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Show News Briefs Despondency Leads to Death 111 health and despondency were blamed for the supposedly suicidal death of Joseph S. Snow, 50-year old resident of Manti, whp was found dead with a bullet wound in his head Monday morning in the family garage at his home. He had been unusually nervous following a major operation which he underwent under-went last winter. Sunday night at 9 o'clock he took a sleeping tablet and retired to an upstairs bedroom. At 7 o'clock the following morning Mrs. Snow found him in the garage, slumped in a sitting poisture on a pile of sacks in the garage, clutching clutch-ing the barrel of a .22 caliber rifle. Price Host to 4,000 Musicians An estimated four thousand student stu-dent musicians from Nevada, Colorado Color-ado and Utah are gathered this weekend in Price to participate in the intermountain band tournament and music festival. Moroni High school and North Sanpete High are among the institutions represented repre-sented by bands and soloists. Killer Dies Blaming Society John Scheck, violent 21-year old Chicago killer, died in the electric chair this Friday morning, declaring: declar-ing: "Society should provide for the young man. The young man should have a job when he finishes school. If that were the case, there would be . less crime." Scheck inflicted violence vi-olence on" numerous victims, ' and when arraigned in courtroom, pulled pull-ed out a smuggled revolver and killed a policeman in plain sight of the judge. It was for this crime he paid with his life this morning. President's Views on Silver Senate silver advocates learned today that President Roosevelt favors fa-vors international action on the silver sil-ver question, rather than an attempt at-tempt on the part of the United States to "go it alone" in seeking to put silver on . a par with gold, through legislative action. It was strongly indicated that Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt sees in the formula presented at the London economic conference an answer to the silver remoneti-zation remoneti-zation problem. Western Senators, meanwhile, are working strenuously to get silver adequately recognized. A Saving- in Airmail Costs President Rrosevelt was severely criticised for his "hasty" action in cancelling air mail contracts, and was even blamed for army airmail flyers' deaths which occurred following fol-lowing the transfer cf airmail from r'vato to army hands. Now, however, how-ever, renort- from the nation's capital cap-ital indicate that the private com-mines com-mines are bidding for their eld privilege cf carrying the mails at materially reduced rates, and thpt consequently, if the current plan to return airmail to private hands materializes, the pecple will b:: paved a good deal. Such is thr. prediction pre-diction of Postmaster General Farley. Far-ley. First Sla'e Labor Institute The first annual lab"r educational education-al institute opened today on th University cf Utah' campus, unacr direction of that institution and the Utah S'ate Federation of Labor. La-bor. The meet will continue tomor row. i |