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The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-31

WILLOW ST, 1ss-4 rooms. 3rd floor, all improvements, 197 VII. low street, 6 rooms, End floor, all low St.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-08-31

service, available upon request, in
cludes marked road maps showing
the best routes through all of the
states in which the motorist ex-
poets to travel on his vacation,
lists Of hotel and cabin camps and
their rates, and literature devoted
to outstanding scenic spots along
the route.
Incidentally, the Conoco travel
bureau has set a record for trip
services this year, planning well
over 10000 individual vacation
trips for motorists, according to
Mr.. McAlister.
"This fact might be attributed
both to the growing popularity of
this free travel service and to an
improvement in general business
conditions to the point where Mr.,
and Mrs. Average Citizen have
been convinced that they can af.
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HOLD RITES FOR
MRS. C. C.. PIERCE
Bridger Woman Is Laid to
Rest at Roberts After
Service Thursday

At the Methodist church in
Bridger last Thursday, funeral
rites were conducted for Mrs.
Charles c. Pierce, who died Tues
day morning at her home south of
Bridger from the effects Of o
bees sting. Rev. C. E. Fenton
conducted the service, at which
many friends of the Pierce fam
lily were present to show their re-
spect and sympathy. Interment
was made in the Roberts ceme-
terry.
Carrie Russell was born August
81, 1885, at Gilmore, Iowa. She
came to Montana with her family
in 1916, 10 live on a ranch near
Roberts. She was married, April
IL, 1916, to Charles Pierce, who
survives with two children, Louise,
13, and Charles, Jr., o.
The Bridger Times of last
Thursday had to say of Mrs.
Plerce's passing: 1.-THE Pierce
family have been long identified
with the business and social ac-
Invites of the community. Mr..
Pierce is at present a director of
the American National Bank and
member of the school board. Mrs.
Pierce was an active member of
the Bridger Country Club and al
so of the local chapter of Royal
Neighbors. Her lovable character
and personality had endeared her
to scores of admirers and friends
who heartily extend sympathy to
the bereaved husband and children
in their hour of bereavement"
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Edi Massa Selected as Princess
to Represent Red Lodge at Fair

A count Of the ballots voted in
the selection of a young lady to
represent Red Lodge as its prin-
cess at the Midland Empire fair,
September 5 to 8, showed that
Miss Ed Gloria Massa was the
popular choice. She was elected by
a margin of 1870 ballots, winning a
total of 292 ballots, or $4,000
votes, while her closest competitor
polled 102 for $1,000 votes.
The election, which opened last
Wednesday with the appearance
of the nomination ballots in The
News, closed at one clock Satur-
day afternoon. Ballot boxes were
collected from Flash's Newsstand
and Burton's cafe, the seals brok-
en- and the votes tailed by a COM
mittee consisting of Mayor Ed
gar W. Allen, Ray Houtonen, John
Corey and Dominick M. Marine.
Although the winner had an I'M
disputable majority, she was by
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FORMER GOVERNOR
LOWDEN ENDORSES
FRANK

Former Governor Frank O,
Lowden of Illinois heartily en-
dorses the candidacy of Lieuten-
ant Governor Frank A. Hazel
baker, Republican nominee for
governor of Montana. In a letter
received by Mr.. Hazelbaker this
week, the prominent Illinois man
had the following to say:
"My heartiest congratulations
upon your nomination for gov
ernor. Your great experience
your character, and your familiar
ity with the needs of the state
should result in your election.
hope that this may be So"
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HASSAN ADVISES
DEEP OIL WELLS

DR.. A.. A. Hassan, New York
geologist and engineer who sur
veyed the Beartooth chromite field
last year, is again heard from in
Montana through a communica-
ton in the August 27 issue of the
Montana Oil G. Mining Journal.
In this article, the opinion of
DR.. Hassan recommends the deep
err drilling of oil structures in
Montana. This belief was ex-
pressed after he had spent the
earlier part of this year in the
state in reconnaissance of Montana
oil and mining possibilities.
Last fall DR.. Hassan inspected
the prospect of development of
Beartooth chromite, giving a fav-
orable opinion as to the feasibility
of plans for production from the
fields on the Hellroaring and Line
Greek plateaus.
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BIRTHS AND DEATHS
IN A

Helena, Mont, Aug. 29-(AP)
While births in Montana during
the first seven months of this year
decreased more than 5000 as COM
pared with the corresponding per-
iod of 1881, deaths also were
fewer.
Figures compiled by Lucien L.
Benepe, deputy registrar of vital
statistics for the state board of
health, show there were 5,307
births and 3,O77 deaths in the sew
en-month period this year. The
totals for the same period last
year were 5,679 births and 1921
deaths.
Three hundred eighty persons
died in Montana last July, the
lowest number for a single month
in almost two years.
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SCHOOLS REDUCE
BUILDING SPACE
Teaching Staff Is Lighter
This Year, With Fewer
Courses of Study

No school will be held in the
Jefferson building on South Broad
way this year, says H. B. Field
Red Lodge superintendent OF
schools. Contraction of the room
space and a lighter teaching force
this year are part of the economy
program of the board of trustees.
Additional rooms in the Manual
Arts building will be opened to
care for the surplus from the JEFF
ferson school, part of which will
be taught in the Roosevelt and
Lincoln schools. Grades one and
two will be housed in the Roose-
welt buildings, grades three and
four in the Lincoln.
There will be seven sections in
the junior high school (grades
six, seven and eight this year
instead of the usual eight Sec
tons. A class of 81 graduated
from the eighth grade last spring,
and a much smaller eighth grade
group is to attend this year.
The teaching staff this year
will consist of 10 teachers, COM
pared with % last year. More
work will be required on the part
of teachers, even though a few
courses will not be carried on the
program of studies. Enrolment
(Continued on Page 81
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EARLY FROST r
APPROACH OF FALL;
SNOW IN

A heavy frost falling on the
morning of August 80 indicated
the approach of autumn in these
parts. Temperature fell to 80 de-
grees above zero, the lowest mark
of the month, according to |. A.
Draper, weather observer.
Tuesdays frost was the earliest
recorded hereabouts since 1910,
says Mr.. Draper. Rain and cold
weather on the benchlands was
paralleled in the mountains by
snow and cold weather. Storms
broke over the Beartooths Sun
day night, continuing Monday and
Tuesday.
The hottest day Of the month
was August 10, when the mercury
moved up to 81. No hail, no dam
aging rain storms were noted dur
ing August. Few il any crops
were damaged by frost this week,
as most of the harvesting is COM
plete by this time.
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BEARTOOTH Dance
RECEIVES RECORD
CROWDS SATURDAY
Motorists Reach Lake Over
New Grade of the
Cooke Hiway

For the first time since the es-
tablishment of the mountain camp
at Beartooth lake it was possible
for motorists to drive in to the
camp for the annual Beartooth
ball, and as a result more than 200
people were present at the well
known shindig last Saturday
night. Guests from a radius of
100 miles came to dance the night
out on the shores of Beartooth
lake.
Hitherto inaccessible except ia
travellers on foot or horseback,
Camp Beartooth is now on the line
of the Red Lodge Cooke highway
grade. From Nordquist's dude
ranch on the Clark's Fork river,
autos can travel up the Unit B
section under construction by the
McNutt & Pyle company to a
point several miles past Beartooth.
Saturday night about 20 cars
were parked beside the highway
grade near the lake. Some reached
Nordquist's via the Yellowstone
park and Cooke, and others came
in from Wyoming up the Clark's
Fork way.
People from widely separated
stamping grounds began to arrive
at Beartooth as early as Thurs
day and Friday last week. Rain
breaking over the mountains Sat-
urday afternoon and evening did
not prevent the arrival of late
corners, some of whom struggled
in after dark Saturday night.
Red Lodge was represented by
more than a score of local folk
most of whom made the Beartootl
trip by horseback, going in from
Rock creek and from Crandall
Wyo. Greybull, Powell, Cody anc
other villages on the Wyoming
border sent delegates. In the
crowd were engineers and roac
workers from the construction
camps, wranglers and rancher.
from the Cooke region, rangers
and herders from where-not, with
accompanying womenfolk.
Hosts for the occasion were
Roy Hicox, genial proprietor o.
Camp B~eartooth, Mrs. Hicox, Mr.
and Mrs. Melvin Stumpff and Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Smith, Festivity
started at ten o'clock in the eve.
ming and the woods rang unit
dawn. Frank (Pee Wee) Alder
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Big Notorious of Conoco Travel
Bureau Stops Here on U. S. Tour

Business may not be all that it
should be, and there are no doubt
a few who are still boarding their
money Gin the old SOCK" but such
conditions do not alter the fact
that hundreds Of thousands of
American citizens are daily tun-
ing up the old bus-or a new,
shiny one--for a long vacation
trek to the mountains, lake resort
or sea shore.
This is the report of L. H.. Nc
Alister, in charge of the huge
Conoco travel bureau bus which
rolled into Red Lodge Tuesday,
spreading music and scenic infor-
nation, reminding everyone to
make plans for a care-free motor
vacation.
The Conoco travel bureau, main
tained by the Continental Oil COM
pany, has headquarters at Denver,
Colo. and provides free travel
swvice to motorists. This free
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SCHOOLS OPEN
IN THE COUNTY
SEPTEMBER 9Th
Changes in Teaching Force
Are Noted in Some
Districts

Pupils in several districts Of the
county started to school again this
week, and most of the schools will
be in operation Immediately after
the Labor day weekend.
Schools in the Joliet, Jackson,
Clearcreek and Toney districts
opened Monday, August 20, al
though the opening date for most
is September 6, says Miss Eliza
beth Duffield, county superintend-
ent of schools. The Plainview and
Belfry schools will commence in
struction August IL.
The roll of county school teach
ers for the most part is unchanged
although several trustees boards
have announced requirements for
the 1928 term. Teachers in
the various districts, tentatively
listed, are:
Bridger, No. 2, R. E. Olson,
principal; Nora Greer, Evelyn Ole,
Winifred Stillwell, Elsa M. Hend-
rickson, Gladys N. Illness, A.
Rubye Olson, Hazelle Olive Dunt-
ley, La Frances Mccoy, E. Eliza
beth Davidson, Ruby M. fancy,
Adrien L. Hess.
Joliet, z, C. E. Johnson, Pauline
Grafton, w. White, Mildred Gil
mouth, Greeta Johnson, Cornelia
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no means alone in the contest, as
half a dozen other young ladies OF
the city were nominated. Favor
ties who won heavy votes were
Josephine Thompson, Hilda Richie
son, Ingri Nickula and Elizabeth
Larkin.
At the Mardi Gras to be held as
a feature of the Billings fair, re-
preventative ~princesses Of several
towns will choose from among
their own number a girl who win
reign as queen of the carnival.
Billings has three candidates for
this honor, q Miss Personality, q
Miss Physique, and a Miss Beauty,
but it has been remarked that our
Red Lodge princess can qualify ON
any one or all of these points.
Miss Massa, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Dominick Massa, has
lived most Of her life In this city,
has attended Red Lodge schools
Continued on page 81
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THIRD COMPANY
IS TO OPERATE
IN DRY CREEK
Three Wells of Ohio Are
Still Being Tested
For Production

Announcement of a new COM
pany in the Dry Creek oil field
was carried this week by the Mon
tana Oil & Mining Journal, which
named the organization as the
Dry Creek Oil company. The new
company plans to sink its first
bore north of the Ohio-B Bowman
we'll on the west side of the field.
A. j. Smith of the Smith Eng
ineering company, and E. C. Win
tiers, formerly Of the White Eagle
Oil company, are officials of the
concern. Their company is the
third to engage in active opera
ton at Dry Creek, acreage already
being held there by the Ohio Oil
company, pioneers in the field,
and the Carbon Oil & Gas COM
pany, which drilled the Beartooth-
Armstrong producer.
The Dry Creek company plans
to drill on the 560-acre croft lease,
says The Journal. Acreage -.
includes the north half, southeast
quarter and north half of the
southwest quarter of section 81,
township 6 south, range 81 east.
Agreement under which the
acreage was taken calls for COM
mencement of drilling operations
inside of 80 days. Company of
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NIX CONTRACT
NEARS FINISH
Contractors Will Use Full
Force on Section 59-A
of Federal Road

This week the head power shov-
ell on Unit A of the Red Lodge
Cooke highway reached the ter
mination point of the Morrison
Knudsen contract on the Line
Greek plateau, about one mile
south and east of the Twin lakes.
Only a few days. finishing work
is necessary for fulfillment of the
contract that called for II miles
of unsurfaced, 18-foot, 6 per cent
grade extending from the bottom
of the Rock Creek canyon to the
mountain summit on the plateau.
Twelve miles southwest the out
fits of the McNutt & Pyle COM
pany are forging ahead on Unit
b, carrying that route from Bear
tooth lake toward the Twin lakes.
The Unit B route has reached
Little Bear lake, about four miles
north of Beartooth, and is being
carried on toward Long lake.
Within a few days the power
shovels will be removed from the
Morrison-Knudsen job on this end,
leaving the finishing work to bull
dozer crews. One shovel is now
under repair in the NIX company
shop, and the other two will be
overhauled pending the formal
granting of the contract on Sec
ton 59-A, the 4-mile stretch of
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A. J. Downward DIES
HER RE SATURDAY BY
APOPLExY STROKE
In Business For IA Years in
Red Lodge; Burial
at Pocatello

The body of A. J. Downward,
Red Lodge businessman whose
sudden death occurred Saturday
evening, will be taken for burial
to Pocatello, Ida. A funeral SER
vice was conducted Tuesday at
the Methodist Episcopal church in
Red Lodge, when many friends
and former associates of the de-
ceased paid their last respects to
a man who was for IA years one
of the good citizens of this city.
Mr.. Downward, at 8 o'clock Sat-
urday evening, was conversing
with a group of friends in the
shop of the A. D. Whitcomb Oil
company when he suffered a
stroke of apoplexy. Without fin
ishing the sentence he was speak
ing, he fell to the floor. Dr.. e. M,
Adams was Immediately sum-
moned, but Mr.. Downward was
dead when the physician arrived,
Andrew Jackson Downward was
born at Marion, Ind, December
%, 1861, and lived in that city un-
til his mid-life. In 1896, on the
10th of April, he married Clara
McDougal, who now survives him
with their only living child, Byron,
Byron Downward was born at Mar
ion, 35 years ago.
Twenty years ago the Down
ards moved west to Montana to
Continued on Page 81
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Minnesota MAN
PAYS AUTO fine
Salesman Is Resentful Of
Laws Operation In
Red Lodge

A. M. Druck, 26, a necktie
salesman from that great city of
Minneapolis, Mimi, was the per-
son who was nonchalantly MAX
ing the U-turns on Broadway av-
enue Saturday morning, in easy
disregard of this little city's traf-
fic ordinances. In police court
Saturday afternoon he paid a fine,
in spite of an appeal to the may
or and a threatened appeal to
higher courts and authorities.
Mr.. Druck, when accosted by
Police Chief McAllister in regard
to his free-style driving, did not
take kindly to the criticism. 1t
became necessary for "Mac" to
hail him before Police Judge Pro-
vinse, who ordered a SIS fine.
81 will talk to the mayor about
this" declared the gentleman
from Minnesota, ruffling his small
brown mustache and stamping his
black-and-white shoes.
"The mayor, said Mr.. McAllis-
ter, sis right down on the first
floor. I'll take you there" and he
directed Mr.. Druck to the Red
Lodge Drug company. Entering.
Mr.. Druck turned to the chief and
said, you'd better keep an eye or
me or I'll go right out the back
door,, and the chief replied, SC
ahead. There are only three roads
out of this town, and you wouldn't
get away on any of them.
After a short conversation with
! Continued on page 81
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M DEAD

The long illness of James Bar
toldi, AZ, was ended by death this
morning. He passed away shortly
before noon, at his home on East
Eleventh street; the cause of his
death is believed to have been
cancer. Arrangements for his
funeral were not complete today.
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FLuZeD
Of Ii FE
(By the Associated Press)

Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.-Aborig-
inal cunning killed a big black
bear without the use of firearms.
A party of Indians coming down
Canoe lake saw bruin swimming
ahead of them. Having no fire
arms, they reached out and rested
. long pole on his neck. He dug
hn claws into the pole, forgot to
swim, and was drowned, so say
the Indians.
Los Angeles-Benjamin Chap
nan, financier, won a divorce
frsm Jessie Chapman because, he
said, "she flew away and left me-"
Mrs. Chapman is now flying in
the national air derby. "She said,"
complained Chapman, "that she
wanted to be free as the birds of
the air"
Lincoln, Kas.-Lady Nicotine is
an old pal of Mrs. Abbie Holman,
pioneer. Placidly putting her pipe,
Mrs. Holman celebrated what she
announced was her 102nd birth
day. She has smoked since she
was 10.
Helsingfors, Finland-The pris-
n are crowded, which apparently
il = bit of good luck for 10000
Finnish scoflaws. For the govern
nnent is preparing a bill of am
nesty to benefit persons sentenced
to prison or fined for drunkenness
and other alcoholic offenses before
lest April.
Washington-Liberia is no place
for unemployed Americans to go
unless they have fare back, says
American Minister Charles E.
Mitchell. He told of a shoemaker
who took his family there only to
find that his trade was a dead
loss. Most people there wear no
Shees.
London-Idea for milady's Jew
Ell box: An Englishman carrying
$1,000 worth of gold to a jewel
er's to sell feared the tin box
might be stolen. So he put a sign
on it: "This box contains danger
ous germs for experimental work."
Nobody stole it.
Pine Bluff, Ark.-This country
is proud of its fastest son, Bill
Carr. Welcomed home by the big
gest turnout ever, the lad who
broke the worlds record for the
400 meter dash at the Olympics,
received the Pine Bluff CONNER
calls cup emblemetic Of the "best
public service rendered during
1882 by a citizen of Pine Bluff"
Tia Juana, Mex.-An edict to
close saloons at 1870 p. m. caused
ructions in this town, where many
resorts threw keys away years
ago. One proprietor ordered the
j~anitor to lock up. "Ill have to go
home after the door," said the be-
wildered man. "Tve been using
il for years on my chicken COOP"
Gallup, N. M.-The Hopi In
dams are praising the potency Of
their chief medicine men. While
the medicine men chanted cere-
rxonial prayers for rain at Toreva,
thunder crashed, and it poured so
hard q bridge was washed out.
New York-A s~lap-for-slap
drama enlivened Broadway's night
court. Luis Genovese denied slap
ping Frank Brown, 8. eff he
slapped you, show me how he did
it," said Magistrate Greenspan.
Frank implanted a healthy smack
en- Genovese's face. "Now, said
the magistrate, 81 guess you're
sven, Frank, and I'll suspend SEN
bcnce."
Windsor, Ont.-The perils of
speed boat racing are not so ter
rsble, thinks Kaye Don, after fac
ing a friendly mob of autograph
and handshake hounds here. He
was "mobbed" by a crowd after
making three speeches and being
hailed as "an Irishman who drove
an English boat on a Scotch lake
faster than any man ever drove a
boat before"
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Windsor, Ont.-The perils of
speed boat racing are not so ter
rsble, thinks Kaye Don, after fac
ing a friendly mob of autograph
and handshake hounds here. He
was "mobbed" by a crowd after
making three speeches and being
hailed as "an Irishman who drove
ar English boat on a Scotch lake
faster than any man ever drove a
boat before"
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New York-A slap-for-slap
drama enlivened Broadway's night
court. Luis Genovese denied slap
ping Frank Brown, 8. "If he
slapped you, show me how he did
it," said Magistrate Greenspan.
Frank implanted a healthy smack
en- Genovese's face. "Now, said
the magistrate, 81 guess you're
sven, Frank, and I'll suspend SEN
tence."
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-16
NY. Athletes Set
for Meet July Is

NEW YORK. - Going into the last
lap of their preparations for the In
ternational Workers Athletic Meet,
at the end of the month at Stage
Field, Chicago, New York worker
athletes are awaiting the big New
York district Examinations at Ulmer
Park, Brooklyn, July 16. The win
ners at this meet will comprise the
team that goes to Chicago to repre-
sent New York.
A totally new feature will be the
Tom Mooney Mile Relay. A travel
ling cup will be given the winner,
and the relay will be continued as
an annual event.
There will be % track and field
events, including six for women and
six for juniors. A sports dance will
be held in the evening in the pavil-
lion, where prizes will be awarded.
Entries will be received until Friday
morning at Room 229, 80 E. 18th St.
These tax refunds are being handed
out by the Hoover Wall street gov
eminent at the very time when un-
employment insurance is being denied
to the starving jobless on the excuse
that there are no fund
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1932-07-16
THE END OF THE HENRY FORD
MYTH

The Henry Ford myth of high
wages, good conditions and the 'pa-
ternalism" of father Henry Ford
was washed away in blood when four
workers were massacred by police In
front of the Dearborn plant at De-
troit. a M
Robert L. Cruden, a former Ford
worker whose brother was one Of the
20 wounded in the massacre, shows
the background of this massacre. in
the form of tremendous speed up
and murderous conditions in the
Ford plant in a new Scent pamphlet,
The End of the Ford Myth, just pub
lished by International Pamphlets.
He tells of the speed-up, wage
cuts, lay-offs, Ford stool-pigeons or
service men, as they are more po-
litely called, child labor in the Ford
plants, the revolt of the workers. He
describes the events of Bloody Mon
day and the tremendous answer of
the workers at the mass funeral and
by organization of the auto workers.
Like the other International PAM
phlets it can be obtained at the
workers book shops or from Workers
Library Publishers, Box 14S, Station
D, New York, from whom 1t should
be ordered in large quantities for sale
especially among the auto workers.