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Evening star., 1939-12-20
.eIles Forecasts
Measures 10 Halt
Safety Belt Battles
Invasion of Finland by
Soviet Denounced by
Undersecretury
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, Dec. 20-Undersec-
retary of State Sumner Welles pre-
dicted last night, in an oblique ref
erence to the British-German naval
battle off Montevideo, that the
| American governments would
promptly take measures to make
very much less likely in the future
such disregard for their in
alienable right of protection
In an address prepared for de-
livery at a dinner given in his honor
by the Cuban Chamber of Commerce
in the United States, Mr.. Welles re-
called that the 81 American re-
publics in the Panama Conference
had by declaration set up a zone
offshore which should remain free
from the commission of hostile acts
on the part of belligerents"
Denounces Invasion of Finland.
Then he added without amplifica-
ton:
"As we all know certain events
have taken place within the past
few days which have shown a dis
regard by the belligerents for the
rights so asserted by the American
republics"
He did not speculate as to the
nature of counter measures that
might be taken after consultation
The Undersecretary also de-
nounced-again by direct implica-
tion-the Soviet adventure in Fin
land
Turning to the Roosevelt admin
istration's Trade Agreements Act,
which will expire next June unless
Congress acts to extend it, Mr..
Welles declared that if the millions"
benehting from it believed the ma
tional interest demanded it's reten-
ton they must make their voices
heard"
Tracing the growth of commercial
relations between Cuba and the
United States, Mr.. Welles said this
country's former tariff policy, espe-
cially as it applied to Cuban sugar,
hit her Cuba harder than did
the 1929 depression.
Trade Increase Cited.
He said President Roosevelt,
through flexible tariff provisions
and the Trade Agreements Act, un-
dertook ito repair the damage"
With the establishment of the
duty at 80 cents a hundredweight
OF sugar, he said, mot only did Cuba
return once more to a period of
economic stability, but our own
export trade with Cuba rapidly
mounted"
He said, however, recent war
repercussions upon the American
sugar market necessitated suspend
ing all sugar quotas, resulting in an
automatic increase in duty on Cuban
sugar.
Il am particularly happy to be
able to say that the supplementary
trade agreement signed with Cuba
yesterday corrects this situation, and
restores to her the status which
! she enjoyed under the Trade Agree
ment Act Of 1884" Mr.. Welles said.
Evening star., 1939-12-20
Christmas, FIo., Heads
For YuIe Mail Record
By the Associated Press.

CHRISTMAS, Fla. Dec. 2O.-Aided
by new electric canceling machine
Christmas is headed for a new
record of 100000 or more Yuletide
mail cancellations.
Last year Postmistress Juanita
Tucker and her six clerks marked
10000 packages and letters, but
couldn't meet the volume by hand
With the new machine. 35 900 pieces
were Cancelled last week alone.
Tops for single order was 1000
letters and cards mailed by single
visitor the other day.
SANTA CLAUS, Ind, Dec. 20 lP
The demand for Christmas mail
with the postmark of this Southern
Indiana village has become so great
that "a employees are working in
three 8-hour shifts to remail the
thousands of letters sent here.
Except during the Yule season
Postmaster Oscar L. Philips is the
Offices entire staff.
Evening star., 1939-12-20
Cuban Senate Studies
u. S. Trade Treaty

HAVANA, Dec. 20 (P)-The supple
mentary trade treaty between the
United States and Cuba, signed
Monday in Washington. was re-
ferred yesterday by the Cuban Sem
ate to it's Foreign Relations Com
mittee with instructions to study
the agreement and prepare report.
Senate President Santiago Verdeja
ordered an extraordinary session to-
night to discuss the treaty. Observ-
ers predicted it would be ratified by
a large majority.
Evening star., 1939-12-20
Car Runs Wild on Acid

WICHITA, Kans., Dec. 20 (P.-
1t was uncanny, the way a driver
less, locked car in a parking lot
suddenly started running, knocked
over an iron rail, crossed a busy
street and stopped at the curb.
Spectators suspected spooks, but
police found leaking battery acid
had short-eircuited the starter
switch. The car had been left in
gear
Evening star., 1939-12-20
Vienna Christmas Pageant

VIENNA, Va, Dec. 20 (SpeciaD -
A Christmas pageant, sponsored
jointly by Oakton and Vienna Meth
odist Churches, will be given in the
local Methodist Church tomorrow
at 8 pm. The pageant will follow
the lighting of the community
Christmas tree.
Evening star., 1939-12-20
Ex-Professor Robs Store

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 20 (R.-
Virgil S. Morse, SO. former college
professor charged with robbing
grocery store of 50, told detectives
mounting debts drove me to it" He
said he was at Occidental College
from 1882 to 1896.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-08-03
Fly Nets, Repellents
Are Urged for Horses

Every effort should be directed to-
ward preventing horses from being
bitten by insects, since it is be-
lieved that blood sucking insects are
responsible for the transmission of
sleeping sickness in horses, says A.
w. Uren of the Missouri college OF
agriculture.
The incidence of this disease at
army posts, in states where the dis
ease was quite prevalent, was only
one-tenth as much in the horse popu-
lation on the farms adjacent to the
post. This low incidence is thought
to be due to the fact that the army
hoses were kept in screened sta
bles. 1t is recommended, therefore,
that horses be kept in stables as
much as possible during an epidem-
ic, particularly if the stables are
screened.
II is also recommended that fly
nets be used when horses are
worked, and that the horses be
sprayed often with fly repellents.
An effective and rather inexpensive
fly spray can be made by extracting
pound of pyrethrum flowers in |
gallon of kerosene for 48 hours, then
decant or, siphon off the clear liquid.
If two parts of the extract are then
thoroughly mixed with one part of
water containing to per cent of
soft soap, the mixture is then ready
for use.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-08-03
DIR &c OR
Libby, Montana
SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS

Commercial Club meets every 3rd
Thursday Karl A. Klehm, presi-
dent, Bonner Hooks, secretary.
American Legion Auxiliary Lodge
No 81 meets LIST and Bird Thurs
days. Mrs. Ed. Holmgren, presi-
dent, Mrs, Russell Whitefield, Sec
rotary.
Lions Club meets every End and
4th Mondays. James Christie, pres
ident, Paul Church, secretary.
Libby Woman's Club meets End
Tuesday at 2.30 p. m. in community
room OF court house. Mrs. Gordon
Cornell, president, Mrs. Paul
Church, secretary.
American Legion Post No. 81
meets LIST and 3rd Thursdays at the
Legion hall DR. ]. P. Campbell, COM
mander, W. c. collars, adjutant.
Libby Farm Woman's Club meets
lst Wednesday. Mrs. John Fuller,
president, Mrs. Monte Carol, secre-
tary.
Libby Junior Woman's Club meets
second Tuesdays at 8 p. m. in the
community room of the court house.
Mrs. Donald Hargreaves, president
and Mrs. William Baeth. secretary.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-08-03
FARM
.lOPICS
USE PROVED SIRES
ON POULTRY FARM
Three Definite Points Are
Necessary to Qualify.
By DR.. W. c. Thompson. Poultry Husband
man. Rutgers University
WNU Service

By Dr. W. c. Thompson. Poultry Husband
man. Rutgers University.
WNu Service
Experience proves that the use OF
proved sires is just as sound and
economical for the poultry industry
as IT is for the dairy and other live
stock industries in which this prac-
tice has been followed for years.
The poultry sire should pass in
spection on three definite points to
qualify as proved. First, his family
tree should be known for at least
three generations and should con-
tain as many individuals as pos
sible whose egg production, growth,
and general qualifications are
worthy of perpetuation. Although a
pedigree alone does not guarantee
good results. it increases possibili-
ties of obtaining them.
Secondly. the proved sire, as an
individual, must possess the type of
characteristics which ii is de-
sired that he pass on to his progeny.
In the third place, the proved sire
must have demonstrated his eapaci-
ties 10 produce fertile and hatchable
eggs and strong. viable chicks.
During the past season many
poultry men have been using male
birds with good pedigrees. Those
birds will have been found to GO
through the breeding season in a
strong, healthy condition. Matching
records will have given considerable
valuable information which may be
accepted as at least the first steps
in progeny testing. 1t is mistake
for poultry breeders to sell off such
valuable sires simply because they
may consider it difficult to keep
them over the summer season on
the poultry plant. Too often it is a
practice to use only cockerels or
first year breeders each spring.
From such birds, information on
only the first two points is possible.
To be a proved sire, bird must
have record of production. Keep
over promising male birds until next
January. Their daughters will have
shown what they can do in egg
yields during the coming fall and
winter. BY the opening of the next
breeder season, sufficient data for
progency testing will be at hand to
enable the poultry man to select the
exact birds to be saved.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-08-03
In the Feed Lot

Ducks should thrive we'll and be
ready for market at ten to eleven
weeks.
The United States contains more
than 986, 77l.0l6 acres of cultivated
farm lands.
Official testing of poultry for pull
lorum disease is now authorized by
law in New York state.
A sidewalk farmer is a person
who lives in a nearby town but com
tinues to operate farm.
The ~Siamese farmer erects
charm in his grain field to keep bad
spirits away from the crops.
Broodiness may be a serious ham
dicap to high egg. production during
the summer months, especially
among the heavy breeds.
More than Ia million farm trac-
tors are used on farms.
~
Some 6e~Varieties Of celery are
cultivated in the United States.
pa@
Foreign insect pests often do so
much damage to crops in this coun-
try because they have left their nat
ural enemies behind them.
One hundred years ago the aver
age fleece clipped from a sheep in
the y. S. weighed approximately
two pounds. Today it is eight.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-08-03
State Income otoIs
S73OO,972 In Lost
Three Months of '38

HELENA.-The states income for
the last three months of the 1888
fiscal year ended June 80 was ST.
3O0,972. according to a report by
State Treasurer Ray N. Shannon.
The liquor department brought in
Sl.9l5.308, the federal government
contributed Sl.253.811. and the state
board of equalization collected more
than S2.000.000. The state five cent
gallon gasoline tax brought in
81. 1873, $50.
Federal government grants in
eluded S532.58 for the highway de-
partment. s443.43l for old-age as
sistance and S74,630 for aid to de-
pendent children. Liquor sales made
up S1.386,606 of the liquor board
profit. the beer tax and license de-
partment collected S74,074 the ex-
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-08-03
LODGES

/. o. o. f. Cabinet chapter No. SO,
meets every Tuesday evening. Floyd
Peterson, Noble Grand and Ernest
Davidson, recording secretary.
A. F. g. A. M. Libby Lodge No. IS
meets End and 4th Thursdays at
Masonic Temple. Otto Nordstrom,
w. M, VIM. Anderson, secretary.
Royal Arch Masons, Libby lodge
No. SO meets LIST and 3rd Wednes-
days at Masonic Temple. Frank Up
ham, High Priest, j. F. McCully,
secretary.
Order of the Eastern Star. Libby
Chapter No. SO meets LIST and Ord
Tuesdays at Masonic Temple. Louise
LIE Due, w. M, Marie Jaqueth, sec
rotary.
Libby Moose Lodge No. 1899 meets
End and 4th Mondays at Moose hall.
Vim. VanderWood, Dictator, Gleason
Pitcher, secretary.
Royal Neighbors, Mountain View
Camp No. 1858 meets End and 4th
Wednesdays at the Moose hall
Mrs. Mae thinner, oracle; Mrs Ag-
mes Larsen, recorder.
Medora Rebekah Lodge No. So
meets LIST and 3rd Mondays at |. O.
10. f. hall. Hester Dunn, Noble
Grand and Ruth Hampton. secretary.
A. 0. U. w. meets the End Friday
OF each month at the Legion hall.
Virgo Dutton, w. M. and L. ].
Brown, secretary.
Libby Chapter De Molay meets
1st and 3rd Mondays, Masonic Tenn
pie. Gene NOVEL;, M c.; Fred
Clark, scribe.
Rainbow Girls meet second and
fourth Mondays at Masonic Temple.
Lenore Martin, w. A.; Phyllis De
Rosia, secretary, Mrs. Harold Hall,
mother advisor.
Women of the Moose, Libby
Chapter No. sos meets on the first
and third Tuesdays at the Moose
hall. Muriel Oylear, Senior Regent
and Agnes Brennan, recorder.
Theta Rho Club No. 27 meets LIST
and 3rd Tuesdays in |. O. O. f.
Hall at tbs p. m. Dorothy Becker,
president; Celia Ann Nolop, vice
president, Eleanor Rodgers, record
ing secretary. Hester Dunn, advisor
officer.
Libby Townsend club No. meets
on the first and third Fridays of
each month in the community hall,
at 800 p. m. E. M. Bitterman, pres
ident; Ellen Clary, secretary.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-08-03
NATIONAL
AFFAIRS
Reviewed by
CARTER FIELD

Washington speculates as
TO mhether McNutt or Roose-
uelt ivill benefit most by the
McNutt appoinfm emf s.
Many senator's and represen-
tatiues icho opposed Roose-
relt on the neutrality issue
are privately for him
Voters of North Dakota dis
approre of three proposals
by iohich old-age pensions
iuere TO be financed.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-08-03
UNEMPLOYED GET PAID.

The state unemployment compen-
sation commission last week had
mailed 299 checks totaling S3,431
to persons out of work who had
been employed in lines covered by
the law, Barclay Craighead, COM
mission chairman, informed Gov
ernor Roy E. Ayers. 1t is expected
that the commission will pay out be.
tween 100000 and 100000 in bene-
fits during the next two months.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-08-03
BUTTER PURCHASES.

The federal surplus commodities
corporation bought $4,000, 600
pounds of butter at total expendi-
ture of 34,500,000 for distribution to
needy in the nation during the year
ended June 80, according to a re-
port by the u. S. department of ag-
riculture. During the last several
months of the year the agency dis
triduted between 100000 and 49,
100000 pounds annually through
state welfare departments.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-08-03

Humming Birds Feed Often
Hu4ming birds require food eve
IS minutes.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-08-03
Purple Top Strikes
Major Potato Areas

Purple top, a growth-halting dis
ease that insects start in potatoes,
is less widespread in Montana this
year than in 1888, but will cut
crops to less than half of normal in
two major potato producing areas,
according to George L. Knight, state
horticulturist. The Billings and
Carbon county and the Miles City
and Rosebud areas will suffer the
most.
Other eastern Montana sections
will lose some potatoes, Knight said,
but the damage will not be serious.
Western Montana has not been af-
fected by the disease.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-08-03

selfish interests, it was obviously the
wiser course to vote with the Presi-
dent on this measure.
But on neutrality, that is differ
emit In every state and probably
in every congressional district there
is an element which believes that
the sale of war supplies-particular-
ly arms, ammunition and .imple-
ments of war lis not only wicked
but likely to involve the United
States on the side of the belligerents
TO which they are sold.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-08-03
CHURCHES

CHURCHES
First Lutheran Church
Harold Olson. Student Pastor
st. Johns Lutheran.
Fl. l.. Pfotenhauer, Pastor
Methodist Episcopal
II. w. Woods, Pastor
st. Luke's Episcopal
Arthur B. Ward, Pastor
Christian Science
First Presbyterian Church
Rev. Albert M. Hart, Pastor
Calvary Pentecostal
T. A. Dalton, Pastor
st. Joseph's Catholic
Edmond Taylor, Priest
Church of God
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-08-03

else tax on liquor amounted TO $780,
$40, and liquor licenses totaled
$4,000
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-08-03
Reterenda in North Dakota
Is Studied in " ashington

is SfHdied IN usHHgf0H
The vote in North Dakota son ref
BRENDA to provide money for in
creased old-age pensions is being
studied very carefully in Washing
ton by both New Dealers and advo-
Gates Of balanced budget 1t pre-
sents problems to both.
In close touch with the situation,
Sen. Gerald p. Nye of North Da-
kota was receiving figures next day
and insisting that it was really
scrap between some seven political
factions, on the anti side, and that
headed by Ex-Gov. William LANCER
on the pro side.
When a39 precincts had reported,
the vote stood: against the gross in
come tax, 1885, for it, l4,Sl3; for
state liquor stores to supplant the
present privately operated system
OF liquor distribution, 1874, against
1886; for suspension of highway
construction for two years, 1899,
against 97,535.
Whatever the political complica-
tons may have been, the fact re
mains that the voters of North Da-
kota, always regarded as a very
radical state, disapproved by Sra-
ito of greater than six to one all
three proposals by which the in
creased old-age- pensions were to be
financed.
The increase in old-age pensions
from an average of Still Git is cal
culated on need) to $40 had been
pushed through the legislature by
LANCER Now 1t will fail through
lack of revenue.
On the same day that reports from
the North Dakota election were be-
ing received by senator's, the senate
voted, 43 to IS, for an amendment
introduced by Sen, Tom Connally of
Texas to have the federal govern
ment contribute to old-age assist
ance payments in the ratio of two to
one instead of half and half.
Taxpayers Interested Only
When Somebody Else PAYS
This favorable vote was recorded
in spite of an impassioned plea by
Sen. Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia
that the movement to have the fed
eral government pay all the cost of
old-age assistance was under way,
and that the Connally amendment
was the first step.
The really interesting part of all
this is that apparently taxpayers
will not vote to impose on them
selves taxes they can clearly see
for such social purpose, but they
are all for them if they are con-
vinced that somebody else is pay
ing them. Most people believe that
the rich pay the federal taxes.
1t is very difficult to combat this
view, especially to people who pay
very small federal income taxes or
none at all. And this goes even for
people who pay taxes on homes.
Many of these are terribly interest
ed in keeping the expenditures OF
their home city down-they don't
want the tax rate on their houses
boosted.
But it is very simple matter toN
prove that the overwhelming pro-
portion of federal taxes Isl paid by
persons with incorpes under SIS 900
a year. The proof lies in the fact
that if all the incomes from IS, 900
a year upward WERE subjected to a
iOo per cent federal income tax,
and the federal treasury really got
all Tins money, it would not come
within hundreds Of millions Of dol
lars year Of paying The federal
expenditures.
thtLsYnairalE- wNu Service
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-08-03
pieic Neutrality as Most
Important Political Issue

Moreover, a certain percentage Of
these individuals feels so strongly
on the subject that, when election
day comes, they are apt to be con-
trolled in their voting by this one
issue alone. Which means that they
would vote against a congressman
who voted for the President on the
neutrality issue.
Obviously, to a person who thinks
that shipments of arms are apt to
result in his or her sons being sent
overseas to be manned or killed in
a war in which that person has
only a remote interest. is likely to
regard the neutrality issue as the
most important political question in
the world, and to vote for or against
a representative or senator because
of his stand on that issue regardless
of how he may vote on other roll
calls.
II is these issues, on which mi
norities become SO excited and on
which they are not likely to change,
that become No. problems to poll
ticans who have to run for office,
always remembering that there are
exceptions to all rules, and that
some men on Capitol Hill will vote
for what they think is right regard
less of the consequences to them
selves. But this number, unfortu-
nately, or fortunately, as the case
may be, is 50 small that one need
not worry much about it in calcula-
tons. After all, voting the way
ones constituents want one to vote
is the essence of representative gov
eminent, though it may be argued
that it is always a minority that
frightens the politician. Only minori-
ties are likely to remember an IS
sue with bitterness until election
day.
Evening star., 1939-05-26
THE STAR WASHINGTON D. c. FRIDAY MAY 26 1889

vived by another sister, Miss Ethel
Bagley, and q brother, Rear Ad-
miral David North Bagley, COM
mandant OF the Mare Island Navy
Yard.
A native Of North Carolina but a
resident of Washington for many
years Miss Bagley became connect
ed with the Geological Survey on
July IL, 1896. She resigned her posi-
Evening star., 1939-05-26

resolution addressed to the Board Of
Montgomery County Commissioners
and the Board OF Education.
The board opposed the appoint
ment Of a probation officer by the
Judge Of the Montgomery County
Juvenile Court and urged the COM
nissioners to investigate the quail
fications Of the appointee and sus-
Evening star., 1939-05-26
Dinner to Honor Thuyer

A testimonial dinner for LIE Roy
Thayer of Washington, president of
the Dancing Masters Of America,
will be given by the organization
Sunday night IN Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
The dinner is in recognition of Mr..
Thayer's work for the organization.
Evening star., 1939-05-26

pend salary payments If she were
found to be unqualified.
A committee headed by Arthur e.
Anderson has been appointed to or
ganize a garden club within the as
sociation.
Evening star., 1939-05-26

tion on October 10, 1896, but re-
TUNED to the service the following
year. In 1925 she transferred from
the Geological Survey to the Bu-
reau Of Mines.
Burial will be in Raleigh, N. c.,
tomorrow morning.
Evening star., 1939-05-26

chapel of Gawler's funeral home,
1855 Pennsylvania avenue NV.
Miss Bagley, sister of Mrs. Jo-
sephus Daniels, wife of the Ameri-
can Ambassador to Mexico, died
yesterday afternoon at her home in
the Florence Court Apartment
East, 2153 California street NV.
She had been i'll for several weeks.
Besides Mrs. Daniels, she is sur
Evening star., 1939-05-26
More Purkside School
Facilities Urqed

Increased facilities for the Park
side School in the immediate build
ing program is urged by the Execu"
tive Board of the East Sligo VAL
lev (Md.) Citizens Association in q
Evening star., 1939-05-26
Funeral Of Miss Bag|ey
BEING Held Today

Funeral services for Miss Belle
Worth Bagley, an employe of the
Geological Survey and Bureau of
Mines for more than 40 years, were
to be held at pm. today in the
Evening star., 1939-05-26

There are over 1,577,0O0 farm
tractors In the United States and
the number Is still growing.
Evening star., 1939-05-26

Mrs. J. J. Graham of Murrayville,
Australia, is a grandmother at "a.