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Show r p World's Deadliest Submarine a striking view of the world's deadliest submarine shortly after It waa launched the "Orpheus," named after the mythological poet and musician. Note the" three torpedo tubes at left of which there are three more on the other aide. The British warship waa built at the Beardmore yards on the Clyde. Alpine Troops Assembled for the Pope's Blessing --;iJ ! V : i I Pi I V-- : iw. ;:f ' " V-r- r '-- Twenty-fl- thousand Alpln troopi of Italy assembled In the plaza of 8t Peter'e In Roma to tha be blessed by pope. liNews Notes:: ' It's a Privilege to Live In ii UTAH ii LAYTON Utah has 440,000 acrei of Irrigated alfalfa and (0,000 not ir. rlgated, making s total of halt a mil-lion. DUCHESNE Seed was harvested In Utah In 1928 from 73,000 acres; (2,000 In 1924, and 13,000 acres In 1919. HEBER CITY Harvest acreage of all crops In Utah In 1928 was esti-mated at 1,150,000 acres, of which 870,. 000 acres were Irrigated and 280,000 produced crops without Irrigation. KAYSVILLE Utah ranked third among the states In the average yield per acre of onions in 1928; Its average that year was 475 bushels per acre. The average yield In the United States was 246. i MT. PLEASANT A statewide pool for farm-grow- wool, as distinct from range wool. Is the plan set in motion t a meeting here recently at which representatives of arm wool pools in four counties were present to the num-ber of 24. MYTON The business men of My-to- n In conjunction with the sheepmen who are members of the Antelope Sheep Shearing association, are for-mulating plans and raising money to construct a more direct road to Hank's Ferry by way of the South Myton bench. This point Is used crossing the Green river, and If this project Is completed it will save several miles of extra travel. BRIGHTON Ten inched of new snow fell recently on the city water-shed at Brighton, thus bringing the total stand of snow now on tie water-shed up to 81 Inches, according to a report received here at the office of H. K. Burton, superintendent of waterworks. The stand Is consider-ably above that which was on the watershed last year at the correspond-ing period. VERNAL A representative of Dra-per ft Co., Boston wool buyers, has purchased at 32 3 cents per pound 60,000 fleeces from John Reader and 65,000 fleeces from Witbeck Brothers and Witbeck & Spiers at the same price. The Reader flocks have not been sheared as yet but the sheep of the other flockmasters named are now being sheared at the Watson shearing plant. All the fleeces will average eight pounds, and the wool Is contract d for June delivery at Watson. GUNNISON On the Mantl forest this year's program of water develop-ment projects totals approximately $1400, and about $1600 will be expend-ed in the construction of boundary and other fences. The funds for these improvements are taken from the grat-ing fees and must not exceed 10 per cent of tha total grating fees for the year. In selecting these range im-provement projects care is taken to distribute them over all parts of the forest where they will benefit the largest number of grazing users. MYTON Horace W. Sheeley, water commit sioner named by the federal court for the Uintah basin, has reap-pointed Clarke C. Shaw as deputy commissioner for the Lake Fort river and its tributaries, and Loren Cloward as deputy commissioner for the Uin-tah river and Its tributaries Decrees of Federal Judge Tillman D. Johnson direct the regulation of these streams. They irrigate 49,000 acres under ditch-es constructed by the department of the Interior for the Indians and 87,000 acres irrigated by white families. COALVILLE Placing of gravel on the Lincoln highway from Wanship to the beginning of the new road around Echo reservoir was started this week by the Utah state road com-mission with a crew of twenty men and several teams employed. As soon as the gravel placing is finished, oiling of the road from the Chalk Creek bridge at Coalville to the Intersection with the Silver Creek canyon road will begin. The work of oiling from Echo to Baskln, in Echo canyon, will be started at the same time. UTAH State highway funds total-ing $142,661.01 were distributed dur-ing the month of April, according to a report from the state auditor's depart-ment. The money was apportioned as follows: Highway equipment, $76,-- S41.81; office expenses, $556.75; travel, $784.78; and salaries, $3896 79. Sus-pense is listed at $313.69. Individual county distribution is as follows: Bea-ver, $314.20; Boxelder, $1385.94; Cache, $38.86; Carbon, $158.43; Davis, $587.92; Duchesne, $6973.83; Emery, $318.75; Garfield, $9906.34; Iron, Juab, $3716.36; Kane, Millard, $7.15; Morgan, $4.21; Salt Lake, $33.21; San Juan, $688.81; Sanpete, $33.21; Sevier, $13,793.82; Summit, $9.50; Tooele, $1500.83; Uin-tah, $10,380.35; Utah. $184.11; Wa-satch, $6048.03; Washington, $6273.68, and Weber, $53. PROVO To the sheepmen, the rains which began as a blessing to the flocks on the desert have turned to a menace and a curse, according to members of the Jericho clip, at least Arrangements were made for the Jerl-jch- o shearing season to begin on April 12, but conditions made It necessary for the opening date to be changed first to April 14 and then to April 18. Only two herds had been shorn when heavy rains caused the work to stop and the herds to be turned on to the range again. All of the shearers, af-ter seeing that the rains were to bo xtensire, returned to their homes Mallards Are Entertained by City of Oakland --3 ' " r...J ". " i eu?llil Vhelr VrlD mlVu to the North make a practice of stopping at take Merrltt. Oakland, . ' Spays 150 a f17k K 't"he"Vbes1t " Jh0?Mn(l8' malI"y mallards, enjoying the entertainment provided by the city, grain for Its guesta. Mellon Shows Models of New Federal Buildings r :a 1 .y Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon, who la charged with the responsibility for the new government buildings Uncle Sam will erect In Washington and which will make the National Capital the finest capital In the world. Is shown with the models for the new building program which he displayed to President Hoover and other J MISS PORTLAND high officials of the government at a meeting at the United States Chamber of Commerce. rJ K . p--yj Miss Jerry Chenowlth, whose grace-ful loveliness has won more beauty prizes than any other girl tn the United States, has been voted queen of the Portland (Ore.) rose carnival as "Miss Portland." Moscow Now Has Women for Police J 0 rC : pr ' "'aIHm,L'Sf Jak . te-- Here la a trio of women who are among the several hundred whom the Sovlut government has drafted into the service of the state as members of the Moscow police force. They seem quite content with their new duties. HAIR FRIGHTENED OFF 4 a' K 1 to n Washington's leading medical are puzzling over the strange rase of little Herman Mutes, who lost every strand of his hair ss the result of a scare received while play-,n- g with a pet dog. Herman now is leaving the dogs severely alone and plays with his pet kitten which he lays he likes better any way. ' j He Takes His Whole Family to Sea ISM ill The three-maste- d Swedish schooner Isolds of Gothenburg la a true won-der ship. Capt C Ahlgren Is owner as well as master of the ship, and tha whole of his family lives aboard with him. Each child was named after tba place of birth, and every member of the family takes part In the working of the ship. A Swedish university graduate acts as tutor for the master's chll- - dren. Photograph shows members of the crew with Captain Ahlgren'a eldest children on the bowsprit. Memorial to George Rogers Clark fir- I f if Hi . , . ' II "T"' - - Vf; "rtf-'V taftllWaaa-ll- ll III II j To the memory of Gen. George Rogers Clark, Mrs. M. A. Doran, left, and Mrs. Alvln T. Rowe, right, regents of the Paul Revere chapter of the Daugh-ters of the American Revolution of Muncie, Ind., unveiling the tablet presented by the chapter to the city of Fredericksburg, Va, the boyhood home of the conqueror of the great Northwest. . mi ii m Two Queen Valencias Two beauties, Mona Rico of Mexico City (left), and Dorothy Day of Ana. helm, Calif, (right), were tied in the vote for the honor of being Queen Valencia at the ninth annual orange ahow at Anaheim. So it was decreed that they should share the throne. IS LEATHER LUNGED . IS ;i: ;VAim ft: A closeup "shot" of Vincent Mul-lln-the leather-lunge- d coxswain of the hard pulling University of Cali-fornia rowing team. The California contingent are expected to prove serious contenders In the Pough-keepsl- e race. GOVERNOR OF HAWAII I I M .WH T I A recent portrait of Lawrenc M. Judd, Honolulu business man, who has been nominated by President Hoover to be governor of the Hawaiian Is-lands to succeed Wallace R. Har-rington. ALL AROUND THE WORLD The United States has 78 per cent of the world's automobiles. . Germany exports 50,000,000 mouth organs a year, and the United States takes 40 per cent of them. A brick meter has been devised, which measures the three dimensions of brick simply and. rapidly. ' A quilting of eel grass Is being nsed In walls and ceilings of buildings In rendering them soundproof. Pearl and moonstone are birth stones for June. Wine making Is the principal Indus-try of Portugal. The last horse car left the streets of New York In 1917. Mexico produced almost 25 per cent of the world's oil In 1020. The chief products of the Cape Verde Islands are coffee, hides and millet. FROM HERE AND THERE Land covered by grass loses very little soil when heavy rains come. Kiectrlc refrigeration, practically un known In 1920, now gives employment to about 20,000 people. More than 80,000 rabbits were re-leased lust year In Pennsylvania to provide shooting for sportsmen. . , Ceuta. in Spanish Morocco, Is the first African city to have transat-lantic telephone service installed. John Brown was the father of 20 children. He was married twice. There are ' now 16 women pilots licensed to operate airplanes In the United States. Pennsylvania Is the only state with a mineral production worth more than -1, m-- Jt $1,000,000,000 a year. American restaurants, hotels, clubs, schools and factory lunchrooms serve 75,000,000 persons a. day. Ha to Be Speedy An explorer In South America hns discovered a lamb capable of running of a spwd of nearly 40 miles an hour. But thHt's the only kind of liimb that could keep up with Mary nowadays. Pearson's Weekly. Erie Canal The total length of the Erie canal Is 340 miles. The canal proper Is 122 miles long, 150 feet wide and 12 feet deep. The total cost of construction, Including terminals, amount to about $175,000,000. Facts About Rails Steel rails on a north and south track last longer than those laid east and west The magnetism generated by the train friction' Is undisturbed In the former case; In the latter If is resisted. Son ft of Satan The philosophy of the Salvation army Is never to hesitate to adopt the airs of ribald songs for lis choruses, on the theory that the devil shouldn't have all the good tunes. Woman's Home Companion. Be Chary of AdWca Jud Tunkins says you can give ad vice that you are sure Is for the best But. In most cases. It's about as we! ;ome as a spoonful of castor oil. Washington Star, Brain Power Lfnoied "We are given ten times as much brnln as we need," said Sir Arthut Keith, the Kngllsh scientist "Ver j few people use 50 per cent of theli brains; many people but 10 per cent' |