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Show THE HARK S' HARVEST TIMES-NEW- L RUN HIGH BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IS OF FRAUDULENT PROMOTERS SCHEME ESTI-TIMAT- E Of United States Has Corner on Business of Being Shorn in 1925 Wildcat In- 'No Section vestments New York. Despite enactment In many states of the blue sky laws for Its protection,, the American public will pay $1,000,000,000 in 1925 to operators of fradulent stock schemes, promoters of sandy oil wells and financial wizards of the Ponzi type. The cost of credulity in 1924 was well over the billion dollar mark, and a report published by the better business bureau of New York indicates the still flourishing cult of gold brick artists may well claim another "normal year." Progress has been made, the bureau notes, toward safeguarding the inexperienced investor, but the most optimistic observer does not foresee legislation which will block entirely the game of the sharper. The habitat of the guilable is not confined to the rural sections, but is as wide as this' land of ours. The sigh of the dweller in Madison square joins the doubting inquiry of the squire in Madison corners in the daily grist of mailed complaints to the district attorney's office. Meantime, however,' the campaign against Wallingfordian machinations will be carried forward. The Martin act, now on the statute books of New York, is cited as an excellent deterrent to the use of stock certificates to separate the unwary from their assets. This law permits the speedy issuance of injunctions to restrain bucket shops and similar organizations. Through chambers of commerce, advertising clubs, and particularly through the new organizations closely related to both known as better business bureaus, the activities of the ubiquitous investment quack are being gradually curtailed. These bureaus have been established in forty cities, being maintained by banks, brokers, investment companies, newspapers and mercantile concerns. This summer, real estate, often coupled with the magic name of Florida, is one of the newest attractions for former stock swindlers. Others are venturing in the illicit liquor traffic, despite the collapse recently of the projects of the titled Briton, Sir Broderick Hartwell, and the oil fakers never quit. Oil Plant Hit By Fire Martinez, Calif. Damage estimated at half a million dollars was caused by fire at the refinery of the Associated Oil Company at Avon, four miles from here. vThe flames, which for a time threatened the entire plant, started shortly before 6 o'clock by an explosion In the preheating system on one of the stills. The fire was brought under control after more than two hours' fighting. About 500 men were used In bringing the fire under control. The chief loss was the main pump house and two stills, which were completely destroyed. Palmer Will Sell Ships Washington. President Palmer of the fleet corporation was authorized by the shipping board to sell to aliens for operation surplus lake type government merchant ships which can not be disposed of readily in the American market. Such ships, however, can be sold to foreigners only on condition that they shall not be used In trade with the United States. There are about 120 of them tied up at present. The action was taken after the board had rejected a recommendation of Mr. Palmer that he be authorized to offer for sale abroad surplus ships of all types that cannot be disposed of at home. FOR AMUNDSEN Events in the Lives of Little Men FRANCE IS READY I W NEPIII, UTAH S, ! T PARLEY rn i yrM-- - Tr (stt vativr i caooht Three of us to av the. ir iad h im - if it 'TELL p.nnu I ryews Notes c niniiTf ip irrum inii tr urn ui h ill UIILII OF U IU11 CREW TELLS OF HARDSHIPS MORE THAN THREE YEARS SPENT IN NORTH PLANS TO BE PROPOSED ARE NOT ANNOUNCED BUT IDEA IS SUGGESTED hu I Washington Officials of the American government have read with interest reports from Paris indicatng the terms whch the French debt commission,- when it arrives shortly after the middle, of next month, probably would present for settlement of the four billion dollar debt of France to the United States. How far the suggested terms of agreement reflect the opinion or the expectation of government and financial authorities in France,1 officials here were unable to determine, but it is said that in any event there was no reply they could make until after the arrival of the French delegation and until it had presented its proposals to the American debt funding commission The general opinion in circles close to the latter body was that the various debt settlement terms now coming from Paris are "trial baloons" which are being sent up for the purpose of sounding out public sentiment in the United States and if possible obtaining some slant also on the attitude of the government itself. There could be no objection, it was stated, to such a sounding out process and there could be no criticism of the French if this was the motive behind the unofficial debt conversations now going on. Nothing further has been hear in regard to the coming of the French commission. The date of their sailing, September 16, is the only official advice which has been received by the government, and none of the names of the delegates has been announced. The question as to whether the French minister of finance, Joseph Caillaux, himself will accompany the mission is still an uncertainty, as fas as Washington is concerned: The delegation is expected here about September 23. There is one outstanding fact in connection with the coming French negotiations, in the opinion of officials here, and that is that France is serious in her intentions. On this account it is believed an agreement wil be reached. France, they believe, recognizes the importance of getting this stumbling block to her future economic program out of the way and realizes that the American government does not desire a mere "gesture," but is anxious to have the debt question settled. It is asserted in well advised quarters that the delegation which is coming "means business" just as did the Belgian mission, and that the "will to settlement" should mean accomplishment. While no official reports have been received here as to the terms which the French will demand, there is no secret to the fact that they will ask for lenient settlement, for easy rates of. Interest, a long period in which to meet their payments and probably also for a moratorium. It is believed in well informed quarters that the French were somewhat disappointed at the terms of the Belgian settlement holding that it would be a precedent In certain particulars. While France will not have the same plea as Belgium where the "moral obligations" Incurred in connection with the actual war debt of that country was recognized and taken into consideration, It is thought France will bring forward certain other claims of leniency, Including the great ravages to her territory and properties and the immense sums which It had been necessary to spend for reconstruction work not yet completed. irorri Returned more than three years imprisonment in the ice packs of the north, the Amundsen schooner Maud is in port here, with the six men of its crew detailing strange stories of their adventures. The Maud ventured unsuccessfully into the Arctic regions, hoping to reach the north pole by drifting with the ice. Cross currents carried' the vessel northwest instead ' of north, thwarting the aim of the expedition. But although the pole was not reached, Captain O. Westing and his men have none the less an interesting story of their adventures, which they related to the United Press for the first time. With Captain Westing of the Maud were chief officer Carl Hansen, and radio operator M. Olon-ki- t, assistant engineer A. Malmret, assistant engineer S. Syversten, aviator O. Dahl and Dr. Harold Sverdrup, scientist of the party. Assistant Engineer Syversten died July 28, 1923, from complications of diseases brought on by polar hardships. The body was wrapped in a Norwegian flag, covered with canvas, and after funeral services were read by Captain Westing, the remains lowered into the water through a four foot hole in the ice. "It was a severe strain on all the Maud's crew to see our shipmate go into Davy Jones's locker, especially with our only means of transportation locked In the ice and the probability we would never get out." The only Eskimo aboard the vessel deserted in the winter of 1923, taking with him a gun and a shovel. Land was 400 miles distant, and the native headed in the wrong direction. Days later he wandered back to the Maud, nearly frozen. The Eskimo was warned not to leave again under penalty of being placed in irons, but hardly needed the admonition. He was later landed at his home, East Cape, Siberia. The Maud, in its northwest drift, passed around the Jeanette islands, 300 miles from the Herald islands, thence toward the Bennett islands, where Captain Westing received orders to return to. the United States. This order came in 1923, but due, to the huge icebergs which gripped the ship, no progress could be made. At one time the vessel was almost capsized, the captain and crew taking to the ice after loading the dog sleds with food and supplies and hitching the teams of fifteen Siberian logs, awaiting the Maud's loss. "But we did not have to abandon the ship after all," Captain Westing said. "The vessel was raised twenty feet out of the water by the ice pressure and had she not been solidly built would have been kindling wood in ten minutes. After being tossed about for two hours, the craft was released and settled back in the water on an even keel." In 1924 the Maud, still held a westward drift, worked her way across to the Siberian Bhore and passed the Kolyma river, thence drifted toward he north cape of the Chutkotsk Siberia. Release from the Ice came August 7 last, the Maud sailing for Nome , Editor Is Held As Slayer East Las Vegas, N. M. Carl A. Alburquerque newspaper editor and stormy petrel of New Mexico Ma-ge- politics, was formally branded as the slayer of John B. Iassetler, state highway employee In the verdict of a corner's Jury here. Magee shot Lnnxetter, a bystander, in a fight with his bitterest political enemy, former district Judge David P. Leahy, In the crowded lobby of an East Las Vegas hotel. A charge of first degree murder was filed against him and he is at liberty under $10,000 bond. The coroner's Jury verdict said that "came to his death by reason of Ray New Attorney For Idaho Swampscott, Mass. Iloyt E. Hay a gunshot wound on the left side of has been appointed United States his neck, caused by a bullet, fired from a gun in the hands of Carl Maattorney for the district of Idaho. gee." Veterans Register Protest Honolulu.- - The regional convenBelgian Debt Commission Sails New York. Members of the Beltions of the American legion here adopted resolutions against the al- gian debt commission have sailed for leged discriminatory attitude taken Europe on the Majestic, en route to former "by certain departments of the fed- Brussels. George Theunls, eral government against American premier, speaking for the party, said: citizens of Oriental ancestry, who "We agreed in coming here not to when traveling from Hawaii to the talk for publication and we are leav-In- g the same way." One member of mainland are unjustly and without reason deprived of certain rights." A the commission, howver, asked what committee was given authorization t attitude the Belgian people would lake up the situation with the federal take on the debt settlement arranged In Washington, answered, "I believe government they will be satisfied." Babies Have Narrow Escape Chicago. Seventeen babies, all under one month of age, were saved from suffocation when nnrses carried them from a smoke-fillenursery at the Presbyterian hospital. The smoke was from a fire In the hospital laboratory, resulting from an overheated culture Incubator, which was put oat with a minimum of damage. 17 d Las-sett- er o OFFIGULS T SURVEY IS GET POSITIONS NO II UNDER WAY JOHN VIVIAN IS NAMED DISTRICT HEAD; WILL BE IN CHARGE IN IDAHO AND UTAH FIVE HUNDREDTHOUSAND ACRES OF UTAH LAND TO BE SURVEYED THIS YEAR Plans Are Outlined For An Extensive Campaign Against The Bootleggers Which Will Start At Once Thirteen Crews Are Now In Field Surveying Lands That They May Be Further Opened Up And Developed Washington. Boldly admitting a vast demand for bootleg liquor in the United States and a tremenduously organized and unscrupulous industry to supply it, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lincoln C. Andrews has appointed his twenty-fou- r prohibition administrators and sent them out to dry up the nation. The new officers were supplied with a plan of attack upon the bootleg trade almost military in its thoroughness. Here is what Andrews intends to do to enforce prohibition under the new organization scheme as outlined in his instructions to his new chiefs' The government will seek treaties and negotiations with foreign governments to make smuggling more difficult. The coast guard will "form the first line on our sea fronts" and take the responsibility for preventing operations along the shore. Distilleries and breweries which are found to be sources of bootleg trade "will be proceeded against as nuisances and closed." Close with the justice department will be maintained under legal guidance toward arrest and punishment of major violators and special attention will be directed to clearing court dockets. A campaign of education will be undertaken to prove to all citizens that that bootleg liquor is Injurious to health and detrimental to public welfare, in an effort to cut down the liquor market. The reorganization personnel, Andrews announced, contains names of only seven new regional directors who did not hold some important post in the old regime. All the rest previously held state directorships or were divisional chiefs under Commissioner Haynes. Eight of the new administrators were state directors, five were divisional chiefs, three were acting state directors and one was chief of generul prohibition agents. Seven were appointed with temporary rank only and may be changed later. Salt Lake City. Of 500,000 acres of public lands which will be surveyed in Utah before the close of the summer season, approximately 250,000 acres of industrial lands will be made ready for the quicker development of coal, oil, Bhale, potash and grazing, according to G. D. Kirkpatrick, district cadastral engineer in charge for Utah and Nevada, operating under the surveying service of the general land office with headquarters in Salt Lake. By segregation and definite determination, these lands will be available immediately for many operations already proposed and on foot. There are four crews now in the field in Nevada and nine in Utah. In this state parties are surveying coal lands near Helper in Carbon county, oil lands in San Juan, shale lands in Grand county, potash lands along the western border near Wendover and grazing lands in various localities. The total that will probably be surveyed for the year in both states will be 750,000 acres. The general conditions of the survey is better than it has been for several years, Mr. Kirkpatrick said. The department is only 750,000 acres behind the demand for surveys, whereas four years ago it was more than 2,000,000 acres behind. Another benefit that is being derived from present catching up with the work is an increase in state revenue, following the designation of four sections of school land in each township surveyed, permitting the state to dispose of and trade in these lands for development purposes. Tax Collectors Are Increased Washington. Tax reduction advocates have received additional comfort from a treasury tabulation showing that. In spite of the lower schedules which became effective this year, Internal revenue collections for July amounted to $125,866,639, compared with $110,814,885 during the same month of 1924. The decreases due to the new law included a drop from In July, 1924, to $1,500,000 In July, 1925, on amusement tickets, and there were also reductions In receipts from various other forms of sales and consumption taxes. There were considerable gains from tobacco and corporation taxation. The total collection of Income tax from corporations and Individuals during July was In July last year It was . Wife Hunter Tries New Methods Chicago. Disappointed when mar trimonial advertisements failed. Llmerkln, 30, caBt aside refined methods and went out like a cave man of old to "fetch" a wife home. Soon police were receiving a steady from women stream of complaints who said they were being annoyed Llmerkln by proposals. explained that he had heard that women "fell" for direct action. He was charged with disorderly conduct. Her-sche- , Taylor Quits Official Position Dr. Henry C. ..Taylor, Washington. chief of the bureau of agricultural economics of the agricultural department, has resigned at the request of Secretary Jardine. Thorn :s P. Cooper, dean of the agricultu.-a- l college of the University of Kentucky, has been chosen to succeed him. Dr. Taylor quit the department, where he has served since 1919, only after Secretary Jardine, with whose policies he does not agree, had requested him to do so. Some time ago the secretary Indicated that a resignation would be acceptable, but Dr. Taylor declined to follow the hint. Instead ho consulted a lawyer as to the lega1 right of a secretary, who had been i, the department but a comparatively Rhort time, to force him out of office The controversy came to a clima: when Secretary Jardine, from a sic? bed at Walter Reed hospital, sen word that the resignation must b submitted at once. The change abou completes Mr. Jardine's reorganize tlon of the department, although few minor officials, particularly In tht bureau of agricultural economics stil, are expected to go. U. S. Redeems Wilson Pledge When the Americar Washington. government recognized Beliglum'i claim to special treatment in pay ment of her war debts. Secretary Mel Ion said It redeemed a promise o President Wilson which at the tlnv it was made was so Important tha It forestalled disruption of the Vei sallies peace conference. Alaska. Trotsky Again In High Position Warsaw. Advices from Moscow re port the return to power of Leoi Trotzky with the appointment of th former war minister as chief of thi economic council. His restoration ti a position of Influence had been ct pected in Polish circles, where It wa considered that his strengthened poi ularlty were too great to permit o keeping him long under probation b cause of the possibility of his becom Ing the bead of soma antl soviet move ment. chief-engine- er . pen-;nsul- Vugust 21. 'The little ship was in radio with Spitzbergen every vlnter from January to March and leard a number of United States A newspaper iroadcastlng stations. vas published aboard ship, helping o break the terrible monotony. President's Guards Found Asleep Mass. Two marines f the special detail assigned to guard he summer White House were found sleep at their posts of duty. Charges f neglect of duty have been prof err-- d againt them and Captain Adol-hu- s Andrews the president's naval tide, has ordered an investigation. SwampRcott, Helen Wills Again Captures Title ForeBt Hills, N. Y. Miss Helen Wills won the national women's ten-ll- s title for the third successive year vhen she conquered Miss Kathleen McKane of England in a thrlling three-se- t match, 6-- 6-- U. S. Envoy Is Found Dead Arthur States minister to Haiti since Montreal. P.allly-Blanchar- United '914, was found dead In his bedroom at the Mount Royal hotel here. The In a coroner's Inquest resulted verdict of death by natural causes. arrived in MonMr. treal August 19, but his presence here had been unknown to the American consulate. He registered as from Rochester, N. Y., although his home was In New Orleans. Ballly-Ulanchar- En i i UTAH i Ogden. The city commissioner have taken steps to curb high prices for refreshments sold at concessions of two circuses which will show in Ogden soon. It is expected that City Recorder J. Herman Knauss, Jr., will, demand an agreement that nominal prices will be charged before a license is granted the show owners. Coldest Weather Experienced Is SevBears enty Below; Twenty-TwAre Brought Down on Trip; No Place for Airplanes DRY 1 AF-TE- R Washington Predicts Leniency Of Terms If Definite Settlement Can Be Reached At The Conference Nome, a Salt Lake City. W. J. Parker la ohairman of the Democratic state ommittee. His election by acclamation at a session of the state committee held in the Newhouse hotel, at, which almost every county of the state was represented. He succeeds Harden Bennion, who resigned last March before qualifying for the position of commissioner of agriculture, to which he' was appointed by Governor George H. Dejn. The Utah Construction Ogden. company has dispatched an advance camping party and a carload of horses to Salina canyon, where the company miles of railroad will build twenty-sitrack for the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad company. Actual construction work will be under way as soon as preparation for it can be made, according to Warren L. Wattis secretary of the company. x Ogden. Two men who gave the. names of James Monroe, 26, an iron moulder of Ogden, and Tom Moore, 40, of Pennsylvania heavily armed and other and with nitroglycerine safecracking necessities, were arrested by Ogden police about fifteen minutes after an explosion wrecked the safe of the Ogden commission house ,238 Washington avenue. During the day Moore and Monroe were put under a heavy grilling by Chief of Detectives Robert Burk and Chief Allison, but refused to admit they blew the safe. Bountiful Twelve persons were injured and several others badly shaken up wheh the southbound Bamberger Electric passenger train on which they were riding' clashed into the rear end of a freight train just south of Bountiful. Logan. Kenneth C. Ikeler, formerly professor of anima.1 husbandry at the Iowa state college, was appointed professor of animal husbandry at the Utah Agricultural college at the regular monthly meeting of the board of trustees held at the college. Professor Ikler has been manager of a large commercial livestock firm in Towanda, Pa., during the last five years. Salt Lake City. Death made its second dramatic entry at the Utah State Fair grounds as an accompaniment to roundup thrills, when Roy Kivett, a rider in the steer roping contest, was almost instantly killed when his horse rolled on him. Kivett is the man who shot and killed Harry Edward Bowles at the first frontier roundup, August 29, 1924. within 200 yards of where he was killed. A large crowd of spectators looked on as the steer came to the end of Klvett's rope, throwing the steer In a headlong Jerk, while at the same time horse nnd rider sprawled in a cloud of dust, the horse rolling completely over Kivett, breaking his neckand crushing his skull. Logan. A question thought settled when City Judge Preston sustained the demurrer in the case of the state vs. George W. Thatcher, B. G. Thatcher and William Specker, charged under an obsolete state law as owners of the Capital theatre, with conducting picture shows on Sunday, was revived when Judge Harris of tho district court rendered his decision on appeal, reversing the decision of the lower court and reopening tha case for prosecution. Logan. A special meeting of the board of county commissioners has been called to consider the error made In the county tax levy which was brought to light when state officials notified the commissioners that the levy of 2.05 mills for the general fund exceeded the state limit of 1.8 mills. fialt Lake City. While there was some Interruption In the honey flow In Duchesne county this year, with iio result that It will not be quite so that In large as was anticipated, Uintah county has continued steadily throughout the summer. It Is reported by D. H. Hillman, state apiarist, who has Just returned from a trip Into the Uintah basin. H reports the proportion of disease among the bees diminishing, though not yet entirely eradicated. ten-da- y Kantaa City Bugle Corpt One hundred of Kansas City's civic lenders recently contributed $10 each to finance b drum and bugle corps which Is being orgnnlred to represent that city st the nntlonal American Legion convention at Omaha this fall. Patientleu Patient Dentist I'Hrdon me. Miss, Just moment I must have a drill. Tatlentless Patient For heaven's sake, can't I have my tooth filled wlfh-u- t a rehearsal? New York Medley. |