Ogden Standard-Examiner (Newspaper) - November 19, 1939, Ogden, Utah WEATHER IDAHO Fair Sunday Monday no change in temperature UTAH Fair Sunday Monday little change Seventieth 147 Butte Cheyenne Chicago 51 S Lake 30 Denver Los St THE ASSOCIATED THE UNITED OGDEN CITY UTAH SUNDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 19 1939 Martial Order Quells Czechs In Five Areas President Asks Nation To Stop Further Sacrifices GERMANS EXEMPT Firing Squads Called To Suppress Acts Of PRAGUE Nov Germany used the firing squad again Saturday and then added martial law to its stern measures to stamp out anti-German moves in the protectorate of Bo- The execution of three more sons two policemen and an uni- Czech brought to 12 the j number shot to death in 48 hours i Nine students were executed day Martial law established in Prague Beraun and did affect German citizens All these districts are near Prague Kladno to the west Beraun to the southwest and to the northeast President Warns Simultaneous with the of martial law President Emil Hacha broadcast a warning that any further sacrifice for the Czech nation serves no purpose Hacha declared that tions would be suppressed by the public might of the German and Czech governments and urged the people of the protectorate to obey with all discipline the appeal which I and you the government direct to Prague appeared calm but reaction to the executions f the alleged ringleaders in the acts and the closing Prague academies and uiih sities for three years was reported to have spread to other sections of the protectorate It apparently was for this reason that martial law was introduced in the five areas Incidents similar to those in Prague were reported to have curred in Bruenn the second largest city The first detailed picture of what occurred during the night from Thursday to Friday preceding the executions was pieced together HACHA Sacrifice is useless JURY CONVICTS Faces Life Term for Killing of Marshal POCATELLO Nov 18 district court jury Saturday night convicted J B Hargraves Jr 27 of first degree murder for the Bob Hunter marshal here last through informed night sources Guns Placed Detachments of Schutzstaffel Black Shirt Elite Guards were stationed in the streets where the homes were located were set up in some places and during the early ing hours the schools were suddenly In the Svehla in to one version on Page 2 Col 1 ing of F F meda village July The jury fixed the penalty at life imprisonment District C J Taylor set next Wednesday as time for pronouncing sentence During the two weeks trial graves testifying in his own be- half asserted his gun discharged accidentally as Hunter seeking to take the weapon away from him grasped it by the barrel NEUTRALITY ACT ADMINISTRATION BURDENS OFFICE Revision Fails to Be Called for Despite Extra Work IN New Law Requires More Information From Shippers WASHINGTON Nov of the new neutrality act has proved far more arduous in its first fortnight than the one it re- placed but it is unlikely that the state department will ask congress for any new tion Deluged with inquiries ing the act and interpretations particular sections the department has had to issue a long analysis of the section relating to commerce with warring nations Some would like to have seen this section written more simply but they will not make any effort to change the wording of licenses for the ex- port of arms ammunition and im- of war is rapidly miding Before the previous act was invoked the state department was issuing about 125 a week After the embargo was imposed licenses fell to between 70 and 80 a week Now in one day they have touched 50 mostly to the heavy backlog of ders piled up by the embargo The new act requires much more information from arms than before What officials must know is the terms of sale because they are required to ply congress with biannual re- ports containing all such details The division of controls of the department has prepared a cial information blank which must fill out in regular Since some manufacturers have failed to supply the desired GROUPS OBJECT TO STATE DELAY AT SANATORIUM Union Leaders Join Others In Move to Speed Use NEEDS DECLARED Funds Lie Dormant Backers State In Letters A concerted effort to get the state to open its tuberculosis sanatorium here which has been completed and lying idle since last April was under way Saturday by the state sanatorium society ers groups and other labor organizations Ora Bundy president of the Utah Sanatorium society declared his organization is very much perturbed over the long delay in bringing about a situation by this institution can be utilized Preliminary surveys have ready determined that more than 600 active cases are awaiting proper attention and in the name of humanity it would seem the public officials charged with the duty of operating and maintaining this institution by mandate from our 1937 legislature should at once attack this problem with the most sincerity and Bundy declared Services Offered Bundy said his organization had offered its services in helping de- termine what public funds might be diverted to expand the operation and maintenance fund 3 Pages FINAL EDITION 140 on Dutch Passenger Liner Reported Dead As Mine Struck provided by the but that legislature for nearly half of biennium has passed with no outlay for operation and LOOK OUT BELOW Germany Saturday had apparently made good her threat to Intensify war on neutral shipping as the Dutch passenger ship Simon Bolivar was reported sunk in the North sea by an uncharted Nan mine If the British report is true scenes like the ones pictured above were enacted before and after the disaster At right is shown a United States mine striking a dummy target and at left the lethal load is about to be paced in the path of enemy craft maintenance It would seem an intelligent INCREASE comprehensive study of this ern might well determine a source from which funds can be made he said Morrell's Statement Dr Joseph R Morrell chairman of state mation their been held up applications have Arms fco belligerents must be paid for in cash before being ed The vastly increased work of suing licenses with all the Attorney General J W Taylor i tional information required and who was associated with Bannock County Attorney Clarence M frey challenged in his closing statement Hargraves assertion The attorney said Hargraves fired a second shot thus ing the defendant's contention the killing was accidental I The shooting took place in of the home of the parents of graves wife in Alameda a tello suburb the necessity of preparing two long reports per year for congress have added to the duties of the state department FRANK and VIEWS Colonel F C Harrington nation W P A administrator told an audience in Salt Lake City tha everywhere he is asked how long the WPA will last His answer is This is a real war against unemployment and due to the conditions existent in this coun try tody it is going to be a long one But we will win Speaking of the cost he said The nation not only can continue to survive spending billions for re- lief but I honestly believe it will not survive if the money is not The total appropriated up to date is seven billion dollars agree with Col Harrington I am of the opinion that we suddenly were to turn away WPA the country overnight face a crisis Utah would suffer shock thousands would go hungry and rious unrest would take possession of the people So far I have failed to learn of any sound alternative being posed by which to displace the WPA Col Harrington made this ob- servation Perhaps you have no- Iced the flood of WPA jokes that erran the country four years ago practically nonexistent today Not only did the country get bored them hut they ceased to be funny in the light of WPA CHINESE SUPPLY ROAD IN DANGER Japanese Advance Toward Highway Railroad To Indo-China HONGKONG Nov 18 AP The Japanese army announced that it had made a mile advance in four days and en- tered province in its thrust at China's southwestern lifeline supply routes If this is true famed for its fighting men becomes fourteenth of China's 24 provinces to be invaded since the Japanese began in July 1937 to conquer China The announcement came from the headquarters on Dragon Head island of the expedition which Wednesday effected a landing un der the guns of a fleet on thi western Kwangtung province coast only 35 miles from the French Indo-China border Council Head Guzzles for Sake GARY Ind Nov Richard S Kaplan president of the Gary Safety council drank four ounces or two-year-old bourbon whisky at the city hall Saturday for sake was enough to intoxicate him according to a ter The test made in the presence of police officers and members of the safety council was de- signed to prove the value of drunkometer evidence in for drunken driving and intoxication cases Kaplan took four drinks within 10 minutes then waited an hour before blowing his breath into the little balloon of he drunkometer An analysis of his breath showed 164 of one per cent of alcohol in his blood Under Indiana law a person is intoxicated if the alcohol count reaches 15 of one per cent e board of health re- the need for additional buildings including a laundry living ters for employes garage and other structures If additional money not be obtained it may be neces- sary to use part of the maintenance fund for this purpose which would further delay the opening he said Meanwhile several other added their voice to re- quests that the institution be put to use at once The metal miners of Utah are very anxious to see the new sanatorium opened in said a signed statement by K O Bunting president and tary of district No 2 International Umon of Mine Mill Smelter Workers Salt Lake City This opening which has been Continued on Page 2 Col BY FOUR BOMBS LONDON Nov 18 Four bombs exploded Saturday night in the smart Piccadilly Circus area London's Times Square and startled theatregoers in what lice termed renewal of the out- lawed Irish Republican army It was the first serious outbreak since the war began The windows of at least four stores were smashed and one atre front was damaged No one was hurt apparently be- cause comparatively few persons were on the black-out streets One bomb was within 100 yards of the police station Two other bombs were found before they ex- Pay for Extra Time Will Labor Chieftain BERLIN Nov 18 Nazi Germany increased the laborer's working day in essential industries Saturday from eight to ten hours Robert Ley leader of the Nazi labor front announced the longer working day and said that pay for the ninth and tenth hours although at the same rate as for the first eight would be tax free Women will not be asked to work nights and an extra pay rate will be established for night and day work The announcement closely lowed a series of moves to boost production and meet a labor age The economic institute in lin reported the Reich faced an acute labor shortage as long ago as May 27 During the summer and fall de- crees placed women under 25 and students at work on farms vesting the crops and drafted Czech manpower bringing Czechs into German industry from A decree Friday introduced bor service for Poles in occupied territory in Poland In- formed persons said the new law included all Jews but Poles who were without work Meanwhile Adolf Hitler publicly thanked German farmers for vesting their crops and planting new ones despite the worst of weather and a lack of farm hands With the aid of the Hitler said the German people's nourishment from products of their own soil will thereby be teed for the ensuing year Nazi Pocket Ships Are Headache To Britons British Blame Nazis For Neutral Craft Disaster I HEAVIEST LOSS Women and Children Among Missing Claim LONDON Nov AP The Netherlands passenger liner Simon Bolivar sunk in the North sea with a possible loss of 140 lives Saturday after striking a mine which the British admiralty charged the Germans had laid without notifying neutral shipping The vessel carried 400 persons including women and dren A total of 260 survivors of whom 140 were said to be men were landed at an unnamed British port Many of the rescued were re- ported badly injured Official sources here expressed fear that all those missing were dead Aside from British naval losses it was the worst sea disaster d Europe's current war The heaviest loss to a ing ship previously was in the sinking of the British liner Athenia northwest of Ireland Sept 3 the day Britain and France de- clared war on Germany The loss was reported at 112 persons Two other ships their names and nationalities undisclosed were damaged by mines near the spot where the Simon Bolivar sank Both made port The admiralty charged mans laid the mine in nel followed by merchant ships without notice to neutrals and U J frr War even this oddity among wars in Europe is of destroying such shipping what Sherman said it laughing matter by very free it sometimes has almost comic aspects If it is true that one of the menacing Nazi threats at a pocket battleship has sunk a tiny British sea tramp the relativities of that episode of this war put on the ridiculous side Using an gun fly swatter to squash an unarmed British mid- the sea must make even German admiralty folk laugh Worry British Nevertheless this new glimpse of where the Nazi navy pride Deutschland or her sister ship the Admiral Scheer are roving is a grave matter for British Admiralty Until those twin makers are accounted for Brit- boasted rule of the waves is only a boast British tars such as the huge Hood a tonner and other big fast powerful units of the British navy will continue to be seeing a lot of seas they might otherwise never have glimpsed Just how seriously the British navy and merchant fleet must take the prolonged freedom of these made clear in rumors that the Hood has recently been in sight of Continued on Page S Col ZJ Brazil Gets First Ship In Purchase NEW YORK Nov 18 liner was turned over to the Brazilian government first of 14 ships the company recently sold to the South American Republic for PUBLIC SERVICES JUSTICE ST PAUL Nov 18 AP A change in funeral arrangements to provide for a period during which ne public may view the body of States Supreme Court tice Pierce Butler who died in Washington Thursday was an- Saturday The public funeral services will be held at CST Monday in St Luke's Catholic hurch instead of at nine as planned It is well the WPA jokes have ceased because they were Continued on Pugg 2 CoL CHURCHMAN DIES PORTLAND Ore Nov 18 AP Bishop Wallace E Brown 71 in charge of Methodist church work in Oregon Washington ho and Alaska died here day He came here from nooga Tenn Nov 7 Well Well Man Who Raised Thanksgiving Day Rumpus Will Sit Down On 23rd and to Turkey Day Dinner NEW YORK Nov 18 AP After all the fuss and flurry Thanksgiving it developed that the household of the man who made the first recorded request for an earlier date will have two turkey day dinners after the 23rd and the The man is Lew Hahn genial gray-haired general manager of the National Retail Dry Goods association who suggested to of Commerce Hopkins in August that Thanksgiving be ed ahead a week Shortly after- wards President Roosevelt said he intended to propose such a change The immediate prospect of ting down twice to Thanksgiving on the 23rd date New York is observing and again when his youngest son returns for Thanksgiving from Brown Uni- versity in Rhode Island which is observing the shaken belief that the idea of an earlier Thanksgiving is mentally sound He's convinced it will enable the least the part that's observing the earlier do its Christmas shopping more easily with less worry and fuss and that it probably will lead to more ness and increased employment Nor is he alarmed over the baloo that followed President changing the date He never gets alarmed Of ha said Saturday with a hearty laugh I was quite unprepared for the storm it kicked up It looked to me for awhile as if New England was going to secede from the union A great many people who have been opposing the thing talk as if Thanksgiving were a fixed date but it never has been It has roamed all over the calendar And it's only one day earlier this year than it was the last Apparently there's no difficulty getting folks to give thanks on the not on the He doesn't know for sure that he had anything to do with ting the date dent's mind may have been made up he said If a man shoots up into a tree and a bird falls down the man may think he did it But of course the bird may have fallen down anyway Hahn's letter to Secretary kins was dated August 2 He wrote it after receiving a number of letters from various members of the association saying that the Christmas shopping time was too short About eleven days later dent Roosevelt announced his in- tention of proclaiming November 23 as day In some previous years Thanksgiving fell on a late date the association has pointed out to government officials that it worked a hardship not only on merchants but on employes Some estimate that as a result of a week's extra business this year additional persons will receive employment Hahn not give his own estimate but said the association would in- quire from its members what it has meant in larger volume and more employment Hahn's colonial ancestry can be traced as far back as that jf the New Englanders indignant over the upset of a tradition His mother's family Settled in hattan in the days of Peter He has been ragged toy some friends who said why should an American tradition give way to economic his reply has Why did the Pilgrims give For bounteous harvests giving is particularly linked to the economic needs of the people No one certainly has it in his mind not to give thanks for our many blessings But we thanks just as on the 23rd as on the 24th Maj Benjamin H Namm vice president of the association for the middle Atlantic states also has received some ragging over the ad- date A Vermont woman saw him in a newsreel discussing the subject and wrote to him complaining that she would have to buy two turkeys She asked him to send her POLICE SUSPECT OGDEN MURDER Body of Man Found In Rail Car Believed Victim of Utah Shooting Ogden police were late Saturday investigating the possibility a man found dead in a boxcar in Wells Nev may have been murdered in Ogden Friday A message from Sheriff C A Harper of Elko county Nev in- formed Ogden officers the man was found at three a m day He had been shot through the back of the head The train he was found on left Ogden at seven p m Friday the message said Chief of Police Dewey F ins said a thorough investigation was being conducted here but there were no reports of anyone missing who answered description of the man He may have been killed in Cheyenne or somewhere else to the Chief Hawkins said There are a lot of empty box cars moving west at present The murder victim was ed by Sheriff Harper as between 30 and 35 years of age five feet ten inches tall dark complexion with dark hair wearing a sweat shirt with a light shirt over it and a union suit His pants were ing WYOMING TOWN MAYOR KILLED KEMMERER Wyo Nov 18 J R Marquis er mayor and chairman of the coln county board of ers was killed Saturday when his automobile overturned on a curve a mile south of here Coroner William Lyons said quis car rolled over several times crushing the official who was re- turning to Kemmerer from a ness trip to Salt Lake City INVOLVED S L AUTO CRASH SALT LAKE CITY Nov 18 R Aikin 22 and Ralph Forney 28 both of Ogden escaped injury Saturday when the automobile in which they were ing collided with a car police said was driven by Frank Soyka 37 of Salt Lake City at a downtown in- The statement added that mishap to the Simon Bolivar hi a further example of the utter dis- regard of international law and dictates of humanity shown by the German government Among the survivors Saturday night was an baby and a little boy who called continuously where is my The British Sunday morning press with one voice attributed the sinking to Nazi gangster ods and described it as an- other ruthless blow at peaceful shipping The last listing of the Simon ivar in the New York maritime register showed the vessel sailed Oct 17 from Barbados West In- dies for Amsterdam Lloyds register lists the Simon Bolivar as an vessel whose home port was Amsterdam She was 419 feet long and was built in 1927 The vessel belonged to the al Netherlands Steamboat com- pany Doctors and ambulances waited at the quayside as the injured were brought to shore at the unnamed British port The gravely injured were ried to hospitals while others were given first aid at the dock Of the 260 rescued 140 were said to be members of the crew Guilt Denied BERLIN Nov 18 AP sources ing Saturday night on the sinking of the Netherlands liner Simon Bolivar in the North sea said a German mine could not have been responsible They declined further comment WEST COAST SEA STRIKE SETTLED SAN FRANCISCO Nov 18 AP strike of the rine union against steam schooner operators ended Saturday with the signing of a work ment and return of about 400 union members to the 60 vessels tied up in the dispute At Hyde Park the temporary White House refused comment on a telegraphed request for intervention in the San Francisco strike because the tele- gram was made public before it reached President Roosevelt The telegram sent by Mayor An- gelo Rossi of San Francisco was received here after its contents appeared hi the morning pers CURRICULA STUDY URGED SALT LAKE CITY Nov 18 AP Henry Aldous Dixon dent of Weber college of Ogden advocated Saturday a study to de- termine whether there is over- lapping of courses in curricula of Utah high schools and colleges
