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THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE, MONDAY MORNING, MAY 2, 1932. 7 LITTLE ORPHAN ANNIE "DADDY" SANS ITLL BE ABOUT WELL, HELLO, OH, THINGS COUNTRY ESTATE, ANOTHER WEEK 'FORE HE GETS KNOCK ME MAW GREEN- ARE GOING EH? WELL, THAT'S THE COUNTRY PLACE WITH YOU DON'T PRETTY FINE FOR SOME JUST AS WANTS IT ALL FIXED UP A DOWN WANT TO HIRE GOOD- ALONG RIGHT FOLKS BUT GIVE SURPRISE TRIXIE WE CAN'T IF IT A FIRST -CLASS NOW ME COTTAGE A LITTLE WITH HELP ANY OUT THERE- THE AIN'T LITTLE HAS BOUGHT FLOWERS AND FACT IS, WE'D BE IN TH' WAY ANNIE AND FOR THAT JOB A GORGEOUS GARDEN -A CAT, 16 so 1 THOUGHT IT'D BE NICE SANDY- DO YoU? COUNTRY TALK TO AND TO DRIVE OUT AND SEE HOW HOW ARE ESTATE AND FROGS TO SING TO HE'S FIXIN' IT ME- NO NOSEY MANI GREEN 18 MAKIN' our, NOU, UP GRAND ACN NEIGHBORS THESE DANS ANYWAY: A PRESENT THIS IS THE FOR LIFE FOR ME- 5-2 Re WINNIE WINKLE, THE BREADWINNER WELL, HERE'S ANOTHER DAY'S WORK CM. NOT GOING TO ANSWER THE VING COLUMBALLEE CALLS UP I'LL TEACH THAT CONCEITED PUP A LESSON DONE! I BEEN SETTIN' PHONE IF HERE ALL DAY AN' TONIGHT! NOBODY PHONED VING OR ANYBODY MAT THE GUMPS AS HER Tom IS A THE HEARD LITTLE LATE AT COMING FROM IT IS THE OFFICE TONIGHT88 HENRIETTA IS NOT EXACTLY WORRIED BUT SHE THOUGHT SHE'D JUST GIVE BUZZ HAND SEE IF HE HAS STARTED FOR HOME YET 00 5.2 GASOLINE ALLEY CORKY, HONEY, ISN'T IT JUST WONDERFUL THAT MOTHER -GOT BACK FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY! SHE'S MISSED YOU SO MUCH! HANDS RECEIVER, TOUCHED SHE A SOFT KNOCK THE DOOR TOM BUT WHY DOESN'T HE WALK RIGHT IN KNOCK REAL SOFT KNOCk AT THE DOOR. PICK UP YOUR SANDALS AND PUT THEM AWAY, LIKE A GOOD BOY. YOU'RE COME ON, WON'T GO TO DON'T WAN' TO! BRINGING UP FATHER (Reg.

U. S. Pat. Off.) I'M SO GLAD WE WERE INVITED TO THIS WEDDING- ITS ONE OP THE SOCIAL EVENTS OF THE A 1932, King Features Syndicate, Inca Great Britain rights reserved. IT WILL BE IP THE BRIDEGROOM SHOWS UP.

HE'S NOT HERE YET- NEWS of the WEEK IN REVIEW Salt Lake City and Utah Events: (A brief resume of interesting Important news events of the past week in Salt Lake and Utah. State and Municipal Affairs The Utah supreme court, in a unanimous opinion handed down during the week, ruled that a city commission can exercise its own discretion in awarding contracts for public improvements and is not bound to let contracts to the lowest responsible bidder. The opinion was handed down in the case of a taxpayer against the city, seeking to nullify the contract for the east side unit of Salt Lake's unemployment storm sewer project, which was let to Ryberg slightly Brothers, a local firm, on a bid higher than one submitted by a California contracting company. Practical the decision was to permit the local contractors to start work on the project; put a few score of the city's unemployed to work. The Salt Lake City and Salt Lake county commissions, in a joint meeting, decided to appoint a welfare commission to "make a survey of conditions, formulate a plan of coordination and control, so, far as possible, of activities of relief agencies, deplans for raising additional funds for relief of the unemployed and destitute." The Reconstruction Finance corporation was rendered Impotent, far as closed Utah state banks are concerned, by a supreme court Cottage and Castle WHILE, IN THE MEANTIME, OUT AT "THE GREAT ESTATE PADDY WORKS FEVERISHLY TO GET EVERYTHING IN PERFECT ORDER AGAINST TRIXIE'S ARRIVAL GOOD! IF VING CALLS JUST TELL HIM I'M NOT HOME! 1 DON'T WANT TO TALK TO HIM! TOM YOU OLD SWEETHEARTHE'S TRYING TO FOOL MEWELL- I'LL JUST FOOL HIMI'LL HIDEI'LL MAKE HIM THINK I'M NOT AT HOME KNOCK IT KNOCK THE KNOCK GETTING LOUDER- AH! THAT'S THE FOURTH TIME VE CAUGHT THAT LOOKIN' AT ME- October 2, will be sentenced next week.

Found-In a Turin, Italy, prison, a man believed to be John Anselmo, who escaped from the Utah state prison in- 1915 while serving a life term for the murder of Patrolman Thomas F. Griffith in 1913. Politics New candidates of the weekGeorge G. Armstrong, former district judge, for the Republican nomination for the Third district bench; Gaylen S. Young, former city judge, for the Republican nomination for district attorney of the Third judicial district.

Democratic bar members of the Third judicial district announced during the week that they followed will -not adopt the plan being by the Republicans to select a bar-sponsored of candidates for the district bench. TIRED. WE'LL BED. THE CORKY GOT MR-JIGG5BEAUTY CHARMING AFFAIR DON'T YOU THINK OH WELL, THE EVENING IS YOUNG YET VING WILL PROBABLY BE CALLING UP ANY MINUTE NOW AND WHEN HE DOES I. WON'T EVEN ANSWER THE PHONE WHY DOESN'T ME COME IN ILL JUST GO TO THE DOOR AND TAKE A PERKKNOCK KNOCK A LOUDER KNOCK AND THE DOOR BELL RINGS- HAROLD GRAVE US On 1902 The The Lady in Waiting GOOD NIGHT, HERE IT IS TWO A.M.

AND VING'S BEEN JUST TOO MEAN TO CALL ME UP SO I COULD REFUSE TO TALK TO HIM! Peek Bur NOT A SOUL WAS THERENO TOM- EVERYTHING DARKSHE CALLS BUT NO ANSWER SAVE THE ECHO OF HER VOICE SIGNEY Res U.S. Pa. Of Copyright, 1942, bf The Chicago Tribune. Distant Relatives CAN'T I'VE NOTICED IT. UNDERSTAND WHAT'S TOO.

HE PROBABLY MATTER WITH THINKS WE'RE A SINCE WE COUPLE OF BACK, WALT. NEIGHBORS. Pal. Of 1932, by The Chicago BUT WHO IS. THAT BEAUTIFUL GIRL OVER THERE LEANIN AGAINST THAT POST! urged to borrow money on delinquent taxes rather than close their schools before the end of the regularly scheduled term in a resolution adopted during the week by the house of delegates of the Utah Education association.

Elected--Jaren L. Jones as president and Miss Hanford as vice president of the University of Utah student body. Won--By Miss Josephine Stone, 14- year Ogden school girl, the UtahWyoming championship in The Salt Lake Tribune spelling bee. Selected -Miss Jessie Schofield, Salt Lake, by the National Recreation association, as one of the 40 graduates of American universities to attend the national recreation school in New York. Business and Finance Merged--The First Security bank of Magna and the First Security bank of Garfield, the consolidated institution to be known as the First Security bank of Magna.

The Los Angeles Salt Lake Railroad company, a unit of the Union Pacific system, reported railroad op; erating revenue for 1931 of 000, a decrease of $3,900,000 from 1930 revenue. Net loss for the year listed at $1,372,000, of $1,028,000 greater than the net loss for 1930. Deaths and Accidents Died -Andrew Peter Davidsen, 67, pioneer blacksmith and of Salt Lake; suddenly, when the truck in which he was riding overturned four times in Butterfield can- Lake yon, near Lark. and ple L. Kinoall, 07, promi-tapril BELIEVE IT OR NOT By RIPLEY Saturday's NUMERALS problem: to Answer ALL THE ARRANGING 6.

TO 0 SO THAT FROM TO ONE ADD UP THEY ALL 35 296 70 THE KING WHO DIED A BOOT KING BELL OF KAMERUN, Africa WAS EXPELLED BY THE GERMANS IN 1885 AND WORKED FOR 30 YEARS AS A BOOTBLACK IN OSLO, NORWAY, WHERE HE DIED -Feb. 1931 IT TOOK THE CHINESE GENERAL STEM IT 15 FORBIDDEN TO BE BORN OR TO DIE 20 YEARS TO CREATE THIS SINGLE LETTER ch 1e re ch n. cs 1g at od ot is in. thhe all nd his Ito ch nd in oh- or to at by th. 1g, m- lis di- atnd relin ed, ent bor cal or nun eek bor lilior be cies ish, ing.

ba win loypos- off, cut oF ir? se of fear, will le to no foo, aving for the eliminoves and derful fores. npoo, on of sold backe Co. ON THE SACRED ISLE OF MIVOVIMA, JAPAN 8 1832, King Fratures Syndicate, Inca, direst Britain rights reserved. The Greatest Kidnaper of Modern Czar Nicholas I. (1798-1855) stained his reign by acts of unspeakable cruelty against his Russian subjects.

On 9. 1832. "his majesty deigned to March, order" to transport 100.000 children to distant parts of Russia. With heart-rending disregard of any human sentiment, the Russian a authorities proceeded to tear over 100.000 infants, aged from one to eight years. from the arms of their Catholic or Jewish parents.

The kidnaped children were fastened by twos and dragged in the dead of winter into the heart of Russia. The Russian roads presently were strewn with the little bodies Explanation COOK -COOS President Hoover says he is willing to take a $74,999 cut and work for a dollar a year. That will help, but it still leaves it up to the house to manage some way to raise the dollar. Unless the action speaks louder than words, Most motion pictures are dull and absurd. MAN-BITES-DOG-DEPT (News Item) STOCK BROKER ROBBED IN FRIEND'S HOME Against motion pictures we have no complaint; They represent frankly life just as it ain't.

By Geo. McManus SHE'S A DETECTIVE HIRED TO WATCH THE WEDDING GIFTS- SHE KEEPS HER EYE ON ANYONE WHO LOOKS SUSPICIOUS WOw! (ON MINI'S 52 Day by Day With Uncle Ray Speeding Around Africa 1. OVER THE SAHARA Our "Fast Trip Across Asia" was popular with Corner readers, if may judge by letters I have received; and there have been requests that we make a similar trip across Africa. So it happens that are off today on an airplane, journey across the Sahara desert to Nigeria, then on to Angola, Zuzuland and Capetown, After leaving Capetown we shall journey up the eastern side of Africa. Banty Rogers, our aviator friend who has spent 14,000 hours in the air will be glad to serve as pilot once more.

He is ready to take off in the large trimotor monoplane which is nent rancher and Salt Lake business man, following an illness of six weeks from organic trouble, at his home in Salt Lake. Died- -Mrs. Mary Ann Lees, 85, a handcart pioneer, at her home in Salt Lake. Died -Delaun Mills Cox, 82, said to be the first white child born in Manti; of infirmities incident to old age, at his home in Manti. Died- Mrs.

Mary Fitzpatrick, 71, mother of J. F. Fitzpatrick, publisher of The Salt Lake Tribune and Telegram; of heart disease, at her home in Burlington, Iowa. Miscellaneous Birthday--Henry Wallace, Salt pioneer, retired business man now a guide on the L. D.

S. temgrounds, his ninety second, on 27. dying of fatigue. Those who survived farmed out to Ignorant peasants, who brought them up in the orthodox. falth.

Upon renching military age the "cantonIsts" were incorporated in the Russian army for a period of 25 years. None of them ever saw their homes again. The "cantonists" are an ineffaceable blot on the history of Russia in the 19th century, Land- -Level Is 10,000 Feet Below Sea-Level -Sea-level is not level, due to the many movements to which the ocean is subJected and because of the attraction of elevated masses of land upon the waves. Scientific efforts have resulted in determining that the mean level of the whole land surface lies along a line 10.000 feet of Saturlay's Ripley (Copyright, 1931, King Features Syndicate, Inc.) BULL-ETIN (News Item) NEW YORK-Men who are careful about their appearance need not hesitate to wear tints of red, blue or green on their finger a ils, according to the decree of beauty experts here. Dear Madame: We regret to inform you that your former husband just laughed when we attempted to collect the alimony.

What are your DOUBLE further wishes CROSS, in the matter? Attorneys-at-law. he laughs again slap a lien on his gold teeth. A. (Bitter-Sweetie) Bella. Genteel racket- (News Item) "Rembrandt's 'Young Girl at the Open Half in gallery 32 of the Chicago Art Institute, has recently undergone a thorough cleaning.

The task required five years, as all the old varnish had to be removed from the surface and a new coat applied." coast of Morocco, a country about the same size as France. The 5,300,000 people in Morocco have a sultan, Sidi Mohammed, but French soldiers are really in control- except in small slice of the country under the power of Spain. The Moors of Morocco, like other folk of northern Africa, are in large part white. Some have blue eyes and light hair. Others have brown eyes and dark brown hair.

They are of mixed Arab and Berber blood. Some of them also have negro blood in their veins. Below us we presently see the Atlas mountains, named after Atlas, the giant of Greek myths who was supposed to hold up the sky. How amazed an ancient Greek would be if he could watch us flying high above these mountains! The motors run smoothly, and before long we are passing over the Sahara desert. This desert contains sand enough to make more glass than the human race is likely to use in 100,000 years.

Ah, there is an Date palms rise above the soil, and there is a well from which people of the oasis obtain water. Not only do the date palms supply shade timportant sup. ply dates which are an food to the desert folk. (This story belongs In "Travel" section of your serapbook. It may be used as a geography topic.) Tomorrow Enter Nigeria, UNCLE RAG SIGNA COUPON Uncle Ray, Care of Salt Lake Tribune, Salt Lake City, Utah.

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City and State (Copyright, 1932, Publishers Syndicate.) HAPPINESS Temple of Hua, China 3-2 Cartoon present "sea-level." The abysmal area below this line is of equal extent with the area above It. Fahrenheit's Thermometer Not Fahrenbelt's Work-Fahrenheit. who first made mercury thermometer. took as his zero the lowest temperature then obtainable (a mixture of salt and ice). Taking the temperature of the human body as a standard.

he established it at 96 degrees. Others then discovered that the boiling, point of water was a more easily determinable standard and the Fahrenhelt thermometer changed, through fixing of the boiling point At 212 degrees and of the temperature of the human body at 98. Tomorrow: The Belt of Death. By Ted Cook CALM BEFORE THE SQUALL U. S.

Introduction, or theme song, to be crooned over the radio just before a partisan orator barges up to the microphone: Speakers that boom in the spring, Blah, blah, Are booming all over the Their whoop-de-doo don't a Placean thing, Blah, blah, Their words have an insincere ring, Blah, blah, And their speeches won't alter the case, Although they insist It's a message they bring, They bellow and blow, but don't mean a thing, But blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. The government, by June 30, will be in the red. Why not slap on a cover charge for seats in congress? that the bank commissioner, AS ex officio receiver, is without authority to pledge assets to obtain loans from the corporation. The decision, given in a test case the Sugar Banking company of Salt Lake, divided the court three to two, Chief Justice J. W.

Cherry and Justice William H. Folland dissenting. One effect of the ruling was to revive talk of a special session of the legislature to alter banking laws. City employes can, under existing conditions, dip into city funds with little fear of detection, the city commission was informed in a special audit report submitted during the week by Vincent Casella, certified public accountants. The report recommended numerous changes in accounting and lection practices of the city to safeguard funds, chief of which were new ordinances to give the city auditor exclusive authority to draw checks on city funds and unlimited, authority to supervise books, forms and records used in city departments.

Crime and Law Eriforcement Grant Tice, 19, and Conrad Hand son, 20, confessed slayers of Edmund G. Hines, 71-year-old grocer of Salt Lake, pleaded guilty to second degree murder charges in district court dursoling the week. Tice was sentenced to life imprisonment and Hanson, who rul-confessed to firing the fatal shot on It's the best floor show in the country. Says Genevieve, the kitchen cynic: "The only trouble with good examples is the kind of people who set them." Milestone on the path to somewhere or otherBATTLE CREEK. Charged with using his courtroom at Marshall as a speakeasy, Arthur Day, justice of the peace, was arrested Saturday when federal officers raided his office.

The Republican attorneys meanwhile held their nominating primaries; prepared for elimination tions to reduce the list of nominees to six. Utah's governor, George H. Dern, addressed the governors conference at Richmond, and the Women's National Democratic club in Washington; urged the party to offer the voters an enlightened program this year; criticised, but did not name, Alfred E. Smith for fighting the candiIdacy of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt; attacked the Democratic twothirds rule in national nominating conventions as undemocratic, unAmerican and indefensible.

Education Education Boards of education in Utah werei FAMOUS LAST WORDS You've got a good idea there, Mr. O'Neill. Why don't you make North Africans Among Date Palms, now at Gibraltar. Besides Banty, there are just two of us to go on the trip- -you and We have fine stock supplies in the airplane water, food, guns, cameras and a first aid outfit, 88 well as a large amount of fuel. Africa is "civilized" in some parts, but by no means everywhere.

Here we gol Out over the Strait of Gibraltar! We see ships beneath us, and some of those on board are waving at us. We wave back and hope that the people on the ships notice that we are returning their greeting. Now we are over land. It is the an epigram out of it? LITHUANIA TO BOOST LINEN Name Lithuania is endeavoring to create linen weaving Industry: According to reports from Kovno, the government is taking active leadership in the plan. Because of the drop in flax prices, large stocks are ready to be used.

At first a thick cloth of linen and tow yarns will be produced. A linen weaving plant at Telsial has started to weave various kinds of cloth and bags..