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THE HELENA DAILY INDEPENDENT. FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1937 The Dionne Quintuplets Wish You a Happy and Prosperous New Year Copyright, 1936. NBA ice, Jnc Copyright, 1936, NEA Service, Inc j. 1936, NEA Sen ice. Inc S-v I Copyright, 1936, NEA Serwce.

Inc Annette Yvonne Emilie Marie Cecile SHIES HELENA TOPS LIST FOR CHRISTMAS SALE; BUTTE SECOND Liquor sales in Montana for December, which include those preceding Christmas and New Years, will reach at least $875,000, a new monthly record, it was announced yesterday by Martin Hoffman, chief accountant for the state liquor control board. Night shifts at the warehouse during the last few days have been necessary to meet the demands of the 127 liquor control stores in the state and all shelves were stocked to the limit--excepting for a few choice brands of imported liquors which are bobbing in boats in the harbors of Seattle and San Francisco, held tip by the maritime strike. So Champagne The chief accountant said that the strike had kept from Montana, shipments of foreign champagne and rum and a few choice New Year favorites. Otherwise, he said, every store was stocked to the limit. Christmas sales (December 24) soared to new heights in the state and in that day alone they amounted to $112,000, or $22,000 more than on the same day a year ago, he said.

Helena, Montana's Capital city, walked away with top banners for Christmas sales, and they amounted to $7,819. The Butte East Broadway store was second with $7.659, while the other Butte store was third, the Great Falls (Falls hotel) store, fourth, and Billings, fifth. Dhide Profits The state liquor control board yesterday handed over to the state treasury an additional $50,000 in profits, bringing the total distribu- -tion for the year to $1,400,000. Anticipated net profits for the year will approximate $1,600,000, Mr. Hoffman said.

TO BE mm ON IN worn ei Forty per cent of our daily airplane mileage is traveled at night. The United States has 90 per cent of the world's lighted airways. BRADY'S --always the best place to eat PULL COURSE NEW YEAR'S DAY I BOAST TURKEY-M 7 ith Dressing BOAST OF VEAL With Fritters With a total of 3,307 pests and rodents killed in the 1936 contest carried on by the young people of Broad-water county, W. 0. Zirn- stein, county agent, announced yesterday that a similar contest -will be conducted from January 1 until October 15, 1937.

The contest this year lasted from April 1 to October 15, but it has been decided to move the opening date up to the first of the year in order to allow points for the winter shooting of magpies, the county agent said. The contest is being sponsored by the extension service and will be directed by a Broadwater county committee composed of Mr. and Mrs. W. G.

Kirscher, W. E. Spangler, Mrs. Edith Fox and Mrs. W.

J. Gabb. All young people between the ages of nine and 21 in the county are eligible to take part, Cash Prizes Prifce money of approximately $70 is to be divided proportionately among the contestants so that everyone will receive his share of the cash. Number of points scored will determine the amount of money received. Pests to be hunted include crows, magpies, sparrows and crow, spar row or magpie eggs.

Crows and magpies count 50 points, sparrows 10 points and eggg five points each The contestants will submit por tions of the pests they have killed to the community cooperators who act as judges of the contest. Cooperators are: Lowell Mires, Win ston; Ray Beatty, Beaver creek Roy Noble, Johnson community Mrs. Tom Perkins, Duck creek; Hal Daniels, Cotton wood creek; Ashby Clopton, Upper Deep creek and Oreyeon creek; Mrs. W. J.

Gaab Canton; Claude Shearer and Ralph Mankemeyer, Townsend; Roy Allen Toston; W. E. Spangler, Crow creek and W. K. Parker, Radersburg.

The county agent said he hac drawings of an effective homemade trap for magpies that contestants in the Broadwater control contest are invited to use similar traps. Copies of drawings and directions for buildng the traps may be secured at Mr. Zirnsteln's office. ELECTRIC CITY CLAIM, IMPROVEMENT IS NECESSITY HORSE OWXER CALLED Omaha, Dec. (S) -William J.

Hynes, 31, wealthy Omaha grain man and owner of the Hynes-Beezley stable of race horses, died here today. Physicians said death was due tc heart disease. He was president of the Farmers Terminal Elevator Grain company here. Greenland is only about one-third as large as Australia, but, on a flat map of the world, Australia is only one third the size of Greenland. A 100 NO.

RODNEY PHONE 895 FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS We Extend the Season's Greetings With a Pledge of Our Continued Appreciation and Service During 1937. Complete Assortment of Fancy and Staple Groceries, Fresh Meats, Fresh Fruits and Vegetables--AH Kinds of Mixers and Beer. STORE OPEN SUNDAYS, EVENINGS and HOLIDAYS The Helena Chamber of Commerci is willing in every way to cooper ate with Great Falls in obtaining five beacon lights to illuminate the air route between this city and the Falls for night flying, 0. C. Lam port, secretary of the Helena Cham her of Commerce, announced yester day.

In a brief prepared by the Grea Falls Chamber of Commerce, peti Honing for immediate action regard ing the installation of such beacon lights, it is pointed out that th Electric city's airmail service ii handicapped because of lack of lights for night flying between Great Falls and Helena although the Great Falls field is amply lighted. At Disadvantage Under present conditions Grea' Falls is cut oft with only an early morning air mail and passenger schedule and is placed at a disadvantage when compared with other cities along the National Parks Airways and the east and west connec tions in Montana, Idaho and Utah it is asserted. With the installation of a nigh flight, Great Falls would have "two air-mail connections, both east and west over the Northwest Airlines in addition to the double service to intermediate points and Salt Lake via National Parks Airways and the connections at Pocatello and the Important east and west connections at Salt Lake," the brief recites. A night flight, the Great Falls chamber points out, would cut in half the present 24-hour delay on some of its mail. It estimates that the increased service would virtually double the present air-mail volume out of Great Falls.

Cost $15,000 Lamport said he estimated that not more than five beacons woulc be needed to light the Helena-Great Falls airway, a comparatively easy route. The cost is estimated at not more than $15,000. Butte and other cities, particularly those on the lighted sections of the Northwest route, are lending their support to Great Falls, he said. Matter of lighting the route is to bo taken up with Montana's congressional delegation and with the air service division of the United States department of commerce in Washington, D. C.

Another factor for consideration is that the' Canadian government is expcotcu to establish its first transcontinental air service next Jul through Lethbridge ana Great Falls believes- that a connection could be agreeably put into effect between the Electric city and Lethbridge, thus bringing about further air transportation advancement. Secretary Lamport has also prepared a brief, supporting the Elec- tiic city's petition, to be submitted to Montana's congressional delegation, the department of commerce and the postoffice department relative to installation of modern beacon lights for night flying on the route from Helena to Great Falls. BLANKS OUT Blank forms on which to make annual license tax returns and report information are being sent to about 4,000 Montana corporations, the state board of equalization said The license returns are due March 1, the board said, while the Infor- reports on salaries, bonuses, dividends and similar items are due March 15. OIL SUITS FILED Tulsa, Dec. attorncj's filed nine In federal court today charg- ng oil companies with illegally deducting 3 per cent of the oil taken rom Osage tribal lands.

The Rev. G. A. Hell, an evangelist of Spokane, anmunced yesterday that the Free Methodist church, with headquarters in Wlnona Lake, Ind, has taken an option for purchase on the Coburn Memorial M. E.

church and property in the Sixth ward and that initial services of the Methodist church would be held there at 10 o'clock Sunday morning, January 10, for the organization of a Sunday school. Those who are interested in a Sunday school in the Sixth ward are invited to attend. At 3:30 p. January 10, the Rev. Mr.

Hall will conduct evangelical services at the Coburn church. The Rev. Mr. Hall, an advance man from Spokane, now in Montana doing organization for the Free Methodist church, said a regular pastor would be supplied here in the near future. Ths Helena church is to be known as the Coburn Free i church, he said.

Headquarters for the Free Methodist organization are at "VVinona Lake, and headquqarters Tor the Columbia River district, of which Montana is a part, are in Sanders, Idaho, the minister said. It is planned, he added, to make Helena the state headquarters after the local church is established. WIFE SLADT Pittsburgh, Dec. --A young man walked into a downtown office building today, fired a volley of shots at his pretty young wife, killing her, then turned the gun on himself. C.

W. Bartch, central police station wagonman who took the young husband to a hospital, identified him as Charles Watt, 31. To All Our Friends and Patrons Happy New Year HIGGINS' CIGAR STORE 24 North Main Washington, Dec. 31--(ff)--The national government spent nearly $112,000,000 in the four Rocky Mountain States during 1936 to conduct emergency-relief programs. The- money was provided by the emergency relief appropriation acts of 1935 and 1936.

The $112,000.000 was spent in Colorado, Montana, New Mexico and Wyoming during the calendar year up to Nov. 30. This government sum brought the total actual expenditures in the Continental divide country from the congressional appropriation acts to nearly $180,000,000. It Went Money for the Mountain States went for public road building, agricultural advancement, flood control and water conservation, federal emergency relief administrations, public buildings and engineering projects under the public works program, resettlement activity, works progress administrations, and other purely relief activities. The figures not Include many special government undertakings conducted through regular federal agencies financed by ordinary functional appropriations.

Nor did the compilation include funds made available prior to or since the 1935 and 1936 relief appropriations. Relief expenditures from the two acts during the calendar year totaled $39,963,593 in Colorado, 534,361.333 in Montana, $23.995,032 in New Mexico, and ill Wyoming. These expenditures on the basis of checks issued to the stitc agencies, brought the total actual expenditures from the two relief acts to S63.310.262 in Colorado. 860,064 in Montana. S19.709.542 in New Mexico and $19,527,019 in Wyoming.

Total allocations by President Roosevelt from the two approoria- tions for use in the four states were S76.067.21P, in Colorado. $68,. 0 9 6 0 9 2 in Montana. S45.789.449 in New Mexico and $29,228,140 in WvnminfJ. Of these amounts, moneys ohli- pated by ccntrnrt or a-tual ernen- diture were 001 in Colorado.

S65.595 646 in Montana. in NPW Mexico and $26,997,192 in Wyoming. Agencies The agencies by states which spent the $112,000.000 during the calendar year include: Montana--Agriculture, excluding public roads, bureau of public roads, war department engineers, (largely for Fort Peck a emergency conservation (CCC), $3.417.696: federal emergency relief administration. public works administration, resettlement administration, works progress administration, and all other purely relief emergencies, $1,171,830. TO GOT.

Elmer Holt yesterday recommended a commutation of the nrlson sentence of B. R. Welch, who pleaded guilty to a second degree murder charge in the fatal shooting of Charles Beck at a dance In Beebe. Custer county, in 1929. Welch was sentenced to serve 40 vears in the Montana prison.

Governor Holt recommended to the state nardons board the sentence be reduced to 15 years. The governor nformed the board Rudolph Nel- Custer county attorney, favored the commutation. Hail seldon falls at night, for same reason that It seldom lalls In cool weather. The earth, 3eing cooler at night, not then furnish enough rising air currents to force raindrops to a sufficient height to freeze them. Conditions in the rural sections of region ten of the Resettlement Administration--Colorado, Wyoming and Montana--have improved notably during the last year, according to information received from E.

A. flarch, regional director, yesterday. Starch summarized the work of the government agency during the past year and explained that farmers in the three states were in a "much better position to follow their agricultural pursuits than they have been in more than four years. Improvement "Conditions have rot improved enough yet that government assistance is not warranted in the rural areas, but the improvement has been -so notable and general that one can safely predict more favorable farming in the future," he explained. "The war scare in Europe which has rocketed farm prices and shot to new highs those products by which armies are maintained rye, beans and the like-has likewise been somewhat of a boon recently to the agricultural industry.

"The belief of many disheartened farm people who believe that the farm is no loneer a good investment is being disproved again with the added market demand today. The adversities of farming such drought, dust, low income and inadequate prices discouraged many of the 'old-timers' and they have moved out from under, what they call, their burden. Are Optimistic "Farmers in general, however, look toward the future more optimistically this year than they have in more than four years--the majority of them now independent of A NEW YEAR Is Close at Hand and with it comes our sincere wishes for continued happiness, greater success and real prosperity for all. The Delicatessen Lunchroom Newly Redecorated Will Reopen New Years Day With a Special FULL COURSE DINNER 75c Chicken Rice Soup or Fruit Cup Roast Turkey with Dressing Stewed Chicken with Dumplings Short Cut Steak with Shoe String Potatoes Hawaiian Emerald Salad Sliced Tomatoes or Buttered Cauliflower Celery and Olives Parker House Rolls Grape Jelly Homemade Mince Meat Pie Pumpkin Pie, Whipped Cream Vanilla Ice Cream with Fruit or White Feather Cake Home-Canned Raspberries and Cake Coffee Tea Milk DELICATESSEN LUNCH ROOM 108 E. Sixth ATC.

Phone 1144 any government assistance. Nat- urially, theie is still a large number of farm people dependent on assistance because crops planted the last year failed to yield adequate income for sustenance through this year. Some will need small loans to purchase seed for this year's crop," the director explained. In the three states, including 14 counties in the "dust bowl" on a convictloni win be cut lion of Colorado, a total of The five-year prison sentence given B. Lake, Great Falls broker G75 was expended by the govern- in half when the state pardons board ment to 43,414 rural families i approves a commutation Gov.

Elmer the form of resettlement adminis- Holt saW Jesterday he had recommended Lake was convicted in February, 1935, of larceny as bailee. He was tration standard and supplemental loans as well as grants. Of this sum, 7,453 Montana farmers le- ceived 54,356.477 was paid to 2 5 4 0 6 Colorado farmers ind 7.555 Wyoming farmers re- -eived $1,542,591, Starch said. Red grouse is the only specie of bird confined solely to the British charged with converting to his own use a client entrusted to him. In recommending the commutation.

Governor Holt wrote the pardons board he had been urged to extend clemency to the convicted man and saw "no good" in keeping him longer in prison. SPECIALIZED EDUCATION PAYS REGULAR DIVIDENDS A Commercial Course Is a Good Investment New Term, Day and Evening Classes, Opens January 4 Helena Business College Phone 253 From PAR and WIDE Come Greetings of the Season, but there are none more sincere than our hopes for your pro- perity and well-being in the coming vear. I LASSWELL'S BEAUTY CLINIC Expert Operators 312 Fuller Ave. Phone 627 We wish YOU the Happiest of Happy New Years--may it be a year of Joy and Prosperity for you and yours. R.

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