Show Local Metal Market ' Silver (newly mined) Silver (foreign) Gold Copper Lead I VOL 135 NO1 87' N avy Launches Ueai Settlement Air Armada Nearing Scene of Search For Amelia Noonan HONOLULU July 9 OB— The navy launched Its final efforts to find Amelia Earhart in the vast Pacific Friday night as the mighty aircraft carrier Lexington sped Utaha General Fund Ends Fiscal Year With Good Balance Faulty Radio Blamed in Hop Failure By WILLIAM C PATRICK Relief for Utah property taxpayers was sighted Friday when it appeared that there will be enough revenue from other sources to enable the state to do without its general fund levy again this year No levy was fixed last year and Defective Instrument Caused Trouble From Flight’s Start surpluses which the attorney general has just ruled must go to the general fund apparently will make it possible for the tax commission to forego a property tax levy for the second time in the state’s history ' The general fund ended the fiscal year on June 30 with a healthy cash balanee-anwith the surpluses from other funds it will be able to carry the record appropriation of the last legislature without any new property tax money Cash Balance The cash balance was approximately $1500000 which includes a surplus of $74723818 from the disThis surplus trict school fund consisting of income and corporation franchise tax money' lapsed into the general fund automatically at the end of the fiscal year under statutory provisions Estimated general fund collections for the current fiscal year assuming that there will be no property tax levy will amount to $2103560 With the surplus of $1500000 this will make available $3603560 Budget requirements for the year are fixed at $3860000 If no other revenue were to be available there would be a deficit next June 30 of something like But these calculations do $250000 not take into consideration amounts which Attorney General Joseph Chez has just said must go to the general fund In the first place there is a sur- on toward the equator to send her 62 g hunt planes into the Refueled after a dash to Hawaii from San Diego the Lexington OAKLAND Cal July 9 CD— sailed from Lahaina roads at 3:25 The Oakland Tribune said Friday p m (8:55 p m E S T) on a voydefective radio equipment may age of more than 1500 miles to the have been responsible for Amelia area under search Earhart’s failure to reach 'Howland island in the dangerous Gas Supply overwater flight from Lae Aboard the carrier which expect- New Guinea Moned to actively join the hunt "From the start the plane’s radio was faulty”- - the paper said day morning were 10000 extra gallons of aviation gasoline to supply "and Miss Earhart and Frederick J Noonon her navigator were the planes which can scan nearly forced to fly the south Atlantic 60000 square miles dally from Natal Brazil to St Louis The destroyers Drayton Lamson French West Africa with the raand Cushing accompanied the Lex-- 1 dio not functioning according to ington into the hunt which found information received here Friday other rescuers virtually abandoning from Dakar French West Africa” hope for the avlatrix and her naviDidn’t Know gator Frederick J Noonan who vanished near bleak Howland island Neither Miss Earhart nor Nooa week ago on a world flight nan knew the radio was “out” were Planes which catapulted again until they landed and from the battleship Colorado for learned their half-hobroadcasts the third day flew over Gardiner of positions were never picked up exand McKean islands western the article stated tremities of the Phoenix group and Further indication of radio trouCorondolet reef but sighted only ble cape from Bandoeng Java ruined guano works and the wreck- where the fliers tarried six days age of a tramp steamer lost many In a story to the Tribune Miss years ago Earhart wrote: “It was necessary to return to - - Birds Peril Planes ' Bandoeng this morning from Thousands of birds frightened by Sourabaya for readjustment of the roaring planes took to the air certain long distance flying infrom the islands forcing the ships struments to climb higher for safety “With good weather ahead the Criticism of Miss Earhart’s flight Wasp motored Lockheed Electra and the navy’s conduct of tha’fcearch working perfectly and pilot and was voiced in the house of repre- navigator eager to go it seemed sentatives in Washington especially hard to be sensible “However lack of essential flyRepresentative Collins (D) objected to the time necesing instruments in working order sary to get planes Into the search would increase unduly the hazard and said America would have slight of the protracted flight over the chance of winning a war if its air Pacific which lies ahead” force performed nor better than the It was learned from Bandoeng naval forces seeking the avlatrix the paper said that the work on y "Miss Earhart was forced down the radio required a layIn easy flying distance of Honolulu over more than a week ago” he said Again at Lae “and if news accounts can be believed only three planes have At Lae New Guinea hopping reached the spot” off place for Howland island the A navy flyfng boat which started radio trouble developed again the out from Honolulu was turned back Tribune stated several days ago by a severe storm In her story from Lae July 1 far-flun- 2570-mi- le Page Eight) (Continued (Column Five) Steel Toilers Mississippi Ignore New Strike Order Stunt Fliers Scott (D) CaliRepresentative fornia said it is time for someone in authority to announce the navy will not hunt for “publicity stunt” fliers in the future The hunt entered its second week with three planes catapulting again from the decks of the battleship Colorado at 1: 30 p m (E S T) for a survey of McKean island one of the Phoenix group deemed feasible for a “last resort” landing Officers aboard the Colorado expressed the belief that Saturday would just about determine the success or failure of the prelim- inary search They figured the catapult planes the Colorado and two other ships would complete their survey then Hopes Fading Officially naval authorities re-- i Iterated hopes that Miss Earhart and her navigator Frederick J Noonan would be found But privately they conceded the chances were infinitesimal The Lexlngtonwas expected to reach 7 Howland 7more than: 1500 miles distant some time Monday morning and immediately unleash most If not all her aircraft Amid optimism the search shifted to the Phoenix region last Tuesday “after technicians reported radio bearings on mysterious radio signals pointed to that area Empty Search But the Colorado with its three planes the Itasca and the Swan reported no encouraging clue after the area since having scanned Wednesday afternoon Besides the eight Phoenix islands a few uncharted reefs remained to searched —beSouth seai experts said the most surviving 'likely chance of the fliers on falling short of Howland outside the reef and island area would have been to drift with equatorial currents back toward the Gilbert Islands 700 miles west of Howland Rev Admiral 0 G‘ Murfin directing the search from here blocked out an area of about 265000 square miles to be searched including the region already scanned about the Phoenix islands The Lexington’s planes supposedly capable of searching 60000 square miles daily planned to stay In the hunt until the carrier's gasoline and fubl oil gave out— At th estimated searching rate it would days — require more than-fouNaval searchers discounted as worthless the reports of many unofficial listeners that they- - had heard radio signals possibly 'from Miss Earhart’s plane R Republic Employes Remain With Jobs Say Heads of Firm Ohio July 9 ID restrike call by the Steel Work- YOUNGSTOWN liss Earhart commented: "Frederick Noonan my navigator has been unable because of radio difficulties to set his chronometer Any lack of knowledge of their fastness or slowness would defeat the accuracy of celestial navigation” George Palmer Putnam husband of Miss Earhart was asked about the reported failure of the radio equipment “I' am not a technical man and do not understand the inner workings of the radio equipment” he replied “but I have always obtained the best possible expert advice and assistance for Miss Ear-- 1 hart and left it to their judgment “I knew the radio had been faulty from the first but believed the defects had been corrected” He added that had he known Miss Earhart had flown the south Atlantic without a radio he would “have moved heaven and earth to have prevented her from going on” —A ers’ Organizing Committee for employes of Republic Steel plants here apparently failed Friday Republic Steel officials said “not a man left the plant” Tom White president of the S W O C lodge at Republic plants here contended that “some men had left the plants” but said he did not have a report on the number - Alcrowd estimated by Police Chief Carl Olson at 2000 gathered at the gates at 11:30 a m (E S T) the deadline for the strike Police apd national guardsmen kept all mSv-in- g and by1 ioon sonly a few rej mained Plans Go Forward Plans went forward meanwhile for reopening of Youngstown Sheet and Tube company’s plants in northwestern Indiana Efforts of Governor M Clifford Townsend of Indiana to effect an agreement" for reopening as he did in the case of Inland Steel company were stalemated D L Ellinwood secretary of the Three Killed in Blast - HELSINGFORS Finland- - July- - 9 ' an Association-(UP)— Three soldiers were killed independent union saidrFrank Purand 20 others were badly burned nell Sheet and Tube presidentrhad and injured Friday when a muni- authorized him to say the mills tions dump exploded at Suomen-linn- a would reopen “within a very few of fortress near- Helsingfors days” Nicholas Fontecchio Fire caused by the blast was ex(Continued on Page tinguished late Friday night (Column Two) - NATIONAL Senator Wheeler brands administration intolerant In court bill fight Workers fail to answer restrike call at Republic Steel House approves new ships for navy i nil rr i Beet sugar bloc in congress girds to push quota ben- efits legislation Nation’s hea death toll S W Four) C LOCAL ’ Property taxin Utah likely to be waived Page I Water hides bodies of crash victims Utilities told to lengthen Page 1 penalty time WPA to cut work relief and staff -- 1 Page Boy 7 dies In house fumigation ' Sales tax tokens cause conPage 1 troversy ’ SPORTS State amateur golf meet In Representative Fish tax avoidance evidence semifinals branded as ‘pure hearHenry Cotton tops field in say1 British open U S agrees to buy more Bobby Riggs just misses silver from China 'defeat in net meet DiMagglo- - leads Yanks “to FOREIGN easy victory r France hints at opening of FEATURES ® border for Spain arms— J ' men passage grandfather j Page 1 Bobgoes Burns’ Rnd Japanese call for public address Chlr off troops following clash Page 7 systems Jews Arabs' combine Jimmy Fiddler classifies against partition plan Page 7 big time movie stars passes 100 O Page Page 1 Page 30 Page 30 Page 30 Page 18 action The dead were listed as Jean Bronstein David Walba and Ray Peters At least 40 Americans wounded in the current heavy operations are now in a Madrid hospital Most of them were wounded lightly many of them suffering arm or leg injuries from machine gun and rifle bullets France Hints Armed Aid For Madrid London Patrol Meet Told to Speed Up Intervention Plans LONDON July 9 - (D— France weary of prolonged bickering over Europe's efforts to isolate the Spanish war Friday intimated to other powers that unless they can agree on some formula “beginning next week” she may throw- - open her Spanish border to passage of arms and men The French stand presented by Ambassador Charies Corbin in two nonmeetings of the full intervention committee confronted that group with a new problem but apparently did little to break its deadlock Favors Loyalists France favors the Spanish government and her threatened action would aid its cause The negotiators turned to Britain in her familiar role of conciliator to urge that she put forward a solution of their dilemma Thereon rested continued hopes' that the oph and posed stands could be reconciled Page 17 Page 22 Page 22 Page — — 23 Page 24 Italo-Ger-m- an Madrid Defenders Capture Key Point MADRID July 9 defenders of Madrid transformed into an offensive force the last four days captured Quijorna 18 miles west of the capital Friday asA government communique serted the drive also carried the Madrid troops into Brunete important roaiyfunction point 2 V4 miles southeast of Quijorna General Jose Miaja’s government armies shoved their attacks against Generalissimo Francisco Franco’s besieging troops deeper into Insurgent territory in three directions (An insurgent communique con- on Pace Seven) (Continued (Column Three) SEATTLE July 9 CD— A United States navy sailor tentatively identified as Seaman (First Class) W H Myers was killed and Bruce Harwood naval aviation officer was injured Friday when a plane from the jiatUeship Arizona dived i n t oP u g e on n d n e a r Three-Tre- e of here south point lacHarwood dazed and with-erated lace told Dr T W Metcalfe that he cut off the jnotor switch the instant he saw a crash was Inevitable Lawrence R He was reacued-bFeetham 15 and Thomas Denovan 13 who were boating near by At first they said the dazed young officer was unable to tell them whether he had a companion but young Feetham dived and pulled the seaman from the rear cockpit He died soon after being brought ashore ts a Entertainment Fund Protested in House 0 Page 17 By HARRY J July 9 ID— A Republican legislator arose In the house Friday to complain that Paul V' McNqtt high commissioner to the Philippines is being granted 9 $10000 "cocktail fund” ’ The representative Stefan of Nebraska referred to an entertainment fund contained in a pending appro-priatihill He said Jht ambassador to London got only $4800 for entertainment 0 But the house approved the after Representative McCormack Massachusetts said United (D) States officials abroad should be given money to provide entertainment demanded by their positions r Lake Istutd tvery morning Entered at tht postofflct at Balt City as second class matter under act of March B 1879 1937 Changes in Present Bill Held Vital By West Beet Bloc Prieee Copper 30 PAGES— FIVE Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON July 9— Unless congress is willing to make Important changes in the Jones sugar bill recently reported by the house there committee on agriculture will be no sugar legislation this session and benefit payments to beat growers will end on December 3L This is the dictum of the White House and house leaders are disposed to go along with the president There is no presidential objection to those sections of the bill dealing with the beetjsugar industry but the president violently objects to the provision written in it is alleged at the instance of the refiners intended to bar or heavily restrict the importation of refined sugar from Hawaii Puerto Rico and Cuba and there is equal White House objection to the proposed increase in the cane sugar quota accorded Louisiana and Florida Hunts for Cause Representative J Will Robinson of Utah on a hunt to find out why the sugar bill was being held up after promises had been held out that it would be called up for an early vote made the discovery that the monkey wrench was thrown by the president through his son James and that a letter signed by “Jimmy” Roosevelt to Democratic Leader Rayburn was the cauae--of the tieup This letter was passed from Mr Rayburn to Chairman O'Connor of the rules committee artd O'Connor informed Mr Robinson that because of the letter ther£would be no move to bring the sugar bill before the house unless the restrictions on imports of refined sugar from Hawaii Puerto Rico and Cuba are removed and unless the increase in the Louisiana and Florida cane sugar quota is eliminated Beet Interests It apparently Is up to the congressmen from the beet sugar states to bring pressure to bear to either have the bill referred back to the committee for further amendment to meet the views of the president else induce the agriculture committee to agree upon amendments to be offered in the house when the bill is called up Just what course will be followed will be determined at future conferences among congressmen from the beet growing st&tcs The letter from the White House stated in plain terms that unless the Jones bill is modified to meet the ideas of the president jthe president would prefer that there be no sugar legislation this session This means that if congress should ignore the wishes of the president and pass the bill in substantially its present form Representative Robinson declares the situation to be most serious If the present sugar act lapses without the passage of some bill to supercede itT all quota restrictions on the importation of sugar from (Continued on Pace Eight) (Column Four) Wheeler Tells Upper Ilpuse Regime Tries To Stir Up Masses -- WASHINGTON 9 (D— Senator Wheeler (D) Montana Indignantly told the aenate Friday the administration has been guilty of “cheap tactics” of "Intolerance and of playing on “mass prejudices’ in its campaign for enactment of the supreme court reorganization July ' bill The bill itself he called "morally wrong” an effort to do "by subterfuge” what the administration dared not do openly and a “violation of the spirit of the Constitution” which he compared with the treatment of courts in Germany and Italy The compromise bill now before the senate which calls for the appointment of new judges at the rate of one a year Instead of all at once is as bad as the original Wheeler contended He called it "slow motion” packing of the court Hard-Hittin- “Intolerant cheap” are his Senator Wheeler of Montana words to describe the administration’s court bill strategy — House Passes-Bi- ll Tax Charges for New— By Fish Hit Navy Vessels As ‘Hearsay’ Six Craft Will Be ' — Built at Cost ‘ Of $48206000 WASHINGTON July 9 CD— The house joined the senate Friday in approving legislation authorizing construction this year of six auxiliary vessels for the navy! Officials have estimated the ships will cost $48206000 The house approved the program without a word of opposition and without a record vote The bill went back to the senate however for action on minor amendments Vessels Authorized Vessels which would be authorized - I — ' Speech g The by the measure and their estimated costs: Seaplane tender $12265850 destroyer tender $11519200 mine $1557000 submarine tensweeper -9 CD SAN FRANCISCO 'July der $12606200 fleet tug $1761000 Two coast guard vessels and a tug Oiler $8496800 The house wrote into the bill a failed Friday to budge the grounded intercoastal freighter West Mah provision that not less than half wah from rocky Pescadero point the construction bein government 35 miles south of here but stood shipyards nnd plants To encourage shipbuilding on the by ready to remove the two and 45 crew members if Pacific it added a provision allownecesshry pending ' further refloat ing bidders then? q6 pet cent differential This would permit the ing efforts The 3467 net ton McCormick Line award of contracts to Pacific coast in the sand interests if their bids were not more ship grounded-deepl- y during a dense fog early Friday than 6 per cent abovetheir eastern The tide was at flood stage and Competitors’ as it ebbed during the morning No Appropriation the ship apparently sank deeper The pending measure appropriin the treacherous shoal ates no money for the shipbuilding In No Dangeg An appropriation probably will be Captain E A Jansen wirelessed voted upon later this year The house also passed and sent that the ship was in no immediate the danger but the cutter Alexander to the senate a bill authorizing confor Hamilton from Santa Cruz and appropriation of the Ariadne from San Francisco struction of a new naval hospital went immediately to the scene fol and a naval medical center in or near Washington lowed by a tug Coast guardsmen floated rescue gear to the rocky beach With the tide at its peak for the day the rescue' vessels put lines aboard the freighter and pulled for an hour without success Coast guardsmen said it would be necessary to await higher tide By Associated Press early Saturday morning for the next refloating attempt The most protracted heat wave ' of 1937 spread rapidly Friday and : May Jettison Cargo enveloped most of the states east The McCormick Line operators of the Rockies of the West Mahwah said the Deaths attributed to the swefreighter’s big deckload of lumber ltering spell totaled 109 would be lightered or jettisohed as Scattered showers and cloud a last resort formations in many parts of the The freighter was unable to help nation failed to break the siege lfaelf becausacUtl builap shifted dur- No general relief was sighted ing the grounding leaving it mi th- ' The season’s heat 'record was ou t power — shattered for the third successive The West Mahwah left San Fran day in New York City The officisco Thursday night for Los An cial thermometer there registered geles en route to the eos( coast 951 at 3 pwm eastern standard The humidity was 38 Passengers were Miss Karola Preer Near-b- y Los Angeles bound and Winston Newark recorded 993 Weisman en route to New York while a pilot atthe airport there ' CENTS Administration Branded Cheap Tricky as Foes Open Fire on Court Bill BROWN 1 $10-00- Page 10 Dive of Plane Boat Grounds Kills Seaman" Near S F WASHINGTON 1 JULY Sugar -- Quotas And Benefits Facing Defeat MADRID July 9 volunteers wounded while fighting with Spanish government forces In he current drive against the Insurgents outside Madrid reported Friday night at least three of their number were killed In Anglo-Frenc- six-da- Hits Citizens Victims in Levy Likely To Be Waived Spanish War Final Efforts In Plane Hunt do - SALT LAKE CITY UTAH SATURDAY MORNING Property Tax US 14o "7 7 800 00O6o Lend Wyoming ’daily and Sunday Subscription rntee: Utah Idaho Ntv ads' mo 90 etnts yaar $1060 tlatwbtra In U dally and Sunday mo $125 $3300 77570 4475o speech of the Montana liberal was the first to be made by the opposition in the senate debate on the measure The terms and tone of the address served to keep feeling running high Previously administration speakers were kept under & constant fire “ of questions and interruptions by the opposition leading many times to angry shouted assertions Today the administration let Wheeler pro- ceed almost without interruption Virtually his only interrogators were those who agreed with him Tried to Stir Prejudices’ From the outset of the controversy more than five months ago Wheeler said the administration tried to “atir up mass prejudices” in favor of the bill by implying that flood sufferers drouth sufferers farmers and others would reesive no federal assistance unless th bill iard-hittin- g wav New Yorker Insists First Lady Used Revenue Loophole WASHINGTON July 9 CD— A Fish by Representative (R) N Y that Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt avoided income taxes by using a “loophole” in the revenue laws drew retorts from members of a congressional inquiry committee - Friday that he had a “brainstorm” and was offer ing “unadulterated hearsay” evi dence The senate-hous- e committee on tax evasion and avoidance heard Fish say Mrs Roosevelt had signed a radio contract in 1935 under which she was to receive $1 each for ten broadcasts and the sponsors were charge to turn over $3000 after each program to the America Friends Service committee a charitable organization in Philadelphia He expressed a belief the income tax returns of Henry Morgenthau Jr before he became treasury secretary would show creation of family trusts used tor exchange of and propertybetween Morgenthau — his wife a Morgenthau Sr the Suggesting - that- - returnj-o- f secretary’s father Henry Morgen thau Sr be scrutinized Fish said the committeemen should “see if he hasn't used the same devices so stigmatized before your committee "This was followed he said "by an appeal by the postmaster general on the ground of party loyalty that every Democrat ought to support the bill regardless of its effect and regardless of the fact that it was a violation of the spirit of the Constitution” Secretary Wallace he added tried to “stir up the farmers” and Harry Hopkins the relief administrator had attempted to “stir up” those on the WPA rolls "A spirit of intolerance prevailed” he said “Everyone who disagreed was an economic royalist who had sold out to Wall Street and they said all they were trying to do was unpack the court Then we found that same spirit of Intolerance in this chamber yesterday” ‘Wanted Regignatlona’ At another-poihe said the ad- ministration wanted resignations from the court had wanted them for months but when Justice Van Devanter resigned a secretary of the president said ‘one down and four to go”’ "‘Cheap’ is the term to apply to the whole argument for this proposal” the Senator said “It is cheap for the president’s secretary to say ‘one down and four to go’ It is cheap to say ve came Into congress on the coat-tail- s of the president” And he applied the same word to the statements he attributed to nt Farley The bill he said was In effect an effort to amend the Constitution by the appointment of judges who will change the trend of decisions interpreting— that" document He dared the administration to submit an amendment embodying ths pro-visions of the"bill "The Constitution doesn’t belong to the senate” he said "It doesn't —foreign personal holding com belong to the president It belongs-t- o order to avoid taxes” panies--- in the people We’re saying that the He also mentioned James and have a right to say whether Elliott Roosevelt and Mrs Anna people or not they want it amended” Roosevelt Boettiger children of the president Harry L Hppkins WPA Right of Congress administrator 'and John L Lewis has the he said head of the committee for industrial to Congress the numberright of judges on change organization as possible subjects the supreme court to meet the needs for the committee’s attention ' of an population or to Then in clipped phrases Repre- - increaseincreasing court’s the efficiency but on Pace Two) (Continued j he argued- - it is “morally wrong” (Column Four) to “put men on the court to get de- cisions in accord with the views of anyone” “You can’t set up a dictatorship in this country if you maintain the Constitution” he said ‘You can’t set up a dictatorship in this country if you keep the three branches reported a reading of 95 at 1500 of the government separate” CumHe quoted Attorney General feet as saying that the bill was Residents of Philadelphia and mings intended vto produce a court that ’ Del watched 'the would “meet the needs of the times” Wilmington “They have courts in Germany mer’eury advance to 97 degrees— and Italy”- Wheeler added “and high mark for ths year The torrid pall over the prairie they have men on them appointed states of the west the east and to meet the needs Of ths time as New England extended Into the those dictators saw it” south 'during the day Summarized Speech Chicago had "a peak temperaSenator Wheeler summarized his noon 89 but ture of shortly after was lower humidity eased the city's speech by asserting there arguments "nothing to” the pro-bi- ll trial by heat The forecast of continued un- about delays in the supreme court seasonable weather presaged a or the arguments about age f Senator Norris on(Ind) Nebraska mass nove to beaches and woodPare Two) i ' -- — Worst Heat Wave of Year Claims Lives of 109 - ed glaues over the week-en- d — f (Continu'd - iColumj Five) — ’ |