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Show m LOMjtmayiEitiaiiltn i'iiffiiiimtwB j- Damaged .iwi PMTsl SOUTH CACHE COURIER HYRUM, UTAH Balabridg Colby, of tho United States shipping board, in an address at Detroit advocated the placing of the millions of tons of shipping built by the government as a war emergency measure into the hands of priests concerns for operations either through lease or purchase. Bandits blew open the vault in the Bank at Granby, at Grangy, Mo., and escaped with 815.000 worth of unregistered Liberty bonds. No money was taken, as the robbers were frightened away before they succeeded in reaching the money containers. Six unmasked men in a touring car held up Frank R. Brown, paymaster of the General Electric company, robbed him of 812,500, the weekly pay roll of the company's steel foundry at Everett, Mass., and escaped from a thickly populated neighborhood after shooting and seriously wounding the paymaster as he sat helpless, with his hands held over his head. WASHINGTON. Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, the Republican leader, in an address to the senate December 20, advocated postponement of the formation of a league of nations until after the peace conference. He said the question should be considered separately and RBCORD OF THE IMPORTANT VENTS TOLD IN BRIEFE8T MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History Information Gathered from All Quarters of the Globe and Olven In a Few Lines. INTERMOUNTAIN. Officers at Camp Lewis estimated that more than 10,000 soldiers will be sent from this camp either to Camp Kearny. Cal., or the Presidio, San rranclsco, for mustering out under orders received from the war department that all Californians, Arizonians and Nevadans there be sent to one of these two camps instead of being discharged at Camp Lewis. Word of the appointment by General Pershing of Dr. James C. Graves' of Seattle, a major in the medical corps of the United States army in France, as one of the ten physicians and sun geons to represent this country at an lnter-allleconference upon the problem of the disabled soldier, has been ' Kthe tered. Francis ("Silk) OLoughlin, famous as' an American league umpire, died at his apartment at Boston, December 20, after a short illness of influenza and OLoughlin had been an pneumonia. umpire in the American league since Its organization and he had long been rated as one of the picturesque figures in the baseball world. Bernard Nadal Baker of Baltimore, shipping expert, died at a hospital t Santa Barbara, Cal., following an Illness of three days. Mr. Baker caifie west on advice of his physicians. He was formerly a member of the shipping board and retired at the time of the controversy with William Denman. The United States army transport Henry R. Mallory arrived at New York on Friday with 4461 American soldiers from Bordeaux. Nine hundred and one of the men were sick or wounded. Four negroes, two of them women, accused of the murder of Dr. E. L. Johnston, were taken from the Jail at Shubuta, Miss., and lynched, according to information received at Mobile. Dr. D. M. Pixley, mayor of North Little Rock, and Lieut Paul Grabiel were acquitted of charges of arson in circuit court at Little Rock, Ark. The charge grew out of the burning last February of the clubhouse of the Army Athletic association, of which Lieutenant Grabiel was manager and in which Mayor Pixley was alleged to have been interested. Representatives of agriculture, industry, labor and business from eighteen states will meet in Omaha, Febru- ,ary 4, 5 and 6 nekt, when the Readjustment congress Trans-Mississip- Warsaw. Poland was stripped of all materials and machinery during the German occupation which ended ' November 11. On that day a few thousand soldiers of the Polish legion, aided by tho population of Warsaw, disarmed more than 20,000 German soldiers who had planned a revolt against their own officers. All food and all telephone wires were removed by the Germans. All industrial plants were robbed and dismantled, with the result that Pol Jp,, will have a hard job to start in again, even if financial and later. political conditions were of the best, Cancellation of all regobservers say. Discussing the economic ulations, including fair price schedules situation in Poland, Stanlslau Larlow-skand the price and quantity restrictions director of the Commercial bank on the sale of wheat flour by millers, of Warsaw, said to the correspondent which officials expect will result in on December 22 ; cheaper flour, was formally announced It will take nearly 82,000,000,000 to December 20 by the food administra- repair the tNmnge done during the tion. German occupation and to put us on More than forty new improvement our feet ' properly and, to develop our projects are Included In the 1920 rivers great natural resources. and harbors bill, which was 'completed At the present time the economic by the house committee. The meas- situation is confused because Russian ure carries appropriations totaling rubles, Austrian crowns and German 826,935,000. marks are in circulation. The nyarkg-ar- e a heritage of the German occupaThe senate has ratified a trade tion. Guatebetween and this treaty country mala, designed to aid In the developRECORD BANK RESOURCES. ment of commerce between the United States and Guatemala. Re Bonuses allowed seamen for enter- Comptroller of Currency Give markable Figures Regarding Banks.! waters ing the once submarine-infesteof Europe will be discontinued after Washington. Resources of the y December 22, the shipping board has tional banks of the country on Noy her 1, the date of the last call, ag announced. 819,821,404,000, Comptroller railon gated of Inauguration hearings road legislation January 2 to be con- the Currency Williams announce cluded as soon aB possible and distinct Sunday. This not only fas a ne from house or joint congressional com- record, but was an increase of total shown mittee inquiries, has been decided upon 799,000 commerce 31. coll August last the senate by interstate The resources of the national Jlanks committee. Each soldier honorably discharged of the United States, Mr. Willlarii said, ' is to be furnished with two scarlet exceed the combined aggregate rechevrons, to be worn on the left sleeve, sources of the national banks of issue as a recognition of his service to the of England, the Dominion of Canada, country, Secretary Baker has an- France, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Japan and Gernounced. availThere will be no general ' public many, as shown by their latest ' able reports. building next year. The house buildMr. Williams also said that the naings committee' so decided on a tie tional banks resources were only one vote. dollars less than the combined billion FOREIGN. of all state and other banks resources When the total German casualties as are published, the number of dead wfll and trust companies In the country, of 1917, their June, shown reports by be about two million, according to the and that In the past five years the Cologne Gazette of November 25, a of the resources of the national copy of which has been received here.. growth had been greater than the institutions Up to October 25 the total casualties increase which took place in the prereported were 6,066,769, of waom more twenty-fiv- e years. ceding than 4,750,000 were Prussians. King George has cancelled arrangeMEN BEING SENT HOME. ments providing that he should go to Sandringham palace for Christmas, Demobllization Plans Call for Dis- ' and will remain in London to welcome charge of 30,000 Men Daily. President Wilson. Washington. With a total of 188,562 A German mine which had been men discharged from the army during planted in a bridge at Guise has been the week ending December 14, General exploded, killing fifteen and wounding March announced on December 21 that twenty-five- The explosion occurred the war department has about reached more than a month atfer the armthe average of 30,000 discharges daily istice. for which the demobilization plans King Victor Emmanual of Italy, ac- call. companied by his son, the Prince of On a seven-dabasis,' the average Piedmont, arrived In Paris Wednesday for that week was 27,000 men per day, and was welcomed by the president nnd cases demobilization offibut in NOTED EXPLORER COMPLETELY EQUIP??? PEDITION EVER SENT Doughty Warrior Declares That Brlt Ish and Americans Were DIsap pointed at Not Having Been Able to Meet German Fleet. Results of Inestimable United State, and to Scle! pected to Be Obtained. London. The American battleship squadron attached to the British grand fleet displayed a spirit of true comradeship throughout its period of servAdmiral Sir David ice, declared Beatty, the commander In chief of the grand fleet, in a farewell address on board the U. S. S. New York, the day the' squadron was detached from the grand fleet. All hands had been called to muster on the forecastle to hear Admiral BetUiy After th&vklng the American officers and or their Sir David ref Vttiat both the British 5 Nwere disappointed ble to meet tho New York. An expedition to h.Is. by Captain Robert A. Bartlett explorer, will be sent to the gions next June to survey the noJ that the ered was x'4d said d pi convenes there. With a bullet wound through the jiead; pe body of Dr. Louis Alvarez Calderon, consul of Peru in San Fran- cisco, was found in his apartment in Ban Francisco. A pistol was found close by the body. The construction division of the army has been ordered by the war department to abandon work on the reclamn ation unit at El Paso, Texas. '.- Austria-Hungar- - i y J Conceived by Admiral Peary pole by aeroplane, according nouncement here, December 22 l!,?" Aero Club of America. ThI plaVi! was said, was conceived by Rear miral Robert E. Peary, discoverer the pole. 1 The purpose of this .expedition! which, it was said, would be the completely equipped ever sent out win be to explore, survey and photograph the unexplored parts of the Arctic and establish the existence or of land or lands in that region. It Is also intended, according to the announcement, to explore tho upper air and the bottom of the polar basin. Results of inestimable value to tho United States and to science surely will be obtained from this expedition, VMid the announcement, which added t the club would raise $250,000 to unce the trip. non-existen- V Yhe north, pole has been dlscov-Y- ut the major part of the work vemains to be done, the states. h Admiral Peary and Captain, It want to do a great deal of ic research in the polar basin, X over 1,000,000 square miles unexplored, and they would lliave a laboratory on the ship, ine flora and fauna from the tom will be kept until the Little or from the botV;,a basin, ;md jjt-meteo- been .. that wars until an aenT: , guui will not cease unless nations desire peace at any price. He said the allies and the United States could go very far toward promoting peace, but predicted that unless reciprocal trade agreements are made between these associated nations existing cordial relations cannot last Urging extension of the American merchant marine, he voiced opposition to government ownership, but declared it preferable to a ship subsidy. UNIVERSITY HONORS PRESIDENT Recognizes Wilson as Jurist and Historian. Paris. In the great amphitheatre of the University of Paris, (the President Wilson Saturday afternoon, December 21, received the degree of doctor, honoris causa, conferred upon him in recognition of his work as a jurist and historian. This is the first time in the history of the university that an honorary degree has been bestowed, authorization for its granting having been given by a recent decree. President Poincare, the presidents of the senate and the chamber of deputies, the diplomatic corps, members of the government and the highest civil and military authorities were present at the ceremony. many other officials. Great crowds cheered the president cers did not operate on Sunday. Former Emperor Charles of Additional units In this country des- when he arrived at the university, acand four of his children are William ignated for early demobilization brings companied by Mrs'. Wilson, suffering from influenza, according to the total of men so selectetd to 900,000, Graves Sharp, the American ambasa telegram from Vienna. General March announced. Up to the sador, and Jean Jules JusSft and, The German government headed by date of the latest official reports, French ambassador to the Ufiited Friederlch Ebert has resigned as a re- 26,903 officers had been honorably dis- States. sult of events of Tuesday, according to a dispatch received at Zurich from charged. CHEAPER FLOUR DUE. Stuttgart. DIES. WALTER HINES PAGE The German government has decided Food Administration Lifts Restrictions to convoke a conference of represenon Prices and Quality. Former Ambassador to Great Britain tatives of all the states of the former Answers Summons. of, all Washington. Cancellation empire on December 29 to elect a presN. C. Walter Hines Page, flour milling regulations, including fair PInehurst, ident of 'the German republic, accordformer ambassador to Great Britain, price schedules and the price and ing to a Berlin report. died here December 21, after an illness quantity restrictions on the sale of The constant worry of the last five of many weeks. Dr. Pages health be- wheat flour by millers, which officials weeks and his virtual imprisonment in gan to fall nearly a year ago, and he expect will result in cheaper flour, was Count Bentincks castle here have gave up his post as American repre- formally announced December 20 by changed William Holienzollerns ap- sentative at. the court of St. James the food administration. Notification of the action was telepearance considerably.- His face has late in the summer. become ashen, his hair nd mustache Walter Hines Page was editor of the graphed to all zone agents of the food gray and his features deeply lined, ac- magazine, The Worlds Work, and a administrations grain corporation and member of the publishing firm of there was a sharp rise in the price of cording to Holland advices. Food conditions In Bulgaria are Doubleday, Page & Co., of Garden City, wheat, bran and other mill feeds on market, which offigood, according to late reports, this L. I., when in March, 1913, President the Minneapolis amhim American Wilson to be followed cials' appointed by a drop in expect being especially true of the country flour prices. districts. In the cities food is avail- bassador to Great Britain. able to all having the means to pay Half Million Italians Lost in War. the high prices asked; Clothing, howCamp Lewis Men Being Discharged' Paris. Five hundred thousand Italever, is scarce. Camp Lewis, Wash. This camp sent their lives in the war. Of first men to the Presidio, San Franits Damage caused by the burning of ians lost the power house at the Hampton this number 200,000 were killed in ac- cisco, and Camp Kearny, Cal., for dismen Roads, Va., naval base will not exceed tion. This statement was made to the charge Saturday. Twenty-fiv- e correspondent Saturday by Salvatore went to each camp as a Unit under 850,000, the navy department announced Friday on estimates received Barzllai, former member of the Italian command of an officer also ellglbls cabinet. from the commandant . for discharge. y ma 0UT d mid-Atlant- ic ' It Will Take Two Billion Dollars to Repair Damage Done During German Occupation and Give Nation Fresh 8tkrt. It Is Estimated ADMIRAL SIR DAVID BEATTY THANK8 AMERICAN OFFICERS , AND MEN FOR . ! t) AND FOOD TAKEN. i, received. A complete survey of positions Ih Utah open to discharged soldiers' will bo made by the authorities of Camp Lewis, Wash., the state council of defense and the local bureau of the federal employment bureau. The president, secretary and assistant cashier of the defunct Merchants bank at Salt Lake have been indicted by a grand Jury of the crime of receiving deposits in an insolvent bank, knowing that the bank was' insolvent. Twenty mining companies of Utah are to bring suit against the state for 151,681 paid as mine occupation taxes, the suit being to test the validity of the mine occupation tax law passed by the last legislature. John H. Cradlebaugh, prominent Oregon newspaper man, pioneer nilner and frontiersman, who shared the early life In many sections of the weh died at his home at Salem, pre., D4 " cemhjMP 17.i.He was 70 years old. DOMESTIC. . The British schooner Pauline Martin, leaking and rudderless, floundered for weeks in terrific gales in before her crew was rescued, according to her skipper. Captain Wayte, and his' six seamen, who arrived at New York aboard the Swedish steamship Elizabeth. In its first report on the part it is playing In restoring war workers' and discharged soldiers to peace time industry, the United States employment service announced that, during the week ndlng December 7, Jobs were found for 84,284 applicants who regis- i! WERE 8TRIPPED AND DISMANTLED flour-millin- g d f f ALL. INDUSTRIAL PLANTS Sar-bonne- ), made in the Asserting that with the of 'the leading geographical and scientific bodies assured," it is planned to have the expedition leave the United States next June, the announcement continued : There are sit weeks of fair weather in July and August, when, comparatively speaking, the cold is not extreme. The plans are to have a ship go to north Etah, about 600 miles from the suffis Ice pole, in June, when the to the ship to broken permit iciently cross Melville bay. The ship would land aicarry a large seaplane or the top across rplane for the final flight of the earth and for exploration of tie well as unexplored polar regions, as flights. scouting smaller planes for the Etab a at arrival Immediately upon base would be established, and, nr for the ice to break up as to go ther north to permit the shipsmall sefar as Cape Columbia, the and Columbia aplanes would fly to Cape establish a base there for the larg for the flight plane which is to be used from ap world, across the top of the side ovc Columbia ou tine American on the Sthe pole to Cape Chelyuskin on iberian side, and for explorat long distances. m For the six weeks after the conditio of July, when the weather n are best for flying in the po a well as gions, the' large plane, other planes, will be put into P and the important work of the tion will be done. nf Asserting that only aa the earths surface has been only s mapped, and om rough sketches, officer. P club stated that by use of ai h do to would be possible b 200 years years what would require usual methods. whie-waitin- one-sevent- h i two-third- FUTURE. LODGE FEARFUL OF Discusse8 W'' Massachusetts Senator sons Fourteen Peace P'nt8 Washington. Five of Pelte"twere sons fourteen principles of P by gen. held up in the senate Saturdaylew ator Lodge, the Republican division lea tocertalnly questions which might tj,8 among the nations wh t() should be postponed until A ney peace conference. the 'seas, secret diplomacy, freedom barriers, reduction Patlon ' ments and the league of arma-econom- ic Jealousy Prompts dlcai Baltimore. Dr. Mobruy member of them Japanese, and aSheppard-Pratt hosPpr Staff of the 0f here, shot and instantly George B. Wolfe, anotherofphyi of tl) the hospital, In the office v to tion Saturday. Jealousy ac ding nurses prompted the deed, the police. |