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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-11-27
eHGtpy
 Birthday

The E=1pire extends eongrafula tions and best u,ishss t>1iay, fhei' birthday anniOer:.-- 10 th ros' loUing:
 NOVEMBER 27 Mrs. Verne Soley Roberta A. Messerschmidt Mrs. Daniel Livie
 J. E. Smith
 Ava Chenoweth
 Louise Hildre
 Jean Taylor
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-11-27

We see where half million dollars worth of buggy whips sold in the national annually. However, we're waiting for the latest sales statistics side saddles before concluding that times don't change.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-11-27

Russia accuses the United States of browbeating Cuba and the Philippines Goebbels must be spending the weekend in Moscow
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-11-27

DIR. STEyFs, CHIROPODIST. Makes Arch Appliances to measure office. 10 Valentine Bldg. Phone 64a
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-11-27

do part to help meet it when the Christmas seals distributed next week
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-11-27
Juneau Florists

U. S. Signal Corps
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-11-27

Totals .. 40 545 554-1536 Average score.
Evening star., 1939-02-02
Dewey Spikes Belief
Prints on Guns Help
Solve Many Crimes
Insists Thot Weinberg,
Hines Cose Witness,
Took Own Life
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 2.-The popu-
lar belief that flngerprints on guns
help police to solve many crimes has
been exploded by District Attorney
Thomas T. Dewey in defending his
contention that George Weinberg,
gangster witness against Tammany
District Leader James J. Hines, died
q suicide.
Weinberg was found shot to death
Sunday in suburban home where
he and other prosecution witnesses
in the lottery conspiracy trial had
been quartered.
Lehman Asks Probe.
Investigators announced he had
seized the gun Of a detective guard
and killed himself. He had been
i'll and depressed.
When Mr.. Dewey was requested
yesterday by Gov. Lehman to in
vestigate the statement of George
E. Mulry, Mineola attorney, that q
"believable source" had informed
him "Weinberg's f1ngerprints are not
on revolver Of Dewey hireling," the
prosecutor answered:
1T is incontrovertibly established
that George Weinberg committed
suicide"
Declaring only a valueless smudge
had been found on the death weap-
on, Mr.. Dewey said that in the last
20 years New York police in only
one instance had found finegrprints
on revolvers used in murders or
suicides.
Absence Of Prints Explained.
A police expert explained the alb
sence Of flngerprints.
Its the way q person grabs q
gun that makes flngerprints unde-
tectable," he said. 1T is held In the
palm Of the hand. And the metal
or rubber grip seldom retains any
sort of impression"
Reading to the jury Of several
hundred pages of testimony given at
the previous Hines trial by Wein-
berg, chief lieutenant of the late
Dutch Schultz, was expected to be
completed some time tomorrow.
1t supported with details the
States charge that Hines "intimi-
dated, influenced or bribed" judicial
officers to dismiss cases against
operators in Schu,tz's policy racket.
Evening star., 1939-02-02
Settlement Sought
In Elevator Strike
Tying Up 100000
Needle and Fur Shops
Reported Losing
$4,000, 900 Daily
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. City on
cials sought settlement today Of .
midtown elevator strike after re-
ceiving reports the walkout had
kept 100000 persons from work and
cost the needle and fur industries
SIS 5,000, 900 in q single day.
Manhattan Borough President
Stanley M. Isaacs said union rep
resentatives and realty operators
had agreed to attend a conference
in his ONCE.
Settlement Indicated.
Signs Of a break in the employ
ers' front and q reduction in union
demands indicated the possibility of
q quick settlement.
James j. Bambrick, president Of
Local 81 Of the Building Service
Employees International Union, said
95 landlords already had signed in
Evening star., 1939-02-02
Legion Drive Launched

Efforts to enroll every eligible
World War veteran employed by the
Treasury Department in the Amer
ican Legion began with the appoint
ment Of committee by Treasury
Post, No IS Of the American Legion.
Headed by j. William Lowen of the
procurement division, committee
members include c. O. Patterson,
Mary Anne Kennedy, Oscar Kibbey,
Peter I. Massiah, Mary M. Becker,
Nelson E. Hubel and James D. Gill.
Evening star., 1939-02-02
Currency Samples
Given to Delegates
Turn Up at Bank
Fy the Associated Press.

Fy the Associated Press.
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay,
Feb. 2.--Police are trying to
find out how sample Uruguayan
currency given to delegates at q
South American conference
here last week got into circula-
ton.
The Central Bank gave sam
Piles of q complete series Of
Uruguayan bills to delegates to
q conference Of finance min
listers Of Paraguay, Argentina,
Brazil and Uruguay.
Yesterday some Of the bills,
stamped sample bills, without
value" turned up in the regular
currency.
Evening star., 1939-02-02
Hard Times Purty

Prizes will go to the man and
woman wearing the oldest clothes
when Federal Employees Union No.
2, National Federation Of Federal
Employees, holds a hard times
party" Tuesday night at the Ashton
Heights Women's Club house, 413
North Irving street, Arlington, Va.
There will be dancing and an enter
tainment program.
Evening star., 1939-02-02

and cost the industry $4,000, 900.
J. Louis Dubow Of tho Merchants
Ladies' Garment Association said
10000 more workers in his organ
ization had been kept from their
Jobs.
Evening star., 1939-02-02
Production Halted.

Declaring that out-of- town buyers
were purchasing In other cities to
avoid delay, Charles Sussman, ex-
ecutive director Of the American
Cloak and Suit Manufacturers As
sociation, said the strike had caused
$4,000 workers to halt production
Evening star., 1939-02-02

dividual contracts granting . 81 .
week wage increase and 4 A-hour
week.
Earlier tho union had demanded
q is to 20 per cent increase and .
40-hour week. Under = three-year
contract that expired last Monday
midnight Union members received
$23 to $28.T5 for working 48 hours.
Mr.. Bambrick said 1000 TO 5000
elevator operators and service en-
ployes had walked out in 900 build
ings. Police estimated $50 structures
were affected in the garment area,
from Forty-f1rst to Fourteenth
streets and from Fifth avenue to
the Hudson River.
Evening star., 1939-02-02
Red Tops Protested

Wheat farmers Of South Africa
are protesting that the new wheats
control board has 20 much red tap0
that they are getting enmeshed In II.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-07-13
Another Young Couple
Take Marriage Vows

Miss Jessie Ice, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Herbert Ice of Prosser,
Wn., became the bride of Hamilton
A. Hough, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Har-
nv Hough of this CITY last Saturday
evening at very quiet ceremony
at the Methodist parsonage. Rev.
Harold Baber read the marriage
vows, and only the immediate fam
lies were present.
A delightful wedding breakfast
was served in honor of the young
couple at the Hough home Sunday
morning after which they left for
their home on Pipe creek.
Mrs. Hough is graduate of the
Kinman Business college in Spo-
kane and has been employed in that
city since graduation.
MFR. Hough is one of Libby's more
popular young men and for the past
year he has been engaged in the
mink raising business on his ranch
on Pipe creek. He is graduate of
the Libby high school and attended
the University of Montana for three
years where he majored in for
estry.
The many friends of the young
couple wish them every success and
happiness in their married life.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-07-13
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BOOK ENDS
BY INEZ RATEkIN
County Librarian

There is a new piece of furniture
in the library that is the pride and
i Joy of our sentimental hearts. 1t is
an attractive cabinet. made of ma
tive fir, which will be depositary
for pictures, records, relics of early
day history of this section. Three
members of the Pioneer Society, w.
w Blew, H. M. Smith, and Fred
Birmingham. made it for the Society,
and it will remain in the library as
a memoriam to our pioneers.
While thinking along these lines,
the idea came to call Mrs. James
Reedy, the present secretary. and
ask her about the beginnings of the
Society. She delved into the old
records and brought forth a few
pertinent facts about the organ
iZation.
On January 30, 1923. a number
of interested persons met and or
ganized. with the following officers:
President. A G. Herbst; vice presi-
dent, Mrs. Thomas Fleetwood; Sec
rotary, Elmer Switzer, treasurer,
Mrs. John Peay; board member,
Mrs S. N. Plummer. The Society's
first annual dance was the follow
ing month in the old Owl Hall
where the post office is at present
There were over eighty at that af-
fair. In 1924 the Society incorpo-
rated and purchased what is known
as the Pioneer Park which has been
and is, favorite spot for picnics
Trees have been planted and the
park, under the care of Ferd Pet
erson, is kept apart for picnic pur-
poses. The Society has an annual
dance In the winter and an annual
picnic in the summer. 1t is a pleas
ure to attend these and hear some
of the interesting highlights of ear
ly times, and have good time
swinging EN- around the corner
About one hundred attend these
get-togethers. The present board
consists of Mrs. S. G. Ratekin, Mrs
A. c. Herbst, Mrs. James Reedy
Mrs. w w Blew and NJ. D. Row.
land.
A favorite poem is one of Wal
Whitman's, Pioneers O Pioneersn
Following are the 7th and 20tf
stanzas.
We primeval forests telling,
We the rivers stemming, vexing we
and piercing deep the mines
within,
We the surface broad surveying
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-07-13
See This Excellent
Showing of Montana Views

Beautiful Montana" is featured
in a series of pictures now on dis
play in the windows of the Noun
tain States Power Co. The scenes
were taken and prepared by the for
est service and depict many of Mon
tana's gorgeous and unusual inter
esting places.
As representative of the lumber
industry the J. Neils mill and yard
are shown. The scenes are all IN
natural color which adds to them
greatly.
This set of pictures has been
displayed in several other sections
and will be here until July Il. {
w. Spaulding, assistant supervisor
of the Kootenai forest is responsible
for the picture showing the elk
coming over hill. It is one of tht
best of its kind and has won ma
tional repute as game picture.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-07-13
Deer Seen Only Once
Will Be Sought in Burma

NEW YORK. The Black Barking
deer, an animal so rare that it has
been seen only once by rowing ex-
plorers, will be sought by the Yer
nay-Cutting expedition to North
RslrnaasIf=the American Museum.
of Natural History, sponsor of the
expedition, acquires one of these
deer, it will have the only skin or
skeleton of the kind in any world
museum.
The Burmese government has
granted permission through the
state department at Washington,
for the expedition to proceed with
its plans. The objective is to col
lect mammals, birds, fish, and
plants in a region Of northeast Bur
ma never entered by scientific
expedition.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-07-13

NEW YORK.-Garnet and tour
maine, staurolite and zircon, and
host of other heavier han-average
semi-precious stones now have a
new use-telling the age of noun
tains. In the Big Horn basin of
Wyoming, DR.. Mareellus Fl. Stow,
Washington and Lee university ge-
ologist, has been tracing the source
of the ancient sediments back to
the still more ancient mountains
from which they came.
Piled one over the other, with the
youngest on top and the oldest below,
the Cretaceous and Eocene sedi-
ments Of the area were derived
from the wearing away of the high
est of the ancient Rocky mountains.
Thus, the He'll creek beds con-
tain abundant zircon in all samples,
suggesting their origin from a zir-
concentrating mountain. They con-
tain no hornblende, showing that the
source Of the sediments was horn
blende-free Further studies show
that the Hell creek beds were de-
rived from the erosion Of sedi-
ments.
Each bed of the series present in
the Big Horn basin was likewise stud
led for heavy minerals, and its prob
able source determined From this
Doctor Stow hopes to determine
. which areas were up" during each
phase of the Laramide period OF
mountain-building, 90,000,000 years
ago. more or less.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-07-13
roveI In Park
Coins This Year

BY the night of July 4, 140.918
persons had travelled through yell
lowstone Park this season, as COM
pared with 22.469 last year and
122.807 in 1887 during the same pc
Rod, according TO Superintendent
Edmund B. Rogers. Park officials
have estimated that this years ira
vel through the national playground
may reach the 500, 900 mark.
Rail travel to the park this year
through the Fourth was 20 per cent
below last years mark, but above
the 1887 figure. The western en-
trance showed the heaviest travel,
followed in order of travel by the
east, south and northeast entrance.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-07-13
'Therbligs,' Basic
Hand Motions Used
In Performing Work

ST. LOUIS, MO. : So you
never saw a therblig? Well, if
you pick up pen, write on a
piece of paper and lay the pen
down again you are using nine
therbligs.
This little known term. therblig,
was one of the major topics of dis
cussion at the opening technical ses-
sions here of the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers.
A therblig. explained Prof. Ralph
M. Barnes of the University of
Iowa, is fundamental hand mo-
ton used in performing different
kinds of work There are 18 basic
hand motions out of which all man.
ual motions can be fashioned.
BY motion picture studies of
workers scientists are learning ways
to cut waste hand motion in many
industrial operations and obtain
more output of work while the
worker uses less energy and effort.
Therbligs Used in Writing.
Here is Professor Barnes listing
of the steps in writing and their
therblig equivalents:
Steps in Writing: |. reach for
pen; 2. grasp pen; 8. carry pen
to paper; a. position pen for writing
5. write; 6. return pen to holder; Z.
insert pen in holder, g. let 60 pen;
9. move hand to paper.
Therblig Equivalents. |. trans
port empty; 2. grasp 3. transport
loaded; A. position; 5. use; 6. trans
port loaded; 7. proposition; 8. re-
lease, g. transport empty.
BY keen analysis of motion studies
it is often possible to save mate
rails as we'll as time. Professor
Barnes cited a case of revising
methods of painting refrigerators in
which there was a reduction in time
of sos per cent, reduction in re-
jections of so per cent, direct
labor savings of s3,750 year and
a saving in paint amounting to S., $40
a year All this was obtained by a
sum of Sl.040 for developing and in
stalling the new system.
OF all ID therbligs, said Professor
Barnes, grasp is one of the common
est and one of the most time con-
Stunning. Wherever possible, in in
spections, scientists try to remove
the need for picking up the. article
in question
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-07-13
Fireproof Awnings

WASHINGTON. - A weather-re-
sistant fireproofng treatment for
cotton fabrics, of Importance in fire.
proofing articles such as awnings
and tents which are exposed to rain,
has been developed by Martin
Leatherman of the United States bu-
reau Of chemistry and soils. Stan
mic chloride "a salt Of tiny, chlor-
mated resin and a colored metallic
oxide are the principal materials re-
CURED.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-07-13
Leave For Conference.

Tuesday morning group of
young people left Libby to attend
the annual Presbyterian Young
Peoples Conference which is being
held at Flathead lake this week.
Those who are attending are James
Bar,,-.1e, Margaret Redfield, Alice
McRell, Eleanor Rogers, James
Woodwork, Mrs. r. Pitcher and
Rev. Hart. Charles Woodwork
drove the car which took the group
10 the gathering.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-07-13

i itESIi hAlSp q fiisAAi
greatness or eminence who lay abed
late in the morning Swift.
AS time goes on Libby is more
and more becoming a tourist CEN
ter this spring the merchants
went to the expense of sending out
folders advertising this section =. .
the tourists are beginning to come
through now - it IS not easy for
stranger coming in on No. 2 to
see the business district of Libby
They shoot right by Mineral
Ave, because there are no mark
ers showing where the merchants
display their wares
For small cost signs directing
tourists to the business district
could be erected say two or
three small ones along No. 2 within
the city limits then slightly larger
signs at the intersection of Mineral
and No. 2 Spokane uses the
simple sign CITY CENTER" u.
Let's try not being original for once
and copy this excellent idea
THE MERCHANTS SHOULD GET
BEHIND THIS BECAUSE III is TO
THEIR BENEFIT.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-07-13

we the virgin soil upheaving,
Pioneersl o Pioneers!
These are of us. they are with us,
All for primal needed work, while
the followers there in embryo
wait behind,
We today's procession heading, we
the route for travel clearing,
Pioneersi o Pioneersl
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-07-13

BERLIN Spun glass fiber is be-
ing used in Germany to replace as
bestos and other substances as n
heat insulation material over ship
and locomotive boilers, city gas
tanks, etc.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-07-13
Honors Bride.

Miss Mildred Buck entertained
Friday evening in honor of Mrs.
John Mass, June bride. The ev-
ening was pleasantly spent in sew
ing and visiting. A lovely occa-
sional chair was presented to the
honor guest. The hostess served a
lovely lunch at the partys close.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-07-13


This week a citizen, one who takes
pride in his city and its modern
improvements, spoke to us about
the danger Of the darkness at the
Great Northern Railway crossing
when slow moving freight train is
making its way across the inter-
section
BY careful observation, when driv-
ing down Mineral Ave, you can
see the lights of cars approaching
on the bridge the bridge is just
high enough so the lights of the
car shine right over the box cars
or flat cars thus causing the driver
of the northbound car to think the
tracks are clear He then goes
forward at a regular rate of speed
and does not have ample time to
stop if there is train on the
tracks ..
This gentleman makes the Sug-
gestion that either the Great North
ern or the city take enough inter-
est in safety measures to place some
sort of a flood lamp at the rail
tr0au S--s.gg... sss. does sFF3s 4DllgIH
gest an expensive multi-colored stop
sign but merely a flood light SO
those passing may insure themselves
of safe passing over the tracks
IF THERE is A CHANCE
OF SAVING A LIFE ISN'T 1T
WORTH A MINUTES THOUGHT
AND A LITTLE ACTION? ~.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-07-13
League Standings

Games 70 be played next Week.
Friday evening The Play VS.. A. +
Monday evening A. o. U. w. vs.
The Play.
F. of L.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-07-13
Softball League.

Friday evening the c. c. c. team
won a l to victory over The Play
team.
Monday evening the A. o. u. w.
stepped into first place ofthe league
by winning over Curtis Hardware
with the score IA to 7.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-07-13

CUFF
BY Hal
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS


AGAIN the flowers are blooming
and the trees leafing and a mo-
torist coming to a stop at the inter
section of Mineral Ave. and NO. z
highway doesn't have chance Oh
seeing to the south He Is en-
tirelv. cut off without view OF
the highway to spot oncoming cars
unless he drives half way across
No. 2 Why not get busy and
cut down those bushes on the boule--
ward next to the Kemper house and
give the drivers a chance to see
where they are going Inc
flowers on those bushes are beau
tiful, Yes but we would rather
see dead bushes and flowers than
some dead person being toted away
! from that corner because his vision
was barred TAKE A DRIVE
TO THAT INTERSECTION AND
SEE FOR YOURSELF.
The other day Bill Darlington
gave us piece of information
i which we might pass on lie
informed us that the Yak river and
post office are spelled Yak
while the Great Northern siding,
west of Troy, is spelled Yakt
also the post office east Of Libby
WE THANK HIM FOR HELPING
US OUT ON THIS SPELLING -.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-07-13
MORE small thoughts

One should eat to live. not live
to eat.-Franklin.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-07-13
1TOTH LIIdI CUIIIt Uett1e1~s1- p s. =
u,as barred TAKE A DRIVE
TO THAT. INTERSECTION AND
SEE FOR YOURSELF. -.
SMALL THOUGHTS

never Knew a man come &c
greatness or eminence who lay abed
late in the morning Swift.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-07-13

House for rent, modern. Mrs.
Brouillard. 1t |
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-19
K. c. C0NCLAvE
COMES TO END

SEATTLE-A call for universal
elimination Of petty differences
among nations" made its appear
ance Thursday at the 57th con-
vention Of the Knights OF Column
bus in the last day of the conelave.
The resolution submitted TO the
convention urged all nations. all
peoples. mad all leaders =. to turn
their souls. their hearts and their
minds 10 the cross Of Jesus Christ
and therefrom 10 draw such true
appreciation 70 the brotherhood OF
all men under the fatherhood OF
one God"
Sponsors of the resolution quoted
from a sermon by Pope Plus XII
early this year, in which the pom
tiff said. There can be no order
without Justice" and Justice re-
ouires that sacred rights of hu-
man freedom and dignity be rec
ognized and safeguarded"
Reelection OF five supreme direc-
tors was announced. The list IN
cluded Daniel A. Tobin, Brooklyn,
N. Y; William J. Guste. New Or
leans: Francis J. Heazel, Ashe-
vile. N. c.; Francis Fauteux, Mon
treal, and Ray T. Miller, Cleve-
land.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-19
POST 81 WILL
SEE PICTURES

Members of Wild West post No.
p1. Veterans of Foreign Wars. who
during the World War served with
some of the light artilleries will be
shown moving pictures at the post
meeting in the armory, Friday at
s p. M, of a modern completely
mechanical unit. Veterans who
recall difficult and trying moments
pushing and shouldering the IA
nous French rs INNS into position
will witness the change the motor
truck has brought with no little
chagrin. Others who perhaps re-
call some of the many wild rides
on careening bouncing caissons
over rough terrains will look in
vain for safety straps on the sec
ton trucks of today.
The pictures will include the
activities of the entire day of the
modern artillery, from reveille to
retreat, and will show mess halls,
pay tables, night maneuvers, con-
centration camps and many things
familiar to the veteran.
Commander George Russell ex-
tends invitation to members of
V. r. w. to be in attendance for
the show. Ross P. Burnworth,
who took the pictures promises
some very interesting shots of the
IT'S" in action. When editing is
completed the picture is to be do
mated to the 14Sth Field Artillery
library of moving pictures.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1939-08-19
Man Arrested for
Hitting His Wife

f. J. Laws, 39-year-old Tacoma
WPA worker, released from the
county jail only few weeks ago
on a suspended sentence for strik-
ing his wife, was back in Friday
on the same charge degree
assault--which Prosecutor Thor c.
Tollefson said might grow into
something far more serious.
The prosecutor ordered Laws
held under $500 bail until time
determines the extent of the crime.
Mrs. Laws, expecting arrival of
baby within two months. was
taken to the Pierce county hospital,
Tollefson said. On the outcome Of
her condition, and law enacted
especially to fit such cases, rests
the charge against the prisoner.
Prisoner Laws, who lives at 2516
East E St, denies striking his wife,
Tollefson said.