Show :b y i THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE ReicIiDrafts Civilians to Fortify Lines THURSDAY First Lady Attends World Youtli Session Aug 17 UP)— Japan Troops Bog Down In Hunan Drive 1938 Leftists Block Japan Froivns mi Hull Franco in Two Sectors World Peace Plan y i Thousands Leave Factories to Rusli Construction BERLIN MOING' AUGUST 18 Naval Planes Dump Bombs on Capital ortrovince Thousand SHANGHAI Aug 18 (Thursday) Japanese forces ordered to take Changsha capital of Hunan province were bogged down Thursday many miles rom their objec- civilians are being draft ed daily for work on fortifications all along'Clermany’s western fron: tier with Switzerland France Belgium and the’ Netherlands From factories and shops they have been conscripted to build a German counterpart of France’s famous steel an concrete maginot line Estimates of their number Vary between 85000 and 300000 Only a lew days ago according to bereports of reliable tween 3000 and 4000 'labor conscripts v left Berlin v (A) — tive The invaders’ naval air force however raced oVer the heads of ths struggling Japanese infantrymen and fiercely bombed the city which lies about 200 miles southwest of Kiukiang and about the same distance south and slightly weat of Hankow Kiukiang is the Yangtze river base of Japanese operations against Hankow the Chinese provisional ' Will Test Forts’ When Germany's army reserves go into action next month with reichswehr regulars for-thfirst time since the World war one of the joint tasks will be to test Germany’s vast network of fortifications The maneuvers to be carried out sectionally all over the nation durwill put between ing September 600000 and 1000000 men in action The reserves the first df which reported for dutyMonday are being given two weeks of preliminary training in fundamentals before the capital side-by-si- de bat-talio- Youth Parley Sudeten Note Hints Collapse Head Denies Of British Mediation Efforts' (AP)— The pronazi sudeten German party Red Charges repliedPRAHAtheAug Czechoslovak 17 to ' TORONTO Ont Aug 17 (JPl— A resolution passed at the convention of the International Brother hood of Railway of Signalmen America Wednesday pledged the membership to "resist to the utmost" the J5 per cent wage reduction United States railways have asked employes to accept The resolution attributed railway financial difficulties in the United States to ‘‘banker-baro- n financed debts" Kidnaper Faces Death JEFFERSON CITY Mo Aug 17 (INS)— Robert-Keny- on Ozark farm youth must die in the state’s lethal gas chamber for the kldnap-murdof Dr J C B Davis of Willow Springs Mo the criminal division of the supreme court ruled Wednesday er mm p "inter-naUop- activities the congress Joseph Cadden chairman on hearing of the allegation replied: "Homer Chaillaux Is an old friend It seems that in order to keep his job he must paint at least one person or group red each week Publicity Seekers "I’m sorry but I haven't time to answer all the malicious fallacies of peanut politicians who try to get publicity by calling everything they don’t understand red‘ The simple idea of a gathering of World Youth for Peace aeems uttterly beyond him" The inclusion of some communist delegates— which drew the criticism of a Poughkeepslq alderman before the opening session— was defended by Cadden "We definitely have delegates rep resenting that school of thought" he said in an interview "although their number is very small “We do not see how slrtce we are trying to reconcile all schools of political thought' t a program for peace we could very well exclude any group” No Magio Formula Cadden said the delegates naturally had no hope of evolving a magic formula for the achievement of world peace but could provide “channels and outlets" through which the peace efforts of 40000-00- 0 young people whom they represent might reach the entire world "In the South American tangle help bring relief from externally caused akin blemishes Buy todayl For FREE sample over the Chaco” he said "the youth write Cuticura Dept 83 Malden Mass of the opposing countries not only talked but acted it CUJICURAw” government’s plan for solution of the tangled minorities problem Wednesday night with a memorandum stating there still was ‘‘a deep cleft” between the stands of the government and the party At one point the statement said there was an "unbridgeable gap" be- Mexico Police Arrest tween the government’s minorities' Franco Sympathizers proposals and those of the Sudeten German party representing with MEXICO CITY Aug 17 -Iice the backing ofnazi Germany most assigned to political matters ' of Czechoslovakia's 3500000 Ger- Wednesday raided offices of the "Traditionalist Spanish Phalanx" an manic minority But the statement said also that organization supporting Insurgent Franco of Spain and "we are still prepared- to discuss General seized files and detained five dihow the crisis of the state can be rectors solved on the foundation” of the The directors later were released eight-poidemands presented by after being warned that political Konrad Henlein party leader at activities of foreigners violated the Karlovy Vary April 24 Mexican constitution Want Full Autonomy One of the most important of these points was a demand that the sudeten Germans be granted autonomous administration of all German districts "iri all departments of public life” The sudeten memorandum Wednesday night apparently confirmed a fear In political quarters that the mission of the British unofficial mediator Viscount Runciman now in its third week had failed to bring closer together the Berlin-backe- d sudeten and the Czechoslovak government Responsible political quarters in Praha were inclined to take a rosy view of the memorandum despite its unconclliatory tone however basing their outlook on the fact that the sudetens kept open the door to future negotiations The sudeten memorandum was prepared before a delegation of sudeten Germans met around a conference table with government heads but was not released' until after the session CPI-Po- - Insurgent Drive Halted at Ebro Rich Mining Aren at timehe government intensified efforts to conquer China Epokesman said the most important state-- " inent In Hull s International broadcast waa that the United States ouid not remain aloof from foreign conflicts He said the remainder of the speech was a repetition of ore- vious declarations He referred to Hull as an ‘‘Idealist"' and to his " speech as “idealistic diplomacy" Meanwhile- the cabinet approved a broad program drawn most mP°rtant ministers to speed the campaign up rii V® with more' la drastic economic control at home and greater pressure by armed forces h cabinet did not disclose details of the ‘program but an official announcement said the fighting would continue until Generalissimo Chiang regime has been crushed This indicted the Japanese Would try to smash further inland along the Yangtze river when and if Hankow falls f Kai-shek- ’s Soviet Russia ‘Invents’ Grises To Foil Japan Militarists The Japanese China sea fleet Irked Leaders Forever Find headquarters in Its report 'on the Changsha raid said: ‘Convenient’ Menace Waiting "Despite bad weather the fliers showered tons of bombs on Changsha’s east and south rail stations TOKYO Aug 17 (AP) — Soviet Russia is an scoring direct hits and inflicting eternally conveniterrific damage including damage ent “menace" whenever the Japanese militarist wants something to military warehouses" The menace is brought home to the Japanese in crises On the public Worst Said Siberian border— most of which are artificial Dispatches from Hankow said the They seem to coincide too fre Changsha raid was the worst the quently for accident with internal deltas In both rivers— and both When tha city had yet experienced with aev conditions In Japan claim ownership of them eral hundred victims severely tax- Changkufeng incident (which was countries The most fertile area for friction settled by a truce on August 11) however ing available medical facilities is the point where Siberia Yale-l- n The American-operate- d splashed across Japanese newspa- touches both Korea and ManchuChina hospital and Red Cross and pers iri heavy black headlines the kuo iris at the southern end of League Of Najions’ medical units government had just canceled the a stretch running from Lake Khanhandled the brunt of the rescue Olympic games and was in the midst ka to Possiet bay There are no work The city’s railroad area re- pf a retrenchment program that ceived the heaviest damage the showed only too well the financial natural boundaries jmd the last known map defining the Siberian bombs demolishing several s'chools condition of the nation border was made 62 years ago here Each nation maintains' armed Other Institutions struck included Cancel Olympio Games mobile forces in the area to prethe Christian missionary emergenJapan decided July 14 that the vent the other from seizing stratecy refugee hospital in which a 1940 Olympic games would not be number of refugees were reported held in Tokyo as scheduled On gic points These troops clash fre to have been killed July 15 the Tokyo press printed ac- quently It is an unbelievable situation a Hundreds were reported left hom-ls- s counts of the new border incident fantastic condition by the attack swelling the total Japanese hearts hied over the loss only in the Orient' that could exist where exactness of more than 15000 refugees now of Olympics bub- they quickly for- is the exception not the bule being given food and shelter in a got the loss when every newspaper It existed before Japan in 1931 score of camps operated" by an in- trained its heavy guns on the Simarked out Manchukuo for her own ternational group including Amer- berian border On June 26 1886 China and Rusican British German and Chinese The degree of seriousness with sia jointly marked the border put medical which and philanmissionary Japanese officers really con- their into a treaty and sider the border question was re- drew agreement thropic organizations maps to clinch the bargain flected a in statement recently by Appears Checked Who Owns What? one of them: "Otherwise however the Japanese Here’s One View Officially Japan never has seen In onslaught appeared checked the Hwangmei sector 25 miles north-o- f “The only important explosions these maps So today there is comKiukiang nine Chinese divisions up there come from the corks in plete divergence of views as to who launched a counteroffensive which champagne bottles” owns what At some points strips The border between far eastern nearly 30 miles wide are claimed kept the invaders at bay Other Japanese units were re- Russia and continental Japan gen- by both sides ported having difficulty in a drive erates an average of three “inciAt Changkufeng where 'the latest against Shucheng and Hwoshan in dents” a week and has been doing incident occurred there is a small Anwhei province east of Hwangmei so for the past five or six years hill whose rounded summit has At Shahochen and Juichang close Apparently neither nation seems standing room for about 100 men to Kiukiang Chinese fighters con- to take most Of them seriousiyr Soviet troops began erecting fortiducted a stubborn successful deEach claims to have Implored the fications there on July 11 fense other to cooperate in marking once the border ran through theclalmipg middle The Japanese thrust toward the and for all the boundaries that sep- of the hill' Manchukuo protested Peiping-Hankorailroad in Hupeh arate Siberia from Korea and that the troops spilled over into her province north of the Yangtze was Each blames the other’s territory and the shooting began met by about 200000 veterans from stubbornness for the fact that toIt may be that a spark from near-b- y prpvinces who took strate day the line is as theoretical as border friction will the outlines of the lost continent start a second Russian-Japanes- e gic positions in Hupeh hills Three hundred miles to the north of Atlantis war If so it will only be the exin the Yellow river sector Chinese In the northwest the Amur river cuse military dispatches indicated the demarks Manchukuo and Siberia for The real reasons for such a war Japanese were concentrating their over a thousand miles In the east already exist in strategy and ecoforces for a southward and west- the Ussuri serves roughly the same nomics would like tq- reward move through southwestern purpose These natural cleavages move the Japan menace from the air that Shansi province toward vital Yellow have not prevented "incidents” from exists as long as Vladivostok 700 river points developing for there are islands and miles from Tokyo Is a Russian base - Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt mingled with representatives of many races and nationalities as she attended a session of the World Youth congress being held in Poughkeepsie N Y POUGHKEEPSIE N Y Aug 17 (P) — The chairman of the second World Youth conference Wednesday night denied the organization was a "front for communism" as the 1000 delegates and observers TVier Prussia without anyone tell- from 66 countries get out to study The men them knew they ways of achieving lasting peace ing why must help build fortifications among nations The charge of communism was made in Washington Wednesday by Signalmen Will Resist H L Chaillaux before the Dies committee investigating Railroad Cuts Wage nt Toko maneuvers hit joint reserve-regula- r their stride During this preliminary period Chancellor Hitler is making an inspection tour of military posts and garrisons Wednesday he attended battalion exercises of infantry officers Working Feverishly Germany has been working feverishly for the past few months on her own ‘‘maginot line” Whole of labor service conscripts have been moved from northern Germany to help Field Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goering on June 23 Issued a decree under which civilians could be required to abandon their regular jobs temporarily to engage in tasks deemed essential for the welfare of The decree permitted authorities to take employes from their workaday jobs and shift them wherever they were needed for fortification work The following is an example of how the labor has been conscripted A certain west end hotel was bought by the Hitler youth organization to be rebuilt according to the organization’s needs The qeustlon of what to do with the hotel waiters arose The solution was simple— such of the men as were physically fit were shipped to IT Iff)— The Japanese foreign office indicated Wednesdajrthat Secretary Hull’s seven-poifor order would receive no support from program Japan At the same TOKYO-Au- w Man-chuk- - - HENDAYE France (At the Spanish Erfintier) Aug 17 OR—Weary Spanish government and insurgent troops locked in heavy fighting Wednesday night on two fronts— the Ebro valley struggle for a few d hills and the southern front contest for the rich Almaden mercury mines Along the Ebro in eastern Spain the government displayed continuing strength which has enabled it to capture and hold strategic terri- tory around Gandesa for nearly a ' month" In the south Insurgent General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano whose troops were said by the insurgent to have captured 2300 square miles since their offensive began last month found the last few miles to i! Almaden the hardest Capture Balked De Llano’s troops tried to fight their way up the valley of the Zujar at a little dirt road winding over the hills toward but government resistance' continued to balk capture of the valuable mines In the north Insurgent General Andres Saliquet’s central army stood on the banks of the Guadiana river dried to little more than a trickle but faced an opposite shore bristling with government machine guns The government’s mountain troops lurched on Castilblanco and San Simon ridges to the north kept up swift guerilla raids on left flank sun-bake- river-aimin- f nt Opposite Reports The struggle for the Ebro was most violent south and southeast of Gandesa where the two armies fought over a few steep hills called the Pandols mountains dominating a the road to Pinell de Bray and ' Tor-tos- The insurgents said they ‘‘completely dominated” the Sills in the afterndon but government dispatches insisted their troops had recaptured positions on the east side of the highway Northwest of the Ebro sector government forces maintained a foothold pn the bridgehead between Balaguer and Lerida but ‘strong insurgent defenses apparently limited them to a dangerously snli strip of land on the river’s western bank (SOGCiMS CASTOR Oil A new liquid NOX ACORN cads pain and quickly driea up I corns sod calluses No danger I razor needed No corn pads Just moisten corn with Noxa-cpr- n Contains pure castor oil iodine and the substance from w which aspirin is made Easy to use Bottle of Noucorn sates untold mis ery Approved by Good Housekeeping BufeMoneThtrlcWNoTicorn fails 33e Government Optimistic optimlsmalso was reflected in a government communique issued after the meeting “In general" said the communique "the view was expressed that there would be a joint basis regarding fundamental terms Negotiations will be continued" Representatives of the progovernment political parties did not participate in Wednesday’s session because the sudetens insisted that only government ministers had a right to represent the government The chairmen of the government parties however held a meeting of their A note of own The sudeten memorandum in stating the door was left open to further negotiations issued a warn- Tmb way Wert— for living scenes ot Cold Rush days and 118 miles of olid Sierra grandeur! 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