Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1932-11-24
This Week
BY ARTHUR BRIsBANn
The MongolApe Girl
Bewildered Wall Street
Woman's Day
Bootleg Unemployment

are old. In Otter Tail county In Min
nes0ta scientists have found what re
mains of a seventeen-year-eld girls
murdered body. She vas partly Mon
golian, partly ape Somebody, pre-
sumably also part Mongol and part
ape. killed her 10000 years ago and
threw her into a glacial lake.
A nick In the shoulder blade shows
where an arrow or spear went into
her right lung and probably through
her heart.
There are worse things than that
In our modern crime. How far are we
really above the Mongol-ape2
Wall Street recalls the old Canadian
lady who used to say. Il tell my hus-
band | don't know what to tell him.
Wall Street doesn't know what to
tell the spectators. American Tele-
phone & Telegraph declared the reg
ular dividend at the rate OF 8 per
cent. and instead of going up. the
market went down. Wall Street is as
difficult as the watch belonging to
the dormouse at the Mad Hatter's tea
party. The dormouse said The puts
the best butter In his watch, but moth
Ing seems to please IL"
This is woman's day, and as Mrs.
Eddy said when this writer inter
viewed her long ago 1T is the day
of mind owe matter"
Amy Johnson MolIison, who recent
ly married the British flyer holding
the record from London to South AT
RIGA, has just beaten her distinguished
husbands record across the Desert
OF Sahara.
She made a hop from Oran In Al
geria to Gao, 400 miles further south.
In Is hours and a few minutes.
The British empire may be totter-
Ing. but English girls are not totter-
Ing.
The unemployed bootlegger prob
lem" may be with us soon Ii the plan
Ia carried out to free from prison
all Jailed for violating prohibition
laws.
Governor Rolph OF California says
that as soon as his states overwhelm-
Ing vote against prohibition is certI-
fled he will free 1000 convicted OF
bootlegging. 1t will be hard for the
1000 to accustom themselves to $50
a week." and harder still to find the
$50.
Newcastle. Pa, develops a new Idea.
Gentlemen that steal milk bottles left
on doorsteps go early before the milk
Is delivered and seribbIe a note asking
for two extra quarts
The customer and milk man
know nothing about 1t, until settling
time comes. weeks later.
1t Ia an old Idea started In Wall
Street Down there, the financial
genius scribbles a note, ordering tens
OF millions more shares OF stock. The
customer doesn't know anything about
that until some time later, when set
thing time comes. This depression Ia
settling time.
On the site of the great Hoover dam |
the Colorado river for ages has rushed
with IT'S millions of gallons per min.
ute through the high rock walls of a
narrow canyon. II follows that path
no longer, for mans engineering genius
has turned the river aside, forcing 1t
to run through an artificial tunnel.
dug In n of the canyons rocky sides,
almost a mile high.
Where the river once rushed through
a channel cut out OF solid rock by the
water ages ago everything is dry. En-
gineers and workers at the great dam, |
undisturbed by the torrent, will pro
coed to erect a wall that will hold
back billions of gallons OF Colorado
waters to be used as man may decide.
for irrigation or power. When the wall
Is finished the tunnel will be closed.
to open at any time when water behind
the dam needs lowering
Colonel Turner, Los Angeles pilot,
a new California champion
with a new east-west flight from
the Atlantic tc the Pacific In IL hours
33 minutes, beating by two hours the
record OF Frank Hawks.
This Is big news. The world awaits
something to end this depression and
the flying machine may do It.
Steam started one great boom after
Waterloo. the gold rush In 40 started
another, electricity, used for light and
power, started another. the automobile
the recent great boom. which
squandering raised to a frenzy.
For men the most important thing
s life, and next comes movement. The
perfected airplane. America to Europe
n ten hours, New York city to San
Francisco or Seattle to Jacksonyiiies
ria. In ten hours, may start the next
zig boom.
The German cruiser Karlsruhe. first
n visit an American mort gfnee fhp