Show 8 MAYOR NAMED IN CHICAGO INQUIRY f BALLOONIST RETURNS FROM FORT OMAHA ON HOLIDAY FURLOUGH itness Quotes Executive as Saying New Chief Would ‘Be All Right’ Chicago Dec 20 —Tom Costello one- time police reporter and race track man today finished his three days' himself as the real constory picturing of the Chicago police force movtroller station to station ing men from some and discipline others in his routine work of collecting graft others hangfrom saloonkeepers and law tesHis the of ing on the fringe of the state s whs the cliniae timony ease against former Chief of Policea Charles t Healey StephenandBarry VIIliara former detective sergeant siile saloonkeeper £ikt'1more a with breakCostello himself is charged o thirty-twindictments on law the ing has admitted his Refore and guilt name of Mayor closing he brought theinto his story Thompson indirectly Chief Healey on learning that ms as head of the police department days were numbered had reassured Costello he testified and told him there was Thompstill to be some balm Mayor Costeiio son had told th former chief said that he was going to keep a pretthe stiff hand on Herman Schuttler ty n M FITGEHA 1 1) new department head and he “was gobe all to ingProsecutor right" R M Fitzgerald son of Mrs J T Johnson said the state Is home on furlough for the soon as as case Fitzgerald the would close its from Fort Omaha Neb where of Costello was fin- holidays he has been in training for the federal ished balloon service When he enlisted Fitzgerald was a student at Itthe Utah is said college where BLINDED HALIFAX Agricultural that he became interested in the old service! lie predicts the style airStates CHILDREN NEED TOYS United effiwill attain in all branches of Itshigh air pro-motori- ng wt cross-examinati- — The Friday Mornings on Halifax N Iec 20 — An American ganra Onus must provide toys for hun-In dreds of blind and crippled childrencarlitre The limited stock hospitals h the local dealers has been exried hausted Americans have been asked to help of Although no approximate estimate the explosion is availthose blinded by able it Is believed the numberlost may the reach irtoo including those who of one or both eyes Many of sight are children nml little gifts which these they never will see are sadly needed A UST1U AN CHILDREN SENT AWAY STARVING Geneva Switzerland Dec 20 — Riving of the terrible economic condiproofs were furnished by the tions in Austria arrival at Mucha on the frontier of 576 pale and suffering children between the ages of 7 and V They are from Vienna and other Austrian towns They will be distributed among various places in Switzerland until their health Is restored COLONY OF SLACKERS DISCOVERED IN SONORA Icc 20 — Advices reWashington ceived here today by the Mexican news bureau said that a colony of persons who are claimed to have left the United States to avoid military service has been discovered near the international line in a remote section of the boundary of Sonora Among the settlestate ment's inhabitants are said to be Italians Frenchmen Poles Montenegrins Serbians Germans Austrians Turks and many Americans SAVE MONET A IIOSKI8SOX CO Six Busy Stores — Advertisement Herald-Republica- F Doherty president wan said Gforge to be a clerk said he signed whatever he wasPegram told to sign by BradI ley aimer counsel for Prince Hart and Thayer declared organization of the Chicago Stock Yards company was made ' necessary by ihe fact that the packers were considerfng’leav-In- g Chicago for cities further west where they would be In closer touch with the live stock supply stated it was said NewBriefly Engthe that land stockholders of the Chicago Junction Railways and Union Stock Yards company found themselves out of touch with their clients and likely to be left with their Investment on their hands and no business Accordingly the nek stock yards company was formed under the laws of Maine as a holding comrisk Prince leadpany to assume In thethis was respirit ing organization lied on Hart said to influence Armour FRANCE HONORS AMERICAN MEDIC ‘Store Open Evenings Until Christmas I But two days left in which to secure the advantages of Chicago Aimed to Satisfy Palters The committee endeavored to show by letters from F S Moseley & Co brokers of Boston that the new company was simply a means of keeping the packers satisfied by paying them dividends on the new company’s stock instead of bonbses and rebates which were outlawed by federal legislation “It Is merely the choice of the way in which they will receive compensation” said one letter “whether in large blocks of bonds or cash or In dividends” Heney also endeavored to draw from witnesses that there was no real danger of the packers leaving Chicago said he feared they would Thayer move lie admitted however that he knew nothing of the amount of their investments In Chicago or the cost of elsewhere moving “How much will you was declared in one letter topay? be the our Christmas player piano club -- pre- dominant quAtion every time the packers and the owners came to a renewal ofstockyards leases ' At one time the letter said renewals had cost the Junction Railways company $3000000 In bonds In 1S91 when the pacxers were threatening to move to Gary Ind the Junction Railciency ways company gave Morris Swift and Armour Mr lleney said 3750000 in stock besides other inducements to a fifteen-yea- r contract sign tlon in 19u6 led to a resumptionExpira of necommittees repre gotiations between both sides which had not been senting concluded in 1910 when n lest case to decide whether or not the terminal the interstate railway wascommission subject to was commerce taken to the supreme court Rebates Legalised Mr Heney said he would endeavor to show that anticipating an adverse de (Continued From rage 1) devised the scheme of return a guaranteed 9 per cent from clsion Prince the new stock yards company forming the new company the packers’ rebates and “The whole plan was an entirely to hidelegalize their of the control Mr lleney of the common yards Holders the transparent proposition” stock cf surro hide the real Junction Railways were asked told the commission to their stock to the new company ownership and conceal the fact that render receive therefor a guarantee of 9 Armour and other big packers had an and cent dividends or $200 in bonds for per interest In the yards each $100 in stock the bonds bearing 11 nates 5 per cent Interest and the return beFalse Peg ram Testified 10 per' cent Up to that time the Wjoven through the testimony of ing company had paid Railways millions controlled by bank presidents Junction 8 per cent regularly and had more and packers was the name of Frank It than $3000000 surplus on a common Peg ram for a quarter of a centurj stock of $6500000 Asked If they conand cashier for F II Prince sidered the transfer fair both Hart and bookkeeper said they did considering the & Co of Boston According to the cer- Thayer likelihood of loss which might be sustified minutes of the Chicago stock tained if the should move companies'- first meeting Pogyards Control of packers Junction Railwaysthe rom controlled the assents of the Junc- stock was not obtained without diffttion railway's stockholders to the new culty Many stockholders protested was to be cut lleney plan ami was given $S 000000 In Chi- I that a “melon” the commission was in possescago stock yards common stock for the declared sion of a letter from Prince to Armour assents and 11000000 in cash had suffithat when suggestion “My salary is $2300 a year” Fegram stock they could they obtain the retestified in reply to questions “No cient mainder by depressing the market sir I never had $1000000 I knew noth- through curtailing the Junction’s earnof the agreement you read and I ings All of the stock was obtained ing shares though the new never had the stock in my possession except threehad to pay $50000 for one corporation except for indorsement purposes” of fifty shares and $300 a share He added that although he was treas- block for another small lot All earnings of urer of the Chicago Stock Yards comthe New Jersey company over the guarhe knew none of the other offi- anteed pany dividend now go to the Chicago cers who were iicr i figureheads hold- Stockyards company The Kansas City stockyards was the ing one or two shares of stock each only other cattle market brought Into Is the testimony today Thayer who of the Kansas City Stock-yarpresident company said he owned less than 100 shares of stock but appeared as he owner of more than 6200 shares which he had indorsed to Morris & Co conMr Heney said the in the countrolled every stock yards packers try but had concealed the ownership of stock transfers Demands by the commission for the names of the real owners evoked only evasive repllep it was said Cattlemen’s associations have allowed dominate the marthat tothe packers ket such an extent that they control the purchase which price of livesellstocla and the prices at they In a continuous “gouge” of the producer and the consumer PACKERS’ HIGH FINANCE BARED - ds ng TEUTONS HALT HERO NEAR SWISS BORDER Switzerland Tuesday Dec Leman known at the hero of Liege for his defense of that city at the time the Germans were going Belgium in the first month of through the war was expected to arrive In the German Switzerland yesterday to government finally having agreedNew his internment in this country arose however difficulties and the general was arrested yesterday on the lS-Gene- Geneva ral frontier at Constance He’ll leave a package at your home WILLCOX MAY RESIGN AS REPUBLICAN HEAD New York Dec 20 — William R Will-co- x Remay resign as chairmanif themeeta publican national committeet of the committee here in February ing it was authoritatively learned numHe Is understood to have told a today ber of his personal friends that his business activities have become too pressing bring ROLLUP OAT along with the other good foods He knows liow much vour mother will need to last you through the winter Always think of this whenever you eat Sunriie Rolled Oats for Breakfast — that you are saving the wheat supply for the Allies and helping to win the war luitid Koffe-- et trm and coffee serve Paaripe Pure atreagthealag and aatlMfylag mt UTAH CEREAL FOOD CO Ogden Utah Dr Irwin of New York Another American doctor has been decorated by the French government in treating for his skill and zeal of He Is Dr Irwin French wounded New York GERMANY OFFERS NEW PEACE PLAN (Continued From Page I) of the large German forces on the lng western front might not be so much a military offensive actually proof of as to to start part of the stage-settin- g awe the world into the belief that an unconquerable Germany was able to dictate a victorious peace Washington Learns Terms to Be Offered by Germany Washington Dec 20 — What purports to be an outline of the kaiser’a much advertised “Christmas message terms' haa been received through neutral diplomatic channels terms include the folThe lowing: To leave the disposition of Alsace-Lorraito a plebiscite of inhabitants England to pay Germany for hertolost be African colonies and the money used for the rehabilitation of Belgium Serbia Rumania and northern France Russian provinces bordering the Baltic sea the Black sea and Prussia to become independent under a German plan Poland to be called an independent state under Austrian suzerainty Disarmament freedom of the seas and commerce to be left to the peace cpnference Rumania Serbia and Montenegro to retain their original boundaries with the right of access to the sea being granted to Serbia May Be Propaganda remain intact Turkey tosuch a proposal of terms is 'Whether merely another step in the German the public mind propaganda to impress that the allies are responsible for the continuance of the war or whether it Is really a feeler for peace is a subfor the estimate of the governject ments concerned At first glance some are inclined to regard these conditions as the kaiser’s much advertised Christmas peace terms probably designed in large part to keep the German people under the illusion that they are fighting a really defensive war against foes who insist on the dismemberment of theia country May He Merlon There is a very decided impression so-call- this a musical Christinas Of all the times in our country’s MAKE this is the time wiien we most need music And a more truthful statement was never made than that there will not he a time within the next five years when you can procure a player-pian- o under such favorable conditions as you can through our Christmas Club Wholesale prices are mounting higher and higher And wore the war to stop tomorrow prices cannot possibly he lower durcan enjoy TODAY through this Christing the next five years 'than-jromas Club XTIL the close of business Monday evening you can procure a genuine METROSTYLE PIANOLA for 852500 Not only this you can procure it under the most liberal of conditions and 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said the Cossacks had cut the railway - was represented by triumphant militarism would be a hollow farce No Territory Sought Great Britain did not enter the war the premier asserted to increase by a yard the territory of anyone else but because of the belief that Britain’s honor the question of standing by her word was involved The next few months said Lloj'd would be most trying ones as George one great power had gone out and another had not fully come in Former Premier Asquith following Lloyd George said the primary need at this moment was ships for which the new construction must be supplied by Great Britain and the United States turned on transport he Everything out in and every discussion on pointed that must be the dominat- Syrian relief that $650000 was cabled today for the relief of refugees in Russia and western Asia MORRISON IN CHARGE OF TRAINING CAMPS Washington Dec 2ft — Maj Gen John F Morrison has been appointed director of military training with headat the war in this city quarters He will have chargecollege of the of the army training work the United States General throughout General Vienna Sanctions Morrison has just returned from Europe where he made an exhaustive Peace Dispatch Declares of he training in progress at study the American army camps there Amsterdam Dec 20 — A dispatch reTHREE ITALIAN SHIPS SUNK ceived here from Vienna says the ing factor Rome Dec 19 — The weekly report Unterhaus has adopted by a small maof losses shows that two sailshipping RELIEF FUNDS CABLED of more than 100 tons and vessels introduced by the ing — jority a resolution Slavs 20 Dec New York Announcement one of less than size were sunk In favor of a was made Czechs and south here tonight by the Amer- One steamship wasthat bv a mine damaged anno of on the basis ican committee for Armenian and but reached port general peace nexations or Indemnities and for using Russia's good offices to convey such a to the entente governments proposal A Berlin correspondent says that Dr Karl Helfferieh the former toGermank vice chancellor is also 'going for the Russ peace parley Italy Pledged to War Rome Dec 20 — “All the property we possess individually and nationally must be consecrated to the war” deIn competent uuarters however that clared Minister of the Treasury Nittl makingofhis annual statement to the Germany having gained great advan- In chamber to deputies today its think Russia it in might tages demands advantage to yield to allied in many other directions which in the estimate of its own statesmen would This is one of the strike a balance reasons why some close observers be lieve an offer of peace coming at this time probably has more real intentions of peace behind It than the previous onrt No one here believes Germany's best terms would be put on the table at the first offering and those inclined to this view think a proposal of peace (Continued From Page 1) now is' at least an attempt to start' a necessary for Great Britain to make discussion of terms to strengthen Its sacrifices greater From wliat may be gained of the armies in the coming year The need war alms of the allied governments as would arise to Increase the nation’s expressed by their statesmen and by man power by taking some men now President Wilson such an offering of exempted We have the largest stocks of unredeemed terms as outlined lit the foregoing Food Situation Improve diamonds in the west could not be considered as the basis of a satisfactory peace although it might to the efforts of the food conOwing was visible in contain some of the elements troller an improveimnt DIAMOND SET RINGS which had caused so the circumstances More few cnxictv in the last days SCARF PINS LAVALIERES Russia Informed of Peace ' much by tea was coming in and it was hoped the to manufacture improve BROOCHES CUFF LINKS Proposals to All Allies increased situation as regards margarine short-In difficulties food to the ly Owing BAR PINS ETC Wednesday Dec 19 — Ac- Germany Petrograd went on ths phythe premier to Russiahas reports press cording ofwoikmen there been informed by he central powers sical deterioration We sell for less because we buy for less We can so that the output marked teen had make intend that they J peace pro33 teen per man The dsreased to had by Post per posalsthe the allies positively save you from 25 per cent to 50 per cent on Evening of the central cent says representatives every purchase powers at the first peace As for the British casualties Lloyd conference with the preliminary Russians yesterto not amounted had George said they A written guarantee with every article It must announced that the government In- more day h of or than tended on principle to put the question be as represented or your money back to Germans Germany of peace before all the powers and that the Opposed had asked their allies to do like- Austria and their allies he asserted they wise Russia was requested to take were and reserves more Elgin and Waltham Bracelet Watches $875 similar steps which Teutonic those the double than Diamond to $45000 Bings from The central powers informed the allies possessed $450 Russians they desired to know the reel Railroad Watches — Elgins Walthams The government said the premier sult of Russia's efforts to Induce the would and Hamiltons confer next week with trades allies to join in the negotiations $1875 unions on the proposals America Part Important The advent of America Into world’s declared was an the Bolsheviki Minister Sets politics would loom large in the event which premier This was true also of the esTime Limit for Allies future tablishment of the international council at Versailles LEGAL RATE MONEY LENDER By International News Service As for the disposition of the German —“We London Dec 20 have the colonies the premier said that must Established 27 Tears Ago allies two months to join in given our gen- be settled by the peace congress The eral peace efforts but we do not prom- future trustees of those countries must ise not to conclude a separate peace" take into account the sentiments of the 16 E Second South 30rE First South Leon Trotzky the Bolsheviki foreign people themselves The premier told his hearers that a minister is quoted in Swedish dispatches to have made this statement league of nations in which Germany trans-Siberi- an man-pow- er Brest-Lltovs- RECOMPENSE IS ALLIES’ DEMAND Don’t forget to tell Santa to leave some Sun ripe Rolled Oats at yonr home Christinas lie’s going to bring more good foods this Christinas than ever before He wants yon to ask for fewer toys so that he cau give your little friends in Enroie some of the food and clothing they need Just tell him not to forget to v STo business and social acthrough hiswith the packer to remain quaintance in re-sulti- December 21 1917 Salt Lake City Utah n Buy Your Christmas Victrola at CLARK’S Now 150 Main Street MAKE IDEAL GIFTS - one-four- one-fift- th man-pow- er 21-Jew- man-pow- - er KJNCLft' SAM 2 |