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Evening star., 1935-07-13
Girl Bit by Snake
Says She's Well;
Spinach Credited
Baths in Ledty Vegetable
Made Her Immune,
Customers Hear.
By the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, July 13-The spinach
toSsers gravely announced this morn
ing that Miss Beebe de la Fontaine
had vindicated every faith they had
lodged in the efficacy of the foliage
as a protection against the venom OF
rattlesnake.
The spinach branch Of the coun-
try's health enthusiasts, regarded as
yeering slightly to the left in the de-
mands for bigger and better spinach
courses, described Miss de la Fon-
taine's condition in precisely these
words: "She is in fine shape"
The customers who crowded into
DR.. Lloyd Shanklin's spinach empo-
rum in Forty-eighth street Thursday
night were given ample opportunity
to pass on that particular aspect of
the rattlesnake experiment, and were
unanimously agreed with today's an
nouncement.
Other than brace or two of off,
stage squeals in the wake of the bite,
! the subject of the experiment ap-
peared not to have suffered from her
Daniel-in-t n-the-lion' 's-den combat with
q Florida snake.
Further. said todays announce
ment, Miss De la Fontaine ate a
hearty breakfast, though unconfrmed
reports had it that she had funbled
the check because of q persistent
swelling Of the fingers.
Miss De Ia Fontaine's press agent, a
gentleman of serious mien who ap-
parently went over to the left-wing
spinachers hook, line and sinker, re-
iterated formally that she had re-
ceived no medical attention and
ascribed her post-bite health solely to
immersion In spinach baths.
Evening star., 1935-07-13
SHAKE-UP LIKELY
| IN VIRGIN ISLANDS
Administration May Be
Shifted From Interior
Department.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A shake-up by President Roosevelt
of the administration Of the Virgin
Islands was limited today.
Reports were current that admin
istration might be transferred from
the Interior to the Navy or some other
department and that a new Cover
nor would be named.
The President and other officials
were silent. They declined to discuss
any phase Of the dispute over the rule
of the present Governor-Paul M.
Pearson-which ragged to a climax In
IN angry clash between Secretary Ickes
and Senator Tydings. Democrat, Of
Maryland.
Californian Mentioned.
Rumors named C. William Freeman
of California as possible successor
to Pearson. Information about Free
mans background was not available
among officials here.
Pearson was a central figure in the
Senate's investigation of the admins
tration of the islands. The inquiry
was abruptly postponed after Ickes. a
supporter of Pearson, and Tydings,
head of the investigating committee,
exchanged blistering letters.
Involved was T. Webber Wilson,
Judge of the Virgin Islands Federal
Court, who accused Pearson Of inter-
fering with his court. Ickes told
Tydings the Senate Committee was
"whitewashing" Wilson. Tydings, in
effect, suggested that the Interior
Secretary mind his own business.
With the President stepping in tc
restore peace. reports also had il
that Wilson probably would leave the
| islands. Mr.. Roosevelt and the judge
conferred at the White House yester-
day. Wilson is o former member ol
Congress from Mississippi and Il
backed by Senator Harrison Of that
| State.
Some Democratic leaders on Capito
Hill predicted privately that the dis.
pute ultimately might result in Ickes
resignation. His department has su.
pervision of the Virgin Islands.
Evening star., 1935-07-13
SECOND SHOT HELD
FATAL TO DICKINSON
County Medical Examiner Gives
Testimony at Examination
of Ferris.
BY the Associated Press.

DETROIT, July 13.-Dr. Robert
Kallam, Wayne County medical exam
liner, testified yesterday at the exami-
nation of William Lee Ferris that
Howard Carter Dickinson, New York
attorney, was alive when a second
bullet was fired into his body ito
make sure he was dead and couldn't
tell"
Ferris, who mas confessed he and
three women lured Dickinson to
Rogue Park and killed him there for
his money, attempted TO waive exami-
nation when he was brought before
Judge Thomas M COtter in Recorder s
Court, but was n)i permitted to do so.
Ferris, also known as William
Schweitzer, appeared in court shortly
after the three women with HIM at
the time of The saying took their
seats. The three, Loretta and Flor
ence Jackson, sisters, snd Jean Miller,
will demand examinations and ask for
separate trials, their attorneys said.
All three women arc charged with
murder.
Evening star., 1935-07-13

CONTINUED From First Page.)
stitution and hatred of the Supreme
Court"
Graduated Taxes Hit.
Lund objected particularly to the
proposed graduated taxes on corpora
ton incomes to replace the present
13A per cent fiat rate and the sug-
gested tax on dividends received by
corporations. He described both as
"unSound" and added:
"The present burdens imposed upon
corporations unduly restrain business
activities.
Business recovery is of paramount
importance and will produce more re-
lief than the present Government ex-
penditures and will produce more rev.
enue than the proposed increased
rates.
1.-The confidence of business enter
prises in future Government policies
and activities must be restored, and
the barriers to legitimate enterprise
imposed or proposed must be removed
if we are to witness a substantial busi-
ness recovery"
Evening star., 1935-07-13
SALES TAX VALID,
HIGH COURT SAYS
Maryland Law ConStitu-
tionaI, but Collection on
March Items Is Hit.

ANNAPOLIS, Md, July 13-Issu-
ance of a decree declaring levies
should not be collected for goods sold
on credit in March was awaited today
in the wake Of the Court Of Appeals
decision that the per cent gross re-
ceipts tax is constitutional.
In upholding yesterday the con-
stitutionality Of the act to raise
emergency revenue for relief and old
age pensions, the court disagreed with
Controller William s. Gordy's ruling
that the tax was collectabie on pay
ments made after April for foods
sold on credit In March.
This regulation should have been
restrained, the court held. The act
became effective April /.
Remanded to Lower Court.
Insofar as this was concerned, the
case was remanded to Circuit Court,
No. 2, of Baltimore City, for a decree
in conformance with the opinion and
ofsetting Controller Gordy's ruling.
The effect will be to sanction re-
funds to those merchants who have
paid the tax for March credit sales.
The high courts disagreement with
another credit sale argument was in
terpreted as meaning additional rev.
enue for the State through levying on
credit collections Of any one month,
regardless of when the sale was made.
The court disagreed with the con-
tention that credit sales were taxable
only when payment was made either
in whole or in part during the month
of the sale and that the tax was not
collectable when payment was made
in succeeding months.
More Revenue Seen.
Clarification of this point by the
court was seen by Daniel L. Clayland,
Sd, director Of the gross receipts tax
division of the controllers Office, as
opening the way for additional reve-
nue., as a number of firms had been
awaiting the courts decision on the
question.
The issuance Of decree regarding
the March credit sales was left by the
court with Judge Frank Supplee Of
Baltimore, where the constitutionality
of the act was originally argued. The
high court, in Judge Carroll T. Bonds
opinion, upheld Judge Supplies de-
cision.
The appellants from Judge Supplies
decision were w. Groscup Jones, John
r. Fisher and the Remington Put
nam Book Co., and James Lechert.
They filed the original action question
ing the constitutionality Of the act.
Evening star., 1935-07-13
NICE ORDERS FARM
HALT MILK SA[ES|
Caustic in Criticism of
Practice by State Penal
Institution.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, July 13-Immediate
cancellation of the contract for the
sale of surplus milk by the State Penal
Farm at Roxbury was demanded today
by Gov. Harry w. Nice of Charles j.
Butler, director of welfare
In statement made public after the
executive departed for California, he
asserted he will not countenance
State institution entering into compe-
tition with the people of Maryland.
If the State Penal Farm has an ex-
cess supply of milk, it should be dis
tributed to other State institutions and
thus help reduce maintenance of costs
In them Gov. Nice said
Statement Is Sharp.
He was caustic in criticizing the
useless, wasteful and eXtravagant use
of the peoples money" by this and
other State institutions to purchase
herds of blooded, high-grade stock.
The statement, in part, follows:
"A situation has arisen in connec-
ton with the State Penal Farm, To-
Gated in Washington County, which, to
my mind, is altogether intolerable. l
am advised the management has en-
tered into a contract through Mr..
Kerns tHal T. Kerns), the former
warden, with milk distributing
agency in Washington to purchase
from the penal farm its excess milk,
which excess is in quantities sufficient
ly great to seriously compete with the
sale of milk by the farmers of Mary
land. I am also in receipt of kilograms
from Maryland milk producers
throughout Western Maryland pur-
porting to represent at least $500
farmers of our State engaged in this
industry.
Practice Termed Vicious.
''I have written to Mr.. Butler, the
director of welfare to examine into
the situation and, if found to be true,
to take immediate steps looking to the
cessation of this vicious practice of
the State of Maryland entering into
competition with its taX-paying cit
liens. To me it is situation which
calls for the loudest denunciation.
When we realize that products of
the penal farm are the result of con-
vict labor and, therefore, place the
institution in a position to underbid
and compete with the farmers of the
State. I think it is high time to call
a halt. So long as 1 shall be Gov
ernor of Maryland, shall not counte-
nance an institution of the State
entering into unfair competition, be-
cause of free labor, with the people
OF Maryland
Butler Assures Aid.
After deploring the waste of money
for the purchase of pedigreed stock.
the executive said Just as fine and
nourishing milk as can be got any
where in the world is obtainable from
the farmers of this State, and very
few of them indulge in the eXtrava-
gance of imported. blooded cattle.
do not propose to continue this vicious
practice in the States institutions.
Il am told by Mr.. Butler that he
will take steps to see that this is i'm
mediately stopped in so far as the
institutions under his control are
concerned"
Evening star., 1935-07-13
Has Eve for Antiques.

GOLDSBORO, N. C. tP.-Deputy
Sheriff Brand McLamb has an eye
for unregistered stills. He also has
an eye for antiques.
About to apply the ak to an IL
legal still, his eye caught an inscrip-
ton that indicated it was made in
Bristol, Va, ISL years ago. The
State museum prof1ted by his dis
cernment.
Evening star., 1935-07-13
RAIN BLOCKS FLIGHT
OF INSPECTION PARTY
House Military Affairs Group
Separated in Storm-One
Plane Returns.

Rain today broke up an inspection
flight by members of the House Mill
tary Affairs Committee, forcing half
the party back to Washington after
fighting heavy rain.
In two Army Air Corps transport
airplanes. Is members of the House,
headed by Chairman McSwain of the
Military Affairs Committee, took of
from Boiling Field at 7:30 am. bound
for Patterson Field, Dayton, Ohio, and
Chanute Field, Rantoul, Ill.
About an hour out of Washington,
both transports entered heavy rain
and thick weather and became sepa-
rated. One of them continued through
to Pittsburgh and Dayton, while the
other was forced back to Washington,
landing at Boiling Field at 9:55 o'clock
An attempt will be made to reunite
the party later in the day.
Evening star., 1935-07-13
ROCKVILLE.

ROCKVILLE, Md, July 13 (Spe-
ciaD AT the Sunday evening union
services in the Presbyterian Church
the sermon will be by Rev. Edwin H.
Sheppe, jr.. of the Methodist Church
and Rev. Herbert o. Cooper of the
Baptist Church will preside.
Mrs. Frank G. Marshall, chairman
of the loan chest of the Rockville Red
Cross branch. has received from resi-
dents of the Chevy Chase area first
aid kit, $40 for extra supplies for the
kit, gowns, sheets, pillowslips, sleeping
garments for children and other ar
ticles for the sick room.
Evening star., 1935-07-13
DAIRY BARN BURNS
Cigarette Believed Cause of Cliff.
ton Station Blaze.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CLIFTON STATION, Va, July 13.-
Fire, believed to have been caused by
a cigarette, resulted in the destruction
of a large dairy barn belonging to j.
w. Makely yesterday. The loss, COW
cred partly by insurance, was esti-
mated at $4,000 by Robert Williams,
chief of the Fairfax Volunteer Fire
Department.
Men were threshing wheat near the
barn when the fire was discovered,
and with difficulty they were able to
save the threshing equipment.
Evening star., 1935-07-13
Disorderly Drunks
Pay Less Fine Than
Just Plain Drunks

By the Associated Press.
CALGARY, Alberta, July l3!-
It's cheaper in Calgary to be
drunk and disorderly" than
Just plain drunk.
"I was drunk, but not dis
orderly" James Robertson told
Magistrate Scott.
For being drunk the fine Is
$40 and for being drunk and
disorderly it is much less" the
magistrate said to the accused.
Nov were you drunk and dis
orderly?"
EYES," replied Robertson. He
was fined IS and costs.
Evening star., 1935-07-13
Red Spider Attacks Crops.

AUGUSTA, Ga. (R.-The black
widow spider may have q bad repu-
tation, but look out for red"
The red spider is attacking crops
hereabouts, particularly cotton. 1t
eats on the stock and brings about
premature opening of the bolls.
Evening star., 1935-07-13
OIL MAN TO HIDE
Death Threats Followed Hallibur-
tons Criticism of Dole.

LOS ANGELES, July 13 [P.-A
special police detail guarding the home
of Erie P. Halliburton, wealthy Los
Angeles and Oklahoma oil man who
reported receiving death threats, was
Withdrawn yesterday at his request.
Halliburton said he and his family
wepe leaving the city for an unan-
nounced destination.
The threats, he said. grew out OF his
recent criticism of relief recipients and
"the dole system" He has since ex-
planned he really meant that ne would
not hire "any man who had been on
relief for all five years of the depres-
sion" He said he was not barring
occasional recipients of the dole.
Evening star., 1935-07-13
Many Addresses Incorrect.

Postmasters of Scotland have re-
ported that half the letters mailed are
insu1nciently oe incorrectly pddressed.
Evening star., 1935-07-13

Policeman Robbed at. Practice.
MIAMI, Fla. N9-There we're more
than $50 policemen at the Southeast
ern regional pistol tournament.
Even so, some crook got away with
Sergt. Dan Reynolds pistol.
Evening star., 1935-07-13
Taxes

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1935-07-13
SPECIAL NOTICES.

SPECIAL NOTICES.
SHALL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR
ny debts contracted by any one other
ian myself ANDRE E. GERARD. 1880
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-09-27
Improvements Made at
Hardin Airport by FERA

Aviators using Hardin's munich
pal airport of late are loud in
their praise over the improve
ments made recently by joint &C
ton of the county commissioners
and the works division of the
FERA.
With material and machinery
furnished by the county, a crew
under Otto Hansen. relief admin
~strator, have thoroughly cleaned
weeds and chcatsrass off the run-
ways, the whole field has been
bladed and thoroughly rolled, and
low presents one of the finest
landing surfaces of any western
rort of comparable rating.
Boundary markers have been
placed at the ends of each run
way, which, together with the en-
tire fence enclosing the field, have
been painted red which greatly
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-09-27
Extension Accountant in Home
Management To Be Here
October 1st.

Miss OOna Stautz, extension
economist in home management,
will meet with project leaders of
the Home Demonstration clubs OF
Big Horn county for a demonstra-
ton in kitchen management and
arrangements, in the court room
on Wednesday, October End at 10
O'Clock a. m.
The following women have been
selected as project leaders for the
ensuing year:
Mrs. Ada King and Mary Metz
ker, Community club.
Mrs. C. P. Davidson and Mrs.
II. B. Hudson, Halfway club.
Mrs. Herman Pauley and Mrs.
William Cox, South Bench club.
Mrs. Lester Rice and Mrs. H. E..
Smell, St. Xavier club.
Mrs. Arthur Randall and Mrs.
Paul Schafer, Two Leggin club.
Mrs. Chas. Ferguson and Mrs.
Ralph Damn, Upper Big Horn club.
A meeting of all the community
committeeman of the Big Horn
County Wheat Production associa-
ton will be held in Hardin next
Tuesday at ten o'clock a. m. to
discuss the terms of the new
wheat contract which is being Of
fered the wheat growers of the
nation. Plans will also be made
for the educational meetings
which are to be conducted in all
the wheat growing communities
of the county to explain the new
contract to wheat growers.
The Wheat Allotment commit
tee, consisting of Ed Torske, c. P.
Davidson and joseph Graham, at
tended a district Wheat Growers
meeting at Billings last week
where the contract and new pro-
gram was made clear.
With over one-hundred exhibit
ors the All Club fair put on Fri
day and Saturday in the Warren
hall was a complete success. Close
to four hundred articles were ex-
hfbited by the All club members
from practically every organized
club in the county.
A program of demonstration
and club activities was put on by
several of the clubs of the county,
SATURDAY. afternoon, which was
instructive and entertaining to
the large number of people who
visited the fair.
Three demonstrations were CIV
en- bv the following clubs: Two
Leggins Clothing club consisting
of Peggy Lorraine and Helen Beth
Sadler. who demonstrated the diff
ference in good and bad ~osture.
Hallway Clothing club REPRESENT
ed bv Veta Hodges and Mary
Simpson gave a demonstration on
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-09-27
Hardin Is One of Ten Highest
Taxed Cities in Montana Says
Taxpayers Association.

The owner of a home in Hardin,
assessed at $1,000 with $4,000
worth of furniture and equipment
will be called upon this year to
pay a tax bill of $117.85, not
counting his special road and poor
tax of $500 nor any special I'M
provement taxes or assessments
he may pay for water, light, side
walks, sewer or street improve
ments. Approximately $500 of the
total will go for state government,
$500 for the Greater University
of Montana, $500 for county poor
fund, $28.85 for other county pur-
noses, $47.00 for city purposes. and
the balance $500 for schools, &C
cording to figures recentlv releas-
ed by the Montana Taxpayers
Association. Hardin is n of the
10 highest taxed cities in Montana
because it takes $4,000 for city,
county and school debts. Public
debts are deferred tax payments.
The total tax bill in Lodge
Grass will be $115.85, on the same
amount of property. Debt pay
ments rather than operating costs
are TeSDOnSlDle.
Taxpayers who live il the cities
of Anaconda, East Helena, Liv-
ingston, Harlowton, Big Timber,
Miles City, Billings, Bozeman, Belt
and Libby in the order named,
will pay the lowest tax bills Of
any Montana cities, ranging from
$685. so to $685.. The home owner
in Butte. Poison. Shelby. Red
Lodge, Malta, Hardin, Sidney, Cut
Bank, Hamilton, Forsyth, Baker,
GLASGOW, Poplar and Wolf Point
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-09-27
SPORTSNTEN WARNED OF NEW
RULING GAME COMMISSION

The attention of sportsmen In
Big Horn county is called to the
new ruling of the State game
commission which requires the
game wardens of the state to
check the number of the license
each hunter or fisherman carries
and report the number of fish
caught or game shot, etc. While
the law has always been such
that a hunter or fisherman was
subject to arrest if caught hunt
ing or fishing without having his
license in his possession, the new
ruling makes it mandatory upon
the game warden to ask all, seen
fishing or hunting, for their Ii
cense that he may check the
number and send in a report.
Better carry your license with you,
it may save you some trouble.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-09-27

Philip Neal. little sever weeks
old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Schoer. passed awav on Saturday,
September 21st and funeral ser
vices attended bv the immediate
relatives and a few close friends,
were held at the Bulls Cri.4y
Funeral Home Tuesday afternoon.
Rev. Fred G. Fulford. pastor Of
the Methodist Episcopal church OF
Hardin. spoke words of comfort
to the bereaved parents, who have
the sympathy of the entire COM
munity in their loss.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-09-27
FIRST CLUB MEETING NEXT
TUESDAY-HEAR H. C. HINES

The Hardin Woman's club, with
a membership of fifty-six gives
promise of an EXCEPTIONALLY good
years work. More members will
be received at any meeting and
all interested women are urged
to hand their names to any club
member. The dues are only $3.50
a year, which makes each mem
per also a member of county,
state and national declarations.
This large body of women, the
largest women's group in America,
is a force for good to be counted
uoon in every great movement
and whose influence extends rom
the welfare of the home and
children to all forms of pnblic
welfare.
An ausnicious BEGINNING of the
YEAR work will be the first pro-
gram OF the year, to be given at
me ciuo room in the basement of
me llorary next Tuesday evening,
oct: l.: Business meeting at 7:3O
WIN the program at 8 o'clock.
POSSESSES for the evening are Mrs.
y. w. Bulls and Mrs. r. H. Frank
lin.
Prof. Harlan C. Hines, a men,
Der OF the faculty Of the Eastern
montana Normal School at Bill
'nes Will give an address on In
~troversion and Extroversion." This
IS a psychological study of the
emotional life of children and
ADULTS as we'll. It will be a great
helm to mothers in understanding
their children. and in explaining
abnormal reactions to various
emotional stimuli. Do you wonder
whv your children. or yourself, do
as thew do sometimes? Come and
hear an expert On this subject. It
promises to be a worthwhile meet
ing which members and interested
women will not care to miss,
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1935-09-27
FINE DISPLAY OF CORN
AND BEETS All CLUB FAIR

the Selection and Care of Hos
iery." This demonstration was also
given at the Midland Empire fair
in August by the same girls.
The Wyola Garden club gave a
demonstration IN Knots and
Rope Splicing" by Henry Aarstad
and Howard Riplett.
Thirty girls appeared in the
dress revue modelling in the
aprons and dresses which they
had made as part of the All club
work during the past year. In
this contest Veta Hodges, of Half
way won first ~1ace for the End
year clothing club and Marion
Smell. of the Poppy Brownies of
st. Xavier won the honors for
the third year.
The following specialties were
given. depicting some All club
activity. The leader who judged
the exhibits in clothing. gave a
talk IN club work and explained
the new system of placings.
which is being used in many of
the fairs at the present time.
In addition to the All club ex-
uIO4IS. d Al1lc lSpld VI COlIl was
BROUGHT in to the fair for which
the B. H. mccarthy Seed Company
offered prizes. The winners in
this display were Mrs. Chas.
Pruett, first: Tom Vickers. second;
Montana Sorenson, third, and
Mrs. Fred Benzel, fourth.
Also a display of sugar beets
added greatly to the size and
quality of the fair. The Holly Su-
gar Company offered four prizes
for the best three beets which
were won by the following K.
Nagashima, first. Edward Benzel,
second; Fred Benzel, third, and
Alex Leber, fourth.