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Show O HELPER S C?f? '5 in dollars II a normal railroad ray mining a 0f a quarter of a n'n VOL. t.-- monthly XXIV. ' f n CIRCULATION That Ij Proven NUMBER THI JOURNAL'S NtWS EDITION DELIVERED ONL.V ON SUBSCRIPTION 7 Chance for Tie Blast Wrecked Denver and Rio Grande Western Train at 9:30 Saturday Night, While Train Was Traveling 45 Miles an Hour; Nine Cars in Ditch; Tracks Cleared and Traffic Resumed Sunday Morning. ffbile traveling .ted at 45 mile3 at a Ol with a OiCCJJY speed esti- - an hour, j f of 60 cars behind it, engine of the Denver & Rio LyClL 1409 Western exploded at a about four miles east of ,in m. rice Saturday at 9:30 p. out snuffed the blast terrific The ps of the engine crew, Engineer Lrrv Denman, Fireman Joe Ish- and Brakeman Don Hen- i.rsbott, all residents or urana n in Helper inction, and ulroad circles. The bodies of the rakeman and fireman were terri-- y mangled, while that of Enginfound with only -- r Denman was la abrasion upon the forehead to indicate his fate. Boiler Ran Dry Water shortage in the boiler is ;:.e reported cause of the explosion, A how this came about has not, ad probably never will be deter- - Pnr1 VUUUlC HT X 10.111 tlL CrWTt Rnrpr ,rande Betty and Jack Farrell of Cincinnati, Ohio, narrowly escaped D. & R. G. W. death on train No. 61 Saturday night last. The two, brother and sister, have Pullbeen traveling via mans since July 21 .and were on their way to Salt Lake from Pueblo. They were riding the tender of the engine as far as Green River when they decided to leave .'if to snatch a few hours' sleep. They reported in Helper as they passed through that they talked at Green River for some time with the three trainmen who met their death in the wreck. ill-fat- well-know- side-do- ained. ONLY EYEWITNESSES TO THE EXI'LOSION blew away the en- explosion . . c i: or ena me locomotive, rear eaking the coupling between the Parts of .the igine and tender. i i. . . ii anuj uie to were scauerea, iiuge ebox of the engine landed on the hway, which parallels the rail y where the ex- ed iosion occurred. It was beside the The . re Ralph Neice and George Hill of Des Moines, transients en route to the coast, so far as known, were the closest persons to the D. & R. G. W. explosion Saturday evening who escaped with their lives. The men, according to their story to The Journel, were riding on top of a box car, the tenth back of the engine. The nine cars ahead of them went off the rails. "I can say little of the explosion," said Neice. "All we know is that for many miles before the blast we had a premonition that something was going to happen can't explain it, but that train was jogging along queer then there was an awful explosion, accompanied by a flash something like a bolt of lightning. We found ourselves in the cinders alongside the right-of-wa- feet away from the ails out on the highway that the ly of the engineer was found. ne of the other bodies was found, idlv mangled, free from the reckage, while the third was und near other parts of the torn nd twisted steel and iron. Force of Explosion force The almost inconceivable f the explosion literally catapulted with the ie boiler of the engine len drive wheels under it, 1250 feet fhead before it came to a stop, all (the wheels running over the ties iat distance. Trainmen and transients aboard state the explosion Ihook the train from end to end. I When the wreck was reported in jflelper shortly after 9:30, the rail- load distress siren was sounaea ror Jive minutes to call in the wrecking crew. Another crew also was lispatched at once from Grand lunction, and superhuman effort lerved to remove the wreckage ind repair the tracks for service rebox, 150 XV L ; How They Stand 1 5 Dusters Dollar Helper's demand on the city wa4 2 Lickers Stamp ter supply still Is greater the 4 3 Levis v supply, according to city water Hashers 4 3 3 3 Printer Devils department officials. 2 3 .. A substantial amount of Price Pill Rollers 4 2 Car Toads water still is being added to the 1 5 Iron Horses Helper supply, but water shortage Schedule remains acute. Tonight (Friday, 6:30) Printer Every water consumer In Helper Is urged to exercise every care in Devils vs Dollar Dusters. the use of water and to do everyMonday, Aug. 27, 5:30 p. m. thing in his power to prevent any Stamp Lickers vs Pill Rollers. End of the season. waste whatsoever. It is pointed out that even a tap with a small leak Complications in the Offing will waste many gallons every 24 Dollar Dusters The hours. have a cinch on the second half A pitcher of water in the Ice box unless they are beaten tonight by will be colder and more palatable the Printer Devils, and- the Stamp and saves the water which ordinar Lackers take the Pill Rollers Mon ily is run down the drain while day night, in which case the Stamp waiting for cool water to run from Lickers and the Dusters will be the tan. A little more attention to tied for first and the Levis, Hashthe amount of water used in culi- ers and Printer Devils will be in a nary and other home uses will save tie for second position. thousands of gallons of water each This Week's Results day. Levis 13, Printers 12. Water from local faucets is testCar Toads 8, Iron Horses 6. ed twice each week for bacterio10, Pill Rollers 7; DolPrinters logical content and every test has Dusters 14, Levis 6; Hashers lar come back with the Okay of the ' 5. Levis 8, of Health. Tests State Board of many springs in this region show DEATH OF MINER that the water in them contains John Conlin, age 65, for many bacteria. The city water department advises everyone who picnics years a miner in this district, passor spends time in the open to take ed away at Price Wednesday last, a supply of water with them and following an illness of about a to refrain from drinking the wa- year's duration. Funeral services will be held at the Deseret Mortuter from springs. ary next Mondaytat 5 p. m followed by interment in the Price cemetery. Decedent was a mem ber of Helper Lodge No. 1659, L. then track; stunned for we went up ahead and viewed the results, the horror of which never will leave our minds." Both men were covered with lime that had come from the inside of the engine boiler. The transients state they are sure no others were riding any of the cars between themselves and the engine, although there were 50 or 60 transients on board. arly Sunday morning. Passenger trains eastbound, Nos. ana t, were neia m neiper iur several nours Deiore me repairs jnere made and they could proceed, sRhile Nos. 1 and 5 were held at ICrand Junction several hours. Nine Cars Wrecked d It is reported that nine cars the engine were wrecked or jiderailed, the first car behind being pin auxiliary waier ianK, wmcn was k "ROMAN SCANDALS" Another Cantor howl, "Roman Scandals," with plenty of frolicking, fun and femininity, is being shown at the Lyric Theatre in Price for four days, beginning next Sunday. The story deals with a nut, who has popular home-tow- n a dream that puts him into ancient Rome. His antics in the Roman hrown upright across the rails. baths, with a bevy of beautiful N'ext was a car of automobiles. blondes are the high points of the hich with its cargo was destroy- show. ed. Then several cars of cattle and LOCAL GOLFERS WON merchandise. Some of the animals Carbon County golfers gained we badly injured and deputy sheriffs dispatched numerous of sweet revenge over the Uintah Ba- on the Car 'he doomed bovines with their pis- - sin golf team Sunday course with c Club ola. bon Country of the surviving Bellowing count. The Country Club tock added to the din as the crews 18-- 7 gan tearing away the wreckage. golfers were defeated by the UinBy 11 p. m. hundreds of people tah Basin club two weeks ago. 'fora Helper, Price and other near- y points had assembled to view ed in Grand Junction for six years. was unmarried. He has a broth;he wreckage. Later, police lines He "ere established to keep the crowd, er employed in railroad work at Wiich milled about the wreckage Pueblo, and a sister, Mrs. E. D. where his u day Sunday, out of harm's way. Bond, of Los Angeles, The bodies of the unfortunate father also resides. Engineer Den- cammen were removed to the man was considered one or me ?lynn mortuary at Price, and early best engineers on the entire sys'his week the remains of the fire- - tem of the D. & R. G. W. Both Hendershott and Isherwood roan and brakeman were shipped o Grand Junction for funeral ser- were married and had resided in ies and burial. The body of Eng- Grand Junction for many years. Hendershott had been a resident ineer Denman was taken to there since early childhood, and Colo., for interment. had been employed on the railroad Official Investigation since he be Official investigation of the almost continuously came of age. uae of the disaster was begun Hendershott was born August Monday, those participating in the Mo., and Probe being federal inspectors 15, 1890, at Middleton, with his from Denver Junction to came Grand D. and Salt Lake and 4 R. G. W. officials, including John parents. He is survived by his Mackey, shop foreman of Helper. widow and two sons, Don, 12, and e only statement given out by William 10. e Joseph Isherwood was born June committee to investigating kte is that "blame 1831, in Leigh, England, and is 8, s for the explo-inot placed upon anybody." survived by his widow. He served is difficult to conceive of the overseas during the late war. ")ass of torn Both Hendershott and Isherwood and twisted wreckage members of the Grand Juncwere f what once was a locomotive protion Elks lodge. Both had been cause to lucid as clew any ving cut off the board and thus out of water shortage in the boiler, from the explosion and work until less than a month ago, is estimated at around $50,- - when heavier traffic on the u. & which includes value of the R. G. W. put back to work many 'ttil'M no!.... who had been laid off for exloiutu. Linmage l10 uic n men tended is placed at $25,000. periods. Isherwood workon the Dotaero cutlust winter ed The Trainmen construction projects, remainEngineer Denman had been in off cutoff was finthe until there W. G. ing employ 0f the D. & R. ,Jr about June. 20 years, and had resld- - ished last be-in- i Pu-"W- 11 en-Sl- o, tures in the world. SUBSCRIPTION $2 A YEAR Attorneys Raised Legal Over Bequest Question Kacich Family Every for Hospital, Fisk Will Possession, even to Wearing Home at Spring sottbaii League Glen Destroyed Freight errific THE JOURNAL SHOPPER S EDITION OE LIVLRED FREE TD EVERY NOME FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1934 CONSERVE Engine Exploded 7 A TUT) I Pr rp Takina Tn Three Trainmen's Lives than able weath, fifth in the State of Utah, 26 million; largest coal and undeveloped oil struc- ADVERTISING That Brings Results HELPER, UTAH '. Lost Apparel, when House Went County Commissioners Waited Upon by Salt Lake Attorneys up in Smoke Friday Evening Representing Administrator, but Local Authorities Will Proceed With Plans After Deciding That No Legal Barframe house at A single-stor- y rier Stands in Their Way. Glen, in which resided John ', hard-playin- g - Trouble With Train Riders Spring Kacich and family, was leveled by fire Friday evening last at about. 8 o'clock. Discovery of the blaze was made by a neighbor, who yelled to Mr. Kacich, who was sitting on a bench under a tree nearby. At the time of discovery the blaze was consuming the roof of the dwelling. The remainder of the Kacich family was in Helper at the time . Neighbors hurrying to the scene, and being without any apparatus, realized that the house was doomed, and concentrated upon saving other buildings in the vicinity. The only effects saved from the Kacich home were a sewing machine and a small radio. All other effects including the clothing of the unfortunate family other than that which they were wearing at the time, were consumed.to Origin of the fire is beleived have been from a defective brick chimney. It is reported no insurance was carried either on the d house or its contents. neighbors and friends are lending all assistance possible to the entire Kacich family. fire-fighti- County Commissioners C. R. Fahring and David Parmley, representing the board of county commissioners, met with Attorneys McBroom and Fitzpatrick, representing the Walker Bros. Bank & Trust Co., administrators for the will of the late Dr. F. F. Fisk Smith Predicts More Business Kind-hearte- Elliott was one of the who attended Legionnaires Helper the state Legion convention at Logan last week, returning to Helper Monday. Dr. W. T. O. O. M. With general business conditions on the Pacific coast showing some Increase, Utah coal producers should receive orders for thousands of additional tons of coal this fall and winter, James B. Smith, presi dent of the Spring Canyon and Royal Coal companies, said in Salt Lake yesterday. Mr. Smith, whose headquarters are in San Francisco, said Monday night in Price, relative to the $75,000 bequest which provides for a Carbon County hospital. A legal question was raised as to whether or not the board of commissioners were eligible to accept the bequest. State and fed- eral statutesjprovide that the ing $7300 a mile, is increased by the fact that considerable con struction, including 11,000 cubic yards of excavation and 13,000 tons of graveling surfacing, in ad dition to the 23,700 cubic yards of fine aggregate plant mix surfac ing, is required. Time allowance for the job is 100 days. . Tennis Tourney TO DEVOTE FULL TIME TO LOCAL BUSINESS ts n Glen Balllnger, member of Car bon Post, American .Legion, was for the elected Utah Department of the American Legion at the annual state convention which was held at Logan last week-enIt was announced that next year's convention will be held at Richfield. Mr. Ballinger, F. P. Fisher, Fred Voll, Tony Paloni and H. L. Putnam were delegates to the convention from the Carbon post, with Mesdames Florence Dennis and June Buchanan acting in the same capacity for the local Auxiliary. Dr. William T. Elliott was a viser d. itor. trophy for the most comprehensive Junior Legion baseball season was awarded to Price at the convention. New officers for the coming year are: Norman Sims, Salt Lake, com The Fred mander; D. S. Allison of Helper has disHelper is to be the scene of the of his interests in the Best tournament posed tennis Carbon County this year, the event promising to Coal Company, and henceforth will be one of the biggest ever held in devote his time and energies to his " local business, the Allison Machinthis county. The tourney will be started Fri- ery Co., which he established in about two years ago, and day, August 31. Registrations for this city entrance in the meet must be ob- which caters to the various mining tained before next Monday, the concerns of this district in their 27th. Entrance may be applied requirements for machinery and supplies on short notice. for at The Journal office. The fee for the men's and women's singles SPIKING A RUMOR will be 50 cents, junior singles or D. C. Gibson takes this Mrs. and 50 cents, and doubles, singles men's singles and doubles, 73 cenis. means of refuting a rumor that she The funds raised from entrance has withdrawn from the legislative fees will be used to purchase tro- race in Carbon County, which had vari- gained a degree of prevalency, and phies for the winners of the further states that she is in the ous divisions. Divisions of the tourney will be race to win. women's singles, junior singles and Mr. and Mrs. DeLos E. Brandon, doubles and men's singles and the former for two years publisher doubles. The tournament will include en- of The Journal, who have been trants from every part of the coun- spending most of the summer seareson at Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, ty, and an invitation to anyone the left this week for Los Angeles, of bounds the within siding the where extended is enter they went from Helper at to by county committee, which is headed by the time of their departure last Rooth Kilfoyle, Spring Canyon, and January. Krue Moffitt of Helper. Miss Ruth Christensen was callThe pairings for the first round to Nephl Thursday morning, to next ed in the listed be of play will the bedside of her mother, who is issue of The Journal. reported very ill. The young lady Mrs. Margaret Huff has opened waa accompanied by Leslie a beauty parlor at her home, first door west of the Hillcrest apartJohnny Wright returned to Helments, after having been connected with an beauty parlor. per Monday evening, after spendand Her advertisement appears In this ing the summer in Wyoming Idaho. issue of The Journal. up-tow- State Legion Post Given to a Local Man that industry and business are beginning to regain their strides and that the prospects for the future are bright Several new breweries have been constructed in northern California during the last year which should help the demand for coal from Carbon county, old and it Voll Glen Ballinger, Helper, Otto W'iesley, Salt Lake, department adjutant. MEAT DEALERS WANT EXTRA HOUR SATURDAYS Following warnings issued to Carbon County meat markets by Louis G. Knight, state retail trade code authority, to the effect that markets must be closed at 7 p. m. Corner Peacock of Price, chairman of the Carbon Meat and Grocery council, has petitioned the state and national code authorities to al low the markets to remain open until 8 p. m. on Saturdays and nights before holidays. Virtually all of the markets in the county signed the petition which is being sent in on the grounds that Carbon County has been designated as a trade area. is reported that the funds provided will be adequate to erect a hospital which will meet the standards of the Association which call for adequate treatment and surgical equipment, and will allow for no County Commissioners met in regular session Tuesday evening at the County Court House in Price and considered bids for roofing material for the Carbon County matAirport. No decision on the reached. ter was The board was notified by the state relief offices in Salt Lake that 96,000 pounds of smoked meat had been allotted to Carbon county for distribution during the coming winter, and that the cost of transporting it from its present storage place in Murray, would have to be borne by the county. THIS SHOW "MANHATTAN WAS JOHN DILLINGER'S UNDOING "Manhattan Melodrama," for showing at the Strand Theatre, Helper, Sunday and Mon day evenings, starring Clark Ga ble, William Powell and Myrna Loy was the last moving picture John Dillinger, the famous outlaw, at tended. Dillinger saw the showing at a North Chicago theatre, and was shot to death as he left the theatre by detectives, who had been tipped off by "The Girl In Red." Walter Winchell has it that the movie grossed over a million dollars in various parts of the country shortly after Dillinger's death. The picture is highly recommended, being the story of two orphans who were reared as brothers, one becoming a prosecuting attorney and the other a racketeer. WEDDING BELLS The Spanish Fork Press says: "Mrs. Eli Robertson announces the marriage of her son, William, to Miss Louise Harmer of Helper, Utah. The ceremony was performed at Riverside, Cal., where Mr. Robertson is employed. Miss Naomi Harmer and Mrs. Dona Lar-se- n attended the bride, and Milton Sommers acted as best man. A wedding reception for the immediate families followed the ceremony. The newlyweds will make their home in California for the present. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Worthen, formerly of Helper, who are visiting with friends and relatives in Price, and with Mr. and Mrs. John Buchanan, were dinner guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George F. John Davis will return to his Spratling last evening. home in Long Beach, Cal., Sunday, W. R. Johnson, former city reafter spending two weeks here and in Cleveland, visiting with rela- corder, left Friday for a few days' tives and friends. While here he visit in Salt Lake. visited at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Daugherty and her Mrs. Frank Mullins, his aunt and two children, Sam and Jean, reuncle . turned last week from Los AngeAngelo Welch and sisters, the les, where they have been visiting Misses Mary and Frances, of Crest- at the home of Mrs. Daugherty'a ed Butte, Colo., arrived last week daughter, Mrs. J. G. Campbell, for in Helper, to make an extended three weeks. visit at the heme of Mrs. JoseA German police dog, owned by phine Magliocco and family. Miss Wedwas who their Tony Nemonich of Townsite Mary Magliocco, became rabid and accomafternoon -- a few for weeks, nesday guest had to be killed. panied them. ' osteopathic, chiropractic or like treatment being in any he said. MELODRAMA" rec- ognized governing body for any state, county or city is authorized to accept bequests, however, and there is no legal barrier against the money being paid to the county for the erection of the hospital. The Fisk will, recently submitted for probate, provides $75,000 for the erection of the hospital and real estate, upon which the institution is to be built, at a set value of about $15,000. The will further provides that the hospital must come up to the standards of the American Medical Association. A. M. A. data has been received LARGE ROAD OILING CONTRACT Matters Before Commissioners LET AT SALT LAKE THIS WEEK Every railroad, the D. & R. G. excepted, is having trouble with the hordes of transients that swarm every freight train. Patience of the officials has about beThe state road commission at come exhausted, however, when so Lake Monday awarded two Salt many fit the travelers overstep the contracts for oil treatment of more bounds of propriety with deeds of than 20 miles of road to W. XV. vandalism and petty thievery. Clyde and Company of Springville. Special Officer W. E. Lukens to The work is estimated to cost about The Journal yesterday stated that $120,000, the funds being furnished many Helper men and boys now the federal government. by are making a practice of stealing mix oil and gravel will be Plant rides to Green River loading up on 11.7 milea of roadway applied steal and with culled melons there between Soldier Summit and the ing rides back. Yesterday two men Carbon county line, just over the arwere of melons with four sacks divide from Spansih Fork canyon, rested. Officer Lukens pointed to in Utah and Wasatch counties. Mr. to the riders, the hazard, especially bid was $86,387.34, and Clyde's in this practice, and warns local that of Olaf Nelson of Logan, the men and boys to quit the practice, next lowest of seven bidders, was under penalty of arrest. $93,269.66. The engineer's estimate Petty thievery and vandalism was $103,685.39. are becoming common, according The cost of the project, averag- to Officer Lukens, who states the transients do not seem to appreci- ALEX LAKIE APPOINTED ate the favor they are given. As TO SUCCEED JUDGE ROSS high as 200 riders have been on a VY & G. D. R. ., the over train single City Council met in regular ses and they were not disturbed. One sion last evening and accepted the day last week a number of the travelers got off a freight tram on resignation of M. W. Ross from the desert east of here and stole a the office of City Judge. Alex La kie was appointed to succeed. keg of water, the only supply of Mr. Ross has held the position water for an extra gang, which the marauders hoisted into a box since November last, and resigned car where there were five women. following his acceptance of a posi Of late five Federal cases have tion with the D. & R. G. W. City Councilman Jack Sullivan developed in Salt Lake against transients who have broken car presided over the meeting in the place of Mayor Gianotti, who still seals on interstate shipments. is convalescing from his recent ill ness. W. not Preparing For Sr: CARBON JOURNAL J,n,ll way-connect- with the institution. Must Wait Four Months It is unlikely tnat the funds willed for the erection of the hospital will be received by the county until the expiration of four months. The will was admitted to probate last Saturday before District Judge George Christensen. Attorney McBroom explained that in cases where the estate is in excess of $10,000 the estate can not be entirely distributed until the expiration of four months. YOUTHFUL HIKERS Hitchhiking is not confined to adults ,as was proven in Helper this week. Wednesday evening two .sisters, one 11 and the other IS, of Indiana, en route to California, stopped at the Utah hotel. Each carried a suitcase, and so ladylike, neat and clean were the youngsters that Mrs. A. F. Drury, proprietress, gave them a room and their breakfast yesterday morning be- -' fore they departed. They told Mrs. Drury their mother who was divorced from their father and remarried, resides in California, and has a home for them, but had no finances to provide their transportation. Mrs. Drury was impressed manwith the youth and nerisms of the visitors, and made no charge for the service the little travelers received, and their gratiwell-bre- d tude knew no bounds. UNDERW ENT OPERATION Harry Johnson was called to Salt Lake Wednesday to be in attendance at the bedside of his father, W. R. Johnson, former Helper city recorder, who underwent a major operation at a hospital on that day. Ulcers of the stomach are reported to be the elder Mr. Johnson's affliction. SEPT. 14 Naturalization applications will be heard in the district court on September 14, County Clerk B. H. Young announced Wednesday of last week. Fourteen Carbon county aliens have filed application for citizenship, Mr. Young said. NATURALIZATION JOBS THEN MORE JOBS The total number of jobholders on the federal payroll has risen to 661,094, the largest in history in time of peace. Within the last year the total sum dispensed in paying federal jobholders has Increased $100,000,000 a year. Mrs. Ernest Gardner and son, Keith, will return for the opening of school from Grand Junction, where they have been visiting for two weeks. Mrs. William Stringham of Man-t- l, is a guest at the home of her Mr. and brother and sister-in-laMrs. Fred Kilfoyle, at Spring Canyon. An old Chinese proverb has that the wise man does not it do three things: He does not build his house upon the marsh, he does not paint his pictures upon the water and he does not argue with a woman. Two American College boys hung a Nazi flag out of a hotel window in Paris just to find out what would happen. They did. Their act gave rise to one of the nicest riots of the month. |