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Show THC WEATHER. Tribune Want Ads are useful in renting homes, business holdings, farms and suburban property. atf WHmi G"rei0littlefair Tufy lay; chig m liwHaturt. Stiver iMd Cupper LkI,. Mttlfinant Prc . . 9 S $$ 91 (rathodet) 4i 12 SALT LAKE CITY, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 9, 1924. VOL. 110, NO. 56. for Strike; Sproule YORK. Dec. I Chief NEW Grand Rabbi Isaac Friedman, rebe to a direct descendant of puted Ring David, died today after a brief Illness He came td this country da June I of this pear from his heme in Vienna to promote Judaism, and waa planning to return to Austria. where be left bis wife and two children, on December 17 Chief Grand Rabbi Friedman, who was tt years of age, waa ons g of tbs Jewish prelates of Europe. Bills and Appropriation Farm Relief Legislation Are Next in Order. Chances for Old Three. Party" Coalition " Precluded by Sunday Poll. Unfrocked Illinois Preach- Mortimer Charges Colonel er flight and Woman With .Having Come Between Witness and Wife Companion Go on Trial Leaders at Sea, but One Killed Wife, Other More Sensational EviHusband, Contention of dence Given in Trial Four-Part- y Combine May Be Effected, Berlin Belief. State; Tragedy Recalled of Former Bureau Chief Water Taxi Burnt at San By MARK SULLIVAN. Epeeiai to The Tribuoa P. C. Pac. 8 It WASHINGTON, Is almoat beyond possibility and It I certainly beyond probability, fur tbo the federal taxes to be further re duced by this present short session of contress. Within a few days it will be realised how really short this session is. There will be a recess for the holidays, and when people, looking forward, begin to count up. they number of acwttl find that tual working weeks and working days between now and March 4 Is short Within that tima upward of twelve appropriation bills must be passed. It Is a fact that these appropriation bills are doming through this year faster lhan ever before Appropria tlon blits under the constitution must originate In the lower house, and the lower house under the leadership of Mr. Longworth, together with the appropriation committee of the of lower Mr. house under the leadership Mr. Madden, are in a working mood seems to hate particularly Longworth a state of mind in which he makes It a point of pride to show how energetically ths lower house can function. He Is helped In this by the fact that the adoption of the budget system, by which the budget t prepared In advance, makes debate on approand less priation bills less called for likely than was the case In previous ears. Nevertheless, let the lower house work as rapidly as 1t can, It till remains true that upward of twelve appropriation bilja compose Ia large order for the senate, astoIt organised snd as it functions, 4. get It through with before March not all would be safer to guess that be will bills these appropriation passed than to guess that any Important legislation additional to the appropriation bills will be passed. If any legislation additional to the passed appropriation bills should be field of It la not likely to be in the fo Is If time there reduction. tag money anything. In addition to the bills, right of way will be gien probably, to some form of agricultural relief bills Because the prices of com and wheat have gone up. It has been taken fur granted In the east that there Is no further pressing Tb fact weed for agrlculturaA-relief- r Is, howeer, that one branch of farmstock raising In the west, namely, ing, Is still In the same condition In which wheat was less than a year President Coolidge, In seeking ego. to the lately for Individuals to add personnel of various boards In Washwith agriculture, ington having to d?men familiar with has sought to get the livestock ftidutrv, because he realizes that tn this field there Is still trouble If this session hirnnr time for new legislation it will take up a farm relief measure before it w ill take up either the world court or taxes. Any further reduction of federal taxation and any change in the existing revenue system Is quite certain lo have to wait at least until after June SO, next, and perhaps for tome months after that date But if the government at Washing on cannot readily make a further reduction of taxes In the Immediate future there is another agency of 1.taxation that can. On January within a few davs thereafter, a large number of state legislatures will coma It is with these state into session. legislatures that there la both the need and the opportunity for reducing taxes to a greater extent than For several exists at Washington has ears past, while Warrington drastic the reductions, making beqn state legislatures steadily have been col-- of thev amount taxes the raising lent from the people The undersecretary of treasury, Gerrsrd V Win aton, has computed carefully what the state legislatures are doing, and shows that the states and local muhave increased taxes nicipalities In 1919 the every year since "191 per capita tax laid by states, counlocal and ties municipalities was $20, on ths average, for every man woIn man and child In the country In 192ft to $99 1919 It rose to $27 1922 In 1921 $34 to The to $34 In figures for 1923 and 1924 are not yet OnthaM m Pago Three (Otlvai Free I te 6 Tax Publicity Move . Mutt Await Ruling by Supreme Court WASHINGTON, Dec. 8 Repub-lira- it leaders of ike house are of ths opinion that any move to repeal the publicity provisions of the revenue act must await a supreme court decision ss to whether newspapers are privileged to print Income tax lists. Chairman Green of the house ways and means committee discussed the legislative situation, particularly with regard to revenue matters, with President Cool-Mtoday and after leaving ths W hlte House conferred with Representative Longworth, the Republics a leader Mr. Green raid no attempt would be made at this session to revise the tax law generally, but he thought an effort might be made to amend the publicity of return section Mr. Longworth explained that appropriation bills have the right of way in the house and declared that any controversial subject would rbe avoided fmtil they are out of ths way. Expressing op jeHion to notion on the publicity question until a supreme court decision is handed down, he said that If the right of newspaners to publish tax lists Is established .there undoubtedly would be an increased demand for repeal of the publicity provision. Pedro; Sixteen Enlisted Men Reported .Missing. Cl. Dec. I (By the Prase) Sixteen enlisted men ere missing from the Tennessee and New Mexico tonight. It na officially announced aboard the U. 8. 8. California, flagship of the battle fleet. Whether or not these me were on the water taxi La Moyne, a hich burned In the harbor here early today, had not been determined, but their absence waa being Investigated with todays fatalities tn mind. The names of the missing: U. S. 8. Tennessee E. G. Williams, seaman second class; T. H Moore, teaman second class , A. E. Davla, seaman first class, J. J. Arnold, fireman first class; J. A Harrison, electrician s mate third class . O. R. Richards electrician's mate second class; J. A. 8!gnal, musician second class, O. A Bvaum, musician second class; F. Jarvis, officers' cook second u U. 8. 8 Ns Mexico W.J. Ruff-neseaman ascond class; R. F. seaman second class; H. H Moore, eeaman seoond class; K. N. Karpenty, 'seaman second dees; J. O Ward, ship's cook third class; C. A. Shearar, ship's oook first class; L. C. Farrell, yeoman third class. Both of the men who wet their lives when the La Moyne burst into flame while carrying a fun load of passengers to various ships of ths battle fleet early today were from ths New Mexico They were: Mack A. Moore, water tender, first class, of San Dimas, Cal., who died aboard the battleship Pennsylvania after swimming 160 yards from the ' burning taxi. Joseph Anthony Keck, electrician's mate, third dees, (441 Keawood ave. nue. Chicago, who waa sean Is Jump from the flaming craft, but whose body had not been recovered tonlghL Of the more lhan twenty-fiv- e others who suffered Injury in tbs explosions snd fire aboard the I .a Moyne at least- - half stars men f the New Mexico and Tennessee men There were about forty-fiv- e aboard the water taxi when the exto believed been caused have plosions, by a backfire, which ignited the fuel tank, poured a sheet of flame Into the faces of passenger, nearest ths sn BAN PEDRO. Associated dread-naugh- ts re r, Gab-lic- gin room. Of these ths following Ceattsued sa Fes tGelns k, BERLIN. Dec. I (By the Associated Press ) The outcome of yesterday s general elections leaves the parliamentary situation wholly unclarl-fleas ths new party lineup tn the reichstag precludes the formation of coalition three-part- y composed rerj of four-part- . Oeattsned ea Page Twe. (Cal sans Three.) C.lverMl WHEATON. derri. 8 John Dec Kammerer, ltter of five, mull pay for hi. crime with .his life A Jury in the clrcut)Wl here returned a verdict of lira deHI , gree murder and et the penalty at death by hanging , Th. crlm. wu committed la.t June, when Kammerer killed the entire Otto Eder family of Villa Park father children, with mother and three an ax. Kammerer laughed an he heard the read and said Thirty-secon- d Assembly verdict "Well, I klHed them all rlpht. andif I would have killed three other, Is 'Organized Brazil I hadn ont been caught. 1 had three my Hat " other out that the Inbrought Questioning Doors Are Closed. tended victim, were three prominent "the archblehop of Catholic prelate., St. Louis, the paetor of St. Patrick s the and auxiliary church. Chicago, ROME, Dec. I (By the Associated biehop or 8L Louis" killed Eder while he was Kammerer over Mello Presided Press.') by then called Mr. Eder from Franco of Brasil, the council of the asleep, the yard and killed her as she entered one by one, he of Then, behind door. the t nations meeting league children from their closed doors In the historic Doris pal- called the three the ax and with them .track ace today, arranged the agenda for play, cut their throat, with a razor d counthe of session the cil In preparation for the first public Vice Consul, Victim of meeting this afternoon. Woman's Bullet, Expires The members present Included ex Premier. Hymans of Belgium, Hr land of France, ex Premier Deo, I The death WASHINGTON, Salandra of Italy, Austen Chamberlain nf Vic Conedl Henry A Dayton, .hot of Oreat Britain, Quinones de Leon Mveral day. ago tn Belgrade, wa. of Spain, Osten Unden of Sweden, Al- reported today to the elate departberto N. Ouanl of Uruguay, Dr. ment. of C and Vie Mr. Dayton wa. first reported to oount Ishll of Japen. have been ehot by a young women A feature of the first public seeston who afterward, committed eulcide. of the league of nations council held No detail, of the tragedy, however, here this afternoon wee a speech by have been reported by Consul Patton. Austen Chamberlain, British secretary In charge of the Belgrade poet for foreign affaire. He emphasised Later press advice, have tended Orest Britains respect for ths league to throw a veil of mystery over the and hopes for Its future euocee. manner n which Dayton was exact Mr Chamberlain assured the counshot as well as the death of the young cil that In expreaelng these senti. woman. ments he voiced the sentiments of the majority of tha British people as well 40,000,000 at that of the government. He Said Duke Gives the league's activities which comChanties, Education manded the greatest public attention were those activities which caused CreaCHARLOTTE, N C, Dec. contention; yet the Boncontentioue activities of the league were undoubtedly tion nf a trust fund of approximately those which had Contributed meet to (46 009 000 for certain charitable and the advancement of peace. educational purposes was announced here tonight by James R Duke, multi-mi- l! kmelre power magnate. G. O. P. Invited by ian; thirty-secon- -- Vsr-verk- .echo-Slovak- ia for J Leaden MEXICAN STEAMER LOS ANGELES, Dec. to Breakfast Parley WASHINGTON. Deo, I --Caraylng forward his breakfast eonferenos pro gram. President CooUdfe tedar Invited nearly a score of Republican leaders and oommlttee chairman of the house to, breakfast with him tomorrow at ths Whits House, The conference will have as IU purpose the fenfrxl discussion of le liilative matters, without attempt to agree on a program of action The list of those Invited Includes SpeakerofGUIett, Representative Long, OhM. Republican lender. north Secretary Blemp and Sinnott, Oregon, members of ths Republican steering committee. 1 ABLAZE. Radio mescomsages to the Federal Telegraph Mexthe pany here tonight reported ican steamer Oaxaca on fire forty miles south of Masatlan on tha west coast of Mexico. The ship ia In no Immediate danger, however, the m ease ge said. Dec. The Mex, LOS ANGELES. ican steamer Oaxaca, reported afire of ceeat west Mexico, off the forty miles south of Masatlan, ha. apparby its crew, acently been beached cording to a radio message to the here Federal Telegraph company early today from the freiohter d Invinshe cible, which last night wiryles-ehad sighted tjp biasing teasel. . Service. Io 111. Quit Retreat, May Be Order to Pretender 8 a were united today not In the bonds of lovs to fashion from the they sought shrouds of their mates but In their mutual battle agaJnet the hangman noose The unfrocked minister who poisoned his wife and the woman who killed her Ruehpnd toward the earn comerging end sat at the defendants table In the little courtroom Their eyea seldom mt throughout the day In which the twelve simple, thoughtful men w ere choaen In whose hands n their fate le to be placed It la a middle-agejury, men past 40 which will try the case of these rural poisoners The trial, it waa indicated, will move swiftly A few questolna Were yet lo be put by the defense to George Nelson, a farmer, the twelfth man selected to sit In the jury box Eight been accepted and other farmers the three other junmen are a blacksmith a laborer and a atorekeepe? They are men who it jieema Would with subtle psychobe little logical arguments or would condone a slaving because It was motivated, as the defense may seek to prove, by a mad Infatuation that not even stopitd at death Justice not roin their faces mance Is written WILL OUTLINE CASE. G To them Frank Thompson, the prosecuting attorney that is what they call their district attorneys in this community will outline the case, d Grand Duke Cyril Making Himself Persona Non Grata J to Government of Bavaria. . Dec 8 (Bv the Associ- ated lres ) Grand Duke Cyril of Russia, who not long ago proclaimed himself cxjSt of all the Rusetans and whose wife, Grand Duchess Victoria Feodorona, is now siting the United States, may soon be obliged to leae Coburg, where he it living In to semistate at present, according Bavarian advLes It appears, has Unemploed royalty, become a serious problem in Bavaria, especially at Coburg and other places he d m Pte tea UiUH AtOeliuas One.) Oesttseed ea Face Twe. tCehuaa Three) Iec I (Bv th. Associated Pres. ) Th. bitter pcW.imaV chief feeHng of Ella. H Mortimer, government wltne.e in the veteran, bureau ton.plrcy trial against ColoCHICAOO, Taw-renr- Hight and dels Sweeten Slayer of Five Gets Death Sentence; Laughs Twelve I WHVON MT. the Socialists- - ths Clericals and the Democrats, In ths opinion of political leaders According to ths latest returns these two parties have elected a total of 27 members of the reichstag, and, with only this number to depend upon, ths leaders fear this liberal combination would be unable to command a dependable majority, even if f it were given the support of, ths Barvarlan People's party, with its nineteen votes' The other alternative suggested by the increased number of deputies, due to the unexpectedly heavy vote, is that y of a coalition, taking In the Socialists, the Clericals, the Democrats and the Stresemann Feopls party. The coponent units of this combination would represent political elements of hostile contrasts, however, and it could only maintain a parliamentary existence. It is pointed out, If the parties composing it subscribed to a political trues. CALLED DEAD HEAT. To ths extent the leaders of the liberal parties ere Inclined to view election as a "dead heaL and anything but a hopeful advance in the direction of forming a government which would rest on a broad center base and command a majority of sufficient slxe to give It an era of unhampered parliamentary action Provisionally final results, complied today, gave ths Soshortly afternoon 119 seaU, a gain of cial Democrats e elect as compared with last May and ths tion. The Centrists (Clericals) other the Democratic German party, two liberal parties repreeeated in the government, not only held their own but eech increased IU representation, the Centrists by two seats and the Democrats by three. The standing , was, THE STANDING. Social Democrats.129 seats , German. Nationalists, 104, Centrists (Clericals), (7; German Peoples party, 60. Com1, munists, 44; German Democrats Bavarian People's party, 19, extreme Economic 10, party, Nationalists, 14, Farmers party. 4, Hanoverians, 4 besides Moore rat verms By d, By -- Agrees to Conference BY OLD FRIEND highest-rankin- Short Session of Congress May faot Find Time to Tackle the Subject P. Employees Vote S. Grand Duke Cyril Rabbi, Descendant of King David, Diet FIVE CENTS PAGES 18 nel Chajfo. R Forbes, on. of the defendant., Va me out frequently In the defense of Morti- Joint Meetings at ah Kendrick Proposes Plan for Settlement on Government Lands Early Date Proposed to Clean Up Dispute With the Worker. WASIRVOTON DC I A J)W nt plan f r aided and directed of government land withwaa in federal irrigation district et firth in a bill Introduced to-d- a bv Senator Kendriclf, Detno-- rt Tha tnaaaura Wvommg would authorise the secretary of the interior to aet aaide or ac$10 an exceeding quire at not acre auffi lent unentared land to 100 farms, which, if he cmprie be deemed neceaaary, would cleared and leveled at government expeme Theae would be eold to applione eara praccants. of at tical In experienc-- Per Cent of Engineers, Fireand men, Hostler Helpers in Accord. Ninety-si- farming and with capital aggregating not lem h the , appraised than value of the farm Actual realdence would be required of purchasers of the farms 8AN FRANCISCO. Dew An almost unanimous vote of the engine crews nod hostlers on th Southern Paclflo company Mnes to strike unless th company granted them a conference on wag differences was ffloiel-l- y and payments for the property would be under the same ayatem aa now appltea to irrigation project with the secretary authorised to advance up to $3000 to eah for permanent improvement and equipmenL mer today Mortimer charged that Forbes had broken up hla home, and said that he hoped Mrs Mortimer bad receded the divorce for which she applied In Philadelphia a few days ago He said he agreed not to contest it I found him in my apartment with Mra. Mortimer Labor day evening. 1922," Mortimer said, "and I helped him out and told him not to come back I mean, as ha waa going out. I helped him along I dldn t need any help then and 1 would n t need any now There are still some things I want Jo even with Forbes I The next day, Mortimer said, this breach, one of several similar ones Bride of Rhineearly In the summer, waa temporarily Young healed over, and they all went tolander Boy Prepare to gether to the wedding of Mortimer's In Philadelphia, September 20, 1922 "A dav or two later I saw him riding Fight Annulment In Fafrmount park. Philadelphia, with Mrs Mortimer, with Mr. William.' chauffeur (J F William, of Philadelphia Mr. Mortimer e uncle)," Mor- Chlesio Tribune Balt Lake Trtboa Wire. timer uild "I went over to him and NEW ROCHELLE. 11 Y Dec. .eked what he meant by being .with Mrs. Leonard Kip Rhinelander', anMr. Mortimer after I had warned him to .tay away," Mortimer said swer to the annulment suit filed Forbe.' reply wa. not stated against her by her millionaire husUSED AS A CLUB. band waa served in New York today "Did you us. this circumstance to on Leon Jacob, attorney for young Indue Forbes to grant th. Mcond Rhinelander. It was made public In Tuppr Lak. (N.w York) foundation contract to th. W. Dhospitald New Rochelle tonight by Judge 8am Con. traction company of 8L ual F Swinburne. Mrs. Rhinelander's Loul." Mortimer wa. asked bv Colo- counsel nel Jame. S Eaaby-SmitMrs Rhinelander denies flatly her Forbes ckief couneel. husband aoouswtkm. that aha told Mortimer replied, Vthat and him .he Waa whits and not colored a lot of Other .tuff back of that, and end had no negro blood and also Forbes knew h. had bstter do a. 1 that all. knew her representation, asked " war. false, or made them' with to deceive. 8he denies the conPreviously he had testified that he wa. acting as agent for the Sutherland tention In the complaint that eh and company on the second Tupper Lak her husband had not voluntarily lived foundation contract, because James as man and wife since before th Blark, now deceased, tha bu.ln.aa commencement of th action. late of John R Thompson, Forbe.' In her answer Mr Rhinelander de codefendant, had notified him Black pies each and every allegation on did not want the Tupper Lak. Job paragraphs 2. 4 end I of the comMortimer te.ttfled he had given Forbes plaint. the paragraphs on the chargee In which the annulment is asked. Cestianad sa Fags Three The answer. Judge Bwlntrurne said (Oeluea Twe.) will not be filed for two wek in Wh'te Plain. .When asked th reason for the delay he replied. Rockefeller Scion "There are proceedings in Conner, with the case that must be taken Society Has Sensation tlon rare of It t not customary to Hie NBW YORK, Dec 8 Metropolitan answer, at once. There la no hurry society was surprised today at the about It now working on annpuaaxment of the marriage mbre a "My secretory request for a bill of particulars The than a year ago of Avery Rockefelson A of ler. Rockefeller, and Percy CeaUewed se Para Twa grandnephew of John D Rockefeller, rtra) to Mss Anna Mark daughter.of Clay- LILY BUTTLE leter-ln-la- Suit t Huth-erlan- GOES 'Y, HL aa-w- m Kid McCoy of Prize Ring .But Pari Newspaper Say Face Court for Alleged Herriot I Not Acting With Sufficient Vigor Murder of Mrs. Mors. 7S tailored, ANGELEfL-C-- al , Dec- - 8 Neat-I- v but slightly worn, at compared with the debonair man of twenty eara ao, when he waa the prisa-rin- g idol of the nation Norman Relhy, alias Kid McCoy sat through the first session of superior court here listening Intently to the examtnion of prospective Jurors who will decide his guilt or lnmKeme of the murder of Mrs Theresa W Mors divorced wife of Albert A Mors, antique dealer, laat Auiruet At the adjournment of court more that a wore of taleamen had paaaeri under the fire of iuetinne from defense and prosecuting attomee and all were rejected. The tank of selecting the Jury was expected to be completed early tomorrow opening clashes of opposing counsel disclosed that the defense will hinge on its plea for acquitLtl on the testimony of Mrs Da Martin who lived in the apartment bouse where Mrs Mors was slain Attorney George Shreve declared to the court that Mrs Martin testifying; for the defense, would identify the man she saw runheavy, thick-se- t' ning from the apartment Immediately after the stream snd shot were heard as the husband, Mora, not McCoy Shreve referred to the will Mrs Ceattaned sa Fsge Three (Oohona Fear.) ,4tc 8 iBy the Aolaled house Herriot a Premier in France cleaning of communiKta simmered down today o the arrest of ten foreign workmen whose In migration papers were not In order They w ill ba deported The ten men were described In the annoureement of arrest as being considered as charged with he mission of organizing international com- PARIS Prert ) -- munism The police drive seems to have bean reduced to ferreting out all undesirable foreigners, snd visitors to Paris were warned today lo see that their papers are in order and to carry them on their persons Many entielv reopectable persons not associated with the communists already huve been picked up by the authorities because they had left The ortheir credentials at home der is !lkel to prove esfkoctnlly irking to tourists, who are not required to take out paperi immediately and who seldom trry with therm documents to prove their status The government today showed concern over the Importance given communism In Franc by tha foreign press Tonight M Bergery. who Is chief Herr1ota of cabinet, premier summoned the foreign correspondents CwkssM as Fats Twe. (Oels a Tkrsa.) Church Council Opens War on War 00 00 00 00 00 World Court Proposal Is Indorsed OO 00 00 00 00 00 00 Weds; 1 K. ton Mark of Chicago Tha young Rockefellers are at present in Kngland with their Infant son. where Mr. Rockefeller is completing his education at one of the large universities The presence of the child precipitated the announcement Neither family objected to the union the announcement, which came from Percy Rockefeller, stated The young people met while both were students at a university and their romance blossomed in a collegiate The families of tha two young people were aware for a number of years of the affection they bad for each other the official announcement but had no thought that they considered marriage before th completion of their education. In romantic fashion they eloped In the fall of 4923 and intended to keep their marriage a secret until they had finished their schooling said, No Solution of Double Murder at Billings BILLINGS, Mont , Im 8 Aftsr a nlrht nf lnetlration, failed to furnish any new clews, jkh jxllc and sheriffs officers today are bendinr of every effort to aolvs the niacin Nels M Anderson, 43 a barber, and his wife Anna, who were killed with an axe In Andersons shop lets Sat- urday nlrht The double murder Is believed bv police to have been commltteed by an man Thus far initane or there is no known mothe to which be the slavlnr rhlrht traced The bod lee of Anderwnn and his wife "were not discovered until Sunday afternoon, when police went to council during th course of his ad- the whop in reeponee to a report from dress He urged the churches to relatives of the pair that they had ork for a reduction of armaments, failed to return home at the ueual a referendum of war and complete hour Saturday nlrht Four children survive the murdered establishment of a world court, with another tribunal which would have couple. powey to Investigate all disputes, but powerfull o enforce Ha decrees British Debt Refunding Among the recommendations of the bustneM committee adopted by the Regarded Closed Affair council were the the present "consultive WASHINGTON. Dec. (The Amer-lea- n relationship'' of the United Lutheran debt commission consider the church in America with the council British debt reminding settlement as and expressing the hope that le would closed and believes it unlikely that soon come Into fujl membership. ny move will be made by the Britfor the ish government looking to a revision Asking those responsible to of those terme even In event an"chgracter .of moving pictures prevent th showing of those reflect- other nation Is rranted more liberal ing on "cardinal virtues,'. . casting treatment In adebt settlemenL "Inuendoea on moral or religion and In "any way" weakening the "ap. proved restraints of conscience and Coolidge Not Disposed to J , characterpersonal Extend Butler's Absence Referring the resolution hf Dr. Charles Morrison. Chicago, condemnDec. f President WASHINGTON, ing war and instructing the committee on army and navy chaplains to foolidre la tncl.ned to refuse a fur stop cooperating In the appointment ther leeve of absence for Brigadier tn the officers' reserve General Butler, serving ss director of of -- chaplain committee for public safety at Philadelphia, but will corps ' to a special reaih no definite decieion until afInvestigation 11 will Th oount adjourn it. quad- ter further conference with Secretary rennial meeting tomorrow afternoon, Wilbur. drink-craxe- Sweet, Bryan, Shotwell Aggressive ATLANTA. Ga.. Dsc. 8 (By th. a Associated Pres ) War today declared on war by ths federal council of churchea. In session hers. world Methods of maintaining peace approved by ths organization, Protwhich represents taenty-elgh- t estant denominations, included ths world court, pledge by all nations to submit to "suitable" tribunal, all international disputes of a threatening nature and the branding" of war a. an "intemsttonal crime William Jennings Bryan, Dr. James T. FhotweU. New York, director of th Carnegie endowment for International peace, and Governor William E. Sweet of Colorado led ths attack against war. Sweet approved ths Governor protorvr ariA-- i ths Christianirelation. nd thternational zation of declared the churches are "Indignant, so. the attitude of at and rirhtfully relaconcerning America's congress world ' The Repubpeace tion to was criticised administration lican in regard by him for this position and to International problems,dav ' for It sponsoringwasof "defense given the greatest ovaBryan tion- of ths present meeting of tbs Oe-ns- following-Approvtn- 1 . , w 7 d First Real Tate of Cold Weather Descend Over Large Area of Country. By t ilhml Service. CHICAGO, Dec, 8 The first touch of a snappy cold .pell struck the midwest tonight. A cold wave that sent the mercury w hissing down the tube sped east ward in the van of the blizzard which I. raging in the west and northwest, piling up heavy drift of enow and virtually bringing traffic to a temporary standntlll Chicago lunched lit spring weather and dined in a biting cold At 9 2(1roclock and up until noon Jhe registered 641 degrees. By 7 10 o'clock It wa degree below freezing, a drop In five hours of 7 forecast weather the And degree. aald this was onlv the first touch of being predicted winter, a further drop for tonight A light snow flurry added to the tang of winter faced tt. first snowMilwaukee storm today with a .drop In temerature. The Ihurky fog of thy morning gave way to the bltxsard conwhich prevailed elsewhere in dition the Great Lake, region.. At Superior. Wta , rix Inch, of .now fell today and lake vessel, were rushgale ing to port ahead of th. Eighteen Inches of enow blankhta Sioux City and other Iowa tow n. A continuous snowfall has been In progress since la.t Thursday and numer- ous automobile tourists seeking to Irek westward ahead of the bitter winter were mailed in th snow drifts along the fond. Interurban traffi' In Aberdeen, and ether South Dakota t rn was halted. At Yankton. 8. D.. nine inches of show fell today and School, were losed before the roads were impassable. . x lender, wyo.. in th vicinity heart of the Rntky mountain etorm, reported the lowest tern erature of th Leadvllle country I below sero Colo., and Billings. Mont , shivered zero weather in The midweewt wa not the only aec- Ceatiewed ea Fera Twelve (Oetaraa Fees! and was met with announced today ' announcement WUUnra by Sproule, president of the eompeny. that such conference wee agreeable to th officials of th hyetein. The strike vote Involved approximately (00 men employed ea the Southern th Pacific proper and Its subsidiaries, th El Paso and Southwestern system and th Arisons and Eastern sy- - tern. In A brief Joint gtntem.nt Indued before noon. L. O. Grifflng, grand chief engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineer and D. B. Rob- ertson, president of th Brotherhood Firemen and Engine-mewho cam her to canvass th vote, eeld that 94 per cent of th men had voted for th condition! strike-Fou- r hours later President Sproule Issued the following statement. "The representatives of the employees In engine service have asked for a Joint conference and an online been given that this Is agreeable to the eompeny at an early and convenient date' Advice from Chicago said that th Southern Pacino wa willing to negotiate en th baste ef th I per cent Increase order Issued recently by the federal railroad labor board, but no mention of this order wad contained In Mr. Bproule'e statement. of th worker Th representatlre had Ignored the order on ths ground that it was negotiated without their being made a party to It In any way. of Locomotive n, ALMOST UNANIMOUS, IA per sent of the engineers, firemen, hostlers end ho tiers' 3 on Southern Pacific, th helpers Paeo A Southwestern and Arizona eastern railroad system have voted to strike If necessary to obtain a ef matter In eoatrvry," it we announced today by exeoutive of the Bremen and engineer' brother-hood- s Th strike statement waa limed bv Is D. Grifflng. general chairman of Engith Brotherhood of Looomotiv neers, end D. B. Robertson, president of th Brotherhood of Jnciynotlvt Firemen end Enginemen. No . trike date was set, it being ranted that aa endeavor is being mad to settle th controversy through negotiation. subTh result of u vote was mitted to William Bprouls, president of the Southern Pacific, In "tb hop of effecting a peaceful settlement." the statement said. The statement aald In full: TEXT OF ETATEMENT. "The gtrlk vote of engineer, firemen, hostler and hostler helper on th Southern Pacific (Pacific system), El Paeo A Southwestern system and Arizona Eastern railroad system he been canvassed and shows K per cent of th mpn Involved have voted In favor of leaving th Systran, it found neoaesary. In order to secure a conference and to obtain a satisfactory settlement of matter In controversy. "We hev conveyed to President Sproule th action taken by th man and hav renewed our request for a conference In th hop of effecting peaceful settlement, and w are hi r reply." awaiting Th El Paso A Southwestern and the Arisons Eastern nr subsidiaries of the Southern Pacific. The brotherhood chief did not announce th number of men voting, but they are known to number Into th thousands. Th controversy relate to a proposed wag adjustment and an adjustment of working rules Tb recent wag raise granted by th railroad labor board was disregarded by th brotherhood executives on th ground that th men had no part tn tb conferences on which the Increase was Ninety-si- x based. . ARE READY TO CONFER. Dec. I Th CHICAGO, management ot the Southern Pacific railroad, whoa engineer and firemen announced today a strike had been voted, intimated thetr willingness to have ueatteaed (Oeiraaa Tkne fin Few) Free List of 1000 Useful Books A Here t a' guide that will tell you what to read to help you get ahead. Whoever you are whatever your work her Is a sure way to get more money in your pay envelop The Washington bureau of this this exhaustive paper provide booklet, free, a a part of it pot- of tcy helpfulness to reader. An assurance of the excellence of this work Is the tact that It waa complied by th American Library association for exclusive distribution by our Washington Information Bureau. Resolve to Improve yourself now. Send for your copy today. Enclose two cents ia stamps for return postage. Frederic J. Hark In, Director, Th Salt Lak Tribune Information Burras, Washington, D. C. I enclose herewith, two cents on In stamp for return poetag a free copy of One Thousand Useful Books . , .. 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