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V THE ASSOCIATED OGDEN CITY UTAH SUNDAY MORNING MAY 21 PKES3 the united press Year—No 829 Sixty-nint- h Dies Committee h ) 0tsis t levoiui oi k Jr-- a v 1 T M PfnW 3 1939 yy W I Borah Throws Influence Against War Referendum Conference Suggested Between Groups Opposed THREATEN- FORCE Idaho Senator Fears Delay of Submitting War to Is Waiter Alleged Question to Vote Would Mean Loss Have Overheard ed Hills: Idaho J WASHINGTON May 20 (AP) — Senator Borah WASHINGTON May 20 — said today that testimony of proponents had failed to disin which a war referendum (AP) — The house committee close to him any practical waycould be made entirely workon un - American activities amendment to the constitution deable making public additional Borah is on record as favoring as a consequence we must move has evidence it of the tails to the of ernment disclosed today: e Deather-ag- Testimony that George of St Albans W Va chief of the Knights of the White Camellia and linked in the testimony with propaganda had of Father conference a suggested the A F of John Frey Coughlin L Homer Chaillaux of the American Legion and “leaders of large groups on our side of the fence” to discuss the “threat” of a Communist revolution (The conference the committee was told never had been called) That Dudley Pierpont Gilbert Yorker socally prominent New had testified he feared “a revolu- tion before snow flies and that’s why I’m working like hell on a house in Kentucky” anti-Semit- ic Plot In Club That It was at the Harmonle club In New York that a waiter the principle submitting people the question of fighting all wars that are not purely defensive But he suggested that if it is to be practical some method must be found to define foreign wars The Idaho senator has stressed this in questioning witnesses appearing before a senate judiciary prosubcommittee in support of posal introduced by 12 senators to amend the constitution to take from congress and giveE to the people themselves the power to declare war except when an attack is threatened or made on the United States its possessions or the western hemisphere “Suppose” Borah said “that we are in a controversy with some foreign power and it is approaching the point of war If we are to wage a successful war we must anticipate what they are going to do and TO I to attack them as a measure of defending ourselves “Our commander-in-chie- f says that we can’t wait until they make it a domestic war That would be a foreign war and the amendment would-boperative wouldn’t- it?” Fearful of Delay He said that in an instance of this kind he feared that the delay occasioned by submitting the war question to the people for a vote might be a factor giving a potential enemy a decided advan- tage could find a practical by which those who would to die say whether or not should go abroad to fight that would be what I would want but I can’t see how there is a means of doing it Borah practical said ‘ These brightly attired gents are members of the Military Order of Cooties fun OUT FOR FUN unit of the Veterans of Foreign Wars now In Ogden during the sixth annual encampment Their get dull In the staff photo seated on a capers throughout Saturday never let the annual gathering "cootie” is Joseph Aldrich Ogden general chairman on his left is L B FItt and right is Mark Holding in back is left H K Brown and J W Latimer (Staff photo) Yankee Clipper Service Nonchalant Launching was alleged In testimony given to the committee fto have overheard from time to time details of a plot to overthow the government the The committee developed conit what in up following story sidered evidence of widespread propaganda By DEVON FRANCIS committee This was spread YORK a to NEW May 20 (AP)— A metal flying boat rose members said by sending carefully-selecte- d list of persons from a Long Island bay and pointed its snout eastward today the information alleged to have to inaugurate at last airliner service between Europe and been overheard by the waiter of America James Erwin Campbell Inside its broad high hull listen Owensboro Ky who testified to this information ing to the throaty symphony of its dLssemirhting Col 2) four motors were 17 men the first ( Continued on Page to cross the north Atlantic in' an FRANK FRANCIS' — airplane operating Iy time table The start of scheduled trans-Atlant- ic transport flights from Manhasset bay hard by the little community of Port Washington Although he lost' a race halfwas routine even casual way across the Pacific with an A few short speeches were made airplane the stork arrived hale Congratulations werf exchanged and A message from President Roosehearty Saturday night for Mr and Mrs Carlos E McAllis-t- e velt was dead Slow but sure is his motto Then Arthur E La Porte skiphe said as he delivered 41-t“Yankee Clipnowadays of the The Dies committee of congress per and the crew marched smartgood-size- d a boy to Mrs Allister per” at having discovered an p m at the Dee a small quay stepped movement in this country has ly down hospital pointed the finger of accusation The stork lost his race to Mr By DEVON FRANCIS at Major General George Van Horn chief mechanic for McAllister NEW YORK May 21— (SunMoseley retired who is referred Airways at MidAirto as the leader of the agitation day) — (AP) — McAllister left the island way ways reported that the giant island Wednesday plane by There is no place in this coun-- ‘ metal flying boat "Yankee ClipThursday he left Honolulu on the the Azores try for organizations aiming to per” landed at Horta California clipper and arrived in (MST) tocreate race or religious at eleven twenty-nin- e San Francisco Friday morning day The clipper is inaugurating Although he missed the early regular airliner service between plane for Salt Lake City he One of the worst things that the United States and Europe made it to "Salt Lake City by could happen to America would night Friday be the building up of race and aboard the lines were cast off and was He met by Mrs McAllister religious hatreds a few minutes later the 6000 horsewho has been staying in Ogden in the Clipper’s motors lift- with her sister Mrs George A We must keep alive the spirit power ed her slowly aloft Ward and Mrs W L Skanchy which has' been an of fair--plaThe takeoff for Horta the Azores Mrs McAllister entered the hosAmerican characteristic 2400 miles first stopping point andtwelve-sevepital Saturday n was made at away This is the first child of the as insurance Mass murder for m (EST) p couple Mrs McAllister 'is the disclosed in a Philadelphia invest! At p m (EST) La former Ivie Ray Mason of Wilone wonder how gation makes wirelessed Port Washington lard men and Porte he was 1070 miles many criminally-minde- d east of that women of that kind are at large New York and aided by a tail in the United States wind was speeding along at 170 Utah-ldaho an hour The Clipper crew miles There was a ring in Philadelphia expected to sight Horta in about which promoted poisoning in order 14 hours to collect life insurance policies The big ship will carry a maxi1— Of 35 passengers on its runs mum Estimates place the number of starting about July 1 SALT LAKE CITY May 20 (AP) victims who were put to death at schedule — A The leisurely Clipper’s marriage license was issuec 100 which will put the ship in Lisbon here today to Vern White Thorpe tomorrow afternoon Marseille Mon 21 Salt Lake City and Bessie One woman has confessed the day and Southampton Tuesday will Brown 20 Burley Idaho poisoning of her husband stepson be speeded up on this route to about and a boarder 35 hours when passenger service A cripple was put to death by is inaugurated drowning and a “huge Italian im- migrant” clubbed his victim to death T R RUNNING MATE Phil Perlman of Provo will head Women who had) disagreements durwith their husbands were perIN MISSISSIPPI the Utah Order of DeMolay DIES suaded to join the poison killers ing the coming year members of the organization gathered in their Not since early days when a Miss CHRISTIAN annual convention In Ogden deman and his wife kept a roadside 20 PASS John M Parker Sr May govcided late Saturday (AP)— inn and with a trap door dropped ernor of Louisiana from 1920 to Perlman will be assisted by Tom their intended victims into a well 1924 and vice of Salt Lake City vice pres-deLattin running presidential there to be slain has a story so mate with Theodore Roosevelt on Bill Power of Ogden secresordid been told a Progressive ticket in 1916 died tary and Jack Daniels of Salt Lake City state athletic manager - It is difficult for anyone of Saturday ill been had The Chief other item of business former governor to believe any normal promptings was the sevfor here the summer home at his transacted great number of persons can be eral months and had been receiv- decision tobyhold delegates state a meeting found who will deliberately profor weeks twice yearly instead of once each ceed to put human beings to death ing forced nourishment are the for- year Next meeting is tentatively widow Survivors his for the purpose of getting dollars mer in Provo Miss Cecile Alrey two sons set for September 3D : and their 90 M members girl Thomas John Parker and The Jr eviBut in Philadelphia ample conventhe attended Mrs who a Parker and friends daughter dence has been presented to prove Airey Walker Saussey all resident of tion were late Saturday enjoying the presence in that city of a mur- New Orleans themselves at a dance in the )Ve-bder ring that for ten years has college ballroom This was to been killing to gain insurance NATIONAL DEBT WEEK be followed by a midnight show money WASHINGTON May CO— (AP) at an Ogden theatre — Asserting to conOutgoing officers of the order With that disclosure it is easy centrate the they intended on William Havenor of Ogden were country’s attention to understand why people in the New Deal Clarence Gabriel Salt in president spending Republicans congested centers of large cities congress proclaimed a “Na- Lake' City vice president Phil today tional Debt week” Perlman Provo secretary (Continued on Page 2 Col 6) anti-Semit- ic Stork Loses To Flier But Is Welcomed and VIEWS on anti-Jewi- sh six-twel- ve Pan-Americ- an Pan-Americ- an ' Britain France Offer JOB PLEA MADE J ASVETSL1EET i ‘ ' Couple Licensed to hi Wed New Russ Compromises V F W Requests Revision Of WPA Rules for Jobs Showdown On Danzig Looms As To Pensions Axis Boasts of Baltic-to-Se- a By LOUIS A GLADWELL Standard-Examin- r Staff er A resolution appealing to the Works Progress Administration to permit partially disabled veterans to earn a comparable monthly wage paid WPA workers in corresponding brackets was adopted at a closing business session Saturday of the Utah Veterans of Foreign Wars in convention here Because disabled World war veterans receive a small monthly federal pension they now are inemployeligible for work-reliment V F W leaders pointed out that the pension received is insufficient to support a veteran I and his family Gather At Banquet The sixth annual encampment swung into full stride Saturday night with some 400 post and auxiliary members government and civic leaders gathered in Ben Lomond hotel ballroom for a banquet At one point of the affair the American Legion drum and bugle corps marched in for a rous- (Continued on Page 2 Col 4) ’ ef DEATH RING CASE y six-thir- ty — PHILADELPHIA May 20 (AP) Investigators of the eastern insurance-murder plots tallying progress since a fat widow’s confession broke the case wide open a month ago counted 27 persons in custody today and nine “known” victims Estimates of the number snared in the ring’s evil web have run as high as 100 but only these nine deaths have been established definitely All were in Pennsylvania Police suspect nevertheless that there were others in New Jersey New York and Delaware Two men are held in a New Jersey "Robert nt er trestle TB HOSPITAL in- Accused Slayer To Plead Monday ' i V A V' 4 xv' v I WASHINGTON May 20— (AP) Frank G Matson chief of -- the forms and regulations section of the Home Owners Loan corporation died today at his home in Arlington Va Born in Ogden Utah in 1894 Matson formerly was a newspaperman in Salt Lake City San Fran cisco Los Angeles and Chicago He also managed an election campaign for former Senator Reed Smoot of Utah F'R Leaves On Yachting Cruise WASHINGTON" May 20 (UP)— President Roosevelt accompaniec by - Attorney General Frank Murphy left the White House Satur Chesapeake day for a week-en- d bay cruise aboard the yacht Potomac Senator and Mrs" James F C) Rear Admiral Byrnes (D-- S and Mrs Ross T Mclntire also will Officers of the Order of DeMolay for the coming year elected at a state conclave accompany Mr Roosevelt on the NEW LEADERS The president drove to which ended in Ogden Saturday night are left to right Tom Lattin Salt Lake City vice president Phu cruise state athletic Lake Annapolis where he boarded the City Perlman Provo president Bill Power Ogden secretary Jack Daniels Salt 1 at the navy academy dock ' yacht manager f Sheriff PHONE WIRES CUT Officers Converge On Region Guard Trails 1 BOISE Ida May 20 — con(AP) — Four long-terwho victs escaped early Saturday from the state peniten-iar- y here were believed fleeing into rugged central Idaho mountain country after holding a farm couple captive near Sweet Idaho for severalv lours m (Warden P C Meredith said Sheriff Boise G Riggs Jr of Emmett reported the couple "posi-- T ively identified” the quartet from telephoned descriptions as the escaped prisoners Free Farm Couple The warden said Riggs told him the prisoners freed the farm couple whose names he did not learn about five p m then headed north JO toward Ola tiny community " miles north of here Little-travelroads lead from there into rugged mountain coun try and Meredith said he believed all trails leading from the region were guarded closely ‘The convicts cut the telephone wires between Ola and Sweet and there was no way to get word of the development to peace officers” Meredith said “Immediately after the farmer and his wife were released they drove the 10 miles to Emmett and reported to Riggs officer in the coun- “Every peace 9 (Continued on Page 2 Col 5 - ed An-chi- se OFFICIAL NAMED j fw Goodnow spector had borrowed a butcher He found knife from Gabrielli him on the floor when he went to Bloc return it and called me" Anderson said “When I arrived ‘Louie’ gasped that he had grabbed his to shoot a rabbit in his Associated Press The shotgun By and the next thing he back Britain and France agreed on fresh proposals to win knew yard was there explosion and over soviet Russia to their front Saturday night amid boast he was lying on an the floor” axis that it already had Lorenzo (Louie) Gabrielli was ings jfrom the rival Rorrie-Berli- n Mediterto Baltic the from at Stiava' Italy about 57 the bloc’ bom “unshakable an forged ago to Mr and Mrs Antonio years ranean He had been in this Gabrielli The1 weekend diplomatic moves 35 years most of about country the by London and Paris and worker He as railroad a the time proud declarations of the German-Italia- n brothers two survived is by partners were accompanied and Tomaso Gabrielli both indications that Europe’s recent by of Stiava and one cousin Lawrspell was over and that breathing ence Martinelli of San Francisco the German-Polis- h dispute soon close friends John V Bru-net- ti Two would come to a showdown Lawrence Duccini will and v The exact nature of the new SALT LAKE CITY May 20 with the make arrangements British-Frenc- h approach to Mos- (AP) — Dr: Lewis F Seapy resident cousin for the ftfneral services cow yas kept secret but France at St Mary’s hospital in The body is at Kirkendall-Dar-lin- g acting as arbitrator between her physician mortuary two allies was understood to have San Francisco will be medical superintendent of the Utah Tubercu fathered the compromise Limited Assistance losis sanatorium at Ogden the HARLAN MEETING IS The' plan was reported reliably to provide for a limited mutual state board of health announced assistance pact among the three today CANCELED BY CHIEF He will assume his duties with powers to satisfy Russian demands opening of the sanatorium July! without involving Britain too far Dr J L Jones state health in eastern Europe commissioner said Dr Seapy has HARLAN Ky May 20 (API-Un- ited It was worked out in Paris talks had exand intensive Mine Workers (C I O) training which! French Premier Daladier treat tuberculosis the in off a scheduled Suncalled perience tonight ment and institutional administra- day (Continued - on Page 2 Col 8) mass meeting in this troubled tion under some of the most out soft coal mine area following issustanding American doctors in the ance of a military order of restricfield t tions Dr Jones said only two Utahns William Turnblazer president of both now in the east completing the Harlan district U M W is postgraduate and hospital train sued a lengthy statement in which ing applied for the superinten he said: “In order to prevent wholesale dency PHOENIX Ariz May 20 (AP)— we shall not ' attempt to arrests Robert M Burgunder Jr handmass meeting in Harlan a have some collegian will on tomorrow” county take the first step in a gruelling CHARGES OF ASSAULT At the same time Turnblazer anlegal fight for his life Monday nounced the signing of the “first when he appears before Justice of mine” contract conFILED AGAINST PAIR commercial the' Peace Harry A Westfall for taining the controversial “union preliminary hearing on charges he shop” clause with the Black Star murdered Jack Peterson formerly Coal company at Alva in Harlan PENDLETON Ore May 20 of Provo Utah and Ellis Koury county anc — Two brothers Earl (AP) Phoenix automobile salesman were bound over to HarMarrs Robert Richard County Attorney the “either less said he expected to call grand jury here today on F G MATSON DEAD four or five witnesses” C T Mc- charges of assault with a dangerKinney defense attorney indicat- ous weapon Bail was set at $2000 each ed extensive cross examination FORMERLY OF OGDEN Rome-Berli- n New Officers Are Chosen By Order of DeMolay tv Lorenzo Gabrielli 57 of Saline died at an 'Ogden hospital at seven-tp m Saturday about 12 hours after he was reportedly accidentally shot in the chest Mr Gabrielli was an employe of the Southern Pacific railroad For about 20 years he had operated the launch which is used to inspect trestle work of the Southern Pacific Lucin cutoff He was well-knoin Ogden to The accident ’ according Charles R Anderson bridge foreman at Saline occurred about six a m Anderson said the hammer of the gun evidently had caught on a chair and snapped Anderson said the gun fired through the left side of Gabrielli’s chest and some of the shots went into the ceiling Mr Gabrielli was rushed to Ogden on a gasoline rail car as there were no trains passing A blood transfusion was given and parts of his lung were ligated or tied away from the rest of the organ wn 4 ° NEWS GADRELLI wenty we “If way have they 10 Operator of Trestle Launch On Salt Lake Dies of Accidental Wound - e Drive Miles to Tell Farmer Wife GUNSHOT FATAL (R-Idah- o) alleggathered concerning an ed plot to overthrow the gov- "1 Escapees Flee 9 Cooties Cut Capers During Convention Plotting FINAL EDITION ?D ZS ‘ Sections— 34 Pages ENDLESS FERVOR GREETS ROYALTY OTTAWA May 20 (AP) — King George and Queen Elizabeth Saturday night rounded out four solid days of ceremonial welcoming to Canada and in their “royal progress” through the North American dominion there was no let up in the enthusiasm of receptions and the fervor of demonstrations Saturday was set aside for celebration of King George’s birthday and it was one long public party In the uniform of a colonel of the Coldstream guards with a towering bearskin hat the king saw Canadian soldiers perform an old British custom of trooping the color Queen Elizabeth made her first public address and laid the cornerstone of the new Canadian supremo court building Then they lunched privately with Prime Minister W L MacKenzie King and a few of his friends Sunday morning all Ottawa will gather in the central place of tho city government square to particiceremony pate in the of unveiling the national Canadian war memorial to the 60000 men this country sacrificed in the World war semi-religio- us GENES REVEALED AS OBJECT OF PLOTTING PARIS May 20 (AP) — Diplo- matic sources reported today & plot had been discovered to send a man from Europe to the United States to assassinate Dr Eduard Benes former president of ed now-dissolv- Czecho-Slovak- ia J These sources said the scheme was hatched in German-occupie- d standPrague both to weaken Czechand to States United in the ing remove an important opponent of the Nazi regime INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL YOUTH 'VALKS OUT’ Joe Sevy 18 of Pangulteh an inmate of the Utah state industrial school escaped from the institution Saturday evening officials reported irriHe made his escape while five-thir- ty between gating sometime p m Authoriand nine-thirt- y ties described him as “tough” and said he would probably resist ’ ‘ f ’ |