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Show THE COURT UPHOLDS 01 MANY WILL HEAR TIMES-NEW- NEPHI, UTAH S, The Mourners , ACTION ON OIL 'irtfiiJ.'rfm.hfinriFHfiff?), LIQUOR STATUTE RULING BRINGS IDAHO CASE AGAINST BOOZE HELD PRIOR TO PASSAGE OF LAW Fundi Deported United State Are Not EnFailed Bank titled to Preferential Payments In State laws prohibitWashington, ing the possession of intoxicating liquors acquired before national prohibition were sustained by the supreme court. The court affirmed the conviction of Raymond Moore under the laws of Idaho, 7or having in his possession intoxicating liquor. lie asserted that the liquor was obtained prior to national prohibition, and dened that the tute could prohibit him from having what the federal laws permitted. also declared Tlie supreme court government dethat United States are not enposits in failed banks to payment. titled preferential raised by the The question was United States Fidelity and Guaranty company after failure of the Bank of Commerce of Okmulgee, Okla. The supreme court affirmed the decision of the lower court. South Dakota's oil Inspection law was sustained by the supreme court in another decision. The decision of the lower court, The constitutionality was affirmed of the law had been attacked by the Peterson Oil company of Dell Rapids, S. D., on the contention that it Interfered with interstate commerce. refused to reThe supreme court view a case which sought to bring up the following question; Whether the injunction granted by the federal courts in California restraining officials of the Brotherhoods and Railof Locomotive Engineers road Trainmen from attempting to unionize the employes of the Pacific Electric Railway company, with prinAngeles, cipal headquarters In Los was valid. The supreme court Monday dismissed for want of Jurisdiction an apNorthern peal brought by the Great Railway company against the Cattle company and others to determine whether claims for damInterstate ages growing out of the shipment of cattle must be tried in federal courts. Gall-breat- h Will Blow Up Mountain A gigantic blast which Ogden, will cause the collapse of a hill 1000 feet long and 150 feet high will be operated by the Western Pacific rail- road engineering department in the next few days at TImpie. Utah. The blast, which is expected to crumble will be 150,000 cubic yards of rock breakused In building a twelve-mil- e water by engineers from different parts of the West. The rock obtained from the blast will be used in a twelve-mil- e breakwater building southern shores of the along the Great Salt Lake. The breakwater will be laid fifteen feet from the shore of the lake and will be built for the purpose of protecting the tracks from the rising waters of the lake. Dine Leaves Hospital Los Angeles, Oil., Courtland S. Dines, Denver oilman shot by Horace A. Greer, chauffeur for Mabel New Tear's night, has left bis hospital room here and slipped from the city. Dines according to bis ata hot torney, Is recuperating at He springs resort near Riverside. court here In Justice must appear March 19, when the Greer hearing will be resumed. Nor-man- Public Debt Greatly Reduced Washington. The public debt has been cut more than $4,800,000,000 in the four and a half years since the was at its great war Indebtedness peak, August 31, 1019. Figures made public by the treasury show that at the opening of business Saturday the national dot.t was $21.7Sl.Wlrt.8r2. It has been reduced $03.1,000,000 in the last year. Texant Plead For Honesty Dallas, Tex., A plea that persons he elected to national and state offices who will Dome keep Teapot safe for the people was made by W. W, FHzwater on Ttonham, Tex., national president of the Farmer-Labo- r of state party, at a mass meeting members Monday. Monday's convention was called to decide whether any rsndldates should h indorsed by the Texas Farmer-labo- r unit Bonds Alleged Duplicated Washington, Charles Tt. Brewer, a special attorney with the department of Justice, at a bearing before the bouse rule committee, reiterated hl of dollars of charge that millions bonds had been at tha duplicated bureau of engraving. During e mm Inst Ion by the committee, which had before It resolution to authorize an Investigation of the charges. Brewer added little to his previous statements and th committee took no OF UTAH'S WEALTH Salt lake chamber of merce rA i omit wilt y "I" ! '". ' u i h"- - ' ' h)it". i LEASE TO START com- WILL ADVERTISE STATE IN EAST TO STOP DRAINAGE OF RESERVOIR WILL BE FIRST MOVE OF GOVERNMENT ACTION I Otah and Neighboring States Will Reap Benefits From Campaign to Be Put on In Papers and Magazines Thirty-threSalt Lake, million readers will be reached in the chamber of commerce advertising camto plans paign this year, according outlined by the advertising committee of the Salt Lake Chamber of e Miss MacSwiney Gives View wreck every Belfast, "I would bridge in Ireland rather than see one man disgrace himself, his country and the martyred dead by taking to Ireland's the oath of allegiance said Mary MacSwiney at enemy," Athlon recently. Referring to partition she said if Premier Craig and his government want to be British citizens they should "go across the channel and live there In peace; we will be glad to get rid of them." MAY COMPROMISE FALLS NAME IS Ofl SURTAX RATES AGAIN IN FRONT n INSURGENTS ON TAX AGREE INVESTIGATORS IN HOUSE ANXIOUS PAID U. S. HIS EARNINGS ' RATES OF SCHEDULE KNOW AMOUNT LONG-WORT- TQ ON Per Cent Cut on Subpoenas Are Issued for all MentionStraight Twenty-Fiv- e Present Surtax Is Accept-- ' ed in Wire Between Washington Publisher and His able; Mellon Plan Is Changed Employees Virtual agreement Washington, between Republican organization and insurgent leaders was reached Thurs day on the compromise to replace the Democratic Income rates now In the revenue bill. The rates ac Longworth surtax ceptable to the Insurgents provide for a straight 25 per cent cut on the present surtaxes, retaining the same brackets which would make the max imum 37 lA per cent on incomes In excess of $200,000 instead of 25 per cent on incomes over $100,000 as reMellon. commended by Secretary surtax rates Democratic maximum would be 44 per cent on incomes over $94,000. House Republican Washington, Thursday to the insurgents agreed compromise on surtax Longworth rates and If the Republican organiza tion yields to a slightly lower norof the group Inmal rate, leaders dicated they would vote to eliminate the Democratic income tax schedule from the revenue bill. Resuming consideration of the bill, the house voted to cut in half the 5 per cent tax on automobile tires, acto exempt cessories and parts and automobile trucks and wagons with a Those chassis costing $1000 or less. more would be with chassis costing taxed at 3 per cent. will be held Further conferences between the Insurgents and Republi can organization leaders looking to on the ward a definite agreement compromise. voted with Seventeen Insurgents Garner plan the Democrats for the when It was substituted for the Mellon rates. The vote was 226 to 19C. The insurant rotes, leaders of both sides say, will swing of the decision on final passage of the bill. Normal Income rates proposed by the agreethe Insurgents on which ment now hldges are 2 per cent on Incomes under $4000; 5 per cent on and $S0O0, Incomes between $4000 nnd 6 per cent above thirt amount. Representative Longworth, Ohio, the Republican leader, has proposed rates of 2 and J per cent with $4000 the Democratic rates In dividing line. the bill are 2 per cent on Incomes $."i000 ; 4 per cent on Incomes and 6 per between $.'0K) and cent on incomes above that amount. Gotham Negro Incensed New York, James C. Thomas, a States atnegro assistant United torney was unable to rent an apartment in a part of the city where he desired to live with his wife and infant son, so he purchased a $200,000 even-stormodern apartment house, he announced Friday. It is occupied Borah Mentioned For High Position by white families and is fully three Senator William E. Washington. blocks from the nearest section of Ilomh. Idaho, Is to succeed Harry M. the Harlem "Black Belt Paugherty as attorney general when the latter is eliminated from Presi Rioters Break Up Meeting dent Coolblge's cabinet, according to Informed in usually well Wauk'sha, Wis. While about 3000 gossip Rornh has taken a leading the Com- circles. persons rtormed outside mercial hotel, an attempted Ku Klux part In urging President Coolldge to Klan meeting was broken up inside ask for Daucherty's resignation. He snlil Thursday nobody had ever sugthe hotel. Windows were smashed, to Mm that he would be given doors broken and some of the furni gested The report that Dausherty's tare damaged. The meeting was the Mr. Uoolldge would offer the post to reiult of about two weeks' effort liornh created much Interest, as to organize a klan unit here and the Borah has been talked of lately In scheduled speakers were said to have connection with presidential politics. been of national prominence coming Rorah Is known as one of tbe best from all parts of the country. lawyers in the senate. un-W- r y lst. Akron Again Has Streetcars were In Akron, Ohio, Streetcars Ogden, The contract for the new Ogden Union depot ha been awarded to the H. W. Baum company of Salt received Lake, according to advice at the local offices of the Union. Philadelphia Man Will Have Charge Pacific railroad from the head ofof Criminal Aspects of the fice at Omaha. The new building, Prosecution; Many Sur. which will be erected on the site of tha depot partially destroyed by fire prises Expected a year ago, will cost something over $300,000 and work will begin immeWashington. Court action in the diately, acording to Mr. Baum. oil lease cases will be initiated this Ogden, The Farmer-Labparty week by special government counsel to put an organizer in the expects folwhile the senate oil committee is field to organize the party in tha lowing further the trail of the cele- various counties of it was anUtah, McLean brated telegrams. W. M. Piggott, national nounced by to The first step of counsel will be chairman of the party, following the bring civil action looking to the stop- meeting of the Weber county orthe oil from of extraction the page of Mr. Piggott recently. naval reserves in California and ganization said the party expects to put on a Wyoming and the annulment of the vigorous campaign in this state this leases awarded by Albert B. Fall, aa secretary of the interior, to the Do- year. w heny and Sinclair interests. Ogden, The Utah Rapid Transit Any criminal action growing out company which operates the street of the oil scandal must await a more car system of Ogden, with William detailed study of the testimony ad- T. Messersmith a motor-mafor the duced before the senate committee company was made defendant in a and an independent investigation to $30,000 damage suit instituted in the fill in gaps in that testimony. Second district court by the heirs of Atlee Pomerene, former senator Robert T. Dow Dell, who died March from Ohio, will have more or less 23, 1922, from injuries received in a the proceeding general charge of the civil proceed- street car accident The suit was filed by J. H. ings, while Owen J. Roberts of Phila- day. delphia will devote himself and his Dow. staff principally to the study of the Officials of eight Salt Lake, criminal phases of the case. in Salt Lake on President Coolidge Is expected to states will meet 9 to 11, when the question of April additional week this special appoint discsused and counsel to prosecute actions looking prison labor will be to the recovery to the federal govern- the articles to be manufactured at in ment of sections 16 and 36 in the the several prisons in the country determined. Elk Hills reserve in California, now operated by the Standard Oil combetween Logan, The controversy pany of California. of Cache valley and the The executive will select counsel the peagrowers Morgan Canning company of especially learned in land law to Smithfield which had reached the prosecute this case, inasmuch as the stage where it was announced that chief point at issue is whether these the canning company officials would sections were known to be mineral rather see the factory close than acCaliof bearing at the time the state cede to the demands of the growers, fornia obtained them as school lands came to an end after the sales comstatehood. of the upon grant rs' of the Cache mittee County the will follow trail The commjttee association and officials of of the inquiry into the department of the had been in canning company justice where it has been blazed by session for nearly two days. the cipher message signed "Mary," found in the McLean telegrams. Provo chamber of Provo, The This message was in code once commerce has determined to hold an used by the department's bureau of annual fruit show, to last several investigation, and through William J. days, and to terminate with an comBurns, chief of this bureau, the The local organizaday." "Apple Mcmittee come into possesion of tion will sponser the first show, but lean's employees. has indicated its intention to exBurns also will be questioned as to pand the exhibit until it will become the truth of the reports that the pub- a county institution. lisher is on the roll of the special Salt Lake, When the Utah State agents of the justice department at a salary of $1 a month and has in Fair opens this year It will be on his possession a copy of the present Wednesday instead of the usual Monand will code of the department. day, and will run a week Additional telegrams exchanged be open on Sunday. This innovation between McLean and his employees, was decided upon at a meeting of the executive committee ' of the State as well as those sent from Washingthe room ton to Fall, Harry F. Sinclair, E. L. Fair association held in Doheny and J. W. Zevely, personal of the general manager of the fair, counsel to Sinclair, are to be furn- W. D. Sutton. With the exception of of the fair ished to the committee by the Wash- racing, all departments ' On Monington offices of the Western Union will be open on Sunday. and Postal Telegraph companies. day and Tuesday of the second week; there will be a pet stock exhibit In which It is expected 1000 pets will be Will Discuss Conductor's Wages Cedar Rapids Iowa. A call for a exhibited. conference to be held at Chicago bewalnuts Ogden, A sack of black Railroad Mantween the Western fifty-seve-n across the brought plains executive and association the agers' board of the Order of Railway Con- years ago by John Ritter and planted on the Ritter farm In Rlverdale has ductors to discuss a new wage scale, is believed to be the is expected to be Issued within the brought what of black walnut on the Utah first cut E. L. of three next two days. commercial market. Sheppard, president of the conductors, has returned from Washington where Chief of Folice Curtis L. Ogden, was nego- Allison a new wage agreement has completed the tentative Southern Rallwa; draft of a proposed tiated with the ordinance-governincity Tbe Southern road granted system. traffic.. The ordinance an increase of 6 per cent creates a congested district in the business section of the city and limit World Flight Date Is Fixed the parking of automobiles In this Plover Field. Santa Monica, Tht section to two hours In any one day. In U S. army flight start will Salt Lake, Miss Florence Gilmore, four large cruiser biplanes from Clover field here Sunday, MarcB a graduate nurse has been added to In the north the forces of the Utah Public Health 10, weather conditions of tht association, with conditions and mechanical headquarters In Miss Gilmore will continue Ogden. officially planes permitting, it was announced here by Lieutenant Cor the work so efficiently carried on by of tht Miss Sophia Lnrsen during the past lis C. Mosely, commander those affield. Overnight stops will be made four years in the care of at Sacramento, Portland (Vancouvei flicted with tuberculosis ano an eduAt Seattlt cational campaign for the pi;!ventlon barracks) and Seattle. Miss Iaraon left for pontoons will be placed on the cruis of the disease. ers nnd conditions may make neces- Chicago several months ago, stopover at sary a three or four-daMonb Cisco Mercanti e comthe Sand Point field there, Lleuten pany Is the The first purchaser of barrel said. ant Moseley of oil taken from a Cisco weV. the firm paying $100 for the prvl'ego. Mishaps In Chicago Heavy This barrel of oil was taken from autoTotal under deaths Chicago, well No. 4 the during process of In wheels mobile Chicago for thp year cleaning the hole in preparation for to date ran up to seventy-fivSunday, casing operations. The drillers at when four additional deaths were re Cisco are experiencing the customary Two other victims of ac- difficulty In corded. getting rid of the water cidents. Injured In accidents or by snd they resorted to muddlng In the reckless speeders died In hospitals. casing during the week. or Commerce. L. B. Hampton, chairman of the members committee, addressed the on the extensive-plan- s that are expected to bring Salt Lake before the millions who read the nation's leading magazines and newspapers. A combined appeal is planned to awaken interest among the tourist visitors Last year 370,000 trade. came into Salt Lake an increase of 40 per cent over the previous season, and the committee is advertising confident that 40 per cent more will visit Utah and Salt Lake during 1924 than in 1923. The tourist will be told of the great possibilities in the state. The stress will be laid on the potential development nnd the gigantic opportunities rather than upon industries already established in the territory. of the thirty-on- e Newspapers in largest cities In the United States are expected to spread Salt Lake's and Utah's opportunities to millions. In addition to the daily newspapers, be employed in admagazines may vertising the wonders of the region. The scenic pictorial booklet, which was regarded as one of the most attractive pieces of, art Issued in the with country, is being duplicated some changes, but the same color effect and beautiful scenes are being retained. Sixty thousand copies will be printed. A boon to motorists is the folder, outlining eight one-da- y trips in and around Salt Lake, as well as a ten-da- y tour to southern Utah, including Zlon National park, Bryce and Grand canyons and a ten-da- y Jaunt to Yellowstone National park. The trips are arranged so that the tourist who has only a limited time to spend in the vicinity will be enabled to take full advantage of his stay. Fifty thousand of these booklets will be printed. Fifteen thousand copies of each of the aglcultural, mining and industrial folders are contemplated, together with 50,000 statistical, pamphlets on "Facts About Salt Lake and Utah." state has Advertising within the not been overlooked according to This phase Is being the committee. considered from every angle and the announcement of plans will be made within a few days. f Notes News From All Porta of UTAH Rally For Daniels Held N. C Supporter o Raleigh, Josephus Daniel keld a rally Thurs day to launch a boom for the former secretary of tha aiavy for th Demo era tic presidential nomination. Tb was called by prominent meeting Democrat of North Carolina, who strongest pointed to Danltlg aa tb b tea at man In tb part he had tha oil r fought against letting serve whil h wat secretary of the operation here again Thursday under terms of a franchise signed by tb night city council late Wednesday The city has bees without car aer. vie sine 1, when tb February and Light Northern Ohio Traction company was ordered to discontinue local operations by city officials. Under the sew franchise the traction a S cent tar company will chart; and penny transfer. nary. Washington, Subpoenas for all persons mentioned in the telegrams exchanged between Edward B. publisher of the Washington Post, and his employes were issued late Friday by the oil committee. Some of those mentioned have not yet been identified, but if they can be they will summoned. Persons summoned include Francis H. McAdoo of New York, son of William G. McAdoo; Francis H. Homer, a Baltimore lawyer, and J. W. Zevely, counsel for personal Harry F. Sinclair. n, ed Washington, that the The senate has income ask- tax returns of a number of individuals and corporations prominently connected with the oil inquiry be thrown open to inspection by the oil committee. Those named include Harry F. Sinclair and the oil companies with which he is connected, E. L. and E. L. Doheny Jr., and the ' Albert B. Doheny oil corporation, of the inte Fall, former secretary rior, and the Security Investment company. The resolution on the subject offered by Senator McKellar, Demo crat, Tennessee, and adopted with out debate, "respectfully requests" President Coolldge to exercise the the revenue authority given under law to him to turn the reports over to the committee. On the senate floor, Chairman Lenroot was challenged later by Senator Heflin, Democrat, Alabama, to summon William Boyce Thompson, a New York banker, for questioning about a loan of $3,500,000, which the Alabama senator said Thompson obtained in 1920 on a "dummy" note for use in the Republican presidential campaign. "William Boyce Thompson is a stockholder and director in the Sin clair oil companies'," Senator Heflin was used said, "and Sinclair stock as collateral for that 'dummy' note." Do-he- U. 8. Color Fired On conWashington, The American sulate at Ceiba, Honduras, has been fire on by revolutionists and a detachment of marines from the cruiser Denver has been landed to act as a consulate guard. Consul Waller reported Friday that fighting had been in progress in the streets for more than four hours, and that some bullets "had penetrated .the consulate." Only meager reports have been received here. The Denver, commanded by Rear Admiral Dayton, has been held at Ceiba for several weeks. State department officials believe her personnel will be sufficient to protect American life and property and it was not intended to send other ships to aid her. Idaho Farmer Hangs Self In East Norton K. Elsenberg, a Omaha, fnfm hand said to be from Rupert, Ida., bunged himself lit the home of a friend he was visiting with here. He attached a rope to a water pipe. No motive for the suicide has been es talilished. Chicago Clergy I Shocked Chicago, Mennen and Colgate appear to be the only costumers known to many chorus girls in loop theatres, ministers protested to Mayor Dever. The ministers want. Dever to force the chorus girls to wear something; mora than a thin covering of talcum. in certain Minister charge that shows the chorus girls appear in the nude. In other shows the girls are Innocent of covering above the waist Una, with a few shreds of diaphanous stuffs below tb waist. inter-mounta- Pea-growe- around-the-worl- d y Blast Kills Eighteen New lirunswick, N. J., The num as a result of ber of known dead explosion Sundays disastrous TNT and celluloid fire at the little town of Nixon Monday was placed at Only one additional body, eighteen. the torso of a woman, was foundRescuers who worked In the smoking ruin throughout the day said eight persons are missing, six are unaccounted for and sixty are being treated for injuries suffered In tb disas ter. Provo, - Etlenne Trovot, French. Canadian trapper, explorore and) hunter, was the man from which the name Provo was derived, according to J. M. Jensen, whose book, T History of Provo," 1 Just off the press. Logan, Those who will constitute the special committee to see to the erection of the millstone monument, which will be unveiled at the Cache celebration next valley centennial July, have been named by officials the celebration. |