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Show r. - rneika alUc Thrift. Bead the adver-Ustn- g eoitunna for savings opfortn t 4m 16 PAGES DESERET' OWNING MONDAY AUGUST -- 18 1911V LAKE SALT "Today's paper 5w ne.' yet Today." The while It gives yoo the new O4 p- YEAR SEVENTIETH CITY UTAH I r Mexican Situation to Crists T - M 7 074 74 74 M M IT4 74 T4 74 Violates International Lav Official View in Washington Is That Latest Outrage Against Americans in HAM GOES AFOOT TO WOR V Traction Strike of Subway And Elevated Line Fills The Manhattan Breast With Resentment Militarization of German Police Has Grave Significance AGAINST RUMANIA American Member of Allied Mission Urges Decision When Rtimans Continue Government Possession of Transportation Lines, Charles A. Post , Tells House Committee, Would r Expose Them to Political Influences and in the End Exceed Costs Would Those of Private Direction WASHINGTON. An. 18. Business entlmbnt ' Ja the United States la unanimous that government ownership of railroads must hut prevail, Charles .VgsUc&ftJrmanjDl the cailfOAd eonj; mlttee of the U. S. Chamber of Com fherce. told the house Interstate commerce commlqey today. , Sentiment as shown by. teats made by the Chamber, is strongly, even overwhelmingly sgains proposals of ths kind, hs declared by the experience with government operation during the war. Other reasons agalns it. he were - heavy eoet,T.l ths necessity thereafter of financing government extensions through congressional appropriations wih consequent subjection to political Influence. The opinion of the national chamber," Mr. Post said, Is that unless the government adopted the policy or fixing low rates and fares with the intention that any resulting deficit from operations should be placed aa an Increased burden of taxes upon the general public, rates and fares would be higher under government than under private operation." Likewise, the organizations of railroad employees might easily exercise a controlling influence upon national politics, he said. Constructive proposals In relation to the -railroad situation," Mr. Post argued,- called for return of the lines to private ownership and management, with consolidation of the numerous lines now existing into a limited number of strong competing systems. A number of systems should be built up, hs said, by enlarging the present large systems and not by combining roads on a geographical basis. Federal Incorporation for theee roads, with a federal transportation board to control them, and stronger interstate commerce commission powers to regulate ratee and service, as proposed by the national transportation conference, he said, had been Indorsed by vote of the chamber membership. :cn-tend- Ship Bearing Wounded ' Ashore Off Rokuren SEATTLE, Wash.. Aug., II. With aboard, 1,100 wounded Czecho-Slovathe U. 8. Shipping board 'steamer off Heffrdn'is ashore Rokuren, Korea ks Requisitions For Hungarian! F oodstuf f s. BUDAPEST, Thursday. Aug .. 18. (By the Associated Pres.) Brig. American Gen. Harry H. Bandholt member of the allied military mission here. Is urging his colleagues to ask the .peace conference to act quickly Id regard to the presenoc of Romanians In Hungary. Thia action , was taken In view of report coming in from all aides that the Rumanians continue to requisition food Supplies. . Captgln Thomas C, Gregory, ..chief allied food administrator la 'central Europe, takes a strong position renone to garding food gnJ will Pvmlt Ruman-Ians enter Hungary a long M the continue their neisurtfoi iood was purchased by him with Hungarian money which h obtained in Vienna when the communist Regime collapsed. . Constantine Diamandy,.the Rumanian high commissioner here, stated today that he would attempt to remove the censorship from the allied prees, but complained thathe did not have control of the' military BUDAPEST, Saturday, ' Aug. 18. (By the Associated Press.) King Ferdinand of Rumania, according to reliable reports, visited Budapest last week Incognito. Four Hungarian monitor, manned by British aeamen, have arrived here. They carry five inch guns and are under the command of Vice Admiral Ernest Troubrldge. Archduke Joeeph, head of the Hungarian state, denied today that he had received a letter from former Emperor Charles a charged In dispatches from Budapest to Berlin newspaper The latter, it is alleged, ordered him to take over the power in Hungary and thanked him for his service to the Hapsburg dynasty. The letter, as published in Berlin, according to those familiar jprlth Hapsburg court documents, bears the stamp of forgery. It is pointed out on behalf of Archduke Joseph that he cannot exercise the power of a sovereign but can act only as regent for the interests of the former emperor and his eldest son. According to thi law of succession in Hungary, it is said no archduke can ascend to the throne while a male descendant of a king la alive or even if the king has been banished. Nebraska Voters Have .Right to Vote Before Ratification Is Final . LINCOLN. Neb., Aug. II. The voters of Nebraska have the right to vote to reject or approve the action of the state legislature in ratifying the federal prohibition amendment, and until a vote is taken it cannot be said the legislature has ratified the amendment. the district court here held to- . 1 . Experts Viewed Shuntung Clause As Full of Danger . Aug. 'IS It was the unanimous opinion of American experts on far eastern affairs at Versailles that war must result from the peace treaty provisions giving Japan control in the Chinese province of Fhantung, the senate foreigu relations committee,, was told today by Thomas F. Millard; an American writer, who was Stixchcri to the .Chinese peace delegation. Because ,the United States government Intimated it would be Inexpedient, China refrained from raising "cer-.al- iiquestions at the peace- conferoe. Mr. Miilard testified. lie old l.e got liis inf .rn.atlon on .ne subject from the Chinese delegates whom he advlsod unofficially." He l.il not go into details about the questions China might have raised. He said, however, that some Cnlnvse official wjntcd to employ two American . - semi-offici- al For Control of ji I The Affairs of Instead of tjie .Pretended Protectorate, He Declares, England Has Practically Seized the Country as One Of Its Possessions. WASHINGTON, Aug. II. In brief filed today with the foreign rela- -' tions committee of the United States senate Joseph W. Folk, formerly governor of Missouri, counsel for the Egyptian commission, charges that England under the guise of protectorate over Egypt practically has seised that country as British possession:" that In an annex to the peace treaty the status, of , Egypt would be made an Internal question' end beyond the Jurisdiction of ths council of ths league of nation which council the ' Egyptians desire to pass upon the stwis of Egypt' Th do. - Aent.asu forth, that ths original oo&ipatlon of Egypt by British troop beginning 'In ltll, was claimed by the British government to be merely temporary for the purpose of suppressing rebels" end collecting debts doe to Europeans. The British government, ' says Mr. Folk, pledged Egypt and the world that this occupation wonld bw only temporary. After giving a resume of the political history of modern Egypt and the alleged wrongs dons In ths country In the last sevto enforce Brltlah-rul- e eral decades, th brief recites the story of the killing! of 800 and the wounding of 1,600. Egyptian natives last April in the streets of their cities' while holding demonstrations for freedom under the Self determination clauses of ths peace treaty. Represents Commission. Mr. Folk, who was formerly solicitor for ths stats department- and who now represents the commission which was named by the legislative assembly of Egypt, a .majority of whom were elected by the people, he says, calls attention to the fact that Egyptian troop numbering one million, fought on the side of the Allies to make, aa they believed the world safe for democracy1 and for the right of national aelf determination for all people" Egypt before the war, hs says, was Independent for all practical purposes, though under the nominal sovereignty of Turkey and subject to an annual tribute to Turkey. On December II, 1814, It is stated Great Britain removed the ruler of Egypt and appointed Prince Hussein as sultan, ostensibly as a war measure and assumed by the Egyptians to be such. When the time came for making the Egyppeace, Mr. Folk observe tian people naturally concluded that since, under the league of nations they would be preserved from external aggression, the protectorate of Great Britain would bq removed. But they were doomed to disappointment. The Egyptian legislative' assembly commission, on the way to Paris to present 'that countrys claims, . it is charged, was interned by order of the British government upon reachReleased upon the ing Malt recommendation of General Alleqby, Paris ' only to reached it la said, it find, with amazement that s recognition of the British protectorate over Egypt had been . written into the treaty," V -- strait, cable advices received today by the Pacino steamship company from its agent at Kobe, said. day. WASHINGTON, COBLENZ. Saturday. Aug. 18. (By the Associated Press.) Militarization of German police, contrary to the terms of the treaty of peace, has already begun, according to Information reaching AmerIn the city of ican authorities. Cassel the police were recently completely organized on military lines. It is said. The ultimate size of the new militarized police organization has not been announced. Americans studying the demobilization and reorganization of the German army say that the significance of militarizing police in Germany ' is great American officers have records of an announcement that the Prussian state government, quite apart from the national government, was to organize a state police force, throughout Prussia, under control of the minister of th Interior, and used only for th repression of internal disorders. These troops, according to the plan, wer to be quite apart and In excess of the army permitted Germany under the terms of the peace treaty. A announcement, however, state that it Is appreciated that thee troop are not permitted under th terms of the peace treaty, but the hope Is expressed that the Allies will be "reasonable and permit their international lawyers as advisers, but did not do so because the United States Indicated It would, not favor such a plan. While hi expenses were paid by the Chinese, Mr. Millard said, he had no salary, but simply gave unofficial advice asked for by the Chinese delegatee of his familiarity with far eastern af- fair Concluding a detailed story of the Shantung negotiations., which he said came directly from delegates to the conference, Mr. Millard said: "In my opinion if a marplot had set out deliberately to put China in an embarrassing position, the outcome could not have been more unfortunate. China has lost out entirely on her Shantung claim. By reason of advice given her by the United States she did not raise at all other questions in which she was interested. - And by reason pf .her refusal to sign the treaty (Continued ou page three.) Senate Committee . Hearing On Kenyons Food Bill Brings Up Whole Packing WASHINGTON. Aug.' 11. Before the senate agriculture committee today, the problems of packer, their alleged monopoly of preparing and distributing meat and their alleged policy of expanding their business en terprises to the point of controlling the supply of other foods, came up for an investigation in the hearing on the Kenyon bill to extend federal con trol over the packing industry. Senator Oronna, committee chairman. prefaced the proceedings with a brief statement of conditions which he said, were 'leading to a general demand for limitation of corporate profSo did Senator Kenyon. it "This is a radical bill, with teeth In' it, which deserves the most careful scrutiny, but it Is not a government ownership bill, said Senator It provide! a new method Kenyon of corporate control in this country. It suggests the licensing of packers, the divorcement from them of stock yards ownership and the elimination of their control of refrigerator cars. The basil for it la the report of the federal trade commission and ' information before this commission. Meat packing Is no longer a private business. If the monopoly has grown to the degree we. understand It ha It Is undefenslbie and Iptoler-abl- a There may be a little efficiency growing out of it, but that is temporary. We are not 'engaged In an attack on private profits, though the propaganda of the packer has frightened business since thia bill came up. and may have frightened Congress out of the attempt to legislate. We are not trying to Injure busines nor stop reasonable profits, but excess profits today are treasonable profit Chairman Colver. of the federal trade - commission, the first witness, outlined the basis of the investigation made by that body. Big Five In Control. , "We found that the business of this country is controlled "by the five great packers whose headquarters are at Chicago, he said, "and that independents in the industry exist only on sufferance. of the liveHe 'told o? stock pool, which he asserted was a Combination of the larger packers to guide their daily purchases, of livestock. hs saW. "it was to preChiefly, vent members from bidding up prices on days when a short supply of aniVarious mals came Into the yard successful attempts were made by (Continued on page tlZce.) the-creatl- BAKER URGES NEW YORK, Aug. 18. Forced to reach its offices by devious routes in s rain storm, commercial New Tork entered the second day of Jts traction strike with resentment In Itsf theart. With Interborough subways and elevateds completely tied up, ths citys millions this morning battled their way into such surface cars as wart running or Into busses and moving vans hastily organized intd semblances of a transportation system. Brokers and financiers hastening to arWail street in their automobile rived In the business district with ths greatest numbers of clerks and stenographers to whom they could offer a lift.' Many offices and stores were lata In opening. Almost every employes was lata and It was not until 10 o'clock that lower Broadway took on its usual business day appearance. Berries on the Brooklyn Rapid Transit subway entering Manhattan the only underground in operation on the Island was Increased 21 per cent because of the strike. While Hudson and East River ferry boat lines hastily reorganised , their schedule' plying back and forth as rapidly aa it was possible to take ea passengers and dis. . charge them. 1 But New fork fount? that, with Its main traffic arteries crippled.' It wa a difficult task to find extra means te handle the 1,140,000 passengers carried each day by the subways and the 1,111,000 by the elevated. ", 14,000 Men Are Out 'NEW TORK," Aug. IT. More than 8,000,000 persons who ordinarily Iravel daily . over the Interborongh Rapid Transit compsnys subway and elevated lines In Manhattan, ths $ronx, Brooklyn and Queens today either took slow moving surface cars and improvised conveyances or walked to their work aa a result of ths strike of ths company's 14,000 employees for a 10 per cent increase In wages. Ax' on Sunday when ths strike became effect! vs, not a wheel turned on- - the companys 260 miles of trackage. Ths stoppage of ths main arteries of travel, caused the worst traffic snarl In tbs hiVtory of .the city. A pouring rain added to the discomfort Thousands of Jitneys and busses operated by ths city, filled beyond capacity with worker dogged the thorThousands fought In vain oughfare for standing room on each overloaded trolley-car- . LABOR PARTY TO BE FORMED CHICAGO, Aug, 11. Representa- tives of labor organisations and nonpartisan league from a number of states In a conference held hers today decided to organize a national labor party. The first step will be to call a national convention to be held In Chicago in November to adopt a constitution and platform, It was Canadian Wheat Price. Sec. Lansing Directs U. S. Embassy at Mexico City to Demand Immediate Effective Measures to Secure Release of Army Officers Held By Bandits and Punishment of Their Captprs. WASHINGTON, Ang. 18. Another csss of the kidnapping of an Amur- -' loan cl U sea by Mexican bandits who demanded ransom wa announced bo-- , Porto RJima doctor, who wa day by th state department. He taken prisoner July 22. The ransom wa to have beesi aid Ang. IB, but the department has not been advised whether he has been released. , w, WASHINGTON,- - Aug, ll. Th American embassy at Mexjea City waa , Instructed today by th stats department immediately to call upon th Mexl- - ( can government for quick action to affect ths release of Lieut Paul H. Davis and Harold O. Peterson, American army aviators who were captured by Mexican bandits near Candelaria, Texa while patrolling the border and who ars threatened with death unless $18,000 ransom, is paid today. Th tat deportment's announcement stdd the instructions pointed out th seriousness with which ths United States government views this situation and called for Immediate adequate action. The American consul at Juares also 11 was instructed to tak possible steps with ths Mexican . authorities there to secure release and protection : of tbs officer ' State department officials said th ransom demanded would b paid as soon as Information could ,be bad a to where and whom th money was to b delivered. It has not been decided whether th United States would furnish ths sum and charge It against th Carrsnia government or call upon th Mexican government to pay It direct. The departments announcement said: LAREDO,' Tejas Aug. IT. "Ths department of stats has teleMexico faces ths danger of forgraphed Instructions to tho American eign Intervention end the present embassy at Mexico City to ImmediateMexican cabinet must be replaced ly call unon the Mexican government withone esteem which by enjoys for quick action to affect th release in and without th country, ac- of Lleuta. Raul H. Davis and Harold Mexiof El Universal, cording Peterson of th United States army Q. co City under date of Aug. 14. air service, captured by Mexican band"Publlo opinion shows the neits near Candelaria, Texa while pacessity for a change In th present government, the paper con- -, trolling th border and threatened tlnue with death on failure to pgy $11,04 After publishing In full the not ransom. sent by the American state departis ment to the Mexican government Situation Serious, warning that outrages against 'The Instructions pointed out tho American citizens In Mexico must seriousness with which th cease, El Universal declares th United policy of the present Mexican govStates government views this situation ernment as an obstacle in the recalled tor Immediate adequate nolations with foreign government .. and The department also directed tho tion. an , under editorial the capla American consul at Juares, Mexico, tion of "The Gravity of the Moment. the paper counsels a polto take all possible steps with the Mexicy of expediency. ican authorities there to secure release The petroleum problem will b and protection of the officers." solved early In September, when The attention of th department was the ordinary sesaion of congiess called to the Davis case late last night begtns.7 the editorial read "and by Representative Barbour of Cailfor. all Interests In that 'Industry will be respected." , (Continued on page three.) Mexican Journalist Demands Cabinet The War .Cost Great Britain Forty Billion Pounds Sterling An Initial of 12.18 per bushel to farmers for wheat on .the basis of No. 1 northern Fort William, has been recommended by the wheat board of control and approved by th government, acLONDON, Aug. 18. The war cost WASHINGTON, Aug. 11. Calling cording to an announcement this aftby Blr Georgs Foster, acting forty billion pound Premier Lloyd attention to the disturbed state of the ernoon minister. , world at present," Becy. Baker told a prime George declared in hi speech In the senate military today house of commons today on ths finanthat he would not be doing his part and Industrial situation. Most of cial to prounless he urged upon Congress thi sun) was spent for purposes of devide for an army that would repreof the United sent the strength struction. He asserted that the change The committee is considering Statefrom war to peace conditions would the w department fiian Jo r a standtake just as long as ths change fiom men of and universal 574,000 arm? ing peace to war. Th first outstanding military training. f WASHINGTON, Ang. 18. The rail- fact of the pisent situation was the balance The road administration wa notified today alarming adverse trade which 111 terminthe strike of shopmen Was at an import restrictions he that LIBERTY BONDS continued, had end and was asked to take up ware ate September 1, given British manufacturers an oppordemands immediately. a dealing in goods Acting President Jewell, of the rail- tunity of making Final Quotation been hurway employees' department of the which otherwise would have American Federation of Labor, went ried here from foreign countries. had NEW TOr.K. Aug. If Final prices to the railroad administration to noThe national debt, he declared, on Libertr bonds were: I is, 198.73; from 441,000,000 pounds to was grown officials It in the person. tify first 4 394.10; second 4 392 80; first Indicated that Director General Hines pousi. 1 third 39 393.24: SO; seenrd Us, Premier DoyJ Georges expected to settlo the 4)s. 394.88; fourth '41s, 43.14: Victory would proceed at once on labor and economic declarations 98.44. wage demands 3i 9.7: Victory OTTAWA, Aug. 18. pay-rae- nt LARGE ARMY . SHOPMEN ARE - BACK AT WORK Q questions attracted , crowds to th house of commons today. Virtually every member was In his seat. Lobbies, galleries and outside courts were crowded. The British government has accepted the policy of the state purchase of mineral rights in coal. This announcement was made by Premier Lloyd George In the house of commons today. In discussing The financial and Industrial situation, ths premier said that there was an alarming trade balance against tbe United Kingdom of 800.000,000 which threatened to increase. He announced that import restrictions would be removed 8epL 1. The premier was pessimistic concerning the financial future of ths country unless consumption was decreased and production increased. Un der present condition he said. It was impossible. to campete- wlth American imports in England. - LV |