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THE GREAT FALLS TRIBUNE Saturday Morning, October 14, 1939 Page 6 State Sends Hollywood Glamour Takes Intellectual Giants to Spend Six Years Learning Everything An Atvful Beating McCrone Case Flares; U. S. Interested 7 Aircraft Draftsman Faces Charges of Stealing Drawings LOS ANGELES, Oct. 13. (U.R Edward W.

McDonough, draftsman at the Douglas aircraft plant, today was arrested on a federal complaint charging him with the theft of drawings and plans used in the construction of military airplanes. It was reported that agents of the federal bureau of investigation were called in on the case by members of the army intelligence service, who closely watch factories handling government plane contracts. Drill Tests Start at Dam Soon Army Engineers To Conduct Investigation in Flathead KALISPELL, Oct. 13. (Special) One of the last and probably the most Important tests of the sufficiency of Hungry Horse dam will be started next week, according to Joe P.

Mylnar, in charge of diamond drill testing for the army engineering department at Seattle. The diamond drill for the testing of the footings of the dam will arrive here and be taken to the south fork damsite, set up and put 'in operation at the earliest date possible. Mylnar was accompanied by L. B. Williams, cook for the drilling crew.

Due to danger of snow and severe winter weather, there will be three eight-hour shifts until all the holes necessary to complete the test of the footings have been finished. There will be 12 men employed on drilling. The time this work will take depends largely on the depth necessary to go and the number of holes that must be drilled. S. J.

Culbertson and Mylnar left for the damsite, where the former will look over the route that will have to be taken to get the compressor and diamond drill in as well as locate a campsite. Culbertson will spot the holes to be drilled, as all the work is under his direction. With the added crew of 12 men on the drilling job, there will be 27 men on the work necessary to complete the interim report called for. The key hole will be the first to be drilled and others of lesser importance will be drilled as long as the weather permits. I' JlZ cv i I t- I I Ugh! (.

v. 1 0 the Mohawk." university's brain team, and Dr. II Ooiriph! 1 1 Alice Faye in "Hollywood r' Claudette Colbert in "Drums Along At Jf5 S' I i Persons Allied to Butte Action Might Face Prosecution BUTTE, Oct. 13. (Special) Fed.

eral authorities in Washington, D. are considering prosecution on; income tax evasion charges of "some of the cases" investigated in Mon-' tana during the last two years. H. Wasner of Seattle, agent in charge of the 15th district, intelligence division, internal revenue department, said here today. "We are still very much interested in the Montana cases which are allied with the McCrone case but I don't believe any of them will be ready for the grand jury here this month," Wasner said.

He referred to a federal grand jury called by United States District Judge James H. Baldwin to convene in Butte Wednesday. William McCrone, Butte saloon keeper and former constable, was held by Judge Baldwin to be in contempt of court for refusal to answer questions asked by revenue officers in connection with an investigation into the income tax return of an unnamed Montana person last year. McCrone spent 10 days in the Sil ver Bow county jail, refusing to answer questions on the grounds that to do so might incriminate him. He was freed on bail bond.

The case was taken to the United States supreme court, which upheld Judge Baldwin's ruling last spring, one year after McCrone was cited for contempt. McCrone then spent several days behind closed doors with the agents and they announced he had "fully complied with the court order." The Investigation, which officers said Involved a number of tax returns, spread from Butte to other Montana cities and was reported to have been continued last spring. War Business Bad 1 WALLACE, Idaho, Oct. 13. (Xh-Mining men of the Coeur d'Alene district were told last night that "war business is bad business" and no responsible person in the steel industry favored United States participation in the European conflict The speaker was Donald C.

Gillies of Cleveland, vice president or tne Republic Steel Corp. and president of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers. Among the birds that can be taught to talk are the piping crows of Australia, the mynah parrot, some species of jays, macaws and even starlings. MURR ILL'S The Finest Cocktail Lounge in the Northwest Presents for Your Approval Bennie Johnson Art Barnhard Creating Sophisticated Melody And don't forget the Rubinoff Concert, October 20th. MURRILL'S 1 1090 it's Youths To Royal Show Will Enter National Contests at Annual Future Farmer Meet BOZEMAN, Oct.

13. (Special) Nine Montana Future Farmers, four of them Montana State college students, left Bozeman today fox Kan sas City to take part in the annual national convention of the Future Farmers of America. They are accompanied by A. W. Johnson, Bozeman, state supervisor of vocational agriculture, and Harry Hoffman, vocational tigriculture instructor in Miles City, who will be in charge of judging teams.

The group will return Oct. 22. Paul Holzer of Stanford, president of the Montana Future Fanners of is an official delegate to the convention and a member of the dairy judging team. Holzer is a student at Montana State college. Dan Mizner of Deer Lodge, past president of the Montana Future Farmers of America, is also an official delegate and will be one of two candidates for the American farmer degree, which will be awarded at the convention.

Alvin Myer of Fairifeld, member of the Choteau F. F. A. chapter, is the second candidate for the American farmer degree. Both are students at Montana State college.

John Hartwig, also a student at Montana State -college, rand LaRue Cantrell and Dennis Smith of Dillon will represent Montana in the national livestock judging contest. Other contestants are Tom Geary, president of the Deer Lodge F. F. A. chapter: Marian Haker, Stanford, and Isaac Shy of Miles City.

Geary will take part in poultry judging and the other two in dairy judging The Deer Lodge F. F. A. chapter entered the national chapter record contest of the convention and the Malta chapter prepared the Montana agricultural display. Montana Future Farmers will be guests at the American Royal Livestock show and will make several special tours.

Thorkelson Berated For Offering Letter On a Rumor Basis WASHINGTON. Oc 13. (JP) Representative Thorkelson. republican, Montana, placed in the house record today a letter signed "Col. E.

M. House," which referred to a plan for "the peaceful return of the American colonies to the dominion of the crown" and indicated the author, was involved in carrying it out. Representative Thomason, democrat, Texas, asked Thorkelson whether he had evidence that the late Col. E. M.

House, a Texan and confidential adviser to President Wilson, had signed the missive. "I don't know that positively." re plied Thorkelson. He understood. he said, that it was from "the secret files of the British consulate in New York." "It Is the rankest kind of injus tlce if it's not a bona fide letter and of that I have serious Thomason exclaimed. Carney Leads Peelers NEW YORK, Oct.

13. (JP) Paul earner of Galeton, principal challenger for the all-American cowboy championship at the Madison Square garden rodeo, was a little nearer his goal today after turning in the best ride in the cowboys saddled bronc event last night. LIKES FARMING -This gentleman farmer with a flare for military tactics is Gen. Henri Guisan, 65. head of neutral Switzerland's armed forces, who may not have much chance for rural pursuits.

Swiss borders touch Italy, Germany, France. Served Every Sunday SPECIAL SUIIDAY DINNER DELUXE $i00 5:30 to 8:00 P. M. Week Day Dinners 75c to $1 PARK HOTEL F. J.

Ferra, Manager -Frank O'Malley. Chef I 4 fll. The survey at the damsite is practically completed and a contour map is being made in the local of fice of the dam area that will be used as an aid in making definite location of the damsite. Another crew has been studying irrigation possibilities of the valley as well as checking possible canals in the event of gravity irrigation. Culbertson has been making a boat trip around the shoreline of Flathead lake to estimate flood damage.

(RIOUtARLY St. 50) 4 DANISH PRINCESS 5 a'clocz TEA SPOONS' You'll find this charminj quartette of spoons just what you netd for teas 1 and Never before offered tli is price HOLMES EDWARDS SILVZKPLATB Just at smart for fruits, ices, puddings and other desserts. NOW OFFERED rOR LIMITED TIME ONLY 425-427 Centrol Avenue LA McDonough was locked in the county jail in lieu of $10,000 bail. A spokesman for the Douglas com pany reported McDonough had been discharged by the organization several weeks ago and since then has been under the surveillance of fed eral agents. Not So Lucky BOSTON, Oct.

13. On Charles Wells, 63, was lucky on Friday the 13th, but not for long. About 15 minutes after he won $100 at a beano party, he told police, two men relieved him of it on his doorstep. Radio Star 111 PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 13.

(U.K Claude Rains, motion picture, stage and radio star, was reported resting comfortably at University hospital today following a hernia operation. Support Open 12:30 p. nv, 25c til 2 OWL SHOW TONIGHT frtii frit rrAwiltf rAm a rf See the Greatest i Picture Evr Rrminlif to the Screen! EXTRA! o5 WORLD SERIES jfcm nnoi vja mc in ins FOX MOVIETONE NIWS LATE OWL SHOW 10 P. M. HURRY! HURRY! TOI LAST CHANCE TO SEE THIS AMAZING DOCUMENT Also ROBERT BENCHLEY in "ONE HOUR FOR LUNCH' COLOR CARTOON LEITH STEVENS BAND TOMORROW SEE C0ES 01 rtirrrti rw i THOSE HIGH GREY WALLS" Walter Connolly Irlj Mtrtdith OWL SHOW! LAST DAY a THE HARDY5 VI a a RIDE HIGH AND WEST OF THE RAINBOW'S END a STARTS SUNDAY jri A 'AM curst iKvre- 1 A.

7 Wsktsm i P. tmnm ea OtJ THE waz" iti.BiHHr li lt i LINDA DARNELL LYvw I EISA HAXWEU I ALSO entered training Sept. 20. Their routine: Arise at 7: attend class until 1:30: exercise, play or study all afternoon, then study at night until 10:45 o'clock. They may participate in extracurricular activities except fraternities.

(Prexy figures fraternity life might interfere with studies.) Instead of 15 hours' class work a week, they take 25 to 30. Instead of 8H months a year, they will study They will study every science and art taught at the university. from shorthand and swimming to Greek and philosophy. They will race through the principal sum of human knowledge and find the task harder, say Dr. Jacobs, than or dinary studies to ordinary students.

Jobs Promised When all done they should have "half a dozen ways to make a living." There's a demand for their services already, as shown by the offer of one international business firm to find jobs for all of them. Dr. Jacobs expects the team to average SO or better for about 100 courses. That includes Latin, Greek, French, German, Italian, Spanish, astronomy, geology, paleonthology. anthropology just to give you an idea.

Dr. Jacob enthuses: 'They should be able to look over the heads of the myoptic specialists and of the common herd; to see farther and more clearly than they do: to combine, as far as is human ly possible, the wisdom of the past and present." If all goes well, another team will be started next year. Leader and "assistant coach" is 21-year-old Frederick Goss. whose title is "Don." A tall, thoughtful youth, he hails from Proctor, and is the only child of a stonecutter. He has had two years at Oglethorpe but starts from scratch.

Football Man Leads No bookworm, although he came to Oglethorpe on a scholarship, Goss played varsity football, was president of his high school student council, a Y. M. C. A. leader and a hobbyist in bird lore and photography.

He swims, plays tennis and Softball at Oglethorpe. Goss hopes to obtain "a well rounded education so I can cope with any problem in future life." Dr. Jacobs hopes he will remain as an instructor. There's one factor not accounted for in Dr. Jacob's plan.

Romance "That," says he, "is a problem we'll have to tackle if and when we get to it." Brenda Joyce in "Here I am a Stranger." Evolution of the European 'Powder Keg'! Ki.w'..? -T I Frederick Goss, leader of Oglethorpe Thornwell Jacobs, its coacb. ATLANTA, Oct. 13. (JP) An 11-man brain team has gone into training this semester at Oglethorpe universitytraining just as intensive and far longer than that of any college football squad. In a unique educational experiment, team members will stay in college six years, do two or three times as much work as an average student and "learn at least four times as much" (they hope, they hope).

"Coach" and originator of the idea is Dr. Thornwell Jacobs, Oglethorpe president. Says he: "Boys differ as much intellectually as physically. A football coach wouldn't try to make a varsity tackle from a 115-pound runt. Yet professors lump 50, 100 and 200 pound intellectuals indiscriminately.

It's ridiculous." No Midnight Oil Dr. Jacobs selected his team from the upper 5 or 10 percent of recent high school graduates and is raising funds to finance them. They Delinquent Record Must Be Compiled If Examiner Orders HELENA, Oct. 13. (JP) The state examiner under Montana law has power to prescribe a delinquent tax record for counties of the state and should he do so the counties are compelled to conform to it, Attorney General H.

J. Freebourn ruled to day. Expense incident to installation of such a tax record, if nreseribed hv the examiner, is a mandatory 'ex penditure required by law and could be termed an emergency expenditure to be made under the county budget law, he added. Cattle Shipped NASHUA, Oct. 13.

(Special) The first shipment of cattle this season was consigned to South St. Paul by the Milk Kiver Valley Shippers association. Henry Burkhardt, manager, accompanied the cattle. He will visit at the home of his son-in-law. Roy T.

Gordon, a resident of Nashua when he was editor of the Nashua Independent, at Kirkhoven. Minn. Three carloads of sheep were consigned to Sidney to be fed. In the Congo, the Belgian government maintains a school for elephants. The animals are trained, then sold or hired out.

Central Avenue 11. no I it SUDDEN INCREASE IN POLO COAT POPULARITY We Have Them Priced at $19.95 and $25.00 Because they have taken on a new softness, new detail, but still keep their classic simplicity. Perfect for football games, travel, campus and weekend trips. CASUAL AND BELTED STYLES Natural, Black and Oxford SPECIAL SALE OF REPOSSESSED FUR COATS AND JACKETS Several as Low as $5 SWEATERS, All Colors, $1 CLEARANCE SALE OF ALL TAILORED SUITS 33 1-3 DISCOUNT "5 Dodson Man Badly Hurt When He Fails To Negotiate a Turn LANDUSKY, Oct. 13.

(Special) Bably cut and bruised about the head and his shoulder dislocated, Jay James of Dodson was pulled from under his truck after it had rolled over and over down a steep bank. He failed -to make a turn on the Landusky road two miles from Zortman. James was rushed to the Malta hospital, where it is said he is in a critical condition. Teachers Entertained FORT SHAW, Oct. 13.

(Special) The Fort Shaw teachers were entertained at a reception at the school. HQ Spanish dishes made with Schilling Chili Powder breathe the robust zest of old Mexico! It's the ideal chili powder blend that enables you to prepare unusual dishes quickly and easily. Try Schilling Chili Powder. I flillitM Like all Schilling Spices, the best money can buy. 37 SPICtS 19 IXTRACTS 620.

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