Show - - — 1 - w A TheWeatlier Local Metal Markets Thursday and Fri day continued warm "Nevada and Idahoi-Fa- ir Thurs- day and Friday little change in temperature t (OttalM rport m Fiti 711le Silver (domestic) 3475c Silver (fdrelgni Copper electrolytic delivered Connecticut valley 11 25® 11 50c 5 00® 5 05c Lead Lead 1(1 Vol 141 No 109 Salt Lake Gty Utah Thursday Morning August Stimson Urges C gress peed Draft Bill Sccrefary-War- 1 Freight Engine Telescopes Gas Driven Car Near Akron Delay Dinted BERN Switzerland July 31 (AP) — German and Italian troops were reported concen' By Richard L Turner trating Wednesday night along WASHINGTON July 31 (AP)— Bluntly warning that Great 800 ‘miles of the continental Britain may be prostrate in 30 days and the United States men- coast but still the rffost authoriaced simultaneously from two directions Secretary of War Stim-ao- n tative word heard was that the urged immediate military conscription Wednesday while a time had not yet come for the senate committee worked out a compromise peacetime draft bill' igreat spring across Ihe channel for submission to the senate -against England At the same time the house In was there sign every Physically a drowsy sparsely attended three-hojbat the hour of decisive invasion session passed what may be history’s biggest appropriation bill —nearly five billion dollars for warships warplanes guns and an almost endless list of preparedness items — Theday alsobroughtwhat many -- a significant development In the imposition of an embargo-ordered by President Roose-"veltforbidding the shipment of aviation gasoline to nations except for the use of American Interests abroad considered l YA Boost Approves Late In the day President Roosevelt signed into law a bill appropriating $25000000 to increase the power production capaclfy"bf- the - Tennessee valley authority The project sponsors said would pro? -- vide power for the production ol aluminum used in airplanes ' ’ In a statement issued In connec-tlo- n with the signing Mr Roosevelt said the funds would "help ' blocks augment the very substantial of power already available or in prospect mot only at T V A but in other parts of the country" As It stood Wednesday night after the revisions Of the senate military committee the draft bill would require all men 21 to 30 old Inclusive to register (Instead of 18 to 64 as originally proposed)! These men would De liable to compulsory servlceNln addition one-yevoluntary enlistments would be made available to all men 18 to 34 inclusive Would Guarantee Jobs ( f The measure also contained rig- Id provisions safeguarding the jobs of those called up for "service permitting the national labor relations board to take court action if nepessapy to force an employer to rehire a conscript at the end of his period of duty committee planned'to give ' theThemeasure Its final approval tomorrow and prospects were that it would go before the fcenate next week there to run the gantletTbT Meana ' determined opposition while it was planned that the sen ale should take up legislation re t cently requested by President Roosevelt empowering him to call out the national guard for jv-1- 2 month pepiod of training ar Stimson Ihe Repub- 1 — (Continued on Pane Two) (Column Three) - one-tim- -- sun-whit- e I sup-whi- V Cool Weather Moves Into Swelter Belt "Associated Press “ northern atates By Many “ n American Neutral Zone United States But while some accepted the Gayda editorial as a plain state- 8 ° — By Associated Press warcraft ranged angrily July coast hot pursultof a German offtheBraznian Itj WednesdaYnlghtin tlonjf othersauggested that might-habeen intended only to merchant raider already reported damaged by the' British mermislead the British and to to crUiSer Alcantara in a brief sea battle which returned 'war an Imminenr Invasion ar much of the element of eurprise as possible actIon to the western hemisphere BUENOS AIRES 31-B- ritish ve enjoyed the novelty of cool weather Wednesday but it was still hot on the Great Plains and In some eastern and southern areas The relief belt extended through the Great Lakes region and along the North Atlantic coast Temperature! rose Into the 90s again however in some sections of the midwest and the southwest in the Ohio valley and in Tennessee and the District of Columbia In southern Illinois where read' lngs have held ground the 100 mark for a week drouth caused Increas Ing' concern The Salem water department notified customers that they must cease washing cars and sprinkling streets and lawns lmme diately ’ to conserve the water sup - Precipitation refreshed more than a dozen states during the 24 hour period ending Wednesday n morning As the het belt narrowed tabu lations showed that two weeks of warm waves had cost 879 lives In eluded were 467 heat deaths and 412 drownlngs Driving Wind Rips Nebraska Town - Of Dead in Rail Disaster “ ’ British Extend B lockade German Fliers 50-m- v - ge - I Official Information was sparse Along this line there were var- ious strong indications that the but word from naval circles here and in Montevideo and Rio de invasion was close at hand: 1 From Vichy France It was Janeiro agreed that the d that postal telephone and ment occurred In the dusk‘ of Montelegraph communication in the day evening near the Brazilian German-ioccupleareas of France island of Trinldd — well Within had been suspended This would be I the American neutrality zone — normal prelude to operations and that both chips were hit British sources in Rio de Janeiro against England Alcantara her Wednesday night ail postal tele - said the 22000-to- n phone and telegraphic comfnunica- (Contlnutd on Pan Flv) On -- battleship Graf Spee outside Mon tevtdeo harbor Some persons expressed belief the Alcantara had caught the nazi raider while she was refueling and possibly refitting Jnthcahelter of Tnndad which frequently was used as a German secret base in the World war It was indicated the shell which struck the Alcantara exploded in the engine room 'which naval men here described as “a regular cathedral” since the motors had been removed to floor level and tur bines substituted before the war The- problem of the pursuing British wiircraft was whether the raider had fled seaward or was seeking shelter along the Brazilian ron whlcb finished off the German coast engage-reporte- I I 1 (Column Army Drafts Debt Relief - WASHINGTON July 31 UP) — War department legal experts were reported Wednesday to have drafted debt relief legislation for the benefit of men who may be f V drafted for compulsory arm j ing Department officials would not disclose details of the bill but E Brigadier General “Whham LONDON— British extend blockade front Arctic to Shedd has told congress that it Africa Story page 1 dolumn 4 would be ready whenever reBERN — Axis troops fill coast bases for invasion Story quested Several officers suggested that page 1 column 3 V the measure might be patterned BERLIN— Germany claims she has destroyed 1270- after the 1918 soldiers’ and sailors’! 000 tons of British shipping since June 25 Yvil rights act which protected Story page 5 ’ mbn in service from debt 'actions s column 2 in Which they could not be repwith LONDON— German raiders southeast x England pelt resented Other auggestlons have been 'Ylf6 bombs hit several towns Story page 1 column 6 made thh£ drafted men be exBUENOS AIRES — British' ’warcraft pursue German empted frommaking Installment merchant raider off coast Of Brazil Story pagevl column 4 or Insurance payments while tn service that the government meet WASHINGTON— Secretary 'bf War Stimson urges imsuch payment itself or that in the U S Story page 1 mediate military tonscription loan agencietu tide- - over L— — —— — column the trainees None o( thpsa proBUCHAREST —ftumama- - headers confer over Hitler posals has been given public offl-- 1 " ’ clal Indorsement however warnlngStory page 5 column 4 World Summary of Day’s News Developments 4 f- 1 July 3f (TV-Hi- gh winds driving from thex south accompanied by rain and hail caused extensive property damage here Wednesday night Plate glass windows In the business section were blown out roofs ripped off several large buildings and wails torn down Small out buildings were bowled over Three person were cut bv flying glass No official estimate of dam age was available but it was ap parent-tha- f property 1osses“vould run into many thousands of do! — — lari HASTINGS ar Partial List was approaching: throughout western Europe there were mutually -- ply’ J r head-o31 collision AKRON Ohio July with (AP)- -A freight tram crushed a Pennsylvania railroad gasoline-electr- ic coach and carried 41 persons to death Wednesday night Railroad officials said the coach shuttling from Hudson Ohio to Akron failed to take a sidetrack to permit the double engined freight train td pass t All those killed were In the mo- tor Its gasoline tanks burst and turned the car into a fiery trap t All the passengers died " K "The engineman and conductor of the coach leaped to safety”' but’ were injured severelyr- Another i trainman riding home “dead- head” survived Apparently these AKRON' Ohio July 11 tP)— - were -survivors -- In “the Coroner R E Amos Wednesday coach theonty" night Identified the following Railroad officials expreaed-be dead in the Pennsylvania railroalief four or five other trainmen d-wreck: coach were killed and aboard Lawrence C Letpkus Pttts- -' all the the other victims wers pasburgh sengers E C Clifford Cuyahoga Falls The engine crews of the twe Ohio ' freight locomotive! were Injured W P McKee Akron apparently not seriously Russell Way Akron Engineer Tells Stqry Charjes Btlderhack baggageman Orrvllle Ohio O M Lodge of Columbus Ohio Nelson Vaughan Cuyahoga on the leftd locomotive engineer Falls ' said: Attackers Fly High Cameron ' Morris Cuyahoga "We just came around th bend - when 1 saw the Falls loom Over "Bruce Kelley Akron " t In front Df ns We- - jammed up Y E W Gibbons Endlcott N on the brakes and there was a Southeast Coast Fred Palmer no address terrific-explosioB E Renolds r Wilbur Dr Harpley no address fireman stayed with her my F II Duve Akron LONDON August 1 (Thursday) through the fire Und explosion un- C E Tarleton Akron til she came to a stop then we v OT)—High flying German raiders A L Balllss brakeman no adumped through a wail of flame - England dress southeasternpelted the whole had surrounded that " Cleon Willis Cuyahoga Falls Thursday with heavy explosives wreckage" Albert C Burke train disFiremen required three hours to and fire bombs some of them hit' patcher Cuyahoga Falls remove the bodies towns ting Charles W Frank Akron The “deadheading” trainman Other raiders were heard over William Schmits Wheeling who survived was Tod Wonn 24 northeast coastal cities but no W Va of ' AkroTrrtroughf here "wth leg Robert Edgar Orem no adt bombs were dropped there and arm Injuries dress One Incendiary bomb smashed Gives Warning Charles T I Squires Cuyahoga Conductor ’ — Falls through a roof and into4 a bedroom He said Conductor H B Shaffer Louis Fountain porter St of the coach came running Into spreading flames which were exFla the baggage compartment crying! tinguished quickly Heavy explo- Petersburg Mrs Ella Elizabeth Fahrney "We are going to crasn!" sions shook communities along the New Kensington Pa coast reppatedly-bombe- d "The conductor (who suffered Nazi airipen dropped their carsevere Injuries) leaped and I followed him” Wonn said goes near where three German planes were believed to have been "My clothing caught fire bushes at the ” shot down late Wednesday night "I roiled Ground guns and R A F pilots side of the track and put out the flames fought the Germans also over Wales and southwest England My pal Bruce Kell who lives at the same place I do was witn northern Ireland me in the car and J did not see German raids during July cost the nazis 240 planes and 600 airany more of him” men the air ministry announced Describes Horror — LISBON 31 The (UP) July — fighting over the souths Charles Taylor who lives two east coast last night onb German duke and duchess of Windsor Wed- raider was reported to have nesday inspected the 10 cabins blocks from the scene said the f which they and members of their wreck "was the most terrible Icene crashed near the ebast and 'two suite-will occupy aboard the Amerl I have ever’witnessed” others farther inland ' He told the following story: Watchers saw another Messer-schmi- tt can Export Line steamer Excalibur "I was ready to sit down to fall about a thousandjeet when the vessel sails at 4 p m dinner a little after 6 when I trailing smoke before the pitot Thursday for New York The Windsors will remain only heard what I thought was an ex- righted his machine and disapbriefly In New York before pro- plosion followed by a rumbling peared into a cloud the duke noises A few minutes later I heard Searchlights ringed the dog ceeding to Nassau where up his new duties as ambulance sirens and I raced to“ fighterrtn Ihe skies and antiair- will take and commander-irt-chigovernor the scene craft guns blazed into action Bahamas under appointof the “The first thing I saw was fire-malso were heard Enemy planes of his brother King after dark over southwestern Eng ment playing water on a Pennsylx vania coach which was half George VI land "The duke and duchess came fysm wrapped around the front of a Cascaes 15 miles northwest of Lis doubleheader freight tram The bon on the Estramadura accomcoach was burning furiously with panied by the British ambassador flames licking around the top to Portugal and Major Philippe “The fuel in the gasoline coach " Gray of the duke’s staff to Inspect had exploded and caught fire when their-cabiand other parts of hit by the freight train ) the American vessel The firemen played water on Large amounts of the couple’s the wreckage for TOKYO Thursday Aug 1 (UP) —Captain Yuzuru OkUma Jap luggage were sent aboard during of an hour before they could get anese navy department spokes' the day The duke and duchess will to the bodies "I could see Inside the coach ‘man Thursday styled the United board the Excalibur two hours be' r Seats and bodies "Ward scattered States ban on shipment of avia- fore It sails Among their last acts before sail around Bodies Were wedged in tion gasoline outside the western see hemisphere an "unfriendly act” Ing was to send thanks for social the windows and we could 4 against Japan and declared "Inter courtesies extended to them in Por legs and arms hanging outside scene national repercussions” might fol tugal after their flight from "It was the most terrible ' France Including a tea given in I ever witnessed low "The freight train had piough-- d The new Japanese government honor of the duchess by Madame of of the Carmona wife basic half announced as the president way thrdugif the ’Doodlebug’ Thursday cow- - -aim of Japan's national policy the Portugal i f bulging the sides around Usforced had The impact catchers creation of "a new order In greater east Asia having for its foum the coach about 200 yards back Crews Montana Forest down the track” datlon the' solidarity of Japan Russell Steffy another Manchukuo and China" v ‘Worst’ Halt Fire said he was standing 50 yards —To achieve fulfillment of this DILLON Mont July 31 (UP)— aim the announcement said the uay government will establish quickly This season’s worst fire in the irt'I saw the freight train drive “an unshakable national structure Beaverhead national forest was ex' the ‘poodlebug’ ’way back down of her own adapted to meet the tlngulshed Wednesday but forest the ’track— perhaps 200 yards The caught requirements of new developments service officials warned that con Doodlebug’ immediately ditlons In the area 1 still are dan fire It spread fuel all along the both at home and abroad” " ‘ ' track In Its retreat and freight cars The statement of policy came In gefous The fire located on the Beaver and ties started catching lire t the midst of a new dispute behaad-BlttRoot divide burned tween Japan and Grpat jBritaln The gasoline car hftd made conconcerning arrest of several Brit' over several hundred acres before nections at Hudson with Penney trains from Clove-lan- d It uas—controlled— A— 1'mop—up' onilnJapan on espionagechargeg crew and Pittsburgh The fre ght of 35 men stationed at the and at a time when United relations are dis- tire ‘after control lines were es was northbound from Columbus Ohio tablished returned to Dillon turbed 73-c- corroborative whispers that axis men and axis boats and planes were assembling for the supreme test Gayda Discounts Thrust Nevertheless ' one of the most POISE July 31 UPT--A United of ail Italian journalists powerful States marshal and his deputy Gayda told the world not were killed Wednesday by a negro Virginio to look for any quick thrust at hermit who in turn was shot to Britain v death by a posse that lh II Giornale d’ltalia a Writing his Isolated cabin in the ringed publication that often speaks for rugged Boise mountains 12 miles the Italian government Gayda acfrom here knowledged that "the spectacular “George A Meffan 53' former lightning campaign” so familiar in was marshal the mayor Nampa German strategy against Poland e and John Glenn 42 raiU Holland Belgium France and the road fireman at Pocatello thfc deplike wouldn't work against Enguty t ' 49 land Pearl Royal Hendrickson The campaign to be used against waj the negro "squatter” on whom the British Isles he sail) was one the officers attempted to serve u of attrition— a campaign? already warrant for contempt of court under way' He was captured in an assault must be fin “It (this on his cabin led by Guy Banister ol constantcampaign hammering And ex-- 1 LONDON July 31 (AP)— Great Britain cpuntlng on her her! federal bureau of investigation ’ I naval supremacy for eventual victory broadened her agent at Butte Mont here for a editor0" mS strike aid desUo? ta2e conference on fifth column activi- with calculated method all the na- - blockade of the European continent Wednesday night With a guard ties tlonal and Imperial forces of di- - 0f warships which reached from murky Arctic seas to tile Shot lh the head and several verse nature and topography which beaches of north Africa times in the body Hendrickson may sustain British resistance" ' By an order in council to put the died en route to Boise in an am' One arm was almost lif This exposition won acceptance Expanded blockade into effect at bulance certain quarters here as the real severed by a rifle slug view of the axis powers and some midnight Britain raised barriers of off Glenn was killed first shot twice thought it raised the odds on BriU B®a power and red tape to cut through the upper body as he ain’s chances to defend herself sue- - 8" Atlantic European commerce knocked on the door of the cabin : cessfully— even on her chances for J10 to her liking that is likely to about 6 u m impair the empire s war ejfort eventual victory 'Meffan was slain Instantly at Spain and Portugal were chiefly observers Foreign generally the wheel of his automobile when agreed that Britain— despite the affected The British are he drove up to the cabin about 8 that they shall not become "pulverizing" air at- a m after Captain George Has tack on industries and shipping of routes for transshipment of kin of the Boise city police who Gayda spoke — wal far Phes to Germany and Italy (Continued on Past 8vtn) from being exhausted —(Columu- - Three They wondered how Cfermany and Britain catch her breath Increase her nqu-- 1 lican whom President Roosevelt called to duty as his secretary of was emphatic both In urging —war compulsory milltaryserviee and in detailing what he considers the dangers which this country faces today Points to Realities -A prudent trustee” he told the house military committee “must take into consideration that In another 3d days Great Britain may I be conquered amt her fleet come the under enemy conttol-Acro- ss Pacific there is a powerful Japan In sympathy with Italy and Ger many "We’ve got to very radically re vise our prejudices about out first line of defense i( "A- - German victory over Eng land would give her a fleet outranking that of the United States and a shipbuilding capacity six times that of this country" As for conscription Stimson V'- said: "If there Is ever a lesson we’ve learned It is thdt the only way 1 to meet a war situation Is by compulsory system of raising our ' pwn armies’ ’We’ve tried ’ other systems we’ve always had a penchant for volunteering That system has been a costly failure' A v "The voluntary system not only - Is Inadequate' but disruptive of Industry and agriculture and the aciences and specialties on which the nation must depend In time " of war" He asked the members of the committer totJ'consirter whether we re not confronted with a far ‘ 1 J 'Trainmen Save Lives by Leaping j Two Officers Recluse Die In Gun Baltic f in Burning Loach Compromise Sought on Measure ur 10 498e All Passengers Converge on Coast bases May Fall Within 30 Days Lera) Mtlwmeii PHch Copper (cathode) 5 00c ' 22 Pages— Five Cents 1910 Axis Troops Wait Word On Invasion That England ns '35 00 Cold Utah-- Fair Neb V V ’ " nt -- i— 1 ‘ Use Fire Bombs in Raid Britain! -- n Windsors Sail From Lisbon For US Today t ef en Tokyo Assails Gasoline Ban’ ns three-quarte- rs ( 1 ss ’ er States-Japane- - s -- |