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Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-01-01
DALEVIEW

Daleview-Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd
Bantz We're in town shopping.
E. j. Cole and family and Lloyd
Bantz and family were Sunday din
ner guests at John Porters.
Mr.. and Mrs. Christensen enter
tanned the E. j. Cole family, Club
Desonia, Tom Boyer and Della Chat
fee Wednesday evening.
Miss Minnie Fellon and Opal Crit
fin visited the Walter Lee and Joe
Wagner families Friday and Satur-
day.
Pill Radons visited at P. Testers
Tuesday night.
Ray Robinson is visiting his sister
Mrs Glen Harness.
Dave Beaumont received the sad
news of his sisters death last Mon
day.
Perry Lester and Harley Potter are
putting up ice for Mr.. Potter.
Fred kelm was in town Sunday.
Walter Lee called at Fred Helms on
Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Wagner visited
at Walter Lees Sunday.
Francis Fellon visited the home
folks over the week end.
Elmer Cole was in Outlook Monday
on business.
Mrs. r. w. Dickey drove to Red
stone Wednesday.
Bud Bucklin was in town Wednes-
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. McCrady We've doing
some shopping in town Tuesday.
Mrs. Joe Wagner called on Mrs.
Christensen Monday.
E. V. Hurst came out to the ranch
one day this week.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-01-01
ANTELOPE

Antelope-Ole Hoven returned on
Monday from attending an oil deal
ers convention at Great Falls.
John Welters and son Tom were in
Antelope from the Welliver country
Tuesday
The Congregational Ladies Aid was
entertained at the Archie Hunter
home Wednesday afternoon.
Mrs. j. f. Wamsley and little
daughter of Wolf Point are visiting
Antelope friends this week.
A. A. Hannah, superintendent for
the Monarch Lumber Company called
at the Antelope yard Friday.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-01-01

SUGGEST COMMUNITY CREAMERY

Although | was beat at the election
| am not sorry; but am looking ahead
to see what the other fellows will OF
may do.
Sorry to say that some of the laws
Of Uncle Sam seem to be so different
and on the round about way.
| noticed in The Plentywood Her
aid that there seemd to be an article
in there about the butter question
as to having it put up in prints; or
squares.
must say, that | myself, not men
tioning any names was born and
raised in a dairy country and know
very little about everything but home
grown creamery butter.
! am not going to say very much
or urge anybody to go ahead and build
a creamery but | must say that this
country is surely entitled to a small
creamery to handle our cream.
So if we could get our heads to-
gether and organize for a creamery,
maybe it would be a little better than
to stand on the other side and not
being able to see the bright side Of
things. am trying to look on our
country in a general way.
We hear, no doubt a lot about hard
times. 1t is when we expect too much
and not making enough allowances
for what we get or should reasonably
expect.
| will not say anymore, but if this
may go into print | will try to be
with you in the next weeks paper.
So let us all try to look at the
fairer side and try to forget some Of
these hard knocks.
You can't make a hen out of a
rooster, but we can all try to be a
good booster.
I THANK YOU
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-01-01

levies in those years, when there
was plenty of money in the country
Saves 81 Per Cent Interest
The matter of interest on outstand-
ing warrants and the use of the coun-
ty sinking funds at y per cent inter
est by our banks was also explained.
The banks here could not use the
county money at pc per cent inter
est and did not want it at all, but
they were prevailed upon to allow
y per cent on the daily balances,
Whenever warrants of the county or
school districts were presented to the
treasurer for payment, instead of
registering them and not paying
them for want of funds, and thereby
paying 6 per cent to some outsider,
ne has been authorized by the County
Commissioners to pay for same out of
the Sinking funds Of the county, and
holding them in lieu of the cash. In
this way the County actually saves
~5@ per cent interest on every dollar
of registered warrants and the mon
ey was drawn from the banks as fast
as warrants could be paid off. This
exploded Risely's camouflage about
the interest matter, as no one can
charge laxness on the part of the of
ficials for doing this.
Invites Special Audit
The entire report was gone over
so thoroughly and to the satisfaction
Of practically all association mem
bers present that when the Board of
County Commissioners invited them
to appoint some auditor or two mem
bers Of the association to work with
the Clerk & Recorders office force to
make a thorough personal check-up
to satisfy themselves, the association
refused to do so, as only four voted
for this and the balance against it,
which was actually a vote of conf
dence in the Board of County Com
misisoners and the other officers in
volved.
Wanted Attorney General
Only one man, Nels Sorenson, of
Dagmar, expressed himself as dissat-
isfied and wanted the Attorney Cen
eral to come here and make an in
vestigation, but this met with disa-
pproval from all sides. His sugges-
ton was in line with the desires of
the red scandal sheet down the street
here, as they could have made con-
siderable capital from this charge
that conditions were found by the
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-01-01

Frank Wagner and Dave Beau
mont were in town Friday.
Elmer Chaffee visited his father
A. Chaffee Friday night.
Minnie Fellon stayed over night
with Opal Griffin Wednesday night.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Wagner visited
Glen lngels at Redstone.
John Porter and family visited at
f. j. Coles Saturday.
Mrs. John Wunderlich visited the
p. Lester and f. Cole homes Saturday
evening.
Tom Boyer and Norman Chaffee
were in Outlook Saturday between
trains.
Miss Cecil Cole spent the week end
at Whitehall visiting her aunt Mrs.
Geo. Huddleston.
Mr.. and Mrs. f. j. Cole and Mrs.
Christensen were shopping in Plenty
wood.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-01-01

Taxpayers association which made i
necessary to call in the Attorne,
General.
Brand Story as a Lie
County Attorney Blackwell told tn
members present that the news stor,
in the Producers News that they hat
been advised from Helena that HI
had been ordered either by the Stat
Examiners office or the Attorne.
General to proceed against the Coun
ty Commissioners was an absolute
lie. He had not been called upon, ane
it was clear to those present that nt
sane man would have done so, wher
the thing was explained in its true
light.
Seed Loan Notes
The seed loan notes from the in
debtedness created some ten years
ago was also taken up for investiga.
ton. 1t was explained that many OF
those who gave these notes have lost
their land, and that very little effort
was made to collect same during the
previous administration. That when
the present Board of Commissioners
had ordered former County Treasur-
e Eng. Torstenson to make a drastic
effort to have same collected, his ex-
penses we're greater than the sums
collected. The association members
were solicited to take over the col
lection of same and that a very gen.
erous commission Would be paid for
all collections, but no travelling ex-
penses would be allowed. After this
explanation and invitation was made
there was no one who offered to go
ahead with this collection, and all
were satisfied our officers had done
everything possible to collect these
notes.
We are mighty glad that the Tax
payers Association here were suf-
ficiently interested to make the long
drive, some coming more than 40
miles-as it will set at rest another
canard which has been circulated to
create strife throughout the county
as well as to make medicine against
the present elected officials.
The only criticism left was the
failure to publish the report as soon
as received. The officials explained
that when they received same at the
October meeting they intended to go
to Helena and Nave an ammended
report made the same as Wolf Point
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-01-01
Taxpayers
Meet With
County Com.

Continued From Page ~
ing was half finished remarks were
heard from various members present
which clearly indicated that nothing
wrong had been done, and they were
glad to have had this straight for
ward explanation given them.
The matter of the failure Of the
former administration to make any
sinking fund levies in ~1922-23-24 or
25 came in for some ~scathing critic
ism from members, and Eric Sund-
sted took occasion to say that our Of
ficers should be complimented for not
boosting the levies now, but that the
former administration were very neg
lectful of their duties in not creating
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-01-01

In China they're starving Tor
wheat; here we're smOthered I'M
der it. That's economic disloca-
ton. But
Right around the corner, and
two blocks east and south, and
all over our city and all over
Sheridan County, businesses are
starving for sales that our
printing can help them get, while
we are smothering with a huge
stock of the finest printing ma
terial in the northwest. That's
an economic pity.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-01-01

and Havre had to do, but same was
not attended to and as a result of
same it was delayed until the follow
ing regular meeting.
Such delays have occurred before
in this county, but not under the Re-
publican or Democratic officials, and
at that time there was no criticism
offered, when the publication of the
Examiners report was delayed for a
considerable PEI iod of time.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-01-01

Who reads the dictionary?
Who reads the encyclopedia? Cor
rect. They do not scintillate. 1t
is hard to think; twice as hard
to write; three times as hard to
read.
That's why ads introduce hui
nor; and the nor we can make
our information taste like an ice
cream sunday, the more peo-
pie will drink it in.
Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1931-01-01

wish the one that stole
my dog in August, 1929, the
ones that broke into my
house twice, and all you
that believe in picking on
cripples, and,
| also wish the folks that
have bought DR.. Sayman's
Wonder Soap a Merry Xmas
and a Happy New Year.
ALBERT FOLEY
P~lentywood
The Washington times., 1931-09-16
Murder Just Plain Suicide
When Not an Accident

His natural reaction, therefore,
would be to grasp a few weeds and
brush off his shoes, part his hair,
rearrange his buckle, wipe off
such vagrant dust and CRIME as
may have come to his face and
clothes on the downward dive of
some 100 yards, and then lay an
injured body down to sleep.
Any detective who has passed
the preliminary stages of instruc
ton can figure that out.
Wrist Watch Clinches
I learn, further, that the wrist
watch Of Policeman Morrow was
still running and recording correct
time some hours after his demise.
The police rightly claim this is
justification for their theory that
he was not murdered, else he
would have been robbed. Mean
while, it is a good advertisement
for some sort of a wrist watch
that survived a terrific tumble.
A torn-up traffic ticket was
found near the body and some
body telephoned the police de.
partment about it. The informer
was told to MAIL it to headuuar-
The Washington times., 1931-09-16
TUNNEY Hints
BOUT
Times Staff Photo

NEW YORK, Sept. 16 G.N.SD.
Further corroboration of a re-
port printed recently in The
Washington Times that Gene
Tunney may return to the ring
next summer was seen today fol
lowing a conference between the
retired heavyweight champion
and Damon Runyon and w. S.
Farnsworth, promoters for Mrs.
William Randolph Hearst's free
milk fund for babies.
Offered bout with Jack Demp-
sey at the Yankee Stadium here
next May or June and another
with Max Schmeling here in Sep
tember if victorious over the
ManaSsa Mauler, Tunney said:
I'D like to win the cham
piOnShip for America, and /
could use the $75O,OOO that the
two fights would net me. What
man couldn't?
Il did some road work this
very morning, for the very first
time since my fight with Tom
Heeney. / had decided 1 was
through with fighting, and that
is the way my mind is right
now. And, yet, don't know.
While I'm in Maine for the
next two weeks, I'll consider
the matter more seriously"
The Washington times., 1931-09-16
Marks
Opening of Stocks

NEW YORK, Sept. 16.-Irregu-
larity with narrow price changes
in all sections, featured the open
ing of the stock market today.
Union Pacific sold off 11a at
124 and New York Central was
down " at 59s4. while Baltimore
and Ohio moved up u to 343s
Canadian Pacific was down %
at 1871; New Haven down a
point at 43.
United States Steel fell back
" to 8O3s. American Can was
up VI at 87h; American Tel. and
Tel. UP " at 153h; Eastman
Kodak down " at l24A; Bethle-
hem Steel down " at 353s; Ana
conda Copper down u at 1885;
Westinghouse down "a at 45h;
Loews down u at 45A.
The Washington times., 1931-09-16
,MOrrOW Death Clue
Seen in Fragments
OF Traffic Ticket

The police homicide squad was
advised today that what might
be an important clue" IL the
strange death OF Patrollnar Ray
rI1ond M. Morrow had been found
near the spot where his body was
found, and a squad member told
the telephone informant to mail
in" the material.
The clue, which might or might
not have a bearing on the case,
was q torn pink traffic ticket
such as is handed motor law vO-
.Sators notifying them to answer
charges.
The ticket was made out by
Policeman E. w. Brown Of the
Tenth precinct, which has juriS-
diction over the area.
Youth Found Ticket
It was numbered 4898O, and or.
dered the operator of the motor
vehicle with tag No. V-9654 to
appear, on the charge of diSobey.
ing an official sign.
This story was told last night
by Marshall P Padgett, youthful
assistant to the professional at
the. Rock Creek golf course, who
in the afternoon visited the death
bridge at Sixteenth Street and
Spring Road Northwest.
Torn to Pieces
At the top of the span, at the
north end near a path leading
down to the mass Of old weeds
where the policeman's corpse
was discovered last Saturday, the
boy saw the ticket. torn into
more than a score of tiny pieces.
Padgett did not mail the
ticket to the Police Department.
He told The Times he preferred
not to entrust the material to
the mails.
The Washington times., 1931-09-16
Arrow Points to Accident

AvrOw Points to Accident
If he did fall. But trained de-
tectiVeS may retort that Morrow
was a man who was careful Of
his hands. Probably he had just
had a manicure and was not in.
clined to mar the fresh beauty of
his digitS.
Operatives must take all such
small points into consideration
while coming to a solution Of a
death mystery.
Critics also claim the acci-
dental death theory is weakened
because the clothing of the dead
officer was found in array, his
belt buckle in place and his
shoes were newly-bruShed. Also
there were no signs on the bank
of the scrape of a body. They
even assert his hair was perfectly
parted.
Mind Acts Quickly
But the detective mind quickly
disposeS Of such non essentials as
occur to- the lay mind. It must
be conceded Officer Morrow, end.
ing his dive into the underbrush,
must have thought first of his per-
Sonal appearance and the fact
that he might over aleep before re-
porting for police LSuty.
The Washington times., 1931-09-16

am glad the ELMER QUICKEYE
suicide theory has been abandoned.
1t has been a bit Overworked and
couldn't have been supported in
this case. There is some queS-
tioning of the accident theory,
which I can scientifically dispel.
Needed Only a Lily
Morrow's body, after a fall Of
1877 steps or about 100 yards, as
stepped off by a sergeant with
long legs, was found with hands
crossed on breast and ankles
also crossed and was quite in
repose. There was no lily in his
hands. but falling man has no
time to be clutching lilies.
1t may be assumed that Police
man Morrow got tired of tum-
bling down hill and that when
he reached the bottom of the
d0clivity he wanted to rest.
Naturally, he just crossed his
hands and ankles and decided to
take a nap. Unfortunately. he
died while resting. The Wash
ington police have correctly SenSed
just such a situation. A man ip
an accident like that is entitled
to his own devices.
CprefuI Of His Hands
DiSbElievers in the police
theory. Of the Morrow mystery
cite that his folded hands showed
no scratches, though he must
have grabbed at some stone or
underbruSh while falling into the
ravine from the high bank above:
The Washington times., 1931-09-16

ters as a tip or clue. This was
o. K. Because deduce if the
ticket belonged to Morrow he
couldn't be arraigned on it and if
it belonged to someone who had
laid out Morrow in the ravine, he,
she. or they. had gone away from
there.
Like the police, fail to at.
tach any significance to the heel
print on the back of the shirt.
Many a man steps on his shirt
before he puts 1t on. and If his
wife does not notice it, he can
wear the shirt for days at time.
With the washington police
agree the death was just q re.
grettable accident, although stu.
dent detectives may debate the
Morrow case pro and con for days
to come,
The Washington times., 1931-09-16

Your fentaI worries room house
or apartment. can be solved today
through the Rental Columns Of the
Classified Section.
The Washington times., 1931-09-16

the bottom of
things, so I went
to the bottom
of the ravine
W h ere Officer
Morrow'S body
was found cat
ly laid out last
Saturday. The
w a s h / n g t on
police already
had been there
ana immediate
ly deduced it
was an Lcci-
dent. In that
theory I concur.
The Washington times., 1931-09-16
Garden Contest
Planned by Group

AS part of the city-widc lawn
and garden contest sponsored by
the garden committee of the Dis
trict Bicentennial Commission,
the Northeast Suburban Blcenten-
NAL Committee is nov laying
plans for its own contest in the
area from Fourteenth Street
northeast to the District hne, be-
tween Bunker Hill Road and the
Pennsylvania railroad.
Preliminary scoring will he com,
pleted by Sunday. The scoring
Is being directed by three groups
Of judges. headed by DR.. Royal
J. Haskell, L. M. Clarke and
George A. Simonds.
The Washington times., 1931-09-16
lYS He. LEFT
HER IN HIS
. OWN CAR
Martha Haley Tells Coroner's
Jury She Did Best to Sober
Policeman Before His Death
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ribs on both the right and left
sides.
He was thoroughly drunk"
the city chemist analysis Of his
blood and stomach contents
showed. The percentage Of alcohol
was placed at 5.75 which DR.. Nc.
Donald said was the third highest
in all Of his examinations.
Sugar" Habey Waits
Meanwhile, Martha Habey,
"Sugar" in the case, waited in
an adjoining room to testify.
DIR. Mcdonald added it would
have been impossible for q man
with MOrFOw's injuries to have
walked from his home 1T 1445
Spring Rd. N. W. to the spot
under the bridge where his body
was found. He said Morrow might
haye walked q very short
distance.
He said the policeman's lungs
we're punctured seven or eight
times, causing hemorrhages. that
the liver was ruptured, and that
Morrow suffered a great loss Of
blood. .e
Mrs. Harriet L. Morrow, widow,
was the next witness.
She appeared in court garbed
in black and heavily yelled. She
shielded her face from camera
men with a magazine. She broke
down crying on the stand, saying:
II wish they'd stop those
pictures. / can't stand it."
Mrs. Morrow told the story OF
aast Friday, September IL. She
last saw her husband at 9 o'clock
in the morning, when he took
her to her work at the Veterans
Administration.
He phoned her twice the wit.
mess said. the last time at 7:30
p. m. Friday night, saying I'm
not feeling well'' and that he
would stay down town a while.
At 12:45 a. m. Saturday, Mrs.
Morrow was worried because Of
mis- failure to return home, she
said, and phoned friends, Mr.. and
Mrs. Joseph Messina, Of 200 Mas
sachusetts Ave. N. w. They drove
her down around the speedway,
she said, down Seventeenth Street
Northwest then back home, short
ay before 3 a. m.
Sure He Was Home
There they saw the Morrow
car. Mrs. Morrow felt sure her
husband was home, and told the
Messinas not to stay, that her
husband was upstairs.
Next, Miss Caroline Louise
Saunders, 1915 @ st. N. w., q sur
prise witness, testified she was at
the apartment party at 1921 Sew
enteenth st. N. w.
She was the date" Of Fainer
E1inshaw, Morrow's host on Fri
day night.
She met Miss Habey there, she
stated. Also Morrow. The latter
was drunk, she declared, but Miss
Habey was not.
She added she had not met
either Of them before.
The Washington times., 1931-09-16
HE|TLER' s NOTE
GIVES CLUE To
HIS KILLERS
Slain Vice HoodIum Disclosed
Gang Methods; Capone and
Many Big Shots Named

CHICAGO, Sept. 16 G.NSl.
Mike de Pike" Heitler, murdered
vice mongeS, knew who his killers
might be and named them before
he died.
HeitIer, or a body believed to
be his, was found on April 2S.
burned beyond recognition, in
an automobile near an abandoned
icehOuse near harrington, ILL.,, 2l
miles from Chicago.
Names Jake LingIe
Heitler named his possible
gangster-slayers in a letter Sc
cured by the Chicago American
and now in the hands of Chief
Investigator Pat Roche, of the
States attorneys office, accord
ing to story published in the
American today.
The crudely written letter re-
vealed the sordid tale of the
methods of gangland.
1t told how territories are
divided between rival gangs.
1t links Alfred "Jake" Lingle,
slain Tribune reporter, with the
underworld.
Tells About Split-up
It reveals how the income of
gangs is split up between it's
members.
In brief, it lays bare all the
crafty devices of syndicated vice.
In the last paragraph of his
illiterate miSSive mike de Pike"
named the persons who should be
questioned in the event of his
death.
Second in the list was Alphonse
Capone, internationally notorious
as the Super-gangster of the uni
verse.
First was William Skidmore,
professional bondsman, politician,
former saloon-keeper, accused
briber and fixer.
Other Possibilities
Other possible killers were Jack
GuSik, righthand man to CapOne
and business head of his Organi.
zatiOn.
James Bruno, confidential agent
for the syndicate.
ROckSy, a minor collector for
the Zuta side Of the Jack Zuta-
AL CapOne syndicate.
James BOlcastrO, king of the
bOmbers, all-arOund racketeer.
Lawrence ManganO, West Side
gambler.
James Adduci, political light
weight, racketeer, and fixer.
CapOne'S Is Per Cent
Other names included: Two
police captains, a former deputy
commissioner, and a prohibition
commissioner high in Federal ser
vice. The American deleted names
for the protection of the inquiry
centering around them.
The letter goes back to August.
1929, in its revelation of the or
ganization of the notorious syndi-
cate. 1t states that the first call
came from Jack Zuta and reveals
the deal by which the territory
was divided for the benefit of the
Capone and the Aiello-zuta in.
terestS.
How the income of the syndicate
was Slpit is Openely stated. CapOne
got rs per cent, Zuta rs per cent,
ManganO and Adducci Is per cent
between them, ROcksy 10 per cent.
and Heit1er, BelcastrO and Bruno
rs per cent to be SIipt three ways.
The Washington times., 1931-09-16
Business of Germany
Unaffected by Money!

Despite the shortage of work
ing capital and other difficulties,
the basic soundneSs of German
business has not been affected by
developments of the last few
months, American Commercial At
tache Douglas Miller cabled the
Commerce Department from Ber-
lin today.
The Washington times., 1931-09-16
BY ELMER QUICKEYE

Famous criminOIOGist and eOKrepOnd-
ence school graduate detective who ar
rived here and agrees with the Washing
tOR police that sthe death Of Policeman
Raymond N. Morrow was accidentally
In my detective correspondence
school course I was taught by
trained operatives always to get to