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Show - J THE DESERET NEWS SALT LAKE CITY TUESDAY IS 123? NOVEMEEH M Five: Counties Pay Up The Story Of The Bonneville Salt Flats Ah On Relief Delimju encies Jenkins, Speed Driver, Gives Own Account 01 The Discovery Of The World's Three Others Expected To Remove Dans To' State Help Within Short Time Salt Gunge In GoTimor Will Mike little Differ - -- Five out of eight ctumties, disqualified by the State Board of Public Welfare a week ago for erf the 15 per cent of relief costa, have paid past delinquencies and three counties will probably make arrangements to become qualified for general relief assistance by the state. Box Eldar. Washington, Emery, Juab and Garfield Counties. J. W. Giilman, director of the State Board of Public Welfare, Continued From Page One stated, have paid up them dedeals and a secretary would be checks linquent amounts and named. were being sent them today. The CIO president would be Sevier and Kane Sanpete. given the power tp interpret the County officials are making meaning of the constitution, subject to review .by the executive every effort to so that board and between tensions of the restriction ofqualify general relief the board he would have full assistance will be removed. Mr. power" to direct affairs of the Giilman received word that the organization. Per Capita Tax Fixed Denver A Bio Grande Western A per capita tax of five cents Railroad Company had offered per member a month was callto pav up part of its tieluiquent ed for in the article of revenue, taxes for 1937 to these counties, from each national and internaso uiat they in turn could remit tional union and organizing committee. Each local industrial unrelief money owed the stale. To-ion was taxed 50 ceres a month gether, the three counties are per member as well as of the initiation fee, which was delinquent a total of $33,000 Last not to be leas than SI a mem-beweek, the board ruled that the counties in arrears on their 15 Provisions were made for ex- - per cent snare could not reeeiv e j 1 , Borden-WteLsn- d P" I Dairies s Vdams -- d Borden-Wlrlan- tog-TiHs- Pi- - Ha explained also that th obli A ho Continued Page One ernment toward taking the lead in dealing with the plight of the Jew. 4 -- This picture was taken, in the days of the old bicycle troth at Salt Potooe. At toft is Ab Jenkins as he appeared when he was a nder on ike Salt Palace track; in the center ts M. 0. Ashton now of the Presiding Bishopric ; and at Ac right, Jcccph E. Kjar, now bishop of Parleys Ward. be a great publicity stunt to send a message by bicycle from his San Francisco Examiner to his New- - 5 ork Journal. RisheL ihcn living in Cheyenne, Wyoming received the assignment to blaze a bicycle trail from that town to Truikee, California. Tell el Fkperieers Pushel was with a local dealer, C. K. Emise, when he struck the salt expanse, ' What an experience it was," Bill told me in his Szlt Lake City office recently, to mount that long horned bicycle of mine and start sailing aero that gtis-- I toning expanse in tTIe moaiw j ' j j it was two o'clock in the morn- ing w hen Bill and his friend tarted across the salt, and it was just ,22 hours later when they tompleied their job. They must have been thrill packed hours, too for Bill relates that the sail crust became thin, and their wheel broke through. For miles, they were forced to carry Dicreles their tnrough the oil like mire. They ran out of drinking water ""hen they battled through stick v marshes and sweeping clouds of mosquitoes. BUI saw to !t that William Randolph Hearst s blcvcle course didn t cross the salt' , In spanning the flats then. FUshel saw remains of Donner w agon. Inch, he points out, are located about ten miles from where I made mv first automo-bile runs os the flats in 1932. Railroad Cnwni Flats ' The railroad Train mtro- am &r,ir West" Pacific Kailwav laid Ita track dtreetlv acroes the heart of the salt, and the ''first locomotives roared over its argent area on a shorter wav to the West Least. The town of Wend-o- i er eame into being then, as a roundhouse renter The advent of the railwav meant that the sail expanse had finally been 1 I I i I j A j , , - I. .'tv1. For Vahad Fwbey They alaa waged a "united na ttoaat pohay " yrhkh could be a amp hward an aattOmabariain party uadar Eden. Eden urgeda aa aUparty gerreeamant to apaaak at Oaford last sight. auo caaw to the tha Nan campaign to t wwimed steadily The two l 1' vi.-ici- a life soope. hated to the of Coomaoaa to find out whether rreadar Chamberlain would go oa wMh his plan to reach pease aartaratmrtnif with Germany, as ha haa dona wRh Italy, d molts BrttieS raactioa to too) earn to the Oer-man-y, ana-Jewr- Ab Jenkins as he looked when he vtsited Salt Lake on a motorcycle in 1914. 1 over 'the Salt Reds In Utah. A fleet tjf eight or nine racing ma- chines were brought into Salt lake Citv by a fellow named j , .sHw hd arnxtnrmmg the country with f these cars, putting on exiubtuene at state fairs and the like The troupes blue ribbon rarer was the famous Bbtzen Benz, driven bv Teddy Teslaff at the tome. Hamer Oidfieki had previousiv eet some fancy marks with this car. and Bob Burman had driven it td a new jpile i'Wkff-KtV-W fkVlmdr Beach. Fla- (You know this Chamberlain avoided direct commitments in Patil ament y terday, but Oswald Plrow, defense minister of the Untoo publican administrations. Water of some of the states will bop be changed, hew-- ; due to rivll service or water board aentniL "Tba governor of any Colorado state will want to do tha beat he can for his earn stats, so that I do no aspect to see much change in polities of ciunmniees working to adjust probfams between toe Upper and Lower Beam States.' Mr. Humphery muL Atty. Grover A. Gilea, secretary of the Sevan Stata Com--1 je Bwptng to arrmnga plana lor tha eotifctanoa of Colorado Unr Sutea at Phoenix 12. At this meeting the are ex parted tp- - taka action on two problem; Application of Artaona fiiad with tha for Federal Power Commission on v baud the Bridge storage and power project; 'and Upper Basin State s request that $1,000,000 annually be s doted for surplus revenue of jtiwuuw Dsn for rievetopomt of upper Colorado River resource during to toysar period A to assembling data on Boulder Dam tetnuses, costs, power and water rights et states, will submit a report written to shad light on th problem, South Africa, said to a speech last night he might approve a compromise sattiemaat of German colonial tiaims to gun "peace at any raasowshia price.' f (row's goversoMnt is the under League of Nations mandats of the former German colony of southwest Africa. Touring Portugal. England. BeP gteoa and Germany, countries which would be involved in a colonial readjustment, ha plans. go fete this week to see Chancellor Hitler of Germany. Plrow warmed that if the eminvolved to an unpoppire were K ular war might lead to cml conflict in South Africa, and said; "We betirv that the steps taken se far should be followed up in th hope they may lead to a parses eant basis for world peace. We also fast this, however, that It must net be a peace at any price, bat peace at spy reasonable price;' 1 t i asatsj-atotoRfcf-- ' or fnen4 I ! mans gation resting upon the bankers was shared by the life insurance companies i America, ins that the of to was greeter for the banner than for the insurance companies. Weald Educate Drpmitqrs The prooi.-- a before tne bankers, which Mr. .Adam said w- -j nut difficult to state, was "How can 1 st p tie put to the constant .gnawing away by government at toe instance and far the supposed benefit of various pressure groups, of the vatiue id the saving of the only one Urge unorganiri- - groun of our rit Hut answer wa to bring to this group of bank deposttur and holder of life insurance path rte fulf tealtrjrton of venst Is bappenir-- to .hem. He warned that a governmental ptkicvcf ret!- - PiSTjttin vnd spending can end only in wiping out toe accumulated n,vings of those -whj bv winced their money- in toe banks (or safe keeping ard investment, President Adams --aid bwkeri knew; rising government aecuri. tte are .cijs'ng to nutlets fat unne norma) wea'th-pro-n ent "rprisey; the serr-tc- e to on mouni ing pubchargs lic debt is Increasing more rapidly than toe total anpual income Ml llrlln? n the first to roU over the saline speed wav. In 2911 he inveigled a Wendover man. Ferg Johnson, into taking his big Packard out on the salt for a spin. Most of their diffi- cultv came in getting the ma-- , thine on toe salt, for nearly the entire distance around what is now the race course on the beds is thin salt not thick enough t i hold up a blcvcle let alone aa fiv this time the automobile Hastings Cutoff. Beckwith and Overland stage comes had been abandoned, so there was no road of any kind crossing the salt. BiU and Ferg managed to get their big car on the track, and imagine their enjoyment when they climbed ip and pushed on the juice to the tune of fifty peri That was like flying on a bullet in those days. t hpeedway Was Tlud The following year Rikhel took A. L. WestgartL National Pathfinder for the National Trails Association, oet on the beds. The on greatest speedway But earth," declared Wextgard was tie autoa national though mobile figure, tola statement did not cause anv excitement in motoring circles, and the flats were forgotten again until 1914 The tear 1914 aw war thunand c dering in Europe famous speed car thundering th people; the country Is moving in a viici3 circle; increased taxes already are so great a ! x charge nrt industry at in down producuun - lb effect living increavtog unemployment, added miithaw spent in unemrelief ard still greater ployment employment kilb-- t titx Hiirnrc JmpUra ( onsrat consent." ."Silence implies President Adams said, "and we we sure b shall (hat may leap th just reward of our indifferences or timidity in toe bats of tne confidence and friendship of our depositors if we keep silent now and "By way of to save toe American system. e must organize our depositors and give them and all others who have accumulated eomemin. an economic education. This is the only practical way I know of to resist the pressure groups and poiltictans wtid are destroying and wasting of our depositor and of all of our citizens who have worked and saved " CO nor ruing relief of toe worthy raid Adam needy. Presidenttost, to toe proposition that they muvt be taken care of. the American Banger Association is sincerely and whoieheanediy eon-- .r Wifl-tiiines- s t ' e vote-buyin-g toe-savin- , the salt, and the - itrsy agreed to haul the racing ma- chines out there providing one were hundred railway ticket sold, i wasnt one of the form-na'150 ticket huvers so 1 am ien to Bill P.ishei to gtie me the tog show. This is hew BIU tells if li'atrkni Cata-- Time There was no electric liming device, so a good portion of the spectators brought stop watches. A man with a flag was placed at each end of the measured mile, and we put the official timers m the middle so thev could see both flags, which were waved as the Bllli-eBen roared by. When the race was finished. th timers announced tost she world record had teen bettered secTezlaff had traveled 25 ond for the mile. That figures HI T3 mile per hour. on ; 1 e iy j . - American Not $00, Not $70 for Home Cleaning Outfit Automo- Association and the Automobile chib of America gave the record a chilled shoulder Consequently toe salt bed mark was forgotten, and the flats again fadun ed into racing oblivion til vou came along. Ab No the story goes of eaariy1 pioneering m toe realm of racing on the salt Beginning with the next installment, mv story to vou will be first hand. There'll bile mined "But we must not forget" he said, "that the destruction of savings and toe starvation of lun mean til kiss of th rapacity to take tat ol toe needv. tost it is toe thrlftv citizen and not the government that mustproduce the money for this pur- Rishet in the days when he was a bicycle BUI nder. j ! r non-per- ; pur- relief funds for political Let no man be naive cnouttb to beUexe tost a turi rhange of party control will sure ly solve this problem, for the of . orgamzmgthe relief vpte.baa been so perfected 0 and it efficacy clearly established that toe polione of will continue ticians party to do what the politician of another party have already so Successfully done. (trim Mtsadns I ai pore at "This relief problem i one of the most Important ' problems that confront as Unless zoived. ratinntt eledtmns will be- - t come mranlngim farce and our j system of government witjt its vote-eettin- lr1a -- 1 95 Balance M'thly doomed " This complete ensemble cleans rugs, walls, floors, drapes, furniture. With blowings action for aerating and spraying. Not $80, not $70, but only 39.95 complete at Sears. ww W w wwwg ! DOWN (3 President Adams prefaced his wnh a recital of to letnarks rrowth and effectiveness of the Association during the past vear air paid a tribute to those aawv th him )n directing Hs t olu-- c the last annual affairs since meeting I But All You Poy Here Is he some interesting sidelights about the salt and the races out (hero which you have never read about before". (To Be CoetiaeerfJ (Copyright. 1936, by Ab JcnkinsJ of branch three coordinated check and balances will be pro-du- e Rerogaiae RrMef Problew Further recognizing toe relief problem, the speaker urged toe akmg of the rebef wwrk out of toe hands of poll 11s and placing it in toe hands of Iota), "who will tiran anmmiaorator. -- c Xtvfitsts 9.95 Cabinet Included No Extra' Charge '?6495 I Hssllstss Bst to Ce!& .Ifiie uuirviim charq Ba Tormented srtto throat htwkfwa, .. drysMS, cow(ba due to ettda? 1st a -Vkka Caaeh Drop daaohw naturally Mttra jwo-ISrw- MFisq chirr q m rotairr vrth ftae It bathes tondar with aootiiiiw umiU in your men to. throat tiuuca ul eatmn i ar 1 2 to 1 5 minuus, and relief come task. Recasts Vlckt era welly medicated... esterf with the throat anothlng to-ymqienU of V Irks VaooBua . . . far raltevtnf duromtcrU das none. 9 eaza-(om- wf m MIDICATZD ! CtaWFarf ora A. M. TO I AS P. 8 Annm A Y. aMmaeax aaaaaaaaaa KXBf AT nOAOWAY i ' tqpt ' say r. aOpvtohi. otrier nadnJ men. arranged for an exhibition automobile li wkc matfr.Vbw slave e s light next chape.- oppor-tunh- , d - y ed v. -- 1 history of jAjft&X. tt': 3, (Sfler raff ffiSoId Salt Palace, and was one of the brass hats in the motorcycle racing game her. Barney Oldfield, whose name in automobile racing was once what Lindbergh's is in aviation, pedaled a bicycle for Rithei at the Salt Palace It was this mo fiisbel, incidentally, was the first man to drive an automobile in Utah, who discovered the salt beds for speed RisheL now a big, white-hairgentleman who presides over the Utah Auto Club, was born September 26, 1869 in Punxsutawney. Pennsylvania. (BiU can pronounce toe name of hi birthplace bnt he esn't spell for toe life of him.1 . . Bill was only a youngster of 26 when he became toe discoverer." Ever since that time Rlthei has been a booster for toe beds 1, person, on racing ally, am grateful to him for sup- -' v has port given me in my run out there. toe is fact that ni die-- , Signal covered the bed th same rear Utah became a state 1896! "The Image of Jack Dempsey, BUI was out on a scouting trip when he came on to the salt expanse wnh his bicycle. George Ran; dolph Hurst, the publisher, had just started a newspaper In New York City, and thought it would l i group of his supporters In group eaiered a motion aetnrg the Mown of Commons to affirm that "ao agreoamt Mould be amda uadar which airy Brtt-ia- h cofnoiee or moartatad tarrF tortaa would be troaafarrad to without tka coeweeit of Oenuy tha psopia of Groat Britan" A asaoad group of Si. aympa-tkto tonnar Forrtn Roe Aathnay Ede who oppcaaa toy the Chaaherlain le v ,fj - in the 1 V e Itlehel exmeasures, officially plained as retaliation for the kHUng erf a German imbemy la Pena by a young PoF ieh Jew. Reports in Loadoa aaed the awed ais was ready to adit $0,000 Jaws. betteveil that Kenedy mgeaev at sattlmg at ooee. Chaadtartain wa by streng declan--fo- r L 1 caps. ' Netfoas Tie Be Aiherf ooelewct may be called to dfaewes tha problem in the h light of tha Nails' recent A anti-Jewis- t, d -- CHAPTER 3 Long before -- the days when n automobiles outnumbered buggies. Salt Lake City was known as the "Birthplace of Speed it stint because of automobiles that this fair city of out given that name. It was because of bicycles and motorcycles. home of the world bicycle records today were established at the old Salt Palace here. What a palace of speed it was in those days' 1 remember watching some of the old masters pedal around that saucer track . . . and occasionally U ilo 1 little racing there myself. ihe bait Palace opened ip 1898 and for a decade local boys like lvei Lawson, Brownie Carslake, Norman Hardy Downing and Hopper turned out records on that track which were as eyepopping then as the speed marks we are now making with automobile on the salt beds lver Lawson wss the greatest sprint nder of alt time. and many of hi bait Palace lecords exist today. Thu fellow Brownie Carslake was a nder from Australia who made his Brat American home in bait Lake City. He also became one of the world a most famous motoi cycle riders before retiring trout speed Record attempts to enter business. He is now connected with one of me leading tire manufacturers, still giving of fils speed excount Brownie toperience day as one of mv best mends and among my most enthusiastic backers Hp i one of the best liked men 111 the country tolay Motorcycle lad b tarts Then came along the motor-neltaring iad, ami at the old Wandamere track (now- - Nib-lePark) world marks tumbled like ten pins. Kay Peck, who used to ride with me on some of my cross country automobile runs and w ho u now manager of the Thompson Flying Field, was one of the Wandamere wizards. So were Fred Whittier, now in business here. Al Ward. Rav Semour and Jake Derosier. Motorcycle racing appealed to m iot cross country run. The most enous mlstrsp I even, had occurred while eaubhshing a record between here and Black- foot, Idaho, J was tossed So feet from my machine when it struck a ditch a i turned oilt to avoid was nearly hitting a wagon scalped and broke three nos and a noee and chipped both knee British T horse-draw- infor general relief, which good standing" were .unemployed due to strikes, fockout or includes unemployable and emvoluntary causes. Each affiliated ployables not certified by the group and industrial union counWPA. Assistance to the aged, cil was to be charged $25 for a the needy blind, and dependent charter. chllaien. ,t wag decided, would The convention adopted unbe mam tamed as long as the animously the "peace commitaia.e could bear . the financial tee's report declaring there could burden. be no compromise in the CIO." terms for peace with the Amer' Indiana Democrats ican Federation of Labor. The report, drafted swiftly Demand Own. Recounts after President Roosevelt's plea j for peace between the rival craft 15 rVDIANAPOLIS. Nov. and industrial unions, approved (INS)- - Indiana Democrats, who of the principle labor unity, but j tiave been listening to Republic-declarethat anv settlement demands far recounts in must recognize the CIOs aim of j counties piling up the huge ma organizing worker in mdusrrai jorltics Which permitted L. S. unions. Senator 1 rederk.lt Van N'uv 3 to Tbs delegates adopted the re-- j return to office last Tuesday, did of their own port unanimously hv a standing - a tote just before adjourning lor today, lunch. in connection with the major dis--i Marvajr Reads Report ' tributor group Included. The report, read by Philip Mur-raD. P. feck, president. Bowman ice chairman of tha con- and four other Company, Dairy ventlon. declared there could be Bowman executives, H. no compromise with the CIO's " Chicago VV, Comfort, New York, vice purpose and aim of , idem of the Borden Company in organlang workers into power- - charge of fluid milk operations; ful Indus! rial unions, nor with g M. Ross. Columbus u.. Midwest its obligation to fully protect the District chairman of the Borden all and interests of its rights Charles L. Dress el. Chimembers and affiliated organiza- - Company, d cago. president of the It added: Division of the Borden The CIO accepts the goal of Company; five other Chicago Borden and officials, unity in the labor movement and declared any program for the ateight Chicago officials of other it of such a goal must i dairy concerns. Ac dMCxcGar J prfatf&A- "Ai AsaOctsnv , those fundamental purposes and Inc. large Chicago Distributors principle-- " Trade Asuociation and 10 of it official were indicted, inciucing Oppose Tabling Report Pregident Louis Janata who 1 alVan A. Bittner, regional diso secretary of the International rector of the steel workers Dairy Company, Chicago, one of committee, opposed a the , corporate defendants, and move to table the report to perRaid Potter, executive secretary mit additional debate, declaring; "While we want and desire an of the dealers' group. The Milk Deaims Bottle Exhonorable peace wtfh the- - AFL. and want labor unity in the change of Chicago wa named a t mted States, that is not Oja- - delJoeend am tsN amcil psr&mpjm convention.' 'M i folio ing .defendants: Bittner, is the establishing of National Dairy Products Comthe CIO, and ' organizing the pany, New York, toe Borden ol tha unorganized workers Company, Fairmont Creamery country. Company, Omaha, Neb.; Beatrice Creamery Company, Chicago: Creameries of America. Inc. Los Angeles. Califj Pmnsettu Dairy Products, Inc. Tampa, Fla.; Abbott's Dairies. Inc, Philadelphia; Continued From Page One H. F. Hood and Sons, Inc. Boston; Steffen Ioe and Ice Cream cept at prices based upon Company, Wichita, Kansas: Boed-ekfixed price provisions. Manufacturing Company, Outitaed Charge Dallas, Texj New Orleans Ic The indictment charged that Cream Company, Inc. New Orleans, and the Crescent Creamery Dr, Bundesen and his associate. St PauL Minn, Paul Kreuger and William J. Company, .Three Chicago subsidiaries of Guerm. in disregard for their the National Dairy Products were lawful duties" as Health officii - - named, also General Ice Cream and agents: Schenectady, X. y Gave preferential treatment to Ourporauon, a national subsidiary; and the inspecting and approving dairy Handler Creamery Company, BaF at farms to major distributor timore, subsidiary of Borden, and prices fixed and determined. Cream Company, Carry Ic Indicted labor leaders included Washington, D. C subsidiary of Leslie G. Goudie, Chicago; presiBeatrice Company. dent of- the Joint Council No. 25 the t The international Association of the- A, F. L. "International Ice Cream Manufacturers with f Brotherhood Of Teamsters, Chaufin headquarters Washington, D. feurs, Stablemen and Helpers of C. was named as a corporate deaged America; Steve Sumner, fendant. It has approximately 4(1 of the Milk secretary-treasure- r state and regional affiliated Wagon Drivers' Union and six and 400 person and Comother officers of tost organizapanies as members tion. Six officials and former leaders erf toe Pure Milk Association, huga middle western marketing agency, also were nameo They included President John P, Case; Continued From Page One of Naperville, ill and Don M. Gaver, Boston, former general bat of only five billion of dollar, manager of the association, now a deficit accumulated in three associated with an eastern on yean Ceaocraed With Debt gamzztion. The president's nd nine other We are no much mom pin. officer of the Aspoctated Milk Iv concerned with an Dealers, inct, 1.eland Spencer, and defiat rsbitrstor of Ithaca. N. V, and which, since the growing date of W. A- - Wentworth. New York City concern, has grown by 18 arbitrator of Ithaca. N. V, and btltioo of dollars. th A. B. A. W, A. Wentworth. New York" president said "Not only toe size Citv arbitrator, were others of .toe present federal debt but the present trend of such deficit Major Jittoribatore Listed is Platter of concern to us." The major distributor imDt-te' resident Adams declared per- inciudcd; tnanent recovery will only The- - Borden Company, ' New t when the dcfit- -' trend begiq H revere- -' Inc. Chi- , ed through a reduction m governYork, cago and New I oik, Butnnaa ment expenses and a broadening iJairy t otspaov. ( atoaga- - seven- -. " of Thily a broadened other Chicago dstrv cotnpsnie. tax base tan create that taxcon-- 1 Twenty-onindividual named scion citiwmrv without which no democracy can ioq erdure." he said. t President Adams .oil hit hear-- ( era, representing '6 per cent of c the banker of America that Pwlth public spending otrt' of t control upon us a banger rest I pnmanlv the cuy of protecting f toe savings of toe" American pen-. 4 BY AB JENKINS ( ts told to Wendell Ashton) . - s upper beam atataa was changed in last weeks election, tat toward river problems an expected to remain unchanged. State gagtnesr T. X. Humpherys said today. NeW governor were elected in six of the aeveu states and two changed from Democratic to Repol-kie- World Records With Speediest Of Racers Were On Track .g one-ha- lf i enee In Opinion Of Utah State Engineer Almost th satin political complexion erf tha Colorado River Home Of Past Bicycle Marks CIO Borden-Wielan- Palace V Colorado River Policy Expected To Stay Same SALT LAIZ CfTT A. H TO nn yAEinta . IK K tEU 1- - 1 t |
