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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-18
BOOTLEGGERS USING TUBS OF BUTTER TO TRANSPORT l
$4,000 Dead Whale
Turning Up Noses
OF Society Folk

NEW ORLEANS, La, April
ia dead whale has set the
fashionable and wealthy resi-
dents of East Beach, at Biloxi,
to shifting irritably.
Boje1lo Lopez, captain of the
fishing smack San Francisco
found the whale floating in the
gulf a few miles off the main
land near Biloxi. The captain
and his crew towed the whale.
to Deer Island. 1t weighs over
seventy-five tons, measures
more than sixty-five feet, and
is valued at $4,000. Lopez,
after duly mailing a notice Of
ownership to the whales body,
hurried to New Orleans to adj.
vertise this finding.
When Lopez returned to his
whale today he found his claim
had been jumped by T. j. Des-
port.
Lopez made dash for the
Federal court where he secured
q writ of replevin pending the
finding Of the court as to own
efship. Meanwhile residents
temporarily suspend all beach
activities when the south wind
blows.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-18

Highest Grade Liquors Reach
Clubs and Hotels and
Fetch Big Profits.
BY GEORGE FRANKLIN.

Versatility IS q D0oClegger
virtue, if he possesses no other.
This is the opinion of dry en-
forcement agents here. Three
years or more of contact with
the liquor runners has convinced
the dry forces that the bootlegger
is as full Of tricks, clever decep-
tions and nervy expedients as
the strategy board OF the War
Department.
The Latest Wrinkle.
1t remained, however, for the past
twenty-four hours to disclose what
is declared to be one Of the cleverest
subterfuges for the illegal trans
portation OF costly WHISTLES, brandies
and gins ever devised by bootlegging
ORGANIZATIONS. Here is the story in
simple brevity.
Butter is accepted as a needed
household article. 1t is also one of
the items largely consumed by no.
tells, clubs, hospitals, institutions
of various kinds. and restaurants.
Especially are restaurants active in
moving the butter shipped to city
distributors from the larger cold
storage plants.
Butter Is originally packed In fir
kins or tubs, little wooden kegs head
ed up after inspection and not, there
after, liable to investigation. Fur
thermore, it is generally shipped in
refrigerating cars and in large guam
titles. No one would ever become
suspicious of the Eastwood tub with
its inspection label It's innocent as
pect, in time, it seems, caught the
attention of the bootlegger. This is
what happened:
Hook With With Diaries.
Satisfactory connections were es-
tablished with butter packers or
dairy interests, which were induced
to join a get-rich-quick activity in
which the product OF the COW became
a smoke screen in running liquor
shipments to consumers under the
very noses Of the dry agents while
insuring the delivery in quantities
where it would bring the highest
price.
The average butter tub chambers
that is, Odates-fOur one
quart bottles such as are used in the
whislSey trade, and leave space for
sufficient butter packing to hide
them when the butter contents is
Protected by paper and cork wrap
pers, the labels on the bottles escape
damage from coming in contact with
the greasy contents surrounding
them.
!. Old whiskey, bottled in bond,
which has escaped the attention Of
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-18

- l (
store several years ago. This was
the first enterprise of its kind in
the nation and was followed later
by a similar institution at the Post
office Department and later at the
Treasury Department. The store was
conducted in the Park View School
basement and was extraordinarily
successful up to the time of its dis
continuance, after the close OF the
war.
Postal Station Established.
The association fostered the first
"ship by truck" work to supply the
store, shipments being made by
postal truck from farmers along the
road from Two Taverns, near
Gettysburg, Pa, and from Leonard
town, Md.
This work was followed by the
establishment Of a postal station in
the school, in conjunction with the
store, the first Of its kind in the
country. This station is still in
operation, and, during the holiday
season, sent out as high as eighty
sacks of mail day.
The association fostered a COM
munity and school census in 1921,
the latter of which was largely re-
sponsible for the building Of the
Park View School The census was
followed by publication of a direc-
tory and history of Park View, the
first such enterprise to be under
taken by such an association.
The community census was one
of the most complete ever under
taken, showing the number of resi-
dences,, families, length of dwelling,
heads of family, employment, homes
owned and rented. birthplace, num-
Der Of children, number employed,
and the number of invalids or dis
abled.
The census showed that the as
sociation boosted the highest per-
centage of enrolment in the city, 81
per cent of the eligible citizens hav-
Ing been paid members at the time.
The association now has 500 paid
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-18
DEAD, MANY
HURT IN RUHR
RIOTS
JobIess Germans Storm City
Hall at Mulheim, Home of
Hugo SHINES.

ESSEN, April 1S.-One man was
killed and nearly score of others
wounded in riots in the Ruhr today.
At Mulheim a mob of iobless
Germans stormed the city hall.
French troops occupying the city
made no effort to interfere. Null
helm is the home of Hugo SHINES,
the German industrial magnate.
ReinforcementS of unemployed
Germans f1ocked to Mulheim from
Duisburg and Oberhausen.
During the fracas sticks and
stones were kept klying through
the air.
When the city hall at Mulhelm
was attacked a handful of mum.
cipal officials dashed out with pis-
tola and sticks in their hands, but
were swept aside. :
The mob was finally dispersed
with streams Of water from fire
hose.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-18
D. c. CLEOPATRA
WILL BE ideal
BEAUTY
Highest 4ionors Await Girl
Chosen in Shrine Contest.
Prompt Action Required.
what is washington's ideal Of

What is Washington's ideal of
feminine beauty?
The Cleopatra beauty contest now
being coducted by The Times erald
to select Washington's loveiiest girl,
for the highest honor that has yet
come to q Washington woman, 10 ex-
pected to solve this problem.
The idea Of the contest Is not to
pick q replica of the Queen of the
Niie.s There is no satisfactory record
which shows definitely Cleopatra'g
character OF beauty. The plan and
hope OF the committee is to hold up
before the nation. represented by the
100000 visitors to Washington, the
most splendid example Of feminine
grace. charm. and loneliness In the
Capital.
The sages who recorded the tile
OF Cleopatra, wisely handed down
no hard and fast description Of her
charms, leaving the reader to form
within his own mind the picture Of
the ideal beauty.
wide Rivalry Expected
So it win be with this contest
Whether the reigning beauty be bru-
nette. Titan. or blonde, is not the
material factor.
The committee il concerned only
with her worthiness to represent the
Capital Of the Nation, as its most
beautiful woman.
So universal has the interest in
the Cleopatra contest become that,
from present indications. many huns
dreds Of washington girls will pass
before the judges before the close
of the final list. Every girl in
Washington is invited to register
her name
All she viii be required to do to
enter, viii be to call In person at
the beauty contest office, room 346,
Munsey building, and either leave
her photograph or secure an order
/ for a free sitting at Bachrach's
Art Photo Studio.
The fortunate beauty finally sell
ected by the judges viii be the
the nation during the festivities in
June.
HOnors Await Victor.
She and her ten nearest competi-
tors, who will form her court of
honor, viii be in continual demand
for balls, parties, theatrical per-
formances, motor trips, and ban
quetss in addition to being crown
1CckdICs III 4f1IC1GSL IA lA1G &EOAl
water spectacle, The Congress of
the Seas. and the pageant
Her features, through newspapers
and magazines, and the motion pic
lures, will be known all through the
nation and. in fact. through the
world. as the ideal beauty OF the
National Capital, famed for its
beautiful women.
So rapidly are the sphotoeraphs
|piling up in the contest office that
1t is Of prime Importance that each
girl, not yet registered, act prompt.
~. It IL the duty of friends and
relatives OF every beautiful girl in
the city to see to It that she Is
promptly listed for this contest in
order that the Photographic turned
over to the judges for their pre-.
liminary selection may be thor
oughly representative Of the woman
hood Of Washington.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-04-18
Poles Killed by Lithuanians.

WARSAW, April 1.-two Poles
were killed and several others
wounded in guerrilla fighting on
the Lithuanian frontier today. The
commander of a Polish military sta.
ton was kidnapped by Lithuanian
irregulara.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-11-08
C~URTAiLED PRODUCTION, JOINT
SELLING, INVESTIGATORS URGE

Washington.-Both production and
marketing methods must be revised II
there is to be on adequate solution of
the wheat problem, In the opinion of
the war finance corporation investi-
gators, who toured the wheat-growing
areas at the request of President
Coolidge.
In a 5,000-word report TO the presi-
dent, the two corporation directors
said that not only should there be an
improved marketing system, but that
steps should be taken to adjust Ameri-
can production In times of world over
production. Already the directors,
Eugene Meyer, Jr.. and Frank w.
Mondell. have talked over their find
lngs with Mr.. Coolidge and II has been
indicated, that after further confer
ence with private interests concerned.
the proposals advanced In the report
may form the basis OF n definite adj
ministration policy of relief. Whether
legislation will be ready for presenta-
ton at the opening of the next con-
gress, however, remains undetermined.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-11-08
sWAnk GUEST cLEAH
ROOM Of Furnishings

BEST room and bath In the house.
demanded a prosperous appearing In
dlvidual Of a Butte hotel clerk re
Gently. And. Just to Accentuate the
alleged fact he was all he appeared to
be, the stranger exhibited a large roll
OF bills as he tossed the price of his
nights lodging upon the counter. To
the bellboy he was unusually kind. He
tipped him literally as the lad put
down his suitcase at the door and
stepped back expectantly. Later the
stranger was seen 10 get out of the
elevator and stroll off down the street.
1t was noted that he was carrying
his suitcase. The next morning II
was all explained. The room the af-
fluent n had occupied was vacant
In more ways than one. To be sure,
the bedposts, mattress and rocking
chairs were there. but two costly pairs
OF blankets, a bed spread, a pair of
sheets, two pillow cases, two bath
towels and two face towels had disap-
peared. Inspection Of the register dis
closed that the strangers name and
address were undecIpherable. Police
searched the city without finding a
trace OF him.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-11-08
WORLD FARLEY TO
Be CALLED SOON
BRITAIN ACCEPTS FRENCH BILL
OF LIMITATIONS TO GET
STARTED
WANT An AMERICAN At HELM
Another Eyfsrt to UntangIe Smart OF
German Rspsrstisns VIII Be
Made By Powers

Londen.-Eurepe is to make another
effort to unrsvel the everlasting repar-
alton tangle. The British government
has decided to accept the French pre-
mier,s reservations, and the British
charge d'sffafrs at Washington was In
structed By cable to inform Secretary
Hughes OF the decision of the powers
as Mr. Hughes suggested In his reply
to Foreign Secretary Curzon's plea for
American participation.
III all goes well, this commission of
inquiry win be started before the over
seas p~rerniers leave London, and Ii is
hoped that. In spite of Frances severe
restrictIsRs, IL may lead TO a larger
pienary conference or the whole
European situation at Washington or
elsewhere, In which the powerful neu-
trail nations, like the United States,
may make their voices heard.
Sir John Bradbury, the British rep
arations delegate, informed the British
government that, while some Of the
conditions would sharply limit the
scope OF the conference, he felt that
Great Britain could not take the re-
sponsibillty Of uttering a peremptory
INC" to France and risk the loss Of
Americas participation.
There Is q strong desire among Brit
ish government officials that the ex-
perts' commission shall have an Amer
lean chairman, whose neutrality, they
believe, would eel a greater mea-
sure of impartIality. and justice In the
commissions decisions. They would
welcome as the American member, IL
Is said, a financier of such information
al standing as j. p. Morgan. or a law
yer OF such repute and foreign exper-
fence as Roland w. Boyden or Puui
Cravath.
Japan Will be Invited TO join In the
discussion of the expert committee.
Acceptance OF the French terms fol-
lowed prolonged consideration by the
cabinet Of their nature and bearing.
The text OF the French communication
has never been public but 1t was said
on it's receipt that 1t set forth three
conditions as essential preliminaries
before France could give full approval
TO the conference.
These conditions, were, first that the
committee Of experts should operate
under the aegis of the reparation COM
mission, that It should not be Invested
with authority to reduce the total In
demnity figure and that Germany must
give more complete and satisfactory
evidence of cessation of passive re-
.sistance.
Sir John Bradbury, British member
of the Preparations commission, who Is
In Paris, is ~endeavoring TO obtain for
the cabinet more precise information
regarding the French governments re-
strictions.
In the meantime the belief continues
In government circles that the confer
ence will be held and that the United
and the other interested nations
will be invited soon to appoint men,
bers on the proposed commission of
INQUIRY.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-11-08

Much difficulty has been expert
enced this fall by the sheep men in
getting their flocks ont of the noun
talns on account of the heavy SHOWS
that have fallen. w. V. Johnson of
Kirby was caught In the Big Horn
mountains with a large band, and 10
get out found II necessary to dig
through nov In places as much as
Is feet deep. 1t was necessary to cut
the band into small punches and trail
them over roads shoveled out by hand.
Five days were required to get w. the
mountain trip that is usually made
In one day. While this made II very
slow and with but very little feed
available, no material losses occurred.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-11-08
AMERICANS FIND SITE
Of MAnk|NOS' ORIGIN
Scientists Announce Startling DIscov.
cries In Valley of Jewels; May
Be Garden of Eden

Seattle, Wash.-Ray Chapman An
drews, leader of a party of American
scientists which obtained in the Valley
of Jewels. Toshotu, Mongolia. remains
OF eggs Of the dlnosaur, predicts that
evidence OF the beginning Of the hu.
man life would be found In the same
valley.
Mr.. Andrews, with Prot. Henry
Fairfield Osborne, who was a member
Of the party and who is associated
with the American Museum Of Natural
History, New York. arrived on the
steamer President Jackson from the
orient.
There is no doubt that American
Indians and EskImos migrated across
two land bridges which probably or
nected America with ASIA" Andrews
stated. zone OF these bridges was
along the Aleutian islands and the
other was probably acros Boring sea.
"It will take more than a year TO
check up on the results OF our discov-
cries. After that, a fourth expedI-
ton will probably be started by the
American Museum of Natural History.
I'VE have discovered nearly all
sources OF life, insect, reptillan and
mammalian. There remains only the
primitive man and the primitive horse.
These are the two objects we intend TO
find on the next expedition"
In the $50 crates Of specimens
brought back are included % d%Inosaur
eggs, 100000 years old; the skele-
ton OF a baluchitherIum, a browsing
rhinoceros. "a feet long. IL feet high at
its shoulders and holding Its head on
a neck like a giraffe, % feet high the
skull Of the largest carniverous ami
NAL ever discovered, n dog with a head
three feet long and a mouth that opens
1S inches: 20 skulls and IL skeletons
of the protocaratops, n previously I'M
known ancestral form OF the great
dinosaurs OF this continent:
skulls and skeletons of the tltano-
there's, found In the lower c%retaceous
rocks OF the Toshotu plateau; 500
specimens Of great anthropologicai In
terest and 1000 specimens Of unique
value to the research world.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-11-08
FRANCE DEMANDS
HUN PAY IN FULL
PREMIER SAYS GOVERNMENT
FIRM IN DETERMINATION TO
cOLLEcT FULL INDEMNITY
BELGIAN SUPPORT WEAKENING
Alienation of Allies Falls to Check
P~oincare's Opposition to Hughes
Preparations Farley

Paris.-Premier Polncare has reaf
ftrmed the French governments I'm
shakable determination not TO accept
any reduction whatsoever In the Ger
man debt of 1872, 900, 100000 gold marks
as fixed by the London conference 10
1921.
The premier's declarations were
strictly along the lines OF HIS previous
utterances on the reparations question,
taking no cognizance Of any new fac
tor In the way OF international negotIa-
lions In which the United States may
be included. While no official an-
nouncement has been made on this
point, II is believed In diplomatic cir
Giles that M. Poincare's speech reflects
the French governments position,
which has been communicated to the
state department at Washington by
Ambassador Jusserand. Signs OF
weakening Belgian support for the
French viewpoint are admitted freely
everywhere. The adoption In Brussels
of what is termed the Anglo-Ameri-
can policy" is referred to by news
papers which are staunch supporters
of the government as an accomplished
fact.
But this has failed to divert the
French premier from the course he has
been pursuing on the reparations ques-
flon since the occupation OF the Ruhr.
While official circles are quiet on
corning any change in the attitude Of
the Belgian government, the press Is
less clrcumspect, openly referring to
Belgium's Inauguration Of n new policy
of independence, apart from France,
both as regards PREPARATIONS and a
Rhineland republic.
The Temps says:
THE Belgian cabinet does not insist
mon the expert commissions task
being confined to the study of the pres
ent capacity Of Germany to pay, which
is the French governments absolutely
essential contention. Nervousness
and anxiety on the part of the Belgian
government have prevailed In the last
two days. owing to the fear that the
conversations concerning the constitu-
tion of a commission of AllIed-Amerl-
can experts may fall. Belgian execu-
tive circles are convinced that the only
rapid and practical means OF solving
the Preparations problem is to obtain
the active collaboration of the United
States and are resolved to spare no
effort or sacrifice to bring the United
States In"
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-11-08
ELY HEADS STATE LABOR
FOR THIRD CONSECUTIVE TERM

Stephen Ely has, by a vote of 3h to
/, been chosen to serve his third term
as president OF the Montana Fedora
tion OF Labor. according to figures
compiled by the official canyassing
board and made public by e. II. Man
son, secretary-treasurer. Mr.. Ely's OPP
ponent was Charles Gildea, of Butte.
Other officers elected are james An
derson, vice president; r. III. Manson,
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, and the following
members of the executive board Dis
trict No. 2. William Simpson, of Hell
ena; District 3, e. F. Klett, OF Mis-
soula District a, Pete ID. Tiddell, of
Anaconda District 8, William Winter
rowd, of Great Falls; United Mine
Workers, member-at-large, Ed Davis,
Of Roundup; Mine, Mil and Smelter
Workers, Patrick Deloughty, of Butte.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-11-08
EXPERT REPORTS FAVoRABLY
ON M'CAULEY DRAIN DISTRICT

After viewing the land embraced
within the McCauley drainage district
near Laurel, and after seeing the
course TO be followed by the outlet
drain and main laterals feeding into
the main drain, II. A. Hart, senior
drainage engineer of the u. S. de-
partment of the interior, commended
the project and stated that he con-
sidered 1t feasible and well laid out.
Estimates are that about 6,o00 acres
of land are embraced within the dis
trict, which is between Laurel and
Park City. The proposition is to drain
such lands as have become useless
from growth of swamps and marshes,
Induced by accumulations of surplus
irrigation water in the lowlands.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-11-08
THE PASSING OF
tn PIONEERS


SULLIyAN-Dan Sullivan, for q
great many years county commissioner
of Big Horn county, died at hts ranch
on Pass Greek, near Wyola, as the re-
suit Of blood poisoning starting from q
bee sting.
ERBETTA-John Erbetta. for 81
years a resident Of Butte and Amazon
da. died at his home In Anaconda, aged
SO years. He came directly to Mon
tdna from Italy 81 years ago.
CUNNARD- Finely NJ. Cunnard,
who came to Dillon from Ohio 40 years
ago, dropped dead while taking his
usual morning walk about that city.
Deceased was caretaker of the county
court house.
HALVORSON-Andrew Halvorson,
IS years OF age, pioneer trapper and
farmer, was found dead In his ranch
home one mile west of Troy. Two
newly cleaned rifles were at his side.
One had been fired and the bullet had
entered his chin, coming out two
inches above, severing an artery.
Whether the shot was accidental or
suicidal is not known.
CARLTON-Mrs. Robert Carlton.
after whom the town Of Carlton was
named. died In Long Beach. California.
With her husband Mrs. Carlton came
to Montana in 1868 and settled In the
Bitter Root valley. She is survived
by twelve children. all Of whom were
born on the ranch that was a famous
landmark of the Bitter Root In the
early days.
RICHARD-Joseph o. Richard, Sc
years of age. who located in what is
now Missoula county In 1856, died in
a hospital In Missoula. SO far as is
known he has no surviving relatives.
HEILMAN-Ernest w. Heilman, a
resident OF Bozeman for the past
thirty years, died at Butte. Mr.. He'll
man was one of the pioneer merchants
OF Bozeman and was active In civic
His death followed a trip to
Butte In search of special medical
treatment. The funeral was held at
Bozeman.
BIGGS-wesley M. BIggs, former
senator and for many years
actively interested in politics In Lewis
and Clark county and throughout the
died in Helena. He had been In
health for some time.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-11-08

Wichita Falls, Texas.-Jack Sawyer,
who claims to hold the belt for clean
ing and cooking a chicken the fastest
west OF the Mississippi, recently re
tanned the title when he cleaned,
dressed and fried a chicken In three
minutes. Is seconds. His opponent in
the contest. Fatty Braxson, WAS only
IL seconds behind Sawyer. Sawyer
claims his best has been only 2 min
utes, 45 seconds. the process including
killing. picking. dressing and frying to
a turn.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-11-08

Mitchell Field. New York.-The
fastest speed ever attained by man
was made by Lieut.. H.. j. Brow, navy
aviator. who flew over n three.
kilometer straight-awHy course four
times at an average speed Of 259.15
miles an hour. On one leg of the
course he travelled at the phenomenal
rate of 2d5.21 miles an hour. Brow's
record was attained In composition
with Lieut.. A. ]. Williams. winner Of
the Pulitxer race. both men flylss
navy Curtiss planes Brow wAs sseenS
In tbs rsosat Puittxsx contest.
Belt Valley times. [volume] (Armington, Mont.) 1894-1977, 1923-11-08

Erection OF the memorial statue
Choteau county's tribute to Its fallen
World War heroes, has been finished
by the Kahn Granite company of Hell.
ena and the figure is now ready for
the unwilling ceremonies which viii
be held on Armistice day. Sunday, No
vember IL, at Fort Benton. An appro-
pirate program is now being arranged
for the occasion.