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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-10-27
DRILLING FOR THE
GUSHER SANDS

Our Fiat Coulee structure well is now TO depth OF
1900 feet with 1917 inch casing bottom We IND tnls
wen approximately So feet lower structure than the s
discovery well drilled 1923 which is quarter mile from
our present IocatonWith well, production Is found
should the Gusher Type for the reason that IN the
discovery well located higher structure i nad OH
five different sand horizons from 2b0 TO 1900 feet and at
1900 feet gas was discovered which reported to be from
90 to 40 million with pressure Of 1240 pounds 70 the
square inch and which caused casing trouble ana the Loss
of the wen with our wen logging 65 feet lower sucturay
this gas pressure should give a Gusher well
This wen being drilled and financed through member
ships The entitled to subscribe for membership are
CREDITOR and Stockholders Assignee Of the Sunburst Oh
Refining Co. in Receivershp Any Creditor or stock
holder subscribe any amount Of money that ne 1ees @
and membership will be issued to him Tor the amount SO
absorbed
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1934-10-27
MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION

AS Creditor Stakeholder Of the Sunburst Oh Re
filming Co., hereby forward the Of $------.---
dollars for membership understand this membership VIII
be issued 10 me by the j. Hamilton Company, who are
acnr s Fiscal Agents and Managers for the membership
holders IN the drilling Of this well also understand and
that the Hamilton Company the right to reject
a apicatiou for membership that they may desire to
reject 81 The time application is received application is
rejected money win be refunded TO applicant.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-08
BACK TO THE COURTS

TON MOONEY and Warren Billings,
Il spending their eighteenth year in prison
on the word of witnesses who later admitted
they lied will be cheered to learn that able
and public spirited lawyers are taking their
case back to the courts. So will the people of
many lands to whom this celebrated case has
become the symbol of legal lynching.
Yesterday Attorneys John Finerty of Wash
ington and Frank P Walsh of New York filed
a writ of habeas corpus in the San Francisco
federal court declaring that Mooney was con-
victed on perjured testimony and testimony
known to be perjured by agents of the court
back in 1915 when he was tried. The brief
cited the United States supreme courts rulings
in the Leo Frank and Scottsboro cases.
If those defendants were denied due pro-
cess of law under the fourteenth amendment
because of mob intimidation. certainly, the
brief argues, Mooney was denied due process
when convicted through perjured evidence. In
fact, says Counsel Finerty the use of perjured
evidence in securing conviction lis far more
subtle and dangerous invasion of the four
tenth amendment even than mob intimida-
ton"
California, like Massachusetts, has pecu-
liar prohibition in her Constitution that for
bids higher courts to reopen case unless
error is discovered. Proof abundant has been
brought to light that all five of the chief state
witnesses against Mooney were pen jurers. The
state courts were powerless to right the wrongs
they wrought. Attempts to secure justice
through executive clemency also have failed.
Four California Governors have listened to a
noisy minority in their state and turned a deaf
ear to the still voice of justice.
Unless that state elects a just and courage
Gus Governor this fall or the federal courts
intervene, Mooney and Billings will continue
indefinitely to pay as felons for a crime some
one else committed.
We hope this writ goes to the United States
supreme court. The issue is: Can court of
law under the United States Constitution con-
vict a man on perjured evidence?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-08
MOVIES IN EDUCATION

NTOST school authorities nowadays are
Iva worrying more about how they can
manage to keep their buildings open and pay
their teachers than about new experiments in
educational methods But eventually, when
full economic health returns to the land, the
question of the moving pictures place in the
primary school will have to get lot of at
tention.
When " c. Arnspiger, research engineer,
told the Society of Motion Picture Engineers
in Atlantic City recently that proper use of
educational films would teach children in half
the time that books teach them, he touched
on something that lot of laymen had al
ready thought about.
The potentialities of the educational film
seem to be almost limitless; and so far they
are almost entirely unexpected. Sooner or
later our school leaders ought to make a
thorough investigation of this new method of
educating our children.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-08
HOT DOGS

THE passing of Harry Mozely Stevens, Gre
u ator of the hot dog, recalls the debt the
world owes this aged and obscure philan-
thropist.
Stevens launched his first hot dog at
little baseball park in Niles, O., in 1900. Today
its billions of descendants are hawked to the
masses at fairs, races, ball games, subway sta
tionS and other corners of the universe Our
statiStician tells us that if all the hot dogs
consumed each summer day were strung to-
gether they'd make a chain reaching around
the globe 80 times. And what garland!
While the hot dog is native Buckeye 1t
took three nations to make it what it is The
late Mr.. Stevens was a Londoner by birth,
and the SauSages that make a hot dog are
jolly frankfurters But who'll deny that here's
100 per cent American and friend to all
who eat standing up or on the run?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-08
CHARGES FRIGHTENING
FROM MISFORTUNE
By a Striker.

By Striker.
The wartime prof1teer was jailed
and fined and made an example Of;
What could be any worse than de-
preston profiteer, or one who profits
off the misfortUnes of others?
How many of us worked during
the depression for wages Of So or
So a week and were told if we didn't
like it, there were persons VINO
would gladly take our jobs for less.
j. A. Goodman Of Real Silk in
formed us in one Of the many
speeches he gave during the depres-
sion every time he wanted an ex-
cuse TO cut wages, that he could
get people to work for him for so
cents week. Hosiery and lingerie
prices did not come down accord
ingly.
The union factories over the
United States had to sell their pro-
ducts for the same price that he
sold his goods, but they paid union
wages to their employees and still
made a profit.
How much more profit did Mr..
Goodman make with his starvation
wages? NRA doesn't mean a thing
to him as he still is paying some
of the girls SIS and So week.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-08
OPPOSES REELECTION
OF ANY OFFICIAL
BY a Taxpayer.

by taxpayer
In Pottsville, 1000 taxpayers
stormed the courthouse and took
out two county commissioners, and
demanded the course of an increase
in taxes. What happened there
would be good thing in Marion
county.
The taxpayers always have been
too docile. All they are expected
to do is walk up to the treasurer's
window and hand over their last
cent. Then it is divided up among
the clique to squander any old way
they see fit.
Thousands of persons who once
were thrifty citizens and the makers
of this country are having the say
ings of lifetime swept away. A
stop to this should have been af-
fected long ago.
The taxpayers money paid for a
special session of the legislature to
fix a $3.50 tax limit. What are the
rates? Center township has 1913
and Wayne 1928. The case is pend
ing, and it will be pending as long
as we spineless people let the of
fee holders pull the flesh of our
bones. Every old Office head is now
seeking to be reelected at a fat
salary. We pay Office holders $4,000
and $4,000 year TO sit in a finely
furnished office, or run around over
the country making speeches. Not
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-08
DOUBLE-BARRELED AID

IT is to be hoped that congress will act fast
on President Roosevelt's request for au-
thority to launch a great federal housing pro-
gram. The whole proposition looks like one
of the administrations very best ideas
For this scheme, like the famous CCC
project, is a thing that cuts both ways-or can
cut both ways, if it be efficiently handled.
1t would be a direct spur to national re-
covery, helping to revive great capital goods
industry which needs revival very badly; and
it would help to provide many Americans with
improved living facilities which are greatly
needed.
Stun clearance, construction of new pri-
vate homes, modernization of existing homes
which are antiquated and poorly equipped
there is enough work here to keep the build
ing industry busy for years, and it would be
work with a direct cash return to the ccm-
munity.
The faster Washington gets busy on it, the
better
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-08
REAL POLICE WORK

QUICK cleanup of the case in which two
" youths are alleged to have sought to OBJ
tain $4,000 from Eli Lilly under threats of
kidnapping brings to the public attention an
outstanding piece of detective work.
Speed and accuracy counted in this case
Had the alleged extortionists had the oppor-
tunity to flee from the area covered by the
officers. they probably would have made their
flight successful.
But, due to the quick-thinking of Detectives
Morris Corbin and Stewart Coleman, the sus-
poets were deprived of this chance.
Corbin, Coleman and Mr.. Lilly were on
train from which the money was to have been
hurled when they sighted the white flag that
was the signal for delivery.
Instead of hurting money into the field
Corbin hurled himself from the train. He had
no idea of the type of his quarry. He had no
idea whether the alleged writers of the note
were DIlinger gangsters, pranksters or morons.
1t took nerve to step into their haunts.
A long vigil proved fruitless. Then followed
a methodical investigation by Corbin, Cole
man and Earl Wynn of the department of
justice. Tracing every clew, even to the extent
of checking sixty typewriters, the trio had
landed the suspects within few days.
From then on the public knows the rest
The youths were brought to indianapolis and
Yesterday were bound over to the federal
grand jury under bonds of $4,000 each.
They are IN the United States court for two
reasons.
One is that they ussd the United States
mails in writing the alleged note and the sec
ond because they had the i'll luck to have two
REAL detectives and a department of justice
man on their trail.
The Times believes no commentator is
too high for these officers More cases should
have the same, speedy endingS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-08
LAWS CAN'T CURE

DACK about thirteen years ago the people
~ of the United States got fed up with the
insolent greed of the liquor traffic and de-
cided to fix things by passing a law-the
eighteenth amendment.
In the succeeding decade they learned, to
their panied surprise, that passing law was
not, in itself, quite enough
Now, Just as if they hadn't learned the
lesson once, they seem to be studying it all
over again.
Just as they got fed up with the legal
LIQUOR traffic before 1920. they got fed up with
the illegal one before 1888. So they tried the
same old remedy; they passed a law.
Oddly enough, they're finding out exactly
what they found out once before. The pro-
hibition amendment failed to solve the liquor
problem; repeal likewise is failing to solve it.
In each case the primary difficulty seems
to be that old assumption that the battle is
won once you get the right kind Of law on
the statute books.
Senator Borah leveled terrific indictment
against liquor conditions under repeal, in his
speech on the senate floor the other day. But
no citizen who goes places and keeps his eyes
and ears open need have been surprised by
what Senator Borah said
The facts are notorious. Bootlegging has
not ceased. the pledge to keep the old-tine
saloon from returning has not been kept.
When the final states were ratifying re-
peal of the amendment, it was common wise
crack to say that repeal is good law if they
can just enforce it."
just why that should have been taken as
wisecrack is not quite clear; our experience
with the amendment itself ought to have
shown us that it was nothing less than plain
statement Of an obvious truth.
SO far, our effort to enforce upon the liquor
trade the kind of standards We talked about
when repeal was pending is hardly visible to
the naked eye. Until such effort is made in
an honest and energetic manner, We have no
right TO be surprised by the abuses which have
developed under repeal
We ought to know by this time that pass
ing law is only first step in any reform
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-08
q y q
HOPES DILLINGER
WON'T BE CAUGHT
By Mrs. Zula Burkert.

By Mrs. Zula Burkert.
1 have been a reader Of The
Times for several years and think
it is wonderful paper.
In response to letter by Myrtle
Moore, I wish to say am the moth
er Of two little girls and not a So
called MOL" I am one Of the
millions" who are for Dillinger.
I think that if given a chance, he
would settle down and make citi-
zen Of whom we would be proud.
I think he is blamed for many
things that he doesn't do. How do
you know that he ever has killed
anyone?
If he ever came to my house and
wanted to stay all night or needed
help in any way. certainly would
help him and never Squeal either.
do not know him, but if ever I
should get the privilege of meeting
him would treat him with cour-
tesy. Here is hoping that he never
gets caught.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-08

one old Office holder should be
elected the second time.
How can taxpayers feed all that
are being fed? The majority of
those aided never as much as paid
poll taxes until they had to, to run
automobiles. People own property
and live off the county.
What kind of work was done by
the civil works administration. Rak-
ing dry grass; playing in the bitches;
the hardest work done by the work.
ers was throwing clods at one an
other And such mobs setting out
little trees!
Utility companies come along and
cut down fine, big trees that have
taken fifty years or more to grow
All taxpayers should say they
have paid their last taxes until the
taxes are cut to what the law set
as the limit.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-08
FISH SLAUGHTER
CHARGE RESENTED

BY the Four Fishermen.
am a resident Of Delphi, Ind.
After reading an article in this
column I decided to tell the other
side of the story.
It is the opinion of most fisher
men there is a wholesale slaughter
of fish going on here, with river
pirates, thieves of the night, steal
ing the precious game fish from the
waters of paradise for fishermen.
That isn't the truth. I know that
with a few exceptions only soft fish
are being gigged. I will venture to
say that for every pound of game
fish taken with a gig there are
twenty-five pounds that go back to
the cities undersize and over the
limit in number.
The groups of river workers here
can not afford $25 dollar pole and
a $50 reel, plus a trunk full of
flies, Spinners and other teaserS.
They do well to get SO gigging out
fit.
Maybe you are right about the
fish not having chance, but what
are a couple Of boats and river
compared to the gauntlet of fisher
men the fish have to run.
Sometime you ought to camp along
the lower part of Tippecanoe or
Wabash rivers and count the lights
Of the fishing boats You can count
them all on one hand even if you
only have two fingers, and you will
be lucky to see any at all.
I would not worry, Mr.. Sports
man. There always will be enough
fish for all of US.
After inquiring at the groceries, I
find that their stocks of sardines
and canned salmon are holding out
quite well considering the fact that
the scarcity Of fish, due TO gigging,
is upon us.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-08
TUESDAY. MAY q. lss4.
VOTE TO-DAY

.WHAT difference does my vote makeP-
How many times have you heard that
remark? All too ofSen. Let you plead not
guilty to that today. Go to the polls and
vote. Multiply your "one little vote" by sew
eral thousand others who fail to vote and
you have the reason for rotten government.
The vote is the foundation of democratic
government. BY the vote, the governed pick
the governors. Vote wisely and you will
have no complaint of bad government.
The primary vote perhaps, is even more
important than any other. The voters who
have no interest in machine politics stay
away from the polls and who sneaks into the
lists for the November elections but greedy,
grating politicians dominated by bosses, and
all after the taxpayers money.
Go to the polls today and pick honest,
independent candidates and women
who will do the job right.
President Roosevelt made an appeal for
honest government officials. Only YOU can
fulfill that plea.
If you fail to vote today you may face
the alternative in November of picking be-
tween two machine candidates. perhaps two
greedy grafters, only too willing to sell their
souls.
All too often the November voter finds
himself between the devil and the deep blue
sea. 1t is the voters fault Had he voted
in the primary he might have an honest
man to vote for.
Vote today 1t is vote for a good gov
eminent.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-08

and the people wouldn't even miss
the news of the world.
Nothing of any Importance real
ly happens in this city but your
readers hang on like grim death
to the above mentioned subjects.
Aren't there any halfway intel
ligent and educated readers of
The Message Center among us?
If so, for heavens sake write, or
I will cease to read it, and to top
it off, by heck, I will move to
Brownsburg or any town as small,
where they at least talk about the
weather.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-08
LET HIM WHO is
WITHOUT SIN :
BY a Reader,

By a Reader.
I wonder how many of us today
remember this story. The Pharisees
brought unto Jesus a woman taken
in adultery. The law in those days
was that she be stoned to death.
1t is the same temper today, only
dressed a little differently, that is
being used against John Dillinger.
If he was brought in the midst of
us, I wonder how many of us are
without sin who could cast the first
stone.
I am sure all would be convicted
by their own consciences and walk
away one by one. Error of any kind
can not hide from God, so why not
put him in Gods hands?
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-08
Idle Hands

BY LEONE
I am just as glad
AS I can be
That I have two hands,
And that I can see
a thousand things for them to do
Each day.
I question not
How large or small
The task may be.
For, after all
If sent to me, I know I
Must obey.
To me, it seems
The Saddest things
Are the idle hands
That never bring
A bit Of joy to some one, on
The way.
They look SO helpless,
So alone.
For each neglect
They must atone,
When they have learned the will, to
h'y pray.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-08
ABOUT MONKEYS AND
HOSIERY STRIKE
By w. E. Blanton.

BY w. E. Blanton.
This is in answer to the one who
signs him or herself Another
Hosiery Worker"
You surely think more of your
little pin, than you do of collective
bargaining and the welfare of those
who will be employed after you,
who may be your son or daughter.
And speaking of monkeys, think
your attitude makes you eligible to
ride home in the companys mon
key cage, the wire-protected Grey
hound bus.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-08
COMPLETE THIS JOB

TOO much good work has been done on the
Wagner CoStigan anti-lynching bill to
allow that measure to die on the senate cal
endar.
The Van Nuys subcommittee held ex-
hauStive hearings. Many amendments were
adopted to conciliate opponents but the bill
came out of the judiciary committee without
losing any Of its teeth, and without dissent
ing vote from the constitutional minded lawyers
Of that committee
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-08
" ~
S1G0-A-WEEK KNITTERS
AND MATRIMONY
By Golddigger.

BY GOlddigger.
I have been a seamer for more
than five years, but never has a
knitter looked so attractive until I
heard that when the union gets in
at Real Silk the knitters will get
500 a week. I was wondering if the
union would consider conducting a
matrimonial bureau if it wins.
This might be another good way
for the union to capitalize on. for
one will help it out, and will ex-
change photographs with any of the
attractive knitters.
I would prefer one of these cave
man types who handles clubs, iron
bars and bricks. Hair, eyes and
height, no object. The only require
ment will be that he makes 500
week.
will agree to spend the money as
quickly as he can make it and help
to foment the next strike for more.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-08
URGES "BREAK"
FOR WORKERS
Rv L. Fl. Miller.

By L. H. Miller.
While Mr.. Goodman owns Real
Silk and is too stubborn to give in
to the strikers, I can not under
stand why Messrs. Kahn and Bar
skin, owners of the National and
Fulton mills, must abide by j. A.
Goodman's decision.
I always have had a great re-
spect for these two men, so I ask
why can't they do their own de-
Gliding and forget Real Silk?
Come on MesSrs, Kahn and Bar
skin, give your employees a break"
and show that you are willing to
abide by their vote in favor of the
union which took place last October.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-08
BY H. Adams.

By II. Adams.
I have been a citizen of Indian
apolis for a long time, but I did
not realize the people here were
so ignorant and narrow-minded
until I began reading The Mes
sage Center.
Really, Mr.. Editor, your Message
Center is not worth a darn. The
idea of letting people express their
views is a grand one, but what
views! You, the editors and re-
porters, could issue a paper deal
ing with Dillinger and Real Silk,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-05-08
l aOholIy disapproue of aChat yOu sag and will |
defend to the death your right to sag it-Voltaire

Mike Morrissey wasn't a Real Silk
stakeholder, maybe he wouldn't
have the police force guarding it.
Strikers, you are going to win.
Stay out until you do. The labor
board at Washington is not going to
stop this strike.
The E. NJ B. A. workers have a
lot of nerve to condemn the Amer
lean Federation of Labor Hosiery
Workers Union, when workers have
to ride in buses behind barred
doors and screened windows es-
corted by hired guards and the law.
1t is a disgrace to humanity.