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The Arizona gleam., 1937-10-15

Charles T. Loram, chairman of
the Department of Race Relations
OF Yale University; DR.. Howard
F. Odum, director of the Insti-
tute of Research in Social Science
of the University of North Caro-
lima and DR.. Jackson Davis,
Southern representative of the
General Board.
The Arizona gleam., 1937-10-15
EDUCATIONAL
CONFERENC

Continued from Page II
in the field of Negro education
and race relations, are being con-
Quoted under the direction of DR..
The Arizona gleam., 1937-10-15

lwhile in government service, was
re-installed as Commander of the
Post.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-01

ward the gates Of the plant" They
contended that had the strikers
gotten into the plant, several
hundred would have been killed"
They expressed regret, however,
that anyone had to be killed"
Seven Shot in Back
Seven of the 10 slain strikers
died of bullet wounds in the
back, Chairman La Toilette
charged. The three others. he de-
clared, Succumbed to bullet wounds
in the side.
Altman, a re0-faced elderly man,
with cloSe-cropped bristly white
hair, told the committee he was
apprehensive the Republic Steel
strike in Chicago would precipitate
a Every serious industrial 'situa-
ton" He added:
But I had complete conf.
dence in the police officials Of
that district. / instructed them
to take what steps they deemed
necessary to protect life and
property and preserve the peace"
Questioned by Senator La Fol-
lette, Commissioner Altman said
he had not conferred with plant
officials or strike leaders in an
attempt to avert any violence.
He declared he had left all details
to his subordinateS.
Instructions Specific
La Toilette demanded:
Then don't you feel that you
handled this entire strike situa-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-01
ton as a routine matter?"
Altman replied:

''NO, I wouldn't say that.
When I instructed Captain
Prendergast to protect life and
property those instructions were
as specific as any man could
make them"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-07-01
POLICE CHIEF
DEFENDS RIOT
SAYINGS
Continued from Page II

Continued from Page II
pute with Senator La Toilette (PJ
of Wisconsin, chairman Of the
committee, over the types of clubs
used by the 300 police during the
riot.
Club Length Argued
Submitting copies of newspaper
pictures Of the riot, La Toilette
inferred that other than regula-
ton night sticks were used. La
Toilette said
"LOok at some of those clubs.
They are sawed off and did you
ever see a policeman's club with
a raw edge?"
Lyons replied:
"They may have been taken
away from some of the strikers"
Senator Thomas CD of Utah,
the other member Of the commit
tee, asked:
"Are they regulation clubs?"
Lyons answere:
mo"
Sergeant Supported
Lyons contention that the
strikers forced the battle was sup
ported by James P. Altman, Chi
cago police commissioner, and
Captains John c. Prendergast,
chief Of the uniformed service,
James L. Mooney and John Kilroy
Under questioning by La Fol
lette, Altman said he approved of
his policemen's actions and de-
clared that Everything they did
was fully justified"
Someone Shot"
The policemen said they first
pleaded with the marchers to dis.
band peacefully but someone
shot" and the riot followed. Po-
lice denied firing the first shot
and testified that "it came from
somewhere within the ranks of
the mob"
They also denied they used
their night sticks unnecessarily"
but pictures exhibited by La Fol
lette showed that in several in
stances strikers who we're lying
on the ground were beaten while
they apparently were without de-
tense.
The officials testified they were
only doing their duty to disperse
the mob which was marching to-
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-06-18

Between Annapolis and Matapeake
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-06-18

American continents and in China
are planning to attend in large num-
bers, travelling by special trains, boats
and automobile caravans.
A special Lions convention train
will originate in nearly every part of
the United States.
New England Lions will travel on
an All-Lions Special leaving Boston
July 10, it has been announced by
Daniel Y. Rose, Providence, Rhode Is
land, chairman of the New England
convention committee.
New York will arrive in Chicago
over the New York Central, leaving
New York Sunday, July 10, headed by
George T. Elder, of Eltingville, S. L.,
New York, state district governor.
Texas Lions will travel on their
Special over the MKT, picking up 9th
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-06-18
WORKING RULES
EXPLAINED BY
FARMER BOY

Of interest to railroad men, who
know how working rules" laid down
by the railroad unions, operate to pay
men for services not rendered, is a
story told by young fellow who de-
cided to go to work on a railroad as
brakeman. He was so puzzled about
the peculiar way his compensation was
arrived at that he found it necessary,
when writing back home to one of his
farmer boy friends, to use the figure
of blowing in order to make himself
clear. His letter was as follows:
"You would be paid four dollars a
day for blowing or two dollars an acre
whichever way would give you the
most money, and if you plowed your
two acres by noon you would get a
days pay anyway and you would not
have to work in the afternoon, or if
you worked and plowed another two
acres you would get two days pay for
the days work. You would get half
hour extra for Harvesting the mules
in the morning, and if you have to
go up hill and down hill you get some
extra pay more than if the land was
level. Also if you have to turn a
round more than three stumps in
day you get extra pay and if it takes
you more than five minutes to turn a
corner over and above what it would
with the team you used to have you
would get extra pay for that. If
you plowed part of the day and har-
rowed the rest of the day you would
get extra pay because it was a differ
ent class of service and if a pillow
broke down or a mule got sick with
the flu you would get paid for your
acres or hours whichever was the
most up to the place of the accident
to the mule or the pillow whichever it
was, and then you would get paid for
the time you was waiting for the mule
or pillow to get well or changed for
another one at the rate per hour, and
then when you started blowing again
you would get paid by the acre or
hour whichever was the most, bearing
in mind going up hill, down hill, turn
ing corners, lodging stumps and such
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-06-18
SYPHILIS MUST
Be RECOGNIZED
BY OWN NAME

The American Medical Association
follows the lead of the United States
Public Health Service in telling the
people of this country that syphilis
must be recognized, by it's own name,
and fought to standstill as menace
to public health equal to tuberculo-
sis. Norway and Sweden have this
human plague under control, and the
clinics by health officials and ply
sicians in Washington prove that it's
victims can be restored to health, or
at least the disease made non-com-
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-06-18

Even bridges have telephone service.
The great eight and "a quarter mile
$77,000,00O San Francisco Oakland
Bay bridge has a telephone system
with % police telephones, sub-sta-
ton telephones and So plug-in stations.
The % police telephones are in
stalled on the outside rail on the two
sides of the bridge. Each is equipped
with an electric light which flashes to
attract the attention of. the policeman
wanted. The six suk-stations are To-
Gated at various parts of the bridge.
such as the shroud at the top of the
center anchorage, the administrative
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-06-18
OF
LIONS WILL BE
in CHICAGO SOON

Ten thousand Lions and guests will
assemble in Chicago for the annual in
ternational convention July 1923, &C
cording to estimates of association Of
ficials, based on the large advance
registration. Registrations already to-
tai nearly 5000, and three of the
city's largest hotels have been reser-
we'd to accommodate the conventionists.
Following an unusually successful
year members of Lions Clubs on the
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-06-18

like as I have mentioned. Sometimes
you don't do a good job and have to
double back and pillow a furrow over
again. You would get a minimum of
ten minutes for this. Then when you
quit at night and some other fellow
was ahead of you at the water trough
and you have to wait five minutes to
water the mules you get extra pay
for that, which is called detention.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-06-18

When you want a job, want to hire
help, sell youl business, or used
equipment. run an ad in the classifiec
section. 1t gets results when others
fail.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-06-18

Florida, every machine painted In the
royal Lions colors of purple and gold.
A four-day program including a
major league ball game, moonlight
lake cruise, city tours, juvenile band
contests, and full two-hour mid-sum-
mer ice carnival has been arranged by
Chicago Lions, in addition to the reg
ular business sessions.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-06-18

er state delegations en- route to Chi
cago. Burris C. Jackson, of Hills
boro, Texas; is ncharge of these ar
engagements.
West Coast Lions, always a strong
delegation at these conventions, have
arranged a Fourth District California
and Nevada) special over Southern
Pacific lines, and the northwest states
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-06-18

building and the two end anchorages.
On the bridge are outlets from
which maintenance men equipped with
portable hand telephones may commu-
nicate with any other part of the
bridge. There is also fire alarm sys
tenn with 80 fire alarm stations and
2 tow-car calling stations. In the
event of fire or accident, chemical
truck or tow car is Immediately avail
able by telephone. A separate tele,
phone system is also used by the ad-
ministrative building and the sixteen
toll collection booths.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-06-18

and western Canada have named the
Chicago and North Western railroad
as their official route, with w. L.
Mansfield, St. Paul, Minnesota, in
charge.
Among the automobile caravans
that will converge on the midwest
metropolis for the Lions convention
will be a fifty-car cavalcade from
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-06-18
FOUND AT LAST

Q-623-Relief for muscular aches
and pains when due to rheumatic dis
orders, lumbago, etc. Prescription
Q-623 has helped thousands of people
when many other remedies have fail
ed. Try a bottle today. Price $1.00.
We suggest you try Q-Tabs while US
ing Q-623. Ask your druggist. Lloyd
& Blaine. Pocomoke City, Md.
Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1937-06-18
That would save the next

municable. That would save the next
generation.
Books and all kinds Of printed mat
ter regarding syphilis are now in the
public libraries. The leading news
papers in Washington and elsewhere
give prominent editorial and news
space to the subject; and the editor
of one morning paper helped to spon-
sor a series of radio broadcasts. The
subject is discussed in the public
schools. In short the American Medi-
cal Associations position is that the
time for pussyfooting over the men
ton of such an important word in the
English language has passed, and the
fight is on.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-08-06
Film Makers Had Many Sleepless Nights
Finding Suitable Character to Play the
Role Of THE Canary Who Sang Bass"

Calamity" She felt that it would hurt
her career to make her debut as a
dramatic star in the role Of the rootin',
tootin', shootin', loud-mouthed "Calam-
ity."
With Sally Rand out and a camera
crew already in Montana shooting
scenes for the picture with a band OF
Cheyenne Indians on the Tongue river
reservation, the director, in desperation,
turned the whole role oyer to Jean
whose maternal grandmother, by the
way, is Mrs. Johanna Nelson, a long
resident of Billings, did her best with
the role of Calamity" Jane, but
it must be recorded in that this
case her best was none too good. Per-
haps no actress could successfully re-
create the many-sided, bizarre charac-
ter of the famed Calamity" Certainly
Miss Arthur has not succeeded. "Calam-
ity' was never the peaches and cream
sweetheart shown in "The Plainsman'
and the movie-goer would have diff
Guilty picturing Miss Arthur's "Calam-
ity" saying to the assembled DRINKS
who had gathered to celebrate her lat
II never pick a rich husband but I
always do pick a good looker!", as did
the real Calamity" n night back in
the nineties. From the night in 1864
when she had made her debut behind
the gaming tables of the notorious
Madame "Moustache" in Virginia City
at the age of IA, to the day when she
was laid to rest in a grave beside that
of wild Bill" Hickok at Deadwood,
Calamity" Jane a just as Duncan
Altman called her-"a lady wildcat"
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-08-06
By WALTER Ed TAYLOR

Whenever and wherever Montana
pioneers speak Of the old days the
name of calamity" Jane is sure
to enter the conversation, and the
moving picture, "The Plainsman,"
recently current in Montana, has
brought to light q whole new crop
of Calamity" Jane stories as piO-
neer Montanans see the picture
and then relate their own remin-
iscences of the wild capers of this
famed woman Of the frontier.
The story of 1.-THE Plainsman" tells
in the accepted Hollywood manner, the
story Of the epic, much:discussed love
affair between Calamity" Jane and
"Wild Bill Hickok, the Dakota gunman.
Although the pioneers do not agree
in their estimations of Calamity" they
are generally agreed that the "Calam-
ity" Jane presented by the film makers
is definitely not a life-like portrait
Hour Glass" Mae Refused Roll
Finding ar actress to portray the
role of 1.-THE Canary Who Sang Bass"
presented q problem and gave Cecil
B. DeMille, the director of 1.-THE Plains
man." many q sleepless night. Nearly
every actress under contract to the
Paramount studio was tested for the
role. Mae West was offered the part
and refused It. Then the movie moguls
went to the other film companies in
search Of an actress who might make
a convincing Calamity" Finally it
was decided to give the role to Sally
Rand, of fan dance fame, but just
when the contract papers e about
to be signed the o~rchidaceous Miss
Rand changed her mind about playing
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-08-06
Stick Games Held Recently on Historically Gruesome
Site at Mouth of Jocko River Popular With Indians

mani. He scoffed at La La Sees re-
luctance and as q consequence Of a
dare started a quarrelsome converse
ton with the white men, n Of whom
became alarmed and started toward the
railroad when he was shot dead by La
La See, and Pierre Paul made like
dispatch of the other white man still
at his camp fire. Their brains were
crushed and their bodies thrown into
the river. Some months later an In
dian woman who lived in the vicinity
was out fishing and came upon the de-
composed bodies which had been caught
in the brush. She reported the matter.
Duncan Macdonald also saw the re-
mains of the unfortunate men. He
states one had a Navajo blanket coat.
Thus the murder became known and
shortly also those who had committed
the crime or had anything to do with
it. There had been other crimes on the
reservation and the authorities at Mis-
soula decided to make a cleanup, which
ended in the trial, conviction and hang
ing of La La See, Pierre Paul, an Indian
by the name of Anxiety and one named
Pascale at the courthouse yard in Mis-
soula, Dec. 10, 1890, when the late Bill
Houston was sheriff. Pierre Paul was
captured by a determined posse and
Indian police a Perma. La La See
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-08-06

During the winter, rumors would reach
Benton Of splendid new boats being
built down below; as the ice broke up,
more tales would come Of starting time
at st. Louis, adventures at Yankton
The most extravagant descriptions of
furnishings, cuisine, the exquisite man
uers of captain and crew, had reached
Benton long before the boats whistled
in; then eager t~ownspeople swarmed
on board to see for themselves; pas
sengers gathered in cabins to draw up
courtesy resolutions ~attesting to their
treatment enroute. But the big item
va always speed. Who could get a
loaded lighter, did not have to stop
here and there, found plenty Of wood?
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-08-06

gin,r one story ran, "Benton's chief
support has been the fur trade, q traffic
Of immense proportions. furnishing EN-
traders, teamsters, and others and a
profitable sourc Of revenue to business
places =. . From $4,000 to 100000 robes
and peltries are yearly shipped to
eastern markets while the quantity of
Indian goods imported every season Is
simply enormous. This trade is Of vastly
greater Importance than the steamboat
trade as It extends through q whole
year and benefits o than the
freighters and f~orwarders."
But by the '70,s, no matter how the
papers protested, the heyday Of the
fur trade was over. For decades, great
quantities Of furs had gone downstream
in both mackinaWS and steamboats,;
the country was almost stripped Of the
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-08-06
Early-Day Riuer Traf6c Made Front Page Neus;
Newspapers Issued Extras Upon Arriual of Boats

The Record of June 2, 1877 had much
to say about the Red Cloud: I'VE had
heard lots about the Red Cloud and
when she arrived, we we're not dis
appointed. She Is undoubtedly the
handsomest boat we have ever seen;
rel the Silver City does not compare
with her:" Captained by the resource:
brought in 800 tons Of freight and "a
passengers; had passed three boats
on the way up, making much time on
the rival Silver City; laid up nj day
for wind and had to cut their own
wood two days. Capt. Joe Todd had
wagered he would pass them on the
first day but he didn't. Massie wa
loaded lighter, he could take her from
Bismarck to Benton in eight or nine
days.
Under the heading, This Rooster
Crows for Captain McGarry," the paper
on June 81 Waxed Just as enthusiastic
over the arrival Of the Benton which
had beat its own time, making the run
hours. The boat carried 253 tons Of
freight and $50 passengers; she had
been delayed by fuel scarcity and river
Instructions, had a heavy cargo but,
the captain insisted, lis the fastest
boat just the same"
Captain MaSSte SOOn settled that,
however, bringing the Red Cloud on
her second trip In nine days, % and
three-quarters hours from Bismarck.
Someone who saw her at the docks
beside the older Katie P. Kountz, said
they looked like a porcelain vase and
a demoraliZed ink bottle.
The heaviest cargo brought into
Benton in 1877 came on the Fannie
Tatum which loaded 404 tons Of freight
and so passengers; she had been de-
layed five days at Omaha where she
smashed a bridge and farther upstream
had broken q shaft and lost another
81 days. Her actual running time from
st. Louis was good enough, about Sc
days. BY June IA, 1873, however, the
E. H. Durfee had beaten the cargo
record, coming in with 455 tons.
The last word in speed and beauty
seemed to rest in the Helena, designed
by Captain McGarry, formerly of the
Benton, and brought to Benton for
six trips in '78. She had plenty Of
freight and passenger capacity but was
light and swift, equipped with a full
cabin, shade decks, a tall pilot house
and Texas" so that she looked like
an elegant finished Mississippi pack
et." Her speed at favorable points on
the river was said to be astonishing.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-08-06
BY ELLEN NYE

"Stick games were played full
blast on weekends at the Indian
encampment located close to the
mouth Of the Jocko river near
Dixon, until the recent death Of
Tribesman Paul Pierre, which
brought the games to q close.
An especially picturesque time to
visit the camp was around 10 O'Clock
Saturday or Sunday evening when
everything was in full swing. The
campfire was just bright enough to
give light and warmth but not too
brisk for the comfort of the players
who were grouped in two rows about
six feet apart ON either side Of the
fire. Each group squatted on the
ground with q long plank in front
Of them upon which q rhythmic
beating with sticks was kept up as
accompaniment to chants. For each
side there was q general manager"
SO to speak, who usually was chosen
for his or her fame for luck as well
as ability.
rha,o = oSar hod rhoroo If RI
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-08-06

with 46 passengers, including some SOL
diers; ISL bags of ore, IS bales of deer
skins, one Of sheep, 2 Of elk, 48 bales
Of antelope, 10 wolf and two coyote
bales of robes, 80 bales of wool, 702
dry hides, and sundry packages and
boxes.
AS late as 1879 the Helena left for
Bismarck with 40 bales of antelope,
228 bales Of buffalo robes, three bales
Of black calf-skins, and SO mixed bales.
The Red Cloud got away a day later
with a large cargo of buffalo and an
telop robes, deer, elk, sheep, skunk,
muskrat, beaver, wolf, and kit-fox.
in River liver .1 news so continued sstt to sl be gathered intosd
views from captains or passengers
headlined elsewhere in the paper.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1937-08-06

more valuable pelts. The Montana gold
strikes in the eos had bolstered the
steamboat business but by the time
there were newspapers in Fort Benton
to herald its glory, much Of that glory
had departed.
Varied Carg0es
Cargoes in the late '70's were, how
ever, sufficiently varied to be interest
ing and Montana romance still reached
st. Louis waterfronts. In June OF rs,
Of buffalo skins, II bales of mixed
pelts; W 5000 buffalo robes. besides
other hides and skins, were ready for
shipment that summer. In '76 the Mel.
lie Peck left Fort Benton with 1,500
bales Of robes and furs, 1900 packages
Of dry hides; in IT the Red Cloud,
hailed as the handsomest boat ever to
come up the river, went downstream