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Show um Mali lii ini nil If' Mfirxfcrffrififti itjifm.iii- THE PAYSON CHRONICLE. PAYSON. UTAH Miss Edith Edna Kell of Pittsburgh being crowned Queen Oceana XXII to reign over the baby parade and of the forty Acadians from Louisiana who were received by President Hoover Wildwood, X, J. mne on their way to Xova Scotia to celebrate the anniversary of t he deportation of their forbears 175 years ago. 8 Iticiiard Ledford Lennett, Conservative leader, who has become premier of Canada. 1 cannal at states for relief of the farmers diouglit arms were not I. ailed. American Bar Association Upholds Referendum on the 18th Amendment. By EDWARD PUOIIILITION laws and their to the fore at the anopening session of the fifty-thirnual meeting of the American Bar association in Chicago. George V. chairman of the Presidents enforcement commission, was the chief speaker of the day, and naturally he spoke mainly on that topic; but what he said would give small consolation to the dripping wets of the country. Good citizenship, said Mr. Wieker-shunmust acquiesce In the law as it is, for the time being. A society which has adopted the inventions and applied science of the last quarter of a century nnd lias taken into its midst millions of aliens from every country in the world, must resort to legislation in order to regulate its life, preserve order, and, so fur as possible, suppress acts arid habits injurious to its welfare. That the individual and minority groups must accept and abide by the restraints so imposed is obvious. Otherwise lawful government breaks down and we have anarchy. The remedy of those who object Is to appeal to the same authority as that which enacts, for rescission or modification. There can be no individual right to elect what laws one will or will not obey." The commission, said its chairman, bad opposed the Jones law and the Dyer act, believing that a speedy prosecution of minor offenses and the imposition of penalties having some relation to the ctiaracter of the offense would be more likely to induce respect for law than the creation of penalties so disproportioned to the gravity of the offense as to induce resentment in reasonable minds. d WTck-ersha- i, A i' than ny speeches MOKE exciting the battle over an attempt i U by some of the members of the association to halt the referendum vote on the Eighteenth amendment. Secretary IV. P. MacCracken, Jr., reported that the executive committee had rejected a petition to recall the postcards sent out for tliis vote. Judge James F. Ailshie of Idaho offered a resolution that the submitting of the question was not In accord with the objects and purpose of the association and contrary to its constitution and bylaws, after the committee's report had been accepted. President Henry U. Sims sustained a point of order that the right of the executive committee to take such action was specifically granted in the constitution and ruled that the action of the committee could not be retailed by the delegates. An appeal from this decision was voted down by a majority of about fifty to one. The convention also upheld the executive committee in rejecting the report of tlie American citizenship com- mittee which contained a bitter attack of the federal farm hoard, declaring its appointment was the first step to- ward state socialism and that this effort to aid the fanners was foredoomed to failure. The section on criminal law and criminology also refused to adopt a report on lawless enforcement of law and ordered the committee to continue work for another year. In liis opening address President Sims asserted that constitutional liberty in tills country is in no danger whatever, and that the visions of social strife supposed to be impending are hut plantasmagoria of morbid brains. The sessions of the association were attended by a number of distinguished lawyers and jurists from foreign eountsdes, and many American notables were among the 2,hi delegates. rams fell over inuh and vvlioat holts, hut tin woie too l.ite to save tlie crops from ,.t hast partial ru.n, and tlie ll.it - if tlie government and tlie GENEROUS Pres- ident Hoover appointed a federal relief committee, headed by Secretary of Agriculture Hyde and including Chairmen Alexander Legge of the federal farm board; Paul I.estor, chairman of tlie federal farm loan board; Iloy Young, chairman of tlie federal reserve hoard; John Barton Payne, chairman of tlie American Bed Cross; of the Treasury Mills; Henry M. Hobinson, president of tlie First National bank of Los Angeles, and It. II, Aisliton of Evanston, 111., president of tlie American Bailway association. Governors of tlie various states reported to Washington that they were moving rapidly in tlie creation of their organizations. I'nder-seeretar- W. PICKARD persons aboard tlie British steamer Titbit; from death in tlie middle of tlie Pacific ocean. Tlie vessels port propeller shaft carried away, tearing a hole in the ship and permitting water to Hood tlie engine room and two holds. She was kept afioat for a time by tie use of emergency pumps and wireless appeals for aid brought tlie Matson liner Ventura and the steamer Penjhryn to the rescue. All aboard the Tahiti were transferred to tlie Ventura in safety, despite heavy seas. About half were disembarked at Iago-pagAmerican Samoa, and the rest were taken to San Francisco. Many other vessels on tlie Pacific answered the radio SOS but their help was not needed. The Tahiti went to the bottom soon after the passengers and in flit; Og-d-- n y of tlie federal FIBST action was to lay plans for o, finan- Inter-Mountai- centered in INTEREST in aviation national air where the races opened and toward which men and women contestants in the air derbies were racing from various parts of the country. Nearly every prominent American aviator was there, and so were some of the best flyers of Europe. A varied program of speed contests, stunt fijing, and other exhibitions was offered the immense throng of spectators that flocked to Chicago from all parts of the Union. Before tlie races began, the first national air conference was held for three days on the downtown campus of Northwestern university, with tlie nations chief authorities on aeronautics in attendance. The conference recommended the adoption by tlie states of federal laws regulating airports, airplanes and air transportation, in order to secure uniformity. The states also were urged to authorize municipalities to purchase, maintain and police airports. The conference recommended ttie establishment of a comprehensive system of national airways, giving equal consideration to all sections without regard to population density, but givwhere topoing greatest graphical conditions are unfavorable to flying. n and Forest DALE JACKSON St. Louis endurance fly- ers, didnt stay In the air for a thousand hours, as they threatened, but descended when they had established tlie new mnik of G47 hours 28 minutes nnd 30 seconds. Their motor dev el oped trouble, farcing them to alight. iall- - iiv work q in k bv Officers and to i.eii other vessels saved the UNITED Spanish War Veterans held en- thirty-seconannual campment in Philadelphia and had a fine time fighting over again the battles In Cuba. The feature of the affair was the parade on preparedness Edward S. Matthias, former day. judge of the Ohio Supreme court, was elected national commander, and New Orleans was awarded next years encampment. d cial relief with the federal intermediate credit bank system as the principal unit. The pla'ns called, first, for tlie creation of state and local credit corporations by bankers and business men through which farmers may obtain seed and feed loans. The corporations will sign the notes over to the credit banks, which will advance the capital obtained from tlie flotation of debentures on the investment market. Secretary Hyde estimated roughly that a maximum of $20,000,000 will be required of the credit banks, whatever more is needed coming from private sources. Mr. Ilyde announced that the Department of Agriculture will make available for seed loans approximately $SOO.OOO remaining from a $0,000,-00- 0 appropriation provided by congress. Tlie use of this money, however, is limited to specified areas and will be distributed largely In Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, Missouri and Montana. John Barton Payne, chairman of the American Bed Cross, said that his organization has $3,000,000 available for emergency work and docs not contemplate an appeal to the public, at least until the fund is exhausted. In order to furnish employment for farmers without livelihood as a result of the drought, the Department of Agriculture has made Immediately available to the states $121,857,000 in federal aid road funds which ordinarily would not have been apportioned until January 1. Tills action was taken at the urgent . request of President Hoover. The federal farm board announced the extension of $3,000,000 credit to Live Stock Growthe ers association, which will facilitate the shipping of live stock to pastures GALLANT lei t her. crew i 317 PUESIDENT HOOVER has decided C to Boston on October go deliver an address before tlie American Legion. He will then take a special train for the South and speak again next day at the celebration of tlie one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of tlie Battle of Kings Mountain. Though his vacation plans are still unsettled, it may be that lie will take a trip in October either to Mexico or on the Caribbean. Among the tasks now on his hands are the selection of the five members of the tariff commission and the completion of tlie 1932 budget. WAN LEAR BLACK, wealthy pub-- ' Usher of the Baltimore Sur and Evening Sun, was drowned at sea in the night, having evidently fallen from liis yacht Sabalo when It was steaming outside the outer; New York harbor on tlie way to his summer home on the Chesapeake. When it was discovered he was missing from the boat, the alarm was sent out and for twro days vessels and airplanes and the navy dirigible Los Angeles searched for him, but In vain. Mr. Black, who was fifty-fivyears old, wras an enthusiastic aviator, nnd in 1927 began a series of flights that took him around the world, all over Europe, to the Dutch East Indies and to South America. Other notables taken by death were Thomas B. Slick of Oklahoma City, known as the richest independent oil operator In the world ; and Louis Bourgeois of Chicago, noted architect and sculptor. e reported CHINESE press dispatches (XX) of by provincial troops Communists 4, in western si province and the capture of 2,000 rifles. The Communists, however, gained possession of Wusueh in Hupeh province, an important Yangtze river port 23 miles above Kiukiang. The terrified Inhabitants of the town abandoned their property and fled. asks tlie League of month for revision of tlie Versailles treaty in regard to Germanys frontier, France will put up a stnnuous opposition. Heir Treviranus, German minister for tlie occupied regions, recently made this demand in a speech, and soon thereafter the German ambassador to Iaris hustled back to Berlin to warn his government that the Stresemann policy of conciliation was being jeopardized It is reported that the French foreign office bluntly told the German envoy that France docs not regard as acceptatde proposals for revision of the lolish corridor. At tlie same time France Is urging Poland to abandon tier belligerent attitude and to drop the tariffs in force along tlie borders of tlie corridor, preventing free passage between Prussia and the rest of Germany. Tlie name of Frank I! Kellogg, former seiretnry of side, was presi-meof N items t y t! to tie Lea-ti- e Ariel ican group ns i .uidid ite for jus GERMANY IFNations next l ,i e of (o l,o in eb ", ! rn X ; iu, tu I'n. 'Srj&Z' By ELMO SCOTT WATSON FCENTLY R. W. Gunn, a merchant of Richmond, Va., exploded a vertituble bombshell in tlie Old R und sent state ofhistorians and attorneys scurrying to dig in the archives liy declaring that lie is tlie real owner of tlie greater part of tlie land upon width stands tlie state capitol and that he wants to he paid for it on tlie basis of its original valuation, made in 17S4, of some $G.5(XI, plus compound Interest ut the rate of 3 per cent a year for 110 years. And that has set some of the mathematicians to figuring just how colossal a sum would he a principal of $0,500 plus compound interest for nearly a century and a half. The Richmond merchant says that the state of Virginia can not produce any records to prove that tlie land condemned in 1784 for a public square was ever paid for and sns lie will ask relief from the general assembly at its next session if tlie state refuses to consent to a suit alleging breach of contract. Failing in that stop, Mr. Gunn lias been advised by counsel that he can go Into the federal courts on tlie grounds of the violation of constitutional property rights and lie affirms he can prove liis contention by existing records. Mr. Gunn points to a letter sent to Thomas Jefferson, then ambassador to France, by members of a legislative commission, asking Mr. Jefferson to engage an architect in Paris to prepare plans for a state capitol and assuring tlie author of the Declaration of Independence that tlie hill on which Gunn's yellow house stands, and which you favored as tlie best situation (for a state capitol continues to be preferred by us. Tlie original Jefferson letter is in the custody of tlie College of William and Mary. The original condemnation order has been placed on record in the Henry County court, after remaining obscure for nearly 100 years. Mr. Gunn has been working on his claim since childhood, but made no effective headway until tlie original condemnation jurys report was unearthed from dusty archives. Thirty years ago, I met a man who was then ninety years old, Mr. Gunn said recently. Asking me if I were a descendant of the old Gunn family of Richmond, he told mu that his father, who worked for the state government. Had Informed him that tlie state of Virginia never paid for the land condemned for use as a public square and tlie permanent scat of tlie state government. The reason, he said, was that the condemnation proceedings records had been lost and that no claim against tlie state could be proved in court. I was told by iny family as a hoy that my family never had been compensated by tlie state. My efforts were blocked until tlie original condemnation order was found. Tlie papers by mistake were sent in 1784 to the city clerks oliice for recording, instead of to tlie clerk of tlie Henry County court. Those papers, plus maps uncovered und tlie letter to Thomas Jefferson, vvliieli shows Mr. Jefferson had inspected tlie old Gunn plot while governor of Virginia and favored it for a state capitol site, speak for themselves. I have been Informed by Auditor C. Iee Moore he cun find no record of the stnte having paid for tlie property it condemned in 1781. I took the matter tip with Governor Byrd toward the close of liis adniinist ration. Tlie governor, after referring my letter to the secretary of the commonwealth for Investigation, informed me that tlie facts were as I hud stated them to be, insofar ns tlie existence of any leroid of pavunnt hv the state ficials, was coiieei re d. In the Judgment of legal advisers condemn, 'noi pi m ,, dings the no-iG .1 id ; IV not l ill tie tv f i .1.1 my take t1 e titV to the O.-I- i , ( )n ) uzt-- r ancestors. 1 feel I have a substantial claim to ownership of the land on which tlie state cupltol now stands. I cannot sue tlie stnte for breach of contract without the states consent, nnd tlie statute of limitation lias expired. But I believe the people of Virginia would like to see the proper settlement made. Nor is tills Richmond merchant tlie only one who Is Interested in tills matter for he declares Hint other old Richmond families, among them the Snyders, Curries, Archibald Carys, Prices and Acrille Coehes, had haif-ncr- e lots condemned In 1784 and present-day descendants of thos6 funiilies are watching with Interest Ids move for restitution. Nor is tills Virginia case unique, for Oklahoma lias a somewhat similar one, only tlie No Mans Land there lias infinitely greater potential riches to make it worth fighting for. It is a small triangular tract of about two acres in tlie heart of tlie great Oklahoma City oil fields which has been lost for GO years. No Boomer homesteaded it after the run into Oklahoma in 1889. The surveyors and lnnpmakers seemed to have missed it and it Is still government soil. No one seems to have dreumed tliut tlds valuable parcel of land was available to a clalmer until recently when Forrest Iarrott of Oklahoma City, guided ly maps which others had seen, no doubt, hut failed to realize their significance, began a hit of prospecting in tlie urcldves of tlie register of deeds at the Oklahoma county court house. What he found was almost unbelievable a plot of unclaimed land, sandwiched right in the middle of one of the richest oil areas of tlie world. So Mr. Parrott staged tlie ruu of 1930. With an armful of stakes lie dashed out to the little silver of river bottom lund and drove liis pegs. Then, as in the prairie schooner and sunbonnet days of 42 years ago, Mr. Parrott set about making Ills claim legal. He went back to the courthouse and (lied an affidavit of his claim, setting forth he was filing on it as a homestead and claiming priman. ority rights as on Tlie triangular slinpe of tlie neglected piece of land was caused by the antics of the North Canadian river. When the government surveyors made their first survey of 1870 they diil an excelleit jot for working out tlie river bottom into cliopped-ulots, but they forgot this one tract. Tlie tract is in the center of the most ftitense drilling activity in ttie Oklahoma City oil field. Half a mile east is T. B. Slicks No. 1 Bailey well, und tlie same distance south the 22, (MM) linrrel-u-dawell owned by Wirt Franklin. And yet these are only two examples of queer claims which result from suuey ora' or mnpinukers' errors or some slip up in registering deeds or some other title to land. A curious case was reported from New York recently, and added another item to tlie reeoiil of high priced real estate In Unit it y where some plots of ground ate literally worth more than the number of silver dollars It would take to cover them. In tills case a purchaser of real estate paid a total of $1.2i tO for 213 square Inches of land $5.50 a square inch It came about In this way ; ( me of tlie Mrs. Vanderbilts wanted to buy a plot of ground in East h street between First avenue and the river, on which once stood live lirow nstones, built In tlie seventies by one Harvey Dennis, a considerable realtor of ids day. Naturally tlie prospective purchaser wanted to lie sure she lmd a clear claim to the title, so she had experts of tlie Title Gu irnntop & Trust company look It up. For vviiat if after tlie house were envied somebody should hob tip and hum u snip of property, eighteen feet one Imh. running right through by the building? Snob a demand would loiin a grave riisis In this a limit wa- - made for the Pollin'. In iis. It was hard to lmd them. It took two months, during which time more than letters were written. Finally they were located. There were six heirs In all. The situation was explained. The title company people finally got them to sign a quitclaim for $200 each, or $1,200 In all. That Isnt much, but then neither was the land to which they were unintentionally the heirs. It amounted, in fact, to just one and a half square feet. But if New York can claim tha smallest and the highest priced pieces of real estate, Chicago can point with pride to the world's costliest cow puth which runs right through a modern skyscraper known as the 100 West Monroe building. Tlie cow path dates from the early 50s when Dr. Jared Bassett bought the entire Clark street frontage, 150 feet deep, between Monroe and Madison streets. In tlie center of tha block he built his home with a cow ham for ills cow, Bessie. As time went on, Doctor Bassett sold most of liis property hut always with a procasement so that vision for a Bessie could make her way to tha ham. So in 1925 when tlie HX West Monroe Building corporation took over tha lease for the property they found the flaw which preserved tlie path but too late to do any tiling ubout It Tha deed was subjected to litigation and it stood the test. While their solution of the problem was a little costly, It was rattier unusual, for they usurped tlie air rights and left Bessie" her clearance, path with an just In case she should desire to bring in a wagon loud of has some time. level the building Above tlie Juts out at right angles, covering tha cow path and extending upward for 20 stories. While buildings are common sights In Chicago this is the building on record. And only "set-ou- t tlie space lost would bring about $12,-(Xin yearly rentals. Another curious situation, caused by a flaw in a title, was reported from New York recently. The story of it, as told in the New York World, fol- 3X 10-fo- 10-fo- ot 18-fo- 18-fo- set-bac- k lows : legal catch in the title of what used to he known as City Hall place a street only about 300 feet long that ran from in back of the Munipical building at Duane street to Pearl street Is holding up plans for tha proposed civic center around the new county court house and Foley square. Tlie riddle which Assistant Corporation Counsel Joel J. Squire of the bureau of street openings is charged to solve Is what cun the city do with the forty-foo- t roadway which bisects one of the most valuable plots of real estate In New York. Part of this riddle Is what will tlie Church of St. Andrew, which stands on ttie west of the old street, do about its parish house which stands on tlie east of it. Under the plnn drawn by Joseph Johnson, City Hall place vvas to be scrapped to make room for tlie new federnl building and tlie parish house vvas to lie torn down nnd rebuilt on plot adjacent to lie church. This new plot was lo he exchanged by tlie city for the old site of tlie parish house. A section of City Hall place was included in the r.ew site. But when tlie church officials asked for a title deed to the land the city was surprised to find that It could not be given. Tlie reason was that the city owns only right of way easements which were obtained in 1S(X) from the original owners of tlie plot, hut that some unknown heir of the original owners Holds the free title. Had the city or federal government actually erected a costly building on and had the part of the old street and set forth true owners turned up to ttie city loss tlie money claims, their would have keen tremendous according to real estate authorities. Old City Hall place is estimated as worth dove to $L0X,(XX). Mr. Squire savs he is not ready even to venture u gues as to what can lie done about A Fifty-sevent- II. j ( b) WeiOrD Newspaper Union.) ir m,, j. |