The Montana Standard from Butte, Montana • 1

METAL PRICES HOME EDITION The Standard carries the most extensive telegraph news service in Montana, Domestic Copper Export Copper Gold, world price Silver Zinc ..10.259 10 Me 1824c $31.76 420 4.50c 4.60c Lead, East St. Louis Lead, New York ..4.75 4.S0c VOL. LXXVL No. 203. ESTABLISHED 1876 BUTTE, MONTANA, MORNING, APRIL 29, 1939.

PRICE FIVE CENTS ro)ni JtilM ir JV I Elf ll ma "vn nrvr Jl LlUY FOUR STARS IN GRADE SCHOOL TRACK MEET HERE Hitler Speech Regarded as Leaving Door Open to Peace in Settling Europe's Woes offSr New U. S. Army Head REACT ON OF POLAND FIRM; BRITAIN CALM r' li i it, I JX fLaiCir I 7 i I t-'t xi' I i if 7 i 4 7 i DON BURCHELL OF ST. JOSEPH, RICH BROWN OF GARFIELD, BOB MAGUIRE OF SHERMAN AND FRED CALCATERRA OF RAMSAY. in the heavyweight division this year, scored all 19 points for his team as a middleweight in 1938.

Calcaterra was second high among middleweight last year and is Above are shown four of the outstanding stars in a field of more than 550 in Butte's 29th annual grade school track meet at the Butte high stadium. All did well in trials yesterday and are expected to ring the tally bell often in finals today. Burchell is a new lightweight leader. R. Brown is in the same class and scored 11 last year while His brother, Bruce, now at Butte high, was high man with 21.

Magulre, Yesterday he lowered the meet's JULU STr PATRICK SCHOOL-TRACK TEAM MAKES STRONG BID TO RETAIN CITY CHAMPIONSHIP TO SUCCEED CRAIO. President Roosevelt upset military precedent by selecting a brigadier general, George C. Marshall, to be professional head of the expanding army during the next four years. Marshall will succeed Gen. Malin Craig as chief of staff when Craig reaches retirement age August 31.

IS SEEN III SPEECH IT II. SjffEITS State Department Silent; Solons Hold It Presents No Danger to America. WASHINGTON, April 28. (JP) After eagerly analyzing Adolf Hitler's speech, most cf official Washington took the view tonight that it contained cold comfort, at best, for those whose first thought is peace. Such adjectives as "sinister." "intemperate," "defiant," and "blustering," studded the comments of many legislators.

State department officials, while not making" any official comment; did hot appear very happy over the address. A few legislators were encouraged, but they were obviously a minority. Reception Gloomy. Hitler did not refuse to guarantee his neighbors against attack, it was pointed out, but he made such guarantees subject to the receipt of "appropriate proposals" from the neighbor nations. Many asked what Berlin would consider appropriate proposals; would Hitler, in the case of Romania for instance, consider anything less than a big share of the (Continued on Page 2, Col.

3.) IT FUEHRER IS DEFIANT Sarcastic References Made to U. S. President's Appeal for Peace Pledge; No Aggression in West. TWOTREATIESSCRJIPPED Polish Non-Aggression Pact, British NavalAgree-ment Terminated; Hints Chance for Settlement. BERLIN, April 28.

() Adolf Hitler today scrapped his naval treaty with Britain and his non-aggression pact with Poland and thundered a reply to President Roosevelt's peace proposals which sounded like defiance but let the outside world see the door jar for peace. He declined to give the guarantees of non-aggression for 31 nations listed by the American President in his April 14 appeals to Hitler and Premier Mussolini, but offered each state a non -aggression assurance "on the condition of absolute reciprocity provided that the state wishes it and itself addresses to Germany a request for such assurance." Defiance to World. He defied the world to stand in the way of Germany's regaining what she lost in the World war though he specifically named Alsace-Lorraine, which went to France, as a (Continued on Page 2, Col. 1.) INJURIES FOOD CHARGED WIRE FATAL TO MAN David J. GenardinI, 36, a Montana Power company groundman, suffered fatal injuries yesterday afternoon when he came Jn contact with charged wires about four miles south of Ennis while engaged in his work.

Reports stated that he was assisting in stringing wires for a new line in the neighborhood of the Maynard ranch. The victim lived several hours, but did not regain consciousness, it was stated. In the meantime, an airplane rushed an inhalator from Butte, in charge jf Harold Fleming, Butte fireman. The plane was flown by John Fox, head of the Butte Aircraft corporation. The inhalator was obtained at the Tramway mine.

W. B. Fitzstephens. assistant superintendent of the Power company, left immediately for Ennis when he learned of the accident. Genardini was born at Douglas, coming to Butte two years ago, later establishing his home in Anaconda.

He leaves a wife and a small son who celebrated his fourth birthday two days ago. The body was returned to Anaconda where funeral services and burial will be held. One of Flyers Reported to Be Slightly Injured With Plane Badly Damaged; Weather May Be Cause. AID SENTJOJRAVELERS Natives of Region Seek to Help, Flyers; Language Difficulties Prevent Details From Being Learned CHARLOTTETOWN, Prince Edward Island, April Press) The Soviet rolane en route from Moscow to New York is down on Mis-cou New Brunswick, it, was reported here tonight. The two Russian airmen Pilot General Vladimir Kokkinakl and his radio operator-navigator, Maj.

vwitiw V. wvw landing on the island tonight. The Island is at the northeastern tip of New Brunswick in the Gulf of St. Lawrence at the mouth of Bay Chaleur. One of the men was said to have been injured probably a broken rib but his Identity could not be learned as neither of the men spoke English.

The other flyer was unhurt. The ship waa said to have been badly damaged in the landing, In a shortly after 6 Residents of the island said the airmen circled before landing and the motors appeared to be functioning poorly. A telegraph operator at Ship-' plgan, in the mainland 25 miles from the Island, was the first to report the landing. Lawrence Vlbert, an Island resident, telephoned that he had been to the scene, saw the' wrecked, twin-motored red monoplane and tried to talk unsuccessfully because of the language diffi cultywith the airmen. Vlbert took food to the two men, who remained by their ship to keep islanders from approaching too The Ottawa government Ice breaker Montcalm was ordered to put out from Charlottetown harbor to go to their aid.

One of their last position reports to New York, about 1 p. was over St. Lawrence bay, near their eventual landing point, Indicating they had spent several hours appar ently hindered by the wet and foggy weather that enveloped the north Atlantic coast. DEATH PLOT TRIO WILL SERVE LIFE WHITE CLOUD, April 28. (P) Life imprisonment at hard labor or in solitary confinement was the penalty imposed today upon three members of a family who pleaded guilty to plotting the ueath of Mrs.

Helen Cassidy, 20, to gain custody of her four children. Those sentenced by Circuit Judge Earl C. Pugsley are Charles Cassidy, 23, husband of the woman whose body was found hanging in her farm home February 26 after she had been strangled; his mother, Mrs. Matilda Cassidy, 48 and his brother, Elton Cassidy, 24, who admitted killing his sister-in-law. They pleaded guilty to first degree murder charges, making life terms mandatory.

CAMPAIGN. IS BUTTE POLICE nounced yesterday that efforts of his department; will be directed toward a still greater reduction iri the number of accidents iri the city. He also gave a warning that these who fail to co-operate and violate traf-, fic rules will be arrested and prosecuted. During the several months traffic conditions have been Improved arid it is the hope of police that the improvement may be carried still farther. A map of the city has been installed in police headquarters on i' (Continued on Page 3, Col.

7.) Denunciation of Non-Aggression Treaty Ires Warsaw; Navy Pact Action Fails to Disturb English. FEEL EASIER Southeastern Europe Believes if Outbreak Occurs It Will Come Over Danzig and Corridor Questions. (By the Associated Press) Poland's firm response that German pressure would be countered "promptly and in the same manner" was a feature of widely varied world reaction yesterday to Adolf Hitler's reichstag speech. For the most part, however, government leaders, who required. even more time to digest thespeeecn than the 2 hours and 17 minutes it took to deliver, gave evidence of a feeling that the Fuehrer had not shut the door entirely to peaceful settlement of Europe's differences.

Britain Unruffled. While Poland bristled at the Fuehrer's denunciation of the 1934 German-Polish non-aggression pact, Britain was unruffled by his scrapping of the 1935 Anglo-German agreement which limited German naval tonnage to 35 per cent of Britain's. France read pacific significance into a German offer to sell her former Czecho-Slovak planes, reported a few hours after the speech, which French official circles interpreted as moderate. Italy, Germany's axis partner, quickly expressed approval through Virginio Gayda, Fascist editor, who often speaks Premier Mussolini's mind. Balkans Relieved.

Southeast Europe as a whole breathed more easily. The gist of comment in the capitals of Romania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia was that If the storm is to break within the next few weeks it would not be centered in the Balkans. The impression prevailed in the Balkan chancelleries that now the trouble zone had shifted to Poland, through the Nazi chieftain's official demand for the return of Danzig to Germany and for a motor road (Continued on Page 2, Col. 6.) was reported improving. The dead are: I Michael Domitrovich, 30, 614 East Commercial avenue.

Elmer W. Quick, 29, 721 -Locust street. Austin McGinty, ,22, 212 West Fifth street. The injured, both patients in" 8t. Ann hospital, are: Joseph Cannon 7M glxth street, critically injured.

low street. Quick, a lessee of a service station, was killed after he had escaped injury a short time previously when a tank truck he was driving left the highway more than a mile west of the fatal accident scene Authorities believe he had obtained a ride in from where the head-on collision claimed the three victims. (Continued on Page 2, Col. 5.) DELAY IN BOOST House Ways and Means Group Favors Continuing Levy at Present Figure. WASHINGTON, April 28.

W) Without a trace of opposition, the House ways and means committee approved today a social security act amendment which would defer for three years a scheduled Increase in the taxes that finance old age pensions. It was estimated that the amendment would mean a $825,000,000 saving for the employers and workers who pay the taxes. Moreover, Chairman Doughton (D-N. asserted that the committee would turn its attention soon to any recommendations the Treasury may make for removing other taxes said to deter business. The social security tax rate now is 1 per cent on both employers and employes on compensation up to $3,000 a year.

Under the social security law, the levy Is scheduled to go up to 1V4 per cent on January 1, 1940, to 2 per cent in 1943, per cent in 1948 and 3 per cent in 1949. The committee voted today to omit the boost in 1940. Thus, if Congress approved its recommendation, any increase would be deferred until 1943, when the tax would go to 2 per cent. It was understood that the committee's action had the approval of the Treasury, the social security board, and President Roosevelt. "There has been a great deal of complaint from business people aboilt this tax." Doughton said.

"This action ought to be pleasing to those people who think taxes are too heavy." OF SECURITY TAX again competing in that division. record for the 100-yard dash. Hero Action in Hurricane Is Recognized PITTSBURGH, April A heroic act during last September's New England hurricane and floods was recognized tonight by the Carnegie Hero Fund commission which, at its spring meeting, awarded 14 bronze medals for deeds of valor. Duripg the storm that lashed the Atlantic coast last September 21, William P. McGrath, 30, unemployed, gave his life as he attempted to save J.

Gilbert Finning, 40, from drowning in flood waters of East River and Long Island. Both men, with several others, were pushing a rowboat at night when Finning lost his balance and drifted in a current to deep water. McGrath immediately swam toward Finning, but both men were sucked beneath huge waves and it was not known whether McGrath reached Finning. Both were drowned. His mother, Elizabeth F.

McGrath, of the Bronx, New York, was awarded a bronze medal and $500 for her son's heroism. ANACONDA El WINS SPEECH F. BOZEMAN, April Miss Dorothy Rochon of Anaconda won the statewide extemporaneous speaking contest held in connection with high school week here today as competitive events in the annual get-together at Montana State College were concluded. Winners in other scholarship contests will be announced at the final assembly Saturday morning. Speaking on the topic, "The League of Nations no Longer Affords Aid to the Cause of Peace," Miss Rochon debated four other finalists, with Charles Root of Butte second and James Mitchell of WhitefLsh' third, i Vocational conferences with instructors, addresses by Arthur W.

Markle of Butte and Dr. Edwin M. Belles. Portland. psychologist.

a barbecue banquet, "open house" in" all departments of the colleg3 and other functions were on today's high sevhool week schedule. Paul Holzer of Stanford was elected president of the Montana Association of Future Farmers at (Continued on Page 2, Col. 2.) MINES GLEE CLUB 10 Annual Program to Be Presented Monday Evening; Arthur Drynan Director. The Montana School of Mines Glee club will present its annual concert Monday evening in Convocation hall on the college campus, It was learned yesterday. The program is under the direction of Prof.

Arthur Drynan. Mrs. James Cummins will be the guest artist, accompanied by Miss Nan Elizabeth Tretheway. A feature of the program will be the appearance of the college orchestra, which Is now completing a most successful year. The Glee club presented a con cert Friday night at Montana Nor mal college at Dillon.

It was the same program that will be presented Monday night. The numbers follow: "Stout Hearted Men" (Sigmund Romberg); "I Passed by Your Window" (May H. Brahe), Glee club. Selected numbers, School of Mines orchestra. "Sitting Home" (Gladys Rich), baritone soloist, Richard Schaal; "Go Down Moses" (Harvey Gaul), tenor solo.

Robert Hunter; Glee club. "Un Bel Di" (Puccini); "The Lass With the Delicate Air" (Dr. Arne), Mrs. James Cummins. Intermission by orchestra.

"Farewell to the Forest" (Mendelssohn); "As Off to the South 'ard (Continued on Page 2, Col. 8.) WEATHER FORECAST Montana Partly cloudy Saturday and Sunday; probably showers Saturday night and Sunday; Sunday and west portion Saturday. SPRING SAFETY OUTLINED BY Chief Breen Says Efforts Will Be Made to Further Reduce Number of Traffic Mishaps on Streets. With the advent of warm spring weather an increasing number of people are using their automobiles, both In the city and on country highways, and to cope with the heavier traffic police are making special plans for a spring safety campaign. Chief of "Police W.

H. Breen an 0 THREE AIIACOIIDAIIS KILLED, TWO OTHERS BADLY INJURED III AUTOMOBILE COLLISION Ramsay Aggregation in Second Place With 14'2 Points; Emerson Third With 14 in Meet Here. St. Patrick boys from, the west side took a flying start that will be hard to overcome in finals today as they won field events yesterday and qualified a big share of runners for today's championships in Butte's twenty-ninth annual public and parochial grade school track meet, sponsored by the local Exchange club. St.

Patricks went out in front with 26 points, Ramsay was second with 14'4, Emerson third at 14, Garfield fourth at 12 '4 and 8t. Joseph fifth at 11, last night. Eighteen of the districts 26 schools had already broken Into the scoring column. Fred Calcaterra of Ramsay, in the 100-yard dash for the middleweight division, broke the only meet record so far, in his trial heat. Musicians Pep Show.

Yesterday's program, with' a record field of more than 550 boys, was greatly delayed because youngsters, and even some teachers, rushed on the field while events were on. The program, in the stadium for the first time, is expected to be speeded up today with the field cut down to events of Import. Yesterday's show was greatly aided from a spectator standpoint, as today's will be, by the musical side attractions. The Butte and Christian Brothers high bands, the Butte and Girls' Central high drum corps opened the show with an impressive musical parade and took part in the (Continued on Page 6. Col.

1.) day thoughtful Japanese are In a deeply troubled mood. The nation is waging a life-or-death struggle and is undoubtedly facing the greatest crisis In Its long history. "Some day the leaders of the nation may regret bitterly that their army ever set foot in China." The conference gave to a new committee of clergymen and laymen to be selected on a geographical basis the authority to reassign bishops to fit the new province pattern of the unified church. ANACONDA, April 28 (Special) Three Anacondans met instant death and a fourth was in a critical condition to-j night from injuries received in one of the worst automobile collisions in the history of the city. The accident occurred' shortly after 2 o'clock this morning on the Lakes highway, aoouc iour miles west oi Anaconda.

A girl, the fifth victim, FINANCE COMMITTEE MEETS Japan in Life-and-Death Struggle, Greatest Crisis in History, Observer Says ON MONTANA Wrifor in Hrnvp scenario nier 10 Anne, atom iew iorK vuy iu-morrow and Will Meet With Historical Grotp. Members oi the finance committee for Butte's Treasure 3tate Jubilee met yesterday afternoon at the oi is of JUBILEE PLANS New York city, scenario writer scheduled to meet with members the historical committee tomorrow afternoon and examine historical information which will be the basis of the production. Mr. Walters will remain here for some time nreDartnz the scriot and I KANSAS CITY, Mo, April Z. (UP) Japan fa facing the greatest crisis in its history and is waiting a life-or-death straggle, the Methodist church's uniting conference was told tonight.

The speaker was Bishop Arthur J. Moore of San Antonio, Texas, for six years director in the Orient of the Method'st Episcopal church, South. "The cost in men and money, In order to prosecute a war, Is proving a heavy drain on Japan's national "he said. "To Chamber of Commerce and after Avazinz with Victor Sevdel. ad-! vance man 0f the Jerome H.

CargillUhe Cannon car only a short distance kngthy discussion of problems ad- journed to meet again early next week. J.H. Rowe is chairman of company of New York which will produce the pageant. Mr. Seydel (Continued on Page 2, CoL 4.) Ihe committee.

Tomorrow morning Harry Walters.