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The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-11-14
AN IMPORTANT PRECEDENT

Western progress has always been
made in direct ratio to mining pro-
gress 1t was the discovery of metals
that started the surge of population
toward the Pacific nearly a century
ago. And mining has remained the
major industry in many states.
A curtailment of mining operations
would be felt adversely by every 9TH
er industry. Mining employs hun
dreds of thousands of men and con-
tributes a large share of the general
prosperity. 1t attracts capital, home
owners and labor to the Western En-
pire.
Now the eyes of the west have
turned toward Utah. where the stage
is set for the settlement of a problem
that may determine whether mining
is to progress or go backward For
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-11-14

Viola Mattila spent last week end
in Billings.
Blue grass pasture for rent, season
1880. w. f. Hymer, 18th and McGll-
len 35-1tp
Mrs. Frank Durant entertained the
Episcopal Guild at her home yester-
day afternoon.
A complete line of Belongs silk
hosiery in all the new Fall shades,
sizes 81 to 101s at Richel Millinery.
95-1t
Big reductions on all velvet and felt
hats at Richel Millinery. 35-lt
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-11-14

Mr.. Huff says the Eagles are one OF
the two fraternal orders in the IN
tied States that has made gain in
membership during the past two
years and that Montana has been
gaining steadily in membership for
several years. The total membership
of the Fraternal Order of Eagles in
the United States and Canada is
nearing the 100000 mark and this
growth is remarkable when one con-
siders that the order is only 30 years
old and that their great gain in
membership has been acquired dur
ing the past Is years.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-11-14

The literature department of the
Woman's Club met in the Library
club rooms Tuesday. con the Read
ing of Poetry was the topic discus
sed by Mrs. H. B. Field. Mrs. H. V.
Cartwright gave a review of the book
John Browns Body Poetry by
Vachel Lindsay and Badger Clark
was discussed by Miss Gladys Bow
man.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-11-14

w. A. Huff, of Billings, state presi-
dent of the Fraternal Order of
Eagles, is in the city for a week or
more. He is making his official visit
atoms to the aeries over the state.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-11-14

Ellen Powell of Bridger was grant
ed divorce and custody of her three
minor Children from Edwin Powell
by Judge o. F. Goddard in district
court Tuesday. L. B. Merrill repre-
sented the plaintiff and E. P. Con-
well, the defendant. Mrs. Powell
sought the divorce on grounds of
non-support. They We're married %
years ago.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-11-14

Little Jean Beth, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. E. C. Bjorgen, entertained
fourteen little guests at novel cos
tune party Saturday afternoon. The
hours from 3 to $50 were spent with
games and stunts, directed by the
Misses Dagny Hassell and Clarice
Sawby. The hostess, assisted by her
mother served dainty luncheon dur
ing the afternoon.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-11-14

Nine boy pupils of the eighth grade
in Miss Fidelia Morrow's division
acted as minute-men and gave orig
inal one-minute speeches in special
program concentrating Montana's
fortieth anniversary, last Friday.
They were Laddie Helm, Toivo Kan
gas, George Moses, David Provinse,
Ludvik Rosich, Oliver Timmonen, John
Rossetto, Jack Tharp and Edward
Weydt.
The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1929-11-14

Matt Woodrow is instrueting the
Boy Scouts of Troop l in the review
of principles of first aid to injured.
The trip holds meetings each Tues
day evening at the Congregational
parish house.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-16
PROBE GIRLS DEATH
AT WELFARE HOME
Injection of Twilight Sleep" After
Escape Is Barred by Su-
perintendent.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE, N. Mex. January
l6.-A coroner's jury here has opened
an investigation into the death of
Helen Haskew, 18. of Portales, at the
New Mexico Girls Welfare Home,
allegedly after an injection of twilight
sleep" said to have been given to six
girls who had been captured after
escaping from the institution.
Fay Graves, one of the six. charged
that they had all been given the injec-
tion after they were returned to the
home and they were then placed in soli-
tary confinement on bread-and-water
diet. Other companions of Miss
Haskew said she had seemed in good
health when they were captured last
Friday, but that all of them we're sick
and sleepy "after the injection"
The girl originally was reported to
have died of heart failure, but an in
quiry into the death was started at the
instigation of her father.
Miss Bertha Lips, superintendent of
the home. testified at the inquest yes
terday that the girls were given "twi-
light sleep" injections at the order of
DR.. Evelyn Frisbie, physician at the
home, after they had disturbed "the
whole institution and 1t was feared that
they might injure themselves"
The inquest was continued until to-
day,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-16
PLAZA BILL WINS
C0MM|TTEE'S0.K.
KeyeS-EIIi0tt Measure Under.
goes Only One Minor
Change by Group.

The Keyes- Elliott bill, authorizing ex-
tension of the Capitol grounds to Union
Station, was reported favorably by the
Senate public buildings and grounds
committee today, with one minor
change in the proposed rerouting of
car tracks within the Plaza area.
As passed by the House at the last
session, the bill provided that street
cars should pass through subway from
New Jersey avenue to First street east,
in order to afford an unobstructed vista
of the Capitol from Union Station. The
Senate committee decided to permit the
street cars. to- come qout of the subway
at Delaware avenue and continue on
the surface of C street to First street
east, where they will turn north to
Union Station. 1t was testified at the
hearing several days ago that serious
engineering problems might arise II the
street car tracks were put under q
street east of Delaware avenue, because
the steam railroad tunnel from Union
Station to the south is under First
street northeast.
Assess Cost to Companies.
The committee decided not to change
the House bill provision requiring the
two street railway companies to pay the
cost of relocating their tracks when the
Plaza Is improved. Company officials
contended that since the track changes
would be made solely to beautify the
Capitol, the cost should not be borne by
the companies. The committee, how
ever, decided to follow the action taken
by the House, assessing the cost on the
companies.
The decision to have the G street cars
emerge from the sunken passageway at
Delaware avenue will eliminate the pro-
posed street car subway station in the
basement of the Senate Office Building.
Chairman Keyes of the Senate commit
tee, explained that eventually the north
end of the Senate Office Building will be
embellishments and that the operation
of the street cars on the surface be-
tween Delaware avenue and First street
will not interfere with the view of the
CAPITOL from the depot.
This measure authorizes the necessary
appropriations which have been ad-
vocated for many years to convert the
Union Station Plaza into an attractive
parkway, and If the Senate passes the
bill soon it is possible small allotment
of funds will be made before Congress
adjourns to do some of the work this
year. 1t is understood to be the inten-
ton of those in charge of the legislation
to proceed gradually in razing the
temporary buildings erected on the
plaza during the war. If, for example,
the first work should be done at the
Capitol end, only those structures 'front.'
ing on the Capitol would be removed
Immediately, and the others taken down
as the work progressed. The moving of
the car tracks to First street east will
eliminate tracks that now extend in a
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-16
MoNcADo CALLS VOLUNTEERS
President Declares He Will "Stop
Shameful Farce of Patriotism"

Shameful Farce of Patriotism"
MANAGUA, Nicaragua, January 16
@.-Gen. Augustine Sandino, rebel
leader, has proposed that the Province
of Nueva Segovia be separated from
Nicaragua and placed under his con-
troll.
President Jose Maria Moncada's reply
to the proposal was to call 1t treason
and to order the enlistment of volun-
teers to combat Sandino and his fol-
lowers, whom he termed outlaws. He
added that the proposal was "lunacy."
President Moncado and Gen. Sandino
were followers of DR.. Juan B. Sacasa,
recently appointed Nicaraguan Minister
to Washington, when he headed Lib
eral government at Puerto Cabazas.
Moncado was commander of the Liberal
armies and agreed to make peace with
the Conservative Diaz government, one
of the terms being American supervision
of a presidential election, which Mon
cado won. Gen. SAndino was the only
Liberal army leader who refused to lay
down his arms, and his revolutionary
activities in Northern Nicaragua resulted
in many engagements with American
Marines during the Fall and Winter Of
1927 and during 1928, in which Marines
were killed.
The proposal of Gen. SANDING was
sent to President Moncada through
relatives and included suggestion for
peace conference between the two at
which the matter would be discussed.
ST have taken steps to stop this
shameful farce Of patriotism by order
ing the enlistment of volunteers to
combat the outlaws" President Moncada
said. Peace reignS' over the country
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-16
JONES Is NOMINATED
AS TREASURY REGISTER
Would Succeed Walter o. Woods.
Transferred to Post of
Treasurer.

Edward e. Jones of Hartford, Pa,
former member of the Farm Loan
Board. was nominated by President
Coolidge this afternoon to be register
OF the Treasury to succeed Walter o.
Woods, transferred yesterday to the
post OF treasurer OF the United States.
MIR. Jones has not been in the Gov
ernment since he was a member of the
Farm Loan Board. with which he was
connected for some time.
Woods. whose nomination was con-
firmed yesterday by the Senate shortly
after it was sent up, will be sworn
into office as treasurer within the next
few days, 1t was learned. He succeeds
II. T. Tate. whose nomination was
withdrawn from the Senate by the
President at Tate's request.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-16
FIGHT TO SPUR VOTE
ON DALE ACT LOOMS
4
House Members, Civil Service
Committee Chiefs, Draw
Battle Lines.

Determined effort by a large group
of House members under the leadership
of several members of the civil service
of the House to force leaders to allow
a vote on the Dale bill to iiberalize
the civil service retirement law, it be-
came known today.
In the last session of Congress the
House rules committee authorized a
special rule to give this measure, which
has already passed the Senate, a pre-
House. Chairman Smell of the rules
committee has never presented this rule
to the House and large majority of
the House members are pledged to vote
for this measure.
Robert H. Alcorn, chairman of the
joint conference on retirement repre-
sentative of more than 100000 Govern
ment employees, said today that he is
hopeful that action will be taken in
the House soon.
President Coolidge yesterday express
ed opposition to change in the re-
tirement law.
Fund Balances Cited.
Mr.. Alcorn today laid before men,
bers of the House summary designed
to show that the actuarieS on whom
the members have been depending for
information regarding the cost of this
legislation have been wrong in their
estimate. In parallel columns he shows
| the actuaries' estimates year by year
as contained In Senator Sterling's re-
port of July 23, 1919, compared with
| the actual balances in the fund as GER
tilted by the Secretary of the Interior.
| This statement shows that the eSti-
mate for July /, 1921, was $4,536,O 600
and the actual balance on that same
date was $9,672,842.
! On July l., 1922, according to est,
mates. the Balance in the fund would
have been $7,828,500 and the actual
balance on that date was $18, ,134,263.9l.
According to Mr.. Alcorn's summary,
the disparity between the actuaries' es-
J innate and the actual balance Is shown
| in the following comparisons: July l,
1923, estimate, $10,418,000 actual bal
ance, $25,510,288.97; July /, 1924, esti-
mate. S12,119.000; actual balance, $685.
586,193.19; July /. 1925, estimate, $12,-
937 800; actual balance, $44, .778. So;
July /, 1926, estimate, $12,757 500;
actual balance, $54,629, ,004.93; July l,
1927, estimate. $l5.307,000; actual bal
ance, S68, 760.95; july !, 1873, eStl-
mate, $14,058,e00; actual balance, $685.
078,430
Says Fund Larger.
I Mr.. Alcorn emphasizes that these fig
ures, quoted on the actual balance, rep
resent employees contributions alone,
without any contribution from the Fed
eral Government and that already the
fund is several times the estimated
amount.
He has laid before the members de-
tailed statements to support the con-
tention that the retirement fund piled
up by the employees themselves will sup
port the hberalized features that are
being asked In the pending legislation.
Mr. Alcorn also submitted today to
all members of the House an extract
from the testimony from Government
Actuary Mccoy showing that while the
plan eventually will cost the Govern
ment $9,000,000 a year, it will lead to
efficiency in the service estimated at
least S per cent. which is equivalent to
an actual saving of more than $4,000
900 year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-16
CRUISER APPROVAL
ASKED BY SWANSON
Senate, With Treaty Ratified,
Takes Up Larger Navy
Measure.
BY the Associated Press.

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TO better ana larger agreement 1or
the limitation of naval armament"
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cruiser Dill IoiioWlng ratlncation yester-
day afternoon of the Kellogg multi
lateral treaty renouncing war by a vote
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OF wisconsin, voted against IL.
To pass the cruiser measure, Senator
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-16
Giant Wave Kills
Cook as 1t Crashes
Over Liners Bow
Majestic's Steel Bulkheads
Twisted by Water; Part
of Cargo Ruined.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 16.-One cook
was killed and several other members Of
the crew were injured by gigantic wave
that surged over the bow of the White
Star liner Majestic on the crossing
completed when the ship docked here
today.
The wave twisted steel bulkheads, wet
the mail, ruined part of the cargo and
necessitated removal of the 289 third
class passengers to other quarters. The
wave hit the vessel Monday afternoon
and the engine room crew was still
pumping out tons of water dumped into
the hold at that time. when the ship
docked.
Lenardo Fiorini, 54-year-old assist
ant cook in the third class, stepped out
of the galley at 800 o'clock. He saw
the huge wave, curling over the bow and
hanging above him. He attempted to
regain the galley, but was overtaken
and thrown against a stanchion. His
neck was broken and he was buried
at sea.
Eight Trapped in Bunks.
The wave smashed in a forward
hatch imprisoning eight members of the
crew who were in their hunks in the
forecastle. The water was feet deep
there and the trapped seamen swan
about until they found a break in a
wooden bulkhead through which they
crawled to safety, several Of them suf-
fering from abrasionS.
The water broke down the doors OF
the third-class passenger quarters for
ward, but because Of the time of day,
most of these passengers. were out on
deck There were some instances OF
hysteria, but no general panic. A few
of the passengers were trapped below
decks by the broken doors and had to
be freed with axes.
Ship Looks as III Bombed.
The third -class department looked
when the ship docked today as though
it had been mombed. Bulkheads we're
smashed in, berths and baggage were
wrecked, and furniture was broken. The
l8 by 20-foot cover of the hatcn
through which the water poured into
the forecastle. was broken and the steel
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-16
Only 2 of $4,000
Movie Extras Work
Five Days Weekly
Earnings and Average
Daily Placements Show
Big Drop During 1928.

By the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, January 16.-The
earnings of Hollywood's film extras
slumped more than a third of mil
lion dollars during 1928, and only two
of the approximately $4,000 registered
extras here averaged as much as five
days work a week throughout the year
These and other facts concerning
employment conditions among the
atmosphere people" of the movies are
revealed in figures made public today
by the Central Casting Corporation
operated by the studios as a clearing
house for extra talent. Although the
aggregate sum earned by extras during
1928 was only $2,469,711, as compared
with $2,838,136 earned in 1927 the
average wage of those VINO worked al
all was 35 cents day higher in 1927
The 1928 average was 1894 as against
an average of $3.50 for the previous
year.
Three Per Cent Are Children.
Total daily placements through Cen
trail Casting last year were 276,155, a
slump OF 54,242 from the 1927 total OF
330,397.
The daily average of placements was
1856, as against daily average of COS
during 1927.
Most of the extras placed were men.
Women got only 80 per cent of the
work and children accounted for 3 per
cent.
Besides the two extras Zone girl and
one mani, who accomplished the feat
OF working as much as five days a week
for a whole year, there were two girls
and one man who averaged four and
one-half days a week, three girls and
IL men who averaged four days a week
and Is women and 42 men who aver
aged three days a week.
Altogether there were 469 men and
women who averaged at least two days
work per week for the year. The rest
of the $4,000 got along as wen as they
could.
The 469 extras who worked at least
two days week, it was explained by
Casting Manager Dave Allen, were by
no means ordinary mob talent.
"Seventy-five per cent of them," he
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-16
WOMAN is LINKED
IN MESSITER DEATH
New York Lecturer Believed Au'
thor of Letters Found in Pocket
Of Murdered Engineer.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SOUTHAMPTON, England, Novem-
ber ia New York woman who is a
lecturer at an American university has
been named to Scotland Yard as the
author of letters found in the pocket of
Vivian Messiter after his murder.
Messiter, once an engineer of the
Hudson Tubes, in New York, had been
missing since october 80 and was found
slain in his own garage on January TO-
His pockets contained affectionate
letters from woman in America signed
merely with crooked -" which
looked something like an interrogation
mark. There was also a cipher for
cabling expression containing endearing
terms.
Authorities learned from a sister OF
Messiter that this correspondent was
friend of many years standing The
New York woman is old enough to be
a grandmother. Messiter had lived the
three middle decades of his life In
America, and had recently returned
from there after later visit.
Police were searching today for a
small, wiry man, about 80, who talked
with Messiter shortly before his disap-
pearance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-16
l Faw Down, Go Boom!'' on Radio Mocks
Bailiff's Safe Skids on Ice as Pistol Fires

but he Immediately found himself con-
fronted with the problem of keeping
upright. It was very slippery.
An automobile came bearing down
Harris put on extra steam with the
twofold purpose of getting out of the
automobiles path and at the same time
keeping right side up.
BY miracle he evaded the motor
car, but the Icy pavement proved his
downfall. The revolver he carried IN
his pocket exploded, and bullet went
through his foot.
From an outdoor radio horn nearby
there came at this point the voice of
the announcer. saying: THE orchestra
will now play Faw Down, Go Boom "
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-16
bYRD'S A|RPLANE
UNLOADED ON ICE
Labor of Careful Unpacking
of Craft ReWardedlby Full
fiIIment of Dreams.
BY RUSSELL OWEN.

BY Wireless to The Star and the New York
Times.
BAY OF WHALES, Antarctica, Janu-
ary 16.-An the quiet monsters of the
silent white land looked down today at
new phenomenon which had ap-
peared to challenge them. A slim,
graceful shape of blue with OUT
stretched wings was set. down on the
ice and is now roaring and squirting
the snow behind it.
| In a few hours it will be winging it's
way above the impossible cliffs and
over the ice across which men have
trudged painfully to gain a few miles
that they might know something of
Antarctica-that land which has
wrecked SO many hopes and taken SO
many lives. 1t is the first American
airplane to wing its way over the conti-
nent, for Graham Land has proved to
be an island and not an integral part
of this mysterious country.
Day Of JubiIation.
It was day of qualification and
| jubilation~ to men who have carried
boxes and crates, hauled food and sup
plies by dogs and human hands for
| miles, worked with broken lips and
| skin and eyes sore from blindness,
| worked till they could hardly see with
/ fatigue. This graceful creature of the
air was rugged and slipped over the
| side today without hitch, and when,
| under the push of many hands, it slid
out onto the smooth white surface,
uninjured and carrying with it all the
hopes of many months, great cheer
went up that was as spontaneous and
| grateful as the hearts of many willing
men could make it.
It was the first actual INSTALLATION
of all the long labors of the expedition
members, and they felt that their work
had at last had its first actual re-
ward. Merely a thing of steel and
| wood and fabric, with purring giant
| in its bow, it represents accomplish
ment, and, even though no great
amount of exploration may be done
this year, that airplane:: the Stars and
Stripes, is the symbol of everything the
expedition has meant to those who
have given to it their entire energy.
Typifies Aspirations.
The work of unloading 1t was begun
yesterday when the heavy crate ir
which the fuselage rested was lifted
and swung thwartship so that it rested
on a bulwark and a pile Of timbers
! Then the bolts were unscrewed and the
sides taken off to reveal its clean and
symmetrical lines. There is something
about an airplane which typifies more
than anything else to some people the
aspirations of man, and polar explora'
tions are conceived and founded or
lofty ideals and represent some of the
impelling forces in life. That was what
that airplane meant when it was re.
vealed and when it had been carefully
slung over the side, with men holding
grimly to the guy ropes and protecting
it with their bodies lest it be injured
it was piece of work of which every
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