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The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-13
When Col lack Miller defied
his creditors with a shotgun
he was defending a western
empire founded by his father
in the days before Oklahoma
was opened to the white man


have fought against one bad break after anothe
and again over disasters that would have
overwhelmed most men.
But lack Miller's two brothers. Joe
and George. are gone now. The lOl
Ranch wild west show has folded up. The 4
oil. cattle. hogs. wheat, fruit and leather SSN
produced by the tremendous Miller ranch lag
have been fetching disastrously low prices Msa
for years.
So. when loans of around $4,000 on So
the ranch fell due this spring, q
receivers sale was The only ,.sas. .saaalll
way out. ~
There was nothing much
left for Colonel Miller to do
but express his general disgust
with the whole proceedings
by firing his shotgun which he did-hred it in
to the floor Just behind Neal Sullivan. attorney
for the receiver. who had just come in to dis
cuss the sale with him.
TN all the American west there never was a
L ranch quite like the l0l. and there never
was family quite like the Miller family. And
if the present financial difficulties prove too
great to be overcome. and the ranch passes
from the Oklahoma scene. an interesting and
picturesque chapter in the history Of the west
will be closed.
There are 10000 acres in the l0l Ranch.
In the midst Of them sits the massive. broad
beamed ranch house-the White House. as the
Miller brothers always called it. For decades
this house has been nationally famous for its
hospitality. Writers. actors. oil men. cattle
men. 6nanciers-all have been its guests. enter
tanned with the traditional cordially of the
west
It was on the l0l Ranch that the rodeo was
turned into spectacle to amuse fasteners. 1t
was on the lOl that such famous movie cow
bow. as Tom Mix Buck Jones. Art Accord
and others learned the tricks of their trade. It
was there that the wild west show was brought
to its peak of perfection as an amusement en-
terprise.
And it was there. too. that tough old lack
Miller let loose with shotgun to show The
world how he felt about the trick that tate had
played on him.
The Miller ranch was founded by the father
of the Miller brothers. Colonel George W.
Miller. 1t was in 1871 that he reached the
Kansas Oklahoma border. heading west in a
covered wagon with his wife and his two-year-
old son Toe, bound for California.
TTALTINC for the winter. in company
III with number Of other emigrants Colonel
Miller decided that Oklahoma might be better
than California. His neishbors had numt'er
Of pigs, and he began acquiring them by bar
ter, trading off bits Of equipment that were 10
have gone to California with him. When he
had got all the pigs he could get. he butchered
them and turned the meat into ham and bacon.
When spring came he set out TOR Texas.
Reaching Fort Worth, he traded his ham and
bacon for Texas longhorns. Then. having ac-
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1932-05-13

steadily until the war, and resumed opera
tions after the Armistice. All in all. it
netted the Millers profit of more than a
million dollars.
Then the vast Oklahoma oil fields began to
be opened-and it was discovered that among
the Millers' 10000 acres there was much
good oil land. Wells were sunk and the Mil
lers got into production.
AT one time they had an output of 10000
barrels day. owned their own refinery and
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The Washington times., 1932-04-01
12-HOUR SIEGE
MAY BRING
COLLAPSE
10000 Cheer Heroic Miners
In Victorious Efforts
to Save Boy

PICHER, Okla, April l
(IN.S.). - Rescued from a
black drill-hole where he was
trapped for nearly II hours,
little Gerald Collins, 8 years
old, lay in a hospital in nearby
Miami today while his joyous
parents chung to his bedside.
Following a thorough medical
examination, including the TAX
ing of X-ray' photographs, ply
sicians expressed the fear that
pneumonia might develop as the
result of the boys long exposure
to the dampness of the earth
which wedged his little body into
a painfully, twisted position.
Only his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Paul Collins, were permitted to
enter the room where Gerald was
being treated.
After being wedged in the suf.
locating hole 16, feet below the
ground for nearly IL hours, the
boy was rescued last night by
miners who labored frantically
throughout the day.
10000 See Rescue
A dramatic scene was enacted
as the child, wan and stiff-limbed,
was lifted from his subterranean
prison. Ten thousand men and
women, who had gathered from
all parts of the State to watch
the reScuers race with death,
cheered Justify.
The youthful parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Paul Collins, rushed up to
their son and frenziedly embraced
him.
Gerald was still conscious when
rescued from his tomb-like trap
into which he had fallen yester-
day morning while at play. After
preliminary examination, the
boy was taken to the Baptist
Hospital at Miami.
But Slightly Hurt
In his 12-hour imprisonment IN
the one-foot tapering hole the
child had suffered only a twisted
arm and body bruises incurred
when he stepped into the shaft
and fell.
A rock, jammed in the drill-hole
18 feet beneath the surface, saved
Gerald from certain death. The
hole is $50 feet deep and. had the
rock failed to stop his fall, the lad
would have slipped to a depth be-
young retrieve.
The Washington times., 1932-04-01
SHIPS ROCKING
FRETS CARY

NEW YORK, March 81 GN.s0.
Shooting lions, lodging rhi-
nosceri, riding unbroken bronks
is all in the days play for Gary
Cooper, movie star.
But when an ocean liner
rocks-that's something else.
Gary arrived from hunting
trip in Africa today aboard the
liner Europa. Vicki Baum, novel
ist, was a fellow passenger. Vicki
said:
"I noticed Gary wasn't dane
ing and 1 had heard he was
very good dancer, SO 1 sent a
friend over to him to offer him
So to dance with me.
"He sent back word that So
wouldn't pay for his accident
insurance as the boat was
rocking too badly"
Cooper denied reports he was
engaged to Lupe Velez, Of the
movies.
The movie actor brought back
SO specimens of lions and other
African game shot during his
trip,
The Washington times., 1932-04-01
SOVIET ADMITS
FARM FAILURE

OSCOW, April l GN.S0
The Soviet government officially
admitted today for the first time
that its program to build up the
nations meat supply had failed.
While Robert P. Lamont, son of
the American Secretary of Com
merce, was in Russia considering
acceptance of an offer to super
wise revision of the Soviet cattle
system, the government admitted
its system was totally unsatisfac-
tory.
All state farms were accused of
bad management in care of the
cattle and of failure to foster
breeding. with a resultant loss of
many head.
The Washington times., 1932-04-01
CHECKS CANCER
IN ANIMALS

LONDON, April l GN.S)-
The young research worker at
the Royal College of Surgeons
whose experiments with a para
thyroid extract in an effort to
retard cancer growths were re-
vealed by Sir Arthur Keith,
noted British scientist, was iden-
titled today.
He is j. H. Thompson, a lec-
turer at Kings College, who is
carrying on his experiments in
a SPECIAL laboratory erected on
the roof of the college of SUR
geons. He sad today:
Il cannot say more than Sir
Arthur Keith already has re-
veaIed. My work is not yet
finished"
In announcing the experiments
Sir Arthur said Thompson had
succeeded in controlling cancer
growth in animals.
The Washington times., 1932-04-01
HIT
BACK At HYDE
CLIFFORD

CHICAGO, April 1 Q.N.S).
"The Chicago Board of Trade
Is completely tired of being
kicked around as a political
football"
Peter B. Carey, president of the
Board of Trade, made this asser.
ton in a letter to Secretary of
Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde, it
was revealed today.
Carey charged Hyde with arous'
ing political animus against the
board in an effort to divert at.
tention from the enormous eX,
penditure and waste of public
money" by his department.
Carey's letter said:
"We resent the continued
implications as to our integrity
and motives which emanate
from the Department of Agri-
culture. We resent a trial by
. head of a bureau wherein
we are arraigned and found
guilty without even the fair
ness of a hearing"
The Washington times., 1932-04-01
House Would RGze
Ross School Building

Abandonment of the Ross Ele-
mentary School has been prac-
tically agreed upon by the House
District Appropriations Subcom-
mittee, Chairman Clarence Can,
non CD of Missouri, announced
today.
Rather than expend $4,000 for
repairs, deemed necessary since
recent discovery of fissures in the
structure, the subcommittee thinks
K should be razed. Cannon said.
The proposal meets the approval
Of the Engineer Commissioners
office, and DR.. Frank w. Ballou,
superintendent Of schools, it is
said.
The Washington times., 1932-04-01
ALL VOTE WET,
EXCEPT KANSAS

NEW YORK. April l GNSD.
BY a margin of eight votes, Kan
sas maintained itself as the lone
State in the dry column in the
seventh report of the Literary
Digest's prohibition poll an
nounced today.
Forty other States and the
District of Columbia voted for re
peal of the Eighteenth Amend
ment by about to l.
But North Carolina was within
one-tenth of per cent of
joining Kansas as a dry State,
with a total vote of 1891 per
cent in. favor of prohibition.
The complete vote recorded so
far stood at 3,715.63O. OF these,
2,758,767 ballots were for repeal,
and 956,863 for maintenance Of
the prohibition amendment.
The Washington times., 1932-04-01
radio Drinks
STIR QUIZ HERE

A general investigation Of
patent medicine firms that manu-
facture and sell so-called "radium
water" has been put underway
by the Federal Trade Commis-
sion, and it is expected that
"cease and desist" orders will be
issued.
The deaht of E. M. Byers,
wealthy Pittsburgh manufacturer
and sportsman, attributed to use
of a radium preparation over
several years, is expected to eXpe-
dite the commissions procedure.
The Pure Food and Drug Admin
istration warns against use of
radioactive drugs" because of
injury which follows their absorp-
ton.
The death of Byers yesterday
was attributed by his physicians
to drinking radio water" for two
years. He said he drank from
two to three bottles daily to tone
up his system. He paid S. a
bottle.
An investigation of so-called
radio water" the Federal depart
ment said, revealed that only a
few of the products actually con-
tained radium in any quantity.
The Washington times., 1932-04-01
JOBLESS B D D !
FUNDS HIT

Reduction of the activities of
the District Employment Commit
tee has increased the demands
for aid upon the family welfare
organizations of the Community
Chest, Paul L. Benjamin, execu-
tive secretary of the Employment
Committee, said today.
In his report at the Commun-
ity Chest staff meeting Mr.. Ben
jamin said his committee had
given work on alternate weeks to
2,700 men. The funds for the
work now being practically ex-
hausted. it has been necessary to
reduce the number to about 500,
he added.
The woodward, according to
Mr.. Benjamin, has been self.
supporting due to the sale of the
wood by unemployed statesmen.
1t has given employment to 200
men daily.
The Washington times., 1932-04-01
RAD|UN DRINKS
PROBED AS
MAN DIES
Federal, State Agents Join in
War on Health Beverages;
Noted Golfer Victim

NEW YORK, April 1 (I.N.S.).
Aroused by the death from
radium poisoning of Eben M,
Byers, wea althy Pittsburgh
manufacturer and sportsman,
medical authorities today de-
cided upon a national drive to
save others menaced by the
poison contained in radium
water" offered as a medicine.
Byers' death was the first in
New York caused by taking
raoium solution internally and
the second known to medical sci
ence. Several women have died
as a result of pointing brushes
with their lips while putting
radium preparation on watch
dials.
Federal Probe Begun
An autopsy was to be per-
formed on the body of Byers to-
day by DR.. Raymond B. Miles, as
sistant medical examiner. 1t was
believed the radium absorbed b.
Byers, who started taking the sup
posed remedy several years ago,
concentrated in the bones and
destroyed them.
Federal and local authorities
moved today to investigate several
widely advertised patented .medi-
cines containing radium. The
movement by physicians to have
the Federal Trade Commission
bar the sale of such articles also
will be resumed.
Byers, internationally known as
a golfer, who once held the anna
teur championship, was advised
to try the "Radium Water" by a
psychotherapist treating him for
an arm injury.
Bones DiSintegrate
At first he felt himself bene-
fitted by drinking a bottle of the
solution after meals. But about
a year ago, disintegration Of the
bony tissues of his jaws and teeth
developed.
Investigation revealed that the
"Radium Water" Byers took con-
tanned two micograms C0000002
gram of radium in each bottle,
DR.. Joseph Wheelwright, Byers'
physician, said.
The Washington times., 1932-04-01
MAHONEY HELD
IN KNITTING

Accused of having cut Pete
Rockelli, 725 Third st. N. w,
during row over a narcotic case
several days ago in Ninth
Street restaurant, Jack Mahoney,
40, of 335 K st. N. E., today was
held for the Grand Jury on a
charge of assault with a dan
gerous weapon.
On request of Assistant United
States Attorney Michael F.
Keough, Police Court Judge Isaac
r. Hit set Mahoney's bond at
$1,000. Mahoney was also charged
with disorderly conduct, for which
he was fined $5.
Rockelli testified that Mahoney
accused him of turning him in"
on a narcotic charge in Balti-
more and then slashed him five
times with a knife, the wounds
necessitating 48 stitches. Yester-
day a charge of simple assault
had been filed against Mahoney,
but today that paper was nolle
pressed and the more serious
charge substituted.
The Washington times., 1932-04-01
RezOning Request
Meets With Refusal

The, petition of Helen K. Win
field for change in the classifi-
cation of her property on Brad
ley Boulevard from residential to
industrial was denied last night
by the Maryland-National Capital
Park and Planning Commission.
Action on the requests for
apartment and commercial Zon-
ing of Wisconsin Avenue at the
District line, the land around
Chevy Chase Lake and Georgia
Avenue at Montgomery Hills, was
postponed.
The Washington times., 1932-04-01
ALexGndrid's> Cupid
Takes Winter Rest

Present economic conditions hit
the marriage-license office in
Alexandria last month, Elliott F..
Hoffman, clerk of the court, said
today. Only So licenses were
issued during March, a decrease
of Is from February and 20
less than the average.
The Washington times., 1932-04-01
Services at HOLUGrd
To Honor ROSenIUnId

Rosenwald Memorial Services
will be held at Howard Univer-
sity Sunday morning under the
auspices Of the university council.
The services will take the place
of the regular university religious
services in Rankin Memorial
Chapel. DR.. Mordecai w. John
son, president of the university.
will be the principal speaker.
Members of the board of trustees
who live in the city have been
invited.
The Washington times., 1932-04-01
Loan of S7,OOO,OOO
To B. & o. Approved

The Interstate Commerce Com
mission today approved the appli-
cation of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad for an immediate loan
of $7,000,O00 from the ReconStruc-
ton Finance Corporation.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-23
CHRISTMAS PROGRAMS
AT MILFORD CHURCHES
Churches Of Milford VIII Have
Special Programs

On Christmas Day the churches
of Milford are having special pro-
grams celebrating the birth of
Christ
At the NJ E. Church practical
ly all of the morning service will be
devoted to the singing of Christmas
hymns by the choir. The selections
are: Anthem, Awake! Salute the
Happy Morn; anthem, Hail Night,
Peaceful Night; solo, Mrs. Frank
w. Davis, selected; solo, Curtis G.
Williams, selected! anthem, 10! the
Newborn Jesus" anthem, "Thy
Salvation Cometh". In the evening
the members of the various Sunday
school classes will present Christ
mas mystery drama, "The Starfow-
err. In this play there are nineteen
characters besides a group of twelve
Pilgrims and three choruses. The
background of the play will be the
City of Bethlehem and the story will
be the Christmas story of the Christ
Child, born in Bethlehem, and the
Pilgrims and Wisemen journeying to
the Inn to give Him gifts. Appro-
pirate lighting effects will be used
and Palestinian robes will be worn
by the characters. Seven Christmas
hymns will be sung by the Choir
uses. AS a part of the program Os-
borne Walls will play a cornet solo.
After the play Santa Claus will pre-
sent gifts of candy to all the chill
dren.
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Milford chronicle., 1932-12-23
DRYS FIGHT FOR
KLAIR-LOOSE Law
Associated Forces Also To
Oppose Repeal Of 18th
Amendment.

Prohibition forces in Delaware
will actively combat every effort on
the part of the vets either to repeal
the Eighteenth Amendment or to
modify the Klair or Loose laws.
This was emphasized at meeting
of the leaders of the dry forces,
held in Dover, last Thursday even
ing, when twenty or more men and
women, representing the various
prohibition forces throughout the
State, formed an organization to be
known as The Associated Forces
for the Retention of the Eighteenth
Amendment and for Law Enforce
ment.
Horace G. Eastburn was elected
temporary chairman and X. A. Hor-
ner, temporary secretary. Mr., East
burn explained the object of forming
the new organization. He said there
is definite need for some organiza-
tion to act as directing" commit
tee, so as to coordinate the efforts
of the many organizations through
out Delaware who are opposed to
any change in present prohibition
laws. ..'..
"The object of this organization,
he said, ''is not to form an entirely
new body, but rather to take the
of the other organi-
and form a central directing
or steering committee, whose duties
it will be to formulate cohesive
plans, present them to the various
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Milford chronicle., 1932-12-23
ASSAILANT GRANTLAND SEEN
len YEARS RETAINING OFFICE
Secretary OF State Re-
ported Prepared To Ac-
cept Governors Offer.

The next Secretary of State for
Delaware will be the present holder
of the office, Charles II. Grantland,
of Wilmington, it was stated upon
good authority in political circles
Monday night.
Mr.. Grantland, it is understood,
has promised to make known on
Saturday whether he will accept re-
appointment by Governor G. Doug
lass Buck and it is now said he will
accept. .
Recently a report was circulated
that Mr.. Grantland did not desire
reappointment, but favored retiring
and entering business in Whining
ton. According to those who know
there is no truth in this.
One of the biggest factors in Mr..
Grantland's decision to accept the
important duties of the secretary
ship again, is said to be pressure
which has been steadily brought to
bear upon him by scores of friends
and admirers in all sections of the
State.
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Milford chronicle., 1932-12-23
SMALLBANK LOAN
ONLY R. F. c. HELP
FOR DELAWAR
Held AS Example Of Self
independence During
Emergency.
FARMERS BENEFITED
Rhode Island Second On
List; Was Awarded Two
Relief Loans.
FARMERS BENEFITED

Delaware thus far has survived
the depression without feeling it
necessary to resort to the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation for
loans to tide the State and private
business over the hard places. II is
setting an example of self-help to
all the states, and making a unique
record, which in time to come may
prove of value in influencing loca-
ton of people and business in all at
mosphere of independence and reli-
ance upon self even in dire emeT-
gencies.
With the exception of one small
bank loan, Delaware has borrowed
not one cent from the Federal agen-
cy. The books of the corporation
disclose that no other state has so
nearly a clean record. Rhode Island,
pressing Delaware hard, has a rec
ord of two loans, one to a bank and
one to credit corporation. Outside
continental United States, Alaska
and Porto Rica, with one loan each,
match Delaware's record.
In a summary of all loans made
from the beginning of the corpora
ton in February down through Oc-
tober 81, the corporation lists the
loans under nine classifications, by
states and territories.
OF loans to 4,706 banks and trust
companies, one is listed for Della
ware; none of 473 beneficiary closed
banks is in Delaware; none of S49
borrowing building and loan asso-
Citations is in Delaware; none of 129
loans to livestock credit corpora
tions went to Delaware; none of 110
insurance companies making loans
is in Delaware; none of SO railroad
loans is charged to Delaware; none
of 106 loans to agricultural credit
involved Delaware;
none of IS mortgage loan compan-
les making loans is in Delaware.
In the interest of accuracy 1t
must be stated that the finance cor
Doration loaned $64,000,000 to the
of Agriculture, which in
turn loaned small sums to farmers
for purchase of seed and fertilizer,
and the statement is made by the
that ''seed loans were !
made to farmers in every state but
Rhode Island" These loans aver !
aged $126 each.
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-23
Rewews State Board
Work ToAidFarmers
Ralph C. Wilson, Secretary Of State Board OF Agri-
culture, Submits His Annual Report To Governor
Buck; Discusses Accomplishments During Year.

Ralph c. Wilson, secretary of the
State Board of Agriculture in his
annual report for the year submit
ted to Governor Buck last Saturday.
discusses the activities of the board
and its subsidiary departments dur
the year. The report in part fol-
lows:
During the fiscal year, the State
Board of Agriculture has operated
it's various divisions just as econom-
ically as was possible in cousistence
with efficient service to the agricul-
tural industries in the State.
During the past year, the State
Board of Agriculture has been in
communication with the various
persons connected with the produc-
tion and sale of milk. AS regulations
have been enacted by the various
cities into which Delaware milk Is
shipped, requiring certain equip
ment, etc, on the farms producing
milk, the farmers in Delaware, as
well as other states, have found it
difficult at this time, to put in any
that would necessi-
tate considerable expenditure. The
Delaware State Board of Agricul-
ture and State Board of Health met
with officials from the Pennsylvania
and New Jersey Departments of Ag-
riculture and Health, in an effort to
obtain some uniform regulations
Milford chronicle., 1932-12-23
G. L. GRIER SPEAKS
TO DENTAL SOCIETY
Is Elected To Honorary Membership
In N. Philadelphia Dental Society

On Wednesday, December 14th, DR..
G.. Layton Grier, president of The
L. D. Caulk Company, as guest
speaker at a meeting of the North
Philadelphia Dental Society, gave a
very interesting description of his
recent trip to Japan, the PHILIPPINE
Islands, China and Hawaii The
audience was very much interested
for an hour while they received first
hand information on the progress of
dentistry in the Far East.
A distinguished tribute to DR..
Grier's interest and contributions to
modern dentistry was recognized by
the society in that they elected him
to honorary membership and pre-
sented him with an engraved certiti-
cate of membership and merit. The
honor bestowed upon DR.. Grier is
presented only to men of outstand-
ing ability and contributors to the
advancement of the science of dent
istry.
Excerpts from Dr. Grier's speech
follow:
Japan is a nation of seventy mil
lion people confined to an area
slightly larger than the state of Cali
fornia with climatic seasons Of heat
and cold that stimulate initiative
and pep. 1t has no serious contro-
versies about its form of govern
ment. There is latitude enough to
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