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Show -- X -& - DE SERET 16 PAGES tb cSb cSb t&i r E1NI NSl-,, i A - TUESDAY 4M9 SO' JUDY 15 1919 SALT LAKE City TwUy'i Rwi Today paper Itm jm tba Tb mi wfada B to 7i am i UTAH . 1 SEVENTIETH - YEAH dSb Senator Norris Offers His Explanation of Shantung Episode POWERSKAISERs EXTRADITION MAY KOT BE. PRESSED BY ALLIES Wilsons Tour May Begin at Once -- f- -- f- Hostilityin Senate Committee Johnsons Resolution Is -- t- 4- OF RIAL - -- Adopted .(AJ. Senator Norris, Republican, Nebraska, Says the Nego- tiations Were t Consuro- mated Secretly Early in , v 1917. COMPROMISE SCORED Blackest Page in the Na-tioIs His History Characterization of Rati- ns fication oft Treaty With BEST 'July 1 B. Intimations that the senate foreign relations TRANSATLANTIC ZEP committee might m6t arrange for an PASSENGER AND early conference With President WilFREIGHT son for disenaaion of the peace treaty and the league of nations covenant LINE led toTthe suggestion today that Mr. Wilson plight begin his tour of the 15. A. ZepNEW YORK. July -pelin freight and paesenger transcountry sooner than he had planned. service, to start about the Fixing itinerary for the atlantic October 18, between New York was unand Hamburg, with Boston, Chiderstood to have been delayed to! cago, Berlin and Dueaeeldorf as await completion of the committees ports of oall, was announced in advertisements in German language program tn order that there might be newspapers and one Americanno conflict. The committee met again trade paper published here yestoday and, laying aside temporarily terday. the question of ask mg for more inHans Khars, an importer, who inserted the advertisements, said formation, began a reading of the offthat he had been designated by an icial text of the treaty submitted by American banker to act as agent the president. for an overseas dirigible freight and passenger service to be fl- -, Among administration senators the nanced by American, British and the impression prevailed that presiGerman capital. dent and the committee undoubtedly The text of the advertisement, would be brought together to discuss said to be the first on record here, some features of the treaty. It was is as follows expected, however, that these - meetAdvance notice: Commencing ings would be at the White House October 18 overocean Zep passenrather than at the Capitol. ger and freight service between The foreign relations committee Duesseldorf-Berlin- Hamburg- - New later adopted a resolution requesting the president. Knot incompatible with the public interest, to furnish the Booking on and after Sept. 18." eomnsiiteo virtually all" documents considered by- - the American peace commissioners In their work on the treaty with Germany. lit was said that the resolution of which Senator Johnson, Republican, California, was the author, was adopted by virtually a unanimous vote aud that Action by the senate was nut considered. It requests the president to submit drafts of aU proposals for a league of nations as well as stenographic tral scripts of formal proceedings at the peace conference. High administration officials say they had been informed by some members of the committee that the majority of that body seemed hostile to suggestions that the president be VALPARAISO, July 15. Eighty-seve- n asked to appear or that the committee confer as a body with him at the persons are known to have been White House. drowned and the loss of life may have been much greater, in a hurricane which swept this- - port Saturday and Government of Nitti Sunday. Upheld by Deputies Fourteen vessels of various sizes were sunk and abeut a hundred lightROME. Monday, July 14. (By the Associated Press.) The government ers and other small craft were deof Premier Nitti which took office stroyed. The property loss is estimatseveral weeks ago, tonight received a ed at $200,600,000. vote of confidence in the chamber of Among the steamers lost waa the deputies. The vote passed by 257 to Don Carlos, 1,114 net tonnage. The 111. German steamer Sals, which was washed ashore and .pounded to pieces, RESOLUTION ASKS lost 10 of its crew. Such Clause. Peace Sentiments Are Probed - Heavy Mortality Second 4nd Reflection Thought Dim Ardor of Those Who Exulted When Plans Were First Pro-- " claimed. 3 r.ARIS, July 15. Tbc question of the future fate of the former German emperor wav discussed today by the Inter Allied committee on war reIt was said on behalf sponsibility. of lbe committee that no demand concerning William HoMnsoUern baa yet been made to the Dutch government. (Copyright 11. toy the Press Pub. . Co.) BUENOS AIRES, Monday, Jnly 14. Government reports show that 1,000,006 sheep and 100,000 cattle have been drowned ln floods In the southern pert of Buenos Aires provinces. .The railways end telegraphic., cammunlcatlon havq been interrupted and several sections In that region have been completely Isolated for more than a week. The floods were due to a month of the heaviest rainfall ever recorded here. Over on the Chilean aids of Argentina there have been further heavy snowfalls along the railway, causing new damage to the line. The snowfall la this region has been nearly continuous for a month and In soma places is mors than 25 feet deep. A small party of Americans arrived overland from the. Pacific seaport of Antofagasta, Chile, last night They reported almost unendurable hardships during their week's Journey. Tran-sandl- ne I (Special Cable Dispatch.) LONDON. July 14. lit is now admitted on all hands, says the lobby correspondent of the Daily Mall. that the" plat for the frlaTln London of has fallen flat, despite the the anticipations of tbs pfhns minister and his adviser. it was to have been an appeal to popular sentiment hers, a evinced in last., election, v&rlouu. quarters tn t but reflection' land second thought have apparently cooled Any' momentary enthusiasm eacitsd by th announcement. The prospective trial is now discussed, even in ministerial circles, with embarrassment, " In respect to the trial of other . PITTSBURG, Pa., July 15. Th German offenders for ylolatlon of the government won Its first point today laws' of civilization, the publicity giv- tn its fight against th sale of beer en , to Allied intentions has led to containing 2 per cent alcohol when enemy guesses of tho names of flagrant Government- - spokesmen j Judge W. H. 8. Thompson in United offenders. State district court overruled demurcontinue shall the if gueeslng say that it will Jeopardize the chances of Allied rers of officers and directors of th success In this direction. Pittsburg and Independent Brewing companies to, charges of violation of Will Not Press Demand the. war time prohibition law. Each 10 In all, was held BERLIN. July 74 (By the Asso- of the defendants, ciated Frees ) The Tageblalt says it In $1,000 ball for the November term learns the Allies and associated pow- of court. ers will not ask Holland to give up Judge decision folThompson's the former Emperor William for trial, counsel , reprelowed deby arguments to but they will requeat Germany mand from Holland that he be deliv- senting th 11 officials of the Plttsbnrg ered up. company in support of their The name procedure, the newspaper Brewing to charges In a test suit demurrers Gerto with taken be will regard adds, man statesmen who fled to neutral brought by United State Atty. R. L. countries. It ray 167 persons will be Crawford, charging violation of th . . eer asked for, including leading generals,! dr nUlnln ct . ",d admit Als. the commander of the raider t one-haof one per cent of 'mors than numerous vessel Moewe, which sank on the high seas; th commander of alcohol to a local saloonkeeper. Judge wport'ln'Octobarf 1 9 1 6 and1 oiThsa v- - Thom Poft Ud hu ruP PPd 1 lng sank a number of vessels off the to demurrers filed this morning by American coast: and Dr. von Independent eight directors of th former Imperial chan- Brewing company to a similar, suit cellor; Dr. Allred Zimmerman, former started Saturday, foreign minister, and Dr. Carl former secretary of the interior PITTSBURG, July 15. Brewing or and vice chancellor. 'beer tn Pittsburg will end for a time at least, as the result of Federal Judge Punish With Conscience Thomson's action in overruling demurrers of officers and directors of LONDON. July 14. Sir H. Rider the Pittsburg and Independent BrewHaggard, the noted British novelist, ing companies to charges of violation has Joined those Britishers who would of the war time piohlbltlon law, acleavo the punishment to cording to announcement late LodaV his own 'nonscience. In a recent state- by Atty. William J. Brennan, counsel for brewers and saloonkeepers in Alment he said: will mud be stirred up by legheny county- the proposed trial, but the resulting mixture will be used to blacken Great Brewer Wins Point Britain's face before the world. Teutonic hatred against us will be NEW ORLEANS, July 1 5. Federal for generationsr ,1 think that. If they were naked, many of Judge Foster today sustained ade-murrsound Judgment would say let the subfiled by officials of the Ammarine and other murderers, violators erican Brewing company to an' inand all instruments of frightfulness be dealt with under martial law on dictment charging' that,the manufacsea. or' where they carried out their ture of beer of more than 1 2 per, let this royal Intimate of cent of alcoholic content waa In violacrlmes,but heaven-felInto the hands of heaven, tion of tha wartime prohibition act. Into those of man." er Government Winner Strikes . .In FirstRouni.. Of Beer Case ChileanzXoast . MT. CLEMENS, July 1 5. Henry Ford mad many frank admissions in the course of his testimony today in his $1,000,000 libel suit against the Chicago Dally Tribune. Examination was by Atty. Elliott Q. Stevenson, representing the Tribune, . Mr. Ford admitted Ignorano of history and aald that more than ever he considered It bunk. growing out of tradition; nor had he any personal use for music or other form of art He reaffirmed his belief that professional soldier are murderer, nor would b exempt Gea. Pershing or General Gradt from thl category. He eeld that hU present view I for the fullest preparedness unless there is a league of natloos, and that if th war Just concluded In Europe do not result tn ueh a leagu. h favor another great war without delay tn or der to clean up the ltuatlon o thorb oughly that untvermal peace would Ds had. It developed that Theodor Lavtgne, a publicity agent for Mr. Ford, wrote practically all of Mr, Ford pacific literature and that much of tt was circulated broadcast without Mr. Ford having read it. I accept full responsibility for tt, however, Mr. Ford testified .repeat- The "mysterious "flag of humanity, which counsel tor the defendant huv been demanding ever alnce th case began made tt appearance. It ts tha first time I ever saw tt," , remarked Mr. Ford- - Do you like It better than the Stars and Stripes 7 asked Mr, Stevenson. "It'S a different kind of flag. a: swered the witness. The flag was about T by 14 feet, with the earth In white on a blue field. to typify The emblem, designed world brotherhood, I said to have grown out of a remark by Mr. Ford said three or four year ago, when h sucthat all national flag Should be ceeded by a flag of humanity under which ail men of all nations might stand. Up to today counsel for Mr. Ford denied the existence of such a flag, but aald a search for it was being prosecuted. Last week Atty, Stevenson said his Information waa that the flag had been brought to ML Clemens and had disappeared. Where was it found?" aaked Mr, Stevenson. I don't know," said Mr. Ford. Atly. Stevenson Introduced a pamphlet containing pacifist 'Arguments, which', witness admitted, waa widely distributed st his expense In 1918. Mr. Ford Stevenson quoted Mr. Ford an seylng, Preparedness Is the root of war. That meant said Mr. Ford. What do you mean when yod say that war Is murder 7 , War or aggression. And those who urge preparedness advocate murder?" yea" Witness aald that sane preparedness for defense was legitimate. He had no quarrel with it "President Wilson was one' of those who urged thw preparedness which you call murder? ' Strong for Preparedness Now. ness;- - I am strong for preparedness now." "You wore not In 1915." "I thought our preparedness at that time wa adequate. Witness said that he considered who soldiers those professional made a living out of tt were murders re. . That Includes Gen, Pershing? asked Mr. Stevenson. "Those who Yommlt murder are murderers, If war- la murder, then professional soldiers are murderers. The matter In the pamphlet was prepared by Theodore Do Lavlgne, one of Mr. Ford's publicity men. I authorized them and I am resaid th witness. Often sponsible I didnt know what was In thfem. Did you know what was In your widely published page advertisement opposing preparedness?" I don't believe I read that. I sent out manv things - to make people think, without reading them, said Mr. Ford. "In. 1915 you told a Tribune reporter that vou had no belief in history: that it was nothing but tradition 7 "I think so now more than ever, admitted the manufacturer. "But you wrote, That in all history I cannot find one man who Justified war Queried tho lawyer. "Dr. De Lavlgne wrote thab , History "Bunk." Witness reaffirmed that, so far as he waa concerned, history was 'bunk' and music and other arts of no inter- Among Livestock In Buenos Aires , Hurricane WHELMS on Witness Stand Again ExiiinnE WASHINGTON, COASTWISE TRADE , WASHINGTON. July IS. Debate on the peace treaty and Ite league of nations covenant was continued today in the senate with Senator Norris, Republican, Nebraska, attacking the Shantung settlement and Senator Underwood. Democrat, Alabama, urging unqualified ratification. Senator Norris said he believed the treaty should be sent back to the peace conference for the rectifying of the wrong ahich, he said, waa done to China, by giving Japan the material rights in Shantung formerly held by the Germans. He also declared the league' of nations covenant contained many objectionable features which should be changed. The Alabama senator expreseeG the belief that the league would go far toaard ending wars and said it involved no sacrifice of national sovMEAT EXPORT PROBE ereignty. Seven other veuels, including the Senator Lodge, the Republican leadWASHINGTON, July 15. A resolu- Steamer Tgdis of 6,000 tens, a ere reer. charged In the senate today during Senator Sherman, Repub- ported lost in dispatches received Satdebate on the peace treaty, that the tion by lican, 111,, requesting that the federal urday and yesterday. a price trade Shantung settlement was commission furnish the senate nald" for Jaoan's signature to the with documents relating to the exleague of nations with the robbing of ports of meats from the United States YOUNG CROKER GETS to Great Britain, was adopted today - - China a the oo moderation. -- JUDGMENTS AGAINST without a record vote. Shantung was a price paid and all On Inquiry from Senator Kenyon, Mr. said. world FATHER FOR $257 JOl the Lodge of Iowa, wbo said be was . knowf it, ' There is no statute of limitations that Republican, suspicious of the propaganda on hand to- - discredit the commission and its NEW YORK. July 15. Judgments runs against a great wrong like that. in the meat industry, Senato $257,201 were obtained Reciting how Germany secured the findings amounting tor Sherman Chairman that Shantung concessions and how Japan ColVer- - of theexplained Richard by commission Croker, Jr., against while today, (n succeeded Germany by. 'virtue of war. England recently had given Interviews his father,, Richard Croker, former Senator Lodge continued: to London papers sufficient to put England and France took Belgium American packers out of the leader of Tammany Hall. No defense away from Germany during the war. the British market, not only in England, was offered. Does that give them a claim to Bel- - but in her colonies." Young Croker set forth that in Ocglum? Shantung was not enemy counwas like handed It ovei Fiumev try tober, 1907his father, who live in Too Much Labor. to Japan against the protests of some Ireland, requested him to act as his of our' delegates and the experts business agent and thathe continued charged with this question. KANSAS CITT,'. Mo, July 15. A It was handed over because his services in that capacity until Dewestern the that harvest warning when. he. rendered cember. signature ..was needed, lo.,.the fields already were with league. It was done as a necessity. It labor for completing the wheat har- an account for 8125,826. One Judgtakes the territory of a friend, an ally vest ment represents that amount with inas far north aa the Canadian line, who had been loyal, and hands it over was given 0 out today by the federal terest. The second Judgment for to a great military power tn the east. employment bureau here. Men still involves the division of the estate , were lntq the harvest belt, of his mother. ' WASHINGTON. July 15. A charge officialspouring with little prospect for said, that Japan secretly secured pledges from Great Britain. France, Italy and any employment for the late arrivals. YOUTH CONFESSES -Russia early In 1917 that in the peace Probe War Cruelties. settlement Shantung peninsula should, HE AND COMPANION for certain considerations, be turned over to the Tokio government, was "WASHINGTON, PLANNED MURDER 5. Invests made in the senate today by Senator frationof charges of Julyt cruelties to AmerNorris, Republican, of Nebraska, who ican millti-rprisoners in France beAVON,-N- . J., Jnly II. Edward produced what he declared to .be gan today before a special house war Briep, clerk, who of diplomatic correspondence inquiry with a declaration by Chair- declare, has confessed to having police copies Women Oppose Merger. plotClark Succeeds Tawney. - embodying the promises of Great Brit- man Royal Johnson 'of South Dakota, ted with Edward Earl falge, 10 years ain and France. that "since June 25 committee re- old, the murder and robbery of Gardl-nerST. LOUIS, Mo..- - July 15. These pledges, the Nebraska senator quests regarding the treatment of prisWASHINGTON. their employer and senior July 15. Former to the proposes) merger of the declared, fully explained the pressure oners have been ignored by the war partnerHull, D. Senator Clarence Clark, of Evan- - UBln Itj the New York stationery and professional women's which resulted in Shantungs transfer! department. was ton. A Hull Wyo., lirm of appointed a member Deppisch, was arraignto Japan under .the Versailles treaty Mr. Johnson's statement was in re- ed on a charge of murder;? the international Joint commission clubs of the country lntovon cen- here today ", whoSe ratification by the senate, he ply to suggestions of Rep. Flood. Dem- - and held for extradition. He was ar- - today by President Wilon H sue-- 1 trolly directed body developed here would writs- the blackest ocrat, Virginia, that complaints of rested hers yesterday. According to ceeds th late James A. .Tawney of asserted, today at the convention of Women's treatment of prisoners should first be page in the nation's history. police, O'Brien charges Paige with Minnesota. Great BrlUIna Influence in the mat-ta- r. referred to the war department for f the Asiociatlon of Commerce of the United actual Mr. Hull was murder. the ho. charged, was secured by Ja- investigation. , beaten over the head with a hammer and the National Women' BusStates pans Support of British clahns to and died the following dav. Paige Is iness Committee. Pacific islands south of the equator, in under arrest AUTO TIRES AT 8250. The opposition was voiced by westPhiladelphia. . while France's aid was purchased bv ern delegatee of the latter organization est'Then you confess that Th Tribune . a promise of the Tokio government VIENNA, Friday. July 11. AutoOVERSEAS FORCES 537,230. . the under Miss Pearl was right when it called you an leadership of to help draw China Into the war so mobiles which have been without tire Rail, a Loa Angeles newspaper woman. idealist T persisted Mr. Stevthat German shipsjn Chinese harbor for weeks in Hungary, according to WASHINGTON, July 15. American members the of former associaMany enson. would be ava'lable for carrying troops reports from Budapest, have been overseas forces aggregated 237,239 of- women are tion of wealth and leisure -.Did the editorial aay that?" and provisions to France. equipped with new tires said tojiave fleers and men on July 6, according tojprlces today were: IV4, $99.22; firsl who are not actively engaged In any "Yes On the 27th day of March. 1916," been obtained by smuggling two car$ ". cond M: or tt was business first, t fn. profession:, 414., declared, "Well, I anr not ignorant of all said Senator. Norris, same date 100.009 troops' were at , $95.04: second 4 Vie. $94.06; third the Japanese loads of French and Italian make int6 'and because of this members of the thlnra the country. The tires were sold for United States and fourth $96: $93.98. womens , Lnr0uU ) committee t? this 44. Victory desired, they I (Continued on page aeven ) $250 each. 889,000 were $104.03; Victor, 44. $99.92. country. to remain a distinct organization. said, (Continue on page seven.) With Death And Havoc Today lf A Helf-ferlc- s., over-suppli- ed h, Not-only ISO,-00- i er l y . , Over-prepar- -- -- j nt 4 f 4. . Capt Frank S. FerrU, resentative of Shipping Is Board, Declares Tie-U- p A Serious Matter Whole Situation .. . Now Hinges on the Recognition Of the Union, on .Which. Strikers Yield Nothing. - ZiUi t -- NEW YORK, July lS.- - Cept Frank R Ferris, managing agent for th United State shipping board tn this city, today characterised as a serious matter, the strike of martn workers, which has halted much of the coastwis traffic through this port and which the leaders of the strikers declare is spreading rapidly. Tha mala points at issue are an eight-hoday and th "closed shop." Both tha shipping board and th private owners have offered material wage ur -- -- Th demands of striking maria workers at this and Other Atlantic ports for union recognition today continued' to be th principal stumbling block la the way of a settlement of th walkout, which late yesterday affected vessels operated by the United States ' shipping board. Th spread of the strike to th government controlled boats resulted from a refusal of ehlp-Pif- tg beard officials to grant th sea-- " men's demands for three shifts of sight hours at aea and prefete nee to union members. Further efforts to end the strike were resumed today, but union leaders predicted that unleu the men's demands were met In full there was lit-t- ie chanoe for an agreement. i 4 r I TRADING UPSET ON FOREIGN MONEY: FRANCS DROP VERY LOW NEW YORK, July 18 ff)ed-Jn- g In the foreign exchange mar- ae became utterly demoralized this artemoon, sterling and frame falling to new low levels. ' sterling was quoted at 14.40 I --4 and French checks feU to 87.00. TYadlng hi llrrs also became more reactionary with a general imarttkvncot in remit- tances to Scandinavian conntriea. De-ma- NORTH SEA MINE . 1 EXPLODES KILLING AMERICAN SAILORS WASHINGTON, July 1$. On officer and six enltctsd men were killed In the destruction of the American mine sweeper Richard H. Buckley by the explosion of a mine In the North eea July 1$. Two other officers were injured. , Two officers and 16 enlisted men were rescued. Te Buckley was engaged with other,mlneweepers In removing the North sea mine barrage when a min became entangled in the sweeping cable and exploded .directly .under tha. ship's stern. The trawler unk In six minutes before other vessels of tbs fleet could reach her. - Commander Frank A. King remained .on the bridge directing the efforts to save the crew and went down with his ship. The remainder of the dead either were killed by the explosion or trapped below decks when the vessel sank. -- TEN NEW ADMIRALS IN AMERICAN NAVY WASHINGTON, July 15. Ten naval officers hav been promoted to th permanent rank of rear admiral and seven other to the 'temporary rank upon recommendation of the naval selection board, approved by Presi-- . dent Wilson. T Benjamin C. Bryan, Edward. Simpson, Gustave Ksommerllng, Alexander-Halstead- , ' Reger Welle and WUliam Shoemaker became rear admirals a , of July 1, and Edward W. Eberle, Robert E. Coont. W. G. H. Bullard and Philip Andrew will become permanent rear admirals as soon as vacancies occur, and Capta Clarence A. Carr, Harry A. Meld, Casey B. Mar. H. Chandler, Herman C. ga, Lloyd Nathan C. Twining Sttclcney, and ; Thomas P. Msgruder become teas- I poraries as vacancies oocur. Siku 1". Rep- nv1; Wvurio 1 |