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Show , THE BINGHAM NEWS. BINGHAM. UTAH . I I ..y - t 1 Admiral Sir William Fakeiiluiiu, commamler iu chief of British naval forces In North America, now visit-ing in Washington. 2 Armenian floai which won first prize In Ihe ltalsin day pageant at Fresno, Cnl. 8 Gen-eral Pershing buying candy at National Capital horse show, held for the benefit of Salvation Army campaign. , .'.',.. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Freight Rate Cut Which Will Save People $400,000,000 a Year Is Ordered. siioiiio 'bevive BUSItiESS v'"' ' : ;.!; No Let-U- p In Attack on Attorney Gen era) Daugherty -- Bankers Meet In " Paris to Solve . Internationai' ;;' Loan Problem Commy :. i nlst Outbreak In ' f Bulgaria. . . . ; By EDWARD W. PICKARD FOR some time President Harding been striving to bring about a general agrement by the railways of the country to reduce freight rates materlnfly and voluntarily, accepting the opinion-o- mo ny experts that low-er rates are essential to the, recovery of business In tle United States, lie called a number of railway executives to a oonferen,e in the White House and laid the case before theto, and they nt mod a committee of their mem-bership to with the Inter-state commerce commission In at-tempting to realise the President's wishes. This looked promising unrll Mr. Harding n few days later admitted that the railway chiefs had so clearly presented to him the difficulties of the situation that he was not very san-guine of success. - '' ( ; nr. Then the Interstate commerce com-mission by itself came to the rescue and tin Wednesday announced n deeU slon In accordance with which rates on nesrly all classes and commodities of traffic will be reduced on July 1 by amounts equal to 10 per cent of their present levels. The chief commodities excluded from the reduction are products In nil sections out-- I side of New Knglund. live stock and western grain and grnln products. The order reaffirm the reduction ATTORNEY GENERAL course In relation to War contract frauds nnd his alleged connection with the securing , of Charles Wv Morse's release from the Atlanta penitentiary continue to suit-pl- y the "warmest" of the news from Washington. Senator Caraway of Ar-kansas Is the most persistent of those attacking. Daugherty, and the latter made the assertion that the senator was actuated to throw a screen about men guilty of war frauds. To this Caraway responded with a challenge to the attorney general daring hi in to bring about a .congressional Investlga-- ) Hon to determine the truth of his charges. Said the Arkansan: '' ' I defy Daugherty to ask the senate to pass q , resolution for an Investiga-tion. If he does not do It. he stands convicted before the public as the man who. has entered Into a corrupt agreement to defraud the government, although be Is the attorney general; and If his party will not let him be Investigated his party must take the responsibility for nwt doinp tc He said certain things were true. I say when he said It that ne uttered a will-ful and malicious falsehood." THE house has'not yet acted on the providing for a congres-sional investigation of war fraud charges, which was introduced by Representative Woodruff of Michigan. Senator Norrls of .Nebraska- - was quoted as saying thut if the house did not speedily puss his resolution, a similar one would be Introduced In the senate from the Republican side. Alto-gether, the situation of the attorney generul Is decidedly uncomfortable. TOM WATSON, the eccentric from Georgia, hud one of his "spells" last week and tried his best 4o get into a list tight with Senator I'lilpps of Colorado. Watson w as ungry over I'lilpps". action In regard to cer-tain Georgia postofUce nominations and during a session of the senate he began a furious verbal attack on the Coloradoan. They then went outside the main doorway and Watson roundly cursed I'lilpps, shouting: 'if-yo- u will come 'down off that ' step, I'll knock your fuce In with my. fist." Pbipps, de-clining the chullenge to combut; called a sergetint and the raging Watson wus led away by Senator lie-Nar-reduce her proportion of 22 per cent of the reparations, and for France to cut down her expectations of cash payments. PREMIER STAMBOULISKY.of some prlvaie conferences with M. Tchitcherin of Russia when they were at Genoa, and the result ap pears to be that the Bulgarian govern-ment, formerly the declared opponent of bolshevtsm, has changed front and will line up with the soviet republic and make Its International policies conform to those of Russia, Germany and Tur-key! This wlll not .only present a solid ' combination against the allies and the little "entente, but also will have Its effect on the Thraclan ques-tion, for the Bulgnrs have always sided with the' Turks ' against the Greeks there, y ' The Bulgarian communists started some kind of an uprising a few days ago nnd at first It was reported they had seized the government and that King Boris was a fugitive. This was false, nnd it appeared the row was mainly an attempt by the communists to force the removal of Wrangel'a lk Russians1 from the country. The rebels really did begin a inarch on Sofia, but the anuy remained loyal and drove them off. CHARLES R. CRANE of Chicago, minister to China, Is a great traveler but be Is not likely for some time to vldit France or any French possessions. Word has" come from Syria that a French military court In Damascus, after a hearing by default, has found Mr. Crane guilty of Inciting the recent uprising in the French mandate and sentenced him to twenty" years in prison. A woman Moslem teacher who was Involved In the outbreak was one of those selected by Mr. Crane to receive educational benefit In the United States, fie gave her his check for $1,000 for traveling expensed and this gave rise to the charge that the Amerlcun government was subsidizing the rebels. MICHAEL COLLINS, hend of the State provisional gov e nment, and De VulerH have signed a compact, regarding the coining , elec-tions, and the later,' scents 'to have got the best of It. The agreement vlrtuully .will . result In the of the present 'membership, of the DafJ'KIr- - j eann, so that (lie De Vulera republi- - lu.o per eeni in uip viKirru mm grain rates last fall nnd the cut of 10 per cent made voluntarily by the rosds on agricultural products. Jan-uary 1. According to the setlmntes of ex-perts, the reductions mean a saving of approximately $100,000.0(10 a ve-i- In the rati transportation bills of the American people. The farmers nlon. fhey sny. will benefit to the extent of 'some $127.000 OOO s year on goisl that they buy normally. The cut i ex-pected to Increase buying nnd thus stimulate Industry nnd diminish un-employment. On this there Is general agreement anion? manufacturers, bih ImnM-is- , Many of the mil executives were not only surprised ky tlie conimls-slon'- s decls'on but nM quite disgrun-tled, holding that the reduction should have been postponed nntil the road had accumulated mor funds thmuuh Increased earnings. Others, however, admitted thnt the loss In freight rev-enue probably would ke more thnnoff-se- t by Increase In traffic. The Interstate commerce commission Included In Its decision the determlna- - Men of 5.7." per cent os the reasonable annual return for carriers on their capital Investment, as compared with the fl per cent level previously fixed. The new figure really nmounts to rt per cent, slme the federal corporation Income taxes nre subtracted from earnings before prod's nre figured. Another part of President Harding's plun was a voluntary acceptance of t reduction of wages by the railway hrotherhttoiK At present there Is lit-tle prospect of th's. but t lie railway labor board in exiwcted to make a de-cision soon on wage questions that hnire hem pending before It, the find-ing to be based solely on evidence preseited In the hearings. It Is mated by the bureau of railway eco-nomics that railway labor hoard or-ders lo dote lire saving the roads $300.. OOO.OtKl n ytiir In reduced wages, so much of the freight reduction seem r'tnid;' have bevti u.'.wuded. NOTHING doing yet In the matter bill for soldiers bonus. The Republican members of the finance committee lust week found themselves evenly divided between Siuoot's plun for paid-u- p insurance policies und McCumber's plun for cer-tificates on which the service men could borrow. It wus thought for u time that President Ifurdlng might ex-press u preference, but he evidently was determined the senators should extricate themselves as best they might. Then the Republicans decided to cull In the Democratic members of the committee lo aid in drafting a bill. It wits suit! Hie I leinoiTata rather favored the McCumber plun. THERE was a prospect last week German reparations crisis, due tm May 31, would tie averted. The allied reparations commission was considering offering Geraiuny indef-inite postponement of the ultimatum date on condition that she accept es-sentially the commission's full pro-gram. Such an arrangement wus thought to be advisable in order to give time to the International bunkers' committee, which met Thursday In Purls, knur solutions of the interna-tional loan problem were presented to the bankers ut their opening session. J. P. Morgan submitted what he termed the American plan, nnd the others were offered by Sir Hubert Klndersley, one of the governors of the Bunk of England; Charles Sargent, former French undersecretary of f-inance and president of the P.unque de I'Unlon Parisienne, and Dr. (I. Vlsser-Ing- , president of the Netherlands hank. The sessions' were private and the pub-lic wiu not given liny hint of what the plans were. However, It was under--t stood to be the opinion of the finan-ciers that If any loan to (iermuny were arranged, It must be very large, prob-ably at least a biliion 'dollars. nlso seemed likely that It would be neces-sary, In that case, for Belgium ( sitr-- l render partially her priority on man rcpurutlob's, for Great Britain to cans win ogam ,nave yearly naif the seats notwithstanding the fact i that they represent less than 20 per cent of the electorate. The British govern-ment Is much exercised by the status ot affairs, realizing that the treaty Is in danger. Whatever condition of temporary pence may obtain In southern Ire-land, the warfare between that part of the Island and Ulster has ac-quired new vigor, due to the outrages perpetrated by Sinn Fejners. Among these was the murder of a member of the Ulster parliament. This so en-raged the Belfast government that 300 Sinn Fein leaders all that could be caught In the Ulster counties were' seized in surpnse tu!w uAJ tiirTC Into prison. Premier Craig told parlia-ment forcible action was demanded, and he Issued a regulation declaring that, membership In the republican army was an offense In Itself. His energetic measures did not stop the operations of the Inmibers and snipers. AT LEAST one Interesting fight may be expetied at every convention of the American Medlcul association. In last week's sessions of the organiza-tion In St. Louis the contest arose over the practice of "group medicine" or clinics. The committee on amendments to the constitution proposed new sec-tions declaring against this practice, which, however, cannot be ucted on for one year. Immediately afterwurd an-nouncement was made of the organ-ization of the Association of Group Clinics of North America, an Indepen-dent medical association. ANOTHER step toward the of the Great Lukes-St- . Luwrenee waterway project has been taken by the government. Ait an-nouncement by the State department says It has Informed Cans' 4a ''that the United States governinev would b glad to take up with te Canadian government the negotiation of a treaty looking to the deepenoiif of the water ways which would esfrtile oeeun-goir- i j ships to reach lb Gred ts" I A Complete History of What Hu Beta Happening Throughout the World I WESTEKN Government postofflce inspector at Trindad, Colo., released information of the loss of three pouches of regis-tered mail stolen from the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railway baggage room. A dieek-u- p of the contests inspectors said, found that $8,000 in currency and $48,000 iu Liberty bonds are missing together with checks and money orders of unknown amounts-- - One bandit was killed and another fatally wounnded on the highway be-- Gary and Hammond, Ind., when walked into a trap set by the Itween police to capture jthe men have road. been probblng motorists ; WASHINGTON Administration bffieais are making no move at this tlnie to bring about an end to the coal-strik- e and expect no decisive turn in events that may lend to a settlement of the controversy be-fore the middle of June or the first of July. , United efforts by religious denom. inations are the means by which na-tions can be brought to a disarma-ment argreement or a village rid or a nuisance, speakers at the recent con-ference of churchS federation secretar les agreed. The,'reply' of the Canadian govern-ment to the communication of the state department suggesting negotiation Or a treaty as a basis for construction of. the Great I.akes-S- t. Lawrence water-way was handed to the state depig-ment by the British embassy!, ' The Canadian government states thut the present is not an opportune time for the negotiation of such a treaty. Whether any additional move will be made by the American government hnr not been stated. Declaring the. United States is dis-graced the world over "on account of the law prevailing in many stateR," Representative Dyer, Republican, Mis-- An organization to be known as the western .states agricultural represen-tatives and comprising agricultural di-rectors and commissioners of eleven western states was formed at Sucre-ment- o at a -- meeting of officluis rep-resenting the member states. George H. Hecks director of the .California department of agriculture, was elect-ed president; Miles Cannon, cominls. sioner of agriculture of Idaho, vice president, and F. II- - Gloyd, chief as--i latent. director of the Washington state depurtment of agriculture, secreta-ry- treasurer. The officers will ul- - o compose the executive committee which will designate) the . time and place for the annual meetings Call, fornla, Oregon, Washington;- - Nevada, Arlwma,' Idaho, Utah, "Wyoming,' repre-sented at the meeting. The purposes of the association as autllned, are as follows: To secure a greater mutual understanding, closer cooperation and uniformity of action for the efficient enforcement of the agricultural lawe. To promote the efficiency of service nnd regulatory functions with refer-ence to the agriculture of the various - weslern states. To define. Inaugurate and support an agricultural policy for the western states- - To encourage, fos-ter and extend cooperative relutlons with the United States department of agriculture. To encourage, promote and extend cooperative relations with colleges of agriculture and experiment Btations,; ''v&.v, ;v. The railroad announced that, ns soon ns schedules could be published, they planned to put into effect new tariffs reducing rates on coal from the Wyoming and Utah mines to "main line" points in California to $ a ton and to out the rutes to branch lines points approximately $ 1.25 a ton. , Signs of better copper, conditions, are apparent and there Is decidely more vitality to the market than has been witnessed In over a year. Do. mestic manufacturing activity has In-creased to the point where the big hrass mills must have larger qunntiiies of copper with which to flU current requirements--; Export demaild hn al-so developed to such an extent that the outgo has been established at a (ratifying-hig- level." . . soun in a letter to Chairman Nelson of the senate-Judiciar- committee, pro-tested against further on the part of that committee In acting on the ant! lynching bill passed by the house. The house Judiciary committ?e, the house itse:f and the attorney general have all gone on record ns of the opinion 'that the pending bill is con- - stltutlonal, Mr. Dyer said, but he sug-gested that If the senate committee held otherwlee,.lt ought to pass a bill which would meet the situation. Sergeant Akin" York at last feels' secure, the deed to his 400-ac- re fiver bottom farm In Fentress county, TVnn. having btse.11 .presented to hliii with . ihe title clear by J, T. Sheeler 0r Jamestown, u; of. the. trustees of the f ind started by the Nashville Rotary club wliJi .which the fstm was pur-chased. The first camimlgn for the fund loft the title to the farui clo-cdi- J wiih a mortgage, and tne Argonne hero receuily was tepottod conldr-ald- y worried over meeting paymein "ii the Indebtdness. A second cam-paign was Inaugurated by the Rolar-iau- s and the mortgage wus paid. of the ded was held op 1 ending incorporation in thei document of an account of the sergeant's exploit In France. ' t ' Premier Stamboullsky of Bulgaria, advocates the arrest and punishment of girls who refuse to obey the nev.-la-requiring them to work for the government free four months out of each year. Under th!s law girls 10 and 20, daughters of bour-geois c.'tlxens of Varnu and Sofia, are required jo work, but only one hun-dred have thus far complied. They are doing sewing, typing and hospital work. The law became effective May 1-- .... . Chief Justice Taft will imve shortly for Kngland, where during a stay several weeks he will study the Enc-Hs- h Judicial system wltn a view to detennln:ng its chanuterlsihs vljch lead to great expedition In the sotiitf. ment of legal trials and issues. . . FOREIGN ' Bllliotis of locust are - destroying fields and gardens 'In the farming dis-t- . irt several Inlles from Naples,1 Itsly. vVth!- 'a 'few 'days hiiiny . actes. of w boat, lions, clover hud corn have been F'oiir large slgnbourds, with inscrip-tions Inviting automobile tourists to visit Utah, are to be erected within the next few days at' Important high-way Junctions in the west by the Salt Lake Commercial club ond the Ogden Clmmlier of Commerce. This is the first step in a Joint advertising agree-ment entered into between the direc-tors of both organizations at a rcent meeting In Ogden. GENERAL An aeroplane, fitted out like an am-bulance, won a race with a stork at Norfolk Va. It was a JO."-ini- ie race. The patient was landed safely at the door of the public health hospitul. and at Inst reports was doing well. Mrs. W. N. Wilds, wife of a coast, guard at Chlcojnico, N. C, was the patient She stood the air trip well end was administered to by the doc-tors during the entire flight. .An army aeroplane carrying Lieuten-ant James 8. Eldredge, stationed nt Rantoul, III., and Paul V. Carpenter, a local newspaper man, fell 2.VKI feet Into ljtke Michigan, off Milwaukee harbor. The accident occurred when the motor of the plane started to m!ss i;nd Eldredge attempted to volplane to earth. The plane tipped slightly when it was near the water nnd went under. Neither man was seriously Injured. County assessors of Utah this year have placed a total valuation n the property which comes within their Jurisdiction of lfl74,()S0.7.2. The fig. ores compares with a tolnl of $of:C,tK1,. .Vii valuation on nhlc-- the 'same 'lases of property In the (state paid taxes last year The reduction IT the county assessors' figures were to slam! as final, would he :$2,nM1SI2 in I. n total v Inn I Ion of !.!! "vtjif.t t ... jn the state except mines and Intercoun-- ; ty public, utilities, 1ilch arc asessed by'Uie-t'tnt- board 'of equalization. wiped out and It is estimated that the I's.'sls are casing $20.0k damage dully, t year a few locusts appeared and tholr egs are now pioduclng a scoiu-ne- e of Insects which is covciing the laud a foot deep In some places. The 'lUirui'ted population has implored the 'iolp of (he government end uieagiiio iro hi.'ln,' taken to prevent the spread of the plague. British troops tuo brio:; kept In Dub-lin, not by the request of the Irish j.ro-xlsion-nl government but becaiiso the procosa of cvitcunilon has been tMupo-tntP- y s'V'i'ended. . , .. Although It has been ''onflrmod that the ministers ot the United States, Cret't Britain, Franco and Japan In Pokln lane been negotiating to ar. ao'.e a unified polb-- toward Chlnti, with a view to assisting plans for unl-f;rain-n plnn in 'ludlng fintti-i-- M t.ld ti Gmeittl Wu pel I'u. It hi r.:t yet bnen ilecldel what ttio policy of tl.o .In pt; nose gorcrnniunt will Im. f 'ir of 21.rtflO barrels of bourbon w.'i-.- sliippntl to llarve two years ;i. to csenv conflsciitinn by Iho Auiorle'iii vovornincnt, only .t.OOfl ro f'v'.'.n- - lllfb'een thoinjand barri'l- - lmvc l.t, s hipped, mainly to teirliory cm. t'i,n i.. to t'iH Un'ted Stales, eblerly C .1 (i. tin! iuh-imn- s and t.'Miailn. Tlio 'J-.'tpo- ere gctiorally Ainerli'iins. I'rlt'ce von Bnrtlow, tlie former 'Jer. ir.nn .oohassailor to Italy, who ! lio'V uMln,' In th.it country, said to a rop. res 'KVith e ' of ; the Gloi nalo d'Mali.'t : Tbo !if;er!ns nf our people eoii'In. no; tliP humbles! classes suffer from t.'itHir be'"fiue of hlh prtees. I be-- l eu-- thht Goniuiny h the highest 'te!f- - of prices In Europe. In Berlin :li.f Is a itar'tr of the tttteesarles ,: !,'f; children do not hag sufficient tlolblng nnd mothers are fotci-- to mi spai ei s to clothe them. Pithy News Notes From All Parts of UTAH rr "M-rr- as ;,,, - ,7" HaeM , ' Salt Lake- - --The dairy and food bu-reau of the state department of agri- -' culture has issued warning to mamitao lurers of sausages that the use of artificial coloring in such food pro. duct la not permitted under the state law. The state board or agriculture passed resolution to this effect last August, following the discovery of sul-phites used to preserve sausages, In company with the coloring matter. Recently Thomas Fenton, inspector for, She bureau, discovered that, with the ' approach of warm weather some saus-age manufacturers are again taking io the use of coloring matter, which Is said to add to the saleablllty of the product, but also con be ut;od to conceal renl inferiority. The manii- - factnrers concerned were given warn- - " lug thnt the practice Is contrary to regulations, nd If they persist thoy will be given opportunity to explain In the courts. . Ft. Douglas Major George S- - Gay, field artillery, has been relieved from v July ns student officer at the field ar t.'llory school at Camp Brngg and or. :' dered to Salt Lake about June 20. for duty as military instructor at tho Uu- - Ivorslty of Utah. , Pnuguitch Many college professors slid 'scientists nre expected to visit Utyce ennyon this season. Salt Lake City. Warm days have; , ' mnititalnad flood stages In the inoun. lain st renins, and more or less dsn-ig- o hns resulted to rosds and bridges; according : to the weather,' crop nod range bulletin for Utah Issued by the ia'l Lfil.e weather bureau. Cool rich's, ' tefp tvuipBsitJ.totctiirtl ?fojV'M4' : The' pMni'liig of Bi.gftr bees, p!it:r t.l other' true!: Is icarly vn, lutul it,d f'lir-t- i,n Ci'm'bg up tift?!,", Illh , V "'ndi lure dcflctid the mr.M'iro 'in f r.t anils nnd la'ns woi:!d be heir-f- ul In many places. Fruit Is deveiop-I'-a Mowly but oa'isfiictorily. Live-rKx-- k ad the ranges aro In good cot.- - Fillmore A vigorous battle against weeds throughout Mlllurd County Is being conducted with good results. Brlgham City. John M. Mills una .Uoumud the dutl s of superintendent . of State Industrlul School at Ogden. , ' Ogdon. Notice to contractors "to u lUm'i blils for the puvingln the Weal O lon district vos nuthoiljied by tho city coiiiinlss'on. The paving will ,.f over the ptiulciipl stiota of iho dis-trict lending to the mills of the GIolo Grain & Mill.'u coinpuny. It is plA. i:ed to iccehe bids for three chng?s of pavemont bitulltliic, Bsphnltuiu ond coni-refe- . Ogden. Suit to recover from Ogdon City ?.(HI0 danui;'es ulleied to be duo for injuries suffered by Henry J, MrLaehlun when lie fell upon the pave-me- nt was filed in the district court." The nccldont happenwl June 11.4SI2I, fl rding to the complaint. The plain- - t'ff nllr --ea the city wus negligent In .repairing the iticet closings of the '"'fj'.'t , """" ' '.''- " ' t '.'- - !' :--t 'V '" Hundreds of .Elks ntlend the lnstrt!?btl'n of Lognn lodge No. 1115 .title week. Salt Lake and Provo , lotlgt'S weru well renrobiiiitail Salem The district state rood en-gineer, has completed the survey te-- r the new right of way to be purchased north of the Orem (racks for federnt-ai- d project No. 84 through Salem. Th new survey contemplates the roimmil of the Sprlngville-Mapleto- n Sugar corn-pon-y's beet dump, which now occupies part of a street InWrsecMon. Logan. A powerful radio broadcast-ing station has been ordered by the extension division of the Utah Agri-cultural College to be used in broad, casting dolly market and weath?r re-po- rta to the farming communities of Utah. ", Logan. It. was Father and Sons' day Thursday at the Rotary lunch, and each Rotarlnn attending either brought his own or a "borrowed" eon, ranging In age from three years up to twenty, and each rose up, Introduced himself and mimed his father. One hundred partook of the lunch. Logan. William Malmberg, nn em ploye of the Farmers' Grain and Ele-vator company of Cnche Junction, fell to h's death in the Interior of circular storage bin he was to clean, nnd . which has no outl t but at the top. He scaled tin ladder on the outside and was descending the one on the interior when three rungs broke and he was precipitated to, the cement fltior. rurnilngton. Professor Emll Hun. son, landscape gnrdeuer of the Utah Agricultural college, will visit Davis, (ounty for the purpose of discussing ' plans for the beautiflcation of school I groubds, meeting Iwu so ground, cltj" parks nnd prlvsto demonstrations! grounds. Professor Hansen's ' plani ore now in effect for the beautifies,, tlon of the Farnilngton City cemetery, Fnnnlngton public school grounds, Farnilngton city streets, 'the Din Is .county high school and n i, timber ol ' jrlvute grounds. |