Passing Events

President Charles W . Penrose left, July 18, for a trip to the Pacific Coast, where he will spend his summer vacation. Senator Reed Smoot was received in audience by King Haakon, of Noi- way, July 28. He brought greetings to the king from President Harding. The Cuno cabinet resigned, August 12, and Dr. Gustave Streseman was appointed German Chancellor. It is believed that this change will be of the utmost importance to the general European situation. Rear Admiral Charles D. Sigsbee died, July 19, in New York, of heart disease, 78 years old. He commanded the Maine, when the battleship was destroyed in the Havana harbor, Feb. 15, 1898. Alfred Wm. McCune, Jr., died, July 12, at the home of his father, A. W. McCune, Sr., in Los Angeles, Cal. For a number of years he was a mining engineer of the Cerro de Pasco Mining Co., in Peru. The death was caused by cancer. , The French and Belgian replies to the British note on Germany were handed to Lord Curzon, British secretary of state for foreign affairs, July 30. The contents were not made public, and no hope was .held out for a speedy settlement of the questions at issue. The Washington treaty for naval armaments was ratified by the French senate, July 11. It had been ratified by the Deputies July 7. The Senate also ratified the Four-power Pacific treaty, previously ratified by the Chamber. Both are therefore now effective. England opposes France in her Ruhr policy, according to an address de- livered by the British prime minister, Mr. Baldwin, in parliament, July 12. Mr. Baldwin characterized the French policy as a menace to peace. Poin- care on July 15 declared that France is not going to give up the Ruhr. Utah is the sixth state in the Union in the matter of ownership of homes, and the 21st in the ownership of autos. California ranks as the 35th in the ownership of homes and the 5th in autos, says a report published July 16. Elder George S. Taylor and Mrs. Taylor returned, Aug. 1, to Salt Lake City from New Zealand, where Brother Taylor has presided over the mis- sion. He reports that the Church is growing rapidly there. He says there are 6,000 members. Fifty-three missionaries are laboring there. Dr. Nansen has urged Germany to join the League of Nation's, accord- ing to messages received, July 18, by the German League for Human Rights. Professor Einstein and Herr Paul Loebe, president of the reichstag, sup- ported Dr. Nansen in the view that "the leading politicians of Germany must negotiate now, before it is too late." U. S. Senator Wm. P. Dillingham, of Vermont, died July 13, at Mont- pelier, Vt., after a short illness following an operation for gall trouble. He was born Dec. 12, 1843. He has been a United States senator since 1900. He was in line for the chairmanship of the judiciary committee. Senator Brandigee of Connecticut is the next in the line. The Y. L. M. I. A. home at Brighton was opened, Sunday, July 15.

1070 IMPROVEMENT ERA Approximately 150 persons were present, in addition to the girls registered there for a week's outing. President Heber J. Grant officiated at the open- ing ceremonies. Many of the young ladies have enjoyed the home during the summer, and all pronounce it a wonderful location for rest and recrea- tion. New mission presidents have been appointed as follows: Ernest L. Butler, of Boise, Idaho, to preside over the Samoan mission, and H. A. Robinson, of Springville, to preside over the Japanese mission. Elder Butler succeeds President John Q. Adams, of Riverside, Box Elder Co., and Elder Robinson succeeds President Lloyd O. Ivie, who has been in Japan since 1921. Soviet Russia accepts the convention regarding th3 Turkish straits, as formulated at Lausanne. By this move, Russia, it is thought, though not recognized, is brought into official relations with the other European powers that have accepted the convention, as co-signatory of an international pact. The Turks, it seems, induced the Russians to make this fine maneuver for entrance into the family of nations through a back door. One hut.dred and thirty-eight miners in No. 1 mine of the Kemmerer Coal Company were entombed August 14, following an explosion in the lower levels. No intonation was heard above ground, but black smoke from the mine fan indicated the disaster. Relief workers immediately went to work. Thirty-seven victims were taken out alive, but all hope of rescue- ing the remaining workers was soon abandoned. Arthur G. Bruner and Reed Pond have entered the naval academy at Annapolis. Pond is the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Pond of 412 First avenue, Salt Lake City. At the time of his appointment to the academy he was a student at the East High school and was first lieutenant in the cadet corps of that school. Bruner was graduated from the East High school in June, 1922, and is the son of Howard Bruner, freight claim agent of the Oregon Short Line railroad system. Lieut. Russell Lowell Maughan left Mineola, L. I., July 19 at 4:08 a. m., eastern standard time in his second attempt to cross the continent between daylight in the morning and dark at night. He came as far as Rock Springs, Wyo., at 5:08 p. m., when he had to abandon the attempt, owing to a leak in the oil cooler. He had been in the air 14 hours and 9 minutes and had rested at Dayton, St. Joseph, and Cheyenne 1 hour and 51 minutes. He was within 645 miles of the end of his flight. He had covered more than two-thirds of the distance across the United States, from coast to coast. Miles A. Romney died suddenly, Aug. 1, at his home in Salt Lake City, of heart failure, following an attack of acute gastritis. He was working in his garden and, after complaining of not feeling well, went into his house. He died before medical assistance could be summoned. Mr. Romney was manager of the wholesale and retail rug and carpet department, and had been with the Z. C. M. I. for forty-two years. He was born August 14, 1862, and had lived the greater part of his life in Salt Lake. He was the son of the late Bishop George Romney and Vilate Romney. The Lausanne peace treaty was signed, July 24, by Turkey, Greece, France, Italy, Great Britain, Rumania, and Japan. Jugo-Slavia refused to sign. By this treaty Turkey regains eastern Thrace, with Constantinople, and sanctions the exile of Greeks from Turkey and Turks from Greek terri- tory. It fails to settle the Armenian question. It excludes Syria, Mesopotamia, and Palestine from Turkish dominion, but it makes Turkey a strong power by ridding it of judicial capitulations and establishing it as a bridge between the East and the West, and giving it a standing in the League of Nations on terms of equality with the other members.

PASSING EVENTS 1071 Raymon Wilcox was found dead in bed, July 20, at his hotel in Lake City, Colo. The sad news was conveyed to his parents, Dr. and Mrs. Charles F. Wilcox, Salt Lake City, in a dispatch from Lake City. The young man is survived by a wife, the daughter of Judge Charles H. Hart of Salt Lake, and two small children. Mr. Wilcox filled a mission in Germany and later served in the army air service during the world war, and after the armistice returned to Salt Lake. Last November he accepted a position as auditor in Pueblo and removed his family to that city where he has since resided. He was formerly employed in the city auditor's office here. Mrs. Julina Smith Peery, wife of Joseph S. Peery, died at the Dee Hos- pital, Ogden, Aug. 1. She was born in Salt Lake, February 10, 1884. As a girl she was a prominent worker in the primary department of the Church. For five years she had been a bureau of information guide on the temple block. She is survived by her husband and six children, Joseph Smith Peery, 12 years of age, Luacine, 10; Julina, 7; Elizabeth Louise, 6; Mar- garet, 4; and David Harold, 2; by her mother, Mrs. Julina Lambson Smith, and nine brothers and sisters, Mrs. Mary S. Peterson, Mrs. Donnette S. Kesler, Joseph Fielding Smith of the Council of the Twelve, Bishop David A. Smith, George C. Smith, Elias Wesley Smith, Mrs. Emily S. Walker, Mrs. Rachel S. Taylor and Mrs. Edith S. Patrick, all of Salt Lake. Frederick A. H. F. Mitchell, of Logan, died there, at his home, July 26, after an illness of several months, at the age of 88 years. He was born in Sheffield, England, and came to this country with his parents, arriving in Salt Lake in September, 1854. He was married to Margaret Thompson in 1855 and soon after went to Hawaii, being one of the earliest of mission- aries in that field. He went on two subsequent missions, another to Hawaii, and one to England, where he was president of the Newcastle conference. He held various important positions in the Church and for several years was a patriarch. Mr. Mitchell also engaged in several business enterprises. He was one of the founders of the Godbe-Mitchell Mercantile company, and spent three years as buyer for the various mercantile and dry goods stores of Salt Lake. Bishop Joseph S. Tingey of Farmers ward, died, July 25, at his home, Salt Lake City, after a lingering illness, caused by a nervous breakdown. Bishop Tingey had been an active and intelligent worker in the Church most of his life, having filled a mission to England, and before that time had acted as Sunday school superintendent in Farmers ward prior to be- coming bishop. He has been connected with the Deseret News printing de- partment for forty-eight years. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Martha Home Tingey, a brother, F. S. Tingey; two sisters, Mrs. Phoebe T. Nebekcr and Mrs. E. L. Sloan, and the following sons and daughters, Joseph S. Tingey, Jr., Clarence H. Tingey, William H. Tingey, Clara Tingey and Rulon H. Tingey, who is on a mission in New Zealand. Bishop Tingey was born in Salt Lake City, July 16, 1857, the son of Bishop John and Phoebe Stafford Tingey. Funeral services were held in Farmers ward chapel, Sunday, July 29. Francisco Villa was hilled, July 20, by some assassins in ambush, near Parral, a mining town in southern Chihuahua. His secretary, Miguel Trillo, and three other men are said to have been killed with him. His real name was Doreteo Orango. He was born in 1868 of peon parentage. It is said that in his youth he killed a captain in one of President Diaz' regiments. Then a prize was set on his head, whereupon he changed his name to Villa, organized a band of outlaws, and became a terror to peaceful set- tlers. Villa has played a prominent part in the various revolutions in Mexico. At one time he was at the head of 35,000 men. When, finally, he surrendered to Huerta he demanded and was granted an allowance in

1072 IMPROVEMENT ERA land and money equal to about $2,000,000. One of his most notable escapades was his raid on Columbus, N. M., on March 6, 1916, in which he and his followers killed seventeen Americans. It resulted in a punitive American military expedition under General Pershing crossing the border and maintaining a "dead or alive" pursuit of Villa which lasted more than nine months and cost the United States government, according to a war department estimate, nearly $100,000,000. In a battle at Parral, Amer- ican troopers were ambushed and a number of them killed. On March 31, however, the bandit's followers were defeated at Guerrero. The Amer- icans penetrated so far south into Mexico as to meet the constitutionalist troops of Carranza who, ostensibly, were also in pursuit of the renegade Mexican leader. A great storm passed over Salt Lake City and along the Wasatch moun- tains to the north, causing immense damage between this city and Brig- ham City on the evening of August 13. At Farmington and Lagoon the damage was at first estimated at $150,000. A thirty -foot flood caused by cloud burst rushed down the Farmington Canyon carrying before it trees, boulders and buildings. Several people who were in the canyon were engulfed in the mass and carried down with it to death. Among them were four boy scouts, George Harrison Jackson, Vern and Ted Rudy and Wilford Langton, of Salt Lake City. The residence of Orson Hyde at the mouth of the Canyon was swept away and other buildings in the way of the flood were destroyed. Tons of mud, logs and rocks were carried on to the main road and Lagoon. Mr. Arnold Christensen who lived at Lagoon with his family died through over exertion in rescuing his wife and chil- dren from the debris of the swollen waters. Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Wright, of Ogden, who were encamped in the canyon were caught and killed, parts of the body of Mrs. Wright being found at different places. Railroad traf- fic over the Bamberger line was made impossible. Fertile fields were covered with large boulders. Automobiles were marooned in the mud and held fast. At Willard even greater damage was done, estimated at over one-half million dollars. Entire families are homeless. The wife and mother of Earl Ward were killed in the crest of water which swept down upon the town, some fifteen to twenty feet high and it was feared some tourists were also lost. In some places the mud and debris was four to eight feet high. Many homes were destroyed. The water works pipeline was damaged by a boulder weighing about three tons. Orchard and farm crops suffered the greatest damage, and a number of horses were drowned. Centerville also suffered and altogether, nine lives are reported lost in the three places. Gov- ernor Mabey immediately issued a proclamation asking for financial aid for the stricken districts. SURELY, SEE THESE FIRST! THE GENUINE "Must Make ^ ''Made Good or We fjU ^TYLE in war jf^ Utah" L. D. S. GARMENTS ALL CORRECT STYLES Write or Phone for Samples Appointing Agents in all Districts NU STYLE GARMENT CO. Box No. 3 Sugar House, Utah Phone Hy. 996