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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-04-30

BRID R-M NJ. Walker. 70-year-old
Bridger resident, was seriously injured when
pinned beneath q falling tree. At the Billings
hospital, where he was taken for treatment,
attending physicians reported he had Sustained
o fracture of the left hip and a compound
fracture Of the right leg.
BILLINGs-R. E. Morgan. regional srazier
here. for the past two and one-half. years,
has beeh' transferred to the field headquarters
office Of the division of grazing at Salt Lake
City. He was to be succeeded here by @. W..
of the grazing region embracing Montana and
q portion OF northern Wyoming.
HAvRE-Montanans who find it inconven-
lent to go all the way to England for the
coronation of King George and Queen Eliz-
abeth have been invited to attend by proxy
by participating in the coronation celebration
to be held May II, at Manyberries,~ Alta, so
miles from the international boundary north
Of here.
BI~LLINGs-county officials announced the
1897 battle against Mormon crickets was
scheduled to open at the Walter Newman
farm, when workers, equipped with dust masks,
aprons and sodium arsenite u will COM
after Matching and before they can damage
fields and garden plots.
CIRCLE-Njadi Sikveland reports that a
goat belonging to John McClain, gave birth
to bankruptcies. They were brought to Circle
and were the center Of attraction for several
days. Goats are known to have given birth
to triplets, but no one locally can recall
having seen quaQTuFNeCS DeIOre. The four
kids are all white. while the mother is Of
the black milk-type goat.
MILES officers elected at the
second annual convention of the Montana
Workers Protectiye union here include. J.
Burrows, Of Harlowton, vice president; Frank
Miller. of Miles City, secretary; William
Freeland. of Miles City, financial secretary,
and william Duagaard ST., Of Miles City,
treasurer.
- Purvis. Great Falls,
speaking on THE Menace of the Upper
World was awarded first honor in the
eighteenth annual Aber oratorical contest at
the State university. Carter Williams, Boulder,
with a speech subject, youngsters Speak,"
won second place. and Phil Payne. with
Fascist Tendencies in America as his sub
ject, placed third.
Carr, Dillon Boy Scout and
Beaverhed county high school senior, was PLAN
ming to tour Europe during the coming summer
with a delegation of scouts from all sections
plan to leave for Europe after the Scout
jamboree in WASHINGTON D. c., and attend the
world Scout jamboree in Holland. Following
the jamboree. the Scouts are to visit the
principal cities of Europe and return to the
United States by way of Canada.
CHESTER-In the local grade school declam-
atory contest. Frances eau won first in the
humorous section and Ella Warnes won first
in the dramatic. These girls will represent
Chester in the Hi-Line contest at Kremlip.
Winners of second and third in humorous
were Bobby Keith and Alvin Keith and in
dramatic were Marjorie Kuhry and Pearl o.
Ter. Judges were: Miss Sestak, Mr.. Sweeney.
and Mr.. Hough, members of the Rudyard
faculty.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-04-30
OLD-TIME A
SHERIFF PASSES
BILL HOUSTON, SO, MISSOULA PIO-
NEER is CALLED
BEYOND
Picturesque Figure Was First Missoula
County Sheriff Under Statehood;
Alderman in 1885, City Marshal in
1887 and Sheriff First Term in 1883.

william H. Houston, aged 8S
years, early day sheriff Of Missoula
county and picturesque figure Of
the west, died at a Missoula hos.
pital from the infirmitieS of old
age. Mr.. Houston was Missoula
cOunty's first sheriff under state
hood. MissOula county then includ-
ed all territory west of Bearmouth
to the Idaho line and north to
the Canadian boundary. He had
one undersheriff and three deputies.
Born at Logansport, Ind, May 7,
1858, he came west soon after ne was
able to vote. In 1875 he came to Chey.
enne, Wyo., where he met wild Bill"
Hickok. The latter got a job Tor young
from Cheyenne to Deadwood, when
Houston was % years of age. He carried
two SaWed-off ShotgunS and two l x
shooters. Those were the old days when
road agents were holding up the stage
coaches for gold and other valuables.
Houston's instructions were to shoot
first and investigate afterwards. He
was on that job several months and
there neve was a holdup, although
other stages had been robbed by the
road agents.
That year, 1875, Houston went rail-
reading as a brakeman, but was soon
made a conductor. He came to Mis-
soula in 1883, the year the railroad
was completed, as a conductor for the
Northern Pacific. He quit the railroad
and engaged in the hotel business in
1884, near the present freight depot.
Elected City Marshal
In 1886 Houston ran for sheriff, peat
three old residents in the primary and
wa a candidate against Dan Heytron.
A few days before his death Houston
.a.a11oJ - ~, old fr-ior1 fh9t thp ram
didates he beat for the nomination all
went for Heyfron, saying Bill" was a
kid and too young for sheriff. Heyfron
was elected.
However, he had been in politics
before that. He was an alderman in
1885 and in 1887 elected city marshal
and inaugurated the chain gang. That
was his first experience as an officer
with the toughs of the frontier.
It was in 1889 that Houston was
elected sheriff. II made the greatest
cleanup the west ever had" Houston
said to an old friend a few days be-
fore his death, when he was living
over the past. IT hanged five men,
shot one on the street and sent more
than 100 men over the road to the
penitentiary for different crimes"
ing up of four murderous Indians, all
of whom were convicted and hanged
with one spring of the trap in the
Jail yard by the side of the old struc-
ture which still stands.
Chase to Mexico
Later he shot and killed a gambler
on the street after the gambler had
shot down a policeman, following a
holdup Of a West Front street gam
conviction, hanged another mar who
had shot down a son of one of Mis-
soula's founders. That was in 1892.
When a man named Lamb robbed
the Northern Pacific of $1,000 worth
of merchandise and skipped to Mexico,
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-04-30
Dairyman Injured
AS Bull Charges

When attacked by a three-year-old
Guernsey bull, John Perelli, 81, owner
of a dairy south of Butte, sustained
a broken leg and two fractured ribs
a few days ago.
Perelli was taken to a hospital after
Perell'S sister, who saw the melee,
drove the bull away by using a club.
Pereli was leading the bull from a
him ramming him against the milk
house. The bull then charged again
hitting Perelli on the right thigh.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-04-30

dry tillable and grazing lands. The
state board of equalization has ordered
material reductions on those classes of
land in eastern Montana. It may be
significant that the board did not or
der those reductions until there was
little doubt as to the revenue beer and
liquor would bring. It seems certain
that if beer and liquor revenue is dis
turbed, the worker benefitting from
social security, and the farmer will be
called upon to furnish a share of new
revenue-perhaps a sales tax,
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-04-30
LONG DISTANCE RECORD

grower. set a long distance record of
some kind under the agricultural con-
s%ervation program. Last fall DeTurck
sold his farm and before deciding upon
another place, he took a trip to Bel
GUM. When it came time to sign his
application for payment under the
program, it wa necessary to send his
papers across the Atlantic for his sig
nature, says Frank Barnum, Rosebud
county extension agent.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-04-30
HIGHWAY BOARD U d

At the request Of the new members Of the
state highway commission, Governor Ayers
has named William Hosking, state accountant;
Mountjoy of Boulder members of a commit
tee to investigate and report to him upon
the condition of the department. The gov
alton would result in the board being able
to reduce its operating expenses considerably
through the elimination of unnecessary Of
fices and the consolidation of others.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-04-30

For years after the discovery of the
reaction Of sensitized surfaces to lieht,
Photographs were made on various
metals, which accounts for daguerreo-
types, ambrotypes, and tintypes'
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-04-30

The bladderwort, found in the waters
of the United States and Canada,
catches and eats fish. This plant lives
entirely under water.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-04-30

Berlin citizens drank SO, O00, 900 gall
Ions of beer in the year ending March
81, 1886, over four percent more than
the previous year.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-04-30

Glands bound for the ZOO IN Pre-
toria, South Africa, engaged in such
a fierce battle on a freight train that
four of them had to be killed.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-04-30

Garages have been built on certain
Transatlantic liners to enable nassen-
gers to take their cars aboard.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-04-30

As the result of a safety campaign,
hundreds Of Salt Lake City motorists
have placed metal tags on their cars
Accidents"
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-10-25

Senator Harry S. Truman of Missouri Lowenthal
Acting Chairman Harry Truman left
commerce committee investigating
Swerngen rail empire and the counsel Ioenha
are chatting during hearing Washington
Senate investigators drew from
of the Missouri Pacific railway the Swerngen syste
acknowledgement that he had
financial condition of the Missouri Pacific Transportation company
bus line subsidiary the railroad Wyr ad no option
the matter" acting interests of the
pany' He said to follow Instructions.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-10-25

=
orchid Mrs Franklin D. Rooe
guest and principal speaker luncheon the
Palestine City, drive for $l5OO
for new immigrant girls Jerusalem launched at
~ ~ " the meeting Central Pressl
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Bang! Missed!
Policeman Shoots
At Taxi Thief

Policeman A. K. Frank is known
as a good shot among his asso.
ciates, but he wasn't so sure Of
his craftsmanship today when he
"let fly" with this service revolver
at a fleeing colored thug.
At any rate, he reported he
didn't know whether or not he had
hit his quarry and consequently
a lookout was sent to all hospitals
to watch for anyone attempting
to get treatment for gunshot
wounds.
The incident occurred at Third
and v Streets Northwest today,
when Officer Frank, plotting a
scout car, overlook stolen taxi.
cab. The colored man, who had
taken the vehicle at the point Of
a gun from Harold Tucker, %,
hacker living at 1910 Second ST..
N. W., leaped and ran. 1t was
then that Frank tried to shoot him
as the thief made his escape.
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News Behind theNeWS By PamAla1zm

than one face First there is Chamberlin, the
premier, who is always telling Benito that he
is a favored sutton. Then there is Eden, the
foreign minister, who spurns MusSolni openly
and woos the other European court ladies with
fragrant antiMussolini snubs
That's Europe. Every nation is playing one
nation against another for its own diplomatic
advantage. You may be sure Mussolini went
to Germany not unmindful of the effect it would
have in London, where raprochement negotia-
lions with Italy are in the process of negotiation
In the end it will be surprising if II Duce is
not found on the side with the biggest Berthas.
TemperS Returning to "H0ndLe"
A few days before Mr.. Roosevelt arrived in
the home State of Senator O'NGahoney, State
chairman out there issued statement inviting
all ingrates to leave the Democratic party.
But when Mr.. R. arrived on the ground, he
said nothing like that. Similarly, Senator
OMahoney not only declined to be gone, but
actually boarded the Presidents train and shook
his hand.
1t appears that most of the tempers which
flew off the handle at the last session Of Con-
gresS are now returning to thoughtful axis.
Things which were said then in natural anger
are rapidly being forgotten, except among chronic
Soreheads.
The reason is clear. II any leader starts
stripping his party Of all who disagree with him
on any subject it is only a matter of time until
he winds up as the only member of his party.
No two human natures are exactly the same.
No two men think exactly alike on all subjects.
It means this country is still democracy.
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ZOOS animal
CARGO ARRIVES
IN GOOD SHAPE
Rare Specimens
Leave Train
BY ELIZABETH OLDFIELD

BY ELIZABETH OLDF1ELD
Despite the cold and the rain
there was an air of the tropics
around the Railway Express yards
at Second and Streets Northeast
early today.
For DR.. William M. Mann's
much.heralded birds and beasts
from the jungles of 16 tropical
countries were unloaded from their
freight cars.
The chirping of hundreds Of
feathered creatures land the most
gosh-awful odor) greeted the
crowd of railway officials, photog.
raphers and reporters as the doors
slid back showing crates piled
upon crates containing monkeys,
birds, tigers, jaguars and other
beasts of the jungle.
SLEEPS ON CAGE
Malcolm Davis, who is in charge
Of the Bird House when he isn't
hunting birds with DR.. Mann, slid
from the top of the tigers cage,
where he had spent the night.
Diminutive Layang Gaddi Sang,
a native of Borneo who acted as
DR.. Mann's chife guide while the
scientist explored Siam, Singar
pore, India, Africa and other
points east. was there, too. How
he managed to survive that odor
is beyond comprehension. But
he seemed fresh and clipper
enough as he talked in his precise
English.
Clad in a shapeless suit, white
shirt and dilapidated gray felt hat
and with horn-rimmed spectacleS
perched on the end of his nose, he
informed the press that he was 48
years old and had wife and seven
children.
KEEPER is THERE
William H. Blackburn, veteran
keeper at the National Geological
Park was there, too, as was DR..
Ernest Walker, DR.. Mann's assis-
tant. DR.. Mann, Mr.. Blackburn
said, was trying to get some sleep.
He added:
'It's the first time in a month
he's not being rocked to Sleep"
Mr.. Blackburn was particularly
anxious about the birds and how
Continued on Page 10, Col. y
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soIini has wholly lost his cunning.
The most convincing reason is Hitler has no
influential friends in the world except Japan.
The only thing he has to offer Mussolini is
seat on the minority bench facing increasingly
formidable England, France and Russia. There
are no cushions on that seat.
Duce's Eye on Britannia
The Duce, of course, did not go to Germany
just to see those 200 German beauties Hitler
paraded before him; or the Big Berthas they
went out to inspect the following day.
Unless the international beauty experts here
are missing the point entirely, Benito has his
eye on a brunette, buxom lass by the name
of Britannia, of whose sentiments he is not quite
sure.
Britannia in this drama, likewise, has more
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Perfect Cobby
Operates FiUe Years
Without Crash

If you were told that a man
drove an automobile IA times
around the world without an
accident, no doubt you'd say that
was quite an accomplishment.
But
If you were told that a man
drove taxicab an equivalent
distance on the traffic.crowded
streets of Washington without an
accident, no doubt you'd question
that such a feat was possible.
However, Richard F. Roger Of
the Premier Cab Company, has
proved that it can be done, and
last night he was rewarded with
the title of Washingtonfs perfect
taxi driver. Roger has driven
349,956 miles in Washington with
out an accident during the last
five years.
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coming on, but for her cold
weather and swirling snow hold no
allure. She had spent several
weeks of the summer visiting
relatives in Greenville, S. c., and
wanted to go back.
Gee, mother" she said as
they sat in their home at 1925
Seventeenth st. N. w., Il wish
had the nerve to hitch-hike
down there!"
That was last week.
Today her mother, Mrs. Ole
SINNERS, whose husband, Jules, is
a technician in the Army Medical
School at Walter Reed Hospital,
reported her daughter missing.
Police were told she left home
Saturday at p. m. and has not
been seen since.
She took no extra clothing, and
even left her purse at home. But
whether she is on the road to
Greenville or other points in the
South, or pursuing her quest in
some other direction, her mother
had no means of knowing. The
mother communicated with sister
in Greenville, she said, but her
daughter had not appeared there.
She described her daughter as
brown-eyed, with black hair, and
five feet two inches tall. When
the daughter left home she was
wearing a gray sweater, sports
skirt and blouse.
She is a first-year student at
Central High Scnool.
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fight to the country, to put the heat on those who
were thwarting him. The small coterie Of Brain
Trllsters around him were in ecstasy over the
prospects. And they made no effort to conceal
their joy. To see Mr.. RooseveltS opponents
squirming out in their bailiwicks was delight
full picture to contemplate.
We wrote about the plan at the time. But
something happened. In fact. terrible thing
happened. The ghost of HugoS past bobbed up.
It must have been this, more than the reports
of the State political leaders, that toned Mr..
Roosevelt down, that has made his trip, so far,
mostly an exchange of pleasantries and happy
howdy-do's to the populace Because his calner
advisers here had advised him against his plan
until they were blue in the face It took the ghost
of Hugo's past to accomplish what they had failed
O'MahOney "Crashes" Train
Instead Of Senator Joe O'Mahoney feeling un-
comfortable while the President was in his State,
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MISSIONARY is SAFE

Washington friends Of Miss
Katherine Thompson, missionary
in China, were relieved to learn
today of her safety in the Chinese
interior city of Kuling.
Her father, S. A. Thompson, OF
1926 Illinois Ave. N. w., yesterday
received a letter from his daugh-
ter advising that she was well and
awaiting evacuation instructions
from the Southern Presbyterian
Church authorities whom she has
served Is years.
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movie stars but with people who chad come to
see the stars" Crowds Of us stood on the out
side of heavy silk ropes, looking wistfully and
hungrily in at heaven. Near the door was a big
unoccupied table. I said to one of the mattresses
(she was dressed like lampshade, in short,
stiff linen dress which came several inches above
her black-silk knees:
"Why can't you put us over there?"
Good gracious no Madame! I couldn't pos
sibly do that" she said IT reserve that table
for Mr.. Gallery"
who's Mr.. Gallery?"
"Mr. Gallery"
Horror almost took the starch out of her
hairbows.
"You don't know Mr.. Gallery?"
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Hitler-Mussolini war alliance.
Those who know well the
workings of European diplo-
matte duplicity do not think so.
Italy is hardly a natural ally
for Germany. About the only
things they have in common
are the word dictator" and
hallucinations of their ability
to spend money they haven't
got. They might get together
for trade, customs arrange
ments or diplomatic purposes;
but for war, nevertheless Mus
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Parker to Speak
At ArgO Meeting

Benjamin M. Parker, special as
sistant to the Attorney General,
will speak at $50 tomorrow night
at the Jewish Community Center
before the Argo Lodge Of B'nai
Birth.
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more barren river beds and
cracked, eroded land.
As I sat in the observation
car of the train rushing East,
and saw the West hurrying
away down narrowing trails,
unwritten incidents Of the trip
across America drifted into
my mind.
So many amusing things
happened in Hollywood. There
was the time We went to the
Brown Derby for lunch. The
place was jammed-not with
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yorId copyright 1887 by King Features Syndicate Inc
strictly prOhibited.)
The scene of the two dictators getting to-
gether like old cronies for the German arma-
nent lark may look like the beginning of
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than what he is doing. There
seems to be no question that he
had to shift his plans at the
last minute, because of the
Hugo Black problem and the
reports he received from local
politicians on the trip. It is
not turning out to be what
originally was in mind at all.
The President virtually had
made up his mind for the trip
several weeks before the ad-
journment of Congress. It was
a. - - nnna - Io{e NJ 1s1sxyiYAnr 1Nic
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II certainly do not"
why, Madame, he's zasu Pitts former hus
band!"
And he was the only star that came to the
Brown Derby that day.
met woman in Nevada who had genius of
a different kind. She was driving alone in
car when she saw RATHER directly in her path.
She decided quickly to straddle the snake with
the Wheels expecting to ride safely over. How
ever, the rattler sprang on the drip pan of the
car and ratified away against the tin until the
woman almost went mad. She was afraid to
stop alone in the desert and afraid to go on to
the tune Of ''the singing"
At last, after miles of misery, she did stop.
She found wrench under the car seat, fear
fully got out, watched the RATHER jump from
under her Garland killed him!
When L was writing about Indians forgot to
tell you how a Navajo takes bath-when he
does take <batleI He walks mile or two to an
enclosure, sort of like topless chicken coop and
nearly filled with big stones. Before entering
this boudoir he builds fire therein to heat the
stones. Then he puts the fire out and gets into
the hot coop. And there he sits, perspiring
violently. After long steaming with pores wide
open, he emerges and rolls his naked body in the
sand. Then he's clean, so he thinks, for several
months. Putting on the same old clothes. he goes
proudly off to his tepee feeling superior to any
white man.
The Washington times., 1937-09-28
TUESDAY, SEPT. %
Seeing America Last By Helen Essay

Washingtonbound.-After Santa Fe, half
continent of lifeless desert. Then early one morn
ing fertile fields and woods and busting st. Louis,
uniting the West and the East with its energy.
Real water flowing in big and little streams. No
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ECLA|R'
EATERS READY,
BUT CITY ISN'T
DIR. IsamingerS SHES
At Making Test

Astounded by his own press
agentry, DR.. Melvin Price Isamtn-
ger, the Health Departments gen.
eralissimo of publicity, found TO-
day he apparently bit off more of
the poison chocolate eclair situa-
ton than he could chew.
Half a dozen courageous men
volunteered to partake of the
cellars. The poisonous pastry is
part Of a supply prepared last
week by a local bakery, which
made hundreds of persons i'll.
TEST UNLIKELY
But now that DR.. Isaminger has
his volunteers, it appeared I'M
likely they will be called upon to
eat the cellars.
He announced a definite deci-
sion would be made in three or
four days. He said the final word
on the experiment beloned to DR..
John E. Noble. chief of the de-
partment'S laboratories. DR.. Noble
referred all questions back to DR..
Isaminger.
If the men are fed the cellars,
DR.. 1saminger said, it probably
will be done in a hospital with
adequate medical supervision. He
called for the volunteers yester-
day after announcing laboratory
tests by feeding the cellars to
guinea pigs were unsatisfactory.
SEAL AGAINST IT
He said the human guinea pigs
were needed in the search for the
germs which rendered the cellars
poisonous.
Meanwhile Corporation Counsel
Elwood H. Seal expressed the hope
that the tests with human beings
would not be made. Seal declared
he believed no legal responsibility
would attach to the District since
this would be in the nature of a
voluntary assumption of risk on
the part of the volunteer.