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Show THE FLYING CHINESE WAR IS I DRA ON CASUALTIES ARE TERRIFIC AS FIGHTING CONTINUES ALONG ENTIRE FRONT Artillery, chine Planet and Continue Bombfeng Guns Ma- Bomb-bardme- Warthipi Are TIMES-NEW- NEPHI. UTAH S. BUN EASTERN STATES Calling the Roll VISITED BY STORM END LONG PLIGHT RAINFALL SWELLS MANY RIVERS AND FILLS COAL MINES OF PENNSYLVANIA Provo. Work on the Provo canyoi road from Bridal Veil falls to th Wasatch county line will begin soon, according to Preston G. Peterson, Three Are Drowned When Banks of chairman of the state road commis sion, who reports that the contract River Cave In; Electric Wires was let to the Inland Engineering & Are Down arid Damage RECEIVE WILD APPLAUSE WHEN WORLD CIRCLING TRIP COMES TO END AT 8EATTLE Commander of Ninth Corps Area Represents President at Great Reception Given Flying Is Heavy Members Assisting Shanghai, The fiercest battle of modern China's history raged along the entire Shanghai front last week. Chi Hsieh Yuan's troops attacked first, hurling back Chekiang forces, who made gains in a surprise attack Saturday, but before long the battle assumed such intensity, it seemed both sides were on the offensive. Artillery, bombing planes and machine gun fire kept up a terrific bombardment that shook Shanghai. Lu Yuan Hsiang claimed advances at Kiating and Malu, while the Kiangsu forces were hammering at Liuho, aiming to capture the Woo-sun- g forts. The liner Empress of Australia, was lying at Woosung, hastily brought up the river, fearing a naval attack. Nanking warships were pouring shell fire into Liuho. The casualties were terrific and stench of twelve unburied dead miles from Shanghai drifted penetratingly over the city. A plague was threatened. American destroyers were rushed back to Woosung and sailors enjoy ing shore leave were ordered to their ships at once. of Chinese Shanghai, Hundreds soldiers were killed and many others e wounded on a front from Nansiang to Malu. According to a witness who returned after traversing the sector from Nans-ianto Malu, west of Shanghai, both sides were drenching the lines with shrapnel. Numerous relief stations behind e ,the front were Chekiang filled with wounded, while scores of others were arriving on stretchers. The offensive which has resulted in continuous firing since it opened on Saturday morning, has enabled the Chekiang forces to drive the Kiangsu troops back six,mi'e.j, according to General-- ' Hsia Chao-Licommander of the Chikiang forces in the center of activity. six-mil- six-mil- n, Mrs. Ferguson Will Ge Candidate Mrs. Miriam A Austin, Texas, nominee for Ferguson, Democratic governor of Texas, is eligible to hold that office, District Judge George Calhoun ruled here. The ruling was made in answer to a suit filed by Charles Dixon, San Antonio attorney, to keep "Ma" Ferguson's name off the ballot on the ground that the state constitution implied the gov ernor of Texas must be a man. Calhoun placed the stamp of approval upon the right of Mrs. Ferguson and other women to hold office under the state statutes. Calhoun held that the state constitution does not permit the holding of office by women and overruled the contention that he was without jurisdiction in the case. No tice of appeal was- - filed by Dixon. Peace Parley at Critical Stage Geneva, A grave crisis prevails in the peace discussions through Japan's insistence upon an amendment to the proposed protocol of arbitration and So critical is the situa security. tion judged to be that France sug gested that the Japanese amendment, which concerns the interpretation of state rights as related to arbitration and which everybody understood as referring to the immigration prob lem, should be considered calmly by a subcommittee. A motion by the French to thiar end was accepted by the arbitration commission. Sheriff Killed by Bandits Warsaw, Mo. Sheriff George Gar rett Gromer was shot to death here by bandits whom he attempted to arrest after discovering them looting a store. The bandits had robbed the Missouri Pacific railway station here and were breaking into the store when Gromer saw them. The men fled after killing the officer. Asks Contract Renewal Buenos Aires, A dispatch to La Nacion from Rio de Janeiro irays the Brazilian ministry of marine has re quested the foreign ministry to ask the American government to renew for another year the contract of the American noncommissioned officers the American naval belonging to mission. Bible Supports Death Penalty Chicago, Declaring that capital punishment "is legal and backed by the Chicago scriptural authority, Lutheran conference of the Missouri synod, largest of the Lutheran bodies, issued a statement quoting the Bible in support of the death penalty. To offset the arguments of those who, opposing the death penalty, quote) the Bible in support of their claims, the statement quoted being taken from Genesis Ix, ft. Notes News From All Parts of UTAH Heavy rain during Philadelphia, the early part of the week caused streams to rise rivers and other rapidly in eastern Pennsylvania. Sand Point Field, Seattle, Wash., The United States army aviators of ficially completed their flight around the world when they landed here ear ly in the afternoon of September Construction company of Ogden, and will be officially signed within a daj or two. Ogden. Kenneth Browning, son ol fireJohn M. Browning, world-famou- s arms inventor and Miss Ethel Fran ces Ernest, daughter of Mrs. J. W. Mullen of Laramie, Wyo., were mar ried in San Diego, Cal., according to word received here. Toole. Mayor F. M. Davis of thit city has authorized the payment of $100 reward for information whicr will lead to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons who set fire to the Tooele opera house and the auditorium. Salt Lake City. Word of the death . at South Manchester, Conn., of Wad-dAnthony Street, seventh postmas ter of Salt Lake City, has been received here by a nephew of the former postal official. Park City. When Angelo Fontana pointed a supposedly unloaded pistof at the feet of his friend, John Teb olla, and pulled the trigger, the wea pon was discharged. The bullet entered the instep of Febola's right fool and macja a painful wound. Spring Canyon. The bodies of Pal Santasteden and M. A. Tonoya, tw of the five machine men entombed in the Rains mine by the explosion Sunday afternoon, were found at 8 p. m. Tuesday alter nearly lorxy-ighours o fconstant effort to effect a entrance into the lower depths. Ogden. Highways leading to Yel lowstone park through Wyoming will be in fine condition next year, according to Charles W. Cross, highway engineer of the United States bureau of public roads, who returned from two months of road inspection in the vicinity of Jackson, Wyo. Ogden. The goal in the drive ot stock subscriptions to Ogden's proposed community hotel is in sight, according to the directors of the community building fund, who advise that only a little more than $40,000 i necessary to complete the quota. This s expected within a few days. Provo. With hope that the broad expanse of land lying in Cedar valley west of the Utah lake might be? included in the proposed Utah lake reclamation project, a delegation of farmers and cattlement from the valley met with the Utah county commission and asked that consider ation be given the thousands of acres, of land now little more than a desolate waste. Richfield. A special meeting of the board of county commissioned was held for the purpose of award ing contracts for the construction of a bridge over the Sevier river beSealed tween Elsinore and Monroe. bids were submitted by a large number of contractors and the ward was made to the lowest bidder, Hansen Brothers of Richfield, for the sum of Flood conditions were reported from several places with six deaths. At Jermyn, near Scranton, a con Twenty-eightcrete bridge over Rush brook gav The world girdlers flew over the way and Samuel Langman, a mer P.) rOwrM. field at 1:80 o'clock and after circling chant, and Emery Avery, were swept into the water and drowned. over Lake Washington, amid the Mrs. Agnes Notosh, standing on whistles of and the the ringblowing the bank of Mill Creek at Miners UPHOLDS 'RESIDENT ing of bells on the boats in the lake Mills, near Wilkesbarre, was thrown nd the cheers of the thousands sur into the swollen stream and drowned rounding the field, they again crossed when the bank gave way. the field preparatory to making their CHARGE BRIBERY POLITICAL PROBE Hazelton eighteen of reported final landing of the tour that began thirty-seve- n mine in coal anthracite in April. Three airplanes accomthat vicinity flooded. Mines in other panied them to the field. of the hard coal field were idle The conditions on land and aloft ATTORNEY GENERAL IS ORDER FEDERAL JUDGE FOSTER OVER parts because of water in the workings, or RULES DEMURRER IN CHARGE for the fliers were ideal at the land ED TO INVESTIGATE PENworking short handed. MEANS AGAINST The sun was ing field. NSYLVANIA shining SITUATION Railroad washouts and the flood brightly as the airplanes came down of country roads necessitating de ing ana tne weatner was warm, ap tours were reported. proaching sultriness. on Stand Now Men Must Trial Charge k Accusations In Fight Rural streetcar lines were tied up One of the first to greet the three That They Obtained Money In Philadelphia Being Invesin some sections of the flood area. famous airmen and their three me of For Purpose Alleged tigated by Federal OfAt Mauch Chunk, Henry Herman, chanics Lieutenant Leslie P. Arnold, Bribery ficers a contractor, and Louis Eichoff, his Lieutenant John and Harding, Jr., assistant, were swept into the Lehigh Lieutenant Henry H. Ogden was river and drowned. Major Frederick L. Martin, whose New York, Federal Judge Fostei Travis At Wilkesbarre, Landin President Coolidge Washington, airplane met disaster in the Aleu General has upheld the indictment of Gaston came in contact with a blown down turned over to Attorney tian islands. B. Means, former department of juselectric light wire and was killed. A family reunion took place on the Stone for investigation the charges of Enforcement league of tice agent; his secretary, Elmer E, field a few minutes after Lieutenant the Law and his attorney, Thomas Baltimore, Floods causing damage Arnold got out of his airplane. He Philadelphia, that there is "political on charges that they received which may run into six figures ac Felder, Penndown in all line the was hugged and kissed by his mother, corruption misrepresented money which they companied the storm which drenched Mrs1. Cora Arnold, and his sister, sylvania" by federal officeholders. of Baltimore and neighboring communThe charges were made in a mes was to be used in the bribery Mrs. Francis SDokane. Cole, of former Attorney General Daugherty ities. R. to William the riot seen him since he sage president Wash., who had and other government officials. The Severn, Patapsco and other started on the flight that made his Nicholson Jr., secretary of the league The indictment was upheld when streams overflowed their banks, in in which the president was asked to tory in aviation circles. the court overruled a demurrer re undating Homes along the river The fliers left Eugene, Ore., at intervene in the controversy between cently filed by Felder in which he fronts. of his Kendrick and director 10:01 a. m. on their last leg and Mayor contended the three defendants In Balitmore harbor the waves rose safety, Brigadier General were not that at 10:25 a. m public passed over Albany with the violations to within six inches of Prat street charged Butler. Smedley Salem was sighted at 10:52 a. m., and and level, the Mr. Coolidge has given no indi and that the charges were vague highest in years. the aviators were next sighted over indefinite. Pa. One thousand cation that he will intervene in this Harrisburg, Portland at 11:15. Means, Jarnecke, and Felder were feet of railroad tracks through controversy. The three world fliers landed at a federal grand jury last Clark's indicted valley were washed away The charges made by the league, March onby Vancouver barracks, Wash., a few charges that they had re went on a ram minutes after leaving Portland to however, were given , consideration ceived $65,800 from officials of the when Stoney creek and destroying farms flooding page in hands of the and the make placed depart Creager System and the Glass Casket adjustments to Lieutenant Wade's engine. The fliers left Van ment of justice with an accompanying company of Altoona, Pa., for pur bridges. The water reached a "depth of letter. couver at 11:57 a. m. poses of alleged bribery. lowlands feet the and iso in twenty General Stone The airplanes on landing, taxied telegraph Attorney They are accused of having rep lated the town of Singerville. in a large circle to the reviewing ed William R. Nicholson Jr., secretary resented to these officials who had Scores of summer cottages along stand, with the Chicago at the left, of the Law Enforcement league of just been convicted of using the mails the creek were under water. Boston II in the center and the New Philadelphia asking that responsible to defraud in the sale of the stock of Orleans at the right. The band, in officers of the league confer with him the Glass Casket company, that the Texans Gaining On Malady by Mr. money was to be paid to the then the meantime, continued playing dur relative to charges made in the Houston, Tex., Victorious Nicholson. the ing taxung. Attorney General Daugherty Hay fight against the hoof and around the Ropes were ward and other government officials, oyemng strung The statement of the In return for this money they are mouth disease, which apparently is famous machines and the reception Philadelphia confined to the initial outbreak center Law Enforcement league made in a alleged to have told to committee the convicted of 6500 acres, and with federal and gathered greet the that President to fliers. Coolidge Lieutenant Smith stepped telegram men, the government officials would state funds of $360,000 more availfrom the cockpit of his machine and it "possesses signed documentary evi- cause them to be leniently dealt able, forces combatting the disease corruption with. made a short address to the assem dence charging political have turned their attention to adjoin bled committee. The crowd that all down the line in the state of PennNot a single new out ing counties. federal officeholders, air sylvania by gathered around the roped-of- f Premier Herrfot Makes Reply break has occurred since late Satur planes was so great that the recep and that it is the worst spot in the It was on the area already Paris, Premier Herriot has drawn day. tion at the landing field was curtailed Union," is being investigated by Unita reply to the letter sent to him restricted and under rigorous guard up ed Stone, States General to merely a shaking of hands of the Attorney of France in regulations. the six cardinals Governor Pat Neff, fliers and expressions from the re by direction of the president, accord by called his which attention to has placed $380,000 at the disposal they here. out to information committee of ing "Glad are given ception you the deep feeling aroused by his pol of Dr. Marion Imes, federal expert here. especially on the disease in charge of the fight icy toward the church, Each of the fliers received at the 8mlth Is Again Nominated with regard to suppression of the against the epidemic. field a large of bouquet dahilias, Sycracuse, N. Y. Governor Albert French embassy to the Vatican, in which they took with them to a pri E. Smith has been renominated by troduction of education without re Movie Star Fights Fire rate luncheon aboard a yacht. the New York state Democratic con- ligious teaching in Alsace-Lorrain- e Los Angeles, Homes of five movie A huge welcome sign 150 feet long, vention. The nomination came after and strict application of existing tars Douglas Fairbanks and Mary feet high a demonstration of fifteen minutes laws to religious orders. The reply, Pickford, Charlie spelled in letters twenty Chaplin and others greeted the aviators as they circled during which the delegates paraded which was submitted by the premier In the Beverely Hills district of Los over Sand Point. As the planes flew and danced through the hall. There to the cabinet council for its approval Angeles had a narrow escape from a over Seattle, whistles and automobile was another demonstration when the is couched in moderate terms, but lerious brush fire. Two hundred horns sent up shrieking greetings chairman announced that the gover takes sharp exception to the- - argu- men were on Fairbanks spent guard. On the field hundreds of automobiles "It cardinals. advanced ments 784 the votes by nor had received tke entire four strenuous hours on the fire lines whistles from scores of boats and of the delegates. A vigorous denun- is entirely impossible for me to ad peeled to the waist and working "as yachts anchored on Lake Washing ciation of the Ku Klux Klan and de- mit," the letter says, "that the meas private in the ranks. He came ton off Sand Point and cheers1 from mand for modification of the Volstead ures elaborated by my government out perspiring and blackened with the thousands of spectators contrib act to permit sale of light wines and can constitute as you a grave smoke and cinders. say uted to the noisy return. beers were the valient features of the menace to internal peace, justice and Democratic platform adopted at the liberty." Coolidge Atkt Sugar Tariff Data 2900 Are Arretted In Chicago state convention here. President Coolidge Washington, A crusade to enforce Congressmen Indicted on Dry Charge has asked the department of agriChicago, John Phillip Hill, re culture for all available data on the Manchu Chief War Outlaw Baltimore, traffic laws in Chicago that was from the Third dUtrlct sugar beet situation, to be used by presentative opened ten days ago had resulted in Proclamation declaring ot Peking. Maryland, who tested the prohibi- him in reaching a decision on the re arrests up to the Manchurian approximately 2500 dictator, military commission pro date. The authorities- - hope to re Chang Tso-Lia bandit and a trai tion laws with a rider party at his port of the tariff a last Franklin West on reduction in the present duty home street, of automobiles, posing dure the death toll a reward to anyone tor, and offering He expects to announce which averages better than two per who will "turn him over to the gov Saturday night, was Indicted by the on sugar. Convicted speeders sons each day. grand Jury on a charge of the this decision next month. eminent," was issued at the head federal manufacture and possession of have been fined and some of them Illegal Pel of commander Wo Fu, quarters ZR-also con- The Indictment sent to the workhouse. Heavily Insured liquor. armies of the central government a count accusing him or main The giant diri tains Friederichshafen, the Manchu chief, against proceeding No ZR 3, built here by the Zeppelin nuisance at his home. a gible taining Senator to Have Feet Removed Lin's the old 20 Tso son, year Chang Hsueh-Lianalso hall wna fixed tor his apiearanre for company for the United States navy, Memphis, Tenn., Physicians have General Chang trial. There Is temporary Injunction which, according to recently announc announced that United States Sen was declared "unpardonable" for his already pending ainitnst Mr. Hill. It ed plans, will start within a week on "treahis in father's would undergo participation ator Hubert Stevent has never been taken tip for final her in flight to Lake Manchurian the amputation of his right foot to pre son." All other It hat many of the pad been insured foi hurst, N. J., has of blood poisoning army, officers and soldiers "frater- hearing, but vent the spread lock elements ns applied to ordinary $600,000 by English, Dutch and Ger with which the senator was infectei nally endeared" to the commander in where stills are man companies. saloons and placet rebe rewarded will if they Hit general condition chief, a week ago. found. turn from the wrong path." wan described as favorable. Ruttls Has New Disease Have Idaho May Hanging In Profesors Fleroff and Retultt Death Moscow, Hiccoughing Strike Leaders Are Convicted Boise, Ida. Two men may be hans Kousmin of the institute of experl Pablo Manlapit and Omaha. William F. Bamett, 53, a Honolulu, ed nt the Idaho state penltcntlnry announce the dis Cecilio Basan, leaders in Hawaiia pharmacist, died here September 21 November 14. Iavld Iloaclanrl, sen mental medicine new of which they a disease plantation strikes, were found guilty after forty days of hiccoughing, it tenced covery ly JudKe II. S. Varian, of the tay prevails during epidemics of in in circuit court here of conspiracy was learned when his will leaving a court district ot Cascade. seventh to subornation in the first degree good portion of his estate to his di to die for ths fluenza, manifesting itself by severe of perjury. They will be sentenced vorced wife, now Mrs. Maude J. Wednesday afternouu headaches, vomiting, llllam of I'atterton two chills, violent uiurder soon. The charge was in connection N. Y., was filed years ago near Cascade, of accompanied by and John nasal hemorhhage, Jacobson Depew, with tae death of a baby of another The In tht high temperature. reasons sentenced malady, still for assignAmong Tuesdny Jurko, libel probate. a suit and out that striker grew from two lasts to six days at Twin for unnamed, Mrs. court Falls the Jacobsen a bene district ed for had assertion been made, making of it. The nd is of a communicable character, B. V. Vandenmark, according to testimony, that the baby ficiary was that the had suffered murder of A. two will be the first bat not necessarily fatal. had been turned eat of a hospital permanent injuries when their child June 2T. These locutions In fifteen years. because It wm the child of a striker, wbo died at birth, wat born. at. OPENS JUDGE Butler-Kendrlc- ' Jar-neck- ' 3 g trans-Atlanti- c ni $1946.94. t Salt Lake City. peti tions for parole or termination ot sentence were denied at the executive session of the board of pardons. which convened at the state prison Forty-eigh- Six petitions for Monday morning. parole were granted, twenty four sentences were terminated and six case were continued cither to the regular December meeting or to the special session which wiTl be held November tlth. Salt Lake City. There are 328 cells in the Utah state prison, and according to the figures given the board of pardons, 299 of them were occupied last Friday. This is almost three times as many prisoners as were confined there on January 1, 1920. Bingham The town board will con struct additional water tanks in order to provide better fire protection, if the funds are available. The las fire, it is said showed that the water-mai- n would not give sufficient pressure when several lines of hose were attached. It is hoped to have some of the tanks completed before winter Spanish Fork. Benjamin, six an one-hal- f miles southwest of Spanisi Fork was visited by a destrictive flrf i which a recently constructed barr filled with 1500 tons of hay, man) outbuildings ,a large strawstack anc farm implements of various kind were destroyed. The property belong ed to L. K. Stewart and his loss it estimated at $3000. Salt Lake City. Internal revenue receipts from Utah during the fisca' year of 1924 totaled $4,087,186.06, as increase of 4 per cent over 1923, ac cording to the report of August It received from the treasury depart ment by James II. Anderson, collec tor of Internal revenue. Of this amount $2,937,172.64, consisting ot payments of the thirl and fourth installments of 1922 and the first and second of 1923 income tax, was income tax and $1,150,014.42 was U miaccllaneeus |