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Evening star., 1940-11-28
zoning Board Defers
Decision on Petitions
For Two Big Projects
One Involves Plan to BuiIc
S., SOC, 900 Hotel With
Thousand Rooms

Decisions on two large building
projects, for which variances had
been asked from existing zoning
rules, have been deferred by the
Board of Zoning Adjustment for
further study following a public
hearing yesterday at the District
Building.
These were the appeal by the
Statler Hotel Corp. for permission
to erect a $500, 900, 10-story, 1000
room hotel on the east side of Six
teenth street between K and L
streets NV, and a request by the
Central Union Mission to erect a
seven-story addition to the mission
building at 613 c street NV. at
estimated cost of 100000.
The board granted an appeal
made by Seton Darr for Edward
A. Garvey for permission to estab-
lish the st. AIMS Infant Asylum
and Maternity Hospital on Sargent
road near the District line NE.
Other appeals approved were:
Vernon Owens, for permission to
erect two-family fats at 3115-3117
Newton street NE.
Florence Crittenton Home, for
permission to erect a one-story ad-
dition to the home at 4739 Reser-
voir road NV.
Lewis v. Pearl, for permission to
erect a second-story addition to
the dwelling at 1905 Twenty-second
street Sc.
Sophia Manset, for permission to
change a non-conforming use from
restaurant to a delicateSsen store
at 500 Twenty third street NV.
The board denied request by
Mrs. E. E. Phillips for permission
to erect a one-story rear addition
to the dwelling at 1913 Massachu-
sets avenue NV.
Evening star., 1940-11-28
Edrington to Address
G. w. U. Selling Club

Members of the George Washing
ton University Sailing Club will hear
Judge Prentice e. Darlington, COM
modore of Potomac River Sailing
Association, next Wednesday at 7:3C
pm. in the university's Social
Science Building. The speaker Il
the first in series of lecturers who
will address the club every two
weeks.
Judge Edrington, a former interna-
tional star boat champion, is asso.
ciated with a local law firm. He wa.
formerly q Judge in the Virgin Is.
lands and in recent years has beer
an outstanding performer in th'
20-foot sailing class.
Richard Bush is chairman of tn,
committee arranging the lectures
while Herbert Lindsay il studen
commodore.
Evening star., 1940-11-28
Snow Parking Ban Is Asked
On 4 More Miles of Streets
Van Duzer Wants Restricted Area Extended;
u. S. Employees Unit Calls for Repeal

parked their cars on streets 80
marked.
Second, repeal the 2 am. to 8 am.
snow removal regulation.
Third, allocate all collected fines
to a municipal parking lot fund.
Fourth, amend the District build
ing code to compel builders OF
apartment houses and dwellings to
erect garages on the premises.
Fifth, improve the transportation
system by replacing all old street.
cars and buses by new ones and
place additional buses on certain
routes from the residential section
Snow Removal Discussed.
Commenting on the snow removal
regulation, Mr.. Siegfried said: IF
such is necessary for the free move
ment of streetcars and buses why
has it not been adopted by other
large cities where the snowfall Is
greater than Washington"
During the heavy snowfall last
winter, he pointed out, hundreds
of cars were ticketed because the
owners were unable to move them
because of the impossible condi-
tions of the streets. The 18-hour
parking ban was taking an unfair
advantage of the public" Mr.. Sieg-
fried asserted.
These regulations, which are
continually limiting the space
available for free parking purposes
especially in more congested resi-
Dental districts, are making it more
dificult to maintain and operate
automobiles, he added.
Evening star., 1940-11-28
Bank Of Brightwood
Depositors 10 Get
Final Dividend
Receiver Says Checks
For $l7,500 Are Ready
For Distribution

Payment of the nth and final
dividend, amounting to about ST.
500, to about 5000 depositors of
the closed Bank of Brightwood will
begin tomorrow morning, 1t was
learned today from Receiver Fred
erick j. Young.
Postal cards were mailed today to
depositors notifying them to call
for checks at Fourteenth and U
streets NV, site of the closed United
States Savings Bank. The checks
will be available at this location
up to and including Monday, De-
cember 16. After that, they will be
turned over to the Treasury, and
then 1t will be necessary for de-
positors to call at the Treasury De-
partment to get them.
The fifth and final dividend Is
2.21 per cent of the amount de-
positors had in the bank when it
closed, July 10, 1882. This brings
to 65.71 per cent the total divi-
dends, amounting to $522, 1854.
The final dividend in another
closed bank in the hands of Re-
ceiver Young, the International Ex-
change Bank, is being paid also at
1000 Fourteenth street NV, but
less than half of the $500 deposi-
tors have called for their checks.
This dividend is 5.6 per cent, or
$19,776, bringing the total dividends
in this institution, also closed in
1882, to sos per cent, or $183,168.
Dividend checks in the Interna-
tional Bank can be obtained at
1000 Fourteenth street only until
December 5, after which they will
be sent to the Treasury Depart
ment.
In the cases of both Brightwood
and International Exchange Banks,
depositors were informed by Re-
ceiver Young that it will be neces-
sary for them to bring both their
notification card and their receiver S
certificate to get their dividend
check.
Evening star., 1940-11-28
Borber's Draft
Theft Bill Gets
No Soap Reply

The Government, it was learned
today, was billed for the cost Of
these items in connection with ex-
penses of the selective service regis
tration:
One hair clipper, a half dozen
razors, a quart of bay rum.
Amazed officials at National Sc
lective Service Headquarters investi-
gated and found that in one draft
district barber shop had been used
as the registration Office.
The proprietor reported that the
items listed disappeared in the
course of the proceeding. He want
ed to be reimbursed.
mo SOAP" said Maj. Chauncey
G. Parker, jr., chief of selective serv-
ice finance and supply.
And so the barber was told that
he'd have to donate the articles TO
national dafsnss.
Evening star., 1940-11-28
2-Pound, 12-Inch Boy
Gains Strength Daily

A 2-pound infant boy entered his
fifth day of life at Doctors Hospital
today and showed every prospect of
continued existence.
The boy was born prematurely to
Mrs. Harold Weller of Mclean, Va.
He has been living in an incubator
at the Hospital and gains strength
every day.
The baby is perfectly formed and
measures IL inches from head to
foot.
Evening star., 1940-11-28

More than miles of Washington
streets would be added to those al
ready affected by the nighttime
ban on automobile parking to keep
arteries open to permit snow re-
moval, under a proposal forwarded
to the Commissioners today by Traf-
fic Director William A. Van Duzer.
Under an existing Commissioners
regulation, the ban on parking be-
tween 2 am. and am. auto
matically will go into effect Decem-
Der Is and continue to March IS,
affecting TAB miles of streets.
The traffic director proposes that
there be added to the present list of
streets under the ban: East Capitol
street, from First to Fifteenth
streets, distance of IL miles;
Pennsylvania avenue Sc, from Sec
ond to Barney Circle, is miles, and
Georgia avenue, from Concord ave-
nue. to the District line, distance
of 1.6 miles; making total addi-
tional mileage of 43, a grand total
of 79.1 miles.
The ban does not affect CONNER
cial vehicles stopping temporarily
for loading and unloading. or to pri-
vate cars when the driver is at the
wheel, or to taxis In stands.
Federation Asks End of Ban.
Mr.. Van Duzer's recommendation
followed close on an announcement
of the American Federation of Gov
ernment Employees Committee on
Traffic that the snow-removal regu-
lation be repealed in the interest of
washington motorists who face a
shortage of garage space.
The committee likewise proposed
that all fines collected from District
motorists for traffic violations be
used in the purchase of municipal
parking lots to eliminate this short
age.
Alvin Siegfried, chairman of the
federation's committee, offered the
suggestions in a letter today to
Commissioner j. Russell Young.
Approximately $250,000 is collect
ed annually in fines, Mr.. Siegfried
said, and could be diverted to con-
struction Of parking areas to be
maintained by the District.
Offers 5-Point Program.
In a five-point program the com.
mittee made the following pro-
posals:
First, modify the 18-hour parking
regulation so that it may be sus.
pended when conditions arise BE-
yond the control Of those who hav'
Evening star., 1940-11-28
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Wall,
IT,. Dies al Home Here

Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Wall, IT, life
long resident of Washington, died
Tuesday after a three-week illness at
her home, 613 South Carolina avenue
EE. She was the widow of George
w. Wall.
. She is survived by three sons,
George W., Edward j. and Daniel R.
Wall, and a daughter, Mrs. Thomas
y. Hurney.
Funeral services will be held at
B:30 am. tomorrow in her home,
followed by requiem mass in st.
Peters Church at 9 am. Burial will
be in Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Evening star., 1940-11-28
GuIIurdo Named ACTING
Puerto Rico Governor

DR.. Joseph M. Gallardo, native
Puerto Rican, was named by Presi-
dent Roosevelt yesterday as Acting
Governor Of Puerto Rico to take
over the duties relinquished by Rear
Admiral William D. Leahy, who has
been appointed United States Am
bassador to France.
DR.. Gallardo, who has served as
commissioner of education for Puerto
Rico since 1887, acquired most of
his education and began his pro-
fessional career in the continental
United States. For the 10 years
prior to 1887 he was on the faculty
Of the College Of Charleston,
Charleston, 8. O.
Evening star., 1940-11-28
Dinner to Mark Firms
independence Duy

Finnish Independence day will be
celebrated by the Minister of Fin
land and Nine. Hjalmar j. Procope
at a dinner given tonight by the
Finnish-American Society for the
benefit of Finnish war orphans.
The dinner will be held at
O'Clock at the Kenesaw Cafe, $3.50
Sixteenth street NV.
Evening star., 1940-11-28
A. Hugo Grussi to Speak

A. Hugo Grassi, secretary of the
Continental Committee of the Y. M
c. AS for South America, will speak
at the luncheon meeting of the
Washington Round Table at tht
Press Club at 1890 pm. tomorrow
His subject will be "The New Pan.
Americanisu."
Evening star., 1940-11-28
Traffic Record

The traffic record, as revealed
at police headquarters, for "a
hour period ending at 8 am.
today:
Fatalities, none.
Accidents, 90.
Motorists injured, 7.
Motorists arrested, 285.
Pedestrians injured, 6.
Pedestrians arrested for vio-
lation of pedestrian control reg
ulations, 5.
Motorists arrested for failing
to give right of way to pedes-
trians, none.
Killed in 1910 traffic, 65; by
November % in 1889, rs.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-07-27
NO T. b. IN CATTLE

Fifty Montana counties have been
declared free from tuberculosis In
cattle, according to q report by the
federal bureau OF animal husbandry.
Six counties whose accreditations ex-
pire this year must be tested yet. To
be rated tuberculosis free, q county's
cattle must not test more than one
half Of percent tuberculin
In its lifetime, the siIkworm spins
1000 yards OF thread.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-07-27

Very little of Hollands land surface
rises more than IS feet above sea level,
while some of it is as much as feet
below
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-07-27
2,275 Job Placements
Made BIZ State Service

Two thousand two hundred seventy
five JOB placements were MADE In June.
1910, by the state employment service
division Of the unemployment com
pensation commission, Barclay Craig
head, chairman OF the commission, an
nounced
This is an increase of 201 Job place
ments over June, 1889. The employ
ment service has placed 9,521 IN jobs
during the first six months Of this
year, Craighead said. The active file Of
those seeking work has declined from
27, 673 to 1854 IN the past year.
I'VE want Montana employers in
clerical help. sales people, to call on
the employment service" Craighead
said. Qualified people win be referred
to employers, who make the final Sc
lection of employees There Is no charge
to either employers or workers.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-07-27
1910 Housing Loans
In Stnte S2.OOO,OOO

MontananS, aided by federal housing
administration loans, built almost 50,
100000 worth of houses In the first
six months Of 1910.
Building was 106 percent greater
than during the January period
of 1899, Ben S. Hill, state FILA director,
announced.
The Washington FILA office advised
Hill that the May increase Of 110.4
percent over the previous May lis q
greater increase by a wide margin than
any other office in the United States. I"
The first six months loan total In
1910 was $1,94S, 800, compared with
$945 900 in loan applications for the
first six months Of 1889.
The largest number of June applica-
lions came from Billings, where IA
builders sought loans for new homes
and 4 wished to buy or rebuild. Great
Falls was second with is applicants,
IL for new construction, while Helena
was third with II applications.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-07-27
StOcknaen Are Urged
To Drill Range Wells

Although Montana range livestock
operators have constructed hundreds Of
reservoirs for stock watering purposes
during the last four years in connec-
ton with the AAA program, the drill
ing of wells for range water holes Of
fers possibilities for experimenting this
water supply, says E. p Orcutt, extern
sion livestock specialist at Montana
State college.
Reservoirs constructed in all parts
of the state have provided much need
ed stock water and made possible the
more uniform distribution of stock on
the range. However, in the spring OF
1910 the soil absorbed all the runoff
and reservoirs in some parts Of the
state were not filled. This condition
prevailed in varying degrees in preyt-
Gus years, circuit said. In view Of this
fact range operators are urged to con-
slider the ACCESSIBILITY of drilling wells
to augment the water supply.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-07-27
Riding Broncs Is Tough Job,
Declares Rodeo Irnpressario

well as your ability to conquer an
outlaw. at the Great Falls rodeo.
While you sit in the stands and
watch the broncs plunge out Of the
chutes with cowboy aboard, you may
have the idea that there's all fun in
this rodeo business.
But after the show, trail around be-
hind the chutes and If you talk with
a veteran cowboy who hasn't suffered
a few fractures in his legs, arms and
ribs, and probably a conclusion or two,
you can say to yourself that you've
talked with a lucky rider, Cremer says
Big, muscular broncs such as are
carried In the Cremer string, send
many a cowboy to the hospital each
year; and some each year give their
lives to the sport they treasure greatest
You will view the terrific, untiring
punishment meted out to the riders
by such broncS as Lee Rider, VIII
James, Black Gold, Notwithstanding,
Mexico and Dynamite and other OUT
laws at the Great Falls rodeo this
year.
"It's a struggle Of man versus beast
and both have a never-to-die instinct
to withdraw from the skirmish the vic
tor" Cremer says.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-07-27

IF you've never come out of the
chute aboard the hurricane deck of
a bucking critter, you've never had q
rendezvous with the graveyard"
Take that on the word of Leo Gre
mer, Montana maestro of the corraled
arena. who will furnish the string of
range outlaws at the North Montana
State fair and rodeo at Great Falls
again this year.
Cremer is an authority on this bust
ness of matching the ruthless instincts
of explosive horseflesh with the best
tophands in the land. Cremer has pro-
duced topnotch rodeoS over the west
the last 20 years, and during that time
has collected the widest string of
broncs ever known to the cowboy world.
Tophand cowboys remain at the top
of the RodeO Association of America
rating by riding broncs with a reputa-
ton, and the North Montana State
fair show this year will once again
bring together cream talent of the
cowboy and bronc world, Cremer says.
'Bronc riding makes such sports as
football, boxing, bullfighting and hook
ey look like pantywaist pastimes," In
the opinion Of the rodeo producer.
Cremer asks what other sport is
there that man has courage to match
his skill against the instincts Of
killer in the animal kingdom?
Records show that If a cowboy has
three or four good years in the arena
and emerges with his full wits, he's
a fortunate cowhand.
Cremer believes that prize fighting
may be a comparable sport, at least It
comes the closest despite its distance
when you're waiting for the three
minute bell in the 18th round, you have
the satisfaction of knowing that your
opponent may show mercy on your
soul But not so with a bronze, for it
knows no mercy, knows no letup after
it has worked into bucking frenzy"
Cremer says.
Cremer explains the entire rodeo
business thus: Bronc riding Is the
battle royal, man pitted against with
ing horseflesh when a slip may mean
death by unmerciful tramping or a
thudding kick on one of the several
vital points.
Cowboys, according to the rodeo pro-
Queer. are the bravest athletes in the
world. Cremer reminds us that cow
boys too must keep in condition In
order to be fully prepared for one of
the greatest physical struggles In the
world of modern sport.
In the event that you hold con-
flicting view, Cremer will give you an
opportunity to test your conviction. as
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-07-27
MONTANA TRADE
OUTLOOK BETTER
FEDERAL RESERVE BANK ENVOY
FINDS BUSINESS ON THE
UPGRADE

Butte Ranked Fifth I'm Bank Debts In
District for May, Being Exceeded
Only by Minneapolis, st. Paul, South
st. Paul and Duluth.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-07-27

Here are scenes Of chiIdren's classes
at the Butte art center, where hun
dreds of Butte youngsters flock to
cIassrOOms TO learn painting and model
ing. The large scene above shows kid
dies expressing themselves with paint
ing and watercOl0r while the lower
scene pictures a group of enthusiastic
youngsters engaged In modelling &C
tivities.
ChiIdren's classes are but one of the
many activities, including exhibitions,
at the Butte art center. Another ac-
tivity to spread the art center idea
to other communities. As a result
Great Falls has the first important
project away from Butte. Space for
the center has been alIOcated by the
city council in the new civic center
building. Both projects are operated
with the assistance of the WPA art
project.
The class Of mOdelers are dubbed
"mudders" by those working with the
brush. They fashion out heads of
horses, dinosaurs, placques in relief,
portraits of themselves, their dogs and
theiEA toys. One little boy said he did
not enjoy his production as much as
he did the pleasure Of feeling the soft
moist clay. Satisfactory shapes are
into more permanent form
IN plaster and are proudly carted home.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-07-27
TELLS OF BUTTE
OF 60 YEARS AGO
RALPH LEWIS OF IDAHO FALLS,
REvTSTTs FORMER HOME ON
ANNIVERSARY
Man Who Arrived in Montana Me
tropOIis In July, 1880. Looks Up Old
Friends and Argues With Them
About Early Days.

To celebrate the Goth anniver-
sary Of his arrival in Butte, Ralph
Louis, resident and former mayor
of Idaho Falls, and the man who
built the first cold storage meat
plant In Montana, recently visited
the Mining city. Louis arrived in
! Butte on July 8, 1880. He came up
/ from Idaho Falls this year on the
/ same date and left after visiting
/ his old friends among whom were
Justice of the Peace A. b. Cohen.
Louis who left Butte for Idaho Falls
in 1903 has memories of Butte as he
knew It so years ago that show Butte
has made considerable progress in go
years. There we're no paved streets in
the eighties, no fire protection worthy
of the name and few buildings ex-
cept those of the most temporary
character.
1--WE had a reservoir up at the Moul-
ton mine" he said, but many Of us
preferred to get our water from wells
Because of the many ffre-fighting
handicapS the Bowes fret broke out
in 1889 in building that stood where
the LeWisohn block now stands-burned
for about "a hours and almost wiped
out the entire block between Granite
ton streets.
THE first electric power plant in
Butte" he said, was small affair
located on the east side of Montana
street Just across Silver Bow creek
about opposite the present plant Of
the Montana Power Co. 1T was pre-
ceded by the packing house Of Beilen-
berg, Dovenspeck g. Brown. The re-
frigerator plant, which I built-the
first In Montana-was later used as
tannery by the relief organizations. 1t
stands in the gulch just south Of the
Catholic graveyard"
Justice Cohen and Louis ran true to
the custom of pioneers when they
discussed early days by getting into
a spirited argument as to the location
of the Shodair store on West Broad
Gated the Shodair fruit store as next
door to the Smith store, while Louis
insisted In putting a meat shop into
that building and moving the Shodair
store one door further west.
The climax was reached when the
question arose as to whether Carl En- |
gel knew his early day Butte when he |
placed the Butte Inter Mountain plant
In the building formerly occupied by /
the Moxom cafe and next door to the |
Miner, which was located In the spot |
where the Butte Floral store now
stands.
The pros and cons decided to mar
shall their forces for later date when
the question Of when, where and how
would be taken up IN their order and
disposed Of.
Louis was appointed mayor of Idaho
Falls in 1918 and served almost con-
Linuously until 1927. He was married
TO Miss Sara Orenstein In 1884 but
no children blessed the union Al
though well past the allotted three
score and 10, Louis is erect and vigor-
ous and is possessed Of an excellent
memory. J.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1940-07-27

Montana merchants are antici-
pating a favorable volume Of bust
ness this year which win equal or
exceed that Of 1899, according TO
III. C.. Timberiake of Minneapolis,
statistician of the ninth federal
reserve bank district, who recently
visited In the state. He said that
all Of the merchants he has talked
with on his trip across Montana
are encouraged by prospects for
the remainder Of the year. He is
contracting banks and looking over
business In the territory.
In the ninth federal reserve district
approximately $500 banks and bust
ness houses furnish data which is used
in compiling the monthly review of
agricultural and business conditions,
Timberiake said. Sample copies Of the
review are available to those desiring
to write for them.
The review Of June % shows that
sales at department stores IN the
mountain section OF Montana during
May were 116 percent of the sales dur
ing May of the preceding year. With
the exception Of two sections. which
were slightly below the 100 percent
mark, advances in department store
sales were shown throughout the ninth
district, including the states Of Mon
tana, North Dakota, South DAKOTA,
Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan.
The figure In the mountain section
of Montana was the greatest OF any
area, however.
Butte ranked fifth in the amount
OF bank debts during the month of
May in the district, being exceeded
only by Duluth, Minneapolis, st. Paul
and South st. Paul The volume of
Butte's May bank debts was S22,864,- |
600 an increase of more than $1,000 600 !
from May of the preceding year.
Bank debts for the most part, are |
checks against depositors' accounts and |
thus represent payment for goods, serv-
Ices and debts.