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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, FRIDAY HORNING, DECEMBER Mules Hoofs Ends Activities of Milk Thief N. C Dec. 23. A terrlfle last night In the barn of A. Johnaon, farmer near here, an. nounced that milk thief had met hla Waterloo at live buelneee end ef a farm mule, Johnaon had planted the mule In the ataii of a cow which the thief had een milking at night. When the farmer reached the barn last night, shotgun In hand, he found a battered RALEIGH, Address of Welcome to U. S. Secretary Makes Refer ence td Monroe Doctrine. ' BIO JANEIRO. Dsc. 12. Senator Alfredo EHteTnhls address of welcome to Baljtbfldge Colby, the ynlted States of state, when the latter visited the senate this afternoon, made special reference to the Monroe doctrine. "To your treat nation, as the older brother of the seventeen republics of the new world, was reserved the hard task of watching over the liberty and safety of the whole family, Senator Kills bald. "That program was defined and known throughout tbe world aa the Monroe doctrine. Sven now, faithful to the old doctrine, the American people continue to maintain it instead of accepting the rules and statutes of the league of the Euro- pean nations. r "Many think that the Monroe doctrine means the whole continent is to be considered as a hunting ground for the Americana on account of their power and preponderance over their weeker brothers. Luckily your great president, Mr, Wilson, speaking to tbe Mexican people, defined recently and clearly the spirit and true significance of the doctrine It ts a doctrine of defense. "The doctrine was a compromise to defend the American republics against Incursions. In proclaiming that doctrine, the North American government became the champion of liberty throughout the new world. No one of sound mind can imagine that Washington's sword should bs used aa an instrument to p'Bnt the seed of oppression over all America, instead of that of liberty in both continents. Washington not only was ths father of his country, but is considered throughout the Americas as the father of democracy and tbe great champion of liberty. "No one can suppose your powerful nation, the most fronded tree of the republican forest, would need for its enormous growth and development the sap of aJster trees growing confidently under its beneficial and fiiendly shade. Responding. Secretary Colby expressed deep appreciation of the reception given him by the senate and the utterances of Senator Ellis. Hs reiterated that the purpose of his Visit was to repay that of President Pssaoa to the tnlted States. Mr. Colby said Prosidant Pessoa left a lasting Impression In the minds and hearts of the North American people, and that President Wilson had charged him to express to the Brasilian people the feelings of esteem and abiding friendship of the North American peopie for them. milk pall, a wrecked milking stool, a but ,no thief. -- ht, ry -- , British Antarctic Explorers Report That Alls Well Good-by- e. Commander Cope, with four companions, purpose spending eighteen months in surveying and charting the western shores of Weddell sea and in carrying out aclentlflo work in the Antarctic. The Party will live during the entire in tents and huts and will dependperiod for fresh meat on seals and penguins. On.) Wenta had testified that he had no coal of his own at tho mine to sell at that time. He was interrupted by Senator Kenyon, a member of the committee, who asked Senator Pomerene whether he believed it to be the duty of the committee to reconcile the principle of common honesty with the practice of many coal dealer. Representatives . of tne mine WQrker Issued a statement declaring that the assertion of the operators, with reference "to-- the general Industrial conditions of the country, which they picture as being chaotic, has nothing to do with and doss not intelligently answer the. Just contentions of the mine workers In regard to general inequalities. Regardless of the awards and the conditions of the copntry," added the statement, "the opetators could mutually agree, if they were so disposed, to legally change, modify or amend the agreement and be In strict harmony with the interpretation placed on the president's telegram by Secretary of Labor Wilson. "We will place the entire matter before our fqll scale committee, which will outline the policy to be pursued with regard to future declarations. More than 125,000 anthracite mine workers are affected by the operators reply, which comes as the conclusion of a long sories of conferences. "As a coal dealer," Senator Calder continued, "Cojonel Went was Belling coal at the market price. He went out, as lie said, at the request of the war department and arranged to purchase it at $U a ton. For this he received a commission of 50 cents a ten.1 Colonel Went ddvised the war department not to buy coal at that time," supplemented Senator Edge, also a member of the committee, "but Secretary Baker insisted that be make the purchase, and he did so But the Important' point Is that this coal producer who is selling cpal from Mississippians hie own mine at IJ.50 a ton, and is asked Colonists to buy coal for the government, buyB coal from someone else for fll. persisted 23- .- Protest Senator Pomerene. JACKSON, Miss., Dec. That course cannot be defended. against proposed migration of 40,000 from Manitoba province, Canada, io southern Mississippi was telegraphed Truth Is Admitted. to the department and Mississippi Senator Edge admitted the truth of membersstate in congress today by the Misthis statement and pointed out that the sissippi division of the American testimony showed Colonel Wentz hail no The message quoted a resolution Legion. opposcoal to sell when the war department ing the proposed movement on the ground wanted coal, but acted ae purchasing that the Mennonites are "undesirables. "The Mennonites were conscientious obagent under a contract which limited tbe price to fll a ton. jectors during the war, the resolution Has not the committee found that ex said, adding that they stayed at home orbiwnt charges were made on coal sup. "while Canada was being bled white In plied lor domestic and manufacturing con- the trenches," and that they "taught only sumption, as well as on that supplied to the German language In their schools and the war department, when Colonel Wentx In many other respects are unfit to live was contracting for the government?" on American soil." Senator Pomerene inquired. "It has." Senator Calder replied. "Many Ruinous of the coal operators in recent months have set a most unfortunate example to the country when there should have been moral as well as physical reconstruction. NEW Dec, 23 High railroad Senator Calder spoke at length on the passenger lORK, rates have caused ths ruin of need of reconstruction legislation and for numerous traveling theatrical ventures prompt solution of the housing problem, with resulting unemployment of actors which, he said, .now concerns the entire throughout the country, the Actors' country. Equity association declared today in announcing plans for concerted effort to procure reduced fares. DEMAND BY The Equity also stated It was to have income taxes of authors, seeking artists MINERS playwrights end composers levied on average earnings over a period of years, in the case of suddenly successPHILADELPHIA. Dec. 23. Declining because ful men "no account was taken of th to reopen the award of the United States lean years anthracite coal commission, the mine operators here today rejected the demands MASONS INSTALL OFFICERS. of the hard coal mine workers for additional wage increases, a minimum 36 Spec Is to The, Tribune. TWIN FALLS, Idaho, Dec. 23 Twin day labor rate and the establishment of a universal eight-hoFalla day. Royal Arch Masons, last The operators, however, notified the nlglit chapter. elected and Installed the following miners representatives that they atood officers for the coming year- - High priest, ready to adjust any Individual cases Charles K. Jones; king, W. W. Parish' of inequality" that may be due to the scribe, A P Senior; treasurer, J. g application of the commission's award Bussell; chaplain, A. W. capMine workers' representatives told the tain of the host, D. W. Mowbray; Jenkins; Royal operators that they could not accept any Arch captain. John 8. Green. I Evening mas ' I Hi f OUR DRUG 'STORE IS AT SOUTH MAIN ST. 112-1- Men-nomt- Be sure that the V' t Will be. a day of hunry and hustle. Make your selections early in the day you will be better satisfied. Many extra salespeople will be here and everything possible will be done to facilitate buying. We suggestrthat small packages be carried with you. All our Toys are being disposed of at Extraordinary Reductions ' Regardless of Cost. Protest Mennonite Rejected ST. JOHN, N. B Dee. 23. Announcement Of a new Invention bv Alexander Graham Bell, Inventor of the telephone, was made upon his arrival here today from Scotland. He declined to state the nature of his latent discovery. -- Miners Statement. (Continued Prom Pag MUSIC. Friday, 4 to 8 P.M. CLOSING HOUR , Friday. 9 P. Mr The operators in rejecting the miners proposals declared that the agreement with the United Mine Workers, based on the findings of the commission, was a binding contract, and Its repudiation would be a breach of faith with the public,' which was a party to the submission of the award. "In the Judgment of the operators, no condition has arisen since the award of the commission, added the operators' structures reply, "either in general-wag- e of the country or in the cost of living which has produced a burden upon the On the contrary, anthracite workers. many classes of workers In other industries have voluntarily ' accepted a reduction in wages and the cost of Jiving has steadily declined." The operators declared this is a "time for constructive effort on the part of employees and employers in the Industry for harmony and cooperation rather than of discord and insistent demand for concessions. WAGE Inventor Bell Announces Important New Discovery I A Binding Contract. High Rail Rates to Theatrical Profession LONDON, Dec. 23. Dr. John L, Cope, commander of the British Imperial expedition, hae sent the following message from Port Btanley, capital of the Falkland islands: Sailing from here December 20 with full equipment and dogs. Hops to land at Oraham's December 25. All the party well. Expect to hear from ue In eighteen months compromise and stood for their original demands. They said that the entire matter would be placed before the union's general scale committee at a special meeting in Haxel-to- n next Tuesday when a "definite polwill be outlined. icy for future action The miners asked general increases of 13 per cent In addition approximately to the 17 per cent granted them by the commission. This, they contended, would give them wage advances equal to the 27 per cent recently awarded the bituminous mine workers. 24, 1920. (Continued Former President Declares Fords Attacks Have Coun- terpart in Munchhausep. on befoie the antidefama-tio- n league, founded by B'nai B'rith. "One of the chief causes of suffering and evil in the world today is race hatred and any man who stimulates that hatred has much to answer for," Mr. Taft said "W ben he does this by the circulation of unfounded and unjust charges and the arousing of mean and groundless fears, his fault is more to be condemned. 1 feel strongly the evil character of the attfu k and I do not hesitate to condemn it am) give my reasons for so doing. How much of the article is due to Fords initiative and how much he hae yielded to the representations of others In consenting to its publication, one tannot say, but, of course, he is responsible for the effect." Discussing the charge based on the alleged protocols of a Jewish conspiracy for world domination through Jewish International bankers. Mr. Taft continued. "No instance of the exercise of this world controlling power ts cited as proof. Ths conclusion of the Author rests on his own assertion and the further comprehensive and entirely satisfying assurance that everybody knows it. One might have made such an unsustained with some hope of securing the credence of gullible people before the great war. but he is bold indeed who ventures It now. Was It the international bankers and capitalists that brought on Germany's declaration of war? Was it the international bankers and capitalists who drove Great Britain to the defense of Belgium , Was It these world controllers that led Italv Into the . struggle? Could absurdity reach a greater height? "If it be, true that the international bankers and capitalists are Jews alone; if It be true that they wield a world power that controls governments and nations and wars and peace and economic law, can the author of these article In the Dearborn Independent explain why it Is that now more than half the Jews tn the world are still suffering rot only persecution and oppression, but ths bitterest penury and starvation? The tales of Baron Munchhausen are the only things in literature that should be cltsted with these protocols, for they are not more preposterous. There Is not the slightest ground for Mr. among J' batteries on the island of Veglia, southwest of Flume. An attempt on the part of D'Annun-Si- o to seise control of the Montagna canal, running down the Dalmatian coast behind a screen of low islands, has been - foiled. Forced to Retreat. Dec. 23. The alleged protowise men of Zion, printed In Henry Ford's Dearborn Independent, have their own counterpart in literature In the fanciful talcs of Baron Munch-- h former President William Howard Taft declared tonight In an address CHICAGO, cols of the m ii' Front Page One.) us." Men dispatched to Cfcatel Venter, northeast of Zara, a point which commands ths southern entrance to the canal, were forced to retreat, some of them being captured and others disarmed. D'Annunsio legionaries which have been acting as A garrison at Zara are said to have fled from that city. It la asserted that DAnnunsio planned to abandon Flume and to land somewhere along tbe Dalmatian coast, where he would raise the banner of revolL hoping to create a situation which would nullify the treaty of Rapallo. His scheme, however, is (aid to have been frustrated by government troops, which have prevented the departure from the city of vessels loaded with legionaries Serbs in Command. ROME, Dec. 23. points. The premier said the work - of the government must always be inspired by a desire for Internal peace. He added that the government would not allow anyone to suggest to soldiers and sailors that they desert; that it would not allow armed bands in the name of Flume to occupy territories that were not Italian, and that it would not permit factions to disturb the Internal life of the countiy. The premier assured the chamber that the government was doing alt that was possible to settle the question In the beat manner and was hopeful of reaching a peaceful solution, but hs repeated that the government could not allow civil war to be unchained In the name of total national expenditures for the coming yearasmust be held as near 950.000,000 possible, tbe newspaper says. pounds Recorders Heart Softens; Boys Penalty Rescinded WEST ORANGE, N. J., Dec. 23. Recalling the day when he, too, was a boy, bent upon pillaging jam larders and mothers plea, set out to cool. Recorder John B. Lander's heart softened today and he Issued an order that brought Joy to three West Orange youngsters. Hailed before the recorder, a trio of mischief-maker- s were sentenced to receive no Christmas presents, to take no CHECKS FOR SERVICE MEN. part in Yule tide celebrations and go to bed at 3.30 o'clock each night for a WASHINGTON. Dec. 28. Wgr risk bureau clerks rushed work on mailing out month. Clttxens intervened, protesting that the checks to former service men or their beneficiaries this month as a measure of punishment was too severe. Christmas cheer, getting out a total of Tonight the sentence a aa suspended 145,540 December payment checks for over Christmas eve and Christmas, and more than fifteen million dollars up to Santa Claus was notified. December 16, it was announced tonight by the bureau. On December 20 the bureau had 321,007 Hiccoughs . active account. It was said, and now New York has paid ou since its operations began I a total at 3331.00t.95S. NEW YORK. Dec. 23. A hiccoughs PREMIER RETURNS ESTIMATES. epidemic, the result of colds this time In- stead of convivial bouts, now has New LONDObl, Dec. 23. Estimates submitYork in its grip, druggists said today. ted by th army and navy departments have been returned to Premier Lloyd Spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm George, ae chairman of the cabinet's fi- after a cold causes the hiccoughs, it Is nance committee, and he has instructed said, and the aliment is bellved to have the departments to reduce their figures been brought over from Paris, where it f, bv more than says the Daily has been prevalent, it was stated. The seixures are said sometimes to last Mall. to forty hours. Mr. Lloyd George has directed that the twenty-fou- r Epidemic of Is Gripping one-hal- Serbian officers have assumed command of the troops of General Wrangel, who recently landed at Buccari, six miles southeast of Flume, to operate against Flume In case of a conflict with the Quarnero regency, says the Idea Naslonale'a Trlest correspondent. According to the Glornale d'ltalia, the regency has Issued a decree which extends to Arbe and Veglia the Flume constitution. The newspaper adds that this means virtually annexation, and destroys the last hope of those persons who had expected that D'Annunsio would evacuate th islands. i Closing Hour, Friday, 9 p. m. Poet Is Denounced. ROME, Dec. 23 The Trtbuna says today that, although Gabriele d'Annunsto had stated that fraternal repeatedly blood should not be shed, his legionaries were the first to fire on the Italian torpedo-boat destroyer Zeflirio, end that they also threw e bomb against a patrol of carabineers, killing one man and wounding two others. These episodes have embittered'the situation and demonstrated the possibility of even graver occur rences. the newspaper declares (A dispatch from Rome, credited to the Etefanl agency, said Wednesday night that th destroyer Zefflrio had dialled D'Annunsio forces at Veglia.) Signor Bonoml. minister of war, ex plained before tbe foreign committee of th chamber at deputies today that the landing of some of tbe Russian General Wrangei's troops In Dalmatia was causing no apprehension to the Italian government There was no Idea that they would take any military action, he added. Premier Oiolltti, speaking in th chamber concerning the situation In Flums, begged the nationalist deputy, Federsonl, Who had Interrupted the government, to consider ths Flume question from all Tremendous Reductions Mens Suits and Overcoats . Boys Suits Reduced 1 ! (Continued From Page One.) urer.of the Republican national commit Ire, also discussed various organisation left over from the campaign. question Others who saw Mr. Harding during the day Included Mrs. Harriett Tavlor Vplon Of Warren, Ohio, vice chairman of 'he Republican national committee, and llarrv M. Daugherty of Columbus, member of the Republican campaign committee. Former lrsldent Taft is to come to Marlon tomorrow In response to Mr. Harding's invitation to discuss the peace asHOdutlon plan and other subjects. At though n advocate of the Versailles hegue, Mr. Taft has Indicated that he will support any other practical plan td promote peace and he Is counted on to contribute pHi'tlciilnrlv tn the proposal (or an International court. For Hi m all bear the label of or came from a really and truly Mens Store. . r Youre assured of satisfaction Los Angeles Times Will when you buy from Compensate Employees evening iL Greatest Clothing Store S i ' 4" LOS ANOKI.KS. Cal, Dec. 23 -- The Los Angeles Times announced lonlghl that in accordance with Re custom It ould distribute 3100,000 as additional compensation among 609 employees at the close of the year. Other I os Angeles establishments plan almllar distributions to employees to an amount said to approximate 31,000,000. Senator Chamberlain to Undergo Operation KEARNS BUILDING . 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