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Show J jlsstChs Job Pth&sj At Bring prices. Let us jI hm rout next order (or anything you want print ed. Rich County News j printing la arnonymoua j with art ana efficiency i TWENTY-FIFT- NUMBER 26. RANDOLPH, RICH COUNTY, UJAH, SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1922. YEAR. H I LOAN SOUGHT Pithy News Notes From All Part s of UTAH that unit. Tardieu complains ED STATES IS MORE EXACTING IN DEMANDS'THAN ENGLAND AIRSHIP ROMA 18 WRECKED IN FLIGHT BEING MADE TO TEST NEW LIBERTY MOTORS RECEIVER DESIRES TO COMPLETE Langley Field Officer Says Cause of Wreck in Which Thirty-fou- r Men Lost Lives Will Always Remain a Mystery , Fifty Billion Tons of Bituminoius Coal Will Be Brought Forth By Norfolk, Va. Army air service experts Wednesday put under way their Investigation to determine the cause of the disaster to the American airship were killed Roma, in which thirty-fou- r and eleven Injured. Stark and flame seared, the twisted steel skeleton that had been the queen of American skies, lay near the Norfolk mud flats Wednesday, Its charred remains concealing many of the secrets the air service experts will seek to probe. Practically every one of the thirty-fou- r victims was burned to death, officers and physicians said. Most of the bodies were identified by trinkets. Major General Patrick, chief of the army air service, Washington, was on the ground with an army court of inquiry to determine the blame. While the court will require seveipl days to complete Its investigation, the Indication was that the crew would be exonerated and the cause of the crash reported as unknown. The consensus of opinion Is that Captain D. L. Mabry, commander of the Boma, in making the turn over the army base failed to allow for the increased power. The rudder broke under the unusual strain, jamming Into the controls. This occurred at a height estimated at 650 feet. The Roma's nose pointed down and Lieutenant Burt, at the elevation level, tugged desperately to straighten the ship. She refused to respond and he yelled at Captain Mabry to shut off the motors. They were shut off one by one. In the meantime, the helpless giant sagged rapidly, nose pointing down at an angle of 45 degrees. Two score feet from the ground the nose passed over a high tension wires, tearing them to fragments. A second later, the dirigible thrust her nose into a mass of steel billets, machine parts and scrap iron and collasped on its living freight. A few seconds more and the fire ignited by the twisting serpents of flame from the 2500-voelectric wires, swept the wreckage. A great sheet of flame shot from the huge gas bag, leaping high into the air and driving away the scores of soldiers and civilians who rushed to the rescue. Unable to approach the pyre the rescuers turned in a fire alarm and then picked up Lieutenant Reilly, who had jumped from the machine just before she struck the wires. He had failed to open his parachute and creashed into a mass of metal. He flied on the way to the hospital. When the fire was extinguished, a dozen charred bodies were found tangled in the skeleton. The rest of the bodies were held fast under the ship" and a derrick was used tl life the giant frame before these could be relased. Few of the survivors could recall the incidents leading up to the collapse. Lieutenant Welsh and Major Reardon were In the forward cabin when the collapse came. They were stunned for a few seconds and while still In a daze began cutting away at the fabric. After cutting a large hole they found themselves directly over a deep depression in the ground and this enabled them to crawl to safety. Washington, The Denver & Salt Lake Railroad company applied Monday to the Interstate commerce commission fofr a government loan of $6,. 500,000 with which to construct a tunnel six miles long on a portion of the road about 170 miles west of Denver. The receivers of the Denver & Salt Lake railroad, in arguing for grant ctf the loan, declared the proposed tunnel would eliminate grave and serious difficulties which they now have to face in operating the railroad, which climbs to 11,600 feet above sea level. The tunnel would alloiw them to reduce the highest elevation on the railroad to 9190 feet, and would eliminate twenty-seve- n miles of 4 per cent grade over which their locomotives now have to climb in winter with rotary snowplows in front every day to maintain operations. If the money Is granted, the receivers added, the line can be completed to its projected terminus at Salt Lake City, and a coal field estimated to contain 50,000,000,000 tans of bituminous coal can be adequately served. The receivers estimated that the lower operating charges and the Increased efficiency attained by a long tunnel at the summit would result immediately in an increase of 200 per cent In the traffic. Alo a very large area of Colorado now without railroad service, and much of it government land, the application said, would be made ava'lublo for settlement. Red Cross Spends Millions Washington Jlhe.A m e r i ca n Red Cross spent $9,782,000 last year hi assisting disabled world war veterans, John Barton Payne, national chairman of that organization, has announced. The principal service rendered was in putting the disabled In effective relation with the proper government agency In order to help them obta.i that which they are entitled to from the federal government. RAILWAY LINE INTO UINTA BASIN, UTAH; ASKS LOAN Logan Parley Larsen broke the r Qrd at swimming meet at the Smart gymnasium. Debt Will Full If Time Is Only Given; Common People, It Is Declared, Want Consideration In Time of Stress Be Paid In Paris. France wants to and will pay her debts "to the United States. We ask only that we be given proper lime. Completion of Proposed Road Building - Under the Versailles treaty, FratTCS is Germanys creditor to the extent of $17,000,000,000, which represents about half the damages she suffered. France has expected America to give effective help in collecting this sum, which is vastly more than the $3,000,000,000 she owes America. This help has failed us. I hav nev-e- r blamed Americas policy, but unquestionably its result has been to encourage Germany not to pay. Since the arms conference, we have paid out 80,000,000,000 francs advance on reparations and in pensions. During the same period Germany has been forced to pay but 9,000,000,000 gold marks, of which Belgium got 2,500,000,000, and France should have received 52 per cent of the remainder. But the occupation expenses had to be reduced. In such circumstances when debts are mentioned we do not say we will mot pay that is Loucheurs phrase but we say we will pay, but are in a .delicate situation, which warrants giving us some consideration. Who will say we are wrong? Let me recall here that it was I who negotiated the debts contracted by France in America from '1917 to 1919. When the money was lent no date for repayment was fixed, because it was recognized the future could not be, known with cerainty. However, dverybody ntthat tlme said' thaC add believed, Germany, when conquered, would be obliged to pay. But the contrary is the case. Germany has paid hardly anything yet, and at such a moment the American congress votes a law fixing the dates and conditions , for final payment. England has been less exacting. I would be lacking in my customary frankness in these cables, if I did not remark that for such a notification the time was Such, at any rate, has been the common mans impression in France. He has said, It was not necessary. She has never said We will not pay. Ho has said We have not been helped to collect what is due us, but they hasten to demand that which we owe. That Is my countrys true sentiment, and you Americans must understand it as It is, for there is nothing which threatens your interests or your sentiments. With our 330,000,000 francs debt, with 80,000,000,000 already spent in Germanys place leaving 50,000,000,-00- 0 remaining to be spent in the same direction we are entitled to be treated with a certain consideration by our friends. ' This consideration and all that TREATY is all that we aslf we will take. FAVORABLY REPORTED Along With Naval Limitation and Submarine Facta, It Is Passed On. Washington Finally effecting a compromise reservation program, the foreign relations committee cleared the way Saturday for transfer of the arms conference treaty debate to the open senate. Pacific treaty, which The has proved the most troublesome of the arms conference agreements in committee discussions, was ordered favorably reported with a blahket reservation drawn by committee members after consultation with President Harding. Only the general --far eastern and Chinese tariff pacts now remain on the committee calendar, and senate leaders hope to bring tbe whole group of treaties into the senate proper soon so that debate on them oan begin as soon as the vote is reached on the separate treaty relating to Yap. four-pow- er Treas'ure Found in Texas Crockett, Texas Buried treasure has been found here. For the past fifty years, at different times, searchers have dug in this vicinity and in tbe country through which the old Sgn An.onio trail, known as the King's highway passes. A pot of treasure was recently uncovered near here by a local resident- - The pot was filled with silver coins, trinkets, medals and a few pieces of old jewelry all in a perfect state of preservation. The dates on the coins 1795 to 1812 furnished the e ly clue to when the pot was burled half-doze- n lt i . FEDERAL LABOR BOARD CUTS JUDGES ORGANIZE BARGAIN DAYS COMPENSATION OF FIREMEN rTO HELP CLEAR CALENDARS AND OILERS OF COUNTRY OF LIQUOR CASES i t Ten Thousand Men Will Be Affeoted San Thou- FranciscOj Has Twenty-fou- r . By Wage Reduction Which Will sand Cases on Docket Which Take Effect on March First, Have Swamped Courts; Help It Is Announced Called Being Chicago. Another pay slash, this time hitting 10,000 railroad firemen and oilers, was made by the United States railroad labor board Thursday when it announced rules effective March 1, eliminating extra pay until after the tenth hour and setting up a split trick of eight hours within a spread of twelve without any overtime I pay.Following several other decisions virtually restoring the ten-hoday for railroad workers, the board Thursday authorized the roads to pay only pro rata wages after the regular eight hours which the board retained In principle as constituting a days work. Time and one half will be paid after ten hours. In the case of the split trick straight time will be paid for the first ten hours work, whether included in the twelve-hou- r spread or not, and time and one-hal- f will be given thereafter. Formally the firemen and oilers, all of whom workv around railroad shops, were paid time and one-haafter eight hours. Sundays and holidays will be paid for at the pro rata, a minimum of three hours or less. Monthly rated employes wages are to be adjusted to elimate the old time and f provisions. Ten rules regarding discipline, grievances, discrimination against committeemen and similar matters were remanded to the employes and the roads for further negotiation. The boards new rules supplant the national agreement made during federal control, which has been In effect since January 16, 1920. - " " lf one-hal- COAL STRIKE SEEMS INEVITABLE Illinois Operators Only Ones to Accept Cleveland Meeting Plan A strike of bituminous Chicago. coal miners April First, seemed inevitable, Thursday. Only government intervention or a split in the ranks of the union and acceptance of a lower scale can av$rt the walkout, it is believed. Smoot Named on Commission The meeting called for Cleveland on Presiden Harding March 2, between mineworkers and Washington. Tuesday nominated the foreign' debt operators will not be held, according refunding commission. The members to general opinion. are: Illinois operators are the only ones Secretary of State Hughes. have accepted the invitations who Secretary of the Treasury Mellon. of President John L. Lewis to the Commerce of Hoover. Secretary Cleveland meeting, but they qualify Senator Smoot of Utah. their acceptance with the statement Representative Burton of Ohio. if the law allows. The nominations go to the senate for confirmation, after which the comAshton Sees Big Dog Races mission will organize and takle the Ida. Tud Kent, American Ashton, debt refuding problem. dog racing champion for 1921, carried away honors again on Washingtons Young Girl Ordained Minister in the annual Ashton dog Tulsa, Okla A girl was Birthday in connection with a local held liderby, seven a persons granted among cense to preach the gospel by tbe midwinter festival. Kent defended conNortheastern Oklahoma conference of his honors against a field of eight some one woman, tenders, including the Methodiot Episcopal church here the best miishers recently. She is Miss Fay Emery of of them considered' made the Kent in this country. Miami, Okla., who began preaching e course in 2 hours and last summer in the mining district near her home. She is in the seventh 35 minutes, a mark considerably he set last j ear, when grade at school and says her ambi- lower than that record for the world's the he broke become missiona to is tion foreign William Kooch finished ary. , The girl became a church mem- distance. ber two years ago and immediately second in 2' hours and 45 minutes, became a Sunday school teacher in and George Pilcher took third money in 2 hours and 49 minutes. the primary department. twenty-five-mil- -- Salt Lake. A total of 100,00 circulars, containing the proclamation of Governor Mabey urging the wider use of milk as a drink and food in the San Fransico. If anyone doubts that the Volstead act is being enforced in San Fransico, despite the fact that he can probably get a drink almost anywhere without much trouble, let him look at the calendars of the federal counts of this district, where 2400 prohibition cases are waiting . trial amorA piling, up vdailyt The courts are so congested that many offenders have been arrested five and six times without having as yet been brought to trial on the first charge. If all the defendants whose cases are now pending demand jury trials, the calenders of the courts probably will be cleared about the time the Liberty bond Issues mature, somewhere way up in the 1940s. In numerous cases judges have held 'bargain days, to help in moving the business. They have left off light all those offenders who) were on the docket and who changed their pleas from not guilty to guilty, thus eliminating the jury trial. Federal judges are not very pleased with the state of the affairs, according to rumor. Before Mr. Volstead made the country unlawfully wet, file federal cofurts were dignified places, where points of law worthy of high legal minds were involved. Now, however, the judges- complain, most of their time is taken up with bootleg cases, and the federal courts are nothing more nor less than police courts, after a fashion, with the same shyster lawyers practicing in them as practice in the police courts. The federal judges, in most cases, would like to have the Volstead act amended so as to turn over the run of prohibition cases to the United States commissioners courts for settlement. Many a lawyer who used to struggle along with hardly enough practice to muke a living, and not enough brains to help it, is now a bootleggers lawyer, obtaining excellent fees from defending bootleggers whenever arrested. It is estimated that the number of lawyers practicing criminal law has jumped 200 per cent since the country was legislated dry. The latest wrinkle of the prohibition enforcement agents Is to invoke abatement proceedings, formerly used In red light cases, against property owners. Prohibition agents, when they find evidence of bootlegging, will formally serve notice on the property owners that if they continue to rent to lawbreakers proceedings will be instituted to close tlieir porperty for one year, according to the abatement - " law. homes of Utah, have been printed in the by organizations Interested milk Industry, and will be distributed by the state boarl of agriculture dur tag the coming campaign on milk supply. Brigham City Boxelder County is agitating the paving of road from this city to Corinne. Ogden. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh C. Wood have been called to Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif., on ae count of an Injury to their son Francis, who is a freshman at the univer- sity. The young man has, within a year, suffered a dislocated shoulder seven times. Salt Lake City A. plan is being launched for using the State Fair grounds as a city park for eleven months In the year. The other month the grounds would be used for annual fair. Bountiful. Davis county commissioners have announced a readiness to improve with federal aid' that part of the road from Echo to Ogden which lies in Davis county. The road does not particularly serve the people of Davis county, but it is on one of the alternate routes on the federal highway system leading to the gateway between Utah and Wyoming. SMOOT CHARGES ARE SUSTAINED Senate Report Shows Concerns Forced Premium In Order to Get Loln Washington. Charges of Senator Smoot (Rep.) Utah, and other senators that borrowers from joint stock Iahd banks in some cases had been charged illegal premiums, were declared sustained in a reprtrt made to the senate by Chairman Lobdell of the federal" farm loan board. In reply to a resolution of inquiry adopted by the senate. Chairman Lobdell, in a letter discussing reports of illegal charges being imposed upon bor rowers, said: That such charges have been made we know beyond question. Individual cases have been called to our attention and Investigation has developed others. Considering the number (of official loans) involved and the opportunity for extortions, we believe they have been surprisingly few. Chairman Lobdell added that the bonrd, when it learned that borrowers were required to subscribe for the stock of two joint stock banks at a premium in order to secure loans, had issued an order storing the practice and requiring the banks to take up the stock and to repay premium plus interest. Salt Lake. Utah, through its state engineer, R. E. Caldwell, member of the Colorado rh er commission, is rather committed to the theory that unlimited dec elopment ' oi irrigation projects, with, of course, a proper use of water, shouldbe permitted to all the states in theBigrado river basin. 'Some members of Oie commission desire a definite limited acreage in each state. Others agree with Mr. Caldwell, taking the position that there is water enough in the river to develop all feasible projects. But even if there were not, Mr. Caldwell argues, the scientific development of the river would demand the use of the water to the fullest extent in tho upper reaches of the river, because a large part of this water will return to the bed of the river, while on the lower river, and particularly in California and the republic of Mexico, such return flow is impossible. As a result it would take, he points out, about three times as much water to irrigate an acre near the gulf of California or the Salton sea ns it does in Wyoming, Colorado or Utah. The urgent need of a system of highways by which tourists may visit Utahs national parks and scenic wonders was emphasized in an address made at the luncheon of the Salt Dike engineering council held in Salt Lake recently. Properly developed these assets could give a great earning power and a comprehensive plan was given of linking the national parks of Utah with the Grand Canyon of the Colorado by a road system which would enable one to visit all these places on one continuous journey. Ogden. That the proposed steel bridges in the Ogden canyon which lave been ordered built will disfigure the natural beauty of the canyon, is the protest of the Progressive Business club of Ogden. The members of Clash Over Land Bill the club said they favored the original Boise. President Warren G. Hard- plans ol the bridges, whicli called for ing was asked, through the medium of their construction of concrete. Idahois congressional deKgation, to Salt Lake dancing veto house bill No. 77, by a massed came to an end at the University of assembly of 500 representative bustness lunch-hou- r dance was men, stockmen, sheepmen and farmers, Utah when abruptly stopped by Professor Thomas held in the house of representatives at tle statehouse a few days ago. This Giles, who declared that unless the action was taken after the friends and students would dance properly, the enthe enemies of the measure were heard tertainment would he discontinued. in debate that lasted six hours, dur- Following the announcement by Pr.v ing which the lie was directly passed : fessoij Giles the tmusic was eg, in and dancing continue.1., hut charges were made that the bill consti- started k the variety was no was a tutes a land steal. and demand made for tiie resignation of Hugh longer in evidence. Sproat ns president of the Idaho Salt Lake City It appears th t at association. last the boundaries of Daggett, Utali'3 t baby county, are pretty definitely setBull Wrecks Red Auto tled. At least it will require an n t Topeka, Kan. Fred Knudson, a of the Utah legislature to (change farmer, Saturday appealed to the stato them. This was made clear by the resuperintendent of insurance for aid In ceipt of (he state engineer of copies collecting collision insurance on his off a resolution passed by the county automobile. Knudson complains that commissioners of Daggett countv, nr I he painted his automobile red, that a a similar resolution passed hy the bull at a public sale at Orion, Kan., county commissioners of Uintah counwrecked it, itjid the insurance com- ty, determining the line between the pany refused to consider his claim. twj counties Cheek-to-cheel- cheek-to-chee- Loan Soon Subscribed Wool-growe- York The 75,000,000 guilder loan negotiated by The Nethei lands government with a group of American bankers was offered at jpubll-'- sale Monday and the entire amount was subscribed within half an hour. New ' Grain Law Held Invalid Washington The North Dakota law regulating grain inspection and purchase was Monday declared invalid by the supreme court in an op'non rendered by Justice Day. -- rs c |