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Show Me. Fate HOSTKDUr UTAH a., Bight utf Twederi aot kMkmn, Mwiiy IDAHO TaesdaJi , at Bight . Roof of Boston Bide. Kip' Muimum Sunday . .D Minimum Sunday i Minimum Monday ,.41.., f a m. Monday Monday Noon Monday 65 65 I, amok ,.,.14..i.,,.,4ll B-- FITE CENTS j2lC& t ' - SALT LAKE CITY UTAH MONDAY MARCH 22 1926 SEVENTY SIXTH SKIP WITNESS KIDNAPED, , SENATOR Force in Radical Oumges U. S. Industry Basis, Declares. Lawrence Will pMfe LAWRENCE. 2Y DAiH iSHTNGTON. ' - Man meat important meaa- be thie th United State trnns-ar'7.r M Industry leandthe e concerned poMd Jong and short haul bill J-T- ft ft ft ft ft I ft ft ft CHARGE ft ft ft ft - Both Sides Confident As Senate Prepares For Vote Wednesday .On Gooding Rate PREFERS CABINET' GONE; COOK CONFIDENT PROBE OF WITNESS TO GOVERNORSHIP POSSES PLEADS FOR TIME; I j l TARIFF BE-BlL- L HELP pro-lirtetl- President Welcomes Efforts of Democrats to Something Against Him. by eponeored Senator Goodt Republicing, an, of Idaho. -The bill pro-rld- HI Get ee a for strict Interpretation of the fourth section of the act to regulate commerce which prescribes that e railroad may not charge a leaser rate for a haul longer a for than hauL shorter commerce eommla-n, interstate has had the authority to tint exceptions and has made 4, Railroads Fight Meat' ure Bitterly; ' Accused Of Maintaining Lobin Washington. by -- Decision of Commerce Board Against Carriers Expected to Influence Decision. Recent m of them. ( The hill m by passed the senate last a rots of 64 to ft and agreement has been reached to me an the measure of Wednee- Should the bT of this weak. March lie WASHINGTON, is conceded by til become V lath aides that an extraordinary (AP) With both proponents and dunge In Industry may take place. opponents voicing confidence In the it Instance, one large middle city to given over to a certain product. - Be-aof the large amount of traf-f- c the railroads hare quoted rates hr long distance through traffic vfcieh baa enabled that city to com-a- n ell over the country with otb-- a cities manufacturing the same podoct. Rates might be doubled or nee tripled for the city in question I the bill becomes lew. I lone Idee ot the opposition to be bill may be gained when it to alaed that most of the Industries h the larger cities are fighting it thus the senators from agriculture 4 states are favoring it. on the subject fill ( Speeches tohunes of the dally record. The has been up for discussion for 3 years. Tbs problem of water importation through the Panama eaal and Inland water ways is rested to the whole question of stan If ths Gooding bill becomes nr, the whole system of trana por-t- o rates will come in for revibe by traffic managers all over For Wars roan-enuri- m e eountry. ( The general argument indicate ms tar that the concentration of tallies in any one locality would n most affected by the law and tot the whole to not unto the tariff problem In that Individual no here will vote according to the Beet on their local Industries, nrty lines are likely to disappear a the voting because it to a al rather than a political quee- sea-tot- ( . Bed up with the matter of of rates to the recent salon of the Interstate commerce xeunmlon denying seven western alroada the right to reduce their narcnntinmtal rates. They sought the reduction so as be able to get some of the going to much roast to coast vie thecheaper Pans-t- o anal than across the continent. I predicted that under the bill, the interior of the tosiry would be dotted with little Mortal centers and that the totem farmer would have a bet-- f market than heretofore. a contended that this would tongs the status of the American r from a single crop basis to torwfled agriculture. Chambers of ' commerce and y railroads on the other hand to Ptot the fabric 7 present iBee all over the eountry J the Gooding bill comes into ef- and they are making a power- fight to defeat the measure. outcome, the senate will vote at I o'clock Wednesday on tho Gooding bill to prohibit railroads from making a greater charge for a short haul than a long haul over the same lino to meet water competition. The measure was passed at the last session by a vote of 64 to It, but died la the hones. Thus ths ln- -t ermountaln territory lost In a fight started against the transcontinental carriers, so years ago. Admittedly the recent decision ef ths Interstate commerce eommto-eto- a denying the application of a group pf railroads to reduce rates on 47 commodities from Chicago to Pacific coast points to meet Panama canal water competition will figure largely in the vote. Used By Both hides. This- decision has been emphasised by opponents of tho Ooodtng measure ae a reason qhy decision should he left with the commission and that agency should not .be put In a straight Jacket. On the other hand, proponents of the bill have argued that so long as there to a possibility of a down departure from the rule laid InterIn the fourth section of the state commerce act Industry In the territory annot be - Inter-mounta- developed. The Gooding bill differs materially from that ons acted upon a year ago, Tho first measure proposed that within a year after enactment of tho legislation tho Incommission terstate commerce should eliminate all violations to in a proviso the present There bill that violation! In offset on Dec. 7. 1626, would not be eliminated except upon order of tho commission. lobbying Charged. ( The railroads, bavs vigorously opposed both measures, and during the senate debate recently there have been charges of a railroad lobby In tho halls of Congress. There have also been allegations of an organised propaganda conducted by chambers ot commerce over the country. Should tho measure be passed by tbs senate again the fight would be only halt won. for tho house still would bavo to act. Bumntertoed. tho argument of withproponents of tho hill to that transout such legislate inland portation cannot be developed and the great Interior territory of the west must always remain agricultural country because industries cannot be developed where a region m-thto forced to meet a discrimination ' In freight rate. On the other hand, opponents PjSELESS NATION their view that a hive 3JECT OF DRIVE BY greateremphasised charge forto a abort haul In than a long haul to neceaaaay SAFETY ENGINEERS many to be develcases If there secopment of industries In certain alor If those SjSr TORk. March II. (AP) tions of the country are to be given iTvilininary plans for a coun-to- ready developed effort to and noises that af-- ? their fair share of tbo trade ot the me nerves, cause lose of States. United sleep impair the hearing were today by H. W. Mowery, f the American Society Believe Family Lost on otoTV Engineers committee for elimination of harmful noises. L&ke Are Safe on Isle mWclane, psychologists and will join In devising tojatrieu LEAMINGTON. OnU March II. of the health of Belief that James Phipps, totone protecting from the ill effects of hto(AP) wife and four children, thought to. ha said. Erie March 1. may la Lake nude by trolley cam lost tojes a reecae extill he alive, caused wg power stations and Indus-Plan- ts pedition to start- - across the ice will be measured by to ascertain the differ, from Kelly Island to Middle Island late yesterday to .see if tho family intensities that result in harm- - to j there. Middle Island, which to a lighthouse station in summer, to uninhabited In winter. Fire. which Aoni at. may have been kindled as signals, were sesa there end the rescue expedition was organised immediate- "f "1 t, m. V es an-to- ed K ly. Divorcee Held For Trying To Kill Sleeping Women CHICAGO. March II (AP Mra Inaa Osborne, a divorce, was arrested today charged with assault with Intent to murder Mra Beatrice Caine, wife of John T. Caine, a department manager for the American Can company, whom aba beet with a golf slab. Borne time last night Mra Oe- irae eftntd the Gaiae apartment and hid in a closet, police said. it remained until after Mra has got too fight Caine bad goo to sloop. Having de6d to get provided herself with tho club and one or speed wbether two - dollars far a revolver, the woman fhrtoualy reducin' v (By Special Correspondent for the Deseret News.) Woman Probation Officer WASHINGTON, March 22. On the eve of the beginning Who Sought to Assist of the senates investigation of the tariff commission, which is recognized as a move directed against President Coolidge Family Shot By Father himself, the president is reported not the least perturbed. Of Ten Before Children. It is said by tjiose who have talked with him on the subject that he is satisfied with every move he has made regarding the commission and that he has no apologies to Crazed Engineer Runs offer. From House With Smok- ing Gun in Hand; Police Supreme Expect Battle to Finish. A SECY. DAVIS. SHARON, Pa, March It. (AP) Jamee Da via secretary of tho U. 8. department of labor, has declined to enter the race for tho Republican nomination for governor to Pennsylvania I waa early taught in school. ho said, of sticking to tho job and respecting one's chief. The president has expressed to mo hto sincere gratification with my service and hto wish that 1 remain with him In tha cabinet. Ono can receive no greater recognition Court to Review Doheny Oil HAMMOND, Ind, March II. who (IKS) Lester C. Simpkins, hot and killed Mra. Lucille Myera. probation officer, 'when aha came to hto home to inquire about tbe welfare of hto nine children, to believed to have been located in heavily wooded eountry south of here and a sheriffs posse has been rushed there. It to believed that Simpkins, suffering from periodic Insanity, will put up a battle when cornered. Simpkins, described by neighbors as a shiftless husband and fathsr, waa a civil engineer. He quarreled with a neighbor severalto months ego and stoee then he aid to have neglected hto family. Mrs. Myers, as probation officer, called on the family to sea If she could aid them. children Six of tho Simpkins the shooting. According to tha story told by Margaret, 14, Mra. Myers wee questioning the children ae to thqir welfare, when her father walked la and announced that House Acts on Opposi- If there we any talking to be dons he would do tt. said tion Papa was aftrful mad, Treasury to Margaret. When Mrs. Myers ig' Government nored him and contlauM to ask us questions, he pulled out hto revolver and shot her." ership Project. Mrs. My ere rode to tho Simpkins home in an automobile with her 14 year-old eon. He ant outside He told police he did not hear the WASHINGTON. March II. (AP ) --Secretary Mellon has been hooting, hut said when ha aaw running from the house requested by the house irrigation Simpkins with a smoking revolver in hto committee to draft a new bill em- hand, ha guessed what had hapbodying the treasury plan for fi- pened. Toang Myers said bo rushed Into nancing construction of the Bould. house end found hto mother er canyon development of tho Col- the lying on the floor surrounded by orado river. the Simpkins children. She was Secy. Mellon In a letter, to the still living and bs rushed her to St. Margaret's hospital where she bouse irrigation committee, ex- died a few minutes later. to pressed opposition government la the room next to her at the ownership of tho project, and made hospital lay Mrs. Simpkins, wlfs of recommendations which would re- ths slayer, who, a few hours earlier quire revision of the had given birth to her tenth child. bill. She was not told of the tragedy. Secretary Mellon held that it Congress decided the government DENVER MAN ATTEMPTS TO should own and operate tho pro- BURN WIFE, GIRIe IS CHARGE ject then a change should be made In proposed method ot financing it DENVER. Oolo March 11 (AP) Henry Thomas, was arrested today npon complaint of hto whom he to esSeeks $50,000 Damages wife, Nellie, from tranged, that he had entered her From Duncan Sisters hotel room last night and eet fire to the bed in which aha and her It year-old daughter, were sleepSTRACUSE, N. T, March 12. (AP) Thomaa W. Spencer, bari- ingMrs. Thomas smothered the to tone, preparing an action In flames, with blankets, she said, supreme court here against Rosetta after husband had poured gasand Vivian Duncan, known theat- oline her some of her clothing and rically aa the Duncan sisters, for oa theoa bed. touched a match to $64,006 for alleged breech on con- them and fled. tract Hto attorney stated yesterday that the complaint would set forth French Demand that the Duncan sisters not only discharged Spencer unlawfully and Leader Resign Sultan without paying him tor hto or-vicbut tbnt since then they have BT PAUL SCOTT MOWER. tried by every means to keep him out of employment Spencer holds the Deseret that hto professional standing has (Special sable toDally News.) been ruined. PARIS. March II. France again hea offered peace to Hto emissaries even now are re- av of Own of Lease Voiding Case Appeal Is Granted On Question of Pay For Navy Tanks. WASHINGTON, March t. (AP) The Supreme court agreed today to review Lower court deci- sions cancelling ths oil lessee and contracts which Edward L Doheny negotiated with Albert B. Fall, aa secretary of the interior. Involved In the case are the Elk Hill Naval oil reserves la California and the contract between companies end the government by which the oil magnate has constructed bags oil reserve tanks for the navy at tho Hawaiian naval base at Pearl Harbor. While agreeing on cancellation, the district oourt and ths circuit court In California disagreed oa the qnesUoa of compensation for the storage tanka. Tbe district Court allowed but the circuit court overruled that decision. Besides this question the Supreme court to expected to go into all phases of the case, and particularly that as to tbe legality of the executive order issued by President Harding, la affect transferring Jur. todlctlon over the naval oil reserves from the navy to the interior department The civil actions at Issue grew out of the sensational senate Investigation two years ago into the leases made by Fall with both Doheny and Harry F. Sinclair, the latter Involving the Teapot dome naval oil reserve In Wyoming. Do-bea- $10,-000,(- Swing-Johns- -- Riff as es, News-Chlca- go Abd-El-Krl- turning to the Riff with the French terms Chief of these to that he must recognise the religious authority of ths present sultan of RAILS AGREE TO LINCOLN, Neb.. March II (AP) Fred L. Johnson, special deputy sheriff of Polk county, arrested for the killing of Herbert Cochran, waa brought to the state penitentiary here last night for safe kseping. This action was taken after a crowd, described aa threatening had gathered at the This Investigation of the tariff to unique. It to the nret inquiry actually Involving tbe Coolidge administration. All of the other investigations of the past two or three years, including the oil and Daugherty probes, had to do with acta of the Harding administration. With the present Inquiry, which will be conducted under the chairmanship of the Democratic leader In the senate, Mr Rpbinson, of Arkansas. it to different. There to no question but that the Democrat hope to "get some thing" on the president which can be used in the campaign this fall, and if successful they can be held over for use la 1(21. The Democrats have made up thetr minds that It to President Coolidge rather than the Republican party which they have to fight. The Republicans want President Coolddge to be the issue in the coming campaign: the Democrats want to attack that issus. Remains Confident. President Coolidge to reported as firmly convinced that his every act with respect to tho tariff com mission and It personnel was correct, from hto point of view. He has aeked no one to explain hto position or to apologise for him. Mr. Coolidge seems the least Interested of anyone directly or remotely connected with the Inquiry. Meantime, there to much discussion in Washington as to the usefulness or useleseneaa of the tariff commission. The theory that tha tariff commission would take the tariff out of politics has proved all wrong The tariff will forever be a political toaue. There to a growing sentiment In the capital that the present Investigation may pave the way to abolishing the commission, although the Democrats connected with the inquiry disclaim any such Inten tlon. If the tariff commission to to be considered purely ae a fact finding body, tbe work which It to doing. It to admitted cotild better be performed by a bureau In the department of commerce for instance. Burden oa President. As bureau work under the department of commerce. Inquiries Into tariff matters would be in' their natural atmosphere. The department of commerce to collecting trade Information all the time. Recommendations on tbe tariff fact would be left to the secretary of commerce and naturally would reflect the views of the administration In power. It to recognised the tariff most always reflects one or another poA tariff bureau litical opinion. would taka much of the burden off the president. At the present time, virtually the whole burden of final decision rests on the chief executive. The tariff eommtosioners can step from under. That to why the present Inquiry to directed at tha president (Copyright, 1124.) Osceola JalL Johnson said he attempted to arrest a group of boys who were Women Name Board to gambling on the steps of a bank Sex in Office here, the boys ran and he attempted io fire above their heads to halt them. One bullet struck March WASHINGTON. II young Cochran and ha fell dead (AP) A national committee to Much excitement baa been aroused unite women In a campaign to put the by killing. members of thetr aex In public office to work for equal rights with men has been named by the nation- Put Their Autos Kill 12; Hurt 18 In Chicago in One Day al woman's party. Mias Mabel Vernon of Wllming ton. Del., and Dr. Caroline Spencer of Colorado Springs, Colo., both CHICAGO. March II. (INS) members of thq party's national Twelve dead. It injured Chicagos council, head tb committee. Local automobile casualties for the first committees will be formed In many cities and the candidates for office day of spring. at i elected will be announced Sunday's casualties bring the total deaths for 1420 to 1(4, or 44 "women for Congress conference' more than were killed in the samt to be held In Baltimore beginning STRIKE HARD Abd-El-Krl- m j 1 t ATHOPNOW IS ADVICE OF EXPERT ON WEEDS It 5 Missing Man Police; Action Ev As Outrage A Senate and S commission Morocco, Moula Touaeef. This to the whole difficulty, for la 1(11 had himself proclaimed sultaa and hto whole propaganda since then has been based upon the idea that Moula Pouaeef waa a mare French pup- period last year. May 16. under th Koran. Will Meet Western Em- pet and hence, Ineligible to be commander of the faithful. ployes April 5 on According to the Koran, there cannot be two sultana Either Increase. Moula Touaeef or must abdicate the title. Ae Moula Touaeef to the cornerstone of tbo French protectorate CHICAGO, March II. (AP) there to no question of him Arrangements were completed at a system, But abdication seems abdicating. Deseret News Launches Campaign to Nip Pest. Beof westmeeting representatives of almost equally difficult for ern railroad executives with L. E. for this backward step fore Regains Lost Strength. Sheppard, president of the order of would perhaps ruin hie prestige In the Riff. William O. Railway Conductors, C.hances of peace, therefore, Lee of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and other brotherhood sero slight, (Copyright, 1424.) The season has arrived for farm- pearance again and despite the officials, for a wage conference to ers to strike herd at their enemy early season has already attained was held be bow April 6, it learned the White Top weed peat. This to a growth of four Inches in many GLORIA SWANSON ILL. The sections. In the vicinity of Spancent broadcast the message by yesterday. with ish Fork and other heavily infestThis win mark the opening of NEW TORK. March IX (INS) Deseret News In to Gloria Swanson .scree star, the state department of agricul- ed areas In Utah county the weed negotiations for a wage Increase for' all branches of the railroad slightly ill In her apartment here ture Monday. up thicker prouts are coming are falling to than ever, it was said. err , which if granted would In- with an attack of Influent i Miss Agriculturalists W crease the peyro to of eiaae 1 rail- Swensons secretary paid the oct- take early control measures for to be erndf white the "If top roads more than $600,000,000 an- rees would probably be forced to eradication of this pest said In-H. cated there must be no further de' weeks bed In but two for remain will J. Webb, state agricultural nually. The AprU I conference lay In cultivating infested lands represent aboat 100,000 ' employee declared her condition was not ser- - spector. The white top to making It ap- - (Continued on page six section two.) of Abd-El-Krl- m Magnus Johnson Says Minneapolis Seized, Made Intj ed to Stop Tea MINNEAPOLIS. Minn.. (AP) Asserting tha Senator Magnus Johnson, storm obtained evidence that os center in election contest, who de- witness! had been kldn( clare hto witness ha been seized prevent bis appearance ly1 by kidnaper. ct senate lone c Donald Hughes, counsel j nue Johnson, who seeks I Senator Thomas D. Schall) sot a, last night telegrap ator Charles Deneen in 1 ton asking that final d the Schall case, ecbedul day be delayed. j The witness, Hurha r Gale Plagman of Mlnnea; was sought in vain by J attorneys when the Schall bearing waa on In Washtn aral week ago. Johnson sought to hat unseated on the grounds had been elected I B. Lewis Takes senator aid of funds from boot' Hughes and Henry Tei, 22- - sub-ele- TESTIRESINTRt Arthur Stand in New York Murder; Trial; Asked Girl to Marry Him. NEW TORK, March II. (AP) Former State Senator Arthur B. Lewi of Utah, was the principal witness today against Harry yr. Cowan, on trial In Brooklyn for murder of hto fiancee, Edith M. Burton, last Dec. II. Between tears man told of hto ths stefriendship for the 1 nographer. Cowan, blind aa a result of attempting suicide after the girl's deatht, contends that she shot herself In a auiclda pact with him. Lewis aald hto acquaintance with Mies Burton began more than two years ago In a purely business way and that hto regard for her developed until the night before her death he asked her to msrry him. I received a telegram from my lawyer in Los Angeles stating that he had begun divorce proceedings' said Senator Lewis. Court questioning did not develop whet had been Mies Burtons an, swer. He said Mies Burton had regarded him ae a "daddy." . He described himself a a stock salesman for a gold mine In which he waa interested snd said that during recent years his inconis had not been great. He said he did not possess 1 100.000, the amount which Cowan In a letter discovered at the time of hto attempted suicide, said Mies Burton irtended to obtain from Lewis through marriage. paiga manager for Joh statements last night, all. Plagman had been kldne hto rooms In Mlnnea potto. I play employed," to pravs pearancs before the sub tee. ) The statements added ( fire men took Plagmaa, ( drank." and kept him prk til It was too lata to go to too. J Plagman was located J and wee arrested- by Mi police on charges of non - In hto telegram to Sat neen, Hughaa said ha hog commutes will not lgnora l rags against the senate SP Advto wUhhold report v Investigation this Ptogif . ter." f Committee Meets L For Muscle Mai WASHINGTON. Tha congressional Shoals committee entered negotiations for the leasin' government's $160,000,000. today when It met with F. burn, a New Tork construe pert, to discuss the term which ths property can he Hepburn was the first bidder to b heard by mtttee. All other Indhrla corporations interested in the Shoals project will hoa rings, however, before tempt to made to finally a lease. (TNS) 1 Daisy Simpson, For Dry Agent, Shoot EL PASO. Texas, Mar( The varied career a seta bilged Si who Simpson of law enforcement unique! of her sex. seems doomed to lc end In an El Paso hoaplp With a wound In her abdomen, the) old former prohibition agent methods of apprehending 4 violators were so drastic ) bring the censure of Federal upon her, hovered on the v death today. j Overcome by the shame I confinement after her arm charge of receiving iu through the ma'! she shot) late Saturday night after ap) WASHINGTON. March 12. her former associates falls nw senatr ( AP) prohibition re announced today that tain her release on bond. beginning April S, it would start hearing, com inning two weeks, tbo fire week to be devoted to tba WILLIE WILLl wets and the second to the dry. f AP) sub-rom- WASHINGTON. March 22, (AP) Public hearings on the prohibition question were ordered today by the senate Judiciary committee. Senator Walsh. Democrat, Mon. tana, alone opposed the recommendation of a of five in favor of open hearings. The will conduct the hearings. giving six days to ths wets, and an equal length of time to the dry i Income Tax Receipts Pass Estimate $20,000,000 WASHINGTON. March II (AP) March Income tax receipts Mamma thought Z W are expected by Secretary Mellon to amount to 1410.000,000, which licked tost night hut I esla $20,000,000 above hto original ter under Papa's timate. proud I was to be -- P' 1 |