Ogden Standard-Examiner (Newspaper) - November 17, 1939, Ogden, Utah WEATHER UTAH Fair with little change in temperature tonight and IDAHO Fair tonight and little change in Seventieth 145 G M BY S JURY IN SUIT otor Corporation and Affiliates Fined 15000 Each C L E A R OFFICERS Factory Control of Car Financing Blasted By Verdict For 24-h H Ogden our tin I 22 22 30 44 29 33 28 27 49 56 period ending l 59 V 32 32 tax 62 55 50 61 56 69 63 59 51 Boise Calgary Chicago Denver Havre Pocatello Louis Lake Fran 62 41 43 25 54 40 26 Helena Kalispell Kansas City Los Angeles Miles THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE UNITED PRESS SOUTH BEND Ind Nov AP Judge alter C Lindley imposed les of each today on General Motors corporation and three affiliates convicted Thursday night by a jury of violating the Sherman anti- trust law Prior to imposing the fines the maximum provided by law the judge overruled motions for a new trial and arrest of judgment The three affiliates convicted were General Motors Sales cor- Motors ance corporation and General Motors Acceptance corporation of Indiana Pay for Prosecution The judge ordered that General and General Motors Sales each pay half the costs the prosecution Government lawyers hailed the conviction of General Motors world's largest automobile manufacturer as a victory in the broad federal drive and a blow at factory control of car financing A federal jury of Hoosier ers and little business men last night convicted the corporation and three affiliates of violating the Sherman act by forcing dealers to give instalment sales paper to eral Motors Acceptance tion Test Case Bub it acquitted 17 officials of the concerns including President William S Knudseri and Board Chairman Alfred P Sloan Jr of eral Motors General Manager E Coyle of Chevrolet a G M president and President John Continued on Page 2 Col V FRANK FRANCIS NEWS and VIEWS A new arrival at the Utah stat industrial school is Toby Kasing mik a boy 16 sent to the in from far away Nome aska He is an Eskimo who from the beaten path and fell the clutches of the law He says he drank too much go into a quarrel fired a gun and landed in jail It was a drunken he said in which a mother her son and Toby engaged The son was a bigger older boy than Toby and was beating the mother she refused them more liquor He took the part and finally to defend himself from the strong er boy grabbed a gun and just to scare the bully he explain ed but not intended to harm The bullet went wide of the mark bu Toby was arrested tried and de dared to be bad He was not sen The federal law of Alaska ovides that bad boys be the jurisdiction of the boarc of parole and probation in ington D C OGDEN CITY UTAH FRIDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 17 1939 2 26 Pages FINAL EDITION Murphy Looms As New Jurist ALLIES AGREE ON METHOD TO CARRY ON WAR Supreme Chiefs Meet In London to Confer On Problems Dutch Guns Bristle At rder DALADIER TALKS Study Common Action On Distribution of Materials HAILED AS NEW JUDGE Attorney General Frank Murphy shown above left with Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins today was hailed by congressional veterans as the most likely successor to Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler who died Thursday at the age of 73 They predicted speedy confirmation if his name is submitted to the senate LONDON Nov supreme allied war council met in London today and announced complete agreement on methods of using French and British forces for effective conduct of operations A joint statement issued by Prime Minister Chamberlain and French Premier Daladier said plans had been completed for common action in the fields of air munitions raw materials oil food shipping and economic warfare France was represented at the meeting by Daladier Gen Maurice Gustave Gamelin commander in chief of French and British forces and other officials Chamberlain and Lord field minister of coordination of defense were Britain's principal representatives It was announced War Minister Leslie would confer Monday in France with Daladier i and Gen Gamelin The communique announced prospective establishment of a ordinating committee for pooling of economic resources for war SEEN AS COMPANY Owen D Young Gerard Swope Retire As Active Heads of Big Company NEW YORK Nov General Electric company Western senators were Senator King to Work for Westerner As Successor To Justice Butler WASHINGTON Nov 17 AP That is why Toby is in the den institution Three months ago a member of the board visited den and decided the local school was among the best in the States in the rebuilding of ward boys and girls I talked to Toby on Thursday and opened the conversation by asking Toby are you a bad With a big grin as he shut his es until there was only a slit the eye lids through which to peer out Toby gave evidence of embarrassment as though he did not want to pass judgment on self Til never drink he said My father has become a ard and some of my companions like liquor but I've quit Asked how he got his whiskey he said Americans bought the liquor for him and his boy friends is what Americans have en doing in the west where In- lians are not allowed to have strong drink Dishonorable whites act as ed today retirement of Owen D Young and Gerard Swope from active management of the com- any C E Wilson will become president and Philip D Reed chairman of the board The changes become effective Jan 1 1940 Wilson has been executive vice president of the company and Reed assistant to the president Young and Swope will assume the titles respectively of ary chairman and honorary ident The elevation of Reed and son came almost as a birthday gift to both for Thursday Reed was 40 and Saturday Wilson will be 53 Directors of General Electric de- clared a dividend on the common stock of 65 cents a share payable Dec 20 to holders of record Nov 24 It brings the total common stock payments for the year to a share cents in 1938 compared with 90 DARING NAZI PLANE LONDON Nov aircraft German guns fired today on a plane in the Lancashire area No bombs were dropped The plane penetrated South cashire Cheshire and North Wales m the most daring reconnaissance flight attempted since the war started The Nazi pilot ed the of England The plane flying at about feet caused air raid alarms -in 13 towns of southwest Lancashire Cheshire and North Wales All clear signals were sounded within 15 minutes after the alarm Observers said they saw shell bursts near the plane which ever speeded away in an easterly direction Minister On Duty After Gout Attack LONDON Nov Minister Neville Chamberlain left his official residence at No 10 Downing street today for the first time since he suffered a severe attack of gout nine days ago He wore a felt slipper on the affected oot day over the need for appointment of a supreme court justice from beyond the Mississippi river to succeed Justice Pierce Butler Several of them said they would urge President Roosevelt to name a westerner but Senator Borah questioned the of geography in the selection The name of Attorney General Frank Murphy figured Although a resident of than of the west Murphy is a Catholic as was Butler Services Today in fact was the only member of that faith on the court He died early day after a long illness and his funeral was set foe eleven a m E S T today at St Matthew's Burial in St Paul Minn his former home It Mr Roosevelt would not Justice after congress convenes in ary There is no litigation of out- standing importance on tional questions before the court The fifth vacancy among the justices since Mr Roosevelt took office emphasized anew the ability that his appointees will dominate the court for years to The four men he has pointed so far have been young To Back Stephens Many members of congress from the west have contended that in such probable long-time up of the court their section should be represented Justice Butler was the only justice whose home was west of the Mississippi though Justice William O las lived in the Pacific northwest in his youth On the other hand Senators was generally expected that name FBI CONTINUES BALTIMORE Nov 17 AP Broken flabby and ailing face Al Capone stared vacantly at the ceiling of a hospital suite today free of on cells in which he lived for en years but sentenced now to a lingering brain disease Outside the one-time Chicago gang Czar's room sat a male derly and a nurse In or near the hospital were three federal agents assigned by Attorney General Murphy to keep the fallen vice emperor under surveillance be- cause Murphy said Certain things have come to our Whether the agents were to guard Capone from himself or from possible gangland reprisal was not made clear No ed police were assigned to Union Memorial hospital and officials asserted none would be unless re- quested by the institution The gangster chief came here secretly Thursday from the al prison at Pa and entered the general hospital as the patient of Dr Joseph E Moore former director of the syphilis di- vision of- the Johns Hopkins cal clinic He was suffering from softening of the it was learned that while his condition was serious he was in no diate danger Dr Moore and hospital officials to discuss the case At- Murphy said pone would be under treatment possibly three weeks and planned to go to Miami after his discharge Murphy added that relatives had assured him the racketeer who served his time for income tax evasion would go Hospital attendants who saw PREPARED German guns will speak in an unmistakable ner in the next few weeks Berlin sources hinted today as France replying to offers of mediation demanded that Berlin repair injustices imposed on Austria and Poland Meanwhile the peace-loving lowlands of Holland were marked with trenches above against a possible attack against her frontiers Roosevelt Peace Offer Futile Nazis Declare By LOUIS P LOCHNER BERLIN Nov sources said day that any general mediation offer by President Roosevelt at this time would be uninteresting so far as Germany is concerned France's injection of Austrian U S Bund Leader Branded Nuisance and Threat To Liberties restitution into the issues at stake in the European conflict these sources declared shows ly the allies regard all peace talks as futile However should President ask both sides to dis- close war aims to him with a view to finding some common basis for mediation Germany would be most likely to respond these sources in- The president has indicated no intention of taking either NEW YORK Nov offering general mediation or I Attorney Thomas E asking the belligerents to outline I testified as a defense their war aims to him Mediation Refused France in her reply last Sunday to a offer of mediation demanded as a dition that Germany repair tices which force has imposed on Austria and land German guns will speak in an unmistakable manner in ensuing weeks it was hinted The western front was quiet day however A communique from the army high command In the west with minor local Continued on Page 2 Col fo Weekend At Hyde Park HYDE PARK N Y Nov 17 CAP President Roosevelt arrived here from Washington today toring from a special train to his country home to spend the end AUTHOR SUCCUMBS CHICAGO Nov 17 AP George Graham 64 English tor who played the part of Capone said he looked pale and His wife Continued Page S Col 6 u MauriCe mother and and aPPeared in atre guild productions for several dead ness at the grand larceny trial of Fritz Kuhn today he considered the German-American bund leader a nuisance to the community and probably a threat to civil liberties Dewey prominently mentioned as a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination was called to the stand by Peter L F batino Kuhn's counsel who he hoped to prove that the prosecution of the bund leader had a political motivation Kuhn is accused of ing of the bund's money to his own uses Bund members have testified that under the principle of the bund Kuhn had absolute power to use its money as he saw fit Sabbatino asked Dewey who is responsible for bringing Kuhn to trial if he had any personal mus against the Never having seen the man be- Dewey replied it would be impossible for me to have personal animosity And yet on the other hand I have considered him a nuisance to the community and probably a threat to civil liberties JAPANESE REPORT ADVANCE IN CHINA F R Laughs At Third Term Fails to Produce Dunce Cap Adams and King Utah said they thought a man miliar with the problems of the west should be nominated Both King and Adams said they did not feel the west had been en representation by the dent's selection of Justice las King announced that he again would urge the appointment of Judge Harold M Stephens of Utah a member of the United States court of appeals here Stehens is a Catholic Supt Francis Child of the local school says the Eskimo is more a victim of circumstances than Continued on Page S-A Col S STEEL KING DIES BUFFALO N Y Nov 17 AP Charles H 60 Youngstown Ohio assistant vice president in charge of operations for Republic Steel Corp Is dead Nazis Bomb Swiss With Propaganda BASEL Switzerland Nov 17 AP A German propaganda bomber flew 60 miles into erland today strewing thousands of anti-British pamphlets from Basel to Zug The pamphlets were printed in French By EDDY GILMORE WASHINGTON Nov 17 This is a saga with gestures and facial expressions on the third terra issue or what makes dent Roosevelt laugh the loudest July 9 1937 Mrs Roosevelt appearing at a question and an- swer session of the Franklin D Roosevelt Home club of Hyde Park said she hoped her husband would not seek a third term Oct 13 Elliott son of the I wouldn't know actually er he plans to run again but I hope he doesn't Being the son of the president is times a handicap July 3 Roosevelt eldest son of the is up to father July 20 reply to a re- porter's question about a third term the president threw back his head laughed and suggested the newsman put on a dunce cap and stand in the corner July 22 James evelt mother of the president said that as far as health alone was concerned her son could stand a third term very well Aug 12 the 12th an- of Calvin Coolidge's statement I do not choose to the president was asked about the third term He threw back his head and laughed and then asked if the reporter was suggesting that he spend his days in the Black Hills of South Dakota Aug 4 1939 Postmaster eral Farley in Berlin Only Mr Roosevelt knows whether Mr Roosevelt will run again and he hasn't seen fit to tell Nov 10 1939 Asked at his press conference if ment that friends of Vice dent Garner were pressing the candidacy would make any change in his plans the ident threw back his head ed and said don't be so subtle He didn't get a chance to tion the dunce cap and the corner for a reporter said it for him The strange thing about it all is that the room in which the dent holds his press conferences is circular 1 It has no corners 2 No one has ever produced a dunce cap HONGKONG Nov Japan officially reported today a steady advance in western tung province toward China's back door links with French Indo-China and British Burma but the Chinese minimized both the and extent of the The Japanese said their forces which landed Wednesday 45 miles west of the treaty port of on the gulf of Tonking and 35 miles east of the Indo-Chinese der had driven northward 30 miles to 25 miles from the border of ince one of their objectives ROOSEVELT DELAYS COURT APPOINTMENT HYDE PARK N Y Nov 17 Roosevelt told re- porters today he would wait until congress convenes in un- less some emergency arises to fill the supreme court vacancy left by the death of Justice Butler He said he had given to a successor ENGINEER PASSES ATLANTA Nov Francis M Simonds 73 New York mining engineer a leader the American Institute of Mining Is dead Hitler Breaks With Advisors British Claim GERM ANY WARNS BELGIUM TO END AID TO ENGLAND Baltic States Accused of Making Shipments to Great Britain BERLIN Nov The Nazi press warned today against ing with the British blockade and announced that German warships were going to put an end to secret shipments of timber to Great Britain from certain Baltic states Beobachter the Nazi organ said Germany henceforth must convince herself that neutral cargoes were not destined for Brit- ain that this goes primarily for timber cargoes which in recent weeks have in a striking manner and in great quantities been ing from the Baltic to neutral countries where they have never gone before Suspicious Routes If these new trade routes are suspicious there are also other grounds for the newspaper said There are many cases of ships which iously always plied to Britain These ships now give as their even the United States although they are not equipped for Atlantic voyages In certain neutral ports strange market for timber trade have been created which only exist from inventing new methods to cheat German warships The German government has watched these goings on for several weeks It is determined now ever to put an end to them In the case of Belgium kischer Beobachter of which Adolf Hitler once was editor referred to a recent request made to by the British ambassador at Brussels urging that the try help speed up Britain's contra- band control The British ambassador thus Continued on Page 2 Col 1J IN PRAGUE ROW BERLIN Nov 17 AP A Prague dispatch to D N B cial German news agency today I said that nine persons had been shot to death and a large number arrested in connection with dent disturbances there The dispatch said that Prague academies and universities had been ordered closed for three years D N B said these nary measures were taken after students who were described as followers of assaulted Germans Dr Edward Benes was the last president of independent slovakia In Prague Czech high schools and the Karlovy university cal institute were occupied by German schutzstaffel SS de- and about dents boys and girls were hauled away in buses Reasons for this action bv Adolf Hitler's Blackshirt elite guard were vague Lightning War Delay Seen In Rift With Military MORE MEN CALLED England Promises to Retaliate Against Air Raids LONDON Nov British military authorities expressed con- viction today that what they called Germany's indecisive tactics on the western front were the result of ment between Adolf Hitler and his general staff These authorities did not close what information they had to support this view but said they considered it bolstered because Germany had not hard blows against Britain and France which they said was the usual German plan There were hints also of sharp retaliation against any ment of British cities Cite International Law Asked what British policy would be toward any bombing of open cities or any use of gas one source referred questioners to al law and to provisions for tion where the law is violated A German warplane flew over the Shetland Islands off the ern Scottish coast scene of a Nazi air bombing Monday The war office announced that men were needed for home defense battalions of the British army The announcement was made as recruiting opened to double the strength of the women's auxiliary territorial service Men between the ages of 35 and 50 serve in the home battalions whose duties involve guarding spots in Britain so that regular troops may be released for more active service Women of the auxiliary which will be increased from to serve as clerks cooks feurs and in other capacities be- hind the lines Strike In Indian Ocean Germany's first stroke against British shipping in the Indian ocean started naval experts ing where the Nazi pocket ships are roving Sources here advanced the the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer sank the British tanker Africa Shell Wednesday off the coasts of Portuguese East Africa British reports have not located the Admiral Scheer since Sept 30 when the British steamer Clement was sunk off the coast of about miles from where the Africa Shell went it had been considered likely here the German warship rounded Cape Horn into the Pacific ocean The Admiral Scheer and the another ton Nazi pocket battleship have been at sea more than a month The Deutschland was known to have been off the coast of foundland Oct 14 five days after she placed a prize crew aboard the United States government-owned freighter City of Flint America Prays for More War Russians Claim MOSCOW Nov Two Soviet publications chided the United States today ing up to ridicule American icy in European affairs The Soviet youth newspaper Komsomol Pravda published a cartoon showing Uncle Sam con- puffing a cigar ing money bags surmounted by skulls and Oh Lord let us have continuous war The newspaper Trud organ of the trade unions attacked American administration of the Philippines while it said the United States was shedding crocodile tears over the fate of small states in Europe The press continued its against Finland which has rejected Soviet demands for concessions Komsomol Pravda warned the Finnish to remember the fate of Poland FRENCH REPULSE PARIS Nov artillery drove back strong man patrols east of the Moselle south of Saarbruecken and north of Wissembourg it was announced today Smaller German patrols were dispersed east of the Saar river and in the Blies region where a French detachment surprised German in- fantry digging new trench lines and machine gun emplacements Heavy rains kept planes ed again COMPOSER LOSES DAD NEW YORK Nov 17 August Janssen 70 famed and the father of Werner Janssen symphony orchestra leader and composer died today WORLD WAR MEMORIES By United Press The World war 25 years ago Nov 17 1914 British occupied East Africa which was evacuated by Germans First battle of Ypres with British strongly entrenched Turks defeated at Basra Russian squadron bombarded Trebizond German fleet bombarded Libau
