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Show THE AIRPLANE FALLS' BLOGKADERS AO E TIMES-NEW- NEPHI, UTAH S, SEISnEEHSJEE VON HIND E Events in the Lives of Little Men MAKING HEADWAY THREE ARE DEAD RULES GERMANY RUNNERS ARE MEETING WITH STIFF OPPOSITION IN FORMER AIR MAIL HEAD AND PASSENGERS KILLED IN CRASH NEAR SALT LAKE CITY PEACE REIGNS IN BERLIN AS NEW PRESIDENT TAKES OFFICE; THRONGS CHEER Machine la Total Wreck; Heavy Weat Wind la Probable Cauae of Machine Going Into Dizzy Inauguration la Carried Out According to Schedule; "Deuchland Uber Allies" la Heard From Those Present BOOZE TRYING TO LAND LIQUOR Left of Rum Row Fleet Ha Seeking New Fields to Land Contraband on United States Soil Say Officials Part in this New York. Vanquished portion of the Atlantic seaboard by the dry navy's blockade, Rum Row is breaking up. Some liquor crafts re. main off New York hoping for fog to aid them. Thick mist came Sua day for the first time since the blockade started last week. Read Admiral Billard, commandant of the coast guard, has said in Washington that he will be satisfied if appreciable disintegration of Rum Row begins within a month, but some of the schooners and steamers that have formed part of the fleet selling liquor between Cape Ann, Mass., and Cape May, N. J., for four years, have alEither they have ready vanished. gone to their home ports on foreign shores or are seeking other marts along the coast. Captain W. V. E. Jacobs, divisional commander of the coast guard here received a radio message from his blockaders that some of the whisky ships were heading out to sea. Later there were reports that some of the rum selling craft had headed in shore In the hope that customers could elude the coast guard's pickets in the fog and do business. During a lift In the fog eight rum craft were noted lazily riding the rollers off Handy Hook. With the blockaders having on duty thirty-eigh- t craft, it was believed smugglers would have great difficulty n getting ashore even In the mist. Instancing the efficiency of the blockade is a story told by a seaman of the dry navy. When a coast guard boat cut In close to a rum steamer there came a hall by megaphone from the bridge: "We need water. How about 100 cases of whisky for 100 cases of water?" The patrol boat ignored the hail and veered oft Faces Jury Topeka, Kan. The trial of Jonathan M. Davis, former governor of Kansas, on charges of conspiring while in office with his bank commissioner, Carl J. Peterson, to obtain a bribe in exchange for a pardon has began before Judge James A. in the district court. The former, governor went on trial alone. Peterson named jointly with Davis on he warrant, is to be tried later. Davis faces two criminal suits. In the case going to trial he and Peterson are alleged to have attempted to obtain a bribe in exchange for a pardon for Walter Grundy, Hutchinson banker, who is serving a sentence In the state penitentiary for embezzlement. In the other suit the son Russell O. Davis, Is named Jointly with his father on charges of obtaining 11250 in exchange for a pardon for Fred W. Polland, convicted La Cygne banker. A. L. Oswald, young Hutchinson lawyer, who appealed to Jonathrn M. Davla whlln the latter was governor to pardon Grundy, Is the state's star witness t.mong thirty-fou- r subpoenaed. i e Female Army la Suggested Paris, France. Discussion France's loss of population through the increase of deaths over births the Petit Journal In an editorial suggested Jhat eventually the government will be forced to make girls do military service as potential soldiers to defend the country In case of Invasion. Commenting on the article the Intransigent points out the great advantage of this, remarking that girls play runfootball, hocky, are ners, drive automobiles and conjugal dames use the revolver as efficiently as men. "Soldiers' knapsacks are no heavier to .carry than market basket," says the article. "Men are becoming rarer In France and we must organite battalions of amarons. The Influence of women In the barracks during military training would be helpful. They would put flowers In the window sills, drive out bedbugs and cockroaches and keep the quarters clean. Military service for both sexes Is the sole remedy against depopulation. A woman acquitting her maternal duties becomes a reservist after having two children and an auxiliary after her third Infant." i cross-countr- y Cooper Wins Auto Race and $10,000 Charlotte Speedway, N. C Maintaining his lead over the last fifty miles by steady consistent driving, MemEarl Cooper won the orial day rare, winning th first prize f $10,000. Harry Hart was second and Tommy Milton, winner of last rear's race, who M the field for the first 200 miles, came in third. Coop-ir'- s official time was 2 hours t min-te- s and 65 seconds, an averabe of early 125 mile Jl hour. 250-mll- e Tailapin mm i Salt Lake City. Arlen Claron Nel-aoyears of age, former superintendent of the western division of the air mall service and a world war aviator, and two passengers, Grant Christensen, 15, 122 North West Temple Street and Russell De Loge, 15, 128 North West Temple Street, were killed. May 10th, shortly after 1 o'clock when the Unger Aircraft company plane, piloted by Nelson, crashed near the Woodward aviation field. The standard J-- l plane, in which the boys were carried without charge by Nelson took off in the face of a strong west wind. A quarter of a mile from the Ungar hangar the plane sideand slipped, went into a tailspin, crashed nose downward from an altitude of 150 feet to a flaming destruction just south of the Saltair speedway. The plane burst into flames and the unconscious pilot and boy passengers were so badly burned that identification of the charred boidies was difficult. The position of Nelson's body showed that he had made a heroic effort to right the plane. Efforts were male by Kenneth R. Unger, William F. Erlcksen, William Maxfield and H. G. Darke, air mail mechanics, and Carl Helberg to res cue Nelson and the two boys. Nelson was first taken from the blazing ruins and the bodies of the two boys were recovered just before the auxiliary gas tank exploded with a force that sent a blast of flames from thirty to forty feet. The rescu ers endangered their lives in futil but heroic efforts to extricate the bodies from the gasoline ignited inferno. Nelson and the two passengers died from burns, but all three were unconscious after the. plane struck the ground. Examination by Dr. John J. Galllgan attending surgeon at the emergency hospital showed that the skulls of both boys were fractured and that Nelson suffered a concussion of the brain and possible internal injuries. Death is believed to have come quickly to the boys. Nelson died in about twenty minutes without regaining consciousness. The standard J-- l plane, made by the Standard Aircraft corporation and Curtlss motor equipped with a K-had not been in the air more than five hours, Mr. Unger, owner of the plane said. Mr. Nelson was not employed by the Unger Aircraft company. He was an experienced aviator and on Saturday had taken a flight in the plane with Mr. Unger. The two boys' had long wanted to take an airplane ride and had walked to the aviation field. After waiting around for a half an hour the two youngsters, who had been befriended by Mr. Nelson In the past, readily accepted the kindly offer of Claron to take a ride. A quarter of a mile had been covered when a strong gust of wind caught the plane, turning to the soutSirest. A side-slifollowed. The plane went into a tailspin, revolved but once and crashed nose downward for 150 feet. p Darrow'a Aid Sought By 8hepherd who Darrow, Chicago. Clarence has helped 103 persons charged with murder to dodge the gallows, has been employed to assist William D. emerge unscathed In his Shepherd trial on the charge of slaying his orphan ward, William Nelson McCllntock, with typhoid germs. In the Shepherd case, Mr. Darrow will not appear aa chief counsel, but will act as a witness for Shepherd and will lend his advice to Stewart and O'Brien, regular counsel for the Shepherds. mll-lonal- Vandals Blow Dam Headgute Ogden. The headgate of the dam at the mouth of Ogden canyon was blown out by vandals It was reported here. The action caused the level of the water In the reservoir to drop to trout and bass that were recently stocked behind the dam by the state fish and game commission. Annual Defenoe Day Planned Washington. General staff plans for making Defense day a regular event to be held each year with Armistice day exercises November 11, have been completed and await only White House approval to be put Into motion. The project Is expected to be presented to the president soon for final action, with urgent recommendations of the reserve officers' association that It be approved. an-anu- al J sarBS'ip'naiaissiiHaia.'a Salt Lake City. Preparations for the annual convention of the Utah division of the International Association of Identification, which is to be held at the Newhouse hotel June 9 and 10, are now under way and an elaborate program is being planned. A number of committees have been appointed by Chief of JTPa E. Burbidge to make tire neensaary P'& Berlin. Field Marshal von Hinden- arrangements. of president Salt Lake City. Mrs. Nora Olson Germany May 12th. Except for a brief shout of pro- of Neola, Duchesne county, was found test from the communists, the inaug guilty of having used the mails to uration was carried out according to defraud in the United States district girl was ac schedule, the field marshal being court. The ficsworn into office by Reichstag Pres cused on four counts of sendi ident Paul Loebe before a crowded ticious checks to mail ordeafouses In payment for clothing. house. The oath taken by the president Logan. Pistol practice has been was as follows: begun by the members of F battery "I swear to devote all my energies of the National Guard, according to to the welfare of the German people, Captain Fred Thomas, who is superto increase their prosperity, to pro- vising the instruction of the men. The tect them from luxury, ao preserve practice will prepare the men for simthe constitution and laws of the com- ilar work this summer at Camp Lewmonwealth, to perform my duties is, where the local battery will spend conscientiously and to deal justly two weeks. with all." Ogden. Another $25,000 has been To this he added the religious af- received from the federal government firmation "so help me God," theregoing to the construction of federal by setting a new precedent for Ger- aid highways in Utah in payment, the man presidents. biggest part, of moneys already exThe president-elec- t left the chan- pended under state direction. Some cellor's palace, where he had spent $7595 of the amount is replacing the night at about 11:45 a. m. for the funds expended on the Ash Creek reichstag building where the inaug- bridge, $6650 on the project between ural ceremony was held. Anderson's ranch and Toquerville, His route lay through the Wilhelm-strass$5209 on the road between LaSal and by way Junction and Big Wash in San Juan of the centra! arch of the Brandencounty; $2989 on the Chicken Creek burg gate, which was formerly re- project and $2552 on the Wendover served for the emperor and through cutoff. which also President Ebert's funeral Salt Lake City. Claron Nelson and procession passed to the short street connecting with the reichstag build- two passengers met instant death near the Saltair speedway when the ing. The street was recently named airplane In which they were flying Freiderich Ebertstrassee in honor of went into a tailspin and crashed to the late president and the govern- the ground. Mr. Nelson was formerment announcements of the official ly superintendent of the western air program for the first time designated mall division. it as such. Ogden. Data concerning the variAt the door of the reichstag build- ous canal and irrigation companies ing, Von Hindenburg was greeted by In Weber, Davis, Summit and Morgan the vice presidents and the adminis- counties, particularly regarding their tration director, who conducted him financial standing Is now being gato the waiting Herr Loeb. The mar- thered for submission to the United ble steps leading to the chamber were States reclamation service in connec decorated with deep blue hydrangeas, tion with the Echo canyon dam, the the new president's favorite flower, first unit of the Salt Lake Basin pro with laurel trees on either side. ject. At noon von Hindenburg, accompanSpanish Fork. John E. Booth, de ied by Loebe, entered the chamber, which was bare of decorations ex- partment commander of the American Legion, has been appointed by cept around the president's table. Governor George H. Dern to act a Behind the president's chair hung a an huge tapestry bearing the German G. assistant to Adjutant General W. Williams in distributing the capcoat of arms which was encased in laurel wreaths interwoven with the tured German war trophies throughout state of Utah. Each state in republican colors of black red and the the union has been assigned a quo-t-o gold. of the captured war trophies In The president's table, at which Von proportion to the number of men it Hindenburg stood while being sworn furnished in the world war. into office, was covered with a large Provo. The seventh annual conrepublican flag and was flanked on either side by hydrangeas. vention of the Utah State Bankers' association will be held in Provo, June 6 and 6. Joseph T. Farrer, at Veteran Diplomat Dead Lyndhurst, England. Sir Stephen a meeting of the county organization, Leech, who for thirty-twyears was a was named chairman of the general member of the British diDlomatlc convention committees. Plans are beservice, was found dead in bed at his ing made for the entertainment of home here. Sir Stephen Leech was the visiting bankers. Chairman Farborn In 1864, educated at Eton and rer will call a meeting of the comMagdalena college, Oxford and enter- mittees to work out the details at ed the British diplomatic service aa once. attache in 1888, serving successfully Salt Lake City. An Increase of at Berlin, Brussels, Constantinople, more than twelve million dollars in . Chrls-tlaniaLibson, Rome, Copenhagen, the valuation of property for taxation Peking and in Central Amer- Is shown by the Just compiled ica. He retired from the service in by the state boardfigures of equalization, the 1920. values being on public utilities and mining companies, the figures givReticent On Criticism ing a grand total of $219,482,315 as Chicago. Vice President Charles compared with $207,463,456 for J924. G. Dawes was shown a copy of reSalt Lake City. The claims divimarks attributed to Senator William sion of the Utah regional office of H. King, democrat, Utah, criticising veteran's bureau considered durthe Dawes proposal to revise the sen- the the month of April 198 cases, acate rules to prevent one or more sen- ing to a report by Dr. L. J. Paul, cording ators from blocking the majority. The vice president, however, refused to regional manager. The Utah regional office was the first of the vetcomment. eran's bureaus to be decentralized and reestablished to comply with the American Autos Flood England provisions of the world war veterans' London. American made automo act. by congress and approvbiles are being shipped to Great Brlt- - ed bypassed the June 7, 1924. The lan at the rate of a thousand a dav purpose ofpresident this decentralization was as a result of Chancellor Churchill' to eliminate as much delay as possithreat to make the McKenna duties, ble in the handling of claims and renwhich placed a tax of 35 per cent on der all possible service to a veteran or cars foreign parts, retroactive at or near his home. Alvln Gash. 16, of this city was Many Admit Guilt In Bomb Plot killed when he climbed a Vienna. Dispatches from Sofia say tower in the foothills east of that all the principals charged with Ogden and came in contact with responsibility for the recent bombing wire 44,000 volts. He fell of the Svetl Krai cathedral In which from carrying the tower and in falling broke 160 persons were killed have pleaded another wire. His clothing was In guilty with the exception of r,ne de names when police officers reached fendant named Koeff. him. Salt Lake City. P. A. Clark of Europe Frowns On Hindenburg Paris. The French, British, Italian Salt I,ake was reelected president of and Belgian governments have decid- the Utah State Association of Letter Carriers at the annual meeting of that ed to omit the usual formal congrat ulations to a aewly elected chief of organization in the federal building. state In the case of Field Marshal Hn also was named delegate to the von Hindenburg, Germany's presi national convention of letter carriers dent-eleIn view of the fact that his It Detroit, Mich., next September. Salt Lake City. Approximately a name Is still on the list of those charged with war crimes. The four square mile of territory Is to be adpowers It Is stated will Hlmply for ded to Salt Lake City as a result of ward brief acknowledgement when action by Ihe city commission in denotified of his assumption of the ciding to ixtend the city limits of Palt Lake City In the southeastern presidency. ecUoa. - burg was inaugurated 30 6 Notes News From All Porta of UTAH am m,mmm m i SALTAIR PROPOSES RESORT 01 IS OFFERED CITY GAS SALT LAKE MAY BECOME OWNER PRESIDENT WILL GIVE APPROV-AOF SALTAIR AS PRESENT TO U. S. DELEGATES AT FROM CHURCH OFFICIALS GENEVA MEET Gift Would to Include Railway Leading Ohio Representative Would Prohibit Use of Gases In Time of War; Amusement Pavilion; City Plana to Rebuild For Large Many Nationa are Represented at Gathering Sum Says Mayor e Salt Lake ' City. What is left of Saltair Beach since the recent fire, and the electrified railroad operating between Salt Lake City and the resort also the branch running to Garfield were offered as a present to the people of Salt Lake City by President Heber J. Grant of the Mormon church. The offer was made to Mayor C. Clarence Neslen and by him presented to a special meeting of the city commission. Following this meeting, which was executive, it was an nounced by the mayor that the gift would undoubtedly be accepted by Salt Lake City. "I hope that within two or three days," said the Mayor, "we will not only notify President Grant of the acceptance of his offer but will be able to express the appreciation of the city commission and the people of Salt Lake for the maganimous gift." The mayor stated that acceptance of Saltair and the railroad would cost the city nothing, but really meant the dolgiving to the city of a lar proposition that can be made a revenue producer, as the resort, he said made $75,000 last year. The city, it was explaned by the mayor, in acecptlng the gift, will assume the bonds now outstanding for the electrification of the railroad operating to the beach, these bonds, amounting to $267,000 and being serial bonds, running until 1941. The church now holds a mortgage given by the amusement company, which has been operating the resort, but the mayor announced that the mortgage wouldN be cancelled by the holders. "There are no legal, financial or other obstacles in the way of acceptance of the offer by Salt Lake City," said the mayor. The mayor stated that If the city took the property it would be with the idea of rebuilding the superstructure which was destroyed by the recent fire. He estimated that a modern structure, one that would be a credit to the city and the state, could be built for about $250,000. As to the financing of this building the mayor said It might be done in several ways, either by a bond issue voted by the people or by leasing the property to an amusement company, which would advance the money to rebuild the superstructure. He also suggested that money might be raised by public subscription. The mayor announced that the church was made an offer of $75,000 for the property but that President Grant decided to reject this offer and make a present of the resort to the people of Salt Lake City. Explosion Killa Three Pueblo, Colo. Three men were killed and another injured when 3500 pounds of dynamite exploded in the yards of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company. Sheets wrapped around the charred bodies of the men caught fire while they were being taken to the county morgue and partially burned the hearse they were being carried in. Utah Coal Land Lease Is Awarded Washington. A preference right to a coal lease on 200 acres of public land In Summit county, Utah, was awarded Moses Paggl by the Interior department. The terms of the lease provide for an Initial Investment of $4000 on the property during the first three years and a minimum produc tion of 3000 tons a year, beginning with the fourth year. A royalty of 8 cents a ton must be paid the govern ment. Dempsey Landa In Europe Eng. Jack DempSouthampton, sey, world's heavyweight champion, accompanied by his bride and his friend Jimmy Russey have arrived here from New York. He said he did not know how long he would stay on this side of the water or what he was going to do, exactly, "except loaf around." Dempsey Is dlscllced to take very seriously several propositions for fights which have been handed him. Oil Promotion Plot Is Bared Los Angeles. Alleged mall frauds which postal authorities claim will total approximately $20,000,000 were Investigated here by a federal grand Jury. The probe Involves operations of the Invader Oil corporation and Its subsidiaries of Muskogee, Okla., and the Owensmouth Oil corporation of Forth Worth, Texas. Threw tons of evidence, Including books and rec ords of the oil companies were brought here to be scanned by the In- - Seaplane to Try For Record The seaplane PN-9- , Philadelphia. which last week shattered th world's record for nonstop flight by half-millio- n - vestlgator. Geneva. Condemnation of the use of poison gas and prohibition of Its exportation for war purposes is proposed in a new article of the draft convention offered by Representative Theodore E. Burton of Ohio, heading the American delegation of the international conference for the control of traffic in arms. Mr. Burton said he expressed the desire of the American government and people that some such provision regarding poison gas be adopted. He said the subject had been brought to the attention of President Coolidge and that the President would approve a prohibition of the exportation of poison gas for war purposes. He recalled that nine of the powers that signed the Washington treaty agreed to try to Induce other powers to agree to measures forbidding the use of asphyxiating gases in warfare, but he admitted that there are obstacles to prohibiting the export of such gases. The article proposed by Mr. Burton declares that the use in war cl poisonous gases and liquids has been justly condemned by public opinion and that the prohibition of such use has been incorporated in treaties which have been signed by a majority of the civilized powers. "The high contracting parties therefore agree absolutely to prohibit the export from their territory of any Bach asphyxiating poisonous or other gases and all analogous liquids intended or designed for use in connection with the operations of war," the article says. Mr. Burton also submitted an alternative text, as follows: "To the end of lessening the hor-or- s of war and ameliorating the sufferings of humanity incident thereto, the high contracting parties agree to control the traffic in poisonous gases by prohibiting the exportation of all toxic or deletortoua asphyxiating, gases and all analogous liquids, materials and devices manufactured and intended for use in warfare, under adequate penalties applicable In all places where such high contracting parties exercise Jurisdiction or con trol." remaining In the air twenty-eigh- t hours and thirty-siminutes, will at tempt next week to better other records. The plane will go after the records for speed and carrying capa city. Twenty of these records are said to be held by Italian filers, but Lieutenants C. H. S.hildaiif r, and J. It. Kyle, the PN-9'pilots, are confident their craft can surpass them. x s Unter-den-Linde- o high-tensio- n |