Show 1 TEMPERATURES WEATHER UTAH: Mostly to- (ror m A —A cloudy today night and Tues-- d a y occasional rain or snow IDAHO: Rain tonight and Tuesday mil snow in Seventy-fir- i - i i s i J THE ASSOCIATED PRESS THE UNITED PRESS Year— No 18L st It M I t i hi j WAV mountains (4 i MFC Bill Pi eatils itli Italians for Onster of nice sV P TRAIN U LEAVES TRACK ' Si f Streamliner Derailed At f I i f X Cars of City of L A Wrecked Jeffers to Vv f to War !! I " LONDON Dec 23 (UP) — Prime Minister Winston Churchill tonight appealed to fhe Italian people monarchy ind army to cast out Benito Mussolini and come to peace with Great Britain before British forces are compelled to come 4to "much closer J': - j side-by-sj- de im-fri- al "sC-a- - ( ' beamed to r a special" hook-u- p before he an a half hour and Italy was scheduled to talk on a network 'to the British people and to the United States was to taken This precaution forestall efforts of Italian authorities to "jam" the broadcast so that it could not be heard in Italy Churchill broadcast his speech in English It was then repeated in Italian and rebroadcast from both Athens and Cairo transmitters in Italian in a determined attempt to the speech to the Italian people Wchurchill said Britain had been forced to strike hard blows against but that ultimately Italy already to come be necessary would it closer to grips — and apparently will not warning that Britishtheforces mainland of to attack hesitate feasible if Italy He said Italian troops had fought that this bravely in the past but no heart had Xhey seemed tfme it in the battle - FRANCIS J : HI J i grips" with Italy Churchill's appeal to Italy was - directed over the head of Mussolini whom the British prime minister declared had foree his country into war against Britain "against Jrtie crown and the royal family of ily against the pope and all the v Authority of the Vatican and of the Roman Catholic church" 1l?olini Barbarian ? By this action Churchill said in' an address broadcast simultaneously from London 'Athens and Cairo Mussolini has "arrayed the trustees and inheritors of ancient Rome upon the side of the ferocious pagan barbarians" By this act declared Churchill Italy has ranged against herself the entire force of the British empire and has lost the sympathy of the f'nited States and other nations of j© western hemisphere Churchill's appeal was a frank challenge to Italy to rid herself of Mussolini whose doctrines he suggested were alien to those precepts which Britain holds dearest 18 Years Reign He echoed in many passages the remarks of David Lloyds George Britain's doughty World war prime minister' who last week noted that Mussolini had held power for 18 years and that this term seemed inauspicious for dictators recalling that both Naponeon Bonaparte and Napoleon III lost their power after ' term of 18 years "Repeatedly Churchill emphasized Britain had no quarrel with Italy's people for whom he said English- - men have nothing but feeling of friendship He spoke of the long years of close association of the two nations of their fight during the Vrorld war years and revealed he had made a personal appeal to Mussolini against entrance into the war in the days when France was collapsing under Adolf Hitler's blitzkrieg These appeals said Churchill were rejected and now British forces are "tearing and will r your African empire into shreds and tatters" Italy he said faced the prospect of fighting alone against the might of the British empire or of calling in "Attila over the Brenner pass with his hordes of ravenous sol- diery his gangs of Gestapo policemen to occupy and hold down and protect the Italian people for whom he and his nazi followers cherish the most bitter and outspoken contempt that is on record between two races" i Message Rebroadcast Churchill delivered his broadcast -- ' ' — i MAKES FLEA i - Prime Min- ister Churchill (above) of Great Britain broadcast an appeal to the Italian people tonight to rid themselves of Premier Mussolini and threatened to rip their African empore "to shreds and tatters' if they continue the war He declared war between Britain and Italy came about "because of one man" and the people of Italy and Italy's army never were DAMAGING WIND STRIKES COAST The railroad listed the injured as: Heitzman Philip Hollywood sprained back Alama L Barner Montebello Calif bruised hip Mrs H M 'Ridgway and daughter Sandra Los Angeles bruises Mrs Esther H Croft 55 Los Angeles bruises Mrs Wright H Prickett Jr JLong Beach Calif bruises Miss Violet Zimmerman Holly wood Calif bruises - Waiter Lester Albert arm and rib fractures and Chef Jack Alderman arm bruises The announcement listed the cause as a broken rail beneath the last of three power units This unitj a baggage car three coaches two diners a lounge car and six Pullmans left the track One of the Pullmans turned on its side but the railroad said none of its occupants was injured- -: Two "more Pullmans remained on the track - Oregon and Washington Hit By Furious Gale Two Deaths Counted President W M Jeffers fit the Union" Pacific and Otto Jabelmann in charge of re search left Omaha to conduct a personal investigation The baggage car dragged about 500 feet before coming to a stop SEATTLE Dec 23 (AP)— slanting away from the tracks The roadbed was hot and Oregon today company said thebecause Washington the equip badly damaged started cleaning the debris of the ment was It estimated that light Pacific northwest's worst general wrecking crews would have the windstorm in 20 years with esti line open by Meanwhile trains were routed by mates of total damage still only or La Salle Colo and Chey way guesswork enne Wyo because the other line The known toll included two of the double track was blocked deaths a dozen persons injured a ship disabled several buildings smashed three airplanes wrecked and literally thousands of windows II broken power and telephone poles toppled and trees uprooted The hurricane struck Saturday central Oregon night from the coast to the Straits of Juan de Fuca roared inland at velocities up to 85 - miles an hour ripped at cities and eventuallly blew itself SALT LAKE CITY Dec 23 (AP) into impotency against the barri A switch ' train backing along cade of the Cascade range the tracks on which he was standThe dead E Den ing in the Union Pacific railroad Hartog 20 of Furnas Wash and yards here yesterday struck and his brother They were Ernest Walter Borg 51 both electrocuted yesterday when decapitated a car freight inspector a high tension line fell on their his back turned to the Borg automobile near Mt Vernon r&witch train was checking an in to strove storma clear they ' coming freight train on an ad blocked road The injured fhcluded three per jacent track when the accident oc sons struck by a tree which curred company officials said Crew crashed into a crowded rural dance members tf the incoming freight shouted to Borg of his danger but hall near Kelso Saturday night San The Francisco lumber he apparently did not hear them schooner Davenport a A resident of East Midvale Utah n vessel was towed into port Borg had been employed by the after losing her deck load of lum- Union Pacific for 16 years follow ber and taking eight feet "of water ing similar length of service with in her hold the Denver & Rio Grande Western Nearly 20 cities in dregon and Railroad company Washington were blacked out bj Survivors include his widow his power failure mother three sons three brothers and six sisters among the latter Mrs W L Stenquist of Tremon ton DRAFT vice-preside- nt - s mid-afterno- P EMPLOYE TRAIN VICTIM are-Raj'mon- h 200-fo- ot 525-to- REFORMS SEENBY SOLONS Futile Search Ends For Missing Pilot LAS VEGAS Nev Dec 23 (AP) WASHINGTON Dec 23 (AP)— Active search for Bud Hussey missAmid demands for long-rang- e plan ing since early Thursday in a comof the defense program and its ning finances a major congressional bat training plane delivery flight Palmdale Calif to Las Veargument appeared today to be from was ended developing over proposals to place gas Paul Balfour head pilot of North conscription of the European "an- American Aviation Inc which had nual class" system to employed Hussey ferry planes Senator Adams told to Calif from its Inglewood the reporters compulsory military Montreal Canada said theplant futile service law should be overruled "so that each year the government search had extended from Los Anwould train boys of 16 or 18 or 20 geles to Winslow Ariz and from instead of taking men between the Palmdale to the Utah state line Fifteen other training ships which broad limits of 21 and 35" been used in the hunt wiHre- It is unfair to a man who has had sume their flight to Canada toestablished himself in a job Adams morrow Balfour said said to require military service when younger men could serve 3IEMOKY EXPERT DIES without losing private positions Dec 23 (AP)— Paul ATLANTA Senator Vandenberg 55 blind coroner notDonehoo T declared that revision of the draft ed for his remarkable memory and law to take men of one age each numerous activities and a concert year was a sensible idea" but pianist attorney expert at chess suggested that opening the con- and bridge bowler fisherman and anew might ardent baseball follower died scription question create many complications (D-Col- o) ! (R-Mic- associate eauor The SUndard-I-aminfor columnist and for California left today a brief holiday Hisonecolumn early -be resumed on page in January Frank Francis ry j er on h) ANTHONY EDEN Named foreign secretary HALIFAX NAMED ENVOY TO U S Stronger Foreign Policy Seen With Elevation 27 32 Pocatello 61) Seattle 36 i ' ' — — ' : — British Swell Siege Lines if AYr Around 20000 Trapped Italian Troops 7Ml!fwW TROOPS TRANSFERRED Appeals RAF Carries War Deep WASHINGTON Dec 23 ( AP) —The supreme court held unconstitutional toda$a 1937 North Carolina law imposing a $250 annual privilege tax on companies (other Inflict Blows J M 10 WUHston 44 Yellowstone 51! Angeles Times " : 44 Portland Or 49 St Louis' 50j Salt Lake 43( San Fran- - 39 Omaha 3S 46 43 45 54 61 40 63 51 44 44 hester lm Flaine In Devastatin g Attack s Take Ghimara Decays Action In Bridges lf MinMax 20 33 30 34 42 35 33 55 421 Minneaoolia 521 New York M ROM TAX Los t seven ending PAGES— TWO SECTIONS 18 TRIBUNAL ADJOURNS Visit Scene Dec JULESBURG 23 (AP) — Seven passengers and two employes were injured last 'night — none seriously a company spokes man said — when 14 cars of the Union Pacific's eastbound streamliner City of Los Angeles were derailed near here by a broken rail 1940 Companies Declared Unconstitutional : HI till t t M f M I ! v Levy Against Outside i 14 Mussolini Is Accused of Inciting Nation DECEMBER 23 r COURT RULES ' : i j vjf LAW ILL EGAL RAIL FAULT BLAMED BROADCASTS APPEAL i CA I ' ' On Trip East V 111 P f Takes New Post INJURED Julesburg Colorado Threatens to Rip African Holdings 'to Shreds' If Request Ignored i ! OGDEN CITY UTAH MONDAY EVENING ME AS i 1 - Max) 34 42 25 Butte 25 Calgary 34 Chicago 32 Denver 35 Havre 31 KaiispeU Kansas City 30 Los Anpelea 50 30 Miles City ORdea Boiss VI fi period 24-ho- ur today) Min Into Continent to WM- 'Wm9 Ionian - By the Associated Press German warplanes struck with devastating fury at the north England industrial city' than regular retail merchants in the state) which display samples in hotel rooms or rented houses for the purpose of obtaining orders for retail MED I TEFZHANEAN SEA sale Justice Reed delivered the unani mous opinion on a test case of Anthony Eden SIDI rT brought by Best & Co Inc of New BARRANI rA BARD York City LONDON Dec 23 (AP) — AnReed said that the court's duty £7 thony Eden took over the foreign was to determine whether a statute secretaryship today in a quick under attack would "in its prac change interpreted by some neutral sources as foreshadowing a more tical operation work discrimination aggressive British diplomacy pos- against interstate commerce" BATTLE ZONE Greek troops captured the coastal town of Chi-masibly including improved relations "This standard condemns the tax and plunged on toward a mountain pass guarding Yalona with Soviet Russia (1) today while British continued to engage Italian troops (above) at bar" His predecessor Lord Halifax old battle of North Africa ' in the near Bardia (2) The North Carolina will rest several days in the north supreme : —— — of England before leaving for his court upheld the tax and denied re new post as ambassador to Wash- covery of the $250 paid by the New ington "early in the new year" York concern Best and Company Halifax surrendered his seals of of- contended the assessment if adoDt fice to King George this morning ed generally by other states would and proceeded north for a brief "amount to an absolute prohibition on the solicitation of interstate 1 RING ' : Christmas holiday ' — sales" Before he left he told friends he The court agreed to review a de looked forward with great pleasure cision holding invalid a 1937 Florida to his new duties Eden assumed his new duties law directed at monopolistic prac- 'Bottleneck' tices of music copyright owners Mystery Is Two Spies Executed and only a few hours after a cabinet and 1939 a of state parts regulating shift sent Halifax the gaunt con22 Others Jailed Clue to Impending servative who had guided! the Brit- licensing of public performance ish foreign office through 'appease- rights Invasion By Italians The court adjourned for two ment" and thus far in the war to weeks what Prime Minister Churchill of courtwithout ruling on "contempt convictions of the Los An termed the "most important post ROME Dec 23 (AP)— The exe By DEWITT MACKENZIE Times and of Harry Bridges geles cution of two men as spies and the any British citizen can fill outside west coast labor be will If somebody good enough leader this country" of 22 persons imprisonment to The court refused to review a deput his finger on the mysterious two of them women other Some sources recalled that Eden revealed the whom Halifax replaced as foreign cision holding unconstitutional a bottleneck which has prevented the smashing of an alleged "network secretary Feb 20 1938 when the state of Washington excise tax on Germans from employing more of informers" which some observproducts latter differed strongly with the petroleum The court also refused to review than a limited number of war-plan- ers thought today might have been appeasement policy of his chief a decision over Britain at any one related to the damaging British that liquor held in a time then Prime Minister Chamberlain had I f will make a close raid on Taranto naval base No visited Moscow in his former ten- storage warehouse by W J Lake guess as to whether Hitler will vember 11 andCompany of Seattle was mov- succeed in the invasion which Enure in the foreign bfficei Aurelio Cocozza described as an in interstate commerce and was' The Russians regarded Halifax ing to is gland attempt impostor traveling salesman of expecting him and the late Prime Minister Neville immune from state taxation Taranto and Francesco Ghezzi a in near the future county Wash which sought Chamberlain as foes of a British-Russia- n to King The importance of this query is naval officer were shot by a firing collect ad valorem taxes on rapproachement feat squad at dawn yesterday only a liquor stored on March 1 1935 and emphasized by the week-en- d It was understood here that they March 1 1936 in of force the royal air ranging few hours after they were conappealed from thei regarded Eden as possessing a bet- state supreme court western from Norway to demned and before an official anEurope ter understanding of Russia and was1 The raids over nouncement of the trial was made the Adriatic for in bombing liquor question more realistic views as to the adIn another week-en- d six countries into developSeattle for distribution1 brought vantages of trade and other agree- in Alaska U4 ment must be Mon-of Invasion Virginio Gayda potent FasEngland i ments between Russia and Britain tana Under stateIdaho and law the liquor premised on such absolute control cist editorial voice suggested the v Eden's post as secretary of war could not be sold for state con-- ! of the air that Britain and her possibility of "complications" with goes to Captain DavicT Margesson axis should to the sumption except Washington! 3000000 soldiers can be bombed the 50 chief government whip in com- before state an the United States control into board near which liquor bellig permit insensibilitymons holds a now erents' to nazi ref a merchant made! land is effort monopoly ships army Additional cabinet changes were The state taxing authorities con-- i from small boats on the channel uged in her harbors to fall into some observers includ- tended "the expected by that the company:' Anything short of that means dis- British hands ing possibly the appointment of had no ordersfact 10 to 16 per cent astrous failure for1 the Germans for He said a suggestion by British "World war premier Dayid Lloyd of the 'into Seattle1 far of Shipping Ronald Cross Minister nazidom thus liquor coming Obviously to the government George that this liquor was not irt hasn't possessed anything like con- for sale of more American ships as Schooled at aristocratic Eton and shows trol of the air —or at least hasn't well as his eyeing of axis vessels Oxford and tested in the colonial interstate commerce" exhibited it There can be small in American ports showed growing administration Halifax came into in doubt that last summer when Hit- hunger and disheartenment the world limelight as the British PHOTOGRAPHER DIES invasion axis counter Britain under the for was ler 1923-31 maneuvering when viceroy in India from OTTAWA Kas Dec 23 (AP)- -i he hit England from the skies blockade he neld down the lid wh le India's W H Martin 75 a photographer1 with everything he could Yet the millions seethed through the civil who made a fortune on trick prints fleet h© ever succeeded in FLYING SANTA CLAUS disobedience campaign depicting enormous rabbits and greatest over the British Isles at Baldwin the "abdication farm products and founder of th£ putting Stanlay one time wa$ something like a BOMBS LIGHTHOUSES ( Continued on Page S pot 3) National Sign company is dead thousand planes according to esWITH YULE PACKAGES timates by observers invincible Iwas the then Where j armada of many thousands which BOSTON Dec 23 (AP)— Fawas supposed to plow England unvored good weather Massader in short orderj by working in chusetts'by "flying Santa Claus" huge relays? Wnere has it been hoped today to "bomb'' lightsince then that Britain should houses between Boston and Nanmidriff be when of a By JOHN F CHANDLER skimpy vastly stronger in the air than tucket with Christmas packages girl BALTIMORE Dec 23 (AP)— seven hands cold and clad only in she was four months ago? completing the second leg of a Don't let anybody tell you there a light shabby sweater over her Even England is puzzled over Yuletide mission isn't any Santa Claus! dress said she didn't want any- the mystery of the bottleneck Is Rowe Snow Winthrop Edward There is just as sure as rein- thing but her brother would like it thaj the nazis are husbanding school teacher and coastal deer have antlers rskates Those whiskers convenient their strength for the coming blow? high historian by his accompanied It didn't take much more than ly covered a couple of hard swal- Is it shortage of planes by any wife a pilot and a photographer an hour tucked into a red velvet lows chance? flew over 20 from suit and behind a set of long white A line of kids that seemed to Nobody but Hitler and those Boston to Boonelighthouses off the Island whiskers to find that out Kiddies extend ' into the next state gazes (Continued on Pa? 2 Col 7) Maine coast They yesterday of 1940 believe in old Saint 'Nick in awe when the regular : Santa's dropped packages containing toas strong as I did when I waited sub hove into view nervously bacco candy and magazines arid MEMORIES WAR impatiently in California about 30 jingling a string of sleigh bells "bombers" scored hits at The ' r years ago for Christmas morning trying to be nonchalant each of the 20 stations their" Pick out a big department store Lunch hour went in a hurry welcome gifts directed from the sometime and do a lunch relief for scores' poured through and more low-flyi(By United Tress) plane landing on the regular guy who wears the came A store attendant suggested War tin Europe a yeaf ago Dec lighthouse roofs and grounds whiskers for pay You'll find out a run for the elevator After thrfee 23 1939: out with white stones a Spelled too false starts Saint Nick handed ojit Finnish high command reported "Merry Christmas" greeted Of several hundred wide-eyed a fistful of colored verse and starr- Aglaepaervi region taken with ad- huge Gloucester them at L who ed elevator-war- d vance against Russiians continuing children in this "Toy-town- " A little girl of six caught ijp let me in on the biggest thing of Germany branded the French EDITOR SUCCUMBS their young lives mosff were well and bubbled a request for a dill yellow book as full of "brazen lies YORK Dec 23 (AP)— NEW dressed — so -- were their parents — buggy and historical forgeries" Franklin Underwood 63 for years President Roosevelt named My- prominent in the theatrical profes"Is that all?" I queried moving and you felt sure Santa wouldn't ron C Taylor as his personal rep- sion as actor manager and story have to fret about their requests — on "Yes thanks" she chortled "I resentative to the Holy See with editor died Sunday but there were many urchins in tattered clothes who'd make any- told another Santa Slaus across rank of ambassador without PILOT DIES body's Adam's apple bulge when the street about the other things Dec 23 (AP)— Lieut want" wonder I BOSTON what Santa might they Commander Reginald D Thomas I sputtered in confusion and the (By The Associated Press) bring Believe me they make Twnety-fiv- e elevator doors opened to swallow Santa do some years ago today Dec 49 U S naval reserve who received a medal from President Coolidge and save me Yes there is a 23 1915 that would shake a senator Allied warships heavily bombard in 1925 as the safest pilot in that Saint Nick was glad those Santa Claus but darn it there service is dead scratchy whiskers covered to his ought not be so many Saint Nicks Turkish camps EGYPJ ra 12-d- ay NAZIS CONTINUE FASCISTS SMASH TO SECRET MIGHT i SABOTEUR jj es j " j ! I Rome-Berlin-Tok- yo j j j There Is a Santa Sub Finds In Department Store Venture j of Manchester (pop 766000) leaving many dead and wounded today amid "gigan tic conflagrations" while in the Balkan war Greece's conquering legions reported the capture of Chimara Italian supply base on the Albanian coast battle of north of British streams steady were reported troop reinforcements swelling the siege line around Italian soldiers trapped at BarIn the Africa 20-0- dia in Libya Observers on the fighting front said Fascist defenders'of the des ert post had apparently been as garsigned tne role or a "sacntice rison" to stall the British counter-invasio- n from Egypt giving Italian Marshal Rodolfo Graziani time " to rally his defenses in the west From the flat arid wastes arotind Bardia British artillery lobbed shells into the strongly-defende- d town a communique said "while our preparations outside are pro' gressing" f or an expected mass assault British general headquarters announced ' a total of ' 35949 Italian : - prisoners including 1704 officers had been removed from the battle zone and that "several thousand more are still awaiting return from the forward camps' Dispatches from the Hungarian-Rumania- n frontier said thousands of German troops with full war gear were crossing into Rumania adding to a Nazi force already estimated at more than 100000 In the capture of Chimara the Greek government reported the seizure of 800 men and 30 officers of the 153rd battalion of the Fascist militia as well as huge stores of war material Other Greek troops which had skirted the town were described as advancing rapidly north toward the important port of Valona 30 miles up the Adriatic! sea coast with the Italians in fdisorderly flight" Adolf Hitler's high command said "strong formations of heavy combat planes" attacked Manchester "with great success" irt the overnight raid and also bombed London Bristol Liverpool Southampton Portsmouth and other cities The Nazi planes started the assault on Manchester in the early evening when the streets were crowded with Christmas shoppers roaring over the city in wave after wave "for many hours" a British ! j j communique said Nearly 500 persons werereported in a public shelter hit by heavy bombs A motion picture theatre and another public shelter were wrecked inflicting an undisclosed number of casualties and 60 per son3 were trapped at bne of two hotels blasted by aerial high explosives Fires set by the night raiders cast a red glow visible for miles and thick smoke still palled the city this forenoon Hours after the rain of explosives ended at daybreak rescue i parties still tunneled through the debris searching for the dead and living entombed there A British communique acknowl- fContinued Page S Vol 5) - a ng - - j - fence-straddli- ng j 00 f IS ORZEPa HOUR r— — ANCTTH4T iSfe W££ PtAOED And YOU'VE GOT TO BE GL£V£R TO HSrStf TH4T5HOPPiNC7Bu-- r lATBy THIS OAY?TU4N HBVsa 1 SHOPPING DAY T!U CHRISTMAS |