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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-10-01

tent, the six-shooter, the roaring
saloon, the dance hall, the harlot.
Men fought, stole, killed, died for
piece of ground beneath whose arid
surface lay who knew what wealth Of
fluid richness. Every barren sun
baked farm was a potential fortune;
every ditch and draw and dried-up
creek bed might conceal liquid treas
ure. The Wildcat ld-Panhandle-
Cimarron-Crook Cartwright
Wahoo-Bear Creek-these became
magic names; these were the Seven
Cities Of Cibola, rich beyond Corona
dos widest dream. Millions of bar
rels Of oil burst through the sand and
shale and clay and drenched the
parched earth. Drill, pump, blast.
Nitroglycerin. Here she comes. A
roar. Oklahoma went stark raving mad
Sabra Cravat went oil mad with the
rest of them. Just outside the town
of Usage, for miles around, they
were drilling. There was that piece
of farm land she had bought years
ago, when Yancey first showed signs
of restlessness. She had thought her
self shrewd to have picked up this
fertile little oasis in the midst of the
bare unlovely plain. She was proud
Of her bit of farm land with it's plump
yield Of alfalfa, corn, potatoes, and
garden truck. She knew now why it
had been so prolific. By a within of
nature rich black oil lay under all that
surrounding land, rendering it barren
through its hidden riches. No faint
of corroding oil ran beneath that tract
of Cravat farm land, and because of
this it lay there now, so green, so
lush, with its beans, it's squash, its
ridiculous onions, haunting her, derid-
ing her, like mirage in the desert.
Queerly enough, she had no better
luck with her share in an oil lease for
which she had paid substantial sum
much more than she could afford to
lose. Machinery, crew, days Of drill
ing, weeks of drilling, sand, shale, salt.
The well had come up dry-a buster.
That which happened to Sabra hap
pened to thousands. The stuff was
elusive, tantilizing. Here might be
gusher vomiting millions. Fifty feet
away not so much as spot of grease
could be forced to the surface. For
tune seemed to take delight in choos-
ing strange victims for her pranks.
Erv Wissler, the gawk who delivered
the milk to Sabra's door each morning,
found himself owner Of gusher whose
outpourings yielded him seven thou
sand dollars a day. He could not
grasp it.
"Why, Erv!" Sabra exclaimed, when
he arrived at her kitchen door as
usual, smelling of the barnyard.
"Seven thousand dollars day What
in the world are you going to do
with it,"
Erv's putty features and all his
loose-hung frame seemed to stiffen
with the effort of his new and momen-
tous resolve. "Well, tell you, Mis-
Cravat, I made up my mind I amt
going to make no more Sunday de-
livery myself. I'm a-going to hire
Pete Lynch's boy to take the milk
route Sundays"
Every one in Usage knew the story
of Fred Sloat's wife when the news
was brought to her that weeks of
drilling on the sterile little Sloat farm
had brought up a gusher They had
come running to her across the
trampled fields with the news. She
had stsod there ON the back porch Of
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-10-01
Dorothy s Mother
Proves Clair,

Children don't or
dinarily take to med
icines but here's one
that all Of them
love. P e r h APPS it
shouldn't be called
a medicine at all
It's more like a rich,
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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-10-01

Nearly half the population do not
care anything about physical Gull
!ure: Farmers and their families.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1931-10-01
Heard ON a Street Car

"My husband is quite unmusical.
He can't follow the simplest tune."'
"Mine can, but he's usually some
distance behind" Boston Tran
script.
The Washington times., 1931-08-29
OPPOSE
TARS TODAY

The third and deciding game
of the three-contest series to de.
termine the Government League
championship will be played to-
day at 3 o'clock on the North
Ellipse between the Government
Printing Office and Naval Hos
pital mines.
After the Government Printers
took the first game, the Navy
men came back into the running
yesterday, as Lefty" Crews
granted the Typos three scattered
bingles and shut them out, TO.
Pete Ingram pitched his usual
fine brand of baseball, but it was
the poor support of his team
mates that allowed the Navy
men to crash through with IL
hits that we're translated into
seven runs and victory.
Dutch Isert led the Tars'
attack, getting two singles and
a double, the only hit Of the
game to go for extra bases.
The pitching heroes of the first
game, in which the two teams
battled to a a. tie that was
played off later, will face each
other in today's allimportant
contest. These are Lefty" Lyons
for the Printers and Calvin Hull
for the Sailors. The two are
sure to give the crowd a fine
exhibition.
The Washington times., 1931-08-29
$ Philadelphia in 1926
Depression, Big Salaries
Worry Ball Magnates
Bv GARRETT WATERS

earth thousands who follow every year. but to the
struggling magnate is the most trying thing in existence
these days.
The Washington times., 1931-08-29
MOVIE ST AIRS
PLAY HERE

It may be hard to picture GER
tain members Of the fair sex
whom we have seen in romantic
roles on the silver screen hotThoof.
ing it around a baseball diamond
in regular uniform. Such will
be the case next Tuesday, when
the Hollywood Movie Stars Girls
baseball team takes the field for
its game against the Pullman A..
c. in Clark Griffith Stadium.
This singular team, composed
Of IS young ladies, yes. they really
are, all Of whom have seen service
in the Cinema City, has been
touring the country for IS weeks,
meeting various Semi.pro teams,
the only team Of its kind in exist
ence. So far they have played 81
games and have come out on top
in 35 of them.
Under the tuteIage Of Paddy
Ryan, former New York Giants
star, they have developed into q
fast, flashy combination that
can give any team = fine battle.
After the girls have played a
few more weeks in this country,
they expect to go to the Far East
to get the folk over there more in
terested in baseball, and to show
that, after all, the place of the
weaker sex isn't in the home.
The proceeds Of this game will
go to defray the hospital expenses
of Frank Cinotti, veteran Wash
ington sandlotman, who is re
covering now from an attack of
appendicitis.
The Washington times., 1931-08-29
.Pickups and
Putouts
Bx GEORGE A. SIMPSON

BY GEORGE A. SIMPSON
David Dale Alexandria Is the
name of the big fellow who
plays first base for Bucky Har-
ris' Detroit Tigers under the
name Of Alexander" "Adel.
phia" is the first tag Of Del
BiSsOnette, former Georgetown
U. player, now with the Brook
Iyn Robins. There iS more ins
terest in sandl0t baseball this
season than for several years
past. FIFTEEN YEARS AGO,
Philadelphia was last and Wash
ingtOn seventh in the American
League. Walter johnson shut
out the Indians, 20, yielding
three hits, with Eddie Foster
(nOw q clergyman in Cherry
dale) accepting ii chances with
out a bObble. Arthur Bugs"
Baer handled q column for The
Times sports pages. Connie
Doyle (WashingtOn's greatest
tennis player was competing in
the national tennis champion
ships at Forest Hills, N. Y,
against such headIinerS as VIII
liam M. 'Bill" Johnston, Mau-
rice E. Mclaughlin (CalifOrnia's
Red Comet Willis e. Davis
CALIFORNIA; "Bullet"), Karl H.
Behr, Craig Biddle, Ward Daw-
son, Clarence ]. Griffin, and
Joseph e. Armstrong. John
McGraw, manager Of the New
York Giants, trades Larry Doyle,
SBaby Doll" Jacobson, and Her.
bert Hunter for Heinie thinner.
man, Of the Cubs, managed BY
Rnm WNSnkAp
The Washington times., 1931-08-29
Crop Didn1Onders Win
Tilt From Livestock

The Crops nine Of the Census
Bureau took a very See-saw affair
from the Livestock Division team
yesterday, 9 to 7. After the Crop
pers took an early lead, the Live
stocks came back in the sixth to
take a single-run lead. The Crops
team, however, clinched the game
in the seventh.
The games stars were Wyatt,
Bradley, Zahn and Plunkeet for
the Crop team, and Rea and Yea
ger for the Livestock players.
The Washington times., 1931-08-29
MAJESTICS NOTE

All members of the Majestic
nine are requested to report at
$50 q. m. tomorrow at 932 H st.
N. w. before going to Baltimore
to engage the Superior A. C. of
that city in a double-header. To-
day the Radiomen engage the
Police Department team at 8 p. m.
on the West EllipSe.
The Washington times., 1931-08-29

You have often been told this
before; now we get at the rea-
SON. Pressure on your part
against the club Immediately
destroys your fulcrum leverage.
Suppose you had depressed a
spring board, for a flying dive,
and just at the moment when
your weight had depressed it to
the maximum, the board gave
way. Your dive would be a
flop. Your fulcrum is your
spring board for your golf
swing.
The Washington times., 1931-08-29

leverage pres.
sure exerting
fr m UT
Sttffened right
leg. Let your
club S W in 6
from off this
support it will
attain gre a t
velocity. Now
if you partic-
ularly exc rt
yours e If, If
y GU deliber
ately seek to
make the club
go, you mere
lV slow II, I'D.
The Washington times., 1931-08-29
DEMPSEY B|FFS
3OPPONENTS

VANCOUVER, B. c., Aug. 20
Half a minute after he had been
introduced as the greatest heavy
weight of all time, Jack Dempsey
knocked out his first opponent
Frank Sawyer, weighing 1877
pounds, as he continued his tri'
umphal tour of exhibitions here
last night.
In his first visit to this city
since a vaudeville appearance 10
years ago, Dempsey was given a
10-minute ovation by a $4,000
crowd.
Tiny LAMAR, 2O8 FOUNDER of
Tacoma, Wash, went down
twice under the impact Of
Dempsey'S blows but refused to
stay there. Once the count
was nine, the second time 1t
was five and the bell saved
Jack from further work.
The third opponent, Del Wolfe
Bellingham, Wash. lasted the
scheduled two rounds. He landed
on Jack hard twice and then
Dempsey slugged him so hard
that Wolfe glued his gloves to his
face and held on.
The Washington times., 1931-08-29

The depression, which mas nit
every business during the past
year or so, is largely to blame.
The baseball magnate (believe it
or not) is taking it on the chin
more than any other business eX-
ecutive, chief, president or what
have you.
Every big league club, whether
its franchise is located in a ma
jor or minor league city, is find
ing it extremely difficult to keep
on the right side Of the ledger
these days.
The entire situation points to
drop in proportion before an
other year rolls around or there
will will be several franchises bob
Few of the clubs in the major
leagues are making money this
season. The Browns and Red Sox
can be said to lead the list of
those clubs losing the old simo-
leon right and left.
The Griffmen aren't doing so
well, either. This writer had the
opportunity Of listening to con-
versation recently, while the
Griffmen were in Cleveland, by
Alvin P. Bradley, president and
owner of the Cleveland Indians.
His talk was on the baseball de-
preston.
Baseball is away out of pro-
portion" he said. "The sal
aries, expenses, transportation,
in fact most everything con-
nected with the game, makes
things that way. Besides the
apeOple are not coming out to
the games like they used to.
The only way to get crowds,
it seems, is to have = first
place club, no other kind will
do"
Bradley further pointed out
the situation involving winning
clubs. He cited the AS as an
instance. They're not making
money, he said, because the sal
aries Of the players rise to such
heights. Here, he stated, was a
terrible predicament in view Of
the AS achievements and the
crowds they play to.
Relief points to the reduction
in the players salaries next year,
is his belief. Also the reduction
in the salaries of all others on
the payroll of the various clubs.
Something has to be done to
get the game back on an even
keel" Bradley says. "And it
seems the only way il to hit the
players pay checks. With us
club owners losing money day
in and day out and not really
having enough to pay them.
So it seems the day Of stu
pendous salaries Is to end soon,
If the club owners hold the same
views on the depression" as
Bradley.
The only performer who will
continue to get his big pay check
is Babe Ruth, it is the general
opinion. But he won't get any
three or four year contracts. In
fact, no player will get more than
a one-year agreement from the
looks Of things.
AL Of which brings out that
"old man depression" really is
carrying on these days. He has
the magnates believing loud and
The Washington times., 1931-08-29
SHOWED REAL
CLASS LAST
SEASON
BY BABE RUTH

PHILADEL PHIA, Aug. 20.
Two weeks ago I named the ALI
America teams which I have
picked since 1922, and promised
then to pick an all-star team
based on the performances Of
these players. Very shortly we
will have the All-America team
of 1881, the tenth Of this annual
series, so it seems timely to look
back upon the leaders of other
years and try to name the
strongest team.
Before naming these players I
wish to make clear the method
have followed in making this
team selection. I did not COM
pare player against player, but
figured performance against per-
formance. The best all-around
work for any single year at any
position was the basis of the
selections.
Gehringer More FIashy
Say, for example, that Charley
Gehringer in 1880 had turned in
a more brilliant all-around per.
formance than Rogers Hornsby
did in any Of the seven years he
was chosen for this AllAmerica
team at second base.
Under such conditions I
would name Gehringer for this
team l am announcing today,
even though HOrnSby was
chosen seven different seasons
and Gehringer only once.
I think this makes it clear
Just how I reached the decisions.
So here is the team:
Right fIeId-Heilmann. Detroit. 1923.
Center fleld-CObb. Detroit. 1899.
Left field-Simm0ns. Philadelphia. 1880
First base-Slsler, st. Louis. 1929.
Second base-HOrnsby, st. Louis. 1924.
ShOrtstOvD-CrOnin. Washington, 1890,
Catcher-COchTane, Philadelphia. 1880.
Piteher-Vance, Brooklyn. 1894.
Three OF the players named
above were selected only in the
years which show beside their
name. The three are Cobb, Sisler
and Cronin. All the others were
on two or more Of these teams,
HorneSby being named seven
times, while Simmons and Coch-
rane were my choice at the close
of four different seasons. I be-
1ieve that such a team, showing
all these players at the form dis
played in these particular years,
would be next to unbeatable. I
can think Of nothing more enjoy
able than managing such an ag.
gregation.
Joe Cronin last year gave the
greatest exhibition of all around
skill that any shortStop displayed
In these nine years.
Cobb to Center
There is an explanation I wish
to make in regard to the center
field choice because the list an
nounced two weeks ago showed
Cobb in left field. and not in cen
ter. Cobb played center field that
season and batted above 400.
Speaker, like Cobb, was still one
Of our greatest stars and he hit
.378. Both figured good enough
for any outfield and Ty had
played some games in left field,
so in the selections Of that season
was able to include both.
It was q case Of two center
fielderS standing out so far above
the rank and file that neither
could be left off. If l had to leave
either off that year it would have
been Speaker. so in this latest
comparison of performances of
the two players for the same year
I name Cobb. That was Ty's last
year while rris was named again
in 1875.
The Washington times., 1931-08-29
sKINKERS BUSY

The Skinker Eagles will play
the Congress Heights team today
at 3 p. m. on the Eagles diamond
and the champion Howard A.
French nine tomorrow on field
that will be announced later.
The Washington times., 1931-08-29
Gehringer More FIashy

Say, for example, that Charley
Gehringer in 1880 had turned in
a more brilliant all-around per-
formance than Rogers Hornsby
did in any of the seven years he
was chosen for this AlLAmerica
team at second base,
The Washington times., 1931-08-29
GUARDIAN OF GATE

Fred Pferrer, former big league
pitcher, now is custodian Of the
press gate at the Hawthorne
race track.
The Washington times., 1931-08-29

GOLF
By CHESTER HORTON

The speed which the swing
ing club attains in the forward
swing results wholly from the
The Washington times., 1931-08-29
MARIoNS DRILL

The Marion A. C. football team
drills tomorrow morning at ii
o'clock on the FairlaWn oval.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-02
CORN show AWARDS
WON TWICE IN ROW
Emmons and Benson Counties
and E. M. Cranlund Re-
tain Their Titles

Three cups awarded to North Da-
kota State Corn Show exhibitors were
won for the second time in succession
by the same exhibitors last week.
The names of the winners will be
engraved on them and the cups will
be sent to the winners soon, accord
ing to H. p. Goddard, show secretary.
Emmons county. already in pos
session of one state championship
corn-growing cup, has won its second
leg on the new cup. E. M. Gran
lund, DeLamere, Ransom county, won
the individual championship for the
second straight year and has been
awarded permanent possession OF the
cup presented by the Provident Life
Insurance company of Bismarck. The
third cup goes to Benson county Tor
the second year. Benson won the
championship In the special group OF
II northern counties.
Bowman county will receive ban
ner for its victory In the state All
clubs crop show.
All Of the 200 chickens returned to
the Association Of Commerce by
junior club members to complete pay
ment for baby chicks received by them
last spring were sold Saturday after
noon after being on display at the
show the last two days. Goddard said
The huge corn palace" in the
World War Memorial building, scene
of the show, was being cleared Mon
day following the record-breaktne
show, In which more than 1900 ex-
hibitS were entered.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-02
Mandan News
MANDANFACULTY TO
APPEAR ON PROGRAM
To Take Active Part in Conven.
ton Of North Dakota Edu-
cation Association

Schools at Mandan will close
Thursday afternoon and Friday to
give members Of the faculty an oppor-
tunity to attend the North Dakota
Education association convention held
at Bismarck. ]. G. Gould, superin-
tendent, said Monday.
Several of the Mandan teachers arc
scheduled to appear on the program.
Gould will lead the Mandan male
chorus which is to appear on the
opening program, Thursday evening.
Robert Adam and Leonard McMahan,
members Of the faculty, are members
Of the chorus.
Miss Anne McGhie, of the hign
school faculty and secretary Of the
department Of elementary education
Of the state association, Is expected to
take an active part in the meetings Of
her department, Gould said.
Miss Minnie Walters, grade school
teacher. will read paper on the "Ad.
justment of Individual Differences
Between Students in the Elementary
Grades" and Mrs. Florence Bell, heaC
of the English department. will give
an address on the Contract Plan o.
Teaching English" Miss Wealthy
Mac cGregor will speak to the depart
ment of science and mathematics OF
the Value of Work Books In tn.
Teaching of Mathematics"
H. K. Jensen, Morton county su'
perintendent Of schools. will give al
address on Some of the Worthwhile
Things Have Found My Rura
Teachers Doing"
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-02
A. OF G. PRIMARY
ELECTION IS begun
To Nominate 10 Men to Run For
Five Director Posts to
Be Vacated

Ballots for the Bismarck ASSocia-
tien of Commences primary election,
In which 10 candidates for the five
posts on the board of directors which
will be vacant soon will be named,
were sent to members of the associa-
ton Monday.
The ballots must be returned to H.
P. Goddard, secretary, by 3 p. m. Nov.
10, the secretary said.
With each ballot was sent roster
of the members of the association.
Members of the association who are
directors and will continue as such for
another year are marked with two
stars on the roster. Retiring direc-
tors, who are not eligible for election
for another year, are marked with one
star.
Each member is directed to nomin-
ate five candidates for the vacant
posts. The 10 receiving the highest
number of votes will be placed on the
ballots for the final election Of five
which will be conducted soon after the
primary is completed, Goddard said.
Retiring directors are F. M. Davis
Theodore Quanrud. A. r. Tavis. B. O.
Ward, and Paul Wachter. Directors
who will continue in office for an
other year are A. j. Arnot, George A.
IDuemeland, o. " Bowman, Carl Mel
son, and James Trimble.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-02
SOCIETY NEWS
Miss Evelyn Gray and
Roy G.. Gunderson Wed

Miss Evelyn Viola Gray, daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. A. D. Gray, Bis
,marck and Roy Charles Gunderson,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Gus K. Gunder-
son, Moorhead, Mimi, were married
Sunday evening at the Methodist par
sonage, with the Rev. Walter T. Water,
pastor of the McCabe Methodist
church, officiating.
They were attended by Miss Har-
riet Rogers and Oran w. Skinner,
both OF Bismarck.
The bride wore gown of poudre
blue flat crepe and lace with acces-
sories to harmonize and Miss Rogers
was in frock Of briek-colored flat
crepe.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gunderson have gone
to Moorhead for q visit with the
bridegrooms parents, and will make
their home in Bismarck after Nov. 8.
The bridegroom Is employed by the
Texaco company.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-02
Automobile Crash
Is Caused by Hog

A hog was responsible for an
automobile accident five miles
north of Bismarck at 5 a. m.
Monday and he paid for his In
discretion with his life.
The automobile was driven by
E. H. illness, Wilton, salesman
for a Bismarck wholesale grocery
house. who escaped from the ac-
cident with minor hurts.
Driving over the crest OF a hill.
illness saw q hog at the side Of
the road. Apparently alarmed,
the hog started for home, the
farm of William Morris.
The machine struck the porker
and then overturned twice in the
ditch. The auto was badly wreck
ed and the hog was so badly in
jured that Morris was forced to
kill it.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-02
Burr Will Speak on
George Washington

Members of Masonic Lodge No. S, A.
F. and A. NJ, will hear the first of q
series of lectures on George Washing
ton at a meeting tonight, which has
been designated grand lodge night"
The program will begin at 1880
o'clock following dinner at $50
o'clock in the Masonic Temple here,
according to Gilbert Haugen, secre-
tary.
Supreme Court Justice A.. G. Burr
will give an address entitled George
Washington the Man.
Reports on the last grand lodge
meeting will be given at the session
by delegates.
other addresses on Washington will
be given at succeeding meetings by
Alfred Zuger, E. B. Cox, and E. J..
Taylor, Haugen said.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-02
Appeals for Clothing
Meets Poor Response

With final tabulations of donations
to the Red Cross campaign for funds
for drouth relief still to be completed,
volunteer workers at Mandan Mon
day we're concentrating on collecting
clothing, according to Mrs. Henry
Handtmann, chairman Of the CAM
paign committee.
Response to appeals for clothing has
been meager, Mrs. Handtmann salo,
with the result that the commlttee
anticipates it will have difficulty IN
assembling III clothing outfits that
the Red Cross has asked for
Donations to the fund for drouth
relief still were coming In Monday
and Clifford Arnold, secretary OF the
drive committee, estimated that II
would be the middle of the week be-
fore accurate results could be deter
mined. He said that present tndica-
tions pointed to a total OF approxi-
n1ately $4,000.
The Bismarck tribune., 1931-11-02
Meetings Of Clubs
And Social Groups

Members of ST. Georges Evening
Guild will meet at o'clock this eve
ming at the home of Mrs. Lester
Bunker, 610 West Rosser avenue.
+ 4 \
The Mothers club will meet at 3
O'Clock Tuesday afternoon at the
home of Mrs r. M. BergeSon, 2l9
West Thayer avenue.
X x X
The regular meeting of the Bis
marck branch of the, American Asso-
citation of University Women will be
held at 8 o'clock Tuesday evening at
the University club, GIG Fourth st.
X X X
Officers will be elected at a meet.
ing of the local chapter Of the Order
Of the Eastern Star at 1880 o'clock
Tuesday evening In the Masonic tenn
pie. There will be balloting.