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If TODAY'S METAL PRICES ( t tl t W Sl" Mft IP M WEATHER FORECAST fc j , I nw YORK-Coppcr. iron and lead unchanged; nati IB W M ill I ! f jl I B 1 I l-Oi I E Weather Indications for Ogden and vicinity: j " FEARLESS INDEPENDENT PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER ' I I . ; ' iS5 t FnmtYear-No. 225 Price F.ve cent,. OGDEN CITY, UTAH, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 20, 19197 LAST EDITION 3:30 P. M. j Petrograd Soviet Wants Peace at Any Price and Empowers Envoys ! Industrial A rmistice of Six Months Proposed SOVIETS : PEACE Petrograd Conditions Extremely Bad and En voys Ordered to Act. SEPARATE PROPOSAL No Word From Central Soviet in Moscow Yet Received. I COPENHAGEN, Sept. 20. Via Lon I den. The city soviet of Petrograd hr.s empowered the people's commissaries' f le begin peace negatiation with the al ' lies on the basis of conditions fixed f by the allied powers, according to re- f ports received here from Petrograd. Peace is wished at any price by the Petrograd soviet, the reports declare. No peace offer to the allies has been reported from the central soviet gov ernment at Moscow and an offer by (i the Petrograd soviet would therefore I , appear to be in the nature of a sep- j arate peace proposal by the Petrograd district. Living conditions in Petrograd have I i been reported extremely bad for some, time past. r uu Strike Threatened By Employes of Jewelry Concern' NEW YORK. Sept 20 When the employes of Goldsmith. Stern and d corapan;. . one nf the largest jewelry manufacturing concerns in the I nited I States, threatened to strike unless (ley were granted a 25 pel cent in f crease in wages, August Goldsmith i head of ihe company offered ihom i 'be entire plant at its appraised value r f J300.000 and his own services for E six months without pay in helping 'hern to nin i' His offer was re f fused. This was learned from Mr. Gold smith today. Ho said ho offered the ; Plant on an easy payment, basl? ; The workmen told Mr Goldsmith 'hat his offei of the planl was 'too' blf for them," he said They walked W out ten day- ago and the plant has I been idle ever sim i oo 1 President's Message I ToCarranzals I Cordial Felicitation WASHINGTON, Sept 20 Text of a ineMa?e sent by Presldenl Wilson tin-1 W date of September 16 to President Carranza expressing congratulations! I 'o the Mexican people on their Inde Pendence day was made public toda tithe Btatc department. I H take pleasure," t h president said, f 'a extending to your excellency on i anniversary of the indepemh ace of Mexico my cordial L lu itations and w st wishes for the peace prosperity M nd progress of the Mexican people." NEW CREDIT FOR ITALY. WASHINGTON. Sept. 20. A new ; "edit of J1.H6.927 to" Itatly has "rought the total advances Tor that fjountry up t0 $1,619,922,872 and to all ' . allies 59:646,419,494. GERMANY'S DEFICIT. of tu IN- Ser' 5 - (Corrcspondenci I Rmn A880ciatd Press.) Professor nu Abdfrtalden, the noted psycholo . t, eays Germany's deficit in chll- rhiia Bmce 1914 was 2.500.000 and "d mortality has continued to in Urease. ASHORE Liner With 2000 Soldiers From North Russia Wrecked in Gale. LONDON, Sept 20. An Evening News dispatch from Kirkwall today re I ports a While Star liner aground I north of Ronaldsnay It is believed, says the message, that 2000 troops from northern Russia are on board, j The liner ran aground during a gale, the dispatch adds, but gives no fur ther details At the war office it was said the V'C8Sel ashore off the Orkneys had r"bout 1,000 troops on board returnm:: trom the Russian front. She was not believed to be in a serious condition It was reported later that she had been I reflated and was proceeding to her desti nation. The vessel was tin Video ot Ronaldshay. where (he White Star li r is reported aground, is in the Orkneys, .to the north of Scotland Presumably the liner was carrying British troops from the Archangel sec tor of northern Russia which the Brit ish army now is evacuating oo News in Brief OMSK, Thursday, Sept. 11 (By the j Associated Press ) General Sakhar A ofFs army continues its successes in the direction of Kurgan, having cap lured in the present offensive five 'complete staffs. 2000 prisoners and a I large amount of boot. The Second Siberian army under! command of General Lokvitsky is forcing its wa pa-st the flank and in the rear of the Bolshevik forces on the Ishim Tinmen railway On this! sector hard fighting is reported, with minor gains along the front. PARIS. Sena 20. (Havaa.) French military units will he sent to Bulgaria lo supervise the execution of the pro visions of Ihe treaty with that coun try, according to the Echo de Paris. PARIS, Sept. 20 (Havas.) Bel gium has agreed to the proposal of Prance thai B French general be gh en supreme rummand of (he allied forces on Gi'j Rhine, according to the jour nal. PARTS, Friday, Sept. 19 When Sin George Russr-Jl ( lark who left here September 7 with peace conference inotes for the Rumanian government was received fly officials at Bucharest he was told " Rumania had no other jwish than to work in harmony with the supreme council of the peace con ference," according to French official I dispatches. The Bevenuh division of the Ruma nian army has arrived in Budapest, ac-1 cording to an official wireless mes sage. GENEVA Friday, Sept 19 Former I Emperor Ctucles has officially denied B report thai he plan.- to co to Spain lo live, aecrjrding to a statement Is sued by the former emperor s bi ere tary. WASHINGTON, Sept 20. The Ger man commercial intelligence service, which was. a vital factor in furthering Germany's economic interests before lh- war, is being reorganized on a completely new basis according to re liable reports received here The re forms are being made by Count Brock-dorff-Rantzau who headed the peace delegation at Versailles. The innftr structure of the foreign service, the manner of selecting and training officials, and divided control between thje foreign office and com- mercial houses arc among the change to be mada. I uu v fool rat nswr-r any qui Itton lo hi A own :iiti:ifaf,ijaa. ALLIES TO TAKE Annunzio May Be Given 24 Hours to Move Out of Fiume. POWERS CONFER City Closely Blockaded By Land and by PARIS, Sept. 20. Captain Gabriele jd'Annunzio may be given twenty -four 'hours to move his U rcer out of Plume, upon allied citv a squadron of allied , warships hae turned their guns, ac j cording 'o advices received here by wa of Berlin, Lalhacb and Vienna. It lis indicated that ihis ultimatum will ! come trom the allied powers, repre sentatives of which are reported to have conferred at Abbazia, about two j miles northwest of Flume, to which place they retired when Captain d'An inunzlo entered the latter city . In peace conference circles It Is in timaied the settlement of the question of the disposition of Fiume lias been complicated by the d'Annunzio coup, but Italian delegates insist a decision Is being delayed because of the fact j that President Wilson has not an swered definite proposals made b Hah B representatives here. Amer icans assert the Italians are constant ly I changing the detail of their offer and I that for this reason, an answer has so far been impossible. Advices from Rome say that the Puke of Aosta, a close lrlend of Cap tain d'Annunzio, has conferred with jKing Victor Emmanuel and Premier .Nitti and ii is suggested h mav act a8 mediator in an effort to bring about abandonment of Fiume by the d'An nunzio forces Fiume is closely blockaded by land and sea. but there are stores in the city sulficient to maintain people and ; troops for three months. Captain d Annunzio Is reported lo have with him many members of his famous aerial squadron which fought on ihe Austrian front during the war ' n Italian government, however, has or dered the magnetos of airplanes at all aviation camps removed so th ' no j more mchines may go lo Flume, TRANSPORT IS BRINGING MEN FROMjIBERIA VLADIVOSTOK. Thursday. Sept 11 (B) Hi" Associated Press.) The i transport Logan with 1250 American iroops principally members of the Twenty seventh Infantry, left for the I'nited States today by way of Manila and should arrive in San Francisco about October 27 Replacement troop arrived here Septembei 6th. Assistant to the j Secretary of War Resigns His Post ll WASHINGTON, Sept 20. Colonel I Arthur Woods, special assistant to the ) i secretary of war. in charge of employ-1 liment of discharged soldiers, resigned 1 today It was said Mr Woods feels - the larger, part of the task of returning soldiers to civil occupations has been completed. The work of (lie bureau I.- lo b. con I tinned under Colom l Matthew Smith of the regular armj. i RUMANIA CALLING TROOPS Situation in Budapest Is Growing More Critical , As Soldiers Leave. GENEVA, Friday, Sept. 19. Ruma nia is recalling volunteer troops scat- tered through southern Russia for concentration on the Dniester river in anticipation of Bolsheik disorders, according to a statement issued today b the Rumanian bureau at Berne It is said Rumania also is expediting the repatriation of .SO. 000 Rumanian troop. from Transvhania and elsewhere BUDAPEST, Friday, Sep) 10 (Bj the Associated Press.) The situation here is growing more critical As the Rumanians withdraw they continue to requisition railway equipment of all kinds virtual;, stripping the countrv of the means of railv. a transport It is stated in Hungarian Quarters that I the food in Budapest is Insufficient to I care for the needs of the per.pl. The Rumanians are taking with them, it Is charged, almost everything i movable on which they can lay bands, including livestock, fodder and agricul tural implements The Rumanians now demand that the Hungarian's redeem at par value 1 350,000,000 "white kronen" or Bolshc v i k money, for an equal amount of "blue money" of the presenl govern ment. If this is done, it is stated I Hungary will be whollj unable to pa) for food and other necessaries People Are Ill-Treated. PARIS, 'ept. 20.- Admission thai Bulgaria's administration of occupied territory had not been unmarked by leases of ill-treatment of tire popn'a- ition, was admitted by General Alex ander Theodoroff. in receiving the terms of peace from the peace confer enco yesterday We acknowledge that excesses h?ve been committed in certain occupied I areas. General Theodorff said "We have pledged ourVelves to punish mer cilessly the authors of these excesses. And many prosecutions have been be j gun." He denied that Bulgaria desired to .extend her boundaries b'-vond those hih she v.as entitled on historical and ethnological grounds, declaring Bulgaria "WOUld bow without com plaint before the results of plebi scites." PARIS. Friday. Sept 19. (By Th Associated Press) With the delivery today of the peace treaty to the Uni tarians, who have 25 days to consider it, ihe ptace conference ha.s little re raaiiiine business before it which e.?n be t;.ken up Immediately and v. ill now possibly take a vacation for a fort night pending the establishment ol 'nnip government at Budapest to which theH ungarlan treaty r an b delivered. FINAL PLANS FOR HANDLING STRIKE OF STEEL MEN CHICAGO, Sept. 20. Final prepara tions for handling In the Chicago dis trict the strike of steel workers called for Monday had been made today and twenty-five union organizers were on iheir way to different cities to aid iq ' cal union officials The organizers were under instructions to notifv inde pendent steel mill owners that the strike would remain in force against iheni until they "signed Up " but i hat the national strike committee would ! arrange any conference they might re-1 ' Quest. I From Gary, Ind , in the Chicago dis trict, where is located one of the couu . try's greatest plants, came reports that both sides wore drawing lines for I a finish fight Employers claimed 32 (per cent of the workmen did not favor a strike and union leaders asserted 90 ijjer cent of the employes would go out. LANSING WOULD RATIFY Secretary Would Pass Treaty Without De lay or Change. NEW ERAJS NEAR Objections to Provisions Are Trivial and j Narrowminded. ; WATKRTOWN. X. Y . Sept 20. j The treti- sh0flM be ratlfil without delay and wltheui change," declared I Secretary of State Robert Lansing here tod'i". in the first public utter ance innd- b him since the statement Of William C Bullitt before the senate foreign relations committee in which ii was alleged 'hat the secretary ol state on M.. 19, in Paris, said thai ii ihe American people knew what was in the treaty the would defeat it. "In the treaty Of peace," Mr Lan sing further said, "there is nothn Whlch invades 'he sovereignty of Ihi? , republic or whit li limits In am way Ihe full exercise of BUCh sovereign; ' Mr Lansing spoke at the dedication of Lanslngdorp a suburb ol Water (iwn erected by the government to house munitions workers and named I in honor of the home of the Lansing family in Holland He made no direct lefercnee to the Bullitt testimony, con tenting himself with Baying 'hai the treat as 11 is should be ratified "We are approaching a new era." he jSaid, "an era of peace and, a I confi dently believe, an era of national1 prosperity unsurpssed in our histcry.l The people of the earth ardently Ion? to enwr upon this era so that they I may begin to rebuild that which has been destroyed This cannot be done I until normal commercial and indi.s 'irnl conditions are restored aud they, 'can unl he restored by ratifing the I treaty of peace. "In thi lre;t, there is nothing which invades the sovereignty of this repub lic or which limits in any wax the full I exercise of such sovereignty , "There ma be in the treaty f a Lures which do not meci universal ap proval It would be strange if ii were otherwise But the objeciions which have been made to certain provisions are trivial compared with the impera ; live need of peace. "Wo ought to have peace at once I The treaty should be ratified with ut delay and without change. It is a narrow minded statesman ship which would endanger the going into effeel Of the treaty by changing its provisions and thereby postponing ihe return of peace. I cannot compre hend how an man with a true apprc- I I lailon of the c ii nation can permit an) I Objection less than the impairment ot I the national sovereignty of the United States to weigh against the universal praer of the nation for the restora- tion of peace " 00 MASS MEETINGS FOR STEEL MEN INYOiOSTOWN 01 NGSTOWN; 0-, Sept. 20 While mass meetings for steel workers were being held throughout the Youngstov n district today in preparation for Hie itrlke schedule for Monday morn'ng steel companies went ahead w ith plans foi continuing operations as usual. All the mills are scheduled tor operations .1 pructlcallv lull capacifx No figures can be obtained as to the ! number oi men who will strike on 'I Monday. Neither organizers or null i officials will make an statement ynd . i speculation covers a 4uL8 fa-Oic PALMER URGES I LABOR TO CALL I AN ARMISTICE 1 i..s. iii. t Absolute Freedom From All Industrial Unrest jj$ Would Bring Easier Living and Better Times-- M Attorney Sees Much Merit in Labor's Claim For Larger Share in Joint Product of Money p and Labor. j FBEEPORT, Pa.. S p 20 -An .'bso . iutc industrial armistice lor six months t was urged rn Attorne Ge.nera Palmer ; here today to permit the solution of f economic problems arising OUi of th. I changes wrought by war Such a period of freedom from un I rest, he declared, would result soon in increased production which would1! Ibrmg about an era of 'e'asier living 1 I nd better time- 1 for all. On the olh J er hand, the attorn I general warned, sellfsb demand? by an one ( I BBS cap not stimulate the national prosnerity 1 or permanent benefit even those ob tainlng such demands b force He strongly discountenanced strikes. , Merit In Labor's Claim j1 "Labor is asking a larger share c.f the Jrfint pr;-duet of mone and labor and theer is much meril in the claim," he said, but ihe chance of getting it , is not advanced nor the justice of it more widelj recognized by the refusal of labor to produce The campaign to reduce the cost, of living evidently was foremost in the ; attorney generals mind in his jpeech delivered al a reunion of the 78tb regl meni of Pennsylvania volunteers He said that although main problem- I" set men's minds In these day of recon BthlCtidn, there is none which cannot be worked out "in the general interest in a government where the people are ihe only rulers Men Should Learn Patience. 1 "But. unless we shall be satisfied I with that which is for th- general in terest," he continued, and do not In sist upon thai which is in our own particular interest, there will be trou ble and delay in the settlement If men I could learn to be patient under con . ditions -hlch have resulted from ihe world war, until America BCCUratel) j estimates the possibilities of the -" uation all our problems will be soone solved but if impatience and selfish ness shall rule and Immediate force, ful or direct action be taken, it is per-j lectjj obvious lh;ii Upthing but disor der and dela can result "The crying ' lhe w,llll JU8t now Is for peace, and not political i peace between governments alone, but j I industrial peace amongst men also " Plur.ts Not to Close. PITTSBURG. Pa . Spet. 20 Reports that the United States Steel corpora tion would shut down Us plants in the Pittsburg district unless there was 100 per cent loyalty shown by the workers i were denied today at the offices of thi Carnegie Steel company, a subsidiary The plants will operate as lonu as men jreport for work, 11 was Bald DRAMATIC STORM TALES RIVALING THOOVIES" CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex., Sept. 20. J The known dead reached near the 400 mark and was steadily increasing. Rf j i dents of Corpus Chnstl and other nearby Texas coast towns today re- I sumed their search for the bodies of, additional persons who lost their lives j through last Sunday's hurricane and j tidal wave. The number of known dead early to-1 day was 386. but many persons were i of the opinion that it would double I that number when all of the shore Ime and wreckage had been thoroughly searched. CORPUS CHRISTI. Tex . Sept. 20. , Romance and dramatic thrills, risal ixiv. ultm oi Lrvi "niniaiui" axa. inunri iad .he experience;, of many of las'. Sun lay's storm survhors only now bein ecounted as communication is re stored with points where they were rescued i 1 There is romance and pathos, too, in the passing ol some, of the storm victims, as In the deafh of Captain and Mrs. B M Egeland. not far from , the army camp site, where Captain Egeland was in command Yi'h two soldier- Captain Egeland and his wife had started wading through the rapidly rising water, Mrs. Egeland wearing 'he onlv life belt available, aerording to accounts given by persons declared to have been I near K l Captain Egeland when the water tot beyond their depth, was so fa : tlgued he was unable to keep afloat. and seeing bis plight, hi.- wife threw away hei life preserver, placed her ';', arms about hint and together the) Were swept out into the bay. Both bodies have been recovered and two officer- left today for Sinton. Tex. to disinter that of Mrs. Egeland I hich will be sent to her home in W ebster. S. B. i os h r. TREATY WITH i RERSIAISNOT 1 A PROTECTORATE & )k j i LOMtuN, Friday. Sept. 19. Cr-a" a m ! Britain's irealy with Persia does net I constitute a protectoraie of the Ir.i ter country in any wav, the only ob jeci of the agreement being to insi r ; !l I in Persia an opportunity to work oui I her destinj as an independent coin j.ry. said Earl Curzon. governnffll j leader in ihe house of lords al a d4 ' -er given here tonight in honor 61 ihe foreign minister of Persia The speaker admitted there had 'been misunderstandings of the treelyi W but there was no ground for suspicion. iffy- r - i .i or haoti .i nd t onfu ion. ' i Aia. was forecast bv Earl Curzon, who declared it would be wme time b h stability is restored in regions fornit i -ly dominated by Russia and Turkey When we speak of the independ ence "f Persia." Earl Curzon said. I contend that the independence of Per I p.ia is a British as well as a Persian interest indeed our main interest in Persia is Its independence. We do nor want Persia to be a mere huf'e against our t nemies We want her U ! be a bulw ark for the peace of flr vorld and I can assure our guest h ! need haw no fears upon that poinl. IWe shall respect the independence ol (his country. ' An attempt to forecast the future negotiations seem to me in this era ol confusion :md chaos to be more cer tain ihan that a time of great troubk and unforeseen development is nec -ban on tha continent of Asia 1 doubt IL ery much i: we shall succeed In paci- lying Eur ipe. bui whether we do so or -(not I am quite certain we shall nql lor some time secure stability in Asa I The break-up of the two great emp' of Russia and Turkey has left a I vacuum in this area which it will t.ik i J ra great leal to fill with orderly sc-' 1 1 tied elements II 1 ( LONDON. Friday, Sept. 19. A wai 'office communique Issued tonight n 'icords n successful anii-Bolshevik op eration bj British, Serbian and R'i-- Iglan troou. with the capture of two 1 villages in the northwest shore ol 'I.ako Onega. ' No dates are civen as to when the Incidents look place, but they are p Igarded in some quarters here as in!i- ' Licalin-tr a. iivvhuuU mitwl DoJ -- 1! HHBBBBHj