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Show r.,a 35 E SIB RET. PAGES, 10 ea nMf -yaU iBYENINGr TUESDAY MARCH 18 Jllllfft-SAL- LAKE T War Sayings Stamps, Better Than Paid Up, Life Insurance -- i CITY UTAH S1XTY-NIXTI- i YEAR I iprRlFWITr Tn 4 n ILJ-IiiliLdl- s'h'l Ld ) ! (3b fighting Res umed A gainst-the-Bolshe- on Lithuanian Eront viki Bam session or la WanUMadein Hfr lint ELD1 lit i i Senator ' (Hew York Smith-- He Switched From SALE OF BEER HAS Politics to Powder ' And Helped Win War. -- League Covenant (By H. A. t i Hews Staff World-Deeer- et Correspondent.) JEFFERSON CTTT, Mo , .March JS Tho Missouri legislature In Joint includ 'ideniJi - caTh I want wly hifh J rlBIS, "super-governme- that the Kid be Can Internal Revenup Bureau Stop It When It Contains Over Half df One Per Cent Alcohol? tement actlont e from I doing le does Income yre-wrfist the PARIS, If-t- ..ingasiHiigg- By The AssoPresid ent Wilson will March-JSi- i ciated Pres. ) hold an important conference with Yrwniers Lloyd George, Orlando and Cfamenceau at the Paris White House This-meetin-g of premiers rep-today,- txx made ire ob- bared turdajr county esions Joint m. Dr, , f rcientlng the supreme directing to we of the peace conference, takes the place of the session of the supreme council, which has been postponed unul tomorrow to permit the meeting. The question to be discussed Is tha large one. nf securing accord between the great powers on ail phases of the peace treaty and Us early pxceentatioa to the Germans. It is expected as agreement will be reached as to the inclusion of the league of nations, as ea integral part of the peace troaiy. In accordance with the resolution which baa already been adopted by the peace hrift ' -- i i read-le- n to , sav- - conference. Special Interest attaches to today's conference- - to view of recent reports of divergences between the powers. s to the. inclusion of the league plan In Si at. on. sev rector istant, d mated-'Arme- the treaty. The .meeting is looked upon as an earnest effort to reconcile powers. Citing questions- - which he said ail view Into a common understandi- would be brought before the league for of as ng peace Senator Reed said that among them early conclusion a a comprehensive form, including might be a grant by jdexlco of land military, naval, economic and financial to Japan, or sale by Colombia of land terms, as well as tbs league of nat- to some foreign power which could ions. The general situation as to the erect a fortress to command the PanaPae treaty has been greatly clarified ma canal. during the past 24 hours by discus-aioThe disarmament provisions of tha between the heads of various leagus charter, the Mll!ourl senator delegations and American commissions asserted, would give the executive took the view to limit Amertoday that the attitude council absolute power f Uw American, French and British ican armament. He added: g. be We beleaguered by government would be brought Into may AH the enemies of destruction entire accord. The conferences which nave been held by Lord Robert Cecil may be gathering about us Yet unef Great Britain, Leon Bourgeois of less we can gain the consent of the world crane and CoL E. M. Rouse, of the five master of the (the execuv nlted Stales, have reached a tentative tive council) we must remain unpreecord, and there is reason to believe pared and meet our fate with naked that todays meeting will approve the hands." 'd, oust m tbo urdaf ns Tern South ene-hile- Action thus taken. Present plans contemplate th completion of hearings given neutral on the league of nation- - daring Present week, and (during the succeeding week attention will be gives to boundaries, reparation and other branches of the treaty. It Is believed (bat the revised league covenant will be ready for adoption at th end of Nevada Senate - Anti League of Nations na-uo- fin . ezt week, Sweden Accepts - Invitations , to Conference . March 17. MINEWORKERS OF announcing Sweden's acceptance Invitation extended to her and J.v AMERICA HOLD other 'neutral nations to attend a In Paris on the of the subject POLICY MEETING ague of nations. Premier Eden said today that thu ghvertitnent had INDIANAPOLIS, ImL, Watoh 18.- -. to . a representation of representatives ' had long studied committee which ''policy emeeting to quest ion" and Vhifih wJd'airt dtot riot of . the T u Jtnjuilrtfon with the Swsdish mlntoTlUifited Mineworfters of America began m Pari and London the International headquarters of here today The Na'araily," the premier said, this ' the organization witLMtocuw t.resentattoea ip itself cannot-saiisto'utral power 0 quertlons reisting to unem-,.- ,. W maintain uncon- - dMide d general Jltionaliy the demand to be permuted PloymenL wage take part In the actual, full, offl- - eonditiona. expected to develop during eta, the reconstruction period. "liberations of this world ef?re wo shall find ourselves 'o deckle upon our own attitude. AvUtor Is Stricken., - Obviously the league will not be- real league able to perform It ROANOKE. Va., March 18. Cpl. difficult task, unless it rtondously made. universal and Is built on th William A. Bishop, famous Canadian5. of ul1 luetic for all it aviator, wa operated Upon for appenIftobers.- We can on tv resent cer- - dicHls her Ust night. H wa atrick-to- t be wa preparing to deliver an porta nt view at th present I address. Early today bla condition 1 (Continued on page tre waa reported to he atif actor , f , hit ee Hn eni ;bty th uu I re JO- - llar ly fy iplc ted net a- s r set s. f t I f tions. , Republican Leader Lodge nf the senate has sent letters to all Republican senators requesting them to record their address of May 1& with his office, but tbis was said to be without significance. i mh ter 1 !' Roper discussed the busubject today with deputies of the reau In charge of enforcing liquor laws, but found the various laws ana ns were food administration a that legal o njon so complicated would be neCjjwry before he ould budecide whether to enforce U MycJUCUMH. reau s ruling. This ruling promulgatIt Js a big switch from politics to ed recently permitted th manufacture of beer containing not more than powder but that is the switch Percy 2 3 pef tent alcohol, but provided Nagel, i a New York stale assembly- - that before sale the alcohoPe content man, made when the -- United States must he reduced to rot more than M o neater cant. Entered the' w f. " AhltOyga fifty-si- x Comniii-siope- rcg-'alio- Twenty-seventh-(Ne- w 18 loik) division, which March The WASHINGTON, American embassy at Mexico City broke through the Hinvicnhurg line. was instructed today to bring to the attention of the Mexican government the reportfd eaptiire bv Villa bandits of James E Whetten, air American LAWRENCE. Mux, March 18 citizen, and Bishop Joocph Bentley of While the police were trying to break th Mormon Church, said to be a IS URGED TO Mexican, and to urge that sp a parade of textile workers today naturalised be to taken every poesihle step bring tenement about the rescue of Whetten and to shots were fired from bouses, officers were stoned and per- protect Americans generally lit Chi- sons in the crowd clubbed. Many ar- hauhua. Rep Hamilton of Michigan, tele- rests were made. It was the most the state department today -- r g f violent disturbance that had occurred graphed that tho Warren company had inJAP.l.S, Monday, March 17 A letsince the strike began six wrecks ago formed him that Martin Lopez, one ter signed by President, Wilson aqd The strikers had picketed the mills of the bandit leaders, was holding the two men for ransom, demanding PremlerClcmeiUjeauauid Driando. the hours.... After the, opening during 5 01) each Tor (heir freedom. IgG handed to Premuf Lloyd George Ibis gale were closed they formed a col- pexs force consists of 46( men. ac- - aUernoon tTOn, urgingjiim to post-ha- e to the Warren umn for a parade. At the head of the cording company and a his return to Eng for Jane and Asuncion in fortnight Phe captured line, a cording to City Marshal T. J. southern Chihauhau in addition laud, in view of the urgency of the O'Brien, wrere red flags. He summoned OJItos ranch. problems before the peace conference The ranch foremen e . said to be Mr. Lloyd George will submit the letreserves from police headquarters and 1 COO the ransom. raising read the riot act. ter to the British cabinet and It la derstood will act In accordance to-- it were thrown Stones and bottle JUAREZ. Mexico. March t8 A views crowd of from outskirts the the then rrC V2 t,0dy Erom r The letter read ax follows:. Shots also were fired from a nearby U 8eeme 10 U6 imP"atl'-eto order thft nnirtdum house, but no one was hit. Officers 0,41 the Wor,d may walt arrested all the occupants ot the build- BiJhoTjoVph C Bcnt.ey and jam E Whetten, Villa follower, w.realso ing J, rema,n nntl1 the Chief In the meantime other policemen holding Albert Tietjen, another off! nnected with -- peace are and strike sympathizer had an en- clal of the Mormon colony In weU e etlltdcounter Several persons were knocked srn Chihuahua He was captured at fnd 68earnestly beg you to you " arrange (o remain down with police clubs and two offi- Las Cruces. Chihuahua, at the same do ? two weeks wehop and nther cers were hit by atones or bottle. time Bishop Bentley, president of the Twenty-tw- o arrests were made, result can be "Mormon" stake, and James E iev this nearly all on charges ot Inciting to Whetten, head missionary, were made obtained. W write this with full comprehenriot. prisoners, according to a message which has been riven to the Ameri- sion of the very urgent matters that are calling you lo England and with a can consulate here. GERMANY WILL viwd consciousness of thpsacrifice,ww are asking you to make " REFjil f fwt y' ZT"? on precedent and on court of a number of slates. Blade laws, ana regulations vary, however, and Lora missioner Roper said he knejv specifically of no federal law or court deof one pei cision prescribing cent as the limit of alcoholic content -n beer. for on m toxica ling As soon as the solicitor of the revenue bureau and the department of Justice have rendered opinions, Com-mloner Roper will decide whet course to pursue If itis determined te enforce the one-ha- lf per cent rule, revenue officers will be charged with forbidding the shipment of beer containing more alcohol from breweries The revenue bureau's action today wa based on unofficial reports concerning the intention of the New kork brewers. Neither the brewers nor tlter counsel had communicated di One-ha- lf - -H- eavy-Attacks ian, Finnish and Lithuanian Troops. " ! 'I"' HOLM. Monilav. Maech- 13 Fighting has been resumed a gitin at the BofcdieviLI a long the .SfXB rectlv with the bureau. n league leaders are Anti-Baloo- de- uponlbe specific, intention of jef xhtTSv the fn thewarunie prohibition act to make it unnecessary to prove that beer is Intoxicating to order to prevent its sale after July L YVajne B. Wheeler, general counsel for the league, In- - a statement today avid it was true that the government must prove that any vinous or molt liquor Other than beer Was intoxicating, and for that reason Congress would be urged to define intoxicating liquor before July L pending T Elihu Root Tells Brewers to Go Ahead NEW YORK, March 18. Coincident with the decision of the International revenue bureau to ask the de. purtment of justice whether it had authority to enforce the regulation prohibiting production of beer except that of less than one-ha- lf of .l per cent alcoholic content, defendants in th brewery stockholder' suit brought here last week to test, the Constitutionality of tbs war time prohibition art announced that they had invited of the government to tbs the defense. ...The leet - suit,... asking the federal court to restrain the James Everard's breweries of this city from discontheir manufacturing activities tinuing May 1 and the sale of their product July 1, as required by the prohibition clause of the agricultural bill was begun by Joseph E. Everard. a minority William M. K. Oleott, stockholder. counsel for the defense, today notified United-StateDiet. Atty Caffey that his would be welcomed adding that inasmuch a the question is cf such impprtanqe as to call for real adverse litigation perhaps the federal government mav wish yog to workwlthTs Itr the defense. Xbe United State Brewers' association comprising three-fourtof the t t entire IJthtiunlan from, accordstatement at ing to an offiela Lithuanian limdunarteru which adds that the Huidicitti suffered a severe dfest at Soda and Paginal. Southeast of 8 Una we are advancing victoriously, f vrebig the enemy to retire along the vtltolc front. the statement concludes. , mi - 15,-00- hs pro'-duc- aire ; be Root-Guth- rl - )V 1 Monday, March 17. COPENHAGEN, I Exthonlan forces are again masers of the (situation on (ft Pvkov front. according to an jfficial statement is if sued by the EzthonJsmrmy qy art ere, which xays that the Ehon, Ians have launched a powerful counterattack to that region In heavy fighting in the petchor d. strict wet head-4tn-h- l( r' v - rt t i lageg, the statement mm TEN THUUSSNR I el J THE It h :;t! TOKIO Monda), Marcli 17.' By The Associated Frees ) Korean demonstration continued Baturday and Sunday, according to dispatches printed in newspaper and It is Indicated the national independence movement la remarkably extensive and well organized in some ofth strongest provinces of that country. Reports stale thatthe rail wa v -- etstkm at Ping Tang has been stoned by' a mob of 10 000 persons the Korean national flag being commonly There lx some uneasiness tet Seoul, but the situation there la said to bw under control The movement ix nc able for Us extent rather than Its denee among those prominently I ttfied with it aooi being government Christian eonverts li e been kept under control through ut the trouble by the missionaries. it la reported. . Newspapers here view the siuiatinn as very grave and announce that among those arrested in Seoul- were M s l i ! i; l x I - t , t f t f - three foreigner and nurse from tbs (T hospital. Reports frots the interior nf Korea state that several' officers been have police killed. 1 i . I m America f -- s ! i ti If. a telegram Fart, way that XJetitenant Ponton, who- plans a flight from Cape Dakar, Senegsmbla, to Pernambuco, Brazil, left Villaooublay for Dakar on Sunday, but wa compelled to land near Homoratta, south- - ' east of Blols, because of a cracked' cylinder It is said he now Is in Paris and Intends to start once more for Dakar in a few days. Ai was addressed to Christian W. Felgon-spapresident of, tfi Rre we tibnkf absoclaffon.'JR was stated that no action was contemplated for the or to advise present either the member to act under Its declaration. Tbe association would be oon-teit was explained, to inform it n, developments In the litigation likely to be preeipitotedby the New York and New Jersey brewers1 determination not to comply further with the revenue regulations. Neither the brewers Jibard of trade nor their counsel would say whether any of the members bad begun of the 2 4 brew, which it announced yesterday would be resumed at, once. It was announced. J Qtticm of th hoard said the brew-- s had on hand "considerable stocks of the 3 4 per rent product, which has been the national standard sine the president at, the beginning of 1918 forbade mami facture of- - steoeg" beef j a a food .conservation measure opinion i 3-- 8-- f - M i LONDON, March received here from i Mi TE lf Thoucfe . tv s -- i - bjreEsthon- ss were killed apd 31 others woundhas contracted to deposit 45.0,(00,000 The PARI$, Monday. March-1- 7. according to a Cairo dispatch re- British government francs to gold to the Brussels National ed. that on At ceived Tania the Nils, bank, Thera will be two payments, 75 mitestoday. above Alexandria, where riot- immediately upon the transfer of Gerone of 175.000,000 francs within four also occurred, the casualties were man merchant shipping to the Allies days and the other, which will be 275 ing million francs wilt be made within 10 11 and 61 wounded. It will be able to deliver the following The which waa filed March days. y ot foodstuffs to Germany, 3. stated "tbl oriHr ha dbeen restored The deposits mentioned In he fore- and that the troops were able to cope ; the fiure being In tons. J-'. Raven,- - SO OOSr eortde'Hsea'milkr 10,- going dispatch are presumably to be with the situation. made to coHnectiofi With the agree000: vegetable oils, 2 0 0 0 0 ; m ar ga tne, ment recently reached, at" the Allied 20,08(17 drfppingar'2,600, rice, 85,000; conference with af B: us0. ee is for the provisioning of Germany rangoon heans,, 50,000oatmeaL to connection - with the- shipping arand barley or rye flour, 10,000. . rangements. This makes a total of 174.000. j The French government Is ready to ..TD 5IIL FRI1MST. HIZAJBE e furjiiah.xaw xnaXeBiols whk'h'WtH 15,000 tons of palm oW and fbe Jon' of. Elihu Root and William D. can deliver stockiH States from Guthrie, advising hrewers that they United tn Europe 40,000 ton of cereals and might proceed legally' with the manu COBLENZ, Monday, March 17, flour. ' Payment for the food will be facture and distribution of beer conPress.) Head- mad y the Germans in gold or equiv- taining '2 4 per rent alcohol, had PREMIER OF R1RIII (By the , Associated - been mailed to Us TOO members. While quarters for the third army received alent secprltiep. the .association has taken no action word today of a change In plans for on the Opinion, officers declared they i 4Zd home the division which sending INCREASES IN COAL expected many members would folBASEL, March 18 Herr Hoffmann, will salt from low the set by th larger beer Instead ot 8 Social minister of worship In the Eis- Antwerp., The change waa made bePRICES SINCE 1913 brewers'example board of trade of New York In and deMsJng ner government ha vicinity to, Ignore tha been elected cause of danger from mines In the March IS. Increases I pwrnmwitreguleUon restricting WASHINGTON, premier of Bavaria by the diet, ac- waters off Holland land the lack ot 44 per cent la eoal of 42 .duction to malt bev. since prices embarkation facilities at Antwerp 1913 were to those of leas than one-hacording to a Munich dispatch to the Th or reported today ia the March ermgea division will eptraln for Franc, issue the Labor Review otjthe bu-- 1 1 per rent alcoholic, conttfiti, ' Frankfort Gasettw , during the first week In AprlL reu f labor statistics. -- " i rule ing this years old, he enlisted, became a major and wa In command of tire Kind ammunition train whlchrecently re-- , turned from France Tho 102nd Am- munition train part of the pttVn enforce ly I ft (y I ' ae of Ler con'afmng Enemy Retires in Face of tt-n per-sA- ns lutton was passed by the assembly early In the seat ran. Last week the senate tabled a resolution condemning the proposed league of nations - ill 18 cent or more of tftr- - ppa?T" lruerrii JUftenue. meut ot juaUt-- e decided to Commtsioner Koper tod &ak for pmioBVn the sobjeet ab raised by anThe question nouncement of New York brewer that they would resume manufacture THrSlTroTTee F oKtamth h ot'nvnrr Ihan 2 4 per ten! alcohol, considera S V it-.- li mrr.al rtvnue bureau of one one-ha- lf DEPOSIT MONEYIN KILL SIX PERSONS, : BRUSSELS IN CAIRO RIOTS BRITAIN-IBANK NOW CARSON CITY. Nev.. March 18. By a vote of eight to four the senate READY TO DELIVER LONDON, March 18 In the recent of the Nevada legislature refused to BRUSSELS, March 18. In accord- pass a resolution endorsing a league at believed to Kgy Cairo, bo Witb pt, rioting Wh,ch FOOD TO GERMANY 4trement hu. of which the cn.ito," of nation States shall be a member. The reSo-- J been retched lhe Germi government due to the nationalist agitation, six STOCKHOLM. Monday, In rer Whether th hat authority gainst the - other suggesting an earlier date, probably May 5. As far as known has none of the cabinet members specifically recommended Rry date to the president, but Secy Glass is understood to hate presented certain facts in regard to the goyernment's financial situation from which the president may make his own deduc- March WASHINGTON ehngcd-ftnrLll1(InB - 11 f ?? fully step within the entangling web. The American people were told that the constitution of the league had been conceived by American represen t stives and was being forced on reluctant Europe. It now transpires that the entire scheme from first to last with some slight modifications is the product of British statesmanship. The executive council feature of the plan was attacked especially by the seoator. Create An Ottgarrliy. We thus create an oligarchy clothed with more arbitrary powers than were ever wielded by any despot on earth. he said. Her Is a- - tribunal of five men, without any limitations whatever upon their authority, once ren. against whose decision, dered, there is no appeal save to armed forces. If this be not a creation of the very command of the world, then th language jarniot create q r .WASHINGTON, March IS An extra session of Congress before June 1 Is believed to be a certainty by many government officials and members of Congress, although thejr predictions are without the support of evidence to ehow that President SS ilson has Quiikat Hunt to summon Congress before his return men This is that the communities which enjoy Inferior rights Urthose enjoyed by the whole body of citizen, derived from a national government shall have the right to seek redress from the League of Nations " '"Ob alternately. , That the League of Nations shall be vested with- - th from Frenee. right to decide what communities shall Cabinet officers are known to bebe regarded as nations and the terri- lieve that the session will begin in torial limits of a national government." May, some expecting th- - date to be Trtrour the TiTtddte 'Of tpermmttr witTrj Fig-ure- Disposition of German warships Is not likely to be included In the treaty of peace, according to the view of the American peace deto gallon. Germany, however, will be required to surrender title to the ships. The ultimate ownership will be determined later. one. If Francatee, suggesting an amendment which will make the league covenant acceptable to Irish- contention, that the iMfuo would abrogate the Monroe doctrine, rlolate t.be .A tnsncan,, create a of world" and force the United Staten world-wide Into difficultly and obligations. Senator Keed challenged assertions of It. advocate, that the- league', decrees and jowers.woyjLd be- merely' a d vlaory. He insisted that It action would be mahdatorv and involve "command of the world It however, he argued, it 1 contended that, the obligation ! morally binding, then Indeed we are worse off because the United State, will keep It. moral obligation, whereas gome other nations might not, Ail these contention, were utterly a deatroyed by the prendent, who. when March 17 WASHINGTON, he p rented the league constitution made public by the war departto the peace council!, expressly force 1. Jn the background of ment today showed that 470,738 officers and men of the American exthta program. . . , And moral force of the world will not suf- peditionary forces bad sailed for home fice the physical force of the world up to March 13. That number repre.halt Declaring that the tentative consti- sented 24 per cent of the strength of tution vu of British origin. Senator Gen. Perehlngs forces on Nov. 11 and Reed asserted that America would be left 478,580 to l, francs. directly entangledi in European the. total retgmed. onga Ar-- en Averting thaf'the league Charter the way 171,118 were casuals.' sick and wounded. Out ot contains no provision for withdrawal of raUiM from the lea Senator 887.(74 Infantry in France tn November only 89,494 had been returned, Read continued: Those who conceived Its structure white the field artillery figure show did not intend te allow the United ed, 73,058 sent home ou.ofJ!l,48. on, canal should be Internationalised and made available to the ships of all nations on even terms. le- i ZZ M It wa decided also ludmg single - r . eoonefl. earned rift to a part Vf Maxell 18. The fortJfl-Oion tbe Island of Hdgo- bnd,Gcrmany's forutolnbie hno ki the North new, must be dismantled, , This decision was reached today by the supreme allied war - jmin'njr e ume, shares i w today heard an address hr United 8ttU Rtnator RmiI of Missouri, in l f nUlon' """ j rrcmier llton, Orlando Lloyd George, And Clemenceau Will Discuss Peace Question., Pltlt ! ni i! . 111 68) i 1111 Y ) 1 ARIS -- lEiRAVE Says It Would (Copyright. 191 9. By Press Pub C ) Government Officials and LONDON, March 7 The World's Abrogate Monroe DocCongressmen Believe It correspondent learn, that the Irish trine and Violate Consti- - League of Nations society ha. adCertain- - Cabinet Offi dressed a Communication to the Ame' . tution British Scheme. rican League to Enforce Peace and to cers Expect It in May. the Association n , M l |