Evening star., 1933-07-16
TT 1V7NC pr ANS CLEAR WAY STATE, CITY CONSIKUC1
UNRULY GROUPS
FROM FORESTS
STIR MONTANA
Near-RiOts Caused
as Youths Scare
WeSternerS.
BY C. M. THAYER.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special DlSpdLCH 10 ut otdI.
HELENA. Mont. July 15.-Fugitive
items in the press of Montana have
indicated that all is not well with some
of the thousands of young boys, most
of them from the East, who comprise
the Civilian Conservation Corps in q
score or more camps in Montana.
Several near-riots are reported and in
certain sections, the people in small
towns are said to have appealed to
authorities for protection against the
CORPS some of whom, on occasion, have
shown, it is charged, disposition to
come into town and clean out" dance
balls and similar resorts.
It is charged also that many Of these
boys, especially those from the large
Eastern cities, 60 armed, especially With
knives. Going armed long passed out
of fashion in this section of the Wild
West and these fearsome visitors from
the Wild East appear, in instances, to
inspire actual terror.
Praised by Martin Smith.
Whatever the truth of the allegations
that these boys sometimes exhibit an
inclination to initiate the gangsters OF
the cities they left behind, at least one
representative has inspected sample
camp and found 1t good. Martin F.
Smith, of the third Washington district,
was in Camp Allen, near Hamilton, a
few days ago and expressed himself
upon emerging from the wilderness, as
highly pleased with conditions there.
If Camp Allen is fair sample OF
Western camps, Mr.. Smith said, the
corps must be doing much for those
fortunate young men OF the Nation
who have been enrolled.
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Falls. chairman of the State Highway
Commission, Montana will have let
| within the month, contracts for th'
trunk. feeder and municipal highways
construction made possible by alloca
| ton of Federal funds. The State is tt
have about $1,000, 900 from this source
The entire State program has been ap
proved by the State Commission, bu
cannot be barred until approved by tn
Federal Bureau of Public Roads, a
Portland. Greg. and the Bureau o
Public Works, at Washington.
The first letting, which is to com
about August l, by present plans. !
for contracts involving about one mil
lion dollars. District Engineer W. Il
Lynch of the bureau at Portland, ha
been comforting with Mr.: Warden an
other officials in Helena for some TINT
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other day he is very confident tina
the Fort Peck reservoir project will b
; one of those to be approved by tn
Government. as a public work.
The project. designed to store foo
: waters of the Missouri River, is bein
backed, Gov Cooney said, by State
through which the Missouri flows, q
well as by Montana.
: The dam would back up water into
lake l25 miles long and as wide as
miles. in Northern Montana The tots
, cost is estimated at S65 .o0O, 900 and tt
project would give work to 1900 me
, for three years or more Some prt
liminary survey work has been dor
and the project, it is said, is in ever
way feasible
DR.. T. J. B. Stanley of Butte, gay
the Democrats Of the State a thri
when he announced that Montana ha
exceeded her quota in the campaign
raise fund to pay off the debts of II
Democratic National Committee. D
Stanley. who is Montana chairman {
the movement, in charge for the Ns
, tional Committee. said this State hs
! turned in s5,262.85. Its quota was bl
$4,000.