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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-06-13
Says National Guard
Gives Valuable Training

HELENA, June 10. Especially Twelve
hundred citizens of Montana are now
on the move to Helena for two weeks
visit. These citizens are the officers and
men comprising the 163rd Infantry, bet
ter known in the state as the Montana
National Guard Practically every sec
ton of the state is represented by one
or more units. For the first time prac-
tically the entire regiment will be
moved to camp by motor truck. This
is part of the program looking toward
the complete motorization of the army.
Only those units farthest removed from
Helena will make the trip by train
The camp will be commanded by Col
onel E, H. Williams, who is also adju-
tant general for Montana 1t will be of
two weeks duration, the regiment
reaching camp on Saturday, June s, and
entraining for home on Saturday June
o. 81 would like to impress upon the
parents of all the boys serving in my
regiment" said Colonel Williams, shat
every care is exercised to see that the
best is brought out in the boys and that
they receive the best medical supervi-
sion 1t is possible to give.
Valuable Training.
1T is my firm belief that an enlist
ment in the guard is Of great value to
the youth of Montana We cannot make
finished soldier in 48 drills and two
weeks camp year, but we can teach
them the fundamentals and they will at
foact ln,r,, anot,rt, n boar, fbay,, - ne
the cannon fodder class, 1t must be
remembered that in case the United
States1is attacked, it is very doubtful if
our assailants will prove so gracious as
to give us unlimited time to train our
men The short time they spend in the
guard will prove Of inestimable value to
them, as we'll as to the army.
"All of us who, served in France
could fill columns with stories Of the
unpreparedness and total unfitness for
service of many of the troops arriving
overseas as requirements. Instances are
common of where men arrived in the
trenches six weeks after enlistment
Imagine them trying to cope with men
| trained in the art of battle
No One Wants War.
None is less anxious for war thar
the man trained for it. He knows the
grim side of it and is not fooled by the
waving of flags and martial music. But
| he also knows that the world is q
powder magazine; that once war breaks
out the maintaining of neutrality is {
different matter and that the young
men Of the United States will be bene-
fitted by some knowledge of how to pro-
tect themselves.
1T is my honest belief that the youth
of Montana is improved physically anc
mentally through his guard training
and want to impress on the parent!
that he is exposed to no greater temp
tation in our camp than he is at HON,
and that we exercise every precautior
to keep him clean physically and aler
mentally. The army needs active bodie
and smart minds. 1t would appreciat,
it if parents Of men in the guard woult
take occasion to visit our camp ans
satisfy themselves as to the name
in which it is conducted
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-06-13
LINCOLN COUNTY FIRST
IN RENTING TAXES

County Treasurer Bessey is in receipt
Of the information that his office was
the first in the state to remit to the
state treasurer state taxes collected
during the May collection This speaks
we'll for the Lincoln county office and
the readiness with which collections are
being made here.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-06-13

Edith Darlington left Libby this week
for Helena to spend the summer with
her sister. While away she will attend
the Grand Assembly Order Of Rainbow
for Girls Of which body she is grand
officer. The Grand Assembly meets
this year at Deer Lodge, June Is. Be-
fore leaving she was presented with the
emblem Of past worthy advisor by
the Rainbow Girls Of the Libby order
of Rainbow
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-06-13
COURT HOUSE BOND ISSUE
BEFORE STATE SUPREME COURT

County Attorney Murray and Paul
Church left for Helena Sunday where
the matter of the validity of the court
house bonds to be issued BY Lincoln
county was to be argued before the
supreme court the first of the week.
Church had brought friendly action to
settle the question of validity and
County Attorney Murray went to de-
fend the action for the county.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-06-13
Nephew Accidentally Killed.

Arnold Lee left Wednesday noon for
Conrad, called there by the news that
his young nephew, Raymond Berland,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Al Berland, had
been accidentally shot and killed. The
boy was. shot in the abdomen while
hunting gophers.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-06-13
Club Elects Officers.

The Depression club met Wednesday
at the home of Mrs. Clara Woodruff.
Election of officers resulted as follows:
Manager, Mrs. Roy Wells recorder,
Mrs. Eva Wilkinson; banker, Mrs Iva
Dawson A clever contest Of girls
names was held, in which Mrs. Eva
Wilkinson won the prize.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-06-13
Jury Term of Court.

A jury term Of district court will
convene in Libby next Monday with
Judge J. E. lockwood of Kalispell
presiding
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1935-06-13
LihhM Team WINS.

The Libby baseball team played the
Eureka team at Eureka Sunday and
won with an s to score.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1935-05-20
Ehringhaus Stand
a On Liquor Raped
Continued from Page One.)

CONTINUED from Page On0.)
tain, however, that he would have
jeopardized his entire legislative pro-
gram and placed himself in a posi-
tion that might have resulted in the
defeat of many measures much more
important to the State if he had taken
any part in the Wet-and-dry fight un-
til the closing days of the session.
Most of those close to the governor
maintain that he followed the only
sensible and sane course by refusing
to get mixed up in the liquor fight
in the General Assembly, pointing out
that, if he had injected himself into
the fight and had placed his influence
back of either side, he would un-
doubtedly have been subjected to
merciless and dangerous retaliatory
legislation which might have defeated
his entire legislative program. But by
refusing to take sides with the liquor
light, the governor was able to re-
tain the personal support of members
in both the wet and dry groups in
both houses and to see most of his
program enacted into law. Another
thing his friends point out is that the
liquor situation did not become tan
gled until the very last day of the
session and that then he did step in
and seek to bring about some com
promise, but that the extreme drys
refused to compromise.
The governor took the position
that there were a great many things
much more important than liquor and
prohibition and that If would NOT ho
wise for him to risk the defeat of his
legislative program by becoming in
volved in the House and Senate squab-
'oles over liquor" one of his close
friends said here today. "As a result,
ne saw 26 of his 20 major recommen-
dations to the General Assembly, as
made in his message at the opening
OF the session, enacted into law vir-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1935-05-20
II TODAY y
TODAY's ANNIVERSARIES

1850 Stephen Girard, Philadelphia
merchant patriot-financier of the
War in 1912, of whose fabulous fort
une for these days, $90O0,00O, only a
fraction went to heirs the bulk for
public good born in France Died
Dec 26, 1881.
1858 Dolly Payne Madison, wife of
President James Madison, one of the
most popular and brilliant White
House mistreSses in our history, born
in Guilford Co, N. c., Died July II,
1S49
1906 John Stuart Mill, English eco
nomist-philOsopher, born Died May
s, 1873.
l825-AntOinette l.. Il. Blackwell
Unitarian clergyman, suffrage and
temperance leader, born in Monroe
Co.. N. Y. Died at Elizabeth, N. j
Nov. S, 1927
1926 Potter Palmer, pioneer Chi
cagO merchant, bargain-sale Origina-
tor, real estate promoter, born in AL
bany Co, N. Y. Died May 4, 1902
1843 Albert A. Pope, who in 1878.
introduced bicycle manufacturing in
this country, auto pioneer, born in
boston. Died near there, Aug TO- 1909.
185l-MOther AlphOnsa (ROSe Haw-
thOrne Lathrop) youngest child Of
Nathaniel Hawthorne, worker among
cancer incurables, born at LenOx,
Mass. Died July g. 1926.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1935-05-20
TODAY'S YESTERDAYS

May 20, 1284-The date when, Ger
man legend has it. the Pied Piper OF
Hameln (miscalled Hamelin) venge-
fully mred away all the villages chill
dIen
Hameln did lose all it's children! Re
sponsible, however, was religious war
which killed off the flower of Hemeln
youth, the "childrens' crusades" which
drained off others, and a devastating
plague which took the rest In those
days death was symbOliZed by piper
hence the legend.
May 2, 15O6-The man called Christ
opher Columbus died in Vanadilid,
Spain, aged either SIS or 60-nO one
knows which. His last wish was that
he burned with the chains in which
he had been sent from Haiti to Spain.
His remains were burned three
times before reaching their final rest
ing place in Seville Cathedral!
MAY 20, 1775 -Mecklenburg county.
North Carolina declared it's independ-
ence from Britain more than q year
before the l3 Colonies did,
Delegates from Mecklenburg met in
Charlotte, adopted and signed resolu-
tons in which ties with England were
cast off, and forwarded them to the
Continental Congress with a plea for
similar action. Congress waited more
than a year to make up its mind to
do it.
However, the same day of the Neck
lenburg resolution delegates to the
Congress adopted an act of Perpetual
Union.
Ironically, it was on this same date
in 1861 that North Carolina seeded
from the Perpetual Union.
May 20, l736-Samuel Baldwin was
buried at the bottom of the Thames,
at I.ymington, England, in accord
ence with his last wish. He picked
this strange burial place to confOund
his wife, because she had assured him
in their domestic squabbles that she
intended to enjoy herself dancing on
his grave!
Henderson daily dispatch., 1935-05-20
THE WORLD WAR 20 YEARS
AGO TODAY

May 20, 1915-The Allied army cap
tured the heights Krithia, one of the
two arms of that sombre mountain
Achi Baba which stretch out, one to
the Gulf of Saros and the other to the
Dardanelles. After the ships had
Opened up a bombardment of Krithia,
Australian and New Zealand infantry
on the left center advanced to the at
tack, and there was furious rifle and
machine-gun fire as the Turks held
trenches with determination.
Success lines of khaki pressed over
waving green fields and through
barnyards and orchards, with enemy
shrapnell bursting over them. The
shrapnel did small damage, owing to
the open formations. AS each line
reached the fire-Zone, it doubled across
open ground resting in vacated trench
es, and then passing on to the next.
Gradually the heights were won.
Immense work was accomplished
| by the British and French warships
during these operations. 1t was as
much a naval war as land campaign.
AS Ashmead-Bartlett tells us, 1.-The
whole responsibility for landing troops
and keeping up supplies of food and
| ammunition was left to the naval COM
mand, and in addition the RESPONSE
! bility of protecting the flanks of the
armies and keeping down the enemy
artillery fire All troops animals
guns, wagons, stores, ammunition
anda thousand other things, incluo-
ing jam and newspapers, had to oe
taken from the hundred transports
living off the Straits, which arrived
from Egypt full and left empty at all
hours of the day and night, and con-
veyed in lighters to two beaches no
more than 200 yards in width. CHRIS
prohibited landing at any other point
| Everything, therefore, depenoine
upon the fleet. 1t was this fact that
created grave apprehension among
Allied commanders as reports came
Henderson daily dispatch., 1935-05-20
ANSWERS

I-Iheye were among the most i'm
pOrtant social functions of the time.
Funerals usually meant a big gather
ing with plenty to eat and drink. One
item of seven gallons of Whiskey was
charged against an estate following
a funeral in Mecklenburg county in
1867. The whiskey was used at the
funeral services.
2There were sixty-eight Chinese
and seventeen Japanese in the state.
-Major-General VIM. l.. Davidson
who moved in 1850 from PENNSYLVANIA
to what is now Iredell county. Cen
eral Davidson was in the Fourth N.
G. Regiment with the army of the
North until November 1879 when this
unit was ordered South He was kill
ed in the battle of Cowan's Ford, near
Charlotte, February l, 1881. Later in
the day his body stripped of all cloth
ing was found by two friends who
carried it across a horse to Hopewell
church where it was buried by torch
light.
4-The museum was established by
the State GeOlOgist which office was
created in 1850. Specimens of differ
ent kinds, as they were collected by
this department, were placed on dis
play. The maintenance of the museum
was placed in the care of the Depart
ment of Agriculture in 1879 Today
it is recognized as the most extensive
institution of it's kind south of Phil
adeiphia, outside of Washington, D. C.
5-A number of members of both
the lower and upper houses did not
attend because they were unable to
meet expenses. A committee confer
red with Salem's leading men and
they agreed to accept payment for
board and lodging in "food-stuffs OF
various kinds at fixed prices"
6-The National Intelligencer, noted
Washington newspaper owned by
Joseph Gales and William Seaton, son
and son-in-law of Joseph Gales, found
er of Raleigh's first newspaper. On
August a. 1914 Admiral Cockburn,
leading the British forces invaded and
captured the National Capitol The in
vaders destroyed the Capital and 9th
er buildings and properties, including
the newspaper.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1935-05-20
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS

u. S. Senator Augustine Lonergan
Of Connecticut, born at Thomson,
Conn, 81 years ago.
Marian Butler, Of Elliott, N. c.,
onetime y. S.. Senator, author of the
law establishing rural free delivery,
born in Sampson Co, N. s., ~ years
ago.
Prof. Allan Nevins Of Columbia Uni
Versity, noted historian and biograph-
er, born at Camp Point, H., AS years
ago.
Maj. Gen. 3, Frank Cheatham, U.
S. A, retired of Stratford. Va, one
time quartermaster general, born at
Beech Grove, Tenn, So years ago.
Rt. Rev. Ernest M. Stires, p E.
bishop of Long Island, N. Y, born at
Norfolk, Va, So years ago.
DR.. James r. Judd of Honolulu
surgeon and executive, born there, So
years ago.
Mrs. Sigrid Undset, famed NOrwe-
gian novelist, born SO years ago.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1935-05-20
TODAY IN HISTORY

15O6-ChristOpher Columbus Died
at Valladolid, Spain, aged about co.;
his last years in poverty and neglect.
-Presbyterians of North Caro-
lima formulated historic Mecklenburg
Declaration, which anticipated the De-
claratiOn Of Independence at Phila-
delphia, July 4, 1776.
1775 -2nd Continental Congress
agreed upon articles of federation and
union.
1834---Died in Paris, aged 76, Mar
quis de Lafayette friend of America.
1902 Republic Of Cuba inaugural
ed at noon.
1918 20 German airplanes raid Lon
don; five fail TO return kill "A and
injure 200
Henderson daily dispatch., 1935-05-20
Wine Makers Are
Buying Up Berries
(COntlnued from Page One.j

representative of Garrett Company
makers of Virginia Dare and other
wines, was here for several days last
week and stated that he had already
signed the contracts.
IF this new wine law is held to-
be valid, WeEwiil' l'aimme ediately proceed:
to sign contracts with blackberry
growers and other dewberry growers
as well for as many tons of grapes as
we cans buy in North Carolina" said.
w. F.. Hope, Vice-president of the Carr
rett Company I'VE shall also start
Immediately the erection of several
more processing plants to extract the!
Juice from the berries and grapes and
eventually we will probably build a
winery in North Carolina. We former
ly had ii different plants in North
Carolina until the State went dry and
we had to move out. In fact, our
company was organized in North Car
olina just 100 years ago, in 1885, and
was a North Carolina business until
prohibition forced us to move our
wineries out of the State.
But in spite of that, most of our
wines have been made from North
Carolina grapes and berries, principal
ly from dewberries, blackberries and
scuppernOng grapes, and we have op-
Grated a processing plant in Whining
ton for years. We press the juice from
the grapes or fruits in this plant, re-
| duce the juice to a jelIy-like consis-
tency by an evaporating process which
| removes only the water from the juice
but none of the natural fruit sugars
| or acids. We then ship this cOncen-
trated juice to our fermenting plants
| in Brooklyn, New York. There water
| is added to this concentrate, it is
placed in the fermenting vats and
nature does the rest Nothing what
ever is added to the juice but the
water that was taken from it, since
we make only natural wines from
natural fruit juices and do not
| 'fortify' or add any alcohol to our
| wines. The result is a wine of less al
| coholic content but with a much finer
| flavor.
| An opinion on the constitutionalitv
of the new wine law is being hoped
| for by Garrett and Company as soon
as possible, sine the harvesting of the
dewberry crop in the eastern counties
begins June 25, and the COMPANY
wants to be able to carry out it's con-
tracts with the berry growers by thar
date, Mr.. Hope said. When the noun
tain blackberry crop come in. later
on in the summer, the company ex-
poets to buy hundreds of tons &c
lblackberries and is now getting ready
to sign contracts for the purchase Of
Henderson daily dispatch., 1935-05-20

Dlackberries in thel vicinity Of Mt
Airy. new wine has recently been
perfected from peach juice, so that
it will likewise be able to use MANY
tons of peaches from the Sandhills
section of the State, if the wine law
is upheld by the attorney general
One of the principal questions
which Mr., Hope wants cleared up is
whether his company can ship into
North Carolina wine already manu-
tactured from grapes and berries
grown in North Carolina and process
ed here, but fermented and bottled in
the Brooklyn plant. He has already
asked Commissioner of Agriculture W.
A. Graham, for a ruling on this point
and he in turn has asked the attoT-
ney general to deal with this question
in his opinion interpreting the wine
law. The attorney general has indi-
Gated he will try to hand down an
opinion on the wine law some time
this week
The enactment of this law, if it is
upheld, will eventually mean millions
of dollars a year to the farmers of the
State, Mr.. Hope believes, since it will
assure a market for the grape and
berry crops, The best grapes in the
world for wine making purposes can
be grown in North Carolina because
of climate and soil conditions, MIR.
Hope pointed out. He is confident that
this new law is going to make the re-
Vival of a great industry that orr
ginated in the State 100 years ago and
one which will benefit the farmers
more than any other class.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1935-05-20
Still Some Sales
Levy Exemptions
Continued from Page One.)

chants of having to pay 81 a year each
as registration tax and thus will
save them more than $4,000 in direct
taxes. The new act provides, however,
that every merchant must make a re-
port of his sales and send in the
amount of sales tax collected everv
month, regardless of the amount cor
lected. The old law provided that mer-
chants who collected less than $40 a
month in sales tax did not need to
make returns and send in their COL
lectiOns but every three months. Un-
der the new revenue act, which be.
comes effective July l, every mer-
chant will have to send in a report on
his gross sales and remit the amount
of sales tax collected, even if it
amounts to only a dollar or two a.
month. This is expected to aid greatly
IN the administration and collection
of the sales tax as well as to SIM
plify the auditing of the sales tax re-
turns.
The annual license fee for wholesale
merchants was reduced from $3.50 to
$40 year, but the rate was increased
SO that it is now one-tWentieth of one
per cent of gross sales instead of one
twenty-fifth of one per cent.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1935-05-20
What Do You
Know About
North Carolina?
By FRED H. MAY

flow were funeral conducted in
North Carolina $50 to TO years ago?
What was the Chinese and Jan
anese population in North Carolina
at the last census?
Sln honor of what Revolutionary
war general was Davidson College
named?
4-When was the State Museum es-
tablished?
5-How did the Moravlans propose
to accept pay for board and lodging
when the general assembly met in
Salem in 1881?
6-What newspaper, owned by
North Carolinians, was destroyed bv
the British in 1914?
Henderson daily dispatch., 1935-05-20

sanitation" of American agriculture
into "gOvernment-sustain cur
rency' might result if the government
undertook to finance farm purchases
by tenants.
In formal statement, H. C. Nixon,
of New. Orleans, policy committee
chairman, and Francis Pickens Mil
Ter, of Fairfax, Va, said longs oppo-
sition to the bill was based on fear
that if it were enacted "he will lose
the support of 100000 votes in the
South"
He knows" the southerners argued
that if the promises of the New Deal
are transmitted into land, low inter-
est rates and all of the benefits in
health, in education and in social life
which come with permanence of resi-
dence and tenure, the gilded promises
of hisI share-the-Wealth campaign
would lose their power to lure"
Setting forth ttiat ito vote for the
Bankhead bill is to vote against Long"
Nixon and Miller said "it is obvious
that neither Senator Byrd, of Virginia,
nor Senator Bailey, of North Carolina,
nave yet fedIlZcu. JIlIS IdCI, nc SGdIC- =
ment added:
Zone of the strangest ironies of the
present political situation is that such
men should unwittingly support the
Long strategy. If the, Bankhead bill
is defeated and the landless men of
the South are thereby forced, because
of their distress, to enlist in the Long
legions, the senators from Virginia
and the senator from North Carolina
have much to answer for"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1935-05-20
Argue Claim ON
Reynolds Inheritance
Cont, ned from Page One.)

heritance taxes which it claims is
due it, will he made Attorney Gen
eral A A. F. Seawell. 1t is expected
that he will be opposed by one of the
most impressive and imposing arrays
of legal brains which money can en-
ploy.
For several days last week Attorney
General Seawell shut himself in his
office and refused to be disturbed
while putting the finishing touches to
the brief he has prepared and which
he will supplement with oral argu-
ment before the Supreme Court to-
morrow. Those who have read this
brief say that it is one of the most
able they have ever read and they
are confident that the court will up
hold the contentious of the State and
hold that the inheritance tax amount
ing to approximately $2,000,OO0 must
Zoe paid.
Even if the State Supreme Court
rules in favor of the State, there is
possibility that the attorneys for
the Reynolds estate may appeal to
the United States Supreme Court. But
there are indications that if the State
is upheld in this inheritance tax case
that it may not be carried any far
ther although it is regarded as al
most certain that the battle over the
entire $3O,OOO,OO0 estate will be car
ried to the United States Supreme
Court before it is finally settled.
The belief that the fight over the
$2,OO0,OOO inheritance tax claim may
not go any farther, however, is based
on the fact that only ones who OBJ
jected to the proposed inheritance tax
settlement with the State for $2,OO0,-
900 were the Safe Deposit .and Trust
Company of Baltimore, trustee of the
Smith Reynolds estate, and the guar
dians of Anne Cannon Reyonlds, his
daughter by his first wife whose sec
ond husband just sued his father-ih-
law for alternating his wife's affec-
tions after she had divorced him.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1935-05-20

Honore de Balzac, b. 1899. He wrote
S5 novels in 2 years. His Comedie
Humane is ranked by many discrimi-
mating readers with Shakespeare's
better works TOuissant POuver-
ture, b. 1746 slave who defeated Ma
Doleon's generals to conquer Haiti and
become it's king.
LYDIA Roberti b. 1909, stage and
screen actress e. Rt. Rev. Ernest M.
Stires b. 1866, P. E. bishop Es-
telle Taylor, b. 1900 cinemactress.