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Show Page Six THE MIDVALE JOURNA L ,......................... Friday, August 23,192 :News Notes It'• a Privilege to Live In UTAH OGDEN-There are 560,000 acres of land being dry-farmed In Utah. SALT LAKE - Utah had 870,600 acres planted in irrigated crops In i928. UTAH - Utah had, on January 1, 1929, a state road system consisting of 3458 miles of highway. TOO SENTIMENTA L Youn~ Spoonbill-Ah, my dearest Miss Shilllnworth. tf I may-1 have long wished for this sweet opportu· nlty, but I hardly dare trust myself now to speak the deep emotion-but, In short. 1 Jove you !-and your-your smile would shed-would shedwouldMiss S.-Oh, never mind the wood· shed I How's your aunt's money Invested 1 And where are the ilecurltles deposl ted? GUNNISON-Sa npete county's six· teenth annual fair will be held at Manti September 11, 12 and 13. Tha officers in charge and manager; J. R. Whitbeck, vice-president; S. Petei' Peterson, secretary-tr<>asu rer ; C. A, Shand, Welford G. Frischknecht, F. M. Cox, Jr., directora. 1-Unvelllng memorial bust of Mark Twain at Mono Lake in the high Sierras o! California. 2-Some of. the 1,800 Boy Scouts at the international jamboree In England cheering !or the prince o! Wales. 3-The huge motor lllalp Britannic recently launched in Great Britain for the Atlantic passenger service. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTSProgreu of Negotiation s at The Hague-Sta rt of Zep· pelin for Tokyo. By EDWARD W. PICKARD NTERNATIONA L negotiations at The Hague during the week reached a point that virtually assured early evacuation of the Rhineland by the allies, and made It fairly certain that Great Britain would have Its way In the matter of the distribution o! German reparations. Philip .Snowden's extraordinarily undiplomatic, not to say Insulting, language In characterizing the arguments of M. Cberon, Freneh finanee minister, as "ridiculous" and ....potesque" threatened at first to dlsnpt the proceedings. Snowden apol.ogtzed, though he and his government lltood. llrm ln their position that the reparations division In the Young plan eould not be accepted. Thereupon the eepresentatlv.es of France, Belgium, .ltat,. and Japan began to figure out rmethods o! satisfying the English, rrealbllog some sacrifices must be made ria order that the entire Young plan ·should not be scrapped. They agreed, ~however, to stand together and not to make separate bargains or compro'mtses with the British. Mr. Snowden lnqJcate~ he. would accept an increase ...r.$9,520,000 per annum in the British Jilillare and the !our powers named got together $4,760,000 o! this, but Italy ,refused to ma1<e further contribution ·and Snowden repeated his ultimatum. ·U seemed likely the Young plan lnso«ar as Germany Is concerned would be :accepted and that the allies would :postpone the distribution of the reptraUons among themselves until after the meeting of the League of Na· ttons assembly late In September. Meanwhile the English may be Induced to abate something of their demands, think the French. Thomas W. Lamont, the American banker who llelped devise the Young plaa, admitted in London that he had been asked to go to The Hague to aid {D the financial deliberations, but said be had decided it was wiser tor him to stay away. I made the return trip from H AVING Lakehurst to Frledrlchshaten In tast time and without any difficulties, the German dirigible Ora! Zeppelin was refueled and continued on Its projected flight around the world. It earrled 61 persons, 20 of whom were passengers, and was equipped with rUles. and emergt>ncy food supplies in ease of a forced landing. The next stopping place was to be Tokyo, and ' this second leg of the trip was considered to be the most perllous for the huge airship. The route laid out would take It across Russia, Siberia, the Sea of Okhotsk and Saghalien. Doctor Eckener, commander of the Graf Zeppelin, has been granted a patent on a rigid dirigible with separate gas cells, like the one he Is flying around the earth, hy the United Stat~>s patent office. The patent, applied for In 1922, has been assigned to the ll'rtedrichsbafen Zeppelin company. ductlon. Washington officials are hopeful It wm be possible to hold a five-power naval conference !or the discussion of cruiser and auxiliary ship tonnages reduction late this year or early in 1930. This statemetlt was given out following a breakf1..~ given by President Hoover for the purpose of acquaintIng members of the naval general board with the progress of the conversations at London and to afford an opportunity tor a round-table discussion o! all phases of the problem. Mr. Stimson said that the President and the State department expected the fullest co-operation from the Navy department experts In the campaign for naval reduction and that the navy experts' views would be given careful consideration. He denied that any rift has developed between the navy general board and the civilians on the question of just how tar this country should go ln reducing Its navy. HOOVER Is taking P RESIDENT action In accord with his pre-election statements In which he declared !or complete co-ordination of the work of Improving Inland waterways !or navigation, Irrigation, flood control and power development. He announces that bls administration and the officials of California have reached an agreement !or the appointment of a joint commission to determln~ the policies to be pursued In such development In California. Another joint commission will work out the problems presented by the proposed construction of a bridge across San Francisco bay. 0 NE of_ the next steps !or the stabilization of agriculture by the federal farm board will be the creation of li wool marketing agency. A conference of representatives of producers' co-operative wool marketing associations and producer-owned warehouse associations will be held In Chicago some time In October, Chairman Alexander Legge, o! the board, announced. At this conference definite plans w1ll be e olved for a national co-operative wool sales agency, to Include In Its membership all of the various types of co-operatives now en· gaged In handling the commodity. Julius Barnes, William M. Jardine, former secretary of agriculture, and other prominent men, have begun the formation of a big fruit and vegetable marketing corporation, but Mr. Legge said Its plan of organization had not yet been approved by the board. The corporation Is to have a capital of $50,000,000, and in its Initial work wlll be with 60 subsidiary co-operatives In 2li states. persistent revolutionists tn T HOSE Venezuela got hold of an old Ger· man steamer and to the number of 400 landed under cover of darkness and attacked the Important city of Cumana. The government forces defended the place vigorously and repulsed the attackers, though their commander, Gen. Emilio Fernandez, was killed. The casualties were heavy and the fight lasted four hours, coming to an end when a government airplane appeared and attacked the rebels with machine gun fire and bombs. President Gomez was not unduly alarmed but sent three vessels loaded with troops to fry to capture the "pirate" s~amer. BLEUIOT, the French pilot EACE negotiations at Mancl10ull beL OUIS who made the first ftlght across P tween the Chinese and Russians tbe English channel, has perfected designs for a new type of aJrplane thal ~an be automatically converted Into t llfeboat In case of a forced landing at sea, and be ~~ays that It will carry passengers between Pat·ls and New York ln 24 hours. Future traffic between the continents will be carried on in neither Zeppelins nor hydroplanes, but in large land planes, according to the Frenchman, who Js at present collaborating wltb the Armsttong company of the Unite!~ States for the establishment of a regular air llne between Gotham and Paris. The Armstrong concern already bas begun the construction o! a series of ocean airports stretching across the Atlantic, concerning which much has been printed Heretofore. S ECRETARY OF STATE STIMSON announces that President Hoover b highly pleased with the progress made In negotiations between the United States and Great Britain on the question of naval armament re.. were broken otr, according to rath~r indefinite dispatches from the Orient, and the Manchurian situation again became threatening. Tokyo reports said there had been a skirmish on the heights west o! Manchoull and that three Russian gunboats bad landed troops in three Chinese villages on the Amur river. More Soviet cltlzens were arrested In Manchuria and some of them deported, and In Harbin the Russian White Guards were believed to be organizing an anti-Jewish pogrom. The Chinese government sent word to Moscow t~t It would be forced to take retaliatory measures unless It received assurances that the Soviet firing at Suifen would not be repeated. The Soviet government announced the formation o! a "far eastern" army In view of the threatening conditions on the frontier. amt'lversary of the WeiT HEmarterith constitution of the German republlc was celebrated with great enthusiasm In BerUn, and by dint of tak- lng extraordinary precautions and making numerous arrests the pollee suppressed the intended demonstrations of the communists and nationalIsts. In the vanguard of the huge parade was a group of New Yorkers and Chicagoans who carried the American 1lag. MUSSOLINI of Italy ts PREl\IIER putting Into effect the Fascist policy of splitting up estates that have been lying untilled and turning them over for cultivation by small farmers. The other day the feudal estates of the Doria family, comprising 2,500 acres, were thus divided among peasants In a picturesque ceremony at Roccagorga. The land was separated into 230 parcels and the division made by lottery. The proprietor of the estates, Prince Fllipo Doria Pamphlll, gets partial indemnity, and the peasants are bound to Improve the land and to assist In the general work o! reclaiming the district, which Is In the Pontine marshes. Is not nearly so subservient SPAIN to its dictator as Italy to MusIs sollnL This was evidenced by the action of th~ general labor union con· gress In session In Madrid in flatly rejecting the government's Invitation to send five representatives to the national assembly and issuing a manifesto to the Spanish people strongly attacking the dictatorship of Gen. Primo de Rivera. The new constitution, says the manifesto, would establish "Asiatic absolutism" In Spain, wreck all progress nnd return the country to the tyranny of Charles V. In comment the dictator said: "The dictatorship Is not losing Its serenity and Is continuing "to be assured o! support by the larger part ot public opinIon. I will not abandon power untU I am sure of giving the country an ample juridical base to support the new regime." tun has been C ONSIDERABLE poked by the unthinking at the proposals to reform the calendar. But the national committee on calendar simplification has just reported to Secretary of State Stimson that there is nation-wide Interest and widespread approval of the plan. The report, made by Chairman George Eastman, the camera manufacturer, is Intended for Mr. Stimson's use in preparing a reply to an inquiry from the league of nations, which contemplates calUng an international calendar conference If enough nations agree to participate. "The inconveniences which the present calendar's defects impose," says the report, "have multiplied with the progress of civilization, and conspicuously so during the rapid economic expansion o! the last hundred years. They are being felt more and more. A defect which has gro,vn to be a cause of very serious Inconvenience Is the splitting o! weeks at the beginning and end o! months and years. The lack of comparablllty between corresponding divisions of the year, particularly as to the months, Is one of the most serious Inconveniences. It makes Inaccurate and deceptive a most Important instrument used by all the organized agencies of civilization to measure progress and control their activities-f. e.: statistical data." car strikers o! New Orleans S TREET and their sympathizers stormed the city hali and beat up Acting Mayor Walmsley and tour councilmen and then engaged In a general fight with the police In "the course o! w'hich !our men were shot. The attack was made while 200 union men were meeting with the council to demand the continuance of bus and jitney cab opera. tion. Judge Morris In WilmingFEDERAL ton, Del., handed down a judgment against the Radio Corporation of America in a suit over patent rights Two of the beneficiaries are Francis W. Dunmore, a government employee in the bureau ot standards, Washington, D. C., and Percival D. Lowell. a former bureau of standards employee and at present employed by a radio manufacturing ,~ompany. The Dubll· ler Condenser corporation o! New York Is the tl,llrd beneficiary. According to William Dublller of the condenser corporation the suit will affect every manufacturer makIng radio sets with electric light sock· et attacl~rtmt and will involve at least $20,000,000 in back royalt!.-. KAYSVILLE - Utah's lil2' onion crop, based on condltlon14 August 1, is estimated at less than in 1928, but above the average of 1923 to 1927, tl;le onion report Issued recently by Frank Andrews, federal statistician, declares. The 1929 crop is estimated at 462,000 bushels, against 520,000 In 1928 and a five-year average of 268,000. FARMINGTON -Davis county cherry growers harvested only about a half crop of. cherries this year, according to H. P. Mathews, district agricultural inspector. He reports this Is due to the frost and the storm which swept over Davis county a few weeks ago. His records show that 19 cars, or 22,· 800 cases, were shipped. SALT LAKE - The Seagull Air Lines, Inc., will Inaugurate airman, passenger and freight service between Salt Lake and Vernal and Salt Lake and Ely, Nev., September 1, with ap.. proprlate ceremonies at Airport prior to practically simultaneous departure of a plane to Vernal and Ely, according to announcement recently of C. W. Parry, vice-president of the company. OGDEN-Sale by the city of $75,000 in bonds recently provided funds for building the Ogden community stadium. Definite selection of a site and awarding of a grading contract will follow, Fred M. Nye, community sta· dium chairman, stated. He hopes tfl have the stadium ready for the football game between Weber college and the McKinley school of Honolulu, to be played here October 26. PRICE-one hundred f.emale pheasants were planted recently by members of the Carbon Fish and Game association In the Gordon Creek district. All of these were of the spring allotment, and more of the winter supply will be forthcoming to this region. This makes a total of 150 birds planted here this summer. Several weeks ago 50 were placed in the Price River district, the 1928 supply, of both malo and female birds. SALT LAKE - Utah's ranges improved during July due to rains and generally high temperatures, according to a report issued by Frauk Andrews, agricultural statistician of the United States department of agriculture. Livestock also showed an im· provement, the report said. The summer range and the water supply in northern Utah were reported good. An optimistic report was also received trom west central Utah and from the southern part of the state. MYTON-After the site was surveyed for the airport landing by T. C. Guy!, resident engineer in Uyton, several men began work in cleaning up and leveling the ground to put It in first-class shape. The movement is sponsored by the city council and Commercial club, C. P. Duawalder, mayor, and R. C. Walker supnrvislng the activity. The location Is on a bench one mile east of Myton, owned by the city, and is also In close proximity to the Duchesne river, thus making it an easy one to find frotu the air. COALVILLE-T he Summit county commissioners have set aside $5000 for road betterment. The county also authorized the expenditure of Its share of the necessary funds to uil the Lincoln highway from Echo to Wanship, through Coalville, lncludmg the new part of the road recently completed by the bureau of reclamation around Echo reservoir. This work will be started In the near future and will be carried on in connection with the oiling of the road through Echo canyon to Basldn. UTAH - Substantl.d increase In Utah's commercial tonnage this year is indicated in a report made recently by A. J. Cronin, a"Ssistant general freight e.gent of the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad. Late sum· mer commercial fruit and vegetable exports from the state, now beginning to move east, will total more than 3000 carloads, his report said. He noted a favorable outlook for good prices on all vegetables, and said Utah potatoes now being shipped to Texas and Missouri river points are beginning the highest prices In years. . . VERNAL-Ulnt ah basin residents enjoyed a better than average year this season with their crops, accord· ing to Governor H. Dern, who returned recently aft~r ~tavlng attended the Uintah basin Industrial conference at Ft. Duchesne. Vernal citizens have launched a campaign for a road between Vernal and Green River, Wyo., Governor Dern states. ThJl proposed road would be an all-year highway, and would afford opportunity for shipping winter products, 6liminating hazards now encountered on the road that extend~_ over the a~mmit. { l l DOCTORS '! l HER LOT I I quite approve the quick comfort of Bayer Aspirin. These perfectly harmless tablets ease an aching head without penalty. Their increasing use year after year is proof that they do help and can't harm. Take them for any ache; to avoid the pain peculiar to women; many have found them marvelous at such times. The proven directions with every package of BaY'er Aspirin tell how to treat colds, sore throat, neuralgia, neuritis, etc. All druggists. ~SPIRIN .t.lpirlrt Is tho trade mark ot Barer Mannfa~ of HonoaceUeacideater of S&li~llc&cid Sbrivellin~r Little Betty was left In her bath while mother answered the p ne. The telephone conversation became long and caused no end of worrying to the tiny bather. for Betty had never bad experience with a prolonged stay lq;; water and its effect on the tln~rs. '\ Mother was startled by a cry from the bathroom. "Muvver,." Betty called exciteuly, 'come quick before I shwivel up into A grandmother!" Old Aunt-You've been married for six months; are you contented with your lot1 Young Wlfe-Oh, perfectly, auntie -we're going to build on It this spring. Gigantic Cofferda.a The · largest cofferdam ever constructed Is now in use In connection with the development of St. John harbor, New Brunswick. It is 4,300 feet long by about 300 feet wide and incloses one of the two new piers projected. Who Would? No wonder dclence puzzles UB, Such noble name It plies; Who'd ever dream lchneumonder Were tiny. tiny Illes? ChildrenCry for Study ia L-deranap "Have you brought mtlny people to your way of thinking?" "No," answered Senator Sorghum. "Public opinion Is something like a mule 1 owned when l was a boy. In order t1· keep up the appearance ot beIng driver I had to watch the way he was going and follow on behlnd."Washington Star. ~~ CASTORlA A BABY REMEDY APPIWVBD BYDOCI'ORS FOR cout. COI'i5nMTIOM,OIARRit£A A SURE THING Ask for "TACK· UI'" AEROXON Fl~ Cateher Leading Ribbon Fly Catcher W.,.atiorutUy cAd'l'ertised 30C per doz. Stone Deaf "'Call money""-thls we often seeAll "Doney's deaf, I tear 'l'or though I call It trequt>ntly It never seems to bear. Aa Official Criticism The Movie Manager-Good mornini, ma'am. I asked you to cull because I wanted your opinion on some of my features. The New Cen~or-Well, to begin with, your forehead Is too low, your eyes are not mates, your nose is too big and bulbous, your mouth Is too large and flabby and you've little or no chin. Otherwise they will do ve.ry well. Is tba t all? I Qunlified ! "Some of my patients are very frac- ( tlous," said the doctor to the appll· cant for a position. ''Think you can ) handle them?" "Yes; I formerly worked In a co.mposing room." Fair Enough "Aren't you ashamed! Four of ,·ou bitting one little boy." . "It's all right, mum. He told as where we could steal some apples and we're just giving him his share of what we got." Got It After All "Smith is unlucky-he put his wllole fortune Into his wife's name so that 'tis creditors could oot get lt." "He did right." "But his wtfe has eloped with bls ~hief cr~>ditor."-Faun, Vft!nna. Clotbea, Too, of Courae 1\lrS. Brewer-You don't hear me tult\ng about llllf friends all the time, do you, John? Mr. Brewer-No, not all the tlmesopre of the time It's clot)les, Jane! I f'Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegr> table Compound is a wonder.. ful medicine at the Change of Life. I would get blue spells and just walk the floor. I was ous, could not sleep at ....5 ...,., and was not able to do my work. I know if it had not been for your medicine I would have been in bed most of this time and had a big doctor's bilL women would only take nn....... medicine they woUld be bet· • ter."-M rs,., Anna' WeaveT; R. F. D. No. 2, Rose Hill, Iowa. LydiQ ~ . . Pinkham's . -Vegetab!e Comp]tmd L.v(·\3. t~.Jf.,.j!;L.hJw }.L.·,L Co .. L .. 1.n. }.1:~- . . .. . :.,.' |