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Show SECTION Second Part. THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, SUNDAY MOKNTNU, Al'KIL l5, mem Go It Sale for March Are ilarger Than Year Ago, y Say pfficial - Repent. L t ' Improvement la noted in the coedl- tlon of retail trade In Salt Lake (or "ths month of ft! arch. A report tesued board ljr John Perrin, chairman of the and federal reserve agent for the fed. fleral reserve bank of ban Francisco, furnishes evidence of healthy increase fn net sales over the preceding I month and also ever March of lest year. The entire report is decidedly reassuring. It reads as follows: The following summary of the re JSdlTs from tour FepH:seiiCatirTfejw ment stores in Salt Lake City covering their business for the month of March, IDS. made by John Perrin, chairman of the board and federal reserve agent, bank of Ban Franfqeralts reserve given t Percentage increase of net sales (during (March, compared with net sales during same period last ear, "Percentage increase of net nates March; compared with net sales during February, 46 1. Percentage increase of net sales January 1, 1921, to March 81, inclusive, compared with net aies during the same period last year, t Percentage decrease of stocks at Close of March, compared with stocks at close of same month last year, 4.8. "Percentage increase of stocks at close of March, compared with stocks 11.8. at close of previous month,stocks on "Percentage of average hand at dose of each month since to 1. 1928, monthly average January net sales during same period, 08.8. VJlr6. Preparatory to Moving V Into-New Building, -- Store Will Not Open Until 10 oClodt . , Begin Tomorrow fV A RUINS OF UR YIELD TREASURE STORE Archaeological Expedition to Ancient Babylonian City Uncovering Secret of Era Before Christ. of IXyjTDON, April 14 (By the Assadated PVees.) Recent dispatches from L Woolley, director of the Joint 1il The c archaeological expedition sent to the ancient city of Ur, in Babylonia, by the University of Pennsylvania and the British Museum, show that the Temple of the Moon God has been almost completely uncovered and that the main wall of the temenoa, orconhas been traced for a siderable distance. Inscriptions and tablets have been foupd in large numbers. These tablets are of unbaked fragile Mr. Woolley clay and highly new method for their has devised a preservation, which is more-- elaborate n any hitherto applied. The few tablets that have been examined so far are of the Sumerian and relate to period, about 8000 B. C., accounts, money and so forth. It is impossible, however, to estimate their value until they have been subjected to a more careful examination. Sculp-re-a of some else were discovered the dose of the excavating rticulars of these have not yet received, 5 nder.a floor of the Persian period C0 B. C.) a hoard of Jewelry was und It included 1 gold and silver statuette facelets, gold rings, a gold necklaces a a woman silver bowls, f semiprecious stones, ana other ob- J k tock Succeeding Pages Tell in Detail -- jects. r, ! fjParU School Boy New B Master in Chess Game i 1 I Values April 14. (By the Assoclat- ed Press ) Chess, the game of kings, new master in Aristide Gromer, has a a schoolboy prodigy of 13, who i cently played twenty of the beet players of Paris simultaneously. He won fifteen games, drew four and lost one. He said he kmt the one because a frightened flashlight phtographera him and caused him to make a move which cost him ths game. Toung Gromer walked up and down between the two rows of ten boards, moving so rapidly that he frequently had to wait for his opponent to play. The boy is far from the record of games played simultaneously by one person, but the showing he has made with very little experience is cited by chess experts as indicating hs has great possibilities F. J. Marshall, the American champion, holds ths record with 15 games plavsd simultaneousGromer recently played twe've ly. games at once, which, he said, was his only previous attempt at siraul tansous play. Ax 10 MO Yean Oli Found in Graveyard Being Offered in Seasonable Merchandise Special Lots of Merchandise Are Offered in Every Department at Only the compelling necessity of ar- ranging bur stocks to move into" our new building makes possible the 4 Bargain ' . Universal Service Cable. A LONDON, April 14 A curious story behind the finding of a neolithic nr,head in the parish church yard Extremely Low Pricing at Guislev, Yorkshire It was dug up the gravedigger, T. M. Thompson, has beea using it for months to pe Ths soil from his boots, not jig aware of Its archeological value. It Is a wonder 1 did not throw it ick Into the grave when I filled up I e hole," he said recently. ax head is about six inches I The and tapers toward the ends to inns point. The gravedipper said t sharp C,n one occasion the warden happened .; be passing snd noticed the ax head and advised him to show it to the This he did with the rsault erector. i that it was pronounced to be a very flue specimen of a neolithic ax head. It la at present in the Leeds museum. Commenting on the discovery. Mr. C. R. Wray of Manor House, Gulaley, remarked that It was quite probable that the' ax was over 10,000 years -- ' This Early in the Season - Special Stock Reduction CARDS WILL MARK ALL SALE MERCHANDISE old. Emigration From Sweden Shown Fresh Increase J- - STOCKHOLM, the April 14 Associated treat e America (By fever again has broken out in various parts of Sweden, according to statistical term la applied, by the reports. This a i ioa ta. agesa imnoasnts w qwn leiiie Jvi awim Itl tKa liib ywlsfll phiibi wtapii Inge of young men and women to seek their fortunes in the United States, More than one thousand persons left Sweden for America during January and February of this year, at against fewer than three hundred for the same period last year. Virtually all of these emigrants are well supcover their travelplied with funds tomost of them have ing expenses, and relatives who will help them out when they arrive. Sweden's quote under the United Slates immigration law Is about i per year. N0TE-- - m 20,-0- Olympic Game Visitors to Travel by "Air RaiT Service Cable. VtRrs, April 14. When the Paris Or, si lion opens next year visitors the Olympic games at Oolombes wili be ..Jsudlum the transported Al'xelve miles from ths city gates- - by air railway, whereby single coaches suspended on 4he gyroscope principle I lixty feet above the ground will be propelled at high speed by airplane O Universal 3 1N THE In spite of the space devoted to the news of this selling event, there will be found on sale thousands of items which are not Included in Discontinued ' ' ' this advertisement. V Hundred of Articles Have Been Further Reduced . j? We AdviseEarly Selection. -- an V ysropeilers efi A similar line has been In existence uflt Klberfeld, near the Ruhr, for 1 ,ight jeers. " L, , rv viS 4 T ' ' ' -- wfsjs t ft , Tnu-J- J Wj-'a'l- rvUVi. Ay |