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Show THE LEATHER News-Journ- rising slowly lTAH-l- air. For Eighteen Hours Each ii Day The Served By A Direct Wire With the United Press Room la New York City. BOX ELDER COUNTY, BRIGHAM. UTAH, WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER MORNING. 10, 1911 al NUMBER 17G FLEE FROM SOVIET ATTACKS pERMANS Red ATTACK 0FJU.S. HEIGHTENS WAR MUD fS iity u S. FACE y gravest problem licolor W! AYS s d with peihaps its internatiors.il problem 3 NEXT WEEK War. World f the and twin-motore- d face so former Danish Sessa - flying the the iter S S. flag but operated York firm was tor-r- i and sunk southwest of al Aug. 17 with a loss of priors, including one Amer- Five Brotherhoods Tiaaian Sew owing: WM survivors of the Sossa picked up by an Amer- naval vessel Sept. 6. ee Joon Jojw RtOl announcement fol- 11 hours disclosure Sessa i by ihe American Steel Seafarer' at the to the Gulf of Suez in ner id 9IE0j- - residei' s. the destroyer : and a German submar- lashed off the southwest last Friday led Sea t y af;er r; iduce plane had unidentified an ed and sunk re g Iceland of nation proposes to problem may be out- by President Roosevelt day night in a world-wid- e postponed from last because of the death of the : ing other. basis of previous ul- Mr. Roosevelt, it soiieve'd the U. S. Atlantic the bv orders to meet under r NY force if With f'c in nut n - attack Germany a tn n at- i n with coincided rgs by British Prime MinW,nston Churchill that Hitler might force naval - re on the Un.tod .States statement here that Brit- - a tad been tttity Serin further promised naval aid. oi the Kesa's attack-3- neun S not announced. Secre-o- f State Coidell Hull said .nought there was no about the author but pre-not to discuss that phase 1 more facts were complete iKe. hands aboaid the Steel d. Halliday crew of .'15 men were alter they took to e vessel was under-rt-iablto have been car-life-Th- y a caigo of for use s a middle ta.d she !s leml-leas- ma-- by the L British east. Unofficial ca. ied special i an Ruminating Amer-,'l- a g ' Ssa. or,- - of 40 Danish l,y the U. S. taken over 'the was said circles commission, York maiitime been part of a to have convoy at the docked c port oi Reykjavik the She sailed "as sunk sn; Nf'w Yotk Aug of 6 with foodstuffs, lumber cargo, but JS of implements of war, to the sfate depart-1(- ' ? .er gory i., were des-3- r the government of which uw nod them. ..emeni of the Sessa ought varied Hifip'.iCs ' , Wallace ', if fo. white, R lowed admin-(i.,''l,rtl'- WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 (UP) September 15th has been set as the date for a strike of the five railroad operating brotherhoods. President A. F. Whitney of the brotherhood of railroad trainmen made the announcement tonight after a series of conferences in Cleveland. jThe strike previously had been voted by railroad workers Joilowing the breakdown of nego-.n:tiations for wage increases last .week in Chicago. Time of the strike has been fixed at 6 a. m. The dispute already has been certified to President Roosevelt, fwho is expected to name a committee tomorrow' to investKa,e 1he controversy and make ja report. The Monday strike call fpets 350,000 members of the five operating .brotherhoods, brother- The 14 hoods, claiming 900,000 mem-co- s bers, had fixed 6 p. m. Sept, ill, as the zero hour fo a walk-1out. Setting of the strike dates that railroad with defense raffle, will become idle on the dates fixed. The strike call 'simply projects the controversy into a new stae of mediation under the railway labor act. Under the act, appointment 'by Mr. Roosevelt of a automatwill commission 'ing ically defer the possibility of a strike for at least 60 days, and possibly 90 days, while the commission 'studies the dispute and reports its findings. The decision to strike came after the railroads had refused for pay increases demands ranging from 30 to 41 per cent. e j af-if- i , 5 ' ; fact-find- Elder Jack Watkins Returns to Brigham Elder Jack Watkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Watkins, returned home Monday evening after spending 24 months in the Eastern States mission for the L. D. S. church. Elder Watkins spent most of his mission in the states of New York and Pennsylvania and the last five months of his mission he was president of the Erie, Pa., district. Mr. and Mrs. Watkins also have another son home this week. Bill Watkins has been with the U. S. air corps on the coast for the past year and is vacationing here. Previous to his coming home he was attending an army school studying flying. He leaves for the coast Thursday. Fay Sholty Returns From Convention n Fay Sholty, local paint con returned home TuesMeted submarine war- - day from the International Con O'1 believe it Paper has venlion of Painters, of and Decorators Hangers r ljld P ve R., N. America at Columbus, O. He 4 fadin represented the state of Utah j ., topics, Mitcd an "in- - at the convention. On his return he visited at oi'ih01'11 lr'riamp the American people Indianapolis with friends and Jr relatives. I t.C"T.. 011 Churchill's E:h,'r' O. Thomas, nate" the attacking ,h 'he V. S. Sen. Charles W. Tobey, R., n her naval aid N. ta . II., said "these Brilish talks nf ins,ruc-i'!,.,- . are all alike, all designed to ''heiican naval one end-t- o ., get an American f 'a; Cuuhs aie toincident.- army over there.to They're sim'elimi- ply not going get one," ,v.,rai'; ' 1 , said the possibility" policy, the mid '.tcl t on a rout, no night training flight. At 4:59 a. m. it radioed it was five minutes east of Seattle. That was the last heard from it. Aboard were Lt. Edward 28, Chicago, pilot; Lt. John Winship, 25, Riverside, a bridegroom of Cal., seven days; Staff Sgt. Robert Dexteg, 23, Victorville, Cal., Staff radio Sgt. operator; James W. Peage, 20, Seago-villTexas, flight engineers; Private Jack Hupegt, 22, Milwaukee, Wis., apprentice radioman; and Private Milford Knight, St. Louis, Mo., a passenger. Pilot Valorz was national amateur athletic union heavyweight wrestling champion last year. He represented the University of Chicago. This spring he won the Pacific northwest, title in a meet here. The bomber carried sufficient gasoline to have kept it aloft until 9 a. m. However because of the absence of radio reports, McChord field officers feared it met with some mishap shortly after the 4:59 message. There was the possibility Valorz might have succeeded in making a forced landing somewhere in the mountains. A farmer at Spamaway, ten miles south of here, said he saw "a plane" circling shortly after 5 a. m. and then heard it head east. That was the only possible clue to the ship. Wrhen a similar bomber was lost from this same base Jan. 16, hundreds of clues were telephoned in. The plane was located Feb. 3 with its crew of seven dead, where they had crashed heatl-ojust 20 feet below the top of Deschutes peak in the "Little Rockies of the Mount Rainier foothills. Fog prevailed over the area most of today and there was heavy downpour of rain. Seven planes sent out from McChord field were forced to abandon search because of the weather conditions. The rain and overcast skies made it impossible to see the ground or even the course ahead. When the planes were called back, trucks were sent out to continue the search. The country over which the bomber was flying is marked by high mountains and deep stretch In a woods. from the Canadian border to border, the four great peaks rise above the clouds, topped by mighty Mt. The others are Mt. Rainier. Adams. Mt. Baker, and Mt. St. Helens. The radio .message placed the plane apparently in the vicinity of Snoqualmie and possibly on the radio beam. The toute charted for the flight called for the plane to fly as far east as Spokane, 300 miles from Tacoma, then south to Walla Walla and then back over that course to Spokane before swinging east to Seattle The radio reand Tacoma. port indicated it had completed its assignment and was coming in to its base. was the Winship, married Sept. 2 to Ann Louise Greiwe, a member of a prominent Tacoma family. The search was directed by Col. William Crom, commandant of the McChord field air ihase. Va-lor- j he ' ter Strike Affects 350,000 Workers In announ-tha- t 'state department DELIBERATELY plane carrying six men disappeared today on a flight over the northern Washington mountains. Fear was felt for the safety of the plane and crew as fog and rain turned searching planes back. The plane, a bomber, left Douglas MeChoid field here shortly af- SET FOR capital tonight the United States Drought Allen in tension heightened ; HYDE PARK, N. Y. Sept 9 (UP) President Roosevelt's mother was laid o rest this afternoon amid the stately and beautiful scenes she enjoyed in life. The servants on her estate bore the mahogany casket to a grave under the tall, old trees behind St. James Episcopal church. The funeral was one of dignified simplicity. Her loved ones and a few intimate friends and employees listened with bowed heads as the rector intoned: "May thy rest be this day in peace, and thy dwelling place in the paradise of God. The services started in the spacious library of the Roosevelt mansion, overlooking the Hudson river. The Reverend Frank R. Wilson, the tall, ascetic rector of the church, read the austere services from the Episcopal book of common TACOMA. Wash., Sept. 9 (UP) A U. S. army bombing RAIL STRIKE attark on an Amer-perateship within three 'Mhlrd ME I 9 (UP) disclosure JflXGTON', ;a:e department SAFETY OF Lost Over Washington Mountains WORLD WAR SINCE U.S. FREIGHTER Plane With Six Men TO FACE WITH !e RITES HELD FOR MRS. ROOSEVELT BOMBING PLANE Elision IN AMERICA 'ats FEAR FELT FOR tractor, e, n 150-mil- e Oregon-Washingto- n Seattle-Ellensbur- co-pil- eve-nm- J. g Plane Was Sent By Nazis To Sink Ship, Officers Report two-scor- e e SCHOOLS TO CLOSE AT ONE TODAY Due to an emergency suddenly arising in the agriculture situation in Box Elder county, all schools in the county will close at 1:00 p. m. today to enable the students to work on the family farm, or assist in the harvest of important crops. Beginning Thursday morning, schools will start at eight oclock instead of nine, and will dismiss at 12:30 noon each day while the present emergency lasts. This action was brought about by a special meeting of the Box Elder school board last night when a committee repcrops resenting the canning growers and the canners of Box Elder county met with the board to discuss the problems incident to the harvesting of the bean and tomato crops. The meeting was held under the direction of President A. P. Dalton of the board and President J. L. Weidmann, of the Box Elder Growers of Canning Crops. All growers interested in securing the services of bean and tomato pickers this afternoon, should or any day following, contact the principals of the junior and senior high schools of this city. Republican Ladies To Meet The Ladies Republican club will hold a study meeting on Thursday evening at 7:30 in the city hall. An interesting speaker has been engaged for the evening and musical numbers will also be furnished. All Brigham City ladies are invited to attend. SOVIETS DESTROYED 71 ENEMY PLANES AND HUNDREDS OF NAZI TANKS IN SUNDAY FIGHT FANCY PEACH BRITISH WARSHIP, Sept. 9 (UP) A crewman of the Steel Seafarer said tonight that the bombing which sunk her in the Red sea was a deliberate attack on an unarmed and unconvoyed vessel impossible of being mistaken for anything but a United States merchantman. The American freighter was flying her colors, her nationally clearly distinguishable, wben attacked by aircraft presumed to be axis, the member of the crew told the United Press. survivors of the Twenty-fou- r Seafarer arried at a British Red sea port today aboard this ship while the remaining 12 completing the entire crew of 3t were picked up by a Danish freighter. All hands were uninjured except for slight scratches. The attack occurred at 11:38 p. m. Friday. A single bomber cut its motors for a glide attack, dropping one heavy bomb or possibly a torpedo, the survivors said. It shattered the starboard side of the freighter beneath the waterline amidships and the Seafarer went down within 20 minutes. Though the Seafarers officers and crewmen were not at liberty to talk freely regarding all details of the attack, one member of the crew who requested anonymity said: There can be no question of the plane which attacked or us mistaking us other nationality. Our flag was in a floodlight and the light of a full moon, clearly visible and identifiable. "That plane was sent to attack the Steel Seafarer and prevent her from reaching port, which it accomplished. "It positively was a deliberate attack against the stars and stripes. Chief Engineer McDade of the Seafarer gave the following account of the attack on ABOARD Eight voices of the St. James choir blended in Mrs. Roosevelt's favorite hymn, "O Love that Wilt Not Let Me Go. As the brief service ended, eight men of the estate some of whom had served the family for more than years lifted the casket and carried it to the hearse. The three-miljourney to the cemetery was made through a leafy corridor of ancient trees past the spacious estates and the quaint little village of Hyde Park. A patrol of state troopers kept the highway clear, so the president and his family might have privacy in their hour of sorrow. At the cemetery, the servants of the Roosevelt estate again lifted the coffin and bore it to There were the open grave. no eulogies no great banks of flowers no pomp. RETURN TO COAST TO MEET Mr. and Mrs. Noel Lillywhite The ladies' auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will and son Bobbie left Sunday for hold a meeting at the War their home in Los Angete-.- . Calif., after visiting the past Memorial home Thursday ten days in Brigham. at eight o'clock. AUXILIARY HIT, SAYS CREW prayer. Board of Education Acts To Relieve Farm Labor Shortage Troops Hay Recapture Pursuing Smolensk, Is Report; Russians Destroy Many Berman Airdromes A IN DEMAND MOSCOW, INVESTIGATION Brigham is fast making a name for itself in its production of the largest and finest peaches in the intermountain west, it was learned here Tuesday. Two fruit producers in this vicinity who have specialized in the growing of the large Halo variety of peaches this year have Shipped this fancy fruit to all parts of the United States by request. They have hardly been able to fill the orders which are and find constantly arriving, that the excellent coloring and flavor of the large Brigham-grow- n Hale peach Is a favorite wherever jt is introduced. LaMar Valentine and Norman Peterson have specialized the in largest producing peaches, and those who visit the orchards of these men never fail to marvel at the size, color and beauty of this exceptional fruit. The finest display of this type of peach ever seen in this community drew much favorable comment from visitors tc the Peach day fruit exhibit on the courthouse lawns. Grown s are rapidly 'ea.mng that the demand for a large and beautifully colored peach is increasing and there is a real opportunity awaiting those who can produce this type of fruit. MADE INTO MOVIE INDUSTRY Cinema Makers Are Charged with Making Propaganda Films WASHINGTON, A senate -- SELECTEES h breakfast will be held Wednesday morning at the Howard hotel for three A farewell more youths to be called to the selective service from Box Elder county. The breakfast is sponsored by the local civic clubs who his ship; have feted each contingent of "There was the roar of a draftees on their morning of plane, a crack like a rifle shot departure. when a torpedo hit the water, The men are Joe Yashiguki then shattering explosions, the Shibata of Garland, Harvey Steel Seafarer started shipping Glenn Day of Brigham City and water. Irven' Richard Cotten of Mal"The captain sounded a gen- vern, Ark., who is being ineral alarm and the crew pro- ducted through the Arkansas ceeded to abandon ship. There board. was no panic, the crew boarding the boats calmly and rowing off in 10 minutes. SCHOOL TEACHERS "Twenty minutes after the explosion the ship sank. NEEDED IN STATE "We were torpedoed someSALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 9 11 m. time after Saturday. p. The national defense effort I was asleep at the time, but the explosion lifted .me off has hit the school teacher supthe bed and I landed on the ply problem, and for the first floor. Everything in the room time in years, officials of the was shattered. I put on cover- state school board report that alls and went down to the en- there is a shortage of teachers. State Supt. of Public Instrucgine rooms where, with the third officers, I helped shut off tion Charles H. Skidmore said the engines. The water was the shortage Is definitely atcoming in quickly, so we left tributable to the defense proeverything and abandoned the gram and all its phases. Many ship." young women teachers have gone into jobs vacated when workers started to the MEASLES KILLING workoriginal on defense projects. said Supt. "And, of course, INDIANS Skidmore, "we have the reguGRAND CANYON, Sept. 9 lar shortage due to the young (UP) Two Indians are dead ladies marrying their boy and 35 others ill as a result of friends the summer an epidemic of measles among vacation. during members of the Supai tribe in remote Havasu canyon, 35 miles west of Grand Canyon, TO CHANGE AIR-POR- T Arizona. NAME The Valentine Indian agency has been asked to send medi-'ca- l SALT LAKE CITY, Sept. 9 aid. A nurse who usually (UP) Some time in the near watches over the health of the future, the Salt Lake air port Indians is absent, undergoing will be a thing of the past. No, surgery. we dont mean it Is to be abanThe 200 or more Supai Indians doned. What we do mean is live on a canyon floor 3,000 that it soon will have a now feet below the table land. Their ;name. jonly contact with the outside Major Ray T. Elsmore, atiworld is their trade with the tached to the Fifth airbase in Hopi and Navajo tribes, and Salt Lake City, said the Salt occasional visits with the Indian Lake City airport is too long a service. name to be included in air corps messages. HOSPITAL NOTES The new name has not been Mrs. V. Earl Madsen is re- selected, but Maj. Elsmore said covering from a major opera- the field should be named after tion in a local hospital. some well known flier. Bor-zag- D., Mo. Chairman Clark put the brief into the record along with a lengthy letter written to him by Willkie last night outlining But the industry's position. Clark overruled a request by e Willkie for permission to witnesses. He drew laughter by announcing that he put the letter in the record not because he conceded the truth of any of ts points but merely because it was "a monumental example of campaign oratory. "That's the best thing in the Willkie said. record yet! Clark announced at the conclusion of the session that the had decided to broaden its investigation originally scheduled to cover only film warlike propaganda to cover all naz.i and communist He said James propaganda. If. Sheldon, of the Anti-Naz- i League, would testify in this connection. Sheldon, he said, would talk of German films being shown here and in South America. Clark added that such films "will receive just as thorough an airing as any other kind of propaganda." anti-aircra- ft cross-examin- n j I Sept. 9 (UP) launched its inquiry into alleged motion picture propaganda today with Sen. Gerald P. Nye, R., N. D., charging that the cinema industry has a financial stake in British victory and Wendell L. Willkie accusing Nye of fostering national disunity. The pair played leading roles exin several acrimonious changes which drew laughter and applause from spectators attending the initial hearing Nye as first of a witness and resolution for a special senate committee to investigate film propaganda, and as counsel for the Willkie movie industry.- Nye proposed that production of several recent pictures be Esscrutinized "Convoy, cape, Flight Command," "I That HamMarried a Nazi, Man Hunt, ilton Woman, and The Great Dictator, and menSergeant York" tioned several noted Hollywood personalities in connection with activities. He specifically suggested an inquiry into the substitution of e Victor Saville for Frank as director of "The Mortal Storm. There is a rumor, he said, "that Saville is a British agent operating here on motion picture lots. Willkie presented a brief, as soon as Chairman D. Worth Clark, D., Idaho, convened the hearing, charging the group was acting without authority or legality. Technically, it is of the senate a interstate commerce committee inquiring into the advisability of the investigation proposed in the resolution sponsored by Nye and Sen. Bennett Clark, WILL HONOR THREE Wednesday, Sept. (UP) The headlong flight of a German field army, its flanks gouged by attacks of pursuing red troops, raised the hopes today for soviet recapture of Smolensk as the Russian military communique announced that its air force was blasting nazl airdromes in support of intense fighting from Leningrad to Odessa.. The red planes also strafed forces of the nazl Invaders on Tuesday, (he communique announced, In stubborn" fighting all along the great Russian front. It reported that on Sunday the soviets destroyed 71 enemy planes on the ground, In aerial combat or by fire. Two German reconnaissance planes were reported shot down near Moscow Tuesday. The communique said hundreds" of German tanks had been destroyed by soviet planes and artillery at the approaches to Kiev. Some of the heaviest fighting was close to the shores of the Black sea, where official reports said the defenders of Odessa had inflicted 20,000 casualties and littered the battlefield with Rumanian corpses. It was the central front, however, which gave soviet observers cause for cautious Intimations that the soviet military machine may recapture Smolensk, possibly next week, if a German field army, described by official sources as fleeing back toward Smolensk in disorderly flight, does not sufficient receive assistance quickly. The high command said red army men in particularly stubborn combat around the village of Tchausy, 25 miles southeast of Mogilev and 80 southwest of Smolensk, drove out the Germans who suffered heavy losses. Supported by a soviet tank company, the Russians broke into the village and slashed at the German flank. Dislodged, the enemy gave groitnd and evacuated the village. In three days fighting the Russians annihilated 2,500 German officers and men, captured 312, and seized 11 guns, 17 mine throwers, 41 machine guns, 19 automatics, 97 trucks, 16 motorcycles and 109 bicycles, it was claimed. admitted Berlin dispatches that German troops on the central front were having a difficult time with superior soviet forces. 10 J Warmer Weather Promised Here LAKE CITY, Sept. 9 The Rocky Mountain states are worrying about and snowstorms temperatures.' The intermountain states are also bothered about the weather, although they aren't plagued with snow yet. Temperatures last night dropped down and down. The Sait Lake airport reported a minimum of 42. Temperatures at other points in the area were along the same line, with residents reporting freezing marks. However, there's one ray of The weather bureau hope. promises that conditions for the next two days will be fair and that temperatures will rise slowly. SALT (UP) g Divorce Granted Susan Loretta Day was granted a divorce in the district court Tuesday from Harvey Glenn Day on charges of and cruelty. She was given custody of two minor children, support money in the Sgt. L. F. Nedbalek of Camp sum of $7.50 a month for the Ord, Calif., .is visiting at the next four months, and then $15 home of Mr. and Mrs. Fay a month thereafter. She was also allowed $7.5 attorney's fees. Sholty for two weeks. OFF TO SCHOOL Leonard Olsen, son of Mrs. Bert Olsen, left Monday for Pasadena. Calif., where he will attend college this winter. non-suppo- rt |