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Show IV i , Fraction Thrift. column tor ' Read the adver-Usin- g Mdoti ."Today Wow paper (tree jrom ' Today. (Jba m The t wfaiie it it yet 3G PAGES SATURDAY JULY 1919 SALT 2G LAKE CITY UTAH SEVENTIETH YEAR fi4- - : : c& cSb . tSb tSb tSb & tSb tSb tSb t83 d33 tb dSb cST. tSb c&b xi f f l.-- artment i. Saturday Night Must. Be a Very Busy Night On East Thirty-Thir- d E Jaft tetters Confidential NEW TORE, July 28. A housa block in East Thirty-third street made for the state --reconstruction commission shows one bath tub in 43 tenement bouse In which live 1,700 persona The bath tub ie the of a saloonkeeper. It is property for use by the owner and hie family and comparatively few of the other-41- 1 families' h ths -- block have even eeen it. - However, the fact that the bath tub ie in existence Is one of the neighborhood prides The next nearest approach to bathing facilities discovered by the investigators on that particular block waa a stationary wash tub fitted up with a partition which can be lifted out on ..Saturday nights. The tenements on the block are far from overcrowded. There are 1.S7S rooms for 1,792 men, women and children. Of the children 2J are under five-yeaof .There are 29 boarders in the age. 482 tenanted none of whom has apartments, the privilege of using the only bath tub on the block. ing survey of President in Proclamation Returns Jurisdiction With Right to Make Exceptions To Secretary Lansing's Bureau No Action Yet On Recent Complaint of Mexican Government. . -- f- -- f- 2. Effort to prevent the smuggling of arms end ammunition into Mexico from the United State are to be redoubled. made known today at the This state department-afte- r publication tif a proclamation signed by ths president on July. 12 restoring to ths stats department control over shipments of to the southern republic munition which was Invested in the war trade board during the war. July May Make State-- ; Question is -- Raised in the ment of Hi Views on Ojamber.jof..jPeputie?. On Additional RatiThe Subject of Reservations. fications. , NEW YORK, July 28. The Associated Press has received the followTaft: ing message from Your association yesterday gave out two letters written by me to Will Hays on July 20th laeC These letters were personal and confidential and were so plainly- marked and were published without thr knowledge or consent Hay or myself. I ask in once fairness to Mr. Hays and me-a- t to give this the same publicity you gave the letters. WILLIAM H. TAFT." (Signed) It should be said that Ths Associated .Press was furnished the letters referred to by one who had receive a copies of them apd felt himself under no obligation to retard them as . eu President Wilson in hie proclama- tion referred to conditions of domesby tic violence in Mexico promoted the use of arras or munitions of war produced in' the United States. and warned citizens of this country that any violations of the laws passed by Congress in 1912 and 1917 regulating . of munitions, would. b ,1jrig-- i bhipment orously prosecuted." Power of prescribing exceptions and limitations to the application of the laws against shipments of munitions was delegated to the secretary of the state by the president. It was sald.! however, that no new policy was as the United States had been permitting shipments to go through to the Carranza government from time to time. Before the United States entered the war, Mexico purchased a large quantity of munitions here and tt is from this supply that the shipments have been 'made. The Mexican authorities, however, have complained that shipments were not .permitted to come tbrohgli in sufficient quantities to enable the government to prosecute vigorously its campaign against bandits and last week Ygnacio Bonillas, the Mexican ambassador, requested that bis government be permitted to purchase airplanes and munitiona So far as hae been announced, no action has been taken bn this request. NEW . YORK. July.. 28. Mrs. William Hammond of Gorman, Tex- - mother of 11 ohildren, by telegraph to the bedside of her soldier son. ' Ruei. R-- Hammond. 22 years old, arrived at St. Marys hospital in , Hoboken today. She mortgaged two horses and 4 cow to raise the money get here and said she was paying 10 per' cent inter-est on the loan, which Ruei will help pay off when he gets well. Warned of the high cost of living in New York, Mrs. Hammond brought with her a large bag of home-mad- e Texas bread which, she hoped, would last until her return to Gorman.. Nurses and: friends at ths hospital raised a fund to supply the impoverished but happy .mother with shoes, a sura-mon- Wilson Writes to Lodge: ed PARIS, Friday, July 28. The question whether it will be necessary to obtain separate ratification of the German peace treaty by the federal states Bavaria and of Germany, iucV Prussia, was considered today by the chamber of deputies peace commission. The commisaioh also took ub the problem of the future statue of the Rhineland. u Transfer of Shantung. TOKIO; Wednesday, July 2. (By Kenkichi Ths Associated Press.) Yoshlaawa, former councillor of the Japaneer legation at Peking, 'left here today for the Shantung peninsula to conduct a special Investigation of conditions there preparatory to negotiations with China for th return of Its sovereignty over the territory controlled by Japan under the German peace terms. The negotiations officials Oidicated, would bo, initiated after ratification of ths peace treaty by the privy oouncll which officials said they expected would take place before September 15. Much interest fa displayed by officials here In the inquiries made in ths United States senate by Senator W. E. Borah, of Idaho, regarding the negotiations si the peace conference which resulted in the Shantung agreement. Japan, K is understood. Is having difficulty in inducing China to discuss the Shantung question. Failure of the Chinese delegation at Paris, it is said, to sign thtrpesce treaty, is proving to be fe source of embarrassment. WASHINOfON. July 28. President Wilson has written a letter to Senator Lodge, chairman, of the foreign relations committee, dealing with a resolution recently adopted by the senate. In making the announcement today White House official said the letter was not a refusal of anything." The resolution referred to in the letter was supposed to be that of the committee asking for all documents ussd by the American delegates at the ' peace conference. President Wilson today Informed Senator Lodge, chairman of the foreign relatione committee, that he was not able to bring from Paris a complete file of papers relating to the peace negotiations and that he would k be able to submit to the committee . --a- Bew. ht-w-d. happened to be in and whenv only .papers which dre, he was ushered into the sick my hands when 1 left France." 4 to Bee her boy. he smiled The president also informed Senator Lodge that so far as h knew the Occupation of Rhineland : wanly and after embracing and Allied and associated governments uad killing the whits hairod woman not reached any agreement for the diremarked : PARIS. July 28. The site of the 'VAT ell. Mom, they can put you vision among themselves of the an- force required for the occupation of nual Installments of the indemnity to the Rhineland under the terms of the in fine city clothes, but they can't be paid by Germany. take the Texas walk out of your German peace treaty was a question feet. undsr consideration by the . supreme Yowar Hammond, who 1s ths For the council at Today's session. Discussed. Shantung eldest of the fsrnily, and a youngpresent, it Is said, a force of 150,000 er- brother, volunteered for servWASHINGTON. July ' 28. Shan- men ia likely to be considered necesice st the outbreak of .the war. on the left bank of the Rhine. He eaw active service In France, tung and reservations continued in the sary The organization of the military exspotlight of official discussion today and his brother, a sailor, is both in executive and senate circles, pedition for the occupation of Silesia, member-o- f the crew of the arm though so far as surface developments during the taking of the ptebesclt !' Powhatan. transport were concerned there was a lull in the there also was discussed by the coun' Mrs. Hammond said she had peace treaty fight Both the senate cil. The participation of American written to Seqy. Daniels .. asking . and the foreign relations committee troops in his work, however, depends that he be honorably discharged until Monday and upon ratification of ths peace treaty, had adjourned now that the armistice had been President Wilson, had no Republican it is pointed out. as in case of unfav. signed.- - so that he lean help us senators on his appointment list action there no longer would run ths farm. There were many conferences, how- orable of reason for the a exist ever, to talk over reservations proposed Americans with th Allied presence troops. for inclusion in senate ratification of Is considered In any case, it probthe treaty. that the proportion of AmerChairman Lodge of the foreign rela- able comwill be in icans the expedition tions committee hae an appointment . to see Secy. Lansing today and al- paratively small. , though the Colombian treaty was understood to be the primary subject of discussion, it wad thought features FINNISH of the Versailles - negotiations also EVEhETT.. Wbah., July 28. Tele-phoHOLDS ELECTION bs taken up. might, reports received here early this President Wilson's advisers said FOR HEAD OF s, today that after- studying the letters morning told of the burning of 12 miles north of here, by a written by former President Taft tp NATION forest fire. Fire apparatus has been Chairman Hays of the Republican sendispatched to the town from here. national committee and several to the How much of the town has been de- ators regarding reservations HELSINGFORS. Friday. July . JB. pesos treaty, the president had conThe Finnish diet today elect-- . stroyed could not be ascertained. , cluded that --Mr. Taft did-- not-- write for ed Prof. K. J. Rtahlberg president publication. They said the president .of th e repq b He: ; : believed Mr. Taft was making an honest effort to bring about a settlement of the league controversy and that PHELAN TELLS OF he had no idea that what he wrote PICTURE BRIDES would be published at this time. Some of the presidents advisers let it be known today that they depre-- i WASHINGTON, July 28. Senator elated the action of some senators Phelan of California today announced who have visited the White House In he had submitted to the state department-in' he had received placing their own interpretations in formation statement for publication upon what showing that the Korea, a Japanese on the the president had said to them 160 liner, .had recently brought peace treaty and the league covenant. "picture or proxy brides to CaliforWit. a view to discussing the' gen- nia for husbands tWio had never seen eral treaty solution, the president them.. Other information submitted planned to go to the Capitol today to to the department, the California senrangSenator Hitchcock, with confer All of 25. the arrival of a , BERLIN, July ing Democrat on the foreign relations ator said, showed the at Seattle. employees of Siemena-Schucke- rt committee, and other Democratic sen- number of the "brides" Senator Phelan Such immigration. ators. company, one of the largest elecIt was Indicated today that the said, amounts to defeat In effect of the trical firms in Germany, went on strike this afternoon. The strikers "gentleman's agreement." president was considering the advisanumber 90,000. bility of making some sort of a statework-era on metal views strike of A general ment regarding his proposed is expected tomorrow. yeservations to the treaty. men LIBERTY BONDS The president apparently ha adThe Siemena-Schuckestruck because of the discharge. vanced the date of his departure from felft Thursday, of 10,000 of their Washington as it was said at the I Final Quotations. White House today that he would delow workers at two other plants he in Slemstradfc numerous before liver df the company speeches 8. Liberty reached San Francisco on Aug. 15 ex-to NEW YORK Telegraph workmen and' July chanlcs employed by the postal review the Pacific fleet. It was Final prices today were. bonds: would be administration 9 and 899.50. telegraph pected that the first speech went on strike today as a protest delivered in. some city In the 4s, $94. JO. First 200 of of. Second 4a 199.60. against the discharge ' 194.60. their collegues for participating First 4 in Monday strike. ... 394.08. 4 Second Boston. in Hitchcock The long threatened strike dls-i-rtfct Third 4 lr4s. 195.04. mining $99.98; Ignite miners in the Fourth 4 28.-will senate The BOSTON. July today. ner 'Leipzig started 8 9,9.90. 9 Victory an increase The men struck fpr 4 X 4a 99.90. on Victory six page (Continued ' iH wegea . ' : vl . ' t . " FOREST FIRES HYMEN DOING LIVELY BUSINESS . ALONG RHINE WHERE YANKS ARE . Nor Union Wilson - ' Closed Shop-- w Delegates Given to Board V essels-- BURN MACHIAS NEW YORK. July 28. End of the strike of 40,009 marine workers which ha tied up Mapping In Atlantic and Gulf port for th last, three weeks was announced here today by Gustave H. Brown, -general aecretary of the intertta- tional Seamen's union who added that ship would b mowing this afternoon. The men, Becy. Brown stated, with ths would be satisfied terms of settlement which include ' an increase, of $15 a monthpew man for all except the coal p awe re w no receive a 10 per cent increase. Latest reports from local union said, all over ths country, h showed unanimity In favor of .... waiving the demands for an eight- - . hour day at sea and a closed ' shop In order to end the strike. , The right of.the unions to have, their delegatee passed through the piers and atlowed to go aboard the vessels of the American . Steamship association was conceded by the employers who had, -however, rejected as lmpractlc-- , able tha demands for the eight- hour day and closed shop. This attitude of the employers was sus- talned by th United States shipthe ping board In drawing up - ' terms of settlement. -- KIDNAP YOUTH; WASHINGTON; July 26. Philip Thompson, 14 year old, son of John West Thompson, ah American cltlsen. was kidnaped from' his fathers ranch 90 miles from Mexico City add Is being' held by Mexican bandits for pesos ransom, the stats department was advised today. Urgent to the representations have been mads Mexican government, it was announced. The bandits revolver from him frointhe said, to have., him unless the took a horse and a the boy before taking ranch and they were threatened, to execute ransom was paid. . BERLIN HEARS OF DISORDERS FROM ALSATIAN CAPITAL BERLIN, July 90. (By the Associated Press.) Disorderly conditions in Strasbourg, the capital of Alsace, are reported in advices received here. the Sanguinary conflicts between French military and civilians ar al. leged to have occurred. Suffrage is Upheld. - Denver Makes War - V Bomber Resume Flight AUGUSTA, Me., July 29. Lieut. Col. R. S. Harts today resumed his flight in a Martin bombing plane the rim of the United States v The plans rose at.lltlS a.m. 660 . was Intended to be a flight of trouble had to Cleveland. O. Enginehours. decayed the start four, .round ' ; rt ' ' l-- 4r -- - -- -- - - ABOARD THE U. & S. NEW MEXICO. Friday, July 25. (By ths Associated Press.) Four dreadnaughts of the Pacific fleet ttd New Mexico, Ar- kansas, Texas and Nsw York were lifted successfully through th Gatun locks today. This was the first attempt to negotiate th waterway with a fleet Of dreadnaughts and tonight th warships 11 anchored in the fresh House Way - and ' Means ? water of Gatun lake, 15 feet above ea level. Dreadnaughts. will resume : Committee, in. .; R e p o their, trip toward, ths Pacific ocean Agreed Upon Today Em-- -Saturday at which time, the Mississipoiland now and coaling pi Wyoming, body Wiping Out Exist- ing at Colon, will commence' th pass, , age of th canaL ing Trade Statute Tax Admiral Hugh Rodman, in command of the fleet, wae pleased with On Soft Drinks is Also to thq success of the first etsg of the Go Into the Discard. canal trip. He said: "Th flagship was lifted out of the three locks of Gatun dam In on hour WASHINGTON. July 26. Repeal of and 17 minute. Now let n go tarpon fishing neur ths dam putting drsad-naugh- tha Canadian reciprocity act of 1911 through . th canal is too was recommended today by the house ... , committee. Some,.. ways and, mean easy.,, Th old battleship Georgia and Ver- Democrat Joined witfr tho 'Rrpublb-can-s te voting for. repeal, but other mont joined th fleet at Colon 'today. After th New Mexico had cdled Said that action should, be deferred at Colon, she Swung Willy Into Llmon pending further investigation. The committee ak voted to recbay, creeping slowly through tha first, ommend dense amid th repeal of th 19 per cent of th waterway cutting oft drink war tax. Though no record ' jungle growth Ilk some weird amphivote wae taken. Democratic members bian In a swamp. , Nearing tli locks- the crew flung urged that all repeals be deferred unwhich quick- til means for replacing the lost rev4 landing line , ly drew In board steel cables that ed enue waa found. . Reduction- - ofth war tax-oa fruit tothey electrle "mulas" runnlng on tracks on each Bid of the locks The juice to two cents a gallon urged by ' Whole ' operation seemed to function western 'producer of grapes and' io-automatically, for not an order was ganberries also was recommended. heard as the dreadnaughts slid into ths lower lock as easily as a shuttle into a sewing machine. The steel gate astern the flagship then closed like great Jaws and churning water rose up from viaducts th bottom of the lock while the New Mexico was lifted as easily and rapidly a' a rowboat. The flagship was then lifted out of the next two locks while crowds EflETS III in ths sam fashion standing on top of ths concrete lock walls threw banadas and cocoanuts to ths ships crew. WASHINGTON, July 26. Colombia Twenty destroyers went through the canal Thursday, passing through the has agreed to senate amendments to locks in groups of ten. Captain Twin- th treaty between that oountry- and ing, chief of staff, said that th canal had proved its national value beyond the United State by which suggesa doubt as dreadnaughts may be easily tion of regret by thi country for th moved from the Atlantic to the Paci- partition of Panpma were eliminated. fic with celerity and without trouble, a Chairman Lodge of the senate foreign shown by todays operation. The Pa- relations committee, said today after a cific fleet will leave Panama for Baa conference with Secretary Lansing at Diego, CsJ.,- - Sunday night. , : . rt J ", prs-hlstor- ie , out-boa- ; rd v --- -- .V 'i I 1 -- TBTT i Six Men Killed. th state department. Senator Lodge said the treaty would be taken up In .the senate next week - , ' . Markets large . American.. naval vessel to .cross -- On Strike With Explodes. -- that in view of Colombias action " ON ' BOARD THE U. 8. 8. NEW and he anticipated no delay in its ratiflea-- .. MEXICO.; July 28. (By wireless to tiOB, Consideration of the treaty of VerColon.) Six men were killed today in a boiler. explosion on the U. 8. 8. sailles will be continued next week to a attached tender naval Melville, by the foreign relatione committee, the Pacific fleet, Capt- - Twining, the Mr. Lodge said, and Bradley Palmer, chief of staff, has been advised. an American expert who assisted in framing the sections of the treaty re-The, MelvUle, th flrqt ship espe- latlng to alien enemy property, will be cially designed as a destroyer tender examined probably ; Wednesday, or and completed In 1915 was the first Thursday REPUBLIC -' Boiler Dispatch-Melvi- les - Tenn., July 28. The recent . act constitutionality - of th granting woman suffrage in municipal and presidential elections in this state was upheld today by the state supreme court. . NASHVTLLE, Ma-chla- Thursday, July 24. (By The Associated Press.) Reports of marriages between American soldiers and German girle have' been received at headquarters from various parts f the occupied area during the past - few days, but aa yet no charges have been filed against any-- of the men. It ie believed moat of the marriages were due to misunderstandings regarding the regulation. A week before the treaty was signed several of the chaplain through a misunderstanding In- formed the soldiers that marriages were permissible as soon - as the thepeace Germans accepted terms. Officers say that a number of marriages took place before spethis belief was corrected by a callcial order from headquarters ing the attention of officers and men to the fact that uhtil the United States ratified the treaty Germany and American technically were at war and the regulation prohibiting fraternization waa till In force. At headquarters It is said that even after the .United States- ratiwith fies the treitf marriages German girls will be prohibited by an army order. Majestic Armada 'Towed Through Locks by Electric Mules. With Ease and ts DEMAND RANSOM n- COBLENZ, r' - : WASHINGTON, 5? REPEAL Increase of Wages Granted But Not Eight Hour Day Shantung .Question StilL in the Spotlight. President Writes Letter to Senator Lodge.. -- f- 4 , DENVER. Colo.. July 25. ' will have a municipal food, meat and fuel market, and perhaps a number of such markets to cut the cost of living to consumers, according to tentatlvs today after a plans announced C Bailey of Dewey Mayor meeting and his cabinet. Th city administration will begin an immediate feasi-'bminvestigation to determine of the plan. The first step would be purchase of several carload of the canned foods to Mat offered at cost by the war department, it was announced.. Any enterprise tn which the city will engage along this Hno will be copied after BeattieS municipal fish market plan, it was Denver ty ' Mild.- - Denver inaugurated a municipal coal .yard during the' war. This enterprise will be, enlarged warrant next winter if condition and coal retailed at cost. Mayor Bailey said. Foodstuffs will also be eold st actual cost, The municipal market will beunInaugurated within 90 days acta lee the federal government to bring down food prices, .members of th cabinet said. the ocean after the United States entered th war, arriving at Queenstown. Ireland, May 22, 1917, soon after the first pstyol of destroyers. Bhe immediately became the flagship of Admiral Sims, commanding the American nsval forces in European waters ard flew his flag until she started back horne In January, 1919, Commander John 8. Irwin, la the Mellville'a commanding officer- - Ti GRAND JURY PROBE INTO HIGH PRICES COLUMBUS. .a 2$. Sweeping lnyestlgationof food prices in every county in Ohio Is requested in a communication sent by Go y1' James M. Cox today to State Atty. C John O. Price. Grand Jury Invest s, Go. Cox stated, should be begun in some , case without Two Airmen Killed, delay. Present high prices, th governor are precipitating a crisis ON BOARD THE U. 8. 8. NEW maintains, MEXICO. Friday, July 25. (By wire- and unless action, if necessary drasless and Colon.) Lieut Ellis and tic," is taken, the situation will beo-and even worse;-anresulting unrest will Bergt von Berg were killed today . thres persons were injured In a col- Increase. lision between an army airplane and a naval seaplane at th entrance to ;be Minority' Report Coining. Colon harbor. The two machines were wrecked. Lieut Duggan vend WASHINGTON, July 26. With Machlnlrt Thomas were severely Inrequest for a rehearing blocked jured. Ensign Ostia wm hurt less their Democratic Republicans. by the seriously. v members of the house war investigatwere preparing ing committee today, Oil Christens Ship.. a minority- report on the recent inInto war dethe the by delay quiry PHILADELPHIA. July 28. Crude partment in disposing of Us large ur- The Demooil from pklahoma today christened plus of army foodstuffs. to disprove crats stated they expect the Tulsa. Hog Islands forty-fift- h in contained the repo-- t freight- statement ship. The vessel, a 7,925-to- n adopted by tbs Republicans Thursday er., is named in honor of the response the war department was cenmade by the citizens of the Tulsa dis- in which sured for Its failure to sooner antrict to the Liberty loan drive. Mias nounce ths food surplus and to ar- Lulu Crosby, daughter of aa Oklahoma oil operator, christened the ship. range for its dlsposet j,l- :? , it 1 : ms ' t? d :..7 i - ' , ' i, ' " . . - : ;!? ..i ! 4h . : |