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Show THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH iTELMflPHIC TALES WEEKS REiUME OF THE DOINGS IN THIS AND OTHER COUNTRIES Important Events Days Reported pared for the Busy of the Last Seven by Wire and PreBenefit of the Reader - , LEGION MEMBERSHIP Ex-governo- WESTERN A bill by which Colorado would agree that the Colorado river compart become binding on this state and the ther five commonwealths which have ratified the compact, provided the Mrs. Bertha Ledbetter, 35, among ther states pass the same measure, whose 16 children are triplet and was introduced in the state senate, three sets of twins, has been declared insane by a commission of doctors, at Denver, Colo. according to the county court records An experiment in the extermination of Carbondale, 111. Charity organizaf cougars in British Columbia with tions in Hallidayboro ate caring for catnip, was begun by the provincial the children. Iiefus Ledbetter, the game conservation board. A bottle father is 61 years old. f an extract declared capable of lurFirst contributions by legion posts ing the big cats into place where hunters could easily kill them, was to the American Legion endowment fund were received from Eugene post received from Washington, D. C. of Eugene, Ore., and C. II. Berry The South Dakota senate defeated post of TantafFua, Pa., it was anby a vote of 35 to 6 a joint resolu- nounced at national headquarters at tion ratifying the child labor amend- Indianapolis. The contribution from ment to the federal constitution. The the Oregon post was $75 and Tama-quTote came after a futile effort by $17.30. ft handful of supporters of the resoluThree carloads of alcohol, said to tion to defer action. be valued at $500,000, and which are Elizabeth Lee Stark, 02, said to he alleged to have been taken secretly the second woman in the United from a Philadelphia distillery were States to cast a ballot is dead in Den- seized at St. Paul by the federal prover, Colo. Mrs. Stark voted at Chey- hibition enforcement agents from enne, Wyo., September 6, 1870, short- Minneapolis, headed by Maurice Silly after the territory of Wyoming verman, acting prohibition director granted the right of the ballot to wo- for the northwest. men. The only woman to vote before Several lives have been lost and a her was Eliza A. Swain, who precedher to the polls that morning by large property damage occurred as ed a result of swollen streams in Georfew minutes. Carolina gia, Alabama and South Two men help up the assistant caused by heavy rains of the past ten cashier of the Pacific Telephone and days. Telegraph company at Seattle, Wash., A horse sold at auction at Beggs, nd obtained $8000 in cash and in checks which he was going to Okla., for 5 cents. Another horse was sold for 10 cents, and a third for 50 deposit in a bank. cents. These were animals surrenWilliam Francis Ryan, recently con- dered on mortgages after the former victed of wholesale bank swindling at owners had starved them rather than Los Angeles, was sentenced to 2G4 pay for expensive feed. The liveyears in San Quentin penitentiary. stock auction was started by farmers He received a sentence of from one and stockmen to place stock in the to fourteen year on each of twenty-si- hands of men who would properly counts of forgery, all to run con- care for them. secutively. Ryans method, as was FOREIGN his trial, was to open out at brought a hank account, cash a check elseThe commonwealth ministry will where, and then withdraw the bulk recommend that the Australian t f his funds before the check was rereject the Geneva protocol beturned to the bank. idea cause the white Ausnalia be would it. by jeopardized - A Mitchell Palmer, former alien property custodian, probably will be . Ambassador Kellogg bade a foimal called by the defense as a witness in, farewell to the American newspaper the Ilackfeld sugar suit on trial at men in London when he had a party San Francisco, in which former of them to luncheon at Crewe house. stockholders in the once powerful It is believed that this is the first German sugar companies in Hawaii time that an ambassador in a big for are seeking an accounting on the eign capital has shown his apprecia ground that property worth $17,500,-40- tion of the friendship and relationwas seized during the war and ship with newspaper men by enterold- for $7,500,000. taining them in his own home. (Coj.y for 'iiiU AimUiuti fcuui.jl.el by lh liuparii.iu Nwb ) LEGION MEN HELP HOLD FRIENDSHIP In the work of the Ameri'un Legion oiy Imporlitnl part is p!,i.ed by Its meiiibeis and posts and departments loeated In the possessions of the Tinted States and in foreign binds. These men and organizations act, in t tit'ir constant contact nffli people of other nations, ns unolheiul represent of the United States. They do much to promote and to cement the friendliest relations between the mother country and the country of their adoption. Particularly important work has been done in this direction by the department of Panama. To the men of this department it lias been given to foster the most cordial relations vitli the peoples of Central America. One high Central American olllcial has gone so far os to say that these men, acting unofficially, have done more for a $12,-00- 0 parli-men- 0 GENERAL The reign of the gambler is ended President Calles is determined to put an end to gambling in the republic. Robert L. Newbern, an American of Fort Worth, requested permission to establish slot machines in Mexico, but President Calles instructed the secretary of the interior to advise Newbern that Mexican laws prohibit gambling. A number of other requests of a similar nature have been denied. The famous gambling dens of Lower California have been hard hit by the rulig of the of in Mexico Heber II. Votaw, brother President Harding, will retire as superintendent of federal prisons March 4. He ha3 informed Attorney General Stone that his health will not permit him to continue as head of the prison system, a position he has held since April, 1921, and his resignation haa been accepted with expressions of , regret. in-la- There will be no general strike of the mine workers of District No. 1 In sympathy with the 11,000 men now president. cut in the Pittston section, it was deAfter months of negotiation, Japan cided at a meeting of the of the general grievance committee at Wilkes-Barr- and Russia have signed a treaty canunder the celling all agreements Pa. czarist regimes except that of PortsResolutions providing for the re- mouth, which ended the Russo-Japanes-e moval of the 1917 impeachment judgwar, and providing for recogniment against James E. Ferguson, tion of the soviet government by Jaformer governor of Texas and restor- pan when the present pact is ratified. ation of his iligibility to hold office Seven officials have been arrested was introduced in the senate by Senaat Indore, British India, including the tor Hardin of Kaufman. aide do camp of Prince Ilolkar, the Moe Turman, son of a Chicago Maharajah of Indore, in connection rabbi, president of Young Judea in with the affair in Bombay a week New York City and prominent in ago, which resulted in the death of Brooklyn social circles, was reported the wealthy merchant, Abdul Kadir by authorities to have confessed to Baula, says an Agency dispatch from forgeries totalling $1,300,000 in the Bombay. The maharajahs chauffeur business of the Equity Finance and was also taken into custody. Service company of which he was Although the chamber of deputies managing director. adjourned after having passed a new The American Sugar Refining com- electoral bill, everyone in Rome is pany of New York after having paid asking the question when it will reno dividend on common stock since open its sessions. Some persons are 1921, is now $31,000,000 to the good of the belief that Premier Mussolini and in a position to resume payments after having obtained what he wantEarl D. Babst, president, told the ed, will keep parliment recessed for stockholders. a while. William Byrne Boggs. friendly relations and real understanding between those countries and the United States than have all ttie represenlath es of the go eminent. The comnmndership of the department of Panama is thus one of the most iinpoitnnt links in the chain of Legion otiicers. That post is now held offi-ei- Boggs was horn January 11, 192, at Frametoun in West Virginia. At the age of nineteen lie enlisted in the Toast Artillery corps. Upon the declaration of war with (icrmany, lie was commissioned and assigned to duty in the adjutant general's department as assistant adjutant general for the Panama canal department. lie was discharged from sen ice June 30, 1019. lie was married to Miss Esther Bye of Minneapolis, Minn., on May 1. 1917. at Cristobal, Canal Zone. They have two children, Duie, aged six years, and Carol, aged five. The new commander has been active in the work of the Legion In Panama since Its organization. He Is n member of Panama Canal post, No. 1. He was for three years a member of the post executive committee, two years a member of the department executive committee and one year an alternate national executive committeeman. He is at present employed ns assistant surveying officer In the executive department of the Panama canal. by William Byrne Boggs. e, Dr. Richard R. Lyman, professor of civil engineering at the University of Utah, one of the experts on the sanitary districts board of review, predicted that the nation as well as Chicago, would be endangered by disease if relief be not found from the supreme court dicision limiting the amount of water a district can withdraw for dilution of a citys sewage. Gerald Chapman nortious bandit and prison breaker for whom a nationwide search has been made, has been d at Munice, Ind., by Muxice police after a pistol battle. cap-tuie- The Australian population is now approximately 6,000,000 and is increasing at the rate of 2 per cent annually. The largest city is Sydney with a population of 1,000,000. The socialist party has been compelled to sell the Hammer bread works, which it owned for fifteen years and which produced 470,000 loaves weekly. The sale was necessary because the bakery was unable to comply with the governments ordinance of last week compelling a reduction of 13V4 per cent in the price of bread. Illiteracy in Alaska Proves Serious Problem Illiteracy constitutes a grave problem that will require serious consideration in the process of its solution, declared II. L. Faulkner, authority on education, speaking before educators In the United States. Mr. Faulkner spoke under the s of the American Legion, department of Alaska, which Is sponsoring a campaign to reduce illiteracy in the territory. Illiteracy Is n subject of particular graveness In Alaska pt this time, said Mr. Faulkner, for the past month from 800 to 1,009 Illiterate men and women In the First .vision alone were taken to tl e polls on leetion day and voted ns a machine. Hi the First division today Illiterates are sitting on grand and petit juries and on city councils; he'p'ng to make and enforce, or prevent'"? the making or enforcement of laws they cannot understand." Distinguished Service for Ten Kansas Posts Ten posts of the Kansas department of the American Legion qualified for the Citation for Distinguished Service, offered by National Commander James A. Drain to those posts which on December 1 had enrolled a membership for 1925 equal to their membership at the close of the books for the 1924 convention. The posts q were: Tracy Blair post, Buffalo; Frederick Phillips post, Council Gro.e; Charles Ernest Scott post, Dodge City; Aaron A. Plutner post, Ellis; Walters post, Fredoiiia; Charles Stephenson post, Greensburg ; ilarvey-vlll- e post, Ilarvey ville; Arthur N. Wear post, Horton; Earl 17. Taylor post; Seneca; Thayer post, Thayer. tali-fyin- g May Hold Memorial for Late Samuel Gompers Memorial services for Samuel Gompers, veteran president of the American Governor Friend W. Richardson of Eeueration of Labor, who died recently California thinks well of the advice of in San Antonio, ha.ve been suggested as lie asked the advice of a part of the program of the 1925 naLegionnaires. Legion men In picking a man to fill the tional convention of the American Leposition of secretary to the Veterans' gion at Omaha. Frank Ilnucke, commander of Kansas, preWelfare commission and recently had this to say about the Legion's choice: sented the suggestion to national head"1 gave the job to a young man whom quarters of the Legion for approval. Mr. Gompers. shaking of the AmeriI had never seen In my life, but who That the hnd been recommended to me by the can Legion, once said: Legion and he has delivered the goods pleasant relatiors between the AmeriI think the hoys are can Legion and the American Federa100 per cent. that of the gov- tion of Labor be extended to every post department running ernment In good shape and without nnd local union of both organizations. Is my earnest and most sincere wish." partisanship. Cave Job to Legion Man Short News Notes IDAHO ft SCIENTISTS SUCCESSFULLY AS IT PASSES THRU DARKNESS Rupert . Interesting itself in the bringing of a canning factory to Rupert, the local American Legion pest hits gone to work with energy anJ taken the initial steps in the matter. May Require Two Years to Collate Much interest has been created by Data Obtained By Asmove and also due to the fact that , the tronomers Last it is rather a new form of activity Morning, on the part of the legion and the pj ogress of the canning factory plan will be watched wi h enthusiasm. New Yotk. That an important , Boise. Herman Taylor of crop of scientific data reaped by asof the judicial Eighth judge tronomers and by students of phy- district has been appointed by Govsics, mathematics, chemistry, radio ernor C. C. Moore as the successor and of meteorology during the two of the late Chief Justice RoLert N. Dur.n on the supreme court bench. scant minutes of darkness that marked Saturdays total eclipse of the sun Judge Charles L. Ileitman of Rath drum, former chairman of the Repubis predicted by scientists. apwas it said that it may lican state committee, was later sucAlthough the as the by governor pointed require as long as two years to col- cessor to Judge Taylor. late and analyze the enormous masTwin Falls. E. C. Collins, said to ses of data collected, already several a federal prohibition enbeen have phenomena have been brought to the in Nevada, was officer forcement attention of the scientific world. arrested here by Sheriff M. E. Finch Dr. Samuel A. Mitchell, director of United States marshal and a the Leandor McCormick observatory on a deputy of having accepted a charge and chairman of the eqlip.se commitbribe. He was lodged in the county tee of the American Astronomial sojail pending removal to Nevada. ciety, has announced that the shape Boise. Oliver Jones, a confessed of the corona was a great surprise. bank robber, will spend not less than It is two and a half years since 10 and not more than 20 years in the minimum sun spot period, but the state penitentiary for his part in strange to say, the corona had alter- the holdup of the Bank of Eagle, ed greatly from the typical form seen August 11 last. This was the senhe said. A tence pronounced by Judge Clintor during the minimum, streamer was seen, a H. Hartson in district court. little to the right of the vertical Nampa. To provide a park for the stretched out nearly a solar diametraveling public closer to the business district the city park comission has ter. Other astronomers were reported tc decided to remove the tourist camp to the smaller city differ with Dr. Mitchells conclusions, from Kurtz park on First street near the ice park among them Professor Frederick Sloplant. Buildings and equipment now cum, director of the Van Vleck obserin Kurtz park will be moved to the vatory, where Dr. Mitchell made his new location. Greater police proobservation. Neither he nor Dr. Ernwill be available at the new est W. Brown of Yale is said to regard tection is believed that the num the shape of the corona as anything park and it of petty robberies reported in her but normal. past seasons among the campers can Another, who is reported to have be eliminated or greatly reduced. found unlooked-fo- r features in the Emmett. Extensive repairs and eclipse, is Professor Henry Norris Russell of Princeton university. He improvements are being made this is quoted to the effect that not only winter at the sawmill plant here of e the Lumber company in was the brilliancy of the corona unof what appears will be anticipation but also the sharpness with usual, a busy operating season in 1925. The which the shadow-band- s were visimost important of the improvements ble. is the work of changing the 12 dry The acute observation powers of mere laymen was attested to by re- kilns into the latest improved type of ports that color process protographs, kiln. the first ever successfully taken of Boise. Both houses of the Idahc a totd eclipse, showed a number of legislature passed under suspension prominences, two in particular, at of the rules a bill to prevent tha points where the hour hand of a watch waters fo north Idaho lakes and rivwould be when pointing at 4:30 and 7 ers being appropriated for irrigatior oclock. Although on Saturday as- or power uses outside of the state. tronomers reported that solar promIt defeats development of the Columinences were very inconspicuous, bia basin project in Washington if numerous lay observers announced undertaken at the expense of Idaho. that they had seen them. Burley. That the questions of providing soft water for Burley and acHerrin Under State Troops cemetery shall quiring a Herrin, 111. With militiamen again be submitted to a vote of the citizens patrolling the streets of Herrin, order of Burley, was decided at a specie! prevails after the latest outbreak of meeting of the city council. A $24,003 klan and antiklan warfare In wliieb bond issue for the new water supply four men were killed, including S. and a $5,500 issue for the purchase Glenn Young, klan liquor raider, and and improvement of Pleasant View cemetery will be voted upon. Ora Thomas, deputy sheriff, recognized outstanding leaders of the two mors Boise. There will be six The two others killed in the members of the house of representarevolver battle in a Main street cigar tives of the Idaho legislature when it shop were Ed Forbes and Homer convenes two years hence, as a result Warner, both reputed klansmen and of ihe reapportionment made by Seccompanions of Young. Young died retary of State F. A. Jeter on the from a bullet wound through the vote cast in the last general eletcion. he was shot also in heart, although Boise. With the Idaho exhibit tc the right breast. These shots, accordthe international hay and grain show ing to reports, came from the two reat Chicago as the nucleus. Gem volvers handled by Thomas. When state seedmen are signing their encitizens entered the cigar shop a few tries for the annual state show to be minutes after an exchange of fortv held in Boise February 3 to 7. To or fiftv shots they found Youn- dead date 165 entries have been made for md Warner unconscious. Thomas the state show, says C. B. Ahlson, slumped to the floor with bullet state seed commissioner and secretary wounds in his body and died on the of the association. way to the citv hosoitah Forbes lay Boise Members of the Idaho Swine dead on the sidewalk outside, shot Breeders asociation will hold their through the base of the skull. Warner annual meeting at Boise, February 4 died in the hospital about two hours according to a call being sent out. A later. program is yet to be made, though the date was set early because the state seed show is on at the same Unveils Wilson Tablet time and many of the swine breeders President Coolidge Washington. also are interested in seed raising. unveiled at the Central Presbyterian Boise. Notice of mandate ordering here a bronze memorial church execution of sentence in the case of tablet commemorating the organization of the church in 1868 and the E. R. Dampier, convicted of sending obsence matter through the mails, laying of the cornerstone of the pre- was received by E. G. Davis, United sent building in 1913 by Woodrow States attorney, from the circuit court Wilson. The tablet records in permanent form the laying of the cornerstone of appeals in San Francisco. Dam-piis facing a sentence of six monand that he was a member of the conin the Minidoka county jail and ths gregation of the Central church from a fine of $1000. The notice of manhis Febuntil death last 19'3, April. is declared marks the death ruary. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and date, it several friends of the war president knell of his hope for a stay of execution o' sentence. were present. Boise. The main line depot apInvention 'Prevents Boats Sirklng proach bond issue, submitted to a vote Berlin. What is claimed to be an of the people here, won a smashing invention which renders ships unsink-abl- e 5 to 1. The bond victory, carrying was given a trial on Lake Conissue was for $125,000. The money stance. The inventor, a German enis to be expended in the building of gineer named Libertrau, installed the a boulevard to uie main line apparatus in a boat with a cargo of which has been erecetcd in depot, 300 kilogrammes. Libertrau then sank The this vote on the bond-city. the boat, aserting it would reappear to 2216 stood 499 against. for within an hour. This it did. It is said Falls. the Idaho that apparatus drives the water Judge Edgington hai denied the petition of Robert Harlij out of the hold of the vessel. The diswho asked that a receiver be patch adds that details of the inven ed for the Teton coal mines. tion are not available. SUN Sand-point- spike-shape- d Boise-Payett- city-owne- fae-tion- d s. - 4 In Alaska ans-piee- The department of Utah, American Legion, began recently a five months membership campaign in competition with the departments of Colorado and Wyoming, ending on March 31, 1925. it was announced recently by J. C. Itebholz, chairman of the Utah department membership committee. The outcome will decide the Rocky Mountain membership championship, according to Mr. Itebholz. A feature of the cumpaign will be the awards to local posts of Utah and to the individual member of any post with the highest' enrollments to bis credit before December 31, 1924. To the post with the highest membership standing In the department at the close of the campaign next March will be presented a silver loving cup. The standing of the posts will be figured on the basis of the pnid up membership as of December 31, 1924, compared with the paid up membership at the close of the contest. At the state convention of the winning department a stand of Legion colors will be presented to the victor. The colors will be bought by a pooled fund from the three departments. SUN j Robert Thomas Wilson, seventy-one- , member of Grand Forks post of the Legion, North Dakota, in addition to being one of the oldest active Legion members, has a service record which bears scrutiny. Mr. Wilson was sent to France early In 1917 In charge of a shipload of horses bought by the allies and, though his passports did not permit him to remain in France, he was determined to see something of the war. After many narrow escapes from the French police lie finally arrived at the front line and got into it, being sworn into the service on the front line on July 2, 1917. Commissioned as a first lieutenant, he was assigned to duty with the Second pioneer engineers, with the duty of artillery observer. On several occasions Wilson acted ns range finder for the One Hundred Fifty-firs- t field artillery, In which his He did not two sons were serving. know, or find out, that his sons were In service in his vicinity until after the war. He was wounded on several occasions, but at the present time is hale and hearty for a man of his age, with no visible marks of the war except a mission; forefinger which was torn away by an explosion of shrapnel. Colorado and Wyoming in Contest With Utah IF From All Parts of LEGION MEMBER, 71, MADE GOOD RECORD a x ECLIPSE william GLASSCOCK, of West Virginia, in a communication to Legion officials of Morgantown American endorsing Legion week there, said of the Legion : 1 consider it the highest privilege accorded any young American to belong to the American Legion. It is an honor to be eligible to meinbirdiip in tins oiganlzation of service men. I luive never been aide to understand why any young man who is entitled to membership is not an active member of seine post of the Legion. I am sure that there are many of us who are not elig.ble to membership who would esteem it a high lienor to be a member ot the Legion. The good you can do as air organization can hardly be estimated and it seems to me Unit every mail owes it to himself and his comrades, and especially bis . disabled and mur-unfortunate comrades, to plate himself in the best1 possible position for service. But be cannot occupy that position unless and until he unites with his comrades In a strong virile organization dedicated to the noble purposes promulgated by the American Legion uml for which t exists. -' FOR BUSY READERS A Secretary Work has denied the application of the Verde river irrigation and power district of Arizona for another years extension of its permit to finance and develop a 100,000 acre project. The New York Daily Graphic has instituted proceedings for an injunction to restrain the Bronx Home News from publishing probable solutions to prize crossword puzzles appearing in the Graphic. The Home News also is publishing probable answers to prize crossword puzzles ap pearing in four other newspapers. A bill to promote production and conservation of helium ga-by the government was prnsed by the house. The measure contemplates acquisition of the gas especially for use of the army and navy storage of a reserve supply. Export of the gas would be prohibited. er 110-fo- 1 |