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Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-09-28
AN OPEN LETTER

To the Working Men of Carbon County:
There is a persistent rumor being spread that | have.
the hiring Of the men on the several road construction
jobs in Carbon county.
This is absolutely untrue; have nothing to do with the
hiring or firing of men on any of the projects.
If you are unemployed and have registered with the
unemployment committee at the court house, your name
is on the lists in the hands of the contractors. The con-
tractor will select the men he wishes to employ. 1t is then
up to you to hold your job.
All | have had to do with the road projects, including
the Red Lodge-Cooke road, was to secure the appropria-
ton of the money for them, which took seven years Of
my time and caused me personal expense. You may think
| have been paid for the work, but | have not. The last
two months | have devoted all my time to securing rights
of-way and e%xpediting the letting of contracts; all ex-
penses being paid by myself. | have done this in order
that as many of you men can be employed as possible. 1t
is impossible for all of you to be employed on the pro-
jects. | wish you could, but you can't. There are more
than 1900 men on the unemployed lists now, and only a
small part of this list can be employed.
You may be interested to know that / have brought to
Carbon county nearly 100000 for road work in the last
two years, and more than $5,000,000 to Montana this year
for road work.
1t is only fair to state that Mr.. Alex F~airgrieve, chair
man of the unemployment committee cannot give you a
job; all he can do is to give your name to the contractors.
1t is only fair to the contractors to state that they cannot
employ all the men that are out of work.
The News and its editor want you men to know that
we are your friend. l wish you could all be employed on
these jobs, and | promise that will continue to work to
create more jobs on other than road projects until every
man and woman who wants to work can and will secure
work at a living wage.
still have bigger and better things in store for you.
There are knockers and pessimists who said the Red
Lodge-Cooke road would never be built. 1t will soon be
a reality. 1t would not have been if the knockers had had
their way.
Stick with The News, boys, and its policy of working
and boosting, and we will make Red Lodge one of the
biggest towns in Montana. 1t can and will be done.
Believe me, your friend,
@. i. T. SHELLEY.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-09-28
HUNDREDS VISIT NEW
BEARTOOTH HIGHWAY

time there was no route from the
canyon floor to the plateau other
than the Highline and Sliderock
pack trails. Today there is a
broad highway grade that swings
up the mountain in a series of
loops, reaching over the edge and
continuing out over the plateau.
Twelve miles of the new Beartooth
highway have been built-twelve
miles in which the grade rises to
the summit of the range, from an
altitude of 1000 feet to one of
more than 10000 feet above the
sea.
Those who drove on the high
way Sunday reported the route in
excellent condition. The 6 per
cent grades had been scraped
smooth, and all narrow places had
been built out to standard width.
Many strangers, unfavorably i'm
pressed by the rough and crooked
tote roads between Red Lodge and
the NIX camp, were doubly en-
thusiastic over the new grade.
Most cars made the 2,000-foot
climb in high gear.
Guard railing now is being set
along the Unit A route. Surfac-
ing of the unit will be included in
the contract to be let on Unit C,
north of Unit A.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-09-28
RED CROSS HAS
GREATER RELIEF
TASK THIS YEAR
Plans Laid For Roll Call
At Meeting of Local
Board Tuesday

Importance of Red Cross service
in this county last year, and the
need for more extensive service
this year was discussed Tuesday
night by ]. L. Taylor, field repre-
sentative of the national organiza-
ton, at a meeting of the execu-
tive board of the local Red Cross.
Mr.. Taylor outlined plans for
the membership drive to be start
ed October 10, and impressed To-
cal officials with the magnitude of
the relief task this year.
Montana was among the leaders
in Red Cross membership drives
last year, he said, and Carbon
county contributed well toward
the state total of memberships.
The total for the 1882 roll call is
800.
Clark R. Northrop, county
chairman, has announced that Mrs.
j. NJ. Burnett will be director of
the membership campaign, assist
ed by an advisory board of Red
Lodge business men. Sectional
chairmen who served the Red
Cross in the various communities
of the county last year have been
reappointed for duty this fall and
winter. Miss Elizabeth Duffield
again serves as chairman of the
Junior Red Cross.
More than 1000 people in the
county were directly aided by the
county and national Red Cross
last winter, said Mr.. Taylor. The
number who will need help this
year has greatly increased.
Henry M. Baker, assistant di-
rector of the American Red Cross,
gave an %impressing review of the
work done to relieve distress in
the United States last year, said
Mr.. Northrop, who attended the
regional meeting at Lewistown
September &c.
eve have all heard of the Big
Parade and the Wet Parade,
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Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-09-28
CHANGE DATE OF
BR|DGER HEARING
Application to Substitute
Bus for Rail Cars to
Be Considered

Hearing of the Northern Pacific
railways application for substitu-
ton of bus service for rail service
on the Bridger branch will be held
at two o'clock Thursday after
noon, September 20.
A reassignment of the time of
the hearing was announced Sat
urday by R. H. McLaren, chief
clerk of the state board of rail-
road commissioners.
Previous announcement by the
commission set the date of hear
ing for today, September 20. At
this time, any protests against the
discontinuance action were to have
been heard.
The railway wishes to remove
trains No. 209 and 210, g~as-elec-
trio rail cars, from service, and to
substitute motor bus service for
transportation of passengers, mail
and baggage. In the company's
application, it was claimed that
passenger trains operating on the
Bridger and Red Lodge branches
were being maintained at too
great an expense to the company,
that adequate service between Red
Ledger, Bridger and Billings could
be provided by the NOTORIOUS meth
cd.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-09-28
APPRAISERS OF
BR|DGER ROUTE
ARE APPOINTED
Commission May Abandon
Project if Land Price
Is Too High

In the condemnation proceed
ings in regard to r~ight-of-way fol
the state highway between Bridg-
er and the Montana Wyoming line.
a commission of appraisers was
appointed Tuesday by the district
court, conducted here by Judge 0.
f. Goddard of Billings.
Arthur Hunter of Bridger, j. 0,
Higham of Belfry and E. w. Tai
mage of Joliet were appointed to
appraise land designated for con-
demnation to the purposes of the
state highway commission.
The land, designated in seven
parcels, lies between Bridger and
the Clark's Fork river, bearing al
most two miles of the surveyed
right-of-way for the federal aid
project No. 258-C, to be placed I'M
der contract by the state highway
commission.
A resolution to condemn was
filed by the state commission with
the attorney general and E. P,
Conwell, county attorney, as coun-
sci in the district court. Defend
ants in the action are Mr.. and Mrs,
M. F. Megredy, o. A. Trumbo, Mr.,
and Mrs. A. H. Young, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Riley, Mr.. and Mrs.
Detlef Thormahlen, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Currie, Peter D. Currie.
Wilmer Wright, Maggie Wright.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lars P. Larsen, Otto
Kebschull and Mr.. and Mrs. James
A. Dowdle. E. B. Merrill was en-.
tered as attorney for the defend
ants.
The court dismissed the case OF
the state against the Megredys as
settled, and overruled demurrers
by Larsen and Thormahlen. After
evidence was presented, including
testimony of R. j. Ephland, dis
trict engineer of the state commits
sion, the court ordered appoint,
ment of the appraisal commission
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Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-09-28

More than a thousand people
motored up the new Unit A grade
of the Red Lodge Cooke highway
Sunday, when the Morrison-Knud-
sen company opened the recently
finished job for public inspection.
The number of autos that made
the trip from Red Lodge to the
Line Greek plateau was estimated
at between 800 and 900.
Rain and mist in the mountains
somewhat marred the visibility,
but the grandeur of the scenery
and the novelty of the spectacular
drive up the canyon wall were APP
preciated by all who made the trip
Sunday.
AS indicated by license plates,
people representing 20 states
viewed the road. Most Of those
yer Montana and Wyoming peo-
pie. Some We're Red Lodge people
who had not visited the scene of
recent construction since the con-
tractors began building the high
way last fall.
Sundays exhibition was in the
nature of an anniversary for the
NIX outfit on Rock creek. Little
more than a year ago, September
a, 1881, a power shovel turned the
first scoopful of dirt on the Nor
rison-Knudsen contract. At that
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-09-28
RED LODGE Wins
THIRD OF SERIES
WITH BEARCREEk
Tenth Inning Squirt Brings
s to 8 Score Over
Bearcreek

The Red Lodge baseball club re-
peated its performance of the pre-
vious Sunday at Bearcreek Sep
TENDER 25, winning a game, 8 to
3, by a hitting spree in the last
inning, clinching the deciding con-
test of a three-game series with
Bearcreek.
The score was knotted at three
all at the end of the ninth inning.
Meyers stepped to the plate for
Red Lodge and bingled one out to
Noble, beating the throw to first
base. Murdo famed. F. Michel
cic lined another out past third
base. Toffer whitfield at three.
Gregory lifted one into the out
field for two bases, scoring Mey-
ers and Michelcic. Gregory stole
third, came in on Hartwig's single.
Hartwig slid to second and crossed
the plate a moment later as the
Bearcreek infielder mishandled q
pop-up by Vavich. Huck Finn,
cleanup man, poled out a clean
hit to send Vavich in with the
eighth run. Wadsworth caught
Orler's fly ball to retire the side.
Bearcreek was retired in short
order. Johnston was thrown out
at first by Meyers. Reid hit
clearly for one base, but was
caught trying to steal second, and
Yanchisin struck out.
In the first inning the Bearcreek
men displayed the form and en-.
ergy that gained them their vic
tory over Red Lodge three weeks
ago. No Red Lodge man reached
first base, and Bearcreek showed
across two runs with the aid OF
jerky pitching by Clutch" Hart
wig.
Red Lodge came to in the thirG
inning to score three times, anC
Bearcreek scored again in tht
seventh.
The game was played in {
steady drizzle that kept the bal
slippery, although the errors were
not many. Several arguments
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Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-09-28
FORESTERS MARK
LOCATION AREAS
ON COOKE ROUTE
Beartooth Scenery Not To
Be MARRIED by Unsightly
Camps, Buildings

Three officials of the Custer ma
tional forest service are engaged
this month in the vicinity of the
Red Lodge-Cook route in a sur
vey preliminary to setting aside
tracts of land in the Beartooths
for recreational purposes.
By ruling of the forestry SER
vice, only the areas designated
will be allowed for location of
camp sites along the new APP
proaeh to the Yellowstone, most
of the mountain country to be re-
served as primitive land for the
sake of its scenic value. Areas on
which location will be allowed are
selected in regard to their visible
ity from the highway route. The
practice of keeping camp sites out
of eyeshot from the road is to be
carried out, as it is along the ma
tional forest route between Cody,
Wyo., and the eastern entrance OF
the park.
The survey is being made on
Rock creek, the West Fork, Will
low creek and the Lake Fork as
far up as Lost lake. Those en-
gagged in the location work are l..
H. Mclean and Ralph Fields, as
sistant supervisors of the Custer
forest, and c. B. Swim, assistant
supervisor Of the Gallatin forest
Mr.. Mclean was formerly located
near Red Lodge while serving as
chief ranger of the Beartooth di-
vision.
The region on the other side OF
the Line Greek plateau, lying
largely in the Shoshone national
forest, is being surveyed by j. N
Langworthy, supervisor, and Johr
w. Spencer, assistant forester, Of
the Shoshone forest. Mr.. McLear
and his party conferred with the
Wyoming foresters "on top" las
week.
Notice will be given when APP.
plications will be accepted fol
camp sites in the Beartooth area
said Mr.. Mclean. Until the sur
vey is completed the forestry de.
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Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-09-28
STATE HIGHWAY MEN
ADMIRE COOKE ROAD

Three members of the state
highway department who viewed
the Red Lodge-Cooke road for the
first time Tuesday voiced their
approval of the project that will
furnish the latest and most scenic
approach road to the Yellowstone
park.
w. j. Mulvaney, member of the
highway commission; Attorney
Bonner, right-of-way lawyer; and
R. j. Ephland, district engineer of
the Billings office, with 0. H. P.
Shelley of Red Lodge, visited
scenes of present and recent con-
struction in the Rock Creek can
yon.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-09-28
TOIPlAY
FIRST FOOTBALL
GAME WITH EDGAR
Green Players To Receive
Experience IN Grid
Competition

Recruits of Coach A. Nj. Hart
wig of Carbon County High school
will get their first experience in
football competition Friday after
noon at Edgar when they meet
Sverre Omdahl's Edgar High team.
The encounter will be the sec
.ond game of the season for Edgar,
but the first game for the Red
Lodge men, some of whom have
never seen a game before. 1t will
provide an afternoon of practical
experience for the raw material
with which dutch" has been
working for the past several
weeks. The boys have been drill
ing hard on fundamental football
and are anxious to try their stuff
in real action.
Tentative selections of players
were made by Hartwig after
scrimmages this week. Pete Zu-
pan, Carbon's basketball center,
will probably plug the center hole
of the football line. The Marchello
brothers, Ed and Aldo, will line up
on either side of Pete, and the
tackle positions will be handled by
Mike Kapor and Bill Ingalls, or
Bert Obert. Fred Brown and
RENO Niemi will play the ends.
Either Toivo Liedes or Dick Do
ran viii start as quarterback, and
Sam Cartwright or Waino Laati-
kainen at full. Bill Grusonik,
Charley CUISINE and Joe Laughney
are slated to play at half. Other
linesmen are Dominick Jurkovich,
John and Pete Sverich, Robert
Jurkovich and Ed Mlekush.
Most of the players on the Ed
gar squad were seasoned last fall
during the first term of football
at Edgar High, and Coach Omdahl
has a smooth working team this
year. Last week Edgar started
the season by ~drubbing the Reed
Point high school eleven.
Carbon will play a return game
with Edgar at Red Lodge, October
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-09-28
WORK STARTS ON
FOREST HIGHWAY
State Link To Be Worked
simultaneously With
59-A Section

Construction of the national
forest link of the Red Lodge Cooke
highway was started Monday by
the Morrison-Knudsen company,
and preparations were being made
for a start on the state highway
section south of Red Lodge.
A power shovel began excava-
ton on section 59-A near the
Canyon ranger station, on the
west side of Rock creek below
Richel lodge, and is to work north
ward. Another shovel was taken
to the lower end of the 4.3-mile
section and set to work this morn
ing near Piney Dell, to work south
on the contract.
The third power shovel of the
NIX outfit is being walked down
the Rock Creek road to Red Lodge.
When A. H. Johnson, superintend-
ent, gets a working order from the
main office at Boise, Ida, this
machine will be started on the
state highway. Construction will
begin at the southern limits of
this city.
Clearing crews are at work
along the line Of construction and
engineers of the bureau Of roads
office are stalking out the route
for the contractors.
Other engineers of the Rock
Creek office were engaged this
week in cross-sectioning the Unit
B route on the other side, where
the contracting outfits Of McNutt
& Pyle are working.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-09-28
EDWARD WARD OF
BOYD PASSES AT
HOME OF HIS SON
Conduct Service at Joliet
For Carbon County
Pioneer Man
fBy Il. 2. Conweln

Funeral services for Edward
Ward, who died at the home of his
son, George Ward near Boyd, Sep
TENDER %, were held at the Joliet
Christian church last Sunday, Sep
TENDER 25, with Rev. Leslie Cook
officiating. The obsequies We're
in charge of R. G. Martin Of Red
Lodge. Pail bearers were o. j..
Goff, Homer Hughes, Arthur Sage,
w. E. Carmack, j. 7. Rinker and
S. P. Wilson, all oldtime friends
and neighbors of the deceased.
Interment was made in the
Rockville cemetery in the family
plot, beside the grave Of Mrs.
Ward, who was buried there Sep
tenrber 13, 1927. The large con-
course that followed the remains
of Mr.. Ward to the cemetery test
flied to the esteem in which he
was held by those in his commun-
ity and in the whole county.
Edward Ward, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Christopher Ward, was born
at Toronto, Ont, D. c., October
II, 1874. He spent his young
manhood in that locality and in
the year 1866 was married to Miss
Mary McGilvery. Before her death,
September 10, 1927, eight children
were born of the marriage, four of
whom are now living. They are:
George Ward of Joliet, Christie
pher Ward of Webster, Ore, Mrs.
J. NJ. Caldwell of Charlottesville,
Ind, and Mrs. G. L. Baker of
Healy Forks, Alaska. There are
seven grandchildren and 10 great
grandchildren.
Mr.. Ward and his young wife
moved from Canada to Ohio in
1866, and later to Indiana, where
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Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-09-28
BARKER APPOINTED
A CHAIRMAN OF
HOOVER COMMITTEE

An attempt to interest every
engineer in Montana in the cam
paign to retain President Hoover
in the White house will be made
by Samuel V. Barker, Jr., widely
known mining engineer of Butte,
who has been appointed chairman
of the Montana section Of the
Hoover-for- President Engineers
National committee.
Mr.. Barker was appointed by
John V. w. Reynolds of New York,
chairman of the national execu-
tive committee as a recognition Of
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Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-09-28
THREW ROCKS, is CHARGE

Mrs. George Korinko and Mrs.
Annie Bishop we're bonded for $50
apiece Monday morning in the JUS
tice court of E. B. Provinse, who
dated their trial for October 8.
They were charged with third de-
gree assault by Mrs. Susie Korin-
ko, whose complaint read, "did
wilfully and maliciously assault
by throwing rocks at affiant and
by striking affiant with a milk
bottle. 1t happened Saturday
in Bearcreek.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-09-28
MONTGOMERY WARD
COMPANY
r. l.. BRANCH o

Business advances have result
ed in an expansion of the Mont
gomery Ward company in this
area, according to w. E. Crane,
manager Of the Billings sales reg
ion which includes Red Lodge.
The company will again reopen its
branch store in 2ed Lodge said
air Crane, who was in this city
tuesday.
The location on Broadway ave-
nue. formerly occupied by G. w.
Cole, Inc, has been leased by
Montgomery Ward. Merchandise
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Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-09-28
TWO GIVEN
BY DISTRICT u

Judge o. F. Goddard signed two
DEGREES of divorce during the
course of the district court bust
ness Tuesday, granting Ella Dins-
dale a divorce from John Edward
Dinsdale, and dissolving the mar
riage of Mary Estella Beck and
Raymon w. Beck.
Judgments were issued granting
the withdrawal of Mrs. Sofia
Holmes and John Fiveland from
the Red Lodge-Rosebud Irrigation
district, releasing them from bene-
fits and obligations of the associ-
alton.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-09-28
REGISTRATION INCREASED

Friday, September %, was the
last day on which registrations
for the general election were re-
ceived in the office of the county
clerk and recorder and at other
registration points in the county.
Voters in all precincts have not
been tabulated yet, but it was es-
aimated in the clerks office that
900 more people have registered
than the 5.O81 listed for the prim-
airy last July.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-09-28
FINED FOR DISTURBANCE

Frank Frankovich paid a $40
fine in police court Monday for a
disturbance of the peace Saturday
night. He was arrested on East
Thirteenth street, in the process of
stirring up a fight with n Dan
Brekkus.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-09-28
FLuZu
Of Ii FE
(By the Associated Press)

dc Ishikawa is dead. The young
japanese saw two dogs fighting.
TIE part them he pushed the butt
of a rifle between them. One dog
clawed the trigger, sending a bull
let into Ishikawa's chest. Among
the mourners are many football
fans, for the lad was high school
half-back.
New York.-The police got i'm
patient with Mrs. Boris Carlton.
Not that it was so bad, they say,
to knock down a light pole, drive
away furiously when a cop asked
her to get out of her car and ask
two other cops the way to Brook
lyn bridge while driving the wrong
way on a one-way street. But, they
%tut-tutted, she really shouldn't
have battled five husky policemen
almost to a standstill when she
finally was caught up with. She
will have her court innings later.
Victoria, B. C.-The size of suds
is a serious subject up this way.
Worried by a dollar a barrel in
crease in the wholesale price, up
island beer parlor operators di-
minished the size of a 10-cent
glass of beer. They got still more
worried when customers, in a huff,
diminished their purchases. There
ia going to be a conference about
it.
Trento, Italy-None of your
puny peaks for King Albert of the
Belgians. When he picks a noun
tain to climb, it's usually the high
est in sight. He spent 10 hours
working up to the top of precipi-
tous Mount Crozzon, winning the
admiration of guides.
Debrecen, Hungarian Izaak
Walton of crime found the fishing
good without bait. Using a rod,
line and hook, a burglar extracted
5000 shirts and 5000 blankets
from lofts and Easements.
Curbridge, England. - Amaze
ment struck this Hampshire viii
lage when a big fish in the shall
lows of the local stream began to
bark like a dog. Ten men pulled
it out with a loop of wire and
three shots killed it. They think it
was some straggler from the
ocean deeps.
Dallas, Tex.-Because two auto
mobiles failed to collide three per-
sons were injured. The RAM
shackle vehicles were all set for a
head-on crash as an attraction on
a speedway program. Just before
the impact the drivers jumped.
The cars missed each other and
ploughed into a crowd of specta-
tors.
Mussolina, Spain-Farmers in
this new agricultural community,
named for Mussolini, r follow
ing their plows from dawn to
dusk. but their prime interest just
now is not in tilling the soil. An
client coins and pottery + being
unearthed.
Ossining, N. WHEN q man
wearing a mask flourished a pistol
in a road house here and shouted
stick 'em up" Frank Mccormick
thought it was only part Of the
show. He laughed, grabbed his
partner and started dancing. Now
he's in a hospital. The holdup man
shot him in the hip and escaped
with $50.
Friedrichshafen, Germany. -
Maryan Weclewski, a 1~7-year-old
Polish lad, believed in hat old
business of trying again. Last
June he tried to stow away aboard
the Graf Zeppelin and vas SEN
fenced to IA days in Jail. The pc.
lice had him again today. He was
found aboard the Graf again yes.
terday.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1932-09-28

Friedrichshafen, Germany. =
Maryan Weclewski, a 17-year-old
Polish lad, believed in that old
business of trying again. Last
June he tried to stow away aboard
the Graf Zeppelin and was sem
fenced to IA days in Jail. The po-
lice had him again today. He was
found aboard the Graf again yes
terday.