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Show THE POSTAGE RATES BREAKING OF DAM WAr TER RELEASED WHEN DAM GIVES WAY OF GALLONS OF In order to take care Washington. the increase in salaries of postal the country, employees throughout a year, $68,000,000 approximately which became effective January 1st, last, additional postage rate on certain classes of mail matter will be imposed by the government. "That the mailing public may be thoroughly informed of the changes In the rats of postage which went into effect April 15th." said Postmaster General New, "and in order to avoid any possible confusion or musunder-standlng- . a statement showing the difference in rales from those now prevailing may no doubt prove of assistance at this time. "So far as the rates on first-clas- s mail are concerned, there are no changes except in the case of private mailing cards, including souvenir post cards, on which the rate is increased from 1 to 2 cents each. Post cards issued by the government, however, will continue to be sent for 1 cent tween Flat Rock and Lake Erie were driven from their homes when the dam at the power plant of the Ford Motor company at Flat Rock burst and released millions of gallons of water into the valley. More than 5000 acres are reported under water which is reported to be twelve feet dee, in some places and steadily rising. The valley's inhabitants were warned of the flood by troopers from the South Rockwood station of the Michigan state police, who started along the river to rouse persons living nearby as soon as guards at the dam had telephoned the station of the trouble. So rapidly did the water rise that the officers were soon forced to take to boats, going thrus from house to house with their warning, ferrying scores of families to safety and sending the men ahead In commandeered boats to aid in the rescue work. No lives have been lost, so far as could be learned, although many houses, built below the level of the dam, were inundated. Hundreds of small houses, many of which are set on stilts, line the river at its banks, but state troopers believe no lives were lost, because of the warning. Although water was high around the bridges of the Michigan Central and the Detroit, Toledo & Shore Line railroads below Flat Rock, traffic was not interrupted. Small barns, boathouses, wooden farm implements, trees, bushes and furniture were drifting down the valley on a current running ten miles an hour. The troopers reported seeing chickens clinging to drifting sheds and once a dog, marooned atop a small barn, howling in fear as the waves rocked and buffeted his raft through the wreckage. The break in the Ford company dam followed the crumbling of the earth embankments that flank the new Detroit Edison company dam at Franch Landing, several miles abbve Flat Rock. The impounded water of the six mile artificial lake rushed through the break. The dam, which is 32 feet high, was built partly of concrete and partly of earth. Engineers estimated that already 10,000 cubic feet of earth have been washed away, while the river is eating into the remaining earthworks and engineers believe more will be swept out. The new power station of the Edison company was to have been opened May 1. The cost was $750,000. each. "The rates on second, third and s mail have been Increased in certain contingencies, but this increase is very slight and will not work any hardship on the mailing The excess revenue to be public. derived from such sources will enable the poatofflce department to meet its obligations and at the same time provide increased compensation for its army of faithful employees." With the change in the rates on first-clas- s mail matter as indicated by the statement of the postmaster general, the other changes effective April 15 are as follows: Second-clas- s mail: Newspapers, magazines and other periodicals containing notice of second class entry. The rate for the public is two cents for each 2 ounces up to 8 ounces and zone rate plus a ths fourth-clas- s service charge on each parcel over 8 ounces. This does not include certain increases in rates for publishers and news agents. Third-clasmail: Circulars, and other miscellaneous printed matter as well as merchandise. The rate Is l'.i cents for each 2 ounces up to 8 ounces. But the rate on books, including catalogs of 24 pages or more, seeds, cuttings, bulbs, roots, scions and plants is 1 cent for each 2 oun-ceor fraction thereof up to 8 ounfourth-clas- s ces. Fourth-Clas- s (parcel post) mail: The same matter, weighing more than 8 ounces, as handled in third class mall. Limit of weight 70 pounds in first, second and third zones, and 50 pounds in all other zones. The pres. ent pound rates in the various zones have in been changed. A service charge of 2 cents in stamps to be affixed to packages in addition to the postage, has been imposed for each parcel, except those collected on rural delivery routes. The act of February 28, 1925, offers a new and speedier service for parcel post which mailers may or may not purchase at their own option. This new service is designated a "special handling" service. Practically speaking, this service means that parcel post to be handled not as parcel post customarily Is handled, but la handled as first-clasmail. Its particular advantage applies mainly to Its handling en route on railroads and other transportation facilities between the poHtoffice of dispatch and It iiiunt the postoffice destination. be carefully distinguished from the "special delivery" service, where the chief advantage applies after the arrival of mail at the postoffice of its destination. For this special handling of mail a charge of 23 cents will be Imposed. In addition to the regular postage and service charge. Mailers of perishables such as meats, vegetables, fruits, flowers, etc., will have, under the new law, the privilege of purchasing "special hand-line:service, together with "special delivery" service, In case the mailers themselves consider that the commodity which they are mailing justifies the expenditure. If the mailer decide not to purchase the special handling and special delivery stamps. his consignment will be handled as ordinary parcel post Is customer!? hand- Virginia Lose Another Judge Bristol, Va. For the second time in less than two months the Virginia supreme court of appeals has lost one of its members through death from shotgun wounds, Judge Joseph L. Kelly having been found dying in bis home after members of his family heard an explosion in the basement. In February Judge Frederick W. Sims, to whose post Judge Kelly committed suicide by succeeded, shooting himself in a Richmond hotel. Judge Kelly had been in ill health for many months. His household was startled by the sound of a shot, and entering the basement, found him fatally wounded. He died soon after. ' i . - " ' j j aaaraaiaiaaraffisiDiiPnfisiPiraiPraiaB H. C. Davis of Delta, Colo., is applying to the public utilities commission f Utah for permission to operate an automobile freight and passMiles of enger line between Vernal and Grand Thirty-on- e One Hundred Junction, Colo. He proposes a $10 Road Building Would be Necespassenger fare and $1.25 a hundred sary to Tap Thousands of freight rate. Fertile Acres Salt Lake City. The state road, commission has received from San-- ( Two projects for ex- pete county a check for $3000 to co Washington. tensive railroad construction in the er preliminary engineering expenses west have been laid before the in- in conection with the proposed highway between Chester and Mount terstate commerce commission. The Denver & Rio Grande West- Pleasant. Davis county has also forern asked authority to build into the warded $500, which is an advance Uinta basin, Utah, by carrying a on its 1925 state road tax revenue. branch 131 miles from Soldier SumSalt Lake City. Quarterly receipts mit, Utah. There ard approximately for the secretary of state's office for 750.000 acres of tillable land in the the first three months of the present territory which the branch would year amounted to $549,546.44, ol which $397,177.48 was from the gasreach, the application declared. The second application, though fil- oline sales tax. General fees were ed under the name of the Fort Worth $7045.75 and corporation taxes, & Denver South Plains, indicated that 64. The figures exceed those for the Colorado & Southern system in- the corresponding quarter of last tends to provide about 190 new miles year. of the line for its system in Texas. Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City has The Fort Worth company, which is and definitely declined the officially formera subsidiary of the Colorado, offer of a reservoir site at the mouth ly asked permission to build from of Little Cottonwood canyon. On the Carey to Plainview, with branches of those of request representatives extending to Silverton and Lubbock making the tender for an immediate all points in Texas. No estimates of answer in view of other plans for the cost were filed on either project. utilization of this site should the city Denver. Construction of the pro- decline. Mayor Nelson advised that the would be unable to underposed branch line from Soldier Sum- take city new any project this year. mit, Utah, into the Uinta basin by Provo. The most encouraging step the Denver & Rio Grande Western railroad would involve expenditure of taken in the hope that, Provo's busi approximately $7,000,000, J. S. Pyeatt, nes sdistrict is to be given a more adequate lighting system was the represident of the system said here. Preliminary surveys have been cent creation of a lighting district completed and material is being held in the business section of the city, which extends from First East to in readiness for actual construction pending the action of the interstate Fifth West streets on Center. commerce commission in granting auOgden. The purchase of 180 acres thority for the branch line, Mr. Pye- of land in Ogden valley near the att said. Ogden City artesian well The line would terminate at Ver- presentwhich has been contemplated park, Utah. nal, for a number of years, has just been A maximum grade of 2 per cent is completed and with the acquisition provided for in preliminary surveys, of the land by the city, Ogden's water the executive declared. supply will be augmented to agreat extent. Ford Operates Plane Salt Lake City. Utah should In tht Detroit. The Ford Motor company has inaugurated what is said to be near future receive from the federal the first commercial air line to be es- treasury a check for about $12,000, tablished in the United States when which will, under the Utah law, be added to the principal account of the the "Maiden Dearborn," an " monoplane of the type school land grant funds and will form hopped off from Ford airport. Dear- the first substantial addition to that born, with a cargo of company mail fund from the operations of the federand express for the Ford plant at al leasing act. The check will repre-esn- t the state's share of the royalHegewisch, 111., near Chicago. The plane, piloted by Eddie Hamilton, a ties and rentals and other charges former Royal air service flier, is one made in the explotation of the coal of the two Duralumin planes to form resources of the state under that act. the nucleuse of an air service to link Midvale. A clean-uand palnt-uthe Ford company here, with its campaign is being conducted by a plant3 at Chicago, St. Louis, Mo., St. committee from the city council, the Paul, Minn. The second plane will Lions club, and the Ladies' Communreceive its final tests soon. ity club. On Main street, all places of business are being painted, and in Parents to Confront Haarman the residential districts unsightly Relatives of trees and unnecessary fences are beHanover, Germany. the victims of Fritz Haarman, the ing removed. Garbage and refuse is "wholesale murdered," who was con- being hauled away by a large force victed in December of having slain of men. Free flower seeds are betwenty-sipersons and was sentenced ing distributed by the Ladies' Comto death, have demanded of the munity club to all child-e- n desiring state's attorney that Haarman be to enter a contest. confronted with a deputation of parSalt Lake City. The Utah racing ents who desire to obtain from him authentic Information regarding the commission, the creation of which fate of their children. The state's was brought about by legislation enattorney also bad been requested to acted recently, was organized at a produce a lengthy confession which meeting held, at the capitol, when Haarman Is alleged to have made re- B. F. Grant, general manager of the cently to the warden of the jail in Deseret News, was elected chairman and James H. Waters, manager of which he Is confined. the Newhouse hotel, was elected secPotassium Chlorate Tariff Increased retary. The other member of the commission is Gage Rodman of OgPresident Washington. Coolidge den. , proclaimed an Increase in the tariff on potassium chlorate from one to Salt Luke City. Farmers of Utah two and .cents per pound. to the number of 4857 have borrowed The increase was decided upon after $15,516,000 from the Federal Land an Investigation by the tariff commisbank since Its establishment In 1916. sion had Indicated this old tariff did It was learned when L. T. Pettljohn, not equalize the difference In cost member cf the federal farm loan of production, in the United States boards at Washington, addressed the and the principal competing country. assembled stockholders of the Utah Germany. branches of the National Farm Ixian association at the first meeting of Norris Heir Born St .Charles .111. An eight and one-hal- f that organization held in this district since 1917. pound son has been born to Mr. und Mrs. Lester Norris of St. Charles. Salt Lake City. Governor George Mrs. Norris was formerly Miss H. Dern laid the cornerstone of the Angel, heiress to the $38,000,000 mounment which Is to be erected on John W. Gates estute. He Is their the capitol grounds, lust' week, In' leconil child. They have a girl, born memory of the members of the Morin December, 1923. mon Buttalion. who in 1847 made the . long trek across plain, mountain and Plunge Rettorea Hearing derert. The ceremonies were In Denver, Colo. A 9000-fooplunge charge of Hrlghiwn H. Roberts, presn an airplane was believed ..to have ident cf the Monument asocintlon, the nred the deafness of Robert Egbert exercises prior to the laying of the lere. Egbert tried the hazardous cornerstone being conducted In the recently. He had been deaf rotunda of the capitol. wenty years. Bingham. The employees of the Utah Copper company, who hae laSouth Dakota Has Gaa Cut bored diligently for a recreation park Huron, 8. I). Gasoline at virtual-all service stations here Is selling will be successful. It Is understood the Utah Copper company will door 20 cents per gallon, the price by the state filling station nate $5000 If other mining companast week. The price cuts ranged ies will subscribe $2500. An effort rom 3 cents by Independent stations will be made to obtain a water supply from the town of Bingham, and o 5 cents by the Standard Oil If none Is available from this source Meanwhile two Independents nd the Standard company left their It Is believed water can be procured ank wagon prices at 23 cents a gal-n- . from some of the old shafts formerly In placer mining. The new park 3 centa higher than the filling used itatlon charge, while another inde- will he located near the baseball park. pendent held to a 23 cent charge. UINTAH BASIN LINE FROM SOLDIER SUMMIT IS THE LATEST PROPOSAL ? V . a as;- Photo By U. Richfield, Utah. Nestled in a hallow between two high green ridges lies Utah's most famous lake Fish Lake, near Richfield, Utah from whose clear cold depths are drawn the finest kind of trout, some of them big old fellows which weigh over twenty pounds. But fishing Is not the whole attraction of Fish Lake. It lies high in the mountains and even in the hottest part of the summer it is cool and fine, and the lake itself with the green slopes coming down to it on both sides, is the very picture of cool mountain beauty. Along one side of the lake runs a road and there are camp grounds, summer cottages and small hotels. The opposite side of the lake has a very steep shore which cannot be reached except by boat. A fire starting at the foot of the steep slope on the east side of the lake is a very albecause dangerous proposition, though it can be readily seen from the opposite side where there are many people and where a ranger and a Forest Service guard are located, it requires some little time to row across the lake to the' attack. Last summer on July 1st, a fire was sighted over on the east side of the lake. The, forest guard was notified and he started at once io extinguish the flames. Even before he was able to embark in his boat with his fire fighters, it was noted that the fire was increasing very rapidly, smoke was piling up in a great pillar and it looked as though the entire slope was domed. The fire fighters pushed off and bent to the oars with a will and sent the boat shooting across the waters of the lake. But the lake is wide and rowing at the best is a slow proposition. they were half way across, they CA ill '.I Forest Service noted that the smoke was decreasing quite noticeably, however, and by the time they had reached the opposite shore the fire was practically out. On landing they found there thr-eBoy Scouts of Richfield, Utah, Clinton Colby, Gordon Robinson and Rex Lowe who had noted the start of the fire as they were fishing nearby and had landed and attacked the flames, throwing water upon them from a coffee pot and a gallon pail which they happened to have with them. Their efforts had come just In the nick of time, for while an area of only about 100 square feet was burned over, the flames succeeded in going half way up two large spruce trees and in a few moments more a full fledged grown fire would have roared into being, which would have rushed from the base of the slope to the very crest before it could have been controlled. It would have made a hideous blotch upon the mountain side that forms a background for the lovely expanse of blue water of Fish Lake, to say nothing of the destruction of timber and watershed cover. j A careful investigation revealed the fact that early in the morning, some fisherman had stopped on the shore and built a camp fire which he had failed to entirely extinguish. It had slowly crept along through the dry leaves and twigs without making enough smoke to be visible from the opposite shore until in the heat of the day. About 1 o'clock it had rapidly gathered headway and was developing into a real forest fire when it was nipped in the bud by the three Boy Scouts, to whom every visitor at Fish Lake owes a debt of gratitude for having preserved the beauty of the mountain side opposite the lake. Be-fo- HERRIOT S. ... . $9.-96- 6. All-met- p HIS GIRL MURDERER T RESIGN IS FOUND INSANE FRENCH LEADER ANNOUNCES RESIGNATION AS RESULT OF ADVERSE VOTE ELLINGSON FAINTS AS VERDICT SENDING HER TO " ASYLUM IS READ DOROTHY x flower-growin- Denied Vote of Confidence Premier Jury Spenda But Few Minutea in of France Resigns Post; Official Slayer of Mother Insane; Count Stands at 156 to Murder Trial is Indefinitely 132 Postponed led. Woman 63, Weds Man 25 Washington. The marriage of Mrs. Flora Hitter Conner, 63, Jo Carver here. Forrest, 25, was announced The bride Is a sister of William M. lumber millionaire, Hitter, retired who turned his extensive business over to his employes last winter. The groom la a member of a local orchestra. The announcement followed the retura of the briday couple from Wtlllamsport, Pa., where the cere-non- y was performed. Seven Power Sites Located Interior department Washington. engineers who .surveyed the Roaring Fork of the Colorado river, Colorado, reported seven undeveloped power sites between Snow Mass and the river's mouth capable of furnishing a total of 31.S00 horsepower for P0 per cent of the time and 54.000 horsepower for 50 per cent of the time. At one of the aites Inspected It was found that a canal five miles long would make possible the development of 10.000 koraepower. " Ulster Parliment Under Way Belfast, Ireland. The newly elected Ulster parliamena met and organised with the reelection of R. W. Hugh O'Xiel as speaker, after the members had taken the oath of office. The nationalists and the republicans did not attend. bor $671.9?. . Paris. After an adverse vote in San Francisco. Dorothy Ellingson, the senate on his financial program old slayer of her mother, was Premier Herriot announced that he found insane by a jury in superior had resigned. Premier Herriot and his cabinet court here. walkel out of the chamber and there The verdict means that the girl will was not even the usual formality of be committed to an asylum. The mura cabinet meeting before the decision. der case for which another jury had The present crisis was occasioned been impaneled and held in readiby the introduction of a measure by ness of the pending determination Anatole the new finance minister. now will be held In girl's sanity, Dp Monzle. which proposed to save Should she the financial si; nation by Issuance of abeyance Indefinitely. four billions in paper notes and a ever be released from the asylum, forced levy on idle capital. TV'! levy the murder charge, may be tried. would have served as a voluntary The vote of the jury was 11 to 1 loan to meet short term loans soon for Insanitv. falling due. As the verdict was read the girl While the chamber's finance com- fainted. mittee is framing the measure for Slic shot her mother January 13, submission to parliament. Herriot de- after the mother had objected to jazz cided to call for a "showdown." of Indolence. The KdntiaH llerrint. radical premi'-- r of parlies and a life wan to 1lie efopposed girl bitterly Frame, was denied a vote of confidence in the senate, after hours of forts of her attorneys to have her debate tiixm the government's finan- 'adjudge insane and hud sided with the prosecution In Its opposition to cial policy. The official vote was lut to 132. the move. Coming on the heels of a niear;T ' The girl was unrnnacioiiK when the votes in the Jury was polled and after the court-- I margin of forty-ninchamber of deputies, the action clear- room was cleared. She made no out Her head fell back and she of cry. ly demonstrated the dissipation rested In the arms of a matron. Herrlot'a parlimelitary majority. s Wilson Birthplace Shrine Under Way Staunton, Va. With an oversubscription of $10,000 a citizens' committee here closed a campaign for $100,000 to go toward establishing a birthplace memorial to Wood row Wilson here. In announcing the result at the campaign. William A. Pratt chairman of the committee, said a national appeal for funds for the shrine soon will bo made by a committee of distinguished Americans. e .... of be- U. S. Farmers Lose Billions Washington. The farmers' national council estimated In a statement that American farmers realized on the sale of their products last year $5,144,000,000 less than a fair return for their labor would have given them. Department of agriculture flg- nres on the value of the crop and livestock production for the year ere cited as showing that the aver-gfarm family received for Its la- I Notes News From AH Parts of I UTAH 1 VERA L SOUGHT First Clasa Mail Rates Remain As Heretofore Except Private Post Cards Which Will Require Two Cent Stamp Scores of families the Huron river gaEEJEEEEEEEEEEJaEEJSIHS ROAD PERMIT TO Three Boys Save Beauty of Fish Lake GOVERNMENT RAISES COSTS TO MEET INCREASED SALARIES OF EMPLOYEES Troops Are Called to Assist In Rescuing Many Who Were in Path of Rushing Water; No Lives Lost Detroit, Mich. In the valley of NEPHI, UTAH S. ARE NOW HIGHER CAUSES SUFFERING MILLIONS TIMES-NEW- j j Africans Duplay Wealth Secondee, Gold Const, West Africa. The Prince of Wales, sailing southward on the batiln cruiser Repulse, riached this port and landed amid a great display f African wealth and rich costumes. The hntive chiefs appeared in hejewrled planaqulna and the enthusiasm and excitement was the greatest ever known here. The Prince seemed particularly pleased with the warmth and loyalty of his Del-lor- t sta-:lon- a a |