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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-09-11
hot water was Russ Irish, also a
Badger football star.

hot water was Russ Irish, also a
Badger football star.
One friend of both Scott and
Irish recalled today how they had
attached a policeman's coat collar
to a hook in a Madison restaurant
and left the cop suspended in
mid-air when he tried to curb
their boisterousness. Scott and
Irish had more than one brush
with the law, but both were es-
sentially good-natured.
They just couldn't help bubbling
over with gayety and a desire
for frolic
That's why the many friends
Scotty had in Madison couldn't
understand his suicide. He must
have been, they agreed, under a
tremendous strain, a strain which
few could bear.
Guy Sundt, assistant director of
athletics at the University of
Wisconsin, said he had received
several letters from Scott recently
expressing a great deal of worry
since he underwent an operation
that very nearly cost him his life
about a year ago.
Sundt, who was Scottv's ROOM
mate for two years after he re-
turned from the war, recalled
that even during his last two
years of football here, Scotty was
not in the great physical shape
his gridiron proves indicated.
"He had a disfigured foot, the
result of being struck by a ma
chine gun bullet, and this had to
be tapped before he could practice
or play" Sundt said. HE couldn t
stand as hard a grind in training
as others of the team, either.
HE played football because he
liked to play it, despite his physi-
cal weaknesses. While he was on
the team, he made periodic visits
to the hospital for treatment"
Although he entered school
while Scotty was still away at war
Sundt recalled an incident which
went down in campus history dur
ing the great stars freshman year.
Engaging in a freshman-sopho-
more tussel on the campus. Big
Scotty, who lowered six feet two
and weighed 215 pounds, appar-
emily turned tail and ran.
He Scampered out on the end
of a pier with triumphant sophs
in yelling pursuit. At the end Of
the pier he took his stand and
gleefully engaged his pursuers.
They finally managed to push
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him in, but not before the water
was cluttered with bobbing, sput-
tering SophomoreS. Scotty, un-
happily, didn't come up smiling.
for in the fall off the pier he
struck his head and was knocked
out.
This sportive turn of mind did
MT desert him, even when he was
a senior, for on another occasion,
so the story goes, he forsook his
upperclass dignity, donned a green
freshman cap, and joined a. bat
tie between the two lower classes.
When he got sufficient personal
notice from the sophs, he galloped
off the field with a dozen of his
enemies in pursuit, led them to a
more secluded spot and proceeded
to polish them off single-handed.
Another story concerns his busi-
ness, rather than his athletic
proves. He was placed in charge
of getting the groceries for Mon
tana club picnic and proceeded to
lay in huge stock of bread, po-
tato chips, cheese, and-because
he liked ia great quantity OF
ham.
However, rain spoiled the picnic,
and Scotty was left with his
huge store of groceries on hand.
He approached the steward of his
fraternity house with his troubles,
offering to sell them.
Perhaps the steward was sus-
picious, but at any rate he didn't
buy the groceries from Scotty.
But few days later, looking over
the grocery bill for the house, he
discovered that Scottv's picnic VI
ands had been charged to the
house in the first place.
Sundt recalled another side to
the character of the big grid star.
HE had a heart as big as he
was himself, and he would do
anything for a friend,' Sundt
said. 1--WE known him to go to
the bank and borrow money on
his personal note to help out
someone who needed cash."
Sundt also declared that Scotty
was blamed for a number of es-
capades in which he had no part.
but that in any case he would
take the rap" rather than in
volve anyone else.
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Re. Farm Debt
Adjustment
BY II. G.. Wood, Dist. Debt Adjust.
Supervisor Meeting With
Local Committee.

H. G.. Wood district farm debt
adjustment supervisor, whose head
quarters are in Miles City, met
with the Big Horn county commit
tee, Thursday of last week, and
by a series of questions and an
swers explained the working OF his
department.
Q.-What are farm debt adjust
ment committees?
Ans.-They are committees which
have been formed to help debt
ridden farmers readjuSt the debts
they owe and retain their farms.
The members of these committees
work without pay. They are per-
forming a public service in help
ing farmers and their creditors to
arrange settlements of excessive
debts and in recommending adj
justments which will make fore
closures unnecessary. Farm debt
adjustment service is available in
every state.
Q.-How were the members of
the committees selected?
AnS.-The governors of the sew
eral states appointed state farm
debt adjustment committees in
the fall of 1888 at the request of
the president and the governor of
the farm credit administration.
The members of each state COM
mittee recommended to the COVER
nor public-spirited citizens in all
parts of the state who in turn
were appointed to membership on
county farm debt adjustment COM
mittees.
Q.-Why was farm debt adjust
ment work started?
Ans.-Many farmers went in
farm products were much higher
than at present and now find
themselves unable to pay all of
their debts out of their greatly re-
duced farm income. For example,
a wheat farmer who went in debt
500 for an acre of land in 1914
did so with the expectation of
having for it with the returns
from approximately ia bushels
of wheat. In 1882, however, the
price Of wheat had dropped 50
sharply that it required the re-
turns from 1853 bushels of wheat
to pay off the debt
A farmer overburdened by debt
cannot conduct his farming oper-
ations successfully. and is not a
normal purchaser in his commun-
ity. In cases of this kind. the
farmer must obtain a readjust-
ment of his debts if he is to con-
tinue farming, otherwise he will
struggle along and sooner or later
will lose his farm.
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cent a year. These farmers are
now paying 4 to 5 per cent with
a temporary reduction to ga per
cent for interest payable during
the year ending June 80, 1887 on
federal land banks loans made
through national farm loan as
sociations. Montana farmers saw
ed over $S72000 a wear on inter-
est by refinancing debts with the
Farm Credit administration, and
a substantial additional saving re-
suits from the temporary interest
reduction provided by congress on
federal land bank loans.
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Pays Tribute
To "Scotty"
Friend of College Days Tells of
Ralph V. SCOTS Record at
Wisconsin u.

The following tribute to the
proves of Ralph v. Scott. famous
all-American tackle at the Uni
versity of Wisconsin in 1921, an
account of whose tragic end was
published in the August 21st is
sue of the Hardin Tribune-Herald,
is reproduced from the Wisconsin
State Journal of August ID:
big Scotty is dead!
This news flashed through Mad
ison today. brought a flood of rem
iniscences on the football career
and escapades of Ralph V. Scott
all-American tackle at Wisconsin
in 1921 who ended his life with
gas in Montana Sunday.
Big Scotty, as he was known in
his heyday at Wisconsin, was a
huge man. little inclined to
grow barrel like if he didn't watch
his figure, and a good deal of a
playboy in his college days. He
came back to Madison right after
the war, when flaming youth was
at it's hottest and the sense OF
liberation from war tension was
at it's keenest.
He had been on the Tuscania
when it was torpedoed. He had
been through the flames of battle
in France, wounded and gassed
Back on a college campus after
such experiences, he quite natur-
ally cut loose occasionally. His
frequent companion in fun and
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
General Land Office. Billings. Nom
tana. August 10. 1896.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
who. on February %. 1929. made
Orig. S. r. Hid. E. Act Dec. 20. 1916.
No. O3OS39. for Lots l. 2. SWA NEA.
SEA Sec. 26: NEA: SEANWA.
Township S.. Range II E.. Prin.
Mer. Mont. has filed notice Of in
tention to make Final Proof. to estab-
lish claim to the land above describ-
Public. Decker Montana. on the oath
dav of September. 1896.
Claimant names as witnesses: J. F.
Dodds. George Holmes. Willis Elder.
Delmar Gould. all Of Decker. Montana.
WILLIAM RIDDELL.
Register.
1st pub Aug. q. 1886.
5th pub. Sept. IS. 1896.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1936-09-11

Mr. and Mrs. Will C. Morris and
children, Billie and Virginia, were
Hardin visitors, Wednesday, from
their ranch home in the Sarpy
hills.
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NOTICE

Treatments given at residence
same price as Office call.
block west Library
Phone %.
DR.. VERNON w. WOLF.
OSteopathic Physician
Evening star., 1936-02-11

BY the Associated Press.
MADRID, February l1.-Juan
Ignacio Pempo, whose romance with
Senorita Maria Elena Rivero stirred
up as much interest as his trans
Atlantic flight to Mexico married the
girl today.
The ceremony was performed In
the Church of San Marcos in the
presence of numerous aviators and
diplomats from Latin America-but
with the brides mother absent.
Sonora Concha Rivero, who Is a
widow, was said by friends to have
refused her consent to the marriage.
Her place in the ceremony was taken
by Sonora de Pombo, mother of the
aviator.
Comdr. Genero Olivier, chief of the
military airfield, Cuatro VientoS,
acted as best man. Pombo wore the
uniform of a civilian aviation pilot
with the decorations conferred upon
him by the Mexican government last
year at the conclusion of his flight to
WOO Senorita Rivero, then visiting her
mother in Mexico City.
Today's nuptials were the religious
ceremony; the couple was first mar
ried privately by q municipal judge
three days ago.
Although Pombo received the medal
Evening star., 1936-02-11

tain Commerce Department field
workers have not been required to
report as to whether they comply
with department bulletins Of instruc-
ton because such reports are "too
condemning."
Previously, he said, employees in the
Newark, N. j., district reported in
one instance 100 per cent non-com-
pliance" with department bulletin.
To-day the committee called for
questioning Col. Edgar s. Snow, head
of the Air Transport Association and
chief Of staff of the Army's Air Sery-
Ice during the Wcrld War. Senators
sought suggestions from him on now
to make aviation safer.
The committee, headed by Senator
Copeland. Democrat, OF New York,
is active as o result of a resolution
passed after the death last year of
Senator Bronson Cutting, Democrat,
Of New Mexico, in q plane crash.
Evening star., 1936-02-11
SERVICES ARE HELD
FOR MAJ. R. A. ALLEN
Medical Corps Officer Is Buried
in Arlington-Widow
Survives.

Funeral services for Maj. Robert A.
Allen. So, Medical Corps, U. S. A., who
died Saturday in Walter Reed Hospi-
tai, were to be held at 2:3O pm. to-
day in Fort Myer Chapel, with
Chaplain Edwin Burling officiating.
Burial was to be in Arlington National
Cemetery.
The list of honorary pallbearers in
cludes Majs Guy B. Denit, Lincoln F..
Putnam and Joseph S. Craig; Capts.
w. Hinton Drummonl and Rawley E.
Chambers and Ernest F. Burchard.
Maj. Allen went to Walter Reed
Hospital for treatment from Fort
Wadsworth, N. Y. where he recently
had been stationed. He was graduated
in medicine from Northwestern Uni
versity in 1905. After considerable
service in the Medical Section, Officers
Reserve Corps. he was appointed
major in the Medical Corps, Regular
Army, July l, 1920.
He leaves his wife, Mrs. Martha B.
Allen, temporarily residing at the
Service Club at Walter Reed.
Evening star., 1936-02-11
DAVIDSON WILL.
COERCION CHARGED
StatIer Heirs Seek to Prove
Case as Law Professor
TestifieS.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CARTHAGE, N. c., February Ii
Foster kin of the late Mrs. Elva Statler
Davidson sought to prove today
through q Harvard professor of law
that the 2l-year-old bride of two
months was coerced into leaving q
$560,000 hotel fortune to her husband,
H. Bradley Davidson, jr., 40.
The professor, w. Barton Leach,
was recalled to the stand today after
previously testifying OF his relations
as legal adviser to Mr.. and Mrs. Da-
wilson.
He had told the jury of farmers
that he advised Mrs. Davidson her
previous will would be invalidated by
the marriage, and drew the new one.
The will was contested by a foster
brother and q foster niece of Mrs.
Davidson, whose death from monoxide
poisoning a year ago never was ex-
planned. A coroner's jury returned
an open verdict.
The burden of proof fell to the
caveators as counsel for Davidson
rested their case after introducing the
will, identified by Livingston Hall, an
assistant Harvard law professor, and
Miss Victoria L. Mercer, who wit
messed it.
Miss Mercer is secretary to Leach.
The attorney was not called by David
sons lawyers, but opposing counsel
succeeded in having him summoned
for croSs-eXamination.
j. M. Broughton of counsel for the
contestants asked Leach:
Didn't you suggest to Miss Statler
the night before her marriage that she
should make a new will?"
Not directly; I told her that her
previous will would be invalidated by
the marriage
He said he received $22,500 from
Miss Statler during 1884 for his serv-
ices, and that he represented David
son after his brides death.
Mrs. Davidson was one of -four
adopted children of the late E. M
Statler. The only one surviving IL
Ellsworth Statler. He, with 4-year-
old Joan Marie Statler of Tucson
Ariz, a foster-niece, and Miss lisa.
bella Baer of Minneapolis, college
chum of Mrs. Davidson and executri,
under an earlier will, are the cav.
Gators.
Evening star., 1936-02-11
VIDAL CONDEMNS
| PLANE FACILITIES
Director of Aviation Bureau
Declares Ground Aids
0bsoIescent.
BY the Associated Press.

~ tas 1ooSSAatS6 EASoos
Eugene L. Vidal, director Of the
Commerce Departments Aviation
Bureau, acknowledged today that "our
ground aids to aviation are obsoles-
cent"
He made this comment when re-
porters asked him about criticism OF
the departments ground facilities,
heard yesterday by the Senate's
Aviation Investigating Committee
The committee is seeking ways to
make air transportation safer.
Testimony included assertions that
radio and lighting facilities and
other equipment Of the bureau Is in
sufficient and inadequate and that
the number of its air fields Is too
small.
II agree with most Of It," Vidal
said, but he added that he did not
concur with any statement that the
bureau personnel was negligent.
Carl H. Dolan, a committee investi-
gator, said that in recent times, cer-
Evening star., 1936-02-11

to be truthful and honest; help me to
show that the cause I am asking Is
just; that I have unfairly been dealt
with. Help these jurors TO see the
light In justice to me. We ask In
Thy name, amen"
The court promptly declared mis-
trial.
Evening star., 1936-02-11

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Evening star., 1936-02-11
Trainmen Scalded to Death.

MONCKS CORNER, S. c., February
II tP).-Engineer C. B. Rutledge and
Fireman Paul Etheridge, colored, were
fatally scalded today when a side rod
broke on the engine pulling the At
lantic Coast Lines southbound Florida
Special and flooded the cab with
steam. Both men lived at Florence.
Evening star., 1936-02-11

for military merit from the Mexican
Embassy yesterday, there were no
Mexican diplomats present at the
church. After the ceremony attaches
Of the embassy said they had not been
invited to the wedding and knew moth
ing about 1t.
Evening star., 1936-02-11

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and mellow tone, pro-
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lends the antique charm.
8 pieces, including twin
beds.
Regular Price S235
Evening star., 1936-02-11
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American Hepplewhite, in
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The entire suite is a
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Evening star., 1936-02-11
Plaintiff Prays on Stand.

WICHITA, Kans. R.-C. E. Klag.
suing the Wichita Transportation Co
for 81, ,498. took the witness stand and
opened his testimony with this
prayer:
Dear Jesus, help me this morning
Evening star., 1936-02-11
Moral: Don't Scratch
Ear With Match at
Basket Ball Game

HARRISBURG, Pa. (R.-Ha-
rold Shaner's ear itched when he
was watching a basket ball game.
He pulled out an old.fashioned
match to scratch 1T.
A player took a shot at the bas-
ket, the ball bounded over the
sidellnes, hit Shaner's hand,
drove the match into his ear and
ignited it.
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in these states sell practically all of the
surplus they produce in this manner.
Some farmers in West Virginia have be-
gun to capitalize on this source of rev.
enue, but it is, as yet, virtually untapped.
Many farms in West Virginia are too
rough or too steep for economical farm
ing operations. These rough farms, how
ever, have good locations for small cab
ms or cottages that can be rented to
tourists at good profit. The tourist is
glad to find a place of this kind and is
willing to pay fair and just price for
the use of the cabin and services he OBJ
tainS.
Remunerative Crop
That the tourist crop is remunera-
tive one to other states is shown in a
study of reports from those states that
are catering to and advertising for tour
lists. Pennsylvania estimates the cash
value of tourists at $I85, 100000 per
year, and yet no one thinks of Pennsyl-
vania particularly as tourist state, as
one does of California and Florida. New
England and Canada report that the
tourists trade is their largest single cash
crop. 1t is reported that the Shenandoah
Valley derives $I5,ooo,ooo annually
from its tourist crop. Every other section
or state catering to tourists reports large
revenues from this source.
For the farmer to derive his full re-
turn from scenery as source of rev.
enue, it is necessary that he set his trap
and lure with attractive bait. Neat signs
should be displayed that advertise what
he has to sell whether this be rooms for
tourists, chicken dinners, fresh fruits and
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vegetables, or what not. Ugly untidy
roadside markets are no more likely to
attract trade than the ugly untidy coun-
try store.
The certified Mountain State tourist
homes supervised by the Agricultural
Extension Service of West Virginia Uni
versity, serve to help the farmers reap
their Just share of income from the tour
list crop, but they are not the only means
that await the alert landowner to OBJ
tain return from his holdings. Farmers
in some areas of the state have glimpsed
the possibilities of tourist trade.
The Wilson farm along the Midland
Trail near Huntington is an example of
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creasing numbers. These tourists are
potential source of revenue to all parts
of the state, and no one group has great
er possibilities of gains from this source
than the farmers of West Virginia. This
fact is self-evident to any person who
has visited Pennsylvania, New York and
the New England states. Everywhere
through the rural sections in these states,
one sees farm homes with neat signs ad-
vertising Chicken Dinners" or Rooms
for Tourists"
Roadside stands with vegetables and
fruits in season from the farms are COM
mon on all thoroughfares throughout the
states. Some of the farmers
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farm that has been turned into tour
ist camp. Small cottages here and there
dot the edge of the woods Running
water and place to cook is provided
at each cottage. These cottages are in
use continuously throughout the Sum-
mer months. Many persons and farnil-
les remain for weeks.
In the South Branch Valley cottages
and summer camps. are springing up
along the South Branch of the Potomac
river. These cottages and camps are own
ed mostly by farmers and rented during
the Summer months to the ever increas-
ing army of tourists. A group of farm
ers have purchased o1z acres near SEN
eca Rocks, Pendelton county, and devel-
oped tourist camp site for those who
come to see that magnificent outcropping
of white Medina sandstone that rises
goo feet perpendicularly from the waters
edge. These rocks are reached from
State Route S, leading off U. S. Route
22o just North of Franklin.
Help to Make State Attractive
Not only should the farmer expect a
return from the tourist crop, but he
should also assume definite responsible
Tourists bring many thousands Of d
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woods, only short time ago, are easily
reached by automobile in few hours
today.
The Midland Trail, North South
Highway, Seneca Trail, and the North
western Turnpike are known far and
wide and thousands of motorists follow
them every day.
Hard-surfaced roads lead to, and pass
through in many instances, some of the
most alluring, fascinating, rugged, and
ever-changing scenery that can be found
East of the Rocky Mountains. One
could not hope to find more fascinating
view than that of the New River Gorge,
as seen from the Midland Trail, U. S.
Route 60, or a more rugged and pictur-
esque scene than this same gorge presents
when viewed from the famous Hawks
Nest just to the North. Through this
beautiful gorge the New River flows
500 feet below the crest along the high
way, and I,2o2 feet below Hawks Nest
still farther up the mountainside.
There is no more alluring spot to
be found anywhere than that of the
Smoke Hole" in Pendleton county, mid
way between Petersburg and Franklin,
just off of u. S. Route 22o. Leaving the
main highway and entering this area, for
three or four miles, one cannot help but
be fascinated by the charm of rugged
peaks, roaring cataracts of the South
Branch of the Potomac, babbling brooks,
wooded mountainsides, and solitude
broken only by the wind singing through
the trees and the restless water of the
mountain streams making playful music.
What a haven for those tired from
worry and overwork!
Example in Other States
Search where you will, you will not
find Nature grandeur more completely
restful anywhere than in the scenery
along the Seneca Trail, as it follows
closely the backbone of the Alleghanies.
To list all of the many and varied
scenic attractions within the state of
West Virginia would require pages of
description, because most of it is clothed
in natural beauty, when unspoiled and
not mutilated by the sometimes careless
hand of man.
Thousands of tourists are visiting
West Virginia each summer in evcr-in-
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IN Undeveloped Source Of
Revenze for the Farmer

With the develop
ment of a system of
good roads, West Vir-
ginia has become &C
cessible to everyone
who follows the rub
berthe" trail. Hard
surfaced roads stead
lily push the frontier
back an d sections
which were b a C k