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H i TODAY'S METAL PRICES I iff A fl rfY A Ml'TV f WEATHER FORECAST U SB' NEW YORK-Copper 19c; iron $46; antimony 11.50c; . I I If II II If II, I All I I 4 I'" 111 . Weathor Indications for Ogden and Vicinity: FJk L " - 0 FEARLESS INDEPENDENT PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER I WL . i J B Fiftieth YcarNo. 35 Price Five cents OGDEN CITY, UTAH, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 10, 1920 LAST EDITION- 4 P. M. MB mLm II S e 8 v O 8 4 3 .4 CROWN PRINCE OFFERS TO SURRENDER I MIES DESIRE I TO GIVE SELF UP II FOR IUIED Tfl!ALi I Committee at Berlin Opposed E to LettSig Entente Try Form- f. er Teuton Officers ! f GOVERNMENT ACTION I WILL BE SUPPORTED j Berlin Makes Out List of A1-' ( lied Officers Accused of gJ: War Crimes S WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. j H- The former German crown mm prince has cabled President j Iff Wilson offering to surrender ; 9 himself for trial if the allied IX governments insist. The raes- t UK sage was in President Wil- fm son's hands today. R AMSTERDAM, Feb. 10. Foinier mm Crown Prince Frederick William of jMt Germany lias offered to give himself H up to the allies in place of the hun ts dreds of Germans demanded for extra- dition on the list recently submitted U to Berlin, according to a telegram pur n porting to have come from him pub B lished In the Handelsblad of this cit. Hf- The telegram, addressed to the kings K' of England. Belgium and Italy, the 111 presidents of France and the United H States and the emperor of Japan, jffL says. iKa "As the ex-crown prince, I wish to iw take the place of my countrymen.. v, If , the allied and associated govern W' ments desire a. victim let them lake II rae instead of the 900 .Germans who . ; committed no other crimes than to Is serve their country in war." j I DECISION REACHED. BERLIN, Monday, Feb. 9 Decision was reached by the committee on for-; elgn relations of the national assembly , today to support the government's stand In declaring "the ethical and pa triotic Indignation of the German peo-l plo at (he allied demand for extradi tion of Germans accused of war crimes 1 is such that the carrying out of extra-j ditions measures have been made phy-t sically impossible and would produce internal insurrection." Independent Socialist members re fused to subscribe to this declaration, which was adopted at the meeting oft the committee which lasted for three hours this afternoon. Lawyer to Decide. The government has decided to sub mit the official extradition list to the first attorney general at Leipzig with VK instructions to investigate the of wT fenses listed and determine whetlter S tne Purges "iado y tlje allies can be nS punished under the German criminal ?M or civil codes. He will also be asked 4 to determine to what extent these charges trespass upon the rules of war- Only cases where specific charges JSm hav-i been filed In the allies' list will JK be considered by the government. For instance, members of the cablne. nre mtt convinced a trial of Dr. Theobald von tfiff Bethmann-Hollweg for the violation of R. Belgian sovereignty and the deportn- w tion of her civilians would be wholly B in'easible because there were military H measures for which he was not re- Wm sponsible. Wholesale blanket indict- Wm ments such as were filed by Poland, it K is stated, also fail to afford a tangible HT basis of procedure. gfl Germany is preparing a list contain- jK in?j the names of allied soldiers and IBS' high officials who are accused by the jjjj Berlin government of violations of the 91 laws of war and plans to submit It as nf a counter-proposal to the demand of the allies for the extradition of Ger- fm mans, who are alleged to be war crim- IThls list is in the course of compi lation and it is said it will be ready for publication and delivery shortly. It will contain specific iudictments bas ed upon alleged authenticated materia! which is on file in the German arch ives. It was stated tonight Germany, however, would not demand extradi tion of the men named in its Indictment, 0mm- i New -Jersey Ratifies Suffrage Amendment R ' TRENTON N. J., Feb. 10 The wom- u tin suffrage amendment was ratified w by the New Jersey assembly early this Eft morning by a vote of 31 to 24, This B completes ratification by' the states K as the measure passed the senate last K week. New Jersey is the twenty-ninth - to ratify the amendment, jlflf The amendment was ratified by tlie ML senate by a vote of 18 to 2. It now yHr' jroes to Governor Edwards for his s,ig- VK nature but as the governor is an Hi avowed advocate of female suffrage jB this step is regnrded as merely a for- Mr inality. IK y S g 3 fr - g King George Promises Re forms w O tu o TS 96 W HERE'S NEW ONE; WAR DEPARTMENT TO 'RAISE CATTLE WASHINGTON,, Feb. 10. The war department, generally associated in the public mind with the implements of war fare, is going to take up cattle breeding. . Through its bureau of insu lar affairs, the department has purchased in Texas 100 Here ford bulls and twenty Hereford heifers for breeding into the stock of Philippine Zebu cows. The Herefords will be forward ed, soon. to. the. Philippines aboard an army transport for use in the Inland of Mindanao. The insular affairs bureau considers the livestock indus try in the Philippines promis- i ing, about 48,000 square miles of thenar chipelago, being:, grass? J lands. " i CHURCHES OPE! ID MARRIAGES SACRED !iy RUSSIA, CLAIM Forme.T Member of House of Commons Upsets Many Ideals About Soviets LONDON, Feb. 10. George Lans bury, former Socialist member of the house of commons, news of whose pro jected trip to soviet Russia caused considerable surprise in official cir cles here, arrived In Moscow on Sun day. la a telegram to the .Herald, organ of the Labor party, he give's his first impressions of the situation at the sov lei capital. He declares scenes out side the railroad station v. ere similar to those at any terminus in England. People were looking remarkably well considering the privations suffered from hunger, cold and sickness. Disease and Want. "The outstanding fact," Mr. Lans bury says, "is that the blockade and nivil wnr luivc lot lnnso fli;pnsf rnrl want of every description." "Churches are all open," Mr. Lans bury continues, "and the people are going in and out of the magnificent shrine of the Kremlin, which is oeing vl3ited as of formerly. Churches are being restored through public ex pense, true religion has not been in terfered with and marriage is as sa cred as ever. There is nothing worse than in other capitals and there is very much that Is better. I am safer and Ireer alone in the Moscow streets than In London. Atrocity mongering has played out here and at Petrograd. The whole nation needs peace and or ganized labor in Great Britain and Aru erici must secure for Russian workers a chance to reorganize their society. "Then is great faith and great hope in idealism, but everybody wants to know if the allies will now leave Rus sia free to work out her own salvation. I have never met people so determined to win their fight for economic free dom. Everyone with whom I have spoken would welcome honest coopera tion, but there are at present obsta cles to peace. All Russia demands from her neighbors is friendship. The Poles, Ukranlans and all peoples can have peace if they will treat Russia as tt free nation." Shortage of 40,000 Trained Nurses in U. S. NEW YORK, Feb. 10. A shortage of 40,000 trained nurses exists in the United States, according to the Na lonal Organization for Public Health fursing. The organization today tartcd a campaign in the hope of en olling 00,000 young women workers. , SEIT0RTR01S0F COLORADO DECLARES FORBI-METM ; Americans Urged to Take In itiative and Renew Proposal of 1897 FOREIGN EXCHANGE SINISTER PROBLEM Volume of Paper Money Out ! of All Proportion to Value ' of Specie , WASHINGTON. Feb. 10. Declaring llhat foreign exchange had become the "sinister international problem" with in the last six months and unless ad justed soon "commercial chaos" would overwhelm international trade, -Senator Thomasr'-Democrarp-Colcirador-urged in a speech today the re-estab-J lishment of the old ratio between gold and silver and the creation of interna-1 tinnal bi-inetnllsni. "The time has come," he said, "when Americans should take the initiative! and renew its proposals of 1897 for the establishment of a parity between t lie ancient monetary metals, whose rcla-j J Live values now. oscillate .between lSVa and 15 to 1." Europe. Senator Thomas declared.! faces the problem of re-establishing and re constructing her foreign trade! and would welcome any system of in ternational stabilization of silver and gold values that could be accomplish ed without endangering the financial .structure of international commerce or credit. The slow but steady rise in' j the value of silver during the Avar in I spite of efforts to prevent it more than I restored the old equilibrium between gold and silver, he said, until today ! gold is the cheaper metal and "rather ' than siver needs the steadying lnflu jence of an international agreement." Coining at Loss j The United States cannot coin silver 'dollars today except at a loss, Senn I tor Thomas said, and the condition jWill soon apply as well to fractional currency. On such a basjs, he declar jOd, the coins will go to' the melting I pot as fast as they are made and inev itable' precipitate throughout the I (world a famine in fractional currency i unless the ratio be adjusted by Inter j national agreement, I The volume of paper money in the j world is out of ail proportion to the value of specie, he said, and in this i condition lies the seat of the interna tional exchange crisis. At the begin ning of the world war the total paper money of the thirty principal nations :of the world amounted to about seven billion dollars, while the gold reserves jof the same countries had remained (practically stationary at around seven j billion dollars, i Must Lend Credit ' "We may.indeed, we must," Senator; 'Thomas added, ."lend our credit to 'those whose trade we need, but we j cannot, save by mutual agreement for ; the fixity of exchanges, remove the j ; gambling clement from international (trade, stimulate international confi dence in modern currency systems, make the problem of deflation com paratively easy and re-establish tho I regime of a saner and more depend able monetary medium." I - I Tombstone Like Circus j Day as Trial is Opened; i i TOMBSTONE, Ariz.. Fob. 10. I Tombstone today had the appearance of a small town on circus day, with one exception, there were no children on the streets and few women. Hundreds of men called for jury duty, witnesses, defendants and spec tators wero here for the re-opening of the trial of Harry E. WooOon, charg ed with kidnaping In connection with I the BIsbee deportations. TRADING IN SUGAR. NEW YORK, Fob. 10. Trading in sugar futures, suspended during tho war. will be resumed on the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange February 16, it was announced todaj'. Deliv eries for May will be tho earliest dealt in. y Rich Robes and i Jewels Worn At State Opening I LONDON, Feb. 10. London to- I J day witnessed for the first time I since 191-1 the ancient ceremony j of a state opening of parliament with all its traditional pagentry. 1 King George, Queen Mary and the Prince of Wales proceeded from Buckingham palace to West minster in slate carriages escort ed by mounted life guards. The royal party was received by mem bers of the two houses of parlia ment in the house of lords where King George i;cad the speech from the. throne. v ,, The route of the procession through the Mall and-down Whiter SlffiU 'for vtioVS thafthiniTe "was lined by njilitary In khaki, the guards' regiments not having as ! yet resumed the scarlat uniforms. The gilded stage coach in which the king and queon rode was drawn by six black horses wKh I postillioned outriders, while the i five state landaus which followed carried pages of honor, the king's private secretary, equerries, tho comptroller, treasurer and other members of the royal household. Half an fyour before the proces sion passed through the streets, the crown and sword of state were borne in the royal carriage sur rounded by lifeguards, from the lord chamberlain's office at St. James palace, to the house of lords. There were two guards of honor at Buckingham palace and other guards, with the state colors and a regimental band outside the 'parliament buildings from the lower of which the royal standard was raised when the sovereigns entered. A large group of state dignitar ies, wearing emblems of thcr elec tions were gathered at the' royal entrance beneath Victoria tower to receive the king and queen. As the procession approached, the royal salute of -II guns was fired by a battery of the royal horse artillery Immediately In front of the king and queen when they entered the Japanese Evading Census Enumeration WASHINGTON, Feb. 10- Charging that Japanese In California were at tempting to evade the census enumera tion in an effort to allay alarm which might result if their real number should become known,' Senator Phelan of California, made public today a let ter from C. G. Rowan, census super visor for the Ninth California district, saying that an accurate enumeration of the Japanese was impossible under the per capita plan oC paying the city enumerators. At the rate of payment of four cents a head, Rowan said, the enumerators could not afford to hunt out "elusive aliens." The appointment of special enumerators, paid by, the day, to re canvass the districts, was suggested as the only means by which tho real statistics could be obtained. SCHAUB AND MORE FIFTH MILWAUKEE, Wis., Feb. 9. F. Schaub and G. C. Moore of Fort Dodge, Iowa rolled into fifth place in the two-men event this afternoon at the International Bowling association tour nament here. oo RETURN TO-WORK. HONOLULU, T. H., Feb. 9. (By the Associated Press.) Pablo Manla plt, president of tho Filipino Sugar Plauters' union, today said ho would visit all plantations on the island of Oahu before Tuesday morning and in struct the Filipino strikers to return to work. oo TEAGLE HOlYifc, DESTROYED GREENWICH, Conn., Feb. 10. Fire last night destroyed the home of Walt er C. Teagle, president of the Stan dard Oil company of New Jersey. The loss Is estimated at $-100,000, house of lords was the sword of i state while behind them came pages of honor, officers, men-at- I arms and a yeoman guard in scar let and bearing halberds. The procession advanced to the house i of lords and its slow progress af forded the few spectators a 1 glimpse of a scene full of magnifi cent color. Members of the house of lords rose and bowed low when King George entered. After the king and queen were seated on the throne, the members of the house of commons entered, being led by the speaker in off i-.ciaJrjnd'obsrloseiyrfolleved.'---'i-by the premier, and members of the cablriet. This black coated as semblage presented a common place appearance compared with the theatrical setting that awaited it in the upper house. King George, In opening the speech from the throne, said, "my ! lords and members," instead of j the customary "my Jords and gen- I tlemcn," this innovation being j necessitated for the first time by j the election of Lady Astor to a I seat In the house of commons, j AVhen King George last opened i parliament in February 1911 his j first words: "My relations with foreign powers continue to be I friendly." I Two hours elapsed from the I time tho procession started from I Buckingham palace until it re- I turned. The only innovation in today's i ceremony was in accordance with the lord-chamberlain's edict, at the command of the king, that peeresses, which appearing in eve ning ' dress, did not have their features veiled. Instead, the veils I flowed behind in trains nine feet long which made a suitable back ground for the display of jewels which were family heirlooms. The edict was actuated by a desire to simplify the ceremony. Queen Mary wore the wonderful crown jewels, including the Culli nan diamond. British Doing Best to Stimulate Trade LONDON, Feb. 10. Recent efforts! to stimulate the export trade of Great: Britain to assist in righting the ex-1 change position are indicated in the, bora of trade figures for January, fhey! show that exports, for the first time on record, totalled more than 100,-! 000,000, or in exact terms 105,S79.-i 000, an increase of 53.000,000 over! January of last year. J Exports of manufactured articles in creased 100 per cent, including an ad' vance of 15,000,000 in cotton textiles, 6,000.000 in woolens and -1,000,000 in iron and steel products. While Imports were still large, total ling 183,000,000, or 48,000,000 over January of last year, they were largely essential products, food imports show ing an increase of 18,000,000 and raw cotton of 22,000,000. oo ERUPTION AT LASSEN PEAK REDDING, Cal.f Feb. 9. An erup tion at Lassen peak, tho only active volcano in the United States, was noted today by observers here. This Is the first eruption In three months. nn BANKER MURR1S RELEASED SACRAMENTO, Cal Feb. 10 W. J. Burrls, president of the Fiis"t National Bank of Newman, held in jail here since last week on a wari'ant issued after the federal examiners closed the bank, was released today on a bond of forty thousand dollars. . SEN. JOHNSON IMPROVING. WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. Continued improvement In the condition of Sen ator Johnson, Republican, California, who is confined to his homo here with, an attack of influenza, was reported today, but he is not expected to return to work for several days. P1I1EIT OPEiS FACING MUSSES OF IEL PROBLEMS j ! Speech From Throne Urges an I Early Settlement of Irish Question ' INSURANCE AGAINST ! UNEMPLOYMENT, PLAN, j I Price of Food Declared High But Not so High as In Other Countries ' LONDON. Feb. 10 Serious consid eration of economic conditions throughout the country was urged, upon the house of commons today by) iKinj -George in his speech from the' J thrpjie-'WhiclifopenKjth.eson. M Plfarnpoaftittr" He counseled confidence in the passage of far-reaching reforms ! which, he said, were necessary tovmeet abnormal conditions. He urged better educational facili ties, settlement of the Irish question, adjustment of -coal mining controver sies on an enduring basis, regulation of the liquor traffic and measures( stimulating the growth of more food stuffs ar home. He said bills would be introduced in parliament dealing I with insurance against unemployment and regulation of working hours, min i imum wages and anti-dumping. Peace Developments, After briefly referring to the peace conference, the king said he intended shortly to ratify peace with Bulgaria I and Austria. The negotiations for peace with Turkey, ho added, were "being pressed forward with all possi ble speed." Referring to the recent 'conferences in Paris apd London, he said: "I earnestly trust that as the result of these meetings a settlement of the long-standing . Adriatic dispute will shortly be reached. In order, however, to insure the full blessings of peace and prosperfty to Europe it is essen tial that not only peace but normal conditions of life should be restored in eastern Europe and in Russia. So 'long as these vast regions withhold their full contribution to the stock of commodities for general consumption, the cost of living can hardly be reduc ed or general prosperity be restored) to the world. I Afahilit-v Rctllrninn. I "I believe our country and empire I is making rapid strides toward sta bility and prosperity," he said. "The price of foodstuffs and other neces sary commodities is causing anxiety to all the peoples of the world, but I am glad prices in these islands are appreciably lower than ' elsewhere. This fact and the condition of trade with the outside world, especially of i export trade, serves to show my pco-l pie that England is no less success- ful in dealing with the troubles thej war left behind than they are in endur-1 ing war itself. If, however, we are to' Insure lasting progress, prosperity and! social peace, all classes must cont'inucl to throw themselves into the work of reconstruction with good will for oth-j ers, and with energy, and patience. In addition legislation providing for large and far-reaching measures of re form must be passed into law. Condition of Ireland. "The condition of Ireland causes me. grave concern, but a bill will be imme-j dlately laid before you to give effectj to proposals for a better government' of that country which was outlined at the end of last session of parliament. A bill to make further provision for education in Ireland will also bo sub mitted. Absence of facilities for edu cation for a considerable part of the child population of certain districts makes the question one of urgency, but care will bo taken to make the measure compatible with tho home rule bill. Sale of Property. "Despite agricultural production during tho war, thff populations? of these islands are still dangorously de pendent upon supplies of food from overseas, and the financial burden of purchasing such supplies in foreign markets against the adverse rato of exchange is very great. "Uneasiness is also being caused by tho unprecedented sale of the landed property since the war, A measure will, accordingly, be proposed to miti gate any hardship which this opera-1 M1IEHCE MEN - 1 PROCEED WITH PLAK I 11UTS00N I President to he Told of Possi- H bility of a General Railroad IH SECRETARY TUMULTY H j TO PRESENT MATTER I Efforts 'to he Made for Confer- once With rimes as a Last Resort WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. Wage negotiations of the rail way employes with Director General Hines reached a criti cal stage today and insofar as jH the Brotherhood of Railway IH Trainmen is concerned, a lkm strike loomed unless "pend- IH ing demands are satisfactorily settled." Lm W. G. Lee, president of the jH union, has served notice on Mr. Hines that his men are "very insistent and must have a definite answer soon." To this, Mr. Hines replied that no statement of position jH could be made until he had again .talked with the whole body of labor representatives. WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. White House and railroad administration of ficials regard as "most serious" the ' railroad situation precipitated by thf orders for a strike PebjirlTdssuec t k "lenAnceof Way TEmployes. Secretary Tumulty will see Presi JM dent Wilson today to lay before him the matter, emphasizing the possibility that this strike may bo the opening wedi-'e for a general strike of all rail road employes should the wage do jH mauds be refused by Director Genera' Hines at his conference with unios officials now in progress. iH Mr. Hines is understood to have con ferrcd with Secretary Tumulty for more than three hours last night out lining the situation for presentation tc the president. PLANS PROCEED. DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 10, Execu liveofficers of the United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes and V-M Shop Laborers were going ahead with strike plans today while a committee of heads of divisions of the union W-M were en route to Washington -where they will make a final effort, if callec into conference by Director General Hines, to avert the walkout on Febru ary 17 of nearly 300,000 railway work- Makes no Statement. Allen E. Barker, president of the brotherhood, would make no state ment early today in reply to the as aerlion by Mr. Hines that the strike call violated the union's wage agree ment, but he recalled that a strike wai voted last fall, set for November 1 and that it had been twice postponed since then in tho hope that an agree meat might be reached on a new wage scale or that the government might bt able to reduce the cost of living. TAKE POLICE STATION. CORK. Ireland Feb. 10. After an at tack lasting some time with an ex change of rifle shots, two hundred I armed men last night captured thr Castle Martyre police station. The: j temporarily made prisoner the five po liceinen who defended the station. Th raiders seized arms and ammunitior and decamped. lion may cause those who occupy th soil and to stimulato and develop pro dueiion of essential foodstuffs withir the United Kingdom." With reference to the mining ques tion, the king said: Mining Problem "The imperative and difficult prob J-M lems which have arisen in the coa mining industry should be settled or an enduring basas. Yot J-W will be asked to consider a proposal for the acquisition of coal royal tie by the state for the improvement o conditions in the mining areas and fo the future ordering of the industry.' Referring to the liquor rogulatioL tM question, the king said: "Experiences during1 the war showec thos clearly injurious effects upon the national efficiency of the excessive. consumption of strong drink, and the J amelioration, especially in both healtl 'H and efficiency, which followed appro prlate measures of regulation and con IH troll. A bill accordingly will be pre sented to you providing for a suitnbh system for the peace time rcgulatiot of the sale and supply of alcoholii liquors." Referring to bills which the kini said would be introduced the king saic i were measures for the after-the-wai organization of the array and the navj for the creation of an adequate suppb of cheap electric and water power and a bill dealing with the reform of the house of commons