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Plentywood herald., 1937-12-30
In the
Press Box

Interesting hoop battles Will keep
alive the customers interest during
the Santa Claus season. Last nisht,
Wednesday. the local Wildcats were
host 10 the Williston Coyotes here,
in the first game since their sue
,essful Main line invasion, when
they trounced NashuaA2S to "a.
and Frazer. hitherto undefeated. %
to Q. The Coyotes took Skor's boys
by three points-lS 10 15-in a
same played two weeks ago.
-hlh-
Monday night the Wildcats will
try 10 rope the Culbertson Cowboys
at Culbertson. in the first meeting
of the teams this year. PlentywoOd
won both contests last year. Last
week the Cowboys nosed out Fair
view. % to 23. and previously had
dropped 35-23 decision to Pop-
lar. They boast high scorer in
McCracken. who manages upwards
of 10 points per game. 1t will he in
teresting TO see if the tight Wildcats
defense. which in the game here
against Poplar recently on one oc-
casion forced the Indians to pass
the ball for three minutes before
getting a shot. will be able TO keep
McCracken in check. The small Cul-
bertson floor will favor the Wild
cats man-to-man defense.
-hlh-
Observers are divided on the new
basketball rules, some contending
ii makes the game too strenuous
with no time called after a basket
is made, eliminating the center
jump. Metropolitan sports writer's
are "panning" the new rules, and
fans sentiment will probably force
a revision at the end of the season
The new rules also place a handi-
cap on smaller schools, which often
have not the reserve strength 10
keep five men at top speed during
game. District l basketball by
laws rule that eight men shall re.
present a school at the district tour
ney. but since the elimination of the
center jump the state rules allow
ten. We're wondering how many
boys on each team will warm up"
at the tourney here in February.
-hlh-
Leaving for moment the hoop !
warfare, the grid season gives its |
departing sigh by bringing together |
intersectional leaders in several !
bowl battles New Years day, Jan.
l. Leading the classics is the Rose
Bowl clash between California and
Alabama at Pasadena. We're picking
California, IA to Z. The West should
take the East in the all-star game.
and Rice will decision Colorado in
the Cotton bowl, in a close game.
Tune in at 2;45 for the Rose Bowl
game.
-hlh-
Which will be the seeded"
teams at the district tourney in
February? We haven't seen Scobey,
but from our observations they
should be Plentywood. Westby, AM
telope and outlook. The coaches will |
decide when they meet shortly be-
fore the scramble for the title be-
gins. At the same meeting the men,
tors will discuss the number of play
crs to be allowed on each squad.
-hlh-
Ana remember-only 307 shop /.
ping days until Christmas,
Plentywood herald., 1937-12-30

And remember-only 307 shop
ping days until Christmas,
Plentywood herald., 1937-12-30
FROM THE
HOOP CAMPS
NO GAMES

MEDICINE LAKE - There was
no action on the hardwood court
At the local CCC camp last week.
rs We 80 to press 1t. Everett is
getting his charges ready for the
game with the Redstone Independ-
EMS here. The game was PLAYED
as preliminary to the Williston-
Lake hiSh school game.
Plentywood herald., 1937-12-30
HIGH SCHOOL WINS

OUTLOOK - The Outlook Inde-
pendents We're defeated by the high
school team Tuesday. night. The
score was "A TO "a
Plentywood herald., 1937-12-30
From ashington

Bra d ey Dooley returned to
brentwood for the holiday season.
He has been employed in the state
OF Washington, on the Grand Coulee
dam being built there by the gov
ernment.
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their rails are lined by curious
passengers and crews.
The known dead are:
J. r. POIikOff, 20, an attorney, Of
Aiken, S. C.
wheaton, So, a seaman,
of QuanticO, Va.
The known missing:
P. Page, believed to be a North
Carolina attorney.
Cyrus Haynie, member of the
crew.
Fire Spread Is Rapid
1t was shortly before 8 o'clock
last night, less than an hour after
the steamer had left the dock in
Baltimore bound for Norfolk with
about rs passengers and crew
of SO, that the fire started on the
forward freight deck. In less than
three minutes the 297.foot steamer
was a mass of flames from stem
to stern, with horror stricken pas
sengers leaping overheard, some
not even taking time to put on
life preServerS.
Rescue parties today boarded
the smoldering wreckage and
found nothing to indicate anyone
might have been trapped in the
burned bulk. -
Three navy planes dispatched
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or are at the bottom of the
bav is not known,

or are at the bottom of the
bay is not known.
The vessel itself presents a gro
tesque appearance, top-heavy with
the stack and machinery housing
standing, and then only a hulk
burned almost to the water line.
The deck is piled high with a
strange assortment of articles.
There are beds and bedsprings,
blackened with smoke, twisted out
Of shape.
There are at least a score of
automobiles-at least they were
once automobiles. Now they are
melted, blackened metallic objects
of no worth.
Overhead three Navy seaplanes
fly low, the observers leaning out
and scanning the water. They
circle the place many times, and
follow along the channel, where
the tide might have carried vic
Tins away. But apparently they
see nothing, for after an hour or
more they give up the search and
return to their base at Annapolis.
Several passenger boats pass
close to the wrecked vessel, and
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Planes Hunt for Ship Fire Victims

from Annapolis to scan the sur
rounding waters for floating
bodies reported they found no
one. Although the worst of the
flames aboard the ship have
been extinguiShed, the wreckage
will continue to smolder for sew
eral days, it was said.
Exactly how many persons
were on board the doomed craft
may never be known. The only
passenger list was kept by the
purser, and his office is now a
mass of charred wreckage, the
lists burned.
Officials investigating the fire,
ventured today the expression
that had the fire occurred one
hour later, when the ship would
have been in a wider part OF
the bay, and many Of the pas
sengers would have been in their
staterooms, the loss Of life would
have been heavy.
Reason for Low Toll
The officials credited the ex
traordinarily small casualty list tc
the fact that the passengers were
for the most part, congregated In
the dining salon and lounge, anc
that rescue boats from shore coulc
reach the stricken vessel quickly
Capt. Charles o. Brooks, skipper
of the vessel, lived up to the tradl
ton of the sea and was the last
to leave the burning ship. He was
badly burned on the face anc
hands before he jumped overheard
and was picked up by a speedboat
He also expressed the fear tina,
some of the passengers might
have been trapped.
Passengers who survived the
tragedy were warm in their praise
of the actions of the officers anc
crew in the disaster. AS the flames
enveloped the ship, the crew
Jumped to their fire st a t on s
launched at least three life boats
handed out life belts and assisted
panic-stricken passengers to put
on the belts before they jumped
overheard.
Golfers On Vessel
The vessel was carrying manI
vacationerS to Virginia resorts
among them several noted golfer
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and rushed to the nearest hospi-
tails.
Scores Of the passengers sui.
fered minor burns when flaming
wreckage fell on them in the
water, hurled by explosions Of au-
tomobile gas tanks.
Further horror was added when
one of the rescue ships, the
Steamer Arkansas, came noSing
through the smoke and the two
ships collided, although no dam
age was done. The Arkansas
backed off, picked UP five Of the
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The steamer Maryland, OF the
Baltimore, Chesapeake, and At
lantic Line. under command of
Capt. Richard Howard, burned
and was beached near Mountain
Point, Md, at the mouth of the
Magothy River in 1914. Seventy
six passengers and a crew of "a
were rescued by the City of Balti-
more, which burned to the waters
edge last night.
In 1915 the Tivoli. also under
command of Captain H war d,
burned off Bloody Point. Eighty.
three persons were rescued, but
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survivors and took them to Nor
folk.
The pilot boat Sanner, on which
number of Baltimore officials
were taking moonlight cruise
down the bay, was in the vicinity
and put on full speed to reach the
stricken ship. She picked up 40
survivors and took them back to
Baltimore. Overloaded, she went
aground but was unchanged and
was pulled free by one Of the Coast
Guard patrol boats that answered
the calls. for help.
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who were to have taken part in a
tournament at Virginia Beach. The
vessel was scheduled to leave at
$50 O'Clock, but it was almost
half an hour late leaving the dock.
Red Cross Aids
When first word of the disaster
reached Baltimore several an1bu-
lances were rushed to the various
beach resorts to give first aid.
The Red Cross modified its disas-
ter units and sent a. number Of
sem to the scene.
At the White House when Presi.
dent Roosevelt was notified Of the
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searching for possible VIC
tins, others taking sight
seers for a closer view of
the burned ship. Some small
boat owners are reaping a
harvest in taking passengers
out to view the vessel.
A Coast Guard cutter
stands by, some so yards
away, and launches from
the cutter are cruising slowly
in the vicinity, looking for
bodies, and hoping they will
find none.
Find Life Belts
They have picked up a
number of life preservers,
perhaps mute evidence of
tragedy, life belts thrown on
in a hurry that slipped off
, At least two men are known
; to be missing, but whether
; their bodies are beneath the
!, twisted mass of wreckage
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fire he issued orders to the Navy
Department to give all possible
assistance. Nine boats were sent
from the Naval Academy at Anapo-
lis to search for survivors, and
at daylight today three Navy
planes took off from Annapolis to
fly over the bay in an effort to
find survivors or victims Of the
tragedy.
Summer residents at the
beaches and fishermen also aided
and, as the survivors were brought
ashore, they were given dry cloth
ing and stimulantS and the in
,ured were placed in automobiles
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Captain Towards two children
and four others died in the flames.
The steamer Virginia was the
next to perish in the bay. It burned
in May, 1919, near the mouth OF
the Potomac River. It was COM
manded by Capt. w. G. Lane. No
lives we're lost.
Ten lives were lost in the disaster
of July 5, 1924, in which the Three
Rivers, under command Of Capt.
Spencer Hall, burned off Cove
Point. Three hundred and forty
passengers were saved.
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Chesapeake Bay Disaster
Fifth Since 1914

Destruction of the steamer City of Baltimore by fire in
Chesapeake Bay last night marks the fifth disaster OF its
kind occurring in the bav since 1914
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News Review of Current
Events the World Over
President and Attorney General Defend Supreme Court
Packing Plan-Open Warfare Between C. l. o. and
A. F. of Franco Threatens Madrid
By, EDWARD w. PICKARD
g Western Newspaper Union.

ever it is deemed. John L. Lewis
says the c. I. o. has hundreds of
applications for utilization and that
he will take in any A. F. of L. unions
that wish to join his organization.
At the same time half hum
dred organizers of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor met with
President William Green to plan
means of protecting the body
against the c. I. o. and to hold the
ranks of the craft unions in line.
They arranged for an intensive
campaign to organize unions in steel
to rival the c. l. O.'s Amalgamated
Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin
Workers; considered spreading the
charge that Lewis is allied with
communist interests, and tn e
launching of plans to organize in the
cement, aluminium, cereal, and flour
mill industries. The organizers also
discussed organization of gas sta
ton attendants, which would over
lap with Lewis plans to organize
the petroleum industry.
The Carnegie-Illinois company
union, which is bitterly opposed to
the C. I. O., has not yet reached
AN agreement on utilization with the
A. F. of L.
General Electric and some of the
other big concerns that yielded to a
certain extent to the demands of
the c. I. o. followed the example
of the steel companies in asserting
that they still reserved the right to
deal also with other unions or
groups of employees.
Eight thousand employees of the
Westinghouse Electric and Manu-
featuring company's Pittsburgh
plant demanded 20 per cent raise
in wages and it was feared they
would start a strike if the demand
were rejected.
Because the Chrysler motor COM
pany refused to recognize the United
Automobile Workers of America as
the sole bargaining agency for all
its employees, strike was called
in all its major units in Detroit, and
other plants of the company were
closed because of dependence on
Detroit production. More than $4,000
workers were thus thrown into idle
ness.
The union also called a strike at
the Hudson Motor Car company be-
cause, they asserted, officials of the
concern were stalling in negotia-
tons on working conditions.
- EN-. FRANCISCO FRANCO,
~ leader of the Spanish Fascists,
was reported to be about ready for
a final grand assault on Madrid. He
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"China's Sorrow"

The Huang Ho river is called
"China's Sorrow because of the
manner in which it overf1ows dur
ing freshets, scattering yellow silt
as it rushes along. Sometimes it
sits up its mouth. Because of this
condition, the river has changed
it's course ten times in the last
Is centuries, each time opening
new channel to the sea. In do
ing so it destroyed everything in
it's path.
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be fought on the line between the
Tajuna and Tajo rivers.
Gen. Jose Miaja, loyalist COM
mander in the Madrid area, charged
that 1000 Italian troops were taking
part in the attack on Guadalajara.
These men, he asserts, were landed
in Cadiz on February %, two days
after the International neutrality
committees ban on permitting "vol-
unteers" to enter Spain was de-
clared effective.
The Smelling and capture of the
Spanish liner Mar Cantabrico by a
rebel vessel was a spectacular
event in the war. She was carrying
a cargo of planes and munitions
from the United States for the loyal
lists and sought to evade the
insurgent cruisers by taking tn e
name of an English ship. But, ac-
cording to story printed in New
York, the complete plan Of her
movements was revealed to the
agent of the rebels in that city and
cabled to their headquarters in
Spain. Also, according to the only
member of the crew who escaped
capture, the crew found the captain
was communicating with the in
surgents and executed him at sea.
The Mar Cantrabrico, with fire in
her holds, was taken to Ferrol. It
was presumed most OF tn e
Spaniards aboard were slain.
CLARENCE A. DYKSTRA, city
~ manager of Cincinnati since
1880, was selected as president of
the University of Wisconsin by the
executive committee of the insti-
tution's board Of regents. If he ac-
cepts the place he will succeed DR..
Glenn Frank who was ousted be-
cause he was not satisfactory to
the La Toilette regime. Dykstra is
fifty-four years old and a graduate
of the University Of Iowa.
w ITHoUT a record vote the
w house passed the new Duffey-
Vinson coal bill, which takes the
place of the measure knocked out
by the Supreme court. It would set
up government regulation of the
soft coal industry through a COM
mission in the department Of the
interior.
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assembled a tre-
mendous force of
tanks and artillery
before Guadalajara
and captured sever
al towns near by,
threatening the inn
mediate cutting off
the capitals last
road to the east.
Military observers
predicted that the
greatest battle o +
%Lo xx,ar xryoYr1l coon
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more men once
prominent among
the bolshevists will
60 to trial as trail
tors. F or e m o S t
among these unfor-
Inmates are Alexis
Rykov, former pres
ident of the council
of peoples commits
sars, or premier,
and Nikolai Bulk
harm, former editor
of the government
Orpan IZveStia.
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These two were expelled from the
Communist party the other day on
charges of anti-party activity, and
it is believed in Moscow they and
a score of others will soon be tried
for conspiring to overthrow the
Stain regime.
For ten years Rykov was pre-
mier of the soviet union, and before
that, during the civil war, he had
the job of provisioning the Red
army. Though succeeding to Len
ms position, he did not have his
power, for Stain reserved that for
himself.
DR. WILLIAM T. HORNADAY,
~ one of Americas foremost nat
uralists, died at his home in SIAM
ford, Conn.,, at the age of eighty
two. He was the first director of
the New York Geological park, re-
firing in 1926. Doctor Hornaday was
a devoted advocate of the conserva-
ton of wild life and steadily worked
for the protection of migratory fowl
and for federal game refugees.
One of the leaders of the Repub-
lican party passed with the death
of Mark L. Requa in Los Angeles.
He was national committeeman
from California from 1882 to 1886,
was a close friend of Herbert Hoov-
er and for years a dominant figure
in politics on the West Coast. During
the World war Mr.. Requa was di-
rector of the oil division of the Unit
ed States fuel administration and
the "motorless week-ends" he es-
tablished are still remembered.
FIGURES supplied by the Depart
4 ment of Commerce show that the
live stock producers who predicted
the United States would be forced
to depend on foreign meat imports
this year were right. During jan
uary the arrivals of foreign pork
at domestic ports set an all time
record for any month, and the inn
ports of meat were far in excess of
those a year ago. This condition
is blamed on the drouth and the
four-year federal crop control pro-
gram.
Meat imports in January aggre-
gated S0,S87, 900 pounds, compared
with 1892 1000 in January of 1896
and only 7,14,000 pounds in 1885.
Dressed pork imports alone reached
the record figure of $3.50, 033 pounds
compared with 1850, 389 in January,
1886, and only 265, 900 in 1885.
Heavy imports of pork continued
during the first three weeks Of Feb
ruary, government figures for re-
ceipts at New York indicated. Dur
ing this period foreign nations
shipped 1888, 500 pounds of pork to
New York, which exceeded imports
for any February.
Canada proved to be the largest
source of supply for the American
market. Imports of all kinds of
meat from Canada during the first
month of this year were approx
imately 1902, 900 pounds, an in
crease of 100 per cent over the s.
884, 900 pounds imported in January
of last year.
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mittee, the contro-
versy over the prop
osition to enlarge
the Supreme court
took on renewed
heat. Mr.. Roose-
velt's talk was s o
generally heard over
the radio that no ex-
tended report Of it
is needed. He made
an extraordinarily
bitter attack on the
majority Of the Su-
nraroe court that
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HITHERTO on a temporary
4 basis, the United States mari
time commission is now permanent
ly established, or will be as soon
as the senate acts on nominations
sent in by the President. Mr.. Roose-
welt selected as chairman of the
commission Joseph p. Kennedy of
New York, former chairman of the
securities and exchange commits
sion. He is a millionaire banker
and business executive and a stanch
supporter of the New Deal. The
other members named are Thomas
M. Woodward; Rear Admiral Henry
A. Wiley, retired; Edward c.
Moran Jr., former Maine congress
man, and Rear Admiral Emory S.
Land, retired. Moran, Wiley, and
Land were named to the temporary
commission appointed last fall to
cope with the maritime strike.
Kennedy once served the Bethle-
hem Shipbuilding corporation as
business administrator. In that ca
pacity he met and became a warm
friend of the then assistant secre-
tary Of the navy, Franklin D.
Roosevelt. He was active in the
Presidential campaigns of 1882 and
1886.
WILLIAM ABERHART, social
w credit premier of Alberta,
Canada, has introduced a bill that
would give his government full con-
troll over every business, industry,
trade and occupation in the prov
ince, and would force every man,
woman and child to pay personal
license fee to carry on his or her
work.
The bill gives the cabinet the
power to refuse to grant or renew
license to any person or business
operating in the province, and to
impose a maximum fine of $50 for
individuals, and 5000 for corpora
tons, or a Jail sentence of up to
ninety days for attempting to carry
on without the governments per-
mission.
Another law proposed by Aber-
hart gives the administration power
to fix minimum and maximum
prices for all commodities and serv-
ices and to prescribe standards of
"ethics, methods, practices or sys-
TENS"
n ICTATOR STAIN hasn't yet
- cleaned up the Russian Com
munist party to his own satisfac-
ton, and it seems probable that
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MYTH the repercussions from
w the Presidents fireside radio
address and the opening of hear
ings by the senate judiciary COM
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N ICTATOR STAIN hasn't yet
- cleaned. up the Russian Com
munist party to his own satisfac-
ton, and it seems probable that