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I 12 THE STANDARD-EXAMINER TUESDAY, APRIL 13, 1920. fl
11 RETAILERS FOR
l " AMERICAN PLAN
1 Resolution Adopted at Ses
& sions Last Night Endorsing j
Open Shop
1 At a meeting last night of the Og-!
, don Retail Merchants' association the
following resolutions were passed ln
j accord with what is known as the
H American plan of relationship between!
' capital and labor: I
J 'Whereas. An industrial situation,
j Has been reached in this state which j
j threatens tho development oC our in-(
dtfstries and tho amicable relations j
i. between employers anil employes; and;
I "Whereas, It is contrary to Ameri-!
can principles that any man should be(
I denied the privilege to work and loj
J obtain his livelihood and support hls
' family upon terms and conditions
I agreeable to himself and his employ
j er; and
, "Whereas, Anv plan or organization:
j which would abridge this right to any
citizen Is repugnant to American
)j Ideals; therefore, be It
J j! "Resolved, By the Retail Merchants'!
- ! association, In- meeting assembled,;
'i that we do hereby. Individually and
t rollcctlvely, express our approval ofj
!! the American plan of employment as'
i . Inaugurated by the Utah Associated j
ill Industries, which champions the cause
of right, liberty, Justice and equity
I both to employer and employe. Irre
' epectlvo of his affiliation or non-af-I
" filiation with labor organisation or
nmployers' associations, artel is I he
i principle upon which our state ca.n
declop its vast resources and inau
gurate an .era of prosperity and osnce,
L and bo It further
"Resolved, That copies of these
resolutions be forwa; d.-d to the I'tab
Associated Industries and other civic
organizations of the stale for iliclr
acknowledgment and approval."
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II I New Federal Board
To Consider Strike
JERSEY CITY, N. J April 13.
! The railroad strike will be referred
I for settlement to the new federal
board appointed today by. President
I i Wilson, according Jo an announce-
I H ment made here late today after a
I ffi conference attended by represcnta-
H tl.ves of the brotherhoods, strikers and
n Mayor Hague,
if Twelve representatives of the
II ju -strikers who attended the; meeting
I 11 vald they would request the men to
18 return to work at once.
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I Bryan. Comes Out for
. Non-Profiteer Plank
' WYMORE, Neb., April 13. William
i jennlngs Bryan, speaking toddy in
I connection with his campaign for elec
tion as a delegate to the Democratic
national convention, declared himself
in favor of an anti profiteer plank in
I : the Democratic platform.
HI Soft Coal Pines of
I Ohio Are Shut Down
L COLUMBUS. 0.. April 13. Soft coal
J mines in Ohio were nearly -all closed
J I down today because of the railroad
J strike, and thousands of coal miners
a n'crc thrown out of work. A few
j mines In some scattered sections were
H I. reported still working, but all of thoi
H , big mines were closed because of the
H nability of operator.? to get cars. j
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Ryan Quits Exchange 1
j After Controversy
."NEW YORK, April 13. Allan A,'
Ryan, chairpian of the Stutz Motor:
""ar company of America, who has
' oecn In controversy with tho Ne,w
f Y6rk Stock exchange since trading In
J Stutz was suspended, today wrote to
I the board of governors asking that his
eat on the exchange be sold.
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Balloon Expert Will
Try to Signal Mars!
. OMAHA. Xcb., April 13, A. Leo
Stevens, balloon expert at Fort Oina
, ' Ha", -announced today that the effort
o Professor David Todd of Amherst
college to Fignal to Mars from Stevens'
balloon will be made on April 123.
TONE AMPLIFIER
ON PHONOGRAPH
DROWNS OUT BAND
The Maguivox, super phonograph.!
voice amplifier. and the loudest voiced 1
dispenser of of music of all sorts has
arrived' In Ogden, the Glen Brothers
Roberts Piano company of this city
having arranged to handle this Instru
ment which pronounced to bo the
latest development in tone transmis
sion. I ' Thomas J. Holland, manager of the
company, stated that the "Maimlvax"!
has unlimited scope and that it would!
be adopted as a necessity among other.
'American inventions. I
i The machine embodies features of
the phonograph and the telephone, an
unusual strength of tone being pro
duced by means of a vacuum anipll
! fler.
1 By means of the new invention, an
i ordinary ' phonograph record can pro
duce music of tho samp volume and
j tone qualities as the best of military
! bands, it is stated, and in a similar j
i manner, tho selection of vocal- art-;
lsts.can be magnified far beyond thej
human range of power.
In addition to being used as a pho
jnograph. the machine Is equipped
I with a telephonic attachment, byj
I mean? of whlcji the human volco can j
j bo reproduced with almost unlimited!
scope.
I By means of the machine. President
j Wilson addressed a crowd, of 50.000
i people at San Diego in a manner that
enabled all present to hear his speech..
I The machine is ;i development from I
'apparatus designed during the war toj
Idotoct .'the presence of submarines,
i Mr. Holland stated.
& One of the machines, may be in-1
j stalled at the Union depot to announce
trains, 1t Is slated, and Mr. Holland
'said that newspapers over the coun
( try are installing the equipment to
; announce election returns, baseball
(scores and other gatherings iftat gen-
orally entails 111" use of projecting
lanterns and awkward slides.
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; Soldiers htervesis
j in Strike at Tecsoa
j TUCSON. Ariz.. April 13. The gov
ernment inlrrcied tockiy in the
j switchmen's strlkcsituation at Tucson
j to secure supplies for disabled sol
: dicrs quartered, at the 'government
I hospital at Fort Pastime park. Tho
j Southern Pacific was ordered to have
fa spccinl train ready-to leave- tho Tue
; son yards at 1 o'clock today to pro
! cecd to Wllmot, soven miles cast, to
I bring in a car of gasoline needed for
the lighting and power plant at the
hospital
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"III BBS" PLAYS
ST BWE1 SOI
i
i ,
j "Twin Beds" Is said to be the fun
dispenser vj11 play ai the Orpheum
theater next Sunday and Monday. .Toso
rbine Saxc plays the leading feminine
role and she is, supported by the same
cast that has been playing in New
. York.
"Twin Boys," is said to be the fun
niest play that was ever written in
, the English 'language. The seat sale
opens Thursday.
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Switchmen at Spokane
Refuse to Quit Jobs
SPOKANE. Wash., April 13. Nlne-tv-six
switchmen employed by the
Northern Pacific railroad in its vicin
ity, at a meeting ere today, refused to
go on strke or to affiliate with the
"outlaw" switchmen's organization.
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4000 MINERS IN
'UTAH IDLE BY
LACK OF EMPTIES
SA.LT LAKE, tftah. April 13.
Approximately four thousand
men employed in the coal mines
of Carbon county, Utah, were
forced out of work today because
of lack of "empties" to move the
product-. Mine o-penitors declare
the men will not be put back to
work again until tho railroad
strike is ended.
I In Belgium the women as well as
'the men use bicycle extensively.
CROWD PRAYING :
FOR PRSSOMERS.
Hunger Strikers Near Death
While Friends Gather at
Gates and Supplicate
DUBLIN, April 13. The vast crowd
outside tho .prison this afternoon was
offering prayers for the hunger-strikers.
The lord-mayor was officially In
formed at the prison that all the pris
oners wore very weak and thai, any
thing might happen within 12 hours.
The lord-mayor and Ihe high sheriff
thereupon telegraphed the chief secre
tary for Ireland,- asking him to Inter
vene in the interest of peace and hu
manity. As the lime went by and the prison
ers still survived, expressions were!
heard among the most devout ele-
rucnts in the crowd of faith in the ef-;
ficacy of their prayers.
Dublin is tied up more effecllvely
by the present strike than In the me
morable anti-conscription strike In
191S- Even the postoffice service, with
jlhe exception of the telegraph depart-
i ment, is at a standstill. As the work
ers left Ihe college street postoffice i
i early today, armed detectives rushed'
!iuand took possession of he bui.ding.1;
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BETTER CANNED
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National Inspection Service j
Explained 'py Expert in
Charge Here
. Explaining the origin and purpose
of the national canner's inspection
j servlrc. A. S. DaggQtt, chief director of
the Utah branch of the service with
head offices in the Col- Hudson
building-, said today:
( "In the month of December, 1DU',
announcement was made through tho
! various papers of the fact that the
, Utah eanners intended to improve con-
uitiens surrounding the canning In
dustry .by contracting with the Na
tional Cannors' association of Wash
ington, D. C. for a rigid inspection
of canneries, as well as products put
up therein.
"Final arrangements have all been
made with the National Can tiers' as
sociation of Washington. D. C, for this!
inspection service established, with of- J
flees in the Col. Hudson building, Og
den. This service, as previously stated,
contemplates the sanitary and qualify!
control of canned foods, fruits, vege-j
tables and figs improved quality
assuring wholesome and high grade
canned foods to the consumer.
' "Each state organization is a unit
, in itself and operated under a dis-
Itrlct director of inspection .and staff I
of Inspection, under the direct super
vision of a national director of Snspec-
tion at Washington, "D. C
"For this work, the National Can
j ners' association has secured the scrv-
ices of competent men with a prac
; tical knowledge of food Inspection
: nrolilpms. Thev have been recruited
largely from the government service, (
and among them are enrolled many
well recognized food experts, who have!
devoted years of study and application
to this work. The inspection embodies
dally supervision of operating can-j
nories, examination pi raw material in '
fields and factories; close touch be-j
ing kept with the grower and canner;
laboratory examination of food prod- j
ucts and finally certification of each ,
! can, and packed under and meeting ,
.association requirements. This cer-1
lific'allnyi will be brought to the atten
i lion of the consumer, through the
presence of an inspection seal or label !
i on each can, Issued under the approval I
of the director of inspection. "Utah !
I Canned Goods' at the top. will be the i
slogan of Utah canner, and will bring'
substantial financial returns to the
state, and 1;qcp alive and full of 'pep'
the justlflblc pride among the people.
The organization of the local office
Is under the direction of Mr. Daggett,
who has served for 10 years as food
and drug inspector of the bureau of
I chemistry of the United States de
, partment of agriculture, with head
' offices at San Francisco,
i Mr. Daggett has secured as his as
j slstant George Shorten of Ogden. and
j j. A. Smith as chief chemist. The In
spection force will" be carefully sclect
j ctl and the organization perfected In j
I time to operate at the opening of the'
pea canning season, about June 15.
The public is cordially Invited to ln
I terest themselves in the future actlvl
j ties of the canning industry of Utah.
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Uncle Dick Payne tfore a pair of
I trousers in town last week that he
I wore at his wedding sixty-three years
?go. Union County (Ark.) Tribune.
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NEW U. S. "SUPER" READY FOR BUSINESS!
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Hr BROOKLYN' The American superdreadnoug Jusa'year ago, Is j
Hr' A, about ready to be put into commission. It Is one of the largest scrapping crafts afloat, measuring 624'
u leet from bow to stern.
UNION PLUMBERS
HAVE CHAUFFEURS
COMMITTEE LEARNS
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 13.
Master plumbers of Birming
ham are required to furnish
chauffeurs to 'drive- union plumb
ers to and from work, and tho
chauffeurs are not permitted to
do any plumbing work, according
to findings of a committee of al
lied civic clubs which Investigated
the recent demand of the union
men for a wage of $12 a day.
The committee said today it3
Inquiry also had disclosed that
slxty-flpven Journeymen plumbers
dominated th plumbing work of
the city; that use of apprentices
In union shops was forbidden:
and that unskilled labor was not
permitted to work on plumbing
jobs even where no :klll was required
Another Ogden Boy
Is Bitten by Dog'
Examination of the head of a dog
which inflicted a snvere bite on Ihe
arm of Lorraine Clark. -1-ycav-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Claik.
of Ml Patterson avenue,- is being
made' by L L. Daine?, s'ale bac
teriologist, to determine whether or
not the animal was affected with
rabies. The head of the animal was
taken to Salt Lake this morning by
Dr. J. M. Elliott, head of tho Ogden
cit.' board of health.
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Wife of Interurban
Superintendent Dies
Katharine Ann Law. wife of Wil
liam S. Law, superintendent of the
Utah-Idaho Central railroad, died last
evening at 10:15 o'clock at a loc.il
hospital after a short Illness.
She was born in Chicago, April 1.
1S60, and had been a resident of Og
den for the past, three years. Funeral
services will be held Thursday at 2
o'clock at tho Kirkendall funeral
chapel. Uov. J. E. Carver will offici
ate. The body may be viewed Wed
nesday and Thursday until the time of
the services, at the chapel. Intormen.
will be In the Mountain View ceme
tery. oo
Meeting Today on
New Athletic Field
Members of the,, city board of edu
cation are to meet with the mayor
and city commissioners on Wednesday
at 10 a. m.. when citizens interested
in tho formation of a playground
park at Monroe and Twenty-ninth
street.
It is said that the elly expects to
spend some $25,000 on turning the old
circus pitch into a presentable and
well equipped playground, and assist
ances Is to be given to the regular
workmen, it is said, by boys of the
Ogden High school and Weber acad
emy. .
Seek Carl Anderson;
Job Waiting for Em
Efforts are being made by J Hay
Ward, commissioner of public safety,
to locate Carl Anderson, a former sol
dr who served w.lh Mr. Ward In
I'ranfc, In ordei tlut Anderson may
be notified there is a position await
ing him in liazen. Nevada. A teleg
raphic dispatch, which ;urlved from
R. K. Gamble at Hazen, carried the in
formation that Anderson had been se
lected as foreman of a grading outfit.
Utah Greens Relieve
Shortage from Coast
i
Ogden commission houses report
that there has been no receipt of Cal
ifornia fruits and vegetables this week
owing to the strike of railroad switch
men. Ogden's position is being relieved
somewhat today, by the entrance into
the market of early spring vegetables
locally grown.
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Coast Rail Strike
Shows Improvement
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SAN FRAXCISCO. Cal.. April 1,3.
Xlailroads announced improvement la
the strike situation In northern and
central California and OregOH, but no
change in southei'n California, whero
t:ie striking switchmen are refusing- to
return to work.
Freight traffic was at a standstill
and passenger tralno were moved with
difficulty at Los Angeles. Motor trucks
were used to relieve the food situation
in the Ios Apgeles district.
The Southern Pacific reported oper
ations In Oregon were CO per cent nor
mal. Twenty-fiVtf experienced switch
men, some of them strikers, reported
for work at Oakland. Cal., seventy
switchmen on the Great Northern rail
way at Spokane, Wash'., remained out
today, and almost 100 men umplo: td
by the Northern 1 aclflc at Urit p! i'.'
are. to meet tc tanc" action on tha ques
tion "of s'rllcir.s.
Advance Makes Price
of Coastal Crude $3
HOUSTON. Tex.. April 13. The
Gulf Pipe company announced an ad
vance of 50 cents on coastal crudo oil.
effective this morning, carrying tho
price to ?3 per barrel. Other com
panies operating in the coaital fields
aro expected to meet tho advance.
Premiums over the posted price of
J2.50 have been paid by many pur
chasers for several- days past.
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Administration Does Nothing
With High Cost of Living
Problem, He Says
LINCOLN, Neb., April 13. Speak
ing In connection wll,h his campaign
for endorsement by Nebraska voters
as a Republican presidential candi
date. United Slates Senator Hiram W.
Johnson of California, charged in an
address here today that the Demo
cratic administration "has failed here
and trifled there and has done noth
ing nt all," with tho high cost of liv
ing problem. '
The speaker declared he knew of
no panacea for the problem btit that
"with the very sufficient power that.
It is In Ihe administration it is pos
sible systematically and scientifically
to begin at both ends of the great
chain between th ultimate consumer
and original producer until we find ,
out the weak links find somewhere;
between tbo?e two points somethln
to remedy and then the remedy can
be applied." I
Senator Johnson also. attacked what
ho declared was a "caluralia of ex
pense In the past four years at Wash-
Ington" and declared himself in favor
of a national budget system to prevent
appropriations from bVting mad "in
a- log-rolling fashion."
"This saturnalia of extravagance
that has been extant and rampant at
Washington ought to cease." he as
serted. "It can be made to cease and
I trust within a very few months it
will be required to cease."
Senator Johnson vJho will continue
1 bis- present campaign with an addvess
at Seward tonight, also declared that
congress will save the people "hun
dreds of millions" but cutting down on
the administration's military pro
gram." oo
TRAFFIC FIGHT
ill p f a C jjOE
Strikers Inconvenience Many
Commuters, Roads Re
port Gains
NEW YORK. April 13. Railroads
and strikers went into a clinch today
for control of strafflc arteries leading
into New York.
While the strikers succeeded this
morning in inconveniencing 10.000
more commuters by shutting down the
three divisions of the Staten Island
Rapid Transit company and drawing
out more firemen on the Long Island
railroad, Ihe other roads reported
greater success In operating freight
and passenger service.
The roads were able to move an in
creasing amount of food into the city,
while specials operated by volunteer
crews began arriving from suburban
points in Nov.' Jersey.
The Long Island railroad announced
that 500 firemen had quit. Sale of
tickets for all steam trains was or
dered discontinued. Electric service
was reported about ninety per cent
efficient.
Timothy O'Shea, of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen and Engine
men, addressed a meeting of the exec
utive committee and delegates of Ihe
brotherhood of Hoboken, announcing
that the meeting would continue "un
til some solution" of the strike was
reached.
In following the example of their
English cousins who during Britain's
rail tie-up manned their own (rains,
Americans made it clear that (hey fav
ored neither side.
"This is distinctly a citize i' move
ment," declared Mayor McKenna. of
Englewood, who occupied tho cab of
one "citizens' special."
In Mayor McKenna's train crew
were Roger Clark, state commissioner
of highways In New Jersey, a Colum
bia law school professcir, an exporter
and a bank officer. Several such
I specials were operated on the ErJc
and Lackawanna and some engines
I were fired by American legion mcm-
jbcr3.
VlLrDAGE OF TtOSEWOOD.
PAPEETE. Tahiti. April 13. A
church building, court house and forty
dwellings that comprise the settlement
on Pltcairn island, in the eastern part
of' tho South Pacific, arc built entirely
of rosewood, visitors from Tahiti re-
WOMEN PARADE CAPITAL TO AID IRISH y- fl
i MM Armenians M . r ' ,
Massacred- hSSmu,, iBnAmBHCB fl
f'.X AMERICAN? Intervention m:4 aMiamzkj
jfe- Did our Mm irishmen Wmk - teinirgsties
pVdistenisJw Massacred- J with H
Women paraders and some of the placards they displayed.
Carrying placards and banners urging the abrogation of nil treaties 'j
frith England until the Irish republic is recognized, a score of prominent , '
wrmun of New York, Boston, Chicago, Baltimore and Washington paraded
from the White House to the canitol and picketed for a time the British iJvH
j embassy at Washington. The placards bore such legends as "American! ' vHI
j Did cur men die to make it safe for England to murder the Irish?" ijH
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. Atty. Gen. A. Mitchell Palmer ordered in to testify before"th"T
House Agricultural Committee, considering legislation to regulate P
the packers, defended his compromise with the packers by which ' iHK
they escaped anti-trust prosecution. BE H
J ported on their return here. The fur
I nlture as made of the same rare wood,
I which grows plentifully on the island.
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' TElftLlXATE LICENSES.
PAPEETE. Tahiti. April 13. The
j government of Tahiti has issuod a
I decree terminating the licenses on all
i public houses on and afcor October of
I this year. The sale of liquor In bulk
1 is not prohibited, nor aro the two
social clubs at Papeete enjoined from
supplying their members, .
The supplying of liquor of. any. kind
to natives of all of the islands out
side of the island of Tahiti Itself has
been for many'year3 prohibited. The
existence of long-term licenses has,
hitherto, prevented similar action In
regard to Papeete and the main isl
and of Tahiti.
, HEAVY FIRE LOSS
MANILA, P. I., April 13.--ITirc
losses In Manila during 1019 wcro the
largest. In the history of the city,
amounting to ?10,773,000. according
lo the annual report of Ihe fire de-,
partment, made public today. The
losses In 101S amounted to $6,500,000.!
The large increase Is attributed to the'
fact that fire fighting equipment has.
not kept pace with tho growth of the
city.
Embargo Placed on KB
Freight in Washington : mk
WASHINGTON, April 13. An era- IHd
bargo against all incoming and outgo- IRv
jing freight was placed today by the , jHul
.railroads entering Washington. The lHi
'only, freight received during the last PKam
J24 hours was two carloads of fresh mIHh
The city's supply of perishable food- ilHP
stuffs is estimated as sufficient to last HKi-
, for from seven to top days" while the lRj
! supply of staple goods is sufficient for r jjjHJ
jsb: months. . Coal in storage -here is HB
j reckoned by dealers at a ten. days'. K
j - CALF IS FAMOUS ' .' Br
j WOODLAND, CaJ... April 13. A ' V 3B'
bull, calf, said to be the. finest bred. A u sMl
, Holsteln In tho world, was born re-- J V , r
jceniljgat the A. W. Morris ranch near J4" ' ' X,
herd. Itu dam Is Tilly Alcaxtra whov 1 MW
holds seven -years world rWoi'd for - jH
milk production, and the sire is Car- IHm?
nation -King- Sylvia, owned by the HhIi
.Cavitation stock form. Seattle, ' pur- , mMm
chased as a calf by tho present own- HK
crs for 5100,000. flBt
Ygnaclo Bonlllas, ambassador to the UnltedStates, and candidate for the presidency of Mexico. w, Bl
received great welcomes during his trip from Laredo, Texas, to Mexico City. Great crowds besieged his 'BV'
train and the reception given him v Mexico City was the biggest of tho kintl since tho welcome ac- '
corded President Madero in 191JL. B: