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Show THE HELPER TIMES. HELPER. UTAH News Review of Current Events the World Over Statesmen at London Conference Try to Pull Germany Out of Financial Morass President Hoover Offers Plan. a storm. The same storm forced down L. P, Furculow and John RIeker, the Akron balloon pilots, who landed four miles north of Ravenna to take fifth place after traveling only about 20 miles. A second army balloon, piloted by Lieuts. Edgar Fogesonger and John A. Tarro, was last, with a flight of only 35 minutes. It covered only 12 miles before coming down. As a result of the contest, the navy and Goodyear balloons will represent the United States along with W. T. Van Orman of Akron in the International Gordon Bennett race. By EDWARD W. PICKARD eight new 10.000-toOUR ers, it has been found, cruis- n l?OUR resolutions 1' or reeommenda- - r tlons, devised by lite coniniiiiee vi ministers W finance and adopted by the ,jw y . v seven-powe- con- r I ference In Ixindon, comprised the total results of the parley, and it was the opinion of experts that little if anything had been Prime Minis- done for the actual ter McDonald relief of Germany. The plan includes the suggestions of President Hoover, which Secretary Stimson said were really both American and British in conception. Here, briefly summarized, are the recommendations adopted: First That the central banks and the World Bank for Interna0 tional Settlements extend the German credit for a further period of three mouths. Second That private banks be urged to leave their credits now in Germany in German hands for the present. Third That a world bank committee be appointed to consider the loans to question of short-terGermany and the conversion of exshort-terloans to long-teristing L A $100,-000,00- loans. Fourf.li That the conference "note with satisfaction" the action of German industrialists In creating a reserve of approximately $125,000,000 on the German gold discount bank. After the conference adjourned, Chancellor Bruenlng and Minister Curtius consulted the American delegates concerning the possibility loan. of arranging a new long-terIf France refused to participate, they thought the loan might be made by America, Great Britain and several other countries, Herr Bruenlng also conferred with Premier Laval of France on the possiliilliy of the latter visiting the next three Berlin within months. That France Is not nt nil in sympathy with the Hoover credits proposal was made clear by Premier Laval when he Informed the conference: "Our country saved herself in 1920. That is an example which Germany should meditate upon." Prime Minister Ramsay McDonald presided over the sessions of the conference, and at Its opening he sought to Impress on the delegates the inperative need of speedy and decisive action, "if we cannot find a solution of the present crisis," said he, "no one can foretell the political and financial dangers that will ensue. It will be difficult to stay the flood before it has overwhelmed the whole of central Europe, with consequences social and political, as well as purely financial, which no man can es- timate. "Time Is against us. Every day adds to the risks of a collapse which will be outside of human w I1ILE states- - don were trying to conclusions reach that might result in the complete abandonment of the projected Austro-Germa- m V are undertaken to prevent aggression by a military force. The document gave no precise figures on France's armaments, but did declare that those armaments bave been reduced to the lowest possible point "under present conditions in Europe and the world." National security Is still the slogan of France, and she Insists on guarantees If her armaments are to be modified. The memorandum finally contends that Insecurity for one state means insecurity for all, and the idea of neutrality is incompatible wth the notion of solidarity of customs union by the German if government, 4 the World court in The Hague opened a hearing on the proposal that has Dr. been so dear to the hearts of the offi cials In Berlin. Before the court took up the case President Adatcl of Japan installed Judges de Buslamente of Cuba and Wang of China, who were not present at the last session. After this preliminary, the full court, including Frank B. Kellogg of the United States, began the hearing, with the governments of Germany, Austria, France, Italy a and as parties to the case. They were represented by an army of acents, counsels, advocates, and assistants. The Austrian agent. Prof. Eric KaufTmann, was accompanied by an American, Czecho-Slovakl- A. 8. Feller, of the New York bar. Dispatches from Vienna Indicate that Austria is not nearly so eager for the customs union as she was before the present financial crisis lilt Germany. Indeed, the Austrian government may drop the plan entirely. It Is now engrossed in trying to extricate Austria from Its own financial difficulties. Dr. Frnnz Rottenberg, who, until recently was director general of the P.ank of Austria, has been called on for help and has been made director of the Austrian credit bureau. It will be his task to arrange a national cred- it and budget system which. It Is hoped, will pull the nation out of the hole. prtAN'CE took advantage of the International confabs to start a eaniaplgn for putting teeth in the Kellogg pact and In the League of Nations covenant. A memorandum Issued nt the Qual d'Orsay, replying to the league's request for Information on armed strength, the official view that disarmament cannot be accomplished unless an International armed force Is set up under the aegis of the league, or reciprocal obligations cn-taine- anti-rollin- g The seven cruisers exaggerated. now building have been so modified In design, It was said, that the tendency to roll will be eliminated. states. V V Is made ANNOUNCEMENT China, Fat-Ka- Yu-Sa- had begun hostilities In northern China. General an Shin's operations north of the Yellow river caused the declaration of martial law in Peiplng and Tientsin and the Invocation of a news censorship by Nationalist authorities. from TRANSPORTED El Paso, Albert former secretary of the interior, entered the New Mexico penitentiary at Santa Fe to serve a sentence of a year and a day for bribery In federal oil leases. He was put in the prison hospital, where he is expected to serve his The usual photographing, time. finger printing, classification and numbering routine was dispensed with until Fail Is reported by the prison physician. Dr. E. W. Fiske. as able to stand these details. Interviews by the press with Fall were forbidden by the United States Department of Justice in a letter Ed of instruction's to Warden Swope of the New Mexico B. Fall, SHOULD "Alfalfa Murray, governor of Oklahoma, L.. Y" f - i 4 seek any it is likely he would receive a large part of the motorist vote of the state. He has been engaged In a contest with Gov. Ross S. Sterling of Texas over toll and free other office, Murray bridges across the i;eu river, wnicn separates the two states, and for a time at least the result was that automobiles crossed the river on free spans, excepting the one at Denison, Texas, and the owners of toll bridges were doing no business. At the south end of the Denison free bridge Texas rangers were stationed by order of Governor Sterling to" stop traffic nfter Oklahoma officers had torn down a barrier that had been erected. In retaliation. Governor Murray had highway crews tear up the approaches to toll spans that are near two free The Denison toll bridge bridges. was blocked at the Oklahoma end, Gov. forcing traffic to make a to the free bridge at Preston. Oklahoma employees highway said they had received orders to begin tearing up a section of rond near Achille, Okla., leading to K. O. & G. railroad bridge at Carpenter's Bluff, eight miles east of Denison. The railroad bridge has a toll runway for vehicles. Involved In the controversy are a federal Injunction and a contract with toll bridge owners, i. J. Loy, Texas state senator, prominent in highway affairs. Informed Governor Sterling that he considered the Texas executive had oversteppd his authority in sending rangers to block "The the Dension free bridge. bridge was closed by a federal Injunction and keeping It closed was a matter for federal officers," Loy said. w e a t h e tie-to- i conditions 1031 marred the balloon national race elimination which started at Akron Ohio, and the contest was decidedly unsatisfactory. First place was won by the United States navy bag which was piloted by I.ieuts. T. M. Sett'e and Lieut. Bush, nell Wilfred Bushnell. Second place went to the Ooodyeir-ZoppeliGoodyear VIII, piloted by Frank Trotter, and .1. It. of DeW. third honors to the troit, guided by Ed J. Hill and ArG. n thur Schlosser. The navy balloon landed at Manila, N. Y., after covering a distance of 215 miles. The Goodyear came to earth about two hours later at Stevensville, Out., 100 miles from her starting point, while (he W. J. R. came down nt Wesleyville, Ph., near Erie, after covering only ll" miles. The army balloon No. 1, piloted by ('apt. Karl S. Axtnler and Lieut. II S. Couch, had to cover only about 80 miles to take fourth place In the contest. This bag came down at Custards, Pa., aflcr running into 7TIAT was said to be the larg est prohibition Investigation ever came undertaken to a climax in Baltimore when a federal grand jury returned three indictments charg- J ing 53 corporations and Individuals in by at that it will begin operations against the Nationalist government on August 1, when Gen. will lead an army Chang into Kiangsl province, which Is nominally Nationalist territory. This decision followed the announcement that Gen. Shlh Canton, 30-mi- n roll so badly in rough water that the effectiveness of their gunfire is Impaired. Therefore they are to be tanks altered. Already and larger bilge keels are being put in the Pensacola and the Northampton and If these changes are successful the other cruisers will have them. Navy officials said the seriousness of the roll had been t ' msfs k7Nf ly New - XA :r r T " My T New York, Jersey, Delaware, MichiAmos W. W. Maryland, Woodcock gan and Ohio with conspiracy to violate the prohibition laws. The Investigation was begun In August. 192!), after the seizure In Baltimore of three big stills used comfor cracking and mercial alcohol for beverage purMore than 130 witnesses, poses. Director Prohibition Including Woodcock, Dr. James M. Doran, former director and officials of the attorney general's office appeared before the inquest, which cost the government $000,000. Among those Indicted were the United States Industrial Alcohol company, and Its subsidiary, the United States Industrial Chemical company of West Virginia and Maryland, the largest industrial alcohol company in the country. According to the charges, the conspiracy was started In 1927, and corporations were formed for the purchase of industrial alcohol so it could be resold to other individuals for conversion into beverage to be a live WHEAT forcontinues a considerable part of the country's population, and scarcely a day passes without either an attack on the policy of the farm board or a defense of its way of doing business. The price having dropped to 25 cents a bushel or even lower In the Southwest, the growers are using their grain In In ways heretofore unknown. the Texas panhandle It is accepted as admissions to theaters, and by dentists and newspapers In lieu of cash. Many of the southwestern farmers are feeding wheat to poultry, cattle and hogs and using It for fuel. A judge In Dodge City. Kan., offers to marry couples for ten bushels of the grain, and In several cities motor companies take It In exchange for used cars at the rate of 50 cents a bushel. a SYNDICALISTS are "causingIt Islota Spain, and question whether the new republic will be able to survive. Kiotous demonstrations in Seville resulted In the death of nearly a score of persons, and martial law was proclaimed there. It was predicted that when the assembly was formally constituted the cabinet would resign Immediately, that Aljaln Zamora would be elected president and that he Manuel summon either would Aznna. present war minister, or Alejandro Derronx, foreign minister, to the premiership. The proclamation declaring martial law in Seville set forth that troops would fire on the slightest warning and that, therefore, residents had best keep off the streets Resistance and out of balconies. to the military will result In ImmeThe troops diate were ordered to use heavy artillery to destroy houses from which sniping has been going on. court-martia- DOWN l. In Hodgenville. Ky the cabin in which Abraham Lincoln was born is to be dedicated as a memorial on October 4, 5 and ft. and the occasion will be marked But the by a big celebration. United Confederate Veterans will not participate. An Invitation was quite properly sent the organization by Govenor Sampson of Kentucky, and was declined by Gen. C. A. Desaussure, its commander in General Pershing and repchief. resentatives of the Grand Army of the Republic will be there, and the meeting, as the governor stated, non political will be "nation-wide- , and General Desaussure wrote to fellow officers of the U. C. V. asking their views as to participating. In his letter he said the celebration appeared to be "an effort to discount or offset the recently developed emergence of a true portrait of Mr. Lincoln which Is not nt all to his credit and which denies to nature nnd qualhim the ities with which interested persons have deified him. . . . "We are further asked to Join In the exaltation of Mr. Lincoln as a pattern for our children, while of all the characters before the world Mr Lincoln Is easily among those whom I would least wish my children, grandchildren and to follow or emulate." God-lik- e great-grand- r'c) 1331 WfisU'tn Nctatier Union.) Bad wan All Illustrations by F.hen Given, from "Here's Autlnrity ! - American Heroes," Legendary by Frank Shay, courtesy the Maeaulay company, publishers. TONY Beaver ;n Virginia By ELMO SCOTT WATSON OR many, many years Americans have had to look to European sources for a certain type of ImagiGerman native tales to the Grimm and the Danish Andersen for their fairy tales and to the Greeks, the Romans and the Scandinavians for their legends and It has been only within myths. recent years that they have discovered that their native land is rich in folk lore, some of which they may have learned as it was passed along by word of mouth but little of which has heretofore been collected and published in book form. So the recent publication of Frank Shay's "Here's Audacity .'American Legendary He roes" by the Maeaulay company is an event of importance to those who want "Made in America" myths and legends. In the introduction Mr. Shay tells how Americans, like other people "create their giants in their own Image and endow them with powers greater than their own . . . We are an in dustrial nation, therefore our heroes are audacious industrialists. In the North and Northwest the hero Is Paul Bnnyan, the lumberjack. In West Virginia he is again a lumberjack but his name Is Tony Beaver. In the Southwest he becomes a cowboy and changes his name to Pecos Bill. In Virginia he is a negro, a man, John Henry by name. In the oil fields of Texas and Oklahoma he is a rotary r and calls himself Kemp Morgan. On the railroads he becomes a mighty engineer and has won fame as Casey Jones. On the old windjammers, he Is still the same mighty superman but his alias Is "Old Stormalong." Old Stormalong's full name was Alfred Bull-toStormalong, and when he signed his initials, on the ship's log for his first skipper, that worthy looked him over and said, "A. B. S. By your size and strength they should measure the talents of all other sea men." As for ids size the sailors disagree. Some say that lie was fourteen fathoms tall and others that he was "jes' four fathoms from the deck to the bridge of his nose." And he was fearless, too. One day his fellow sailors couldn't pull up the anchor. An octopus was wrapped arouni It and was holding it fast to the bottom of the ocean. Over the side went old Stormalong. There was a terrific struggle under the water and then he emerged triumphant. After the anchor was safely shipped, somebody asked Old Stormalong what he had done to the octopus. "Jes' tied his urms In knots. Double Carriek bends. It'll take him a month o' Sundays to untie 'em.'' But Stormalong was never satisfied. He never could find a ship big enough for him until Later finally he signed on board the Courser. when a new man was taken on, the first thing he saw when he hit the deck was a stable full of horses, for the Courser was so big that all officers and men on watch were mounted on horses and rode about their duties on them. "Man alive, her rigging was so immense that no living man could take her in at a single glance. Her masts penferated the clouds and the top sections were on hinges so they could be bent over to let the sun and moon pass. Her sails were so big that the builders had to take all salimakers out In the Sahara the desert to find room to sew 'em." Kemp Morgan, the Texas oil driller, was like Old Stormalong In tiiat be too had to put binges in three different places on bis derrick so that It could be folded up to let the? sun and moon go by. It was so high that it took thirty men to man if, fourteen men going up, fourteen men coining down, a man on top and a ur tVci3 if rs. lili steel-drivin- well-digge- able-bodie- John Stee Drivinq Man HENRY man on duty. When he brought in his well, "it spouted so high they had to put a roof on It because St. Peter anil all the angels were raisin' all h- -l about the oil that was shootin' through the floor of heaven. It took ten days for the oil to reach the top and then it rained down for three weeks." But super-mathat he was, not all of Morgan's wells brought in oil. Occasionally he got a "duster," a dry hole. But did he abandon It us did other drillers? Not Kemp Morgan ! "He knew that no Kansas farmer could ever dig a post hole in his hard bottom soil. He would get his hands around his duster hole and pull it up, four feet at a time, saw it off and ship it to Kansas. Ask any Kansas farmer what he thinks of the Kemp Morgan Portable Post Holes." ' n But Kemp Morgan wasn't the only Lone Star product Of note. There was Pecos Bill who was lost by his parents when he was a year old and grew up among the catamounts and coyotes. One day he wandered Into the Golden Swan saloon, and there met a cowboy who told him of the joys of So Bill decided to quit being a coyote, put on human clothes (it took three coats, and two pairs of trousers pieced out with three or four blankets and pieces of cowhide to cover him) and became a cowboy. .No horse was strong enough to carry him so he caught a huge grizzly bear and broke It to ride. And of course he became the greatest cowboy of them all. He could outshoot any other cowboy, he could outride any other cowboy and he could any other cowboy. Once Bill rode a Kansas cyclone. He rode It through three states until they got to California and when the cyclone saw It couldn't throw him It rained out from under him nnd that was what washed out the Grand canyon. Bill came down with a mighty thud in California and the spot where he landed is now known as Death valley, a big hole in the ground, 300 feet below sea level. Another mighty Texan was Strap I'.tickner who went to that state with the first party of settlers led by Stephen F. Austin. Strap had the pleasant custom of knocking men down with a the eyes which lie would "do In the most friendly and courteous manner and with no intention of harming them." He knocked down his friends and his enemies, he knocked down Indians and grizzly hears nnd w ildcats and buffalo. But the greatest li'lit In which he ever engaged! was his battle with the Devil and In that fight for once in his life he was defeated. Since Strap Buck nor was a heavy drinker the stories about him are something In the nature of moral idle gories and the Devil with whom he fought and by whom he wns worsted was the Demon Hum. Of him, Mr. Sliny says: "Strap Btickner Jnfj He will be likened the great army of avengers. to Angoulafl're, the giant Sarasen, who had the strength of thirty men and whose cudgel was the out-drin- BUCKNER solid trunk of an oak tree. The Tower of Pisa lost its perpendicularity by the weight of thix giant leaning against it." Whole books have been written about Paul ' Bunyan, the super lumberjack, so of course he considerable in "Here's Audacity!" space gets Most of the facts about his youth and his logging operations on the Big Onion river in Michigan are well known. But some of the other facts about his life as given by Mr. Shay seem to be new. For instance, after he used Babe, the Blue Ox (Babe, you remember, measured forty axe handles and a plug of Star tobacco between the eyes), to straighten out a. winding logging road. Paul discovered that he had fourteen miles of road left over. So he rolled up the fourteen miles and sold It to the city of Chicago for a boulevard. And it Is one of the shameful things about that wicked city that they call it Michigan boulevard in honor of the state from which it came and not Paul Bunyan boulevard in honor of the greatest lumberjack that ever lived I Then there was the time that Jim Hill, the builder of the Great Northern railroad, decided to build a barbed wire fence along the y to keep the tramps off his trains. So he fence to gave the Job of building the 1,800-mil- e Paul Bunyan. He soon found that it was going to take too long to get through with the work so he sent up to Montana to a man who had trained gophers for two thousand ging gophers. Then he sent an order to another man who specialized In beavers and ordered five hundred of these animals. He set the beavers to work cutting trees into lengths and set the gophers to work digging holes. "The gophers were innocent and when one had finished digging his hole he prepared to make It his home. Then Paul would come along with a post in one hand, drag the gopher out of his hole with one hand and shove t:V--post In. There was nothing for the poor gopher to do but to begin work on a new home. The gophers got pretty mad but who cares what a gopher thinks?" Paul didn't and he got his fence done in plenty of time. As for Tony Beaver In West Virginia they will tell you that Tony who carries on his logging operations on Eel river Is as great a lumberman as Paul Bunyan. But logging wasn't his only Interest; be was also a grower of the biggest watermelons In the world which were so big that by whittling out the Insides, cutilj, doors and windows and building fire places and allowing the rinds to dry out in the sun, they right-of-wa- six-Inc- h sis-fq- made wonderful houses. As for the other one Is black and the other Is red. There Is John Henry, the negro steel driving man who was so fast with his hammer that he was known to wear out two handles In one shift and he always had to have a boy with a pail of cold water standing by so that he could keep his hammer cool. But when steam driven drills came on the market, John Henry declared that such new fangled Inventions were not necessary. He said he could heat n steam drill and In a contest that wns specially arranged be did beat it. But he killed himself In doing it for after the contest was over John Henry "laid down his hammah an he died." super-American- s Then there Is Kwaslnd, the Hercules of th Indians, of whom Longfellow wrote J Hiawatha. It was Kwasiud who filled his pipo wltl) tonaceo, kindled it with a bolt of lightning, nnd men emptied ttie live coals Into the sea. For three days he did this and on the fourth day there rose up an Island which Is now knjnwn as Nantucket Island off the const of chusetls. This and many other marvels ifM "the very strong man Kwaslnd, he the strongest or nil mortals. J" American . ( by Wostarn Newspaper Union.) |