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It might be interesting for a hand
expert to compare the sigma
ture of the late John Dillinger with
two names appearing on the register at
the American Legion health resort In
Phillips: county. Such a comparison
might confirm the conviction of W. w"
Jaynes, caretaker, that the gangster
paid two visits to the plunge at wide
ly separated intervals.
Sept. %, 1888, three persons appeared
at the plunge late at night. They drove
up in a black sedan. One mar went
to the office and asked if there vas a
telephone. Upon learning there we're
none he asked for two cabins, register
ing as Joe Humphreys and for a Mrs.
Erickson and John Barlow, all of Man
kato, MINI. The following morning
they spent some time studying road
maps and drove back to the main
highway, a distance of four miles.
The second visit was March q, 1884
The same car or nj very similar drove
up to the plunge again after midnight
Again the spokesman asked if there was
a telephone and then for two cabins
Turning to Mrs. Jaynes, he asked If she
recalled having seen him before. She
said she recognized him and the wo-
man. Nevertheless, the man registered
as A. M. Drake of Minneapolis. Mrs
Jaynes compared the signature with
that of the previous September and
found them entirely different.
This time there were three men with
heavy suitcases, which they carried
with them from the office to the cabins
and to the plunge while they were bath
ing. The woman remarked to Mr.
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handle. He engaged two other outfits
to help him out, with 60 wagons owned
by Matthew Brothers of Red Oak, Ia.
They now had 80 wagons, double teams
six oxen to the wagon, with 80 extras
LOO oxen in all.
Alex Toponce pulled out ahead of
them, with a 40-wagon train. He had
500 oxen. He borrowed two mountain
howitzers as a safeguard against IN
dams. Most of his bullwhackers were
Confederate soldiers, galvanized Yam
kees," as they were called, armed with
Henry repeating rifles that held 10
shots.
The general rule was that men were
entitled to full pay for 10 days delay
on the road, but for longer interruptions
their pay stopped, though they were
still rationed at the employers expense.
These two outfits parallelled each other
about five miles apart, keeping in touch
with each other as a protection against
Indians. Provisions grew scarce, and
they were II days without flour, and
for a few days were without salt or
sugar. They had plenty Of game, and
when buffaloes were killed each man
could help himself to. the part he lik-
ed best. There was usually enough
variety in tastes to use up the entire
animal.
They met few persons except Indians.
At the Poplar River agency he saw
Thomas Campbell for the first time.
Their game hunter, Dutch John, had
an Arikara wife and eight-year-old
daughter. He spoke several Indian
tono11es Once q partv of 20 Crow In
dams camped with them. One had a
silver medal, much worn, on which one
could still make out the profile of Pres
ident Monroe and the words Council
Bluffs, 1919" He said this was the
name Of the place where n of his
forebearers had been given the medal
These Crows had paper money with
them, which to them was only token
money. One Of them exchanged a $50
! for a cup of sugar. They had huskie
dogs pulling travels loaded with moe
casins, tied on with rawhide rope. They
,, said they were on horse stealing tx
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Fort Benton h@ee IN its pamg days, from q rare photograph oer halt a century ago.

been invitable. Marcelle, an old Mis-
souri, river trapper, told him how the
trappers would trade with the Indians
would stand an old flintlock gun
upright, and Indians would pile beaver
hides to the height of the gun in ex-
change for it. In the impeachment
trial of Secretary. of War Belknap proof
was offered that an Indian agent had
paid SIS 5000 for an appointment car
rying a salary of 81 900 a year.
Crawford knew Calamity Jane as a
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over night; day and night the hurdy-
gurdy houses tangled their concertinas
and clicked their roulette wheels. Men
without money, with no Jobs, sat around
the saloon walls and slept.
Crawford's first job was turning a
hand windlass for his board. All he got
out of his hard work was his coarse
food, and he was always hungry. Wild
meat, flour, beans, rice and dried ap-
pies was the bill of fare. Potatoes were
unknown. In April he hauled dirt from
Helena Gulch to Prickly Pear creek,
four miles, washing out the dirt and
making So a load, net.
In those days it cost one dollar to
record a mining claim. He had a claim
hear where Whitehall now stands that
he neglected to file on, which yielded
thousands of dollars after he had lost
it,
Freight rates we're So per hundred to
Fort Benton, $11 to Virginia City.
Sometimes they had to go clear to Fort
Union after the freight they had ex-
pected to load at Fort Benton. Once. to
relieve a flour shortage, John Grant
sent to Fort Benton for ten sacks OF
flour. The freighters used to fry hot
cakes in bears grease, and no recipe
in the Washington cook book was half
SO valuable to a prospector as a knSw-
ledge of how to make sourdough Zap
jacks.
Sometimes the wandering prospectors
we're terribly hard up for food. A man
stopped at the Sun River crossing and
asked a settler what the chance wa for
getting something to eat. The settler
answered, Fin" and handed him a
fishrod and line. A hungry man with
a fishpole was luckier in those Gays
than he might be now.
In May, 1865, Mr.. Crawford Joined
Jerry Mann's freight outfit as night
herder, Mann ran 80 wagons to Fort
Benton, six yoke of oxen to the wagon,
with full change Of teams and extras;
about 400 oxen In all. They followed
the trail north from Helena to the west
side of the Missouri river, over Pr1ckly
Pear creek and Prickly Pear mountains
to Sun river, and on to For BenIon.
Usually they went out empty, coming
in loaded with mining machinery. On
Crawford's first trip with Mann, the
boats had not yet come up the river,
but they loaded with stuff left at Fort
Benton from the fall before. When
they reached Fort Benton they heard OF
Iincoln's assassination. Many OF the
buildings were draped in black, but by
no means all of them, for there were
plenty of southern sympathizers among
early Montana settlers.
At Helena, on their return, n bit
of news was that some n had made
a success of growing barley in the Bit
ter Root valley, and had set up a small
flour mill to grind it. It made a poor
grade of flour, but was better than
nothing.
On their next freighting trip to Fort
| Benton, the miners Clipped In $1,000
as a prize for the first boat up the river
| AS soon as the boats began coming, the
roads to Helena and Virginia City were
lined with teams. Mann'S outfit STOP
ped on the road to rest their team q
| day or so, and lost two cargoes t
freighters that passed them. But Jerry
| Mann rode horseback to Helena, tele.
| graphed firms at Virginia City thai
| they had freighted at Fort Benton, anc
-o& ~oro copfro ctS than he COllC
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Jaynes that a swim in the plunge was
as good as a nights sleep.
Mr.. Jaynes says they acted so sus-
piciously he watched them more care
fully. They never left the suitcases in
the cabin and appeared to be nervous
about them. Mr.. Jaynes thought they
might be federal officers looking for in
formation az they asked for the register
and took it out to the car, where they
carefully checked late visitors to the
plunge. While they were looking over
the register, a large car, cruised slowly
by on the road leading north from the
plunge. AS it passed, the spokesman
waved Is if indicating they were ABOUT
to leave.
All but one man appeared to be in
good spirits. The woman and the man,
who bore a striking resemblance to
Dillinger, laughed and talked al. the
time they ate breakfast.
After the party loaded the suitcases
in the car and left, Mrs. Jaynes COM
pared the two signatures, finding nj
similarity. 1t "a not until MIR. Jaynes
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ARMS BROKEN IN FALL

Earl Burch Of Missoula escaped death
recently in a 40-foot headlong plunge
from the partly constructed student
union building at the State university.
Burch, a steel worker, slipped while
on a beam two stories from the gzound,
and hurtled to the earth below. At tho
hospital where he was rushed By fell
low workers it was found both arms
were broken.
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The popular drug in Egypt is hash.
ish a hemp product.
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Overcoming his aversion to the aOhite mans contrupticms,
Chief White Bull, 85-year-od Siour Indian and mepheW
of Sitting Bull, trades his herd of horses for an Guto'no-
bile. The chief, a Veterum of the Custer massacre, IS
photographed beside the machine at Cherry Greek, S. [.
Evening star., 1934-08-30
DOYLE NAMED DEAN
OF SENIOR COLLEGE
George Washington Junior OFF,
cial to Head Upper Class
41Z staff.

Dean Henry Grattan Doyle Of the
Junior College of George Washington
University has been appointed dean Of
Columbian College, the university S
senior college of letters and sciences.
He will assume Office when the uni
versity opens its Hath academic year
September 10.
Dean Doyle has been a member Of
the university staff since 1915, serving
as professor of romance languages and
dean Of the junior college. In october
he will begin a four-year term as
managing editor of the Modern Lam
guage Journal, published by the Ma
tional Federation Of Modern Foreign
Language Teachers.
For the past eight years Dean Doyle
has been on the editorial staff Of
Current History, published by the New
York Times. This Fall the Harvard
University Press will publish three
bibliographies of Dean Doyle's on
Latin American subjects.
Evening star., 1934-08-30
SPEED OF MOTOR BOATS
HERE MAY BE LIMITED
Harbor Regulations Committee
Recommends Cut to g Miles
Above Key Bridge.

The speed of motor boats operating
on Potomac River above Key Bridge
will be limited to 6 miles per hour,
If a recommendation from the Har-
Dor Regulations Committee is adopted
by the Commissioners.
Roland Brennan, chairman of the
committee, said today this recon-
mendation soon will be placed before
the Commissioners. The purpose OF
the regulation would be to protect
canoeistS.
Under an act of Congress at the
past session the Commissioners were
empowered to draft regulations for
the use of the waters in the District
Regulations are being drafted by a
committee including Brennan, C. r
Whyte, District bridge engineer; Act
ing Sergt. c. c. Humphries of the
harbor precinct, Frank t. Gartside
Of the National Capital Park Office
Thomas S. Settle, representing the
Park and Planning Commission, and
e A. Sch:nitt of the Office of the
district engineer of the War De-
Spartment. r
Evening star., 1934-08-30
Youthful ElOpers
On Way to Florida
In Receiuing Home
New Engldnders, 1 6,
Found Asleep in Car
in AnacOStid

Two 16-year-old New Englanders,
who sought to finance their elopement
by selling the would-be bridegroom 8
dog for $40. and set out for Florida
to get married, landed up today-of
all places-in the Receiving Home for
Children.
A passing patrolman found the
young wayfarers asleep in an automc-
bile parked in the rear of the l400
block of Ridge road, in Anacostia.
The boy and girl said they had been
sleeping in the car since arriving here
Tuesday.
They gave their names of Cyril j.
Allen of Beacon Hill road, Newport,
R. l., and Elizabeth Ann Coughlin of
Appeechie Hill Camp, Hyannis, Mass.
The pair said they were driven TO
Washington via Troy, N. Y, and
Philadelphia by Frank Connorn, 35,
whom they met in Newport. They said
Connorn assured them he would take
them to Florida, where they would
be married.
Connorn left the pair last night,
saying he would return soon. When
he failed to reappear today, police
broadcast a lookout for him and took
his car to the precinct station. He
was described as heavy set and wear
ing a thick beard.
The prospective bride and BRIDE
groom were sent to the receiving home
while police notified the youths fam
lily by wire.
The girl said she was an orphan
and the only member of her family
was a brother who operates a night
club at Hyannis.
She said she had run off once be-
fore, hitch-hiking to Chicago to see
the Worlds Fair.
She was returning to Massachu-
sets, she said, when she met young
Allen in Newport. It was case of
love at first sight, and the two de-
cided to go South and try to get a
start in the world.
They said Connorn had promised
to get Allen job in Florida.
Evening star., 1934-08-30
City Heads Plan Hearings
as Departments Send
in Bids.
PUBLIC WILL RECEIVE
FULL INFORMATION
Details of Proposed Estimates
Will Be Heard Within Few
Weeks.

The 1885 budget requests filed with
District Auditor Daniel j. Donovan
will be made public within a few
days in preparation for public hear
ingS during September, in keeping
With the Commissioners plan to take
the public into their confidence on the
next budget.
Maj. Donovan, Just returned from
vacation, today started a study of
the appropriations requests received
from the 40-odd District department
heads, and in the course of a few
days will have ready for public an
nouncement details of the proposed
estimates.
Except for a brief period in the
past, during the existence of the Citi-
zens' Advisory Council, the public has
not had full information in advance
on even a tentative District budget.
This system is being changed at the
order of Commissioners Melvin G.
HaZen and George Z. Allen.
Final Budget Secret.
The city heads may not reveal the
budget they adopt and forward to the
Budget Bureau. That document is
made public only after it has been
placed in the hands of Congress by
the President.
The details of the approximations
sought by the department heads, how
ever, will be published, in a group at
a time, during the next two weeks.
The tentative date for the starting
OF the public hearings has been set
Tor September 10. This date NAV be
changed, as public hearings on the
proposals for rerouting of the lines
q the Capital Transit Co. now are
scheduled to start on the same day.
Normally the District is required to
file its proposed budget with the
Budget Bureau not later than Sep
tember Is. This year the District
has received word informally the time
may be extended to about October is.
Copies to Citizens.
Copies of the department heads
estimates are to be given to all the
citizens associations Of the District.
the Federation of Citizens Associa-
tions and various business organiza-
tions having an interest in budget
making.
Commissioner Hazen hopes the Dis
trict may be able to include In the
1885 estimates an item for the first
unit of the Municipal Center, esti-
mated to cost $4,000, 900. At the same
time there is considerable question of
whether this can be done, In view of
the many other needs which have
piled up during the last several years,
without boosting the taxation.
The purpose of the public hearings
is to give the Commissioners the ben
eft OF public sentiment on the budget
requests of the department heads.
Evening star., 1934-08-30
ABANDONED INFANT
FOUND BY PASSERBY
Second Baby to Be Deserted Since
Sunday Discovered in
Parked Car.

The second infant abandoned here
since Sunday was found by a passer-
by last midnight, crying Justify and
trying to kick out of a cardboard box
which had been deposited on the
back seat of sedan parked near
Thomas Circle on Vermont avenue.
The passer-by, James A. Harbaugh.
an employe of the Potomac Electric
Power Co., was on his way to his
home at 1921 Vermont avenue when
he heard walls from the sedan. He
investigated and then drove to No. 2
precinct, returning with a policeman
who took the waif to Children's Hos
pital.
The girl baby was about 6 weeks
old. Wrapped in blanket, she was
lying beside bottle which was
emptied of milk. There were no
marks of Identification.
Nurses at the hospital dubbed the
child alberta Thomas"-the Thomas
part of it for Thomas Circle. The
infant now occupies a crib next tc
another founding, Harry Trinity, y
month old, whose mother abandoned
him early Sunday on the steps OF
the Trinity College
The nurses named Harry Trinity for
the college where he was found and
the policeman who brought him to the
hospital.
Evening star., 1934-08-30
ROPER SEEKS AID
IN SAFETY DRIVE
Secretary Says Motor Fa-
taIities May Reach 36,0 900
This Year.

With the present trend indicating
automobile fatalities may reach total
of $4,000 this year, with more than
100000 injured, the necessity for in
creasing vigilance against accidents is
obvious, Secretary of Commerce Dan
lei C. Roper points out in statement
issued today, commencing the adop-
ton of September as safety month
throughout the country.
Governors of A States and the
District Commissioners have desig
mated the month for safety campaigns
in their domains, Secretary Roper said,
in an effort to reduce the toll of acci-
dents, large part of which could be
avoided.
Letter From President.
'The definite personal interest of
the President is indicated in letter
which he wrote to me on August a."
the Secretary Writes. In it he said:
have before me at the mo-
ment communications from a large
variety of organizations and groups
calling attention to the increasing
gravity Of the Observation-Disclosures,
perhaps, in part to heavier motor
vehicle traffic as a result of improved
economic conditions. The interest
of these groups is in itself splendid
sign and indicates at least that Seri-
Gus thought is being given to the
problem. But what we need most is
organized and continuing action.
"I note that the Governors of many
States are issuing proclamations des-
ignating September as Safety month.
This should prove helpful if only to
the extent that it serves as a focal
point for more mobilization. It is
also timely since we are just entering
the period of the year which ex-
perience has shown takes the heaviest
toll. However, we must steadfastly
keep before us that we need more
than a Safety month. We must make
every year Safety year, every month
Safety month, and every day a Safety
day. We must attack the problem
continuously and energetically in much
the same way as We have conducted
our attack on the depression =.
Pleased by Farley.
IT know you had this condition in
mind when you called the fourth ses-
sion of the national conference ION
street and highway safety, = last
May. was greatly impressed and
pleased with the constructive steps
taken, particularly as regards the per-
fection of the Uniform Motor Vehicle
Code. am more than ever convinced
that the adoption of uniform, tested
laws and their strict and impartial en-
forcement must be one of our primary
objectives.
ct am expressing these thoughts so
that you may be assured of my full
sympathy and cooperation in what
ever steps may seem feasible to you
to give a greater degree of direction
and force to a co-ordinated national
effort looking to the prevention of
largely needless fatalities, injuries and
property damage, which we can i'll
afford at any time, and least Of all
now"
Evening star., 1934-08-30
CHURCH AND AUTO
ROBBED OF ROSARIES
Rev. Stanislaus Czyz and Sales
man Reported Losses Total (
ing 1858.

A thief to whom apparently nothing
is sacred was operating in Washing
ton yesterday, entering church store
room to steal 10 rosaries and robbing
religious goods salesman's car of
1888 worth of rosaries while it Was
parked near a church.
William j. Gelhooley of Providence,
r. l., reported his machine had been
broken into and a large number of
roSaries removed while he left it at
North Capitol and H streets, near St.
Aloysius Church. Police later re-
covered in an alley in the rear of the
first block of Fenton place a quantity
of goods they believed belong to Gel
hooley.
Rev. Stanislaus Czyz, assistant pas
tor of the Immaculate Conception
Church, reported door had been re-
moved from its hinges in the build
ing and 10 roSaries inscribed with gold
letters stolen. He valued them at $40.
Evening star., 1934-08-30
600 RARE BOOKS OF CASSIDY
COLLECTION TO BE AUCTIONED

Six hundred rare books from COL
lection which cemented the friendship
of the late John A. I. Cassedy, Wash
inston millionaire, and Jahu Dewitt
Miller, lecturer, author and bibliophile,
will be sold at auction in New York
soon under an authorization made
yesterday by Justice Joseph W. Cox
in District Supreme Court.
The volumes were gathered by Mr.
Miller on his travels, and include
such rarities as a first edition Of
Greys Elegy, a first of Fitzgerald's
translation of the "Rubaiyat," auto
graphed works of James Russell Low
ell, a presentation copy of Dixie"
bearing notations in the composers
handwriting, and presentation vol
ume of Stephen Cranes Maggie" the
most difficult of all that authors
works to obtain in the first printing.
Founder of the National Park Sem
] mary at Forest Glen, Md, Mr.. Cu-
Evening star., 1934-08-30

sedy and his friend Jahu Miller shared
a passion for scarce and beautiful
books for many years. Finally in
1901, the seminary director invited his
friend to come and live with him at
Forest Glen. where I shall build a
library for your books and living
quarters for yourself if you will come"
When Miller died in 1911, the fa-
nous collection of 10000 volumes
came into Cassedy's possession. Five
years later when he sold the seminary,
he did not include the library in the
sale. In ensuing years he amassed a
considerable fortune dealing in stock
and real estate, but lost most Of it
later in the failure of a brokerage
firm. Last April he died at the age
of 78, unwilling during his lifetime to
relinquish the precious volumes.
Now the estate is being liquidated,
and the cream of the library, consist
ing of approximately 600 items, is to
be sold at auction
Evening star., 1934-08-30
TEACHER ASKS $4,000
FOR ALLEGED SLANDER

Alleging she was slandered, Mrs.
Lucille G. Heilman, S206 Wisconsin
avenue, District public school teach
er, filed suit for $4,000 against Ms.
Helena Warfield, 1708 Allison street,
in District Supreme Court today.
Through Attorneys WEIGH, Daily g.
WEIGH, Mrs. Heilman told the court
the alleged SANDER occurred In a
Municipal Court corridor after she
had testified In a suit there against
Mrs. Warfleld's husband. She said
the defendant remarked: Imagine
a school teacher, who teaches children
honesty, TO lie like that on the wit
ness stand"