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A communique issued after a r conference between Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita and British Ambassador Sir Robert Leslie Craigie in which the reply was delivered said Arita "demanded reconsideration" of "legalistic expositions" ed- - itt- - the reply.- and British Both Japanese sources said the meeting had produced no agreement of views but conversations will be continued. The British note is to be pub- . 4 Compliance with planting allotments. is one of the conditions " growers must meet in order to become eligible for benefit pay. ments authorized under the sugar program. Cummings said he understood 'that, "new" growers on irrigated farms would be permitted to plant 20 acres and those on farms would be held to 10 acres. Jerusalem Has Quake JERUSALEM, Jan. 27,-(AP- ) A slight earth tremor was felt early today throughout. northern Palestine.principally in the vicinity of Haifa. No damage or casualties were reported. JANUA 9 5AT 11 e 10 111Ei 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Ea 22 23 24 63126 27 28 29 30 31 Davis COunly Death Blackens Calendar - - e Death of "an enrollee at tbe ERA camp last Parminglon blackened the Deseret Plight News traffic fatality calendar. Safe diking )tept it mints today. . . - . ... , AS < . ,..;:.,;..- -- ,,0,1z,,,.,.--,...,......- ,,..'C, , '' ; .: '' 1,, ,!:',,.,,....,,:;',!) ' ,. .. - L: : ' , , ' , , .,.. ; 1 :11:""'1'411:" , , , ' : . . , r t .. ' , ' ::: Vt :' clioiu, j L,,' .: t'l,...,t ;:' ,' .4 Sk....4 ,,.4. Press Association President; Guest Speaker .: - ..., , ' - , , - Elisha Warner of Spanish Fork, left, was elevated to leadership of state newspaper organization; C. Watt Brandon,Keinmerer, Wyo., publisher, perusesTheDeseret News. - - Finns Crush Russians And Capture Tanks Utah State Press Decides On Officers '- Spanish Forker Selected t -- Icy Trap forty-secon- -- ......................... a Utah Printing Trade Elects S.S.Flint Docks In U. S. phi; Morgan Rollo of Cedar City, S. Epperson of Kays-vinThe executive committee will be augmented by the selection of three additional members of the Printers Managers of Salt - and William Captain Lauds Men After Escape From War -Lake. The meeting was presided ever by Leland G. Burress of Bingham. president of the Utah State ed probable 1940 activity. He voiced the industry's objection to government competition and urged .active support for H. 13. 7268. by Rep. J. Will Robinsen, which would limit the operation of the See PRLNTERS On Page 2 BALTIMORE, Jan. 27.(AP) The freighter City of Flint, rusty and pulled into an . - M1,6 .P) HELSINKI. Jan. crusking Russiaii d eat east Of Lake Ladoga with the capture of huge quantities - of tanks and other war material by wasreported today by unofficial Finnish sources... Tbese :reports said the ..7Rus- slans, desperately trying to escape from an icy trap into which Field Marshal Baron Mannerheim's generals had led them; bad abandoned hundreds of tanks, armored cars, motorized guns and other ar- Important, functions of. newspapers in the' social, econornic and political life of the) state were reviewed during opening sessions of the annual meeting of the Utah State State Press Association today at the Newhouse Hotel. Highlight of the initial session, G. Bur to order ress of Bingham, president, was the election of officers: Elisha Warner, editor of the Spanish Fork Press since 1910. elevated from the vice presidency to the presidency', Walter L. Carlson. publisher of the Beaver Press, vice president, and reelection of Hendrik Romeyn of Salt- Lake, who has sevid as secretary since 1934. All members of the executive as folcommittee were of St. lows: Edgar Simpson Geowe, C.A. Epperson of Kays yule, A. Frank Gaisford of Amer'. can Fork, A. C. Saunders of Castledale. and George Harrison of Roosevelt. The newspaper men, were welcomed to,Salt Lake by 'Mayor Ab Jenkins. "During 1939" President Burress pointed out In his annual address, "the association has been very active in maintaining newspaper services that are of inestimable benefit to the taxpaying public of the state and are helpful in preserving laws that make it mandatory for public officials to publish reports and financial. statements so the public may continue to have a check on public monlett." Mr. Burress called attention to Rep. J. Will Robinson's House bill, pending In Congress, which would limit government printing, and urged the association to actively support the bill. He also discussed the association's Cooperation with the Utah State Traffic Safety Council in its state-wide safety program Reports of the secretary-treasure- r were read by Mr. Romeyn and approved by the group. Press Association, and Mr. Birkinshaw was the cnly speaker. discussing "Commercial Printing." , During his ,dress Mr. Birkin-shaw review,. activities of 'the industry during 1939 and discuss--On Page 2 The ' 27. d 27,--(A- , , e ary ' . battles at Aglajarvi and Tolvajarvi. Another Soviet division Wall reported battering vainly at the Finnish lines at Kollaanjosi to relieve comrades Ix attempts -in two other divisions clught base in the their too far from region of Kitela, on , the north shore of Lake Ladoga. The Finns said lack of reports of fighting at Kitela might mean units aliNeady these stranded were beyond help. Finnish military sources corn; pared the situation with the circumstances leading to the victory of Lake Klanta. where the Finns cut off and "virtually annihilated', the 163rd Russian Division. The Finnish command report-- . ed the Soviet dead were "counted in the hundreds",after a weeklong Russian assault on' Finnish fortifications on the eastern The shores of Lake Ladoga. Finns said their fronts were "everywhere .retained." t The Russians were reported repulsed in a mass attack against the island forts of Mantsin,lust off the shore of the lake in the southeast corner. of , Finland, where the Finns said the enemy left "more thaa 100 dead before our positions." , ' ........-:. - 1)1,00-00,0oggl- ti - - , ....'.,,.... , : t ' , i .?'''',''''k.' ii:' I '....iI' .:..., . ,;', 2 'i! 7... ,,::;....:.:4-- , ''' .' ::::::':,', 01 ::::';',. - ...:.:,..to,moodo .... ..... . 1 !;' ,i .1;'. ::. .:::,:. :tr 1 A 1 .,'. .::;::. k. ' ' , - emphasis, Britain was proving traditional superiority and 4M- serted that the odds were 400 to 1 against the Germans sinking any British convoyed merchant ship which obeyed admiralty orders. agChurchill made gressive speech in the packed Free Trade Hail where two years he proposed that the LeagueNations be made all powerful so u to control any aggression. The first lord of the admiralty predicted victory for the Allies and a peace of "truer progress and broader mice. Churchill said that half of Gerhad been destroy---any's id and that- - new building bad"fallen far short of what we originally estimated." The menace of mines, he said, was being controlled and Ger- man imports decisively curtailed and exports virtually cut off. On the other hand, he declared, Britain's exports and imports were increasing steadily. ADMITS LOSSES been There have losses, Churchill said. and losses will continue, since so many war ves- eels are scattered over the seas, protecting British shipping. "We shall have to pay very un-relenting toll for the maintenance of the mastery of the sea- - Very many homes in our dockyard cities have been darkened by tragedy. but I am sure the sym- pathies lit our peoples go out to our loyal seamen as they toil by day and by night upon the clan- gerdua stormy waters, doing their duty with unrivaled skill and courage soethat we may eat- our daily bread." ' Churchill, speaking today on the "progress of. the war," de-clared that when the war start. ad in September everybody ex- pected air bombings immediate- . ' of the-Formal presentationaid, these request sources said, will be made when the foreign ministers of the four powers meet in Belgrade Fel:Nil Soundings in Athens, Ankara and Belgrade, however, indicat- ' ed the entente powers would be reluctant to give extremel3r , sweeping guarantees to Ruman. The Turkish newspaper Unlit said flatly that the Rumanian de'would be turned down. mand Rumania's decision to force the Issue was reported to have been prompted by the increasingly-serious Germany is demanding more Rumanian oil while the British and French are reported to have threatened to withdraw their of Rumania's integrity guarantees are if Allied-owne- d companies forced to furnish oil for the Nazis. This oil is available in large quantities only from the foreign owned companies In Ru. mania. ' liAl. e limistgemdiwo..,;;;e...ialsiemb7. - , Appointed , , Thomas fills vacaused by - Senatir Borah's death. - cancy ---, Thomas Gets , Senate Seat - -- -tillery. More Red army material was said, to have been destroyed. WINTER AIDS Benefited by the coldest winter in 60 years. the Finnish forces have launched attack 4after attack at Kollaanjokl and at Alttojoki, near the Russian border north of the lake: - The. Finns said the ftt'issian troops at Aittojoial were the ,remnants of forces scattered in -- - - , , -- -- anti-aircra- , - :' said authorities high BUDAPY,S'r, Turkey tonight, will ask her Halkan entente partners-Gree- ce, in case, of at. and Yugoslaviato support hermilitary promise tack by either Germany or 'Thissia. Otherwise , the Rumanian, government was understood to have indicated it would be fore.ed to seek an agreement with AdoLt Hitler or Joseph Stalin.' - ar e-Finns - Jr. BY ROBERT B. PARKER, emy." CLAIMS SEA ADVANTAGE On the sea. Churchill said with - - - - - - Churchill. first lord of the ad- the Antralty, today characterized Germany of 1914.1918 a "stron-- ger" enemy" than the Nazi Ger many of today, - In a speech in Free --Trade Hall, Churchill said he doubted the ability of the Germany of today to withstand the reverses as did the kaiser 's people in the last war. "I always hesitate to say anything that tends to underrate the formidable character of the foe we have to fight," he said. "Yet, I cannot rid my mind of the thought that the imperial Ger- many of 1914 was a stronger enemy than the Nazi Germany of today." Frequently during his speech Churchill was interrupted by hecklers- - shouting. "we - want Mosley" (Sir Oswald Mosley, British Fascist leader" but the -- speaker, aa-- soon as order was restored, carried on without com-ment. Churchill said he had no idea what the war would cost but he believed that France and England in money and man power "can and will outlast the en- Desperate Russians Try To Escape - A :.: -- Eng., Jan. - Feared If 'Serious :Appeal Fai1SayOfficia1s . A L.., American anchorage for the first time in four months today, writing finis to its strange odyssey of international adventure. From the lips of the 4,953ton ship's skipper, Capt. Joseph AGainard. and from his doughty crew of 41 tame again the story of the Flint's capture by a German an enforced voyage with a German prize crew to Murmansk. Russia, and finally release off the coast of Norway. was none the The less dramatic. Gainard smiled as he praised the "splenbroadly did behavior of my crew." On Oct. 3, '113 days ago, the , Flint left New York on its his- ' torte voyage that was to involve four countries and bring diplomatic notepassing Ori Oct. 9 the German " pocket battleship Deutschland captured her,, then a crew aboard. put prize "There were 18 Germans all told. cominanded by a young Lieutenant Pushbach," said Chief Engineer William . H. Logan. ,"They Were armed with pistols, daggers and hand grenades. They us understand they were 1 made taking chargeand didn't, leave I us 411 any doubt." .. -- Britisher-- - - Radio)--Wins- ton. . -- -- n , . - . p.,,,4,,.t7,...',V1é..(1.S.::;:(;14....,... -- Stronger-Says-- MANCHESTER. ' , ,- ,,.;.' man-o'-wa- -- ,z, ; - tr. ,:- 1 - , .,, ,lIA ,, ing& 8 1.....,...:,-,)- , '.,.. Issued Monday VD's' I ,...,,....:. years. lie said the formula would estalish a minimum allotment of 20 acres for irrigated farms and 10 acres for 'farms. Growers who already have seeded beets, he said, would be given an allotment equal to those seed- oo, es,' - ',":,,,," -- WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.(AP) Aides said today that. Secretary Wallace would announce Monday the formula for determining 1940 sugar beet processingand marketing allotments for individual growers under provisions of the Sugar Contfol Program. declined to discuss Officials the formula, but Rep. Cummings leader of the congressional beet sugar bloc, saki ha "understood" that growers would be perrhitted planting acreages equal to the largest amount seeded during any of the last three - t,.'N ,27.2.-,1-- ,:....., Formula Will Be WO INURS NI - n Wallace Aides Say Sup; M6p TUB .' -- -- Beet Quota Facts Ready 1 A . GermanyOf1914 k; 3.. , s "If the American government this determination and continues to threaten Japan, relations between the-- k twocouneries necessarily will be aggravated." , , ' Although lack of a treaty leaves , I the United States free to apply , , pressure on Japanese-America'..,;;..:,,,,:"..i.::4; commerce, it was indicated re,:,.,:',,!::,z,:.,,',i ' -: liably that Japan's vital indusf ..'!:.:,.., tries had built a reserve of ma'...;:,, ' ''''. terials needed to maintain normal - I :.:.::,,,,,,,"''''...z7;,.. produCtion for at least a year. ' ""4:::,zT,4: ',;e,. Japanese were keenly interest,; ',,':'...!: ed, however, in proposals in the ':1 :'' United States Senate for an em::,:,,.,;,:ii,..,,6:.:,:,,, bargo on exports to Japan. .17,,,, It was Indicated In high quarters that Japan would make no .. ; ,.' particulareffortslora- - new ,,7,,,,:,,::..,..,,'1. but agreement immediately. '.' would try to prevent incidents .. .:,,,.. -- in China involving Americans. ..,,- ..,. .. ,,,:. ......,..., 7 ..... ... TO CHARGE BARRICADES ..,.. 41,,,s314 .,...- '?,,..5:" in Tientsin. (Nevertheless, , .';'!',K i China, Japanese military authori..:. ties officially informed the pub. lie that effective' Sunday the barbed wire barricades surrounding the foreign cocessions would. be electrically charged again, as they previously had been since the start of the blockade of the Heads Printers concessions last June. as' re. C. W. Birkinshaw WASHINGTON Jan. 27.(AP) elected president. Respect for American rights isThe price which Japan must pay, officials here say, if she wants a new treaty guaranteeing her trade against discriminatory treatment by the United States. comThe Japanese-Americamercial treaty of 1911, - which pledged both countries not to disC. W. Birkinshaw, superintendcriminate against trade of the of The Desetet News Press, ent last at other, expired midnight was president of the night. of Utah durIndustry Printing It had been abrogated' by Secing the annual meeting this afternoon in the Newhouse Hotel. retary Hull last July, following Other officers named were: EliSee JAPAN On Page 2 sha Warner of Spanish Fork: Heber Young of Ogden; J. P. Smith of Logan, and Howard Graham of Provo, vice presidents. Executive committee members elected were A. B. Gibson of Nefalls rightly to understand governing such cases.: A British cruiser took the Germans off the liner last Saturday within 35 miles of k Ai , ' - serni-offici- SEES STRAINED, RELATIONS It was underlished Monday. stood to set forth Britain's interpretation of international law t, .3 , .,: non-treat- y two-hou- I : w,. 0.i'..NAzi,..'If.'B4Wail's.- , -- treaty status, the stock market and other economic barometers remained normal, while the press and public appeared more con- terned over the shipping controversy with Great Britain. The Social Mass resolution said In part: "Although actual trade relations continue unchanged, we must be prepared for great uncertainty as a result of the condition. 'Japanese,- understanding the true objective of the China incident, are determined to overcome all difficulties and never will yield to threats of interference by third powers. In Liner Case ' Oth Year ni y I This expression ' was embodied in-- a resolution by the Social Mass party, one of 1 Japan's lesser political groups. . . On this first day of the non,, I . 'Will.:)3..ölt.T9,...-j;:.0.'...-:.- I Polyer---Weak- l , 4 ' that Japan "never TOKYQ. Jan. will yield to threats" from abroad appeared today as the first reaction to termination by the United States of tbe 1911 treaty governing trade betWeen the two countries. 0 , ' odd , Churchill Holds Nazi . ,,, . ' , k .' '''''''''N, ,,,.g , A I ,,, , 'S01 ,,,,.,, - Nation Will Never Yield Says Resolution In Tokyo ,, . ,,, , - , , , - , ' . , ., I , 1 ' 775 , s from I 7 ott ilto - . I '' ill, 3 9 N Vol. 3 7 -- -:- ' '2 Differences in time tones bring late capitals for today's Deseret - - Salt Lake- illti ta .3 , A , la 8( 4614. -'0- 4 ' LI, '114, - 9 ' 41 EWS TODAY t Iiiti - A' , , .. ft, I - .14p 1 DF I rf war 0 . , . , ' 1 -, ' ,' . . - - ,.- ht , . MEM - :,,, ,,, ............a. : . , Five Cents Price: . . I p.m. haturday 43 Sunset mei :SO p.m. Saturat Sim day. .1. t , - -- tooled and, 1, tu:dayatuoreith little change in ,. ix, Max. Friday 1,,,; St SS ti'' Friday M. Min. Saturday .. SI 0441Y it- IA- ss I .... Saturday le am. Saturday , 41. , 42 Is noon Saturday (ieurrally . - Idaho Names Former Senator Successor To Borah ' Idaho, Jan. Thomas of Gooding for time In little more than a (decade will go to the United States Senate to take the place of an Idaho solon removed by death. and Thomas, livestock man banker, was appointed last night by Governor C. A. Bottolfsen as successor to the late Senator William E. Borah. He accepted at once, B0s1wSI, Indication-thatth- Rumanian,- e- -- - - government is seriously concerned by the situation was seen in a decree today forcing British, French, -- American and other foreign owned oil companies to turn over a part of their production to the state. The foreign ow companies agreed to obey the decree but Britain and France make Indicated they would trouble if any of the oil reached Germany. The practical existence of the Balkan-Entente appeared -- in jeopardy as a result of the ex- pected Rumanian demandfoe aid One, Turkish newspaper ' pre- - ' dieted that failure to reach an agreement would "bring very grave reaction." She situation has been further ; complicated by latent territorial demands of Hungary, Butgaria and Russia upon Rumania. Hungary ' wants Transylvania. Bulgaria elaims Dobruja and Russia considers herself entitled to Bessarabia. Turkey, Greece and Yugoslavia were reported to be pressing Ru- mania to satisfy the demands of Hungary and Bulgaria at least in part, so that these two nations would join a solid southeastern Europe front. Sukru Saracoglu, Turkish fOr-eign minister, was understood to be prepared to take a plan to Belgrade to satisfy Bulgaria and Hungary at least temporarily by according their minorities in Transylvania and Dobrupa wide powers of autonomy. ROME, Jan. with Italian reports al. leging discovery of an Ukrainian revolutionary plot overthrow the - - , - , in June, 1928, upon the death of Senator Frank R. Gooding. Thomas was appointed to the Senate. In November of the same year he was elected to finish Gooding's term but was defeated by James P. Pope, Democrat, in 1932. Borah died at Washington Jan. 19 after serving 33 years as sena-.- , tor from Idaho. "No one realizes better than I. who was for five years Ms colSee 13134,KANS On Pais . Jy. league, that no man can fill the never was such a war vacancy resulting front Borah's that seemed so likely to carry its untimely death," said Thomas, terrors into every home," he former Idaho state Republican e said, "and there never was a national chairman and war when the people were so republican committeeman from united." this state. The government, he went on, Thomas said he would "pledge" to the fight himself to a determination bas not failed to rise oft - War Commissar against "aggression, oppression Ready expressed by Borah to keep our and wrongdoing" from of war." out nation , Command Assume To there can be no turning back. Thomas was chosen, Governor "We canont tell into what reBottolfsen said, because of his In Finland gions the struggle will carry or "during more than how long it will last but we experience In four the United States years can be sure that in the end LONDON, Jan. and close Soviet Russia's foremost mill. righteousness and freedom will Senate as a colleague of the late Senator tary leader, War Commissar win and justice will reign.' We companion Borah." are sure of this and we are deMarshal Klement' Voroshilovi, termined to'play our part has passed through Leningrad and is en route to the Care Ilan faithfully and to the end." The war in the west so far, he war fronts possibly to assume encontinued, has fallen almost personal command of the drive tirely upon the Royal Navy and against Firdand the Daily Mail the Royal Air force. reported today , The paper said In a dispatch WASHINGTON, Jan. Isador Lubin, commissioner of from Stockholm that it is believed Joseph Stalin. following a au. labor statistics, told Congress topreme war council in the Krem-- day that the administration's relin Thursday, sent Marshal Vorociprocal trade agreements proshilov to the Finnish front with, Northwestern Railway: "We're gram had created "a very considto launch a "final effort optimistic for the first quarter. erable increase" in employment orders and softened the effect of the 1938 to smash Finland's Mannerheim Beyond that we don't care to inline at all costs. , recession for'many Industries., dicate." It was also believed Stalin and F. J. Gavin. Great Northern Testifying before the House his highest war chieftains deways and means committee. on Railway: "Out In our country cided to burl all the Red army exten(St. Paul, Minn.) things look; the proposed three-yea- r pretty good. We feel everything Is sion of the trade agreement law, reserves behind the front lines all right" Lubin said the progrant had south and north of Lake Ladoga Into this grand offensive. An H. A. Scandrett Chicago, Mil-- , created "more jobs in this counestimated 750,000 to 1.000,000 y waukeee St. Paul and Pacific try than it could have conceivroad: We feel our business for ably displaced." The law expires men are thought to be involved the first three months will be Jkine 12. , ViehrisosPhlianv. who led the Red better than the corresponding Asserting that the average antroops that defeated foreign in. nual exports of manufactured period of last year, but I won't terventionist armies and the hazard a guess as to a longer ' goods to trade agreement counforecast." tries in 1937 and 1933 were $353,- - forces of Admiral Kolchak and General Denikin some two C. S. Belsterlirig, U. S. Steel 000,000 more than in 1934 and ago, was said to be ready Corporation: We look for better 1935. Lubin testified that imports decades over to take active command of year and more even production, of dutiable manufactured goods the Russian campaign In Fininstead of wide fluctuations. All from the same countries increasindications point to greater car- ed only by $38,000,000, in the land if Stalin should direct him I to do so. , pame period. loadings all over tlitt country." , - , - one-tim- -- A Russia Rushes Chief To FrOlit -- - Trade Pacts Spur Jobs, So ions Told ail; Steel Executives See Prosperous 1940 r. PITTSBURGH, Jan. of railroads line behind business where it and to .coast, steel firms hobnobbing at. a gala banquet here. looked ahead to "goqd" earnings for the first quarter of 1940 and generally were optimisbusiness .prospects tic abbut throughout the year. A dozen tuxedoed presidents, among. 1,800 industrial officials at a Pittsburgh Traffic Club dinner last night, aired their opinions between servings of breast of guinea hen eugenie and Kuro, ki salad. Guest'Speaker Thomas L. Parkinson, president of the Equita-- . ble Life Assurance Society. struck 'at "government regulation of, industry," cleclaning the govern ment should be "not the master, not the bossbut should fall in , , . , G. A. Blackmore, president of the Westinghouse Air Brake Com- a felt that business pany, "bound to. be good and better, particularly if we can avoid act- lye combat In warwhich we can and will." George T. Ladd, president of the ,United Engineering and Foundry Company, said it was to comment under ' the Present political situation". and that he hoped for a change of administration. 4 Interpolated that he considered himself a "good Democrat." Toastmaster J. L. Perry, president of the Carnegie-Illinoi- s Steel Corporation, averred that "all we need is confidence. Confidence would lead us to 'a reasonable prosperity so we' wouldn't have to depend on ,wars, which we deplore." -- WELCOME STATEMENT Patrick H. Joyce, trustee Of the Chicago and Great Western Rail- l road. remarked that "'Lewis' statement ricakes is very happy and fills us full of hope." (do Chief John L. Lewis told the United Mine Workers convention at Columbus. 0.. that a third term attempt by President Roosevelt would result in "ig- . , nominious" defeat.) be- longs, and follow it." Parkinson rorrr-coa- w , -. Rail-"risk- SEES BIGGER EARNINGS Other observations: Denney. Northern ' Pa- cific Rallwa3r: ''We anticipate that our earnings this month will be 10erer cent ahead of last Janu- . . t ary." R., L: Williams, Chicago and C. E. 1 V..- . - ' I 1 . ' of , ,. . - - |