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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1946-10-31
Lost Rites Held
For Conrad Ziler

Funeral services for Conrad
Ziler, Sr., 81, who passed away
Wednesday, October %, were
held Sunday, October 27, at the
Baptist church with the Rev.
c. A. Bentley of Crow Agency
officiating.
Conrad Ziler was born in
Russia On May 1, 1865, the son
of Conrad and Katherine Ziler.
He grew to manhood in Russia
serving one year in the Russian
army.
At the age of "a he was
married to Mable Heimbigner.
To this union four children
were born Mrs. Ziler passed
away in 1897. In 1900 he was
married to Mary Heimbigner.
Shortly after their marriage,
they came to America bringing
with them their four children
and Mr.. Ziler's father and
mother. They homesteaded in
Odessa, Wash, for several years
and later moved to Tacoma,
WASH, where Mr.. ziler did ex-
tenSive wheat farming and OPP
Grated one of the largest wheat
combining outfits in the coun-
try. In 1911, the family moved
to Montana, locating near Bill
lings. Later they moved to Har-
din where they have lived for
the past 26 years.
IN August, 1889, his wife,
Mary, passed away. Since then
he had made his home with
his children.
Mr.. Ziler suffered a stroke
in August, 1945, and had been
in poor health since, having
been hospitalized the greater
part of the time. The past four
months he had been belfast in
the Big Horn County Commu-
nifty hospital. The cause of his
death was attributed to in
firmities of age and complica-
lions from the stroke
Left to mourn his passing are
four sons, Conrad; 7Jr., Joe and
George of Hardin, and Laurence
of Big Horn; five daughters
Mrs. J. G. Schafer of what
chez, Wash, Mrs. James Wilson,
Shepherd, Mont, Mrs. Rachel
Swift, Kirby, Mrs. Rex Bark
huff, Big Horn, and Mrs.
George Meter, Helena; one
brother, Jake, and one sister,
Katherine Hamburg of Odessa,
Wash, "a grandchildren and
several great-grandchildren.
One son, Henry, who served in
World War II, died of wounds
received in an accident in Au-
gust, 1945.
mo Night There" and "Safe
in the Arms of Jesus" were the
musical numbers rendered at
the funeral by Mrs. j. J Ping,
Mrs. Tom Hammer, Mrs. Cor
don SwaDy and Mrs. Bill Faber,
accompanied by Mrs. Walter J
Brekke.
Pallbearers were Sam Rag
land, Vern Melville, Jake Kern
Elvln Wedel and Gottlieb Hert
Burial was in the Hardin
cemetery.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1946-10-31
Recredtiondl School
To Be Conducted

Miss Jane Farwen of the Ma
tional Recreation association
will conduct a recreation lead
err training school in the Jun
ior high school gymnasium in
Hardin November 7 and 8.
Afternoon meetings will start
at 2:30 and evening meetinp1
at 7:3O. All groups and organ
izationS in Big Horn county
are invited to send their recre-
alton leaders to the school, &C
cording to Lois Hodgskiss, coun-
ty home demonstration agent.
Until recently, Miss Farwell
was an extension worker and
as q result she has an excel
lent understanding of the rec
reation problems of rural peo-
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1946-10-31
Football Game Is
Cancelled Here
Gridiron Is Sea of
Mud; F~Iurlowtown Was
To Have Played Here

The. football game between
Hardin and Harlowton, which
was to have been played on the
local field has been cancelled,
according to the Hardin coach,
Hugh Gotham.
Coach Gotham said that the
field was ankle deep with mud
and no other field here was in
condition to play on.
The game will probably be
played at some later date, it
was stated.
Last week the Hardin team
suffered their second defeat of
the season at the hands of the
Forsyth eleven by a score of Is
to 6. The local eleven was with
out the services of Donald
Hammer, star halfback who is
nursing a back injury.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1946-10-31
Receives Thanks
From Finlunders

Mrs Ella Gilmore of Hardin
received the following letter
from a family in Finland for
clothing she had contributed
to the Red Cross for distribu-
ton there.
The letter was written in
Finnish by Hilma Make, Town
of Pelkkala, State of Oulu, Fin
land, and Mrs. Gilmore was
unable to translate it. Efforts
were made locally to have the
letter translated, but it was not
until a Casper, Wyo., party
read the letter did Mrs. Gil
more know what it contained,
The letter reads:
II greet you in behalf of
myself, husband and children
even though you are a strang-
er, and thank you for the love-
~ gift which I received through
the Red Cross from America
to our poor Finland.
I'VE are in such terrible need
as we only have rags tied
around our feet, and we are
unable to get clothing for a
long time. Very many loving
thanks for the fine dress which
I was fortunate to receive. I
thank you as if you were a sis
ter, and wish you good luck
and Gods blessings always.
do not be hurt if I write
you a few words and thank you
for the nightgown which you
sent as a gift. Your name was
marked on it so I am writing
you a few words and thanking
you a thousand times from
this poor Finland. We have no.
thing to send you but thanks.
You can imagine how difficult
it is for us. W. have eight
children. None of us have
clothing or shoes There is none
to be had. You are lucky to
live where you have everything.
It is good that everyone is not
in such dire straits as we are.
Goodbye, dear friend. There
are tears in my eyes as I write
this to you. Even though you
are a stranger I will remember
you always. These are my
thoughts.
"Hilma Make"
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1946-10-31
Program to Be Held
For Achievement Dow

The Big Horn county Al
clubs will hold their annual
achievement day program Sat-
urday afternoon, November 2, in
the community room of the
courthouse.
Special recognition and
awards will be made to mem
bers and leaders who have done
outstanding work.
Mrs. Martha Elder Stevens.
who for many years was extern.
sion agent in Big Horn county.
will show pictures and discuss
the Hawaiian Islands. Also on
the program will be a speech
Rural Youth and Their Com
munity," by Dan w. Maddox.
All All club members, par
ents, leaders and friends are
invited TO attend this program
which will begin at 2 p. m.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1946-10-31
Lions Hear Talk
By ArmyD Doctor
DR.. Westphdl Gives
Interesting Talk
AT Club Meeting

DR.. Glenn A. Westphal, "a
practicing physician and sur
geon of Redding, CAL, and
brother of DR.. J. I. Westphal,
| Hardin dentist, was the guest
speaker at the Monday night
meeting of the Hardin Lions
club.
DR.. Westphal is a veteran of
World War II, having served
in the medical corps through
out the war, attaining the rank
of colonel. He saw service in
| Germany and Austria, where he
was in charge of internment
and concentration camps i'm
mediately following their lib
Grafton by the Allied forces.
Colonel Westphal gave to his
audience of more than 60 Lions
and guests, a vivid description
of the cruelties practiced by
the Hitlerites on the helpless
inmates of those camps. He
stated that inmates were put to
death by the thousands and
their bodies destroyed by huge
crematories. Many of the VIC
Tins were Jews and Germans
who were opposed to nazism.
Before the war, DR. Westphal
was located in Elsinore, CAL,
where he practiced his profess
sion. He Is a past president of
the Elsinore Lions club. He
was accompanied to Hardin by
DR.. Wagner, a dentist from
Redding. They departed by
auto for California Tuesday
morning.
The luncheon was served by
Lions Stark Bair, Conrad Bauer,
c. A. Bentley, w. J. Brekke, C..
L. Bentley and William Colstad.
Matt w. Heaphy, county ex-
tension agent, was indicted
into the club, bringing the total
paid membership to Ill.
President Lowell Painter an
nounced that a Lions Ladies'
night social session will be held
on the next regular meeting
night, Monday, November II,
when District Governor Phillip
F Lewis of Missoula, accom-
panied by Mrs. Lewis, will pay
his official visit to the club.
Dale H. Davis, S. P. Louk and
Ray Rimel, the first three vice
presidents, were named as a
committee in charge of the
dinner.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1946-10-31
Kids Halloween
PdrtY Tonight

The annual Halloween party
for the children of Hardin will
be held tonight at 7:3O in the
junior high school gymnasium.
Hardin businessmen are spon-
sors of the program with the
school cooperating in staging a
picture show for the children.
Donations from the business
men were not asked for this
year as the fund from previous
years was found ample to pro-
vide for the program.
The children will see two
first-class pictures. One will be
Buffalo Bill" co-starring Joel
McCrea and Maurine O'Hara,
and play Ball, Son. a short
feature in which Joe Cronin,
manager of the Boston Red
Sox, explains the fundamentals
of baseball.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1946-10-31
School Officiuls
Receive Offices

Elmer E. Skeie, superintend-
ent of Hardin schools, was
elected first vice president of
the Montana Education associ-
alton at the eastern district
meeting held recently in Bill
lfngs.
Other Hardin teachers re-
ceiving offices were Mrs. Grace
Garrison who was elected
chairman of the intermediate
section, and H. R Salyer, Har-
din high school principal, was
named chairman of the social
science section.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1946-10-31
Leo F. Weinberq
Dies in Sheridan
Posses AwdY in
Veterans Hospital
After Long Illness

Leo F. Weinberg passed away
in the FIT. Mckenzie Veterans
Administration hospital at
Sheridan, Wyo., Wednesday at
6 a. M, after an illness of
about four months.
Mr.. Weinberg became i'll in
July, entering St. Vincent'S
hospital at that time. Later he
was transferred to the Big
Horn County Community hos
pital in Hardin and on Octo-
Der Is was admitted to the
Veterans hospital, where he re-
manned until his death
Funeral services will be held
in Sheridan and burial will be
in Augusta, III.
Mr. Weinberg, who was born
July IA, 1898, in Augusta, Ill,
homesteaded north of Iron
Springs in Rosebud county. Two
years ago he purchased the
Beall property north of Hardin
which has recently been pur-
chased by Tavner Walker.
His parents and one sister
preceded him in death.
He was a member of Elks
lodge, Alamosa, COL, and of
the American Legion of Creole,
Col. Mr.. Weinberg was also a
member of the Presbyterian
church.
Survivors include two broth
ers, J.. Ernest Weinberg and
Joseph J. Weinberg, both of
Hardin, and one sister, Mrs. H.
Earl Robson of Monte Vista,
Col. Mr. and Mrs. Robson have
been with their brother since
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1946-10-31

pie, Miss Hodgskiss said. She
was graduated from Antioch
college, Ohio, where she was
active in drama, music and So
cial recreation. Prior to joining
the National Recreation aSSo-
citation staff a year ago, Miss
Farwell was recreation special
ist for the extension division
of West Virginia university and
for the Oglebay institute at
Wheeling, W. Va.
Miss Hodgskiss points out
that attendance at the recrea-
ton leader training school is
not limited to groups affiliated
with the county extension pro-
gram. All organizations inter-
ested in recreation, volunteer
and paid leaders in municipal
recreation departments and
community agencies are invited
to send representatives to the
school.
The school here will be one of
eight that will be conducted
in the state this fall. This is
Miss FarWell's second visit to
Montana to conduct similar
schools. Because of the out
standing success of the schools
held under her direction Last
spring and the popular demand
for another series of schools,
the extension service engaged
Miss Farwell for the series of
schools this fall.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1946-10-31
FILE SCHARGES

The following members Of
armed forces filed their dis
charges in the office of the
county clerk and recorder this
week:
Army - George D. Ward,
John Gress and Franklin Var
lott.
Navy - Paul Leroy Brown.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1946-10-31

The battle of the Monitor
and the Merrimac, a naval en-
gagement fought early in the
American Civil War, was not
able as the first conflict be-
tween iron-clad vessels.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1946-10-31
OFFERS PROGRAM
PLAN STRIKE

PLAN STRIKE
The committee for Maritime
Unity told striking l%ongshore-
men and licensed engineers
Wednesday to prepare for a
winter-long strike along the
west coast.
In one of the most ominous
statements yet made in the
month-long walkout, the GNU
said the two striking unions
the CLIO Marine Engineers and
the CLIO International Long
Shoremen's and Warehouse
mems union - were settling
down for a struggle into next
year.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1946-10-31
NEWS review
A Brief Summary
OF Outstanding
News Events
OBJECTS TO PACT

OBJECTS TO PACT
Over sections of an agree
ment which in the view of Of
ficials, appears to violate prom
Uses Britain made in obtaining
an American loan, the United
States objected to the British
Argentine economic agreement,
Although there has been no
written explanation, the United
States has already expressed its
objections orally to London.
OFFERS PROGRAM
The United States, Wednes-
day, welcomed Russia's disarm-
ament plan, but offered a
sweeping arms reduction pro-
gram of it's own backed by a
system of international inspec-
ton and other means to pre-
vent violation and evasion.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-09

the world in the record-breaking
time of 81 hours. IA minutes. In
l943 he brushed wings With death
again when an amphibian plane
he was plotting crashed into Lake
vIead, New, behind Boulder Dam.
One of his newest designs, the
$40, 600, 900 eight-engined Hercules,
worlds largest flying boat. is now
being assembled for its first test
flight in the fall.
One of the principal stockholders
in Trans World Airlines, Hughes
was visited at the Good Samaritan
hospital Monday by Jack Frye,
president of the line, who flew
from Albuquerque, N. M.
Hughes turned out movies that
made headlines. too. His cortro-
versial The Outlaw was finished
four years ago, but movie censors
refused 20 okay it until he cut out
scenes Of the bosomy Jane Russell
reclining on a haystack in a low
cut blouse.
Hughes took his fight to a San
Francisco court and won the first
round. A few days later he hired
s skywriter to outline Miss Rus
sells charms in the clouds with
And The Outlaw is still
breaking records at movie houses
and is expected to gross $40, 000,-
800.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-09
MORE ABOUT
CASWELL
FROM PAGE ONE

Of Fort Caswell. They only needed
six OF the smaller buildings and
the ship basin and various docks.
it was reported.
The Navy is understood to have
looked with disfavor on this an
proach, claiming that u would re-
suit in the utilization of only 4
small part of the valuable o
ty.
Interviews Sought
During these negotiations both
Navy and Coast Guard officials
sought off-the-record interviews
with a local man. The Navy pro-
tested against Fort Caswsll being
given to the Coast Guard unless
they would assure a greater use of
The property. The Navy also asked
regarding possible State interest.
The later interview with the
Coast Guard officer brought out
indications that the Navy was
turning down their request and it
was definitely asked if the State
would be interested in and use the
part the Coast Guard did not need.
II the State gets Fort Caswell
Real Development
all Of the present physical proper
ties will be made use of. Further.
mere is assurance of additions and
real development.
Not the least interesting is the
tremendous potential benefit to
come to a great area of lower
North Carolina through having a
part of the Mountain-Seashore Park
system on the coast. This would
result in as great or even greater
publicity and prove as great an
attraction to tourists and others
as the Smoky Mountain Park is now
getting.
Illustration
Several weeks ago the National
Educational Association contacted
both the State and a local interest.
They proposed to have. a great
summer camp in the mountains and
another on the coast. For their
first year, if things work out, they
will send so teachers to the noun
tain camp each summer and an
other so to the seashore for three
months each year.
This would be one teacher from
each state, divided between the
two camps. Following the first
year the number of teachers from
each state would grow.
At the time there were no facil-
tiles here for such a three month
camp. But the plan has not been
given up. If the State acquires
Fort Caswell the National Edu-
cational Association will probably
come to North Carolina for its
Mountain-Seas shore camps, but this
will be only M small drop in the
development bucket.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-09

Jaycees today before the 8 p. m.
deadline, according to y: v.
THOMPSON, Jr. and L. c. C4D Le-
Gwin, Jr., co-chairmen OF the con-
test committee.
Prizes
The girls will be competing no.
only for the right to represent Wll-
mington in the state beauty com
petition at Wilson late this month
but also for several hundred dol
lars in valuable merchandise
prizes, presented by leading WI,
mington merchants. Miss MORT
Carolina" to be selected from the
CITY winners, will represent inc
Tar Heel state in the annual MISS
America contest at Atlantic City,
N. J. next month, with a So'ool
scholarship to the titlist.
Glen Gray's Casa Iona orches,
ira will play for the beauty pagan
ball and provide the musical PACK
drop for the contest itself. Ticket:
for the pageant and dance are or
sale in selected downtown stores
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-09
ENTRANT
SIGNS in PAGEANT
Miss Marie Goodwin Is Lat
est To Enter Jaycee
Contest

Slightly more than "a hours be-
fore the deadline for accepting en-
tries, blond, tiny Marie Goodwin, 10,
of los North Seventh street, yes
terday became the seventh contest
ant in the Wilmington Junior
Chamber of Commerce Beauty
Pageant in Lumina the night OF
July 16.
Miss Goodwin, employed by the
City Optical Company, is the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. E. M.
Goodwin of Bolivia. She is a native
of Greensboro, having graduated
from Bessemer High school in that
city three years ago, and since then
has made her home in Wilmington.
Five Feet Three
She stands five feet three inches
in high heel shoes, weighs 113
pounds and has naturally blond
hair.
She will be competing with at
least six other of Wilmington's
prettiest young women a week
from tonight when Miss Whining
ton" will be selected at the beauty
pageant ball by a committee OF
judges headed by the famed
orchestra leader, Glen Gray.
Several other last-minute en-
trants are expected to file their en-
try blanks with the Wilmington
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-09

gineers still hold to their original
Headline to have the radio range
in operation by August l.
At that time the range is slated
10 he turned on simultaneously
with similar ranges in Charleston
Is C.. New Bern, Norfolk, Va, Cape
NAV. N. j., and other cities or
the Atlantic Seaboard.
Super-Safe
Once in operations the string Of
WIFI ranges will give the Atlantic
coast a super-new, super-safe VHt
"sky highway"
The WIFI beams, ultra-shor'
waves, capable of piercing Thu
worst sort of weather, will guide
planes along the coastal air route
and in and out of airports on prac'
tically uninterrupted schedules
and, most important, with a maxi
mum of safety.
The VHF radio range is but on
of the new improvements schedul
ed for installation at Bluethentha
airport. A radio station for airWa,
control and weather reporting j
also on the slate.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-09

and mind so full of important
things in your metropolitan affairs?
COSMOPOLITAN COUNTY-May
we. sir, at your convenience and
leisure, humbly suggest that our
New Hanover county highway sign
be changed to read thusly? "You
r now entering New Hanover
county, suburb of Columbus Com
monwealth."
May we also change Columbus
to read Cosmopolitan?
May we further add this to the
sign? "At your own risk"
We want to make this last addi-
ton for your own safety, sir. New
Hanover county is full of a lot of
low backwoodsmen who wouldn't
know any better than to get out the
bow and arrow to any iatelligen
city-slicker from the Columbus
county metropolis who NIGH
chance to cross the line.
We wouldn't want this to hap
pen to you, sir, because, as W.
have already limited, we are COINS
to stalk you down in your own ter
ritory.
We have a notch for you alread,
carved IN our crossbow.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-09
MORE ABOUT
HUGHES
FROM PAGE ONE

He is suffering from profound
shock" Mason added, land Is be-
ing kept in an oxygen tent
$3.50 Chance
A hospital source said he showed
slight Improvement and estimated
he had a $3.50 chance of recovery.
The 4o-year-old sportsman, Who
dabbled in moviemaking Ions
enough 10 turn OF: pictures like
"HelTs Angels" and discover
movie queens like the voluptuous
Jean Harlow and Jane Russell,
crashed Sunday night on the te;
flight of his plus Neutrality-suspicious.
XF.11. which he designed and built
TO- Army Photographic missions.
Eighty minutes after the takeoff
the plane developed motor trouble,
struck Two homes. ard snasN> q
into a 500. 900 mansion, setting of
a series OF fires and explosions
IT, shook the area.
When the experimental plane, &
iwin-engined craft with g knife
like wing. began 10 lose altitude,
Hughes attempted 10 guide the ship
10 a nearby golf course. One
engine sputtered out entirely. sno
the remaining ore hadn't the
power 10 make it.
Hits Colonel's Home
He missed the fairway by sever
al blocks and struck the roof OF
ore house. sliced off part Of the
roof and side porch of n owned
by Costa Custom. retired Swedish
indusaialist. and hurled into the
mansion Of Lieut.. Col. Charles
Meyer. Interpreter at the Nuern-
berg war trials in Germany.
Mrs. Never. alone in the house.
escaped injury.
The impact split the house in
Two. scattered plane parts all over
the lot, and started fires that lick
ed 10 seconds later. burning the
mansion to the ground.
Sgt. William Lloyd Durkin. on
pass from E. Toro Marine base.
dashed into the flames and drag
sed Hughes from the plane. On
the scene a few minutes later was
Capt. James Custom, 22-year-old
son of The owner Of the second
house hit.
Badly Burned
Hughes was bleeding from one
ear. his nose and mouth Burkin
said. land he was muttering to
himself. When we carried him out
he kept saying. I'm Howard
Hughes. Let me up. Lay me on
the lawn He was conscious b.
badly banged up. is shirt was
burned almost completely c."
Eight hundred gallons, gas re-
naming in the tank, explod | afte
The crash. The impact also splint-
> cree a gasfmain under the Meyer
house. sending up fires that burne :
for hours.
Hughes. who has built up his i.
herited $50, 0o0, 900 fortune to E
estimated SIPS, 600, 900, has been in
the headlines for the past IL W RS.
In 1885 he built his first plane
and set a new trans-continental
speed record of nine hours n
minutes and 10 seconds from Los
Angeles to New York.
Three years later he flew around