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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01

Passengers on a washington-bound
Pullman Friday night might not have
slept so soundly had they known that
one of their travelling companions was
14-foot king cobra, the most poison
Gus snake known.
The cobra was en- route from New
York to the new snake house at the
National Geological Park here, and his
occupancy Of q Pullman berth was due
to the fact that DR.. Raymond L. Dit
mare, curator of reptiles at the New
York Geological Garden, who had him
In charge, did not want to become sep
arated from the reptile.
The trip was described last night by
DR.. Ditmars in an address before the
Biological Society Of Washington at the
National Museum.
Incidentally-and Importantly - the
snake was securely fastened in a canvas
bag, which then was housed in a suit
case, before the journey was started
A startling, nerve-tingling closeup of
the great king cobra, the deadliest of
all snakes, breathing defiance to all
creation from his cage in the new
reptile house at the Washington Zoo
logical Garden. Underwood Photo.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-13
FEDERAL SEED
LOAN MONEY is
SOON 2-B HAD
By E. G. FERGUSON

The rules and regulations gov
erning the distributing of federal
seed loan money has been received
by the county extension agent.
Plans are being made for the dis
tribution of application blanks in
the very near future. The rules
governing the loans to be made
in 1881 have been changed from
last year.
In order that the farmers who
desire to make a loan for 1881
may get the detailed information,
a series of meetings has been ar
ranged to be held in the county
beginning Monday afternoon, Feb.
16 at which time a meeting will
be held at the court house at Plen-
tywood to discuss the rules and
regulations governing the loan. A
complete schedule of meetings is
as follows:
Plentywood, Monday, Feb. 16 at
Il p. m. Medicine Lake, Feb. 16 at
7.30 p. M; Outlook, Feb. II at 200
p. M; Dooley, Feb. II at 1880 p
M; Westby, Feb. 10 at 2 p. M
Dagmar store, Feb. 10, 2 D. m.
Redstone, Feb. 20, 2 p. m.
All farmers in the county WHIT
are interested in securing a loar
Continued on last page.)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-13
MEN WILL SERVE
SUPPER SATURDAY

The men of the Congregational
Church will serve another of those
fine dinners for which they are
justly noted. 1t will be served in
the social room Of the church next
Saturday evening, February IA,
commencing at $3.50 and will con-
tinue until 8 p. m. or as much lat
er as is necessary to take care of
everyone. This arrangement will
permit everyone to attend, in fact
there will be large crowd after
the stores close at 6.30p. m.
The many good thing on the
menu show it to be dollar din
ner but, it is understood, the price
will be only so cents to each adult
and children under IL years of age
will be served for 35 cents each.
Everyone looks forward to the
big dinner served by the men and
it has become an annual affair and
each has been a big success.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-13
GORHAM. PROPRIETOR OF HOTEL
ATSCOBEY, PINCHED WITH BOOZE
Ye Genial Host of Famous Daniels County Hosiery Is In
Coils of the Law-Can't Get LoOse-Was Carrying
the Necessary Evidence on His Person when Grabbed

The arrest was made by Immi-
grafton Officer Cummings, who
caught We Host GOrham, redhand-
ed, in the very act of transporting
liquors and having the same in his
possession.
Host Gorham was carrying the
delicious and exquisite and rare
old liquors, the pick of the Canadi-
an stock, from his magnificent
new Oakland Eight, thru the lux
urious lobby of the superb Cor
ham to the hidden wine cellars,
when immigration Officer Cum
mings inadvertently walked M
from Sunderhoff's confectionery to
the lobby and met Gorham face TO,
face packing a case of rare liquor
in his arms. It was surprise
and Gorham was confused. There
was slip somewhere. The officer
seized the contraband 128 quarts
Of costly liquors, placed Host Cor
ham under arrest, and confiscated
the elegant car. AS an immigra-
ton officer can only hold a suspect
but a short time, Cummings pre-
sented Gorham at once to Customs
Officer Seger, who placed him I'M
Ter arrest for smuggling and d.
vers other offences and presented
him before United States Comnfs
sioner Paul Crumb, where a war
rant was issued. Host Gorham, it.
/ is reported, waived examination,
and was released on bonds which
were signed by a couple Of SEQ
bey's most reputable citizens, TO
J CONTINUED on Page Two)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-13

people OF the state, for it is
the last day for the intro
duction of bills without unanimous
consent. Usually this is hard to
get on any measure of conse-
quence tho on unimportant bills it
can be secured if the members
feel good natured. However after
the fortieth day the people know
what is proposed and know that
nothing new will be popping up
over night. Ten days hence the
fiftieth day will be the last day
for the transmission of bills from
one chamber to the other except
the transmission of revenue and
appropriation bills from the house
to the senate which can continue
until the last moment. Of course
amendments to bills passed by
either house will bob up back and
forth and into conference.
The fiftieth day OCCURS on Feb.
% week from next Monday.
From now on each chamber will
advance its own bills so as to have
the hOppers cleared by the 50th
day, after which the senate works
on house bills and house on senate
bills.
No Important Legislation
The present session of the Mon
tana legislature has been a tame
affair. No important or Outstand-
ing legislation has been before it
Most of the bills have been fol
amendments to old bills. AnC
most proposals for new Legislation
have been measures that have oft.
en- been up before but killed.
The most important measure:
were the crime commission bills
about AZ of them sponsored by thu
crime commission, most of which
have been killed. The one Othe-
matter occupying the center of tn
stage has been the ALLEGATION O
the three million dollar bond issu
among the state penal, charitabl
and educational institutions, whicl
was referred TO committees in eacl
house for recommendation. Their
were two attitudes towards thi
money: one was for the ALLEGATION
of all of it, and the other for tn
reservation of at least One-third O
CONTINUED on last page.)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-13
ARNOT TRIAL Is
ON AT GLASGOW

The trial of Mrs. Arnot for in
sanity is on before a jury at Glas-
gov. Mrs. Arnot is charged with
the murder of her husband last
summer. Judge John Hurley is
presiding and Attorneys John Stat
terry is opposing the insanity plea
in behalf of the state, and Attor-
ney George Hurd is defending Mrs.
Arnot.
The case is attracting wide in
terest in the state and the Great
Falls Tribune is reporting the case
in full.
Hurd is contending that Mrs.
Arnot is insane now. so cannot
under the law be tried. Nurses,
the sheriff and local doctors have
testified. 1t has been shown the
defendant has an insane sister.
If Mrs. Arnot is pronounced sane
she must face the jury for muir
der later.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-13
Squirrel Food

Hello John Farmer! What are
you trying to do? Hide behind
those whiskers so your creditors
can't find you? Well, they don't
put people in Jail TO rdebt nova
days; if they did 1 wouldn't be
here today tellin' hens and geese
and turkeys what they ought to do
and say. 1t would tickle the old
ba0Oon to see poor old Mutt in a
debtors prison-the only thing
that would mar his perfect glee
would be the fear of breaking in
himself, if Ole would take it in his
Gead to collect that old grocery
oil that he has forgotten about in
MS frenzy over other folks bills.
80 John you don't need to go a.
round peeking thru all that hair
IKE lap dog on string. Why
you are SO involved in all that
tngle that you would never see
prosperity if she would stick her
mead suddenly about the corner
and give you the wink and thus
nuss your great opportunity. Lou
SUnStad used to talk about the
value of handicap" once, but
never could see the use of just
taxing them and hanging them or
70 your fob like a Teller would an
el4s tooth just to show to your
trends that you have fined some,
.Ging. Well, John, 1 hope you sheC
OH as the weather gets warmer
nOws the old lady and the kids
&&&&
Well, the old lady is sort of so
80. We've been getting by. Sh,
made the kids some underwea,
S S OF the flour sacks we got tn,
t t% in from Andy Hansen las
tau' Say she sure can take GU
s .lose trade marks-and by iiggy
s s can take a pair of shears an lv
CUT out things without a pattern o
%~lyLnlnT, and stitch EN- up on tn
machine bettern store things, toe
CONTINUED ON page Two)
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-13
MRS. CARL BRENDEN.
DIES AT WOLF POINT

Mrs. Carl Brenden, SO, the
daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Ferdi-
nand Hueth, and sister of Max
Hueth of Plentywood, died at the
Wolf Point hospital Monday morn
ing Feb. 9, 1881 at nine o'clock,
after an illness of a couple of
weeks as the result of long stand
ing complications.
The funeral was held Thursday
afternoon at Brockton and inter
ment was made at the Homestead
cemetery.
Mrs. Brenden resided with her
husband Carl Brenden, on a farm
in the Fort Peck Indian reserva-
ton about Is miles west of Medi-
cine Lake where she had lived for
the past two years.
About two weeks ago she was
taken seriously i'll and was taken
to the hospital at Wolf Point. On
Saturday afternoon, last, she lost
consciousness, which she did not
regain.
Word was received of her seri-
Gus condition Saturday by he1
brother, Max Hueth, who was tax
en- 10 Wolf Point Immediately by
Andrew Hansen.
Mrs. Branden was operated on Z
year or two ago at Rochester
Mimi, whe ma kidney was remov
ed, and from which she never full
ly recovered which complication
eliminated in her death.
Mrs. Brenden was formerly Mrs
Theodore Falk. Theodore Fall
died about three years ago anC
about two years ago she was mar
RED to Carl Brenden. At one tim'
she was cook at the Memoria
hospital and later conducted tn,
hotel at Medicine Lake, suntil tn,
death Of her first. husband, Falk.
Deceased was born at Beave
Falls, Minnesota in 1892 and cam
to Sheridan county with her par
ents in 1907 when they took up
homestead. In 1910 she was mar
ried to Theodore Falk to whom
was born a son, Elmer Falk. Is
After the death of her first hus
: band, she married Carl Brenden
Deceased leaves to mourn her de
: mise her son, her husband, he
$ parents and seven brothers an
three sisters and numerous othe
{ relatives and friends.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-13
RED CROSS BLOCKS
FOOD AID

Washington -FP- Defiance or
Congress by refusal to handle $685.
OOO, 900 for food relief voted by the
senate, has been voted by the ma
tiona1 council of the American
Red Cross.
Pres. Hoover, who has led the
fight against federal relief to the
starving farmers and unemployed,
is ex-officio head of the Red
Cross. John Barton Payne. active
chairman, is a former republican
cabinet officer. Payne told the
House appropriations sub-comn1it-
tee he would not touch federal
money. His announcement caused
a bitter Remuneration of Red Cross
Bureaucracy in the senate an hour
later.
Sen. Caraway, who has for
weeks been pleading daily for
haste in bringing actual food to
the starving farm families thru
out Arkansas and the other drouth
stricken states, said that the Red
Cross had ceased to be an inde-
pendent organization of mercy and
had "become a political asset OF
the president of the United
States"
Sen. Robinson, his colleague,
called on the senate to "repudiate
this policy of declining to take
any steps to relieve suffering. ir-
respective of how bad conditions
become" He added that Congress
would create or find its own agen-
cies to distribute relief. If the Red
Cross refused to act, and that this
action of the Red Cross had "done
more to discredit that organization
than anything else could possibly
do"
Caraway commented that Hoover
was trying to "hide behind the
Red Cross while Sinking his re-
sponsibilities to help the distress
ed"
publication of the fact that Red
Cross relief in some Arkansas
counties averaged 10 cents a dag
for each starving person, has
caused growing disgust among
senator's in their attitude toward
| Red Cross standards of service
Resolutions calling for reorganiza
ton of the whole Red Cross ma
chine may be introduced,
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-13
HUGE REFUND
ON GAS In 1880

Helena, Feb. r. During the
year 1880, according to a state
board of equalization statement,
the scent gasoline tax was paid
on 81,479,821 gallons of gasoline.
Refunds were demanded on 49,
100000 gallons, alleged to have
been used for industrial purposes
and not on highways. In Chouteau
county refunds were claimed on l.
2O2,184 gallons of the 1,947,18
gallons purchased. Roosevelt and
Sheridan counties, mainly agricul-
tural, asked refunds on more than
one million gallons each or about
$4,000 in each county.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-13
5 INDICTMENTS
FOR BANK BUST
Prosecutor in New York Court
Corruption Is Among Those Now
Named For Wrecking. Bank of
United States,

New York, Feb. 11.-Isador ].
Kresel, jealous prosecutor of cor
ruption in the magistrates court,
was himself accused of a felony
today in indictments naming him
and seven other officers and di-
rectors Of the closed Bank of Unit
ed States.
The indictments, charging mis-
management and misrepresentation
of funds, were returned by the
New York county grand jury.
Those indicted were:
Mr.. Kresel, director and legal
advisor of the bank.
Bernard K. Marcus, president of
the institution.
Saul Singer, executive vice pres
ident.
: C. Stanley Mitchell, chairman OF
the board.
Simon Kugel, cO-chairman and a
director of Bankus corporation, a
bank affiliate.
Alexander White, director OF
BankuS and OF Marcus Singer
Trading corporation, another affil
late.
Henry w. Pollock, director o
the bank.
Herbert Singer, brother of Sau
Singer, and a clerk in Kresel's Law
office.
What effect the charge agains
Kresel would have on the magis
trate's inquiry was uncertain. Sam
uel Seabury, referee of the inquir,
withheld comment.
The hearings already have re
, suited in the forced designations o
three members of the lower bench
The indictments were obtaine
: on evidence submitted by Max L
Steuer, serving as a special assis'
ant district attorney.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-13
COMERTOWN BOY
DIED WEDNESDAY

The Comertown community was
shocked Wednesday when they
heard of the death of Alvin Carl
berg, a student in the Comertown
High School, aged 16 on the 9th
of March, coming, the nephew OF
Mrs. Carl Strand of Comertown
precinct, on Tuesday night about
IL o'clock after an illness of only
few hours.
Tuesday morning the youth, who
was somewhat frail, naturally,
came to school as usual. Shortly
after school commenced he COM
planned of a painful headache. At
recess he told the janitor of his
misery, when the janitor fixed a
cot for him in the basement, where
he laid down. The boy vomited
twice, and all thot he would soon
recover, but as time passed he
seemed t oget worse, when Supt.
iRaaen took the student to his
home at the farm of his aunt and
uncle, Mr.. and Mrs. E. S. Strand,
in his car. After a few hours, the
bows condition continuing, DR.. Hall
of Plentywood was summoned and
arrived about 9 o'clock and fund
the youth dying and remained I'M
til death occurred at IL o'clock.
The doctor could not account
for the death of the boy and re-
ferred the matter to the coroner.
Coroner Nelson being absent from
the the county, Deputy Coroner
Fulkerson was called. He went to
Comertown Wednesday morning
and made a careful inquiry. He
found that the boy had not eaten
or drunk anything the others had
not so the idea of poisoning in
an yform was eliminated.
DIR. Hall took cultures from the
throat to see if diphtheria was
present but no signs developed. Il
, was discovered later that Alvin
had fallen onto the ground wher
mounting a horse to ride to school,
, a couple of mornings before anC
bumped his head on the ground
, and that later in practicing bas'
ket ball he was hit hard on the
head with the ball which seemed
to daze him for a spell. The coron
er and doctor concluded that Alvir
died as a result of conclusion o.
the brain resulting from thes'
hurts.
>, The funeral was held today a
S Comertown, the Lutheran mlniste
: officiating, and interment was i
S the Comertown cemetery. The pub
] lie school was closed and the chill
d dren attended the services In
body.
Alvin Carlberg was born a
Ambrose North Dakota in 191
e where his father homesteaded. Hi
: mother was the sister of Mrs. I
? S. Strand. About nine years ag
k his mother died, leaving husban
a and nine children. The Strand
IS took Alvin and his baby sister an
K brother, the latter two whom The
e adopted, and Alvin has lived wit
v them since and attended the schot
h at Comertown. The father wit
al the rest of the children returne
Is to their old home at Deer Rive
is Mimi, where they now reside.
d Alvin was bright at school, We
always a good boy and his au1
ut and uncle are FRUSTRATED over h
sudden death.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-13
LARGE INDIANA
BANK WRECKED

Hammond, Ind, Feb. g. Big
bank crashes are increasing. Fol
lowing the closing of large Eliz-
abeth, N. J. bank, involving mill
ions, the First Trust and Savings
Bank of Hammond, the largest
bank in Northwestern Indiana, in the
heart of the steel mill territory
closed yesterday.
More than $5,700,000 j nsavings
was involved, representing the
hard earned money of tens of
thousands of steel workers, many
of whom are unemployed and are
showed closed to starvation by this
bank failure.
The total assets of the bank was
set at $9,4O0,OO0. This shows up
the big talk of Robert Lamont a
bout the banking system of the u
S. being Gas solid as rock" More
banks crash every day.
On the same day another DanK
failed in Calumet City, the Calu-
met State Bank, with half a mill
ion dollars in deposits.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-13
''The Best Laid Plans of Mice
and Men, Gang aft agIae."

Host Gorham, the untouchable
Gorham! The charmed Gorham!
Gorham, the playmate and bosom
friend of Corp. Teddy Winters, the
handsome border patrolman, inn
possible as it may seem, is in the
coils of the law, at last, in spite
of all his personality, his wit and
his pull with the powers that be.
Host Gorham, the genial proprie-
tor of the famous hotel, named for
him, the resort of Scobey's elite,
where Corp. Winters and the boot
legger's beautiful lady were wont
to cavort, where the pulchritudin-
GUS border patrolman is said to
have long had room, absolutely
free, in consideration of the high
esteem in which Gorham held him
and the disposition of the corporal
to see, to hear and to think moth
ing of the going on in that house
of entertainment, the place where
the botlegger and the bootlegger's
lady resided, was arrested last
Wednesday evening as the twilite
was gathering, for having in his
possession certain Whistles, gins.
wines and beers, and for transport
ing the same across the border
from Canada without properly en-
tering and reporting the same to
the customs, and for several other
infractions of the law, made and
provided, and against the peace
and dignity of his Uncle Samuel
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-13
CONGRESS TO HEAR
BIRTH CONTROL PLEA

Washington, Feb. ia meas
ure to leagalize dissemination of
birth control information will be
advocated this week by Margaret
Sanger in her first appearance at
a congressional. hearing. The pres
ence of the birth control crusader
before a senate subcommittee next
Friday also will be the second time
since 1878 when arguments on this
subject have been made in con-
gress. Mary Ware bennett, au-
thor of a celebrated sex education
pamphlet, appearing several years
ago, was the other witness.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-13
ALL TIME FAILURE
RECORD IS BROKEN

New York - FP- Commercial
failures in January were the larg-
est in American history, both as to
number and size of liabilities, ac-
cOrding to R. G. Dun & Co. reports
There were 1916 firms that fall
ed during the month as against
2,525 in December and 2,759 IN
January. 1880.
Liabilities were $94,608,2 PIP as a
gainst $83, 683, 361 in December and
SCI 1875, III last January.
The depression has progressed to
a point where the larger firms are
failing, the figures indicate.
The figures for 1880 were the
highest on record until that time
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-13
BORAH DENOUNCES THE ADMINISTRATION
Senate Chamber,
Washington, D. c.
By Laurence Todd,
of Federated Press.

Not in a generation has the Senate heard any
President so bitterly denounced or his agents
so held UP to public scorn, as when Sen. Cara
way of Arkansas, speaking for the 100000
starving men, women and children victims of
the drouth in his state, denounced Hoover and
Congressman Tilson, Smell, Wood and Cramp-
ton, and Chairman Payne of the Red Cross, for
their cruelty in leaving these people to die.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-13
The Weather

The weather in Plentywood the
the past week has been very mod
crate with temperatures ranging
from about Is degrees above zero
TO around so on some days. The
first of the week the mercury took
a sudden drop and it seemed that
Old Man Winter had finally ar
rived but it was false alarm and
the weather moderated and has
continued fine the rest of the week
The ground is bare of snow and
the roads are in fair condition.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-13
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SAN FRANCISCO TO AID
JOBLESS By BOND ISSUE

San Francisco, Feb. o. BY a
2 to 1 majority San Francisco
voters Saturday approved issu-
ance of So, 100000 in bonds for
public improvements to relieve
unemployment. City officials
announced that 100000 would
be available Immediately and by
Tuesday $500 men now unenl-
ployed would be working for the
city.
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The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-13
WARDER TO SING SING

SEQUEL to the scandalous failure
of the City Trust Co., for S5,OOO'-
600 in Manhattan in 1929, shl1ty-
eyed little man of 81 last week
entered Sing Sing prison to start a
five-to-ten year sentence: He was
Frank II. Warder. AS New YORK
State Superintendent of Banks, ne
had taken a $4,000 bride to delay
an examination of the bank which
would have disclosed its fiscal
rottenness. A Court of Appeals
ruling that the evidence OF ms
e1IiIt was Overwhelming" ended
his IA months of legal lodging. /,
A law against talking about
banks might have saved him
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1931-02-13
$500. 600 BANK ExPLoDEs

Elizabeth, N. J.-FP = The
People Banking and Trust Co.,
Elizabeth's $8,5O0OO0 bank, has
been taken over by the state bank
ing officials. The usual assurances
that depositors will be paid In full
are being made by officials and
bankers.