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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-05-18
HOPPER POISONING
SOON IN FULL SWING
Pests Reported in Every Part of
County, in a Greater or
Lesser Degree.

Poisoning of grasshoppers will
be general over the county by next
week. Grasshoppers are reported
in practically every part of the
county to a more or less degree.
Poisoning in the Lodge Grass
community has begun in earnest
by all farmers. Local committees
are cooperating and supervising
the distribution and spreading Of
poison, on infested areas, on
abandoned or neglected land.
Men listed for federal relief are
being used in mixing and distrib-
uting the poison bait and in areas
where needed, will be organized in
squads to spread poison along
county roadsides, bitches and neg
lectd areas
The policy of the government in
giving this poison free of cost to
the farmers is the protection of
the crops first. According to DR..
Strand, state leader, it is out of
the question to cover all the
range and prairie of the state. He
is of the opinion that the great
est infestation will be in aban-
doned fields and around the
edges of grain fields. These are
the places that farmers should
watch. In another week or ten
days all the grasshopers will prob
ably be Matched. 1t behooves every
farmer to watch his own fields
and the surrounding community
for grasshopper i~nfestations and
not delay poisoning too long.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-05-18
WINNE RS IN FLAG ESSAY
CONTEST ANNOUNCED

Honorable mention: Evelyn John,
seventh grade; Mary Lou
Foltz, Wyola seventh grade.
One hundred twenty essays, Of
over 200 written, we're passed on
by the judges.
The winners in the high school
contest were Bessie Smith, Hardin,
first; Kenneth Ingram, Crow
A Agency, second, and Charles
Sweeney, Hardin, third. Flora
Olive Shreve won honorable men,
ton.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-05-18

Wednesday morning the faculty
Of the Hardin high school enter
tanned the senior class at a break
last on the Fort Custer bench. The
party left town at six in the
morning and b~reak1asted at seven.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-05-18
TO GRADUATE e
HIGH SCHOOL CLASS

Swindle, Maxine Taylor, Joe Turn
er, Louise Weaver, Noble Wend-
land, and Robert Wolcott.
Frank Nelson is the valedictor-
ian of his class and Emma Beck
is the salutatorian.
Rev. George Sloan, pastor Of
the First Congregational church of
Billings, will deliver the COM
mencement address.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-05-18

E. c. Woodley, prominent Wy
ola stockman-farmer, looked after
business matters in Hardin, Tues
day, and while here called at the
Tribune-Herald Office and contrib
uted to the treasury for a years
subscription to this family Jour-
nal.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-05-18

Mr.. and Mrs. John w. Rowland
spent Sunday at Dayton, Wyo., at
the home Of Mrs. Rowland's niece,
Mrs. ]. G. Jeffries.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-05-18

The Hardin Auto & Supply COM
pany has recently added to its
equipment a Marquette Heavy
Duty wrecking crane, mounted on
a Ford chassis.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1934-05-18

J. w. Erwin, driller Of the oil
well at Lodge Grass, was a Hardin
visitor, Thursday.
Evening star., 1934-03-24

dividual expression of his own par
ticular creative sense, never mechan-
ical repetition.
AS a result each lamp is little
work of art One display is a mar
velous deep red which has been given
a high glaze and which is set of
artistically by soft ecru chiffon
shade of unusual shape. Others are
in pale yellow, sea green or hold blue.
with dull mat or glaze. But each
stands apart as an individual creation,
a lamp of great distinction.
There are also being made some
well-styled models in the modern
manner. using silver or bronze metals
One particularly clever floor lamp
doubles as a reflector and bridge
lamp. When the solid metal shade
is tilted upward a powerful bulb is
automatically turned on, throwing its
light on the ceiling and furnishing
illumination for the entire room. Tilt
this shade downward and the large
light goes out while a smaller one
comes on, this being just the proper
lamp for the bridge table.
Evening star., 1934-03-24

Continued on Second Page.)
Evening star., 1934-03-24
HOME FINANCING
PROGRAM URGED
Head of Building and Loan
League Makes Plea Be.
fore House Group.

The House Banking and Currency
Committee was told this week by
Morton Bodfsh, executive vice presi-
dent of the United States Building
and Loan League, that "a sound and
economical home financing program
on the part of the Federal Govern
ment can accomplish just as much
toward making home construction and
home modernization and repairs pos
sible as can any multi-billion dollar
lending project"
Every step which the Government
takes from now on in its home flnanc-
ing program has to be considered in
the light of it's effect upon the pres
ent and future flow of savings of
ordinary people into the home mort
gage f1eld,' said Mr.. Bodfish. UNLESS
the Government wants to take on a
$40 ,00O, 600 600 job in home financing
it must consider the interests of the
people whose $4,000, 100000 of saw
ings up to now has made possible the
existing home mortgage structure.
Loaned $500, ,o00, goo.
Last year building and loan aSso-
Citations loaned $500, 100000. which
was a greater sum than was loaned on
homes by all other urban lenders put
together. It was also about $4,000
100000 less than the lending the as
sociations would have done with a
normal inflow of savings and normal
collections on older loans.
THE problem which the Govern
ment has to meet now is substantially
how it can restore the normal flow OF
funds into the savings institutions
which have done the home financing
in the past. That is the most eco
nomical way that credit can be un-
loosed in the home field and it will
work out best in the long rum"
Speaking of the occurrences of the
last three months, Mr.. Bodfish in
dicated that the attractive features
Continued on Second Page.)
Evening star., 1934-03-24
ARCHITECTS URGED
TO AID COMMUNITY
Boston Man Says Profess
sion Must Take New
Leadership.
In collective action for community

In collective action for community
upbuilding architects are finding a
new field for usefulness. it is de-
clared by H. Daland Chandler of the
Boston Chapter of the American In
stitute Of Architects.
Asserting that 'the present chal-
lenges our attack" Mr.. Chandler ad-
vises the profession Ito emerge from
inherent isolated individualism. CO.
operate internally, and take the stand
of authority and leadership that fel-
low citizens look to us to take"
There certainly is work for us to
do in civic affairs. says Mr.. Chandler.
THE problem of the city is a fasci-
mating one. not only in slum clearance,
subject that is engaging the atten-
ton Of many of our members today
but in all its departments which
would make for better living condi-
tions-zoning, health and sanitation,
and taxation.
'As Ralph T. Walker, president of
the New York Chapter. has pointed
out, residents seem to be leaving the
cities as if propelled by centrifugal
force, which results in the further
burdening of those who remain be-
hind to carry the expenses Of the
city.
There is much to be done in an
Evening star., 1934-03-24

intelligent study for open spaces for
further control of vehicular traffic, for
quieter, cleaner -aired residential sec
tions that would go far TO reclaim
the amenities of city life. We may
not all expect to design large new
buildings, but there is a great amount
of renovation, remodeling and some
replacement.
The situation which now confrontS
the architect certainly gives pause for
consideration. and much considera-
tion it undoubtedly has received. The
active days before 1929 have disap-
peared and whether We can look for
ward to their recurrence with any
degree of certainty is hardly worth
while contemplating.
THE present challenges our attack.
Nor is the horizon so dark as it may
seem. for there is being brought more
vividIy before our eyes field of use
fulness that the profession as a
whole has never entered adequately:
that field of collective responsibility
toward our particular community.
Evening star., 1934-03-24
Cay, Light Colors Is Vogue
For Spring Lamp Shades
White Is Still Headli,rer
hg ifAs! Gn-iAs
in Decorating, With
Blue Popular. Il
BY CLAIRE WINSLOW.

~ RIGHTEN the corner where
W. you are is the new Spring
lamp chorus; and try to
~ find one OF the 1894 models
Evening star., 1934-03-24
LONG-TERM CREDIT
LAW ADVOCATED.
Real Estate Officers Seek
Provision in U. S. Financ-
ing Structure.
BY VINCENT TUTCHING.

Administration leaders are being
urged by the National Association of
Real Estate Boards to include in the
Federal financing structure at this
time provision for stable. long-term
credit for real estate and construction.
The national realtors organization
takes the position that the develop
ment of q dependable credit supply
for these fields is the cruX of the
whole problem of long-term credit.
The suggestion comes at time
when legislation is being drafted
aiming at flve-year credits to indus
try. Conferences have been held by
the realtors in the Capital recently
with White House officials and with
subcommittee of President Roose-
velt's National Emergency Council.
Discussions, revolving about the
proposed Federal Mortgage Bank and
the allied legislation proposed for
strengthening long term mortgage
credit, have been participated in by
Hugh Potter. Houston Tex. president
of the association; Herbert U. Nelson,
executive secretary, and Walter S.
Schmidt, Cincinnati. chairman of its
Committee on Real Estate Finance.
Profits Expected.
The proposed Central Mortgage Dis
count Bank, the association says,
would put bottom to the mortgage
market. Such discount system. it
contends. should be not only self-suS-
tanning, but also profit making.
Unless the huge section of national
credit represented by the S45, 900, ,OOO,-
600 of real estate mortgages is sta
bilized by unified Federal discount
system, there is little hope for early
recovery of activity in a large part of
the industrial field. in the building
trades and in the many other callings
that are dependent on construction,
the association declares.
Federal action on legislation for
national long-term mortgage struc-
ture and on the proposed code for
real estate brokers will be first in i'm
portance at the Minneapolis conven-
ton of the association the week of
June 25.
Code Awaits Approval.
The real estate code, to which the
National Association has now signed
its assent, must now be approved by
the Labor Board of the N. R. A., the
Consumers Advisory Board, the legal
division and must be finally approved
by the administrator before it is
ready to be placed before President
Roosevelt for his action. If the code
is signed by the President, the Mime
apolis meeting will necessarily have
as its central topic the new order for
real estate under code, the meaning
OF the code in relation to the realtors
work and in relation to the work of
Continued on Second Page.)
Evening star., 1934-03-24

Individually we may be pleasant
and agreeable crowd among our
selves. but largely we have been do
ing our own job without much
thought of its relation to the environ
ment in which We live This condi-
ton may have been well enough in
busy times, but with leisure thrust
upon us We have found ourselves
turning toward an extension of our
usefulness in the new social order
that is growing up: We are realizing
how much can be accomplished by
internal cooperation in the profess
sion, and that by emerging from our
inherent isolated individualism we
can assert ourselves and take the
stand of authority and leadership
that our fellow citizens look to us to
take"
Evening star., 1934-03-24

@ RIGHTEN the corner where
W. you are" is the new Spring
I lamp chorus; and try to
IL find one OF the 1894 models
that doesn't do Just that
thing! Gay. light colors, clever, So
called novelty materials used on the
shades, artistically beautiful bases or
shafts. and unusual structural fea-
lures make these fixtures highly dec
orative, not to say diverting.
White is still headliner in the
fashion news. Hundreds of snowy
Grecian urns or classic columns topped
by equally pure silk or parchment
shades show beyond doubt that its
popularity is not waning. Blue has
become one of the Smartest shades
for draperies, wall coverings and up
holstery, so it is natural to find
that many of the loveliest Spring
lamps have powder blue or turquoise
bases and white or pale yellow shades
touched with the same color.
The handsomest shades are the SIM
plest. Devoid of frilly ruffes, hand
made roses, gold braid and other gim-
cracks, they depend for their beauty
on interesting and unusual fabrics, on
color and the perfection of their
workmanship. Some eschew textiles
altogether and achieve a severe and
patrician distinction with lustrous sill
yer or cleaning white cellophane-
covered paper, or. metallic tissues OF
varied hues, or opaque, milky white
parchment.
One company, known for its fine
materials and excellent designs, is
showing new line of lamps in which
famous pottery vases form the bases.
Each vase is handmade and is the
work of an artist, the motif, whether
floral, landscape or in purely con-
ventional lines being always an in
Evening star., 1934-03-24
HOME BUILDING
VALUE INCREASES
Rises 1875 Per Cent in Feb
ruary, Although Lumber
Decreases.

Residential building in the United
States increased 12s per cent in value
during February, as compared with
January, according to Federal Gov
eminent statistics on national con-
struction for last month, Just re-
leased. The number of residential
buildings erected during the period
decreased 3.5 per cent, however.
The number of all buildings for
which permits were issued last month
dropped 93 per cent, the figures show.
while there was a decrease of 2 per
cent in the estimated cost of all
building.
The figures are based on reports
to the Bureau of Labor Statistics from
Continued on Second Page)
Evening star., 1934-03-25
An interview with New
Xork:s Captain Coy who has
been tripping up swindIers
and crooks for rs years

which, eventually. the sucker was tricked into
furnishing.
That collateral wrinkle was worked clev-
erly on a man who had made a small fortune
supplying wealthy people in the fashionable
Long Island suburbs. This mob mixed it in
with gambling in international exchange,
which has become popular lately.
They approached him with an offer for
his business showing big money. They took
him to lunch, then stopped at the brokers
Office and took flyer in international ex-
change. They made some money. The sucker
wanted some, too.
Presently his winnings had pyramided up
to $4,000. The manager insisted on seeing
$50, 900 cash before he would pay of. The
sucker produced it, and it, too, disappeared"
ONE of the meanest swindles of modern
~ times was the sale Of 100000 worth
of stock in the National Diversified Corpora
ton" to 5000 Catholics who thought they were
helping a campaign for clean movies that was
indorsed by AL Smith, John j. Raskob and
other prominent men of their faith Part of
this campaign to be a super-f1lrn, MARY,
the Virgin" In which sister Of Pope Plus
was to play Mary.
Devout poor people gave their life savings,
or the few dollars they had saved out Of ruin,
to this rotten fraud that capitalized ON the
best human impulses. It was small conSola-
ton to them when the mob Of nine. includ-
Evening star., 1934-03-25

When they're together in Sacramento, John
stumbles over a pocketbook. He opens it. It's
full of money and business papers. Must belong
to some big shot-whose name and address, OF
course are marked all over it. John and Gala
han return the purse to a big office and busy
man. He's grateful, and gives them tip on
horse, or lets them into q stock deal.
"At first they win, then they lose. Noble John
had done time in Calgary and was wanted in
Vancouver His accomplice-the big shot
was collared in Canyon City, Colo
&C TOCK deals are the favorites nowadays"
- Capt. Coy explains Human beings are
supposed to learn by experience but they seem
to crave some of the hair of the dog that
bit 'em.
"The con men have copied the operations of
various banks and other enterprises that have
been described in the newspapers lately. with
such deadly results that any one who owns Sc
curities these days had better keep quiet about
it, unless they want an oily bird to come around
with clever scheme for separating 'em.
Especially if they're stocks usually good, but
temporarily not paying much. The sw1ndler
offers to take 'em of your hands In exchange
for some really live stuff. He shows you the
market quotations-but the securities he ac-
tually delivers to you bear name similar to
the one quoted, but not the same.
"This swindler's favorite victims are old
ladies easily impressed by such a nice young
man. But can you blame the old ladies?
retired police lieutenant from the Pacific Coast
bought lot Of phony stock from nice young
man who used to go with him to communion
and confession.
"This nice young man is named Stewart
Donnelly. He is now in a French prison, and
when he walks out the door expect to be wait
ing for him. The extradition papers are all
drawn. His confederate, Kent Marshall, an old
man Of highly respectable appearance, ar
rested as he sat in his limousine in West End
avenue. He died in prison.
"Con men trade on religion, patriotism or
anything else. We had one case that went
from transatlantic liner to the Savoy Hotel,
in London, and back to New York, where
a clever mob got $4,000 from the president of
a manufacturing company.
HE fell for swindler who sang out OF the
same hymn book with him in church. This
mob worked it up, first by having one member
pick up the tsucker'-on the ship going across
and learn enough about him SO that the
second member could pose as friend of
friends of his. This Is favorite con mans
trick
"Then the second member introduced a fake
broker with a fake Office, rigged up for one
day. Then they showed the sucker $4,000
they claimed to have made for him in stock
deals, but the manager insisted on collateral,
5.I I8p ai.Ia loi Jia t"a&Fl, >aJ Lows ses>a
ssssats.isfr.~ ~ fssaart vsr,tt 5asfl VI Ts a.
Evening star., 1934-03-25

ing two women, got stiff Jail sentences and
fines, after the longest criminal trial the New
York Federal courts ever held-109 days.
In Sioux City, Iowa, Just few months ago,
the most amazing big money swindler Of re-
cent years drew 10 years in a Federal prison
He was Oscar M Hartzen, who collected be-
tween 100000 and s1.3oo,0oo from 10000
American suckers, on a promise that for
every dollar received he would pay back 81 900.
He worked from England where he spent
13 years trying he said, to secure for them
a share of the 500 1000, 900 900 estate of Sir
Francis Drake, who died 339 years ago. That
celebrated British mariner and privateersman
died owning II acres in what is now Lon
don's business section. This now priceless land
he left to an unrecorded son.
With this sons descendants, Hartzel was
now, he asserted, in touch, and was confident
of realizing, given time and money.
DIG stuff" Capt. Coy admits when re-
- minded of these cases. Then he chuckles
But listen to this one. Here's Isaiah Parker
who drives an ashcart for the city, has saved
$387.79 and likes to boast about it at meetings
of the Splendiferous Lodge of Sublime and
Ethereal Potentates. There he meets the pro-
fessor, Negro from the British West Indies
BY his occult processes, he can make Isaiah's
bank balance grow.
"'Firs' you boil an egg-hard he expounded
Then you wrap it in a handkerchief with
yo' handbook, and put them under the pillow.
Then come an tell me what you dreamed
'Isaiah's eyes rolled, but next day, he visited
the professor.
"'Ah done all whut you toll me- he said.
But All didn't dream I ALL
The professor not at loss.
dat because All was controllin' yo' mind
he explained kindly. Ah been communicatin'
wild yo' dead father. an he say if you do what
All tell you, he'll make you $4,000. Bring
long dat boiled egg-an' yo' money
$50 they went down to the Battery. There
the professor gazed out to sea-and South
Brooklyn-cosed his eyes, and murmured:
"'Yo father tell me you put de money in
my pocket, an I go over to de aquarium an
commune wild de spirits in de fishes. You wait
a half a hour, den throw de hard-boiled egg
and come back to you thousan'-fold.'
1.-The harbor police have yet to retrieve the
egg-and Isaiah his S3877s."
Capt. Coy leaned forward eagerly, ham,
mering out his words with a welmanicured
but sinewy hand.
Now, how do all these swindlers, big and
small get away with it?" he asks. Just one
reason usualy-human greed.
"A favorite hunting ground is big boats
not cruises; express transatlantic liners. The
con men dress well, carry fake business cards.
why, once when my vacation with
a partner, a couple that looked just like
Get-Rich- Quick Wallingford and Backie Daw
tried to get us into a card game on Ber-
muda boat and when that didn't work, tried
to sell us some inside tips on what they claimed
were crooked prize fights. One of my best
assets in this game is that I don't look like
a cop"
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Evening star., 1934-03-25
BY THOMAS NJ. JOHNSON.

the cleverest crooks in the world.
They come back-in the Spring"
sardonic smile appears upon
the dark, handsome countenance OF
the tall, well-dressed man. He might be a
prosperous Wall Street man. But his thrown
back coat reveals the gold shield OF police
captain.
will be coming up from Florida and EaVana
and Bermuda-all the cold-weather resorts.
They'll give the big town a casing-a once-over
then they'll be off North for the hot-weather
resorts; Maine and Canada mostly Wherever
they can find rich suckers, playing around,
relaxed, Off guard.
"Its great life and hard to stop-so long
as there are suckers, willing to play along. Rich
ones are better picking, of course, but these
days poor ones will do. Con men aren't TOO
particular in depression-like some honest
ones"
With which preface Capt. James j. Coy
speaks out of Is years experience in his spe-
Cialty-chasing swindlers, confidence men and
gentleman crooks for the detective division OF
the New York Police Department. Also, he
doubles as dramatic critic; last time to decide
whether Mae West was giving a moral per-
formance.
"I had quite job" he says. Remembering to
be critical
A job more to his fancy was sitting down,
dressed in evening clothes in a leading Park
avenue restaurant, to a 12-course dinner, know
ing that, after the coffee, he was going to
arrest his Immaculate host as one Of the coun-
try's leading swindlers Victim of mistake in
identity, though. He trying to swindle
Capt. Coy.
PRESUMABLY. he gets such jobs because he
! was once circus man. Travelling with the
"big top" he saw bucolic throngs trimmed by
she'll game workers, pickpockets, crooks OF all
sorts. Becoming a detective, he met first the
gOld-brick game, then green goods, then wire
tapping. Now there are stock swindes and
other timely devices of the devil.
"a con man can always find suckers to sup
port him in about the manner to which he's
been accustomed" Capt. Coy remarks. Even
today, after four years depression, they're
get back what they've lost. Willing to gamble
the few dollars they have left.
"They keep swindlers so busy, that a while
ago the swindlers formed a union-Sort of Con
Mems International No. l. There were 500
members, each paying Is per cent of his yearly
take into protection fund.-
"But it didn't quite protect one guy called,
appropriately, Noble John. He was collared on
the whitest-lghted part Of Broadway, charged
with defrauding J. H. Callahan, retired
Rochester hotel proprietor, out Of fortune
of $141 900.
= Callahan let Noble John scrape an acquaint-
Ance-they will do it!-with him and his wife
IN California. And what does John do but
work the pocketbock game on him! '2l~
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