Show VERNAL WOMAN WANTS TO FIND j HER FATHER Mary Sturgeon Caldwell Half Sister of Newton Boys noys Enlisting Aid of Salt Lake New Newspaper Ne spa per and Authorities l Mary Caldwell Sturgeon sister of or Hallie Duffy Sturgeon half haIr sister r of Ike and Will Newton Vernal and of or Ed Newton Roosevelt is In search of or her father whom she has not not seen seen since she was a baby Last Sundays Sunday's Salt Lake Tribune published the following interesting story 1 I want to know I 1 must know and r Im I'm going to learn whether or not my father Is alive Mary C. C Sturgeon said as she came yesterday to enlist the help of or The Tribune In the search I she is making for word ward of or her father I Henry E. E Sturgeon whom she has not seen since she was 18 months of or age Miss Sturgeon or better Mrs Caldwe Caldwell Caldwell Cald- Cald we well l for tar she was married a few years ago has spent all of her spare time the past PMt five years investigating the public records of or western states In an endeavor to find some clew of her fathers father's whereabouts Through California Nevada Arizona Ari Art Arizona zona zona Oregon and Utah she has gone always on an the fruitless quest to the police to the health departments to hospitals and hotels All public places all public records of men and their goings and comings she has In Investigated Investigated investigated In- In but all to no avail There is no record of or her father since sixteen sixteen sixteen six six- teen years ago when he was last known to have been In Salt Lake Miss Sturgeon as she prefers tobe to tobe tobe be known only on this quest haa has been able to find no clew whatsoever since 1903 that could enable the authorities au au- t to find her father Miss Sturgeon Is a Utah girl and spent her childhood In the southern part of the state going to California seven years ago ngo From various sources she has gl gleaned with gi great t endeavor the f following following fol fol- l lowing facts relative to his life Ute and nd person Mr Ir Sturgeon Is a mining engineer a a graduate of two universities probably probably probably ably ably in the east He Is a son of or Mrs Austin Sturgeon formerly of Detroit Mich He came to Utah In the early to follow tallow his profession and is known to have been bee engaged in mining minIng mining min min- ing work since that time There are two brothers Charles Und and Joseph Sturgeon who likewise came west Their work was done In Inthe uthe u the mines s of or Montana Trace of at them has disappeared as well but the word which was last available Continued on an Correspondence Page Pageo o 0 v r G i IWO WOMAN V WANTS AN TO FIND FATHER 1 Continued from Page One that one or Doth noth of them had returned to Detroit or some city in ti Y that vicinity The lost father if it living Is 69 years ota ofa ofal ge He is 5 L feet 6 G inches tall has light brown hair and blue gray eyes While it is probable that the years have changed the color of his hair and have perhaps brought down his weight Miss Sturgeon ex expressed expressed expressed ex- ex pressed the hope last night that his height and the color of his eyes will help someone to place him and in fn that way get word wora to her of her fathers father's fathers father's fath fath- fathers father's ers er's whereabouts In In the five years she has been he searching Miss Sturgeon has sought to avoid making public her ment She has secured the opera co-opera cooperation opera eo-opera- tion Uon everywhere of ot the officers who might tell her story broadcast Three yeas ago she decided to take up a st study dy of newspaper per and advertising work and In the University of Call California Cornia at Berkeley While there the She made the acquaintance of August fI Vollmer chief of police pollee and one of the leading criminologists of at the Pacific Pacific Pa Pa- coast She told Chief Vollmer her story He examined the records record at his dis- dis disposal without result Then he asked t Miss to present her case to f the public through the press as the gj best possible way and possibly the only way left to her of getting trace J if of her father This Miss Sturgeon T long hesitated to do She Is a girl girl of t 25 26 years year and at college shunned the notoriety ty that publication might bring her among her college friends for she was was making her own way there I But nut as the search has continued as query after query has met with the blank We have response no rec ree- record I ord concerning such a person Miss Sturgeon gathered courage to take the public into her confidence to enlist enlist en en- list the aid of every individual who might Ight possibly have some light to bring her Im not going to stop until I get some some word of my father Ill I'll not al allow allow allow al- al low low myself to give up hope It has 1 been een only the insistent the never- never ceasing feeling that he is alive somewhere somewhere somewhere some some- where and that I shall see him that has kept my courage and my faith says Miss Sturgeon a young lady lady who gives one the assurance of or or meaning just that and whose record of persistency thus far Indicates her strength strength of purpose Since the above was written word bas has lias been received that a man answering answering an an- the Sturgeon description has been located In Portland Oregon At last accounts Mary was waiting for further furtner information r |