Plentywood herald. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1908-current, 1935-08-01
RUST SCARE HASTENS COUNTY HARVEST
IN THE WEEKS
d.

A campaign to revoke Mon
tana's unpopular "gIn marriage"
law by referendum has been
launched by the Billings CONNER
clai club. Plans for the campaign
were made at a meeting Of club
trustees and a decision made to in
vIte all Montana chambers OF CON-
merce to Join the drive.
Tragedy played a grim round on
the Pacific International expOsi-
lions midway course at San Diego
when Roy Haines, thrill diver"
after nearly missing a 75-foot dive
into a five-foot tank two nights
agO, flattened out on his dive, hit
the water with his chest and died
two hours later.
VIII Rogers, chucklIng because
'they thought we had gone to ST.
berla," returned late Monday to
Los Angeles, with Wiley Post,
worIdcIrcIing filler, and Mrs Post,
from an air-jaunt over the SOUTH
west. Post and his wife contem-
plate a ~IeIsurely flight to Moscow,
by way Of Alaska and Siberia.
Defenders of Tom Mooney raj
lied at a mass meeting in San
Francisco on the 18th anniversary
OF his Imprisonment and shouted
approval as speakers described
him as a martyr to the aus OF
organized labor.
Marion Suttle, 10, Of Center
Vile, Ala, tossed her s~Ix-year-oId
sister, Ann, from a railroad trestle
and died a second later under the
wheels Of a locomotive.
President Roosevelt, in behalf
OF the nation, has washed his
hands Of the Italian-Ethiopian con
troversy. Their trouble, he said, Is
not a matter of concern to the
United States. In the meantime,
thousands OF American Negro citi.
zens are registering and indicat-
ing the Willingness to serve with
Ethiopian forces in case Of a real
outbreak OF war.
The League Of Nations council
met yesterday to deal with the
controversy between Italy and
Ethiopia. In England, Sir Samuel
Goare emphasized Britain's deter
mInatIon to exhaust every possible
recourse against war.
A baby that weighed 25H
pounds at his birth, attracted 5O(
persons to a funeral home at MAI
tin, Kentucky. The child is believ
ed to have been the largest nor
NAL delivery in history.
Thousands Of fish were reported
dead In the Illinois river neal
Pekin. They were believed Il
have been killed by alcohol, masi
and other liquids that went intt
the river when the Hiram Wake
distiIIery at Peoria was PARTIAL,
destroyed by fire.
Two days Of swimming equallet
two months OF jail for Tony Step
onitis. N Kenosha, Wis. Tony
who was recently exposed to small
pox and placed under quarantine
was charged with visiting tht
beach there twice and endanger
ing 5000 people. He was sentenc
ed to two months in jail.
Processing taxes are legal undeI
the welfare clause Of the ConstItu
ton, a Judge at Memphis, Tenn.
has ruled. He held that congress
has fixed the products to be taxe<
under the act, and therefore dix
not delegate taxing authority 4
the secretary of agriculture; tina
It was a tax and not a revenue
measure.
Armour & Co., and Swift & Co
two of the 'fbig four" OF Chicago
packers, joined the rapidly grow
ing ranks OF professors who seel
restraining orders to prohibit col
lection of processing taxes unde
the AAA.
Communists ripped the German
FLAG from the liner Bremen, hurle'
It into the swirling Hudson AM
preclpitated a bruIsing fight be
tween nearly 1000 Of their owl
number and 375 policemen. ON
man was shot, two policemen AM
scores Of others were injured.
A terrific blast which shook vi
lagos and broke windows for mile
around, killed so persons at Val
ese, italy, when the ammunition
factory there blew UP.
Sunday the Dionne quintuplet
were IA months old. Or. AllaI
Roy Dafoe, reports the "qulnts
have been In better health
The sever heat of the past mont
seems not to have affected them.
Chicago's White Sox went HON
Tuesday to conquer Cleveland 8 3
6 and move one game closer =
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