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of of of of of THE SUNDAY MISSOULIAN, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 19, 1939. 5 This sixty-sixth infantry tank literally was "stumped" by the obstacle of tree trunks built by the fifth engineers. Tank trapping was part of U. S. Army demonstration at Fort Belvoir, Va.

Princeton Comes From Behind to Beat Yale, 13-7 Moment of Suspense for U. S. Army Husker Who Won Honors Is Hurt, Now in Hospital Pittsburgh, Nov. Rohn, flashy young sophomore who scored his first touchdown of the season today--the touchdown that gave Nebraska a victory over Pittsburgh-spent the night in Presbyterian hospital under observation. Rohn was knocked unconscious as he dived into the Pitt line late in the fourth period to make a first down near midfield.

He was carried from the field on a blanketstretcher and did consciousness for 10 minutesain Coach Biff Jones said Rohn apparently suffered concussion and that X-rays were being taken as a precaution. Sports Huddle New York, Nov. ain't true, is it, that a couple of California slickers peddled off a phoney citrus grove to Jim Londos, one of our 24-or is it 25-burping champions? The N. Y. Fight Managers' association is trying Member Hymie Caplin for stealing Jenkins, lightweight, from Frank Bachman.

The Green Bay Packers didn't practice for Brooklyn today because Coach Curley Lambeau had go out to the Polo Grounds to see his son, Don, play for Fordham vs. St. Mary's. You go see this week's newsreels then write us a 50-word piece on how Missouri's Paul Christman can be left off any guy's All-America. By the by, a big Mid-Western paper is getting ready to debunk what it terms Christman's "Purely fictional Dizzy Dean antics." Today's guest star: George Short, Chattanooga (Tenn.) News: "When the bowl is called out yonder who'll be there?" Attention Scouts: Penn high school at Greenville, has a six foot six pass-catching defensive wizard named Ed Kochis (who also kicks off and carries the ball from the fullback spot) ready for delivery The Willard-Dempsey films will be ready for distribution January 15 under the caption, "The birth of a champion" The best all-around back in pro football right now is Ace Parker of Brooklyn and it ought to make Nile Kinnick feel good to know the pro coaches regard him the nearest thing to Parker the collitches will turn out this Bang! New record: Last week we chronicled that Dale Isaacs of Washburn went hog wild and completed Drake.

eight straight passes against Whereupon, Stephens, captain-elect of the Michigan Tech squad, went and gave Brother Isaacs and friends someto shoot at by completing 11 thing in a row. Glad to see such loyal alumni as James J. Braddock, Jack Dempsey Ray Impellitiere at the St. Mary's football rally last night. DI MAG WEDS TODAY.

San Francisco, Nov. Joe DiMaggio, star Yankee outfielder, and Dorothy Arnoldine Olson, New York and Duluth actress, will be married at Saints Peter and Paul here tomorrow, they announced today. CIO FAVORED AGAIN. Washington, Nov. Labor board certified the CIO United Automobile Workers of America today as sole bargaining agent for the more than fifteen thousand employes in the seven of the Briggs Manufacturing company.

Over protests of the American Federation of Labor Automobile Workers of America, the board recognized the CIO union's request to act on an employer -wide basis. BOWL TO TAFT. Montclair, N. Nov. Senator Robert A.

Taft, Republican, Ohio, was named Friday to receive the Montclair Yale bowl December 9 at Nick Roberts' nineteenth annual barn party. The bowl is awarded annually to the Yale graduate who has made a in his life's work. FLY OVER HOLLAND. The Hague, Nov. government announced today that two German flying boats had appeared over Holland and one had fired at Netherlands planes which attacked it.

Apparently neither the German nor The Netherlands planes were damaged. Nazis Report Air Battle Successes Berlin, Nov. today claimed a triple success in the air war against the Allies in Nazi flights over France and Britain and the announcement three Britmade, planes had been driven off en route to the Wilhelmshaven naval base. The high command said in communique on yesterday's developments that "an attempt by three British planes to attack Wilhelmshaven failed through timely action of anti-aircraft." (The British air ministry, however, reported last night that Royal Air force planes successfully photographed "an Important German naval base" though they encountered heavy anti-aircraft fire.) Yesterday's flight of a German scouting plane to the west coast of England was described by DNB, official Germans news agency, as one of the most daring yet undertaken. ROBINSON BODY FOUND.

Louisville, Nov. -The battered body of Miss Bonnie May Robinson, 30, missing for three days, was found at noon today in weeds just off a foot path leading from her park drive residence to a mailbox. Coroner John M. Keany said she died of A fractured skull and that an autopsy revealed evidence of attempted rape. CONVICT SHOT DOWN.

Shawneetown, Nov. Willard Shockley, 23-year-old exconvict for whom a "kill-on-sight" order had been issued, was shot and killed here early today in a 15-minute gun fight with Sheriff Ed Hines and Deputy Reuben Davis. Shockley had been hunted since Wednesday night in connection with the shooting of State Highway Patrolman Cecil Brokmyer, who is near death in a Harrisburg, hospital. VERY LITTLE COUNTERFEIT. Washington, Nov.

The Secret Service reported happily today that of the $93,772,195 spent by 25,780,127 persons at the New York world's fair only $1,376.20 was found to be counterfeit, or "queer" money. Supervisory officials said the counterfeit percentage was "reduced to the negligible figure of .00001467, which is a record of which the service may be proud." PLAYING CARDS Special Price Per Deck 25c This price good only while our present stock losts. Stationery Section THE MERCANTILE TAILORING Now is the time to get your Fall Suit and Overcoat from our new line of samples and stock at the old price. Ernest Mitch TAILOR 503 N. Higgins Open Sunday, November 19 at the Garden City Floral Co.

Greenhouses We cordially invite the people of Western Montana to visit our greenhouses Sunday. Fall flowers are now at their best. the greenhouses were never more beautiful. Bring your family and be our guest Sunday at the greenhouses in Orchard Homes. No Plants or Flowers will be Sold at the Greenhouses Engineer Dead, Train Speeds Through Town Boston, Nov.

four-car Boston-bound rapid transit train, carrying nearly 500 passengers, sped through a station with its motorman dead at controls before it was brought to a stop several hundred yards beyond. The motorman, Jeremiah Walsh, 60, collapsed between stations, an automatic control slowed the train it passed the station, and A after, halted it. Humbled Capone Has No Grudges Baltimore, Nov. "Scarface" Al Capone, the humbled "big shot," is ready to cry quits. That, at least, was the word passed along today by his brother, John, Villanova, business man, whose name has never been conwith $25,000,000 crime syndicate Al once ruled in Chicago.

Speaking for the bed -ridden gangster, at the first press interview the Capone family has granted since Al entered the hospital here Thursday, John Capone asserted his brother bore no resentment toward society for his seven years in prison. "He's in a cheerful mood and doesn't hold a grudge against anybody," the family spokesman said. He added that the "big shot," who is suffering from paresis, was "a little on edge" 'nervous like anyone coming of By he meant Alcatraz, the Federal prison in California where Capone served most of his sentence for income tax evasion. He would not comment on the clinical aspects of the case, however, referring all inquiries to Dr. Joseph Moore, Capone's attending physician.

Last night, Dr. Moore said his patient was "chronically but not acutely He replied "no comment" when asked if Capone was rational. Other hospital sources said Capone would undergo treatment in1 volving one of the modern methods of inducing artifically high temperatures. Only Babies Should Be Thumb-Suckers Cincinnati, Ohio, Nov. Junior sucks his thumb, don't worry, says Dr.

William S. Langford, 85- sistant in psychiatry at Columbus university. But when thumb sucking goes farther into life than the said infant he stage--and Dr. Langford knew a beautiful model at the age of 26 and a man of 40 who are thumb habituates--there is time for concern. Here for the National Academy of Pediatrics convention, the professor said if Junior at a pre-school age still sucks his thumb it means: He is bored, he is tired, he is 50- lacing himself for punishment or he is frustrated.

After that age, thumb suckers need a little sympathetic study, Dr. Langford said. TO BEGIN HEARING. Washington, Nov. 18.

-Senator Thomas, Democrat, Utah, announced today that the Senate Civil Liberties committee would begin hearing at Los Angeles November 24 in its investigation into the activities of employers' associations in California. New Hotpoint Washing Machine SPECIAL OFFER! Hotpoint Air-Conditioned Clothes- Taner or Hamper, reed basket with "pearlwick" cover, purifier, "snap-on" removable mesh bag. Occupies only one square foot of floor space. A $7.95 value. $79.95 Hotpoint Clothes-Taner Washer Value $8790 7.95 Allowance for Your Old Washer Regardless of Its Condition 2000 YOUR COST, ONLY $6790 $5.69 Per Month! No Cash Down! Start Monthly Payments Next Year! Be rid of that inefficient, noisy old washer.

Realize $20.00 on it during this Hotpoint special offer. Come in Only 4 Hotpoint washers available on this offer. ALSO FREE SEWING KIT WITH EACH WASHER Orvis Music House 109 South Third Phone 2553 you Grange Favors Credit Agency As Independent Adopts Resolution for Establishment of Bi-Partisan Board. Peoria, Nov. -The National Grange adopted a resolution today favoring establishment of the farm credit administration as an independent agency, operating under the supervision of a bipartisan board appointed for staggered terms of office.

The farm credit administration was transferred to the Department of Agriculture in recent governmental reorganization and some members of the Grange expressed apprehension that changes unfavorable to farmers needing credit future. facilities might be made iri the They were particularly concerned about reports that cooperative features of some of the lending agencies might be destroyed. The Grange proposed that the farm credit administration AS an independent agency would have supervision of the Federal farm loan system, the production credit system, the banks for cooperatives, the intermediate credit bank system and the Federal farm mortgage corporation. It was also recommended that the cooperative features of the Federal land bank system, the production credit system and the banks for cooperatives be preserved and strengthened and means be devised for establishing the intermediate credit banks on a cooperative basis. Continuation of the Federal farm mortgage corporation beyond January 31, 1940, the date its power to make loans expires, was urged in the resolution.

In another resolution the Grange proposed levying excise taxes on all imports on the dutiable list, with the tax calculated equalize the difference in the cost production ora in the United States and abroad. It was specified, however, that this regulation should apply only to imports which are commercially available in this country. The Grange also went on record as opposed to purchase by the government of imported meats when such products are available from domestic sources. Lowly Hamburger Crashes Society Philadelphia, Nov. went high hat and a bandage peeped from the guest of honor's blonde bangs as 200 of the orchid set danced till dawn today at a birthday party given by wealthy Doris Duke Cromwell for a debutante injured in an automobile accident.

The story going 'round was that the bandaged "bud," pretty Peggy Anne Humber of Philadelphia's exclusive "main line," left a sick bed for her eighteenth birthday party and would enter a hospital afterwards for a skin-grafting operation. But the patch on Peggy's pate, cut a week ago when an automobile plunged into a tree on the way back from the Princeton-Harvard football game, barely showed as she whirled around the ballroom of a swank midtown roof garden. Champagne and other potables flowed at a large square bar covered with snowy cloth but the counter attraction was a hamburger dispensary, rigged up as a roadside diner in a setting of transplanted trees and hedges. Inside were a short-order cook, entertainers and plenty of catsup. Sharing attention with Peggy was her hostess, Mrs.

Cromwell, who smokes the 15-cent cigarettes that made her private fortune and is a trustee of Duke university. She wore a black lace dress, almost backless, and diamond earings. A Hawaiian lei of carnations encircled her neck. Mr. Cromwell-James is the first name was there, too.

He's running for the senate in New Jersey. The Cromwells, invited 250 and paid out $25,000 to entertain Peggy Anne and her friends. AIR LINE SOUGHT. Washington, Nov. Airlines, applied to the civil authority today for to establish a aeronautics, new line between Bismarck and Minot, N.

to carry passengers, mail and express. Very little is known about the discovery of silk. The most common legend is that it first was made Si-Ling-Chi, wife of Hoang-Ti III, Chinese emperor of about 2,000 B. C. NOTICE.

Herbert 0. Holt, certified public accountant, formerly of Billings, announces the opening of his office in Missoula. Room 1, Masonic Temple Bldg. For the Most Dependable in Fuel Value ASK YOUR DEALER FOR GENUINE OWL CREEK The Aristocrat of Western Coals METHODIST BISHOP DIES. Working Out to Battle Yellowjackets Pirates Prepare to Fight Stevensville Monday For Title.

Polson, Nov. Pirates were on the gridiron today in practice for their big game Monday afternoon with the Stevensville Yellowjackets for the Western district championship. Prospects are not so bright for Polson as they could be, according Coach Gordon Wilson. The boys are somewhat stale from too many games recently, it is reported, and they also feel the loss of C. Forte keenly.

Forte is one of the best offensive and defensive men on the team, playing guard on offense and in the backfield on defense, as safety man. The team misses his long return of punts. POISON was injured in the game with two weeks ago. Two other players, B. Dupuisk and B.

Smith, linemen, are also out of the running. Denver Nuggets Receive Needed Financial Backing Denver, Nov. Denver Nuggets, defending National A. A. U.

basketball champions, have licked their first opponent of the new season--financial embarrassment. After lack of funds had threatened the disbanding of the team this week, the Denver Convention and Tourist bureau announced today it would underwrite the $1,500 necessary to pay the team's traveling and equipment expenses. Coach Jack McCracken, the team's outstanding player, issued a call for workouts starting next Monday. Only five of last season's players besides McCracken are availableForwards Tee Connelley, Ralph Bishop and Werner Frank, Center Bob Gruenig and Guard Dick Wells. With the Nuggets competing again, it was believed Denver would bid for its sixth consecutive national tournament.

COUGARS TO BARNSTORM. Pullman, Nov. The first barnstorming trip ever made by a Washington State basketball team into the Middlewest will send the Cougars against seven intersectional opponents in December, Coach Jack Friel said today. Friel's young only one veteran lost by eight team games and lost eight in a hot Pacific Coast whorthere division fight last year, University of Oregon's towering Webfoots used the crown as a stepping stone to the Coast conference and national titles. The trip schedule includes December 12, Montana State College at Bozeman.

MORE FOR TENNESSEE. Kingsport, Nov. Bobby Cifers, who has scored 362 points in two seasons of high school football, looked around today for new football worlds to conquer. The 185-pound triplethreat halfback, closing out his high school grid career yesterday, "guesses" he will cast his lot with Major Bob Neyland at the University of Tennessee. But many college scouts have dangled juicy scholarship offers before him, and he may change his mind.

He was the nation's leading prep scorer last year. His brother, Ed, is a varsity end on the Tennessee's unbeaten and untied machine. Have You Tried a Pair ofLarkwood Toe HOSE? $1 $1.15 $1.25 Whaley Style Shop 118 E. Main Some Items the Want Ads Will Move Quickly Sewing Machines, Vaccum Cleaners, Refrigerators, Bicycles, Motor Boats, Fishing Tackle, Furniture, Lawn Equipment, Washing Machines, Musical Instruments, Typewriters, Stoves, Drawing Instruments, Camp Stoves, Luggage, Tools, Cameras, Guns, Trailers and hundreds of other items that are hidden away in your basement or attic. Many people are not aware of the money-making possibilities of Missoulian-Sentinel Want Ads.

Portland, Nov. Bishop Wallace E. Brown, 71, in charge of Methodist work in Oregon, Washington, and church, Alaska, died here today, He came here from Chattanooga, November 7. EAGER for Action! Boy Routs Robber After Father Is Slain in Holdup New Haven, Nov. Yale had outfought favored Princeton for three periods, the Tigers, came from behind win 13 to 7 today before a crowd of 35,000.

Moving to the Princeton 4-yard line, Yale called Howie (Two-Plays) Kaye, kicking specialist, into the game giving every indication he was going to try for a field goal. Then Fred Burr, instead, knifed through left tackle for the score. Kaye converted from placement. Bob Peters and Dick Wells crashed through for touchdowns within a few minutes of each other in the last quarter. Only seconds before Peters' Yale had stopped Princeton inches from the goal line, but, undaunted, the Tigers unleashed their fury all over again starting the march that led their first score from Yale's 25.

Texas A. M. Is Victor Over Rice Houston, Texas, Nov. Roughhouse Texas A. rang up its ninth consecutive victory today, burying Rice 19-0.

Big John Kimbrough, Bill Conatser and Harold Cowley, an end, scored the touchdowns. Cowley and Conatser scores were registered on passes. TEXAS' SENSATIONAL WIN. Austin, Texas, Nov. Gilly Davis wound up one of the most sensational offensive battles in Southwest conference history today with 66-yard touchdown sprint in dying minutes to give Texas 25-to-19 victory over Texas Christian on a muddy field.

Marquette Smooth Attack Wins, 22-19 Lubbock, Texas, Nov. Marquette launched a smooth late offense and stubborn defense to triumph 22 to 19 today over the Texas Tech Red Raiders who had outscored and outplayed the Golden Avalanche most of the way. Idaho Southern Scoring Thrust Gives Them Edge Pocatello, Nov. 61-yard scoring thrust gave University of Idaho Southern branch a 6-0 victory over University of Omaha in a football game today. John Woffington scored for the Bengals, crossing from the three after he had packed the ball 37 yards in two tries.

A third-period passing attack put Omaha in scoring position. Big Paul Gaer rammed five yards to the Idaho one in three tries but a fourth down pass went incomplete. PRO CREAM BACKFIELD. Chicago, Nov. "cream" backfield which George Halas, coach of the Chicago Bears, hopes will prove a "nightmare" to the Philadelphia Eagles in their pro game Sunday.

Halas plans to start Sid Luckman, formerly of Columbia, at quarterback; Billy Patterson, exBaylor star, at left half; Bob MacLeod, ex-Darthmouth ace, at right half, and Bill Osmanski, Holy Cross star of 1938, at fullback. HOLY CROSS DUMPS SKIBOS. Worcester, Nov. Smashing Carengie Tech's mighty defense, Holy Cross scored three touchdowns on dazzling long runs today to thrash the Skibos, 21 to 0, and establish a definite claim to ranking among the nation's football leaders. A HIGH SCORING YOUTH.

Eufaula, Nov. football teams are pikers- -here's a prep star who does better than that himself. Junior Golding, Eufaula high, has scored 197 of his team's 237 points this fall. MONTANA YOUTH WINNER. Chicago, Nov.

fourround decision over Tommy Parker, 132, Lexington, is the newest entry on the boxing record of Billy Seward, 134, Ingomar, Mont. They fought last night; Chicago, Nov. A Addante, 13 years old, sat behind the counter of his father's small grocery store last night reading a school book when a Negro robber entered. "Give me your money," growled the robber, pointing a pistol at Pasquale. "We haven't much money here," protested the boy.

"You wouldn't take it, would, you?" The gunman from the cash drawer and turned to go when the boy's father, Vito, 32, emerged from the rear living quarters with his wife and two small children. "Push the kids the floor," shouted Addante to his wife as he fired a small caliber pistol at the robber. Simultaneously the gunman fired. slumped to the floor mortally wounded with a bullet near his heart. Pasquale picked up the fallen pistol and fired three shots.

Crying with pain, the robber staggered through the doorway, with Pasquale in pursuit. The boy fired four more shots at the man, who escaped returning two ineffective shots. A few minutes later the gunman appeared at Provident hospital. He had been in the side, knee and arm. Before the nurse could summon a physician there was a commotion at the receiving door.

Someone was bringing the already dead Addante to the same room occupied by his slayer. The robber leaped from a table and staggered into the darkness. At a police station Pasquale, a seventh pupil, gave an unemotional account of the shooting. "When I saw Dad on the floor, all I could think of was to kill the man who shot him," said youngster. "I crawled on the floor to the gun, picked it up, and started firing.

It was the first time I had ever shot a gun in my life." His father's death came durhis fourth encounter with ing, robbers. Mrs. Addante said the man who killed him was the same robber who held the store a year ago. Last January Addante killed a Negro during an attempted Stokowski Rivals Lost Suspender Button Case Philadelphia, Nov. calisthenics of orchestra conducting have finally scored against sartorially splendid Leopold Stokowski.

His "gates ajar" collar came loose with a pop at a Philadelphia orchestra concert yesterday, flapped for five minutes and sent a murmur of consternation through sedate Academy of Music. But the music flowed on and Stokowski made repairs during intermission. Nothing like it had been seen in the academy since Guest Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham lost a suspender button at the peak of a crescendo. Convicts Riot, Asking for Service Against Germans London, Nov. hundred rioters in Exeter prison were confined to their cells today after night-long uproar in which they shouted, "We're Englishmen, we want to fight." The disturbance was described as the worst of a series since convicts from Wandsworth prison were transferred to Exeter at the start of the war.

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