| Show Local Metal Markets Cold $3500 Silver (newly mined) 64 64c Silver (foreign) 4275c Copper electrolytic delivered 1125c Connecticut valley Lead Lead VOL 138 NO 79 VJTdSff to Fite- Gas Trap one In Indiana Mine i — SALT LAKE CITY UTAH SUNDAY MORNING JANUARY" 1 1939 Price at 6464 Rcsciicrs Work in Relays to Level Free Men at Signals Indicate All ‘Are Alive for Newly Mined -- " Ind - Figure-Fixe- d Domestic Metal Will Cease To Be Effective After June 30 ot Jo - (P)— A rescue force of nearly 100 men working in relays battled flame smoke and gas this New Year’s eve to save a score of coal miners trapped 168 feet underground In Crown Hill mine No 6rnear-herOne rescue squad reported fighting its way through the to a point near 'enough fire and around dangerous cave-in- s to hear faint signals tapped on a mine telephone line from the Imprisoned men CLINTON Dec 31 ): WASHINGTON Dec 31 (P) —President Roosevelt continued at 6464 cents per ounce Saturday the treasury’s price for newly-mindomestic silver In fixing the price by proclamation the president directed that the silver must be delivered to a United States coinage mint -— not later than June 30 1939 The proclamation is effective only up to that date s Mr Roosevelt’s power to fix the price silver by proclama- tion and his right to change the dollar’s gold content both will expire then unless congress renews them Sliver delivered to a coinage mint e The signals indicated the men Were' safe and in no immediate Blood Notes ed after June ijlahger I J said either “2Q or ' 21" men were trapped by the roar I ing underground fire The fire 1 broke 'out Saturday on the same ! - level on which the group was york-- I ing and between the men and the j main shaft J Crowd Gathers ' A crowd estimated by state' po- lice at 3000 persons gathered at — rthe'-ml-ne Saturdaynlght - Roper were— strung to hold them back' from the mine entrance out of which curled smoke and gas from ' ' the fire Ji I of those in the crowd were Many " Wives and children of the men whose fate was in doubt There was no hysteria however The rescue squad which penetrated nearest the trapped miners reported to C A Herbert of Vincennes a bureau of mines engineer that the chances of reaching the men were "good” although cave-in- s added extra hazards to the rescue work This squad said the fire was raging on a fronts Herbert Said the rescue workers could get through &nd around the flames but that the big question was getting through poisonous gases Worker Come Out The mine cage was coming up every few minutes bringing out rescue workers made ill by gas I end smoke Ellsworth —Graves of Rosedale I one of the rescue workers came I up choking and vomiting after five — the fire and re I ported: I "The fire l in bad shape but 1 they’re finally getting Some water on ‘t- - We tapped on the telephone A I "ljnetoth6"menand got an answer Mine-officia- ls ! r ’ 200-fo- ot hours-of-fightlng — -- k Down there your head just feels like someone was pounding on it and then you get awful sick" Graves is a miner employed in that they: were-a- ll o -- the mine and has a brother Jim 43 among the imprisoned 'men Harry Dunlap a Clinton fire man came out of the mine and described the situation ihside like this: m Just a Lot of Fire "It’s all fust a lot of fire With a continual roar and rattle" Dunlap said the rescue workers had succeeded in- - getting air Into circulation in the mine so as to draw the gas and smoke away from '' the nien and out of the mine Through the tapped signals the trapped miners reported the air around them was still good JSlls- -' worth Graves said They also reported killing fhred mine mules In order to conserve oxygen Another rescue squad pulled from the mine at ft o’clock its members nauseated by carbon monoxide gas fumes said they believed crews could reach the entombed men by morning Tom Salmond a member of the squad so ill he had to be assisted td the1 wash house said "We are some effort to put the ?ow maklng - - out" - Walls Burned Out He gasped out that the "fire had burned out walls which the squad waa building and let loose a lot of gas on us” J O Hitt a pit boss for a neighboring mine aiding in the rescue Spread Bright View ’ (Editor’s note: Governor Henry II Blood of Utah writes for the Salt Lake Tribune his view of the year 1938 and what he sees for the year 1939) Local reaction to the presidential proclamation continuing dothe price of newly-mine- d mestic silver at 6464 cents "per ounce for another six months was varied but the predominant note was— “It might have been worse” In the main members of the mining industry as well ns leaders of other groups who made a determined drive for a price Increase accepted the verdict with expressions of gratitude "that the price had not been cut Some expressed keen disappointment but voiced the hope that a campaign for remonetization of the metal at a fixed ratio would be given new vitality by reason of the failure to win a price Increase Governor Henry H Blood who strongly and persistently urged a return to the 1937 level of 7757 Cents said he still felt the price should 4tbe rafted and ex would be pressedhope-that-when the matter eomes up for further consideration six months By GOVERNOR HENRY H BLOOD The encouraging feature about 1938 viewed in relation to the social and economic development of this state has been the decidedly optimistic tone that developed toward the close of the year in near perspective the year has been decidedly spotted 1938 Agriculturally produced iomo of 4he best crops in the history of the state but market prices for many products were sadly 'disappointing Xhajtary of tho livestock industry during the period considerably brighter Government sustained prices for gold and silver and a somewhat improved coppermar ket were counteracted by'dis turbing fluctuations in prices for lead and zinc Transportation manufacturing -- a n d—commerce generally reacted as was natural conto local and to nation-wid- e —Viewed ws hence - ' — Tho presidentialactibn ln fix-in- g the price for only six months Instead of the Usual full year can be explained by the fact that the gold reserve act of 1934 —J une 30 1939 unless it is renewed by congress In his silver proclamations the president has cited this act as one source of his authority ditions Building activity was stimulated somewhat byther needs for- hou- s(Conttmied on Page Two) (Column Five) ' Dawn of 1939 Pr Four) (Continued on (Column Five) -- ‘ - -- j - (Continued on Paw Four) (Column Two) Brings New Hope to World shining against storm provinces In Germany the controlled press '(Continued on Pace Two) (Column Five) ’ for Legislative Roster) The roster of elective officials in Utah and its 29 counties will undergo considerable change when the victors of the November election come into possession of their prizes Tuesday turn-ovAfter this take place how many of the -- state’s offices will be held H ow many Jiy Republicans? — 12-- A er voter re£tectaadUiQVSLroaiiy offices did they fill from the ranks of the “outs"? For answers to these and other questions turn to page 12 section A of this issue of the Salt Lake ‘Tribune There you will find a complete directory of state Congressional county and judicial district officials for the new year This feature not only gives a complete picture of the state's elective officialdom after January 3 but show's the party affiliation of each officer and whether he was reelected newly elected — — r— ' or a holdover j many4neumbent-did4- h hLJwar-dev-astate- clouds of verbal and actual combat The bloody strife in China and in Spain went ahead relentlessly Insurgent Generalissimo Francisco Franco renewed his "end the war" smash at the center of the Spanish government lines striking forward along the Catalonian front toward Barcelona in the wake of Friday's unsuccessful government counterattack In the far east Japanese war planes reaped a heavy toll with in tense bombing onslaughts on Kwangsi Kwangtung and Hunan vV eli- states had urged tho president not to reduce the price contending that to do so would throw miners out of work Critics of the government’s ail" ver purchase program have contended in the past that the difference between the world price of ailver and the higher prices paid by thrtreasury for domestic silver: represented a subsidy for producers in this country No statement was made Saturday about the treasury’s prfees for foreign and other silver which Is basis end kept on s has been 43 cents per ounce since last March Most of- - the treasury’s silver purchases particularly metal from China Mexico and Canada are made at this “other” price Subsidizing of silver was one of the earliest of new deal programs The first authorization for the treasury to buy silver at higher price was tacked onto the original AAA law In 1933 In' the same year the United States ' and six other important silver-pr- o ducing o consuming - nations pledged' at London to keep vast"" quantities of silver off the market to enhance the value of the metaL Sought Mild Inflation The new deal Democrats sue cessors to other Democratic ' fac tions which had worked 'for' high er silver prices since 1896 Inaugu rated silver buying' Ini the hope 0f giving a measure of relief to west ! ern mining states' and to ’create a : day-to-d- than-mark- et mild Inflation— price through single-hande- d treaty abro- gation Storrii Sweeps Tumultuous Welcome Signals Cummings Will Oi’cgoir Coast 1939V Aldvcnt in S L Quit Monday - f t Price of the metals soared to 81 ounce buf after 1934 the — price fell back-- to whatever the United States treasury was willing to pay for tho metal For mere than two years the treasury "pegged ' tho world silver price at 45 cents per ounce and in March 1938 re- - ducediirio' 13 cents per ounce The reduction was made at tho time of tension over the Mexican expropriation of American oil properties and since Mexico was on of the principal sellers of ailver to the United States the cut then was regarded widely as retaliatory against Mexico - bentsier -- ' Altogether since tho new deal’s purchase program began the treasury purchased 1839600000 ounces of silver at an average cost of 663 ' cents an ounce In 1934 congress said In the silver purchase act that " silver was worth $129- per ' ounce giving the treasury’s present silver stocks of approximately 2550000 000 ounces a monetary ’ value of more than $3250000000 Most- of tho silver came from foreign coun- - r tries and only about 248500000 ounces was purchased from domes- - " tic miners at the higher ’ prices ‘ given domestic industry ' The 1934 ket Instructed the treas- - ' ury to keep on buying silver until it owned $r of silver for "every $3 ' of gold it owns— a goal never because gold - purchases reached continued even more rapidly than silver acquisitions! With 0 worth of gold- - in the treasury the treasury is short approxi--matel- y $1500000000 worth Of silver at $129 per ounce - - ’ In its forthright rejection of the Japanese contention that ideas and principles of the past no longer were applicable to China the state de7 partment served notice that it "reserves all rights of the United States as they exist and does not give assent to any impairment of any of those rights” in China This reservation of rights is possibly a preliminary to future action the nature of which! only time and the further development of United States foreign policy can tell This might even envisage eventual protection of American interests in China by fpree although there was no belligerent tone in Saturday's $14325-00000- -- - Purchases Cost Nothing Silver purchases actually cost th treasury nothing because It pays for the silver with stiver certiff ' WASHINGTON! Dec 31 ' PORTLAND Ore Dec cate currency issued In the cos” a Amid festive of sirens bells cacophony screaming pealing Winds of velocity probability that President Roosevelt1 amounts of the metal By law the 1939 received" an enthuTaked and Washington and ‘shouting merrymakers a new-bor- n would appoint a new attorney- gen note treasury could issue $129 worth of was never used by this paper money for every ounce of t Force coasts Saturday and caused diffi- siastic and gay- welcome from Salt Lake City and Utah Saturday era! by Monday noon arose Saturin the similar case of Man- - silver it acquires But it refuses to the Columbia night at varied New Year’s eve observances culty at the mouth-6day when the White House disclosed country ( Continued on Pan Six) (Continued on Paw FourX rivet he (Column Three) (Column Four) thatr-techoed Year from the HappyNew resignation' of the incum Whole gale warnings vere posted throats of thousands who greeted and neighbors joined in the holi- bent Homer S would Cummings day merriment take effect at that time along thCAVashington coast to the the year 1939 as confetti-covere- d To especially accommodate those The disclosure revived speculamobth of the Columbia Southeast revelers and back-firin- g "automo- midnight shpws in down- tion that the to storm warnings flew on the Oregon biles filled city streets at the zero attending town theaters and other late merrym- Governor Frank post mightof go 'Murphy coast and south to Eureka Cat- - — houtv'Nor did they continue home akers--the Dtah Light and Trac-tion dear “supporter Wh& - was defeated The storm Was centered about until long afterward company maintained bus — for reelection last —"" serv- month tces-irn- ta ItlS-arm 10d6 miTcs?)ff the CALVARY Alta Uec 31 (UP) "But the Lambeth walk Is difOrcgonToalt7andftIl5"6"'55efoWcl' tradl-laFor it marked manywas s bration most in evidence the Those who expected ' President —Travelers amazed to discover moved rapidly northeastward ferent Except for l the final ‘oi’ solnew year was accorded just asonal fling'‘"before- pie Roosevelt to make an early an- - 'Blackfoot Indians enthusiastic-all- y it is nothing more inor less than Ida hearty" ((""reception In Domes "and moTorsKTp Tjie Swedish Pf°n°uilCTfltiSimSayQf nouneement of Cummings’ successor treading thejneasures of the the traditional Blackfoot horn Bakke on her jrfaiden voyage to entertainment centers throughout New Years resolutions— by dad to frecAlled his recent action in filling Lambeth walk went to George dance The Indians "have "taken not to nag Uther Portland was barbound outside the the city tfy partying celebrants ijuu smoking ancabinet vacancy He Gooderham Indian agent to it in a big way” Columbia and the States liner IlliIt was an occasion not only for aJd bj?rothcr'Bn1 - ster nounced the appointment of Harry hghtenment Saturday Their favorite dance : tune it nois wa's inside unable to cross out dancing parties in hotels and night td "really study this year lHopkins former VV P A chief to ‘‘It's this way” Gooderham exwaa understood is an adaptation In strange contrast to the pr De The bar was so rough (he pilots' clubs and for joint theater oatlies e crrftmsrce-thsame plained "owhnarily ‘the Black-fesecretary of of a popular white man's tunc frffddncr" tfdhini tiia "could not'le-gum- e But-finnumerably- - ‘‘open house i o don't go for the popular wt “Blackfoot Floogie With a I'lcy her post outside observances families friends OlfiCts dafice crazes of the white man" ) Floy” (Colufnd i a4 r i ' i ) r the-Ore- l In the first year after the silver program was started the world ' Worth Three Billion Dec 31 UP- -A WASHINGTON refusal to' recognize pointblank Japan’s effort to establish special d privileges “for herself China brought to a close Saturday one of the most hectic years in the history' of United States foreign affairs Standing firmly upon the principle of the "open door"’ in China this government took the lead in opposing Japanese plans to include China in a “new order’"' program in east Asia rn v pdst-electi- To Sanction ‘Closed Door’ Cork-poppi- Roster Reveals New Names In Utah’s Officialdom (See Page U S Refuses By The Associated Press revelry overrode the drums of war and tragedy in many lands Sunday as 1938 faded into history and the world gaily toasted the new-bo'39 — “A happy New Year!” more money Better times even signs of booming industry peace preserved and the suffering of persecuted millions i Europe eased if not ended"?? These were some of the brighter auguries will not be ng Governor Takes Closes 30 1939 gible for receipt under Saturday’ proclamation even though mined prior to that date Congressmen from western silver-mini- y Of Optimism As-19- 48524900 Prieee iCopptr) c&LbodelO90i ettfemwnt Roosevelt Edict Holds Silver ayi939ring-YflutliejS&tpiEverphin- i 168-Fo- Local 63 PAGES— TEN CENTS eTKSuSSS g - ' '4 65c “ -- - f -- All the ‘Blackfoot Flpogies’ Swing Out in the Lamheth st j for-en- rs'" or rp' et ui "JOil 164216 i -’ 4 is Y i 1 |
