Show Local Metal Market The Weather - Gold UTAH— Unsettled Sunday' Monday IDAHO — Showers north portion WYOMING — Partly cloudy NEVADA— Unsettled Sunday —Copper Lead — LcaS m VOL iMUBd every momlnf Entered at the poetofftee at Bait Lake City aa lecoid clan matter under act' ot March g 1879 NO 172 SALT LAKE CITY UTAH SUNDAY MORNING OCTOBER LD Black Disavowal Of Klan Stirs Battle of Words WASHINGTON Oct 2 (AP) —Amid art uproar such as has eeldom preceded the seating of a supreme court member Hugo L Black waited Saturday night to take his place as the ninth man on the nation's highest i tribunal V As far as he personally was concerned the case made out by critics who attacked his appointment be cause of his connection with the Ku Klux Klan was closed Having denied present klan membership and denounced religious bigotry and race prejudice in his nationwide radio address Friday night he maintained Saturday the aloof silence of an associate justice By his own statement he will not break that silence to discuss the klan issue Dispute Continues Both his friends and foes however carried on the wordy dispute which originated in the senate before his nomination was confirmed Generally his friends took the position he had made an adequate explanation of the klan charges when he said he had joined the order 15 years ago but later had resigned never rejoined They expressed hope the iontroversy would be dropped Many among those who opposed his appointment insisted their views were not changed They continued highly critical and the Impression prevailed that in political campaigns of the coming months and probably In the next session of congress there would' be renewed attacks President Roosevelt maintained J ( tj complete silence Observers speculated whether the president would have anything to say on the matter when he returns after his western trip Wednesday t: C Ready to Assume Seat All was in readiness for the for: mer Democratic senatqr from Alabama to take his seat when the supreme eourt reconvenes Monday after its summer recess Black was sworn in as a justice soon after his nomination was confirmed but it was expected he would take another oath at the bench Monday in traditional forkeeping "WithM-hmalities for seating a new justice While the klan charge has provided the most spectacular phase of the fight another point is to be settled by the court itself Claiming the Alabaman should be barred from serving because he was a member of the senate when the was supreme court retirement atl fedpassed Albert Levitt former eral judge-iasked the court to refuse him a seat Levitt argues the retirement act increased the emoluments bf su preme court members Appointment of any congressman to an office whose emoluments were increased during his term is forbidden by the constitution May Deny Petition The court may deny Levitt’s peti tion thereby killing it or it may direct him to file a formal complaint after which arguments would be heard and a decision rendered Among those quick to comment on Black’s speech were Senators Wheeler ID) Montana and Burke (D) Nebraska both leaders in the senate fight against President Roosevelt’s plan t? reorganize the high court Wheeler called the address "a fine explanation” of the klan charges adding “1 think he satisfied the people generally” “I regret that he didn’t take-uInto his confidence on the klan matter” Burke' said "and give us the benefit then (atthe time of confirmation) of the views he has now expressed” Frederick H Stinchfield retiring president of the American Bat association said “If Mr Justice Black says his record in the senate far offsets the charges Of bigotry resulting from the fact he belonged to the klan the average citizen must -- bow to that conclusion””- Another attorney W Conwell Smith president of the Baltimore ' Bar association called the address “"an explanation that will be satisfactory to all his friends but not quite satisfactory to his critics” James H Corbitt' member of the board of governors of the American Bar association said Black “failed to disavow the speech he is said to have made at the time he'was given a life membership In the klan” Dr Hiram Evans- the kian’s n ’ 1 s ’ on Pk Two) 4 Column fievon) rrT£VV 1937 3 ethertl0 - -- ' I 1 - i I ' ' Irwin Arnovitz For Appeal Board fd Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Oct 2— Irwin Arnovitz chairman of the Utah state tax commission Saturday was recommended by Senator Elbert D Thomas of Utah as a member of the United States board of tax appeals Senator Thomas Immediately m upon return from Europe addressed a letter to President Roosevelt strongly Indorsing Mr Arnovitz to position to succeed Logan Morris of Logan who is retiring to enter private prac- i (m — been fay-flu- ng returns Nation’s Chief Official Has Been Active in Utah Legal Circles Irwin Arnovitz Chairman of the Utah tax commission recommended Saturday by Senator Elbert D Thomas as a member of the U tax appeals has for several years been active in statewide legal and legislative activity commissioner The was born in McKeesport Pa and for 17 years has been a resident He City of attended Utah and gradfrom the University of Chilaw school in 1928 a year after he was admitted to the Utah state bar Upon graduation he opened a law practice here as member of He served a uated cago and resigned reelection to accept the tax commission appointment by Governor Henry H Blood January 1 after 1935 He could not be for a reached Heads East To Fort Peck Oct Roosevelt bid “au revqir to the state of but not good-by- ” Washington gatitrday night as he headed east to Fort Peck dam Montana with an assurance “I’m SPOKANE Wash (Continued statement late Saturday night on (Column In Today’s Tribune (For an Roosevelt heads Peck Detroit - Black's Page 1 follows ll east dam tunnel injures 35 Supreme court blast Pace Twelve) Fort toward Lair City — October 3 — kills five Society news begins on work-met- ) and Engagements 1 Page Page 2 Page 4 association News 1 Page Page 5 tackle new Women’s Republican anplapj deal legislation Page 2 nounces year’s program Page 6 U S expects buying plan tj stabilize Women’s club news Page 7 apple prices Page 2 Weddings and engagements in the laud condemn Nation’s editors state Page 7 Black’s klan speech Page 2 Book discussion and news of litPosse hunts suspect in killing of erary folk - Page 10 Montana marshal Page-1News and comment about art and Roosevelt’s popularity still — high music— Page It 12 western trip discloses Page J T Harwood given honor by Brig- Intermountain states’ phosphate ham Young university Page 11 beds assure U S supply Page 1 Art motion picture doings and music notes Page 17 Foreign Tribunesh-or- t story Page 14 China's stone wall lines smash JapSECTION D anese Shanghai drive Page 1 Hitler said to hold keys to both EuBritain exiles Arab leaders in Pal5 rope and far east by Constantine estine cleanup Page Brown Page 1 Quezon claims right to arraign inS International law lacking to halt air sular courts Page raids of cities by Dr Frederic W Rebels reassemble lines for drive Ganzert 6 toward Gijon Page 2 Page League of nations spurns plan to Public opinion poll favor Black's resignation if klan member force Italy’s troops from Spain Patrent-Teach- ' to club 0 ’ — Local L D S farm authorities Page urge move 6 back to Page Tribune editorials O U McIntyre’s-Ne- Page Page 3 4 Page 41 York column 1 Intermountain states hold American phosphate supply (continued from A by Harry J Page 1 Section “ ’ Sports Brown) 5 Utes defeat Cougars Aggies tie Real estate home planningPage and with Montana State the Garden Gate Page 4 Through ‘ Texas - Aggies triumph over "Man-- " Pages 8 9 'hhttan college eleven Page 8 Boy Scout news Page 10 ? SECTION B T -- - State- Page — neih' Collision kills two Utahns Woodruff Page 2 Pea harvest ends In southern Utah after successful season Page S Addition to livestock showhUil dings sought at Ogden Page 2 Provo plans to speed new hospital as fund drive nears goal Page 8 On t n ' r SHANGHAI Oct 3 (Sunday) UP) —Japan’a tremendous offensive by land sea and for the sixth consecutive day Sunday stone-wadefense of the against the Chinese troops entrenched in Chapei on the outskirts of the international d don't know what happened” Rescue' Workers Rescue attempts were made under direction of Detroit homicide and special investigation squad officers Harvey 'Kruse superintendent of construction was taken to Prosecutor Duncan C Mecca’s office for quegtiprfing- - ’ ' A'crdWd gathered at the Delray end aa soon as the first "sandhogs” began' emerging at the elevator shaft 9:00 a m — Conference of stake presidencies anil others on the church security program In the assembly hall ll settlement After hours of fierce attacks and counterattacks Chinese said their lines still were intact Huge showers of debris and smoke dotted the battlefield as Japanese demolition warplanes dropped bombs The fleet of Japanese warships in the Whangpoo river meththe area with odically criss-crosse- d shells Wave tanks proinfantrymen down on Chinese Chinese devised pronged posi-sion- s" railroad tracks traps from torn-u- p These stalled the tanks while Chinese machine gunners mowed down the advancing enemy soldiers Daring Japanese patrols seeking to establish outposts were repulsed with what Chinese called heavy losses Foreigners In the International settlement crowded rdoftops to wat$h the fierce fighting below On the fringe of battle in the Chapei sector American marines completed p new row of machine-gU- n nests along Soochow creek commanding a full sweep of the embattled district op Shanghai's north side Exchange Blow In the midst of the Battie and battle preparations another international incident was occurring on the international settlement's waterfront There Chinese and Italian soldiers waiting to embark on their ships exchanged epithets and then blows before French concession police broke lip the melee Chinese estimated Japanese cas- Continued 1 ( Large Turnout Close To State Fair Host for a week to gay crowds seeking education and entertainh annual Utah ment the state fair closcd'its gates Saturday night following the most brilliant of its daily performances ’ stream of visitors augmented by conference crowds the grounds were crowded all day Saturday From over the state they came and every educational exhibit and display and every carnival at- tractiibn lured its share Youngster Turn Out It was Tribune and Telegram day at the fair too and trooping youngsters doing the fair as guests of the newspapers turned the day into a glorious holiday With the combined attendance of children and adults swelling the allfair total Manager Ernest S fifty-sevent- wave qt ts Monday Devise has long been was known ! officially recognized in 1908 Roosevelt inaugurating his famous conservation proDETROIT Oct 2 tUP)— Five withdrew from gram entry 4541300 acres of public land in Idaho Utah members of a "sandhog” crew were and Wyoming pending ‘an examine crushed to death Saturday 'and 35 tion of their phosphate resources others were Injured when the hy- Determined to- guard this natural draulic shield under 5000 pounds’ resource against exploitation "Teddy” issued an order of withdrawal pressure exploded as an interceptor broad enough as he believed to sewer embrace all the lands that possibly The dead were tentatively identimight contain valuable phosphate fied as Cyril F Klyn city sewer Aswithwith timber deposits drawals made at the same time he inspector E de Smit 38 Emil de widely overshot the mark for more Simplar 44 Joe la Bare 38 and than half the area originally with- Wilbert Ellis 22 negro The crew of 75 men was trapped drawn has been restored to the unreserved public domain after field at one end of the tunnel but manexamination proved it lacked comm- aged to make its way to safety by ercial-value walking two miles through the unas potash land to the Delray elevator During the years since the First derground withdrawal whs made government shaft — Rescue squads were carried geologists have traversed much of through the tunnel on a small the area included in the T R with- - donkey engine drawal and have followed leads into Plan Celebration Montana with the reshit that toThe explosion occurred about 1:30 day 302099 acres in the four states have been officially classified as p m as the men were to meet unphosphate lands and 1822805 acres der the ground and celebrate the still’ remain protected by withdraw- completion of the tunnel The meetal pending field examination ing place was two miles from DelThe lands classified as "phos- ray The crew on the Delray side phate” have been ascertained by had dug a two and One careful field examination to con- hole through to the other side tain deposits of phosphate rock of ’’sandhog” was about to ' climb a quality and in quantity to justify through to grasp the hand of a their commercial development when crew member believed waiting on the time comes The bulk of the the other side classified lands ‘lie in Idaho The The shield which had been pushed greatest area still under withdrawal steadily forward two and a half pending examination is in Wyom- feet at each impulse was all that ing Admittedly much of the area separated the men "I heard a terrific roar” Jack still withdrawn ultimately will be discarded as not carrying sufficient Wright 25 a negro who was inphospbte rock to justify permanent jured said "Then everything went withdrawal: what - remains the black I was shaken Mud sand and I Cream of the lands- like those 'areas blue” clay began pouring down already classified will become 'sub- guess it was the pressure but I ject to development under the fedsection eral leasing law The classification as of this date as given by the U S bureau of rfiines follows: ' Page 1 Classified as "Withdrawn for 0 The Amazing Lady Mendle— Young phosphate classification at Seventy Page 2 acres) (acres) 3 On the Run Page Idaho 276239 270036 4 ' 3 Society Is a Racket Pages 89133 25293 Your Figure Horoscope Health and Wyoming 277344 Utah 4 i29'37 Kathleen Norris Page 8 Montana 230089 3833 Believe It or Not by Ripley Page 9 Within the classified and withHeroines of Today full color page drawn areas of the western moun-- 4 by Nell Brinkley"- PagelO (Continued Pag 9 DX Washington opens defense of coast Magazine title by downing Trojans Page 5 Line Up as Nebraska conquers Minnesota in Ritz Brothers Half-Nufull color page feature midwest game 6 r” Chinese Line Death of Five Trap Mars Fete The presence of phosphate western mountains after first It tecting Japanese the when President At New Tunnel roared The Theodore then in SECTION C Femihine newcomers to Fort Doug-la- s full page of photographs 1 Weddings Rage Editor’s note: This Is the first of a series of four articles on the phosphate question which is now of particular Import in Utah and Idaho written by Harry J Brown The Tribune’ correspondent In Washington The second article will appear Monday By HARRY WASHINGTON Oct 2— Tht states of Idaho Wyoming Utah and Montana constitute the great natural storehouse to' which American agriculture of the future must look for its chief supply of that most important element that enables man to preserve the productivity of the soil — phosphate Those mountain states are today contributing less than 3 per cent of all the phosphate that goes onto AmeriBut in the mountain can farms or is exported to foreign markets recesses of those fpur states lies hidden what geologists estimate to be 87 to 93 per cent of the phosphate reserve of the United States Of necessity as present sources of- 4supply arCxexhausted the farmers of America must turn to the quartet of western states to supply them with fertilizer during the years to come Six) Scrapbook Clip and Pasta Daily) Hiilorical SECTION A National Verba! klan disavowal 2 Saif tabernacle 2:00 p m — Final general ses- slon in the tabernacle 4:15 p m— Seventies conference in Barratt hall 7:00 p m—Semiannual conference of the - Sunday School Union- - in the taber-r ft ' nacle jan’s Drive West's Phospliate Beds Shatters on Assure U S Supply going to come back aghijn in the next three years and takexa look-se- e once more” His special train left Spokanat 6 p m after a day which wah highlighted by his inspection tour of the gigantic Grand Coulee dam project on the Columbia river and the prediction it would open new lands to thousands of desirables from crop-polands of the middle west The presidential train stopped 20 term the state legislature -- 1000 a m — General session in r - of Salt ’Lake the University lSSSe 92 PAGES— TEN CENTS u'’ Sunday i Thomas said Mr Arno5L' lands in attendance at the church’s general conference widely and strongly L D S church mission presidents and former presidents from indorsed for the appointment and sessions Saturday Left to right: Daniel J Lang France T Edgar Lyon Holland Joseph J Cannon Great Britain Roy A is in every way qualified The senator said no decision will be Welker Germany Harold W Pratt Mexico Abel S Rich Chnada and Hugo D E Peterson Sweden Senator S board of 8 05c r— —— ’s the made until the president from his western trip 8 Ltril Settlement Price etlTo Copper An appeal for L D S' church members to remain on the land or take up crafts in preference to the nonproductive pursuits was the predominating theme in Saturday’s sessions of the 108th semiannual conference in the tabernacle Attendance at the sessions was somewhat larger than Friday all of the seats in the huge auditorium being filled But the Saturday turnout will be dwarfed by that of Sunday final day of the conference Tabernacle assembly hall apd a large part of the grounds will be jammed for these concluding sessions if past experience is repeated The back to the farm note was sounded by Dr John A Widtsoe member of the council of twelve apostles and heartily concurred in by President Heber J Grant and other speakers The church president who spoke briefly just before the end of the afternoon session not only gave an indorsement to Dr Widt-soeadvice but renewed his Friday attack on liquor tobacco tea and coffee with an array of consumption figures Thomas Indorses vitz has aT Church Authorities Deplore Modern Tendencies to Hold Craftsman And Agricultural Tasks Undesirable USTaxPost - a' t- jr Utahn Gains Backing for tice — a r$350O 77874 4475a 1750c President Grant Apostle Praise Farm as Calling ’ i' a -- Gathered From Afar in Shadow of Salt Lake Temple Walls - 1 Soil I rse-Back- -to Alabaman Prepares To Take Seat Despite Outbursts a Silver (newly mined) Silver (foreign) f on Pas- Six) (Column Six) The-regul- ar Loyal Citizens On the subject of occupations hi said that farms make loyal citizens Instead of soapbox orators and expressed the hope that Anierica’s trend would be back toward the- - ' agricultural research deplored the which it was cradled- Dr Widtsoe former president of the Utah State Agricultural college and the University of Utah and an internationally prominent expert on agricultuari reasearch deplored the modern tendency to look upon farming and craftsmanship as undesirable or undistinguished vocations Held High Place ‘‘Thera was § time" he said "when the tiller of the soil and the man who practiced a craft held places of high honor Depressions and economic disturbances I believe are a in due large part to the declining' emphasis being placed on the productivity of mankind” The speaker declared that the soil or keeping flocks latilling the basic occupation and that the work is no longer undesirable Machinery and other Improvements have elimi- nated much of the drudgery Training now being made available to ’ - farmers' and their tional Institutions made agricultural wives by educahave in fact one of the best established of all professions he de- clared ‘New Day Dawns’ — our nomic structure” Dr Widtsoe continued “farmers have not always received a square deal But a new day is dawning Science is finding new markets for the products of the farm The dignity of the work is being raised The farmer and his family can live richly in many ways My piea this day is that we give increased attention to the raising Holme? predicted thejesord would of food and that our people remain tillers of the soil and keepers of hold up with last year’s While a record gallery watched flocks" Widtsoe said that at the pres-eDr con was of dogs purebred judging "time approximately tinued by F W Simmons Windham Conn in the dog show build- of the adult men in the L D S church are engaged in agriculture ing He recommended that those in Dng Fancier Laud Show other pursuits raise kitchen gardens Dog fanciers praised the show as not only because of the economic one of the finest ever staged here benefits but for the satisfaction and spectators proved the popular that euch an activity offers appeal of the show as they made First Speaker the rounds of the stalls where dogs First speaker at the morning sesFourteen) (Continu'd fin (Column One) sion was George Albert Smith member of the council of twelve apostles He called attention to the present disturbed condition of the world and said there had never been a time in history when there was a Ohio State 13 Purdue 0 greater need for men and women to Oklahoma 6 Rice 0 ’ repent of their sins and seek the Wisconsin 12 Marquette 0 Saints guidance of God Latter-da- y EAST he continued have many kinds of New York U 18 Carnegie Tech 14 evils in their midst which they must Columbia 40 Williams 6 determinedly resist if they expect-t- o 1 Cornell 40 Colgate 7 enjoy the- - blessings promised by-t- he "Dartmouth Si Amherst 7 Lord Harvard 54 Springfield 0 Drawing a parallel between an airplane-tri- p Holy Cross 7 Providence 0 along a radio beam Texas A & M 14 Manhattan 7 and the spiritual journey ’through Princeton 26 Virginia 0 life Mr Smith told his listeners that Army 2L Clemson 8 their conscience like the warning Navy 32 Citadel 0 radio beam would tell them if they Yale 26 Maine 0 strayed from the highway whichi ‘ leads to th presence of God SOUTH “You” he concluded '“are on the Arkansas 7 Texas Christian 7 good ship Zion'arftl the pilot knows Centre 19 Oglethorpe 0 the way’ i Duke 34 Davidson 6 Several retiring mission presidents ’'Georgia 13” South Carolina 7 on the status of the church reported Meth7 Southern Centenary ’ ’ in varioue parts of the world and odist 6 (ConUsurO on Pace SlxU- -) Vanderbilt 18 Chicago 0 (Cotuma In nt two-thir- pt Major Fpotball Results K M C B Y U 0 Utah Aggies 6 Montana State 6 Colorado U 14 Missouri 6 Western States 7 Colorado Col' lege 3 Colorado Mines 7 Colorado Ag- Utah 14 gies Nevada 4’ 9 "Wyoming 7 WEST ' Washington State 13 Idaho 0 California 24 Oregon State 6" Oregon 7 Stanford & Washington 7 Southern Califot-ni0 Idaho South 45Ricks q MIDWEST Illinois 0 Depaul 0 Michigan State 19' Michigan Nebraska 14 Minnesota 9 Northwestern S3 Iowa State Notre Dame 21 Drake 0 a -- ' ft 0 !() l I He declared that the nation spent $7150000000 for these products during 1936 and offered that figure as a key to the solution of the country’s economic ills I 1 A |