman Bower and a petition of Balser reorganization manager Judge Schiller authorized: The sale be within right of redemption with the understand-ng that the line be operated Intact as a single unit and subject to final approval of the interstate commerce commission and the Utah state public service commission LISTS DEBTS Bamberger outlined the financial condition of the road revealing that $1500000 worth of the roads five per cent bonds are still outstanding He said the road also owed $195000 to the Tracy Loan and Trust company of Salt Lake City and the Railroad Credit Corporation The rail officials said the road 'has been able pay operating expenses but about A calamity of that kind is remembered long after it occurs PROVO March 23 (AP) Blind in his left eye since boyhood Arnold Roylance of Spring ville Utah county attorney sought a healthy cornea today assured by an eye specialist that his sight might be restored he can procure the tissue DEATH MAY AID HIM if Utah can be thankful similar horrors do not afflict them but FARMINGTON March 23 -(AP) Four persons two of them a honeymooning couple froPa ldaho Falls were painful ly injured on the Ogden highway today in a two-car I near here Utah faces a greater monster than a tornado The attorney who lost his sight when an arrow headed by collision evewhin jXradtihlS left Enroute home alter their wed- ofd he hon5 years ding ln Salt Lake City Monday old said he hoped to obtain per-w Bevard 60 and his bride Mrs Flossie Mae de Mott Be- mission from Last year scores of people were killed In this state The record being kept indicates more than 150 persons will be slaughtered this year not by a tornado but by cars on our Utah highways their cornea belraiSfl'anted'at ZSSuHered muItIPle cuts and bruls driven ty eye specialist instructed him bound nan fshed Roylance said the Physician St Lake aty performed an identical operation 1 aKG ARCHDUKE PUT UNDER ARREST Charged With Insulting Nazi Regime In Austria Coult on a Catholic priest last January The specialist said the op- eration has been performed with received a broken arm and suffered cuts a broken nose and a wrenched back His Man cannot prevent a tornado Out the people of Utah can pre-ent the shocking loss of life caused by careless driving in this state Americans must be careless for each year ten million acci-' dents occur BULLETINS TWO TRAPPED IN UTAH MINE REPORTS STATE RECORDS GONE success several times in Russia WILL GET OPINION cuts The four injured were taken The attorney said he expect-1 JjSL Salt City hospital rnnfnr snrm with ci I ftejr conditions were reported not Davis countv nolice officers to confer soon with a Salt Lake City eye specialist and if operation be county police TWO-WAY TYPEWRITER KEEPS PAROLEE IN CELL SALTLAKE CITY March 23 lowed-out rubber platen he found ed he can performed Utah he will contact doctors and undertakers in his search for the necessary cornea tissue Each day in this country 500-000 persons are unable to pursue their usual activities due to accidents said car apparently got out of control and crossed into the southbound traffic lane striking the car which overturned several times Both machines were demolished I Thirty-nine percent of all ac- idents are due to falls 2 Feared Dead In Malt Planf Fire Every day 30000 persons are disabled for a day or more by accidents LIZ Austria Mar (UP) Archduke Josef Ferdinand of lapsburg chief of the illustrous Hapsburg-Tuscany line was arrested at Mondsee near Salzburg today charged with insult-ng the Nazi regime of greater Germany Nazi sources alleged that the archduke had made insulting remarks to villagers of Mondsee but that when he was arrested he tried to deny the remarks Most illustrious of all the noblemen arrested since the Aus-tro-German union the archduke is 65 He Is son of the late Grand Duke Ferdinand IV of Tuscany The family Is the second branch of the the first being headed by Archduke Otto pretended to the Austrian throne BOISE March 23 Pubic Accounts Director Louis Diehl said today he could no of adults for a score of Idaho state departments bureaus boards and commissioners Diehl said he could find no audits for offices of the attorney general state auditor state treasurer governor bar commissioner bureau of budgets bureau of public accounts department of finance department of public welfare industrial accident board mine inspector department of public assistance state board of education state employment service state historical society traveling library state law library and many boards and commissions MARYSVALE March 23 (AP) Three miners were reported trapped this afternoon in the Deer Trail mine Piute county when fire broke out Whether the men were alive or not was unknown They were caught behind a wall of fire at the end of a mile-long tunnel Rescue work was impeded by lack of gasmasks and fire equipment Trapped in the mine were Dale Dalton Curt and Bert Lund brothers Golden Mecham a fourth workman narrowly escaped being caught He was carried unconscious to the tunnel mouth by Gall Taylor who was working with him 6 1 AP) Life looked pretty sour to Larkin Connelly still in the state prison cell from which he was to have been paroled on the first day of spring Connelly who had served a year for grand larceny had told his cell-mates goodbye and marched to the with' a typewriter under his arm He explained he purchased the machine for $7 from a fellow prisoner But prison officials are a Suspicious clan and Warden Owen Nebeker took a close look The typewriter he discovered bore the serial number of a state-owned machine Nebeker went further and dismantled the carriage In the hoi- a mass of papers letters supposedly written by Lee Romero directing various persons to take certain steps to obtain his release Romero is serving an indeterminate sentence for voluntary manslaughter of Mrs Walter Baxter on July 5 1930 He also was accused of killing her husband His application for sentence termination was denied by the board of pardons last Saturday better keep you here a while said Nebeker to the typewriter-toting prisoner And Connelly went back to his cell to await the pardon reaction at the next meeting April IS Seven per cent of all deaths are traceable to accidents is did but the The quotation is from Emerson Buick And Fisher End Week Lay-Off FLINT Mich March 23 (AP) The Buick plant and Fisher Body corporation plant No 1 reopened today after a one week shutdown Approximately 12 (XX) men returned at Buick and 4500 at the Fisher plant MINNEAPOLIS March 23 (AP) In the cooling embers of a Fleischman Malting Co storage bin firemen searched today for the bodies of two men feared trapped when an explosion wrecked the building Six others were injured severely in blast of unknown origin If our thoughts are old then are old or getting old Continued on Pol 71 a 'A.