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Evening star., 1939-04-25
Washington Gas Sales
Far Above Year AGO
In First Quarter
'TotoI 3,921,9l2 M. c. F.
Against 3,6l8,362
In 1888 Period
BY EDWARD C. STONE.

Sales of the Washington Gas Light
Co. in the first quarter of 1889 were
substantially ahead of the like period
In 1888, according to the compara-
tive monthly figures just summar-
iZed.
Washington Gas Light sales in the
Capital and sales to other corpora
tions in the metropolitan area in
the first three months of the present
year compare as follows with the
corresponding months in 1898:
Evening star., 1939-04-25

The winter wheat crop is progress
ing rapidly and harvest will begin
within month. A prospective pro-
duction of 549 100000 bushels at cur
rent market prices, however, would
have a valuation of approximately
$3.50, ,000,0 900, compared with $45O,-
100000 last season and $79O 900. 900
in 1887. Winter wheat, which was
hurt badly by frost last year, ap-
parently has escaped with little in
jury this season.
Wheat Acreage Cut.
Spring wheat farmers intend to
plant 19.500,00O acres, compared with
23,5OO,00O acres last year. Moisture
conditions are not good over much
of the belt. A large part of the
acreage will be sown to rust-resist-
ing varieties.
Some corn is up in the extreme
South but over the commercial grain
belt soil preparation is just getting
a good start. Estimated corn acre
age will be 92,000,00O, or about L.
900 900 acres fewer than seeded a
year ago. Crop experts said, how
ever, that if seeding of small grains
is delayed much longer it may tend
to increase the corn acreage.
While April rains and SHOWS held
up field work in some sections, they
gave the Nation its best general
moisture picture in several years,
replenishing sub-soil reserves over
wide areas, crop experts said.
Evening star., 1939-04-25
Cottonseed Oil,

J.. Cottonseed oil futures reacted SLIGHTLY
IN slow trade today. Steadiness of cotton
and grains was Offset somewhat BY an
easier hog market and continued slow cash
demand, Light May LIQUIDATION in ad.
vance Of first notice day on Thursday was
ABSORBED !, by the trade. May was down
at 6;o5 around midday and july was
net unchanged at SO. Southeast and VAL
icy crude Oil was bid 5ia cents in a Quiet
market. Texas ranged 5as to 5Ia bid. de.
pending upon location, " N
Evening star., 1939-04-25
MISCELLANEOUS
STOCKS

Chevy Chase Club 1st 4As 104
Col Country Club 1st 4As 103
Ter Ref g. VIII Corp 1st 4As 103
Evening star., 1939-04-25

Total - 1881 ,912 3,618,362
This is a gain of 303, $50 M Gu it.
In the three months and gives the
gas company an excellent start to-
ward reaching another new sales
volume mark this year.
Evening star., 1939-04-25
BONDS

PUBLIC UTILITY.
Evening star., 1939-04-25

1TdHSIt I1ItS AHUtIIeT tdK,
Capital Transit stock hit another
1889 peak on the Washington ex-
change today when it sold at 1414,
up an eighth. Most of today's sales
were made at 14ls, the price at which
the closing sale was registered.
Mergenthaler Linotype appeared
on the board today at 1884, single
share of Riggs National Bank pre-
ferred sold at 1922 and two shares
of Riggs common moved at 268
Potomac Electric Power 6 per cent
preferred sold at ia.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-05-26
Highway Patrolmen Study
New Traffic Regulations

the prime duty of the highway patrol
system was to eliminate as far as pos
sible, factors which endanger the safety
of motorists.
He also touched upon the impending
tourist season, urging the officers to
vigilance lest mishaps occur through
ignorance Of Montana's laws.
Arthur Lalime, the patrols chief
clerk who Is in charge of the elaborate
office system used by the patrol in
compiling statistics pertinent to min
imizing breaking of regulations and &C.
currence of accidents, talked on the
uniform accident reporting laws passed
by the recent assembly.
The law provides drivers of cars in
volved in mishaps shall stop at the
scene of accidents and notify author
tiles, and sets down regulations in
this regard infinitely.
Grave Penalty
The gravity of a hit-run offenSe Is
manifest in the law in penalties in
flicted for violations.
| Lalime explained any person failing
to stop or comply with regulations in
fine of not less than 500 nor more
than $1,000 and (or imprisonment for
/ not less than 30 days nor more than
one year
Accident report forms, designed to
provide the maximum of detail so the
patrol may determine factors of acci-
dents, are also provided for in the
measure. These reports, it was ex-
! planned, are of a confidential nature
and not to be used as evidence in any
! trial, either civil or criminal
The uniform accident reporting law,
1t was stated, will also go into effect
next July l.
Scott p. Hart, maintenance engineer
for the highway department, instructed
the patrolmen on taking weights Of
commercial carriers to determine gross
load limits.
| Boedecker said the next division
school would be held at Missoula late
! in the summer.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-05-26

Phases of traffic measures
passed by the 10th legislative as
sembly were explained and discus
sed when 20 highway patrolmen
of division No. 3 met in Helena
for a one-day schooling session.
Division No. 3 includes officers
from Helena, Butte, Philipsburg,
Townsend, Harlowton, Livingston and
BoZeman.
Lou c. Boedecker, patrol supervisor
opened the session with discussion OF
Montana's new maximum speed law
..life-saver" measure which goes into
effect next July l.
The maximum speed law which sets
down prudent and safe speeds on q
graduated basis is featured by flat S.
mile-an- hour maximum for night driv-
ing. Other sections Of the law are
substantially as follows:
Trucks shall not be operated in ex-
cess of As miles an hour.
Four zones, established at the dis
erection of the patrol supervisor, pro-
vide for 20-mile, 3O-mile, 45-mile and
55-mile speed limits. Zones are to be
marked, together with prevailing limits
Night Speed Limit
Further teeth were injected into the
Dll-nOtly contested curing the leglS-
lative session-providing that anyone
operating a car in excess of the SIS.
mile-an-hour night speed limit shall
be automatically chargeable with
reckless driving.
Punishments are also graded on q
basis of conviction. First convictions
carry penalty of not less than 10 mol
more than 80 days in Jail and (or) q
fine of not more than 500. Second
convictions carry a Jail sentence OF
not less than 80 nor more than 80 days
and (or) a fine of not less than SIS
nor more than 500.
Boedecker explained the various sec.
tons of law to the patrolmen, point
ing out the advantages of zone regu-
lation, as well as acquainting the pa
trolmen with enforcement phases.
To Eliminate Danger
Assistant Supervisor John Flanagan
graduate of the federal bureau OF
investigation police training school al
Washington, D. c., talked generally or
enforcement problems and numerou.
problems confronting officers in keep.
ing Montana's highways free from au-
tomobile accidents.
Flanagan reminded the patrolmer
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-05-26

profusion with good stems for cutting.
The annual larkspurs give some fine
blues although all have more or less
purple in them. They are one of the
most valuable of the ANIMALS. They
must be sown where they are to bloom
and then be tbinned, as they are Diff
ficult to transplant.
Another beautiful blue annual not
enough used is the broWallia. 1t has
intense blue flowers freely produced
and is easily grown. Although this is
an excellent garden annual it is more
frequently seen as a pot plant.
The rich blue spikes of the annual
lupins with their pea-shaped blooms
add to the list of handsome blue an
nuals for the blue portion of the Dor
der, and for the edges there are the
gorgeous depths of the lobelias and the
velvet of the blue toned pansies. The
blue section of the border needs the
planting of groups Of pink, pale yellow
and white, to give the blues their best
effects and to avoid monotony.
The blue-toned 1O-week stocks and
| asters give solidity to the blue border
and have their own pinks. whites and
| creams by way of harmony. The blue
! portion of the annual border is most
effective If in partial shade. All these
ANIMALS may be easily raised from seed
planted in an outdoor seeded wher
the soil is workable, or directly where
! they are to grow.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-05-26
Blue FZ0zver5 GiUe Balance
To I'LL Others in Gur1en

Blue is a favorite color in the gar
den, and pure blue one of the rarest
tones of nature. The annual border
needs its blues to balance the color
scale and to add a cool touch during
the hot months of summer.
We have an excellent blue in the
Chinese forget-me-not, cynoglossum
amabile, listed as a biennial but
blooming as an annual from sowing
early outdoors. 1t has deep and intense
blue flower clusters produced in great
profusion. making brilliant patch in
the garden as well as a fine subject
for cutting.
1t much resembles the Anchusa
Italica, a favorite in the perennial
border for its intense blue. but is OF
lower growth and has much fine foil
age. This is real addition to the blue
ANIMALS.
An old standby is the bachelor but
ton or centaurea cyanus which has
fringed blue flowers produced in great
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-05-26
MARTIN HOFFMAN HEADS
LEGION MINING DISTRICT

Martin Hoffman of Helena was
elected commander of the mining dis
trict of the American Legion at its
quarterly meeting at Whitehall. Mrs
H. Warner of Dillon was named presi-
dent of the auxiliary of the American
Legion.
Other officers elected by the Legion
are Charles SemmenS, Anaconda, vice
commander; Guy Coombs, Dillon, fl
nance officer; Joseph Burns, Butte,
chaplain; Sam Harris, Deer Lodge,
sergeant at arms.
To serve for the ensuing year with
Mrs. Warner on the district auxiliary
staff are Mrs. Mildred Whalen of
Butte. vice president: Mrs. Percy Cav,
Helena. historian. and Mrs. Gus Wal
lin, Boulder, chaplain.
Hoffman succeeds Bion Hall of
Butte and Mrs. Warner succeeds Mrs.
Peter Mcbride of Anaconda.
Cakes of salt were once used for
money in Ethiopia and Tibet.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-05-26
ASKS FEDERAL AID
IN HOPPER FIGHT
GOVERNOR AYERS APPEALS TO
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICUL-
TURE FOR ASSISTANCE

Gov. Roy E. Ayers has appealed
to the United States department
of agriculture for assistance in
combating an eastern Montana
grasshopper threat described "the
most serious in many years." The
chief executive asked steps be
taken to provide federal moneys
for hopper determination on idle,
as we'll as crop, lands.
Grasshoppers threatening Montanas
wheat lands are Matching on idle range
or abandoned lands-for which fed
eral funds are not now available.
Governor Ayers advised the federal
ed DR.. Harlow B. Mills. state ento-
mologist, to communicate with them
Immediately.
His letter follows:
An unusual and serious situation
has developed in Is counties of east
ern and southeastern Montana in that
an unprecedented warm spell has
Matched graSShoppers during the peri
cd of only a few days. This is alarm
ing and we feel it must have immedi-
ate attention.
Il understand there is government
money available for this class of re-
lief on crop lands but that it is in
sufficient for idle lands, which it is
very necessary to treat in order to eff
fectively combat this pest.
L urge your immediate considera-
ton of this serious situation.
DIR. Harlow B. Mills, state ento-
mologist attached to the agricultural
college at Bozeman, has made a survey
of this matter and is ready to start
the battle as soon as funds are made
available. have asked him to contact
your bureau on this subject"
DR.: Mills described the situation as
acute"
However, if action to control the
'hoppers can be taken mmediately
much danger can be averted due to
the fact the pests seem to be all
Matching at once" he said
The entomologist said the grass
hoppers are Matching at a ratio of
70 to 100 percent of the egg deposits
a number far above normal.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-05-26

Montana counties may supple
ment payments of old age assist
ance and aid to dependent children
from general relief funds if avail
able, Attorney General H. ]. Free
bourn ruled for County Attorney
Phil G. Greenan of Cascade coun-
ty. The opinion was sent to the
Great Falls attorney in response
to a query which grew out of the
reduction OF those payments for April
and May.
The attorney general also held
grants in aid received by the counties
from the state become county funds
when appropriated by the counties
through adoption of emergency budg-
cts as provided for in the state public
welfare act.
Such county funds for general relief
may be used to supplement the other
two forms of assistance, he held under
an amendment to the welfare act in
serted by the 1899 legislature which
said those funds might be used for
amy relief activity lawfully conducted
by the county.
The Cascade county attorney had
called attention to the fact that be-
CAUSE VI IIlt ItCtIlI EtOuCl4OllS vi ~
percent from the usual payments,
which original grant was based on
need and represented a minimum sum
sufficient to maintain the recipient in
decency and health" the standard Of
living of those recipients has neces-
sarily been lowered"
Prior to the amending of the act
by the 1899 assembly, the grants in
aid from state funds could be used
only for purposes of general relief and
disqualification or institutional care.
The amendment, however, author
lied the counties to appropriate grants
Of state funds for the various classes
Of expenditures from the poor fund for
which the grant in aid was made by
the state department" and authorized
counties to adopt emergency budgets
for such expenditures.
Upon appropriation of the grant,
through the adoption of the emer-
gency budget, these state funds become
county funds and If made for general
relief may be used by the county in
payment of general relief assistance, "
the attorney generals opinion held.
1t continued that it is the legal and
financial responsibility" of the coun-
ties to provide adequate relief accord
ing to standards established by the
state department and to the extent Of
county funds available.
When county funds are exhausted,
it then becomes the duty of the state
to aid the county in providing 'ade-
Quate relief to persons in need" the
opinion stated.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-05-26
MISSOULA MAN HEADS
HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION

James c. Murphy, business manager
of st. Patrick's hospital in Missoula.
was elected president of the Montana
Hospital association at the annual
meeting Of the organization in Helena
Other new officers are Sister Mary
Mercy, Kalispell, vice president; j.
and Miss Josephine Stout, Great Falls,
secretary.
Directors also named are Miss Ann
=. Beckwith Of st. Peters hospital in
Helena, William H. Rex of Butte and
Mrs. Gertrude Buckles of Billings.
Nearly every hospital in Montana
was represented.
The program included talks and dis
cussion Of hospital management and
similar topics. The principal speaker
was H. w. Stafel Of Minneapolis,
president Of the Minnesota Hospital
Service association.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-05-26
PRESS ASSOCIATION TO
MEET IN CAPITAL CITY

Dates Tor the annual Montana
State Press association convention
have been announced by Secretary
Henry 0. Woare as Aug. "a, rs and
26. This years convention will be
in Helena and will be attended by
newspaper editors and publishers
from virtually every county of the
state.
Arrangements for the conven-
ton are in the hands Of a COM
mittee. of which Mr.. Woare is
chairman and C. L. Young. Law
Risken and E. d. MacHaffie Of
Helena, Judson Conger of Boze-
man, G. w. Moon of Butte and
r. b. Vrooman of Grass Range are
members. %
Officers Of the association are
J. F. M. Travis of Havre, presi-
dent; Dan MILESTONE of Cut Bank,
first vice president; Lloyd C. Raw
Of Lewistown, second vice presi-
dent; w. b. Venard of Terry. third
vice president, and Mr.. Woare,
secretary-treasurer.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-05-26
FARMERS CUT
INDEBTEDNESS
HALF BILLION DOLLARS REPAID
FEDERAL LAND BANKS IN
PAST EIGHT YEARS
Payments Last Year Totaled S127,41O,-
900 Farm Credit Administration Di-
rectors Are Told by Agency Head,
With Outlook Promising.

Half a billion dollars of farm
mortgage debt held by the federal
land banks and land bank COM
missioner has been repaid in the
last eight years, according to a
statement made by F. F. Hill, gov
ernor of the farm credit admins
tration, to directors of the agency.
This represents both installment
payments and loans paid in full.
On loans held by the land banks and
commissioner, total Of S127, 10000 was
paid on the principal last year, or As
percent of the amount Of loans out
standing at the beginning of 1888, Hill
said This compares with Sll3, 1893 OOO
in principal payments in 1887, or 39
percent of the amount outstanding at
the beginning of that year.
Farmers as a class are in a better
position to make progress in paying
their farm mortgage loans than at any
time in the past" said Mr.. Hill, "since
a least 40 percent Of the total farm
mortgage debt is now contracted on
an amortization basis. In this way a
very small fraction of the original prin,
ciral of the loan is paid each six or IL
months. thereby discharging the debt
usually in 20 to 30-odd years.
The price of farm products Is the
most important factor in paying off
farm debts. But granted reasonable
prices, the fact that 40 percent of
the farm mortgage debt is now ar
ranged on systematic repayment sched-
ules should mean considerably more
progress in farm debt curtailment dur
ing the next decade than has occurred
in the past 10 years. Furthermore, the
reduction Of farm interest rates by
many millions Of dollars since 1888
leaves more income which may be ap-
piled to principal retirement"
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-05-26
AIR AND AUTO
SCHOOLS READY
HELENA, GLASGOW AND MILES
CITY VOCATIONAL PLANTS
GET APPLICATIONS
We're Designated by State Board of
Education to Teach Aeronautics and
Motor Mechanics Under Terms of
Law Passed by Recent Legislature.

Montana boys 16 to 21 years old
are now applying for vocational
training in aeronautics and related
trades to L. W. Fahrner of the
school of aeronautics and related
trades at Helena, and boys want
ing training in auto mechanics and
related trades are applying to the
Glasgow high school and the Gus
ter County high school at Miles
City.
These three schools were designated
by the state board of education under
statewide vocational training centers.
An applicant does not have to be a
high school graduate.
The new law requires that applica-
tons must be made by June ! for ad-
mission to the schools in September.
In June vocational school officials,
assisted by the state supervisors of vo-
cational education, will pass upon all
applications and select those appli-
cants who seem best qualified for the
work offered at a particular school
Notified By July
Applicants will be notified by July
if selected. Under the law superintend-
applicant lives will transfer the high
school apportionment to the county
where the applicant will attend school.
This is fixed at so cents a day for
actual attendance at the vocational
school, but for an amount of not more
than $50 for the school term.
The Helena school Of aeronautics
and related trades, housed in its own
building at the municipal airport, is a
unit of the Helena public school sys-
tenn, and can handle 80 students in all
1t developed two years ago out of the
aviation course established in the Hell
ena high school in 1892. Fifty boys
from the Helena High are enrolled at
present. They spend half day in the
aeronautics school, part of the time
being devoted to theory and the bal
ance to shop work.
Juniors and Seniors
The other half day is spent at the
Helena High in courses which in most
cases are related to the work at the
aeronautics school. Only juniors and
seniors have been admitted to the
drawing, general science, shop and
mathematics
All students in these vocational
schools will be required to pay fees
large enough to cover the cost Of sup
plies and small tools consumed in the
process of training. Students older
than 81 or who for some other reason
cannot get a transfer of apportion-
ment may be accepted at these state
vocational training centers but will be
required to pay the tuition themselves
All students must arrange for their
own board and lodgings.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-05-26
NERVOUS?

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Are you cross and irritable? Do you scod
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If your nerves are on edge and you feel
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Why not give it n chance to help YOU?
Over one million women have written in
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Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-05-26
MRS. ADA FOX, PIONEER,
IS, DIES AT WHINE 7

Mrs Ada B. Fox, IS, Montana pio-
neer, died at Winnett recently at the
home of her son, George.
Mrs. Fox was born at GAINESVILLE,
Wis, and came to Montana with her
husband, Edward Fox, about 60 years
ago. The couple operated stage
ranch at Ada, near Forsyth. They
moved to Great Falls in 1887 and lived
ranch near Tiger Butte and then re-
sided on a ranch in the MuSselshell
country. Fox died in 1918.
Besides her son George survivors in
clude three daughters, Mrs ONeill of
Great Falls, Mrs. Gala Dentner of Cut
Bank and Mrs. Alta Roberts of Hardin.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-05-26

When Patricia Anne James of Cuya-
hoga Falls, O., registered at Kent State
university, Kent, O., four weeks late,
little did she realize how odd" her
registration was. 1t so happened that
university and 1904 women Miss James
thus became the odd" woman at the
university.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-05-26
Grateful to
Chinese Herbs

About two years ago started to get
severe attacks in the abdomen and
intense pain in the back. would wake
I'D about o'clock in the night and
could not sleep any more. My hands
and feet would get numb; at times my
eyes would seem to get dark and I
could not see well. Sometimes, while
working in the field, would get dizzy
spells and at one time fell down in
the field. had to get up many times
each night. I was told by various
people that had kidney trouble, pros
tate gland trouble, colitis and rheuma-
tism.
Someone suggested that I try Chi
nese Herbs SO came in to see the
Wong Sun Company. After taking only
few weeks of Chinese Herbs my
hands and feet started to have much
better circulation and all the numb
ness left The pain and dizziness all
left me completely. sleep through
until morning and do not have to get
up in the night. feel like a new man
again and am able to work like used
ID. I am SO thankful for the wonder
fm help received from Wong Suns
Chinese Herbs.
Signed this 9th day Of April, 1889.
MIR. PETER SOLOMON, ST.,
Poison, Montana.
WF3fn ~ Wilt
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-05-26

The first collection OF rhymes and
jingles Of Mother Goose" was pub
lished about the year 1850, but they
were found scattered in cheap books
and had been current orally for CEN
turtles. tat
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-05-26

On the well regulated farm. Deem
Der Is the month for cutting fuelwood
Wise cutting improves any woodlot;
It's like eating your cake and having
1t too, foresters say.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-05-26

The western states have shown a
500 percent increase in the number
OF milk cows since the 1870s, while the
north Atlantic states have shown only
. percent increase.