Show p vt w'gr rti Ka v it Local Metal Markets The Weather Gold $35 00 64 640 Silver (newly mined) 42 75o Silver (foreign) Copper electrolytic delivered 11 23e Connecticut valley 4 85©4 90o Lead leomt frttltment fr1re Utah — Partly cloudy Monday Idaho — Unsettled cooler Wyoming— Partly cloudy Nevada —Unsettled rain Lead fjo ??ft I 10 90 Lrpper (cftlhuUa) I !& l Vol 138 No 171 Salt Lake City Utah Senators See Cash Carry Capital Waits Selection t t Neutrality Act - eign relations committee predicted Sunday that the “cash end carry” clause of the neutrality act would be permitted to expire May 1— without en- i Aa t 1 V as chairman of the foreign relations committee also is chaiman of the sub( ommittee stressed the need for immediate action We should not take the risk of permitting the cash and carry provisions of the act to lapse even for a day ” he said Pittman announced that Henry L Stimson secretary of state under President Hoover would be the first witness at the neutrality hearing Wednesday He added that Bernard M Baruch New York financier who is known as the "father" of the cash and carry clause would appear Thursday The full list of w it nesses has not been compclted The present cash and carry provision empowers the president to prohibit the sale to belligerents except on a cash and carry basis of many products which are not regarded as munitions but are essential in wartime Among such products are copper oil and cotton Other Provisions Continue This provision was designed to prevent shipment of these products in United States vesvsels which might be halted or attacked by warships of the belligerent powers thus leading to involvement of this country Only the cash and carry provision1 of the present act expires May including that Other provisions to belligbanning sales of munitions erents continue Pittman has proposed that the exreenacted with piring provision be revisions which would permit the sale of munitions to belligerents vc ho pav cash here and transport them at their ow n risk Proponents of mandatory including Senators Nve R' North Dakota Cl irk (D) Missouri have and Bone (D Washington on proposed retention of the ban munitions shipments to belligerents with the added proviso that all other materials be placed on the rash and carry’ list While Borah and George said they thought it would be impossible to obtain action before May 3 Pittman warned that expiration of the ‘cash and carry” clause would leave this country in the same position as it was before the World war when sinking of ships aboard cargoes with American speeded United States entry into the conflict La Folk tte Expects Wrangle senator La Follitte (Piog) Wisconsin on record as favoring of the present “cash and 'earn'" As April corps (2P) — 2 a of said were the aids to be 'assistant They would have presidents" neither the power to ‘make decisions nor issue instructions in their own right" nor to trespass on the functions of presidential secretaries "who deal with the public with the congress and with the press and the radio" It follows obviously that the less known the names of the first selfless-six the greater the chance that they can function without suspicion that their actual mission Is to help lobby through in congress measures which the president may desire That raises a question os to whether the names of such widely publicized administration "contact men’ as ‘Tommy" Corcoran will figure on the list Tjpe at Hand By contrast there is another tjpe of public official fn Washington already schooled by long experience in the intricacies and rivalries of the vast administrative organization It was this sort of career1 subordinate already in government service that the sponsois of the iContit lied on Pac Two) (Column Two) provision-sai- d lengthy discussion of foreign policy to ensue when proposed neutrality sen- changes are brought before the ate He said witnesses nt committee hearings were sure to be questioned about the effort of proposed changes In the law on the sdmimstiation polu y of aiding the European Pittman has said jhat his proposal would aid England and France in event of a Furopean wfar heesuse these countries presumably would control the sea and consequently be able to buy munitions here With hearings set to be held the 23 member foreign relations rommittee was sharply divided on the question of revising the neutrality act Have Ifl Sure ofes comAdministration supporters check-u- p said they a private puting believed they could count on 30 senators to suppifrt the Pittman proas likely posal They listed eight to vote against it and aald the of five was doubtful Opponents of the Pittman proposal said they expected heaunRR to develop a public reaction against an material revision of the neutrality ai t About the time the rommittee besenate mav gins its hearings the take up the presents request for A $150000000 additional for W P Japan Fascist Party Trails in End Fishing Area Dispute Belgian Vote Soviet Liberal Catholic Blocs Pile Up Lead on Rexists Fears for Break Allajed hy Signing of Pact MOSCOW April 2 UP)— Fears of serious trouble in far eastern waters over the Japanese-Sovie- t Russian fisheries dispute were allayed Sunday when Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff and the Japanese ambassador Shigenori Togo signed an agreement regulating fishing rights for the rest of 1039 A brief communique said merely that an agreement for 1939 had been signed and that the annual auction of Siberian fishing lots scheduled for Monday had been postponed one day "for technical reasons " The communique did not bear out earlier reports in diplomatic circles that a five-yeagreement had been concluded giving Japan a long-terconcession which she wished Agree to Plan Soviet sources said Japan had agreed to the soviet unions withdrawal of six fishing lots from the auction held annually in Vladivostok including two lots on which Japanese canneries already had been built Japnn warned Moscow some weeks ago that if an agreement was not signed by the beginning of the fishing season usually in April warships might be used to protect the Japanese fishing fleet which would sail ns usual for the fishing grounds off eastern Siberia Near to Break Negotiations on the issue had seemed near a breaking point several times but conversations always renewed were Saturday Litvinoff talked for five houis met three times Parley s n NEW YORK April 2 tT)— A Monday in much of the nations soft coal Industry was indicated Sunday night when a joint subcommittee of miners and operators adjourned without agreeing on a new contract for the Appalachian bituminous region to supplant a two-yepact which expired last Friday midnight Charles O Neill spokesman for the operators said the conference-n- ow In its third week —would be Asked resumed at 2 p m Monday whether the stalemate presaged a shutdown In the Industry he referred the question to John L Lewis president of the CIO United Lew is refused comMine Workers ment From another source however It that no formal instructions to stop work would go to the miners but that work would automatically cease on the theory that the miners were without jobs because of lack of contract Sun days meeting lasted four hours Advance Purchase and Togo and Sunda BRUSSELS April 3 (Monday)— tP) — Liberals and Catholics piled up heavy gains at the expense of fascist Rexists in incomplete returns from Sundays general election On the basis of early tabulations the Rexists received only about as manv votes as thev polled in 1936 when they won 20 of the 202 seats in the chamber of deputies In the cantons of Eupen Malmedy and St Vith which Belgium got from Germany at the end of the World war the pronazis appeared to have won chamber seats one-ha- lf Communists Gain s SAN PEDRO Cal April 2 UP)— Twenty basic training planes from the North American Aircraft company plant and four lickhoed bombers went out to Liver- pool aboard the Furness motorship Pai ific President over the week end making one of the largest single consignments of planes to any country to date The planes are part of the orders placed by the British royal air force last year for 200 ships from each Since then the orders company have been Increased Space has been reserved in many homeward bound British ships for months ahead to accommodate similar shipments A spokesman for the operators pointed out thta large consumeis would not be adversely affected immediately by a shutdown because of heavy advance purchases and a large supply of mined coal still available Secretary of Labor Perkins had telegraphed the negotiators an appeal for an agreement by Sunday midnight The negotiators replied simply that the ‘joint subcommittee of the Appalachian coal conference is conof the tinuing its consideration matters referred to it by the conference in an effort to arrive at an eailv agreement if possible” Miss Perkins said if the agreement were not reached by midnight thousands of miners wmuld be thrown out of work Monday Expiration of th old two-vecontract so far has not affected the industry for Saturday was a national miners’ holiday and Sunday always is an off dav Nome Mines W ill Close ar Some mines already announced they would be closed Monday— chiefly for repairs— regardless of the outcome Miners at other pits were ordered not to report unless were advised of an agreement they The joint subcommittee of eight men striving for an agreement to be presented to a larger committee consisted of four men for each side led by Lewis and O Neill Any agreement reached here would affect only the 338 000 miners in the Appalachian field but would be used as a basis for contracts in other fields The Appalachian which produces region about of the nations soft coal includes Pennsylvania West Virginia Ohio eastern Kentucky Western Virginia central Tennessee and some 'mines in Maryland and Muhigan Communists gained slightly at the expense of socialists and Flemish nationals who have been accused of seperatist ambitions improved their position by a small margin Early reports said Belgians took the election calmlv while other nations watched closely for indications whether the little country would remain close to the democracies or swing toward the totalitarian states in the European picture Dr Adrian Martens whose appointment to the Flemish academy the nations political precipitated crisis created a stir by announcing his resignation from the or- Special Agreements ganization Special agreements were made to continue work in most of the Once Doomed other fields but one exception was The obscure Flemish surgeon was Alabama where the Tennessee Coal once under sentence of death as Iron and Railroad company providWorld war a traitor and escaped ed that they could be terminated on punishment only through a general 15 days notice by either side World war veterans amnesty When the joint conference conraised a clamor against his acad- vened the miners demanded a daily emy appointment and a chain of raise of 50 cents over the existing events resulted which brought scale of $6 in the north and $5 60 aoout the resignation of Premier in the south and a 6 hour day Paul Henri Spaak on February 9 week instead of the present Spaak explained the appointment day week was Intended as a friendly gesture The operators replied with a deto the Flemish but that failed to mand for a daily wage cut bring political peace to the nation but later rescinded that and urged w hith over the issue split ratification of the old contract disKing Leopold intervened solved parhnmcntand Tailed “nprnrr the nation to elect a new body “which will embody in a broad spirit of equity and equality our national unity ’’ three-fourt- Group Urges Policy Set-Up Spanish Writer Turns Up Alne in Madrid Washington April 2 un— The Foreign Policy association asserted Sunday that closer cooperation between congress and the White House on the matter of foreign policy 'has now become imperative" if the United States Is ‘to preserve Its vital interest in world af- MADRID April 2 iPi— Jose Maria Carrelero popular writer who was reported dead in the early months of the civil war is alive and well Hundreds of his friends welcomed him Sunday as ‘resurrected" One fairs ” of his many hiding places during ‘Irresponsible criticism and facthe siege of Madrid was a tomb in tional obstruction on the part of the east cemetery congress drive the executive to subterfuges of secret executive agreements personal agents and spectacular appeals to the public” the report said ‘Irresponsible and secretive action by the president creates alarm and hostility in the leg- Priest Subdue Arguments Cornered N Y Gunman o£ NEW YORK April 2 (UP)— A Catholic priest who argued for more than an hour with arms overhead Sunday induced d young bandit to surrender to police and spare the lives of sn aged couple into whewe apaitment he had fled after a gun battle In downtown Manhattan The bandit John Naumo 23 high a wild-eye- islature ” The assoi lation a private resurrendered as police surround- search orgimzation discussed foring the building prepared to rush eign policy In a report prepared bv the apartment with drawn guns James Frederick Green a ataff member and tear gas 'I told linn not to be a sip" The report sard the supremacy of the Rev I rands X Quinn said the executive depnrtmmt In con"Then I talked to him about hill trolling foreign polity resulted from 'lie had his gun trained on exercises of administrative func- out reme all the time and I member all of the tilings I said ‘One thing Im sure of - we didn t talk about the weather ’ April 2 (P) —German attention was centered Sunday on nipping in the bud what nazis called Britain’s effort to surround Germany with enemies Rciehhfuehrer Hitler’s warning to Britain Saturday in his speech at Wilhelmshaven and to all otlieis especially Poland who ally themselves with the Freneh-Brltis- h policy was considered the opening gun Hope existed that the fuehrer’s answer to British Prime Minister Chambei lam s declaration to the house of commons Friday that Britain and France would help defend Polish Independence would intimidate Polish Foreign Minister Colonel Joseph Beck Due In London lea-n- ur Planes Shipped To England BERLIN ar Juan Francisco dc Cardenas Spanish agent to the U S and mentioned as ambassador to Washington lifts a toast to General Franco pictured on the nail of Dc Cardenas’ office Chance Gave Franco Whiphand in Spain Britain Pushes Program of Armed Peaec (t'DITORS NOTE: Generalissimo Francisco I’ranoo emerge What manlier of Spain a the newest of the world’ dictator man i he? How close will he he to Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini? Will he fight on the side of German Italy and Japan If these combination "aggressor" power come to war with a led by Britain and France These and other question are answered ill a series of dispatches by Everett R Holies United Press cable editor who covered the Spanish civ II war on the spot ) 111 LONDON Auril 2 pushed her 'armed peace" program Sunday apparently impertubbed by Reichsfuehrer Hitler’s fhreats as other nations took stock of how his Wilhelmshaven speech affected By Everett R Holies their security in unsettled Europe Poland end France reflected op(Copyright 1939 by United Press) timism despite Hitler’s scornful reFrancisco Franco y Bahamonde a plump little Spaniard with a tort to Prime Minister Chamberred sash and a ready smile became Europe’s newest dictator by lain's statement to the house of commons Friday that Britain and accident had pledged support for to France ternational are struggle— strange and Polish independence Unimaginative stubbornly the dictator Polish Foreign Minister Colonel loval to his duty as a professional His evasiveness in describing Joseph Beck was on his way to Lonsoldier Franco was always confiwhat the ‘new will be is don for important discussions with dent of his ability to win the long characteristic ofSpain’ this enigmatic Chamberlain on Britain s efforts to civil war in Spam who is as much a raise a 'halt Hitler" barricade of generalissimo But the tasks that face him now man of mystery in his own country ant largressor nations in the path of — toe reconstruction of a ravaged as he is abroad possinlycGettnaan expansion On a July morning in 1936 when countrv brewing internal political Assured of ‘support on (CcmtlmiM Pac Four) troubles and Spains part in the in ( olumrt Three) of Chamberlain was assured widespread support in the house of commons when he speaks Monday in a foreign affairs dehate Arthur Greenwood deputy opposition leader in the lower house was expected to back the governments pledge to Poland but to urge that Soviet Russia and other state be lrne-uMOSCOW April 2 (AP) — Soviet Russia remained unimpressed brought Into an as quukly as possible It was considered unlikely howSunday by the British-Frenc- h pledge to support Polish independence and awaited further indication that London and Paris were in ever that any further major departure in British foreign policy such earnest about building a “halt Hitler” front as a pledge of support to Rumania similar to the British-Frenc- h guarIf they want Russian support they would must “abandon this dangerous game give Poland more support than they antee to Poland for instance be announced by the prune minister of nonintervention and return to gave Spain and Czec If England and France having Poland Sies Hope of collective the policy genuine promised support to Tn Poles Innlipd to their sud the government new with the western new to solidarity not Ger Germany why should paper Izvestia man fascism expect that England democracies as a possible avenue to The whole tenor of comment In and France would act likewise in colonies and financial help the soviet press suggested that Rrlt-Ix- h the case of Rumania and Poland In France Premier Daladier dePrime Minister Chamberlains 'In Munich supporters of the clared thit if we Frenchmen aie statement to Uie house of commons poluy of nonintervention managed ufntcd we shnll not hnvc war" Among other powers howevep Briclay regarding Poland was no to deliver to Germany in a peaceful more convincing than previous dec- wav what it was going to taka bv Soviet Russia showed skepticism of larations of support for Czecho- force Are they not going to act the British ranch pledge cto Pothe same way with regard to the land and refrained from romment slovakia Polish searoast and Danzig aftei on Hitlers answer while Italian Summaries of JLtUr Speech dese nbed as indecisive they have guaranteed Polands in- opinion was Italy a partner in the Brief summaries of Rcic hsfuehrer dependence without even decipheraxis and a friend also of Poland Hitlers retort Saturday at ing what they mean by the word (Continual dm Pre i Four) comno but "? ( Inmn T independence' Germany were ment published d meanwhile The soviet union UP-Br- itain Russ Press Douhls Integrity Of Pad to Support Poland anti-Hitl- p n t of Its romprehensive strengthening national defenses while await- ing decisive developments The Comsomol young communist league Issued orders providing for the training of 100 000 girl tractor driver thus making possible the release of an equal number of men for service as Rimy tank truck and ambulance drivers Marshal Someon Budenny vice commissar of defense sponsoring a speed-u- p in activities of Ossoavia-chithe civil defense organization urged every citizen to devote his spare time to acquiring proficiency in the use of some weapon The I iiropean Jungle tions ac (uni conduct of negotiaSadly surveying what it railed tions and other factors eventually 'the I uropean Jungles" Izvestia giving the presulintiil office power asked what reason there was to not listed in the constitution suppose that the demociaucs would Pilgrims lo Rome Participate In Palm Sunday Rituals VATICAN CITY April 2 of pilgrims atti acted to Rome by the elaborate Holy Week ceremonies took part Sun-- d ly in Talm Sunday servie e commemorating Christ s entry into sands Jerusalem At St Peters a magnificent mass whs sung and several cardinals and lesser prelates participated in the traditional procession of the palms through the great doorway and around the b csilic a Great processions were held also uv and other at Su John Later t "The regime of prewar days" he said "had but one fault— it knewr the devilish plan of encircling and attacking us yet it lacked the power or will to ward it off It permitted things to advance to a catastrophe 'No power in the world can ever again force us to our knees” Hitler spent Sunday making hie second Inspection tour of the fortified North sea Island Helgoland which figured heavily in World war fighting Hie island s fortification were dismantled under terms of the Versailles treaty but have been rebuilt by nazl Germany It was announced in Berlin that Hitler enjoyed his Helgoland trip so much that he was prolonging it until Tuesday His original schedule had called for his return Monday ith Hitler 1000 men and Approximately women from all over Germany including political leaders and executives of the shipping industry made the trip with Hitler The fuehrers lieutenants meanwhile kept a sharp watch on world reaction to the Wilhelmshaven speech which nazis said was one of the most important Hitler haj made Their eyes were tu ned particularly toward London Hitler was expected to return to Berlin because here he can be in closer contact with reports from England on the forthcoming conferences between Chamberlain and Beck Hailed by Press iSiTie nazl pre-s- s hailed Hitler’ speech as ‘a clear warning" Th fuehrers own newspaper the Bcobachter warned that powers which participated in any ’encircling" maneuver were putting themselves in a ’danger zone” ’Neville Chamberlain only Friday in the lower house made known the astoundingly adventurous desire of his government and already on the fuehrer had answepetj Saturday him ” commented the Hamburger —— FrenulenblaU ‘Hitlers speech well worthy of wonderment is in the last analysis g the warning of a people" addressed to the British people who are 'running the danger of repeating all the mistakes of th encirclement policy of the World war” it declared Voel-kisch- er peace-lovin- 1 Rome-Ber-li- Hf The effort apparently was to force a noncommittal attitude on Beck when he visits London wher he is scheduled to arrive Monday for three days of consultations The Polish foreign minister will pass through Berlin both going to London and returning to Warsaw but Is not scheduled to see any German authorities beyond the customary courtesy call of a foreign office protocol officer at the railroad station Hitler Saturday declared his intention not to repeat the mistake of prewar Germany in knowing that she was being encircled yet doing nothing to halt the process Larked Power ent C ailed Last Straw Chamberlain’s statement to the house of commons was described as the last straw that caused Hitler to dec ide to get into action He said at Wilhelmshaven that Germany might denounce the British-G- naval treaty of 1935 that limited Germany generally to 35 per cent of British naval tonnage And he added after proclaiming the unshakable permanence of the erman Rome-Berli- n axis if any nation wants to measure its strength with the axis powers "we are ready" of the more important churches In the capital of Catholicism Must Make tlioiee In smalli r churches there were Great Britain now must choose more modest ceremonies the Hamburger Fremdcnblatt deIn all as throughout the Cathoclared whether it wants to see the lic world fresh green palm leave were blessed and distributed to basis — what Hitler called the "preconditions’ — of the naval accord dethe faithful Pius XII who will be the stroyed for all time by ‘mischievousIn wantoness in circles which think central figure in the passion ceremonies later in the week and on terms of" yisterday and diplomatic) Faster Sunday when he will give Intrigue Hitler Saturday also Issued an his blessing from the balcony of St Peter s did not take part in Implied warning to Poland without her Sundays rereinnny In the basili- naming ’He who Is willing to pull th ca but said mass in hi private mr iConthuM ot Fuji c chape ttuitinm J?our) r f r a ft - IB Hopes Speecli Will Scare Warsaw Off shut-dow- President Roosevelts choice of 'selfless-six- " 9 Goes Ahead other hand Pittman who neu-trali- r WASHINGTON ritisli Men to Quit Or Highly Publicized Advisers executive aids under the government reorganization act is awaited by off)cial and unofficial Washington with some of the interest that attaches to supreme louit appointments There has been no word jet as actment of any substitute to just what their duties will be Senator Borah (R)' Idaho an- but the tjpe of men chosen may a hint as to what use nouncing he was opposed to any furnish strongintends to make of the president limitation of senate debate on the them neutrality question said he believed To Have No Power extensive general discussion of forThe presidential committee that eign policy would prevent any acproposed this addition to the W'hitc tion this month House staff said the effectiveness Senator George (D) Georgia of the aids would be "directly provho with Senators Borah and Pitt- portional to their ability to disman (D) Nevada was appointed charge their functions with restraint They would remain in the on a foreign relations subcommitbackground issue no orders make tee to arrange for neutrality head- no decisions emit no public stateings beginning Wednesday said it ments ” would be impossible from ft pracIt was that language which tical standpoint for congress to pass the “passion of anonjm-lty- ’ on the question before the May 1 prompted phrase to describe the prime deadline qualification for appointment to the In no sense the committee corps Pittman Wants Action On the Mines Closing Will Pick ‘Selfless Six WASHINGTON April 2 (P) —Members of the senate for- Bv Klrke I Simpson ’ive Lo Avert- - Observers Wonder if Roosevelt Section Bren s Dispute April 18 Pages — Five Cents 1939 Leaders Fail Of Six New Aids Lapse Provided for President Clause Monduy Morning 3 |