Passing Events

-<^>-- xc EVENTS The Salt Lake Theatre Sold. Mr. F. H. Rcid, president of the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company, an- nounced, April 14, 1928, that the com- pariy had purchased the Salt Lake Theatre for the sum of $200,000, for the purpose of, ultimately, constructing a large tele- phone headquarters on the lot now occu- pied by the historic building. The ex- ecutive board of the State Central Com- pany, Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, on April 16, 1928, passed a resolution of protest against the sale, and expressing a wish to purchase the building from, the Telephone Company. Captain Edmund Tattle Hulaniski, Ogden, died, April 15, 1928, in his home here, 80 years old. For forty-five years he has been a resident of Ogden. During the Civil War he was known as the young- est commissioned officer in the Union army. He was born in Dowagiac, Mich., June 19, 1848. He enlisted in the First New York marine artillery, July 5, 1862. After serving nine months in North Car- olina, the organization was mustered out on account of heavy losses of men. He enlisted in Ballon's Chicago battery, and was discharged, November 5, 1864, for disability. He then organized and fi- nanced the 3 1 2th U. S. Negro artillery, was commissioned as captain in Chicago by President Lincoln, when still a boy of 16, on November 26, 1864, and was mustered out April 24, 1866. His last service was guarding the people of Kentucky against the raids of guerrillas. Chancey M. Depew passed away in New York, in his 94th year, after a brief ill- ness, April 5, 1928. He had returned from a trip to Florida and suffered from a cold. His condition was not thought alarming. but pneumonia developed. Depew was famous as an orator. He was chairman of the board of directors of the New York Central Railroad, and served a number of years in the U. S. Senate. The immense equestrian statue of Robert E. Lee, which forms part of the memorial which is being carved on Stone Mountain, near Atlanta, Georgia, was unveiled April 9, 1928, sixty-three years after Appoma- tox, in the presence of civil and military dignitaries from the North and South. In the Congressional party was Senator Reed Smoot from Utah. Of the magnitude of the scale on which this memorial is being wrought, an idea may be formed by the statement that the image of Gen. Lee's historic horse, "Traveler," measures 175 feet from car tips to tail. Skull of a Camel Found in Utah. Ex- amination of a camel skull found recently in Utah, has led Professor Alfred S. Romer, paleontologist at the University of Chicago, to believe that native camels have lived in the western parts of the United States in recent times. It has formerly been supposed that that animal became extinct about half a million years ago. It is recalled, says an Associated Press dis- patch, that prospectors of the forties claimed to have seen queer, camel-like, humpless animals in Nevada. America's Peace Plan. Mr. Hugh Gib- son, one of the American delegates at the meeting of the preparatory disarmament commission of the League of Nations at Geneva, presented on March 21, 1928. the American proposition for the out- lawry of war in all the world. In so doing he said: "The American govern- ment believes whole-heartedly that a mul- tilateral treaty outlawing war would be welcomed by the whole world, and be- lieves that such a treaty would be more successful in attaining world peace than any scheme of disarmament, however drastic." Peace Proposition Turned Down. At the meeting of the preparatory disarm- ament commission at Geneva, March 20. 1928, a proposition by the Russian rep- resentative, M. Litvinoff, that the powers disband their armies and navies, was turned down. Lord Cushenden. speak- ing for Great Britain, said the time for such a radical step bad not yet come. Great

628 IMPROVEMENT ERA Britain, he said, was willing to abolish submarines and reduce other naval units, and continue the reduction in tonnage. Disarmament was reachable, he said, only by progressive stages and not by a sudden bound. France. Italy and Japan lined up against Litvinoff. The representatives of the United States said nothing. Aviators Fly to Death. Second Lieu- tenant Donald Ferguson Gayer, former flying instructor in Ohio national guard and regular army flier, and Marlow Mor- rill, an aviator from Provo, crashed to death near Airport, Salt Lake City, on March 22, 1928, in the presence of many spectators. According to Leland Madsen. Morrill's partner, he and Morrill had come to Salt L.ake with the idea of purchasing an airplane. They sought a demonstration, and it was during the demonstration flight that the fatality oc- curred. Madsen, W. P. Van Fleet, a student flier, and R. Shaffer, also a student flier, were watching the plane when it started on its fatal plunge. Clinton Mc- Lean, city salesman for the Air Service and Survey company, also watched the flight. He said that the plane seemed to turn over on its wings and then plunge, nose down- ward, to the earth. Terrifying phenomena accompanied an earthquake which shook Smyrna, in Asia Minor, March 3L 1928. Sixty persons, all Turks, are reported dead in the quake. Witnesses of the disaster say there was a play of celestial electricity shortly before the first shock. The waters of the sea near the shore rose and whirled and re- ceded as if boiling over a hot fire in an open kettle. Terror-stricken inhabitants of the city and suburbs fell to their knees in prayer. Then came silence. Next a tremendous roaring rumble was heard, greater than thunder. The earth quivered a moment, then shook and fairly rocked. This was the first shock. Eight others followed at short intervals. Urge the Adoption of a Peace Treaty. A group of prominent Americans in a let- ter to President Coolidge, dated March 18, 1928, urged the government to negotiate a multilateral treaty outlawing aggressive war. Among the signatories to the letter were Major General John F. ORyan, S. Parkes Cadman. Major General Henry T. Allen, Henry J. Allen, former governor of Kansas: Harry Emerson Fosdick and William Allen White. It favored making the outlawry of aggressive war a funda- mental principle of international law. Looking for a new planet. The tele- scope of Lick observatory, of the University of California, has for some days been trained on the sky to locate a new planet said to have invaded our solar system. It had not been found on March 31, but Professor R. G. Allen, associated director of Lick observatory, said the theory ad- vanced by Professor William H. Pickering, former Yale astronomer, that the strange orb had pulled other planets from their usual orbits, was being investigated. Sword of Iron in an Indian Mound. A hilt, guard and part of the blade of an iron sword were unearthed March 25, near Carters, Ga., by Dr. Waren K. Moorehead. head of the department of archaeology of Phillip's academy, Andover, Mass. The relic was found amid skeletons and cere- monial objects declared to be of pre-Colum- bian age, but the sword itself is supposed to be a relic of the famous expedition of Hernando de Soto through Georgia in 1540. In addition to the sword, a num ber of arrow heads and some other war implements were found in the mound. Captain Wm. M. Keyting, night chief of police for more than seventeen years, died at his home, 254 West First North St., March 19, at an early hour. He has been considered a very wealthy policeman, but he liked the work, and he was efficient in the performance of the duties of the position he held. He was born in Cleve- land, Ohio, in 185 7, and came to Utah 4 5 years ago. He is survived by two sons and two daughters. The sons are Dr. W. Scott Keyting of Salt Lake and William F. Keyting, who now lives in California. The daughters are Mrs. J. Marcellus Snow and Ella Keyting. Northern States Mission. Elder Noah S. Pond, first counselor to Pres. Wm. A. Hyde of the Pocatello stake, was appointed president of the Northern States mission, to succeed Pres. John H. Taylor, who has held that position since June 30, 1922.