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Show P i'-.L.- : 'f 'y iV" , blaiT? . If Mt nasembw year wUl help m thk paper ttremg i thief ne YEAR RANDOLPH, RICH COUNTY, UTAH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1923 'Tis the Night A fter Christmas HEADED VERA CRUZ; REIN. FORCEMENTS GATHERING Mixed ' DIRECTORS &DOY& f BAYANA RIVER TRUST" REPORT ONLY AL. LIGATORS ARE FOUND D Innocent v Vera Cruz, A general attack by federal troops on Vera Cruz is ini to revolutionary minent, according headquarters. This belief, it is stated is based upon observations of troops movements from Apizaco to but no advance bas as .vet . begun. The rebels are accumulating reinforcements to resist an Obvegon-is- t attack, the statement adds The war plan agreed upon by the revolutionary council held re entiy in Esperanza providing for combined .action of rebel forces at Vera Cruz, Oaxaca, Puebla and Guerrero is already in operation the communique Hua-mantl- a, state. Reinforcements have entrained here to support tlie attack on Santa Luof cre tia, Isthmus Tehuantepec where heavy fighting continues with the federal garrison still successfully resisting all attacks. A revolt on federal garrisons stationed in the Tampico oil fields is reported here and it is stated that adherents of General Sanchez have of fered to join the rebellion, hut this Las not been confirmed. General San Antonio, Texas, Romulo Figueroa, Who is marching from the state of Guerrero upon Mexico City, lias captured the town of Puente- - Igtla And is - threatening to march upon the "City tf Cuernavaca, i coiwng - Li'i CRT pres' patches robing San Antonio Toes r v" night,! General Arnolfo Gomez, chief of the military garrison In Mexico fity, who to cheek left with a strong column the advance of Figueroa, has arrived is preparing to Ait Cuernavaca and lace the revolutionists. Railroad traffic is suspended south of Cuernavaca since the taking of Puente Ixtla by rebels, the only trains .running being to Cuernavaca on the Central and to Cuautla on the railroads. Coincident with the capture of Iztla, General Figueroa has addressed Governor Neri of Guerrero advising him to resign and to leave the state with the understanding that facilities would he granted him to leave safely together w ith his family, and friends. Neri refused to resign, saying that he Bewould remain in Chilpnacingo. cause of Neris reply. General Figueroa lias announced that he would proceed to send a column to attack the cpijdf of Guerreio. Inter-ocean- ic -- Film Actress Loses Suit Cleo de Merode, French .Haris, notion picture actress, has lost her suit for 100,000 fmncs against the Owners of the film Peacock Alley, which she charged injured her reputation by burlesquing incidents in her career. The court held that the conduct of the dancer represented on the film was in no way dishonorable ' -- ' IN SCOUTS , Stockholders; Koretz to Be Hiding in Vicinity of Chicago Ihlcago To Heve Expensive Hotel Chicago, The Congress hotel, first fair in pened during the Worlds 1893 and the battleground of a host of national political conventions, is to be replaced by a $22,000,000 thirty y structure which will make It one of the largest hostelries In the world. According to H. L. Kaufman two-stor- president, plans call for the erection next March of a $3,000,000 thirty-twstory bachelor hotel on Congress street west of the present hotel. The next step will be the erection of a annex at thirty twoi story, Wabash and Harrison streets, and finally the practical demolition of the present structure, leaving intact sucli features-'a- s Peacock alley and the Pompeiian room. o. 700-roo- m , , ' Leader Returns oiEGon forces: FlrtST CARS OF WOUNDED SOLD CONGRESSMAN INTRODUCES SEEKING METHODS OF GOVERNOR GENERAL -- IERS HAVE REACHED OF MEXICO ,1 CITY of Island federal Troops In Mexico RevoP Investigation - Continue to March on Many Business Methods Is Desired in Resolution Submitted to 5 Points; Victories Are - Congress , , , ; Reported Sweeping p- I i Washington, Demand for a sweep' ing Investigation by tlie house jrules ommittee of the administration ' in lie Philippines ot Governor General Leonard Wood was made in a resold Lnjjoduced;; by . Tfeprisentatj Year, Republican of Wisconsin. The nquiry, he suggested, also " should eek to establish whether tlie time s ripe to grant the islands indepen-lene- t San An onio, Tex., The firstr cars of, wounded soldiers from" the hattle. fields of &an Marcos, ,,jPB tibia,, have reached tlie city ,of Mexico ap have bee 'plaqeti ln the military hospitals i tjbMecerding - received here from' Mexico City. Tiie wounded men Included both federal adn rebel soldiers, the latter said to have been abandoned on tiie battlefield by tlieir comrades when the rebels withdrew after brisk advance Referring to General Woods cam- action, 1 In conformity with orders to mapaign in 1920 for the Republican residential nomination, Mr. Frear's neuver so as to attract tlie main esolution declared it lias been re- rebel force in Vera Cruz towards the foot of the Puebla mountains for an peatedly and publicily alleged Wood's selection for the post of engagement, the federal troops have tovernor general would enable him continued their march toward state of Tlaxcala. extended to .0 reciprocate favors Lieutenant Colonel Gnadlalupe dm in the political primary campaign of the sixth if 1920 and that the alleged usurpa-.io- n Longora commander have made of authority and effort to extend regiment is reported to xploitation privileges would afford liis way from tlie rebel camp and ofeeognition of unprecedented obliga-ion- s fered his services to the federal government by appearing before General incurred in the campaign. Alamzan, chief of military operations, rethe Individual subscriptions, went to Colonel Samuel E, Kelley, going fiom solution continued, which make up the $1,773,000 expended by Vera Cruz, similarly offered iiis serthe Wood campaign committee in the vices to General Francisco Urbalejo, residential campaign Included con- chief of operations against tlie forces. Whether either officer tributions from oil, tobacco, banking, had a following was not apparent. ailway and other interests that have Estradistas have executed the memvn interest in the undeveloped of the'1 agrarian commission at bers , of the Philippines. to brief The resolution proposed that in Jammnl, Jalisco, according tlie tlie dispatches reaching capital, Wood Governor those and ustice to advices to The Express said. Genn vho contributed to his political the investigation should be ex- eral Juan Lechuga refused tlie invitation of General Cesareo Castro to tended to include charges to the efturn fect that rights in tlie Philippines and inagainst the Gbregon government turn sent in similar invitaliven or proposed to private American tion to Castro, inviting him to give to such mterests are not unrelated ins forces back into the federal ranks, contributions. llarcelo Caraveo continues to be invesMr. Frear suggests that the of operations in Puebla. chief tigating committee would do well to of the late Hipolito Yilla, brother of Philippine look into the deposit Francisco to is Villa, reported again of government funds. A totaL have appeared before President Obreof such funds, he says, are in gon and his fealty to the banks and trust companies in the federal jleclared Hacienda Ganu-tillgovernment. United States. Francisco estate on which Villas The resolution calls attention to several hundred of the picked troops varin dispatches published last May of the former general are employed, ious American newspapers in which was reportd by Hipolito to be quiet. it was declared Governor Wood had Ramine commanding the Margarito of names in his possession a list of train which has been mending .enators, representatives and others repair the railway line between the City of prominent in Washington social life, Mexico and Guadalajara, reported who receive payment from the PhilipIt that the line lias been repaired as far pine independence commission. as Yurecuaro, where an advance also refers to charges made in some guard under General Laaro Cardenas quarters that Governor Wood has is stationed. The rebel advance guard tlie assumed has and power usurped has fallen back toward Ocotlan, where role of dictator. Estrada, tlie rebel commander, is his general maintaining lieadquart to Fight ers." Obregon Has No Enemies Mexico City, There are no .enem-le- s Paris Has Gay Time in use to fight either for Paris, Paris woke up Tuesday afVera Cruz or Jalisco, President Obternoon with the most violent headregon told the foreign correspondents "because they refuse to give battle ache in history after a Christmas eve which the cheap Flench paper franc and retreat continually, tearing up made by far the gayest since tlie and the tracks, preventing pursuit The revelers, who includleaving prisoners and munitions be- armistice. hind. Relative to the situation in ed some of tlie most illustrious names the state ot Jalisco on the west coast m the social record, simply monopostated that lized the more expensive restaurants, however, the president lie expected a battle there shortly, paying unheard of prices for food, Even with perhaps before Friday. The situation drink and entertainment. in Guerrero is not serious, according the franc at its low figure, $500 was to the chief executive, although mark- tlie minimum charge for a party of ed by two revolts, the first that of three. Champagne interests estimate and the that the Christmas stocks drunk in General Romulo Figueroa and ressecond that of the agrarians x and the gay citys 8000 cafes taurant totaled. 200,000 quarts. workers against Figueroa. -- e. -- Gov-am- or Hua-mantl- a, cam-laig- o, by National Council of the Boy Scouta of America.) LIFE SCOUT SAVES WOMANS Control Polands Recovery May Be Rapid; 'People Await Outcome With Interest San-cliis- ta Carnarvon Widow Marries London, The dowager countess ot Carnarvon, widow of the earl of Car narvon, discoverer of the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutenkhamin, was married Wednesday to Lieutenant Colonel Ian Onslaw Dennistoun, formerly an of ficer f the grenadier guards. The ceremony was performed at a registry office here in the presence of few friends. Colonel Dennistoun, 44 years old, served in the South African war, was made a captain in 1910 and a major in 1913 during the Euror pean war. And further stated there was nothing Townsitea Bring Profit In the picture which identified its In adA profit of $35,329 heroine with Mile. Merode. Washington, dition to dismissing the suit the court has been realized by the governmeht townsites in ordered the actress to pay the film in the sale of seven Alaska along the Alaskan railroad, it producers 2000 francs for costs. was announced by tlie interior deone of these being IPIan to Signal Mars partment, only The largest Paris, A new attempt to communi- disposed of at a loss. cate with Mars will be made by profit, $13,172, was made in the sale scientists who have established them- of lots in the Seward tract. . Anchorselves on the summit of the Jung- age sites brought a profit of $12,510 frau, in Switzerland, according to and Nenana, $11,150. dispatches from Geneva to the Matin. , Idaho Banker Killed in the Bernese Alps, The Jungfra-uW. A. Davis Idaho Falls, Ida. is 13,608 feet high. The attempt will he made next August with instru- cashier of the First National bank of ments which have been and will be Roberts, Ida., was instantly killed and placed in position at an altitude of Dean Whitman of Roberts was serover 11,000 feet. At that time Mars iously injured when Davis car skidThe accident oc will be in peripheral opposition to the ded into a ditch. curred near the Menan earth. , depot at were en route Davis and Whitman - Would Change Film Control home from Rexburg. A tire came off a rear wheel throwing the car into New York, Religious and civic orwith Whitman was taken to a to tiie ditch. asked be will join ganizations officials of the Presbyterian church Rigby1 hospital, uaconscious. In a congress to be held at Washing' Leviathan Hits Bar ton on Fein nary 13 and 14 to plan for national legislation to bring all moNew York, The Leviathan, queen American "merchant tion picture exhibitions under federal ship of the control. This was announced by Dr. marine, inbound from Cherbourg Fridiaries Scanlon, secretary of the de- day grounded on Robins reef in New partment of moral welfare of the York harbor. A call was sent for all The reef Is located Presbyterian board of Christian edu- available tugs. cation, who declared the meeting just north of Tompkinsv ille, Staten would be the beginning of a definite Island. The ship grounded after she and determined crusade whose slogan liad passed in quarantine on the way will be Clean up the movies.- her dock. , New Believed Chicago, Two groups of officers, each armed with warrants are on the trail of Leo Koretz, notorious oil swindler. While one group carried a federal warrant charging use of the mails to defraud, anothe bore a state warrant charging fraud and larceny. Authorities were interested in a report that Koretz is hiding in ChiAn apartment tn which he is cago. said to have been seen as late as Monday of this week is being watched by a squad of detectives. Still believing, however, that Koretz fled to some foreign port of refuge, the worldwide search continued. Meanwhile a committee of four imIvoretzs stockholders in portant River Trust of mythical Bayano Panama" returned from an inspect ing expedition to Panama. They had been sent by Koretz to inspect the companys holdings and report back to tlie other stockholders. As they a four alighted from a train after weeks trip, they said there was no Panama. Bayano River .Trust" fa They said they found nothing but an alligator swamp and none of the alligators spouted oll.r Koretz is said to have cleared be tween $10,000,000 and $20,000,000 through sale of his oil stock. His victims include members of his own family, friends and - hundreds ot He ""disap veered on December 9. (Conducted ACTION INVOLVES RECOGNITION OF SOVIET AND MAY LEAD TO RAPPROCHEMENT Millions of Dollars are Taken From Results of Latest Skirmishes In Mexico Is Indicated by Dispatches; Capital . Threatened for any- -' "NO. 7 I FEDERAL TROOPS y Let us ' v H Flf tiling you want printed. Rich Pouoty Ness printing is with art and effic- -' itncy. j, , TWENTY-SEVENT- FfcatCaJck At living prices. hire poor next order nk-oipti- service. f . jS- s : Washington, Announcement from Warsaw that tlie Polish government has ratified atreaty which involves tlie recognition of tlie soviet republic is one of the first concrete evidences of tiie fact thatr with the coming of Dmowski, Poland has at last fallen ' ! into firm hands.1- No country has suffered more since the war; that is, in the Polish case, since it recovered liberty and unity, than Poland. She has been attacked by enemies and a Russian invasion lias almost readied her capital and not only demolished her indepento tlie dence, but brought confines of western , Europe. . She has also hrea crippled by steady hostility coming from countries like Britain fiom which she might have - J expected friendly support. . . Of all the countries which were created or expanded by tlie world war the problems of Poland have been tlie To reunite three fractions bravest. of tlie Polish patrimony, long held in subjection by three mhitury empires, namely, Germany, 'Austria and Rus sia.'to bring about any internal unity, tliis in a period of actual peace would hav e been a difficult task." But Poland ha been threatened from without,' threatened by Russia, perpetuat-U by Germany, and at tlmeg, aa object of hostillty both in London " and in Rome, v In the completion of the reunion of Polish lands theie have been many With Czetho-Slovaklong disputes. there lias been tlie debate over Tess-chewhich was settled, and that of Javorina, which is still under disWith Lithuania there has cussion. been tiie long quarrel over Vilna, only recently settled by tlie council of ambassadors. With Russia there was eastern the question of tlie whole frontier, including the title to eastern Galicia. In tlie main this dispute was settled by treaty of Riga following the defeat of the Russian invasion of Poland, but it is only in the current year that the eastern Galician matter was disposed of by the great powers who ruled in Poia The first uses Mrs. SI. E. Graves of Jamaica, Long Island, made of her injured right hand as soon as it was sufficiently healed to serve her, was to write her appreciation of a boy scout who, through his prompt first aid, had saved her from bleeding to death, Mrs. Graves on the morning of the accident, while engaging in preserving fruit, came across a broken jar, which she threw Into the ash can. Some time later as the fruit peelings piled upon the kitchen table, Mrs. Graves gathered them up and hastened to dis-pose of them. With her thoughts In- tent upon her work, and forgetful of the broken jar, Mrs. Graves plunged her hands into the ash can. Her right hand struck the jagged glass which inflicted three cuts, and severed the artery. Horrified at the stream of blood which came from the wounds, Mrs, Graves ran to the telephone to call a doctor. In her effort to make the call, -she became weakened from loss of blood, and staggered to the door to . look for other assistance. At that moment Scout Michael Salucka in passing the house noticed j, the Injured woman and ran to help her. Quickly the boy seized a clothespin which he espied on the back yard clothes lines, and with the wooden pin , and a handkerchief improvised a , . tourniquet. The handkerchief he put right around the arm, states Mrs. Graves, i and twisted the stick which he held . in place until the doctor arrived an hour later. I was Immediately taken to Jamaica hospital and kepf over night. There id ho doubt that the hoy ' Yieoufff knowledge of first aid end hi nse-ef- a it saved l f e am very grafefuL J am now Able the right hand t? give hhff nil mp-- ', '' " predation for his timely aid, 1 fev--us- IN SCOUT AMBULANCE UNIT--t n, lands favor. With Germany diiectly the question of Upper Silesia was long a cause of conflict and ev en of peril to European peace.Settled at last by the league of nations, the settlement has never been acceptet in good faith by the Germans and th same is true of the Danzig comproi se of the treaty of Versailles. For the Poles, tlie Danzig problem has lever been really adjusted and tlie Gi nn government m every way of this town has soue to hamper Polish acce to the sea. Underneath all else in tlie Polish situation lies the peril that Germany and Russia, agreeing some day in the future may seek to repeat the partitions of the last cenNo permanent turies. adjustment with Germany has ever been possible because there is not the slightest chance that a strong Germany would ever endure the separation of Posen, West Prussia and Upper Galicia, a majority of Poles is dis closed in the census figuies of ali What has been dethree regions. batable has been whether some were conceivable with Russia. ever-prese- nt Griffis Sent Christmas Cheer Chicago, Dr. James Whitney Hall, chairman of tlie national committee for the release of Lieutenant Corless H. Guffis, now confined in a German cell for the attempted capture of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, Sunday cabled a message of Christmas cheer Kansas City, with a petito Griffis. tion bearing 41,000 signatures headed by the mayor and members of tlie the countiy for the judiciary led week ending Sunday night, Dr. Hall Denver was sixth and Seatsaid. ninth. tle, Soldiers Guard Railroads The government Havana, Cuba, has dispatched 300 soldiers from Camp Columbia to guard the property of the Cuba railroad, on which a general strike Is in progress. Tlie road is operating a passenger train daily each way preceded by detachments of tlie rural guard in motor cars. Members of Boy Scout Ambulance Unit Number cuse, N. Y., Red Cross of Syra- 1 demonstrating a carry" work. The unit reused in first-ai- d and ceives special training In first-aiplaces its services at the disposal of the community.- - Nine of the members have been cited by the American Red Cross for heroism and outstanding work at the Barnstable fire in that d city. LEAGUE ENDORSES'SCOUTING That august ally of peace and symbol of the brotherhood of man, the League of Nations, has placed on record through a recent resolution its appreciation of the benefit of the younger generation of the great scout program. The league assembly emphasized in its resolution the Importance of encouraging contact between the younger generations of different nationalities; and asked that convenfences of travel be accorded groups of students of the higher and secondary educational institutions. It further declared that the boy scout and girl scout movements promoting closer understanding among the youth of all nations, are rendering valuable services to the cause of world peace It should not be forgotten, said the resolution, that the thoughts and feelings of the younger generation are an important element in forming the conscience of humanity, a pure and healthy element, free from prejudice, rancor, and memories poisoned by hatred, an element of enthusiasm and generous sentiments." |