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Show THE UTAH CATASTROPHE Ml Ni SEARCH OF ILLFATED STILL CONTINUES TO OCCUPY TIME OF MINERS S, NEPHI, UTAH Events in the Lives of Little Men M'LEAL ADMITS CAUSES HEAVY LOSS TIMES-NEW- FIRST HIS STORY FALSE 111 PAPER OF WASHINGTON DENIES ANY CONNECTION WITH OIL SCANDAL OWNER f COMMITTEE--TURN- 1 REPORT TT A TLX OF GERMANY IS BASIS OF PLAN SUBMITTED EVACUATION BY DAWES i Notes News From All Parts of PLAN Fort Duchesne. H. C. Smith, experimental gov-renm- farmer, was ordered transferred to Luep,- Ariz. . announcement and order camt unexpectedly to Mr. Smith. However, prominent men of the basin got up a petition and now Mr. Smith is going to remain here as government farmer. Mount Pleasant. The first meeting of the newly organized Lions club of Mount Pleasant was held at the North Sanpete High School last Wednesday evening. Luncheon was srved by the girls of the domestic science department of the school to fifty-tw- o members. Duchesne.--The terrors of th Fort automobile and the hazardous existence of the pedestrian in this age benzine of high gas and buggies have not yet replaced th& dangers of the plain old horse anl wagon in this section. One mortality and one complete disability, probably hours for life, within twenty-fou- r is the knell of runaway horses in the Fort Duchesne section. With the defeat of the Ogden, school bond issue in Weber county, outside of Ogden, hope for a bond issue to provide funds from county taxpayers for erection of a joint city and county building dwindled, and the idea of such a structure was abandoned Wednesday by Mayor P. F. Kirkendall, who declared that ii might be necessary to erect a city building with the possibility of renting space therein to the county. Salt Lake City. A building permit y for the construction of a building 75x153 feet, at 141-- 3 South Main street, was issued to James J. Burke & Co., Inc., for the Ezra Thompson Investment company, owners, by City Building Inspector W. The structure is to be an office building of steel and reinforced concrete, housing 110 rooms. The permit called for construction at of $350,000. former Mattson, Ogden. David secretary of state, now business man and farm owner of this city, has donated a half-mil- e right of way for a new highway which will allow tourists to view the industrial section ojl ' the city. The One or Two Bodies May Yet Remair In Cas'ilegate Mine; Cost to Com- pany Is Estimated at $1,500,000 Castlegate, Utah. The search for the bodies of the victims of the explosion of mine No. 2 here on March 8 continues in an effort to locate one and ' possibly two more bodies that are believed to be hidden in the death cavern. Late Monday the rescue squad brought to the surface the body of Franklin Evans, leaving only one body in the mine according to the official Utah Fuel company's report It is thought, however, that a mischeck may have occured and two bodies still remain in the depths. The bodies of the following men, who were reported working in the mine at the time of the disaster, remain either to be recovered or identified: Basil Gettins, Pete Dunis, Thomas Pelly Jr., and Steve Speros. It is believed that one of the two bodies lying in the improvised mor gue is that of young Pelly and ef fort is1 being made to identify him, If there is only one body in the mine, and that has been brought out has disappeared, according to infor mation. The check made at the en trance to the escapeway, where the bodies were numbered as they were brought from the mine, show one more body than is accounted for in the morgue. It is believed that someone identified a body and when the attention of the guard was diverted took it from the morgue. The disaster will cost the Utah Fuel company approximately $1,500,-00- 0 in compensation, repairs to mine, labor in the recovery of the bodies and loss in operation during the next Seven month, it was estimated. hundred thousand dollars will be spent in compensation alone, accord ing to a part estimate made by com pany officials. In plots of ground at many differ ent parts of the state bodies of the mine victims have been lowered. Aged Woman Wins Estate New York. After a fight of thirty six years to prove herself the legitimate daughter of George N. Chap man, wealthy fur merchant, who died in 1887, Mrs. Louise C. Ellis, at the age of 82, has definitely won the right of life interest in half of the $1,000,000 estate left by her father. The appellate division of the supreme court has definitely decided a victory for Mrs. Ellis when it denied an appeal from its own decision upholding a decision, in 1922, in the supreme escourt. The decision definitely tablished Mrs. Ellis' legitimacy. Libel Action la Settled Denver, Colo., Oliver II. Shoup of former governor, Colorado Springs, has settled his $300,000 libel suit against M. G. Hodnette and eight other defendants Under a stipulation filed In the district court, vacating the date set for the trial of the suit the defendants will pay $1 each on each of the two causes of action In compromise of the suit If it Is called The papers filed end the up again. stipulations filed litigation and the do not admit libel, but compromise The defendants inthe litigation. cluded a number of prominent life Insurance agents and two publishers. Earthquake Hits Japan A pronounced earthquake Toklo, that sent inhabitants Scurrying from houses was felt In the town of Fuku-shlmin northern Japan. No serious The seismodamage was reported. graph at Osaka university earlier registered a severe earthqunke believed to have been central in the Kuril the shocks lasting ninety minutes. Has Cure For Alcohol A cure for Paris, drunkenness, with which he claims to have successfully treated sixteen patients has been announced by a French physician. Dr. L'Hospitalicr. The doctors makes a serum from the patient's own blood, injects It buck into the veins and creates a distaste for alcohol, it Is claimed. a, Adjustment Agency Is Opposed United States, Washington, The In a formal note to Ambassador made public here by the state department roJevU the suggestion of the French government for the creation of an international agency to deal with questions arising out of relief credils extended to Kuropenn countries urlng nnd Just after the 'World war. Jus-seran- il, Trip Around World Started Cloverfield, Santa Monica, Cal. A flight around the world, the dream of aviators since man first flew, started at 9 :32 Monday morning when three United States army planes too off from .Cloverfield. A fourth plane left later. The airmen will fly nortn-war- d and westward, to cross 30,000 miles of territory and twenty-thre- e countries on their journey which it is expected will take four months to omplate. Publisher Says Albert B. Fall Cabinet Man, Asked Him to Say Money Was Paid In Cash Ex-- . B. McLean, Washington, Edward of the Washington Post, publisher Insisted under questioning before the oil committee Tuesday that he had told the truth when he testified at Palm Beach that he loaned A. B. Fall $100,000 in 1021 in checks which afterward were returned uncashed. Although his bank balance did not Bhow that amount on deposit he said his "credit was good" and that Fall had agreed to notify him before at tempting to cash the checks. This pro 'not unusual,' cedure, he said, was and had nothing to do with the oil leasing program. When he first erroneously informed the committee that the loan had been made in cash, he said he did so because Fall requested it at a con ference they had in Atlantic City last Dcember. He declared he never had any di rect or indirect interest in either the Sinclair or Doheny companies and knew nothing about the leasing program except what he had seen in the newspapers. In a prepared statement read to the committee the publisher made no re ference to his previous conflicting testimony regarding the loan, and when his attention was directed to that subject he said he had no further statement to make. He said under questioning that he had searched everywhere for the stubs of the checks he testified he had given to Fall, but had been unable to find them. "There aren't any, and never were were there?" asked Senator Walsh, Democrat of Montana. "Why, yes,, there were, senator, to the best of my recollection as I told you," the witness replied. McLean then said that at a confer ence he had with Fall at Atlantic City last December Fall asked him if he would say that he had loaned him the $100,000 in cash instead of in unused checks. "Fall assured me," he said, "that the loan had nothing to do with Sinclair and the Teapot dome." McLean insisted that his credit was good at the time he gave Fall the checks and that he could have "raised $200,000 If necessary." lie said Fall agreed to advise him before undertaking to cash the checks. "None of any character," McLean said, when asked what service he had rendered as a dollar a year secret agent of the department of Justice. The main purpose of his appointment, he said, was to enable him by use of his badge to get through police lines In "strange cities" when traveling with President Harding's party. Nonpartisan League Is No More The Minneapolis, Nonpartisan league of Minnesota ceased to exist Thursday when its state convention here voted to affiliate with the farmer-labor of Minnesota. federation Similar steps were taken by the working people's nonpartisan political league which has sponsored the fedIt was explained the mergeration. ing of the three forces was necessary to carry on educational and promotional work of the farmers and laborers for political success. William of St. Paul, Mahoney, lalor leader was elected president of the federation. Wants Million For Misplaced Dimple Log Angeles, Because, she says, he put a dimple in her nose where the bridge ought to be, Mrs. Minnie Chaplin , wife of the motion picture actor, Sydney Chaplin filed suit for $100,000 against Dr. Robert Griffith, plastic court here. surgeon in the superior to the complaint, Mrs. According Chaplin's nose was permanently disfigured by the defendant's attempts to beautify it. Lower Income Tax Opposed Washington, Opposition developed in both houses of congress Friday to proposals tor immediate atlon to reduce by 25 per cent all personal income taxes payable this year. Chairman Green of the house ways comannounced mittee changed plans Thursday und in view of the opposition decided to delay asking the committee to remove the reduction provision from the revenue bill am incorporate It In a Joint resolution. Pope Will Assist Clergy London, Pope Pius, according to the Diiiiy Telegraph has axkn.i Preii h Intel cole mier Mac onald to the soviet government"!!! favor of the Catholic clergy Imprisoned m Bus. tin. It Is learned In governmental quarters that Mr. MitcDnnald Is anxious to act on the papal appeal, but feels that the matter is on of such delicacy that he cannot with propriety at this Juncture interpose such a re. quest into the negotiations with w. Aloe-0- 0 Germany Must Pay as Much In Taxes As People i Allied Counties; Outside Interference Must Stop NAM E RECEIVERS CURTIS D. WiLRUR FOR TEAPOT DOME IS NEW NAVY HEAD TEMPORARY "INJUNCTION GRANT. CHIEF JUSTICE OF CALIFORNIA ED HALTING FURTHER WORK SUPREME COURT WILL AT WYOMING OIL RESERVE HEAD NAVY Will Enter Upon Federal Judge at Cheyenne Takes New Secretary His New Duties as Soon As Steps to Protect Both Sides In Governments' Famous Appointment Is Confirmed by Semate Oil Contrpversy Cheyenne, Wyo., Federal Judge T. Blake Kennedy Thursday granted a temporary injunction halting further development work by the Mammoth Oil company on the Teapot dome oil reserve. named Rear AdJudge Kennedy miral Joseph Strauss ' of the United States navy and A. E. Watts, vice president of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil corporation, as Joint receivers for the Teapot dome property pending the final outcome of the litigation. Affidavits signed by Acting Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt and Secre the interior, setting tary Work of forth that an Injunction halting de velopment work and a receivership are necessary to protect the interests of all parties concerned pending liti gation over the Teapot dome oil lease were filed with the court. The affidavits set forth that the dally production of oil from the Tea pot dome reserve is 3975 barrels. The affidavits were filed by Atlee Fomerene and Owen J. Roberts, government counsel in support of the gavernment's bill In equity seeking annulment of the lease and asking a temporary Inunction and receivership. The receivers under the order re quested by government counsel, will be authorized to continue the operation of the wells and equipment used In connection therewith only to such extent as they shall deem necessary to prevent loss or damage after a full Investigation and conference with the parties hereto or duly accredited refor that purpose presentatives, and the said receivers are hereby authorized to operate, the existing wells now on the said premises and to produce and take the oil and gas therefrom and, until the further order of this court, shall sell such oil and gas so produced from said wells at the market price for the same and In accordance with the terms and provisions of the contract heretofore executed between said defendant. Mammoth Oil company, and said defendant Sinclair. Crude Oil Purchasing company under which contract said oil has been heretofore sold, and shall collect the sale price thereof and Is hereby authorized received from to apply the proceeds the sale of said oil under said contract and from the sale of the natural gas or casing head gas, if any as may be hereafter authorized by order of this court as follows : as may lie "(a) So .much thereof A reaaunnoie hou necessary w pay .1i" or said cost tne proper operating wells there property, Including the on and equipment used In connection therewith. balance to "(b) To deposit any his credit as receiver of this ronrt, to be held for the protection of nil par ties to this cause, and subject to such further order as this court may make with respect thereof." San Francisco, Cal. Chief Justice Curtis D. Wilbur of the California supreme court Friday prepared to lay aside the ermine of his office to take up the weighter duties of tho post of secretary of the navy. Tendered the office by telegraph late Thursday night, Justice Wilbur responded accepting the portfolio surrendered by Edwin T. Denby last He will leave for WashingMonday. ton as soon as his appointment Is confirmed by the senate. President Coolidge's summons to the California jurist was terse. "You seem to be the man I need for the navy," the president telegraphed. "I am drafting you today. Please answer." Within ten minutes Justice Wilbur replied: "I will accept the appointment ana will come to Washington as1 soon after confirmation as possible." He also announced that he would not resign from the California bench until he had been sworn in as naval secretary. Chief Justice Wilbur has for many years been one of the leading lawyers and jurists of California and a leader in child welfare and Sunday school work. He was graduated from the United States Naval academy in 1888. Born in Boonesboro, la., May 10, 1867, he was educated in the public schools of that place and of Jamestown, N. D. Following his graduation from the naval academy he came "to California, taught school for one year and entered an attorney's office to study law. In 1890 he was admitted to practice. In Los Angeles, while he was judge of the superior court, he organized the juvenile court there and drafted several bills which later formed the basis for Californias juvenile court law. He was elected chief justice of the California supreme court in 1922 after having served since 1919 as associate justice. He is a brother of Dr. Lyman Wilbur, president of Stanford university. Paris. The report of the first committee of experts under Brigadier General Charles G. Dawes, which Is practically agreed upon by the experts, though the working out of some details and the drawing up or the text may require another week, is based on these fundamental findings. The German people must pay as much taxes as any of the people ot the allied countries. Germany musT pay the maximum of her capacity in reparations. The German economic machine must be free to function under German control, unhindered by any interference from the outside. Minimum sums must be paid at once, or in the immediate future, on reparations, these to be increases in proportion to the revival of German's prosperity and according to her economic conditions. In order to put Germany in a position to carry out her part of the program which the report will suggest to the reparation commission on Tne basis of these general principals, the experts propose to set up an international bank, to have exclusive right to the issue of German currency on a gold basis. The bank plan provides for the cooperation of the allies and neutral nations with the Germans in supplying capital and in the management of the institution, whict is to be located in some country neutral in the war. The capital of the bank remains to be fixed. Indications are that it will be in the neighborhood of $400,000,-00of which half will come from remainder from Germany and the abroad. Foreign subscribers to loans to raise the necessary amount, or to the capital, if final arrangements so provide, will be secured by a lien on Germany's productive monoplies. The setting up of a bank of issue is expected not only to assure permanent stability of the mark, but to furnish a flexible medium through which reparation payments may be effected without resorting to the purchase of foreign money with marks, with the consequent risk of another depreciation in Germany money. The reich is supposed under his plan to deposit in this bank the sums required to pay interest on loans and minimum reparation installments. The allies will be enabled to draw on the reparation fund proportionately to their percentages fixed at Spa. They may check out cash or draw checks payable to products imported from Germany on the reparation account. Thus the reich may pay its obligations in its own money. 0, Big' Contract Awarded Ogden. What is said to be one of the biggest railroad contracts let in the West in recent years was award-de- d the Utah Construction company here by the Southern Pacific company. Warren L. Wattis, secretary of the Utah Construction company, was advised by telephone from San Francisco that his company's bid had The contract calls been accepted. for the boring of a two-mitunnel between Lakevlew and Summit, California, in the high altitudes of the Sierra Nevada range, which will streaighten out approximately seven miles of winding grade now used to negotiate the passage. While no authentic statement as to outlay involved was to be had here, it is understood that the contract will require an expenditure of between and $3,000,000. le Narcotics Seized New York. Agents of the federal narcotic division led by United States Attorney William Hayward early a Tuesday boarded the steamship of the Royal Mail Steam Packet company, arrested eight of the crew, including two, officers, and seized $10,000 worth of alleged whisky and morphine. Stlllman Loses In Court The apellate division of the supreme court in Brooklyn Friday unanimously upheld the findings In the Stlllman of Referee Glen son divorce case. ! lesson's findings were in favor of Mrs. Anne U. Stlllman In her defense of the suit for divorce brought against her by James A. Stlllman, former president of the National City bank. "The findings of the court and the referee," the court's memorandum that the said, "are was guilty of (Stlllman) plaintiff adultery and not entitled to a Judgment of divorce, are amply supported by the evidence; In fact It Is undisputed, and hence these findings are So far as the question of affirmed. the legitimacy of the child (Baby Ouy Stlllman whom the bunker charged was the son of Fred 1'eauvats, CanIs concerned, adian 'Indian guide'). this court also affirms the finding of the court nnd refetee, our conclusion being that the evidence fails to establish Illegitimacy." Will Raopen Mine Soon Castlegate. Utah Preparations are resume coal already under way to mining at the mine where on March men 8, one hundred and seventy-fiv- e All the bodies have lost their lives. now been found und a large crew ot men are placing the mine In shape to start operations at soon as possible. Will Lift Quarantine Oakland, Cal. Improved conditions in the epidemic of hoof and mouth among livestock of the San Frnncuco bay district Thursday made possible plans- for lifting the provisional quarantine on sit California counties. Four counties will remain under strict quarantine a;vl ten others under provisional quarnn tine for some weeks yet, officers said. The restrictions on six conn tie however, will be lifted in a few days. Los Angeles Will Be Terminus Decatur, III. National Directors ot the Pike's Peak Ocean to Ocean advised H'mhway association Frid-tthe advisory board to diront'nue the northern leg of the hirhway from Salt Lake City to San Francisco, making Los Angeles the Western terminus. W. L. Robertson of Mount Vernon, Ohio, was elected president. Other officers Included: vice presi-deII. Fawcett f Colorado Springs, Colorado. Ship Receives Fine Mpnila. The Election of custom? of this port fined the Japanese steamer Turiishiina M;iru $100 for violat. Ing port regulations by passing too close to the fortifications on Correct-doThe vessel was one of Island. three of whose actions In port complaint recently was made by Oovenor tienernl Wood In a rej.ort to Washington that Japanese ships were going too close to the fortifications to Manila bay. Or-dun- e - New York. n Sues Prohibition Agent Monroe, Mich., Warning a federal dry agent for the killing of his son. Sam Kalb of Monroe has filed a court here $100.0(10 damage suit In against Itoy A. tfnyn.es, prohibition commissioner and three federal offl-cer- er ten-stor- Ogden. Playing a game that merited titular honors, Lawrence Ridges-o- f Ogden won the Utah State aman teur championship in billiards by defeating Clarence Mil-n- er of Salt Lake in a match. When Ridges attained the goal, Milner had 93 points. Abolishment of Salt Lake, clinic for babies under of the city and turning it over to the community clinic was the substance of a resolution passed by the Salt Lake County Medical society at its meeting recently. This resolution was adopted following a report of a committee that had been appointed in December to make an investigation of the municipal clinic relative to of well to do charges tliat mothers babies who could afford to pay full medical fees for medical advice were coming to the clinic. three-cushio- 100-poi- Salt Lake, Governor Charles R. has appointed Harold P. Fabian, Darrell T. Lane, Frank Hansen, all of this city; Carl R. Marcus-seof Price and C. II Stevenson of Castlegate as the committee of five to Investigate conditions among the families of miners killed in Saturformulate relief day's disaster and requirements there. Salt Lake, Salt Lahe county contributed when its citizens paid their 1023 taxes, $1,233,000 to the. state district school fund. From thut fund including another payment to be made, the schools of this county will receive $!M1C,000. The remaining $237,000 is this county's contribution toward the maintenance of schools in other counties of the state. Mabey n A campaign to eradicate Logan, the poisonous weed which resembles already reparsley and which has sulted in the death of a 5 year old child and the severe illness of several others will be conducted within the near future by If. P. Mathews, crops and pest inspector. Moab Now that the roads In sooth-erSan Juan county are again passable for cars, the auto stage from Montlcello to It tiff is again In comThe stage meets the daily mission. o Thompwons-Montlcellstage and forwards mall nnd passengers to lUuft the same day they leave the train at It reduces the tim i fot Thompsons. mail to reach the oil fields In Kn Juar, county by twenty-fou- r hetirs. n Board of Education ,, Wlllii Say. pop, ((icy nave a bonrd of education when you' went to school? Father Well, yes, my father had one of his own that be kept In the woodshed. Over and Over High Why Is that aviator always doing the loop the loop? Jinks He used to be boy scoot nd tie still tries to do his dally food turn. |