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I The Weather:- I ' b ' - : l' L d rain Idaho—Rain Sunday Wyoming—Mostly cloudy Nevada—Rain Sunday 'vs g ' '? 7 1 i 9f-el Utah—Occasional t '' ' - k i i q i t 'II 14 s 1 'fr) 1:1C71 (1' 1) t 4 77) - ‘ SG(11I'der 71'11(1)°c (domestic) i Silver (foreign) 3475c Copper electrolytic delivered Connecticut valley 11 '251-i50t Lead 505V 510c InfI Pottionwnt Nitro Lead34670 Copper (cathode)111Na - ll - 1910 Salt Lake City Utah Sunday Morning Mardi 31 Vol 110 No 169 1 na L - ii: Local Metal Markets 'll' rages—Ten Cents ::: e it ":11 ' 1:1164nion I 1 — Probers Ask Early Shift In NLRB Act 1 - ( 'imperative" t 1 - f i - Chairman Smith (D) Virginia and Representatives Ha Heck (R) (10 Indiana and Routhzohn Ohio filed a 60000-wor- d report recommending 17 revisions and accusing the present board of and "predatory encroachment" on basic rights The majority previously had submitted in the form of a bill the proposed amendments which included substitution of a new board for the present three-ma- n agency separation of the board's prosecuting and judicial functions and other changes in board procedure ) t correct f Summarize Testimony The report filed Saturday summarized the testimony received at lengthy hearings and explained the majority's reasons for recommendThe other ing the amendments two members of the investigation committee — Representatives Healey (Di Massachusetts and Murdock (D) Utah—opposed the recommendations contending that they would seriously impair the t k i 1 ' ' I I ' t - — '' Representative Murdock Seeks seat in Li S senate Abe Murdock Enters Senate Race To Run Against King in Party Primaries By Harry J Brown Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON March 30—Congressman Abe Murdock of the First Utah district Saturday declared himself a candidate for the senate and announced that he will enter ' I i i ized labor" inflicts upon organ- that one amendment forbid the board to order reinstatement of an employe wild had engaged in "willful" violence against his employer's property the majority said this would simply write into the law the supreme court's decision outlawing 5 Noting would : British Vessel Sends SOS WASHINGTON March 30 (UP) —Secretary of State Cordell Hull announced Saturday in a statement reiterating this nation's condemaation of acts of aggression that the United States will not recognize the new puppet Chinese govern- ment the Japanese have established at Nanking Hull said that the complexion of govthe new Japanese-sponsore- d ernment of Wang Ching-we- i appeared to be no different than that of other systems Japan has set up by armed force in Asia He then coupled his observation with a statement that the attitude of the United States toward use of armed force as an instrument of national policy to rob peoples of their independence was well known In his broad statement Hull implied that the circumstances of es- tablishing the puppet government at Nanking constituted another violation of international law rnd existing treaties Avoids Naming Japan Hull said that the United States would "of course" continue to recognize the Chinese national government of Generalissimo Chiang whose capital now is at Chungking as the only legitimate government of China The secretary avoided direct reference to Japan by name but his bristling statement left no doubt that was Kai-she- k i ri tl t 1: 0 1 t : I It 0P se car Until the popular revolt against needless deaths started late in 1938 fatal accidents occurred twice as often as in 1939 This year the toll will be under the 32 of 1939 if the present ratio is continued Henry W Johnson police department superintendent of traffic and George Burns director of the safety council tells how the toll was cut "Petty politics and the ticket fix were two causes for the high death rate" Johnson said "I don't mean that anyone fixed a ticket for killing a pedestrian but tickets for speeding running stop signs having defective brakes and poor lights were fixed by the hundreds Well we know that speeding poor brakes insufficient light and general disregard for the law produce the conditions that result in fatal accidents So we stopped the fix Police and the courts cooperated ArrZsts stuck and convictions resulted on to tighten LONDON March 30 (AP)--O- ut the economic ring around Germany Great Britain is determined to waylay ore ships from Scandinavia and to forge a stronger blockade in the Pacific to stop reported shipments of raw materials from Mexico to Vladivostok informed sources said Saturday These measures were decided upon at the allied war council Thursday as the best means of closing the gaps in the blockade London sources believed Transpacific shipments to Vladivostok which may be taken ovet land across Siberia and Russia to Germany are felt tat factor in main here to be a taming Germany's war effort 'Standing Alone' the Seandinavian and Pacific sea drives would be synchronized with economic and diplomatic advances in southeastern ‘vhere Europe Germany now is viewed as "standing alone" This view was taken as a result of the speech of Russian Premier and Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotov Friday night before the MONeOW parliament which was interpreted here as blocking the friendway to an Italian-Russiaship (Molotov criticized Italy tor sending war materials to Finland as sarcastic about Britain's and failure to do anything to prevent He Italy 's invaslon of Albania said nothing about cooperation with Italy and Germany In the Balkans Diplomatic Page Eight ("mum') Three) y early this month when wild water Inflicted $15000000 to damage property and farm lands The Sacramento Feather San Joaquin Napa San Lorenzo and Russian rivers fed by a deluge of steady rain In the mountains and foothills broke over their March 30 CID-- - banks and inundated thousands of WASHINGTON acres of lowlands Including several Senator Johnson ID) Colorado residential sections Saturday night that Presi- city At NPVIldit City the body of an while dent Roosevelt keeping Issue had unidentified man was seen floatsilent on the third-terand "harpooned torpedoed" other ing down swollen Deer creek the potential presidential candidates second male of the freighter until the Democratic party iA as Rivals' Hopes Coloradan Says "floundering confusion" in 'Fhe Coloradonn who ii supporting Senator Wheeler WI Montana for the Democratic norninaHon added in a statement: Would Be to Blame "II the president Intends to go through with it and accept the nomination no one can well complain because smart politics are SY played In that but if At the eleventh our he 'should abandon the scuttled Democratic ship he must accept the responsibility for I h e dIsaster which is so obviously and relentleKsly bearing down upon her" Johnson said that the president "is certain to be nominal NI for a third term unless he poNdivelY refuses to accept the office" The xA d 500 Marion Bell ley: Albert Vadnals 37 Oakland and James Rosehaur 57 San Francisco were killed in automobile accidents attributed to storm conditions and slippery highways crests of muddy water Big surged do w n the Sacramento river in the heart of one of the nation's richest valleys Fletcher predicted the river would reach a level at Red Bluff late Saturday night seven feet above flood stage circles believed Western Bloc Will Defend Silver Buying Atlanta Jury Indicts K IC K Members for Flomrinors Finnish Minister hse Et d VI-J- By Tribune Leased Wire WASHINGTON March 30 — The federal government admitted officially Saturday that it Is Investigating the Indiana 2 per cent slush fund mulcted from Oemocrais On Rover Mil ent payrolls The first official confirmation of ruch reports came from Cionmissioner of Internal Revenue T Heivering slier a confelence Satuidny with Ptesident Itoovevell Ileivering buyktVer that he had not dia eunsed t he invest Rooaevell lotion w it h aA flower-bedecke- lielvering emerged from the White House he ran into Social Securit y Administ rotor As Paul V McNutt who R so had an appointment with the president McNutt had organited the 2 per cent club while goaernor of Indiana and II ()tiP of the figuteA under investigation now According to leakti from within new deal eirclea The dub taken 2 per cent of plate to for political poi vows I d state Mr March 30 (AP)—Turkey BUCHAREST was represented in usually well informed Balkan diplomatic quarters Saturday night as having agreed to permit passage of British and French warships through the Dardanelles to choke off Germany' t supply line from Russia in the Black sea The newspaper Le Moment regarded as close to the French embassy here reported moreover that Turkey had agreed to place her naval bases at Trebizond Samsun and Sinope at the allies' disposal for use as contraband control bases Blast S French Premier Confers With Near East Chief PARIS' March 30 (I:Pt—Premier Paul Iteynnild conferred Saturday night with General Maximo Veygond commander in chief of the Cited forces In the near cat The arrival here of Weygand horn S) ria had not been annotinceit The unntorence occur rod ?laud had met with the fler ir commit tee of his cabinet (Official circles In London professed no knowledge of the proposed agreement with Turkey It was said however that If It Is true It will be a strong boost to the allied diplomatic offensive In the Balkans and an important aid to tightening the allied blockade of Germany) Informants hPre reported the Turkish decision was reached at a British- - French-Turkis- h military conference a few days ago at Allepo although such action is contrary to the Montreux convention of 1936 to which Turkey was 'War Monger' Revelationi To Be 'Seniationai' New party Can Evwde Convention BERLIN March 30tIn—German 21 hours officialdom after unleashing a diplomatic blitzkrelg of documents about alleged United States prewar diplomacy leaned back Saturday night In gleeful coneven templation and promised more explosive sensations "soon" "Nobody need try to prove an alibi to the effect he was misunderstood or that he was misquoted by Polish envoys" said one official speaking of the documents to come Spokesmen would not commit themselves as to precisely what statesmen would be named In the forthcoming release although one hinted that the German government Is In possession of direct the United communications by States ambassador to Paris Witham C Builitt Sixteen Documents — 30-fo- Wrenn() Chief Admits Probing Indiunn's '2 Per Cent Club' -- That convention stipulated that the Dardanellea would be closed to warships ot belligerent nation)! except is hen they were serving under League of Nations mandate or helping a victim of aggression under a mutual assistance pact concluded within the framework of the league to which Turkey was a party A way for Turkey to get around this however was explained by Deputy Petko Stalno If of the foreign affairs committee of the chamber of deputiea Bulgarian who told the Sofia newspaper Slovo that Turkey would "let herself be forced to fail to ptevent British warships from croming the strategic Dardanelles straits" As a Black sea nation Bulgaria Is vitally interested In this possibility Turkey might satisfy formalities other persons indicated by voicing a protest against passage of the allied warships and having this protest "duly filed in the archives of the League of Nations" Friday's white book made up of documents said to have been taken ss spoila of conquest from the vaults of the Warsaw foreign office purported to quote Bullitt Can Control Traffic (continues On Plife 811) Column 8$A Le Moment stated flatly that Turkey would give the green light to the allied warships "so that these ships can control the traffic of war supplies from Russian ports to Germany" If the Black sea blockade becomes reality diplomats here Russia's trade ESBJERG March :10 (tT)--- An will be scrupulously respected battle air reported Saturday (For months the allies tried vains night to have been fought of ly and at a tremendous cost in men of flak on the west coast to force the Dardanellem to get at Jutland just before nightfall the enemy during the World vier Residents akmg the coast said when Turkey WaS fighting on the they were able to see the planes side of Germany Now Turkey is involved but there vas no imme- a ally of the extnonbelligerent the of confirmation official diate ern powers to whom xhe is linked battle hy a mutual assistance pact pledgA Danish cosstal boat put out for to one another in the ing the Pcene to determine if possible eventhelp of aggression leading to nrar het her any planes had been in the Mediterranean area" This vs to 16 i I Planes Clash Off Jutland pre-diet- NA Blatt-vend- ter and forced drovn on the pact however has nothing to do luck up any casualties with the League of Nations at not returned The boat had Promising Sign midnight Minister Soviet Premier-ForeigMolotov's reiteration Friday of was reRussia's' northelhgerency garded In some quarters here as a promising sign for any allied blockade in the Black sea In th event Russia remains out ko-lin- st of the European war which Molotov emphnslied she wbbl do the NI arch 30 ‘VASIIINGTON Allies sill be free from the danger Representative Hamilton of attack from Black seat coasts isoNew' York house Fish HO herself pushea unlem Germany lationist leader Saturday night through the Balkans In that case I hreatened to Introduce a resothe Britishrench armies assem lution In congress to Impeach bled In the nenr enst estimated As William C Builitt United States high as !nat000 men can start opambassador to France for stateerations ments contained in a Getman The opinion of several southenst "white paper" ern Europe's foreign diplomats was promise of aid to Poland summed up by Deputy Staino If "If these charges 'are true when he toki Slovo: It would constitute A treason"The war probably will he deable act" Fish said in a radio Oil elded in the Black sea area address over the National BroadIs vital for without it Germany Gercasting system "If President cannot continue fighting Roosevelt hes entered into secret many VIA Alt her oil from Rucoinmitnter1111 understandings or mania and Russia and all the Rust It h 1freign gm el nments to Intunn oil in shipped across the Blnek volve us In war he should be rtta riNIO legooe tCmirtiA )411 n Fish Threatens Ouster Move lilt concerning 1 t ' k I i0 I t S 1 Reported Move May Open Dardanelles Cate to Reich Route in Black Sea Berlinllints At Further WASHINGTON March 30 tIP) Senator King (D) Utah said Saturday he had received assurances from a number of western senators they would join him in opposing Nig Two) Passage of tin' Townsend bill inThroe Cqhfrrin tended to prohibit the purchase of foreign silver The Utahn said the westerners expected to confer with Secretary Morgenthau when the cabinet officer returns to Washington and lay plans for their opposition to the bill "I fear" King said "the prohiATLANTA Ca March 30 (UP) —Use of studded leather bition against buying foreign silver might he the opening wedge whips by members of the Ku Klux Klan to enforce a private code monetary silver and it will of morals on suburban Atlanta Saturday night brought a threat against be followed by efforts to repeal the of long prison sentences for some of the hooded and robed organ silver purchase law To suddenly izat stop buying foreign silver Would Ten klansmen were indicted — ing groups of women were made have a disturbing effect upon commerce and so are trying to prevent and a number of others involved — to county aut hot it who in a series of brutal floggings that Saturday passage of the Townsend bill"' killed one man and maimed many began an immediate investigation James A" Colescott imperial more Additional Indictments were wizard of the klan repeatMly asexpected next week from the Fut- Ion county grand jury Solicitor serted that his secret order did not sanction intimidation and physical To U S We lb id cwnerni John Boykin violence only io'ratched the surface" Frffill n"'IP than iivilnesses Va FAIRFAX Man'h 30 01— Iteports of extra-lega- l whippings before the 111almar Procope the Finnish minquestioned already suffered the klan the multiplied jury hoveverA'anie NtOrleft ister was married Saturday in a impact of prosecution Of individual grand members and aroused public opin- - Of floggings attributed to the Man quiet ceremony to Miss Margaret ion unequaled in this section for unit at VaNt Point Atlanta mann h Shaw daughter of Mrs James EdNine of the In indicted klansmen ward Shaw of Burn Hall Suttonogenerations as members of the n-t Yorkshire England several that Reports floggings WPTP identified Pplg Twro nod The ceremony In which th Rev had been carried out by night-ri0pluinti i' Joki pastor of the Finnish Lutheran church of Brooklyn N beY RI performed officiated fore a fireplace in the home of R Walton lqoore counselor of the department of ? F In Pacific Shipping 1anes Northern California Floods Wreak Death Damage Roosevelt Kills rain ki England Will Waylay Ore Vessels Tighten Net ) hushes Officers 't - rain-soake- Account of Poker At 6State !louse' iii Ax KANSAS CITY Mo March 30 (UP)—The safety campaign in Kansas City last year cheated death of at least 30 prospective victims men women and children who Saturday night are alive and well because motorists learned that violent death was notnsecessary to the opera- - (CrIntintied - 4:4 Allied Navies ccess German'LiAfe Line' Editor's note: KittiSitfl City motorists a few yearn ago killed an average of 71 persons a year Last yças this toll was reduced to 31 and Saturday the city was awarded the grand prize of the national safety council for 1939 Here's how men in charge of the program say the streets made safer tion of a Ff ILA n n i - 0 s the nation concerned Hundreds of Families Flee Homes Although his statement dealt exclusively with the far eastern situAs Rivers Sweep Valleys ation it was broad enough in its terms regarding the "program of one country by armed force to imUnidentified Body Swept Down Stream pose its will upon a neighboring country" to apply as well to GerSAN FRANCISCO March 30 (UP)—Floods hit many's aggression in central Europe and Poland and to soviet Rus- northern California for the second time within a month Saturday No Demands on Carol sia's aggression against Finland night and routed hundreds of families from their homes added ' It was noted also that Molotov Language Significant new damage to agriculture crippled highway and rail traffic avoided any urgent demands cn The carefully chosen breadth of and caused several deaths Rumania the language Hull used was eon We said Russia had never raised E H Fletcher government me- Charles L Wheeler was washed C011t Five (Cotitintml on Ng Fly') broadcast a warning overboard and several fuezzwere teorologist Column FItir Column 1411i that flood conditions may reach injured when mountainous Vas over the week major proportions swept over the ship off the coast end and surpass the siege Miss G 50 Mill val- hard-boile- ( OfficiakDeclare K C Police s e-- It nkdra Agrees to Give Petty 1)olitics' and Ticket Fixivig Caused Hight Death Hate - 04 - — - (DTI Safety Pliz'e City Tells How to Cut Auto Toll NEW YORK March 34 01 — Mackay Radio reported Saturciai night it had picked up a distreslf call from the British steamer King Edward 5224 gross tons saying strikes pohliiians" she had lost her rudder and needed "practical he added sant the president to immediate Assistance Action of Board She rep4rte4 her position nt rIn "for the simple reason that he The report said this should be about 3ri0 miles southeast of New can win" done because the board despite foundland The call for help was nozrn Year Ago the courts decision had subse- hen rd at 6:43 p m (E S re"A year Ago tho Democialic Iler home port is London quently attempted to "force instatement of employes who had party had a dozen attractive prosstrike" pective candidates" Johnson conengaged in a tinued "Had political developAnother amendment would state ments been permitted to take their opeci heal ly t hat the requirement course many of these able men for collective bargaining does not rm PK Thr Cotilitme41 an agreement must be mean i Column IAn) reached Asserting that debate when the Wagner act was before Wreck eongt ess repeatedly ITInfit clear 31exican i that there was no intention to re- SPIIINCFIEID III March 30 U S Girls quire agreement the committee (INS)—There was a hush when Delays said: John Maroon Peoria quizzed at BO "I low language MEXICO CITY March :10 (INS) sweeping a police "showup" said under could have been disregarded by questioning: —Five hundred girls from Stephens Mo "Grinthe board so entirely is beyond Columbia "I run a poker game at the college the committee's comprehension St ate tiouse" as one Meivico City newsgrultns" and is only to be explained by the Other questions serr' asked paper called them (using the fmiboard's usual finunting disregard then Pollco Chief Frank Healy n(ne form of "gringo") were deof employers' rights" mustered his courage to inquire: layed 10 hours near San 1uis PoThe board the committee added "I don't understand het you tosi Saturday when the locomotive hes ruled that consumation of an mean by running a'poker game tender of one of their three special trains WPflt off the rails agreement is virtually the only at the State House" " method whereby an employer can 'Oh trptied Maroon "t h e The students left Mexico City State Itouse is a tavern in Friday afternoon for home VIII demorixt rate his good faith in barLaredo Texas Peoria" gaining "sit-dow- ' -- i the DernocItic senatorial primary acts against Senator William H King At the outset of its report how- on September 3 Thus the Utah ver the majority said: Is given its choice be"In suggesting these amend- Democracy veteran a senator a Demotween ments the committee reaffirms its Its belief in the right of employes crat of the old Jeffersonian school to organize and bargain collec- and a younger congressman a tively through representatives of thorough new dealer Mr Murdock has long considered their own choosing and in the obligation of the covernment to the step and was impelled to his protect that right" It asked con- final decision by encouragement he gress to study the proposals care- has received since Senator King two announced h I s candidacy fully and asserted: Such impartial study will re- weeks ago veal beyond question that this Issues Statement committee has proposed no amendwise act in which In to the ment any declaring his intention to run directly indirectly or remotely Mr Murdock made the following —adversely affects its fundament- statement: al purposes The committee has 'During the past four years I recommended have received a constantly growing how e we r amendments which if adopted number of requests that I become will make the act more effective a candidate for the Democratic in achieving the fundamental pur- nomination for the senate in 1910 This year and especially during poses for which it was devised" the past two weeks the requests Na Attack on Board have become more numerous and atmore Insistent Because of the The majority said it hart not tempted to "brand the board with public interest in my candidacy any such scathing denunciations" because of the experience I havl and because I as had been used by William had in Washington L president and John have Green A faithfully asthered to the L Lewis C I 0 president progressive policies repeatedly InGreen told the committee that dorsed by the overwhelming mathe act had been administered jority of the people of Utah I will "contrary to both its spirit and be a candidate for the Democratic letter" and said the board had been nomination for the U S senate this fall 'anything but a judicial body" The committee quoted Lewis as "During the campaign I shall having told last year's C I 0 con- have an opportunity to discuss my vention that when administration principles and program at length thwarts development and mainte and I shall enthusiastically avail WOntinurd on PliFf rourl nance of stable industrial relations Cniunin Ontl It becomes necessary to consider whether benefits of the law outweigh the dangers "which its 1 - No Recognition For Nanking Hull Declares 4 ' "wrongs that are being perpe(rated daily upon industry labor and the general public" -a 1 to — - - China Puivét WASHINGTON March 30 (AP)—A majority of the Smith t committee reporting on its in- vestigation of the labor boprd told the house Saturday that amendment of the Wagner act at this congress session was i p - Cekell eltano U S Spurns Regime of - - ' rto - - Opposes King- House Urged to Correct Law At This Session t 0 4 1 |