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Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-02-28
Carbon Officers Join insState-
wide Hunt for Notorious Pair

sedan after all, but mor likely
on a magic carpet.
Helena authorities reported re-
ceiving from 20 to rs calls from
persons who felt sure that they
had seen the two fugitives o.
their car. A bootblack there was
ready to swear that he had given
"Pretty Boy" Floyd a shoeshine,
while a travelling salesman start
led walters at a restaurant by his
resemblance to Floyd, but assured
them that they could be at ease,
after telling of being accosted in
Billings because of his likeness to
the Oklahoma badman.
At Butte officers spent a night
searching speakeasies and night
clubs without avail, while at Bill
lings Sheriff E. M. Birely said he
received a report from an author
itative source that the two men
had been in the Yellowstone me-
tropolis. At Missoula a travelling
salesman was reluctant to leave
the city after being questioned by
the local police whose suspicious
were aroused by the Illinois license
plates on his car-while at Lewis
town two suspects, believed to be
Floyd and Barrow, were reported
seen, and were the objects of a
search by Fergus county author
tiles.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-02-28
N. p. ANNOUNCES NEW TRAIN
SCHEDULE FOR THIS AREA

New, improved passenger err
vice through Encouragement of the
schedule of the eastbound Alaskan
No. a, will provide greater con-
venience for passengers in central
and eastern Montana, according to
an announcement of E. E. Nelson,
passenger traffic manager of the
Northern Pacific.
The new schedule becomes eff
fective March a and will provide
fast, continuous service through
Montana, benefiting the territory
principally between Logan and
Glendive and affecting Helena,
Butte, Bozeman, Livingston, Bill
lings, Miles City and Glendive.
''This rearranged schedule, we
believe, will greatly improve III
eastbound service through central
and eastern Montana" Mr.. Nelson
said. "This train will leave Seat
tie at 8:45 a. M, as at present,
and arrive at Logan at 1:45 p. m.
The arrival time at Livingston
will be 3:45 p. M, Miles City at
IL p. m. and Glendive at 1856 a.
m. The schedule between Glen
dive and the twin cities will re-
main as at present"
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-02-28
FORMER RESIDENT AC-
Quilted OF MURDER

George Korbi, also known as
George Makela, formerly Of Red
Lodge, was acquitted by a dis
trict court jury at Butte Monday
on charges of having shot and
killed Tom Rogers, So, Butte min
err, in a birthday shooting at the
mining city last July 6.
The shooting occurred on the
day that Korbi was celebrating his
32nd birthday. Rogers and two
others met Korbi on a Butte street
and an alteration ensued in
which Rogers received a fatal
wound in the head. Korbi then
turned the gun upon himself, in
flicting wounds in the left Shout
der and in the neck. Following the
affray, Korbi stated from a cot in
a Butte hospital, where for some
time he was not expected to re-
cover from his wounds, that he
didn't remember" any details of
the shooting. Both Korbi and
Rogers had been employed in a
Butte mine at the time.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-02-28

Watching for a green or blue
sedan bearing Illinois license
plates and supposedly carrying
"Pretty Boy" Floyd and Clyde
Barrow, two of the nations most
widely-sought desperadoes, proved
a popular but futile pastime for
Montanans during the past week
following reports from Wyoming
that the two badmen were sighted
there and heading for this state.
Sheriff Jack R. McFate here re-
ceived word Wednesday from the
Associated Press that Floyd and
Barrow were seen at Thermopolis,
Wyo., by a woman at a ranch
house where they had stopped for
water and were heading north
ward towards the Montana-Wy-
oming line in a mud-splattered Sc
dan, either blue or green in color,
with a shattered window on the
drivers side of the machine. He
Immediately notified Fromberg
and Bridger and other points
along U. S. highway $40, the
main means of approach from
Wyoming into southeastern Mon
tana, to be on the lookout for the
pair.
Sheriff McFate placed little
credence in reports circulated here
and elsewhere to the effect that
the two outlaws, wanted in sew
eral mid-western states for scores
of crimes ranging from petty
thievery to murder, had been Red
Lodge callers. Likewise, he dis
credited rumors that the two had
been seen at Belfry and that they
were believed to be in a mountain
hideout in this region.
Judging from press reports
coming from widely-separated
points in the state where either
the outlaws or their automobile
were reported 'seen," Floyd and
Barrow were not travelling in q
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-02-28
GUSTAFSON M
BIG HORN COUNTY
AGENT LAST WEEK

Bozeman, Feb. 26.-George w.
Gustafson, who served as emery
ency county agent for Carbon
county in connection with the
wheat adjustment program, was
last week named county extension
agent for Big Horn county, an
nounces j. c. Taylor, director Of
the Montana Extension service.
Arrangements for the new ag-
ent were completed at a joint
meeting of the directors of the
wheat production control associa-
ton and the board of county COM
missioners. The, wheat association
will assume the expense of the
work until June 80 and the coun-
ty thereafter, Taylor says.
Gustafson took over his duties
last Monday and proceeded at once
with the initial steps necessary in
the county's corn-hog program.
There are a sufficient number of
hog producers to have an associa-
ton and it will be formed as
quickly as possible, Taylor says.
Gustafson also will carry the reg
ular extension program.
This makes the third Montana
county in which Gustafson has
served as extension agent. He
was in Jefferson county for a
time and later in Blaine, leaving
the latter county to become the
first president of the Northwest
Turkey Growers association.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-02-28
give new RULING
ON HOG TAX LEVY
Exempt From Tax on Hog
Products UP to
800 Pounds

More inquiries concerning the
processing tax on hogs have been
received from Caron county far
e than from any county in the
state, according to Rose A. Bres-
nahan, assistant collector of in
ternal revenue, who has been in
Red Lodge during the past week
assisting county farmers with the
processing tax procedures.
The original order, issued No
vember %, 1888, by the bureau of
the internal revenue, which stated
that the producer who slaughters
his own hogs and sells or other
wise disposes of any part of the
products is subject to the process
sing tax on the portion sold, has
been changed. Under regulations
just issued by the secretary of ag-
riculture, approved by the presi-
dent, the producer of hogs may
sell or exchange during any mark
citing year not to exceed 300
pounds of products derived from
hogs slaughtered by him without
payment of any processing tax.
The producer in this instance
means the owner of the hog at the
time of narrowing.
If the producer processes hogs
and sells or exchanges products
derived from them in excess Of
300 pounds, but not in excess of
1000 pounds, he shall be entitled
to the exemption on 300 pounds,
but shall pay the processing tax
on the amount sold in excess Of
300 pounds. He is not entitled to
any exemption if he, together with
his family, employees or house
hold, processes hogs produced by
him and sells or exchanges more
than 1000 pounds of the products
derived therefrom during any
marketing year.
Any person who slaughters hogs
and sells all or any part Of them
should confer with the collector Of
internal revenue for his district
who will advise him whether or
not he is subject to a tax, and, if
so, will assist him in preparing
and filing the necessary returns.
Miss Bresnahan recommended that
farmers keep records of their hog
sales to simplify the filing of their
returns.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-02-28
R. |. BOY SCOUTS
RECEIVE AWARDS
Ten Scouts Get Tenderfoot
Awards At Court
Of Honor

Twenty-Five Red Lodge Boy
Scouts and parents attended the
court of honor conducted here at
Washington hall Tuesday night.
George w. Roskie of Billings,
scout executive of the Yellow
stone council, was in charge of the
gathering and awarded tenderfoot
badges to ten scouts of local troop
No. 1. Mr.. Roskie also conferred
the bronze palm on Eagle Scout
Donald Pay during the evening.
The following were awarded
their tenderfoot badges:
Flying Eagle patrol, Donald AL
len, patrol leader-Charles Lut-
trell, Jr., and Donald Albert.
Moose patrol, Larry Tooley, pa
troll leader-Neil Stacey, Jr.,
Crieth Tooley and Merton Hall.
Panther patrol, Raymond Gas
ton, patrol leader-Otto Salo,
James CASTOR and Albert Salo.
Wolf patrol, Harry Field, pa
troll leader-Albert jenkins and
John Lumley.
John Kolstad is scoutmaster of
the troop and H. H. McElvain is
assistant scoutmaster. Refresh
ments were served during the
course of the evening to scouts
and parents in attendance. Mr..
Roskie was accompanied here by
Mrs. Roskie.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-02-28
200 ROCK CREEK WATER USERS
DISPLAY ENTHUSIASM FOR DAM
CONSTRUCTION AT MEET HERE
Gov. F. H. Cooney Heads Water Conservation Board In
Presenting Plans to Landowners for
Forming Corporation

By a rising vote Rock creek
water users showed themselves in
favor of constructing water stor-
age reservoirs along Rock creek
and tributary streams of this
region at the meeting here Satur-
day of the water conservation
board Of the state.
More than 200 water users and
landowners representing the 50,-
900 Carbon county acres that
would benefit from the construc-
ton of storage dams gathered at
the county courthouse here Satur-
day afternoon and heard plans for
the forming of a corporation to
finance the enterprises discussed
by Gov. Frank H. Cooney, State
Engineer j. S. James, R. r. Pur-
cell and others.
Following a luncheon rendered
Governor Cooney and other mem
bers of the board by the business
and professional men of the city,
Saturdays meet got underway
with John G.. Skinner, president
of the organization of water users
formed here sometime ago to act
upon water problems of the coun-
ty, acting as chairman of the
meet. G. J. Dousman, assistant
attorney general, was the first to
address the assembly and out
lined the legal te~chnicalities in
volved in the construction Of such
reservoirs.
He was followed by j. S. James,
state engineer and ex-officio
member of the water board, who
told of surveys already completed
on sites for four dam construc-
tons in this county and discussed
estimates of construction costs of
the projects at the initial expense
of from 100000 to 100000 and
provide storage for approximately
10000 acres of water.
In his address before the as
sembly, Gov. Cooney declared that
he had been interested in Montana
irrigation problems for the past 80
years and emphasized the present
opportunity of Montana to secure
storage dams through a promise
of a loan of $5,OOO,000 for the
construction of such dams within
this state and made to him by the
public works administration. He
told of his efforts to aid unem-
ployed coal miners in this region,
emphasized that many of them
would probably never return to
their former employment because
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-02-28
MRS. N DALVIEL
AT BEAR
CREEK HOME MONDAY

Mrs. Janet Mcdonald Dalviel,
IS, old-time resident of Bearereek,
died at the family home at Bear
creek early Monday. Death oc-
CURED at $40 a. m.
Mrs. Dalviel was a native of
Scotland and was born December
IL, 1856. She had been a resident
of Bearcreek for the past twenty
three years. Funeral services will
be held at Bearcreek this WED
nesday) afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Mrs. Dalviel is survived by her
husband, James; two daughters,
Miss Mary Scott and Mrs. Alec
Young, both of Bearcreek; a sis
ter, Mrs. Agnes Steele of Pitts
burg, Kansas, and a brother, Rob-
ert Mcdonald of Red Lodge.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-02-28
SAM SAAM FOUND
GUILTY OF ARSON
Given One Year in Prison;
Brother Faces Trial
At Boulder

After a deliberation of nearly
ten hours, a Carbon county dis
trict court jury returned a verdict
of guilty against Sam Saari, 80,
former Butte and Bearcreek min
er who was charged with the
burning of insured property with
intent to defraud, here late We'd
nesday night.
At the same time the jury
recommended that the defendant
be given one year in the state
prison. Judge Robert c. Stong,
before whom the case was tried,
pronounced sentence Immediately,
and early Thursday Saari was
taken to Deer Lodge by Sheriff
Jack McFate.
Saari's elder brother, John, 35,
whose trial on similar charges
was dismissed "Wednesday by the
court, will face a Jefferson coun-
ty jury on charges Of having set
fire to a house at Clancy. He was
taken to Boulder Sunday by a
deputy sheriff from that place.
The trial here which continued
for over three days in the district
court climaxed what authorities
termed a clever plot to extract
large sums of money from insur-
ance companies of the state. The
method used by the brothers, it
was alleged, was to purchase
cheap, frame houses and take out
insurance, claiming that expensive
repairs and improvements were to
be done on the property. Follow
ing the destruction of the house
by fire, the STARTS entered claims
to the insurance company that
along with the house, they had al
SO lost costly furni ahings, jewel
cry and musical instruments.
1t was for a fire occurring I'M
der these circumstances at Bear
creek that Sam Saari was found
guilty Wednesday, and similar
circumstances surround the blaze
at Clancy for which John Saari
will be tried. The pair we're also
accused of having fired a house
with the same intent at Columbus.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-02-28
A CLAIMS JOS.
YERMAN, BEARCREEK
MINER, FRIDAY A. M.

Joseph Yerman, Sc, well known
miner at Bearcreek, died at the
family home at Bearcreek at 100
a. m. Friday.
Mr.. Yerman was born in Jugo-
slavia, April IL, 1878. He had
been a resident of Bearcreek for
the past % years. For the past
ten years, he was employed with
the Montana Coal and Iron COM
pany there.
Funeral services were held Sun
day afternoon at 2 o'clock at the
Bearcreek hall. Rites were in
charge of the Bearcreek local of
the United Mine Workers of
America.
Mrs. Yerman and two children
survive.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-02-28
NATIONAL PARK YEAR
B~ROADCASTS WILL BE
INITIATED

Glacier Park, February &c.
Word has been received by E. T..
Scoyen, superintendent of Glacier
National park that the secretary
of the interior, Harold l.. Ickes,
will continue his campaign to
make 1884 a national park year
by initiation of b~roadcasts owe
the blue network Of the National
Broadcasting company on national
park subjects. These will begin
on March 3 at 500 p. m. noun
tain standard time and continue
at the same time on each Satur-
day up to and including April %.
Music for the program will be
furnished by the U. S. Marine
band.
The secretary will personally
open the series on March 8, speak
ing on the subject, "1934-A Ma
tional Park Year.. He will be
followed on March 10 by Mr.. Arno
B. Cammerer, director of national
parks.
On March 81, Mrs. Franklin d.
Roosevelt will take part in the
program and later Mr.. Horace M.
Albright, former director of the
national park service, and also Mr..
Oscar Chapman, assistant secre-
tary of the interior. Other speak
ers will be assistant directors of
the service and the beauties of the
far western parks will be de-
scribed by Col. John R. White,
superintendent of Sequoia Nation
al park.
1t is the opinion of Superin-
tendent Scoyen that the project
for a national park year should
receive wide support especially in
the state of Montana. The Treas
ure state has as much if not more
to gain from stimulation of travel
to the parks than any other sec
ton Of the country as two Of the
major parks-Glacier and Yellow
stone-have lands within its
boundaries.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-02-28

A total of 1886 voters are reg
istered for town elections to be
held in five communities of the
county on April 7, according to
figures at the office of County
Clerk and Recorder G. E. Thomp-
son. Registration closed Febru-
airy Is.
At Red Lodge 1902 residents
are eligible to poll their votes in
the city election to be held here
this spring. In the first ward COG
have registered, in the second
ward 800, and in the third ward
SGT.
Red Lodge voters will go to the
polls to elect a mayor, police
judge, city treasurer and an alder
man in each of the three wards.
Terms of Mayor E. w. Allen, Po-
lice Judge E. B. P%rovinse, City
Treasurer Joe Bailey and Alder
men Harry Mathews in the first
ward, Ray Houtonen in the sec
ond ward and w. j. Barrett in the
third ward will expire. Five new
trustees for school district No. l
must also be elected according to
a recent ruling of County Attor-
ney E. P. Conwell and which was
upheld by the attorney general.
Candidates for offices have until
ten days within the election date
to declare their intentions of seek
ing office.
Registrations for the Bearcreek
town election number 227 eligible
voters. Of these 112 are registered
in the first ward, So in the second
and SO in the third. AT Joliet 209
are registered, 81 being in the
first word and 148 in the second
Bridger registrations number
318, with 1879 registered in the
first ward and 179 in the second
ward. Fromberg registrations tot
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-02-28
RED LODGE BEATS BEARCREEK
FOR DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIP
AT LAUREL SATURDAY NIGHT
Hoopsters Are Runnersup of Meet After suf-
fering 27-19 Defeat From Locals
In Final Fray

the third session with Bearcreek
trailing 20-12. Continuing their
rally into the final frame, Bear
creek opened with a floor counter
from Tastovorsnik, a free toss
from K~astelitz and another from
the court by Barovich which was
the Bearcat's ace forwards only
contribution of the evening, being
hampered by a strained leg liga-
ment throughout. Brown followed
up with a floor shot for Red
Lodge, while a floor counter from
Naglich proved the end of Bear
creeks scoring for the evening.
Kangas made a free shot which,
with a floor counter each from
Brown and Niemi wound up the
contest for the locals.
The lineups:
Carbon-Brown (9) and Kan
gas (7), forwards; Zupan (2), cen
ter; Niemi (7) and Doran ~,
guards. Observation-Disclosures ~,
Kastelitz (1) and S%igurnick, for
wards; Naglich (8), center;
Young az, Tastovorsnik (4), P
Kastelitz and Price, guards.
Results of games in the Laurel
tournament were as follows:
Wednesday Night
Reed Point, 81; Joliet, IS.
Belfry, 50; Fromberg, II.
Park City, 81; Roberts, II.
Columbus, 26; Bridger, SO.
Thursday Morning
Joliet, %; Fromberg, II.
Columbus, So; Roberts, 81.
Thursday Afternoon
Laurel, IS; Belfry, 80.
Edgar, %; Park City, 81.
Thursday Night
Bearcreek, AZ; Reed Point, Is.
Carbon, So; Bridger, IA.
Friday Morning
Reed Point, 80; Belfry, 18.
Park City, "; brldger, 20.
Friday Afternoon
Columbus, 3S; Joliet, 20.
Park City, %; Reed Point, 10.
Friday Night
Bearcreek, 38; Laurel, q.
Carbon, AZ; Edgar, rs.
Saturday Morning
Columbus, "a; Park City, %.
Laurel, IS; Edgar, %.
Saturday Night
Laurel, 43; Columbus, II.
Carbon, q; Bearcreek, 19.
Championship
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-02-28

Carbon county high school bas-
ketballers proved with ease their
superiority over eleven other high
school teams in the "B" tourna-
ment of district six when they
carried off the championship of
the district with a 27-19 win over
their most formidable rival for
the honor, Bearcreek high, at
Laurel Saturday night.
The result won Coach A. NJ.
Hartwig's cagers the right to par
ticipate in the class B regional
tournaments to be held at Billings
next week, where they will face
champions of other southern Mon
tana basketball districts.
In the championship contest at
Laurel the Carbon hoopsters had
little trouble in registering their
win on the Bearcats who dis
played little of their usual form.
The locals jumped into an early
lead and maintained it throughout.
The Bearcreek squad made a mis-
cradle showing in the first half,
but snapped out of it somewhat in
the final periods only to find that
they we're too late to overtake the
Carbonites.
Kangas registered first for the
evening with a free toss on a per-
sonal by Tastovorsnik who retail
lated with one from the court to
make the only Bearcreek marker
for the period. Zupan, Niemi and
Brown registered to give the To-
Gals a 9-2 margin at the end of the
period. In the second Naglich,
Cat center, placed one from the
floor while Niemi followed with
a free try for Red Lodge. Kangas
hoped through a floor shot for
the locals while Young raised the
Bearcreek ante with a similar bid.
Doran contributed from the floor
to make it 1916 in Carbon's favor
at the intermission.
Going in to the third chapter,
Bearcreek marshalled it's forces
for a comeback. Naglich dropped
in a free try on a personal from
while his team mate,
Young garnered a floor shot.
Kangas and Brown with one each
from the court and Niemi with
free throws registered on a
personal by Barovich followed in
succession. A free toss and floor
counter from Naglich wound up
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-02-28

of the decreasing demand for the
product. A system of storage res
ervoirs, he said, would open a new
life for the coal miner, providing
him with a self-sustaining tract of
land and insuring against the
danger of drought. The governor
was emphatic in his warning that
this opportunity to have such
dams should not be passed and
that all haste must be used in
submitted proposed projects to the
board or else the money will go to
other communities who are more
alert in getting their needs be-
fore the board.
R. R. Purcell, secretary-treas-
urer of the board, told water users
of the need for forming a corpor-
alton to finance the dams. Stock
shares would not only be sold to
water users but to business men
and others who cared to purchase
them, he said. No action would be
taken by the board for the con-
struction of the dams until the re-
CURED number of water users had
registered their approval of the
projects. He reiterated Gov. Coon
ey's warning that no time should
be lost in getting the project be-
fore the board and that this OPP
p%ortunity should not be allowed
to slip by. He declared that, if APP
proved by the water users, that
construction of the Rock creek
water reservoirs would be the
first in the state to get underway.
Others who addressed the water
meet here Saturday were /. d.
O'Donnell of Billings, d. P. Fab
rick of Chouteau, R. H. Fifield of
Billings and Mr.. Skinner. Opin-
ions of water user were appealed
for at the meet and several in the
audience expressed their views of
the undertaking before the board.
A rising vote to test the feelings
at the gathering towards the pro-
posed projects was taken and the
majority rose from their seats in
favor of going ahead with the I'M
dertaking. The vote was prac-
tically unanimous as only three
persons in the courtroom rose on
motion for a negative vote.
Mr.. Fifield, who is an assistant
to State Engineer j. S. James, ar
rived here Tuesday and is now
preparing plans and specifications
for the water projects and gath
ering data on Rock creek water
rights.
Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-02-28
SUNDAY IS COOLEST
DAY. WITH IL BELOW

That grand old man of ice and
snow, Old King Winter, who has
been conspicuous by his absence
this season, sneaked into this reg
ion during the past week to take
the limelight for most Of the sew
en-day period.
Out of his bag of tricks, he
pulled this winters coolest day
along with a five-inch blanket of
snow.
This, according to |. A. Draper,
volunteer weather observer, who
reported that the mercury touched
IL below at 8 p. m. Sunday night
and continued at that point until
7 a. m. Monday. 1t was the low
est point yet recorded by the OBJ
servers thermometer for this
winter. Five inches of snow was
recorded, he reported, for a pre-
c~ipitation mark Of .33.