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(MJL THEi WEATHER Fair tonight and Friday, warmer Friday. IN THE MINING OINTII'OF THE BLACK HILLS FORTY-FIRST YEAR LEAD. SOUTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1938 PRICE VTVB CENTS OFFICIAL PAPEB of LEAD AND LAWRENCE COUNTY Associated Press 8trvk WM il Germany Condemned As Breaker Of Treaties New Metal Being Developed, Custer CUSTER, March 19. The southern Black Hills the region surrounding Custer seems destined to become a hive or industry as the result of a PITTSBURGH SHAMBLES AS WATER RECEDES Disrupted Water Supplyandjany P'io'y known-lighter. pvnn IVion anllHtfWI era uraa Work.

On Black Hills Airport Is Progressing SPEARFISH, Mar. 19. Work on the Black Hills airport's $43,000 improvement and building WPA project is progressing satisfactorily and will probably be completed early this summer, officials In charge said this week. The stone work on the new 60 by 90 foot airplane repair shop is completed and the rock walls of the new administration building have reached the second story. The fire place in the administration building is completed.

With the completion of the two new buildings laborers on the airport project will begin the building of a cement ramp between the buildings and the suifacing of the runways. A well will also be dug to furnish water for the administration building, which will also house a central heating plant in its basement. Shelterbelt Strips To Be Started Soon BROOKINGS, Mar. 19. (JP) The planting of 274 miles of standard shelterbelt strips on 550 farms in nine eastern South Dakota counties will be started as soon as weather and soil conditions permit, A.

L. Ford, state shelterbelt director, announced today. Because of the lateness of the season it will be impossible to start planting by April 1 as was originally planned. Ford said land owners are evidencing "keen interest" in the tree and shrub planting program. The South Dakota project is already 115 per cent oversubscribed.

Volunteer applications for 516 additional farms totaling 315 miles of shelterbelt strip are now on file in the project office here and more are coming in daily. These applications will be carried over until thc 1937 planting season. The counties in which shelterbelt plantings will be made this year are: Brown, Spink, Beadle, Sanborn, Mc-Cook, Miner, I.ake, Davison and Bon Homme. The shelterbelt director described ALLEGED BANK ROBBERS HELD Jack Madison Confesses St. Ones Bank Holdup, Implicates Ed Ferdig Jack Madison and Ed Ferdig, both of Meade county, arrested in Sturgis several days ag'; by state department of justice stents and charged with the robber of the St.

Onge bank in June 1933, were brought to Lawrence county and will be arraigned shortly In circuit court. Madison made a complete, confession to the affair to State's Attorney Alex Rent t. i implicating Ferdig. The latter, however, denies any part In the holdup. Mr.

Rentto filed formal charges against Madison morning, and in- dictated similar charges will subsc- qucntly filed ag.Unst Ferdig. Both being held In the Lawrence county jjall, Madison un.Vr bonds of $5,000. Donald Muchlcr and Leon Tunks, 0f Sulphur. S. who had previously I pleaded guilty to charges of contrib City, were sentenced in county court by Judge Harold J.

Shea this forenoon. Muchlcr vas given 30 days in the county jail fined the costs of the case. Tltiiks was sentenced to nine months hi the county jail and impicuon or me project win maae the Black Hills airport, four miles east of here, one of the most modern ports in the state. The airport be- longs to Lawrence countynd serves Spearfish, Deadwood and Lead. Original plans called for its com- utlng to Juvenile delinquency, involv-pletion by June 1 but unfavorable ig two young girls from Central fined $100 and the costs of the casc.js hardly regarl)e(J as newg by tnoac Prosecution was handled by State's experienccd politicians who know how Attorney Alex Rentto.

hanl jg gtop thc renomiiiation of Lloyd Campbell, Lead, charged with lany president, petty larceny, involving the alleged At democratic headquarters, the men or a ure nu wneei ironi nn automobile belonging to Art Trucano, of Lead, pleaded -not guilty when he was arraigned in justice court this'nor Talmadge will get nowhere with UNANIMOUS VOTE OF ASSEMBLED POWERS CAST League of Nations Council Turns Deaf Ear To Plea Of Hitler's Envoy LONDON, Mar. 19. (AP) The council of the League of Nations condemned the German government under Reichfeuhrer Hitler as a treaty breaker today. The vote of the assembled powers was unanimous. The League members decided that Germany had violated both the Versailles and Locarno treaties when she moved troops into the Khineland which had been ordered demilitarized at the end of the World war.

The condemnation came a few hours after General Joachim von Ribbentrop, special ambassador of Hitler, had stood before the members and argued that the German course of action in the Rhineland had been justified by France's military assistace pact with Soviet Russia. Urging consideration of Hitler's proosals for a new security system, von Ribbentrop said Germany could not accept submission of the question of the Franco-Soviet pact to the world court one point in the French proposal for a liquidation of the crisis. Hitler's envoy said the reich was convinced France would not reject its virtual military alliance with Russia. Germany decided, therefore, that the hour had come to "restore Germany's sovereignty over the Rhineland," he said. Huge Golden Eagle Is Caught In Trap SPEARFISH, Mar.

19. A huge golden eagle, which had brought death to at least four lambs, was captured in a coyote trap near here Monday while chasing a three-weeks old calf which was evidently to have been thc eagle's next prey. The bird, whose wings measured seven feet and whose claws had an eight inch spread, was killed by Joe Baugus after it had become caught in the trap. Baugus had taken up the chase after the eagle when he noticed that he bird was trying to run down the calf. The bird happened to light on the trap, he said.

The bird weighed about 35 pounds and could carry a small lamb away in its claws, Baugus said. The Brook-er farm on which the bird was killed, 1h live miles east of Spearfish and adjoins the Black Hills timber land. Kagles. once a common sight In the Black Hills, are now rarely seen. They ure protected from hunters by state game laws.

Baugus said he killed the trapped bird with a stone. AUNT HET BT ROBERT QUIT J. EN "Pa's so sensitive that I can't brag on somebody's fine house without him thinkin' I'm coin-plainin' about ours." (Copyright iS5, PubttstMra Syndicate) HIIHIMMHItlMilltHIIIMIWHItllltllMIHtlllHIIIHim MhuiflMWHHIHlMMlllttH'. POLITICS At Handoiu Br BYRON PRICB (Chief Of Bureau, The Associated Press, Washington) Early-bird delegate selections foi the national political conventions have developed few surprises. Roosevelt temains virtually alone in the field of democratic candidates having visible support.

Borah, Knox land Landon continue to lead the re- publican procession, followed by an interesting line of dark horses. The democratic question now is whether any appreciable strength at all will muster behind any democratic candidate against the president. If (anything, the early primaries have enc0u raged the Roosevelt leaders to 'strengthen their predictions that the jrenoiuinatinn will be voted almost by acclamation. For the republicans, the critical months will be April and May. The June 9 convention may be just around the coiner before the situation is much clearer than it is today.

President Hard to Beat The overwhelming Roosevelt trend of democratic pie-convention politics Roosevelt lOD-slded victory in the nrst Georgia counties to vote was spoken of as merely confirming that Gover- nia candidacy, even in his own state The "bandwagon" impression is further deepened by the selection of Roosevelt-instructed delegates in the new Hampshire primary, by indications that the anti-Roosevelt delegate effort In Massachusetts will be lrop-K-d. and by such, announcements, as that of Senator Tydings of Maryland, ho says he will support thc president although he disagrees with him about many things. Colonel Henry Breckenridge remains entered in several primaries, but the Liberty League emphatically disavows any connection with the enterprise, and the colonel's friends are complaining of lack of cooperation from anti-Roosevelt democrats. Ijindon Boom Grows Thc swift-blooming republican boom for Governor Landon makes headlines daily in many states. It is quite evident his friends arc counting heavily on support from the uninstructed delegations which many of the old-line party leaders want to elect from east, west and south.

It also is apparent, however, that the supporters of Colonel Knox, who have been at work more quietly for months, believe they have cause for hope from these same uninstructed delegations. Thus a struggle of unsuspected ferocity is developing Un der the surface, and there is no sign it will cease before convention time. Meanwhile Senator Borah is widen ing the theater or his campaign against the whole uninsti-ucted-delc-gate bloc. He will seek strenuously to crush Colonel Knox in the Illinois primary on April 14. The state is crucial for Knox, because it is his home state.

Borah himself faces a crucial test on May 12 in the Ohio primary, where he is the only leading candidate entered, and is battling a determined old-line leadership which desires to keep the delegation foot free by pledging it nominally to a favorite son. Landon, staying out of the primaries, will face his teat in the convention itself. Hoover Talk Absent The inevitable logic of the republican situation is causing endless talk of dark horses. For the moment, former President Hoover does not figure prominently in these discussions. Even in Hoover's home state of California, Governor Merriam is trying to pledge the dele gation definitely to Landon.

There is much talk of Senator Van- denberg, some talk of Senator Dick inson, a little talk of Senator Stei- wer. But all or u. ai in is siage, i nothing but talk. The republican remains as confused as the demo cratic outlook is clear-cut. Battle Reported Ethiopia, Near Amba Alaji ADDIS ABABA.

Mar. 19. (JP) A peror Halle Selassie, it was saia. was personally directing a series of Ethiopian counter Attacks against Italian columns whose objective was Lake Ashandi. The losses on both aides are said to be heavy.

new metal being developed. I The new metal is technically known to mining men as "lithium six," and lis 10 per cent lighter in weight than shown to scientists and others interested for the first time recently by scientists of the New York Electrical society. The new metal is extracted from the ordinary lithium. In the event it is developed to comcrcial proportions the suplics of lithium ores in the bulk will be drawn from the southern Black Hills, which, in its non-mctailic minerals, contains more and richer lithium ores than any other known district in the world. At present the metal practically has no value.

But mining men say the potential field it opens is enormous. They say this is because it is the first time thut man has been able to obtain a visible, weighablc amount of uny of the strange twinned substances which compose all the metals gold alone excepted. All metals but gold arc composed of two or more different weights of atoms whose properties differ, mining men assert, and whose reactions are expected to vary so greatly as to make possible hitherto undreamed of metallic substances. In atomic quantities too small to be seen even under a microscope, scientists have in the last five year proved the existence of these twinnd substancs, which they call isotopes. The Bartol Foundation of Philadelphia has about a fourth of a gram of i the lightweight stuff called "lithium i six." It has more than a gram of the other twin, "lithium seven," which iis heavier than ordinary lithium Ordinary lithium is the lightest of metals.

It is composed of a mixture of the two varieties, six and seven. The pure six is about 10 per cent lighter than lithium. The pure seven is about 10 per cent heavier. Ordinary lithium floats on water Hke a cork. When pure, it burns in air.

This new Black Hills "lithium six," authorities say, is "the lightest solid ever produced on earth." ANDERSON HAS SHIPMACKUP Co Holder of Stratosphere Record Has Narrow Escape In West Virginia GRAFTON, W. Mar. 19. (JP) Captain Orvil A. Anderson, co-holder of the world's stratosphere flight record, had a narrow escape when his airplane cracked up on a hill near Pleasant Creek, four miles south of here, last evening.

Leman Services Held Wednesday Funeral services for the late Ben Leman, resident of Nemo for 22 yeais whose death came at the Homestake hospital in Lead last Sunday morn ing after a long illness, were held yesterday afternoon at the Nemo church, and were attended by a large number of old time friends of the deceased and of his family. The services were conducted by the Rev. John F. Buchholz, pastor of the Lead Presbyterian church. There were a number of handsome floral tributes.

Interment was made in the Nemo cemetery, with the following acting as pall bearers, Fred Beardshear, John Jefson, James Estes, P. B. Deen, John jErickson and Bert Fredericks An honorary escort was composed of John Larson, James Robinson, H. H. iVan Horn, A.

B. Hanjmond and Robert Lee per. Mr. Leman, who was 57 years old at the time of his death, was the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Frank Leman, Rapid City pioneers, and was the first white boy born in Rapid City. He spent his entire life in the Black Hills region, and was a member or the Homestake Veterans association. Last Civil War Veteran At B. M. S.

Dies Yesterday HOT SPRINGS, Mar. 19. J. H. Gould, 87.

Civil war veteran who as a boy of 13 years was said to have "increased" his age to be a drummer boy in the Union troops, was dead today. The last Civil war veteran at the Battle Mountain sanitarium, he died here Tuesday, the day before his 88th birthday, of old age infirmities. Born in Ontario, Canada, his career included military life, book selling, wood turning, commercial travel, ranching, real estate work and management 'of a general store. Threat of Typhoid Threatens Many Cities (Ry the A.ssnrintPM PrN The toll of death piiNlied toward 100 today in the most disastrous flood devastation in the cantem states. The Ohio river, plunging wildly down into broad valleys, swept death and destruction before it as it inundated Vtellshurg, V.

and roared over its banks to cover the business district or Wheeling with ten feet of water and to threaten dozens of towns with its angry crest. The latest list or deaths by suites placed the toll at 7U, but fears were held for dozens more1. These fears were intensilied thru-out the forenoon by families In Johnstown and other areas where residents reported relatives miss-ing. The dead by stutcs yesterday and today were: Pennsylvania, 43; West Virginia, 10; Virginia, four; Vermont, four; North Carolina, two; Georgia, two; Maryland, one; Massachusetts, three; New Hampshire, one; New York, one. Flood and explosions claimed 13 lives in Wheeling alone.

The Potomac surged toward Chcse-pcake Bay on the worst rampage on record, threatening the national capital with its many shrines. The Connecticut and Merrimac riv ers In New England were in a steady rise, swollen by continued rains, but the Ohio river valley was the scene of the day's greatest havoc. Terrifying in its swiftness, the surge of flood water in the early dawn poured over Wellsburg, drowning two men. Through the dark hours hundreds screamed for help as rescue craft plied through the streets to the aid of the stranded. In Stubenville.

Ohio, the water supply was contaminated and medical authorities called for anti-typhus serum from Columbus and other cities, i At Bellaire, the hospital sent out distress call for water as the city'j supply was cut off. Up at the source of the great Ohio, at the confluence of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivets, Pittsburgh was a debris-strewn mass of desolation-. Inside the steel metropolis' "golden triangle" where millions of dollars changed hands before the flood came yesterday, slime and receding water coated streets and buildings. Alert national guards kept everyone out of the business area. The water fell back at the rate of six inches an hour, but the city of 700.000 faces another night without light.

Not a trolley car moved. There was ten feet of water in some parts of the department store and theater district, but in other sections boats pressed hastily into service yesterday were stranded by the receding flood. Calls for Aid WASHINGTON, Mar. 19. (JP) President Roosevelt issued a proclamation today appealing for contributions of $3,000,000 to the American Red Cross for flood relief.

It was issued as the federal emergency flood relief committee gathered at the president's desk to map steps to combat suffering, destruction of property and loss of life. Mr. Roosevelt delayed his southern fishing trip because of the flood crisis. The rnagni- tude of the disaster was emphasized by a Red Cross announcement that 150,000 victims are dependent upon it for aid. POOR PA BY CLAUDE ALLAN "Ma won't help Betty eelect a husband.

Ma says she selected one for herself an' that cured her of any vanity she had about her ability to pick a good one." (Copyright, sua. Publishers) rodlcaU) I present planting conditions as "very favorshle." "The run-off water as the result of the melting of this winter's abnormal ly heavy snow cover has been far below expectations in the shelterbelt zone in this stutc," he said. "This means that an unusually high per centage of this moisture has entered the soil. This points to very favorable planting conditions this spring which should give the trees a good start. Under these favorable condi tions the survival of the seedlings should be equal to or even better than last spring when the remarkable survival of close to ninety per cent was attained." ROAD PROGRAM IS APPROVED Plans for Half of Federal Highway Expenditure in this State Approved in Washington WASHINGTON, Mar.

19. South Dakota has won approval for its detailed plan for expenditures of nearly half of emergency federal highway construction funds allotted but has only about a sixth of its grade crossing money earmarked. Federal public roads bureau officers suld today that as of March 7 it has approved detailed plans for $1,206,000 of the $2,976,454 apportioned to South Dakota for highway construction and for $480,000 of the $3,239,086 apportioned for eliminating grade crossings. The road program represented near ly 50 projects of which contracts aggregating $738,200 had been awarded for 32 projects. The approved grade crossing program represented about a dozen projects of which contracts aggregating $151,900 had been award ed for six projects.

Roads bureau officials said all states have been slow in getting their grade crossing elimination programs under way. The programs already approved are expected to be under contract as soon as work can start this spring. Frimodig Rites Held Yesterday The funeral of the late Mrs. J. H.

Frimodig, long time and respected Lead resident, yesterday at 2 o'clock at the Rounsevell funeral chapel was attended by a large concourse of friends, and the casket was surround ed by many beautiful floral gifts. The Rev. Matt Aijala, pastor of the Finnish Lutheran Apostolic church, preached the sermon and was assisted in the service by the Rev. Floyd Viken, Methodist pastor. A group of young ladies from the Finnish church sang Saved By Grace," and Mrs.

Gilmore Johns sang "Sometime We'll Under stand." Mrs. Thomas Felto and Mi's. Thomas Rantanen sang two hymns. Mrs. G.

A. Rounsevell played the piano accompaniments. Burial was in the municipal ceme tery in South Lead and the escort was composed of the four grandsons of the deceased and Mclviit and Ellard Johnson. Picard To Be In Minneapolis For Strato Experiments MINNEAPOLIS, Mar. 19 (JP) Stratosphere flight fans of the Twin Cities were hopeful today the next scientific soaring expedition into the upper air will take off in their own back yard.

Their hope was based on experiments to be conducted at the University of Minnesota during the next three months by Professor Jean Picard, celebrated Belgian scientist and stratosphere explorer. weather during January and Febru ary held up the work. Changes In CCC Camps Announced WASHINGTON, Mar. 19. Dakota's congressmen were informed today five more CCC camps would be abandoned between April 1 and April 15 and three new ones established, leaving 19 camps in the state for the next six months period.

A state park camp at Custer which had been abandoned previously will be restored, and new soil conservation camps will be established at Presho and Chamberlain, the congressmen were told. Camps to be abandoned include three national forest camps at Custer, Mystic and Hill City, a state forestry camp at Pierre and a state park camp at Keystone. LOCALNOTES Miss Irene Wcstfall, of Lead, left on the North Western last evening for Watertown, here she has accept ed a position with the state re-em ployment service. The History and Research depart ment of the Woman's club will meet Saturday afternoon, March 21, at 2:30 at the home of Mrs. Rounsevcll on Baltimore street.

Mrs. Albert de- Lance will be the leader. Her subject will be "Juvenile Delinquency and Its Cure." During the social hour Mrs. H. E.

Davidson and Mrs. William Kruse will be the assistant hostesses. Celia Ardith Bazin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Victor Bazin, was one year old yesterday, and in honor of the event was the guest of honor at a birthday party at the home of her aunt, Mrs.

Guy Sawin, 518 Railroad avenue. Nine little children and their mothers shared thc delightful afternoon spent informally and included a delicious lunch. The little guest of honor received some pretty gifts. Postmaster and Mrs. Jack Kram-beck reached home last evening from a business trip to Sioux Falls.

While in that city they were the guests of Mr. Krambeck's brother, Henry Krambeck and his family. Mr. and Krambcck went to Sioux Falls last Saturday. Bronko Dangubich, of Lead, fresh man at the Univeisity of Minnesota at Minneapolis, recently ivon third place in the 440 event in a telcgra phic meet with Wisconsin and Illinois universities.

He also was anchor man on a relay team in the annual University of Minnesota sports carnival. W. E. Royce, of the Homestake employment bureau, Lead, received word this morning that his brother. Frank Royce.

is gravely ill of pneumonia at his home in Omaha, Neb. Mr. Royce left for Omaha on today's Burlington. Frank Royce is a former resident of Lead, having left here about IS years ago. At one time he was employed by the Homestake as engineer at the Homestake mill, and later at the Mineral Point mill.

An older brother of Frank and W. E. Royce passed away about a month ago at Huntington, West, Va. Weather and Roads 9 Lead 32, clear, roads good. Deadwood 33, clear, roads good.

Spearfish 36, clear, roads good. Sturgis 42, clear, roads good. Belle Fourche 30, clear, roads good. Hill City 30. clear, roads good.

Custer 40. clear, roads good. Rapid City 30. clear, roads good. Hot Springs 38.

clear, roads good. Philip 42, clear, roads good. Presho 30, clear, roads good. Chamberlain 28. clear, roads good.

Newcastle 36. clear, roads good. Last night's tnin. 29; yesterday's mas. 55.

morning and demanded, a trial, which. was set for March 26 In justice court. Campbell is being held under bonds of $200. fjXferety NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE (Closing (notations) American Radiator 22 7. American Smelting 89 American T.

T. 164. Anaconda 36. Anchor Cap Corp. 24.

Baltimore Ohio 20Ht. Coca Cola 90 Cu'rtias-Wright 8'i. Cerro de Pasco 54. C. N.

W. 3. C. M. St.

P. 4. Chrysler 96. Chicago Pneumatic Tool 17. Continental Oil 34.

Consolidated Gas Dupont 147. General Foods 35. General Electric 39 'a. General Motors 64 y. Gotham Hosiery 11.

Homestake 495. Kennlcott 38. Minneapolis Moline 11 'd. Motor Products 35. Montgomery Ward 40.

National Biscuit 34. National Distillers 31. National Supplies 37'4. Packard 11. Penn.

R. R. 33. Penney 72 U-R. K.

O. 8. Remington Rand 21. Sears. Roebuck Co.

63. Socony-Vacuum 15 Standard Brands 16. Standard Oil of Indiana Standard Oil of N. J. 694.

Standard Oil of Cal. 45. Seaboard Oil of Delaware 41. Spcrry Corp. 20.

Third Ave. R. R. 8. Timken Roller Bearing 70.

Stewart Warner 21 VA. United Stores A 6. Union Oil of Cal. 27. United Airlines 20.

U. S. Steel 65. Western Pacific 7. Western Union 87 Vfc.

NEW YORK Cl'RB Cities Service 5. Electric B. S. 23 Ford Motors Ltd. AS-Hccla 15.

Swift Co. 23 '4. Trans-Lux 4. Toxon Oil Land 7. MINNEAPOLIS 8TOCKS Bid Ask Close First Bank Stock 14 14 14 Bancorporation 12 12'4 12'i Witten Resigns Taxpayers Group SIOUX FALLS.

March 18. (JP) The resignation of J. E. Witten, sec retary of the South Dakota Taxpay 9, eis association, was presented to the desperate battle was reported in pro-executive board of the group here grcss today near Amba Alaji. Em today.

Mr. Witten will resign to ac cept a position in a bank In California, he told tne group. Action on the matter was withheld until later when full membership of the board can be present.