Show --- The Weather - Utah—Fair Friday increasing cloudiness Saturday slight-ly warmer Friday night 'and ' Saturday - Na(1 (Detaaea aePert On Pairs 19) C1 a I Foreign 'Policy 'Taxes Amon° Vital Questions By Associated' Press WASHINGTON Zan 2—The new iessionj of congress will ccrivene Friday at noon with President Roosevelt reported ready to ask $10000000000 more for defense and importantuestions of foreign policy taxation the budget and legislation awaiting its disposition- For the house the old session— anti-inflati- on one which saw the neutrality act revised the defense program begun and conscription-voted---ende- d But senate officially Thursday leaders found it necessary to call a meeting for Friday 'morning so that last minute busineu might be attended to Proud of 'Dude Hat' To end the old and etart the new session Vice President Garner returned to town Thursday to speak admiringly to reporters og his new 'dude hat" a gray fedora and confer briefly with President Roosevelt: Although sometimes in conflict on questions of new deal poltey rthe two have maintained a cordial personal relationship When Garner picks up the worn Ivory senate gavel Friday it will be in an unfamiliar setting—and one in the hOutic In recent duplicated cries-crat network of weeks a steel beams and girders has been erected to make sure that the roofs the two wings of the capitol do sot fall in on the legialators 'rho structural steel is a temporary safeguard and will be removed as soon as permanent repairs ran be made Speaker Rayburn 'and Reproentative McCormack CD) Massa chusetta house majority leader got a verbal outline from President Itoosevelt Thursday of the chief xecutiveis "'state of the Union" message to be delivered to congress Monday Rayburn said after tonferring with Mr: Roosevelt at the White House that the message would be "very interesting" Crucial Issues' While the lestiel before the new than tongess arearelessof numerous usual they far more than ordinary importance First of all is the question of the administrationa foreign policy and the presidentl proposal for helping England—when her cash gone—by lending war supplies paid for frcen the United States treas supplies to be repaid later urythe In kind A preview of what might be expected in the new session when this issue is raised developed Thursday in the dying hours of the Representative Cox tlY) Georgia told the house that Mr Roosevelti speech of Sunday night was in effect a declaration of war" and that further assistance to Britainmeant "active participation is war" Representative Fish (II) New York disagreed with that interpretation and approved the president'sspeochTart Question Lee In the senate meanwhile Senatoe Lee iD) Oklahoma said Adolf Hitler was "making war on us a n d "politically" economically" England he asserted was the only barrier against the raging flood of war" and the United States should 'utilize every means to keep England afloat" Questioned by Senator Taft Ohio Lee said that he was not thinking in terms of the United States going to war In addition to the war issues more billions must be provided for national defense The army for example is ready to ask for $1000- 000000 for the production of 3600 bombing planes 31600000000 for tune tanks planes and other materisJ and 1400000000 for the construction of additional munitions ' - I ) - - - - i 7 : - ' - plants The perennial problem of approrriations is intensified for the corn- ing session by the big defense out lays President Roosevelt and congressional leaders have been urging that nondefense items be whittled to a minimum- - Meanwhile a new tax bill is in prospect intended to produce enough revenue to cover nondefense outlays at least - New—Yet Old—Issue l'he federal reserve board only Thursday threw a new—and yet old—issue into the bubbling congressional cauldron It asked for action to avoid Inflation and skyrocketing price levels as a result of the defense expenditures Among its recommendations were several that Republican leaders hive urged for years including principally the removal of the administration's power to revalue the dolar and issue rreenbacks y The session just closing (coottntkee all raze ?vs) 4Cotuma ntrse) 367-da- a§ Salt Lake ' ! a 7-2- o di av 40 4 0 l'i-)-io'- kl ik41p4' White House Keeps Own Counsel On Money Reform Jan 2 L'Il—The lay" "The prompt adoption of4 the plan by congress" he said "should go a long way toward allaying public fears ot currency and credit inflation" erre Further Step t Ho urged that eongrtas "go one step further" 'and stop purchases - - reNNNOWW liver '"at lepst from (Cootl000d on tato MO) ( Column Two) NLRB l‘lember Flas House - ' Probe Report - Vice President John N Garner ' left' and House Speaker Sam Rayburn scheduled to open new sessions of the senate and house respectively today White Resigns- Marine Officer A's Insists Upon - - Ai - r Flays Well-Finance- Hits Arrestof Five: of His Men d Appeaser Menace Accepts Honor Post - 4 InPeiping Cabaret n PEIPING China Jan 2 White the Allen Japanese gen- resigned apology by darmerié for "unlawful aras their chairman active of the Thursday Committee to' Defend America By rest" of fiveIInited States marines in a December 30 cabaret Aiding the Allies The ::Emporia editor will serve Incident was demanded Thursday Turn-ag- e by ColonelAllen however as honorary head and as nightthe commander here marine a memper of the executive cornThe Japanese army command mittee' Of the group he formed last was Informed that failing-t- o reNtay to help' throw the ccOnonlie ceive such satisfaction the Amera would te tains refuse' lo make and moral weight of the United cal: settlement of the affair and States-of- t the side of England and would carry it to higher Franee'in the European war thorny Colonel Turnage also demanded Young liffan Suggested that the Japanese promise to take t "The peed for hard concentrated steps to prevent a repetition of intelligent wOrk on the chairman such incidents and that those reJob is too mirch for a man who sponsible for the arrests be has to t earn !sk living running a punished He presented these three reWhite said quirements in an interview with In a statement He suggested the a representative of Lieutenant post got to "some strong high vis- General Hayao- Tada the Japaioned yeung min" who could de nese army commander for north China The representative apvote NU timeito the work The rganizations headquarters peared at Turnage's office at the In Newl York said White's resigna- American's invitation The American version is that tion had bees accepted with the five marines were insulted greatelt reluctance" end added the the execut140- committee would and threatened in the cabaret by armed and drunken Japanese meet soon to iname a successor There has been much discussion civilians that they were innocent recently of the committee's alms of any wrongdoing and were unand some eitidence of disagree- justly arrested that all were held hours and that fuur of ment among members Committee for-1spokesmen insisted they wanted to them were injured by gendarmes Japanese military authorities give Britain all aid short of war Critics contended the committee maintained' silence Thureflay H H ' sought' Ito put the United States night Into the war Flays Appeasers White in his statement 'Thursday said: ' t V'The Menke() of appeasement is heavily financed and only our com3 BERN Jab Switzerland (Frimittee :is organized to meet this I a modern that UPI—Possibillty day) threat The need to keep public sentiment alive to the terrible dan- "L'Aigionu might rule France was ger of al let down in our armament disclosed Friday when it ' was program will lrequire even more learned that the' government of service from our committee than Chief of State Marshal Philippe so far )t has been organized to Petain and Bonapartist' were ne4 give gotiating for the return of Na"Fitiatly yet foremost America poleon's last must keep the lifeline open be- of the emperor's line' Great tween theUnited States-anSince Adolf Hitier's gesture' in Britain and must 'give the presi- returning the ashes of the original dent beery encouragement and 14'Aigion" Bonaparte's support in his ipolicy to aid Great son who never saw France the name of the dark and handsome Britain'4" young prince has been mentioned LaGuardia Honored frequently among royalists A recent statement in which White said his only reason for committee membership was 'to keep Railroad Names'Offieial- this country out of war" brought 2 ST LOUIS from Mayor' F H LaGuardia the ment of HaroldJen Roll of St Louis E assertion White had done a typical to a d position of chief ' Laval'! officer of the Missouri personnel LaGuardia Nednesday was Pacific lines with- general supernamed honorary chairman of the vision over wageand labor matcommittee's New York chapter ters in the railroad's western and In New York the rommittee southeim districts was announced (Continued on Pegs Mink) (Column Two) Thursday night 6 EMPDRIA1 ken leIn': 2 (P):--A- 4 UPI— I " ' Thursday described the report of al special house committee which Investigated the board as "an outregeout distortion of the evidence" Smith's statement was contained in a letter to Representative Howard Smith (D) Virginia chairman of the house committee !The committee's report signed by three of the five members called for a "c ompl e te reorganisation of the board personnel aaserting that some of the employes were not only "partial and biased" in their attitude toward litigants but had indicated "their determined objection to the American form of government!' Board Member Smith was said to have used his position to "foster and encourage radical ism" In his letter to the committee chairman the board member said Of the report: rIts contents are an outrageous distortioh of the evidence before the committee and I regard the committee's findings with respect to myself as utterly biased and unfair" He added that he would give the committee a statement of his views for incorporation in its record I - ' Bonaiiàiiisil Seek Rettlin Polvci ' w great-grandnephe- Ill-fat- ed Senate Extends Thanks to Km 0- - ASHINGTON J an 2 (INS)-- Senator King (D) Utah retiring front the senate after 24 years of continuous service was paid unusual tribute Thursday by the senate The senate unanimously adopted a resolution thanking King for his "service to his country" and for presiding over the senate "without prejudice's as president pro -tern-poThe resolution was offered by Senate Majority Leader Barkley of Kentucky King defeated for reelection thanked the senate and said he would "soon join the people who are looking forward to a better year termination of the 'war and the spread of peace" 1 ! - newly-create- ti - -- re Leaves 'IL S Next Week DENVER Jan: 2 (UP) Karl Stheuring 18 German student ordeted expelled from the United States by the department of Justire will sail from San Francisco January 8 the German consulate " announced Thursday Plans Lookouts TiLSpclitllgigtil6Plalieg' Is NEW YORK Jan 2 (INS) — A network of observation and listening post around the metro- politan area to warn against the approach of hostile planes was mappe&Thursday by coun- ty commanders of the American Legion t who !have assigned 22V: picked veterans to man the new service A dress rehtearsal of their du- will be staged January 101 when Legionanaires on duty at nine vantage t points around the I I gency program for- - building cantonments and munitions - plants Fifty-seve- n projects were reported on time or ahead of schedule but delays on other housing compelled postponement of the dates for induction of more thin 18000 national guardsmen Into the federal service Torrential rains itmlber strikes and "other conditions over which the war department had no control" were blamed for setting back Induction dates one to three weeks An official accounting of the devast expansion program partment's was given by Robert P Patterson assistant secretary of war at a press conference Makes No Comment The former federal judge declined comment on newsmen's statements that Chairman May (D) Kentucky of the house mili(D) tary comMittee and Vinson comGeorgia of the house naval mittee had expressed favor for a congressional study of the defense program But -he made these points: The man power of the army air corps had been nearly doubled in the last six months By January 15 the force would reach 6180 officers 7000 flying cadets and 83000 enlisted men he said (About 700 planes are being produced a month end A—major 'portion Is going to H Britain) Tgo billion dollars worth of ton tracts for tanks guns shells and other equipment had been placed ordnance deduring 1940 partment (These 'orders: did not Include those for fighting planes which are placed by the air corps) Production Multiplies ' Actual ordnance production has Increased more than 500 per cent during the last year over the 1939 level Patterson said The ordnance department had increased its employes to more than 50000 and the supply ot Garand semiautomatic rifles actually on'hand had just reached 100000 The daily production of small arms at the Frankfort arsenal at Philadelphia was now 504 or 60 peak per cent above the all-tiof the World the assistant secretary declred and it was safe to predict that the World war record would be doubled in' the next ' few months said that Patterson production of the ('arand rifle at the Springfield Mass armory had increased 600 per cent during 1940 going up 60 per cent since the 484our work week was substituted forth 40- in August With three hour week shifts - now working six days a week he tiontinued the armory is producing 560 Garand rifles dey 1 r countryt-newspaper- WASHINGTON Jan 2 iAl—Edwin S Smith labor board onember I 0 - - city will spot bombing planes sent out from - Mitchel field in a "surprise" raid Warnings flashed to the signal corps information center In town Manhattan will be relayed to plotting boards at Mitchel field where combat planes will be ready to take off in mock warfare James V Demarest vice corn-timender of the New York State Legion is head of the warning service ng es - I Bkm' ts Bremen Flykig Corps Will Help 1)uce's Army liventyrThousand Fire i 11)81 hóiiteiMilitary Navy Port rrerinan Plats Left in Flames ) - - LONDON Jan- - 2 UP -- The British air force 'has paid nazi bombers back fire for fire the ai ministry announced Thursday night' In a tremendous raid On the airplane factories and other Industrial plants of Bremen which left flames visible 120 ' miles away thousand Twenty Incendiary bombs and a' great load of high explosive missiles were dumped On the German North sea tary and naval port Thursday tght by relay after relay of planes offiCial accounts related This the British declared was !"partial retaliation" for last Sunday night's devastating fire raid To "long processions" et Brit- - hit fliers still en route an hour after the dusk to midnight raid began the glow of Bremen's fires - ' on London 'The plane' plant was left "a raging furnace the air ministry's account said The Deutsche vacuum oil refinery one of the largest in Germany was greatly damaged and railways of the port were hit 'again and again" the bulletin - 'Continued - Factories along one railway tine were declared to have been - - ' teenttmloa nit (Column Pus Four (ContinuMI on Palm Tire) (Column live) t' Pushes Far Into Libya B-ritahi- CAMO Egypt 'Jan 2 mechanized forces were reported operating 75 miles beyond the Egyptian border in Libya Thursday in a! possible prelude to an attack on the big Italian base at Tobruk even before the anticipated fall of besieged Bardia With these forces declared to be firmly holding a stretch of the road leading from Bardia to Tobruk 80 miles west of the Egyptian border the R A F- lathed out anew Wednesday night against Barcila on the Mediterranean coast and other fascist objectives deep in the ' Libyan desert- Besides Bardia the R A I's objectives included Derna 175 miles within Libya and the air bases at ermimi and Gazala 'The R A F command said landing fields were blasted resulting in the destruction of four grounded fascist planes and damage to others After 17 days of siege there stHI was no Indication of any immediate British 'attempt 'to wrest Bardia from its 20000 beleaguered defenders LIPI--Brit- ish -- - 00WWW11ORNME000 Scalise Faces Tax Trial NEW YORK Jan 2 (AI—George Scalise racketeer sentenced to 10 to 20 years in Sing Sing for stealing funds of the AF 14 Building Service Employes' union Thursday was taken to federal court Brooklyn where his trial on income tax charges was set for Janu- ary16 H Jan-- 1 (AP)---4Trvadin- ero-nav- al sea) Coincidentally It was disclosed that all the Italian air corps as-signed to help the Germans bomb Britain from bases on the English channel have been called home to Italy except for a group of fighter planes Better Field of Action 'NAPO Foreign observers believed that warplanes apparently g the winter weather which Germa- rew loall"of bombs on neutral but uneasy Ireland ' r assault which began Thursday night following up a radius around Dublin and Included Wednesday' night In a Irish army headquarters I: I ' 'Oddly the missiles dropped from ci 5 unidentified planes included parachute-borne sea mines Which the Irish government said fell on shore Thursday 'morning lying unexploded and menacing In the fields Thursday night's bombs came down near Enniscorthy 60 miles southwest- of Dublin and less- than MELBOURNE Australia Jan: 2 is miles inland from the Irish sea separates Ireland and Eng(1P5—Destruction of the' 34 Brit- which land No damage or casualties were ish liner- Rangitane by a- German In this case and the Idenraider which stole alongside an reported of the raiders was not mentify hour before dawn and fired with- tioned out warning was described 'ThursItt the attacks Wednesday night day by survivors of the 'disaster at least three civilians howeyer They were among- 496 survivors were killed and two Injured at of seven ships who were rescued Itnockroe county Carlow and one by Atistrallak ships 'after being of the bombs was declared by the marooned December 21- on the defense department to have borne German markings The mines at Ennisfell which they had kerry county Wicklow were said supplytstilp on which been iMprisoned wtten their ships by experts to be of the German were sunk ' variety used ear)y In the The Rangitane's'quartermastir magnetic dewar devised before Mid he was at the wheel fense system Britain them a against on the MOrtlifig of NoVember 26' They were carried to earth by when he noticed the black shape parachutes of emerald green silk of' another vessel nearby also German manufacture At once thestranger opened firt‘ Theofgovernment buhe said Tha 'first shot crashed reau said the army information would engineers Through the !steeting gear and destroy the mines ' Friday and tlwew the Rangitane out 'of con- warned residents in a' three-mil- e ' trol to open their window& ResOther shells: streamed Into the radius idents for a half-mil- e have 16712-to- n vessel rapidly he said been moved out of theirabout homes In :six stewardesses their In the flve-hokilling bombing Wed11)011111 q mornand nesday night Thursday rShip's Surgeon Crawford" Val ing:- the department of defense eriecontinued "gage first aid and listed these localities as struck: the 'stewards gathered the dead Dtdeek five bombs and Juliansand injured In blankets There was town three bombs Both towns no time to 'get stretchers" are near Drogheda center of the 4 Irish cattle industry supplying Liv' I erpool England Two beny"! MOrder Rathdown Park Terenure a Dublin suburb two bombs t w o BILLINGS Mont Jan 2 UE James C Ada Ms 22 Portland Ore houses smashed several damaged and Joe H Rhoads 25 Gillette seven persons trapped in wreckage Wyo charged with first degree but rescued'"several" persons inMurder in the shotgnn slaying of jured A fortified road in the La'verna Louis J Turner night club operator pleaded Innocent when ar- grove area bf the same district (Continued on Pan Twos raigned Thursday in district court4 : (Column roue) five-hou- 60-mi- le I 'I - - - I - neti - - - - - ur -- - - - - -- '' :': - - ' V 1Summaryill Major News On'AEU rOpe 9 Afrith' Fi ó ntai t t : ' ' : ! By Associated - I k - i $ ' Dublin—Unidentified planes 'shower explosives and tire 'bombs within 60mI1e radius of Dublin killing at least three and seriously wounding two one bomb identified as of Geri 6 and 7 iman origin—Story page 1 columns r ' 'I ' Athens—Greeks report capture of entire system of ItalIlan intercommitnicating trenches field guns and machine gun ' 'I' nests in Albania—Story page 2'column'6 Cairo—British planes bomb Bardia besieged Italian In Libya---§to- ry page '1: column 5 i ' i " ' - - - Press attacks' force air German port of Bremen: London—Royal 'drops bombs -- long coastal invasion ports—Story page L col' umns 6 and7 - ly ks ' i i - pre-tunab- hes been hampering on Britain was one'cause for this and that the Mediterranean sector was considered a better field for action just now The newspaper La Tribuna said the axis air coordinetion when the British' are exerting a strong effort to defeat Italy de ellively Is "a warning to those who still count on the British guarantee and an announcement of new t events for the enemy's haughtiness' which will be broketi at any cost with iron and fire"e t Greece and Turkey are guaranteed by the British the latter having a mutual assistance pact with London Lavoro Fascistic added that the German air corps would be assigned !'a certain military task predetermined by the two commands" and that Hall- - equipment and resources are pooled to make the attack against : the common enemy more efficient" This Was Interpreted In foreign circles as meaning the' German fliers would ' attack the Greeks with whom 'Germany nominally is at peace as well as the British The size of the German corps is a military secret but obserVers aasumed the nazis would be as generous in their help as were the Italians when last October they sent hundreds of planes thousands of Men and trainloads of supplies to the channel front Supports View Thursdars announcement made by General Francisco Pricolo chief of the Italian air force also seemed to support the general view in Rome that German aid to Italy et!consists to date of specialized fectives without any call yet made or eontemplated for infantrymen Heretofore it has been acknowlOged that German transport Aeries were being used to take Italian troops to Albania and that Italian fliers were using some German Stukas General Pricolo called upon Italian' air commanders cooperating with the German aviators to be "kifiish in aasisting our comrades who are arriving in out country anclfurnish them with the utmost collaboration both In the supply and operationa fields" ''' Thursday's high command communique was largely a summary of attacks by Italian alirplanes on the British mechanized forces besieging 'Bardias' in Libya and on Greek positions and concentratkms In Albania British artillery" munitions and motor trucks were abandoned on the north African desert' it said in the' face of these attacks The communique acknowledged "slight damage" to Italian airfields In Libya by the British bombers and other raids on Ethiopia i at-tic- no-toosed tuwivors Tell How Nazis Sithk Bigr:Liner an- nounced officially Thursday that a German flying corps has rein- forced duce's aviators on Italian- lion and Indicated this massing of axis airmen will intensify the assault both on the Greeks in Albania And the British in North Africa The Germans said the announcement will "help in - the bitter fight now developing in the Mediterranean basin" (The British have been conducting widespread raida on laseist objectives from the Italian Alps to the Red ew Air Bombings Stir Eire issile Bears Nazi Marks DUBLIN ' By Asaociated Press ROME Jan 2 tE4 — Italy ' the communique glow resolved itself into a blaze and the blaze into a raging furnace The smoke rose to the height of clouds and was mingled with them Some pilots found the particular objective which they had been detailed - toatAack so thoroughly ablaze- that ratherthan waste their bombs on buildIngs already gutted they sought other factories or dockyards in the city" The news service said official into reports of the raid broke "exceptional eloquence"- and described it was much worse than the attack on Mannheim submarine building renter raided for seven hours on December 17 Like Mannheim Bremen also i gutted' - could be seen from over Hol land' Zulder Zee "As they covered this last lap" said the bulletin which amplified an earlier - Focki-Wu- lf Slated to- Bolster A AgaInst - - i mid-bei- 22 Pages—Five Cents 'epay Luftwaffe A f ' White House was noncommittal Thursday toward the federal reserve system's program for changes LA monetary and banking laws while on Capitol Hill a fight appeared to be in the making Stephen Early presidential secretary said the reserve system's report was submitted to congress With the president's full knowledge but that Mr- - Roosevelt had not approved it because it still was Under study both at the White House and- - treasury– Somber Approve A number of memhers of conand some sharply gress approved disapproved- the program which among other things would let the president's power to devalue the dollar lapser repeal "greenback" legislation and place tighter restrictions on bank lending 1 Senator Townsend (11) Delaware said on the senate floor that the proposals would "take a long step in the direction in which we ought to move without further de- of gold and F the eve of a new session of congress at which an investigation of the defense program has been proposed the war department reported 'Thursday that the foundation stones 'had been laid "to make this country the 'great arsenal of de- mocracy" At the same time the department painted a mixed picture of progress on the $1137000000 emer- 5c 111166 H Jan 2 (—On WAM-1111GTO- ' entlIEW Declares Stage Set' However For Vs tS e t Up ig1-4r0:- WASHINGTON 4 Aiiniy Admits Delays m Defense Plah' ( Loyea tivetlenstont P rier LIM) Copper t es Mode ) Lead January 3 1941 City' Utah Friday Morning - $3500 Silver (domestic) 7111e Silver (foreign Copper electrolytic delivered Connecticut Valley Lead5500 555c Zinc— T Ready to Pound Guve ress 1041 ' t Local Metal Market§ Gold ' 'sues emn Ii' - k ' - 1 - L r 1429 No! 81' H : -- I HitlerItnpnsons kixReleh Marshal NEW YORIC1 Jan 2 (UP)—The National Broadcasting company said Thursday night that the Brit ishBroadeasking corporation broadcast from London that Marshal Werner Von Blomberg oneof the time commander-in-chiGerman army had been imprisoned in Lensberg fortress in Bavaria by personal order of Adolf ef littler 41 Nit - - |