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Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1933-01-12

VELVET continues to hold sway in
high places. II Is very apparent
to those who are checking up on fash
Ion trends that the luxury OF velvet
Is being played up this winter at the
ater opera and all formal occasions
to even greater extent than hereto
fore.
In describing velvet fashions as are
this season one Is inclined to refer to
them as dIgnlfied velyets SO regal are
they In their imposing elegance, their
stately sweeping lines and their So
phisticated simplicity.
The dominance of velvet for formal
wraps Is especially noteworthy In
creating most of the new coats de-
slgners seem to be working along the
theory that velvet unadorned Is
adorned the most. for the really out
standing models hare moi an item of
trimming save that formed OF self
fabric.
This fashion for untrimmed velvet
which Is SO all-nreyalling among styles
OF highest tone Is at Its most dlstIn
guished In the new floor-length coats
which are almost Puritan In their sim.
plIcity. Some OF these fastan down
the front with a row of velvet-cov
cred buttons. as Is shown in the pic
ture to the left. AS to being quaint.
looking, quite as If they had stepped
ont Of fashion book Of the early a0s
or perhaps the Victorian period, many
of them are just that even to the point
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1933-01-12
Home Loan Bank System.

II begins to appear as though the
newly created home loan, bank system
is going to be very short lived. The
act creating the home loan haHk board
and the regional banks which were
planned to discount home mortgages
was passed on the last day of the last
session. Several months were required
before the board got into operation
and several more before the banks
were ready so that no loans were
made until about the middle Of No
vember. 1t WINS passed amidst an ex-
ceedingly bitter fight, and those who
opposed the bill still have dark
brown taste for It. Since II has run
into difficulties. like slow organization.
failure Of some 20 states to pass laws
enabling building and. loan associa.
tions In their sGtates To join. the loan
banks and other discouraging phases.
the new federal agency is In for a
rough voyage.
o. 1854. Western Newspaper Union
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1933-01-12
Coats of Velvet Without
Decoration Are Popular

II ia really surprising how many OF
the youthful class are wearing coats
made all OF velvet sans decoration OF
anv other sort. Many Of the younger
Urls prefer the threequarter models
which have tricky" collars and
sleeves designed along naive lines, al
though they are also favorable TO the
futllength models.
While wraps of black velvet out
number the others yet many adhere
70 the idea Of deep cdlorfnl wine reds
fpchsia shades or perhaps vigid greens
for their velvet coats which top their
satin and their crepe evening gowns.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1933-01-12

Bows on her. frocks. bows on her
coats and Jackets. on her capelet
and ON her blouse and most fiattering
Of all. bows on her chapeaux-lt
bows and bows this season which give
to mIlady's costume a-pretty feminine
touch. The handsome velvet dinner
hat skefched at the top answers the
call of The mode in that II flannts an
nrtfnlly posed bow. II Is Patou
model-- of exceptional interest In that
1t argues In favor of brims.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1933-01-12
The Natural Question.

But In these days of high, and per-
haps higher, taxes, the natural ques-
ton is whether the talk about reor-
ganization Is going to net anything In
the way OF reduced levles on those
who pay the cost of government. The
answer is that 1T can be"
The probability Is that 1t viii mean
very little In the way of reduced ey-
penses. 1t Is as difficult to eliminate
government function once IL has been
started. as 1t Is to get hobo to do
an honest days work. Someone was
benefited. probably good many, from
the day an additional function OF the
government was launched, and they
are naturally unwilling to give up that
which they consider to be In their In
terests
II there are economies OF conse-
quence, therefore, the eyes must be
turned In other directions. such as the
so-called subsidies for airmall and
steamship mail. the saa0O00,0n0 chunk
InnL goes W ftleidnS, ihc vast SuiiS
that are being laid out on government
building and other items of the kind
ANY proposal to reduce tbe~sums
paid for transporting mail Ny air or
steamship Immediately causes the ar
rival of lobby agents In Washington ;
any move to reduce amounts being
mid out daily In veterans comnensa-
ton creates furore and when You
talk about abandoning plans for con
structlon OF public buildings, every
town or city. TINT was expecting a
new post office or new federal
courthouse arises en- masse.
Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1933-01-12
Nodded Bodices

The nodded bodice that gives atten'
ton TO width al the arms In an easily
draped movement Is Important, and.
width at the shoulders Is also APP
proved.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-12-28

Time for ! Lot Of Il
Mrs. Nexdore-My daughter han
arranged little piece on the piano.
Old Grnmp-Good It's about time
we had little peace.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-12-28
He Didn't Want II.

1t was threshing time on the farm.
One young girl who was serving din
ner passed the coffee to an elderly
man. He refused 1t, saying:
mo, thanks. I do not care for
coffee"
AS the girl turned away. some one
bumped her elbow, knocking the cup
from her hand and pouring the coffee
down the elderly mans back.
II told you / did not care for cof-
fee," he said, without change Of
countenance or voice, and went se-
renely on with his dinner.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-12-28
Just the Thing

Two high school girls were talking
about getting a birthday gift for Z
friend.
Lets get her one of those dickie-
docs they have In the florists win
dow suggested one girl.
"Dickie- doos7" questioned her
friend. 4Oh, yes, You mean those
thing-a-ma-gigs. Yes. think that
would be Just the thing. Indian
apolis News.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-12-28
The Main Causs

Bobby was met by his aunt while
on his way home from school.
"How do you like lessons7" she
asked.
mot much" replied the boy rath.
er abruptly.
do you have much trouble, then,
In schoOl7n she asked.
"Quite lot, aunt volunteered the
boy.
TELL me-" she went on, what
seems to give you most trouble1"
Teacher" he shot back without
hesitation.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-12-28
BY ELMO SCOTT WATSON

beginning of a new year Ii 4
time for looking forward and
planning how to make the best
use OF the IL months, the 81
weeks, the 1856 days which will
be ours during the coming year.
1t IL also a time for looking back
ward over the past year and the
other years that have gone be-
fore to take stock Of our accom-
plishments and to benefit by our
experience.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-12-28
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Humorous y
Qa1g Lii:
PRACTICAL APPEAL

"Some facetious members of the
congregation" said the vicar. shave
been In the habit of putting buttons
In the collection plate. May l sug-
gest that, In view of recent arrival
ut the vicarage. they substitute safety
pins r'-London Tit-Bits.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-12-28

experience
One evidence of our pride In the American
tradition ~ the custom OF observing In one way
or another the anniversaries Of certain events
which proved to be significant In our national
development Taking the century, 100 years, AZ
the unit of time which indicates antiquity and
corresponding reverence for those things
(which must be good because they are old" We
have fallen into the custom Of pausng In the
midst OF the busy present and our plans for the
future to bark back to the past and recall its
events
We do this not only on the one hundredth
anniversary, which we call the centennial, but
also upon the anniversary Of multiples and frac-
tions of that period OF time Thus we frequently
celebrate tho twenty-ffth, the fftieth and the
seventynfth anniversary OF events rather than
wait for the one hundredth anniversary and We
are even more pleased In our feeling Of IGNORING
antiquity when we celebrate the sesqucen-
tennlal Zone hundred fftieth), the bi-centennal
1.-TWO hundredth) or the tri-centennial three
hundredth) OF some event In American history
As the year 1884 opens, an examination Of
American history will show that we will have
occasion for number OF these celebrations Ii
we choose. The only quad-centennial flour hun
dredth) anniversary OF any Importance Is that OF
the voyage Of Jacques Cartier, the Frenchman,
WHO III lJC7 phSEeu NeWIOuNQlnn0 AND ufEcOv-
cred the Gulf of st. Lawrence
Two events OF 1884 afford an opportunity for
tri-centennial celebrations and plans are already
under way for them. From Michigan comes the
word that the Macklnac Island State Park COM
mission Is preparing tercentenary celebration
on that island next summer of the voyage OF d
Frenchman, Jean Nicolet, upon whom the mantle
OF Samuel de Champlan, as explorer toward the
west, had fallen. On July l, 1884, Nicolet, ac-
companed by seven Huron Indians set out from
Three Rivers on the ST Lawrence assembled the
Ottawa river, went across to Georgian bay, pad
died his canoe along the north shore OF Lake
Huron to Sault ste. Marie, passed through the
Straits of Mackinac and was the first white man
to gaze upon Lake Michigan. known then and
for many years afterwards as the Lake OF the
Illinois.
Continuing down the western shore OF Lake
Michigan Ncolet and his companions entered
Green Bay and landed, there to be greeted by
a party OF WInnebago Indians with whom be
made an agreement that they should take their
furs to the French posts on the St. Lawrence to
trade He pushed to visit other tribes as
cended the Fox river to the central part OF Wis
sconsin and spent the winter there, returning to
Quebec In 1885 to report to Champlain.
The other tercentenary celebration which ID
already under way but which will reach Its ell
max during the coming year is that OF the found
Ing of the colony OF Maryland from which grew
the state OF that name
In 1882 King Charles Of England granted to
George Calvert Lord Baltimore, a large tract OF
land lying north OF the Potomac river and south
of the Plymouth colonys boundaries. Calvert's
motive IN seeking this grant was a desire to
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-12-28

The family council WAS discussing
the advisabilty Of buying twin beds
for the two little daughters, Al the
least one was fast outgrowing her
crib.
"But, mother" spoke up the elder.
II don't see how can sleep In Z tin
bed"
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-12-28

Little Helen, age six, struggling
.young artist" painted picture OF
a little girl and tree. She was told
the picture was out OF proportion
the little girl was larger than the
tree. After some thought she replied:
"Well. this is Just young tree
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-12-28

Already Large Enough
Bi9-nose Ito photographerl-En
large this portrait OF myself, but
leave the nose az 1t ID.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-12-28
REALLY NOT HIS FAULT

ONCE Boy-Please, sir, can have
the afternoon offf Ny grandmother
Is dead.
Employer-Why, this is the third
grandmother that's died since you've
been here.
Boy-Yes, sir; know, sir; but /
/ can't help 1t, grandfather will keep
on marrying again.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-12-28
MORE WORTH WHILE
Admitted the Beauty

Admitted tho Beauty
This public meeting has been
called to support the new movement
for preserving our rural beauties"
Village Spinster tindignantlyl--1
think It's an insult to suggest that
we need preserving STRAY StorIea
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-09-22

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the Stylish yet easv made tbs dosnn +; ,
nn IN SIX sizes l It, Is and 20 with corresponding measure
oo12 3d. 500 ana 5S) and 40 Size 6 requires 49,
Sonch material plus contrasting for tho collar and o
pattern and simple sewing chart of this model tear ont
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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-19
Chief OF Police
Has Vocabulary

PITTSFIELD, Mass, June 10. U.P)
To Police Chief John L. Sullivan
of this city, man is never merely
drunk. Chief Sullivan has vocab-
ulary all his own for use in des-
cribing a defendant under the in
fluence of liquor Recently he
submitted it to the Massachusetts,
safety conference, as follows:
Stupefied, limp, rigid, sagging
knees, swaying or kidney jag, NOV
ing in. circles, running drunk, odors
from breath and body, whispering
hoarse, shouting, delirious, bolster
Gus, hollering, provoking, insulting,
fighting, swaying, kicking, punching,
horseplay, commissions, messy, blood
shot eyes, downcast, watery or glas-
sy eyes, bloated face, hair dishev-
eled.
Chief Sullivan said that a few
of these descriptive words or
phrases, when used in court, usually
led to convictions.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-19
WILL CONTEST
KEITH ESTATE

LOS ANGELES, June 10. U.P)-
The sister of Albert C. Allen, Jr.,
young Oregon farmer who recently
was left almost the entire $1,000
600 estate of his wealthy aunt, Miss
Margaret Keith, filed contest to
the will today.
The sister, Mrs. Mary Allen
Towle, charged that the elderly
Miss Keith was of unsound mind
and under "undue influence at
the time the will was made.
Miss Keith committed suicide in
her luxurious Beverly Hills home
last April %.
Mrs. Towle, who was left $40 in
the will, charged that her aunt S
faculties had been greatly impaired
in the last two years of her life.
The will was made September 25,
1882.
According to Mrs. Towle s COM
plant, Allen and his father, Albert
G. Allen, ST., used "influence, de-
vice and StrategemD to obtain the
bequest.
She said she did not believe Miss
Keith had ever seen young Allen,
but that he and his father wrote
the aged woman that Mrs. Towle
had fallen heir to a considerable
fortune, and employed other STRAIT
egems to eliminate Mrs. Towle from
consideration as legatee. She and
her aunt previously had been very
friendly, Mrs. Towle complained.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-19
CONSPIRACY
SUIT FILED

LOS ANGELES, June 10. W.P)-
Charging violation of the Sherman
antitrust act, w. Burt Barr, in
surance dealer, filed suit for $685.,
900 today against the board of fire
underwriters of the Pacific and In
surance companies affiliated with
the board.
Now a resident of San Diego,
Barr said he formerly had been in
the insurance business in San Di-
ego, Phoenix and Los Angeles. He
said the defendant companies had
conspired to obtain control of the
fire insurance business in the west
ern states and had Cancelled, with
out cause, his authority to solicit
or write fire insurance.
In furtherance of the alleged
conspiracy, he charged, the board
disseminated literature declaring
that no agent not connected with
the board was reliable
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-19
Haas Pleased With
Demand For Cars

Reporting pleasing demand for
Dodge and Plymouth cars, Russell
Haas, recently appointed local deal
Ell for these automobiles, invites
prospective buyers to inspect the
new models of Dodge and Plymouths
now on display at the show rooms,
ISL Main street.
One of the most popular amolg
younger automobile men in the val
ley, Haas has had long experience III
handling several makes of cars and
is particularly enthusiastic over the
line he is now handling.
Featuring the floating power de-
sign of engine, the Dodge and Ply
mouth are recognized by those who
purchase medium priced cars as
being outstanding in this class of
automobile.
1--WE will be glad to take pros
poets for a ride in either the Dodge
or Plymouth and feel certain they
will agree with us that they are
among the finest cars made, regard
less of price," Haas stated. Thou
sands of buyers in recent months
have found in the mthe car that
have found in them the car that
money and they are enthusiastic
boosters for their efficience and eco
nomical operation"
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-19
Former FolLies
Beauty Located

LOS ANGELES, June 10. U.P)-
Helen Lee Worthing, former Follies
showgirl, was found early today by
friends who had been seeking her
since she disappeared from a trans
continental train a few minutes
after leaving for New York last
Thursday night.
Discovered in seclusion, Miss
Worthing said she decided to re-
turn to Los Angeles to straighten
out my differences with her for
mer husband, DR.. Eugene G. Mel
son, local Negro physician. She
said he had placed her aboard the
train so she could visit friends in
New York, but that she slipped off
at Pasadena, spent the night there,
and returned to Los Angeles the
next day.
Miss Worthing, whose marriage
was annulled by Nelson last Janu-
airy, had been receiving psychopath-
ic treatment in sanitoriums in re-
cent months.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-19
ASSERTS RATS
REAL MENACE

SAN FRANCISCO, June 10. U.P)
The greatest wild animal menace
to the ruman race practically is
ignored because humans generally
do not realize the smartness and
danger of rats.
Authority for this statement is
Theodore Pannier, modern 'Pied
Piper'', who has devoted his life
to discriminating the rodents, not
through the use of a bagpipe, but
by means of embalming poisons
developed in his laboratory.
Pannier has plenty of opportun-
ity to study rats, since San Fran
cisco, like nearly all seaport towns,
has an over-abundance of them.
He estimates there is a rat for each
resident of the city, which means
there are nearly 100000 rats in San
Francisco.
Resembling young doctor more
than a rat catcher, Pannier must
diagnose individual rat cases much
as a physician might study intri-
cacies of an illness.
Gratis are SMART he pointed
out. cit is our business to out
smart them. If rat has made his
nest in the moulding near the CELL
ing, he will not touch poisoned
food placed there. He knows food
is kept on the table or floor-not
on the wall or in inaccessible
places"
Pannier uses a poison that en-
balms the rats, thus eliminating
odor.
"But rats get wise to that en-
balming poison, and we have to
change their diet,' he added.
1.-The rat menace always will be
here because people don't seem to
care about them. All we can dc
is keep their numbers at a mini
num-
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-19
SOUTHWESTERN OUTLAWS PUT
JESSE JAMES WORK IN SHADE

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, June 49,.
EUP)-Mpdernized outlawry has
reached n unprecedented high
point in the southwest.
, Expectations of such ndtorius
characters as Jesse James and AL
Jennings were small time and am
ateurish compared with the ma
chine-gun, motorized reign of ter
ror in recent weeks.
The roster of fugitives, many
with blood on their hands and a
price on their heads, today stood as
follows:
Seven Kansas state penitentiary
convicts, including Wilbur Under
hill, convicted murderer, and Her-
vey Bailey, killer and bank bandit.
The phantom bandit" of the
southwest, Charles Arthur pretty
Boy Floyd, rival of Jesse James for
individual notoriety, and at least
one of his lieutenants.
Two or more machine gullners
who raked the union station plaza
here with bullets Saturday, killing
four officers and a convict.
Three bank bandits who sect TO
Ceath a sheriff and state highway
patrolman at Columbia, Mo.
One suspected member of the
gang that kidnapped Miss Mary Nc
Elroy, daughter of the city manager
of Kansas City, Mo-, and collected
$4,000 ransom for her release.
Captures in the cases were:
Lansing prison break, four con-
Victs returned to prison.
McElroy kidnapping, three men and
one woman held.
Union station massacre, none.
Columbia killings, none.
The massacre of Raymond j..
Caffrey, special agent of the United
States bureau of Investigation; Po-
lice Chief Otto Reed of McAlester,
Okla, and Frank Hermanson and
j. w. Grooms, Kansas City detec-
tives, on the union station plaza
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-19

aroused the forces of law to fever
iSh activity. The fifth victim of
the machine gun barrage was Frank
Nash, convict whom the officers
were returning to the federal peni-
tertiary at LeavenWorth. He es-
capped two years ago when Warden
Thomas B. White was kidnapped and
three convicts were killed.
The gunners did their murderous
work in sight of hundreds of early
morning travellers and townspeopie.
Ehey fled in an automobile. So
great was the confusion that Off
GERS were unable TO piece together a
coherent version of the slaughter.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-19
COURT HALTS
HENRY PLEA

LOS ANGELES, June 10. U.Pj-
The probation hearing of Leslie B.
Henry, who has pleaded guilty to
the theft of funds entrusted to him
by Mrs. Charlotte Shelby, mother
of Mary Miles Minier, was abrupt
ly halted soon after it opened today.
Superior Judge Charles s. Bur-
nell, presiding over an unusual ses-
sion of court, stopped the proceed
ing when attorneys began object
ing to questions put to Henry.
Judge Burnell had agreed to con-
duct an unusual procedure, where
Henry was to advance his side of
the story to two sets of interested
parties-the state, from the GRIM
inal aspects, and opposing attor-
neys in civil action pending against
Henry.
The arrangement was stipulated
by a majority of the interested at
torneys, objected to by some.
When the questioning began, at
torneys for Blyth and company,
dealers in securities, by whom Hen
ry had been employed, objected to
question.
Judge Burnell promptly declared
that he had supposed the question
ing would proceed uninterrupted,
that if questions were to be SUBJ
ject to objection and argument
he could not lend his court for the
purpose, because of crowded cal
endar.
Henry recently pleaded guilty tt
| the theft of ar undetermined
amount of more than 100000.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-19
HITLER SEEKS
NEW TREATIES

Copyright, 1898. by United Press
BERLIN, June 10. U.P,-Chan-
cellor Adolf Hitler, eager for for
eign alliances to alleviate the Dip
lomatic isolation of Germany, his
reached a significant agreement"
with General Julius Goemboes,
soldier premier of Hungary, after
long discussion of economic sub
jects, the United Press learned au-
thoritatively today.
Goemboes, in an exclusive inter-
view with the United Press, fore
cast trade agreement among Hun
gary, Germany, Austria and Italy.
Observers thought such a treaty
might lead to closer economic re-
lations among the countries of the
Danube-Germany, Austria, Hun
gary, Bulgaria, Rumania, Serbia,
JuEo-Slavia, and Czechoslovakia.
These countries are laundering in
a morass of trade difficulties.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1933-06-19
TAX DEADLINE NEAR

Clerks in the tax collectors de-
partment of the city hall were busy
most OF the day handling tax pay
ments made by those who are de-
sirous of getting in under the wire
before the zero hour arrives.
All city taxes for the current fis-
cal year become delinquent next
Friday at midnight and a penalty
will be added for those who have
failed to take care of this matter
in time. 1t is expected that the tax
collectors office will be busy
place for the remainder of the
week.