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OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE CITY OF RED LODGE
RED LODGE DAILY-NEWS
VOL. 2. NO. 141.
CARlBON COUNTY NEWS
VOL. XII. NO. 3.
RED LODGE, CARBON COUNTY, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1935.
LOCAL 1935 RODEO
IS URGED BY BODY
Lacking one member necessary
to form a quorum, the board of di
rectors of the Red Lodge Rodeo
association was forced to postpone
a general meeting of the group at
the courthouse .Monday night. The
meeting, called for the purpose of
deciding whether or not a 1935 ro
deo would be staged at Red Lodge,
was put over until next Tuesday
night, March 26, this meeting also
Lack of Quorum Results in
Postponement of Meet
Monday Night
y
to take place at the courthouse.
At Monday night's meeting, the
association's financial committee,
appointed to make a city-wide can
vass of local business houses and
professional offices to secure
pledges of financial and moral sup
port for the staging of this year's
celebration was to have made a
report of its findings. Report of
the committee was postponed un
til next Tuesday night's meeting,
An unofficial and preliminary
report of the committee, however,
was made Monday and revealed
that business and professional
interests of the city as well as
general public sentiment was fa
vorable toward staging a western
show this year. Committee mem
bers told directors that, although
their canvass for financial assist
ance was well-responded to, they
yet lacked a sufficient number of
financial pledges to assure staging
of the rodeo, but were confident
that these could be secured.
Basing their opinions on the
informal report of the committee,
directors felt that a 1935 celebra
tion was virtually assured for Red
Lodge. They emphasized strongly,
however, that financial backing a
lone would not assure success for
the show, but that well-organized
moral support and cooperation on
the part of all business arid pro
fessional interests and of every
citizen was also a much-needed
factor to assure success.
The rodeo directors called at
tention to the fact that interest in
jutting on the 1935 show, as re
gards cooperative thought and
planning on the part of towns
people, was lagging considerably
more than in previous years.
The show, they said, could not
hope for success in any large mea
sure unless greater interest was
shown. Moral support and cooper
ation of business and professional
men of the city is especially re
quired, at least their attendance at
the meetings of the association
where most all plans for the show
are formulated and where ideas
and suggestions are needed and
welcomed.
The board urges a 100 per cent
representation of business men
and citizens to be present at the
courthouse meeting Tuesday night
when matters of import regarding
the staging of the 1935 show will
be taken up.
MRS. A. NASI, 62,
FORMERLY OF CITY,
SUCCUMBS SATURDAY
Mrs, Anna Nasi, 62, a former
long-time resident of Red Lodge,
died 'Saturday evening at the fam
ily ranch home, located in Still
water county near the Carbon
Stillwater line in the Shane Ridge
district.
Funeral services were conducted
at the Roberts Methodist church
Tuesday afternoon. Matt Erkkila
of Red Lodge officiated and the
Martin Funeral home here was in
charge of arrangements. Burial
was in the Roberts cemetery.
Mrs. Nasi was a native of Fin
land, born at Alajarvi on August
22, 1872. She came to the United
States in 1898, settling first in
New York City. After à year's re
sidence there, she removed to Red
Lodge, where, on September 21,
1900, she married Oscar Nasi. For
nearly 25 years Mrs. Nasi was a
continuous resident of Red Lodge.
She removed with her family to
the Shane Ridge district about 11
years ago.
Mrs. Nasi leaves her husband
and two daughters, Mrs. Vienna
Kamppinen and Mrs. Lila Maki.
There are also three grandchildren;
Kenneth Kamppinen, Charles and
Clarence Maki. All reside in the
Shane Ridge district. v
Phone your news items to No. 9.
Fame
Rides Alice Greenough's Trail
On Australian Tour
The arena daring and skill
of Alice Greenough, Red Lodge's
famous lady bronc-twister, bas
captured the hearts of Australia's
rodeo fans.
.About to sail for home after
thrilling audiences with perform
ances throughout the British pos
session for the past few months,
the Red Lodge girl was placed
under a new contract for further
appearances, states word received
this week by her parents, Mr, and
Mrs. Ben Greenough, of Red
Lodge.
The Australian press can't seem,
to get over Miss Greenough's arena
feats, her prowess as a stunt rider,
her daring in "topping" broncs,
nor her record as world's ohamp
ion cowgirl in 1933 and as the only
woman ever to enter the bullrings
of Spain and Mexico astride the
ferocious fighting bulls,
l n Australia she's outclassed all
women performers of that country
and many of its men riders, and
the latest acclaim accorded her is
an invitation by the Melbourne
Centenary council to appear in
ring events at the Royal Easter
show,
FORMER TEACHER
DIES AT SEATTLE
Death of Mrs. R. A. Gawley
Shocks Hundreds of
Friends Here
Mrs. Robert A. Gawley, the
former Miss Lillian Cummings, at
one time a well-known and popular
member of the teaching staff in
local schools, died at the Virginia
Mason hospital at Seattle, Wash.,
Saturday, word received by The
News from Mrs. Harold R. Suiter,
a sister of Mrs. Gawley, stated to
day, Mrs. Gawley had been ill for
the past two months.
Mrs. Suiter and her mother, Mrs.
Frank T. Cummings, were both at
the bedside of Mrs. Gawley when
death occurred, it was stated.
Mrs. Gawley, during her resi
dence in Red Lodge, won hundreds
of friends and acquaintances in
this city through her pleasant and
pleasing personality. She had en
joyed the enviable reputation of
most popular and best-loved of
local school faculty members.
News of her passing is received
with deep shock and sincere sor
row in Red Lodge.
Mrs. Gawley was a native of Al
cester, South Dakota, and a grad
uate of the Bellingham, Wash.,
Normal school. She received B.
A. and A. M. degrees at Columbia
university in New York City. For
ten years Mrs. Gawley was a resi
dent of New York City, and during
the summer of 1931, with a sister,
Miss Bernice M. Cummings of that
city, traveled in Europe.
Mrs, Gawley left Red Lodge a
bout 12 or 13 years ago. For a
time she was a member of the
faculty at the University of Wyo
ming at Laramie, Wyo. On July
27, 1933, she was married to Rob
ert A. Gawley of Seattle.
Highly educated and active in
club and social life, Mrs. Gawley
was a member of the Newman club
of New York City and the Catholic
Daughters and the Century club of
Seattle.
She leaves besides her mother,
her husband, R. A. Gawley of Se
attle, and her sisters, Mrs. Suiter
of Detroit, Mich., and Miss Bernice
M. Cummings of New York City,
a third sister. Miss Rosella M.
Cummings; and two brothers, Leo
J. Cummings of Billings and Rich
ard T. Cummings of Redding, Cal.
Funeral services were conducted
today at Bellingham, Wash., with
interment in the family plot there.
Mrs. Suiter's letter stated that
she and her mother, Mrs. Cum
mings, planned to arrive in Red
Lodge shortly, probably April 1, to
take up residence here for a time.
This country, with its institu
tions, belongs to the people who
ilphabit it. Whenever they yshaQ
grow weary of the existing gov
ernment, they can exercise their
constitutional right of amending
it, or their revolutionary right to
dismember or overthrow it.—Abra
ham Lincoln._.
Smoking affect sthe heart, but,
then, so does love.
NAME CHRISTIAN!
AS CARETAKER OF
NEW TOURIST PARK
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Board Takes Steps For
Early Opening of
Cabin Camp
The recently created municipal
tourist pank board of trustees took
steps at meetings held during the
week to prepare for an early open
ing to travelers of the city's new
$100,000 tourist headquarters.
Board members at a meeting Sat
urday named A. F. Christiani as
caretaker of the park.
Trustees, who include Ray Hou
ton, Walter Columbus, L. W. Ly
ons, M. B. Pay and G. A. Jeffery,
met again Tuesday night and made
arrangements for the purchase of
accessories to complete furnishing
of the 50 cabins now ready at the
park. The articles are expected to
arrive here within the next two or
three weeks.
Mr. Christiani, it was stated,
was employed on a monthly wage
basis and will begin his new duties
at the park upon the arrival of the
articles ordered by the trustees at
the Tuesday meeting.
The articles ordered included
mattresses, bed springs, bedding,
cooking utensils, mirrors and other
items needed to completely furnish
the log-constructed cabins at the
park. The cabins already are
quipped with hand-made rustic
furniture.
The trustees plan to have the
park opened for accomodating
tourists and visitors to the city by
May 1, it was stated,
Tuesday night's meeting of the
board also brought out a discus
sion of rental fees to be charged
e
guests at the park and plans for
completing the landscaping of the
park's grounds. No decision was
arrived at as to the charge to be
made for cabin rentals, but it was
said that such fees would be nomi
nal. Mr. Christiani, it was also re
vealed, will make a tour of other
tourist camps in the state to gain
a comparison of the fees charged
at other cities before a set rate is
fixed for the Red Lodge park.
Landscaping, which will include,
the planting of grass plots,» flow
ers, trees and shrubbery will begin
with the advent of favorable wea
ther. Services of a state horticul
turist and landscape gardener have
been promised free of charge to
the board to aid in the planning of
this work, it was said.
UNIVERSITY ROAD
SHOW PLANS TOUR
Local Boy Is Coauthor And
Manager of Novel
Production
A university road show, co-au
thored and managed by Dave Dim
can of Billings and Phil Pollard,
son of Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Pollard
of Red Lodge, will begin a week's
vaudeville tour of leading theatres
throughout the state on April 3,
it is announced.
A preliminary public perform
ance will be given at Hamilton
April 1 and two days later the
tour will open with a performance
at Helena. Its itinerary will then
include Great Falls on April 4,
Lewistown on April 5, Billings on
April 6, Bozeman on April 7 and
Butte on April 8, A final per
formance will be given in Missoula
on April 9.
The all-university show will car
ry a cast of 25, including members
of its orchestra and Managers
Duncan and Pollard, who along
with their managerial duties fill
roles in the production. All mem
bers of the troupe are students at
the university and the production
in its entirety was written, ar
ranged and produced by Duncan
and Pollard.
Rôles have been perfected dur
ing rehearsals conducted over the
past several weeks, it is stated,
and arrangements for the produc
tion to appear on stages of the
state's leading theatres were made
by Managers Duncan and Pollard
with Will Steege, regional manag
er of the Pox West Coast theatres.
At all cities on the tour two
night performances will be given,
while the Billings and Missoula
engagements call for matinee ap
pearances.
LOCAL BONDHOLDERS
URGED TO EXCHANGE
PAPER BY TREASURY
In a telegram to officials of the
United States National bank here
this week, Henry Morgenthau, Jr.,
secretary of the United States
treasury, called attention to the
expiration on next Wednesday,
March 25, of the government's of
fer to holders of fourth Liberty
Loan bonds to exchange for new
treasury bonds.
Fourth Liberty bonds eligible
for exchange under the offer in
clude only those with serial num
bers ending with figures 5, 6 or 7.
Interest payments on the fourth
Liberty bond issue cease after
April 15, when the bonds are
called.
Secretary Morgenthau pointed
out that many holders of fourth
Liberty bonds of small denomina
tions were undoubtedly unaware of
the advantages to be obtained by
exchanging these bonds for the
new treasury issues, and that the
opportunity was one not to be
overlooked.
Local holders of fourth Liberty
bonds with terminal digits
stated above are urged to take ad
vantage of the government's of
fer. Local banks are cooperating
with the national treasury in mak
ing the exchanges Offered and will
fully explain the ? offer to any
bondholder interested.
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LOCAL BEER PARLOR .
REPORTED ENTERED
AND CASH MISSING
Burglary of a local beer parlor,
The New Place, sometime early
Monday morning was reported to
Sheriff J. R. MeFate by the pro
prietors, Joe Yelich and John Al
bert. The owners claimed $70 in
cash and checks, a case of beer and
other items were missing.
Report of the burglary was not
received by Sheriff MeFate until
late Tuesday and, with Undersher
iff W. H. Moore, Jr., he began an
investigation immediately.
The method used to gain en
trance to the place was proving the
main ''obstacle toward solution.
Boards on a rear door of the place,
officers said, had been pried loose,
obviously from the inside of the
building.
was effected either by someone
hiding in the place during the time
the parlor was open Sunday
ning or else prying the boards
loose at that time and returning
later.
The parlor was closed shortly
before 1 a. m. by Bill Dunn, bar
tender, and the burglary discover
ed when the place opened early
Monday morning. The missing
cash and checks were taken from a
drawer in the place where they
had been hidden for- safekeeping,
it was said.
It is believed entrance
eve
LOCAL YOUTH DIES
OF HEART AILMENT
AT HOSPITAL HERE
Dale Miner, 21-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs, J. B. Miner of Red
Lodge, died at a local hospital at
9:30 o'clock this morning. He had
suffered with a heart ailment.
A native of Carbon county, the
youth was born at Silesia, Septem
ber 6, 1913, and all of his
had been spent in this county. Un
til the time of his fatal illness, he
had been employed as a truck driv
er with the Red Lodge refinery.
At Columbus, in February, 1934,
he married Miss Lucille Riley of
Red Lodge,
Besides his parents and widow,
he is survived by a five-week-old
daughter, Clara Darien Miner; a
brother, Ray Miner of Red Lodge,
and three sisters, Mrs. Clara Cis
co of Pox and Violet and Bessie
Miner of the family home.
Funeral services are to be con
ducted at the home of the widow's
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Riley,
at one o'clock Friday afternoon.
The Rev. H. W. Woods will offici
ate, arrangements beihg in charge
of the Martin Funeral home. Buri
al will foe in the Belfry cemetry.
Silk growing sections of France
are regularly visited by a scientist
who has installed a laboratory in
an automobile for studying silk
worm diseases and tracing their
sources.
An aviation service now operat
ing from Shanghai will be extend
ed to a point near the Siberian
border to connect with a Soviet
line and provide service to western
Europe.
PRESIDENT LAUDS
RESULTS OBTAINED
BY HOUSING HEADS
Local Administrator Gets
Letter in Praise
Of Efforts
Praise by President Franklin D.
Roosevelt for the services being
performed by community chair
man and committee members
throughout the nation in promot
ing the Better Housing program
of the Federal Housing adminis
tration was received here in a let
ter from James A. Moffett, na
tional administrator by Dr. L. H.
Tooley, local administrator.
In a letter to Administrator
Moffett, President Roosevelt ex
pressed himself as highly gratified
with results so far obtained by the
community chairmen and commit
tees. He was impressed, he said,
with figures showing chairmen ac
tive in 6,174 communities, 250,000
to 300,000 volunteer workers' par
ticipating, 2,100 communities con
ducting house-to-house canvasses,
and the population coverage by
committees of approximately 70,
000,000.
He noted with gratification also
that over 6,000,000 properties had
been visited, that property owners
had pledged 1,100,000 jobs for
modernization and repair for a to
tal value of $275,000,000 and that,
since last August, and estimated
$250,000,000 had already been
spent for property improvement.
Continued active cooperation of
civic-minded committees, it
pointed out, and house-to-house
canvasses will add
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many more
thousands of property owners to
the movement. "This activity",
said the prgsident, "means that,
with the advent of spring, an im
mense volume of business and
ployment will undoubtedly be gen
erated. In other words, the Amer
ican people will clearly see that
the housing act provides for the
nation a way back to recovery and
prosperity."
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Administrator Moffett, in his
letter here to Dr. Tooley, added
his compliments to those of the
president's on the progress being
made in the program and at the
same time pointed out that, coop
erating with community chairmen
throughout the nation, were 12,700
financial institutions qualified to
make modernization loans, 4,958
agencies already approved
sured-mortgage lenders in the new
home construction program, and
over 5,000 industrial concerns with
their innumerable branches and
personnel.
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LIST NEW VOLUMES
AT LOCAL LIBRARY
Woman's Club Contributes
Many New Additions
To Shelves
New volumes added to shelves
of the Red Lodge Public library
were announced in the February
report of Mrs. E. M. Adams, libra
rian, as follows:
Books presented by the litera
ture department of the woman's
club:
Silver Chief, Jack O'Brien; Cov
ered Wagon, North of 36, Emerson
Hough; Five Little Peppers at
School, Five Little Peppers and
Their Friends, Margaret Sidney;
Robin Hood, Henry Gilbert; Hans
Brinker, Mary Mapes Dodge; Jack
and Jill, Louise M. Alcott; Child
ren of the Covered Wagon, Mary
Jane Carr; Historic Boys, Historic
Girls, Eldredge S. Brooks; All A
bout the Three Bears, All About
Little Riding Hood, All About Lit
tle Boy Blue, Beatrix Potter; Best
Plays of 1933-34, Burns Mantle;
Best Short Stories of 1934, Ed
ward J. O'Brien, v
Books presented by the phil
anthropic department of the wom
an's club:
Heaven's My Destination, Thorn
ton Wilder; Wine from these
Grapes, Edna St. Vincent Millay;
So Red the Rose, Stark Young;
You Must Relax, Edmund Jacob
son, M. D.; Why Not Try God,
Mary , Pickford; Forty Days of,
Musa Dagh, Franz Werfel; Forty
(Continued on Page 6)
The U. S. Marine band, organ
ized in 1789, is the oldest military
band in the United States.
Shots
Of Cooke City Highway Scenes
Appear in Magazine
Over the caption "Again the
Automobile Goes Places", the
March edition of the magazine,
"Motor", devotes a double-page
spread to photographic scenes
shot along the route of the new
Red Lodge-Cooke City highway to
Yellowstone National park.
Submitted by W. W. Flashman,
the views show the new highway
as it ascends the switchback route
of Rock creek canyon, a view of
Rock creek canyon from Mae West
curve, the highway leaving Red
Lodge, Beartooth Butte and illus
trations of highway and bridge
building operations on the new
park approach highway.
Copies of the magazine received
here this week aroused consider
able interest locally. "Motor" is an
automotive business magazine and
has a large circulation among auto
mobile dealers and others interest
ed in the automotive industry
throughout the country.
YOUTH IS HELD ON
CAR THEFT CHARGE
Two Jailed After D rinking
Spree at Roberts
Wednesday
Walter Anderson and Eddie Bak
ka, Red Lodge young men, were
taken into custody by county
thorities following a drinking
spree at Roberts which climaxed
in the theft of an automobile and
general disturbance of the peace
there Wednesday night.
au
alleged,
under the influence of liquor, drove
away a car belonging to Toivo S.
Homi of Roberts and now faces a
direct information on a car theft
charge to be filed in the district
court session here next Tuesday.
Bakka was taken into custody on
a charge of creating a public dis
turbance at Roberts. Thursday
morning he pleaded guilty before
Justice of the Peace John Sander
son here and was sentenced to a
term of 30 days in the county jail,
Justice Sanderson reserving the
right to suspend sentence.
Both young men were arrested
by Undersheriff W .H. Moore, Jr.,
late last Wednesday evening, An
derson, according to officers, drove
Homi's car north on the main
'highway from Roberts. Near Boyd,
he turned the machine around and
started back towards Roberts. On
the return trip, near Selmes, the
car left the road and was ditched,
being but slightly damaged. Un
dersheriff Moore accosted Ander
son as the latter walked along the
railroad tracks towards Roberts.
Anderson was arraigned on a
car theft complaint, signed by
Homi, before Justice of the Peace
Sanderson early Thursday. Bond
was fixed at $1,000. In lieu of the
amount, he was returned to the
county jail where he awaits filing
of the district court information
which, according to County Attor
ney E. P. Conwell, will likely be
filed at next Tuesday's court ses
sion, unless the charges against
Anderson are withdrawn.
BOYS' STOCK GROUP
FORMED AT ROBERTS
Several boys of the Roberts high
school and grades met with the
Emergency County Agent O. P.
Roberts Tuesday evening for the
purpose of organizing a group of
junior stock judges at Roberts. A
similar meeting will be held at
Belfry Thursday afternoon for the
purpose of giving instruction to
a igroup there.
These are the first meetings for
these two groups, but it is planned
to have the new groups ready for
a county contest sometime the lat
ter part of April, if possible.
Forty boys in the Red Lodge
and Joliet territory have partici
pated in this work, and it is anti
cipated that at least 70 boys will
have received training in the judg
ing.of all kinds of livestock.
Labor is prior to and independ
ent of capital. Capital is only the
fruit of labor, and could never have
existed if labor had not first ex
isted. Labor is the superior of
capital and deserves much the
higher consideration.— Abraham
Lincoln.
DELEGATION MAKES
FAVORABLE REPORT
ON ROAD PROPOSAL
State Highway Body Hears
Plans for Taking Over
County Road
A delegation of Carbon county
representatives, on its return here
from Helena early Friday, report
ed favorable reaction by members
of the state highway commission
towards a proposal to have the
Red Lodge-Bridger county feeder
unit adopted as part of the Mon
tana seven per cent highway sys
tem.
The delegation left here Wed
nesday evening and appeared be
fore the state highway body Thurs
day. Already familiar with the
proposal from trips made over the
route, State Engineer J. S. James
aided materially in getting the
project discussed before members
of the state commission, it was
said.
Although money is not now a
vailable for additional highway
construction in the state, other
than those projects already allo
cated funds, it was the firm be
lief of the local delegation, after
appearing before the commission
Thursday, that the Bridger route
will become part of the seven per
cent system should congress put
through the huge work-relief bill
now pending before its assembly.
Montana will share in a distribu
tion of this money, and in turn
Carbon county projects now pro
posed will take shape.
O. S. Warden, chairman of the
Helena commission, declared that
adoption of the Red Lodge-Bridger
route into the Montana highway
system had his approval. The Car
bon delegation presented a petition
bearing 700 signatures of resi
dents of towns along the route
asking that the county feeder unit
be made a state highway.
Two sections of the route are al
ready under state supervision, it
was pointed out. These include the
Washoe-Bearcreek Jink and the
Carlson bridge strip. With the en
tire unit placed as a state highway
unit, proponents declare, all towns
served by the route will derive in
creased benefits from the project.
The link, which connects high
ways Nos. 310 at Bridger and 32
at Red Lodge, would also serve as
a feeder unit to the new Red
Lodge-Cooke City approach high
way to Yellowstone National park.
The Carbon delegation, while in
Helena, was also granted an audi
ence with Gov. F. H. Cooney. Dis
cussion at this meeting centered
for the most part on construction
of the Rock creek water reservoir
project, appropriation of $826,000
for which has already been approv
ed by public works officials at
Washington, D. C.
Governor Cooney, who has tak
en a great deal of interest in the
dam construction and who gave
freely of his services with grati
fying results in securing approval
of the appropriation, told members
of the delegation that a delay may
occur in the start of construction
until further estimates of costs
could be furnished government of
ficials.
The Carbon delegation was made
up of from 12 to 15 members re
presenting towns of Red Lodge,
Bearcreek, Washoe, Promlberg,
Bridger, Edgar and Belfry. The
Red Lodge members included C. C.
Bowlen, chairman of the county
board of commissioners; City At
torney John G. Skinner, Mayor G.
A. Jeffery and Frank J. O'Connor.
Among others included were Alex
Fairgrieve, representing Bearcreek
and Washoe; J. B. Convery of Si
lesia, O. P. Overby of Bridger and
several more.
NEW STATE SEED LIST NOW
READY FOR COUNTY FARMER
Bozeman, March 18.—The 1935
state seed list, compiled by Sam
Sloan, chairman of the state seed
stocks committee, has been mailed
to county agents in Montana and
state leaders in adjoining states.
Heading the new list are Montana
registered seed supplies, of which
the chairman urges full use in an
effort to build up needed stocks
for future years. Sloan stresses
four standards in the buying of
seed grain. These include adapted
variety, good germination, reason
ably free from weed seed, particu
larly noxious weeds, and freedom
from crop mixtures in amounts
that will reduce market value.
Farmers in need of seed may see
lists at the county agent's office.
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