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Show DESERET EVENING NEWS. PAGES 14 WEDNESDAY JUNE JJO 1917 SALT LAKE CITY UTAH SIXTY-EIGHT- YEAR H UNITED STATES TO TAKE OVER COAL INDUSTRY I1 GOVERNMENT tb tSb cSb t&i cgp .cSb c ?a risb dgb jgj rffc eg, Deliver Heavy Blow to Shipping j ' CONTROL OF COAL MOB TEARS DOWN BANNERS IS RE OF THE SILENT SENTINELS CREATE Trade Commission BILL Red Cross F unds T otal SUFFRAGISTS Coal Shortage Paralyzes Industries Strikes at Farmer and Will One Third Huge Sum Weekly of Cause VERY Losses To Be Raised in Nation AT WHITE HOUSE Total SEVERELY to Producers for ' ' Federal SECY. DANIELS WILL HAVOC PROTECT L Believes Loss RAILROADS British Send Strong Letter to Rhode Island Governor Show Highest On Newport Dangers Many Weeks List $750,000,-00- 0 BLAMED w A8HIXGTON, June 20. Red Cross campaign committees in all sections of the country today entered upon the third day of the Ban- weeks Intensive canvass to raise 9100,000.000 for was relief, Peaceful Pickets Had with $35,000,000 In pledges already reported. If the same rate ners Saying Wilson and Is maintained today the total by night will be 950,000.000. Reports by cities before work Root Deceive Russia started today Include the following: Reports by. states Include the following: New York -- . 17.000.000 Arizona . . . . 1 . 10.000 6,000 Chicago 2.000.000 Arkansas California 79,000 Cleveland 1,505,000 Colorado &00 CROWD OF ANGRY MEN 219, Buff10 . 746.000 Idaho .. 33,000 THEM DOWN .. 2,042.000 Philadelphia 642,000 Illinois Iowa 93.000 Cincinnati 561,000 Kansas 103.000 Wilmington 544.000 Minnesota 86.000 Rochester .. .. Montana 51.000 502,000 Nebraska 110.000 Miss Lucy Burns and Mrs. Detroit 469,000 New Mexico 3.000 Minneapolis 460.000 New York (outside New Lawrence Lewis Carried 8t. Louis York City 1,543.000 426.000 St- - Paul ., North Dakota 16.000 341,000 Oklahoma The Torn Banner. 111.000 Kansas City 237.000 Oregon 109.000 Richmond 312.000 South Dakota . . 3.000 Milwaukee 275.000 Texas 71.000 Denver 119.000 Utah 212.000 Washington. June 20. The peacePortland. Ore. 39.000 Washington .. 61.000 ful picketing of the While Houee Des Moines . . . 33.000 Wyoming ,. .. 16,000 grounds by zjlent eentlnelz of the auf-frag- e cause led to the first disorder 60V. HARDING'S SALAHY today when a crowd of angry men tore down banners the women were holding for the Russian mission to see when It visited President Wilson. The Suggested KENYON DENOUNCES Arrangements FOOD SPECULATORS Would Only Last 5or Duration of the War Calls Them Highwaymen, Washington, June 20. GovWith Apologies to Highernment pools of coal production waymen Kaisers Allies. and distribution and of .... .... ..,. rail and water transportation were recommended to Congress today the federal trade commission as the only means of avoiding a disastrous coal shortage next by winter. "The commission believes, the report submitted after Isays many months of investigation I ordered by Congress, "that the 1 I coal industry is paralyzing the industries of the country and 1 tint the coal industry itself I para-- I lyaad by th failure of transportation. There are enough coal cars In the country, but not enough are delivered to the mines and these cars are not moved to the point of consumption greatest expedition nor are discharged ." ths conditions th com- mission recommends: "First' That the production and of coal and coke be con- through a pool In the hands of a government agency; that th product, of various grades of fuel be piH.thgir full cost of production plus a uniform profit per ton (with due allowance for quality of product and nev of nervier and Second That the transportation aencies of the United States both rail ind water be similarly pooled and operated on government account, under She direction of the president and that an with the they prompt! In vie of e- such operated r.Mun.VGnco? options heing paid a Just and fair Compensation which would cover nor- nal net profit, upkeep and better- - 2?' ' TORE Washington, June 20. In a vigorous attack upon the administration food control bill In the senate today Senator Gore. Democrat, chairman of the agriculture committee, declared It strikes at the farmer, will cause loeses to producers this year of 3260,000,000 in wheat and 1500,000,000 In corn and result in famine neat year through reduced production. Senator Gore declared the bill "short sighted policy" and It would result In driving down farmers' prices. "It was drawn by some attorney down at the department of agriculture, he shouted, "but one would think it is in the handwriting of the Deity and that It would be 'sacrilege to change It." Senator Gore declared the bill was tha "swseplnga of all the British and Canadian food acts of parliament and orders in council, ,n Thy re n trun this bill like a lot of bead a," he dared. "If Congress loses Its apect In passing this bill unamended everybody else will lose their respect for Congress. "I will not say that the Intention of this whole movement is to force down the prices of products In the hands of the farmers, but that Is the Inevitable result, he declared. Kenyon Scores Speculators. Senator Kenyon, Republican, then bill attacking as highwaymen speculators "One. however, should apologize for u,ing the term highwaymen' In oon- neetton with them." he said. 'The highwayman or the sea pirate Is a Christian .gentleman compared to them. It takes some courage to be a highwayman, but no courage to be a These gentlemen at food speculator. the present time are the allies of the kaiser. They are ...weakening the Amer , . .... .... .... .... .... ... JSJffll NEW YORK Washington, June 20 Instead of appropriating 110,000 for next years ary of Gov. Harding of the Panama cans! zone. Congress by mistake, appropriated 9100.000. Some one appsr- ently added another cipher to the ortg- inel figures. The mistake was discovered of the sundry today civil bill Investigation showed that the Same error existed In' the engrossed R hea escaped the at- tentlon ir all members of both houses, the hill having been apparently, and approved by the president. It is now the of 'he land that Gov. Harding shall receive next year 10 times his present salary. of cour. will be Ihin?lfuk; it will take an act of Congress to CITY to,hr selfre-durte- 10 SHOW d Have xsisappearea rrrom Their Homes Since They do it. POLICE COMR. WOODS ORDERS INQUIRY Mr., Emmeline Penkhu,.. Confers With Root Into Police Conditions as Petrograd via London. June 20. Mrs. Emmeline Pankhuret. the British leader, arrived Result of Ripper Mllr - suffragist in Petrograd yesterday. unexpectedly Mrs Pank- hurst conferred with EUhu Root and der of Ruth Cruger. (Charles Edward Russell at the winter are apThree recommendations proved by Commissioners Davies, Col-- 1 j Ver and Fort. Chairman Harris dis- -' nta on the plan for transportation except as a last resort and aug- palace regarding ways to assist Russia instead "that during the war the jin the 'struggle with tha common foe. president be authorised to order rail Mrs. Pankhurst said that ahe had New water transportation agencies to Jane 2 More than come to Russia to explain to the men . five preference to shipment of coal, lrl" ages of ten and " women of 'he new republic the keke and other commodities In the TvTo fight must be fed. The mothers have disappeared rrom thrlr aUtda of ,h' Bri,lsh democracy to- brder of thslr Importance to the of the nation must be fed. Th babies 20 "ar1 tB wr' The men who homes here since Jan. I it of the nation likewise. transpir- WUh ihin l lb coinciacnt Ud7 1th " announce legislation Needed. mun be oc Commissioner Wood An urgent necessity exists for Im7 'W have heard something about BMn mediate legislation to correct condl-enthis bill giving the right to the food that he had ordered begun the most says the report, because the controller to tell mothers how much searching Inquiry Into police condi- ual spring and summer accumulashall give their babies. It U w food re,nlt of ,he Tipper mur- te of coal stocks at points distant does they not do so. But there is one ri producing districts "is not now questlon Just as Important as the ques- - der of Ruth Cruger, the high school a king place, hut it must be mads dur-wh- tten of the amount graduate whose body was found bur- remains of the summer un- - ' abail give a baby and that Is whether lf1 ln celler under a bicycle shop food at all or he country Is to face next winter the baby shall have any bon sqrious and an irreparable sit- - whether the food that should o to belonging to Alfredo Cocchi several feed the babies of the poor shall feed da,. ago paion: Parent production of bituminous, the poodle dogs of the rich." "We are contending that babies off In this connection Importance is oft' coal la 40 per cent under e poor shall have food; that there tached to the statement made by Mias poHsible maximum, principally "" 1 - SUSZgof inthr.cU. lor., product this spring, one-four- floater S"" -- I tsel or anything else. JL Fouta TXtU 'It tothem eat do nm tumiLr!? r. ss? L. ,! mt1 JLhh j engineer. The policeman recovered a banner from Timmins, but It was beyond repair so th suffragists contented themselves with holding the damaged frames aloft ln evidence of their v'martyrdom," as one of them expressed it. The tom banner wes carried by Miss Lucy Burns of New York and Mrs. Lawrence Lewli of Philadelphia, of the executive board of the National Woman's party. They stood It at the west gate of th Pennsylvania avenue side of th White House and unfurled it Just a few minutes before the Russian mission was driven into the Members of the mission ground. paid no attention to tt DHLS SEEKS fGIVES LIST OF MOST NAVAL MEN ARE NOT OVER PESSIMISTIC! NOTORIOUS PLACES France Creates Department Nothing Should be Left Submarines Ameri- done to Protect can Destroyers Active. Men. Un-O- f London, June 30.- - Twenty seven j Washington. 20. Charges Jure British ships of more than l.SOO tons that naval recruits at the R lave been sunk, according to the j ,ralnlne ,aUon are Newport to expo wwkjy British summary given out to- - open gambling houses. Immoral Five British tcwH. under l.SOO sorts and of liquor were Illegal ton also wen sent to the bottom, No made by Secy, f lotting vcbn-Iwane destroyed. pouncing that London, June 20. The weekly list Gov. Beeckman In response to a preliminary comof British ioe in torpedoed ahipa which will be issued iody will show plaint the mayor of Newport made the highest total of many weeks, the a general denial and declared ther number of ships sunk being comparable to the worst week since tne wa no unusual degree of immorality ruthless campaign began. The Mn the fashionable city, returns week by week for the last j The navy department with the three months show that the L boat . , cnt the department activities run in wsves and it is as- sumd that this week is the crest ofiof justice thereupon made an tnves-- a noticed Lhe,tigetion and as a result Secy. Daniels period of previous week. The situation, Ju renewed his complsint to the goverever, is not regarded over pessimistically by naval men who Insist thst nor the admiralty methods of fighting the Daniels said today in anSecy. are constantly growing submarines In efficiency. In support of this they nouncing his action. Gives Governor Fact. point to the constantly increasing 'T have just sent to the governor of number of boats which escape the submarines. Rhode Island a list in detail of soma of the most notorious houses of prosParis. Juns 19 (Tuesday). A special submarine department wa cres- titution and open ga mb ling houses in ted at the ministry of marine by a Newport, also calling his attfeinticn to decree signed by President Poincare the extent and methods of illegal sal tonight. Rear Admiral M B G. J. of liquor to sailors and naval reserve Mervellleux du Vign&ux has been recruits and informing him that the placed at its head department In ready to furnish him steamer EJele Sunk. Boston. Jun 20 The sinking of with further specific evidence if the the British steamer Elele. presumastate's own officers do not produce bly by a German submarine was re- Jt. At Newport and other places are ported in a cable message received today by the Ley land line from CapL g&thered several thousand of the fln- Pierce, her commander. The vessel est youth of the land who have Boston on June 3 for Manchester, fered their live for the service of their country at a time when this England. with sacrifice Is no figure of speech. Most measage made of tfeem have come from carefully crew. The Elele was under charter to the vunrded homes and their parents have Leyland line and the cablegram from given lhem to their country In sacred Uapt. Pierce merely stated "vessel trust that the government will safe- sunk." Offlcers'of the line said the guard them from unnecessary perils, crew probably had been saved. The "I am charged with the duty of ship s cargo was worth nearly 2,000,-- ; training these voting men for service In thi nary. State and local officers 000. it was stated The ,Ele! registered 4,841 tons ar ekferged with the duty of seeing gross and was built at West Hartle- thatth..law nf iheir states and of the 'United States are safely executed. pool in 1913 deThere lies upon us morally to NTfcAMER eemdijk sunk. gree far outreachtng any technical the duty of leaving nothBoston, June 2t The Dutch steamer Eemdijk which left Boston May 13 ing undone to protect these young from contamination of their men' that Holwith Rotterdam' for grain for the land government has been sunk ac- bodies which will not only impair but blaat efficiency cording to advices to agents here tolives for future the and their no return as First reports gave details day. them to their homer a source of danto the safety of the crew. to the comger to their families and The Wsrtren liner Bay State from munity at large Boston May 31 for Liverpool has been Dangers Multiplied. Adsunk by a German submarine. Those dangers are bad enough in vices to the company today gave nothin time of war when times, ordinary ing regarding the fate of ths crew of great bodies of men are necessarily the steamer. their gathered together away from restraints and under the stress of emoAmerican DestrOVerS tion whose reactions inevitably tend to dislodge the standards of norma! Bring in 80 Survivors life, they are multiplied manifold and the harpies of the underworld flock Tb The Base of th American Flotilla, make profit otjt of the opportunity. If we faU in vigilance under these conin Rrltiah,. Watsra. June American destroyers have returned ditions the mot hern and fathers of with 30 survivors of two torpedoed these lads and the country generally British .ships. The ships were sunk willT rightly hold us responsible. feel confident that the governor at the farthest point westward in the1 Rhode Is.and and the local have appeared all Atlantic th the ruthless campaign began tr9 responsib.e to him and the civil and the response ot the Americat. authorities t other places whei re the ha. gathered :.r ge numbers of destroyers to thetr S. O. 8. was a run na'F enlisted for service, will appre- of more than a hundred miles. jmen the vital importance of this mat- elate When the American w.r.hips ar. Iter and will take- - euch steps as will rived on th scene they found the unnecessary any further steps ships were gone and for many hours :"ak f the United th 5',ver!,m n they groped about tn the dark in 5 search of the survivors. The crew of, 1. ,h aepsriment coneermed. one of the sunken ships. 31 in num- h her, were found in one Ufebott while to he dtaty rf protert-wer- e discharge, 49 survivors from the second ship fW wh' h&' com picked up from two small boats Four sailors from the latter ship were killed by the explosion of th torpedo. Admiral 81ms met the destroyers on their return and complimented the commanders Although there are no war time reIn this strictions on the sale of via London June 20 port the saloons are not "he, render- - A Copenhagen German technical weekly calculate, American? of either the or Brittvu ishers. One of the dlvereX&s of the that re,jlar Zeppelin trips to is initiating thlr British ea a" a foeelblHty. of the not distant ' Th, PP W that only colleagues Into the mysteries of the fori"-moderate increase tn size over the American national ganwf I Admiral Sims' headtjuarters is present type would give the necessary rated ln a beautiful did English home. lifting capacity for an airship making 300 feel shove Jtht town. From (a trip of four day, The article apparently was written the wonderfql gardens which surround it several American destroyers can he seen riding at anchor.. , re-d- b ; junc super-activit- y ft 'Hi ' their-milita- 20.--T- "7",'' offlc-sinc- TO KNOW BASIC COST ' lng the "white elave" traffic and It la rfp0rted she U prepared to make rev. elation almost as startling as those in the Cruger case. Word was expected today regarding whether Cocchi. as has been request-Senatoed of ,he Italian authorities by the atat department has been arrested i ln Bologna. Italy. Various articles of girl's clothing found in Cocchl's shop were put on exhibition today ln the imp that they LORD RHONDDA, appointed food of Great Britain In could b Identified by relative) of other p,a pf LorJ vonport. who resign- missing girls Member of be Cruger accoum of h hld tha to were unsbl the.. family tntify of 'r,!d''n' of the lofa ovm- poft A as her article, length possessions ln ,ha prwnt mlnla,r- board mnt of bone, charred, unearthed today has coal magnate and was d 10 ad U.r in H is a Wlsh " th bfor v hl w aUialUn a cch for traces of oth.r Lord Rhondda has t victims vislisd the United States. 1 pobl. poles. One of the Whit House police pursued a man who, he said, was leading In the crowd. Th men was Walter B. Timmins of New York, an electrical SECY. ' ormn dlsor-JnifII- g S from a window of her apartment ye rd,y t0 esep bln kil!ed b two "ho attacked her because ahe had given information which resulted lc M1 Cru,e. bod). beln, found. Whether Miss La Rue had any lnU connection with the Cruger ca as had not been finally settled today. She i,sald. however, to be In possession mj ln HTSskr- dlv?rle3 propo Uiey to eat r?tola,y fll,ed by grass and they have on chance minU, government mu.t to .om. Ch?v.bnCOg?v.nAn.m .rt.nt take the Disc of middlemen In this situation, j!,y reason Lfh0n!mlMl0n oWrv' corporate re- Wrong. stions between rail transportation anthracite production. "Bltumln- 'When w are paying more for foodmines, however, ase compelled by In this country than they are ln Lonps rar shoruge to operate j1' and many miners are only part going into erwise. I would as soon have a die- r"Sr work. of a food controller as the n tatorehip Contributing factors In ths of coal transportation ars dlctatorahlp of the food gamblers. Senator Kenyon contended the billhigh barge ratee from New York Injure farmers who, he de- .:Wpor.t Me We to Boston and ths does not"would aractice clared. rather have food supof lake shlpe to make trips the northwest ln water ballast plies of th nation controlled by the ther than carry coal. nation than by the food gamester. Borah and Reed suggested Intciisslng the proposed remedy, that th bill is unconstitutional, but Proposed Remedy, Senator Kenyon Insisted that Its pro- eommlesion esye: ' visions ars amply Justified under the If the producer at each mins wsrs constitutional powers. a his fun T am deeply apprehensive regard of production with owances for effect the upon maintenance depletion, public tranquility lng keep and all the usual Items and unless something Is done. said Sena-thl- s were added a fixed and unl-!t"We must realize ths Kenyon. m net situation of ths nation which profit per ton with due to quality, the Ths people. coal thus produc- - Justifies this legislation. Mar costa. If pooled. farmers, laboring men and everybody be sold varying sacrifices to make and are have got the government aver through and uniform price, willing to. Tbs small ilarisd man so now. la Nobody ln tiliif considered, which would be certainly doing tolerable to the &rh.-sUBbilc and a lrmdmup price It at this bill. (Contlnusd on page twelve. amity ln tholr Interest." ,or' wn rumpns was over before the police got on the scene end no arreete were made. The banners were lnecribed: "Preeldent Wilson and Envoy Root are deceiving Rueeia. They say we are a democracy. HUp us win a world war so that democracy may survive "We. the women of America, tell you that America U not a democracy. Twenty million women are denied the right to vote. President Wilson la the chief opponent of their national en franchlsement. Help ua make this nation real!? free. Tell our government that It muat liberate lta people before it can claim free Ruaiia as an ally. The banners attracted groups of men passing, who stopped and discussed them. Finally discussion gave way to action. Cries of ' Traitors." "treason,'' and "they are the enemies of thslr country'' were shouted at the two women holding the banner and after one mas, yelled "Let's tear It down," the crowd The canvas was Jumped forward torn from tts fastenings, leaving the suffragists holding the frames and of tbpIr., OF Washington. June 20. Secy Daniels called the entire membership of ths federal trad commission Into conference today and requested them to ascertain without delay the cost of production of all basic raw materials Into ths manufacture of munitions or powder for ths navy. Copper, steel, coal. Iron and fuel oil are Included and Mr. Daniel said that when the production cost for such articles was established the price to be paid by the navy would he fixed, allowing for a fair, even liberal profit, to the producers. "Beyond that," the secretary added, "I am not going to pay." Pending the fjxing of cost prices by the trade commission the department will continue to protect producers and manufacturers to deliver to the navy such articles and supplies as It needs. bn - Ameri-America- lo-- I m |