Show h bunch 3 J iW e'dfnestlay Morning- - Established April rrtbuna Publishing Company very morning by Salt Lake cy‘ a member of tha Associated Press The Associated Press Is exclusive! entitled to the Use for reproduction of all neve dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein Tht Trlbuna fc-- riiiiil?' - — 'i!"i " Salt Lake City Utah Wednesday Morning Neutral Nations Invaded Hitler and Stalin Defiant Indication are accumulating to warn a waiting and apprehensive world that war In its most savage and sanguinary stage is about to begin Having gagged and bound the neutral nations by threats and treaties having compromised the fascist and communist leaders by enticing them together having covered the earth with propaganda and honeycombed democracies with spies and saboteurs der fuehrer is about to release his dogs of war his condors of the air his sharks of the sea Norway Sweden Denmark Hungary and Holland are all in danger of extinction now that Poland Austria Czechoslovakia and other nonmilitary powers have been invaded ravaged and obliterated without Interference from the allies or from any interested democracies Spain was a testing ground for nazi and fascist bombs and bombers the lowlands between the Rhine and the English channel may be reserved for final battle fields but the Scandinavian countries are already occupied and the Balkan states are in grave danger of being turned into a bloody shambles Recent dispatches from various European centers of population including Berlin and Moscow verify the reports that ntzi troops have already occupied Denmark and entered into a state of war with Norway Hitler has announced that the allied attempt to establish a blockade in the Baltic sea makes It necessary lor him to establish garrisons on the Scandinavian peninsula Reuter’s news agency has relayed the following official announcement broadcast from Berlin: “The high command of the German army announces that in order to counteract the actions against Denmark and Norway and to prevent a possible hostile attack against these countries the German army has taken these two countries under its protection” In such a manner and by such pretense was Austria taken under nazi protection in the face of Mussolini’s protest thus was taken - under nazi protection in defiance of warnings from both France and Great Britain so was Foland taken under nazi protection in spite of all concessions made for the preservation of peace All of these countries have ceased to exist under the protecting wings of this nazi bird of prey that has risen Phoenix like from the embers of the World war These latest victims of Hitler’s hypocritical solicitude have been Independent prosperous exemplary governments for many years— Denmark for centuries The homelands of a marvelous race of industrious frugal substantial people who always minded their own business and have kept out of recent diplomatic squabbles Neutrality is no protection against the rapacity of predatory powers that respect neither their own pledges nor the rights of others Force is the only god Ihe Hitlers and Stalins those soulless descendant of Attila and Genghis Khan worship — the only law they obey the only virtue they acknowledge the Dally developments arp proving absolute futility of depending on neutrality on friendship on treaties on obliga-to tions on promises on mercy or justice into keep any country from being sucked and of greed maelstrom of the the vortex hatred now eroding the shores of continental Europe and western Asia while surging toward the rest of the earth Eternal vigilance thorough preparedessential ness and national unity aie refuses that nation of any pieservatives to subscribe to the code of brutality and the creed of paganism that actuate these two megalomaniacs seeking to subdue mankind Czecho-Slovaki- a Labor Board Victory Draws Attention to tha Law Notwithstanding all the opposition labor reprovoked by acts of the national has that and the board injustice lations resulted from its occasional rulings it spems that it has been acting within the law in practically every Instance to which the attention of the United States supreme court has been directed The NLRB has just Von another victory in the highest tribunal of the republic At Iti Monday utting the court refused to disturb a decision of the circuit court of appeals Issued last November justifying an order directing the Re public Steel corporation to reinstate and pay back wage to f)QO0 workmen who participated in the aangulnary atiike of 31T7 known as the “little ateel war” in Cleveland tile Wagner law confeis almost Unlimited authority on the labor board It will be icon that aecuilty of employer from demand they feel unahle to meet must be aought In congress rather than in the couits Aa Chief Justice C'liailcs Fvana Hughes remarked several jeais ago “The court dors not make and cannot amend laws— it can only lnteipiet and apply them " Whatever lawmakers may deride to do with reference to the act that ha so much conttoveisy and dissenA ocra-sinne- sion between employe) and employes flagrant abuts s have undeniably grown d'7m! - April 15 190 10 out of glaring weaknesses that ought to be corrected before adjournment of the national congress The effort to block government loans to corporations under a ban of the labor board’s displeasure the lobby created to prevent the adoption of amendments to the labor act the improper attempts by the board to influence legislation favorable to extension of its enoimous authority these are mattets to be considered by both houses of congress and to be corrected —either by members thereof or by the people who elect them Fishy Funny and Fantastic 1$ Ripley's Optical Delusion Men women and children who have enjoyed Robert L Ripley's sketches and explanations of curious objects actions and events are occasionally staggered by impediments to credulity while trying to follow his meandering footsteps all over the earth When he portrays something marvelous or even inexplicable and challenges the public to “believe it or not” a little hesitancy may be manifest now and then but eventually the reader gulps it down and asks for more However it is becoming apparent that Ripley is out of his element in the ocean and its aqueous ramifications When he recently presented the life-likpicture of “a rock cod wearing spectacles” just caught by Frank Kennedy in the vicinity of Lumml island off the coast of Washington state the boundary line of belief seems to have been passed Compared with pictures of the rock cod in the National Geographic society’s “Book of Fishes” the drawing of the fish is correct the old fashioned steel rimmed spectacles are true to illustrated advertisements their adjustment is as pie-cis- e as any first class oculist or optometrist could wish the bows are securely anchored in the gills but where did that fish get them how did it place them on its pug nose and hook the curves over its gaping jaws and why was it wearing e them? These inquiries are not listed on census forms nor intended as an aggravation to Senator Tobey They are addressed to Robert L Ripley with a desire to know whether or not he believes this fish story New York Highlights By Charles B Driscoll NEW YORK — The easiest man in New Y’ork to aee and talk with Is the president of the stock exchange I had a general idea that it would take a month to make arrangements and that I'd find a stuffed shirt sitting on a throne with a crown or two on his head I walked right in where the double doors said “Executive Offices" thinking to worm my wav through there to some rieik who would get me an audience with a vice president I ran sinai k Into Willium McChesney Martin Jr president of the exihange The offue isn t the one thHt used to be occupied by Mr Whitney who was piesidcnt until something went just the least bit wrong a couple of yean ago Tins office was built out of some old offices expetiallv for not the present ouupant It U medium-sireat all Imposing Behind a plain desk sils the voting man who runs this gieatest financial show on earlh He Is 34 but looks younger lie has a pleasant smile a good head of wavv hair and Is just enough to make one wonder that he is stilt single lie lives at the Yale club In Vanderbilt avenue Ukej to take long walks around town and play tennis lie Is close enough to si bool days to value companionship of the boys he went to school with d worky-look-in- g good-lookin- g at Yale Not One Squelched Not once during an hour’s talk did he aay “Now please don t quote me on that" No I m not going to quole him on anything financial Anyway 1 don t know enough about finance to be a reliable reporter on uch subjects Martin come fiom St Louis where his father has been a banker and an authority on banking mrlhod for many years I asked the young man how he prepared in school for a finam ial career “I went In for FnglUh and the classics” he said “I didn t take any work In e onomu s unless you d all hv Hint name a minor couise in hanking I haled it the wott of anything 1 studied In school and got little out of II NT y father advised me to make the best of hnnl by shelving tilings that mv time in 1 liked and that might do me some good He aaid Id have all the test of mv life to learn about banking and finance amt 1 think he was right" Uncanny Memory But young Mr Martin lias an uncanny memory for figure He told nie Ihnt lie re membi ts telephone numbers of all ins fi u lids and of eveiy member of Ihe exchange whom he ever has oc avion to c all lie tells the tele-- I hone operators In llu exihange the number of anybody be wardi to rail Instead of having Ihe girl look it up He remembers license numbers of automobile be bailies to tide c In numbi is of i nli dr ivt i s and even Ins im n am ml sei ur it v numbi r You d think a man might be a bore on aernunl of remembei mg so many number 'Hint would be true If lie ilidn I ri membi r anything ike Mm I in re membi i pi ac hi ally everything Including names and fais of pr ople lie Is n pleasant urn rr salmon c t Hi top rung position in W all she t dm n i f f t bn natural bnring at all lie tlm sn to think the job Is northing to make a roan fel In mils Us uM somei hlng to v or k at 'Ihe young man makes derision quickly but in a quirt vobe and wllhmit bravado or blmier i wouldnt be surpnsed to see him c -- go far " By Manning i WASHINGTON— Tom Dewey the Little Boy Blue of Republicanism has a long way to go A careful personal Inside check of delegate prospects gives the ptosecuting candidate a potential first ballot delegate strength of 232 as of today This is only half of what he needs to be nominated Against him the immediata prospective total is 274 This la a rockbound minimum which does not involve any highly doubtful primaries It Includes Ohio 52 for Taft Michigan 38 for Vandenberg Massachusetts 34 for Martin or Ixidge Pennsylvania 72 for James California 44 uninstructed Kansas 18 for Landon Oregon 10 for McNary and New Hampshire eight for Bridges Beyond this the Dewey opposition can look forward with some assuring degree of certainty to about 176 of the 214 delegates from southern and border states The Dewey organize? tion pi act loally concedes this His only good chances south of line are In the Mason-Dixo- n Texas 26 and Florida 12 Thus the total visible opposition delegate strength at the moment seems to be about 450 which Is 51 short of a majority This certainly mean the opposition has today a better chance of stopping Mr Dewey than Mr Dewey has of the nomination The Dewev group knows this but their plan is to roll up such a psv chological advantage as to cause a break in the opposition In this they are looking straight at Governor Landon for one The Kansan was once considered rather friendly to the Dewey forces although lately he has been extremely noncommittal At any rate Landon will have only 18 votes from Kansas plua whatever amount of less than 34 he might be able to get from his good friend House Floor Leader Joe Martin in Massachusetts It would not be enough to nominate Mr Dewey In In® Kent “ ¥ Public Character tare hou THE PUBLIC FORUM t Uses Thresher Example To Illustrate Theory Pocket fcyndicate tn ” The Democratic delegate check list shows Rooaevelt has th nomination very near his pocket Hi roughlv calculated delegate voting prospects todav approximate 507 40 short of a majority 'I his figure is readied by giving him Illinois New Jersey New York Ohio most of Pennavl-vnm- u and a half dozen smaller slate di legations wheie his jiower seems unchallengeable together with the 10 Roosevelt already selected In delegate Maui" eight In New Hampshire and tho-- e in Wisconsin 'Ihe resistant e total now in sight I only 241 which show again that Mr Roosevelt won rnot of this fight at the last convention when hi force succeeded In abrogating the rule This resistance level Is fixed bv Tabulating the number of (avoid son alales (for Instance Bankhead Alabama 22 M Null Indiana ”8 Gainer 'J exits Jn 46) addition th opposition can cleatlv get about li x) more voles enough to slop a nomination under the two-thurule hut not under th new majority lule 'Ihe most Important mesag to the Demon at Ic polllliian from Hi Wisconsin result was teartied by adding th total Gamer and Republhan votes 'Hi s addition showed ther veer more voters In Wisconsin last Tuesdav against Mr Roosevelt than for him All these considerations Indl-rnt- e Mr Roosevelt has the r home on ihe one hand of nominal ing himself n person or bv proxy t I ci kon - I lougln - Corcoran ltkesi and theiehy splitting the Demoi rallc party and Inlunng Ins (hamet of Vlilor) Or cm th oilier hand b can offer a liommie who would hold th party together Mat Secretary Hull being the single apparent example Distlibuted hv King Featuie two-thir- r WASHINGTON -A- bout two Mrs Roosevelt Jn reply to entirely respectful criticism decl of her press conferences that she did think that she and her children might be "allowed to live our normal lives” All that had been done was to point out that she and her children had cap- - ’ italized their White House L connections in a way un-f- t precedented in the history '' of the country that they drshad thrown into the 4 card the dignity that al- W’avf had protected the presidency from commer- cralization and established I an entirely new set of FrankfJ ethics for the White House family In brief they were making th White House never considered before ' How Strength Adds Up The New Yorker's base strength of 252 arises from those he won In Wisconsin the 58 he will pick up unchallenged in Illinois next Tuesdav possibly 82 in New York 32 in New Jersey seven in Nebraska (he may get more In today's primary) 26 In Texas 12 in Florida and one In Mississippi (the latter three being decidedlv uncertain) In addition he might get 50 votes more from western slates but beyond these reasonable expectation the going will be tough and mavbe rough Possibility that Senator Vandenberg might withdraw If his surprise shellacking in Wisconsin repeated in Nebraska has been loftily considered among Republican calculators but if thei p is any ground for this assumption the change Is not likely to help Dewey The Michigan senator would no doubt prefer to throw his strength to Senator Taft The Wisconsin Democratic result has strengthened the belief that Mr Roosevelt Is running for control of the nomination rather than the nomination itself If he follows the direction of the evading Dairv state winds (and he has rarely neglected opportunltiea to lead the breeze in the past) he will keep his third term movement going until he gets complete control of the convention and then hand it over to another Almost Roosevelt Famil Draws Fire Of Commentator By Frank R By Paul Mallon U 'i"gr"ir BIT !n b Scenes of Current News 1871 15 Playing 'Em Close to Th’ Chest Behind the akje §tf ibuuje — i rmwirf I 5alt f ake ifribunt tTlje Hpje gmlt laaucd S'5-’4- i i!lii!itJrL ds Editor Tribune: Answer to question “Is a change in administration necessary for national business recovery?” The best illustration I know of the situation in the U S A today is the harvest threshing machine crew The machine is all set pitchers on stacks but only enough grant carriers to the bins making it so the machine can run at only Pitchers on capacity slacks represent employes of industry machine represents industry grain carriers represent consumers with money to buy” Republicans advocate to put more men on stacks push more grain through machines don't atrangle machines with government restrictions as solution to business recovery New dealers advocate add one-thimore grain carriers (find cqnsumer with money to buy) o the machine can run at full capacity as solution to business recovery Now which philosophy should be kept in power? European and far eastern countries can t buy American by Our Readers goods have no money haven't paid for last batch of goods South America and Canada won't buy U S A’s goods because they each produce the same kind S U A’s greatest additional source of consumers are the unemployed within itself if they had jobs to earn money to buy w ith Take the idle billions of dollars the U S A and put the Idle people in the U-- S A to woik “cleaning up” “building up” “painting up" and “arming up" the IJ S A People In the U S A let's face the facts "We must fight the unemployment enemy in our country with dollars and cents today or we'll have to pay dollars and cents tomorrow to take rare of a degraded degenerated people John U Webster In two-thir- two-thir- Aiks Lower Duties To Spur Trad rd A Editor Tribune: foreign trade situation has developed which is now a tragedy so says Mr Moody of Lament Idaho The only remedy he offer 1 to raise the import duty We had high import duty when the 1929 depression started Price Senator From Sandpit The world steps aside to let " any man pass who know where he is going— Anon Heaven send raindrops Raindrops are good They brighten blight flowers In every fair wood a sturdy good looking iitlle ihap — he couldn't have been more than 7 -- with an air of quiet determination about him as he entered the grocery store and asked for the manager When that gentleman appeared the boy straightening hi shoulder looked up into the man's kindly face and said: “Do you need a good delivery boy? I’ve got mv wagon outside" Very seriously the grocer considered the proposition Then he sard: “I’m afraid there are no vacancies at all right now but I'll keep you In mind" The boy looked disappointed but hi face brightened as he said: “Well 1 ve another proposition to make you My mother ha let me have a rorner In our back lot for a garden and I'd like a contract to supply you with vegetables” “What have you planted?” asked the grocer “I haven't planted anything yet” replied th boy “You see I've got to earn the money to buy the seed first ” “Well now” said the groepr "I Hunk I can solve that problem You go over to th for you seed cabinet and pick out what you want and we'll put it down a sort of an advance payment on your crop ” A the boy jov fully obeyed th grocer turned to me and said: ‘That boy going to make hi mark In th world some dav Hi parent ar good customer of mine and nice folks too Eveiv so often they're ember-rnie- d bv the commercial exploits of the bov I think It wa last year that he needed money for sum kcherne so he stood on the corner trvlng to sell passer-bhis ptac tn ally new tooth brush at a great reduction” I y ' Did he sell II ?" I asked "Yes I bought It" said the man rather apologetically “He's a great little guy and I woutdn t like lo e him get discouraged " It s a preity good old world after all I thought to mvsetf when Iheie are great guvs like that grocer with so much of the little hoy still In ther hearts RainctrnMi Raindrops are pearldrops A gift divine —By Ham Park Cast from high heaven Before life s aw me He wa Inasmuch as Mrs Roosevelt and at tew Jr oti of her children had made themselve character by their literary rad10 tl!U istic political and financial activities it t q not seem an invasion of their privacy to cm I tl ment upon these activities On the TOntZ it seemed entirely justified by the facUK to comment would have been silly and conscious And of course a complete iL swer to that “let us lead our normal easily could have been made hut for tu desire to be polite to Mrs Roosevelt tig avoid saying bluntly the sort of thing which some of the Roosevelt famil) activity seemed to invite Since that time Mrs Roosevelt ind W children hdve continued to lead what th call their “normal fives” with practically) public criticism at all although underneath there has been a good deal of personal i) ing The earning power of Mrs Rooaevelt has greatly increased Her lectures have become more numetous snd better paid h magazine articles more frequent and her syndicated column has gained a wider nj hence more lucrative for her circulation But I despise raindrops For in their wild dance They remove every vestige Of crease from my pants —Anon Note on the Cuff Department ' I don't think there anything to get excited about In the discovery that grass has vitamin and Is good for what alls you Old Nebuchadnezzar knew that a rouple of thousand years ago and people said he was nuts I '"met John (Duck Unlimited) Huntington when he wa He'a a friend of here recently George W Snyder and one of the most interesting men I've ever met There wa a strong man once booked on the Orpheum circuit whose specialty was breaking paving atone with a sledge hammer on his wife head It was a wow as we used to sav In the old day but auddenlv hi hookings were changed nd he went on the "split-pea- " circuit wher he had to do four and five show a day lie did It for several week then canceled his contract “Whal'a th mailer?" they asked him "1 your wife getting head-- a hei?" “Oh no It Isn't that" apologized the itiong man “but Im afraid ihe getting fallen arc he " Thing which might have been more delicately put “Effort at being made to Indue th bishop to open th bazaar th first day and th mayor th second day” — Country paper If Gabriel wer to blow hi trumpet today th rhanre ar that th younger generation wouldn't recognlz )t unles It wer equipped with a wah-wa- h t Affairs In Public kept going down until the im- -' port duty was lowered Since lowering the duty price have been going higher also foreign trade has Increased about 67 per cent High import duty stops the natural flow of trade What we want is more trade Trade la what makes business commerce employment work demand and high prices Lets not bring back hard times by again doing those thing which brought hard times Look at the better prices now than in 1932 when we had high Let Irade flow import duty freely— It Is or life line Depressions are caused by atopping trade Tariffand duty ere the two barriers to prosperity and trade The more we trade with foreign countries the more we get their business Trade and businea make more work and that makes better prices Stop trade and you atop the life of business Increase our trade and you increase our standard of living end for all of u L D Spilabury Hr J In addition Mrs Roosevelt ha Injected herself more and more into public aflair By her attitude toward the Dies commit her extraordinary championship ot the flavored American Youth and her frequent public commmu upon foreign affairs she ha become todav more of a public figure than before— more ot one than all the other presidential wives in r American history combined Two years ago the statement was made in this place that t she had since her husband became spoken and written for pav more xordi than any other woman in the country had spoken or written in anything like the same length of time— probablv more than iny other woman in the worlds history In brief she had biade a record It wag also slated that with the exces ption of a few fabulous moving picture she had in recent year made more money than any other woman Since then that statement has become more Indisputably true She stands today both as to production and compensation in a class by herself hone of this has hurt Mrs Roosevelt On the ren Jh-- j trarv her popularity has steadily grown and all the polls show her now as better lued than her husband Nor docs it seem to ha hurt her children Even the most recent of James Roosevelt In securing tor hi insurance firm (of which his mother u I director) the business of the government-owneshipping line of which McAdoo is the head did not seem to itir th public pulse sla-- d Correspondent Raps Wegner Labor Act Editor Tribune: The Wagner labor act has Jeen a source of trouble since It was enacted into law and will not work in a democratic nation The Wagner act is one of the now deal specimens that was on trial and found wanting It was said long ago "Do not put a new patch on an old garment” but that Is just what congress Is trying to to do with the Wagner act Twenty one amendments have been proposed Put them all on and It would be like Joseph coat not two of them being alike The labor board ahould not be increased but dismissed altogether and throw Lewis and Green In for good measure Yes labor must have its freedom It is like a draft horie You can lead It to water but you cannot make it drink J P Anderson -- The State of The Nation By Oliri Miller Our British cousin in their heavily humoroua way are circulating a wlecrack all over th tight little Isle and ar laughing over It considerably albeit with due rejtralnt The wisecrack U to the effect that Americana are now classified with the yellow race They're calling us yellow because wer keeping out of Europe Insanity t hi a time 'I here ar aeveral riporte which could be made to this thrust W e could say that th sallow color reult from burn sustained from pulling chesinul out of England fire Or w might retort that It'a better to be yellow (If they Innist on putting It that way) than to be as green as w wer duting the World war particularly with reference to lending money Squire Perkin savi: "Better watch a man that talk a lot an' a woman that don't have much to say” Dtitrlbuled bv Esquire Features Inc Rep rod uc tlon slric tly prohibited Copyright 1940 by the H Baltimore Sun Christopher Billopp Says1 Prodigal Son one vxhn goes oft snd podigal son omy gels married and raise a family snd return once in a long while And when he approacice home they rufh out and grab his suitcase and will not let i him carry It And they tell him aupp-dshn favont on the table with all hi vat And they complain that he does rot half enough Bnd please to take second he And they have bHked a choco-cake especially for him And they Jet him monopolize the fon'f ' sation and Imten Intently lo everything wherv' says And they beg him to smoke uned and whenever he please a the his pipe Is so delidoin and 0n’lic' And when he complains of comfortable in his midriff tliry o"r his choice of aoda mint or bit orbonat th service of several volunteer nun' u L when he reepveis they tell bm tht would like something to sustain h1 morning he will find beer Bnl fruit th refrigerator or If he pieferi are apples and orange 'I hey beg him not to get up In in Ing but to sleep as long a be bkes let them tiring hia breakfast up And they arrange for him tn h' 1 ' And thv room all to himself v bled a new toothbrush In case h DTj bring his own haf And w hen at lat he has tn dep he111' Uig him to take car of his think mor about himaelf of And 1b tragic coneqiiem i I that hi head la so turned that hi own family a couple of w"’kl tenilv discipline reprimand ann i)( stranee to bring him back tn BMW normal fhlatopher A 1 the Record -- rmsn engineers are In moving an ginlz things Indurtrinllv rttn distribution It wilt be t be Runs! a? f the Yankees reported up Jot (orl offered In the Walt ltmth' rum ftt lopprr la liable to oi with young Ith ) left-hand- two hmu a ipellbound while an lnvn explosive moi powerful tn m ute Just a few mor doji and gardener will be making two weed grow wher ©n grew before t r Wak and Midland Island the Pacific are under the of tha U S navy partment In h de1 deputy collector at paying ntienry there hlrh hrfulIyV' ven lor r henb |