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Show 1 f I THE HERALD 4: mrk k(4 awr thaa ttft jm text ttanc yta kae mm Try Mt wwhln THIRTY-EIGHT- t . tt-U- trade, r res. YEAR. H me DAILYHERAI PROVO, UTAH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1924. itO. 149. PRICE TWO CENTS. A PARIS, FRANCE :. i' i lb Hi " r 1 e. tf at Ye tf 1-0-- tf 1 hL ice !0X J-- D t4 TT big: ery ad-e- w ;a it SliEDARESlCY ou. layT TRIP FOR MINE I. ian ieet ind Pretty School Teaches Faces Grave Danger in Dash lN. for Platinum. srk, ods International News Service. LARIMIE, WYO.,Jan. 3. A story rivaling in drama the fiction of the frozen northland was revealed here In the announcement that Rose Chrisman, pretty school teacher in the little rural school at "Centennial, 30 miles' west of here, had "staked out a claim" near Platinum Fork where a vain of valuable platinum was recently reported dis- I has 11- - old. 3 covered. RT i lent icu- - uise has lini He rose arly - " DENTISTS ON CASH BASIS. At a regular meeting of the Utah County Dental society held January 2, 1924, the members of the society voted unanimously to practice on a cash basis, effective at once. "The abuse of the credit system Decree in this county has brought about this action on the part of the FORCED TO TRY NEW CABINET Japanese Imperial Forces Leader to Front. Anti-suffra- dentints. "We can give better service and International News Service. by keep our fees at a minimum TOKYO. Jan.. 3. Viscount adopting a cash basis," said Dr. L. Frank Reynolds, secretary, in today declined the Imperial the action of the memdiscussing suc to cabinet a form to roqueNt bers of the society. ceed the resigned Yanmiamoto minVlwoiint Kiyoura was letry. two days aiio by the prince regent to form n new cabinet, but found the tank ImimNHible. hUtory CorreMmdiit, Jan. d of Japan . was jifpeoiit tb! afternoon when A'is- n in nt Kiyoura was practically fohiMl to reconsider and uttempt In form a cabinet. l'rt'vlnuxly Kiyoura had ignored tbt liiiN'rlal inundate. In agreeing to iiiienipt the formation of a minthe resigned istry In cnlilnct, Kiyoura did not guarantee its formation but merely mild he would attempt to form one. IoNplte the battling 'political elements which hinder bis work announcement of the formation of a cabinet Is expected. Viscount said the Kiyoura foundation of his cabinet, If he succeeded in forming it, would be the Selyukal party which means de feat of suffrage and all ot the lib eral measures advanced by the Yammnmoto ministry. Tokyo news papermen have petitioned the states men for consideration or tne sur- frage measure promising a united fight by every newspaper in Tokyo provided suffrage is shelved. Ynm-mnmot- o i. y- - e ier cent tax tax on on the without chil- Limitation of the right to hold public offices to fathers. Installation of children's nurserall factories employing ies in women. State pensions for unmarried mothers. Maurice de Waleffe, commenting on the book in the Paris Midi, is not so sure Madame Aurel's can be carried out and points out that Madame Aurel herself has no children; that J. II. Rosny, of the Academy Uoncourt, who wrote the preface for the book, is not a father and that Premier Poincare, upon whom both Madame Aurel and M. Rosny call to "save Prance," likewise is not a Guy Leavitt of Independence, Mo., will preach, and on Sunday eveu-iupreaching will be dona, by Elder R. F. Fulk, also of IndeSpecial meetings pendence, Mo. v.ill lie held during the day, but will be announced at the session father. previous. Everyone is welcome. TOKYO, Jan. 3. Perhaps one of lite iwmt unusual situations in the pidlttcal Twenty-fiv- incomes of households dren. CHURCH INSTITUTE. will The Reorganized church hold a two days' institute, commencing Friday evening with a business meeting and social to be held at the church, 240 West Fourth South. Saturday evening Elder Sleeping! HUit-ee- Excitment over the platinum dls-- 1 covery and tales of the prospective wealth to follow fired the imagination of the pretty school teacher formerly of Okmulgee, Okla., and she set out alone on a trip that hardened prospectors, inured to Artie temperatures of the Wyoming mountains and expert In the use of snowshoes and skis, have hesitated to undertake. Miss Chrlsman's feat was acfrom complished by snowshoeing Centennial in the face of a threatening blizzard, to the Alpine region that she was ill and was to underfour miles beyond, where a veteran go an appendicitis operation the prospector found a samble of ore next day. I told him I would send that assayed fabulously rich in Greer for her. Mr. Dines said 'It's platinum and palladium. early yet,'' but finally said 'All The young girl made the trip over right but don't forget my Christ the protests of several grizzled mas package.. That was all that prospectors, who insisted they was said about Mabel coming home." sould "smell" snow in the air; and It was learned at the hospital that the snow they referred to was not the pnuemonla condition Has made the, ten to fifteen feet of dust-dr- y Dines' breathing labored and painiee particles previously fallen, but ful and that he has suffered considsnow that might swoop erable agony. inpending down on the wings of a blizzard. "Pneumonia has developed, but It It wag the blizzard they feared, not has not- progressed far," Dr. Cochthe 1,500 foot climb on snowshoes ran said today. "We are hopeful of to the potential platinum field, four Mr. defeating the pneumonia. miles distant. Dines is doing very nicely. He is And a blizzard 10,000 feet above his strength welL" sea level is a thing to be feared. A holding Concerning the condition of Mabel strong man is frequently lost and Normand, who was taken to the hosfrozen before he even realizes his pital last night, Dr. Cochran showed :; danger. far less worry. But Miss Chrisman . had. made "Oh. she's all right," he said, in up her mind to stake out a platinum answer to a question regarding her claim. : The recent visit of the. condition. Tr. Cochran refused to State geologist, his promise to re- states Miss Normand was taken turn with the going out of the win- to the why hospital. ter snows, and the straggling in of prospectors had Tired her fanciITALIAN SHIP LOST. ful dreams of wealth and fixed her International News Service. purpose. She started out in the NAPLES, Italy, Jan. 3. The morning, with the dreaded blizzard Italian steamship Mutlac is believed aboruta', but the weather suddenly to have been lost in the Mediter cleared, and by night she was back ranean sea with her crew of forty in the little mountain hamlet, hav- The steamship Adrlatico reported ing staked out her claim in the today she had picked up distress Platinum Fork ahd suffered no seri signals from the Mutlac, but could ous ill effects from the exposure. not trace them. , income jl3 When the tide went out at Whltsand Bay, Cornwall, England, It left the schooner Mary Peers sleeping peacefully, as the photo shows. What you might call "caught napping." NEW YEAR PLEDGES ARE NOW IN ORDER g But De Waleffe does visualize In a France with only 35,000,000 inhabitants against a Germany with 80,000,000 and that the mere fact that France holds the Rhine- land and possibly the Iiuhr will avail nothing if Germany really desires to' overrun France. 1943 So De AYuIeffe does some gug- Ifestlug of his own that it lie made that every foreigner compulsory living in France be naturalized. Such a measure would make 450,000 dditlonal French citizens In one swoop in Paris alone. There are that many foreign residents in the capital of the world." 'These strangers are parasites. De Waeleffe charges. "True, their naturalization would mix our blood bit. But when we haven't thrushes we'll have to be content INJURED 50 SEVERELY IN ILLINOIS EXPLOSION Entire Structure Mass of Flames Moment After Explosion in Starch Room. Atlanta Youths, Still in Their 'Teens, Face Death International on Murder Conviction. wo New Service. PEKIN, Illinois, Jan. 3. With three bodies identified with the belief held by some rescue workers By GEORGE I). TllsON. International News Service- 8taff that lietween 25 and 50 dead were still in the ruins and with at least Corresondeiit. BUTLER, Ga., Jan. 3. Two sixty Injured, many seriously, Pekin eorgiu schoolboys, still in their worked feverishly today In the ruins ecus will meet death on the i; Al lows here soon unless they get a at the Corn Product company's new trial. plant to cheek the toll of Its greatest The two youths, Willie Jones, 18, dlMister. Resulting from a dust In the dry starch room early and his 1U year-old companion, - "after-the-wa- MR. AND MRS. WILSON K. ANDERSON, HAPPY NEW YEAR OWNERS OF THE PIANO GIVEN AS A CHRISTMAS GIFT BY THE BATES STORES COMPANY TO ONE OF THEIR PHONOGRAPH PURCHASERS. By WII.I.I IM C.t'.ifC International Newt hcrvlr Hlaff 8. The menace of pneumonia which developed overnight in tho rase of Court-lanS. Dines, wealthy Denver oil man, today threw a shadow of possible murder over Horace A. Greer, chauffeur for Mabel Normand, who shot lilin. A complaint charging Greer with attempted murder was drawn up by the district attorney's office today and arrangements were made fur his arraignment In court, The attempted murder complaint will be superceded by one charging first degree murder if Dines dies, captain of detectives Home announced. Both Greer and Mrs. Edith Burns companion and chapcrone for Miss Normand were to be police today. by ' Greer told the police that be was told by Mrs. Burns that Miss Nor mand had telephoned from Dines' apartment to say that she was com ing home and that a mans voice had broken in roughly with the remark that Miss Normand was not going. Greer sevs it was this information, Inuicatng that Dines would refuse to let Miss Normand leave his residence, that caused him to take a revolver. Mrs. Burns' story was different. She said: "About six o'clock Mr. Dines called on the telephone and I told him Mabel ought to come home, 4- -. bachelors. 1X18 lANGEI.Ert, top, " ing: Fifty per cent FJLM ROMANCE re- - veil ery nd DEATH MAY END ff $300,000 Loss. RETRIAL FAILS Women Are Made to Look Like "Dolls" Through "Sexless" Apparel. Says International News Service Staff Correspondent PARIS, Jan. 8. With railway isoSuperintendent H. Aldous Dixon, stations closed public buildings who recentry tendered his resigna- lated and suburbs flooded, the River tion as head of Provo city schools, Seine continued to rise today threatmay remain in office until the end ening Paris with the worst flood in of the present school year, accord- history. ing to reports ln'.echool circles to- - The river at noon had reached 21 feet and ten Inches, the highest in day. The board of education has asked history, except during the disaster- Mr. Dixon to remain until his suc- ous flood in 1910. cessor has been selected and It Is The water has cut off electricity understood Mr. Dixon has agreed to in the Invalides district Clerks in the ministry of finance sacrifice his personal affairs to give his services until another superin- worked feverishly transferlng docu ments and files from the basement tendent may be chosen. Already several applications for to the second floor. The great foreign office building the position have been tendered the board. These, it is said, have been la surrounded by water. Official flood stage readings and placed .oti file, the applicant being notified that his communication will weather forecasts are being broadbe given due consideration before casted by the Effil Tower wireless a final decision is made. station. Warnings are being sent to Among the applicants are said to residents of low lying suburbs. be superintendents of other districts Many people are homeless in the and include two women, it is report- suburbs and tremendous property ed. damage hag been done. There have A rumor exciting considerable dis- been no casualties. Buburbs bordering the Seine re cussion among school teachers this "week was that a woman was slated semble a scene from Venice. Many for appointment as superintendent. families that refused to abandon The report that a woman superin- their homes moved to second floors. tendent had been informally decided Mail and foodstuffs were delivered upon was denied Thursday by from boats. school board members who insisted Rains along the upper Seine that the board had not canvassed continue, making it lmHMwlble to the applications received and would say when the creot of tun flood will not do so for some time. be reached. The next school board meeting will ; be held Tuesday evening, but Thursday it was said that the board would not consider the superintend-encat that meeting other than renewing its appeal to Mr. Dixon to reconsider his resignation. Xlrohr cave expressed th hop f' " that Mr. Dlxoa may ha pefsnaded to remain throughout this school Pneumonia May Bring 9m. year, giving thft hoard a longer time der Charge Against Acin which to consider the appointtress hauffeur. ment of a new superintendent. Fire Follows Blast Wrecking Corn Products Plant in CLAIM BOYS IF QUICK ACTION IS UKCEI) I5Y CHITICS OF "DOLLS' Consideration. y idy i in nsiT urn mil 25 50 WORKMEN TO liiiLlAWd Children; Prolific Germany is Cited. By HAKKY K. FLOKY. International News Service Staff ('orresiKindent. PARIS, J jiii. 3. As Ions us Paris dressmakers Insist on making "dolls" out of French women by sexless fabricating "spiritless, gowns" Prance's birthrate will be low, contends Madame Aurel, in a recent Iwsik in which slie calls upon the government to take Immediate measures to insure a r Prance as ixipulous as revengeful Germany." Among other laws, Madame Aurel urges the adoption of the follow- DUST KILLS - Paris Concerned at Dearth of RUMOR THAT WOMAN MAY BE NAMED Boats Take Plac of Automobiles on Noted Parisian, Avenues. Several Applications for PosiBy FREDERICK ABBOTT tion Made and Filed for EXPLOSION OF hUUK The Utah cunty dentist wxicly met Wfiluesdiiy v'iiing nl ihe hall of the Wemeii k Muniri-'mt- . il. Dr. M. A. tVnuiiit jire- nea. ir. II. U Wilson. f Snlf e 'ily. pjivt- n clinie m I'ha.ves rul;enk ninl csn! cold inlavs. SAYS NOVELIST Worst Flood in French Hisof Provo Superintendent tory Threatened by OverSchools Urged to Hold Up flow of Seine. His Resignation. FLOOD WARNINGS ARE SENT FROM EIFFEL i HOLD MEETING BIRTHRATE FOE OVERFLOWING SCHOOL YEAR DENTISTS iW COUNTY FRENCH GOWNS CHRISTMAS GIFT MAKES NEW YEAR HAPPY RIVER SEINE IS MAY REMAIN sIt and Friday, ( older north and west portion tonight. First in news, first in circulation, first in advertising, and first delivered in the homes. SUPT. DIXON ll THE WEATHER IT VH Probably snow tonight Gervis Blood worth, have- lieeu cou- icted of the murder of Howard If. Underwood, a medicine salesman, hose body was found on a road near here a few weeks ago. The boys were alleged to have confessed to the crime, .although they entered a plea of not guilty hen arraigned in court. Attor neys for the two boys centered their fight on the hope of a life term rather than the death sentence. Pleading their case, they stressed the boys' ages und assert- they were "uuthluklng youths, unduly influenced." The jury, however, after de liberating four hours, returned a erdlct of guilty, without recom mendation to the mercy of the court. The judge assessed the su preme penalty and set January 18 as the date for hanging. Defense immediately ttorueys, however, filed a motion for a new trial. was set for new a trial for Hearing auuary la. The trial drew throngs of people from the surrounding countryside. was the most spectacular case conducted in this section for many ears. Tire boys' school- chums, mothers and fathers and busy farmers dropped their routine work and flocked into the little courtroom as the trial pro gray-heade- d ceeded. Occupying the same seat at every session of the trial was aged mother. Draped in a black costume and with a dark veil dangling over her face, she occasion-lwould move her lips as if offering silent prayer for her son s release. Every day since the boys were found guilty she has visited the little county Jail, carrying a basket filled with fruit and other good with blackbirds." things to eat and with a message of Some idea of the difficulty of love and hope to the boy who has as that been cut off from her. passing such legislation suggested by Madame Aurel and Just prior to the trial the two De Waleffe was gained recently In ouths were baptized into the Meth the senate when Senator Jlassa- odist church. The baptismal cerebuau introduced a bill providing monies were most spectacular. Sit that only fathers of three children on one side of the alter were should be eligible to hold public ting lie inmates of the prison, wno lor office. several hjid been the prison as Senator Massabuau demanded an sociates days two young criminals; of the "Immediate vote. A colleague Bug of the alter sat the a law on the other side cested to him that such ot the two boys who would make many present office school chums holders ineligible i the next elec had been their boyhood playmates; Blood-worttions. The bill . h. 3 gone on Its and near the alter sat Mrs. whose face was wreathed in way to oblivion in the senate calen smiles for the tirst time since tne dar of future business. crime was committed. We have put our trust in God,' Gervis Bloodworth told his mother as he attempted to quell one of her frequent weeping spells.. "Never mind, mother, God will help us Internntional News Service. now !" he said. 3. Initial Jan. steps GENEVA, If the new trial is not granted toward the extension of the Wash and tne two uojs are forced to meet ington naval armament treaties to death on the gallows, it probably Powers which did not participate means the death of three instead of in the Washington negotiations will two. For Bloodworth's little mother be taken by the League of Nations continues to cry : If my boy must go, ! too, must here this month. Naval experts from sixteen states go life will not be worth living have been summoned to meet on then." January 21. They will endeavor to prepare a draft convention which will form the basis of discussion at Blood-worth- 's y League. Great Britian, France, Brazil, Italy. Japan, Spain and Sweden will be represented at the January meet ing by their representatives on the of the PerNaval manent Advisory commission for Military, Naval and Air Question. On the other hand, the following eight states, which are not members of the League, have been asked to send delegates: Argentina, Chile, Denmark, Greece, The Netherlands, Norway, Russian and Turkey. These eight states, according to League statistics, own warships which come under the Washington ucnnition or capital snips ve sels havin? a displacement of more than KUHN) ton or carrying guns of more than 203 millimeters. HOUSES ARE SCARCE AND RENTALS HIGH IN TOK10 IiiU'i iottlonnl News Service. TOKIM, Jan. 3. A famine nouses or moderate si.e and con sequent increase in rents have bee noticeable in Tokio following the recent quake and fire. The house and room section of the Social Affairs Bureau In Tokio is besieged dally with requests for small houses which It cannot supply, Rents have increased tremendously, . today. About 120 men were believed to be In the building when the explosion came. Fire, followed the blast and spread to the wet starch room and a warehouse, destroying them and bringing property losses above the half million mark. The known dead : are: i Lee Harding, foreman. George Harms. " William Rumler. Ambulances from Pecria hospitals and a score of physicians rushed to the ruins to aid in the work of res-cue. Twenty of the injured were cared for in Pekin hospitals, thir teen more rushed to the Peoria hos pitals and others received treatment in emergency quarters established in homes and stores nearby. J. T. Conaghan, automobile dealer, who was on emergency duty caring for the injured, said there was still more than thirty workers missing and unaccounted for. They probab- ly will be found in the burning ruins,- he declared. Injured . workmen said they believed from twenty to thiry men were killed, company officials however insisted that only three were dead. Employes said the blaze followed so closely after the explosion that the entire structure was a mass of flames almost Instantly and escape would have lien an impossibility for some of the men on the upper floors of the four story structure. Pekin firemen were called, but uncontrollable found the blaze Culls for aid were sent to Peoria immediately and fire trucks responded the ambulances with bearing physicians to the work of rescue." When Peoria firemen arrived, the structure was practically In ruins. They confined their efforts to saving other buildings threatened by the blaze. MAY EXTEND NAVAL TREATY the International Naval Armament Conference to be called soon by the ' . -- Among! the fifty jured by the blast, it many will die. Some legs in the blast and seriously inis feared that lost arms and others were severely burned. Survivors of the disaster united in describing it as more gruesome than imagined. They told of hearing bones crack and bodies thud when the explosion came and of fellow watching less fortunate workers grope about with shrieks of terror when they lost their, sight. Hardly one of the 300 men work in the building escaped at un- hurt The explosion created its heroes, Workers from adjoining buildings formed squads and went into the burning ruins to extri- cate the lllJure(i aild lead them ont too. inirpii had been brought into the - Pekin hospital. When it was found no more , could be . accommodated others were taken into homes. Fifteen more seriously hurt were-puaboard a special train and hurried to Peoria hospitals. Most of the sufferers were burned t severely. Some of the rescue workers claimed they saw bodies in the wreckage-tha-t they could not retrieve because they were held fast by debris. C. W.BRYAN MAY BE CANDIDATE WHISKEY SMUGGLER BE CANADIAN MAY VESSEL Brother of William Jennings International Nawa ServiM. LONDON, Jan. 3. The British Called Presidential foreign office having definitely Possibility. established the Canadian registry , of the ship Tomoka, whieHf was recently seized by the American; authorities on suspicion she was a International News Service. OMAHA, Jan. 2. Mayor James whiskey smuggler has addressed an Dahlman the man who mustered j Inquiry to Washington requesting strength behind William Jennings (an explanation why the seizure Bryan when he was nominated for was made outside the three-mil- e president on the Democratic ticket limit, it. was learned this" " after in Chicago, 1800, today declared noon. The Tomoka was seized off the that Governor Charles W. Bryan, brother of the Commoner was one of New Jersey coast. The two presidential possibilities in the treaty conceding the right to the United Democratic ranks. Dahlman is a long standing friend States to search suspected, whiskey of MeAdoo and says that if the smuggling ships beyond the three- war time director general of the mile limit and to make seizures railroads doscn't get a two thirds where culpability is shown, is not yet effective. vote Bryan will be the nominee. "Bryan as governor- Is known as CALLS NATIONAL BANKS. a progressive and the family name is known from coast to coast," said In ternatlonal News Servioe. Dahlman. WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. The It was Dahlman who prevailed on comptroller of the currency today Lewis, head of the Georgia delega- issued a call for the condition of tion to nominate William Jennings all national banks as of close ot Bryan. business on December si, 1923. I I Anglo-America- n - -- |