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Show THE SALINA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH f Fourteen business and professional men, including a state lodge officer of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, and Lou .Zermuehleu, twice Democratic mayor of Council Bluffs, but defeated in the last election are under arrest at Council Bluffs, Iowa, as the result of a raid on the Eagles club fELEGRAPHIG TALES WEEK8 rooms. THIS Senator Wheeler of Montana, who COUNTRIES won national distinction by his of the senate Daugherty invesImportant Events of tha Last Sevan tigation, accepted the vice presidenDays Reports ' by Wire and Pr tial nomination on the La Follette pared for tha Benefit of tha independent ticket Sunday and imBusy Reader mediately began hi campaign with a broadside against the political affiliations of Calvin Coolidge and John WESTERN A RESUME OOINQS OF IN WAY FRED MAXTED TtlE GOT NEW MEMBERS YOUTHS AMMN THE LEGION AND OTHER con-Ju- Sim Loeb, state food and drug inspector of Colorado received a report from Dr. H. M. Stiles and Lewin Chernoff, on their investigations conducted into the death of four persons at Aldrich Lodge, a resort near Cody, Wyo., a few weeks ago, from botulism poisoning. In the report the cause of their deaths was traced directly to imported ripe olives eaten Jy them a few days prior to their deaths and which were purchased in, Denver. Mexican troops from Mazatlan searched the hill country south of the international border for a band of rebels believed responsible for the wrecking of a Southern Pacific of Mexico train south of Nogales1, Arizona. Henry E. Rohlf, former president of the First National bank of Hayward, Wis., surrendered at Portland, Oregon at the office of the United States marshal and will leave in custody of an officer for Hayward to answer a complaint alleging embezzlement of $300,000. F. W. Ilelwig, 80 years old, re tired city treasurer of Lincoln, Neb., was found dead on the floor of a light well nine stories beneath the window of his room in a hotel at Los Angeles. A note he left in his room indicated, the coroner said, that he had committed suicide by He had Jumping from the window. been in ill health. Albert B. Fall, former secretary of the interior pleaded not guilty, waived preliminary hearing and refused to make any comment whatever when he was arrainged before United States Commissioner A. J. W. Schmid on charges growing out of indictments returned by a special grand Jury in the District of Columbia at El Paso, Texas. Fire which broke out in the western section of the oil Signal I field at Long Beach, Cal., threatened destruction of scores of producing wells, was pronounced under control after burning four derricks to the ground, damaging others and consuming approximately 6000 barrels of oil contained in three storage tanks. Oil company officials estimated the damage at upward of $110,-00111 W. Davis. negro, was taken Harry Shelton, from the jail at Scooba, Mississippi by thirty five men and carried about four miles toward DeKalb, and lynThe negro, was hanged from ched. i tree limb and his body riddled with He was said to have atbullets. tempted to assault a white woman living near Electric mill, a week ago. automobiles loaded robes drove into Peoria, Illinois, Farmington, near surrounded a crowded cafe, unmasked, and shouted, here we are, men, look us over, and then drove way In Farmington recently Sevagain. ern! men were beaten by a gang purported to have been members of the Ku Klux Klan. Twenty-fiv- e with klansmen A in cruise of the dirigible Shenandoah from I.akehurst, N. J., to the Pacific coast for maneuvers with the battleship fleet and subsequent return to its hnncmr in New Jersey, was announced by the navy department in a tentative schedule for the airships operations from August 1 to next February. Tammany ball is now functioning under the fifth leader it has had navy since William M. Tweed in 1867 stituted the one-ma- n in- leadership method of control for the organization. Judge George W. Olvany was elected and took over the reins immediately from the steering committee, which had been in control since the death of Charles F. Murphy in April. President Coolidge has appointed Fred T. Duboise, former senator from Idaho to be a member of the international boundary commission between the United States and Canada, the White House announced recently. The turront explosion aboard the battleship Mississippi off the California coast last June 12, in which forty four men and three officers were killed, resulted from the insufficient air preassure used in cleaning the bore of the big gun, according to finding of the naval court of inquary. FOREIGN Lava began flowing in the crater week for the of Ilalemaumau this first time since the eruptions in May. Lava fountains,' including Old Faiththeir geysers ful began shooting 200 to from feet high over a fifty Captain Edward J. Ralph, formerseveral of acres. Reflections radius of the United States army and aide ly to the assistant secretary of war at from these displays have been visible for miles, says a report from Washington, D. C., filed suit in the Honolulu. federal Los at court, Angeles, against the Curtis Publishing company of Philadelphia asking $150,000 damag es for alleged libed based on an article published in the Ladies Home Journal for May, 1924. Walter Muir, twenty-on- e year old American youth, was hanged at Valley Field, Quebeck for the killing of Henri Laviollette, following a quarrel over a dog. When he was ang-ethe roof of an adjoining factory groaned beneath the load of spectators. 1 d GENERAL statement declaring that the $20,000,000 farmers grain and elevator corporation, with headquarters in Chicago, which was recently incorporated in Illinois is a gigantic attempt to fool the farmer was issued At Oklahoma City by Carl Williams, vice president of the National Council of Farmers Cooperative Marketing Associations. A (Copy for Thl Department Supplied by tha American Legion New Service.) LEGION WAS LUCKY IN 1924 CONGRESS In outlining the achievements of the national legislative committee of the American Legion during the first of the congress, John Thomas Taylor, vice chairman of the committee, stated that eight measures of major Importance were enacted largely through the efforts of the Le- ses-lo- n Sixty-eight- h He declared 1924 was the most successful year In the history of the Legion in carrying out policies. The eight bills, made laws, were: the adjusted compensation bill, the creation of the committee on World war veterans legislation of the house of representatives, bill, uffectlng more than 100,000 disabled veterans and their dehill, aupendents; the Fernald-I.anglethorizing the construction of fireproof hospitals costing $6,500,000 and containing 2,350 beds ; provision for a $350, (X0 training school for blind veterans at Evergreen, Md. ; the Fredericks bill, providing a $1,500,000 fireproof hospital, containing 500 beds, at Santa Monica, Calif. ; house resolution authorizing a survey and Investigation of World war veterans hospitals and soldiers homes; provision for the erection of permanent stone crosses in overseas cemeteries ; and the war trophies bill, to distribute the vast amount of war material captured and surrendered from Germany. Other measures which the Legion approved and extended Its Influence toward enactment were; the immigration act of 1924, which restricts and selects immigrants and excludes tTie gion. Legion-sponsore- Reed-Johnso- y Lou-lsan- Which Is what Jule did. And he didnt have to cross the Alps to do It, either. It takes a pretty good man to have, any Influence in his home town, but Fred showed the stuff. The boys signed for Fred 190 of them were rounded up single-handeIn the main membership drive lastj spring. And In a supplementary drivej staged by the post, Fred got some more. There were 25 in that bunch. Thats a nice little postful, you will agree. , Fred must have used the Racine tragedy and gone out to look for them where he could find them. He went to the homes of the fellows and Into the factories. He learned In the army that a fellow usually got what he was looking for If he looked long enough. It Is a cinch that he wasnt watching the clouds or admiring the beautiful color effects as the sun sank to rest In the golden west you know the line. He was thinking of the work the Legion had done and Is continuing to do for the former service men. He was thinking of his post and Its Influence In the old home town. He explained all these things to the prospect. He told of the purposes of the Legion. He told what It had accomplished. The story of the Legion sells itself, Fred said, and apparently It does with aid. Reed-Johnso- Martial law has been declared at Several Teheran, Persia. persons suspected of complicity in the killvice consul, ing of the American who died from inRobert Imbrie, juries received when he was beaten by a fraternal mob while he was photographing a sacred fountains, have been arrested. It was learned that Eammon di Valera, erstwhile president of the who was released Irish republic, from a free state internment camp after a years imprisonment, spent his time in captivity studying EinDe of relativity. steins theory Valera was at one time a professor of mathematics Baron Evence Coppee, one of the v'ealthiest manufacturers in Belgium, was acquitted of the charge of having supplied coal and other goods to the Germans during the occupation of Belgium in the war. The trial began May 21 and the baron because of poor health, was allowed to reside in a clinic under police guard during the proceedings. Polam it was announced is to open a consulate at Moscow in the near future. of the Recognition Union of Soviet republics by Poland BEST INSURANCE Legion Is Insurbest countrys ance providing it maintains right was the declaration leadership, of MaJ. Gen. Clarence Edwards in dedicating the $400, (MX) memorial building at Athol, Mass., Fraternity, the genrecently. eral said, Is the grandest thing we received from the war, and the Legion Is the only place where this fraternity can be per- American sinplIE A this Impostors Reported in Scheme to Win Bonus stock pro- Employing motors salesmanship methods, three men, can-- , men, two of them vasslng through the state of Montana In the Interests of a magazine subscrip-- , tlon scheme, are exploiting patriotism to gnin their ends, is the report of the, department of Montana, American Le--1 glon. Their method is to Inquire at a! man lives there home If any and then to immediately begin a discussion of the national adjusted comAfter pensation, calling It a bonus. the conversation is begun they artfully talk about the bonus they will receive If a good number of subscriptions are forthcoming. A poster of a doughboy with a helmet and gun Is then flashed with the words, Lest We Forget beneath. The keyword bonus Is used with such abandon that the prospect becomes confused and thinks that by giving a subscription he would he helpman to obtain a ing the good-sizebonus (adjusted compensation settlement). General Edwards petuated. praised the valor of the Ameri- can soldier In France, but declared that the work of the soldier and the high peace-timstandard of citizenship which Is now represented by them in the American Legion is equally deserving of praise, and in certain Instances of high honors, lie said : "The actions of the average American soldier since the war, under the leadership of such organizations as the Legion, qualify him for new decorations to be pinned beside the d Croix de Guerre and the Service Cross. e LMstin-guishe- - ...... . d Fire Salute Over Grave at Request of Mother National Headquarters Each Memorial day for the last three on Insurance Matters has Identity unknown, asked the firing squad of Alonza years a mother. Cud-wort- h post, American Legion, Milwaukee, to fire a salute over her sons grave In Forest Home cemetery. The boys have compiled with 'lie sorrowing mothers wish each year. Three years ago, after memorial services at the graves of veterans, a woman approached, weeping. She asked one of the boya a salute could not be fired over her sons grave. The squad marched to the grave she designated and fired a salute. The Incident has been repented every year since. Mile. Foch, 82 years of age, the eldest sister of Marshal Foch, died at the family manision at Valentine, department of Haute Garonne, France, where she had passed all of her life. Charles B. Warren the American ambassador to Mexico, has issued a statement announcing his Intention to resign from hisr post. The Rockefeller foundation Is giving $1,000,000 to the Tokio Imperial university which suffered In th recent earthquake. amend- ment to prohibit child labor, which now goes to the states for ratification. n Important provisions of the bill are: extension to January 1, 1925, of the presumption of automatic service connection for disabin-tles- , from the former period of three years after discharge, a provision which will allow 30,000 veterans to Immediately connect their disabilities with the service and thereby recon; A government compensation; free care and treatment In government hospitals for any veteran of any war or expedition since 1807, without regard to the nature or origin of his disabilities; requirement that compensation cannot be reduced or discontinued without three months notice to the disabled veteran; lapsed war risk Insurance Is automatically reinstated retroactively where at the time of lnpse the veteran had sufficient unpaid compensation due. him to revive his Insurance; the rating of disability and nwarding of compensation and hospitalization was ordered decentralized; awards of compensation for disability can now be made in the field. Governor C. W. Bryan, Democratic vice presidential nominee has reiterated his previous approval of the plan of holding the formal notifica tion ceremonies in Lincoln. He declared himself unable to approve notification be suggestions that the given in some other city than this was accorded last December after nehis home town. gotiations lasting several months. The release of Eamonn de Valera, Pierrepont B. Noyes, who was Stack and other political Austin Rhineland commissioner for the United States has predicted the doom of leaders now in prison, has been dethe Dawes report and continued dead- cided upon by the Free State govlock between France and Germany ernment of Ireland. unless the United States representathe Kalgan, provnee of Chihli, tive at the coming conference of pre- largest commercial center north of miers in London is instructed by the Pekin, has been destroyed in part by government to inform France that a flood along the Yangho river, acthe United States desires that coun- cording to word received at Pekin. try to give up its independent poli-c- y The damage to the city is unofficially in the Ruhr. estimated at $1,000,000. a The grand lodge of Masons of an eighteen announced that etory building will be erected at New Orleans. will cost The building $2,500,000 and will be built on the present site of its temple in the heart of the business district. Construction will begin October 1. Obtaining a loan of $15 with his wooden leg as security, a Louisville, Kentucky man won his freedom from He was then the city jail recently. financially but not physically able to leave his cell. d the constitutional An Object Lesson . Policeman What were you dolflg while the bandits were robbing the pa- trons? Walter I was kicking myself because Id ben such a rlker all my life. American Legion Weekly. PLED OF GUILTY To clarify the confusion arising from the fact that the government Is now handling two types of Insurance, war time Insurance, and adjusted compensation insurance, both applicable to veterans of the World war, the American Legion at national headquarters, Indianapolis, made the following an"War-timnouncement: Insurance retained until March 3, 1926, be may at which period It must be converted to one or a combination of the various forms of Insurance granted by the govemfnent. Term Insurance canceled or allowed to lapse since the discharge of a veteran from service may be reinstated at any time before the above The passage of the veteran date. compensation hill In no way affects the policies of Insurance carried by veterans. The insurance granted by the new legislation is In addition te the government term Insurance but Pa Is to be taxed, Jongg will pay It. 4 If war can be stopped by resolutions It Is already dead. NATHAN JR. AND LEOPOLD. RICHARD LOEB, ENTER PLEA WITH A WHISPER It begins to seem like a quiet mer for King TuL sum- It Isnt happiness that runs np Its the pursuit. ex- penses, State's Attorney Demands That treme Penalty Be Imposed; Evidence to Be Submitted Ex- to Court Chicago, Clarence Darrow, chief counsel for the defense of Nathan Leopold Jr. and Richard Loeb, confessed slayers of 14 year old Robert Franks Monday entered a plea of guilty in behalf of the defendants. This move by Darrow, a complete surprise to everyone, was made be- fore Judge John R. Caverly as- preliminary motions of the defense were called. Young Leopold was called to the bench and himself pleaded guilty. Loeb followed him and did likewise. Is is your understanding that if you plead guilty to murder in this court,, the court may sentence you to death or to the penitentiary for the period of your natural life, or for a period of not less: than fourteen years? Judge Caverly asked. I understand, Leopold answered, his lips quivering, his eyes dropping to the floor. Loeb anI understand, Yes, swered, looking directly at the judge. With this understanding, do you still wish to plead guilty? the judge asked. I do, Leopold answered. I do, Loeb replied. ' Darrow advised the court that besentenced he fore the boys are evidence to the wishes to present court and the sentencing of the college graduates probably young will be delayed for several days. States Attorney Robert E. Crowe, who was in court in person with a large staff of assistants, was taken completely by surprise, but (lid not contest the action. the afternoon Sheriff Late in extra announced that Hoffman guards had been assigned to the cells of Leopold and Loeb, to preclude an Extra guards attempted suicide. will be stationed at their cells night and day, Mars has been selling the world a gold brick for centuries. That school girl complexion boyish clothes. Do they blend? - n Japanese; BOH Mah-Jong- g lie Just went out and got them. Thats the way Fred Maxted, chamof Racine post No. pion member-gette- r 76, American Legion, Racine, Wls., tells the story of his remarkable record In adding members to the roster of his post. Fred is very modest about his exploits. lie Just cant see anything unusual about It. He refuses to become oratorical about It. Seems to feel that anybody could go out and do the same thing he did. But Fred went. Thats the way he got them. He did not stick around the post quarters and loaf. Freds no lounge lizard. Hes a member hound. Fred must have heard something or other somewhere about old Jule Caesar. Anyhow, he went and saw and got em to sign on the dotted line. What the world needs Is a shortage of long faces. he said. Dempsey In Smashup Jack DempLos Angeles, Cal., one that the famous arm, right seys so heavily to his has contributed world heavyweight pugilistic crown, is out of commission following an automobile accident, according to atThe fighters tending physicians. list of injuries, received in the automobile smashup, at San Juan Capishere include: dis trano, smith of strained ligalocated right elbow; ments in the neck; Abrasions on the right knee; Cut on the scalp. Dempsey will be confined to his room for several days, the physician said. The that he escaped champion admits death by a miracle, when his heavy sedan, carrying himself and two or three friends was sideswiped by a who kept going speeding motorist, after he had tilted the Dempsey car from the highway into the ditch. It was winners: luck, thats all, DempThe party in the sey remarked. wrecked automobile including a man and a woman who gave their names as Mr. and Mrs. Lee, were taken to the Santa Ana hospital and later came on to Los Angeles. More Water For Salt Lake Salt Lake, With formal ceremony Monday morning Mayor C. Clarence Neslen, commissioner of waterworks, threw the electric switch which officially placed in operation Salt Lake Citys new $60,000 pumping plant at Sixtieth South street and Highland drive. This plant is designed to increase the citys daily water supply 8,000,000 gallons by approximately through exchange of Utah lake water from the citys canal to farmers unGreen and Upper der the Tanner, and Some day munition makers may be boasting about the output of plow shares. A dromedary In five days. can travel 600 miles That is where It gets Its hump. Oh, well, when they werent bobbing their hair they were bobbing their skirts. Plant a tree, but It will never amount to anything If you sit around to watch It grow. Now we have the air pullman. The record for altitude before that was an upper berth. To Move Grade Crossing, says a headline. While going to that trouble why not abolish It? An Is one who can remem- old-tim- ber when the first Rign of spring was sulphur and molasses. Another moral of the times: It takes lees effort to fight a war than to recover from one. The cheaper egg Is here, but the restaurants do not seem to be able to make a sandwich of It. It Is said there are 363 causes for divorce In this country. Exclusive, too, of delicatessen meals. Scotland has ruled England so long and so effectively that It feels competent to exercise home rule. Many a family budget has fallen down because It provided for only one of them getting a hair cut. In these days a college boy pays as much for one dance as his grandfather paid for a months board. The Arab lives largely on dates, which explains why they call a certain alleged species of genus homo a sheik. A boy has made a radio set from a peanut. It no doubt reproduces political speeches with pitiless accuracy. Probably there are no new crimes to be discovered. Anyway, the need Is for a strong revival of some good old virtues. The small boys may not be getting their three Rs, but they seem to know a lot about radio, rastling and rhapsody. g Is said to be the game of a hundred Intelligences. They could have been more usefully employed. Mah-Jong- There has been nothing to report Tuts tomb of late except that Tut Is just as dead as ever and a little more so. from King "Scientist discovers quartz that discauses light to turn corners a few after quartz, will patch. But, it turn them safely? The number of marks In Germany would have made little difference If the supply of marks in the United States had only kept up. radiollte stockings a Parisian style show ought to make a big Impression d on mosquitoes. Anyway, these being featured hi near-sighte- The federal tax on carbonic acid gas has been repealed, which may help some of the campaign stump speakers to blow harder at no cost canals. Fifty Seven Go Down In Ship Tokio. Fifty-seve- n persons were drowned July 11 when the Nippon Yusen Kaisha freighter Matsuyama Maru foundered off Goto island, near Kyushu, the Kobe office of the line The liner had been overreported. due several days. This report was the first news1 of her fate, as she carried no wireless. The ship carried down with her all her officers and crew except one fireman, who was picked up by a trawler and She carried no brought to Kobe. passengers. e Flames Trap Children Mercer, Pa., Five children were burned to death in a farm house near looked on. here while the mother The dead, ranging in age from nine months to nine years were children of Mr. and Mrs. Ned Nedgelen, livlake. The Dedies ing near Sandy were taken from the ruins. They had huddled together in a corner, driven back from escaping through he windows by the amoke and flames. Salt Lake City Firms assure prompt eervie and quick returns to these advertisements mention the name of this paper. To BUSINESS COLLEGES L. D. S. BUSINESS COLLEGE. AH commercial branches. School of Efficiency. Catalog free. 60 N. Main St., Salt Lake City. BOOKS AND SHORT STORIES pOOIfC Any book you want hy mail. C, O. DUUDu e,PT,t Ponk Co. 44 Fast So, Temple D SONGS & SHEET MUSIC CflkTq OvliUJ new and old. All kinds. 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