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Show THE GRANTSVILLE NEWS, GRANTSVILLt, UTAH. Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth CRUSADE OPENED THE TEUTON UNES STILL VITAL FACTOR RECRUITING NATION GROUND FOR MONEY WITH WHICH TO CARRY ON WAR. BRITISH TROOPS KEEPING ENEMY ON THE ALERT CON8TANT ATTACK8. VESSELS BEING SUNK MORE RAPIDLY THAN THEY CAN BE HILT BY ALLIES. ENTIRE nt - ed which to carry on the war. To obtH In subscription a, tl $3,000,000,000 minimum set by treasury officials f the issue, a gigantic machine of mat ry a- - parts has been set in moth with the opening of the campaig Fifty per cent greater than the fir Liberty loun, the present offering the largest the American people ev hare been called upon to absorb. Five pillion dollars and ten mlllh subscribers tliut is the goal which c flclnls hope to reach during the ne: four weeks. The services of virtual every Industry of the nation have be enlisted. Hundreds of thousands of divldunls, firms and corporations w unite in giving all or a part of the time in carrying the work forward. Secretary McAdoo opened the car paign formally with a speech in Clev land, O., and Is now on a trans-conental tour which will take him in virtually every section of the count and keep him on the road till Octob 25, the day before the subscript! books close. More than 26,000 banks working u der the guidance of the twelve fej-erul reserve banks, regional headquarters for the loun, will be the treasurys first lieutenants. The entire press of the country daily newspapers, weel ly and monthly magazines, trade papers, foreign language publications und fa m papers which coutrobuted so Inrgi iy to the success of the first issue, ujill work for the success of. the second. Chambers of commerce, boards trade, manufacturers associations s kindred organizations have phuty their active and unstinted efforts the campaign. Patriotic societies the score have been enlisflSJWs'-- v ell as school children, church and sell ooi labor unions ffatet nal ' organisations, societies. Boy scouts, veterans of the last campaign, are planning a drive for second loan. Womens oiwaplzntl from coast to coast have bee5 slialed under the lendersliip of central womens Liberty loan conn headed by Mrs. W. G. McAdoo, i nd tens of thousands of local committ ses of both men and women will aid the chief towns and cities. in ed le- - ha to es Claims That of Alabama Representative House Have of 8enate and Members is Acted Suspiciously ard Probe ier Will Follow. ce on strength of the other allies ns her own forces will add. "However large and powerful the army which the United States trains during the winter, it may be rendered absolutely useless as nn addition to the fighting forces against Germany if there are no ships to transport it except nt the cost of stopping the flow of vital necessities to the present armies. The loss of shipping since the be- -' war is ginning of the ruthless now roughly equal to the total losses prior to that time. By next spring Germany may be expected to destroy 200 vessels in excess of what are buUt in the meantime. Next spring this year's harvest will be largely exhausted and the need of supplying Italy, France and Great Britain will be largely increased. At the same moment the United States will need a large increase in vessels to transport its army und maintain it ut Oxman Acquitted. er ly Representative Fred A. Britten of William 'E. Chicago, RepretiBlitatlve Mason of Chicago, Representative Patrick D. Norton of North Dakota and Representative John M. Baer of North Dakota. These names were brought out by Heflin when lie appeared before the house rules committee which is considering resolutions offered by Norton and Fordney of Michigan to probe the Bcrnstorff fund and Its application to congress. When word came that he had mentioned these five, sentiment demanding an Immediate and exhaustive inquiry spread like wildfire through the membership of the house. Republicans and Democrats joined in demanding that the house take up the matter and lind out once and for all if Rep- resentative Heflin had any ground for mentioning names in connection with his German propaganda cause. If the resolution Is not reported soon any one of the several members is likely to rise to a point of highest privilege and force either Heflins proof or his expulsion from the house. Of the men named, four were in Washington Thursday. Senator La declined to answer questions concerning the Heflin charges. Norton, Britten and Baer issued warm retorts. Mason was in Chicago. In an impassioned speech Heflin demanded that the rules committee ask for a general Investigation so that he Fol-let- te learn: exchanged between Secretary Daniels and the navul commandant at Tearl harbor were transmitted between Hawaii and Snyville, L. A., approximately 5000 miles, withminutes. in thirty-thre- e Where the money came from that produced literature supporting the Britten resolution to exempt service from military 2. Gerinun-Amerlca- ns abroad. 3. What congressmen are planning to line up with the Nonpartisan league that elected Baer and which is said to oppose the war. 4. Who was In the organization La Follette is championing that would leave the president without an army. 5. Why Norton insists on turning over the proposed slush fund investigation against him, Heflin. Liberty-subscription- LA Liberty New York. Trading in Liberty 8M per cent government bonds at quotaGeneral Komlloff, who headed an at- tions running from 100.04 to jhe new tempted military counter revolution high premium of 100.24, was a feaIn Russia, will be ture .on the stock exchange Friday. eourt-martlale- FOLLETTE CRITICISED. Five Petitions Demand His Expulsion From the 8enate. Senator Robert MarWashington. lon La Follette of Wisconsin on Saturday fouud bitter public sentiment against him crystallized into demanding his expulsion from five-petitio- Heflin has threatened to implicate others besides the five already named. He declared he would name more of the suspicious thirteen or fourteen before a committee and, failing that, before the house Itself. The threats, with feeling so high, make an investigation certHin. Bonds Above Par. t mission. Messages anti-dra- ft A sslng. not. Goaded to name the men he accuses, he named these: Senator La Follette of Wisconsin, es were-brough- Mason. worth of as its share of the ,000,000 or more to be Bubacr bed gliout the United States, rece ved st encouraging precampaign Start day when Col. Enos A. fall, mown mining man, authorize! the inse of bonds amounting to $ 150,- - ! pro-Germ- activities. With his startling accusations he immediately removed all doubt that there will be a congressional investigation. Nothing can prevent it now, whether the administration wishes or L Where the money came from that produced literature supporting the bill of Representative Col. Wall Does His Bit Lake City. Utahs cnmimlg i to Plaee Guards on Ships. Jma, Peru. Peruvian naval fo rces Saturday were placed on board e German steamships and rman sailing vessels which hi laid up at Callao since eurly war. Parts of the machinery vfere The Bemstorff $50,000 Washington. Slush fund scandal took a new turn on September 27, when Representative Thomus Heflin, of Alabama, created a sensation by naming five legislators and demanding Information of what connection they had, if any, with might Armenians Slain .With Axes. New York. Hie slaughter with ajees of all the Armenian faculty members of Anatolia college, Mnrsovan, northern Asia Minor, together with 1200 others by Turkish peasants whose pay for the work was the privilege of stripping the clothing off their victims bodies, was described here by the Rev. leorge B. White, president of the col- to :hls ?ge, who recently returned ountry. $12,000,000 HUE LEGISLATORS id BERNSTORFF 8LU8H FUND SCANof DAL TO HAVE AN AIRING A8 RESULT. San Francisco. Frank C. Oxman, Durkee, Ore., cattleman, wns acquitted Friday of a charge of attempted subSTATE FAIR AT 8ALT LAKE. ornation of perjury growing out of the conviction of Thomas J. Mooney on a Thousands Attend and Fair F ro-- murder charge in connection with the nouneed Decided Success. preparedness parade bomb explosion The thirty-n- ! nth here last year. Salt Lake City. annual Utah State fair opened I 29. The initial day found p Foreign Ship Bill Passed. The administration every exhibit in place, ind Wasrington. every building and outdoor booth bill to permit foreign merchant ships crowded by sightseers. Live stock, in- to engage In American coastwise trade cluding horses, cattle, sheep, go its, was passed by the house without a and swine, poultry, pigeons, rabbits, roll call. It now goes to the Benate, horticulture, floriculture, agrlculti re, prompt action being expected. dairy products, bees, mines, manufacturers and merchants' products, hue GENERAL KORNILOFF arts, educational institutions, boys and girls' club work, womens work machinery, Red Cross activities all thse were included in the exhibits for fhe entertainment of the visitors. Thousands attended the fair and the genurnl opinion expressed was that It was an unqualified success. t . iSt ct BY London. The veil of secrecy which had hung over the operations along the British front in Belgium and northern France since the latter part of the week still remained Impenetrable on Sunday so far as the news offerings of the British war office are concerned. Since Friday nothing except brief statements had reached the outside world from Field Marshal Haig's headquarters. The Berlin official communication of Sunday, characterizes the artillery duel along the Belgian coast and1 canal southward to the as severe." Berlin also Indicates that troops are keeping the FRANCE IN SPRING the British enemy on the alert by stabs at various points from reconnoitering parties. Meanwhile, the Italians have started MEN NOW IN AMERICAN CAMPS another big offensive against the ' TO COMPLETE THEIR TRAIN- Austrians on the Isonzo front. ING IN FRANCE. The Austrians, realizing the strategic value of the Italian gain, have delivcounter-attackAdditional Hundreds of Thousands of ered extremely heavy no to but purpose. Fighting Men to Be 8ecured Through Austrian Efforts Fail. a 8econd Draft Which May the Italians continue their Dally Be Made Any Time. ueriul bombardments of Austrian positions with large quantities of exWashington. Flans are now In plosives. The great fortress of Pol& preparation at the war department, again has received a visitation and according to information obtained on enemy depots at Berle, near Nabiisina, September 25 to have a large propor- northeast of Triest on the Gulf of' tion of the drafted men now entering Triest, have been bombarded. training catnps in France by early Keeping up their almost nightly atspring. tacks by air during the last week It is proposed to give the men the German air raiders again visited the rudiments of military duty and then London district and the Kent mid Estransport them to the American bnse sex coasts Sunday night Everywhere in France. There they will be put the raiders dropped bombs. It is rethrough a course of intensive training. ported that three of them By these means it is believed they down. will develop much more rapidly as A has been obtuined by stronghold soldiers besides opening the way to the British on through the Bagdud of tlie training of additional hundreds of .the muln Turks from the capture thousands to be secured through a sec- Ottoman in the region or position ond draft. Remndie. The Ottoman general Preparing for Second Call. Ahmed his staff and several Bey sooner than Tills call will be much men were taken prisoner, thousand has generally been believed, it is intiof guns and ama and quantity large reason mated, and this is largely the was munition cuptured. why the war department is so much Interested at present in proceeding REGULATING COAL INDU8TRY. with the immediate examination of the 7,000,000 registered men who have not Retailers' Margin Limited as Result of yet been called. Action of Fuel Administration. This proposition is tied up temporn. A. Garfield, federal Washington. arily by the fact that an appropriafuel administrator, took three imporcun tion is necessary before the work tant steps in the regulation of the proceed. The required appropriation coni industry on September .30. is Included in the general deficiency The margin allowed retail dealers is bill now before congress. set at 30 per cent above Figures are extremely taboo with tentatively maintained in 1915. In the margin they but it these war the days, department case no this will margin the differletis. no violation of the spirit of the to the ter of the censorship provision to ence between the cost of coni he and the his at dealer price yard state that it is hoped fo move approxthan f be the greater charges public draftof the to 200,000 imately 125,000 ed men to France to complete their the margin of this July. The price of anthracite pea coal at training there. CO cents a the It Is hoped in some quarters that ton. Peunsylvania is cut of end April. this can be done by the The classification of coal from the These troops would not be available Binull far western fields and the sumIn the for trench work until late mer at the earliest, but they would be prices permitted are announced fur in France and the political effect of the first time. They range from $1 & ton for Wyoming coal to $4.50 for their numbers would be great that from the state of Washington. a few 'Where there was talk only weeks ago of 750,000 men in France WIRELES8 RECORDS BROKEN. by spring, the prospects now are that the active fighting forces regulars Messages Transmitted Between Hawaii Iwl national guard, will be nearer and Sayvllle, N. J. ;;c ).()00 than 750,000. The new naval wireWashington. less station at Pearl harbor, Hawaii GEORGE M. R0LPH the most powerful in the world was opened September 29 with a new world's record for long distance transYpres-Comin- at at ti iit-te- e, HEFLIN ACCUSES Qg 1 THE Italians Have 8tarted Another Offensive Against Austrians Who Are Fighting Desperately But With- -, Apparent Success. to )1- ALLIES POUNDING the senate of the United States. One came from the Minnesota commission of public safety, two came me from Washington and a fourth from New York. The fifth came from La Follettes own home state. George M. Rolph of San Francisco to In charge of the sugar department of the United Statee food administration. He has been associated In the raw and refined sugar buelneea for nearly twen- ty yearoL Kelly to Have 8econd TrlaL Red Oak, la. The Rev. Lyn Georg J. Kelly, whose trial on a charge of complicity In the' VUlisca ax murders ended Thursday in a disagreement of second the Jury, will be tried the ' time. ... |