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Show UTAH DEMOCRAT YOUNGEST MAN TO HEAD DEPARTMENT For L. nugo Keller of Wisconsin his friends claim the distinction of being the youngest department commander In the American Legion. Keller Is Just thirty years old. Born In Appleton, WIs., Keller spent two years at the high school there and then put In four years at Campion college In preparation for a law course at Marquette university, Milwaukee. He received the degree of Bachelor of Laws In June, 1917, and was admitted to the bnr two months later. One month before his graduation, Keller volunteered his services for bis country. In November, 1917, he was called to Fort Sheridan and commissioned a second lieutenant. He wiis at once sent overseas and was assigned to the One Hundred and Fiftieth machine gun battalion In February, 1018. He served with that outfit throughout the war and also in the army of occupation. In May, 1919, lie returned home with the Rainbow division and was discharged. Ever since the organization of the American Legion, Commander Keller has been active in its work. He was LEGION (Copy for Thla Department Supplied by American Ley Ion Neva Service.) tbt LEGIONNAIRES TO TOUR PHILIPPINES For the first time In the history of the American Legion a considerable party of Legionnaires will go by special tour to an annual convention of a department outside the limits of continental United States. Plans have teen approved and final arrangements completed for an American Legion tour to the Philippines In time to attend the convention to be held at Manila from February 11 to 14. to Legionnaires Urgent Invitations In the United States to attend this convention and to visit their fellows In the Orient were extended during the past summer. Gov. Gen. Leonard Wood cabled that he hoped you will Send a strong delegation of the lean Legion to the American Legion The convention In February, 192.V was submitted for cruise the proposal to the national convention of the Legion at St. Paul and received the unqualified Indorsement of that body. for the trip, as Arrangements In worked out conjunction with the travel department of the American Express company, call for departure from San Francisco on January 15 on the steamer Talyo Maru. This is a ship of 22,000 tons. Is the second liner in the largest passenger-carryin- g Tactile trade and is considered the finest In that service. The party Is scheduled to arrive at ITonoIulu, Hawaii, on January 21. They will drive by automobile through Moanalua Gardens and will visit the Pall, Fort Ituger, the naval station, the museum, Waikiki beach and other sights of the Islands. On January 81 they will arrive at Yokohama, Japan. A comprehensive sight-seein- g program has been arranged for the Flowery Kingdom, Including visits to Kamakura, Tokyo, Kobe and Kyoto. From Kobe they will go by steamer through the Japanese Inland sea of Nagasaki, ne of the most picturesque trips in the world. Leaving Nagasaki on February 6, the party will arrive at Shanghai, China, on the 8th. Here they will visit the International settlements and the native city, with luncheon at the Hotel Astor. The group will arrive qt Manila on February 11,' In time for the convention. Three and one-hadays have been set aside for the convention and the visit to the sights of the capital of the Philippines. A wonderful program Is being arranged for the Legionnaires. It Is certain that Legionnaires In - the Philippines will leave nothing undone to make the visit of their comrades from home a pleasant and a memorable one. One of the most interesting things about the trip will be the opportunity to observe conditions In these Far Eastern islands and to see the progress being made there. On the 10th the sight-seer- s will be at Hongkong, with auto and ricksha rides to points of interest. On the 19th they will be at Shanghai. Here there will be opportunity to take an optional tour to Peking, then into Manchuria, Korea and through Japan to Yokohama. The main party will arrive at Nagasaki on February 21, .with opportunity to take a Japan optional tour. Kobe and Yokohama will be visited. The party will leave Yokohama on the 25th. On March G they will be back in Honolulu, leaving there on the 7th and arriving In San Francisco on March 13. L. Hugo Keller. for four years adjutant of the post at Appleton. He was then successively executive committeeman for the Ninth district, post commander and director of membership In the department organization. He held the latter position during the past year and was largely Instrumental in bringing about a decided Increase In the membership of the Wisconsin department, which now ranks seventh In membership among the departments. He Is very effective as a speaker on Legion 'sub- jects. lf MODERN CRUSADERS E. J. EVANS, addressing Legionnaires at Beloit, WIs., recently declared: American Legionnaires are the modern crusaders for the right. It is wicked for a Christian nation to be neutral between right and wrong. Do these prattlers of know or have they forgotten that the Christian religion Itself would have been exterminated by the Mohammedans who Invaded Europe had It not been for the military genius of Charles Mur-tand the sword of Sobleskl? Your national commander, James A. Drain, advocates a principle of preparedness which Is sound, sensible and Just. 11? urges the enactment of a universal dm ft law which would place on all citizens an equal obligation In time of war man power to fight, man power to work, factory power to produce and money power to finance. This Is the best peace measure and the most practical preparedness measure ever suggested, and every Joyai American will continue to advo-vat- e It until congress adopts it. I for one rejoice that Legionnaires know how to defend liberty and bow to use It. REV. peace-at-nny-pri- el Legion in Minnesota Gains Favorable Laws The American Legions Influence In the department of Minnesota is Indi- d cated by an Impressive list of legislation passed since the inception of the Legion in 1919. Some of the Important legislative acts originating with the Legion or sponsored by that body are: Abatement of and Interests penalties penalties. costs on taxes upon lands owned by persons who served during the World war abated, Bonus, state a bonus of $15 for each month served in World war. Development of agricultural resources an act to develop the agricultural resources of the state by land colonization and providing for certain privileges to soldier settlers. Hospitals Tenth district neuropsyclilatrlc hospital and funds for tuberculur hospital. State soldiers welfare fund moneys provided for general welfare of soldiers. Rural credits bureau bureaus where service men may obtain loans under prescribed conditions. And so forth. These are just a few of the many acts passed beneficial to men of this state, said Stafford King, department adjutant, who compiled the list. In the face of such evidence of the Legion's power to accomplish, the membership of this department should be tripled. Legion-sponsore- Must Use Married Name When Signing Pay Roll . The New Number IS GIVEN LIFE m J J j 6 Cheyenne, Wyo. Attorneys others interested in the trial of the Teapot Dome naval oil lease annulment case settled down to awaint the decision of Federal Judge T. Blake Kennedy on a motion by the government for a continuance in the hearing. San Francisco, Calif. Julius Kahn congressman from the Fourth California district and chairman of the house military affairs committee, who died here, was buried with ceremonies that characterized in their simplicity the method of his life. Accomplice In Crime, Sentenced to 35 Years in Illinois Penal Institution SALT LIE CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MAKES SURVEY TO DETERMINE POPULATION IS ELL-AN-S 253 AND 75$ PACKAGES EVERYWHERE Broadcasting Cough When Gov. A1 Smith's speech whs broadcast at Manchester, N. 11., Edward Murphy sut on the stage and Interrupted gome of the early speakers by coughing. Half a mile eway at his home in the residential part of the dty Mrs. Murphy, attending the rally hy radio, heard the cough, recognized it Lucille Wilson as Ed's and sent the son of the family Greeley, Colo.-Mr- s. with some tablets to relieve alias Lucille Lavallette, bobbed hair- posthaste the husband und father and prevent ed flapper bandit, was sent to prison his further with the suo interference for ten years by Judge Neil F. Gra- cess of the occasion. ham for the part she played in the holdup and robbery December 6, of Billy Knew the Game Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Clark of Greeley. my small neighbor, dropped The Clarks were robbed of valuables in Rill), see me one morning. Spying a to and their automobile. toy telephone lying in the corner, he conviction The Calif. immediately began playing with It. Sacramento, You he Central. he suggested, of Tom Conners of San Francisco, cnller-up- . I'll und be the of the California in genersecretary Accordingly, lie took the phone, and al defense committee of the Industrial Workers of the World, in the shouted: "Ilellp! Hello, I answered. superior court of Sacramento county 141,732 PEOPLE I Bell-an-s Hot water Sure Relief and E GREAT BORE THROUGH MOUNTAINS IS BEING PIERCED WITH RAPIDITY the Oh, no. that Isnt the way, little fellow corrected me. 1 huve to say Hello' two or free times; then alleged I. W. W. members, was re you The line's busy. un then I versed by the Third circuit court of bawl say: out ! you Chicago Tribune. appeals. Rock Springs, Wyo. Miss Barbara Radium Rays From Animals Roberts plunged 200 feet over a and animals are raLiving cliff to instant death dioactive, plunts out rays like ru ilium, giving near here. Her head was badly according to Albert Notion, French Miss Roberts was hunting scientist, says Popular Science. Monthjackrabbits with a companion on the ly. Recently Notion exhibited three outskirts of Rock Springs. She ap- photographic plates on each of which proached the brink of the cliff, slip- wen unmistakable light Impressions. These, he asserted, were caused by the ped and was hurtled to death. Los Angeles. Robert E. Rose, 68 rays emitted by a radioactive mineral, an insect and h green leaf that had years old, formerly private secretary been placed un the emulsion side of to William Jennings Brwan and for- the a In room. dark plates eign trade adviser under the Wilson administration, died here. A Airship of 1709 widow, a daughter and a brother, According to the text accompanyformer mayor of Milwaukee, survive. ing a curious print published In Vienna Sterling, Colo. Four young per- in 1709, the attractive qualities of the sons who had attended a dance at coral agate were to he used the Elks club here were ground to in Hn airship, the invention of a Bradeath under the wheels of a Burling- zilian priest. Over the aviator's head ton train while they were enroute to wus a network of iron to which large coral agates were nttached. These Iliff, twelve miles from Sterling. were to in expected help drawing Greeley, Colo. Quick justice was the ship when, through the heat up of hinded out to Jesse. T. Layton, alias the suns rays, the stones had acquired David Lockhart, 25, and Ernest Mc- magnetic power. Cauley, alias John Small, 32, when they pleaded guilty in district court Has No Copyright here to robbing the First State bank It appears that the one country In at Keensburg, Colo. After hearing that lies outside the pale of Euroje their pleas District Judge Neil F. Is Yugoslavia. Not only is copyright Graham sentenced each to from twen- the foreign author or newspaper not ty years to life in the state peniten- protected, hut within the country literhours after ary or journalistic work Is not recogtiary, just seventy-twthey had robbed the bank of about nized as property. An end is to he put $550. to this state of tilings by a proposed Tacoma, Wash. John Ellegood, 56, authors protection hill. Aas killed, $40,000 worth of property Where Everybody Is Boxed was ruined and three buildings were An undertaker has recently suggestwrecked in a double explosion at the Du Pont Powder companys plant at ed that his profession should he given a more attractive name. Why not call Du Pont, Wash. his shop the Box Olfice? London HuSan Francisco. Charles DArcy, morist. well to do San Francisco business The tubers of chufn. or earth alman, is in jail, reading some of his favorite authors and taking a rest mond, which is some purts of the for an indefinite period, because he country is nn annoying weed, yield refuses to pay his wife $300 a month about 30 per cent of usable oil. alimony unless she obtains a divorce. on a charge of corruptly attempting to influence a juror in the trial of More Women Than Men by 860; In Five Years 4,737 Dwelling Houses and 5,642 More Progress to Date 10 Per Cent Aheac of Original Plans; Colorado Families Complete Bore Nearly a Third snow-covere- d mul-tilate- Salt Lake City. Salt Lakes pupu-latio- n is 141,732. This figure was announced by the Salt Lake chamber of commerce following the annual surey conducted during the past few months. The figure shows an increase of 33,662 or 20 per cent over the 118,110 given in the United States enumeration of January, 1920. For the metropolitan district of Salt Lake, it is estimated that the opening of 1925 will find 180,079 persons residing in this vicinity, which is more than a 20 per cent increase over the num- ber here in 1920. There are 860 more of the fair sex in Salt Lake than men, according to 'he survey, while of the number over 21 years of age, the males have the call, with a surplus of sixty. In the five ytars, 4737 more dwellings were added to the citys prosperity, while 5642 more families carne to Salt Lake to live, the survey reveals. The Mountain States Telephone & that Telegraph Company reports there are 16,791 residential tele phones in Salt Lake, an increase of 2968 in the five years. Inasmuch as the figures show 33,852 families residing in the city, the average is one Eight Burn to Death telephone to every two families. Croydon, England. Eight persons other facts ascertained by were killed at the Croydon aerodrome theAmong were: survey here when a London-Pari- s passenger of City Water Assessor Report airplane burst into flames and crash- George Lindholm of 20,430 domestic ed to the ground. The machine services in the city at the close water caught fire and fell shortly after of 1919 and 23,789 at the close of starting for Paris. Among those of 3359, or 16.5 per killed in the crash was Dr. Barbaso 1924, an increase cent. Lima of Brazil, who was starting for Increase of 15 per cent in the enSwitzerland. The airplane, which was of public and other schools rollment seen to burst into flames as it soarclose of 1924 as compared with at the ed above the aerodrome here, came 1919. of close he down at Maling Downs, a short distance from the starting field. ResGame Is Killed in Parks cuers rushed to the scene in automobiles and afoot. The planes passenWashington. Several hundred nagers were burned to death, however, tive wild animals under the protection before the first of the rescuers reach- of the national park service, have ed the wreckage. It is believed that been killed by hunters during the reno Americans were among the vic- cent season. Two hundred and fifty tims. elk, which had become restless and eft the Yellowstone park, were slauPension Bill Is Signed ghtered during the last week in NoPresident Coolidge ember. Heavy snows in the Glacier Washington. has signed the omnibus pension bill National Park in Montana have drivgranting pensions to a number of in- en elk and deer to the lower valleys dividuals who have served in the and out of the park limits. Fifteen armed forces of the country. The leer were killed in and around Belpresident also signed the bill appro- ton, Mont., by hjntera within a mile priating $100,000 to enable the de- of the park. .Wounded deer made for partment of agriculture to rombat the park again, but were caught in the European fowl plague and other the river before reaching their redisease which have led to an embargo fuge. Oteher national parks, the inby New York ' and other Eastern terior department announced, report states against live poultry from the that wild game within their limits are - The Moffat tunnel, piercdivide of the continental the ing Rocky mountains west of here, and one of the worlds greatest railroad d bores, is nearly complete I and is 10 per cent ahead of the time schedule set by the builders. To date, the pioneer, or water, tunnel has been bored 6500 feet from the east portal and 5490 from the west portal,. or more than distance. The main of the has heading penetrated James peak 6316 feet from the east portal and 4700 feet from the wrest. The crosscut tunnels connecting the main and water bores at intervals or from 1300 to 1500 feet, have reached a total of 520 feet. Each of these crosscut tunnels is approximately seventy-fivfeet in length. The full size railway tunnel has penetrated 2094 fee: from the east and 531 feet from the western portal. At present the work of enlarging the main heading, which is being Denver. one-thir- one-thir- d so-call- ed e drilled seven and one-ha- lf by nine will be 16x24 feet, is proceeding twice as fast as the work at 'the front. At this ratio, tunnel engineers estimate within a year this work will be abreast of the main heading. The slowness of progress on the western end is accounted for by the fact that builders have encountered soft shale and dirt rather than solid rock. This necessitates timbering every foot of the way at a cost of more than $100 per linear foot. At the east portal solid rock was found after the first few hundred feet and enabled the contractors to speed up the work materially. That the work through the winter months will proceed even more rapidly than during the summer is the prediction of by engineers. o Absence Hall9s Catasrrh Medicine Official business Cheyenne, Wyo elect Nellie T. was given by govern Ross as her reason for declining the Treatment, both invitation sent here by Ma Fer- local and Internal, and has been success guson of Texas to be present at the ful In the treatment of Catarrh for over latters inaugural ball in Austin, forty yean. Sold by all druggists. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio January 20. Cam pi ire Seattle, Wash. Fourteen JCURES COLDS wZ4KDUBST Girls, who were aboard their club when house ship, the Camaraderie, it swung in the wind at its mooring in a 100 foot arc and damaged a houseboat and a dock nearby, were TUBES LA GRIPPE "3 taken off the vessel unharmed. The Apple Hood River, Oro. cEvson; kommCI Growers Association has sold to New York City export apple merchants, Opposes Inaugural Ball President Coolidge Washington. on suggestions for down his foot put ris inaugural reception. He does no: object to a ball held in connection with the inauguration, provided he does not have to attend. The president bcMeves that those who like to dance should be permitted to do so, )ut he does not care for dancing and consequently will not attend any balls where he might be expected to participate in that pastime. visitors through the monthf wThen the camps are snowbound, anc the lessening likelihood of workmer drifting from their jobs account foi theis prediction, it was explained. The men are comfortably housed in camps at each end of the tunnel, where stocks of provisions sufficient for three months are at hand. Each camp has a medical dispensary and hospital with a doctor and nurse in constant attendance. Fatalities, however, have been almost nil, but one death resulting from accident during the seventeen months the work hat bee in progress. Terms of the contract call for the completion of the project not latex than July 1927. The opening of the tunnel to railroad traffic will start the development of a vast tract of virgin territory in northwestern Colorado, a region heretofore not reached by railroad lines. In this territory lie vast coal deposits, oil shale beds and oil fiods as yet untapped except for one or two isolated wells that have come in for flows estimated at several thousand barrels a day. Killed at Skatl g Pittsburg. Kan.cSamnel Ray Buchson of Thomas Iluanan, h nan, a miner, was instantly killer when he stumhed on a tie and fek under a Santa Ke freight train while skating at Radley, near here. Paraders Are Warned Philadelphia, t a. General Butler, e director of public safety, and his caricatured be not must by force the participants in this New Years mummers parade, managers of the event were told in a communication from a city council committee. Heretofore the parade has been marked by special divisions in which burlesques of current events have been Female featured. impersonators were instructed to wear adequate wraps. Santa Rosa, Cal. Three men were overcome by the fumes from a 10,000 gallon empty wine vat at the Olivet winery, near here. Peter Fracanide. working over a vat, became dizzj from the odor shd fell 20 feet to the bottom. Ilis two helpers became un conscious while attempting to reach him. Other workers cut u hole in the when the latter retires next June. rescued the three. and vat General Howze holds the distinguishDenver, Colo. The Denver & Rio ed service medal for services during Western railroad has fori ItaGrande the World War and citations fof gal- - j the hands of its new lantry at Santiago during the Span, ly passed.theinto Pacific and the Minsouri owners, ish war. . ex-servi- ce States Western Mrs. 'Elsie Sweetin Rehabilitation officers of the American Legion who have assisted the Middle West. The departments camwives of disabled veterans to obtain been inaugurated. has paign already positions In the United States veterans bureau Washington, state that Drys Claim Big Victory such women will be compelled to use Westerville, O. Officials of the their married names when tl ey sign the pay rod. or give up their jobs. 'Antisaloon League of America and Many married women of the thousands the World League Against Alcoholemployed by the bureau have been ism, in a statement issued at nationcarried on the pay roll under their al headquarters hero, declared that gialden names. In making the ruling. the elevation of William Green to Director Frank T. Hines of the vet- the presidency of the American Federans bureau pointed out that the law eration of Labor, is . not only a vicpresumes that the name of a woman tory for labor, but is a victory for Is changed, on contracting the marboth national and world prohibition riage relation, to that of her husband, and law enforcement. which thereafter becomes her only legal name. Cold at. Yellowstone Park Pocatello, Ida. Reports reaching Urged to Join Legion this city from West Yellowstone, Members of Washington labor organizations who saw service In the Mont., state that the mercury has World war were recently urged to Join reached G5 degrees below zero, the City Aids Post the American Legion in a letter sent lowest point in many years in the An unsolicited appropriation of to the secretary of each union by Wil-liu- national park. Unconfirmed reports 00 to aid W. A. Hudgens post of the'j Short, president of the WashingAmerican Legion In the completion of j ton State Federation of Labor.' The state that between 50 and 100 horses Memorial athletic field was made letter from Mr. Short followed an- have been frozen to death and that ecently by the city council of Ander- nouncement of plans for a member- one man has been found dead in bed on. S. C. The field, when completed, j drive to be conducted by Rainier in a fireless cabin. The report also rill be one of the finest athletic fields j ship Noble post of the Legion, the largest states that several persons have, sufthe .state. fered frozen arms, hands and feet. organization of veterans In the state from the Many Z L. M. HEIGHT, FORMER METHODIST MINISTER GOES TO PRISON FOR MURDER Mount Vernon, 111. Lawrence M. Hight, former Methodist pastor, must serve a life sentence in the Illinois penitentiary and Mrs. Elsie Sweetin thirty-fiv- e years for the murder of Wilford Sweetin. A jury brought in the verdict with the foregoing sentences. The jury had deliberated on the case for approximately eleven hours. The main question among the jurors, according to rumors about the courtroom, was whether or not the former minister should hang. Both Ilight and Mrs. Sweetin took the verdict calmly. The pastor seem ed resigned to sentence. Mrs. Sweet in expressed gratification at the fact she had not been given a life sentence. This was the final episode of the perfect love which the minister and the miners wife had built up. For months he wooed her clandestinely, and in the end, according to the states evidence, it resulted in the poisoning of Mrs. Sweetins husband. The ministers wife, Mrs.' Anna A. Hight, also died from arsenic poison ing and a charge of murder in connection with her death still hangs over the two. States attorneys announced they would not take up the second murder case immediately. The states attorney also said he was very much displeased with the leniency of the jurors. We built up a perfect case against the two. I am displeased with such a verdict, Frank Thompson, one of the prosecutors, said. In the closing arguments both Thompson and his assistant made pleas that Hight and Mrs. Sweetin be sent to the gallows for the murder. Hights defense was based around insanity, and Mrs. Sweetin had contended she had no part in the affair. Immediately after the pair were arrested in connection with the murder, they confessed to.the crime. Hights confession was read into the records, but Mrs. Sweetin repudiated hers and it was stricken from the testimony. However, the state engineered a coup when Lun Sweetin, the dead mans father, testified that Mrs. Sweetin had confessed to him that she killed her husband after Hight had urged her to do it. Relief Sure FOR INDIGESTION Western Brevities in splendid condition. . po-ic- - -- - ; : 1 uhiu.oo. I - Howze Succeeds Bundy Wahington. secretary Weeks hat selected Major General Rofcfrt L Howze, commanding the First cavalry division at El Paso, Tex., to succeed Major General Omar Bundy at commander of the Fifth corps area. with headquarters at Columbus, O. the entire remaining export tonnage of all grades and varieties of apples totaling 3000,000 boxes. The sale, which will involve payment of an approximate $503,000 was the largest in the history of the northwestern apple industry. San Francisco. Lee Bong, San Francisco Chir.ese did a thriving business in the sale of pills, but when he began extending his venlure over the state the federal authorities, became interested. He was u der arrest charged with using the miih to de fraud. According to postal inspectors Bong advertised his pills thru the mails as being absolutely infall-;blin winning and holding love and The Purity of Cuticura Makes It Unexcelled For AQToilet Purposes Any book you want by mail, CO. D. 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