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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-24
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER.

I hereby wish to announce myself a
candidate for County Commissioner on
the Democratic ticket, subject to the
will and pleasure of the Lincoln county
voters.
Respectfully, O
j. M. OFFENDER.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-24
NOTICE OF THE CREATION OF
SPRINKLING DISTRICT NO. /.

Notice is hereby given in accordance
with the terms of Resolution No. 1893
that the City of Libby Sprinkling Dis
trict No. is hereby established for the
fiscal year 1885, and that all of the
property hereinafter described shall
constitute such district. viz.
LIBBY ORIGINAL TOWNSHIP:
Lots to 16 incluNve in Block /; all
of Blocks 2 and 8, Lots |, and 8 in
Block a; all of Blocks 5, 6 and Z; Lots
6 to % inclusive Of Block s. all Of
Blocks 8 to Is inclusive; Lots II to %
inclusive Block 10; Lots to q in
elusive Block 10; Lots to inclusive
and Lots la to % inclusive of Block
20; Lots | to Ia inclusive and Lot %
of Block 81; all of Blocks % to q in
elusive; Lots to Ii inclusive of Block
%; Lots l to inclusive and Lots IL to
16 inclusive Block 30; lots / to inclu-
sive of Block 90; all Of Blocks 81 and 80.
LEONARD ADDITION:
Lots to % inclusive Block /; Lots
7 to II inclusive and Lots Is to q in
elusive Block 2; Lots to II inclusive
and lots Is to % inclusive Block 3; all
OF BLOCKS TO 10 inclusive.
LUKENS ADDITION:
Lots l to 16 inclusive Block /; Lots
to inclusive and lots Il to Is inclu-
sive Block q; Lots l to inclusive and
lots IL to 16 inclusive Block 3; Lots
to II inclusive in Blocks 4 and S: Lots
to is in Block 6: all of Blocks 7 and
s; Lots / to inclusive and lots IL to
Is inclusive Block 8.
FAUST ADDITION:
All of Faust Addition.
SOUTH LIBBY ADDITION.
All of South Libby Addition.
SOUTH LIBBY ADDITION NO. /:
Lots / to 5 inclusive in Block II,
Lots / to 6 inclusive in Blocks Is, 10
and 90
HILLS ADDITION:
All of Block /; Lots / 10 inclusive
and Lots 10 to II inclusive in Blocks
2, and d
JENNISON ADDITION:
Lots / to 5 inclusive and lots IL to
is inclusive in Block 1 Lots to S in
elusive and Lots IL to % inclusive in
Block 2; Lots to % inclusive in Block
3; Lots to IL inclusive and Lots is
to % inclusive in Block a; all of Blocks
and g.
EVERGREEN ADDITION:
Lots /, 2, 3, S and 6.
That each lot or parcel of land with
in such district shall be assessed for
that part of the whole cost of the
Sprinkling in such district which its
area bears to the area Of the entire
district, and that the amount of the
proposed levy for each lot Of BITS feet
is Two and 25-100 ($225) Dollars.
That the original resolution to create
such district is on file in the office of
the City Clerk in the City of Libby,
which is hereby referred to for future
particulars.
That the objections of property own
ers to the final passage to create such
Sprinkling district will be received and
considered June S, 1884, at o'clock
P. M. at the council chambers of the
City Hall in the City of Libby; such OBJ
jections should be presented in writing,
signed by the property owner, to the
citv clerk.
BY order Of the Mayor and City
Council of the City of Libby
tSEAL44 R. r. VELDMAN,
1t City Clerk
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-24
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER.

I desire to announce that I'll be a
candidate for county commissioner on
the Republican ticket at the July pri-
maries.
F. P. CAREY.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-24
FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE
Democratic Ticket

If nominated and elected I will work
for any legislation that will give Mon
tana back to the people of the State of
Montana
SAMUEL MCCARTHY,
Troy, Montana
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-24

fear or favor. Your support will be sin
cereiy appreciated
GUST E. ADAMSON,
Libby, Montana
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1934-05-24

Again we do the unheard of thing ;. by offering
genuine AA Quality tires at price that makes shop
ping for bargain tires unnecessary.
This new Goodrich Cavalier is big. extrasturds
tire specially processed to give thousands of extrs
miles And it's value you can't overlook Is it any
wonder thousands Of motorists have quit bargain
hunting" and made the Cavalier their standard tire
You can be among the money savers simply by tax
ing advantage of the greatest tire values ever offered
Savings will begin for you today the minute yor
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let US make the change
over from your old tires
to Goodrich Cavaliers!
Come in tomorrow.
Evening star., 1934-12-16
Ancient M0slem Manuscript
Of"PsaIrns of David" Located

in HOS, composed work on titles and
surnames of Arab families, to Samar-
quand in the east, where a set of as
Economical tables were prepared for
its Turkish Governor was Ulugh Bey
at the renownde observatory which he
erected in his capital about 1923.
The script varies from the Kufi- like
Maghribi in Spain and Northwestern
Africa, to the rounded Naskhi in Egypt
and Syria and the elegant Farsi in
Persia and adjacent lands. The au-
thorship comprises Spanish Moslems,
Berbers, Egyptians. Syrians, Arabians
and others Of Turkish and Persian
origins"
The oldest manuscript catalogued to
date is a treatise on dialectics, copied
by q scribe from Karman. 1t records
the observations on logic of Al-Firuza-
abadil of Shiraz. The date, equivalent
to the Christian year of 1892, is plainly
marked in the text. Most recent of
the items studied is a compendium Of
Moslem traditions written by Muham-
mad Ibn-Abdullah, q descendant Of
the prophet Muhammad and Sultan
of Morocco from i757 to l789 Pro-
fessor Hitti believes that this manu-
script Is the original text, written by
the hand Of the Sultan himself.
Evening star., 1934-12-16
Record Gift Matinee Crowds
Insure d. c. Yule Happiness
IS, 1000 to 10000 Ne,c Presents Gathered
by r-Warner Bros Programs.
Distribution Plans Begin.
. ENEROUS washingtonians, in

ENEROUS Washingtonians, in
4 response to The Star-Warner
l r Bros Christmas appeal on
" behalf of the needy children
of the city. brought between
IS, 900 and 10000 new toys, new gifts
and new articles of clothing to the II
theaters where the Christmas toy
matinees drew record crowds yester-
day.
This is a large increase over the
contributions brought to the perform
ances last year. and marks the fourth
annual Star Warner Bros matinees
as the greatest success of all.
Poor children in Washington who
would otherwise have been neglected
and left miserable and forlorn can now
eo TO steep on Christmas eve and
awake to find that Santa Claus has
visited them after all. And destitute
parents who have been distracted over
their inability to provide Christmas
happiness for their unfortunate little
Evening star., 1934-12-16

ones, can breathe sighs of relief in the
knowledge that a kind hearted Wash
ington has come to their aid
There is every reason to be opti-
mistic in the hope that there will be
no forgotten child in Washington this
Christmas, as members of the Christ
mas Planning Committee of the Coun-
ell of Social Agencies readily agreed
when the thousands of packages were
hauled to their toy shop at ll07 Penn
sylvania avenue, next to The Star
Building. yesterday afternoon.
They formed a pile mountain high.
and while it will take many hours and
much hard work to count and classify
them for later distribution to the poor,
clear estimates indicate that the num-
Der is by many thousands the biggest
ever contributed
The pile contained toys and gifts
Of every manner and description. 1t
was also noted that a larger number
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1934-12-16
NUMBERS RACKET
AIDS UNDERWORLD
DR.. Hayden Johnson Believes
1t Should Be Suppressed as
a "ViciouS Institution"

DR.. Hayden johnson, president of
the Board of Education and chancel-
lor of the National University, believes
the numbers game fosters growth Of
an undesirable underworld element
and that drastic steps may be neces-
sary to curb the activities of rack
eteers. A lawyer, naturally he would
have recourse to the law:
My friend, United States Attorney
Garnett," he said, has requested the
newspapers to suppress certain num-
bers from the race tracks, informa-
ton needed only by the numbers gam
blers. With fine civic spirit, The Star,
Post, Herald, Times and radio COM
panies have responded to the request.
From what I read in The Star. I
think the numbers game is vicious
institution, since it tends to build up
and nurture through ample capital a
numerous and undesirable underworld
class in Washington. 1t should be
suppressed for this very reason.
Il have followed The Stars CAM
paign. 1t makes interesting reading.
"As president of the Board of Edu-
cation, am concerned directly with
the welfare of the thousands of Wash
ington school children. They are af-
fected by anything which has a ten
dency to increase lawlessness in the
community.
NUMBERS" DRIVE PUSHED.
Evening star., 1934-12-16
STAND
ONNAWATTACKED
Nye Also Scores Tactics in
Move to "Take Profit
Out of War;"
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, December 15.-Sena-
tor Gerald P. Nye, Republican, Of
North Dakota, today asserted Presi-
dent Roosevelt favored bigger Navy,
and added he believed the President
knew least" of any one where naval
building race with Japan would lead.
Addressing the Maryland branch Of
the League of Nations Association,
Senator Nye, chairman of the special
Senate committee investigating the
munitions industry, criticized the
Presidents tactics in his efforts to
take the profit out of war"
Backing Bigger Navy"
There isn't nation on earth,"
the Senator said, that is spending
more money than we are for war. In
stead of taking the lead to end the
Navy building race with Japan, the
President seems to be backing bigger
and bigger Navy.
mo one knows where this race
will lead us, and the man who be-
lieve knows least about it is Franklin
D. Roosevelt. Using an article he
wrote as the basis for this assertion,
he believes that this talk of a war
with Japan is just, and, quote, an
apprehensive habit of the mind
But the race with Japan is on and
1t will produce no good to any but
the munitions makers"
Nye criticized the method of ap-
proach being followed by the Presi-
dent in his move to take the profit
out of war" He said that one of
the principal things that should be
done was 1.-The taking of profit out
of the preparation for war"
Red Tape Not Necessary.
The North Dakota Senator, re-
ferring to the special committee, said:
Now you just watch Barney Baruch
and Gen. johnson (members of the
Presidents committee to recommend
legislation to curb profits from war;
devising ways and means that won't
take the profit out of war. Legisla-
ton to take the profit out of war
should be written by disinterested per-
sons.
ITO take the profit out Of war Is
easy. You can do it without any red
tape and without any heavy legisla-
ton. One act will suffice.
"Just provide that in the event Of
war the tax on incomes up to $4,000
or, say, $4,000, will be doubled and
incomes in excess of these amounts
will be taxed 80 or 80 per cent"
Evening star., 1934-12-16

II Dro,o',ing Sailors Choked
By Oil Poured on Raging Sea
Rescue Ship.Radios Details of Us'oorth
Tragedy-ll Saved After Terrific
Battle With Mountainous WaUeS.

pumped into the water in an effort
to save them.
The Jean Jadot, bearing two sur
vivors, and tre Cunard-White Star
liner, with nine, were steaming on
their respective ways, having left the
lifeless Usworth to be driven bottom
ward
Risking disaster, the Jean Jadot
had maneuvereC. its pitching bow
within few feet of the Usworth's
stern, while the Ascania stood by and
pumped tons of oil onto the troubled
waters.
The Jean Jadot, more difficult to
handle now because her cargo had
shifted, put out lifeboat. The boil
ing sea pickei it up and hurled it
against the Usworths side, but the
10-man crew managed to keep it in
position long enough for some of the
Continued on Page 2, Column ~
Evening star., 1934-12-16
Seri Tribe Liuing With Dogs,
Same as in Sixteenth Century

make their camp across the channel.
Their food is mostly fish and the eggs
of sea fowl. Usually they eat their
food raw.
In the Winter, they sometimes scoop
out little hole in the sand, put in a
few twigs, and warm the head of a
Cabrillo fish or a whole mullet. Then
dogs, children, women and men grab
for it, said Croker, and the first come
are first served.
They have no utensils other than
clay jugs. Mexican observers say
they have no marriage, but simply
mate. Their customs with the dead
originally was to place them in
mesquite bush to dry, but now the
dead are buried in shallow graves
In mourning the Seris cut their hair
and paint their faces black.
There is no housekeeping, they have
no gardens, no greens or fruits They
use no tools, they have nothing to
care for. Fish are easily caught in
the gulf all year around.
Croker said that there were about
$50 Of the Seris left, and there were
more dogs than human beingh
Evening star., 1934-12-16
MRS, VANDERBILT
LOSES CUSTODY PLEA
Surrogate Rules Supreme Court
Disposed of Fight for
Gloria.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 15.-Mrs.
Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt lost on
another front today in the fight for
custody Of her heiress daughter, little
Gloria Vanderbilt.
Surrogate James A. Foley denied
her petition for appointment as a
personal guardian of Gloria, ruling
the question had been adequately
covered in the decision of Supreme
Court Justice John F. Carew, who
made the girl a ward of his court
and granted principal custody to Mrs.
Harry Payne Whitney, a paternal
aunt.
The surrogate court proceeding.
instituted last June, was forerunner
to the sensational trial in Supreme
Court. Mrs. Vanderbilt sought Gus
tody both over Gloria and her
$3,800,000 fortune. When she failed
to obtain settlement satisfactory to
herself, she started the habeas corpus
action.
Had this settlement been con-
cluded," Surrogate Foley asserted,
'unwholesome and salacious notoriety,
with its inevitable injury to the child,
would have been averted," referring
to evidence attacking Mrs. Wander
bilt's character and fitness as a
mother in the Supreme Court
hearing.
Surrogate Foley, in fixing January
8, 1885, for hearing of Mrs. Wander
bilt's plea for guardianship over
Gloria's fortune, warned he would
not permit any evidence concerning
the mothers moral character or lack
of character" limiting the testimony
TO the necessity of third co-guardian
and Mrs. Vanderbilt's qualifications.
Evening star., 1934-12-16
By the Associated Press.

LOS ANGELES, December 15.-
Dogs still share equal rights with the
remnants of the impoverished Seri
tribe. which has changed least Of all
North American Indians since the
coming of the white man.
Richard s. Croker, marine biologist
of the California Fish and Game Com
mission. who has just returned from
a survey of the Gulf Of California,
found a small group of the Seris at
Kino Bay, Sonora. Mexico, TOO miles
south Of Los Angeles.
Their novels, built by digging hole
In the sand and making covering of
brush, he said, are the same as de-
scribed by Cortez in the sixteenth
century.
Tales have been told that these
Indians were cannibals. No actual
records have been found, say Mexican
authorities, to substantiate this.
Their reputation has been evil, and
from time to time the Mexican gov
ernment has prohibited them from
coming to the mainland from Tiburon
Island. Now the bar Is lifted, and
each Winter they are permitted to
Evening star., 1934-12-16
CLAYTON CHARGE
AROUSES ROBERTS
Lie Is Passed in Heated Tiff
on Taxi Issue at Fed
GRAFTON Session.
People's Counsel William A. Roberts

Peoples Counsel William A. Roberts
startled the Federation Of Citizens
Associations at its meeting last night
by characterizing as lying and
fallacious statement" the remarks of
William NICK. Clayton, head Of the
federation's Public Utilities Commit
tee, to the effect that Roberts is spon-
soring return Of meter cabs in the
District.
The fireworks came over a reSolu-
ton offered by Clayton reafirming
the federation's stand in favor of zone
cabs.
We resent and protest" the resolu-
ton concluded. all efforts of the
peoples counsel to force the metered
system Of taxi operation upon US at
this time"
Agrees to Amendment.
At the request OF Harry N. Stull,
Mr. Clayton agreed to an amendment
Of his resolution to leave out the
reference to the peoples counsel and
substitute "any one" Clayton. how
ever, explained why he had referred
specifically to the peoples counsel in
his resolution.
1T was at the instance of the
peoples counsel, then legal adviser
to the commission" he said, that the
commission put in its meter order in
the first place. Mr.. Roberts argued the
case for the commission before our
highest court. When he argued it
before the Supreme Court of the Dis
trict. he acted in concert with the
lawyers of the traction interests"
As Clayton was speaking, Roberts,
who is not a delegate to the fedora
ton, walked into the room. Invited to
reply, he advanced to the speakers
table, angrily tossed rubber band
upon it, and shouted:
Il resent that lying and fallacious
statement"
Sought to Stop Him.
Several delegates sought to stop him,
but he continued:
II did not foster that order. I fol-
lowed the instructions of the commits
sion. I resent the statement that I
entered into conspiracy with the
representatives of the traction COM
panies. Somebody is trying to draw
red herring across my trail. The
Continued on Page 6, Column -
Evening star., 1934-12-16
BY the Associated Press.


PRINCETON, N. j.. December 15.-
Discovery of the Noble Psalms Of Da-
vid," an ancient manuscript which
varies from all other known Moslem
versions, was announced today by Dr.
Phillip K. ,Hitti, associate professor of
Semitic literature at Princeton Uni
versity.
Many rare finds are included in the
list of discoveries of unique works Of
major importance for historic, linguis-
tic and scientific studies" catalogued
by DR.. Hitti.
The collection. tile largest of ito
kind in the United States, contains
manuscripts dating from 1892 to 1881.
The translation of the psalms was
written In 1872 by Jamal-Al-Din Al
Masaddi, Moslem from Arabia. Each
of the psalms is introduced with the
formula which heads the chapters of
the Koran, In the name Of Allah, the
Merciful. the Compassionate"
THE sources" DR.. Hitti said today,
explaining that every section Of the
old Moslem world is represented in
the manuscripts examined so far, ran
from Spain in the west, where Al-Hu-
sayn Al-Ghassani Of Jaen, who died
Evening star., 1934-12-16
BY the Associated Press.


Terse wireless messages cracking in
from mid-Atlantic yesterday told Of
laundering ship, capsizing lifeboat,
and the dying gasps Of II men.
Stark realism was added to earlier
advices of how the British freighter
Usworth was battered so helpleSsly
by bowling Winter gale that she
had to be abandoned, and Of how two
rescue vessels, tossed by mountainous
seas, were able to save only II of her
26 men.
Two members of a lifeboat crew put
out by the Belgian liner Jean Jadot,
died in the attempt, and their names
were added to the Is from the U.s.
worth.
1T is a terrible tragedy" concluded
a message from the Jean Jadot, de-
scribing how the victims choked in
the heavy fuel oil that had been
Evening star., 1934-12-16
Fails at Plane Record.

OAKLAND, Calf, December is R).
Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, Aus
tralian flyer, failed today in an effort
to set a speed record between Los
Angeles and Oakland. The pilots
time was / hour and So minutes.
The record for single-motored types
of commercial plane such as Kings
ford-Smith few, Is hour and 28
minutes.
Evening star., 1934-12-16
STATES IN LABOR PACT

BOSTON, December Is [P).-A ten
tative agreement between six States
for a maximum five-day, 40-hour
week in industry. has been reached,
it was announced today by Senator
Henry Parkman, jr., of Boston, gen.
eral chairman Of the Interstate Con-
ference >on Labor Compacts.
The States whose representatives
signed are Massachusetts, New Hamp-
shire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New
York and New Jersey. Before the
compact is finally effective, it must
be signed by the commissioners rep
resenting these States, and then rati-
fed.
Evening star., 1934-12-16
NUMBERS" DRIVE PUSHED.
One Arrested by Vice Squad on
Gaming Charge.

Continuing its drive on numbers
game operators, Lieut.. George Little's
vice squad late yesterday raided an
establishment in the 900 block Of
Sixth street and arrested Dexter
Downey, A, on a charge of permitting
gaming. He was released on $500
bond for appearance tomorrow morn
ing in the Police Court An alleged
numbers book was seized in the raid,
members of the vice squad declared.
Scores of these so-called little
fellows" will be arrested before we
call halt on the numbers game
drive" Lieut.. Little said.
He pointed out that number Of
Pennsylvania avenue panhandlers"
have been arrested in the drive on
the numbers racket in the District.
All of them are believed to have been
either runners or operators of the
numbers game on small scale.
Evening star., 1934-12-16
TAX EVASION RING
MAY Be REVEALED
Evidence of Alleged Plot Is
Believed Seen in LouiSi-
ana Probe.
BY REX COLLIER.

Evidence of an alleged conspiracy
by a ring of Louisiana politicians to
defraud the Federal Government Of
hundreds of thousands of dollars in
income taxes is said to have been in
dicated in connection with recent in
dictment of seven political figures on
individual charges.
Indictment Friday on income tax
evasion charges of Seymour Weiss,
identified in Senate hearing as treas
urer of Senator Huey Longs political
group, is reported to have made prob
able further grand jury action in
January of sensational nature.
While officials here are maintain
ing complete silence with respect to
the rapidly accumulating indictments
in New Orleans, it is known that q
corps of about 20 agents of the In
ternal Revenue Bureau is pressing
forward in an inquiry which officials
expect to result in at least two more
major indictments.
Hundreds Questioned.
Starting quietly about two years ago,
special agents of the intelligence unit
of the bureau, under Elmer L. Trey,
chief of the unit, have been examining
bank records, business books and
political ledgers and have been ques-
tioning hundreds of citizens.
The investigation has broadened as
new fields of inquiry were opened until
it now takes precedence over all 9TH
ers conducted by the Government in
its drive on income tax evaders, both
from the standpoint of number of in
vestigators on duty and prominence of
suspects involved.
Within the past few weeks the in
quiry is said to have reached point
where it no longer is a disjointed as
sault on individual violators but a CO.
ordinator investigation of what ap-
pears to probers to have been a de-
liberate conspiracy by certain Louisi-
anans to defeat and evade payment
of income tax"
Millions Already Involved.
Millions of dollars in concealed in
comes are understood to be indicated
in evidence collected by the investi-
gators. More than q million Is in
volved in indictments already re-
turned.
Those now under indictment, with
amounts Of income and tax cited for
each, are:
Alleged
hidden Tax
Seymour Weiss. s17s.S9s 7sSS@s 90 sss,ssS 90
Jules Fisher. 326.7s332 42,52s.4s
state Repre-
sentative Joe
ABE sfhe5 Z sha;han 52292tsss s9sasss s5sfss2 5sfss2
Harry. John and
Willis Nelson,
trading as
M S S ssippi
Valley Co... 232,479.56 29,279.10
Totals .....SI.235.e46.7 S157.s43.72
In addition, the grand jury has in
dicted Courtney A. Kenney, a pro-
fessional gambler, for concealing $89,-
859.88 and evading payment OF tax
amounting to $8.076.84.
During the hearings by the Senate
Committee on the Overton election.
Weiss refused to answer questions put
to him by committee counsel and was
threatened with contempt proceedings
in the Senate, but he escaped prosecu-
tion for his defiance.
Adviser of Kingfish.
He is the closest friend and adviser
of Senator Long and is manager of
the Roosevelt Hotel, in New Orleans.
in which Long has an apartment.
Long appointed Weiss head of the
New Orleans Port Commission.
State Senator Fisher and his
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