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Evening star., 1939-11-17
Small Claims Court
Fees TotuI $2,882

Fees totaiing $2,882 were paid in
the Small Claims and Cancellation
Branch of Municipal Court during
the month of October, a report to
the Attorney General revealed today.
Beginning with November, how
ever, this sum will be considerably
less with the reductions put into
effect Wednesday. The most i'm
portant cut was that in the filing
fee, slashed from 81 to 80 cents.
A total of 2,068 cases were filed
in the branch in october, the report
showed. Judgments entered in the
month amounted to $30,759.67.
Evening star., 1939-11-17
Capone, in Hospital,
Suffers Lingering
Brain Disease
Three Federal Agents
Keep Watch In or
Near Building
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 17.-Broken,
habby and ailing, "Scarface" AL Ca
pone stared vacantly at the ceiling
OF a $30-per-diem hospital suite
today, free of prison cells in which
he lived for seven years, but SEN
fenced now to a lingering brain
disease.
Outside the one-time Chicago
gang czar's fifth-floor room sat a
male orderly and nurse. In or
near the hospital were three Federal
agents, assigned by Attorney Gen
eral Murphy to keep the fallen vice
emperor under surveillance because,
Mr.. Murphy said, certain things
have come to our attention"
Whether the agents were to guard
Capone from himself or from pos
sible gangland reprisal was not
made clear.
Police Commissioner Robert E.
Stanton said mo city police are on
duty in the hospital and no requests
have been made for them. Only the
regular patrolman, who covers
beat of four blocks, is in the
vicinity"
Suffering From Peresis.
The gangSter chief came here
secretly yesterday from the Federal
prison at Lewisburg, Pa, and en-
tered the general hospital as the
patient Of DR.. Joseph E. Moore,
former director of the syphilis divi-
sion of the Johns Hopkins Medical
Clinic.
He was suffering from paresis-
softening of the brain-but it was
learned that, while his condition
was serious, he was in no inlmedi-
ate danger.
Dr. Moore and hospital officials
declined to discuss the case. At
torney General Murphy said Capone
would be under treatment possibly
three weeks and planned to 90 to
his old home in Miami, Fla, after
his discharge. Mr.. Murphy added
that relatives had assured him the
racketeer, who served his time for
income tax evasion, would go
Stralght.
Hospital attendants who saw Ca
pone said he lookd pale and weak"
His wife, mother and brother Ralph
were with him when he arrived,
and arrangements were made for
the latter to occupy the second bed
room of the expensive suite.
Huge Bunch of Flowers.
No one about the hospital seemed
certain who sent him the huge
bunch of chrysanthemums, but
they made a cleaning backdrop
while Capone idly played cards
with his brother until ordered to
sleep last night.
Nurses entering the suite said the
patient was very pleasant" and in
troduced them to his mother.
Evening star., 1939-11-17
"A. P. Wirephoto.

ployes, Inc, Sunday at 3 pm. at
the Shiloh Baptist Church, Ninth
and P streets NV.
Other speakers will include
Charles A. Peters, jr., general man
ager; Bert c. Gardner. personnel
officer. and E. r. Owen, admin
istrative director of Public Build
ings Management.
Evening star., 1939-11-17
Friends Laugh at Cupid

FORT WAYNE, Ind, Nov. II (R.-
Joseph o. Miller went to the county
clerks Office to get a license to
marry Genevieve Miller.
The couple needed somebody to
testify to their residence here. Mr..
Miller telephoned three friends, but
none would come to the office.
They all said, You're kidding"
The clerk finally located a witness.
Evening star., 1939-11-17
Germany Beheods Three
Convicted Of Spying
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Nov. 17-Three persons,
convicted of treason for disclosing
military secrets to foreign intel
lgence service, were beheaded today.
They were Ewald Lakota, 20, of
Beuthen; Johan Sroka, 26, of
Beuthen, and Robert Schimpf, SO
of Kehl.
A fourth, whose name was not
disclosed, was decapitated earlier.
He was accused of having been an
accomplice of Schimpf.
Evening star., 1939-11-17
Cormody to Speak
At EmpIoye Services

Federal Works Administrator John
M. Carmody will speak at services
marking the Sd anniversary of the
United States Government En-
Evening star., 1939-11-17
Gurden Club to Meet

ARLINGTON, Va, Nov. II (Spe-
ciaD.-The Neighborhood Garden
Club will meet at 8 pm. Monday at
the home of Mrs. E. B. Croson, 1856
North Washington boulevard.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-10-27
The Low Down
From Hickory Grove

To a man up a tree. this breath
less commotion in the U. S. about
the war in Europe, it looks a little
over-dene. Looks like We are try
ing to borrow trouble. Looks like
somebody is maybe going out OF
their way to fix up momentous
problem so as to have something
difficult to solve.
But the interest everybody is taxi
ing, it is o. K, and by the time we
get through with it, we will be on
the right track.
The whole thing has been too
simple. We are so used to looking
for something hard and complicat-
ed, that we never stopped to think
that the only thing for us to do was
just mind our OVID business on this
side of the pond, and go about with
our work.
1t is like the sailor who has a
rope that was too long-he didn't
know what to do about it. If the
rope had been too short. that would
have been easy. he said-he could
splice it.
Yours with the low down,
10 SIERRA
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-10-27
THE CIVILIZED RAILS

The American railroads. wrote
Robert S. Henry recently. haul the
major commerce of the continent
all sorts of freight. over all distances
and between all stations, in all sea-
sons and all weathers-at rates so
low that the average revenue for
carrying a ton of freight one mile is
only one cent. No other form of
transport in America offering like
general transportation service even
approaches so low an average level
of charges. No other railroads in
the world, except those of Japan
and India, get SO little for moving
a ton of freight n mile-and the
average pay of railroad workers in
Japan and India is but small part
of that of average railroad men,"
There is the answer to any ques-
ton that may be raised as to the
qualify and economy of American
railroad service. This service is the
very heart of the complex industrial
mechanism which is the source of
all business, all jobs, all opportuni-
ties. If the railroads stopPed, in
dustry and agriculture would be
thrown into chaos. Other forms
of transport perform important,
limited services, but none can ap-
proach the railroads in handling
swiftly, efficiently and cheaply tine
major commerce of vast continent.
the railroads were the great en-
pire builders civilized rails
as one observer of the past described
them. Transportation on tracks
made possible the development of
the American continent and the
unity of the American nation. Geo.
graphically, the pioneering periods
over-in another sense it still exists.
No industry today does more work
than the railroads in pioneering
scientific developments designed to
further improve the efficiency and
celebrity of service.
America has a use for all forms of
transport, ranging from the delivery
boy on bicycle to the latest super
locomotive. And of them all, the
railroads are far and away the most
vital to our interests as a nation.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-10-27
HOMETOWN AND BIGTOWN !

Mass distributions classified
ton which includes thousands of
organized Independent stores, as
well as chains-has been of particu.
iarly fine service to the smaller COM
munities of this country.
No longer do farmers and other
local people drive forty or fifty
miles to sizeable centers OF popula-
ton in order to make their pur-
chases. For Hometown is as good
a shopping center as Bigtown. The
buyer is offered the same vide &C.
lection of goods, at the same reason.
able prices. He can save his gaso.
line and spend his money locally.
The beneficial effect of this on any
town is apparent. Property owners
find ready tenants, at good rentals.
Local people find jobs At home and
spend thei. money at home. All
business enterprises in the com
munity benefit as trade increases.
New businesses are started and old
ones grow. New sources of taxation
appear, and local purchasing power
expands.
You see this in Thousands Of
smaller towns and sities scattered
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-10-27

Enough farmers were inter-
ested to test the idea. It
proved sound and successful.
Flocks soon dotted the valley,
and became the foundation of
anew and important industry.
But the benefits of that ex-
pertinent extended far beyond
the Red River Valley, for the
Great Northern's agricultural
department encouraged the
importation of lambs from
Montana, Idaho, Washington
and Oregon. Ranchers of
those states, in that way,
gained another important
market for their lambs.
The railroad too was the
gamer. For in helping to de-
stroy the weeds which were
strangling the crops, the rail-
road was protecting its traffic.
At the bottom of Mr.. Hills S,
acceptance of large measure .
the success of the man on the
he realized, could not make go
on the land could make a 60 of
And this policy of stri0in
economic welfare of the fer,
vigorously by the Great Nor
day as .Dhen Mr.. Hill uas at
NO OTHER FORM OF TR
TAKES A SIMILAR INTER-
FARE OF THE FARMER.
Great Northern
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-10-27

throughout the 4S states. You see
it in the steady, sound growth that
is taking place in rural America.
And big-scale distribution must be
given much of the credit for what
might be termed "the decentraliza-
ton of trade centers."
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-10-27
NEWS NOTES FROM MONTANA u
SPECIAL to the BROWNING CHIEF
By Don Bartsch

Rubinoff, popular concert and
radio violinist. appeared last Tues
day night in the Student Union
auditorium under the sponsorship
of the Missoula Exchange club. On
the same program were Fray and
Braggiotti, celebrated duo. planists.
Forty students reported for the
first meeting of the Civil Aeronau.
tics Authority ground school last
week. After ground school instruc-
ton is completed, students will be
given flight training.
Students who buy through the
newly instituted Bachelors Buying
club can live for nine days on the
same money that once fed them for
only seven. Savings on food stuffs
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-10-27

vary from Is to so per cent and are
brought about mainly through ac-
emulation of small individual
orders for large scale group buying.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-10-27
Breaking the Way

For many years Wheat was King in the rich Red
River Valley of North Dakota and Minnesota.
Then growing pains began to develop. Grain
strangling weeds threatened King Wheat's domain.
But already the agricultural representatives Of
the Great Northern Railway were in that region,
advocating diversified farming. For James ]. Hill,
busy pushing the railroad westward to the Pacific,
had created an Agricultural Development Depart
ment to help the farmers work out their numer-
GUS problems.
The railroads agricultural agents reasoned that
if sheep were turned into the weed threatened fields
the menace could be brought under control. Fat
tened woollies too, they figured, would provide the
farmers with more than just land crops to SELL
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-10-27
q. s. Exporfs

Foreign countries buy. 1857, 900
worth Of ipstick, $515 200 worth of
tooth brushes, and $172, 900 worth Of
fishing rods from the United States
in Q year.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-10-27

Georgia Larger Than New York
Georgia includes 10000 more
square miles than does New York
state.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-10-27

A weekly Newspaper published every
Friday ut Browning, Glacier County.
Glacier County chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1931-1940, 1939-10-27

Mr.. Guy Qeft), manager
Of an estate comprising .
groupo of fine farms near Far
go, and Paul c. c. Wagner
of the Great Northern Rail-
ways staff of agricultural
experts.
at is impossible" said
Mr.. Guy, "to measure ac-
curately the accomplish
rnents of the Great North
ern's agricultural develop
nent department, but We
do know that it has been q
tremendous factor in the
growth of livestock feeding
in the Red River Valley.
Someone had to break
the way, and Jim Hills men
did it."
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-08-16
BOULEVARD BAITHoUsE

The northern and southern branches
of Roosevelt Boulevard are fine approaches
to the City of Key West. They are in pro-
cess of development. In time they will be
as beautiful as any main thoroughfare en-
tering any city. They represent poten-
tial value that cannot be estimated.
It would be shameful to destroy the
beauties of these approaches. They form
the frame of the lovely Isle of Key West.
The branches of the boulevard face Flor
ida Bay and the Straits of Florida. To-
ward the water they should be given over
to public enjoyment, to swimming, bathing
ard fishing. Landward they can be de-
veloped into fine residential sections, with
canals to give the Ventian effect.
Anything trimming this frame should
be something of which the city may be
proud Certainly bait house would not
be fitting structure for such a picture.
Certainly public property should not be
used for such structures. Yet for some un-
known reason, Monroe County Commission
has granted oral permission to man to
build bait house on what is allegedly
public property, and members of city coun-
Gil authorized the building Inspector to is
sue temporary permit for the building.
Believing that if bait house may be
placed on what it alleges is public property
other similar structures for various other
purposes may follow, Citizens & Taxpay-
ers, Inc, has filed petition in Circuit
Court for an injunction. The builder of
the bait house and the county commission
ers are named in the action as defendants.
1t is unfortunate that the builder. of
the bait house is in danger of losing his
investment Circuit Court is asked to ex-
anime the commissions right to give pub
lie property to an individual for private
use without advertising "a proposal to lease
the property and without any known re-
enumeration for the use of the property.
If the court holds the county commission
does not have such right, the builder of
the bait house is caught in regrettable
situation.
The Citizen believes that it would be
poor precedent to give up any part of
the property abutting Roosevelt Boulevard
to anyone for commercial activities. That
property belongs to the public, according
to Citizens & Taxpayers, Inc. If this is
true, then the county must develop and
beautify the property for public use, not
give it away for private use.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-08-16
ABOUT SAUSAGE, FISH and LINES
BY S. c. SINGLETON

vertiser began to worry about
his income tax.
Here in Key West we have two
citizens who distinctly know
which way is up-and then some.
They know that the little key
lime is as much better favored
than other lines and lemons as a
freshly plucked wild strawberry's
flavor surpasses big mushy
cultivated one. They have origi-
mated small niailable package of
key Lines all fixed up for the
tourist to send home to places on
the mainland that never saw a
lime. The funny part about it is
that they don't expect to make
any money out of it. They don't
grow lines. Their only ambition
is that some growers will steal
the idea and advertise and get
rich and spend their gEdough in
Key West: preferably for sun
burn lotions and spaghetti. Their
names? Never mind their names,
you'll know them, allA right be-
fore long; and if you want to
laughSat their idea. it would be
good plan to get your laughing
done promptly. For this idea
won't seem very funny few
months from now. Not if any
lime growers have the wit to
take advantage of it.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-08-16
ONE STEP FORWARD

Passage of the Hatch bill is a step in
the right direction but there is little reason
to assume that the act will put an end to
the activity of office-holders. It will help,
nc doubt. and that is distinct gain.
The Hatch measure applies, of course,
to Federal employees only, and the prohi-
billions that it contains do not apply to
State employees. In 1888, it was charged,
in some States, that there was contest go
ing on with State employees, coerced by a
State machine. battling against Federal
employees, coefced by Federal machine.
While we are not prepared to argue
this allegation it will be another forward
step if, and when, legislation is enacted to
apply to all State employees the same regu-
lation that the new law applies to Federal
office-holders.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-08-16
HIGH, HEAVY AND FASTl

Here are few straws that show that
aviation is changing the possibilities of
warfare:
An Army 22-ton bomber recently flew
from Burbank, Calf, to New York, $500
miles, in hours Ia minutes 80 seconds.
The world record for payload carry
ing is held by an Army flying fortress"
which scared 5000 feet with a 31,203-
pound payload
Another Flying fortress recently
averaged go miles an hour with a payload
of IL $50 pounds.
The first event, listed above, demon
strates that crossing the Atlantic, or trans
ferring planes from one coast to the other,
is matter of hours if emergency arises.
The others demonstrate that planes can
carry bomb-payload that will create ha-
voc wherever it is dropped.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-08-16

There was a Yankee down
Cape Cod way who had a notion
that he could make lot of
money by putting fish up in
small packages and advertising
in the newspapers that he would
send them anywhere by mail.
The neighbors had a good laugh
out of that. But, by and by, folks
way down in Florida where we
have more fish than they have
fish scales ''down East" began to
send good money for Yankee fish
and the advertiser got rich and
the neighbors quit laughing and
began to value his opinion on re-
ligion, politics, horse races and
the stock market. He did not
know any more about those
things than he did before; but he
had grit, gizzard and gumption
and knew enough to advertise.
Then there was a lad with q
Welsh name who lived in a Penn
sylvania Dutch region. You can't
beat that combination. Not even
with a Scotsman doing business
in Jerusalem. He started off on
the same tack with. fresh sausage.
And presently Georgia Crackers
and Arkansas hill-billies, where
they have more pork than they
know what to do with, were
sending money to this Pennsyl-
vania farm and the sausage adj
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-08-16
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The survey also points out that
every refugee who comes to Amer
lea els as much a consumer as any
one else. and his wants have to be
supplied by American businesses
and factories. In this sense the refu-
gees are actually providing work for
American labor"
Refugee skills. initiative and cap
ital. the pamphlet continues. have
brought new Industries TO the
United States that give employment
to many Americans.
aCommon SENSE Needed
The conclusion. reached BY the
American Friends Service Commit.
tee is that common sense" Is the
thing most needed in the solution
OF the refugee problem. "Our Com
mittee.. the pamphlet concludes.
realizes that common sense and de.
cency demand that not q single
American workman who needs the
work and is satisfactory should lose
his employment IN order that .
refugee may have It. Although there
have been small and irresponsible
employers who have acted other.
wise. we find that all Of the commit
tees and large employers facing this
problem are clear In their thinking
about this situation and realize the
dangers Of having recourse to any
method OF employment for the ref.
ugees which would displaee Ameri.
can labor. Other occupations where
there viii be no displacement Of
present workers must be found. II
each American community WIN con-
tribute just q little energy, ingenu.
ity, good will toward men. and help
fulness In the ways which the CON.
cerned committees can explain to
them, the solution win not be dim.
cult,
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-08-16
Quakers Refute Propaganda Against Refugees;
Consumer Needs Called Aid to l. S. Employment
1888 immigration Increase L
Less Than 400 of l9o
Of u. S. Population

PHILADELPHIA. Pa. - Pointing
out that the 1898 net immigration to
the United States represents less
than 4I10O Of one per cent OF our
population, the American Friends
Service Committee (Quakers) in q
pamphlet, Refugee Facts" just is
sued declares that the solution OF
the refugee problem does not pre-
sent difficulties that cannot be over
come by intelligent assistance.
common sense, q little energy, I'M
genuity and good will toward men,
The pamphlet, issued by the
Committee on Refugees OF the
American Friends Service Commit
tee, OF which d. Robert Yarnall is
chairman, carries foreword by DR..
Rufus M. Jones, chairman OF the
Friends. and Clarence Pickett, ex-
ecutive secretary. Refugee Facts"
explains the Quaker interest in
humanitarian work In behalf OF
children. and recalls that during
the four years following the World
War. the Friends. supported by
American generosity. fed MAXI
mum OF 100000 German children
4 day. Providing statistical infor.
nation to refute several popularity
held misconceptions about refugees
the pamphlet points out:
During the six-year period that
roughly approximates the years OF
the Maxi regime in Germany. 4.4S7
more aliens departed than were adj
mitted to the United States.
Only $3.50 Of Quota Used
"Whereas only 24l 1862 immigrants
were admitted for permanent resi-
dence during this same six-year pc
Rod. the quota laws permitted a
total immigration OF 922,644. Thus.
only about 26% OF the quota allow
ance actually entered.
.For the fiscal year ending June
30, 1888. the year Of the largest refu-
gee immigration, there was net i'm
migration into this country for per-
manent residence of only 42.6S5. In
1929. there was net increase for per-
manent residence Of 21O.475; in
1924, tho net increase was 6S0,1O7.
In other words. the net 1888 immi-
grafton was only one-fifth that of
1929 and one-fifteenth that Of 1924.
"Based upon a population Of $780,
100000. the 1888 net immigration to
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1939-08-16
THE KEY WEST CITIZEN

WILL always seek the truth and print it
without fear and without favor; never be
always fight for progress; never be the or
gan or the mouthpiece Of any person, clique,
faction or class Always do its utmost for the
injustice; denounce vice and praise virtue.
.conmead good done by individual or organ
ization; tolerant of Others rights, views and
opinions; print only news that will elevate
and not contaminate the reader; never COM
promise with principle.