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'AND Associated OFFICIAL LAWRENCE Press PAPER Service OF COUNTY LEAD DAILY CALL HOME OF THE HOMESTAKE THE HEART OF THE BLACK HILLS -FIFTH YEAR LEAD, SOUTH DAKOTA, TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1939 PRICE FIVE CENT9 Two Robbers Hold Up Highland Hotel Lobby And Escape With $40 Pair Believed To Have Stol- HEARINGS ON en 1 Spearfish Car Two daring youths, believed to be about 25 years old, walked into the lobby of the Highland hotel on Main street here shortly after midnight last night, brandished a revolver in the face of the night clerk, Donald Erickson, and escaped with what money was not locked in the hotel safe. Their loot was around $40. Erickson was alone in the lobby when the two men, roughiy dressed and unshaven, entered and at the point of a gun forced him to turn over what money there was in the register. They demanded that he open the safe and threatened to shoot, saying they did not believe him when he protested that he did not know the combination. Still covering with the gun, which officers said today probably was a .38 revolver, the two robbers backed out of the door and fled.

Just as they left, Milton Carlson, bell boy at the hotel, and a friend, Jackie Miller, entered the lobby. The robbers were described as about six feet tall and both in the neighborhood of 25 years old. One wore a gray suit and gray overcoat and was bareheaded. The other had on a brown suit and brown hat. Both were dark haired and dark skinned.

Night Police Officer William ler had been in the hotel lobby a short time before the robbery oCcurred. It is possible the pair had been watching and entered the lobby as soon as the officer had walked down the street. A widespread search for the robbers was under way today. Early this afternoon no trace of them had been found. The two men are believed by officers to have stolen a 1939 Ford V8 car owned by County Agent Carl Entorf in Spearfish about 7:30 o'clock last night.

The pair was seen in Spearfish about 7 o'clock, and a short time later Entorf's car disappeared. The car was a dark green coach, bearing 1938 license tags 41-5425. Later last night the car license plates 41-B-1843 were stolen from a car in Lead, officers said. Theft of the car in Spearfish, the license plates in Lead and the robbery of the hotel: all appeared to be the work of the same pair, officers believe. Two men whose descriptions tally with those of the pair who robbed the hotel here last night were seen loitering about in Deadwood early yesterday afternoon.

LITTLE OPPOSITION TO W. 0. DOUGLAS IS SEEN IN THE SENATE WASHINGTON, Mar. President Roosevelt's nomination of W. O.

Douglas to succeed Justice Louis D. Brandeis on the supreme court appeared headed today for speedy and overwhelming senate confirmation. Although most western senators expressed disappointment that some one from their region was not chosen, none said specifically he would oppose the sandy haired 40-year-old chairman of the securities commission. The republican leader, McNary, joined democartic Leader Barklye in predicting quick approval Representative Rankin (D-Miss) said the appointment probably would mean Douglas' nomination for president on the democratic ticket next year. Speculation arose over the choice of a new SEC head.

The remaining commissioners are understood to feel that on this selec-! tion will depend to a great extent on whether the agency will continue its active course in stock regulation and regional reorganization of util-! ities holding companies. Search For Killer In Wyoming Still POWELL, Mar. Search for 26-year-old Earl Durand, wanted for the slaying of two peace officers last Thursday, settled down today to a dogged exploration of isolated muntain areas. Sheriff Frank! Blackburn of Cody said as far as can be learned the raw meat eating sharp shooter has not returned to the vicinity of his ranch home since he shot down Undersheriff D. M.

Baker and Marshal C. E. Lewis in a break from jail where he was confined on a poaching charge. Possemen expected him to take refuge in mountain caves but without a footprint to guide them they saw the rugged slopes of the Bear Tooth mountains or the rough Clark's Fork canyon country north of here equally possible hideouts. KIWANIS HEARS PLANS FOR NEW SCHOOL HOUSE Hunkins Describes Proposed New Junior-Senior High Building Superintendent R.

V. Hunkins explained to the local Kiwanis club several points of interest regarding the proposed junior-senior high school building for Lead, at the dinner gathering last evening. The location of the proposed building on the proposed site was shown by a drawing of the present city park with the location of the present buildings shown and the location of the proposed building superimposed on these. This showed the front will come appropriately close to South Main street, while the rear of the main buildings will come back to the approximate location of the entrance doors to the present dance pavilion. The eastern, or upper end the building will reach slightly beyond the present location of the park caretaker's cottage, while the western or lower end will reach beyond the paved road which leads into the park.

An architect's drawing of the front of the proposed building was ined with much interest. This shows that the proposed auditorium will occupy the eastern end of the build- ing, while the gymnasium will be housed in the western end, with the center section devoted to class rooms and study halls. The three units. ac-1 cording to the sketch, will be of uniform height, the class room section being three stories high on the front. A proposed unit for shop courses will be housed in a one story unit at the rear of the center section of the main building.

Much interest was shown by the Kiwanians in the sketches a and in the explanations given by Mr. Hunkins, in which he traced the developments of the building program for the Lead schools. The circumstances surroundin the erection of the present high school building and annex, were plained. Since the present buildings were designed to house 500 students, and are now housing 650, it is clear that they are too small to serve satisfactorily. The present auditorium was not designed as an auditorium for pubiic performances since the Homestake theater was available for public occasions.

In recent years this has been changed, so the auditorium facilities of the school are inadequate. It is evident that the gymnasium facilities are inadequate. both for instructional purposes and for competitive games. At present the program of practice must continue into the evening hours, in order to accommodate all groups who should practice, Mr. Hunkins plained.

G. N. Bjorge, in presenting Mr. Hunkins as the speaker for the evening, explained the attitude of the Homestake Mining company toward. the proposed building.

While there is no danger of subsidence causing immediate damage to the present school buildings, they will eventually have to be abandoned, he said, and since that is the case, the community might as well enjoy the benefits of a school that is adequate to its needs. The Homestake Mining company has agreed to the proposed plans which the board of education has made public. Last evenings' program was ranged by Mr. Bjorge, program chairman for March. PRISONERS AT SAN QUENTIN AGAIN ON A HUNGER STRIKE SAN QUENTIN, Mar.

(IP) -Authorities of San Quentin prison acted today to break the second hunger strike in two months and hinted at a plan to revoke the good behavior credits of strike leaders. "The whole thing," said Warden Court Smith "is due to about 15 trouble makers." Sixteen hundred of the 5,300 inmates of San Quentin refused to eat their evening meal yesafter a protest against the prison fare. Later, however, they went quietly to their cells along 3,700 other convicts who had failed with to join in the strike. Guards threatened strikers with confinement on a bread and water diet if they refused to eat breakfast today. Meantime higher prison authorities said if the unrest continued they would ask the board of prison terms and parole to revoke the "good time" credits of the strike leaders.

This would add about 50 per cent to the length of most sentences. Warden Smith said there was ing the matter with the prison food. "Trouble makers are stirring up all this fuss," he declared. "We are going to find the ring leaders and punish them. The rest of the prisoners are taking part only because they fear reprisals if they don't follow the big shots." France, Britain Court Russia To Stop Hitler GOLD THEFT CONSPIRACY IS REVEALED Seven Hundred Arrests Expected In Belgian Congo Plot BRUSSELS, Mar.

Belgian government disclosed today 700 arrests were expected in a vast gold theft conspiracy between the negro workers and white traders in the Belgian Congo. It was said that an average of 4,000 pounds of raw gold valued at about $2,000,000 had been stolen yearly for many years at mines in certain districts. Police have arrested 29 white persons and 74 negroes and said that 600 more arrests were planned. Kenneth Kellar And Mollie Jelbert Are Wed In Denver Sunday Word has reached the city of the marriage last Sunday, March 19, of Mrs. Mollie Jelbert, of Deadwood, and Kenneth C.

Kellar, of Lead, who stole a march on their friends by leaving unexpectedly last Sunday morning for the west coast. The marriage took place in Denver, although the bride and bridegroom have not yet divulged details. Both Mr. and Mrs. Kellar are widely known and have the congratulations and best wishes of hosts of friends.

Mr. Kellar, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Chambers Kellar, of Lead. is the junior member of the law firm of Kellar and Kellar.

Mrs. Kellar was until recently employed in the New York store in Deadwood. Upon their return from the west coast Mr. and Mrs. Kellar will make their home at 620 Sunny Hill Road in Lead.

SOCIAL SECRUITY MEDICAL, DENTAL ALLOWANCES LIMITED PIERRE, Mar. H. McCay, state social security director, announced today that future medical and dental allowances for old age assistance recipients will be limited to $12 a year per person. A $6 maximum budget for ordinary household remedies will be continued. The director, in a letter to all county commissioners of the state, explained it is impossible for department workers to determine medical needs.

He said the department has been compelled to accept either the recipient's word or attempt to obtain information from doctors. "This information has not been accurate in a lot of cases," he declared. "The result is that this department has been expending a large sum of money for so-called medical purposes which has been diverted to other uses," the letter said. "This money can be more fairly used for extending it over a larger number of old age assistance people who need food, shelter and clothing. While it may appear to you at first that we are placing an additional load on the county commissioners by this action, the indirect result will be that we will be better able to take care of more people from the actual stand of subsistence and we do know that you as county commissioners have knowledge of these people and are in a better position to control the outlay for medical assistance than we are." McCay said old age assistance recipients now receiving in excess of $12 a year for medical or dental care will be re-budgeted as quickly as possible.

MORRELL LABOR HEARING ORDERED SIOUX FALLS, Mar. Charges that John Morrell and company at its local plant has engaged in unfair labor practices will be aired here March 30, at a hearing ed by the national labor relations board. The hearing was set today after charges filed by Local 304 Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butchers Workmen of North America and an answer by the company had been filed with the regional office of the labor board at Minneapolis. The complaint charges officials of the local Morrell plant supported the formation of a labor organization of its employees and has dominated its operation, and that the company interfered with an election conducted June 12, 1938 by the national labor relations board to determine bargaining rights in the plant. Spotlight- ICE MOVES OUT YANKTON, Mar.

Ice started moving out of the Missouri river here at 1:20 yesterday afternoon. It broke up and went out for several miles upstream from Yankton. After breaking, the flow halted for almost two hours and then started again and moved out freely. The ice ranging in thickness from about six inches to one foot, was honeycombed and indications are there is little danger of clogging below Yankton in the present flow. The breakup was late this year.

SUICIDE VERDICT CUSTER, Mar. -A coroner's jury Monday heard eight witnesses in connection with the death of Elmer Luglan, about 35, Custer cook, and brought in a verdict that he committed suicide by stabbing himself with a pocket knife after an 1 unsuccessful attempt to take the life of Miss Margaret Lou Richardson, Custer girl who had spurned his attention. Luglan, who formerly lived in Aberdeen and Rapid City, died Sunday morning in a Hot Springs hospital from the self -inflicted stab wounds. GOLDEN GLOVES BOUTS LIVELY Finals In Annual Tourney Will Be Staged This Evening Two knockouts and two technical KO's featured the opening round of the West River Golden Glove tournament at the Deadwood city auditorium last night. Probably the best bout of the session was the closing fight, a class slugfest between Louis Dillinger, 135, Lead, and Andrew Bezick, 135.

of Newell. Dillinger carried the fight in the first round and the latter came back strong in the last two frames to get the decision. Olin Simmons, 120, Deadwood, gained the only local decision, ning from Kid Geoffrey, Ft. Meade, also a 120-pounder, in a. class match.

Other results include, class A -Don Vodden, 162, Sturgis, scored a technical knockout over Lawrence Cox, 162, Sturgis, in the first round; Don Muth, 135, Lead, kayoed Jay Bohner, 133, Ft. Meade, in the opener; Darrel Schuelke, Sturgis 135-pounder, decisioned Bill Munger, 135, Ft. Meade. Class B- Dale Lee, 140, Custer, won a decision over George Boone, 140, Deadwood; Red Enderby, 111, Lead, won a close decision from Hanife, 103, Belle Fourche; John Bergstrom, 170, Lead, scored a technical knockout over Bill Jones, 164. Ft.

Meade, in the first round; Don McDaniel, 169, and Phil Wendler, 170, both of Belle Fourche, put on a very close fight with the former winning the decision; Warren Janda, 139, Camp Orman, was knocked out by Bryant Bedsaul, 145, Lead, in the opener. Walter Van Kampen, Lead, and Eugene Brooks, Spearfish, refereed the bouts. Arthur Helmer, Lead, and Sgt. Geoffrey, Ft. Meade, were the judges.

The finals will be staged at 8 o'clock tonight with Class A winners eligible for entry in the state tournament to be held at Sioux Falls at a later date, with all expenses paid. Fred Sankey, Belle Fourche, promoted the tournament which is being sponsored by Voiture 223 of the 40 et 8, of Lead. The Homestake band of Lead is furnishing music between the bouts. SOLLY STARK SIGNED TO MEET JERRY HAYES MINNEAPOLIS, Mar. Ray Baker, Grand Forks, N.

today was signed to meet Everett Rightmire, Sioux City, featherweight, in the semi-windup match to the Gunnar Barlund and Paul Hartnek ten-round boxing match here on next Friday night. In another six-rounder Solly Stark, Deadwood, S. will meet Jerry Hayes. Demary, Bismarck, N. welterweight, knocked out Jerry Johns.

Spokane, in the fifth round of a scheduled ten-round scrap that headlined a VFW sponsored boxing show here last evening. In a sixround semi-windup match Solly Stark of Deadwood stopped Louis Weaver, Huron negro, in the second round. Stops Huron Negro HURON, March PRESIDENT OF FRANCE PAYING VISIT LONDON Also Also WAGNER LAW ARE DELAYED Senate Labor Committee Votes To Delay Hearings Until Next Week WASHINGTON, Mar. 21. The senate labor committee voted today to delay until next Tuesday a decision on when to start hearings on proposed amendments to the Wagner labor relations law.

Senator Borah (R-Ida) said the Congress of Industrial Organization had advised the committee it wished more time for its labor peace conferences with the American Federation of Labor. Borah said negotiations between the rival labor organizations would be resumed Friday and that general sentiment in the committee was to give the negotiators more time in which to reach a settlement. SINAI BANK LOOTED, $2000 Burglar Burns Hole In Safe and Escapes With Cash SINAI, Mar. of $2.000 in cash was obtained by burglars who burned a hole in the safe in the First State bank here last night. Officers of the bank were unable to say whether other valuables had been stolen since the vault was left in a disturbed condition and a complete early check-up was impossible.

A Sinai resident who saw a car parked near the bank and heard activity inside the building reported to E. P. Sagmoe, cashier. Sagmoe mediately went to the bank, discovered the burglary and summoned officers from Brookings. The car was reported seen heading north and east from here.

Descriptions of the car and burglars were lacking. A bar had been used in opening the bank door. This is the second time the Sinai bank has been burglarized. Using similar methods yeggmen obtained, $500 in cash and a number of warrants about six years ago. Henry Quincy Edwards Dies At His Nemo Home Henry Quincy Edwards, old time resident of Nemo, died at his home Monday afternoon.

He had been in ill health for the past ten years, and the past few years he had been bedfast. Henry Quincy Edwards was born May 13, 1870, in LeMars, where he spent his earlier days. In 1899 he journeyed to the Black Hills with his parents, his father coming on account of ill health. On April 16, 1905, Mr. Edwards was married to Mary C.

Bessant, of Dumont. He never left the Black Hills, living for a time at Dumont where Mrs. Edwards owned a farm, and later at Nemo, where his father, P. K. Edwards, was postmaster for many years.

He is survived by his widow. Funeral services will be held at the Nemo community church at 2 o'clock on Thursday afternoon, The Rev. Dan J. Rueb, Baptist pastor of Lead and Deadwood, will conduct the rites. Burial will be made in the Nemo cemetery.

RONNEBERG SERVICES TO BE HELD THURSDAY Funeral services in memory of Erik will be held Thursafternoon at 2 o'clock from the Rounsevell chapel, and will be conducted by the Rev. Russell Olsen, pastor of the Bethel Lutheran church. Burial will be in the municipal cemetery in South Lead, and the following group of family friends will act as pallbearers: Ole Storsve, Harold Island, Martin Sandvig, Adolph Overby, Mons Bjorge and Gust Jerde. To Study War Safety ANKARA -(P)- Air raid cautions in particular, and the principles of national defense in will form the subject of a two-year course to be introduced shortly in all high schools and universities in Turkey. Russia Proposes Confernce To Consider Danger of Nazi Expansion HEARSAY talk about U.

S. defenses wasn't enough for Rep. J. Buell Snyder who with other members of the house military committee visited Fort Story, to see and hear the big coast guns in action. Cotton ear plugs helped.

NAZI PRESSURE IS RESISTED IN RUMANIA: Shooting of German In Rumanian City May Bring Complications BUCHAREST, Mar. 21. -The shooting of a German citizen by a Jew at Brasov caused concern today in the Rumanian capital where King Carol has taken the lead in a Balkan struggle to escape complete German political and economic domination. The German was reported in a grave Some sources believed that Germans might regard the shooting at Brasov, which is 100 miles northwest of Bucharest, as an "international incident." The wounded German, Dr. Hjalmar Krarzt had gone to a Jewish community at Brasov, reports from that city said, and an argument between him and the doorman's wife developed, whereupon her husband appeared and shot him.

Dr. Krarzt was taken to a hospital. Reports meanwhile said trade concessions with Germany would not be concluded for several days. Rumania, they said, has not granted Germany any monopolistic rights but instead will adhere to a free commercial policy. As for Hungary authorities said Rumania's relations with that state were "as good as can be expected." However, a spokesman added that Rumania was prepared to defend every inch of her territory and regarded the present frontier with Hungary as final.

By maneuvering in which Britain was persuaded to buy larger quantities of Rumanian products. King Carol appeared today to have put the brake on Adolf Hitler's political drive into southeastern Europe. Rumania seemed to have escaped German economic domination and Carol assumed the leadership of Balkan forces opposed to the nazi political and economic penetration. Mobilization BUDAPEST, Mar. held the bulk of her armed forces on the Rumanian frontier today but officials denied that the country was in a state of martial mobilization.

Many troops have been summoned and military sources said that others would be called soon to the colors. But objections were raised in an official statement to use of the phrase "martial mobilization" in this connection. Officials said the measures were entirely precautionary. They denied emphatically that any military movement toward Rumania -where almost 1,500,000 of Hungarian plated. people are living--was Resident Of Maitland Dies In Washington Mr.

and Mrs. Herman Humble have received word of the death of Mrs. Mary Hedquist, of Maitland, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Iva Graffley, in Pinehurst, March 17. Mrs.

Hedquist, who had been in ill health for some time, went to Washington state some months ago in an effort to regain her health. The body will arrive in Deadwood tomorrow, accompanied by, Mrs. Graffley. A sister, Miss Lizzie Johnson, of Denver, also will arrive Wednesday and funeral services and interment will be arranged then. There are 3,075 counties in the nation of which 2,900 are "agricultural counties" employing county agricultural agents.

LONDON, Mar. -President Albert LeBrun of France reached England today for a three-day state visit which assumed significance because it coincided with increasing British-French collaboration in the face of German expansion. French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet, who accompanied President and Mrs. LeBrun, was expected to have important conversations with Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax and other British ministers during the visit. The French president and his wife are repaying the state visit of King George and Queen Elizabeth to Paris last summer.

They arrived as the British government, reverting to the policy of collective security, became the rallying point for nations that would like to halt the eastward course of Adolf Hitler's empire. Soviet Russia has urged Britain and France to call conferences of six "most interested states" to consider dangers of German expansion while Britain was said to have proposed that London, Paris and Moscow draft a joint anti-aggressor declaration in which other states might join. The soviet proposal was that France, Russia, Britain. Rumania, Turkey and Poland confer. A Moscow communique said Britain "found this proposal premature." BritishRussian conversations were being continued in Moscow by Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff and British Ambassador Sir William Seeds, and in London by Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax and Soviet Ambassador Ivan Maisky.

Russia proposed the conference as a result of two inquiries directed to her by Britain after Germany's march into Czechoslovakia. These were: Is Russia prepared to (Continued on Page Three) Funeral Services For Bishop Mahoney Friday SIOUX FALLS. Mar. (P)- Funeral services for Bishop Bernard J. Mahoney, 63, of Sioux Falls, who died at Rochester, early Monday morning, will be held here Friday morning at St.

Joseph's cathedral. Archbishop John Gregory Murray of St. Paul will preach the sermon and Bishop Francis Kelly, of Winona, will be celebrant of the pontifical requiem high mass at 10:30 o'clock. Burial will be in the local Catholic cemetery, Sioux City Labor Unionists Held For Quiz On Blasting SIOUX MALLS, Mar. Police Chief J.

Rufer announced today that two more men he described as members of a Sioux City labor union were held in jail at Sioux City for questioning in connection with a dynamite explosion that demolished the front end of a truck from Grand Island, here ten days ago. Bowser Is Named To Succeed Sutherland PITTSBURGH, Mar. 21-(P)- The mantle of two men who for two decades made the University of Pittsburgh's football teams a power on the nation's collegiate gridirons -Glen S. (Pop) Warner and Dr. John Bain (Jock) Sutherland- fell today to a student of both, Charles W.

Bowser. Bowser was named last by the board of trustees that night the same three-hour closed session appointed a committee of seven to investigate "all phases" of the stormy situation at Pitt. Weather and Roads Lead 50, clear, roads good. Deadwood 38, clear, roads good. Spearfish 40, clear, roads good.

Sturgis 42, clear, roads good. Belle Fourche 32, clear, roads good. Hill City 28, clear, roads good. Custer 29, clear, roads good. Rapid City 45, clear, roads good.

Hot Springs 32, clear, roads good. Philip 42, clear, roads good. Presho 32, clear, roads good. Chamberlain 28, clear, roads good. Newcastle 30, clear, roads good.

Yesterday's min. 40; max. 60..