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Show mm Editorial and Te!sgraphic Section News of the World for Busy Readers TREMONTON, UTAH, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1919. FOOD PROFITEERS SEVENTEEN TO BE PROSECUTED ENFORCEMENT OF FOOD ACT DETERMINED UPON. CONGRESS STILL DEBATES $ III RIOT REARM JURY IN CHICAGO TURNS INDICTMENTS IN RACE CLASHES. RE- Prosecution of Profiteers One Plan of Action Palmer Outlines Government Purposes. President Is Preparing Message. Judge Crowe Tells Jurors That cutant Woulid Coot Hatreds. Number of Dead Fixed at Exe- Washington. The government is going to prosecute the food profiteers in the United States as an immediate remedy for the high cost of living. This was announced Tuesday by Attorney General Palmer after a conference with., the president which followed an all day deliberation of the special cabinet committee on means, of reducing the prices of necessities to the agitated public. The department of justice, it was declared, will employ every resource at its command to ferret out and prosecute the hoardrs of food and those who are charging extortionate prices. Big and .little, profiteers are to bo prosecuted and congress is to be asked to supplement the existing penal code of the food act with amendments which will enable the government to reach its hand out and grapple the retailer who in many communities is charging exorbitant prices for foodstuffs. The president authorized the statement that he will address a message to congress on ..the subject within a few days and at the same time will submit recommendations to aid in dealing with the critical situation adequately and effectively. Beyond that announcement the president had nothing to say regarding the issue. It was made clear, however, that the government does not contemplate entering upon any experiment in subsidizing food, ;such as purchasing wheat at the guaranteed price, and selling it b for Jess to the miller, mVng deficit from the billion dollar) wheat guarantee fund. Action, as Attorney General Palmer put it, "earnest, aggressive, vigorous action," will be directed by the department of justice against. all profiteers, and it was reported that among the first big offenders to be proceeded against will be the big packers. Seventeen negroes were charged with rioting and murder in indictments voted by a special grand jury Investigating race riots, which, for five days last week, held the south side of Chicago in a reign of terror. While city, county and state authorities combined in' seeking causes which led to the rioting, in an endeavor to fix responsibility, 6000 state troops, 8000 policemen and 1000 deputies continued to patrol the negro quarter. Offiinls reported the riot zone quiet and ev ry effort being made to relieve the smferlng negroes who have been marooned in the area and who have been unable to go to their work. A number of soup kitchens were opened and guards were furnished for negroes who wished to return to work. The police Monday obtained reports of threatening, anonymous letters received by negro families living on the edge of the negro district, In which, the negroes were warned to move within two days or their homes would be burned and bombed and the negroes killed. The coroner has fixed the number and the city of dead at thirty-thre- e health commissioner has found that S06 people injured In the riots were treated in hospitals, that perhaps 400 or more who were injured in the riots never reported at hospitals. The state troops had little to do during Monday night In the riot zone, but much excitement was caused by ! pr' jsistvtnt reports ;iteVphoned to quarters of the Second regiment that a crowd of 500 men was gathering at West 59th street. When a company of troops reached the scene the crowd vanished. Several thousand negroes who expected to return to work in the stockyards must wait until the unrest caused by the disturbances in the district has subsided. After announcing that the colored men would return to work, superintendents of all the large packing plants decided that it would be prudent to hold the negroes at their homes for an indefinite period. CON-TRO- RAILWAY ICE HOUSES BURNED. Loss of $75,000 Suffered by Union Pacific in Blaze. Twelfth Disaster of Recent Date. Ogden. That the citizens of Ogden should take immediate steps to organize a vigilante committee anil work to the end of celaning up the tow n of the undesirables and firebugs was the assertion of W. II. Wattis, president of (he Utah Costruction company, Tues-day night during the fire that destroyed five large Union Pacific railroad Ice houses and the plant of the Utah Ice and Cold. Storage company, leased to the Pacific Fruit Express company. This plant Was the main icing station fn this section; and its destruction, involving an immediate loss of $75,000, will also handicap shipping of fruit frpra Utah. This fire, "whlchi Is the twelfth in less than thirty days, is said by the railroad officials t be of incendiary rigin. The fire department fought the flames for ninety minutes before getting them under control. It was one of the largest fires in months. Subsidies Are Advocated. Oakland, Calif: Nationalized subsidies and Investments to make the position of the American merchant marine secure against cheap labor were advocated by Homer ,L.-- Ferguson, president of the chamber of commerce of the United States and president of the Newport News Shipbuilding company, in an address at a luncheon here. "The government must furnish cheap money to compete with cheap labor," Ferguson said. "Low rate loans must be made by the gbyerament, through proper legislation, to private- Individuals for Investment In American-mad- e ships to carry American-mad- e goods to foreign ports." Narcotic Ban Lifted If Life Is At Stake Washington. Hundreds of letters from persons suffering from Incurable diseases and from aged persons addicted for many years to the use of drugs, pitiful in their supplications that rules governing the sale of nar- cotics be modified, led Commissioner Roper to Issue instructions to collectors of Internal revenue whereby such persons may obtain drugs on prescription by a reputable physlela More Trouble Brewing The municipal employLiverpool. ees have decided to give twenty-fou- r hours' notice of strike unless, the- demands of the striking tramway men are Immediately granted. - QRAIJD L Thirty-thre- nn Vacation Correspondence HELD i licJuu fj 'soft p&n5 fresh, ' Uuttw 'iieuM J . HONOR SHIP OF OS UTAH LAUNCHED CALIFORNIA WINE AND UTAH WATER MIX ON BOW AS UTA.1 CARBON IS LAUNCHED. Traditional Vintage Dashed by Miss Margaret Horsley, Sponsor of Utah's Liberty Loan Honor Ship, to Sat-isfy Sea Superstition. San Francisco. Into the high tide of Oakland harbor, the Utacarbon, Utah's Liberty loan honor ship, was launched at 5 o'clock Thursday afternoon, California wine and Utah mountain water glistening on the bow as the big oil tanker glided down the ways at the Alameda yards of the Bethle hem Shipbuilding corporation. 'C4' " ; f The-- ' wMlsnat: Wmbiuaarot? JMfcf ana water added flavor to the launch lng ceremonies. The wine dashed up on the starboard bow by Miss Mar garet Horsley, the pretty sponsor, was used to lay the "jinx". which men of the sea contend may attach to a ship not christened with the traditional vin tage, Governor Bamberger dashed the bottle of water against the port bow. Representing the treasury department, Governor. Day of the Twelfth Federal reserve presented the ship to Carbon county, and It was accepted by Governor Bamberger. Governor William D. Stephens was called upon by Master of Ceremonies Carl R. Marcu-sen- , and responded, with a glowing REWARD FOR COAST BOMBERS tribute to Utah's chief executive. The launching party from Utah was Both Oscar Lawler and Wife in Ser- entertained at a luncheon at the Hoious Condition, Says Physician. tel Oakland at 1 o'clock by the OakLos Angeles, Cal. Rewards offered land chamber of commerce. Joseph for arrest and conviction of persons E. Caine, formerly of Salt Lake, was Luncheon was attended guilty of placing a bomb which Sun- toastniaster. day destroyed the home of Oscar Law- by about 150 former Utahns and promler, formerly assistant United States inent men and women of the bay attorney general, Monday totaled $11,-50- cities. 0. and Mrs. Lawler, who were burned during a fire which followed the explosion, still are In critical condition, their physician said. . The city council has under advisement a request from Mayor M. P. Snyder that the city add $10,000 to the reward already offered. Mr. ' Proposes Drought Relief. Helena, Mont. Ten million dollars for drought relief in Montana and an administration organization similar to Governor Stewart's proposed welfare commission are provided in. a bill In the state senate Monday VISCOUNT BURNHAM FACE LOSS OF MILLIONS Viscount Burnham, owner of the Telegraph and one of England's leading newspaper publishers, la the latest "probability" for the post of British ambassador to the United atatea. , R LAWLER IS BOMB PLOT VICTIM OWNERSHIP Propose a Nonpolitical Fight, and Great Strike Will Be Only Last Recourse is Plan of Railroad Workers. Washington. The fight of the rail road workers of the United States to force upon congress the acceptance of government ownership as a solution of the railroad problem Is to begin at once and will be unrelenting in its ' intensity. Leaders of the railroad brotherhoods and organized labor generally are con vinced that their plan for the government to buy the railroads and nationbasis alize them on a profit-sharin- g with the workers is the most equit able proposal that has been advanced. and they are girding for a struggle with the capitalistic issue before con gress which promises to be more sen sational than the fight for the Adam-so- n law in 1917. The brotherhood leaders who held the watch on congress over the Adam- son law, with a nation-wid- e strike club dangling over its head, are here again, and they served notice on the presiPolice Discover Evidence of Deliberate dent, congress and the general public Plan at Murder. Dragnet Is Cast Saturday, following introduction of the for Miscreants. Attorney Has government ownership bill known as Even Chance to Recover. the ""Plumb plan," that their forces are stronger than ever and can be Los Angeles. Revenge for the part marshaled into action at a word of he played in the prosecution of a group command. of dynamiters in the middle west sevThe railroad leaders do not want to eral years ago was assigned by the threaten a general railroad strike on police here as the probable motive for this issue, they say. That is a last an attempt on the life of Oscar Law resort which they do not believe it Ier, former assistant attorney general will be necessary tet use. They believe Mr. Lawler's that the merltsof their proposal to of the United States. v ilpstrnvprt hv a settle railroad difficulties on all sides hnmo was . tf w.i ..hw imntipiill .lvu.u iJOMb- - and subsequent fire hre eaiiy wiii be accepted (by the people of the Sunday, and he' and Mrs. Lawler both country, who will force congress to seriously burned and otherwise in pass their bill. Glen E. Plumb, counsel for the jured. According to information gathered Plumb plan league, which is organized by the police, a man driving an auto- to push the government ownership bill, mobile stopped in front of the Lawler has arrived in Washington and will residence at Newhampshire street and appear before the house committee on Wilshire boulevard, in an exclusive interstate and foreign commerce on residential district. behalf of the measure. A. B. Garret-soHe dropped something, leaped into who directed the fight for the the car and rapidly drove away. An Adamson bill, and who is vice president of the league, is also scheduled explosion followed almost immediately. The house burst into flames. Mr. to appear, but may not be able to do Lawler, his wife and one child were so because of illness. trapped within. William lacy, an ironmaster, and Ed Pulford, who were Wounded Soldiers to Get Certificate driving past the house, hurriedly obA special certificate tained a ladder and rescued Oscar to Washington. be issued to soldiers wounded in the Lawler, Jr., war with Germany has been adopted Mr. Lawler dragged his wife to a the war department. It will bear at window and In the midst of flames, by the top the legend, "Columbia Gives lowered her from an upper story unto Her Sons the Aceolade of the New til her feet touched an awning over Chivalry of Humanity," and below the a window to the ground. name, rank and unit of the soldier and to Sisters' were the removed .They the action in which he was wounded. hospital. Two others of the three Lawler children, Charles and Jane, were out Drunkenness Less, Crime Increasing of the city, visiting at the ranch of Boston. Records of the Central Dan Murphy, the o'i producer at Peb- Municipal court through which pass of the criminal bly Leach. approximately cases of the state, show that 764 perFOREST FIRES STILL RAGING. sons were arrested for drunkenness during July, 1919, as compared with Rains Aid Fighters Materially, How P990 in July, 1918. The records show, ever, in Some Districts. however, that the number of criminal Spokane, Wash. Vorest fire condi cases is again increasing. tions in the Pend Oreille and Ooeur d'Alene forests of northern Idaho, acPlan to Check Bolshevism. cording to information received here, Titris. Dr. Karl Renner, the were worse Saturday, while in the St. chancollor, and Herr Joe forest, where several small fires Franzt. the Austrian Conservative were burning, little change was noted. leader, have conferred, with a view Three hundred men are fighting the to establishing between the parties of fire on Bear creek, near Kellogg, Ida- the left and the Conservatives and Lib ho. New crews were sent to the fire erals a coalition Intended to check near Heron, Mont., which forced crews Bolshevism, the Petit rarisien says, fighting it to withdraw. Two Score Hurt in Trolley Crash REAR ADMIRAL GLENNON San Jose, Cal. More than two score persons were Injured, many seriously, when two interurban cars on the Pennine insula railway collided head-omiles from here at noon Sunday. One of the cars was crowded with picnickers bound for Congress Springs, a resort. RESIDENCE OF PROSECUTOR IN LOS ANGELES DESTROYED. LAWLER AND WIFE VICTIMS. n, five-year-ol- Investments Threatened by New Agrarian Law Enacted in Mexico. Washington. More than a thousand Americans are threatened with loss of millions of dollars in Investments by a new agrarian law enacted by the congress of Sonora, Mexico, at the tuV rect instructions of Governor Calles. Several American companies already have filed complaints with the state department against the operation of this law, and other complaints are in preparation. The department is preparing representations to the Carranza government against putting the law into operation because of Injustices this government contends it works upon United States citizens who have Invested many millions in agricultural lands In Sonora. ' By the terms of the law it Is provided that the state will pay for lands expropriated with agrarian bonds Issued by the state, redeemable at a time and manner to be stipulated later. The new constitution of Mexico provides that the states shall Jssue agrarian bonds- nnder authority of a law that has not yet been enacted by the federal congress. The American point out in their complaints to the stnte department that these bonds are' of no value and, lnasmnii as the national government of Mexico has not paid the Interest on its bonds since 1013, there Is no Indication that the agrarian bonds will be of any value; .. . Ji Flret Vanguard Now at San Diego. San Plego.-Thedestroyer Philip, first vessel of the new. Pacific fleet to reach an American port on the" Pacific coast from Hie' Atlantic, arrived here Saturday afternoon to bring mail from I he fleet and' fake mall back to It. Lieutenant1 Commander E. W. Rear Admiral Glennon of the United Ktrother, the Philip's commander, expects to Join the flagship New Mexico 8tatee navy who eaved the life of the on .ngtist 5, two days before the fleet Russian admiral, Kolchak, from Rus Is due at this port." sian mutineers. " London 0. S. I T FOR WILL PRESS ISSUE IN CONGRESS, PLUMB DECLARES. EIGHT MILLION MEN SUPPORTING. e e. r Jyr RAIL GRIEFS one-fift- h German- -Austrian n Cigarets Made in U. S. Weekly Atlantic City, N. J. The demand for tobacco is the greatest In the world's history, according to Benjamin Duke, He declared that America Is supplying much of the world's output and that 1.000,U-i),00pa rets are made In the United States every three days to meet the demand. 2 Billion f Zurich in Disorder. Zurich, Switzerland. Zurich Is In the grip of a strike movement which has become so serious as to call for action by the state council at a special session. The state council decided to request the federal council to send troops to Zurich. AND UTA S Preliminary plans for llie improve ment of the Shoshone Falls park as a memorial to the service men of thi.county have been submitted by Miss Florence Yoeh, landscape designer of Los Angeles. The plans provide for drives and rest places, benches, park ing places and buildings of various kinds. Further plans are in preparation, together with estimates of cost. A fatal wreck that claimed two ives and seriously injured other mem bers of the train crews occurred at Vale siding, fifty miles west of l'oca- tello. An eastbound extra freight gomiles an ing down grade at thirty-fiv- e hour jumped a switch frog and plunged headlong into another freight train waiting on the siding. The fall term at Gooding college will begin September 9, and the practical features that will be offered include a night school for adults, a chair in rural sociology and economics, a sec retarial course for high school gradu ates and a country life rally similar to that which has just been held at the Washington State college for the rural pastors. With a view to consolidating the Christian and the Baptist churches of Twin Falls ,a series of joint meetings of the two congregations is to be arranged by a committee of the two bodies, in which the pastor of the Christian church will present the fun damental doctrines and practices of the disciples, and the Baptist pastor In turn will present those of the Baptists. That he will insist on the filing of specific charges against him and an immediate trial when he will answer the allegations, is the information that Leroy C. Jones, United States marshal for Idaho has given out through his attorney, Kirtland I. Perky, former United States senator from Idaho. By careful rotation in the use of water from the different irrigation canals in the Shelley district most of the crops have been saved up to this time. The grain crops are being harvested, but rain or further Irrigation will be required to mature becs and potatoes. Wesley Jolley, 22 years old ,was killed on the A. J. Alle farm near Marion last week. Jolley succumbed to current of electricity when the boom of a hay derrick came into contact with a high tension transmission line. C. O. Cornwall, county assessor, says the valuation of Minidoka county will be about $6,700,000. The real and personal property roll, not including large corporations, has been completed and amounts to $;i,900,000. Robert Halpin, 12 years old, died at Twin Falls as the result of an accidental gunshot wound received while he and Elmer Tinney, also 12, were rifle. playing with a Corporal Harold Thompson, son of William Thompson of St. Anthony, has heen awarded the distinguished service cross for heroism in action during the late war. John W. Hardin of Kimberly has disposed of his apple crop on the trees for $50 per ton. This will mean about $200 an acre for the crop, it is said. The First National bank, recently organized at Shelley, will commence business about September 1, with Sor-e- n Yorgesen, president. A state highway from Grace to Preston, and another from Pocatello to Arbon was designated last week by W. J. Hall, commissioner of public works, following a conference between himself, D. P. Olson, director of highways, and officials of Bannock county, Intentions are to extend the Pocatello-Arboroad to Oneida county, and to make arrangements with the commissioners of that county for construction of a uniform part of the Idaho-Centrhighway in that county. State land which a year ago brought only $13.3.1 average per acre In Madison county, when offered at public auction by I. A. Smoot, then state land commissioner, who later resigned when the state land board cancelled the sale on evidences of collusion between the buyers to keep down prices, were resold under competitive conditions last week by I. H. Nash, present land commissioner, at an average price of $.'10.08 per acre an Increase of ;' $16.75 per acre. A stockholders' meeting of the Carey Valley Reservoir company held recently was addressed by W. G. Swendsen, state engineer and commissioner of reclamation, who stated thnt the Fish creek dam now In course of construction presents the best natural reservoir site he has ever seen. He reported favorably regarding the type of structure being used, stating that It la the most Ideal known. Reetf Hansen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hansen, formerly of American Fork, Utah, was scalded to death at Shelley, by the tipping of a dyke at the sugar factory here. Although only a few farmers near Caldwell liave started harvesting potatoes, a shortage of labor la already being felt, nnd apparently there Is no Mlf Ip sight;. n |
