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The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-04-20
To Conduct Mission at
st. Joseph's Catholic Church

The Rev. John J Connolly Of
Helena will conduct a mission in
ST Josephs Catholic church of this
city, with the opening service next
Sunday evening at 7.30 o'clock Dur
ing the mission there will be serv-
ices every day at 8 O'Clock in the
morning and at 7:30 O'Clock at
night The closing service viii be
at 7:30 o'clock p. m. on Sunday
April 30 There will be preaching
at both the morning and evening
services.
The Rev. FIR. Connolly is director
of the Propagation of the Faith in
the diocese of Helena. He has had
wide experience in conducting no.
venas, retreats and missions in Cal
ifornia and Montana The public
is invited to all the services.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-04-20
Committee Gathering Information

The committee that is carrying on
investigations relative to the build
ing of new community hall for
Libby met Tuesday night, says Har-
old Miller A letter from Senator
Wheeler brought the information
that no PWA money was available,
so it is now hoped to obtain WPA
assistance. Much correspondence is
being carried on in the gathering of
estimates, plans, and similar in
formation, said Miller.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-04-20
Getting Ready for Placer Work.

Davis & White, placer operators
on Libby creek, are getting ready
for extensive operations this year. A
power shovel will be used this sea
son and dredge will be used to
recover the gold This machinery
is now on the ground. 1t is said
that present equipment makes pos
sible the saving of even flour
gold Operations last summer
proved entirely satisfactory, the OPP
orators report.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-04-20
Change In Load Restrictions.

Patrolman George Mourar an
nounced Tuesday that the load limit
on the highway between the Libby
Creek bridge and Troy is now $50
pounds per inch per width Of tire.
He also said that the restriction on
axle weight has been taken off.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-04-20
A Westerner's Wish

| will sing you song of the gold that shines
In the hills of the West, and then
I will sing you song of the gold that shines
In the hearts of Western men;
For long have loved this western land
Where the mountains pierce the sky
In the West was / born-When my work is done
In the West will gladly die;
And wish that stone from my mountain home
Might bear these words for me:
He played mans part to the best of his art,
In building mans coun-tree!"
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-04-20
Starts Landscaping Grounds.

Herman Krogman of Butte, state
landscape gardener for the WPA,
started the work of improving the
grounds at the swimming pool Mon
day. A number of trees are being
set out at this time, the trees being
selected from native stock
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-04-20
Allotted Money To
Drain Slough at Eureka

kilograms from both Senators
Wheeler and Murray on April Is
brought the information that the
WPA had approved an allotment of
$1,000 to drain slough for flood
control purposes in the southern
part Of the town of Eureka. The
project is now eligible for operation
at the discretion of Joseph E. Par
ker, state WPA administrator.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-04-20
Forest Service To
Plant Pipe Creek Tract

Supervisor Klehm of the forest
service reports tina. planting prof.
ect is on the program this year.
A l50-acre tract on the flat between
Pipe and Bobtail creeks will be
planted by CCC boys. II is planned
to plant about an equal area each
year. G. M. DeJarnette, from the
regional office, III charge of plant
ing operations, was in Libby during
the week.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-04-20
County Treasurers
Get 4-Year Terms

County treasurers elected last No
vember are entitled to hold office
for four years beginning March | re-
CARELESS of whether they have al
ready served one tWo-year term, ac-
cording to an opinion by Attorney
General Fl. J. Freebourn.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-04-20
Ship Carload of ZOnolite,

A carload Of Zonolite was shipped
from here yesterday to Catalonia,
Ontario, Canada This is part Of
several shipments which will 60 to
that place.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1939-04-20
District Court.

District court will convene next
Tuesday, April rs. Juvenile cases
will be heard on April 26.
Evening star., 1939-07-22

of the house, adding to its rest
full horizontal proportions and
architectural lines.
While these houses are generally
known as the "Lenthall" houses. it
is unlikely that the Lenthalls ever
lived in them for any length Of
time. if at all. However, Lenthall
being an architect of considerable
ability, he no doubt designed the
houses and supervised their con-
struction.
The site is of historic interest as
being the approximate location Sc
lected by Thomas jefferson for the
Capitol Building in what was known
as Hamburg" or "Funkstown," a
l30-acre development laid out in
1853 by Jacob Funk into 287 build
ing lots and streets.
In the early 1790s. the lots were
disposed of through the sale of lot
terry tickets. In 1900. John Lenthall
obtained title to the property on
which the two houses at 6l2-6l4
Nineteenth street now stand. In
1903 Lenthall and his wife Jane con-
veyed the southernmost Of the two
houses to William Francis, who
promptly decided the property away
on the following day, with the re-
suit that No. 6l2 ceased to be q
Evening star., 1939-07-22
BY ANNABEL PAXTON.

From a distance the doorways to
Nos. 6l2 and 6l4 Nineteenth street
NV. might readily be mistaken
for broad, generous entrance to a
simple house of Georgian architec-
ture. Closer inspection would dis
close that there are really two
houses having separate doors which,
through their architectural treat
ment, are treated as one
The houses were quite likely built
about l800-or probably a few years
before. The doorways, however,
show unmistakable evidence of re-
modelling at later date. since the
detail of their cornice and the sup
porting brackets border on mid
Victorian character. At the same
time the door frames and pilasters
are more nearly those of the Geor-
glan era.
The doors are probably those of
the original houses. being well mold
ed and paneled in the Georgian
manner. The upper panels are glazed
and at present filled with matching
lace curtains of interesting pat
tern, probably handmade to fill the
openings. The doors are painted blue
green and trimmed with brass. They
are approached by a long fight of
stone steps leading from the side
walk and have wrought-iron hand
rails.
Ample evidence supports the fact
that the two houses were built at
the same time. However. one is
led to speculate as to the reason
why certain details of the exterior
are not the same Alterations by
different individualistic owners are
a ready explanation of difference in
treatment above the window heads
and the use and omission of shutters,
but do not explain other minor diff
ferences, Roofs, cornice, dormers,
brickwork and the detail of the two
doorWays, however, are the same.
The high terrace in front effec-
lively reduces the apparent height
Evening star., 1939-07-22
Lenthall house more than $50 years

ktutQAu mouse more Ll14n l3U years
ago.
No. 6l2 continued to change own
ership every few years and has un-
dergone numerous changes, espe-
cially as respects the interior. The
present occupant, Mrs Harold Allen,
has done much to restore the house
to its original character.
No. GA remained in possession
Of the Lenthall family or its direct
descendants until 1909. The house
Is now owned by Bertha Noyes, we'll
known artist of Washington, who
has restored and modernized 1t, but
has largely preserved its original
architectural features.
According to Maude Burr Morris,
IN the records Of the Columbia His
torical Society. John Lenthall, born
In England in 1862. came from a
line of distinguished ancestors, his
father being speaker In the House
Of Commons. He had been trained
as a carpenter and when he came
to Washington in 1892 at the age
Of 80. was recognized as . superior
craftsman and an architect Of
ability. When Latrobe was placed
In charge Of the construction of the
Capitol in 1903, he selected Lenthall
to be clerk of works and principal
surveyor"
In anticipation Of the trial of
Aaron Burr for conspiracy. orders
were given to open the Supreme
Court room in the north wing Of
the Capitol. The masonry of the
vaults above the courtroom had not
had time to set and Lenthall Sc
riously objected to the removal of
the wooden centering supporting
them. He was overruled and on Sep
tember 10. 1908. the centering was
removed, Lenthall himself lowering
the middle support. There was
loud crack, workmen escaped out of
the windows or under the adjoining
vault, but Lenthall, who apparently
by a single step could have saved
himself. buried under many tons of
brick, was instantly killed.
John Lenthall was buried with
military honors. and left behind him
a widow and three small children
Mary, Elizabeth and John. Some
SIS years later. during the Civil
Evening star., 1939-07-22

30 years Of age she learned to use
her left hand for the exquisite
painting Of flowers in oil and water
colors. She passed away shortly be-
fore her Goth birthday anniversary.
In 1853 Mary Lenthal had acquired
the property at 614 Nineteenth street
NV. BY her will, made in 1889, the
property passed to her brothers
grandson, John Lenthall Wagga-
man, who retained ownership until
1902, at which time 1t passed out of
the Lenthall family for the first
time In 100 years.
The site of the John Lenthall
Home for Widows" which adjoins
Evening star., 1939-07-22

War, the son John became head
Of the Bureau of Construction,
United States Navy.
In 1891 Elizabeth Lenthall mar
ried William James Stone, an en-
graver, who in 1923 was commits
stoned by John Quincy Adams, Sec
retary of State, to engrave a copper
facsimile Of the original Declaration
Of Independence. Stone retired from
the engraving business in 1S40 and
later achieved great success Is q
sculptor.
Mary Lenthall is said to have
been . talented artist. accomplished
in drawing, painting and music. At
Evening star., 1939-07-22

No. GA, was the portion Of the
estate inherited by Elizabeth Len
thall. The home was q joint gift Of
Evening star., 1939-07-22

the two sisters as a memorial to
their father-killed in the building
Of the Capitol.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-04

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 4. (UP)-
De Witt Clinton Cook, 2O-year-old
confessed slayer of Anya Sosoyeva,
former ziegfeld follies dancer, went
to trial today, charged with the
City College campus Staying and
two other bludgeon attacks upon
women.
Cook. a Waterloo, Iowa, youth
who had just been released from
parole from the Eldora, Iowa, re-
formatory at the time of the cam
pus Staying, was expected to plead
guilty to some of the eight charges
against him.
The charges include a clubbing
attack upon Della Bogard, dancer
and a similar attack and criminal
assault upon Myrtle Wagner, II
year-old domestic.
Cook, arrested a month ago, after
months of search for the Hollywood
night prowler who beat women with
length of scantling, pleaded gull
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-04
BY RALPH HEINZEN

WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN
THE SAAR, Oct. 4. French
rs and 155 millimetre field guns
were cracking behind the front lines
on the Saar front and we could
see their shells smashing down in
the leafy forest on the German
side, destroying enemy observation
posts.
Occasionally, about once for ev-
cry six or eight French shots, there
would come the whistle of a Ger
man shell passing over our heads
toward the French batteries in our
rear. Later would come the sound
of the explosion which had sent
over the German shells.
AS we listened and watched, in
a French colonel's post of command
in the woods in the French advance
area, the gray haired colonel along
side me lifted his finger at par
ticularly loud German explosion.
THAT wasn't artillery-it was a
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-04
Roosevelt Smashes
Precedentin in Talk
With U.S.. Justices

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4. (UP)-
President Roosevelt, whose White
House tenure has been marked by
many smashed precedents, disclos-
ed today that he has broken an
other one, this time by discussing
legal issues with two associate jus
tices of the supreme court.
He told his press conference that
he discussed government legal is
sues with Justices Felix Frank
furter and Harlan F. Stone during
a weekend cruise aboard the presi-
Dental yacht Potomac. They talk
ed about the presidents legal au-
thority to anticipate deficiency
spending for hospital and housing
facilities for the 100000 additional
service men he has ordered en-
rolled in the army, navy and mar
inc corps, he said.
1t appears perfectly clear, he add
ed, that the president has the right
to authorize pay, food and clothing
for the recruits but not for housing
and disqualification. Appropriation
bills, he said, carry clauses specifi-
cally prohibiting the latter expen-
ditures on a deficiency basis.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-04
Tourists Again
Can Stroll About
White House Yard

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4. (UP)-
Tourists and pedestrians today re-
covered their time-hallowed privi-
iege of walking along the shaded
walks of the White House gardens.
For the first time since the Eu-
ropean war began, guards posted
at entrances to the executive man
sion permitted tourists and others
to stroll through the grounds.
Previously only visitors who could
prove they had business within
the grounds were allowed past the
gates. The precautionary restric-
ton was effected, it was explained,
to guard against vandalism or sab
otage which might have been in
spired by the outbreak of hostilities
abroad.
A few months ago, some mischief
maker painted the words war
monger" on post in front of the
White House, and on the steps OF
the state department across the
street.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-04
Many Nv. Youths
Join u. S.

Wars and rumors of wars were
credited Wednesday with boosting
enlistment of Imperial Valley
youths in the United States Navy
Within the last few weeks en-
listment of Imperial county youths
more than doubled enlistments pre-
viously.
Accurate check of the number
of enlisements always is possible
because navy procedure requires
that the fingerprints Of every ap-
plicant for enlistment be checked
against criminal fingerprint records
on file in the applicants home
county to ascertain if they have
criminal record.
The recruiting station at San
Diego this week sent figerprints of
five youths to the fingerprint bu-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-04
Pickets Patrol
ST.. Waterfront

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 4. (UP)-
Pickets of the CIO ship clerks as
sociation patrolled Pacific
docks on the San Francisco water
front in a local dispute which arose
while employers were seeking ex-
tensions of contracts with two un-
ions not yet signed up in the Pa
cific coast shipping truce.
The clerks maintained Panama
Pacific had refused to enter into an
agreement with the union over
working conditions.
The international longshoremen's
and warehousemen's union was no
titled of the dispute and a spokes-
man said that if dock gangs were
ordered, the men would refuse to
pass the picket lines to enter the
Panama-Pacific piers to work the
City of Norfolk, due in during the
day.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-04
Group Seeks Funds
To Continue Fair

SACRAMENTO, Oct. 4. (UP)-
A San Francisco group headed by
George Creel, u. S. Commissioner
for the Golden Gate Exposition, to-
day filed articles of incorporation
for "1940 exposition inc," to at
tempt to finance second year for
the worlds fair.
Purpose of the organization, the
articles stated, "is to raise fund
of money and when such fund has
been raised, to loan all or a por-
ton thereof for the purpose of de-
fraying in whole or part the eX-
pense of maintaining, rehabilitat-
ing, reopening and conducting the
Golden Gate International Expo
sition.. E. during a portion of 194o."
In addition to Creel, Marshall
Dill, Henry c. Hawes, Dan E. Lon
don and Ray. w. Smith, all of San
Francisco. were listed as directors
of the non-profit corporation,
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-04
Campus Murderer
Placed on TriuI

ty Aug. 20. to the Sosoyeva murder
and the attacks upon Miss Bogard
and Miss Wagner
Three days later Judge Clarence
Kincaid set aside the pleas and
ordered Cook to stand trial
Cook, married to his 2t-year-old
cousin. was captured and confessed
after he was seen leaving a home
in the neighb9rhood where Miss
Wagner was employed. Jewelry VAL
ued in excess of $4,000 was found
hidden in his home, police said.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-04

reau of the Imperial county sher-
ifs department for checking, Dep
uty Sheriff Joe Lizarraras, finger
print expert said.
Previous to the European war and
the navy development program in
the United States, Lizarraras said,
the navy sent fingerprints of about
one applicant each month.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-04
L.V. Conservation
Groups to Meet

Members of the Imperial County
Fish and Game Conservation asso-
cetion were scheduled to meet in
the county court house in Ell Gen.
tro at pm. Thursday.
w. T. Montgomery, association
president, asked each member to
take others interested in fishing
and hunting to the meeting SO they
too may become acquainted with
the purposes of the association.
Subscriptions lists will be checked
during the evening.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-04
TB Retest Begins
Here This Week

A re-test of tuberculosis infected
dairy herds began in Imperial coun-
ty Wednesday under the direction
of DR.. E. M. Austin of the state
veterinarian department.
He was sent to keep the county
up to par as a modified accredited
area, the title given counties free
of tuberculosis infected cattle.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-04
Chinese General
Seeks Soviet Aid

CHUNGKING, Oct. 4. (UP)-Chu
Teh, famous Chinese Communist
military commander, plans to visit
Moscow shortly to seek further
Soviet Russian assistance, it was
reported here today.
1t wa reported that Chu Teh will
negotiate for Russian assistance in
connection with impending Chinese
operations against japanese forces
in Shensi province.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-04
AFL Hits Trust Buster
PIun as Foe Of Labor

CINCINNATI, O., Oct. 4. (UP)-
Joseph Padway, chief counsel for
the American Federation of Labor,
charged today that trust busters"
had invaded the rights of labor,
and he appealed to Attorney Gen
eral Frank Murphy to curb and
possibly suppress" activities of the
antitrust department.
Padway told the 59th annual AFL
convention that Thurman Arnold,
assistant attorney general in charge
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-04
Food Order Stamp
Plan Extended

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4. UP)-
Secretary of Agriculture Henry A
Wallace announced today that the
food order stamp plan will be put
into effect soon in Salt Lake City
Utah, and Allentown Bethlehem
Pa.
The plan provides for free dis
tribution of SO cents worth of blue
surplus food stamps for each s.
worth of orange stamps purchased
The orange stamps can be ex-
changed for all foods.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-04
Reporter Finds
Nozis Use Mines
To Bluff French

mine," said the colonel. "The Ger
mans are setting up mines to make
us think they have more artillery
in the west than is really there.
So we are not counting the noises
at their end but only the noise
of the explosions on our side. We
are not falling for the mine trick"
1t was evident, according to the
French on the front, that the Ger
mans had not brought over to the
west the big siege guns with which
they battered Warsaw for % days.
Even when they do come, the
French say, they will be of reduced
value because the French have now
advanced into the Warndt forest
and almost to the Saar river along
a 50-mile front, and the German
guns have to stay on the German
side of the Saar, out of range of
some important French targets.
Even if the Germans stop using
the Chinese trick of making noise
to frighten an enemy, and bring
UP their biggest naval guns on rail-
road trucks, the French seem to
think it will not make much diff
ference.
The French now have 3,500,000
men on the western front. Upwards
of 100000 are in the Maginot line
A million more are in position in
the great forests of Lorraine, the
Vosges mountains and the Saar
valley. The rest are behind, ready
Yet, driving to the front by way
of Verdun, I saw almost no sign
of war activity.
1t was a mechanical war. Until
the winter rains began last week
end it had been war in lace cuffs
because of the peculiar problems
and peculiar strategy of this new
war. Now it was war like that
American doughboys remember in
the clay fields of the Champagne
or the Argonne 81 years ago.
Mud has brought a semblance of
the World war atmosphere but the
setting is different. German, not
French villages are being blown
to pieces. Also the war is on wheels
and not on the tired feet of soldiers
Further, and most striking, it is
almost invisible.
AS one who marched through the
Champagne and the Argonne with
an infantry regiment in 1918 I was
struck by the absence of traffic
Standing at the front on German
soil, within 200 yards of German
trenches, I could not see a single
French soldier. On the way up
was struck more and more by the
contrast. The American army
around Verdun used to talk anc
its guns and kitchens and equip
ment were horsedrawn. Traffic
snarls were of historic enormity.
The most crowded thoroughfart
in the world was the road between
Bar LIE Due and Verdun-the sacred
way, now marked with milestones
each bearing the bronze helmet OF
a French Poilu Ammunition, food
artillery, dust or mud caked troops
walking casualties and ambulances
struggled for the right of way "a
hours a day. This time, I saw less
than so other automobiles from
Paris to Verdun. There was almost
no traffic between Metz and the
front.
1t meant that France was in a
position and fully ready for a fight
that it had been preparing fol
years to meet a German attack.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-04

ployer might involve the agent as
an accessory.
He charged that the national
labor board in its decisions had
favored the Congress of Industrial
organizations by holding that once
the CIO had obtained a contract
in a plant craft unions affiliated
with the ALL. never could nego-
tiate for themselves even though
they might be organized 100 per
cent in the plant.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-04
SHIP BUILDING
CONTRACT AWARDED

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4. CUP)-
The U. S. Maritime commission
today awarded a contract for con-
struction of two cargo vessels to
Pennsylvania Shipyards, Inc, of
Beaumont, Tex. The ships, of the
so-called C-1 types will cost ST.
100000 each.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-04

of the antitrust prosecutions, was
a college professor and asked that
God deliver us from college pro-
fessors and army generals in ad-
ministrative positions"
He said that union business
agents sometimes are afraid to
negotiate with an employer for
labor contracts because they fear
that any antitrust action which
might be brought against the en-
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-04
Roads Yield 5000
Pounds Of Nails

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, Oct. 3.
(UP)-The state highway depart
ment, which thinks of almost every
ting, has a machine with mag
netized apparatus that picks up
metal from the highways.
In September the take was s.
900 pounds of nails, nuts, screws
and bolts from the gravel high
ways of five counties. The average
was 16 pounds to the mile.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-04
BOOK BOMBARDMENT
WINS DIVORCE

WORCESTER, Mass, Oct. 4. CUP)
William Coumes, Fitchburg res
taurateur, was granted divorce
on grounds of cruelty after testi-
flying that he was bombarded with
some of the 10000 religious boo,k
which his wife had collected as a
member of the Jehova's Witnesses.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-04
INTEND TO WED

A notice of intention to marry
was filed with County Clerk w. j.
McClelland Tuesday by Jean Veil
quette, 81, FL Centro postal clerk,
and Marjorie Baum, 20, Ell Centro
beauty operator.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-10-04
LICENSE ISSUED

P. D. Ware, 29 Brawley, and
Dorothy LaBeau, 81, Ell Centro,
obtained a marriage license Tdes-
day.