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Show Out Job Printing Are Ton n Subscriber? At tiring prices. Let us next order for anything you want print ' ed. Rich County News i printing is synonymous with art and efficiency. If not please remember will our subscription this make paper elp First wave your strong a thing necessary lot an unsurpassed news ( service. BEACHEH EVERT NOOK AND CORNER OF BICH COUNTT TWENTY-FOURT- RANDOLPH, RICH COUNTY, UTAH, SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1921. YEAR. H NUMBER 46. i MUCH TO STAND UPON HER RESumn or tio f IIEET UTAH NEWS REVIEW DEATH HITS HUGHES STRONGLY DI8SENTS FROM JAPAN'S CLAIMS AS TO ISLAND OF YAP. BRING OF TORNADOES DEATH AND DESTRUCTION BOLSHEVIK TRADE HAZARDOUS, SECRETARY HUGHES INFORMS SAMUEL GOMPERS. SERIES TO FIVE STATES. 4 As No One Had Authority to Cede the Rights of United States in Island, Government Will Not Recognize Validity of Mandate. . The American and Washington. Japanese governments have adopted equally firm attitudes as to the status of the island of Yap. Diplomatic exchanges are continuing, but those to date were made public on April 18 in Washington and Tokio. They consist of two memoranda and three formal notes. Japan in its last communication, received late in the Wilson administration, insisted it had been awarded a mandate for the island by the supreme council, May 7, 1919, and that it could not agree with the American contention that, irrespective of any award of mandate, other nations should have free access to the island for cables. In replying, Secretary Hughes on April 5 stated that the United States could not be bound by action either of the supreme council or of the league of nations, and that, as no one had been authorized to surrender or cede the right of the ITnited States iu the island, the American government could not recognize the allocation of the island or the validity of the mandate. Japan is now considering this communication. Great Britain, France and Italy also have before them similar notes. Exchanges between the four governments are understood to be under way with a view to reaching an accord. , Meantime, however, France, in a preliminary reply, stated that the matter is one for the supreme council to consider in May and that fhen it comes up she will approach it with a view to finding a solution giving every satisfaction to the United States. The viewpoint of the Harding as explained Monday, is that the question of whether, the supreme qpuhcil. did actually award the "'Island to Japan on May 7 is- of sec-- ondary importance. The important point at issue, it is emphasized, is recognition by tlif rallied governments of the principle laid down by Mr. Hughes that the United States, as a principal allied and associated power, has an equal right in the former German colonies, and that those rights cannot be disposed of without consent of the American government. -- - RAILROADS TO SLASH PAYROLL8 Soviet Russia Is a Gigantic Economic Vacuum, With No Evidence That Unfortunate Situation Is Likely to Improve, Says Hughes. Seventy Persons Reported Dead and Several Hundred Injured, While Property Loss Is Enormous as Result of Widespread Storm. Secretary Hughes, Washington. writing to Samuel Gampers, who asked for a statement of "the facts regarding Russia, indicates definitely that there is no prospect of a resumption of relations with the United States while the soviet political and economic system remains. . The letter replies to various statements characterized as propaganda which contend resumption of relations with the soviets would open a great current of trade of advantage to the United States and that large shipments of Russian gold have been made to other countries in payment for perMemphis, Tenn. Seventy-fiv- e sons reported dead, several hundred injured and property damage roughly estimated in the millions made the toll of a series of tornadoes which broke late Friday in northeast Texas and swept eastward . Saturday over sections of five states into Georgia. Arkansas, witli fifty persons reported killed in Hempstead and Miller counties, reported the heaviest loss of life. In Alabama the number of dead was estimated at ten; seven were killed in Texas and six in Mississippi. In Tennessee no fatalities were reported. Relief parties are still searching the storm area. The storm apparently broke in Smith county, Tex., swept sections of Good, Gregg, Case and Bowie counties, and passed into Miller and Hempstead counties, Arkansas, where the reported death list had reached fifty. Six of the seven persons killed in Texas were crushed to death when their homes in Avinger were wrecked. Crossing into Arkansas, the storm skirted Texarkana and cut a swath a half mile wide through a heavily wooded section of Miller and Hempstead counties. Near Hope, Hemstead county, the list of reported dead had reached twenty, fifteen others were said to have lost their lives near Prescott and a like number near Texarkana. Five persons were reported killed at Steen, near Columbus, in eastern Mississippi, and one at Sontag, sixteen miles east of Brookhaven. , the - storm Leaving Mississippi, swooped down again in northern' Ala' bama. In the Aycock community seven persons were reported killed and three others lost their lives in Ralph, Tuscaloosa county. Iu Birmingham ten persons were injured and a hundred homes in the suburbs damaged. In Memphis a torrential rainstorm damaged sewers and drainage canals. At Rome, Ga., several persons were injured and property damage estimated at $200,000 was done. The rainfall in Mississippi wras reported the heaviest on record. NO REDUCTION OF ARMAMENTS That Direction Await Declaration of Peace. President Harding Washington. contemplates no steps toward an international disarmament agreement until a technical state of peace has been established, according to members of the womens committee for world disarmament, who discussed the subject with him on Monday. The first deputation to wait on the president was from the League of Women Voters, and included many prominent women representing other womens organizations. They presented a resolution urging the president and congress to do their utmost to secure with other governments for the reduction of armaments at the earliest possible time." Later in the day the womens committee for world disarmament presented a petition for an international disarmament conference. Steps in Monster Searchlight for Tamalpais. Schenectady, N. Y. A searchlight sixty inches in diameter has been shipped by the General Electric company for installation on Mount Tamal' pais, near San Francisco. This is one of the largest searchlights constructed. E goods. Soviet Russia, the secretary declares, is a gigantic economic vacuum, and v he adds that no evidence exists that LABOR BOARD PROVIDES INCREASED RATES OF the unfortunate situation is likely to THE RAILROAD DUTY ON A SCORE OF AGRIISSUES ORDERS EFFECTIVE be alleviated ' so long as the present CULTURAL COMMODITIES.' ON JULY FIRST. . ' system continues. - i' There have been since December 18, Secretary Hughes says, no restrictions Decision Affects All Employees ' Exand Foreign Exchange on financial transactions between the Sections Included in Legislation Those in Trllin Service Who cept United States and Russia, although Are Under Separate Agree- - i Designed for the Relief there is no assurance that the mint or of the Farmer. ments With Railroads. the reserve banks will accept Russian gold. In reality, the secretary says, transfers of Russian gold to other coun- tries have been small and at the most liberal estimates the soviets have not more than $175,000,000 gold. Even immediate expenditure of the whole amount in the United States, he says, would have no lasting effect on American trade or industry and it might take away the scant hope left of a sound reorganization of the Russian system of currency and finance. funeral . ATVooojiW'" Castle Former Kaiser Follows Body of Wife to Stations at It Leavea for Germany. Doom. Never was contrast between former, glory and present humiliation more accentuated than when Wilhelm, the former kaiser, followed the body of his wife, Augusta Victoria, to, the station at Maarn, Sunday morning, where he entrusted his faithful companion to his sons and friends to take back to the fatherland. , The former emperor and the former crown prince and other sons present were all attired in full uniform of the Prussian guard, their helmets crepe-covere- Seek Reversal of Decision in Which Wage Increase Was Granted. railroads on Chicago. Ninety-thre- e April 18 began it drive before the United States railway labor board for the setting aside of decision No. 2, of July 20, 1920, under which the last increases in railroad wages were granted. They also seek abrogation of the United States railroad administration's puling which classifies labor and fixes differentials. Although the majority of the roads are asking for only authority to reduce the wages of common labor, clerks and shop employees, all ask' that the decision in question be set aside, and nine seek authority to reduce wages, from engineer to crossing flagmen. Of these, four are trunk lines the Chicago & Alton, Baltimore A Ohio, Pere Marquette and Erie. EMERGENCY TARIFF A service in mourning was held in Doom Castle Sunday morning. During its progress former Emperor William frequently sobbed and at one point seemed to break down. Aged Man Starved to Death. South Haven, Mich. Officers investigating the death of Henry C. Gerling, 70 years old, found in his cabin twenty miles north of here, gagged and bound to his bed, expressed the belief that he had starved to death. SENATOR T. E. WATSON Chicago. National agreements defining working conditions . for employees on all American railroads under the federal railroad administration on Thursday were ordered abrogated, effective July 1, by the Railv road labor board. The board called on the officers and system organizations of employees of each railroad to select representatives "to confer and to decide as muffii of the rules controversy as potable. Such conferences gha jearliost possible date, the decision said. ; While the decision did not specifically say so, members of the board said that all disputes as to rules and working conditions automatically were referred back to individual conferences between each individual road and its This method of procedure employees. had been sought by the railroads, whereas the labor side had favored a national conference between representatives of all roads and all unions. The decision affects all railroad employees except those in train service, who are under separate agreements between the railroads and the four big brotherhoods. , In connection with the conference negotiations, the board laid down a set of sixteen principles which are to serve as a foundation for any rules which may be agreed to. The present general rules hearing before the labor board, in progress since January 10, will continue until both sides have completed their testimony, following which the board will promulgate such rules as it determines just and reasonable as soon after July 1 as is reasonably possible and will make them effective as of July 1. The sixteen principles outlined by the board were drawn up by Henry T. Hunt of the public group and upheld the right of the employees to organize for lawful purposes, the right of employees to. negotiate through their own representatives, the right of seniority and the principle of the eight-hou- r day. It was specified that eight hours wbrk must be given for eight hours pay.' Espionage should not be practiced by either side, the decision said, and employees representatives should have the right to make an agreement applying to all employees in the craft or class of the representatives. WOULD REPEAL DRY With party lines fairdrawn, the house Friday night, April 15, passed the emergency tariff bill by a vote of 269 to 112, with two recorded as present Half a dozen Ilepubllcaus voted against the bill and pearly a dozen Democrats supported it, but the defections on both sides were fewer in number than when the measure was under consideration in Washington. ly elosey the last ,i Action session. on the bill came - at the end the various sections under' the rule. Numerous amendments were offered by the Democrats and few by Republicans, but all were voted down upon the insistence of Chairman Ford-ne- y of the ways and means commit0 five-hou- "of rs five-miu-u- tee. The bill as passed provides increased rates of duty on a score of different agricultural commodities, this portion of the measure being identical with the bill as vetoed by former President Wilson. The new parts of the bill, which may cause some difficulty in the senate, are provisions, ' designed to prevent the sale of foreign goods below the fair value in the home country, as a means of destroying American industries, and a provision for the regulation of foreign exchange. The provisions, anil the scheme to regulate foreign exchange apply to the present Underwood act, as well as to the rates of duty provided in the new emergency measure. Under the scheme to regulate foreign exchange, collectors of customs, in computing import duties, will consider that no foreign currency has depreciated in value more than 66 3 per cent, the effect of this being to boost import duties on goods from Germany 500 per cent. This is designed as a temporary measure to remain in effect only until the permanent tariff bill is enacted into law, the present plan being to incorporate in the permanent bill a provision for the basing of import duties on the American valuation instead of the present foreign value, thus eliminating the foreign exchange factor. g ' 2-- ADMIRAL C. F. HUGHES ACT Hill of Maryland Favors State Control of Liquor Traffic. Washington. Repeal of the Volstead prohibilion enforcement act Is proposed in a bill introduced on Thursday by Representative Hill, Republican, Maryland. The effect of repeal, he said in a statement, would be to leave the enforcement of the nineteenth amendment to the concurrent power of the states. He declared he was for real law enforcement, but not for "farcical evasion. Gems Hidden in Chewing Gum. Topeka, Kans. Concealed in wads of chewing gum, ten diamonds, valued at more than $8000, were removed A brand new photograph of Thomas from their hiding place behind a lock E. Watson, the new senator from on an inside door of his home by Goorgia. He served In congress as a Virgil Helm, former Rock Island night Rear Admiral Charles F. Hughes, representative, 1891-3- , as a Populist. baggageman, who is under arrest, U. 8. N., In command of the third batEverybody In politico knows the career charged with complicity in the recent tleship division, . has arrived In Philf Senator Watson. $51CS0 jewelry robbery here. adelphia from a Pacific ocean cruise. Artists to Form Union. Paris. Paris artists are threatening to form a trade union to protect their inalienable right to paint truthful The decision of the artists was said to have been taken following the biggest artistic row of years which was kicked up over Van Dongens portrait of Anatole France in the spring salon, which critics universally assail as being a haggard libel. por-trat- s. Friends Report on Ireland. New York. The American committee for relief in Ireland has made public a report of an investigation of conditions in Ireland by a unit of the Society of Friends, in which the Quakers asserted that material damage inflicted by the British forces within twelve months amounts to approximately $20,000,000. Last Survivor of Kearsarge Passes. Daniel Bartlett Sargent, 83, last surviving member of the crew union - frigate of the Kearsarge, which engaged and sunk the confederate blockade runrw Alabama in the historic encounter off the port of Cherbourg, France, June 19, 1864, died at his home here Sunday. Omaha. Industrial Conditions Improving. to compiled Detroit. According of more than statements a score of Michigan cities, the states industries showed a recovery of 47 per cent from the low ebb of the readjustment depression during the first two months of the year in the number of workers actually employed. As La Follette Sees It. Washington The great issue before the American people today is control of their own government, Senator La Follette of Wisconsin declared in an address Saturday night to the Founders of the People's Legislative Service." Widow Faces Grave Charge. Paw Paw, Midi. Mrs. Lydia Gra-- I widow of Deham, pretty catur, Mich., is being held in the county jail at Iaw Taw, charged with making five attempts to set fire to the home or George Steele, retired business man. SniiUifield will enlarge their waterworks distributing system. Box Elder county proposes to construct five miles of paved highway. Work on Cache county's side' of the Wellsville canyon road commenced last week. The public utilities commission lias ordered the Oregon Short Line to construct an overhead crossing at Clearfield, Davis county. Og- Howard Burnett, a den boy, suffered the amputation of his right leg, the result of being run down by a street car. John N. Israelsen of Ilyruin, Cache county, lias been appointed as head of the dairy and food division of the department of agriculture. Salt Lake ranks second among the cities of more than 100,000 population in having had the lowest mortality rate during the week ending April 2. Thomas Riley Marshall, for eight years vice president of the United States, addressed the members of the Bonneville club at Salt Lake on April 12. Appointment of Salt Lakes civil service commission to handle appointments to the police and fire departments will he made within the next few days. Physicians of Utah who apply for new licenses are not required to take every year, according to an announcement made by the department of registration. C. V. Miller, a groceryman of Salt Lake, was bound and gagged by two men who entered his store and then robbed him of $173 from the cash register and a watch and chain. Unless othgr counties of the state are unusually active in the closing days of their 1921 membership drives, Morgan county will display the blue ribbon for farm bureau organization this year. Samuel Halverson, aged 61, was buried beneath six feet of earth in a cave-i-n of a sewer trench at Ogden. Fellow workmen rescued him and he will recover, but is suffering from two broken ribs and internal Injuries. Pictures of the late Theodore Roosevelt, given by the American Defense society, of which lie was honorary president, will he hung in every school-hous- e in Salt Luke City, with appropriate ceremonies, within the next few weeks. Because it is regarded as the best contract under which grower and manufacturer can work to mutual advantage, the Utali sugar beet contract for 1921 has been adopted by the Michigan Sugar Beet Growers association. An army of Salt Lake merchants, manufacturers and bankers who will participate in the boosters excursion to hold forth during the week of May 8, will storm Nevada cities in white bats, armed with canes and bedecked in streamers. Delmis Rich, a Salt Lakij boy, swallowed a metal whistle, which became lodged in his throat. His father took the boy to the emergency hospital, where the lad was given an emetic, which resulted in dislodging the whistle. The cost of hired labor for producing sugar beets in Utah this year will range from $21.50 to $31.50 per acre, depending on the tonnage, according to a schedule that has been recommended to the growers by the labor committee of the Utah state farm bureau, The Southern Utah Baseball league was reorganized at a meeting held at Salina last week. Enthusiastic fans from Gunnison, Manti, Salina, Richfield, Monroe and Elsinore were present, and the southern section is promised better baseball than ever before. One of the most damaging landslides which has ever occurred in Ogden canyon was that which, last week tore out 100 feet of the pipe line of the city waterworks system, covering the county road for a distance of about eighty feet with a slide of earth and rocks. The people of Tremonton will on May 3 vote on a proposed bond issue of $10,000 for the purpose of enlarging and perfecting their present waterworks system. They will also vote on a $15,000 bond Issue for the purpose of adding to their present storage system. Efforts to obtain pay for the first three days of the year are to he made by officials of Utah, according to Mark Tuttle, state auditor, who suggests that mandamas proceedings0 be instituted by the attorney general to determine who is entitled to the pay for these days. John Hicks, a visitor to Salt Lake, told the police that he had been swindled of $630 by means of the box game by two men whom he had known but a short time. Hicks said that he met the men and they explained how be could double his money by placing it in a box which they intrusted to him to open at a ?ertain time. |