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Show 4- - 4 f . r troth founded 1S50 SATURDAY 1917 SALT 22 DECEMBER and liberty. LAKE CITY UTAII SIXTY-EIGIIT- i v YEAR II HURLEY READY RUS8IA'SilMAL-SIFEJALTSJEACE;- 10 : HE c& Shipbuild-- , ing Program i N?t a Success Chairman Will As-sumo Responsibility System of German Food Controller von Waldow FREELY ADMITS THERE HAVEBEEN DELAYS PEOPLE ARE NOT LIKELY OSIT SILENT Due Largely to Lack of Facilities, Labor , Troubles, Changes in Specifications lemons Krupp Gun and Mu Of Ships, Etc. I nitions Works at Epsen Been Have On Fire f Burning Washington, Doe. 21, Twenty-fou- r ' Hours. London, Dec. 22. According to a Renter dispatch from Amsterdam, Vorwaerts of Berlin, in a plain spoken attack on the system of Herr von Waldow, the German food controller, declares that great masses of German people not only are hungry, but are literally starving. The paper adds that agriculture producers and rich residents in towns are utlng in plenty,, as hoarding is so longer prohibited. . Every war profiteer and millionaire,- says the paper, has his kitchen and cellar full of ham and bacon, the middle class ekes a precarious existence, (pending all h possesses on food, but 40,900,004 of th mum are starving and aro unl- .. , ikely to ait silent. J r Wt might baeo within a month an absolute calastropha in Germany and a collapse even worse than Russia. resulting in German defeat and loos of the war.' , , Krupp Works, German Munitions Plant, Afire Maestrleht, Holland, Friday, Deo. Ill (British admiralty by Wtreleea Press, ) Workmen from Essen, Germany, say that the Krupp plant, the treat German munition establish-wen- t, has been ablaze for If hours. The plant at Essen. tbe main establishment of the Krupp, the largest manufacturer in of arms and munitions, employed about 10,009 men before the war. Xt has been expanded greatly during the war. Facts relating to its present else and the number of workmen are kept secret by the German government It was reported unofficially in October ef last year that about 70,000 persons, including several thousand women, were at work there, and that 30,000 were to be added to the fores. Karty-tht- o year there was a strike at the Krupp worka, said to have been no to lack of food. It waa that 40,000 workers were reported involved and that the authorities combatted It by sending many of the men to the front, but little authentic information was permitted to come out of Germany. Essen is la Rhenish Prussia about 40 miles from the Dutch border. Few places In Germany are guarded more carefully. No persons unknown to tbe German authorities are permitted to visit the town. The plant has been raided several times by British and ranch airmen, notwithstanding Us formidable antiaircraft defense. Press dispatches last July said 100 persons there had been killed in a raid Preach airplane and that consider-by able damage had been done to the worka , Get-pian- y corn CO.TiICTED or Cfilf.llK.il CJ.EELE5SKES5 , Spartanburg. 8, C Dec. Corp. Charles Volkenrer. Company B, l0th field artillery. haa been convicted by eourt martial at Camp Wadsworth ef criminal carelessness In the killing nf Private Antonis liassucei, his end sentenced to one year In A month ago Volkenner was prison. explaining a new rifle when the weapon mas discharged, instantly killing Massucci. tent-ma- - , Pottage on tho Christmas News. The Christines News today con-,- lf of 104 pages including the colored covers. The pontage te domestic points, is 7c; foreign point tic. te Foil responsibility for tbe success or failure of the government's shipbuilding program was shouldered today by Chair-- 1 man Harley ef the shipping board, testifying at the senate commerce committees investigation of delays in ship construction Called as the first witness In the inquiry, Mr Hurley admitted that there have been delays but declared that the recent reorganization of the boords emergency fleet for the first time gives thecorporation chairman ef the board proper authority and fixes responsibility where it belongs. The dual organization of the board and the corporation, he said, has boon don sway with and the present general manager of the corporation answers directly to the chairman. The present organization, Mr. Hurley said, is the only way that ships can be built. We do, not need additional legislation. If the head of the institution does not build ships it is because of his Inefficiency and not because of faults of the organization." From Mr. Hurley and from John A. Donald, who has been a member of the board since its creation, the committee drew a long story of the trouble of the board and tbe fleet corporation, starting with the row at the outset between William Denman, first chairman of the board and MaJ.JGe-1- . Goethais, first general manager of (he fleet corporation. Outer of Delay. Besides organization faults, factors which- - hsvecontrlbuted" to the delay la ship constructioa were givaa by Mr. Hurley as the navy's utilization of ship building facilities, abor troubles, lack of housing for workers, the necessity and of building new shipyards changes in specifications of ships. The changes In specifications were made In wooden vessels two months ago, after some of them already were under construction. They "were made, Mr. Hurley said, by Admiral Cahps and his staff of designers when It became apparent that the ships as contracted for originally needed larger timbers to strengthen them. The labor situation, Mr. Harley said. Is improving and- - t'i shipping with the war board in and navy departments and the eoonctl is national working on a defense, of comprehensive housing plan. Mr Hurley told ef the difficult! had In getthe old board and the new started. The ting the building prograjn board found, he said, when it 'started of the IS largthat build to ships but est yards In the country were crowded with navy work and that new facilities must be provided. aay that tbo It is hardly fair toshall from the newly created facilities opbeen hsv pot Intomaxivery day they eration produce ship at their is "Time mum capacity" hd urged. for the necessary for expansion and development of necessary labor. The shipping board began It pro-3 with only gram. M Hurley said, country-Sincship yards existing innewthe yard hove then 74 entirely been created. has The work thus far, he said, and been in many case preparatory amount usual It the with haa carried of annoyance and disappointments. But this preparatory period is rapidly of getting behind us and thein period full acactual ship construction ImmeIs cordance with our plans diately before ue." Corporation's Reorganization. corMr. Donald described the fleetwhich reorganisation poration's stripped Rear Admiral Capps. Gen. Goethais successor, of The recent led to hi resignation. resignation of Rear Admiral Harris, and Who succeeded Admiral Capp was week's service, quit after about eaid, to tbe naval due, Mr. Donald conofticer taking meaaure withoutHarris Admiral board. sulting the wna succeeded by Charles Pie of Chioffice as vice president cago, who comIn charge of production waa bined with that of general mansger. sttd Denman The trouble between Goethais. Mr. Donald said, appeared and to be a difference in (temperament In supreme tbe question as to who was , hare of the building program. The snip controversy, he eaid, delayed the mors building program andto permitted from away get than a dozen ships which might have the United State commanbeen retained If the board earlier. issued been bad deering order ct commoixleorod lh ionnewa board into came It week after the power, but the week's delay cost United State several ship.Mr.Asked Do.t-a.- d held was up, why the order Goelhala waa ready to esld Gen. 3 Dkue it soon after power to do was delegated by President Rilsou. but 'h-- it was postponed at tbe instance of Mr. Denman. The committee appeared inclined to criticise the change in specification deor woods ships The change, itspace cargo veloped, will reduce the700 ion, but of each ship by about will make the vrasel more seaworthy. the The oard i' policy respecting account building of ship for private (Contained mi peg Ninety-two- .) & o (S3 a dence to another rumor that the heavy losses. At other points along the Ukrainian rada has definitely notified French front artillery activity has been the Bolsheviki commissioners thet It intermittent, except at Ceurleres wood region. Rhelms vin not reconsider its action in aiding In the Champagneshelled by the Geragain ha been the Kaledinas force. mane In Flanders the Belgian war ofGerman attacks in Alsace hav been fice though report artilleryofactivity, Bolsheviki delegates continue to over- repulsed, according to the French war less Intense fog. because shadow military operations in the office. The chief of these attacks at by Ae offensive movement Initiated launched Hartmanns-WellerVoEuropean war. took the Ger- the Italiab In which they front enemy th attack seven The report that a definite alhanoa mane into the first' line French iwest of Monteagainst Aaolone is claimed by ha been formed between the Ukrain- trenches, but in the engagement that rtj, German official communication to ian and the Don Cossack give cre followed they were driven outwth lhavs been without success. by the Ukrainian the followers of Gen. Kaledin a, to the Bolahsvikl together with an unconfirmed report that the Germans have rejected the peace proposals of the move-ment- Li PEACE 3? America Must Lead Russia In Paths of Democracy fiy COUNT ILYA TOLSTOY. 11T. by Th Evening Matt) (Copyright. . (bixth Article ot a .Series HAVE often seen burning I lages in Russia. a. vil- It is a most - take to heart these tragedies when they occurred in our neighborhood, Once a part near Yasnsya-Polysnof the village of Tasanaya-Polyan- a down.' itself burned But generally in a abort time the terrifying spectacle. the houses are straw thatched and they stand very close together, , When a fire starts pt one end of a village it is almost sure to devour the entire village. There are no fire fengines as a rule, and'what engines there are generally do not work, so people run around with buckets doing their futile best to prevent the inevitable destruction. AD Other blankets and mats, wet them and try to protect tbe roofs from flying embers. Women cry, children scream and many rush madly about carrying their belongings out of the house. Some of tbe peasants take the Ikon f ranch shrine and hold It up before the fir,thefirmly believing that it will check advance of the flames. Tumult, d , , b p-a- - village burned down cropped np again and I remember how my fathqr used to be struck by this capacity of th Russian people to recuperate and rebuild. In a short tune (he peasant "hi home, and obhad literated every trace of the disaster-Hwas' as well off as he waa before the fire and he was in a new house. My father oftert commented with admiration on tht capacity of the his Russian peasant to stricken fortunes. The reason for thi capacity for quick recuperation my father found in th fact that the only wealth of the Ruasian peasant consists of his hands and his soH. Neither of these could be destroyed by fre. The individual peasant's power of tbe entire Rusrecuperation applies to sian nation. The resources of th th of those peasant r country, like enormous. They lie in the land in field and forests, hiines. fisheries, oil lands and different other natural resources that are enormous In quan and for tlty, innumerable in variety the most part untapped. - . A1X RUSSIA NOW IN FLAMES. Our entire country is now in flames But those flames cannot deTh stroy any substantial resource. rise of Russia out of th ashes will be as astonishing, as complete and aa of the peasant is re- - )2bteh sotmpressed my father. dnosd to aahea. Bptir village There1 is no rtouM that Russia wtl The pteture of" 6 Ori in a Russian pay wffll much greater her village ia tbe picture o Russia at th ease thaqwaiffpbt aoyjpLthe belligerent pow-present, moment.. ers. , , I remember in my childhood and The fall in Russian exchange Is to youth, how mugh my father used to be attributed not to any depreciation hou.r ST The Marketing of Cattle In United States friends of Russia hare participated. Russian resource are every whit as good today as they ever were,of and her Russia's resouroea stand back money. The tragedy of Russia lies In th fact that she achieved her freedom while she was engaged in a world war. The pressing nature of her external put her internal problem problems completely into th backtheir solution immade and ground possible during the war. Before the revolution Rnssin was In the hands - of two despots, the Russian and the German kaiser. Tbe was passive in positive action. He 'eras active only in negative action. The autocracy did nothing, or developnext to nothing, for th ment of the industrial life of the 1 ' N. country- The kaiser, on tbe other hand, was also negative In any constructive action for the good of Russia. But he was energetically positive in preventing th building np ef Russian industries. Many commodities that could have of been produced in Russian-sothem of the utmost importance in the life of the country were .imfrom Germany in lavish ported these quantities. In many instance commodities were sold in Russia at a price even below the cost to the German manufacturer in order to prevent the development of producin industries Russia. ing GERMAN TRADE DOMINATION. kledlcinea and drugs of all kinds tools of all descriptions, th moat essential machinery and all manner of other goods were poured into Russia in vast quantities. Take foq instance the production of gunpowder. In Russia the gunpowder Industry waa reduced. to the smallest possible scale. To my knowledge there were only two or three factor? for th manufacture of explosives In all Russia that we used was imported at" extremely low price frorrr'-Germsny. Germany knew what she was do- me , - (Continued sn page Ninety --two.) Russians Did Not Over- LINE OF QUESTIONS INDICATE THIS FACT throw Czarism to Kneel Before the German Em' peror, Declares Trotzky When Asked Regarding Holdings of Armour & Co. In Various States, Treas-urer RADA WILL STAND BY "Didnt Remember.- BOLSHEVIK OFFICERS . ..... 72-7- ............. To Bambergei1. Governor, Win War Our Supreme Aim Building Operations Booming. Budget System In County..,. New Poem. Bingham Mines Company ... A Garfield Road Bingham Bank Deposits Business and Finance Bishop-Whitney'- s .... Washington, Dec. 22. 4 20 7T y t . . ... ............. ' 88 6 F. 8 Food and Fuel 'Conservation. First Unit of Isolation Hospi67 tal Fortune Flow From WyomOil 42 Fields ing I 74 Foreign Service Page 48 Fifty Years Ago Today " G. Greetings From Utah's Sol2 diers Good Tiding From Zion by 4 , First Presidency Garden City Records Banner Year 19 . G. A, R. Will Soon Die. 42 appear Good Roads 36 'Orove Cltv Richest in Idaho .44 Greeting From Genealogy 78 , , t, .... ...... ....... ...... .......... ....... ' ..... Housewives Put Cold Storage Law on Books Homs A School League Solves Problems .... . I. 14 40 -- T7. .. pi M.' . Marjorie Ram beau Fulfill Prediction Man Power of Utah in World War Mt. Pleasant's Growth Message of Progress From . England ,Mlchigan-Uta- h Mines Mines ' . 12. ....... ...... 27 44 ... ...... - 82 84 Merger ot Bingham ProperUw Mining Dividends Mining Exchange Sales Fall Off Moving Picture Pag Music Page Men TFho Are Doing Big Things Mormon Battalion Monument 64 (( 48 8t 82 78 , 78 t , New Schools to House Grow- Ing Attendance g New Book on Early Utah.... 84 National Aumlnist ration Backed by Utah Delegatior .. 83 Nevada Mines Developed by Utah Men .... ...... . Oregon Short Line Improvements Ogden Forges to the Front. 4 Oil Development In Utah.... P. Prize Christmas Poem....... Prlx Christmas Story. . Prize Amateur Photographs. . Plan City ef Zones for Salt Lake JPostof tie Receipts Grow bile Utilities Under Btatg Regulation Public Safety Department. .. . Permanent Roads and Con- - - railroad terminals. This was indicated by the line of questioning taken by Francis J. Heney, special counsel for ihe commision yesterday in seeking briefly to show a connection between the packers and the ownership of the Kansas City and St. Paul yards. The questions . London, Dec. 21- - The rada, were directed at Frederick W. Croll, treasurer of Armour & CcC thsJJ9Yeniing. body ofthe Mr. CroD and W. W. Wadden, mainis Ukraine, apparently former treasurer of thfe Chicago tabling its determined stand ss stoekyards company, who were to the Bolshevik government on the stand most of tho day, gave testhnony naming J. Ogden Armour converted as It Is reported that it has the packer who aided F. H. Princ movement of of soldiers and workmen declared that if the German emperor offered "offensive peace terms the Russians would fight against it. - "We did not overthrow czarism to kneel before the kaiser, he cried. . Its sympathies with the of Boston to obtain control of the Gen. Kalcdinrs. the Cossack leader, Chicago Junction Railway and Union into a definite alliance. Stockyards company and turn it over Advice received from Russia are to to the Chicago Stockyards company the effect that the Bolshevik com- controlled by themselves. , missioners after receiving the rada's Records were Introduced to show rejection of the Bolshevi ultimatum, that th stockyards company, after sent another one giving the Ukraine tho reorganisation ana a farther 4 hours in whtcH to recon- or business other than without assets Prize Winner Is War Garden controlling th It refusal to acquiesce in th closer sider Contest , . was able to cut a 86 demands of the BoUhevik govern- melon corporation of 88.009.000 of the Juncout TL ment. tion railways' surplus and declare a Red Skin Tale on the Early . Another report received her says quarterly dividend of 2z per cent on Uky-.- . that Odessa now has definitely gone 8 86,000,000 capitalization, after ever to the side of the Ukraine. De- .their Railroad Operation in War small Investors had been gien their n Tim tails of th capture of 12 8 cent annum. per guaranteed were per there show Railroad Opens Up New Minprinted in Petrograd Evidence to show that persons consix day of fighting before the 26 ing District entered the town last Saturday. nected with all the large meat packers Rigby Prosperous 66 on the board of Th Red Guards lost 800 men killed are represented of the Chicago Junction rail-V, and 1,000 wounded in the fighting. 1217 of th Terminal railroads . Spirit operating I (Frontispiece) The Cossacks gave short shrift to the of State Counril bf Defense The Chicago stockyards was intro7 whom they hate. The Red Guards, Steady Progress In Cay BuildBolshevik chiefs fled from tbe town,- duced today. in 11 Fred W. 011, treasurer of Armour on board warships. The cruiser Sraok Abatement Campaign. 17 Kolchlda?) grounded In th A Co. recalled to th stand today. Stats Constitution Msy Be river knd was destroyed by th Cos- testflcd also that the influence of thh Amended .. lg packers extended to the real estate sitsack artillery- Salt Lake Mast Cut Expenses 21 uation In Chicago. Altv. Heney said , There has been no important fightSalt Lake Rout Enters Coal of the that Directors Spoor, Thayer, and Nakhitchevan. t province ing Fields .. 22 Don, where the Bolshevik troops have Fitzgerald of the Chicago Junction Sunday Schools Have Grown . . 34 A clash th with Cossacks." Rails a vs company held th central 1 fraternized Sprtngville, Center of Thriving has occurred, between the Bolsheviki manufacturing property, where many Industries 42 end Ukrainians at Bolgard, Bessara- large firms are located, as trustees St, George the Roes City of for the Chicago Junction Railways bia. The town is on firs. 47 The Terek and Kuban Cossacks are and Union Stock) ards company. Salt Lake County ........68-6- 1 in trouble to bo Croll was asked whether the Ar. experiencing reported Spanish Fork. New Granary of their own territories, the hill tribes ot mour books showed ail the companies - Utah County .. 62 risen. Caucasus northern the having ,m which the firm was interested-- . He United Spirit Sugar City' It is also said that some of the Cos- said they did. 67 Brings Results disare Don sacks in the territory Do they show that Armour A Co . Smelters Operate At Full Casatisfied with theig leaders and are were Interested In a large string of 34 pacity of the over won propaganda by being Silver King Mine plants through Tetas.Ai kunsas and 66 the extremists . Tenneosed. which stood in the name of 74 Sugar Industry circulation in Combatting reports Louts Eble from 1907 to 1217 7 asked 87 8oety . v. have refused to convene the constit- Mr. Heney." v. 1 Sports uent assembly. Moses Urltzky.- - comdon t remember State Pag missioner tor elections to the assembly, Heney read a list of stock cards State Dispensary Only Wet commissioners in Mr. Bolshevik the that which Armour A Co. were inter82 8pot in Uteh has Issued a maniteeto in which he ested. the list including the vards at . T. , gives assurances that the assembly Louisville. Denier. Fort Worth, Jackwill be summoned as soon as the 400 sonville Jersey City, Pittsburgh. Tez Problem Confront Next Sioux 1 1 deputies bare registered themselves . Citv, SC Paul, SC Louis, Portland, Legislature .. at his bureau. Troop Movement to American Canada. and Toronto, It le said that a great quantity of Lake i valuable property has been taken from j Temples Now Nearing Compleof the rich in Petrograd by bouses tion 21 the mobs that have been searching MEATLESS MINCE PIES Tin tic Mlnea Output 60 for liquor. Among th buildings U. sacked is the palace of Grand Duchess Utah's Crack Artillery widow of Grand Marie Pavlovna, I Utah Heeds Call ot Red Crose 1 1 Duke Vlsdlmlk. Special dispatches ORDER OF THE Utah Pours money Into War say that the plundered people are ab, Funds , . 14 solutely without redress. Utah Manufacturers Broaden Activities . 24 MeatDec, 21 e Washington, Will Not Submit to Utah Railroad Taps Coal culinless mince meat another 6 . Fields Lenine and Trotzky ary triumph in the art ot conserUtah Has Millions of Acres of vation. has been brought to tho Land . . 24 Petrograd. Dee. 21. Friday. M. housewiyea of tho country by the Utah Copper Breaks All ProTcbernoff. former minister of agriculnational emergency garden comduction Records 66 Mme. Catherine Breshkova-kay- a ture and mission as a worthy companion Utah Mines Produo Treasure and other of pumokin pie and gtngerlesaJ r of Wealth 63 of the constituent assembly iqembers U. of V. Student Body ginger breed. 72 hav proclaimed their determination The new mince meat, officially v. not to submit to Premier Lenine and described as a camouflage" was Vocational Education in Pub- - ' Foreign Minister Trotzky. but to confried on 690 troop on a transvene the anembiy and to endeavor Uc Schools port. who pronounced It perfect to a out it of through carry program W.' apd called for more. peace and land freedom. Half a. package ef seeded rxi- - , -- Wllfert- Woodruffs Visit to The total ot members elected To ins. half a pound of prunes stew. the assembly is now 242. but only 48 10 Westminster . ...z d with lemon juii and peel, on of these have been re Are ret) an Wounded Soldiers t Celebrate lo quarter cud sweet cider, four tamembers by the Bolsheviki. Western Pacific Reaches Out. 23 blespoons brown sutar; ehop tbe Women's Club do War Work 28 raisins and prunes together and Weber Coonty Farm Bureau. . 42 result to said to he a mealies th Austria Expels Chinamen. 61 War Garden Movement mince pie which will accord with 82 Mag War of Cyp Peets the food admimstrwt.on'a meat-leBerne. Switoerland. Per. i; Forty, Mater Rights to be Adjusted. 4a Tuesday. five Chinamen from Austria expelled Toil to Conserve Food 28 Women As turkey does not violate th on account of China declaration of Western Silver Mines Open war against that country, arrived today meatless day. Christmas dinner 61 on their way u Paris Group . . may be complete. Roetov-on-Do- 1- -4 iu 2 62 ( 18 6 .... jj ji 22 20 :.'tl Pioneer Actors Entertain Many 24 Audiences..,.. Provo Reservoir Company Has 81 Ample Water Payson Is Now Center of IrriBonanza 42 gation Purchasing Agents Cut Down Cost FaPark City Plants Increase,.,...88 cilities .. 68 ),, Fostefflc Clerks .. 73 ........ Kolk-vtda- . .... .... .... tlh ... .... .... ....... 20-8- 1 .... ...... Oil .............. .... rt crvteBridgee , , ' Lines Solve Mar- ... It ket Problems Interurbans Spaa 200 Miles 21 of State Insurance Department ef Intel-urba- n 68 ...... LaheHarket ......... E, g Lest W Forget (Stare of . Passing Generation Livestock Board Seeks Co21 operation Latter-daSaints Exemplar of Mankind 88 Livestock Receipts on Salt 26 64 67 ...... Editorial . . 4 L. 21 Christmas Cheer For Sammies 1 Coal Mlnea Yield Biggest Ton14 nage ... 15 City Cemetery Enlarged 17 City Park Department Cache County Opens Arms to Homeseekera Extend Church Schools . , 27 Courses TonDeads In Copper Camp 67 nage 76 Letter Carpenter Christmas Music Programs . . 83 D. , of President Descendants Brigham Young in War. . . 27 Drainage Experts in Field . . 28 48 Delta Prospers Death Lays Heavy Hand on 88 Prominent Citizens Deep Creek Mines Output. .41 Dramatics 80 87 ................ ist ...... jj -- 1 ...... .... as ............... i , Sir, i i i In- Sympathies With the Coss- quiry to develop the extent of ack Leader, General Kale- - packers" control of the mar- Iketing of cattle and distnbu-dine- s Become a Detinue i..1 on food of products will be unAlliance. dertaken by the federal trade commission in the course of its investigation now under way to Leon 22. Dec. Petrograd, Trotzky, the Bolshevik foreign determine first the ownership of minister, addressing the council the Chicago stock yards and Coe-mc- I,... Court System , K. Koering Process of Cyanld-in- ...... tt X ........... r'Juvenile B. - 28 ...... ..... ... It ...... 644484 , i -- Subject and Page 8tat Idaho a Wonderful Industrial Progress International Smaller Com- pany . Idaho Alining Review t Literary Page Idaho State Page ii in Russian values, but largely to Peculation, in Which even some of thef CHRISTMAS NEWS INDEX A. Army of Toiler Under Work- . men's Compensation . . . . . 33 A. C- - U. Student Body 14 67 American Filter Process 1 Automobiles 00. 70. 71. ReMoses. Alexander, Gov. view of Idaho's War Work. 6S SO Alan Dale . . 1 1 Investigation is Instituted to Determine Who Controls pf e con-stru- tSb (S3 Ukrainians and Cossacks , Op pose Bolsheviki FOR FAILURE If Government Charges the Vorwaerts of Berlin in an Attack On lV BLAME -- J r- i i- f J i |