Show The X Free to Subscribers in Salt Lake Has PurchwedltHe Exclusive flight 1foHGiiraPaniia Stead Announcement cnPageKti Today Vantages Theatre Tickets Cannot Ba Secureit Through Any Other Newspaper Elerald-Bepublic- aii ITvTWCTre A Quality Newspaper Utah's Greatest It's Fair and Square THE WEATHER Monday fair and tvarmcr Tuesday fair Netospaper and Advertising Medium Salt Lake BmbM 87 PRICE FIVE CENTS SALT LAKE CITY UTAH MONDAY MAY 28 1917 Inter mountain Republican Vol 17 No 87 YoL 17 P TT r - Italy Pays A 133 Die When Torpedoes Spanish Ship Gonsul Hissing U-B- oat 27 — Forty-eig- passenLondon May e of the members eighty-fivand gers crew 'of the Spanish steamship C de Elzaguirre are believed to have perished as a result of the sinking of the steamer by a A dispatch received by Reuter’s Telegram company the date of which has not been made public reports the lose of the C de Eizagulrre The dispatch says the steamer sank In five minutes according to the second officer who said that he saw no other boats afloat except that in which he and the other survivors escaped passengers Among the forty-eig' missing Is the Spanish consul at U-bo- at President Wants Neutrality Abandoned and Adequate v Defense Measures Taken to BRITISH REPULSE AN CONGRESS ASKtD TO REVOKE OLD DECREE Resent Ravages of German Submarine Commanders by Germany ASSAULT BY GERMANS Prince Penetrates Lines of French on Champagne but a Counter- Crown Sinking of Second Steamship Without Warning Stirs Nation and Statesmen Are Coihpelled to Insist on Methods of Retaliation lantic Rumor that a German submarine was at present In American waters was dismissed as a "probable invention of early summer visitors to the Maine coast resorts who are endeavoring to deprive the familiar sea serpent of its ’preroga- attack Sends Him Back With Heavy Casualties tives” There have been frequent reports of ! German submarine activity on the Atlantic seaboard On Aprir'l7 the American destroyer Smith was said to have TVTO DE JANEIRO O MASHING the Austrian lines on narrowly escaped a torpedo Saturday May the Carso plateau and in the 26 — The committee on foreign re- e i- - mountainous country north of Gorizia pie Italians-h- a ve made additional and important gains General Cadorn&’s troops also captured more than 1200 prisoners and eleven guns In an assault between Jamiano and the coast the Italian troops crossed the railroad between Duino and Moi-f- a leone northeast of Sanglovanni and carried a strongly fortified hill southwest of Medeazza less than two miles north of Duino on the coast The capture of Medeazza would be an Important toward the investment of Duino step a strong natural position A field battery of ten guns and 812 Austrians were captured by the Italians Near Plava Cadorna's men Carried by storm the heights at the head of the Palliova valley By this success they connected their lines on Mount Cucbo with those on hill 368 both of which were taken early in the recent fighting Around Gorizia there was heavy At Castagnavizza artillery firing south of Gorizia the Italians were checked in an attempt to take the town On the front in France there has been a recrudescence of infantry ac tivity but not on & large scale The British made gains in local attacks northwest of St Quentin and near on the southern end of the Arras battle field and repulsed a German attack east of Loos north of Arras On the Aisne and Champagne fronts both the Germans and French have been active Around Teton in Champagne the German crown prince made three attacks and succeeded in pene the French line A counter tratlng forced the Germans to retire attack again to their own lines however North of the Aisne the Germans were x repulsed In an attack against the mill an Important point south of Pargny on the Allette north of is Berlin five in vain as French attacks were madereports was an attack- near Vauxalllon north of Laffaux mill Fontalne-Lez-Croislll- es Laf-fau- Braye-en-Laonno- - (From a Staff Correspondent of the Associated Press) Grand Headquarters of the French Armies in France May 27 — (After-- troops made another noon) —German futile effort In the course of the night to regain a footing on the In the vicinity of the Moulin de Laffaux the loss of which they feel acutely ThesoFrench however bit Into hard that the Germans the position were unable to shake them off anywhere nothwfthstandlng 'the fury of their assaults All along from the Moulin de Laffaux past Hurtebise farm to Craonne which are the three most prominent pothe sitions on the thundered artillery 'intheboth camps night The correspondthroughout ent watched the bombardment from a whence he could look dominating spot crest over the entire Everywhere the French occupy the crest of the pl eau and continually ‘make further small advances and maintain their pressure The amount of territory gained In are these minor actions which always sucand generally minutely prepared cessfully appears small when looking tactical strategic at the map but the be estimated on that advantage cannotdefinite results of the basis The real fighting may first become ap-Is present weeks afterwards What parent see known now Is that the French canGerand can effectively bombard the man big gun batteries In the valleyGerand on the plateau beyond'1 The man position in this valley is precarious although the Teutons still hold the western end from which they can enfilade the low lying ground and renattackers difficult der the task of the Craonne itself now Is scarcely recognizable" as a town Nothing remains Chemln-des-Dam- Chemin-des-Dam- es es U-Bo- ats 1 U-bo- ats two-seat- A 2) - T er wa?? vr ln-t- he —“— JtaSsassrTrs: Is how he happened to occasion and was brought here by the mission was carried into the tomb by four Italian bluejackets ' The prince then addressed the assembled party Including members of the' diplomatic corps and cabinet officers and their wives "We cannot avoid a feeling of sadness’ he said "when we behold all around us the most civilized nations on earth dragged by powerful oligarchies into this colossal war than which there has never been a greater or one more abounding In sorrow "So great a war and such deep sorrows should not be without the beneWe reel ficial results of humanity that to establish a fuller humai life a nobler union of mankind we should let ourselves be ruled as regards all the nations and even & regards our enemies by that 'sense of justice which Inspired your hero In Name at King "And today at the tomb of George Washington while we reaffirm our promise never to hesitate In war and to offer to our just cause our fortunes gnd our persons we affirm solemnly necesthat we look upon war as theleads to sary ‘Via Dolorosa’ which universal justice and peace "In the name of my august cousin the king of Italy and In the name of all the people of Italy I wish solemn-to ly to declare in this place sacred the American nation that we shall never lay down our arms until our the liberties of the peoliberty and ples who are suffering with us shall be rendered safe 'against all surprises and all violence and at the same time I affirm once more that our victory must be that of progress and of justice "May the spirit of George Washington watch over us and light us upon' our way' POPULAR RULE FRENCH LOOK TO IN AUSTRIA IS U S ENGINEERS get over the I rn®’ Britit-lines The pilot turned his ma-- I “The entire nation Is cognizant of the chine eastward as he thought but be- - I attitude which this government adopted lieved something must have gone when °erman5r announced to all n wrong with his compass He had not I th® a establishment submarine of a great distance when he sight- - tral ed several British fighting scouts Now blockade The Brazilian government the passenger became fairly and began beating the pilot on the I lnkin of ahe steamship Parana broke back urging him to around in I o£t relations with Germany the opposite direction swing diplomatic This further confused the pilot and the first thing Defease Demanded le he knew one of the British machines I "Today the sinking cf a second and ht hm throuh SS?h°legs steamship without warning and the I m®nac® of The pilot took matters In his own decreasing constantly our hands then and in order to escape from I hipping and foreign commerce obliges I th® ‘government to put into practice the attackers dived almost by with the engine full on Hevertically did not nMr® of defense to he suggestedcon-of advisra of the national flatten out until within twenty feet the thA fcround and then almost faint I The utilization of the German mer-sll- p from his wound he let the machine I chantmen interned in Brazilian seaports and landed with a crash A search of the wreckage revealed I aPP®ar urgent to the government The I ld®a of confiscation however Is ex- no trace of the observer “I think he must have been thrown I cluded thl being repugnant to the spirit of our laws as well as to the out" said the German pilot "He was” said one of the pilot’s cap- general feeling of the country A conference will be held tomorrow tors who had eeen the officer pitch to discuss the ' government’s foreign headlong to his death policy The representatives in congress from Rio Grande Do Sul favor the revocation of the neutrality declaration neu-flow- -- 1 CHINA ELECTS NEW For Tasty Peanut became the excitement i SOInIntense a cage of ”RIs" monkeys from the jungles of South America ' in Liberty park yesterday after- noon when Merrill Harris 9 years old 467 Sherman avenue threw one' peanuts among them that fin-ger mistook the benefactor’s Index for a guber When Merrill withdrew hfs bleed- ing finger 'after he haduttered an- i: outcry that caused many heart palthroughout 'the park E pitatlons M Shider official trainer started an investigation ' - ' Fint aid treatment was given the child’s finger' He was taken to the’' emergency hospital at police head- It' required two stitches quarters' to close the wound inflicted by -the nonplused monkey : -- - ' -- - Geneva via Paris May 27 —La Suisse today prints details of a case similar to that of Miss Edith Cavell' the English nurse who was executed by the Germans In Brussels in October 191S The Germans says the newspaper recently arrested two women Madame Pfelster and her daughter aged 22 on the frontier They were charged with acting as spies The women promptly admitted at the trial that they had smuggled letters without knowing their contents from Alsatian families to relatives In' Swlts erland This was done they said simply as a frieqdly act and without political or malicious purpose Both women says La Suisse were shot at Mulhausen The mother was a horrified witness ofv the execution of her daughter before 'her turn came - Swlss-Alsatt- Los Copenhagen via London May 27 — The Austrian parliament’s meeting this week signifies a Shift from the dictatorship whereby the country has been ruled during the war to a form of con stitutional government The young emperor in this as In the electoral rq form crisis in Hungary seems deter mined to make an attempt at rule with the consent of the governed In place of the autocratic system symbolized ln the names of Count Tisza and Baron Burlan It is an open question however whether these indications of his goodwill and his personal appeals fos her will reconcile the monious and unite factions nationalist warring Serbs Bohemians Germans Poles the for sufficient a in and others majority productive work ln the relchsrat The position of the Austrian premier is shaky accordCount ing to a Vienna dispatch to the Ham burg Fremdenblatt and it' is expected that he will follow Count 4 Stephen Tisza the former Hungarian premier into retirement and- that the present minister of education Baron von Hus-are- k will be named as his suceessoro Parla May 27 —Albert Claveflle undersecretary of - transportation who now has charge of all transportation in the ‘zone of the French armies up to the front as well as the rear has Just returned from an Inspection of the railroads canals and highways ln the region recently evacuated by the Germans "The Germans carried off even the ateel rails and the railroad ties” said M Cl&veille today talking to the As sociated Press of his visit "The roadbed and ballast remain almost Intact Otherwise the destruction in stripping the railroad lines was about as methodical and complete as might be im agined All highway as well as railroad bridges were badly damaged or destroyed as were turntables water-tank- s and switch mechanisms Even articles that would have been of no ad vantage or comfort to our army were taken away which seems to Indicate there is a pressing need in Germany for everything In the shape of metal" “M The destruction of canal locks Cl&veille said was quite as complete as the damage done to railroada All cabal boats also were broken up and every means available were used for obstructing the channels “The best service that could be rendered to France by the regiment of engineers now being organized In the United States of America" said M Clavellle "would be to bring over here as soon as convenient tools and equipment necessary to repair those railroads canals and bridges They should the required tools now bring not only unobtainable here but also laborers familiar with that kind of work and cap- ion Clam-Martln- le - ANTIWAR TALK : ? FINANCE MINISTER ' Peking May 27 —By a vote of 888 to 76 the house of representatives today CAUSE OF RIOT able-of BANlSHKAlSER Cleveland Socialists Clubbed -By? Police and Hauled Off Stands ? ' GERMANS’ PLAN r Cleveland May Teutons in New York Organize to Turn Empire Into Republic attempting to prevent antiwar speeches by Socialists on thevpubllc square were attacked by a crowq of about 890 late this afternoon and a pitched battle ensued7 dust previous to the trouble the recruiting station erected ' on the pub-' lic square registered '211 recruits The police dragged one ’of the Socialist orators off the stone rostrum and the crowd ' atUicked - them Reserves rushed to the scene Rubbed the crowd back aind- half 'a' dozen men were are : ' - -- - - HINDER REGISTRATION - - 't ' - - 27 —Criminal prosWashington-Maecution awaits persons who attempt to prevent registration under ' the war army bill-bpropaganda or otherwise Attorney General Gregory announced tonight that- his attention had been called to the circulation of propaganda designed to discourage registration and that the government would deal — vigorously with- uch cases v ' t J ' j - t ’ ' Cal May 27 —A slight PROBLEMS UP TO SENATORS May 27 —Solution of Washington difficult many problems faces the Senate finance committee this week in of the $1800000000 continuing revision House war tax bill Estimates of revenue from changes in the House bill already agreed upon by the committee were announced to night by Senator Simmons chairman as follows: From war excess profits taxes on corporations joint stock companies associations insurance companies and an Increase partnerships $650000000 over present excess profits taxes of $350000000 and an Increase of over returns provided in the House bill From new taxes upon advertising of all forms Including newspaper maga sine billboard poster street car and others $15000000 a net Increase over the House bill at a general rate of probably 2 per cent These increased revenue levies however but partially offset the slashing reductions alresdy ordered by the committee' in the House bill aggregating $317750000 divided as follows: Rejection of further Income surtaxes on persons having incomes of $40000 and above $66000000: elimination of 5 per cent taxes on gross sales of automobiles and other manufacturers striking out of retroactive Income taxes $108000000: of inheritance taxes $6000000 and of zone taxes on second-clas- s mall $19000000 The committee expects to bring in large sums from a direct automobile tax and some form of manufacturing tax to be substituted for the section stricken from the' House bilL The latter subject will be considered tomor-so- $150-0000- 00 $118-7500- 00 w That the House principle of taxing Tnanufacturers gross sales had been ‘definitely and finally abandoned by the Senate committee as "unsound” was declared tonight by Chairman Simmons License taxes cost of horsepower of motor vehicles to be paid by the owners and not manufacturers —are planned Stamp taxes on other manufactures are being considered The trend :of the committee’s work thus far it was officially stated 'la toward general distribution and Indirect Imposition of the war’s tax burden with relief of manufacturing Industrial and business interests from especially heavy drafts Exhibition of Her Park Pachyderm 1000 pairs of eager hands FLOM Alice drew so much yesapplause at Liberty that- - atpark the cr terday afternoon of a third performance sheIndicated she was bored and de- sired to retire to her stable cham- - - - her It was the season’s sesond Sun- afternoon performance undti day direction he of C M Shider h£r she did everything she trainereven unto knew her two even tons into areleasing somersault that t the earth jarred The princess gave evidence of being deeply appreciative of early applause but when she was !h! out for the third time to entertain Sundav pleasure seekers she made sort of an auger motion with her trunk several times This says the trainer U elephantine for be-ibored i ruined although the spasmodic wind struck only here and there in its frightful play through the rural regions Crop damage is said to be not heavy in general The heaviest toll of life was taken at Mattoon III a city of 10400 population in the broom corn country of central Illinois wtfere fifty-fou- r are known to be dead and 500 injured with a property loss of $2000000 liMa of Millions Charleston 111 ten miles east of Mattoon was also partly wrecked Saturday evening with a loss of 38 lives and 150 injured The property loss there Is $1000000 The next most serious loss was at Andale Kan where twenty-si- x were killed and a score Injured on Friday Dublin Ky suffered three dead and seventeen injured today South Dyers-bur- g Tenn was reported tonight to have lost two killed and fifteen injured in a tornado that swept Dyer county Ark nine today Near Blythevllle persons were reported killed and a dozen hurt Reports from Indiana phow at least seven persons killed at Hebron Kouts and other places- and the death list may reach twentj- More than 200 were injured in the Indiana territory swept by the storm Smaller towns in Illinois lost a dozen dead on Saturday with two score injured while in the southern part of Illinois windstorms today killed a half-dozand Injured a score Summary of Dead Summary of tornado dead and Injured: Town—State Mattoon 111 Charleston UL Andale Kan Other Illinois town en Property damage $5000000 Ticcnty-fiv- e Homes Razed During Storm St Louis May- 27—Four lives wera lost and at least fifty persons were in- - ' pg - Willisville in Perry county HI virtually was destroyed by a tornado today according to advices coming over the wire of the Mobile & Ohio railroad More than 350 persons were killed a thousand or more injured and millions of dollars worth of property destroyed hv tornadoes which swept through Kansas on Friday Illinois and Indiana on Saturday and parts of Tennessee Arkansas Kentucky and southern Illinois Sunday Reports indicate that a large amount of farm implements needed to produce the bumper crop desired this year was Arkansas Indiana Kentucky Tennessee M any Taents Bores ? - SOUTHERN STATES ARE HARD HIT BY GALE ST-- OUIS May 27 — The village of - - severe MANY KNOTTY y -- Whole Village Wiped Out by Terrific Sunday Storm in Illinois List of Victims Grows as Search Goes Oil Amid Demolished Homes shock was felt here toearthquakesome in parts of the city It night lasted about two seconds No damage was reported San Diego AGAINST LAW TO ' —A HURT Millions of Dollars Damage Done in Mattoon Charleston and O tlier Cities in Pathway of Devastating:u Cyclones in Three States New York May 27 —Germans here have formed an organization called the Friends of the Germ&n Republic" whose object is the dethronement of Kaiser William and the establishment of a German republic It was ' announced The organization said to 'be tonight nation-wid- e in scope has established headquarters and has Issued an appeal to Germans to help in its propaganda approved the nomination' of LlChlng-Hs- l the minister of finance as premier in succession to Tuan Chi Jul who was dismissed py President L1 Yuan-Hun- g May23 The senate is expected to approve the action of thA lower house on Monday LI Ching-H- st Is h nephew of the late ' Chinese statesman Li He rested" Hung Chang was governor of Kwangsl in 1901 and The crowd followed ' the police and 1904-0- 6 it again prisoners to the police station where battle took place and more' arAMERICAN RILLED IN X -another rests were made more reserves a Mounted police 'and ‘ BATTLE 2' INJURED hundred police ln ' all ' charged the crowd and cleared the streets after Ottawa May v 27 —The following sticks and stones had been thrown at Americans are Included in a- list of the police station breaking several overseas casualties issued here tonight: windows Killed— F J Curtis Pioneer' Ore The police guard was doubled at the Wounded —C E Reeves' Eagle Rock public square tonight as more Socia' Cal J Kelley Portland Ore list demonstrations were feared' i quick productive efforts" 27 r T01ENDR0ADS ways by Germans May 1107 - town of Brawl es the quake rocked school where exercises were being held so sharply that several women and children fainted and a panic was narrowly averted No property damage was done at Brawlej'-noat any other town from The which reports were received quake occurred shortly after 10 o'clock and lasted about one minute At Calexico residents' rushed into the streets and at El Centro similar alarm was caused -- sent of Governed Angeles earthquake was experienced tonight throughout southern California At thea ' Emperor Determined in At- Paris Official Reports Methtempt to Reign With Con- - odical Destruction of High- an Quake Shakes Up Los Angeles Women and Children Faint : FORESHADOWED hh Monkey Mistakes Finger of Child - Case Parallel zil Kesent Acta The Brazilian foreign minister today presented to congress a message signed President Braz in which It Is stated (From a Staff Correspondent of The by that the sinking of Brasilian merehant-Franc- e Associated Press) I men German submarines obliges the British ’ Headquarters in May 27 via London 640 p m —A government to take measures of defense The against the Teuton German aviator just shot down within not utilitlzation confiscation but of the British lines told with amazing ih German vessels Interned Brazilian nonchalance ho whe lost his passenger The message in midair The prisoner is a corporal seaports Is suggested ln Part: and was piloting a machine sa8 on reconnaissance work The passenger I "I have the honor to bring today to ob®e: wbon? II your knowledge confirmation of the pilot up for the first formation which we have received from time The lieutenant was nervous from the I the Brazilian legation at Paris con start and kept giving the pilot con-- 1 cernlng the sinking of another Brazil- - - (Continued on 'Pace lations in the Brazilian congress today - drafted a 'measure' recommending the cancellation of the decree of April 25 1917 which declared the neutrality in the war between Germany and the United States Presicnt Braz under the bill would be authorized to take necessary steps for the carrying out of this law Thrill” j and to put into practice the acts which result from the cessation of neutrality of-Bra- German Aviator Has Washington May 27 — paid honor to America and her Italy first president today through the Italian war commissioners who made a pilgrimage ' down the Potomac to Mount Vernon and laid on the tomb of George Washington the bronze wreath which since the days of ancient Rome has been bestowed on 'famous heroes In- the presence of a distinguished party of' American officials grouped about the entrance to the tomb the Prince of Udine as head of the mission expressed in solemn words the belief that the spirit of Washington will guide all the allies in the present war for freedom and ' democracy Ha renewed the pledge of Italy to fight until '“our liberty and the liberties of the peoples who are suffering with us shall be rendered safe against all surprises and all violence" Marconi Makes Address M Marcont member of the mission declared the fellowship of America In the war was "dear and welcome to all the allies but particularly to Italy" Both made their addresses in English and were applauded enthusiastically Secretary Daniels as host to the party on the trip down the river on the presidential yacht Mayflower introduced the speakers It was the first time any 'member of the Italian royal house had ever visited Mount Vernon and indeed the first time for many years that a European prince had entered the tomb of Washington Prince Gives Salute A s the yacht approached the landing at Mount Vernon a bugler sounded party "taps" and all members of the stood respectfully along the rail the prince and other military or naval officers saluting The great bronze wreath which had been made in Italy especially for the - Terrific Battle in Heights Results in Flight of Aus- Colombo Ceylon trians and Capture of Nu- Hostile Submarines merous Prisoners and Bat- Off I) S Facetiously of Field teries Guns Denied Berlin via London May 27 —The Associated Press was Informed today by officials of the German foreign office that no German naval forces had recently been dispatched across the At- Two Women Shot As Spies Gavell Prince Mt Vernon Pilgrim ht ht i Jl I No Ni jured In a tornado that originated near Murphyaboro UL this afternoon then rose and swept across the southern tip of Illinois to drop into Kentucky causproperty damage accing considerable to tonight reports ording ana Three persons are reported dead seventeen hurt at Dublin Kj accordto a telegram from Cairo UL ingMiss Sylvia Nelson and another person were killed and about thirty persons injured at Bardwell Ky accordto a message received over the ing wires of the Illinois Central railroad and corroborated by Cairo The tor-- 1 n&do Is said to have destroyed &he Ui j |