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Show THE TARIFF RIGHTS DESIRE OF CHINA CONFERENCE IS OPENED WITH PROPOSAL FOR AUTONOMY TO BEGIN IN 1929 ALABAMA TORNADD Foreign Minis List Which Delegates; Points NEPHI. UTAH S, Q! TAKES MANY LIVES WIND AND RAIN VISIT SOUTHERN STATE AND CARRY DEATH AND DESTRUCTION DLU TT bVt iciies Former Premier And ter Has Sweeping Is Placed Before Discuss Many TIMES-NEW- U. S. Troops Are Called To Guard Devastated District; Intense Heat Is Given As Cause Of Tornado YOU uniMA rf r 1 I I JQ OTAR PARIMUTUAL UKGONST III ITUT1AL DECISION BY THIRD DISTRICT JUDGE WILL BE APPEALED TO SUPREME COURT tbSfcHlt vfAy Game In Opinion Rendered Effects Salt Lake City Only; May Mean End Of Horseracing In Capital City ? News Notes to It's a Privilege Livm in Utah Salt Lake Municipal budget requests for 1926 indicate that the var. ious Salt Lake City departments contemplate for next year expenditures aggregating some $300,000 more than they are expending this year and apmillion dollars proximately In excess of the estimated revenue for 1926. This means, that unless the more than three and millions requested in the tentative budget are materially cut, Salt Lake City faces an increase in either the municipal tax; levy or in water rates and other fees, or both, it is Dointed one-ha- lf one-ha- lf Peking China opened the Chinese customs conference nere with a pro posal that the powers restore to her complete tariff autonomy and agree to the enforcement of a Chinese national customs law beginning not later than January 1, 1929. China's aspirations concerning this conference were crystalized shortly after the delegates convened, in a sweeping list of proposals set forth by Dr. C. T. Wang, former premier and foreign minister. The Chinese former minister, Shen Jui-Liacting at chairman, made an opening address Dr. which Wang supplemented at Mr, Shen's request, proposing the follow ing points as a basid for discussion 1. That the powers agree to the removal of tariff restrictions con tained in their existing treaties with China. This would be equivalent to the restoration of tariff autonomy. 2. That China abolish the likin (taxes on interprovincial trade) si multaneously with the enforcement of China's national tariff law, which would take effect not later than Jan uary 1, 1929. (This tariff law was promulgated October 24, apparently with a view to its use as a basis for negotiations in this conference.) 3. That previous to the enforcement of the national tariff law an Interim tax of 5 per cent be levied on ordinary goods; a 30 per cent tax on "grade A" luxuries, including wines and tobacco, and a 20 per cent tax on grade B luxuries, these in addition to the present ad valorem 5 per cent Troy, Ala. Sixteen persons were reported killed and more than a score injured by a tornado which struck Pike county, Alabama. Many homes were laid waste, causing thousands of pari-mutu- dollars damage. Relief measures were undertaken and first aid was rushed to several communities which bore the brunt of the terriffic storm. Victims who fled here were sheltered by citizens of REPEAL ASKED ON MELLOiJ READY TO Troy and the local hospital was taxed to capacity in taking care of the injured. NHERITANCE TAX CUT INCOME RATES After sweeping through this sec tion, the tornado rushed on its way southwestward. Loss of life was reported in the STATE EXECUTIVES MEET WITH PRESENTS NEW PROPOSALS TO HOUSE WAYS AND MEANS HOUSE COMMITTEE BUT HE Good Hope section, at Luverne, in the COMMITTEE TO PROTEST HOLDS TO EXEMPTIONS Oak Grove neighborhood at Union Springs, in Comer and in Spring Hill, the last three places being in Barbour county, and at Eufaula, where Government Usurps Powers Belong- Change Would Mean One Per Cent ing To Subdivisions Says GoverOn First Five Hundred Dollars three negroes were reported lulled nor; Fifty Million Has AlWith Five Per Cent As Maxand several persons injured. imum Tax ready Been Paid In the Good Hope section, seven miles west of Troy, four members of one family were killed, and two oth Washington Six state governors Washington A new schedule ol ers probably fatally injured. and personal representatives of eleven normal income notes has been pre Five negroes wure killed near here others demanded repeal of the fed sented to the house ways and means and six near Union Springs. eral inheritance tax before the house committee by Secretary Mellon. Persons near the path of the storm. The proposal suggested a rate of ways and means committee. aroused by the terrific wind and the The federal government usurped 1 per cent on the first $3000 of taxable incomes, 2 per cent on the next cries of the injured, worked in a the levying power of the state in this $1000, 3 per cent on the next $4000 heavy downpour of rain and vivid tax in a war crisis and has unjustly and 5 per cent thereafter. flashes of lightning for hours, ren- continued it since, the governors This arrangement, the secretary dering aid and searching for the miss contend- in their arguments for repeal. tariff. in a letter to Chairman Green, said scatwere dead and injured The delegation of seventeen state 4. That the collection of these in ing, lhe probably would be more satisfactory in fields tered the the roads, along executives was led by Governor Clif- than the terim taxes begin three months from recently submitted treasford Walker, Democrat, Georgia, who the date of the signature of the and near the demolished homes. schedule suggestion, 1 per cent ury An emergency call was sent to Troy presented a resolution adopted by a on the first $3000 agreement reached by this-- conference. taxable income, 3 5. That decisions relative to the for aid and many of the injured were conference of Governors at Savannah per cent on the next $4000 and 5 per last June, asking repeal of the fad-er- cent thereafter. above four articles be carried into ef brought to the Masonic hospital. inheritance tax. According to reports reaching Troy, fect from the date of signature of Present normal rates are 2 per "Our people are earnestly in sym cent on the first $4000 of much damage was done at Brantley, the agreement. income, 4 The Chinese national tariff law re- Glenwood and Goshen, but no loss of pathy with this petition, which asks per cent on the next $4000 and 6 per to was from life either inheritance you eliminate the place. reported cent on the remainder. ferred to in these proposals provides The tornado followed intense heat clause when you write the new tax taxes on imports ranging between Mr. Mellon submitted the new figthreatening weather and was fol- bill,'' Walker told the committee. ures not as a "definite" proposal, but Vi per cent and 40 per cent ad val- - and electrical '" storm. severe a is lowed "It admitted that this by tfr as an alternative plan to that laid be .orcm, except on wines and tobacco, of the exclusive jurisdiction oi the fore the for which the proposed charges range in writinsr. committee tate. Mrs. Duke Dies In Poverty It really is the third tentative between 60 and 90 per cent. The law "The also provides for a reciprocal discrim present law would not and outline of rates the treasury has sub New York Mrs. Lillian Duke will follow her former husband to the could not have been passed save as mitted, Mr. Mellon having submitted inatory and prohibitory tariff. a wartime measure, and the time has orally when he appeared before the grave so ending a romance of multi now come for its repeal." Committee that the rate might be a a famous and suit millions, Actress Must Pay Big Sum legal Representatives of other governors made xh per cent on the first $4000, Mlneola, L. I. Opening of a sealed big story that has forecd its way into included Cours, attorney, New 3 per cent between $4000 and $8000 verdict In supreme court here show print at intervals for years. She loved Mexico; Henry H. S. McCluskey, secretary I and 5 per cent for all over $8000. to Buchanan Duke the James end, ed that the jury which heard the trial to Governor of Arizona. Hunt "one-man" Mr. Mellon's letter reached the woman, of Mrs. Katherine M. Frey's $100,000 with the love of a The delegation claimed to have the committee just as it was suit against Wilda Bennett for alien- her friends declared. A few days ago, beginning its state gover- fourth day of hearings on tax revisation of affections, had found in fa they said she stood under the trees of sympathy of thirty-tw- o vor of the plaintiff, who was awarded Central Park and saw him carried by, nors, and only four have opposed re ion, with a long list of witnesses on 37,600. The verdict was returned down Fifth avenue, and tears stream peal of the tax, according to Walker, hand to submit their views on the income and various other levies. The after the jurors had deliberated but ed down her face. Two days ago she Duke Will Is Probated letter follows: thirty-eigh- t minutes. Mrs. Frey ac- learned that the man who gave away "In my statement before your comNew York Bequest of 110,000,000 cused the actress of alienating the af- - fifty millions and had a hundred mil ieciions or (jnaries r rey, turf man lion left when he died had not even to be administered by the Duke en mittee on October 19, I said: " The treasury does not propose and former Kentucky bookmaker. mentioned her in his will. She died dowment was made in the will of the Miss Bennett and Frey both denied of a heart trouble, for which she had late James B. Duke, tobacco magnate, any definite rate, but it presents to this, claiming the musical comedy been treated during recent years. Her m his will filed for probate at Som- - you the certainty that tax reform star was unaware that he was mar physician denied that lack of nour erville, N. J. The will, directed that can go to a 25 per cent maximum and ried until notified of the suit. ishment was the cause of her collapse $4,000,000 of the $10,000,000 bequest surtax without the slightest danger to though it is admitted she was found should go for the construction and our future revenues.' r and all but starving by one equipment of a medical school hospi foodless Slayer Pleads Insanity tal and nurses' home at Duke univerof her music pupils recently. Divers Find Sixth Body Denver, Colo. Attorneys for Ray New London, Conn. The sixth sity at Durham, N. C. The will does Shank, slayer of his not reveal the total value of the Duke body has been recovered from the Thousands Killed In Persian Gulf wife and son, who was sentenced in which has been variously esti- wreckage of the S 51. sunk off Block estate, district court here to pay the extreme Karachi, British India Brief de mated at sums as high as $150,000,000. Island by the City of Rome, Septemof caused disaster tails the a for his crime, will institute by cy The will penalty Mrs. Nanaline II. Duke ber 25, and taken by the Pequot to gave insanity proceedings in an attempt to clonic storm in the Persian gulf con for life the Duke Fifth avenue prop the naval hispital at Newport for trave their client from the noose. This firm the early reports of great loss of The body was found "Rough Point, " at Newport, Identification. was announced by Charles Ginsberg, life and the destruction of many small erty, K. I., and Lynnewood, at Meyers divers under the turn of the hull, by Park, chief consel for Shank, who pleaded vessels. Dispatches to the Daily Gaz N'. C. The same property goes to Mr. leading to the conclusion that the 7000 pers-onette in that at the trial. say perished insanity Duke's daughter, Doris, at the death sailor was caught in the rigging and the cyclone, which was accompanied of her mother. The Duke Farms com- carried to the bottom when the by an earthquake and other distur pany, a New Music Composer Dies Jersey corporation, was sank. The pearl fishing fleet was Ixs Angeles. Frederick Stevenson, bances. ordered dissolved and the funds real- out existof almost entirely swept Rum Ship It Towed Back ;zed to be distributed to the sharewidely known composer of choral and San Francisco. The British rum Instrumental music died at the home ence, more than 200 boats being sunk. holders. The executors of the Duke of bis son. A native of England. Mr. British naval vessels suffered minor estate were given the proceeds of ship Qualtchouan, seized off the Far-alloIslands and towed Into port here hares in the Duke Farms company Stevenson studied harmony at Cam damage, such as the loss of boats. owned by Mr. Duke. by a coast guard cutter will be towed bridge. After coming to the Unitrd German Cabinet Lose Members back to the point of seizure and re States ho was precentor of St. John's leased with apologies. It developed a Berlin. The Nationalist members Couple Marry After Mail Romance cathedral, Denver, and later director few hours after the seizure. It was of the Denver Conservatory of Music. of the German cabinet have resigned. Nashua, N. H. A He came to Loa Angeles in 1894. They are Herr Schiele, minister of "mall romance" was disclosed here discovered that the liquor vessel had the Interior; Dr. Von Schlioben, min when Albert II. King, of St. Helena, been Illegally seized at a point at ister of finance, and Dr. Albert Neu- - Calif., was married to Mrs. Mary J. least fifteen miles past the twelve-mil- e Capturer of Bandit Dies cone. of economics. Neither Wood, "1 years old. The couple had Laramie, Wyo. George IJacus, liv haus, minister a a nor cabinet letters for exchanged crisis twelve parliamentary in nearly near Asbestos King Dead 1916. captured here, who ing Is to follow the resignation years. Recently King wrote to Mrs. New York. Thomas F. Manville, slnglehanded V. L. "Jilll" Carlisle, of expected the ministers. The situation In- Wood, asking her to come to Califorasbestos king." whose fortune has Union Pacific mail robber, now servdicated that Chancellor Luther will nia finfl marry him. She objected to been estimated to exceed 110.000.000 a in life the term state ing peniten fill the vacancies with nonpartisan going there, so King sold his prop- Is dead. An attack of heart disease tiary, died here of injuries receded ministers, then appear before thn erty In St. Helena, came here and proved fatal In bis apartment at the when struck by an automobile. Racus of for ratification the took her as his bride. They will live Hotel Plaza, where he had lived for security was walking beside a hay wa,;on pact and arbirtation treaties Initiated on a farm which King has purchased the last three years. He was 63 years when struck by the machine. In Hollis, near here. at Locarno. old. n, al Vl d s n trans-continent- g Winning Poster Goes To Canada Gen. Wood's Son Makes Stake Baby Crosses Ocean Alone Ihirago. me winning poster in a London. New York. Broke six months ago. One of the youngest chil contest for religious advertising post ers for billboard use was announced dren to cross the Atlantic alone ar Osborne Cutler Wood, son of and former aid to Major General Leonard at the annual Chicago church federa- rived at Liverpool on the liner from Canada. Is on He Roland Wood, says that he has made $100,000 tion conference It is publicity. Tampa real estate. In New York the work of J. Sydney Hnllam of Wildash, 13 months old. His grand In to buy some clothes, he Insists that Toronto, Ont., and depicts the figure mother took him to Canada recently. 'of Christ pointing to a Cathedral with his parents expecting to follow. His the $100,000 is the f, .st installment he to get back of nearly $1,000.- lis two scriptural quotation, beneath: mother was unahle to go, however. onogoing which he In Wall street "Righteousness exhalteh the nation," and It was decided to send the baby speculation and made lost at the gaming and "Come unto me and I will give back alone. Roland had a . special table of Athens, Cannes and you rent." Entries from 230 contestcabin and was shipped in care of the He Is going Into Palm Beach ants were exhibited. hip's matron. soon. Meg-anti- c I)eau-vllle- realty Salt Lake Holding that horse rac ing and betting on the results of races, as conducted in Utah under the terms of the Redd racing bill, constitute a game of mixed chance and skill, with the element of chance predominating, and that the title of the race track betting act is defective, Judge L. B. Wight of the Third district court handed down a decision holding the betting section of the act unconsitutional. Judge Wight's decision was in the form of a denial of the petition of the Utah State Fair association and others interested in racing and betting at the state fair grounds for an order restraining the commissioners of Salt Lake City from enforcing an ordinance of the city prohibiting betting on horse races. The decision of Judge Wight ap plies and holds good throughout the jurisdiction of the Third district court, which includes all of Salt Lake, Summit and Tooele counties, and until such time as the decision may be reviewed by the supreme court of the state, peace officers of the counties and municipalities within this juris diction have no alternative but to arrest and prosecute any who might in the Third judicial district, attempt to conduct race track betting The action to test validity of the Redd act was instituted with the agrement that the matter would be carried through to the supreme court for final decision and the plaintiffs announce that they will appeal to the highest tribunal at once. If the supreme court sustains the judgment of the district court, then section 6 of the Redd racing act, which Is the section permitting betting, will be null and void throughout the state and race track betting will automatically be prohibited throughout the state of Utah. Should the supreme court reverse the decision of the district court and hold the betting section valid, the right to conduct such betting in connection with horse races will then be settled for the en- Charges Found To Be Unfounded Washington. Charges filed against Major General William II, Hart, by Major General Harry L. Rogers, retired, have disclosed to the Investigating officer no basis for further proceedings. The charges filed with the war department alleged that General Hart raiised the publ iost ion of mag szln, and newspaper articles derogatory to General Rogers for the purpose r,f preventing the latter's reappointment as quartermaster general General Hart succeeded to that post. pari-mutu- tire state. The decision of Judge Wight will not affect the racing meet now under way at Lagoon track because this track is in the Second judicial district and without the jurisdiction of the court which has passed upon the Redd act. However, it is explained, peace officers within the second district might institute proceedings against the racing association and take the matter into the courts of that jurisdiction pending final action by the supreme court. Judge Wight held the betting section of the Redd act unconstitutional on two points first, that the combination of betting and horse racing as conducted in Utah under the Redd act constitute a mixed game of chance and skill with the element of chance prevailing, hence that it is in violation of that section of the constitution of the state which prohibits the legislation from authorizing any game of chance, lottery or gift enterprise. The court notes that he made a personal trip to the races and made personal observations of the methods of conduct of the races and betting and explains that knowledge gained in this manner is reflected in his opinion. The court further observes that betting on cither games of skill or games of chance constitute gambling, but notes that the constitution fails to specify gambling except as embodied in games of chance. pari-mutu- Evolution Part Ordered From Book San Antonio, Texas. High school textbooks containing reference to the theory of evolution were ordered clipped here by Superlntendten of schools Marshall Johnson, followlnr orders from the state textbook commission. Twenty pages dealing with man's probable descent from lower animals were snipped by the teachers. "The religion Is good enough for me," said Mr. Johnson when asked his views concerning the teaching of evolution. old-tim- e Ford To Railroad Washington. A corporate of Henry Ford's railroad has been undertaken, it was disclosed from application filed with the Interstate commerce commission. Suit Against Slayers Dismusted Chicago. The J100.000 damage suit against Richard Loeb and Nathan lnpold, Jr.. kidnappers and slayers of Robert Franks, was dismissed on motion of attorneys for Mrs. Louis Hohley. She had alleged thftt In May 1924 the youths took her In their automobile to an abandoned house and attacked her. Altorneys said the case was dismissed because It would be Impossible to collect any damages and because of the attendant out. Monticello The state road commission and San Juan county have ordered the Verdue hill on the highway cut down. This hill is the steepest place on the road from Salt Lake to Bluff. J. H. Neilson, district road engineer, has just returned from surveying the proposed road. The state and county have aDoronriate.i $1400 to build the new grade. Coun ty Koad Agent Heber Frost will immediately put a force of men to work on the new road. This will make travel south much safer and faster. 5 Logan Marian P. Smith n stantly killed and Burt Lovand seriously burned when the powerhouse engineer of. the Swan Creek Power company turned on the power half an hour ahead of time, catching the two men as thev worked m tha lint at Ideal Beach resort near Randolph. My ton Because of a short age of turkeys throughout th coun try this year, turkevs are in vnnA Ha. mand and buyers have already been in the basin making plans for ship- ments for the Thanksgiving trade. Salt Lake The section of the 1925 Redd horse racing act is unconstitutional, and the city is privileged to take steps to enforce its antigambling ordinance. Judge L. B, Wight held in the Third district court. He denied the injunction requested by the Utah State Fair association and others who sought to restrain the city from interfering with the races. Salt Lake City. Ralph W. Seybolt, for whose execution the district court has four times fixed the date did not face the firing squad. Actpari-mutu- el ing Governor H. E. Crockett in conference with the state board of pardons of which he is chairman decided to grant the convicted murdered of patrolman' David Crowther his second reprieve. Ogden. The U. S. reclamation service has not yet decided whether a high dam or low dam at American Falls, Idaho, hence the concrete operations on the dam have been suspended for about thirty days, according to W. L. Watis, secretary of the Utah Construction company, which is building the dam. The construction of the wall on the east side of Snake river has been completed to a height specified for the low dam. A coffer dam on the west side of the river also has been completed and excavation Is now under way. Park City. Drilling Into a missed hole while working at the Silver King Coalition mine, Fred Sundell, 25, and Riley Lake, 26, were injured. Sundell was taken to a Salt Lake The charge struck him in hospital. the face, injuring his eyes. Lake d slight injuries. Salt Lake City. Harry L. Finch and Arthur L. Barnes, incumbents, and P. J. Moran and Berkley Olson were nominated as candidates for city commissioner, as shown by the complete returns In the nrimarv election here. Alvln Keddington, present city auditor and Frank P. Walts were the successful candidates for auditor. Price. Believing that the salaries paid to city officials at the present as well as In the past, are so small as to be ridiculous and are not sufficient to so much as compensate them their bare expenses while aci lng In their civic capacities, members of the city council have decided oa in Increase for the next two years. Bingham. All employees of the various mines In this district are expected to be Inoculated against typhoid fever. Notices to this effect have been posted and the mining companies assume the expense. o Ogden. With the completion Gibbons pass In Idaho, now under construction by the W. S. Craven Construction company of Ogden, the automobile route between Ogden and Spokane, Wash., will be approximately 200 miles shorter than the present auto route, according to B. J. Finch, district engineer of the U. S. Bureau of public roads, who has returned from an Inspection tour of Idaho. Salt Lake City. The application of the town of Huntsville for permission to charge a flat rate of $1 a month for each water service connection was dismissed by the public utilities commission of Utah on motion of the applicant. Price. Prediction Is made by O. P. Madsen, county agricultural agent, that the Carbon production of sugar beets during 1925 will approximate S000 tons. This would mako the crop Just twice that of 1924, which figures Just disclosed show ran about 3000 tons. suf-ferre- |