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1 THE GREAT FALLS TRIBUNE Sunday Morning, July 25,1937 Page 2 Officers Arrive To Take Montague Story of Sprockets Millions, Which Shrunk to $209 Revealed Freighter Bombed LONDON. July 24 C3 R) The British freighter St. Quenttn reported today that it was being kept afloat at Valencia by pumps, after an aerial bomb tore a hole in its hull. No additional details of the bombardment "were given. Back to New York LOS ANGELES, July 24 (U.R Opposing forces prepared tonight for opening of an extradition battle in wnicn issex county, new sort, officers will attempt to return John Guards Battle.

Coal Pickets As Mine Opens CONNELLSVILLE, Pa, July 24 (U.R) A 40-minute gun battle, during which, it was reported reliably, 100 shots were exchanged between pickets and company guards, increased tension tonight about the Davidson coal mine of the Republic Steel Corp. Reports indicated that no one was injured in the bullet barrage that occurred early today. But about the DEATHS AND FUNERALS Montague, wizard of the fairways, to New York to face a seven-year-old robbery Indictment. Sheriff Percy T. Egglefield of Essex county and SAN DIEGO.

Calif, July 24 (U.R) The story of a fortune -which dwindled from millions of dollars to the WTeck of a broken down truck, worth only $20. during the lifetime of one man, was revealed here With swift, strokes of his pen Judge Gordon Thompson late today wrote "finis" to the financial history of t'ie late Claus Spreckels Sr. Spreckcls, son of the late John California Will Eject Needy Aliens Gives Them Choice of Returning to Homes Or Going Off Relief SACRAMENTO. Calif, July 24 (U.PJ California tonight prepared to deport needy aliens as a temporary expedient in meeting the most forbidding relief situation the state ever has faced. Over-riding protests that such action would be "the most disgraceful in its history," the state relief com Enjoy the Tasty, Everyday Goodness of Dairy Dell ICE CREAM Made fresh daily from ingredients of the highest quality.

DAIRY DELL SDMM? FRANK BO.N'DY, Owner 70S Central Avenue two New York state troopers arrived here today with a requisition from Gov. Herbert Lehman of New York asking Gov. Frank F. Merriam to grant extradition. They conferred with District Attorney Buron Fitts time of the fight Picket Earl Miller.

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Miller was suffering from D. Spreckels Sr sugar baron, died in his Coronado home Jan. 12, 1935, but it was not until today that the full story of his financial ventures was disclosed. Attorneys who handled the estate pointed out that at one time Spreckels was a high executive In the vast enterprises which bore his name. His fortune, at that time, these at torneys estimated, was counted in the millions of dollars.

The ironical contradiction of 'this, they pointed out, was the single item in the inventory of his estate, finally approved by Judge Thompson, which read: "Four-cylinder truck not in condition to operate $20." As the estate finally was closed the attorneys recalled that a few years before his death it was necessary for the one-time millionaire to pass through bankruptcy action. Ill-advised speculation in the stock market, the attorneys said, took a huge slice of the Spreckels fortune. Unfortunate investments accounted for still further losses the exact amount of which probably never will be revealed it was said. and announced they would see the governor at Sacramento Tuesday. Held fon3Iurder shotgun wounds In the abdomen.

chest and legs. He said he was wounded after the general firing had stopped as he was HONOLULU. T. July 24 (UJ0 Police filed second degree murder charges tonight against John Dill. San Francisco seaman, who con walking on the highway.

STEEVES. MRS. MARY -Livingston, Montana. Body Mill arrive Sunday afternoon arsd will be taken to Great Falls Mausoleum for private cremation services. Sporadic violence has occurred at fessed striking Louis Foret, 33.

of; the Davidson and Trotter mines. San Francisco Hotel Strike About Settled Labor Heads Approve Tentative Peace Plan To End Long Walkout SAN FRANCISCO. July 24 (U.R) Early reopening of hotels, shut nine weeks by a strike, was indicated tonight as Committee of In-dustrial Orga nization-American Federation of Labor dissension started a new upheaval in the ranks of the San Francisco labor council. Labor leaders approved a tentative peace plan and predicted that 3200 workers of six hotel unions soon would be back at their jobs in 19 of the city's major hostelries. The peace proposal called for strikers to return to work under a 40-hour week schedule, submitting the five-day work week to arbitration meantime.

With operators indicating Informal approval of the suggestion, unionists will meet Monday to vote on acceptance or rejection. The 40-hour week issue was the sole major point negotiators were unable to agree upon in a prolonged series of negotiations. The strike began May 1 in 16 establishments and preferential employment of auditors, clerks and office workers brought the first stalemate. Hotel owners said they were "confidential employes." but unions dissented. The walkout was extended to three other hotels and strikers threatened to tie up additional hostelries if settlement was not reached.

With brightening prospects for a return to work, hotel owners said they could resume normal operations within a few hours or a few days after settlement. Algier, La, a fatal blow with a hammer. which were closed by a strike more than a month ago as part of the campaign of the Committee for In dustiial Organization in its fight to obtain signed union contracts with major independent steel companies. The mines were reopened last week with about 200 of the 550 miners The Chapel of the Chimes "I i W. H.

GEORGE CO. Corral Feud Stirs Manhunt In Hill Area FLORENCE. Ariz, July 24 Sheriff's deputies rode again today into the rugged recesses of the Aravaipa canyon country in a manhunt that has no parallel except in the history of the old west and movie thrillers. The search was spurred by the filing of charges here against the hunted men, in connection with what officers say is a renewal of the old "haunted corral" feud, and reports that one of the men is wounded. Charges of assault with intent to kill were filed before Justice of the Peace Roy Guild against Joe Towner and Bill Wheeler, ranchers, as the outgrowth of the latest gun battle in the mountainous ranch lands.

A. B. (Doc) Deaver, state livestock sanitary inspector and veteran officer, who escaped unscathed from a battle Thursday in which he said 11 shots were fired at him, and Joe Fliegcr, former rodeo star and now a rancher, who is under charge of murder in the last "haunted corral" killing, signed the complaints. Flieger is awaiting trial for the flaying of Henry Towner, brother of Joe. whose body was found in the old corral seven weeks ago.

i Modern Funeral Service Properly Priced returning to the pits. Death of Judiciary Bill May Encourage Court Resignations mission adopted a resolution providing aliens the alternative of accepting passage to their homelands or being dropped from relief rolls. The move was recommended by Relief Administrator Harold E. Pomeroy as a result of a congressional order removing all aliens from WPA projects. Pomeroy said approximately 9,000 aliens were on WPA projects, with an additional 3,900 already on state relief rolls.

Under the policy adopted today. alien agreeing to deportation will be provided assistance until departure. Roy R. Nof tz and Michael Marvos, representatives of the Workers' alliance, said if there are 13,000 aliens on relief rolls, 60,000 persons would be affected. The commission appropriated to co-operate with the federal government in repatriation of Filipinos.

They did not act. however, on the problem of an increasing horde of transient indigents flocking into California from the "dust bowl" of the midwest. AMBULANCE SERVICE a 417 First Ave. K. Phone -4404 I' New ECONOMIZER Unit Hermetically waled with iva-ycar Warranty.

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July 24 U.R) Death of President Roosevelt's Ju Cremation Burial or Mausoleum diciary bill is expected to encourage MORE FOR YOUR MONEY IN A Westinghoiise REFRIGERATOR STON'F The funernl services for Willis George Stone will be held at, Castner Falls schoolhnusc Monday afternoon at 2. the R-v. Ro.s Allen officistinii. Interment will be ia Castner Falls cemetery. I W.VW.VAVAW.V.W.V' the retirement plans of one or more members of the supreme court bench who are said to have felt they could not gracefully leave the bench while it was under fire.

Those most prominently mentioned in such speculation are Justices George Sutherland and James C. McReynolds. both conservatives, and Louis D. Brandcis. dean of the court liberals.

Tills possibility and the movement to adjourn congress by mid-August were expected to impel the president to an early selection of a nominee to the supreme court vacancy created by the retirement of Justice Willis Van Devanter in June. O'Cbrator b. FUNERAL DIRECTORS 108 CENTRAL AVENUE. TELEPHONE: 7257 1 i i ers Urges War Is Hinted By Newspaper Of Mussolini MILAN, Italy, July 24 W) Premier Benito Mussolini's own newspaper, II Popolo d'ltalia, today listed numerous international "fictions" it said some day would be "overwhelmed by reality." Among them was the contention of the United States that World war debts still are collectible. Persons close to the government in Rome interpreted "reality" which the newspaper went on to say always "had a single brave name for which there was no substitute" to mean war, with its general upheaval.

They declared there was zd doubt the vigorous style of the newspaper's 750-word editorial on "Past-War Make Believe" was that of il duce himself. The article attacked as "pretension" the insistence that Generalissimo Francisco Franco was an insurgent general and that Valencia was the real seat of the Spanish government. Referring to war debts, II Popolo said: "The people continue to pretend they believe these debts will be paid one day. Now, everyone knows this is materially, and above all morally, impossible. Nevertheless, when the fateful dates June 15 and Dec.

15 come around the European governments inform America they find it impossible to pay, America takes notice of this and puts it on the order of the day. "The fiction, nevertheless, remains and carries in its lap the damaging elements of all embalmed fictions." Nw WotinabouM Fond New 7np.c Storaca Com (Continued From Page One) partmest unth beautiful tooled aatia-Djoiaa fronts. Safety Indicator built -ta always ta plaia sight. Bushel of Hoppers Harvested in Hour By "Hopperdozer" BLOOMINGTON, 111, July 24 iP) A homemade contraption that cost $10 the inventors called it a "hopperdozer" harvested a bushel cf grasshoppers an hour and was credited today with saving a soybean field at Shirley, near here. At the rate of 200,000 "hoppers per bushel, the machine disposed of more than a million of the insects in a five-hour experiment by Avery Adams and Harry Morgan, farmers.

The machine is a 12-foot wide "catcher" with a tank containing poison. It was attached to the front of a truck which drove through the field, disturbing the grasshoppers and causing them to strike the backstop and fall into the poison. Cowboys Threaten To Tie Up Rodeo PUEBLO. Colo, July 21 i.Tt Cowhands who entertain rodeo audiences threatened a strike today if the Colorado State fair rodeo here next month fails to meet their demands. Through their newly-organized "Cowboys Turtle association." the rodeo performers submitted their demands to Frank Means, fair manager.

Means said the cowboys asked that entry fees be added to the purses awarded winners, that active contestants Judge the rodeo events and flag the contests for the timekeepers. A sharp reply came from Leonard Stroud, famous rodeo contestant for more than a quarter-century who is in charge of the cowboy events at the fair. "If the cowboys who belong to the union want to dictate how we are going to run the state fair rodeo, they'd better stay away," Stroud asserted. "If these cowboys want to play ball, we'll be glad to have them compete, but we are not going to have them telling us how to run the show." Pickets Walk Beats In Front of Stores TACOMA. Wash, July 24 cf prospective customers milled in front of Tacoma's strike-closed department stores today with only strolling pickets to welcome them.

The pickets, representatives of the International Protective Association of Retail Clerks, carried banners demanding a "decent standard of American living" and said they had walked out of the 10 stores in an attempt to better the minimums of SI5 and $20 weekly guaranteed men and women clerks under an agreement which expired June 1. Etect-e-Cuba Ire Trsv for iastaat rtlcaso of b(. dry. atro-cell c-jbta. T.poiat Tinrertr Sl It auth-Eroofgny-opcfauaf and defrosting.

II tIT tilt III! WIITIIIIIIII CROXFORD'S MERRILL MORTUARY Great Falls, Mont. Phone 6152 "ic Laaty Attendant Duval-Wallace Hardware 517 Central Phone 6405 for which funds have not yet been allocated. Members of the state water board and public works and works progress administration officials told the delegates the water projects needed in the eastern part of the state would be given prime consideration. Governor Ayers, Commissioners Rockwood Brown and D. P.

Fabrick of Choteau represented the water board. V. H. Walsh of Helena, state PWA director, and Joseph E. Parker of Butte, state WPA administrator, represented the government agencies.

Parker told the delegates Montana has been especially favored bv being allotted a quota of 3,400 additional persons to work in the drouth area on water conservation projects at a time when quotas in other states have been reduced. He added the WPA "is ready to put our drouth quota to work on worthwhile projects in the dry counties as soon as the drouth area is designated and arrangements completed for sponsors' assistance." With the aid of the public works administration Montana, has under construction 11 water conservation projects, and start of work on six others is awaiting allotment of funds. To date the federal government STEWART The body cf Miss Elma E. Stewart, 43. rouie 1.

Great Falls. ho passed amy Saturday morning at her residence. Is at the Croxford mortuary. Funeral arrangements will be announced later. Three Escaped Convicts Sought BELLEFONTE, Pa, July 24 (U.R) Three convicts who cut their way through a barbed wire fence and stole a guard's car to escape from the Rockview state penitentiary were sought tonight by officers of western Pennsylvania.

The man hunt was concentrated in Pittsburgh, where the men are believed to have fled in a second automobile they stole from Victor Onachilla. a Penn State college student, after abandoning the guard's car. Governor Christens Slattern's Airplane AUSTIN, Tex, July 24 (U.R) Gov. James V. Allred smashed a bottle of lake water across a Wing tip today, named a $75,000 airplane "The Texan." and all that remained between Jimmle Mattern and a San Diego-Moscow flight was governmental approval.

The 32-year-old San Angelo. Tex, boy came here to get the governnor's CARD OF TH.VVKS We wish to express our heartfeH thanks and appreciation to our many friends and neighbors for their acts of kindness and sympathy shown us during the illness, death and burial of our dear wife and mother. Mrs. Hilda Elizabeth Johnson. We wish especially to than the Rev.

Mr. Torimer. members of the Belt choir, the pallbearers, those who sent the beautiful floral tributes and all who were so kind and thoughtful of us In our sad hour of bereavement. Husband. Emil Johnson.

Daughter, Edith Johnson. Musicians May Strike SAN FRANCISCO July Officials of the local Musicians union said tonight that the American Federation of Musicians planned a nationwide radio strike Aug. 14 unless broadcasting companies and recording concerns move to protect musicians' jobs from the inroads of "canned music" and remote control broadcasts. To Meet in Missouri nas granted the state nearly for reclamation and irrigation projects. "The value to the people of eastern Montana and other sections of the west of conserving for prudent use their limited water supplies cannot be overestimated," John R.

Page of Washington, D. commissioner ATLANTIC CITY, N. July 24 0J.R) The board of directors of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women's Clubs today awarded the next biennial convention of the organization to Kansas City, Mo. The meeting will be in the summer of 1939. CARD OF THAVKS We desire to -express oar deepest thanks and appreciation to our many friends and neighbors for their acta of kindness and sympathy shown us at the sodden pass-in of our dear son and brother, Herbert K.

Fischbacn. We wish especially to thank the He v. A. Lunde, the pallbearers, and those who sent the beautiful floral tributes. Your attention and love and sympathy will pever be foreotten by us.

Father. Stephen Fischbach. Mrs. Ida Bailer and Family. Mrs." Helen Fjelstead and Family.

christening of his craft. Government dignitaries, officials of the oil company sponsoring the flight and hundreds of townspeople attended. Fatalities Reported In Chemical Explosion BUDAPEST, Jugoslavia, July 24 (U.R) An explosion of a chemical factory at Stragari, a military ammunition center, was reported tonight, and the town was placed under military guard. One report said none was killed ValAfqk is SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOK YOU MR. 3IQTOUIST oi reclamation, said in a to Roy Millegan, chairman of the celebration here.

"The bureau of reclamation joins with you in 3-our efforts to bring to wide public attention the water conservation problem and the work which is being done to solve it," his telegram added. Harold L. Ickes, secretary of the interior, wired Millegan, "Conservation of our national resources is occupying more and more of the attention of leaders in all sections of and another said a soldier was dead and three soldiers and a number of civilians injured. Several buildings were damaged and windows smashed. ftmeiww.

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Three other Central American nations Guatemala. Honduras and Nicaragua gave notice last year of their withdrawal from the league. Under the league covenant two years mast elapse before the resignation becomes effective. the country. It is particularly fitting that eastern Montana should give a day to celebrating the progress made and to planning for future conservation of its major resources." Today's celebration was first planned to mark start of work on the Tongue river project, a irrigation and water storage plan which will furnish water for farm lands along a 200-mile stretch of the river south of Miles Citv, and approval of plans for the Buffalo rapids project on the Yellowstone river between Miles City and Glen-dive.

It was turned into an all-eastern Montana water conservation celebration when interest in the affair became great over practically the entire slate. will go on picnics without a murmur, BECAUSE you can take his hot dinner right along with him, in this insulated electric roaster. Roast beef, potatoes and all the fixings, if that's his idea of a real picnic feast. Just start the meal so that it will be practically cooked when it is time to leave the house. Then just put the roaster right in the car.

And when you open your picnic meal, you'll find that the perfect insulation has kept it piping hot. In addition to cooking an entire oven dinner, you can bake cakes, pies, biscuits, roast meats and steam vegetables in the roaster, very economically and easily. Girl Finds Watch Her Mother Lost Long Ago SALT LAKE CITY, July 24 OF) Six-year-old Marilyn Frontier found today at resort near here a gold wrist watch. She took it home to her mother. Mrs.

P. Frontier examined the watch closely, noted a familiar dent in the case. Opening the watch, she found her Initials. Mrs. Frontier had last the watch 11 years ago, five years before her daughter was born.

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