Ogden Standard-Examiner (Newspaper) - November 23, 1939, Ogden, Utah WEATHER Utah with little change in temperature night and Friday Idaho Fair night and Friday little change in temperature Seventieth 151 TEMPERATURES For 24-hour period ending m today Ogden 27 Minneapolis 35 Boise Calgary Chicago Denver Portland Helena Salt Kalispell Kansas San Rran 46 Seattle 63 Los Miles City THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE UNITED Thanksgiving Day's Message Forgotten Minister Declares OGDEN CITY UTAH THURSDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 23 1939 Here's Santa Land In Preview Studio REV ROY B CARLSON Count our blessings 25 STATES JOIN IN THANKSGIVING Second Table to Be Set By 23 States On Nov 30 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Families in 25 states sat down today at the first table of the nation's dual Thanksgiving ing in President Roosevelt's ex- pressed hope that the world will soon be at peace The second table will not be served until next Thursday in states whose governors declined to follow the president's decision to advance the holiday a week Despite the confusion over the date there was unanimity in pul- pits and in quiet households in echoing Mr Roosevelt's Let us give thanks to the Ruler of the Universe for the hope that lives within us of the coming of the day when peace and the productive activities Continued on Page 2 Col S FRANK NEWS and VIEWS In the morning mail T received Salt Lake The Good Luck of a chain letter with instructions to mail a copy in twenty-four hours In the letter was a warning that if I luck bad luck would pursue me broke the chain but good would attend my compliance with instructions The chain originated in New York and is expected to go four times around the world Having no faith in these prog- perhaps my duty would be to break the chain by ignoring the warning Hit By Pastor In Union Service Talk RECALL PILGRIMS Rejoice At Blessings Of God He Tells Audience Belief that Thanksgiving day has lost much of its force and meaning and degenerated into a mere was ex- pressed by the Rev Roy B Carlson pastor of the Elim Lutheran church in his mon at Union Thanksgiving day services for Protestant churches held in the First Methodist church Today there is too much ure seeking and not enough ing after God and salvation through Jesus Christ There is too much physical feasting and not enough feasting with the Lord There is too much dancing to carnal desires and not enough dancing for joy in the Lord Too Much Boasting There is too much boasting about what man has done and no enough humility before God Pilgrim Fathers came to this coun try in order to be free to worship God sometimes it appears as i America today lives to forget God and to make fun of that same God It is well to have a day of thanksgiving once a year but it is far more beautiful to brate Thanksgiving every day in the year The person who has ing for which to be thankful is to be pitied The thankless heart for- gets the thankful heart bers Today as a nation community and individual we should rejoice because we cannot count the ings of God unto us Why? For too many to count As we count our blessings this morning we look in three tions The first direction is named yesterday No one can read the history of our nation without izing that God has bestowed His love upon us in every way Every page of our national history con- tains a record of some loving act bestowed upon us Look Around You The second direction for us to look is named today Look around you now and see if there is not much for which to be thankful of God who feeds clothes and shelters us So many are inclined to complain and find fault with this and that Sometimes However some one may be cheered by the message and so I will send it on its way Let me see there is Mayor-Elect bbott No man is more in need good luck in facing his new tasks But he will have vexations enough without being encumbered with a chain letter so 1 will mail the document on westward and north to Fairbanks Alaska where the boys from Ogden are building an airbase wishing them the gooc luck to be permitted to come ou this winter to greet Santa at Christmas time in Ogden Or if that is not possible that they be allowed to visit us in the spring when the trees are ding and the intermountain try is at its best Utah boys for enlistment in the last artillery corps are wanted Eight hundred young men are to be sent to the Panama canal This is notice that Uncle Sam is preparing to make the canal less vulnerable That ditch across the narrow strip of land separating the two oceans is now regarded as our life line and must be better fortified Utah boys undoubtedly are ing to play their part in making America safe An old man was on one of our street corners selling papers this As I went by in a bus and saw him offering his papers in a timid way I wondered what kind of a Continued on Page 2 Col 6 we may wonder whether we can be truly ful when there is so much con- fusion trouble sickness and agony n the world when we are living in a time of economic depression and the world is upset by the of warfare Positively yes We may be deprived of this and that they may starve us they may kill our body but thank God they can not destroy our may live on forever We are ful for spiritual blessings among which are the church the Bible and the means of grace and Then we should thankful for our homes yes Christian lomes The third direction for us to look is named tomorrow What about Can we be Continued on Page 2 Col 2 IN UTAH CRASH the car in companions TOOELE Nov 23 on collision that resulted in the de- by fire of a civilian con- servation corps supply truck brought fatal injuries to one son and less serious hurts to four others Sam Cook 28 of Stockton Calif died Wednesday a few hours after which he and three were riding crashed into the CCC truck near here His brother William Cook 32 was reported in serious and his sister-in-law Mrs Walter Cook who was driving and the latter s son Walter eight suffered cuts and bruises Sheriff Alma White said the truck received only the impact HOLIDAY GREETINGS Three thousand one hundred and forty gay-colored Christmas bulbs including the giant star at fourth and Washington above will transform the business district into a fairyland of lights Friday evening at seven-thirty o'clock when Santa Claus will be welcomed by thousands of The new holiday greeting panels and the scrolls at the utility polls may be seen in the above photograph snapped during the Wednesday evening testing of the holiday lights IL OUGE SUMMONS FASCIST LEADERS ROME Nov mier Mussolini 23 Pre- today summoned TTI Fascist grand council to meet Dec 7 in the Palazzo Venezia There was no immediate icn whether Italy's highest forming body had been called to consider the international situation or internal problems SANTA EAGER TO CALL ON OGDEN Fairyland of Lights Glow In Test for Friday Celebration S Glaus manager of the toy manufacturing company which bears hie name received the thrill of his life evening when word was brought to his plant here that the new Christmas lights of Ogden were tested out in a preview and reported to be more beautiful and brilliant than ever before Ogden is really the Christmas city of the Santa exclaim ed to Mrs Santa as she sewed o his new red flannel suit trimme with fur and saw that his new pai of shiny black boots were for the visit I can hardly wait until my ar rival there at seven thirty Friday evening They tell me ther are no less than Christmas bulbs which will be There are new Holida Greeting panels in the block an new Santa Land silhouettes at in and on each pole are attractive scrolls with golden bulbs The city will be a regular fairy land of Mr Santa reports that he use the facilities of the North Pol Airplane company Inc to reaa Ogden in time for the the business district Th sarade downtown will be led bj Union termina band and the fire chief's auto More than 100 Boy Scouts wi ake part in the welcoming of Santa helping to keep the crowds in when the new Christmas system on downtown streets turned on They tell me my arrival will b heralded by blowing of the South era Pacific shop's whistle said Santa in anticipation of his visit I'm going to pull the whistle cord ay a remote control or a half minute before the mayor lashes the switch which will ilium nate the holiday lights I'm going to ride in a brightly painted bus modern style they tell me My sponsors the Ogden chamber of commerce retail trades merchants have ar- ranged a loud speaker system so that I will be able to talk to the children and parents too There will be a band of ies and dwarfs on hand to assist me Fair weather is predicted anc everyone is invited to the want to see how many new ones I have to make toys for this Christmas Our plant is running to capacity and we have stepped up production and working at top speed See you all Friday evening cial holiday opening season at den F D Lead Part of Nation In Observance WARM SPRINGS Ga Nov 23 UP President and Mrs velt led the nation in its ance of Thanksgiving day a Joy 28 a week fore thV traditional last Thursday in November by proclamation Although the president will make the advanced holiday official by carving a turkey at dinner tonight 14 Pages BELGIANS FINED AS ARMY DUTY ESCAPED BRUSSELS Nov Twenty Belgians literally threw fits to escape service in the army the government charged today as it held two nurses and a hospital attendant accused of collecting to from each man for tion in simulating the symptoms of epilepsy at for infantile paralysis sufferers 23 states will adhere to the al date and celebrate the day of giving thanks next Thursday Nov 30 At the Foundation a six-year-old girl a recent arrival will be the presidential guest of honor tonight She is blue-eyed Ann Smothers of Frankfort Kentucky who won the honor by drawing straws with the 90 other infantile paralysis patients at the Foundation DUTCH PROTEST ALLIED SEIZURE Neutral Powers Losers In Reprisals Says Holland NOTE DISPATCHED Belgium Expected to Add Voice to Attack AMSTERDAM Holland Nov 23 UP The Dutch government today strongly protested to Great Britain against the Allied for seizure of German exports on the high seas which will severely hit the neutral ers A similar protest was expected from Belgium The Netherlands government through her majesty's minister at London today strongly protested against the reprisals the British government considers taking against their enemies but which also severely and particularly hit the neutral who re- German goods as well as those who transport German the government press vic Reprisals Unpleasant Attention is being drawn to the fact that the contemplated British reprisals are very unpleasant as far as Holland is concerned as they reportedly are taken after some shipping disasters of which loss of a big Dutch passenger ship the Simon Bolivar with 84 dead was by far the most important It was believed that Netherlands exports to Great Britain would be reduced proportionately with a de- crease in exports to Germany due to the blockade in order to tain the strictest neutrality Shipping quarters awaited a statement on the policy the Dutch will follow officially in the face of the British and French of the blockade Trade Reduction it for every reduction in Dutch trade with Germany forced by the allied blockade there would be a similar reduction in trade with Britain as a balance to maintain neutrality and avoid renewal of Holiday Edition Germany Parachutes Mines As Shipping Losses Mount Greek Ship Latest Victim Held In Plot Hitler ILLINOIS GUNMAN TAKES OWN LIFE TOPEKA Kans Nov Lee Morford Illinois gunman who kidnaped an Iowa automobile salesman and brought him to died day of a self-inflicted bullet wound Morford previously identified as David Lines shot himself day after barricading himself in a hotel bathroom and defying the police to come after him He after hotel fire with officers who his arrest shot himself police said barricading himself in a bathroom and exchanging attempted With super marksmanship or ex- treme good luck he shot the gun from Detective F L Thompson's hand in return received a bullet wound in his own hand and then pointed his pistol at his head as a police riot squad threw tear gas bombs into his self-selected citadel Police today grilled his kidnap victim Floyd C Wadden 29 Iowa auto salesman said he was abducted by Lines during a used car demonstration ACCUSED Georg Elser per left was accused by German secret police today as the man who set the bomb in the Munich beer hall Nov 8 which took eight lives and which exploded just 11 minutes after Adolf Hitler left Also accused were two British secret service agents Capt ard Henry Stevens upper right and Sigismund Payne Best at seized by Nazis on the frontier Here's Europe Glance neutral nation's were without protest to the allied block ade In addition to the problem maintaining strict neutrality under pressure from both Germany anc the allies Holland and the other neutrals faced economic losses result of the retaliatory embargo on German exports Pending further official cation of its stand the Netherlands government advised Dutch to cancel all sailings It was ex- to make a formal protest against the new British blockade measure contending it is based on rather than upon inter- national law GERMAN SUB SINKS FRENCH FISH BOAT PASAJES Spain Nov crewmen of the French fishing boat Balyes 2nd reported today their boat was sunk off the coast of France by gunfire of a German submarine They said the commander dered them off the boat sank it with five shots and then notified a passing Spanish fishing vessel which picked up the survivors and landed them here late Wednesday Davies to Refurn For Trade Parley BRUSSELS Nov Ambassador Joseph E Daviee ar- ranged today to sail for the United States from Genoa Italy Dec 3 aboard the liner Rex for tions in Washington on Belgian trade negotiations Heritage of Pilgrim Fathers Seen In Rich Spiritual Values The Pilgrims did not have money enough to buy leather to resole their worn shoes Some of them lad literally given their bodies in lard labor as servants to those advanced them money for heir passage to America Their have been rich heritages n spiritual values They were com- elled to depend heavily on God t is only those who have not y tried the faithfulness of God who o not praise Him In times of rich worldly prosperity and peace few His mercies Governor monument in the old cemetery bears this in- What our fathers with o much difficulty secured do not relinquish The national revival of this American Thanksgiving day ed from the work of Sarah Hale first prominent woman in our land She was a widow with five children to support Women were not ed in lucrative work in those days and her condition was largely like that of millions today who find difficulty in obtaining employment Yet it was in her heart poor gling mother that she was to sist in having Lincoln name a day of national Thanksgiving vance in 1863 The rich and well to do cared not and they care little today The problem of religion is not so much to get people into heaven as it is to gel heaven into people here and now If we have little interest in God on earth what should we wish heaven the Reverend John Edward Carver pastor of First Presbyterian By THE PRESS costing England a day Sir John Simon says King prorogues parliament Greek freighter sinks BERLIN Hitler confers with war chiefs German secret police taunt British saying they fooled London agents by radio into be- lieving they were BUCHAREST Premier resigns after breakdown of German negotiations asking more foodstuffs and oil from mania at lower prices PARIS French say six German planes were downed Wednesday Seventh forced down near Conte German communique says four French planes were ed PARLIAMENT TO GATHER NOV 28 LONDON Nov 23 George VI prorogued parliament today A new session is scheduled to open Nov 28 with a full dress debate on all aspects of tlie war The king's statement ending the present session declared the war with Germany was being fought to preserve the birthright of liberty He called the invasion of Poland a challenge which we could not have declined without dishonor to ourselves and without peril to the cause of freedom and tihe progress of mankind The king's statement read to the members said that despite efforts of Britain to preserve peace many in violation of her solemn undertakings wantonly invaded Poland Of Britain's aims he said we seek no material gain Liberty and free institutions are our right which we like our fore- fathers are resolved to preserve The king thanked parliament for prompt and ungrudging ance of heavy financial burdens which he said has deeply ed the world and demonstrates the unflinching determination of my people to make every sacrifice for victory Frenchmen Down German Bomber FRANCHE CONTE France Nov German plane was shot down this ing by a French pursuit ship after it had circled over The plane fell in a field Quake Kills 18 Injures Many ISTANBUL Nov series of violent earthquakes curred in Anatolia today with 18 reported killed and many GERMANS BARE BRITISH PLOT Hookup With English Radio Claimed By Nazi Police As Arrests Made BERLIN Nov 23 from your German man Gestapo opposition With those words according to a official news agency account published today were ed 21 days of wireless contacts be- tween the German secret police and British intelligence 21 days in which the German operative wormed espionage secrets from their foe by posing as revolutionists The whiplash disclosure of the real identity of the revolutionists was said by D N B to have been given only Wednesday That was one day after the tapo had announced obtaining a confession from Georg Elser ol Munich that he planted the time bomb intended for Adolf Hitler The announcement said Elser had British financial backing In the same connection the tapo also had announced the ar- rest of two British secret service men identified as Captain Richard Henry Stevens 42 chief of the Eu- ropean intelligence division and Sigismund Payne Best 54 an aide Wednesday the two men were accused of direct connection with the Munich bomb plot from which Hitler escaped by only 11 minutes on Nov 8 Wednesday night D N B distributed an account of 21 days of coded wireless contacts be- tween the Gestapo and the British intelligence Quoting competent quarters the news agency said that the con- tacts were ended at a m Wednesday with the following In the long run conversation with self-important foolish persons is boresome You will understand if we break off Hearty greetings from your affectionate German op- position German Gestapo Famed Cartoonist Succumbs In N Y NEW YORK Nov 23 UP Walter Hoban cartoonist and ator of the comic strip Jerry on the died at Post Graduate hospital after a brief illness was about 50 He Christmas Opening Issue Set Friday The on Friday will issue its annual official Christmas opening edition The number will be one of the biggest papers of the year and will contain stories and advertisements on tide gift suggestions With Friday evening to see the arrival of Santa Claus merchants of the city are cooperating in store window displays and will decorate their fronts in appropriate Christmast displays Don't miss your copy of the big Friday aminer Thames Estuary Sown With Magnetic Explosives Also Blamed For Shipping Lane Disasters LONDON Nov airplanes are ping sea mines by parachute into the Thames Estuary naval sources said today ia intensification of sea warfare which has taken a toll of 23 ships off the British isles and in the English channel since Saturday The parachute startling new Nazi development in modern disclosed by British sources as reports were received of five more ship sinkings Mine Used Two Nazi airplanes were believed to have sown sea mines in Thames Estuary last night either as an experiment or as part of a broad program Naval sources said they believed the mines planted by airplane had been responsible for a large part of the recent shipping disasters A new form of mine also was blamed for the sinkings Experts said they believed the parachutes dropped from the planes dissolved in the water permitting the mines to sink to the bottom The parachutes presumably were designed to prevent damage to tho delicate of the mines the British said More Ships Sunk Naval experts claimed that the sowing of the parachute mines had been confirmed and expressed be- lief that well as magnetic laid by for the coast shipping disasters including five more reported today The last two reported were the trawler Sulby sunk by a mine and the steamer Darino sunk by U-boat action earlier in the week Three others had been reported earlier today The Greek freighter Elena R tons Argentina to Antwerp bound with a cargo of wheat went down off the southern coast of England after striking a mine Twenty-four persons aboard in- a woman were saved by a coastal lifeboat British Steamer Sunk It was disclosed belatedly that the British Steamer formerly the Candleston Castle tons was sunk by a mine off the Irish coast Tuesday night The crew of 26 was picked up by a British warship A French vessel reported earlier to have gone down off the lish coast was identified today as a French trawler It was feared nine of its crew of 10 were lost Latest merchant fleet sinkings followed the loss of Britain's warship in the war the destroyer Gipsy which the Admiralty announced went down in shallow water after ing a mine off the east coast of England It was feared 40 men were lost in the sinking of the destroyer Twenty-one officers and men were injured German Savagery Latest victims of the sea warfare followed retaliatory action Britain in announcing allied plans to seize German exports and German-owned cargoes on the high seas and the condemnation of Germany's use of magnetic mines as the latest abomination of German savagery by Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon Germany's mining is a breach of the rules of war which only two months ago Germany ly promised to Simon said Wednesday night The Gipsy went down in the North Sea in the region that has become a graveyard for British and neutral shipping mainly be- cause of mine explosions The sel one of the most modern in the Royal navy settled to the tom in shallow water within sight of the coast Preparations for meeting the new danger was being speeded by the ministry of economic fare which said that in a matter of hours the allied blockade of all German exports would start Three members of the crew of the Elena R were injured so seriously they required hospital treatment The woman survivor was the wife of the chief engineer WORLD WAR MEMORIES By United Press THE WORLD Nov 23 Hindenburg pierced Russian line near Lodz and took Russian line near Lodz broken Turkey made formal declaration of war against Allies German force attacked Indian at western front
