Show 7 2X Sunday Morning- £!)t Salt £akt - & ribunt- - -- f Heavy Christmas Sales Send Retail Index Climbing Group to Hear 500 Talk Industry Levels Near Record PHILADELPHIA Navy Orders Fleet of Giant Planes First Lady Remembers Aged Needy Roosevelt Clan Colliers to Observe Yule Social Science J ¥- Family Affair t i Planned for Christmas Dec 23 UP)-F- our generations of Roosevelts gathered In the gaily decorated and brightly lighted White House last night for their traditional Christmas celebration After dinner the grown-up- s the east end of the hall on the Second floor to decorate the family Christmas tree The president directs the hanging of each '1 he other 31 light and hauhle tires in the White House are decorated only with white electric lights and tinsel itulrs Thepiesi-den- t prefers real candles hut the secret service overruled him beHuncause of the fire hazard dreds of gayly wrapped packages were piled around the tree Include President's Mother WASHINGTON gath-ereC- Family arrivals Saturday the presidents mother Mrs Sara Delano RooseMrs J R velt his sister-in-laRoosevelt of Hyde Park N Y his grandchildren Anna Eleanor Dali 12 and Curtis Roosevelt Dali ft who spent Friday night in New York with their father Curtis Dali former husband of Anna Roosevelt Boettiger Already here were Mr and Mrs John Boettiger Seattle son Wash their John Franklin D Roosevelt III Mr and Mrs John Roosevelt and Harry Hooker of New York an Includ- ed Mr and Mrs friend Franklin D Roosevelt Jr are expected to return here from Wilmington Del by Sunday morning at the White Christmas ev House will be a family affair The only public appearances the president and his family plan to make are at St Thomas Episcopal church Sunday morning and at the lighting of the municipal Christmas tree In the Ellipse park south of the White House at 5 p m e V -- 7 concluded abridged edition of have Charles D c k e n s’ "Christmas Carol” an annual ceremony of Christmas eve in the presidents 1 family The are grandchildren tucked in bed Diana Hopkins the daughter of Secretary of Commerce Harry L Hopkins will join them Christmas morning Christmas day will begin in the traditional Roosevelt fashion too Mrs Roosevelt will arise earl light the fire and close the windows In the presidents bedroom and get back under the covers Presently the grandchildren clad In bathrobes and bedroom slippers will clamor down the big corridor and lead awaken the grown-up- s them into the president s bedroom Get Them In Order "Little John" will get his storking first and then each in the order of age will inspect his stocking A family tradition requires that Santa Claus put some useful object such ss a toothbrush soap or comb In the toe of each stockThis custom started when ing the president’s sons habitually returned from school at Christmas tlma without toothbrushes At 11 a m the Roosevelts will attend interdenominational Christmas services at the Covenant-Firs- t Presbyterian church Then comes the turkey dinner at 1 p m Mr then Roosevelt will carve During the day the family will telephone presidents absentee members — the oldest son Jsmes In UR— tf held four-mot- k! ft two-mot- t r Ferried to Destination The patrol craft have p been "ferried” by the score to Hawaii and Panama and have been termed by foreign aviation experts "incomparably" the most formidable overseas striking force of the kind in existence The navy has been experimenting with four-motflying boats The newest planes since 1935 ordered are a development of the consolidated concern s experimental model the PB2Y2 a high wing monoplane with four motors This plane weighs about 30 tons has a wingspread and carries a crew of nine The unofficial estimate that 50 or more were Involved in the $20 016 669 order was based on the cost of those contracted for last year President Roosevelt asked congpess for $3875000 for nine navy planes m addition to six provided for in the 1939 budget so that their unit cost was approximately $130000 each It Is understood that the unit cost was reduced in the new larger order ft two-mot- non-sto- 1 W 7 r1 t r ?' I r J J J Sil jstrrpit - - - 118-fo- 1 Mtb t ft Mull Xu four-mot- sons Above the first lady shakes hands with Mrs Nellie Robinson (left) 74 Behind Mrs Roosevelt is Emmett Sheehan (left) and Lieutenant Major II Mills Erok in uniform 9 Mayor of Jungle Town Posts Santa Brings Time Table for Hobo Guests Job Wards train time tables Off Suicide CARTHAGE most novel Christ readiness for Missouri's and all are Doc educa- and 23 (API-Fre- is in posted mas party The scene A limestone cave in the Carthage "hobo jungle" The host George Stump nicknamed “BUI Spivens the mayor of jungle town" The guests Some half a hundred knights of the road It started five years ago on Christmas day when Stump a print shop proprietor thought of the cheetless Christmas faced by homeless wanderers He knew the district they frequented in Carthage and there he went loaded down with meat and vegetables Before the startled eyes of a forsaken handful of men who Christmas hardly knew what meant Stump produced his bounty The hoboes produced a mulligan stew and an outburst of gratitude So pleased was Stump at their response he resolved to make it an annual event For three years the word passed among the men who ride the rails They showed up regularly on Christmas day but no one in Continue Experiments Both army and navy are experimenting meanwhile with still more giant craft The armj seeking to extend the range and load capacity of its bombers intends to build five planes nearly twice the size of its ight anta Dec 23 PITTSBURGH Claus came- early this year for the dispirited young man who — desperate because he was unemployed and his wife ill— had threatened to kill himself "in some spectacular way" on Christmas eve as a rebuke to society Santa brought him a Job the required medicine for his wife kindly counsel and a bountiful Christmas And the young man suicide forsaid humbly Saturday gotten UR-S- Carthage except Stump and his guests knew what was going on Then a newspaperman learned of the event made It public and offers of aid were received by Accepted Stump "because its gotten so big that I ” don t mind a little help with it Now Stump posts placards of welcome along with a menil In the "jungle" area each year as Christmas approaches One guest because no freight complained train tima tables were available he posts those too His menu this year includes roast radishes celery pickles beef potatoes cabbage tomatoes bread erackeis eoffee and eake The pay Stump gets was summed up in the words of one hobo' “Its not the food so much though we do appreciate that but its the renewal of old friendships which brings many of us back so eac h vear ' - night' "I never knew there were such good people In the world I didn't think anybody would care whether I killed mvself or not” "If my act brings employment to just one person 1 will have done more good by killing mvself than I have been able to do throughout " mv whole life The letter a lhats bitter commentary enough "merry Christ- on what he termed a "futile" life mas’ for 'Bill Spivens the mayor was signed "disappointed American " of jungle town " Salt Ltia City 14 143- 4- In Today's Salt Lake Tribune Hollywood Mrs James Roosevelt Page and her two children Sara 9 and Itt the Nation sections Leadership week Kate 4 who will be with their maTags 9A named by B Y U heads ternal grandmother Mrs Harvey U S chamber conducts refernames or elect may Ogden 1A Cushing at New Haven Conn Mr" endum on antitrust laws prospective attorney police and Mrs Elliott Roosevelt and their Martin Dies tells of "sensa8A chief children Ruth Chandler 5 and Elconditions" tional involving Plans completed for Cache liott Jr 3 at Fort Worth Texas on Pacific communists valley Christmas morning and William Donner Roosevelt 7 8A coast JA pageant son of Elliott Roosevelt and his Anthony II G Fokker dies 7A first wife now Mrs Cui tin Wlnsor Experts devise improved oil In Salt City to reduie frictional wear on Philadelphia Pa 7A State receives light snowfall machinery Parties for Children of as harbinger "white After the dinner the family will In War Zone IB Christmas tree and around the open gather Church servirea scheduled friends Finns destroy Russian army the packages those from throughout ’city for Christand families as well as those from during savage battle mas eve JB strangers who send gifts to the Allied warships prepare to inChurch ac tiv ities in Salt Lake first familv tercept 500 German vessels JB City and vicinity 1A ‘News of ordered home During the week Mis Roosevelt military and vetwill give three childrens parties Nazis pledge help for babies JB erans' organizations the first on Tuesday for chilclien horn during war War separates British roval under 8 The second on WednesIn Financial World family for Christina holiday for those the age of Curtis Buzzia) Dali 9 The third will Christmas spirit falls to mov days be on Thursday for those the age Allied troops await avalaneh sluggish stock market of gifts and extra rations for 1919 of Anna Lleanor (Siatte) Dali 12 Yule buying rllmave Mr and Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt first war Christmas trade revival In nation Wurtzllit plant begins proJr will give a dinner at the White House on Tuesday duction at Midvale In Washington Mrs Roosevelt spent Saturday Twenty-o- n American repubIn World of Sport attending five Christmas parties lics protest violations of given for underptivileged children Recoid crowds wait bowl duels 1C neutrality by the Central Union Mission the President Roosevelt 1C names Tourist bowl has trouble Kiwanis club of Arlington Va the 1A Stephen Dave ski lesson 5C Vatican to envoy personal Volunteers of America the Salva Marrmer S levies not to Sweeping Tide wins at Orleans 1C tlon Army and the Washington accept long-terappointFedeiatlon of churches 1A In Feature Field ment as reserve head Bags and boxes of tovs fruits Four gt notations of Roosecandies and baskets of food were Ten biggest stories of the '30’s velts gather at Whit House as puked by the Associated distributed at these parties Mrs to celebrate Christmas 2A Roosevelt giving out the first pres- U Press S navy orders fleet of ents She Joined In singing ChristNews of real estate and buildhombeis for Pacific giant mas carols at the Volunteers of ing IA patrol America the Salvation Army and and horn decoratGardening estimate llopkin the "Alley Dwellers'" party given Secretary ing 0 at national income bv the (hurt lies In an alley near the younger 000 000 I A Junior pagecelebrates s th Uie White House 4 D At 3 30 p m the president and In I'lali In the Mrs Roosevelt received News of Boy Stouls and Sea J D east room the household staff with Springv II le homeromlng fs-- f Smuts Book review comment on litIhelr families and their giandrhil rlimax on Sun- tivltiei er ary folk ID dren (A day -- Ike $68-50- gen-eiall- holi-riav- Word Clashes Mark S F Dock Tie-Up Clerk Hiring Remains Issue in Fight er a V f nJlZ2a Mo business speakers service t -- 500 27-3- The newest additions will augment 15 other ships of the same general type ordered last year and more than 200 smaller flying boats already In Midway in Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt's tour of charity Christmas parties Saturday she After the family dinner Sunday stopped at the Volunteers of America to aid night the family from the presiin distribution of food baskets to aged per to will John” "little dent's mother hang their stockings at the mantelpiece in the president’s bedroom p Before the children go to bed Mr will xV 4 All Will Hang Socks reading his v f old family Roosevelt ’ ' 23 In than government and covering a wide range of indomestic and ternational technical problems including those arising from the present European war will address the Allied Social Science associations here De0 cember Sharing emphasis with the international situation will be sociological and economic questions dealing principally with agriculture and labor Officials estimate more than 3500 delegates members and visitors will take part in the sessions planned by the 13 allied organizations Business speakers include Leonard P Avres of the Cleveland Trust company and Rufus S Tucker of the General Motors corporation Government will be represented bv Senators Joseph O Mahoney of Wyoming and James E Murray of Montana four-mot- long-rang- t N-- leaders tion The navy has ordered a fleet of e flygiant ing boats to patrol its far flung "line of observation" In the Pacific and to reinforce the administration’s hemisphere defense policies Authoritative sources reported Saturday that possibly 50 or more craft with a range of more than 5000 miles were involved in a $20 016 669 order just given a California plant The contract the largest single aircraft putchase in navy history went to the Consolidated Aircraft corporation San Diego Calif in accord with the navy's policy details were with- V 9 Dec WASHINGTON in j UP) — More Will Patrol Pacific Defenses 'V Ee Dec 23 Four Motor Craft £ —Dse re The Tribune short story Institute of Tubllr Opinion "rather Americans would stand tax hlk than witness more federal borrowing 8 D In Social World Photo page: Salt Lake hangs up its stocking Society news wedding and engagement announcements be- E bombpresent n ers Approximately $4000000 was Included in pending estimates for craft to weigh about 35 tons and 17-to- four-motor- p capable of flights of vrell over 5000 miles n A single army bomber the has been making experimental flights for the last two years It took medicines to Chile non-sto- 34-to- 5 after an earthquake early this year Fifty-tw- o n of the "fortress” bombers such as have made round trip goodwill flights to South America were In service or on order when the $300000000 air corps expansion program was voted by congress last year Larger Orders In recent months orders for a somewhat larger number were divided between two Pacific coast plants Further the war department estimates turned over to President Roosevelt are understood to have included provision for 200 bombers of all types of which a large proportion presumably would be of four motors The newest model turned over to the air corps are capable of top speeds of moie than 300 miles an hour and thev can carry five four-mot- 17-to- NEW YORK Dec 23 (API — Christmas generosity shoved retail trade to the top of the business heap this week while backed up orders kept industry whirring at near record levels for this time ’of Hopkins Sets U S Income At 68 Billions season since 1929 and many that it equaled or surpassed 1937 As proof of the flow of gifts and ofmessages the New York post fice said It handled on Wednesday Over the largest array of letters and parcels ever to pass through any Dec 23 UR — post office in the world in a single WASHINGTON recSecretary Hopkins estimated Sat- day Throughout the country ord postal business accumulated foe national that this income urday year would total $68500000000 an Nation on Move increase of $4500000000 over 1938 As the nation gave It traveled Income payments to Individuals Airlines had unprecedented pasin November were placed at business which the commerce senger express and mailthem befor some of department chief said was the larg- running est for the month in any year since tween 50 and 65 per cent above week 1929 The November figures he that for the corresponding were said indicated that the current in- of last vear The railroads handle to It to for put equipment come flow was at a rate of more the moving crowds than $72000000000 a year Buyers preoccupied with InvenHopkins said that income payments to Individuals in 1939 would tory taking let new orders drop bv total $70000000000 a gain of away again but this was said the analysts to be In line with $3 700000000 over last year trend Wholesale He explained that the difference normal year-encusbetween income payments and na- markets settled down to their tional Income was the inclusion in tomary lull for this season The week witnessed the first the former of direct relief and other disbursements for which no ser- break in the steady mounting of In vices were given The national in- agricultural commodity prices come figure does not include direct the futures markets that has been relief payments but includes busi- going on since early this month wheat and cotton losing a considness savings erable portion of their recent SIioms Healthy Increase ’38 Figure d “fact-finding- States Position In a letter to the governor M J McCarthy president of the customs and freight brokers said that "this association has endeavored to crystallize public opinion and bring about a settlement of the without indorsing or poit tie-u- p supporting either side in the pres- Turk Police Continue Suppression of Nazis IE Tarent-Teache- 8-- E IE E E Slout Door d v 1 how- About Usual Decline In Industry the slight falling off production was about as usual The Associated Press Index of activity adiusted for seasonal variations slipped to 1117 per cent of the 1929-3average from 1121 and comthe preceding period pared with 93 4 a vear ago Steel mill and automobile output were down a little as were residential building awards but cotton mills stopped up and electric pnwer production touched a record for the Railsecond period In succession road freight carloadings for the week ended December 16 declined and carrier less than seasonally officials were quoted as saving December revenues were resisting the decline usual In other lines there were adRavon weaving increased vances Its rate and glassware and sheet glass plants were described as "extraordinarily” busy Paper making fell back a bit In 0 Five of Family Die in Crash Christmas Tree Carries Hopes Son t Of Family for ls gains In the ra'h markets ever the tendency was still upward The Dun & Bradstreet food price Index moved a trifle higher to equal the figure for the comparative 1938 week Fly In Ointment One flv In tne ointment was a of the drouth In the continuation said that industrial payHopkins rolls showed the greatest advance winter wheat belt where the deover November 1938 rising 15 per partment of agriculture estimated at 55 per cent nf normal cent to $183000000 Wages and the crop salaries in the distributive and ser- and in ttje poorest condition ever This i was asserted vice Industries were five per cent reported In farm pura meant reduction while conthe government s higher tribution to emploves' income fell chasing power next summer when 10 per cent as a result of a drop the grain is harvested of $70000 000 in work relief wages Symptomatic of the Christmas buying rush was the fact that bank clearings in leading rlties outside New York were at their peak for the vear while bank accounts individual to debit which represent monev spent were 9 per cent higher than for the similar period of 1938 Bank loans Industry and agriDEMING N M Dec 23 UR— to commerce Five members of one family were culture In 101 cities of the federal reserve system rose $38 000 000 inkilled and five other person Helping to lift the ability of the jured late Saturday In a highway w1 collision which wrote a tragic end Individual to plav Santa Claus to what was to hava been a gay the fact that in November according to the department of labor holiday vacation faitorv emplovment and payrolls The dead Mr and Mrs J W Horton of were at the highest figure In two to NoSweetwater Texas R R Vick of years From vember the decline in all Big Spring Texas their emplovmenJ wss only the Vicks' two childien aged 100 000 as compared with a nor4 and 8 Mrs Vlik the daughter was the mal of 350 000 Store owners reported a demand onlv member of the familv to surmerchandise at higher vive Dr D T Crawford of Dem-In- g for "better ” and that "people were easy hospital said her Injuries were prices " not expected to prove fatal and to wait upon consisted of a broken arm and se- Practical Gift E Him year In most sections of the country Yuletide shoppers scurried to the stores for gifts in throngs such as haven t been seen for a long time Some executives reported "the best Christmas volume we have ever had” others that It was the finest SAN FRANCISCO Dec 23 (UP) —The Christmas rush Saturday made a wide detour from the San Francisco waterfront where nearly 5000 men have been Idle and pier slips barren of ships for ipore than five weeks during the strike of the C I O Ship Clerks’ Figures Significant association Peace negotiations wmre at a In the figures Hopstandstill and about the only ac- kins announcing said they were particularly tivity was a series of verbal charges significant because average prices and the were no higher this year than last among the shipowners striking union and Governor Thus he said while the dollar who has unsuccessfully income this year was below the attempted the role of peacemaker 1937 recovery peak of $71900000-00- 0 e and the 1929 highof Soup Kitchens $82 700 000 000 the lower prices Soup kitchens have been set up this year indicated that quantity for strikers and longshoremen who production of goods and services refused to pass picket lines to was about the same as in 1937 and unload cargoes With both sides 1929 apparently entrenched for a fight However because of the to the finish on the union s demand tion Increase smee 3 929 he populaadded for preferential hiring for clerks the for the presper output capita ships avoided San Francisco bay ent year was below that of the peak and diverted their cargoes to other a decade ago Pacific coast harbors The Increase in Income to InSaturday the Pacific Coast Cus- dividuals was attributed principally toms and Freight Brokers’ asso- to gains in salaries and wages Hopciation backed the waterfront emkins noted however that dividends in ployers’ stand urging Governor had increased substantially parOlson to accept the report of a ticularly in December while inter1 committee he ap est payments were practically unpointed to make a study of the changed The governor had prodispute posed a plan of his own providing 1929 a Standard for immediate reopening of the Using 1929 as 100 the commerce port with negotiation mediation department s seasonally adjusted or arbitration of the issues The index of income pavments was 88 8 employers turned down this plan in November compared with 881 on grounds the preferential hiring in October The index of wages demand would infringe on their and salaries was 87 5 in November right of ' management which they compared with 86 7 the previous said is nonarbitrable" month ent controversy Employers charged the United States maritime labor board with being "openly partisan’ In favor of the strikers The strikers de manded emplovers accept arbitratons of bombs each aviation circles tion or the lormula offered by understand The governor asthe governor To Increase their range and sailed the Dock Checkers Employpower still further th air corps ers' association for not accepting is helping finance experiment settlement plans offered by himwith a motor self Fatalities Mar Yule in S D Merchants Report Biggest Yule Selling Volume in Years Aiiy Rail Carriers Report Rise Dec 23 ISTANBUL Turkev (UP) — Turkish police continued SIOUX FALIJS S D Dec '23 UP) their 5 E investigation and suppression — Moie than a dozen South Dar assoof German activities in Turkey kota homes will have sorrowful Saturday night by ordering the ciations holidays— the result of traffic acci- expulsion of a Danish couple susOgden society dents Friday night and Saturday pected of aiding nazi agents and Logan and Trim society wedwhich killed five peisons and in- by dings in stale raiding a German club jured nine Art music and drama news beThe pollie searched the German Pete Persoon 50 Charles Kms-le- y club Teutonia and gins on questioned Its 56 and Melvin Lincoln 39 Whats to b seen on stag former and piesent presidents vere lacerations Madison W A P workers were Register and other documents wer The other injured were four neand screen killed when their trui k and another confiscated gro of Los Angeles ran together near Madison The In the Magazine three are survived by their widows a Chust-njaworld City that gave and 36 children trees now under two Ray Burnll 50 Faulk county 1 s armv guns highway superintendent wss InIn Hollywood: Th trapping when his auto overjured fatally are artificial but the ChristLong-Losturned near Northville and Judson 1 mas spmt Is genuine stuBall sihool high Maureen O Hara kissed the dent was killed when two auto "Elgie Mae wanled a ChristORRVIILE Ohio Dec 23 2R Blarney stone what 11 she — A mas tree so we aie having one” collided near Iluion family of four Saturday 3 do to Hollywood’ said Mis Horst night pinned hope high on a The Star of Bethlehem an C hnstmas tree It still revives memories of 4 mysteiy the yeais’ seari h for the bov the Recluse’s It is a hope dimmed but nut Oddities of silence mechanics dead over 11 yeais— that a blue'tips’ and "lilies' that pouted 5 and Invention In from all pails of a shocked Costs His Life eyed brown-haireboy will come Silent Night the most beloved nation home at the Christinas season Investigators said ha 1 Christmas song Two men were was kidnaped Ta Dec 23 UR UNIONTOWN was the Christmas season— It HelTown Coin' to with Mark — Newton convicted retried and acquitted reDei ember 27 1928— that Melvin Shipley 7 linger Two other were i barged with cluse fashioned too well the bolted Horst then four vears old disapCongress clpars th name of a first riegiee murder then charges and barred door of his little cabin from an Orrvllle street peared World war boro condemned were dropped in which he sought to "live alone has the Yuletid Ihrn Sinie 8 by dishonmable discharge who live In But the Horst an ay from the wot Id " hern a season of sorrow for hi ill like to Marshallv near-hA kerosene lamp set the place Mrs Mr Rsvmnnd and parents In tin Comic Section think Melvin still might tome itort his elder hfnther Russell afire A would-h- e r siuer rould not Had be 17 and his vnunger sister home at Chilstmas lgi Sixteen pages of colored 'funbudge the slout door from th And they Mae 13 Christmas trees reoutside and later in the charred high school age now nies bv world greatest like to think of his finding a vived memories of the one Melrums 8hipev a hndv was found bringing to Tribune Christmas tree In the modest vin loved and for seven vear close to It on the lnide He too readers for the first tlm home If he returned W alt Dlbney i ' Pinnochlo ' had been unable to open it the family had none But now— gin on Provo society News of Deeembrr 21 193 Practical gifts remained In high favor aid Dun A Rradstreet In its weekly review and sales of occasional furnitui pieces and electrical appliances were well ahead of last year Jewelry sections found most of their business In lower-price- d merchandise but also an exceptionally strong demand for better grades which averaged 10 to 25 per cent more than last The mild year In dollar volume weather Impeded apparel sales but fms well In the luxury class were still leaders Inasmuch as retailers have been rant ions In their buying policies for the season It was predated the usual Januaiy sales would he of lesser Importance than normal with many store cutting down their "white sales" to two or thres davs from the ordinary five It Minute Deliveries Wholesalers were preoccupied with last minute dellv eries There were few huriv reorders on gift hut business way merchandise largely In January promotional and eaily Ipilng goods “M 7KX' n ¥ |