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V. .- * » % /\ M » / lAÖ' HISTORICAL LIBRARY C. ; _ jfc*. Mi HI 3; ' litefS , - .... THE MMiÊM ■ READ THE NEWS WANT ADS ON PAGE 8 B&îfc-ïa iE.- • * BEAUTIFUL BEAETOOTHS BECKON V Ni ' . ■ '.fa combined with / .'•* 1 :• , üy ^ i k I m j s i [■V k ; S - l r 1 \ • I jfe V OFFICIAL PAPER OF CARBON COUNTY AND CITY OF RED LODGE CARBON COUNTY NEWS VOL. XII. NO. 26 RED LODGE DAILY NEWS VOL. 2. NO. IBS T 'Ji RED LODGE, CARBON COUNTY, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 21, 1936 START OPERATIONS —— Shipments Of Grain Arrive; Government Has Man On Ground Production at Montana's first post-prohibition liquor distillery is scheduled to get underway here next week, it was announced by officials of the Yellowstone Dis tilleries, Inc,, with the arrival here this week of raw materials that will go into the manufacture of the plant's first product. A government storekeeper-gaug er arrived in Red 'Lodge today to supervise the start of operations. He is V. A. Gervias of the Seattle, Wash., office of the federal alco hol tax unit. Materials, including a carload of 'malt barley and a carload of corn, arrived the first of the week end preparations were being made today to unload the shipments at once and transfer the grains to the storage space in thé local dis tilling plant, under supervision of the government agent. A full head of steam was up in the plant's boilers today in prep aration for the start of operations. Monday, officials said, the first batch of mash will be prepared and the first run of whiskey is expect ed to come out of the plant's 1, 800-gallon still by the end of next week. Distilling operators will be. in charge of E. A. Lavigne, distilling expert recently with the Hiram Walker and Sons plant at Peoria, Ill Corn and rye products are to be manufactured in the local distill ery, one of the few such enter prises located west of the Miss issippi river and only one of its kind now located in Montana. Rye has already been purchased by the plant from Carbon county growers, it was said. CALL PUBLIC MEET -TD DISCUSS CAMP Princeton Group Proposes Establishing Permanent Base Near Here A public meeting has been called here for Friday .night by Mayor G. A. Jeffery to discuss with bers of the Princeton Scott Fund Geological Research expedition a proposed plan for the establish ment of a permanent geological summer research camp in the vic inity of Red Lodge. The meeting is to be staged in the courtroom at the county court house and is called for 8 p. m. Mayor Jeffery urges all citizens who are interested in this project to attend the meeting Friday night. Plans for the construction of the camp are already being form ulated by the Princeton expedition members, it was revealed, and site for the camp has been selected and the land purchased. The is mem camp to occupy 160 acres, located on the east side of Rock creek, near the Dunn ranch, four miles south of ' here on the Red Lodge-Cooke City highway. According to present plans of the Princeton scientists, it is plan ned to erect on the site a main lodge, 66 by 30 feet in dimensions, including a dining room and kit chen; shower house; a small saw mill and frames and floors for tents. The campais to have water and sewer systems, a lighting sys tem, and a road and bridge are to be built to give the camp access to the new park highway. Stoves, utensils and equipment would be needed for 60 persons. The entire cost of the camp is estimated at - $10,000. 4 It is planned to have the camp in readiness for Princeton research work qn this, area next summer. Cabins are to be built on the 'site by individual members of the expedition on a ground-rent basis under, control of the camp. It is planned to build such cabins as rapidy as can be made possible, as well as to erect t an office build Several persons, it was said, have already indicated that they would like to build their own cabins after which, instead of paying rent, they would pay their share of carrying the amortization on im (Continued on Page 6) ing MAN PICKS FLOATER AFTER GUILTY PLEA W. H. Johnson of Red Lodge faced Justice of the Peace John Sanderson here Saturday on charges of assault in the third de gree brought by Ethel 03. Layton, who claimed he beat her with his fists. "Guilty or not guilty? Justice Sanderson. Guilty," pleaded Johnson. Sixty days or 60 miles," was the court's sentence. Johnson chose the "floater." asked » a WATER CONDITIONS > Believe Bearcreek Water Supply Being Lost Following an investigation of the source of the town's water supply, a Bearcreek town council committee this week believed that it had found the cause of the acute water shortage experienced by residents there during the last several weeks. Equipped with a weir and other water-measuring gadgets, the com mittee members, appointed last week by the town council to in quire into ways and means of al leviating Bearcreek's water short age, went to the headwaters of the Right Fork, source of the sup ply. Measurements taken by the members at the reservoir of the Bearcreek Water company, pri vatey-oWned supplier of the town's water needs, showed only seven and y one-half inches, while meas urements taken at points farther up the creeTc from Me'reservoir showed 36 inches, the committee members reported. Their solution is that a large amount of water is being lost through seepage be fore it reaches the reservoir and that the remedy is to build new water storage facilities farther upstream. An application of this nature, it was stated, was recently sub mitted to the public works admin istration, but was returned as un approved by the government agen cy because of the low property values of the town. START SESSIONS f Registration Starts Monday And Continues Daily Throughout Week Carbon county high school, as with the majority of other high schools throughout the country, will begin the 1936-36 term on Tuesday,- September 3, according to announcement this week of Principal C. R. Schmidt of the school. Some 300 students expected to answer the initial call to classes will find completely renovated classrooms awaiting them,. 'Prin cipal Schmidt said, which has been carried out dur ing the past several weeks, has resulted in a complete overhaul ing of the entire building, he said. It has included ealcimining of all (class-rooms, sandng and revarn ishing of desks and repair and re painting of floors, staircases and other woodwork. Registration of students for the new term will begin Monday and will continue .daily throughout the whole of next week. The régis tra tons will be made at the high school building and will be in charge of Principal Schmidt, who is to be at the school throughout each day. . The faculty for the coming term remains unchanged and its person nel was announced by Principal Schmidt as follows ; ; Gertrude Drake, mathematics; J. Durfee, English II and IV; Gladys Rash, English I and III; Phyllis O'Connor, Latin and Eng lish I; Mary Larkin, social science; Dagny Hassell, history; Leo R. Spogen, science; A. M, Hartwig, bookkeeping and physical educa tion; Bertha Ellinghouse, social science and mathematics; Margar et Hogers, commercial; and Prin cipal Schmidt, geology and corn mercial geography. -- r—— r H. S. Hopka left Saturday for Des Moines, Iowa. This work, RING HERE AGAIN ON SEPTEMBER 3 Qity School System Ready For Resumption Of Studies School bells will call students of the Red Lodge system to classes on Tuesday morning, September 3, Superintendent H. B. Field an nounced Monday. Classes in all buildings of the city system will take up promptly at 9 a. m., he said. The Red Lodge superintendent urged all parents to start their children to school on the opening day and, unless it cannot be pos sibly avoided, not to delay the stu dent's start of his new studies by waiting after the first day of school to enroll him. All buildings in the Red Lodge system have undergone renova tions and repairs during the sum mer vacation period, Superintend ent Field" said, the janitor force are now working to get classrooms in order for the start of the new school term. A supply of new school supplies and materials, including new text books, await students on the open ing day, the superintendent stated, in reporting all in readiness for the new school term. Superintendent Field also re ported that the teaching staff in the city system this year remains intact except for resignations of two teachers accepted at the last meetng of the board of school trustees of district No 1. The res ignations are those of Miss Gert rude Bailey, who has joined the 1e Mum, Wash., high school teach ing staff as an instructor in phys ical education for girls and biol ogy, and Miss Lottie D. Cosby. It was stated that the school trustees are not contemplating filling either vacancy at this time, but will wait until the opening of the school term when the enroll ment will be more definitely known. The city school teaching staff and probable assignments for this year was announced by Superin tendent Field Monday as follows: Roosevelt school—A. T. Jenkins, principal and instructor in general science and arithmetic for grades seven and eight; Sophia Hayha, reading, grades six, seven and eight; Theresa Thompson, penman ship, art and music, grades six, seven and eight; Fidelia Page Mor row, social science, .grades seven and eight; Martha Kimball, lang ten tinned on Page 6) I GREENOUGH MOURNS LOSS OF HUMORIST . j Local Rodeo Performer Was One" Of Last To Talk With Film; Actor Turk Greenough of Red Lodge, of the world's time ago. Turk and his wife have visited at the Rogers ranch in California and Will was always a great root bronc riders, was one of the last persons to talk with Will Rogers, Americans beloved humqrist-phil osopher and "god|d-will" ambas sador-at-large, who met death late Thursday on the bleak Alaskan tundra with Wiley Post, noted flyer, when their plane faltered on a take-off and crashed. A great friend and admirer of Rogers since méeting him in Mad ison Square garden in New York City in 1928, » Greenough was shocked when informed of Will's death at Billings Friday morning. "I have worried about Will ever since he left on this trip," Green ough was quoted as saying, "and only the night before last dreamed that Rogers 1 was killed in a plane crash. Rogers, who used to perform as a trick roper with rodeos about the country, was one of the offic ials of the Los Angeles show in which Greenough took part a short ff er for Greenough's riding ability. The day before Rogers left for Seattle, Turk conversed, with the humorist but declares that Will made no mention to him about plans for the flight to Alaska. He was greatly surprised when . he learned that Rogers had suddenly decided to take the trip. Off the Register w at the Tourist Park m Red :,:E The distinction for being the guests this season traveling the farthest distance to stop at the new Red Lodge campgrounds seems to be in the grasp of Dr. and Mrs. P. A. Plum and son, who registered frqm Honolulu, Hawaii, Tuesday evening. It's a far cry and good long ways from the land of the swaying palms to the snow-crown ed and majestic wilderness of the BeartoothS, but the Plums were as enthusiastic and as praiseful of the scenic beauty of this region as any native Montanan would sure to be of Waikiki beach in the moonlight. But even more thrill ing vistas and even more spectac ular scenery await them when they make the drive over the new ap proach highway to the park to tour Yellowstone and then go on to the west coast. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Beckinan and three children were guests during the week at the new park. The Beckinans make their home at Naperville, Ill. Also guests during the week were Mr. and Mrs. C. M. d'Autre ment, who make their home at Tombstone, Ariz. Two parties of Canadian tour ists also registered in the week at the Red Lodge camp, though on different evenings. The first con sisted of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Hodge of Balder, Manitoba, who were guests last Wednesday night, while the second- were Dr. and Mrs. É. J. Jayirs and three child ren, who registered from Winni peg, Manitoba, Tuesday evening. Among registerites from Butte during the week was R. E. Cole and party of four, Mr. Cole is an official .of the Montana Power company at the Mining City head quarters. On recommendations of his brother that he was "missing something in life" if he did not make the trip over the new scenic Red Lodge-Cooke City approach road to the park and stop at least one night at the new city camp, came H. F. Payne and family to register^ at the park Friday. Mr. Payne's brother went through the pleasant experiences he passed on to his kin only recently. —o— V Covington, Kentucky, was rep resented on the register on two separate days of the past week and by two separate parties. Mr. and Mrs. Orie S. Ware and daugh ter, Patsy, stopped Friday even ing, while the next evening, Sat urday, C. H. Evans and son were guests, —o— Harvey A. Olson and family were.also registered at the camp grounds Saturday evening. They make their home at Crow Agency, where Mr. Olson is an official in the government Indian service. COUNTY WEED TOUR PLANNED ÇY AGENT — Demonstrations To Be Held At Fromberg, Bridger And Powell, Wyo. The dates for the Carbon county weed clinic, spraying demonstra tion and tour have been definitely set for Friday, Saturday and Sun day, August 23 , 24 and 26, it is announced by the county exten sion office at Joliet. On Friday afternoon, the first meeting and spraying demonstra tion will be held near Fromberg starting at 2 p. m. promptly. S. L. 'Sloan, state extension agronomist, will be present and conduct a weed clinic Anyone halving troublesome perennials with which they are unfamiliar should bring samples to this weed clinic. A spraying demonstration using "Atlacide", calcium chlorate, will be put on also. If possible, a field, using clean fallow method for con trol, will be visited. On Saturday morning at 10 a. m., a similiar weed clinic will be staged in the Bridger territory. The Russian knap weed will be (Continued on Page 6) : BRIDGER IS READY FOR CELEBRATION OF CARBON EVENT Event To Honor Memory of Jim Bridger, Pioneer Trailblazer With plans and arrangements complete, Bridger is ready to wel come visitors to its first annual Jim Bridger day celebration Sat urday. The celebration, declared to be unique in affairs of this kind in Carbon county, is to be staged in memory of the intrepid Montana pioneer and trail blazer. A feature of the day's program will be the unveiling of a monu ment erected by Bridger towns people in honor df the early-day adventurer and fur trader after whom the Clark's Fork community is named. The monument, recently com pleted, is constructed of materials gathered over a wide area. Rocks, ores and mineral quartzite which are artistically incorporated into its structure were gathered from northern Wyoming, Cooke City, Sunlight Basin and in and around Bridger. Labor and financial backing for the project was donated by present and former residents of Bridger who for a number of years had been working for materialization of the event which is to take place. The dedicatory address at the unveiling of themonument is to be made by County Attorney E. P. Conwell of Red Lodge. Following the dedication the day's program will get underway. During the morning hours, fea tures of the célébration will be foot races for children and adults, sack and potato racés, wheelbar row races, an egg-tossing contest, a tug of war and other stunts for whiéh prizes in cash and merchan dise will be awarded winners. A flower show in which growers of Roberts, Joliet, Fromberg, Bel fry, Red Lodge, Park City, Laurel and other communities of ; the region will compete, is to be one of the outstanding events of the day. Under the direction of Mrs. Severin Homik, chairman of the flower committee, cash prizes are to foe awarded for displays of dahl ias, zinnias, gladiolas and assorted flower divisions, flowers will begin at 10:30 a. m. Saturday. At noon a free beef barbecue is to be held in the town park and free ice water is to foe furnished. The afternoon's program will get underway with a baseball game between the Bearcreek nine and a (Continued on Page 8) Registration of BUSINESS SHOWS GAIN IN MONTANA \ State Department Reports Gain Of From 30 To 50 Per Cent Noted A survey of conditions in Mon tana as shown through the news papers in local reports and by re ports from farming organizations, business men, railroads and em ployers has just been completed by the state department of pub licity and the consensus showed an average increase in business during June and July of from 30 to 56 per cent over the correspond ing months last year, agricultural districts showed the greater gains. The improvement is also re flected in railroad reports on in creased freight tonnage and in come. The increase in passenger business on the railroad bears out the general assertion that "Amer ica is becoming travel minded." The employment situation, it is said, is steadily improving in the state. In cities of Butte, Great Falls, Helena and Billings as well as other large towns and cities, the number of vacant houses and buildings has materially decreased from the survey taken a year ago, according to the report. The tourist traffic into Montana since June 1 has been a material factor in improving conditions, it is stated. That the state is steadily gain ing is best illustrated by the spending tendency" of Montana, it being pointed out that the at tendance at the fairs in Great Falls and Billings was far greater than in previous years and the financial showing far better. LOCAL MECHANIC IS INJURED IN BLAZE Matt Kansala, local garage mechanic, was burned about the hands and wrists when a wrecker cfar caught fire during welding operations in the automobile re pair shop of the White garage here about 10:30 o'clock Thursday morning. The mechanic was burned in attempting to extinquish the fire which was started when the weld ing torch ignited the gasoline tank and cab of the garage veh icle. City firefighters brought the blaze under control in a short time with chemicals. Damage to the wrecker was nominal. RED LODGE MAN IS STRUCK BY AUTO Indiana Tourist Declares Victim Was Drunk At Time Of Mishap An unidentified Red Lodge man is a patient in Adams hospital here this week receiving treatment for painful bruises and a sprained right ankle sustained when he was struck by the auto of an Indiana tourist on the Red Lodge-Roberts highway Friday night. The man, according to an ac count of the accident told sheriff's officers by the driver of the car, J. W. T.'Suckau, 506 N. Main $t., Berne, Ind., was walking along the highway and, on approach of the Suckau machine, suddenly stepped into its path, the right fender of the car striking him. Suckau told officers the man was apparently drunk. According tp J4r. Suckau, he im mediatey stopped his car, took aboard the injured man and brought him into Red Lodge for medical treatment. Late Tuesday, he was still a patient at the hos pital, where attaches withheld his name. f Suckau reported to Sheriff J. R. McFate soon after thV accident occurred, but was not detained, continuing on to Billings later in the night. Some effects of the in jured man turned over to Sheriff McFate included a partly-filled bottle of whiskey. BUYS QUESTIONED ON HOUSE LOOTING Vandalism And Theft Of House Accessories Is Discovered A number of Red Lodge boys were being grilled this week by city and county authorities con cerning vandalism and theft of household accessories and equip ment at a vacated S. Broadway residence. / Names of all youths being ques tioned were withheld by author ities until guilt qf the crimes can be established. One or two of the boys, all of whom are between the ages of 10 and 16 years, will likely receive sentences in the state in dustrial school at Miles City, of ficers said. The residence, which is located in the 400 block on g. Broadway and which, officiers say, has been the scene of the boys' operations over a period of the last several weeks, is the property of Melvin Corbridge, now a resident of Cody, Wyo. The house has stood vacant and boarded up for the last few months. Last week the evidences of van dalism and theft were discovered. The house was found completely stripped, from attic "to cellar, of all electric wiring, all lighting fixtures were missing and all switches and electric outlet appli ances were removed. All remov able hardware in the house, includ ing door latches, locks and knobs were also missing, as well as all water faucets. In the bathroom of the house, it was said, the toilet bowl had been deliberately ruined and the bathtub had been disconnected and moved out of place. Corbridge arrived during the week to aid authorities in I their questioned during the past week investigation. The youths havé been questioned by Sheriff J. R. McFate, County Attorney E. P. Conwell and Chief of Police J. H. McAllis ter. REPUBLICANS OF STATE FLAY NEW DEAL, LEWISTOWN Grass Roots" Conference Forms Pre-campaign Battle-front ( ( With party leaders and repre sentatives from nearly every coun ty in the state attending^ Montana Republicans gathered at a "grass roots" ~ conference at Lewistown Saturday to form a plan of action and to coordinate party unity against the raw deal of the Roose velt administration, O. H. P. Shel ley, publisher of The News and Carbon representative at the Lew istown meet, reported on his re turn here Sunday evening. The meeting, one of the most largely-attended and enthusiastic Repulbican gatherings ever held in the state, not only attracted mem- bers of the G. O. P. clan but also many one-time Democrats who have awakened to the fact that the New Deal is a misdeal, The News editor said. - Leaders of the party Saturday sounded a call to arms against the legislative monstrosities of the ad ministration, which, they declared were unequalled in any previous phase of American history and which have already placed a bur den on the American people, not only of the present but of several generations to come. It was urged that the party car ry its flight to every precinct of the state and plans were mapped to weld a chain of opposition against administration irregularities that will preclude any hope of victory for the Rooseveltians in next year's campaign. Among speakers at Lewistown, Joseph D. iScanlan, Miles City pub lisher and Montana national com mitteeman, said a sweeping change in sentiment was the favorable reaction to the Springfield con ference of Republicans and that (Continued on Page 8) STATE AAA TAXES ARE RESTRAINED Court Decision Disposes Of All Processing Tax Suits In State Without passing on the constitu tionality of the agricultural ad justment act, but expressing grave doubt as to its validity Under the basic law, Unitsfd States Judge Charles N. Pray in a memorandum decision at Great Falls Monday restrained Lewis Penweïl, indiv idually and as collector of internal revenue in Montana, from collect ing taxes from three milling com panies and a meat packng con cern. . The decision disposed of all pro cessing tax suits in Montana. Judge Pray, in his memorand um, pointed out that the question involved will be before the United States supreme court. He said of the one principal grounds for the issuance of a re straining order, as the court con strues the greater weight of auth ority, is'the apparent threat of the enactment of legislation which will prevent or impede the tax payer in obtaining a refund in the event that the statute in ques- | tion should be declared unconsti tutional by the highest court. J POST, ROGERS DIE IN AIRPLANE CRASH Will Rogers, America's beloved humorist, and Wiley Post, famous round-the-World airplane pilot, crashed to their deaths in an Artie fog Thursday night in northern most Alaska. They had just taken off when their rebuilt airplane faltered and fell 50 feet into a river bank. Rog ers and Post were on a liésurely airplane jaunt around the world when the accident occurred. Both bodies yjere flown out of the forlorn wilderness where death ocurred, to the United States. Post will be buried in Oklahoma, Rog ers in Los Angeles, Cal. The crew of an American des troyer, U. S. S. Childs, when in Constantinople, soma years ago, adopted 40 Russian children, sup plying the means for their main tenance and education. . >1 ft&f ;