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Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-03-06
Long Distance Helps
To Tie Marital Knot

Miss Bethel Pharr and Homer R.
Eakin were recently married by tele-
phone at a cost of $3.50, although
they were 1000 miles apart. The
bride was in Waco, Texas, and the
bridegroom in Cleveland, 0. The
marriage was performed by Justice
Of the Peace of Waco, sitting by an
extension telephone in his office. The
brides mother, listening On n of
the Waco extension telephones, heard
the entire ceremony. Immediately
after the ringless and kissless we'd
ding the pair set out for St. Louis,
where they were to meet and start
their honeymoon.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-03-06
Commissioner Land Sale

The board of County Commission
ers offered about So farms for sale
last Wednesday but owing to the
heavy snow fall which made roads
almost impossible, there "a a very
light attendance and only four farms
and an acrege tract was sold. Neils
Madsen bought a 2 acre tract in Sec.
22-31-55 and the other buyers were
Mrs. Jess Adams, 800 acres; Mr.. Foss
of Westby, 800 acres: Ted Nordha-
gen, Westby, 200 acres, and Norman
Eidsness, Reserve 100 The to-
tai brought for these tracts amounted
to $2850.0O
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-03-06
Benefit Card Party Held

A benefit card party was spon-
sOred by the Oro-Y-Plata chapter.
Order of the Eastern Star, Tuesday
evening, the proceeds of which will
go to the women's building of the
Masonic Home at Helena. Fridge and
whist were the games played at thir-
ty tables. The upstairs and dining
oom were used for this purpose. Mrs.
j. w. Mckee and John PalubicN re-
ceived high score and bridge and
Myrtle Donaldson and C.. r. Keinest
had low. At whist Mrs. c. S. Mel
son had high score and Mrs. Thomson
and Ed Black had low. A special
committee with Mrs. Jack Bennett as
chairman served refreshments at ell
ever o'clock. Mrs. c. S. Nelson was
chairman of the arrangement com
mittee.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-03-06
TAFT Continues
TO GAIN STRENGTH
IN FIGHT FOR LIFE
Doctors Warn Against Un-
Warranted Optimism For
His Recovery

WASHINGTON The remarkable
~recuperative powers of William How
ard Taft Tuesday carried him safely
through another day Of his serious
illness.
He rested comfortably, sleeping &C.
casionally- The physician reported
to change in his condition, which has
improved steadily since the critical
stages Of last week.
While Drs. Francis r. Hagner and
Thomas A. Clayton continued to warn
against unwarranted optimism as 9
result of the gains made by the for
mer chief justice, their official bull
letin said:
1.-THE condition of the former CHIEF
justice is unaltered since yesterday
He is comfortable and continues tc
take a moderate amount of nourish'
ment."
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-03-06
HOMESTEAD u P
MARRIED "a YEARS
(Froid .Tribune)

On Monday night, February "a,
friends Of Mr.. and Mrs. L. A. Stout
of Homestead gathered at their
home and helped them celebrate
their oath wedding anniversary. A
pleasant evening was spent and at
a late hour the guests departed for
their homes, leaving with Mr.. and
Mrs. Stout lovely gifts, and
best wishes for many happy returns
of the day.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-03-06

Announcement was made Sunday
that the Four Square Young People
of the Congregational Church would
present the drama "The Laughing
Cure" on Friday evening Of this week.
Notice is hereby given that it has
been postponed two weeks, and will
be presented on Friday, March n.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-03-06
mig" Out on Bonds

When the informations against s.
R. Collins and Frank J.. Fishbeck in
connection with the "chicken ranch"
episode were filed, the Court placed
the Collins bond at $20O0.0O which
were furnished by Pete Stewart and
Charlie O'Brien. The $4,000 FEEDER
al court bond for Collins appearance
in that Court was also signed by the
same two parties and Mig is now re-
leased from Jail after about five
weeks s%ojourn there.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-03-06

Walter Johnson returned Saturday
from Minneapolis where he has been
since last October and spent some of
the time taking a course at Dunwoody
Institute. Mr.. Johnson came in his
car as far as Froid where he had to
leave it on account Of bad roads. He
found the highway thru North Da-
kota in fine condition.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-03-06

Herschel (Slim) Lee went to Great
Falls Monday to take the examina-
ton as a master barber.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1930-03-06

Rasmus LELAND Of Antelope was
ho~bnobbing with friends in Plenty
wood on Saturday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-16
MARRIAGE RACKET
QUIZ HOLDS THREE
Girl Held Under $500 Bail.
Admits Taking $400 for
Promise to Wed.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 16.--saly
lie Blanc, 81, and blonde, who came
from the Mississippi cotton fields ID
months ago because she had heard
there was lots of easy money uD
North" was held for the grand jury in
$4,000 bail yesterday on a charge OF
attempted fraud.
Sally admitted at her hearing that
she obtained about s400 by Offering
herself as bride to anybody who could
pay 81 900 to care for her aged and
helpless mother"
The trouble was Sally was already
married. And besides, she told the
judge, her mother was only 43 and not
helpless.
Held also for the grand jury were
Sally's relatives by marriage. Jack
Madison and his wife, Rose, who are
charged with trying to operate mar
rage racket" with Sally as bait.
Magistrate Marvin fixed their bail twice
as high as Sally's, remarking:
They evidently made Sally do all
the dirty work and then took half the
money"
The charge is that Sally accepted
down payment of $3.50 from Sukeji
Suzuki, a Japanese chef, gave half of it
to the Madesons, and then disappeared.
She was arrested yesterday in New
Bedford, Mass Frank Mangraito also
has complained to the police that Sally
accepted $500 from him and promised
to become his bride.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-16
FARM PRICES DROP
I. TO NEW Low LEVEL
Index Goes Below Depth
PIumbed in 1921, Data
Disclose.

A per cent recession Of farm prices
from July IS to August is was said
today by the Department of Agricul-
ture to have sent the farm price index
below the lowest level reached in 1921.
This decline followed a sharp break
in the farm price level the preceding
month. AS of August Is, the index
was los, compared with Ill on July
Is, with 1913 on June Is and l43 a
year ago.
From August Is to September 10,
however, price advances at primary
markets outweighed declines, although
cotton and wheat failed to maintain
their gains into the first part of Sep
TENDER. The gains have been most
noticeable in hogs, cattle, potatoes and
butter, the department said.
while the drop between June Is and
July Is was general for practically al
farm products included in the index,
the department said, there were some
advances between July is and August
Is, but not sufficient to offset the
downward trend in other commodities
All grain and hay prices averaged
higher on August Is than on July 10
rejecting the drought conditions.
Hog prices advanced on lighter
volume of marketing, and prices OF
eggs, butter and wool also advanced
from their low levels in July. Consid-
cradle declines took place in apples AND
potatoes. which, because OF light crops
in 1929. had not declined to the same
extent as other commodities earlier this
wear. and beef cattle and sheep and
lambs declined to new low levels. The
farm price of cotton also was lower by
half cent a pound on August 10"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-16
TOMB OF UNKNOWN
ENLARGEMENT 0. KID
Fine Arts Commission Also Ap-
proves Standard Oil
Building Plan.

The Fine Arts Commission today ap-
proved the plans for the enlargement
of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
at Arlington Cemetery. The commits
sion acted upon plans submitted by
Brig. Gen. L. H. Bash. chief of the
construction division, Office of the
quartermaster general, War Depart
ment.
The projected Standard Oil Co.
Building, at Third and B streets. was
given the commissions approval, as was
the plans for the George Rogers Clark
Memorial at Vincinnes, Ind.
The commission was prepared to con-
slider the Left Ericsson Statue, to be
given to Iceland by the United States
Plans for the Pan-American Once
Building, to be built at Eighteenth and
B streets, were up for consideration, as
were plans for the new japanese en-
bassy here, submitted by the building
inspectors Office of the District govern
ment.
The commission was prepared to de-
vote attention to designs for the Metho-
dist Office Building extension, to be To-
Gated near the Capitol; to examine plans
for the Roosevelt memorial arch, to be
erected on the Continental Divide at
Marias Pass, Mont, to commemorate
Theodore RooSevelt's leadership in the
cause of forest conservation. The
Roosevelt sketches were submitted to
the commission by Mai. r. Y. Stuart,
chief of the Forest Service, Department
Of Agriculture.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-16
MAN WHO FEARED
FOR LIFE IS SLAIN
Detroit Gunner Murder
Grocer Who Had HIDE
tective Also Is Killed.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associa ted Press.
DETROIT, Mich, September ia
man who came out of hiding three
weeks ago and told friends he feared
he had not long to live was shot to
death last night in new outbreak Of
gang war in Detroit.
He was Tony Gravina, 80, grocer,
who has no police record. Police were
seeking today to learn If he had any
connection with the gangster warfare
which has claimed more than a dozen
lives since the first of the year.
Gravina was one of two victims OF
guns in the city last night. The other
was BENJAMIN j. HOLES, a detective
for the Grand Trunk Railroad, whose
body was found in a railroad yard.
The grocer was shot down in front of
his place Of business. Two men step
ped out of a large sedan and fired sew
eral shots into his head. Then they re-
entered the car and escaped. The only
eye witness was Gravina's 9-year-old
son Tony.
Police learned that Gravina had been
in fear of an attack and that two
months ago he closed his store and
went with his wife and four children
weeks ago and told Of threats against
his life.
Koles' body was found on a track by
trainman. He had been shot through
the abdomen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-16
Straw Hat Season
Ends, but Weather
Fails to Improve

Due to an old American custom the
visible supply of farm forage, or hay,
in this country became notably larger
today.
Department of Agriculture officials
and those intrusted with President
Hoover's farm and drought relief pro-
grams had no comment to make on the
subject this morning, but in high cir
Giles 1t was doubted whether the In
creased supply would be reflected in
any increase in the we'll being Of the
bucolic beasts of the countryside.
Straw hats, in various shapes and
sizes, and in many stages Of disrepair,
were tossed into the discard in whole
sale lots, and the thing to do today be-
came to don a natty, though not so
nappy felt bonnet in early anticipation
of cooler weather.
The sun, it seems, wasn't notified Of
this change of things, and kept on glar-
ing down in that torrid way that has
become so much more habit this year
than in former years.
The weather man thinks there Will
be plenty more straw hat weather, but
that old American custom clings, end
the straw hat has gone.
Hatters Cthey're all mad ones this
year because of a growing fad to go
hatless) announced today that the con-
sumption of straw bonnets this year
took notable decline from the figures
for former years, partly due to afore-
mentioned fad, but mostly to the fact
that so much of the country has been
so long without rain that the May hat
If it survived the first few weeks OF
Summer, lasted quite nicely until Sep
TENDER. Rain and straw hats, they say,
are arch enemies.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-16
Circus Publicity Man Dies.

NEW YORK. September 16 CP)-
William D. Shand, so, of Toronto, for
mer publicity manager for Barnum &
Bailey, died today at Bellevue Hospital.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-16
CATHOLICS CALLED
TOMASS MEETING
Score of Organizations viii
Cooperate in Charities
Sessions Plans.

A mass meeting of members of all the
score or more of Catholic organizations
cooperating in the sixteenth annual
meeting of the National Conference of
! Catholic Charities, to be held here Sep
TENDER 28-October 2, has been called for
Monday night in Carroll Hall. Several
/ thousand of the leading church and or
ganization workers Of the Capital are
expected to be present.
This gathering is in response to
resolution offered at the weekly con-
ference of the Executive Committee OF
the conference in the cabinet room OF
the Willard Hotel last night by John
Hadley Doyle, at which George E.
! Cleary, president Of the Particular
Council st. Vincent de Paul, presided.
10000 Delegates Predicted.
A gathering of more than 10000 del
egates and charity workers in the gym
nasium at Catholic University at the
opening session OF the convention on
Sunday night, September %, was pre-
dicted by Rev. DR. John O'Grady, ma
tional secretcr-' CT the conference, who
is III GER al charge of the arrange
ments and program.
At l~~et So Catholic parishes in and
near Washington are to send delega-
tons of 100 or more of their leadng
workers to the conference, and the pas
tors of all these parishes are cooper
ating 100 per cent, according to the
reports made by DR.. O'Grady and Rev.
DR.. Lawrence j. Shehan, assistant pas
tor of ST. Patrick's parish, who has
been making a personal canvass OF the
pastors.
Georgetown University, Catholic Uni
versity, Trinity College and more than
| 20 Catholic colleges and academies in
this vicinity are to be represented by
large delegations.
Encouraging Reports Received.
Encouraging reports were received
last night from the following chairmen
of committees: Walter D. Beller, parish
representation; Miss Mary Boland, reg
istration; Miss Mary Mattingly, nous
ing; John Hadley Doyle, local speakers;
william Normoyle, entertainment; JOS
eph Fitzgerald, transportation; DR.. John
r. Dewereux, halls and meeting places;
Miss Jennie Glennan, music, and John
Pellen, reception. Francis A. McGann
was secretary of the Executive Com
mittee conference.
Heartiest cooperation of Holy Name
men from 48 parishes was pledged by
Caesar Aiello. president of the Wash
ington section of the Baltimore Union
of Holy Name Societies, who brought
WIFI OU VI biiC lOCdl hAiNo
to show the earnestness of the organiza-
ton in furthering the plans for the ma
tional gathering.
Veteran Worker Speaks.
Patrick ]. Haltigan, veteran worker
in the Holy Name, knights of Columbus
Hibernian, and charity organization
work, addressed the meeting, bringing
assurances of record breaking attend
ancp at the oDeninp session of the con-
ference at Catholic University, where it
was instituted % years ago.
At the session in the Catholic Uni
versity Gym on Sunday, September %,
the Elks' Boys Band will give a con-
cert. George O'Connor and Matt Horn
will also contribute to the entertain
ment.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-16
NEW YORK GREETs DELEGATES.
Extensive Program of Festivities L.
Arranged for Fidac Groups.

~ the Associated Press
NEW YORK, September 16-Repre-
Sentatives of 10 nations and the
City Of New York, extended a cos
mopolitan welcome yesterday to los
Foreign delegates TO the annual congress
OF F'idac Inter-Allied War Veterans AS
ISOLATION. who arrived on the liner
Lancashire.
The municipal tug Macon escorted
the liner up the harbor TO it's pier where
the delegates some in civilian clothes
and others in colorful uniforms, as
sembled under their national flags to
Teceive the greetings Of representatives
Of the allied nations.
2 An extensive program of festivities
haS been arranged for their stay in New
York. Tomorrow night they will leave
5or Washington to attend the business
Sessions of the organizations, known by
the initials of its name-Federation
Interalliee des Anciens Combattants. Tt
Is made up of service groups of nine
foreign nations and the American
Legion, representing more than 5,000,-
600 eX-service men.
Among the leaders of the foreign
delegations were Gen. Ian Hamilton,
yice president of the British group;
Lieut.. Col. William Abbott, president
of Fidac; Lady Spencer Churchill.
chairman of the British woman's dele
cation, and aunt of Winston Churchill,
and Princess Cantacuzene, head of the
Rumanian woman's group.
s Gen. Hamilton, ~ years old, who was
IN supreme command of the Gallipoli
offense in 1o15-16, and is a veteran OF
the Boer Wars, said his experiences
had made him "a man Of peace"
Since the war" he said, II prob
ably have unveiled more war memorials
than any other man, and at these UNI
Neilings have seen so many blind and
crippled veterans, orphans and widows
that it gave me q turn against war"
and have seen how they looked while
watchin gthe ceremonies, that 1t gave
me a turn against war"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-16
LIPS THAT BOOP-A-DOOP DECLINE
TO PERJURE DESPITE VIOLENCE
Helen Kane TestiGes She Was Clicked in Effort Compel
Her to Lie in Court.

her and he had put it into his own
company.
Pushing her against the wall of her
hotel room, Miss Kane testified, Posner
seized her by the throat, but her sec
rotary entered the room, called a house
detective and had Posner elected.
Posner followed Miss Kane to the wit
ness stand and called her story of vio-
lence ridiculous and absurd"
Miss Kane was brought into the case
when it was discovered that before the
bankruptcy she received the money
flom Posner, a close personal friend
transferred it to a bank in Chicago,
converted it into liberty bonds and
placed them in a safe deposit box.
The boob-a-doop baby talker faces a
suit by the receiver In bankruptcy, who
seeks to get both the $4,000 and also
$4,000 worth Of ieWelry Posner says he
gave her,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-16
SQUALLS AND DUST
HINDER 27 FLYERS
Reliability Air Tour Encounter
Strongest Winds in Experience
of Airmen.
BY the Associated Press.


REGINA. Saskatchewan, September
16.-After bucking what they described
as the strongest winds in their expert
ence, 81 participants in the reliability
air tour were here today from Brandon
prepared to tackle the next leg Of
their tour to Moose Jaw.
The first plane to arrive was that of
Lee Schoenhair, noted American pilot.
who made the flight from Brandon in
hour and As minutes against wind
which at times attained a velocity of
so miles an hour. He was followed so
minutes later by the New Cincinnati.
Harry Russell, leader to date in total
points, was fourth, arriving about an
hour after Schoenhair.
Dust rising to a height of 5000 feet
and frequent squalls of rain added to
difficulties of the pilots.
Exports of American agricultural ma
chinery are greater than a year ago.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-16
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Ceptember 16.-Helen
Kane, boop-a-doop actress of stage
and screen, testified yesterday that be-
cause she refused to let perjury pass
the lips she had trained to the innocent
infections of baby talk her life was
threatened.
On the witness stand in referees
hearing into the bankruptcy OF the
Bond Dress Co., Miss Kane testified
Murray Posner, a partner in the firm.
visited her in Chicago hotel and tried
to choke her when she refused to agree
to give false testimony.
She said he told her she must swear
that $4,000 he gave her just before the
bankruptcy had been placed with him
by her for investment in the dress COM
pany. As a matter Of fact, she asserted,
she had given him the money. two
years before 10 by Liberty bonds tor
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-16
Baths Compulsory in Poland.

Poland expects to be the cleanest ma
ton on earth with the new order Of
the bath" which is being introduced
there. The government has drafted a
law under which every inhabitant of
the country must battle at least once
month. Bath cards are being issued.
These must be stamped when the bath
is taken, and shown upon demand Of
the health inspectors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-16
COTTON GIN is WRECKED
BY DYNAMITE BLAST

BY the Associated Press.
: LAKE VILLAGE, Ark, September
16.-After kidnapping the Waterman, a
band of men set off three charges of
dynamite at the Gabe Webb Cotton Gin
here yesterday damaging it to the ex-
tent of about $4,000
The Waterman, G.. B. Cokely, was
found several hours later by Sheriff
Gaines Merritt in a cafe at Dermott.
He said he had been released by his
captors a mile from Dermott.
No motive for the dynamiting could
be learned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-16
QUITS WHITE HOUSE
W. D. Robbins Will Resume DiplO-
matte Post in Salvatore.

Warren Delano Robbins United States
Minister to Salvatore who for several
months has been serving as ceremonial
officer at the White House, laid down
these latter duties today to resume his
diplomatic post in Salvatore.
Mr.. Robbins will leave Washington
late today for Miami, Fla, from which
point he will travel by airplane to Sal
vadore.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-16
GOV. LONG CALLS SPECIAL
SESSION OF LEGISLATURE
Program Includes Highways and
Bridges, School Gasoline Tax
and Building of Capitol.

NEW ORLEANS, La, September 10
Gov Huey P. Long late yesterday for
mally called a special session of the
Legislature for eight days. beginning to-
night at O'Clock, TO consider legislative
subjects regarded by him as vitality af-
fecting the State.
In his official proclamation Gov.
Long said that the special session would
include in its program legislation for
highways and bridges, a tax on gasoline
for public schools and for the ports of
Lake Charles and New Orleans, build
ing of new capitol, providing funds
for the intracoastal canal for revising
the finances Of New Orleans and to
provide an airport in New Orleans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-16

In the last IL months wheat and
wheat -four exported from Cana6a
totaled more than the equivalent Of
I8o, 700 900 bushelSs =
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-16
Capt. PinckneY Resigns.

The President has accepted the resig--
nation of Capt. Gaillard Pinckney, go
Infantry, who has been under treatment
at Walter Reed General Hospital for
several weeks. Capt. Pinckney is from
South Carolina and is graduate of the
Infantry School, class 1926. He en-
tered the Regular Army as a second
lieutenant in October, 1917, and served
during the World War, reaching the
grade of captain in July, 1920.
Albania, according to the 1880 cen
sus, has a population of 100000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-02

7th Floor-Early Ameri-
can Exhibit.
9Th FlooH-Informal lecture
on Co-ordinated Decora-
ton, by Mildred Hart, 2
PM, 4 PM, 8 Pm. and 8
P.M.-ItalianAlcove; Dec
orative Apartments; New
Styles for Living Rooms.
5th Floor - The New
"Hydrelectric" Refriger-
ator; Dining Room
Groups; Bed Room
Groups.
Seward daily gateway., 1930-03-25
sARG0N PUT QUICK END
 10 HIS RHEUMATIC PAINS

Rheumatic pains used to oc- caSionaliy confine me to bed from days to a week. and my whole system was so poisoned that physicians said 1t would take two years at least to get me