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Show 1 J VBNING ;KBWS. 10 j PAGES "Today's New Today. The evening you tile new while K la paper give yet aem. SIXTY NINTH JUNE 14 1919 SALT LAKE CITY UTAH SATURDAY i YEAR -- "HFtHET iSb A j 1 ft'" ,A A & b eft J riSl tSj tSj . i Germans to Have Five Days to Decide Whether to Accept or Not FOR TRANSATLANTIC OFF BRITISHER HOPS FLIGHT Will New Draft CRao's Is Imminent in Germany BeGivenBoche New About Monday Will be Told to Sign Within Two Day Three Days of Grace Follow Before Suspension of' Armistice Labor Clauses of Compact Are Altered Small Powers Protest Against Steam Roller Methods. -- Militarism Is Cause of Split lAKEnn - LITTLE Strike Leaders Gaiming Congeslion of Business Embarrasses Wire Lines By Cyril Brown. New Tork World Deseret New -- Staff Correspondent. peace delegatee, tt te reported from Parle, will be given la which to consider and reply to the revised peace Copyright 111 by Tho Preos Publish- lng Co. it is expected, will be presented Monday. Three days (Special Cable Dispatch) of grace would follow before t he armistice ' wae suspended, should BERLIN, Juno 14. The present the Germans refuse to sign. In that event, boetilitlee between Germany and the Allied and associated power a might be resumed not Saturday, government will fall in a fortnight, possibly in eight dan k the prophJune 2L ecy of political specialists "Machine In recent reports It hsd been state ed that the treaty wonlif be guns Win be popping lB the" irt recta of giving the German s five days to'Whlch'Tbreply.but panted by Berlin within a few days is s reindicate a change in the plana o f the conference during the last day mark whispered often on Enter den or two. The Germans themselves are said to have declared that they did Linden- Speculations on tho terms ef peace not need Ynore than five days in whle h to make up their minds, and they have been suddenly eclipsed by an have thin period, would virtually acute, explosive internal situation. It counting the three days' notice which is quite possible that the Allies will find nobody at horns either to sign or may be given under the terms of the refuse to sign any treaty- - For the armistice before hostilities could be Gormans may bo too busy fighting resumed. g themselves about purely home there It le possible, however,-tha- t affairs to bother about tho Allies' mar be some delay in presenting the terms. The World-New- s peace scents a real revolution, treaty Smaller nations are reported be the that pact be or to demanding counter revolution, or both, in the considered in a plenary erosion before wind German It looks like a toss up If this between a military dictatorship and a being sent to the Germans.of the were held, a postponement dictatorship of tho proletariat, with the life of the young German repubprobably will be forced. The heads of the great power are lic apparently not worth 14 cents todecared to be convinced that the night. terms. revised the ( Herman will recept Chan Beemn Imminent. l ar a advices reporting that an air of r most Inner June on A camLONDON, this i Is evident II, political chaos seem Friday point optimism A further modification of the treaty pig-- to popularize the league of na- - certainly Imminent, and there le ne new The outcome: foretelling the U " by the militarism is a probable winner. British So far aa surface appearaaesware What the alteraleaguqof nation onion Al- in some tlons are ha not no yet been stated 'bert Hall was parked with more than concerned. Berlina. sbsVrk no material said 0 change, barring quiet and orderly The Foies are persona- Viscount Grey presld- - one day general strike In memory of e was made Levine, to'silesia. which will the Munich Radical leader, ped ldeite elabthe future sovereignty of j by Lord Robert Cecil, tbs other speak-th- at recently executed, and tho very dptarmine preparations to mainThey have, it is said.jers being John Robert Clynes. form-bee- n orate military region. on Tho tain order that grave inthat) er food controller; Dr, Alexander Irv- - ternal situation day.no given InfonnalsOi way the reInkof archibishop Canterbury, and sult of tho peace parleying at Verthe plebescite district to! assigned! see that the voting ts done fairly and- Dr. John Clifford. John W. David, sailles. but is due solely to domesJ not Intimidated. American that the voters are ambassador, was present tic happenings. tho . bottom, principal cause of Germany having stopped the move- -l "1UI his wire and Vice Admiral David theAtcurrent trouble is the new miliment of Gen. Haller's troops from waa In attendance. tarism as embodied in the new volum-teFrance to Poland, which has for the Beatty Guards All the speakers dwelt on the nearmy, for the Noske last six weeks been going on over German soil. Marshal Koch, it is re- -, cessity for united and zealous popu- have restored and maintained order. to new the should tho militarism This an ultimatum sent prove ported, has German armistice commission at Spa. lar support to make tho league a decisive inner political factor for the the troop trains reality and a success. Lord Robert present weak Coalition Government, demanding that held up be started Cecil, In tho course of a defense of which is supported solely by the which are being hand grenades and bayonets of the ones more on their way .to Poland tho league, twice referred to Preri. volunteer dua to the alleged army. If tho government Germany's action isIntend to distribute dent JVItoon, being vigorously applaud- falls, no other can take Its place fact that the Poles without tho support of that body. some of Haller's men along the Qer ed. man frontier. How Win Army Vote? The enthusiasm of tho audience for has cabinet resigned The Chinese tho was in evidence through"How will tho army vote?" is the as a result of the popular movement out league Lord Robert's speech, but here on which Germany's immeagainst ministers alleged to be and there were a few hecklers who question diate future now seems to Uang.i If In sympathies. The president tried to interrrupt him. Several men its present leaders can keep It in also has intimated that be intends to In the gallery Inunfurled a red hand with promises of continued said ie that parliabut it office, scribed Warships are fightingflag qjit a So- good pay and large rations, then a ment will decline to accept his resig- cialist republic," evidently referring military dictatorship is logical and nation. The situation In China la re- to the fighting between British and Inevitable, and many observers preported - to be serious aa a result of Russian warships In the Baltic. dict such dictatorship very .soon. strikes- throughout the country. When Lord Robert was naming the On the other hand. If the army framers of the league covenant, a should get out of hand and sympaman shouted: What about Ireland?" thise actively with tho Socialist Labor Terms Modified Lord Robert quickly retorted: "Ire- masses, then a dictatorship of tho pre-l- et waa land If I may ably represented. anat is the equally logical outPARIS. June 14. (By The Assosay so, by Gen. Smuts and myself. come. ciated Press.) The council of five The audience warmly cheered the and Tho Independent Socialists continued the work of editing the rearguments for admitting Communists have conducted tbs most vised peace treaty this morning, at speaker's to the league, but the ap- intense propaganda among tho rank, Germany the same time enabling Baron Makino, plause was punctuated by cries of pro- and file of tho troops, and the indicathe Japanese representative, to ac- test. one man shouting' Too bloody tions are today that m consequence quaint himself with the document. Many others shouted: "Pot the army Itself is politically divided. The work is nearly completed and itre-is traitor!" him out." qnd cheered loudly when the This greatly enhances tbs chances of believed the treaty will go to the man was ejected. a simultaneous revolution and counter vision committee late tonight. It Is Lord Robert said that nobody would revolution with bloodshed- said that it will be printed and ready claim covenant of the of the Two extreme and opposite views league for delivery to the Germane Monday nations was perfect. "But it is a liv- throw The light on the situation. or Tuesday. ing organism, be continued, which Junker Deutsche Tagesaeitung cays: counIt is the present p)an ofofthe will and to itself grow require- "The underground agitation of the adapt tho Auscil to renew consideration Independent Socialists and Sparta-ean- s Representatives ments." trian terms Monday. appear to bo leading to a coup of Turkey will bw received Tuesday. d'etat on a large scale. This agitaarise. If no other developments tion baa reached a climax, particuPresident WHsoa probably will make larly in Berlin. Everything Indicates his trip to Brussels between Wednesthat the impending coup is planned German ef the the and expiration day to take place not only in Berlin, but time limit. Some modifications were simultaneously in tho provinces. We made by the council yesterday in the can state that the Independent Solabor covenant In the peace treaty.varcialists figure on the fell of tho GovThe existing labor situation in ernment in about eight days." ious countries, coupled with clever Independent Attitude. German tactics, had resulted in this the On tht other hand, the Independent pert of the treaty becomingIn one of the counIndica Socialist newspapers my: principle points of attack ter proposals. The situation caused tions multiply that Important circles In consider 'the psychological moment a lengthy discussion which resulted has arrived for a reply to the setting certain modifications In the eon tion. up of a military dictatorship. Tho unGerman to the Allied The misguided policy of tho reply PORTLAND. Ore.. Juno 14. First happy andSocialist leaders has dons Majority proposals, it developed today, will Lieut. John Clark Burgard received everything to bring about this mislay particular stress upon the characcomInformation hero today that ho bad fortune. Meanwhile the militarists ter of the permanent reparations mission. It will be explained to the been awarded the distinguished ser- are employing means to strengthen their power. Tho government no Germans that this commission ts not vice erries for extraordinary heroism longer has the leadership a tyrannical body, but that It will adin Its near in action Epinonville, France. power." minister its duties in a spirit of fairfacill-f-ttho e battle. 27, ness and helpfulness, so as to Argonne Sept. Zduring Only the quick signing of the peace economic reconstrue-to.- i, 1912. Ax liaison officer, he waa es- treaty could, it seems, keep the presGermanys tablishing a company at daybreak, ent coalition government in the sadwhen from a position he suddenly dts-- dle. But this very alight hope la neg- it. tv learned that tho short time covered t n it a party of the enemy brtnglng flgibie. as the German defection at la given Germany for a reply due to the Germans them-seve- machine guns Into position 200 yards! Versailles now expects a negativo an- of his battalion. They are understood to have to the right flank to -give the alarm, j Well informed circles believe such aid they would not require more than Bring unable will mean the breaking off of Burgard exposed himself Iswer flic days to reach a decision. (Friday view tho and opened ! negot la lions for Count voa Brock-fir- e In of enemy full bight's dispatches said only two days with a rifle, at the same time ad-- 1 It te believed, te sincere ould be given for the answer, with hree davs of grace before the arml- - vanclng with his email command. He I to his determination to refuse to sign . ... I killed seven. of tho enemy, captured ! 42 and took nine machine ran. (Continued on page three.) (Continued an page three.) GERMANY'S WASHINGTON, June 1. An order granting employees of telephone companies the right to bar-ga- ir Individually or collectively and to organize or to affiliate with organizations to serve their Homed today by Portmas-te- r General Burleson after conferences with J. P. Noonan, acting International president of the Brotherhood of Electrical Work- - -- Inter-estaT- ad-vir- ee Britons Gather CHICAGO, Juno 1 4- Leaders of the strike ef commercial egraphors declared today that reports hsd been received showing that heavy files of Western Union telegrams were piled up at relay point because of refusal of railroad telegrapners to handle commercial business. Railroad operators were Instructed by the Order of Railway Telegraphers to discontinue handling commercial bmrinese after f a.m. today is a means of ' aiding commercial tele- nation-wid- To Further the League; Few Who ry Oppose the Plan - n e .rrvenlYb J graphers la their right of collective wago adjustments." After official of tho Western Union Telegraph company had declared the railroad operators were not following the order and that business was normal. & J. Konenkarap, Internationa) president of the telegraphers, said not a commercial message had moved on the Missouri Pacific tinea, that definite reports showed hundreds of towns In Iowa. Illinois and other nearby states are without telegraphic service and that all outlying districts would be likewise affected by night The Western Union has estimated that each of tho 22,040 railroad stations handle five messages a day," he said. "Taking their own figures, which are extremely low, there are lli.OtX) message a day that cannot be moved- - This constitutes more than a third of the Western Union's business, (Continued on page eight.) L INENT Fi TO DIE er PEKIN, June 14 (By The Associated Pres.) In consequence of difficulties created by the popular movement against pro-Ja- p namberv of tho govern moot tie cabinet has resigned and President Hsu-ghChang has also intimated his Intention to quit office. tt Is anticipated that parliament will decline to accept the president's resignation. This would amount virtually to a vote of confidence in the chief executive which is needed to strengthen his hand in his fight against the Gaaton Juno PARIS. Rentier, a prominent French journalist, waa today sentenced to death by coui tinarttel for Imparting military intelligence to tbe enemy. Rootter, who le a Socialist with extreme tendencies wae tried by default. He was charged with having agreed with German agents In Spain to start a French language paper there during the war for tho purpoee of carrying on Germanophile , propaganda, Gaston Rentier founded too Madrid La Bait in 1917 it waa bd vod that Bolo Pasha, who was executed at Parts in 1912 for treason, furnished the funds for tho establishment of the newspaper. An order for the of Rentier wae issued by thearrest French utborttte in October, 1917. but never been re-rre,t ported. 14. lh -- There are strike throughout toe country and railroad traffic la being impeded and the situation ie awkward. Two Killed, Two Hurt In Automobile Accident DOWNTRODDEN PUBLIC BLAMED FOR HIGH EUREKA, Cal.. June 14 Mr. and Mrs- - William H. Alley of Chicago and PRICES OF Santa Barbara, CaL, were killed, and staMrs. Hetty G. Stockton, Alley MEATS ' ter, and H. H. Gardner, also of Santa Barbara: were dangerously byjored In an automobile accident near Crescent City 2 mile north ef here, according to advices received here last night. Indications were the car In descend, lng a steep mountain grade struck a log and plunged over a cliff. Burgard. Is Cast in Ike Mold of the CHICAGO ."June 14 Next Weeks Weather. Heroic; Wins WASHINGTON. Juno 14. Weather predictions for too week beginning Monday, Issued by tbs went her bureau today, Medal are: " Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri Valleys Showers probably early days of week; fair thereafter. Nearly normal temperatures after Monday. Northern Rocky Mountain and Plateau Regions Fair with nearly normal temperature, although cool (rights will continue. Pacific State Fair nearly normal temperature. although averaging somewhat below normal in north coast netsdirt ee 1 I LIBERTY BONDS er s. dorff-Rantxa- o, 1 Pinal Quotation. I NEW TORK. Jen 14. Liberty bond 99 52; first final prices today wore: 4s. 50: second . 9190; first 4 (a. 95 14; second 41a 24.12: third 4 9514. fourth 4ia 4 ; Victory ij, 1W.M, 99 94. Victory 41a, Astate-me-nt blaming consumers in part for to high cost of meat vans rtsed today by toe Retail Dealers of toe United State. The American people: toe statement, "by dinging to eating habits, which they adapted during the war, hut which are aww both onneceesary and unwise, nr denying themselves the full benefit of decrease In wholesale price of meat." The statement then asserts that retails mSat-prichave "dropped materially." despite contrary readds: , It ports. Two largo groups of the population are holding hick oo their consumption oTHieiub One group is composed of tho persons who la normal times treat themselves to toe best quality of pork, beef and motion. This group Is still continuing tin reduced consumption of beeC although tho necessity for conservation of it do long- i. . ts, , exists. "Another large group is buying only those sorts of berf which can bo cooked quickly and easily. "Everybody te neglrtting lamb and mutton. "The people do not seem to realise that beef had dropped materially and te now cheaper than any ether meat. - d;1 r N. Jana 14. The biplane started on Its transatlantic flight at 411 o'clock this afternoon. Greenwich time. Tho machine carried two men. Captain Jack Alcock, a Britisher, as pilot, and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, an American, aa navigator. The machine, which started on a transatlantic flight today, has a wing spread of only 7 feet And i equipped., Rolls-Roywith two motors, said to be capable of developing a speed of more than hundred miles an hour. The capacity of the gasoline tanks was recently enlarged to 845 gallons and the lubricating oil tanks to SO gallons, which la believed sufficient to carry the plane 2 4(4 miles, under normal weather conditions. A wireless telegraphy aet capable of sending and receiving messages over comparatively long distances, la part of the plane's equipment. Capt. Jack Alcock. the pilot, waa among the British pioneers In aviation. Ho obtained his flying certificate In 1912 and joined the royal naval air service Immediately upon the outbreak of the war. He acted aa an instructor at first, but waa later sent to the Turkish front where he held the record for long distance bombing raids. He was latar captured by tbe Turks and held prisoner until the armistice was ST. JOHNS, Vlckera-VUn-y ce Yankee Navigator Tells of Method tat-I- n ly ANR REBELS MEET first as an Infantry officer and Inter In tho British aviation service until an accident to the machine ,!n which he was an observer late In 1915 forced a descent in German- - territory where he was wounded and taken prisoner. pp1 k.r-2- R IN- Rattle of Machine Gant Expected Soon in the' Streets of Berlin. , CAPT, JACK ALCOGKlFFflFRAI err. JOHNS, N. F, June 14. By applying methods of marine navigation to an air flight. Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown expects to fly across the Atlantic In toe Vlmy Bomber machine, piloted by Captain Jack Alcock, and to "make a landfall" within twenty or thirty miles of hte objective In Ireland or England. Lieutenant Brown was an American electrical engineer before be joined tho British Flying Service in 1914. He has described, in a statement which he has prepared for The Associated Preos an interesting description of the difficulties encountered in a flight and the methods by which he hopes to overcome them. "In flying an airplane over large bodies of water such aa tho Atlantic ocean where the -- Hot may be for hours out of eight of any landmarks by which he could judge hte position, it is to the methods of navigation which have boon developed bv trans-Atlant- ic (Continued on page eight) Governor lister of Washington Dies AfterLong OF JUAREZ Force Number 4,400 Rifle With Machine .Guns and, Field Pieces Defenders of the City Suffer Casualties in First Skirmishes. Villa-Ang'el- es JUAREZ, IS. nA Mexico, June skirmish oceutrrt! between federate and advanced forces of General Angeles at 4 30 o'clock this afternoon. Several are reported killed on the federal side. EL PASO. Texas, Junw'll The darkness of the earty morning having failed to bring the upted attack from the force of Francjico'VlUa and Gen Felipe Angeles, the Mexican federal forces In the trenches about Juarex relaxed with the rising of the morning the zero hour for tbe attack when Angeles and hte command were to have moved up from their headquarters at Zaragosa. 14 miles southeast of Juarez, Villa from El Barra, south of Juarez. Martin Lopez from Santa Rosa, and the Morelos brigade of rebels from about tho name place. An arrival from the Villa camp last night estimated the strength of the various elements of Villa s forces at 4.304 men. Gen. Felipe Angeles, when interviewed by an Associated Press correspondent Zaragosa, refrained from announcing tho number of the Villa forces Inverting Juarez, deciar- - " lng that was military Information. ' Nor would Gen. Angeles ay when he would attack Juarez or whether he would attack at all. Villa Scouts Active. vnia eeouts have been feeling out the defences of Juarea for several days past. Notwithstanding that the Villa chiefs last night stated a belief that the Juarez garrison did not exceed 1.000 men, military observer are now convinced that reconnaissances of the Juarez defences have disclosed so mneh. strength on tho federal side that Villa and Angeles have withheld attack until they could summon more forces. It is known that Villa has been awaiting 300 of his troops left at Mila Ahumada as a guard for hik brother, Hlpolito Villa, who has been ill there. The presence of Francisco ilia with the forces investing Juarez was reported positively yesterday by Mexicans who claimed to have come through from his camp and brought messages purporting to have been committed to him by the rebel chieftain. Tho correspondent who visited Angelos camp near the Rio Grande and only a few miles ' thp American town oTsleta, described the troops there as being well elothed. apparently adequately armed and mounted on horses resembling those of American cavalry. General Francisco Gonzales, the juarez garrison, declared ' today the situation wax well in hand and his forces were able to withstand assault. Mexican federal officials re- iterated that only small bands of rebels had made appearance anywhere near the city. - com-mand- ! Illness SEATTLE, Wash., June 14. Ernest Lister, governor of Washington, died Courier Tell of here today. He had been ill for sevRebels Strength eral months. Gov. Lister was serving hte second EL t FASO Texas, June 13. term when he waa taken ill with an A courier who arrived tonight from affection of the heart and kidneys dur- the rebel headquarters near Zaragosa. lews than 13 miles from Juarez, reing the recent eesston of the legislature. He rose from a position aa a ports that the rebels have 4 494 men, Tacoma' Ironm older to the governor- all armed 'with rifles, and each man ship. supplied with 300 rounds of ammuni- He waa bora at Halifax, Engtand. tion. ht Juno IS. 1270., and te survived by hie machine Two field guns widow and two children. guns are mcludW in the rebel fight; , Lister was. Washingtons twenty equipment. second governor. According to local j At the time the courier left the the Intention was to attack. 'of constltucamp j thestate interpretation tion. Acting Gov. Hart, upon 'the death Juarez before daylight tomorrow of the executive, automatically became morning 1' courier who m well known the state twenty-thir- d governor. tron Local lawyers say the constitution h,r a rpl, ah,p nf" 'u,,'',,Tvh doe not state outright whether the slightest d ihi of the ability lieutenant governor become governor. the the rebels to lopure levrez. The constitution reads, "In case of i In u prein command of death of the governor the duties of thefAngeles expedition, though Francisco Mithe.office shall devolve on the lieuten- la. with bodj cuard of 340 men, is ant governor." Lister was a Demo- present ina pefson , crat. Hart te a Republican. also brought a report The courier The funeral of Gov. Lister, it te be- of the destruction of the Mexican lieved here, will be held in Tacomti hte home city. (Continued on page three.) and-eig- ) A: ) UixLtei. |