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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-31
Department OF
Commerce Anxious
To Aid Citizens
Urges These Who Have Difficult Prob.
lens to Write to Government
Bureau.

What can we do to assist you and the
many people of your district in solving
some of the problems that confront
them from time to time?
In the Bureau of Foreign and Domes-
tic Commerce the u. S. Department of
Commerce has set up "a district and 54
cooperative offices that cover the entire
country. The services of these various
offices are subject to the call Of every
citizen at all times, and should be taken
fullest advantage of by him, as they
continually are by the smallest to the
largest commercial concerns of the
country.
These district and cooperative offices
are yours and they furnish information
and practically all government publica-
tons, ranging from home and furniture
construction to large or small retail
store problems; from the exporting of a
bale of feathers to full cargo Of wheat
or of lumber.
The territory of the Seattle District
Office embraces all of the states of
Montana and Wyoming, the six north
ern counties of Idaho and all of Wash
ington except few Of the southern
tier of counties.
This notice is particularly addressed
to you who may have problems that we
may assist you in solving, and it is
hoped that you may take full advant-
age of these services. A letter of in
quiry to the Seattle District Office will
bring to you an immediate response.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-31
Nothing New on City Hall.

There is nothing new regarding
Libby's city hall project except that D.
O. Mount, local manager Of the ma
tional unemployment office, has re-
ceived notice from Washington, through
Helena, that the city hall project has
been duly approved, that Is men will be
required for three months, that work
is to start within 45 days from date of
approval and to be finished within
three months.
Mayor Switzer says that some delay
is being caused by a technical legal
point raised by government attorneys.
The matter is being carried to the state
supreme court for decision in an ex-
actly similar case from another Mon
tana county. 3Finaj settlement Of the
matter will apparently await the deci-
sion Of the supreme court.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-31
Study New
Explanation
Game SCarcitY
Supply of Wild Life Runs in
10 Year Cycles, Thinks
SaVantS.
BELIEVE TULAREMIA
MAY BE CAUSE

Maybe here is an explanation of the
thing often noticed by sportnnen that
some years there is an apparent super
abundance of game and then follow
few years of great scarcity of wild life.
| Deputy Game Warden Darlington is in
clined to think there may be something
! to the explanation given below The H.
| 5. biological survey is working on the
| problem and a recent Associated Press
dispatch had this to say about the mat
ter:
WASHINGTON, May 26-The mys-
terry of the famous 10-year cycle of
abundance and scarcity of wild game,
long a puzzle to hunters, is believed to
have been solved by biological survey
scientists.
They believe there is good reason to
suspect that the periodical increase and
decrease of forest animals is due to
tularemia, disease already known to
attack rabbits, but which government
experts now believe is far more wide
spread than suspected among many
types of game. Tularemia also attacks
human beings, who may become in
fected through handling diseased ami
mails or eating them when insufficientIy
cooked
Larger Animals Hit.
Although the larger flesh-eating ami
mails which prey on smaller game have
high resistance to tularemia, they are
indirectly affected by it because the
I,ca.rn ,{r
during years when it is prevalent, it
is suggested.
In former years many theories have
been advanced for explaining the peri
odical scarcity of game followed later
by sudden great abundance Some even
suggested that it might be related to
the 11-year cycle of increasing and de-
creasing numbers of sun spots.
Hudson hay Records.
The cycle can be traced back for 200
years in the records of the Hudson Bay
company, which has traded for furs in
the Canadian wilds since the Ameri-
can revolution. II is believed that the
amount of game killed by hunters each
year is in direct proportion to the num-
Der of animals in the woods. The COM
pany's records show that every 10 years
the amount Of furs received has swung
through regular cycle from maximum
to minimum.
The biological survey is studying the
10-year game cycle and its possible
causes partly with view to regulating
game laws in accord with the cycle
Most laws limiting the number of ami
mails or birds a hunter may take are
based on the assumption that game is
equally abundant year after year. But
it is pointed out that If the same num-
Der of animals are killed in year Of
scarcity as in year of plenty, the
species may be in DANCED of extinction
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-31
Music Festival and
II. Eli Commencement

Owing to the rain and the failure oil
lights the music festival could not be
held Tuesday evening as planned The
music for this concert will be presented
in connection with the Junior High
commencement Thursday evening, Ito
mighty at o'clock If the weather is
favorable this will be held on the out
door stage. The public is invited to this
program.
The program will be as follows.
Senior Orchestra
Strausiana, Strauss Seredy
May Pole Dance, Directed by Blanche
Fousek
Invocation-Rev r. " Crater
Morton High School March-Maddy
Minuet, Don Juan-Mozart
Poet and Peasant, Overture-T ocabin
Vocal
Perfect Day-Carrie Jacobs Bond :
Mixed Chorus
Under Life's Banner-Wagner--
Mixed Chorus
The Cossacks- Stuart VanNorman-
Boys Glee Club
Sleepy Hollow Tune Richard Kountz
Girls Glee Club
who is Sylvia" Shakespeare, Schu-
bert-Avery 80. Seventh Grade Girls
Junior Orchestra
Grand Opera Selection--Maddy
Speed Our RepubGc-Keller
Eighth Grade Graduates take places
Address ..........- William Herbert
Presentation of Diplomas and Awards
%. H. Nordstrom, Principal Of Junior
High School
Band
Courage-March
First in Action-March
Nearer My God to Thee
Freedom-Grand March
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-31
Memorial Day Exercises.

Memorial Day was observed in fit
ting manner with program in the
morning in the Libby cemetery under
the auspices of the American Legion,
and with a large number in attendance.
The customary program was carried
out, with the address of the day deliv-
cred by Attorney B. F. Maiden, who
spoke eloquently in memory of the de-
parted dead and of the duties confront
ing patriotic citizens today. The graves
of the soldier dead were decorated by
relatives and soldier comrades
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-31
Mercury Climbs Close
To 100 Mark, Drops

Extremely hot weather for this time
of the year is being experienced by
this district. A hot wave struck Libby
last Thursday when the government
thermometer at the forest service of
flee registered IS, On Friday, the 25th,
it was 81, on Saturday 50, Sunday 80,
Monday 96, Tuesday 80, and Wednes-
day So. A shower Tuesday evening re-
suited in welcome drop in tempera-
ture
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-31
Rock Falls, Smashes Foot.

Dick Allen is walking on crutches
since Monday when he was the victim
of an accident on the Orino highway
work west of Libby. Allen was knock
ing down loose rock after blast, when
a rock "about as large as tub" as he
said, fell onto his left foot, dropping
some eight or 10 feet Allen says his
foot was caught on an inclined wall
and slipped along with the rock on top
Of it. An X-ray examination at the hos
pital shows that no bones were broken.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-31
Comment
WORTHWHILE AND
OTHERWISE, ON MAT
TIERS IMPORTANT and
UNIMPORTANT

News from Washington says, Forget
about silver" That means there is no
need to fear undue initiation of the cur
rency from the new silver policy The
Pittman bill provides for purchase of
enough silver to place our currency on
a metallic base, at the ratio of rs per
cent gold to Is per cent silver. But this
purchase of the white metal is permis-
sive as to time and the President can
take from now until kingdom come to
buy it if he wishes.
And it is said this is the way silver
is being bought In order to keep away
from any increase in the size of the
metallic base, gold is taken from the u
S. vaults and sold to a foreign buyer.
Ut is highly unpatriotic, illegal and i'm
moral for an American to buy or hold
gold.) The foreign buyer pays Uncle
Sam in francs, let us say. Uncle Sam
then sells this credit in francs for
American dollars payable in New York
He then uses these dollars to buy silver
in New York The silver is then added
to the 750 carloads which Uncle Sam
already has and buried deep in the
treasury, safe from the profane gaze of
commerce and finance.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-31
Will Hold Annual Meeting.

Spokane, Wash-The annual meeting
of the SpokaneIdaho Copper company
will be held in the company's offices in
the Peyton building in Spokane, June S.
Jay P. Graves is president of the
company, and Jay P. Graves. second,
secretary. Both are of Spokane.
Considerable stock of this company
is held in Libby, the company being
owner of the Midas mine south of the
city.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-31
Libby Commercial Club
To Hold Banquet Friday

The Libby Commercial club will give
a banquet in the parlors of the Presby-
terrain church on Friday evening, June
l. The banquet will be served promptly
at els o'clock in order that the serving
and program may be concluded in time
to permit those present to attend COM
mencement exercises at the high school.
DR.. ]. M Hamilton, dean of men, Mon
tana State College, Bozeman, will be
present as guest of honor and will
address the meeting.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-31
River at Highest Point.

The Kootenai river is at the highest
point now that it has been this year.
According to E. M. Boyes, who keeps
the river readings, it stood at 1888 feet
this morning and has been rising the
past few days, undoubtedly due to the
hot weather.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-31
Entertains at Garden Party.

Mrs. L. c. WeIch was hostess to the
members of the Entire Nous bridge club
at pleasant garden party at her home
last Thursday afternoon, the tables be-
ing set under the towering pine trees
at the beautiful WEIGH home west of
the city. At the bridge games, Mrs. j.
K. Dwinelle won the high score honors
and Mrs. w. N. Curtis the consolation.
Dainty refreshments were served.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-31
MEETING FOR FOURTH
OF JULY CELEBRATION

A meeting will be held at the city
hall Monday evening at s o'clock TO
discuss holding Fourth of July cele-
bration in Libby this year All inter-
ested in staging celebration are re-
quested to attend
COMMITTEE.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-31

been worn out, burnt-out, out-moded,
doddering old misfit
But this story doesn't run true to
form-not in that groove anyway. At
IS this great editor resigned his posi-
ton and went out again to the job of
reporting. That was strange thing to
do, wasn't it? The job he resigned was
managing editor of the New York
Times. Now note this.
The other day this man Of So was
awarded the Pulitzer Journalism prize
for the best example of foreign cor
respondenee in 1881
Thus does Frederick T. Birchall con-
found the youngsters.
William Allen White, editor The EN-
poria Gazette: We are facing in Ameri-
ca new, strange era. East Of the Rhine
humanity pretty generally has decided
that liberty is not SO important as Sc
curity; west Of the Rhine we still think
that liberty is rather more important
than security and that security is very
uncertain without liberty
Walter Lippmann. Where all think
alike, no one thinks very much
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-31

Every husband wonders what his
wife does with all the money he brings
home, and every wife wonders why her
husband isn't able to bring home more
money.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-31

In this connection here is another
gem of wisdom to ponder 1t was Vol
taire who said: Il deny utterly the truth
of what you say, but will defend with
my life your right to say it,"
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-31

news from the natlOnal Capltal says
the President has not revived his faith
In monetary magic. Inslstent silverites,
so the story goes, have poked gun in
the executive ribs and commanded
Hands up'' With much eloquence and
infinite patience the President talked
them out of their prize and gave them
the least that would send them on their
way. In spite of the silver purchase bill,
there is no occasion for alarm.
The conservatives are reluctant to
admit it, but Franklin Delano Roosevelt
is at present their ablest defender.
Ponder this gem by Stanley Walker,
city editor of the New York Herald
Tribune Says Walker, Il believe that
almost every publisher would rather be
right than wrong, would rather be clean
than dirty, would rather be sincere than
taking, and would rather be decent than
foul"
Walter Lippmann, well-known jour-
nalist of repute, in discussing the arna-
ment business, refers to the oft-heard
rumor that manufacturerso ornaments
in Europe and elsewhere secretly work
together to engender international
suspicious that are dangerous to peace
These suspicious lead to armament
races and more profits for the manu-
facturers, even at the cost of human
lives and untold misery Lippman COR
rectly says that one of the worst aspects
of the race in ornaments is the secrecy
with which it works He remarks that
ANY movement which brings the oper-
alton of this industry to the surface
where it is visible is surely good
thing. - II the people knew more
about the race they would be more
concerned to stop it. They might be less
disposed to drift, as they are now drift
ing, to disaster Greater publicity as to
ornaments is as likely way as any
to arouse the public opinion Of man
kind to take steps to bring governments
together in agreements to prevent war"
Here is topic for discussion of ire
mendous Importance to the world. Yet
freedom Of speech and freedom Of the
press is being strangled throughout the
world. What chance will there be to
discuss such vital matters when free
dom of the press is thing of the past
and if, perchance, the government in
power happens to be opposed to such
discussion? Watch the American press
from day to day for expressions by GER
tain prominent citizens favoring cur
failing free expression Of opinion in
America.
The Washington times., 1934-11-01
6 Union Soldiers
Will Be Reburied

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. Nov.
1-Found by CCC workers, the
bodies of six Union soldiers who
fell in the civil war battles of
Charlottesville and the Wilder
ness, will be reburied in graves in
in the National Cemetery here on
Amistice Day, November II.
The bodies, identified as soldiers
Of the armies of Grant and
Hooker, were buried in shallow,
unmarked battlefield graves.
The Washington times., 1934-11-01
A FISHING COW I

HOLDENVILLE, Okla. GN.S).
Farmer Bob Childer had a Jersey
COW which liked to stand for hours
in a fish pond, so he strung four
lines from her neck. And when
the COW came home a fish was
hooked on each line.
The Washington times., 1934-11-01
RED CROSS HEAD

Louis E. DeMoll has been chosen
to head the drive for funds to
be staged by the Alexandria Red
Cross Chapter, November II to
Thanksgiving. Roger Sullivan is
chairman of the chapter.
The Washington times., 1934-11-01
Boy, 8, Festival
Victim in Chicago

CHICAGO, Nov. J. Q.N.S0.-
Charles Sternberger, 8 years old,
was shot and killed and William
Platt, IA years old, was wounded
in Halloween disorders that
marked an otherwise quiet OBJ
servance, police reported today.
The Washington times., 1934-11-01
CARNERA POTATO

FOXBORO, Mass. IN.S0-J.
Montgomery White, Of the Wind
mill farm, dug a potato from his
garden measuring IA inches around
the ends and across the center,
11A inches, and weighing 11a
pounds.
The Washington times., 1934-11-01
MARRIAGE LICENSES

Marriage licenses have been
issued at Upper Marlboro to Alvin
H. Bomgardner, 80, and Mary E.
%, washington: Snowden
w. Daniel, SO, and Frances Hill,
SO, both of New York city.
The Washington times., 1934-11-01
MARYLAND u. Girls Start Rifle Practice

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND girls
seeking a place on the institutions rifle
team turn out for the first outdoor
practice. The university's rifle team in
previous years has won high honors in
college matches throughout the United
States. Photo by International.
The Washington times., 1934-11-01

in Walter Reed Hospital today
with injuries sustained late yeSter-
day when struck by an automo-
bile near Fifteenth and Buchanan
Streets Northwest.
The Washington times., 1934-11-01
CAR HITS MAN, rs

James F. Duhamel, 76, of the
4100 block Eighteenth st. N. w.,
is in an undetermined condition
The Washington times., 1934-11-01
FASC|SN BRINGS.
ORDER
OUT Of CHAOS

Editors note: Because 1t has
made an orderly country out OF
tDhdt tDds once the most chaotic
nation, and because it has done
GWdy Dith political riots and in
dustrial Uiolence, FGSciSm is the
greatest menace to Democracy in
the Dorld today, H. r. Knicker-
booker. brilliant foreign cor
respondent of International Ne1DS
SerUice, tDriteS in the tenth article
of his neD series, democracy
Versus Dictatorship"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-02

tension, trouble and despair in the
countries which have not.
So 1 do not think the cause of
sound money compels us to be loyal
to an international standard which
was set up badly between 1925 and
1928 and collapsed three years later.
Finally MIR. Mills comes forward
with a proposal TO modify the Re-
publican practices of recent years
and reduce the tariff. My guess is
that here MI. Mills will soon find
himself closer to the adm1niStra-
ton than to his own party. For in
spite of The economic nationalism
talked about in Washington last
spring, it is almost certain that this
administration will be forced, and
perhaps gladly, into a policy of
tariff reductions to help agriculture
and the efficient industries.
1 do not believe that these COM
ments, which deal with the most
challenging parts of the speech
really do justice to Mr.. Mills. They
wv AAOU oOol' AOA eAdilple, WIFI his
more detailed discussion of various
matters, like the NRA, all of which
seems to me eminently fair. There
is not space IN these columns for
that. The reader must remember
that the tendency of all debate is
to distort by emphasizing the points
of disagreement at the expense of
the points of agreement, and he
must make his own discounts.
Copyright. 1884
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-02
On Commission Row

Feb. q
Fruits
III CFEs Ran sJ@SS Cod early blacks rs
$3.50: Avacados. ria i6-l6s. crate $50
rswberries-Florida. 121ac per pint.
Bansnas-Per pound. SC.
Apples Wealthy. Wolf River Grimes
Golden. Jonathan. Florida. S1.35@2 a bu.:
Grspefruit-S3 5OM375
box.
Vegetables
Cabbage - Eastern Danish, 50-lb. bag
81 so; new Texas. 50-lb crate. So
Onions-Inoiana white. 50-lb bag s140
Indiana yellow. 50-lb. bag. $3.50.
Beans-Round stringless. hamper. $3.50.
., Beets-Bulk per bu.. Sis; Texas. new.
Peas-2s-lb hampers. 81.
Carrots California. 1925 a crate: per
doz;. soc: Michigan. doz.. Goo: bulk per
" caulifi S1'1S: n1-l2c,. crate
81. so.
>. CELERY, So. Michigan Mammoth, dozen,
bunch pei. crate. SIPS; California. S2.50@
275 a crate.
--Hothouse. s1.75 per dozen.
LJeat s best C4-Ss, .crate s325
Radishes-Hothouse button. CSC down.
spinach-New Texas ST per bu.
Turnips-Per bu.. 85c.
tomatoes Florida. 3O-lb. bag. So
Potatoes-Northern round whites. 100-lb.
bag. s2.35: r. R Ohios. 100-lb. bag. 81 IS;
i5-5 bag ss2 Idaho RTsSets 1912 9ob bag
Sweet Potatoes-Nancv Halls. per bu.
81 GOAL 65.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-02
PLAN SPEED TICKERS
FOR n. Y. EXCHANGE
Express Machines Would
Augment Old Service.
By EHitcd Press

By IHtcd Press
NEW YORK, Feb. Am "ex-
press" ticker service on New York
Stock Exchange quotations designed
to enable traders to keep abreast
of heavy trading activity is being
considered by the New York Quo
tation Company.
If approved by subscribers, the
new tickers will augment rather
than replace the present ticker
service. Regular tickers would carry
full market quotations at all times.
while the express" machines will
carry full quotations in normal pc
RODS, but in periods of heavy &C
tivity would omit from the tape less
active stocks.
The extent to which the num-
Der of quoted stocks would be
eliminated would vary from time
to time with the activity of the
market, thus furnishing spot prices
at all times on as many reperesen-
tative stocks as possible. Brokerage
firms will be able to adapt their
existing equipment for displaying
quotations to the new service, the
company said
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-02
BY ELMER C.. WALLER
limited Press Financial Editor

NEW YORK, Feb. 2.-Activity
continued on the Stock Exchange
today but price changes we're mar
row and irregular. Utilities made
further gains and communications
were active.
Gold mining issues advanced fol-
lowing sharp rise in the price of
gold in London. At the London
opening for sterling the gold price
was equivalent to $34.84 or within
Is cents of the new United States
parity of $35 an ounce. Sterling
later declined in London and opened
in New York at $4.9312, off Az cents
from the previous close.
Among the better gains were Nc
Intyre Porcupine at 40i2, up l on
900 shares; Standard Gas 1874. up
p on 1900 shares; National Power
and Light 1874, up p on 1900
shares; Public Service 417s up y;
Western Union 623s, ups, and
Southern California Edison 201a, up
3 on 1900 shares.
Oils we're in fairly good demand,
featured by 4,OOO SHARES or smell
Union at 1l9s, up u. Motor shares
eased off as did electrical equip
ments. Steels we're lower with
United States steel at 56%
off q. Montgomery Ward continued
in demand at 303s, up Is on 1900
shares.
Prices f1rmed after the opening.
Oils bettered the initial gains; utili-
ties also enhanced their advance in
active turnover. Steel dipped
further. Curtiss- Wright was heavily
traded after opening 8,400 shares at
5 unchanged.
Bonds moved higher in active
turnover aided by the action of the
New York Federal Reserve bank in
lowering its rediscount rate to u per
cent from 2 per cent. Commodities
uyare cfnodv
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-02-02
Indianapolis Cash Grain

The bids for car lots Of grain at the
call of the Indianapolis Board of Trade.
I: o. b.. shipping point. basis Az New
York rate were: Wheat-Strong; No.
red. sea 9Oc; No. red, ss@s9c; No. 4
hard. 88m89c. Corn-Steady; No. 3 white.
43644c No 4 white 42643c; No. 3 yellow.
42d 43c No. yellow. 41Q42c; No. } mixed.
41@42c No. mixed. 40d41c. oats
Steady; No. 3 white 34G35c; No. 3 white.
800 34c- Hay-Steady. IF. o. b. country
points taking 23l2c or less rate to Gin
cnnati or Lousville). Emothy-No.
s7.5O@8; No. 2 timothy. s7d75O.
Inspections
Whest-No 2 red, 2 cars: No. hard. s
cars; No, 2 hard. cars; No mixed.
car. Total, 10 cars. Corn-No. white,
car: No. white. 5 cars No. white. 1
car; No. 2 yellow S cars; No. yellow. 9
cars; No. yellow. cars; No. 4 mixed. 1
car. Total, 26 cars. Oats-No. white. l
car; No. white. 9 cars: No. white. 5
cars; No. white. 1 car; Sample white. L
car. Total. II cars. Rye-No. l. l car.
Total, car. Barley-Sample, l car. Total.
! car.