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Show HUNT PRESSED. FOR LOST GIRL PRICE An extensive search In the rugged mountain region surrounding sur-rounding the Spring Canyon mining min-ing district continued Thursday for Alice Iwamoto. attractive and talented tal-ented Japanese girl, who has been -J missing for two days after leaving ber Latuda home, reportedly be-f be-f cause her parents refused to sanc- 'r tion her marriage to a man more than twice her age. The girl's father, Ed Twamoto, fears, according to Sheriff S. M. f- Bliss, that the 80-yearrfild honor J graduate of the Carbon county high j school may have taken her own 1 life, as she had once threatened to do. i Concern for the girl's safety t mounted throughout the district. where, the sheriff reported, she was '" very popular. ' I Unorganised search groups oblit- 3 erated tracks on the trail which the girl is believed to have taken when she left Latuda at a. m. Monday, Mon-day, hindering the efforts now being Blade to track her. The sheriff considered the possibility possi-bility the girl had traveled over the mountain until she reached U. 8. highway SO. although the 10-mile 10-mile hike would have been an arduous ar-duous one. It was learned by the sheriff Galeae, laasaafJBftaBtMLaBaa aaaUkaUlalaUlst l leal BWWWaW pmme because her father refused to allow al-low her to wed a 47-year-old compatriot com-patriot from Salt Lake City. American Amer-ican friends of the girl expressed belief the girl, reared in the oriental ori-ental tradition of filial respect, would not have gone against her father's wishes in the matter of the marriage, but might have taken her wn life because of his refusal. Miss Iwamoto graduated from the Carbon county high school in 1 Join Jo-in her senior year the was president presi-dent of the Girls' Athletic club, winner of a student body award for oratory and a member of the Car-bonette Car-bonette club, girls' activity organisation. organi-sation. She waa an accomplished dancer and earned a special citation cita-tion for scholarship. |