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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1937-11-25

Trade goes where It is invited:
Evening star., 1937-02-26

night, and am going to try to make
something happen, please notify
(name Of daughter, deleted by police).
"P. 81 turned out the light in the
icebox because I don't want to blow
up any one upstairs. I am going to
turn on the gas at am. and If I
am not found by am. don't have the
gas squad and others here. It will
just cause scene.
1T Is now 2:45 am, and ! am still
myself. and hope to go through
with it. H. M. CRANDALL."
The tragedy was discovered when
an occupant Of a nearby apartment
detected gas and called police. Po-
lice, breaking into the room when
their knocks brought no response,
found Crandall's body in a chair,
with the head resting on table. The
apartment consisted of living room,
kitchen and bath.
Among relatives first to arrive In
response to a police summons were
John J. Payette. son-in-law of Gran
dali and general manager Of Warner
Bros. Theaters in this area, and Leroy
Sherman. another son-in-law.
Daughters View Body.
Others who viewed the body prior
to its removal to the morgue were
the widow and two daughters, Mrs.
Mildred Sherman and Mrs. Dorothy
Payette. Another daughter, Mrs.
Olga Burch, wife Of DR.. William T
Burch, lives at Bellhaven, Va.
Deputy Coroner Richard M. Rosen-
berg pronounced Crandall dead and
later issued certificate Of suicide.
Ill luck had dogged Crandall's heels
almost continuously since the Knick-
erbocker collapse. He was forced to
defend himself in 70 suits fled against
him and the Knickerbocker Theater
Co. Denying personal responsibility
for the deaths and injuries in that
crash, Crandall pointed out he was
not connected with the concern dur
ing construction of the theater, but
became associated with it only after
1t had been passed and accepted by
District inspectors.
The roof of the theater, heavily
burdened with a record snow, dropped
to the orchestra floor in the midst of
a performance, killing and manning
many prominent citizens More than
100 were injured, in addition to the
fatalities.
Geare and four others connected
with the construction of the building
were indicted for manslaughter
through negligence" but the District
Supreme Court dismissed the charges
as too vague"
Following his retirement from the
theater business eight years ago, Gran.
dali made number of vain attempts
to re-enter the motion picture field.
Evening star., 1937-02-26
Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.

His retirement had come after 81 years
of active endeavor in this line.
He launched his first motion pic
ture theater enterprise at Fourth and
East Capitol streets, where he opened
the Casino. small house seating 80
persons. The Crandall chain grew
until it included, in addition to the
downtown Earle and Metropolitan, the
following neighborhood houses: AM
baSsador successor to the Knicker.
bocker), Apollo, Avenue Grand. Gen.
tral, Colony. Home, Savoy, Avalon.
Tivoli and York. The group included
theaters in Baltimore. Frederick and
Hagerstown, Md; Waynesboro, Pa,
and Martinsburg, w. Va.
Until his death Crandall maintained
an Office in the Earle Building. Re-
Gently he had sought to sell his Six
teenth street home to the Turkish
government as an embassy. but the
deal fell through. Later he had
planned to rent the house.
The residence contains one of the
best private libraries in Washington
Developing a love for books, he had
designated q friend to collect rare
editions for him.
Crandall had entertained many of
the producers, directors and stars Of
Hollywood and the theater industry in
his home.
One of his last comeback" attempts
was during the Chicago Exposition two
years ago, when he contracted to show
a panoramic painting of the World
War at the big fair. Afterward he ex-
hibited the masterpiece" in a spe-
ciaIly built gallery near Union Station
Plaza The enterprise did not sue
ceed, however.
Evening star., 1937-02-26
FOUND.

FOUND.
FOUND-Dog. large. brown. similar to COL
lie wearing brass-studded tar harness
Phone Georgia 1904.
POCKETBOOK on End st.. in Petworth vic.
Call Randolph 1872 after 7:30 pm. or
District 1920. Branch 3343, between 9
and 4:3O,
Evening star., 1937-02-26

$25, 100000 for Highways.
South Australia will spend S25,.
100000 on highway improvement.
Evening star., 1937-02-26
Crandall
Continued From First Page.)

chose the same method Of suicide as
Reginald w. Geare, architect of the
Knickerbocker, who was found as
phyxiated in his home here on Au-
gust 20. 1927.
At the peak of his meteoric career
Crandall was reputed to be worth
s6,000,000. At the time of his death
he still owned a palatial house at 453C
Sixteenth street, which cost him $780,
900 to build. His wife and severa
other relatives came from this home
to the gas-filled apartment this morn
ing to identify his body.
The second note. unaddressed, told
of precautions Crandall had taken
against an explosion from the gas III
anything happens to me tonight" and
asked that one Of his daughters be
notified.
Reporters Handed Note.
When reporters. sent to investigate
q police report Of 'gas suicide" al
the Parkside, arrived at the scene, they
were handed a white envelope by Capt
Harvey Callahan. commander Of first
precinct.
Inside. written in pen and ink. was
the following note:
ITO the Newspaper Boys:
''Please don't be too hard on me
boys, not for my sake, but for those
I am leaving behind me.
"You don't have to look for the
cause Of me taking my life. I'll tell
you I have not committed any crime
Have no love affairs. Not insane
Have very good health. No. None OF
these are the reasons.
only it is I'm respondent and miss
my theater. oh, so much.
II have tried to get back in the
game. but no luck. Boy, I never did
any harm to anyone in my life and
I don't rate headlines. So just few
lines on an inside page. What do you
say, boys?
'Kind regards.
(signed.) III. M. c."
At the bottom Of the page, the note
was marked "over."
Nursed Idea Six Months.
On the other side there was Q
"P. s." It read:
II Just thought as I got here, ]
think have read some place that he
who takes his life is q coward. Oh,
yes. Well, have had this very room
for, guess. six months now. and
have not been able to do it yet and
maybe I may lose my nerve yet as
it is only 1890 am. now and I am
counting on turning on the old gas at
3 am, because no one Is on this floor
after that.
"And do want to make a good job
Of it. don't want to be a would-be
so, boys, II you think it don't take
nerve, just try it some time. Ha, ha
"Good-by, boys.
"(SignedD H. M. c."
The second note read:
IF anything happens to me to-
Evening star., 1937-02-26
BOY AND MAN HURT
IN CAR ACCIDENTS
Lad Ran in Autos Path, Police
Told-Another Machine Hits
Pole and Turns Over.

A 10-year-old boy and a man were
seriously hurt in traffic accidents re-
ported to police during the last "a
hours.
The boy-Xenophon Chiringa, 913
I Streets in Garfield Hospital with
what is believed to be a fractured skull,
suffered when struck by an automo-
bile last night at Eleventh and K
streets.
The car, police say, was driven by
Alvin Feinsilber, 80, of 529 Lamont
street. Police were told the boy ran
In front of the machine.
Losing control of the truck he was
driving, John Hughes, %, colored, 134S
Union street southwest, was seriously
injured when the truck hit a telephone
pole on a hill near Burnt Mills, Md,
and turned over three times. He was
taken to Freedmen's Hospital, where
it was said he may have a broken back
and a crushed chest.
Meantime, police announced an in
quest would be held tomorrow in the
death of Harry ButZ, So, Of Newark,
N. j., who died in Gallinger Hospital
Tuesday Of injuries received in an ac-
cident at John Marshall place and c
street last Sunday.
Evening star., 1937-02-26

to the injury Of the United States.
and to the benefit Of another nation.
"The allegations charge not a con-
spiracy to perform a single act, but
q continued course of disloyal conduct
to your country to its detriment. This
was such a plot as Is abhorrent to
every good citizen. The very thought
Of it should be beyond the contempla-
ton of an American.
This was a continuous and per-
sistent plot, cleverly carried on by
you and emissaries Of a foreign coun-
try, masquerading under diplomatic
guise, and hiding behind diplomatic
immunity.
Through deception, stealth, thievery
and imposition on your friends in
the naval service, you succeeded in OBJ
tanning confidential information and
delivering it to these emissaries for
money.
IF We had been at war. your acts
would have been tr son, and punish
able by the severest penalty. 1t seems
to me that the duty rests upon the
court in q case Of this sort to impose
such q sentence as will be q deterrent
to others, so that others, tempted, as
you have been, to sell out their ccun-
try, will consider your condemnation
and degradation before doing So"
Whether Farnsworth may appeal
was q matter Of conjecture today,
since no notation to that effect was
made following sentence. However.
last Monday, after overruling q mo-
ton by Farnsworth to withdraw his
plea Of nolo contendere and plead not
guilty. Justice Proctor said he would
note Farnsworth's exceptions to his
ruling, 80 as to protect the accused
mans right Of appeal.
Replaced Counsel.
Filing Of the motion in arrested
judgment yesterday was the first in
dication that Farnsworth had en-
ployed counsel to replace william E.
Leahy and William Hughes, jr., whom
he discharged In open court Mon
day. stating that he and his attor.
neys were unable to agree on certain
phases Of his case.
Both Ieahy and Hughes were put
on the witness stand and questioned
by Justice Proctor as to whether they
had attempted to coerce Farnsworth
or had requested him to plead nolo
contendere. Each vigorously denied
the implication of the question. JUS
tice Proctor then said he would re-
fuse to allow Farnsworth to change
his plea.
The japanese with whom Farms
worth was alleged to have conspired
were Comdr. Yosiyuki Itimiya and
Lieut.. Comdr. Okira Yamaki. Both
since have returned to their native
land.
Also pending is another Indictment
which charges that Farnsworth COM
municated and attempted to COM
municate to the Japanese government
information concerning q confidential
Navy publication. 1.-THE Service Of In
formation and Security" No effort has
been made to bring this true bill to
trial.
Farnsworth,s nolo contendere plea
came as q surprise. The Government,
expecting the case to 60 to trial. had
subpoenaed 81 witnesses. Many OF the
witnesses were brought to Washington
1T considerable expense from distant
sections of the country. A few OF them
were naval officers serving with the
Atlantic and Pacific Battle Fleets and
were at sea when called to Washing
ton.
Evening star., 1937-02-26
BATTLE SPREADS TO SEWERS
Hand to Hand Struggle for Possession
of Ovied0 Continues.

BAYONNE, Franco-Spanish From
tier, February 26 LR.-The hand-to-
hand struggle for possession of Oviedo,
pearl OF the Asturias," spread into
the ancient sewers of the devastated
city today, government commanders
reported.
Blasted out of their strongholds
above ground, including the heavily
fortified Vega arms factory, the REM
nants Of the insurgent garrison were
reported to have barricaded them
selves in sewers in the Santo Domingo
section.
Insurgent advices, however, declared
wave after wave of attacking militia
men had been beaten back and the
government forces finally were with
drawing from the dynamite ripped
city.
The insurgent reports admitted,
however, that the garrison had in
trenched itself in underground posi-
tions.
Both besieged and besiegers were
said to be nearly exhausted after
nearly week of fierce fighting. Grimy
fingers firing at triggers and bloodshot
eyes weary at gunsights brought a
comparative lull in the din of battle.
Bilbao dispatches said government
troops had reached Central American
Square and that houses were being
fortified in preparation for fresh
thrlsts to drive the insurgents from
cover.
The Vega Arms Factory, one of the
strongest insurgent positions in the
northwestern Spanish city. fell after
two days of struggle, said Gijon re-
port yesterday.
Capture of the factory was accom-
panied by renewed aerial lombard
ment and dynamite throwing by
''dinamiteros" from the Asturian mine
lands. A squadron of bi-motored
planes swept over the already nearly
ruined city, hurting fresh explosives at
1nsurgent positions.
The "diramiteros," ducking the
spatter Of machine guns, crept close
to houses in the Zabaleda Eguilaz
sector and hurled their sputtering
bundles Of dynamite through the win
dows. The houses burst like toy bal
looms.
Evening star., 1937-02-26
FarnswOrth

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1937-02-26
MADRID BATTALION
IS ANN|H|LATE0I
Spanish Insurgents Report
That Madrid Counterfeit,
fensive Has Collapsed.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
AvILA, Spain, February 26.-The
insurgent command asserted today the
general government offensive on the
Madrid front had collapsed after an
entire battalion of Madrid militiamen
had been annihilated with machine
guns and hand grenades.
The number of soldiers caught in the
wholesale slaughter was not estimated
but insurgen' officers said the bat
taIons usually number between 600
and 1000.
Concentrate Near Bridge.
The government battalion was re.
ported to have attacked an insurgent
concentration near the Segovia bridge
over the Manzanares Piver on the
western edge of the city In desperate
attempt, the insurgents said, to break
up siege lines.
But, as they thrust against the in
surgent barricades. repeated blasts OF
machine gun fire and hand grenades
moved them to the ground.
The bridge is at The southeastern
corner Of Casa de Campo Park which
is bordered on the south by the Ex-
tremadura road. The attack and
smashing defeat occurred late yester-
Gay, the insurgents re ,rted.
Assault Repulsed.
Dispatches fron the front reporting
o collapse of the government offensive
said the only fighting today saw the
repulse of a government assault on
Carabanchel Bajo, few miles south
west of the capital.
An entire group of 60 militiamen
participating i the attack, the re-
port said, ran toward the insurgent
trenches with their arms raised over
their heads in token of surrender.
More than $50 others were killed,
Insurgents said.
BATTLE SPREADS TO SEWERS.
Evening star., 1937-02-26

would be sought today, notwithstand-
ing a move by Federal agents to bring
Vandenbush to trial for the Turnbull
kidnapping.
"Just q country cop" sneered VAN
denbush at Patrolman Hendricks, Of
the North Castle town police force.
That cut, considering the circum-
stances.
They could have filled me full Of
lead" retorted Hendricks to every one
assembled.
Evening star., 1937-02-26
LOST.


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Evening star., 1937-02-26
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-07-20

nSneu.
 This fact helped him and Golfers get a scoop in the recent linden burg disaster Last october he made trip across the ocean in the blimp but instead of running the article written from that experience anc from facts about the Hindenburg gleaned on the trip, Golfers decid- ed to hold the article until the next ocean-going voyage of the blimp
 The article finally appeared in 8 May issue of the Collier's-just one day before the IIindenburg exploded and capsized at Roosevelt Field. Vir- tually all newspapers in the United States used his article as a refer 'ence-and two New York newspa- .pers reprinted it.
 MT. Courtney said he would cal on Gov. John w. Troy this after noon, if the Governor would be ablC Ito see him. After he leaves Alaska he will be joined by his wife before he goes to Spain. She accompanies IhlIn n many of his journeys.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-07-20
SALMON PACK IS COMP ARADLE:
 TO 1885 SEASON
Nearly Two Million Cases Put Up Thus Far This
 Year, Figures Show

The Alaska salmon pack thus far this season is standing up favorably in comparison with the pack for 1885 but somewhat behind last year, according to L. G. Wingard, Alaska Agent of the U. $. Bureau Of Fisheries.
 Figures compiled so far by the Bureau reveal the Southeast Alaska pack at 425,0o0 cases and the re- mainder of Alaska at 1,526,000, or a total through last Saturday of l. 951,000 cases.
 The 1886 pack for the same period was 2,793,000 cases while in 1885 it was 1,563,0OO cases, but in 1885 Bristol Bay had only limited sea- son, being confined to only about 100000 cases, thus the pack this sea- son and the one of 1885 is on ap- proXimately the same plane.
 The pack last season established the record breaking high mark of 8000,000 cases.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-07-20
B COME HERE
 FROM STATES
 ON NORTH SEA
White Liner Docks in Ju- neau Early today
 Sails for Sitka

TWenty-three persons arrived in Juneau today at a. m. upon the arrival here from the south of the white liner North Sea, Six persons sailed with the North Sea for Sitka at II a. m.
 Coming here were: Thomas Ryan, Carol Sly. Mrs. Pearl Marsh, Mrs. William Redling, Mrs. H. Messer- schmidt, Mrs Edward Heron and her baby, Mrs w A. Savikko, Joe rene Savikko, Mrs. Ernest Vaughn, MT and Mrs J. F. Brod, R. V. Welts, Dan Gillis, Mrs. Annie Mer- Till, Mrs. J. M Mccormick. Will liam Sulzer, Dick Willis, Patrick Henry, Lillian Kaloh, Dagney Lo- seth, Frances Newman and Lieut.. Thurstein.
 Leaving for Sitka were; Mrs. Mary Camp, MT and Mrs. c. Bonet, Carl z. Holden. c. w. Danielson and Mrs. w. A. Payson.
 In addition to the local outbound passengers there were 118 round- trippers and 12 passengers bound for Sitka.
 The North Sea will return to the local port Thursday from Sitka and is scheduled to sail that aftcrnccn or night for Seattle
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-07-20
TIDES TOMORROW
DIVER LAGASA FLIES
 TO TAKU HARBOR IN
 MARINE PLANE TODAY

After taking J. N. Gilbert, pack ing executive, to Excursion Inlet yesterday afternoon, Pilot Alex Hol- den, assisted by Flight Mechanic Lloyd Jarman, flew the Marine Airways Fairchild Il seaplane to Chiehagof, where he took aboard three prisoners for the U. s. Mar shal's office He then returned to Excursion Inlet for MT. Gilbert and on the way back to Juneau stopped at Hawk Inlet to pick up Joe Collier for here
 After taking it easy this morning. Pilot Holden took off this afternoon on charter roundflight to Taku Harbor with deep-sea diver A. J LaGasa; following which he was to fly Oscar Bergseth and four other fish executives to the New England Fish Company cannery al Chatham.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-07-20

government troops by a decided margin
 If Italy and Germany do not throw in too much armament and troops, the Loyalists eventually will conquer. The people of Spain even in the sections the rebels have already taken-are pro-Government. The rebels lost their big chance when they didn't win quick vic- tory. But now that it is a pro- longed war, I look for a Govern ment victory.
 Loyaiists Winning
 Now the Loyalists have a we'll trained army whereas before they had a disarranged group of light ing men And the people are for the Government because the rebels represent the forces that have al- ways ground them down.
 There is, also, a better spirit among the soldiers of the Loyalists because they are fighting for prin- ciples The Rebels, on the other hand, arc nercenaries fighting for salaries"
 England's new armament pro- gram, however, will keep peace in Europe, he declares.
 Having visited Mussolini, Hitler
The Daily Alaska empire., 1937-07-20

and Stalin in his official duties MT Courtney compared them as follows. Mussolini speaks the best English of the three dictators. Hit Ter has done the most for his coun- try, raising Germany up from a nation that had sank down into a country proud of it's national honol although MT. Courtney does not approve of many things Hitler is doing; and Stalin is the best man for Russia at this particular time having strong will and a determ- ined mind.
 Doesn't Like Censorship
 MT. Courtney did not like the Fas- cist methods of censorship, he said although they didn't bother me a whole lot"
 Since he does not nave to file daily stories, like correspondents foi newspapers, MT. Courtney could lock around, gather material fol his articles and then wait until he left the country to compose the ar ticles. He enjoyed much more free dom while Investigating the gov- faction in Spain than when he examined their adversaries. And" he smiled, T don't think I'd have much chance of getting into Ethiopia for another peek since writing my story on the situation there during the Italian conquest. Mussolini didn't like it much"
 Articles Are Different
 Mir Courtneys articles naturally are different from those of newspa- per correspondents because he must get his stories in at least eight weeks before they are printed. Consequent ly. he has to secure articles that will be timely when they are pub