davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1943-05-18
James A. 0'Gorman Dies;
Former u. ). Senator
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. May 18.-James A.
O'Gorman, 83, attorney and former
United States Senator, died yester-
day in his home.
A native of New York. he was edu-
Gated in the city schools, being
graduated from City College. He
obtained a law degree from New
York University. A Democrat, he
was elected to the Senate in 1911
for six-year term.
Mr.. O'Gorman was active for
many years in various legal organ
izations and was interested in public
education. He was a trustee OF New
York University and of the College
of New Rochelle.
Evening star., 1943-05-18
500 Families Flee
Flood in Indiana;
AT Least -Four Dead
Central and Northern
Areas Hit; Farm Crops
And Gardens Damaged
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, May 18.-One
of the worst floods since the dis
astrous waters of 1913 tore
through Central and Northern
Indiana today
At least four lives have been lost
in the raging torrents. More than
500 families have been moved from
flooded homes in Marion, Frankfort,
Wabash, Indianapolis and other
places.
Flood waters Surged over thou
sands of acres of lowlands, dam
aging early planted farm crops.
Numerous victory gardens have been
washed away.
Nine blocks of sandbagged levee
and the Charles Mills Dam at Ma
rion ouivered under the pressure of
swollen Mississenewa River Three
hundred families in the area were
evacuated. ..
Police at Frankfort moved $50
families from their homes although
the city isn't even near a river. A
drainage ditch running through part
of the town couldn't cope with the
heavy flow of water.
The Wabash River at Wabash
reached 9 feet over flood stage
and was still raging. Seventy five
homes were cleared there.
A bridge was torn loose at Logans-
port. A dam on Big Eagle Creek
gave way northwest of Indianapolis
and war plant workers living west
of the city were told to stay home
until the waters had subsided.
The local Weather Bureau warned
residents along the lower Wabash
and the West Fork of White River
to expect rapid rising of the streams
with serious floods.
Evening star., 1943-05-18
Monthly Memorial Day
Proposed by Senator

BY the Associated Press.
In commemoration OF American
men and women who have lost their
lives in the war, Senator Gillette,
Democrat, of Iowa, has proposed
that the first Monday of each month
be designated for the duration as a
memorial day called Memory Mon
day.
A bill Senator Gillette introduced
yesterday would authorize the Presi-
dent to proclaim the day.
Evening star., 1943-05-18
Congress in Brief
BY the Associated Press.

BY tne ASSoclated Press.
Senate:
In recess.
Military Affairs Committee con-
siders Austin Wadsworth national
service bill.
Finance Committee continues
study of legislation to renew recipro-
cal trade program.
House:
Considers proposal to cut of pay
of trio of Federal workers.
Smith Committee starts investiga-
ton of OPA rent rules.
Small Business Committee hears
retailers problems
Evening star., 1943-05-18
Contractor Acquitted
In Shipyord Fraud Case

BY the Assoclated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, May 18.-Charles
F.. Rohleder, Philadelphia contractor,
and three co-defendants were ac-
quilted by Federal District Court
jury of charges of conspiracy to
defraud the Government by the sub
mission of lake competitive bids for
materials used in reconditioning
Cramp Shipyard. The jury was out
only Is minutes.
Evening star., 1943-05-18
Edward McWade, Actor,
Is Dead al HOLLYWOOD
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, May 18-Edward
McWade, screen writer in the days
of silent pictures and a film char
acter actor since 1884, died of a heart
ailment Sunday night.
Mr.. McWade, born in Washington,
was in vaudeville before he came to
Hollywood 20 years ago. His widow,
Mrs. Margaret McWade, and a
brother, William E. McWade of
Excelsior, Mimi, survive.
Evening star., 1943-05-18
House Nearing Vote
In Move Denying Pay
To ; Federal Aides
Bors Use of Presidents
Emergency Fund to Keep
FSA and NRPB Alive
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Obscured by a new move to
abolish the Farm Security Ad-
ministration and the National
Resources Planning Board, the
propriety of withholding sala-
ries of individual Federal work.
ers by legislative action arose
today in the House.
Scheduled for roll call votes were
amendments to relatively minor
deficiency appropriation bill which
would specifically deny funds for the
salary of three criticized Govern
ment employees and bar the Presi-
dent from keeping the FSA and the
NRPB alive with money from his
huge emergency fund.
In surprise move, a solid front
OF Republicans ntatively wrote the
presidential fund ban into the bill
late yesterday on teller vote of
1873 to 104.
The House previously had moved
to abolish the two New Deal agen-
cies by withholding funds for them
in regular supply bills for the fiscal
year starting July l.
And Representative Taber, Re-
publican. of New York offered an
amendment yesterday to block any
revival of the organizations with
presidential funds, about $89, 900 900
of which are carried in the def
cheney measure.
The action was necessary, Mr.
Taber said, because the President
has not always used the fund exclu-
sively for war purposes and con-
ceiyably could give part of it to the
FSA and the planning board Both
agencies, the latter headed by the
Presidents uncle, Frederic A. De-
lano. have been the objects of Re
publican attacks.
There was little prospect that the
amendment to withhold the pay of
the trio of Federal workers would
be defeated. The three are DR..
Goodwin Watson and William E.
Dodd, jr., of the Communications
Commission, and Robert Morss
Lovett, Government secretary of the
Virgin Islands.
They were among more than a
score of Government workers listed
by Representative Dies, Democrat,
of Texas last February as individuals
who might be suspected of having
un-American political ideas.
A subcommittee subsequently, re-
ported them unfit for public office.
Opponents of the amendment
questioned its propriety, arguing il
was unfair and would set danger
Gus precedent.
Evening star., 1943-05-18
ErroI Flynn III

HOLLYWOOD. May 18 LR,.-Film
Actor Enrol Flynn was in hospital
today suffering from what his physi-
clan, DIR. Thomas NJ Hearm, said
was a recurrence of a respiratory
ailment.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-01-21
Writer Saves His Life
By Taking Brief Sleep

LONDON Sleeping too long is
bad business for war correspond
emit.
1t was revealed that Larry Meier,
International News Service war cor
respondent, who was wounded by
shrapnel fragments in the Dieppe
raid, escaped death from a shell
because he only took brief nap.
En- route to the French coast on
a gunboat, Meier caught a few
hours sleep on bench in the ward
room. He awakened and went up
on deck two hours before the ship
ran into enemy fire.
After he was hit by enemy shrap-
mel, Meier returned to the ward
room the next morning to have his
wounds dressed. There he discov-
cred four-inch hole in the side of
the ship, and four-inch hole in the
wall Of the room just over the
bench.
IF | had slept two hours more,
there would have been a four-inch
hole in Meier" the war correspond
ent commented.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-01-21
Boy, 10, Gets to See More
Than the Fire Engines

PHILADELPHIA. A false alarm,
which City Detective William Nc
Menamin said l0-year-old boy had
admitted turning in because he
wanted to see the fire engines run"
brought this result.
Injury to IL persons, wreck OF a
new city fire engine, heavy damage
to d streetcar and the detailing Of
three police cruiser cars, one emer-
gency patrol, 20 patrolmen, two SER
geants, captain and two accident
investigation squads to the scene.
Five firemen were tossed into the
street when the engine and the troll
ley collided. The streetcar motor
man and six passengers were in
jured. All were hospitalized.
The boy was taken to the Juvenile
House of Detention.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-01-21
To Observe Brotherhood Week

HELENA-U.D-Gov. Sam c.
Ford, in an official statement last
week, set aside the period of Feb.
1928 as brotherhood Week" in
Montana.
The observance, sponsored by the
National Conference of Christians
and Jews, Inc, is devoted to the
elimination of religious prejudices
with view to the establishment
of a social orderSin| which the re-
ligious ideals Of brotherhood and
justice shall become the standards
of human relationships
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-01-21
Homemade Burglar Alarm
Is Better Than His Aim

Philip Tregalias "home-
made" burglar alarm system was
better than his aim when a thief
appeared on the scene.
Treglia, who lives near Lima, re-
Gently was the victim of thieves who
stole 100 chickens from coop near
his barn. So he rugged up a bell
alarm system Just so III be ready
if the burglars come back
They came back-or at least one
of them did-about a. m.
Sure enough, the alarm worked.
AS Treglia poked his shotgun out a
window of his bedroom he saw a
man jump from the barn and start
to jump over fence.
II let 60 with both barrels, one
after another" the farmer related.
but the Teller just went on over
the fence, then jumped another, and
disappeared"
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-01-21

Mammy's and Pappy's room to such
point of aople-pie order that it was
week before Pappy could find an
undershirt.
Rosebud is a great reader of the
newspapers. Nanny and Pappy
don't take one, but there are plenty
of perfectly good newspapers blow
ing round Vinegar Hill. 1t was out
of one of them that Rosebud got her
idea for spending the ten cents the
Bunny had put under her pillow the
night her tooth came out. After
breakfast Rosebud disappeared down
the Hill and reappeared soon after
with beautiful ten-cent War Stamp
pasted firmly into a brand-new book
with neat little squares for more
stamps. She displayed her invest
ment to Nanny. II declare you're
an angel child" Nanny said. Rose
bud went on sitting on the kitchen
floor staring with large brown eyes
at the empty squares in her book.
From time to time she took hold OF
one or another of her teeth and
wiggled it, gently.
Nanny was engrossed in par
llCuldlly DiB WdSlllll6 s. nUSGuua Wdo
as quiet as mouse and Nanny
forgot about her until, coming in
from the yard with her arms full of
dry sheets, she encountered her child
with a large hammer in her hand.
Seeming the devil in her angel child,
Nanny shouted at her, Rosebud!
Come yere with that hammer! What
you planning on doing?"
But what was done was done. In
Rosebuds other hand was another
tooth. Her mouth was stretched in
a broad if slightly bloody smile. Il
amt doing nothing, Nanny" she
said. I'm just filling up my stamp
book.
! (Story from an actual report in
the files of the Treasury Depart
ment.)
Say yes. Take your change in War
/ Stamps. Your investment In War
Bonds today will save payday for
4 tomorrow. u. S. Treasury DEPARTMENT
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-01-21
Legend of Peers
Curse Is Revived
Tradition of Lambton Worm
Has Been Fulfilled.

LONDON. The legend Of a tragic
curse in the Lambton family has
been revived by the death of
Viscount Lambton, son and heir OF
the earl OF Durham, who was found
shot dead on the lawn of Fenton
House. Northumberland.
Viscount Lambton was only 20,
and had registered for military
service shortly before the tragedy.
According to the tradition, con-
corning the Lambton worm, the
lords of Lambton for nine genera
tons we're doomed not to die in their
beds. This tradition dates from the
Crusaders when the Lord Lambton
of the time slew worm SO huge
that it could wind itself round hill
near Lambton castle
But there was price for the tri-
umph. Lord Lambton was pledged
to kill the first living thing he met'
after Staying the worm.
Unhapply it was his father whom
he met, and he would not pay the
price. Because the father went
free, the nine-generation curse has
visited the family.
Tragedy has logged the family
for generations. Beatrix, countess
OF Durham, died in April, 1887, on
the day that her granddaughter,
Lady Rachel Douglas Home. mar
ried Lord William Scott. Death re-
suited from fall in shop where
she was choosing d wedding present
for the bride. Her husband, the
fourth earl, succeeded to the title
in September, 1896, but died in
the following January Their son,
Godfrey, was killed in action in
1914
Two cousins of the present earl
died tragic deaths. In October. 1887,
Mr.. Gervame Lambton was lost at
sea while travelling TO Kenya IN a
liner. Little more than year later
Darcy Lambton was killed and his
wife injured in a motor crash
But some Of the family enjoy long
life. There is Brigadier General
Charles Lambton, member of the
Jockey club, fourth son OF the Sec
ond earl He was SO years old.
George Lambton, fifth son of the
second earl, is one of the most not
able race horse trainers in England,
and fluent writer on turf topics.
He still has fairly big string OF
horses at the Stanley House stables
in Newmarket, and is active in look
ing after them despite his 80 years.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-01-21
Army Insists
Montana Cities
Be Cleaned Up

HELENA-UP)-Officials of the
cities of Great Falls, Butte. and
Helena have agreed to close down
all houses of prostitution in the
three cities and cooperate with
army authorities in a cleanup
campaign to rid Montana of We
nereal disease.
The decision was reached at a
day-long conference here of city
and state authorities and high-rank-
ing officials of army bases located
near the three cities. Gov. Sam c.
Ford presided at the meeting.
The committee drew up resolu-
ton which will be presented to tie
state legislature asking for neces-
sary funds to investigate, treat and
rehabilitate venereally infected per-
sons.
DR.. B. K. Kilbourne, state cpl
demiologist said if the funds are
provided the state board OF health
will establish clinics for venereal
disease control.
The committee stressed in its rec
concentrations to the legislature
that the problem is statewide IN
scope and calls for immediate solu-
ton.
Mayors Barry O'Leary of Butte,
John Haytin of Helena and Ed
Shields Of Great Falls all assured
the army officials present of their
full cooperation in closing down
brothels
Mayor Shields, however, told the
meeting no organized house ct
prostitution exists in Great Falls
at the present time, but gave his as
surance that a complete investiga-
ton will be made to determine the
extent of free lance girls and
street walkers claimed by tho
army to be the principal source OF
the recent upturn in the disease
rate.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-01-21
Suit of Boy Friend Now
In Army Adorns Steno

DENVER. The slack suit blonde
Fayetta Sanford wore to her job in
the Colorado Capitol definitely was
mannish looking.
1t had been her boy friends new
sport suit until he went to the army
He can't wear it for the duration,
and it was good looking outfit, SO
| had it made over for myself, ex-
planned Fayetta, state welfare de-
partment stenographer.
Her example impressed a friend,
Mrs. Frances Karkeek, civil service
commission stenographer.
my husband is going to the army
soon," she said. He won't be able
to say anything if I want to have
his civilian pants cut down.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-01-21
Working All Day
Wild, Beautiful
Girls His Task
Stunning Blondes, Brunettes
Tumble in Profusion
In Mans Office.

NEW YORK.-In the springer
any other seasonal young mans
fancy is apt to turn toward job
like Harry Conovers. That is, a
job where one is surrounded all day
long by some of the most beautiful
girls in the world.
Tall and stunning blondes and
brunettes tumble about the Conover
office in distracting profusion. As
a visitor once remarked These
are the kind of girls like-you
should see the kind | get.
Conover is the head of the model
agency bearing his name. His stock
in trade consists of $50 lassies, all
of whom have two things in COM
mon. they are young and pretty.
He also has some 20 phones and
these ring almost constantly as pho
tographers, artists and advertising
agency executives seek the services
of one or more of his models to help
sell refrigerator or stove or beau
tify the cover of a magazine.
He Was a Model.
In these surroundings it would
seem all but impossible to concen-
trate but Conover can apply him
self to desk work as though he were
a hermit. 1t is quite obvious that
he is accustomed to beauty
Il married a model he said with
a Wistful undertone as though he
would like, once in while, to see a
homely girl.
As matter of fact he is not a
bad looking chap himself, only 90,
and once one Of the most successful
male models. "They used to call me
The Face, !" he admits. Friends
tagged him thus because his pearly
teeth and curly locks were plastered
over billboards and in magazines as
bait for toothpastes and hair tonics.
A moment of meditation made
| Conover model magnate He real
lied abruptly one day that every
picture he posed for meant that he
was one step closer to the end of
his modelling career. So he spent
his spare time helping other models
get work--and incidentally estab-
fishing good contacts for himself.
His method of getting his business
under way was quite unorthodox
No matter who called him for q
model got the answer that the Con.
over agency was all booked This
went on right to the verge of bank.
ruptcy, but Conover rightly figured
that the word would get around that
he was doing great 1t did and he
did.
Likes Scrubbed Look.
Conover's models look a little diff
ferent from most. When he got
into the field they were standard
lied as tall, thin with china-whits
faces and disdainful air. He look:
for girls who have what he call.
that scrubbed look. Give hin
such with the proper height, fea
lures and figure and she can make
herself from SIS to $500 week.
Jinx Falkenberg is one of hi.
models ard while he didn't nam.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-01-21
Ruins Found in Mexico
Are Traced to Toltecs

MEXICO CITY.-Students of ar
theology gathered recently at newly
discovered ruins believed the prod
uct OF the Toltecs, mysterious for
mer inhabitants Of Mexico. The Ma
tional Institute, of Anthropology and
History reported finding the ruins OF
pyramid, fortress and parts Of an
l8-foot high statue near Tula, SO
miles from the Mexican capital. In
stitute officials claimed the discov-
cries dated from the Toltec period.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-01-21
Will Hear
Charges Against
Stote Game Warden

HEL ENA- WP)-The state Fish
and Game Commission has agreed
to hear charges of 'malfeasance and
misfeasance" by which the Mon
tana Furriers Association hopes to
prove DR.. J. S. Mcfarland is unfit
to hold the office of state game
warden.
The hearing is set for Feb. in
the office of the commission in the
state capitol.
The commissions order said, how
ever, the hearing will be permitted
only in reference to acts directly
charged against Dr. Mcfarland
Four. paragraphs of the charges
filed against the game warden as
contained in the associations petl
ton were set aside as not stating
sufficient facts to justify investlga-
ton or because they referred to acts
of other persons over whom Dr.
Mcfarland had no control.
The association was ordered to
file bill of particulars Ten days
prior to the hearing making its
charges more specific as to time
place and persons present.
The request of the association tol
power to subpoena witnesses was
denied, sbut petitioners will be per-
mitted to produce such witnesses a.
they desire, at their own cost anc
expense"
The furriers, in % page petition
for DR.. McFarland's removal
claimed he had lost the state S9,25(
by selling confiscated and state
trapped beaver furs outside thu
state, contrary to the game war
den's statement that he had received
$710 more than the price offered il
Montana.
DR.. Mcfarland was also said t,
have attempted to discredit hon
orable fur dealers Of the state i
order to bring about stricter con
troll of what Gov. Sam c. Ford tolt
the legislature was a $4,000 Tho
fur racket" in Montana.
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-01-21
trloef< NfEb4fArA

Rosebud is eight. and the most
beautiful shade of caramel fudge.
To her loving Nanny and Pappy
she is known, on approximately al
ternate days, as Angel and you
devil child It was on her devil
child days that Rosebud tied the
knots in the shirts that Nanny had
taken in for washing, and poured the
whole of the vanilla bottle into the
lamb stew, just, she said later
through bitter tears, to flavor it up
somen
On her angel days Rosebud is
equally imaginative even If more
restful occupant Of the little shack
down on Vinegar Hill. Once when
The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1943-01-21
Disappearance of
Rich Socialite
Still Unsolved
Wealthy Woman Missing for
5 Years; Case Remains
Battling Puzzle.

RIVERHEAD, N. Y.-The strange
disappearance five years ago of
Mrs. Alice Mcdonnell Parsons,
wealthy socialite, then 38, is still a
mystery. That, in effect, was the
ruling recently handed down by the
surrogate's court here.
The court, in accepting an inter-
mediate accounting of her estate,
valued at we'll over $3.50 900, agreed
witt the administrator that it is not
definitely known whether she Is dead
or live.
Thus, the Parsons case" as 1t
has come to be known, remains
uniquely battling puzzle.
FBI men entered the case shortly
after Mrs. Parsons vanished from
her country home at Stony Brook.
Long Island, in June, 1887
1t was ransom note, demanding
S25, 900, found in Mrs. Parsons auto
the day after she disappeared that
brought Omen into the investiga
ton
All Efforts Fail.
But all efforts to contact the kid
napers failed.
In Carmel, Calf, employed in a
civilian capacity by the United
States army is Mrs. Parsons hus-
band, William H. Parsons Jr., a
Yale university graduate.
Still serving as his housekeeper
is the Russian-born Countess
Anna Kuprianova who was subject
ed to lengthy Interrogation by Chief
Oman J. Edgar Hoover a few days
after June 8, 1887, when. according
to Mrs Kuprianova, Mrs. Parsons
stepped into an automobile with a
man and a woman at the Parsons
farm and was seen no more.
With them is Mrs. kuprianova's
son, Roy. Is.
Mrs. Kuprianova and the boy will
fall heir to a substantial portion Of
Mrs. Parsons estate when it is ulti-
mately divided But that cannot be
until 1914, seven years after Mrs.
Parsons disappearance.
Parsons and his wife. despite their
social connections, settled down to
life Of sequestered quiet at their
country place.
In 1881 their association with Anna
Kuprianova began. The Russian
born woman, who said she was
countess, came to them through
a YWCA employment service.
FBI Called In.
The housekeeper said that early
that morning Mrs. Parsons drove
her husband to the st. James sta
ton of the Long Island railroad. He
had an appointment with two Rus
slams in New York
All information regarding Mrs.
Parsons movements thereafter
came to the police from Mrs. Kup-
rianova.
The housekeeper said Mrs. Par
sons returned to the farmhouse at
$40 a. m. and left the car in the
drive.
At HOS a. m, the housekeeper
went on, an automobile stopped De-
fore the house and Mrs. Parsons
said.
"Oh, that must be the couple who
wish to rent the little house.
She was referring to the Sam
mis- place" at Huntington, /. l., an
interest in which she had inherited
from Colonel Williams.
AT 8:15 that night Parsons re-
turned from New York, telephoned
home from the station to inquire
why his wife had not picked him up
in the car. When told that she had
/ left with a strange couple and had
not returned, Parsons notified the
police.
Parsons summoned the FBI.
There the case of the missing
socialite-heiress stands.
4