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The Washington times., 1937-02-11
Bennett Urges War
To End i. 5. Erosion

AMES. Iowa, Feb. II 0.N.SO.
Defense Of the land of the nation
against erosion is as essential to
American welfare as is defense Oh
the country's shores, H. H. Ben
nett, chief of the soil conservation
service cf the U. S. Department
OF Agriculture, said here today.
Speaking at the farm and home
week observance at Iowa State
College, Bennett said:
Accelerated soil erosion pre-
Sents the nation with a physical
land crisis of enormous impOr-
tance to the continuing welfare
of agriculture in particular, and
to the entire social and economic
structure in general"
The Washington times., 1937-02-11
Lou DOugher Dies;
Newspaper Veteran
Heart AiIment Fatal
to Journalist 26
Years on lines

Louis Ashley Dougher, SIS, who
gave more than a quarter of cen
tury of his life to Washington jour
naliSm as a member of the staff
of The Washington Times, died
last night at 11:15 in Alexandria
(Va) Hospital from a heart all
ment.
Dougher was stricken with his
fatal illness about two weeks ago.
He was moved from his sick bed
at his home in Bon Air, Va, Sun
day night to the hospital, where
oxygen was administered in an at
tempt to save his life.
Dougher was native of Boston.
He began his newspaper career on
Boston papers, and came here as
sports editor of The Washington
Times 26 years ago. For Is years,
he held this post and amaSSed a
great following with his widely
read column, Looking En- over"
For a brief time he also held
the position of dramatic editor
in addition to his sports assign
ment. AS dramatic editor. he
wrote under the name of Louis
Ashley. During his assignment
in the sports department,
Dougher covered all major base
ball and football events, for years
travelling with the Washington
baseball team.
Upon leaving the sports field,
Dougher for the past decade
filled a position as copy editor
of The Times.
He is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Thelma Dougher, and four
foster children, John, 26; Henry,
"a; George, 20, and Mrs. William
Cleveland, all of this city. Funeral
The Washington times., 1937-02-11
MISSING CIR |
STILL IN CITY

Marjorie Smith, IS year old
daughter of c. P. Smith, member
of the Board of Tax Appeals. has
been seen for a third time since
she disappeared last Saturday, po-
lice said today.
The girl left her home at 1917
Kanawha st. N. w. to do some
shopping, her parents told police.
and she was seen late that after
noon along upper Connecticut
Avenue.
She was seen in the same
vicinity Monday, although moth.
ing had been heard from her since
she left home with about $6, and
police learned yesterday that she
was seen downtown Tuesday.
The Washington times., 1937-02-11
IN N. Y.
FOR TALK AND
GOOD TIME
By JAMES L. KILGALLEN

BY JAMES L. KILGALLEN
NEW YORK, Feb. IL GN.SO
Former Governor Alfred M. Ian
don Of Kansas, who speaks here
tomorrow night before the Ma
tional Republican Club, arrived
in New York today accompanied
by Mrs. Landon.
He posed for the camera mer
at the Grand Central Station
talked briefly with reporters ano
then went to hotel under police
escort.
Landon said he had not made
up his mind regarding his sub
ject for tomorrow night. ASKED
whether he would denounce Presi
dent Roosevelt's Supreme Court
program, Landon Smilingly re
piled:
II didn't know 1 was sup
posed to-"
He added:
II will touch generally on
the proposed enlargement of
the Supreme Court. / wouldn't
want to say that l am wholly
against the Presidents pro-
gram"
Out for Good Time
The former governor and last
years Republican presidential
candidate was greeted by five
friends. Landon turned to Capt
Frank Riley, in charge of the
motorcycle escort, and asked:
"HOw is the patrOIman who
was hit by cab during my last
visit here?"
Captain Riley assured him the
man had recovered.
After a seige of picture-taking
by a corps of Is photographers
the Landons moved down the plat
form. To reporters Landon said
"ThiS trip I'm going to have
good time in New York. Mrs.
LandOn hasn't been in New
York since we were married.
She wants to do some shopping.
WeIl be here until Monday
afternoon"
Guests at Luncheon
At noon Mr.. and Mrs. Landon
attended a luncheon at the Ma
tional Republican Club given in
their honor by David Hinshaw, a
fellow Kansan. This afternoon
they expected to attend a recep-
tion there and tonight they will
be the dinner guests of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ogden Reid.
John D. M. Hamilton, Repub-
lican national chairman, and for
mer President Herbert Hoover
both were in New York yesterday,
but said they would be unable to
attend the Lincoln Day dinner to-
morrow night at which Landon
will speak. .s -
Hamilton left for Washington
last night and the former Presi-
dent will leave for Philadelphia to-
morrow. returning to New York
Saturday or Sunday.
The Washington times., 1937-02-11
Hunt Skiers' Bodies
Under Snow Slide

DENV YER, Feb. II I.N.SD.
Search for Joseph Oppenheimer
and John S. Oberdorfer, missing
Denver skiers, centered today on
a five-acre slide of snow near Ber-
thoud Pass, so miles west of here.
A crew of 25 CCC workers sought
to locate their bodies beneath the
snow with 12-foot poles.
The Washington times., 1937-02-11
Lectures on Bible

Canon Anson Phelps Stokes, of
the washington Cathedral, was to
begin today a series of lectures on
"Our Bible. It's Origin, Transmits
sion and Significance" All the
talks are to be given at 4 p. m.
Succeeding lectures will come to-
morrow and Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday and Friday of next
week.
The Washington times., 1937-02-11

arrangements will be completed
today.
Dougher was prominent in Ma
Sonry. He was a member of
Pentalpha Lodge No. %. the Scot
tish Rite, and the Shrine.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-09-03
UNION LABOR'S BEST
PROTECTION

The best protection labor unionists
can give to their brother workers is
to buy exclusively from those firms
which display the union label, shop
card OF button. It is the greatest as
suance of high wages, shorter hours
and better working conditions.
When workers patronize only union
shops and business places, they not
only protect their own pay envelopes
against wage cuts and longer hours,
but they also definitely eliminate child
labor, sweatshops, chiselers, as well
as convict and foreign-made goods.
Collective buying is necessarily the
partner Of collective bargaining. When
workers fully realize that these pow
elful weapons must be used together,
then and only then will the influence
Of labor unions reach its greatest
power
Since the United States Supreme
Court has declared the national reeov-
cry act unconstitutional, the labor pro-
visions Of the codes are no longer in
force. With the elimination Of this
temporary protection for labor, it is
now all the more necessary that work
ers obtain labor union agreements, in
order to secure better wages, hours
and working conditions. 1t is like
wise more important than ever that
they promote the union label, which
stands alone in the label field, since
the Blue Eagle Of the NRA has been,
temporarily at least, discontinued.
Protect yourself aud those dear to
you. and all unionized workers and
their families by buying goods and
services which display the union la
bel, shop card or button.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-09-03

F. J Griffith, described as an officer;
L. NJ. Klinedinst, vice president, was
paid s35, 900.
When one reads this impressive list
of salaries, it is well to remember
that the recipients of many of them
are advocates of what are really less
than-living-wages for the employees
who do most of the useful work in our
industrial life. In addition, they are
frequently in violent opposition to the
right of the workers to organize in
bona fide trade unions, and use their
collective strength to negotiate higher
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-09-03
Labor Day Edition
1887
n Pages

The Butler County Press, by this
means, sincerely thanks its many ad-
vertisers for their generous patron
age and cooperation which makes
possible the issue of this successful
Labor Day edition. They are indeed
deserving of the support and good will
Of all organized labor and its friends.
By their cooperation they assist
those who toll in an indirect way by
making it possible for this paper to be
Of service to the workers. Persons
and fidms using our paper for adver-
tising are showing interest in our
cause and express friendship Tor the
VI @e earners. Therefore, the worker
should fast look through the columns
Of OH Labor Day edition before MAX
ins purchases and give friendly firms
preference. As organized workers
you can readily see the value Of re-
ciprocity, which goes to show that the
advertisers in the Press should get
the benefit Of the purchasing power Of
ORGANIZED workers IN Hamilton and
the surrounding territory.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-09-03

by the corporations whose admins
trative policies the overlords develop
continue from day to day as the fed
eral securities and exchange commits
sion receives the reports required
by law on the emoluments which
these executives awarded themselves
during 1886.
The large salaries are all the
more impressive when it is real
lied that these corporation off
cials are the gentlemen who fixed
the workers average yearly in
come during 1886 at $1244.
Among the outstanding corporation
executives who have helped them
selves to large chunks of corporation
funds are the following:
Ernest 7. Weir, chairman of the
National Steel Company, persuaded
the directors of that concern to pay
him salary and bonus of $200,120;
George R. Fink, president of the same
concern, was paid $2o0,100.
The directors of the Socony-
No,c,,,,,,, (scr,,,,,,,y Landod ox,or e10n
600 to John A. Brown, president and
chairman of the executive committee
then they paid Edwin r. Brown, vice
president, $81 900 for his services for
the year, and Frederick S. Fales, an
other vice president, $72,800. Both of
the Browns and Mr.. Fales were mem
bers of the board Of directors which
authorized these salaries.
The Borden Company paid Arthur
W. Milburn, president, $4,000 in 1886,
while George NJ Waugh, Jr., and
Theodore G. Montague, both vice
presidents, were paid $49,7oo and
| $48, 600, respectively.
The Cerro De Pasco Copper Com
pany paid Harold Kingsmil!, general
manager, $4,000; Charles B. Brew
vice president and director, $65,858
and Edward H. Clark, president arc
director, $65, ,672.
G. NJ. Humphrey, director and presi-
dent Of the NJ A. Hannah Company
was paid 68,600; j. Prendergast ,di-
rector and manager Of the anthracite
department, had to pinch along or
| $58,250, and William Collins, director
and vice president, must have actually
suffered with his small salary of only
s39,o78.
In the publishing field, George Ho
race Lorimer, chairman and editor O.
the Saturday Evening Post, helped
himself to s9o,5oo Of the company.
/ funds for his services; P. S, Collins
vice president and treasurer was pait
$6o,67l, and W. R. Fuller, president
| $55 900.
/ Hiram S. Rivitz, president Of tn
Industrial Rayon Company, had him
self awarded salary Of $4,000; P. S
Howe, Jr., vice president, was givel
$s1 ,6e6.
The direction Of the Timken Roller
Bearing Company, paid w. E. Um
stsddt $4,000 for his services al
president, and the same amount Il
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-09-03
CANADIAN PROFITS UP

Ottawa S).-Income taxes paid
to the Dominion government during
the first four months of the current
fiscal year were % per cent greater
than during the like period last year.
AS no change was made in the tax
rates this indicates that profits In
1886 were % per cent greater than
in 1885.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-09-03
wages and shorter hours, both of which
are absolutely necessary for the
equitable functioning of our economic
system.
so Springfield Stores
Sign Clerks Agreement

Springfield, I'll. (AFLNS) Retail
Clerks Local Union No. 1859, which
succeeded No. 20S after the charter of
the latter was revoked by the Re-
tail Clerks International Protective
Association, already has about SO
stores in Springfield operating under
union conditions.
In an effort to break the unneces-
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1937-09-03

sary practice of working employees
seven days week, all markets here
that remain open on Sunday are to be
picketed by members of Local 10y.
Other local unions will probably
assist in the picketing and give gen
eral support to the union clerks.
Montana oil and mining journal., 1937-11-27

The 100 percent American is the one
who is only satisfied with 100 percent
profit.
Montana oil and mining journal., 1937-11-27
Doubt Exists That Enngrant Gulch Yielded
100000 in It's Palrnest Days as Placer Camp

Shorthin district by the miners. and
! Weaver was named his assistant. Even.
1 tllally Tom Curry himself abandoned
! his claim in the district and nl1Ich
i named for him and went to take IN
4 ground in the ShorthiI1 district. NJ
1 obtained a claim by sleeping the night
/ of May 81, 1865, on No. 8 above dis
covery, in the absence OF the owner
and driving his stakes on It the next
morning. The law required that All All
claim owners must be on their claims
on June /.
The first seasons work In the new
Emigrant gulch diggingS came to q halt
oct. 20 1864, when the weather became
so cold as to freeze the water in the
slldce boxes. The miners left the gulch
for the winter and went to a settlement
that had sprung up six miles away.
known as Yellowstone City, for the
cold months. There flour was selling
at S26 for sack Of SO pounds, tea
was worth 50 and coffee, 81 a pound.
Plug tobacco was sold at IS a pound
and smoking tobacco, Weaver records
in his "reminiscences, as weight for
weight" with gold, which would make
the price about $500 a pound.
Flour Shortage
Early in the spring the camp ran
out of flour and Shorthill started with
another man for Virginia City TO bring
back a supply. At Virginia City there
was no flour to be had, and the traders
freighting supplies in from Salt Lake
City, having heard of the flour riots"
in the northern mining camps had
halted their trains enroute, fearing If
they did bring their loads in they would
be seized by hungry miners. ShorthiIl,
therefore, continued on towards Salt
Lake until he met the wagon trains
where he obtained flour. In the mean
time, everybody in Yellowstone City
and in the Curry and Shorthin mining
districts were living pretty nearly on
meat straight, before he returned.
In the winter OF 1864 and early
spring of 1865, the miners did a lot OF
work building a trail from Yellowstone
City to Emigrant gulch. There had not
been even a trail that a pack horse
could follow between the two points
before In the spring man named
Gage, who owned seven mules, eStab-
lished a pack train line between the
gulch and Yellowstone City, charging
So a hundred pounds for his services.
In 1865 nearly all Of the miners had
moved from the Curry district into
Emigrant gulch, many Of them with (
families. There Mrs William Moore,
he wife Of one of the miners, planted
D garden with seeds which she had
brought across the plains with her
Truck Garden Failed
Aware that the ground near the creek +
was in the line of the diggings, she [
hose a tract some distance from the
Montana oil and mining journal., 1937-11-27

stream for her garden site. Very little
of the vegetables grew to do any good,
except the corn. When that was about
a foot high it was discovered that her
garden was pay dirt" and the corn
and the soil we're both run through the
sluice box.
The glllch was on the Crow Indian
lands and the Indians we're restless and
ugly because Of the invasion of the
whites. Many of the miners became
alarmed and by the spring of 1866
the population of the gulch and of
Yellowstone City had decreased to such
an extent that 1t became doubtful If
those remaining could stand off the
Indians in case Of attack.
Weaver went to Helena. A few days
later a party of five white men who
were descending the Yellowstone in a
boat we're ambushed by the Indians
near Yellowstone City and one Of them
killed. When that became known, the
men still remaining in Emigrant gulch
and Yellowstone City, left. BY August,
however, things had quieted down and
Weaver and a companion returned to
Emigrant gulch. They found Yellow
stone City deserted, not a soul there.
Before long, however, the miners began
to return and the gllch was worked for
a number Of years, but never became
a bonanza camp.
Montana oil and mining journal., 1937-11-27
WILL CARRY ON
RESEARCH WORK
VETERINARY COMMITTEE ADVO-
Gates CONTINUATION OF
PRESENT PROGRAM

Members OF the veterinary re-
search committee AZ q meeting held
recently at Montana State c0Ezcge,
advocated the continuation Of the
present research program being
carried on at the veterinary re-
search laboratory at the college.
The committee is composed Of Dr.
w. J. Butler, executive officer OF the
Montana livestock sanitary board
Clyde Mckee, director of the Montana
agricultural experiment station; DR..
Howard Welch, head Of the department
of veterinary science; DR.. Hadleigh
Marsh, pathologist and bacteriologiSt
at the research laboratory; DR.. III. @.
Gardiner Of Anaconda, representing the
Montana WoolgroWerS' association, and
Mai. Wallis Huidekoper of Two Dot,
representing the Montana StOckgrow-
ers' association.
The laboratory is now doing research
work on the control Of Bangs disease
in range cattle and is carrying on q
study of cOccidioSiS In cattle. Definite
progress has been made in the latter
Investigation. Black disease In sheep Is
being given considerable attention and
an immunizing agent is being sought
for its control. The study OF dysentary
in new born lambs has been under in
Vestigation for some time and the re-
suits are now being prepared for pub
Iication.
Other studies being carried on at the
laboratory include the hnger disease
and sore mouth In sheep, and swamp
fever in horses.
Montana oil and mining journal., 1937-11-27

MARKETING POLICY: In
dustry almost always finds that
the controlled use of high-grade
CargoyIe Lubricants pays for
itself many times over and that
they actually cost less 90 use
than ordinary lubricants. But
for such equipment as does
mot justify the highess-grade
lubricants, SocOny-Y Vacuum en-
gineers will recommend a
Iower-pFieed lubricant con-
sisteEzt with true economy.
Montana oil and mining journal., 1937-11-27

therefore forced to return to Virginia
City. In the spring Of 1864, however,
they came from Alder gulch with an
other outfit. Curry, hearing there were
white men In the Yellowstone valley,
had gone down and encountered a
wagon train which Jim Bridger was
guiding through the country. He in
duced 36 Of the emigrants to leave the
wagon train and return to his gulch
to prospect. 1t was these men whom
Weaver and his companions had met
and who told them of the new diggingS.
So Day Was Peak
The best that any of the miners in
Curry gulch ever did, however, was
81 day, and in a country where flour
was selling at $28 a sack, that, Of
course, was not living wages. The claims
Of Curry gulch we're all abandoned
eventually.
Weaver, Shorthill and Norris arrived
in the gulch Sunday, Aug. %. They
proSpected for two days In the side
gulches and on Aug. 80, decided to go
further up the main gulch. They added
Frank Garrett to their party. They
pushed up the gulch several miles to a
point where the creek was flowing over
solid bedrock and it seemed as though
they had gotten away from the area of
deep bedrock that existed in Curry
gulch.
There Shorthill shoveled sand from
under shelving rock. which, upon
being panned proved to contain gold
in paying quantities. After proving the
discovery beyond any question and
stalking what ground they wanted for
themselves and their friends. Shorthill
and Garrett went back to tell the fell
lows in Curry gulch Of their find. They
-.
train which they had left, TO notify
all those with 1t of their discovery. As
proof, they sent with the messenger
several dollars worth of gold dust which
they had panned from the discovery
claim. The messenger overlook the
wagons in sight Of Virginia City. Most
of them continued on to Alder gulch,
but many Of them yetraced their steps,
some taking a supply of provisions and
going afoot ahead of their wagons and
travelling night and day in order to get
to the new gulch and stake claims.
Staked Claims for Friends
Weaver and Shorthill, in the mean
time, had staked off $500 feet of the
gulch into 100-foot claims for them
selves and for the friends with the
return. Shorthill, who had had mining
experience in Colorado, chose claims
NO 20, 81 and % above discovery, for
Weaver Norris and himself. His judg-
ment was proved sound by the fact
that they turned out to be the richest
claims in the gllch. The mining dis
trict they organized was called the
Shorthill district The gulch became
known as Emigrant gulch because Of
the influx of prospectors from the
emigrant train.
Curry gllch was known as the Curry
mining district. From there most Of the
miners moved to Emigrant gulch,
among them being DR.. Hull and his
son, j. A. T. Hull, the latter to be for
many years member Of congress from
Iowa.
ShorthiI was named recorder Of the
Montana oil and mining journal., 1937-11-27
SPILLWAY GATE
NOW COMPLETED
STATELY CONCRETE AND STEEL
STRUCTURE AT FORT PECK
DAM FINISHED

win Be Used Only in Case of Extreme
Flood Emergency; Water Can Be
Passed Through the Gates at the
Rate of 112, 600, 900 Gals. Per Minute.
The stately concrete and steel
structure across the entrance to
the Fort Peck flood spiIlway is
completed. Another lasting land
mark Is added TO the collection Of
features comprising the army en-
gineers' great project on the Mis-
souri, river. Supporting 16 heavy
steel gates and surmOunted by
concrete highway bridge the tower
ing structure stands in a graceful
curve as a controlled barrier 20
the upper 25 feet of water which
win be stored in the huge Fort
Peck reservoir. Since the lake VIII
be of vast extent when filled, the
top 25 feet will represent approx
mately 80 percent of its contents.
This Is to say that some 1,e00, ,00O,-
100000 gallons of water can be held
back or released at will independently
of the four tunnels under the dam. In
case of an extraordinary flood, which
would otherwise menace the colossal
earth dam, water can be passed through
the gates and down the concrete lined
channel at the rate of 112,O00. 900 gall
Ions per minute.
The work just completed includes the
gate structure, with control tower, and
a separate maintenance shop building.
BituminouS surfacing for roads and
driveways which must be placed while
hot is being deferred until spring, al
though the gravel base courses have
been laid and rolled.
The contractors are removing their
equipment and job buildings, except
concrete mixer plant, and are cleaning
I'D the site.
Quantities Of materials used at the
gate structure are interesting. The fol-
lowing make up the list Of important
items: excavation and backfill-466, :
600 cubic yards, concrete-200, 600 cubic
wards, structural steel and castings
1900 600 pounds, reinforcing steel bars
lis, ,735 900 pounds, railroad and crane
tracks, $50 feet, electric conduit
1900 lineal feet, drain tile-15, 900
Ineal feet, joints caulked-26, 100 ltneal
feet, waterproof spray paint on shale
and concrete, 300, 900 square feet. and
1880 feet Of approach roadways 2S to
36 feet wide.
Another important item in the con-
tract Is the concrete railings along
both sides Of the mile-long channel.
the cutoff structure at the lower end
OF the spillway stin TO be finished.
over 500 men are hard at work on this
part OF the job trying TO get 1t done
before the worst OF the winter Is upon
them. only about $4,000 Of the 10000
cafg3sc yards of excavation IN the cz1tofx
wall Job remains TO be done.
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