The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1931-10-16

Senator Brookhart is urging a
three billion dollar issue of treas
ury notes as a restorative to bring
back normal business conditions.
He would have one billion of this
given to the farm board to pur-
chase surplus farm products, and
the remainder used for public con
struction. He wants congress to be
called in session right away.
The Indiana chain store law,
which compels chain stores to pay
more for operating than individual
firms, has been upheld by the
United States supreme court in
session at Washington.
Tom Mooney, imprisoned for the
San Francisco Preparedness Day
bombing in 1916, is urging his
| sympathizers to try to put into
effect a boycott on California pro
( QuCLS DttGtuSC InG otptt ms tIUn
far refused to pardon him.
Sigror Grandi of Italy. Musso-
l:ni's advisor, Will sail on Novem-
Der Z for America to confer with
Hoover on disarmament. His visit
will follow that of Premier Laval
of France who is coming the lat
! ter part of this month to talk
things over personally and direct
~.
Thomas A Edison, aged invent
or. is definitely failing and his
death may be expected at any
time. The only person he recog-
nizes is Mrs. Edison who seems to
be able to rouse him from the
coma into which he is sinking.
Three natives of Siam were put
to death in Bangkok for stealing
several sacred Siamese cats. Holy
cats!
Asa Keyes, former Los Angeles
district attorney, is starting life
anew after serving 10 months of
his n to fourteen year sentence
for bribery in connection with his
prosecution of the Julian Petrol
| cum fraud cases. He will be on
| parole for 10 months. Under the
law he may not drive a car, marry.
get a divorce, change his address,
negotiate any legal documents or
drink without permission Of the
| parole officer.
Because Officials thought she
was unable to take care of her.
self, Ida Mayfield Wood, SO, was
taken from a hotel room where
she was living alone and put in
charge of a guardian. 100000 in
currency and securities were found
in the room and $500. 900 was on
cealed in her clothing. She is the
widow of Benjamin Wood, once
owner of the New York Daily
News, defunet now for many years.
The State Bank of Buford, N. D..
is quitting business at the end of
the rs year period for which its
charter was granted. o. j. Marken,
cashier, says the charter will not
be renewed as the business is no
longer profitable. Therefore he
has asked the depositors to come
ard get their money.
AL Capone, charged with evad-
ing a $4,000 tax on a six-year
income of 81, 039,654, is on trial
in Chicago. Prosecution witnesses
have tod of his ex~traVagant pur-
chases-S5 neckties and $50 shirts,
a fleet of $12.500 ears in his gar
age, $1,000 worth of floor lamps,
chaise lounges and other luxurious
furnishings in his Palm Island,
Florida, mansion. With all this lux
ury, Capone is going to have to
explain how it was he didn't have
to pay up. 1t seems it is because
he was snch a poor gambler. We'd
| nesday he told the judge how he
bet on the ponies and was a poor
guesser, losing nearly every time.
and of course these gambling
losses cut into his income terribly.
AS the crew was opening a huge
guslier on the edge of Oklahoma
City, after its 66-day military shut
down, the we'll exploded and
caught fire. One man was killed
nd several others injured.
Owen D. Young. q member OF
ne presidents committee OF I'M
.1,pioy2'ert urges that every co}