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Show T J ) V THE HELPER TIMES- HELPER. UTAH - : LAIUHUd nLLLHuL i ! AMERICAH AIRMEN v TWO AVIATOR8 CAPTURED BANDITS FREED UPON THE PAYMENT OF RANSOM. BY WILSON DECLARES PRESSING NEED OF COUNTY IS FOR PRODUCTION BY INDUSTRY. Had Loat Their Way After They Had Admits That in Some Instances FarmBeen Forced to Land as Result of ers Are Inconvenienced by Daylight Engine Trouble and Were Taken Saving Law, But Benefits Prisoner by Bandits. the Majority. Marfa, Texas. Lieutenant II. Felemui, one of the two Anu-riru- WIFE GAVE HIM INSPIRATION (!. uvi-ulo- rs held by Mexican himdits for ransom, crossed the border to t lie Anierican aide early Monday niorninjr. Shortly after Lieutenant Peterson crossed t lie border, (.npnilii Mutiuek retunted, bringing with bint Lieutenant Davis. Vaptnfn Matluek brought back with him the rnnsoiu money. He said after IVlerson hud been released. Davis was brought forward by tin; bandits, and the two mounted Captain Mat lacks horse. The bandits demanded the remainder of the ransom money, and Cuptuiu Marluek and Davis answered by riding rapidly uway. The aviators landed on the American side of the river. Lieutenant said. Upon their urrlval at (uudelaria a we,.k ago Sunday, their engine deveiopml trouble and they were forced lo land, smashing their landing gear timl fuselage in iloiug so. The iwo aviaiors then tried to find their way to I lie nearest army camp and lierame confused. They walked and swam down the Itio Grande during Monday, Lieutenant Peterson said, und then hired .Mexican burros nfler Peterson devehipisi a fever. They hud atarted for Candelaria when an armeil Mexican overlook hem uud made tliem prisoners. They were unarmed. They were overtaken by a band of armed bandits, Lieutenant Peterson said, and a crowd of people from a little town. Tliey continued on their forced journey until Friday night, when Hie bandits forced the aviators lo write messages demanding ransom and telling of the death threat. $13,-IHt- tl - one-lui- lf -- IVt-erso- n I Persian Treaty Causing Comment. Paris. Although the peace conference lias not yet taken up the Brltish-lVrslatreaty, which just came to ligut, wherein the British claim special privileges in Persia which practically makes Persia a protectorate like Egypt, it Is expected the subject will be brought tip before the council of five us soon us Hie slmh of Persia arrives in Paris. Washington. President Wilson on August 13, for the second time vetoed ilu! hill repealing the duyliglit saving law. Tlie president said lie- - relumed the hill without his approval with the utmost reluctance" because lie realized tlie very considerable, and in some respects very serious, inconvenience to which the daylight saving law subjects the farmers of the coun- try. Declaring tlie pressing need of the country was for production by industry, tlie president said he had been obliged to balance one set of disadvantages against another and decide which was tlie more serious for the country. liepulilican house leaders said they laid not determined wlmt they might do in tlie matter of again attempting to pass the daylight repeal over the president's veto. This was tlie second time the president laid vetoed repeal of tlie law by which tin clocks are set forward an hour on the last Sunday In March and turned buck an hour the last Sunday in October. The first veto was several weeks ago, tlie repeal being attached as a rider to the annual agricultural appropriation bill. White House officials and members of congress could not recall a previous instance of a president having twice vetoed tlie surne hill. Efforts to pass rlie agricultural measure oyeV tlie veto fnlicd in tlie house, and then the separate house repeal bill then pending was passed by tlie senate. Leaders in vote congress doubt that the necessary to iniss the repeal measure over ti.o president's head enn be two-thir- CARRANZA OUSTS BRITON. u Head Orders William Cummings to Leave Country. William Cummings, Washington. British charge d'nrclilves In the City of Mexico, has been ordered to leave the country by President Carranza. While not officially stated, it was understood that Carranzas action resulted from the statement recently Firemen Ask for Big Raise. made in tlie house of commons by tlie Cleveland. A 33 to Co per cent inBritish undersecretary of state that 0 crease In wages Is demanded for Great Britain had not recognized the firemen ami hostlers on railroads Carranza government and would not in the United .Stales and Canada in a do so until there was some guarantee wage scule adopted before adjourn- tiiut lives and property of British citment Sunday by 300 general cliainuen izens in Mexico would be protected by of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire- tlie Mexican government. men and Enginemen in session here all Mexican Author, at His Wits End for Plot, Got Excellent Idea From His Better Half. How the idea of a new hook was suggested in an unexpected manner to ilie author is told h.v William J. Locke in The Rough Road. "One evening a couple of months after I had finished Tlie Red Planet, I was tearing my hair and saying that this lime 5 really laid come to the end of tilings and would never again have the ghost of an idea book, when my wife, who was 'on tlie divan in the drawing sitting room playing' unconcernedly wiili our little, Pekinese kIm had heard this ery adof wolf so many times dressed lids litlle beast I love him dearly, by tlie way in the maudlin tone of whieh we both are guilty: Why doesn't lie write a nice hook about you, darling? Whereupon ' I clapped my hand to my forehead and cried: J will! Ill write a story about a nuin brought up like that dog and And I went pitched into tlie war! straight into my study and set to work on the scheme. her for-anot- Lift off Corns! ITS not enough to make Doesn't hurt a bit and Freezono costs only a few cents. WRSGLEY5 good, we must KEEP It good until you get it. Hence the sealed package -im- purity-proof -g- uarding, preserving the delicious con- tents the beneficial goody. i any hard corn, soft corn, or corn between the toes, and the hard skin calluses from bottom of feet A tiny bottle of Freezone" costs little at any drug store; apply a few drops upon the corn or callns. Instantly it stops hurting, then shortly you lift that bothersome corn or callus right olf, root and all. without one bit of pain or soreness. Truly ! No The Flavor Lasts SEALED TIGHT i KEPT RIGHT Jr s Hi Giving a Guess. Preliminary. "we tills?" asked one. as they said Whats simply My dear, hubby, must decide on where we are going gazed nt the zebra. Must he a war horse wirli servlet Soft answers do not turn away during my vacation. I wish youd make Boston mind. up your Transcript. stripes." wrath caused by soft coal. Sudden riches spoil many a good workman. 117.-110- week. PROFITEERS FIRED FROM BOARD Would Salvage Kruger Fortune. Dmdon. To recover more than in gold, part of the fortune of the lute Oom Paul Kruger, once president of the Transvaal, which is believed to be cemonied in the hold of (lie liurk Dorothea, sunk on Tenedos reef off the coast of Zuliilnnd, Is one of the projects which may be revived as a result of Improvement In the science of salvaging sunken ships. Labor Party Being Organized. Chicago. Initial steps In the organization of a national labor party were taken Momlay at a conference of of labor organizations of several mates. A temiorary executive committee was named to issue a call for delegates to a national convention to be held in Chicago in November and to set a definite date. Fire at Idaho Penitentiary. Boise Fire broke out from spontaneous cumbusion Monday morning In a building used for a power plant at l lie Idaho slate penitentiary and nest royed it, together Jth about eighty cords of w(ssi, and caused damages in dynamos, boilers and engines used for lighting in the slate institution. Grain Corporation By Scandal Revealed 8enate Probe. Washington. Evidence at a secret investigation of tlie purchases of beans for the food administration during tlie war so incensed Julius H. Barnes, of New York, president of the United States grain corporation, that he forced two employees of the administration to resign, the senate and house agricultural committees were told by G. A. Turner, presient of tlie California Bean Growers association. 8tudent Held for Girls Death. Ithaca, N. Y. Donald W. Fetlier, Cornell sophomore, and son of a wealthy Los Angeles oil promoter, was held on a charge of first degree murder in connection with the disappearance of Miss Hazel Crance, Ithaca girl, on the night of July IS), when she went canoeing on Cayuga lake with the college student Rumanians Not Asked to Leave. Paris. The supreme council, in Its response, drafted Friday, to the reply of the Rumanian government to the note of the count regarding the occupation of Budapest,' does not ask the Rumanians to leave Budapest 1 at Crossing. Eight Killed Cleveland. Seven members of the John Trainor family, of Cleveland father, mother, four sons and a daughter mid a woman relative of the instantly killed when their unto was truck by u train at a crossing Sunday. Train-oro-w- er Pershing Coming Home Soon. Paris. Before leaving for Italy, General John J. Pershing told that lie expected to sail for about America September 1, and, shortwould visit, his old bis after arrival, ly home in Missouri and would also go to Cheyenne, Wyo. eorre-i:Hiiden- i ts Pettura Attacks Reds. Warsaw. General Simon retlura, leader, the Ukrnninn after having withdrawn his troops from the Iolish front, 1ms attacked the Bolslievikl and captured tlie important town of Zwerinka. anti-Bolshev- ik More Trouble in Ireland. Queenstown. A party of men fired rifles on Rocky Island, in the harbor, behind Ilaulbowllne island. The military on Rocky island replied with inneliine guns. The firing continued tor some thne: LUCKY STRIKE cigarette Its toasted to in- crease the good, wholesome flavor of the Kentucky Burley tobacco. A regular man's smoke and i |
