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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-01-17
D. {. Committee
In House Meets
NextWednesday
Senate Group Session
Scheduled Tuesday;
Buck Studies Budget

Chairman Dirksen Of the House
District Committee today scheduled
its first meeting for 1880 am. next
Wednesday for organization. and
consideration of business.
Subcommittee probably will be
appointed, Mr.. Dirksen indicated
and the organization completed for
handling District legislation.
Meanwhile, the Senate District
Committee has tentatively sched-
uled it's next meeting for Tuesday
of next week.
Chairman Buck has been making
a careful study of the District bud
get and the financial problems OF
the city to have a. background for
consideration of the fiscal prob
lens of the National Capital.
Meeting Time Changed.
Another important Congressional
post, vital to the District, was to
be filled early this afternoon with
selection by the House Appropria-
lions Committee of the chairman
of the subcommittee to handle the
District supply bill. Chairman
Tabor of the House Appropriations
group changed the meeting time
from 1890 am. today, the original
date, to l pm.
While Representative Koran, Re-
publican, of Washington, apparently
was in line to head the District Sub
committee because of his seniority
on the group, it was pointed out
that several other veteran members
of the full Appropriations Com
mittee are ahead of him in seniority
Among these are Representatives
Case of South Dakota, Andersen
of Minnesota, Ploeser Of Missouri
and Tibbott of Pennsylvania.
There was no certainty however
that any of these would be selected
Miss Best May Return.
AS arrangements for the func-
tioning of the new District House
Committee advanced, 1t was reported
yesterday that Chairman Dirksen
planned to return to the committee
Mrs. Mabel HaNer Best as majority
clerk.
Mrs. Best served as clerk to the
committee from 1899 to January of
last year, during the regime of Jen-
nings Randolph, Democrat, of West
Virginia, as its chairman. A year
ago, when the former Representative
up to be chairman of the
House Civil Service Committee, Mrs.
Best became clerk there.
Her reported selection for the Dis
trict Committee post is interpreted
as an indication of the nonpartisan
attitude on the part of the commit
tee, as well as a regard for her pre-
viouS service.
Minority Clerk to Be Named.
Mrs. Best who resides with her
husband. Harry Best, at 1867 Ala
bama avenue Sc, was born at
MorgantoWn, w. Va. After work.
ing in New York for awhile, she
came to Washington in 1894, where
she since has lived.
William Norman Mcleod, who
succeeded Mrs. Best as District Com
mittee clerk, when Representative
Mcmillan, Democrat, Of South Caro-
lima became chairman a year ago, is
expected to be named minority clerk
to the revamped committee, a posi-
ton authorized under the Congress
sional Reorganization Act.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-01-17
Fairfax Jail Escapee
Faces New Charqe
OF Auto Theft

A new charge OF unauthorized
use OF a vehicle is to be brought
today against Lawrence w. Brown,
19-year-old fugitive from the Fair
fax County Jail, who was recaptured
yesterday aboard a yacht at the
Corinthian Yacht Club.
Police said Brown would appear
in Police Court this afternoon.
The alleged theft of the auto
mobile occurred after Brown and
two companions made their escape
a week ago, police declared.
The youth already faces two in
dictments y here. one for, grand
larceny and unauthorized use of a
vehicle, the other on the latter
count alone. He was on bond on
these indictments, police said, when
jailed in Fairfax County.
District Court Justice Bolitha J.
Laws yesterday afternoon issued a
bench warrant to hold Brown in the
District, after his bondsman, Meyer
Weinstein, requested to be relieved
Of his bond.
The youth, whose address was
given as the 100 block Of G street
NE, was being held for grand jury
action in Fairfax County on a charge
of breaking and entering at the time
of his escape from the Fairfax Jail.
After the Jail break was discov-
cred, Fairfax authorities found
Browns ''last WILL" which, the youth
wrote, was written Gin case I get
killed trying what I am going to do
tonight"
The will read:
THE $3.50 have got in the office
I want to go to Miss Patty Bailey,
$40 E street NE, and my mother,
Mrs. Jane Kaiser. 500 to Miss
Patty Bailey. And every things
elce I have to my mother. Oh, my
% rifle to my Grand Father, Mr.. J.
P. Dodd. This last will is in case I
get Killed trying what I am going
to do to night
Police described Miss Bailey as
Browns former girl friend"
Sorry to do this to you, Mr..
Love-" the youth added in a post
script to the Fairfax jailer.
Warned that the fugitive's recap
ture might provoke violence by the
fact he left a will as well as re-
ports he was heavily armed, police
took no chances yesterday morning
when the youth was found aboard
q yacht at the Corinthian Yacht
Club.
A squad of IL men stood by while
spotlights played on the hideout.
Then Precinct Detective G. I. Smith
and Detective Sergt. Francis E. Bur-
CESS opened one of the matches and
ordered Brown to come out.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1947-01-17
Virginia Banks to Mark
Lee Holiday on Monday
By the Associated Press

RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 17.-State
Offices and banks will observe the
Lee-Jackson holiday on Monday,
although the legal holiday falls on
Sunday this year.
The holiday honors Gen. Robert
E. Lee, born January 10, and Gen.
Thomas Jonathan (StonewalD Jack
son, whose birth anniversary is
January 81.
Laurel outlook., 1947-05-28

Laurel posts of Veterans of For
eign Wars and American Legion will
again join Friday in observing Mem
orial day and paying respects to the
deceased veterans of all wars at a
ceremony to be conducted between
1890 and IL a. m. at the cemetery.
The two veterans organizations
share each year in making arrange
ments for the Memorial day service
and its execution. Rev. H. C. Haem-
melmann, pastor of the Congrega-
tional church in South Laurel, will
be the speaker.
The members of the two posts and
all others who are to participate in
the event will assemble at the high
school at $3.50 Friday morning. The
school band, firing squad, color
bearers of the auxiliaries and other
organizations will march from the
school to Main street and the bust
section of town and will return
by another route to the high school.
From there they will go in cars
to the cemetery.
Fred w. Graft has been appointed
master of ceremonies for the pro-
gram. Rev. M. j. Wilcox of the
church will offer the open
ing prayer and pronounce the bene-
diction. At a signal the graves of
all known veterans will be decorat-
ed with flags and a squad will fire
three vollies in salute to the depart
ed.
Information concerning the sched-
lle is supplied by George Prouty
and Bob Freund of the V. F. w, !
he directing organization this year.
All veterans, whether or not mem
oers of the two organizations, are
Laurel outlook., 1947-05-28
PENMAN, s., DIES
SUDDENLY MAY "a
Stricken While On Week End
Pleasure Trip At Camp
South Of BOzeman

Funeral services were held at
Settergren's chapel in Billings We'd
nesday for John Penman, IS, who
died Unexpectedly at $3.50 p. M,
Saturday at Karst's Kamp on the
Gallatin river south of Bozeman.
He was stricken shortly after I'M
loading his a preparatory to spend
ing the night. Death was caused by
a heart ailment.
Mr.. Penman, accompanied by a
family party, left Laurel about 4
p. m. Saturday.
He was born Nov. 81, 1881, in
Usage City, Kans., a son of Mr.. and
Mrs. William A. Penman. He was
brought by his parents in 1887 to
the now abandoned gold camp Of
Chestnut. Later the family moved
to Livingston where Mr.. Penman
entered the employ of the Northern
Pacific railway in 1909. He became
an engineer in 1917 and was trans
ferred to Laurel in 1910. He had
been operating a switch engine in
the Laurel yards since that time.
He was married to Mrs. Martha
Williams in Livingston, July 80,
1910.
He is survived by the widow, a
son, William A. Penman of Billings.
and a daughter, Mrs. Frank Taylor
of Lewiston, Ida, both by a previous
marriage; a step-son, Lyle Williams
of Seattle; three sisters, Mrs. Harry
of Pine City, Wash, Mrs. Mae
Jones of Spokane and Mrs. Laura
Wood of Great Falls.
The body was brought to Billings
for burial in Mountview cemetery. !
Laurel outlook., 1947-05-28
MRS. LOTT|E CLARE
DIES NEAR LAUREL
Had Been Resident OF COmmun-
ity As Years-Funeral Is
Conducted Wednesday

Mrs. Lottie A. Clare, a resident
of this section for 45 years, died
at her home south Of Laurel Mon
day, following an illness of several
months. Death was attributed to
a heart ailment.
She was born in Glenn Falls, N.
Y, a daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Maurice Amer, and was educated at
the Glenn Falls academy. On June
a, 1902, she was married to Samuel
H. Clare, at that time operator of
the Clare house, a Billings hotel.
She came with her husband to Bill
lings and they continued to operate
the hotel until 1903 when they home
steaded their ranch south of Laurel.
Mr.. Clare died in January 1914.
Mrs. Clare retained her member
ship in the Baptist church at Glen
Falls after coming to Montana.
She is survived by a daughter,
Mrs. Gerald Scammon, who lives on
Continued on Page Eleven)
Laurel outlook., 1947-05-28
% BUSINESSES PLAN
TO CLOSE THREE DAYS

A number of Laurel stores and
offices will be closed Friday, Sat-
urday and Sunday in observance of
Memorial day. A survey of inten-
lions, conducted by Laurel Com
mercial club, reveals that % have
such plans for the week end,
Other stores and services will be
open for business Saturday, the day
after Memorial day.
President John Laird of the Com
mercial club has announced that the
following will be closed for three
days:
Laurel Trading company, Gamble
store, Coast-to-Co store, Marshall
Wells, Roysdon furniture store, Sim
mons Ready-to-Wear, Buffalo Style
Shop, Moon barber shop, Hilgert
barber shop, Renner barber shop,
barber shop, Tubman's Food
Mart, Boys Market, McCormick's
Food Mart, Schessler & Sons,
Franks grocery, H. & l.. Market,
Laird Radio-Electric, R. J. Williams
& Son, Laurel Construction company,
A. A. Moser, accountant, V. C. John
ston Lumber company, Thompson
Yards, Inc, Schessler Real Estate,
/. N. Smith, DR.. D. A. Noting
lam, C. l.. Galloway, jeweler, and
3usby's New Method Shoe Repair.
Laurel outlook., 1947-05-28
Summer Recreation Program Is Now
Ready To Organize; Sisn-up Is Set
For June 4, Meets Long Felt Need

pirate trophies and awards will be
given to the winners.
Boxing: This program is not in
tended to make thick-lipped pugs out
Of the boys, but rather to develop
the art of self-defense and confidence
as well as develop the physique
that comes from such exercise. II
is an established fact that youth,
who have learned to box, engage in
fewer street brawls than the fellow
who has never boxed and sometimes
imagines he's tough.
Girls Softball: A girls softball
league will be organized should
there be enough interested to form
three or more teams. Since this
program should take in the older
teen age group, many of whom may
even be working, a further regis
tration will be announced later.
Groups are even encouraged to talk
it up and perhaps form their own
teams, then inform Mr.. Anderson
and he will set up the schedules and
provide the playing equipment
Boys Baseball: This program is
intended to give basic training to
those young, but enthusiastic can
didates who fail to make the Ameri-
can Legion junior baseball team.
The purpose behind this is to pro-
vide better and more talented mater
ial for future American Legion
teams, which in turn, it is hoped,
will provide a town team with bet
ter baseball material. A team made
up of local players performing on
first-class diamond under the lights
IN Laurel in the not too distant fu-
ture is the objective.
Laurel outlook., 1947-05-28

Wednesday, June A., is registration
day for all those interested in TAX
ing part in a summer program in
Laurel. The registrants are asked
to sign up at the high school gym
nasium between the hours of 1912
a. M. and "a p. m. The newly
formed city recreation board, made
up of two members each from the
school board, commercial club and
the city council, have secured the
services of G. F. Anderson, director
of athletics in the Laurel high school,
to handle a much-desired and long
awaited summer recreation program.
The proposed program has been
set up to make use of the existing
and available facilities, keeping OPP
irrational costs at a minimum and
yet reaching a maximum Of children
during the summer months. 1t is
hoped that the scope of the pro-
gram will be enlarged in coming
years to include all phases and age
groups.
In order to get this program I'M
der way it is necessary that all
children desiring to take part this
summer register on Wednesday,
stating their choice of activity, and
making known their age and avail
ability. With this information,
can then be arranged.
Activities have been divided into
four programs, to include boys and
girls tennis, boxing for boys, a girls
softball program and a boys base
ball program. Supplementing these
activities Laurel will find itself wit
Messing a mems softball league spon-
by the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, a junior baseball program
sponsored by the American Legion,
rs we'll as the Farmers Union base
,all team of the Midland Empire
eague.
Tennis: According to Mr.. Ander-
on tennis is one of the most en-
and sociable forms of re-
The real enjoyment, how
.ver, comes after certain fundament-
lis have been mastered so that a
player has control of the ball rather
han spending all his time chasing
he ball that has gone either over
he fence or into the net. 1t is
or this reason that tennis is not
successfully started and
Mastered with adults after the en-
rgies of youth have been lost. 1t {
5 therefore intended that several J
essons on the fundamentals of the
anne be given. Tennis rackets, balls
nd shoes will necessarily have to {
e furnished by the players them
elves. Later in the summer, tour I
aments will be played and appro-
Laurel outlook., 1947-05-28
Veterans Schedule
Memorial Program
To Parade In Business District, Then Go To
Cemetery For Ceremony Of Remembrance

invited to appear in uniform and
participate in the parade and the
ceremonies at the cemetery.
The American Legion at Park City
will conduct similar services there
on Decoration day. For more than
20 years the veterans organizations
from Laurel made pilgrimages to
Park City and performed the rites
of remembrance and reverence, but
since the organization of a Legion
post in the neighboring community
after the last wal those duties have
been performed by the Park City
post and auxiliary.
Laurel outlook., 1947-05-28
MRS.. FENTON LAUNCHES
NEW NILE TEMPLE AT.
CEREMONY IN HELENA

Mrs. G. w. Fenton of Laurel, past
queen of Bath Zabbia temple, daught-
ers of the Nile, at Billings, who is
also deputy of the supreme temple,
instituted a new temple Wednesday,
May 81, at Helena. 1t is Sapphira
temple No. rs, one of six new
temples instituted during the past
year in the United States.
The ceremonies, attended by a
large number of members from 9TH
err temples, were in the Scottish
Rite Consistory temple at Helena.
Mrs. Fenton was assisted by Mrs.
Emma Wismeyer, queen of Bath
Zabbia at Billings; Ruth LISA, a
past queen of Bath Zabbia; Joseph
inc Stockett as Princess Tirzah; Ell
freda Woodside of Dillon, queen of
Tirzah temple No. 8 at Butte, and
Mayme Chaffin of Bozeman as
Princess Deborah.
Among those participating were
Minnie Convery, formerly a resident
of Silesia and a past queen of Bath
Zabbia at Billings, and Avis Grand
all, a past queen of Tirzah at Butte.
The new temple queen is Gladys
McFerran and the princess royal is
Mildred Hiberger. They are the two
principal officers. Twenty-Five menu
bers appeared on the petition for
instituting Sapphire temple.
The ceremonies were followed by
a banquet at the Cabin cafe in
Helena, attended by 40. :
Laurel outlook., 1947-05-28
SEES NO GUT IN
CROP PRICES DUE
TO WORLD HUNGER
Congressman D'Ewart Gives
Opinion At Meeting Of Stock
men In Butte

Despite another record-breakinl
crop year, there is little possibility
of material reductions in farm pric.
es so long as foreign demands con
tinue to be large, Congressman
Wesley A. DeEwart told the Mont
ana Stockgrowers association Thurs
day, May %, in Butte.
D'Ewart, who flew to Butte from
Washington to address the associa-
TONS annual convention, discussed
National Legislation, including
committee hearings now under way
in Washington for the purpose of
establishing a new long-range farm
Gan unusually harsh winter has
dealt a serious setback to the re-
covery of European agriculture"
D'Ewart said. even our bumper
crops cannot satisfy world demand
for food, and any drop in food pric-
es here is indefinitely postponed by
terrible hunger in the rest of
the world"
Relief requirements have reversed
the pre-war relationship of food ex-
ports and imports, and America is
now an exporting nation, he contin-
Jed. The new position is one of
he most important factors to be
considered in the new farm legisla-
ion expected this year. He men,
Toned a sizable increase in U. s..
rate, new population trends
md the steady decrease of land I'M
Ter cultivation as additional factors.
Laurel outlook., 1947-05-28

Miss Margaret Fink, who was
graduated Friday from the Laurel
high school, has accepted employ
ment as receptionist in the office
of DIR. D. A. Nottingham.
Laurel outlook., 1947-05-28
OLD TIMERS OF n. P.
To MEET JUNE $40

Old-time railroaders from all over
the U. S. will meet in Spokane
June 9 and 10 for the annual con-
v%ention of the Veterans Association
of the Northern Pacific railway.
The association, formed in 1924,
is made up of employees and offic-
ers, active or retired, with 30 or
more years service with the COM
pany. Attendance, including veter-
ans, their families and guests, is
expected to exceed 1000.
Sam M. Wilson, Helena, is presi-
dent; Elmer F. Slayter, st. Paul,
is vice president, and Gregory j.
Corners , st. Paul, is secretary
treasurer. Directors are M. j.
Ainey, Tacoma; H. H. Ellsworth,
Helena, and E. E. Webster, Stillwat-
er, MINI.
Laurel outlook., 1947-05-28
CROPS FARE BETTER
HERE THAN IN MANY.
LOCALITIES, REGIONS.
Plant Growth Is Rapid, Beet
Thinning Is Well Under
Way In Yellowstone

Beet thinning is we'll under way
in Yellowstone, Missoula and Big
Horn counties, the Montana weekly
weather and crop report stated Tues
day. All of the sugar beets in
Lake and Ravalli counties are up
and about 40 per cent have been
thinned in Ravalli. Bean planting
is 60 per cent done in Carbon
county and is well along in Yellow
stone.
While more fortunate than many
other states, Montana has been de-
layed by unusual weather this year.
The condition prevails throughout
the northern hemisphere. Europe,
which hoped to relieve its hunger
by raising a big crop of food, has
had disappointing progress.
The extreme south-central section
of Montana, in which Laurel is sit
uated, is faring better than many
others in regard to rapid plant
growth, according to the state re-
port. Although weather conditions
were favorable elsewhere for farm
work, they were not satisfactory in
the past week for seed termination
and crop growth. In most central
and western counties the growth of
grains and hay was slow.
The supply of top soil moisture
has become deficient in all of the
state with the exceptions of the
extreme s~outh-central and north
eastern portions. Much of the re-
Gently planted seeds in north-cen-
trail counties lie dormant or are ger
minating with light stands. Much
of the sugar beet acreage in Blaine,
Phillips and Cascade counties is bel
ing irrigated to get the crop start
ed. Irrigation is being used to the
fullest extent in many central and
western localities.
In the state about 85 per cent
of the potatoes, rs per cent of the
flax and SIS per cent of the corn
are planted. /
Nearly all ranges in Montana
carry an adequate supply of feed for
livestock. The exceptions are spots
in Beaverhead, Madison and Gallatin
counties. Nearly all cattle and sheep
are now grazing on ranges.
The delays other states have ex-
perienced is illustrated by observa-
made by George Prouty who
has just returned to Laurel from a
trip to Cincinnati where he attend
ed a convention of railroad clerks.
In northern Illinois the temperature
was unusually low and for three
nights while Prouty was there the
area had frosts and freezing.
Laurel people who have CORE
,pondents in England and Europe
received accounts of a severe
winter and a discouraging late and
lnfavorable condition for crops this
Laurel outlook., 1947-05-28
Complete Plans For
District Convention
Of Royal NeighbOrs

Final preparations for the Royal
Neighbor convention of Yellowstone
district No. 2, to be held Tuesday
at the high school gymnasium, were
made at a spencial meeting of Opal
camp Tuesday evening at the l.. L.
club. The regular routine of CON
vention business will be i-nterspersed
by entertainment features, it was
announced.
Numbers will include a short pro-
gram of music at the banquet to be
served at the Masonic temple din
ing hall, selections by the Laurel
choral group and a reading by Mrs.
NJ. j. Wilcox.
Laurel outlook., 1947-05-28

office, the Fenton Agency on First
avenue, and during the hours be-
fore noon had made his usual calls
on friends in nearby offices and
places of business. He was in his
usual good health and CHEEKY spirits.
Earlier in his life he had been known
as Ed, but in the last three decades
Dad to everyone.
He had been a resident of Mon
tana since 1889, first locating at
Park City. The towns were few and
small in those days, particularly in
the Yellowstone valley which had
been but lately settled. The Custer
battle on the Little Horn had occur
red only 10 years earlier. The new
arrival looked about when he alight-
ed from the train at Park City and
wondered if he would get along with
the strangers. Subsequent years
proved that he would do we'll among
them and in the new country.
He was born of Mr.. and Mrs.
Fenton of Wellsboro, Pa, and
was born Nov. s, 1859, about a year
and a half before the opening of
the Civil war. His father, a mem
Der of the Forty-fifth Pennsylvania
infantry, was killed at the
Battle of the Wilderness. His
died soon after.
AS an orphan he was reared in
he Soldiers Orphan school at Mans
field, Pa. At the age of 16 he
eft school, and in 1883 went to
Grand Forks, N. D. There he mar
led Miss Anna L. Grams, the orphan
Continued on Page Twelve)
Laurel outlook., 1947-05-28
VENERATED
DAD FENTON CLOSES
ACTIVE LIFE.
Reaches End Of Eventful Trail
That Began In Pennsylvania
Over Half Century Here

Edwin L. Fenton came to the end
of a long trail Monday. He was
81 years travelling it. He died at
1:07 p. m. at a Billings hospital,
following a stroke he suffered while
eating lunch at loon May 10 at
his Laurel home on Third avenue.
That morning he had gone to his
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1947-10-09
Met>sL
Des4otz0I

Perhaps it's a preview of Indian
summer-or a hangover from that
perfect weather they usually have
for the Ottawa fair anyway it
conserves scarce coal and from indi-
cations this week there's some i'm
provement in the coal situation which
makes us happy and leaves begin
ming to turn after last weeks freeze
which rang down the curtain for the
corn crop-hope it will not be too
bad and primary voting day,
Tuesday, causing barely ripple of
interest altho it's as important as
any election in a generation with
world affairs as they are and con-
gress faced with major decisions in
policy . . the comparatively few who
went to the polls had a grave
responsibility on their shoulders
hope they made the best choices pos
sible because we need our first team
material down in Washington now
and here comes Columbus day
Sunday the 12th-we've always thot
how lucky it was that Christopher
wasn't a day late-what if he had