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Show THE TIMES-NEW- NEPHI, UTAH S, J Homecoming SLAYER ADMITS FIRE AT HURRAY . FRANCE TO LEAVE f News Notes From All Parts of UTAH 1 X FIVE MURDERS C L CAUSES RUHR TERRITORY ) DAWES PROGRAM AS OUTLINED WILL BE CARRIED OUT IS LIFE OF CRIME IN BOOK JUST RE. LEASED DESCRIBED BY MURDERER UTAH CITY IS SCENE OF COSTLY FIRE IN BUSINESS SECTION LATEST REPORT French Premier Reports Cabinet Ap. proval on Ruhr Evacuation; Confab Expected to End Before Long London. The allied and German experts attached to the international reparation conference have reached a full agreement on the Dawes program, it is announced. They remained in session until 3 o'clock in the morning to arrive at an understanding on reparation payments in kind, on which the Germans held out until the result of Premier Herriot's Paris mission became known. The French premier's return with his cabinet approval of his 'Ruhr evacuation policy in his pocket put new life into the negotiators and British observers believe the conference will end soon. The question of evacuation of the Ruhr Is now being considered. Until the allied delegates have reached an agreement among themselves on this be another problem, there will not meeting with Germans, and It is not expected such a meeting will come before the latter part of the week. Names for the post of permeuent agent-generto carry the Dawes plan into effect are being discussed In conference circles since the announcement that the French will agree to the evacuation of the Kuhr on condl-ion- s which It seems likely the Germans will accept. James A. Logan, American representative on the recommission ; Dwlght W. paration Morrow of J. P. Morgan and company and Paul D. Cravath are mentioned frequently. Owen D. Young of the Dawes committee seems to be generally regarded In conference circles as the ideal man to initiate the Dawes plan but his announcement that he would only consider taking the post temporarily makes the selection of his successor necessary at an early date. The "big fourteen" the allied and German delegation leaders met for an hour and a half at number 10. heard M. Her- Downing street anil riot's reports of bis Paris trip. They then briefly considered the one re maining problem within the purview of the conference proper that of the allied railway men remain on the German lines. This Issue Is so closely connected with that of the evacuation of the Ruhr that both seem likely to be settled at the same time although the Ruhr Issue will be kept outside the conference. ' Robbers Show Nerve Salt Lake, Under Uie eyes of at least two persons within a few yards of a night watchman guarding the materials for construction of a new building, and in the center of a block in the heart of the business district. patrolled on four sides by uniformed robbers entered the policemen safe 129 South Main Mission cigar store d safe street, hoisted the through the skylight and escaped The with It In a large touring car. cash and safe contained $NO0 In cheeks, all the cash books and ledgers of the store and insurance policies of the firm as well as personal property of P. W. Saville, manager, according to a report made to the police. j Woolwine to Be Brought Home Thomas Woolwine, former Paris, district attorney of Ixis Angeles, is till gravely ill here and will be taken home on a stretcher sailing on the liner France with his fumily. He will be accompanied by Dr. Jule French Mr. blood transfusion specialist. Woolwine came to Europe In October for a rest. lie was stricken early in November and lias been most of the time since. He told his family that he wanted to go buck to Ios Angeles end said that if by any chance he must die, he wlsheo to die at home. bed-ridde- n Burled City Discovered Russian archeologlsts Moscow, have discovered the burled city of Aksal ancient capital of the extin- guished tribes of Skiffe and Kamar. lte, who flourished about 170 It. C. The excavators have reported the ruins ol the ancient city In the region now Inhabited hy the Don Cos. sacks in southeast Russia. Nominee For Governor Killed by Bull Sioux Falls, 8, D. Andrew S. An. derson. Democratic nominee for gov. rraor of South Dakota, was gored to death at his farm near Ileresford, A. D., thirty miles south of Sioux Falls Details of the ia Clay county. tragedy are lacking but meager ports to Frank Olds, county coroner. Indicated that Mr. Anderson bad gone to the pasture to take care of the stock when ons of the bulls In hi herd became enraged and attacked tin 8hot First Victim From Ambush Ahid Was Acquitted by Jury; Blames Drink and Lack of Religion Villa Platte, La., Simultaneous with his Ranging, Euzebe Vidrine's "Confessions," a book detailing the author's life of crime, including five murders was released for distribution to, the public. Vidrine, who is 26 years old, was executed for the murder of Robert L. Wiggins, son of the former sherHe has iff of Evangeline parish. confessed to four other slaying3, however, and the details of each are recounted in his book, which he wrote in the shadow of the gallows. According to those who have seen adavnee copies of the book, it is one of the most unique crime documents on record. The condemned man tells 'of his of his early youth the beginning crime career with hog ' stealing, watermelon theft, michievous pranks and approaches with an eloquent flow of words to his first killing, that of a neighbor. The killing was done with a shotgun, the book relates, telling how the author shot hia man from ambush while the farmer was plowing. Vidrine continues with a description of his first trial for murder, which endMoed in his acquittal by a jury. tive for the killing was revenge because his victim "talked too much." Eight months later, in December, 1921, Virine tells how he killed .Charles Garbo, taxi driver, whom he hired in LaFayette to take him to Kaplan. While the driver was putting chains on the wheels of his cab the youth shot him in the back, took his money and fled. The same night Vidrine says he engaged John Roy, a negro cab driver in Crowley, to drive him to Eunice. He shot the negro and robbed him getting but a lone nickel. A few weeks later he engaged a service car in Orange, Tex., to take him to nearby oil fields, shot the driver, Lee Duke, got 75 cents, a watch and pistol, and fled. His murder of Robert L. Wiggins, son of the sheriff of the parish, May 19, 1924, was also impelled by mo tives of robbery, Vidrine said. In his final chapters Vidrine de scribes his trial, his address to the with preach judge, and concludes1 ments on the curse of strong drink and lack of religion, which he blames for his tragic downfall. The youthful slayer was visited by his mother in the death cell and said goodbye to her for the last time. La Follette Opposed to Klan Washington, Senator La Follette of Wisconsin, independent candidate for president, in a letter just made public, declares he is "unalterably opposed to the evident purposes of the secret organization known as the Ku Klux Klan, as disclosed by its "It cannot long surpublic acts. "Revive," continued the senator. lying upon the sound pudgment and good sense of our people it is my movement is opinion that such a foredoomed. It has within its own The body the seeds' of its death." letter addressed to Robert P. Scripps, newspaper publisher, was given out for publication at Senator La Fol- lette's office. Declaring it "unfortunate that questions involving reother questions ligious opinion and unrelated to the vital issue of the restoration of the goevmment to the people have been raised in this as in other critical years of our na tional history." Seven Drown When Floor Drops Buckeye Lake, Ohio, Seven bodies have bee recovered and four persons are missing in the wreckage of dance pavilion, which collapsed into Buckeye lake here during the annual ball of the Negro Elks of Ohio. Scores of dancers were plunged into the water when a section of the flooring of the pavilian parted. Fire Originating In Printing Office Heavy Damage; Salt Lake Fire Department Called Out Does fOWrttM.W ' Hit) DOPE PEDDLERS ARE ARRESTED WR VETERAN IS KILLED BY MANIAC FORT DOUGLAS SOLDIERS ARE MONKEY WRENCH IS USED BY TAKEN BY U. S. MARSHAL CRAZED TRAVELER TO CRUSH IN UTAH CAPITAL VICTIMS SKULL Spectacular Raid Yields Four Prison, Trainmen Fall to Overpower Man ers at Fort While Fifth la Who Runs Amuck; Leap's From Picked Up In Downtown Train and Continues MurHotel derous Assaults Salt Lake, While four enlisted the United States army stood discussing their sale of narcotics to a person introduced to them as a Salt Lake kingpin dope dealer, United States Marshal J. Ray Ward, himself an officer in the World war and now holding a commission in the national guard, "covered" them with his automatic and arrested them. The spectacular arrests were made in the post bakery at Fort Douglas. The fifth member of the band, said to be the ringleader, was taken into custody at a State street hotel shortly after. men of Seventeen ounces of morphine and cocaine valued at $9000 in underworld circles were seized, four ounces at the post and the rest of it in the downtown hotel. The quartet arrested at the post are Howard Patten, 20; Zack Steven- -' son, 34; Howard Hoskins, 32. and J. S. Freeland, Joseph Ross, 25. 28, the alleged leader was caught in bait Lake. Complaints charging Patten, Ste venson, Hoskins and Ross with sale and possession, and Freeland with possession are being filed by Fedoral Narcotic Agent Louis R. Watts. Con spiracy charges also may be sworn to. be arraigned before They will United States Commissioner H. V. Van Pelt as soon as United States District Attorney Charles M. Morris returns from the Uinta Basin where he is on governmental business. Inspection of the ' seized narcotics reveals that some of the "stuff bears no revenue stamps while other the stamp of the packages carry United States army medical depart ment, which, leads officers to believe part of the narcotics were smuggled into the United States from the Phil ippine islands or the Orient, while the remainder was stolen from army hospitals. Freeland the leader, was to have returned to the medical detachment at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo., within a few days. Patten also was to have departed for the same station with the detachment from the Seventy- sixth rield Both men artillery. were on duty at Fort Douglas during the citizens' military tfaining camp and the reserve officer camp. Hoskins and Ross are in the finance department at Fort .Douglas, while Stevenson is in the Thirty-eightinfantry. Cass Lake, Minn., Running amuck on a Great Northern train near here, N. J. Lindberg, believed to be from Portland, Ore., attacked passengers and trainmen,' jumped from the train here, where he killed one man and wounded another probably fatal ly and then killed himself. The man killed was Charles Rich ards of Cass Lake. Lindberg, a& called Richards cording to reports, from his home, asked him if he was a member of the American Legion and when the latter replied affirma tively, crushed his skull with a blow from a monkeywrench he had seized on the train. A possee of 300 men set out In search of the slayer, who, meanwhile, had raided a farm and stolen several pistols'. Meeting Roy Jondahl, a member of the posse, Lindberg fired and wounded Jondahl. Dashing into a nearby woods Lindberg sent a bullet into his head. Mexican Outlaws Kill Seventeen Mexico City, Seventeen defenseless persons were killed and ten others wounded when a band of fifty armed outlaws attacked a hacienda near Opichen, State of Yucatan, according to a special dispatch from Merida. .The assailants declared they came from the village of Opichen, where they had previously committed outrages. They sacked the 150 federal and fled with The band comtroops in pursuit. posed of Indians, ia likewise charged with a recent attack upon the village of Kalkinf. The special dispatch asserts there is no specific reason fot the attacks, which are attributed to the chaotic conditions following the recent occupation of the territory bj the revolutionists. La-cien- Politicians to Use Radio candidates whe Boston, Political use the radio to broadcast their speeches in this state must be polite. Rules issued by a broadcasting station ay that "a man may talk about what he stands for, but he may not revile or attack his political opponent or any other party." If a speaker violates this rule he will suddenly find that the current has been switched off, and that he is talking to no one but himself. Railway Legal Fight Looms Denver, Colo. A suit presaging a bitter legal controversy over the fix ing of the upset price for the Denver 4 Rio Grande Western railroad un der a foreclosure sale was filed in th United States district court here by Harold Palmer, acting for himself and other holders of first and refund ing mortgage bonds of the road. Murray, Utah, A - spectacular fire that originated In the frame building of the Murray Publishing company, last Saturday . afternoon, completely destroyed the newspaper plant, gutted the Carlisle Motor company and Murray Baptist church, burned two wooden sheds in the ear of the Murray Mercantile company threatened to wipe out the business district of the city and caused damage estimated at $75,000. The fire started on the roof of the newspaper building, said to have been caused by sparks from the chimney. Whipped by a slight western breeze the sparks from the blaze were tossed in all directions Igniting the. roofs of the Carlisle Motor company, the Murray Baptist church, several other buildings on the west side of State street and even the City hall and Warenski building on the east side of State street over a block away. Heroic efforts by the Murray city volunteer fire department and the Salt Lake county fire department, the first of the fire fighting brigade to reach the scene of the blaze put the first opposition In the path of the blaze. Then, just when help was needed most, the pump on the county fire department fire engine broke and left the city firemen to battle the flames alone until the ar. rival of the Salt Lake City departments Nos. 2 and 3, and the Mldvale volunteer department. With the aid of four departments the fire was quenched shortly after 4 o'clock and the business district of the city saved. The lack of water seriously ham pered the battle to combat the file statement made by according to a Fire Chief Edward Larsen of Murray. When the water In the city mains failed to give sufficient pressure to give the department its maximum ef ficiency the Cahoon Maxfield Irriga tion ditch, running through the heart of the city, was blocked and the two city departments drew their supply from that source. The blaze easily gnawed its way through the frame building of the With Murray Publishing company. that gone, it started on the runway Carlisle Motor com-panleading to the making It impossible ior the re moval of cars on the upper story of the building. The roof was destroyed fifteen cars on the upper floor and automobile equipment throughout the estimated at $20,-00- 0 building burned, value. In the meantime the blaze was whipping merrily about on the roof of the Murray Baptist church, and fire fighters were climbing every on the west side of the building street to put out new fires caused by sparks. Telephone and telegraph poles were burned, and wire connec tions with Salt Lake City inter rupted for several minutes. Powder Store Burned mil Nashville, Tenn. Forty-fiv- e lion pounds of powder were destroy ed by fire at the Old Hickory powder plant near here. The loss-- , on the basis of present prices is estimated at more than $2,000,000. The pow der was manufactured for the fed eral government during the war at a cost of approximately $22,500,000. Machinery and buildings erected by the government during the war at a cost of more than $5,00,000 were also destroyed by the flames, which swept over an area of forty acres in the heart of the plant. The fire was de clared to be the greatest singlo loss suffered by the government since the world war and was rated as one of the most destructive incidents in the munitions history of government plants. Buffalo Offered Frc Washington An offer of a buffalo free of cost to any one who will pay the freight was mde by the interior The herd in Yellowdepartment. stone national park has grown so fast that It now numbers 730. The range has become inadequate and food has become a problem. Honeymoon Hike of' 12,000 MI'ea Amnion Hennery Rerkeley, Cel., and his wife who have walked 12,000 miles and worn out six pairs of shoes In the process, have . reached the Pacific coast after walking across the continent from New York City The Hennacys wer married three years ago end hare been treading the highways of life together ever since. Thy claim their honeymoon is till at the zenith. Expelled From Turkey Constantinople, lr. Edgar J. Fish, er, prolVssor of history in Robert col. hse been expelled from lege here, Turkey. He Is a native of New Jersey. conference here is predicted within a few days owing to Turpln Breaks Ankle the reported unyielding attitude ct Los "Angeles, Ben Turpin, whose Karaklan, the soviet representative, twisted gaze helped him to fame at who has been nepotiatinir with tha a screen comedian now also has In an effort to Japanese government broken ankle. His physicians, after buve Japan recognixe the soviet reexamination, an- gime in Moscow. Karakhan ha stead- making an nounced he would be laid up for three laswy reiusea io agree to any terms weeks. Slipping on a greasy garage involving surrender by Russia of the floor caused the injury. Chinese Eastern railway. Oklshoman 8uee Oil Company Los Angeles, A suit brought by Erie P. Halliburton of Duncan, Okla--, against the Federal Drilling company of Los Angeles, alleging in fringement of patents owned by Halliburton and involving methods and apparatus uwd in cementing oil wells has been filed In federal court here. The action Is expected to clear up several disputed points concerning rights Involved In the cementing prouse In oil fields fesses in general throughout the country. Plckford Horn Robbed Philadelphia, Pa, Police headquarters here have received wire from Los Angeles authorities asking that Philadelphia pawnshops be searched for jewels worth thousands of dollars that were stolen from the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Pickford at Los Angeles last June. Seven diamond rings, five bracelets, a wedding ring pet with twelve diamonds and other jewelry were stolen from the movie tars' home. Hughes Paseee Up Rome II Monda, commenting on the depart tire of American Secretary of State Hughes, for home after his European trip, complains tl.nl while h visited London, Perls, Brussels and Berlin, he skipped Rome. The Mr. Hughes' re. newspaper recalls pneted declaration that his trip wa not made as secretary of state but as President of the American Par as. octatlon and ssye It In, therefore all the nor difficult to understand. . Russo-Japanes- Russo-Japanes- Break Predicted e TnV n A Kre&k In tha nrnmnnf e y Rome, Government Feeds Millions The Russian government hse appropriated l.TS,000,00O golr rubles to aid starving peasants In tne famine-strickedistricts where the crops have been annlhilnted this year. The number of suffering persons Is put st npward of 7,000,000. Of the rubles will pproprlatlon M.000.0OO to purchaee grain end meat te for Immediate use of the hungry mil. The other SO.0'10.000 rubles Hons. "HI be used for Irrigation works. Moscow, n id Brigham City. Loran D. McBride, bishop of Hyrum First ward, was found dead at his farm at Blue His throat was cut with a Creek. razor. Officers declare all circumstances point to suicide. A nervous breakdown with which McBride was suffering is believed to be the cause of the act.' Ogden. A large area of the Tetoi forest in the Jackson Hole country will be maintained in its present state of wilderness, according to an announcement made by District Forester R. H. Rutledge, who returned recently from a month's inspection trip of the country with Chief Forester Colonel B. B. Greeley. Price. Albert Murray, 22 years of age, unmarried son of Mr. and Mrs. Ellison Murray, a farmer of Duchene was crushed to death two miles west of Price, while coming from Helper when an automobile driven by James Hatch, proprietor of the Duchesne hotel, swerved from the pavement and turned turtle into an irrigation: ditch. Salina, During the past week thet Sevier Valley Coal company has received its hoisting engine, boilers, pumps and other machinery and is now getting the various pieces into working order on the company's? properties in the Salina canyon. This machinery is valued at $10,000. The manager of the company, H. E. Lewis of Salt Lake, expects to have all the machinery in place and under power before September 1. Ogden. By a vote of the city commission the tax levy of Ogden city was increased one mill, which makes it now stand at 11 mills. Commis-Bion- er Arthur F. Larson was the only one who voted against the increase. Salt Lake City. The season on. sage hens, blue grouse, ruffled grouse and prairie chickens will open September 1 and close September .10,. both dates inclusive, D. H. Madsen, state fish and game commissioner, announced recently. The birds may be killed in all except Sanpete and Beaver counties. a Murray, lead-melti- Fire which started from pot blaze in "the back the Murray Eagle newspaper office, spread in the face of a high wind to seven buildings at the corner of Forty-eight- h South and State streets, Murray, causing damage estimated at $50,000. room of Provo. A reduction, of a mill over the tax levy of last year has been made by the Provo city commission. This makes the third decrease in the city's levy in the past three years, the levy for 1922 being 12 mills, while last year it was 12.1 mill. Salt Lake City James Nielson, 70, an inmate of the county infirmary, dies from injuries suffered when he was crushed in the elevator shaft of that institution. He suffered internal injuries and a fractured pelvis'. Logan. Contract for construction-o- f the Chase-BeRiver City gravel susface road was awarded by the state road commission to Olaf Nelson. The commission accepted the state road agent in Summit county, A successor was not appointed. Ogden. The man who was found unconscious', dying later from wounds inflicted by Herman Smith, colored, believed to have been Ralph Preston, is an identified as Albert Lopez, alias Ralph Plumer, according to information received by the police from the California bureau of identification. Murray. After thirty-on- e years of service the officers of the Progress company of this city surrendered the rights and privileges of its lighting system to Murray City and taxpayers. Mayor Isaac Lester, Commissioners James E. Clay and Gotleib Berger and officers of the Progress company culminated their many conferences and negotiations during the past week and at the first of the month papers were signed transferring the franchise, all rights, title, interest, poles, meters and' distributing: system of the Progress company over to Murray City corporation, Brigham City Ray Owens was arrested and brought before Judge Fred J. Holton on a charge of obtaining food without paying for it from Mrs. Richards of Collinston. Owens pleaded guilty, and was ordered to pay the amount due to Mrs. Richards, and was fined $15, which he paid. ar Logan. Cache Valley dairymen and ehibitors in various lines of pro-iu- co are making plana for showing their exhibits at the county fair to tie held here September 23, 24 and 25. Salt Lake City. A total of 260,000 :opies of booklet and folders, giving a wealth of information about Salt Lake City and Utah, has been printed and distributed in 1921 by the lalt Lake City Chamber of Cnmmer- - |