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The Omaha guide., 1937-07-24
Bishop n. w. Williams
Speak to 5000 at Open
Air Union Services

Kansas City, Mo, July %
(ANP) - Bishop Noah w.
Williams, AME church prelate,
addressed more than 5000 las
Sunday night at an open-aid
union service held at Muehl-
bach park, his subject being
1.-THE Christian Church and
Present Day Problems" Speak
ing of labor condi ions as az
fecting Negroes, the Bishop
declared MY opinion IS thai
we as a racial group should
stand by those who can give
us gainful employment. The
American Negro should stay
out sit-down and prepare him
self to fill any place of employ
ment. The 100000 Negroes
in the United States furnish a
mighty good market for the
products of factory, shop and
farm-if given employment
where he may earn money with
which to buy-and the captains
of industry know if the Ia
hor unions do not"
The Omaha guide., 1937-07-24
Norris Convicted

discrepancies in her story and
pointed especially 10 the test
mony of DIR, Bridges. lie told
the jury it was up to them to
decide whether the physician or
the woman had lied.
Or. Bridges was your doe
tor and neighbor," he declared.
lie was brought to testify by
the officials of your state. o.
yet he damns that woman
story as a lie.
"There is nothing to this
case but damnable lies. For six
and a half years she has been
crying for blood-the blood OF
these Negroes she framed to
protect herself-and | hope to
God there is not prejudice and
passion here as WE'LL
The trial was marked by
several clashes between Gala
han and Leibiwitz. Monday az
ternoon the later renewed he
old defense motion to transfer
ing of the trial to the federal
district court on the ground
that the defendants were being
deprived of their constitutional
rights by the Alabama statute
limiting changes of venue to
one. 1t was denied.
A warning against the dis
trlbution of any literature ON
the case in courtroom was is
sued by the judge who said
he would cite such distributors
for contempt of court"
The Omaha guide., 1937-07-24
OPINIONS
THE LOW DOW N
-ro
GROVE

Writin' about gals and wives
now and then, or often even, il
seems to be something | have
the most fun doing. Course ev-
erything is kinda funny to me,
but | guess any lazy duck has
more time to see funny sights
and not be a gloom year and
year out, and never see anything
eomical.
The girls, they are o. X, and
some of 'em are better than a
show, But the keen ones, you
don't e them out there dom
all the monkey shines, like
crowdin' the men out of the
bar rooms, and shown off.
These wise one they are over at
the cooking school findin' ont
something about how to season
up the old roast, so as to help
EN-, may, eapivate for them
selves, a permanent meal tick
ct.
And the thin young fellers
standing around and wat hin
the other kind, the show-off
gals, do ali sorts of stuff like
a few of 'em learin' to swe"
and to spit through their teeth,
the young fellers are just there
to see what happens next, and
they are not there piekin' on
gals fir wives. These young
bloods, they are pretty wise
geezers.
Yours with the low-down.
10 Sierra
The Omaha guide., 1937-07-24
Editorial Of the Week
(From the Elkin, *. o.
Tribune, July |, 1897
WE HAVE INVITED IT

The Wagner-VanNuys anti
lynching bill has been approved
by the Senate judicial commit
tee, and once more this issue
will furnish the opportunity for
Southern members Of Congress
to throw a fit. Realizing that
a vote on the issue would mean
their defeat, it would not sur
prise me II some of our South
erm tatesmen do not employ
that silliest of all Legislative
procedures-the filibuster, and
talk the proposal to death.
There are some provisions IN
the proposed legislature that
might work a hardship ON To-
cal government uni s. If and
when lynchings occur. But, these
can be avoided by diligent law
enforcement, and hat is some
thing we ought 10 have. with or
without a federal law.
Some Southern States, and
North Carolina is among them,
have laws sufficiently severe to
deal with lynchings. But they
are not enforced. We still have
lynchings, in spite of the low
and seldom is there anything
ever done about them. Men con
tinue to take the law in their
own hands, but because they
are socially and politically nro-
minent. nobody Is able to identi-
fly them, and the solicitor, after
a few high-sounding threats,
let the matter die the usual
death. That has happened here
in North Carolina, and is tl4
rule all over the South.
These mobsters would think
twice before undertaking theil
dastardly work if there was
certainty that they would have
to answer to the federal govern
ment, for the federal courts ar,
not in the habit of covering VI
with white wash.
As much as the next one We
aeplore the crime that usually
is the basis for a lynching part,
but equally do we deplore I
melting out the punishment.
If we are to have this anti
lynching law, it viii come be
cause Of our own delinquency
We have only ourselves t
blame, and our representative
in Congress, remembering tina
the law applies to all state
alike, could curb their inclins
ton to knife it, without niue.
hurt to themselves and thei
state.
The Omaha guide., 1937-07-24
.AnEcho
From my Den
By S. L. Gilbert

As l sit here in my den with
pen IN hand meditating as it
were: there comes to my mind
a lamentable fact one hat [
regret to recognize as such, but
facts are facts, and inasmuch as
| know it TO be a fact, | am
passing that fact on to you.
Hearing that the Negroes of
Omaha were pa,ronizing a GER
tain ice cream shop on the
South Parkway of Omaha, am
establishment III which not one
black American can be found
as an employee, but where hun
dreds may be seen consuming its
delicacy | set out to see for my
self this lamentable scene. As [
stood across the street in the
vicinity of 24.h and Lake, | saw
car after car stop; doors open
and Black Americans step out
and into this ice cream shoe.
void of Black American employ
ees, to purchase a delicaey that
a Black American originally
gave to the world. After count
ing in sixty minutes over one
hundred such entrances, my
heart yearned for an awaken
ing, a race awakening that
would cause those who no doubt
unconsciously, are perpetrating
a gross injustice upon the eco
homie opportunity of hundreds
of boys and girls of their own
race, by spending their money
where they receive in return
only a cone or a carton Of froz-
en- milk. To stop and think, this
lamentable scene, as viewed by
your correspondent, could be
turned from a picture of pity
into one of joy and pride. How?
BY merely driving or walking
one and one-half blocks south
and entering the portals of a
eredi able Black Americans
enterprise where one can viz
ualize not only a beautiful place
owned and operated by a Ne
gro but can find the hands of
Negro youths busily engaged
in the manufacturing of the del
icacy called ice cream, for your
consumption. Now | have pic
tured to you the, two sides Of
the fact which came to my mind
as l sat meditating in my den.
One a picture of pity, chat car
ries in its wake continued eco
nomic bondage the other a pic
ture of joy and pride which
should the Black American of
North Omaha support, would
mean not only a bigger and bet
ter enterprise, but an outlet
for economic opportunities for
the boys and girls whom you,
dear readers are sacrifiring
l. xl.oo4o "
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Confined fHpm Page i

A0VAeAu'tN Ig}Iil age l.
opinion" of the case. Names Of
the other two were struck by
the state. Prosecutor Thomas
L. Lawson said hat the mere
drawing Of their names on the
panel fulfilled the cn%stitution-
al requirements and contended
he state had a right to strike
anybody it chose, regardless of
race, in selecting the jury.
Opening witness for the state
was Victoria Price, who again
told a story of how she and
Ruby Ba es were assaulted by
the nine Seottsboro you hs
aboard a freight train in March
T1931. She said the Negroes
came up yelling to their white
companions. CAN you white
boys unload" She swore two Of
them had pistols and the others
had knives, and that Norris
threatened to kill her is she did
not yield. Victoria asserted thai
she was ravished by Norris and
five others and that she and
Ruby were hoboing aboard he
freight to their home in Hunts
Willy, Ala. after an unsucceSs-
full attempt to find work in
Chattanooga, Tenn.
To refute the woman's story
that she was so brutally treated
she was bleeding and bruised.
the defense counsel read into
the record the testimony of Dr..
r.. r. Bridges of Scottsboro,
now deceased, given at the last
trial of Norris in November,
1888. The physician was called
by the state in the original trial
but because his testimony did
not show either woman was at
tackled, he has since then been
ignored by the defense.
To further refute Vietoria''
story, Ieibowitz brought in {
suprize witness, Mrs. Emma
Bates, mother of Ruby, who la
ter rspudiated the attack yarr
and said the whole thing was
frameup.
Wouldn't Convict White
Watts led off for the defense
He dwelt at length in his sou
thern birth and pride in Alabe
ina justice. He would like t
feel, he said, that Alabama wa
a state where even : handle.
Justice was administered I
white and black alike, and dt
clared no white man would cor
Wet another white man on sue
testimony as that offered b
Victoria Price.
Taking up where Watts lef
Leibowitz enumerated the man
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EDITORIALS.


By Louis I. Redding-Rerrint from The OT1sis, March 1886
Il would seem from this analysis of the senator from
Idaho. that Negro citizens can place little dependence
IN him a. n statesman and none at all in him as n man
having any conception Of the hopes, ambitions and rights
OF Negro Americans
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-01-16

The estimated toaal investment OF
$13s276, 100000 in the oil industry
Is proDortioned among the various
branches of the industry as follows:
$5,665, 900, 900 in production; s270,-
100000 In natural gasoline plants;
$941 .000,0 900 in crude oil pipe lines;
$1,000. 0OO,0 in refining; and So
000, 0O0,OO In marketing.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-01-16
MONTANA OIL FIELDS GIVEN
FINE PUBLICITY BY JOURNAL
CUT BANK REVIEW REPRINTED

intelligent favorable publicity Bank oil field has received
dfromth
of
fo to
III had Texas
OF
a Fl barrels we'll
S Montana Oil &
When the
Montana it laughed
fields
CLEANED fromo on general
published with Mr.
nell herewith
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-01-16
SOUTH CUT BANK GETS BIG WELL
NORTH FIELD
SPARALYzED
BY BLIZZARD

The worst blizzard I'm history
struck north Montana on We'd
nesday OF this week and halt
ed virtually all drilling opera
lions except for few wells I'm
Cut Bank, all of which were
delayed.
In Kevin-Sunburst all drilling
stopped and operators on isolated
leases we're unable TO get to them
Ito pump their wells, all roads off
the main highway being piled high
with drifted snow.
w. M. Fulton would have drilled
in this week, before the storm, tx
cept that the Perkins cement job
did not harden and 1t was necessary
to cement his casing a second time.
The well Is the Fulton-ThompsOn
No. /. NV Sc Y NWA 2s-35-3W.
The OLOughlin we'll on the
Thompson farm. NE NEA NV a
33-35-3W (cowected) is reported
by the owner to have reached a
depth of 400 feet before the storm.
The crew was planning to go out
to resume Wednesday but they did
not leave Kelvin. The blizzard was
so furious that it was not possible
to see objects across the streets Of
Kelvin.
Just as soon as the weather
breaks there are a number OF we'll
to be started. Jack Agan is pre-
pairing to move to a new location on
RE school section In 16-35-3W,
where he recently completed an ex-
cellent producer.
Coolidge & Coolidge are ready
TO move their rig from the Haskell
farm back to the Shaw lease to
Offset the Crumley-Shaw No. IL on
the east. Crumley-Shaw No. IL was
lost, owing to a jimmed casing,
after it appeared to be the best
well In the Sunburst pool. A twin
viii lbe drilled as soon as
Weather permits.
Rimrock Oil company, which NOV
ed out far to the west, in Section
29-35-3W and brought in a 60
barrel we'll last fall, Is preparing
10 drill another and the rig used
IN the Ohio-Berg No. 4 gasser is
10 be moved to the west side as
soon as roads are passable.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-01-16
BLIZZARD ENDS
RESUMPTION on
BULL HEAD TEST

The terrific blizzard which hit
northern Montana Wednesday multi
fled the plans of the crew in the
Campbell Hughes well on Bull Head
structure to resume drilling on that
interesting wildcat which has a show
of oil just above the Ellis-Madison
contact.
There is a Stirring of tools in the
hole and preparations have been
made to make one more try at
fishing them out. An impression
block run just before the storm hit
indicated that the tools are stand
ing upright and it should be pos
sible ito get a socket down over
them. Otherwise it will be neces-
sary to sidetrack and drill into the
sand with the tools in the hole.
Bull Head structure is north and
east of the town of Waller, in the
Sweetgrass Arch, and was mapped
by Gordon Campbell, discoverer of
oil in Montana. Location is NV
NEA NWA 12-3O-4W. Hole bGt-
toms at 2498, in the base of the
Black lime of the Ellis. Produc-
ton is expected at the Ellis-Madison
contact.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-01-16
THIRD WELL HAS OIL
MOSSER STRUCTURE

third well today showing oil and ready to drill in ON
dome Billings the Mosser No. in Section 263S
having casing Wednesday and then shut down.
waiting for better weather.
The storm was not as in northern Montana,
Billings being closer to the banana belt but the c. Taan
crew difficulty keep from being blown off the hill on
which this structure They stayed with the work
until casing had 800 when Bert Wheeler supern
tendent charge shut down Using gas engine the crew has
no heat and the rig is not otherwise prepared for winter
drilling Tarrant is now the CLINE Of Kansas at
ondsn fn hia at RUSSELL
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-01-16
IN
CUT BANK SMALL

Because many operators ran part
of their oil to storage. there was
no great decrease of pipeline runs
in Cut Bank oil field in December,
according to preliminary reports re-
ceived by the Oil Conservation
Board. Total pipeline runs in De-
Gem Der were 296,343 barrels against
305.573 barrels in November. Pro-
ration OF 25 per cent, based on No
vember runs. was started by Mon
tana Pipeline company, buyer for
Imperial, IN December.
British-American Oh company
has not prorated any OF its accounts.
Part of its oil is under contracts
and about an equal amount Is divi-
sion order oil. BTdtish-American
continuing to take 100 percent.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-01-16
AL PIPELINE FIRMS
PUT on the SPOT IN
OIL DEDUCTION SUIT

Montana oil producers are watch
ing with interest a suit brought by
the government to recover from
pipeline companies the deductions
of the past rs years from odl run
from Indian lands. such deductions
being the customary allowance for
water and basic sediment. Opera
tors contend that If the govern
ment can recover the oil so de-
Quoted, Individual owners can also
recover. The tank tables vary in
the several states In Montana, with
New Mexico, Montana and Colorado,
the deduction Dis two per cent; In
Texas Louisiana and Wyoming, one
per cent, excepting Lance Greek
which is on the basis of two per
cent; in Oklahoma and Kansas the
deduction is three per cent.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-01-16
HAvRE FOLKS PLAN
TO DRILL FOR GAS

Pending federal approval. Frank
Browne. trustee. has been awarded
the contract to supply the town
Of Havre with natural gas on the
basis OF IL cents per thousand
cubic feet for Industrial consumers
and II cents per thousand cubic
feet for all other requirements of
the City OF Havre, delivered at the
city gates.
This follows the authorization OF
a loan by the federal government,
at the instance Of c. o. Moore of
Kansas City. to build a municipal
gas system in Havre.
Browne, and associates, local
Havre people, agrees to be drilling
for gas within 10 days after receipt
OF advice from the federal agencies
that the project may proceed. The
name of the structure. supposed to
be within Is miles of Havre, was
not given. Other bidders were Cen
trail West Utility Co. of Missouri,
of Kansas City, Mo, for IS cents;
and Phoenix OIL Co., by L. r.
Brothers OF Tulsa, Okla. for 10
cents.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-01-16
GAS WELL DRILLED
on the WRONG FARM

How pioneer operators drilled a
well on the wrong piece of land
came to light in Bowdofn dome
with the investigation by the state
oil and gas inspector of circumr
stances surrounding burning gas
well in the northeast Montana field.
Phillips County Oil & Gas Co.
drilled we'll on what was believ-
ed to be a government permit. 1t
was completed as perhaps the best
shallow gasser in the field. There
after 1t was discovered that 1t was
ON fee land on which the operators
had no lease. Accordingly they did
not attempt to operate.
The casing was not properly set
and gas seeped UP outside the pipe
and a few months ago the gas was
ignited by a spark from a passing
Great Northern train. The fire burn
ed the stirling box out of the valve
on the casing head and the main
volume OF the gas is now escaping,
burning furiously.
The state took steps to compel
the operator to care for the well,
learning that the company which
drilled the well denied responsible
ty. Notice to cap the well has been
served on H. H. Hedges of Saco,
John Survant of Glasgow, H. G.
Robinson of Malta, Thomas Sherlock
Of Saco, Goover Wait of Malta and
E. B. Coolidge OF Great Falls, one
or all of whom are called upon to
stop the wastage of gas.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-01-16
FARM Frs HAVE OIL
AS PRINCIPAL CROP

One of the most prosperous farm
ing communities Is in Cut Bank dis
trict. John B. Ritch, pioneer and
historian. said in a radio talk last
Sunday
The farm crop is oil and gas, he
said. Instead Of raising sugar beets
or corn, the lands of Cut Bank area
produce oil and gas. The farmers
ordinarily drin their wheat but
but they do not drill their own oil
wells. Instead they lease out their
land and a contractor does the work
and the farmer gets paid on a shares
basis.
Ritch tells interesting pioneer
stories on the radio twice each week.
Last Sunday ne devoted his time
to the Out Bank area. recalling the
historical background of the field;
how a sheepherder named Bill Hoer
persuaded a Hardin theater man
named Ed Lawler to see his friend
Roy Tarrant, an oil operator. about
this Cut Bank situation after the
had drilled well that
produced both gas and OIL
Thus ended a year-old stalemate.
Rftch said. for Tarrant went In and
started commercial development
when all other operators refused to
believe that a new oil field had
)een discovered.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-01-16

lbO nave STOOD at E1U0 feet Wh9n
casing was run. Work OF drilling
in started Friday and at last re-
ports had penetrated the sand one
and one-half feet.
The sand Is normally 20 feet
thick In this area and should q be-
saturated throughout, as now seems
probable. It will likely be one of the
big wells OF the field.
An unusual feature Is the gravity
OF the oil. II tests 1912 degrees
Be-, whereas the oil in the Big
Bend pool Is usually low gravity
around "a Be.
The well is owned by Hanlon.
who owns control. and a group OF
Cut Bank people who own partici-
pating interests.
Hanlon is a pioneer On the Nom
tana oil industry, coming to this
state TO work as a tool dresser on
the discovery well in Devils Basin IN
1919. He drilled a large number
OF the wells for Dakota-Montana,
Hannah-Porter and Cosmos Petrol
cum and has operated several pro-
ducing properties OF his own in
Kevin-Sunburst field This Is his
AAck AuPoTldHt SuCtcoS IN Gub Bank.
The Hanlon we'll was the only
completion OF the week and the
four other wells listed as active
made little progress, owing to the
blizzard.
DakOta-Eontana-(fOvernment No.
T., c NwA NEA 15-35-6W, drilled
about 125 feet during the week,
reaching 2,1OO feet.
Glacier PrOduction-WilIiams No.
l., SWA SEA 21-S2-5W. is drill
ling at $50.
Hannah POrter-AIIotted 13O No.
e., NE ASWA 6-32-5W. is drilling
at $3.50.
WhetstOne-TribaI 1T No. 2, NEA
SWA 36-33-6W. is drilling at 1850.
One new location was announced
during the week. II Is
Glacier Observation-Disclosures No.
1, c SWA SEX 20-34-5W, which
will give a chance for widening the
oil producing area eastward north
east OF Cut Bank. Glacier Produc-
lion completed a very good vel. on
Us Federal Land Bank tract. In
SWA SWA 3O-34-5W, and is now
moving diagonally one mile north
sast for its Abraham well, in an
urea that rs generally regarded as
,ast and outside OF the gas-oil line.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-01-16

Discovery was made in the library
of the Journal this week that the
discovery well on Mosser dome was
spotted by the United States Geo
logical Survey in the summer OF
1922. The location chosen by the
u. S. G. S. was not drilled until
1885, IA years later, at which time
Joe Irwin was called upon to make
A location for Tarrant and Irwin
spotted the we'll near the center
of Section 26, thereby confirming
and later proving the accuracy Of
the U. S. G. S. mapping.
The location given was the choice
of Gail F. Moulton, widely known
petroleum engineer who headed the
Montana Power Gas Co. geological
staff In Cut Bank field. now as
ISOLATED with Ralph e. Davis, Inc,
of New York City. Moulton with
r. s. Knappen mapped the From
berg fault and wrote a report on the
Pryor mountains dn 1922. The
Journal has in it's library the press
bulletin released on September IS,
1923, which came to light when a
Great Falls man who owns some
land in the district called at the
journal library to get a report on
The Mosser dome area.
The outstanding paragraph OF the
report follows:
1.-THE structural feature that
is probably most favObable I'm
the region Is thought TO be the
pIunging anticIinaI nose north
west Of the Fromberg fault,
which cuts # off. The effect
of the fault is thought to reach
the lowest OF the known oil
horizons I'm the Madison lime
stone and to result I'm both an
adequate checking Of the md
grafton of the oil up the dip
and an interruption I'm the cir
cuIation of artesian waters suf-
ficient to permit the accumula-
ton of oil and gas. For a test
of this part Of the anticline
A WELL SHOULD BE Drill
LED NEAR THE CENTER OF
SEC. %, 4. 3S., r.. 24E., and
should be carried to about
5000 feet to test the part Of
the Madison limestone I'm which
oil was obtained at Soap Creek"
There are also other possibili-
les in the district, as revealed by
be u. S. G. S. report, which main
aimed at that time that wells
ldIled in the district had either
cen poorly located as to structure
r were not drilled deep enough
here are a number of localized
lids along the Fromberg fault that
re favorable traps for odl and gas,
le u. s. biologists said.
THE favorable features of this
lC0nElnued on Page FOUR Il
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1937-01-16
Rocky Ridge Pool Is
Provided Natural Gas

O Reckhoff has completed making installation Of Gas
system well T. 35N r. 3W, which will supply
gas operations Npstad Wander PasMontgomery
Faragher operated by Ray Chade ct all
Handbook Oil Co. and undoubtedly all other the Rocky
Ridge comprises miles of pipe line with dps and
meter at the well government land the install
according to government specifications This well
capable Of producing 2h million it, a hours and the
monthly consumption estimated anywhere from to 10 million
Gu f. Rechof plans on drilling another well this property
as the weather viii permit