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THE GREAT FALLS TRIBUNE Page .3 Saturday Morning, August 2, 1 930 GEHLBACH WINS AIR DERBY HUGE FORTUNE CLOUDBURST REPORTED NOG ALES. Arts, Aug. I. VP) A cloud bum today sent flood waters from the mountains of northern So-nora through the twin cities of No- PASTOR IS SENTENCED MONTI CELLO, Aug. 1.

tV The Rev. Joseph Ughtcap. 47. of Bluo Ridge, IH, today was sentenced to 25 years In the state penitentiary at Menard, on a charge of murder, growing out of the slaying June 13, of Howard McDvaln. a neighbor.

gales, Artz and Nogales, Mexico, ln-S? RELIEF FDR COURTS SEEN BY DRY CHIEFS Bureau Expects to Concentrate on Large-Scale Violators of Law undatlng a large area and doing considerable damage to crops and IS WILLED TO Tackle or Tool Boxes Handy for, your fishing 14 CHARITIES Transfer to Be Made When Sole Survivor of Wendel Family Dies By BICHAKD TIBNER if' w--u ft WASHINGTON. Aug. 1. hi bit ion Director Amos W. W.

wood petty and major offenses Is to be sharply drawn-- Carrying a pint of liquor on- the hip and transporting 10 gallons in an automobile. Woodcock said, are two altogether different things. Woodcock spent the day today conferring with the group leaders of the corps of special agents assigned to do special investigating work and detect widespread conspiracies to violate the liquor laws. Upon this group he is relying first of all in his campaign against the big racketeers. In addition, he spoke briefly to the 12 supervisors" of industrial alcohol permits who met here for conferences with their chief.

James M. Doran. on questions of organization and administration. Doran announced the reorganization of the bureau, which followed the transfer of the enforcement unit to the Justice department a month ago, had been perfected without any interruption to business and that the headquarters offices in the 12 permissive districts were now functioning smoothly. Todays conferences brought to an end the series begun early in the week.

HOME YELLOWSTONE Mrs. Harriet E. Carrier and Mrs. Henrietta Crockett returned Thursday night from a four days' trip made through Yellowstone park in Mrs. Crockett's car.

Grasshopper Horde in Mexican State -May Cross Border EL PASO. Tex, Aug. 1. (UPJ A horde of grasshoppers covering a territory so large that it took his train two hours to pass them was reported advancing on Juarez tonight by Lee Hlllls. who said the horde was about 150 miles south of the city in the state of Chihuahua.

Mexico. The insects cover the ground like a solid, black carpet, and when they hop in a mass, they darken the sun. Hlllls declared. Tonight It appeared that the advance guard of the horde already had reached the city, for sidewalks were dotted with hundreds. The Juarez chamber of commerce called a meeting to consider what can be done to stop the advance, and agents of the United States department of agriculture wired to Washington for Instructions on how to cope with the menace.

The agents fear such a swarm easily could overrun the fertile El Paso valley and sweep up into the state of New Mexico, where extensive crop damage might be done. "HOW TO BE ANGRY" Plrst Baptist Church. Adv. and motoring trips Made of all Completewith lock and key. Special at r.

v. i cock expects the new enforcement policy of concentration upon the large-scale violators of the dry laws to contribute incidentally to the relief of congestion in- the federal courts. This, he said today, should come about through the elimination of the flood of minor cases that have been clogging the dockets. Even with an Increased staff of agents, he predicted fewer cases would be brought In the courts. The cases that are prosecuted, however, he pointed out.

may be expected to be of importance and a step In the bureau's program of shutting off the supply of illicit liquor at Its source. The line of demarcation between 14 TCe Are Nmt to Ten a. Toor Telephone Lee Gehlbach of Detroit Friday won the $15,000 first prize offered in the all-American air derby of 5,500 miles when he landed in Detroit approximately four hours ahead, of his nearest rival. His average speed was 127.1 miles an hour for the entire distance. Defroif Aviator Wins $15,000 All-American Derby Prize; His Plane Makes 127 Miles an Hour Roars Across Finish Line Far in Advance of Competitors After 5, 500-Mile Jaunt; Springfield, Man Second Arro Anti-Knock Gasoline Valvoline and Arrolene Oils Seiberling Tires NEW YORK.

Aug. 1. A fortune in real estate estimated at upward of $100,000,000 which three fenerations of Wendel have spent their live amassing. 1 to go to charity when a frail little old lady, last of the Wendel line. dies.

The will of Mrs. Rebecca Wendel Swope, who died July 20, was filed today and provides for that disposition of the Wendel holdings after the death of her sister. Miss Ella, now 80. Mrs. Swope.

at the request of her sisters, had held all the Wendel properties in her name after the death of their brother, John, 15 years ago. She was the only one that married. Her personal property, Mrs. Swope left to a nephew by marriage, George Stanley Shirk of Do'obs Ferry, N. V.

She also made bequests of over $90,000 to relatives, servants and charities. To Charities The residue, after the death of Mlsa Ella, who was left the entire estate, most of it in trust, is to be divided among 14 charities. The Wendel family for years has been an enigma to the rest of New York. Living in an old, brownstone mansion at Fifth avenue and Thlry-nlnth street, they resisted all progress, lived In almost monastic simplicity and refused to sell any of their real estate holdings. The family fortune was founded In the 19th century by John Wendel, a fur trader and contemporary of the first Astors.

With the turn of the century there remained only seven grandchildren, six sisters and one brother. The brother, who also bore the Christian name John, forbade his sisters to marry, saying no man vas good enough for them. Sues Brother One. Georgiana. tiring of the restricted life, fled to Europe.

On her return her brother had her declared insane, a verdict later overruled, and committed to an asylum. She finally won her freedom and sued her brother for $50,000. but dropped the suit and returned to the old Fifth avenue home, thvre to live out her life. She died in 1929. One by one the slaters passed away, until now only Miss Ella is left.

As did her sisters, she dresses only In black satin cut in the mode of 40 years agr and sewed by her own She never leaves the house so far as is known, except to walk her rttred. fat poodle in the yard behind the house, known as the "million-dollar dog run." because of the of the property and the fact i hat it If used for no other purpose. Gandhi Lieutenant and Five Others of Group Are Arrested BOMBAY, India. 2. (Saturday) tP: Vallabhal Pandit Malaviya and four other prominent members of the Indian congress working committee were suddenly rrrested this morning.

Patel and Malaiya had Joined n. group of volunteers stubbornly sitting on the roadway outside the fort area, where police had surrounded them and blocked their march to the fort business area. Throughout the' night, even through a violent rainstorm that drenched both police and volunteers. Patel and Malaviya sat with Mrs. Hansa Mehta, resident of the Bombay congress mmlttee, and her followers.

The demonstration was In commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the death of the nationalstt leader Tllak. It was not interfered with until the demonstrators attempted to march Into the business section. Standard products whose quality is proven through use by thousands of motorists the products that you'll find at R0SETH SERVICE STATIONS. You know that this gasoline, these oils and tires give you full value for your money that they are better for your car and you know, too, that DETROIT. Aug.

1. (U.R Tired and grimy. 10 airplane pilots this afternoon climbed out of their racing machines at City airport here, thus marking the end of the all-American flying derby. The race around the United States started July 21. with 18 entries.

Ten finished with Lee Gehlbach, Detroit, former army aviator, winning first place and the prize' of $15,000. The route followed In the derby, which was sponsored by Cirrus Engines. led from the Great lakes to the Atlantic coast, southwest to the Rio Grande, on to the Pacific coast, and then back across the desert and mountains to the starting point. The final hop today was from Chicago. Gehlbach led the flight into the home field, roaring across the finish line far in advance to receive the cheers of the 5.000 people who were at the airport.

Gehlbach, backed by a group of Little Rock. men, flew the 5,541 miles of the cruise In 43 hours 35 minutes 30 seconds, approximately four hours faster than his closest rival, Lowell Bayles, Springfield. Mass. Bayles covered the distance In 47:36:08 to take second prize money of $7 000. Third place prize money went to Charles Meyers of Cleveland, whose elapsed tlmt was 51:19:47.

and W. P. Cahlll. Cleveland, fifth, In 55:57:26. The other five finishers were Cecil Coffrln.

Brooklyn; H. W. Holloday. Rapldan, Lawrence Brown, Los Angeles; Stanley Stanton, Blackwell, and Jimmy Wedell. New Orleans.

Oehlbach's average speed for the entire flight was 127.1 miles an hour. Bayles flew at an average hourly rate of 126.4 miles. Those contestants who finished out of the prize money will divide equally $5,000 offered by the Detroit Chamber of Commerce. Pinal check of the figures may result in some minor changes, officials said, but it was not considered likely that the rating of any of the pilots would be materially affected. However, to allow time for protests.

If any. the prize money will not be awarded until tomorrow evening, when a banquet will be tendered pilots and officials. Of the eight starters who failed to finish, some were forced out by mechanical trouble, two cracked up, and others found their machines mechanically unequal to the strain of the race. Ws SERVICE Entrance of G. N.

Into Frisco Aided sftatiom when yoni stop at a WASHINGTON, Aug. l. im Entrance to the San Francisco bay region sought by new transcontinental lines was facilitated today by a favorable recommendation to the Interstate commerce commission on the proposal of the Western Pacific system to build 39 miles of new road around San Francisco bay. By a commission order Issued last month the Great Northern railroad In combination with the Western Pacific was authorized to build southward from Klamath Falls in Oregon, and the action today gave promise that the oncoming trunk lines would be given complete rights to terminal establishments in the bay area, which are necessary to make their operation completely effective. Kermis STANDARD Furniture Co.

320 Central Atc and you get that service from our attendants Every man at our stations is a high class, thoroughly trained attendant who'is not satisfied with merely selling you what you want he wants YOU to be satisfied to drive away knowing that your car has been thoroughly serviced so satisfied that he knows you'll cme again. WOMEN DRIVERS are not ordinarily familiar with the mechanism of the cars they drive and thus appreciate the help and suggestions that our attendants are glad to give them. Through just this service, scores of women have become our "steady customers." Wounds Neighbor, Kills Wife, Self BAKER. Aug. 1.

F) George K. McGlenon shot and killed his wife. Bessie B. McGlenon, seriously wounded Harold Gllklson and then turned his gun on himself and fired a bullet through his head in a rooming house here today. McGlenon was expected to die but physicians said Gllklson had a chance to recover.

McGlenon was returning to the rooming house with his two daughters, aged 10 and 12. The children told police he left them outside the house after telling them he was going to kill their mother. Police ascribed the shooting to domestic trouble. They advanced the theory that Gllklson. who lived next to the McGlenons.

rushed into the rooms when he heard the first shot. A Longer Holiday for Our Employees At the One-Stop Super-Service Station 600 First Avenue South You can drive in out of the dust, sun and rain for all services-having your complete job done inside. There's always plenty of room. At Roseth Bros. Station No.

2 726 Central Avenue There's a high pressure grease outfit that does the job quicker and better. Business men may leave their cars here on the way to the office, tell us what they want done, call for them in the afternoon and be sure that the work is well done. There's been a lot of talk about closing stores and giving employees Saturday afternoons off during the month of August. It's like Mark Twain's statement about the weather: "Everybody talks about it, but nobody ever does anything about it." We're going to do something about it. We believe our employees art entitled to get out and more fully enjoy the beauty 6f our marvelous state therefore, we will close our store at 1 p.

m. on Saturdays during the month of August. Your kind and considerate co-operation by arranging your shopping accordingly, will be greatly A ppreciated. Glider Hits Power Line Pilot Dies HAWTHORNE. Aug.

1. (U.fi) Earl Lyon, 27. Redondo glider enthusiast, was electrocuted tonight when his motorless craft crashed Into a 22.000-volt line as he attempted to make a landing. Lyon had been cruising for some time In the air currents after taking off from Kelly airport. There was a vivid streak of blue flame as the glider struck the wires witnesses said.

The glider was left suspended. a smoking wreckage, across the wires. Lyon was thrown to the ground horribly burned. He was alive when witnesses reached him but died a few minutes after entering Hawthorne hospital. (Spend your dollar where it will do the most good with a home owned institution Accused of Slaying Washington Girl WASHINGTON.

Aug. 1 District of Columbia authorities In a warrant today charged Herbert Campbell, real estate man of Arlington. Just across the Potomac In Virginia, with the murder of Mary Baker. Immediately Campbell's attorneys filed a writ of habeas corpus In Virginia court to compel Arlington authorities to release him for lack of proof. Corroboration by Calvin Goddard.

Chicago ballistics expert, of a finding by bureau of standards experts that the attractive young clerk was shot with a revolver later found In Campbell's possession, led to the new District of Columbia Charge. Andrew Thisted Sons 322 Central Ave..