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Show t iii?i'rtiriTtrWi--tyMrfrtrri- i fttMimM&toMit&u ' r " r j iiitnirtlllfiiTiTiti t m jii m THE PAYSON CHRONICLE, PAYSON, UTAH it ns, . c I r k 1 President Hoover receiving a birthday present of a carved buffalo horn from representatives of the Boy Scouts of America. 2 Maj. Gen. Douglas MacArthur who has been selected to succeed Gen. diaries P. Summerull as chief of staff of the United States army in November. 3 Frank liaucke, World war veteran, who defeated Gov. Clyde M. Iteed of Kansas for the Republican gubernatorial Domination. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Drought Relief Program Is in Effect, Directed by President Hoover. W. PICKARD By EDWARD T'NFITNITE plans for drought were, made at a conference In the White House which was participated in by the governors of the states most seriously affected. To these executives President Hoover stated the program on which he and Secretary of Agriculture Hyde had been working for a week, and in the main it was approved by them. Its principal features are the setting up of federal, state and county organizations through which financial aid may be given farmers who have suffered severely from the long dry spell, and arrangements for emergency means to prevent human sufferre-li- lov&tszzxp, At a distance of about three mil from the Baths, and easy of access, Is the Jump, one of the mountains that form the Goshen pass, gradually rising in height until at the distance of a mile and a half from the river it terminates abruptly, making a depth to the bottom below of two thousand feet, and presents a view as extensive as interesting. "The valleys of the Baths and Walk- MAdKnrAc iSZAtfD.pTICH By ELMO SCOTT WATSON "AVE you a "Lovers Leap In your locnlit.v? If you havent, then it's unique, and you might well capitalize upon that fact and, in advertising to tourists the attractions of your region, assure them that this is the only States in the United which does not have place among its scenic beauties a Single Lovers Leap. Just how many of tlie.se places there are is unknown. I!ut start anywhere in the Last and drive yest and you'll lind plenty of them. Theres one be tween Little Falls and Danube, N. Y a rocky hill overlooking the Krie canal ami the Mohawk river. Visit Starved Lock park between Ottawa and La Salle, 111., and you will lie shown a rocky projection "from which an warrior and his sweatheart leaped to death in the river, rather than deliver themselves into the hands of Visit Independence, their enemies. Iowa, and they will tell jou that Cedar rock, near Quasqueton, is also called "Lovers Leap where the Indian lovers, Wapsie and Pinicon, from whom the Wapsipinlcon got its name, are supposed to have plunged to their deaths in the swirling waters of the And out in Oakdale, Calif., river. they will sell you a post card picture ot "Lover's Leap on the road between Oakdale and Knights Ferry where a nij thlcal Indian maiden committed by leaping into the river. While nearly every township or county can boast of at least one Lovers Leap, Mackinac island in northern Michigan has the distinction of having two places where loves young dream found a tragic ending. The guide books will tell you of "Lovers Leap This lone pinnacle rises to a height of 145 feet above the waters of Lake Michigan about a mile west of the main part of the city. The legend which gives it Its name is that in the long ago the beautiful Lotah, an Indian maiden of the Oibvvay tribe and only daughter of a famous chief named Wavvnnosh, watched from this height the departure of her lover, named Geniwegwon, with a war expedition across the water; and to the rock she came day At after day to await his coming. last, the party returning without him, brought word of his death and the distracted maiden- not caring for life any longer leaped from this cliff; the lifeless body was found by her father at the foot of the precipice the evening after." Then there Is Itohertson's Folly, Tis told that a young and where beautiful Indian girl was wooed and won by tiiis dashing young Lieutenant Robertson, but the poor maiden soon learned that lie was to depart for the East at an early date to marry a white girl. lie granted her a last farewell meeting at this their trysting place, end in a desperate struggle she succeeded in precipitating him and her self ov er the cliff. Cut if you want the story of a Lovers Leap with a wealth of detail, go to Linn Creek, Mo., where there has been handed down from pioneer days this tale of Lovers Leap above the clear waters of the Niangua river before it flows into the murky Osage: "A century ago the mighty Osage nrd Shawnee tribes dwelt along these streams. They were fighting enemies, and hones of big framed giants, war clubs of stone, rusted at row heads of crudely fashioned metal and other sui-kcl- A J ing. One relief step already was In efer's creek were once the favorita j C. fect the reduction by 50 per cent of of the Cherokee tribe. ground hunting Ir.r-TifT'-iAt. While out on a hunt on one ocfreight rates on live stock and feed in and out of the drought areas. In orcasion, the Cherokees ventured in tabwhat is now known ns the little Calf der to make the new rates directly JO VERSzXAP, HEAR Pasture, to which their neighbors, the available where they are needed armDSpEmSmEjow-ArShnwnees across the mountain, claimed rangements were made for the Department of Agriculture to certify to an for exclusive privilege. They were orbeen found signs oi struggle have vears by plowboys as they turned over dered off, and refusing to go, a fight the railroad companies of each state the rich alluvial soil along Hie river ensued, which ended In a discomfiture where the drought is sufficiently acute of the Shawnees, who proceeded at to justify them. Any dealer or' farmbottoms. er desiring to move any of the emer"Grey Eagle was then a medicine once to collect and assemble their commodities reports his needs to arms. gency trial at another for braves man of the Shawnees; his daughter was Laughing Water. A young war"After several fights the Cherokes the local county agent, who may aprior of the Osage tribe came up the were finally driven through wlial is prove or disapprove the application and notify the local station agent of racing waters of the Niangua in his now known as Goshen Pass, and the railroad. A special liaison officer canoe on a pleasant day. and stopped the fight around the hasi of In handles negotiations of Washington birch bark before the topee the mountain only to he renewed in on cases between the Departicular The head of the young wars on more the a sanguinnry form of and the railpartment Agriculture rior Haunted his eagle feathers ; a deerof Walkers Creek. roads. skin shirt and leggings, and buckskin There the Cherokees organize for It is believed that use of the counmoccasins encased the form of this The ty agents, who are under the Departfinal conflict. and the last wild animals Tails of young giant. Shawnee warriors had concentrated ment of Agriculture, will prevent anyhung from a wampum belt and a bow one taking speculative advantage of and arrow swung across his broad the onset was made the hout the lower rates. shoulders. These intimate details have was sounded, and a defiant . Following ids conference with the rang back as a welcome. The arrows been carefully preserved in connection whizzed ns so many winged messenlove of at the President met the heads with the world-olgovernors, story gers of death, and the tomahawk of Hie National Grange, the Farmers first sight. the air, doing Its union and the Anieriean Farm Bureau "Laughing Water rose gracefully to whirling through was work blood, of accompanied with federation. Chairman I.egge of t he withwelcome him, but she reckoned federal farm board also was In Washout her haughty fattier, to whom the a yell of exultation which noted another brave had fallen. ington, having hurried back from the sight of an Osage was poison ivy. But none the less. Laughing Water had a Amidst the scene of carnage and Northwest by plana President Hoover announced that mind of tier own, as daughters of a death, far above the noise of battle, tribal chieftain should have, and she Its savage yells and its death shouts, his plans for a vacation trip to Glacier and Yellowstone national parks encouraged the shots from the love a wild shriek was heard, and an apwere canceled and that lie would rearrow of the Osage warrior. parition, with streaming hair and out arms, was seen flying main in or near Washington to help "Day by day the young couple stretched roamed the forest or floated on the through the air from the mountain put into effect the drought relief proat Ids gram, spending the week-end- s summit, only to disappear mysterioussilvery waters of the Niangua, Laughcamp on the Itapldun. ing Water sang like birds in tree tbps, ly at its base. This strange and superor laughed till the forest rang with natural sight was witnessed by the warriors below. melody as her lover related his stoThey were aweHOUSEWIVES of the country are Their superstition ries of wonderful adventure. Then as struck. was to let themselves be now, lovers it would seem were prone aroused. The fight ceased. A coungouged by dealers in vegetables, fruit to spread a glamour around their The calumet was and other foodstuffs. There is no cil was called. The tomahawk was buried. cause for alarm over a shortage of smoked. past. The Osage warrior came to friendly A peace was concluded. Both parties such commodities, and no justification terms with the Shawnee braves, as believing that the Great Spirit was for a marked advance in prices extheir bitter jealousies vanished before angry, and had hid his face under a cept in certain localities. Congressevidences of his skill as a fisherman cloud. From enemies they became man La Gunrdla called upon the and hunter and prowess as a warrior. friends, and as a pledge of future President and Secretary Hyde to reThey took him into their council, but reconciliation, collected and buried port that profiteers In New York city old Grey Engle would not mix meditheir braves in one common mound, had raised prices from 20 to 35 per cine potions that would enable him nenr the junction of Walkers and cent. Mr. ll.vde said tiiere would he to become a no profiteering by the farmers, and Ilays creeks. "Courtship of this pair lasted during "The Incident which had caused a that the government would do what the summer, and every means of wincessation of hostilities was as tragic it could to stop price gouging by midning the father's consent proved unas singular. The Cherokees, aware dlemen. availing. Laughing Water was urged that the fight would be a severe one, Reports that barley, wheat and rye, to flee the tribal domain and become small grain usually more costly than had sent all their squaws and But her one of the Osage people. some distance to the rear, ex- corn, were being substituted generally Shawnee blood would not permit, so over the country for corn as feed for a pretty Indian maiden, whose incept the young couple decided since they terest in a young chief had induced animals and in industrial usos, were could not live together they would die her to climb a mountain acclivity noted. The existing barley crop of together. Thus united in the land ot nearby, from which she could witness 330, (NX), OK) bushels Is almost twice the great silence their love would be the the size of any barley crop produced stirring scenes below In the hot unhindered by the wishes of a meditest of the fight, beholding her chief, In the last ten years. It has increased cine chief. whose warwhoop was as well known In value In recent weeks, and is being "Face to face and hand to hand the to her ns his warlock, fall by the hand used to larger extent In dairy feeds Indian lovers plighted their everlastof a fierce Shawnee, In a moment of and by farmers, chiefly in Wisconsin ing troth, sought a high bluff on the despairing love, with one wild shriek, and Minnesota, millers reported. Corn products manufacturers have river beneath which the waters formed leaped from the mountain top into the a great swirling eddy, cast themselves below, following her favorite purchased rye and barley as well as ahyss far Into the channel and no trace of chitf to better hunting grounds, f rom wtieat in recent weeks for substitution them was ever discovered tiiis incident the mountain ohtu.ned in making Industrial alcohol. A similar detailed account of anNature did something In the way of The Indian ttie name of Jump. other Lover's Leap, which bears the mound almost level with the ground relief, sending cooler weather and ocmore prosaic name of Jump mountain, is well remembered by some old casional rains to some parts of the was told in a recent issue of the persons In the vicinity when it corn belt. ( V a ) Gazette, prefaced was HO or 40 feet high, showing the Lexington The follow with this editor's note: mortuary list on that occasion of die TLSPiTE the facts that he bolted ing article has been contributed by a Cherokees and Shawnees to have heeD the Repuhluan ticket in V92s and friend who is satisfied tfiat the ac, Sooth and that he W a supported large." r Union. count Is historical : t (.stern NiW'i-leolei (rf the iumii ai hli in the - 4 r. " -- d Grey-Eagl- war-whoo- p d son-in-la- pap-poos- e . , -- i li- - ate who make so much trouble for the Senator George W. administration, Norris of Nebraska was renominated by the Republicans of that state, the regular" candidate, W. M. Stebbins, being decisively defeated. Gov. Arthur J. Weaver also won a renomination, beating Harry O. Palmer of Omaha. In the Democratic primaries former Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock defeated Dr. Jennie M. Callfas by about bolted three to one. Doctor Call-fathe Democratic ticket two years ago to support Herbert Hoover. She wns indorsed tiiis year by the W. O. T. U. For the governorship the Democrats named diaries W. Bryan, brother of the Commoner, who formerly held that office. Regular Republicans of Nebraska were not supine under the Norris victory. They intimated it had been won by wholesale Democratic support, and it was announced that Beatrice Fenton Craig, a Lincoln school teacher, would oppose Norris as an Independent by petition. Senator Joe Robinson and Gov. Harvey Parnell won their fights for renominntlon by the Democrats of Arkansas. In Alabama the same party named John II. Bankhead of Jasper for the senate. Ills chief opponent in the election will be SenntotTliomas J. Heflin who, being barred from the primary for bolting Smith in 1928, is running as an independent. Democratic priOklalioma8 run-of- f mary resulted lu victory for W. II. Murray for governor anj Thomas P. Gore for the senate. Their respective Republican opponents will he Ira A. Hill and Senator W. B. Pine. Democrats of Ohio went wet and dry. They named for senator Congressman Robert J. Bulkley of Cleveland, an advocate of repeal of national prohibition; and then they turned around and selected as their gubernatorial candidate Congressman George White of Marietta, a pronounced dry who lias league (lacking. Senator Itoscoe C. McCulloch and Gov. Myers Y. Cooper, Republicans, were unopposed for renomination. Anti-Saloo- n SENATOR FESS of Ohio, national the new chairman, tariff law says that the Ilavvley-Smoo- t will be the chief issue lu tiiis falls congressional campaigns. lie admits t hat prohibition may be a controlling factor In some districts, hut asserts the distinctively social and economic nature of that problem precludes it from liecoming a national partisan issue. Neither of the major parties, lie says, is ready to make dry law enforcement an issue. Under the immediate direction of Robert IL Lucas, new executive director of the national committee, research and publicity men will be placed in charge of two bureaus to conduct a continuous "educational campaign to counteract the Democratic tariff propaganda. Chairman Fess accepted the resignation of Mrs. Louise M. Dodson as director of women's activities in the Republican natlonul committee, and gave the position to Mrs. Ellis It. Yost of Virginia, a leader In the National W. C. T. U. and an experienced and skillful politician. aviation records were last week. First, Rule Jackson and Forest OBrine with their plane Greater St. Louis, recaptured the endurance refueling record that was taken away from them by the Hunter brothers at Chicago. The Hunters maik was 544 hours, but It was easily beaten by the St Louis pilots who, at tiiis writing, are stifi in the air with the announced intention of stujlng there for 1 ,fx MJ hours. Then Cupt. Frank M. Hawks sped like an arrow ncross the continent from Los Angeles to New York, with two stops for fuel, making the distance in the remarkable time of 12 hours 25 minutes and 3 seconds. Ills plane, a Whirlwind powered Travelalr, maintained an average speed of more than 2M miles an hour. over In Germany Robert Kronfeld set a new world's record for distance gliding, soaring from Wnsserkuppe to Gersfeld, about 97 miles. His flight lasted all afternoon and he had to maneuver his glider in a heavy gale. Miss Laura Ingalls at St. Louis in nke all records for barrel rolls, making 71 of them before coming down. With one of il- - six engines disabled, the British dirigible R 100 left Mont-r- t Weilne-.il- . evening for home. VARIOUS 1 She started at a speed of 80 miles an hour, with favorable weather Indicated for the Atlantic crossing. Fifteen passengers were aboard, besides the crew of forty-four. coal field at Ky., led to a novelty. LABOR troubles in the An airplane appeared over the region and a number of bombs were dropped, some of which exploded but none of which did any material damage. The plane was traced by its color and number and one Iaul Montgomery of Murpliyshoro, 111., was arrested as the pilot. He confessed and named his two companions who, he said, made and dropped the bombs. One of them was nabbed. Montgomery said he was compelled to go on the bombing raid by threats that he and his family would be killed. BRITISH forces are busily engaged the Kliyber pass, northern entrance to India, and the Important city of Peshawar against the attacks of Afridi tribesmen. So far Hie invaders have made little progress, largely because of the efficient use of bombing airplanes by the British; but file situation is considered dangerous and the Afridis, who have been joined by other tribes, though driven hack from Peshawar, are threatening other places not so strongly fortified. In an effort to bring nhout pence In India the authorities put several of the imprisoned leaders of the passive revolt in file same prison with Mahatma Gandhi, and two prominent unofficial peacemakers nntiv es conferred with the prisoners on a plan to have the National st activities held up pending the on' ome of the round table Indian conference In London in October. Chinese Communist forces WHILE advancing on Changsha to recapture that city, the Nationalist and northern alliance armies were engaged In a series of heavy battles. The Nanking government, however, had put censorship Into effect and little reliable news readied the outside world. Japanese reports from Tsinan, capital of Shantung province held by the rebel forces, said the city was being by government repeatedly bombed planes. The foreign consuls warned the Nanking forces not to bomb the business section, where most of the foreigners reside. Gen. Chlang commander of the Nanking armies, said he expected to drive the northerners out of Tsinan before long. He declared there was evidence of a demoralization of enemy units on all fronts, hut this was not quite borne out by reports from the battle fronts. Kal-slie- k, than forty commissioners on state laws held an important meeting in Chicago. They considered over fifty acts that had been, drafted, including legislation concerning public utilities, real estate, divorce, veterans guardianship, marketing, drugs, firearms, air licensing, mechanics liens, absentee voters, and civil depositions. Of these, forty-threit was decided, should be recommended to the American Bar association and the state legislatures for adoption. The purpose of the organization is t remove conflicting laws throughout the various states and substitute as far as is possible a general level of laws. MORE e, Trading corporation, Hie AMTORG commercial agency in tills country, announces that In the la tw months orders to the value of $40,50 -- I 000 for agricultural tractors have been machinery and placed In the Unit- ed States. About 85 per rent of the purchases are made up of tractors, 12 per cent of combines, and the remainder of oilier agricultural machinery and spare parts, it was stated. The orders were described ns the largest for farm machinery ever placed for export in a corresponding period of time. men who gained fame in the war were taken by death during the week. They were Maj. Gen. Charles T. Menoher, one time commander of ti e Rainbow division In France and a former chief of the army air corps ; and Gen. Sir Horace who saved the allied retreat at Metis by a daring disobedience of tPP orders of Sir John French. C roQ WeiUrn Newspaper Union ) TWO Smitli-Dnrrlf- |