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ill Have Until Seven Clock to Sixty-ninth Year No 81 OGDEN CITY UTAH TUESDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER 13 1938 THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE UNITED PRESS FINAL EDITION 14 Pages fa) fir Jm rvi Yi nr JUUV uuy KzL Citizens Protest Tax Hike As City Prep ares For Second Power Test City and County Await Result of Direct Pri mary Refuse Dem ands Of Germans That Martial Law End Ballot Expense Delays Definite Decision On Election Voters Permitted to Cast Ballot Until Seven Tonight Death Is Penalty of Disturbing Peace Rights Limited EIGHT ARE SHOT TO JUGGLE FUNDS COUNT VARIES STOCKS CRASH IN WAR SCARE WHEAT IN GAIN Frenzied Selling Caused by Sudeten German Ultimatum Taxation Is Becoming Says Delegation Judges Requested to Speed Count in Districts US WATCHES FOR SPARK OF EUROPEAN WAR Know Whats Going to Happen Nor When Says Official By FRANK McNAUGHTON United Press Staff WASHINGTON Sept 13-President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull studied Adolf Nuremberg speech and secret reports from diplomats abroad today in an effort to determine whether peace or war is immediately ahead for Europe Ambassadors to France Great Britain and Germany cabled to Hull their impressions and the impressions of other governments toward defiance of democratic nations and his demand for for 3500000 Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia Hull relayed the reports to the president at Rochester Minn Feeling here was that the issue was far from solved: that a new crisis might arise at any moment from clashes in Czechoslovakia or border incidents problem is far from one official said "We know that nothing is going to happen right now We do not know what may occujr in the future nor how i -ii? FRANCE KEYED TO WAR PITCH Work Abandoned and Shop Closed in New Danger LONDON Sept (UP) Events in Europe moved rapidly toward a climax tonight which seemed to threaten at any hour the spark that might set off jan explosion in Czechoslovakia Reports poured in hour by hour killings and fighting throughout- the Sudeten area of SEN MILLARD TYDINGS die be JOHN SPARGO "Going too Voting in first direct primary election was reported generally light in both Ogden city and Weber county today although the trend was reversed in a few districts which reported increased voting Voters have until seven tonight to cast their ballots for selection of candidates in the Nov 8 election Party leaders repeated their appeals for everyone to vote so the new primary law may be thoroughly tested Some Voting Sags Voting in some districts sagged at one pan to less than half what it was in the last election No comparable primary figures were available as this is the first direct primary Twenty-fifth street was one of the districts which surged ahead of previous figures Abe Booth 210 Twenty-fifth said about 75 votes had been cast by noon at Continued on Page 2 Col 4) NEW YORK Sept The stock market crashed today with a severity recalling the days of 1929 Prices -fell as much as $10 a share from the highs in frenzied selling set off by the Sudeten German ultimatum to Czechoslovakia Trading in the last minutes following news of the ultimatum was so heavy that tickers were 15 minutes behind when the stock exchange closed at three eastern time Trading Held Up Because of the selling rush trad ing in General Motors stock hac to be discontinued from two forty-nine to two fifty-three The stock later sold at $43 off $525 from the high It closed at $4350 off $387 from the previous close Chrysler which early in the ses sion touched $75 closed at $6750 off $625 from last sale United States Steel fell from $5962 to close at off $450 for the day Bails Go Lower Atchison Topeka and San Fe closed at $3025 off $5 New York Central $15 off $3 Union Pacific $83 off $5 American Smelting $4362 off $325 and Case $81 off $450 from the previous close and off $7 from the early high PINE VIEW DAM if BRITISH SUMMON HEADS TO STUDY WAR EMERGENCY Second Cabinet Conference Called as Conflict Fears Heighten LONDON Sept (AP) The British cabinet was summoned today to meet Wednesday in its second emergency session of the week to consider the European crisis deepened by Adolf defiant Num-berg speech and new disorders in Czechoslovakia The summons was issued by Prime Minister Chamberlain after he and his key ministers had pondered the text of the speech in which the fuehrer demanded the right "self for the Sudeten Germans Consults Opposition The prime minister also consulted" the ranking leaders of the opposition in the house of commons a step customary in times ol crisis The first emergency cabinet meeting of the week was that of Monday a few hours before Hitler spoke Chamberlain announced his refusal to call parliament back into imediate session as had been requested by Clement Attlee leader of the Labor opposition and spokesman for all leading British labor organizations Seek Way Out Parliament recessed July 29 until Nov 1 It was believed Chamberlain had called the cabinet to review the whole situation in the light of what Hitler said at Nurnberg and also subsequen disorders in Czechoslovakia The ministers also were expected to consider what further avenues for nt otiation over the vexed Sudeten German issue were left open COBB WILL RACE AGAIN THURSDAY PRAHA Sept (UP) The Czech government rejected tonight a Sudeten German ultimatum expiring at one a and the ominous threat of hositiities in Czechoslovakia moved toward reality The Sudeten Germans had demanded the government withdraw its decree of martial law turn police power in the Sudeten German areas over to local authorities and diminish the activity of cen- tral government forces in those areas Two Claim Murder Victim Is Charles A Clark NEWS and VIEWS Whether the city commission will conduct its second municipal power election of the year Sept 29 seemed to hinge today on whether Commissioner Saunders is willing to forego a scheduled expansion of public parks improvements in order to divert $5000 to the election expenses A delegation of Weber county taxpayers headed by John Spargo this morning appeared before the commission to protest further city debt which would be necessitated by the proposed special election pointing out that the matter of municipal electricity and power had already been defeated at a' public election once this year and that the city is already through bonded debt to the limit and that taxation has been Increased Saunders Asks Time City Auditor Critchlow in a statistical report of the current operating budget said that all departmental appropriations are merely sufficient to provide for operating expenses with the exceptions of $5200 earmarked for improvements in the parks and public improvement budgets which amount could be transferred to cover the costs of the election "without curtailing the normal operation of the parks department this Parks Commissioner Saunders asked for more time to study report explaining that to make the recommended transfer would mean that several contemplated parks improvements scheduled for this year would be out of the question Has Alternative Mayor Peery suggested that as an alternative of touching parks funds some money could be transferred from the city fire department budget but Critchlow said less than $1000 could be so transferred When no immediate solution of the fund-juggling problem developed Critchlow was asked to study the budget anew in the hopes some unexpended odds and ends could be totaled to the amount of $5000 and the transfer sanctioned in commission meeting Wednesday Critchlow said he doubted if this could be done Spargo cautioned the commission that "maybe we are going too stressing new 1 expenses inflicted through erection of the proposed $600000 city and county (Continued on Page 2 Col 4) i i i Hitler Off For Mountain Home TYDINGS LEADS MARYLAND VOTE New Deal Candidate Trails By Large Margin in Primary Test BALTIMORE Sept (AP) Mounting returns in hotly contested primary indicated today a victory of landslide proportions for Senator MilkurcLE Tydings over David Lewis dud the opposition of President Roose velt Unofficial returns with some counties complete gave Tydings a lead in units having 117 of the 149 nominating convention votes to 32 for Lewis To Ratify Results The state nominating convention will ratify Sept 28 the results of the popular balloting for the Democratic senatorial nomination Second choices failed to figure in the outcome the lead being a clear majority Lewis led his home county Cumberland which has seven votes and the neighboring western counties Washington seven votes and Garrett which has four votes Complete returns in Baltimore City gave Tydings 28 votes to 14 for Lewis who led in the first district 11395 to 7294 and in the sixth district 8976 to 8678 126330 to 86834 The popular vote from 852 polling places out of 1288 gave Tydings 126 330 Lewis 86834 and Arthur Hungerford 7288 led Mayor Howard Jackson of Baltimore 90438 to 68-854 in returns from 602 polling places with only one city precinct missing The other two candidates for the Democratic nomination for governor were far behind State Comptroller William Gordy had 11673 and Senate President Lans-dale Sasscer had 12176 Governor Nice opposed by former State Senator Harry Phoebus seemed assured of renomination as returns from 654 precincts showed: Nice 35148 Phoebus PARIS Sept 13 The French government decided today that in view of threats contained in Aolf Nurnberg speech it was necessary to keep military machine keyed at wartime pitch After analyzing the speech in a meeting with President Albert Lebrun the cabinet decided unanimously there was no possibility now of easing the military measures which have sent hundreds of thousands of additional troops into the Maginot zone facing Germany in the past few days This state of must be maintained "until after the situation is a minister said By Frank Francis News and Views was written early this morning Since then stocks have dropped and alarm has spread throughout Europe due to an ultimatum given to the Czechs allowing them only six hours to comply with German demands MORELAND WINS OAKMONT MEDAL OAKMONT COUNTY CLUB Oakmont Pa Sept 13 fAP) Gus Moreland of Peoria 111 out of big time competition since his Walker cup days in 1932 and upset the field with a sub-par 70 finish today to capture the National Amateur Golf championship medal with a 36-hole total of 148 Light Earthquakes Rock California CHINESE BLOCK NIPPON ADVANCE While the following may seem contradictory reversal in the market tends to emphasize the point made as to stocks being an indicator of what Is in the air PRAHA Sept (AP) The Sudeten German party presented an ultimatum to the Czechoslovak government at seven-thirty tonight (eleven-thirty a Ogden time) demanding that the martial law and extraordinary police measures imposed on Sudeten communities be revoked within six hours The party in a memorandum to the government stated that if martial law continued it could not responsible for The Sudeten demand came as the climax of a day which saw -emergency measures imposed on eight Sudeten communities following disorders in which at least eight persons were killed -Earlier Czechoslovak army tanks had rumbled through the streets of Eger Sudeten community within three miles of the German frontier where a huge Swastika forbidden in Czechoslovakia been raised above the town hall by Sudetens celebrating Adolf speech at Nurnberg At Sudeten party headquarters in Praha leaders declared tonight that all negotiations with the Czechoslovak government for settlement of their bitter bloody dispute had been broken off has been no formal no- Continued on Page 2 Cot l) City Detective Henry Allred said today two people have identified the photo of a middle-aged body pulled from Pine View reservoir last Friay as Charles Atkinson Clark a watchsmith and son of a family formerly of Marriott Belief that the man found in the basin had been murdered is generally agreed among officers familiar with the case The body revealed! a crushed chest and a long scalp wound apparently inflicted in a fight Detective Allred said both George Amidan- of Marriott and Campbell of 1612 Canyon road identified-a photo of the dead man as "matching the facial features of Clark who last lived in Marriott two years ago Amidan told officers Clark lived with him until two years ago in Marriott during which time he was employed as a watch repair worker in Ogden Amidan said Clark is divorced and has a 10-year-old son The (Continued on Page 2 Col 2) ERWIN PEARCE TRIALS MONDAY SALT LAKE CITY Sept (AP) Former Mayor Erwin and Pearce an attorney must stand trial next Monday on charges they profited from earnings of fallen women' District Judge Herbert Schiller denied a motion to quash the indictment returned June 14 and after not guilty pleas were entered he set the Sept 19 trial 'date The court directed the state to furnish bills of particulars before Wednesday night on new indictments charging the two with ac- cepting the prostitution earnings of Tillie Allen and Bobbie Carlton Judge Schiller said Erwin and Pearce then would be prepared to plead next Saturday on the latest charges speech on Monday was devoted in large measure to the denunciation of democracies The' fuehrer rattled the saber and! made many furious threats but failed to give the word to strike EUREKA Cal Sept 13 (UP) northern coastal areas returned to normal today after a series of light earthquake shocks The shocks were ''felt as far north as Crescent Cityand as far south as Fort Bragg Twelve hours after the last of a series of three shocks another tremor was reported at Scotia Telephone service over the area was interrupted BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS Utah Sept 13 (AP) Fur broker John Cobb who travelled over this saline course at 34253 miles per hour Monday said today he would go after Captain George world automobile speed record again Thursday Eyston established the record 34540 mph Aug 29 Eyston said he intends to make one more run probably Friday before returning home He expects to lift the mark to approximately 355 or possibly 360 SHANGHAI Sept 13 (API-Sanguinary fighting raged along the entire mid-China front today as Chinese troops stubbornly repulsed repeated Japanese attempts to break through defenses on both banks of the Yangtze river The severest batUes were near Teian Kiukiang Nanchang railroad point where the Japanese offensive long has been stalemated and at Fukinshan hill where the Chinese blocked the advance toward the vital Peiping-Hankow railroad For that the world can be thankful relieved to know that the crisis at least has been deferred GO SWEEP MAINE ELECTION How can any min invite a ca lamity so dreadful as a world war a war which might destroy civilization itself and make barbarians of the survivors? Standard-Examiner To Speed Election Returns Over Air NAZI PLANE FLIES OVER SWISS BORDER DEWEYWILLSEEK NEW HINES TRIAL My own opihion is that Hitler has been bluffing If that is his game it has been cleverly played and he is entitled to credit for getting much for his people But at that he is playing with fire for his bluff may be called and then will come the NURNBERG Sept (AP) Chancellor Adolf Hitler left Num-berg by automobile for Berchtes-gaden his Bavarian mountain home 1 shortly before noon today An immense cheering crowd lin-ed the streets along which he drove The tenth annual' Nazi party rally closed here with an address by Hitler Monday night BASEL Switzerland Sept 13 (AP) A German plane marked plainly with swastikas flew! over this Swiss city near the German and French borders for ten minutes this afternoon until warned away by angry Swiss guards Swiss authorities said an "immediate would be made to Berlin in view of the fact the reich prohibited planes over its territory "but violated the rules of other NEW YORK Sept 13 District Attorney Thomas Dewey found an advantage today in the mistrial of -Tammany Leader James Hines on lottery conspiracy an opportunity to' seek a stronger indictment charging Hines additionally with obstructing justice Justice Ferdinand Pecora who ordered a mistrial on the grounds that one of questions had constituted a "fatally prejudicial was criticized today in newspaper editorials Great Britain undoubtedly holds the key to the whole situation If secret information discloses that the inner circles of the British government will accept peace at any price- the fuehrer will go on threatening war and gaining his points Old Glory Again Flies In PORTLAND Me Sept 13 (UP) Maine re-elected a Republican governor and three Republican congressmen complete but unofficial returns from offseason election showed today The count ran true to predictions Barometer Once known as the "barometer because of its general forecast of national election trends the significance of the -vote has been lessened since 1936 when during the Roosevelt landslide it was one of the two- states that gave majorities to Alfred Lan-don Unofficial totals-were: For governor (634 precincts) Gov Lewis Barrows (R) 158-635 former Gov Louis Brann (D) 144871 Oliver Wins For representative in first dis-xict (152 precincts) Rep James Oliver (R) 57327 Harold Emery (D) 40438 For representative in second district (212 precincts) Rep Clyde Smith (R) 54671 Harold Dubord (D)' 50578 For 4 representative in third (270 Rep Qalph Brewster (R) 49690 Melvin Roberts (D) 29883 Follow the election with klo: -i Combined facilities of The Standard-Examiner The Associated Press radio station KLO and the Salt Lake Tribune will bring KLO listeners tonight complete up-to-the-minute news of state primary elections The coverage will be statewide including tabulations of all Ogden city and county returns Broadcasting will start at approximately seven forty-five and will continue intermittently through the evening until all results are known insofar as possible A corps of KLO announcers will take their microphones direct to The Stand-' ard-Examiner news room There collaborating with the newspaper staff they will broadcast returns as fast as they are received by teletypewriter and telephone from all parts of the state NEW YORK CITY Sept Can you beat it? The latest figures from Washington say that the national income is back almost to normal but got more people on relief than ever had before Now there must be some connection and the connection it seems to me is that the more people we have on relief the bigger our national income is What Unce Sam should do is get up an enlistment campaign like he did in the war and get out signs that say: Sam Needs On Then every time the national income goes up ten billions let Unce Sam show his gratitude to those who made it possible That is every reliefer should get a bonus Gee' every citizen must take pride in the news that the national income already is nearing the high-water mark of 1930 In fact I know citizens that would drink to this new prosperity if the price of a drink (Copyright 1931 The British leaders quite to the contrary have no way- of knowing whether Hitler is bluffing or is resolved on war if his demands are not granted NATIONAL St Louis at Philadelphia postponed rain (Double-header LLOYDS MAY CANCEL WAR RISK INSURANCE Evidence accumulates the British are laboring above all else to prevent an impasse Butler woolen mills operator after public sentiment during the Civil war deplored the fact that'Amer-ican flags were foreign-manufac-tured Butler -presented it to Thomas Winter who in turn gave it to his son Shirley who bequeathed it at his death to the friend from whom Goldsmith obtained it The flag was entwined with the Union Jack during a visit of General Grant to England after his term as president It floated in 1906 over a Harvard-Cambridge crew race near London LOS ANGELES Sept (AP) Three days before he was assassinated President Abraham Lincoln approved "Old the first American flag using American-manufactured goods Today that flag was back in Los Angeles after a stay-in England Composed of 13 red and white stripes and 37 stars 27 of them in a diamond-shaped pattern on a field of blue the flag was obtained A Goldsmith from a friend It was made by Gen Benjamin Cincinnati at Brooklyn postponed rain This morning the stock market opened with gains That is Pitsburgh at New York postponed rain LONDON Sept 13 (AP) The board of Lloyds the underwriters was summoned today to meet Thursday to discuss a proposal to cease quoting war risks altogether Already such insurance is limited largely to the marine field Wan street has decided the (Continued on Page 2 Col 6J AMERICAN Philadelphia at St-Louis postponed rain.