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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-04
|NF|ELDERS SCARCE
IN MINOR LEAGUES
Only 20 Purchased or Re-
called for Trials by
Junior Loop Clubs.
PPARENTLY there is q S,

A PPARENTLY there Is scarcity
~ of inflelders in the minor
~ leagues who can hit as well as
field acceptably. 1t is a well
known fact that major league scouts
have been seeking just such prizes but,
nevertheless, American League clubs
have purchased or recalled but % sec
ond and third basemen and shortstops
for trials In 1881. Some of the % are
free agents or players who were re-
called merely to send down again. Ten
are shortStoppers, eight are third base
men while only four are second sackers.
Seven new first baSemen are to be given
the once over
Nineteen catchers are among the new
men of 1881 in the American League,
and that list includes such veterans as
Wally Schang and Cy Perkins, de-
clared free agents by Connie Mack;
John Grabowski and Walter Henline,
each Of whom has been in the game
long enough to know what 1t is all
about.
Forty pitchers have been either
seven by Philadelphia six by Boston,
five apiece by Washington, Cleveland
and Detroit; three by Chicago and only
one by st. Louis.
Outfeld recruits also are rather nu-
merous, there being 20. Detroit has
landed six, Chicago and Boston five
apiece, Philadelphia and st. Louis four
apiece, New York and Washington two
apiece and Cleveland but one.
Neither Cleveland, Boston nor Phil
adelphia has grabbed new first base
man. For that matter, Philadelphia
has not gone after new infielder since
it signed Higgins Of Texas University
as a free agent, last June. Owning Joe
Cronin, Washington has arrived at the
conclusion it needs no new shortstop,
while the Yankees have made no efforts
to land additional second or third base
material.
It was no safety first Job that Milton
CASTOR, Boston Red Sox pitcher, had
during the the great war. For q few
months he was stationed at Newport
Norfolk and Cuba, and then was
hustled overseas and parked in sub
chaser with the title Of gunner's mate
Was stationed at Scapa Flow, Scotland
when the war ended.
Many q ball player throws right
handed but bats left handed, but there
are mighty few southpaws who hit right
handed. The Boston Red Sox, how
ever, have just such peculiar indi-
vidual in John Lucas, outhelder pur-
chased from the Nebraska State League
who throws left but bats right. Hit BAT
in the Nebraska State in 1880, scoring
104 runs and making 149 hits, including
81 for extra bases, in 116 games.
DOME Bush called on Is different
players to act as pinch batters in 1890
They were at bat 1873 times, made the
most hits, 80. and drove in the most
runs, %. The Browns gathered the
most passes, 10; Philadelphia the fewest
six.
Earl Averill, star center fielder of the
Cleveland Indians, is following in the
footsteps of Ira ITlagstead, that other
famous base ball product from the
Northwest. Ira raises call ducks and
so does Averill
Ed Morgan, who proved such a sensa-
ton at first base for the Cleveland In
dams during the 1890 season, spends
his Winters in his fathers box factory
at Kenner, La, q few miles from New
Orleans. Nothing about making boxes
that Ed does not know.
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such job of replacement on hand as
no base ball manager before him was
ever called upon to solve.
So much has been written and said
about the Babes towering ability and
his value to the Yankees that added
words are likely to sound very much
like repetition. Yet in the last few
games that Babe played in 1880 new
evidence accumulated to show that
when Babe isn't hitting home runs the
Yankees are just another team. Let's
consider a few facts.
On the morning of August Is Babe
had to his credit A home runs He
had averaged one homer per 2.6 games
up to that time and had hit 1856. The
Yankees were then gamboling along
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-04
OLMSTED FIVE ACTIVE

Has Three Games This Week and
Is After More Foes.
Olmsted Grill basket ball team has
booked games for Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday nights. Dumbarton A. G.
will be met Tuesday at Central High
School, Aztecs Wednesday at Macfar-
land Junior High and Quaker A. c.
Friday at the Silver Spring Md Ar
mory in a preliminary to a game be-
tween Stewards Photographers and a
quint to be announced.
Olmsteds will appear in the prelimt-
nary at Silver Spring each Friday night
and are after opponents. Challenges
should be telephoned to Potomac 6l34.
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ARMY BEATS PRINCETON

WEST POINT, N. Y, January 3 [Pl.
-Army's basket ball five defeated
Princeton in an exciting game here
today, SO to go Army had its full
strength on the court, as Stecker, Mes
singer and Malloy, all members of the
foot ball team, got into the game.
Goodpasture, Princeton forward, was
the individual star Of the game. tossing
in seven field goals and two fouls.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-04
COLUMBIANS BOLSTERED
Marie Frere Whalen Will Bowl
With Rena Levy's Team.

Marie Frere Whalen, one Of the lead
ing girl bowlers of the country, has
been signed to roll with Rena Levy's
Columbians In the Washington Ladies
League.
The Columbians are standing Sec
ond in the Washington Ladies' League,
one and one-half games behind the
Beeques. Mrs. Whalen returned last
week from Atlanta, Ga, with her hus-
band Jack Whalen, who joined the
Rendezvous team in the District League
and Parkway Filling Station quint in
the National Capital League.
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PRO HOCKEY

Montreal, s.; Boston, 3.
Ottawa, 5. Philadelphia, 4.
Toronto, 2: Canadiens, /.
New Haven Eagles, 3; Boston Tigers, J
Cleveland, 3; London, /.
Pittsburgh, 4; Detroit, 2 (oVertime).
Buffalo, 3; Windsor, 3 (overtime).
Providence, 5: Springfield, &.
Buffalo, 4 st. Louis q
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TRIPLE BASKET TIE

Griffith-Consumers Beat Monroes
and Share League Lead.
Grif1th- Consumers quint last night
moved into first-place tie with Clovers
and Potomac Boat Club in the Com
munity Center Basket Ball League as
the result of 41-22 win over Monroes.
Each of the leaders now has won three
games and lost none.
The league standing and this weeks
schedule foIloW.
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BoATMEN PLAY SOLDIERS

Potomac Boat Club basketers go to
Fort Washington, Nd, today to meet
the Company M quint there at 2:30
o'clock. The Boatmen will leave Wash
ington Barracks wharf by boat at 10:45
M
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ToRNEY- YARNELL SCORE.

M. A .Torney and Mrs. Yarnell with
a combined total of 664 won the weekly
mixed doubles blind pig bowling match
last night at the Arcadia. Haverty
and Mrs. Malcolm with 634 were sec
ond and Phil Goodall and Mrs Marjorie
Bradt Smith, with 500, were third.
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of his string yet by
a long shot. But
after Is years Of
setting the pace,
George Herman is
no longer the kid
he used to be, and
all the hypoder-
mics in the world,
to say nothing of
81 a n dular opera
tons, can't replace
the muscular en-
ergy that thos e
years have exacted
from base balls
super man. And
when the Babe &C.
tually does slow
up, then Brother
MpCartl7u will haya
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BASKET BOARD TO MEET

A meeting Of the District Of Column
bia Board of Approved Basket Ball
Ohacials will be held tomorrow night in
the once Of C. Edward Backett at the
Central Y. NJ. @. A. at 7:30 o'clock.
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BASKET BALL ROMP
Virginia Routs Charlottesville ALL
Stars, 60 to 4.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, January
3.-Virginia's basket ball team tonight
scored a one-sided victory over the
Charlottesville All-Stars, so to 4. The
Cavaliers, who returned during Christ
mas recess for early practice, showed
fast form on offense and were scored
against only in the first half.
Wh.
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Boy Wonder OF Base Ball: Game Sailing Smoothly Heder Says
ROD AND STREAM
by PERRY MILLER,


United things
country
publicity along educational lines the building
q
all 1t estimated
$500000000 directly
and hunting bring expenditures
following table
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FARRELL BREAKS ARM.

CHICAGO, January (R.-O'Neill
Farrell, member Of the last American
Olympic skating team, fell and broke
mis- arm today while practicing for to-
morrow's Olympic tryodts at Humboldt
PARA .--s.----.---
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w ; SS =. e s e. h :.s 's:s
American League man.
ager.
That's nothing We had them beat
until the last half ri the ninth, when
Foxx came along with ono Of his fancy
wallops," said another
You fellows are talking about nine
inning games remarked third pilot.
1--WE had them beat until the ninth
when they tied Us up and then beat us
In extra innings
OF course. they were referring to the
Athletics. who seemed to have habit,
during the 1880 season, of allowing the
opposing team to think for six innings,
at least, they were going to win.
Thirteen times the Athletics won
their battles in the seventh, the lucky
seventh. thus demonstrating once
more that Is is only unluckv for the
other fellow. They lost only four games
IN the seventh, by the way. They broke
even in IA games won or lost in the
eighth. They won Is out Of ID that
were decided in the ninth and took
out Of overtime contests, their per-
centage in games that were decided
after the sixth round being 696.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-04

A MONG the tasks that Joseph
" Mccarthy faces as manager Of
~ the Yankees is the sooner-or-
later job of trying to get along
without two men in right field and
three or four men at bat all at once
Reference, Of course, is to Babe Ruth.
Pitcher, outhelder and batter-a star
of double first magnitude in all three
jobs, the Babe hasn't reached the end
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RITES FOR CHESELDINE
"Hut," Sandlot Base Ball Player
to Be Buried Tomorrow.

Funeral services will be held to-
morrow morning at IL o'clock for
Hut" Cheseldine, well known sandlot
pitcher, who died Thursday at his
home, 734 Twelfth street southeast, as
the result of q knee injury received
during the last base ball campaign.
Interment will be made at Cedar Hill
Cemetery.
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EAGLES MEET SWEDES

Missouri Basketers.
Skinker Eagles will go after their
second basket ball win in as many
starts when they face Olson's Terrible
Swedes of Humansville, Mo-, this after
noon in the Silver Spring, Md, Armory
at $3.50 o'clock. The Birds downed the
Detroit Clowns last Sunday.
In the Swedes the Eagles viii be
racing highly touted quint, said to be
particularly adept at back passing.
In the preliminary, starting at 2:30
o'clock, Stewart Photographers viii face
Frederick, Nd, Eagles.
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AL WAYS AT EVEN
KEEL, HE ASSERTS
Great Race for Flag Gave
National League Biggest
Attendance in 1890.

Mote: This Is another OF series OF
stories toTttten especially for the As
soctated Press bg sports leaders, Teutep-
ing 1880 features and sizing Hp 1881
pFospects.J
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Recording ''Foot Ball HOurs''
May DisprOUe OUeremphasis

TO the actual playing season and 40
hours TO the Spring practice, or a total
Of l48 hours during the year.
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Summary,


per ball fans
$50 hunters and fishermen
per fishermen golf players
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ALEXANDRIA TEAMS
PLAY OFF GRID TIE
Alcova Motor and IrOquoiS A. c.
Meet for Northern Virginia
150-Pound HonorS.

ALEXANDRIA, Va, January 3.-Foot
ball again will hold the limelight to-
morrow with the Alcova Motor Co. and
Iroquois A. C. meeting at 2:30 o'clock
In Baggett's Park in what is advertised
again as the seasons finale.
The two teams, battling for the 49,
pound crown of Northern Virginia, met
last Sunday in what was to have
brought the foot ball campaign to a
close, but fought to a scoreless dead
lock and decided to settle the issue, If
possible, by playing another game.
Alcova holds the Arlington County
championship, while the Iroquois A. @.
occupies a similar place in local ranks.
Scholastic basket ball will come back
into its own next week after the Christ
mas holiday lay-off with six games
scheduled in the Northern Virginia
area.
Alexandria High win figure In three
battles on the road, playing Salem High
at Salem on Thursday and Roanoke
College Freshmen and Jefferson High
School in Roanoke on Friday and Sat-
urday, respectively.
In the other games Washington and
Lee High will play at Eastern High IN
renton in its own gym at Ballston on
Friday, while Episcopal will open its
season in a game with Tech in the
Episcopal gymnasium on Saturday.
Saks Clothiers of Washington will be
guests of Ray Heberligs Del Ray A. C..
here Thursday night In a game at
Armory Hall at $50 o'clock.
Richmond, Fredericksburg g. Potomac
Railroad Co. cagers will tackle the West
ern Electric Co.'S quint of Washington
Tuesday night at $3.50 pm, on the
Armory Hall woodway. Alpha Delta
Omega Fraternity will oppose some
Capital City club in the preliminary.
Stanley Dreifus, Eddie Walker, Gillie
Lee, Charley Grimes and Blair Ballen-
ger, comprising the Health Center
Alleys team, shortly will inaugurate an
active campaign against crack duck
pin combination of this area.
Bobby Vogt has booked the Jewish
Community Center five of Washington
for a game with his st. Mary's Lyceum
cagers here Wednesday night at $3.50
O'Clock in Armory Hall.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-04

Stanley Dreifus, Eddie Walker, Gillie
Lee, Charley Grimes and Blair Ballen-
ger, comprising the Health Center
Alleys team, shortly will inaugurate an
active campaign against a crack duck
pin combination of this area.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-04

Saks Clothiers of Washington will be
guests of Ray Heberlig's Del Ray A. c.
here Thursday night in game at
Armory Hall at $50 o'clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-04

Bobby Vogt has booked the Jewish
Community Center five of Washington
for a game with his st. Mary's Lyceum
cagers here Wednesday night at $3.50
O'Clock in Armory Hall.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26
TREE PLANTING
idea ADOPTED
State Wide Response to
Walnut offer.

Statewide response to the walnut
planting program of Frank S. Betz,
retired manufacturer of Hammond,
is noted by state conservation de-
partment officials.
Several months ago Betz proposed
to plant 100000 walnuts on Arbor
day, April 10, and enlisted aid OF
the forestry division of the state
department.
Commenting on the Betz pro-
gram to return many idle acres to
productivity, Richard Lieber, con-
servation director, said it is the first
plan of this kind ever sponsored,
and credits Betz with one of the
most constructive reforestation pro-
grams ever undertaken by a pri-
vate individual in this state.
The Betz offer is to give 1000
tested walnuts ready for planting to
any town, city, civic club or school
in the state which matches his offer
and buys 1000 walnutS from the
state forest nursery at $3.50 a
bushel. This price is the actual cost
to the state nursery for collecting,
qualification and packing.
| Indiana is now third in the annual
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26
Arrivals and Departures

Municipal Airport-Richard A.
Arnett, from Detroit Mich, Stin-
son; w. w. Kratz, from Cincinnati
Aeronca; T. g. w. A. passengers
eastbound from Indianapolis were,
M. B. Curran of Webster Grove,
Mo-, and George Reiner, Columbia
Club; westbound T. & w. A. pas
Sengers included c. w. Schenelt-
sching of Boonville, Ind.
Hoosier Airport - Bob Cast,
Louisville to Chicago, Sikorsky
amphibian; Walker w. Winslow and
Robert G. Winslow, returned from
st. Louis, Travel Air, and Harold
G. Brooks, returned from st. Louis,
Curtiss Junior.
Mars Hill jor H. Weir
Cook, Indianapolis to South Bend,
Wednesday, on to Gary today;
Lieutenant Howard H. Maxwell, In
diana national guard, to Gary and
return; Lieutenant Matt G. Car
penter, and Private Wheeler, Ser
geant E. N. Caldwell, to Shelbyville
ard return, Doulass O2-HS; Embry-
Riddle passengers to Chicago were
"A. w. Hunger of Chicago, and R. B.
Olson of the Aviation magazine
staff.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26

FRIDAY-"Waier is the Most
Powerful Explosive.
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MOUNDS SHOW
DEPRESSION IN
ANCIENT DAYS
Indians Had Building Slump
on Several Occasions,
Excavations Prove.
BIZ Science Serriee

By Science ScrUice
EAST ST. LOUIS. H., Feb. 26.-
Prehistoric America had ats periods
of building activity, and perhaps, in
between, its periods OF depression.
Evidence that Indians of this region
organized their efforts no less than
six different times to work on the
great Powell mound is the latest
discovery made by Psychologists now
excavating the base of the ancient
earthen monument here.
Examination of the site indicates
that there was no very long gap of
inactivity between the building Of
the six successive stages of the
mound. DR.. A. r. Kelly. director Of
Illinois archaeological explorations,
told Science Service today.
The mound is definitely prehis-
toric and well may be at least 1000
years old, he said.
The Powell mound, part of the
famous Cahokia group of Indian
mounds, is proving a strategic site
for scientists who are writing
Americas prehistory. Explorations
so far offer convincing assurance
that Indians of Cahokia we're linked
culturally with Florida and the gulf
Of Mexico to the south and also to
the North with Wisconsin. DR.. Kelly
said.
So significant are the contents OF
the mound considered that DR.. W.
G. McKern of the Milwaukee public
museum has come to East st. Louis
to observe the excavations. He finds
marked similarity between the
Indians here, as shown by their
mound and its contents. and the
mound building Indians of Aztalan,
in Wisconsin.
A link with the south is found IN
two species of shells in the Cahokia
burials. from the gulf of Mexico
Copper covered wooden objects
shaped like Spindles have been
found in Powell mound, and these
are almost exactly like objects found
in a Florida mound twenty-five
years ago.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26
DIVORCED PAIR REUNITE
IN JAIL AT GREENSBURG
Man and Former Wife Both Face
Liquor Nuisance Charges.

Liquor Nuisance Charges.
GREENSBURG, Ind, Feb. 90
Mrs. Margaret Beagle of Viewpoint
is in a cell next her recently Oh
vorced husband in the Decatur
county jail here, awaiting trial for
maintaining liquor nuisance. Her
former mate, already in jail on a
charge of intoxication and await
ing the completion of a trial
started Monday, also faces the
nuisance charge.
The new charges followed an in
vestigation by Prosecuting Attorney
Hubert Wickens when evidence in
the Beagle intoxication trial and
one of James Stanford Of Viewpoint
for assault and battery upon Beagle
limited that Viewpoint was very dry.
1t was alleged that numerous
persons had bought liquor of the
Beagles, and that automobiles ar
rived at the house at all hours of
the day and night. Stanford is said
to have shot and wounded Beagle
in a fight which started when he
went to the Beagle home to pur-
chase liquor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26

Weather conditions in the air at
9 a. M:
North wind, 7 miles an hour;
barometric pressure, 1925 at sea
level; temperature, 81; ceiling I'M
limited; visibility, two miles; field,
good.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26

Leg Broken Times in Is Months
By United Press
BOSTON, Feb. Elizabeth
Mark, 3, was in city hospital to-
day after suffering a broken leg for
the fourth time in thirteen months.
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Following is the explanation of

Following is the explanation of
Ripley's Believe 1t or Not" which
appeared in Wednesdays Times:
Henry Marston Pcedetermines
Sex Before Birth-Henry Marston,
who correctly has determined the
sex of forty-four children before
birth, bases his theory of prede-
termination of sex upon several
scientific truths proved by him
after long and diligent study and
application. His successful proph-
ecies have attracted much atten-
ton in the vicinity of his home,
Coushatta, La, and they are veri-
fled by scores Of his towns people.
Coyotes Are Onnivorous-Con-
trary to the popular belief that
the coyote, or small prairie wolf
of the western United States, is
strictly a meat-eating animal, 1t
has been observed that in some
sections they are fond of water
melons, corn, apples and berries.
All coyotes, when pressed for food,
will eat cedar berries, ground
cherries and hipberries.
FRIDAY-"Water Is the Most
Powerful Explosive.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26
SPEECH TO HIT
FEEDING KIN AT
PUBLIC TROUGH
Oklahoma to Turn Blast on
congressman Who Hire
Relatives.

By Scripps-HOfoGrd Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-Before
congress adjourns, one of the men
who is quitting it for good, will de-
liver a speech designed to make the
men he leaves behind him squirm in
their seats and wish the Congress
sional Record did not have such a
wide circulation.
The speech will be made by
Ulysses S. Stone, Republican repre-
sentative from Oklahoma, and
crusader against nepotism. He in
PRODUCED a bill about a month ago,
which would make it illegal for con-
gressmen and other high officials to
place relatives on the government
pay roll. It made him somewhat I'M
popular among his colleagues.
Stone already has announced
facts and figures about congress
brothers and sisters, as we'll as
nephews, on the government pay
rolls; has asked for committee hear
ings on his bill, and has called on
President Hoover to ask his sup
port.
Scores on Pay Rolls
But when he makes his final
speech on the floor, it viii become a
part of the Congressional Record
and go to every congressional dis
trict in the country.
Discussions of nepotism In the
last few weeks have disclosed that
approximately 100 relatives of men,
bers of the house are on govern
ment pay rolls, and approximately
thirty relatives of senators.
These estimates cover only close
relatives, and do not include
nephews, and others, whose names
are different from those of their
congressional relatives. They draw
approximately one-tenth of the
amount allowed for clerk hire.
Many Don't Earn Money
A great many of these employees
earn their money by hard work
every day. A great many others do
not. Some of them never appear
at the Capitol, but draw pay twice
a month just the same.
1t is against this latter class that
Stones bill especially is directed,
and his crusade has received en-
thusiastic, though anonymous,
support from the ranks of congress
sional clerks, who work for low pay
while relatives of their employer
draw as much or more for no work.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-26
WOMAN MAY BE LOST
IN MOUNTAIN STORM
Sheriffs Posses Scour Highlands in
Long Search.

By United Press
GLOBE, Ariz., Feb. 26.-The pine
covered slopes Of Pinal mountain,
fifteen miles southwest of here, were
searched today by two sheriff's
posses in an effort to locate Mrs.
Will Ashby, so, missing since
Wednesday afternoon.
Accompanied by her dog, she left
her cabin home and was believed
to have become lost in a snowstorm
that swept the mountains Wednes-
day night. The cabin is located
near her husbands mining claim.