Show 12 A THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING World’s Tallest Boy Celebrates 18th Birthday Alton 111 claims the tallest boy in the world in the person of Robert Wadlow shown with his four brothers and sisters Despite the unusual heighth of Robert his brothers and sisters are all of normal length Medical Scientists Claim Youth Within Inch of Known Mark 1111 Feb 22 UP) — The tallest boy a shy bespec tacled youth standing slightly under tight feet four inches celebrated his eighteenth birthday today — within an inch of being the tallest nan known to medical annals Mythology and folklore abound In tales of heroic stature but physicians ever dubious of the legendary agree that if Robert Wadlow and his brothers and sisWadlow college fresh ters— Helen 16 Eugene 14 man increases his height to eight 12 and Harold Jr 3 Vi— are ofBetty norfeet five inches he will be the tall mal No other member of height est man whose measurements have the family on either side has been been scientifically verified of abnormal stature Robert— he likes to be called Bob May Set Record And doctors believe Robert may —is a conscientious student and xceed eight feet six Inches— if his ranked well above the average in pituitary gland the tiny pealike high school He is now attending gland at the base of the brain Shurtleff college here on a Scholarwhich controls growth continues to ship His favorite subject is German verfunction Studying Law Claims have been made by circus An able speaker Robert hopes to giants of heights as high as nine feet but checkups have disclosed enter the legal profession a field in most were substantially under eight which he feels his size will not be feet Robert’s closest authentic an insurmountable obstacle When rival to the courses human alti- not studying his pre-latude record is perhaps the famed he spends much time at his pet "Irish giant’’ C h a rles Byrne hobby— photography (O’Brien) who an authority says The gigantic youth is in good was more than eight feet four health again after recovering from Inches when he died in 1783 at the a siege of illness during which he While in the hosage of 23 Byrne's skeleton is pre- lost 60 pounds served in the Royal College of Sur- pital from an infected heel he refused food and his dally caloric congeons in London sumption dropped from about B000 Unique in History Robert’s case is almost unique to 120 A normal person consumes 2000 calories a day in medical history In most instances of giantism abnoral growth does not begin until after puberty Sheriff to Lecture Robert however was of unusual Sheriff S Grant Young will give size before he was a year old and an Illustrated lecture on traffic had attracted widespread attention safety in Salt Lake county before by his second birthday the Women's Safety council Monday Weighing only nine pounds at at 10:30 a m in the chamber of birth he has grown rapidly but commerce steadily not in spurts as in many cases of giantism ever since His Constantine’s triumphal arch was parents Mr and Mrs Harold T erected A D 315 ALTON World’ I 390-pou- all-ti- v:r w Snow Avalanche " Traps Motorists In Cascade Pass Undetermined Number of Persons Engulfed Near Seattle (Continued from Page One) exposure said he stopped his truck to regulate the shutters on the radiator when the slide caught him “I stepped out of my truck and was walking around to the front when I heard the roar of the avalanche above me” he said "I rushed around to the other side just as the snow hit the roadway Its force was stopped by the truck and' that’s probably what FEBRUARY 23 1938 Roosevelt Coast Walter Johnson Throws Dollar Slate Criticised Across River Leader of G O P Pitcher Duplicates Washington’s Feat in Early Days Noted (Contlnutd from Page One) Additional Art on Page Two ling over success of ona of tho biggest publicity coups in years Walter’s red hair and tie to match fluttered in the strong east wind he picked up a silver dollar hitched up his pants and casually sent the coin flying across the stream This was the one which fell into the water The next time the cheering was redoubled and Johnson took an extra big windup The coin easily reached the other bank to bo captured by Peter Yonn 31 a member of the clvilion conservation corps after a battle royal Everybody started home when aghast leaders of the Fredericksburg chamber of commerce discovered that Walter had thrown the wrong dollar they had engraved a special new dollar with the tidings that it had sailed across the river on Washington’s birthday under the propulsion of the mighty Walter himself This engraving violated the law against mutilation of coins but the civic leaders Insisted that Walter throw it so that history could be recorded properly The obliging Johnson took off his coat again and sent the engraved dollar across Thereafter he admit' ted cdhfidentially that there had been some slight skullduggery in connection with the proceediitffer While everybody else watched officials plant cherry trees this morning Walter was on the river bank There in private he sent seven dol lars sailing across and pronounced the feat an easy one This burst of confidence prompted still another confession on the part of Ben Pitts the civic booster who organized the whole shovy He admitted that the river was only 272 feet wide instead of 372 as previously advertised “We thought the folks around the country would be more interested if we told ’em the river was good and wide” Pitts said “But a lot of folks came here today and a lot more read about Fredericksburg the prettiest little city In the south That’s what we wanted We got what we wanted Now I guess we can tell the truth’’ Carr and OTooleJn US Hero by Saying Grace Support in ’32 Says Selection Ignores Group LOS ANGELES Feb 22 CD — Lin Price Los Angeles lawyer who figured prominently in organized Republican support of President Roosevelt in 1932 addressed an open letter today to the Democratic national committee criticizing the president’s California Democratic delegation slate as ignoring his Republican supporters “Your announced McAdoo and Sinclair Epic slate as a coalition of the Democratic voters in California" Price wrote "misses its goal by Denver Jury Convicts Nazis Honor a Liquor Conspiracy BERLIN Feb 22 OR— For probably the first time at any official nazi meal a Christian grace was said today at a luncheon in honor of George Washington The luncheon was given by Ernst F S Hanfstaengl Hitler lieutenant for Ambassador William E Dodd of the United States and a group of distinguished German officials The grace was invoked by the Rev Stewart W Herman acting pastor of the American church of Berlin The Rev Mr Herman prayed: May God bring these two great peoples ever closer together in brotherly love” Among those present were Dr Hjalmar Schacht minister of finance Dr Hugo Eck-enof Zeppelin fame and Prince Louis Ferdinand voting strength “The selection as delegates among others of socialists and known radi-cal- s to the total denial in the Democratic convention of a voice to former Republicans who have since joined your ranks gives rise to the following query: fornia When President Roosevelt “Does your strategy committee visited Los Angeles more than deny that it was Roosevelt made possible the presi- year ago Price was a member of the mayor’s reception committee dent’s election in 1932?” Price was an organizer and vice Chloroform was first used to alpresident of the Roosevelt-GarnRepublican League of Southern Cali- - lay the pangs of childbirth DENVER Colo Feb 22 (UP)— Former Secretary of State James H Carr and William E O’Toole a liquor salesman and legislative lobbyist were convicted tonight of charges of conspiracy to extort as the climax of a sensational statewide liquor licensing scandal Edwin L Leisenring Denver druggist charged jointly in the Information-with Carr and O’Toole was acquitted The crime for which the two men were found guilty is a misdemeanor and carries a maximum sentence of one year in the county jaiL The verdict was reached by the jury tonight after it made two attempts to report and was sent back to change its verdict District Judge Henley A Calvert presiding at the trial refused to accept the first two verdicts as they did not follow' the instructions given by the court Driver Booked er Repub-Iicanwh- jo er David G Zirker 22 of 573 East Fifth South street was booked on charges of reckless driving Saturday night after he allegedly crashed his automobile into a police car parked in front of 243 East Second South street Zirker suffered tWo finger cuts and Miss Elizabeth Adams 26 of 820 Chase avSnue a passenger in the Zirker car suffered face lacerations SehOice Feb 22 (UP)— WASHINGTON Representative Sol Bloom (D N Y) congressional authority on how far George Washington may have thrown a dollar tonight extended congratulations to Walter Johnson Bloom said he didn’t have any big money wagered on the event but maintained that he was In the clear on an offer to wager 20 to that Johnson couldn’t duplicate Washington’s feat because “our records show that the river was 1327 feet widfc in ths days of George Washington" “But that was a real feat of Walter’s just the same” he added saved me" COW SOLD AT LOWEST TERMS ON RECORD To the 10 feet of snow previously registered at the summit 20 inches more fell during the night and early morning The new snow was wet and heavy Masses of snow began tumbling down the steep mountainside before the cars reached the vicinity of the pass As the unlucky motorists neared the danger point a tremendous slide crashed down It covered tlje highway for a distance of 1500 feet to a depth of nine to feet 30 HERE YOU CAN OWN the Finest and Fastest Washer In the World For Only $500 Down The famous Dexter Thriftwin Double Tub Washer marvel of washing efficiency and speed ‘‘Cuts washing (time in two” and gets the clothes white See this washer and let us and thoroughly clean show you tnf Dexter “two successive suds” method of washing Enjoy 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huge’ slide of heavy wet snow at Snoqualmie pass in "the Cascades 65 miles east of Seattle Four Drowned Storm and flood took at least four lives in California rapicjjy rising streams fed by days of g record-breakin- rainfall threatened inundation to lowlands in the Sacramento val- ley A sudden deluge swept away 20 miners’ cabins near Redding in northern California About 50 dwellers fled for their lives and were left homeless The four dead included two persons drowned when their automobile stalled In a swollen creek near Stockton one drowning near Colusa and an automobile death at San Andreas attributed directly to the EASY TERMS storm ''v i SALT LAKE (Main and Postoffice) BRIGHAM LOGAN cuBfio noun Use Your Filled Books of UI k PRESTON m $C Green Stamps as a Down Payment ROTC Cadets Attend Military Ball At U of U Building Five hundred R O T C cadets and their guests Saturday night enjoyed the annual East high military promenade at the Union building on the University of Utah campus The affair rich in tradition was marked by a precise military drill performed by an honor manual arms platoon EducatlonfrTand U S army officials attended as patrons of th£ affaiit Barbara Kirkham battalion hostess Ruth Felt executive hostess Afton Puzey staff hostess Coralee Ansell Dorothy range hostess Standish company D Dorothy Lucille Cochran company C Adams company A June Price company B and Marjorie Heilbut band hostess presided as official hostesses Russ Skiers in Gas Masks Plan Long Run MOSCOW Feb 22 (UP)— A group of skiers in gas masks will begin a nine-da- y run tomorrow from Kuibyshev to Saransk as part of nationwide commemoration of the eighteenth anniversary of the found ing of the red army now 1250000 strong and the largest in the world All army divisions will take part In the exercises while millions of "spiritually mobilized” civilians will join in the commemoration Thousands of civilians will be engaged in parachute leaps and skiing while wearing gas masks Six men aged from 60 to 105 have organized a cavalry unit to compete in a contest at Pyatigorsk Our plan of Extra Electricity at Half-Pric- e saved 34000 of our customers more than $17000 in December YOU Tunnel Slide a tunnel at Berkeley injured two men Another slide marooned 21 Stockton boys on sm outing in the Calaveras big trees Country Streams were rising rapidly at several points in the big Sacramento valley in one case at the rate of one foot an hour At Colusa on the Sacramento river the water was more thnn four feet below flood stage but reports of a threatened rise upstream caused anxiety Fivt hundred men were new ADDITIONAL USE plan adding to for any amount yet a little spent for cheap electricity will protect and preserve them J — i I LtCTRICITV Ask For Details cruited'to guard the levees tonight A chinook wind suddenly melted Ice and sleet in Oregon causing a tremendous runoff and threatening Use Machine Guns State police- used machine guns to shoot down Icicles hanging from a rock bluff 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