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The Washington times., 1938-12-05
YOUTH IS HELD
IN FATAL FIGHT
WITH SOLDIER
Victim Knocked Down
Twice, Court Told

At a preliminary hearing in Ar"
lngton County Court today, Judge
B. M. Hedrick ordered Henry
Douglas Trammell, of Ballston, 23-
year-old mechanic, held for action
of the Grand Jury under a $4,000
bond on the charge of involuntary
manslaughter in connection with
the death of Private Guy L. Keel
er, 80, of B Battery, Sixteenth
Field Artillery Fort Myer.
Testimony at the earring
showed that Keeler and Trammell
engaged in a fist fight about 6
|p. m. November 20 near Tram
mell's home in Ballston. Keeler
died at Walter Reed Hospital the
next night.
KNOCKED DOWN TWICE
According to testimony, Tram
nell knocked the soldier down at
least twice. and on the second oc-
caSion Keeler's head was said %
have struck against the hard sur.
face road. DR.. w. C. Welburn,
Arlington county coroner, who
performed the autopsy, testified
that Keeler died from lineaI
fracture which extended around
the rear of the skull, and which
caused a four or five-inch blood
clot on the brain.
DR.. Welburn testified that, in
his opinion. a blow from a fist
could not have caused the frac-
ture, but that it could have been
caused by person being knocked
down on a hard surface.
The soldier was carried to Fort
Myer by Preston Cornell and
Ralph Lining, both of Ballston.
Cornell testified that when the
soldier got out of the car he stag.
gered bit and walked in an op-
posite direction from the barracks.
Cornell testified he had heard
Trammell ask, while the soldier
was on the ground:
do you want some more?"
FOUND NEAR GARAGE
Private Keeler was found about
II o'clock that night lying near
the garage in the rear of the post
hospital at Fort Myer.
Capt. Charles M. Downes, mem.
Der of the medical corps at Fort
Myer. testified that Keeler was
found with his head on the con-
crete curbing near the garage and
that blood stains were on the curb
ing. He supported DR.. Welburn
in the opinion that the fracture
could not have been caused by q
blow from the fist.
The Washington times., 1938-12-05
ALL RELIGIOUS
SECTS TO MEET
HERE TONIGHT
Protest Will Be Made
On Persecution

Demonstrating the fundamental
unity Of religion in the Nations
Capital, Protestants. Catholics and
Jews will gather in Constitution
Hall at S:15 tonight to consider
Religious Freedom and Response.
bility in View of the World Situa-
ton"
AS outlined by Canon Anson
Phelps Stokes, secretary of the
Committee on Religious Life, spon-
sors of the meeting, tonight's DEM
onstration will focus also on the
promotion of the conviction that
religion is essential to true de-
mocracy, and expression of SYM
pathy to the victims of intolerance
and cruelty in all parts of the
world.
BURKE TO SPEAK
Speakers will include Senator
Edward R. Burke of Nebraska,
Bishop James e. Freeman, Of
Washington Cathedral, and the
Rev. Edmund A. Walsh, S. j., OF
Georgetown University.
The invocation will be offered
by Rabbi Abram Simon, of the
Washington Hebrew Congregation,
while the Rev. Albert j. McCart-
ney. pastor of the Covenant First
Presbyterian Church, will preside.
YEARLY SESSION
The combined religious forces
of the Capital meet once each year
to encourage church attendance.
Tonight's meeting, Canon Stokes
stated, should be of especial sig
nificance sin view of the European
situation and Of the development
of religious intolerance in certain
groups in this country"
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Says Boake Garter

ticity. Periodically dealers buy up these pic"
tures The less scrupulous ones take the more
likely pictures and freshen up the paintings.
Picking the Likely Clients
VNHE next step is to invade virgin territory
wherein may live many newly rich, seeking
the culture supplied by interior decorators and
stupendous homes. generous contribution OF
an "old master" to the leading woman's organ
ization of likely city will usually lead to
grand dinner to celebrate the generosity Of the
donor of so NOBLE an art" treasure. From
the dinner, likely clients may be picked.
Then usually comes the visit to Mrs. Oilrich
Jones in her palatial home. Mrs. Jones is pre-
sented with mediocre selection of 'old masters"
The expected rundown comes.
"Ah. but Mrs. JONES' says the expert on "old
masters "I knew you would do that. 1t was
wise. None of these pictures are good enough
to grace your walls Now have the one picture
that know would fit into this scheme The very
picture. A Romney. I will phone to my New
York office this instant and have them ship the
picture by plane"
The next day the picture arrives" usually
from the hotel room of the expert, where it had
been in reserve! 1t is a really pleasing picture.
even though probably nine-tenths phony. The
lady buys. The expert" pockets the $4,000 and
Mrs. Oilrich Jones fondly believes she has
genuine Romney!
Copyright Ledger syndicate>
(Bo1ke CGTter'S opinions are his otDn and not
necessarily those OF The Washington TtnIeSO
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Can't Capture Met

Can't Capture Met
WHICH reminds me, the cinema tycoons, with
w their elaborate klieg-lighted movingpicture
premieres, have never quite managed to create
the spell of glamour which surrounds the annual
opening of the Metropolitan Opera season.
have seen some of the fancy and ballyhooed
darlings of the screen in their costly furs create
a lobbyfuror as they entered late-and with
police escort to lend their prestige to the first
showing of a picture maSterpiece-but somehow
there has been neither the dignity nor the excite
ment that comes every year with the opening
night of grand opera when the folk Of the gilded
strata dripping dazzle from their jewels, swathed
in chinchilla and sable and ernine, or stuffed
into evening topcoat or cape and silk toppers,
emerge from their chariots and float into the
magnificence of the stately edifice.
ONG queues of the lowlier music lovers wait
IL patiently for hours until the word is granted
permitting them to snake in slowly to the
inexpensive seats. Traffic is snarled all about
the ancient building, horns honk and scream,
gendarmeS, remembering that they must be
described as "goodnatured" try to live up to the
description but usually lose their tempers-1
tell you there is no excitement to compete with
this. It is all very snobbish, too. admit and
nowhere in this country is the line of demarcation
so absurdly drawn between our socalled upper
and lower classes than at the opera-on opening
night.
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cerely feel, and even If you don't agree with
them, it is an education to read them.
Mrs. Roosevelts MY Day" is human. appeal
ing story of how the First Lady in the White
House spends her days. It is read from one end
of this country to the other, and it certainly
makes the American people feel much closer to
the White House than they ever have before.
Frederic William Vile is delightful writer,
leveLheaded, conservative and yet always sticking
to the idea he believes and has faith in.
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Gen. johnson Changed

NEN. HUGH JOHNSON has turned out to be
u really brilliant columnist. OF course every
one knows he was brilliant man to start with.
When he first began writing, in my opinion, he
got his ideas and thoughts across but you always
sort of felt as if there was bomb behind them.
Now he writes smoothly. with a great deal more
patience and tolerance than he used to have. He
gets his subject over with bang. Somehow
you have feeling that he thinks it over more
The Washington times., 1938-12-05

TNHE pity of it is that none of the Texans who
L have been victimized to date are willing to
expose themselves as millionaires who have been
outSmarted. They prefer to sleep with their
suspicious, part with the 100000 and not have
their friends know their "old masters" are
phonies.
The way the racket is worked is simple. The
basement of the Metropolitan Museum in New
York, for instance, is overstocked with pictures
which have not met the museums test Of authen-
The Washington times., 1938-12-05

picture racket. City slickers
from the East work the game.
The victims p - newly rich
in the new is OF the
country. The y profitable
stamping ground for suckers"
lust at the moment is Texas.
where oil makes millionaireS
of paupers overnight.
Some Texas families, long
on funds but short on "at-
mosphere, are pushovers for
some clever. smooth-talking,
faSt-stenping Eastern picture
The Washington times., 1938-12-05

entire length of the 43-foot mural,
it has skipped from a scene near
the northern border of the United
States to the Everglades of Flor
ida.
In a corner of the finished por-
tion, Thoreau, the sage of Walden
Pond in Massachusetts, and an
advocate of the simple life,
sprawls on a rock with a book
on his knee. Squirrels are scamp
The Washington times., 1938-12-05

excuse for anybody to be
ignorant on the state Of our
affairs today.
These special writer's are
highly-trained men and women
who write pro and con on
every vital issue that comes up.
Most Of them have been news
paper writer's for years. They
started in as cub reporters and
have worked their way up
through hard and ceaSeless
toll.
TThaca man xvI.itn oS thpv, sin.
The Washington times., 1938-12-05

Crack.up Of the crazy romance Of
Prince Iron Pants" Called u weareP
Cf metal trousers because he has been
kicked out Of SO many places, he has
at last spent all his aged wife's for
tune and now he's running around
madIy trying to find somebody some
where who will give him u divorce so
he can marry an American dancer
but the beauty herself Says. Nothing
DCing!" Read of these didOes of
poverty stricken royalty In The Ameri-
can Weekly, the magazine distributed
with next Sundays Herald-Times.
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down upon him as pay dust
from the bsankets Of the snow
SQUALLS which has settled upon
his temples i sat with Doro-
thy Thompson at the Tavern
and marveled at the gentle
ness of her speech, for none
is SO gifted in stiletto-word
thrusts in print. w t h
George Jessel recently for a
walk through Central Park.
and it was he who called my
attention to two pelicanS
The Washington times., 1938-12-05

experts. Today rich Texans have been parting
with 100000 and even up to 100000 for "old
masters" which are either clever fakes or pic
lures painted by pupils in the studios of the
real old masters.
The Washington times., 1938-12-05
Civilians 10 Hold
Ladies' Day Lunch

Civitan Club will observe
ladies day" with a luncheon at
the Mayflower Hotel tomorrow
at 1890 D. m.
The Washington times., 1938-12-05
Voice of New York By Louis Sob0I

to be cutting the upper stories Of the building.
Unfortunately it was too realistic-and the fire
department decided too many people were being
frightened into ringing alarms.
The Washington times., 1938-12-05

DRIEFLETS: Paul Drus, writing to inform me
- that he has become the papa OF husKy
man-child, refers to the years which have crowded
The Washington times., 1938-12-05
e1But''-

r os ANGELEs.-America is full Of rackets'
~ refined and unrefined.
One of the most refined" is the "old master"
The Washington times., 1938-12-05
My Say

WITH the brilliant and instructive writings
" that are being printed every day IN tne
nauers all over the country, there Is very little
The Washington times., 1938-12-05
Curious Cape as
Poor Paints
MuralS

Citizens need go no farther than
the Canyon" corridors of Gov
ernment building here to sight
combat between a bald eagle and
golden eagle, and the attack of
a hawk on a duck.
Such manifestations of Amer
ica's wild life are dawning on a
huge wall in the new Interior
Building, where Henry Varnum
Poor daily climbs to a platform
to paint on monumental mural
on conservation.
Confirmed city dwellers, whose
customary encounter with wild
life is limited to sparrow, are
CHANGING along this corridor-and
coming face to face with scene
which brings the word "conserva-
ton" to life.
JUST PAINTS ON
Mr.. Poor went on painting as
calmly as if he were in the wilder
ness that he was transferring to
the wall-while an assorted group
of gapers came and went at the
foot of the platform. Two spec
tacled men with executive man
ners, a cleanup man with pail
and mop, an off-duty elevator
operator with an ice cream cone
all sampled the scene. Part of its
fascination is the way in which an
onlooker gradually spots the ami
mails, lurking amid the foliage and
rocks.
At the moment Mr.. Poor was
stocking a crag with huddle OF
mountain sheep. He was racing
with time-as a mural painter
must-against the drying Of the
damp plaster on which he was
working. But leaving the noun
tain sheep for a few minutes, he
climbed down to answer questions
about his work and to reflect his
enthusiasm for the subject Of the
mural, Conservation of American
Wild Life"
He pointed out that by the
time ones eye has ranged the
The Washington times., 1938-12-05
MONDAY, DEC. 5, 1893
By EUulw Walsh Mclean

carefully before he writes now than he used to.
Another remarkable change in the columnistS
and in man whom think is doing untold good
in his new writing is Walter Winchell. know
a great many people snort at Winchells name,
but, believe me, the last couple Of months he
certainly has come out strong for America
against the world
wrote once before on Winchelps lovely home
life, which is really delightful, and now with his
serious raightfrom-theshoulde talk on condi
tions in the world today, he is doing untold good
in making people realize what they have and
what they should protect.
Help Educate Public
THESE men all help to educate the public
L thinking, and it is great thing to feel they
can sit down and write anything they want to
without having some higherup say "No!" and
put the red pencil through
We have the freedom of the press and we
ought to keep it, and keep it we will, If these
men have anything to say about it.
There is another writer for whom I have
unbounded admiration. and that is Elsie Robin.
son. How this remarkable woman keeps her
column up year after year is beyond my under
standing She is an utterly frank writer, and
hardly day passes that one cannot find good
sermon in Elsie Robinson's Listen World"
There are dozens Of others haven't men,
toned who have helped to build and form the
lives of the growing generation. Please under
stand that give my admiration and respect to
these great writer's, rot as writer myself
because this don't even pretend to be, but as
a reader of their columns, which I am I am
proud to say I read them every day like the
rest of America with an unbounded fascination
for their brilliant minds.
The Washington times., 1938-12-05

ering over a branch which dan
giles idly in his hand.
AUDUBON AND BOONE
On the opposite end Of the
nine-feet-tall mural, Audubon will
be seen making his bird sketches
in Florida, and nearby will be
Daniel Boone. These two figures
arc sketched in the plan which
Continued on Page rs, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1938-12-05

Klieg Light Inventors
FTNHE Kliegl brothers, who invented the kl1eg
light, still operate their theatrical lighting"
effects establishment on Fiftieth Street. Such
dazzling effects as Chinese snow, falling
pumpkins Rock of Ages, flying cupids, river OF
souls, crawling spider weaving web. etc., have
issued from their studios, and no one can rival
them in the production of clouds and transforms.
Their first masterpiece was the sandstorm they
created for David Belasco in "Under Two Flags"
back in 1901, and the one which they still con-
slider their finest effort is the flame effect which
they fashioned for the people who built the
combustion building on lower Madison Avenue
It was simply swell-and awe-inspiring-a series
Of roaring, licking fire tongues which appeared
The Washington times., 1938-12-05

mingling with the pigeons, sparrows and few
stray ducks "Now. look at that" he exulted.
"Look how well they get along-hook noses and
tiny beaks What lesson in harmony to those
people abroad"
The Washington times., 1938-12-05

(BoGke CGTter's opinions are his otDn and not
necessarily those OF The Washington TinreSl
The Washington times., 1938-12-05

ticity Periodically dealers buy up these pic
lures The less scrupulous ones take the more
likely pictures and freshen up the paintings.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1938-04-21
THURSDAY, April 81, 1888
while Mr.. Eggart was building
some fence for MI. Rice.

I while Mr.. Eggart was building:
some fence for MI. Rice.
Lloyd Bloor, who has been
employed at the Bert Romine.
ranch and coal mine for the
past few years, has been in
Hardin the last week or so,
receiving medical treatment.
Miss Florence Murray of
Sheridan spent last week with
her sister, Mrs. Miles (Capt.)
StandiSh.
MIR. and Mrs. John Rice called
on Mr.. and Mrs. Dan Romlne
Sunday afternoon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Romine
and daughter, Jean, spent Eas-.
ter with relatives in Bozeman.
Farming seems to be progress
sing rapidly on the Owl creeks;
but so are the crickets. Win
ter wheat and alfalfa are
stretching up and the grass has:
already made grazing good and
stock are contented. Some ran
cheers are already drawing up
a line of battle" and planning
tin fence breast works" and
death traps in preparation for
the inevitable onslaught of the
Mormon cricket hordes, hoping
that fate will lend a hand be-
fore it is too late.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1938-04-21
The Low Down
On Hickory Grove

I see where another Commits
sion, it is making the front
page, and this time it is about
the telephones, and what is
wrong with the business.
And a commission is no good
and a failure, if it finds moth
ing wrong. Finding something
O. K. is illegal.
And this new report on the
telephones, it cost the U. S. and
the company about 4 million
and took 3 years. But before
they even started looking into
the business, everybody who
can read or listen, they knew
we had more phones in the U.
S. "A. than in any other coun-
try, and they are cheaper.
And this Mr.. Talmadge down
there in Georgia, he was not
far off his base when he said
we would keep on being pest
cred by reports until we took
down some buildings at our
Capitol and sold the furniture
including the swivel chairs.
But this telephone report, it
made a nice job for a lot of
persons-and they travelled all
over, and saw everything, and
had a fine time.
Yours, with the low down,
10 SIERRA.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1938-04-21
OWL CREEK NEWS

Vern Lining was operated
on for appendicitis at the Sher-
idan County Memorial hospital
last Thursday and is reported
getting along nicely.
Byron Covington from Big
Timber, Montana, spent a few
days last week on Owl Creek
gathering his horses which he
was trucking to his ranch at
Big Timber. Mr.. Covington
moved from Little Owl to Big
Timber last spring.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Sherod
and family spent Easter Sun
day at the home of Mrs. Eva
Knapp of Lodge Grass.
Mrs. Vaughn Eggart of Lodge
Grass spent several days last
week visiting Mrs. John Rice
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1938-04-21
Kirby Kennels

MI. and Mrs. Richard Glenn,
who recently bought the ranch
formerly owned by Mr.. and Mrs.
Glebe, have returned from
spending the winter at La JOlla,
California, and are now at home
on the Cache Creek ranch. Mrs.
Glenn, who was formerly Miss
Tyler, comes from New York,
and MI. Glenn, Familiarity
known to all his associates as
Dick is a Miles City boy.
Mrs. F. L. Glebe who has
been spending the late winter
months at the Eaton Brothers
ranch at Rim Rock, Arizona,
stopped at Kirby for a short
visit on her way to New Ro-
chelle, N. Y.
Mrs. G. F. Burla, a recent
house guest at the Matt Tschir-
gi home on the Little Horn
is the guest vi Mr.. and Mrs. c.
R.. Foley.
We had a pleasant call from
MIR. Defrees Holmes who is as
ISOLATED with the Sheridan
News. It was Mr.. Holmes first
visit to this section of the .coun-
try and he expressed great sur
prise at the moisture here and
at the green state of the veg
citation.
It is conceded by all that
there is more moisture in the
ground this spring than in any
spring during the past ten
years. The only sour note is the
horde of crickets that is rapid
ly appearing upon the highway.
Ruth Ferguson, who has been
visiting at the Bob Woods dude
ranch on Rapid Creek west of
Sheridan, returned to her home
to-day.
1t is our understanding that
the water in Tongue River is to
be diverted through the tunnel
bored during the winter and
Just finished, next Saturday.
Co. Surveyor C. A. Randall &C
companied by his wife made a
brief call Tuesday.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1938-04-21
EDITORIAL
C

On our journeys over town
We see many improvements and
much new building carried on.
improvements mean invest
ments and that shows that folks
still have much faith in the
future of Hardin.
Besides new houses being
built, several cafes have been
thoroughly reconditioned, a new
brick front is being put on one
side of the First National Bank
with a new building being erec-
ted in connection to house a
grocery. A filling station is be-
ing built, and the Hardin Mer-
camille building is being remod-
eled for a grocery store. The
ground floor of the old court
house building is being remod-
eled and it is rumored that we
are going to have a new real
estate dealer in town.
What we need next to round
out a fine building program
would be the construction OF
the Big Horn Dam.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1938-04-21
ON GARDENING

It seems to us that this is
the wrong kind of weather for
the kind of work we have to do.
Each day as we stroll around,
and inspect our estate-conSist-
ing of one lot, and a number
of lilac bushes-We find new
things that need doing.
It is most confusing. There
are a lot of plants in our yard
most of them dandelions. At
ter examining the situation
from every angle, we have Just
about decided not to dig them
even if we had time. We are
afraid that if we took out the
%dandelions, we wouldn't have
any lawn left.
Then there is the matter of
that fascinating spot out in the
back yard that hasn't much OF
anything in it. Some of these
days we are going to spade it,
and put in radishes, and car
rots, peas and tomato plants,
We thought some of trying to
raise some spinach too, but our
better nature rebelled at that
idea.
We wish we could identify
some of the things that we see
coming up. A lot of them look
like weeds to us, but we are
afraid they might not be. Prob
ably the only thing to do is to
wait and see if they bloom.
Anyway, we have a lot OF fun
guessing-and perhaps when we
take a day off we can really
fix up that yard. Probably the
first angle worm we dig up We
will decide to go fishing-o
something.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1938-04-21
ORGANIZATIONS

Hardin has many llve-Wlre
organizations, but this week in
this column we wish to con-
graduate the American Legion
for the fine work they are do
ing.
Their donations to the var
ious youth programs such as
football, junior baseball and
Boy Scouts show that they not
only offer financial support to
such activities but are behind
the young people one-hundred
percent.
The American Legion is now
debating the question of hold
ing a rodeo in Hardin the last
week in June. If this rodeo is
going to be held here we can
show our appreciation by help
ing them whenever we are
called on to do so.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1938-04-21
STORM, LOSSES SMALL

Loss to livestock in Montana
during the recent storms was
small, according to reports re-
ceived by Jay G.. Diamond, agri-
cultural statistician of Helena.
Not more than 100 head of
livestock were lost during the
heavy SHOWS and cold weather,
Diamond reports. Ample mois-
ture is reported in all sections
of the state for early growing.
Winter wheat losses were only
nominal over the entire state
and in many sections winter
wheat starts the spring 100 per
cent normal.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1938-04-21
SOME FENCE

The Right-of-way Division of
the Montana Highway Depart
ment has purchased 27,243
acres during the past ten years.
The department has built or re-
set 1,167,231 rods of right-of-
way fence during this period,
which for the benefit of the
statistically minded, amounts to
3,648 miles, or 1000 miles great
er than the distance from San
Francisco to New York.