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Show SECTION TWCT PROVO UTAH) DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1939 PAGE ONE Marriage m 4 m s 7 Ba 1 By Mother lJto - Told of 'Harding 'Romance Nan Britton Now At Work On New Book - By NE.V Service ' "THE PRESIDENTS DAUGHTER" DAUGH-TER" is married. Elizabeth Ann, who was re-' re-' vealed to the country by her mother. Nan Britton, in 1927, as the daughter of the late President Warren G. Harding-. i3 today a fine -looking, grown - up young woman of 20. A year ago she became be-came the wife of the assistant manager of a Chicago business building, ' This sequel to a story which rocked the country 12 years ago, is told by Helen Waterhouse in . a copyrighted story in the Sunday Akron (Ohio) '- Beacon - Journal. Miss Britton, who lives auietly in a secluded apartment In Evanston. HI., told the story to Miss Water-house Water-house as follows: Elizabeth Ann's romance blossomed blos-somed after her graduation from high school, where she ' was an honor pupil. I wanted Ann to get a bit of business experience that summer, so she became a receptionist at a personnel office," said Miss Britton. "And the man with whom she fell in love worked in an office of-fice just around the corner." LIFE DEVOTED TO CHILD All Miss Britton's life in recent years has "been devoted to bringing bring-ing up her child. Miss Britton, who keeps secret her residence and telephone number, because she wants no publicity and is loathe to give interviews, is a slender, shapely woman, almost frail in appearance. . It is hard to believe that she is now 43. Her hair glints golden -and her skin is fair, and white. As she talked,-her eyes strayed frequently fre-quently to a framed photograph standing near her on a table. "Ann has her father's moments! of deep tranquility, and is very like him in many little ways,' she said. . . Miss Britton had planned a college col-lege and writing career for her daughter, she admits, for Elizabeth Eliza-beth .Ann had been "scribbling things since childhood." ELIZABETH ANN'S OWN STORY 1 1 7 The Presidents DAUGHTER4t m i " Elizabeth Ann Harding i 4 j I : ill If i- - - s Nan Britton t ;..$9W-eai She exhibited a story Elizabeth, Ann had written when she was less than 8 .shortly after she had heard the story of her birth from her mother's lips: "There are different kinds of babie3," the child had scrawled.' ' , "Jetus was born -with a gold ring around his head which meant holy. Other babies which are not hoy, and are natural, are ..just born from their mothers. . T happened to be a baby born by my mother. . "One day I asked my mother, Who is my father?'" ".'Who is the man your mother talks most about when she is at home with you?' she asked me. I said President Harding., 'You are right. President Harding is your father, she said. ' ' . ; . - "After our talk I. did not "love ray mother more nor less to know that she was President Harding's love.-wife. I .loved her just . the same." -x ' : . ' Motherly pride shone in Miss Britton's eyes. "But. now her whole life is wrapped up in her cooking, and housekeeping," she" said. "She is a wonderful little housekeeper." MOTHER WRITES NEW BOOK ' ; " " Miss Britton ' says her present income i3 derived from an advertising adver-tising business she entered six years ago when she came to Chicago Chi-cago from New Rochelle, N. Y. Every day she works at a little "hideout" in Chicago as she terms it, using a fictitious name in her business hours, and writing steadily stead-ily from dawn to dusk atr a book which she expects to have completed com-pleted within a year. .She refuses to reveal its subject, but says it isnot a sequel to "The President's Daughter." -.. , " Bitterness still '-''.rings 1 in her voice, however, whenever she mentions men-tions the Harding family, and the waythey refused her appeals for a trust fund for her child. She will not speak ' of Mrs. Harding. Nan, says she knows- that somewhere some-where there is a fund which Presi dent - Harding arranged for . his child before he died. "Faith makes me believe . that time will uncover where it is," she adds. '. Miss Britton prefers not to reveal re-veal the names of Elizabeth Ann's husband and his place of business because she - is anxious to keep her family out of the limelight , Mi Oeseruoira Drop tepidly SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 7 UR State .Engineer T. H. Humphreys Humph-reys told the state water stor-age stor-age commission today- that v the 15 principal reservoirs - in IJtah now contain; 230,000 ' acre feet less than on Dec. 1, 1938. He attributed the drop, as well as below normal stream flow,' to lack of heavy precipitation so for this . winer. Reservoirs showing large drops Trade Treaties To He Modified Says Utah Solon SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 7 UE A.- ' lively controversy in tlie coming- session of congress will be followed" by modification or of the administration's reciprocal trade agreement policy, Sen. William' Wil-liam' H. King, D., Utah, ; predicted pre-dicted today on his arrival for a brief visit. . Sen. King, said strong tacking by westerners would probably bring a requirement for senate ratification of all reciprocal trade agreements.; . , . The trade treaty act, under which the agreements are ne gotiated, will not be voided, he said but other changes will be made to give congress a tighter rein on trade agreements. West erners need not fear that the ex cise tax on copper will 4e modi f ied, the senator stated. I N D ON LAWIS3SNC3 17ALKC3 ; ' Keprtr Mr. and ' Mrs. Kenneth Gillman Mr. and Mrs. Wendell Swenson, Mr. and Mrs Harold Keetch, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Lewis and Mr. and Mrs. B. Cobbley enjoyed a waffle supper Thursday evening at the Cobbley home. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Brindley, Mr. and Mrs. Amasa Wright . and Mrs. Annie Wright were visi tors at Magna and Salt Lake, Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Vern ' Gillman, Bishop and Mrs. Alberta Walker, Mrs Viola Harris, Mrs. Mary B. Fage and Wilf ord Anderson were among those who attended . the funeral services of Mrs. Elizabeth Eliza-beth Baxter at ,r Windsor ward chapel Sunday afternoon. ' Ray Walker left Monday morning morn-ing for Los . Angeles, where he wlil sail for the Australian mission mis-sion December ' sixth. 4- ; Mrs.- Ole Hanson returned home Sunday after a ' few days visit with her daughters, Mrs.' Esther Carlson and Mrs. Genevieve Bar-raclough Bar-raclough at Salt Lake City. , . . Mrs. : La vina Fugal, Professor iS. A. Beck and daughter Ruth were recent Lindon : visitors. , o7 tX!? WW- .'F-i I i i A I -I J - . A iHkviyh ii.r nji mj x V (SjjJJ inl.ir : u Eirco-AGf Gocicdy neatly ?o Sfoge PLEASANT GROVE "Penrod," a comedy in three acts,: which, has been chosen for the Pleasant Grove-high school's : annual, plav, will be presented for the public Friday, December 8, ' at 8 p. m., Dan Peterson, "speech instructor,' is the . coach, and the students in ' theTvarious. roles are : " Penrod,- Harvey 'Christensen; Sam, Tyler Rogers; Mr. ; Schofield, Frank Newman;- - Tim, Lieslie Neves; Dade, - Austin -- Dittmore; ' Bob, Ravmond Bronson: Reverend: George McMlllian ; Jones, Don Fen ton ; 1 Coombs, Wallace Hall ; Vernon, ,-TJbrman Wifight; Her- man, Ben .... Homer; Georgie Baa- sett, Eldon : Rasmussen; Jarge, Lowe -Howard; i Mrs. Schofield, Kathleen r West; Mrs. ? Bassett, Louise Green; Margie, June Pearl West; : Margaret, ,Lorna Walker; Delia, , Eava Richardson. - oCIIl Lw-iQ I'lllj . . r i p rm m Forty-eight new members have been pledged during the, autumn quarter to' Delta Phi, national missionary fraternity at Brigham Young university,, according to Oliver R. Smith, president. This Is the largest number of candidates candi-dates ever to be accepted in the, B. Y. U. chapter in any one term. : Final initiation of the pledged members will take place next quarter at a tri-chapter ceremon3-to ceremon3-to be held in Salt Lake City, Mr. Smith said. . The new group will bring the total membership of the "Y" chapter to 85. ; Those pledged to the fraternity are: Thornton Y. Booth, Merrill G. Christensen, Richard Frandsen, Thomas P. Martin, Paul S. Nich-oles, Nich-oles, Wilf ord E Smith, George Thatcher, , George Nielsen, Jr., Max Butler, Pro vo; Sterling Cannon, Can-non, Harold L. Dean, Ray Hanks, Paul Felt, Bait Lake City; Robert BuswelL" Ogden; Nathan Allen, Roosevelt; - J. Elbert Bennion, Murray; Howard W. Draper, Wellington; Well-ington; Leon Flint, Layton; James R. . Henrie, Marysvale; Raymond S. Herbert, Manti; Timothy Tim-othy H. Irons, Nephi; Warren Kirk, Pleasant Grove; Arthur - E. I McKell, Shirl Swenson, Spanish Fork. , Horace Thompson, Wood row Dennett, St. George; Ben Whiting, Wallsburg; Devon Andeison, Orangeville; WToodrow Westens-chow, Westens-chow, Lehi; H. Verlan Anderson, Roy A. Payne, Duncan. Ariz.; Herman A. Christensen. Prescott, Ariz.; L. Flake Rogers, Snowflake, Ariz.; Morris Nelson, Phoenix, Ariz.; Deane Brown, Pocatello, Idaho; Gordon A. Burke, Jay Nielsen, Shelley, Idaho; Dwight W. Loosli. Driggs, Idaho; Newell D. Dickson, Cowley, Wyo.; Gerald O. Lynn, Lovell. Wyo.; Thales Smith, Greyball, Wyd Earl Bascom,' Maurice K. Hcn-inger, Hcn-inger, Raymond, Alberta, Canada; Wallis L.; Hannah, Orlando. Florida; Flori-da; Eugene Hilton, Oakland Cal.; Clelland E. Jones, Nyssa, Ore.; William B. Hawkins, La-Grande, La-Grande, Ore.; D Coy Miles, Baker, Ore.; Francis E. Stock, Water-flow, Water-flow, N. M. , Students Sponsor Old German Party German etudenas at Biigham Young university : and German-speaking German-speaking people of Provo will enjoy, en-joy, an all-German evening Thursday Thurs-day night under the sponsorship Ice Skating Kin!: To Be -Constructe: At Pleasant Grove PLEASANT GROVE l'lar-s are being completed for an St -skating rink in Pleasant Grove. The rink, which ia bcin fpon-sorcd fpon-sorcd by city officials, Lion club, and chamber of commerce, will be located on the Central school grounds and will cover almost al-most two acres of ground. Uoth children and adults will be able V use the skating rink. The committee com-mittee in charge of the project are: Frank I). Atwood, Joseph Day, H. E. Bradley, Lyean Johnson, John-son, Dr. E. A. 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