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Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 8, 1921. Finds Means to Kill Weeds in the Lawns 7. Discov KINGSTON, R, fertiliser ery that will grow grass and kill weeds Pag long-soug- Refusal to j cates Railroad Employees Federation, Head Holds. Intervene Vindi- - ' 1 Atterbury Is Accused of Being Representative of Open Shop Supporters. NEW YORK, Fob. T. Refusal of Prest- - dent Wilson to Intervene In the rail wage conlroveryey waa a vindication of the ' stand assumed by the railroad employees. ' B. M. Jewell, president of the railroad employees' department of the American Federation of Labor, declared In a state ment today. In his statement Mr. Jewell said "The telegram of the president Is s f complete vindication of our position. iH I has mads it clear that tha labor board I should confine Its Jurisdiction to contro-- f versles ss to wages and working condi- -, tion leaving financial matters to the in teretate commerce commission. Mr. At I terburvi therefore, madf a serious mis- -t take In applying to tho labor board for financial assistance.' We did not consider the facts warranted hla prediction that I tho transportation Industry was threat-- , Evi ened with Immediate bankruptcy. v dently tha president did not tlilnk so either. 1 , 4 Declared Open Shop Agent. "We did not feel that a financial disaster a as Impending, as predicted by Mr, Atterbury, but considered It our duty tp cal hi statements to tho attention of the president. The president hss stated un- -' equivocally that financial appeals should be restricted to the Interstate commerce . ' commission. "Mr. Atterbury made s mis, take by his action and hag placed the railroad executives in an embarrassing position. It la to be deplored that the public was temporarily deceived. "Now that the financial aspects of the matter, however, are settled, we shall have to take up and answer before the board other features of Mr. Atterbury' statement He has cast aspersions upon railroad employees which ws cannot permit to paaeuncontroverted. We feelthat it is our duty also to show that Mr, Atterbury Is In reality the railroad representative of the sinister, antiunion movement being heavily financed and supported p under the guise of a campaign.' " open-sho- -- lively Session Held. Feb. 7. Arguments between n witnesses and the chair enlivened the today of the railroad labor board '.bearing the railroad employees appeal of the ns t jiipal agree, foe continuation ments. Tha attempts to bring in juris- -i dictional controversies and charges of consplracy against Independent labor organisations were continually ruled out by Chairman Barton. After a lively session. In t Which three . Independents finished thetr evidence, the first day of employees' testimony adjourned to take up other independent organisations tomorrow, ! declaring that hla organisation had .been denied a part In formulating the P. F. Richardson, agreements, president of the Americann Federation of of the Jtltrjad Worker transportation act and sought relief from ("these tyrannical conditions." Charges of (conspiracy and discrimination were hurled (against those Instrumental in fixing rules governing certain employees-o- f the Pennsylvania lines by J. O. R. Austin, president of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers, Plspatchet Agents and Signal fMsu. f see-elo- al charged-violatio- .Reading of .''An attempt to eration of Bulletin Stopped. Is announced Sta- by the experiment tion of Rhode Island State college, a the result of twenty years of research. The realization of the dream of gardeners the world over a weedless lawn la possible without trouble or expanse, according to the official college statement, merely by the use of ammonium sulphate Instead of nltrats of sodla in annual application of fertilizer. "Slowly, but surely, the weeds will disappear and the lawn will become the even, velvety green that la the envy of evecjnelghbor," said the announcement. "By using ammonium sulphate, tho of nitrogen Is furrequired amount nished and the soli kept In the acid condition under which the grass develops beet, but the weeds are ee weakened that they are crowded out. Cesttsaed fna ft,. Os , the-eas- school-hous- e, Dill to Reduce Salariet j Caute Gloom at Tech U Tk Tribes POCATEUX5, Idaho, Feb. 7 Th news from hois of th passing of House blit No (9, reducing the salaries of all Instructors In slats schools strike a hard Mow at th teaching staff her. on account of th small budret allowed for th Idaho Tectum al Institute dur-- l i , iwr laealnrtea-a- t this IhetJtuilon vtrt ixL ; t g.c ea ,i other vocatlona and In other Institution!. Many of th faculty mrmheik have been talng with tha Tech looking forward to an Increase In talaris Members of th staff who have been here, for several yeat will be forced to if the bill beeeek position eleewhsr come a law, according to on of th faculty in a latmut today. -- WHITE PLAINS, N Y Feb. 7. Reports that two automobile loads of armed men, accompanied by a woman, kidnaped Mis Anna King, a New York girl, from Scandal last midnight, after a fight tn which pistols and shotgun wer used, wer made today to the polio During the struggle a young woman, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Albohn whpse ham was Invaded to seixe Miss King, was grazed over the eye by a bullet Ons of ths kidnapers claimed Miss King was his wife Escaping from the house while the Intruder were struggling with the girt, Albohns ran to the Rcarsdale police station, nearly a mile and a half away. When ha returned with three men, the who. he said, numbered about kidnaper fifteen, were speeding away with the girl. The polios opened fire with shotgun th fugitives replying with pistol .. Albohn said ha recognized some of the men In the party as members of a Bronx gang. , ' OMAHA. Feb. 7. A dispatch received here from Atlantic, la., today says that Vlctor Johnson shot and killed Miss Claire Fiedericksen at Atlantic and then ended his own life by shooting. Johnson, the dispatch says, was angered because Mlar Frederlcksen had rejected his attention Miss Frederlcksen formerly lived in Shelby county, Iowa. Mistrial Is Declared. mistrial HAMILTON, Ala., Feb. 7,r-waa declared at 10 oclock today In th case of Sergeant Robert J. Lancaster, Alabama national guardsman. Indicted In connection with the lynching of William Baird, miner, near Jasper, on January 12. Th Jury had been out thirty-eigan hours when the foreman reported agreement otv a verdict was impossible and Judge Sowell discharged the Jury. A ht Murder Victim Identified LONDON,. Keb. I. An Inquiry carried In official circles with reference to the statement of Austen Chamberlain, chan cellor of the exchequer, In his speech at Birmingham last Friday night, that th American, government had vetoed s British- suggestion, lor general writing off to show of Interallied obligation-tend- s was that th chancellors declaration based on misinformation. It became )tnown lata today that on British offtelsl who checked up the data at th treasury during this afternoon found that th matter had never been made th subject of formal exchanges be. tween the British and American govern, ment In his speech Mr. Chamberlain, after explaining that In making the proposal for the remission of all interallied debts the government believed It would be In the Interests of good relations among ths rehabilitation of national people credit and the restoration of International trade, declared: But having mad th proposal and having found It unacceptable, w are not going to repeat It "We shall meet our obligations; we are making preparations to do so. W have not been unconscionable creditor to our continental allies; we shall not be unconscionable In our dealings with them. How soon they may be tn a position, and to what extent they may be in a position to repay any part of ths debt they owe u I am not going to attempt to fore. Bond Fraud MILWAUKEE, Wls.,',Fob. Joseph Cohen of Dee Moines, Iowa, today was sentenced to th hone of correct len for one year and fined 4600 by Federal Judg Geiger for obtaining twelve pints of whisky on a forged physicians prescription blank. Th Imprisonment term la ths heaviest yet Imposed for violation of the Volstead act tn this court. War $343,000,000,000. BALTIMORE. Md.. Fsb. 7. Total costs of th world war wer declared to be mor than 342.044 044 404 by Dr R. P. medicine at htron. professor of tropical In the Harvard medical school. lecture her today. This total, he said, Include estimate of th direct costs of th wan, amounting to HM.OoOtgnXKSi jh Indirect, coat , Vid end If I lives lost estimated al 4,tHnt 5v4 Ovo. The actual potential loea of life due to OiW 43 0v4 war waa placed at live. Th great majority of those who died, he said, wer male between tl and 44 year and as s result th women of Franc In this age group far outnumber th men. It Will tak Franc seventy year to v a T th lose In population, he declared. Just Heat and Plenty of It Thats - PEACOCK - P HI COAL. :KI Popular Resentment Strong. ' Anyone with the faintest opportunity for knowing the state of tho public mind on this 'question will understand how strong must be the popular resentment agpinst th senate for, killing the effort to restrict Immigration arid for killing It not by voting frankly on It. but by secret processes of inaction. I suspect the proportions In which ths divides on this question are about public he same aa was In revealed the vote tn the house, where less than one member in ten opposed it. Th deplorable racial Antagonisms which are among the plainest and most regrettable phenomena in contemporary American life will be Intensified by the character of the senates action, whereas this public feeling might have been deprived of some of Its bit t erne by frank discussion on ths part of the senate In decision Supported by nuts and arrived Cnttnod from Page On the glnla coal strike situation. Including armed violence tn the mining camps, was introduced today by Senator Johnson. Republican, California. It was referred to the senate labor committee without discussion. Chairman Kenyon of theOabor commit, tee said he Was not opposed to the resoL lutien. but trtu nothing could be accomplished by th Investigation during the present session. Senator Johnson agreed u change tho reference to the resolution to tho audit committee to consider Its cost , , . , World Veto la Sustained. WASHINGTON. Feb. 7. President Wilbill to glvs title of seveson's veto of acres of awaihp land In Monto tana the Milk River Valley Gun club BAN FRANCISCO. Feb. e witness in th trials of Warren of Montana 47was 9.sustained by th senate to late today, K. Billing Thomas J. Mooney and other on charges of murder growing out Allocation Protested. onnage bomb of the preparedness day explosion here In 1910. changed his testimony at the WASHINGTON, February 7. Protest behest of the prosecution during Mooneys aga.nst further allocation of government trial from that given at Billings s trial, tonnage to service was according to a putative affidavit by him. lodged with the shipping board today by of steamship companies the Ran Francisco Call published today. representative operating between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. They said excessive governMust Die in Sing Sing. ment vgtuld retard developALBANY, N. Y., Feb. 7. Jesse Walker, ment competition of a permanent privately owned the youthful slayer of Samuel Wolchook. merchant marin a Brooklyn shopkeeper, must die In the W. A. Harriman, president of th Unitelectrlo chair at Sing Sing this week. ed American Line, stated that overton-nagin- g Governor Millar tonight dented Walkers of tho Intercoastai service by th application for commutation of sentence government may lead to the Harriman to life imprisonment. ships in that trade withdrawing from th present conference to maintain rate - Changes His Testimony. nty-six Mae-Donal- d, coast-to-coa- Still Working on Jury. WILLIAMSON, W. Va., Feb. T. Hop was entertained here tonight by those Interested In th Mstewan battle trial that the taking of testimony In th ease would begin tomorrow. A tentative panel of twenty juryman was completed today. Th weeding out process will start tomorrow, when counsel will examine th tentative talesmen, tn an effort to secure Jury of twelve to hear evidence tn th who are charged ease of tho twenty-on- e with kiUlng A C. Felts in th Matowaa tight. Jt was necessary to refill th tentative pans) three tuqc today, after two veniremen were excused. Officer Accused. Ex-Legi- SACRAMENTO, Cal., Feb. 7. - Detec- tive Sergeant Kaltmyer of the Los Angeles police force was In Sacramento toof a paper calling for th day In questfrom Reno Of B. Schumaker, extradition former assistant adjutant of American Legion Post No. I of Los Angels Bchu-mak- er with embesilement of several hundred dollars from the poet. The extradition warrant was being pared 1st today. la charged pr. Picking Trial Jury. Accused Man Still Fasts. Cost of Testify, The great- - bulk of tho consisted of testimony from hearings special interest either racial or business, who opposed the bill strenuously. No thoughtful American, equipped with knowledge of the background, can read the stenographic report of those hearings without being deeply and somberly concerned. However, this is not the place for an analysis of tho testimony nor for discussing th merits of the bill. What Is her attempted to make dear Is the inaction of the senate contrasted with the speed and effectiveness that are not found Impossible by th lower house grith a membership more than four time as I have said. the house debated thelarge. bill, amended It, and passed It, all within seven davs. The tenat haa had It more than eight weeks and has not yet even debated It. , Th bill Is still In that state of stflpr pehded animation described as being In the committee." Even If the bill should com out now It Is so late In the session that It oan hardly pass. Meantime, on Maroli 4 the wartime regulation expiree, whlch'glve this country the small safeguard of requiring that passports of emigrants leaving Europe for America be visaed by our consuls. Is Alleged. ST. LOWS, Feb. 7 Police today wer Informed that salesmen were attempting to sell counterfeit railroad bonds In St. Louis and th southwest. The bond It was said, arc duplicates of a 4 per cent PaIssue of the Chicago, Rock Island cific Railroad company which wore oetlred in 1914. May Reconsider Refusal. By the Associated ATHENS, Feb. Press ) Delegates sent to the near east conference tn Ixmdon late this month will he headed by 51, Kalogeropoulo th new premier,. It was said hrre late today, M. Oounari minister of war, will not go to It has been decided. In view of British opposition. 'No FALLS CITY. Neb., Feb. 7. Following the receipt of an anonymous letter slandering her, Miss Florence Stewart, a school teacher, killed herself with a revolver lat night. CLEVELAND, Feb. .7 Four men and on woman, tentatively sooepted as jurors by both sides in the second trial of Judge M H. McGannon, charged with second degree murder for the alleged killing of Harold C. Kagy, were seated In the Jury box when court adjourned today, the first day of th trial. Premier to Head Delegation. No Rain of Soot No Screen of Smoke No Loads of Ashes More Clinkers No More Waste Slander Provokes Suicide. WASHINGTON. Feb. 7 Loring Brea-se- l, American high commissioner to Germany, I without authority to discuss th question of peace with Germany, state department officials said today tn commenting on dispatches that th German government had made such a proposal to him. They added that no communication regarding any such proposal had been received from Mr. Drasssl, CONSTANTINOPLE. Feb. 0. Indies-tto- n that Musts pha Kernel Paehs and other Turkish Nationalist leaders had reconsidered tlielr refusal not to participate In the near east conference In Ixmdon was given In a dispatch received her today from Angora. It was said th Turkish Nationalist delegates would lure Angora on Monday for lxmdon. traveling by way of Adalla and Brindisi. On at through open voting WICHITA FALLS, Tex., Feb. 7. Th (Copyright, 1921, by McClure Newspaper body of a man found murdered here last Syndicate.) O. H, night ha been Identified as that ofWashTouseant former hotel owner of ington, D. C, who bad been visiting bis son. The body was found in a ditch In tho residence section. No motive for the murder is known. SAY CHANCELLOR ' IS MISINFORMED Heavy Sentence Imposed.7. Dressel Without Authority. In condition skill. They war Vlncenne lnd tea miles east ot hers, and at I o'clock tonight were still living, but do hopes are held for their recovery. The can was one used In transporting nitroglycerine from the magazine to a well to be shot. How It came to be In the creek Is not known. There la a mile from nitroglycerine magazine about tha schoolboiiae and it may be a "shooter ' threw the can Into the creek and It floated down to the schooihouee. Oil operators say the drippings that hang to a tocan when It Is emptied are eulflclent have caused an explosion of this kind. The dead children are all eons of farm-er- e living near the schoolhouse. The man and teacher was an va a widow. In addition to his parent Mr. and Mr Charley Runyan of this city 'lh fore of th explosion ws. sufficient to break all th windows in th but did not olherwtas Injure th buhdlng. 1eople la this city heard and shock. ths fut Special Bold Kidnaping Reported. , decision to divide the Innanolng, and marked tovestigation of foreign loan day's session of the senate judiciary committee. The proposal of Senator peed. Democrat of Missouri, to prohibit additional foreign loans was under consideration. Secretary Houston said that "one government" had proposed cancellations by He preferred the United Slates of loan "not to say" what government. was Most of tho session taken up with discussion of Mr. Houston's assertion that he did not propose to make further loans He contended, to foreign government however, that It w'ould be "unfortunate If tha United States failed to live up to and make addisolemn commitment! e tional payments. If requested. In estimated at t75.000.000, of balance standing to tho credit of allied nation Ho added that no such requests bad been made or Indicated, however. Senator Reed said Secretary Houston' assurances as to hla plans would not bind his successor, which, ht said, his measur sought. The Russian loan cams up In testimony of N. Kelley, assistant treasury secretary, in charge of foreign loans, who testified that before the fall of the Keren-- f ky government Russia had received No additional In war credit payment he said, were made until 1924. when Russian embassy officials were allowed to draw 1200,004 with ths understanding that It would be replaced.execuObjection of senators caused an tive session, at which It was decided to leave- - International aspects of loan matters to the foreign relations committee. frost Pag parole would not consider such an appli- There were two government officials who epoke a experts on Immigration statiscation before she had served seven year He added that th average time served tics and one or two other who wero disAn almost equally small numby persons sentenced to life term tak interested. ber of volunteer witnesses spoke in favor ing Into consideration both those who died of bill. th tn prison and those who were paroled, was twenty-si- x year Interests Double Tragedy in Iowa. read an American FedLmbor bulletin denouncing Mr. Richardson and hie organisation was stopped by the chair, who declared that the board Was not Interested In a fight between organisations for jurisdiction. Mr. Richardson Insisted "many railroads had deprived the federation of duo representation, notwithstanding the law. Ho said such discrimination had resulted In s handicap to his organization and benefit to his opponents. Out of much argument and questioning, It was brought out that Mr. Austin s grievance was inability to meet the railroads to coordinate a variance In rules oit tho Pennsylvania as s result of tha sched- -, lile laid dowft under federal control. Only ' slight changes were desired. Mr. Austin "Said. cast Rebuttal by tha employees representatives to tho railway executives request for abrogation of tho national agreements was American Cows in Germany. Feb. 1. Ths BREMEN, Germany, put over untU Thursday on request of tha American steamer West Arrow, from Galemployee New veston and Newport arrived here donated to today with 742 milch cow Seven Oermany by American farmer rows died of seasickness during th voyage, but forty calves wer born. This was the second consignment, the first of 700 Holstein cows having arrived In Hamburg In November last for distribution by the German committee on foreign relief A commitand th German Red Cros tee of prominent cltlsens boarded th West Arrow to welcome the thirty American mostly sons of Kansas end Texas farmer who cared for th cows on the voy-a- g , OenttBued Os at day Exempt Salary. WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. Th first move to exempt the salary of tho president from Income taxes was made In the house Pell. Democrat, today by Repreaentattv New York. His bill would exempt not only tho 75,004 salary of 'the president, but also the salary of th vice president from provisions of th Income tax law. will Beginning March 4 the president have to pay an Income tax of about 12.000 a year. ilQ )enles Charges bf Extravagance WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. Refutation of Republican majority charges of excessive leather purchases by the army during the war Is contained tn a report made public tonight by Representative Garrett of Tennessee, Democratic minority member of ths house committee which Investigated war department leather purchase and leather surplus tales. The majority report, signed by Chairman Graham and other Republican members, contended that the department purchased an excessive amount of leather goods, nscesaltating sales of ths offiat th war's end from which armysurplus cers who negotiated ths purchases leaped a profit. Th question whether ourchases were excesalve, Mr, Garrett held, depended on th point of view. The majority's conclusion. . he added, would have been correct had anybody known exactly when th war would end. DALI AS, Ore., Fb 7. George F. West, charged with having slain his wlf near her three months ago, has comh day without food, pleted hie according to physicians at the hospital where he he lain since an attempt to tak his own life by drinking acid. The doctor also said that West had not taken mor then two quart of water tn all during his fast, as ha Is so Owtliw4 frera Pag Oa badly burned Internally that h cannot swallow anything. In th Jobbing business and trading wholeaals and retail. 2.521,004,044, or 24 Murder in Hospital. per cent. Loans reported to bond and lock brokers and dealers In Investment BAN BERNARDINO, Cal.. Fsb. 7. M. to 464, 040, 0t)4, Segregated J. Caneff of lxa Angela an Inmate of securities th state hospital for th Insane at Pat- railroads, shipping companies, electric, ton. was Instantly, killed this morning light end power companies, 225.004,01X1, by William M. Murphy, another patient while ths loans to professional men. Inof this city. Murphy severed Caneff cluding doctors, lawyers, teacher, chembead from nl body wltu an ax Roth ists, engineers and clergymen amounted Miscellaneous 175,040,000. loans men wer beTeved to be docile and were to allowed th privilege of th hospital amounted to about 4,004,400,040, or 34 Der Murphy was aelsed with a fit cent of the total. ground of violent Insanity while at work chop, ping wood with Caneff and killed him Basks' Gross Earnings. without warning. Gross earnings of th national banks during th pest fiscal year aggregated BUHL MILK REQISTEM HIGH. 1 109,004 400, while their total expenses were- 714.040 004. of which 175,044 060 Ipeefil t The Trlbse. lila-A(.7 OL WSKI'4 wndi ZTM L F4i Bi nUn Idaho. , u y; to Twin Pal'd from tr-- r W .for Ipteroxl ,orr dc! of. Nat'ibhal 'tfanki trt the t i.y' cii New" 'York! thet Buhl dairies bv Mayor Thompson on of 171 showed capital free to and be from harmful tok pure yarning proved rent: Fhlladelphta national banka, bacilli. Th milk waa aent to E R. f-- r Chicago, 24 per cent; BosoM; Dooley, agricultural chemist, who made 234 per cent; Minneapolis, 2H, per the analysis and aent the report to th ton, 22HU per Lou I IT Vk per cent; Richmond, In cent; mayor th latter pert of last week. 0 SOVk Kanth we be cent, milk stated that hla report P" 17 perDali cent, ami In ban Fran-ciscfsr above th average usually sent from es city. 1 cent. Pueblo, Colo, with per datrlr g -- mportance of Keeping Field' Clear of Weed - J pr cn; o, Buhl. at Emphasized forty-eight- meeting of At BUHL, Idaho. Fab. seed grower of Twin Fall county In th chamber of commerce room talk wer given by B. F Eheehan, etat aeed n Inspector; R. H. Smith, experiment entomologist; H. E. Power county manC. J. farm bureau agent, Wheelbn, 7. th eta-tto- 55 per cenL reported th largest earning tn any reeerv city. Du ring tha past fiscal year, th comp- eight troller reported, thre president ctiehlers and thirty assistant cashier bookkeeper and other of nateller tional bank wore convicted of criminal violations of th banking law and sentenced to term of Imprisonment running up to lx year and varying fine. showtable Mr William made public ing th salaries paid the executive officer by all national bank of the country of whoHt resouroe wer In esc and showed ths largest salary bank national to be president any igid . ' U '4 4 a' yeas wkor An'fkaA,rUi, git XKrtnpJ "suCh Inequality wool I (roller exist to muih lea extent If the Block-holde- rs were Informed of tho of bank executive officer salaries paid to their but unfortunately It le an exemption th majority of a rule that than rapier th Btockholder of th banks are ao ager of th Twin Fall Canal company; Frank Caudl county weed men, end others. The epeakere emphasised th point that th seed growers of Twin Falls oounty must take car that seed free from noxious weed be ubtalned fur planting In Order to train restore to title county the reputation for good clover and alfalfa aeed that this faction enjoyed In former year Th weed that was most prevalent In the clover seed I the dodner. It waa brought up at th meeting that ther always waa a good market and A good price paid for clean seed. Th control of tha weed and th eradi of different peeta that Infeat the field wer th main top cs disat th meetiiig E C, Davia, a talk living weat of Buhl, save on the wav h produced hla Immense crop of alfalfa aeed last season. Dart of hla field this year averaged thirty bushel of seed to th acre. J. H. Barker, president of th chamber of commerce, gave the address of welcome. or apartment or Room, house bought, told, rented and exchanged every In TrtOuna Th Want day through ada cation clover cussed farmer Column Call for Volunteers Chorus of 150 mixed voices now being organized to participate in program to be given at the Orpheum Theatre, March 15 for the relief of offering WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN IRELAND. FIRST PRACTICE TONIGHT AT 8 OCLOCK. Applicanti ihould present themselves to Mrs. Frances Ilarte Parka, Directress, at 1 Basement Cathedral of Madeleine, East South Temple St., ' XtffCwVJT 20-.,8 J. ' Atroj p..-n- u 1 IRISH RELIEF SOCIETY Nonpolitical. ' Nonsectarian. 4 |