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Show The Herald Journal $ With which are combined the Cache Valley Daily Herald, the Daily Herald and The Journal Volume 23. J Number LOGAN, 'UTAH. 5. JANUARY THURSDAY, 7. 11YK O'CLOCK EDITION 3 2. !l Price - By MARSHALL L. J VMES The accompanying article is the first of a series of eight articles on the famous march on the Mormon battalion, one of the most thrilling epics of western history. It was written by a from records and glorifies that wonderful story of heroism. It has already been printed in most of ONE The Mormon Ba.giund Tnousanas ot ycs ago, centuries before uo.umous, or Leu Ericsson, a pm us Israelite named Lehi, living at Jerusalem, emigrateu with his family to America, After st.. mg adventures, Laman, oud m his sons, together with otners, came out west into the wilderness and were the ancess. tors of the Indians ic the Descendants of another son, Nepbi, became Christians many years before Christ . . . That is the story of the founding of an American nation, told on the golden Book of plates of the ' Mormon, Joseph Smith, Jr., asserted he found the plates near Fayette, Seneca county, New York, in 1823. An angel led Joseph Smith to the plates, but forbade translation of the writing thereon until some years later. The golden records, in fact, weie not dug up, the story goes, until 1827. The Translating After he had dug up the plates Smith was unable to read them. But, nearby, he discovered a dox in Seripps-Canfiel- news d papers of which the ournal is a member. Herald-J- Lam-anite- which curious instrument, named Urim and Thunun, and with these a translation into English was accomplished. In 1330 Smith published a the telling translation, story of the emigration from Palestine of Lehi, and the growth of his people on this continent. A Church Is Founded He with this backed statement; of 11 men who claimed to have seen the which thereafter plates disappeared. And, on the strength of his translation, he founded the church of the Latter Day Saints The Mormons. Today, there are more - than half a million members of the church, thntty, pious folks; hard workers; believing that "man is that he might have joy." But, ere that joy was to descend upon them in a desert mountain basin in Utah, the Mormons were to go through a martrydom of battle, persecution and suffering. From Pillar to Post The first Mormon church was organized in April, 1830, at Fayette, N. Y. It grew slowly. The sect, numbering a few hundred, moved west to Kirtland, Ohio, about 100 years ago. Heie. tlie Mormons inm creased wealth and power, but aroused great from other antagonism settlersPerhaps it was because they worked harder and lived moie simply accumulated thus and greater riches. Perhaps it was for other reasons. At any rate, they were driven out, after some bloodshed, taking refuge in Jackson county, Mo. Driven out again, they located in Clay county of the same state, only to run into more tiouble with the Missourians. lvnr-trigger- The events Tomorrow: leading up to the great march. Logan Legion Home T o Be Discussed Friday By Arthur Brisbane (Copyright, 1931) All Members Urged To Be At Important Session DEIS ELIGIBLE FOB The Worlds Rough TAX CUTS Weather. -- .Switzerland .Worried. No Wheat Cook Rook. On the ocean, in rough weather, it is some conuort to know that all the mass of water around you for 1,000 miles is disturbed, and your ship is not responsible for the rolling and pitching. It is a comfort in this rough weather of finance, industry and public affairs generally to know that what we feel is not alone our own foolishness, but the education and troubles of the whole world, readjusting itself after the tempest of the great war. Hinder a state passed by the 1931 legislature, all disabled Utah war veterans aie eligible for state tax exemption up to $3,000, according to the degree of disability of the vet- eran. Cache county war veterans desiring 1932 tax exemptions must file claim applications with the county commissioners not later than May 1. Veterans desiring exemption on personal property including automobiles should make exemption. Applications in writing to the commission as early as pos- the assessor must pro- ceed to collect taxes on unless for exemption applications have been troubled because Englishmen and mountains that climb Americans that admire them no longer crowd her hotels. a chilly day in Florida, properly filed and presenting mmm m California or on the Riviera, re"tourists study weather COLLEGE ports from New York and Chicomcago. Americans can find fort in tne condition of nations around them. It should make The Utah State Agricultural in us deeply grateful for what we college has an increase eswe have have and what cumulative registration of 9.6 capedper cent on the third day of Gloomy Puritan preachers of the winter quarter over the the cotton mather type told corresponding day last year. The tiieir congregations that the total cumulative registration as blessed in heaven have their compiled by Registrar W. H. ioys greatly increased as they Bell on Wednesday was 1550. look down on less fortunate This is. of course, the largest friends and relatives burning figure ever reached by the state in hell. It is expected that college. Such gloomy pleasure might the total for the year will be be ours if we realized condi- in excess of 1600. tion in other nations. To the present time, over two hundred new students have The senate gives forty mil- registered for the winter quarlion bushels of wheat from the ter who were not in attendfarm board to the needy un- ance during the fall term. This Nobody seems to is increasing rapidly as mere employed." know what the needy unem- students arrive each day. Regisployed will do with the wheat tration will continue this week unless they sell it back to and the early part of next for farmers that sold it to the those who were unable to legis-te- r on Monday. government. officials are well said anyhing Nobody has College about issuing a "wheat cook pleased with the large increase. book but that may come. Sen- It has been necessary to add ator Capper of Kansas wanted several new classes to the curthe wheat given away and has riculum because of the unexhis wish. Senator Borah says pectedly large number in atto tendance. if the government wants All classes are in give away wheat, it should buy regular session and the various it from farmers that still have organizations on the campus on hand 55 per cent of last have also begun to function year's crops. again following the holidays. Sam has not made a brilliant financial success in the wheat business. Wheat sold in Chicago yesterday for 3 cents a bushel. ' Uncle Sam paid 81 cents for wheat he is giving away. With storage and interest charges it costs him now $1.17. Uncle Possibilities of a new home for the Logan Post No. 7 of the American Legion will be discussed by members of the organization, Friday at 8 p. m. at-tChamber of Commerce. Commander Evan Hancey issued the call for the session Thursday. Whether the Legion will attempt to get together wrth the city and county library boards and iron out difficulties which have thus far kept the buddies from having Legion rooms in the basement of the new Cache county library building or look elsewhere for a home, will come up for discussion Friday night Mr. Han-ce- y said. he MANY FAVOR sible. v NEW HOME Under state law, according Some Legionnaires are favorto County Assessor R. S. lo- Every country has its troubles, granted by the county commissome so violent as to make our sionersown seem trifling. In every difor A further rection are repudiated bond such exemption requirement is that every international issues, quarreling, disabled veteran must undergo unemployment. a medical examination annualEven little Switzerland, mar- ly to determine the nature and velously secure as regards value extent of his disability at the his claim. pf her bonds and currency is time of On Cents. r When CHAPTER 6 J JUMPS able to a proposal that the cal post memoersnip seek ways and means to (puild a new home somewhere in the city. Prosa treasury pects of getting iund started for such a purpose will be aired. It may be, Commander Hancey observed, that a committee of Legionnaires will be appointed to meet with the library boards to get a final settlement of the controversy of last year over the original joint lease agreement lor the basement of the library. Tne lease was drawn up m seveiul ditferent ways last season for the approval of both Hie LeSevgion and library board. arose eral misunderstandings wh.ch kept both patties irom to affixing final signatures make the plan workable. COMMITTEE PLANS TO INVESTIGATE 'O' Women Found Dead In Fallen Plane F Whats Your LEADERS ARE flashes Guess? FROM THE UNITED PRESS AS AIRPLANE WARNS NAPLES NEW YORK, Jan. 7 presence of two packages PRESS FIGHT RECEIVED DDES HIGHER U. BY 1UP1--Th- addressed to King Emanuel and Premier Mussolini of Italy, m the mails aboard the American export liner. Exealibur, caused the line's officials to wireless a warning to its Naples office against a possible bomb plot, it was learned today. IS SIGHTED Press Correspondent' In Is Auto-Gir- o Newspaper Appeals To Higher Court In East i advised bankers 7 Discoverer (UPi-- A Jan. lettpr from Secretary of State Kellogg to American Bankers By PAIL COMLY FRENCH wnU$i m 1926, warning them Copyright, 1931 by United Press to usgreat care m making !UR) 7 Jan. NEWVILLE, Pa., was read to Debbie loans 'to Germany, Ruth Stewart and the senate finance commit t.v adventurous Stanford, society of foreign loans aviators, crashed and were kill- investigation ed on wooded bower mountain, today. were found today when after OPPOSE BILL sighting their crumpled plane from tne air, were returned to WASHINGTON, Jan 7 UPi the scene of the crash by Administration opposition to the Democratic tariff revision bin automobile. Their white Lockheed mono- was presented today to the plane crashed into the dense house ways and means committimber of the 1,400 foot moun- tee by Under Secretary of Treastain after they left Pittsburgh ury Mills. "The treasury departTuesday, enroute to New York, ment does not approve of this to bill and' sees no occasion for it, from where they planned start a leisurely air tour to Mills declared. south America. They left St. Louis last week. FIGHT FOR TRIAL Solution of the mystery of DENVER, Jan. 7 William H- Adams today their disappearance was made authorized a United States suby the United Press correspondent and J. Paul Lukens, pilot preme court fight for Colorado's for the Autogiro company, as right to try Henry F. Dierks we soared on a rescue mission discha-ge- d prohibition agent, m over the dangerous her own courts on the charge mountain gaps. of murdering - the-- ) returned fort! os4,Srmih fie over mountains, we found the trim three ounces ot wine. white plane broken in two. In the cabin we found the brvjv LARGE UNIVERSE of Mrs. Stanford, a cut over LOS ANGELES, Jan. 7 (UP) one eyeA universe so large that the Mrs. Stewart's mangled body in it might be was found crushed under the galaxies floating to a handful of peas engine of the craft. It appear- compared ocean, was deed probable that Mrs. Stewart in a good-size- d had been killed instantly, but scribed by Dr. Willem de Sitter, that Mrs. Stanford had been noted Dutch astronomer, m an unconscious and had died some address ofbefore the astronomical the Pacific last night. society hours later. Lukens and I, who first LIVES IMPERILED sighted the wrecked craft while MEMPHIS. Tenn., Jail. 7 (UP) flying over the mountain, were Lives were imperiled in the the first to reach the bodies, which were not immediately northern Mississippi flood area removed to Newville. Scores of today when a break in the automobiles came from New- Mathews Bayon levee sent flood waters over a wide stretch ol ville to the scene and an undertaker was summoned from lowlands. WASHINGTON. Hoover MAJOR ol News-Sentin- el News-Sentine- News-Sentir)- PAPER REFUSES ANY RETRACTION SHOW News-Sentin- I Logan city records of birth-andeuttis for the first II months of 1931 show an excels of births over deaths ol 230 During the period, according to Dr. E. L. Hanson, city physician, the number of birt.i i an to 322, while that of death,, ! S. i ' News-Sentin- . Oil TROUBLE was 92 Three deaths by accident were reported during t lie year. One was an auto fatality, another n death from gunshot wouniis and a third as a icsult of injuries suflered in an explosion One mysterious death was re ported during the period. in the month of No vember when the bodv of an unidentified man was lccovereJ from tlie Logan river slough near Mendon. Then again a committee may be apointed Friday night to investigate the proposal that the Legion build a new home independent of the library as a gathering and reereat.oncl center for its members. Whethei or not funds or bonds can be raised for such a purpose will be considered. Dr. F. D. Daines. professor of political science at the Utah State Agricultural college will be the principal speaker during the assembly. His theme will be the present upheaval in Manchuria, and the interests of Russia, China, Japan PARKS OF UTAH and other world powers an that far eastern entanglement Commander Hancey urgis WASHINGTON. Jan. 7 ntevery Legionnaire to turn out Secretary of the Interior Ray for the meeting Friday night. Lyman Wilbur today announc- ed the appointment of Preston Saves Young1 P. Patraw to the post of suof Zion and Bryce Mother From Jail perintendent In southern Naional Parks Utah. TWIN FALLS, Idaho, Jan. 7 a man of considerPatraw, (U.R) -- District Judge W. A. Bab- able experience in National cock withheld sentence of Mrs. administration, has been Winifred Allen, charged with parks assistant superintendent at the forgery of a $12.50 check, after Grand National park the young woman, carrying a ProximityCanyon of the Utah park; baby in her arms, had entered in,, given him an insight into a plea of guilty to the charge problems of the summer playTERRIFIC GALE and had sobbed out a story of grounds. A ter7 UPi LONDON, Jan. cashing the check to buy things Mrs. Patraw has gained wide rific gale lashed the British her baby needed." "I dont be- recognition as a naturalist. Her Isles and Holland today, disrupt- lieve you will dp it again, the writings and investigations ing shipping and air services, judge commented as he ordered have established her .as a leadwhile floods and heavy rains the young mother to report to ing authority on Flora of isolated many towns and the court at two month inter- Grand Canyon and Southern vals during the coming year. Utah. HERE'S WHAT HAS SYMPATHY FOR DIFFICULTIES The official text of the presidents remarks to Father Co: I am glad to receive you as representatives of Pennsylvania unemployed. I have an intense sympathy for your difficulties. I have considered that the vital function of the praMaat and of the federal government Tlie. "Mayor of Shantywas to exert every effort and who town, headed the every power of the government army of 10,000 unemployto the restoration of stability ed assembled in Washington today to demand reand employment in our country which has been so greatly dis- - . lief, consented to write the article for the following turbed, largely from abroad. United The federal government is Press, predicting revoluton unless there is spending now half a billion a evolution" in the Ameriyear above normal to give emcan system, of government ployment. Worldwide depressThe editor. ions and their result in unemployment are like great wars. By FATHER JAMES R. COX They must be fought continuCopyright 1932 by United Press ously, not on one front but We are not red demonstraupon many fronts. It cannot be tors. We are real honest won by any single skirmish or American citizens and the peo- any panacea. ple I represent here, as well CONGRESS HAS as millions of others throughPROGRAM out the country, are entitled COMPLETE In the present and what I to woik. In a country bursting with wealth there is no reason believe is the final campaign why employment and other re- against the depression, I have laid a program before congress lief should not be provided. and I trust will secure its early IMMEDIATE ACTION IS DEMANDED adoption. The real victory is The 10,000 jobless men who to restore men to employment are gathered in Washington through their regular jobs. This today to petition congress and is our object. ourWe are giving, undivided atthe president for relief demand this question mmediate action. If congress tention." Cox and 11 lieutenants went .efuses us, we are open to anything and everything in other to the White House while the thousands of men in the jobwords bloodshed. This country is seething with less army were having lunch, donated by the District of Corevolt. The representatives of the people are no' lumbia. Cox. Davis and Kelly made rielping the country. They are sound to their masters. We speeches from the steps of the ire going to have a change un- Capitol and the thousands sang less our people are the most "My Country Tls of Thee and .upine the world has ever other songs before leaving Capi- IDLE WORKERS MEAN TO U. S. tol Hill. vio-ent- ly News-Sentin- el -- t rs , Mortgage Due, Farmer Kills Family, Suicides Judge ' from the interview with expressions of pleasure at his reception both at the White House and on Capitol Hill, where petitions demanding fedwere eral aid presented to the senate and the house of representatives. el Meantime the editorially refused any retraction. deelarine the case strucx at the heart of the constitutional right of freedom of the press -- ro interpretation, incidentally which Judge Prewitt dismissed as untenable. sevFurthermore, because of MouUNIFORM CONTROL conversations asserted eral LONDON, Jan. 7 (UP)-M- ore a member of the uniform control of liquor was toux had with counsel here, he wai prosecution recommended in the report of ordered io show cause why he the royal licensing commission not be barred as odiwinch has been investigating should ous to tlie prosecution. the problem in the British Ides Moutoux denied making any made public today. published statements derogatory said jo the court. Rather, he Judge Prewitt thia j.(, ceiiMdei-eniriM he ever saw in Pun-i d Tim court ruled him 1 STEPS ,,l( in contempt but reaffirmed . repor - bar ot tors dejudge Prewitt's major fense of ins banning order, hi indicated will be simply a transMoucript of the record of the in an and toux proceedings Dry WASHINGTON. Jan. 7. Mt. Ster-- , een. at court circuit his '1 i'1 The United States tothe The change will come ling, together with copies of con-day invoked the Kellogg i he editorial or smoothly. If we don't peace pact in an effort to sulers "sotirnlous jet on the job pretty soon and preserve peace between Jatart cleaning house, accord pan and China in the far ng to the dictates of law and east. reason, soon we won't have This action was taken the chance. All civilization' after long consultation with lave followed the same course, other powers and after the rithpr evolution or revolution. United States over a period URGE MONEY BE of three months had made YORK NEW Jun, 7. UP APPROPRIATED to The stock market continued its urgent representations Vie urge that money be apwith toc' y miniature boom Japan to halt its course in to be used in direct to new propriated Manchuria. .many issues moving 19 relief of distressed families; VolInformation that the part highs .since December and othei that inheritance had been invoked was obume was fairly active. taxes on the wealthy be imtained at the si ite departGrains, cotton, silver and posed, that large public work ment. bonds moved h.gher with stocks construction be undertaken United Plates government Secretary of S'r.'e Slims, m These are some of the thing plans a formal statement on gained. Some seeing ap- necessary to raise revenue and the Manchurian peared in the share market near bring about, relief. later today. the dose. To quote from a poem in r of leeent statement mine which expresses the purpose of our mission to Washington: "I want a job, a steady job a iob with decent pay. Where I can work and earn enough, to keep the wolf away To have a roof above mv bend, a fire to keen me warm-Where I can take a nightie rest, that strength renew mv CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo.. Jan Davenport apparently puled arm." 7 UP Davenport a a shoe oil' after killing tlie farmer faced with loss of Ins !! o FUNERAL SET rod i'h his foot succeeded mortgaged farm, beat live id in Funeral services for Mrs. tlie shotgun with Bertha his ciii'dren to death with a Emily Davidson, who sell us !rt own life. ok ti his inhammer todav .seriously died Tuesday, will be held Friher day at and Mrt, Davenport jured his wife and anothei 1:30 p. m. in the Preschild, then committed' suicide Irtaughtei. Virgin, twin of Verda, byterian church. Burial will wit h a shotgun owue brought to a hospital here be in the Logan cemetery. The The dead are. Verda. 10. Cla- Tier skulls were fractured The bodv will be at the family home ra. 8; Raymond 5, Lee. 3; on g r! n not expected to live. at 71 Nortli Fourth West from Hn- family lived southeast of 10 a. in. until I p. m. on eight monthi old baby, and the father. her?, near Patton, Ma, . BIRTHS , . representation from his court because of alleged "libelous. slanderous, false editorial statements, sent1 his two sons, Alien and Reid Prewitt, attorneys. to join issue with Baker. Tae action grew out of editorial comment on trials of conresultspiracy to murder cases ing from a spectacular labor war in southeastern Kentucky "coal fields last spring. Judge Prewitt cited John T. Moutoux, staff correspondent of in contempt l, the of court, but dismissed the citation on Mout mixs assertion not write the objectional editorial Although held not in eontemot, Moutoux was barred from the court along with Jack Bryan, and other reporters. 7. rtJD heart. Father James R. Cox, militant Pittsburgh priest, emerged news-sentine- SONS DEFEND JUDGES STAND Prewitt, who banned Jan, President Hoover received the leaders of Washingtons greatest unemployment demonstration today and in a friendly meeting at the White House assured them the problems of the jobless were close to his HOOPLE, . !UP)-Gover- nor Newville. WASHINGTON, financial wizard, economist, big game hunter, etc., bought tnis box, contents unknown, at a storage house auction for $1.20. A modest investment to be sure; but the question is, what's in it? Has the Major, with one bold stroke, cleared the way for a new Hoople prosperity? Remember, many a great fortune has had a less auspicious berepresentatives, from reporting ginning, egad! Turn to "Our R. deliberations of Judge Henry Boarding House Page five and Prewitt's circuit court at Mt. eCe what the Major bought. 08 md.es east of here. i I CHIEF: Problems Are Close To Heart, Says Kv. Jan. 7 FRANKFORT, A new UP paper fighting for Ireedom of tlie press and a nidge mining tor absolute ron-irover his court waged battle here today in the Kentucky court of appeals. Newton D Baker, wartime secretary of war and potential presidential candidate, led legal counsel for the Knoxville, Tenn-l in its petition to set aside a dictum barring It;, i - S. j j i j j on The Weather i ; j ; Road graveling work on the secondary hi" i.av 'urth of Logan will begin Monday, the Cache county commissioners announced last Wednesday afternoon following their weekly session at the courthouse. Machinery will be moved from the Logan-Hyruroad project on which graveling work has oeen completed to tlie Webster-Lewistsecondary state highway link which extends to the Idaho line. Cache county has a joint agreement with the state road commission for the expenditure of $7500 of county and state funds for grading activity on this road.- - UTAH Fair tonight and F day; little change in temper ture IDAHO Fair tonight ai Friday; unsettled at times north portion; no change temperature. Maximum temperature We nesdav, 28; one year ago, 2i Minimum temperature 'll night, 18; one year ago,, 1L |