Show VERNON CHEEVER IS DROWNED AT PROVO I Young Swimmer Doing Stunts in n Water Apparently Has Heart Paralysis Special to Tho The Herald Republican Provo July Vernon 6 Cheever the year old son Bon of ot Joseph Josoph a butcher was drown drowned d in the Cheever river below the Knudsen farm tarm this afternoon Young Cheever in company with Boy Scout Commissioner John L. L and nd six Ix companions went vent to the river to drill and swim this afternoon His companions were were Nolan Bunting Homer Yates and S Hardy Frank k Earl Blum Blumenthal buy boy scouts Earl and Jones Moro Moo and Shirley Scout Commissioner WaIl wa absent at the time of oC the drowning lie He had i In n quest of ot kindling to start a fire gone for t the he boys bors to dr dry themselves when they c came ame ashore and was not made aware of t the he tragedy until his return Cheever who was considered an export expert s swimmer had been diving and arid swimming with the rest of tho the boys bos He attempted s several everal difficult feats feat featHe He was In the tho act of trying to see ace e how long ho he could remain under water when he was seized with a stroke of paralysis of ot the tho hearty heart Tho The boys bon wore unable to locate Iho the tho bod body and Carl Knudsen was called After Aft Aft- t er Cr fifteen minutes of diving he located t the he bod body about twenty-five twenty feet upstream Dr Fred Ta Taylor lor was summoned but young oung Cheever had been dead some time when examined Th The boys boy's father and t the tho sheriffs sheriff's office Were are ro notified of tho the fatal atal f accident Funeral arrangements have havo not been ma made e. e The Tho Cheever family is among tho the most prominent of Provo Tho The deceased was wasa a nephew of ot the late hate President John h Henry enry Smith of the tho Mormon Monnon church |