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V SECOND LETTER OF L MEL E. COLO Went Thousand Miles to Learn to Fry Trout; in Rockies' Snowbanks , "40. AND S" WILL MEET nsy Col. Hofer. Editor The I,arht.) Editor Statesman: Great Kalis was the last lap of our journey of over a thousand miles into the northwest and back. These states of Oregon. Washing ton. Idaho and Montana are all large. Montana Is nearly twice a large as Orejton or Washing ton. Idaho "is nearly a thousand mil? -i from the Canadian bound ary to the southernmost point. Motoring it takes a week to get in to Montana and ont again. We took a day from Butte to Helena. Here is the great American smelt er owned by the Guggenheimg or A. and R. company, that has smelters at Tacoma, Denver. Salt Lake City and EI Paso. Helena is a clean and beautiful city with fine hotels, a capitol, and theaters, on the line with Butte, where a range of mountains is called the continental divide. The Placer hotel was built to meet the days of Helena as a mining center and the needs of Montana bonanza legislative sessions. LrantA to Fry Tront 1 went nearly a thousand miles on this trip to learn to fry trout. I had the best mountain trout I ever ate in my life at the Placer hotel, Helena. April 26. Talked with the chef in the kitchen. He was an Austrian, and here is the recipe: Rub with salt and pepper, roll in floury fry in quarter Inch deep butter lowly until a light golden 'brown; eat skins and all hut the backbone. Going Through Snow The winter road to Helena is by the Yellowstone trail to White hall, the short cut via the Basin canyon, or, pass, to Pass route, via Hig Basin mine and Boulder. This canyon was still locked in snow and ice. We were to learn about the short cut a week later, returning from Great Falls to Butte. Three light cars tried the pass from Basin and had to re turn. 4 bigger car tried it and went through. The old roadmas ter looked over our Packard and said: "That car will go through all right. Put on your chains and take a shov.".We did and It did. ThfrR was twenty miles of canyon sfeVl&ieltingjiow drifts. Ice was 'I'ng in the rivers and in places iwnh were still frozen over. The swift mountain current in places flowed level with the roadbed. Hani on Nerves One place tried our nerves. A rock as big as a piano box' had dropped from the canyon wall and left room for the car to pass and six inches to spare between ua and the 'foaming waters. Providen tially, the sandy soil right here was not made slippery with snow vater. and we crept by the rock under high nervous tension. We wallowed through ten miles of snowbanks and dropped Into the world's greatest mining camp through a pass at an elevation of 6. ".00 feet with snow mountains thousands of feet above. April 27. 'Lett Great Falls for Helena and Butte. Very light rain where we crossed Missouri river. Above the Falls the Mis souri is a rainbow trout stream and same wlth-Sun river.- Oil the latter is good deer and elk hunt--Ing in season. Anaconda Copper company has a great copper wire plant here; Great Northern rail way has division offices, and Mon tana power company has the beautiful half-million dollar Rain bow hotel, summer tourist en trance to Glacier National Park 150 miles north by fine highway. Were Invited Guests We were Invited guests of mine host Frank G. Hofer, manager, descendant from Andreas Hofer, the world famous Tyrolese inn keeper and cattle buyer who was made a member of the Austrian nobility Tor distinguished military services.; He was himself an arch-democrat and governed his own county as big as Switzerland up to 1809. for many years at s"0 florins a year In our money, a little over $300 a . year at that time. Mr. and Mrs. Glover asked us to dinner at the Great Falls country club and golf links. Mr. Clover was from Portland, but for many years has been a member of the legal department of the Great Northern railway. Mrs. Glover was of the Hamilton family, Willamette valley pioneers, a social leader in this yery beautl- tui and prosperous city. The country club Is kept up ia a high - iy creditable manner. The Rain bow hotel was finished ia marble and regardless of expense, and as a landlord Frank Hofer has made it very popular at home and abroad, showing his breeding and icscent from a race and family proud or hotel-keeping stock. It easily ranks next td the Daven port at Spokane in the great northwest for mentis and" room service.? Ale also l8gaining re pa tation for;' ha ppy ant icipa- t ions of wants of, guests, whether it is meeting a reporter for an in tervlew or wanting to remain In cognito. :, . ., (Col,- Hv'cr bas promised i I c. ' .. , X v ' ' fm v Ssi. t fr & s, ' V ' - I ' pHaaMMavawaHBMiMMM vna ntln. trhlln 7r III) f tHH A I and crowding fellow officers wait ed impatie'ntly to extend their own informal greetings. I There were many happy tears when the loved ones who had waited so long at last claimed the heroes of the hour, and a tumult of good wishes and handslasps from brother officers that all but smothered them. Forty and tight, fun-making and honor organization of the American Legion will have headquarters in the Hotel Palais d'Orsay, in the rayJst of VPif,l French section in Pari, during the ninth annual convention Sept. 19-23, under arrangements announced by Bowman Elder of Indianapolis, national chairman of the French Convention Committee. Photo above shows the Palais d'Orsaj to the right and Palais dOrsy railroad station to tlte left, as seen from the Pont Solferino, bridge over the Seine. To the left, below, Charles A. Mills, of Miami, Fla., chef-de-cliemin-dc-fer, national commander of the "40 and 8." To the right, Bowman Elder. G.H M.VSKS FOU WOMKX MOSCOW. Detachments of housewives, servants. c:.(I other members.' of the "unorganized population" soon will be formed by the Soviet society of chemical warfare -to . resist gas attacks by enemy armies. SL AY NG OF ACTOR CHARGED TO FIVE Blanket Indictment Returned When Varying Stories . of Death Told LOS ANGKLKS.' May 2. ( AI 1 Indictments, charging .murder, were returned by the county cause all of the fire, who were members of the Hollywood drink ing party! which climaxed, in the killing of Kerrick, appeared be fore the grand Jury with-conflicting versions of the shooting. The witnesses were reported as certain only that large quantities of liquor ni-erq imbibed- at the party, prior 'to the slaying cf Ker rick. Some bf them said M rs. Ker rick had a pistol in her hand at:r the shooting. She previously had ; told the police that she was hold ing a pistol belonging to Hunt, when it was fired during a scuffle' grandjury here Lite today ' against with her husband and some other Sarah Kerrick. Anita Davis. Iris' members of the party. She col- Insurance companies licensed in Oregon have $102,731,559 invest ed in the state. Burns, Joe Hunt and Henry Isa bell. in connection with the slay ing of Tom Kerrick, film cowboy, several days ago. The blanket indictments were said to have been returned be- lapsed several times while relat ing her story to the grand jury. A table about which the par ticipants in the. drinking party were gathered at the time of the shooting also was examined by the grand jury and attempts were made to trace the source of the bullet by the positions of the six persons. The five vindicated 'are being held in the county jail with out bail. As the grand Jury was voting the indictments, Mrs. Kerrick was praying beside the coffin of her husband that "the truth come out." She had ben taken under guard to the chapel where the film cowboy's funeral was . held this afternoon. ' , ; "I didn't kill him," she sobbed to her escort of two detectives. After kneeling hside -Kerrick's coffin, prayingj she! swooned and was carried back to. her cell in the couniy jail, where she learned of the indictments. I Cottage Grove New city hall completed. 925.000 14,000 REFUGEES ADDED People FlerlHK Nw Floods I'our -Into I'oncrntratiott fMip , i ; j T f. ; MEMPHIS. Tenn,,4 May 2. (AP) -More than, 14,00TerugeesfJee-j ; ing thenewly flooded area In' northern and' cental Louisiana have poured into five concentra tion camps within the-Vlast 2$ hours, the Red -Cross announced here tonight. Five thousand are in the village of Delhi. La., where the population normally is a bout T 700 and relief workers wore-taxed to care for them., ? .., KPKAKS FOClt .UXGfAl-I SACO. Katherine Civikl.f five-year-old resident of Saco. speaks Rumanian. - German.' French and English. Her parents ' came from Rumania. f ...... third letter for The Statesman, telling of the wonderful things he saw on his return trip. Ed.) GOOD WILL FLIGHT iT HO CAP TAL Major Dargue and Compan ions Bring Messages to President Coolidge WASHINGTON, May 2. (AP.t 'twenty- thousand miles of ?.irways opened to them a.mRengers"erf good will in Pan-Ametica lay be hind Major Herbert A.Tjarirue and bis seven companions of the army air corps when they dropped gracefully to earth at Boling field late today, to report in person to President Coolidge that the task he had assigned them was com pleted. "Mr. President," Dargue said, as he faced his commander-in- chief, "you gave us a mission of gpod will to perform. I hope we have done it to your satisfaction. "We carried messages from you to the countries we visited, and we bring back physical evidence of the pleasure with which they were received." As he spoke, Dargue. still In flying suit, goggles and helmet, and with, the seven bronzed com rades of the long flight at his shoulder, handed the president the writetn replies of the chiefs of the states to the south. "I thank you. Major Dargue, the president said, and that was the only official exchange of the greeting that ended daring, 'air pilgrimage that has brought , new luster to American skill not in flying alone, but also in building airships to binding nations into closer understanding. . The four '. mighty air liners swept out of the south to Boiling field on time almost to the tick of a watch. With them came a half dozen speedy ships from Langley rield, Va., their last stop and an other half dozen guided by en thusiastic comrades rose here to join the honorary escort. I The light shipsi rolled and tumbled about the liMge long distance craft which swung across the wide field in diamond formation. Below, the president had hardly arrived in the stand erected for, him, to be greeted By the thunder of . an artillery salute and to find Secretaries Kellogg, Davis and Wilbur waiting to attend him, be fore the fliers and their escore were in sight, far down on the southern horizon. Banked in the stands about wer diplomats from all the Pan-American countries, delegates to the Pan-American commercial confer ence meeting here, and a great company of distinguished officers .of-.thje: .nxmX-,1 navy and marine corps.) 'In steady, evi-n course. Dargue's Xew York j II. ' leading, the ships swept on over the fifleld with their escort humming above and about them. A bank of white faces stared up from the rim of the cleared field befow. Down they bwept. then veered away toward the' Potomac in a gesture of re membrance toward the tomb of the Unknown Soldier beyond the river. Then back again to circle! for the landing. The escort ships roared aside cut of the way, and down settled the great amphibeans, spick and span with' "dope" on wing and paint on body, glittering in the lowering sun. Dargue signalled them into line, his own ship leading. Just three minutes, before his scheduled ar rival time, the wheels beneath him touched earth and soiled to a stop oh the line before the presi dential stand. One by one the others winged down to rest beside him, the San Antonio, the San Francisco and the St. Louis, and their sun-burned crews tumbled out to be greeted by Secretary Davis and other pfficials and es corted' to clasp hands with the president. 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