Show gbe fir& Part Two gat Ztibum BAnk Group Strong Winds Traffic Opens S L Raise Havoc Suspects Loot in Marihuana Seizure Agents Seize i $1000 Crop '1 f I 'Victim Canyon Auto Accident Kills Girl 17 Meet Today In SI Streets Ofillarihuana Two Idahoans Independent Unit Trees Electric Lines Blown of Reserve Area to Convene Down in Storm Two Sandy Men Accused of Cultivating Weed - Page Nine' Salt Lake City Utah Monday Morning September 22 1941 ' s Perish in Traffic Crashes j rele A Making one of the largest marihuana seizures in the history of Salt Lake county federal state and county officers early Sunday raided a farm in Sandy and conf is c ated apbroxlmately $1000 worth of the smoking drug The raid followed the arrest In Salt Lake City Saturday night of Howard LaBrum 20 and Verl LaBrum 32 who claim to be cousins and both of whom reside at the Sandy farm The two men who arresting officers said are probably brothers were taken into custody at 10:30 p m Saturday In the 200 block on East Second South street after they had been trailed from their Sandy home Find Cigarets The arresting officers said the two men left their home in Verrs automobile and when they were apprehended had four tobacco and earl filled with marihuana three marihuana cigarets in their possession After questioning the pair officers went to the Sandy residence and located large quantities of the drug in a potato cellar and a chicken coop The drug which grows as a weed had been planted and cultivated in the center of a corn patch so it would not be visible to passers-b- y according to federal narcotic agents The confiscated marihuana had been pulled up by the roots and placed in the cellar and coop to dry and had not been prepared for smoking Had Good Care Some of the stalks were more than five feet tall Indicating It 9 had been weU cared for during Its growth the officers said All the marihuana had been harvested from the blocked-of- f section in the corn patch with the exception of one or two stalks officers added The seizure and arrest climaxed about three weeks of investigaWhen tion by federal officers one of the Investigators Saturday —learned that a delivery of some of the drug was planned for Saturday night state and county officers were called to assist In making an arrest Those assisting included George Beckstead chief deputy sheriff of Salt Lake county Deputy Sheriff Archie Hoffman June Kendall law enforcement officer of the state department of registration and Ralph Smith a state agent Booked by Pollee Verl and Howard LaBrum were booked at the Salt Lake county jail on charges of "possession of marihuana" Howard told officers that the marihuana is my stuff and Verl bad nothing to do with it" "The only thing is Verl rode me to town in his car I don't see why he is being held" Howard added Arresting officers reported that the two men apparently had not made any delivery prior to the time they were arrested Officers said the LaBrum farm Is located a half mile south of the Alta road on about Seventeenth (1700) East street ' z - 4 i i I i property At a late hour Sunday the prevailing temperature in the Salt Lake valley area hovered above mark the Damage to trees was reported on the east and north benches surrounding the valley Utility lines1 were damaged by falling branches and wind Trees Uprooted Federal weather bureau observers said the wind which Uprooted trees and shrubs and littered streets with loose debris was more severe on the bench areas than at lower levels because it traveled horizontally after dropping down several hundred feet as It passed the mountain peaks Wine damage was widespread Huge trees were blown over in the 500 block on Eighth East street one of them striking and damaging a house at 11:30 p m: in the 800 block on Simpson avenue 100 blocks on K and P streets and at numerous other points Utah Light and Traction company trolley wires were broken and grounded shortly after midnight in the 1700 blocks on Fourth and Ninth East streets and power lines were downed in the 1300 block on 100 block on Bryan avenue in the K street and the- - 500 block on Eleventh East street RAW Reported Rain was reported in Salt Lake City and vicinity at 1 a m Monday Late Sunday night cloudiness was general over the valley fore stalling predicted near - freezing 'temperatures expected in the wake of Saturday night's minimum of 45 degrees Early Sunday the mercury dropped to a low of 41 but rose during the daY to a maximum of 62 degrees Mean temperature for the day was only 52 degrees 10 points lower than normal Federal weather bureau forecasters early Monday altered a previous prediction of fair weather to one of general cloudiness for Monday with intermittent rain In the north portion of the state Little change in temperature was fore- Hotel Utah The council composed of two 1 Independent" banking representatives each front Utah Idaho i Oregon California Washington i Arizona will be and Nevada 1 ! guests Monday at 7 p tn at a j banquet meeting sponsored by the I Utah Independent Bankers' asso1 ' dation Reno Odlin president of the Puget Sound National bank of i Tacoma Wash and a director of i the San Francisco federal reserve will be principal speaker I 41° 07tc041 - Ibank banquet Election Slated Election of new members to replace council members whose terms have expired will be con ducted at the banquet Among members whose terms expire is L E Ellison president of the ' First National bank at Layton vice president of the association i and one of Utah's council mem-'' !pers CG Salisbury cashier of the Springville Banking company : is the other Utah representative 1 About 60 council members Imembers of the Utah association I and guests from Idaho are expect-- I ed to attend the banquet meet4 ing Mr Ellison said George Pa-Hof the 'Greenwood president bank Seattle will preside R S Ore executive 'Wash Portland of the council will pre- a report I sent Council members will be in at the Hot e I Utah 1 session throughout Monday and Tuesday : discussing business pertaining to 1 independent banking Mr Ellison I said Monday noon they will be guests of Mr Ellison and Mr i Salisbury at the Alta club 100 South Temple street iEast &embers of Unit I of the council Include iMembers ! Mr Ellison Mr Salisbury Mr Greenwood J R McEvoy of the 1 First National bank Holbrook Ariz Reul Rudolph of the First bank of San Jose Cal iNational of the Union Bank company Los Angeles Cal G L Jenkins of the J N Ireland company Malad Idaho C H Jones of the First National bank of Lovelock Nev William i C Christensen of the Commercial I National bank of Hillsboro Ore: R S Smith of the First National bank of Eugene Ore and F C Forest of the First National bank at Pullman Wash The meeting will be the first ti held by the council in Salt Lake City Many of the members will i go from Salt Lake City to Chi1 cago to attend the American Bankers' association national con- 1 vention September 29 to October 2 Mr Ellison said I 1 if Demand Rises For Homes In S L Ogden 2 4 Cities Face Shortage of Housing Units For I New Workers '474 1 Salt Lake City and Ogden are faced with housing shortages un- 1 less residents of the two cities make available every bit of hous1 ing space before October 15 Lawr4 k!ttU rence A Johnson state housing '" director of the Utah state council of defense said Sunday 4 ' ! "Peak demand for housing for a'" defense workers will be reached on October 15" Mr Johnson said c "Property owners with available residence units are urged to regAt t1 ister them at the Salt Lake and offices" defense Ogden housing Source of Revenue 124"t He pointed out that "registering housing units not only is a I4 service to national defense but A' a means of revenue through oc' "Ik71 I s cupancy of quarters by renters" 4 '4 There are 1142 housing units ' including 409 houses and apartments and 733 hotel rooms now registered at the Salt Lake homes registration office at 315 South Main street Mr Johnson said 4A But these will be quickly absorbed and it is estimated that Upper Vert La Brum left and Howard La Brum alleged 2237 units will be needed before cousins arrested shortly before federal state and county deOctober 15" Mr Johnson officers seized a large store of marihuana In Sandy Lower clared part of the cache taken In the raid Situation Acute In Ogden the situation Is more and application has been Vanguard of several hundred acute made the erection of 150 fedfor 26 of blue the representatives eral housing units of permanent lodges in the state was arriving construction In Salt Lake City Sunday night to Mr Johnson pointed out that participate in the seventieth an- tourists and vacationers will have of Utah the nual communication tourist camp and hotel grand lodge F & A M which will released by October 15 the date be held in the Masonic temple rooms Trouble over a recent transfer of articulating unit students eso East South Temple street which usually marks the decrease 'the Bryant lower divisfon high school to the Lowell and from this but of travel tourist space llonday and Tuesday was called will be needed before the dead- Webster Th communication elementary schoois flared up again Sunday with the line of T Lake Salt Nelson J City by a spokesman that the Bryant school had refused to Many Salt Lake homes a sur- assertion by grand master who will be in Mr Johnson showed have refund certain fees and expenses paid by the students vey by charge of the sessions rooms or apart"Parents of these studentshave spare possible comReports by officers and space which could quickly put out money for gymnasium mittees and an address by the ment cheaply be converted into a clothes student body fees and grand master will be the principal and Now that their unit with the coopera- locker rentals housing afternoon of and features morning All that is children have been transferred to A school of tion of the owners sessions Monday preelementary schools where these instruction directed by W J God- necessary is to clean out and durPrticles are of no use to them the dard of Salt Lake City grand pare the space for occupancy emergency Bryant school refuses to refund lecturer will be presented Mon- ingThe With a happy grin on hia face government has provided the money" declared F G Walday evening a twinkle In his eye 93- and Street for of homes ton 584 East Second South New officers will be elected to credit for remodeling workfor defense of the d for the space Ira Stormes Utah's last provide parents year-olcomspokesman Tuesday afternoon and the is available Oquirrh school area "The school munication banquet Tuesday eve-ri- ers and information surviving Civil war veteran and at the federal reserve bank but knew in advance how many stuwill conclude the two-da- y of the Utah departconstruction workers itch as dents were coming so they should commander ment Grand Army of the Repubprogram on arms small those the before the made the transfer have plant Grand lodge regulations require City not listed in that category students started investing their lic was back in Salt Lake that the master and the senior are after attending the diaSunday will on munitions workers and money" of blue each and Junior wardens mond Jubilee convention of the a large force neednot Mr Walton said he has circuA R in Columbus Ohio G lodge or their representatives at- ing provide houseAL If the lated special housing petition requesting tend the communication One of 91 "boys in blue" who now unused to "all holders refund board of education space Members of lodges In Salt Lake availableprovide conattended emeris believed the the money that is coming to us" cluded the sessiona18 which City Ogden Provo Corinne Park gency mayitbe the aged September adequately met Speaking for the board of eduveteran reported: "The convenCity Eureka Mt Pleasant Tooele A housing shortage can be pre- cation Nephl president Richfield Bingha m Milford Mr Johnson declared if promised that "the parents will tion was one of the best yet I Greenriver Price Garfield My-to- n vented remember everything that would do the following get everything to which they are can't owners was said but there was no poliLogan Brigham City and so not We are entitled justly Cedar City have been invited to things: tica Call my recretary if you Regiteer all units rooms apart- hard up for funds that we need want to know the sessions anything more" ments houses camp and hotel to steal locker fees" Mrs Mary It "secretary" 315 matter will be at the South available He said that e MOO unclaimed ItitA 1350 space nt the Utah Schnell reeretary in Salt taken up with Dr L John Nuttall 11975 Pahl's 31 8 W Temple Main street phone $S 0 Women's Relief on on department 1Continued Page Eighteen) Page 'Eighteen) tiContinupt (Advertisement) - 4 :?1? t4t 1 i" 0 A 1 tur : ‘ Masons Arrive For Blue Lodge Session School Tee Dispute Fans Trouble Over Transfers 12-so- Calvin W Rawlings of Salt Lake City and George W Worthen of Provo members of the Utah commission ori uniform state laws were en route Sunday to Indianapolis to attend the national conference opening Monday Dean W H Leary of the University of Utah law school the third member of the Utah commission left Wednesday for the meeting In view of the national defense program the Indianapolis conference is expected to bring out much proposed legislation particularly on matters which are interstate In operation Mr Rawlings said The national conference has served as a clearing house and as a guide to state legislatures to the end that desired uniformity on subjects of general Interest may be secured through the adoption of identical acts in all of the states Ira Stormes Returns to S L From G A R Session in Ohio high-crud- $7-5- IP '0 'I 1 sion n State Examiners Okeh Salaries As if mocking an announcement that Idaho- ranks first and Utah third in the far western states at fa-sal- ly Dance Friday Will Honor Lions Official - for entries for the annual dog show to be conducted Friday and Saturday by the Intermountain Kennel club Inc has been ex tended from Sunday to Monday at 6 p in officials announce Entries are to be mailed to A T Smurthwalte at 748 East First South street said M E Pearson" president The exhibit Is to be held in the dog show building at the state fairgrounds with Dr Ray E Smith of Portlend Ore and Dan Shuttleworth of San Mateo Cal Deadline eighteenth The state board of examiners Saturday had approved payment of salaries to new state employes as follows: Liquor commission —Dennis Harrington store manager $150 a month J J White inspector MO Lynn Bennett clerk D H Bradford and Jack Smith extra warehouse workers $4 a ‘day each Road commission Jewell Smith as Judges stenographer 80 a month -- an-bre- ed The dead are: Wayne Barger Jr 15 Boise Idaho killed when struck by a ear late Saturday while riding bicycle on a hill near Boise George W Campbell 40 Cutdesae Idaho fanner0 killed when pinned beneath the cab of a truck be was driving late Saturday Miss Audene Walker 17 Midway killed when the car in which she and three others were riding plunged off the highway in Parleys canyon southeast of Salt Lake City early Sunday death toll continued to mount MidSunday when a way Utah girl was killed instantly after the automobile in which she and three others were riding plunged off the highway through Ulah's traffic guard-rai- ls and down an embankment 200 feet west of the Mountain Dell reservoir in Parleys canyon Dead is Miss Audene Walker daughter of Leland L Walker of Midway In "fairly good" condition at the D S hospital are Beth Cummings 17 daughter of Mr and Mrs Julian M Cummings of 1064 Third avenue suffering from a fractured pelvis and Lyle Jensen 20 son of Mr and 'Mrs Alma C Jensen of 164 Lucy avenue who Is being treated for a lacerated forehead and a shoulder snrain-- Fourth occupant of the car Ivan M Hamblin 20 son of Mr and Mrs H Marcene Hamblin of Murray was treated at the Salt Lake General hospital for a minor shoulder Injury The accident occurred at approximately 1 a tn when young Jensen driver of the car dozed at the wheel as the automobile was returning to Salt Lake from Midway where the four had attended a dance sheriff's officers renorted The car reportedly was en route to the home of Miss Walker's sister Miss Della Walker of 150 North Main street when the mishap occurred Kenneth V Dunn and Milton Brown county sheriffs officers who investigated the accident said Jensen admitted dozing while driving and that Hamblin also claimed to be asleep at the time of the mishap The officers were unable to question Miss Cummings due to the seriousness of her condition Miss Walker's death was the twentieth this year in Salt Lake county compared with 12 to this time last year and increased the toll for the state to 139 in contrast to only 118 last year The latest traffic victim was born January 29 1924 at Rockland Idaho She canie to Midway about four years ago and had resided there since She was a student at the Wasatch high school in Heber Survivors include her father and a stepmother Mr and Mrs Leland L Walker of Midway four sisters Miss Della Walker and Miss Lue Walker of Salt Lake City and Miss Clellys Walker and Miss Agnes Walker of Midway three brothers Dwayne Walker of Rockland and Wes Vern Walker both of Midway: a grandfather Brigham Nebeker of Willard Utah and three stepbrothers and four stepsisters The body will be taken to Rockland for burial Funeral services for Miss Walker will be conducted Wednesday at 2 p tn in the Rockland Idaho L D S chapel under direction of Bishop V O Ralph Burial will be in Rockland cemetery Friends may call at the Olpin Brothers' mortuary chapel in Heber Tuesda-- after 4 p m and at the home of an uncle M E Walker in Rockland from Wednesday noon until time for services ever-increasi- Kennel Club Sets Show Deadline corps ng - - Utahns Depart For Uniform Laws Meeting auxiliary to the G A R announced that Commander Stormes was appointed to the national council of administration during the convention He Is one of five veterans who will serve on the council Other G A R auxiliary dele- gateb from titan are still vacationing in the east Among them are Mn Sytha Howard president of the Utah department Ladies of the G A R Mrs Joseph A Fisher a past national officer In the organization Mrs Charres W Lockertie president of the Utah Relief Women's department corps auxiliary: Mrs Frank E Conshafter delegate at large and Mrs W H Walters alternate delegate who replaced Mrs Conshafter after the second ses- Gem State Tops Utah 'With 12 of Casualties Avoid Serious Hints in Blast 1 L Week Brings 22 Bistate Traffic Dead Four Children ! C Dies Miss Audene Walker in canyon traffic accident the halfway point in the 1941 National Safety Council's traffic contest death durtng the past week in accounted for 22 victims-- 10 Utah and 12 in Idaho This boosted the bistate total to 263 an increase of 16 more than were killed during the corresponding period of 1940 At the beginning of last week the two totals ran parallel Utah charged with 139 deaths led the field with an increase of 23 deaths in comparison with the same period last year Idaho on the other hand still boasted a slight decrease from 131 fatalities In 1940 to 124 this year Starting the week of fatal accidents In Utah Oscar J Bennion 57 of Taylorsville was injured September 14 when his 1926 model Car collided with a train at Forty-eight- h (48OO) South and Second West streets He died in the Salt Lake General hospital halt an hour later Three more persons who died September 16 of injuries suffered in Utah traffic accidents were: seen James M Fishburn 43 2324 Seventh East street who was killed when struck by an automobile- at Ninth East street and Ramona avenue Cecil Keith Wall 19 of Garfield who died of injuries received September 13 when his motorcycle collided with an automobile in Salt Lake City Mrs' Laura C Draper 76 who Four children narrowly escaped died of injuries suffered August serious Injury Sunday night In- - an 29 when she was struck by a car in Moroni explosion resulting when one of Continuing its accelerated pace them attempted to light a gas fur(continued on Pats Fourteen) nace after the pilot light had gone (nit Salt Lake City firemen said Kean Lavelle Farrer of Mr and Mrs C L Farrer of 49 Bryan avenue was burned on his left hand when accumulated gas exploded as he attempted to light the furnace at his home Meanwhile his sister Marlene 3 was overcome by the fumes D A Skeen prominent Salt from the unlit furnace while asleep Lake In her bedroom but was revived attorney who recently was a fire elected resuscitator third vice president of by department squad Lions International Will be honKean told firemen he was study- ored at a "Victory" dinner dance ing his school lessons shortly after 9 p m when he smelled gas Friday at 7 pk tn in the Newhouse "Mother and father were away hotel so I went to the kitchen to see if of the Utah Lions club the gas stove was on" firemen state icers officials prominent club quoted the boy 'Then I went to the basement members from surrounding states and found the furnace had gone and their partners will join in out I lit a match and there wilts the victory celebration an explosion" Arranged under auspices of the Two other sisters Mildred 9 and Marjorie 8 were In the house Salt Lake Lions club the gala and on hearing the explosion ran affair is designed to highlight the outside social season for club Lieutenant R H Cilas of the currentl Governor and Mrs members fire department said Mildred then Herbert B Maw remembered Marlene was in bed tIon of Utah statehead the delegadignitaries inand ran back to attend the celebration vited The younger sister was found active in Lions club events unconscious in her bed and neigh- in Long intermountain Mr the bors hearing the explosion called Skeen was instrumentalsection in organthe fire department of several Utah and Idaho Firemen immediately turned off izationand previously had served the gas furnace and the resusci- clubs as a director of Lions Internatator squad revived Marlene before tional He has held all of the the arrival of the family doctor offices in the Salt Lake club The children were left in the care of neighbors pending the return of the parents firemen said No damage resulted to the building or the furnace from the explosion firemen added 1 accidents Sunday had claimed three more lives in Utah and Idaho increasing the former's toll for the year to 139 and that for Idaho to 124 ee 1 41 Traffic council of the Strong easterly winds zooming into Utah from a storm area over association Bankers' Independent Arizona night dispelled all of the Twelfth 'federal reserve danger ofSunday impending frost but retwo-da- y sesa district will open sulted in considerable damage to sion Monday at 10 a in at the shade trees power lines and other The executive I ng y - BOISE (P):—Wayne Barber Jr son of Wayne Barber Cole actlool principal died in a Boise hospital late Saturday night little more than an hour after he had been struck by a car sheriff's deputies said was 'driven by G Marion Jorgensen Boise route 2 on Fairview Hill west of the city CULDESAC Nez Perce County W Campbell Idaho 40 was injured fatally late Saturday when a truck loaded with firewood backed off a grade near his farm home pinning him beneath the cab Utah Deaths (Total) To September 22 1941 140 To September 22 1940 118 171 Entire year 1940 Salt Lake County 20 To September 22 1941 12 To September 22 1940 17 Entire year 1940 Idaho Deaths 124 To September 22 1941 To September 22 ' 1940 114 192 Entire year 1940 rge t |