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The first snow of the season fell in Salt Lake Valley Oct. 27. Leonard Wood bcame governor of the Philippines, Oct. 15, when he took the oath of office at Manila, immediately after his arrival from Japan. Education in Utah costs $8,741,999, almost half of the revenue of the state, according to figures presented by Gov. Mabey before the school tax- ation conference, Oct. 20. Former king of Bavaria, Ludwig III,, was reported dead at Sarvar Castle, Hungary, Oct. 18. He abdicated Nov. 16, 1918, and fled first to Switzerland and later to Tyrol. Church school teachers convened, Oct 19, in the Barratt Hall, Salt Lake city, in annual convention. Supt. Adam Bennion of the Church schools presided at the general sessions. The cancer germ discovered in angle worms. That is the claim made by a German scientist, according to a New York dispatch of Oct. 21. The disease, it is said, can be communicated through vegetables. Miss Scorup, Salina, Utah, was elected "mayor'* of that city, Nov. 8. Her brother, a business man, was her opponent on the losing ticket. Miss Scorup is a member of the high school faculty and a Democrat. The treaty of peace with Austria became effective, Nov. 8, when ratifications were exchanged at Vienna by the Austrian chancellor, M. Scober, and Mr. Arthur Hugh Frazier, American commissioner in Austria. A Press Congress of the World convened at Honolulu, Oct. 11. Presi- dent Harding sent a message in which he expressed the hope that the press would use its influence for the promotion of peace among nations. Twenty-five thousand coal miners struck in Indiana, Nov. 2, and 200 mines were at a standstill. The action was taken as a protest against an injunction issued by Judge Anderson against the Williamson field miners. Utah State Fair Buildings were destroyed by fire, Oct. 11. The con- flagration started in the Merchants' building and rapidly spread to five adjoining structures, causing a loss estimated at $18,500, fully covered by insurance. The Portuguese government was overthrown by the monarchists and militarists, Oct. 20, and a new ministry formed. A syndicalist outbreak at Barcelona, Spain, was reported from Madrid the same day. It was prompt- ly suppressed. King Alexander of Jugo-Slavia took the oath of office Nov. 6, before the parliament and in the presence of foreign diplomats. The new king- dom, the creation of the Versailles peace congress, consists of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes.

PASSING EVEVNTS 185 The taxable wealth of Utah, this year, according to tabulations com- pleted Oct. 7, in the office of the state board of equalization show an assessed valuation of $688,025,826, as compared with a total assessed valu- ation, in 1920 of $716,946,156, a decrease of $28,920,330. Utah iron deposits will be developed in the near future, according to an announcement made in San Francisco, Nov. 13. Plans for a $25,000,000 merger have been completed for the production of iron and steel, in Utah, California and Oregon on a gigantic scale. Cardinal Gibbon's succssor, Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley, of Baltimore, ascended the vacant "throne" on Nov. 30. He is a young man. He was born in Athone, Ireland, Oct. 12, 1879, and came to this country in 1904. He has had a phenomenal career in the Roman church. The new Presidency of the Benson stake, appointed Oct. 22, are James W. Funk, Gordy A. Hogan, and John E. Griffin. Elder Hogan was form- erly bishop of the Lewiston First ward. He is succeeded by Elder A. William Hyer, with James Taggart and Daniel O. Hendricks as counselors. Drought was regarded as acute in Utah and adjacent territory, accord- ing to a weather report published Oct. 20, as there had been no appreciable rain since the early part of September. The drought was broken Oct. 23, when more than .33 of an inch of rain fell in the Salt Lake Valley and more in other places. The officers of the Utah Educational Association elected Oct. 21, are, B. Roland Lewis, professor of English at the University of Utah, president; James W. Anderson of South Sanpete district, vice president; B. A. Fowler, of Weber county and F. D. Keeler, principal of the West high school, trustees. Ex-Emperor Charles and Ex-Empress Zita were captured, Oct. 24, near Komorn and confined in the castle at Tota Tovaros, Hungary. The ex-emperor appeared with a train load of troops near Budapest, intend- ing to overthrow the government, preparatory to re-establishing himself as ruler. Abandoned by his followers he surrendered. William Henry Combs, an early pioneer, died at Fountain Green, San- pete Co., Utah, Oct. 12, 83 years of age. He was born in Engand and came to Utah in 1847, taking up his residence in Fountain Green, where he had lived since. He was a veteran of the Black Hawk war and was the first Fountain Green man to receive a pension for such service. Robert Edson King, who passed away at American Fork, Utah, Nov. 8, was baptized by the Prophet Joseph, in the year 1842. He was born Nov. 1, 1834, the son of John and Sarah King, in the state of Vermont. In 1852 he came to American Fork. He was married three times, and was the father of 25 children, of whom twelve are still living. Moroni Fuller, a pioneer of 1848, died Sunday, Oct. 23, at Spring- ville, Utah, and was buried the following Tuesday. He was born at Sara- toga, N. Y., Sept. 27 1841. His father, mother, and three children died at Winter Quarters of cholera and the remainder of the family came to Salt Lake in 1848 and shortly afterwards settled in Springville. A fatal fire occurred at Fort Douglas, Oct. 3, when Charles R. Prater, blacksmith at the post, was burned to death in a fire that destroyed several stable buildings. Twelve horses also perished in the flames. Mr. Prater was killed while endeavoring to rescue the animals, of which there were thirty-six in the burning stables. He leaves a widow and three little daughters.

186 IMPROVEMENT ERA A gift to the Brigham Young University, Provo, in the form of a plan- ing machine was made recently by Mr. Thomas F. Pierpont, president- manager of the Provo Foundry & Machine company, and president of the Provo Chamber of Commerce. The machine is a valuable addition to the equipment of the mechanic arts department of the Brigham Young University. George Sutherland honored. The former senator from Utah was appointed chairman, Nov. 1., of an advisory committee of 21 members, charged with the duty of acting with the four American delegates to the Armament congress in Washington. The membership includes Secretary Hoover, General Pershing, Rear Admiral Rogers, Samuel Gompers, and four ladies. The death of Mary J. Young, widow of Joseph A. Young, the eldest son of Brigham Young, at the home of her son, Briant S. Young, of Los Angeles, occurred Oct. 25. Mrs. Young was born June 12, 1834, at Leicester- shire, England. She came to the United States in 1848 and was married to Mr. Young, in 1852. She was the mother of ten children, three of whom survive her. A modified sales tax proposition was offered by Senator Smoot, Nov. 1, in the U. S. Senate. It provides for a one per cent manufacturers' tax on all sales in excess of $6,000 and a turn) over tax of one half of one per cent on sales in excess of the same amount. The Sales Tax proposition was rejected Nov. 3, by a vote of 43 to 25, and the turn over tax was voted down, Nov. 4, by a vote of 46 to 25. Unemployed men in London threatened revolution, in a spectacular demonstration, Oct. 13. Mounted police charged the marchers down Shaftesbury Ave., knocking them right and left. Hundreds fled into the Soho district, where they broke the shop windows. Thousands reached Trafalgar square where police forces were drawn up. Hundreds of persons were injured in the encounters that ensued. Utah leads in the point of school attendance. In 1920 Utah's school population, 7 to 13 years of age, was 74,957, of which number 71,611 attend- ed school, being an attendance of 95.5 per cent of the school population. There was a noteworthy increase in the attendance of the 7-13 group over 1910. In 1910 the 7-13 school population of Utah was 58,551. Of this num- ber, 53,644 attended school, a percentage of 91.6. The increase; for the ten- year period was 4 per cent. The peace treaties with Germany, Austria, and Hungary were ratifwd by the U. S. Senate, Oct. 18, the vote on the first two being 66 to 20, and on the last 66 to 17. Three Republicans, Borah, of Idaho), La Follette, of Wisconsin, and Norris of Nebraska voted against it, the latter being paired against ratification. Fourteen Democrats voted with the Republicans for ratification. Proclamation of peace between Germany and the United States was signed by President Harding on Nov. 14, 1921. Congressman Thomas L. Blanton of Texas was reprimanded by the speaker of the house, Oct. 27, in accordance with a resolution passed unani- mously, after a motion to expel him had been lost. The charge was that Mr. Blanton had caused to be printed in the Congressional Record "grossly inde- cent and obscene language, unworthy a member of the house of representa- tives, contrary to the rules of the house, derogatory to its dignity and in violation of its confidence." Mr. Blanton, on Oct. 28, sent a letter of apology to the house.

PASSING EVEVNTS 187 News of the murder of three Americans by Mexicans was received by Nov. 7, by President A. W. Ivins in letters, one from President J. C. Bentley of Juarez stake, at Colonia Juarez. The colony doctor, whose name was not mentioned in the letter, was waylaid and shot by Mexicans while making repairs on his automobile en route from El Paso to Dublan. Several hundred dollars and supplies of clothes were taken by the bandits. Death by hanging of Joseph Fenn, a Moreles colonist, and another Ameri- can, occurred a short time previously. The third annual convention of the American Legion convened at Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 31. Among the distinguished attendants from abroad were army and navy officers from Belgium, Italy and Great Britain. General Pershing and Marshal Foch sent wires. They arrived later in the day. The convention adjourned Nov. 2, after having passed a resolution censoring Col. Harvey, America's ambassador in London, for his speech on the motives that prompted this country to enter the war which, according to him, were purely selfish. Appointment of cadets. According to a Washington dispatch to the News, Oct. 14, Senator Reed Smoot has announced the appointment of James Walter Brown of Ogden, and Melvin Drew of Salt Lake to the United Stated naval academy at Annapolis. Reed Kimball Pond of Salt Lake and Howard Jarvis of Magna, were named alternates. Edward Darger of Salt Lake City has been appointed to the United States military academy at West Point. Horace Quinn of Ogden is named as the first alternate and Kenneth J. Pinney of Salt Lake as second alternate. An Emnieline B. Wells Memorial Fund is started. Announcement was made recently by the general board of the L. D. S. Relief Society of a bequest of $500 as the beginning of an Emmeline B. Wells memorial fund, to be placed at the disposal, of the authorities of the Brigham Young Uni- versity and used for the encouragement of higher education among the young women of the Church. Loans will be made from the fund to young women applicants who have entered college, but who find their finances inadequate to permit them to complete their college work. Premier Takas Hara, head of the Japanese cabinet, was assassinated; Nov. 4, at the railroad station at Tokio. He was stabbed in the breast and died almost immediately. M. Hara was born in 1854. He had a brilliant political career and made some enemies. His death by violence, at the eve of the convening of the Washington Pacific congress, was character- ized by President Harding as "an unhappy discordant note, at a time when all were seeking to come together around the conference table and add to the good understanding and good will throughout the world.* Charles J. Gyllensivan was instantly killed at the corner of State and Thirty-third streets, Salt Lake City, Nov. 4, while waiting for a street car. The death-dealing auto was driven by a 17-year old boy at the rate of forty miles an hour, according to his own admission. Mr. Gyllenswan has been the janitor of the Fourteenth Ward meeting house for 37 years. He was a native of Sweden, and had during his long and faithful service made numerous friends. He leaves his widow and five children, all living in Salt Lake City. At the time of his death he was 69 years old. The Death of Paul Bryan Hinckley, son of Superintendent and Mrs. Edwin S. Hinckley, of the Industrial School, Ogden, died July 4, at McCalL Idaho, according to an obituary in the August-September num- ber of the Good Citizen. He was a very promising young man and highly esteemed by all who knew him. In the spring of this year he joined a surveying party at Payette Lakes, Idaho. A few days afterwards he was

188 IMPROVEMENT ERA taken ill with spotted fever, caused by the bite of a sheep tick. All that could be done for him, was done, but to no avail. He was born Oct. 8, 1900, at Provo, Utah. The remains of an unknown soldier, who died in France, were laid to rest, Nov. 11, '"armistice day," on a wooded ridge beside the Potomac, in a crypt hewn out of the rock that forms the terrace of the memorial amphitheater, erected in the Arlington, cemetery in honor of men who died on the various battlefields during the war. President Harding delivered an eloquent eulogy. Ex-President Wilson was the object of a popular demonstration when his carriage entered the funeral procession, and later, at his home. The day was observed in Utah and all other parts of the United States as a holiday. The international armament congress convened Nov. 12 in the Memorial Hall of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, and was formally opened by President Harding. Secretary Hughes was elected permanent chairman. He laid before the delegates a plan for naval restriction, comprising the scrapping of 66 capital ships — the United States 30, Great Britain 19, and Japan 17 — and the cessation of ship building for ten years, except replacing ships twenty years old or more. The proposi- tion, it is said, came like a bomb among the delegates, but no adverse comments were made, and later Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan all agreed to the proposition in spirit and principle. The Silesian question was settled by the Council of the League of Nations,' Oct. 12, as far as the council is concerned. The decision recommends a new frontier with a guarantee against the dislocation of economic conditions extending over a period long enough to permit the region to adapt itself to the new economic situation. The German chan- celor, when reports of the decision reached him, was indignant because it separates German towns from the "empire" and places them under foreign dominion. The president of the council, Viscount Ishi, at the close of the session said that body had happily solved one of the most difficult questions, and he added: "The solution we have reached cannot fail to contribute in large measure to the mainteance of the peace of Europe and the world." Marshal Foch arrived in New York, Oct. 28, and received a hearty wel- come. A hundred miles from the shore, the Paris, on which he was travel- ing, was met by Twelve American destroyers. Then a squadron of seaplanes appeared. At Quarantine he was transferred to the navy cutter Vigilant, and when he set foot on American soil, a few yards from Castle Garden, he found a reception that passed all imagination. From widows and roofs men and women, thousands of them, were waving American and French flags and the streets were crowded with people, young and old, cheering and shouting. The marshal went to Washington, to call on President Harding. At the Nation's capital, no Frenchman, since the days of Lafayette, has received so hearty a welcome as that given to the celebrated warrior. The marshal, as soon after his arrival as possible, went to see ex-President Wilson, but the latter was unable to receive him, owing to the state of his health. An attempt to assassinate Myron T. Herrich, American ambassador to France, was made Oct. 19. A small package addressed to him lay on his table in the embassy in Paris. Thinking it a gift, the ambassador's secretary, carried it to the ambassador's residence. Early this evening the ambassador's valet, Blanchard, saw the package on a desk and started to open it. Almost, immediately a spring was released and as he lifted the lid, Blanchard, who formerly was a bomber in the British army, heard a

PASSING EVEVNTS 189 familiar noise. He hurled the box through the bathroom door and ran. The bomb exploded in the doorway, two fragments hitting him in the back. The bomb is believed by the police to have been sent by French com- munists as a protest against the conviction of two communists in the United States charged with murder. Threatening letters have also been received at the American consulates at Paris, Bordeaux, Lyons, and Marseilles, and by Ambassador Harvey in London. A signal recognition of the sugar industry of the intermountain West, is the $10,000,000 loan fund made available to western sugar interests of Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Colorado, by the government, as agreed on by the War Finance Corporation, Oct. 18. That is the declaration of Prest. Heber J. Grant, on his return from the east, Nov. 10, where he visited for about a month, in the interest of the sugar industry. "The Utah-Idaho and Amalgamated Sugar companies are now," President Grant said, "assured of secure footing and prosperity." On Nov. 15, $4,150,000 was placed to the credit of the Sugar, Finance Corporation formed by the sugar interests by the Federal Reserve Board of Salt Lake. The first instalment of the loan is divided among the sugar companies of the intermountain region, as follows: The Amalgamated Sugar company, $1,800,000; the Layton Sugar company, $180^000; the Springville-Mapleton Sugar company, $90,000 and the Utah-Idaho Sugar company," $2,000,000. The greatest railroad strike in history was threatened Oct. 15, when half a million American railroad men were ordered to walk out on Oct. 30, while other unions, with a total membership of a million and half, announced their intention to follow suit. President Harding immediately summoned the railroad labor board and the interstate commerce commis- sion to a conference on the situation. On Oct. 20, it was stated that the efforts of the board to avert the strike through conferences with the heads of the five unions had proved a failure, but on Oct. 27, the dis- patches announced that the strike had been averted by the leaders of the switchmen, trainmen, conductors, engineers and firemen at a joint meet- ing adopting resolutions withdrawing authorization of a walkout. The officials of the railroad telegraphers' organization announced they would take similar action. These were the only unions which had authorized a strike. The vote was taken after the U. S. Railroad Labor Board had declared that the full force of the government would be brought to bear against the strikers. The death of* Philander Chase Knox, U. S. senator from Pennsylvania, and secretary of state under President Taft, occurred suddenly at Wash- ington, D. C, Oct. 12. He was stricken with paralysis on his way to the dining room and died fifteen minutes later without regaining conscious- ness. Mr. Knox was born at Brownsville Pa.), on May 4, 1853, and was named after a noted Episcopal bishop, Philander Chase. He was gradu- ated from Mt. Union college, Alliance, Ohio, in 1872, admitted to the bar in 1875, appointed by President Grant as assistant United States attorney for the western district of Pennsylvania, but resigned in 1877 and formed a law partnership with James H. Reed, under the name of Knox & Reed. Senator Knox first came into national prominence when in 1901 President McKinley appointed him as attorney general. He retained that office under President Roosevelt until 1904 when he resigned to accept an appointment as United States senator from Pennsylvania to succeed the late Senator Quay. As attorney general he established a record for prosecutions of trusts and combinations and in action against railroads to prevent rebates and discrimination in rates.