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Show Utahns Return to Safety of Homes as Europe Battles or 'IE , lt,;, , n , , ,, , , 1 .1 I I I I 1 M L'TAHNS RETURN FROM EUROPE WITH NEWS OF NATIONS INVOLVED IN WAR I Picture at left shows Mrs. Louis J. Then, Mr. Then and Alice Then; at right is Weldon M. Mathia of Price A , kM L. D. S. MISSION PRESIDENT'S FAMILY RETURNS HOME Mrs. Hugh B. Brown, left, with Hugh C. Brown and Carol Rae Brewa French Feel Hitler Far More Dangerous Than Kaiser Was, Say S. L War Refugees Two Salt Lake families returned home from warring Europe Tuesday, Tues-day, their faces grave after crossing cross-ing the Atlantic on ships camouflaged camou-flaged against submarine attack. Mr. and Mrs. Louis J. Then of 331 East First South street and their daughter Alice, who visited relatives in Paris and other sections sec-tions of France, reported they were ordered out of Paris by the American ambasssdor. "We stayed in Havre for 10 days swsiting a ship to take us home," Mrs. Then said. "Most of our male relatives,, all those between the a-es of 20 and 55. were at the front preparing to fight the Germans, so we missed seeing many of them. "The French people hate Adolf Hitler; they feel he is fsr more dangerous to their nation and the world than.Kaiser Wilhelm in 1914. They are determined to defend France to the last man, and they will, for the French are a courageous coura-geous people," said Mrs. Then. They returned on the French liner He de France, which docked Saturday in New York City after going far off the ship's normal course in order to avoid possible trouble with submarines. Mrs. Hugh B. Brown, wife of the president of the L. D. S. British mission, together with her son, Hugh C. Brown. 20, snd a daughter, daugh-ter, Carol Rae, 10, returned on the United States luxury liner Manhattan. Man-hattan. Although more than 40 L. D. S. missionaries and members of missionaries' mis-sionaries' families returned on the were the first Salt Lakers to arrive ar-rive here. They reported Mr. Brown would remain In England an Indefinite time, along with several sev-eral assistants. Other mission presidents will remain re-main in Europe with skeleton stsffs, but nearly all missionaries will be evacuated as rapidly as accommodations ac-commodations can be secured, the church offices reported. Weldon M. Mathls of Price, who fulfilled a 28-month mission In the Swiss - German field, .passing through Salt Lake Tuesday on his way home, said he was ordered out of Germany "just In time to miss the war.'' He said he ssw snd heard Hitler address huge crowds In Berlin while In the German capital. cap-ital. Neil O'Donnell Jr, 16-year-old son of Neil O'Donnell of 372 East First South street, was scheduled to arrive in Salt Lake City late Tuesday after touring England, Ireland, Scotland and the European Euro-pean continent with a party from California. |