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The Salt Lake Tribune from Salt Lake City, Utah • 35

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Salt Lake City, Utah
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35
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7 WHITE RULER OF VOODOO ISLE RELATES CAREER TIIE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING APRIL 12 1931 MOUNT PLEASANT-Mrs Ethel Rumey of Salt Lake grand lecturer of the grand chapter of Utah will make her official visitation to Ivy chapter No 10 Monday evening Marine Corps Emperor of Voodoo Isle GIVES BUIE HVAY i RENO Nev (UP)-Under thc'ln-flucnce of llqubr Mrs Pearl Marconi Indian woinmi gate her papoose to a negro woman Chief of Police Kirkley who gave the squaw a bed at the citv Jail at her own request succeeded In locating the child Tells How He Ruled Li Gonave I SEARCH SHOWS LOCATION OF START Man King in La Gonave DENTAL CLIMC USES BUS PHILADELPHIA (UP) The Philadelphia Moutfi Hygiene association has purchased a luige bus which hns been equipped as a motorized dental clinic 'for work among the children in the poorer sections The association woiks with the school authorities in nil effort to teach clnldicn ptcveniive dentistry T' SCOTS SMB MIDGET GOLF GLASGOW Midget golf has tailed here but the course establishments me doing a good business Thov seem to possess more ol the clement of pcimunency and are good tippioMinaUon to the real thing Ioweiing the pi ices from 12 cents to 6 cents lias helped bii'iness Do You Have These Complexion Dejects Pimples Enlarged or Clogged Pores Roughness and Dryness Then try the Reslnol Reslnol Soap to cleanse and reduce the Reslnol Oint-meut to clear away the pimples roughness and dryness The treatment that has changed many an ugly akin to one that is clear and velvet Sample each free Write Reslnol Dept 4-2 Baltimore Md Reslnol Tno Americana Find Silc of First Quarter of Patriotic Group member or tlie SoJetyof the Cincinnati Is piofessor of geography in the National University ol Mexico and a fellow of the Rouil Geographical society London Scottish Hoyal Geographical society Edinburgh and American Oeographlcnl society New York Besides CJeneral Klrbv-Smith the following nonfcdciatc leaders were members of the Aztec club of 1847 Jelfenon Davis Robert -Lae Joseph Johnston Bc-mire-miid John 13 Migruder Geoige Pickett and James hongslreet Iril-eial general-s who weie member of the club included William Sliei-mun Philip II Shrndan Joseph Hooker and Oeorge Meade also Commodoi David Farragut Cap-lain John Reynolds Commodoie David Porter and General Ulysses Giant Three former members Znclian Taylor Franklin Pierce and Giant have been presidents of the United States 7 he purpose of the clitb is to cherish tile names and deeds of those who participated in the Mexican wai and Inculcating itnd stimulating patiiotism among Americans NEW YORK The dolphin shaped piece of land 40 miles long 30 rnlle northwest of Port-au-Prlncp capital ol Haiti isfaraway Xrom the white king who has luled over the black populace t0 civilization of Fatis-I1 Wh-kus hna left this little it and of emerald verdme fringed coral where voodoo Ule lm vho if Jointly with toal black Oneen fell a Haitian lie a Ik'u- rmr-06 UlC UnHctl Stucs ma- On arrival here this 29-jear-old rauilln E- Wirkus born in 0( P'Ctston Pa near Barre-11 the core of the coal fnaiT8 and district of tliat VmLLfUi tol(i llow he became Kmg of the island and learned more about magical voodoo rites and dances than any other living man jP the time that he was 20 nd had run away to Join the 111a-rines the name meant little to him except something out of geography book He proved to be an excellent soldier and it was not long befoie he was promoted to a top sergeantcy In 1920 he made a trip to La Gonave a sailboat Just satisfy his curiosity and the lila nd Interested him A bit later in Haiti he met a fat woman who fs breu arrcsted by the Haitian authorities for some trifling offense and talked to her She was Queen Tt Memenne of the island of La Go-nave She learned Uiat his name was Faustin the name of an emperor of Haiti 80 cars ago There Was a tradition in Uie lsiand of "one Who is to come So she foretold their meeting soon again Wtrkus asked for the detail of be-1 lng the marine stationed on the Island not because of Queen T1 Memenne who was extremely fat end the young marine on his return GRAHAM CARS SO BEAUTIFULLY PERFORM By JU'K STAKR-lirvr MEXICO CITY original home of the Avlee club -of 1847 second i unking Anunraii paluotic soei-ely in point oi ngc lias been located in Mexico Cilv after several vears ol search by Edmund Kiibv-Smlth and Major Otto Holstein two Americans resident in Mexico The building is at Cinco de klajo and Isabel la Cas-tolica The Aztec club of 1847 was organized October 13 1847 when the United Stales army was quietly established in Mexico City and a meeting of officers was called to form an organization and open a clubhouse This club today Is composed of the eldest sons or neaiest lelatives of officers in the Mexican war It is the Mexican war organization as the Society of the Cincinnati oldest patriotic society in the United Slates is the revolutionai war organization Membership regulations of the two organizations are similar In 1923 the Aztec club of 1847 obtained office space in the Munitions building in Washington and its file eases and boxes were moved there Three members of the club lne in Mexico City Mr Kirby-Smitli is a member as soil of General Edmund Kii by-Smith His son Edmund Ku-b -Smith Jr who has also been admitted to membership is a lieutenant in the United States navv His uncle Captain Ephraim Kirbj-Smltli was killed in the battle of Chapultepec Major Holstein also a YOUR OLD BED SPRINGS ARE WORTH SYNCHRO-SILENT FOUR-SPEED TRANSMISSION-HYDRAULIC INTERNAL-EXPANDING 4 WHEEL CAM AND ROLLER AND 50 OTHER LET US SHOW YOU Prices ot the factory $845 up for the Sixes $1155 up for the Eights BLAIR MOTOR CO INTLRMOt'NrAIN DISTRIBUTORS ns Mill II UN ST WAS 25IS SAI LAKE CITY 11 411 57 WEST FIRST NUKT1I LOGAN CITV UTAH A A A A the Detroit Smphony Orehei4xK ami Edgar A Oueet Americas the Oralium Rttdiu Eery Sunday Evening at 730 over KDYL SEL FRONT PAGC SECTION 3 Ex-Sergeant Iauxtin YVirkus of the I'nited Stales marines late King i of the voodo Isle of La Gonave off Haiti returns to New York and re- New York has clearly expressed lates his thrilling experiences when he ruled over 12090 subjects and watched their mystic voodoo rites The young man a nxlive of I Pa ruled the kingdom jointly with the fat and robust Oueen Ti Memenne hut although she was his queen she was not hts wife as the sshitc emperor of La Gonave has a posittv disldic for fat women Wasatch Academy Honors Founders his dislike of fat women Gradually by helping the natives with their problems he gained the confidence of the negroes and then by suggestion of Queen Ti Memenne herself they decided to declare him king The coronation of King Wlrkus pmv's MT PLEASANT-Wasatch acad-annual tiav celc- rm cErnnau-re yGxip Clean oil lifeguard the life of bearings and other moving pert in your engine But it moat be dean And the way to keep it clean is to renew your oil filter cartridge every 10000 miles took place with an elaborate cere- bration maikmgtlic fifty -sixth an monv Tlags flapped over his head niversai of the founding of the flowers and palm branches were school will be held Monday Apul 20 strewn in his path an enormous yel- beginning with an all-school banquet low silk bandanna was dianed the dining hall at 6 around his figure and maclietsl Following the banquet a musical were laid upon his shoulders Hepr0gram will be presented in the was earned around the elide seated Johns gymnasium and tie club in a chair (under direction of Miss Madge Perhaps if his quetn who was not Mnchmore will present three one- his wife was not a squat negresf bulkily muscular rather thah adipose big and heavy and if this boy from Pittston Pa did not dislike fat women to much arrangements may have been made wheieby he could have still retained his unique post as white emperor of La Gonave act plays This will also mark the opening of the gym as an auditorium to be used In the future for all school plays add programs The stage 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