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Show I THE TTMFS NEWS. NEPHI. UTAH ARRIVES LAll STONE VETERAN ARE CEREMONIES RETIREMENT OF JOSEPH McKENNA Attorney General Is Appointed President To Fill Vacancy; Senate Receives Appointment ' By Washington. Joseph McKenna has concluded his active service as a member of the supreme court, and Attorney General Harlan F. Stone has been nominated to succeed him. The resignation of Justice McKenna deprives the Pacific Coast of representation in the membership of the court, and the selection of Attorney General Stone to fill the vacancy will give New York a member. The circuit embracing New York also is represented by Chief Justice Taft, who claims Connecticut as his residence. Solicitor General Beck will automatically becomes acting attorney general upon Mr. Stone's retirement from that office. The president nas given no indication of his intentions with respect to filling the vacancy permanently, but a number of names were suggested in other cities, including those of Mr. Beck, Secretary Wilbur, Federal District Judge Dietrich of Idaho, Chief Justice Arthur P. Rugg of the Massachusetts supreme judicial court, and Charles B. Warren of Michigan, former ambassador to Mexico. The nomination of Mr. Stone meanwhile must await action by the senate which referred it to its judiciary committee. It is not expected to come before the chamber again for several days. The resignation of Justice McKenna from the supreme court after service there since January 26, 1898, was made known with unusual ceremony, Chief Justice Taft making the announcement after a large basket of roses had been placel by the marshal of the court upon the bench in front of the retiring member. Ordinarily, such an announcement would have been made at the White House, and felicitations such as were exchanged between the chief justice, speaking for himself and the remaining members of the court, and the response by the retiring justice would have been made public after the latter had left the bench and returned to private life. The unusual proceedings, however, were arranged as a mark of the deep affection in which Justice McKenna was held by his associates. After he had concluded the reading of a letter to his colleagues the court and the entire audience in the chamber arose and remained standing until, with bowed head, but firm step he had withdrawn to the robing room. Only a few minutes before the resignation was officially announced, Justice McKenna delivered a decision. Although in his eighty-secon- d year, he retains notable vigor, physical and and mental, probably would not have retired except for the death of hi wife. Mr. tone was a student at Amherst when the president was there, and a friendship was formed then which has continued, although they were not members of the same class. The great confidence reposed in him by the president led to his selection to take charge of the department of justice after the retirement of Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty. Close association in cabinet sessions and in repeated conferences has strengthened President Coolidge's opinion of Mr. Stone's legal knowledge and judicial attitude in handling the affairs of the department of Justice. ' Oppose Forty. Hour Week Cleveland, O Building trades employers from mnny cities, in a resolution drafted here, opposed the five-da- y week of forty hours demanded by the Plasterers and Lathers' union and said to be contemplated by others. The conference was called by the National Building Trades Kmployers' association. Ti.v employes point out that the shorter week would increase by 10 per cent a shortage of mechanic in the building trades, boost the cost of building homes and limit con- struction. j ECHO Dl PROJECT News Notes f Parts of From All APPEARS POSSIBLE UTAH CABLE MASSIVE DAM TO BE BUILT UTAH, IF RECOMMENDA. TION IS CONSIDERED French Press Assume Bitter Attitude; Will Try To Force Hand At Paris; Conference Possible Underaking Will Cost Two Million and a Half Dollars and Will Necessitate Mov. Ing of Railroad Washington. The French memorandum drafted by M. Clementel, finance minister of the Paris government regarding payment of the wa? debt of France to the United States, has been received at the state department. The cable office immediately began decoding the document for delivery to Secretary Hughes. Technically, the communication had not been received by Secretary Hughes, and for that reason comment was declined as to both its content and its value for determining future American treatment of the French war debt problem. It was certain, however, that Secretary Hughes would transmit the memorandum without delay to Secretary Mellon, since, as chairman of the debt funding commission created by congress, he is charged with the conduct of negotiations with foreign of their governments for payment obligations to the United States. Although the Paris authorities acted informally in presenting the memorandum to Ambassador Herrick, and thereby stripped it of the status of an official document, it is hoped by administration leaders Washington that it will be found to contain suggestions of such importance as will justify them in opening formal discussions with Paris, out of which an agreement for payment of the debt may come. In this connection, however, it was pointed out no opinion on this hoped for development could be expected until Secretary Mellon, acting with the members of the debt commission, of whom Secretary Hughes is one, had had an opportunity carefully to study the Clementel memorandum and determine upon a course of action. A meeting of the commission for this purpose, it was said, probably will be called by Secretary Mellon early this week. Salt Lake City. The Utah Water Storage Commission, at the request of the Bureau of Reclamation, recommended that the first unit for construction on the Salt Lake Basin pro- ON WAR DEBT IS RECEIVED, DECODING IT FOR STATE DEPARTMENT U. S. National Debt Large The treasury has Washington. shaved almost a billion dollars off the vast public debt in the past twelve months and by doing so has cut the obligations of the United States more h than since they reached their peak of $2G,5S6.0GS,947 in August. 1919. The government started the new year with a public debt of $20,97S,.'?2,7O0. First official figures on the accomplishments in the calendar year 1924, showed that $03".434,708 was lopped off the debt. The reduction In the calendar year 1923 was Sl,072,2oO,C10. A reduction of $234,422,2."0 was made In the debt in the December fiscal operations alone, and a further reduction Is expected when the treasury completes Its March financing. one-fift- Would Oust Warden Denver, Colo. Charges of offical misconduct, including accusations of permitting use of the whippng post for convicts and brutality to prison-oner- s and prison employees, have been prepared for filing with the state civil service commission by Governor William E. Sweet, against Thomas J. Tynan, widely-knowwarden of the Colorado penitentiary, Mrs. Elizabeth Quereau, a member of the commission announced. n Blaze Sweeps Packing Plant Chicago. Fire, which threatened to destroy the plant of the Chicago Packing campany in the region of the stockyards shortly after midnight Monday was brought under control when three extraordinary alarms brought 2 dozen firefighting companies to the scene. The cause of the fire was undetermined, and the damage was believed to have been $4M),-00- Up New York. Sterling exchange has reached its highest postwar price, the demand rate amounting to $4.70 within 10 cents of parity. The rixe was a reflection of an earlier advance in London, an increased interest in the talk of an early restoration of sterling to a gold basis. Fishermen Usa Radio Boston. Fishermen who put out from tills port to ply their trade off the .Massachusetts coast have developed a new use for radio. Several schooners have been equipped with receiving sets. Tli fishermen tnno in on market reports and when fish quo. tations "ire "right" they pull up the trawls and head for tlin market. Funds for Church Assured New York. A sum sufficient to make the completion of the cathedral of St. John the Divine "a settled fact" has been assured, Bishop Willinm T. Manning said at a dinner conference of church committee for the district of central Manhattan. "We are going to see those walls begin to rist this spring," he said. A group representing the arts, which also met, pledged their efforts to raise $150,0000 to construct one of the bays in the nave. Pope Issues Medals Pope Pius has gent to President Wojcierhowski of Poland and Madame Wojciechowski two gold medals which were deposited in 1000 behind the Holy Door when it was sealed. The medals are to be presented by the papal nuncio at Warsaw in remembrance of the days when the pontiff was nuncio of Poland. Pope Lo, when he opened the Holy Door which had been closed In 1825, sent gold medals to Emperor Francis Jos-tp- h of Austria Hungary. Sterling Goes Ether Wares FROM RERRICK SUPREM E BENCH IMPRESSIVE HELD ON f Rome. IN , ject. Mr. Wm. R. Wallace is chairman (of Gait Lake City), A. F. Dore-muof Tooele, Engineer, is vice chairman, and Mr. Garrison, state engineer, is secretary of the Water Storage Commission. Other members include Dr. Widtsoe, who was a member of the Special Advisory Committee investigating for the Reclamation Bureau during the past year. They recommended a unit for construction of this project, and that unit consisted of a dam at the Echo 0 site to store, with a capacity of acre feet of water a diverting canal to divert surplus water in the Weber River to the Provo River for use by canals diverting from the Provo River, and the diking of Utah Lake. The Echo reservoir is located on the main Weber River, approxis of a mile southmately east of the town of Echo. The dam proposed is of the earth filled type, with rock riprap face. As contemplated it will be about 123 feet high, and have a top crest length of 1800 feet. The estimated cost is approximillion dolmately two and one-halars. The construction of the dam involves the relocation and reconstruction of approximately five miles of the Park City branch of the Union Pacific railroad and about four miles of the Lincoln Highway. At present both the railroad and the highway are located in the proposed reservoir bed. At present no construction nas started and will not until Congress makes money available for the work, and contracts satisfactory to the secretary of the interior are entered into by the parties who will use the reservoir storage water. There was an appropriation in the second Efficiency Bill, appropriating $375,000 for the project, and. there is pending ac present in the interior department approbation bill between $900,000 and one million dollars. The Bureau of Reclamation is now busy making plans for the relocation of the railroad and highway, and are also testing the site. Elwood Mead, of the United States reclamation bureau, visited Utah and set forth that to secure the appropriation for building the reservoir it would be necessary to dispose of the water which it was proposed to imHe pound for irrigation purposes. specified that the reclamation bureau would deal only with legally incorporated and functioning irrigation companies. Immediately the water users of Davis and Weber counties got busy and with A. P. Biglow, an Ogden banker, who is also a director of the Davis and Weber counties canal company as chairman, started a campaign which resulted in the several irrigation companies of the two counties subscribing for all the water which the reclamation bureau offer. All the contracts were in form as specified by the reclamation engineer, the Utah state engineer and the Utah Conservation Commission. The project will permit the extension of the Davis and Weber Canal company's south branch canal and will extend into Height's branch, and other lands in Davis and Weber counties will be fully watered adding millions of dollars annually to the production of the fields and orchards. 4 H t j t m s, ex-Sta- HIDDEN FUNDS FOUNO SAN WORK PILES UP UTAH FRANCISCO BANK TELLER BURIES FORTUNE ON BOUNTIFUL RANCH FOR CONGRESS ONLY SHORT TIME IS LEFT TO LABOR ON LEGIS. LATION MATTER Embezzler Bought Farm And Had After Holidays Takes Congress on Deposit In Many Up Work of Handling Banks of State, Total' Mass of Bills and Not Yet Estimated Appropriations Money Salt Lake City. Seven months ago Dale Rowan, 24 years of age, evidently happily married and with one child, was chief teller in the main bank of the Bank of Italy, San Francisco. He was a trusted employe and considered one of the most promising junior bankers in the Golden Gate metropolis. One morning he did not show up for work at the bank and an examination showed that his account was short $50,000 and an international hunt that extended into Mexico, Canada, South American countries and every city and dale of the United States was commenced. To the officer who arrested him awaited $2000 and 5 per cent of all the embezzled funds that were uncovered. Now in the town of Bountiful a few miles north of Salt Lake City centers the climax to the most interesting bank defalcation that has stirred the Pacific coast for many years. Under the name of J. Williams, Rowan has been living on a little farm he purchased at Bountiful with the Mexican woman, Mrs. Georgina Brown, a mother of three children, with whom he is alleged to have run off after taking the $50,000 from the Bank of Italy. This has all became known since the arrest last Saturday in Salinas, Cal., of Rowan and his woman compaion, Mrs. Brown. The Fidelity and Deposit company of Maryland held the bond on Dale for the Bank of Italy and when he embezzled the bank's funds, took up the chase. Upon his arrest in Salinas, immediately began the search for the missing $50,000 and here is how Bountiful breaks into the spotlight of this blighted romance. A representative of the Fidelity and Deposit company of Maryland ar rived in Salt Lake the early part of this week. He had information from Rowan as to where the stolen money had been hidden. First, this representative went to Bountiful and to Rowan's farm where he was known as J. Williams. He went to a jar in the cellar and there found several thousand dollars In currency. Next the hunt carried him to a garage where several thousand more dollars were found in a bucket hanging from the rafters. Next a shovel was used and in a buried gunny sack was found thousands of dollars in gold, Liberty bonds and other securities. Bank books and receipts for safety deposit boxes took the agent of the bonding company to Salt Lake banks where gold and securities were found. Much of the stolen funon were deposited with the bank at Bountiful. With just a few Washington. weeks before it passes into history, the Sixty-eight- h congress went back to work January 2nd after its holiday recesses with a great pressure of legislation facing it. After having laid it aside long enough to pass within a single day more than 100 bills and resolutions the senate will get back to its of Muscle Shoals under a unanimous consent agreement. After this problem the unanimous consent agreement that calling for a final vote on the Isle of Pines treaty will become operative. While the senate is dealing with these problems, the mass or annua! appropriation bills passed by the house will continue to pile up. Four of them the agriculture, interior, naval and treasury-postoffic- e are awaiting senate action, either on the floor or incommittee, while bouse leaders plan to put through another, the army measure within a short time. Before taking up the war department bill, the house will give attention to bills on the unanimous consent calendar. Taking a leaf out of the senate's book, it is expected to pass a large mass of measures, many of them private claims and bridge bills. Laying aside the Muscle Shoales question temporarily the senate will take up for final action President Coolidge's veto of the postal salary increase bill under an agreement calling for a vote by late Tuesday after sharply limited debate a rather unusual procedure in the senate. Menatime, the senate postoffice committee will rush work on the administration measure for postal, rate increases to meet the salary raises in the hope of having it ready before the senate reaches the veto on the executive's veto of the salary measure. Present plans are to bring in a temporary rate increase measure to fill the gap until a permanent one can be worked out in committee. This plan is expected to meet with pointed reference in debate on the veto. Many senators having already charged that the whole effort is to defeat the salary increases because it will be impossible to put through a rate advance bill before March 4th. House leaders expect to adhere to their plan to rush the appropriation bills through, and they expect that, after the last of these bills has been sent to the senate, there will he time for the consideration of a fair amount of general legislation. How much of Pastor Under Fire will get through in the final rush, Charleston, W. Va. State prohibi- it is regarded as problematihowever, W. commissioner G. tion Brown was cal. requested to revoke the commission of the Rev. O. M. Pullen, state superinReclamation Fund Ok'd tendent of the Antisaloon league, as an enforcement officer in resolution Washington. An appropriation of adopted by the board of public works $150,000 for use by the reclamation during the consideration of the state bureau in conducting economic surbudget. The resolution described Mr. veys of reclamation projects was rec Pullen as "unfit to be an agent in ommended to congress by the budget bureau. the prohibition department." U. S. Attorney Is Ousted long-consider- Now Comes Tax Duty Washington. The bureau of Inter, Washington. Walter D. Van Riper the New Jersey assistant United nal revenue chose New Year's eve as States attorney, who refused to re- the thrift for advising all persons who sign at the demand of Attorney Gen- have Income taxes to pay that the eral Stone has been removed from oftime for filing their returns ha, come fice. Mr. Van Riper's separation again. It may be sad, hut It's true, from the service is effective immediately and was ordered by Mr. Stone within a few hours after he had received a letter from the outgoing assistant attorney refusing to resign and attacking officials of the department of Justice. and the buronn's announcement made it rather definite by adding: "The j.erlod for fiiln;t Income tax returns for the calendar year 1924 begins January 1st at midnight and ends at midnight March 10." 74,-00- three-quarter- lf German Reichstag Opened Berlin With Chancellor Marx still trying to form a cabinet, the reieh-sta- g th.it was electe I a month ago, convened Monday. Taxes, tariffs and trade treaties demand attention of the deputies, who will l hampered in their work by lack of a ministry until some compromise a effected and a government set up. Tlwre are 49.1 members of the new parliament. Moves on Jeddah Jeddah, final Arabia. Having rejected attempts lo conclude peace, Ilia Saoud, leader of the Wahald tribesmen, has begun the movement f his forces toward Jeddah. Ills advance guards reached the outskirts, but were repulsed by King All's forces. Court Approves Sugar Sale fan Francisco. Sale of the prop, ties of the P.eetgrowers' Sucar company of t'tah to th Utah. Idaho Su gar Company. f.r SWhi.oiio, was approved In ii decision bunded down by the I'n'ted States circuit court of appeals here. K. I. Hashimoto, representing a group of stockholders, had 'e followed opposed the sale. The the declaration of an upset price by the United States district court In Utah, efter reorershlp had bees placed over the properties. V ""J 7 at George H. Dern George H. Dern became governor of Utah at 12 o'clock noon Monday. Simultaneous with his taking the oath of office administered by Chief Justice Valentine Gideon of the state supreme court, Charles R. Mabey stepped down from the chief magistracy of this state. Strains of patriotic airs, hoom of cannon and homage of hundreds of people crowding the rotunda of the capitol attended the formal ceremony of inauguration. Standing on the flag draped landing of the grand stairway at the eastern side of the rotunda, Governor Dern bespoke the confidence and support of all citizens in an inaugural address which pledged him to untiring service in the welfare of Utah and her people. lninriiM. Salt Lake City. A test case on whether the secretary of the interior has the right to grant oil and gas prospecting permits on executive order on Indian reservations will be heard in Salt Lake in the United States district court in the near future, with Judge Tillman D. Johnson on the bench. Salt Lake City. Practically the same number of men will attend the citizens' military training camp at Fort Douglas in 1925 as attended it in 1924, despite the proposed decentralization of C. M. T. camps, Colonel Thomas M. Anderson chief of staff of the 104th division of the United States army, has announced. The allotment of students for the 1924 camp at Fort Douglas was 915, while the allottment for 1925 for the 104th division is 1100. Of this number approximately 900 will receive training at Fort Douglas, 120 at Fort Russell, Wyo., and 80 at Fort Wright, Wash., Colonel Anderson said. Mutual. Jas. Whittaker, 19 years of age, nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kimball of 267 Eighth avenue. Salt Lake, was instantly killed when he accidentally came in contacr with a high tension line of the Mutual Coal company's plant, where he wasi employed. Mr. Whittaker was at work about the establishment, when his hand in some manner touched the high tension wire. He was electrocuted instantly. Monticello. The farmers of Monti-cell- o slaughtered many rabbits De- -' eember 30 and 31. The hunters were divided into two teams of twenty men each, one known as the Whites headed by Julius Bailey, and the other known as the Blacks and headed by J. E. Weston. The losing team is to give a dance in honor of the victors. Provo. A new classification of all farm lands of Utah county has bewi made, according to Charles Hawkins, county assessor, the work being done in each district by three of the most competent farmers of their respective Mr. Hawkins says the redistricts. sult of the new classification will be that of placing the farm lands of th county on a more equal basis. Ogden. With the purpose of ascertaining the consensus of opinion on the proposition to consolidate city and county governments of the first and second class, which is particularly applicable to Weber county, Senator elect John S. Lewis has distributed a large number of questionaire.' among taxpayers of the county ask ing their views of this matter. Mi Lewis has declared intention of in troducing such a bill in the legislature if it appears feasible. Forest highway funds Ogden. available for the construction tf forest highways in Utah during the fiscal year 1925 totals $163,000, all of which can be expended during year ending June 30, 1926. In addition, the sum of $146,000 may also be expended during the period named plus a tentative apportionment of $120,-00- 0 to the state, providing ft also puts up $120,000 for cooperative construction of forest roads. Thia was the Information imparted the state road commission by the forestry aer ice. |