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The Salt Lake Tribune from Salt Lake City, Utah • 5

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11 Monday Morning Tljc Salt £akc tTribunt- February 51910 5 Nazis Add Radio Earphones To List of Must Nols Illness Proves Fatal to Ex-Rail Head i duphjtX cfr alL Saki SiaJiii JmnoVww Zero Weather Brings Crop flf Weird Tales Troopers Ordered io Collect Instruments Held By Citizens as War NEW YORK Fob 4 CD-Leap year slipped into reverse gear last week A Rochesler man advertised that he would marry any woman of good character "with financial standing" and a Wildwood fisherman advertised that he would marry any girl with money enough to buy him a boat to fish in And after the leap year lapses there came a cavalcade of other cockeyed occurrences By Noderer Copyright 1940 by Chicago Tribune BERLIN Feb Nazi storm troopers have been ordered to collect all radio earphones held by private individuals in Germany Collections are to be made on If for Instance you thought that cold weather was tough on you what about the ducks in Evansville Ind which observers swore kept swimming furiously In circles for two weeks to keep their pond from freezing over? because they have to be imported or arfieeded for the army Industrial enterprises have been instructed to keep no more than a three supply' of paper on hand If Inventory exceeds this amount they are forbidden to order any more Newspapers meanwhile urge their readers not to be impatient if deliveries are slow They blame the delay on disrupted train service CHICAGO Feb 4 (D-Fred Sargent former head of the Chicago and Northwestern railroad died early Sunday in Evanston hospital after a long illness Sargent who was 63 years old had resigned because of ill health last May 24 from the presidency of the railroad a position he had held almost 14 years He had been in the hospital since January 6 A native of Akron Iowa and a graduate of the University of Iowa Sargent was appointed solicitor general of the Noithwestern in 1920 He became vice president and general rounsel in 1923 and assumed the presidency In 1925 ChaNes Thomson former trustee of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad was appointed trustee of the Northwestern by Federal Judge John Barnes on May 22 1939 No president has been named Upon his resignation Sargent retired to his farm at Mount Vernon Iowa to follow what he termed his "one and only gardening He is survived by his widow two sons Minier and Haskell a daughter Mrs B'aedrica French all of suburban Evanston and three sisters Mrs Gault of Evanston Mrs Julian ofi Vermillion and Mrs VV Bryant of Mitchell The funeral will be held Tuesday in First Methodist church in suburban Evanston Arrangements for burial have not been completed the ground that the apparatus Is needed in training civilians for reserve duty in the army signal corps Storm troopers periodically collect old clothing for winter relief old newspapers scrap iron and other articles in an attempt to make Germany self sufficient The order to collect earphones vas issued a few days after the Germans warned they would risk drastic penalties for listening to foreign radio broadcasts Nazis continue to curtail consumption of a variety of articles The ducks were a little smarter than a hen down in Ashevilie which stood on some damp ground too long and froze to it All in all the Asheville animal life took a beating A mouse there got so preoccupied eating Jhat his tail froze into a pan of water And If you think it was that cold In North Carolina he advised that they found a man in Hendersonville wearing three pairs of pants a sweater three jackets and two overcoats! I kW PREVO Says I I on Your Charm to Win" Curb on Cameras German camera fans have been instructed that factory production has been restricted to 25 per cent of prewar output and that many models will not be available at all as they are being turned out only for the export trade Some camera factories have been given over to the production of optical apparatus for the army and air force Meanwhile Heinrich Hoffman personal photographer for Fuehrer Hitler has opened a branch store In Warsaw to give Poles an opportunity to buy official pictures of Hitler and other leading nazi personalities Germans whohave been buying ski suits since other clothing has been rationed learned that these garments now come under state control A man's ski suit will 52 points on the clothing card a woman's 45 and a child's 25 A year's clothing allowance totals 100 points Exceptions are made for ski trainers and mountain Other feats of the week: A Calexico Cal man made 30 parachute jumps in 10 hours The congregation of York church put out a fire by throwing snowballs on it The maor of Charleston pulled out one of his teeth with a pair of pliers And a Springfield Mass woman sat through two straight performances of "Gone With the Wind" Wl Trade Accord Benefit Denied Things were pretty upset down In Buenos Aires A swimming meet was called off on account of rain and seven houses burned down while two fire rompanies squabbled about who was going to put out the fire! Coal Shortage tjtfiqsMLL 0uph fljiaAiioaUiP' Put Cupid on your side end blossom out with one of our thrilling Permenents! You will be surprised end delighted et the results SPECIAL ALL THIS WEEK FRFNTH Oil PFRMtNFNT WAVE Rrgulsr Complaint dept The fire chief of Weatherford Okla demanded a new fire truck on the ground that the old one was always being passed en route to fires by little boys on bicycles And a Minenapohs lunch room proprietor demanded a divorce on the gtound that his wife had gone into business in competition with and lost all his money! $300 Other PERMANENTS The number of homes without heat increases daily as the coal shortage continues Some public institutions such as the state It brary and the academy of music have closed for the lack of fuel and many schools have curtailed classes Many coal dealers for whom a hard winter formerly meant plenty of business have closed up shop as their supplies are exhausted When a shipment is received the word spreads through the neighborhood with lightning swift ntss and customers come on the run with sacks pails and boxes to get what they can From $3 to 310 WASHINGTON Feb 4 tD Contending that the reciprocal trade agreements program had harmed agriculture Representative Knutson (R) Minnesota said Sunday that statistics of the agriculture department refuted the assertions of Secretaries Wallace and Hull that it had increased farm exports "The figures furnished by Mr own department show a tremendous falling off in the percentage of Important agricul-tuial exports" Knutson said in a statement "It is shown that in 1929 we exported 419 per cent of our cotton production 17 per cent of our wheat production 353 per cent of our tobacco production and 57 per cent of our pork products By 1DJS we exported but 281 per cent of the cotton produced 114 per cent of the wheat produced 28 8 per cent of our tobacco production and but one-tenth of one per cent of our total production of pork The house way and and means committee Saturday wound up hearings on a resolution to extend the trade agreements act for three years from next June 12 the present expiration date Committee members said there would be it) days or so of executive consideration before a vole PREVO (bupkbl SpsidjxnjdaJu BEAUTY SALON 17 Yran In Kelt Lake to Your 144 So Main 4249 Progress: In Nettleton Mo a horse had to he pulled out of a well by auto wreck-rr And a Newark woman explained the gash on her head was where her husband hit her with a statue of the Itove of Peace PRE-INVENTORY SALE THE FIRST NATIONAL IS THE PLACE TO -GET YOUR LOAN In Vermillion a store advertised that it had mislaid a 24-foot stepladiier reports Jim Fowler (Anybody else got any?) And there's a new dance called the Boomps-a-Daisy in which partners bump bustles Weil a man in Stanford-le-Hope England put a box of matches in his and started dancing the Boomps-a-Daisy Furs of gorgeous Furs you have always longed for Featured at prices far below their actual worth Regardless of cost or loss stocks must be reduced before inventory time! Values like these will go and we urge you to attend this sale without delay Christian Front Need money for taxes? or other obligations? Charges Near Jewish Order Backs Cause: of Peace Mi TAMPA Fla Feb 4 (D-Henry Monsky of Omaha president of B'nai B'rith Sunday pledged the 125000 members of the organization to devotion to the cause of peace in America" appeal for the United States to keep out of war was contained in a repoit prepared for the opening here of the ninety-sixth annual meeting of the executive committee of the oldest and largest national Jewish organization in the United States paramount impoitance of peace and unity in America" he said "emphasizes the need for unrelenting efforts to preserve democratic traditions and to protect our free nation from the impart of philosophies Incompatible with the Arnencan concept of a race of free men To the accomplishment of this objective the nai B'rith has dedicated itself" Unpaid 1939 real estate taxes now carry an added expense for redemption fixed fees plus 2 per cent penalty plus 8 per cent interest dating from January 1 In many cases this will reach a burdensome total in a abort time If this has been added to your obligations perhaps already difficult to consider the advantage of a FIRST NATIONAL TIME LOAN Several plans are available to meet any legitimate need pergonal or business Tribune Leased Wire NEW YORK Feh Seventeen men arrested by I agents here three weeks aso as the eastern leaders of a nation-wide conspiracy to overthrow the government and to set up a fascist dictatorship under the banners of the Christian Front movement wull be Indicted within the next 48 hours for sedition federal Investigators revealed Sunday night If convicted each conspirator fares a possible six-year Jail term and a fine of $5000 The indictments G-men said will he handed up by a federal grand jury in Brooklyn on evidence presented hy I' Attorney Harold Kennedy The nien all arrested in raids ort January 13 and 14 were held in $50000 bail each by Fedtial Judge Grover Moscow ilz after government agents told the Jurist the group plotted to initiate a campaign of terror against Jews to kill 12 congressmen to seize custom houses and armories public uilities and police departments and to bomb theaters newspaper offices and headquarters of antifascist organizations 32 Fur Coats Values to $17350 Rnl Djed Coney BUck Kid Skin American Broadtails Northern Braver Ded $49 La IJatli View prrtlen Piw Blsck or Grey Chkln Cars rule Runlan Pony Squirrel Locke $84 May Con! 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