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Continued from last weekly

Files of the estate at the time
OF the petition to sell real estate
revealed no report or confirma-
ton as to the sales Of personal
propety. 1t may be claimed that
by the terms of the will the ex-
ecutOr could sell personal proper
ty without an order of the court.
Whether the will gave him that
power or not, he must make re-
turn of such sales as in other
cases and no title passes unless
the sale be confirmed by the court
CT judge. Is appendix.
IN recalling in the early por-
tiOn Of the brief that between the
death of Montgomery and the fill
ing of the petition to sell realty,
Gilbert uttered notes over his own
signatures as executor, unlawful
ly, amounting to $117,O42 which
were run in as debts Of the es-
tate, according to his testimony
IN this particular, yet the Court
must remember that these notes
which are listed earlier in this
brief are such illegal notes as
were in existence at the time this
case was heard in the lower court.
We have no way of telling how
many such illegal notes he signed
against the estate, and then paid
out of the funds of the estate
and are now beyond even his own
power, if he wished to be honest,
to determine. Beyond a doubt
there were many. Nor must the
court omit the consideration in its
general views of Gilbert's admin
istration that the list of $117O42
which we presented as having
been uttered before the petition
to sell does not embrace all Of
the notes which he presented at
this trial in equity. AS shown in
the assignment Of errors, Gil
bert's expenditures were more
than $400.OCO. 224 R. p. There
are exhibited other notes but
bearing date after the filing of
the petition. The aggregate of all
of them which he pretended were
genuine at this trial was S164922
notes of Montgomery still in ex-
istence and notes which Gilbert
had uttered. 231 R. 10. The notes
are added up in Exhibit Y run
ming in the record from GAL R. /
to 673 R. 26.
If Gilbert, under the limited
provision of the will permitting
him to borrow money ever bor-
rOwed any money to pay Mont
gOmery's debts existing at the
time of his death, he did not ap-
ply it to that purpose, for still
in existence, claimed to be still
debts of Montgomery and pre-
sented at this trial, were three
notes of William Montgomerv's
own signature, one for $4,000.
673 R., one for S5OOO.OO, 671 R.
and one for $3.50. go R.
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s.4s uf1EN CAN YOU
KISS AND make up?

FEW husbands can understand
= why a Wife should turn from a
pleasant companion into a shrew
TOT one whole week il every month.
You can say I'm sorry" and
kiss and mako up easier before
marriage than after. Bewise. Tfvo11
want to hold your husband yo,,
won be three-Quarter wife.
For three generation one won,ay
mas told another how to 20 .'sn1iI.
ing through with Lydia Is. PinIr.
mans Vegetable Compound Tt
beips Nature tone up the system
tnus leSsening the discomforts rom
the functional disorders which
women must endure in the three
ordealS OF Life: 1. Turning from
gHLhood to womanhoOd. > pre-
pairing for motherhood. 3 An.
preaching middle age"
Don't be a three-uuarter wife
take LYDIA Z. PINKHAMS
VEGETABLE COMPOUN6a
Go Smiling Through" " 'A
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CONTINUED from Page u

he bank and is cashier and presi-
dent, who was the executor. The
methods pursued by the officers of
this bank would seem to be unique
in the annals of swindling by legal
process and corporation control Of
the courts of Montana.
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= RRNIT EC00FF OF N0RTPHFLL41OlNN
-. M The e, FIRST = NITOINN,. N[IiON
. OF OF IoH,ON, IDoILLON, associ.t.IO tlIONM,
. IL1OOOOTING, I1OONG, is a -T mil ESTATE,
. ExTTTKnTHWEST xTTn1H4 BANCoRStpdt55' Nc St t5'
. S1ho S91tFol Of and ma msDo"os owns tn,
. GREAT FALLS %%I'ages %ITgYes, the,
. PAEyt5' PANK' and the sA 'IrIUSlS5L' IISlyd5IL.
. "a BANK & & TRUST NTpSl0y'
: OF HELENA, ana C.TIMPANY' ~
. BANK & TRUST TT CnS,IO I9S IOALY'
/" OF ANACONDA. N0"PANY :,
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: west BaneOrpOrati5on5 5"s e North, North
. p :Terful ,s influence in i II. esett' a,tt
OF Montana, which :, NE I STATE
. tC,IS e 1Sdvssntage va in delayinSs hrs tss %' 3,
e = + ******&*;&,%s'ss. 4 ,s's. %s
to the same extent and ;.
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CObban & Casev no orI ,IenqoFS C,S
1s9, hans 5 and Case'y's '"V yeO5o, DGS'
White; that having .oen! oTnaof
With full notice Of the 6Hsgplfed trret
he became himself 'V .. 1ra't
for Whitney with resDsct ssgsts e.
the property and is bdnnl os - 70
ass assign as the original trusto. I'll =,
White, himself. would IaS''s ba"
Whitney '. Dewey, @ c.
Al 15S Fed. at page q SqS ~
Where brokers use fnst DYof f,,,.
in bucket shop TRANSACTION ~ ~ : +.
customer who was q trustao ~ q :
the funds, brokers are liable h
the same manner as the trn-to,,
Joslyn V. Downing Hopkins & Ca
10Th C.CA.) $50 Fed 817
A we'll reasoned opinion on ,
Continued on page 81
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APPELLANTS BRIEF
(PIaintiff Below
George Hugh Montgomery,
Appellant,
Defendants Below

vs.
Defendants Below
]. II. Gilbert. The First Ma
tiOnal Bank of Dillon. Mon
tana. a corporation, Alfred
n. Peterson. Emma Peter
son. Elizabeth A. ClemOw.
as Executrix of the Estate
of George NJ. ClemOw. De-
ceased. Elizabeth A. Glenn
Ow, The Federal Land Bank
of Spokane, a corporation
Jules E. Wenger, Fred
SchOnnenberger and
SchOnnenberger. Margaret
Mary Montgomery Tuck
er and Helen Cecilia
Montgomery Collins and
Cecilia L. Montgomery,
Appellees,
STATEMENT OF THE CASE
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Coed Staying Inquiry
CenterS i'm Hotel

be released within a day or two.
Last night, for the first time since
he was taken into custody Satur-
day night, Sheriff Brown Ques-
toned Wollner.
According to the sheriff, VOL
ner changed his story slightly, but
adhered to the essentials Of his
alibi-namely, that he was at the
home of Mrs. Essie Ward, q widow.
and her daughter, Miss Mildred
Ward, 10, where he was a roomer,
from $3.50 o'clock Wednesday night
until 8 o'clock the following morn
ing, thus accounting for his where
abouts at the hour of the crime.
Miss Ward, who has been keep
ing company with Wollner about
a year, corroborated his alibi.
Sheriff Brown admitted he did
not confront Wollner with the
stories he had obtained from eight
other persons which might be con-
strued as casting doubt on the
musicians alibi. The sheriff merely
obtained another statement" from
Wollnet. What Wollner said he
refused to reveal.
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5 MEN, WOMAN
DETAINED IN
SHOOTING
Police Probe Numbers
Racket for Clues to
Attempt on O'Brien

With five men and a woman held.
and two other men being sought,
police today were investigating to
determine If the shooting yester.
day of Joseph Edward OBrien.
%, of the 1000 block MaSSachu-
sets Ave. N. W., has any bearing
on the alcohol and numbers
racket in the District.
O'Brien was reported resting
comfortably in Providence Hos
pital, three bullet wounds in his
legs, while detectives were search
ing for two companions, Spike"
Burle and Richard Carpenter. who
fled following the shooting.
Viola Jennings, 81, waitress in .
cafe at Second and Pennsylvania
Ave-, S. E., in front of which the
shooting took place, was being
held by police as a material wit
ness,
One Of the men held, George
Frederick Tear, %, Of the 200
block Charming st. N. E., is q
brother of Richard Tear, fiance Of
Corinna Loring, mysteriously muir.
dered last November.
Tear and Joseph Edward Bend.
%, Of the 1900 block Thirty-fourth
st. N. w., were arrested in Fred
ericksburg, Va, following a long
automobile chase by State troopers
and later returned here for queS-
tioning. q"
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Three Armies March
To Storm Madrid

renting hostility to the Repub-
lean regime"
Government forces drove to-
wards Saragossa, Burgos, Valla-
dolid, Seville and Toledo. The
government claimed, without con-
firmation, that insurgents in
Toledo and Seville had Surren-
dered.
With half the army estimated
to be on the insurgent side, the
government was forced to rely
for defense principally on Marx
list volunteers. Every motor
vehicle in Madrid was COM
Wandered to speed the prole-
tartan army to the scene Of fight
ing. AS quickly as the regulars
score an advance, the volunteers
are sent in to hold the gain.
Insurgents in Madrid
The insurgents now profess to
control not only the ten southern
most provinces, but also IS in
the north.
Sporadic shipping kept Madrid
in q nervous state today, and the
secret presence of a large num-
Der of insurgents in the city was
barred with the distribution Of a
proclamation by supreme mil
itary iunta" calling on all civil
ians to help overthrow the radi-
cal government.
Barcelona is unconfirmably re-
ported to have been won by in
surgents after heavy fighting
Radicals gained Alcala de HenareS
and claimed Almeria Province.
The government announced to
day that it will take over five
important newspapers, A. B. c..
Siglo, Future, Infornaciones. and
Fl Debate them. and end
their conservative affiliations.
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Continued from Page ~

tCOnLlnue0 from rage
the gun used by the girls aSSailant
been found. A smeared print on
the small lamp shade in the girls
room is of little value.
The slain girl gave her uncle,
Prof. w. l.. Clevenger, of Raleigh,
no indication she had any men
friends in Asheville during their
stay here, according to c. w. Peg
ram, of Fairview, a friend of the
Clevenger family.
Talked to Taxi Man
Pegram revealed, however, that
ON Saturday, July II, five days
before the murder, Miss Clevenger
spent at least six daylight hours
in Asheville unaccompanied by her
uncle. Pegram and Clevenger
made arrangements to work to-
gether on reports having to do
with Clevenger'S position in the
dairy division of the North Caro-
lima State College extension Serv-
ice.
At about O'Clock this partlcu-
lar Saturday morning Pegram mo-
tored to the Battery Park Hotel
and picked up Clevenger. They
went to Dairymen's Creamery, at
Woodfin. where they made up
their reports.
Miss Clevenger was on the front
porch of the hotel when they
drove away. Just as the car was
leaving Pegram saw the girl talk
ing to a taxicab driver at the
taxi callers station on the porch.
The incident was told to the
authorities. They questioned taxi
men stationed at the hotel en-
trance, but none of them recalled
talking to Miss Clevenger.
Suspicion seemed to be veering
away from Wollner and there
was a prospect the musician might
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CONTINUED from Page II

ment troops throughout the coun-
try are gradually gaining ground
against centers held by the in
surgents."
Madrid newspapers, edited and
published under strict surveillance
or government censors, gave wide
prominence to these purported vic
tories, seeking to create the i'm
preston the strong armies dis
patched by the government to
quell the insurgence have met with
almost uninterrupted success.
Capital Is Quiet
The capital itself was more or
less normal with markets, shops,
banks, and other public institu.
tons open. Any attempts to ere
ate disturbances, the government
warned, will be dealt with in sum.
mary fashion and the offenders
punished to the full extent of the
law.
So far as Madrid is concerned
real evidence of the gravity of the
situation can merely be inferred
For example, new appeals were
sent out today for all healthy and
able-bodied persons to offer them
selves as blood-donors.
The inference was that so many
blood transfusionS have beer
necessary in recent days. oS
tensibly to save the lives Of 10y
aliSts gravely wounded in military
engagements, that q serious short
age of blood donors exists.
The newspaper FL Socialista, or
gan Of the Socialist party. sug
gested editorially that the Marx
ist militia, private army Of the
Red government. bio made the
nucleus of a new Republican
guard, with the present army dis
banded entirely on the grounds il
has thus far given proof of "un
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-07-22
u. 5. WARSHIPS
ARE SPEEDING
TO SPAIN
Oklahoma and Quincy
Ordered to Protect
Americans
BY ROBERT G. NIXON
International News Service

Two American warships sped
today toward Spain to protect
United States nationals in that
revolution-torn country.
From Cherbourg. France. the
battleship Oklahoma churned
soutward to San Sebastian, on the
Spanish French border, where the
summer seat of the Spanish gov
eminent and residence Of Ameri-
can Ambassador Claude G. Bowers
and embassies Of other foreign
powers are located.
The U. s. S. Oklahoma has been
ordered to proceed directly to
Bilbao, the nearest seaport to San
Sebastian. Bilbao is on the Bay
of BiScay in the vicinity OF Vigo
where a pitched battle took place
Monday between loyaliSts and
rebel forces in front Of the Amer
lean consulate.
The 383 Annapolis midshipmen
who were on the Oklahoma on
their annual training cruise were
transferred to the battleships Ar.
kansas and Wyoming at Cher
bourg.
Three days out from Norfolk,
Va, the new heavy cruiser Quincy
charted an arrow-straight course
for the British fortress Of Gibral-
tar to protect American citizens IN
the southern part of Spain.
Measure Precautionary
Viewing with increasing concern
the plight of American citizens in
Spanish cities where sharp fight
ing between government and insur-
gent forces have made the streets
unsafe, this government yesterday
ordered the ships to Spain as a
precautionary measure"
The 1900 Americans residing In
Spain thus far have escaped harm,
according to reports to the State
Department from its diplomatic
officers.
The Oklahoma, which has
been accompanying the annual
cruise Of Annapolis midShipmen
to European waters. is expected
at San Sebastian tonight or early
tomorrow. The Quincy will ar
rive at Gibraltar Friday night.
The State Department ordered
the Oklahoma to communicate
with Ambassador Bowers and
the American consuls at Vigo
and Bilbao, where sharp fighting
has occurred, and to evacuate
Americans should it be neceS-
sary.
The Quincy will be given
further orders when it arrives
at Gibraltar. or earlier should
the situation become so serious
that it is deemed advisable to
evacuate Americans at OF h er
Spanish coastal points.
The decision to order the Am.
erican warships to the revolution
airy zone came suddenly after Am
baSSador Bowers and conSulS at
Madrid and other Spanish cities
managed to break through the CEN
sorShip and informed the State
Department Of the seriousness of
the situation.
Hull Sees STANDBY
Secretary of State Cordell Hull
sent the orders speeding by radio
to the two warshipS after a con-
ference with Acting Secretary of
the Navy William H. STANDBY.
1t is the first time American
warships have been called upon
to protect American nationals in
a foreign country since the fall
of 1888 after the government of
Machado fell in Cuba and the
army enlisted personnel seized the
government in the famous "Ser.
| geant'S revolt"
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BAKER HELPER
ISU. 5. AIDE
IN SPAIN
Corcoran, Who Spent
Fortune in Youth,
Rises to Fame

A one.time bakers helper, who
spent q small fortune within a
year enjoying everything money
could buy in Washington to be-
come virtually penniless and then
rise again to a place in the
world, is now carrying the bur-
den of keeping the State Depart
ment informed as to the fast.
breaking developments in Spain.
He is william Warwick Cor.
coran, Of this city. who at one
time was the Beau Brummel Of
this city and the escort Of the
best known of the debutanteS Of
his time.
Inheriting about $4,000 dur.
ing his youth. the present Ameri-
can consul in Spain engaged a
suite of rooms at the willard,
purchased q motor yacht and
had everything that anyone
could wish. But only for q year,
for by that time his bank &C.
count dwindled to nothing.
Starts Life Anew
Setting out all over again, he oh
tanned a job as q bakers helper
and later became q mechanic in
the Navy Yard. Finally, he Joined
the news staff Of The washington
Times, all the while choosing to
buy q pair Of the newest SpatS In
preference to spending the money
ON q good meal, If his financial
condition necesSitated his making
the decision.
His ambition never Jagged. how
ever, and he began studying
foreign languages and mastering
the English classics. This aideC
his journalistic work, and he pro
crossed rapidly, meanwhile be
coming q favorite in the Socia
circles Of the younger set Of Wash
ington.
Finally, he entered the consular
service, and since that time ha'
had assignments in many coun
tries of the world, always making
numerous close personal friends
among the foreign diplomats
largely through his pleasing per
Sonality and thus developing into
one of the most valuable men In
the State Department.
Officials Mystified
Mr.. Corcoran'S characteristic
trait Of bobbing up heroically in
some crisis has developed in dis
patches he has been sending from
Spain since the outbreak Of the
revolution.
State Department officials to
day were mystified as to how the
consul managed to send his recent
dispatches, pointing out that he il
completely surrounded and sup
posed to be incommunicado
Nevertheless the dispatches have
reached the State Department
here via the American Embassy in
London.
1t has been suggested here thai
his newspaper experience has
played an important part in aid
ing him to get the dispatches
through, since such activities are
part of newspaper training. Prob
ably. some have said, Corcorar
has been using an amateur radio
set to get the messages to London
unknown, Of course, to the Span
iSh officials.
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American Injured
In Mountain Fall

VIENNA, July % G.N.sJ-An
American identified as Prof. Carl
Overall. of New York, was Seri-
ously hurt yesterday when he fell
from a precipice while mountain
climbing in the Tyrol.
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Treasury Condition

International News Service
Treasury balance as of July 20
50, 1886, $40, 554.71. Internal reve-
nue., $7,197 ,660.26. Customs re-
ceiptS, $40, 439, 4O2.66.
Evening star., 1936-03-23
Rivers.

In its orderly course a river is an aid
to man in his travels and in his trading.
1t bears him on his way in the easiest
and cheapest progression. 1t enables
him to transport his goods. 1t is his
highway and his source of supplies. But
when the river is disorderly it becomes
his enemy, and it takes heavy toll from
him. 1t is at once his friend and his foe.
d The river is a natural drain, to carry
of the waters that fall upon the earth
from the skies. 1t follows the lines of
easiest and surest access to the sea,
where all the waters that flow upon the
surface of the earth eventually find their
way, save those that are evaporated in
their course, to make in turn more rain
to continue the everlasting sequence.
When the land was wooded and the
soil was covered with smaller growths
the process of drainage was relatively
orderly and the streams coursing down
the valleys to the sea were, save in
extraordinary conditions, able to dis
charge their contents into the great
basins without trespassing upon the land
beyond their channels. But when the
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forests were cut and the soil smoothed
for tillage the occasional flows of the
drainage from the rains were increased
beyond the capacity of the channels and
the banks were over1owed. And finally
when cities were built upon the banks,
as cities usually are, these foundations,
due to the stripping Of the soil, took
heavy toll from those who thus gathered
upon the shores for habitation.
The floods Of the past week, costing
hundreds of lives and immense sums In
property destruction, are thus the result
Of the overtaxing Of the streams by the
stripping of of the retarding factors Of
natural growth, in some cases to the i'm
pounding of the waters for power pur-
poses without security against the strains
of extraordinary accumulations, and to
frail constructions incapable of resisting
the force of the torrents, which in their
rage are overwhelming.
Thus man with all his skill and s-tence
and invention has not yet successfully
defied the waters, has not tanned the
rivers, which in their orderly courses are
his most useful agency of travel and
trade. He has himself broken the laws
of nature and pays the penalty of his
trespass. Perhaps now, after long suffer-
ing and countless losses in life and
treasure, he will proceed to correct the
faults of his extravagant use of the land
and restore the balance by providing
proper means of drainage when the skies
empty and the rivers are relied upon for
the discharge of the waters.
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The ''Universal Man,

Francis Baccsl, the jurist- philosopher
to whom some perversely attribute the
plays of William Shakespeare, is repre-
sented as having believed that the
noblest men are those who have
acquaintance with the most numerous
aspects of life. The theory, it seems,
was commonly held at the Renaissance.
Thus Dante was universal man."
many-sided in his interests, energetic
in his enthusiasms, passionate in his
loves and hates. Jacob Burckhardt says
Of him aS the author of "The Divine
Comedy: "H we look at the matter of
the poem we find that in the whole
spiritual or physical world there is hard
ly an important subject which the poet
has not fathomed, and on which his
utterances- only a few words-are
not the most weighty of his time"
Nothing, in short, was either above or
beneath his notice; nothing undeserving
of his concern.
Nor was he alone in his receptiveness.
Leon Battista Alberti, perhaps, is best
remembered as an architect. Yet his
genius was many-sided. Burckhardt re-
ports: 'In all by which praise is won
Chez from his childhood excelled. OF
his various gymnastic feats and exer-
cises we read with establishment how,
with his feet together, he could spring
over mans head; how in the cathedral
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Shooting Stars.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON,

Taxation Style Show.
Here's another dainty model in taxa
tion,''
Said Senate salesman there upon
the Hill,
Designed for use and not for relaxa-
ton.
1t will be a triumph of artistic skill.
And here's another one and still an
other,
Which ought to cause beholders to
rejoice,
So make quick decision, oh, my brother,
You pay your money and you take
your choice.
Here's a model that Is meant to win
approval
OF the man who thinks the rich de-
serve to pay,
Who believes that by 8 process Of re-
movsl
Collectors cant be made 20 come his
way.
Taxation is very serious matter;
In history it plays havoc sad to see,
You might as well be heard in all the
chatter,
Cause you're going to get sample
c. o. D."