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The Washington times., 1938-11-11
2-TIME VETERAN
OF BIC CONFLICT
WOULD co AGAIN
Bill Covert, of Times,
Wounded g Times

The story of Bill CoUert, SOL
dier and citizen, is the story OF
millions of Americans who Uent
into the World War and Who
came out-Some of them-,Uith
scared memories to carry along
through the years to ArmiStice
Day in 193S-tUenty years after.
From the SideWGlkS of Wash
ington to the bGttletields of
France and home again is Bill
CoUert'S story.
Perhaps you know Bill Covert.
Certainly you know his counter
part.
Bill lives at 1902 Meridian Pl.
N. w. He is married and he lives
the same normal life of thousands
and thousands of other Washing.
ton citizens.
He is A years old now, and is
a printer for the Washington
Times.
GOOD AMERICAN STOCK
Bill comes from good American
stock. He was born out in Evans
vile, Ind, and when he was about
4 years old the family moved to
Washington.
Bill learned his A. B. C.'s in the
Carberry School and later at
tended the Pierce and Gale
Schools. Later the family moved
to Cleveland, and then back to
Evansville, and then back to Wash
ington.
School ended, Bill looked for
job, and found one in the COM
posing room of The Washington
Herald. Meantime there was a
historic assassination down in
SaraJeVo, little place in a coun-
try that was then Serbia, and it
plunged the whole world into
war.
ADVENTURE CALLS
Bill was not quite 81 years old,
and the urge to adventure was
strong. One day September /, 1915,
he didn't show up at work. His
friends wondered what had be-
come of him.
Well, Bill had gone up to Buf.
falo. gone across the border to
Welland. Ontario, and joined the
Canadian Army.
Of course this nation was not
at War-we we're too proud to
fight" and all that sort Of thing.
But the Canadian officials didn't
CONTINUED on Page 20, Col. u
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3BHalnt nf thr Anknn1rn 5nlntrr

Its call and its need, they comfort me.
1t prepareth battle before me
In the presence of its enemies;
1t hath anointed my grave Vith glory;
My cup r1tnneth oUer.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follo1O me
All the days of my death,
And I shall dnOeU in the hearts of my
couRtrymen
Forever. T. H.
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they will waken to the fact
that the theory of gettin'
something for nothin'" is out.
The political meaning of that
word nothing is power and
control, with the farmer as the
goat. Just keep that in mind,
please.
Shudders
Ho, hum. Things are sure
quiet around these parts. We
are sittin' on a prospective
scandal or two but they haven't
Matched yet.
Roosevelt got out of his head
and started purgin' the Demo-
Gratis that vaccination hadn't
took on, and somebody gave
him a Sedative powder and he
seems to be reStin' easier now.
A big war scare was started
in Europe in order to justify
the big war machines they been
buildin' up over there. Every
body had one eye on the head
lines and both ears on the ra-
dio and heaved big signs of dis
appointment when the darn
thing petered out. Locally, the
wheat farmers were goin' crazy
visualizin' dollar wheat and now
the most of them we know have
gone crazy tryin' to figure out
what they can get from the
government. If you got 100000
bushels of wheat and didn't go
broke harvesting it you can
build yourself an elevator, sell
your wheat to the Govt. thru
a loan, keep the wheat at home,
get a thousand dollars month
rent out of the elevator you
built an get something like four
cents a bushel for handling it,
if you ever do. That looks like
a swell racket, while it lasts,
but mebbe a doggone war will
pop up yet and ruin it.
Us irrigated farmers are all
busy at present, workin' for the
Holly Sugar Corp. It is reported
that the company is gonna let
the beet-groWers keep the tops
this year. The beet, itself, is to
be divided up between the COM
pany and the labor.
The bankers and the store
keepers in Hardin are all get
tin the nervous filters antici-
patin' the beet checks, due No
vember fifteenth. Somebody is
likely to be left out in the cold,
cold, vacuum. We advise all
beet growers to get themselves
a personal body guard during
the fracas.
We, personally, are maxim a
desperate effort to think up
copy enough to pay for our
subscription to the Tribune
Herald for a month or two, but,
doggone it competition is get
tin so keen it'll be our luck to
get in about the time the Ed
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Maury couldn't even move a muscle. He couldn't even urn around.
another hose. The water from that hose was drenching me. but it was
doing little toward putting out the fire."
The little attic was fairly flooded with water now. What's more, that
water was hot 1T felt as if it was cooking my knees" says Maury,
for I was kneeling in it, between the slls. with my head bent down
to my chest to keep as much smoke out of my lungs a possible"
him all at once. He tried to look around-and found that he
couldn't. He simply couldn't move a muscle.
His whole body was stiff 1t wasn't exactly trembling. but it felt to
Mamy as if something was trembling inside of him, giving him the
trio shock!
Paralyzed by Electric Current.
Where was the shock coming from? He had stepped on no wires.
There wasn't any wiring anywhere within ten feet of him. 1t took Maury
a minute or two to figure that out The hose! That stream of water
had found a bare electric wire somewhere back there in the smoke and
lame. The electricity was travelling down the stream to the nozzle, and
Maury was gripping that nozzle with both hands. His wet clothes and
the watersoaked floor were completing the hook-up that was sending
sae voltage through his body.
He tried to move the hose-divert the stream of water away from
that wie-but he couldn't bulge an inch. He tried to drop the nozzle.
but for the life of him he couldn't let 60 Of it. He tried to use his
the flow of electricity, and he shouted at the top of his lungs. Shut
off the juice" he was yelling. But he didn't think any one could hear
below.
"The pain was getting TERRIBLE" he says. Every joint
every muscle-every bone in my body was aching. Smoke was
chokng-binding me. l was held there by that shock, a immov-
able as if I'd been chained there. What was I to do? What
was going to happen to me? Was 1 going to stand there until
the fire crept over and burned m alive? Or would I succumb
to the shocks of the electricity before the fire reached me?"
Some One Pulled the Switch.
Maury knew that even house current could kill a man under the
proper conditions, and he was sure that current would kill him if he held
on long enough. The pain wa getting worse by the minute. He felt
as if he were about to lose consciousness, but he fought that giddy feeling
that was making his head spin round and round. Once he let 60 Of
himsef-wen-he knew that would be the end.
And then, all of a sudden, Maury felt his body relax. He tried to
move-found that he coud-and turned the nozzle upward. Some one
downstairs had pulled the main SWITCH shutting off all the current in
the building. And he'd done it just in time to save Maury from col
lapse-and probably from death.
Says he: The force of the upturned stream of water battered
through the roof. Shingles went flying. Sunshine came pouring in.
copynght.-wNu Service.
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Ito M CO
Q&M1

Greetings, to all We fellow
subjects. We feel beautifully
pessimistic to-day-in fact, we
don't think that we could be
any more grandly curdled If
we was to receive authentic
information that Roosevelt was
gonna Vi as a triple threat.
Domestic
What we fondly refer, to oc-
casionally, as our home, is in
the process of being systematic
ally and completely rooted up.
It is being thoroughly reno
waited, overhauled, h e d ,
scrubbed, vanished and other
wish being made as uncomfort-
able as it is possible for the
female of the species to make
it. Useless things are being
relegated to the outdoors and
outhouSeS, and we head the list.
The whole shebang smells of
varnish, fly-spray and soapsuds.
Meals consist of what was left
from yesterday, and that is no
thin. We are at present medit-
atm in our first line of defense
in a little shack about five
hundred feet from where we are
supposed to eat and sleep and
be honored and obeyed. The
cause of all this rupture? We
know not! Experience, alone,
tells us that either a pet club
is to be entertained or else our
menagerie is slated for COM
pany, in either of which cases
We are bound to be nicked.
Political
Well, the open season is on
for candidates and, Boy, what
a flock of them there are. If
quantity is any measure, or
means any thing, we are settin'
pretty. All the political play
boys and girls are workin from
Twelve to tWenty-four hours a
day to convince the voters that
they were born, raised and pre-
ordained for the job they are
after. If and when, they get
the job they only work five or
six hours a day.
incidentally, we feel flattered,
or some such foolishneSs. 1t
has been grape-vined to us that
we are supposed to be supportin'
a certain candidate as against
a certain candidate. The facts
are that we have given no one
the right or authority to use
our name in the interest of his
candidacy and that we are
ar American citizen and as such
we own and control one vote
and when we step over in the
corner of the polling place to
exercise the right to cast that
vote we do just as we damn
please and we grant the same
right to every other qualified
elector, and we wish to say that
no person has any more of a
chance of knowing how we in
tend to cast that one vote of
ours than a celluloid dog has
in, what the preacher boys de-
scribe as hell. We are more in
terested in what these candi-
dates do after they are elected
than we are in placing any ap-
proval on a candidate, for pub
lie effect, (even if it had any
bearing, which it don't,) before
they are elected.
Dis illusionment
Well, well, in this year 6 N.
D. we note by reading the head
lines here and there, that the
farmers are gradually coming
out from under the influence
of the anesthetic administered
to them by the AAA, soil con-
servation administration, ct al.
The effects of the dope, how
ever, will probably keep 'em
on the sick list for quite some
spell. We still have faith that
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MOUNTAIN MOVES

Lewis and Clark county dis
trict was like Mohammed last
week. All records of the city
of Helena were subpoenaed in
to court as evidence in a trial.
Judge George w. Padbury de-
cided it was too big a task to
haul all the filing cases to the
courtroom. The trial was held
in the filing case room at the
city hall in the morning. The
court moved away from the
mountain in the afternoon and
the trial was continued in the
courtroom.
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ior called at the John Noblett
home Saturday morning. In the
afternoon Mr.. Cox accompanied
them to Billings.
Mrs. Gladys Knowles of Ana
conda has been staying at her
Soap Creek ranch for the past
few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charlie Wolf
and children called on Mrs.
Claud Noblett Friday evening"
John Noblett was in Hardin.
Monday, returning with a load
Of coal. It looks like Old Man
Winter is just around the cor
ner.
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ATTEND MEETING

Barclay Craighead, chairman
of the Montana unemployment
compensation commission, and
George Shepard, commission
member, left recently for Wash
ington, D. c., to attend a meet
ing of more than $50 unemploy-
M emit compensation officials
from throughout the nation. The
conference is being held to out
line possible legislative chang
es in the method of making
benefit payments under terms Of
the act.
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North Valley News.

The Sunshine club met at the
home of Mrs. Joe Olenik on
Thursday, September 20. There
were 16 members present. AZ
ter the business meeting sew
eral games were played. At the
close of the afternoon, refresh
ments were served by the host
eSs. Club guests were Miss Kassy
Rae Owens, teacher of the Sor-
rel Horse school,, Mrs. D. w.
Carper of Community, Mrs.
Kate McEvoy, Mrs. Becker and
Mrs. Jack Newell of Hardin.
MI. and Mrs. Merle Bowers
and daughter, Pauline, spent
Sunday in Lodge Grass visiting
relatives.
Valley people seen in Hardin
Friday were Mrs. Sapp, Mrs.
Lind, Mrs. George RanSier, Dor
othy Williams, Mr.. and Mrs.
Merle Bowers and w. A. Saw
yer.
The beet piles are growing
daily. So far the Kingsley pile
is the largest.
Colleen Ransier spent last Fri
day night with Margaret Carp
err.
The Community All club
members are receiving premium
checks for articles exhibited
on Achievement Day.
D. w. Carper and sons, Lloyd
and Harold, were business call
ers in Hardin Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. j. Bowers
and son, Harold, spent Wednes-
day at the Merle Bowers home.
Eva Jean Turley spent the
week end with Andrea Kallen.
A son was born to MIR. and
Mrs. George Hert on October 7.
Miss Nola Rogers of Bridger
is here helping her mother,
Mrs. c. A. Rogers, during beet
harvest.
Mrs. Jake Schultz of Warman
and Mrs. Jim Ross and son,
Jerry, spent Monday with Mrs.
Schultz'S mother, Mrs. Andrew
kallen.
Lilacs are reported to be in
blossom on bushes which were
hit by the hail on Labor Day.
The children of Community
school have on their play
ground two new te~eter-tOtters
which Mr.. Morgan made for
them recently.
A great many sheep r being
driven down the valley to ranch
ers for winter feeding. We can
not help wishing they would
eat the weeds that grow in such
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lloyd &&6@n,
ADVENTURES CLUB
HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES
OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF!
Stream of Death
By FLOYD b
Famous Headline Hunter

IJELLO
L L Maurice Dunford of Chicago is today's distinguished
adventurer. He was a volunteer fire fighter and 'snoke
eater in the little town of Russelville, Ark, in 1929, when
his adventure happened. 1t was a quiet, warm, summer
afternoon in the little town that nestled in a valley at the
foot of the Ozarks close to the bank of the Arkansas river.
Every one was doing and taking life easy, but suddenly
the fire siren let out a shrieking blast that brought the whole
town to life.
Maury made a rush for the station. Firemen from all over the
town were running to the same point. They poured into the building and
the big truck rolled out even before the sound of the siren had died
away.
The burning building was only two blocks from the fire house. 1t was
= small dwelling and the fire w sin the attic. Maury says that smoke
was pouring from under every single. He grabbed a line from a
coupling and went around to the back of the house looking for a OPEN
ing through which to get at the fire. Then, seeing no openings. he
went into the house, dragged the hose up through a small trap door
Fighting Fire in the Attic.
1.-THE heat and smoke were terrific" he says. Il started creeping
forward 81 I could get at the seat of the blaze. Water was now belch-
ing through the nozzle in my hands. and the boys outside were playing
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SarpY Creek News

Mr. and Mrs. Albert Herman
were in Hardin last wednesday.
John Noblett called at the
Oliver Cox ranch Wednesday
morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Carney
called at the John Noblett home
Thursday.
Mrs. Arthur Foard and Mrs.
Oliver Cox and Alice and Jun
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profusion along the roadsides
and make our landscape so I'M
slightly.
Arlington Bunston spent Sun
day at the o. w. ranch on Tul-
lock creek.
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itor decides to cut expenses, or
SOmethin'.
So-long,
Rhode Island Red
The Washington times., 1938-03-18
HAMILTON SEES.
TOKYO CAMESAS
LAST OLYMP|CS

BERKELEY. Calf, March Ia
d.NS0.-The Olympic Games are
on the way to extinction.
The 1910 games, scheduled for
Toxic, Japan, may be staged as
planned-or the whole Olympic
program may blow UP within the
next two years. In any event, the
1910 Olympics will probably be the
last of its kind in modern times.
These were the dire warnings
issued today by Coach Brutus
Hamilton, of the University OF
California.
Professionalism is creeping
into the olympic Games" said
Hamilton, especially in the
Fascist countries, where eInpha-
sis is placed on winning their
games, rather than on sports
manship.
In Germany and Italy, ath'
1etes are converted into human
race horses, placed in training
camps, excused from military
duty and subsidized by the gov
ernment
This procedure can lead to
but one thing-the ultimate Co
lapse Of the Olympic ideal"
Hamilton declared the problems
about the change in date are not
insurmountable.
The Washington times., 1938-03-18

BY this time, what sanity was
left among the 1000 customers
had disappeared like that rainy.
day account. Of you've been
in Washington the last five days
you know what I mean.) Order
was finally restored, but not be-
fore the bald-headed party had
challenged Bortnick to a wres-
ting watch.
"Huh," said Benny. 7 hit
him with my watermelon punch.
I don't wanna take advantage
Of . amatchOOr.
DOCTOR PLEASED
What the customers really
came to see was the match be-
tween DR.. John ''Dropkick" Muir
ply and Pancho Valdez. DR.. Muir
ply saved the day for the Irish
and kept the festivities at the
properly hilarious level by boot
ing Valdez with one Of his famous
dropkicks and falling on "Punchy''
Pancho after 26 minutes h a d
elapsed. The Doctor took some
right hard belts before subduing
Valdez.
Pancho had a knee action all
Continued on Page "a, Col. A
The Washington times., 1938-03-18
D. C. SWIMMERS.
VIE FOR A. A. u.
INDOOR CROWNS.

The Shoreham Hotels Vene.
tian pool will be churned into q
foaming lsther tonight as Wash
ington's ace swimmers vie for in.
dtvidual and team honors in the
District A. A. U. indoor swimming
championships with the bell at 8
o'clock.
With a team trophy at stake,
Ambassador and Shoreham girls,
long rivals, will have an added
incentive to splash their way to
individul victories.
Defending three titles, the SO,
100 and 22O free style, Ann Bono
win be the headline attraction,
with the 50-yard event as tops for
in that race she faces her strong
est threat, 15-year-old Lucille
Kirsch, a Roosevelt High yearling.
A long-Standing rivalry will be
settle somewhat when June Booth,
defending 100-year backStroke in
door title-holder, meets Betty
Strchecker, the 100-yard back
stroke outdoor champion, in their
third set-to. Miss Strohecker won
the first match, Miss Booth the
second, tonight Is their third
meeting.
The Washington times., 1938-03-18
St. Joe, Holy Name
Quints Gain Finals

The st. Johns parochial school
basketball crown will be at stake
when st. Joseph's and Holy Name
quintets battle at st. Johns gym
Saturday at 2::30 p. m.
st. Joseph's captured an over
time game from st. Stephens, 16
to IA, yesterday while Holy Name
downed st. Gabriel's, % to IA,
with Brogan accounting for eight
Of Holy Names points. McCauley'S S
basket gave st. Joseph the edge.
The Washington times., 1938-03-18

The Chief had just been de-
feated by Dean Detton, but the
man with the nude pate was dis
satisfied with the quantity Of
Jumps Chewacki had absorbed and
attempted to inflict some holds of
the homemade variety. The Chief
squeezed Baldy in a beariSh hug.
Referee Benny Bortnick threw a
towel around the obStreperouS pa
tron who walked around as If he
were playing blind mans buff.
BENNY BELTS HIM
Then the fun began. The Gus
toner threw off his towel and
started after Chewacki. Detton
got a ringside seat and watched
the man bite the dog. No offense,
Chief) Bortnick stepped in and
made the mistake Of using words
as his weapons. Baldy seized
Benny and hurled him halfway
back to his waterfront delicious
sea food) restaurant. Benny got
very angry and clocked Baldy a
left hook on the chin and the fight
was over,
The Washington times., 1938-03-18
Two Teams Tied
In Six-Day Race

CHICAGO, March 18 U.N.SO.
Alf Letourner and Omer De-
bruycker wheeled around in a tie
with the leading team Of Reboli
and Debaets at the international
six-day bike race today.
The RED Devils" edge ahead in
an evening Of furious pedaling at
the Chicago Stadium. The Cana
dian brothers, Doug and Torchy
Peden, continued to circle the oval
in third place a mere lap behind,
with the Rodman. Thomas combi-
nation right In back by q handful
Of points.
The Washington times., 1938-03-18
Pioneer
Bowls in A. 3. G.,

CHICAGO, March 18 G.N.S0.
Veteran five-man pin squads,
entered from nine different states
in the American Bowling Congress
opened a concerted attack in the
thirty-eighth annual classic today.
Peter Howley, Chicago, one Of
the only two men who have
bowled in all A. B. c. classics from
their inception in 1901 will make
his bow in the current festival
when he leads his AdamS-WabaSh
131 quintet on deck. George Bang
hart, also a Chicagoan, is the
other,
The Washington times., 1938-03-18
Ivy League Bans
Spring Grid Tits

PRINCETON, N. j., March 1s.
No more spring football games Cor
"Ivy League" teams and the
Army and Navy
According to Elton e. "Tad"
Wieman, Princeton's new head
football coach, Ivy Leaguers have
come to a gentieman's agreement
to halt the tendency to make foot
ball a two seasons sport by elimi-
mating spring games against other
colleges.
The Washington times., 1938-03-18
Jacobs Bans Fight
For Armstrong

NEW YORK. March 1s.-FeaT-
full that something might happen,
Promoter Mike Jacobs ordered
Eddie Mead, Henry Armstrong;
manager, not to sign for matches
following the March 80 setto with
Lew Feldman until after Arm
strong fights Barney Ross. welter.
weight champion, on May 26.
Jacobs heard that Meade was
angling for three matches between
the Feldman bout and the go with
Ross.
The Washington times., 1938-03-18
Record
BOWL Teams Get
$lO4,l29 cut

PASADENA, Calf, March 10
Q.NS0.-The California Bears
and the Crimson Tide Of Alabama
each received $104,129 as their
cut in the Rose Bowl game here
New Years Day, the Tournament
Of Roses Association announced
today. The cut for each school
is an all-time high, it was re-
vealed. The gross gate was $685.
372.61.