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Show I THE IRAN 111 0RTT1 TIMES-EW- NEPHI, UTAH S, 5 BERLIN PAPERS When the Frost Is on the Window Q DISLIKE DECISION AIR SUCCESS COOLIDGE IS NOT WORRIED BY Notes News From All Parts of DEBT "ST THT A 17 f i - EXPERIMENTAL STAGE IS NOW PASSED SAYS REPORT TO WAR DEPARTMENT jArmy Officer Reports U. S. In Lead For Use of Planes to Carry Mail; 62,000 Passengers Taken Data, regarded as Washington. demonstrating that commercial aviation has definitely passed the experimental stage is contained in a report just submitted to the war department by Lieutenant John P. Van Zandt of the army air service after a study of its development in Europe, involving six thousand miles of travel over commercial airways. The army officer reaches the conclusion in his report to Assistant Secretary of War Davis and Major General Patrick, chief of 'staff of the army air service, that "under suitable conditions mail and goods may now be transported by air with equal or greater safety and reliability than by train and with greater saving of time." Picturing the development of commercial aviation in the period since the war, the report gives the aggregate of air transport miles flown in all countries, including the United States, as 20,110,700 up to this year, and estimates that 1924 will add 8,. 600,000 miles to the total. The figures represent only regular air transportation services over established routes, carrying passengers, mail, or commodities. During the same period the development of passenger air traffic has increased from 2585 passengers in 1919, to 62,000 passengers in 1924. In the development of air mail traffic, the United States leads the world, according to the report.. In 1922, an aggregate of 1,930,177 pounds of air mail was transported of which 1,512,197 pounds was United States mail carried over the transcontinental route between New York and San Francisco. Last year 2,466,279 pounds of air mail was carried, of which 752,009 was European traffic. Air freight transpor. tation increased from 269,600 pounds In 1919 to more than 5,000,000 pounds in 1924. The army investigator said the increasing confidence of business men aboard in air transport was shewn in the regular consignment of fair freight commodities now ranging from automobile parts to perfumery and silks. The facts that insurance rates are actually less by air than by boat and rail for valuable goods sent between England and the continent is said to have played an important part in convincing business men of the stability of the new form of transport. Boiler Explodes; Jumps Mooring Great Falls. Mont. The three-to- n boiler of the Great Falls Gas plant used to distill creosote and other by. products from the residue of eoal used in the plant exploded, Jumped its solid masonry bed, skidded 100 yards Into the house of George Maiden, trouble shooter for the plant, wrecky ed the building, badly burned Maiden about the feet, and. Injured Eli Maiden by shock and bruises. Both men are in a hospital, but are expected to recover. The bucking boiler left a wide trail ns it slipped Its moorings, and when It stopped In the Mnlden home at the beds In which the men were sleeping the house was a wreck. two-stor- Powder Explosion Kills 110 Oteru, Japan. A terrific explosion of gunpowder on the waterfront here killed 110 persons, Injured 200 others and blew up 1000 houses. Following the pxploslon fire swept along the waterfront while the whole frontage wns ablaze. Oteru is on the northernmost tip of the Island of link Kalrio. It Is a center of constat fishing and has the best port on Yezo, a smiill isle of the link Kaldo group. It Is connected by roll with Sapporo and with the Porronal coal mines In the Inter-lor- . The city's population In 1910 was 02.864. FRENCH PREMIER GIVEN MOST SEVERE CRITICISM FOR ALLEGED INFLUENCE Stable Conditions in Germany Held to Be Out of The Question If Frontiers Are Invaded The decision of the counto postpone indefinitely the evacuation of the Cologne bridgehead unloosed a storm of bitter editorial comment in the Ber. lin newspapers. The most severe criticism of the alleged surrender of M. Herriot, the French premier, to external influences oddly enough appears in the German liberal organs, which, since the London conference, had been inclined to view the French prime minister as the harbinger of a new era in Franco-Germa- n relations. "M. Herriot, using Marshal Foch's sabre, is not a very inspiring sight," remarks Theodore Wolff in a caustic editorial in the Tageblatt, in which he refers to "lame Herriot" in connection with the premier's recent indisposition. Wolff charges M. Herriot with having handed the German nationalists a "bracing tonic." The French premier failed to remain true to himself and permitted the moral ground on which he was standing to slip away, the democratic Boersen Courier says. Vorwaerts, the radical organ asks whether it will be a historic function of the year 1925 to undo all that has been accomplished in the nature of pacific reconstruction during 1924. It asserts that stable conditions in Germany are out of the question while her Rhineland frontiers are invaded or armed forces remain on German soil. The problem in the opinion of George Bemhard of the Vossosche Zeitung, has an immediate bearing on the unhampered functioning of the Dawes plan, which, he says, presupposes complete economic independence for Germany. The belief that Germany's foreign relations have measureably grown worse since the return of the conservative element in England is freely expressed in that section of the press which assumes that the present official orientation in England is distinctly hostile to Germany's economic progress and therefore would not disdain to ally itself with French imperialistic currents with the purpose of retarding such progress, even at the risk of imperling the Dawes plan. Neither Germania, the Clerical party's organ, which is close to Chancellor Marx, nor Die Ziefiet, which reflects Foreign Minister Strese. man's views commented on the action of the council of ambassadors. This is taken as an indication that the government will await formal notification of the decision from Paris before undertaking a formal expression. Chancellor Marx will return from the middle of the week and immediately will confer with President Ebert on the question of constructing a new government. The present foreign crisis finds the German internal political situation In a state of complete chaos. Foreign Minister Stresemann is unyielding in his demand that the nationalists should be formally invited to accept representation in the governmennt in order to remove them from the opposition on the floor of the reichstag. The socialists, on the other hand, declared that a government in which the Westarp.Von Tirptix party plays a dominant role would be wholly to deal with a situation growing out of continued occupation in violation of Germany's treaty rights. Dr. Stresseman is liberally blamed by a section of the press for having a parlimentary crisis precipitated which leaves Germany with a roughly improvished transitional government to deal with a critical foreign situation. Surprise also is expressed that neither Marx nor Stresseman discussed the evacuation of the Cologne bridgehead at the London conferen- his vacation in n Iaper in 1915. Does Not Regard Present Status As Menacing; Will Make No Mov'e to Endanger Private French Loans Berlin. cil of ambassadors 8ay New Jersey Is Vettest York. New Jersey is the Nt King to Make Tour wettest state in the Union, William Brussels King Albert has accept. H. Walker, assistant Chief Enforced an invitation from Marshal Petain ment Agent E. C. Yellowley, In comof France to make an automobile tour mand of the New York-NeJersey across the Sahara desert Automoarea, said. His squad has made raids and seizures biles with catepillar treads will be sixty-sevein New Jersey recently. used. Robert Wood Brown Dead San Diego, Cal. Robert Wood Brown, past grand exalted ruler of the Elks and editor of the Elks national magazine died at his home here of cerebral hemorrhage. He was first strickent when visiting his mother's grave on Easter Sunday, 1923, at Russelville, Ky. Brown was born in Kentucky, served as city and managing editor of the Louisville Times, for thirty ears, leaving that PRESIDENT KEEPS CLOSE WATCH ON FRENCH SITUATION AND WILL WATCH OUTCOME Mississippi Has Bad Fire Corinth. Miss. An entire business blrx-on tlie west side of rurthoue square here was destroyed by fire. Early estimates of the dnmsge pla-it at between Jl,.Vt0,0O0 and .2.orio, 000. Among the buildings destroyed were the postofflee, Drnke's Jewelry tore, the old 'opera honw, the Cor-Int- h ISank & Trust rmpanjr, O. W. McCulIey's stor and the Ford mti. senrn. The Are Is believed to have started from an oil heater In a e President Coolidge Washington. has drawn no hasty conclusions from the recent swirl of developments surrounding, the French war debt and sees no occasion for action by the American government on the basis of present advises. The President is watching the sit. uation closely, however,, and should there be any indication of a move by COLD AND SALT LAKE CITY the French government to repudiate its obligations it might influence the House strongly in its attitude VIE FOR HONORS HAS COSTLY FIRE White toward the flotation of private French loans in this country. While thre is no legal restriction giving the federal government auMANY DIE DURING CHRISTMAS EARLY MORNING FIRE DESTROY!! thority over loans which foreign govEVE AND CHRISTMAS DAY MAIN STREET BUSINESS ernments seek to place with private BLOCK NATION THROUGHOUT interests in this country, the advice of Washington usually is sought by the prospective investors and usualList of Dead in Hobart Horror Mounts Firemen Battle In Zero Weather ly is sufficient to determine the fate to 33; Shotgun Fatal Toy; Against Fire That Threatens of any such venture. Two Killed In Shooting City; Loss Is Estimated There has been no indication that in Virginia at $150,000 the president discredits the many French assurances of payment, re. iterated by the French embassy, but Salt Lake. One of the richest at the same time, he desires that all Chicago. More than sixty persons were killed, upward of half a hun- business blocks in Salt Lake was the facts be known here beyond all with destruction early doubt, so that the American governdred were injured and fifteen oth- threatened ment can shape its course accorders are missing as the result of an Christmas morning, when flames ingly. He realizes that remarks of unusual number of accidents Christ, practically destroyed the Hooper-El- -' foreign government officials and othmas eve and Christmas day. dridge building, 39 to 57 South Main er isolated incidents do not invarIn addition to the loss of fire, street. iably represent a deliberate deterThe damage was estimated by Fire mination as to the policy of themany of them resulting from the gov. over heating due to the zero Christ- Chief William Bywater, at $125,000, ernment. He is disposed, therefore, mas weather in some sections of the when he surveyed the ruins. The to await complete official informacountry caused a heavy property loss is only partially covered by In- tion. On the basis of the present situasurance. loss. The damage is estimated as fol- tion the president apparently sees no The most serious, as well as the reason to bring influence to bear most pathetic Christmas eve tragedy, lows : occured at Hobart, Okla., where Western Barber Supply company, against any private loan transaction the French government may have hree persons are known to be $30,000 to $40,000. under consideration with American dead and sixty others are missing or Hazelwood Candy company, $15,000 banking houses. dead as the result of a fire in a to $20,000. No report has reached the state schoolhouse while a Christmas enterE. Jenkins, $30,000 to $40,-00Edward tainment was in progress. department from the American embassy in Paris to guide the adminThe next highest toll of life was E. L. Sheets, $30,000. istration in interpreting the finantaken near Roanoke, Va., where nine ce minister's recent remarks nor has Martin Coal company, $3,000. are dead, six are missing and thirty- Co-o- p the French embassy here made any Furniture company, $2500. five art in hu? pitals as ol engagement indicating that it has the break of k "muck" dam' at Salt Ashby Snow, $1500. been instructed by its government to ville. Keely Ice Cream company, $1500. make any communication. Trinket Jewelry Shop, $2000. At Stamford, Tex., four were killBeesely Music company, $3000. ed and six injured, one seriously in 800 Chinese Shot Down Owners of the building were E. L. a fire in the Stamford inn. London. Eight hundred Chinese Two men were frozen to death in Sheets, E. E. Jenkins, W. R. Wallace, Chicago's five below zero Christmas John F. Bennett and the Francis Arm- soldiers who participated in the recent rioting at Kalgan were lined weather, a policeman was killed as strong estate. The fire is one of the most serious up along the railroad .tracks and exethe result of a fall and a Chinese laundryman was shot and probably in Salt Lake in the past decade. In cuted according to a Central News fatally wounded in a renewal of tong many respects it resembled the La- dispatch from Tien Tsin. The troops warfare. fayette school blaze on January 10, mutinied as a result of not receiving Three were killed and one was 1922, when the State street buildintt their pay and burned part of Kalgan, probably fatally hurt and another was destroyed in the early morning, looting banks and shops. They were less seriously injured in an automo- with a temperature hovering below promised their pay if they would return to their barracks. This met the bile accident at Richmond, Va., and the zero mark. The blaze was far harder to combat approval of the mutineers, 800 in d at Dixon, 111., a child r shot and killed his old than the school fire, which caused number, who entered box cars, entrained for Kalgan. They were lockbrother with their father's shotgun, damage estimated at more than $100,-00ed in and the train was run onto a and one person was killed as the result of placing oil in a cook stove. The cause of the conflagration will siding a little way out of the city where the rebels were shot to death Two were killed in a Christmas probably never be known, Chief said. No clues are to be had by regular troops. shooting scrape near Richmond, Ky., two were killed in an automobile ac- from the blaze, owing to the proportions it had assumed before the arcident at Birmingham, Ala.; a d Pay Lawyers child died of bums at Wor rival of the department. Chicago. The lawyers who saved The alarm was turned in to the fire Richard Loeb and Natha cester, Mass., one was killed in an Leopold automobile accident at Lexington, department at 8:29 a. m. Jr. from the gallows when they pleaded guilty to kidnapping and killing N. C, a policeman was killed at The major portion of the destrucNew Orleans by a bank robber; a tion wrought by the flames was cen- Robert Franks will receive $150,000 mother died of burns at Lincoln, tered in the quarters occupied by the for their services. Clarence Darrow, Neb., after pouring kerosene on a Hazelwood Candy company and the veteran criminal lawyer, and Benjakitchen fire; two were injured at Western Barber Supply company, 45 min and Walter Bachrach, brothers, share in the fee, though the proporGlendale, Cal., when a bomb in the and 47 South Main street, respectiveform of a Christmas package explod- ly. tion of the division has not been ed; two were killed and two injured Both establishments were devoured made public. The lawyers, it is statin an automobile accident at Central, by the blaze, the fire eating a path ed, asked for $200,000 at the concluia, 111., and at Michigan City, Ind.; from the rear entrance of both stores sion of the trial, and though the Leo. two were killed and two were injur, to the front doors, family made no objection, the taking all in its pold. Loeb family thought the amount exed when a train struck an automo- course. bile while in New York five men The Trinket Jewelry shop, 41 12 cessive. After some discussion the were seriously wounded by two gun- South Main street, was one of the $150,000 was agreed upon. men. heaviest sufferers, practically the enKid McCoy Found Guilty tire stock being destroyed either by Los Angeles, Cal. Kid McCoy will flames or water. Envoy Not Selected Mexico City. The appointment of Furniture company, not have to pay the hangman for the The Co-O-p a Mexican ambassador to the United which maintained a salesroom ovet shooting of Mrs. Theresa Mors here States is still undecided and the for- the stores at 39, 41 and 43 South last August 12. This much was def. eign office is refusing to make state- Main streets, lost furniture in the initely determined when a superior ments regarding the matter. The re- blaze, the exact value not being de- court jury brought in a verdlt concurrent reports carried by the news- termined. victing the former pugilist of manThe Beeslcy Music company, with slaughter, which carries a penalty of papers since December 13, regarding the posKibility of the appointment fifty pianos stored on the second and from one to ten years in prison. of Manuel Tellez, now charge d'af-fair- s third floors of the building at 67 Whether McCoy will spend the rest at Washington, have neither South Main street, suffered the loss of his life In prison as the result of been denied nor confirmed by the or damage to many of the instruthe slaying, and a shooting affray closely linked with it, still remains ments. foreign .office. to be seen. Federal Attorney Is Target Winter Holds Firm Grip San Francisco. An attempt is beSplit Is Imminent Chicago. Christmas day throughBelfast Commenting on the dislieved to have been made here to as- out the country was cold except in noncommissassinate Assistant United States some sections of Florida, in the west, missal of twenty-fivDistrict Attorney Kenneth C. Gillls. middle west, and section of the east sioned officers and the suspension of Gillis was at work when a bullet the holiday was accompanied by two majors by the Dublin authorities, crashed through the window of his snow. The middle west spent Christ- the Belfast newspaper Unionist says office in the federal building here. mas near the fire, for it was one of pressure is being brought to bear on Had he been sitting in his accustom, the coldest holidays in the history of President Congrave and his coll agues ed chair he would have been killed, the weather bureau. At Chicago the not merely in connection with the secret service men said after an ex- official weather reading was 5 de- army mutineers, but In reference to amination of the path taken by the gree below zero, but stieet readings the general policy of the government, bullet. showed from 10 to 15 degrees below which some critics regard as not be. lrg Irish enough. FIRE sixty-t- 0. ' the-raii- ilt three-year-ol- ten-yea- 0. By-wat- er three-year-ol- i Loeb-Leopo- ld Salt Lake City Ice on the rails, resulting from farmers overflowing the siphon under the tracks, caused the derailment of the Denver & Rio Grande Western freight engine near Sterling, Utah, under which Engineer John Gertzenschlager was crushed according to the statement made by Denver road officials. & Rio Grande rail- Provo. One of the first projects the newly elected officers of the Provo chamber of commerce will foster will be that of a better lighting system for the business section of according to Ed. S. Hinckley, secretary of the chamber. the-city- , Ogden. The loss of deer on the Kaibab national forest because of and conditions grazing what promises to be a severe winter is bound to be heavy, according: to District Forester R. H. Rutledge of the intermountain district who has. returned from the Kaibab forest, where he went early in the month the drive of several thousand deer across the grand canyon. Salt Lake City. The biennial report of Mark Tuttle, state auditor, for the fiscal year ending last November 30 shows under a compilation headed "VJiere the Money Goes," a. during-thtotal of state expenditures year of $10,534,288.86. This means that, exclusive of those items whichc may be classed as reinvestment of state trust funds or as receipt's from, temporary loans the state issued warrants totalling the above amount. t Ogden. James Morehead Brown, oldest resident of Ogden and only surviving son of Captain James M. Brown, founder of Ogden, died at hi home, 2843 Washington avenue. He was a little more than 90 years of age. Salt Lake, The contract for the construction of the Pacific Fruit Express company's shops at Nampa, Idaho, has been awarded to H. and T. G. Rowland, Logan contractors, according to an announcement made by the General Contractors' association of Utah. The consideration was $213,000, with stipulation that the work begin in the: spring. Brigham City. Several hundred d pheasants, which have come into the orchards in this vicinity in search of food, are being pro-J-vided for, under the direction of Hull, deputy game warden. The warden is asking the cooperation of the farmers in caring for these bird during the winter, in furnishing them food. ring-necke- S. Salt Lake. Utah stood third out of ten states, including British Columbia, in the last butter scoring contest conducted at the western office of the bureau of dairying, it was anThe state nounced at the bureau. samples, eleven in number, scored an average of 90.68 per cent, while California led, with 91.61 and Oregon was second with 91.19. The other states, followed in this order: British Columbia, Washington, Nevada, Montana, Idaho, Colorado and Wyoming. The Utah score in cheese making was. 86.90 per cent, also third, but of a smaller group. Idaho led with 87.75, Washington followed with 87.25, and after Utah were California and Mi.i-tanThe butter scoring will be iW discontinued. a. Ogden. Monsignor P. M. Cushna-ha- n of St. Joseph's Catholic church has been advised by cablegram from Bishop Joseph S. Glass, who is in Rome, that Mrs. T. D. Ryan of Ogden has been given merited honors from Pope Pius XII. She will soon be decorated as lady of the holy sepulchre. Salt Lake. Salt Lake now can boast a population of 141,732, an increase of 20 per cent over the 118,110 given it by the government census-o1920, according to a survey recently completed for the chamber of commerce. The metropolitan district of the city, including Murray, Ssndy and other towns served by city traction lines, is given a population of 180,079. f At the meeting of the industrial convention committee held at Fort Duchesne recently it was decidod to again hold a convention during the summtr of 1925. It is planned to feature the centennial of the Uintah basin in commemoration of the establishment in Ashley valley of a fur trading post by William Ashley. Salt Lake City. Fifty thousand dollars of the $100,000 advanced by Utah for the survey of stat land will be forwarded from Washington in the next few days, William Spry commissioner of the general land of' flee telegraphed Mark Tuttle, state An additional $40,000 wilt auditor. be included in the pending dcficien. cy bill and another $10,000 will be held by the government until the surveys have been completed, accordThe money ing to the telegram. will be placed in the state general fund, the state auditor said. Roosevelt. Uintah basin |