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Show - THE WEEKLY REFLEX, KAYSVILLE, UTAH Irarii DESTRUCTION CAUSED BY HALIFAX SHIP EXPLOSION SHIM SWEEPING INQUIRY INTO THE DIFFICULTIES THAT GIGANTIC TASK. . ALL AT-TEN- D Reorganization of the jrovf rnments machinery for building h merchant marine culminated Tuesday in the orderiug of n thorough investigation of thp whole situation by the i uxatv Almnst at the moment ("hafnium Hurley of the shipping hoard was announcing the resignation of Hear miral Harris as general manager of the Emergency Fleet eorjioration, and the apiintment of Charles A edict! of tldeago to the place, resolutions for Impdjgatlnn were being Introduced In laith houses, and heated charges of red tape," inefficiency," a crime, and other hot phrases of denunciation were heard. Action came on the resolution Introduced by Senator Harding of Ohio, who denonnced the board" coni inning diffleuhden as "an Interminable tangle Of red tape. With haste rarely shown, the senate auditing committee, which first has to 'imss on the expense of sneh Investigations, approved .Senator Hardings resolution and the senate ordered the Inquiry, referring It to the commerce committee. Probe to Go Deep It Is more than likely that the whole Inside story of the shipping boards progress, beginning with the celebrated row between former ("lialminn Henman and Major General .'net lulls, ax 111 be laid bare The keynote if the demand for Investigation was the necessity for building ships If the nation Is to win Iho i ' W.. rt" i v to"; f- - I j , V- 'v e.s.r'f. 'X - vvLv J.--S, r v L 'x'-- - ;j ' s v' v TTrt - X iS.f. Wiai4i iYVVw.r v ,..U Above, the ruins of the Richmond railway station and dcks near which occurred the explosion of a French ammunition ship that wrought such devastation In Halifax and its suburbs. Relow, a view along Barrington street where every residence w as burned to the ground. nr WATCHING FOR SUBMARINES FROM BRIDGE OF DESTROYER - Plan of German Intriguer la to Allow Late Ruler to Go Abroad. Ietrgrad. It N reiorted that (he Herman emperor asked the Russian armistice delegates to ascertain the probable fate of former Emperor January May Not Leave or Enter the Unded States Without Permission, and Those Suspected of Enemy Activity May Be Interned. Designated tion in House. Washington.--Vot- e in the bouse on the woman sulTruge yorislltntlonal Thursday, January 10, was ' ' rules coin- .- nshiired Tuesday, vrneu L mittee agreed on that date, hit a test vote Indicating In the house toward the amendment, the suffrngists polled seven more s vote. than a Ac- O'- and nRlitary Washington.-- The naval heads of the house mission to the allied conference in Paris returned to Washington ou December 16, very the sentl-nieoptimistic. They of General 'Pershing That were going to break the German line with a human wedge. More Men Needed. The mission members brought back a new concept of the task which faces America. Not only was the military and naval problem thoroughly canvassed at the conference, but the resources of the allies were estimated In the minutest detail. It was reported here that the conference had decided that the United States must come forward with even larger numbers of men and ships' In the immediate future. General Bliss voiced the optimism of the mission. He said: 'The British and French, armies and people, are more determined than ever. There Is no thought any place of quitting before victory. And our boys are in the same state of mind. Everyone feels that the victory must come. We all know what is taking place In Russia. Iiut the very fact that there has. been a defection, perhaps, temporary, and that the allies are proceeding Just as If there had been no such event, only emphasizes the view that nothing can prevent the eventual success of the entente against Germany. The morale of the troops of all the armies Is better than ever before. I cannot discuss what took place In the conference. Colonel House will make a full report to the president. I Baw Admiral Benson and we had a long discussion over the interallied naval conference, said Secretary Daniels. He submitted to me his report of the trip, Secretary Daniels said the return of Admiral Benson did not mean that he would not lie the permanent representative of the United States on the naval conference. nt ENGINEERS LOST. Men Who Dropped Shovels to Rush Upon Enemy Are Missing. e VOTE ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE. Day for Paris SEVENTEEN Nicholas and Ids family. It Is said tli commissioners asked the members of the former royal family os to their desires and they replied that they would like to go abroad. The commissioners are reported to have ngrnd In principle to the wishes of Nicholas and Ids family, but desire before fully a PRESIDENT, IN WAR PR0CLAMA--TION- , DRAWS DISTINCTION BE TWEEN AUSTRIAN AND HUN . MV. CZAR MAY REGAIN LIBERTY. 10 EXPECT GREATER DRAIN UPON THE UNITED STATES IN THE FUTURE. re-ec- Senator Chamberlain, an administration simkcsman, declared the shipping board had resol veil llself into a "debating society, and added: "Something has got to Ik done, for nothing can be accomplished ns long as there are constant changes being made In the personnel of the board." acquiescing to place the matter the constituent assembly. TO GO AtmVHERE Sentiment of General Pershing That Human Wedge Shall Break Hun Line. Washington. Avar. I). S. SHIPS AIID lilEII Mission to Allied Conference In The Keynote of Demand for Investigation Was Necessity for Building Ships If Nation Is to Win the War. " IEE Scene on the bridge of an American destroyer In the east Atlantic, where the men are ever on the lookout for German submarines and other enemy craft. Each man wears hla life preserver and Is ready for any emergency. ENEMY ALIENS MUST WATCH THEIR STEP Hi s ' V WOOLEN HELMET IS WARM .. o Seventeen the Washington. American engineers who dropped their shovels to pitch Into the fighting when they were caught by the German advance In front of Cambrai, were reported Sunday as missing In action." The toll of these Americans, whose bravery, promptness and fine spirit won a commendatory letter from General Haig to General Pershing, was announced by the war department Nearly all of them are from New York City or nearby territory. .Reported as missing, the men may have been taken prisoner by the Germans. It Is feared, however, that few t escaped death in the shell-torwastes of No Mans Land It they -- were unable to rejoin their comrades In the first rush. bullet-swep- ALLIES IN WAR TO STICK. sen--tlnie- nt Peace Not Discussed at Conference, Declares Colonel House. An Atlantic Port, Peace was never discussed at the Interallied war coun cil iu Paris which cemented together the allied nations for the vigorous prosecution of the war, declared Col. LLYLHouse, head of the American mtssion. Vui his arrival here Saturday night. Before the conference, was not going on well, but we are now all Working together. We got together principally ou the economic situation, the embargo on shipments to neutral countries, food and finance, peace was never mentioned in any of two-tldrd- Gruesome Story From Colorado. Montrose, Colo. After killing Ids son with an ax, John O, Hush chopped the liody to pieces and compelled the boys grandmother, Mrs. J. II. Hush, to make soap of the laxly," according to the story Mrs. Bush told the sheriff Tuesday. The murder was said to have been committed Sunday night at the llttsh home, four miles west of Olathe, because the bey had stolen $1.30. Officers are searching for Hush In the western slojie region. Mexican E nvoy Leave Washington. Louis Uahreru, special envoy of the Mexican government, sent - seek modification of .restrichere tions upon American exerts to Mexico, has departed for Buenos Aires without troubling himself with the forto the Mate demality' of good-bye- s -to He attend theso-ealle- it goew partment; neutrality conference In the Artn-Hu- ff. Paris or at the meeting of the supreme war council at Versailles, Colonel House said. t- at Kearny. Cal. First Ueuten-an- t Camp Kearny, 137th McCracken, infantry, Irvlug it San Antonio. Texas, was killed Tuesday at Camp Kearny, near this city, in an explosion "of a hand ' grenade in practice. First IJeutenant Herbert E, Brown, 'of the same regiment, whose .home J$ J u J Injured it! "the e n v erAXolo. same explolon. Senate Orders Investigation. Reorganization of tho po i riuiients machinery for building a il( vi bunt marine culminated Tuesday l li tl.f os timing of a thorough investi-of the whole situation b the jni adoption. President Wilson .specified that unnaturalized Austrodlungarfans, unlike the Germans In this country, should be free to live and travel anywhere, except that they may not enter or leae the United States without permission, and those suspected of enemy aetiiitv may be Interned. They need, not register with police or postoffice officials, as Germans will be required to do shortly, and are mt barred from th zones about the piers, docks and warehouses closed to Germans and are not required to leave the District of Columbia. The presidents motive In drawing distinctions between Germans and Austrians was described as First, it was realized that the sympathy of Hungarians, Rumanians, ivies, 100-yar- d two-fol- d Serbians, Czechs, Slovacs and other a immigrants from the empire, generally is not with the mother country in the war, and they have not been guilty of the multiform campaign of violence practiced tinder the German war system. Secondly, such a large proportion of laborers In munitions and steel plants and coal mines consist of Austrian subjects that It was found practically' Impossible to administer against them the rigid regulations imposed on the Germans, wbo are half as numerous and more Individualistic. Austro-IIungarla- FRANK GOTCH DEAD. Former Mat Champion of World Loses In Fight With Disease. Des Moines, Iowa. Frank A. Gut eh, retired champion heavyweight wrestler of the world, died at noon Sunday at his home, Humboldt, Iowa, of uraemic poisoning. He had been in failing health for. two years. Gotci. iaa 41 years old. He built up a fortune In wrestling and by Investing his earnings In Iowa farm lands. His estate Is variously estimated at he tween $200,000 and $400,000, all of which represents money made through his ability as a wrestler. Gotch won the Americad ehamplon-sldp from Tom JenJanuary kins after one of the roughest matches ever seen in this country. 27, 1904, AFTER BURLESONS SCALP. Chicago Federation Wants Postmaster General Removed. was Wilson Chicago. President called upon to remove Postmaster General Burleson in the resolutions adopted Sunday by the Chleago Federation of Labor. It was declared that the postmaster generals recommendation to congress that the unions of government employes should be forbidden has a tendency to destroy their morale and the reverence given our pres ident In his heroic struggle to emancipate the .workers of the world." BOMB GOVERNORS HOME. Attempt Made to Murder California's Chief Executive. Sacramento. An abortive attempt to kill Governor William D- - Stephen by means of a powerful explosive bomb at 11:53 p. n. Monday resulted In the wrecking of the executive mansion, the entire rear end of the building being blown out. The governor and Mrs. steserv-R- f pliens, as w ell as the "household ah ami ants, were asleep at the time - escaped injury. The men were seen fleeing from the house immediately after the erplHrtn Kaiser Places Blame on Allies. Emperor William In his Christmas message proposes to make a final peace Offer to hlr enemies on whom, la case of rejection w III fall the responsibility for bloodshed In 1918," according to an unofficial Berlin telegram forwarded from Geneva by the Exchange Telegraph company. - n Notice to Enemy Allens" signs have been posted on streets and avenues along the waterfront In const cities warning against trespass. Our. subject, order, must' pick his steps while on a moving expedifollowing the get-otion to other quarters.- ut 3. Wa-.hiJg'o- Austro-Hungaria- - a sbuUy. Atnerican Submarines Collide. Washington. The American submarine F-- l has been rammed and sunk Nineteen memby the submarine F-first named crew of the bers of the ve--- el are missing. No hope for their safay is entertained. n subject "tn Reunited States, most of the l.duo.onu ,,r more of whom are laborers and are loyal to the allied war ouuse, will suffer few restrictions as a result of war between the lands of their birth and Camp Bullis the Latest - San - Antonio. Camp j Bullish an Gen designated by order of Brigadierof the In honor eral Joseph A. Gaston, late Brigadier General John Luplmn Bullis, noted Indian fighter In Texas. Is the latest camp to come into exist ence here. t Truck Train Starts for Coast Glorified Junk. Buried. Victims wo Hundred Halifax Washington. The first section of the , The queerest thing about the war lo American new -- experimental Halifax. Unidentified bodies of --W -armys wer me, said a junkman whose business truck transport service haa started victims of the explosion disaster runs into five figures annually, Is the from Detroit-oIts way to the Atlau- - burled Monday after public funera fact that lt has made even old Ha gans rvaTuahlewOIowCjuakman who bad fdrreTieTng congestion In 100 of t e freight ter- Catholic clergymen.' Nearly been holding his stock of scrap Irou, minals by the overland use of motor bodies were charred beyond recon old brass, rags, rubber and paper for trucks. tion. higher prices sold his hoarded Junk qt the end f the first year of war fer Jury Acquits Gaston Means. Loans Italy $320,000,000. oi $100,000. Junk Is tremendously valuConcord, N. C. Gaston B. Means Washington. Another payment the able. Now attempts are being made was acquitted here Sunday of a charge $23,000,000 to Italy on December t to salvage the tin film on of slajing Mrs. Maude A. King, the first for many weeks, brought tin cans by melting them. Tin Is wealthy New York and Chicago, w idow. total actually paid to that governmee very valuable as a war metal and the Means now faces a charge of em- from tb $500 ,000, 000 credit alke'1 despised tln can Is becoming an eco- bezzlement. up to $.0,000,000. nomic asset where formerly It was a Bill. Actor Barnabee Dead. Senate Passes Webb Export liability. Rags, tin and battered old b brass Boston. boilers, export copper Henry Clay Barnabee, facaustlcks, Washington. The Weld stove lids and old newspapers, rubbir miliar to thousands of s as to legalize combinations of Amrica wires, aluminum and lead have dou- the Sherrlff of Nottingham, in Dc exporters in promoting their fore.L- bled and quadrupled la price since the Koven's comic opera. Robin Hood, j commerce ua pasKed by the 'Tali died af his hnm - id th 1" great war began. b I 'j. I l' The boys In France jlw1m have thoughtful friends at home are wearing these warm woolen helmets which protect the head and part of the face. They are especially suitable for aviators. Bomb Deals Death Austria-Hungary- . Loudon. gentine capital. Washington. President .Wilson on December 12 Issued a prmlai.Mt.tin . declaring a state of war with In accordance with the . of congress, , i 1-- d Addresses of manufacturers of tar BRIEF AND BREEZY The best isinglass comes from Russia. It Is made from the giant sturgeon, which nbounds in the Caspian sea and other waters of that country. men a For the use of been Invented ha flexible frame light, to be strapped to a leg by a garter to make trousers hang straight. bow-legge- d r extracting machinery are wanted by an Allendale, S. C., firm. As Indicative of the present earning power of steamers. It is reported that a vessel recently arrived In Liverpool with a car gw of 43,000 cases of onions from Yalencla. which earned more than $1S7,000 for the nine days oynge. play-goer- s |