Show - -- S f ‘j- — y y- ’i The Weather Local Metal Markets Hold $J5O0 7 7111c Silver (domestic) Sliver (foreign) 34 75c Copper electrolytic delivered Connecticut valley 12 50c Lead 5 50 ® 5 53c lineal Settlement frlcra Utah — Fair Friday Idaho— Partly cloudy Wyoming — Generally fair Nevada — Partly cloudy Ltd Vol 1 55 10 No Salt Lake City’ Utah Friday Morning December 5 50c 1939 H Copper (caLbodc) 12 15 31 1’ages — Five Cents o mi! Look Over Utah Defense Congressmen Visit Army Sites in Utah Leader Calls U S Air me 0) Ly Bar Unit Hears King Slates I (Mi 'ess a l Plight of New Barristers Bar Meet Set-U- p Junior Lawyers K Defence Poor Open Annual t Parley in I t 1 A Defenses of the United States States against attack from the air are entirely inadequate in the opinion of Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma head of a congressional committee which arrived in Utah Thursday afternoon to inspect military estab- - i 31 i "" in this state conclusion Senator Thomas’ which he said represented the feelings of the delegation was based on a tour which thus far has covered 11000 miles including most of the coasts of the nation n iVV'V'v lishments V Arrive at S I- - "In mv opinion the zone is well protected from attack by land or sea but it is wholly open to attack from the air” The delegation representing four senate and house committees which handle military policy and appropriations arrived at the Salt Lake City airport Thursday afternoon in armv transport planes Because their arrival was later than anticipated the inspection of the Ogden ordnance depot and Hill field air base site at Sunset was deferred until Friday morn- By Harry “ " 1 club In the Ben Lomond hotel The entertainment was sponsored by the military affairs eommittee of the Ogden rhnmbcr of of which Frank M Brown- eom-mere- e ing is chairman Greeted hv Officials The senators congressmen and army officer s were greeted at the Salt Lake airport hy stale and city officials officers of Fort Douglas members of Utah s congressional delegation and representatives of the Salt Lake City chamber of commerce Under the supervision of Maior Thilip Doddridge commanding officer of Fort Douglas and H E Sandeis chairman of the military affairs committee of the Salt Lake chamber the party wa escorted through the fort and to Ogden where thev were turned over to Ogden offmals and Ma)or I A of the Luke commandant depot Honored guests at the Ogden function included a: my officers traveling with the congressional Major Arthur R Wildelegallon son of the g neral staff is in charge of the tour for the war department Major John E Upston office chief of the an eoips Is flight romtnander and Lieutenant Colonel K C McGuire represents the headcpiarters of the Ninth roi ps area ord-nnn- fo Vulnerable Attack Aside from the iilnerahililv of the country to nir attack the senators and leprescntativos indicated they found the nations defenses In reasonably good condition Senator Thomas ailing as spokesman listed some of the major improvements which should he undertaken He pointed out that air fields when planes were established were srtinll and could lake off and land in small space "But with the development of modern flung forliesses" he addd ed “it becomes necessary to the present fields or build new ones " ‘lhere is need for additional housing he said lo take eaie of a model ale increase In pci sonnet In it the Canal one for example Is planned lo ini u ase the number of troops fiom 17ihmi to 2 ) (KH1 A not he i situation ailing (or action in the opinion of the spokesman Is the riclav m equipping soldiers with guns which were adopted months ago ' Mm e hail a sear ngo" he Pu I’AcUt) U uniimiH e- I Itnlumii Jwo) British Ban On Nazi Goods Dec 7 OP — of Hull it was State Secretary learned reliably Thursday night has drafted a note felling Gicat Britain in effect that her order in council stopping German exports to overseas countries is contrary to international law in that it interferes with trade between neutral and neutral The British blockade program rails for stoppage of German-mad- e are goods even though they shipped not directly from Germany hut through a neutral country to another neutral The United States government believes that some of the imports this country used lo receive from Geimanv are essential sue h as precision instruments that are difficult if not Impossible to buy elsc-here The note which will go foivvard Fridav was desc t ihed as more in the nature' of a reservation of rights than of a protest The reservation gives the United States the nght to advance rlnims at some future date if damage is proved as a result of Britain's hatting of Ci rnuin exports ’I he tenor of the note was said to be reasonably conciliatory and to have avoided the sharp tnnguage winch characterized a similar note nddiessrd to the Brituh government when it invoked a similnr order In (ouncil in March 1915 during the Woild war Oil that occasion the American government said the British outer "would constitute were Its provisions to he artunllv earned into effect as thev stand a ptaetiral assertion of unlimited belligerent rights over neutial commerce w ith-i- n the whole European area and an almost unqualified denial of WASHINGTON (CnnlliiuM on i olumn state department interest s in su-gIf not concerns Cuba chiefly holly For some weeks the secretary of agricultuie and the state department have been at odds over the tariff on Cuban sugar which was automatically jumped from 00 cents to $130 per hundred pounds when the president on September 11 suspended alt sugar quotas Secretary Wallace has been firm in his contention that for the time being nt least the $1 50 tariff should remain undisturbed while the slate department ha been equally insistent that this t nt iff operates to the disadvantage of Cuba and hnx hail the eflect of laigelv barring Cuba from the American market during the past three months and is hurting our relations with Cuba and all litin Ameru a As Secretary Wallace came out of the White House he wore an expression that Indicated anything but happiness Secretary Welles was In a muc-brighter mood but neither xvas eoniniunlc nt ive and beyond the hare admission of Sec- w t( ontlmirrl (in olumn Pure Two) 1 hm ) Sleeping L A Citizen Resents psc it Dee 7 (AT — headquarters Thursday night announced that an immediate drive would be made to pay off the $655000 debt remaining from the 1016 campaign and establish the party upon a sound financial basis for the battles of 1910 Chairman John D M Hamilton said an effort would be made to obtain subscriptions of $1000 each from 655 party members He added that he hoped but was not pertain that it could be done by the end of this month His announcement followed a meeting of the party’s national executive committee at which finances were discussed but more for Cuba If he arts at all it will he in time was devoted to the question the direction of lowering the tariff of whether next sear’s party conon Cuban sugai amt if lie acts vention should be defined until under authority of the sugar con- after the Democrats have met trol law any action with regard Stndj I oreign I’oliey to Cuba must be anompanipd by The strategy talk also covered a restoration of all sugar quotas That he ran do hv a stroke of the a anctv of other subjects and pen if he is willing the de tare Hamilton said that from private discussions with many of the comthe “ceonomic emergency ' is mittee members he got the impresended That it was the Cuban tariff sion that the administrations forrather than the whole subiect of eign policy "particularly with resugar that was under discussion spect to Russia and Finland’ had seems reasonable inasmuch as the "not been helpful to Mr Roose" secretnrV of agriculture has not velt ' 3’ou mean hv failing In hieak yet decided what manner of sugar relations with Rusia’’’ he was legislation he intends to recommend to the president and the asked "Yes " Four) Uie Htx ) LOS ANCriT S Dee 7 (AT A man went to sleep on the civic (I’ntM liwn Thursday and woke up to find an ambulance surgeon and elnvcr tugging at him him on a trying to place stri l her Someone had tinned In a the mnn whose name was not tunned yeas dead WASHINGTON The Republican I With what was left sui gum of his dignity he arose blushed gras from his ilolhes and strode avvnv while ihe crowd donned hats lint had come off In reveience fni the simul-taneou-- (lead services and given less in than the legal profession " of Recognition (iirv M P L 1 del Mnrrick Gisf SAN ANIOMO Texas Dee 7 'I lie trint of Mftvnr Minn Mavetuk for alleged tonspuaev to evade election laws went to the Jury late T hut sday night (1 I’i fit t f Poilus Drive Nazis From No Man’s Land PARIS Dee 7 UP) — Hard-hittin- 's inflicted on divided units of a German company which attacked near Wissembourg about 12 miles west of the point where the Rhine flows into Germany German Dig In retuin Red Army Drive Meets Fierce Counter Assault Manncrliciin Front Still Unbroken Helsinki Defenders Claim Soviet Fleet Pounds Coast Area By Lynn Heincrlmg HELSINKI Dec 7 (AP)— Finnish tioops launched a fierce countct -- attack Thuisday in the Kaielian isthmus in an effort to halt a red army suige towaid the castein terminus of their Man-n- et heim line The Russians bombarded the southern coast of Finland from the sea and tenewed their land attacks on the central front Contrary to Russian assertions a Finnish army spokesman said the invaders were not yet threat enlng the Mannerheim line a water defense system composed of an iriegular chain of lakes extending almost across the narrow isthmus The line begins at Sakkola on the east and follows a westward couise through the town of Moulaa to Kuoloma lake "the lake of death" Sister Nations Seek League for Finns Vid Scandinavian Hloe Pnls Limit On Joint Action OSLO Not way Dec 7 UP)—1They foreign ministers of Denmark Norway and Sweden decided Thursday to make all possible efforts through the League of Nations for peace negotiations between Finland and soviet Russia Conferring on issues raised b the Flnnlsh-Russlaconflict the Scandinavians also dicussod possible general consequences of Ihe fighting hut thev announced no decisions Since Denmnrk alieady has proclaimed neutrality the ministers were not expected to advocate nny joint Scandinavian action in support of Finland beyond conulia-toiaction through the league Attending the conference were Dr Peter Munch of Denmark Dr Halvdan Koht of Norway and Ric hard Sandler of Sweden There were unconfirmed reports that they considered the advisability of appealing for general European pence hut a communique issued at the end of the meeting lent no support to these reports However the Scandinavian states are deeply ronc"rned lest the conflict spread in their direcSince the Russian invasion tion of Finland many Scandinavians have seen small hope of avoiding such a spread except thiough restoration of peace among Germany Great Britain and Fiance The communique issued at the end of the eonlerence said "The foreign ministers of Denmark Noiway and Sweden met in Oslo on December 7 "Thev sent telegrams to Ice v Military advires said the Germans were halted bv fierce French machine gun and artillery fire and dug in instead of withdrawing as has been their custom in the past At dnvbrenk the French sector commander ordered a counterattack which forced the Germans ba k to their lines Additional heavy fighting oclaw elli led near Bitche in the region be"Unlawful practice of law is west of the Vosges mountains It some 25 miles from Wissimbourg coming greater and greater will take the consolidated effort of The Gormans were said to have every one of us to rrush this augmented their artillery and rifle I for one feel that fire with heavy use of trench morthe dues of the Utah State Bar tars could he spent more profitably edu- Patrol Activity (ConllnueH nn Four) (Column Fhf) 'I he high command s morning Con lit tf! mi Pare icht ( olumn Fi e communique said the night was marked by activity of patrols on either side and "consequent rv action ” Behind the lines King George who Is on toui of Biitlsh cxpedl-tionai- v forces gave a luncheon lor Premier UP -- Pi evident Lihtun POME Dee 8 Friday p ( eneralissimo Marie MOSCOW Dec 8( Fridav ' tT' Italy Friday reaffirmed her miliI amelin and Winston Chore tary alliance with Germany and Soviet Russia Fiidav reported adadof lord British the fust her policy of nonintervention in vances on three fronts In Finland the European wars nt present hut miralty and other high ranking and the captuie of considerable officers and French British issued an implied warning to soviet Finnish war material Russia not to intrude into the issued hy the A communieiue Balkans hendquai tei s of the Leningrad miDie Admiral Knir She also gave explicit warning covering action of litary men to Britain and France not to inSAN PEDRO Cal Dec 7 tT Thursday said red aims toms terfere unduly with her commerce Rear Admiral George Julian Moy-rt- s w hie h hioke through the mam I on the high seas defense line along the Vmiksa 58 (ommandcr base foue These statements of policy were United States fleet suceumhrd late wale'll nurse hnd advanced between issued in a communique after a T hut sclnv to a heart attack aboard 8 and 12 kilometers (five to seven r session of the fascist his flagship the Argonno off San miles) north of the T aipnloemoki grand rouneil the first since the rretro river European war began at which Premier Mussolini and his foreign minister Count Galenzo Ciano made long speeches reviewing international developments Italian-GermaThe council asserted relations "remain as established by the treats of alliance and the exchanges of views which Bv Associated Tress took place before and afterward 111 I slKl— I Inns eomitrratlni U against Russians pressing of Milan Salhuig and Beilin" toward MannerhHm line In Karelian Isthmus Russians bombard Mention of the alliance however I c HI 2 1 innlsh roast from sea alls Join fight southern has vutually vanished from the for I Inland' Independence fascist press since the war began l’XKIs— German patrols repulsed with heavy losses on northern flank of western front t Infantry fire opens up along hitherto silent Oil l inn Not iff Rhine front Lebrun and Dnlacller linn h with King George I MI XICO (7 Y Dee 7 IT) - ' — It A I wards off two nal air raids Britain 1J)M)) government set veil tioliie on ledge s tenth naval loss w ill) sinking of 2IH! ton adodrall v raw fmrlgn ml fit ms T hut sdnv lo name Washington 8 Yl ton Netherlands mntorshlp 'lajandoen torpe-cloenppirtixeis within three clnvs to 8211 ton Norwegian tanker Brltla sinks after explosion wotk with a government group to evaluate pinpeitus expiopiiatcd BfftllN — Germany amt Russia biglu swap of populations InMarch Ik nix volving Dili two Germans and 500000 I kramlanx and other ( ' I L ) ( Italy Renews Reieli Paet ar-ti- ll Soviet Claims Finn Losses 1 Gus-lav- -- four-hou- n Summary of News Events In Europe’s War Zone innlsh-Ainerl- (Id I d m Russian (The n g French infantry was reported Thursday to have routed German troops from temporal v positions land after beating off in heavy na?i assaults on outposts along the entire northern flank of the western front The savage fighting followed a night of intense activity in which the French reported heavy losses Mr and commissions Skanchv pointed out that the '2T0 young men and women attorneys in the state comprise more than a He third of the legal profession also remarked that it was the young lawyer who suffered the most from infringement of lavmon and corporations in the practice of Laud Dewey Speech T he riiim niton date question and informs! discussion of I hnmas E Dewey's opening speot h ill his campaign for the presidential nomination provided mhjerts which overshadowed what had been expirled to prove an Important discussion of means of paving off Ihe paitys debt of $(53 000 Thoie was an exchange of views oil the debt hut no decisions were i one lied because of the absence of the patty tieas-ure- i (' p Gnodspi ed who Is ill ('limine nls on lnvvcv s speech at Wedncsdtv Minneapolis night tanged fiom "splendid" a 'knockout" and "vny good" to "very enc ouragmg " Mnnv of the ommit-temembers said thev were Impressed with Dewey s eli live rv and ' radio vole e " The present division of opinion Mi'll ourts” hoards While an informal discussion at the eommittee meeting brought out differences of opinions on the question of postponing the convention it was apparent that some members including Hamilton himself stiongly favored such a course It would Je advantageous he told repeaters taler to wait and see whom the Democrats nominate Quite aside from anv question of ' oc keying for position' he added "Ihe ordinary processes of clenioc rat ic government should entitle the minority party to see whether the party in power is 'stand hv the things it has going ' to done ” IC A Rule-Makin- ( Referring to the lack of recognition accorded young lawyers in ap point ees to governmental agencies p what the Sam Hill Is "Hey tins'’' asked the supposed y h slnlMir ns he shook off tile Simmons of Houston Texas member of the hoard of governors of the American Bar association LeRoy B Young of Ogden state bar president will give the presklent's annual address at the opening session I riday morning Also scheduled is an address hy Ogle L rhillips of Albuquerque N IU judge of the I' S circuit court on the subject ‘Tlarlng g In Tower the by D Bar Leader Speak W L Skanchv of Ogden chair- man of Junior Bar council presid ed at the meeting and delivered the He introduced principal address LrRoy B Young of Ogden president of the Ulan State Bar who welcomed the young delegates and praised them for their militant campaign to raise the standards of the legal profession in Utah Outlining what he termed the "injustices' facing junior members of the bar in Utah Mr Skanehy said: "The legislature did not see fit to art on our hill requesting foes for defending indigent criminals What is not taken into consideration is that we are required to act as a representative of the courts and the state in these rases and are obliged at our own expense to conduct investigations secure witnesses and provide transportation There is probably no profession in the state that is askPd for more P Charts Quick Drive To Pay Debts Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Dec 7— The fact that President Roosevelt spent an hour Thursday in joint confeience with Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles coupled with the bare admission of Secretary Wallace ‘‘that we talked about sugar” gave rise to widespread and active speculation as to what move the president intends to make particularly with respect to the tariff on Cuban sugar Although little actually is known ing as to the presidents reaons for islt Ft Douglas summoning Secretary Wallace and The party did make a hurried inSecretary Welles to the White House to talk sugar that he should spection of Fort Douglas and then have done so at this particular time went direct to Ogden where they if is indicative of his disposition were guests at an informal recepnot his intention to "do something tion and buffet dinner at the Weber ” planned A number of guest speakers of prominence will address other sessions of the annual bar meeting which will open I riday at 10 a in In the Hotel I tah and will conclude Saturday night with a banquet to be addressed conclude its business with an election of officers at a noon luncheon at the hotel G O J Brown Hull to Protest il head of the delegation and Frank M Brown-in- g chairman of the Ogden chamber of commerce military affairs committee Roosevelt Aids Discuss New Sugar Action King and his subject will he "Your Bill of Rights” Admission to the meeting will he free and nn tirkets are required Senator King himself a member of the I tah Bar since 1888 Is one of 18 I tabus who practiced law In days who will he honored at the meeting Special music also Is the legislatuie The meeting preceded the opening Friday morning of the ninth annual convention of the Utah State Bar at the Hotel Utah at 10 a m The Junior Bar section will Few' Antiaircraft Guns sewered: S L Vigorously assailing those practices and institutions which make the already precarious position of the young attorney even more difficult thp Utah Junior Bar opened its annual convention at the Hotel Utah Thursday evening Both in committee reports and keynote speeches the younger members of the bar stiuck sharply at: Failure of the state to compensate them for representing Indigent criminals unequal representation in governmental appointments Infringement hy laymen and corporations in the practice of law and lack of recognition from A "On the entire trip” Senator Thomas said “we have seen just four antiaircraft guns Tremendous strides have been made in de-- v Left to veloping aircraft for offensive pur- Di scuss ordnance depot at Ogden poses but apparently nothing has right Major Arthur R Wilsoij in charge of been done to improve defenses the tour Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma against air attacks since the close of the World war Asked about the condilion’of defenses In the vital Panama caaP" the Oklahoma senatorn- - I tah rttizcns will ruh elbow with approximately 50(1 members of the bar I riday at 8 p in at a politic meeting In Kingsbury hall which will he a feature of the ninth annual meeting of the I tah State Bar The principal speaker will be Hliam II I nited States Senator 9 announced early Thursday they had broken through the Mannerheim line at two place and were continuing to advance northward On the ea't they said they reached Ki-- v intend a town behind the line and 7' a ndlrs west of Sakkola On the west they reported occupation of Perkjarvl 25 ndle southeast of Ylipuri a main objective on tha Gulf of Finland) The heaviest fighting was reported along the Talpale river and along the southern edge of Lake Ladoga near Sakkola which 20 nnlos from the frontier and at Uusiktrkko about 12’a miles from the frontier and 15 mites southeast of the Mannerheim line eastern terminus Despite the bad weather the red fleet bombarded undisclosed points along the southern coast but Finns declared the big guns caused no damage They said their famed coastal batteries designed 1 n V P l chief of Finnish artillery beat off the attacks On the front In central Finland the Finns reported they lipid their own against new soviet attacks Soviet fighters were aiming at Tolua lake on this front A government spokesman said army physicians were treating 11 cases of gas poisoning at Salmi on the northern shore of Lake Ladoga by Lieutenant-Genera- Nen-one- Fight Ilanil-to-llan- (On the far northern front the Kirkenes correspondent of the Oslo denewspaper Dagblaelet scribed the warfare in Ihe Arctic o daikness aiound the port of Pet-sam- as redskin d fighting" with frequent encounters with long knives Russian piessure there was said to be increasing but their airplanes and heavy artillery were described ns being of little value because of the long darkness and rough terrain ) Finland s fighting forces welcomed 210 Finnish - Amei leans some of whom had never seen the country who arrived to join the fight against Russia They left New York upon learning that Finnish indi pendente was threatened hand-to-han- and came here by way of Norway and Sweden Hear of Invasion The ic group said more ails would follow Fmn'sh-Am- ei I ho new arrivals heaid of Russia s umision ns they waited in Swedish railiond station The north central sector is expected to be thur destination as soon as they can obtain fighting equipment An army spokesman said paper taken front captuied Russian officers Indicated the soviet fortes were aiming at reaching the Atlantic Ihe prisoneix lmd maps of Ihe Anlonel islands and eastern Swedi n on which iki tain objectives wire marked for bombing the spokesman iissirhd lie added that the papers Indicated Russia long had planned Two capher attmk on I inland tured Russian flying lieutenants we hi quoted as saving they had oiebis to lend their homlt Itteks the night of November 26 (our davs la foie the ini eimy mauled into I inland The Russians were quoted as siv mg that sov a t pilots for mont hs hnd been given spinal institution on honiliaidme nt of Finnish ob-- j' a 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