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Show THE PAGE TWO FIVE LOSE LIVES STRIKE TERMS FLOOD SWEflPS VALLEY VILLAGE OF COA'-DALKY., DAMAGE UNDER $10,000 HEARD London Papers Declare Secret Actions Threaten It; British Aroused; Germany's Withdrawal Might Mean The End London. Eng. The league of na- tions structure is threatening to crack " under the storm raging around it behind closed doors in the European chancellories over the attempt of cer-- .' tain powers- to capture' the council politically and religiously. The London press plays up the league "storm center," and confirms ..in detail dispatches of the past week the intrigues and machiavellian ,, and diplomacy that is going on. With a few exceptions, the London papers deplore and even denounce the efforts to pack the council and op-.- pose an increase in the number of permanent seats. The Daily Express - .says:'" The Express emphasizes that Ger- -' tnany's wif.hdra.wal of her application to 'the league might mean the "end of the 'Locarno pact, whose flimsy 'tenure is already badly rent by Mus-- ' nolini's sabotaging in earlier intrigues '.'which led to a postponement of the 'disarmament conference." Under the headline, "clouds Over Europe," the Sunday Times argues Ihat the British government will not. countenance such maneuvers, "otherwise Germany will have good grounds f or" saying she has been invited to a member of the league under false', representations." -- be-ror- FATE OF FLOUR MILLS IN UTAH " Pric-- - v The future of the industry of Utah and Uaho, and, to a large degree, the prosperity- of the wheat growers of those two states, hinges on the decisn ion of the Interstate commerce in the Utah-Idahgrain rate c.ses argued, according to H. W. r.ickett, who appeared for the Ogden C:ain exchange, ' the complainant B 'sinst various railroads. Present rates he maintained, discriminate not alone P"i.1nat' the floirr mills of those states, I the grain growers them-f-Jvpand unless this discrimination nb.-tteastbound and westbound is wiped out, the milling at least. Is doomed. These declared Mr. Prlckett, are the r')-Important grain cases ever be-- f re the interstate commerce commis-;- ' n Involving rates on grain and f'-from Utah and Idaho to consuming dost inatlons. Tb4$ Sporry Flour company and the C .:hi Milling company, which in the I 4 lei years' have' built large flour r.'Ua at Ogden at a cost of more than n million dollar ' each, have, under r TVHillng; Railroad rates, been a Joss, due in large measure I I discriminatory rates favorln convict !; ion located In Colorado, Kansas, and Portland, said Mr. Pric--1 tt. .Ho added that "unless these "criminations are removed these r. 1U eunnot continue to operate for rny length of time." This discrimlna-t'-amounts in some cases, he said, it io and 20 cents per hundred pounds vhich the Ogden millers must now absorb to meet competition , from ether sources: ' .Washington. flour- milling - com-rjissio- o oper-rtlng-- Communists Tear Down U. S. Flag Hongkong, China. The American flag was torn down at the hospital of tho American Presbyterian mission on Hainan Island when a group of COO communist students and Canton government troops 'attacked the mission The hospital was In compound. charge ot Miss Carolen McCreery, an American nurse and her only aid at the time of the atack was a coolie, for the remaining native attendants had taken refuge in church when the Utaok started. D)g-wfitGi- ?s EAST Scranton, Pa. Anthracite mining after an idleness of five months and seventeen days was resumed last Thursday. The striking mine workers in convention discussed for four hours the new wage agreement reached in Philadelphia and ratified it by a standing vote. No voice was raised in opposition the the new compact which sends back to the mines 158,000 men and boys which the mine workers herald anas a new era in the strike-torthracite industry. When the noes were called for in ratifying the agreement two men stood up at the side of the wall, but some of the miners said they were not delegates. The end of the industrial struggle among the greatest and costilest in the history of organized labor, came to an end without any thrilling dra matics. The miners, eager to vote and go home, called for the question. President C. J. Golden of district 9, put the motion and there was a great show of "Ayes." When the delegates who occupied all of the main floor of town hall, where the specially called convention was held, were asked to rise, and they Joining. There was a cheer and the convention proceeded with the adoption of routine resolutions. A verbal motion was adopted cancelling the suspension, and with a ris ing vote of thanks to the miners' scale committee, the convention ad journed sine die. In the offices ofthe Glen Alden Coal company in this city, the subscale committee of the miners and the negotiating committee of the operators, twelve men in all, will sign the legal contract, which, it is hoped, will insure peace In the industry for the next five years. The usual opposition encountered in a miners' convention when an agreement is up for ratification was absent. Only at one point was there a posibility of adverse comment. A man, alleged to entertain communistic views, declared not to be a bona fide delegate, was refused permission to participate in the proceedings and left the hall. Heavy snows choke THE VICTORY OF THE DOGS If 0RI)lNANar1M.n town cnjNC"' IC-lp- . and Oneco, Conn. Two pasenger mail trains, one eastbound and the other westbound, and a snow plow on branch of the Willamette-Provincthe New Haven railroad, have been stalled in a huge snowdrift at Coventry, R. I., twelve miles east of this town. Drifts from twelve to fifteen feet high had filled a cut in that town and the trains were unable to force their way through. Passengers walked a mile and a half to the nearest station. e New York Fifteen STORM OF WINTER Inches Fall On Watersheds, Assuring Ample Supply two-third- tually snowbound for twenty-fou- r hours. Adding to the heavy snowfall of last week, which took thirty-twlives in the East, storm choked roads everywhere, delayed railroad traffic, particularly in suburban districts, and heaped up drifts ten to twelve feet high is. many sections of New England. A storm in Chicago took three lives. While the east struggled through the sowndrifts, Colorado, Montana and Wyoming weer basking In warm sunshine, fanned by chineek winds from the Rocky mountains, and noting increased flocks of robins. Great Falls, Mont., usually a. stronghold of winter, reported a butterfly. Denver has had a temperature 10 degrees above normal for the first ten days of February. They are plowing in Alberta, but forecasters see a disturbance headed that way. rancher was While a Laramie catching a box of grasshoppers as indication that winter was over, ten inches of snow was falling in Philadelphia and Washington, D. C, with a foot or more falling farther north. The storm, now headed northeastward in the Atlantic ocean, whipped huge seas and drove coastwise ships to shelter. Railroad traffic 'suffered heavily, though energetic snow removal mastered the situation after some trains in New England had been stuck in drifts. At Brockton, Mass., public buildings were turned over to hundreds of persons unable to reach their homes. Several smaller towns were cut off from the outside world by the drifts. In Rhode Island a train of the Narraganset Pier railroad was snowed in until only the tops of the cars were visible. Its twenty passengers walked three miles to Kingston, R. I. ' It was the. second million-dolla- r snow for New York City. The $2,000,-00- 0 thus far appropriated this winter probably will be wiped out. The street cleaning forces exceed 20,000 men. o Hater and He Framed an Ordinance. Dog NEGLEY had been how to give medicine to Lis dog without spilling It ail over and without having a wrestling match as well. Now as he turned to go back to his Job of hedge trimming, the Judge asked : "I wonder what It Is about a dog that makes people take such a lot of pains with him. We wouldn't do it for any other animal." "Because no other animal is man's ally and chum," promptly replied Old Man Negiey. "You take good care of your horse and cow because you're but chiefly naturally decent-heartebecause they give you practical service. But you're good to your dog because he's your pal and because there's a queer bond between dog and roan that isn't found between man and any other animal or man and ail the other animals put together. "Let me tell you a rather queer story to prove that. You may have read a short account of It In your paper. For It was mentioned In nearly all the papers through the country. But I was there, myself, so I can tell you about It first hand. "Last month I spent a few days' vacation visiting my" grandchildren at a town named Butler, in northern New Jersey. I found the town In a tumult. The mayor, It seems. Is a The town dogs bothered him at night with their barking. He framed an ordinance to get rid of. them. "The ordinance called for a yearly license fee of $15 for all male dogs, and $30 for all female dogs; Instead of the old fee of $1 for males and $2 for females. You see the point, don't you? "A poor man who happened to own a couple of male hunting dogs and a couple of females, would have to pay out $90 a year In dog licenses alone. A little boy who bad a female puppy as a pet would have to scrape together $30, or let her be put to death. Some farmer, who could barely make both ends meet, must be taxed $15 or $30 on the dog that was the guardian of his farm and the herder of his sheep. "And so It went. The mayor managed to get the town council to-- agree to the ordinance at Its first reading. That was Just before I got to Butler. I found the place buzzing like a hornet nest I never saw so much angry excitement In any peaceful community as In that place where the citizens were threatened with the loss of their OLD MAN Judge Gray . - dog-hate- r. Salt Lake City. Fears of a water shortage for next summer went glimmering when what was perhaps the best storm of the season in certain localities swept practically the entire state and most of the intermountain territory. Accompanying the storm was a high wind, which caused air mail planes between Rock Springs, Wyo., and Elko, Nev., to stop while mail was transferred to trains at both these points. According to J. Cecil Alter, Salt Lake's weather man, Wednesday's snow practically makes up the seasonal deficiency. The deficiency was .46 of an Inch, while at the end of December It was nearly three times that amount. This Is due to the fact that February has been unusually stormy. So far this month there have been 1.67 inches of precipitation, compared with a normal for the entire month of 1.45 Inches. Mr. Alter said that if the storm continued through the night dogs. "It was unbelievable. They were the chances were very good of the all stung on the most vital spot In their seasonal water supply being brought natures. They were up In arms to save up to normal in practically all of their dogs from death, those of them northern Utah. who couldn't afford the terrific tax that Both, Modena, Utah, and Durango, the mayor proposed. Colo., reported storms which Indicates "Say, If our countrymen could sumthat Southern Utah is receiving Us mon up half the Indignation over the moisture. Income tax that the Butlerltes felt for share ot the The snow, besides being of Inestimathat dog ordinance, not a congressman ble value to mountain watersheds will In America would dare support It. I fupply the ranges with water for catknew, of course, how much a fellow's tle and sheep. But I never dog means to him. Farmers will also share In the gen- dreamed a threat to a town's dogs eral benefit, says the weather man. could wake such a blaze of fury In Without bountiful addition to the every part of that town. "When the ordinance came np for a water supply, a report from Brighton second reading the town hull was so on water content In the watershed there showed that the moisture to Jammed with people that crowds of s of that of them couldn't get ntiywhere near t lie date Is, roughly, And all those people council room. a year ago. Nine inches additional had fallen at had blood In their eyes. The town Brighton since the report, according council took one look at the crowd, and to Information received. This fall, It I guess they read their own political fate If they Insisted on that ordinance. Is expected, will show that the pre"But the mayor was game enough vious 10.2 Inches of water will have to give the ordinance It second read been materially Increased. ing and then to make a speech upholding It At least he tried to make Bill Would Provide Timer Auction But the crowd wasn't In a speech. A to bill authorize Washington. mood to hesr doga si nr. tiered of auction the public timber damaged "He begun by snylng that the dogs' by fire was passed by the house. The barking kept him awake at night Bemeasure, Introduced by Representafore he could get any further a woman tive Sinnott, Republican, Oregon, af- In the front row called out; forfects lands outside of national " 'It's yonr connclence that keeps you and I don't wonder.' awake, Snowsllde Stops Traffic At Heber started the others. The "That Salt Lake City. Traffic on the speech was peppered by uninHeber branch of the Denver & Rio mayor's vited remarks from the throng; and Grande Western railroad was tied up none of those remarks were loving or by a anowslide between Provo and complimentary that city. The tilde carried snow, much-neede- Bitter cold followed on the heels of a second blizzard in a week that buried northeastern United States under two feet of snow, took sixteen lives and held the section vir- The Mayor Was a "He stood his ground, and called for a vote. The town council, to a man. had consented to the ordinance on the first reading. But this night, with the crowd hemming them In, not a member of the council voted for It. The mayor was left stranded by his own council. The will of the people was too overwhelmingly strong. "The ordinance was lost, amidst a mighty hurrahing. Then the chairman of the health board Jumped to his feet He said something like this: There have been meetings of this council when thousands and thousands of dollars of the taxpayers' money was at stake or when vital town questions were np for settlement, and not a dozen citizens of Butler took the trouble to come here. But look at toIt shows what night's massmeetingl Interests all mankind. A Little Dog Shall Lead Them !' " "And he was right. The town coun cil of Butler or of any other town of Its size never could get a line of mention In any metropolitan paper, no matter how Important an Issue was at stake. But almost every paper In the country printed a condensed or an extended notice of that dog ordinance meeting; and there were special reporters sent to it by metropolitan dailies. "The newspapers know what the public Is most Interested In. That's why they printed the account of that It shows clearly the dog meeting. bond between man and dog, doesn't It? A dog Is as much a Tinman emotion' as love or hate or hunger or fear. Dog and man are bound together In In terest, all the world over. "And It Isn't anything new, either. You've heard the proverb : 'Love Me, Love My Dog.' Well, I looked Op that proverb at the public library once. It was written by a chap named John Heywood, as far back as 15C5. And, thousands of years earlier the Bible peaks of The Power of the Dog.' "No, please get me straight about that I don't mean a dog Is something to be slobbery or sentimental over or to fondle and make a fool of one's self over. 11 Isn't lie's a servant and a pal of man, not a sloppy object Your dog la about the of affection. most normal creature on earth. He deserves n kind and patient and firm master, who will bring out all the best In him not a sentimentalist who will spoil him or lavish on him the kind of affection that ought to be saved for one's children. "It's almost as bad to spoil and cosset a dog as It la to be brutal to him. Just the came, when his rights are threatened, there'll always be thousands of normal human to stand tip for those rights or bis. Just as the Butler people did. See If there aren't! "That's why the bulk of decent people bate vivisection so. Not because It Is criminally foolish and foolishly crhnlniil, but because It refuses dogs a square deal." (Coprrighl tr lh MeVauitM Srn1lct. Ino Good and Bad Microbes in Constant Conflict Most people know Unit there are friendly microbes ns well ns deadly ones, but It Is nut always realized that without the microbe there would be no butter or cheese. Every time, too, that we Indulge In pickles we have to thank the microbe which makes our vinegar; and when the baker puts yeast Into flour he Is Just Inserting millions of microbes, without the activities of which our loaves would be more like cannon-ball- s than anything ratable, says the London Mull. Civilized man has also long tied the microbe for purpose of deetrurtlon for the saltpeter, which Is the ftim'.i mental part of gunpowder. Is prodjep d by microbes. But, of coHrwe. the chip f use of the microbe Is Mint tli! gix,d fines are d illy and hourly preying iipm the humify, ones In our lwilis nod na ke p ng in U rd health. ; News Notes It's a to Live in Privilege Utah in Wyoming Rancher Finds Grasshopper; Montanan Takes Butterfly; Three Succumb To Cold In Chicago MlilS'K Hip 'I I roads england; rail traffic 'is delayed n SEVEREST BLIZZARD By Albert Payson Terhune SOON Suspension Brought To Close Aftei Five Months and 17 Days; Discuss For Four Hours On New Wage Pikevllle, Ky. Five persons los their lives when a. cloudburst struck the mining village of Coaldale, near here, causing a flood to sweep down the narrow valley that bounds Marrowbone creek. Several electrical storms accompanied by heavy rains were felt in Piko county and centered in the three hills that almost surround Coaldale, a place of some 500 Inhabitants, occupied chiefly by employees of the Edge-wate- r Coal company. Property loss was estimated at from $5000 to $10,-00chiefly to small houses. Several other persons, whose homes were near the creek, had narrow and Bolivar Sykes, father of Effie Sykes, and a negro man were carried a quarter of a mile down stream clinging to driftwood before they were rescued. This led to early reports that loss of life had been heavier. Raymond Sanders, son of George Sanders of Washington state, who was visiting relatives in Coaldale, 'who was first thought to have been drowned, but later was reported rescued. ' Ojden Concerns Through H. W. kett Present Their Brief losf 2ot SOUND OF INDUSTRY IN ANTHRA-CITCOAL FIELDS WILL BE E, Friday, February 19, 1926 NEPHI, UTAH S, SIXTEEN DIE APPRQVA CL0UDBURS1 TIMES-NEW- t I Manti. At a recent meeting of the board of Sanpete county commissioners, it was decided to complete the grading of the county road between Moroni and Mt. Pleasant, three miles of which already has been constructed at a cost of about $8000. There remains two miles to be constructed on the Moroni end and over a new right of way, which has just been purchased by the county commissioners, and two and one-hal-f miles on the Mt. Pleasant end. Salt Lake City. The work of examining into the securities offered the reclamation service to guarantee payment of the construction costs of the Echo dam and the Weber-Povdiversion canal was started by Copley Amory, economist for the reclamation service, with headquarters in Washington, D. C. Salt Lake City. Attracted by the success of marketing of agricultural products in Utah, T. FaJ Hornung, a leading fruit grower at Oroville, Calif., stopped in Salt Lake City to meet with cooperative "leaders in this state and to obtain information later to be used in forming similar agencies in hl8 section of California. The leadng crops of the Oroville district, Mr. Hornung explains, are citrus and olives, but in addition there are many minor crojis. The purpose of the cooperatives, he continues, will be to assemble these smaller commodities into marketable volumes. o Huntington. Although the watersheds of the higher mountains of the Manti forest are accommodated with the normal depth of snow that insures Irrigation water for the coming season the lowlands have experienced the worst dry spell of many years. Snow of the past few days, however, has saved the situation and greatly benefited the ranges. Salt Lake City. The Salt Lake county commission appropriated $1000 to the Intermountain Livestock association to be used in connection with the annual livestock show. This is the customary allowance made by the county to this institution. Salt Lake City. The Salt Lake county commission authorized payment to the state road commission Monday the sum of $500 to cover preliminary survey work in connection with the proposed paving of State road from Little Cottonwood to corner. This amount is to come from the budget appropriation by the county of $40,000 to cover portion of cost of the paving. Washington. A veterans' hospital will not be established at Salt Lake City, for the present, at least. This was the belated decision of the hospitalization board of the veterans' bureau which was reached recently. The resolution adopted by this board, of which General Frank T. Hines director is the bureau is chairman. Salt Lake City. With the prospect of a week's time before them supposed to be devoted entirely to study and contemplation the baseballers connected with the promotion of the new Utah-Idahleague showed a few of but the gurgling real signs activity, Bill Senate Hopes To Finish Tax sound of the simmering pot was none of the Managers Washington the less distinct on that account lax . reduction bill will start Salt Lake City. Seven inches of a. drive calculated to bring about the passage of the measure by the senate new snow fell at Brighton, according before the end of the week. For the to report made to the superintendent first time this session, the senate will of waterworks. This makes a total of be asked to stay in session at night. 34 inches of snow in the past few Chairman Smoot of the finance com- days and brings the total depth on the mittee announced he would continue Big Cottonwood watershed at this a program of meeting at 11 a. m. and time to 60 inches. quitting at 10 p. m. until the bill ia Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City is passed. Both Republican and Demoin danger of losing the unit of the air cratic leaders have insisted that the service reserve which now has headbill should be passed this week so as quarters and planes at Woodward to assure tax reduction by March 15, field, if greater interest is not maniwhen first tax Installments on 1925 fested by a larger number of air serIncomes are due. vice reserve officers, said Lieutenant Colonel II. Edmund Bullis of the genSenate Kills Publicity Tax Bill eral staff of the United States army, alWashington. Repeal of the law who is In Salt Lake to confer with the lowing publication of the amounts of officers In charge of the reserve units. Income tax payments Is assured, the Salt Lake City. Following a pracsenate having approved this provision written into the tax reduction bill tice being followed generally through-- ' out the country, the Salt Lake Chamby the house. Before accepting by ber of Commerce agricultural committhe the acclamation repeal provision, tee Is putting the radio to work to senate rejected, 49 to 32, an amendscatter high points about agriculture ment by Senator Norrls, Republican, In Utah. Each Thursday the agriculof Nebraska, proposing to make nil Income tax returns subject to public tural committee gives timely Information to farmers over station KSL Inspection. after the quotations on farm products Cannery Equipment to be Enlarged and other releases from the departmet of agriculture are given. Nampa, Idaho. Plans for enlargSalt Lake City. Support In securing the equipment of the Nampa cannery have been prepared. Modern ma- ing legislation for the protection of chinery for processing peas and corn Utah school land was promised by the ot an estimated cost of $20,000, Is now Utah State Farm bureau. In a letter this contemplated as an addition ent to D. W. Parratt, secretary of the spring, so that the plant will be availUtah Educational association by M. able for handling the 1924 crop. S. Winder, executive secretary of the Salt Lake City. Livestock throughBorder Problem Scorns League out the state Is In good condition, with Rome. Italy refuses to accept any moisture to supply Its needs, proposal to submit to the league of ample to the weekly survey of the according nations the question of the treatment n United States weather bureau. ot the German-speakinpopulation In Is reported good at Garland, the upper Adlge. Thus Premier Musand Ogden. Recent storms solini declared In the senate In his the range at Holden, answer to Dr. Gustav Stressmann, the have Improved Is same true of the Cedar German foreign minister, who In the and the where new snow has City vicinity, forth set Ride of relchstag Germany's Is also new snow at the controversy with Italy over the' fallen. There while Monticello, Blanding ranges former Anstraln territory, which Italy now holds by virtue of the treaty of have been Improved by showers. Southeastern Idaho has ample snow Pt to supply water for stock. o $352,-000,0- Win-grai- g Hi i tt |