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HI 6 , , THE Or DEN STANDARD: OGDEN, TJtAH. TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, f9TB.
I Telephone 383
l Photographs
m original Artistic Exclusive
Christmas Styles
I XMAS GREETING CARDS
I Engraved and printed, elegant
1 1 assortment, at BRAMWELL'S
I For Subscription and Advertising
Departments, Call Phone No. 56.
RANDOM
REFERENCES j
Beneficial Life Ins. Co. Buy yourl
wife a policy for Xraas. Call 2094 -V.
Born Mr. and Mrs. Harold C.
Woods of this city are receiving con
gratulations over the arrival of a nine
pound baby boy, born Sunday.
Temporary flower store at Falstaff
Safe. Phone 167. Dumke Floral Co.
Return to Ogden Mr. and Mrs.
Verfl Yerrington will return to Ogden
today where they will make their
home. Mr. Yerrington has been em
ployed in the shipyards at Oakland.
Clean rags wanted at the- Standard
Discharged Francis Coray re
turned to Ogden, having been dis
charged from the air service division
of the U. S. army.
Good for young and old B & G But-
I Wounded David H. "Moss of Hooper
is roported on the casualty list today.
' Cream Puffs. Big, fresh, full of
I cream. Grccnwell's Bakery. 195
Recovers According to word re
I ceived here by his mother, Mrs. D. I.
I Gallacher, Kenneth Gallacher has re-
revered from an attack of iufluenza in
I a hospital in France.
I Old papers for sale. Ogden Stand-
j Frank Williams Writes That the
war prison camp at the Utah fort is
as good as any "over there," is the
I word which. Lieutenant Frank Wil-
I Hams has written to his former com-
j mander, Colonel George Byram at Fort
I Douglas. . Lieut. Williams was former
' finance clerk at headquarters of the
prison camp at Salt Lake City from
1917 to 1918. Later after being trans
ferred to several camps in this coun
try he was sent overseas.
I Modern Home Choicest location,
for sale at half its actual value. P. O.
Box 350. Phone G10. 7432
Red Cross Roll Call A complete re
port of the Red Cross Christmas roll
call is to be submitted today, acocrd
ing to Rev. J. E. Carver. Indications
show that Weber county and Ogden is
a little ahead of the average percent
age for the United States and there
are several county wards which have
Qot yet reported.
Get your Xmas dinner at the Fal
staff, "a little better, thaan good
enough." 932
Grelncr's chill Is the best. 77S3
Home From Army Among some of
the boys who have returned to Ogden
from the army during the past two
days are: Leo Cooney, Webster Lind
say, Carl Zeimer, Frank Naisbilt and
Lieutenant Earl Pingree.
Clean rags wanted at tha Stand
ard office.
Married John Floyd Suiter of
Hooper, Utah and Beatrice M. Flint of
Hooper were married by Bishop Adam
M. Peterson this morning.
The photographer in your town.
The Tripp Photo Studio, 320 Twenty
fifth street. 5132
Signs Bond In the district court to
day Paul Simandal signed bond for one
thousand dollars as certification of his
intent to pay as ordered by the court
for the support of his minor children
Lucile and Vera Samandal.
Biggest Xmas Candy Bargains in
town. Grennwell's two stores. S12
Marriage Licenses Application for
marriage licenses were made today to
Clerk of Courts Ramey by Samuel E.
Nelson, Lorenzo, Ida., and Janet Har
rowcr Hunter, of Ogden; and Ivan
Edwin Bradley of Ridgevale, Ida., and
Bobbie Routh Pickett, of Fullerton,
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I, e. m is
GIVEN A SURPRISE
A very pleasing prelude to Christ
mas awaited County Cleric Charles M.
Ramey when he entered his office this
morning. The room at the south end
of the office had been gaily festooned
and decorated, a light lunch was ready
and, with manifest pleasure on the
face of the assistants in his office he
was invited to sit down while they
lalked to him and told him just what
hey think of him.
Clerk Ramey agrees that the hearts
Iul m ma assistants are In the right
place. They told him what they
thought of him until he blushed clean
down to his well polished shoes. And
then they gave him a fine umbrella
1 wit his name engraved in silver on
HI the handle, so that when the attorneys
H ake it by mistake they may all bo-
"ome honest and. return it forthwith
or quicker than that
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LPnnSWuYP'u Dcc' 24-Theodore
koosovolt who has been a patient for
nearly two months at the Roosevelt'
hospital, undergoing treatment for
rfca8fm- .will spend Christinas
with his family at 0y3tcrBay.
JOIIH BROWNING
HAS ARRIVED II
HEW YORK
Mayor Browning's, Christmas is go
ing to be all the happier because of
the good news which came to him yes
terday, saying that his son Sergeant
Jonathan S. Browning of the 332nd
Aera Squadron had arrived safely from
France in ihe city of Now York aboard
the White Star liner "Cedrlc."
The mayor wittily remarked that he
expected to receive another telegram
in a few days, saying that the boy
was safely in New York where a
check would find him ready to do it
justice.
BOOTH OGDEN DEATHS
NORTH OGDEN, Dec. 24. Mrs, Mi
nerva Hickman, 90 years old, and
Thomns Isaac Brown, in the prime nnd
vigor of young mnnhood, died yester
day, the first of old age and general
debility, the other of pneumonia folio-wing
a severe case af Spanish influenza,
Minerva Hickman was a daughter of
Moses Wade and Sally Bundy, her an
cestry, the Wades, Bundys and Thay
ers of English Puritanic descent, com
ing over at n very early date and par
ticipating in the war of the revolution,
Isaac Thayer serving under General
George Washington, Her father,
Moses Wade, and one brother, Edward
Wade, were members of the far-famed
Mormon battalion and did valiant serv
ice in that cause.
She was born in Farmersville, Cata
raugus county, Nejv York, and was 90
years, 3 months and 21 days old at the
time of her death. She was baptised
when years old by Elder Kellogg
from Kirtland and three years later
left with the family for Illinois and lo
cated on a farm in Hancock county,
but, through persecutions Ihe Saints
at that time, was forced to make other
moves. She was near enough to hear
the shots at the martyrdom of the
Prophet Joseph and his brother Hy
um the saddest experience of her
ife for she sat under the sound of his
prophetic utterances and had learned
.o love him. In the spring of 1S-16, the
amily moved on to 'Council Bluffs,
vhnrn hur mntViop rMarl in ioo
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father nnd one brother then being in
, the Mormon battalion. She came on to
' Salt Lake City and became the wife of
William A. Hickman, famed in early
church history as "Bill" Hickman, a
staunch and some times an unwise de
fender of the Prophet Joseph. She also
lived at West Jordan. Rush Valley, and
Little Cottonwood, finally coming to
North Ogden. where she has resided
for a great number of years as a de
fender of the religion she espoused
when so young and at such a trying
time in the history of the church, and
died honored and respected by all for
her sterling -worth and integrily, hav
ing iiu a iounaauon tor a very numer
ous posterity. She was the mother of
eight children: William A., born at
Salt Lake City, February 14. 1S50, and
died in 1S54; Sarah M born Septem
ber 15, 1851, at West Jordan, married
William Francis at Salt Lake City;
Moses Edward, born August S, 1853, at
West Jordan, and died October 12,
1855; Minerva L., born January 12,
1S56, at Rush Valley, married Jesse
Vandehoof; Margaret R born March
13. 1S58, at West Jordan, married Rich
ard Driscol at North Ogden, and died
at Pocatello, Idaho, May 20, 1911 ; Sur
vivor, born May 22, 1SG0, at West Jor
dan, married Agnes Waddle at McCam
mon, Idaho; Warren W born August
31, 1S62, at West Jordan, married Bar
bara Woodland; Mary Ellen, born at
Little Cottonwood, September 2S, 1865,
married Frederick J. Kohlepp
Thomas Isaac Brown, a prominent
member of the L. D. S. church and for
several years a carrier in the mail
service, died at his home in North Oj,
den, following an attack of influenza
pneumonia, Monday.
November, 1911, Mr. Brown, who had
been ordained an elder in the Mormon
church, left for a mission to the eas
tern states where he remained until
December, 1913.
He was born at North Ogden, July
4, 1891, and resided in this community
where he had made innumerable
friends up until the time of tiis death.
The deceased is survived by his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Brown,
his wife and a daughter six months
old.
Arrangements for the funeral have
not yet been completed, but interment
will be In the North Ogden cemetery.
IE CHILD DIES
AS CRESULT DF 'FLU'
Clyde James Wiggins, three-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph E.
Wiggins, 247 Twenty-second street
died at 4:30 this morning following an
attack of influenza-pneumonia.
The child had just recently been re
moved from tho hospital whore he
had been confined for six weeks, when
he became a victim of the influenza
He Is survived by his parents and
three brothers.
The funeral will be held from the
residence, Thursday at 2 p. m., inter
ment taking place in" the city ceme
tery. Bishop Myron Richardson will
officiate at the grave.
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Australia's New'Law
Prevents Importation
of German-made Goods!
MELBOURNE, Dec. 24 Via Mon
treal. The legislatuure of Victoria has
adopted a. bill requiring that all goods
sold there be marked clearly with the
country of their origin. The bill pre
vents German goods, after passing the
customs offce, being labelled "made
m Australia." Goods Improperly la
belled are liable to forfeiture and their
owners to substantial fines.
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I READ THE CLASSIFIED ADS !
READ THE CLASSIFIED ADS.
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j EARL A, REEDED
Earl A. Reeder, son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. H. Reeder. returned to his home
in this city Saturday for a ten -day
furlough.
Mr. Reeder, who is a member of
the Mars Island Naval band, enlisted
for a period of four years and has
served one year and nine months of
that time, as he began service prior
to to the entrance of the United States
into the war.
He was educated in the schools of
Ogden and attended the Weber acad
emy. At the time of his enlistment he
was employed as a carpenter.
. He will return to Mare Island Fri
day where he will complete the re
maining two years and three months
period of his enlistment. v
TERRIFIC FIGHTING 1
THE CLOSIIG DAYS
OF THE
The Rev. Godfrey Matthews re
ceived yesterday a letter from his
friends of university and college davs,
Adjutant Donald F. Mackenzie, who
I nas Dcen in the thick of the war witl
Germany since Aug. 6, 1914. and wh(
"thank God has not suffered so mucl
as a bad cold during tho trying time.'
in Mesopotamia, and the onward pus!
in France."
When last heard from, Mr. Macken
zie vontured the prophecy that th(
war would be over in four months
that was in July last. Not a bar guess
as guesses went during the conflict
He continues:
"Well, it's over, and thank God foi
that. The last three months were
strenuous but in the right direction
and, with this finish, the effort was
repaid. Personally, I came away from
the old battery at the end of Julv to
an adjutancy, and so was saved a
, certain amount of the hardship ol
: those weeks. As for details, and
. achievements, I fancy you know more
of these than I do, as we didn't get
newspapers as you did. Fighting was
pretty stiff at times, and the labor of
the advance for everybody, but es
pecially for the gunners was terri
fic. Horses a.nd.men were worked to
death as you can imagine, owing to
the great amount of ammunition used,
and the fact that it was a moving
fight. Every day meant a broader
zone of desolation behind us, and far
ther to bring the 'stuff,' while, tho
country of the operations was a wil
derness of trenches, shell holes, wiro
and ditches and at all times it became
a sea of mud, red stained, in addition
to all its other well known qualities.
"Still, the business went on steadily,
as you know and well, here we are not
far from Maubeugo with part of the
army already on its way to Rhlneland;
and let's hope and pray that nothing
will occur to interfere with the peace
consummation.
"True, some of us would have pre
ferred that no German foot stood on
French or Belgian soil when the arm
istice was signed, but everv day's de
lay meant blood, and even at the sac
rifice of the joy of breaking the enemy
hordes in two (as would have been
done in a very few days), it was un
speakable joy and relief to know that
the end had come."
TRIBUTE IS PAID
TO JUDGE M'CARTY
The following appreciation of the
Hon. W. N. McCarty, of the Supreme
Court of tho Statae of Utah was de
livered by Judge A. E. Pratt in dis
trict court this morning:
"Let the record show that on De
cember 20th, 1918, the Hon. W. N. Mc
Carty, one of tho justices of the su
preme court of Utah, died at his home
in Salt Lake City, and that his funeral
takes place on this day. As a mark of
the esteem in which ho was held 'by
the Judges of this court, tho members
ot the bar and the citizens generally,
and as some appreciation of his ster
ling citizenship, his great ability as a
jurist and his long public service to
this state. It is ordered that this di
vision of the court stand adjuorned
until Friday morning, December 27th,
1918, at ten o'clock, at which time the
committee, heretofore appointed by the
judges of this court for the purpose of
draftlngapproprlate resolutions, will
present the samo and at which time
the two divisions of this court will con
vene in Department No. 1 for the pur
pose of receiving those resolutions."
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H, M. MacCRACKEN DEAD.
ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 24. Henry
i Mitchell MacCracken, chancellor eme
ritus of New York university, died In
a hospital here today. He was 73
years old
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MAJOR DELANNEY DEAD.
DES MOINES, la., Dec. 24. Major
E. L. Delanney, chief medical officer
at Fort Dest Molncs hospital, died ear
ly today after a week's illness from in
fluenza. His home was in Omaha.
Neb.
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READ THE CLASSIFIED ADS,.
REAO. THE CLASSIFIED ADS.
TOOK PART IN WORK
OF SBG THE
SUBMARINES
Recorder Critchlow is in receipt of
a fine letter from his son, Marcus,
at present serving with the Q M. C.
or the hydroplane service, in Wex
ford, Ireland. Marcus tells of great
work done by his branch of the ser
vice and of five "subs" downed to
Davy Jones by his own company.
Operating at a part of the Irish
coast where the subs frequently came,
the boy has accounts to tell of "put
ting them under for good and for all."
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BOYS APPEALED TO
BY RICHARD ITTON
Richard Hatton of tho United States
Boys Working Reserve, has given out
tho following statement today:
"That the agriculturists of the Unit
ed States are a unit on the Import
ance of continuing the United States
Boys' Working Reserve ns a peace or
ganization is indicated by the appeal
to the American people, just made by
the National Board of Farm organiza
tions, representing practically every
farmer in the country. In its state-
ninnt rniraplln r l - l i . x ;
with recommendations as to overcom
ing the present shortage of farm help
the national board recommends "the
intensive training of boys in accord
ance witht he plans of the U. S. Boys'
, Working Reserve, United States Em
. ployment service, and the board fur
ther urges that the department of la
ibor be given facilities for carrying out
the plans necessary to bring the Boys'
Working Reserve to its fullest effi
ciency.. "In view of the estimated shortage
i of farm labor in 1919 and the greatly
j increased demand for agricultural pfo
jduction by the United States the U.
S. Boys' Working Reserve will be one
of the main agencies in saving the
world from a serious food shortage If
not from actual famine."
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I j ONLY BE CASES
j OF THE liFLOEH
j
Good news for Christmas Eve. The
. influenza epidemic went down to nine
new cases reported yesterday and only
one death, since the Standard went to
s press.
Here's wishing all the patients a
1 Happy Christmas and a complete re
: covery.
OBJECTIONS ICE
TO THE UNIFORMS
That the introduction of the wearing
of uniforms among high school stu
dents as a part of the proposed mili
tary training, will result in a sharp
falling off in attendance, is the opin
ion voiced by a prominent Ogden citi
zen who has given much conscientious
thought to the question.
In a letter written to the Standard,
the following statement is made:
"The government Is saying so much
about education these days and empha-1
sizing the necessity of high school and
COlleze Work. Flvdrv onmmntAml
day there is a deploring wail as to the
small percentage who take advantage
of the high school. Tho children them
selves love to go to school so why do
they quit? And why it It that so manv
boys will not return to high school
this year as is being reported by many
of the teachers.
"This is the reason. A poor boy
wants to feel that he looks as well as
other boys and he cannot stand an
outlay of $30 for a uniform which he
will outgrow by the next year, it is
said non-essentials are to be lopped
off, because it is pleasing to the eye
to see all dressed in uniform. Is it an
essential to dress in uniform unless
some different arrangement can be
made?
"Also for the growing boy, isn't
there something about that to be con
sidered? "We know it is not compulsory but
It amounts to that when it touches the
pride. Think it over."
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BIENNIAL REPORT OF
STATE SCHOOL FOR
DEAF AND BLIND
The following is an extract from the
report made by the president of the
board of trustees of the Utah School
for the deaf and blind to Governor Si
mon Bamberger;
"Dear Sir: I have the honor on be
half of the board of trustees of sub
mitting to you the biennial report of
the Utah school for the deaf and blind,
covering the period from November
30 1916, to November 30, 191S.
"The report of Superintendent
Drlggs, which is herewith submitted,
sets forth In detail all matters per
taining to tho institution. His report
will receive, I am sure, your full con
sideration, as you have always evi
denced your Interest in tho afflicted
boys and girls of our state by your
devotion to this schooP which was or
ganized and is being maintained for
the help and education of the deaf
and blind children.
"For tho board of trustees, allow me
to express our appreciation of the ex
cellent devotion and service rendered
by Miss Maud May Babcock, who re
tired as president oftho board. Julv
.36, 1917. Miss Babcock, during th'o
RED FLAG RIOTING IN BERLIN
see" "P'ZZ '7S lb. '-ous DrandonbrS Ealo, , norn
period of twenty years of service on
the board and as its president, devot
ed months of time and exercised re
markable ability in building up our
school. As a result of her intelligent
work and that ol her associates on
the board and of the good work of the
superintendent anil faculty, our school
today ranks among the best institu
tions of the land. This statement of
our standing is based upon a careful
analysis of reports of similar institu
tions and from personal visits made
by myself and other trustees to In
stitutions in the east and west.
"Your policy of so educating the pir
pils that they will become self-supporting
is being carried out, and that
too as economically as possible. A
careful analysis of the report show
ing the occupation of graduates dis
closes the fact Ihnl 05 nor r.Qr f nnr
doaf graduates and 75 per cent of oui
blind graduates are self-supporting
We cannot expect to attain 100 pei
cent in this respect though our aims
arc set that high."
The report goes on to state that the
decrease in attendance is largclj
caused this year by the epidemic
which detained many pupils at their
homes.
A recommendation of the superin
tendent that Utah follow the lead ol
other states in restricting attendance
at the school to pupils under 21, and
of the appointment of a traveling
teacher for the blind is also contained
in the report. It is thought .by Su
perintendent Frank M. Driggs and his
board of trustees that great good can
be accomplished by a traveling teach
er who would make it his business to
cover the state and get intimately and
helpfully in touch with the adult blind.
For this purpose an appropriation of
$2500 is suggested.
The school asks for an appropria
tion of $150,019.54.
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LIEUT. G. 0, M'LEOD
BACK FROM CAIP,
Lieutenant G. D. McLeod and his
wfie have just arrived in Ogden from'
Camp Travis, Tex., where on the same
day Mr. McLeod was discharged as
sergeant and promoted to a first lieu
tenancy. What the future will demand of him
in his army work, the lieutenant was'
unable to say. but he hopes it means'
an indefinite stay in Ogden recruiting;
for the army of the United States.
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Deaths and Funerals
CHANSLOR Funeral services for
Barbara Jane Chanslor, young daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ubert Chanslor,'
were held yesterday afternoon in Og- '
den city cemetery.
EMMERTSON The funeral cor- (
tege for John Er Emmertson left the i
Lindquist chapel at 1 o'clock this af-l.
ternoon. Bishop E. A. Olson will con-
ANDERSON Services for Miss
Pearl L. Anderson were held yester
day afternoon in Ogden city cemetery,
with Bishop's Counselor Albert Bell
presiding. Counselor Bell made the
funeral sermon and a solo was ren
dered by Perry Johnson.
JEWEL The funeral cortege for
Mrs. Mary Alice Jewel and her daugh
ter, Jennie, left the Larkln chapel" at
1 o'clock loday and will go to Roy
cemetery, where services will be held
at tho grave.
s FERRIS The funeral cortege for
: Mrs. Mary E, Ferris left the residenco
I of D. F. Seery, 1159 Twenty-fifth
street, at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Ser
vices will be held In Mountain View
cemetery. '
BROWN Thomas I. Brown, 28
years of age died at his home In North
Ogden at 7:50 o'clock last evening of
pneumonia. He is survived by his
-wife, Emma Harris Brown, and a
daughter, Phyllis. His parents and!
the following brothers and sisters also1
survive: John and William Brown,'
Jeanctte Hensen, Zina Hamby, Dora'
Peterson, Nettle Hunter and Miss Ber-I
tha Brown. The decedent was a faith-
.....v.. w. A. w. bUUltll UilU I
at the time of his death was In tho
presidency of the M. I. A. The body Is
at the Larkln chapel awaiting funeral
arrangements.
RENO The funeral cortege for
Sarah Jane Reno left the residence at!'
2 o'clock this afternoon. Services in i
Ogden city cemetery' will be conducted
by-Rev. John W. Hyslop. ' . :
' RUSSIM CASE
WILL BE LAID
PARIS. Dec. 2-1 The British gov
eminent will lay before President Wil-1 1
son all information It has gathered re-
specting the Russian situation. s
Dispatches from Archangel point out c
that the Bolshevik forces there are c
Well Rllnnll'Pfl A mr enrinnr .nnn
i-l avuuili) lUIUlSB IU
r the Allies in northern Russia who
I have an enormous front to guard
would result, It is said, in tho terri
5 tory being over run by the Bolsheviki
and probably the massacre of those
. Russians who have been friendly to
r the Allies.
; It has been suggested that more
seasoned troops should be sent to Rus
sia. Sections of public opinion here
and in France, however, are opposed
;,to entering into a further large ven
ture into Russia which might mean
the starling of a new war.
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W PRICES
NEW YORK, Dec. 21 The plight
I of babes who are emaciated on-the dav
of. Christmas because the high cost of
milk forbids the purchase of this
nourishment by mothers who are poor
I occupied the attention of investiga-j
tors today at the John Doe inquiry
i into the milk situation.
I Conditions which exist among New
iuitt. uiumreii ngni up to Christmas
eve," were described by Mrs. Mary
Sullivan, welfare worker, who produc
ed photographs of babies suffering
from the lack of milkv
John D. Miller, lawyer and farmer
of Susquenna and Pottstown, Pa., gen
eral counsel for the Dairymen's league
and recently chosen its vice president,
a position which he said bee had not;
yet accepted, was on tho stand the
greater part of the day. He studied
the photographs shown by Mrs. Sulli
van and exclaimed:
"Poor little kids! They look as if
they did not have much chance."
"It's a damned shame," said John
T. Dooling, an assistant district at- 1
torney who is conducing tho inquiry.
Mrs. Sullivan said she would spend
Christmas Eve trying to raise money 1
to buy milk. "They are about half
Jead," she testified. 1
"They are just like, little animals." 1
3xclaimed Magistrate McAdoo, presid-
mg. "Are they little starved ani
uals?" "Yes," replied Mrs. Sullivan.
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OBJECTORS TO
ARMyjERVICE
Petition of Leniency Has
I Been Presented to the
Secretary of War.'
j WASHINGTON. Dec. 24 A delega
tion of friends and relatives of con
scientious objectors to military serv
ice, laid before Secretary Baker a pe
tition bearing 15,000 names, asking the
I immediate release for the 300 prison
lers of this class as an act of Christ
mas leniency.
Dr. John L. Elliott, head of Hudson
Guild settlement, New York, who acted
as spokesman, said tho committee did
not come to uphold in any degree the
principles of conscientious objectors
but to ask "for mercy, the only reason
for holding these further prisoners
having passed with the conclusion of
hostilities."
Secretary Baker said the whole '
subject was under advisement and ;
that a decision was awaiting a report
from a board of review ordered to cx-
amine carefully into every case. s
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WASHINGTON Dec. 21 The Amer
ican Red Cross Is about to send a spc- j
clal mission to Siberia to invostigatoJ
conditions there for the war council.
It' will be headed by George W. Sim- I
ions, a St. Louis merchant. I
LIEUT. E. L, ran
CABLES FROM
RUSSIA j
Lieutenant Earl L. Packer, son of 1
Urs. Ellen Packer, of Ogden, with tho W
merlcan military commission in Rus- m
sin. has arrived at Archangel, in north- 1
?rn Russia, according to the advices 1
ontained in a cablegram received to- 1
iimy uy mrs. racKer. Tbo young offi- -W
cer advised his mother that he also
received ten letters and two packages,
Lieut. Packer was connected with
, the state department at Washington
.before the United States entered tha ,
I war. He was sent to Petrograd as a
j secretary in the United Stales cm-
bassy under Ambassador David R ',
Francis. When the Kerensky regima
was overthrown, the American embas
sy went to Vologda, where it remained
for a short time and then to Moscow.
Tho Americans could not leave the lat
ter city until they had secured per- '
mission from the Bolsheviki, who ir. ;
turn referred tho matter to the Gorman '
military governor for approval.
Tho American embassy and mission,
in which Packer was commissioned a ,
lieutenant, then went to St Petres- I
burg and on to Finland; thence to $
SAvedon by rail and to Norway. At k ,g
Norwegian port their safe arrival was ; $!
announced by tho state department at S
Washington. They left the Norwegian ' fjc
port for Archangel, and the trip usu : B
ally occupying twenty -four hours un- jm
der normal conditions, took one month SjJ
and twenty-four days. u
Lieutenant Packer said in advices Hp1
to his mother recently that he had not Ei
heard from "the states" for six montht
and then thirty letters came in a ' ffi
bunch. - I1
He made Little reference to the cha
otic conditions in Russia, on account : jyl
of the strong censorship rules In ct tj'
feet in that country. '
nn
DR. MOTT OF THE
Y. EC. A. SPEAKS
NEW YORK, Dec. 2-1. "If I have g
not been efficient I ought to be re- jbaj
moved." said Dr. Molt. "If anybody; tyn
olse has, he or she ought to be re
moved. We want to know our short--comings,
both of. ommission and com-. Ifjj
mission so far as aro possible to mak6 &o
them known and have them correct-: ' " 3ouj
cd." ; Uc'ta
The turning the inquiry over to tbo i&g
war department was based on a reporf
of E. C. Edrop. a Y. M. C. A. chaplain fcop
who had made a preliminary Investi- jsjg
gation by examining written com- ;
plaints regarding the association sor- lid
vice and who had interviewed return' j '(tt
ing soldiers. &
Summarizing specific complaints Mr- c' ,
Edron stated that the soldiers charged Ita
that in a certain sector canteen : Jj3gn
charges were excessive; in others that ' fej)
there was lack of supplies for free dis- S'
tribution near the firing lines and in
some cases for sale as well; that there , ;
was a congestion of secretaries in flji
some cities and a noticeable lack of I
(workers near the front at some points; fu
I that some secretaries alienated tha jfART
sympathies of the troops through an 11
j assumption that their mode of living j , '
J was demoralizing, and that workers n
(did their tasks grudgingly and refused Ql
whenever possible.
On the other hand, Mr. Edrop said'
ovidence was abundant, including of- 'D2y
ficlal citations by American and AI- Kiry,
lied commanders, of the heroism and .3,2o
devotion to duty of many Y. M. C. A. JHie jj(
workers. 4 dvic
Pending an official investigation, the 1.
chaplain urged that Y. M. C. A. sec- Ion5 ,
rctaries be instructed to lay empha-w()g0c
sis upon the new tradition created by Socai
our men of ahc A. E. F. In contrast mfyiUiQj8
to the old assumption that the "sol 6
dier hopelessly tempted was different JL
from the civilian."
COMMITTEE SENTENCES j W
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 DcathrJ, "wi
sentences Imposed by court martJVfi ,
for desertion upon Recruit F. C Lauk H.
and Private George A. Jacobs, 15th ,n32;ti.l2
fantry, were commuted by Presldntajici y0
Wilson today to dishonorable dischargJ'fiiU ir
and twenty years imprisonment avM '
hard labor. Laub was convicted a.s
Camp Dodge, la., and Jacobs at Camfra
Shelby, Miss. , S
RECEIVE WAR CROSSES J Jjfeoj
NEW YORK. Dec. 24 Lieutenant J WWf
Harry C. Sosslons, formerly a Nej Mpg
Mexico prospector, roturnlng with xi JMMM
I distinguished scrrlco cross, also a3"M
Ion board the transport France todaJCt