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Show r 9 I ' '9m V tt" iri (rv,rr Aw. ,... r t t 'rr t J "4 4 Fr y,,fT"VT,'g,,r g" y y v1"1" - I te- - Vote Sought On Village Salt Lake City, Utah, Saturday, November Don't Forget That War. Will End PEOPLE with something war will end some time and when It does, they will be Scurrying around once more trying to find customersfor their produce, goods or' services. Right now,- - of course, customers are Just a drug on the market .. ,'";iXbut it wont always be thus. I was thinking about that yesterday after trying to buy a small Item In a small downtown store. The owner, who waited on me.vwas unnece'sarily-brusqu- e in saying he didnLhave what I wanted. He made mejtfeel somehow that I was annoying him. Of course there arent many such shortsighted businessmen. The .vast majority, especially those who have attained real success, can see the future only too clearly . . . -- and are under trying in every way to serve Very difficult conditions at times. Damon Runyon," the noted columnist and short story writer, turned out a piece recently which fits into this picture. ,He wrote, it from Hollywood in a whimsical vein. Here, jt is, in paH: ' . Saga Of 'Cough in Coffin' Told . . . .. their-customer- o . THE other afternoon my wife Ethel went into a stpre to buy something and I waited inside near the door for her and she was at a counter in the back part of the place when I heard the guv who was waiting on her say lady dont you know there is a war on? Ethel ses mister that is a stupid 7'- - , - silly : , question, for you- to ask me or anybody else and you ought to he ashamed of yourself. "If you will fell me where T will I can find' report you to him. The guy ses lady I am the manager and .1 am also the owner and Ethel ses that makes it all the worse. I wept up tb her and ses whats wrong sweets? Ethel ses why I asked this, fellow to show me some merchandise that he has run out of and instead of just telling me. he ...hasn't got what. am ..looking JorhfiL asked me- if I don't know there is a war on. The guy ses ' it's just a habit Ive gotten jnto lady. - J ETHEL Do you know . Salt Laker Who Piloted Famous Plane Comes Home For Visit The pilot of one of the most colorful and famous planes in the Coughin Coffin" stopped, in Salt Lake yestertold and of the ships 50 missions over enemy territory day ses well now I am going to ask you. something. career. and of its sputtering, He is Capt, Fred Mehner, a veteran of the North African and Sicily campaigns, former-SalLaker, who was on route to a at leave San spend Francisco, his present home. The Coffin' which, according jo Captain Mchncr, did everything wrong, Is just one of those planes that has bullet-harasse- MYSTERV surrounds where about of Fred Pepper, manager of the Pepper A-- l Junk Company who left Jiis home Thursday to mail a package. - Man Missing From Home d 30-da- j engine trouble every gets sprayed by ark-actlme it moves its nose . away from the base and loses parts of its machinery even after passing a rigid inspection. It is so famous as a goon" that it has even been publicized .. for its bad behavior, -- Fred Pepper Drops Out Of Sight Mvsteriouslv missing from his home since Thursday night, Fred Pepper. 51. owner and manager of the Pepper l Junk Company at 401 Oth S. St , todav was the object of a soaich bv police who confessed themselves as A-- p com-pletel- v t baffled. Mr. Pepper had returned home office Thursdayfrom his junk-varto take dinner with -night his family, at the conclusion of which,, about' 8:50 o'clock, he " that there are people in this country who make told the Japanese-AmericaMuvo Miss Kawakita, automobiles and hundreds of other things who havent had a maid. bv the Peppers for single item to. selHn months and months but who still spend employed the past three months, that he a lotof money advertising their goods in the newspapers and was going to drive down to the and mail a Federal everywhere else? The guy ses sure I know it. Dont you package toBuilding his son, snow in Minthink I can read? Ethel ses do you know why they do it? nesota. Mr. Pepper has not been He ses sometimes I think its just to drive me half crazy by seen nor heard . from sirtce. Mrs. FanHis daughter-in-lawcausing people to come in here asking for things I havent got. ny Pepper,-- said todav that Mr. Ethel ses they do it so people will not forget their goods by Pepper did not bother 1o change his--.- the siloes -- before the time the war is over. It is to keep the name-o- f their house, as he drove leaving to the post merchandise in everybodys mind. The guy ses what has that office in his car, a green Chev- -' rolet .41 coupe, got to do with me if I haven't got anything to sell? He took license number . , his dog, a Boston Bull, with bun. ETHEL ses you have got as much to sell as thev have. My mind is a complete blank as to what mav have happened This business of yours here depends a lot on the friendship to him. Mrs Pepper said this of your customers when the.re is no war doesn't it? I mean morning, and that is the wav at home and at the they must like you and the way you do business wiMg them everyone feels. mustnt they? I mean good will is a big asset to a store yard .'I am sure that if he- - had anv j Isnt it? Thats what they always told me at the store in np in mind, he would have told as he always has done so. Brooklyn where I worked. The guy ses well I guess it is and us,Mulo --Japane.se Ethel ses then you ought, to be selling good will right'' now American Hoopnama, foreman of the Peplike those people who make things even when they" havent per Junk Yard for Hie past 11 said he and Mr. Pepper got any merchandise to sell. When you ask people fvho come vears, were alwavs in close cooperation, in here to buy something you havent got if they dont know and that he is sure that if Mr. there is a war on you hurt their feelings and lose their good Pepper intended to go on a busiwill. So when the war is over and they want tq buy some- ness or other trip, he would have said so to him. Is not the thing they will remember what you ses and how you ses it and My father-in-la- will kind of a man to go out on pargo somewheres else to buy. AnyMrs. Pepper stated. ties. way, for some time now he has come home from the off ice. had his dinner and been irr bed by nitre o'clock He is under the of the end of the year and will pre- doctor's care, as he suffers from Patterned after the set-u-p w 4ie city of Chicago, new police sent it to the commission after a heart condition. with the Civil Service ComMrs. Pepper added that It was fepartment ordinance Is being study mission of Salt Lake. Mr. Pepper's custom to bring any Ab mapped . today by Mayor The reorganization Is being money he had taken in at Jenkins, public safety yard v during the day hack made following a recent study Tomewith-hinAttorney E. oFtfifTSaTt Lake each evening. yAt Rav Christensen. the time " of his disappearance,' Donald F..McCall nationbody by Mayor Jenkins hopes to put records he had $400 upon him, she declarthe new plan in operation before ally known expert on will ed. foland and finishing his term in office at low reorganization Police said that- someone' had on a the Chicago set-ucalled in to the station Thursday smaller yScale. and told them that Mr. Receives Award The blue prints call for two in- evening was missing. They are Pepper spectors, next in' command to not yet pertain who the caller The Legion of Merit has the chief of police. Salt Lake at was, as, they have no record. Rob-irt present has but one. Three capbeen awarded- tb Col. Neither'thecar nor the dog have . Smith, former chief of the ord- tains, instead of two as are re- been located. by the city ordinance will Mr. Pepper was wearing a, nance branch of the Ninth Serv- quired assure the city of having a cap- light brown suit, according to ice Command in Salt Lake. tain on dutv on each shift. both Mrs. Fanny Pepper and Mr. Presentation took place In the Mayor Jenkins also hopes to Hoojtiiaina,wijha soft green hat prdnanceVtank-automotivcenter, change the present set-uin the and light house slippers. He is m Detroit, Mich., where Colonel health department, ofabout five foot nine inches tall, .... ficers - abd employes whereby Smith Is now stationed.. would he brown eves 175 The presentation was witnessed required to pass Civil Service re- weigh.brown pounds, thinMrs. Smith-- , end a daughter, quirements father than have The and. and a ba'r, .slightly ruddy complexion. ning. iss Barbara Smith. . position appointive. its nose are symbols of its victories over on it are 50 bombs, signifying missions of bomber; three boats, signifying three enemy of them a 10, (XX) troop transport) in the Mediterranean; eight planes, signifying the number of enemy All this campaigning was aeco'nv pur.-ui- t planes shot down or --injury- of a single crew member, - . Captain Mehner related. - .The. pilot brought home the Coffin, on July 12 -- literally on The slTip had lost a awing and a prayer. motor aiuJhe hydraulic system controlling the landing gear was shot out,. He landed the craft on only two .wheels without The occurrence was Injury to any of ,the crew members. reported in this country by the Associated Press. For his part, in the campaign Captain Mchncr wears the air medal with seven oak leaf dusters. A kindly Providence and the prayer of an unknown" -private inscribed on the plane is responsible for the f.vtraor- dinary luck of the Coffin, according to the pilot. ThejTl God bless the crew of this ship, I shall prayer reads: ' F, say a prayer for their safe return." in July, the Coffin has been patched Since the crack-uCaptairr up and is returning to this country toMehner said. All but one of the crew, Sgt. Thomas P. Riley, Brooklyn, N. Y., waist gunner; are now home on furloughs. Besides Captain Mehner-anSergeant Riley, the men qre: Staff Sgt. J. A, Hall, Los. Angeles, tail gunner; Lt. R. E. Kiefer, Lt. IVilliam Gclfan, Los Angeles, bomScottsdale, Pa., D. E. Collatd, Kansas, turret gunner. They .rebardier; Sgt. " turned to the United States six days ago. yy Captain Mehner is the son of Mrs. Hermina Mehner.. widow of the late Erhard Mehner. Salt Lake. The family lived in Germany during the last war and Erhard Mehner therefore fought against the Allies. Thev became converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-daSaints and came to Salt Lake in 1528. Their four sons are helping America win the. war. Captain Fred is, of course, in the army air . forces. Frank is attending AYest Point Military Academy, John is also in the air forces, going to advanced flying school at Freeman Field, near Seymour, Ind., while J I einz is taking the army specialized training course at.Oregon University for duty in the army of occupation. However, on disaster. Painted Marauder the ships sunk one this war s, o j ' S' mm !:i y -- - Police Setup Change Sought the-jun- r - t ! cial election - da soo-yni- Nephew Of S. L. Man Is Killed News was received tn Salt Lake F. morning by Thomas Kearns, 1602 Mill Creek Way, of the death today of his hephew, Phillip G. McCarthey, in a training plane crash in Texas. Mr. McCarthey, .a son of the late Glen Elroy McCarthey and Helen Kearns the late Mrs. Brophy, formerly of Salt Lake, met his death this morning in an army training plane crash, at Harmon Training Center, Bruce Field, BaBinger, Tex. No details of the crash were available. Born in Los Angeles In 1922, t hts JOIN LARGE WESTERN INSURANCE FIRM ' The appointment .of two outstanding Utahns to head special depart-ment- s Is announced this .week by The Kolob Corporation, large general Insurance agency, which operates In ths thres mountain elates of Utah, Idaho and Montana. , -- Los Angeles. , Also surviving him are two brothers. Thomas Kearns. McCarthey of Burlingame, Calif., and John Paul Brophv of Reno, Nev.; also a sister, Miss Sheila McCat' they, atsoof Reno, and his uncle, General Ready, Banquet Advised yet been made. Gen. Douglas MacArthur is all poised at the Southwest Pacific and his plans ai;e all made to ia:u ncAr - waasbingfiffensive which will retake the Philippine Islands and allow him to go on soon to Japan Lproper just-as as he, gets the men and materiel. That is one of the prognostications which Ralph B. Jordan, managing editor of' The Deseret News, included in. his talk before the Intermountain Alumni Association of Theta Tau fraternity at 131 S. Main .St. Because General MacArthurs plans, are all made I think the. channel near-United States-wil- l ly' everything to him instead of to MQuntbatten, Mr. Jordan said. Perry Erickson, president, presided at the banquet-, which was-thsemiannual meeting of the association at which members .of the active chapter of the engiMaw' Addresses PTA neering fraternity gt the UniverOn Juvenile Problems sity of Utah wre gjests. Prof. Kiwanidns To Hear: Merv1trTTogan,wree pTPSidebt or Gov. Herbert B. Maw today the alumni group, was in charge Talk On Education ... discussed juvenile delinquency of arrangements. Education for Victory, l- to Acting as toastmaster was problems at a meeting of the Deck managing editor of he discussed before the South. Utah Congress of Parents and The Telegram. Report's1 were read Salt Lake. Kiwanis Club by T. P. Teachers board of managers held by Dale S. Worden,, active, chapBrockbank, director of secondary Granite High at the Hogle Foundation, Scott ter regent, and C. Milton Am education for-th- e derson, alumni secretary, w- - School District,- in a meeting sche.-riuleBuilding at 2 p- m. bv the Kiwanis for. 7 p.m. The jpDvernot- recently jjiade a Monday in the Temple Square Hotproposal to include the consoliel.dation of all state child welfare Election of officers for the comunder the juvenile court, agencies In this-waing year wilt also'be conducted in eliminating much of Monday's ineeing. overhead and overlapping in the An invitation to all persohs; various services, he said. All. at were asked, over 70 year ; of age to attend a existing agencies a rreeting of their- representato submit special enterjtainment program at tives last Thursday, Religion In A within 30 days any alternative the Lyric Theater, 10 a.m. Monday was reiterated today by Le proposals they might have, Changing World Mrs. Edmund .PjEyans, presiGrand Richards, presiding bishop of radio ri meetTh Filth in a dent, presided at today s of of JesuS'Christ of - discuulont on the them ing. Latter-daSaints and chairman "CONSTANCY AMID of ..tile olcf folks!, central ..comCHANGE? Indicted Men Plead BeforeFederal Court a-- Nov.' 20. ". were Archibald V. honey of Og- den, formerly employed at Hill Field Who is charged with the theft of lumber and roofing material In two Indictments, and John Vergil Zenz, Lola Zenz and their son, Frank William Zenz. charged with unlawfully detaining' and transporting a Bountiful glrL J5.from Utah tq ..Las Vegas, Nev. C. B. Whitney Dies In S. L. d l ch prominently Mr. A, Harry ineurance. with the Identified bulineie for many years, will act Health theand. of Life,, at head Accident, - and . HotpilaUjahon .de. . Good Mr. partment of. (he company. has devoted the greater part .of hie career to thi special field and has keen prominent m local Masonic, re, being ligious and business.-circlesC member of the El Kalah lodge, Tice president, of the Utah Health' and Accident Club, Director of the .AssoSalt Lake LifeUnderwriters ciation, and has achieved national, circles. recognition in insurance Mr. A. W. Elvtri, likewise an insur-.- " once expert for many years and a nahv Salt Laker, will act a to Special iAasnt., being. assigned.. served by this company. It contact and will be his dutles.-tassist the more ttyrrr 300 Kolob rep-- . -- CENEBAL INSURANCE AGENCY- i Building H, 2 ha Ballibuty, Mgr. Rationing Facts Last Day Jan. 15 Item Stamp Surar (5 Ibi.t No. 30 (Book IV) . G and H Heat .. Canned food X, Y and ProeeasM foods. - jama, jellies A. B and (Book IV) footwear Footwear - Gasoline i Deo. 4 Not. C 30 Dec. 30 18 Indefinitely Indefinitely (Book III) Not.. 31 No. 8 To, No '. V-.- 7 Wot . Margette, George 1 on Not. 38; be Tahd on bovi 31; on Dec. 8 ami P on Dec. 13. "All will expire on Jan. 1. T. Bourne,- N - loo Icrte-- to ' eaT--a- turns receiTed by the M10tb of the month temi full diTldendt flora the first, are federally Insured to 15000, and help to iinanee the building of homes for war workers Originating In the Tabernacle. Temple Square . Alexander. Schreiner, Organist L C- - Austin "SeagerSoloist : KSL Sunday 9:15 p. m. ariTfitronKpr, more more comfortable than any you have ever known- - fiu, Born tn Salt Lake Citv he has 'I resident ail his life.' been a tn He married Lillian Busseil 1913. She died !)' vears aim .Mr. Whiiney, a graduate of . Save You 50 and More on the w finest Dentol Plotes L.. : SI Will Open Your Account GENUINE ACRYLIC DOONf PLATE Utah-Idah- t TEDEBAL. Alex ECarr Secretary He-,b- .' M Ifi neror U Iverson, William Ch 'Bur ton, Herbert. S. Auerbach, Fefzef, Joseph. Christen .son; Robert H. Siddowav, William, I ft, Wallace.:,,. John iLf Firmage, Kenneth Bourne, .and Harold H. Jenson. - r of. all JJBWML'.' pic-tur- e C. For purchasing meats, fata olli and dairy products Ftamp L will" l - DIVIDENDS DESEBEt A. E. BOWEN I for transportation through their relatives and friends. Committee members In charge of arrangemen ts - are Rodney Hillman, vice chairman; James A. Giles, secretary; Georty B. - THE - KOLOB - CORPORATION "Iso Judge A 'drop of 2,226 visitors this Zion National Park, as compared to 1942 totals was disclosed todav bv parkR department officials. Total this year was 3,378. year in , Compounded BemimnuaUy y mit tee. The theater manager, Mel Smart, has arranged a special program .including six acts of vaudeville and the motion Gentleman Jim,'- to be shown on the program. Due to war conditions committee members explained that old folks desiring .to attend the performance will have to arrange LIBERAL . PI, 4STIC .TUI II a : resAnla1iva who dr rotldent agents "of tb company throughout the territory, Tn rrnneunctng the Appointments, Mrv Frank SalisburyV general man ager, said: "It is indeed a pleasure for The Kolob Corporation to men of such ability and .. welcome accomplishments to ourorgannation u - to vserve even 7 and will more completely the needs of & rap-- i -- a Wsf.,f Idly growing The Kolob Corporation, now yearly a quarter of a century! old, hat acted, as Western representatives for many wprld famous insurance companies, and has specialized m Insurance service,-- injs eluding every type of protection. , from vlife insurance through the entire field to 'casualty and surety bonds. Home offices are at 339 ud$e Building in Salt Lake CITy, mT4 PF.4RI. tbe J.-- 4 missionarv far the Cnurch of Saints Jesus Christ pf l.attcr-daIn South Africa, laboring as such ... ' during 1910-12- . When he returned to Salt Lake he worked for Sugar - Good, .Mr Charles Byron WhUnev, 52. of 403 B St. on or the Ja'e.A pottle' Zma Orsort F. Whitney t Smoot Whitnev. died suddeniy yesfer'day: at1) 2tt pm. In a lorai hosplrsl after a short Hlnew. 7 : . - " - Among those to picaci innocent Persons Over 70 Invited To Show ' The federal court Tiere faced a long criminal calendar today as more than a score of the 48 defendants indicted bv the grand jury - entered noi. guiliv pleas. on A trial jury win convene -- Park Visitors Decline . No funeral arrangements have - A. W, ELVIN - Kearns. Mr. - A. HARRY GOOD -- eleMr. McCarthey attended mentary schools in California and Connecticut and the University of. California at Log Angeles for one year before he entered the air force In January, 1943. He is survived by his widow, the former Miss Beth Ann OLoughlin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry R. O'Loughlin, all formerly of Salt Lake and now.-o- f Los Angeles. The couple was married in February, , 1941, in SCARRED WARRIOR OF THE SKIES . . . An nnsrathed. hero of the Army Air Forces . . Paying a whirlwind, visit to Salt Lake was Capt. Fred Mehner, former Salt Laker hack from doing a tremendous job in the Allies attempt to knock out the Axis. He Is seen here scanning the International News Service teletype reports of air battles such as he has been in himself. Below is a photograph he snapped of Jhe famous Coughin Coffin" as it, literally fell apart upon landing after 6 terrific battle. The Coffins days of usefulness are not over; hhe'll soon be selling war bonds. . - 30 and hatfiirevhtttsly been restrict- ed to individual .homes. It is planned by tile corporation t.ta t garden type apartment with hard surface-street- s; landscaping and play-- grounds. Chief contention against the project has been the water shortage problem, the commission--er- s said; but the autumn rains .has relieved thift .situation. ; p The Village,. Inc., according to ordi na nee, lj, The area bound- edon the north by 21st. S. . e was held. must be filed within th A BATTLE t . Application lor petition copies to protest the annexation of Club Village, Inc., to Salt Lake was filed today with the city recorder by a group of citi zens, headed by Richard F. Harding, executive ' SalJ Lake Real Estc-.Board, and executive secretary of the. Utah Apartment House Association.' areaAnnexation of and rrzonmg it to include a shop xng district and apartment build- - 1, mgs was-.thsubject of an ordi- - I nance approved by the City this weekT - r.vGrant' Macfarlane, attorney for the real estate board, said today that should the petition bear signatures equal to 10 per cent of citizens wti voted for governor at t last election three years-'- ' ago, which. would mean"7,487 sig- - ; natures,- action on the ordinance would be stopped until the next municipal election or until a spe-- 'that the tit sell should remember Petitioners Seek To Block Project 6," .1943 Co.,--th- e Utah- - Power-an- d I.lgltt the J. G- McDonald Chocolate Co and as a federal employetr of the Post Office. Surviving are eight children; Mrs. Dawn Uamnli. Mrs. Zina Co., -. Mills anrt Kancv Whitney, all pf Evanston. Wyo.. Jean Whitney,-ol.os Angeles and Marion Whit-ne.of ..Salt Laxe; Orson- B,, of Calif., Russel H.. of U. S. Army in the South Pacific, Max L. who is li the Merchant Marin?; three v brothers, Albert 0- of Garland, Utah, Murray W., of Ogden and Wendel W of Salt Lake; four sisters?-HeleWl Timpson, Emily W. Smith; and Virginia W. James, all of Salt I.ake and Margaret W. Essit of Chicago TReVe also are four grandchildren. Funori'!,.Kervicesy will be Lp m. and pTuer'flilv at 3( E.l 7lh huriat will bOa jibesait-La- k City, (.'eeneteryu Friends may can at place of "funeral . from Mom day till time of service. r. ( S-- USE YOUR CREDIT No Advane fn Pricnf No' Carrying Chargl 4 or mad only up-oncoipt oi lmprlon and ordojnp from Utah liconiod Dontlitn. d and matoriali tully AU Work Mado by Union Mochanico. All Dontal Plat -- MAY 'WITHER- SDental Laboratory Service 174V2 SOrMAIN -ko CityAt 2nd S. 4 Main SaH-ta- Opon at S p m Abort Polils Candy Sat. 'HI 1 p.m. M-- li j ' |