The Ogden Standard-Examiner from Ogden, Utah • 1

FINAL EDITION They're Ready to Take Up Arms for Britain Utah and Idaho hare In Moac WmfH ii it-Kmil Driver Kills Boy Cyclist Is Fatally Injured BRITISH LABOR WARNED AGAINST TEST OF DRAFT Reyes 6 of Syracuse Struck Down By Auto On Ogden-Salt Lake Highway As He Plays In Front of House SHERIFF SEEKS DRIVER OF DEATH CAR paitsioim Jerus 4 1 System of Trans-Continental Toll Routen Free Highway Development By Bureau In Report to Roosevelt INTERMOUNTAIN UNIT SET $101214001 Charles Buckley Jr 24 Pleasant View Is Thrown 300 Feet to Death When Strikes Obstacle On Mountain Road i Brigham City to Salt Lake City Stretch Mentioned Rights-of-Way Bridges and Improvements Scheduled By A WASHINGTON April President Roosevelt recommended to congress today that it provide a system of highways meet the requirements of the national defenro and the needs of a growing! peace time traffic of longer 4- range I Xtl ARE WE NO-O-O Despite the fact they are reading the news that the government for the first time In modern' peace history had announced that young men between 20 and 21 would be drafted to boost British armed strength these London recruits did not appear downhearted The conscriDtlon would put approximately 1000000 under arms Note the recruiting officer at right This picture was radioed from London to New York Buckley waa fatally Injured about four a just south of the Weber-Davis county line on the mountain highway when the motorcycle he was riding south- ward apparently struck an obstacle oij the road and hurtled 200 feet off the 'east side of the thoroughfare Discovered The body wax discovered about four-fifteen by a passing truck driver who telephoned David County Sheriff Jo- seph Holbrook Buckley died of a fractured skull and possible ln- ternal injuries He was dead when the party arrived The accident occurred at a point one-half mile south of the Davis -Weber canal crossing front of the home of George Hill which Is one and one-half miles south of the Weber-Davis county boundary Holbrook said markings In the earth showed that the Prime Minister Fears General Election On Issue DEB ATEliF BEGUN Denies Pledge Broken When Conscription Requested LONDON April (AP) Prime Minister Chamber-lain warned the Labor opposition in the house of commons today against forcing a general election on conscription as he opened the debate on the emergency conscription bill he announced Wednesday foresee that matters might be pushed to such an extremity that this government would not have any other than to order an election- he said amid La borite cheers and counter cheers from the government benches surely" he added very heavy responsibility would rest upon those who force such a conclusion at this time 1 Uncertainty Forecast election would leave country in a state of confusion and uncertainty- postpone for what might be vital weeks measures which the government thought necessary check the output of munitions vital to us at this time and distract the attenlon of those who are responsible for government Defending himself against La-borite charges that the government had broken a pledge conscription would not be introduced in peacetime Chamberlain said: those two occasions (when he opposed conscription) conditions were very different from what they are today On neither was war imminent and there was Continued on Page 2 Cot Si Airplane Plarjts Hum As Congress Fund 4 WASHINGTON April 27 Fifteen weeks after President Roosevelt asked congress to triple the army air forces five factories started work today on the first of more than 3000 new warplanes REIGN GATHERS FOR VITAL TALK Per Fuehrer Not Too Busy To Take Time Out to See Dancer much the largest the war department ever placed in peacetime initiated the vast expansion of aerial strength which congress authorized as the key feature of the $552000-000 national defense program Louis I Johnson assistant secretary of war signed contracts totaling more than $50000000 Wednesday shortly after Mr Roosevelt PRESIDENT ASKS $1447000000 TO FINANCE PWA Represents One-Third Cut From Present Budget Year WASHINGTON April (AP) Roosevelt asked congress today for relief appropriation of $1447000000 for the 12 months beginning next July In a message saying that substantial gains were being made in the drive to reduce unemployment Mr Roosevelt said his recommended figure for the next fiscal year represented a reduction one-third below the approximately $2-250000000 he said was appropriated for the current year Sees More Job He said $1447000000 would permit employment of more than an average of 2000000 during the next year unforeseen and unpredictable the president told congress "we are justified In expecting an upward trend in the volume of employment between now and June 30 1940 and the sum just named represents my Judgment as to the amount that should be provided on the basis of that With this appropriation Mr Roosevelt asked that any unexpended balance left to the WPA out of Its current funds be reallo- (Continued on Page 2 Cot Si And as a means of partially paying the of this highways system he emphasized a burtau of public roads recommendation that in future land be tnked along rights-of-ways This cxccbj land would be rented or sold nfur completion of the highways to reimburse the government for i art of the cost of the roads Toll Road System The president transmitted a let-Secretary of Agriculture concurred in by remtpry Woodring to which was at-a report of the bureau of roads on feasibility of a system of trans-continental toll roads and ft master plan for free highway Tha bureau said that it believed a propped toll system ct six tmri continental KUper-hhrbwnys wmt! 1 be neither financially feasible mr adequateMo meet traffic ncoK it suggested instead a eystem of Interregional highways designed to meet requirements of national defensa and the needs of a growing motor traffic i emphasiczs tho need of a special system of d'rcct intcr-rrg-ional highways with all necessary connections through and around cities" Mr Roosevelt said of the bureau report The president added that the report showed there was need for some super-highways but added that the need exists only here there Is congestion on the existing reads mainly in metropolitan areas Mr Roosevelt said improved facilities to solve city street congestion occupied ft fundamental place in the general replanning of cities Six Super-IHghway In a report prepared by congressional request the bureau estimated that six super-highways three running east and west and three north and south would approximate a total length of 11378 miles and cost at least $2899300000 or an average of $202270 a mile The bureau said toll fof it 15-year the longest time for which it would make traffic estimates would provide less than 41 per cent of a conservative estimate of debt service maintenance and operating costs A toll charge of a cent a mile for passenger vehicles and 35 cents for trucks the report explained woulfl bring in an leverage of $72140011 annually compared with an average annual outlay of $184054000 From Brigham to The bureau estimated It would cost $101214664 to build the Utah and Idaho sections of the surer system and added that annual revenues from the Utah and Id ho units would not equal 50 per cent (Continued on Page 4-A Col made funds available by approving a $549 (WO 000 war department supply bill To save months of delay congress provided that the first planes might be ordered without awaiting the start of the next fiscal year The bulk of the contracts however will be placed after July 1 Funds have yet to be voted Keyed to a new tempo In keeping with fast moving world developments army officials and manufacturers got preliminaries out of the 'way while waiting for congress rto act The actual beginning of the air Traffic death struck twice in Davis county Wednesday night and early today claiming the lives of Charles Buckley Jr 24 of Pleasant View and six-year-old Jerus Keyes son of Mr and Mrs Ysidro Reyes of Syracuse Buckley a taxicab driver and-f a son of Mr and Mrs Charles SLAYING CHARGE Penrose Boy' Released to Juvenile Authorities After Inquiry BRIGHAM CITY April After an Investigation conducted by District Attorney George Preston Logan today in Brigham City Wayne Taylor 18 who Wednesday shot and killed his father Newell Taylor 60 of Penrose was released to Juvenile authorities according to Sheriff Fred Sorensen Funeral services for the elder Taylor will be held at two Saturday at the ward chapel In Penrose conducted by Bishop Merlin Grover Interment will be made In the Penrose cemetery under the direction of Sbaw and Iverson mortuary of Tremon-ton The son told officials he shot his father in the side and through the chest with a rifle Tuesday night when Mr Taylor was In the act of choking Mrs Taylor his stepmother The bullets entered the vital organs of his father-and death was immediate The Taylors were engaged In an argument and Wayne was awakened by the noise he told investigators Mrs Taylor about 42 Is the former Georgia Hansen of Ogden and has resided here many years JAPANESE PLAN CONFAB 4 TOKYO April Premier Kllchiro Hiranuma is plan-s ning to invite the German and Italian ambassadors to a conference in which he wM explain Japan is unwilling to embark in a general front against the democracies However Baron Hiranuma will offer a compromise under which Japan would join such' an alliance if Britain and France enter a military alliance with Russia which would be considered a menace to Japan DEIINIOII PRAISES AID OF RED CROSS WASHINGTON April (AP) Adam Bennion Salt Lake City business and civic leader told delegates to the National Red Cross convention today their organization had served Utah with honor the past year He said in two instances the Red Cross had been called upon in major once when 24 persons were killed and some homes destroyed in a to shoulder the burden of caring for the victims OS I know they 'have been dreaming of this event Expectation has been taking possession of them and they have been fishing in their dreams and catching big ones 1 They are not unlike prospectors who in their dreaming strike it rich One of the four says he finds real release from business worries in these trips and his nervous sys-ein is benefited That is one of the advantages of living in the west where In a few hours any Ipver of the great outdoors can be on the banks of a lake or stream far removed from the grime of city streets Ogden ii not more than eight hours from some of the best fishing in the United States And in the fall when the deer season is on Ogden is just around the corner from big game That' is what an Ogdenite must have had in mind when from New York City he said I would not live there unless I was forced to make that my headquarters and then it never could be like home in the Last evening In auditorium of the high school a musical event took place to which 1 had been invited by letter fropi far away Seattle I quote from the letter: am herewith enclosing an Invitation covering a concert to be by Iras under the direction VESSEL IS SUNK BY ROYAL SHIP MS Boat With Norwegian Pair Rams Craft In Fog Crew Rescued 4 NEW YORK April The Norwegian American liner Oslofjord bringing Crown Prince Olav and Princess Martha of Norway to New York for an American good will tour rammed and sank the pilot boat Sandy Hook in i dense fog in the outer harbor to day The 28-man crew of the Sandy Hook abandoned ship and were rescued by life boats from the Ol-lofjord The Sandy Hook put out to meet the Oslofjord about six to place a pilot aboard the incoming liner to guide her through the harbor The fog was thick About seven a the coast guard reported the Oslofjord rammed the Sandy-Hook which was crippled -immediately The lifeboat crews' of the Oslof jord worked quickly and the coast guard reported that all the Sandy crew "members were aboard the liner at seven-twenty a The Oslofjord then proceeded toward quarantine to transfer the crown prince and princess to New York boat" the Riverside for the trip to the Battery and the reception NEW OFFICER IIEiED 111 ARMS EXPANSION WASHINGTON April (AP) President Roosevelt today selected Brigadier General George Marshall slender 58-year-old Pennsylvanian for the army's highest post during its greatest peacetime expansion Marshall will succeed Malin Craig in August as chief of staff He will rank among the youngest ever to the post Craig is nearing 64 BERLIN April Nazi reichstag members expecting a historic meeting began arriving in Berlin today to hear Adolf Hitler address them 'at noon Friday to give his answer to Presif dent peace appeal and British conscription plans Nazi propaganda chiefs made arrangements for the speech to be broadcast through the reteh and made available for street crowds industrial and office workers school children and people in homes' $1 0000 EARMARKED FOR IIIDIAI! GCG WORK SALT LAKE CITY April 27 stUP) An additional $10000 bringing the total to more than' $350000 will be spent lnIndian CCC work in the intermountain area during the next fiscal year according to Kinney of Washington Indian service forest supervisor Kinney eaid the money would be spent on projects in Utah southern Idaho Nevada and northern California i STORES EXPECT RECORD CROUDS Hitler- was reported working corps expansion coincided with disclosure by Secretary Woodring of plans to retire the over-age and physically unfit from among the 12500 officers Announcing a "rigorous tWoodrIng said congress would be asked to authorize retirement of officers from captain to brigadier general considered too old for thir grades Mr Roosevelt has approved a $358000000 measure authorizing the general air corps expansion $3250000 for orders for munitions reinforcement of the Panama canal and a 2000 increase (Continued on Page 2 Cot 7) over the final draft of his speech taking Into account Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's conscription statement of Wednesday In his study at his new chancellery He took time out to attend the revue of the at the Metropole theatre Wednesday night with the American dancer Marian Verne as a featured member of the cast As Hitler prepared his speech an article in the Nazi storm troop organ written by an officer of the war ministry outlined plans under which the entire storm troop organization numbering perhaps 1750000 men might be converted into an army reserve under a decree of last January entrusting pre-military and post-military training to the storm troop corps FRANCE CONTINUES TO WOO RUMANIANS return-VJng Merchants today put finishing touches to their plans for Dollar days Friday and Saturday anticipating record crowds at their stores Shoppers will fin bargains in merchandise of all kinds specials will be offered along with the regularly priced merchandise The event will feature late spring and summer styles in all lines of merchandise According to A Young chairman in charge of the retail merchants division of the chamber of commerce sponsors Ogden merchants take great pride in co-operating in the American plan of offering full values for each of the 100 pennies In the dollar From issuo of The Standard-Examiner an of the thousands of bargains being offered may be gained PARIS April France bolstered by historic decision to adopt compulsory military training spurred her efforts to build a collective security ring of nations today by opening talks with Rumania Tinney WASHINGTON April 27 (AP) house approved and sent to the senate today- legislation carrying $153000000 'In direct appropriations and contract authorizations for vital army tanks artillery and ammunition seacoast defenses and expansion of the fleet People In News: Roosevelt to Sleep Through Hitler Address AMERICAN LEAGUE New York at Boston cold weather for Wives Tired of Men Claimed Found ROME April Usually reliable sources reported tonight that Premier Benito Mussolini plans to confer this weekend with German military leaders regarding military co-operation of the totalitarian powers In event of new in Europe it Miss Mona Smith of Ogden WASHINGTON April You musta read where Uncle is troubling Tom Tendergast Kansas political bors for bock Income-tax It's just a subtle move of the Democrats to out -Dewey Tom is boss of Kansas City ell right I was a Republican call me a Ton says a Democrat I 'boss Is good enough for lie has a concretcmixing corporation His enemies my It monopolizes the Kansas City market that you even get a ball ling permit if you 'don't concrete in the blue-prints Kansas City folks voted in th city manager plan of pnvcrrsmnt to lick Tom and it work Gifts Free to Want-Ad Users YVARSAVft Poland April The Polish press in obviously inspired comment today reported conditions under which the government would accept a change In the status of the free city of Danzig which Germany wants returned to the rcich By United Press President Roosevelt arrived at his home here on the Hudson at Hyde Park N'T where he will remain until the' middle of next week He will motor to New York City to' take part in opening of the fair Roosevelt intends to sleep right through Fuehrer III reply bn Friday to his peace appeal He will not get up when radiocasts of speech begins at six a diplomatic agents of the United Stated will forward texts of the address to Hyde Park for Mr study Secretary of Agriculture Ilenry A Wallace said he will oppose addition of butter to the farm export subsidy list Canadian officials announced that a new silver dollar will be issued to commemorate the visit of King George and Queen Elizabeth FIfl French film act ress said she will marry comedian Harry Martin within three weeks Deputy Joan de Beaumont of France informed Premier Edouard Daladier that he would propose In parliament soon a resolution inviting the government to open negotiations with the to' find a satisfactory settlement of war debts Stella Mathews of Honolulu Is the winner of the Florence Nightengale medal for 1939 awarded annually by the International Red Cross for outstanding nursing Work At Jackie Cooper was In a hospital for a tonsilec-tomy Paramount will produce a movie entitled America!" Studios were offered blood in a film manufacturing process believed by its Inventors to foreshadow a more general production of colored movies The blood provides the color-inging in the reproduction know you will be interested in not only Iras progress but in the mighty fine work accomplished by Mona Smith am speaking for( Mona particularly as she is a girl who has added much to the sweetness of life She is more or less shy In promotion of her -ability but ly I believe Ogden Is most for- tunate to have had and 4n being able to retain the talent wrapped up In that beautiful 'character Mona PHILADELPHIA April 27 (UP) that catered to wives tired of their husbands and willing to poison them for their insurance was alleged today with the announcement that Caesare Valenti the man suspected of having directed it had been located in a New York jail The conspirators were almost as thorough as the insurance companies they defrauded They had agents to interview potential clients to broach the subject delicately make love to them if necessary to furnish poison and fraudulent death certificates to negotiate with Insurance companies for payments of claim The syndicate is suspected of more than 100 murders The scope of its operations has been unfolding gradually for several weeks There have been several arrests and bodies of several suspected victims have been exhumed Today James A Kelly captain of detectives in charge of the Investigation eaid that Valenti who was to have been released Monday from the New York Bikers island prison after a short term for assault and battery had been named as the leader Valenti has a criminal record in this country and Italy Deportation proceedings ggainit him are pending Philadelphia police will be in New York Monday jwith extradition papers for him During National Want Ad April 23-29 We have arrangd to give absolutely free to each person inserting a Want-Ad for three or more The Items listed below Friday April Globe Biscuit Flour Saturday April Dinnerette Canned Foods BERLIN April The controlled Nazi press redoubled its attacks on Great Britain tonight on the eve of Adolf address to the Reichstag and one authoritative newspaper even asserted that relation with London were now close to a war-time basis I am quite certain the music lovers of Ogden will endorse that tribute from the heart of one who (Contiuncd on Page 4-A Cot 2) (Copyi IK i) I.