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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-07-01

dering the park to discharge passen-
gers has resumed its summer schedule
OF stopping for several minutes each
day Planes are landing at the Glacier
Park airport and various bus lines are
operating coaches to the park on reg
ular schedules.
Motorists have been registering at
the entrance checking stations since
June 8, and many have taken the spec
tacular drlYe over Logan pass by the
Going-to-the-Sun highway. This road
has been open in part for more than
two months, and on June ! the plows
cleared the last of the snowbanks which
blocked the upper elevations of the
highway.
This unusually early opening date
was made possible by unseasonably
warm weather which thawed much Of
the snow and ice during April and
BY the fact that most Of the snow
this winter fell late and therefore was
not heavily packed.
Road Cut Through Snow
Near the, 6,654-foot crest elevation
of the highway at Logan pass the
motorists may still have the thrill of
driving for short distances over a clear,
dry road between walls of plowed snow
many times higher than their cars.
Campgrounds and picnic sites are
ready for visitors, and a force of Is
temporary rangers and 9 Temporary
ranger natlralists are now augmenting
the year-round staff of men in green.
These men will furnish protective and
services, the ranger ma
turaliSts in particular being trained to
give authentic and interesting scien-
tific data about the parks natural
phenomena.
All funds allotted for the hiring of
seasonal employees for the current year
are being expended. In addition, crews
Of CCC boys and ERA workers are
and improving trails and
roadsides as well as campgrounds.
Firefighters on Duty
The parks fire fighting force is now
IN duty. A fire school was held from I
June to at park headquarters, and /
he old-ttme, experienced fire guards
md loOkouts are back at their posts
1t strategic points in the park.
Although to many people June Is
epresents the opening date of the park
eason, this is not strictly true, for
t is estimated that more than 1900
,ersons visited the park area between
he first of April and that date. Among
hese were Crown Prince Olav and
IroWn Princess Martha of Norway, to-
ether with their retinue, who stopped
t Two Medicine from June 3 to June
and motored to many of the other
'eauty spots Of the park Although
he opening Of the Going
ighWay was not deliberately timed for
heir arrival it occurred Just in time
Or them to make the trim
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-07-01
Louis COhn, Pioneer
Business MN Dies

Louis Conn, pioneer Butte business
man, died recently at his Seattle home
Cohn made Butte his home for more
than 80 years. He came from Illinois
in the early nineties. His first venture
had to do with selling postcards. he
then went INTO the produce business
inent Butte business man AZ the time
as a partner. Later he withdrew from
the produce business and founded tne
Montana Wholesale Fish Co. He con-
tinued in that business until he sold
his interests IN 1929 to Charles d.
Merchant.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-07-01

Montana's 1899 highway death
toll-four more on June 10 than
occurred during the corresponding
period in 1938-was blamed by
Patrol Supervisor Lou C. Boe-
decker as the result of excess
speed. He said from January to
June 10 last year AZ persons lost
their lives in automobile accidents.
On June 10 this year the toll stood
at 81, Of which occurred during
June.
Accidents in which multiple deaths
took place, Increased the total, Boe-
decker said He stated four accidents
this year had claimed the lives Of II
persons. One of these occurred at VIII
low Greek where three were killed,
another at Chinook where like num-
Der lost their lives, one at Anaconda
which counted four fatalities, and one
near Missoula when two persons were
killed
Boedecker asked Montana motorists
to cooperate with the highway patrol
in exercising caution, particularly dur
ing the holidays.
Our reports indicate too many ac-
cidents are taking place where only
one car is involved, Boedecker said.
There Is usually only one answer for
this type of mishap-Speed When road
conditions are ideal the careless motor
lists drive in disregard to care and
an accident usually results We ask
Montana drivers, especially during the ]
holidays, and during the tourist
months, to help us and help them
selves"
Patrolmen will be put on special de- I
tail during the holiday period, he said, I
and men will be assigned to various
points in the state where traffic is /
expected to be heaviest
Additional men will be called to Hell
ena during the Diamond jubilee cele-
oration July Is to 16, Boedecker said.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-07-01

John T.. Eaton, SO, pioneer resi-
dent Of Great Falls and Civil war
veteran, died recently at Los An
geles. He was buried there with
full military hOnOrs. Born In In
dianapOlis, Ind, Jan. Is, 1847, he
went to Des MOines with his par
ents when but a boy. Although
under ri he served I'm the Union
army and was in Sherman's COM
mand that made the famous march
to the sea.
He went to Wyoming prior to COM
ing to Montana In 1880. He settled
first at MisSoula and went to Great
Falls in 1885, where he was engaged
in the logging business for many years.
He homeSteaded at Sand Coulee and
the place is now called Eaton's addi-
ton. In Great Falls he owned and
operated a livery barn with Joe Ham
turned to ranching.
In 1880 Eaton married Celena Bru-
neau. Shortly afterwards the EatonS
moved to Santa Monica, Calf, near
the national soldiers home at Saw
telle. He had been active IN veteran
affairs at the home for many years.
Last year he attended the last ma
tional encampment of the q. A r.
and the reunion of the Blue and the
Gray at Gettysburg on the I0Ln an
niverSary of that BATTLE
Eaton and Lewis Carter we're the
only survivors Of the John A. Martin
post, which numbered 1000 members
at one time. Eaton, as president Of the
post, sounded taps for its disarmament
and surrendered its records to the
national soldiers home for preserva-
ton.
Immediate survivors include his
widow of Los Angeles and brother
in Indiana. In Great Falls he had
four sisters-in-law, Mrs. Annie Ed
wards, Mrs. Emily Beckett, Mrs. Joseph
a brother-in-law, Dave BrUneau.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-07-01
GLACIER PARK
SEASON Is ON

With the opening of hotels and
chalets on June IS and the arrival
of the summer force of temporary
rangers and ranger naturalists, the
1889 season at Glacier National
park is now in full swing. The
hotels at Glacier park, Many Gla-
cier and Lake Mcdonald, have
been grOomed for visitors, and a
small army of "hashers," "sheet-
snatchers," "bubble queens" "pearl
divers" and "pack rats" Gas the
mattresses, maids, laundresses, dish
washers and porters are called in park
slang) has arrived to serve the patrons.
Chalets at Two Medicine, Sun camp
and Bolton are open and those at
Sperry, Cutbank, st. Mary'S and Gran
lite park begin operations on July l.
The familiar red buses" are again
carrying visitors through Glacier ma
tional park and into adjoining Water
ton Lakes national park in Canada.
Saddle horses with the picturesque
wranglers who care for them, have
moved into the park for the summer,
and those who prefer to get away from
surfaced roads can ride through the
less Travelled sections of the park on
nearly 900 miles of trails.
Power boats and roWboats are now
on the lakes for the benefit of fisher
men and those who just like a boat
ride.
Summer Train Schedule
The Great Northern railways EN-
pire Builder" which has been making
numerous unscheduled stops at both
Glacier Park and Bolton stations Dor
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-07-01

WHTTEFISH-John Peoples Of Their
mopolis, Wyo., fell as he was trying to
board a freight in the Great Northern
yards and sustained a fracture of the
skull, a severe cash In his forehead
and other serious injuries.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-07-01

HAVRE-The Hayre Junior Cham
Der of Commerce win hold q charter
night dinner dance at the Country
club July 8, and Jay Sullivan of Great
the group with its charter at that
time.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-07-01
HIGHWAY DEATH
TOLL Is HEAVY
WITH TOTAL GREATER THAN
LAST YEAR AT THIS TIME,

MOTORISTS WARNED
Speed Is Cause of Majority of Road
Accidents, According to Supervisor
BOedecker of State Patrol; Care
Urged Especially on Holidays.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-07-01
WILLIAM IRVINE
DIES AT POISON
NATIVE MONTANAN, PICTURESQUE
CHARACTER OF PIONEER
DAYS, PASSES AT SO

Son of HudsOn's Bay Co. Trader, He
Worked AS Cowboy in Earliest Days
of Industry in Canada and the
Treasure State.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-07-01
FALLS PIONEER
DIES ON COAST
JOHN t. EATON, CIVIL WAR VET
ERAN, SUCCUMBS AT
AGE OF SO

Came to Montana in 'SO's and for
Many Years Was Engaged in Log
cling. Livery and Ranch Businesses
Before Going to California.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-07-01
SHELTER EXPERT
DIES In BUTTE
DAVID MATHEWS, SS, HAD FOL-
LOWED PROFESSION ACTIVELY
IN THREE NATIONS

Native of Swansea, Wales, Started His
Career There at 10 Years of Age;
Came to Montana in 1871 to Run
MeaderviIle Plants.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-07-01
FOUR ARMORES
TO BE ERECTED
HELENA, BOHEMIAN, BILLINGS AND
KALISPELL ARE CITIES
ON LIST

Tentative Plans Are Considered by
State Board for Construction of Sim
liar Buildings at Great Falls, Mis-
sOuIa, HarIOwtOn, Whitefish, Miles
City and Sidney.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-07-01

WHTTEFISH-The Holiness Method
list congregation Is building q new
church at Lakeside, the work being
done by members. The Misses Huston
and Rice, deaconeSseS, are In charge
OF Methodist Holiness work IN White
fish.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-07-01
STATE GREETERS
START TO WORK
ATTENDANTS IN 1O-GALLON HATS
WILL SERVE TOURISTS AT Is
ENTRY PORTS
Golden Rodeo Shirts and Green Neck
erchiefs Complete Uniforms of Young
Men This Year Marking MOntana's
5Oth Anniversary of Statehood.

MOntana's Courtesy men" start
ed to work with the opening Of
the states nine port of entry sta
tiOns. ID. A. McKinnOn, state high
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1939-07-01

The Great Northern railways EN-
pire Builder" which has been making
numerous unscheduled stops at both
Glacier Park and Bolton stations bor-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-05
Red Cross Spends
100 Thousand in
Wars First Phase

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5-(UPr-
American Red Cross officials said
today that they spent less than
100000 in the first month of the
European war but are mobilizing
to provide more help if Europe
needs it..
To date, an official said, there
has been little demand for help
from the United States because
European countries were better pre-
pared to take care of the military
wounded and the civilian refugees
than was the case when the World
War began in 1914.
Thousands of women in chap
ters throughout the country, how
ever, have started making surgical
dressings and garments for war
wounded and refugees. None has
been shipped abroad yet. The first
shipment, which probably also will
include medical supplies, probably
will be made soon. Supplies suffi-
cient for $1,000 Red Cross surgi-
cal dressing units have been pur-
chased.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-05
War Again Opens Mexico
TO United States Exports

Ell PASO, Tex, Oct SUPP
The outbreak of hostilities in Eu-
rope has checked rapidly spread
ing Nazi economic penetration in
Mexico, a United Press survey re-
vealed today, leaving the way open
for American business to recapture
the valuable market.
The British blockade has halted
German exports, and Mexican busl-
ness houses now offer a fertile field
for American exporters ready to
take advantage of the situation by
allowing liberal terms.
When the war started, German
goods were pouring into Mexico
in undreamed-o quantities. The
consensus of many American and
Mexican business leaders is that
in another six months-if the war
had not intervened-German ex-
port houses would have made even
greater gains and would have usurp-
ed approximately 80 percent of the
trade hitherto enjoyed by American
exporters. The fact that Germany's
economic penetration in Mexico was
subsidized by the Nazi Government
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-05

caused alarm among Mexicans and
Americans alike who were working
for closer economic cooperation be-
tween the two republics.
AS recently as mid-August, ac-
cording to competent observers,
Mexican markets were being can
vassed Systematically by Germans,
and as carefully opened up and
developed. In many instances Ger
man business houses had monopol-
lied entire markets and in some
cases had poured goods into many
sections so rapidly that stocks on
hand were sufficient to last two
years, particularly in the medicinal
and hardware fields.
German statesmen offered to sup
ply any commodity, and one promi-
nent Mexican business man alleged
that three Germans even offered
recently to sell him opium and
other narcotics. This same mer-
chant said that German merchan-
disc at the outbreak of the war
comprised nearly 80 percent of the
stock in his store-which caters
largely to tourists. A year ago, he
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-05

added, 10 percent of his goods was
American made, 20 percent Mexican
and only 10 percent German. 1t will
be "at least several months" before
the war can affect his business, he
said, because of his large quantities
of Nazi products.
In Juarez, Mexico, just across
the Rio Grande from Ell PaSo, Ger
man exports practically have driven
out American goods which filled the
shelves of the novelty houses that
sell to United States tourists, and
hardware establishments we're
flooded with Nazi merchandise.
Many inducements were offered
the Mexican business houses, but
the chief reason for their desertion
of American exporters was that
German traders let the MeXicans
purchase Nazi goods practically at
the Mexicans' own terms. In
addition, German statesmen promis-
ed their prospective customers that
they could meet the price of any
American product and even under
cut it Substantially,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-05

are foreign journalists. many are
diplomats who got out of Poland
in time, others are less easy to iden-
tify.
But all, judging by their talk, are
diplomatic and military geniuses-
all, that is. but the Americans. who
profess to know nothing about Bal
kan politics and have nobody to
spy upon.
Everybody talks a lot. but always
with an eye on the German
newspapermen. who are engaged
in a vast intrigue-to get one of
their number elected president of
the foreign press association.
Everybody talks lot, but no one
seems to know naything for certain.
The news that reaches this capital is
the kind Americans would call
wild rumor.
The talk is in a babel of Ian
guages-Rumanian, German French
Polish, Turkish, japanese, English.
The takers occasionally are wo-
men. some of them very beautiful.
The Athenee Palace Bar is one
of the busiest fronts" in Europe.
The Soviets invade Bessarabia
twice daily. Hungary periodically
moves in on Transyivania Bulgar-
ia points a bayonet at Doubraudjia
every hour.
Army corps-they look like whis-
key glasses to the uninitiated-
move north and south. east and west
across the marble counter. Pacts
are made one moment and torn
up the next in moves of surprising
diplomatic brilliance.
The Athenee Palace, like a hun
dred other hotels in this part of
the world. is on the rim of the Eu-
ropean hostilities and at the GEN.
ter of Balkan intrigue.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-05
Is Valley Youths
Enlist in CCC

Twenty-Five Imperial Valley
youths left FL Centre late Wednes-
day after they were accepted for
enlistment in the Civilian Conser-
vation Corps.
In the group were % white youths
who we're taken to Pine Valley. and
three Negro boys, who were taken
to Jamul.
Only q applicants were reject
ed by the Army officers who exam
ined the group.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-05
Hotel, On Rim Of War. Den
Of Di DipIomotic Activity :

And take that man over there. He
used to be a minister to Adds
Ababa. He says he's here now "in
a private capacity"
And who would think there could
be so many commercial travellers" /"
in one hotel at a time like this?
At the moment there are at least
a dozen nationalities represented
among the drinkers at the bar and
at the nearby tables. A lot of them
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-05
BY EDWARD W. BEATTIE, Jr.

ATHENEE PALACE BAR, Buch-
Arrest. oct. 5. (UP)-Don't look now.
but that good-looking German wo-
man with the long yellow hair, the
one drinking the whiskey neat
they say she's spy.
knew her five years ago in Ber-
lin. She worked in the ministry of
agriculture then. The British and
French say she's No. l menace. The
Balkan Mata Hari, some call her.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-05
Dick Halliburton
Declared Dead

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Oct. sup
Richard Halliburton, author,
traveller and adventurer, was de-
clared legally dead today by a
Chancery Court jury.
Halliburton sailed on the Chi
nese junk Sea Dragon last
March from Shanghai for San
Francisco. The junk was believed
to have sunk during a typhoon in
the Pacific ocean.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-05
Richard Olson
Off State Payroll

SACRAMENTO, Oct. S. CUP)-
The state controllers office today
received Instructions from Gov.
Culbert Olson TO remove Richard
C. Olson, the governors son and
private secretary, from the state
payroll for the month of October.
Young Olson left last weekend
on a trip 10 Hawaii for his health.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-05

The Delta Sigma Chi, Ell Centro
junior college sorority, appointed
Frances Sunstrom and Geraldine
Williams as nominees for the office
of presidency and Betty Lemons and
Georgia F. Damron for sergeant
alarms Wednesday, according to
Martha Jane Preble, vice-president
and acting chairman for the day.
The Associated Men Students Of
Central Junior college discussed
plans for their annual Turkey
Trot", scheduled for the Thanks
giving holidays, in their Wednes-
day meeting.
Don Brock was selected ANS
yice-president.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-05
Campus Notes
From Central
High Schoo!
Ry JACK KINNE

FL Centro high schools Hi Y
Club met Tuesday to discuss the
annual initiation in November. A
committee was appointed to select
possible candidates for entrance
into the club, these to be presented
TO the old club members at the
next meeting for approval.
Bill Burke, president of the club,
also announced that a committee
had been appointed to review the
present constitution to determine
if clauses which caused friction
last year can be changed.
El Centro high schools Junior
Glass selected class advisors for
the coming year in meeting We'd
nesday morning, according to Frank
Dixon, class president.
Advisors selected were Wendall
Hammer, social science teacher,
and Virginia Scarisbrick, history
teacher.
Evening star., 1939-07-19
Smith Urges Murphy
To Probe Lonq's Death

DETROIT, July 10 (P>.-Gerald L.
K. Smith, national chairman OF the
Committee of One Million and for
mer associate OF the late Huey P,
Long, Louisiana political leader, In
q statement issued here last night
urged Attorney Gen. Frank Muir
ply to investigate the conspiracy
behind the assassination" Of Long
Mr.. Smith described Mr.. Long as
"the New Deals worst enemy and
charged that events which have re-
suited in several indictments against
Louisiana officials followed the
breakup of the Long organization
as perpetuated briefly by his lieu
tenants.
What has been revealed SO far
said Mr.. Smith, lis peanuts"
Mr.. Smith said he predicted three
years ago that impending events
would make the Teapot Dome scan-
dal look like a cold cup of coffee.
Mr.. Smith said he would "prophesy
that nothing will be brought out
rejecting on the way Huey P. Long
handled money and that when this
mess is cleaned up it will be cleaned
up by representatives of the people
who were loyal to Huey Long when
he lived, when he was killed and
since his death. This loyalty was
based largely upon his courage to
sacrifice patronage, prestige and po-
litical power in order to oppose
the bureaucratic, socialiStic dicta-
torship of Mr.. Rooseyelt's New Deal.
Evening star., 1939-07-19
Woman Kidnapped
By Divorced Husband
Missing 70 Hours
Feors for Sofety Rise;
Western Massachusetts
Roods PutroIIed
BY the Associated Press.

NORTHAMPTON. Mass. July 10.
Fear for the safety of Mrs. Bernice
Beckwith, q, kidnapped by her di-
vorced husband, mounted today. Po-
lice reported more than 20 hours
after she was seized at gunpoint
before the eyes of her present hus-
band that they were practically
without clues.
In a desperate effort to capture
James j. Kehoe, "a. of Hudson. de-
scrlbed by Acting Police Chief
George j. Bernier as a former con-
vlct and the abductor, State and
local police patrolled all roads lead
ing to the western part of the State
and searched roadside cabins and
camps in the Aldrich Lake section. a
sparsely settled district.
The missing woman divorced him
SIX years ago when he was sentenced
to Concord Reformatory for bur-
glary Chief Bernier reported he
held up Mrs. BeckWith, her husband.
Cyril, and Leroy Langdon in Lang
don't plumbing shop yesterday. took
50 from the men and then forced
the trio into his automobile.
He directed Mr.. Beckwith to drive
TO an isolated section near South
Hadley. Mr.. Beckwith managed to
escape when the car stopped. and
Mr.. Langdon was ordered to walk
down the road with his hands in
the air. Then the man drove of,
of1lcers were told, with Mrs: Beck
with beside him.
Mr.. Beckwith said Kehoe tried to
shoot him as he fed, but his pistol
jammed.
Evening star., 1939-07-19
Police Chiefs Black Eye
Probed in Mount Rainier

An investigation OF the manner in
which Eugene Plumer. Mount Raj
nier Md police chief, obtained a
black eye and forehead cut was
under way today by orders of Mayor
Norman A. Pruitt
An investigation was ordered
when the chiefs injuries were
called to the attention of the Mayor
and Council and they were unable
to locate him for personal eX-
planation while holding their semi
monthly meeting.
Corporation Counsel Bird H. DOL
by advised the council that a men,
Der of his family had seen Chief
Plumer emerge bleeding from a tav-
ern. Councilman John E. Parsell
thereupon demanded an investiga-
ton to determine whether Chief
Plumer was injured in line of duty
and Mayor Pruitt ordered Town
Bailiffs Benjamin Johns and James
Woodbuln to submit written re-
port at the next council meeting
now their chief happened to be hurt,
Chief Plumer and the proprietor
of the tavern told reporters that the
policeman was hurt when he accl-
dentally struck the corner of table
in a playful scuff1e" with a cook
and a painter. The chief added
that he had been told by the Mayor
it was unnecessary for him to attend
all sessions of the council.