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Show EMERY COUNTY PROGRESS, CASTLE DALE. UTAH 1 : ofts TXs i Ltflun mm Xt a. p 7-- AmA MM "11 N. B. C. RED NETWORK Nov. 12. 7:00 a. m. Tower Health Exercises, 11 :15 a. m. Radio Household Institute, 6:30 p. m. A. C. Gilbert Co. 7:00 p. m. Mutual Savings Hour. 7:45 p. m. Physical Culture Prince. &:30 p. m. A. and ?. Gypsies. 9:30 p. m. General Motors Party. 10:30 p. m. National Grand Opera. N. B. C. BLUE NETWORK 10:00 a. ni. Copland Hour. 12:00 noon. "Farm and Home Hour." 12:15 p. m. U. S. Dept. of Agric. 12:30 p. ra. "Farm and Home Hour." 7:00 p. m. Cook's Tours. 8:00 p. m. Uoxy and His Gang. 9:30 p. m. Real Folks. By ELMO SCOTT WATSON NCE upon a time two young Amer of icansWilliam Clark and Meriwether Lewis were their names set out upon an expedition into the wilderness of the Great West After being gone nearly two years, during which they bad traveled more than 4,000 miles over a country unmapped, unknown, and a land filled with many perils, they returned to thrill a nation which had all but given them up for lost And of that expedition a famous American writer wrote a novel which he called "The Magnificent Adventure. Lewis and Clark's "magnificent adventure" took place more than a hundred years ago. Since that time the American wilderness has been conquered ' and there remains In It few, If any, spots which the white man has not trod. What is true of America Is almost equally true of the rest of the world for the restlessness and adventure-seekinspirit of the Caucasian has driven him on and on until there are few places on earth into which This does not mean, how, he has not penetrated. ever, that, even In this modern day when it would seem that our civilization has spread everywhere, there are no bits of terra Incognita which He far from the beaten paths and which Still offer chances for dangerous adventure to those afflicted with the "itching foot." Witness the case of a young American, the lone hero of a modern "magnificent adventure," who has told the romantic story of his wanderings "out back of beyond" in a new book, "The Great florn Spoon," published recently by the Bobbs-Merricompany. Eugene Wright Is his name, twenty-fou- r years his age, and he was a student at Columbia university until one day when The odors of cinnamon and cloves from Ceylon drifted from a musty doorway; farther on, the strong; aroma of Brazilian coffee filled my nostrils. The tumbling, reckless life and rich smells of the water-fromingled with the clank and thunder of trucks and drays In one strenuous cheer of approval of my search for a Btaip that would carry me away. I crossed one side street, leaped across another. The smelly clothes of the Jewish wholesalers brushed my shoulders and the rollicking bodies of g with their work, lurched negroes, about mc like trees in a flood. Along these streets, I knew, were shipping bureaus little affair In the second stories of warehouses with blackboards set out In front. Once 1 had seen listed an ad for pearl-diveand several times 1 had noticed seamen's jobs on coastwise schooners. had never been to sea as a sailor, but I had wanted to travel that way since childhood and felt that 1 could do anything aboard a ship. Ah, If I could only find an ordinary seaman's job on an d cargo steamer! 1 already had a seaman's passport. One Saturday when 1 thought I could stand college no longer, I had slipped down to the Battery and filled one out And now the time had come to go. I had left college, birds were flying north, ships were sailing east and the whole wide world wat I wanted to go to calling me to come and see. to India . . . Borneo . . . Persia all the lands whose names I knew so well, to all the seas that washed their shores. I had to get away Immediately, for I felt that If I stayed In New York another day I would turn Into stone. So he got away. By a combination of good luck anJ the magnificent type of sheer bluff characteristic of young Americans he secured an "A. B. ticket" (certificate of able seamanship) and got a berth on the S. S. Hyacinth bound for India. Adventure beckoned over the horizon, but when he approached close to it. It welcomed him with a furnace breath. For five days and five nights the Red sea held us panting with Its heat The day men, working beneath awnings, shook themselves like wet dogs, and the sweat sizzled on the deck. I wore a huge Insulated Inside with newspapers, pair 1 of shoes yet could not stand on one spot very long without extreme discomfort. The heat waves arose from the decks In a haze, making the entire for-ii ward part of the ship look as if I were seeing through a pane of cheap glass. Arriving at Ceylon, the bos'n issued the edict of "No shore leave for nobody I" whereupon Wright, watching his chance, got overboard, hired a native boatman paddling nearby to take him to shore and he spent two gorgeous days in the exotic bazaars of Colombo and amid the exquisite natural beauties of Kandy, where once Sinbnd visited. But he paid for his holiday, for the furious bos'n piled work on him until he all but Although he had dropped from exhaustion. some Indian port at leave French to take planned ("It was a crooked idea, but If anythlng's fair in love and war It was Justifiable; for life on the Hyacinth was both !") he was relieved of the necessity for doing that by a stroke of luck. An Injur, received In the line of duty resulted in his being paid off and left In a hospital In Cal cutta. After 16 days in the hospital, he read In a tiger thai had been newspaper of a terrorizing the countryside near Diamond Harbor, some CO miles from Calcutta. So the young Amer lean Immediately hied himself for Diamond llnr bor, where he hired a dhow and a crew of two men and sat off up the Hugll river In search of a niiin eating tiger. More than that, he found one. lio llils youth of twenty-fouyears who hud never before hunted one of the most dangerous 7:00 11:15 4:30 9:00 10:00 m bsress N .I'M v - ii :uu 12:00 12:15 12:30 8:00 9:30 g "Plvjfe At 7 - fjt& one-roo- m r; India-boun- ... man-eatin- g r animals In the world. One night when the dhow was tied up to the shore, Wright sat watching with h's rifle across h!s knee. Suddenly the moon came out and 1 saw the head and shoulders of an enormous tiger crouched at the water's edge. I was chilled with fright. The gun seemed no larger and of no more use than a burned match; the elghteen-od- d feet between me and that massive head shrank to a meeting; and the eyes, which now glowed In circles, held a hypnotism that turned me Into an agony of rigid flesh. I might have awakened Mohammed. I might have cut the mooring rope and pushed out Into the lagoon; but I was too frightened to release a muscle; frightened lest the tiger. In one tremendous leap, should fall upon the the dhow and rip me to pieces. It seemed hours before my courage returned. My fingers tightened upon the gun, my forefinger felt the trigger. Suddenly I became as cool and steady as If I were about to shoot a rabbit. I cocked both hammers noiselessly, drew a bead and fired between the two eyes. A tremendous roar and splash stunned me. Automatically I had reloaded, 'and I again emptied both barrels into the frenzied mass of boiling water and roaring tiger. You have no Idea of the terror in a tiger's roar. It drags the blood from one's veins by the quart, and seems to dislocate every bone In one's body. It Is volcanic, immense and utterly devastating to all that lives. It was the roar of a tiger, I am convinced, that announced the creation of hell. Before I could reload a third time be had dlxappeared Into the darkness with long crashing bounds and I was left quivering excitement. with face-to-fa- ever-enlargi- hair-trigg- And the next day they took up the trail of the tiger and deep in the jungle found him dead. Then with the praises of the natives for having delivered them from this terror ringing in his ears, the young American returned to Calcutta, there to get mixed up in a lively little religious riot between the fanatic Moslems and the equally fanatic Hindus. Escaping with his life from that, he Investigated the swarming streets of Calcutta in the blazing sun until a sudden and unexpected collapse sent him to the hospital for nine days with the dengue fever. During the heat wave that had struck him down, fever and disease ran riot through the city and four hundred natives died every week. But some Providence pulled the young American through and as soon as he was able to stagger away from the hospital, he took ship for Rangoon, where he "wandered around the Chinese quarter looking for trouble,", and. falling to find It, went or to Singapore, "city of blood and pearls." All afternoon I honeycombed the town, running Into weddings, quarrels, gaudy funerals, and all manner of activities typical of Chinese life. One beautiful funeral stretched through the winding streets for blocks. Some of the men were dressed In stiff collars and straw hats, all were having a wonderful holiday and a discordant brass band played "There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight." I followed the procession for an hour, but It went around and around the town, getting nowhere. But though he nearly died of exposure and ('ever on the beautiful Island of Flores, the big thrill of his life was still ahead. That came when he arrived In Borneo, "the darkest jungle on the face of the earth.' whirlpools of the Barito and he saw those dte a dozen or more, "round, perfectly smooth ground smooth by thousands of years of swirling in the whirlpool pots at the bottom of the river. The largest o2 them wat the size of a dime; it was invisible when dropped into a cup of water." After a series of adventures in which his life was in constant danger from the rapids in the river, from crocodiles and a dozen other forms of dendly animal, reptile and insect life in the Jungle, the party reached the territory of the fierce and Undaoems. As they penetrated deeper into the jungle, the booming of witch drums told them that they had been uiscovered and they were about to be attacked. After a period of suspense, the attack came poisoned darts shot at them from blow-gun- s which laid one of the party low. But though three sang close tc the young American, by some miracle he escaped unharmed and his followers beat off the attack and continued on to their goal. At .ast they arr'ved in a Poonyaboong village and the young adventurer was successful In making friends with these pygmies, who honored him by allowing him to attend one of their war dances and as a final honor Invited him and his party Into a long room, from the rafters of which hung nine hurmin heads. There they snt silently for hours while Wrighi's party squirmed uneasily, not knowing whether their silence meant ?ood or ill. monds ll horse-playin- NETWORK Nov. 13. a. m. Tower Health Exercisca a. m. Radio Household Institute, p. m. Auction Bridge Games. p. m. Eveready Hour. p. m. Clicquot Club Eskimos. N. B. C. RED - nt Utah (Time given Is Eastern Standard: subtract one hour for Central and two hours for Mountain time.) N. B. C. RED NETWORK Nov. 11. 1:30 p. m. Peerless Reproducers. 4:00 p. m. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman. 5:30 p. m. Accoustican Hour. 6:00 p. m. Stetson Parade. 7:00 p. m. Lehigh Coal & Navigation, 7:30 p. m. Major Bowes Family Party. 9:00 p. m. David Lawrence. 9:15 p. m. Atwater Kent Hour. N. B. C. BLUE NETWORK 2:00 p. in. Roxy Stroll. 8 :00 p. ni. Young People's Conference. 3:30 p. in. Dr. Stephen S. Wise. 5:30 p. m. Dr. Harry E. Fodick. 6:30 p. m. Anglo Persians. 8:15 p. m. Collier's Radio Hour. MkoJl 4 There, with the aid of the Dut .ii governor, he outfitted an expedition, which the most was to take hlra past Poeroek-TJahoremote outpost In Borneo, up the Barlto river Into the land of the "oonyaboong, who "eat snakes, drink blood for strength and take heads for strength," the "last of the wild men of Borneo." En route to this forbidden land he visited a demented chief who possesseo fabulous wealth In diamonds that he had got from the head-huntin- nerve-rackin- g g head-huntin- blood-chillin- g g Then a thought, vague at first, took shape within my brain. I knew that I had solved the mysterv of the silence: the PoonynbonnRS believed that each of the heads above them was giving out the a of man and strength they were In the long room to ahsorb thatgathered together Rtrensth. As a sign of friendliness, the greatest honor and compliment he could bestow, the chief had asked me and my men to sit within his Ions room and stronger. I, squatting within the room of the Poonyaboong chief, absorbing the long departing strength of nine heads! I, a white man. sharing the strange superstition which prompted the taking of those nine heads! It was almost unbelievable! It was the weirdest experience that I had ever undergone, and I sat quietly, tingling with excitement until long after midnisht. when the chief arose, and we trooped silently out of the hut he-co- That, combined with other experiences aim ng the Poonyahoongs. was undoubtedly the high point of the thrills which Wright experienced In his travels, although the rest of his stay In the Orient was far from being a life of ennui, "off the coast of India a fierce shark attacked the dhow In which he was riding and. gripping the keel In Its teeth, almost upset the heavily laden boat On the Gulf of Oman a slmnl (sand storm), blowing off the Arabian desert, struck Wright and his boatmen and almost smothered them, finally filling the craft so full of sand that It began to sink. Fortunately they were near the shore and were able to wade to land, but soon afterwards they were raptured by a party of Arabs and carried away to the sheik'g lair far Into the desert. After twelve days' cap thity, Wright overpowered his guard and escaped on his horse. There were other and more amusing adventures In the ancient city of I.nr In Persia, in Shlraz. In Persepolls, In Kazerun and In Bagdad. Babylon and the Golden Domes of Kadhimein lured him but man-entin- g I could not bring myself to v'slt them All that had had so far. I had won. Borneo I had won Oman I had won Flores, Persia and the Cave of Shapur I had won. They were mine forever; and no matter how many people saw them hereafter they would always be mine; for I had suffered with them, I had given myself to them. Kach hard ship, en-- h pain, had bound them up with the vitality of life I So he took ship for home. nificent adventure" ws The modern "magended. u icwij notes I JIM " Til R P. Rl tlF tVtWORK Mot UTAH uill have - been than 500 buck -. Trfllorl t u t-Utah. d M J year by the close of the ...... ..' estimated recently by J. Arthur iw 1 game C0maij MAGNA Salt lake county k. neS(!l , in . Buue in n.L. of producing mines, tons of ore treaJ ed, production of gold, copper w and rinc, 's third in production of la ver, ana icaas in value of all ma,,,. ni-- . - Minnti EPHRAIN Snow and mni MJ ditions have been responsible for tkj closing of the road connection between Sanpete anl Emery counties, it was announpM Jl cently at Jie offices of the state roJ Ephrain-Orangevfl- lJ i,uiiiiiiiaaii'iaa PROVO Fruit and vegetal,! . . c uoie naQ ons of the best years this.j reason in tha history of the county, according t local agricultural officers, and m'or. iron ana vegeiaDies nave been graded1 and shipped this year than ever W lore. LOGAN Farmers of Duchesn county are converted to the dab business, according to W. W. Owens, tuumy assent leaaer, who Jtut reiurnea irom uucnesne and Uij.! tab. counties, where he made inves-- l tigations of the agriultural needs be. fore selecting a county agent for jjucnesne. PRICE The beet harvest of tW Carbon county farm lands is about half, completed, according to an recently by Orson P, Madsen, county agricultural agent The beets this season are yielding about one-thihigher per acre than in 1927, and the quality is better than in any previous year. SALT LAKE General market ten. dencies for turkeys at Thanksgiving suggest that prices will be about the same as last year, possibly a little lower, it was announced recently by Claude C. Edumunds, manager of the Utah Poultry Producers Cooperative association. Prices paid last Thanks-givinranged from 38 to 40 cents a pound. PROVO Inspectors of the Cali fornia department of agriculture have been instructed to refuse admittance to that state qf any shipments of fruit from Utah in which any hay or straw contamination is found, according to a letter received recently by Dr. F. E. Stephens, Utah state inspector of agriculture, from A. C Fleury, supervising quarantine officer for rd our. a. m. Forecast scnooi or cookery. noon. "Farm and Home Hour." p. m. U. S. Dept. of Agrlc. p. m. "Farm and Home Hour." p. m. Sealy Air Weavers. p. m. Dutch Muster Minstrels. N. B. C. RED NETWORK Nov. 14. 7:00 a. m. Tower Health Exercises. 10:00 a. ra National Home Hour. 11 :15 a. m. Radio Household Institute. 5:00 p. m. Vogue and the Mode. 7:30 p. m. "La Tournine Tableaux." 8:00 p. m. American Magazine and Woman's Home Companion. 9:00 p. m. Ipana Troubadours. 9:30 p. m. Palmolive Hour. N. B. C. BLUE NETWORK 10:00 a. m. Copeland Hour. 11 :00 a. m. Forecast School of Cookery. 12:00 noon. "Farm and Home Hour." 12:15 p. m. U. S. Dept. of Agric. p. m. "Farm and. Home Hour." p. m. R. C. A. Demonstration. p. m. Jeddo Highlanders. p. m. Political Situation In Wash- 12:30 2:30 7:00 7:45 g re rjKiui!-Mothan 400 hoes the ranch of R. L. Lisonbee, in Nine-Mil- section of Carbon e county, have died of cholera recently, it ington Tonight. 8:30 p. m. Sylvania Foresters. 9:00 p. m. Smith Brothers. 10:00 p. m. Chicago Civic Opera. on the was revealed N. B. C. RED NETWORK Nov. 15. 7:00 a. m. Tower Health Exercises. 11:15 a. m. Radio Household Institute. 7:30 p. m. Coward Comfort Hour. 8:00 p. m. The Song Shop. 9:00 p. m. Seiberling Singers. 10:00 p. m. Halsey Stuart. N. B. C. BLUE NETWORK 10:00 ii. in. Copeland Hour. 11 :00 a. m. Forecast School of Cookery. 12:00 noon. "Farm and Home Hour." 12:15 p. m. U. S. Dent, of Auric. 12:30 p. m. "Farm and Home Hour." 9:30 p. m. Maxwell House Hour, 10:00 p. m. Michelln Hour, N. B. C. RED NETWORK Nov. 16. 7:00 a. m. Tower Health Exercises. 10:00 a.'m. National Home Hour. 11 :15 a. in. Radio Household Institute. 12:00 p. m. Teeth, Health & Happiness. 7:00 p. m. Wonder Hour. 7:45 p. tn. "Market Friends." 8:00 p. m. Cities Service. 10:00 p. m. Stromberg Carlson Sextette. N. B. C. RED NETWORK Nov. 16. 11 :00 a. in. It. C. A. Concerts. 12:00 p. m. "Farm and Home Hour." 12:15 p. m. U. S. Dept. of Agric. 7:30 p. m. Dixies Circus. 8:00 p. ni. Interwoven Stocking Co. 8:30 p. m. Armstrong Quakers. 0:00 p. ni. Wrigley Review. N. B. C. RED NETWORK Nov. 17 7:0(1 a. in. Tower Health Exercises. 10:15 a. m. Radio Household Institute. 1 :45 Football. p. m. 10:00 a m. Lucky Strike Orchestra. N. B. C. BLUE NETWORK 2:45 p. m. of Illinois Footbiill game. 9:00 p. m. J'hllco Hour. n The following is a list of stations carrying the above programs: National Broadcasting company Red Network: WEAK, New York; WEK1. Boston: VVTIC. Hartford: WJAR, WTAC, Worcester; WOSH. Portland. Me.; WUT and WFI. PhiladelWRC. Washineton: WGY. Schenphia: ectady: WfiR, Buffalo; WCAE. Pitts-buisWTA.M and WEAR. Cleveland; WWJ. Detroit; WSAI Cincinnati: WGN and WL1B. Chicano; KSU. St. luls: VVOC. Davenport; WHO. Des Moines: WOW omnha: WDAF. Kansas Citv; . Mlnneapolis-St- . Paul: WTMJ. Denver-WHAS- . Milwaukee: KOA Louisville: Wfe.vl. Nashville' WMC. Memphis; WSB. Atlanta: WBT Charlotte; KVOO. Tulsa: WFAA. Dallas: KPRC. Houston: WOA1 San Antonio: WRAP. KL Worth: WJAX. Jacksonville. National Broadcasting company Blue Network: WJZ. New York; WBZA Boston; WBZ.. Sunngfield. WBAL. Baltimore: WHAM. K UK A Piltsburth: WJR. Rochester; Detroit: WLW Cincinnati; KYW and WEBH. Chicago-KWK- . St. Louis: WREN Kansas Citv: PauV Minneapolis-S- t WTMJ. Milwaukee: KUA. Denver:. Vi HAS. Nashville-WMCLouisville: WSM. Memphis: WSB. WTB, Charlotte: KVOO. Tulsa;Atnta: WFAA Dallas; KPRC. Houston: WOA1. San n WRAP. Ft. Worth: WVRA. Jo; Kicbmond: WJAX. Jacksonville Prov-idenc- WCCO-WKHM- WCCO-WRH- An-to- by Orson P. Madsen, dis trict agricultural director, who re turned to Price recently from a trip in to that region. Approximately 100 more head are afflicted with the disease, according to the agricultural director. SALT LAKE Expenses of the state in October amounted to according to the monthly report of John Walker,- state treasurer, - Tha report made public recently. shows a balance on hand October 1 of $1,148,077.53. The receipts were $1,023,477.98, making a total of $12, The balance on hand 173,477.51. The October 81 was $1,421,897.17. sale of ciearet stamns during the month was $12,235.83. LOGAN-Resu- lts of a recent survey of Utah's apple industry was discussed by W. P. Thmaa, the Bluebird, before the first regular monthly meetincr of the Utah Agriat agricultural ecomonist, recently, cultural experiment station staff, ascording to an announcement by th program committee, including Georga D. Clyde, F. B. Wann, D. W. Pittman, Byron Alder, E. G. Carter, D. A. Burproyne and Mr. Thomas. MOAR Tt stMed that the storms of the last few weeks have placed the road through Logan canyon in Cache and Rich counties, and Iroa the Cedar-Lon- g Valley road in and Kane counties, in noor condition so that they probably are closed for the winter. Although one of these roads may be passable for a tun state road officials are discouraging motorists from attempting travel over them. BRIGHAM CITY In response to a call from President O. P. Bates, of tne Tremonton Commercial club, about 60 have given approval of the pla" of the Utah Poultrv Producers' as sociation for the establishment of Tregrading plant and warehouse in Brig-hamonton. Jesse W. Hoooes of City, president of the association, W. Garr, manager cf the association plant in Bricham Citv. and others plained the workings of the association ic - LEHI Apple picking, grain alfalfa seed threshing and Tllantinir TTtnli aa in a and grain rnmnleted M vlvfiiallv i,lf nf thp CXCelle" w?ntkpr of th ia wepk of October, according to the weekly crop report losvorl tw T Tell AKer government meteorologist His port continues: "Fall plowing su-ra- re nd beet and potato digging Well alonir. thoutrh hampered in most Fall gram; places by hard soils. - - TO fit- & Stall0 nnJ ranflrAO ftncriiroa HllU 'bUivn fH auilgv j still for the w-.of moisture gn; rU'eerally, forage Leing poor as a nt - |