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Show THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA, UTAH "t-- IUIEXIG0 PLANS : MOTHER GOVERNMENT WARNS NONCOMBATANTS NOT TO GATHER IN CERTAIN TOWNS .: a j ' ':Uj' . ', , , :'-ip- ,J VMf Salt Lake Utah cuts from her forests 37,500,000 board feet annually, dl-vided this way: 20,000,000 feet of 8,500.000 feet of mine props,, posts and poles; 9,000,000 feet of saw timber. the ..last Bit Junction During months, since the 1926 potato harvest,, farmers of Piute county have shipped fifteen carloads of certified seed potatoes to growers all over the country. Piute county is becoming famous for the splendid potatoes raised here, and,, from all appearances, double the acreage of last year will be seeded this, spring. Cedar City Salt Lake and Utah scenery, are advertised by a booklet published by the Automobile Club of Southern California. The book Is an attractive compilation of strip maps showing the road from Salt Lake with side trips to Zion National park, Bryce, the Grand Canyon National park, Cedar Breaks and the Kaibab forest. y j? Dally Reeonnoiterlng Into The Rebel Uplands Is Part of Military . . Program Guadalajara, Mexico The rebels ot the highlands of MexiGO responsible lor the terrible train holocaust Tues-lanear Ocotlan, are to be fought from the sky. The entire upland district now i3 receiving notice by special couriers that the noncombatanta must concentrate In fifteen designated places within ten days, as after that late two full squads of airplanes will rain bombs upon the towns and villages of the whole rebel area. The planes, which will operate from Yure-cuar- o as headquarters, will be provided with bombs and tubes for shooting them, machine guns and airplane cannon. Troops already are concentrating for a grand move on the rebel territory. Mlnsiter of War Amaro and General Ferreira, commander of the state troops, will command the movement, which will be one of envelopment. Warning has been given through thu press and special circulars that all within the prohibited zone after ter lays will run the danger of annihilia-tion- , with the bombing of the doomed towns and villages. The airplanes will patrol the railway, and orders have been given them to treat as enemies all suspicious groups of people. y ! - - V- Win s.f" Hi ' ' X --' " ,j i N r , V'-'V- !' "f;.: ' f m ifrlsj n ym '8 ?K , ''?--? v. & $?! Jfe. Ji V h M &j hrm-t&s M t;f Klkn ( -- , 4 h Logan Street Improvement In Logan during the past three months have included the grading of four miles of thoroughfare, according to the quarterly report of the supervisor of streets, filed with the city commission. In this work, ten truckloads of cobbles were removed and a total of 3690 yards of gravel used to open up-Eas- t Center street. f Ogden Frost destroyed about of the apricot crop of Weber county, but did not touch peaches or cherries, It was estimated by LeRoy Marsh, district agricultural inspector, who, with A. L. Christiansen, county agricultural agent, conducted a survey of northern Weber county. Gunnison Enlargement of the plant and facilities of the Gunnison Valley Salt company, necessitating an expenditure of between $200,000 and will result from the taking overof that company by the newly organized Great Western Salt Company, it was announced Wednesday. The new company, although a Utah corporation, is financed by Chicago capitalists. Salt Lake Nine national forests occupy 14 per cent of the area of Utah. They are administered to produce timber and forage continuously, to produce municipal and irrigation water, Ogden Laying of a twenty-incwater main from the city reservoir to Twenty-nintstreet along the foothills of the Wasatch mountains was voted by the city commissioners, acting upon the recommendations of Commissioner Chris Flygare, superintendent of waterworks, and City Engineer John g. one-hal- quota from $540,000 to $750,000. The Red Cross announced receipt of dispatches saying that 300 refugees from Greenville, Miss., were being taken across the river by boats and trans ported to Vicksburg by special train. 'l , Gunnison Approximately $10,000-wil- l be expended this year on the buildLake road, ing of the Gooseberry-Fisand which will prove highly important to the citizens of Gunnison valley and Sanpete county. The work will start just as soon as practical, government engineer from the forest service has been ordered to make a survey, As soon as this Is .completed, grading will be commenced. reported that the chapter there already had raised more than $100,000. Chicago voluntarily increased Its T7 . to-Lo- s Aflg-cles- Nation Rushes to Aid Victims Washington Following announcement of quota's for the Red Cross flood relief fund, national headquarters here was deluged with messages from individual chapters, saying that quotaB would be exceeded and in some cases doubled. A telegram from St. Louis i Jt in cord-woo- d; v v iLiv a IE USE R News Notes it a Privilege to Utah $300.-00- '?.. X Tv ' Fliers Seek Recreation Miami, Fla. America's good will ' filers, back from a four months trip to Central and South Amreica, sought the recreation of Miamis numerous pleasure resorts In celebration of their home comming. The eight airmen at who from the time cf their San Antonio, Texas, southward, visited the people of more than twentj' nations, and who landed here from Havana, Cuba, the last leg of the!; flight, worked a little, played and rested. A reception is planned at Jacksonville for the fliers. Major General Mason Patrick, chief of the army air servico, and others who came here to greet tho air men, will no'f' Accompany them to Jacksonville, but will rejoin them farther up the coast. Good Will J A r Vp Mrlu Wit ;sr ($wm ! itfef &&&S ii - - hop-of- f 1? ; Xrr t SS Pi SN - proroS coupresY PYPrPAROr CAIUMTJ. ror: Vi River Floods 9000 Square Miles Memphis, Tena. A Sabbath scene of death and desoluation was presented over more than nine thousand square rnile of the richest lands in Mississippi and Arkansas as the Hood waters of half a dozen mighty streams continued their relentless flow to the sea. At least one hundred human lives had been snuffed out by the swirling,, plunging waters since the rivers started tearing from Wieir beds three weeks ago and the fate of other hundreds was in doubt. Crest of the Mississippi river flood apparently was passing Weather bureau bfiicials Memphis. said there had beeu a constant guage reading of 45.9 feet since 7 oclock Sunday morning, a drop of of a foot over night. one-tent- 1. - - H i''v' ,' . s ' a r.'v', They shot ami made tlielr aalllra till the Bhavrneea brohe and fled, VVhlle i ho women charged the rifles and the women shaped the lead. The women nursed the wounded and the women watched by night. The women brought the water through the peril of the fight. The mother never faltered: and the sons that then were small Grew aa Huntera of Kentucky and were strong and brave and tall. From "The Tall Men" by Arthur Guliermon. OTHERS By ELMO SCOTT WATSON DAY conies on May 8 this year 3. By F. Model by H. A. MacNeal. 2. By Bryant Baker. 8. By Mario Korbel 4. By Jamee Fraser. 5. By Jo Davidson. 7. By A. Stirling Calder. 8. By John Gregory. . Lynn-Jenkln- milk. Love of con rage, fidelity, ambition was In their mothers' home, husband, children, made the wilderness to smile." Accordingly he determined to erect a heroic statne of The Honeer Woman on the Cherokee Strip In Oklahoma, the last Am.erUmlrontier and the last great tract of land opened to homesteading. Then lie asked the Reinhardt galleries In New York to commission the leading American sculptors to make models for the monument. Twelve responded Jnnu-- s Fraser. John Ilryant Raker. A. Stirling Calder, Jo Davidson, A. MacNell, H. Lee. Arthur. Varlo Korbel, Gregory, F. Maurice Sterne, Wheeler Williams and Mahonrl Toung and submitted their models which were on exhibition at the Reinhardt galleries for three weeks. Duriug that time the models were viewed hy more than 10.000 persons and each visitor was given an opportunity to vote for the modeled by typical pioneer woman. In this unique contest the figure Bryant Raker (No. 2 In the group shown above) receivedto the. largest .the model vote among the ten thousand,-- .. Second choice was given submitted by H. A. MacNell (No. I), and third place went to that by A, Stirling Calder (No. 7). were sent to After, the exhibition in New York closed the 12 models in other cities. be exhibited will there shown they Boston and after being Kansu City, Cleveland, Chicago. Washington, Pittsburgh. Including Portland, Ore.. San Francisco, Xos Angeles, Oklahoma City and other the public will hnve places In the Middle and Far Uest. In each place vote will aid Mr. nmi this Its popular preference a chance to express Marland In his final selection of the model which will be chosen for the heroic figure, more than 40 feet in height, which will be erected on the knoll near Tonca City. The completed statue will be one of the most colossal that has been cast In many years and In sl.re and majesty will be second only to the Statne of Liberty In New York barlfhr. The total cost of the undertaking will be between $1100.000 and $400,000, Rut more Important than the cost of the undertaking or the size of the stntuc Is the fact that at last an enduring monument Is to be erected What other to the memory of the pioneer mothers of the nation. woman ever had n better claim to glory?" says Bryant Raker whose "Her figure should Interpretation ranked first In the New York exhibit be to America what the Victory of Snmotlirnce was to Greek life and art No woman of the world ever combined the Ideal in n more benuJfu! way with hardy resistance. If the pioneer mnn blazed the trail, she stirred the pot and probaby built the fire as well. She bad to bo home maker In the wilderness, companion, sweetheart and mother." Lynn-Jenkin- , and ou that day the thoughts of thousands of Americans will turn to just tmeh mothers as those of whom the poet sings the pioneer mothers who never faltered" and who were as much builders of this country ns their husbnnds or the sons whom they gave to tlielr country. There Is a very good roason why our thoughts will turn this year to the mothers of yesterday while we are honoring the mothers of today. The reason Is that. If we choose, we may have a part lu deciding which of 12 sculptured models will ha selected as the final model for a huge monumental statue which Is to stand on the Oklahoma prairies as a memorial to the typical pioneer woman of America. Some time ago Ernest iV. Marland, n Oklnlionifin who has made millions In oil, decided that America has done Insufficient honor to the heroic women of the frontier. Our warJicroes, statesmen, scientists, poets, musicians, and even such pioneer men as Daniel I.oone, Davy Crockett, Jim Ilrldger, Kit Carson and RufTnlo I.ill, have been honored In bronze and stone, he said, lhit whet about the pioneer women! We era forced to draw upon our imaginations for pictures of the mothers. What sturdy broods they core they, their daughters uml tlielr daughters daughters ever pushing westward, ever making homes on the Innua their hu.banda gained I Loyalty, s, . h America Orders Study of Lingo Washington The Chinese .crisis .is refle.eted.in new instructions issued by the commander of the American troops at'Tientsin designed to turn out an Increased number of army officers able to talk Chinese. The new order, applying to all officers joining the two battalions of the Fifteenth infantry at .Tientsin, requires that they spend from six to ten hours a week for the next year studying Chtnese, In order to Improve their ability In operating international trans over the stretch ol road they are guarding, aid them In handling organized or disorganized groups of Chinese troops and ether-wismeeting the numerous problems of the command. A war department announcement says that knowledge ol the Chinese language has been helpful In the past in permitting officers to meet situations that might have developed serious consequences had they not been able to converse with Chinese military leaders. e Coal Miners Quit, Prices Mount High Charleston. W. Va. While it was admitted that the walkout of miners in the central '.bituminous fields has caused advances of from 75 cents tc $1 a ton in the prices of soft coal, it was reported that the situation is Improving, as certain operators have agreed to now contracts and many union laoorer3 returned to work. Both in Virginia and West Virginia efforts have been made to unionize vhe men of several mines, it Is learned, but it has net been reported that nich ha been accomplished along this line. h h Brown. Monticello County Commissioners Reed and Henry S. Barns have been inspeting roads and conferring with residents in the eastern part of the county relative to road matters. The commissioners decided to allow $200 for the Ucoio road, if the residents would expend a like amount. The county road a mile north of the Ucoio road- - was gon9 over and an agreement was reached whereby the county is to furnish the plank for the bridges and $100, if the people In that neighborhood furnish" a like amoqnt L. Ilardy. Myton N. L. Peterson, manager of the Uintah Basin nlfaflfa seed pool, assisted by other members, is perfecting the organization to a greater extent. During the past few days several additional growers have joined the pool. Those who are members have held two meetings recently for the purpose of discussing the project. They are planmoney for ning to secure federal-aithe purpose of financing the movement; The main effort on the part of those who belong to the pool at present is to Increase the membership in the Uintah basin and thus enlarge its d influence. Salt Lake Eastern highway connections from Salt Lake will be assured program calling through a for expenditure of $2,000,000.. This activity will also develop highway transportation for the Uintah basin. Salt Lake Reduced cattle supplies throughout the United States are indicated by the April 1 survey of the department of agriculture. Only about 92 per cent as many cattle were on feed for marke( In tho eleven corn belt states April 1 as on the same date last year, it Is reported by George A. Scott, regional livestock statistician. Decreased feeding was apparent in all states but one, Indiana. 1927-19- 28 Duchesne Utah will bujld about 100. miles of new road this year, it is reported by the bureau of public roads. About ninety miles of this distance wiil be of the gravel, improved sand-claor macadam typo. Randolph Rich county has added to its assessment roll this year $l.20,00t more than was on the rolls last year, according to the report cf the county auditor, which was received hy th 8ate board of equalization and rsses-R'.enThe total valuation is $2,055,235 as compared with ?2,b'2S,4 ?1 in 1925. It is the first report on county valuation received this year by the board. t. . |