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Show LAST 4JI the IU7 1G edition 4 rth WerUTfc W DESERET Cp PAGES JSE-NI'N- . Po:A:ppmls td4he OF AUSTRIA .IS ,w jrwptsl:-- 7irrr srisrtKSl . wf 'VJ.vv'iWjcavv'' NEWS.. G U 1010 TUESDAY MARCH "' , r irtJftw-e?wtfca- LAKE CITY UTAH SALT War Savings Stamps, Better Than Paid Up , . life 4 Insurance - - , YEAR SIXTY-XINT- II . Allies to Conclude Early Peace With Germany Sits at Desk and Talks, With Aviator Flying Aboutl5 0 M iles-- way !I!SPIMSI0 Going to Bohemia To Aid Women. Of New Republic AL BE A . WASHINGTON, March Daniels tatkedtoday by radio telephone with Engign Harry Fagenwater - In a navy flying boat en route frpm Washington to Hampton Roads, Communication wa eblaMmhrd at a distance of more than 150 mile, by far the longest transmission, ot radtu telephone signals with an airplane In flight ever achieved. The secretary used the ordinary desk telephone on his desk at the navy department. Officers tn charge of the department, .of radii signalling, including Rear Admiral Griffin, chlef,of the bureau of steam ene gineering, wer grouped around the desk. Mr. Daniels spoke of hi pleasure in making a test of the constantly improving navy apparatus and asked thg ensign how far a ay hi machine was. After "Cfiioments delay, the officer replied that he was then more than 150 miles from Washington and flylrtg at a tiigh altitude. The officer's voice came very Indistinctly toward the end of the. conversation aa the distance Increased. The experts at the department said the 150 miles was practically the extreme rangeof radio telephonic 'com- munication with-a- n aircraft with-- present equipment aqd more than double any prevlons dislancecoVeredln asTmnarTesC V ll.--Sec- y. Certain "Austrian Socialistic Elements Oppose Idea Influences Are Other Very Anxious For it. Peace Treaty Terma Reduce Her Army to 100,000 Men Fort on the Rhine To be Destroyed. PARIS, March 11. (By The AnoctiUfld Prw.) It ha become known that Pope Benedict baa ad Murch II. COPENHAGEN, The recently reported recapture by Germans of Riga on the Bailie coast, is denied in s Berlin dispatch received here. The German troops, it is stated, are still considerable distance , from Riga,but henry fighting Is reported. , drn wed an appeal to the power emphasizing the urgency of the speody ooncluidon ot peace with reilahlc Information that the situation tn Uonuf, MdiHr and and eoouomlcally. I very that he fear the spread of Bolshevism with snch rapidity that it might result in the establishment of a Bokherlk t Mto, which In torn night become yffied with Bolshevik Russia. The pope Is reported to hare aid that be feels that the only nay to avoid ich an eventuality peace, be speedy peace h a which will not blmiliate the ay German poopta. pi iW Military Germany will go out of existence the as the result of the adoption bymilisupreme council tonight of the tary tends of German disarmament aa they will go into the peace treaty. These terma provide for a sweeping reduction of the German military establishment down to 100,000 men with 4.000 officers, the army to be recruited the period by the voluntary system for of 12 years. The effect or this is to to limit Germany's military strength less than the number of men Bwitzer-lan- d has In her army: Other provisions In the military terms limit the arms and munitions to a quantity Germany may possessmen and all the sufficient for 100,000 over or delivered be remainder must forts German The along destroyed. the Rhine also must be destroyed. The abolished aa imperial general staff the result of reducing the force. Discussion of the subject was resumed by tbe supremo council today, the basts for the debate being Marshal Loch's -- report on. Premier Lloyd Georges proposal to reduceasGermany's had been armed force from 200,000 suggested, to 140.000 men and to substitute voluntary for compulsory serv1 0. a ice Marshal Foch favored the change, as the conscription plan providing for 200.000 men serving one year terms would have given Germany a trained army of 2,000,000 men in 10 years. As against this Mr. Lloyd George proposed to ft the enlistment term t 12 years. Marshal Poch embodied thra 1m his report, which proposed" an army of 110.000 men, but the Council finally adopted an amendment farther reducing this figure to 100,000. To Abolish Conscription. ' One of Premier Lloyd George's main purposes in substituting voluntary evstem service for the conscription was to pave the way for the disapof the throughpearance conscription out Kuropc, as It was believed that the effect that the abolition of the system in Germany would be that the ot her countries would generally European of follow tt, thus ending large standing armies and their provo. cation to warfare. The council has already adopted the rf va l terms of the treaty exreptr for a few .reserved provisions, which wlll. he ce tomorrow. oiwt New Staff Corre5.mdenl. ) (Copyright. 1919. By Press Pub. Co.) President March 11. LONDON, Wilson and .Prmilct.JU tti d JJ cores ACC i heading for Pans none tdo.soon to, Kti PARIS, Monday, , March fBy the Aiwoclated Press.) While the possible neutralization of Austria has not as yot come before the "big five!' in a forntal manner, It ia being discussed here. Certain socialistic element Ip, Austria are striving hard to prevent neutralization, but there are othyr Influence which are anxious to see ft effected ks tt would give Austria protection sjmtlar to that enjoyed by Switzerland. t -The proposed qnion of Austria with Germany ia presenting many difficulties and German Interests are endeavoring to effect a (Jlvston of Atts-tr- ii so that the Cermao section may be annexed. Mny of the members of the Entente ere unfavorably toward tbe neutralization of any part of Austria, as it is regarded as undesirable and 'embarrassing to a country seeking membership in the League of Nations. Switzerland's neutrality presents many problems to the supreme council as her Status would be uncertain, should she be admitted to the league and still retain her neu- ' NEW TORE, March It. With 8$ officers and 2.734 troop of the 27th division former New York state national guardsmen the steamship Mount Vernon arrived tiere today from Brest. The Vessel brought altogether 4,784 troop Including a large number of casuals and 08 nurse, together with seven officers and 812 men sick or wounded. Casual companies , aboard includ the following: Numbers 1,410 of Montana: 1,412 of South Dakota; 281 of Oregon, 224 of California and 294 of Colorado. Traveling as a casual on the Mount Vernon wa Brig. Gen. Jame D. Glen-na- n. ' it the. stanch advocates hereof the; League of Nation. The air has been full of disquieting rumors from the g cockpit. Sniping at the league has become too persistent friends. T the liking ance of premier Lloyd George In Paris, with President Wilson hastening toward the scene of action, should check the plans of opponent for frontal attack , peace-makin- As WASHINGTON, March 11 step In Its campaign for protecting holders of Liberty bonds and war sav-- j Inga stamps from ''exchange'' pro-- 1 of doubtful or fraudulent stock promotion scheme, the federal trude commission today sent out a demand for Information from many concerns whose literature ha been turned over to the commission for examination Formal questionnaires sent out containing questions bearing on the amount of promotion stock and sums Invested, and the corporaactually tions organization buaincss. properties, plans and , financial condition. The commission require that the information be furnished at once. Let- MIS$ RUTH CRAWFORD Troops Now Hunting Them Down -Those Found With Arms Are Summarily Executed. RERUN, Monday. March 19. (Noon, by The Associated Press-)- Government troops were busy today , in driving Spartacan bands from various sections of Berlin, and In preparing for a determined effort against the Spartacan gtrorghold of Lichlen-bersuburb to the east of the city. The Spartacan are reported to have large depots of weapons and ammu nitlon in Liohtenberg. Government troop8 gent w saday to protect the postoffice and police station were annihilated by the Sparta-can- s. g. the opinion fit political expert At the invitation of Slits Alloc in par.lamentary circles, who sensei barometric accuracy the rising! ryk, daughter of the president of the with Czecho-Klova- k Republic. Miss Ruth of tempest or the promise of fair j Crawford of the. Department of weather for the world chief political the preMdent has undoubtedly Foreign Born Women of the I. . Clx figures, won a victory in his short Hay in A . i going to Bohemia for a months stay. Bhe will assist Mis America. of. The experts think hi critics crowd-PraguManaryk in making a survey The Russell Sage and Rocke- - ,ed on more sail than they could carry, All the. soldiers and puRge official Miae are tn Foundations behind feller gale .f their own brewing, oyjiile Crawford in this work. the president went through the temp- who were not killed during the fightest unreefed. This la their Judgment ing for the postotUce and police' staIn respect to tbe political aspect of his tion or who did not escape from the s. visit home. building were murdered by the One of the remarkable Indications Many were tortured and ters accompanying the questionnaires of the sureness with which the Idea killed tn tbe street. At .least one call attenlten Gy penalties of 'from of the league has taken hold in this woman was among tbe vlctlgi of the 21.000 Aw 4,000 or one years imprisTbe pot we archive In... rdi in tvjveumefrt-l- n one or two.irream-cllablSpartacan onment, or both, for failure to answer quarters, ha been tbe absence Uchtenberc were burned and 80 000 lawful Inquiries and of a fine or three bar of .support ftf-rlesgtrFs critics marks were stolen from the poatofflce.'"' years Imprisonment or both; for false No attempt yet ha been made to tn America. answers. too number 0f pecon- - k;ii.-4--. - . Tbe President's sallying - eaH to ascertain America made a profound Impression tn the present upnaing, but tbe num, here, especially In his declaration that ber i believed to exceed 160T FIVE YEARS TO Great Britain and America will stand Reports of Bpartucaa atrocities conin in and to resulted tinue pour today together firmly against future world the issuance of an order BUILD TUNNEL by Herr outlaws. Absence from Paris of the President Noske, the minister of defense, that UNDER CHANNEL and the Premier ha given an Inning all found opposing the government shot but It is troops with weapons would be were opponents of the r. Many Spartacan LONDON, March It. Five years Plan tO Brand Hun All not believed here thatleague, the opposition Immediately." taken prisoner during the forenoon has damaged Ihe main peace struc- - andwould be required to complete the - summary- - execution began at Time as Arch Criminal by lura- tunnel under t he Eng lish chanonce, the order Of Herr Noske being nel from England to France, accord-inwelcomed by-4-hembittered govern- M ment force. to .an authoritative estimate. It Declaration of Assembled is said that in ordinary times the cost Murder Wounded. of the work would be about f!6,0U0,-00Nations. Armed civilians stopped a Red Cross but tn View of the Increased cost ambulance today and killed and of labor and materials, the expense wounded 11 the persons in it. An- -' Involved would, under present condiwill 10. March It PARIS, Monday. Other band of Spartacan clubbed twe tions be nearly 20,000,000. be the fate of former Emperor Wilsoldiers to death and killed a householder liam to be branded for all time as an who attempted to Interfere. arch criminal by Ihe solemn declaraThe Independent Socialist newspa EXEMPTION RULING WASHINGTON, March 11 tion of all the nations iisemblul at Die Frelheit and Die Republik the peace conference, j to which even inanctal predicament faced by rail- per have been forbidden to appear. At- . ON INCOMp TAX hue own uiuntry may lie calleil upon roads a a result of the depletion of though the Independent Socialist leadto subscribe In the peate terms, ac- the railroad administrations funds ers protest that they are not connected . CHICAGO, March It. An import- cording to the present plans of what with the without Confurther appropriation by insurrection, they continue to of the ant extension of qUe exemption pro- Is believed to bp make attempts to embarrass the govvisions of the Income tax law is con- commission on responsibility for the gress was discuaaed today at a confer- ernment and to play into the hands war. ence between Director General Hinea, of the tained in a ruling by Comminsloner Spartacan by demands that the The report of this commission will leading railway executives, Roper made public here today. "Tt is be ready within a, few davs. and jankers volunteer troops he withdrawn from Berlin. that the. exemption for wife or chilwar ahd official of the finane'e Many independent are known are that the members are dren covers the whole year 1912 even harmonious on the to be fighting in the Spartacan ranks. mam points if the wife were wed, or the child There are likely to he differences, The government's preparations to The conference was the first of a born, on the last day of the year. h put down the revolt indicate that force regarding subordinate series information of lit making the announcement Jul- however, discussion witliie used to the utmost. at present a officials, ius Smietanka. collector of Internal majority of thealthough The government commission is under- - which Mr. Hines hopes will result in revenue for the Chicago- - district to hold that they can be for financing rail- ers expect that it will take at least two ' a plan that while the ruling; works a nhed for orders given or act day of steady fipht.ng to rapture for the men earning 22,000 a'rnlt,d bv them In violation of the roads privately as a substitute for the Llchtenberg and the suburbs of Berlin. which had The communist with help from crimyear who have married during 1918,1 national laws of Germany or the rules government financing, It works against men who have Idet of Tvar. Such a rule would apply to been planned in connection with the, inal and hooligan element continued ' wh executed rapt. Fryatt, J750.n0O.000 funds sought, but not au-- i to offer strong . oppoaition. Govern- their wives in the course of the year the by Congress eruUoner of Edith thorized j ment troops are'taking no prisoners. for In the latter cae, he aaid even but not' A New ork few have bankers pro) ' pointed out, might The government wbo, If the wife died on Dec, 21, the also the posed organization of a banking pool task of combatting the Insurgents who guilty of espmn- - of widower would have to make hi re- - have been technically more than JlfiO.OOO.OOO to advance are to the Ua- , .'th? age. t0No doubt ia feltolt aa German par,Unf nto gmall hanrt and for not more than six of- - lo railroads punishment blllty districts which heretofore entire . year. This is . equally This, it is understood, wasZ terrorizing taken of war and found months. firer prisoner been bad unmolested. where a child dies, he said. to adbe laid before the railroad of afroeHfes.. guilty S parts cans Take Machine Gan. ministration today. War finance corporation directors One Bpartacan band last night ' No Export License Representation that the organization has ceeded in taking a machine guq into a J337. 000,000 available for loans house .opposite the barracks of the Of Small Nations about Needed For Coloniet but to said railroads, that guard regiment on Friedriehstrtutjo must collateral be north of Enter den Linden. They bom- adequate A furnished to study the barrack-- . Washington. March n. inn- - Goaod . Ui ...g u et,ion .. of termmaswhfch eampantea- - ca- nvtduai Impost and export license tor ,'f?ucc1' grenade Into the Curt- of the small nation! duce tht security ha been tmdertak-- .i bv-- 1 be the .colonies, possessions and protec- - on reprti nUtion and -" finaooa-l-com-- t economic the Tofficla? en hy the railroad administration s torate of Great Britain, France. Italy. Wlff the by Is division makjng fintuice following It proposed that Belgium and Japan will no longer bsimrions The possibility of an outbreak to ' roads financially sound should tt was announced today by l0?t,inentf: haa been met by the govern. enmmlwion RemygrtU- -the war trade board. Econ"m', pio"Per ' andLTYdvce,rapre-- . Belgium, Rrizll. China. PoThe board also revised restriction of Lhow of? fheqgeneTi the exportation of whan land, Portugal. Rumania - and Serbia, Tb wh1chbWoufd'Thenah ord'r rllln Financial commissiontretlon shipped from the couhtry of origin. This ruling does not apply to hlp- i icals declared they would not resume d paid for work unit the govern tncixL troops were J P Apr11 . NEISI GUN TO SUPERSEDED withdrawn from Berlin. In Mas-posa- la TO WOHK AT SEATTLE Wash.. March 11. SEATTLE, Union men went again today through the gates of the shipyards of Seattle, Tacoma and Aberdeen to work on the big hulls that have stood in various stages of completion since Jan. 21, when a strike closed the plants. Although several thousand men returned to work today, tt will be several days before full forces are employed - t; e. t Bpar-lacan- ... r 4 if ror pro-floa- g I 4 -- ti i U Ger-ma- milllary-cammanil-- ..., , pun-plain- per-eavl- -- ' h-- ve ed IV "de-;brd- Neulu ! I WilLbeSpeeded Upt -- - Minerr T O'- k, - r ! ; i Vf au yylth narte,:s.towa ouid .women, cm- j Important Matters ployees of the Morrison hotel were helped down-fire- : escapes,'- early-t-- o ; Silesian Have , five-stottwhen fire ry out ia broke day, brick annex to the hotel which' Encounter With 11. The Troops March la used as a dormitory for the emprogram off PARIS, the work for the supreme council forf ployees of the hotel. The employees JKonda- i- Morch-t4 --to i catex i Ji ERXJ.NV Versailles. were the annex at r this. Jodavvipd Signing occupying fop JbO ,aek,mftaofL Encounter with troops are re- March 1 1 an effort will, tie made to bring TROY. N. Y most ' pbiT'W0biFh maldi laundry The p - nPlan otH.iatothe.cesUat - f thgj, Cal Tiolding sessions tor debate at Ver- - POPE ANXIOUS OVER about a speedy conclusion of Impor-- 1 fnited States government haa placed i Phr!f Those girls and a few housemen. GENEVA. Monday, Starch 10. the m ne,r sallies and restricts the functions to be overcome by smoke were carried into Former King William of Wurttcmberr matters mnialntnx to I The movement is th "torv.let arsenal iIiTer8 wlth ord'r a Polish sep- conducted with the Germans to the, deetonqU-aathe'an partly the hotel drugstore and were soon re- had a narrow escape from, drowning the take ll up Today, rtive one in character, the l'olea KUh to in vived. livery of the document and their re- . . persede the famous a scuffle that occurred contention of the CaeCho-Klova. , , today during r turn i for Its signature or uch other" j guests of the big hotel, located When a party of German sailor from ernment that there la a German-Aus- o'1 gun. The new gun Is . K0Mt- - Monday, March 10. Dur- - at All I action as they desire to take. ,ln the southeast corner of Clark and 'Kiel seized the plot against Czecho- larger, shoots further anddofoi more yacht on trtan Hungarign f It ts known definitely that Count Ing the course of hl allocution at the Madison streets, were aroused and (Lake Constance. by '? iebruary i The sailors took Slovakia It also will consider the damage. Ii Is called"' rmSi Von Rernstorff, notified to leave the structure, s a! yacht to use It as a fishing boat. the eastern boundary of Germany, former German am- - consistory he held today. Rope four" and two guns were ordered as to The settlc-be In the miners strike to the Hsmborn- future, the Fnited States, will not diet. alluding precautionary measure. The fire dldj Disorders along the Rhine towns. On Wednesday, the final military, an experiment. ' 21 ! Essen region also Las been resumed. one of the German delegate at ment of the Ottoman empire, said'. not reach the hotel proper, being con-nAllied occupation are eon-- 1 naval and air tbrma of the peace treaty under The U S Inches to diameter, gun miners refusing to accept the govVersailles!. would fe a treat grief to the holy t fined i the . fh j The German and Austrian, and the northern boundary of Ger- - feet, 8 Inches long, weighs 12 tons, the tinning. decision that' they be not The presence ot Premier Lloyd' e If In Palestine the preponderate street side, r The fourth and.Glnrk fifth consuls have been withdrawn will be considered. The western lias a range of 10 miles and the pro- ernment's from mhny to were were infidela and floors burned before the blaze the Lake Constance paid for the day George tn Pari U permitting of daily i position, given they were on strike. because boundary of Germany will be ronsld. jectile weighs 175 Ymunds. It Is tho One territory collision If J still between strikers and the greater grief holy' places 0f tb, hostile attitude of the neigh- - ered Friday and financial arrange- mmt powerful weapon of ts size to home guards ts reported from this (Continued on page tour, section two) .were given to a power." age was estimated at .8 60,000 'boring peasants. . ments with Germany Saturday. existence. . area. i. -- ' he -- trkikf t i e trality asedu desire. There is a possibility, h'owever. that the peace conference will consider the neutralization of the Austrian Tyrol, which would afford protection to the again. northern Italian frontier. The men returned to work for the same wages they received before they walked out, demanding more pay. MARINE WORKERS They have agreed to work until April 1. In the meantime a wage conference MAKE THREATS will be held at Washington. D. C.. to settle their claims. TO RENEW STRIKE Approximately 25.000 men joined the walkout here. Many of the strik- NEW TORE, March 11. With ers have since left the city or have enmany of the great Transatlantic tered other lines. steamship tines here tied Up by the strife 'of longshoremen, which was ARMY GAS MASKS called yesterday in support of the NO GOOD IN MINES' striking harbor workers, threats were made today by the Marine Workers' 11. AnMarch WASHINGTON. affiliation to renew the strike against the railroad administration, based on other warning that army gas masks, the alleged violation, of some of the terms of the recent settlement. The developed for protection against gases of the Germans, are alIndependent boat owners' again "have rejected the term usder which settle- most worthless in civil employments, ment between the railroads and their was given today by the bureau of harbor employees was reached. mines as the result of repprts of io- A number of large liners, ready to to firemen and miners, who juries towere still tn port sail for Europe have attempted to use the mask In to for unable of coal. lack proceed day their work. Among these were the Cunard liners Director Van H. Manning pointed Caronia and Mauretania; the White out that It was particularly dangerous Star steamer Lapland and the French to use the army mask where gas was . line steamship Niagara. confined, as It was Intended for use In the open. Furthermore, carbon monexide. one of the most dangerous REP. MONDELL OF WYO. gases In civil employments, cannot be with the army mask. CHOSEN FLOOR LEADER combatted "The field of civit usefulness of the army mask," Mr. Manning said, la WASHINGTON, March 11. Rep. confined to certain chemical indusFrank Mondell of Wyoming was tries, around smelters and roaster. where sulphur, fumes, are given off, chosen Republican floor leader in tbe and In Industries using chlorine and next house today after Hope Mann of lrtlnois; leader- - to the last Congress, bleachtng powder. had been elected on the first ballot by the Republican conference arid had SIX WOMEN FAINT declined to accept. Mr. Mondell has been a member of AT CHICAGO FIRE His election Congrosd tor, 22 years. to the floor leadership will cause him to retire from the membership of the 1 m'ny otheto en"women"faTnVed; house appropriations committee, one hundred and sixty members were overcome by Smoke and these The progress t ha t has been, made with the work of framing the peace treaty ensures the completion ot the, task by March 20. The first rough draff wtUbe In readiness when Prest dent Wilson arrive in France Thursday. and the revision will be concluded before the 20th. It. I the present pur-.- J pose of the peace conferees to coll the Germans to Versailles soon after to voted. for. Mondell. probably from March fT 20, M&rdh w1zs. The dorument and 55 were absent. The Wybmlng be delivered to the German pen delegates .. .member was. nominated by Rep,- - Tim nd to. case ..they .'are. not., prepared, ttk Gotorade-anSign It at once they will be given the by flep. Kinkald of Nebraska, after opportunity- tn return to Germany to Mr. Mann had been ejected by re consider It and return for the formal celvlng 154 votes and had declined. I S' Government (By Joseph W. Grigg.y (New York Wori' ltt-ils 10. , . I kl It PARIS,- - Monday, March - TO SET PROTECTION and taken the city. Germany. is understood that the ponuff stales that the Vatican possesses Expected .to Block Concerted Attack on Covenant in Paris. IP MOUNT The report of the capture of Riga reached London March T tn a dispatch to'tbe Daily Telegraph. The German 'troops were said to" have wrtcrcly defeated the OUT OF Return - of Chief - Executive fi i J f .ti 9 .ft f ii - tnt . k go-j,- or . g' -- "one-ninet- l, vi to ot (It if an t 4 |