Show i 4 ' The Weather Local Metal Market Gold Utah — Party cloudy Saturday IDAHO— Fair Saturday WYOMING— Unsettled and colder' NEVADA— Fair little temperature change 3300 Silver (newly mined) 6464c Silver (foreign) 4275c Copper electrolytic delivered lOe Connecticut valley 450o Lead PH 14(!e450o VOL 137 NO 9 ftubccnption ratcc: Utah Idaho Nevada Wyoming dally and dunday IX05: year to advancTfl2 eleevhero in O dafly and ftunday mo LAKE CITY UTAH SATURDAY MORNING SALT APRIL 23 m miari§©n Heads of Army Reassure Utah On Plane Base From Denver Plan They Say By HARRY J BROWN Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON April 22 — Prospects for ultimate establishment of an army air base in the vicinity of Salt Lake City are in no way lmpairedby the current appropriation for the bombing base and army flying school at Denyer according to assurances given Senator Elbert D Thomas and Representatives Abe Mur dock and J Will Robinson of Utah by the war department " Friday The Denver base according to itatements of army officials is not a part of the program contemplated bill while by the Wilcox-Thomthe northern Utah base if established will be a unit of the which has program congresional sanction Deluge of Wires The Utah delegation Friday was deluged with telegrams and longdistance calls from Governor Blood A S Brown Democratic national committeeman C N Fehr president of the chamber of commerce and other leading citizens of Salt Lake City and Ogden all protesting the abandonment of the Utah baser’ or insisting that It ultimate establishment should not be precluded by expansion and development of the bombing school base at Denver The delegation was under heavy pressure to increase its demand for the establishment of an army base in the vicinity of Salt Lake City a thing that cannot be done this session as the army appropriation bill accarrying funds for all army air tivities has already passed both senate and house Attitude Misunderstood Thursday's dispatch to The Tribune asserting that Salt Lake City’s chances of getting an army air base had been wiped out by development of the bombing school and base at Denver was based on what now appears to have been a fortunate misinterpreation of the war department’s attitude All members of the Utah delegation on receipt of protests this morning contacted General acting chief of staff and General Westover chief of the army air corps and read to them portions of The Tribune dispatch which had been repeated to them by telegram General Emblck assured Senator Thomas as he did Representative Murdock that tha dispatch was In error In that tha building up of the Denver base has no connection whatever with the program contemplated by the Wilcox-Thomact and that the' two projects are entirely separate and distinct Westover Makes Denial General Westover also denied that developments at Denver in any manner handicaps the establishment of an amry base authorized by congress to be established in the Rocky General West-ovmountain region said the war department has never definitely determined where the Rocky mountain basa ahall be located and Is not prepared to announce such a decision Senator Thomas said “The army appropriation bill car-tian appropriation-- ' for the air corps technical school In Denver of This item Is not put in 1335000 the bill as an amendment offered by Senator Adams on the senate floor but was in the original house bill as it came to tha senate This appropriation is in keeping with the Em-bic- as er ' es and has not act August anything! whatever to do with the air bases which are ultimately to be established under the provisions of bill the Wilcox-Thom' Correct Senator “When I told The Tribune I had talked with the secretary of war at the White House Thursday and he knew nothing about any plan for another air base under the provi-aibbill I of the Wilcox-Thomwas correct and o was Secretary Woodring Careful analysis of all 26 1937 as U S Weighs 6 Catacomb ’ Air Defenses Nation Believed to Be Considering Underground Bases WASHINGTON April 22 air defenses like the catacombs of war already carved under the European continent will be needed to protect the United States against potential enemies before many years military strategists said Friday Their theory which drew no comment from the war department was that large-scal- e production of bombing planes with a cruising range of 8000 miles would make subterranean air bases as vital to America’s safety as they have become to Europe’s In support of their views they cited the army air corps’ delay in constructing 10 aerial defense bases authorized in a bill by Representative Wilcox (D) Florida which congress enacted some time ago Fassage of the measure brought a flood ’ of offers from cities of all parts of the country to donate sites for air bases but the only one the air corps accepted and on which construction has begun la at Tacoma Wash A competent military observer attributed apparent war department apathy toward the program to a greater Interest in acquiring planes training fliers and checke ing experiments with bombers Rather than seek a large appropriation to construct other air long-rang- (Continued on Pago Six) (Column Flva) Franco Army Traps Foes On Land Sea ns -- Pt Tribune Intermountain Service PRICE April 22— Nearly 1500 student musicians from more than 30 Utah and Colorado schools competed (for honors Friday as Price’s eighth annual Intermountain musical in nearly program sical brought out Rescuers Recover Nine Pit Bodies Crooks Fleece Film Actresses GRUNDY Va- - April 23 (Saturday) (AP) — A terrific explo- sion in the Red Jacket Coal company mine eight miles east of this village just as the night shift was coming on duty killed at least njpe men and trapped an estimated 50 In addition to the six men known killed bodies of three others were reported recov- contests every phase of school mu- activity Critical judges heard 154 indistudents— the outstanding so- vidual loists of their-respect- ive Fears Grow for Scores Trapped By Terrific Explosion Fire Thought Raging in ShaTt schools— compete in the various classes vocally and with Instruments More than 855 members of the score of ered early Saturday Twenty rescue crews working quickly had penetrated 1000 feet into the mine shaft shortly in an effort to reach the trapped miners who were feared dead ” and contest numbers John Blevins mine motorman and an unidentified man were Junior Police electric motor which fell on them as decapitated by an eight-to- n the blast spurting flames 200 feet from the mine entrance Pep clubs marching units color y guards — even a contingent of hurled it down the mountainside uniformed junior police from Grand Junction Colo— swelled the Seven Found Near Portal participating numbers and cleared J W Thomas Norfolk and Western railroad official said he the festival program in artlcipation of the climaxing events of Saturwas advised seven bodies were found in a heap not far inside the day band marching and maneuverimine He reported intense heat at the spot and expressed fear ng competition and the concert of that fire' was raging deeper in the pit massed bands Bodies of five men were identified as those of Hammond Youthful musicians began demonstrating individual ability on horns Varney Ernest Boyd Orville Spreet J L Blevins and Coy Reed woodwinds and stringed InstruThe swiftness of the penetration of the mine by rescue ments early Friday morning Vocalists also had their turns before squads indicated that tons of slate and rock believed dislodged choruses and ensembles groups might not have sealed the mine so as to bar completely (he rescue were called for competitive playing crews There was no indication of the territory covered by the Simone season” stars declare film Simon on Crooks ‘‘open business spokesmen against it and and singing fire and explosion which knocked goods from shelves in stores swindle Lombard Carole account and discovers bank left had drawn a statement from Presinumbers from that Outstanding a mile from the entrance dent Roosevelt indorsing the levy competition are to be presented right loses $25000 in jewels to thieves concert a at again special program For Two Years Dewey Runyan tipple foreman estimated at least 50 men Saturday beginning at 9 a m in were ih on in the mine shaft when the blast occurred The agreement Friday provided canbon I D £ stake tabernacle mine cars not more than 10 minutes before the explosion that the compromise bill should con Opening that concert will be Cartinue only through 1938 end 1939 bon county high school’s class A ' Blast Leaves ‘Everything a Mess ‘t and opponents of the profits levy band directed by E M Williams ' contended that some substitute tax Grand Junction junior high band f "m Ed Harris standing outside at the time said would be enacted by tha end of 1939 largest unit will fol“You couldn’t describe it One minute we were there busy ' Chairman Harrison (D) Mississ- low on the program together with and the next everything was in a mess- It’s hard to think Just ippi of the senate finance com- selected soloists and groups to be mittee leader of the drive for com- chosen from Friday's listing of “suwhat happened” plete repeal of the levy asserted perior" numbers While thousands jammed their way toward the scene over that the compromise was “the very Baton Strife Carole Lombard’s Intraparty Twirling the narrow winding roads the U S department of mines and best that could be effected" He added however that he persmine In bureaus of Virginia and Vest Virginia quickly mobilized Highly individualistic will be the Home Looted Pennsylvania onally would have favored the baton twirling contest set for 11:30 rescue workers flat 18 per cent a m Saturday on Main street Stirs Rival Charges Man Loses $18000 So terrific was the blast that merchandise was knocked from rate on corporation income Drum majors and their adept understudies will vie for recognition the shelves of the Oakwood Smokeless Coal Company’s store a Will Aid Buainess in the art of ‘‘swingring the big HOLLYWOOD April 22 (UP)— PHILADELPHIA April 22 ID— mile and a quarter away Chairman Doughton (D) North stick” — West Los Angeles police announced A of charges in Pennsyl Seven motorists traversing a near-b- y road were endangered Carolina of the house ways and Most brilliant event of the week Friday night two burglars had lootmeans committee asserted that “if end will be the parade contest Sat ed the homes of Carole Lombard vania’s Democratic factional prl by flying debris and miners a mile or more away reported their any tax legialation will help busi- urday afternoon Each of the 20 blond screen comedienne and Harry mary fight Friday night resulted homes were shaken ness this (compromise) bill will do brightly uniformed highly trained Curland a caterer of 43000 in jew' in an investigation by the works A house near the mouth of the mine was blown to bits and it" els and furs marching bands at administration progress electric motors used for hauling coal cars were Representative Vinson (D) Kent- intervals will be given full sway The homes are located in Beverly Several hours after John B Kelly three eight-to- n ucky a member of the house con down a street expected to be lined Hills near the mansions of Fred chairman of the Philadelphia Dem- blown from the mouth of the shaft down the mountainside ference group said he was “very with 10000 spectators Each unit MacMurray and Miriam Hopkins SenaDewey Runyan tipple foreman estimated between 50 and much gratified at the compromise" will seek to impress judges with which were robbed during the win' ocratic organization accused tor Joseph F Guffey (D)- Pennsyl- 75 miners were in the shaft when the explosion occurred The agreement on the major pro their precision cadence posture ter Miss Lombard reported a loss vania of political coercion among visions ofthe revenue measure came alignment adaptability and play- of 25000 exclusively in jewels WPA workers in Pennsylvania Miners Calmly Assist Rescue Crews g session in which ing after a while gems and furs valued at 18 Aubrey Williams deputy WPA adAll bands will join forces Sat- 000 were taken most conferees went without lunch State Police Sergeant P L Sprenger of Roanoke who was fromthe home of ministrator announced in Washingeon Twice Doughton left the com' urday night at Kiwanis field for Curland who the conces- ton that "any specific charges will at a operates on filling station on the highway near the mine hurried to the Pan Six) (Continued (Continued on Page Ten) sions at Santa Anita race track and be immediately investigated and if (Column Five) (Column One) scene He said miners were calmly helping rescue crews to open Los Angeles Memorial coliseum found true summary action will be the blocked shaft Officers said the intruders walked taken" into- - Miss Lombard’s home while The Keen Mountain mine opened last fall employs 300 men Williams acted after the White she and her secretary Madalyne House had turned over to him a Fields were absent and ransacked telegram from Kelly to President normally and is one of the largest operations in this mountainous the bedrooms The servants who Roosevelt asking for an inquiry by section Its capacity is around 400 tons a day The tipple is so arAs were in the home at the time were the federal bureau of ranged that 14 railroad cars can be loaded at once unaware of the robbery ’The loss so that “facts may beinvestigation ascertained In Pittsburgh J J Forbes district chief of the U S bureau was discovered early Friday when and WASHINGTON instituted” HUNTSVILLE Texas April 22 prosecutions April 22 said he was informed the blast occurred at the time of mines found the actfess her jewel case "I’m satisfied that the W P A Daniels United States amb- UP)— Two enen escaped scheduled is starting it” said Kelly Friday shifts were changing around 4:30 p m He said reports that assador to Mexico arrived by plane execution In thj electric chair early empty at 6 p m Friday for a conference Friday when a generator failed to Miss Lombard said approximately night when he learned of Williams’ smoke and flame came from the mine’s mouth indicated a “wide21500 of the gems were hers while action Saturday with state department off- work and were given a week's re- the other 3500 explosion” worth belonged to The telegraphed appeal to the spread icials concerning Mexico’s seizure prieve by Governor James V d Forbes dispatched rescue crews from Norton Va and JenMiss Fields The burglars ignored a of American-owne- d oil properties day president topped highlighted kins Jones W Va rt also by these developments: He declined comment on the oil Electricians worked on the equip- several valuable fur pieces ment situation General Charles J Women and Children Rush to Scene h comment while executions Attorney the saying any original French Slar should come from the secretary of ly set for shortly after midnight Finely Margiottl candidate for the Demowere reset for 3 a m Three hours state cratic gubernatorial nomination Crowds of women and children rushed to the mountainside Daniels said he was on his 'way passed ttfe generator was tried Bank Account Short made ready to investigate the State to form the pathetic watch which every mine explosion brings to New York to join in the Associat- It broke down again is 65' which 22 HOLLYWOOD April (UP)— Authority spending 21 entries in the operation It was not known are There on ed' Press anniversary dinner on John W Vaughn 34 000000 new state construction The district attorney’s office an2 Governor George H Earle through how many passages the smoke and flames ran Monday He is one of the foundera four feet of tha chair making a nounced Friday night it was inof the Associated Press speech protesting his innocence vestigating a complaint of Simone campaigning for the Democratic The Red Jacket mine is on a narrow mountain road from He said he would return to Washi- when the chair went out of Order Simon tempestuous young French nomination for the United States their way to the scene which delayed crews ' the on week his second deGrundy 17 next distime Johnnie 26 senate at Banks screen actress that she had way to ngton primary tjteMay mine itself and this village to line the he where would one C N There awaited clined comment on is in turn his the investigaRaleigh covered a shortage of between telephone only join negro preacher his wife to celebrate their fiftieth the death cell a few feet away and 50000 in her bank account tion— which was masked by his op- is connected to the outside world byf Warden ’W W Waid telephoned Captain John Klein head of the ponent Mayor S Davis Wilson of a single trunk telephone circuit wedding anniversary headquarters in Columbus Ohio is Governor James V Allred and ar- district attorney’s bureau of Investi(ContimtM on Paee Four) The Red Jacket company with successor to the W M Ritter Lumbands played for concert ratings Chorus groups numbering more than 300 boys and girls presented after-midni- ght “warm-up- snap-pil- j- Guffey Faces WPA Quiz On ‘Coercion’ Star Reveals $25000 Jewel Theft out-of-sta- te e-- - 1 ’ ’ - cross-fir- e eight-minu- te HENDAYE France (At the Spanish frontier) April 22 CD — Spanish government troops separated from their comrades by the insurgent drive to thS Mediterranean surrendered Friday to Generalissimo Francisco Franco's forces on sea and land More than a score of fishing boats bearing fugitive militiamen and officers seeking to reach peptral Spain from Catalonia were trapped off the coast south of Tortosa by an insurgent fleet headed by the cruiser Canarias A few attempted to escape and were sunk by shellfire the fugitives and crews aboard the rest were removed and the less serviceable craft sent to the bottom while a feW were taken to Vlnaroz Insurgent dispatches gave no estimate of the number of militiamen captured but government quarters said there must have been “only a few hundred" men who had belonged to General Jose Miaja'S’oen-trSpanish forces Insurgents In Zaragoza reported Miaja civil and military chief for all government Spain except Catalonia himself narrowly escaped capture In their recent march to the Mediterranean They said he passed through the town of Ulldecona' at the same time (Continued on Pfte Four) al (Column Five) day-lon- Hull Daniels Will Confer Two Reprieved Cliair Fails All-re- stood-with- ln 15-0- ranged the week's Vaughn gation 'said he expected to “clear was sentenced for slaying a San An- up the case" early next week tonio motorcycle officer and Banks He said the actress was suspicious sister-in-la- w for killing his of a woman whom she believed had Pershing Receives Throng’s Tribute as Son Weds NEW1' YORK Concert Will Climax Music Festival WASHINGTON April 22 (AP — A deadlock over tight senate-hous- e repeal of the undistributed profits tax broke Friday with a decision by a joint conference committee to retain a modified version of the levy for two years The conference group composed of representatives of the two chamber! agreed on a scale of corporation income tax rates ranging from 16 to 19 per cent depending upon the amount of profits a corporation distributes to its sharehpiders The house had approved a 16 to 20 per cent undistributed tax range The senate had profits voted to discard such levies and substitute a flat rate of 18 per cent corporation income Lower Incomes Under both the house and senate bills special treatment was provided for corporations with income of 25000 and less The conference committee voted Friday to accept house provisions --exempting such corporations from the profits levy and imposing instead rates ranging to 16 per cent depending from 12 upon the amount of income Senate provisions for capital gains taxes were approved in substance by the conference grpup The hot fight over the undistributed profits levy had arrayed 1 senate-approv- neral April 22 John J Pershing stood Friday as erect and soldierly as when he led America’s armies to France In 1917 and saw the marriage of his only son Warren to Muriel Bache Richards The ' first smile of the bride of Jules S Bache granddaughter details Friday show and consulta- financier and art as sha tion with tha highest authorities of left the altar with patron her tall young the war department further reveal husband was for the the assumption that the army ap- general “who traveled from Aripropriation bill- has finally passed zona to see the wedding after tricongress is not correct over a severe illness If Sny umphingfashionable "It Is still In conference crowd of 2000 The “thing like that part of the story that filled St Thomas' Protestant that Senator Adams had done what Episcopal church arose in sponSix) (Continues on taneous tribute when the white- (Column Six) as Marching Corporation Levy Project Distinct of Houses Reach Price Expects Profit Tax 10O0Q to Compromise View Parade Committee Agrees On Modified SUL 30 PAGES— FIVE CENTS 1 - f I9tied every morning Entered at the poet office at Salt Lake 147 Cltv aa second elate matter under act of hi arch 1938 5650 Cathode) Coppor ' ID-Ge- haired commander of the A EL F entered from a side door with his physician and crossed to a front pew Bystanders massed in the street the church scurried despite the efforts of 50 policemen and craned to see the bride arrive in trailing ivory satin and the arrival of her six bridesmaids laden with apple blossoms "It’s the bride!” said the by“Ah-h-hstanders Her shimmering train — reached the length of six pews aa she went up the aisle— was adoutside !" it mired by passers-b- y in Fifth avenue buses and persons perched in office windows high abovs the canopied church entrance Alleged Nazis Beat Brooklyn Editor NEW YORK April 22 (UP)— Four alleged nazis invaded a magazine office Friday night and after forcing the crippled editor to kiss a nazi emblem beat and stripped him and then- - painted black swastikas on his body The attack took place In the Office of the Anticommunist Antifascist and Antlnazi league -- located in a building in one of the busiest sections of Brooklyn fLCharles Weiss 31 editor of the Sammagazine Uncle published by the league waa tha victim of the attack' forged her power of attorney while she was in Europe and had drawn heavily against her bank account Miss Simon telephoned Klein several days ago to report the reputed shortage She said she did not know the exact amount of the “shrinkage" but that it roughly ranged between 15000 and 50000 Klein said his investigation was still incomplete but that he hoped to wind it up by Monday or Tuesday of next week He declined to disclose whether he was planning on making any arrests He likewise was silent when asked whether the person Miss Simon suspected had been questioned ‘We are in the middle of the Investigation and are not prepared to give out any more information" Klein commented' (Coltmm Three) Japan Pays U S $2214007 For Sinking of Gunboat TOKYO April 22 ID— One of the gravest International Incidents war the of the Chinese-Japanesinking of the United States gunboat Panay was closed officially Friday when Japan gave the 8 United States a check for se 2214-0073- The checki’Tianded to Eugene H Doom an counselor of the Amere lean embassy by Seijiro Yoshi-zaw- a directoref the bureau of American affairs paid in full the claims submitted by the United States a month ago Friday Friday’s payment jrovered lns of ths Panay and the Standard Oil vessels compensation for ths death of two of the Panay crew and the captain of one of the Standard Oil boats compensation for injury to 74 persons aboard the vesseW and Joss of personal effecta-anship’s equipment The United States did not ask punitive damages d office Itemization of the payment showed the Standard Vacuum Oil company will receive 1287942—Wore than half of the total Other large Items Included 26833735 for death ajnd personal injury 455 727 for loss 9776648 for pf the Panay and loss of ship’s equipment and supplies The-fore- lgn ber company formerly a large oper- atlng concern The trapped men were part of the night shift which wais going on duty They went Inside In four mine cars and had been gone 10 minutes when the 'first flames roared out of the mouth Mike Lilly a loader owed his safety to pure accident 'He was ready to go in with his comrades when he discovered he had to go back to the mine lamp house for some equipment The miners went on without him L E Wood of Huntington W Va president of the coal company left Washington D C Immediately upon learning of the disaster Director N P Rhinehart of the West Virginia department of mines said at Charleston he received a report between 30 and 40 men were in the mine but that waa only an estimate tvj1 4 p- - |