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Show THE 1 y PILIP INQUIRY On BOK Q SOLDIERS KILLED AWARD PLANNED TIMES-NEW- NEPIII, UTAH S, Tuesday Evening Club hiAtit. Ol VMS IT ml Ym w Ftuowsy 7M J D WORK IS STARTED fHATWIfcNKnoW I DAIS BY fCHANCt i 6ENATE MEMBERS TO TAKE AC, TION TO BAR PROPAGANDA FROM U. 8. MAILS ; NATIONS OPEN MEETING TO INVESTIGATE GERMAN FINANCES MEN OF ed o. Up Kansas City Bank City, Mo., Five negro ban- Negroes Hold Kansas dits held up two messengers of the Main street bank here and escaped in an automobile with $42,000 in cash. C. J. Haake, coshier, and Frank II. Lodde, teller, were transferring the funds from the First National bank. front door They had arrived at the of their own bank, which is located near the Nineteenth street police staattacked the robbers tion, when them. The bandits escaped through a maze of traffic, driving past the scene of the union station near the holdup, at high speed. - . Coast Man Gets Noble Prix Dr. Robert Andrews Milllknn. executive head of the of Technology, California Institute Is in receipt of a check for $ll l.0.'t."..20 gronen, whiih reprenonts the Nobel prize for the Mont valuable contrlbn. ttons to physic made during the past The prize, which amounts to year. $40,000 In American money, Is part of the Interest of a fi,Oi0,000 fund Wi by Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor, for the purpose of encouraging advancement of the arts and science. Pasadena, t'al., 'DRY' RAIDERS PACIFIC TAKES ITS ISTGE1UT USUAL HEAVY TOLL ILLINOIS SHERIFF WILL KEEP YEAR OF 1923 WAS MARKED STATE TROOPS READY MANY CASUALTIES INFOR ACTION VOLVING , BY HEAVY LOSS Defies Ku Klux Klan On Decision Destruction of Seven U. S. Destroyers Swell Heavy Loss of Life to Hold Men At Herrin and Resulting From Marine Marion Until Trouble Accidents Clears Up . Marlon, 111., Sheriff George Galll-ga- n has the Ku Klux Klan and other organizations in Williamson county and has decided to keep state troops in Marion and Herrin "until Glenn Young nnd all his raiders are driven out of Illiois." After an all night conference, at which several civic and municipal n organizations were represented, announced he would not meet their request to have the troops removed. "The occupation of Marion and Herrin by these guardsmen will continue until Glenn Young and all his prohibition raiders are driven out of "I will Illinois," Galligan declared. not ask the governor to recall the troops until conditions change." Adjutant General Carlos Black, in charge of the three companies of state militia which are camped here, said the troops would remain until Galligan was ready to release them. took a The federal government hand In the tense situation when W. W. Anderson, division chief of federal in Chicago, prohibition enforcement ordered that no more liquor raids be staged In Williamson county. Chicago federal agents superintended the first klan raids and Young, deputized "prohibition czar," who led the recent drive on moonshiners and bootleggers. In connection with the recent raids, Young was arrested on five warrants charging him with larceny and assault. office issued The state's attorney's Gal-llga- Distinguish.' Persons Present the warrants on request of six Herrin men, one of whom, Pete Marlow, that $100 had saloonkeeper, alleged been stolen from his safe during the raid. Warrants charging larceny were men said to be also Issued for six deputies of Young: John Smith, Herman : Sam rin garage Childers, a a miner; miner:, Harry Walker, Caesar Caplo, Herrin- - constable who is now under indictments several and operation of a charging bribery confidence game; Carl Neilson, manager of a Herrin wholesale grocery, and a sixth man Identified In the war. rant as "one Carlson of Herrin." Sail For Holy Land in Small Boat Ira Sparks of Peru, Honolulu, a year ago Ind., who arrived here from San Francisco In a packing box, having consigned himself as "freight", en route to the Orient sailed for the He anfar east in a dory. bound for the nounced that he wns Holy Land to seok "the true word of A crowd estimated at 1500 God." his departure. witnessed Sparks initial pilgrimage ended In Honolulu, when he was forced to "come up for air" after being several days In his packing box In the hold of the steamSince his arrival he has been ship. to continue busy with preparations He lias constructed bis Journey. several boats, but most of them proved iinseaworthy. He declared he had no fear but that be would reach the ''hina coast and ultimately the Holy Land. Bryan Picks Next President William Miami, Fla., Jennings ISryan has announced the name of Ir. A. A. Murphree of Galnavllln. president of the University of Florida, as the Florida candidate h would supnomination port for th I'omocratlc for president. Who Gets the Oil Tax Money? New York, Kxplratlon Thnrsday of the time limit for payment by American oil production taxes prh. the American ably will bring from companies statements as to whether they have decided to psy taxe to the Ohrezon itovernment of to Adolfo de Is listeria, revolutionist lender, who ha claimed the money and ha asserted his forces controlled a large portion of the northeastern oil fields of Mexico. Many "Portland, Ore., The year 1923 was marked by an unusually large number of marine casualties involving heavy loss of life on the Pacific coast of North America, according to shipping records here. One wreck long to be remembered is of the steamer C. A. Smith, which split asunder on the Jetty at Coos Buy. Ten lives were lost here. Twenty-nin- e lives and millions of dollars' worth of government property were lost in tlte disastrous wreck of seven American at La destroyers Honda, September 8. The destroyers crashed ashore in a dense fog through miscalculation of direction, according to testimony produced at trials of the naval commanders in charge of the flotilla. The Swift Star, a tanker, en routa tu thef Panama canal from-Los- ' Angel, es last August, disappeared without warning taking with her sixty-eiglives. An ice box with the body of a dead man attached to it was the only clue found indicating the fate of the vessel. That wreck will go down in records us one of the mysteries of the sea. A captain, his wife and nine men of the crew aboard the barkentine Amy Turner were wrecked last summer lost entirely. Four menberg of her crew were later found insane. The tug Tyee went down in a raging storm off Everett, Wash., the day men lost before Christmas. Four their lives here. Four men were lost when the sank off gasoline schooner Phoenix Tillamook bay. Several disasters were recorded In MemorPuget sound lust summer. able among these was the incident of the United States transport Henderson, with the lute President Harding aboard, crushing into one of her destroyer convoys while returning from the president's Alaskan visit. steamer Shinkoku The Japanese Maru struck the rocks off the coast Rebel Block Harbor of Aluaka, but without loss of life, El Paso, Tex., Rebel forces In a due to the good management of her combined army and naval move have American captain. blockaded the port of Tamplco, wire-les- s received In El Paso dispatches Watson Will Not Ba Candidate stated. According to the dispatches, Senator James K. virtually all of the "navy," command, Washington, Watson of Indiana announced that he ed by officers who joined the De la would not be a candidate for the Re. Huerta revolt, were outside the port nomination. and ship bad been prohibited from publican presidential announcemet left either entering or leaving the harbor. Senator Watson's the way clear for President Coolidge Will Reduce Car Insurance Indiana presidential to enter tlie Automobile insurance Salt Lake, F.mlson of with primary as the Coolidge campaign rate are to undergo an Immediate revision downward which, according manager In that state. Senator Wat- to Information t out by the "I son issued only this statement: will bring a saving of have concluded not to be a candidate for the Republican nomination for the several millions of dollars annually ttonal Bureau of Casualty and Surety , presidency." to th owners o private pnsacnger throuiiout the nation and automobiles Killed Entire Family by Train at the same time afford them a broadBicknell, Ind., An entire family ot er insurance protection. six persons was killed, five of them nutonio. Mrs. Roosevelt Received the when almost Instantly, A representative of the Im. Toklo, bile In wnlch they were riding was struck by Chicago A Eastern Illinois pertal household Monday paid a visit train No. IC at a crossing near here. to Mr. Tbeodore Roosevelt, widow of The machine was thrown thirty feel the late president of the United Stat, against an iron semaphore rost and es, following her nrrlval here. Mrs. Roosevelt nccoinBnld by her son, time and was hit a second firty feet farther befor the train wm Csptaln Kermit Roosevelt, Is touring the orient. stopped. ht oiili-ntift- Kw-ln- T Vln-cenn- es Pastor Ends Sixty Day Fast Kansas City, Mo., The Rpv. Robert Iyfleld tasted food Friday for th first time since November 12. Break, lng a no day fast which began when of a frlon be attended the funeral from over, whom he believed died etlng, the PAStor dined on the fol. bread lowing: Stewed raJMdt, corn milk gravy and potatoes. LayfleM be. Moves that sn occasional rest for tb digeetlv organ I aa aid to long, vlty Busy Underwood Rut Democrats nd Re. Washington, combining against insurgents publican leaders. Mob-da- y the Republican house won the first round ot a ruin fight by mustering a majority Underwood rule, of th for repeal from the which restrict amendment floor when revenue and tariff bills are Tb Democrats tinder ronslderatlon. land Insurgent east 20S vote, sjralnst 177 cast In support ot U.e Republican organisation Insurgents Oscar D. Van Batenburg, Ogden, high school student, 17 year of age, was killed in a coasting accl, dent which occurred at the intersec. street and Or. tion of Thirty-secon- d Opened on Strictly Politics Basis With With Brigadier General Paris, Charles G. Dawes presiding, leading business men and financiers of the United States, Great Britain, France, Belgium and Italy, sitting as a board of directors and creditors began to examine the assets and liabilities of Germany, their nation's dtibtor, with a view to saving something from the ruins of the most stupendous bankruptcy in the history of the world. "Strictly business and no politics," was the motto under which these representative men of the leading nanew worlds astions of the old and sembled. "The success of this committee," said General Dawes in opening the meeting, "depends chiefly on whether in the public mind and conscience of the allies and of the world there is an adequate conception of the great disaster which faces each ally and Europe unless common sense is crowned king." General Dawes stressed the value of unity of command in war to show the bad effects of present conditions. 'We had come to know," he said, 'in common with the citizens of all lack of nations, that at last that power to agree upon a common attitude and common action had brought all Europe to critical and a most dangerous situation. This is no time to mince words." was absolutely The first meeting military dislucking in any of the play which marked the conferences at Not a Spa, San Remo and Genoa. single soldier was in evidence. Louis Burthou, president of the redelivered the parations commission, address of welcome. from you," he "We do not expect said,- "the unlooked for miracle of the solution of the reparation problem, but we hope with sincere confidence that your competency, experience and authority will concentrate to hasten the result onward which we are bending all our efforts." General Dawes European credit. as the suffered a shock said, had world had seen Germany's economic life ebbing, "because," he added, "the world realizes that if the German people lose their capacity for work German loses her capacity to pay those reparations which are so great r At an alamnnt tn Cnnnni n us first help Germany to get well." General Dawes spoke of the commen free from mittee as 'practical pressure," who, political realizing that the house is afire, propose to find some water to put it out without further use of mathematics involving the fourth dimension. General Dawes praised the reparidea in giving ations commission's the committee of experts a free hand and said that the committee was not asked to determine the legality of the Ruhr occupation or 'the political effect of this or that act of com. mon The committee for sense." the moment, l.e said, was less con. corned with Germany's rapacity to pay "than with the present rapacity and courage of this committee to act" i Jr., a Is Forgotten; o, Only four of the party of twenty-thre- e men which went constabulary to the island escaped. The cause of the clash nnd the weapons used by the fanatics are unknown here, but they are presumed to have had only a few firearms. The survivors estimated the fanatics to number 1000 or more, but this figure is believed to be exaggerated. The coast Polillo, guard vessel sailing from here with 100 constabulary, will pick up enough others from posts in Samar and Leyte to double the number on her way to Surigoa. The "colorum" is a religious body with branches In many parts of Hie generally Philippines, its members following any leader who is able to convince them that he possesses more than natural powers. It gave the American authorities much trouble for some time after the Filipino insurrection, though for twenty years little has been heard of it. The ora purely ganization has religious basis and lias nothing to do with any revolutionary propaganda. One of the beliefs of its members is that the seeming imprint of a hand on a large stone in a cave of the San Cristobal mountain was made by Jesua Christ and pilgrimages often are made to the cave by barefooted devotees. Governor General Leonard Wood expects soon to start for Mindanao to Investigate the situations arising from the religious activity of the fanatics and the revolutionary movement among the Moros. MANY Conference Business Philippine conincluding two officers, have been killed by religious fanatics believed to be members of the Colorum, a nonpolitlcal society, on Bucas Island it Is officially stated in constabulary advices from Suri-gaon the islandn of Mindanao, Just additional received. Two hundred constabulary have been sent to Suri-ga- Side-slippi- d - Nineteen Manila, " round-the-worl- - stabulary soldiers, Venlzelos To Form Cabinet Athens. Former Premier Venlzelos decided Friday to form a cabinet In will be premier without which he portfolio, with Georges Boussoe, Republican-Liberal as foreign leader, President Call on Negro Valet solution as the possible minister, only ' Negro residents, of of the protracted government crisis. Washington, 'he northwest section of Washington M. Venlzelos reached this decision got a thrill that comes only once In after General Danglls, who consentMrs. a lifetime when President and ed Thursday to endeavor to form a Coolidge went calling in their midst. ministry, had failed In the attempt, The call was made on Arthur Brooks, despite an nil night effort since the negro valet to presidents who has been Taft administration, Mighty Wave Visits French Court home for several to his confined Paris, A tempest accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. illness. weeks by a strong tidal wave, struck the entire Coolidge spent about fifteen minutes French coast between 4 nnd 5 a. m. their hopes Wednesday with Brooks, expressing causing heavy loss to for his recovery nnd receiving his vessels both at anchor and under have which flowers for the thanks way. At Brest many ships were dambeen sent him from the White House aged. At Blanllz, one of the most oonservatorle during his illness. fashionable and frequent watering In France, the Casino and places numerous boats suffered. Many ships Air Men Have Close Call were tied up In the harbor at BorTexas, Houston, several large liners being tin. nearly 1500 feet to keep the fire from deaux, enter the port because of fhe the faces of himself and a puesenger able to wind. high burse of their front the when airplane into flames high in the air, Q. C. Sheriffs Kill Bandit Gang Quick, commercial aviator, landed his West Palm Beach, Fla., The no. near in field a machine safely blazing torlous Ashloy-Mole- y gang of bank here. Both men escaped uninjured. robbers and desperadoes, which has The passenger wns Frank Cannah, made theFlorida Everglades its owner of the plane. rendezvous for years, was wiped out sheriffs and by Palm I teach rounty Fred Baker Japan Figures on Comeback posse.' Deputy Sheriff Toklo, Japan's answer to the fe- and five members of the gang were United States killed. ci Bt decision of the court upholding the Califor. supreme McCormlck on Retrial For Murder nia alien law will be. If the JapanChippewa Falls, Wis., depositions ese press Is correct in Its surmise, the enactment of a new land owner, from witnesses who testified at the 1017 trial of John A. II. McCormick, ship la of a reciprocal nature, granton retrial here in circuit court on a ing the fight to own land to indivithose whose charge of murder growing out of the dual foreigners except Ma wife. Jennie, In 1915, of same the rights to death governments deny the attention of the agnln occupies Japanese. five women and seven men Jurors. Englishmen to Compete In Flight London, English aviators will try tn match exploits with the American start their airmen when the latter flight from text April by a fight in the opposite With a direction. powerful Vlmy amphibia plane of 4.0 horsepower, Macklaren, Squadron Leader A. S. pilot, will atdistinguished English the globe tempt to clrcumnavlgste soon after the America t'imi stsrt. He will be accompanied by W. N. Fie, berlefth and Sergeant Andrews. iFfc friR- OH rlATHEW AND M (blMITi- y- WAS Government Sends Heavy Force to Point of Disturbance; Coast Guard Patrol Rushes to Scene Investigation Will Be Started at One According to Pledge Mad By Group f Senator Who Are Curiou An Investigation ol Washington, the $100,000 Bok peace award has been definitely pledged by a group of leading Republicans In the senate. These senators, meeting In conference, arrived at the conclusion that all the circumstances of the organization of the Bok plan, Its method of selecting the prize winning essay and Its award of the prize should be in. resolution of ivestlgated under the Senator Reed of Missouri, culling for an Inquiry Into all forms of propaganda which are flooding congress. Application to the io8toffice depart, ment for issuance of a fraud order against distributors of the Hog propaganda pnbully will be the first step taken on behalf of the senate to the the mulls, thereby checking aganda at the source. The fraud order will be asked for upon the ground that the conditions of the contest were not adhered to of the prize was and the award fraudulently made. ' In this connection senators asking for the fraud order are prepared to show the manuscripts submitted in were not read by the the contest reached has Judges. Information Senator Lodge and others that Elihu of the Root, chairman Judges, has been physically incapacitated for at leust three months froni performing character required any work of the la the Judging of 22,000 essays on peace or any other subject. The senators also have learned thnt former Ambassador I5rund Whitlock, another of the Judges, has been out of the country and there Is no record that the entire body of Judges ever held a meeting to pass upon any of the manuscripts. Senator Reed is due to return here from Missouri either Monday or TuesIIa will at once ask for a reday. port from the committee on continresolution to gent expenses on his investigate all forms of - propaganda. It is understood the resolution will as Repubbe promptly acted upon, licans and Democrats alike favor it. of a It calls for the appointment two Respecial committee of five, and one publicans, two Democrats Farmer-Labo- r senator, to carry on the Investigation. Senator Lodge, chairman of the forwhich has eign relations committee, Jurisdiction over all such matters, is known to be in favor of a searching plan. If any Inquiry into the Bok other member of the committee- disagrees with him on this point he has not yet found occasion to express himself. FT MEMBERS OF NON POLITICAL PARTY SAID TO HAVE SLAIN ISLAND CONSTABULARY Notes News From All Parts of UTAH chard avenue. He suffered a broken neck and lived two and a half hour in a semiconscious condition. Ed McGowan, Salt Lake Helper, City negro, fatally shot Bob Blevins, blood her 50, also colored in cold Friday evening and then for twelv hours kept an armed watch over his dying victim, at the same time fore, ing Mrs. Blevins and her two dauyLy ters, aged 13 and 10 years to sit be. fore him, stripped, according to re. ports. Kaysville, In view of the fact that Utah eggs which have been pluced on the New York market by the.Utuh. Poultry Producers' Cooperative asso. elation are still continuing to bring a premium price over the eggs from all other sections of the United States to mor another bonus amounting than $7000 will be distributed among the egg producers of the association during the coming week, according t Benjamin Brown, president and general manager of the association. Salt Lake, A. J. Millman and W. N. Holier, convicted of impersonating federal narcotic agents with the in. tentions of defrauding Louie Gee, were sen. Ogden Chinese of $.100, tenced by Judge Tillman D. Johnson of the United States district court to serve six months in Jail and pay fines of $1)00 each. Salt Lake, Salt Lake's bank clear, of 17 per ings showed an increase cent in l'JL'.l, according to data comof commerce piled by the chamber from P.radsireet's journal. The aver-agincrease throughout the United States was approximately 5 per cent. h the Ranking among chics of the country in population, Salt Lake was thirty-sevent- h in clearings. I'rovo, J. M. Jensen, professor ol English at the Brigham Young Uni. announces that his bio. versify, graphical work, "The Early History ol I'rovo," is now in the hands of the printer and will be ready for distris bution in February. Professor book deals with the advent ol the explorer, trapper and trader in 1770 and down to late in the sixth of the present century. Salt Lake, The four batteries ol three-inc- h field pieces now possessed by the R. O. T. C. of the University of Utah will be replaced In the near future by batteries of French 73. millimeter guns, according to received by Major George S. Gay, commandant of the local unit. Garfield, Charlie Pendleton, color, ed, about 20 years of age, was killed at the Garfield smelter Pendleton was handling Thursday. some cars attached to a motor, end it is believed that he Jumped from the motor, ran ahead to throw a switch, slipped and fell and was crushed to death by the frame ot the motor. e fifty-sevent- Jen-sen'- ( I infor-matlo- n Provo, During December the total number of patients confined in the state mental hospital was 733, or nintf more than In November, while nine deaths are reported for the month. The information Is contained in the report of Dr. Frederick Dunn, superintendent of the Institution, which was filed with the State Mental ho, pltal board. Salt Lake Excellent results are g obtained In the 100 per tent drive, which is being conducted In Welter, Utah, Sanpete, Juab and Sevier counties, according to reports of the officials of the state organization who are now in those counties conducting the drive. A Salt and few wolves mountain lion have been active In the southeastern and southwestern part of the state, recently. preying upon the deer of the Kaibab forest and the cattle In the Snn Juan country, so arrangements have been made by George E. Holman, chief of the animal predatory section of the United State urvey to biological put forth special efforts In order tn rid the state of these pests. Salt Lake City The state road commission signed the contract with Hawley, Anderson A. Hinckley for the construction of fourteen miles of gravel road between Chicken creek dam and the Millard county line, In Juab county. The work will be start, ed in the near future, the plan being1 to do aom rock work and fills which can be handled to advantage In the winter season. be-ln- mem-bersh- Castle Gnte, lp The postofflce de. leased for ten year from the Utah Fuel company new quarters for th postofflce at Castle located on the Gate, Utah, pnhll square. ftfclt Lake, William I. Riter has resigned es assistant attorney gener-a- l and will retire from office Jan. uary 15 to enter private law practice l Washington. He was appointed administration early In th present I and a natlv of Salt Lak City. parlment has |