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Show 3 The Weather UTAH cloudy tonight Ram tor snow in west portion Tuesday! Warmer in northwest portion tonight. Volume 29. ournal Jl jl26 Mostly and Tuesday. An .Number 25. UTAH, LOGAN, Independent New spaper Totally Ignores a Parking Ordinance JAN LAKY MONDAY, :l L, 1 9 :? s. k'or lV(pla Think! W In it New Associate Justice -' ot Cold Wave Causes Intense Damage Along Mid-- West Rivers threaten- picture discussed the Mayor Lundstrom a special meeting of all merchants and business houses in Logan and the county interested in the plan for average inventory taxation will bo held at the At A. get the full of the economic theories WASHINGTON-- To by all the business and biain trust delegations visiting the White House recently, it is nescenes cessary to look behind the in the and see what is happening councils. presidents inner fanfared busiThe much ness conferences are largely window-dressinBut some good is coming out of them, chiefly the fact that Roosevelt is getting a better undermans standing of the business viewpoint and they, in turn, underare getting a better standing of his. However, the real struggle is not taking place in these conferences. The battleground is in the advis-era- i president's own family of They are split into two diametrically opposite camps on question of that monopolies. On his one side sits a group g On which advocates the other side sits a group which advocates trust regulation. And bethe under-cove- r instance of G. Logan Chamber of Commerce at 9 a. m. The Wednesday mayor has something specific to present which he thinks will be agreeable to the merchants. A good attendance is desired. Claims Townsend David O. McKay Writes Twenty-on- e Stanley Forman Reed was today former missionaries sworn as assoi late justice of the from the Danish mission includUnited States Supreme court. His ing President Alma L. Peterson assumption of a seat on the high of Ogden, until recently president bench shifts (ontrol of the tri- ot that mission, were in attenbunal to a liberal bloc of five dance at the funeral services, as well us representatives from other justices Reed, Piesulent Roosevelts sec- Church, civic, educulional unit busond appointee to the court, swore iness organizations with whuh Mr the jurist's oath before his judi- Olsen and Jus family weie ascial colleagues in tile quiet digni- sociated A communication fiom ty of the Supreme Court chamber. President David O. McKay exThe oath was administered by pressed regret that a previous Charles Elmore Crople Supreme appointment made it impossible Court clerk. Reed immediately foi turn to be piesent. Resolutions of respect from the took his seat on the bench at the extreme left of Chief Justice Phi Kappa Iota fraternity were read by Robert Monson, and ftom Chai les Evans Hughes. Next to Reed's seat was the the Richmond Lons club by Glavacant chair of Justice Benjamin ms G Merrill. N. Cardozo who with Justices Eulogizes Youth Louis D. Brandeis, Harlan F. Stone High tributes to the fine charand Hugo L. Black comprises the acter and splendid work of the liberal bloc which Reeds appoint- young missionary were paid. He ment augmented to a n was eulogized by the speakers for his willingness to be of service majority. Cardozo is ill. Cardozos illness in a possible and to do his best. They said that portent of another change in the he was a gentleman, clean in mind court membership. Many persons and body, full of vigor, happy, close to the court believe the ail- cheerful and sincere, and that he ing jurist may resign his post, was loved by those with whom thus giving Mr. Roosevelt a third he came in contact, old and appointment to the bench. young alike. They stated that he had will power and could control his temper. President Peterson attributed his TELEPHONES TO success in the mission field to the tools with which he had to work: humility, obedience, and the BULGARIAN KING faith, fact that he was not ashamed of Another ice blockade ed to send flood waters over Sr-.i-h Island, home of 35 families. They were prepared to evacuate. Five persons were burned to death and three others injured in an Oxford, O., home when kerosene, being used to kindle a fire, exploded Disastrous fires occurred in three Nebraska towns as nearblizzard conditions prevailed Sunday. Heavy property damage was caused by the fires at Wallace, Humboldt and Ogallaia. Seventy-fu- e persons were given at Milemergency treatment waukee hospitals for injuries suffered on slippery sidewalks. The coldest spot in the nation was Havre, Mont., where the temperature dropped to 28 degrees below zero. It was 14 below at Devils Lake. N. D., eight below FALLS CITY, Neb Jan. 31 (U.P) Gus Phillips was back at tho throttle of his locomotive today, thinking of many things he mighi have told his friend King Boris III of Bulgaria when he called him on FRKDKKU K II. OLSEN the gosjiel of Christ. Faithful Family to the Olsen fainConsolation tly should come, they inferred, because members of the family had done their duty in supporting and helping the youth in every way to make good and to become a real missionary in the field. It was stated that an impressive service with a large crowd attending and an abundance of floral marked the funeral for Frederick H. Olsen in Copenhagen, Denmark. A letter from the U. S. Consul General under whose direction the body of Elder Olsen was prepared for shipping, was read by Bishop J. Morris Godfrey in which he termed the youth a modern crusader knight, and who seemed to him, clothed in white, to be ready for the call of the resurrection. Beautiful Flowers of lovely profusion A floral FRATERNITY TOURS BUSINESS HOUSES Members of Alpha Kappa Psi, business fraternity at professional Phillips, who completed the first iti.. Utah State Agricultural college, c telephone connection returned to Logan Saturday eveto Bulgaria, just to wish the king ning after an industrial tour of a happy birthday" said he figured four business establishments in Salt the sentimental value of the call Lake City and vicinity. Arnold was worth a great deal more than Owen, treasurer of the local chapthe $31 it had cost him. ter, was in charge of the two-da- y The engineer, who met the king trip, which included visits to the in 1932 when ht and his wife American Smelting plant at Murwere touring his native land of ray, the Salt Lake Tribune newsBulgaria, made the call from Oma- paper plant, Ure, Pett, and Morns house, and the Salt at Moorehead, Minn., and 10 be- ha where he had gone on his regu- stock and bond office. lar railroad run. His wife added Lake City post low at Williston, N. D. The members in the party left The cold extended into Okla- her felicitations from a connection at their home here. Logan Friday morning and attendhoma and northern Texas. "Your majesty, King Boris, this ed the assembly given by the USAC Other temperatures: Montgomfor the U. of U. stuery, Ala., 70; Goodland, Kas., 2; is Phillips, speaking from Amer- student body were dents. They spectators at the 4; ica," the engineer said. Chicago 5, Sioux City, la., "Mr. Phillips! from America? basketball game Friday evening beBismarck, N. D., 10; Oklahomu tween Utah State and Utah uniYou are truly speaking from AmerCity, 18; Des Moines, la, 0. ica?" the king exclaimed. BY UNITED CRESS versity. o A cold wave, the most Phillips convinced, him thut un severe of the winter, overspread ocean and several nations lay bethe territory from the Rockies to tween them, and extended his for- FOLLOWS URGE, the Ohio Valley today and .whip- mal birthday greeting which he ped by high winds from the Can- had memorized in advance. Then he talked about the weathadian plains, moved swiftly toGOES TO JAIL ward the Atlantic seaboard. er," Phillips said. Prince Maria Louise, 5, shouted Temperatures tumbled as much hello and after a few more inas 40 degrees in five hours in IlBOISE, Idaho., Jan. 31 119 week-end of com- formal remarks between the king linois, ending a Wendltck, 25 of Marstng, had Ray and the American "commoner" they an indefinable paratively warm weather. urge to break winThe bitter cold meant addition- said goodbye. dows large ones expensive ones, Part of the conversation was in windows which made a grand al hardships for lowland dwellers along the Rock river ir. North- English, part in Bulgarian. clatter when they crashed and he Last where western Illinois floods, year Phillips sent the king wandered up and down the street model a a of ice American streamlined swelled isolated jams, by everybody about it. train. Boris sent the engineer a dia- telling homes and covered farmlands. But nobody would pay any atOne hundraed families fled from mond stiek-pitention to him, try though he their homes south of Rock Ismight to impress upon the genland, III. Score evacuated in other eral populace that his desire, uncommunities along the stream less suppressed, might turn out Government engineers warned NAME WINNER OF dangerously. other families to prepare to leave. So he filled his pockets with An ice gorge was forming where had another one, and went rocks, SCHOLARSHIP in search the river joins the Mississippi to of windows. He paused cause additional concern to resin front of a department store, cue workers. considered a moment, and heaved At Dixon, 111., a power three rocks. Three large holes of dam gave way under the pressure Joseph R. Quayle, 19, son appeared in a pair of $200 plate ice and overflow. Barges Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Quayle of glass of the windows. and small boats were destroyed. Then he told some more people Logan, was selected today as the what he wanted to do. They De winner of the $100 Union Pacific iieved him called the gen. and to RECOVER BODIES the Utah State darmes. He told the people where scholarship ho was going next to break winAgricultural college for outstanding achievement among the Cache dows, and they believed and joyfollowed. OF PLANE VICTIMS county Future Farmers. Announce- fully When the officers arrived, ment was made by J. W. had an appreciative audsuperintendent of Cache Wendltck ience. was them of the He telling FLAGSTAFF, Ariz, Jan. 31 lPl county schools, who with Lloyd M. clerk of the county pschological urge which had made A small band of men, trudging Theurer, p snow jagged, qphool board and County Agent of him a window breaker. through He continued his scholarly dissteep Wilson mountain, today re- R. L. Wrigley, served as judge. Norman Funk, 17, son of Mr. course, even in jail. turned the bodies of Gerard F. Vultce, airplane designer, and his and Mrs. Jerome Funk of Benson wife from the wreckage of their ward, was named as alternate. Final approval of the winner airplane. The bodies, burned and crushed, and alternate will be made by w'ere earned on stretchers 2,a00 Union Pacific officials. Mr. Quayle, now a student at FOR LOWER RATES feet down the mountainside to a truck, which brought them to the USAC., won the award in a SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 31 (LRi Sedona, 20 miles south of here very close race with the North Cache student, accord- A petition asking reopening the They were taken to a Flagstaff Both presented rate case against the Utah Power mortuary to await the arrival of ing to judges. Don Smith, head of the Vultce excellent records, making it diffi- and Light company that a fair Aircraft corporation, Downey, Cal., cult for judges to reach a decision. property value may be found and The award winner presented a just and reasonable rates to its of which Vultee was an official. Vullee and his wife were fly- combination of four projects over Utah patrons may be determined ing toward Santa Monica, Calif., a four year period. He offers a was filed with the state public after a business trip in the east. diary project for four years, a service commission today. Chairman Ward Holbrook said dairy and swine combined project They had left their old son with rs. Vultees par- for three years and last year he the petition would be considered ents. Her father Is Max E. Park- added wheat and beet projects to by the commission at its regular er, a motion picture art direc- the list to give him four for the weekly meeting tomorrow. He retor. fused to comment on the petition, year. The Benson youth presented a which criticized the recent rate rer MEXICAN' FASCISTS FIGHT comduction order of the commission, dairy project and MATAMOROS, Mexico, Jan 31 pleted work on a grain project but estimated a reopening of the tl Hi Police, troops and Agrarian in addition to the dairy project case would take at least two years time. reservists today clashed with being carried on this year. armed bands, identified by police The petition for rehearing was The FFA-Uscholarship in voChief Miguel Cardenas as mem- cational agriculture is presented entered by the consumers welfare bers of Lais Dorados, the Mexi- each year by the railroad company league of Utah, Globe Grain and can fascist Gold Shirts," at in addition to the scholarship for Milling Co. of Ogden, and Mitchell several points in Tamaulipas state. outstanding Melich of Moab. club work. lp the telephone yesterday. trans-oeeani- -- Defeating Purpose -- sub-zer- trust-bustin- tug-of-w- , trust-buste- Teaches Farley Free Lesson In Profit Making Postmaster of four and six and mailed the letters to friends in the nearby Staff Correspondent United Irpss towns. 31 Jan. (fin WASHINGTON, He would address ns many as Neb J. L. Van Valin, Nelson, 1,000 special delivery letters to postman, gave Postmaster General a friend in, for instance, James A. Farley a lesson today Then he would rush to Bost-wic- k on how to make a profit out of and deliver the letters, mails. the about $80 for the job. In 1932 Van Valin was a stamp The friend, by prenrrnngement broker and, like Farley since has, he was operating at a deficit. How would give him back all the let he figured out a way to turn his ters, with the stamps cancelled. business into a profitable enter- Van Valin would save the stamps ao simple it amazed until that particular issue went prise was out of sale. postal officials. He then would sell the cancelled It was so ingenious, in fact, that deblocks to collectors, often at more the internal revenue bureau cided to have a close look at it than their face value. Thus he The board of tax appeals cnlled would not only make a profit on on Van Vulin to tell lio.v he made the stamps but would have $80 a sizeable net profit in 1933 and from the government for delivering the letters. 1934. Van Valins records showed he The bourd heard his story and decision made a net profit, after deductthen issued a his novel method of ing operating expenses, of $1 declaring 298 in 1933 and $6,081 in 1934. making a living to be perfectly records have not been pre legal. Van Valins business even Later to the fax board. helped Farley cut down his post sented In 1933, ac'rding to records office deficit i. verified by the postoffeie departHis plan worked like this: He secured appointment from ment, Van Vulin mailed and delivered 562,277 letters and postthe the postoffice department as cards. He received messenger fees messenger for delivery special Nelson and also for nearby Elk of $37,134 and had an income of from the of cancelled City, Cadam, Boslvuck and Strang. $31,592 thut cost sale him 58,238. The government agreed to pay stamps Lusiness was better the next him about eight cents for deliver- letter year, when he handled 614,668 leting each special delivery several ters. In that year he received Valm putihased , Van thousand commemorative stamps, messenger fees of $11,215, had an J mostly two, throo and fives He income of $41,773 from sale of i placed them on letters in blocks stamps costing him $67,613. BY FRED BAILEY , Bost-wic- n. U.P. Kirk-brid- e, foot-dee- FILE PETITION two-yea- P Open High .92 .87 .93V, .88 .88 ,S7'i Low Close .92 V, .87 .87 4 93 .88 .88 Price Five Cents GRAND JURY AIRS Tributes Are Paid ASKS RELIEF WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 l.F John L. Lewis, chairman of the committee for industrial organization, demanded today that congress 0 appropriate an additional to finance relief until $3,000,-000,00- June, pieces were carreid by fifty girls, and friends, neighbors, cousins, under the direction of Miss Emma Fisher and Miss Evelyn Webb, and the ward Relief Society and YAVM1A officers Pnllbearers were A. Peterson of Mesa, Harold Arizona, and Woodrow Nielsen of Ephraim, Utah, who accompanied the body of Elder Olsen from on their return Southampton from the Danish mission; two cousins, Frank Olsen of Rigby, Idaho, and Elbert Daley of Arco, Idaho, Norwood Hyer of Lewas-toand Val Bullen of Richmond. The services were conducted by Bishop J Morris Godfrey of the Richmond South ward bishopric. Prayers were by S V. Hendricks and N. D. Merrill. Companions Kpeuk The choir under the direction of H. S. Webb sang, "God Moves in and "Rest in a Mysterious W ay Heaven." Brigham Monson sang, "Oh, My Father, in the Swedish language. A duet was sung by H. S. Webb and Mrs. Lona Smith, and a selection by the ladies were Miss chorus. Accompanists Gene Funk, Miss Bertha Monson, and Mis. E. M. Htcken. The speakers included five forto Denmark mer missionaries H. A. Peterson of Arizona; Wood-roNielson of Ephraim, Ezra Carr and Thomas Drury of Salt Lake City, and President Alma Peterson of Ogden; Principal E. M. Hicken of the North Cache Seminary, President H. Ray Pond of Benson stake, and Bishop J. Morris Godfrey. Members of the Richmond Lions stake club and the Benson Quorum of Seventy were in at tendance in full at the services. Interment took place in the Itichmond cemetery under the direction of the Thompson Mortuary of Hyrum, where the grave was dedicated by George O. Webb. Judges Busy Selecting 16-M- Jury an Today BOISE, Ida, Jan. 31 IlP) The governments of a state, a county, and a capitol city were moved today into a stuffy room in a temporary county courthouse as a grand jury convened for its long awaited investigation into the administrative affairs of Idaho. Primarily called for Inquisition of allegedly questionable conduct, of various ntate departments, the grand jury holds the power to turn county and city affairs upside down in its scheduled search lor graft, corruption and vice. Select Jury Shortly after 11 a. m. Ada County District Judges Charles Koelsch and C. E. Winstead convened tho panel to begin selection of a trial jury of 16 men and a fore3o-m-an man. The panel was composed for the most part of farmers and small businessmen, drawn from the taxpayers' lists with care designed to organize a group which yvill diligently hold to the business at hand. During its tenure, the grand jury will command all state records and will handle the prosecution of county and city criminal affairs. Indictments issued by the grand jury will have the same effect as complaints issued by the prosecuting attorney. Investigate State Offices It was said, however, that minor criminal offenses coming under potential jurisdiction of the body would be put aside for later disposition through regular channels so the jury might turn its entire POLICE SUMMONED attention to the investigation of state government But the comment was freely cirBY CATS MEOW culated thatas certain county dewell as the ownerpartments, ship of city houses of prostitution g clubs were A cats meow sent Logan police and In for officers to the Canal Grocery, 395 .This thorough investigation. jury .is-- the second West Center street, Sunday flight in the grand history of the state to be expecting to find the place burg- called for the purpose of digging larized and hoping to nab the rob- into Idahos central government. bers. The first such grand jury, called Police were led to believe that in 1915, went into the state insomething was up at the grocery surance fund and returned two store when they were notified that indictments. One man was sent the telephone receiver was off the to prison. hook. All they could get from the May Cause Party Split other end of the line was the meow1 Chief topic touching upon action of Proprietor E. C. Jones educated of the grand jury wsj the possible cat. Investigating, 'the officers found result outcome of the investigation that Mr. Jones' favorite mouse might have upra the present catcher had knocked the receiver Democratic party setup in Idaho. off the hooa while crawling over It was said that the investigation was the of a a desk. party split and the ultimate development of the already formed GEORGE H.TARBET Liberal - Progressive Democratic party iuto the dominant political division of the state. This group, made up of the AWAY younger members of the party, has a maintained a attitude of the interest upon calling of the son H. of Tarbet, 47, a George and its members have the late Mr. and Mrs. Weber Tar- grand jury follow-ir- g bet of Logan, died at a Spring forecast Its rise to power the grand jury session. as Canyon hospital Saturday night the result of a raptured appendix. His sister, Phoebe Tarbet, had been with him for the past ten ST. GEORGE liquor-dispensin- 1939. -- Pi Dr. WASHINGTON, Jail. 31 Francis E. Townsend was accused today of "blocking the thing he most desires by opposing amendments to the proposed general welfare act, successor in congress to old age pension his plan. tween them may have Rep. Charles N. Crosby. D, Pa., effects upon the nations economic chairman of the house steering structure. committee for the welfare bill, Here are the rival line-upcharged that Townsend "is not only TIUST-mSTEK- S being destructive but actually tryRobert H. Jackson, assistant at- ing to block possible passage of a to pension bill torney general and tho presidents $80 of for persons over 60 to replace social personal choice for governor r. securitys old age insurance. atNew York, is the No. 1 Townsend refused recently to He was behind the prosadvoecution of the big auto finance tend a meeting of 80 pension comcalled by the steering becates and in Milwaukee, companies hind the plan to crack down on mittee of 40 he himself helped formed and charged it overstepped the big movie companies for its rights in calling the meeting On Page 2) s: that country 31 five-ma- ro ' vs h in County Merchants STODDARD luge Benson stake taber-n.i- i is filled to ovvrfliwing liunds from far and near Rivh-mun- of Supreme Court Takes Oath .. .. Missionary Who Died In Held nil .l vim gathered Sunday ill to honor Frderu k H Olsen, son of Mi and Mrs. H F Olsen, vim ilieii on January 5 m C'open-igcn, Denmark while serving as u missionary for the LDS i hureh V Calls Meeting of EAK.LAN IIA 'I sub-zeweather after the centurys worst snowstorm proved a staggering task in Michigans buried upper peninsula as this remarkable photo o Ironwoods Main street shows. Leaving behind death, suffering, isolated communities, stranded miners and school children, the ISOinch snowfall piled drifts 25 feet deep in places. Ironwood battled drifts downtown. July Sept Glowing; tend funeral Sen ices HIGH COURT Digging out In May bo T u e n t () n e .Mission;) l ies I roni Danish Mission At- Jan Wheat: Friends, Admirers of Frederick Olsen Throng Benson Stake T abernacle Rites REED SWORN WASHINGTON, Grain Range fore-runn- er WANT CASHS SALT LAKE CITY, Jail. 31 U P) An urgent appeal to retain the two C.C.C. camps assigned to Utah reclamation work was sent today by Gov. Henry H. Blood to Robert Fechner, director of emergency conservation work. STORMS SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 31 tlRt Storm warnings were posted from Los Angeles to Puget Sound today as Pacific gales swept a severe coastwide storm over the western states, bringing heavy rains and snows and battering ships at sea. Virtually all commercial planes were grounded. PASSES sub-ros- CHO days. Mr. Tarbet was May 22, 1890 and eral years ago. Funerui services Wednesday at 1 Lindquist chapel. in the Logan city Friends may call born in Logan left here sev- DROWNS IN DITCH be held in the Burial will be cemtery. MAY STRIKE at the home of SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 31 Fi 392 West First Wanda Tarbet, Tnreut of a Los Angeles waterfront North, Tuesday evening and Wedrival as closer loomed today tieup nesday morning. groups of longshoremen prepared Surviving Mr. Tarbet are his for what may be the final legal widow, Mrs. Vivian Tarbet; four Mrs. Wanda Stoughton battle for control of hiring halls. sisters, and Phoebe Tarbet of Logan; Mrs. Katherine Libbey of Albuquerque, SHOOTS LAWYER New Mexico; Mrs. Leora Jackson WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 lPt of Cokeville, and one Alexandria, Va., police today issued brother, Lee Wyoming; the orders for questioning of all sus- present time isTarbet, whoill at at the picious "panhandlers and broad- U. S. Veterans critically hospital in Fort ened their search for a mysterious, woman to aid them in Miley, San Francisco. solving the shooting of Russell Harg assistant attordy, ney general. Hardy was wounded will p. m. red-hair- SANTA CLARA, Utah, Jan. 31 Gordon Ray, son of Joseph and Leona Ray, crawled into an irrigation ditch in front of his home here today and was drowned. His body was found jammed under a culvert a few rods from his home, approximately five miles west of St. George. The child was being watched by his sister, but crept out a gate in a fence surrounding the house and fell into the ditch. The boy was in the water only a fow minutes, but attempts to revive him were futile. Mrs. Ray was inside the house, ill with pneumonia. il.Hi trust-bustin- in the thigh. Princess Juliana of Holland Gives Birth To Baby Girl ACCEPTS APOLOGIES WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (tP The United States today accepted as satisfactory expressions of reBY II. C. BUURMAX gret from the Japanese govern- United Press Staff Correspondent ment for the slapping of John M. Netherlands, Jan. Allison, American consul, by a 31 SOESTDYKE, R- Princess U'.Juliana, heir to Japanese soldier at Nanking. the throne of the House of Orange, gave birth to a girl today, her first ROYAL ENGAGEMENT child. 31 H'l Jan. TIRANA, Albania, The baby, provided there is no The engagement of future male child, was destined to Countess Geraldine Apponyi of into the third generation the Hungary to King Zog was an carry line of of this sturdy nanounced officially in parliament tion of queens 8,500,000 people. today. With the pretty, pink cheeked white princess In the REJECTS PLAN palace here were her mother, Queen Presi31 Jan MIAMI, Fla., (n Wilhcimma. whose heir she is, and dent William Green of the Amerl her husband of a year. Prince Bern-harcan Federation of Labor today himself a scion of the ancient rejected as "Impractical the lat- German house of est plan for peace between the Princess Juliana wanted a girl; federation and the committee Prince Bernhard a boy. for Industrial Organization. It was announced officially that the child was born at 9:30 a. m. EXCLUDES CORPORATIONS 210 a. m. MST). Jan. 31 HPi For weeks, the nation and its WASHINGTON, Associate Supreme Court Justice possessions all over the world had Hugo L. Black, in a dissenting awaited news of the birth. As the opinion, today proposed that cor- official announcement was flashed, porations be excluded from pro- waiting batteries of artillery end tection of the due process clause cannon of warships at sell, began of the federal consititution. firing salutes of 51 guns. It would semi-circul- d, Lippe-Biosterfel- have been 101 guns if the baby had been a boy. As the guns fired their news, people ran from homes and offices into the streets to ask whether the baby was a girl or boy and to begin a celebration that, aided by national holidays, was expected to continue for days. Eight groups of medievally clad heralds, two trumpters ard a crier in each, started out from the Hague to inform the country formally of the birth. Coincidently airplanes took off from Royal Air Force fields to drop leaflets all over the country the 20th century method of giving the news. Sextons climbed to church towns to ring the bells. Town and village bands were ordered out to head parades. Choristers made ready to parade, singing hymns of thanksgiving that the royal succession was furthei assured by a new descendant of the proud house of Orange Nassau. Preparations were made to distribute buttered rusks tbuns) spread with sweetmeats to the 4,000 fanultLcs of Ihe Soestydk area. |