--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 31 number: 5 published: 1928-03 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: "Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, “Passing Events,” *Improvement Era* 31, no. 5 (March 1928): 441–443." source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera3105unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera3105unse start_page: 441 end_page: 443 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1928-03) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera3105unse publication_year: 1928 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1928, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Passing Events EVENT Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, on Feb. 13. 1 928. landed safely at Lambert. St. Louis fly- ing field, having completed a 1200-mile non- stop flight from Havana. Cuba, in 15 hours and 35 minutes. Since his departure from Washington. Dec. 13. 1927. for the City of Mexico, he has covered a route, including Central and part of South America and West India, of about 9.000 miles. The trip of the famous aviator has come to be known in this country as the "good-will flight," a term indicating what our government, no doubt, intended it to be — an evidence of our "good will" toward all the American re- publics, including Mexico and Nicaragua. Claims to be a daughter of the late Czar Nicholas of Russia. Mme. Anastasia Tchai- kovsky, who asserts she is the Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolcvna. youngest daughter of the murdered Czar of Russia, and the only one who escaped the massacre of the imperial family at Ekaterinburg in July. 1918. ar- rived in New York. Feb. 8. 1928. on the Berengaria. She will be the guest of Mrs. Wm. B. Leeds, former Princess Xenia. who is one of the believers in the strange story of the woman. A new treaty between the United States and France, to take the place of the treaty ne- gotiated by Elihu Root in 1908. which ex- pires on Feb. 27. 1928. was signed in Wash- ington, Feb. 6. by Undersecretary of State Robert E. Olds for the United States, in the absence of Secretary Kellogg and Ambassador Paul Claudel for France. It was signed on the 150th anniversary of the very first treaty between the two countries, negotiated by Benjamin Franklin in 1778. It provides machinery for the arbitration of all disputes between the two countries, not involving the Monroe Doctrine or the obligations of France to the League of Nations, and it is said to contain, in the preamble, a declaration out- lawing war. Fall River. Mass.. was visited by a devastat- ing fire. Feb. 3. 1928. for the second time in twelve years. The damage done was variously estimated at from seven to twentv-five million dollars. The damage was even greater than that caused by the conflagration of Feb. 16. 1916. which ravaged a similar section of the city. Items in the loss were: Twenty or more buildings destroyed and as many more damaged. Approximately sixty stores and similar business establishments wiped out or so badly damaged that it may be some time before they will operate at normal. Several ihousand persons out of employment. Dr. Walter Jewkes has retired as admin- istrative head of the Bureau of American Ethnology of the Smithsonian Institution, ac- cording to an announcement from Washington. D. C. dated Feb. 5. 1928. Mr. Jewkes is one of the outstanding figures in the Ameri- can world of science. He joined the Smith- sonian staff in 1895. engaging in the field work in the Southwest, where he gathered one of the finest collections of primitive pottery. Later he began extensive archaeological work on the cliff houses of the Southwest. His outstanding archaeological achievement was the excavation and restoration, began in 1908. of the cliff dwellings and temples in Mesa Verde National park, in Colorado. Dr. Friedrich I'rittwit/., the new ambassador from Germany, presented his credentials to President Coolidge. Jan. 31. 1928. The friendly relations between the United States and Germany. President Coolidge said, are a source of particular gratification. "Germany " Dr. Prittwitz replied, "desires cooperation [be- tween nations] because she shares the convic- tion that only peaceful reconstruction can over- come the deep-going consequences of war." Earl Douglas Haig, commander-in-chief of the British forces in France and Belgium during the world war. passed away suddenly in London. Jan. 30. 1928, of heart failure 66 years of age. Death came suddenly and unexpectedly at the home of his sister. Mrs. W. G. Jameson, at Prince's Gate. Countess Haig was not with him. as she was visiting friends. His youthful heir, 10-year-old George Alexander, was ill at the Haig home in Bemersyde. This lad. who now assumes his father's distinguished title, was a child of the war, being born early in 1918, during that heart-breaking crisis to the British armies, when the British armies, commanded by his father, were retreating under the terrible Ger- man onslaught which for a time, it appeared, might spell the downfall of the allies. Wcerjfe Blasco Ibanez. the noted Spanish author, was reported dead. Jan. 27. 1928. at his villa near Mentone. France. He has been active both in politics and literature. His most widely known works are Blood and Sand. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. and Mare Nostrum. Elder Peter S. Christiansen of Salt Lake City, died Jan. 25. 1928. in Copenhagen Denmark, according to a cablegram from Pres- ident Joseph Peterson. Elder Christiansen who was accompanied on the mission by his wife. Mrs. Wilhclmina Christiansen, left Salt Lake City. May 4. 1926. He was born in Aarhus. Denmark. February 26. 1861. and came to Salt Lake thirty-five years ago. He has been active in the L. D. S. Church for a number of years. Mr. Christiansen is sur- 446 IMPROVEMENT ERA vived by his widow and three children, Kaja. Oscar and Henry Christiansen, all of Salt Lake. The body was shipped from Denmark. Feb. 2, for interment in Salt Lake City. His Salt Lake residence was 642 Bryant Avenue. For a number of years. Elder Christiansen was con- nected with the Danish-Norwegian weekly publication. Bikuben. At the time of his death he edited Skandinaviens Stjerne, a mission pa- per published in Copenhagen. Pres. Wm. T. Cosgrave, of the Irish Free State, visited the United States congress on Jan. 25. Addressing the Senate he said: "Benjamin Franklin came to my country 150 years ago and told the Irish parliament that the Irish people and the Americans alike were fighting for freedom. I have now come to repay the visit of that great man." Both the senate and the house acknowledged the pres- ence of the visitor by recessing for a few min- utes The object of the visit of Mr. Cos- grave is. possibly, to remind the world that Ireland now is an independent state in the great British empire, entitled to the same recognition as other republics. George Washington Coethals, constructor of the Panama Canal, passed away at his home in New York, after a lingering illness. 70 years of age. Despite his long years in the Canal Zone, so deadly a place until he him- self saw the necessity of ridding it of pestilence, and his arduous career in other places, Gen- eral Goethals retained his robust health until recently, and only in the past few months did illness lay a heavy hand upon him. Two months ago he became seriously ill. From that time until death his strength had been slowly slipping from him and. just at noon, death at last terminated the long career of the famous engineer. The story of the death of Fred Hoyt. an aviator who perished in the mountains. 32 miles from Snowville, Utah, and 22 miles from Holbrook, Idaho, is told in notes which he wrote before his eyes closed in the eternal sleep. He left Salt Lake City, Jan. 14. 1928. at 1 p. m.. and an hour later encountered fog in Strevell pass. Soon ice began to form and the plane was sinking. When he lost control, he jumped and landed in the snow. It was then 3 p. m. He now tried an unequal fight against cold and hunger. The last note was written Jan. 15 at 3:00 p. m. He had then decided to stay where he was till the following day. The bodv was found seven days after- wards, ten miles from where the ill-fated aviator had made his parachute landing. It seems that on his way down the Crazy can- yon he had passed a ranch cabin, well stocked with provisions, within 200 vards of his path, hidden among the trees. The body was taken to Ogden Jan. 22. and from there ship- ped to the coast. Mr. Hovt had been married onlv a month, and one of his notes was ad- dressed to his wife. The bodies of the martyred Prophet Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum Smith, the Patriarch, were exhumed and buried, Jan 20. 1928, in crypts in the family lot, at Nauvoo. 111., according to an account published by the newspapers. The remains, the account says, had been discovered by W. O. Hand, of Kansas City, Mo., a member of the Re organite church, buried in "the basement of a squalid, deserted house in Nauvoo," and the identification was made by Frederick M. Smith, the leader of that sect, who, at the same time, announced his intention of having a grand monument erected in honor of the martyrs. The body of Emma Smith was also exhumed and placed by the side of the re- mains now supposed to be those of her hus- band and his brother. The conference of the women on the cause and cure of war, in session in Washington. D. C, on Jan. 18, 1928, endorsed the move of the state department for a treaty renounc- ing war. Endorsement was also given the resolution of Representative Burton of Ohio under which the sale of arms to any country defined by the president as an "aggressor na- tion" would be prohibited. Several speakers voiced opposition to the proposed naval-build- ing program. Discussion centered, too, upon plans for the organized development of public opinion in favor of peace by the nine wom- en's organizations represented at the conference. The sessions of the Sixth Pan-American congress began at Havana, Jan. 18. 1928. with addresses and assurances of good will. Dr. Antonio Sanchez Bustamente, a Cuban, was elected president of the congress, and Charles Evans Hughes, chairman of the Amer- ican delegation, vice-president. Committees to deal with the various subjects on the agenda were appointed. An impressive fea- ture of the day was the raising of the flags of the 21 nations, members of the Union. The flag of the United States and each flag in turn was cheered, but the flags of Mexico and Nicaragua came in for a great wave of popular acclaim. For Nicaragua there were shouts of "Viva Nicaragua!" and an outburst of cheers that drowned the national anthem played by a Cuban band. The congress clear- ly showed its sympathy with the afflicted Central American republic. President Nibley's birthday. Commemorat- ing the seventy-ninth birthday of President C. W. Nibley of the First Presidency, a sacrament meeting was held at the Nibley residence, 75 North West Temple street, Sunday. A family dinner, which was attended by 21 relatives, was held Saturday evening in the Hotel Utah. Funeral services for Mrs. Martha T. Cannon. wife of the late President George Q. Cannon, who passed away at the home of her daughter. Mrs. C. Clarence Neslen, Feb. 5, 1928, were held Feb. 7, in the Twentieth ward chapel. She was born May 28. 1846. in St. Louis. PASSING EVENTS 447 Mo. Her lather. Lewis Telle, and mother. Amelia Rogers Telle, both died in her early childhood and she was adopted into the family of her aunt. Mrs. George Beebe. With them she went to live in Polk City. Iowa, in which place she spent her girlhood. Her people having joined the Church, she accompanied them to Utah when she was about 15. Shortly thereafter the family returned to Iowa, where Mrs. Cannon entered college. In 1866. she again set out for Utah without her family. On arrival in Salt Lake, she engaged in school teaching and continued therein until her mar- riage to President Cannon in 1868. There have been born to her nine children, all living, as follow: Mrs. Hester C. Richards and Mrs. Amelia C. Chamberlin. twins: Lewis Telle Cannon. Brigham T. Cannon. Willard T. Cannon. Mrs. Grace C. Ncslen. Radcliffc Q. Cannon, all of Salt Lake; Espy T. Cannon, Los Angeles, and Collins T. Cannon, Logan. Utah. The carl of Oxford and Asquith, Herbert H. Asquith, died. Feb. 15. 1928, at Sutton Courtenay, England, 75 years of age. He stood at the head of the British government in 1914, when the war broke out and during the first and perhaps most critical months of the conflict. But as the storm continued to rage without any visible signs of abate- ment, public opinion turned against him. and the more picturesque politician. David Lloyd George, replaced him. Asquith was born Sept. 12. 1852. of a middle-class, noncon- formist Yorkshire family. His father died when he was 8 and the boy went to London to school. At school he won many prizes: then two scholarships to Balloil col- lege came his way. At Oxford he developed as an orator, and. like Lords Curzon. Grey and Milner. belonged to the famous Oxford intellectual clique. influenced by Jowett. Young Asquith made no profession toward athletics, but was more human than John Morlcy. who never knew any physical rec- reation but walking. Asquith played quoits: in later life, golf was his recreation. He ac- cepted his earldom in 1925. The Thomas D. Dee Memorial Hospital. President Heber J. Grant offered the dedi- catory prayer and delivered the principal ad- dress at services held here Feb. 11. 1928, the occasion being the completion of the new $150,000 addition on the north end of tin building. Hundreds of visitors were in at tendance at the interesting s, i The first number of Utah Historical Quar- terly, a new periodical, published by the Board of Control Utah State Historical Society, was issued in January, 1928. Other numbers will appear in April, July and October. Be- side the names of the Board of Control, Executive Officers. Articles of lncorpora tion. By-laws, etc., the January number con- tains three interesting articles: "Salutatory," by Albert F. Philips: "Indian Names in Utah Geography." by Wm. R. Palmer, and "Some Useful Early Utah Indian References." by J. Cecil Alter. Sarah Jane Wilson Tempest ended her use- ful earth career on January 9. 1928. at the home of her daughter. Mrs. Louise C. Ander- son, in the Rexburg Third ward. Idaho. Mrs. Tempest was born in Stockport. England. April 15. 1842. She was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latier-djv Saints, in 1857, by Elder Seymour B. Young: and was ever an untiring worker, being the presiding officer of her ward Relief Society for many years, counselor in the presidency cf the Y. L. M. I. A., and held other Church offices. On her way to Utah, in 1866. she stopped at Nebraska City, where she was married to Phineus Tempest on September 27. This union was blessed with eight children, six of whom, together with her husband, sur- vive her. The funeral services were held January 1 2 in the Rexburg First ward chapel. The Hill Cumorah. located near Palmyra. New York, one of the outstanding landmarks and points of interest in the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has been offered for sale to the Church, includ- ing certain adjacent farm lands, by the ad- ministrators of the estate of Pliny T. Sexton, who owned the property. An acceptance of the offer by the First Presidency was immedi- ately wired, according to a recent announce- ment by President Heber J. Grant. It was from this hill that the Prophet Joseph Smith, under the direction of the angel Moroni, obtained the golden plates from which the Book of Mormon was translated