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...treaty-bound U. S. Navy cannot start building another battleship before 1936. Its new 10,000-ton cruisers with 8-in. guns-light, swift, hard-hitting war machines-are the pride of its modern fleet. In the last 30 months eight of these vessels (Salt Lake City, Pensacola, Chicago, Augusta, Northampton, Chester, Houston and Louisville) have been commissioned. Seven more (New Orleans, San Francisco, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Portland, Astoria, and Tuscaloosa) are abuilding. Three others are still in blue prints...
...announced that, in accordance with the railroads' request, the date for opening the opposition would be advanced three weeks to Aug. 10. Other hearings scheduled were at: Portland, Me. (Aug. 4), Portland, Ore. (Aug. 12), San Francisco (Aug. 17), Atlanta (Aug. 17), Dallas (Aug. 21), Salt Lake City (Aug. 24), Kansas City (Aug. 26), Chicago (Aug. 31). Shippers were instructed to keep their argument on a broad basis and not single out individual roads for attack. The tenor of the opposition was to be, apparently, that the roads would not increase their net revenue by rate upping because shippers...
...This Is The Place." In Utah last week there was another frontier show commemorating not broncos and steers but covered wagons and the arrival of Brigham Young with his 148 Mormon pioneers in Salt Lake valley in 1847. Under a searing sun which killed one man, dropped a score of others, a three-hour historical parade filed through the streets of Salt Lake City. Queen of the celebration was Margaret Young, 20, a great-great-granddaughter of old Brigham through the line of eldest sons.* On her float which won first prize in the parade, Miss Young, garbed...
Climax of the Salt Lake celebration was a pageant, witnessed by 20,000 in the stadium of the University of Utah where Miss Young is a junior. Here she emerged from a hive as the Queen Bee of Deseret (the honey bee of the Book of Mormon, symbol of industry). Other features of the pageant included Indian dances, Brigham Young's declaration "This is the place!" as he led his followers down into the valley, the seagulls which ate the crickets and saved the settlers' first crop, the driving of the gold spike at Promontory Point marking...
...Durant to take personal charge of his siege. When he arrived, he found the free bridge al ready open. He closed it for five minutes and then officially reopened it in the name of Oklahoma. After drilling his army of 32 guardsmen, posing for photographs, eating a salt pork and cabbage meal, he ordered the toll bridge also opened, though he refused to withdraw his men. Asked if he had lifted his blockade because of the Federal injunction, he snorted: "I said 'Hell no' yesterday, say 'Hell no' today and will say 'Hell...