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Page 5 THE GREAT FALLS TRIBUNE Monday Morning, March" 3, 1941 McCoIlim Will Face Murder Chargein CourtHereToday Youth's Written Confession Reveals He Intended to Tie Up Aunt, Mrs. Arthur J. Moore, in Their Home Saturday Extend Search For Missing Training Plane LOS ANGELES. March 2. (JPy R.

L. Burla, North American Aviation Corp. executive, said 20 training planes which had been grounded at Kingman, were searching today for Joseph S. Martinek, a pilot missing since yesterday. Martinek was flying one of seven Tenants Praise Parkdale The following circular was distributed Sunday to visitors who were guests of tenants of Parkdale for an inspection of the units: "Boy We're Telling You!" "It's the greatest place to live we've ever seen.

Everything's clean! All conveniences anyone could have. Plenty of room, and a low rent that we can afford to pay. Don't let anyone tell you funny stories about things you can't do. We know better. We live here, and we sure like it." PARKDALE TENANTS.

People are moving in every day. Here are other reasons why: Bright sunny rooms, hot, running water all the time, modern bathrooms, Individual gas-fired air furnaces, no coal or ashes to handle, electric refrigerator for your food, gas stove for cooking, everything for $19.75 to $22, safe play space for children. charged with murder, according to Hall. In his confession, McColllm said that he hadn't intended to kill Mrs. Moore, but planned to take the Moore automobile and "go strapping in the mountains." The youth said he had planned to leave for three months and that when he went to the basement to get the gun "I wasn't figuring on killing her, but to tie her up so I could get the car and go away." Th.

vmit.h's confession also dis- Mrs. Ida M. Ball, Ohio Educator, Dies Son Lives in Miles City SAN DIEGO, March 2. UP) Mrs. Ida M.

Ball, who founded the Ball school for boys and girls in Delaware, died today. She was the widow of the Rev. Charles E. Ball of Surviving are a daughter, Ruth Ball, San Diego; a son, A. M.

Ball, Miles City, and a brother, Dr. E. W. Mitchell of Cincinnati. Services will be held here Wednesday.

To Reinforce Approach To Bridge on Flathead KALISPELL, March 2. (Special) Freight Train Stalled By Ten-Inch Snowfall In Southwest Colorado ALAMOSA, Colo, March 2. (JP) A freight train crew of seven men, two locomotives and. a string of cars was marooned at the top of Cumbers pass today in the most severe blizzard to strike the region this winter. Chief Dispatcher W.

S. Graham of the Denver Rio Grande Western railroad here said it. was useless to send out a rotary snowplow and work car in a rescue attempt until the driving wind ceased piling snow in huge drifts on the tracks. The southbound train of 60 cars, bound for Durango. left here at 1:15 a.

m. and split up at Los Plnos near the foot of the mountain pass when the storm made travel difficult. The two locomotives pulled part of the train up the pass but the crew reported to the dispatcher shortly afterward that they were stalled in deep drifts and three cars were derailed. Ten inches of snow fell in six hours on the pass and the wind reached a velocity of 60 miles an hour. The scene is in southwestern Colorado and just north of the New Mexico boundary.

Police Detain Famous Conductor After His Flight From Hospital MORRISTOWN, N. March 2. (JP) Police today detained Dr. Otto Klemperer, 55, noted German composer and symphony conductor, in response to a nine-state police alarm broadcast from Rye, N. after he disappeared from a sanitarium there.

Patrolmen Ralph Baird and James Gregory said they located Dr. Klemperer this morning at a hotel here. No charge was placed against him. The conductor, a powerful man 6 feet 5 inches tall, had been in ill health, friends said, since undergoing a brain tumor operation more than a year ago. Baird and Gregory said Dr.

Klemperer told them he had come here last night by taxicab from Newark with the intention of reentering the Aurora Health institute here for treatment. At the institute, Miss Natalie Sherman, its secretary and daughter of the director, said Mr. Klemperer had been asked to leave the institute Thursday because of his refusal to obey instructions. Seven Initiated WOLF POINT, March 2. (Special) Wolf Point high school chapter of the Quill and Scroll, international high school honorary journalism organization, initiated members of Wolf Talk, high school publication.

Pledges Betty Lou Rogers, Betty Johnson. Kenneth Hickel, Naomi Lund, Helen Taliaferro, Richard Larson and Norbert Dougherty were initiated at a dinner. I P5j 1 if I 1 The 1 it Consolidation Of Farmer Aid Is Requested WASHINGTON, March A contention that so many separate government agencies deal with the farmer and his problems that they cause "unnecessary duplication of errort, waste, extravagance and confusion" came today from the American Farm Bureau federation. Edward A. O'Neal, president, pro posed that many existing agencies be consolidated and a five-man, nonpartisan board be created to co ordinate the whole farm program He said his proposal and criticisms or the existing setup would be carried to proper congressional committees.

Listing more than a dozen agencies or divisions now dealing with farm programs, O'Neal said they had 33,558 "permanent employes" last year and spent $99,293,429 on administrative costs. Most administrative costs, he asserted, were deducted from funds which otherwise would go to farmers as benefit payments, loans or grants. O'Neal made clear that he was not criticizing the objectives of these activities, but only the administrative setup and the "enormous amount of unnecessary expense" which he said had resulted. In a written outline of his criticisms, O'Neal said: "There are seven agencies that have direct relationship to and contacts with farmer committees in the states. "Five agencies that are assisting farmers with farm management problems.

"Five agencies dealing with landlord-tenant relationships. "Four agencies engaged in demonstrations of farming methods. "Seven agencies engaged in land-use planning. "Four agencies directly engaged in promoting programs to conserve the soil and improve fertility and to encourage terracing. "Five agencies assisting farmers with woodland planting and forest conservation.

"Six agencies are engaged in water conservation. "Assistance with marketing problems is given by five agencies. "Five agencies helping farmers carry out grazing improvement programs. "At least three agencies are assisting farm women with home management problems." School Film Slated For Showings Under A. Sponsorship Parents of pre-school children are invited to attend Parent- Teacher association meetings during the next two weeks when a film en titled "When Bobbie Goes to School" will be shown in connection with the annual pre-school roundup and examinations, Mrs.

Julius An- dahL chairman, has announced. The picture is being sponsored by the city A. and the city neaitn department. The picture will be shown at the Hawthorne school tonight at 8. Schedule of other meetings are Thursday evening at the Largent for Lincoln, Longfellow.

Emerson and Largent groups; Friday evening at -8 at the Franklin; March 10 at 8 p. m. at the Roosevelt; March 11 at 7:30 at the Whittier; March 12 at 2:30 p. m. at the Lowell and at 8 p.

m. at the Russell, and March 13 at 3 p. m. at the Washington. Flathead Precipitation Falls Below Normal KALISPELL, March 2.

(Special) Precipitation during February in the Flathead was .61 short of normal for the month, E. S. Mark, meteor ologist, reported, which brought departure from normal for the year to .95 Inch. Measurable amounts were recorded on only two days, with the greatest amount, .30 inch, recorded on the 24th when 35 inches of snow ell. Sunshine, however, was the highest since 1930, and the third highest of record for February.

The end of the month saw but 3 inch of snow on the ground. Rain, which ushered in March, continued throughout Saturday night and Sunday, and virtually no snow remains. Leaving for Alaska MARTINSDALE. March 2. (Spe cial) John Eidum of Delpine skinned his 17th coyote and pulled his traps last week, and will leave for Alaska Monday to resume work on federal defense projects.

Dan Sandol, formerly employed in this vicinity as a painter, is now on defense work on an Alaskan coastal island. First License HARLOWTON, March 2. (Special) A marriage license was issued to Laverne Fairbanks of Lewis town and Florence Jurassi of Red Lodge. It was the first marriage license to be issued here in 1941. Volnme FLOWER ARRANGING Cca-CU'a New Book 10c Botany Frames S1.S5, $1.75 Old Airport Hangar Urged For Schooling Western Air Officer Points to Crowding In New Structure A recommendation that the city make available the old hangar at the municipal airport for operating headquarters of the civilian pilots training school will be relayed by Mayor Julius J.

Wuerthner to the city council tonight. The recommendation was made by Charles James, vice president of operations of Western Air Express. James pointed out that with the civilian pilot training school utilizing shop and space in the new hangar, present and future needs of Western Air are entirely inadequate. The air transportation official said that his company would require additional space for a maintenance crew and other operations. James said that if the city would purchase the old hangar and establish the training school there, it would reduce interference with airline operations and eliminate considerably hazards as school activities would be farther away.

He pointed out that it would require less supervision at the new hangar and keep undesirable people away. On College Paper PHILADELPHIA, March 2. (Special) Donald L. Sulvi Jr. of Great Falls.

Mont, has been elected to the business board of the Daily Pennsylvanian, undergraduate newspaper at the University of Pennsylvania. Sulvi, whose home is at 2801 Third avenue north, attended Great Falls high school before enrolling in the Wharton school of finance and commerce at Pennsylvania. on 3 cmts found01" oBd it9 North American training planes which left Kingman yesterday for Salt Lake City on a delivery flight to Canada. Bad weather forced one of the ships back to Las Vegas, Nev. The others except Martinek's, got to Salt Lake City and continued northward.

"Aided by army, state and county authorities, we will cover every foot of ground between Kingman and Las Vegas," said Burla, "and hope soon to have some word of what happened to Martinek. "We have every hope that he, an experienced airlines pilot, may have been able to land somewhere along the route and await rescue." Burla said Martinek's ship was equipped with a radio receiving set, but had no transmitter. He pointed out that the area is extremely rough and sparsely settled. Another North American ferry pilot, Bud Hussey, 30, disappeared in a training plane between Palm-dale, Calif, and Las Vegas Dec. 19 and has not been found, although a widespread search was made.

Martinek's home is in North Hollywood. BILLINGS. March 2. (IP) The Billings airport reported today that three training planes bound for Canada were remaining In Billings and two others had landed at Livingston. Rainy weather prevented a takeoff of the airplanes from Billings.

One of the planes at Livingston was believed to have come from Locomotive Springs, Idaho, where it landed yesterday. None of the five ships in Montana was piloted by Joseph S. Martinek, missing since yesterday. CEDAR CITY, Utah, March 2. (JP) Sheriff H.

E. Christensen of Iron county said tonight that six light airplanes were prevented by weather conditions here from joining in the search for a North American Aircraft Corp. training ship, missing on a ferry flight from Kingman, Ariz, to Canada. A 40-mile-an-hour wind kept the planes on the ground, the sheriff said. Cedar City, swept by a continuing snowstorm which already had brought a six-inch fall, lies In southwestern Utah almost directly on the air route from Kingman to Salt Lake City, where the missing plane had been scheduled to stop.

John Quincy Adams and the late Woodrow Wilson were the only two presidents of the United States who died in Washington, D. C. tie Boto1? urn Spray Of the Falls Civic and Recreational Calendar for the Week Monday Klwanis club meets at noon, Hotel Rainbow. C. S.

Win-ship, Milwaukee freight agent, will show moving pictures. Rev. Dr. Paul W. Dierberger will speak.

Tuesday Lions club meets at noon. Hotel Rainbow. H. R. Lenz.

president of Sun River Beetgrowers and Western Beetgrowers association, is guest speaker. Wednesday Rotary club meets at noon. Hotel Rainbow. Exchange club meets at noon, Paris banquet room. Thursday Civitan club meets at noon, Hotel Rainbow.

Saturday United Commercial Travelers meet at noon, Park hotel. Introduction of newly elected officers. on organization by K. T. Jensen, immediate past councilor.

Personals Pythian Sisters will meet tonight. Adv. Harriet Howard arrived here Sunday from Malta. L. S.

Parrell was a recent business visitor here from. Butte. Herb Campbell was a visitor here over the weekend from Valier. G. C.

Waite was a business visitor here from Bozeman over the weekend. White Shrine meets tonight, annual report and election of officers. Adv. John C. Bower was a business visitor here from Bozeman over the weekend.

Mr. and Mrs. T. N. Reynolds of Havre spent the weekend in Great Falls visiting.

E. L. Miller was a visitor in Great Falls over the weekend. He is a resident of Billings. Dr.

and Mrs. J. H. Graham were weekend visitors in Great Falls. They are Billings residents.

Li. R. Hines of Billings is here spending a few days transacting business. He arrived Sunday. Mr.

and Mrs. W. C. Reilley were among Havre residents who spent the weekend in Great Falls. Orin R.

Cure, attorney from Malta, was a business visitor in Great Falls over the weekend. Bill Hunter and Kenny Holm were among Helena residents who spent the weekend in Great Falls. Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Torgrenson were among Livingston residents who spent the weekend visiting in Great Falls.

J. C. King was among western Montana residents who spent the weekend visiting in Great Falls. He is from Kalispell. Among northern Montana residents who spent the weekend in Great Falls were Mr.

and Mrs. James Gibson of Havre. Mr. and Mrs. James W.

Price were among northern Montana residents who spent the weekend in Great Falls. They are from Cut Bank. Bob Kennon, old-time cowboy now employed at the legislature at Helena, attended the Montana Cowboys' association and banquet Saturday night. Dr. M.

L. Baskowske. who has offices in the Thisted building, has returned from Chicago where he spent the last two weeks attending meetings of the Chicago Dental society. Mr. and Mrs.

Ed Herring, 321 Fifth avenue south, returned Sunday from Rochester, where Herring was a medical patient at Mayo clinic. They were gone about a wees. Births Mrs. George Graham, 2825 Fourth avenue north, at Deaconess hospital March 2, a son. Mrs.

Louie Depner, Farmington, at Deaconess hospital March 2, a son. Mrs. Arthur Larson, 1205 Ninth avenue south, at Columbus hospital, March 2, a son. Two Shot During Row At Butte; Assailant Held at County Jail BUTTE. March 2.

(U.R) Mrs. Robert Penny and Arthur Bird were suffering from gunshot wounds at a hospital here tonight and Andrew Hayes was held without charge at the county Jail. County Attorney Frank J. Roe said Hayes shot Bird and Mrs. Penny at the Bird home early today following a fight in the yard.

Bird was shot through the right firearm and in the lower abdomen. Roe said a bullet struck Mrs. Penny in the right cheek, lodging at the base of her skull, when she tried to halt a struggle between Bird and Hayes. Both Bird and Mrs. Penny were in "fair" condition, hospital attendants said.

Italians Bomb Town Rocked by Temblor ATHENS, March 2. (JP) Greece claims Italian bomber formations rained bombs for half an hour today on Larissa while salvage and relief work was in full swing in the city, stricken yesterday by an earth quake. Reports said that the raid. added to already heavy property destruction but no casualties were reported. Most of the population had left the town.

Frank Lemmer III Frank Lemmer, county commissioner, was stricken suddenly ill Sunday night and taken to the Columbus hospital. Police said Lemmer was found lying on the floor of his home, 208 Fourth street south, when they arrived and was unable to open the door. Police broke a window to enter the place. At the hospital, Lemmer was said to be "resting." Robert J. McColllm, confessed slayer of his aunt and guardian, Mrs.

Arthur Moore, sat in his cell at the county jail Sunday, a de spondent and sorrowful youth, await ing action to be taken against rum by county authorities. H. Cleveland Hall, chief deputy county attorney, who obtained a 20-page signed confession from the 18-year-old high school senior Satur day, said that first degree murder charges would be filed today. If con victed, McCoIlim would face life imprisonment or hanging. The youth said he intended to plead guilty if Workers at Army Camp In North Carolina Vote to Strike Today WILMINGTON, N.

March 2. (U.R) Between 5,000 and 6,000 mem bers of the Wilmington Builders Trades council (A. F. voted unanimously tonight to strike tomorrow at Camp Davis, army antiaircraft firing range now under construction at nearby Holly Ridge, labor leaders announced. L.

H. Rouse, business agent of the council, said the strike was called because the construction company in charge of the project Grannis, Higgins, Thompson McDevitt Co. refused the councils demands for "at least a preferential shop" and wage-hour conditions equal to those of the Wilmington council's. A. J.

Fox. assistant project manager for the construction firm formed by merger of four small firms to handle the $13,000,000 project charged that the demands were for a "closed shop" and said "outside agitation" was responsible for the dispute. He said a majority of the 15,000 or more workers employed there disapproved of the union demands. U. S.

Shares War Guilt With Britain, Charges Frankfurter Zeitung BERLIN, March 2. (U.R) The Frankfurter Zeitung, in a lengthy editorial entitled "War Aid and War Guilt," today charged the United States with joint responsibility with Britain for the war and added that the United States would be responsible for the ultimate downfall of Britain. "Roosevelt certainly won't change his policy," the newspaper said. "In fact he cannot very well change because the guilt which America has taken upon itself does not permit that. "When England sinks in the whirlpool, the president will say, with a worried visage: 'I did what I could for the British.

But the matter will not rest there because history will chalk up against the United States government its joint guilt for the war and its prolongation whether Churchill denies it or not." Farm Union Meetings Slated This Week LEWISTOWN, March 2. (Special) Francis Crowley, county president of the Farmers Union, announces that there will be special meetings this week throughout the county. There will be afternoon meetings at Denton Tuesday, Roy Saturday, and Heath Sunday. Evening meetings have been set at Coffee Creek Tuesday, Danvers Wednesday, Winifred Thursday, Brooks Friday and Ross Fork Saturday. Two Are Sentenced LEWISTOWN, March 2.

(Special) Leonard Cline of Butte and Verne Hauserman of Kansas, who have been in the county jail since they were arrested Jan. 19, on the charge of burglary, entered pleas of guilty and were sentenced by Judge Stewart McConochie to terms in the state penitentiary. Cline's sentence was for seven years and Hauserman's for eight. Prisoners Sent Here KALISPELL, March 2. (Special) Three federal prisoners were taken from here to Great Falls today for arraignment Tuesday.

They are B. N. Gephart, charged with brandishing a deadly weapon in Glacier park; Ben Rozell, charged with violation of the immigration act, and Ernest Martin, charged with having sold liquor to Indians. Faces Check Charge KALISPELL. March 2.

(Special) Walter W. Weise, arraigned Saturday evening before Justice H. L. Lokensgard on a charge of issuing a fraudulent check, was given statutory time in which to plead. He was released under $100 bond.

R. Cross is the complainant. Back From Coast HAVRE, March 2. (Special) Dr. ana Mrs.

w. A. Lacey have returned from a vacation spent on the west coast visiting her sister, Mrs. js. u.

Jenkins in San Jose, Calif. Liner Goes Aground BUZZARDS BAY, March 2. (JP) The new liner President Hayes went aground tonight in Cape Cod canal, but the coast guard reported she was in "no immediate danger." Liquor Store Robbed AiiSAROKEE. March 2 IJP Burglars robbed the Absarokee store or tne Montana liquor control board of case liquors valued at $651 early today. Lclosed that when he appeared with the gun, Mrs.

Moore reiusea to go to the basement and "she didn't want me to shoot her." Questioned about details of the shooting, the lad said he fired "because she was going to tell the neighbors that I had a gun on her" when Mrs. Moore objected to McCoIlim taking the car and leaving home. Mrs. Moore, prominent club woman and wife of an assistant bank cashier here, was found dead in the bedroom of her home. 1625 Central avenue, Saturday morning by officers who answered a phone call made by the youth.

Funeral services for Mrs. Moore will be held Tuesday afternoon at 2 at the Masonic temple. Services will be in charge of the Olive champter No. 10, Eastern Star, of which Mrs. Moore was past matron.

The Rev. Paul W. Dierberger also will officiate. Burial, in charge of the W. H.

George chapel, will be at Hillside cemetery, Cascade. Rafter Is Elected Willow Creek School Head for Next Year WILLOW CREEK, March 2. (Special) Wendell G. Rafter, who for the last four years has been athletic coach and high school principal at Dutton, last week was elected superintendent of the Willow Creek public schools for the coming year. According to Mrs.

Viola Heiley, clerk. Rafter was selected from over 70 other applicants. Rafter was given a one-year contract at a reported salary of $2,300. Rafter is a graduate of Inter-mountain Union college and will be remembered in Great Falls as captain of their basketball team while the college was located there. His basketball teams at Dutton have been outstanding in this district, having been winner up in the recent district 10 class tournament.

U. S. 3Iay 'Freeze' All Foreign Funds Including Those of England, Axis WASHINGTON, March 2 A general freezing order, restricting the removal of all foreign funds including those of England and the axis from the United states, seemed imminent to some officials today as the administration delayed freezing the funds of Bulgaria. Customarily, the administration has frozen funds of axis-occupied countries at the first official notice of the presence of axis troops. But today, although German occupation of Bulgaria had become a known fact, no order had been signed by President Roosevelt.

Well informed officials said It was possible that the White House might take no separate action on Bulgaria, but instefid issue a general order within a few days or weeks. To Revalue Property KALISPELL, March 2. (Special) Property revaluation in Flathead county will begin in about a week by Tom Lincoln's force of about 10 field workers. The work will be started in Kalispell and Whitefish and extended to rural areas. An increase in total valuation is expected.

Aesop of fable fame, was a Phrygian, not a negro. Phrygia was a country of Asia Minor. He lived during the latter half of the sixth century. Ice Queen "ill DOROTHY HAU Has been crowned Crystal Ice queen of Kane, northwestern Pennsylvania winter sports 1 vy The state highway department will receive bids on March 25 for bank protection at the Flathead river near here on highway No. 2.

Carl Nyberg, Spokane contractor, has two tractors and two Letour neau scrapers dredging the channel of the stream, depositing the material on either bank, to prevent scouring out the west approach of the new bridge, and reinforcement of the approach is deemed neces sary. Holliday Confesses To Butchering Beef Mark Holliday, 35, an ex-convict. admitted that he butchered beef stolen near Ulm, Sheriff Andy Lo-berg said Sunday, and will be charged with grand larceny. Holliday was arrested Feb. 12 by Loberg for investigation.

Also taken into custody in connection with the case is Clarence Penland, who is being held in the county jail. No confession was obtained from Pen land. In Navy GLENDIVE, March 2. (Special) Bud Sturtevant and Wallace Ull-man, both of Glendive, have enlisted in the United States navy. Both were graduated from Dawson County high school in the class of 1939.

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