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Show THE AUGUSTUS T. SEYMOUR TO OFFER WAR TIMES-NEW- S, NEPHI, UTAH PRINCE TO REQUEST CARDS SASCHA GANG SiEZES - PAYMENT PLAN EUROPEAN POWERS INVITED TO MAKE ATTEMPT TO SETTLE REPARATION PROBLEM 1 Bankers Are Ready to Advance Loan To Berlin; Government Attitude on Collodions Mora Lenient V ashlngton. The United States, as the outstanding move In its plan to avert a collapse in the old world, is about to invite the European powers to make a final attempt to settle the German reparations problem, it was learned from the most authoritative sources here. The "plan" of the United States for intervention in the European sltua. Hon, which has filled two continents with excitement and anticipation, part, ly because of the deep mystery surrounding; It, can now be revealed. It follows : Palievelng that reparations is the key to the present European crisis, the Pnited States will patricipnte in a iommisslon or some other form of official inquiry to establish an exact figure for Germany to pay. It would be a figure that would constitute Just reparations for the war nn amount that would be up to Germany's capacity to pay, but not beyond. If a settlement of the reparations problem can be effected by an agree, went among the European powers on ruch a figure, the United States can live assurances that American bank-r- s stand ready to advance a loan, with the proper securities, sufficient to put Germany on her feet and start her towards amortization of the Indemnity. Finally, the United States government is willing to adopt a more lenient policy on the question of collection of the allied war debt to tnls That is, it Is ready to con country. sider the obligations of each of the debtor cou tries on their own merits, granting more leniency in the terms of collection to those countries less able to pay. CHRISTMAS PAY BE PUT Ofl TABLE ' JSs ' f Augustus T. Seymour of Columbus who has been appointed assistant to Attorney General Daugherty to sua eeed Col. Guy D. Goff, resigned. 0 U. CURRENOBTAINED IN RAID IN HILLS NEAR PITTSBURG SATCHEL CONTAINING FINAL SHOWDOWN ON . CONCES SIONS FRANCE MAY BE WILL-TMAKE, HELD FOR ACTION S. EMPLOYES FACE CHARGES WHOLESALE THEFT OF GOVERN MENT SUPPLIES HAS EXTENDED THREE YEARS Requisitions Doctored and Excess Ma terlals Thus Obtained Were Sold Contractors by Workers; Arrest of Others Expected CY Man on State Department Denies Proposal Has Been Forwarded Covering Move This Country Is Willing t0 Make Washington. France soon may be asked by the United States to idace all her cards on the table. vv un me success or raiiure, otlie American move looking towan?"lrvso-lutio- n of the old world's economic crisis virtually hanging on the of France, this grvernment is understood to be preparing to ask Premier Poincure for a definite statement is to the utmost concessions lie is willing to make on reparations and kindred question in order to relieve the situation. 1'liis government realizes the Poin-car- e government faces a difficult political situation because of the strong demand in Frnace for the use of force in the hope of compelling Germany to pay the huge ,eparution figure which has been imposed upon her, and the inquiry to the French government will be propounded intlie most friendly manner. This government has received the German proposal calling for a commission of experts, preferably Americans, to revise the reparations down to the ugliest possible iigure that Germany can pay. This proposal was revealed exclusively hj( the press and caused unusual interest in official circles. It is beloved that any plan the United States agrees upon will be ac ceptable In the main to Great Britain, thus making it necessnry to harmonize as much as possible the wide dif ferences between France and Ger many, If a solution of the problem Is to be reached. The plan of this government is to get the views of all the powers and then outline a common ground upon which negotiations could be opened with the United States acting as a sort of mediator. State department officials denied that the informal discussions between this government end the allies had reached the stage where a American proposal had been fratiie-- t and said here was no truth in reports from London that the United States at the request by German Chan cellor Cuno had proposed an Ameri can commission of business men to revise the reparations figure. e Prince Sascha of the ancient house of Thurn and Taxis of Czechoslovakia, son of Prince Alexander, rich sugar merchant of that country, who is now in the United States to make a study o the motion picture Industry. The who is also a captain in the f.zecho6lovakiar army, alms to introduce the movie3 to the people of his :ountry. tllSSING VICTIMS SUPPOSED FOUND LIMBS OF DEAD MEN TIED WITH WIRE; GRUESOME DISCOVERY MADE ON FERRY M litis Soldiers Stationed Several Away; Identification Likely to Be Difficult, Correspondent Asserts Youths Held For Train Wrecking Police holding two boys, who they claim have confessed to wrecking Burlington passenger train No. 18 from St. Joseph to SL Louis last Tuesday night which endangered the live of mors Minn a hundred passengers. mouthpiece. Thirteen Arrested In Bank Robbery Chicago. Twelve men and a woman were arrested here charged with rob. Mnj P. 3. Caldwell, a messenger for the LogftB Square Trust and Savings Several P.ank, of $19,000 Tuesday. thousand dollars In cash were recovered. At the snme time police spread a wide dragnet for bnadlta who robbed the offices of James K. Harrison, down-tow- n diamond broker of $100,-00- 0 worth of onset diamonds and (21000 cash. BandU Confesses Te ohootlng Salt City. The bandits whose gunfire probably fatally wounded Boy. lance Fitzgerald Sntnrday alpfit have been captured. Both of them have confessed. Sheriff C. Frank Kmerv o announced. The tnea under arrest nr Ilex Ayktt and W. A. Forr, both of Midvsle. Aylett has confessed h was In the bandit car which pursued that In which Mis FlUgerald was He has declared that he riding. fired oaly one shot. The others, he ssld. were fired br his acconollce. Forgers of Money Ordir Taken Growers May Insure Agslnst Frost by fedAsbury Pork. A Img sr-Ixi Angeles. have Orange, growers eral and prlvnte deteetlves for counappealed to Lloyils for Insurance for terfeiters who have been flooding their crops sgninat froL according the country with forged money or ler to officials of the fut?ro ers1 fcx- - has been en'ad with the arrest here hinge. Whether the ompnny will of M. Banner, and the arrests In New nnme S'lch a risk has not In rn an- Orlecn of V.'atsnn and It. Me'an, it wh-wss Itficney nounced but exchange official sid wss dlcl'ioi. tini underwriting would said to be a New Yorker, was arrested they beiiet-e. c dure wag days be done, ho far this season, there Inpt secret, however, until fhj other lias Be frost of sufficient wer t.iWa Into cjs- tensity to slsrm southern California alleged letters range growers. H. Ku Brothers In Regalia Barred Harrison. Instructions to arrest anyone appearing in the city wearing the regalia of the Ku Klux Klan and orders to have the sanity of all such persons determined by physicians, were posted by Chief of police. The orders, adopted by the common counof cil, also Include the unmusklng hooded individuals atd ten days' Los Picture Actor Recovering Angeles. Appearing brighter every wny and with his tempera-lurand respiration said to be normal, Wallace Held, star of the sliver sheet, who Is fighting a winning bnt-t'for health after breaking himself of the habit of using nnrcotlrs, wss declared by bis physclans to be much better. In e e fit Joseph. ' o de)e Bonus Law Under Test Springfield. A friendly suit to test the constitutionality and legality of the Illinois soldiers bonus laws was filed in the Sangamon county court. Half a dozen objections to the bonus law are raised. It is complained that the law was not legally passed and that it is unconstitutional. lTie proceedings took the form of a petition for Injunction against the service recogsdUo board and state treasurer. Chicago Land Mark Datroyed By Fire Chicago. Smouldering ruins mark ed the site of the Doacborn street rail- Pittsburg. Four tandit shot and ltoss Dennis, paymaster of the Pittsburg Coal company, and escaped with a satchel containing about 20,000 In currency. The holdup occurred in the hills behind Mount Lebanon, near here, while a party of company officials taking the Christmas pay to miners at Heading, t'a. County detectives, armed with riot guns, were rushed to Mount Lebanon from the sheriff's office here. Dennis was riding a motorcycle in advance of an automobile in which Superintendent William Young of tho Heading mine and three other employes were guarding the pay satchel. without The bandits shot Dennis warning. He fell from' the motorcycle. Refore the driver of the pay car could stop his machine the bandits were upon it. They covered the superintendent and the guards, obtained the satchel and escaped. Collection Box Stolen By Pupil Bowling Green. The juvenile court has released Sammy Jennings, 0, when be returned 74 cents and confessed he had stolen it from the first grade collection box. The pupils in Sammy's class had put their pennies In a box to be given to the Ked Cross to buy Christmas presents for the poor. "1 wanted to buy a present for teacher," Sammy told the court. Wounded xxew lork. Twenty-tw- o civilian employes of the Brooklyn naval base were arrested by department of Justice agents in connection with rrand Jury indictments charging more than $1,000,000 worth of goods have beci stolen from the base since the war. Twenty-thre- e men were named in the Indictments. The arrests' were made under supervision of William J. Burns, chief of the department at 1 Washington. Goods stolen from he naval base Included" clothing, oil and other materials,, according to the federal agenta. The twenty-twn?2n are to be arraigned before Federal Judge Garvin. Arrest of the twenty-thir- d man Indicted was declared to be expected soon, federal authorities also announcing that additional indictments, and arrests are planned. The arrests were said by police, who worked with the federals, to be only the beginning of the exposure of a huge consplrarcy to defraud the government extending over the last three years. Ninety more arrests are expected, it was disclosed. and Clerk's, chauffeurs, laborer others were among those arrested. As they came to work they were lined tP t7 guards and herded Into tracks and taken to the fedarl butlmng. Policemen assigned to prevent just such thefts are implicated, it was said. The federal agents said the thefts were worked through "doctored" requisition. For Instance, when an was presented for shipinett of 4iH pieces of any article, the number was raised to 1400. The extra thousand was sold to outside contractors and concerns by the "fraud ring,' It Is alleged. Poet Office Found Short $2,000 Salt City. A shortage of approximately $2,000 in the account! of George A. Sullivan assistant postmaster of Frisco, Beaver county, was result of a feud between rival factions of Morehouse parish. Although the Ku Klux Klan organizations of Louisiana, Arkansas and Mississippi hav been more or les charged with being involved In the mysterious disappearance of Major Watt tanleis and Thomas Fletcher Kichards, citizens of Mer Kouge, following the kidnaping of these and three other Mer ltouge citizens bellev that the mysterious case goes much deeper than alleged Ku Klux animosity. It U believed to he more or less racial and rivals. In many respects, the celebrated foods of the Cumberland mountains of Kentucky. Tennessee and Virginia. Prince Operated Upon London. Prince George younrrst son of King George kfld Queen Mary, was successfully operated upon Tues day for appendMti. State Troops take Hand In Feud Monroe, La. The celebrated Mer e kidnapping case, which, for mil- - months has ineffectually taxed 11 of the legal machinery of the ftta nf T.miiRAnn In Ita ffort tn KOI ve, and moved forward another chapter when national guard troops were ordered to move to Bastrop, La., near Mer ltouge, originated accordd observes as a ing to reported by It W. Blake, postoflice Inspector on his return from Investi gating the affairs of the Frisco of flee. Sullivan was not arrested, because of his physical condition. He Is reported to be sufterit-- from acute tuberculosis and it Is not expected Hint be will survive many days. lie was In charge of the postoffice during the absence of his sister, who Is the Frlaco postmistress. She has been tn California for several months, and Sullivan has been In charge of the office 1st her place as assistant postmaster. The case was Investigated by Btak and by E. J. Uadesty, special agent of the American Railway Express company, which was also concerned in the shortage. Sullivan acted also as agent for the express company and a portion of the missing funds is said to have belonged to Is Hit Without Trio In Cr Covered By Bantf ai t Money Confiscated Motorcycle Warning; Shreveport, La. The bodies of two men in high state of decomposition, beleved to be Watt Oaniels and Thomas F. Kichards, missing victims of the Morehouse mob of last August, were found near the Eastland ferry on Lake La Fourche, which separates Morehouse and Hichlund parishes, according to the reports. The limbs of the dead men were tied with wire. They came to the surface as the result of a bl charge of dynamite exploded by unidentified persons. The bodies were nude except for belts and a portion of the trousers. One man's head was gone. It is thought that those who used the explosive left without knowning the bodies had come to the surface. A ferryboat had broken from its moorings and drifted a considerable distance downstream. The bank near where the boat was accustomed to landing was badly torn up. Many dead fish were on the surface of 'the water. The nearest point where soldiers were reported stationed Is said to be several miles from the place of the dynamiting. Owing to the condition of the bodies, it (s beleved it will be difficult to remove them and that identifcation will be dlffcult, unless there are marks on the belts. Several shots were fired at them and the men disappeared. Cooperlake Is surrounded by dense swamps In an Inaccessible part nf Morehouse parish, and It has been named as the spot where the bodies of the two missing men. Major Watt Daniels and Thomas Fletcher Ittrh-ardmight possibly havetoen thrown by their kidnappers, necordlng to reports made by private detective. road station, a landmark since 18S4, and once known as the beat railroad station In the world. It was destroy ed by fire Thursday afternoon believed to have started In offices on the third floor. Officials who Investigated the blaze were said not to put much faith of reports that It was of Incendiary origin. Marrtty had the floors and walla cooled before work men started removing debris and mak Ford Announces Big Plant at Chicago ing the rain at least temporary usIetroit. Henry's Ford's decision to able as a station. construct a ."FO.OOO.uwi plant near Chicago for the building of automobiles Money Truck Yields Good Bum St Mu!s. Six bandits armed wltn bodies and assembling of automobiles sawed off shotguns held up a money Is dhly a step in a gigantic program tm k of the Sllx Itaer and Fuller com- on the pari of the Ford .Motor company here, compelling two employees pany "that will rank as one of the snd a policeman to turn over to them greatest Industrial developments the The world has ever "on," it wns stated approximately $5,0W la cash. were taken at the Ford company ofrices Bore by policeman and employe persons In authority. by surprise and offered no resistance. The money bad been collected at T6 Take Car ef Exfled Orphans various delivery stations. The bandits Shanghai. Wh!le sixteen shiploads escaped la an automobile. of antisovet refugee from Vladivostok , Farm Council Will Be Permanent remain here, their fate word oranlzo from American Hed ro- - headquarWashington. Permanent tlon of the national council of farm- ters la ana'ted on the proposal that ers cooperative marketing associa- orphan among the exiles be taken tion was authorized In the closing 'inder the wing of the tied Cross to conference of be cared for tomjorrfiy In Shanghai session of a three-da- y representatives of farmers' assorts nnd Inter smt to America top be tlontion In all aertons nf the country. reare-f- . s heme to send A similar The pnrpoee of the council will be Hi orphan to Australia was rejected of ctr by the Austral'an trsi'e cermiiNKl Per. to hnndle common prohl-t- n ojwrstle insrketln bodies without persons here then urged the American . conflicting with activities of other lied Cross to assuma the guiir as their associations, and acting llan-hip- h - e.-al tca u-a- Ia Notes News From All Parts of UTAH Le Grand Walker of PleasGrove, has been awardd the Union Logan. ant Pacific scholarship for Utah county. This scholarship is offered by the Union Pacific railroad company to the boy in each couaty through which Its road passes who excels in agriculture end civic improvement. It provides $75 with which to defray expense while attending school at the Utah Agricultural college. .Salt Lake City. M'he Dixie Power company was ordered by the public utilities commission to allow the city of St. George a credit of 0007 on power furnished the city as a special consideration under the agreement entered into at the time the municipal plant was turned over to th company Stephen L. Tainted 35, an in an alleged confession tells of stealing an automobile at Great Falls, Mont., with which he hi.s been transporting Liquor from Idaho, n and also robbing residences of local citizens of supplies of wines and whiskey. Ogdeu. well-know- of modern opera Nephi. A chairs has arrived from the east and several men are now employed assembling and installing same in tho new high school auditorium. The carload contained 475 chairs. EnSalt Lake City. Prohibition forcement Agents Jerry Z. Hoyt and George Baker, suspended last weelc pending an investigation of the recent raid at the home of Dr. M. M. Critcn-lowere reinstated on the receipt of telegraphic advices from the commissioner of internal revenue and General Prohibition Director Haynes, Ogden. G. G. Kobertson, an emKaiser Sells Wedding Photo Central railployee of the Utah-lclah- o Doorn. The former German em- road was held up, bound and robbed peror has sold to a London and New by two masked and armed bandits-Th- e fork company the world rights In robbery took place in the railwhat he describes as the first offi- road subpower station within 100 cial photograph of his recent wed- yards of the Utah Hot Springs hotel, ding. The price paid was ?10,00O. in Boxelder county. The robbers, acThe picture shows the former kaiser cording to Kobertson's story, took in the uniform of a field marshal. $10.40 a gold watch and an alarm Princess Hermoione is wearing the clock from him. famous diadem, the wedding gifts of Richfield. The Liflquist and Warher husband. It is understood that Wllhlm was conslderabjy annoyed ner furniture store was destroyed by when he learned of the profits that fire here. The loss Is estimated at had been made from the sale of ms $20,000, with insurance amounting to portrait by unofficial and unauthor- $8,000. The fire was caused by a deized photographers and this consider- fective heating plant. Fire broke out ation together wih a desire to aug- in the same store a week ago, but did ment his income, Induced him to make no material damage- the sale. Salt Lake City. Wasatch county Mint Robbery Bill Found at Baltimore commissioners and the county clerk, Baltimore. A ?5 bill handed in to meeting with the state road commispay a meal check at a down town sion, discussed several matters In lunch room was identified as having connection with "cleaning the slate" been part of the haul made by the as between the two commissions. bandits, who shot and killed the fed- Among other things, the county comeral reserve hand guard at Denver, missioners Indicated that they will and stole in currency. The sign a contract as between county and money turned over by the lunchroom state. In which the county will underto the federal authorities has been take the maintenance of 'the Heber-Frultlaforest road. definitely identified as part of the $00,000 taken from the Denver mint Ogden. Beet growers in Utah and The police of the whole country have been notified of the theft and told to Idaho were mallei checks aggreatlngr be on the alert for the appearance tn $310,000 by the Amalgamated Sugar circulation of the money. As far as' company, according to the announceis known this Is the first discovery ment made by President Henry H. The money represents an adthat has been made so promptly after Kolapp. vance payment for the farmers for the passing of the money. beets furnished under the Must Not Sell Booze In Capitol contracL Washington. A campaign against Salt Lake City. lDe petition of bootleggers in the United States cap-itbuilding the home of the prohi- Charles McKellar, convicted in tho bition amendment has been ordered First district court, Boxelder couaty, of voluntary manslaughter, for clemby senate loader. The capltol police, In view of the recent activities of ency, was denied by the state board of pardons at Its regular meeting bootleggers, have beeu warned to use atall their powers to break up any Ogden Mayor Frank Francis, In an tempt to purvey booze within the capl- address at the First Methodist chnrch tol or the sennto or house office made an appeal to citizens to building. The order was issued by with the city administration" m Senator Curtis, Itepublican leader, It errort to enforce tbe prohibition because of printed reports that sena- law. tor had been solicited by tootleggers Salt Lake City. sweeping charges In tho senate lobby. which would abolish the fl Block Quarantined; 6mallpox Scare nance end of virtually tbe state department of Philadelphia. Phlladelpbians prom- finance and purchase are advocated inent in business, professional and by State Auditor Alark Tuttle In hta society life wero kept prisoners for annual report made to Gov. Charles six and a half hours Saturday wnen It. Matey. Tho auditor holds tne a smallpox qnurantlne was thrown entire law as being tn conflict wltn around the block bounded by Firteenth the constitution and providing dupliSixteenth, Spruce and Pine utreeta, cation of work and effort in the fiwhb-Included several fashonabie nance end. apartment bouo. More than 8o,00v Logan. One dollar bill raised to residents were examined by fifty ten dollars by pasting the numerals 10 LWJO and and between W0 phynldaua In the corners, h made IU appear-ancvaccinated. Fifty-fiv- e policemen roped merchants have ben off the area and maintained the warnedhereto anr look out for It. It could quarantine, which resulted from the not be unless In a ruh of discovery of a negro suffering from business. passed One wns possed tn Preston the dineano tn a house on a smail for ten dollar and Sheriff lteckteat thomughfaro la the district. t once Informed the officer here. nd profit-sharin- ol e Stockyard's Fever Fatal to Cattle .Man tl The local chick natchery hat Washington. iteports have reacnod lust complied the construction of a the department of agriculture of 1 w modern building to meet lh outbreak of shipping fever or stockdemand for chick rapidly growing yards fever among caiUo and sheep A W,000 epg Incubator will be Install in thn Middle ' Went. The disease, known as hemorrhagic septicems, a ed which will double tbe capacity for Ten and a ha.t blood poisoning which proves fatal this springs hatch. to bureau of tons of eggs will be required for the the quickly, according ivnlmal Industry, dislprectln of stock-ya.-d- two Incubators which hnve a seasons rapacity of PW.000 egg. A thousand which may to effective cainot he relied upon to pro- chick a day will be delivered durini aol tect arlmals shipped to farms for the month of March, April, M feedlr.tc s, temp-or.irll- |