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Show Tin: llill 3 x,zzu7 tzzlzz, hayGvi- -, - For Liberty Now, As Then 13 a nir ,:"u i rasa. oiiiL SO Bi OEQa Ci L & of lauding FROM first contingent T Cur modtrt price make buv MAXES OF JEWELRY nt Ill-Fat- Washington. The wife arrival In Italy of the first contingent of military force which will represent the United States, was announced June 29 by General March, chief of staff. Sent direct from this country, the troops landed n June 28, to supplement others ordered from France by General Pershing. Sanitary units compose the greater part of the tirst arrivals, but other special units" also were Included. Oen-erMarch reiterated the statement that the bulk of the combatant Amort-- ' can troops going to Italy will be sent from the western front, their places being Immediately taken by new the United States, ' No definite plun for the Increase of this force from the United States 1ms been reached. Secretary Baker said In later, commenting ujam the announcement. It should be emphasized that the shipment of further Increments depends largely upon future developments." The first national army division bus taken up a sector at tin frout, General March also announced. It is the -seventh, raised In New York, trained at Camp Upton and originally commanded by Major General J. Franklin Bell. It was taken across under Major General Johnson, While the actions along the Amerl-rr.- n sectors during the past week have l.ra entirely local In character, the LFf of utxff said the results have ; I. own that American troops are more than belting their own, and fine pies cf Individual valor have been r: ported. ul regi-ments'fr- Seventy- cx-e- n u, s. r::uK:s carranza. f.lilcts Colemn Protest Against Tax on Cil Lands. Washington. Declaring that all the United States asks of Mexico for Amerlrun citizens is justice and fair d.sdlr.g. the state department on June 29 made public a solemn protest" sent -- to President Carranza against the Mexican decree of February 19, 1918, establishing a tax on oil lands. The statement says the new tut amounts practically to confiscation, or at least unfair imjHJsltlon and cites extracts from President WHsoui speech to the Mexican editors on the future relations of nations ns follows: As long as there Is Miplrion there Is going to he misunderstanding, and as long as there Is misunderstanding there Is going to he trouble. If you once get a situation of trust then you have got a situation of permanent peace." . KERENSKY ENGLAND. IN Former Russian Premier Declares Russia Will Be Back In War. Washington, The unheralded in London on June 20 of Alexander F. Kerensky, former provisional premier of Russia, together with his announcement that he Is on his way to America, and that he la certain Russia soon will he fighting again with the forces of democracy against German domination, furnished the subject for a discussion in official nnd diplomatic circles that covered a wide range. London. A detain in submarine, seventy miles from the Irish coast, on the the night of June 27, torpedoed 11,000-tohospital ship Llandovery Castle, chartered by the Canadian government, end In the sevlce of carrying wounded and sick from Fnglund to Canada. The ship was then on her way to England, bite had on bourd 2.9 persons, 80 men of the Canadian army medical corps and H Women nurses. Only 24, Ineluding the captain, ure reported suved. The attack was with opt warning. The submarine commander, who ordered the captain, several of bin officers and Major Lyon of the medical corps aboard, said he sunk the ship because she wns enrrying American aviation officers and other In the fighting service of the alllea. lie added later that the vessel was carrying munition stores, because of an explosion which occurred aft. All lights were burning when the Llandovery Castle was torpedoed. These Included a huge electric cross over the bridge arid strings of white and green light on either side. The Red Crosses on the sides of the vessel were Illuminated. t According to Red Cross Information, many were killed In the engine room. There Is hardly any doubt tof this, as no response to Captain there w Sylvester's signals from the bridge after the torpedo struck.- - As the were either killed or left their posts, there was no one to shut off the power, and the ship kept on her way, notwithstanding the great holes torn by the torpedo, not beginning to slow down until the water rushed Into the holler room, extinguishing the fires. Nursing Sister Margaret Fruzler, youngest daughter of the late Duncan Cameron Fruzler, formerly lieutenant-governo- r of Nova Scotia, was In churge of the sister aboard the Llandovery Castle. One of the boat of the Llandovery Castle, containing twelve nursing sisters, was seen to capsize, according to latest Information. The sisters were drowned. n Metal Trade Strike Ended. Salt Lake City. The wheels of the Salt Luke machine shops began to turn Tuesday morning, after a cessation of nine day, following the strike of five COO metal trades, unionists, June 22. A the culmination of a series of conferences which have been held during the last few day between the striking worker', the shop owner and Federal Commissioner of Conciliation Captain Charles T. Connell, an agreement was reached whereby the employees will he granted $1 a day Increase. HO DiEFT ME EGS 21 TO 51 PROPOSAL TO MAKE LIMITS TWENTY AND FORTY YEARS DEFEATED IN SENATE. Plan to Make Military Training cf Youth Between 29 and 21 Compulsory Also Lack SupporL Neutral Statu Fixed. extension Washington. Immediate of the present army draft age limits, 21 to 31 year, was overwhelmingly defeated In the senate on June 28. The amendment proposed by Senator Fall of New Mexico, to the army appropriation bill to make the limits twenty and forty years, and all compromise suggested for different minimum and maxlmums were voted down. Besides disposing of the draft age question, the senate adopted several amendments to the hill. One authorized organization of the $100,000,000 aircraft production corporation board as ft vehicle for aircraft production as shipbuilding Is by the shipping board through the Emergency Fleet eorimrntlon. Another authorized the plan of basing draft quotas on the number of men la class one, Instead of upon state populations and affecting rights of neutrals, under the draft law. The senate previously had adopted the draft quota legislations, but tt had been held up in the house. The amendment affecting neutrals provides citizens of neutral countries now subject to draft who have declared their Intention of becoming American citizens, shall not he eligible for citizenship If they claim exemption from the draft. This provision, offered by Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska, was adopted as a substitute for an amendment approved by the state department providing for exemption from the draft of all citizens of neutral countries. ITALIANS STEADILY ADVANCING. Mexican Bandit Kill American. Texas. Four American Not Content with Ground Gained, Houston, citizens were killed by Mexican Imudits Are Pushing Austria Back. near Tampico, Mexico, Saturday, while n Rome, Attaching the carrying the payroll of the Mexican on the Aslago plateau, the lines Gulf Oil company, Italians have taken Monte dl Valbella, cuptured 809 prisoners and have held MISS GENEVIEVE REILLE It against repeated counter-attackThis turn to the offensive came as a surprise to the laymen of the allied worldjfor It was believed that General Diaz would he content to hold his lines In the mountains against a new offensive. Intended by the Austrians Advocate SO Per Cent Tex. nnd Germans. ' Washington. One Immediate effect Italian attack wus not limited to Monte di Valbella. On the left hank of the disclosures of profiteering made of the Ilrenta they captured the in the report of the federal trade commission will b to stimulate the heights of Snssa Rosso, Just north of the village of Yalstagua. group of senators who last year deThese actions may explain the failmanded taxing 0 js'r eeut of war ure of the Italian to pursue the Ausprofits. trians across the Biave, when, on June 23, the enemy fled from the west Briton Drop Thirteen Hun Plane. bank with a haste that Indicated someLondon. British aviators In aerial thing of demoralization. combats on the western front Friday shot down seventeen German Senate Approves Appropriation Bill. and sent six others down out of control. Three Brltjsb muehines Washington. Carrying .appropriaare missing ns a result of the comtions of more than twelve billion dollar for the prosecution of the war bats. and conferring authority on the presi-dent to raise as large an army as may American Take More Prisoner. be necessary to Insure final victory, of 90S) Gets Washington. Capture the .senate Saturday afternoon passed matt prisoners and the destruction of the . army jipiuapriatias .hUL There ILreo GmuHtt-irplaeo by Anceriewa was not an opimsing vote. The bill aviators was reported bv General had been before the senate almost conPershing In nn official communique v tinuously for five days. Saturday. Austro-IIun-gariu- - s. Washington. Legislation to authorize government control and rqwratlon Of telegraph and telephone system during the war was approved July 1 by lresident Wilson, and leader at the capital prepared for its immediate consideration, with a view to action If possible before congress recesses. Secretaries Baker and Daniels and Postmaster General Burleson, all of. whom have indorsed the pending bill by Representative Aswell of Louisiana, proposing this authority, were invited to appear before the house Interstate commerce commission. The presidents statement was In a note to Chairman Sims of the committee, approving a letter from Postmaster Gneral Burleson. There was no direct reference In any of the correINORDINATE GREED AND spondence to th3 call sent out hy the FRAUD CHARGED BY Commercial Telegraphers Union of FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION America for a strike of Western Union operators on July 8. The resolution introduced by RepreMeat Packer Said to Hava Pocketed sentative Aswell of Louisiana reads: $140,000,000 in 1915, 1918 and 1917 That the president, if, In his disWithout Regard to Law. Flour cretion it ts deemed desirable in order Mill Also Big Gainers. to Insure their continuous operation or to guard the secrecy of military and Washington. Profiteering on a treor to mendous scale In practically all the governmental communications, or communication by spies prevent was basic commodities of Rfe reported other or for enemies thereon, public to the senate Saturday by the federal trade commission as the result of an other military or public reasons, shall have power to take possession and conexhaustive Investigation. telephone, Inordinate greed and, barefaced trol of any telegraph, fraud" as well as war pressure for marine cable or radio systems, and the same subject to those conheavy production, the commission re- operate of ditions law, so far as applicable, ported as the causes. In force as to steam railwhich are were Reappralsements of properties made by great concerns when It be- roads while under federal control. Postmaster General Burleson, In a came evident that the government was letter which the president approved about to fix prices on a basis of return as the reasons truly, advised stating salon Investment, the report says, and Sims Chairman that the power and disIn were and allowances aries, expenses to as cretion act, proposed in the resomany Instances padded to show Inseems lution, imperative to safecreased costs of conducting business. , The postinterests. public guard The outstanding feature of its invesmaster added: general waB the commission tigation, reported, At this moment the paralysis of a the evidence of a tendency to Increase and maintain prices against the forces large part of the system of electrical communication is threatened with posof competition. . Of all the big profits disclosed by sible consequences prejudicial to our the investigation the report says the military preparations and other pubprofits of the meat packers and those lic activities that might prove serious aKled with them and by the flour mills, or disastrous. We are reminded that stand foremost, despite the fixing of there is not a nation engaged in the war that entrusts its military or other prices by the government. Manipulations of the market by the communications to unofficial agencies. five great packers Armour, Swift, I deem it, therefore, my duty not Morris, Wilson and Cudahy the com- merely to approve, but to urge, the mission asserts, embrace every de- passage of the resolution, In order that vice that Is useful to them without the president may act, If necessary to regard to law. safeguard the Interests of the country The report charges thdt the five con- during the prosecution of the war. cerns have monopolistic control of the meut Industry and are reaching for ALL THEY WANT IS THE EARTH. like domination in other products." During 1915, 1916 and 1917, the re- What Allies Could Expect Should German Win. port says, these companies pocketed $140,000,000. Paris. Great Britain must turn over The experience with steel, flour and Its war fleet to Germany, return GCoal, .says the report, referring to ibraltar to Spain and restore Egypt and price fixing, shows that a high the Suez canal to Turkey. Great Bristimulating fixed price, while stabilis- tain, France and the United States ing an ascending market, produces an must pay Germany an indemnity of at economic situation which Is fraught least $43,000,000,000, Belgium and with hardship to the consuming public French territory must he surrendered. and with ultimate peril to the high These are among the conditions Incost companies through increasing cluded In the German peace program power of their low cost competitors." published in the Nachrichten of Goer-lit-z, Prussia, by Count Boon, a memSENATOR E. $. JOHNSON ber of the lTussian house of lords, according to a Havas dispatch from Basle, Switzerland. BARE-FACE- , - Armed Prisoner Aid Bolshevik!. London. That the Bolshevikl In Siberia could be overthrown easily but for the support of armed prisoners released by them Is the contention .of the Harbin correspondent of the Daily Mail. In a dispatch dated June 23 he says of 20,000 prisoners fighting on the side of the Bolshevik! ,in 4000 are Magyars, who are the chief source of Bolshevik! strength. trnns-Balkali- a, ulr-pian- es Wilson Veto Longer Hours. . Congress eliminated a legislative rider requiring government clerks to work eight hours a day Instead of seven from the legislative, executive and judicial appropriation hill Tuesday, after President Wilson had vetoed the measure because of the provision. Salary Increases for the clerks of $120 a year to meet the Increased cost of living were left unchanged; Washington-- 4 Cuilding Collapsed, Twenty Injured. The toll of dead In the Ruff building, a three-storlnick Ml Genevlev Relit, daughter of structure at Fourtji and Douglas, which .Baron Relit of the French high comcollapsed at T :30 Saturday afternoon, mission, I on of the meet popular 'of v.as estimated at 10 to .20. with a score the vomen wr ,vtlUw.te tb United-State non t: j arcti. capital ' Sioux' City, Iowa. y -- - 1 Ten New Dry Dock. of ennfqdrtmvn; Washington. Ten new drvJocks are ' Y:ry un.I- -r fire dlsplade by Y, M. C. to he built with the ?25,00o.00 which r r;::e workers were rewartied at the request of the shipping board . ' tv a I y decorations and citations, has been added by the senate approg t elded dopatche received priations committee to the pending C. A. Lsadqr.'irters. sundry civil approprrlation MIL Y. 1,1. C. A. Heroe Mew York. Acta I ! Civen Honors. - ii I i . rl i. Vi I T:m Z'z: Mrrt ' ' "f cf Cr 1 IV .n. D. C., i--' tvMtl 3 Germany Accept Proposal Wushlagtom. Germany Las Accepted the Invitation of the United States to send representatives to Berne, Switzerland, for a conference on August 5, A new photograph of United State with the American delegation .onJhe Edwin ' $. Senator of ' South' general subject of exchange ami treat- Dakota. H la serving M first term ment of prisoners of war. la the on ent. Splrlt of Revolt In Austria. Baris. There have been rebellious outbreaks among the garrisons of the cities of Gyor and 1ecs, Hungary, as result of which 2900 of the military involved In the mutiny have been condemned to death. Extension on Freight Rate. Siayer Secretly Tried. Washington, The interstate comKuns. John II. Winfield, Parsons, merce commission lias grunted s an additional thirty days In negro, who recently confessed to the murder of three members of the Wick Licit to file schedules of increased November 13 last, was secretly family, ri tes ordered by Director Gen-:- l here Friday, pleaded guilty brought Med J.hj. and sentenced to life prisonruent -- rail-read- X Lt Amsterdam. now predidng that Dr. von Kueht-manthe German foreign secretary, will retain his office. In fact. It Is certain, the newspapers decltre, that he will remain at his posh n, Suffrage Goe Over. Washington. The woman suffrage resolution on which a vote was prevented hy an opposition filibuster. Chairman Jones of the suffrage com. mi t tee announce, will probably rro iiruln before Pijne cue - sau laze errr Cl USED CARS CAnGA!T3 wUaCd am . iBiUclo, Oid,moblln J rtwl-l3- S to Cnataateed first condftioo ewy brm 11 wmt4 totnitv riakt vtriiM. Wtfii lot SotaiM tin u4 tn ctiZ uoa, Vmi Car Dept.. W I EXFZIiT our pro E aUh.tn, Box 7W. , 19 r-- Aato Co, l,to Salt Ctr ICODA1C finishing photo grraphen do 1 JIHFLI-R.- M D South IVm Cay SuppUe BHLk, Caaaru r;.:in RyoontblwaKe.le.ni LP brb trd- Mny small town need barbers; good opportumtiea ope men . Barbers In army hurt over lor draft rood as officers coraminaion. Get prvpared Tn tew weeks. CaU or write. Motor Barba 8. Weal Temple St bait Lake City - cor nxD sranroF . his race. How tho Captain's Boy, Mackinnov f th Camcrsnla Helped to Allay Panic. - la th report f the. torpedoing of tho Anchor liner Cameronla with troops la the Mediterranean last sumy tser, mention was made of tho eplen- did conduct of tho captains boy, This youngster 'was on tha with the captain when the ship bridge was struck, and he did much to allay tho excitement by shouting through' tho megaphone to the troops, keep your heads, men. Dinna get excited. Its s' rlcfct. Nae hurry," and so on. Tho eight of the small boy with megaphono as big ss himself advising the soldiers to keep cool mads many laugh and quieted many nerves. The-bodid many other things, and at the end the captain found hs had disobeyed orders and was still on when everyone else had left the ship. Whan the captain told him to clear oat, he said, Ill no go till you go, sir." The captain then caught him by tho cost and slung him overboard into tho destroyer before jumping himself. An eyewitness on tho destroyer described seeing the captain and the, boy on the bridgs of the sinking ship. I hear cow that Uacklnnon went down in the Tuscanl. Probably hs behaved there as hs did on the Cameron is, and the death hs just missed In the Mediterranean came to him off the Scottish coast In the list of heroes of oar mercantile merino there ought to he s place for this gallant wee Glasgow lad. London Correspondence of the Manchester Guardian. Mack-lnno- a. i y the-bridg- ONLY tffCS UAiTEd e WORSE ts Fudge" on Us fortunate Remark Could Not Be Email Girl's Efforts Celled EuccexsfuL A number of women were discussing Liberty bonds one afternoon ln a neighbors house. Almost unnoticed a little neighbor girl had entered. At this point In the discussion she exclaimed! Well, my aunt says she might Just ss well buy a Liberty bond as to b taxed P Her remark caused s good hit of comment One guest, who has a sou la the service, became very Indignant, and exclaimed: The Ideal Buying a bond to escape taxation 1 Thats patriotism fog you I That makes me tired anybody; as able as she Is to buy bonds, or any thing." With that last remark the speake flew" cut of the house. The little girl, beholding the strlfd and bad feeling she had stirred upj tried to fudge on her remark, cxi plaining that It wasnt her aunt whd made the remark, but some other wobm an. "The neighbor women Iteld her t4 her first remark, and vyere making H pretty "warm" for the little girl, when she finally burst, out with: x Well, you dont knew how much it costs my aunt to live; and how much Its costs her to take that trip to N'b egara Falls!" The laugh with which the women greeted this Innocent remark was sufficient to send the loyal and innocent girl running from the room. Truly, her lines had not fallen in pleasant places" that afternoon. War Romance ln the Star. Almost overhead tn the early nlng are some faint stars, constituting Dutch Furnish Hun Food. the constellation Coma Berenices, ofl Txhl . Berenice Hair." ' Hr Commemorate from The Hague that The Netherlands wife of Ptolemy Queen Berenice, has agreed to export potatoes to tin who offered her hair to Venus tosej belligerent nations, brought the dis- cure his safe rtnrnmfrem war. JTM closure Tuesday' that the UnlxndStates was sacrificed, but queenT8"'halr" Las Information of Holland's Intention from the tempi. Hence tb appeared to export 50, 000 tuns of potatoes to legend that her golden' locks ,hs 1 Germany...' turned into a const tlbxScn. at -- d-- H w to Retain Office. The Berlin press Is Conscription Plan VI Von Kuehlmann nun mak Action Result of Impending Strike on Measure the .Western Union. , Introduced by Southerner Would Grant President Power, of American Troopa Going to Of the 258 Aboard Italy Will Bt Sent from France, Ship, But Twenty-fou- r Their Places Being Filled by New Reached Shore After Torpedo Regiments from United States. Had Been Launched. r EOYD PARK , Eu!k yoa exn find ln our howcaei cf,h,h valu at mn y Ir.g cxey. ASKS CONGRESS FOR AUTHORITY TO TAKE OVER TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE SYSTEMS. VESSELS CARRYING SICK AND WOUNDED AND NURSES SENT TO BOTTOM BY STATES UNITED FORMALLY announced. b Not Abandoned. London. hen his proclamation calling for Irish volunteers was is. sued there no idea of aban cloning the possibility of conscription. Viscount French, the lord 1eutenanL declared In a epeech Wednesday. Mgrtial Law for Austria. I'nrix. Swiss dispatches received here Thursday lay that, owing to the Ferioutnevs of the food situation in Austria-Hungarmartial law i PX. I eoted momentarlv to be Th PtyxLIs n.rfik Did you feci the pryezde thrill tht goes between a rpcsLrr cud o Cienee7 x Thet Yes, repllcl Vr. wss a test zri i Inside cf tta r :: evident thst I x Elcnce v;j t To A Canxd'.sa U"' p j 11 v it r ; ir : Ltd f e L ' ' Lj i C, lsvf ted a rustic hub for fctrycles which, be ...... |