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The Montana Standard from Butte, Montana • 7

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MONTANA STANDARD, BUTTE, WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 29, 1939. Society Sorority Alumnae Members Elect Mrs. M. C. Roberts Chosen Head of Pi Beta Phi Group.

Members of Pi Beta Phi Alumnae club were entertained Monday evening with Mrs. Milo C. Roberts and her daughter, Miss Margaret Roberts, joint hostesses, at their home. During the meeting Mrs. Roberts gave a report of the Pi Beta Phi province convention which she recently in Portland, Ore.

Election of officers took place with the following results: President, Mrs. Robrts, re-elected; vice president, Mrs. S. J. Winn of Anaconda; recording secretary, Mrs.

R. M. Mairs; corresponding secretary, Mrs. Robert O'Brien; treasurer, Mrs. Clyde Oakes.

In attendance were Mrs. John Barnes of San Diego, and Mrs. V. V. Van Luven, guests; Mrs.

Gilbert Arel, Mrs. R. M. Mairs, Mrs. Clyde Oakes, Mrs.

Robert O'Brien, Mrs. Willard Thompson, and from Anaconda, Mrs. W. E. Mitchell, Mrs.

Robert Nelson and Mrs. S. J. Winn and the hostesses. Children's Party Enjoyed by Group One of the enjoyable children's parties of season was given by Donald Albert Wood, son of Mr.

and Mrs. W. A. Wood, Saturday afternoon at his home, the occasion marking his sixth birthday anniversary. Games and contests furnished diversion, followed by a luncheon.

The table was centered with a huge birthday cake. topped with six lighted tapers and the color scheme of pink, yellow and white was catried out in all the appointments. Novel cards marked covers for Leroy and Richard Quinton, Sharon Kay Dalling, Neil Strozzie, James Lee Costin, Shirley and Thomas Trevithick, Beryl Lee Graham and Donald Albert Wood. Nursery Group of A. Meets Members of the nursery group of the Jefferson school Parent-Teacher association met yesterday afternoon in the school hall with Mrs.

William Winnick, Mrs. Grace La Coure, Mrs. T. Bennetts and Miss June Bowman hostesses. During the business session, plans were made for card party to be held in the near future.

There was large attendance. Official Board of Church Meets Mrs. John Mitchell was hostess for members of the official board of Unity church, Meaderville, last evening at her home. A brief business session was held, followed by a social hour. Refreshments were served.

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Otto Forsell, on South Montana street. O. E. S. Chapter to Honor Matron Mrs.

Minnie Danskin to Pay Visit to Butte Lodge. Mrs Minnie Danskin of Glendive, worthy grand matron of the Order of Eastern Star in Montana, will pay her official visit to Butte chapter No. 39 this afternoon and evening, Following a business session at 4 o'clock, a banquet will be held at 6 o'clock in the banquet room of the Masonic temple. Mrs. Leila Hauswirth is worthy matron of Butte chapter.

Kappa Delta Alumnae Meet Mrs. Thornton G. Newlove and Miss Inga Hoem were joint hostesses for members of Kappa Delta Alumnae of Butte. and Anaconda Saturday evening at the home of the former North Excelsior avenue. Games, con contests and song fete gave diversion followed by a buffet supper.

A mound of white roses formed the central motif for the table with all other appointments carrying out the color scheme of green and white. Twenty members were in attentiance. Reading Group Holds Meeting Members of the directed group of the American Association of University Women met Monday evening at the home of Mrs. F. L.

Stevens on West Galena street. Miss Capitola a of the book, "Reaching for the Stars" by Nora Wain. Ladies' Aid. Miss Betty ter of Mrs. R.

ing a few days with her cousin, Thank Goodness! Members of the Ladies' Aid society of Trinity church will meet this afternoon at 2 o'clock in the parlors of the church. Mrs. Joseph Luke will preside during the business session, which will be followed by social hour. Thank Goodness! Here I have everything washed, ironed and ready for EASTER You know I can always rely, on the service and work of the Independent Laundry I have only to phone 4343 and their vanman calls promptly and the expense is less than if I did the work myself. Yes, it pays to send your soiled linen to the Independent Laundry PHONE 4343 Prominent Butte Couple Married A wedding o.

interest to a host of Butte friends was solemnized Sunday afterncon at the Emanuel Lutheran church when, Miss Marguerite Hjelvik, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Arthun, became the wife of William B. Honka, son of Mrs. Honka of this city.

The ceremony was performed by Rev. L. E. Jones and was followed by a reception at the home of the bride's parents, 1923 Grand avenue. The altar was decorated with potted palms and baskets and standards of gladioli.

Miss Marvel Strom at the organ, played the wedding march from Lohengrin as the bridal party entered the church. As recessional, she played Mendelssohn's wedding march. Miss Lael Tout, accompanied by Miss Margaret Williams, sang "Oh Promise Me" and "I Love You Truly." The bride, who was given in marriage by her father, wore a lovely gown of princess satin, fashioned with high neck, lace yoke, long, tight-fitting sleeves and a train. A finger-tip veil and a shower bouquet of roses and lilies of the valley, completed the perfect ensemble. The maid of honor, Miss Stella Bakke, was gowned in salmon pink net over taffeta.

Her bouquet was of American Beauty roses. The bridesmaids, Miss Elizabeth Carlson, Miss Ruby Edwards and Miss Mildred Novak, wore similar frocks of salmon, blue and yellow taffeta, fashioned floor length, with short puffed sleeves. Their bouquets were of Talisman roses, The little flower girl, Donna Bakke of Helena, wore floor-length frock of flesh tatfeta and carried a dainty basket of rose petals. For her daughter's wedding, Mrs. Arthun chose an ensemble in rose crepe.

Mrs. Honka was gowned in a striking black ensemble. John A. Honka was his brother's best st man and the ushers were Michael Popovich, Karl Fye and Joseph Keefe. Two hundred and fifty guests attended the wedding.

Fifty guests were entertained at the reception, 4 to 5 o'clock. The table was centered with 8 lovely basket of white roses and tall ivory Miss Stella Bakke and Mrs. Lillian Fye presided at the tea and coffee urns and were assisted in the dining room by the maid of honor and the bridesmaids. Mrs. Honka is a graduate of the Butte high school.

Mr. Honka, also a graduate of the Butte high school, is department manager at Penney's. The young couple will make their home here, following a short wedding trip. Club Entertained. Miss Mary Quigley and Miss Marguerite McDonald were joint hostesses for members of the West Side Shakespeare club last evening at the home of the former.

Miss Theresa O'Donnell gave a review of the book, "Fannie Kample," by Margaret Armstrong. Returns From Portland. Mrs. Milo C. Roberts has returned from a visit to the Pacific coast.

While in Portland she attended the province conference of Pi Beta Phi sorority. Masonic Whist Club. The Masonic Whist club will meet evening at 8:30 o'clock in Masonic temple. Hostesses will be Mrs. Martha Kneebone and Mrs.

Gwendclyn Lugg. Guest in Portland. Mrs. P. J.

Brophy is spending few days visiting with friends in Portland, Ore. FORGERY COUNT IS DENIED BY BENAC Vincent Benac, 24, of 1100 East Mercury street, entered a plea of innocent to a charge of forgery of a government check when he was arraigned yesterday afternoon before U. S. Commissioner George W. Howard.

The man was arrested ye-torday by federal authorities. Commissioner Howard set bonds in the sum of $1,000 and ordered B-nac remanded to the custody of the marshal in default of the bonds. Benac waived a preliminary hearing during his arraignment. The man was arrested in Meaderville by A. N.

Bechtel, secret service agent, and J. H. Cosgriff, federal alcohol tax unit official. INFLUENZA NEARS EPIDEMIC SCALE HELENA, March -Influenza has reached near -epidemic proportions in Montana, Dr. B.

K. Kilbourne, state epidemiologist, said today. His communicable disease report for the week ending last Saturday listed 406 new cases of the disease. Most cases, he said, were of a "mild. form." Dr.

Kilbourne's report also listed 250 new cases of measles. NEW MACARONI RECIPE: DELICIOUS FLAVOR! EASY TO PREPARE! ECONOMICAL! Made with Quaker, Macaroni, MACARONI which is enriched with milk for buttered SHRIMP finer flavor, this quickly -prepared baking CASSEROLE dish sets appetites a Look MACARONI, cooked for other recipes on the big blue with white peas. and yellow packages. Be sure buttered sauce Pour cheese, you get Quaker Macaroni today, until crumbs over and all, crumbs bake top at your grocers! ase brown. Macaroni Enriched with MILK SO IT HAS BETTER French President in England King George VI (left) England on the statesman's visit of a French, president Anglo-French solidarity, strengthen their military are Queen Elizabeth (left) Central Press Radiophoto welcomes President Albert Lebrun, of France, to arrival at Victoria Station, London.

First to Britain in twelve years, it demonstrates and leaders of the two nations are expected to alliance in the conversations. In background and Mme. Lebrun. Photo flashed from London to New York by radio. ANOTHER WPA SURVEY ANNOUNGED BY PARKER A survey to determine the duration of employment among workers on WPA projects is being made coincidentally with the survey of need, now in progress, State WPA Administrator Joseph E.

Parker said yesterday. "The survey, which will not require a new investigation of work histories, is expected to reveal the total number of months each WPA worker has been on the WPA payroll since the inception of the program; the number of months continuously employed in his present enrollment, and the number of months intervening between his present and last preceding period of WPA enrollment," Mr. Parker said. Information is to be obtained at the same time as to the age of WPA workers and the types of projects on which they have been employed. National findings are expected to available within about a month or six weeks, he stated.

A similar study, but on 1ess comprehensive scale, was conducted last summer of workers employed on the program between February, 1936. and November, 1937, a period of 22 months. It was found at that time that of approximately 5,000,000 different individuals who had been employed at one time or another throughout the, country, by WPA. approximately 760,000, or about 15 per cent, had been continuously on the rolls throughout the entire More recent studies have indicated an average monthly turnover of between 6 and 8 per cent among WPA employes, that number leaving the rolls, the majority voluntarily, each month, according to Washington reports. MONTANA MAN NAMED AS NOMINEE FOR NAVY Coleman M.

Coey, 221 Clark street, Deer Lodge, will be the Butte district's nominee for enlistment in the United States Navy during the April quota, according to word received here yesterday by A. T. Harrison, officer in charge of the Butte Navy recruiting station. Young Cc has been recruited here and is first on the waiting list of the Butte station. He will leave April 10 for Salt Lake City where, on April 11, he will receive his final examinations.

If successful, he will be transferred to San Diego for training prior to fleet assignment in the Navy. Mr. Harrison said 14 men would be called from the Intermountain district in April, according to the call list for the month. Six of those will be from Montana and one of the six was allotted to Butte. James D.

Crewes of Butte WAS enlisted in the Navy last month from this station. SCOUTS EXAMINED FOR APRIL COURT Butte Boy Scouts seeking merit badges or advancement in rank at the court of honor next week were examined last night at a regular board of review, held in the office of Scout Executive Percy Frazier at the courthouse. Lewis Prater, chairman of the board of review, presided. The April court of honor, at which awards will be made, will be held at 8 o'clock Tuesday evening, April 4, at the courthouse. Judge Frank L.

Riley, chairman of the court, will preside at the gathering. In addition to presentation of merit badges and advancements, an award will be made to the Butte Scout troop which showed the greatest advancement during the past month. Many French non-commissioned officers are attending classes in English in Paris. SECRETARY WILL ATTEND PARLEY Veronica O'Sullivan of Anti-Tuberculosis Group Going to Veronica O'Sullivan, office secretary for the Butte Anti-Tuberculosis society, will leave tomorrow for Spokane, where she will be member of the Montana delegation to a district conference of seal sale officials. Others attending the conference from this state include Mrs.

Henrietta Crockett of Helena, executive secretary of the Montana Tuberculosis association; Andrea Magnus, secretary to Mrs. Crockett, and Mrs. Gladys McGuire of Great Falls, tuberculosis nurse for that city. They will arrive in Butte tomorrow morning and will Join Miss O'Sullivan for the remainder of the trip to Spokane. The conference, first of its kind ever to be held in this section of the country, will attract seal sale representatives from Montana, Idaho, Washington and Oregon.

Charles L. Newcomb of New York city, director of seal sale services for the National Tuberculosis association, will direct the meeting. The delegates to the two-day confeence, which will be held Friday and Saturday, will discuss plans for the 1939 seal sale campaign, review the 1938 sales and will discuss plans for the early diagnosis campaign. which will be conducted throughout the country during the first part of April. Mr.

Newcomb, during a visit here last week, stated that the district seal sale conferences, formerly held only in New York and Ohicago, were being extended to the northwest states, the southwestern states and the southern states. He will conduct similar conferences in Los Angeles and some southern city. VETERAN SURGEON OF SPOKANE DIES SPOKANE, March John G. Cunningham, 67, who was credited with 15,000 major operations in 40 years as a Spokane physician and surgeon, died today in Los Angeles after a heart attack. Associates said he was the first surgeon in the West to perform a stomach "short circuit" operation.

Dr. James Cunningham, nephew, said the doctor performed successful operation in 1900 to make a new stomach outlet. VETERAN ACTRESS DIES IN HOLLYWOOD HOLLYWOOD, March (P) death of Mrs. Marion Ballou Pouncefort, 68, veteran stage and actress, last Saturday after a lingering Illness was disclosed to- BROADWAY 5c for Two Two Persons Bits 20c PAL NIGHT "THE JURY'S SECRET" Kent Taylor Fay Wray "Boots and I Saddles" Gene Autry Smiley Burnette Grand Finals Friday MOST WANTED STYLES IN EASTER DRESSES $12.95 and up "LITTLE GIRL' FROCKS BOLEROS! PRINCESS STYLES! JACKET FROCKS! SHEERS! PRINTS! REDINGOTES, TOO1 New Spring Colors in McCallums HOSIERY 79c and up WEINBERG'S 120 HANDICAPPED PERSONS RECEIVE SPECIAL TRAINING HELENA, March Fredericks, state supervisor of vocational rehabilitation, said today 23 persons had been put in training in 14 lines of work during the first three months of 1939. At present, he said, the bureau is aiding a total of 120 handicapped persons who are receiving vocational training.

BUTTE MEN ON I CRUISER CARRYING SAITO ASHES Two Butte young men Rupert The Oliphant of 2615 Princeton Richard Draskovich of 219 West screen Galena--are now aboard the heavy cruiser Astoria which is transportbeing the ashes of Hiroshi Salto, Japaday. nese ambassador who died in Washington, D. to his native land, according to a letter received here by A. T. Harrison, officer in charge of the Butte Navy recruiting station.

The letter, written by Oliphant, states that the two boys are the only Butte men aboard the Astoria. Both were en enlisted in the Navy last September from this station and were assigned to the Astoria upon completion of their training period. letter, written at Panama, said the Navy vessel was ready to start on its way from Panama to Honolulu, From there the ship will go to Japan to deliver the ashes of the Japanese diplomat, and on the return trip will make stops at Hong Kong, China; Manila, The Philippines; Guam, Honolulu, and Bremerton, Wash. Upon its arrival in Bremerton, the ship will be docked for three months for 8 complete overhaul. Twenty thousand people in India attended classes in reading, held the roadside, on Literarcy Day, which was organized by the Government of the United Provinces.

BLACKHEADS AND BIG ORES Help refine skin texture and clear up blemishes with highly effective SOAP AND CUTICURA8 OINTMENT HURRY! LAST DAY RE SLEW AYRES Lynne CARVER SECOND FEATURE ALSO Musical Novelty Short "Miss Lonely Heart" New! Typewriter CORONA Speedline Standard Portable Easy to a week McKee Printing Co. 118 West Granite Phone 5678 The Brightest Spot in Butte PARK Home Owned Showing Last Times Today Robert Young In "PARADISE FOR THREE" With Florence Rice, Frank Morgan Also "A NIGHT AT THE MUSIC HALL" Fanchon Marco Revue "THE BIG SQUIRT" With Charley Chase LATEST NEWS CARTOON Time Hours 10 Minutes Last Feature 9:40 P. M. Starting Thursday "STRAIGHT, PLACE, SHOW" With Rits Bros. Cantata Will Be Sung by Choir "The Resurrection and the Life," a cantata by Ira B.

Wilson, will be sung Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock by the choir of Mountain 'View church in observance of holy week. The cantata gives the story of Christ from the orucifixion to the resurrection. The musical interpretation will be rendered. by Will Johns, with R. H.

Wearne, director of the choir, to lead the choral numbers. Literary Group to Be Entertained Mrs. Robert E. Calloway will entertain members of the Literary club this afternoon at luncheon at her home. An arrangement of spring blossoms will ornament the table and following the menu, Mrs.

Raymond Carlson will give a review of the book, "Plays and Playwrights," by John Mason Brown. Return From Trip. Mr. and Mrs. L.

A. Sherrill have returned from a visit to California cities. While away they visited the San Francisco fair. They made the trip by motor. Leaves for Seattle.

To the regret of a host of Butte friends, Mrs. Donald Campbell left, yesterday for Seattle to make her home. Mrs. Campbell was honor guest at a number of informal social affairs before her departure. Church Club to Meet.

Members of club will meet parlors of Episcopal church. held following H. U. Club. Members of Trinity church Friday evening M.

A. Berryman. requested to be the Faithful Workers' this afternoon in the Silver Bow Methodist A social will be the regular session. the H. U.

club of will hold a meeting at the home of Mrs. All members are present. Visiting in Missoula. Missoula. Ann Thomas, daughE.

Thomas, is spend1 in Missoula, visiting Miss Ann Conlon. SOCIAL PARTY Given by Sacajawea Counell, No. 9, Degree of Pocahontas MOOSE HALL, 19 E. Quarts St. TONIGHT Admission 1-1 856 SOCIAL DANCE -Given WORKERS' ALLIANCE AT CARPENTERS' HALL TONIGHT, MARCH 29 Munie by.

Palmer's Orchestra Tickets 256 RIALTO Shoppers' UNTIL 2:00 Matinee P. M. Madeleine Carroll Fred MacMURRAY Shirley In the screen's 1st story of America's glamorous new '400" CAFE SOCIETY ALSO Robt. MONTGOMERY Rosalind RUSSELL FAST and Selected Short Subjects SCHEDULE OF RADIO ADDRESSES Under the Auspices of the Republican City Central Committee 15 Minutes, Wednesday, March 29, 1939, 5:30 P. Floyd Fluent 10 Minutes, Thursday, March 30, 1939, 10:45 P.

Alderman John Lindquist and other candidates. 15 Minutes, Friday, March 31, 1939, 5:30 P. Lou Graham, chairman of the City Central Committee; Matt Trudgeon, aldermember of organized labor, and Louis Forsell. man, 15 Minutes, Saturday, April 1, 1939, 7:00 P. Mayor Charles A.

Hauswirth 15 Minutes, Sunday, April 2, 1939, 5:15 P. Floyd Fluent, City Attorney 15 Minutes, Sunday, April 2, 1939, 10:45 P. Mayor Charles A. Hauswirth M. S.

GALASSO, -Paid Political Advertisement. Paid for by Republican City Central Committee..

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