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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER HYRUM, UTAH 0 D.DDD DESTRUCTIVE BLAZE SWEEPS CAUSING LOSS OF MANILA, a- - THREE MILLION DOLLARS '' FORMER MEMBER OF CABin- -t MAKES ANALYSIS OF THE INDUSTRIAL SURVEY. & ' s X. Declares Taxation Is Big Question ii. to the United States. Settl!menx of Peace and International Problems Declared Vital V Razed Area Consists Mostly of Small Native Structures Occupied as Dwellings and Stores, Extending Over Thirty Acres. Manila, 1. I. Fifteen thousand persons were made homeless here in a fire. The fire was the most destructive here in more than twenty years. It destroyed 3000 houses in the northern section of the city, a native quarter known as the San Lazaro district. Two bodies were found Saturday in thp ruins. Police estimate the loss at $3,000,-000- . The razed area consisted mostly of small native structures occupied as It extended dwellings and stores. over thirty acres. American sailors from the flagship Huron of the Asiatic fleet and American soldiers from the Manila barracks were cheered as they marched into the burning district to assist in fighting the flames. They razed houses surrounding the burning area, making a fire break which halted the progress of the fire. Ited Cross workers before daylight began assembling food and clothing lor the homeless, most of whom spent the night in vacant lots. An initial appropriation of $10, (XX) was made by the city council for relief work, and subscriptions have been opened. Search in the ruins revealed bodies of Zosine Santos and liis. nephew, t clasped in each other's arms and encircled by the iron hoops of a large water barrel. It is believed that when their escape was cut off by flames, they took refuge in the barrel, filled with water, hoping to save their lives. The wooden staves burned. EXPECT AID FROM AMERICA. Teutons Sound Government on Proposal to Assume German Bonds. Berlin. The German government has officially admitted having sounded the United States government with the view of assumption by Germany of a, portion of the allied debts tP America through the latter accepting German reparations bonds in lieu of pa Ft of the allied obligations. No actual negotiations, however, it was said, had occurred between Germany hnd the United States regarding reparations. Dr. Simons, the foreign minister, it was added, had explained to Loring Dresel, United States commissioner in Berlin, the German standpoint concerning reparations. TRAGEDY IN EASTERN COLLEGE Professor Kills Dean and Then Takes His Own Life. Syracuse, N. Y. J. Herman Wharton, dean of the college of business administration, Syracuse university, was shot, and killed by Holmes Beckwith, a professor of financial and insurance subjects in the college, Saturday morning. Beckwith then turned the weapon on himself and committed suicide. Professor Beckwith ad been unpopular with the students, it was said, and petitions had been , circulated among the student body asking for his removal. NEGRO OFFENDER IS BRANDED Society Issues Warning tc Negroes in Texas. Dallas, Tex. Masked men late Friday night took Alexander Johnson, negro bellboy in a local hotel, to a lonely spot six miles south of Dallas, flogged him until he bled freely, and sthen branded with an acid the letters K. K. K. on his forehead. Johnson was brought back to. Dallas in an automobile and thrown from the machine in front of the hotel where he had Police said the been employed. masked men accused the negro of associating with certain white women. Kuklux Sick Folk Using Champagne. Washington. Sick folks apparently are making increased use of French champagne since prohibition went into effect. At least, it can be imported only for medicinal use, and department of commerce figures- show to the value of $384,391 in 1920, against $113S in 1919. Wyoming Banker Suicides. Sheridan, Wyo. J. Dyer Gillespie, aged 49, a pioneer banker and real estate man of Sheridan, committed suicide Saturday. He was a victim of a. mental affliction in which lie had leen in constant fear that he would take his own life. s'-- v' ' - - Baltimore. David F. Houston. f,ir. mer secretary of the treasury, analyzing a country-widsurvey industrial, financial, agricultural' and other economic conditions, declare that the big national question js t;l ation with peace settlement and ia. temational trade next. The survey, made in all of the divisions ' of the United States by field agents of the Fidelity and Deposit company of this city. wu. sisted of answers to thirty-siqu. ti.ons by farmers, bankers, manufacturers and public officials. An interest-infeature of the statistics is that in every section except New England and the Rocky mountain states hiiii,. show a marked ;u. ing operations crease. General transportation renditions in every state were reported good apd raw materials plentiful. Savings accounts, the survey showed, increased in nineteen states. Police officials of twenty-sevestates said there has been a noticeable increase in crime over last September, 'but a decrease was reported in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, District of Columbia," Virgina, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia. Florida, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi. In every state the consensus of opinion was that the farmers have not disposed of all their last season's crops. Low prices and shortage of money and labor are said to have caused a reduction in acreage in all states except Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and the Pacific coast states. The crop outlook for 1921, however, in every case, was reported fair or good. e v S' ' t ..v-- 1 vfv3.5 ,v - :v x Wr g - n 2ZArzZ2ZazrtA7X5ZZKZ'Z22& SET forth the arguments pro and con in the question of world disarmament and an armament truce is not the purpose of this article. Its pi rpose is to call ' atof tention to a discussion of the disthe world-wid- e armament and armament truce proposals what the United States needs in the way of industrial improvements to increase its efficiency. Engineers, efficiency experts, transportation managers and business men have had much to say in a general way about the need for greater production and better distribution. The possibility of disarmament or of an wrmament truce has stimulated them to estimating what the United States would save and suggesting what it should do with the money thus saved. Here is ah example of the many suggestions for increased industrial efficiency. The United States geological survey has been making an investigation of the potential water power of the East. On the basis of its findings, Secretary of the Interior Payne, just before going out of office, submitted to President Wilson a report covering the area from Boston to Washington. He urged unified development of electricity, supplied from both water power and machinery, to effect an annual saving of about 25,000,000 tons of coal, run 12,000 miles of railroad, light cities, run street cars, factories and mines, through the concerted development of water power from the St. Lawrence, Raquette, Delaware, Susquehanna, Potomac rivers and streams in the or5,000 (fOOD JOADS O . far-seein- steam-drive- vOM"W.V. g rTozsoAzms orzzzzZJ aFC&mbS n s. Financial feasibility of the idea Is urged by the report on the .following estimates : Electrification of 12,000 miles of railway at gross cost of $800,000,000, reduced to $650,000,000 by salvage of sj;eam locomotives, while yearly savings on coal and maintenance would return approximately 14 per cent on the investment." Incomplete data on 50,000 power using plants indicates saving of 6,000,-00- 0 to 8,000,000 tons of coal a year. Electrification of hard coal mines to save 6,500,000 tons of coal yearly. Public utilities to be saved 4,000,000 tons of coal annually at average cost of $3.50 a ton. Hudson Maxim assumes that the United States would save five billion dollars through a armament truce and proceeds to tell what the nation could do, with those five billions. Writing in the New York World he says among other things: A billion dollars would build in the United States 25,000 miles of concrete roads 20 feet wide five roads extending east and west from ocean to ocean,-ansix roads extending north and south from Canada to Mexico and the Gulf roads connecting all the principal cities and towns in all the main directions. The roads could be made 20 feet wide, of the best and most substantial concrete construction, with the liberal allowance of $40,000 a mile, or $1,000,000,000 for 25,000 miles. With our billion dollars saved, the second year we could build the proposed intercostal ship and barge canal from Boston to Florida, running through Long Island Sound, crossing New Jersey to the Delaware, on to Chesapeake Bay, thence running behind the chain of islands southward, five-ye- V holding an inhyhwater course most ' : of the way. But this development would not consume our entire billion dollars. It would not require more than half of it. With the other $500,000,000 we should be able to dredge and deepen and straighten the Mississippi river to St. Louis, and the Missouri river to Kansas City, sufficiently to admit the free and unobstructed passage of ocean liners to the very center of the industrial and fruitful West. As to, the third billion saved : For some time past a great electrical superpower system 1ms been advocated, extending from Boston to Washington, connecting with the bituminous coal mines of Virginia, the anthracite fields of Pennsylvania, and the sources of water power available at Niagara and in the lower reaches of the St. Lawrence river. It is estimated that 2,000,000 horse power may be developed on that part of the St. Lawrence river between Lake Ontario and Montreal constituting the international boundary between that part of New York state and Canada, f of which power would belong to the United States. The following is the proposition in a nutshell : Great c power stations are to be built on the St. Lawrence and in the bituminous coal mine section of Virginia and the anthracite region of Pennsylvania. The electrical energy from these plants will be conducted through trunk lines r crossing the area, and the trunk lines will be tapped by wires conducting the electricity a,way in all directions, to ttike the place of coal in all power plants, to run all locomotives and street cars, to supply all electric lighting and to generate heat for much of the cooking and warming of rooms in private homes. At the present time the railroads in the super-powarea are carrying about 60,000,000 tons of coal annually, this coal constituting 40 per cent of the freight of the roads. It is estimated that half of this coal would be saved, or 30,000,000 tons annually, and the railrods relieved of their present overburden. , This is what we could do with the fourth billion saved: A very practical and comprehensive plan has already been worked out for canalizing the St Lawrence river between Lake Ontario and Montreal, thereby permitting the passage of ocean steamers up the St Lawrence into Lake Ontario. This plan would at one stroke make Buffalo, Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit and Chicago seaport cities with ocean steamer communication with all ports of the world. The utility and helpfulness of .this one-hal- " hydro-electri- super-powe- ar er d development is so vast as to outpace the imaglnation.This great work is not a measure for the benefit of the United States alone, nor merely for the joint benefit of the United States and Canada; for it would be of incomparable benefit to the entire civilized world. What about the fifth billion saved? In the Far West large tracts of arid lands have been redeemed and made fruitful as farming districts through the magic of irrigation .accomplished by the aid of the government in building the necessary dams to store water for the use of the farms, while the electrical power developed by the water is drawn from the reservoirs for purposes of irrigation furnishes the energy for lighting and transportation over large districts. Little has yet been done however, compared with what remains undone. I asked the Department of the Interior what could be done in the way of reclamation of the arid regions of the West for farming purposes by the use of a billion dollars and I received from that department a statement which I can do no better than to quote - ast NINE DAY BATTLE CONCLUDED Greeks Have Been Defeated by at Eski-Sheh- Turks r. Constantinople. Kiazim Kara Bekili, commander of the Turkish nationalists in Armenia, with his army of salvation, is nearing Sivas. The Greeks have been defeated by the Turks in the battle at says a communication issued by the headquarters of Mustapha Kemal Pasha, internationalist leader. A Turkish- communique dated April 1 says that the battle on the frontier, lasting nine days, has been concluded, Biledjik being recaptured and' the Creeks retreating toward Brusa. Turkish transports conveyed by Bolshevik gunboats have landed part of Kara Bekirs' army at Ineboli. Greeks declare that there has been a renewal of the fighting on the front. Eski-Sheh- r, Eski-She- Eski-Sheh- r Youths Slay Jailer. Silver City, N. M. After Rumsldo here: Lorenzo and Elitro Corral, aged 14 and , If the sum of $16,000,000 could be 17, respectively, had escaped from the made available for expenditure in the county jail here, Ventura Bencomo, the next ten years, this could be used to jailer, was found dead. He had been reclaim lands in the arid region at a abupst decapitated by a hand ax, found cost of from $100 to $200 per acre near the body. The jailer, according to r and wet and lands in the prisoners, was slain while asleep. East and South at a cost of from $75 to $125 per acre. Settlers could be American Radical Editor Arrested. placed on these lands and furnished Mexico City. Federal authorities with loans at low rates of interest on have arrested L. A. E. Gale, an Amerilong time for improvements and equip- can radical, who for more than three ment The lands might be assumed has published a monthly magayears to be distributed as follows: zine which of late has been here, 2.000.- 000 acres of arid adminland at $150 per acre. $300,000,000 sharply critical of the Obregon istration. 4.000.- 000 acres of wet land at $100 Former Ruler Charles is III. 400,000,000 per acre Former Emperor Steinamanger. 150,000 farms on above Charles is ill with bronchitis. He is 0 reclaimed land at having 'each 300,000,000 suffering from fever and is nervous coughing attacks, according to a bulletin issued by his Budapest phy$1,000,000,000 This would furnish rural homes for sicians. The bulletin says he is obliged 150,000 families and an equal number to remain in bed. would find homes and employment in Kills Drunken Husband. the towns and villages which would Carl Pellegrinis, a musiChicago.The spring up. population supported 43 years of age, was shot through thereby would be about a million and cian, a half and the values created would the heart by his wife Sunday, dying inbe more than double the expenditure. stantly. Pellegrinis drank freely, and seldom worked, .depending, upon his The money invested would all evento provide a home and funds for wife tually be returned by the beneficiaries, whose homes would be the security for him. its return. A very large proportion of the expenditure would go to pay for Engine Sparks Cause Blaze. Omaha. Fire which was started If labor, materials and transportation; idle men and ' idle industries would sparks from a passing Burlingtor railbe put in motion and the whole pulse road engine partially destroyed the of American business quickened. American Potash company, Antiach. Neb., doing $500,000 damage.) cut-ove- - . cut-ov- er 4 . $2,-00- - ... j |