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Show PRESS MESSENGER DOES REAL STUNT Among first to Spread the Joyous News of Downfall Down-fall of the Huns. Early in the morning of November 11 last Alfred Martin did something which he will remember with pride as lon a3 he lives. For on that morning of a day which will live in history young Martin, who had been awaiting just some such happening, heard the well-knowu well-knowu Associated Press tic.ker give warning of the ''flash": "The armistice has been signed." Martin, who is the messenger for the Salt Lake bureau of the Associated Press, never in his born days .lumped as he did that moment. In a twinkling ho had seized the "flimsies," and, Mercury lending speed to his feet, soon plumped the news on the desks of the telegraph editors of the two Salt Lake morning newspapers. So that ho helped to spread the glad news and incidentally contributed to the din which startled Salt Lake from its slumbers on that November morning. It was some achievement, to be surot and young Martin naturally is proud ot his. share in the whole thing. Alfred is lli years old. and counts himself a first-rate American, oven if he was born abroad. But he was born in England, which played rather a big part m recent events, and is a first cousin to Uncle Sam, at any rate. Ho has been in the Associated Press employ for a year. Local telegraph editors do say that ho is about as bright aB they make them. |