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...Mich., last July as a robbery suspect, Michigan authorities wanted to jail him again. But John Deering (who had shot his way to freedom once before) rather than take a 15-year jail sentence in Michigan confessed to the murder of Oliver R. Meredith Jr. in a robbery at Salt Lake City two months before. Extradited to Utah and tried for first-degree murder, he stolidly maintained that he was a habitual criminal, would be better dead. The judge agreed. Utah law gave him the choice of being hanged or shot by a firing squad. "I prefer to be shot...
...week a book reviewer commonly reads and meditates five or six books, but an art reviewer often has to view and comment on as many as 40 shows. His hurried kindnesses (Mr. Devree's in particular) are notorious. Since no artist who is worth his salt gives a damn whether he gets a nice "press" or not, this absence of criticism chiefly benefits the art business...
Died. Joseph Don Carlos Young, 83, last of Brigham Young's 25 sons; of old age; in Salt Lake City. Of the late Mormon leader's 56 children, born to him by 16 wives, only four daughters (aged 68, 75, 77, 78) survive...
Long Mr. James's pet road (he also has large holdings of Great Northern, Southern Pacific and Chicago, Burlington & Quincy), Western Pacific has 1,207 miles of road, a main line running from Oakland Mole, Calif. to Salt Lake City and from Keddie to Bieber, Calif., where it connects with the Great Northern And Western Pacific's holding company, Western Pacific R. R. Corp., has a half interest in Denver & Rio Grande Western. It thus forms a link in a direct route from St. Louis to the Pacific...
...Salt Lake City, Professor Thomas C. Adams of the University of Utah announced, after tests with Boy Scouts, that the best thing to toss to a person drowning in Great Salt Lake is a 15-lb. anchor...