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Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-05-05
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dom. Bairnsfather says his revised
character reveals signs of age, but,
for that matter, so does the car
toonist.
The slow attrition of 20 years since
slender youngster created "Ole
Bill" in a trench in Flanders, has
added to his bulk, had taken toll
of his thatch of wavy black hair.
Bitterness came, too, as when he
returned all his war medals to the
British government in protest
against its treatment of veterans.
Somehow, despite the wide
and varied exploitation of Bill
books, lectures, a play, 1.-THE
Better Ole," syndicated piece
and SO forth-Bruce seemed to
get the short end Of it all. He
is said to have received some
$4,000 out of $500, 900 earned by
his black and white creation.
Putting on his own review,
"Ullo," he lost SAC, 900, and after
that events led him straight to
bankruptcy, liabilities $4,000,
assets negligible.
He was born in India of a long
line of army forebears and began
life as an electrical engineer. OF
recent years, what with lecturing,
writing and drawing, life is said to
have dealt more amiably by him.
Collected Ior transfer from his
~ post as ambassador to Argentina
to the government of Gen. Francisco
Franco in Spain, Alexander W. We'd
oALy dell, 60 years
To Spain Packs him such assets
DiDlomotic Boz as are implied
in the long ex-
perience of a career diplomat, a
man OF tact and diplomatic deft-
ness, combined with broad humani-
tartan sympathies.
Mr.. Weddell was educated at
George Washington university
law school and the University
of Catania in Italy. Appointed
private secretary to the minis.
ter to Denmark in 1908, he en-
tered the consular service two
years later as consul at Zanzi-
bar. He spent two years, 1872
IA, as consul at Catania, going
thence to Athens as consul gem
eral.
Retiring from the diplomatic serv-
ice in 1928, he returned six years
ago, filling various consular posts
until his appointment as ambassa-
dog to the Argentine.
9 Consolidated News Features.
WNU Service.
Evening star., 1939-07-24
Army Recruiting
For 112,500 Men
Ahead Of Schedule
Officiois Pleased
With Response and
High Qualifications
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Army's most intensive peace
time recruiting campaign, intended
to bring $500 new men into the
ranks by mid-1940, is well ahead of
schedule at the end of the first
half month.
Official reports showed today that
there were almost 1000 enlistments
by July Is, representing 749 per
cent of the $3.50 quota for the entire
month. The initial allotments of
some corps areas already were filled.
Officers said they were gratified by
the mental and physical qualifica-
tions of the new soldiers as we'll as
by their numbers. The first batch
of prospective aviation mechanics
and flyers was described as enthus-
iastically as fine as any group of
candidates for West Point"
Most of the recruits apparently
want to 60 into the expanding Air
Corps, regardless of requirements
that they have a high school edu-
cation or a journeymans rating in q
skilled trade
That suits the War Department
for the time being, as $4,000 men
of a $1,000 net increase in the
Army's enlisted strength are des-
tined for aviation. In addition
some $4,000 men are needed for re-
placements in all branches.
GO places with the Army" and
other slogans and posters have been
Evening star., 1939-07-24
Thomas Dudley Fields,
Rail EmpIoye, Dies

Thomas Dudley Fields, an en-
ploye of the Southern Railroad for
81 years, died yesterday at Mount
Alto Hospital after three weeks
illness. He was So.
A native of Marshall, Va, Mr..
Fields was engaged in the banking
business there for short time be-
fore going to work for the South
ern Railroad. At the time of his
death he was chief clerk in the
office of the assistant to the con-
troller.
During the war, he enlisted in the
Army and served in the medical
corps. He was a member of George
Washington Post No. l, American
Legion, and of the Blue Ridge
Lodge of Masons in Marshall. He
attended the Rhode Island Avenue
Methodist Protestant Church.
Surviving Mr.. Fields are his
mother, Mrs. John Thomas Fields,
and two sisters, Mrs. Henry w.
Cough and Miss Inez F. Fields, all
living at Gainesville, Va. Two other
daughters, Miss Mary Anne Fields
and Miss Lillian Janice Fields, lived
with him here at 4140 Oglethorpe
street NV.
The Rev. Raymond w. White will
conduct funeral services at the S.
H. Hines funeral home, 290l Four
teenth street NV, tomorrow at 2
pm. He will be buried in Rock
Creek Cemetery.
Evening star., 1939-07-24
D. G. Bills
Continued From First Page.)

the House will go to the Senate
Two of the others-the one to eX-
empt from taxation property of the
American Friends Service Com
rnittee and the one providing for
transfer of property with the Co.
lumbar Institution-Will go to the
White House for the signature of
President Roosevelt The bill
al inending the real estate law, which
had formerly passed the Senate,
must go to conference SO that diff
ferenceS between the House and
Senate can be ironed out.
The fight over the beer bill was
initiated by Representative Shafer,
Republican, of Michigan, a member
of the District Committee. He said
the proposed legislation resulted
from decision of the Alcohol Bev-
erage Control Board outlawing the
sale of beer to persons in automo-
biles, parked on the private lots of
sandwich shops.
This bill would legalize the drink
ing of Intoxicating liquors in auto
mobiles" he declared
"It has been drawn in the in
terests of special privileged group.
There is no public clamor for it."
Mr.. Shafer also declared such
legislation would not be conducive
to safety on the highways, and
charged it would make possible the
sale of beer to minors.
The walters at these shops are
nnye interested in the tip than in
the age of those who buy the beer"
he said. The result is that young
sters would be able to buy beer"
Evening star., 1939-07-24

employed to interest young men.
When the rate of enlistment is
stepped up later to 1928 a month,
the adjutant generals oftce will ap-
peal to youthful desire for adventure
and for technical training afforded
by mechanical artillery establish
ment.
Standards, other than educational,
age, good health and character will
govern some recruiting.
Men to be signed up, beginning
next February, for the reinforced
field artillery In the Panama Canal
Zone must be at least feet 10
inches tall. Otherwise, the Army
figures, they would not be able to
put packs on the mules that lug
guns and shells through the jungle.
Evening star., 1939-07-24
Congress
Continued From First Page)

for farm tenancy and rural rehabili-
tation loans, $500,OOO,O0 for rural
electrifcation, $l0O,OOO,OO0 for the
Export rt-Import Bank, and $4,000 900
for reclamation.
AS debate on the lending measure
held the spotlight, House and Sen
ate conferees worked over another
major legislative problem, the House
Rules Committee considered two
others, and the House itself debated
the controversial transportation bill.
Providing, among other things.
that water carriers should be under
control of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, the transport legisla-
tion probably will not be brought
into the Senate chamber at this
session.
May Eliminate Section.
Representative South, Democrat,
of Texas said there appeared to be
good chance that the House would
eliminate the water carrier section.
Mr.. South, a leader of a BIZ
partisan bloc opposing the proposal.
said "the only thing we have to
fear is that strong railroad lobby"
The bill also would repeal the So
called land grant statutes which
railroads claim cost them $1,000, 900
annually, authorize new R. F. C.
loans to railroads. bring interstate
forwarding companies under Fed
eral regulation, and relieve the rail-
roads of part of the cost of new
bridges over navigable waters
Other "Must" Items.
Before conferees, and on the
must" list for passage at this ses-
sion, are amendments to the Social
Security Act, with principal con-
tention centering on the Senate
amendment to require the Federal
Government to double State con-
tributions within the first SIS per
month of old-age assistance pay
ments.
The two major issues before the
House Rules Committee are bills
amending the Wage-hour law and
increasing by sSO0,OO0,0OO the lend
ing power of the United States
Housing Authority. The latter has
been passed by the Senate. but Re-
publican opposition has been mus
tered in the House and has been
promised if the Rules Committee
sends the measure to the floor.
Tomorrow the committee plans to
hear from the various groups seek
ing conflicting revisions of the
Wage-Hour Act.
Andrews Withdraws Support.
Elmer F. Andrews, wage-hour ad-
ministrator, withdrew his support
last week from a proposal to exempt
"Wnite-collar" workers making more
than 5000 a month. He expressed
the opinion it would not be proper
for MIN to advocate something op-
posed by organized labor, which he
said had done such a swell job
helping him.
! Representative Cox, Democrat, of
Georgia, a rules committeeman and
critic of the wage-hour law, told
reporters:
That statement will antagonize
Congress more than it already has
been antagonized. We hope to pass
an amending bill despite what he
has to say"
The House Labor Committee has a
set of amendments containing the
white collar exemption now op-
posed by Mr.. Andrews, and Repre-
sentative Barden, Democrat, of North
Carolina has another amending bill
opposed by the committee and by
Mr.. Andrews.
Evening star., 1939-07-24
Dr.. Fairchi|d Wins
Meyer Medal for
Plant Services
Wallace Halls so Years
Work With Agriculture
Department

Secretary of Agriculture Wallace
today awarded DR.. David Fairchild,
veteran plant explorer of the De-
partment of Agriculture, the Meyer
Medal for distinguished services in
plant introduction.
The award was made for the
Council of the American Genetic
Association, trustees of the medal,
at the Glenn Dale. Md, plant in
PRODUCTION station of the Depart
ment of Agriculture. The award
was established 20 years ago as a
memorial to Frank N. Meyer who
lost his life on an expedition into
China after % years of plant
finding.
Secretary Wallace, in making the
award. reviewed the work of DR..
Fairchild during his so years asso-
citation with the Agriculture De-
partment. Dr. Fairchild resigned
from active service last year, but
has participated since in work with
new plants now being carried on in
Florida, where he has lived since
his retirement.
Considered the father of plant
introduction in America, DR.. Fair
child has introduced hundreds of
new plants to this country. From
his work have grown the date in
dustry in California and the $70,-
100000 soybean industry.
Many of the cereals now grown
on American farms owe their re-
sistance to disease and their ability
to withstand unfavorable weather
conditions to plant introductions
which have been used in breeding
work.
DR.. Fairchild established and for
many years was head of the office
of foreign seed and plant introduc-
ton of the department, during
which he built up what is con-
sidered the most efficient and far
flung plant introduction machine
that has ever existed.
Evening star., 1939-07-24
Parents Not Enthusiastic

PHILADELPHIA, July "a H).-
The birth of Ferdinand, a baby bull
Indian water buffalo, failed to en-
thuse his parents at the Phila-
delphia Zoo. They showed feeble
Ferdinand around so much yester-
day that keepers, fearing he would
be injured, turned him over to a
domestic COW at the zoos model
dairy barn.
Evening star., 1939-07-24
Motor Cycle Victim
Taken to Hospital

William Garner, 49, of 3215 Sew
enth street, South Arlington, Va,
is in an undetermined condition in
Emergency Hospital after being
struck shortly after noon today by
motorcycle at Glebe road and
Eighth street, South Arlington. Ac-
cording to county police the vehicle
was operated by Garland Worthgee,
colored, of 1921 South Quinn street,
Arlington, Va. Mr.. Garner was
taken to the hospital by the Claren-
don rescue squad.
Sweden is increasing its purchases
of arms and munitions.
Evening star., 1939-07-24
Color Segregation
Ended in Atlanta
World Baptist Farley
All Seotins Arrangement
Signs Removed After
Briton's Order
~ the Associated Press.

0y Ine Associated PreSS.
ATLANTA, July 24.-All signs
were removed from the Baptist
World Alliance convention hall today
following announcement there is no
color segregation" in the sixth con-
gress of the alliance.
Secretary j. H. Rushbrooke OF
London announced this action
shortly after today's session got un-
der way.
Labels such as the National Bap-
tist Convention, the Southern Bap-
tist Convention and others were
placed for the convenience of mes
sengers and for the purpose of get
ting old friends together" he said.
But all of them will be removed.
So don't let's have any more nom
sense about color"
He prefaced his statement with a
remark that something had come
up" in a previous session regarding
seating arrangements. He gave no
further details.
The congress is composed of Bap-
lists throughout the world, approx
matelv 60 nations, of many races,
being represented.
Complaint Had Been Made.
In kilograms to newspapers, DR..
H M. Smith, colored, of Chi
cago, protested against numerous
racial signs prominently displayed
throughout the alliance meeting
place" Later he complained he had
been ordered from a section reserved
for wnlte messengers yesterday aft
ernoon at a session held in the At
lanta baseball stadium.
This latter complaint, however was
denied by I. Gloer HALEY, a Fulton
(AtlantaD County commissioner and
chairman OF ushers at the congress,
A high light of the session was an
appeal by DR.. Rushbrooke for def
mite action on prosecutions" in
foreign countries, particularly Ru-
mania and Russia.
Among all evil omenS of the past
five years, the most menacing is the
activity of secular and ecclesiastical
power in narrowing the bounds of
liberty" he asserted. In much less
than half of the European continent
does religious liberation today exist
in fact"
Blamed on Priests.
In Rumania, the secretary said,
the Prime Minister, doubtless with
the sympathy and support" of King
Carol, has ordered police to permit
reopening of Baptist churches. This
is an uncertain freedom, however,
he added, because the adminiStra-
tive ordinance of June IA, 1888,
(which closed the churches" has
not been withdrawn.
DR.. Bushbrooke emphasized that
"the persecution of BaptiSts and
others in Rumania has never ex-
pressed the mind of the Rumanian
people-behind it was always the
sinister figure of the priest
An interview with King Carol on
the Rumanian situation left the
London leader with a definite i'm
preston that his majesty can no
more be held responsible for the
repression than can his people"
Alliance messengers (delegates)
were informed repression continues
in Russia and that up to the pres
ent direct Intervention there has
been impossible.
"As to Asia" the report continued,
mo feature of our time is as grave
ly alarming to the MISSIONARY en-
terprise as the multiplication of
restrictions and demands in the
enlarging Japanese-controlled area
Evening star., 1939-07-24

4NS w l. Vi n WY
has been award
ed to Peter H. D.
Winslow of 105
Battery lane, it
was announced
today.
Com p e t i n G
with over 200 ap-
plicants, young
WinSloW was one
of II selected to
re cei We h e
honor.
A student of
Sullivan School
here, he is the
Evening star., 1939-07-24
Two Woman Acrobuts
Hurt in FoII at Circus
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. July 24.-Two women
acrobats were injured when they
fell 40 feet in the center ring of the
Ringing Bros. and Barnum g. Bailey
circus last night. The performer,
who was balancing them on a pole,
stumbled on a pebble. Spectators
screamed and several women tainted
The injured were Mrs. Ida Walk
mir, 80. of Trieste, italy, fractured
left arm, and Katherine Strehl, %,
of Berlin, several ribs broken.
Evening star., 1939-07-24

fourth local P. H. d. Winslow.
youth in as many years prepared
by that school to win one of the
coveted awards.
Winslow will enter Webb Institute
September 20.
Evening star., 1939-07-24
Webb Institute Award
Goes to Capital Youth

A four-year scholarship to Webb
Institute of Naval Architecture in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-07
Selected Poem
THE PINE TREE SEAT
(Mllicent Laubenheirner in the Christian
 Science Monitor)

(Millicent Laubenheiner in the Christian
 Science Monitor) From the top of the pine tree spread 6 different
 world
 Of the edges of trees and houses, and the sky, There was cupola of the farmhouse, risen For no apparenet reason, white against blue, With dusty panes, like blank, secretive eyes, (Below invaded ust slice of porch And an abandoned rocker f1eck of lawn Submerged and tilted in lost perspectve-) From here the apple orchards topmost leaves Shifted and fckered, to ripple against the gray Remotely sleeping barns that in the sun Shone quietly silver against the deeper green Of distant forests. Inside, the sunlight crept Amid the hay, and the curious hens slid of the wagon tongues, looking for places to lay, And talked to themselves eyeing the wispy floor. Just below sight, outside, stood the water trough Messy and dripping, where horsehar drowned Would turn into snake and wrtggle and coil Within week. Soughing and switching their ears The COWS drank here when driven home from pas-
 ture
 Before milking time, but that was later When shadows grew long and still, and green grew
 golden.
 Now it was mid-afternoon, and nothing was stirring Except an aimless breeze which moved the pine And set the leaves in all the tree to rocking, Bringing the odor of buckwheat warm and heavy. Two small clouds moved lazily toward nowhere Through a concave heaven The sun drowsed in
 the sky, The cupola slept and the mind of the climber smiled And dreamed of nothing feeling the warmth, and Only green silence, the deep blue space of sky.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-07

tration will use photography to help enforce the law. Inspectors will be equipped with special mov- ing picture cameras to photograph company books and records. The films will then be sent to region al offices to be run off on slow motion protector while auditors examine them.
 LENDING AND MORGENTHAU
 When the President attacked House Republicans and anti-New Deal Democrats for killing the lending bill, he told only part of the story. The real fact is that he has only himself---and Secre- tary Morgenthau-to blame for not getting Q new spending pro- gram. r.
 He could easily have got a $500,- 100000 PWA appropriation if he had gone to bat for 1t. A mum. Der of the Democrats who voted against the lending bill repeatedly asked him to back a public works fund. A PWA amendment to the relief bill was defeated in the House by narrow margin and in the Senate by only one vote.
 It's an inner circle secret, but the President actually had in- cluded 8 PWA appropriation in the WPA bill, but was persuaded at the last minute by Morgen- thau to take 1t out.
 All other White House advisers were for a new public works pro- gram. But Morgenthau throughout the session has fought against two things, liberalizing old-age pen- sions and giving the PWA more money. When he got word that the President had included a PWA grant in the relief bill, Morgen- thau rushed over to the White House and walled all over the place.
 Roosevelt finally gave fin when Morgenthau said he would accept 8 self-liquidating projects bill. This scheme had been gathering dust on the New Deal shelf for more than year. Morgenthau had never displayed much interest in 1t but now he hurriedly began
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-07
The Turn Of The Tide

This last week may well go down in history as the most important turn of events in decade. Spendthrift spending of the publics money is no longer the na- tional pastime. Congressional action, a reliable weather-vane of what the major ity of Americans are thinking, clearly irl- dicates that public sentiment runs to gov- ernmental economy.
 The defeat of the Administrations spending bill is tremendous omen that the United States is determined to work rather than spend its way out of bad times. Even Santa Claus can die of ex- haustion and overwork. Some may as- cribe this change to the Republican minority in Congress but they cannot overlook the fact that Democratic votes made it possible.
 The change transcends party politics the United States has returned to fi- nancial sanity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-07
Get More By Taking Less

Ohio has been having an interesting experience in the collection of sales taxes. When the sales tax law was first passed, it was widely evaded. The reason: sales tax stamps were supposed to be issued with each purchase. But most people either did not ask for them, or promptly threw them away. Some dealers promptly picked them up, and simply issued them again.
 Then a regulation was issued that such stamps when issued must be partly toSn in order to make them unusable another time. But still many purchasers failed to ask for them, thus making it possible for dishonest dealers to get by with fewer stamp purchases than they should.
 Then the state found new way; con- sumers turning sales tax stamps back to the state are refunded per cent of their face amount. Churches, hospitals, and other charitable organizations began ask ing people to save the stamps for them; hence customers began asking for the stamps for them even if they didn't want them themselves. And tax collections jumped $3,000,000 between January and June, 1889, largely as result.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-07

Such a coalition would be so powerful economically and defensively, that 1t is felt others would wish to enter the union, which they would be welcome to do on meeting the conditions.
 Perhaps it is somewhat filmy dream, but it is to the credit of the world that people are still left in it who will not resign it to dog-eat-dog future that can result in nothing but new Dark Ages. How far this movement will get, no one can say. But it is launched at time when thoughts turn naturally back to August, 1914, and review in sadness the results of the era launched in those dread days.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-07
Views of The Press

for the future to determine.
 Meantime, thought may properly be given to the body which retires from the scene. For group which began its official career with an ap- propriation of one dollar, which 1t never drew from the State Treasury, the Publicity Commission &C., complished much. During its last year, 1t reports to Governor Bald win, 1t devoted itself first to com- batting tales of devastation and ruin which spread through the country in the wake of the hurricane" of last September. How well 1t suc- ceeded possibly is suggested by the numbers of visitors who have come to the State this season, particular ly by the numbers attracted by the New York Worlds Fair who ap- pear to have thought that New Eng land in general and Connecticut in particular are still worth looking at.
 The Commission has also func- toned ably in connection with the States representation at the Worlds Fair. It well performed satisfactorily such routine activities as handling the multitude of inquiries which naturally gravitate to any body equipped to answer questions both wise and foolish, important and un- important.
 The State Publicity Commission did not live long enough to have a vast usefulness. It did, however, conduct itself vigorously and well while 1t lasted. The very fact that it was deemed wise to enlarge it's functions and its powers is the surest indication that its labors were neither in vain nor are unappre- ciated.