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Show THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH TELEGRAPHIC IALES FOR A Busy RESUME DOINGS OF READERS WEEKS THE THI8 AND OTHER COUNTRIES IN Important Eventa of th Last Seven Daya Reported by Wire and Prepared for the Benefit of the Busy Reader WESTERN District Judge George A. Bartlett Upheld the constitutionality of Nevadas law requiring a six months residence in the state before suit for divorce may be filed in a decision The decision, which just announced. allayed fears of thousands of divorces that their separations might be declared illegal, was rendered in denying the request of Emma C. Confer of Pennsylvania that the divorce granted her husband be set aside on the grounds of fraudulent residence. Elko county, Nevada desert, emof acres in the bracing thousands eastern part of the country, is the mecca of the sheepmen of Utah and Idaho, besides a large number of local sheep owners. Sheriff Harris is now checking up the sheep and reports that thousands are being driven or shipped to the desert for the winter months. The recent storms insure plenty of moisture for the sheep. Hearst hall, University of California women gymnasium and center of womens activities, planned as a memorial to the late Phoebe Apperson, Hearst is to be a $1,000,000 structure. This was revealed by President W. W. Campbell of the University at a meeting of the board of regents at Stephens union on the campus. The election of Mrs. Miriam A. Ferguson, Democrat, as governor of Texas at the November 4 election will not be contested. This announcement was made after a conference of state Republican leaders. Farmers in Manitoba, Canada, just across the line from North Dakota, are threshing in the snow, according to reports received at Grand Forks, N. D. The grain is being hauled in sleds. two-da- y From present indications the water ebortage that visited Salt Lake last summer will not occur this coming year as the snow fall in the mountains near town is extremely heavy for this timq of the year. Orders issued last June for the de struction of alleged boil weevil infested cotton crops in the Postvalle area near Tucson, Arizona were declared unauthorized, illegal and void, in a report filed in United States court at Phoenix by II. L. Partridge, special master in chan eery. Captain A. J. Wilson of Fair Haven. Mass., master of the schooner Perry Setzer, was instantly killed when his vessel was rammed and virtually cut in two by an unidentified steamer in a fog thirty miles south of Cape Hat-terainformation to according brought to New York by the United Fruit liner Calamares from Cuba. A bird bath, constructed of stone from France, is to be left in Pir.ey Branch valley, Washington by Ambassador and Mme. Jusserand, as a permanent expression of gratitude to the songsters that gave them relief general Charles S. Dewey, assistant secretary of the treasury, has entered on a campaign in support of the treasurys plea that more silver dollars be employed in circulation as a means of saving the paper curMr. Dewey rency. has instructed his secretary always to keep ten cartwheels in the assistant secretarys desk and he has begun paying for his lunches and other minor purchases with silver dollars. one-ma- n Secretary Weeks has announced approval of two citations for gallantry in action, carrying with them silver stars, awarded by an army board to Maj. Gen. Leonard Woud, retired, because of incidents in Cuba when he was colonel of the First volunteer cavalry (the rough riders). The specific dates and places men tioned in the citations are Las Guasi and Santiago, mas, June 24, 1898, July 1, 1898. FOREIGN The little town of Battlefork whose residents are threatened with a possible levy of 75 per cent of their town total assessments to satisfy debts, has appealed to the Saskatchewan government to save it from financial ruin. A British note handed to Zagloul Pasha, the Egyptian premier has demanded a proper apology in connection with the killing of Major General Sir Lee Stack, the sirdar, and an indemnity of 500,000 pounds. Thq note demands the prohibition of demonstrations and withpolitical drawal of Egyptian officers and units rom the Sudan, the Sudanese troops to some under the control of the Sudan government proper. The new French tariff bill, which contains the first reorganization of Gangland warfare, French custom duties since 1892, and smouldering since the slaying of Dion OBanion, which is now in the hands of the bursrt into furious flames again when public printer, contains no duties on Eddie Tanci, better known as foodstuffs, according to officials of who started as a hamand the ministry of commerce and depuprize fighter and speedily became a ties who were instrumental in fram-nimillionaire booze and vice overlord, the measure. was shot to death in a gun battle in his gilded resort in Chicago. Germany gallantly has surrendered to America the heritage of her Mrs. Fannie Christian of Rozel, supremacy in dirigible construction Kan., has been elected to two offices received from Court Zeppelin. Dr. justice of the peace and town- Karl Arnstein, chief engineer of the ship constable although she had not Zeppelin company, who constructed been a candidate for any office, the the ZR 3 and 12 of his experts, sailofficial canvass of the November 4 ed for the United States where they election disclosed. will go to Akron, Ohio, to direct The names of Jimmy OConnell and dirigible construction for America. from the New Cozy Dolan, ousted Sweden has for a short period been Tork Giants by Baseball Commis- having a ruler only 18 years old. sioner K. M. Landis just before the Prince Gustaf Adolf, son of the playing of the recent worlds series, crown prince a"d heriditary prince of appeared on the general ineligible Sweden, has just presided here at list made public at Chicago by Leslie a cabinet council, assuming this OConnor, the commissioners secre- position fer the first time in his While many players appear life. tary. The reason for the temporary on the ineligible lists of various accession was the absence of King clubs, there are but eleven names on Gustaf, while the crown prince was the general ineligible list. away in England. Tan-ce- l, g . W. W. Irwin of Wheeling, W. Va., imperial past potentate of the Ancient Arabic order, Nobles of the Mystic Shrir.e, died in a hospital at Pittsburg, where he underwent an weeks ago. operation several What is declared to have been a nation wide plot to manufacture and Bell bogus $5 war savings certificates was exnosed with the arrest of J. Zottarelli, Cleveland attorney, in the berth of a pullman after he arrived from Washington. tb DOBSON, NEW CHIEF OF FORTY AN EIGHT R. T. Daniel, millionaire property owner of Tulsa and Dallas, Texas has signed an agreement giving his wife $1,000,000 worth of property in Mrs. Daniel recently sued Tulsa. her husband for separate maintenance and division of property. Donovan Baker, Mare Island navy yard sailor, from whose stomach were extracted t.n nails in an operation a month ago, swallowed a table fork waters. He will recover. (Copy for This Department Supplied by American Legion New Service.) Qua-rant- e President Coolidge has received additional data from the tariff commission in connection with its report on the sugar tarff, and he hopes to make a decision very soon on the question of a tariff rate reduction. Tuan former premier of China and former leader of the Ar.fu or military party has been in augurated as chief executive of the new government, of the republic. Chi-Ju- i, The snail season has opened in some of the leading London restaurants and hotels. These epicurian delicacies fed on vine leaves in the were brought Burgundy vineyards, over from Paris by an airplane and served after fish in their pale golden-brow- n shells. j News Notes f SPEAKING editorially, the their burden during the war from of anxiety and anguish. A contagious twinkle of the eye, a Howard M. Gore of West Virginia fetching smile, a merry laugh, made was appointed secretary of agricul- George Dobson's election as chef de late Henry C. chemln de fer of La Societe des ture, to succeed the Mr. Gore, who has been Wallace. Homines et Iluit Chevuux, popuacting secretary since the death of larly known as the Forty an' Eight or Mr. Wallace, can serve only until playground of the American Legion, next March 4, when he becomes gov- almost a foregone conclusion. With his Legion record, they made a rare ernor of his home state. combination of and personality William M. Butler, named by Govachievement which wus Irresistible. ernor Cox as successor to the late His that he feared he would Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, has not protests be able to accept counted for been assigned to the suite of rooms little. They were voted down with enin the thusiasm. occupied by Senator Lodge, senate office building. Born in Scarborough, England, In 188(5, the new chief came to America No less than 22,(500 persons were as a lad of ten. After attending the killed and 678,000 seriously injured public schools at Brooklyn, N. Y., and in street and highway accidents in Passaic, N. J., he received the degree the United States during 1923. The of mechanical engineer at Cornell unieconomic loss involved in these acversity In 1909. He has been employed cidents is estimated at $600,000,000. ns a telephone engineer with the WestBecause one of her leads at Bridge ern Electric company. Dobson was commissioned ns a lieuangered him, her husband turned her tenant in the Signal Corps Reserves over his knee and spanked here be- In June, 1917. lie served in the office fore a party of guests in their home, of tlift chief signal officer of the Eust- Mrs. Magdalene Jackson charged in a suit for divorce filed again:, t Robert J. Jackson, wealthy Chicago contractor. Nine fishermen were killed at Dun kirk, France when a mine brought aboard a up by the nets exploded boat which was fishing in Dunkirk at Vallezo, Cal. PRAISES THE LEGION Rock Rapids, an Iowa newspaper, says this of the What we like about Legion: the American Legion Is Its habit of calling a spade a spade rather than e spatulated Implement the but shovel resembling heavier and adapted for being pushed Into the ground with the foot. The gum shoe and the velvet glove are not to be found In the wurdrobe of the American sideLegion, and shadow-boxinand stepping, holding the auricular organ to the terra firma are not among its favorite outdoor or indoor sports. . . . When It wants to denounce as an organization that seeks to draw religion, racial and color lines. It does not content Itself wkh talking generalities regarding the Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence, but mentions the offending organization by name. The American Legion believes In laying its cards on the table In hitting straight from the shoulder in being a square shooter in everything it says and does. Perhaps that Is one of the lessons its members learned during their service in the army. At any rate, it is refreshing to find a least one organization that is courageous enough to come out in the open and say its piece in plain English, without regard to whether it Is going to get votes or chase them away. g i WARNING AFFECTING DISABLED VETERANS Rehabilitation officers of the American Legion at Washington are disseminating the following warning affecting disabled veterans who have compensative claims but who have failed up to date to file their claim with the United States' Veterans bu- TAKEN LEO si From All Parts of SHERIFF UTAH KORETZ, CHICAGO MAN ARREST AT HALIFAX AFTER LONG CHASE UN-DE- R Alleged to Have Made Millions From Friends and Relatives In One of Nations Largest Swindles A new $400,000 Ogden, Ogdens Union station was formally and officially opened with appropriate ceremonies held in the main room, presided over by Fred M. Nye, president of the Qgden chamber of More than 200 Ogden men and women, which included representatives of the Union Pacific and com-mec- Southern Pacific railroads, e. joint builders of the structures, and civic bodies, among them the Salt Lake chamber of commerce participated. Halifax, N. S. Leo Koretz, alias Lou international Keytes, alleged swindler and crook, said to be the smoothest and most resourceful conSpanish Fork, The Spanish Fork fidence man in the United States Fish and Game Protective association released ar.d wanted in Chicago in connection twenty-on- e pairs of with a $10,000,000 stock swindle, was Chinese pheasants in the river botarrested in a leading hotel here by toms district, near the power plant. II. Scrivtffi and These birds were secured from the Deputy Sheriff R. Provincial Constable Malcolm R. Mit- state game farm at Springville. chell. The arresting officers were Salt Lake, William E. McKell, reacting under instructions of John A. presentative from Salt Lake county Sharbaro and William McSwiggin, in the next state hous-- of representassistant states attorneys of Cook atives, and prominently mentioned county, Chicago, 111., who arrived in two years ago as a posspeakership Halifax on the Ocean Limited in is this year definitely in the sibility, search of Koretz. race for that honor at the hands of In a circular issued by the Chicago his fellow members-- . Mr. McKell a reward of has for some time been mentioned in postoffice department $10,000 is offered for his capture, connection with this honor, both by and states the charge of using the his Salt Lake colleagues and by men mails to defraud against him. from other counties in the state. He definitely announced his decision to Chicago, Leo Koretz put over one become a candidate. of the most gigantic swindles in the Ogden, Damage, which will probof history Chicago crookedness. amount to more than $5000, was ably as a broker, it wa3 estimatStarting ed at the time of his disappearance caused by a fire at the Hylton flour mills at the corner of Washington December 5, 1923, that he had swindavenue and Fifteenth street. The led guillible friends of fully $10,000,-00It is certain that the amount fire is supposed to have been caused of a wheel in a shaft exceeded five millions, but many of by friction his victims, humiliated by their blind which ignited dust. Machinery and losses and much of the apparatus were damfaith, swallowed their aged and it will be some time before said nothing. Koretz specialized in rice planta- the mill operates at normal capacity tions in Arkansas and oil fields in company officials said. Oklahoma for a time. Salt Lake, For the first time i.v To- investors he paid remarkable dividends' paid the history of the Utah High School them out of money the winner of obtained from Athletic association, fresh suckers. football cham Soon he had built the state scholastic up a clientele that accepted his word pionship will not be determined. The on any proposition and clamored for battle between the L. D. S. him to invest their money, A major- and Carbon County high schools gives had received fat both teams claim to the crown. There ity of those who dividends brought the money back, ij little possibility of a playoff conwith additional funds, and reinvested test being played, so it will go down in the records as a tie for the buntit. Then came the masterpiece by Ko- ing. retz. He organized the Bayano Oil Salt Lake, Ambrose Noble McKay company, supposed to own extremely general manager of The Salt Lake valuable lands just south of the PanTribune for the past fifteen years, ama canal district. According to the nationally recognized as1 one of the in newspaperdom, glittering prospectus, this fabulous most able men tinitory contained' not only oil in died at the Holy Cross hospital limitless quantity, but gold mines, after an illness of two weeks. diamond mines and a great fortune of 6680 acres Duchesne, alone in bananas and other tropical of land near Irrigation and Boneta Alexander fruits. Part of the immense plan in Duchesne county is contemplated was to establish a private line of by the Farmers Irrigation company freight steamers and a palatial pas- nf Bluebell, through a water filing steamer service for the stock- made- at the state engineers office. senger holders. The company asked authority to use The Koretz clientele fell for this 205 acre-fee- t of water from Deer 0. men with a reau. Unless showing of active tuberculosis prior to January 1, 1925, make application to the United States Veterans bureau by that date, they will lose the benefit of that provision of the World war veterans' act of 192-1- , which provides that veterans showing active tuberculosis prior to January 1, 1925, will automatically be entitled to compensation and treatment for their disability. There are at the present time many thousands of cases of men throughout the country who have been rated by the veterans bureau at less than 10 per cent on arrested tuberculosis or chronic bronchitis, and other diseases. It is very probable that a large number of these cases have, since their last examination and rating by the bureau, Dobson. Gcorge become active cases, and these men ern department, ns personal aide to should by all means present themLieut. Col. F. 15. Jewett In the division selves to tlie veterans bureau for reof research and inspection In the Sigexamination before January 1, 1925, or nal corps, A. E. F., and as Signal they will lose the benefit of the precorps Inspector in Army Park C Signal sumptive provision of the act. corps, First army. Arrangements are now such that a Joining Passaic post No. 8 of the veteran can make claim to the vetAmerican Legion, lie served as comerans bureau with convenience and mander for two years. He was the enterprise with great efficiency at recently established respontaneity. first county chairman of Passaic counoffices. They beseiged his luxurious office gional Is a and member of the ty department Following close upon the order for night and day and threw their money executive committee. lie was chef de decentralization of the United States over the transom of his main office gnre or head of Volture locale No. 8, veterans bureau, long advocated by door, with pleas that he invest it Forty an Eight, and served two terms the American It must be said to the credit of Legion, came announceas grand chef da gare of New Jersey, ment of the opening of district bureau Koretz that he picked only the rich, lie was elected sous chef de chemin offices throughout the country which and chiefly those of his own race and de fer In the national organization in dishavens for function as regional Unlike other swindlers, he religion. 1921 and was corainls&ulre intendant abled veterans of the World war. Full did not in the poor. He was In 1922 and 1923. specialize authority will be vested in the re- out for big game, and it came to his gional offices to handle all claims re- door. Predicts Another War gardless of what phase of the cose In After he had gathered in millions to be considered. All matquestion Within Next Few Years ters of Isawards, vocational training of dollars, it occurred to a group of investors to make a trip to the marAnother World war more terrific and hospitalization will be handled, and on a larger scale than the late which will greatly facilitate the velous Bayano coutry and look over the proposition. Koretz encouraged A claims war is pending and will occur within rapid disposal of claims. the the next decade, was the prediction plan and and rating board will operate, to conarranged a special of Maj. Thomas Amory Lee of Topeka, sist of a medical specialist who will steamer and letters of introduction for them. About the examine the men for major disabiliKan., who recently returned from Lontime they don where he attended the Fifth Anwere swinging into the Panama canal ties, a medical referee and a vocanual Congress of the Fidac, the fedKoretz quietly faded from view. The tional specialist, who will act In coneration of inter-allieveterans organjunction with other specialists who committee found nothing but a barizations, as a delegate from the Amermay be called into consultation on ren waste. The mythical officials ican Legion. Major Lee arrived at any case. To gain a more personal o whom they bore letters of introthis conclusion from addresses he had connection with the disabled veteran, duction coul not be found, for the heard at the Fidac congress by some the rating and claims board will rate obvious reason that they did not of the lenders In the world peace the man with the veteran himself exist in the fertile imagination except lie so and will desires movement. Even among the most oppresent if he of Koretz. timistic, he declared, the feeling that have the privilege of arguing his Koretz disappeared early in Decemthe world Is In Imminent danger of case. ber, 1923, and no reliable trace has another such catastrophe as the World been had of him since. It is known war is prevalent." Berkeley, California, hat he went from here to New York observations other made Among by Legionnaires Appeal and was believed to be living in luxMajor Lee while nbrond was that all urious quarters there. Then came nations are making an attempt to In appealing to Berkeley (Cal.) cithad hidden in Euurge the responsibilities of the world izens to nid with funds needed to build stories that he rope; that he had gone to South upon the United States, and that the an American Legion clubhouse. LegionBritish Isles are following the examAmerica; that he was actually hiding naires issued the following communicaple set by the United States in the tion: The Legion is counting upon in Chicago; but these leads proved of o avail. His wife turned over their Eighteenth Amendment. the gratitude of citizens for the Lejewelry worth gions part In saving thorn from in- costly automobiles, housands and some other property, demnity taxes at the order of the kn! Savings Plan to Aid afforded but mite the kaiser would have demanded which for the Men to Get to Paris ser; a dozen or so Babylonian palaces; all swindled creditors. Ilow would you like to go to Paris we want Is a modest but suitable clubIn 1928. with time to see and he seen house In memory, of those who gave MussoPni Favored and no SI. P. on the Job? That is the their lives to save yon the price of Rome The Chamber of deputies castles on the Rhine." dope, exactly. Paris in 192S as the narated confidence in the Mussolini tional convention city will probably he government, 337 to 17. an actuality as far as the official and Urges Importance of delegate body of the Legion is conJohnson Will Fight Schell Accuracy in Records Washington, cerned, but what about buck privates Senator Magnus Johnof the Legion how are they going tc That the American Legion auxiliary son of Minnestota has notified colIn a Burls" nllez without quartering will undoubtedly become a hereditary that despite the 9000 majorthe steerage, sleeping In a hammock organization, to the leagues corresponding ity given his Republican opponent in and subsisting on boiledtripe for the Daughters of the American Revolut he recent senatorial race he expects duration of the trip? An enterprising tion. was the declaration of Miss Era in the next co bank in Ohio hns endeavored to show mn Ilndorn, secretary of the Kansai to succeed himself Johnson reported from his the way by the institution of a "Baris department of the auxiliary, in stressin Minnesota that both state farm A club." or dollar two de ing the importance of accuracy in filing Savings posited with the club every 'week will historical bibliography of members. and federal authorities are making a the alleged do the trick, the hank point out, and igid investigation i: to The records of the present members the buck will not be missed how. Not of the auxiliary will be Invaluable to bootleggers slush fund," which he o hnd idea for all below the rank of de'larid Miss believes contributed largely to his coming generations, defeat. Ha dorr. corporal to cogitate over, v - d - J j lake. Salt Lake, The Sugar company has decided to erect a new in the southern sugar beet factory of Alberta, part ol the province one in the Canada, to replace the Yakima valley, Wash., which is to be discontinued according to a state- ment nade by Walter T. Pyper, sec- of the Sugar company. This is in line with the policy of the company of disi- which are locontinuing factoriesrated in poor sugar beet territory and moving them to more productive regions, Mr. Pyper said. The Automobile club f Moab, southern California has completed the placing of signs on the tourist highways' leading from Colorado into Monticello, San Juan county. Eighty ornate steel signs have been placed on the highway from Cortez to Mon- ticello and durii g the summer months he California concern placed fifty- two similar signs on the highways from Monticello to Green River via Utah-Idah- o Utah-Idah- retary-treasur- j j i J j j u i - J ; j j i i Moab. j Spanish Fork, Work has been be- gun on an apartment house at the corner of Second North and First West streets. The building i3 be- ing put up by Horace Fereday and will consist of six four-rooapart- ments heated from a central heating plant. The building is being erect- ed at a cost of $19,000 and will be ready for tenants some time in Feb- It will be the first apart- ruary. ment house in Spanish Fork. A luncheon for farmers Logan, and business men is being planned by the agricultural and industries committee of the Logan chamber of commerce for December 12, when an effort will be made to promote a better feeling between the two groups and encourage them to greater co- - ) i ! m j j I j j j j j operation. j Bonds to the amount ol have been sold to the Pal- mer Bond & Mortgage company of Salt Lake City by Utah county, the money to be expended in the com- pletion of the city and county building, and to make other improvements in the county. Salt Lake Only 132 votes were cast in Daggett county for president of the United States. The county has the smallest population cf any i i Utah, ar.d is situated :n the northeastern oomr of tho str'o Provo, $225,000 - i f j j ! i |