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Show THE SPANISH FORK PRESS, SPANISH FORK, UTAH Salt Lake City Firms F TELL IF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IS ESTI-TIMATE OF FRAUDULENT I PROMOTERS SCHEME ' PLANS TO BE PROPOSED ARE MS CREW TELLS OF HARDSHIPS TER MORE THAN THREE YEARS SPENT IN NORTH NOT ANNOUNCED BUT IDEA IS SUGGESTED AF- To attur prompt aarvict and quick return when uuwermq three edvertiiemente, mention the name oi thi piper. BARBER AND BUTCHER AGENTS WANTED For Stylo Center Mod Tlo Section Of United Corner on Butlneie 8tatee He of Being Shorn In 1925 Wildcat In veitmenta a r 's Predicts Leniency Of Coldest Weather Experienced Is SevBears enty Below; Twenty-Tw- o Are Brought Down on Trip; No Place for Airplanes Terms If Definite Settlement Can Be Reached At The Conference the-newe- 'T Oil Plant Hit By Fjfe Martinez, Calif. Damage estimated at half a million dollars was caused by fire at thq refinery of the Associated Oil Company at Avon, - four miles from here. The flames, which for a time threatened the entire plant, started shortly before C o'clock by an explosion in the preheating system on one of the stills. The fire was brought under coutrol after more than two hours' fighting. About 500 men were used In bringing the fire under control. The chief loss was the main pump house and two stills, which were completely destroyed. 7; - Palmer Will Sell Ships . Washington. President Palmer of the fleet corporation was authorized by the shipping board to sell to aliens for operation surplus lake type government merchant ships which can not be disposed of readily In the Washington Officials of the American government have read with interest reports from Paris indlcatng the terms whch the French debt commission, when it arrives shortly after the middle of next month, probabiy would present for settlement of the four billion dollar debt of France to the United. States. How far the suggested terms of agreement reflect the opinion or the expectation of governin ment, and financial authorities France, officials here were unable to determine, but it is said that in any event there was no reply they could make until after the arrival of the French delegation and until it had presented its proposals to the American debt funding commission. The general opinion in circles close to the latter body was that the various debt settlement terms now coming from PariB are "trial baloons which are being sent up for the purpose of sounding out public sentiment in the United States and if possible obtaining some slant also on the attitude of the government There itself; could be no objection, it was stated, to such a sounding out process and there could be no criticism of the French if this was the motive behind the unofficial debt conversations now going on. Nothing further has been hear in regard to the coming of the French commission. The date of their sailing, September IS, Is the only official advice which has been received by the government, and none of the names of the delegates has been announced. The question as to whether the French minister of finance, Joseph Caillaux, himself will accompany the mission Is still an uncertainty, as fas as Washington is concerned. The delegation Ib expected here about 4 ' September 23. ' There is one outstanding fact In connection with the coming French negotiations, in the opinion of officials here, and that Is that France is serlqus in her intentions. On this account it is believed an agreement wil be reached. France, they believe, recognizes the importance of getting this stumbling .block to her future economic program out of the way and realizes that the American government does not desire a mere "gesture, but is anxious to have the debt question settled. It is asserted in well advised quarters that the delegation which is coming "means business" just as did the Belgian mission, and that the "will to settlement' should mean accomplishment While no official reports have been received here as to the terms which the French will demand, there Is no secret to the fact that they will ask for lenient settlement for easy rates of Interest, a long period In which to meet their payments and probably also for a moratorium. It is believed in well informed quarters that the French were somewhat disappointed at the terms of the Belgian settlement holding that it would be a precedent In certain particulars. While France will not have the same plea as Belgium where the "moral obligations" Incurred In connection with the actual war debt of that country was recognized and taken Into consideration, it Is thought France will bring forward certain other claims of leniency. Including the great ravages to her territory and properties and the Immense sums which It had been necessary to spend for reconstruction work not yet completed. ' American markeL Such ships, however, can be sold to foreigners only on condition thut they shall not be need In trade with the United States. There are about 120 of them tied up at present. The action was taken after the board had rejected a recomEditor Is Held As Slayer mendation of Mr. Pulmer that he be authorized to offer for sale abroad East Las Vegas, N. M. Carl A. Masurplus ships of all types that cannot gee,' Alburquerque newspaper editor . be disposed of at home. and stormy petrel of New Mexico . 7-- ' politics, was formally branded as the 17 Babies Have Narrow Escape slayer of John B. Lassetter, state In the verdict of Chicago. Seventeen babies, all un- highway employee here. a corner's Magee shot jury one month of age, were saved der from suffocation when nurses carried Lassetter. a bystander, In a fight with them from a smoke-fillenursery at his bitterest political enemy, former the Presbyterian hospital. The smoke District Judge David P. Leahy, in the was from a fire In the hospital lab- crowded lobby of an East Las Vegas .A charge of first degree muroratory, resulting from an overheated hotel;was filed against him and he is der culture Incubator, which was put out at liberty under 110,000 bond. The with a minimum of damage. , coroner's jury verdict said that LaseP setter "came to his death by reason of New For Idaho Ray Attorney a gunshot wound on the left side of SwampscotL Mass. Iloyt - E. - Ray his neck,' caused by a bullet, fired hag been appointed .United States from a gun In the handB of Carl attorney for the district of Idaho. d Ma-go- Veterans Register Protest The regional convenHonolulu. tions of the American legion here adopted resolutjons against the alleged discriminatory attitude taken "by certain deportments of the federal government' against American citizens of Oriental ancestry, who when traveling from Hawaii to the mainland are unjustly and without reason deprived of certain, rights." A committee was given authorization to lake up the situation with the federal e. Belgian Debt Commission Sails New York. Members of the Belgian debt commission have Bailed for Europe on the Majestic, en route to Brussels. George , Theunls, former premier, speaking for the party, said: "We agreed In coming here not to talk for publication and we are leaving the sume way." One member of the commission,, howver, asked what attitude the Belgian people would take on the debt settlement arranged In Washington, answered, "I believe . they will be satisfied." , , to Meararo Clothe. for right men. Write Bolt Lake City, Utah. RADIO if AO AZINB "Tho Carrier Way" weekly tnagaiino with Program. Tun Tablet, Radio Topic, Queatlona. Exchange, etc. M iMuce ll.wt. Write for Free Copy, ?l Weet Broadway. Salt Lak City, Utah. " ... government. 821.50 up. Big money 515 McIntyre Building, " , New York. Despite enactment in many states of the blue sky laws for Its protection, the American public will pay 11,000,000,000 In 1925 to oper-ator- s of fradulent stock schemes, promoters of sandy oil wells and financial wizards of the Ponzl type. 'The cost of credulity In 1921 was well over the billion dollar mark, and a report published by the better business bureau of New York indicates the still flourishing cult of gold brick artlBts may well claim another '" "normal year." has been Progress made,' the bureau notes, toward safeguarding the Inexperienced Investor, but the most optimistic observer does not foresee legislation which will block entirely the game of the sharper. , The habitat of the gullable is not confined to the rural sections, but Is as wide as this land of ours. The sigh of the dweller in Madison square Joins the doubting Inquiry of the squire in Madison corners In the daily grist of mailed . complaints to the district attorneys office. Meantime, however, the campaign against Wallingfordlan machinations will be carried forward. The Martin act, now on the statute books of New York, Is cited as an excellent deterrent to the use of stock certificates to separate the unwary from their assets. This law permits the speedy Issuance of injunctions to restrain bucket shops and similar organizations. , , .i Through chambers of commerce, advertising clubs, and particularly through the new organizations closely related to both known as better business bureaus, the activities of the ubiquitous Investment quack are being gradually curtailed. These bureaus have been established in forty cities, being maintained by banks, brokers, investment companies, newspapers and mercantile concerns. This summer,- - real' estate,' often coupled with the magic name , of Florida, is one of attractions for former stock swindlers. Others are venturing In the illicit liquor traffic, despite the collapse recently of the projects of,' the titled Briton, Sir Broderick Hartwell, and the oil fakers never quit. . Washington SUPPLIES ae Gillette Raxor Bledre Fkg. (Set Germen Vi duten Z6c; Tree Brood A Sheffield Kaxora SLOO ups Novelty eatalos 10. Mock Co., US-8- ? Regent 8t, Bolt Lake City, Utah. TELEGRAPH SCHOOL Returned trom Nome,' Alaska. SMS to S22S Monthly. more than three years Imprisonment I .earn Telrampliy. (irrut opportunities Clean in the ice packs of the north, the caay work. Pnaitlopa ecru red. Earn while yon learn. Hundred of rraduatea Oldest and beat is in Maud port schooner Amundsen arhool, Write for free ratalotue. American here, with the six men of Its crew Telerrapb College, 182 S. Main. Salt Lake. detailing strange stories of their adi ventures.- , The Maud ventured unsuccessfully into the Arctic reglonB, hoping to ."Best Heat Under the Sun reach the north pole by drifting with the ice. Cross currents carried the The moat modern and economical horn vessel northwest Instead of north, healing plant (Pip or Pipaleaa). Can b inaialled in practically any houae. of .aim the expedition. thwarting the Writ tor PREE booklet on Scicntiiic Home Heating. was not the But although pole reached, Captain O. Westing and Ills Attractive proportion lor dealer In avery town. men have none the less an interesting story of their adventures, which they GRANITE LUMBER & related to the United Press for the HARDWARE CO. first time. 1084 E. 21st So., Salt Lake City With Captain Westing of the Maud were chief officer Carl Hansen, 1 and radio operator M. Olon-ki- t, assistant engineer A. Malmret, assistant engineer S. Syversten, aviator O. Dahl and Dr. Harold Sverdrup, AVALANCHE IN SWISS ALPS scientist of the party. DESTROYS ALL THINGS. A mountain climber, In discussAssistant Engineer Syversten died ing the sccounts of recent July 28, 1923, from complications of svalanches In the southern alps, diseases brought on by polar hardresulting In destruction snd ships. , The body was wrapped in a death, with covered canvas, says: flag, Norwegian Tht cause of these sndden and after funeral services were read descents Is not far to seek. On by Captain , Westing, the remains the higher slopes there have four lowered into the water through a been six or eight weeks of clear, foot hole In the Ice. almost uninterrupted frosts, "It was a severe strain on all the which have caused the existing our see Maud's crew to shipmate go snow to become loose and Into Davy Joness locker, especially powdery. of means with our only transportaNow, under pressure of the tion locked In the Ice and the probrecent heavy falls of fresh out. never get ability we would snow, this loose under snow has The only Eskimo aboard the vessel given way, and vast masses of deserted in the winter of 1923, taking volume every It, gathering with him a gun and a shovel. Land moment, are plnnging down the was 400 miles distant, and the native mountain sidee, overwhelming headed in the wrong direction. Days sheep and unfortunate tourists and burying all that comes In later he wandered back to the Maud, their path. nearly frozen. The Eskimo wa6 warnThis type of powdery avaed not to leave again under penalty lanche, serious enough to life of being placed In Irons, but hardly and limb, Is as nothing com- - jjj needed the admonition. He was later Sibepared with the real avalanche Ip landed at his home, East Cape, built up of accumulations of ria.' ' snow that may have commenced The Maud, In its northwest drift, years ago. passed around the Jeanette islands, These vast accumulations oc300 miles from the Herald islands, cur on the plateaus or less steep thence toward ' the Bennett islands, Inclines. The pressure, of each where Captain Westing received orsucceeding season's snow turns ders to return to' the United States. the under snow to Ice, and This order came in 1923, but due, winter after winter the mass to the huge Icebergs which gripped Increases In weight and volume. . the ship, no progress could be made. A moment arrives when, ow- - jjl At one time the vessel was almost Ing either to pressure from capsized, the captain and crew taking higher levels or the mess growto the ice after loading the dog sleds ing so Immense, It overcomes with food and supplies and hitching any resistance that holds It. Or, due to an exceptionally mild the teams of fifteen Siberian dogs, summer, the lowest stratum awaiting the Mauds loss. But we did not have to abandon against the mountain' side Is melted and a sort of water the Bhip after all," Captain Westing cushion is formed npon which said. "The vessel was raised twenthe whole glides forward. . ty feet out of the water by the Ice There are other causes, bnt and she had not been solidly pressure some reason such as these for built would have been kindling wood the colossal mass commences to In ten minutes.. After being tossed move slowly downward toward about for two hours, the craft was rethe valley. If the pace la slow leased and settled back in the water It Is known as a creeping 4 on an even keel." avalanche and can be kept un-dIn 1924 the Maud, still held a westconstant observation. There ward drift, worked her way across la little Immediate danger from to the Siberian shore and passed the It and peasants and farmers can Kolyma river, thence drifted toward be warned of the approaching the north cape of the Chutkotsk penperil. insula, Siberia. Sometimes, however, an avalanche of this type will within a Release from the Ice came August few hours of having become 7 last, the Maud sailing for Nome loosened hnrl Itself downward August 21. with - the speed of an express The little ship was in radio train and a noise exceeding all with Spitsbergen every Imagination. Nothing can withwinter from January to March and stand It. Farms and homeheard a number of , United States steads are swept away or bnrled, broadcasting stations. A newspaper forests ' of flr and pine are was published aboard ship, helping crashed down or carried away to break the terrible monotony. like se much etraw; cattle, rocks, railways are all carried ' Presidents Guards Found Asleep before It until either It comes to rest In lower levels or hnrls SwampscotL Mass. Two marines Itself over perpendicular walls of the special detail assigned to guard of rock Into the valleys bethe summer White House were found neath. at of their posts asleep duty. Charges of neglect of duty have been preferred .against them and Captain AdolWhy Lent It Hard to Mako phus Andrews the president's naval For five months experts In Washan has ordered aide, investigation. disk of ington tried to cast optical glass, but made two failures. Helen Wills Again Captures Title In Germany, however, a disk of Inches of perfect lens has Forest Hills, N. Y. Miss Helen seventy-tw- o been made. It requires fi.OOO pounds Wills won the national women's tennis title for the third successive year of raw material compounded with when she conquered Miss Kathleen great exactitude. The lens when comIn of a McKane England thriling pleted must be of uniform density three-se- t match, throughout LOAiysau, DAV OFFICIALS JOHN VIVIAN IS NAMED DISTRICT HEAD; WILL BE IN CHARGE IN IDAHO AND UTAH FIVE HUNDREDTHOUSAND ACRES OF UTAH LAND TO BE SURVEYED THIS YEAR Plans Are Outlined For An Extensive Campaign Against The Bootleggers Which Will Start . At Once ' Thirteen Crews Are Now In Field Surveying Lands That They May Be Further Opened Up And Developed t i Washington. Boldly admitting a vast demnnd for bootleg liquor in the United StatcB and a tremenduously organized and unscrupulous Industry to supply It, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lincoln C. Andrews has appointed Ills twenty-fou- r prohibition administrators and sent them out to dry up the nation. The , new officers - - were supplied with a plan of attack upon the bootleg trade almost military in Its thor. oughness. ' Here is what Andrews Intends to do to enforce prohibition under the new organization scheme as outlined in his instructions to his new chiefs' The government will seek treaties and negotiations with foreign governments to make smuggling more difficult. The coast guard will "form the first line on our sea fronts" and take the responsibility for preventing operations along the shore. Distilleries and breweries which are found to be sources of bootleg trade "will be proceeded against as nuisances and closed. Close with the justice department will be maintained under legal guidance toward arrest and punishment of major violators and special attention will be directed to clearing court dockets. A campaign of education will be undertaken to prove to all citizens that that bootleg liquor is injurious to health and detrimental to public welfare, in an effort to cut down the liquor market. ' The reorganization personnel, Andrews announced, contains names of only seven new regional directors who did not hold some Important post In the old regime. All the rest preor viously held state directorships were divisional chiefs under Commissioner Haynes. Eight of the new administrators were state directors, five were divisional chiefs, three were acting state directors and one was chief of general prohibition agents. Seven were appointed with temporary rank only and may be changed later. , ' Tax Collectors Are Increased Washington. Tax reduction advocates have received additional comfort from a treasury tabulation showing that, in spite of the lower schedules which became effective this year, internal revenue collections for July amounted to $125,866,639, compared with $110,814,885 during the same month of 1924. The decreases due to the new law included a drop from In July, 1924, to $1,500,000 in July, 1925, on amusement tickets, and there were also reductions in receipts from various other forms of sales and consumption taxes. There were considerable gains from tobacco and corTho total collecporation taxation. tion of Income tax from corporations and Individuals during July was In July last year it was Wife Hunter Tries New Methods Chicago. Disappointed . when matrimonial advertisements failed, Limerkln. 30, cast aside refined methods and went out like a rave man of old to "fetch" a wife home. Soon police were receiving a steady stream of complaints from women who said they were being annoyed by . proposals. Llmerkin explained that he had heard that women "fell" for direct action, He 'was charged with disorderly conduct. Her-Bch- Salt Lake City. Of 500,000 acres of public lands which will be surveyed in Utah before the close of the summer season, approximately 250,000 acres of Industrial lands will be made ready for the quicker development of coal, oil, shale, potash and grazing, according to G. D. Kirkpatrick, district cadastral engineer In charge for Utah and Nevada, operating under the surveying service of the general land office with headquarters in Salt Lake. By segregation and definite determination, these lands will be available immediately for many operations already proposed and on foot. There are four crews now in the field in Nevada and nine In Utah. In this state parties are surveying coal lands near Helper In Carbon county, oil lands in San Juan, shale lands In Grand county, potash lands along the western border near 'Wendover and grazing lands in various localities. The total that will probably be surveyed for the year in both states will ' . be 750,000 acres. , The general conditions of the survey is better than it has been for several years, Mr. Kirkpatrick said. The department is only 750,000 acres behind the demand for surveys, whereas four years ago it was more than 2,000,000 acres behind,. Another benefit that is' being derived from present catching up with the work is an increase in state revenue, following the designation of four sections of school land in each township surveyed," permitting the state to dispose of and trade in these lands for development purposes. Taylor Quits Official Position .Washington. Dr. Henry C. Taylor, chief of the bureau of agricultural economics of the agricultural department, has resigned at the request of Secretary Jardlne. Thomas P. Cooper, dean, of the agricultural college of the University of Kentucky, has been chosen to succeed him. Dr. Taylor quit the department, where he has served since 1919, only after Secretary Jardine, with whose policies he does not agree, had requested him to do so. Some time ago the secretary Indicated that a resignation would be acceptable, but Dr. Taylor declined to follow the hlnL Instead he consulted a lawyer as to the legal right of a secretary, who had been in the department but a comparatively short time, to force him out of office. The controversy came to a climax when Secretary Jardine, from a sick bed at Walter Reed hospital, sent word that the resignation must be submitted at once. The change about completes Mr. Jardlnes reorganization of the department, although a few minor officials, particularly In the bureau of agricultural economics still are expected to go. ,U. 8. Redeems Wilson Pledge When the American recognized government Bellgiums claim to special treatment in payment of her war debts. Secretary Mellon said It redeemed a promise' of President Wilson which at the time It was made was so Important that It forestalled disruption of the Ver" Washington. sailles peace conference. Trotsky Again In High Position Warsaw. Advices from Moscow report the return to power of Leon Trotzky with the appointment of the former war minister as chief of the economic council. Ills restoration to a position of Influence had been exported in Folish circles, where it was considered that his strengthened popularity were too great to permit of keeping him long under probation because of the possibility of his becomt ing the head of some anti-sovie- chief-engine- er HOW I er . six-inc- h 6-- 6-- U. 8. Envoy Is Found Dead Montreal. Arthur United States minister to Haiti since 1914, was found dead In his bedroom at the Mount Royal hotel here. The in s coroner's Inquest resulted verdict of death by natural causes. Mr. arrived In Montreal August 19, but his presence here had been unknown to the American consulate. Hq registered as from Rochester, N. Y although his home was In New Orleans. Builly-Blanchar- Bailly-Blanchar- No Fare, Pie ate! It Is announced that babies born on shipping board vessels will be carried free the remainder of the voyage. This Is as It should be. Making the helpless little creatures work their passage by stoking the furnaces In the engine room Is uuthlnkable. New Orleans States. Rlehet in Content t who Is content He Is the with the least ; for content is the Wealth of nature. Socrates. |