The Black Hills Weekly from Deadwood, South Dakota • Page 1

OFFICIAL PAPER LEAD DAILY CALL THE WEATHER AND COUNTY Mostly fair tonight and Friday; warmer Friday. ASSOCIATED PRESS SERVICE THE BLACK HILLS EVENING NEWSPAPER THIRTY-SIXTH YEAR LEAD, SOUTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, MARCH 27, 1930 PRICE FIVE CENTS LOCAL LEGION POST ON TOP IN MEMBERSHIP Homestake Post Takes Honors In Membership Drive In Highest District In State. The Homestake post of the American Legion has won a signal honor among the posts of South Dakota, according to word received today by Ed Dingle, local commander. In the state-wide membership drive which has been under way in the state for the last several months, the Homestake post has the largest membership in the Northern Hills district, which is district 12; and district 12 stands first, in the membership drive, among all other districts of the state. The Lead post, with a membership quota assigned to them of 93, has a membership of 145 former service men, or 203.5 per cent of the quota assigned them.

The Belle Fourche post ranks next in the district percentage column, and the Spearfish post third, with 198.6 per cent and 132.7 per cent respectively. District 12, with a quota of 418 members, has a membership of 543 members, or 151.01 per cent of the quota. The district is composed of the Belle Fourche, Buffalo, Lead, Newell, Spearfish, Deadwood, Sturgis and Nisland Legion posts. The present membership of the various posts in the region is A8 follows: Belle Fourche 102, Buffalo, 39, Lead 145, Newell 14, Spearfish 59, Deadwood 54, Sturgis 115, and Nisland 15. Fourteen districts in the state were entered in the membership.

contest, with district 12, which was matched against district 10, defeating its opponent and emerging ahead of all other districts in South Dakota. THE NEWS SPOTLIGHT LATE BRIEF NEWS BITS (By the Associated Press) PRINCE HUMBERT HAS MEASLES. TURIN, Italy, March Prince Humbert, who recently took Princess Marie Jose of Belgium as his bride, was in bed today with measles. NAGURSKI'S FIVE BEATS DAKOTANS. HURON, March fast passing attack that bewildered opponents gave All-American Bronko Nagurski's team an easy 69 to 43 win over the Central South Dakota All Stars here last night.

DIAMOND SALESMAN ROBBED OF GEMS. Peck, a diamond salesman, reported to police today that he was robbed of gems valued at $100,000 by three men who held him up in the lobby of a down town building. He said the robbers pressed a revolver against his side and "snatched two wallets containing the diamonds. CHICAGO, Mar. PIERRE PIONEER IS TAKEN ILL.

PIERRE, March B. Albright, 73, pioneer South Dakota merchant and one of the few remaining first settlers of Pierre, suffered a partial cerebral hemorrhage this morning. He was taken to a hospital where his condition proved not serious. He was stricken as he left the postoffice, and he fell from the sidewalk into the street. MAY BECOME RECONCILED.

PARIS, Mar. Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune said today that Lita Gray Chaplin, divorced wife of Charles Chaplin, suggested to a reporter as she disembarked from the Aquitania that she and Chaplin might become reconciled. STATE'S CROP PROSPECTS APPEAR BRIGHT FOR 1930 BROOKINGS, Marche Prospects for crops in South Dakota during 1930 appear bright, so far as soil moisture is concerned, Prof. J. G.

Hutton, agronomist in charge of soils investigation at State college, said today. Precipitation the past few months and general climatic conditions point to at least a fair supply of moisture for this year's crop, he explained. "There is more moisture in the soil now than usually is found at this time of year," he said. "While we have no accurate statistics on the exact amount of moisture the ground holds at present, a check on climatic conditions the past months leads one to believe that it is above normal." In explaining his deductions, Prof. Hutton pointed out that during September and October, precipitation was 2.52 inches above the average.

He also displayed charts showing that the average temperature for September, October and November was 2.73 degrees below normalcondition almost certain to slow down evaporation, he said. COLORADO MINE MEN CONDEMN NORBECK BILL A protest and condemnation of Senator Peter Norbeck's bill pertaining to the surface rights of mining claims in the form of a resolution, was recently adopted by the Colorado Mining association, according to word received by Dr. A. T. Roos, Rapid City, secretary of the committee on mining of the Hills Associated Commercial clubs, from C.

L. Colburn, secretary of the Colorado association. The resolution, which was adopted by the Colorado chapter of the American Mining congress and the Colorado Mining association, in joint annual convention, stated that "We condemn the above mentioned bill and all similar proposed legislation, as tending and designed to hamper and discourage mining development in the forest reserves, contrary to the declared policy of congress; and we call upon the senators and representatives from Colorado in the congress of the United States to exert their utmost efforts in opposition to all such legislation." The also stated "that we condemn the persistent efforts of forest service officials and employees to assume unauthorized powers and privileges, and to initiate and influence legislation designed to hamper the efforts and restrict the rights of prospectors and miners in the forest reserves." Copies of the resolution were sent to all western senators and representatives, and to all members of the mining committees of the senate and the house. JUDICIARY COMMITTEE STUDIES LIQUOR REPORT WASHINGTON, March 27-(P)- The recommendation of the' Hoover law enforcement commission for improving the administration of the prohibition laws today engaged the attention of the house judiciary committee in executive session. The commission's public hearings on measures proposing the repeal of the 18th amendment, which heard the dry laws sternly excoriated by wet spokesmen, and then staunchly defended by the drys, were in recess until next week.

BISHOP PERRY NEW PRIMATE Bishop Burleson of South Dakota Is Named Assistant To Head of Episcopal Church. CHICAGO, March Right Reverend James DeWolfe Perry, bishop of Rhode Island since 1911, is the new primate of the Protestant Episcopal church in America, elected by the house of bishops yesterday. The primate succeeds the late Bishop Charles P. Anderson, bishop of Chicagb, Who died January 28 last. or the more than 100 bishops eligible to vote, 84 gathered at St.

James cathedral, and after a five-hour session Bishop Perry was named on the seventh vote. Seventeen bishops were nominated for the primacy, an honor equal in distinction in the United States to the archbishop of Canter bury in England. During the World war Bishop Perry was head of the church's war commission and was chaplain of an infantry regiment overseas. He is a great grand nephew of Commodore Oliver Perry, hero of the battle of Lake Erie in 1812. Soon after his election the the Rt.

Rev. Hugh Lattimer Burleson, bishop of South Dakota, assistant. ENGLISH IS UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE OF RADIO "HAM" CAMBRIDGE, March -The universal language of the radio amateur, no matter his native tongue, is Rpglish. Contacts all over the world with those radio enthusiasts, who delight to communicate with their fellows by the dots and dashes of international code, clearly shows the part radio is playing in removing the language barrier. This fact was one of the unique developments of the research: work being done at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on the short wave bands of 10, 20, 40 and 80 meters by the Institute's station W1XV.

It is located at Round Hill, and has had no difficulty in communicating with amateurs in South America, Australia, Africa, and other quarters of the globe. One of the purposes of the investigation concerns the energy loss of radio waves passing over various kinds of soil, sand and seas, as well as the effect of hills and forests on such waves, carried on with the aid of amateurs almost anywhere on earth. Engineers are seeking to learn also what effect clouds, rain, light and darkness, the season of the year and other atmospheric. changes have on short wave signals. PLAN MONTHLY CLUB MEETINGS Commercial Club Directors Talk Over Local Projects and Last Night.

The weekly meeting of the directions and 'committee members of the Lead Co Commercial club was held last evening at the city hall. Plans were made for a dinner and meeting for the entire Commercial club membership, to be held at the Highland hotel. on the evening of April 8. It is the plan of the directors to make these dinner meetings a monthly event. A number of matters of local importance were discussed at some length at the meeting of the directors last evening.

The fullest cooperation with the city during the annual Cleanup Week was urged, and the move underway here to improve the appearance of the local cemeteries, where there is room for improvement, was also favorably discussed. Local parking conditions came in for a share of the discussion, and several worthwhile suggestions were voiced. CHIEF BIG MAN AND SONS PAY VISIT TO LEAD Chief Big Man, of the Crow Indian reservation in Montana, and his two sons, Sings Above, 8, and Black Wolfe, 9, were in Lead on a short visit today, in company with Fred Gramlich, of Deadwood. Big Man and his sons are enroute to Mitchell they will D. Fisher, secretary of the Custer Battlefield Hiway association, and start out on the South Dakota publicity pilgrimage on April 1.

Big Man is well educated and a good talker, and is well equipped to tell: the world about South Dakota and the Black Hills. He and his sons were in Indian regalia today; the outfits they will wear on their tour of the middlewest and the east. The two youngsters have been trained to do a number of stunts, among which are the historic war and tribal dances of their ancestors. Big Man and his boys. met AS many of the local business men A8 possible during the short time they were here.

They were headed for Belle Fourche from here, and will continue on to Mitchell this week. WARNS HOUSEWIVES NOT TO USE EXPLOSIVE FLUIDS PIERRE, Mar. -A warning to housewives and others, to use "non-explosive" cleaning fluids bas been issued by D. C. Lewis, state Are marshal.

No cleaning fluids, he said, should be used in the home except those bearing a label showing that it has been approved by the underwriters laboratories. "Every year many reports of sonal injury, death and property damage arising from the use of benzine, naptha or similar volatile inflammable fluids for cleaning clothes and other materials within the home, are made to the fire shal's office," Mr. Lewis said. "These inflammable liquids are' treacherous in that they may be used many times without accident when atmospheric conditions are such as to prevent explosion. But, properly mixed with air, the explosive power of gasoline exceeds that of two sticks of dynamite." The use of approved cleaning methods would practically eliminate the danger to life and property, Mr.

Lewis said. NAVAL DELEGATES AWAIT FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS LONDON, March -Naval conference circles today looked for important developments leading to the its failure broadest or success of the within parley the conception next few days. Aristide Briand, French foreign minister, was back in London today from Paris. HUGHES BUYS NEW HOUSE FOR OFFICIAL ENTERTAINING Chief Justice Charles E. Hughes and wife soon will open their new Washington home (inset).

Their daughter Elizabeth will attract a younger set to it. CONVICTS STAGE STRIKE TODAY Missouri Prisoners Demand More Food and Less Work In Jeff City Prison. JEFFERSON CITY, March (P) -Approximately 60 prisoners in the Missouri penitentiary refused to go to work in the prison chair factory this morning, following a food mutiny yesterday by 750 convicts in the dining hall. Approximately 150 men on one floor of the factory refused to start work after breakfast this morning, and several hundred others demanded less work and more food. GROUP IS ORGANIZED TO BACK HOWELL CAMPAIGN ABERDEEN, March group headed by George H.

Fletcher, of Aberdeen, was organized at 8 meeting here last night to take charge of the campaign of Brooke Howell, of Frederick, for the republican nomination for governor. Northeastern counties were represented at the meeting. RAPID DEBATERS WIN THE TITLE Rapid City High School Debate Team Defeats Tyndall In Final Last Night. VERMILLION, March Rapid City high school won the championship of the high school debate tournament here last night by defeating Tyndall in the final argument. The negative side of a proposal to have the state build and operate a hydro-electric plant on the Missouri river was defended by the Rapid City speakers, George Gore and John Wilson.

Gore and Wilson, who have represented Rapid City for three years in the state tournament, won first place last year. Rapid won over Sioux Falls in the semifinals. Gangsters GWAN, YOU FELLERS, BEAT IF I CATCH YOU BIRDS LOAFIN' AROUND THIS HERE TOWN ILL RUN YOU IN 1930 BLACK HILLS FOLDERS HERE FOR FOR DISTRIBUTION A supply of the new 1930 Black Hills brochures is on hand at the office of R. F. Tackabury, secretary of the local Commercial club, and local people desirous of mailing these booklets out to friends and others who will be interested in the Black Hills may call for them there.

The new folders, done in pleasing green rotogravure, are said by those who have inspected them to be the most attractive and the most informative of any of the booklets published yet. by the Associated Commercial clubs of the Black Hills. There is considerably more reading matter, hotel and tourist camp accommodations are emphasized, and there are some unusual and striking examples of scenic photography. A full page layout is devoted to the Rushmore memorial project in the Southern Hills near Keystone, where Gutzon Borglum is supervising the carving of gigantic figures of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Roosevelt on the granite face of the mountain. One splendid illustration shows clearly the features of the face of the Washington figure, plans for the unveiling of which on next July 4, are beginning to stand out.

Gold, polo, swimming, camping, fishing and hunting are activities pictorially described in the booklet. The brochure contains a panoramic view of the Homestake gold mine, views of the Jubilee and Mile High tourist camps here, and a scene at the Lead country club golf Spearfish canyon supplies some striking views. A highway map of the entire Black Hills area in which routes, attractions and accommodations all clearly and carefully set forth, makes the book of great value to prospective visitors. The booklet is an artistic and convincing piece of publicity, and should "sell" the Hills wherever it goes. X-RAY FILM EXPLODES; THREE ARE INJURED CANTON, Ohio, March Two physicians were burned ly and a baby on whom an X-ray picture was being taken was blown across the operating room at the of here today by an explosion Molly Stark tubercular hospital film.

Hospital officers were in discussion of the explosion, saying it was not serious. They admitted, however, that the X-ray tube blew up while the machine WAS in operation. SENATORS TO PROBE DRY LAW Lobby Committee Will Conduct Investigation of Wet and Dry Issue. WASHINGTON, March 27-(P)- An investigation of the wet and dry issue is planned by the senate lobby committee, Chairman Caraway of the committee, said today inquiry probably would begin as soon as the investigation into persons and corporations interested in Muscle Shoals was completed. Caraway said the first witness in the prohibition inquiry probably would be Representative Pinkham, republican, of Massachusetts, who has asked to be heard by the lobby committee.

WOMAN CONVICTED OF POISONING HER SPOUSE, ANAMOSA, Iowa, March -Mrs. Hilda Miner, 57, who was convicted of poisoning her husband, today started a sentence of life imprisonment at Rockwell City. She was brought here last night after hearing her sentence late yesterday. Mrs. Miner was accused of the crinte jointly with Albert Harking, her who will, stand trial in September.

Harking was alleged to have obtained the poison which Mrs. Miner er placed in her husband's medicine capsules. FUNERAL FOR JOHN VARES WILL BE HELD SATURDAY Funeral services for John Vares, Lead young man who lost his life i in the mine on Tuesday night, will be held on Saturday morning at 9:30 o'clock from St. Patrick's Catholic church. Requiem high mass will be held.

The following friends of the young man and of the family will act as pall bearers: Fred Pendo, Frank Radovich, Mike Dropulich, Matt Kapetanich, Blas Raich and Mark Piljan. Burial will be made in Calvary cemetery in South Lead, next to the last resting place of John's father, who preceded him to the grave two yeers ago. The body will be taken to the Vares home this evening, and will lie there, where it may be viewed by friends, until time for the funeral services on Saturday morning. CHICAGO GETS 10 INCH FALL SNOW, IS RECORD Schools Are Closed and Traffic Is Hampered Or Halted Entirely. CHICAGO, March snow had ended today but the slush and drifts lingered on.

The snow stopped last night as suddenly and unexpectedly as it begin on Tuesday morning, leaving Chicago and its suburbs shrouded in the heaviest continuous snowfall in the city's inches. Traffic was still delayed and in some cases paralyzed. Schools were still dismissed and sidewalks clogged with snow. On the lake front and other places where the wind was given a chance drifts were piled high and held hundreds of automobiles fast. In the more congested districts the snow turned to dark slush, ankledeep at most intersections.

Local Fair Weather Promised A promise of fair weather was held out today, after intermittent snowfall during the last four days which left a blanket of snow more than half a foot deep over Lead and the immediate vicinity. As a result of the snowfall highways in the Northern Hills were reported only in fair condition this morning though there was no indication that snowdrifts at any point were hampering traffic. Main street was plowed clear of the snow this morning. Temperature in the Hills ranged from 10 above at Lead to 40 above zero at Hot Springs, where clear weather and good roads were also reported. SELECTION OF JURY IN TRIAL CONTINUES MILLER, March -As the selection of jury to try Alphonse Lapke, accused of the mysterious knife murder of his mother, progressed in circuit court here today, skirmishes between defense and prosecution assumed the aspects of a legal checkers game, with prospective jurors as pawns and the fate of the 30-year-old farmer as high stake.

MILLER, March only nine jurors, left in the original panel at the morning recess Judge Frank R. Fisher ordered additional 15 called in the trial of Alphonse Lapke for first degree murder. The state had used 11 premptory challenges and the defense 12. Each was allowed 20. DESCRIBES AUTOMOBILE HE BOUGHT IN 1904 BROOKINGS, March Gaily painted collegiate "whoopee" flivvers which line the streets adjoining South Dakota State college are frowned upon by Prof.

H. A. Solberg, head of the department of mechanical engineering, although he has the distinction of having owned the first gasoline engine car in the city of Brookings. "It was in 1904 that I purchased that old model A Cadillac," Professor Solberg said in commenting on his first car. The old car had one cylinder, and an internal combustion engine furnished the power.

That contrivance, considered a fine "buggy" in those days, cost $900. "It took plenty of gasoline," Prof. Solberg recalled, and "it literally 'ate up' the oil." The following year another person in Brookings bought one of the "horseless" carriages, but in 1906 Professor Solberg bought another car, which was quite the class of 24 years ago. Unlike the old car, the old car, it had a top, windshield and all the 'modern' improvements. The car was small and when Prof.

dan Solberg took his family out riding Sunday afternoons, two of his youngsters had to sit on an improvised seat made from a plank, the professor recalled. Prof. Solberg wishes he had maintained his first car among the family possessions. HOTEL, LANDMARK OF PIERRE, BURNS DOWN PIERRE, March Osgood hotel, formerly the old Riverview, a Pierre landmark, destroyed completely by fire last night. The blaze was discovered shortly fore midnight.

Its origin is unknown. SIOUX FALLS STUDENTS OFF TO CONVENTION SIOUX FALLS, March Six students and one faculty sentative of Sioux Falls college leave Saturday for the national Pi Kappa Delta convention at Wichita, March 31 to April 4. The convention is for debaters and speakers. Those making the trip are Carrol Arnold, Centerville; Kenneth Sollitt, Sibley, and William Morris, Littlefork, members of the men's debate team; Miss Grace Locke, Sherman, and Miss Beth Wines, Sioux Falls, members of the women's debate team; Laurel Eno, Montrose, orator; and Prof. P.

J. Hoffman, Sioux Falls college debate coach. HARDING COUNTY OIL AND GAS AROUSING INTEREST VERMILLION, March concerning oil and gas possibilities in the region of the Little Missouri valley in Harding county have resulted in the publishing of mimeograph copies of three large structures in that region by the state geological survey, according to E. P. Rothrock, state geologist.

The maps are ready for distribution and may be obtained from the state geological survey by sending a two cent stamp to cover the cost of postage. Three large structures included were mapped by the United States geological survey several years ago, Dr. Rothrock said. The area included is about 30 miles long, north and south, and about 20 miles east and west, and includes the region about the Little Missouri valley from Camp Crook north. a This part of the state has never been tested, according to the state geologist, but as similar structures farther north, in Montana, have yielded excellent supplies of gas, it is possible that gas could be struck on these structures in South Dakota.

CODINGTON DEMOCRATS ARE FOR BULOW'S CANDIDACY WATERTOWN, March Governor Bulow and his senatorial candidacy were endorsed by a mass meeting of Codington county democrats late yesterday. By resolution the meeting also favored the candidacy of D. A. McCullough for governor. The Carnation club of Ruth lodge will meet at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. John Adamson on Addie street tomorrow evening, it was announced today. FEAR FOR SAFETY OF MISSIONARIES IN CHINA CANTON, China, March -The exact whereabouts of 16 American Catholic missionaries, beseiged for three weeks at Kanchow, Kiangsi province, by bandits and communists, was uncertain today. Belief was expressed that they had evacuated Kanchow, fearing the city would fall before the bandits who have been reported killing and looting through the southern part of the province for months. Weather and Roads Lead 10; snowing roads fair.

Deadwood 24; partly cloudy roads fair. Spearfish 27; cloudy roads fair. Sturgis 25; partly cloudy roads fair. Belle Fourche 30; cloudy roads fair. Hill City 22; partly cloudy roads fair.

Custer 12; clear roads fair. Rapid City 26; partly cloudy roads good. Hot Springs 40; clear roads good. Philip 20; cloudy roads good. Presho 24; cloudy roads good.

Chamberlain 25; cloudy roads good. Newcastle 22; cloudy roads good. For a period of 16 hours up to 8 o'clock. Min. 9.

Max. 23. W. 8..