| Show The Weather Local Metal Market Cold $35 00 Silver (domestic) 'i 35375c Silver (foreign) Copper electrolytic delivered 12 50c Connecticut valley 55c 5 Lead — air Wednesday I- Idaho-Par- tly cloudy IV joining — Fair Wednesday Nevada — Partly cloudy Vol 110 No 505 Lead 71 Wallace Raps Critics of Process Tax Restores Sugar Quotas President’s Act Effective On January Says Certificate Plan Would Help Consumer 1 WASHINGTON Dec 26 (AP) —With sugar prices down to war levels once more President Roosevelt Tues day reestablished quota marketing provisions of the 1937 (sugar control act under which ell marketing areas are assigned shares in the American market an The suspended by presidential proclamation on September 11 will become effective again on Januaiy 1 The agriculture department expects to announce new quotas for the various marketing areas within 10 days Inasmuch as the 1939 quotas were not reestablished producers may market freely until the new year begins In leimposing quotas the president said that conditions which had prompted their suspension had disThose conditions he appeared said were "extraordinary purchases" by consumers lmmedmtelv after the outbreak of the war and (onspquent sharply increased prices and “excessive speculative activity” which accompanied the consumer “hoarding " hell Heavily The suspension of quolas left all areas free to market all the sugar As a consequent e Ihey debited several areas including Put rto Rico and mainland cane and beet sugar states sold rather heavily Prices then reacted These areas already have sold in excess of allotments established by the suspended 1939 quotas the agriculture department said The objective of thp control act Is to promote “orderly production and marketing of sugar arid to prevent excessively low prices) for producers or excessively for consumer The first ep In reestablishing 3949 quotas will be a determination by the secretary of agriculture of prospective needs for 1940 This estimate will be divided among the various producing areas on the basis of a formula specified in the sugar ait 3 hat formula prov ides a percentage division of the market as fol- Auto Injuries Prove Fatal To Ogden Man industries Entire year 1939 1933 1938 157 219 221 Weber County To Due To Dec 27 27 Entire jear 1939 1938 1938 11 21 21 Salt Labe City To Dec To Dec 22 43 1939 1938 1938 27 27 43 Entire year Tribune Intermountain Service OGDEN Dec 26 — Weber county's traffic death toll for 1939 reached 11 and the toll in Ogden reachrd seven Tuesday morning Wallwork 63 when David Edw-arretired engineer of Southern Pacific railroad died of injuries suffered Saturday night when he was struck by an automobile near the intersection Of Grant avenue and Lake street Mr Wallwork was repotted to have suffered onlv head and face low s lacerations Continental beet sugar 21 19 pet cent mainland cane sugar 6 29 Hawaii 34 01 Puerto Rico 1194 Virgin islands 013 Philippine islands 15 41 Cuba 2S 6 and all other foreign tountiies 0 4 in the automobile-pedestria- n mishap but his attending physician reported Tuesday that bleeding of the spinal cord and brain pressure had developed and a small skull fracture was discovered AAA Program I tali Total 137 The death Secretary Wallace said that steps raised the total would be taken to initiate a comtraffic toll in Utah this vear to 157 compared with 219 1o this plementary production control foi 1910 applicable to the s me date in 1938 The 11 deaths mainland cane and beet areas in Weber county compared with Puerto Rico and Hawaii Under 21 to December 27 in 1938 this program benefit payments Sergeant D B Ballantvne and would be made to growers who Police Chauffeur Darrel E Shaw inmeet certain conditions which who investigated the accident Satclude nonemployment of child la- urday renorted that Mr Wallwork bor payment of “fair and reason- was walking westward across able" wages to farm labor preven- Grant avenue and an automobile and of erosion tion improvement driven bv Donnld J Medrraft 19 of soil fei tility and compliance of 234 West Cahoon street which with acreage allotments had just stopped for a stop sign Wallace said these payments turned at the intersection and which in past years have totaled struck the pedestrian about 5 IS 000000 will be dependent Mode raft who was hooked at upon appropriation of necessary the city police station and released In the past subject to call told officers he did funds by congress these payments have been paid iConliniiM Pie Five) Column Thre) from pioceeds of an excise tax of 50 cents ptr 100 pounds of refined sugar consumed in this country 3 he tax measure is still in effect Reestablishment of the quota system will ltsult effective Wednesday in a reduction fuini $150 to 90 cents per 300 pounds in the tariff duty on Cuban sugai 33ie PHILADELPHIA Dec 26 UP) -lower rate was in effect until the The 3'hird United Stales circuit 3 he were highsuspended quotas court of appeal ruled Tuesday that when the was er duty mandatory a husband and wife are one in insuspension took effect come tax matters— and may pool" 3 he president s action in reestabprofits in "joint’ returns lishing the quota syslem will perActing In the rase of Mr and mit the official entry at the Mis Walter C Jannoy of Bryn tons of 350000 of rale upwards Mawr the couit held that the hus of Cuban sugar stoied under bond bands losses In the sale of capital will This sugar in this country assets could be deducted from the not be chniged against Cuba s 1910 wife's gains quota providing the duly Is paid 3’he federal internal revenue debefore the end of the year partment contended that the husband and vvifp are separate taxpayers and cannot pool profits and Iiitormountain Sugar losses even In joint returns pro-gia- Court Upholds Tax Pooling Moh Apprehensive Reaction of Utah and Idaho sugar officials Tuesday lo the presidential proclamation on sugar marketing quotas was apprehensive i Low prices on domestic sugar piccliclcri hv II A Banning preside nt of he I oiled Slates Beet Sugar association Tom Heath of Preston Idaho vice pt evident of ihs Franklin County Sugar vote I y Hlison manager James of tiie Lav Ion Sugnr company Complete text of the formal statement Issued bv Mr Banning who Is also vue pre lilent and ge manager of the Amalgamated Sugar company I he issuing of public not he by (( ontli ii' nn iCollitHO IIHMJ 1 ” of this objective is the recognition of the fact repefitedly demonstrated by actual experience Utah Deaths (Total) 27 27 Soviets Assemble 300000 of Best Men After Major Retreat Of Legions on Fronts in Finland “Back 157 This Year To Dee To Dee i Wants Parity Wallace said the tax was designed to "bring about pantv relationships between prices and incomes of agriculture and other Death Raises Utah Toll to high-pric- eom-pHn- Dictator Assigns His Friends to Command Force king ing rather than nurting consumers In a sharply worried statement the agriculture department head denied inferences of a cabinet colleague Secretary Morgenthau of and Marriner S the treasury Eccles governor of the federal reserve system that the plan would be a "regressive tax on consumers ” David Edward Wallwork Ogden pedestrian dies of traffic hurts provisions E alin Masses Picked To Halt Rout of Dec 26 WASHINGTON issue with critics in and outside the administration Secretary Wallace defended the ceitifi-cat- e plan of processing taxes Tuesday as a method of stimulating business activity and thereby helpUB-Ta- that the maintenance of farm income at a parity level means more jobs for industrial workers moie purchasing power in the hands of consumers increased business ac tivity and an improved condition of the federal treasury" the secretary said He added that while the agriculture situation had improved in refinns leported shelling the Russian battlecent vears farm income was now Cities in the area (1) on inap above were onlv 75 per cent of the “parity' targets of Russian air raids during the last ship Marat off Koivisto Carrying the war two days goal of the administration farm into Russia (4) I inns pressed within 75 miles Viipuri (2) was shelled overprogram of the strategic Murmansk railway Russians night indicating Russian guns were about Would fight ‘Any Plan’ 18 nnles inside f innish territory At (3) claimed a victory at Soumussalmi (5) "I am convinced" he asserted "that many of those who are against the certificate program believe that producers of cotton and wheat are not entitled lo a parity price even on the domestically consumed portion of their products 3'hev will fight anv plan which will make it possible for eotton and wheat producers to adBy Kiikc L Simpson just more continuoush and equita-bl- v Dee 26 UPI— Associated Press Staff Writer to the world situation " WASHINGTON Wallace did not mention by Cooperation of governments and Finnish troops gave their own weird touch to the post Christname those who opposed his plan in effor raising funds to make the crop religious groups generally mas war scene in Europe A number of them weie reported actually to restore peat e to the world programs partly independent of forts soil despite all the odds against them and distantly on Russian bv Presithe federal treasury However was commended Tuesday came onlv a few dent Roosevelt his menacing the Leningrad Murmansk railroad 3 hat railroad is vitally important days after Morgenthau had exAfter receiving an enthusiastic pressed opposition to "consumer d not only to tfie red army's taxes" in which category he ap- response from Protestant Catholic from Finland 'at dutch and to his own leaders Jewish parently placed the certificate (ConflnnH nn Ptci Two) Iake Ladoga to the Arctic ocean preparations for activity in that t Column Four) Mr Roosevelt was asked hut the only dependable wintei route for food supplies for all nt a press conference to comment Russian Karelia and the on reports that the' Italian govKola peninsula If a further Finnish advance in ernment and the Vatican were the Leiksa area should bring the working togeihrr for peace LONDON Doc 26 URi Aus He replied that the reports in railroad under gunfire it unquestralins eonlribulion to the Brit atdannot would had to come create his tionably grave question ish war effort took tangitention hut that the greater the gers for Russian forces already ble empires form in the mother country hee ked in the noithern number of governments adopting w mli such a program Ihe better it would battle sectors Disruption of traf- T'uesday wilh Ihe landing of a framed air squadron irr England fic on that line already overWASHINGTON Dec 26 UP) -- A be for the world Arrival of the tanned airmen strained by the double burden little confident prediction that President Rope Gratified more than a week after a g thrown upon it by the Roosevelt would not be a candidivision of Canadian active service From XII Pius came word Russian on attack Finland I’ope term was made date for a third might Uoops debarked at an English port Tuesday by Senator Burke the thata the president s appointment me an a disaster of incalculable was legal ded as a demonstration of to the consequence to the Russians special peace emissary Nebraska Democrat who someof empire solidarity Vatican Myron C 'lav lor had Whelher the Finns have any real times opposes Roosevelt policies Under tommand of Wing ComIn ought very great jov to the hope of striking a decisive hlow in At the same time Burke termed mander L V Lnchal the AusVice President Garner the 3910 heart of the holy father" and that Ibis chive and thus turning the tralian contingent is made up of Russian atlacks north randidate who "could do the best 3 ay lor vv on Id he cordially re eived bogged-dowand observers and pilots gunnels a manner in a of the into rout them is doubtful had a befitting highly job of carrying on the vital part of mechanics staff ground to The transportation and supply difof Ihe Roosevelt program in the important mission entrusted to take over their duties " ready ” him ficulties that served to break down with the next four ears royal air force immediAt the same tune fir George A red army effoits to achieve a ate Iv Back in the capital afler a swing Buttrick of the federal said would Finland president his state in home Buike blitzkreig victory through However the squadron will uncouncil of churches of Christ in ceitainlv confront the Finns in any In an interv lew brief active training in this dergo on and Amenta Rabbi iContinuprl Cvrus Adler Four) Pte "Mr Roosevelt has leaihed his before going into action oiumn Two) country of the Jewish derision and In his own due lime president Jheologieal It is the first fraction to arrive of of America He Seminary will announce his conclusion cordially Ihe Austtalian air expedilionaiy is convinced that it is not now neeepted Mr Roosevelts invitation force whuh totals 3200 hien true never has been true and to confer with him fiom time to Eunpire war cooperation calls for time The first such me fling was never will be true that in a democestablishment of a great pool of scheduled for 130 of one 000000 people Wednesday perracy trained fliers from the dominions Sti phen E Early the president s son must serve as ehii f executive and Ihe mother country in Canada ss pn secretary asserted that critifor more than eight yeais where training will be centered In 3'he Nebraskan said Mr Roose- c x of Taylors mission would be 67 schools and where eventually it By Associated Press velt might need all his "famed satislied "when they learn Ihe Violent death struck down nt is hope'd to turn out 25 000 pilots Dutch stubbornness’ to iesist the facts" Daily said that the- critics observers and radio 686 persons in the United gunners least "assumed third-terUnited the was States subordifrom demands three-da- v Stales Ihe Christoperators annually during the He officially recognizing nates and party spokesmen temporal Canada already has an mfanlry status of (he1 Vatu an’ and em- mas holidays added that the "wiser” of the third-terAs usual tiaffic mishaps killed division of about 16000 men trainboosters merely hoped to give phatically reiterated that formal number 41 i having pc ing in Britain and other units in the president wider power in help- diplomatic recognition was not in- the laigist in highway and street accitraining at home volved the Democratic nett nominate ing Australia has eompulsoiy service dents Burns accounted for 51 candidate Pontiff's Response deaths and 52 die'd of gunshot for men between the ages of 20 3 he sc nnlor said Ihe chief exec The response of Ihe pope was wounds stabbing) and other forms anel 22 for home defense Officials "very properly" was delaying estimate that hv Ihe end of next o d through An Iransrnitli his announce men! because he was hbishop A of Violent KXIOOO men will have reLveiy stale npri the Dislrut of June anxious lo see Ihe Dcmoe ratio G Uh ognani the apostolic delegate Three Colufnhla share'll in the Christmas ceived Intensive training in Ihe lulled Mates and “who someone will nominate party of deulh led the months of training for the volunrecoid Illinois by Francis J on of the Archbishop the essential carry pails enlisted militia begins In Spillman of New 5 oik It Is to be list wilh 61 chad California re- tarily Roosevelt program" January n late 61 42 Mirhi-gar New Voik a and by supplemented special ported and Pennsylvania 40 each message from the pope to the president ri plying lo the latli r's Following are the other state of last Satin day Archbishop cUicogruini wrote Alabama 3 Arizona 5 Aiknnsase hat he was 9 Colorado 9 Connecticut 16 Aichbishop Spellman 1 District of Columbia 5 "charged to assuie the president that the nu ssage brought E lor Ida 8 ( eoi gm 2H Idaho 2 Indivery gnat joy lo the he art of Un- ana 13 Iowa 8 Kansas 11 Ke liai v 3 w hen the legislator s nu I PV Associated Press holy fat lie r coming liom so exalte el t in K y 11 Louisiana 5 Maine 7 and Ihe message budget again WASHINGTON — President a source Inspired by such noble Marv land 9 Massaehusi Us 10 Maia two will or go up day probably Roosevelt name Joseph E Daand containing such ne sola 11 M ississippi 3 Missouri 3 1 later vies American ambassador to 1 ot nnri 4 high hopes civil Montana Nevadu 3 Nebraska Democratic’ leaders Including spiritual Belgium special assistant to " la for nefits the cause of pi ace New Hampshire 3 New Jersey 12 Vice President John N Garner of stale to handle war secretary He added that he was "reeiue steal New Mexico 8 North Carolina 25 anticipate a short session They and trade problem lo expiess lo the piesldent his holibnse their belief on the assumpNorth Dakota 1 Ohio 35 Oklahoma emergency ehureh leader accept question ness’ profound gratitude for the 15 2 tion that Mr Roosevelt's legisla7 Rhode Island South Invitation to Oregon eooperale with tive program will embrnre little choice of the Honorable Myron C Carolina 19 South Dakota 7 TenIn peace effort president t 3 re nv ns lor 1 he prese ntativ e of the nessee 11 Texas 25 Utah or no reform nr conlioversinf ill of Ihe Unite d SI Ues w Uh 3 Virginia 16 Washington legislation and cm Ihe eagiiniss pre-id- e IIHMNKI — linn report the link of lemhasMirieu exlimurii-naty- " 17 West Virginia 20 Wisconsin 10 of lawmakers lo return home heavy Russian attack repulsed and campaign for in Ik lion will 700 on Karelian Isthmus anil W y timing 2 Nation’s Chief Lauds World Peace Moves WASHINGTON Dor 26 Roosevelt planned to begin woik Tuesday night on his annual budget message or on the last "state of the union" message which he will give to rongress unless be seek and wins a third (UP-rrc'si- dent term He Indicated'at his senriweek-l- y press conference that he would appear In person before a joint session of Ihe two houses to ft is read the htllir message expected to be delivered on Jan- - Yule Gives Queer Twist To War Front News Australia Flier Unit Arrives To Aid Britain many-fingere- Burke Predicts President Will Not Run Again President Starts Preparation Of Messages lo Congress lie 22 Pages — Five Cents Salt Lake City Utah Wednesday Morning December 27 1934) Roosevelt Fiat Loral Settlement Price 5bOe Copper (caOiode) 32 - r- -t far-flun- c n Violent Deaths Claim 686 - COPENHAGEN Wednesday Dec 27 (AP)— Josef Stalin has massed 300000 of his best soldieis on the eastern and north- ei n fronts under command of some of his personal friends it was reported from Finnish northern army headquarters early Wednesday Tins action came after reverses which have forced a red army retreat of 50 miles in some places Provoked by the setback admin- istered bv the Finns under the bitter conditions of Arctic weather Stalin was believed by Finnish commanders to have determined upon a vigorous return blow Hitler Treads Briefly on Soil of France Reds Lose 4000 Men Fuehrer Inspects t Enemy-Buil- Concrete Dugouts BERLIN Dee 26 UP)— Adolf Hitler playing Santa Claus to his western front troops returned briefly to French soil Christmas eve 23 vears after he last left It a gassed and temporarily blinded World war corporal His visit was disclosed T'uesday presumably after the fuehrer had left the Saarbruecken region where he crossed the border a few hundreds yards from French guns Enters France An authoritative account of the excursion said he entered France at a section which now is a no mand’s land and continued on to Spirheren heights between and Forbnch T'here he spent “some time" in a sector oc- cupied bv E'rench troops 'until a Saar-brueek- few weeks ago when E’rench troops withdrew under German pressure to their own side of the border The “first soldier of the reu h" concrete Freni inspected riugouls and gun emplacements now in German hands and then walked through woods to the extreme German outposts As he returned afoot at dusk church bells pealed as customary on Christmas eve from the near-h- y A German village of Spicheren patrol had entered the village between the two battle lines merely to ring the hells Foggy Night Though the night giew foggy Hiller continued down the German lines from bunker to bunker distributing Christmas packages along n the mam defenses before while his soldiers sang "Silent Night Holy Night” In one festively decorated bunker (Continued on Pbl Four) H oiumn four) War Supplies Norw eginns near the frontier said Tuesday Ihe Dec 26 UP) — n- Vcr-mui- Norwe- frontier had noRussian war materials arriving and that a new Russian offensive was expected from Hoyenjarvl 60 miles south of the Arctic despite wideo spread blizzards and temperatures) sub-zer- At Finnish headquarters it was estimated 4000 Russians lost their lives in the last three days as they their harried retreat completed from the southernmost point of their advance 80 miles south of the ocean Ceaseless Attacks he Finns had made ceaseless on the retreating Russians in this far northern sector It was reported and subjected them to T many surprise attacks ETnmsh headquarters believed the Russian withdrawal there was about over however and that the time had come to expect a eoun-tassault with fresh men and materials hurried northward to cope wilh the unexpected ETnmsh resistance despite severe weather in the bleak country Reds Lose 700 Slain In Drive on Finns Russians weie amassing great HELSINKI Dec 26 quantities"of fresh war materials Russian forces supported by tanks d in northern and northeastern airplanes and artillery were reapparently in preparation lor ported T'uesday night to havp lpft a new Arc ie campaign 71XJ dead cm the ice of Lake blizzards which conDespite when repulsed in a sere' tinued over a wide region and sub- of fierce assaults against Finnish nine pjnncs zero temperatures positions on Ihe Karelian Isthmus Tqfsday bombed the ETnns dug The main attack a E'mnish comAntIn amid the Ice and snow said ok urred on the eastmunique iaircraft fire dispersed the bombers ern side of the Isthmus where RusT here was no land howfighting sian columns struck simultaneousever ly at Hartrrmaa Sakkola Kreija UP)-He- avy ETn-lnn- I to Digest of War News Gleaned From Capitals of World Dela-wai- (Oslo dispatches said gian observers near the of the Finnish Lapland ticed large quantities of ei Soviets Mass OSLO 3’he Finns estimated the red army has lost 4000 men in fighting in the extreme north alone in the last three days Other dispatches from southern Finland said citizens of Finland's second city Viipuri were leaving their homes after Intermittent long distance shelling of the port city by Russian artillery Only about 6000 regular residents of the city’s 40000 population remained Near Isthmus The city is near the Karelian Isthmus front Some of the troops Reported moved up for a counter-offensiv- e in the north were said to be veterans of the Polish campaign General Wallenlus commander of the Finnish northern forces was quoted as saying he expected the red army drive to come in the vicinity of Salla near Finland "waistline” and said his information indicated the Russians had massed 300000 men on the 'eastern front from Lake Ladoga in the south to the Arctic ocean soviet soldier aurfac e killed nn froren of lake Innish army source's sav Stalin I massing 300000 Russian troop under hi personal friend for new assault nn northern and eastern retreat loss front after of 4000 men ETn-nis- hod raptured 50 prisoners disabled two tanks and taken quantities of war materials Inc hiding 16 machine guns In the Lak Suvnnto sector Fighting continued north to the east of Lleska from which the Finns previously had been reported driving across the soviet frontier In the direction of Ihe Murmansk railway The Finn troops PARIS — I renrh communique note activity of contact units on western front COPENHAGEN— F and Volossula Finnish fire look a heavy toll of the attackers as they attempted to cross the frozen surface of Lake Suvnnto in biller cold Altogether the ETnns said 21 Russian planes were shut down in a day of fighting h The 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